The Awakened Millionaire movement isn't just to build your future, rising up and succeeding both financially and spiritually. This is about all of our futures. What you can become as an Awakened Millionaire is beyond your own profound success. It's about what you can give back to the world, to a world that needs it. It's about you becoming a force for good, for change. It's about you making a difference. And to do that, you must succeed both financially and spiritually. That's how you will become the powerhouse that is an Awakened Millionaire. You must thrive, for all our sakes.
The world needs you to succeed.
The vision is far-reaching, the call to action is strong, and the stakes are high. So I want to make it crystal clear why you should listen to me – for every success I've had, every challenge I've overcome, and every dream I've achieved has led me to this moment, here, with you.
I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. In fact, during my time living on the streets of Dallas, Texas, a silver spoon would've been my salvation. Instead, I lived in poverty for 10 years. Every challenge to your own success I've likely experienced. And in the depths of my poverty, the challenges we all face are amplified to a deafening level.
Today, I've built a lifestyle that transcends what my homeless self would've considered possible. I am a multimillionaire blessed with the level of wealth and freedom I want for you. But I'm also deep on my own spiritual path, devoted to growing more, experiencing more, and awakening more. It is a life-long journey. I love every moment.
It's taken decades to get to where I am today. And I'm genuinely proud of the accomplishments I've achieved. I'm sharing these not to brag, but simply to prove that I walk what I talk and I live what I teach.
Whether it's flying out to Kuwait as a guest of a princess, paid six figures to speak at her event, or whether it's the son of the man who produced the Beatles wanting me in a movie and television show he's producing…
Whether it's the almost 50 books I've written, including international best-sellers such as The Attractor Factor or The Secret Prayer…or it's the record-breaking self-help programs sold by publishers like the famous Nightingale-Conant…
Whether it's pioneering Internet marketing, writing one of the first books ever published about it, using the Internet to outsell a Harry Potter book…or selling a high-ticket training program making half a million dollars in three days…
Whether it's traveling around the world, speaking in countries as diverse as Russia, Peru, or Poland…Or being a keynote speaker at major events in the United States for the National Speakers Associations and megawealth events with Donald Trump and Tony Robbins on the same bill…
Whether it's inventing Hypnotic Writing, Hypnotic Marketing, Buying Trances, The Secret Mirror, The Secret Reflection, Miracles Coaching®, Wealth Trigger, Hyper-Wealth, and much more…or simply knowing how to generate ideas, package them, and market them to the masses…
Whether it's attracting national media exposure being on everything from Larry King Live (twice) to Donny Deutsch's Big Idea TV show, to being on ABC, Fox, CNN, CNBC, and more…or being in 15 movies, with The Secret being the most famous…
Whether it's bringing the spiritual healing system called ho'oponopono to the world, through my books Zero Limits and AT Zero, reaching an estimated 5 million people…or following the spiritual urge near the age of 60 to myself as a musician recording 15 albums at last count…
Whether it's developing a spiritual approach to wealth, ignoring cutthroat methods and always focusing on a balanced, healthy approach to success, based on passion and purpose…or knowing how to create win–win–win negotiations and conduct business from the heart…
Whether it's listening to virtually anyone for about 20 minutes and seeing or creating a unique money-making idea specific to them…or creating Operation YES, a movement to end homelessness, raising funds for those in poverty, or teaching those who struggle with homelessness to think big, confront limitations, and go for their highest ideals…
Whether it's discovering a “missing secret” in self-development, the idea of counterintentions and teaching others how anyone can overcome and accelerate their results…or becoming an expert on the Law of Attraction, knowing how to use it, teach it, and go beyond it…
I have achieved financial success. I have tasted spiritual awakening. And I've taught millions of people the path to get there. This is the next level.
These successes have become my legacy. But I tell you them to earn your trust, as the path ahead will require it.
I have something to teach you. I want to inspire you to go for and achieve your dreams. And I want you to do it by following your passion. When you learn how to turn your passion into profit, and to make a difference in the world by expressing the uniqueness that is you, your life will become miraculous. You will have discovered Spiritual Wealth.
And, at that point, you will become an Awakened Millionaire.
This manifesto is my tool to accomplish that noble dream for you.
As you'll see, the book itself is slightly unorthodox. But it serves a specific strategy: to awaken your logical and emotional selves, two sides that must unite as you start your path to becoming an Awakened Millionaire.
This manifesto is a rallying cry for you to join a movement.
Please read it, absorb it, reflect on it, and put it into action.
I'm on a mission to help elevate the world from the needless struggles we face. It begins by helping you transform and achieve the financial and spiritual dreams you hold.
This is for you. This is for us.
Will you join me?
INTRODUCTION
Vishen Lakhiani
I've been a Joe Vitale fan for as long as I can remember. I first discovered Joe's books when I was a college student at the University of Michigan and his books opened my eyes to the idea that I didn't have to go through the traditional path: get good grades, graduate, find a 9-to-5 job, earn a living. Rather, his books opened me up to the idea that there was more to life than just this path that everyone else goes on. This is why I'm honored to be writing this preface.
Joe's particular book The Awakened Millionaire serves an important purpose because it's a manifesto for the globe. It's about profiting; it's a wake up call to save people from going down a traditional path in life that is the path of working hard to get a job, to slave away from 9:00 to 5:00, to get some money so you can pay the bills, so you can survive. Most people are in survival mode when what we should be is in thriving mode. So this book could very well save you and shift you to a path where you are actually living a life of meaning.
See, the problem with the education system is that we ask people, “What do you want to be when you grown up?” And the nature of that question, and the nature of the idea itself, suggests that we grow up to take on a particular career, to earn money, to pay the bills, to survive.
But a better question might be, “What do you really enjoy doing that you might be able to turn into a gift for the world?” This is the question that this book has you answer. It's about spiritual wealth. It's about making peace with money. Not seeing money as something you have to slog to earn, but money as a reward for you doing good deeds for the world and fulfilling your mission.
And there's something amazing that happens when you work on something that you feel is a mission. It drives you. It inspires you. It motivates you. Life doesn't feel like an uphill climb. It almost feels as if you have the wind behind your back as you move towards this mission. When you do this, work dissolves. Work ceases to exist in your vocabulary because when you're working on your mission, nothing makes you happier. The money is just a beautiful side effect.
This book is the best of Joe's