Joe Vitale on how people can become more patient and loving human beings.

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Joe Vitale describes the keys to his new program: The Missing Secret

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Joe Vitale gives a short but powerful speech on we can all help our kids be better people when they grow up.

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Joe Vitale laughs in the face of the financial crisis. Maybe the rest of us should do the same?

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Check this out. Joe Vitale reveals the real reason why he wears beads.

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Ignore your audience at your own risk. Nuff said.

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When we moved to our new school district I was happy that it’s academics were phenomenal but worried at the same time that homework would take over family life. I had heard horror stories over the past ten years of an avalanche of homework overwhelming both kids and parents.

Thankfully this has not happened to us and Hannah gets time to learn, create and play. Too many parents, pundits and what I like to call academic do nothings, don’t realize how important play is to the development of our kid’s brains.

Thankfully, parents and experts are starting to speak out.

There’s an interesting story across the news wires today about the loss of playtime for America’s children. On the surface this may not seem as important as what’s going on overseas or in Washington, but I think you might want to take a second look here.

Mounting evidence shows that all work and no play makes Jack and Jill not only obese but dull and uninteresting. So says more and more psychologists and other experts. What’s to blame for an epidemic of dullards coming out of American schools? TV? High-fructose corn syrup? The internet?

While these are all bad for you, none apparently are as insidious as homework. That’s right. Too much homework makes Jack a dull boy and Jill uninterested in forming healthy relationships. After a busy day at school, kids come home to do homework and have time for nothing else. Sure they go off to a variety of organized sports, but often never play with the kids next store.

The funny thing is that the same thing is happening to moms and dads. The preponderance of devices that seem to run our lives instead of enhancing them is scary. Blackberries, cell phones and emails are only serving to isolate us all by having us bring our work home.

Men and women already have a hard enough time communicating.  it used to be that dad would get home, ask what’s for dinner and then enjoy dinner with his wife and kids. today things are different. Obviously mom works now thereby changing the household dynamic considerably. Dad for his part gets home then goes into the basement or home office to catch up on emails.

The nation’s 50% divorce rate  illustrates this and will no doubt get higher.  If we train them from birth to have as little human interaction as possible, divorce rates can only get worse.

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The New York Times article on the story can be found here.

If Barack Obama can run America without his Blackberry why can’t you run your life without it?

No longer will he be able to get instant updates on what the Chicago White Sox are doing or what his sister is up to in Hawaii. He won’t be able to check in with friends, family or other close confidants. No more Facebook, Yahoo, or Twitter for personal use. Barack Obama has become property of these United States.

I recently bet a family member that he couldn’t go a week without checking his Blackberry. He, like Barack Obama, is a Blackberry addict. My family member truly believes that he can’t do without it. Needless to say he declined my offer.

For a variety of different legal and safety issues, President-elect Obama is about to give up email and his Blackberry. Yes, after a long and storied affair with his Blackberry, Barack Obama will give his Blackberry up upon entering the Oval office.

I think this brings up some interesting questions that you might ask yourself.

Let’s say you negotiating to buy a new home and you’d have to give up email to seal the deal. Would you do it? Could you do it?

If in order to get your dream job, you’d have to give up Facebook, would you do it? Could you give up all email for the job? Could you give up your cell phone?

In the past, I have no doubt derided all these technologies as false prophets of personal connectivity. Remember the information superhighway? Or did you already crash along the way? These devices often serve more as barriers to creativity, our relationships and the personal connections we all crave.

Even worse, technology may have killed the art of conversation. Remember those? Where two people interested in what each other had to say, actually talked to each other in person. If you’re under the age of twenty-five, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about. Just go ask your grandmother what it is and she’ll also regale you with stories of rotary phones and long distance calls

If you’re as concerned as I am with the state of communication in this great world of ours, then I have a quick and easy suggestion for you.

Take the lead of some of America’s leading companies. Companies like U.S. Cellular, Deloitte & Touche and Intel have banned emails from coming in or going out on Fridays and have in turn seen productivity and communication soar.

See their story here: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119205641656255234.html

These companies realized that an avalanche of impersonal communication will never be as productive as a heartfelt conversation in the flesh. So as fast and convenient as texts and emails can be, companies are finding out that they’re far more productive without them. Kind of ironic don’t you think?

Why don’t you take a leaf from their book and do the same?

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Got to see Joe Vitale at the local Barnes & Noble. Great stuff.He talks about the trials and tribulations of being follicly challenged.

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I Got to see Joe Vitale last night who was featured in The Secret and and has written over 30 books. He was also on Larry King Live!The video above features me preparing to go see him at Barnes & Noble, Naperville.

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