the other thing I want to talk about for
just a minute because this is a I think
a little bit of a different twist on the
law of attraction is I’ve been talking
to people is we always talk about
attracting into our life what we want
tracting in the million dollars were the
perfect spouse were the perfect home I
want you to think about this as well
everything that you find yourself
attracted to is part of the universal
guidance system telling you this is the
way you’re supposed to be moving this is
where your destiny lies barber talked
today about the idea that she gave up
the TV thing and that people were
offering her TV shows and she said no it
doesn’t feel right it doesn’t feel good
I don’t get excited I don’t get turned
on there’s no juice for me and so you
look at you’re attracted to certain
people trust that you’re attracted to
certain teachers to certain seminars to
own certain kinds of things I remember I
was going to a workshop with my wife was
a conference of the humanistic
psychologists and my wife is very very
much into how to say that she’s much
more into people and relationships and
pets made her happiest thing is
shoveling horse poop on her barn out of
our horses stalls not my favorite thing
but she loves it and doesn’t care that
much about money and so I said I’m going
off to this money seminar guy was saying
you could triple your income in a year I
said I want to learn how to do that and
she kind of got mad at me she was
judging me I thought you were above that
come on you know everything it’s like
gold I sit down next to this woman in a
seminar just about 10 minutes before it
starts and she says what do you do and I
told her asked her what she did she’s a
veterinarian and I said really
what do you specialize in anything she
said yeah cat leukemia I said that’s
interesting my cat has leukemia my
veterinarian told me it’s not curable
she says no we’ve actually come up with
the cure I said really and as a result
of that meeting our cat got cured of
feline leukemia see you never know
you never know whatever you’re attracted
to see because the universe infinite
intelligence God source whatever you
want to call your own unconscious it can
see farther than you like right now you
can see from wherever you are up here
but you can’t see behind you but God or
source or infinite intelligence is way
up here it sees everything
it sees the traffic jam 20 miles down
the road and all of a sudden you get
this intuitive impulse yeah I think I’ll
take the mountain pass today well that’s
stupid no but if you take it you’ll
avoid the accident or you’ll avoid the
traffic you’ve got to learn to trust
your inspirations as soon as you set a
goal as soon as you have an intention
and you believe in it and then you get
rid of the self-doubt you have a
positive expectancy you fully expect it
to happen what happens is you’re gonna
start getting a little inspiration
you’ll be sitting there typing a paper
and all of a sudden you’ll get this
inspiration to walk down the street
maybe take mrs. Jones who’s a new Widow
or some cookies you know think well why
would I do that I got lots of work to
get done here but let’s say you do it
you walk down you bring her some cookies
and you have some tea and then she says
oh and by the way my son-in-law is here
let me introduce you to him and you go
in and you meet the son-in-law and you
find out he’s a Porsche dealer and he’s
selling a used Porsche for just the
amount of money that you can afford to
get that Porsche you always wanted that
kind of stuff will show up over and over
and over and over but you got to trust
the intuition you have to act I don’t
know if any of you’ve ever heard of a
spiritual community and Scotland called
Finn Dorn and if you heard of Finland
the guy who started finding with his
wife Eileen caddy his name’s Peter caddy
tells a story of drinking tea with his
wife
and getting this he just got this
intuitive flash he should go see his
friend Bob and he didn’t act on it for
an hour was an hour later he got up and
he drove into London or wherever it was
and he got there and Bob had died 30
minutes earlier and he said I learned
from that moment when I get an
inspiration or an intuitive flash I need
to act on it now right this minute
how many of you have had an intuitive
insight to do something didn’t do it
found out someone else did it made a
whole lot of money doing the thing you
thought about but didn’t do any of you
ever had an experience like that yeah
you got to take action as soon as you
have the impulse start acting on it now
three quick techniques to clarify what
you want in life how to ask clearly one
of them we just talked about but I will
talk about different one here for a
minute
it’s called the irritation list my
suggestion is you go back to your home
your house your apartment wherever you
live and you make a list of everything
that isn’t exactly the way you want it
anything that irritates you there’s
never a stapler by the Xerox machine the
screen door never quite closes and the
bugs come in that picture always hangs
at an angle you put it straight and
hangs at an angle again or does a crack
in the wall or you know the kitchen
drawers are a total mess or you can’t
find stuff in the garage or in a closet
these things don’t fit those things
don’t work your kids rooms a mess all
the time there’s a smell coming out of
it you know whatever it might be
write it down and then make another half
of the sheet of paper and write exactly
the way you’d like it to be throw away
the half of the paper about what you
don’t want and then go and fix
everything so you get exactly what you
want take a day or two and schedule it
clean up as many of those little things
as you can and people go well why should
I do that I want to be a millionaire I’m
focusing on world peace and you want me
to be worried about my sock drawer and
the answer is yes because when you don’t
do it get exactly what you want in the
little areas of your life what you do is
you slip into a state called resignation
you start believing you can’t have it
the way you want it you actually numb
out your awareness to not see that thing
anymore if any of you ever noticed if
you have a little crack in the wall and
you don’t fix it
than a month you stopped noticing it and
then a year later someone says you had a
big crack in your wall but you stopped
noticing it just became part of the
background most people are going through
life resigned settling most of us are
settling now most of you here or not
you’ve made a choice to go for your life
and create it the way you want it
believe it you can have what you want
but do this irritation list
clean up all the little things and the
big things commit to at least one a
quarter that you’re gonna get rid of and
you can set a date for cleaning out the
garage or you can set a date for a new
filing system or getting the car that
works or whatever it is it’s important
to you the second thing we already
talked about the 101 goals list make
sure you do that if you’ve seen that
book a thousand in one places you should
visit before you die I mean right there
is a whole bunch of stuff you can put on
your list and we just knocked off
southern France nice San Tropez topless
beaches what else do we have on the list
there was a lot of fun three years ago
my son said dad you always talk about
taking me to Europe when are you gonna
do it and so we went to London Barcelona
and Paris and spent four days in each
city just me and my 16 year old son had
a great time we had it written down he
knew it was there and because it was
there it actually ended up happening the
third thing is called the vision
exercise most of you know about the
power of vision but I like to just share
this with you real quickly you focused a
lot about finances millionaire mind how
much money do you want financial
independence never have to work again
also look at your business and career
goals maybe you want to open up China as
a market maybe you want to be the
salesman of the year in your company
maybe you want to have a whole different
career path that you want to go toward
maybe you’d like to win an award or be
elected president of your professional
association what’s your vision for your
ideal business and career life most
people have that stuff down but how many
of you have goals for how much fun
you’re gonna have this year what kind of
fun you’re gonna have this year that’s
measurable and specific in your vision
of your life for the next year or the
next two years or the next five years
you need to have your fun time goals my
wife and I at the beginning of every
year schedule all of our vacations we
take about ten long weekends four-day
weekends this year we’re taking five
week the week-long vacations we just
finished one in the South of France in
August we’re doing a week in the whole
year with my family we just came back
from Africa and March where we spent a
week and so on and so forth schedule the
time because otherwise it never happens
maybe you want to take salsa dancing
lessons maybe you’d like to take an
improvisational theater class maybe
you’d like to do stand-up comedy all
kinds of wonderful things you can do but
you’ve got to schedule them into your
life health and fitness goals do you
know what your cholesterol level is if
you’ve got a goal for that do you have a
goal for maybe competing in a marathon
or biathlon or a triathlon or maybe one
year in my health and fitness goals was
to get rid of my toenail fungus and if
you ever have a yellow toenail fungus
and most people just settle for it oh
it’s old guy’s toe disease nothing you
can do about it well if you take olive
leaf extract long enough you can get rid
of it and that became my goal one of my
goals for the year so health and fitness
goals
relationships goals how many you have
written goals for the next year about
what you want to accomplish in the area
of relationships just curious Steve so
fans not too many
one year mine was create five new male
friends we just moved to Santa Barbara
and what happens for most men as you
moved if you have kids you move to a new
town your wife goes and takes the kids
to school your kids form friends
your wife gets to know the parents of
your kids friends and that becomes your
social network and I didn’t like any of
the husbands of my wife’s new friends
they just been miners’ me and none of
them were into personal growth nighttime
were meditating none of them had a sense
of larger purpose in the world these
were boring to me and so I made a goal
to have five really close friends by the
end of the year so it wasn’t just casual
it was a deliberate intention and as a
result of that a strategy came up if
when I was meditating a couple weeks
later and every two weeks I invited
someone to have lunch with me started
with the guy who was a football I mean a
wrestling coach at UCSB and then turned
out who know the police chief of our
town is a really cool guy someone
mentioned that I had lunch with them
really ended up becoming very close
friends and so on and so forth
so now I have guys I play poker with
people we play bowls which is a fun game
and like you know bocce ball kind of
thing I have other people I’d meditate
with and we do personal growth things
together and so forth and so on but it
was a specific goal for the year in
terms of relationships and then the area
of personal personal will be personal
growth emotional growth things you want
to do that grow you could be learning to
play the piano
it could be learning French we heard art
Linkletter speaking I think like nine
languages so what are your goals in the
personal area and then finally have a
vision for your life in terms of
contribution and legacy I want to share
a story about this part there’s a man
named Kenneth baring who used to be a
co-owner of the Seattle Seahawks he was
worth about five hundred million dollars
at the time I don’t know what his net
worth is now it’s probably increased and
he said his life went through four
stages the first stage was called stuff
he said I wasn’t happy and I figured if
I had a lot of stuff I’d be happy so he
got a lot of money made a lot of money
bought a lot of stuff he had a private
plane a private yacht he had the big
house he had the fancy cars he had
everything he wanted art collections
great wine from around the world and he
said I still wasn’t happy well I figured
I had maybe I needed better stuff so he
said the next stage of my life I just
bought a bigger plane a bigger yacht a
better house better wine more expensive
this I still wasn’t happy and he said
well maybe I was collecting the wrong
stuff and so I created the phase mother
that’s called different stuff and that’s
when he said I bought the Seattle
Seahawks that made me fight on a
professional football team that’d make
me happy so I still wasn’t happy and
then he got a call from a friend he said
I’m going to go over to Bosnia and we’re
gonna take a Plane full of wheelchairs
and all these kids that have either been
born malformed or have lost their legs
to landmines we’re gonna give him
wheelchairs because wheelchairs give
them mobility and freedom and so he got
into playing with this friend and they
flew over to Bosnia and they got off and
they were putting all these kids in
wheelchairs he said I picked up this
first kid he was about 11 years old very
didn’t weigh much he was real thin and I
put him in a wheelchair
and I went to turn away to get another
wheelchair and a kid wouldn’t let go of
me
I turned back around I looked down and
there was tears coming down his face he
said please don’t go yet
and the third interpreter he said I just
want to look at your face so I can
memorize it so when we meet again in
heaven I’ll be able to thank you one
more time and he said I started to cry
uncontrollably and he said it was the
first time in my life I felt pure joy
and as a result ken came back and he
started the wheelchair Foundation
they’ve given away over four hundred
thousand wheelchairs the kids around the
world they said have never been happier
in my life
and now and now he’s crazy a new
foundation because one of the biggest
problems in the world is lack of clean
water we have thousands and thousands of
people with all kinds of diseases and
cataracts all because they don’t have
clean water and so he started a new
foundation he said I’ve never been
happier in my life
and he calls this last stage of his life
purpose me actually wrote a book called
a life of purpose the point being
and several people have said this the
real joy comes from giving Bob Proctor I
know we’ll talk tomorrow about this I
love this idea
he said it’s critical that you make a
lot of money
he said money is very useful he said
without money the good you can do is
limited to your physical presence see I
could show up at a homeless shelter and
I can hold kids and I can read stories
and I can brush people’s hair and I can
do lots of stuff but it’s limited to my
physical presence but when you have
money as Mark does than I do and many of
the speakers up here do we give away
millions of dollars we planted over a
million trees in Yosemite National
Forest figuring we’ve certainly used up
a lot making books so we thought we
ought to put a few back into the ground
[Applause]
it’s actually cool to go there and see
all these little trees growing up ago
what’s our trees it’s really neat but
the point being that you want to have
influence for good you know mark talks
about creating and light and
millionaires millionaires that give away
at least a million dollars and if you
create a million millionaires to give
away a million dollars you’re talking
about a trillion dollars in philanthropy
in the world it’s not so hard to do it’s
really not that big a game to play when
you really think about how simple it is
all right so we’ve got these seven
vision categories what I’d like to do
with you for just a moment is I’d like
you to close your eyes and trust that
your stuff won’t blow away in the wind
ear and I’m going to mention each of
these categories I’m going to be silent
for 30 seconds and what I’d like you to
do is just let come up from you from the
internal natural child from your inner
self your high self the part of you that
knows what you really want to come up
with what do I really want in that arena
of my life and I would say think in
terms of the next two years so two years
from now what would you like to say
you’ve accomplished financially or
career-wise or so forth so just a little
bit of going inside so you’re not
listening to me and just being a speech
we’ll kind of just take it inside a
little deeply so take a deep breath
close your eyes
and take another deep breath or just let
it all go you can feel the wind on your
face a little bit of moisture remember
whatever it rains it’s cleansing it’s
cleaning cleaning out the old bringing
in the new Hawaii and they say whenever
it rains it’s auspicious it’s the God’s
way of blessing the event we’re gonna
get a real blessing now so think of the
area of financial what do you truly want
and your deepest heart financially for
yourself two years from now what would
you like to have accomplished what’s
your vision for that and then think
about the area business and career what
do you want to accomplish what’s your
vision for what you all have been able
to achieve two years from now and then
focus on the area of fun and recreation
two years from now what do you want to
say you’ve done or experienced in terms
of really having fun or recreation
travel anything in that arena then think
about the area of health and fitness
what do you want to have accomplished in
that area of your life
maybe it’s weight loss maybe it’s more
vitality more flexibility maybe a better
diet that you’re now eating
and think about the area of
relationships what do you want to have
accomplished in the area of
relationships then think about the area
of personal what do you want to have
accomplished just because you want to do
it in terms of personal growth or
development spiritual development
education and then finally in the area
of contribution where do you want to
volunteer where you want your money to
go what do you want to be different in
the world because of your efforts very
good and go ahead when you’re ready open
your eyes come on back and when you have
a moment perhaps not now just a little
bit challenging but make sure you write
that down get it down on paper share it
with your partner put it up on the
refrigerator look at it every day what I
do is I have three goals and every one
of those arenas so I have 21 goals every
year and then I make a eight and a half
by 11 sheet with a picture I either get
it from you know Google Images or I pull
them out of magazines and put them under
a page protector and I write a little
affirmation over with a specific
measurable goal then each day I go
through that and I look at it and I
visualize it and I feel the feelings I
would feel if I already had it and every
year I achieve at least 18 of those 21
goals and within two years the ones I
didn’t get the three that I didn’t get I
have achieved I could go back over my
life everything I’ve ever wanted has
come true everything now still working
on bigger goals like transforming
education world peace ending hunger but
those are all moving along quite nicely
in terms of the measurements that we’re
doing in the world of those things
now the next step obviously we won’t do
that here either but you got to set
measurable goals how much by win want to
be wealthier how much be specific so I’d
like to double my income becomes I will
earn $350,000 by midnight December 31st
2008 at 5:00 p.m.
specific
I’d like to become a millionaire I will
have a net worth of 1 million by
midnight December 31st 2009 at 5 p.m.
like to lose weight and get fit might be
I will weigh 190 pounds you play a 10k
run by December 30th 2007 I want to look
at the law of attraction with you just a
little bit we know the law of attraction
works like gravity which is always I
just got asked the other day we were
filming a PBS special it’s gonna be a
pledge drive specialist in Boston doing
that yesterday and one of the questions
that God asked from the audience was
well what about Darfur and what about
Katrina and what about 9/11 I’m now
coming to believe and I didn’t believe
this three years ago but as more I study
law of attraction and hang out with the
other people teaching it I’m now
beginning to believe that everything is
attracted into our life either by our
behavior by our thoughts by our fears by
our fantasies the things we talk about
the things we watch on TV and we go oh I
hope that never happens to me where we
watch a movie like Blood Diamond and we
see all this violence over diamonds and
we get really upset about it we actually
create more of everything we have
intense feelings about so literally I
want you to act as if you’re creating
everything and become really really
really really disciplined about what you
think what you read what you watch what
you talk about
I was with Mark Victor Hansen in New
York about all three months ago we were
getting some awards for books some
convention and we went out to dinner
afterwards about 10 o’clock and we
talked to about 2:00 in the morning and
literally in that four hours neither one
of us said one negative thing about
anything or anybody mark told me the
projects he was working on and I what
that’s fabulous how can I help you you
need to meet this person I just met that
person you guys need the network it was
all about how do we do it where do we do
it what’s happening what’s good what’s
good Ms mark was saying wow we can
educate a kid in Africa for $120 a year
we can send him to college in Africa
I didn’t know it was that cheap you
could be there we talked about micro
loans we talked about educating we
talked about some research that shows
the fastest way to end hunger in the
world is to educate young girls in rural
villages
who knew the research but it’s there so
literally we just guess yes yes how do
we do it then I get on the plane the
next morning to fly back to LA and a guy
next to me is talking about how crappy
the world is how bad is children are the
government this thing is that never
occurred to us once to have a negative
thought it was all about what do we want
let’s make it happen how can we help
each other you go and so basically
that’s what you want to be doing only
focusing and talking about exactly what
you want when you talk about something’s
not working all you’re gonna do is
create more if it’s not working people
come up to me so I’ve been doing the law
of attraction for three months I still
don’t have my cards that doesn’t work
well what you’re focusing on is it
doesn’t work and you’re gonna get more
of it doesn’t work what you want to
focus on is where it is working hey I
wanted to get a place by the window as a
restaurant and I got it you know some
people keep what they call a
manifestation journal at the end of
every day what man what did I manifest
well how’s it working and what we know
is what we focus on what it expands and
so you want to focus on only that which
what you is what you want okay
whatever you think about talk about and
fantasize about or give your attention
to and you’re going to attract more of
so you really have to become deliberate
and intentional now three stages we
talked about ask believe and receive so
I want to move into the next section
here in a moment we’re going to talk
about ask believing or talk about
creating a vibrational match for that
which you want into your life you must
always be feeling good anytime you’re
feeling good you attract more into your
life to feel good about when you’re
feeling bad when you’re upset when
you’re pissed off when you’re resentful
when you’re scared when you’re in doubt
you’re actually pushing away all the
things that are waiting to come into
your life most of what you want is kind
of sitting out there in the parking lot
waiting to come in but when you’re
talking about negativity and you’re
criticizing other people is pushing it
away and
faster you can get over that the faster
you’ll manage tough stuff into your life
so the more we can be in gratitude and
abundance let’s talk about gratitude for
a minute when you watch the movie the
secret you saw about the gratitude rock
the Lea Brauer uses in his life John
Demartini never gets out of bed until he
has a tear of gratitude sometimes he
says I’m in there for an hour just
focusing on what I’m grateful for him
but until that tear comes out of my eye
and I do not get out of bed and John is
a millionaire probably a hundred times
over started out as a dyslexic kid he
was basically dying when this person
took him under his wing and gave him an
affirmation which was something like to
the effect of I am a wise person and
everyone I touch is benefited by my
wisdom and now John has read every book
ever written by any Nobel laureate in
any field in the last 10 years he’s a
genius and what he does whereas before
they said you got to drop out of school
you’re a TD and a four-team he dropped
out of school
gratitude Rhonda Byrne when she wrote
the book the secret she said I didn’t
start to write until I was had so much
gratitude in my heart that I would have
a tear come down my face she said as
soon as I was in that space I couldn’t
my fingers were just flying and the book
she wrote that book in like three weeks
three weeks wrote a book it sold over
three point seven five million copies
because she was in the space to receive
because when you’re in a space of
gratitude you’re saying I accept that
which has been given to me I appreciated
what that does it opens up a space for
more to flow in the word grace we say
we’re under grace you know the grace of
God the word gracias in Spanish
gratitude it’s all from the same root
word the more gratitude we have the more
grace we receive that flows through us
out into the universe in terms of our
creativity and drawing to us that which
we want abundance and generosity you
want to be always giving as much as you
can Barbara talked about that hugely
today be in a state of joy I now teach
that at least one hour a day you need to
take for yourself and do the things that
you most love to do right now I’m
learning to
the piano so that’s what my hours about
for my wife it’s the horse poop and
petting our dog and our cats and all of
us that she loves it I don’t just does
for someone else is listening to Bach
and Beethoven or listening to Bono or
whatever it might be for someone else
it’s painting or gardening I was doing a
seminar up in Canada an ex-boxer on a TV
show up in Canada and this woman stood
up in the audience and she said I have a
question I said great what is it she
said I haven’t been happy for seven
years you’re talking about joy I haven’t
been I haven’t experienced joy for seven
years I said what happened seven years
ago she said my husband died I said
really I said what did you use to do
that brought you joy before your husband
died she said well I used to paint I
used to garden I used to play the piano
and I said have you done any of that in
the last seven years she says no i said
well here go to go home and tonight i
want you to play the piano tomorrow I
want you to go out and garden the next I
want you to buy some paints and paint
something then I want you to write me a
letter or give me a phone call and I
gave her my card
about a week later I got a call and she
said I can’t tell you how happy I am
happiness partly comes from doing things
that make you happy and for some reason
most of us spend our time doing the
things we think we should do we don’t go
out and do two things that make us happy
so literally make a discipline of doing
the things that bring you joy it’s like
having a joy diet and basically if you
can get into joy all the time like
mother Teresa was or the Dali Lama is or
Mark Victor Hansen is ninety percent of
the time and I am ninety percent of the
time and things just start flowing into
your life at a magical rate okay
forgiveness is another big piece you
must forgive because any time you’re
holding resentment you’re not enjoy
you’re not in love you’re not him inner
peace you have to let go and release and
there are all kinds of powerful
processes John Gray wrote a book about
the total truth process you if you can
feel it you can heal it there’s a book
on letting go of forgiveness by jerry
jim paul ski i mean there’s many many
techniques out there find one and use it
the emotional freedom technique the
five-minute phobia cure there’s a ton of
technology that in like five minutes you
can get rid of a phobia in five minutes
you can get rid of a negative belief
just tapping on certain meridian points
things that we teach in our seminars you
can go into in greater depth be in a
state of love always expect the positive
always expect the positive i basically
gave mark a little feedback may i think
everything he said this morning but once
he said I don’t think Al Gore will ever
get 2.5 million people to watch that TV
show they said mark that’s a negative
thought expect the positive if you don’t
expect that it won’t happen so you want
to always be in that state of expecting
that it’s gonna show up expecting it I
mean how many of you would call Domino’s
Pizza order your pizza and then call
them back and go are you guys really
gonna bring it over you’re sure you’re
not kidding me
yeah you really do that okay you know if
you did that three or four times they
they put your number on caller ID and
they wouldn’t take your call anymore and
yet we do that with the universe all the
time I’d like a Porsche up but I can’t
afford it I’d like a Porsche but you
know whatever now probably more today we
should say I’d like a Prius instead of a
Porsche right
we’re all learning some of the things
we’ve been trained to want aren’t really
the best things for us we have to learn
some new new stuff around them all right
I’m gonna skip over that slide here I
love this quote from Tiger Woods he says
one of the things my dad kept instilling
me was the joy of the game he made it
fun for me a lot of times I see a lot of
kids they don’t enjoy being out there
it’s a shame you’re supposed to enjoy
the game I say the same thing about life
you’re supposed to enjoy the game one of
the things I try to instill in my
clinics is yes go out there and give it
all you have but more importantly enjoy
what you’re doing if you’re not loving
it you know all the teachers say do what
you love the money will follow follow
your passion follow your heart I don’t
know if Alan Cohen said this when he
talked to you but it was one of the
things I learned in his book then he
mentioned this concept of hell yes or
hell no yeah that’s a great idea if it’s
not a hell yes since the LEAs called
screw it if you got to be going like
well maybe maybe not let me do it I’ll
make a list these are the pros these are
the cons if you didn’t get an instant
yeah I mean when Lynne twists who
started the hunger project and I met her
about a year ago said we bring people
over to our Chateau every summer 16
people for a week I just went and she
said would you like to come this year so
I guess and it was like yeah I want to
come I was like malabon let me talk to
my wife see if we can schedule it as
soon as you’re doing that it’s like it’s
not good so you got to be following the
excitement following the juice mother
Teresa once she said once I asked my
counselor for advice about my vocation I
asked how can I know if God is calling
me in for what is he calling me
he answered you’ll know by your
happiness if you’re happy this will be
the proof of your vocation I think it
was a Thomas Edison said when your
vocation becomes your vacation then the
rest of your life is a blessing so you
want to be doing the thing that you
would do that you get paid for doing a
thing you love to do and my seminars
I’ll have people make a list 20 things
you love to do when I first did that
exercise I wrote I love to hang out with
really cool people I love to hang out
with intellectuals who are thinking
cutting-edge thoughts I love to open my
mail I love to listen to music anyway
went down my list under the
seminar leaders said think of five ways
you could make money doing that I
thought how could I make money hanging
out with really cool people well one of
the things I just did two years ago I
created something called the
transformational Leadership Council we
have a hundred members of people like
John Gray he’ll be speaking to you
tomorrow and gay Hendricks who wrote all
the books on relationships and we get
together twice a year for four days and
as a result of that we have now Co
ventured all kinds of cool things that
have basically doubled my income in the
last two years and I’m hanging out with
cool people I’m making money doing the
things I thought used to be what you got
to do when you aren’t working so you
want to keep following that passion now
law of attraction says believe got to
believe it’s possible trust your
internal guidance system was talked
about that I want to share with you a
story about a guy named cliff young
cliff Young was 61 years old when he
showed up at the beginning of a
long-distance race in Australia
the race was 875 kilometres that’s about
650 miles he was wearing overalls he was
wearing construction boots
all the other guys were 25 or 30 they’re
all in their Adidas Nike Puma Asics
running gear he looks like an old farmer
he actually had galoshes on over his
boots he says in case of rain they said
if you ever run along distance race
before he said no so why do you think he
can do this if you ever run a marathon I
mean this is like six and a half days he
said no but I’m a farmer and I have to
chase my sheep around and sometimes I
have trouble and I have to chase them
for two or three days and I don’t seem
to get tired I think I can do it he said
why don’t you start with a shorter race
he said well this is the only days that
we’re free on my schedule when it was a
race schedule said okay so all the
racers that the gun goes off and they
all take off they’re really running fast
and cliffs running like this
they called it the cliff Jung shuffle
now cliff had an advantage nobody knew
about cliff had never talked to a coach
he’d never talked to an elite distance
runner
he’d never read Reynolds World magazine
he never read a book on long distance
running he didn’t know that when you do
a long distance race you run for 18
hours sleep for six run for 18 and sleep
for six run for 18 sleepers in so he was
running so slow when he got up to the
part where everyone was gone to bed they
were all asleep no one told him to stop
and go to bed
so he just kept running on by he ran
non-stop for 5 and 1/2 days and broke
the record by 12 hours
[Applause]
see sometimes what you think you know
gets in the way of what’s possible if
you believe you can do something you can
figure it out but you have to believe
you have to believe it’s coming into
your life I love this quote it says
never tell anyone something cannot be
done God may have been waiting for
centuries for somebody ignorant enough
of the impossible to do that very thing
you know you think of all the
technologies we have the airplane FedEx
when the guy to put FedEx together
he was an MBA student at Yale and he
presented the paper that outlined the
FedEx process they gave him an F on it
and said it’s not possible it will never
happen and now when you think it
absolutely positively has to be there
overnight you go what FedEx so
everything that exists started out as
somebody’s dream
somebody’s idea and nine times out of 10
they told you couldn’t happen here’s the
kid named Farah gray 19 years old born
in the ghetto mother’s on welfare at the
age of six he starts his first company
by the age of eleven he has three
companies now they’re small they do
things like take rocks paint them go
door-to-door and sell them as paper
weights but he made fifty dollars his
first day doing that which was more than
his mother made when she was been the
housekeeper and then he got a bunch of
kids together and they would go to older
people and they’d say we’ll go buy your
groceries for you bring them back in our
wagons you just give us a couple of
bucks he gave one to the guy who went to
get the groceries kept one for himself
had a thing gone by the age of twelve he
created something called the urban
neighborhood education Economic Council
called unique he was getting businessmen
like many of you and Harv and people I
get to come in and speak to the other
kids who were 12 and 13 to teach them
business practices by the age of 14 he
had read a book by Deepak Chopra called
the seven laws of the seven spiritual
laws of success one of them was the law
of least effort in other words the thing
that is the least effort for you the
thing that’s easiest to do
you can’t imagine people would pay you
for it’s the thing that you need to go
for the thing you love to do he said
what do I love I love food and I love
kids so what I’m gonna do is start a
food company for kids he said what a
kids like kids like sweet things so he
created a syrup like a maple syrup type
thing that his grandmother used to have
a recipe for and in one and a half years
he built that company up to now he’s all
of 16 and he sells it for one and a half
million dollars he drops out of high
school moves to Las Vegas starts a
newspaper opens a real estate agency
then a real estate development company
then he writes a book called the real
Ian Ayre at the age of 19 and he’s worth
tens of millions of dollars why because
he believed he could do anything he
wanted to do he said if someone else can
do it I can do if harf can do it you can
do it if Marc can do it you can do it if
I can do it you can do it there’s no if
Erik Weihenmayer a blind guy can climb
Mount Everest there’s nothing we can’t
do but you have to believe it so every
project you create you believe you’re
going to create you’re gonna get you’re
gonna get the result you want Oprah
Winfrey said you did not become what you
want you become what you believed when I
was on The Oprah Winfrey Show sitting
next to her the auric field that came
out or the level of charisma would
almost knock you over and she said I
believe this stuff long before it was
called the secret and so on and so forth
but she believed there’s a little child
I can do anything I want and she went
out and did it so can you step number
four says release the brakes it’s
another way of saying create a
vibrational match I’ll just talk about
this for a few minutes and I think my
time is gonna run out here now how do we
do that in order to receive something
into our life we have to be feeling the
feelings we would feel if we already had
the thing that we want to come into our
life so I have to feel like a
millionaire before the million can come
in I have to feel abundant I have to
feel full of love before I track the
love I want Gandhi said be
the thing you want so if you want love
be loving you want joy be joyful you’ll
track more of that into your life so I’m
going to teach you four quick techniques
most of you know these but ask yourself
am i doing them number one affirmations
so I have an affirmation since I’m
reveling in my six million dollar a year
personal income actually this year it’s
up to nine on my formation card so you
want to have an affirmation describing
the result as already achieved I’m
reveling in my income and I closed my
eyes every morning I feel the feeling I
see the bank count I see my IRS report
nine million dollars gross personal
income and then I move to my next thing
this is one I use the number of years
ago I’m enjoying looking at my
physically fit 185 pound body in the
mirror now if you look at that closely
you’ll see my face when I have brown
hair cut out and put over a body that
was in some muscle magazine and I put
that on my mirror every morning and
every time I look at that I say gee I
don’t quite look like that then I go
into gym I’d lift weights might eat
better and so forth now I’ll never look
like that I’m not going to spend six
hours in the gym but it basically
motivated me it said I’m already
experiencing it right now even though I
wasn’t by the way a great technique and
I put that off on personal don’t freak
out in the a/v department up there but I
just didn’t want you looking at slide
when you’re trying to lose weight
take your scale and whatever weight you
want away write it on a piece of paper
put it over your scale so every time you
step on your scale you go Oh far out 185
this is cool because see what happens
you step on there and go 220 pounds
that sucks and what are you going to
attract when you have that you’re going
to track 225 pounds that sucks
see so you’re basically fooling yourself
you’re programming your unconscious to
create the 185 or the 115 or whatever
you want but mark and I were writing
Chicken Soup for the Soul people say
what are you doing we’re writing a
best-selling book we never said we’re
writing a book we’re writing a
best-selling book and then it changed to
were happily celebrating the sale of 1.5
million copies of Chicken Soup for the
Soul
what I have right now is I’m sharing my
open loving heart and deep spiritual
wisdom with everyone I meet you want
affirmations for every aspect of your
vision and this is one of mine so state
your desired outcome as if it’s already
happening feel the feeling and then you
got it I’m happily driving my new BMW
down the highway I love this idea go to
the dealership you take your camera you
sit in the car you look out the window
and you say take my picture
I’ll be back to buy this in a month or
two then you take that picture home blow
it up 8 by 10 14 by 10 put it on your
refrigerator make it your screensaver
and then it just keeps coming into your
consciousness that’s my car that’s my
car that’s my car
I did that I wanted an Audi one year and
about three months after I started a
friend of mine came and actually owned
Donati and he said I’m going to Europe
for six months I don’t want my car to
sit because it needs to run would you be
willing to use my car for the next six
months
sure why not it’s a great car I didn’t
have to pay for it go down to the
dealership sit in the car put your hands
on the wheel feel the feelings get used
to it if you want to stay in world-class
hotels like the Four Seasons go to the
Four Seasons if you can’t afford a room
there just sit in the lobby and have a
drink go to the bar have one drink sit
in the lobby watch the rich people come
by and say someday that’s me or now
that’s me because it is you you’re
sitting in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton
whatever it might be get used to the
feeling go to the houses when they have
open houses for councils that cost 10
million dollars go my wife used to say
why God we can’t afford it I say yes we
will be able to and now I live in a six
and a half million dollar state so the
point is you want to get used to the
feeling you don’t want to feel
uncomfortable have you ever been to
Rodeo Drive and gone into some of the
stores where men’s shirts start at like
$450 the suits are like $2,000 enough
and you walk you to go I don’t blow
in here it’s almost like they’re gonna
ask you for your platinum American
Express card and you won’t have one and
they’re gonna throw you out like you’re
a homeless person
the truth is go in there try on the
shirts trying to seize before we could
afford it we went into Armani my wife
tried on these suits you look incredible
and man honey that’s you and she said I
know and now we can afford them we
couldn’t afford him beg them but now we
can so get into the feeling of it
all right create vision board how many
of you have a vision board or a wish
book okay
here’s one a friend of mine Rick Kinmen
it’s got all this stuff on it here’s
this I love this one someone just sent
me this this was a woman who was single
she wanted to be married and she wanted
to get married in Greece and you see the
pictures she had on her vision board and
then she sends me this six months after
she made the vision board she met a guy
he proposed they got married they did it
in Greece came out of the blue mark
wrote a book called out of the blue it
will come out of the blue here’s some of
the things on my vision board and
there’s picture of Oprah and I was on
her show millions of dollars I’m working
on that body on the left hand side and
more flexibility getting more sleep I
want to go to the Taj Mahal in India and
do some more meditation picture my wife
and I enjoy my mortgage paid in full and
so forth and so on and then I ran across
this really cool thing on YouTube you
might want to write this down there’s a
guy named Malcolm Cohan CEO haan and he
has a thing called thinking so you just
go to youtube and type in thinking so
and what he’s done now he’s created a
proprietary software package where you
can take your pictures from Google and
all these places and you put them into
this package and then what it does it
becomes a screensaver that pops up on
your screen it works like a PowerPoint
presentation that just keeps rotating by
so think it’s so Malcolm Cohen CoH a and
he’s an Australian and once I learned
that what I did these are just some of
the pictures that are in my screensaver
now this one says I’m feeling
exhilarated talking to audiences of
5,000 people or more I’ve talked to
audiences of 5,000 people or more ten
times in the last three months including
17,500 screaming women at our bond
amazing a lot of fun I’m enjoying
celebrating total sales of five million
copies of the success principles book
and DVD we are celebrating having sold
more than 1 billion copies of Chicken
Soup for the Soul books and we had a
person mock-up Time magazine cover for
us I’m thrilled to be working with
people in positions of power to create a
better world turns out the woman who is
the correspondent secretary for George
Bush and submitted five chickens of
stories we didn’t know and she comes and
says I’m about to quit and go do another
thing you want to have dinner at the
white a lunch at the White House so we
went one of the things we got to do was
go into the press room where Tony Snow
stands up there and goes yes question
questions I got to take that picture I’m
sitting up with Marc at two o’clock this
afternoon and he says he was with Jean
Houston in Greece Jean Houston is one of
the major advisors to Hillary Clinton
and Jean Houston said we want you and
Jack to work with the Democratic Party
they helped advise them for this new
administration to bring more of this
consciousness
so that that was my in my dream board
you know my vision board might my trip
my screensaver I put that in three
months ago and now we’re all forgetting
an invitation to play I’m enjoying
playing golf on twelve world-class golf
courses around the world we just played
in southern France on one of them
joyously receiving 26 relaxing massages
in 2007 and so on third thing
visualization every single day now let
me tell you a principle here in this
criticals called the the 30 day
principle research was done at NASA they
had astronauts wear concave lens goggles
for 30 days concave lens goggles make
your world appear upside down
imagine 24 hours a day for 30 days
everything is upside down you’re trying
to negotiate the stairs your soup which
looks up there you got to reach down
here to eat it they did this to see if
they would become nauseous
if they would lose their ability to
focus if they would become hostile how
would they relate to being in outer
space when there was no gravity that was
basically the experiment what they found
that they didn’t expect to find was it
25 to 30 days into it every one of the
astronauts their brain flipped the image
right-side up again even though the
image was coming in upside down their
brain flipped it right-side up what the
neuroscientists tell us is it takes 25
to 30 days to create a new neural
pathway in your brain takes 25 to 30
days to lock in a new belief system
takes 25 to 30 days to lock in a new
habit pattern takes 25 to 30 days to
have your visualization and affirmation
start to change the whole way your brain
perceives the world so your perception
is part of what’s controlling your
reality right now you’re not aware of
what you’re feeling in your right foot
but as soon as I say right foot you’re
aware of it but as soon as I say left
hand that’s where your awareness goes so
the reality is you’re all these things
were streaming into your brain but your
reticular system was filtering out
everything probably but what I was
saying but as soon as I say right foot
it changes so as soon as you start
visualizing and you do that for 30 days
there
system and your brains to start letting
in everything that will help us become a
millionaire or solve world hunger or
work with the president or whatever it
might be so you want to be visualizing
for 30 days in a row without fail
whatever it is you want because they did
an experiment where on day 15 they had
the half the astronaut to take their
glasses off put them on back on day 16
took another 25 to 30 days before the
phenomenon occurred again so you must do
25 to 30 days that makes sense
that’s one reason most people’s
affirmations don’t work it’s one reason
a lot of the seminars they take don’t
work because they don’t take the tools
and do them every day for 30 days it’s
like that 1024 7 idea
the repetition over and over locks it
into the unconscious and also opens up
the perceptual field for you and also
programs universal consciousness out
there in the world ok it’s one of the
most powerful tools that Mark and I have
discovered it’s called act as if you all
know you start acting like a millionaire
before your millionaire here’s the cool
technique it’s called to come as you’ll
be party if any of you done to come as
you’ll be party ok here’s what you do
mark and I went to a party we belong to
an organization we helped create called
the inside edge had 100 cutting-edge
people like Barbara dears this was a
member Tony Robbins member and so forth
and they had a party on the Queen Mary
and what we did was we got there and
they have paparazzi taking all our
pictures and big red carpet and we had
to act as if it were five years in the
future and we had achieved every one of
our goals and for three hours everyone
had to pretend it was five years later
people were walking around with books
they’d written people were walking
around their cell phone and ring and
they’d say things like oh that’s good
yeah buy 5,000 shares
yeah I’ll sell those yeah 10,000 of
those good call you back later they were
trading all these great stocks I was
doing this party with one of my seminars
recently and his kid 26 was walking
around with it cellphone going Jennifer
I told you don’t call me here no and
then a phone would ring in Jennifer
leave me alone no I know I know I was
the best lover you ever had I
honey I know I was the most sensitive
person oh I know you love me
I’m sorry I just have to move on finally
by the end of the evening takes one more
call he goes jail Oh leave me alone
I’m sick of it you know and people were
showing us pictures of the boats they
owned and the Argentinean ranchers
they’d bought and then camps they’d set
up for homeless children and on and on
and on now if you do that for two or
three hours and just stay in that space
that’s the most powerful act as if we’ve
ever figured out how to make happen go
home if you buy my book I think it’s
chapter 11 is called act as if there’s a
whole section on how to create
accomplish will be party there’s an
invitation then there you can mock up
and send out the people but really do
that it’s one of the most powerful
things you can ever do now let me move
this toward closure here I just want to
talk about one last thing let me find it
for you real quick here one of the
principles that we work with is if you
want to learn you’ve got to stay
motivated with the Masters you know Harv
talked about the Masters and so
principle number eight in my system is
stay motivated with the Masters and
there’s a lot of ways to do that you
come to sessions like this you take the
peak performance you know ultimate
seminar package whatever you keep being
exposed to masterful ideas of masterful
people shared that cartoon here’s a guy
named Jeff arch how many even who Jeff
arch is see most of you have never heard
of Jeff arch but you will know him in a
second Jeff arch one day was sitting
there and he was miserable his life
sucked and he said you know I’m watching
these infomercials on TV and I’m seeing
all his people talk about the money they
make and I’ve always thought that was BS
didn’t work but you know their lives
seem to be working pretty well they got
money they’re on TV I’m not he wanted to
be a playwright he’d written two plays
they failed miserably his wife’s to get
a real job we have a kid coming and he
was running a karate studio and he was
miserable and so what he did was he said
I’m gonna buy an audio program the audio
program sold for 149 dollars he ordered
it he listened to it and it changed his
life he said Wow
I got to go from my dream I have to
shoot one more time for my passion so he
quit his job as a karate studio
he said I’m
right one more screenplay or one more
plate he wrote a screenplay
and it was about a movie kind of James
Bond you know Russians versus Americans
took it to the to California and the day
he went there the Berlin Wall fell and
everyone said we just don’t want a cold
war movie anymore for a while because
the Berlin Wall just fell down context
isn’t right
he said before I listened to an audio
program I would have said the world
sucks see this is just one more example
I get screwed he said what the truth is
I realized I just made a decision where
I picked a topic that wasn’t timeless
and then I said okay what’s a timeless
topic that nothing the change for the
world can change it he said love love
love everyone loves love doesn’t matter
what happens in the world about love and
he said what’s the typical love story
boy meets girl there’s some problem you
know Romeo and Juliet two different
warring families can’t get together West
Side Story two different gangs can’t get
together look who’s coming to dinner
black guy white woman and we go down a
list it’s always this thing you got to
get through it
finally they they get together and the
story everyone’s happy he said what if I
do something totally different what if
they don’t meet until the last scene of
the movie that’s never been done so he
wrote a little screenplay called
Sleepless in Seattle
and that screenplay earned him five
hundred thousand dollars and now every
screenplay he writes is worth a million
dollars because he’s now a Class A you
know top tier screenwriter in LA and
what happened was one audio program that
changed his life forever $149 investment
turned into $500,000 so successful
number nine is you got to learn more to
earn more Rhonda Byrne who did the
secret her life was miserable her
daughter came to her and gave for a book
was called the science of getting rich
by Wallace wattles how many of you’ve
read that book you’ll hear Bob Proctor
talked about that tremendously DeMars
the book that changed his life it’s the
book that later
I read after thinking Grow Rich and
other books that changed my life
she reads this book she gets so excited
about it she says why doesn’t everyone
know this she goes out she spends I said
she bought 300 books over the course of
about four months she read 300 books on
Law of Attraction
success her investment was probably
close to $1,000 maybe more a couple
thousand three thousand dollars now she
goes and she makes a movie called the
secret and what happens is that movie
costs three million dollars to make
they’ve sold over three million copies
they’ve made ninety million dollars
based on her willingness to become a
student to learn more and as a result of
that a producer who was you know okay
and in Australia now has a home about a
block from Oprah is working on a second
movie is working with Harpo Productions
to create a reality show on the secret
because she was willing to invest in her
growth here’s somebody who read my book
look at all the little tabs in there
they’ve studied it more than I did it’s
amazing we’ve talked about a couple of
principles and success it’s just the tip
of the iceberg so a final story woman
calls her minister says Reverend Jim I
just came back from the hospital and
they diagnosed me with terminal cancer I
wonder if he could come over this
afternoon he said sure of course they’d
had he I’ll come over he goes over to
her house he tries to comfort her she
said don’t come for me I’m fine I don’t
I don’t understand the healing I just
want to play on my funeral would you
help me plan my funeral and she says he
says of course I’ll help you plan your
funeral she says I want to be buried in
this dress I want this hymn sung I want
these kind of flowers I want a memory
card to give to all the people that came
I want my picture on it this is my
favorite poem I’d like that on it and
she went on all the things she wanted
then she said I want to be buried with
my family Bible in my left hand and a
fork in my right hand he says well I
understand the Bible it had a your very
religious person but why the fork he
says you know whenever we have is that
you know whenever we have a church
social and are coming by to collect the
plates after we’ve had a dinner that in
the basement of the church whenever
there’s going to be a really great
dessert something like apple pie cherry
pie or peach cobbler chocolate cake they
always say keep your fork and whenever
they say keep your fork I know we’re
gonna have a really great dessert so
they’re gonna come by my casket and
they’re gonna look in and they’re gonna
go Reverend Jim I understand the Bible
in had he was very religious but why the
fork just look him in the eye and say
and had he knew the best was still yet
to come and so for all of you if you
take these principles that you’re
learning here from all the different
teachers not just mine but all of them
this whole three days becomes like a
total bitch salt everything I would have
said that I didn’t someone else is gonna
say you’re gonna get the full package
but if you’ll go back and put them into
practice and if you take the things I
have it if they’re attracted to you and
you’re attracted to them put them into
practice
do the work
just a minute because this is a I think
a little bit of a different twist on the
law of attraction is I’ve been talking
to people is we always talk about
attracting into our life what we want
tracting in the million dollars were the
perfect spouse were the perfect home I
want you to think about this as well
everything that you find yourself
attracted to is part of the universal
guidance system telling you this is the
way you’re supposed to be moving this is
where your destiny lies barber talked
today about the idea that she gave up
the TV thing and that people were
offering her TV shows and she said no it
doesn’t feel right it doesn’t feel good
I don’t get excited I don’t get turned
on there’s no juice for me and so you
look at you’re attracted to certain
people trust that you’re attracted to
certain teachers to certain seminars to
own certain kinds of things I remember I
was going to a workshop with my wife was
a conference of the humanistic
psychologists and my wife is very very
much into how to say that she’s much
more into people and relationships and
pets made her happiest thing is
shoveling horse poop on her barn out of
our horses stalls not my favorite thing
but she loves it and doesn’t care that
much about money and so I said I’m going
off to this money seminar guy was saying
you could triple your income in a year I
said I want to learn how to do that and
she kind of got mad at me she was
judging me I thought you were above that
come on you know everything it’s like
gold I sit down next to this woman in a
seminar just about 10 minutes before it
starts and she says what do you do and I
told her asked her what she did she’s a
veterinarian and I said really
what do you specialize in anything she
said yeah cat leukemia I said that’s
interesting my cat has leukemia my
veterinarian told me it’s not curable
she says no we’ve actually come up with
the cure I said really and as a result
of that meeting our cat got cured of
feline leukemia see you never know
you never know whatever you’re attracted
to see because the universe infinite
intelligence God source whatever you
want to call your own unconscious it can
see farther than you like right now you
can see from wherever you are up here
but you can’t see behind you but God or
source or infinite intelligence is way
up here it sees everything
it sees the traffic jam 20 miles down
the road and all of a sudden you get
this intuitive impulse yeah I think I’ll
take the mountain pass today well that’s
stupid no but if you take it you’ll
avoid the accident or you’ll avoid the
traffic you’ve got to learn to trust
your inspirations as soon as you set a
goal as soon as you have an intention
and you believe in it and then you get
rid of the self-doubt you have a
positive expectancy you fully expect it
to happen what happens is you’re gonna
start getting a little inspiration
you’ll be sitting there typing a paper
and all of a sudden you’ll get this
inspiration to walk down the street
maybe take mrs. Jones who’s a new Widow
or some cookies you know think well why
would I do that I got lots of work to
get done here but let’s say you do it
you walk down you bring her some cookies
and you have some tea and then she says
oh and by the way my son-in-law is here
let me introduce you to him and you go
in and you meet the son-in-law and you
find out he’s a Porsche dealer and he’s
selling a used Porsche for just the
amount of money that you can afford to
get that Porsche you always wanted that
kind of stuff will show up over and over
and over and over but you got to trust
the intuition you have to act I don’t
know if any of you’ve ever heard of a
spiritual community and Scotland called
Finn Dorn and if you heard of Finland
the guy who started finding with his
wife Eileen caddy his name’s Peter caddy
tells a story of drinking tea with his
wife
and getting this he just got this
intuitive flash he should go see his
friend Bob and he didn’t act on it for
an hour was an hour later he got up and
he drove into London or wherever it was
and he got there and Bob had died 30
minutes earlier and he said I learned
from that moment when I get an
inspiration or an intuitive flash I need
to act on it now right this minute
how many of you have had an intuitive
insight to do something didn’t do it
found out someone else did it made a
whole lot of money doing the thing you
thought about but didn’t do any of you
ever had an experience like that yeah
you got to take action as soon as you
have the impulse start acting on it now
three quick techniques to clarify what
you want in life how to ask clearly one
of them we just talked about but I will
talk about different one here for a
minute
it’s called the irritation list my
suggestion is you go back to your home
your house your apartment wherever you
live and you make a list of everything
that isn’t exactly the way you want it
anything that irritates you there’s
never a stapler by the Xerox machine the
screen door never quite closes and the
bugs come in that picture always hangs
at an angle you put it straight and
hangs at an angle again or does a crack
in the wall or you know the kitchen
drawers are a total mess or you can’t
find stuff in the garage or in a closet
these things don’t fit those things
don’t work your kids rooms a mess all
the time there’s a smell coming out of
it you know whatever it might be
write it down and then make another half
of the sheet of paper and write exactly
the way you’d like it to be throw away
the half of the paper about what you
don’t want and then go and fix
everything so you get exactly what you
want take a day or two and schedule it
clean up as many of those little things
as you can and people go well why should
I do that I want to be a millionaire I’m
focusing on world peace and you want me
to be worried about my sock drawer and
the answer is yes because when you don’t
do it get exactly what you want in the
little areas of your life what you do is
you slip into a state called resignation
you start believing you can’t have it
the way you want it you actually numb
out your awareness to not see that thing
anymore if any of you ever noticed if
you have a little crack in the wall and
you don’t fix it
than a month you stopped noticing it and
then a year later someone says you had a
big crack in your wall but you stopped
noticing it just became part of the
background most people are going through
life resigned settling most of us are
settling now most of you here or not
you’ve made a choice to go for your life
and create it the way you want it
believe it you can have what you want
but do this irritation list
clean up all the little things and the
big things commit to at least one a
quarter that you’re gonna get rid of and
you can set a date for cleaning out the
garage or you can set a date for a new
filing system or getting the car that
works or whatever it is it’s important
to you the second thing we already
talked about the 101 goals list make
sure you do that if you’ve seen that
book a thousand in one places you should
visit before you die I mean right there
is a whole bunch of stuff you can put on
your list and we just knocked off
southern France nice San Tropez topless
beaches what else do we have on the list
there was a lot of fun three years ago
my son said dad you always talk about
taking me to Europe when are you gonna
do it and so we went to London Barcelona
and Paris and spent four days in each
city just me and my 16 year old son had
a great time we had it written down he
knew it was there and because it was
there it actually ended up happening the
third thing is called the vision
exercise most of you know about the
power of vision but I like to just share
this with you real quickly you focused a
lot about finances millionaire mind how
much money do you want financial
independence never have to work again
also look at your business and career
goals maybe you want to open up China as
a market maybe you want to be the
salesman of the year in your company
maybe you want to have a whole different
career path that you want to go toward
maybe you’d like to win an award or be
elected president of your professional
association what’s your vision for your
ideal business and career life most
people have that stuff down but how many
of you have goals for how much fun
you’re gonna have this year what kind of
fun you’re gonna have this year that’s
measurable and specific in your vision
of your life for the next year or the
next two years or the next five years
you need to have your fun time goals my
wife and I at the beginning of every
year schedule all of our vacations we
take about ten long weekends four-day
weekends this year we’re taking five
week the week-long vacations we just
finished one in the South of France in
August we’re doing a week in the whole
year with my family we just came back
from Africa and March where we spent a
week and so on and so forth schedule the
time because otherwise it never happens
maybe you want to take salsa dancing
lessons maybe you’d like to take an
improvisational theater class maybe
you’d like to do stand-up comedy all
kinds of wonderful things you can do but
you’ve got to schedule them into your
life health and fitness goals do you
know what your cholesterol level is if
you’ve got a goal for that do you have a
goal for maybe competing in a marathon
or biathlon or a triathlon or maybe one
year in my health and fitness goals was
to get rid of my toenail fungus and if
you ever have a yellow toenail fungus
and most people just settle for it oh
it’s old guy’s toe disease nothing you
can do about it well if you take olive
leaf extract long enough you can get rid
of it and that became my goal one of my
goals for the year so health and fitness
goals
relationships goals how many you have
written goals for the next year about
what you want to accomplish in the area
of relationships just curious Steve so
fans not too many
one year mine was create five new male
friends we just moved to Santa Barbara
and what happens for most men as you
moved if you have kids you move to a new
town your wife goes and takes the kids
to school your kids form friends
your wife gets to know the parents of
your kids friends and that becomes your
social network and I didn’t like any of
the husbands of my wife’s new friends
they just been miners’ me and none of
them were into personal growth nighttime
were meditating none of them had a sense
of larger purpose in the world these
were boring to me and so I made a goal
to have five really close friends by the
end of the year so it wasn’t just casual
it was a deliberate intention and as a
result of that a strategy came up if
when I was meditating a couple weeks
later and every two weeks I invited
someone to have lunch with me started
with the guy who was a football I mean a
wrestling coach at UCSB and then turned
out who know the police chief of our
town is a really cool guy someone
mentioned that I had lunch with them
really ended up becoming very close
friends and so on and so forth
so now I have guys I play poker with
people we play bowls which is a fun game
and like you know bocce ball kind of
thing I have other people I’d meditate
with and we do personal growth things
together and so forth and so on but it
was a specific goal for the year in
terms of relationships and then the area
of personal personal will be personal
growth emotional growth things you want
to do that grow you could be learning to
play the piano
it could be learning French we heard art
Linkletter speaking I think like nine
languages so what are your goals in the
personal area and then finally have a
vision for your life in terms of
contribution and legacy I want to share
a story about this part there’s a man
named Kenneth baring who used to be a
co-owner of the Seattle Seahawks he was
worth about five hundred million dollars
at the time I don’t know what his net
worth is now it’s probably increased and
he said his life went through four
stages the first stage was called stuff
he said I wasn’t happy and I figured if
I had a lot of stuff I’d be happy so he
got a lot of money made a lot of money
bought a lot of stuff he had a private
plane a private yacht he had the big
house he had the fancy cars he had
everything he wanted art collections
great wine from around the world and he
said I still wasn’t happy well I figured
I had maybe I needed better stuff so he
said the next stage of my life I just
bought a bigger plane a bigger yacht a
better house better wine more expensive
this I still wasn’t happy and he said
well maybe I was collecting the wrong
stuff and so I created the phase mother
that’s called different stuff and that’s
when he said I bought the Seattle
Seahawks that made me fight on a
professional football team that’d make
me happy so I still wasn’t happy and
then he got a call from a friend he said
I’m going to go over to Bosnia and we’re
gonna take a Plane full of wheelchairs
and all these kids that have either been
born malformed or have lost their legs
to landmines we’re gonna give him
wheelchairs because wheelchairs give
them mobility and freedom and so he got
into playing with this friend and they
flew over to Bosnia and they got off and
they were putting all these kids in
wheelchairs he said I picked up this
first kid he was about 11 years old very
didn’t weigh much he was real thin and I
put him in a wheelchair
and I went to turn away to get another
wheelchair and a kid wouldn’t let go of
me
I turned back around I looked down and
there was tears coming down his face he
said please don’t go yet
and the third interpreter he said I just
want to look at your face so I can
memorize it so when we meet again in
heaven I’ll be able to thank you one
more time and he said I started to cry
uncontrollably and he said it was the
first time in my life I felt pure joy
and as a result ken came back and he
started the wheelchair Foundation
they’ve given away over four hundred
thousand wheelchairs the kids around the
world they said have never been happier
in my life
and now and now he’s crazy a new
foundation because one of the biggest
problems in the world is lack of clean
water we have thousands and thousands of
people with all kinds of diseases and
cataracts all because they don’t have
clean water and so he started a new
foundation he said I’ve never been
happier in my life
and he calls this last stage of his life
purpose me actually wrote a book called
a life of purpose the point being
and several people have said this the
real joy comes from giving Bob Proctor I
know we’ll talk tomorrow about this I
love this idea
he said it’s critical that you make a
lot of money
he said money is very useful he said
without money the good you can do is
limited to your physical presence see I
could show up at a homeless shelter and
I can hold kids and I can read stories
and I can brush people’s hair and I can
do lots of stuff but it’s limited to my
physical presence but when you have
money as Mark does than I do and many of
the speakers up here do we give away
millions of dollars we planted over a
million trees in Yosemite National
Forest figuring we’ve certainly used up
a lot making books so we thought we
ought to put a few back into the ground
[Applause]
it’s actually cool to go there and see
all these little trees growing up ago
what’s our trees it’s really neat but
the point being that you want to have
influence for good you know mark talks
about creating and light and
millionaires millionaires that give away
at least a million dollars and if you
create a million millionaires to give
away a million dollars you’re talking
about a trillion dollars in philanthropy
in the world it’s not so hard to do it’s
really not that big a game to play when
you really think about how simple it is
all right so we’ve got these seven
vision categories what I’d like to do
with you for just a moment is I’d like
you to close your eyes and trust that
your stuff won’t blow away in the wind
ear and I’m going to mention each of
these categories I’m going to be silent
for 30 seconds and what I’d like you to
do is just let come up from you from the
internal natural child from your inner
self your high self the part of you that
knows what you really want to come up
with what do I really want in that arena
of my life and I would say think in
terms of the next two years so two years
from now what would you like to say
you’ve accomplished financially or
career-wise or so forth so just a little
bit of going inside so you’re not
listening to me and just being a speech
we’ll kind of just take it inside a
little deeply so take a deep breath
close your eyes
and take another deep breath or just let
it all go you can feel the wind on your
face a little bit of moisture remember
whatever it rains it’s cleansing it’s
cleaning cleaning out the old bringing
in the new Hawaii and they say whenever
it rains it’s auspicious it’s the God’s
way of blessing the event we’re gonna
get a real blessing now so think of the
area of financial what do you truly want
and your deepest heart financially for
yourself two years from now what would
you like to have accomplished what’s
your vision for that and then think
about the area business and career what
do you want to accomplish what’s your
vision for what you all have been able
to achieve two years from now and then
focus on the area of fun and recreation
two years from now what do you want to
say you’ve done or experienced in terms
of really having fun or recreation
travel anything in that arena then think
about the area of health and fitness
what do you want to have accomplished in
that area of your life
maybe it’s weight loss maybe it’s more
vitality more flexibility maybe a better
diet that you’re now eating
and think about the area of
relationships what do you want to have
accomplished in the area of
relationships then think about the area
of personal what do you want to have
accomplished just because you want to do
it in terms of personal growth or
development spiritual development
education and then finally in the area
of contribution where do you want to
volunteer where you want your money to
go what do you want to be different in
the world because of your efforts very
good and go ahead when you’re ready open
your eyes come on back and when you have
a moment perhaps not now just a little
bit challenging but make sure you write
that down get it down on paper share it
with your partner put it up on the
refrigerator look at it every day what I
do is I have three goals and every one
of those arenas so I have 21 goals every
year and then I make a eight and a half
by 11 sheet with a picture I either get
it from you know Google Images or I pull
them out of magazines and put them under
a page protector and I write a little
affirmation over with a specific
measurable goal then each day I go
through that and I look at it and I
visualize it and I feel the feelings I
would feel if I already had it and every
year I achieve at least 18 of those 21
goals and within two years the ones I
didn’t get the three that I didn’t get I
have achieved I could go back over my
life everything I’ve ever wanted has
come true everything now still working
on bigger goals like transforming
education world peace ending hunger but
those are all moving along quite nicely
in terms of the measurements that we’re
doing in the world of those things
now the next step obviously we won’t do
that here either but you got to set
measurable goals how much by win want to
be wealthier how much be specific so I’d
like to double my income becomes I will
earn $350,000 by midnight December 31st
2008 at 5:00 p.m.
specific
I’d like to become a millionaire I will
have a net worth of 1 million by
midnight December 31st 2009 at 5 p.m.
like to lose weight and get fit might be
I will weigh 190 pounds you play a 10k
run by December 30th 2007 I want to look
at the law of attraction with you just a
little bit we know the law of attraction
works like gravity which is always I
just got asked the other day we were
filming a PBS special it’s gonna be a
pledge drive specialist in Boston doing
that yesterday and one of the questions
that God asked from the audience was
well what about Darfur and what about
Katrina and what about 9/11 I’m now
coming to believe and I didn’t believe
this three years ago but as more I study
law of attraction and hang out with the
other people teaching it I’m now
beginning to believe that everything is
attracted into our life either by our
behavior by our thoughts by our fears by
our fantasies the things we talk about
the things we watch on TV and we go oh I
hope that never happens to me where we
watch a movie like Blood Diamond and we
see all this violence over diamonds and
we get really upset about it we actually
create more of everything we have
intense feelings about so literally I
want you to act as if you’re creating
everything and become really really
really really disciplined about what you
think what you read what you watch what
you talk about
I was with Mark Victor Hansen in New
York about all three months ago we were
getting some awards for books some
convention and we went out to dinner
afterwards about 10 o’clock and we
talked to about 2:00 in the morning and
literally in that four hours neither one
of us said one negative thing about
anything or anybody mark told me the
projects he was working on and I what
that’s fabulous how can I help you you
need to meet this person I just met that
person you guys need the network it was
all about how do we do it where do we do
it what’s happening what’s good what’s
good Ms mark was saying wow we can
educate a kid in Africa for $120 a year
we can send him to college in Africa
I didn’t know it was that cheap you
could be there we talked about micro
loans we talked about educating we
talked about some research that shows
the fastest way to end hunger in the
world is to educate young girls in rural
villages
who knew the research but it’s there so
literally we just guess yes yes how do
we do it then I get on the plane the
next morning to fly back to LA and a guy
next to me is talking about how crappy
the world is how bad is children are the
government this thing is that never
occurred to us once to have a negative
thought it was all about what do we want
let’s make it happen how can we help
each other you go and so basically
that’s what you want to be doing only
focusing and talking about exactly what
you want when you talk about something’s
not working all you’re gonna do is
create more if it’s not working people
come up to me so I’ve been doing the law
of attraction for three months I still
don’t have my cards that doesn’t work
well what you’re focusing on is it
doesn’t work and you’re gonna get more
of it doesn’t work what you want to
focus on is where it is working hey I
wanted to get a place by the window as a
restaurant and I got it you know some
people keep what they call a
manifestation journal at the end of
every day what man what did I manifest
well how’s it working and what we know
is what we focus on what it expands and
so you want to focus on only that which
what you is what you want okay
whatever you think about talk about and
fantasize about or give your attention
to and you’re going to attract more of
so you really have to become deliberate
and intentional now three stages we
talked about ask believe and receive so
I want to move into the next section
here in a moment we’re going to talk
about ask believing or talk about
creating a vibrational match for that
which you want into your life you must
always be feeling good anytime you’re
feeling good you attract more into your
life to feel good about when you’re
feeling bad when you’re upset when
you’re pissed off when you’re resentful
when you’re scared when you’re in doubt
you’re actually pushing away all the
things that are waiting to come into
your life most of what you want is kind
of sitting out there in the parking lot
waiting to come in but when you’re
talking about negativity and you’re
criticizing other people is pushing it
away and
faster you can get over that the faster
you’ll manage tough stuff into your life
so the more we can be in gratitude and
abundance let’s talk about gratitude for
a minute when you watch the movie the
secret you saw about the gratitude rock
the Lea Brauer uses in his life John
Demartini never gets out of bed until he
has a tear of gratitude sometimes he
says I’m in there for an hour just
focusing on what I’m grateful for him
but until that tear comes out of my eye
and I do not get out of bed and John is
a millionaire probably a hundred times
over started out as a dyslexic kid he
was basically dying when this person
took him under his wing and gave him an
affirmation which was something like to
the effect of I am a wise person and
everyone I touch is benefited by my
wisdom and now John has read every book
ever written by any Nobel laureate in
any field in the last 10 years he’s a
genius and what he does whereas before
they said you got to drop out of school
you’re a TD and a four-team he dropped
out of school
gratitude Rhonda Byrne when she wrote
the book the secret she said I didn’t
start to write until I was had so much
gratitude in my heart that I would have
a tear come down my face she said as
soon as I was in that space I couldn’t
my fingers were just flying and the book
she wrote that book in like three weeks
three weeks wrote a book it sold over
three point seven five million copies
because she was in the space to receive
because when you’re in a space of
gratitude you’re saying I accept that
which has been given to me I appreciated
what that does it opens up a space for
more to flow in the word grace we say
we’re under grace you know the grace of
God the word gracias in Spanish
gratitude it’s all from the same root
word the more gratitude we have the more
grace we receive that flows through us
out into the universe in terms of our
creativity and drawing to us that which
we want abundance and generosity you
want to be always giving as much as you
can Barbara talked about that hugely
today be in a state of joy I now teach
that at least one hour a day you need to
take for yourself and do the things that
you most love to do right now I’m
learning to
the piano so that’s what my hours about
for my wife it’s the horse poop and
petting our dog and our cats and all of
us that she loves it I don’t just does
for someone else is listening to Bach
and Beethoven or listening to Bono or
whatever it might be for someone else
it’s painting or gardening I was doing a
seminar up in Canada an ex-boxer on a TV
show up in Canada and this woman stood
up in the audience and she said I have a
question I said great what is it she
said I haven’t been happy for seven
years you’re talking about joy I haven’t
been I haven’t experienced joy for seven
years I said what happened seven years
ago she said my husband died I said
really I said what did you use to do
that brought you joy before your husband
died she said well I used to paint I
used to garden I used to play the piano
and I said have you done any of that in
the last seven years she says no i said
well here go to go home and tonight i
want you to play the piano tomorrow I
want you to go out and garden the next I
want you to buy some paints and paint
something then I want you to write me a
letter or give me a phone call and I
gave her my card
about a week later I got a call and she
said I can’t tell you how happy I am
happiness partly comes from doing things
that make you happy and for some reason
most of us spend our time doing the
things we think we should do we don’t go
out and do two things that make us happy
so literally make a discipline of doing
the things that bring you joy it’s like
having a joy diet and basically if you
can get into joy all the time like
mother Teresa was or the Dali Lama is or
Mark Victor Hansen is ninety percent of
the time and I am ninety percent of the
time and things just start flowing into
your life at a magical rate okay
forgiveness is another big piece you
must forgive because any time you’re
holding resentment you’re not enjoy
you’re not in love you’re not him inner
peace you have to let go and release and
there are all kinds of powerful
processes John Gray wrote a book about
the total truth process you if you can
feel it you can heal it there’s a book
on letting go of forgiveness by jerry
jim paul ski i mean there’s many many
techniques out there find one and use it
the emotional freedom technique the
five-minute phobia cure there’s a ton of
technology that in like five minutes you
can get rid of a phobia in five minutes
you can get rid of a negative belief
just tapping on certain meridian points
things that we teach in our seminars you
can go into in greater depth be in a
state of love always expect the positive
always expect the positive i basically
gave mark a little feedback may i think
everything he said this morning but once
he said I don’t think Al Gore will ever
get 2.5 million people to watch that TV
show they said mark that’s a negative
thought expect the positive if you don’t
expect that it won’t happen so you want
to always be in that state of expecting
that it’s gonna show up expecting it I
mean how many of you would call Domino’s
Pizza order your pizza and then call
them back and go are you guys really
gonna bring it over you’re sure you’re
not kidding me
yeah you really do that okay you know if
you did that three or four times they
they put your number on caller ID and
they wouldn’t take your call anymore and
yet we do that with the universe all the
time I’d like a Porsche up but I can’t
afford it I’d like a Porsche but you
know whatever now probably more today we
should say I’d like a Prius instead of a
Porsche right
we’re all learning some of the things
we’ve been trained to want aren’t really
the best things for us we have to learn
some new new stuff around them all right
I’m gonna skip over that slide here I
love this quote from Tiger Woods he says
one of the things my dad kept instilling
me was the joy of the game he made it
fun for me a lot of times I see a lot of
kids they don’t enjoy being out there
it’s a shame you’re supposed to enjoy
the game I say the same thing about life
you’re supposed to enjoy the game one of
the things I try to instill in my
clinics is yes go out there and give it
all you have but more importantly enjoy
what you’re doing if you’re not loving
it you know all the teachers say do what
you love the money will follow follow
your passion follow your heart I don’t
know if Alan Cohen said this when he
talked to you but it was one of the
things I learned in his book then he
mentioned this concept of hell yes or
hell no yeah that’s a great idea if it’s
not a hell yes since the LEAs called
screw it if you got to be going like
well maybe maybe not let me do it I’ll
make a list these are the pros these are
the cons if you didn’t get an instant
yeah I mean when Lynne twists who
started the hunger project and I met her
about a year ago said we bring people
over to our Chateau every summer 16
people for a week I just went and she
said would you like to come this year so
I guess and it was like yeah I want to
come I was like malabon let me talk to
my wife see if we can schedule it as
soon as you’re doing that it’s like it’s
not good so you got to be following the
excitement following the juice mother
Teresa once she said once I asked my
counselor for advice about my vocation I
asked how can I know if God is calling
me in for what is he calling me
he answered you’ll know by your
happiness if you’re happy this will be
the proof of your vocation I think it
was a Thomas Edison said when your
vocation becomes your vacation then the
rest of your life is a blessing so you
want to be doing the thing that you
would do that you get paid for doing a
thing you love to do and my seminars
I’ll have people make a list 20 things
you love to do when I first did that
exercise I wrote I love to hang out with
really cool people I love to hang out
with intellectuals who are thinking
cutting-edge thoughts I love to open my
mail I love to listen to music anyway
went down my list under the
seminar leaders said think of five ways
you could make money doing that I
thought how could I make money hanging
out with really cool people well one of
the things I just did two years ago I
created something called the
transformational Leadership Council we
have a hundred members of people like
John Gray he’ll be speaking to you
tomorrow and gay Hendricks who wrote all
the books on relationships and we get
together twice a year for four days and
as a result of that we have now Co
ventured all kinds of cool things that
have basically doubled my income in the
last two years and I’m hanging out with
cool people I’m making money doing the
things I thought used to be what you got
to do when you aren’t working so you
want to keep following that passion now
law of attraction says believe got to
believe it’s possible trust your
internal guidance system was talked
about that I want to share with you a
story about a guy named cliff young
cliff Young was 61 years old when he
showed up at the beginning of a
long-distance race in Australia
the race was 875 kilometres that’s about
650 miles he was wearing overalls he was
wearing construction boots
all the other guys were 25 or 30 they’re
all in their Adidas Nike Puma Asics
running gear he looks like an old farmer
he actually had galoshes on over his
boots he says in case of rain they said
if you ever run along distance race
before he said no so why do you think he
can do this if you ever run a marathon I
mean this is like six and a half days he
said no but I’m a farmer and I have to
chase my sheep around and sometimes I
have trouble and I have to chase them
for two or three days and I don’t seem
to get tired I think I can do it he said
why don’t you start with a shorter race
he said well this is the only days that
we’re free on my schedule when it was a
race schedule said okay so all the
racers that the gun goes off and they
all take off they’re really running fast
and cliffs running like this
they called it the cliff Jung shuffle
now cliff had an advantage nobody knew
about cliff had never talked to a coach
he’d never talked to an elite distance
runner
he’d never read Reynolds World magazine
he never read a book on long distance
running he didn’t know that when you do
a long distance race you run for 18
hours sleep for six run for 18 and sleep
for six run for 18 sleepers in so he was
running so slow when he got up to the
part where everyone was gone to bed they
were all asleep no one told him to stop
and go to bed
so he just kept running on by he ran
non-stop for 5 and 1/2 days and broke
the record by 12 hours
[Applause]
see sometimes what you think you know
gets in the way of what’s possible if
you believe you can do something you can
figure it out but you have to believe
you have to believe it’s coming into
your life I love this quote it says
never tell anyone something cannot be
done God may have been waiting for
centuries for somebody ignorant enough
of the impossible to do that very thing
you know you think of all the
technologies we have the airplane FedEx
when the guy to put FedEx together
he was an MBA student at Yale and he
presented the paper that outlined the
FedEx process they gave him an F on it
and said it’s not possible it will never
happen and now when you think it
absolutely positively has to be there
overnight you go what FedEx so
everything that exists started out as
somebody’s dream
somebody’s idea and nine times out of 10
they told you couldn’t happen here’s the
kid named Farah gray 19 years old born
in the ghetto mother’s on welfare at the
age of six he starts his first company
by the age of eleven he has three
companies now they’re small they do
things like take rocks paint them go
door-to-door and sell them as paper
weights but he made fifty dollars his
first day doing that which was more than
his mother made when she was been the
housekeeper and then he got a bunch of
kids together and they would go to older
people and they’d say we’ll go buy your
groceries for you bring them back in our
wagons you just give us a couple of
bucks he gave one to the guy who went to
get the groceries kept one for himself
had a thing gone by the age of twelve he
created something called the urban
neighborhood education Economic Council
called unique he was getting businessmen
like many of you and Harv and people I
get to come in and speak to the other
kids who were 12 and 13 to teach them
business practices by the age of 14 he
had read a book by Deepak Chopra called
the seven laws of the seven spiritual
laws of success one of them was the law
of least effort in other words the thing
that is the least effort for you the
thing that’s easiest to do
you can’t imagine people would pay you
for it’s the thing that you need to go
for the thing you love to do he said
what do I love I love food and I love
kids so what I’m gonna do is start a
food company for kids he said what a
kids like kids like sweet things so he
created a syrup like a maple syrup type
thing that his grandmother used to have
a recipe for and in one and a half years
he built that company up to now he’s all
of 16 and he sells it for one and a half
million dollars he drops out of high
school moves to Las Vegas starts a
newspaper opens a real estate agency
then a real estate development company
then he writes a book called the real
Ian Ayre at the age of 19 and he’s worth
tens of millions of dollars why because
he believed he could do anything he
wanted to do he said if someone else can
do it I can do if harf can do it you can
do it if Marc can do it you can do it if
I can do it you can do it there’s no if
Erik Weihenmayer a blind guy can climb
Mount Everest there’s nothing we can’t
do but you have to believe it so every
project you create you believe you’re
going to create you’re gonna get you’re
gonna get the result you want Oprah
Winfrey said you did not become what you
want you become what you believed when I
was on The Oprah Winfrey Show sitting
next to her the auric field that came
out or the level of charisma would
almost knock you over and she said I
believe this stuff long before it was
called the secret and so on and so forth
but she believed there’s a little child
I can do anything I want and she went
out and did it so can you step number
four says release the brakes it’s
another way of saying create a
vibrational match I’ll just talk about
this for a few minutes and I think my
time is gonna run out here now how do we
do that in order to receive something
into our life we have to be feeling the
feelings we would feel if we already had
the thing that we want to come into our
life so I have to feel like a
millionaire before the million can come
in I have to feel abundant I have to
feel full of love before I track the
love I want Gandhi said be
the thing you want so if you want love
be loving you want joy be joyful you’ll
track more of that into your life so I’m
going to teach you four quick techniques
most of you know these but ask yourself
am i doing them number one affirmations
so I have an affirmation since I’m
reveling in my six million dollar a year
personal income actually this year it’s
up to nine on my formation card so you
want to have an affirmation describing
the result as already achieved I’m
reveling in my income and I closed my
eyes every morning I feel the feeling I
see the bank count I see my IRS report
nine million dollars gross personal
income and then I move to my next thing
this is one I use the number of years
ago I’m enjoying looking at my
physically fit 185 pound body in the
mirror now if you look at that closely
you’ll see my face when I have brown
hair cut out and put over a body that
was in some muscle magazine and I put
that on my mirror every morning and
every time I look at that I say gee I
don’t quite look like that then I go
into gym I’d lift weights might eat
better and so forth now I’ll never look
like that I’m not going to spend six
hours in the gym but it basically
motivated me it said I’m already
experiencing it right now even though I
wasn’t by the way a great technique and
I put that off on personal don’t freak
out in the a/v department up there but I
just didn’t want you looking at slide
when you’re trying to lose weight
take your scale and whatever weight you
want away write it on a piece of paper
put it over your scale so every time you
step on your scale you go Oh far out 185
this is cool because see what happens
you step on there and go 220 pounds
that sucks and what are you going to
attract when you have that you’re going
to track 225 pounds that sucks
see so you’re basically fooling yourself
you’re programming your unconscious to
create the 185 or the 115 or whatever
you want but mark and I were writing
Chicken Soup for the Soul people say
what are you doing we’re writing a
best-selling book we never said we’re
writing a book we’re writing a
best-selling book and then it changed to
were happily celebrating the sale of 1.5
million copies of Chicken Soup for the
Soul
what I have right now is I’m sharing my
open loving heart and deep spiritual
wisdom with everyone I meet you want
affirmations for every aspect of your
vision and this is one of mine so state
your desired outcome as if it’s already
happening feel the feeling and then you
got it I’m happily driving my new BMW
down the highway I love this idea go to
the dealership you take your camera you
sit in the car you look out the window
and you say take my picture
I’ll be back to buy this in a month or
two then you take that picture home blow
it up 8 by 10 14 by 10 put it on your
refrigerator make it your screensaver
and then it just keeps coming into your
consciousness that’s my car that’s my
car that’s my car
I did that I wanted an Audi one year and
about three months after I started a
friend of mine came and actually owned
Donati and he said I’m going to Europe
for six months I don’t want my car to
sit because it needs to run would you be
willing to use my car for the next six
months
sure why not it’s a great car I didn’t
have to pay for it go down to the
dealership sit in the car put your hands
on the wheel feel the feelings get used
to it if you want to stay in world-class
hotels like the Four Seasons go to the
Four Seasons if you can’t afford a room
there just sit in the lobby and have a
drink go to the bar have one drink sit
in the lobby watch the rich people come
by and say someday that’s me or now
that’s me because it is you you’re
sitting in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton
whatever it might be get used to the
feeling go to the houses when they have
open houses for councils that cost 10
million dollars go my wife used to say
why God we can’t afford it I say yes we
will be able to and now I live in a six
and a half million dollar state so the
point is you want to get used to the
feeling you don’t want to feel
uncomfortable have you ever been to
Rodeo Drive and gone into some of the
stores where men’s shirts start at like
$450 the suits are like $2,000 enough
and you walk you to go I don’t blow
in here it’s almost like they’re gonna
ask you for your platinum American
Express card and you won’t have one and
they’re gonna throw you out like you’re
a homeless person
the truth is go in there try on the
shirts trying to seize before we could
afford it we went into Armani my wife
tried on these suits you look incredible
and man honey that’s you and she said I
know and now we can afford them we
couldn’t afford him beg them but now we
can so get into the feeling of it
all right create vision board how many
of you have a vision board or a wish
book okay
here’s one a friend of mine Rick Kinmen
it’s got all this stuff on it here’s
this I love this one someone just sent
me this this was a woman who was single
she wanted to be married and she wanted
to get married in Greece and you see the
pictures she had on her vision board and
then she sends me this six months after
she made the vision board she met a guy
he proposed they got married they did it
in Greece came out of the blue mark
wrote a book called out of the blue it
will come out of the blue here’s some of
the things on my vision board and
there’s picture of Oprah and I was on
her show millions of dollars I’m working
on that body on the left hand side and
more flexibility getting more sleep I
want to go to the Taj Mahal in India and
do some more meditation picture my wife
and I enjoy my mortgage paid in full and
so forth and so on and then I ran across
this really cool thing on YouTube you
might want to write this down there’s a
guy named Malcolm Cohan CEO haan and he
has a thing called thinking so you just
go to youtube and type in thinking so
and what he’s done now he’s created a
proprietary software package where you
can take your pictures from Google and
all these places and you put them into
this package and then what it does it
becomes a screensaver that pops up on
your screen it works like a PowerPoint
presentation that just keeps rotating by
so think it’s so Malcolm Cohen CoH a and
he’s an Australian and once I learned
that what I did these are just some of
the pictures that are in my screensaver
now this one says I’m feeling
exhilarated talking to audiences of
5,000 people or more I’ve talked to
audiences of 5,000 people or more ten
times in the last three months including
17,500 screaming women at our bond
amazing a lot of fun I’m enjoying
celebrating total sales of five million
copies of the success principles book
and DVD we are celebrating having sold
more than 1 billion copies of Chicken
Soup for the Soul books and we had a
person mock-up Time magazine cover for
us I’m thrilled to be working with
people in positions of power to create a
better world turns out the woman who is
the correspondent secretary for George
Bush and submitted five chickens of
stories we didn’t know and she comes and
says I’m about to quit and go do another
thing you want to have dinner at the
white a lunch at the White House so we
went one of the things we got to do was
go into the press room where Tony Snow
stands up there and goes yes question
questions I got to take that picture I’m
sitting up with Marc at two o’clock this
afternoon and he says he was with Jean
Houston in Greece Jean Houston is one of
the major advisors to Hillary Clinton
and Jean Houston said we want you and
Jack to work with the Democratic Party
they helped advise them for this new
administration to bring more of this
consciousness
so that that was my in my dream board
you know my vision board might my trip
my screensaver I put that in three
months ago and now we’re all forgetting
an invitation to play I’m enjoying
playing golf on twelve world-class golf
courses around the world we just played
in southern France on one of them
joyously receiving 26 relaxing massages
in 2007 and so on third thing
visualization every single day now let
me tell you a principle here in this
criticals called the the 30 day
principle research was done at NASA they
had astronauts wear concave lens goggles
for 30 days concave lens goggles make
your world appear upside down
imagine 24 hours a day for 30 days
everything is upside down you’re trying
to negotiate the stairs your soup which
looks up there you got to reach down
here to eat it they did this to see if
they would become nauseous
if they would lose their ability to
focus if they would become hostile how
would they relate to being in outer
space when there was no gravity that was
basically the experiment what they found
that they didn’t expect to find was it
25 to 30 days into it every one of the
astronauts their brain flipped the image
right-side up again even though the
image was coming in upside down their
brain flipped it right-side up what the
neuroscientists tell us is it takes 25
to 30 days to create a new neural
pathway in your brain takes 25 to 30
days to lock in a new belief system
takes 25 to 30 days to lock in a new
habit pattern takes 25 to 30 days to
have your visualization and affirmation
start to change the whole way your brain
perceives the world so your perception
is part of what’s controlling your
reality right now you’re not aware of
what you’re feeling in your right foot
but as soon as I say right foot you’re
aware of it but as soon as I say left
hand that’s where your awareness goes so
the reality is you’re all these things
were streaming into your brain but your
reticular system was filtering out
everything probably but what I was
saying but as soon as I say right foot
it changes so as soon as you start
visualizing and you do that for 30 days
there
system and your brains to start letting
in everything that will help us become a
millionaire or solve world hunger or
work with the president or whatever it
might be so you want to be visualizing
for 30 days in a row without fail
whatever it is you want because they did
an experiment where on day 15 they had
the half the astronaut to take their
glasses off put them on back on day 16
took another 25 to 30 days before the
phenomenon occurred again so you must do
25 to 30 days that makes sense
that’s one reason most people’s
affirmations don’t work it’s one reason
a lot of the seminars they take don’t
work because they don’t take the tools
and do them every day for 30 days it’s
like that 1024 7 idea
the repetition over and over locks it
into the unconscious and also opens up
the perceptual field for you and also
programs universal consciousness out
there in the world ok it’s one of the
most powerful tools that Mark and I have
discovered it’s called act as if you all
know you start acting like a millionaire
before your millionaire here’s the cool
technique it’s called to come as you’ll
be party if any of you done to come as
you’ll be party ok here’s what you do
mark and I went to a party we belong to
an organization we helped create called
the inside edge had 100 cutting-edge
people like Barbara dears this was a
member Tony Robbins member and so forth
and they had a party on the Queen Mary
and what we did was we got there and
they have paparazzi taking all our
pictures and big red carpet and we had
to act as if it were five years in the
future and we had achieved every one of
our goals and for three hours everyone
had to pretend it was five years later
people were walking around with books
they’d written people were walking
around their cell phone and ring and
they’d say things like oh that’s good
yeah buy 5,000 shares
yeah I’ll sell those yeah 10,000 of
those good call you back later they were
trading all these great stocks I was
doing this party with one of my seminars
recently and his kid 26 was walking
around with it cellphone going Jennifer
I told you don’t call me here no and
then a phone would ring in Jennifer
leave me alone no I know I know I was
the best lover you ever had I
honey I know I was the most sensitive
person oh I know you love me
I’m sorry I just have to move on finally
by the end of the evening takes one more
call he goes jail Oh leave me alone
I’m sick of it you know and people were
showing us pictures of the boats they
owned and the Argentinean ranchers
they’d bought and then camps they’d set
up for homeless children and on and on
and on now if you do that for two or
three hours and just stay in that space
that’s the most powerful act as if we’ve
ever figured out how to make happen go
home if you buy my book I think it’s
chapter 11 is called act as if there’s a
whole section on how to create
accomplish will be party there’s an
invitation then there you can mock up
and send out the people but really do
that it’s one of the most powerful
things you can ever do now let me move
this toward closure here I just want to
talk about one last thing let me find it
for you real quick here one of the
principles that we work with is if you
want to learn you’ve got to stay
motivated with the Masters you know Harv
talked about the Masters and so
principle number eight in my system is
stay motivated with the Masters and
there’s a lot of ways to do that you
come to sessions like this you take the
peak performance you know ultimate
seminar package whatever you keep being
exposed to masterful ideas of masterful
people shared that cartoon here’s a guy
named Jeff arch how many even who Jeff
arch is see most of you have never heard
of Jeff arch but you will know him in a
second Jeff arch one day was sitting
there and he was miserable his life
sucked and he said you know I’m watching
these infomercials on TV and I’m seeing
all his people talk about the money they
make and I’ve always thought that was BS
didn’t work but you know their lives
seem to be working pretty well they got
money they’re on TV I’m not he wanted to
be a playwright he’d written two plays
they failed miserably his wife’s to get
a real job we have a kid coming and he
was running a karate studio and he was
miserable and so what he did was he said
I’m gonna buy an audio program the audio
program sold for 149 dollars he ordered
it he listened to it and it changed his
life he said Wow
I got to go from my dream I have to
shoot one more time for my passion so he
quit his job as a karate studio
he said I’m
right one more screenplay or one more
plate he wrote a screenplay
and it was about a movie kind of James
Bond you know Russians versus Americans
took it to the to California and the day
he went there the Berlin Wall fell and
everyone said we just don’t want a cold
war movie anymore for a while because
the Berlin Wall just fell down context
isn’t right
he said before I listened to an audio
program I would have said the world
sucks see this is just one more example
I get screwed he said what the truth is
I realized I just made a decision where
I picked a topic that wasn’t timeless
and then I said okay what’s a timeless
topic that nothing the change for the
world can change it he said love love
love everyone loves love doesn’t matter
what happens in the world about love and
he said what’s the typical love story
boy meets girl there’s some problem you
know Romeo and Juliet two different
warring families can’t get together West
Side Story two different gangs can’t get
together look who’s coming to dinner
black guy white woman and we go down a
list it’s always this thing you got to
get through it
finally they they get together and the
story everyone’s happy he said what if I
do something totally different what if
they don’t meet until the last scene of
the movie that’s never been done so he
wrote a little screenplay called
Sleepless in Seattle
and that screenplay earned him five
hundred thousand dollars and now every
screenplay he writes is worth a million
dollars because he’s now a Class A you
know top tier screenwriter in LA and
what happened was one audio program that
changed his life forever $149 investment
turned into $500,000 so successful
number nine is you got to learn more to
earn more Rhonda Byrne who did the
secret her life was miserable her
daughter came to her and gave for a book
was called the science of getting rich
by Wallace wattles how many of you’ve
read that book you’ll hear Bob Proctor
talked about that tremendously DeMars
the book that changed his life it’s the
book that later
I read after thinking Grow Rich and
other books that changed my life
she reads this book she gets so excited
about it she says why doesn’t everyone
know this she goes out she spends I said
she bought 300 books over the course of
about four months she read 300 books on
Law of Attraction
success her investment was probably
close to $1,000 maybe more a couple
thousand three thousand dollars now she
goes and she makes a movie called the
secret and what happens is that movie
costs three million dollars to make
they’ve sold over three million copies
they’ve made ninety million dollars
based on her willingness to become a
student to learn more and as a result of
that a producer who was you know okay
and in Australia now has a home about a
block from Oprah is working on a second
movie is working with Harpo Productions
to create a reality show on the secret
because she was willing to invest in her
growth here’s somebody who read my book
look at all the little tabs in there
they’ve studied it more than I did it’s
amazing we’ve talked about a couple of
principles and success it’s just the tip
of the iceberg so a final story woman
calls her minister says Reverend Jim I
just came back from the hospital and
they diagnosed me with terminal cancer I
wonder if he could come over this
afternoon he said sure of course they’d
had he I’ll come over he goes over to
her house he tries to comfort her she
said don’t come for me I’m fine I don’t
I don’t understand the healing I just
want to play on my funeral would you
help me plan my funeral and she says he
says of course I’ll help you plan your
funeral she says I want to be buried in
this dress I want this hymn sung I want
these kind of flowers I want a memory
card to give to all the people that came
I want my picture on it this is my
favorite poem I’d like that on it and
she went on all the things she wanted
then she said I want to be buried with
my family Bible in my left hand and a
fork in my right hand he says well I
understand the Bible it had a your very
religious person but why the fork he
says you know whenever we have is that
you know whenever we have a church
social and are coming by to collect the
plates after we’ve had a dinner that in
the basement of the church whenever
there’s going to be a really great
dessert something like apple pie cherry
pie or peach cobbler chocolate cake they
always say keep your fork and whenever
they say keep your fork I know we’re
gonna have a really great dessert so
they’re gonna come by my casket and
they’re gonna look in and they’re gonna
go Reverend Jim I understand the Bible
in had he was very religious but why the
fork just look him in the eye and say
and had he knew the best was still yet
to come and so for all of you if you
take these principles that you’re
learning here from all the different
teachers not just mine but all of them
this whole three days becomes like a
total bitch salt everything I would have
said that I didn’t someone else is gonna
say you’re gonna get the full package
but if you’ll go back and put them into
practice and if you take the things I
have it if they’re attracted to you and
you’re attracted to them put them into
practice
do the work
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