A Lesson from Bob Proctor for Every Entrepreneur Stuck in a Rut

in 2008 mind Valley was nothing more than a company that built websites and I was nothing more than a guy who thought small groups of people meditation maybe 20 people at a time and then something happened this man right here Bob Proctor I ended up getting into a conversation with him and he really pissed me off he kicked my butt and the story behind that conversation is hilarious what you're about to see is almost a standup comedy act where I talk about what happened in my encounter with Bob Proctor and how this man and His Brilliant mind did me one of the biggest favors of my life he kicked my ass and pissed me off so badly that I knew I had to quit my job and think bigger watch because in this video not only well you probably get a good laugh but you will gain an Insight on whether you are doing a project or a goal or a company that is truly worthy of you or whether you're playing too small this was filmed in San Diego in 2018 2003 I moved to Silicon Valley my whole goal was to make it big in the dotom industry and I realized how tough it was actually I moved I moved there in 2001 the dot bubble burst that year I was completely broke I was sleeping on a couch was the only thing I could rent and um I was sending out my resume to every company that would potentially hire someone now the only job I got was a Dialing for Dollars job I had to pick up the phone and sell technology to lawyers like day in and day out but the economy in San Fran was so bad that there was no base salary basically you only got paid if you closed the sale now if you're a 25-year-old Malaysian kid with a unusual accent and a name like Vision Lani calling up lawyers in Texas interrupting them in the middle of the day and trying to sell them technology you hear more off kid than than you would ever expect in in any career so one day after the ninth lawyer told me to off I basically went home depressed and I decided to Google for help so I Googled why does life suck so bad why are lawyers such dicks and and and I'm I'm kidding I love I I love lawyers please don't sue me and and what I found and what I discovered was a meditation class happening now that class was actually from a very early meditation program it was called the Silva method some of you might remember it was big in the 70s and ' 80s and class was happening in La so I flew to LA to attend the class and I was the only student who showed up it was really interesting so it was the two-day class the instructor just worked with me in one day and thought me all of these different tools for for building up intuition for creative visualization for connecting with people through through energy and then I started applying that to my calls and something very interesting happened so now I want I want to ask you to just open your mind to what I'm about to say next okay so back then we would go to the San Francisco Public Library check out the Yellow Pages and then I would have a territory my territory was San Antonio and then Portland Oregon and I had to call all the lawyers in San Antonio from A to Z and you had to go one by one by one and scratch off the names on the Yellow Pages hoping that someone will take your call right someone who was very bored and lonely that day and and I decided to try a different technique so I used what I learned to go into what is the the meditative level of mind sometimes they call it the alpha level of mind and I would tap into my intuition and then I would just run my finger down the yellow p and I would get an Impulse it would feel like I was guessing on who to call and what happened was really interesting my sales doubled instantly in one week I doubled my closing rate and then one month later I started applying additional tools this time using connection rituals and seeing the the lawyer in my mind's eye before picking up the phone blessing them connecting to them the way you guys just connected to each other and asking that if this is in the best interest of everyone concerned then let it happen right just setting that intention once again my sales doubled a month later it doubled again before I knew it in four months I was promoted three times shipped to New York and made director of sales of the company I was 26 and I was 26 and now I was all of a sudden running a team of men and women much older than me because I was able to do so much more because of what I had learned with to how to use my mind now after 18 months in that company I decided to quit cuz I wanted to do more so I quit and I be became a meditation instructor and very soon I realized that if you have a fancy job as director of marketing in a do com and you quit and become a meditation instructor firstly you should really check with your wife first cuz cuz I was married at that point and secondly it's it's one of the fastest ways to go completely broke and soon and soon I had only $7,000 in my bank account and and my wife she was European um she's here in the audience but she told me not to make her stand um and so and and and so because we were living in America she didn't have a green card she couldn't get a job so so you know we had to do something so I started figuring out how I could use my degree in computer engineering to help my meditation business I built a website I started selling CDs I started building you know um autoresponders and and and fancy you know fancy web pages and all of a sudden I was selling out my classes then other instructors came and said can you help me then other organizations came and said can you help us sell our CDs and so I thought okay there's the potential for a business here so I need to register a name so I decided I got to be fancy about this it has to look professional it has to look serious so I got online and I found two domain names one was called Mine Valley mine because the program I was selling was the Silva mine control method right but then I thought that sounds so cheesy I found another domain name I really liked it was called rainbridge consulting.com fortunately like 24 hours later I decided rainbridge Consulting sounds really depressing which is why you're not officially here attending the rainbridge Consulting reunion but the M Valley reunion so so that's that so that's how that happened now I want to show you this picture I want to show you this picture because this is me in 2003 you can see I I've just quit my job I can barely afford pants um and and the furniture I'm I'm sitting on this was Furniture we salvaged from the street in New York New York very friendly City if you need Furniture just walk out to the street people put out their their every year Ikea comes up with a new line and then the previous line is left out on the street so this is the Ikea 2002 collection I'm serious you can look that up this is called the Lac la um table even even the naming of it lack signifies the lack of abundance you need to to to sit on it and I'm serious it's actually called the lack lack go Sweden so so that was me 2003 um and then I started teaching meditation I started teaching meditation um and this was the apartment that that the first M Valley website went off this if you live in New York you might recognize this this is the play rights Tavern it's on 8 Avenue and uh in 46th Street and we I had this apartment above the play rights Tavern this is in Time Square not Disney Time Square like today I'm talking about strippers and crack Time Square of 2003 before Disney took over 2 years before I moved into that apartment that was my window it was behind that window that the first Mine Valley website was being built 2 years before I moved into it it was a thigh massage paror now if you live in New York you know what thigh massage par is is code word for so yes yes the school for Humanity did start in a former h [Applause] house I love the fact that you guys are excited about that that's that's incredible okay so so what happens is for the next 5 years I'm teaching meditation now I I've had to move back to Malaysia right because in America it's kind of hard to be an immigrant it's very hard to get a Visa so um had to move back to Malaysia so now we were building up M Valley in Malaysia but we still stayed an American company even though I couldn't get a visa and I moved to Malaysia because I registered the company in America America's been making me pay taxes for the last 15 years so so now we're in Malaysia and every 3 months I'm flying to New York and flying to London to teach meditation classes for small groups of people sometimes there'll only be 15 people in a room but I would fly 24 hours to teach that group of 15 people and I was proud of that I loved it I led seeing my students life change there wasn't much money imagine flying all the way from Malaysia to New York teaching a class for a weekend flying back and at the end of it you've made a grand total of $3,000 right it's not much but you know it gave me a chance to travel and 3,000 could bucks could go far in Malaysia now one day this was after the secret had become really big and Bob Proctor who was on the secret had become a superstar someone introduced me to Bob Proctor and told him that I was really good at building websites so Bob Proctor contracted me to build his website so I got to know Bob Proctor he became an inspiration and what happened was in 2008 now remember I'd now been teaching meditation for 5 years not much money I was further in dep than I would be if I never started mind Valley and just stuck to a regular job how many of you guys know that struggle right as a teacher as a Healer as a coach so 2008 I'm in London and uh Bob is finishing a big seminar and it's lunch time and he's having lunch and he knows him then he's like hey Bish come over let's say and just say hi during my lunch break so I show up and Bob Proctor askes me he says so what brings you here so I'm really proud of myself I'm like well Bob I teach this class on meditation I'm going to have 40 students in a room today I flew all the way from qualo Malaysia going to be teaching going to be facilitating the silver method class and Bob Proctor asks me that's fantastic how much are you earning from this class and I go well I can tell you Bob I'm going to go home with $5,000 profit $5,000 now to me that was a big deal $5,000 goes really F in Malaysia that's like 3 month salary and Bob said are you kidding me and and Bob pro has got this really Stern face and this really really like intense voice it was more like are you kidding me then he does the Bob proc to scow and I'm like no seriously Bob that that's what I'm doing I I I teach meditation now I don't just build websites I can teach and Bob says wait you're telling me that you left your wife you left your one-year-old baby boy to hop on a flight for 22 hours from koala lumo Malaysia to London so just so you could touch the lives of 40 people on a weekend and then travel all the way back I hope you're going business class then he looks at me and he goes you're traveling coach aren't you and he does that face again and then I'm like yeah I'm I'm traveling coach if I travel business class would make no money at all and Bob goes Vision Vision vision and now he touches his face so I knew something is coming he says you really think small I would never do what you're doing you got to dream bigger son and he looked at me with complete disappointment and I was pissed off I'm like screw you Mr I'm the big deal guy in the secret with your fancy suits and your awesome voice and your great smell whatever cologne you're using I like what I do I I I like what I do but then but then I went and I did that class and the next day I woke up depressed and I realized Bob was right for 5 years i' been doing the same thing touching 20 people 40 people at a time like and I was doing like one class every two months right and I realized I had to think bigger now I went to my Facebook and I Chang the quote on my Facebook Facebook has a category where you put your favorite quote and that's what I put down it's a quote from Bob Proctor the question is not are you worthy enough to reach your goals the question is are your goals worthy enough of you it's now been 10 years right I haven't touched it that is still the quote you will see on Vision lani's Facebook but I put it up and I did something else I quit that was the last time I thought a meditation class I just quit I gave it up completely 100% I never did it again because Bob Proctor was right I started dreaming bigger and bigger and bigger and every time I would hit one of those big dreams I would do the next thing and that's how mind Valley became a company obsessed with touching A Billion Lives Shifting the course of history it's why we set a goal to create the best learning technology in the world it's why we started deciding that we were going to be so much bigger than just me teaching 20 people in a room meditation we wanted to assemble all the greatest teachers on Earth it's why we decided to invest in technology and build really cool learning applications like Quest it's why we launched a Fest after I quit that Med teaching that meditation class it took me two years to do my next seminar but 2 years later that next seminar was aest which is now one of the hottest tickets in personal growth we had two 250 people and this time it was in Costa Rica and we had incredible speakers come and share the stage with me that was how Bob Proctor's kick in the butt shifted my life it's we we went from working from a rundown house to building what won an award in Inc magazine for one of the top 10 coolest workplaces in the world and we assembled a team of now some 250 people from 46 countries who moved to qualo Malaysia to build everything that mine Valley develops it's actually now 47 cuz we just hired we just hired someone from Iraq all of that because as a teacher somebody kicked my butt and made me dream bigger so so I went from building this up in a former whw house in Time Square to an ink magazine one of the world's top 10 coolest workplaces in the world and all of that was in it was between 2003 and 2012 right it was um my mat is failing me right now 7 years and I believe that that's something that all of us should aspire to because the world needs teachers the world needs people to spread these enlightened ideas which I hope there's a lesson there for for for anyone here who's gone through that same struggle I've experienced if you know what I'm talking about raise your hand and make some s sounds so if you enjoy that video there's an important lesson here and that is the right Mentor can change the trajectory of our wealth and I wish I'd had great mentors throughout my life I was lucky to bump into B proit that was accidental over the course of the subsequent decade or so I started meeting other mentors people who shifted me who helped me think about money in a different way and eventually that little meditation practice I had grew into a company that's now about to hit 200 million in annual sales and will be going IPO probably within the next 4 to 5 years now I don't know at what stage of your business building Empire you're at but I know that no matter what stage you're at with the right tools and the right lessons you can get bigger too and that's why this November mind Valley is launching for the first time a new type of seminar experience it's called Mind Valley's Financial Freedom Summit and I brought together some incredible speakers to teach you the following three methods to 10x your income increase your wealth and step into a more abundant wealthier and let's face it richer future for you and your family we'll be talking about about real estate investing and how to make money through property you'll be learning concepts of trading and investing in stocks and you'll be learning how to create businesses that produce passive streams of income which incidentally is how I got started so if you're interested in learning about this know that you can attend live in London November 17 to9 or you can tune in on zoom and experience the entire event from the comfort of your home all the information is on mind valley.com for/ wealth go check it out because I think you are really really really going to love this event right

Channel: Vishen Lakhiani

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Length: 17min 7sec (1027 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 20 2023