DO THIS To Let The Universe Help You BECOME SUCCESSFUL| Jack Canfield & Lewis Howes

[Music] welcome everyone to the school of greatness show I'm with Jack Canfield thanks so much for coming on my she ate very excited about this I read the book the success principles how to get from where you are to where you want to be I think 80 years ago a couple years after came out and now it's in the ten-year anniversary it's incredible how many copies have you sold so far on this book I think in the first book we're just under a million copies in America and around the world probably we're in 27 languages so somewhere over a million plus amazing yeah but it's small time compared to you Chicken Soup for the Soul right you saw like well I was a bit Chicken Soup for the Soul has sold 500 milliwatts a billion copies but you have to realize that's 200 plus books yeah series yeah this book you know what's fun about this book even though it's not as well-known yet there was a town in Russia where in Russian there's a town in Russia where the mayor bought this book for everybody in town Wow small town and your celebrity there yeah big celebrity and some little small Russian but the point is that you know even though it's not as big as chicken soup as a phenomenon and the reason I wrote this book chicken soup was inspiring people everyone got inspired I can do that you know I want to do that but they don't know how to do that they don't know how to overcome obstacles set goals become a millionaire this was the how-to taught them how to do it exactly interesting so how long was Chicken Soup for the Soul round until this came out I would say close to two well let's see 12 15 years yeah yeah I remember reading my first introduction to you was reading one of the stories are a member and Chicken Soup for the Soul I believe it was the original copy was about how someone was on a toll booth on the highway and paid for three or four people behind them or something like that sure that story yeah I can remember was the first Warner for was a diverse book right and I remember thinking what an amazing concept I was probably 12 or 13 or 14 at the time when I was like giving back what did it to make others feel great yeah what an inspiring concept yeah I met a guy recently who when he's walking down a street if he sees an expired sign on the parking meter he puts a quarter in it that's cool you know it's just like paying it forward yeah and and I love that random acts of kindness idea because people speed up to see who you are after you paid their toll booth sure sure and one of your principles in the book is about being in service and that's one of the last chapters I think so I want to talk about that in a second but again I'm so impressed with just what you've created in your entire you know your legacy is incredible I mean 500 million books and a million books here and you've got programs everything else that you've done PBS specials coaching trainers events you've been a movie star obviously right what do you think has been the thing that people know about you the most what thing have you done that kind of like brought the most awareness about you well I think the Chicken Soup for the Soul series plus the movie The Secret there was a Chicken Soup for the Soul everyone knew that name not that many people knew Jack Canfield so I meet people they say what's your name Jack Canfield and we'd be sitting on the plane and I'd say well I co-authored a chicken soup that all of our family you know my dad gives him away for Christmas so that brand was huge but with the secret all of a sudden there's Jack Canfield there's my face and now when I walked through an airport you know have someone go you would that would be right literally I mean I was just didn't do by in the airport and someone walked up to me and said are you Jack Canfield was from the secret so basically that has really taken my personal brand personal brand to a higher level in China it's still the number one best-selling DVD I'm actually gonna go to China next year I was just in Iran you know our enemy Iran and I was talking in Tehran and found out that our movie the secret has been shown on national television in Iran six times who would ever imagine the secret would be shown on Iranian television amazing and so I had like almost a thousand people come to hear me talk that's incredible yeah blew me away Wow what is the thing that you've done that you've been most proud of through all the different projects you've been a part of I think raising my children would be first but in the professional world I would have to say again probably the fact that Chicken Soup for the Soul is now being used in China to teach English so they put Chinese on one page and English on the other they've published over 315 million books just in China and a large portion that is textbooks teaching English to kids in China because you know if you remember back to school we were reading in all these weathering Heights and you know Shakespeare and I wasn't that much into that stuff but these stories are things that anybody can relate to and get excited about so they said hey let's use this to teach English because the kids will pay attention to that that's brilliant so that's I'm really proud of that that's really cool I want to talk about this book and the success principles and first I want to ask you has anything changed in the last ten years with the principals or these principals you know last forever well the principals were in the first book are universal and timeless and they're the same things that Plato and Aristotle and people were talking about like back in ancient Roman Greece but what's new in this book that I love is we've got three chapters three or four chapters in a whole section called success in a digital age so when this book came out in 2005 LinkedIn Facebook Twitter you know the the blog and Instagram Tumblr no I was wrong none of that was around or was around it was very nascent and the other thing is you know people didn't have YouTube channels and we didn't have crowdsourcing and crowdfunding and you know go fund it comm and IndieGoGo and all that so we have a whole section that it was a friend of mine named Moses ma who's a techno genius who literally graduated from college and that Stanford group of all the people in Silicon Valley and made ten million dollars his first year on a video game he invented you know that kind of world and so he took all that money went to India meditated for a couple years came back and now he's doing consciousness work through media and so he helped me write those chapters which is really very very updated and new and then we have a chapter on leadership that wasn't in there before because yeah people used to think of leaders as the president of the company the supervisor or the politician but now we all need to be leaders because there's social causes we have to care about like sustainability and all of that we need meat leaders in our communities we live with our families need leaders so we all need to step up and we talk about how to do that and then there's a chapter in the I don't know if you've ever met or heard of Ivan Meisner who started be and I International his 6,500 chapters of that around the world home he's created just in the last I know 20 30 years incredible and he has a whole chapter I asked him the first time I've had guests chapter where on how to network effectively for instance most people when they go to a networking of them start trying to promote themselves yeah and he says it's absolutely totally wrong you have to go from what he calls visibility to credibility to profitability and so if I come to a networking meeting and I say hi what do you do well I clean rugs here's my card if you ever need rugs clean you know call me just like the wrong way but if I come in and say hey what are you up to and you tell me some project you're working on and I say how can I help you and then I actually do the thing I said I was gonna do now I have credibility as someone who follows through now that I've done some contribution you know I come to you and say hey you know any friends who need their carpets clean I'd love to be the guy that does that since I've helped you and you can do that and the other thing I learned from Ivan it was cool is we're sitting here in a what's called an open two letter words we're not face-to-face we've got 45-degree angle so most people at a networking party or a networking event or networking and just in general cocktail party they're like this there's no room for anyone to get in so if we have this open space always then someone walks in we can go like this and invite him in now we've expanded our network and you know the other thing he taught and I love it is that when you go to a networking event a lot of people are shy they don't know how to introduce themselves pretend it's your party if you were throwing a party at your home you just welcome people and say how are you doing what's going on you're like so stand near the doors people come in say hi my name is Jack can't feel what's yours you tell me I said what business are you in and we started talking and then I kind of assure you into the room and wait for the next person now I'm the host instead of somebody who's sitting there trying to do business so act like it's your party act like it's your party that gets you over that really has helped me because I've even been invited to speak places and then there's a cocktail party before and I remember for years I would be standing around Carla what do I do now and now I act like I'm the host and it's me it's so much introduce people or connect them yeah that's cool I like that let's go into some of the the principles the the fundamentals of success and I think you talked about being clear yeah first things in having a clear vision right because if you can't you can't be successful without a vision and being clear well you have to first take 100 percent possible if your life give up being a victim then you have to get clear about what is my purpose I believe each person has a purpose they were born with whether it's to be a mechanic or a chef or to be a doctor or to be do what we do which is empower and enlighten people through the work we do and so once you've got that you have to have a clear vision of what would you like your life to look like both in the business world in your social world and your relationships your health and fitness your travel and fun all of that so we have seven areas of your life which we say let's let's pretend that you can have anything you want no holds barred you know God comes down and says you're chosen you want a lottery the life you want what would you do and you go oh I'd like to live in this house and Malibu I'd like to live on the ocean I want to have three kids I want to be able to travel to Europe five times you know whatever it is write it down and then using things like visualization and affirmations you can start turbocharging that vision with intention and then some of the tools that come out of the law of attraction work and so forth but you first have to know where you're going I liken it to a GPS system in a car here we are in Santa Barbara you live in LA somewhere winey roads to get back here yeah and but if you have a GPS that says 9:00 to 9:00 via fruit or whatever your GPS system will tell you how to get there now when you left LA you did not know exactly where you were going you just trusted a GPS to say turn left turn right don't let your subconscious mind works the exact same way it is a programmable GPS system that will figure out the path if you program it correctly which is putting in a vision of the destination that's all you have to do interesting but a lot of people feel a lot of fear because they're of the unknown of what's gonna happen or that they might fail if they have a big dream right so what is fear to you and how does someone overcome that fear well here's here's the deal you know basically fear is I love this word the guy who wrote the book doom he said fear is the mind killer fear takes you back into the amygdala which is in the limbic system of your brain you want to be in the prefrontal cortex which is where the executive functions where spiritual insights where wisdom occurs where rational logical thinking occurs so basically as soon as I get into fear I go back into this primal fight or flight or freeze place and so I want to be up here so you know basically we now have technology called eft tapping i'm Nick Nick order and all those guys and literally nine acupuncture points you tap on those in a sequence for maybe five minutes seven minutes and the fear disappears it literally dissolves there's absolutely no reason for anyone to be in fear now the value of setting a goal is to watch all these fears come up I refer to it as a you ever play the game whack-a-mole at the heads come you got a whacking before they go back down so we want to surface those fears so we can whack them using EFT and other technologies that are out there neuro linguistic programming and so forth but now if we have this science that just literally you don't have to be stopped the other thing a friend of mine just wrote a book called the the fear cure and or the cure for fear one of those and she talked about one of the biggest fears is of the unknown and uncertainty of the future but everything is uncertain yeah we're trying to create certainty in an uncertain world and stop being afraid of uncertainty uncertainty is what's exciting you go to Africa on a vacation a safari you have no idea what's gonna happen that's part of the adventure fun that's part of the fun exactly you knew all there's gonna be a zebra that pops out right here or this is gonna be nice right get boring right or if you go river rafting you don't know where the rapids are and how you're gonna do it and if you go surfing you don't know exactly how the way is gonna break and all that and how big it's gonna be and so that adventure is really what life's about so we need to be excited fear is created by imagining bad things that haven't happened yet so fantasized experiences appearing real everyone always says that someone else recently said forget everything and run but I think that if you realize that you're creating your own fear by imagining a bad thing offers a recession I'll lose my house why not go if there was a recession I'm gonna make more money because there's gonna be opportunities and we're gonna be able to pay our house out faster Zig Ziglar said worrying is negative goal-setting and all you have to do is use that same power to think and visualize to create a positive outcome instead of a negative and then the fear disappears and you a court of yours I believe is in the book as you say everything you want is on the other side of fear absolutely you know we all live in our comfort zone we want to be comfortable when I was down in the rainforest a couple years ago with the arch wari Indians always want to go the rainforest and was it it was so cool we got to live with the arch warrior Indians which is an indigenous tribe which is a you know had not had any connection with white people from the outer world until about 10 years ago 15 years ago and friends of mine are down now working with him to help preserve the rainforest and I always wanted to go and that the trees are unbelievably huge roots are as tall as this building and go out like that you can show the house inside the root system there's army ants that are about that big these leafcutter ants and you can see them just go ahead go across with all these little leafs waving we got to swim in this river that was full of piranhas they told us later oh but piranhas don't eat you they don't they they have a rule in the river nothing attacks anything six times bigger than it is Wow and so if you are in a tide pool where you there's no food and you know there's flooded and now stuck over there and you step in there a piranha will bite you but River they're not going to no not not at all we had so much fun it was so delightful to be in that nature so the point is everything is an adventure and we have to think of it that way or we're gonna be victims and you know one of the other principles you talk about us how to transform transform yourself for success so tell me about the people we surround ourselves with and how do people influence us and in a positive way of achieving our goals or keeping us back into victim mode I don't know if your parents ever said this to you but mine did they always say I don't want you hanging out with those kids or yeah so that doesn't stop when you're 18 right you know so there are certain people who are negative curmudgeonly you know liners complainers and blamers that if you hang out with them that's who you become yeah and you look at any bar all bars have a personality to him you know there's bars on lower State Street in Santa Barbara here where the lower economic class hangs out and they just and moan about how about everything right there's bars further up the street where the people that are more successful hang out and they're just doing deals and talking about all the great things that happened that have a bar and having fun there networking and brainstorming with each other introducing each other to opportunities so basically you become the average of the five people you spend the most time with yeah like I remember mark asked this one guy who owns Green Airlines - if he could give him an idea that he thought might work for him and he said well if I take it how much money you think I might make he so couple of million he says mark I can't even consider an idea that won't make me 100 million dollar my gosh it's just below my threshold all right yeah you know so now most of us that's very rarefied atmosphere most people listening to this weren't there but just to give you an example there's a friend of mine who now a friend just died recently but I didn't know him at the time it was Lou Tikes and he ran the Pacific Institute and was teaching us a lot of stuff we do and he was making again like you know a lot of money and he was his clients included the Navy you know the government of Denmark you know that kind of stuff yeah yeah and I said I want to learn what he's doing he's playing at a bigger level than I am so I called him up and I said to him Lou if you're ever in LA could I this was when I was in my 30s I said could I be your chauffeur don't hire a limo let me show for you for free all I ask if I can pump you with questions for the twenty thirty minutes of sure he said sure so that's three months later I get a call he says hi I'm coming to LA gonna do a talk of the country club picked me up at LAX take me to the hotel take me to the country club back in him so I did and I just I peppered him with like what you do how do you do this how do you do that and he told me so about a year later we both bid for a contract was eight hundred and seventy five thousand dollar contract to educate people on welfare in California based on these success principles off welfare and we were the final two competitors Pacific and we won oh wow and so he was very gracious he sent me a nice notice you're a good student that's great he should have held back some of his secrets well he didn't really need to I mean his bigger goal was to get all this out to the world and he was part of that as well but he is I mean most people why so many people say yes if you ask them - yeah of course I want to speaking of the mastermind part because when I did my first mastermind probably five six years ago when I had no clue what was going on I think in our company I was just starting out in business we did around I think two hundred fifty thousand dollars in sales for like the first six months of our business and then it was the end of the year we went to this mastermind of these online marketers and a lot of them were making five to ten million and within the next month the relationships we've got from that mastermind we did 250,000 that next month just from five relationships in the mastermind right and that year we broke a million dollars and it was just like all accelerated after being around people who were at that next level so I can definitely speak into that yeah I mean you're living proof of it exactly really powerful and if you're not a mastermind make sure to join one and find one and be part of it or get a mentor you know finds to find somebody who's done what you want to do and whether it's being in person with them or reading their book or listening to their blog home study course or their podcast to see but whatever it is people have already done so Tony Robbins says success leaves Clues I love that you know and so everyone has ever been successful is left some kind of clue there's a manual a franchise operation manual a workbook they wrote you know seminar they're leading a bootcamp go get educated yeah I have a chapter in a book called learn more to earn more you you know Brian Tracy always talks about the idea that if you want to make more money become more valuable have more impact you can give somebody that will affect their life in a positive way yeah whether it's your employer or people like us to our clients the more I know the more I can support people I mean I have people now who are making they own companies were six hundred million dollars and they'll come to a retreat would be just so they can do tapping with me to overcome some fear they have stress or whatever yeah yeah one guy he was from Czechoslovakia Pavel and he had this huge company and he was totally miserable and and he basically as a result of all this work we did he sold two of his companies he hired some people to run his other companies he always wanted to be a cyclist hired Lance Armstrong cycling coach now he's won two cycling reaches the races and the Pyrenees in Europe so Emmys in his sixties so why not have a balanced life yeah sure now who are your mentors growing up or in your early career well my first mentor was a man named W Clement stone he was a friend of Napoleon Hill and and they wrote a book together actually called the success system it never fails and Napoleon Hill we all know from Think and Grow Rich and so he mentored me for about two years when I worked through his foundation I was teaching teachers how to teach this stuff two kids to raise her self-esteem and teach them how to be successful his big phrase was success is not a four-letter word you know it's like most people think success is bad you know the money is bad and successful especially back into 60s and 70s when everyone was a hippie and the counterculture and all that going on so another mentor of mine was Jesse Jackson it was a contemporary of Martin as we can I used to go to his church when I lived in Chicago I was teaching in an all-black inner-city school because I was part of the civil rights movement wanted to make a difference and I remember one day I watched him you know he always had people like Sidney Poitier and and Bill Cosby would come in all these stars and I remember standing on the edge of the church till I got there late so I did have a seat and I'm looking over and the band is playing and all of a sudden Jesse looks over he goes like that just a little nod to being stops you know Wow and this room must have had a thousand people in it and so now I run groups of like you know 500 to 800 people at a time and thousands I've largest group I ever talked it was twenty thousand people you know Wow and so like learning how to manage the energy of a large group of people like that is a skill and I wanted to learn I learned to do that so I used to go to church every Sunday just watch a master do that work and then I've had masters along the way that I've worked with in terms of I used to be a psychotherapist people that have taught me you know marketing people that have been gurus for me and some relationships John Gray for instance and I think you should always have somebody who knows more than you do about something teaching you that so you should keep expanding your capacity in life well yeah I mean you teach so many people millions of people now look up to you and inspired by your work so who is now your inspiration or do you have a mentor still I don't have a mentor as such but I have a lot of people man group I learned from everybody I mean Gary Viner check you know jab right I go that's very cool I learned from that so I started changing how I did social media that's cool so you know it's like I don't have one mentor that I look to but I have a lot of people and I think what's fun is that people in their 30s and early 40s and I'm 70 today Wow they these are my mentors now because they're they they they they grew up in a different mindset with the digital age and I love learning yeah that's awesome really inspiring in the transform yourself for success part you talk about completing the past and embrace the future what do you mean by that completing the past well we all have a lot of past experiences that we haven't let go of usually we're carrying resentment or guilt and anger or irritation whatever and so in order to be free to move forward think of it like this imagine if you were walking down the beach and you had a belt around you and behind that it was like 17 anchors and you're trying to walk down the beach pulling all these anchors I want to cut those cords sure and so all of your resentments all the people you're still upset with your parents people that you know might've even raped you whatever it's not that we condone their behavior but we need to let go forget right and just forgive and the big problem is for most people they don't know how to forgive and forgiving is actually there's a steps to forgiveness what are those well you first have to you first have to own your anger so a lot of times women especially aren't supposed to get angry so they can just get hurt you know men aren't allowed to feel their hurt in their their fear so we can write if someone cuts off on us off on the freeways and we're like you know that kind of thing whereas a woman will be a scream kind of thing so there's these levels called anger hurt fear remorse and regret where I have to own my accountability uh-huh and then there's the part where I say well what I really wanted was or what I still want from you is and then I can forgive so if I say to you you know you have a fight with your brother let's see I said go tell your brother you're sorry well you're not sorry you know so you first have to go I'm really angry that you stole my candy bar you know really hurts me that you don't trust and I can't put my stuff out and leave you know trust you not to take it I'm really you know sad and and and I'm like that I have to not trust my own brother in my bedroom you know kind of thing I want to take responsibility for the fact that I left it out I should no I shouldn't leave my candy on top of my desk when you're around that's stupid on my part I'm gonna hide it next time yeah what I want is for you to leave my stuff alone and I forgive you because you are my brother I love you and I always tell the story about my father when I was 14 really hit me hard one day then for a long time I was telling me the story about my father abused me you know all that kind of stuff but the fact is I'd lied to my father and I lied to him about something and when he found out he lost it and when he lost it he came across the threshold into my room to tell me how upset he was and he broke his toe and when he broke his toe and he was angry at me he just went like that oh and so I can't be I'm not a total victim there if I hadn't lied I wouldn't have got hit now do I condone parents hitting their children when they lie no but the point is I can't play total victim you gotta take responsibility got to take responsibility yeah now I could say I want you to not hit me any good I want to trust my dad to take care of me I forgive you I understand you were in pain I can let it go yeah so we have to go through those steps it's not just as easy saying let it go sure sure yeah you know I believe that the key to success is relationships and being an effective communicator and learning how to develop relationships with every personality type mm-hmm learning how to meet people where they're at not just where you're at and what you want but really connecting and understanding where they're come from is yes you talk about learning how to speak with impeccability can you talk about that yes it's actually a concept taken from Don Miguel Ruiz who wrote the book The Four Agreements who's actually become a friend over the last couple of years and speaking with impeccability means you don't put yourself down for starters and you don't put anyone else down you know gossip you don't spread rumors you don't be sarcastic because sarcasm is veiled anger and so basically it's like speaking from a place of integrity and a place of love and a place where all my words are intended to uplift myself for starters so no negative self-talk replace that with positive self-talk and then to uplift in the environment to say positive things to you the crew who's filming this etc instead of getting upset and we've seen people I mean I've been on TV shows where you know the the star is like treats the people on the crew like the rap crap you know and and then everyone hates it I remember talking about this at CNN and after the interviewer left all the staff came up said boy we need you would see it as you know so basically you want to be in a place where everything you say and do is contributing to the upliftment of people not putting them down so many people email me who listened to the podcast and they come from a place of negative self-talk what does that actually do when we start talking either an internal dialogue or we verbally express it what does that actually do for where we want to be in the future well we've actually seen studies done where when somebody yells at themself you know gosh darn it why are you so stupid jack you know I can't find my keys getting it actually affects the brain in the negative way it actually creates a vibration and almost something I would say it destroys brain cells but John Assaraf in a recent video he put on actually showed some brain cells dying when people were thinking negative no way yeah so some of the new neuroscience out there but more interestingly dr. Masaru Emoto who did all this work with water he actually I've seen that it was a negative words on yeah put some negative words on the bottle but he his first experiment was to put a bottle of water like you know a little baby one bottle of water on a thing have all of his students and negative energy I hate you you're stupid you're a fool took that water froze it in little petri dishes bring it out stick it under a microscope with the camera on top and as the water starts to melt I mean the crystal starts to melt it forms these big ugly black blobs take the same kind of water another bottle on a different day send positive energy to the water freeze it put it under the petri dish when it's melting forms beautiful snow crystals so we know that two things were fascinating water has memory and 85% of your body is made up of water your brain is made up of even more water high-percentage so when you're saying negative things to yourself you're affecting yourself in a physiological way if you say I am sick you're actually creating sick in the future of my gosh see a lot of people think when they're describing the present they're just well I'm sick you know but the fact is you're prescribing the future by describing the present as it is and most people never get that so this is why the people that live the most effective lives are always acting as if they're in the future and the future is perfect you know not waiting to get there right I do this demonstration on stage when they teach this and I say you know someone walks out here so I feel bad today then the body goes oh you won't feel bad we'll give you a bad day hunched over now I feel worse oh you want worse will give you worse and then pretty soon I'm crawling across the stage you know but it all started with I don't feel good instead of saying you know and you know we've all learnt to say things like I'm having a healing crisis I'm cleansing yeah sure instead of saying I'm sick I said basically anything you say with the words I am your subconscious will then take that as a command and so we're we're constantly programming our subconscious we think we're describing it but we're actually prescribing it are there studies of people that are constantly saying self- talk or especially negative things against people who are positive constantly who are who died earlier ages or who have more cancer or any studies about that about the actual lifespan of someone when they with some I don't know if studies about negative self-talk but I do know that negative self-talk creates people being unhappy there are tons of studies that happy people live longer they recover from diseases faster they don't get as many diseases there are marriages last longer they you know live longer people that that are you know in a positive space everything every statistic every statistic is better sure no matter what it is how does someone be positive when they're broke and they're you know people are cheating on them and they're coming from a bad family or they're in a bad neighborhood how does someone come from that place of the future is great so the future is perfect or I am healthy when they're not it's a choice you simply have to choose it see once I learned early on I was in graduate school I read a book called Seth speaks and it was about all this stuff we're talking about and it was a book channel by this woman named Jane Roberts and I see it just rung true as truth I just said this feels right and what she was teaching is that your beliefs are a choice we think our beliefs are the result of seeing something outside of this we see I believe of a spider bites you your skin turns red because that's what I saw happen yeah yeah but we can hypnotize people tell them my thumb is a poker hit him on the hand and their hand will form a blister we can tell people that this is poison ivy and have given maple leaves and they'll do that and their skin will break out in a rash sure tell people the poison ivy the maple leaf run the poison ivy on it nobody breaks out of the rash right so we know that so much of our internal behavior and our feel-good is created by beliefs now then the question I had was well what should I believe what if I believe the wrong thing and I'm gonna get myself in trouble I had this big I was afraid to believe anything true and then I realized the only beliefs to make any sense are the beliefs that will take you from where you are to where you want to go so what are the beliefs that successful people believe you know look at Oprah Winfrey born into poverty you know sexually abused as a child but she believed that she could get to where she wanted to go someone else without that belief didn't try so simply the belief and it's a choice everything is a binary choice you're either believing something that takes you where you want to go or something that takes you away from where you want to go you're choosing love or you're choosing the opposite which is fear it's like it's a computer code zero or one which do you want to choose now you have to become conscious because most people around you are unconscious and they're just agreeing with everything negative that's why you want to hang out with positive people right but if you read books like this if you go to seminars and you meditate and you listen to podcast surround yourself with positive energy pretty soon you get engulfed in this positive thinking and then all of a sudden your life transforms right how does someone practice uncommon appreciation and what does that exactly mean well uncommon appreciate most people don't appreciate anybody most people always focus on what they don't have you know I mean I took my son to Africa when he was 16 and we went to Cameron and we spent 12 days traveling around the country and this is a kid who grew up in the house that we're filming this ins a pretty nice place he had everything he could possibly want her which I'm now just not sure was the best time yeah and we get to Africa and he realizes I mean he's always going like I don't have the latest designer shirt my jeans aren't cool get to Africa he says dad these people are happier to me they have nothing they don't even have t-shirts I complained about the stain on my shirt they don't have shirts and it changed his life I mean it really transitioned him and so we have to realize that we have so much to be grateful for so much and so uncommon appreciation in relationship means for me at least five times a day verbally appreciating somebody for something huh you know and whether it's by phone in person and if I can't do that then send an email so I used to walk around with a three by five card made these daily disciplines of success appreciate five people meditate drink 12 glasses of water go to bed by 11 o'clock whatever and I had to check everything off before I go to bed and sometimes I get to my five appreciations and I hadn't done it so I'd send emails to people because it was like 1:00 in the morning but what have you get into the attitude of appreciating yeah and also then you can just have an attitude of gratitude about everything if you look around this room everything in here was created by somebody else that painting was painted by a Vietnamese artist that statue was carved by someone in Malaysia or Tibet you know this fireplace was painted by a faux finisher somebody put this carpet down somebody woven somebody grew the sheep for it you know there's so much to be grateful for and you go - I was just in India and you know wood floors tin roofs people sleeping on the streets and you go home thank God but we forget and so if you express gratitude for what you have then when you get more to be grateful for that's the law of attractions amazing yeah how does someone practice gratitude when they feel like they have nothing still though it's like how does someone come from that place well my favorite story about that is a Joe Vitale who was in the movie - secret and he said he was in somewhere in Texas I think Austin might have been Dallas Fort Worth he was down the bottom of the bottom he was living one of those like $79 a month apartments with like one table that was like plastic with plastic chairs and light bulb and a mattress on the floor with two sheets I mean you know just the worst yeah yeah and he said he borrowed a book from the library and it said to be gratefully said what the hell do I have to be grateful for I got a I got a pencil and a piece of paper that's about it and then he said well if there was something to be grateful for what would it be says well I got a pencil I could write down my goals I could send a love letter with an eraser I could erase my limiting beliefs hmm and he saw that that was a shifting moment of his life when he realized I've got these two things I can create my future by writing down what I want and so you know if you're in America and you're in a even if you're on welfare you're better than you know most of the world I forget the exact figure but like half the world lives on $2 a day or less credible someone in America on welfare is getting several hundred dollars a month you know they got radio they can listen to more likely cell phones cell phone yeah you know so here's another statistic if you're making $100,000 a year which you are and I am you're in the top one-tenth of one percent of earners in the planet Wow 1/10 of 1% that's a lot to be grateful for that's to be grateful there's a lot of people who make money who are very ungrateful and unhappy yeah they're comparing themselves to something they don't have uh-huh so start focusing on what you do have and feel great joy for that and then the the weird law is you get more yeah and when you're focusing on what you don't have even when you have a lot well I don't have that latest Ferrari card I don't have that $52,000 watch you know all you have to do is walk through the airport and Dubai and you could get very depressed if you were in that many mental state I saw a bottle of wine in the Dubai Airport was being sold for 196 thousand dollars a bottle of my goodness click in 1954 Chateau Lafite whatever and it was like oh my god I'd like to taste that one yeah but I'm not gonna take my money and spend it for that for fifty thousand a sip so when we are ungrateful what are we saying to others into well what we're saying is I don't have enough and that is your mantra meeee I don't have enough and guess what whatever you're affirming you're gonna get more of you're gonna get more of not enough so abundance is focusing on what you do have just go walk down the street you know there's trees and air and birds and people and people that you know you could literally ask people for a dollar and most people would give it to you either and so by focusing on what you do have it staying to the world I have enough and then the reality is you're gonna get more sure is so bizarre how that works give an exercise or an example or homework for people about creating abundance in their life yeah there's a number of things double comma Stone told me always carry a hundred dollar bill in your pocket I've several in my pocket at the moment so the reality is every time you go and even if you don't have it too spend you've got it in your pocket so you go oh yeah I'm rich I got under bucks you know as opposed to you go humbly got twelve dollars so you don't ever want to be that I've only got mentality just opening it up and be sees nothing exactly interesting so that was one thing another thing he told us to do was go down to the Chicago Stock Exchange when all these billionaires were coming out getting their limos say thank you for being a model of abundance thank you for modeling that it's possible to be wealthy so we all did that one day it was a little embarrassing but but it works but it worked but but the most important thing is to do what I call a rampage of appreciation something I learned from the Abraham work of Esther and Jerry Hicks where you take five minutes and just walk around your house the hotel you're in wherever you might be and just start appreciating everything you know the people who made those wax candles over there and I get to romantically like this room with people that made that television where I just watched the Super Bowl and my team lost and who cares they lost it was a great game very exciting and there's flowers over there that I didn't plant the seeds of and the woman comes in and waters them you know and even if you're living in the ghetto you have a roof over your head there's people in the world sleeping on the street sleeping in the jungle sleeping out there you have fresh water you know people in Africa are dying because of lack of water that doesn't have disease in it more likely you have clothes on you have food to eat it may not be gourmet food but it's food yeah you know you have medical care so just look at everything and look just like just a rampage of appreciation every single thing I appreciate that at bridge we have indoor plumbing you how many people don't have indoor plumbing yeah exactly you turn on the lights we turn on the lights and the electricity comes on yeah you know in India I saw this movie recently about in India people don't have phone service if you even have phone service you can't play in today's world there's a guy I forget his name right now but he actually goes up and he cuts a little wire the phone puts a clip and puts phone service into people in the ghetto and and and and he's a Robin Hood he's a hero yeah you know so just god there's so much we have to be grateful for one of the principles about money you talk about is to pay yourself first yes now does that always mean financially or is it something else too well well I think financially for sure you know that was if I make a hundred dollars ten dollars that goes in saving so I've always been a 10% Tyler to yourself first and then you want to be at either at some percentage to the rest of the world while your wife but starting around pipe a yourself first because if you don't pay yourself first you're paying everyone else you're going to work all week long month long you get your paycheck and then it all goes out in bills they go Tim I didn't get anything for net more importantly is you have to build up capital that makes money either interest in an investment or it has money you can invest in starting your own company notice of great opportunities come along like I remember when Apple stock came out and I would I think this is a good thing please tell me about it so into any Apple store and you have to wait to get waited on that's like Starbucks you have to wait to get a cup of coffee any place where people are waiting all day long all day long that's a good investment right and I had to convince this guy that I buy stock for him to do it you know and it's doubled and it's you know split and all that kind of stuff but basically I've forgot the question what was your clothes I'll pay yourself first yes so paying yourself first is you have to have money to build up money so eventually you can live off the money rather than living off your labor you know and so you know I talk about Sir John Templeton who used to take 50% of every dollar he made and put it into savings he's now a billionaire 50% John Demartini who's in this book is another guy who was in a secret he said to his staff every month I get paid this I'm not paying your salaries if we don't make enough money Wow so you got to be watching the bottom line and if we're not getting enough client who's a chiropractor you need to go out and advertise and bring in the people cuz I'm paying me first Wow and his staff goes well you know but they took responsibility sure and as a result of that he's made millions of dollars he's a millionaire and so is that is that a self it would someone say well that sounds selfish why not support your team first or give back first what do you say to that he was teaching his team one of the most empowering principles ever take care of yourself what do they tell you on the airline when your mask on first your mask on first so you can help take care of other everyone else so you know it's like you want to take care of others you want to be in service you and I whatever we do is in service yes you know we're having fun and getting paid for it but it's serving people yes now not every profession is that but in general you know we're not saying take all the money for yourself take 10% and invest that overtime and if that grows and it creates you know 6% 8% interest if you're a good investor sure you know you're you know what's the guy who wrote the automatic millionaire you become an automatic millionaire dinner David David Bach David Bach and so that's what I did that become a stone taught me to do that he gave me a book called the greatest secret ever I think it was in another book about this guy who was in the fable and Iran or someplace he always put his 10% aside there's a book in Canada called the wealthy barber and he had all this money and only a barber why because he put money aside to work for him and you want your money making money sure and if you're not taking care of yourself you can't serve in a bigger level it's true Bob Proctor has a wonderful quote I was watching him what's weird a secret conference and we were both teaching at this conference where they put on and he said if you don't have a lot of money the good you can do is limited to where you are mmm that means called your physical actions yeah but if you have a lot of money you can build a school in Africa you can do cataract operations in India you can fund you know micro loans in Africa you know whatever so I I tithe I remember when I thing I ever did I one year I made six million dollars and I had to give away six hundred thousand that it's easy to say tithe when it's not that big yeah yeah yeah but then I remembered you are so lucky to be able to write a cheque that big sure you know so let's let's change how this is going here right 5.4 million more yeah exactly and everything you send out comes back multiplied we know that it's a principle that seems to work in universe that's amazing why do some people think you need to spend more to make more well I think basically you have to invest in your own business you have to invest in yourself you have to invest in new supplies new technology I mean I just invested in a lot of new cameras and lights and put a home studio in here so we can do this kind of thing here without having to travel down to the studio in Camarillo where we used to work all the time I've hired three new amazing people at very high salaries because they have expertise and I want we just invested $300,000 to develop a home study program for our train-the-trainer course and if we didn't invest that then we don't have this leverage to get it out to all the world now that it's in the can and it's all digitally downloadable you know the the most of our expense has been spent yeah and so a lot of people are so afraid to risk that money and if you don't you know Tony Robbins says you want to have a big success you got to have massive action and massive input you know so the more you're willing to invest the more you can win I take people to Las Vegas sometimes as part of our personal development trainings and watch how they gamble $5.00 you know what can you win I don't think maybe 10 yeah you know $100 well you can't win 100 think you lose but you can't wait 100 if you don't better invest 100 you know unless you make stupid bets on the craps tables very very rarely come true how much do you gamble I don't gamble a lot but I do I usually give myself six or seven hundred dollars to play with it's kind of entertainment money sure and the most I've ever won of the night was about $3,500 and that was fun yeah you know you know if I lost the whole 600 yes I've done that as well but again it's like going out to you know you can spend entertainment five friends with the dinner at a good restaurant you'd have a sip of that wine for six mmm there you go very cool I want to transition into investing into the digital age yes because this is the last chapter the newest chapter I should say in the book yeah is the digital age and you talk about embracing change and do you feel like people should embrace change when it comes to technology absolutely absolutely you have to embrace all changers it's gonna wash over you in a bad way it's like being on a surfboard out in the ocean if the big wave comes and you're not paddling soon enough you're just gonna get either bounced around a lot or you're gonna get tumbled over in the surf and it doesn't feel good I was just in Hawaii watching that Jaws I've been there yeah it's feet high of 6 story high waves I mean that can kill you yeah we're talking two tons of water coming down so basically you want to be able to see the trends coming so that's why I pay attention read things like Wired magazine and ink magazine and fast company and things like that so you know what's happening in the world and then when you see the trend coming you want to get ahead Bitsey cancer fit better than being overwhelmed by it and you've got to you know there's so much now with all the digital stuff that's out there LinkedIn Facebook you know YouTube etc TED talks I mean if you if you're in our business and you haven't done a TEDx talk by now not taking very seriously right and so you just have to learn how to play that game crowdfunding crowdsourcing I write in the book about this coolest cooler that this guy developed my friend would it'd be design on that product did he yeah he did the redesign for it I love that I was researching I was researching this one I was writing it and I started I started watching the final weeks of this you know every day was going up by another hundred three hundred thousand I ended up buying two of them some yeah and and so here was the guy his first time out he couldn't even raise $50,000 to make a prototype the next time what was it like ten million dollars or something that he's crazy it was like a hundred thousand the first time it was ten thirteen point like three or four thirteen point million by the end yeah yeah and you know and I can tell you story after story of friends of mine who've raised money for their cancer treatment on you funded that Condor people on IndieGoGo who that was something they now are making solar panels to put on the highway so that basically that's where is our Sun all the time on the highways there's no trees over the super highways and the their photovoltaic cells that they can create energy with and they have little computers in them so you can the traffic so if it's an accident you can basically tell people right away detour back there slow down whatever and they raise star two million dollars to fund that project you know Robert Kiyosaki in his last book he crowd-sourced all the chapters he would put a chapter up almost a million people would respond to it and say this sucks or this is good or you ought to add this and so not only did he have all these people excited because they were part of the book process but the book was 20 times better because of crowdsourcing giving feedback and yeah and we have a story about a guy on eBay eBay they have this thing called eBay billionaires they they have a conference for all these guys he started out his grandfather said I don't want my pool table anymore would you like to sell it for me he said sure I'll sell for you goes on eBay get $600 from pool table gives his grandfather 300 300 he said that was easiest 300 Allah's only so he puts an ad in the local paper if you have a pool table I'll sell it you know and so he sold like 12 or 15 more of them and then no more pool tables so he starts importing him from China and he's selling pool tables makes over a million dollars a year selling pool tables imported from China on eBay instead of having to go to a pool table store or anything and you know there's story after story about the leverage of the internet and crowdsourcing and affiliate marketing and internet marketing and if you're not paying attention to that you're getting left behind yeah so we're talking about change right now and in the book you say there are two types of change can you speak into those changes and what those are well there-there's cyclical change which just occurs over and over the seasons change that kind of thing and then there's totally disruptive change where everything changes like the internet changed everything everything the game yeah the event of the automobile changed everything the development of the computer changed everything cell phones have changed everything airplane airplanes have changed everything so there are certain changes that we can plan for we can plan for the change in the seasons we now have resources shows about every five years we get some kind of recession doesn't have to be huge like the recent one but if you know that's coming you can kind of plan for that sure so you know investors they see these cycles and they think about that but then there's disruptive change which you sometimes you can't see coming sometimes you can if you can you you work with that if you can't see it you have to adapt as quickly as possible right and know that it it's not the same game anymore I mean when television happened it changed the game everything you know everything is like now the fact that on-demand television that changed advertising the internet changed advertising so you have to keep paying attention the problem with us we are kind of built to resist change why is that well change used to change used to signal danger uh-huh so if you were a cavemen and you were walking on your normal path back to your cave and you saw some rustling in the leaves over there it never was rustling before that's a very animal yeah you know and so you had to be really careful anything that was different you had to pay attention to sure well that kind of stuff doesn't happen anymore unless a hurricane comes through and wipes you out or tsunami or something but basically we still resist it and it just like if you if you fold your hands like this and then I asked people in my seminars to just move all the fingers up a notch so do your thumbs on top how does that feel feels weird feels weird feels uncomfortable what's your body want to do put it back wants to put it back so do that how's that feel natural natural yeah people go better relief or whatever so that's what changes yeah just that little bit of change is so uncomfortable we don't want to do it sure so we go back to the old ways and I remember when I was growing up they were going from rotary dial telephones which some people can't even remember to push-button phones yeah I remember and people resist oh yeah and they used to have to go with the county fairs and say okay dial this number you know then you know with a dududu and they would time you you oh my god that's you know 10 times faster yeah just to try to get people to accept that let alone Internet and email and you know now there's no buttons on the screen that's right that's exactly right pretty soon we'll just think the number and it'll it'll get exactly exactly all we said we'd have Siri we just say call home you know and it does and or call patty cell phone or home phone it's like so it's all very the thing I like about having I've stepped children who are you in their 20s and they keep me hip on everything you know the coolest apps I just saw a great cartoon it said if you're planning on if you're planning on conquering Rome there's a great app for that a great app for that Alps because they went over the mountain but anyway there's apps for everything I forget how many like 6000 new apps a day coming same yeah it's incredible this is an interesting question about the digital age yes you talked about how you went from you know when email came around we all started getting tons of emails say and I think you said either in the book or it's somewhere you said how you used to spend you know three four or five hours a day just responding to emails right and I believe you said you bring it down to now you just received five emails a day your team kind of manages it and you only get a certain amount of emails maybe that's more well what is you know several things III have a really good spam filter uh-huh and I am able to dis unsubscribe to things but my staff gets my emails first now this isn't possible for people who don't have staff but let's start with me so my staff goes through the emails that they can answer and the ones they can't they forward to me or if it's someone they think needs a personal response from you have a list of my top friends or whatever but I was spending God 2 3 4 hours just with emails and sometimes you start opening them and then it leads you to a website and all of a sudden you're reading the 7 things you should do as an entrepreneur and videos and so literally and it all happened because I was writing this book ten years ago I didn't have time to write it if I was answering my email so I said to my secretary don't give me any emails except what's important and now we've kept that up which is amazing god but literally with a spam filter and with just very quickly going what am i focused on what am i focused on I'm only gonna answer emails to do with this answer all your emails in one block of time don't every time it pings look over to see this who Skyped you or who emailed you or whatever you don't get anything done constantly distracted yeah and there's a wonderful work on multitasking that proves that multitasking doesn't work there was a guy was in a seminar he had us write out of long sentence and then numbers one two three four five six seven eight nine up to 50 it was 50 letters 50 numbers so write the sentence as fast as you can right 1 2 50 is fast you can we all did it pretty fast he said now I want you to go first letter one second letter two third letter three fourth letter four it took five times low my goodness two right there and that's what we're doing all day long when we stop focus on that come back to this focus of it so my staff and I have learned if we can do three to five hours of uninterrupted time focused either individually or together as a team on some specific goal or result we get a lot done the other thing I write about in the book that I learned a couple years ago I had a coach for a while I he just offered me free coaching and I thought wow take it they just want to be my friend and so I did it for a couple of months and what he said was every morning when you come in take your number one goal and spend the first hour and a half working on that don't open your emails don't do anything don't answer phone calls don't look at anything other than your number one goal and at that time it was to get into the sphere of influence of some people like Arianna Huffington and the posts or so I would call these people talk to them write emails to them and then it was finished this book and so forth so for me that changed my life because most of us put off the hard things which are our most important projects till later in the morning then it's lunch and then it's the afternoon then oh my god is four o'clock and I'm worked on it yet sure you know and then you're tired and tired our creativity is not there and also we learn and this is some research from the University of London where if you have a new goal or a new habit new habit you're trying to inform always do that first thing in the morning if it's exercise if it's yoga if it's meditation if it's reading for now or whatever it is do it first thing because if you don't it gets pushed off pushed off pushed off and then at seven o'clock at night and you never did it so what are your daily rituals in the morning and at night then I'm always interested in them in the morning I get up and after I've gone to the bathroom brush my teeth I sit down I meditate for 20 minutes I visualize for about another five minutes all my goals I have one cards and on the back is a picture of the goal manifested so it's like my little moveable vision board if you will saying do you draw it or is it like a cutout or something mostly I go to Google Images and I downloaded the image and I size it and then I print it and then I cut it and stick it on the back I like this so if it's Bali where companies don't want to go to Bali so I ended up cutting that out and last year we were in a workshop in Bali yeah you know and so whatever it is I read the affirmation names I'm so happy and proud that I'm now finishing you know of course in Bali for 20 people having earned $300,000 profit because I'm charged for that turn it over see the Bali picture close my eyes visualize being in Bali looking out over the ocean at the end of the day maybe drinking a gin and tonic or a glass of wine or something and then after I'd done that I do about a three or four minute gratitude exercise where I may just list what I'm grateful for I may do the rampage of appreciation I talked about and then I will go and I'll exercise I have a gym in my house it's an old garage we rehabbed into a gym the end of the house I do about thirty minutes of aerobics and about 20 minutes of weights and then I take a shower have a blender drink with protein and God knows how many supplements and then they go to work yeah and then I do what I said if an hour and a half of know interrupted focusing on my main project then I check my emails yeah it's been sent to me from the previous day by myself and that night what's the ritual when you're on a bed well at the end of the day I do two things I also will review my goals because I believe right before you go to sleep and when you first wake up is the best time to do that because you're in this relaxed state I also do a technique called the daily review which is so powerful and very few people have ever heard of it or done it but whether you're working on a goal or what are you're working on bringing a new quality into your life I'm gonna be more loving more patient more kind whatever I asked I close my eyes and I asked my Higher Self show me places today or I could have been more loving or I could have been more efficient whatever the goal is I'm working on and invariably oh you yelled at the bank and I don't yell but you got impatient with the bank person you you know got the you forgot to feed the cat and then you kind of blamed your wife or you know whatever it is right and then what you do and this is the key part you reap you recreate that movie so whatever you did do you not create a movie of doing it right oh and what that does it puts a blueprint into your subconscious mind for when you're faced with that situation again how to do it the way you intentionally want to do it rather than being reactive that is a powerful ritual and then the last thing I do is my wife and I go back and forth with five appreciations I appreciate this about you she appreciates that about me and so we always end the day you know appreciating each other and that's a nice foreplay by the way yeah I usually like the end of day with three things I'm most grateful for and I express out that something but I like the appreciation part I'm going to add that yeah it's really that's a good one yeah what are you most grateful for recently oh god I'm grateful for my grandson I have a new grandson congratulations thank you his name is Aziz half-japanese and he looks like a little Japanese rock star because they let his hair grow long really cool kid and I'm really happy that we finished our home study program for our you know train the trainer program that's gonna go around the world and and and help a lot of people I'm happy that we've redesigned a couple of our trainings and that was a lot of work and so I'm happy about that we're starting a seminar in a couple days in Las Vegas for a couple hundred people and people come in from 20 countries Wow so give them grateful for the internet that never would have happened yeah and 15 years ago in this book I'm grateful that this book is done and out and I just finished another book that'll be out in August called the 30 day sobriety solution Wow how to get sober a cup of checking the privacy of your own home and Steve is working on that right all right Steve Hanselman was my agent on that yeah and that word do it with the guy named David Andrews who read the first success principles book said why don't they teach this in rehab relapse three times between me and a couple Tony Robbins tapes you listen to he said this is the stuff we really need so he developed this coaching program online coaching program called the 30 day sobriety solution and I said to him when he told me what he'd done I said we got to get this into a book yeah I got some more people and I can help you do that so we spent a good three and a half months writing that book and that just went to bed literally yesterday we finished the final edits of the edits that were given to us by the editor to publisher and got that back to them so I'm happy about that there's so many things to be happy of course what is the warrant I got a couple questions left something it just came out for me I'm wondering what is the one lesson that you learned from your parents growing up that stands out the most right now don't whine about things go change them I'm not happy with your life my father said to me when I went to college he said if you need a helping hand look at you look at the end of your own arm I mean at the time I thought it was really harsh I thought he's gonna bring me side give me a couple hundred bucks and he basically said don't call home figure it out get a job you know do it to what you need to do and as much as I didn't like that at the time it was a great lesson because I worked my way through college and I learned whatever it is I want if I apply energy and intention I can get it and I think the other thing my mother taught me was always be kind of strangers she was a you know if the Mormons were knocking on the door talking about we should all become Mormons she would invite him in for dinner everyone else would send away you know and so I really love people and I learned that everybody is unique and different and you never know who's in there until you ask sure what are the three books that you leave behind to your family at the end of the day you're said there's three books I want you to read now what's your last message over those being well one would be this book cuz because the most of my family hasn't even read it Wow my wife is not a big self-help person she loves novels but I'd love to have her read that but yeah she had to be without me so that would be one book I would probably leave a book on meditation I don't know which one but something that would teach people to meditate and maybe Byron Katie's book which is called loving what is which is a book about how to accept what is and then you can work to change it but that all pain and misery comes from thinking something shouldn't be the way it is so we resist reality and you know it's our thought that this shouldn't be the creates you shouldn't do that my husband should have done this instead of that's what they did and when I realize that most of my anger is me being upset with how other people just are and normally when I'm upset with you at some part of me I'm not looking at mmm and so her book loving what is is it just it's a treasure and in and among the people who know her work she walks on water but everybody should know yeah I'm gonna check nothing what is nothing what is what's something small that you've done that maybe a lot of people don't know about or you haven't really talked about that's that's you've been really proud of something small leave down the world well when I went to the rain forest was put on by the the trip was put on by the Pachamama Alliance and the rain forest Pachamama means the earth the sky in all time so it's everything the universe and when I got down there and we met with the shamans that were there and and and we found out that they just needed a lot of information and we needed a lot of their at wisdom they need a lot of our information but I remember sending about 40 books on leadership to the tribal leaders living in the rainforest so that they could resist the government trying to come in and take over their land for oil exploration and then I contributed over $100,000 to that organization which was the largest check I think I've written I had written up at that point in time I remember walking around for two weeks going did I really do that give them much away executive that much away but I did and I'm proud of what they've done as a result of that if you saw the movie the Avatar the people in that Avatar world the blue people they were like the people living in the rainforest and they have this beautiful culture that's being destroyed by modernization and we need to preserve the rainforest so behind the scenes I do a lot of work like that I do work here in town IMC things for child abuse mmm mediation and I do a lot of pro bono work which I don't brag about but I figure we should give not only away ten percent of our money but ten percent of our time interesting that's great thanks for sharing that moment one more question but before I ask you the final question I want to share my appreciate appreciation for you and practice what you preach thank you and to say you thanks for all that you've done and thanks for allowing me to come and share your wisdom to my audience it means a lot to me and I really appreciate what you stand for and I also want to acknowledge ejack for the incredible gift that you are to the world because you are consistently giving of your time and your information and putting it in great content for people like myself to be inspired to think out of the box so I want acknowledge you for thank you your energy your efforts over the years and it's amazing and it's inspiring and you're inspiring millions of people around the world so I know you for that well I appreciate that I have to say too I acknowledge you back I really like you oh thanks yeah you've got a great persona and you're very present and you've done your homework and you get a nice energy about you and so you know I have to say I wasn't that aware of you before but now that I am I really enjoy knowing you so I'm gonna feed that back to you as well I appreciate it well final question which is what I asked all my guests at the end of the show thing is what is your definition of greatness I think greatness is totally fulfilling your purpose in life whatever that is I mean I've met great restaurant owners I've met great teachers teaching in the inner city I met great fallen in the rainforest I have met and I've met sheiks who were billionaires I've you know in Dubai and Qatar and Oman when I was over in the Middle East I have met you know presidents of the country and so forth so I think it's when you fully manifest your full potential whatever that is then then you're great and it doesn't matter about the level of impact how much money whether you're famous or not you know I'd there was a guy in West Virginia my dad and I used to talk about him he was one of these guys that when there was a road construction going on he would stand out there and go like this and he was is this is African American guy he was so cool and we come down you had to stop and then he would go like that and I mean he made that job which was a crap loved one into an amazing thing and so I think if you do what you do and you do it so well that people actually want to tell their people about it you have done something great so it's fulfill whatever wants to be expressed through you do that to your best ability and then you'll be great sure great answer I want to make sure everyone goes and picks up the success principles how to get from where you are to where you no want to be when I read this eight years ago changed the game for me it really opened me up to a lot of possibilities there's really only a couple of books when I met Tony Robbins and went to his conference when I was 16 opened up a lot of possibilities he walked up next to me and it just liked his energy I was like I want to have that whatever they don't write I read this book and I was obsessed with it and I was a really slow reader uh-huh at the time and I was able to get to the whole thing for me pretty quickly which was inspiring the third book was Tim Ferriss 4-hour workweek which we both know I love you and so make sure to pick up this book and if there's anything you want to say about it well what I want to say about it you can normally go to amazon.com or Barnes & Noble or your local bookstore but if you go to these success principles book.com uh-huh not only will you be then be able to buy the book from Amazon but you're going to go through this little Porter called this success principles book calm you'll also be able to download an hour-long audiotape of me answering the most commonly asked questions that come up for people when they read the book an hour-long video that means me teaching about goal-setting and how to achieve your goal you'll get a poster of the five daily disciplines of success you need to do you'll get the first two chapters of the book you can download them immediately so while you're waiting for the book to come you can start and the first two chapters are very powerful and you'll get a free instant cash guide from my co-author Janet Switzer who helps me with some of the chapters on the book really good writer and she wrote a book called instant instant income and so basically if you're an entrepreneur you want to get that as well and you'll get enrolled in our 10-week course where once a week we send you a video of about four minutes long and if you do what's on that video for those ten weeks it literally is a transformative course and it's free so all of those things come with the book if you go to these success principles book calm make sure to check it out get the book tell your friends share this video or podcast with a friend Jack so much for coming on I really appreciate you so fun I really enjoyed it thank you for coming up thank you [Music]

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Length: 69min 6sec (4146 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 24 2015