MONEY WILL FLOW LIKE CRAZY! (How To Manifest Success & Riches) | Lewis Howes

you will not be able to make money just from massive achievement once you actually have practiced understanding that this moment is more important than anything you think you want now you are abundance not money because the highest thing we have the number one asset we have is our you are fully on the highest vibration do you understand how much more valuable you are than money and and how much more remember Buddhist monks there's millionaire Achievers that go to Buddhist monks all the time the reverse never happens there's no Buddhist monks going how do I get the link I need to make millions yeah why is that because the highest thing we have the number one asset we have is our connection to ourself this then most of us think it's it's money so we make that the highest vibration but it's not inner peace it's inner peace it's this moment and you have that available and we over you know the best things in life are free is a very cliche sentence but it's true and that's true but also we only pay attention to what we invest in financially so we Overlook meditating here but if we could pay to meditate we'd all of a sudden do it so we have to understand that what is free for real will bring in everything else that you want yeah I have a rule too with money that you might think is cool this is a this is a thing that I want to offer people if you're trying to figure out how to how to create a space for money I I offer people to think about how they think about money like think about how unconsciously you think about it like you're never enough you're the root of all evil whatever now picture that your money on a date with you and if you're on a date with a person who says you're never enough you're the root of all evil you'd never want to be there right well money doesn't want to be in the vibrations reject that person judging it yeah yeah you reject that person so yeah you're rejecting money right when you think that yeah yeah I'm going to how else do we say I'm going to use you to get someone to like me I'm going to this is how money is seen so how could money show up if that's how you see it because you wouldn't stay with someone on a date that said you're never enough you're the you're the root of all evil right it's like okay so how would you like to be seen on a date you'd like to be seen as I love you no matter what no matter if you're small or big if you're off or on if you're feeling like I love you all the way and if you can look at your debt or or have one dollar in the bank and go I love you now you're creating a vibrational space for it to show up because you're safe because your focus isn't on money and how it needs to change you're much better off because you're on how you're going to change and when you start changing like we just did and looking at these things and not needing to overcome as much as loving it now you're focused on the thing that actually creates the money remember every dollar you've ever made came from you so don't get excited about money get excited about you um right Zing like if I went on a hike with you we get lost in the woods I around a corner I'm not with you and we find a waterfall I find it you don't see it I fill a cup up with water and I come back and I say to you dude a cup of water what am I not showing you yeah I'm showing you the small thing yeah not the waterfall not where it came from the source the source of the water is the much more important thing so none of us look at the source of where our money came from we look at the money so you're sitting here dwelling not you but people that we were dwelling on the cup of water yeah not us being the source of creating more every dollar you've ever made came from you get excited about you start the focus on what you are not what money will give you and our you know your energy is going to attract or repel more wealth a lot of you know a mentor of mine said I was at a salsa club learning how to salsa dance terrified out of my mind and I saw a guy who's amazing who was a public speaker he actually got me into public speaking and he said the world makes room for passionate people I think uh money is attracted to passionate people as well because people are passionate about life they bring in energy they bring a richness of fullness a richness and they attract riches yeah whether it be through the community or the the art they're creating or the business they're creating yes and you're going to start to attract especially in this time because I know there's people watching this go well what do you say about all the greedy billionaires and blah blah blah and what I say is that's the old Consciousness yeah that there in fact we see through it and it's starting to crumble so the old way of doing things selfish was a conscious shift because I believe in like the 50s everyone was just like a factory worker working for and then it was like this Breakaway where an entrepreneurial boom happens so taking your focus off of the old story and moving into what you are and and learning how your thinking changes things what's the highest Consciousness we understood at the time so at that time that created this old consciousness of your focus you know changes it so you think positive whatever and that created it and then we we keep going and take a good thing too far and then all of a sudden it's this billionaire thing you can feel the the most controlling mindset crumbling you can feel the suicides from the people that have made lots of money but see that it's not the answer you can feel the people that are controlling other people all the control as the control fell in you during this interview as you said goodbye to the the old story and kind of loved it all control in the world is starting to fall and the old structures aren't working and what will work in the new century and the new future is the birth of this Consciousness this Consciousness following your heart you will not be able to make money just from massive achievement it won't work it I'm telling you it's going to be to we see through it the Consciousness sees through it it's too it's it's too small when there's going to be a major influx of Martin Luther King's Mr Rogers Oprah's Wayne Dyers there's it's coming yeah because we're so repressed that our hearts are going to springboard like the Renaissance and there's going to be you know what I'm saying that's true you mentioned this a couple of times and it reminded me of another mentor of mine Chris Hawker I was working as an intern for him for about six months when I was on my sister's couch broke no money my dad had just gotten into an accident car accident that left him in a coma for three months and he was kind of my safety net he was my you know Financial stability where he would support me financially on things and he always said you know when you're done like living your dream and chasing your football career whatever it is you don't want to come and work for me wow he had an insurance company and life insurance and I did the whole like Insurance internship and did the testing and I almost failed three times on like getting my uh whatever it is like the series something whatever the life insurance test that I had to pass so I could sell life insurance I should have stopped after I failed the first time because I just knew it wasn't for me but I did it so I could have this backup plan wow and so when my dad got in his accident uh he had to sell his company to his partner because he was no longer able to work anymore and I didn't have the financial stability like I had before so I was sleeping on my sister's couch for a year and a half and I was working as an intern for about six months with someone that I was learning a lot from and I remember at one point being like man I just really want some money I feel like I've been working hard for a few years like I really could use some money I'm not paying any rent money at my sister's I feel like a loser because I can't contribute to her I can't even get my own apartment I'm just a loser I was 24 at the time I was like man I'm just a loser of a guy and he said something to me that what you said he said money comes to you when you're ready for it and I was like I feel really ready you know I could really use the money right now and he goes I didn't say desperate for it exactly we didn't say that but he was like it's gonna come to you when you're ready for it and when it starts to come it's gonna make sense I was like gosh I just want it though I just want it right now and it's funny because maybe a year later it started to come and then it started to really come pretty quickly like six months to a year after that and I remember reflecting a year and a half prior I was like man I wasn't ready for us like if this would have came two years prior I would have blown it I would have been scared of it I wouldn't have been prepared for it like I would have been so freaked out by the numbers in my bank account I would have sabotaged it probably and so I really feel like it comes to you when you are prepared and ready and sometimes it's not when you want it to be and and when people say how do you get prepared and ready that's the key what so how do you yeah for me meditation like gets me to understand that I'm the abundance not money and the second you understand that you're the abundance and I mean understand it in your nervous system I mean don't just hear that sentence while you're still dying for it in your body like really be in the alignment of understanding that I'm the abundance Wayne Dyer said beautifully you know there's a thing that everyone thought you don't attract that you attract what you want and when Dyer said you don't attract what you want you attract what you are what you're in vibration of so if you want abundance you need to get to a place where you understand your abundance and everything comes into your life the second you finally don't want it it's not not don't want it like avoiding like you're you don't need it it's not desperate the second you stop looking for it you don't even remember you wanted it that's because you have to access the Fulfillment of the connection to yourself first and then weirdly it's going to create first of all so many creative things but you're going to just start you're so first of all you're so aware that you see things differently like think of just the just that when someone's in their head they're they're walking down the street on their phone worrying you could pass a hundred dollar bill and not even see it right but when you're not in your head you suddenly start to see all these dots connecting and everything meaning something different and you see every moment as meaningful like last night I was waiting to go into a restaurant one guy recognized me and said hi and we created a friendship because he's also a musician that's cool and then this four-year-old girl comes in and just sees me and starts dancing in front of me and showing me her toys and I just had that moment was so much cooler than if I was looking through wondering you know what is going on in politics and yeah that was fulfilling that moment and because that's fulfilling and then on my way to the table each step is fulfilling yeah now this is more fulfilling than anything I perceive could come to me to make me happy once you actually have practiced understanding that this moment is more important than anything you think you want now you are abundance not money and once you're abundance it's impossible for it to not come you're just going to start feeling safe to everybody they're going to want to hire you you're going to get bizarre offers they'll just say can you help me through something can you create this thing you'll get an alignment with your creative gifts more than your fix it gifts to make money you'll be in this higher thing you'll be worth more better jobs they'll start asking you you'll start to actually feel heavy when million dollar offers are coming in because you're like even that I don't want and then it just every time I say no to something even if it's a huge thing the bigger thing comes up it's like life's like how about this how about this and then the only question I ask is does this expand me or contract me oh yeah it's good right if it expands me then I say yes and I can feel that within two seconds if I get to a pros and cons list I'm already in Contracting do you get what I'm saying wow so a way that I always give an example is if you if you've ever had lunch you ever have lunch plans with someone and then you hope that they cancel yeah okay that's your highest saying cancel wow but you're used to living a notch below it so you wait for them to do it so that's what I'm talking about is the highest what expands me so it expands you know what expands me a lot is saying no to a lot of things that's so powerful yeah saying no like the hardest things to learn how to do but then it's one of the most freeing things when you can when you're in that space yeah because there's times where you might think my highest is to go out and get laid or party but it's actually like really sometimes my highest is to go to bed early sometimes really my height like it's not our highest to do what we're doing is it your highest to go on Facebook 100 times a day no no but we still do it so we live second highest and we miss out on the universe right so my so for me it expands me to be in alignment with the universe in that moment how important is developing skills and value there's one thing of like being abundance and being acceptance and all these things but there's another thing of like okay well the person still doesn't have any skills that are valuable for someone else to give them money so what I mean crazy answer here yeah that's a belief that they need the skills so let me let me explain that so let's first of all talk about value okay mostly it's perceived right sure and most people think value is what their worth is based on what's in the bank right you could say that person's got a net worth of 20 million whatever cool that's nice but if what but there's some people that could lose that money and remake it again in 10 minutes like Tina Turner of her bank account got robbed tomorrow could just go on tour and fill it again yeah right then there's some people who inherited it yeah and and won or won the lottery and if that went away they're still not valuable at that moment at least right so what's the cause of value is it how much money you have or is it what's under it right and what you understand is under it the factor of value is do you understand how valuable you are right so how do you understand how valuable You Are by creating the evidence of it whether it's through leaps whether it's so so for me when I started saying no to really tempting things it would be really hard that moment like it'd be really hard I remember when I was like no dating for six months and then like the Swedish bikini teams like even us and you're like you're like no it's a joke but when you start saying no it might be hell in that moment but the next day you wake up and you're like now even I'm someone that can say no to that like now I'm elevating myself above that Temptation so if I'm someone who can say no to that you feel the force in that so that's one thing so there's a lot of skills I believe that we might need but if they aren't your highest to do them they're not a 10. and if they're not a 10 that affects all of what you do my friend Glenn moshour says if you pee in part of the pool you pee in all the pool so my company my job in my company is to do this is to go on stage is to coach people is to be the space to co-write the book to to make the movie I don't do the accounting right I have no idea how to do the accounting I don't give about the accounting right I don't do the Wardrobe I don't do any of that but there are people who it is their 10 to do that so I delegate that because if I did this thing that's a three energetically then I'm going to average and bring that onto the stage my energy will be more depleted because I'm doing things in my life that are like that same thing if you're out of alignment in whatever area you're bringing that into all of it yeah you get what I'm saying so true so so for for so that's so that's my answer to the skills thing because there's stuff that we're just natural at and most of us disqualify what we're naturally good at because it hasn't been done before right they go why would anyone want oh just stay with it right because that thing you have is new that thing you have is calling to you and it might not make sense now but I so many people I've worked with are like well one thing I'm passionate about is this but I can't seem like stop the second part the yeah but it's the old story this thing you just said feels good to my body doesn't it feel well yeah but no one will make money no you're using the past story literally what this is what we are what we are is the universe trying to change the planet through you the universe is trying to change itself to a higher Consciousness through you that's what's happening when we receive on a higher level it's like higher level ideas come through so when you when you meditate or whatever you have an Insight that's higher that Insight you go it's it's exciting but you can't make sense it doesn't can't wrap your mind around it follow it you're not supposed to wrap your mind around it one thing people say is I can't wrap my mind around it you're not here to shove the infinite vastness of what you are into your teeny mind right you're here to acclimate your mind to the vastness of what you are Zing that's the difference you know there's so many quotes that people say to insult people that live in their hearts like this person went off the deep end the implication is the shallow end is better this person went over their head yeah I'm using my whole body right right I'm not staying in my head are you out of your mind you better believe it I'm in my heart exactly right yeah it's easier done than said how about it's too big for your britches right you're too big for your how about we change pants and adjust to me versus me shoving myself in my old britches what are we in the 20s all right these old quotes that are every insulting quote if you just reverse it it's so funny how dumb it looks oh dude you're out of your mind you're right you're in your head right it's like you're thinking small you better be out of your mind I love to go over my head so I have to use my body right because just my small mind can't grasp these Concepts we're talking about but my body knows it like if you listen to this you have to be listening from your body you cannot listen from the small story that won't make sense in fact this is very offensive to the small story yeah right how dare he I'm in this limitation and then and most of us instead of fighting for our freedom fight for our limitation yeah it's safe safer being Limited totally well it's it's say it ironically it's not it's actually the most dangerous place oh it seems safer yeah but but it's more comfortable in that place yeah yeah but I mean what we call a safe space could be an abusive relationship it could be it's just you're used to it so because you didn't die you go that safety and everything that I've never seen before I don't know that I won't die so my body's scared of it but the truth is usually what the body's got is way better and it will change your Consciousness from here to here and then you'll get this new calling once you're here to here before the interview continues if you feel like you're not living your most authentic life not leaning into your purpose and not living the life that your future self would be extremely proud of I've written a new book called The greatness mindset and I think you're going to love this through powerful stories science back strategies and step-by-step Guidance the greatest mindset will help you overcome all the different challenges in your life to design the life of your dreams and then turn it into your reality make sure to click the link below in the description to get your copy today okay let's get back to this video what is your your thoughts around the identity of money the psychology of how we how it plays in our lives because a lot of people want to make more they want to attract more but they're just struggling with just the concept of it yeah well I think we've been programmed quite a bit uh in with our relationship with money and we have a relationship with everything known in our environment you have a relationship a neurological Network in your brain to for your parents for your cell phone for your computer where you live where you've lived in the past what you're going to do tomorrow that for the most part the brain is a reflection of everything that we know right so along with that is our relationship with money and I I feel like I have a really good relationship with money because I work on having a really good relationship with everything in my life did you always have a good relationship I think so I think so I've never really lived in lack that just wasn't part of it even when I went to college and I had to take out student loans and stuff I always figured out a way to always be a little bit ahead of the curve and so so let's back up and just look at how people form beliefs because yes most beliefs um are created from past experiences right so uh children uh when they're uh in their early ages their brain waves are very slow like their brain waves are in Alpha uh when they're like seven to twelve they're in Theta when they're like two to six years old and and they're in Delta like when they're when they're you know newborn to two years old and so these brainwave States uh are states that were really suggestible to information so when we hear information we believe it and we accept it we believe it we surrender to it as if it's the truth without analyzing it because there's no analytical facilities yet right the analytical mind starts around 12 or so 7 to 12 and that analytical mind is actually what creates a barrier between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind so 412 roughly what we see how we model our parents Behavior it's all being programmed subconsciously right and and so so that's really really important because if you heard money is the root of all evil money is bad only certain people are allowed to make money you have to work hard to make money this is how you got to do it and that becomes the foundations subconsciously like let's like write recording an audio file you just keep recording that audio file it becomes a subconscious program right so a lot of people have a relationship with money based on either what they've been told or what they've experienced in their outer environment right so so then we gain information from our environment and the stronger the emotion we feel from experiences in our lives the more altered we feel inside of us the more the brain freezes a frame and takes a picture and that snapshot is called the memory So based on an emotion based on emotion the emotion Alters our internal state so you're going along as Lewis feeling really good and all of a sudden you have this trauma you have this crisis you have this shock and all of a sudden you have this dramatic change in your internal State and your senses get heightened and then you freeze the frame and you associate this internal state with whatever it is that's causing it right and that's how we create long-term memories right so our painful memories more uh powerful or beautiful memories more powerful uh they're both equal okay they're both equal but but the problem is I think most people experience from more than negative the emotions right and those are negative emotions really are derived from the hormones of stress right so the alarm system the emergency system creates an arousal you know inwardly and that arousal saying that something dangerous in your outer environment right and it could be a person a circumstance and an accident or whatever and that that change in emotional state causes you to remember the event you gotta pay attention right you got to stay really and narrow your focus on the cause so so think about people who have relationships with money right from the past with all beliefs are based on past experiences so you have an experience where you lose money you have an experience where uh money's taken away from you have an experience where you don't have enough you're living in a place where there's not enough money or a family that's not enough money then the emotion that most people are living by in a moment-to-moment basis is lack like I'm in lack of having something that I want okay now there's nothing wrong with that because the experience changes your emotional state you freeze the frame you take a picture the problem is that's hardware so we think neurologically within the circuits of that past experience and we feel chemically within the boundaries of that emotion which would say for example be lack right so now the person says before you go on to the next thing what happens to the body in the mind when it is in an environment of lack mentally or physically I'm in lack what is what is the body of the mind saying yes so the body is saying I'm waiting for some external event to occur I win the lottery I marry the right guy whatever it is that you're waiting for that event to occur that experience produces an emotion so the emotion then takes away the lack and so when we play the game in three-dimensional reality the creation game in three-dimensional reality um we experience separation from everyone and everything because our our senses fool us into the illusion the hallucination of Separation I'm here and you're there I'm here and the door is over there so I'm aware that I'm here at one point of Consciousness and the door is over there another point of Consciousness okay so in order for me to get from here to the door I gotta move my body and do something through space I got to do something and everything in this three-dimensional reality is going to take time and energy right so okay so then here's here's Lewis right here and then he says okay I want this experience in my future and your brain automatically predicts and projects how far in the future you think it's going to take maybe it's a year five years ten years 30 years oh my gosh right because that's what it's going to take to pay off that house right so now one point of Consciousness I'm here the other point of Consciousness is where I'm placing my dreams so I mean separate from that experience so then how do I get to that experience in three-dimensional reality you got to get up and you got to do something you gotta go to work you gotta drive to work it takes energy you got to fill your car with gas you got to eat food you got to work you know all this stuff you got to sleep you got to recover with your stress and now people are in a sense waiting for the experience that's 10 years down the road or 30 years down the world to happen to take away the lack of them not having it and unfortunately many times when the experience finally occurs they can't enjoy it because they're too exhausted right right so then so you play the game you you go to school you study really hard or you study on your own you develop some skills you make the right choices you start saving money you start learning from your mistakes and then the game is how many things can you accumulate and that accumulation then you associate with being wealthy or being abundant or being successful right and some people get really good at it right you can get really good at that but for the most part though when we create from three-dimensional reality we're creating from lack and separation in other words you're driving down the road and you see someone driving a car that all of a sudden you realize that you don't have the moment you become aware that that person has that car and you don't have it you're in lack of having it right so what the brain naturally does is it naturally creates you driving that car and you have an image of yourself driving that car and you start identifying wow that would be a greater experience for me to have the problem is the distance between the thought of what you want and the experience of actually happening it happening for most people is the concept called time right between cause and effect right so some people develop the ability to manage themselves and manage their life develop certain skills and they can pay for it and they can get it very quickly the problem is when the novelty of that experience wears off you know the car and they're no longer identifying with that and the feeling of emptiness and lack comes back they need to find something else find something else and so there's this game that goes on where you never have enough right and that's the lack game right so then if you think about people uh having the things they want in their life when they create from lack and separation it's the experience in three-dimensional reality that produces the emotion and the emotion is saying let's feel that experience this thing that you've been in lack and separation from and that emotion then takes away the lack of Separation but you've worked really hard to get it okay nothing wrong with that is there another way to do it yes okay so the person who's living in lack is waiting for their wealth to feel abundant they're waiting for their success to feel empowered they're waiting for their healing to feel gratitude they're waiting for their new relationship to feel love they're waiting for the mystical experience to feel awe that's the Newtonian model of reality of cause and effect you know waiting for that event to happen to take away this separation or lack nothing wrong with it it's the way most people create but what we've discovered is actually something else the moment you feel gratitude your Healing Begins the moment you feel worthy and abundant you're generating wealth the moment you're empowered you are moving towards your success the moment you're in love with yourself and you're in love with life you'll create an equal the moment you are in awe of life you're going to have a mystical experience and so that's causing an effect right so then if you can teach people then how to create instead of from lack or separation but create from wholeness and create from what we call the quantum field instead of three-dimensional reality what's the difference Okay so the way you first of all it takes knowledge okay the quantum field is an invisible field of energy that exists beyond our senses you can't see it you can't smell it you can't taste it you can't hear it you can't feel it it exists beyond our experience of three-dimensional reality would this be in the our minds Consciousness or would this be in a different space okay let's let's look at that so the answer to the question is how much of your waking day you put your attention on matter on the material world and how much of your Awakening are you aware of energy and frequency for most people they're unaware of the quantum field and if you're unaware of it it doesn't exist for you just like you have a nose but if you're unaware of it it doesn't exist for you the moment you become aware of it exists well the quantum field you can ask you can study all kinds of Science and they'll tell you there is this invisible field of frequency and energy that exists beyond the senses that tend to connect everything physical and material in fact everything physical and material is connected to this field Okay so how do you get there right how do you get how do you get there how do you get there so we discovered that when you take all of your attention off your body and you are not paying attention to your emotions your drives your habits if you could take all of your attention off of every element in your environment your cell phone your tablet your computer uh your your car your whatever it is your bad take your attention away from everything every place that you live where you sleep or you work and you're not thinking about time you're not thinking about your schedule where you need to be or what happened yesterday you can relax into the present moment there there tends to be a dramatic change in the way the brain functions when people do this properly we call it getting Beyond yourself but in a sense you're dissociating from your three-dimensional reality why because if you're thinking about anything in your three-dimensional reality that's where your attention is and that's where your energy is okay so I kind of figured out this formula when people really become nobody no one no thing nowhere and no time we are pretty much all of a sudden outside the constraints of the Newtonian world of got to do something to get an outcome and if you can teach people how to linger there without a name without a face without a profession without a family without a culture without a past without a disease you teach them how to be in this place we call the unknown right and you teach them that from that place that invisible field is where everything material comes from and if they could create coherence in their brain they need a strong signal in the brain the more coherent the brain the more stronger the signal what do you mean a straw signal okay let's see how I could say this when most people we look at when we look at brains in real time and we're looking at people's how their how their mind is working when you're under stress okay stress is created by not being able to predict something that's going to happen in your life the perception that something's going to get worse or you can't control something right so when that occurs we switch on that primitive nervous system called the fight-or-flight nervous system and the Brain goes into this very alarmed State called high beta that means pay attention to the outer world there's danger out there so it's but if it's not a predator in its traffic or your co-worker or your ex this is where it gets to be a problem because it becomes very maladaptive right so when we're in that state and the brain is that in that aroused State we try to control and predict everything so every person every object every thing every place uh every even your body has a neurological Network in your brain right so as the arousal happens we start shifting our attention to all these elements in like a lightning storm in the clouds the brain starts firing very very incoherently and when the brain's incoherent we're in coherence so that's not a strong signal that's not there's it's a static on the word that's disconnection there is no signal right so when we're in that state we're always really looking for the worst case scenario of what's going to happen because if you prepare for the worst anything less that happens a better chance of survival right so so in this kind of aroused State as we shift our attention to each one of these elements that are known in our environment the brain starts compartmentalizing and firing out of order and and that is what creates what's called autonomic dysregulation that causes the brain and body to get really out of balance right so in that state we're we're over focused you know when you're stressed you're over focused on something you can't stop thinking about it our research shows that when you do that you actually make your brain worse because you're analyzing your problems within some disturbing emotion and that emotion is driving you further out of balance you're actually knocking your brain and body out of balance by thought alone and you're driving it into these more aroused States right for someone that's been living like that for decades that's their base State how do they even realize how to get out of that they don't usually it takes crisis right it takes trauma extreme breakdown breakdown it's a loss of death uh a breakup a divorce a near bankruptcy whatever it is a disease a diagnosis whatever something where you just can't go on business as usual now it's time to really start looking they have to wake up yeah so so let's get back to the concept of abundance here because I need a strong signal in this field right so then if you can teach people to do the exact opposite go from putting all of their attention on everything physical and material in the world of separation and instead of narrowing their focus on something material ask them to broaden their focus and put it on nothing now I know that sounds kind of crazy but when you put your attention on space and you divert your attention the act of sensing without thinking actually starts to slow the brain waves down not only slow it down but all of a sudden cause the brain to start re reintegrating starts to synchronize right and so you see different compartments of the brain that are firing out of order start to resonate they start to communicate they're they're they're they're they're all of a sudden synchronizing and what sinks in the brain kind of links in the brain so when a person has their whole entire brain firing in Rhythm that's a very strong signal that you can send out into the field and when that signal is strong in that position what can you create from that okay so but that's only one element okay so then the clear intention tends to be a very important element that we have to have to get down and the more coherent the brain the more clear the signal for that intention so with intention and attention we could actually make thought more real than anything else now what is that you're saying what would it be like to be wealthy what would it be like to be abundant what would you like to have all my needs met what would it be like to have more than I need what would I do if I had everything I ever wanted the answer always is the same you start giving stuff away because if an abundant person is truly abundant why would they hold on they would say there's I'm not in lack there's more for everybody okay turns out though that the signal sent out isn't enough you got to have to draw the experience back to you so setting the signal out to you know coherent frame Financial Freedom or whatever that is all these different things right right whatever that is for you whatever that is putting that out there with the signal with the intention and the attention right and then how do you draw it so now so in the physical world right in the physical world you got to go get it you got to do something this is the plan of demonstration you got to go get it and when you you're in lack until it occurs right so what I'm hearing you say there's a way to not Chase but attract all right so if you're creating from the field instead of from matter right there's a very strong possibility that you'll shorten the distance between the thought of what you want and the experience of having it and when there's a vibrational match between your energy and that future that you want to experience now if you're creating from the field you actually don't go anywhere to get it you actually draw it to you so here comes the synchronicities the serendipities the coincidences the opportunities and they come out of nowhere and you you say I don't understand I I didn't do anything while you changed your energy and and so then the other element is a coherent heart right and the heart has a magnetic signature and the Magnetic sign ensures what draws reality to us right so you combine that clear intention with the coherent brain now here's the key this takes practice yes because the person who's living in lack is usually unworthy is usually insecure is usually in their past they're usually frustrated they're usually impatient they're usually resentful because nothing's changing out there because it's taking too long that's everything takes a lot of time when you do matter to matter right so then if you teach them okay we know all about that we know the story behind that we know what your parents told you about money all that other don't worry about it don't worry about it but now let's do something that would be really cool let's let's write down the feelings of how you would feel if that future happened and you're going to have to feel that feeling before it occurs so now okay what is an abundant person feel pretty much free a lot of freedom peace excited joyful uh um in love with life grateful to be alive abundant okay now let's practice feeling those turns out when you're feeling those other emotions like resentment and patience and frustration you're stepping on the gas pedal just turning on the sympathetic nervous system and you're stepping on the break at the same time at the same time which is you're angry you're frustrated but the fight-or-flight nervous system says run fight or hide and you're sitting in a zoom meeting and you're neck is pulsating is because the heart is beating against the closed system right you're not you're not using it in an Adaptive way so the heart starts firing out of order it starts firing incoherently and incoherent waves cancel each other out it's called destructive interference and then we stop trusting our future energy leaves the heart when you control from the inside like we're in control of ourselves we're in control of our world so it doesn't matter what happens you figure out how to get to where you're going um the goals don't change sometimes the methods of getting there do but uh I have never I think probably I had great teachers I had a half a dozen phenomenal mentors and I think I was raised the right way you stay in control regardless you know yeah what would you say are some of the habits that you have that people wouldn't expect that you would have maybe they would expect certain things like waking up early or journaling or you know getting eight hours of sleep but what are some habits that you do differently that maybe are unexpected in the personal growth space I study every day every day I've studied every day now for 60 years I started to study this book in 1961 and I read it every day same book Think and Grow Rich I have just here behind me I've Got The Laws of Success the original ones that Napoleon Hill wrote in 1928 and then he came up with this in 1937. and the man that gave it to me he said if you'll study this every day he said you're going to have a wonderful life and he pointed out Napoleon Hill spent his whole life studying the lives of 500 of the world's most successful people he was mentored by Andrew Carnegie who at the time was the wealthiest man in the world and he said since he spent his whole life putting this together he said it would be a prudent move in your part if you spent the rest of your life trying to understand and apply what he is teaching and right you know that just seemed to make some sense to me and that's what I started to do and I've never stopped if there was only one principle inside of Think and Grow Rich that you could only live by and only talk about and you wouldn't be able to talk about anything else inside the book what would that one principle be persistence you said there he said in the book he said there may be no heroic connotation to the word but the quality is to the character of the human like what carbon is to steal I think the trick list is get some good habit patterns and live with them all of your life because you're either going to grow or you're going to die it's uh it's create or disintegrate there's no such thing as leveling out and staying where we are and some people think they can just hold it where they're at but they can't do that you're either going to go ahead or you're going to go backwards it's Creator disintegrate and so if you have good habits you're going to keep growing way back I think around 1938 39 Albert Ian Gray worked for the Prudential and he wrote the common denominator of success it's a great article and he said the common denominator of success is informing the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do and he was speaking one time a young guy said why do successful people like doing these things and he said they don't that's why they've turned them into Apple I thought that was beautiful because that's why they've turned them into habits they don't like doing them you see and of course I have what do you think well a habit is something we do automatically without any conscious thought we just it's part of our Paradigm we're programmed what do you think are the three most difficult habits to develop uh that actual actually will support us for the most growth long term if we can take these habits on one of the things I think the most difficult is repetition of studying the same thing I have a a book here at my desk it's in a book holder and when I went to visit Earl Nightingale way back 1968. 60 no is that other than that it was around 66. and I saw he had just book stand on his desk and I asked him what it was he said it was a book holder and I said why do you have it he says because I want to read those two pages every day for the next month maybe two months I said really the same thing and he said yeah he said then they'll become a part of me and he said that's really the success The Secret of success is the repetition of an idea you see that in sports you play ball I mean it's definitely part of your game you know how many how many plays would you have in your head who um well a lot of different plays but in football there's really only like nine different routes a receiver can run yeah as part of the tree of of running a route but there's so many different variations within plays that that one receiver could run and then another person could run in tandem with that yeah so you have to there's a massive Playbook that you go through at the beginning of the season and you've got to remember a lot of different things but if you typically know the route you need to run and what other people are doing around you then you can you can figure it out but it's repetition that enables you to do that isn't it over and over and over and over you see same route over and over that doesn't just apply to football I think that applies to life and if a person will really understand that it's through repetition that you program your subject of mind and it's your subjective mind that controls your behavior doesn't make sense to some people but if they would study it and start to understand that they would start to do it what's the most important thing on those two pages that you have up in front of you most important thing here read it to you the lesson to be learned from the Practical Aviation of the present day is that of Triumph of principle over precedent of working out of an idea to its logical conclusion in spite of the accumulated testimony of all past experiences to the contrary with such a notable example before us can we say that it is futile to inquire whether by the same method we may not unlock still more important secrets and gain some knowledge of the Unseen causes which are the back of external and visible conditions and then by bringing these unseen causes into a better order make practical working reality of possibilities which at present scene but fantastic dreams they're talking about the Wright brothers he said there was a secret they got off the ground because nobody knew how to fly and neither did they until after they got it in the air but he pointed out that it was principle over precedent and we let precedent control us too often you know what's the difference between principle and precedent well president you're left letting something that has happened in the past control you the principle uh is that there's always a better way doesn't matter what you're doing better is a beautiful word what's something in your life that took a long time where you were holding on to the precedent of something for a while maybe it was months maybe it was years decades that eventually the principal finally started to fly and you had a breakthrough is there an area of your life you can think of oh absolutely absolutely just soon as you said it yeah you see when I started in this and I first got this book um I was such a loser and I mean in every every way you look at it I I went to high school for two months and I didn't quit they kicked me out they didn't want me there um and I was kind of happy because I didn't like it there anyway um I held dumb jobs I never had a half decent job the idea that it could even get a good job never entered my mind I had such low self-esteem I didn't understand that at the time I didn't even know what self-esteem was and letting go of the fact that I didn't have a formal education that I never had any business experience the man that gave me the book he said none of that matters Bob that's the past he said Let It Go well I had a difficult time letting that go because were programmed that if you don't go to school you can't get a good job that if you're going to earn a lot of money you've got to be really smart well you see I didn't think I was very smart and I didn't have any formal education that's a hard thing to let go of um but through the repetition of studying this over and over and over as he pointed out to me Edison had grade three and he pointed at different people that had no formal education and I finally made a break got it left it behind I'm not quite sure exactly when but I let it go yeah what would you say are some deciding factors that can help someone with their self-esteem because you and I are very similar where my childhood I didn't I didn't have much confidence in myself or esteem because I was in the bottom of my class in school because I was you know had tutors and special needs classes because I just wasn't able to understand it and comprehend that well and felt awkward and Goofy in my life what are some some things you think people that in their teens or even in their 40s and 50s who don't have confidence yet one of the things we can be doing differently to gain confidence to build self-esteem because I think this is one of the key factors of successes believing in yourself it doesn't matter if the world believes in you if you don't believe in you yeah what can we start to do to change that well I think a person has to start to study themselves most people know very little about themselves they think they're their body you're not a body you have a body and you have a marvelous mind and when I first started to study this I thought you know study in the mind that's for psychiatrists psychologists behavioral scientists and the man that told me he said no it's not he says that's for anybody that's for little kids and so I think as we start to understand something about our mind and something about our higher faculties see we're all programmed to live through our senses we go about what we see here smell taste touch well I've got a little dog at home that you see here smell taste touch all the animals in the world they're they're completely at home in their environment they blend in the upright by instinct which is perfect um we had Instinct removed and we had hire faculties put in our place in the place and if we would study these and gain an understanding your self-image would automatically start to improve you have perception the will reason imagination memory and intuition those six faculties will give you the ability to create your own environment see we're totally disoriented in our environment where all the other little creatures are completely at home and theirs and we're we're disoriented in Earth because we can create our own but we don't know that school doesn't teach us that school is more interested in in the development of your intellect than in the development of awareness um like um a person doesn't earn a hundred thousand dollars a year because they want a hundred a year they earn 100 a year because they're not aware of how to earn 100 a month awareness is really the key and when we become aware of who we are and what we've got working for us you know marvelous things start to happen to us and that's really what happened to me I never went back to school um I I built a very successful company it operates all over the world um I didn't do myself I have tremendous team of people I've got a just an absolute Genius of a business partner a a woman who's an attorney I mentioned to you before you should ever run some time you she you'd be fascinated with her she's that interesting but it was a group of people we've attracted a phenomenal group of people in our company and we're operating now in 91 countries wow teaching this information you know it's I don't know another company that teaches what we teach like I think Tony Robbins has probably done more for our industry than any individual the secret has probably done more for it as much as Tony has um the movie um but there's I don't know anybody else teaching what we're teaching and what we're really doing is teaching people how their mind functions and um how to expand their understanding of how it operates what are the six faculties again you shared this before which I which I love and I think if people really understood this perceptions perception the will imagination memory reason and intuition which one is the hardest for people to I don't think any of them are awareness they're they're all equally valuable um you take your imagination think of this for a minute Louis nothing is created or destroyed look here here's a little cell phone what you can do with this almost blows your mind when you think of it yeah well when I was a kid we didn't have a phone and we didn't have a phone because we didn't have any money for the first reason but the second um not everybody could have a phone we were not aware that there was an infinite number of frequencies today there's what a zillion phones because there's an infinite number of frequencies this phone is on its own frequency yours it's on its own frequency if I have your number in here and I hit send you and I connect we're on the same frequency won't matter where you are we can see each other we can communicate because we get on the same frequency well the good that we desire is already here it's on a frequency the way to build this has always been here we weren't aware of it but somebody took their imagination and went off into no place what they were really doing is going on to a higher frequency and if you'll stay on that frequency you'll attract everything that you require that's why um Dr Warner Von Braun when President Kennedy asked him what it would take to build a rocket that would carry a man to the moon and then bring him back safely to Earth Von Braun said the will to do it the will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one ID on the screen your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions see if you take your imagination do it you have goals take your imagination and then take yourself there see yourself already have completed the goal and then hold that picture with your will when you go there with your imagination there is a place whatever it is you want you went there with your imagination there is a place you stay there in your imagination you will attract everything that's required for the manifestation of that picture you saw Brady doing it last Sunday yeah as a machine yeah absolutely phenomenal so holding the imagination the picture that you want in your mind and then attracting it on the steps to get yeah you see we don't work toward the goal we work from the goal you get the goal in your mind our problem is we measure everything on the physical and yeah you look at the physical and you say well I haven't got it yet if you think your conscious mind if you get an image there of your goal you've already got it intellectually if you didn't have it you couldn't share it with me but if you have it you can share it with me you can share with me the idea that you've got in your mind so you've already got it there haven't you right as you get emotionally involved with that idea you've got it also on an emotional level you've got it there you've got it intellectually you've got it emotionally the only place you haven't got it is physically now there's a period of time must elapse for that idea that you have intellectually and emotionally for that idea to move into physical form we understand how much time pardon how much times they usually take we don't know we don't know that's the only thing we don't know is the gestation period for an idea we know what the gestation period is for wheat we know what it is for a carrot we know what it is for a baby moment of conception is about 280 days we didn't always know these things but we do now we don't know what the gestation period is for a spiritual seed and that's what an idea is but it grows by exactly the same law and so if we hold that idea in our mind it must by law manifest in form it moves into form now that is called the Perpetual transmutation of energy so one of the laws of the universe wow uh there was something that I uh that you shared um just a moment ago that reminded me of an interview I did with uh Joe dispenza recently where he said we're really good at remembering the past and actually building a story in our mind about something traumatic that was actually way worse in our mind than it actually probably was in person we're really good at remembering these stories but what we need to do he said is to remember the future and when he said that it kind of triggered something different it's like what you just shared is like have an idea of the future of what we want to manifest and hold on to that idea and remember the memories of the future as opposed to holding on to the memories of the past so we can move into that it's supposed to be stuck in the past that's what that is yeah why is it hard for us to hold on to or maybe to hold on to but keeping our minds and imagine the idea of a greater future for us as opposed to constantly being stuck in the past why is that hard for so many of us because we're programmed to go the other way you know what language do you speak uh I barely speak English how about Russian the previous that's all I know well the point is you were raised with the English language yes you don't know another language I was raised with English language I don't know another language I was working with people over in Kuala Lumpur a number of years ago and their little boy four years old that little boy can speak four languages they thought nothing of that there's people speak many more than four languages because that's the way they're raised we're the product of our environment from the time we're born but prior to that genetically were programmed you're you're genetically programmed at the moment of conception you get all mom's DNA and all dad's DNA and God knows how far it goes back on either side well that is programming that's in our subconscious mind and and that's called a paradigm that's what it is it's a program in our subconscious mind now here's the crazy part you have programs in your phone or in your computer the people that write the code for these programs are really smart when it comes to writing code they really know what the hell they're doing the people that wrote the code for our biocomputer had no idea what the hell they were doing they don't they did not they were writing a code for my subconscious mind and for yours that's our Paradigm and that probably controls our life to an enormous degree it did with me until I was 26. now I was fortunate when I met Ray Stanford and he got me into the Think and Grow Rich book and that led me into God knows what else I have been working at changing that program since I was 26 I'm 86 right now so I've been at it for a long time and I work at it every day most people don't even know that they have the problem so they stay stuck their whole life listen you interview some pretty interesting people um I watched the interview here a billionaire a while ago um which one I forgot I forgot who it was anyway Ray dalio Charles Coke it was a pretty interesting interview anyway but yeah the point is anybody can become a billionaire if that's what you want to do you say well wouldn't everybody know everybody wouldn't I wouldn't want to put all my energy into that now does that mean I don't want money no hell I earn all kinds of money and I probably want to earn more but that's not my focus we are programmed to live a certain way and uh rarely do we change that now I change it and I teach people to change it but most people don't stop and think of how few people um are really well off three four per five percent maximum if that and 95 percent are struggling and these are some of these are really bright people you've got people that have a um a doctorate degree in Commerce and finance and they're broke how the hell could that happen well they never learned how to earn money they learn how to count it invest it and what to do with it they never learned how to earn it school doesn't teach us how to earn money I mean if you could predict obviously no one knows but how do you think there's going to be a bigger recession or some type of crash in some way in the U.S economy or in the world and when do you think that will happen I see um I already feel it in 20 uh 23. so which is next year because a lot is going to happen with the U.S election and also the potential uh conflict in China and Taiwan and also uh the the gas shortage and everything and also uh so many tons of uh food is uh wheat is stopped at the Port of Ukraine really which could cause a stubation in African countries so we're going to see a lot of Chaos in the next few months really yeah and we're going to experience a lot of uh gas shortage in European countries which they're thinking about because the gas stopped coming to Germany so a lot of change is going to happen in the next few months what for everyone listening and watching right now what would be the next three steps they should take after listening or watching to this around their invisible assets their visible assets or just the next three steps they should take in life to prepare for this right so mentally you have to be ready to find your peace of mind so you can start counting your blessings start appreciating what you have and enjoy the flow of happy money so when money comes in you can say thank you for the money given to me when you pay for the bills thank you I have enough abundance so I can pay the bills and start blessing people that you're giving money to so by doing that you can find your peace of mind yes and whatever you do and I think that's that's the basic that's number one that's a base and also secondly you have to start figuring out your inventory what you have and who you are what type of inventory uh both emotional and also uh you're a gift I never knew I could write until I was 33. really my parents were so surprised and my brother and sister and many of my uh uh friends were so surprised that I became a author and I was the one who gets surprised most by the way yeah so I didn't know until I started writing so I'm sure they have you have some kind of gifts buried in you for example Luis you are an athlete so definitely you knew uh your gift as an asset but probably you didn't know um that you had a gift as an interviewer no I had no idea speaker yeah writer I know writer right and also somebody who can motivate people right you know you use it for you to motivate yourself but you didn't know you can impact millions of people I had no idea right so like when you are young in your 30s and 40s you never knew and so you have to start looking at sure what you have what skills to tools that you've developed right you could use if you need right yeah and you have to multiply them because only single gift is not taking far but if you can multiply your gifts of speaking for example and also listening and a sense of humor and the care generosity if you combine all of them you become so unique yes so once you become so unique people and start just coming to you because you're more attractive right yeah so okay okay so that's number two is find out your inventory of your assets and your gifts and I'm also assuming your inventory of like how much money you have your Investments yeah what you but it's not so important okay because if you are not making much yeah right what skills do you have yeah skills yeah right so if you uh net asset is uh less than uh three hundred thousand dollars don't worry about investing right but I think you should invest in yourself invest in you and and take your friends out for dinner because it's gonna pay more dividends so be generous with your energy your time and Gifts yes uh and then the third step would be start getting support from everybody everybody you know I have say for example more than ten thousand uh people um sending me money every month as a form of subscript subscription online Salon yes so and uh I haven't promised anything to do for them so it's just a lot of money so can you know type of money love the money love money yeah so ten thousand people yeah pay you money every month yeah I love you yeah that's how they feel wow are you are you offering them anything are you giving them any I just say uh I I had this fun interview with Louis today and I'm Stockholm and send some videos but I'm not promising like I do this you know so I'll give you this so get me give me right right no it's more of a casual thing that's cool so I um so I have enough trust from people so the Happy Money so almost like um is given in my custody so I can help other people that's cool so uh if you start getting uh fan clubs or a cheerleader cheer supporters so you can start with five people and you can start having 10 people 30 people so the next economy will be very interesting because a lot of people support one another so instead of working for one big company say I have 300 people supporting me right say uh and you can increase your monthly support money say a hundred dollars per month you know if I get a support from 30 people 100 a month that's three thousand dollars right and if you get 50 people uh who are supporting you with 100 you already have a five thousand dollar income so whatever you do uh you don't have to be the next entrepreneur of the world you can satisfy it or at least you can have deep connection with 50 people or 100 people who love you so much and who's not going to let you down when you fall yes so if you have that strong trust from people uh you don't have to worry about money for the rest of your life Wow what should be financial goals that people create for themselves should they have financial goals I don't think Financial goal is necessary uh if you want to buy a big house you may need to have that sure but um but financial goals uh people uh uh come up with it's because they are they want to feel safe sense of security so you don't need to have a goal of one million dollars because when you reach one million dollars you feel like this is not enough I need more right I need two and when I when you reach two millions no no I think I should ten yeah three yeah so instead what I would recommend is say once again get support from 50 people and at the same time if you can imagine a joint account with the with your wealthiest acquaintance you can think of me well for me I think on my Mentor OH Warren Buffett think about your imaginary joint account and when something bad goes happens you can withdraw as much as much money as you want really so uh that this fun uh illusion imagination what does that do for you when you have that imagination you feel that you're not alone and if you're lucky like I uh when I was young I had three millionaires who endorsed me saying can uh you can do whatever you want and if you fail I'm gonna support your life Wow for the rest of my life man does that happen in Japan a lot I think I I heard a few Americans uh who who experience the same thing wow so um just imagine if you get that sense of security you know Lewis I'm gonna just um uh you know keep you afloat as long as I live wow and so go for it you know I'll text you if I need your account yeah so if you get uh an endorsement from wealthy people like that and that's cool you don't have to worry about just so imagine how does someone get an endorsement from someone who has a lot of money like that I think what can they do I think you have to live your life purposes that's another subject but if you are living your life purpose a lot of people support you it's so true because when I see someone who's coming up in business in their early 20s or something and I see that they have a gift and they're using the gift consistently to create some type of value for the world I notice it I see it I'm like you're doing an amazing job you know I'll reach out and message people and say I love what you're doing keep it up and I think even just doing that showing people hey you're doing a great job gives them encouragement to keep going whether you're giving them money or not but that's that's something you can do and I think that's it's hard to see that when someone's not using their gifts right you're not going to endorse someone if they're just like uh everything is against me the world is challenging and I don't care about life but when someone says I'm going to take a risk I'm going to use my gift and put myself out there that's inspiring in your book which I love by the way again I want to get this book happy money you talk about I think you use a concept called money magnet or like where humans are like magnets and for money right and some people it doesn't matter if you are a good person or a bad person right you have an analogy in the book where you say you know if a rock is falling it doesn't care who it hits it could hit a good person or a bad person right it's gravity is pulling that rock to the ground and it's gonna hit whoever it is right based on where they're at so and you also talk about how most people think that that it's not fair when they see someone bad or mean or greedy making all the money can you just talk about this concept of being a money magnet and how someone could become more of that so uh once again you know we experience our life uh according to our beliefs and some people have a better luck than others and some people work so hard but they're getting minimum wages so you have to find uh your place your seat uh your reserved seat is what I call a lot of people try to sit on other people's seat which is wrong because your seat is reserved somewhere else and if you don't see it on other other people's seat what happens is that you get so depressed uh and then if you're so meaningless you know so on all that because you cannot really feel uh life but once you sit on your seat you are so deep deeply connected with your life purpose then you start your magnetism starts um gets turned on so how does someone know where their seed is and know how to sit in it and be happy with their seat yeah so the only thing is ask your heart what your heart tells you if you're excited about it you're going closer and so like it's like hot or cold right so if you feel more excited about like doing this this is it this is it this is it so you have to have your heart guide you where you're supposed to be so always listen to your heart you know and then if your heart gets excited about a certain thing you're just getting closer yes to a seat do you have a meditation or affirmation process for someone on how they can trust their heart listen to their heart deeper to know they're on the right path right do you have something that you you use yourself or that other people can use yeah so I always try to have a few minutes uh say you're waiting for a car you know Uber or just waiting for something I find a few moments and then just try to find my Center you know and then and then just I'll go deeper and and figure out where I want to go and just listen to my heart what does my heart say am I excited about this why not am I trying to get money uh so I'm not excited but I have to do this to bring money on the on food on the table so I always check what my health tells me you're always listening to it what happens when your heart is not excited like you have let's say you have a project you're working on right you're working on it I'm assuming all of your books you're excited about but maybe there's an event you're supposed to go to or I don't know something that you said yes to and you realize your heart is not excited about this what do you do then do you do it but then you don't repeat it the next time or what do you how do you navigate that so I want to be a nice person and so once I said yes I'll do it yeah but I I try to be very careful with what I say when I say yes so I uh I have a great team uh so they will just check yeah yeah they'll check even because I'm I want to be nice to everybody so I'm likely to say yes too too many times so my secretary and my team says Ken are you sure about this yeah probably not so can you come up with something well I'm glad you're here you didn't reschedule this interview yeah so uh but in general I'm trying to listen to my heart that's good that let me hear I think a lot of people don't understand the power of a daily affirmation or a daily check-in with yourself just like you talked about for two minutes for someone that doesn't believe in affirmations what would you say to them so if you even if you don't believe it you must be saying something to yourself like this is a terrible day it's so hot I don't like this you know so uh subconsciously you're saying something about your life or about yourself about your friends or about your clients well I hate working with this person you know something like that so I think it's a uh affirmation by itself so um just to write down what are the things that you say to yourself subconsciously you can probably figure out right and is that a happy thought and then uh unfortunately a lot of the uh things that we talk to ourselves are negative yes yes so uh so do you want to see negative thoughts like this or do you want to pour more positive thoughts you have a choice but unless you shh uh write them down uh you you never know it and then you may find it uh the reason why you get you get depressed because yeah about life no wonder I feel depressed so if all the things you talked about to about you are positive and loving um it's it's what you get yeah exactly and can you tell me how we can think about money as energy in the book also or so you're writing about how money is energy and sometimes people try to make it and hold on to it they want to hold on to it they want to Stack it in their Bank as high as they can go and they don't want to spend it sometimes it happens what happens when we hoard money when we keep it and we don't let it come and go as energy what happens so I have seen so many interesting things like when you uh if you hoard your money a few things happen you get sick and then you have to pay for the medical bills really yeah or like your kids do something bad and then you have to pay for the damage so money means Outlet so uh it's so interesting how money flows and if you don't let uh let out uh your your money energies Outlet it's gonna uh it's gonna get bad it's like a pond if there's no uh flow the water gets bad right it's like think about your health if you eat and don't go to the bathroom you're sick but that's gonna happen yeah so for to stay healthy you have to eat right you have to release right so uh for for hoarding uh money I want to ask them uh you're eating so much but what if you refuse I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm not going to go to the bathroom you know for the rest of my life oh my gosh you'd be sick yeah and you cannot eat well so you have to let your money flow and then the next flow comes in so here comes money EQ uh the trust part trust is the hardest part of money EQ you have to have the trust that once you let go of money it comes back so you don't have the trust that's why you start worrying that's why I have doubts about yourself so instead of um uh attaching uh to your money you can say thank you for staying with me just go bless the world and come back with your friends many of the people that I know who have tremendous amounts of money have huge fears around being poor and so it's just as an interesting thought like a lot of people who don't have money see people who have money as thinking differently and they might in that they are more uncomfortable being poor than you are like it is more painful for them than it is for you it might be I'm just being really it might be why some are more stingy too with the money I'm not going to spend this five dollars I'm going to keep it you know they're very stingy with all of it two nights ago I was we were out to dinner with a guy who just got valued at a billion right and it's all cash flow it's not one of these software things like it's off like he's getting yeah like he's making real money crazy money and he's like I'm not going to that gym he's like free for equal and I said I'm not paying 200 a month for a gym membership it's it's a different perspective now I'm not saying I'm that way you know what I mean like I'm okay spending on gym membership like that's fine for me but like everyone has their own things and like there are these behaviors like he got the other guy who had the 250. he got to that point because he lived he he squeezed everything out of his business which made the business so valuable and then he was able to sell it but like the the billion dollar guy was saying he's like you know what they don't tell you about when you sell your business because he's sitting next to the guy with the 250 right and he's like the moment you sell your business he's like you have no cash flow and so he felt that too he's like what are you gonna do he's like you're gonna take the money and then what are you gonna do you're gonna try and buy more cash flow because you got to replace the cash flow with the business real estate assets you got to do something my bother he's like I'll just keep it and so he doesn't have any intentions of selling and so it was an interesting lesson for me too because like we obviously got rid of our cash flow asset when we sold all three last year you got a lot more money but you don't have the money cash coming right because then it looks like this to this finite asset the business goes on forever in your mind at least right so it gives you this illusion of control this illusion of security and me personally most people wouldn't believe this when I hear it but like I'm very risk-averse and so I probably need like what's the core changes that I need to have I probably need to be a little bit more of a risk taker um than I am like I tend to always take the lowest risk path uh when I can even even the idea of like when I quit entrepreneurship or so I want to quit my job to start entrepreneurship it was because I knew that the path that I was on was guaranteed not to get to me where I want so I had a zero outcome and that so this one even though it was lower like I had a low chance of success the other one had a hundred percent failure guarantee and so that so it felt like the lower risk option for my long-term goals to quit my job and become an entrepreneur for that reason and so you know people are like I'm really risk-averse I'm like so am I like I have hoard money like I do you might get any of the money from the exits no it's not just sitting in the bank nothing we started working the next day we didn't even take it we didn't take a day off yeah we literally sold wire hit and we started working on acquisition.com the next day let's say you had to um put your start putting that uh cash flow every month into other things team resources whatever it is and that wasn't coming in and uh you know let's call it 100 Grand a month was coming in with cash flow I don't know how much it is but let's just say that is going into hiring team and other things to support you getting to the billion in two and a half years what we need to shift in inside of you after three months of feeling no cash flow come in to stack your bank account in order for you to be okay with it to get to that billion quicker I would just have to be more secure just realistically like I I use what does that mean is that an internal I use cash flow from businesses as evidence to the fact that I'm not a failure and so I use I I've always like it it has been easier for me to change my conditions than to change who I am and so I have used my material success and accolades to quiet the voices of not being good enough and so for that like me having that if I had that little voice that peeps up it's like hey look at that I'm like okay no no I'm I'm okay I'm not I'm not that bad this money it just came in everything right and so so I'd have to I'd really have to re-engineer the conversation I have with myself around how I value myself um because then people are like well if you you know if if everything disappeared you know how did you feel about yourself I like to think that I would be uncomfortable and then I would change my views but I haven't needed to do that yet and so my effort goes elsewhere but that's what probably would have to happen in order for me to make that change is it a what is the thing that is you're afraid of inside of yourself is it a self-worth thing is it a self-love thing is it a belief that you're not good enough it would definitely be a good enough thing for sure yeah it's just like maybe maybe maybe I'm maybe not as good as I think I am maybe maybe everything that I've been putting on media maybe my book maybe all these things are actually not true and I don't know what I'm talking about right because clearly I don't know what I'm talking about because I'm not making any money like so these things have been that's why acquisition.com is the other half like the actual businesses of acquisition.com compared to the media of acquisition.com it is the other half because it's the evidence of the fact that the things that I say are true because those are getting results 100 they're growing right and so that way I feel bulletproof when I make when I make the content when I make the book when I write the stuff like you know there's a zillion people who are like you suck none of this is true whatever and for me it rolls off my back because I have evidence right I'm like no no it is true and here's how but if I didn't have that I would probably have to it's because I don't know what the right call is there because if I didn't have the evidence it would be hard for me to say you're wrong because I don't have any proof that they're wrong but it's evidence now right and so I have this evidence so how do you change the belief inside that you're good enough with the years of evidence now the question is like I have I built a billion dollar thing yet you know what I mean um yeah of course no but like it's it's a fun it's a it's a fun convo and it's great because I it's this was wonderful Lewis because I get to see my own limiting beliefs um and just for everybody who's listening like everyone deals with this you know what I mean like at every at every level you're dealing with this of like feeling of inadequacy you know feeling not good enough feeling you're not smart feeling like you don't work hard whatever it is like I have that stuff all the time because you think that the external circumstance is gonna is gonna solve that and I would say that it does to a degree it becomes a crutch right but then you have this crutch and then you just tie yourself Worth to the ACT later the thing rather than steal yourself and maybe I need to do more work on that who knows if you could overcome one thing or eliminate one thing internally to become a better leader to yourself to to quiet the noise it will help you take a risk in a different way not talking about lose all your money but take the risk to help you accelerate this yeah and you don't have to buy it away but I just believe that it's possible for you to do that yeah I believe you can be a billionaire in two and a half years I appreciate it if you that's the goal if you shift whatever inside of you is holding you back uh to get to that space what would be that one thing to eliminate or overcome internally to make it happen is Need for external validation 100 the need for external validation I started the question why do you need external validation I mean I think part of it's so ingrained in us if you think about us as kids right like how do you how do you Orient yourself of the world you get reinforced or punished at all at all phases directly indirectly but you get reinforced or punished and the things that you get reinforced you do more of the things you get punished you less up right like that's just how how we how we learn Behavior how we learn to function Society Right Touch the thing ah it hurts it's that's we got punished okay you know you uh your parent tells you to sit down and be quiet and eat and you learn to sit down and shut up and eat and then we wonder why adults don't move because we're told to sit when we're running around right we learn at school sit down and be quiet 100 and we wonder why uh we eat so much when the reward for everything we did when we were a kid was food right we wonder these things so the reason external validation is so hard at least for me is because it's how I learned everything is because external validation gave you know gave me the the directional guidance of of what's good and what's not and then as you get older it's where am I going to get that validation from and so I would say that my external validation um comes is still 100 there it just comes from different sources so I'm more selective on Whose validation I want so how much external validation do you need in order to overcome this belief to go all in and do it in half the time yeah no I think I I just I need to be able to validate myself and that's fundamentally I think Epictetus said this he said like if you need someone else's if you need he has this quote it's so good but it's basically like you need to be able to give you don't need to swear to somebody else you should be able to spoil your swear to yourself and bear witness to yourself because your word should be good enough so you need to eliminate external validation right from you feeling good enough probably yeah it's probably that like obviously you need it's good to have feedback in life so I think that's why it's it's also difficult for some in general because it's not eliminate or have more of it's to what degree and from whom and about what and so then it gets a little bit more complex but even using those different lenses I think it's it's good to unpack it for anyone who's listening which is like okay Layla said this so this is not mine um but most times when we're afraid of something it's not actually like this amorphous crowd that we're afraid of it's like one or two people's opinion like it's your dad or it's your whatever it is right and you're worried about what they're gonna think and they're not even thinking about you but you think they're thinking about it they're thinking about their dad whatever it is right and so she restated this earlier on to Mike like when we were together five years ago she was like are you and she'd like meet me name the person it wasn't my dad it was somebody else for this particular thing she was like are you gonna let this guy stop us from getting what we want wow and it was like when I saw it it was like looking in front of me I was like she's like what if this guy hates you and thinks you're terrible is that a worthy enough reason to still keep going and I was like yeah just like them let's go you know what I mean and so she was very good with that what do you need to say to yourself every day to believe in to believe you're good enough you could say one thing to you that no one else needed to hear but you needed to hear it from you what would that be I don't know if it would be a saying thing I don't think it'd be like an affirmation I think it's just a belief what would the belief be yeah I mean fundamentally the belief would just have to shift that that doing this is enough validation for me not the results right and that's all I mean fundamentally that's always the the goal is that you can you can detach that the doingness from the result I think what I've been able to do has been to extend the time Horizon between the doing this and the result but not necessarily fully eliminated I'm patient in turn in that I can continue to do things for very long periods of time before seeing a payoff but if I were able to truly eliminate it I think that would be kind of like a Next Step then again it's that borderline on Insanity because if you never get feedback on sometimes you're like maybe I should change directions you'll keep getting feedback though because you're creating you're taking action you know the more you do that you'll have more businesses you'll be acquiring you'll be creating more content and everything will be growing at the same time yeah yeah right 100 I love seeing you you know go through this process internally because I think I'm open to it I just want to win you know what I mean like I just want to be better what does winning look like it's achieving the potential it's taking all this raw potential the the the line in the Bible that always scared me the most was to who much is given much is expected and so for me I always felt like I was given a lot you know what I mean like I I was born in America right off the bat I was born as a guy I have insane genetics like from that perspective six pack when I was 15. um I have a pretty high processing load like I can I can usually I do okay with complex problems um I was I was bilingual at basically at Birth because Paris talked to me different language so that gave me good language abilities and so it's like these are these are all things that were given me right and and I was born into like uh a d you know from a from a money standpoint a decently wealthy family right um not you know Ultra billion but like never worried about food or shelter or anything like that right and so these are all the things that were given to me and so to me I'm like man much is expected right and not necessarily that that's you know God whatever just I expect a lot of myself because I see so much potential um and I want to train like by the time I die I would like to have nothing left in my potential tank um and it just all have been transformed into into my reality yeah for those who aren't happy right now they're maybe they're listening and they're not happy with their financial situation what would you say uh would be the first few steps for them is there some prompts they could go through uh and write down first to question or analyze beliefs is there uh should they look at their bank account and see how many revenue streams do they have coming in should they look at if they're should they invest in a coach if so you know what should they be looking at as action steps um I definitely think the best place to start is your thoughts beliefs and words so I have an exercise that I love that just was so sobering for me back in the day have you ever done that one where you write a letter to money as if it's a person I'm not sure if I've done that exactly I've written many letters to myself future self past self but tell me tell me lean yes um I yeah it um it's it's where you write a letter as if it's a person and you do a very stream of Consciousness and and you just let it rip and it's so Illuminating because most of us have such a push-pull going on with money where it's like of course like if you handed me 10 grand I'd be like thank you very much this is awesome but then we also feel dirty for pursuing money we think rich people have no morals we think we'll have to sacrifice the things we love we think we'll lose friends and family if we get rich we'll you know whatever and so when you do it stream up Consciousness and really treat it as if it's a person or a thing a blue matanamind when I saw what happened to you what were your oh my god well my okay um get out of my life it was like a dramatic relationship yeah yeah it is it's an abusive relationship and they say if you take the money out and you replace intimacy into like man or woman whatever you're into Samesies yeah it's it's I mean you got to be ready to be super humiliated if you're going to do any of this mine was all I love you I wish I had more of you I resent needing you I don't trust that you'll stick around oh man all that kind of stuff and how were your Intimate Relationships during that time I want you but I don't trust you yeah really my hair is still standing up so so that's a real doozy and and then once you get all of your dirty laundry out on the page then you can start questioning it you know like we were talking about so how did you question personally what came up for you and how did you you know oh yeah give me back painful drink I'll be right back ah you know don't remember okay let me think was there one thing that stood out the most we were like yeah I realized I've been doing this and why would money ever come to me consistently because of this thought oh my God I'll tell you the biggest yes totally blew my mind it actually wasn't from writing the letter I did I know I had a lot of things with the letter but the one that GS brought me to my knees was I was at yet another coaching seminar in Las Vegas or something and there was another brilliant coach speaking on the stage and his fee for an annual you know private thing was 85 000. and I was just like yeah I know I come from Italian immigrants my dad came over you know he's you know he's kept his money buried in the backyard like he had no idea what I was talking about with all this stuff and um and I remember because I was Hardcore and not screwing around and I'd made that decision to figure out how instead of figure out why not I was like all right how am I going to get 85 000 to work with this man and God I feel like I'm going to throw up just telling you this I the thought of that like opening myself up to that possibility I mean that's house money that's like as irresponsible as it gets right yeah and and the fact just the mere Act of opening myself up to that and making myself available to be somebody who would find 85 000. and saying if it were possible how would I do it yeah and so what did you what did you oh my God okay I actually get a lot of my information through like quick visual visions and I had this image of my dad who's so sweet and not the best at showing intimacy but he loved me to death and the way that he would show me was by giving me a 20 or helping me with my rent that month or whatever it was always through monies how he showed affection and I had this image of him in his little yellow v-neck sweater which I have now made kind of famous um but with his hands in his pockets looking at his feet so so because if I got rich I wouldn't eat them anymore and that's it really blew my mind and ever and it changed a lot of stuff for me moving forward so when you came to realize that did you this was all just unconscious you weren't even thinking about it before but you knew that's how you got love and he was able to express love in that form by helping in some way financially or something like that so when you realize that did you address them about it or was it more about you addressing with yourself and letting it go and realizing that he's still gonna love you even if it's not through that way what was that process like it was awesome I started visualizing him being really proud of me which he totally was and um being happy for me and feeling relief that I wasn't gonna be you know living in a gutter next week and this was the biggest part for me which I cannot believe I was able to do because I have issues around this with my dad but I still let him give me money because in the old days I was like you don't see who I am I just told you I got a million bucks for a book deal like you're not listening to me but he it's the it's all he knew how to do so I would tell him all of my great successes and at the end of the conversation he'd always be like well you need some money you need a hundred dollars I can and I'd be like sure Dad that'd be great and it made him really happy I always like to get 100 bucks and uh it really healed our relationship it was me it was amazing on so many levels and I think this is common for a lot of people I think a lot of people don't realize that what's holding them back is they don't want to outshine their parents in some way yeah or their siblings or abandonment it's abandonment it's hard when you're like I think there's a a lesson in the 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene I think it's maybe in that book which is uh not saying we should live by this book because it's more about strategies of like war and power but there's some good lessons there's some amazing lessons in there and one of them is I think it's never outshine your mentors like always pay respect like you can you can you can do greater things but make sure you're always paying respect to your mentors and not like belittling them once you surpass them type of thing so I think it's figuring out how do we how do we continue to let our our stars shine bright but also continue to elevate with the mentors that were there before us and and you know give them the honor and respect oh yeah you were able to heal that you feel like from that process of just Discovery and awareness yeah yeah and and it was so fun after that like seeing how much joy it gave him to give me money I was like oh my God that's like that's so dear she didn't stop receiving money even though you didn't from him even though you were like I don't need to feel loved and I don't need the money anymore you didn't stop it because it allowed him to express his feelings and emotions and yeah for you right but but how much of a sacrifice is that for me I mean whoop-dee-doo so he that's it's just all he knew you know so that's beautiful what was so what were the steps on how you got the 85 000 or is that something you invested in or no yeah I did I did 85 000 that's that's a lot of money for coaching what so yeah so so you thought to yourself there's no way I could do this but then you started to shift and say well okay if it was possible how would I do this what what did you do god well I um oh my gosh okay so this is this is why also I'm always screaming and yelling about you have got to do stuff that scares you scares you your mind scares you if you are not scared you are on the wrong track it is so important lastly you can improve the quality of people on your team now having an experienced dedicated team is one of the best investments you could ever make for your business it'll buy you back your time it'll allow you to focus on what you're good at instead of stretching yourself too thin trying to do everything at one

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