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The ancient Greeks said that if you see more similarities than differences,

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you have infatuation. If you see more differences than similarities,

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you have resentment. If you see a balance of similarities and differences,

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you have love.

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In order to discuss relationships, in order to have a relationship,

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you have to relate between yourself and somebody else.

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So what exactly are these two people that are having this dynamic?

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And one thing I've learned in the last 50 years of my research is that human

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beings live moment by moment by a set

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of priorities, a set of values in their life that are unique, like fingerprints,

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specific to them. And no two people have the same vantage points,

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same voids, and therefore same values, that drive their life.

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And in this set of values or hierarchy of values that are unique to that

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individual, whatever's highest on the value list,

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they are spontaneously inspired to do.

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Their ontological identity revolves around it. So if you ask them who are they,

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they will say whatever's highest on their value. If they

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have a high value on raising children, they'll call themselves a mother.

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If they have a high value on raising a business or building a business,

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they'll call themselves an entrepreneur, for instance.

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Their teleological purpose is targeted in their highest value,

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and their epistemological area of knowledge is maximized

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So who they are and what they know, what iss inspiring to them,

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what they spontaneously want to do, is all revolving around that highest value.

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So when you're in a relationship with them, you have two people,

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each with a higher values, each communicating, hopefully,

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in each other's values, or the relationship starts breaking down.

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Think of it as a customer. If you have a customer,

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they have a certain set of needs, values, and if you provide a product,

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service or idea that matches those dominant buying values,

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dominant buying motives, the thing that they want the most,

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they're engaged and they participate and want to have a fair exchange with you.

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And they'll keep doing it as long as you keep providing something for them,

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that's a fair exchange. Well relationships are no different,

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relationship with customers, relationship with employees,

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relationship with people, relationship with closest loved ones,

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spouses. Believe it or not, it's a consumer game. <Laugh>,

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people are wanting to get something for something. You know,

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I've interviewed people in my signature program, the Breakthrough Experience,

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and I found that when you actually look at what men and women are looking for in

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relationship, they're looking for somebody that's, you know, fit, attractive,

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they're looking for somebody that's intelligent,

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they're looking for somebody that's ambitious,

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they're looking for somebody that's got resources,

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or at least as many resources they do.

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They're looking for somebody that really wants to be with them, that really,

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you know, has affection for them,

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they're looking for somebody that's got social savvy and can connect with the

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people that are important to them in their lives.

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They are looking for somebody that's actually inspired

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mission in life. And that's attractive. And I've asked thousands of people,

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hundreds of thousands of people about how many of you are looking for that?

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And they're all put their hands up.

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They're wanting to fulfill the seven areas of their life to the maximum,

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and they're trying to filter out of the options that they have in a relationship

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to get the best package they can,

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to get the most advantage to fulfilling those areas as possible.

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So the more in line and congruent you are with what you value most,

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the more you empower those areas.

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And the more you ask how is mastering those areas helping you fulfill what's

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most meaningful, the more success you are at doing that,

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the more achieving you are in those areas,

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and the more magnetic you are in attracting relationships and keeping them.

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And I've seen people that have been in relationships and when all of a sudden

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their fitness is going down, their, you know, their intelligence is dropping,

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their ambitions are dropping, their resources are dropping,

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their affection is dropping, their social connections are dropping,

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their inspiration is dropping,

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sometimes the partner they're with is starting to lose inspiration to be

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with them. So we really have sort of a responsibility our whole life,

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particularly if we get in a long-term relationship,

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to keep empowered in those areas as much as possible,

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which is my job in educating,

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trying to give people the most advantage in those areas.

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It's one of the reasons I teach the Breakthrough

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do.

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Now because we're in a relationship with someone and

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they're trying to fulfill what's most important to them in the seven areas of

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their life, and you're trying to do the same,

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you want the best bang for the buck, you want the best package you can get,

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and you want to constantly surround yourself with people that you believe give

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you the most advantage over disadvantage in any moment in time.

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So you're literally hanging out with people that are giving you advantages in

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each of those areas and they are too, the person you're in relationship with.

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And if you don't provide that, they go somewhere else. <Laugh>.

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I say anything you're not willing to, you know, offer your mate,

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you got to be willing to delegate, somebody else is going to provide it.

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Any area of your life you're not empowered in,

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people are going to overpower you. You know,

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I had a gentleman that was upset because a woman walked off with another guy.

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They were just dating, but she went off with another guy and I said,

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what are you offering her?

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And when he really looked at it compared to the other guy,

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the guy was offering more in her eyes,

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and he wasn't really providing in the seven areas what she was looking for.

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And she has a right to go and select out of the thing, the best package she can.

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I think all animals and, you know, are trying to get the best package they can.

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I was in Antarctica and I was looking at the beautiful penguins,

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and I was watching penguins,

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female penguins were actually selecting the males and the males were trying to

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show off for the females and they were trying to get the best package and

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whoever had the male penguins with the biggest pile of rocks,

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the hottest looking penguins were attracted to <laugh>.

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It's not much difference in humans. But

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in relationship,

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there are three things that I found that really help in increasing

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the probability of having a sustainable relationship,

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if that's what you're interested in.

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And I'm not going to say it has to be that way. I've met my,

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I had grandparents that lived, you know, I think 80 years together.

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They died at one hundred and 101 I believe. And they were in their 20,

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I think when they first got together.

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And they know they had freaking 80 year marriage relationship.

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I thought, that's amazing. But they had kind of an average life. It wasn't, wow,

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it wasn't super exciting. It was,

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and I don't think there was some sort of afterlife points that they were getting

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because they stayed together or whatever. It's they had obviously vows together.

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They were Italian tradition and they stayed together and that's how they were.

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But I've also met a woman who was 94 years old that had

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just climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, had been married five times.

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Each one she escalated her income off of. She did well,

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she said to me when she told me, she said,

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all my husband's died having sex with her. And I thought, well,

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that's an interesting one. I wasn't going to be interested in that topic. But,

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but in the process of doing it, I thought, well, here's a lady alive,

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she's got 30 years worth of goals,

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she's 94 years old and she's traveling the world. I said, well,

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here's a lady that's just as fulfilled as my grandparents were.

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So I don't want to put a box about how it's supposed to be. You know,

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there's all kinds of moral hypocrisies about how you are to be.

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And of course around the world, there's no universal moralities around that.

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It changes through time and space and the predictabilities and you know,

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the probabilities of each of these are different each, each decade and century.

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So I don't want to say that this is how it has to be and if you're not that way,

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there's some flaw in you or that you've made a mistake or you're failing in a

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relationship, I find that just unproductive. The question is,

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is are you mastering the art of communicating what

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other people want?

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Are you mastering the art of reflective awareness and seeing that what you see

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in them is inside you so you're less judgmental?

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People want to be loved and appreciated for who they are,

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and who they are is an expression of what they value most.

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And they're not wrong with what they value, because that varies.

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And you'll see a whole spectrum of people out there in the world with all the

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different value systems out there.

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So you're not right and they're not wrong and you're not wrong and they're not

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right. They're just different.

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And sometimes similarities will overlap and sometimes quite different. You know,

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if you think you're going to find somebody that's exactly like you,

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you'll have the twilight zone and you'll want to probably end their lives within

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a short period of time. You know, I always say that you're looking in,

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you're looking for a relationship,

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you're looking for somebody that's going to have both support and challenge.

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The ancient Greeks said that if you see more similarities than differences,

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you have infatuation. If you see more differences than similarities,

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you have resentment. If you see a balance of similarities and differences,

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you have love. And I think that that's probably reality.

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No two people have the same set of values.

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No two people are going to see exactly eye to eye.

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And you're going to have things that you get along with and things that are

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supportive and other things that are challenging.

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Agreements and disagreements and slugs and hugs are parts of life,

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or hugs and slugs are parts of life. So I think that that's realistic.

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If you have a fantasy, you're supposed to get support without challenge,

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or positive without negative, or nice without mean, or kind without cruel,

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or generous without stingy, or only one-sided,

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or you're expecting them to live only in your values and not their own,

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or you're expecting you to be one-sided or you live in their values,

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not your own, that's another delusion that you'll probably face.

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But when you understand that you're there to communicate what you value in terms

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of what they value, not making yours or theirs right or wrong,

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but appreciating how theirs serves you and you serve them,

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now you have the potential for having a sustainable relationship.

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Just like if you were, if you were having a customer.

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So there are three little steps,

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little action steps you can do that can assist you on a relationship,

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if you want a long-term relationship, if you want that, or if you don't,

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<laugh>, I'm not attached, I'm not saying it has to be that way.

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I think it's simpler that way, it has less complexities.

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But I'm not saying that's the way it has to be.

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I don't want to put a rigid moral construct on that

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and then think, well somehow, you know,

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why it's not happening for me and what's wrong with me and all that stuff.

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I think that's ridiculous.

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But here's something that I do believe that will help.

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On my website, drdemartini.com, there is a complimentary,

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simple, private Value Determination process.

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I would encourage you to go through that and it asks you 13 questions.

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I would encourage you to go through that and ask yourself that and do it again

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today and do it a week from now and do it a month from now and do it three

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months from now and every three months, do it again.

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And keep the ones you have and document what it is that you have on there.

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The first time you do the exercise, you'll have to resist

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the tendency to want to lie to yourself. You're going to want to say,

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you know, what your values are, what you think they are,

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instead of what they actually are. Your life demonstrates what you value,

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and it's wise to actually be honest about what your answers are on these

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questions.

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These questions are 13 questions that are value determinants that give a more

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objective view. And if you answer them as instructed,

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you'll get a really amazing summary of what's important to you and what you're

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really committed to and what your purpose is and what your identity is and what

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you're most skilled at, which is very valuable in life.

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Because you want to be loved for that.

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And knowing what that is is the first step.

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If you don't even know what's important to you you'll be clouded in what your

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needs are and it'll be hard to communicate that effectively to somebody else.

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But take the time to go to the Value Determination process on my website,

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drdemartini.com. Determine your values, look that up,

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and do that and do it again a week, do it a month, do it every three months,

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and keep records of them and look at the evolution of what you've written and

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look at how you've been integral in the answers until you can see that your life

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is really committed to that. You know, my highest value is teaching,

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I do it every freaking day.

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I've been doing it 50 years and I'm inspired to do that. I love doing that.

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It's something I do every single day.

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I can't wait to get up in the morning and do that.

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But everybody has something different.

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And some people are dedicated to business and some to learning and some to

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spirituality, whatever that's meaning to them,

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some to their family and their children.

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And you're not right or wrong for whatever that is.

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And if you think you're right and you project that onto other people,

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you're going to end up getting resistance,

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or you're going to end up having in-group outgroup biases,

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which is going to hinder relationship dynamics.

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But if you first identify what your values are and don't perceive them as good

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or bad or right or wrong or the way it should be or ought to be or supposed to

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be or got to be or have to be or must or need to be,

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just identify what they are, they are what they are.

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And don't judge it relative to somebody else. Just identify what it is,

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objectively. That's the first step.

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I think that's a very powerful key because that way you get to know you.

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You want to be loved for who you are. Well that's going to be who you are.

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What's top of those values.

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Second aspect of that first step is whoever you're in relationship with,

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whoever your closest, you know, compadres are in your inner circle of people,

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your spouse, your children, your colleagues that are key colleagues,

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closest family, extended family members or whatever,

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I would take the time to inspire them and encourage them to do the same.

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And just tell them that, you know,

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I would like to have a greater relationship with you

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that can help us respect each other and have dialogue instead of alternating

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monologues where I'm speaking, you're not listening, you're speaking,

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I'm not listening, but a dialogue,

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by taking the time to go through the Value Determination process.

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It takes 30 minutes of your time and that way I know what you're up to,

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and I can see as a result of that,

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how to more effectively communicate in terms of what you value, and respect it.

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So taking the time to do that and do that methodically, chronologically,

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or one at a time, prioritization of who it is most important,

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down to less most important, et cetera.

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And go through and do the Value Determination. That's step number one.

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Step number two is one by one, whoever those key inner circle people are,

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spouse starting, identify this question,

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how specifically is what they're dedicated to,

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their top three highest values,

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how specifically is it helping you fulfill what you're dedicated to your top

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three highest values? And how specifically what you're dedicated to,

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your top three values, helping them fulfill what they're dedicated to,

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their top three values. In other words, whatever their identity revolves around,

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how's it helping you fulfill what your identity revolves around?

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If you answer that question, just know the more you answer that question,

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until you get a tear of gratitude in your eyes for who they are,

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and how they serve you, the more you do that, I guarantee you, the more respect,

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the more love,

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the more effective communication you will have between you and this individual.

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See when you feel you're communicating with them and you're helping them get

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what they want,

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you're helping you get what you want and there's a nice sustainable fair

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exchange in relationship, then this thing lasts.

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And you feel inspired to be with them. You want to be around them.

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And you're both helping each other fulfill what you feel is your missions in

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life. And that's very empowering.

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But if you are righteously think their values are wrong,

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you're going to project your values on them, carelessly,

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and try to get them to live in your values, which is futile.

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Or if you're minimizing yourself and infatuate with them and you're injecting

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their values and trying to live in their values,

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you're going to try to live in values you can't live in. That'll be futile.

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Both of those are frustrating and futile,

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and the normal dialogue then goes into gestural communication and a frustration

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and eventually aggression,

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because you don't know how to communicate effectively.

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You're not getting what you want from them. And then the breakdown occurs.

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But by asking the question,

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because the quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions ask,

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if you ask questions on how specifically what they value help you fulfill what

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you value, and vice versa. And don't stop until you get enough answers.

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I've had it where I've put down a hundred answers between those two

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people's top three values.

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The top three values that you determined from the Value Determination,

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whatever those are,

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how specifically those top three values helping you fulfill your top three

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values? Your top one to the top one, the top one to the second one,

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the second to the top one, the second to the second, the second to the third,

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the third, the third. Just go through and link them all.

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The more links you have,

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the more you're going to see that whatever they're dedicated is helping you

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fulfill what you want in life. And you're going to want to be around them,

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and you're going to love and appreciate them.

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And love and appreciation's where it's at.

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And one of the things I teach in the Breakthrough Experience is this method.

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How to determine your values, how to link values,

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how to apply the linking of things you dislike in them and how to see how they

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serve you,

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and the things that you're infatuated with and how and bring them back down,

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see the downsides of that so you can basically bring yourself into a balanced

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state with them. I teach you how to do that in the Breakthrough Experience.

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That's why I want people to come to Breakthrough because

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their life on just relationships alone, let alone the other areas of their life,

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is enhanced by knowing that knowledge. It's very unique knowledge.

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It's not taught anywhere else, that way.

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And so taking the time to link the values of the people you care about

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is step number two. That is a goldmine when it comes to relationship.

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Step number three, and this is what I call the Demartini Method.

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The Demartini Method is a very,

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very important series of questions to ask yourself to have reflective awareness,

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to be able to see the hidden order and the apparent chaos in the dynamics of any

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relationship. And allows you to realize that whatever you judge in them,

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you've got in you. When you point your finger out, you got three back.

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Because many times we self righteously think that they've done something that's

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betraying us or something. Nobody really betrays us.

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We betray ourselves by expecting them to live in our values, not their own.

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And then we have this fantasy that we hold onto,

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this unrealistic expectation that they're supposed to be nice, never mean, kind,

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never cruel, or supposed to live in our values, or supposed to read our minds,

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or supposed to live in this fantasy social value system that we've been

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indoctrinated by. But the real truth is they live according to their own values.

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The only thing they're really committed to fulfill is that,

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and that's not narcissistic, that's not immature, that's human behavior.

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They've been labeling that in some psychology circles,

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The fact is that human beings are dedicated to the fulfillment of what their

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values are and their fitness is maximum when they have a balance of support and

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challenge in the pursuit of that.

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So if you ask the question in the Demartini Method, what specific trait,

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action or inaction do I perceive this individual that I'm in a

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relationship with,

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displaying or demonstrating that I admire most and I despise most?

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Why?

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Because if you admire them and put them on a pedestal and minimize yourself,

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you're going to be sacrificing altruistic to be in a relationship and build up

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gradual resentment until you get things back into balance.

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And if you resent somebody and you project your values onto them,

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you're going to alienate them until they get resentful,

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until they end up going distant and then you get humbled and put back in

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balance.

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But the moment you actually find out what it is that you infatuate and resent,

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and then go and ask the next question; go to a moment, John, yourself,

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where and when do you display

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that same specific trait, action,

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inaction that you perceive in them, that you admired and despised in them?

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Go find out where you've done that.

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The moment you reflect and introspect and discover that whatever you resented

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about them is something that's reminding you of something you feel ashamed about

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in your past,

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and they're reminding it to you and that's why you're avoiding them,

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wanting to avoid them,

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because they're reminding you of what you're not loving in you.

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And they're actually an opportunity to teach you that and to grow in your own

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life by being in that relationship with them so you can be more authentic and

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appreciate the part you're denying and negating.

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And the same thing when you admire somebody,

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it's because it's reminding you of something you have

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admit you have,

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that you admire in yourself and being around them is fun because it's reminding

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you of what you like about yourself, your addiction to your own pride.

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But if you actually go in there and identify where you've done all the things

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you see in them, and level the playing field and realize that the seer,

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the seeing and the seen are the same,

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your relationship communication goes skyrocketing. Because now you realize,

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who am I to judge them? And you respect them.

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You can't respect somebody when you're judging looking down or up.

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You can put them on pedestals, or you can put them in pits,

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but you won't put them in your heart until you balance that equation.

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So in the Breakthrough Experience,

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I teach you the Demartini Method on how to identify what you're judging in them,

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which blocks the communication,

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and how to level the playing field and see that what you see in them is inside

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you. So you can reflect.

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True intimacy is when you own everything you see in them.

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If you're denying,

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if too proud or too humble to admit what you see in them inside you,

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there's no intimacy. You've got a block,

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you've got disowned parts and you're looking down or up at them instead of

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looking across at them, heart to heart and eye to eye,

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the windows of the soul can't occur because you're

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you have these infatuation and resentments, or trust yourself. Now,

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when you're looking down at the individual,

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you're thinking there's better options out there. When you're looking up,

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you don't want them to be with better options. You're more jealous. So you,

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when you level the playing field, you have a bantering,

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a respectful banter that goes on where you can keep each other in check.

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See when you're looking down and resentful to them,

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you're afraid to say too many nice things because you don't want to mislead them

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because you're thinking of options. When you're infatuated with them,

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you don't want to say things negative to them because you don't want them to

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have options and leave you.

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So you can't be authentic unless you have that level playing field.

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So that's why in the Breakthrough Experience,

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I spend a whole afternoon and evening showing people how to master the

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communication and how to master loving somebody and having intimacy.

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It's a gold mine when you learn that and you experience it and you have tears of

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gratitude for the individual for reflection.

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Then I go in there and I ask the question, all right, John,

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go to a moment where and when you perceive this individual that you're

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infatuated or resentful about,

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go to a moment when you perceive them doing these behaviors that you infatuate

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or resent, and now at that moment when they're doing the trait you admire,

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what's the downside? And at the trait you despise, what's the upside?

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Because every trait is neutral until somebody with a subjective bias and wounds

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of the past project what they perceive onto people.

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The real truth is if any of those behaviors weren't

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human beings, it would've gone extinct. But all those behaviors are there,

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they serve a purpose. And if you're seeing them negative,

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you're not seeing the upsides. If you're seeing them positive,

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you're not seeing the downsides. There's two sides to it.

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So I hold you accountable by doing the Demartini Method to balance that

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equation. Once you do,

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you realize that whatever they've done is neither positive nor negative,

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it's just an event. And now the question is, is, you've done that event,

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how is it served when they've done it to you?

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How is what they're doing serving you?

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Because they're living according to their values and making decisions according

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to their values,

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if you can't appreciate what they're doing according to their values,

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you're not going to be able to love them.

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You're going to be trying to fix them and hold onto a fantasy of who they're

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supposed to be and try to get them to be that and punish them if they don't do

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that. But if you go and do that exercise, it'll level the playing playing field,

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you get to appreciate them for who they are, which is what they want.

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And when you appreciate them for who they are,

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they kind of turn into who you love. The next question is,

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go to a moment where you've displayed those traits and whoever you've displayed

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those traits to, find out how it's a drawback to them,

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iIf you're proud of the trait, or if you're shamed of the trait,

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how is it a benefit to them? And clear out the pride and shame,

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which is underlying the projected judgments you have on people.

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Once you do that, man, you just liberated yourself, lighten yourself up,

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have now self-governance,

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live from the executive function in the forebrain instead of the amygdala

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emotionally reacting,

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where you're living in a subjective bias of avoiding pain and seeking pleasure

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with unrealistic expectations on your relationship.

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And you get to now go on a path of love with somebody.

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Now if you go one step further and ask the question,

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whatever I perceive in them, where do they do the opposite?

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So you break the labels that you put on people.

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I've seen sometimes when people are going through a divorce,

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their lawyers and their psychologists, is misleading them into thinking,

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well that's a narcissist. So common. You married to them for 20 years,

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all of a sudden they're a narcissist even though you've been with them for 20

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years? No,

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anytime you challenge somebody they tend to get puffed up and they tend

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defensive with the sympathetic nervous system.

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They tend to want to get what they want and put demands on you.

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They look more narcissistic. That's not who they are as a whole human being.

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That's just a moment while you're interacting with

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values. If you support their values,

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they become altruistic and sacrifice for you.

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Challenge their values they become narcissistic and want to sacrifice you for

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them. But if you actually love them and level the playing field,

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those labels go away. So the next question is,

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is ask them where do they do the opposite behavior to break the assumption that

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these labels are true? Because if you label people and box things up,

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you're going to compare them to other people with those labels and you're going

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to have your wounds or your fantasies, your phobias,

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your philias run your relationship instead of your love.

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And the next question is go to a moment where and when you perceive this

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individual displaying the trait, action or inaction that you admire or despise,

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and in that moment identify where it was and when it was and what's the content

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and the context and who they're doing it to, you in most cases,

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and then find out who's balancing it.

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Because every perception you have is always a pair of opposites.

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They're contrast. You can't go into a room that's pure white and see anything,

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it has to have black and white contrast to see.

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If you had perfect sounds on both sides, the same distance, the same decibels,

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you'd have binaural fusion,

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you wouldn't be able to hear anything and know where things are located.

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So you have to have a contrast to perceive. So at the moment of perception,

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the contrast is there and in this question it forces you to wake up and become

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conscious of what you're unconscious of to see the opposite that was there.

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Because you don't get one sided events, you think you do,

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you mislabel your events in life as traumatic or ecstatic because of it,

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but in fact there's nothing but really a pair of opposites, synchronously,

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simultaneously, you know,

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a synthesis of these opposites which is actually experience of love.

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When you actually ask the questions in the Demartini Method and bring it back to

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love, you have tears of gratitude for them for participating in a matrix of

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opportunity of love for you. Now if you go the last question,

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go at the very moment you did the behavior that I admired or despised,

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if at that moment they had done exactly the opposite behavior,

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the thing they admired, if they had, let's say generous, if they'd been stingy,

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what'd been the benefit to you?

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Because if you don't crack the nightmare that you're comparing them to,

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you'll be running off and having an addiction to a fantasy about them.

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And if you go to the moment they did something you resented at that moment,

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if they had done the opposite, what would've been the drawback to you?

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And crack the fantasy that you had about them.

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As long as you have a fantasy or a nightmare about them,

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you're going to keep projecting false past wounds and experiences and

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fantasies onto them, which undermines the relationship.

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So in the Breakthrough Experience,

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when I teach people the Breakthrough Experience and I make them go through each

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of these steps and experience it live and have them have a tear of gratitude at

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each one of these steps, they have a revelation about, wow,

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I ask people beforehand,

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you had the story and a myth about who this individual was, when you're done,

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all you have is appreciation and love for them, and yourself.

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You cannot do this exercise, this third step,

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without having deep love and appreciation for yourself and for the individuals

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that you're doing the method on. I dare anybody to finish the method,

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the Demartini Method, and have anything other than tears of gratitude,

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love and appreciation. If you finish that and get that,

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you will realize that no matter what you've been through,

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no matter what anybody's done, there's a way of loving it.

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Nothing you've been in experience in your mortal body cannot not be loved by

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your immortal soul is the old saying.

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So I believe that those three steps are gold and I took an extra

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few minutes today to go over those because I want you to know that that's

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available to you.

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That's why I tell people every week when I do this webinar to go and come to the

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Breakthrough Experience. They probably think I'm just selling another seminar.

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Well sure that's true too, but I can't help people unless I'm with them.

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I can do the presentation but it's not the same as actually being there live and

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doing it and experiencing it.

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You can intellectualize it or you can experience it.

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That's why it's called the Breakthrough Experience.

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I want people to actually get the method.

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I want to learn how to know how to do their values.

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I want to know them how to communicate in values and how to link values and then

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how to apply the values in the Demartini Method so you can maximize your

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awareness and potential in your relationship so you can have dialogue,

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not alternating monologues and have an intimacy and have a sustainable fair

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exchange in your relationship.

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So I'm certain those three tools are helpful in relationship dynamics.

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I've taken thousands of people in the Breakthrough Experience,

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hundreds of thousands of people that have resented people deeply or infatuated

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with people, the villains or the heroes they have in their life,

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and shown them how to dissolve that, all those labels,

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and allow them to have tears of gratitude for those people in their life.

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And look in the mirror and realize that that's now the more love for themselves.

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I ask people,

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how many of you feel more love for this individual and love for themselves?

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Every hand goes up. So if you'd like to have more authenticity,

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you'd like to have your executive function run instead of your amygdala's

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emotional center where you're judging things and you know out of governance

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and you'd love to have more awareness of who they are and who you are and be

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able to have communication with respect and more intimacy and more love,

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and you want to be able to dissolve all the baggage you've accumulated on the

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past in your relationship,

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I can guarantee you can come to the program and I can show you how to do that.

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And the more you put into it, the more you're going to get out of it.

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But if you come and do that and willing to come to work,

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it's not just a spectator game, it's an actual work where

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you get to see and feel and experience what I'm talking about,

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if you like to do that,

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bring that back to your relationship to the close people in your life at work,

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home, colleagues, customers, loved ones, spouses,

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if you like to take that relationship to the next level,

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then come to the Breakthrough Experience.

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And come and listen to this what I just gave you again and again and again,

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but come to the Breakthrough Experience because I'm going to give you 24 hours,

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26 hours of my heart and soul there working with you.

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And I can't wait to do that because I watched lives change and I love doing

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that. Do it every weekend almost. And if you do that, I assure you're going to,

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at the end of the Breakthrough I ask people,

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how many of you learned something this weekend you would no way you would've

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learned anywhere else on this planet in your life? Every hand goes up.

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So if you want to go and learn something really cutting edge,

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that's really amazing and it works, it's a science, you can,

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if you follow it to the letter,

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you'll get an exact response and have more love and appreciate for people that

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you've got some buried burdens sitting in there and some baggage on there.

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Let's let go of the baggage and drop it off the baggage claim department and

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let's get on with sailing and taking off on the plane if you will,

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and take your relationship to the next level.

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So I just wanted to share with that, I ran a few minutes over this time,

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but that was a pretty pertinent topic I think because everybody's in

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relationship with somebody and including themselves. And by the way,

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you can do the Demartini Method on yourself so you

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baggage you've got too. So either way,

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come to the Breakthrough Experience and I'll show you how to do that.

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I'll show you how to apply these three principles and I am absolutely certain

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it'll change the trajectory of your life and make a difference from now on in

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your relationships. So come and join me at the Breakthrough Experience.

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Thank you for joining me on this,

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this little webinar and I look forward to seeing you next week.

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Have a fantastic evening and look forward to seeing you very soon.