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If you don't foresight, live in foresight,

you're going to live in hindsight.

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And foresight is premeditatively thinking

exactly how you want your life and

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what are the strategies and what are the

tactical ways and way you're going to

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get this.

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In all probability throughout your life,

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either at work or in general experiences,

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you've noticed that if you don't fill

your day with very, very high priority,

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most important actions and kind

of tick them off like an agenda,

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your day tends to fill up

with low priority distractions

and unexpected things.

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When people have a very strong,

high prioritized agenda,

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it's easy to say no to distractions,

easy to say no to opportunists,

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easy to say no to things around

them that try to vie for attention.

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You're more likely to be distracted if

you don't have an agenda sitting out

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there that's filled for the day.

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There's a law in business called

Parkinson's Law that whatever time is

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allotted, the work tends to fill.

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So if you don't really cluster book your

actions and fill your day really high

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priority things and fill it,

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it will get infiltrated by

things that will distract it.

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The same thing with economics.

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If you don't take a portion of your

money and stick it immediately into

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investments that are assets that go up

in value and give you passive income,

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you are most likely to have unexpected

bills or consumer spending as

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a result of that.

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The same thing with time in time

management or managing what time you have.

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If you're not filling your day with

very, very high priority actions,

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it's going to fill up with low

priority distractions. Now,

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distractions are the impulses

and instincts that the

external world surround you

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with, that try to distract you and

perturbate you from a poised, present,

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and purposeful life.

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So this doesn't just

occur through the day.

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We could say that if you don't fill your

hour with the highest priority actions,

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your hour will fill up with low

priority distractions. We could say,

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if you don't fill your day

with high priority actions,

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it fills up with low

priority distractions.

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I noticed when I was in

practice many years ago

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we used to do a thing

called cluster booking.

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We noticed that if we had gaps in

our appointments, that the patients,

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'cause we used to time these,

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the patients before the gap and after

the gap would tend to expand and ask more

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questions or have more complaints

or have some sort of distraction or

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take longer procedure. It

would fill in that gap.

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But if we really had it very tightly

clustered, very tightly packed,

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it seemed like that the energy flowed

and the patients were flowing more

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efficiently. So it was quite interesting,

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it was almost like the feedback

from the universe to try to,

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from our world and our

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life to try to give us feedback to let

us know that if we don't prioritize our

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life, weird stuff fills it.

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So I noticed that I cluster booke and

I made sure that I had a full thing.

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In fact,

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I even wrote down 13 things to do that

if I didn't have a patient right there to

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work with, that I had 13 high priority

things to do because if I didn't,

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I noticed that the unexpected

salespeople or someone would call or

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emergency or something would break down.

It's a thing in physics called entropy.

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And entropy is a tendency to

go from order to disorder, and

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we automatically have disorder coming

into our life if we don't bring order to

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it.

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So it's very crucial to take the time to

prioritize your life and plan your life

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out. And if you've probably

ever written down a goal,

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you notice if you write the goal and

read the goal and focus on the goal

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and fill your mind with how you want it,

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you see more synchronicities

and opportunities that are

in the direction of that

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goal. We have an area in the

brain called the pulvinar nuclei.

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It's in the thalamus and

it's really interesting,

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it's the diencephalon,

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it's the area of the brain that is

involved in filtering anything from our

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sensory world before it goes into

conscious awareness in the cortex.

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And this area of the brain, automatically,

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if you're really clear about

what your intention is,

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it literally filters out information

and you don't notice things that aren't

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related to it. And it filters

in information that is.

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So clarity of purpose

and clarity of intention

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helps you have more synchronicities

and allows you to see opportunities

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that are there instead of being distracted

by all the things that aren't really

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priority. But if you don't

have clear intention,

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you get bombarded because

there's no clarity of what

it is and it doesn't have a

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filtering mechanism. So it's

important to prioritize your life.

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It's important to plan out what you

want and fill an agenda up front.

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If you go shopping and

you don't have an agenda,

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checklist of exactly what you're wanting,

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you have a higher probability of impulse

shopping. Oh, there's a sale on, oh,

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I need to discount it. Buy that, buy this.

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And the external world runs your life.

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That's why I try to tell people that

if you don't fill your day with high

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priority actions, it's going to fill

up with low priority distractions.

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And that occurs in every area of our life.

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If we don't fill our mind with exactly

how what we want to think about,

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we automatically have

distracting thoughts.

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In business if we don't fill our

hour with exactly the priority,

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highest priority actions, it fills

up the low priority distractions.

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When it comes to finances, if you

don't put your money into assets,

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it ends up getting distracted

and destroyed by unexpected

bills and liabilities

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and consumable items and impulses.

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That's why most people's houses

start out with very little in it,

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but over time it accumulates and it's

just packed with stuff because of impulse

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buying, not prioritized planning.

The same thing in relationship.

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If you don't plan an agenda for a

night out or a date night out or

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something, weird stuff fills it

and you don't have time for it.

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And the same thing in social.

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If you don't prioritize who you're going

to hang out with and who you're going

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to associate with,

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you'll probably get people that are

not necessarily priorities that are

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opportunists that distract

you. Your physical health.

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If you don't prioritize what you

eat, don't prioritize what you drink,

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don't prioritize, you know what

you feed your mind and body,

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you're probably going to

end up being impulsive and

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when you go out to dinner you'll just

go and whatever's on the smorgasbord

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you'll take a bite of, instead of

planning it out and thinking it through.

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That's why there's an old

proverb, those who fail to plan,

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tend to plan not to

succeed, they plan to fail.

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Because they're not taking command.

The same thing in your spiritual life.

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If you're not prioritizing what's going

on in your mind and feeding it something

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of gratitude, you're guaranteed

to have more opportunities of

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ingratitude coming into your life.

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So that's why my mom told me

when I was a young boy, she says,

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make sure you count your blessings 'cause

those that are thankful for what they

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have, they get more to be thankful for.

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So if you're not

concentrating on gratitude and

concentrating on what you love

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and concentrating on

who you love to be with,

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you're probably going

to have distractions.

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That's why I tell people to go through

and make sure you plan out your life.

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You know, I started planning

at age 17, consciously,

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formally started planning

out my life at 17.

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I have a program called

Master Planning for Life.

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I've taught thousands of people this

process and I basically put together

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a series of questions,

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I mean 2000 questions to help you

concentrate on the highest priority

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things about how you want your life

to be in all seven areas of life,

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your spiritual quest, et cetera,

to increase the probability,

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I've used it all these years,

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51 years I've been using this Master

Planning process to help me achieve more,

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to help me build my wealth, to help me

focus and make a difference in the world,

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to help me develop my mind and

create a global business and

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financial independence.

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So I'm a firm believer in planning

out your life and filling it with high

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priority things. A plan

is really a prioritized

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filler of exactly how you

want your life to look.

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I'll sometimes spend maybe three hours

on one paragraph exactly how I want my

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life to look, and I'll just keep

writing it and reading it, play with it,

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and playing it until it's

just exactly how I want it.

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And make sure every word is

meaningful. Every word is prioritized.

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Every word is exactly how I want and lay

it out so I feed my mind exactly how I

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want my life. Phelps 28

gold medals, the swimmer,

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packaged his mind and put it together

in a way that is exactly how he wants to

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be seen. He wanted to get his gold medals.

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He wanted to win the swimming

contest. He got it really clear.

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He visualized it in his mind's eye. If

you don't foresight, live in foresight,

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you're going to live in hindsight.

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And foresight is premeditatively thinking

exactly how you want your life and

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what are the strategies and what are the

tactical ways and way you're going to

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get this. And that's why I'm a

firm believer in master planning.

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If you want to master your life

and not be a victim of history,

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but be a real master of your destiny,

you want to plan your life. Now,

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many people confuse writing

fantasies with planning.

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See,

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the purpose of the executive center of

the brain is to transform fantasies into

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true objectives. An objective

has a balanced orientation.

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You're anticipating what could go wrong.

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You're mitigating the risk by being

prepared for it so it's less likely.

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And if it does happen, you act not react.

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And you're not going after fantasies.

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Fantasies are things that you think have

an advantage without any disadvantage,

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a positive without a negative, a pleasure

without a pain. And these create a,

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you might say an amygdala

response where not,

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that's not where the planning system

is, it's in the executive center.

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So what happens is, if

you set a real goal,

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you'll already anticipate the pros and

cons, rewards and risks, everything,

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you'll think it out,

you'll have foresight,

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and you'll imagine what could

go both benefit and wrong.

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And then you go in there and you mitigate

those and think, if this happens,

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how will I solve it? And

that's what master planning is.

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It's basically laying out the

life that you'd like to do,

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concentrating and focusing

on how you want it,

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knowing what are obstacles that

might happen along the way,

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how do you solve those in

advance so you're prepared,

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so you're not hit by

broadsided by unexpected's.

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because a lot of those unexpected's can

be anticipated and thought through and

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planned out and prevented, or know

exactly what to do if it happens.

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So I'm a firm believer in doing that.

Like I said, I've been doing it 51 years.

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My master plan is giant. It's

a massive series of books.

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And I go through there and I literally,

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I wrote out the goals and then every

time I get something accomplished along I

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put it underneath the goal as a

metric, and I measure it along the way.

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I got this accomplished. So I said, okay.

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Then I wanted to write a

certain number of books.

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So I've got a list of every

book I write underneath there.

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I wanted to go and do a

certain number of magazine,

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write for magazines around the world.

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I've got a list of 1,535 magazines

now that I've written for,

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two more just this week.

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So I constantly am updating and

metricing the things I'm doing to see if,

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am I really serious about this? Is

this a whim? Is this a real goal?

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And if you're not planning out your life,

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I assure you you're less likely to get

as much done and you're less likely to

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have as much fulfillment,

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'cause every time I get something

that's accomplished and I document it,

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I've got a gratitude list,

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I can review that and see

that I'm actually making

progress and look at what's

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working and what's not working

and get feedback and refine it.

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So master planning is,

it's almost insane not to.

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Imagine getting into a jet plane and the

person that's flying the plane doesn't

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have a checklist,

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doesn't have a plan to make sure that

these are the priorities that need to be

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done before we take off. Well, if

you don't, you have more problems,

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you might crash. So that's

why they have a checklist.

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And the checklist is like

a mini planning system.

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It's making sure that you've got all

these things taken care of before you take

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off. In your life, before

you take off in your life,

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if you want to do something

extraordinary with your life,

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it's wise to have your checklist.

And your checklist is your,

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the actions that are proven to

achieve what it is you want,

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the things that are most effective and

efficient in achieving the most outcome.

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So taking the time to go through there

and really planning out exactly how you

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want your life.

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I say start with what is it you

would love to manifest in your life.

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How do I get handsomely and

beautifully paid to do it?

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What are the highest priority action

steps I can do to make that happen?

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What obstacles might I run into? How do

I solve them in advance? What worked,

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what didn't work today?

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How can I do it more effectively and

efficiently tomorrow? And how did,

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no matter what happened, how has it gotten

me one step closer to this objective?

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A master planning has,

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in my master plan I have all my values

so I know exactly what my hierarchy of

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values are, and I know what's priority

because I know if I stick to priority,

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I get way more done. I have more

fulfillment. I have my mission statement,

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which is a summary of what's

most important in my life

about how I want my life

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to look. I've got my love list, which

is exactly the master plan itself.

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Everything I would love

to bring into my reality.

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And I write it out and I define it

and I keep the metrics under it.

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And I keep the gratitudes.

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I've got a gratitude journal that

I keep every single day of my life.

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It's thousands of pages now and

it's basically everything that I've

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accomplished. And whenever

I get the end of the day,

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I write all the things I was grateful

for, I had the opportunity to do,

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people to meet, go places.

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And then what I do is I take

and I put my metrics in place.

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So I'm working on my master plan

daily, literally every single day.

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My master plan is being remodeled,

being added to, being refined,

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checking things off. If I write for

another magazine, it's documented.

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If I do another TV show, it's put in

there. Any individual that I meet,

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anybody that's a prime minister or

somebody that's got celebrity status,

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I put it in there,

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because I had a goal to be able to

interact with people around the world that

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had global influence.

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I keep records of all this so I know

that I'm actually focused and going after

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what I want, and I get

way more accomplished.

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I look at all the things I'm

delegating, things I want done,

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but I can do through delegation. It

doesn't require my service and focus.

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And I metric at all and master plan out

the life. And I know I've gotten way,

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way more done, that I see some of the

people that don't take the time to do that

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and I see the impact and I see

them frustrated, distracted,

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I see them not as far

along in their objectives,

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and I see the impact of planning.

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So it'd be impossible to convince

me that it doesn't pay off.

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Now some people say, oh, if you want

to make God laugh, tell him your plans.

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Well, that's for people

that set up fantasies.

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If you don't know what your values

are, please go to my website,

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drdemartini.com and go through

the Value Determination,

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determine your values section and

take the time to do it. It's free.

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It's complimentary, it's private.

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Take the time to do it because you

want to fill your day with the highest

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priority actions you can.

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And then if you're not taking

the time to plan life out,

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I assure you life is

going to distract you.

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It really does pay off to cluster book

your life, to plan out how you want.

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I keep a very busy schedule because I

find it when I keep a very busy schedule,

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I don't get distracted as much. I

delegate everything off my plate.

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When something comes in

and tries to distract,

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I just send it over to somebody else.

I learned to do that. And people say,

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well, that's because, well,

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you're wealthy and you've

done this and everything else.

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I became wealthy because I did it,

not, I didn't have the wealth to start.

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I started doing that and my wealth came

to me because I started prioritizing.

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When you do what you really love to do

and you can't wait to get up and do it,

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people can't wait to get your service.

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But if you're doing distractions and

putting fires out and letting other people

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run your life, then you're probably not

going to be as fulfilled or inspired,

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as productive and not have

as much meaning in life.

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You decide what's meaningful,

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you're the one that decides

how you want your life.

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You're the captain of your

ship and master of your fate.

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It's up to you and nobody's going to

get up in the morning and dedicate their

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life to your fulfillment.

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There's no genie out there that's

dedicated to your fulfillment. It's you.

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So take the time to start thinking out

how you want your life and writing it

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down, typing it up, or come

to the Master Planning.

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I have a program Master Planning

for Life and sit down with me.

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What I do is I actually sit there

and about every hour on the hour,

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I'm doing a presentation on

how to master that process.

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And people are sitting on their

computer and planning out their life and

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defining how they want their life.

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I've seen people write books after a

result of that and publishing books.

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I've seen people start

new businesses from it.

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I've seen people find relationships that

they've been searching for 'cause they

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defined it and made sure they got

really objective on it, not fantasies.

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And looked at what their life's real

values were and what would be required to

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be able to help them fulfill

an androgynous pursuit.

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And I've seen people go out

and increase their social life.

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I've seen people just like in the

Breakthrough Experience on how to own the

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traits of the greats. I put

that in the master plan.

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Who are all the people that I would

love to interact with? Many years ago,

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I wrote down 50 celebrities

that I wanted to meet. You know,

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I want to meet Sylvester Stallone

and Arnold Schwarzenegger,

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and lots of different people.

I've met them all. In fact,

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I've met hundreds of these people,

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thousands of these people now in

different celebrity positions.

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And it's because I wrote it out, mapped

it out, increased the probability,

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positioned myself,

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did public relations to increase the

probability of where I would be hanging

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out, where I'd run into them. And I

followed a strategy and it's paid off.

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And the opportunities and the associations

and the ideas that you get, you know,

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if you're not filling your

day with high priority people,

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you're filling up with

low priority distractions.

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So take the time to

master plan your life up.

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That's why I put the program together

to help people save themselves enormous

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time. I've been doing

master planning 51 years,

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and I've accumulated a lot of questions

that help people put a business plan

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together, put a financial plan together,

put a relationship plan together,

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put a social life plan together, a

physical health and wellness program,

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a spiritual pursuit, and

an intellectual development

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program and plan.

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And I believe that you can go and create

all those areas and empower them all.

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I've had since I was 18 years old,

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a desire to empower all

seven areas of my life.

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There's no doubt in my mind that the

master planning has allowed me to achieve

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that. And that's why I'm

taking the time to remind you,

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if you haven't thought about it,

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about how important it's to plan out your

objectives. You would not go to Mars.

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Elon Musk would not go

to Mars just on a whim.

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They think of every possible thing that

could go on. They go and test things.

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They look at all the possible things.

They try to mitigate the risks.

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That's a planning process.

You don't build a bridge.

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You don't build a giant building.

You don't go out to Mars.

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You don't accomplish anything. You

don't go to get a Nobel Prize winning,

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without a master plan. So

that's why I tell people,

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the people that most people, you know,

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it was a Alec Mackenzie in his

Time Trap when I was 27 years old,

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I read this book and he said the

people at the top are planning,

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up to up to 60, 70% of

their time is in planning.

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Then they're delegating and

they're surrounding themselves

with experts that are

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greater at what they're

doing than they are.

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And those people go way farther than

people that are at the bottom that don't

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plan and are doing it all, and

putting out fires along the way.

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Go read the Time Trap and you'll

see a little section he did on that.

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It's very important.

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And he says the executive center

in the forebrain is for planning.

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It's for mitigating risk,

strategically planning,

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executing those plans and

achieving through delegation.

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And it's delegating

lower parts of the brain.

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So the more you live in the forebrain,

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instead of the hind brain

and in the amygdala,

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the higher the probability of

achieving greatness in your life.

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So I just wanted to take a few moments

to talk about how significant, you know,

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planning your life out, master

planning your life and your year.

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I do this every year.

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I do Master Planning every single

year at the beginning of the year,

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usually January, February, in

different parts of the world,

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to try to assist people in

taking command of their life.

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And I'm doing it regardless,

<laugh>, I'm just, it's just a habit,

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a daily habit that I do. I don't even

go, there's no day I don't do this.

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So I'm just sharing with you what's

really helped me to do more with my life.

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And I'm certain it'll do the

same for you. And I tell people,

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come to Master Planning for Life just

like I tell people to come to the

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Breakthrough Experience,

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because I know that those tools and

those principles and those, in this case,

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questions,

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2000 questions that are there to save

you an enormous amount of time to guess.

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You don't have to wonder about a

business plan. It's all there laid out.

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You just just follow the process and then

you start mapping out and people start

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seeing bigger visions of what they want

to accomplish in their business and how

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they can grow their wealth and how

they can upgrade the standard of their

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dynamics with society.

I mean, it is really,

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the stories and the feedback I've got

from people that have been to this program

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have been astonishing. I even had one guy,

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I was there one time at the

Master Planning program,

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there was a guy in the back

that started crying and people

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started looking over their

shoulders and go, what's, you know,

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what's wrong here? And they

thought this guy, you know,

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just got an announcement his wife's

passed away, or his kid died,

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or I don't know what it was. And so

I walked down the aisle and I said,

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what's he crying for?

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And there was a gentleman there who's

been to Master Planning a number of times,

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and I said, you know, hey, what,

what's, what's happening here?

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And he holds up his phone and on

the phone is a bunch of numbers.

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And I said, I don't, I don't

understand what's the deal?

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And then he points to his computer and

I see a bunch of numbers on his computer

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and I still don't get it. And I said, I

still don't understand what's the deal?

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He says, I was in Master

Planning 12 months ago,

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12 months ago,

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and I wrote out what I wanted to

accomplish this year in my business,

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the actual dollar values, everything.

And I just got on my phone,

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my feedback from my accountant,

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and he sent the numbers and they're

matched what I wrote last year.

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I went, whoa, <laugh>. That was mind

blowing. I didn't, I don't get that,

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I haven't, I've done Master Planning,

I don't always get exact numbers,

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but they get close. Not that.

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When he saw that he was just brought to

tears and everybody in the room <laugh>

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went to work, <laugh>, they didn't

sit there and go, okay, okay,

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this might be a useful thing to do.

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They went to work and they started getting

really specific and clear about their

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objectives because that's what the

gentleman did. And that was mind blowing.

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I can't say I've done that. I've got

exact numbers that I put on there.

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That's not always been the case,

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but I've definitely progressed and made

achievements on Master Planning that I

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would not have had I'm certain. So

anyway, I've had people do that.

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I've had people go and build multimillion

dollar businesses, huge businesses,

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and they started right

during Master Planning.

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They didn't even have business focus.

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They started it right there in the

Master Planning. I know of a company,

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it's a mining business right now

that was started in Master Planning.

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It's massive business today.

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And I'm absolutely certain it can make

a difference in your life if you do take

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the time to do it. So master plan

your year, master plan your life,

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master plan your legacy.

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I even have in my master plan

exactly the legacy I want to do,

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how I want to be perceived

a thousand years from now.

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What I want Wikipedia to look like,

what I want the impact I want to do.

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We all want to make a

difference. Write it out,

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get clear about it so it's not

nebulous so people know what it is.

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They can help you get there. Anyway,

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if I haven't gotten across to you

the significance of master planning,

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we could do this section again because

I really believe it could make a

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difference in your life. That's

why I do it every single day.

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So I'm just making sure you

know, to master plan your life.

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Take command of your life.

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Nobody's getting up in the morning

and dedicating their life to your

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fulfillment. If you

don't, nobody else will.

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Take the time to get it clear how you

want your life to be and make sure it's

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real. Make sure it's congruent with what

you value. Make sure it's not fantasy.

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Make sure it's an objective.

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Use your executive function and

take advantage of the 2000 questions

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that I have on Master Planning for

Life and grab that, join me for that.

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I do it every beginning of every year.

I assure you it's worth the time spent.

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It will blow your mind on what you really,

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really have inside you to create with.

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So just wanted to make sure you understood

that. Hope you enjoyed this process.

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Thank you for listening to these

webinars that I get to do every week.

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And please let people know if you have

people out there that don't know about

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these little classes, pass the torch.

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You help other people get

what they want to get in life,

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you help yourself get what

you want to get in life.

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I learned that when I was 20 years old.

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And I do what I can to serve as many

people as I can on a daily basis because I

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have more fulfillment.

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The most fulfilling thing you get in

life is making a difference in other

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people's lives.

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So take the time to master

plan the difference you

want to make in the life and

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your life and the lives of

other people you care about.

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So that's it for the this little

class. Thank you for joining me.

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Please pass the torch. I'll

see you at Master planning.