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It's been shown that maximum performance, maximum achievements,

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occur at the border of support and challenge, the border

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the authentic self which sits in the center.

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This particular topic is how your perceptions of success

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can interfere with your growth. Now, most people would immediately think,

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well wait a minute, no, I want success.

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But I'm going to challenge that.

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It was Keough who headed up Coca-Cola company that used to be on the

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board of Berkshire Hathaway with Warren Buffet.

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And he made a statement that really impacted me way back,

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30 something years ago. And that was that,

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I'm leery of people that think they're successful,

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they're usually on their way down.

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So I want you to wrap your head around a new idea.

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Anytime you perceive yourself successful,

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you tend to de-purpose and tend to allow yourself by the

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licensing effect to do lower priority activities.

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You've heard the statement, I got so successful,

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I stopped doing what got me there.

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And the second you think you're successful, you get proud.

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And pride is an exaggeration of self.

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It's not an authentic self where you actually excel and grow,

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but it's an exaggerated self.

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And you depurpose because you go off on lower priority things.

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You give yourself permission to splurge or

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relax because you think you're successful.

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And then on the other side of the equation, if you think you have failed,

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or you are going backwards, instead of de-purposing,

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it can repurpose you.

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It can make you stop and look at what is really priority and I better get back

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to priority. And this is humbling.

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And this makes you go to higher priority things.

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See the idea that you're successful,

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you tend to go to lower priority things by the licensing effect and de-purposing

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impact. And if you feel like you're a failure,

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you tend to go to higher priority things and repurpose yourself and go back to

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what's really important to you. If you look in your life,

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you can see this is not uncommon. You've seen this.

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So the idea of success can interfere with

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a stable focus.

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Now let me give you a little story that I think you might find interesting and

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you might just apply this little exercise. Many years ago,

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this would've been 30 woo, nine years ago, 38,

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9 years ago, 40 years ago almost.

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When I was in practice,

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if I had a big day, saw lots of patients, collected a lot of money,

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I sometimes would get a bit puffed up and think wow.

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And I would sometimes exaggerate myself and puff myself up

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and think I was somebody special.

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And I noticed that when I would go home, when I was puffed up,

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I noticed that my spouse, my marriage partner,

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was inevitably humbling me. <Laugh>,

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you know,

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in those days I was pretty naive and I still was into the idea of being

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positive, positive, positive all the time.

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And I didn't realize that her role of being the critical

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challenging one at that time was not toxicity. It was actually a caring

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response to get me back into equilibrium,

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because I was puffed up because I was exaggerating what I had done.

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I also noticed that when I had a really low day and really had a,

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whoa what a day,

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I would come home and my spouse would massage my back or go out of

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her way or I mean, it was amazing,

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she had this knack for knowing if I was down, she would lift me up.

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If I was up, she'd bring me down. It's kind of like if you're from Australia,

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they have a tall poppy syndrome. If you're cocky and successful,

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they try to bring you down. And if you're down and out,

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they try to lift you up and support you with the dole.

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So I'm a firm believer that nature, our society,

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our friends, colleagues or whatever, our loved ones,

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are always trying to get us authentic.

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When we puff ourselves up with thinking we're successful, we're not authentic.

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When we're beating ourselves up and think we're not successful, we're failures,

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we're not authentic.

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When we're actually on a mission and centered

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and not exaggerating ourselves or minimizing ourselves,

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but just appreciative of the opportunity to be of service,

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we center ourselves. So when I was really up,

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I noticed my spouse would nail me, deflate me, and when I was down,

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she'd inflate me. And at first I thought, again, she's toxic.

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She doesn't want me to be up.

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And the idea of trying to be positive all the time,

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there was a book called Toxic Relationships and it was talking about it.

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And I would not recommend the book because it misleads people extensively.

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It makes people live in the fantasy that people are always supposed to be

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positive and supportive. And that is a delusion.

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If you are challenging somebody's values and you're cocky,

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they're designed to bring you back down into equilibrium because you're puffed

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up.

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And if you're down and you're supportive they're designed to lift you up,

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to get you back into equilibrium.

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Everything that's going on in your life is trying to get you authentic and in

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equilibrium. So what I did when I noticed this,

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I saw the pattern. I realized it wasn't, she wasn't toxic.

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She was doing her job and I realized that there were other people participating

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in that same dynamic. And I really stopped, reflected and looked,

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and then I did something that was amazing exercise that you might consider.

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If I had a big day and I thought, wow, I'm amazing, you know,

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touch me and you're going to heal kind of thing,

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and I was puffed up and exaggerating what I'd done and neglecting

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my appreciation for staff and patience and things,

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I made a list of things to ask myself, who did I not remember the name of?

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What patient did I overlook thanking?

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What procedure did I overlook today? What staff member did I not thank?

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You know, whose anniversary or birthday did I overlook?

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And when I did is I calmed myself down from being

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puffed up, thinking I was successful, thinking I was amazing.

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I calmed myself down.

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And then then I didn't stop doing that exercise until I got a tear of gratitude

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for the opportunity to serve people.

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I noticed when I was grateful for the opportunity of service and I was

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authentically focusing on my mission of service and I went home,

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my wife was amazingly different. I don't know how to describe it,

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go and prove it to yourself.

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She was more stable because I stabilized myself.

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See, I'm a firm believer, if you don't govern yourself,

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the world around you has to.

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If you don't listen to your physiology and psychology and self-govern,

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you're going to end up having sociology and theology and family dynamics

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govern you. So if you're cocky, they're going to bring you down.

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If you're humble, they're going to lift you up.

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They're going to just try to get you back into authenticity.

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So whenever I had a really big day, I calmed myself down. I asked questions of,

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what did I overlook? And I found them.

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I had been subjectively biased thinking I was successful and I was overlooking

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the things that I was doing.

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And I put together a checklist of all the actions that proven

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to work.

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And I compared it to the checklist at night on the days I was successful.

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And it was like amazing. I thought, oh, I'm successful.

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But the reality is that I overlooked a lot of stuff.

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So when I did that exercise and I calmed myself down and I didn't stop until I

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got a tear of gratitude and I rethought about my mission of service

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and I drove home, my spouse was present,

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she wasn't putting me down, she wasn't putting me up, she was just present.

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And I thought, wow,

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it's sort of like this non-local dynamic going on in family dynamics and

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work dynamics. I realized that if I was addicted to praise at work,

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I'd get slammed at home.

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But if I was neutral and I didn't puff myself up and didn't get addicted to

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praise, I got a loving dynamic at home.

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She played out the role that whatever I was not willing to embrace at work.

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I also noticed that if I had a really low day, that I would go,

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well who did I serve?

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What patient did I remember the name of what staff member did I thank?

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I asked the same questions in reverse and lifted myself up

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and brought myself into equilibrium with about 35 questions. And I,

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I took maybe 10 minutes to go through those questions at the end of my day.

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And I, I centered myself, stabilize myself,

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and did not stop with those questions until I had a tear of gratitude for the

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opportunity to be of service and to go back to my mission.

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So I want you to maybe write this down.

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When people say to me and when I get interviewed, people say, oh,

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Dr Demartini you're a success. And I said,

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well if that's what you want to label me, I prefer not that label. And they go,

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What? Why would you not want to be labeled that way?

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I'd prefer to be labeled a man on a mission,

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dedicated to being a service to people.

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And because I noticed that the second I think I'm successful, I usually,

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on my way down. We have this amazing license effect,

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the second we do something we're proud of, some of you have done this,

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you've gone out and you've exercised and you really feel proud of

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what you've done. You really look fit, you feel toned, etcetera.

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And then you give yourself licensing effect that night and you overeat.

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You eat too much chocolate, you drink too much wine, you overeat food.

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You gave yourself permission to do something lower in priority that you

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don't normally give yourself permission,

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the second you thought you succeeded and you felt proud of yourself.

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And the same thing, if you feel ashamed, you go in the opposite direction,

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then you go out and work out and you do things to go in the other direction.

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This is called the licensing effect.

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So I found out that the addiction to pride and the subdiction from

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shame, which is an amygdala response in most human beings,

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is a survival response, avoiding predator seeking prey,

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avoiding shame seeking, you know, pride.

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And this is not where maximum performance occurs.

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It's been shown that maximum performance,

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maximum achievements occur at the border of support and challenge,

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the border of the pride and shame, the authentic self which sits in the center.

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So that's a man on a mission.

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I'd rather call myself a man on a mission and not label myself successful,

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or failure. I don't like to think of myself, I don't see failure.

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I see feedback. And I don't see negative, failure,

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where the feedback is trying to get me to be positive,

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I also see feedback from the positive, to humble me,

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to get me back down into equilibrium. So I learned,

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I noticed that the second I get really cocky and really elated,

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I attract challenging, oh tragic events to humble me.

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If you go and look and make a look at all the moments you've had in your life

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where you've had tragic events, I guarantee you were cocky, elated, manic,

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puffed up, and excited about something and thinking you're greater than it is.

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You know? So I'm not here to promote the idea of success.

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I'm here to promote the idea of a man on a mission or a woman on a mission,

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living by highest priority where you're more objective, more neutral,

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more resilient, more adaptable. See if the second you think you're successful,

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you can get addicted to that and you can fear it's loss.

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And many people get depressed when they've had a success and they get a

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high from it and now they can't get it again.

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And then they fear the loss of it and they feel like a failure,

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because they're addicted to success. And I'm not interested,

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I have no interest in getting attached to those. As the Buddha says,

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the desire for that which is unavailable,

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and the desire to avoid that which is unavoidable,

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the success and failure illusion, is the source of human suffering.

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So I'm not interested in promoting a one-sided world.

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I'm not interested in you being optimistic or only positive, only peaceful,

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only one-sided. Frankly, it's not real.

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And it's not sustainable.

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And although you may delude yourself into thinking that's going to happen,

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be honest and take a really good look.

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I did a very two year survey of myself and looked at what I actually did and the

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perceptions I had of myself. And it was humbling.

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I realized that my idea of success and failure were oscillating states of mind.

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And they were going up and down,

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and I had a homeostatic mechanism inside my brain to try to keep me centered

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because it wanted me authentic. And when I'm puffed up and think I'm successful,

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that's not authentic. When I'm beat up and I'm feeling like a failure,

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that's not authentic. When I'm authentic, I don't attach to those labels.

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I'm not addicted to one and subdicted from the other, seeking and avoiding.

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I'm not with impulse and instinct from the amygdala.

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I'm in the executive center,

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objective and neutral and resilient and adaptable,

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and I'm focusing on a big vision. See, if you think you're successful,

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that means you have a small vision and few experiences.

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And if you have failure, again, you have actually set up a fantasy.

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And most of the failure sensations are due to fantasies that did

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not come true. And a lot of people think they have, I mean,

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people come up to me and say, you know, I feel like I have a failed marriage.

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And I said, why can you have a failed marriage? Did you learn something from it?

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Well yeah.

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And are you now ready to go on and learn from that and go on to the next

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relationship? Yes. Well, why do you have to label that a failure?

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And why do you have to label this success? See,

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sometimes people have this unrealistic ideal,

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this moral hypocrisy of one sidedness that you're supposed to be a certain way

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and if it doesn't match that, now you're a failure, and if it does that,

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you're proud. But you're now cocky and proud if you're one, and arrogant,

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if you're one, and humbled if you're the other.

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I'm not interested in those polarities. They're,

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because anything you infatuate with or anything you resent,

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occupies space and time in your mind and runs you. You know,

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that's one of the reasons I teach the Breakthrough Experience.

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I'm a firm believer that if you go in there and take some infatuation in

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yourself, pride in yourself or infatuation with others,

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and you learn to ask the right questions to neutralize that, they don't run you.

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But I guarantee you, if you look very carefully,

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if you're highly infatuated with somebody,

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they'll occupy space and time in your mind, it's hard to sleep at night,

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and you'll end up sacrificing really high value things in your life to be with

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them. And if you're really cocky and self-righteous in yourself,

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you'll narcissistically project your values onto others and expect others to

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live in your values. And both of these are self-defeating.

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One is a narcissistic thing that backfires.

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And the other is an altruistic thing that backfires.

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We're not here to be narcissistic and expect others to live in our values and

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try to get something for nothing.

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We're not here to be altruistic and sacrifice what we're doing for others and

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then build a presentment.

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We're here to have sustainable fair exchange out of equity and equanimity

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and have a real authentic self. We all want to be loved for who we are,

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but we're not who we are if we're proud and cocky,

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and we're not who we are when we're shamed and minimizing ourselves.

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So the idea of success and failure are labels.

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They're signs of incomplete awareness about human behavior as far as I'm

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concerned. So I don't promote that. But in the Breakthrough Experience,

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I teach you how to dissolve the distractions of those two states,

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the idea of success and failure,

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because the second you're so infatuated with success,

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you're going to fear it's opposite.

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The more you're infatuated with what your success says,

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and the more you have a fantasy about what it is.

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And a fantasy is sometimes a one-sided world, you know,

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positive without negative or you know, money without work or something,

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some fantasy, you're going to end up having a fear of failure.

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And the fear of failure's going to preoccupy your mind,

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just like the fantasy's going to occupy your mind and it's going to distract

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you. I'd rather get focused on my mission.

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And my mission is to continually refine and educate, in my case,

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keep educating myself and learning everything I can that can help people do

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something extraordinary with their life and keep refining the knowledge and

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organizing the knowledge and disseminating that knowledge in every possible

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vehicle. And what people label me of success and failure mean very little.

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And by the way, other people's opinion of you is not where it's at anyway.

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If you're sitting there worried about what other people think about you,

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you're distracted. You always want to compare yourself not to other people,

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you want to compare your actions to what's highest on your values.

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That's why in the Breakthrough Experience,

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I actually help people identify what is it that's really highest on their

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values.

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When you live according to your highest values and live congruently with what's

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most important and prioritize your daily life and fill it with high priority

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actions, you are more objective, more resilient, more adaptable,

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more neutral in your perception of yourself,

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less likely to think you're a success or a failure.

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But the second you're doing low priority things and you're unfulfilled and

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you're trying to live in other people's values,

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you're going to have a moral injected values from other people.

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This is what Freud called the superego.

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And the superego then judges you and makes you proud or shamed and you get into

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the polarity of success and failure.

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That's because you're minimizing yourself to somebody else and putting them on a

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pedestal or exaggerating yourself and minimizing other people and putting them

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in a pit. We're not here to judge people, we're here to love people.

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We're not here to, for success or failure.

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We're here to serve and sustainable fair exchange where we're actually being

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compensated fairly for what we do,

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and do that in a way that is inspiring.

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Some of the people I know that are very high achieving are not cocky.

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You know, I've met some very powerful people, very wealthy people,

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very high profile people, many celebrities, many business leaders,

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some of them are extremely humble individuals.

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And if you ask them about their success, they don't even think about it.

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That's not their focus.

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They're focused on what they can do tomorrow on their mission.

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And they're not sitting and going, well,

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I live vicariously through what I achieved in the past.

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They're on their mission.

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So that's why I teach people in the Breakthrough Experience how to prioritize

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your life, how to determine your values, how to be more objective,

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how to get in the executive center, how to not let the amygdala run your life.

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How not to let the labels you give yourself or others interfere with the love

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that you have for yourself. And then I teach in the Breakthrough Experience,

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the Demartini Method.

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And this is an absolute gold mine on how to dissolve the emotional baggage just

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like I did, you know, if I'm up, what do I do?

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What were the things that I overlooked? And when I'm down, what do I do?

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If you haven't learned how to, you see, when you're infatuated with somebody,

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you're blind to the downsides.

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If you're resentful to somebody you're blind to the upsides.

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If you don't ask questions to help you see the downsides when you're infatuated

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or upsides when you're resentful,

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you're going to let the infatuation resentment run your life.

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And if you don't see the downsides of your pride when you're thinking you're

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successful,

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you're going to let your pride and your so-called success interfere with your

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achievements.

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Because you're going to end up giving licensure effect and you're going to end

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up devaluing and de-purposing your actions and going to lower priority actions.

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I've seen it,

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I've watched doctors and various people when I used to consult the 80s,

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a lot of doctors, they retired, they get millions of dollars,

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they retire and they're on the golf course and they think, okay,

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now I'm successful, I'm on the golf course. And within months,

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sometimes a year, they're like going, this is not what I expected.

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I'm losing my edge. I'm not inspired,

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I'm not feeling like I'm serving anybody and they end up going back and doing

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something more meaningful. So beware of the idea that you're successful.

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Be grateful for what you're achieving.

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Be grateful for the opportunity to do it with all the people that help you do it

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and all the clients that you help to do it.

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But don't puff yourself up because it's going to, you'll pay a price.

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I'm not here to be successful.

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I'm here to be on a man on a mission.

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That's why I teach the Breakthrough Experience,

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to help people center themselves and see both sides of themselves.

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If you're puffed up and you're blind to your downsides,

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that's not the authentic you.

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And if you're beating yourself up and blind to the upsides,

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that's not the authentic you, you want to be loved for who you are,

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but you can't be loved for you are as long as you're being somebody you're not.

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And that's why in the Breakthrough Experience,

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I teach people how to love themselves, how to love people around them,

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how to balance out their perceptions,

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how to own the traits they see in other people,

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so you're not putting people in pedestals or pits and trying to change you

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relative to others or others relative to you,

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and labeling yourself success or failure and distracting yourself with these

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labels that are transient states of emotion,

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instead of long-term visions of achievement. I'd rather just keep going.

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You know, I got one more story I want to share. I was speaking,

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oh gosh, this would've been 1984.

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No, 1983. 1983,

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November I was at the Marriott Marquee in New York and I was speaking,

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there was about 5,000 doctors and there were 6 speakers.

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Each was going to speak for 20 minutes.

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So there's going to be a two hour session,

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and it was the best ideas to that can help you serve more people

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as a doctor. And I was in line and there was a guy ahead of me named Zev,

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and he's a lovely guy, very committed guy. His father was a speaker,

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his father spoke on that convention for many years.

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And he was standing in front of me and was a bit anxious. And he said to me,

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turned around to me, he says, you know, this is the day I've been waiting for,

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since I was a child, since I saw my dad on this stage.

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I said, so this is the ultimate end for you. And he says, I've,

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I finally arrived, I'm finally successful.

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And I thought in my mind, wow, this is interesting.

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He got up there and I can't say he did the greatest presentation he's ever

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given. I've seen him do much greater presentation,

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but he was so elated with the idea he was anxious,

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and he was enamored with himself and focusing on himself instead of focusing on

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the audience.

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If you're a professional speaker and you're thinking about yourself and you're

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thinking how successful you are,

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you're going to end up being arrogant and cut down by the clan,

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by the people out there that you're speaking to.

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But if you're humble, they lift you up. I've been watching that for years.

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So as he was about to go up on stage I heard him say, you know,

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I finally arrived. I'm now successful. And in my mind,

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you know I was 23, nearly 24 years old, in about a week I was going to be,

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I mean, pardon me, I was 28, yeah, 28.

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And I was about to turn 29.

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And in my mind I was thinking,

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this is not my idea of success.

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This is just one of a thousand,

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10,000 times I'm going to be speaking like this.

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I envision myself speaking around the world, in every country around the world.

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I've spoken now in 186 countries.

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So what I saw when I spoke was not,

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I was a success.

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I saw that I was a man on a mission with a message.

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And my presentation went really well.

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And I know when he came down off the stage,

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you could see he was distracted because he felt he let himself down.

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He got puffed up, thought he was successful, and got humbled, de-purposing.

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Where I was on a man on a mission and got opportunities to speak further from

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that very talk that day.

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I've gone on and now 40 years later, next year, this coming year,

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40 years later, I'm still speaking, still doing 300 plus presentations a year.

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So I don't think of myself as success, I think of myself as a man on a mission.

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So I just want to throw that out on you and let you know that the Breakthrough

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Experience and the Value Determination process,

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which is in the Breakthrough Experience and the Demartini Method,

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which is in the Breakthrough Experience,

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is a gold mine on how to not let emotions run your lives,

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not let other people's opinions distract you,

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not let the polarizations of pride or shame interfere with the authentic you.

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If you would like to be loved for who you are and not have being criticized at

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home because you're puffed up or built up because you're down,

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because before I did that exercise at my practice,

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my volatility in my business was quite up and down.

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I literally was bipolar in my feelings.

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The second I put that in there and I governed myself,

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people who can't govern themselves get governed by other people.

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If you're not empowering your life, other people overpower you.

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And when I governed myself, my practice was steady.

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So if you'd like to grow a more stable life, more stable business,

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more stable relationship,

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learn the arts of living by priority and learn how to do the Demartini Method to

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clear the baggage that distracts you,

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the moment you think you're success or failure, pride or shamed,

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putting people on pedestals or pits and put them all in your heart.

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When you put people in your heart and you live from your heart,

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you're going to have way more fulfillment in life. And I assure you,

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you're going to get more done. I've met a lot of people.

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I met a secretary of defense here this week who spoke here on the ship

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and he is one sharp cookie from the United States, one sharp dude.

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And I asked him how he started, he said, well, I was in Michigan,

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I was in school and I was studying Russian and I wanted to work for the

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government.

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And I wrote it down and I had a vision that I would work for the president

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someday. And he had a really clear vision. He said,

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I was so graced by the opportunity of serving people on both

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ends and negotiating and helping people in conflicts and

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issues. He says,

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I get to do that every day of my life and it is such an inspiration to do what I

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do. And I said, and I, if you read his accolades, you go,

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this is a very highly honored accolade individual,

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but he doesn't think himself as successful.

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He sees himself as a man on a mission. And since he was young,

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so very humble guy, lovely guy.

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So I'm just want to make sure I shared that idea with you.

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Come to the Breakthrough Experience.

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Let me train you on how to live by priority.

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Let me train you on how to get into the executive center where you're

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self-governed, where you're authentic. The very high medial prefrontal cortex,

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executive center of the brain is now according to Scientific American,

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in September, October, they've described it as the seat of the true self.

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Go read about it, it's interesting.

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And I've known that for years.

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But it was absolutely amazing to finally see a real scientific journal talking

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about that. It's the integration of ourself.

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And so the second we live by priority, that occurs. And when we do,

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we are least volatile, most stable, most centered, most focused,

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most prioritized, most engaged,

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most productive, most achieving, without the labels.

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And the second you start to get labels,

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if you don't know how to manage those polarities and bring those back into

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equilibrium, then come to the Breakthrough Experience.

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Let me show you how to do that. It's a gold mine,

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because then you're not letting the external world run. You know,

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what's interesting is, it's not the external world that

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We have control over our perception, decisions, and actions. You know,

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I was reading another article in Scientific American

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now,

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and it was talking about moral injury and it was a

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group of people that were wounded, in my opinion,

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by fantasies about how life is supposed to be and then they're not living up

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to that fantasy and they're self-depreciating and

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don't realize that they're not in their executive center.

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They've subordinated to outer authorities,

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they're living in their amygdala because of the unfulfillment and they're

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striving for fantasies of immediate gratification and trying to be one-sided.

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Anytime you try to be one-sided, you're automatically guaranteed to self defeat.

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So if you want to think that success is all positive,

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you're going to end up with failure that's going to give you negativities.

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I'm not interested in those labels.

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In the Breakthrough Experience I shatter those, I break those myths.

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I broke those 38 years ago. I've not ever gone back to those myths.

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As Dirac, the Nobel Prize winner says, it's not that we don't know so much,

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we know so much that it isn't so.

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We're taught so much misinformation about mastering our life.

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I've spent 50 years of my life working on how to master your life,

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how to achieve what it is you want to achieve,

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and not putting yourself on pedestals or pits, but actually being authentic,

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opening your heart and being grateful for your life on a daily basis.

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To me that's what matters. You know,

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I was talking to a group of doctors one time and I said one of the

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signs of your achievement is not just how much income you made, that's one,

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you can measure that, that's fine, it's a metric, no harm,

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but it's how many people wanted to follow your footsteps and go into the

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profession that you've done because you inspired them.

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Yeah.

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Because when you're doing something you're really inspired by and you're on a

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mission, there's something about you that's different. You're not arrogant,

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puffed up, you're just focused.

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So that's my message today. Go sign up for the Breakthrough Experience.

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I'm absolutely certain I've taught that program 1,165 times.

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I'm absolutely certain what you're going to learn in there is going to be

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something deeply meaningful. It's a trajectory changer.

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I ask people at the end of the program every week,

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how many of you learned something this week you could have gone your entire life

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and if you hadn't have been here, you would never have learned it?

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Every hand goes up. I am certain that will happen,

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because I've got a hundred percent track record of that for all these years,

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34 years.

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So if you'd like to go and spend 25 hours or 24 hours with me,

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you spent 30 minutes with me here, If you want to spend about 24,

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25 hours with me and go explore the laws of human mastery and develop

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your mastery of life, your authenticity,

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I'll teach you how to go beyond success, and how to have a fulfillment in life,

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an authentic life.

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The magnificence of who you are is far greater than any fantasies you'll ever

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have on yourself. Don't get caught in a success fantasy.

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You'll self defeat.

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I think that had an impact on Robin Williams and many other people.

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Many people who think they're successful, usually come and crumble down.

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You'll see that in the biographies of many successful people.

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They got cocky and they overdid things and they thought they were invincible and

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they humbled. I'm not interested in that.

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The magnificence of who you really are,

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an authentic state with a tear in your eye,

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living by priority and dissolving the emotions that distract you is a way more

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profound state. So go and sign up for the Breakthrough Experience.

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I assure you're going to learn something you're not going to learn anywhere

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else. And I assure you can't hang out with me for 24,

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25 hours without having something happen. So just join me.

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I assure you that you're going to have a,

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you're going to say thank you at the end, but by the way, if you come,

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don't think it's a spectator game. Don't sit there and just go,

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want to go rah-rah and, you know, stand up on chairs and go rah-rah,

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that's not what I'm going to be doing.

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We're going to explore how human behavior works.

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We're going to teach you the principles and methods and the action steps on how

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to achieve. But I'm not going to give you fantasies.

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I'm not going to just sell you fantasies and make you feel good.

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I don't find that, those are transient things that are just marketing gimmicks.

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I'm interested in the real material.

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That actually is something you can stand on, so 20 years from now,

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you'll be able to take that information and still stand on it.

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So come see if it's not what I just said, true.

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I look forward to seeing you there.

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Thank you for joining me today and just contemplate what I said out of this.

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But I just love sharing an idea that just might make a difference in your life

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and hopefully this one did.

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So I'll see you at the Breakthrough Experience and

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you this coming week too. Okay, love y'all.