We're not here to live in the shadows of anyone.

We're here to stand on the shoulders of all giants that have demonstrated

exemplary status, in tune, on target and on track with what's really,

truly inspiring and meaningful to them.

Your life is your masterpiece.

And I think that that's the very title itself kind of calls you

into wanting to master your life and make a masterpiece out of it.

I had the opportunity to meet with a gentleman who is a famous painter

and his paintings have been basically sold around the world,

and he did painting for me.

And I watched him do some of the painting,

and he would get into,

enter into a zone where I don't think he was anywhere but in the painting,

it was really quite interesting. He was very present. He was very clear,

certain, and he saw in his mind's eye the image.

And his paintings, popes and prime ministers,

and many people around the world have utilized.

And he did a painting for me called 'Angels and Demons',

which is a pair of opposites that I asked for.

And the watching him do his work and create his masterpiece,

and they are masterpieces, it's like a Salvador Dali of today,

watching him work and watching him present was inspiring. You could not,

not watch him without almost a welling up inside, a tear in the eye.

Now I was many years ago in the 1990s, early 90s, about 1990 in fact,

I was in Mexico and I took a group of my students down into

the interior of Mexico. And we studied the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Olmecs.

We studied the cultures and we went to many of the ruins,

we toured all over Mexico, literally the whole country we covered much of it.

We came upon

a place where the famous black pottery, the

Rosa family created the black pottery masterpieces.

And Mrs. Rosa had done it for literally nearly a century.

And now her son who started when he was three to four was there and he was

probably 60 or so at the time.

And we watched him take mud, literally raw mud,

it still had stuff in it. And I watched him with his hands,

with his eyes closed,

go through and pull out debris inside the mud and toss it to the side onto a

sheet. And I watched him then put water with it.

And I watched him make the mud, anything that wasn't,

that had a rock or something in it, he pulled out, it was amazing watching him.

This was real raw mud from the ground.

And I watched him prepare the mud for this pottery.

And then he had a coconut shell on top of a reversed

coconut shell, half and half,

that swiveled and pivoted on this coconut shell,

sitting on this box, this

you could say it's like a carton and he

spun it with this hand once he got the mud prepared and he had a little bit more

water to make sure the mud was the right consistency.

And then he took a glop of the mud and he put it on top of the

spinning coconut shell.

And I watched him then start to form it with his hands.

His eyes were closed the entire time.

And I watched him start to form and to mold,

spinning this coconut shell on top of a coconut shell.

This is the original format that his mother had done, the structure,

the way he did it. And I watched him start to form some pottery.

Now, what was it amazing is as he started to form it,

it's coming into shape and it's spinning and it's spinning amazingly.

I don't know how he did it. We tried to do it. None of us could do it.

There's a group of us, after he finished. No one could do it.

It was like an art.

And we watched him form this black pottery and as he's spinning it,

he's taking another piece of mud and he throws it on there, literally perfectly,

rolls it and he throws it on there and makes a handle and then smooths

it every time it goes around and this thing is spinning really rapidly, smooth,

it's miserable to make the handle. And he does it on the exact opposite side,

makes a perfect handle. And then each of his fingers,

he had carved into different nail shapes,

his nails had different designs on it. And he could literally with his fingers,

carve different designs onto the black pottery as it's spinning and making

zigzags and making lines and making marks,

I don't know how he combined his fingers to make images of

little animals and things. I mean, it was just, it was unbelievable to watch.

And I looked around at my students and each of them were in tears

because they realized they're in the presence of a master working,

making his masterpiece.

Now I had a group of students with me,

I don't think anybody walked out of there without buying at least $300 worth of

pottery,

watching that you had to take that because you knew what was involved in

creating it. And he had a warehouse and people were selling it.

It was a giant warehouse. This guy had been making pottery for about 60 years,

57 years I think,

and this warehouse was full.

So he does it from early in the morning till probably late at night and he makes

pottery, he's doing what he loves, and he closes his eyes,

he did the entire thing without looking at, it was a masterpiece.

He saw it in his mind's eye,

and he'd let his body do it. Now

he refined it and he mastered his skill,

but it's kind of like Michael Phelps when he goes out and gets 22 gold medals

by seeing it in his mind's eye.

We have in our brain,

a forebrain and a sort of a hindbrain area, midbrain hindbrain,

and the forebrain has the advanced foresight capacity

with the executive center.

And the hind brain has the capacity to survive.

One is thrival and excellence and masterpiece,

making a master out of your destiny and the other is survival and

reaction. One's proaction, one's reaction.

One's foresight, one's hindsight.

One learns by seeing it in the mind's eye ahead of time and creating it as a

masterpiece.

One is reacting and impulsive and

instinctual responses to external sources.

So one's intrinsic and driven from within,

one's extrinsic and reactive from without.

If we want to make our life a masterpiece,

the mastery of the inner intrinsic

calling is more important than the extrinsic reacting.

And that only occurs when we have learned to govern our own emotions.

Warren Buffet says, until you can manage your emotions,

don't expect to manage money.

And Robert Greene in his '48 Laws of Power' says until you can manage your

emotions,

the single most thing that undermines leadership is not knowing how to overrule

and govern the emotions.

Whenever we are able to take our emotions and you might say transcend them and

neutralize them and not let them run our lives,

we we have a more masterful pathway.

The executive area of the brain,

the forebrain is known for a number of capacities.

It has connections into the visual cortex, V5 V6,

you have a primary cortex and the occiput. Then you have secondary, tertiary,

and as you go out,

you get more and more associations and more and more connections to different

areas of the brain.

And V5 and V6 is one of the most associative areas of the cortex

for the visual. And what's interesting is,

you now have access to an infinite supply of possibilities in your

brain, not just what you're seeing with the receptors of your eyes,

but all the capacities.

So instead of just receiving and perceiving what's in front of you,

you can close your eyes and you can associate anything to it.

And that area of the brain is where we have original thinking,

creative thinking, it's a more advanced aspect of our visual construct.

Now this executive area goes directly to it.

And therefore we have the capacity when we're living in our highest values,

living in our forebrain and living by priority to have the greatest

inspired vision. I've been teaching the Breakthrough Experience,

one of my signature programs for many years now, 32 almost.

And what's interesting is whenever I see somebody ask the right questions,

transcend emotions,

balance out their perceptions and watch the executive center come on, online,

all of a sudden they get a tear in their eye and they look up and you can see

them seeing a new possibility, a vision.

And the moment we're in our highest values, the moment

the moment that we're living by priority, the moment we're objective,

the moment we're centered and present,

our executive center lights up that area and we have inspired vision.

And I've been blessed when I was 17 years old,

I was in the presence of a great teacher.

And that night I had one of those moments and I saw a vision

of what I wanted to do, to travel and teach.

And that was a far stretch compared to what I was doing at the time,

but it was so lucid and so clear that I later had it

painted by a famous painter and it sits in my office as a reminder of the

primary mission and vision that I've been on. And that clarity,

once you hold your mind focused on it,

if you don't waiver from it, because it's inspiring to you,

allows you to incrementally refine your actions and build

incremental momentum in the achievement of that vision.

And that's how you make your life a masterpiece.

You make your life a masterpiece by defining it clearly of what you want.

Every year I also teach a program called Master Planning for Life.

And the whole purpose of that program is to start designing that.

Most people live by duty, by what they think they 'should be' doing,

'ought to be' doing, 'supposed to be' doing, by an external source.

And they're conforming and subordinating to the world around them to fit into

the herd and to fit in because if not they feel a banished or abolished.

And they're frightened.

But the master is not the one that's the follower,

the master is the unborrowed visionary.

The one that comes up the original creation from the experiences and

associations in their own experience and adding that to their vision.

And they follow that. And those with the vision flourish.

And those without a vision perish, as they say.,

And any detail you leave out of your vision is a detail that you end up having

as a challenge along the way,

and your vitality in your life is directly proportion to the vividness of that

vision.

So by prioritizing your life and staying focused on the highest priority and

delegating lower priority things and figuring a way of being remunerated

fairly and fulfilled in the area of the highest value,

you're able to delegate and release yourself from things that self-depreciate

you and scatter you and distract you and put you in your amygdala,

which is the more the hind brain function, which is impulsive and instinctual.

And impulsive is seeking things for pleasure and

from pain,

which are the two forms of distractions that distract our mind from being

present and certain as a masterpiece creator.

But the moment we actually prioritize and stay focused and centered on a

clear vision,

another part of the forebrain comes active and that's the strategic planning

center.

The strategic planning center is able to discern out of all the associations and

possibilities that it sees the data that it needs in order to create what

it visions.

And what's interesting is the pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus is a filtering

and gating mechanism that filters out all the possibilities and allows you to

extract out the highest priority observations and

sensations that allow you to create the wisest

decisions. In other words you have the highest level of awareness and

potential when we're living by our highest values and that we filter out all of

the extraneous things that distract us out of the infinitude of possibility to

get down into the focus that we're creating.

The moment we actually strategically plan,

the purpose of strategic planning is to use our imagination,

not to create fantasies or to live in phobias, which is our amygdala,

but to refine and see if I was to do this, what are the consequences?

if I was to do this, what are the consequences?

And do something in advance and look,

and mitigate the risks and think of the possibilities and prepare for things,

so you have a plan of action that you follow that you know for certain,

that you're clear on, where you're going, how you're going to get there.

Those with a plan are the people that go farther than people without it.

Alec MacKenzie in his 'Time Trap' showed very clearly that the people at the top

of the game of life plan more, delegate more,

strategize more,

and the people at the bottom react more and don't have foresight because they

keep pursuing goals that aren't really goals, they're fantasies,

and then they don't show up and then they go, 'why bother planning,

cause it doesn't happen anyway.' Unless you know the distinction between a real

objective and a fantasy, when you're setting goals,

you're probably going to bang your head against the wall and be pursuing that

which has no accomplishment.

In other words pursuing something that has really a fantasy of one

sidedness and not both sides. An objective has both sides.

You think of the upsides and the downsides, and you

You meditate on the evils as the Stoics used to say, Marcus Aurelius emphasized,

and you concentrate on the thing and knowing full well you're prepared for both

sides.

If you're in a relationship and you think there's going to be all positives,

no negatives, all support, no challenge, all kinds, no cruel, all peace, no war,

you're not prepared for the relationship.

But if you understand that there's going to be both and you're prepared for both

and you can handle both,

you're mature enough to be able to handle a true relationship. Well,

the same thing with the goal,

a true and objective is when you're willing to and

A fantasy is when you want to get rid of one half of it and then only get the

one half, the other half. And that sets you up for self defeat. Now,

once you strategically plan and you have your imagination,

not imagining phobias or philias,

but actually focusing on all the things that could go wrong and how do you solve

them and all the things that go right, and how to prepare for it,

when you do you're now ready and now have a plan of action.

And you're now able to follow that plan.

The people who have clarity of plans and know what to follow and just stick to

those plans, strategies, they're better than impulses.

I always say that unless you fill your day with high priority actions that are

strategized towards an objective,

your day is gonna fill up with low priority distractions that are going to

scatter you.

The third aspect of the executive center is the spontaneous

action.

When you're living by your highest value you're spontaneously active towards

doing it. I spontaneously do my research every day.

I don't have to be reminded to do that.

If you need to be reminded to do what you say is important,

what you say is important, isn't important.

One of the signs of the executive center,

the pathway of mastery and refining skills is highly refined,

specific strategically followed actions that are spontaneous.

You just do it. You know, as Richard Branson, screw it, just do it.

You just do it. You don't sit there and wonder about it.

You don't doubt about it.

You just take action because you see it in your mind's eye. It's so clear.

I've been teaching in the Breakthrough Experience a Love List where you actually

write down what you would love to create in your life.

And when people are really, really in their executive center,

really in their forebrain, they feel when they're writing,

it becomes automatic writing. They don't have to edit it.

It just comes fluently out.

The degree of fluency you have in your life is based on the congruency you have.

When you're setting a goal that's congruent with your

fluency of expression, fluency of thought, fluency of action,

and fluency of speech.

So the moment you actually are really writing down on a love list what's really

truly inspiring, that's highest on your value, that you see in your forebrain.

You can't even write as fast as it pours out of you.

It becomes an automatic writing. It doesn't require editing.

It becomes almost inspired. You almost get tears in your eyes. Like,

like Tom cruise in Jerry McGuire when he was writing his mission statement and

it poured out with tears in his eyes and he just,

he had a clarity of what he was going to do. This is a sign of an illumination.

This is a sign of an inspiration.

This is a sign of a penetrating the mysteries of the unknown about how

you want to create what's in your life, the strategy.

And you feel that it's impossible for you not to fulfill it.

You feel it you're destined. You're destined for it, your destiny,

you can't not do it.

When I'm writing down my dreams and my goals I want it to come from that

perspective.

I want it to be so perfectly clear in my mind's eye that that's the feeling I

have. When you have that and you keep refining it,

you can see it in your mind's eye. It's indelibly in front of you.

And when you do it, you spontaneously act. You can't wait to start on it.

So you have inspired vision, strategic planning,

and you tend to want to execute that plan.

And the fourth thing about the executive function is there's fibers from that

executive area also down into the amygdala that

stimulate glutamate, which is facilitative, neurotransmitter and GABA,

which is an inhibitory one. And it monitors, regulates,

and modulates and moderates,

the impulses and instincts that normally distract people from their mission.

When people are really on their mission time, you don't notice it.

You don't notice things. It just seems like the day just disappears, poof,

because you're so present.

When you extract out space and time from your mind and become present in an

inspired focus and clear vision, and you can articulate.

The way you know you have a clear vision is you can articulate in your mind's

eye what you're seeing, and there's no hesitancy, there's fluency,

that's congruency. That's when you're on your highest value.

That's when you're really in your masterpiece path. And it is impossible,

and I say impossible to be in that state and return to that

state and stay in that state as much as possible without creating a masterpiece

out of your life. Why? Because you tend to walk your talk.

You're not limping your life.

You tend to expand your space and time horizons and events of the space and time

horizons give you permission to create goals that are even beyond your life.

You create legacies, you create immortality, you leave

and it's impossible for the people around you not to notice you,

because you're exemplifying what's possible.

And all human beings yearn to express that masterpiece.

So whoever walks the path of the master, whoever lives congruently and inspired,

whoever's willing to go after a vision that's unborrowed,

they automatically give permission for other people in a chain reaction to do

the same and they're drawn and magnetized to them and the people because they're

fulfilling what's meaningful to them by seeing it,

they feel that this is a charismatic individual that magnetizes them to them,

because they want to be around them. And whatever the vision is,

they want to participate in it because of the reward that they're getting by

being around something that's exemplifying true vision.

And so what happens is, the people, places, things, ideas, and events,

the synchronicities that the Secret movie was talking about,

they increase the probability of these synchronicities occurring in your life

and you're in what Jim Parker used to call the teleological naturally right

state, the naturally right individuals. You know,

even though some of you may or may not appreciate Donald, but Donald Trump,

but Donald Trump gave me a real interesting little

ago, almost 30 years ago.

I'm always at the right place at the right time to meet the right people to make

the right deal. And I really believe that that's what starts happening.

You enter into the science of being naturally right. You start to resonate,

you start to be synchronously at the right place. You see things,

you see opportunities.

Your brain is now electrified and alert and awakened to what the

vision is. So to create a life masterpiece,

it's clearly defining what it is that you're going to create.

You can't scatter yourself into infinitude.

You can't be at the mercy of the impulses and instincts of all the distractions.

It's when the voice and the vision on the inside is louder than all those

opinions on the outside, that you begin to master your life.

And that's the path of the master.

And making a masterpiece is refining and refining and refining it.

You know, I sometimes write books and manuals for programs.

I've done over 300 of those. And these are books.

Some of them are a thousand pages. And when I do them,

I work on them and I refine them. And over the years I can keep refining them.

And I have my own Master Planning book, which is 26 volumes,

26 volumes. And I've been working on it for all these years,

48 years.

And my mission statement is sitting in there and I've updated it 77 times

in 48 years. I read it, I refine it. I read it, I refine it.

And I don't stop until a tear of gratitude,

tears of gratitude are confirmations that you're in a moment of authenticity and

you're clear and you're living by priority and your executive center is on,

you're inspired. And this is the key to creating that masterpiece,

giving yourself permission to be the authentic you,

and not distracting yourself about how you 'should be', 'ought to be',

'supposed to be', 'got to be', 'have to be', 'need to be', 'must be',

according to those living in mediocrity.

We're not here to live in the shadows of anyone.

We're here to stand on the shoulders of all giants that have demonstrated

exemplary status of position themselves in the

zone. In tune, on target and on track with what's really,

truly inspiring and meaningful to them. When you do you live a meaningful life,

the mean, the path of the center, you're centered.

You're not eccentrically wobbling and you're not in uncertainty.

You're in a state of certainty. You know your mission.

I know my mission is a teacher, I've been doing in 48 years.

I'm inspired today as I was when I started, I love what I'm doing.

And I believe that that's what you deserve. That's why all my programs,

all my seminars, all my little webinars, all these little messages,

every single week, every day, throughout the day, it's all geared to that.

Because you deserve to live an inspired life, you deserve to have a masterpiece.

You deserve to have a meaningful, inspirational, fulfilling life.

And I'm certain,

I've been spending the last 48 years studying the great masters,

the great leaders, the great Nobel prize winners, the great philosophers,

the great spiritual leaders, the great business leaders, in every field,

great sports leaders, what's common to them.

And what I'm sharing with you is the basic principles.

And I want to share those with you because I want you to do something

extraordinary, because I learned from Zig Ziglar,

If I help you do something extraordinary, I get to do something extraordinary.

We rise together.

So your life is designed to be a masterpiece,

the magnificence of who you are far exceeds any fantasies you'll put on it.

So don't inject the values of others and try to be somebody you're not and be

second at being somebody else. Allow yourself to be first at being you.

You don't want to be a second Elvis. You want to be you.

The magnificence of who you are is what matters.

And that masterpiece of you, comes from living by the highest priorities,

most meaningful priorities you have in your life. That's why on my website,

I have the Value Determination process to automatically gear you,

to help you identify what's really most important. Not what you think it is,

not what you wish it would be, but what your life demonstrates it is.

Because looking at what you spontaneously are inspired to do is the path of this

mastery path. Mine is in teaching, mine is in writing,

mine is in sharing ideas. But each of you have your own unique path.

And even if it's simpler in teaching or coaching or healthcare

or being an entrepreneur, whatever it is, it has a uniqueness and it's,

if we're sitting there comparing ourselves to others

instead of comparing our daily actions to our own highest values,

we've already distracted ourselves. Don't look to the sides, laterally,

look in the center, look in your heart,

look inside what your eyes vision bring,

and you'll make a masterpiece. And each time you do that,

as you walk the path of the master,

your space and time horizons are going to grow and eventually going to have a

celestial view, not just a terrestrial view. I

always say that at the level of our soul, nothing's missing in us,

at the level of our senses things appear to be missing in us.

And our soul calls us to a celestial vision.

And when you have a celestial vision,

I was having dinner with Rupert Murdoch one time,

and I asked him how he created his empire. He says,

'I hold a globe in my hand and I spin it, and I ask;

what messages do I want to bring to what part of the world today?' And he has a

celestial view looking down on a terrestrial experience

view looking up.

If you want to be on top of the world instead of the world on top of you,

it's a celestial view. And that only occurs when we're living congruently,

according to what we value most and expanding our space

celestial perspective. And when we do, it's impossible,

nothing mortal down below can interfere with an immortal visionary.

So prioritizing your life is essential for that.

And having an astronomical vision instead of a little terrestrial

distraction. So give yourself permission to shine, not shrink,

to stretch not shrink,

and give yourself permission to go out and do something amazing.

And if you know inside you, there's an emergent leader,

so give yourself permission to live by what that is true leadership that you

want to be, give yourself permission to be the leader in your field,

to be great at what you do, to be number one at what you do,

to be the greatest at that, and you'll create a masterpiece.

So I just wanted to share that and spend a little time with you today to focus

you on the highest priority,

because I want you to do something extraordinary with your life.

There's nothing more inspiring than to get emails from students around the world

who accomplished amazing things,

sent out and done things that were extraordinary,

shared what their vision was and went out and did it.

That's the most inspiring thing that goes into my gratitude book today.

So by you going out and doing that, I win too. Now,

hopefully that idea of making your life a masterpiece,

at least what I said will now take you forward today.

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