I sat down with my wife one day and I
said I'm tired of being in the business
world. I want to become a speaker. I've
done it for a little while. I enjoyed it
a great deal. I said I want to be a
speaker. But I don't want to start all
over again with these tiny rooms of
people. I want to get out there and do
big things. And she goes "Okay, let's do
that". And she goes "Well, what I suggest
you do is you partner with people". As
Janet would say "Get yourself some
enlightened alliances. Go out there and
find the right people". And she said "Who do
you want to work with?" And I said "I've
got the list." I started writing the list
down and what does my wife say to me about
that list? She goes "You can't work
with those people".
I said "Why not?"
She goes "Because they're good."
What?
She goes "No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I meant, I
meant they are only good. And you are
outstanding. And you don't know it. And
you need to get out there". I will tell
you Janet says this to me all the time.
For 10 years or five years or whatever.
"A butterfly can't see its own
wings.
You have no idea how brilliant you are.
You have no idea."
So my wife says to me
"Do something different". She says "I want
you to create a board of the
people that you're like afraid to write
on the board. That's what I want you to
do. That would be incredible." And I said
"Alright, fine." I'm a little annoyed
with her at this point because you know,
man, we don't love being coached by our
wives? So I go up on the board and I
write down Tony Robbins. "Ha", I say to her.
"Ha." She goes "Good start."
Fine and I go "Who else?" I go.
I know I know I know, the's the guy with the
second-largest seminar company in
in the world. I go 'Harv Eker".
She goes "Excellent, that's a good start."
And I said "Okay, who else? I want to write books."
"Ah what about like the most successful
author in the history of books? How about the
Jack Canfield?" I write on the list.
She goes "That's a great list." You want to
go for a walk on the beach?
Okay and then we go for a walk on the
beach and you guys heard Vishen talk about
this in some of you at A-Fest would have heard me talk
about this in Greece. We played the
'Wouldn't It Be Nice' game.
My wife and I just go on the beach and we talk
about wouldn't be nice if this happened?
Wouldn't it be nice if that happened?Wouldn't it
be nice if that happened? And then not too
long after that, I walk into a grocery
store in Turks and Caicos. Most of you
don't even know where Turks and Caicos
is. Because it's smaller than a postage
stamp. It has two grocery stores and I
happen to be in one of them and guess
who's in the lineup in front of me.
T. Harv Eker.
Now, how many of you guys
have seen somebody you know really
really well, I mean they're not your best
friend but you know them pretty well but
you see them in a place that you weren't
expecting them and you don't see them?
How many have had this experience? They
walk up and they say 'Hi' and you're going.
"I can't place you at all because you're
not wearing the suit that I'm used to."
Is this right? I would never have seen him
if I had not written his name on the
board. I would have been standing there
in the grocery store and he would not
have been present to me because we don't
see stuff. But once we begin to believe,
then our mind starts paying attention
and looking for evidence. And there he was.
Now, wait a minute. How many of you
have ever seen somebody really famous
thought it'd be really cool to go up and
talk to them but didn't do it? How many
have had this? So that's the next step. Why am
I gonna go talk to this guy? Only his
name was on the board.
How can I not? What do I do? How do I
explain to my wife that I put his name
on the board and then he was in the
store and I didn't say hello.
How do I do that? So what do I do? I have
a chat with him and then we're having a
barbecue at his house and then he tried
to sell me his company.
And we had all
these great talks. And then I got a
letter in the mail later and it said
"Dear Eric, you have been nominated for
membership in Jack Canfield's
Transformational Leadership Council."
Jack, he's on the board. Every six months,
Jack's a good buddy of mine. I said I'd hang
out with him every six months if not
more. And I'm like this is getting really
weird and then and then some of you guys
know the story, I get the phone call "Hey,
Tony Robbins would love to have you come
and teach business."
Oh man, I gonna go buy more
of those boards. They are magic.
They are magic.
But what's really magic is that in the
very same way when you buy a car and
suddenly you can see that car everywhere,
you know what I'm talking about, right?
Why couldn't you see it before?
I would put to you that everybody who uses
that example on stage doesn't fully
understand it yet because you could see
it before. Because if you couldn't have
seen it before you would have tried to
park where it was parked.
So you could see it before but you
couldn't see it for what it was. And I'm
telling you right now there are people
that a week ago you couldn't see them
for what they are. There are opportunities in
your life that you couldn't see what it
really was. The opportunity they really
represented. But as a result of what
you've done here, the people you've
connected with, the knowledge you've gained.
Now you will see those things
differently and all you have to do to
maintain that is act upon those visions.