What is the secret to a happy life?
Friends, this is a really good question
and it is absolutely worth exploring.
Kris Krohn here with Limitless TV,
excited to share my perspective on what
I've learned working with thousands of
people on how to create maximum
fulfillment and happiness in your life.
I can't believe I got duped. I mean I got
burned a big time by my own thoughts and
ideas. I thought I had the blueprint for
life all figured out. When I was young
and in my 20s and now in my 30s but I
had a lot of partners in their 50s and
60s and you know they all told me they
said, "Kris you know I've had a lot of
great financial success in my life but I
can't take back some of the time that I
lost." so I thought, "great I'm going to
retire really early" and I did. I thought
I had it figured out. And then I thought,
"well if I've got all the money coming in
then I should be able to live, you know,
be able to do all the world travel" which
I then did. I've been to, you know, a
couple dozen different countries and
loving life that way. And then I thought,
"oh I just need to take more time for my
family" and I did. And I've been duped
because too often I associated my
happiness with either having money
freedom or time freedom. But you know, it
is actually neither of those. I've had a
chance to travel around the world and
collect some really amazing things and
collect some really incredible
experiences. And a couple years ago, for
Christmas, I wanted to make my wife Glen
something very special and it required
me on this project to collect a hundred
of our favorite memories. So I went back
through all of our pictures and I found
the top 100 pictures out of ten thousand.
This represented 10 years of our life at
the time. And as I went through and found
the top 100 pictures out of 10,000, 91 of
them shared something in common with
each other. They all happened while we
were traveling. We were outside of our
our typical system of life, we were
outside of our routines, outside of our
patterns, and they became some of the
most favorite memories I've ever had. So
why do I say got duped? what really is
the secret to happiness? if it's not
money that can buy it because by the way
having money is nice. It's great to be
able to live in a home that you love
being and it's great to be able to world
travel, it's great being able to drive
the car that you drive that you want to
be driving, it's, it's great to know that
when you want something that if you
really want it you can have it.
Piece of cake. And yet what I've learned is that
none of those things as amazing as they
are, and they all have a very special
place, there's something more.
For just a moment recognize that every person you
meet,
they've got fears like you do. They've
got dreams like you do, they have hopes
like you do. In many ways, they are just
like you and yet in some ways they are
so incredibly different. We allow
languages to separate us, we allow age to
separate us, we allow beliefs to separate us
We allow the way people dress,
look and talk and act, and just about
everything to create separation. But when
you strip it all away, strip religion
away, strip culture away, the
reality is, we now have nearly 8 billion
people on this planet. And so many of us
are just like you trying to figure life
out. So while I have pursued money, and
while I pursued success, and
accomplishment, and achievement, while
I've pursued collecting things, and
having things, at the end of it now, what
stands out hands-down is the most
valuable, is my ability to connect.
You want to know how to be happy? you don't
have to be retired, you don't have to
have money, you don't have to have things,
you don't have to have a nice house, a
nice car, your most recent trip under
your belt, or your next one planned. What
you need is to connect. I want to share
with you a couple of exercises that you
can do right now to bring this happiness
in your life.
The first one is, I'm going
to invite you to close your eyes and take
a deep breath in through your nose and
take in some super deep breaths filling
your lungs as much as you can
and slowly releasing out through your
mouth. And as you breathe deeply, my
invitation is for you to put away your
anxieties, your worries, your bills, your
fights and arguments, what your teenager
just did, what your child just did, what
your spouse just did, your... the employee
that you work with, your boss that you
have, take it all away for a moment.
Imagine you didn't have to do anything
but it was time to simply be.
There's a
paradigm that says that, if you have
everything you want then you can be
everything you want. But in actuality
it's the other way around. It's learning
how to be if you want to create the
reality that want, and then whether you
have the money or not, it doesn't affect
you. Take this moment right now as you're
connecting to get in touch with who you
really are.
You are not your age, you're not your
mind, you're not your knowledge or your
degrees, you're not your body,
you're not even what you know. Who are
you when you strip all of that away? we
become very elemental. And this, whether
you want to call it a spirit or your
soul, get connected with this part of you.
This is the real part of you. This is the,
this is the part of you that says, "no
matter what I do or don't do, has no
bearing in this moment on Who I am"
And I want to invite you to try on that,
this truth. That you are enough, that you
are brilliant,
that you are priceless,
that you're precious.
And if you breathe in
those thoughts and maybe recite them out
loud or in your mind, I am precious.
I am priceless.
and you step in that energy
and let go of all the fear ,doubt and
worry, of all the thoughts of the day,
open your eyes. And now here's the real
exercise, go out today and take the next
person you meet and in this calm state,
greet them.
See them.
See past their
wrinkles, see past their beauty, or what
you consider ugly. Move past your
judgments. Move past rich and poor, move
past what you like about them and what
you
like about them. And as you put all that
away, What happens when you just allow
your soul to connect to theirs? and I
want to invite you to gaze into their soul.
Look into the window of their soul which
is their eyes and to connect with them.
Tes I know for some of us it's scary
because that's a lot of intimacy but I
want to invite you to actually step into
a very beautiful and appropriate
intimacy. One where you're simply seeing
them for who they are past all your
judgments. Someone else who has fears
dreams and hopes and yet they are
priceless, they are powerful like you,
they have a mission, they have a purpose,
and what feedback would you get this
person? what would you share with them?
what greatness do you see in them? having
these interactions for me are some of
the most meaningful. You know I can
invite you to come out to my three day
limitless event and it's three crazy
days where we are going to warp speed
through lifetimes and help you break
through the things in your life that
aren't working and yet when you're done
even though you may have walked on fire
or walked on glass or broke an arrow on
your throat and have these crazy
breakthroughs, the part that you will
likely enjoy the most is where you
recognize that you got to connect with
people in a way that you haven't for a
very long time
and that you possess the ability to do
that wherever you go. One of my favorite
things to do at the checkout line is to
look at the person, notice their nametag,
call them by name, express some gratitude
and thank them. Thank you for being here
when does your shift end? I'll share with
them something I like about them,
something nice about them, I'll show them
the greatness I see in them. Then as I
part not knowing if I'm not ever going
to see him again, I wish them everything
well and wonderful in their life. I share
the greatness that I see in them. Being
able to connect this way, being able to
get connected with, with human beings and
friends, if for some of you this is
floofy and loofy and weird and voodoowee,
listen, see people for who they really
are. Not what your judgments communicate
and the interactions that we have with
each other outside of all those
judgments for me they are more valuable
in those interactions than anything I'll
ever collect, any achievement I may ever
receive, any honors any amount of money,
my
life was meaningful because I'm
meaningfully connected with people. And
my friends that is for me, the secret to
happiness.
Try it on.
Kris Krohn here, thank you for
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