hey Damon Cart here from life mastery gym which used to be NLP gym as you
probably guessed even though NLP gym is going away that
does not mean that I am going away and you probably notice before tuning into
this video that there have been a lot of changes on the website and here on the
YouTube channel of the Facebook channel pretty much everywhere we're changing a
lot of things that we're doing here and I started already getting questions
what's going on why are you changing the name what's the point of all this are
you still been going to do NLP processes and techniques are you still
going to do videos about this and the answer is yes
of course I am so why the change well it's really a matter of staying
congruent and this is as you know very important in neuro linguistic programming
staying congruent means saying what you're going to do and then doing it
that means what you say matches what you do so it's really about alignment it's
about having your behavior match your values having it match what you say
you're going to do I've found in myself over the probably that especially the
last year probably the last more like two years is realizing that there's
something beyond just learning NLP and geeking out on NLP which I can totally
do and I know a lot of you can and for a long time NLP has definitely been my
passion what I'm starting to realize now though is that it's very short-sighted
if all you do is learn NLP techniques and processes and cultivate the skills
without really plugging this into your life and creating the life that you want
to live and that's been coming through I feel like my videos it's been coming
through even when I'm teaching NLP processes that I'm
I have a tendency now to sort of put them in perspective for what it is that
I'm creating in my life what it is you might want to create in your life and I
just started to realize there really needs to be a bigger vision so it's
let's think of the let's use the gym analogy because it's in LP GM and our
life mastery gym you can go into a gym and make your muscles bigger and that's
fine and I used to do that when I was in high school actually my muscles didn't
get big but I got stronger and that's that's great but I eventually left it
because it wasn't doing something more for me the health part was good but it
was like stronger in order to do what and then I came across yoga and the
feeling and the joy that I got from yoga was well how is it adding to my everyday
life in other areas of my life when I wasn't practicing yoga so if you're
going into a gym and you're becoming stronger well what is it why are you
becoming stronger in order to do what what do you want to do with that
strength and so that's where I came to with NLP is what do I want to do with my
skills with my techniques with the the processes that I that I implement and if
I'm just solving day-to-day problems as they come and not doing it with an
overall vision of how I want to live my life then I'm really missing out on the
bigger picture and I noticed this with some of my students they were doing the
same thing it was it was more about a focus on just learning NLP and just
getting good at it and what I found myself starting to
teach and also coach with my coaching clients is that it's really important to
understand the bigger picture it's really important to understand the
greater vision you want for your life and plug in everything that you're
learning about NLP into that bigger vision and what a vision really is a
vision is really a direction and if you're not clear on the direction that
you want your life to go there's a you can do a lot of NLP and
you can do it for fun but it's not going to really ultimately fulfill you it's
not going to ultimately give you what you want so I decided to take this to
the next level and as you if you've watched my videos you know I'm always
talking about values elicitation I've done a few videos on it but if you've
done any of my online trainings or if you've done coaching with me you know
that's where we always start because it's so important to know what your
values are and that basically creates the vision so I sat down and I started
asking myself what is NLP Jim all of that what's important about it what does
it do for me and what does it do for you and through that process of eliciting my
values around NLP Jim I ended up with life mastery because that's ultimately
what it's about now life mastery doesn't mean mastering everything that you do
life mastery the way that I mean it is really not about coming to some place
where you can say I've mastered everything know it life mastery is about
who you become in the pursuit of your desires and your passion so it's not
really whether or not you hit the an arbitrary bar it's not whether or not
you hit some sort of goal it's taking say the next 10 years of your life and
giving it everything you've got putting yourself out there letting go of
judging yourself letting go of thinking what others might think about you or
what how they might judge you it's like what happens when you really let go and
you just go for it you allow your abilities to come out you allow your
skills to come out you allow your potential to come out of you go for all
the things that you might be too scared to go for and again it's not about the
accumulation of things it's not about the accumulation of material wealth but
along the way you probably will do that but what happens is is that you it it
makes you different it you cultivate it evolves you you discover yourself you
get better at things you 1/4 skills so it's so important that you master your
life before you master anything else so when you think about like what it is you
want to be who you want to be and what do you want to be doing and say the next
10 years dedicate the next 10 years to master in your life what else are you
gonna master there are plenty of things out there to master and I'm not saying
you shouldn't pursue something and if you're really passionate about it and
you want to practice it every single day for eight hours a day go for it I'm not
saying you shouldn't master things that way if that's what if that's where your
potential is pulling you then go for it but what I'm also saying is don't
neglect the other areas of your life so it's one thing that the master like one
specific skill and specialize in that and it's a beautiful thing when somebody
does exactly that and you watch that it's it's amazing but a lot of times
those people often neglect other areas of their life and it's not necessary you
can you can be socially connected you can have a great relationship with a
partner you can have a great career and then you can also have this thing that
you master but more important than that is mastering your life and that's by
going for these things going for your potential taking two or three things
every single year and learning them doesn't mean you have to master them it
just means learn something new discover yourself push yourself drive yourself
raise the bar set goals do things that scare you take risk and along the way
what it creates who you become is what life mastery is about I want to help my
NLP students and money NLP clients do is not just learn NLP is create that
greater vision for your life what's really going to fulfill you what would
you be doing what would you be seeing what would be happening in your life say
10 years from now you've totally mastered your life what would that be
like and NLP should be in service to that it
shouldn't be the overall focus you have to focus on it when you're practicing it
but what's going to give fuel to your practice what's going to not just give
fuel it will be the fuel of your NLP practice is that greater overall vision
of who you want to become and what is it you want to do what is the life that you
want to live and that's the direction that this channel is going that my
business is going and so in order for me to stay congruent and precise that's why
we're now going from NLP gym to life mastery gym and like I said not a whole
lot really going to change about the content of my videos it's just that I
felt like this I needed to make this update it's already been happening I
mean this is already in my videos if you've been watching my recent videos
you know that this is kind of what I've been doing anyway so if you watch my
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happy new year I hope you have some goals lined up for yourself for the
coming year I know 2018 was one of the best years I've ever had I had goals and
expectations and I exceeded all of them and it's gonna be hard to top in 2019 so
I'm sad to see 2018 go really excited about the possibilities in 2019 so I
hope you've got a vision I hope you have a plan some goals a mission and if you
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