first decision be yourself second decision what do I want third decision am I
willing to take 100% responsibility for my life and then once you do that if
you're willing no blaming no complaining no excuse making then what are the
strategies and tools that keep my mind focused to keep me active and doing the
things I need to do so for the mind we need to be exposed to positive people
you know you become the people you hang out with basically we want to make we
want to be around people that are goal-oriented spiritual healthy you know
you know supportive affirming validating all of that the second thing is we want
to make sure that we're reading things that uplift us we're watching television
that uplifts us like things like this as opposed to you know Freddy Krueger for
the third time on Elm Street you know whatever it is we want to stop watching
the negative news the people you hang out with the things you read the music
you listen to is your music lifting you and inspiring you and then it's like
once I have a positive environment I've taken responsibility for my life then I
look to what I call this the the combination lock the success if I give
you a combination lock and I give you the combination and you do it correctly
the lock will open I don't care if you're eighth grade 25 years old 100
years old white black young old male female graduated didn't graduate you can
unlock a lock the problem is most people are going through life missing numbers
where they have the numbers in the wrong order and so you can work really hard to
open that lock but if you're missing a number it's never gonna open so we're
mostly ignorant about what it takes to be successful
I interviewed 75 of the most successful people in North America and I
looked at what was the pattern for all of them I looked at my own life as well to
start with and there's a pattern there's a system of and I called a system
because the system is something when you do it it's consistently done you're
gonna get a consistent result you know if it baked my mother's apple pie and I
preheat the oven I don't substitute this for that I get the same pie every time
if I change one thing don't pre-heat the oven right it doesn't happen and so
we need to know that there is a science of success if you will
now this success can be applied to anything social change it can be applied to
getting elected politically can be applied to having positive relationships
can be applied to health can be applied to your golf score you know whatever it
is that you're gonna define success for you to be and then when you have that
then we can move through these things the first thing is after taking a
hundred percent responsibility surrounding yourself with positive
people and positive things is to clarify your life purpose we talked about
purpose what is your purpose there are well as before vision purpose purpose my
purpose is to inspire and empower people to live their highest vision in the
context of love and joy now that's a purpose
my vision for accomplishing that is to have a million trainers teaching my work
to have a billion books sold that teach this work that's my choice of what event
it comes after the why yeah what does it look like if I get there you know my
perfect world if you will then we go from vision to goals okay we get
measurable now okay so you know what do I want my win and most people say well
I'd like to live by the ocean but which ocean by when specific you know what kind
of house 5,000 square feet 2,000 square feet whatever it is your brain people come up
to me all the time and say I want more money I give him a dollar
these are executives of companies I want more than that I said well how was I
supposed to know you didn't tell me a figure and the universe works the same
way until you tell your subconscious and the universe which you're simultaneously
are picking up your your thoughts nobody knows and so you've got to be specific
if I'm living in Kansas I want to live on the ocean
east of the Atlantic or west of the Pacific but once I make a commitment
then I can start to my subconscious mind will start coming up with solutions and
I can start seeing things in my environment that will support me once I
have the vision and the goals then I have to believe it's possible
that's where beliefs affirmations reading positive things that other
people biographies my first mentor W Clement Stone was worth 600 million
dollars in the 1970s and he would be a billionaire by today's inflation's there
and he read an autobiography a week of famous people I kept him inspired but it
was you know Gandhi or Mother Teresa or Edison or Jefferson or whatever so we
need to have a model of what it is we want to go that tells us this is
possible to do you know that all these beliefs we have about it's not possible
we need to get that out of there and believe it's possible and then we have
to have a plan now plans don't always work out exactly what you want but
without a plan there's no next step and I always tell people you just get the
next couple of steps that's a plan start you know you don't have to see the whole
road when you get started but the key is just keep taking the next steps that are
obvious and here's a big thing for most people any nine percent of what
everybody wants someone's already done it and as Tony Robbins likes to say they
left Clues they've left manuals books the franchise operation guides they do
seminars they have YouTube videos TED Talks you know whatever it is so reach
out ask find a mentor find a guide take a seminar hire a coach you know all
these things are available to us but it comes from the belief that this is
possible to do I deserve it it's another thing that a lot of people believe they
don't deserve so we have to deal with our internal self talk and our negative
limiting beliefs and then we go from that to I've got a plan now I've got to
start taking action and and taking actions what stops people is fear
fear of loss fear of failure fear of success you know all that kind of stuff
but that's the basics and if you do that in that order
and you visualize and affirm your success I couldn't leave that part out every
day close your eyes and visualize your goal as if it's all you achieved and do
an affirmation I'm so happy and grateful that now in the 100,000 a year I'm so happy
and grateful that we've solved hunger in our Country I'm so happy and grateful
that my what I'm graduating my PhD degree whatever it is visualize that do
that for 30 days it puts a blueprint in the mind that allows creativity to come
up it allows perception to widen start seeing resources I never saw
before and it's sending a message to the universe