this is the story of magic i can't
explain it any other way it's a story of
how magic happens when you set the right
goals
and i'm sharing this to inspire any of
you out there who have been thinking
about beautiful incredible goals that
you want for yourself but you just don't
know how to get to these goals so this
is what happened to me to this day i
can't explain it but it all started in
2010 it was april or may 2010 when i
first took a seminar call life book it
is a really
detailed goal setting seminar for lack
of a better word and you emerge out of
life book with a hundred page or so
leather bound binder of your entire life
in 12 different categories you go deep
into creating visions for your life in
every realm imaginable from your love
life to your health to your emotional
life to adventures and travels and the
things you want to experience in the
world you can see how worn out my life
book is because this is one of my most
precious possessions and in it is a
blueprint for my entire life now on one
of the pages in this life book i wrote
something
kind of crazy when i wrote it i had no
idea how i was going to accomplish it i
was
living in kuala lumpur malaysia i had a
small little company called mindvalley
it was 2010. i wasn't the vision lakiani
that people know today and this is what
i wrote down and all of these were goals
that i had absolutely no freaking idea
if i would ever achieve them or if they
were even attainable
that this is where
magic happens when we give our minds a
clear target so lightbook is the
creation of john and missy butcher
they're one of the most unique couples
in the world as entrepreneurs they run
some seven businesses and are remarkably
successful but a lot of people can be
rich and successful what's unique about
john and missy is how every element of
their life lines up perfectly they are
in the most extraordinary health and do
not seem to age as grandparents they
have three grandkids and they look years
younger
they live in one of the most beautiful
homes in america and every aspect of
their life seems to be blessed by magic
now when john's friends and family would
ask him how do you do this he would
share his secret john at a very early
age decided to be deliberate about the
type of life he wanted to lead he and
missy came up with beautifully detailed
visions beliefs strategies for their
entire life they called it their life
book it was over a hundred pages long
and it became a remarkable way to
organize their vision for their life and
look at life in a fully well-rounded
fashion there are a lot of billionaires
out there a lot of remarkably rich
people but often they succeed in one
area of life that fail at another they
might have incredible wealth but they
might have a broken relationship or poor
health they might run a billion dollar
company but they might be overstressed
and busy john and missy on the other
hand had a life that was beautifully
well-rounded they took the life book
process and opened it up to the world so
other entrepreneurs and people who
wanted to apply deliberate intent to
create magical lives could follow this
blueprint you see there are many
successful people out there but many of
them are unconsciously competent they
are successful but they can't retrace
their steps john and missy are unique
they are consciously competent they know
exactly how they created their life and
this is how i found myself attending a
live book seminar in the spring of 2010.
when i first attended the seminar i
thought it was just about goal setting
i didn't know it was about crafting
magic
this is what happened to me
i want to show you just one of the many
pages in my life book
this is just one particular page out of
a hundred in just one category of life
book when i wrote this down i had no
idea how any of this would happen i
wrote about how i wanted to go on
amazing trips with brilliant people live
in luxury have amazing travel adventures
even toss parties in the mediterranean
the caribbean and more i wrote about how
i wanted to win an emmy a grammy and an
academy award for one of my works and to
be an online star and personal growth
with a following of one million fans all
pretty big dreams for a guy living in
kuala lumpur malaysia in 2010 running a
tiny little company called mindvalley
that built websites for personal growth
authors now something funny happened
when i wrote this down i had no idea how
all of these goals would connect and
here's the first lesson
when it comes to thinking about your
future vision focus on the what and the
why do not worry about the how
so many of us play small because we set
visions for ourselves based on how we
think we are likely to get there but
what if the how didn't matter what it
was just about the vision and the what
and the how will emerge through
intuition true guidance true
synchronicities coincidences lining up
to get you through your vision
so
when i wrote this down i had no idea
what was going to happen
but
magic came into play within a few months
i developed the idea of launching a
festival a festival called a-fest today
a-fest is a global event that thousands
know about but back then it was a crazy
dream i was a computer engineer who was
i to start a festival i had no idea how
to do it yet the first day fest emerged
in costa rica and it sold out it went on
to become a phenomenon with over 15
a-fest happening since then and these
crazy ideas i wrote down started
magically lining up a-fest took me to
travel to countries across the world i
suddenly became an international speaker
because i was sharing the stage with
influential and prominent personalities
who would fly down to attend a-fest my
network expanded and i got to work and
play at five star resorts and offices by
the beach
all of the items on the list started
lining up like magic but it got stranger
look at this for example i wrote down
partying in the mediterranean the
caribbean and more one of the unique
things about a-fest is its legendary
closing parties and all of a sudden i'm
hosting parties in castles in the
mediterranean
renting private islands in the caribbean
for the various guests and entrepreneurs
who attended a-fest weirdest still i
wrote down i wanted to win an emmy
grammy or academy award last week
i just received my fourth emmy for a
documentary that emerged out of a-fest
and finally i wrote down i wanted to be
an online-style personal growth with one
million fans that happened last month
i don't know how all of these things
lined up i don't know where the idea
emerged to start a festival but what if
our minds are so much more powerful than
we think what if when we give our minds
clear direction even if we don't know
the how
ideas inspiration and guidance flow
through us and tell us how to move what
to perceive and then it is up to us to
act with that deliberate intent towards
these ideas
that's at least the best way i can
explain it by being clear about the
various pieces i wanted to bring into my
life
i allow my brain or my soul or my mind
or whatever you want to call it to pull
into being an idea a fest that connected
and lined up all of those dots perfectly
all the way down to an emmy award and
like i said i can't explain how this
works to this day
i simply call it magic but i wanted to
share this with you because if you've
been hesitating at dreaming big if
you've been holding yourself back from
truly expanding the goals you want for
yourself because you're caught in this
trap that your goals must be
realistic or attainable or have a time
frame
maybe you need to think differently
about your goals and maybe you need to
understand that all of us have these
abilities within us i am connected to
the same source that you are if one
person can pull this off all of us can
because at a deeper level our
consciousness is shared so i want to
encourage you to expand your vision for
your life to go beyond realistic goals
and to start getting clarity and
deliberate intent over the life you want
to lead
you see what i learned from lightbook
and john butcher is that it is up to all
of us to create our life like a
beautiful painting a masterpiece most of
us never bother to do that we live lives
of boring mediocrity by following the
rules by pretending and forgetting that
we are more than just matter but what if
you had these abilities within you what
if you knew you could tap into and
channel ideas to get you to the life you
want start crafting that painting be
bold be outrageous and believe in
yourself the lesson i want you to
understand is that it may not come
immediately you have to have patience it
may unfold for you over a year or five
or ten but you got to have patience you
got to have clarity of what you want and
you got to keep taking deliberate
intention and action while believing in
yourself so why does this work to be
honest we don't know but i want to read
you a quote call this is how magic is
done by the great philosopher terence
mckenna mckenna wrote nature loves
courage you make a commitment and nature
will respond to that commitment by
removing impossible obstacles
dream the impossible dream and the world
will not grind you under it will lift
you up this is the trick this is what
all the teachers and philosophers who
really counted who really touched the
alchemical goal this is what they
understood this is the shamanic dance in
the waterfall this
is how magic is done by hurling yourself
into the abbess and discovering it's a
feather bed
if you'd like to explore this topic
deeper with me attend my upcoming master
class with john and missy butcher of
lifebook