that place of the future is great so the future is perfect or I am healthy when
they're not it's a choice you simply have to choose it see once I learned
your beliefs are a choice we think our beliefs are the result of seeing
something outside of us we say I believe if a spider bites you your skin
turns red because that's what I saw happen
yeah yeah but we can hypnotize people tell them my thumb is a poker hit him on
the hand and their hand will form a blister we can tell people that this is poison
ivy and have given maple leaves and they'll do that and their skin will
break out in a rash sure tell people the poison ivy the maple leaf run the poison
ivy on it nobody breaks out on the rash right so we know that so much of our
internal behavior and our feel-good is created by beliefs now then the question
I had was well what should I believe what if I believe the wrong thing and
I'm gonna get myself in trouble I had this big I was afraid to believe
anything for a while and then I realized the only beliefs that make any sense are
the beliefs that will take you from where you are to where you want to go so
what are the beliefs that successful people believe you know look at Oprah
Winfrey born into poverty you know sexually abused as a child but she
believed that she could get to where she wanted to go someone else without that
belief didn't try so simply the belief and it's a choice everything is a binary
choice you're either believing something that takes you where you want to go or
something that takes you away from where you want to go you're choosing love or
you're choosing the opposite which is fear it's like it's a computer code zero
or one which do you want to choose now you have to become conscious because
most people around you are unconscious and they're just agreeing with
everything negative that's why you want to hang out with positive people right
but if you read books like this if you go to seminars and you meditate you
listen to podcast surround yourself with positive energy pretty soon you get
engulfed in this positive thinking and then all of a sudden your life transform
most people don't appreciate anybody well people always focus on what they
don't have you know I mean I took my son to Africa when he was 16 and we went to
Cameron and we spent 12 days traveling around the country and this is a kid who
grew up in the house we're filming in so a pretty nice place he had
everything he could possibly want sure what
now it's not sure was the best idea and we get to Africa and he realizes I mean
he's always going like I don't have the latest designer shirt my jeans aren't
cool get to Africa he says dad these people are happier than me they have
nothing they don't even have t-shirts I complained about the stain on my shirt
they don't have shirts and it changed his life I mean it really transitioned
him and so we have to realize that we have so much to be grateful for so much
and so uncommon appreciation in relationship means for me at least five
times a day verbally appreciating somebody for something huh you know and
whether it's by phone in person if I can't do that then send an email so I
used to walk around with a 3x5 card these daily disciplines of success
appreciate five people meditate drink 12 glasses of water go to bed by 11 o'clock
whatever and I had to check everything off before I go to bed and sometimes I
get to my five appreciations and I hadn't done it so I'd send emails to
people because it was like 1:00 in the morning but what have you get into the
attitude of appreciating yeah and also then you can just have an attitude of
gratitude about everything if you look around this room everything in here was
created by somebody else that painting was painted by a Vietnamese artist that
statue was carved by someone in Malaysia or Tibet
you know this fireplace was painted by a faux finisher somebody put this carpet
down somebody wove it somebody grew the sheep for it you know there's so much to
be grateful for and you go to - I was just in India and you know wood floors tin
roofs people sleeping on the streets and you go thank God but we forget and so if
you express gratitude for what you have and you get more to be grateful for
that's the law of attraction if you're in America and you're in a even if you're
on welfare you're better than you know most of the world I forget the exact
figure but like half the world lives on $2 a day or less incredible someone in
America on welfare is getting several hundred dollars a month you know they
got radio they can listen to more likely cell phone cell phone yeah you know so
here's another statistic if you're making $100,000 a year which you are and
I am you're in the top one tenth of one percent of or
in the planet Wow 1/10 of 1% that's a lot to be grateful that's to be grateful
there's a lot of people who make money who are very ungrateful and not happy
yeah they're comparing themselves to somebody they don't have so start
focusing on what you do have and feel great joy for that and then the the
weird law is you get more yeah and when you're focusing on what you don't have
even when you have a lot well I don't have that latest Ferrari car I don't
have that $52,000 watch you know all you have to do is walk through the airport
and Dubai and you can get very depressed or in that mental state well what
we're saying is I don't have enough and that is your mantra I don't have enough
and guess what whatever you're affirming you're gonna get more of you're gonna
get more of not enough so abundance is focusing on what you do have just go
walk down the street you know there's trees and air and Birds and people and
people that you know or you could literally ask people for a dollar and
most people would give it to you and so by focusing on what you do have it's
saying to the world I have enough and then the reality is you're gonna get
more and even if you're living in the ghetto you have a roof over your head
there's people in the world sleeping on the streets sleeping in the jungle
sleeping out there you have fresh water you know people in Africa are dying
because of lack of water that doesn't have disease in it more likely you have
clothes on you have food to eat it may not be gourmet food but its food yeah
just god there's so much we have to be grateful for