An Inside View on the Netflix Documentary Stutz
Dec 12, 2022
**Spoiler Alert: This Episode Contains Massive Spoilers!**
Jonah Hill recently released a new Netflix documentary Stutz, in which he has a vulnerable conversation with his therapist Phil Stutz. The documentary is Jonah’s attempt to honor his therapist’s life, while also sharing his tools and demonstrating a real-life therapy session .
Within the first 20 minutes of the film, something feels off. Jonah comes clean with the audience, admitting that up until that point, they’ve spent two years trying to film the session. Jonah then shifts into vulnerability , which makes the rest of the documentary much more authentic .
Jonah & Phil Stutz don’t have a typical patient . But in this case, their relationship helped both of them heal dramatically.
In this episode, Steph and I discuss:
The surprise twists that happen in the documentary—and “the big reveal” that takes place within the first 20 minutes that hooks you in and anchors you into what’s going on
What stood out for both Steph and me about the film
How therapists are trained to just sit across from someone and listen to their problems without interrupting or giving advice (and why Stutz says this is brutal)
The tools Stutz gives to Jonah that seriously helped him in life, which anyone can use to quickly shift how they’re feeling
How Stutz and Jonah both lost a brother—and how that experience completely disrupted Stutz’s life
The three things that humans will always have—pain, uncertainty, and having to do the work
How mistakes and pain are leading the way
Jonah and his therapist developed one hell of a relationship . I see it as kind of a love story that turned out to be a healing journey for both of them.
It shows that nobody has life all figured out —not even therapists. Everyone’s on a path of constant work, which means constant growth.
I highly recommend you watch this documentary and pay attention to what jumps out at you as you watch it.
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In our Elite Mind 365 program, we did a marketing workshop with our students. Steph taught them a strategy called the “client win” email strategy where you share stories of your clients’ wins.
Interestingly, this idea was met with a lot of resistance. Our students had a hard time accepting the idea of sharing their clients’ success stories, because they were afraid to come across as bragging.
For many people growing up middle class, it wasn’t okay to talk about how good you are or to brag about anything. You were actually supposed to hide the things you were good at. This exactly is why many business owners keep themselves hidden today. Even on their websites, very few people have testimonials above the fold. This is another way to stay hidden, small, and safe.
Celebrating your wins and sharing them with the right people can actually be a growth experience. And sharing your client wins is one of the most effective forms of marketing to grow your business.
In this episode, Steph and I discuss:
Why social proof is the most effective form of marketing—because people can identify with the stories by saying, “I want that,” or “I don’t want that,” which then justifies their purchase
How showcasing how you help people allows others to see possibility for themselves
How many people didn’t get celebrated in their life as a kid growing up—instead, they were shamed, guilted, ostracized, and ridiculed for outshining others
How the feeling of being confused indicates you’re in self-sabotage (a strategy your subconscious mind uses to keep you exactly where you are)
Why I believe we must continually work on our self-esteem, or society will rip it apart
Steph’s experience shopping on Amazon for a donut pan that had 19,000 reviews
When it comes to your products or services, you always want people to say, “Yes, I want that,” or “No, I don’t want that.” You never want them to be stuck in the middle, saying, “I don’t know what I want.”
If you’ve ever said, “I don’t want to self-promote; I don’t want to brag; I don’t want to seem conceited”…this episode is for you!
Plus, Steph, BT, and I chat about our favorite donuts and how the industry makes a ‘hole’ lot of money annually.
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If you want to know the secret to closing more sales and have a consistent stream of income, you need to turn sales into a discipline—an ongoing process and habit in your business.
Inconsistent sales is a systemic problem. It reflects your mindset, urgency level, and skillset around sales. It also reflects your marketing and marketing cycle. Some businesses have a short marketing cycle, while others don’t see sales until 3-6 months after they’ve completed a marketing campaign. You need to know your market and your metrics in order to understand your marketing cycle.
In today’s episode, Steph and I discuss:
How business owners get too comfortable, drag their feet, and delay in setting up systems and hiring the right people (which would create consistency in sales)
How people take their foot off the gas because they get distracted—and this shows up in their sales one, two, or three months down the road
Why you should know how to do sales yourself, before you bring on a salesperson
The two most important skills in sales—listening and knowing what questions to ask
Why you should shut up during a sales conversation—and after the person answers your question, you should ask them another question
Salespeople are the highest paid profession in the world. If you’re a competent sales person, there’s no limit to how much money you can earn.
Sales is a skill that involves listening, being quiet, quieting the voice in your mind with all the chatter going on—so you can really be present and hear what this person is telling you, and then be able to think through a response that’s adequate for moving them in the direction of “yes” or “no.
It takes discipline to keep the sales machine running. Dan Kennedy said that every day, you should do at least one activity that is a future sales-generating activity. Close a sale every day. Turn this into a habit in your business.
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Advice is cheap and rampant on social media today. Many coaches and consultants are giving advice on things they’re not qualified to speak on. They’re not demonstrating results in those areas. They have no experience in what they’re speaking on, and they’re trying to teach on things they’ve never implemented, tried, tested, or used themselves. This is why advice is cheap.
The truth is, advice isn’t worth anything unless you raise your standard and change your mindset—so you can actually use the advice.
In today’s episode, Steph and I discuss:
How people ask for advice and expect the person they’re asking o agree with their problem and come down to their level—but the truth is, you have to climb the ladder of achievement and discipline to rise up to THEIR level
How our childhood affects our ability to distinguish between good advice and bad advice
How making the wrong decisions in business and relationships can cause a lot of pain
Why we teach our clients to look at life through the lens of what they want to build and create for their future vision
A nasty experience I had years ago where I lost $5 million AND my email lis, because I wouldn’t spend $1300 to pay a lawyer to review a contract (I thought I could read it myself)
Steph’s experience losing $100k when she tried to create a software program that nobody wanted—she didn’t do any market research, didn’t have an agreement with her developer, and went in blind, thinking she could do it all herself
Communication can be so painful for people, especially in business—to say what you want to say, ask for what you need, or ask for clarity. People are so afraid of what others will think of them—they end up giving their power away instead of asking for help and getting the correct advice.
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The Hidden Meaning Behind Complaining
Nov 14, 2022
If you pay attention, you’ll start to notice that most people complain about everything. Business owners complain about their team, workload, and clients. Parents complain about their kids. Wives complain about their husbands leaving socks on the floor. While traveling, people will complain about the flight, the Uber, the hotel check-in process, or the dinner they ate last night.
Complaining is a form of communication. People do it for many reasons—to bond and connect, to feel important or significant because they have low self-esteem, or to be seen as valuable . It may be a part of the culture that someone grew up in. Why do we complain so much? And what’s behind this?
In this episode, we discuss:
The difference between a complaint and verbalizing a problem—complaining has a griping, whiny energy to it; whereas verbalizing a problem allows you to find a solution and change it
How complaining makes you fail to see an opportunity that’s right in front of you
How complaining is a safe way to start a conversation with a stranger
Why you shouldn’t assume that people who complain actually want to change or solve their problem
How complaining puts you in the energy of what you DON’T want, by causing you to focus on everything you DON’T want
Why you should you never speak anything into existence that you don’t wish to be in your life
How to redirect yourself from complaining to getting your needs met
Plus, we discuss how our team is doing a 21-day challenge based on the book, A Complaint Free World by Will Bowen.
Everything we say or do is based on a frequency or a vibration. Complaining pushes growth away, due to the Law of Vibration. So, I challenge you to go 21 days without complaining about anything. Think about how many times you’ve complained in the last 24 hours. Do this challenge with your spouse, partner, and/or team members.
This all just comes down to effective communication —and being able to ask for what you want in a specific way.
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Today we’re talking about a topic that isn’t discussed very often—entrepreneurial maturity. Entrepreneurs who are immature get frustrated, emotionally triggered, and experience “high highs” and “low lows” in response to their results. Because of their lack of maturity, they miss out on so much opportunity. They start to rely on hope as a strategy for business growth. (i.e., “I hope this works.”)
When an immature entrepreneur doesn’t get the results they want in business, they take it as rejection. They give up and move on to the next thing. They create a story about “why I’m not good enough.” They don’t sit with the problem long enough to look at what’s causing it and what needs to change.
By contrast, the mature business owner will sit with a problem objectively and ask, “Why didn’t we get the result we wanted? What do we need to change?”
Entrepreneurial maturity means you won’t quit until you find an answer, or until you hit your goal. Mature entrepreneurs will do a focus group, survey their database, ask for help, or do whatever it takes to truly solve the problem. They’ll ask, “Where did we miss the mark?”
In today’s episode, Steph and I discuss:
How immature entrepreneurs engage in “all or nothing,” fatalistic thinking — where they believe, “No one will buy from me” or “I’m not good enough”
How many businesses were started because the owner had an immature intention to begin with
How asking a different questions can make you see your problem differently, so that you can actually solve it
Why relentlessness and persistence are so important in business
The story of how Steph’s daughter, Bailey, wanted to catch a fish—and she didn’t quit until she caught a trout. Even as a child, she sought the information needed to figure out how to make it work.
How you create and recreate the same problems in your business, because of your belief and how you’re viewing the problems
Plus, we share an enlightening exercise that will help you separate yourself from the problem, and the meaning you’ve given to the problem.
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On today’s bonus episode, David & Steph talk about the importance of being a visionary leader & what it means for the growth of your business. They also launch a newly designed assessment tool created by Life is Now Inc. that helps you determine which type of leader you are.
Full Transcript
Steph
So I’m really excited today.
David
Tell me about it.
Steph
Well, you know about it, but I’ll tell you about it anyway, because we’re on this podcast. Big day for us. Yesterday we launched a new website, we launched new branding, and we launched a brand new tool.
David
That is exciting.
Steph
I’m so proud of it. You know, it’s fun to create something and just be so proud of what you created because you know that it’s going to make a difference in people’s lives. So for quite a while now, David and I have been having high level conversations about leadership. Because our goal is to help leaders, because we know that when we help leaders of companies, that trickles down into their team and that trickles down into our team’s families, and it creates a ripple effect, right?
David
Yeah, for sure. Synergy, productivity, the whole thing like explosions in business in a good way.
Steph
You know, our big thing is we want to create impact. We want to help the good guys win. Right. That’s what lights us up. And I really feel like this new tool that we created helps the good guys win. And in this conversation we’ve been having about leaders, we’ve been working with leaders.
While you’ve been working with leaders for longer than I have. I personally have been working with leaders for 14 years. You’ve been working with leaders for a lot longer than that.
David
But what’s interesting is not on this topic that we’re going to talk about today. Right. This is different. This is not only a growth edge for us, it’s a growth edge for everybody in our community.
Steph
Right. So what we noticed, sitting down and having conversations between the two of us is that leaders kind of fall into four different leadership types, leadership categories, especially the visionary leaders. Right. People that want to create something really wonderful in the world, that want to impact lives, that want to help more people. You know, the people that go into business because they have a mission.
They believe that they’re on purpose in what they’re doing. And we noticed that these leaders think very differently, not all leaders think the same. Not all leaders lead the same. Not all leaders need the same systems. Not all leaders need the same help. Not all you know, it’s not one size fits all, right.
In terms of leadership and a lot of the books that you read and a lot of the courses that are out there in leadership teach one way and it’s really black and white. It is. But when you look at the mindset of leaders, because it all stems with mindset, they all start in different places and they’re all influenced by their upbringing, just like anyone’s influenced by their upbringing right before the age of seven.
They don’t have the ability to choose what goes into their mind. So whatever their situation is, as that young person under the age of seven then gets absorbed, right? It goes on, yeah, yeah. And it stays. And it influences how that person filters their world.
David
Yeah. Forever shapes the way they see the world and the way that they approach and see their business. And that’s different.
Steph
Correct. And what we’ve noticed is that we can’t talk to each business owner the same way. Right.
David
That’s right.
Steph
And we’ve noticed this through the apps that we’ve done, the private coaching that we’ve done, the group. I mean, my gosh, we’ve done so much. We’ve worked so long with leaders of companies that we know that we have to have an understanding of what’s going on in their…
David
How they think.
Steph
How they think in order to help them. So I’m making this long story shorter right now. So what we did is we went to work and we created an assessment tool. And the idea behind this assessment tool is that you answer some very specific questions, not many of them. I think that I mean, I’ve taken this assessment six times to test it and make sure it works, but I think it takes literally six and a half minutes and you get a result.
So it categorizes you. And we’ve asked questions. It’s based in psychology. We’ve asked questions, make it based on human design. And it groups you in one of four leadership types. And then the cool thing about that is that with each leadership type, just like anything, you have the good and you have the bad, right?
You have the superpower of that leadership type and you also have the kryptonite, right? And it’s different for each leadership type. So I’m going to use myself as an example. Okay. So I took the quiz. I mean, I created it, but I didn’t actually know what I was going to turn out to be. So I took the quiz and my result was a catalyst leader and the superpower of a catalyst leader is that teams love to work with you.
A catalyst leader is all about building people up. It’s getting wins for everyone. It’s how you communicate and relationship build. I’m a relationship person, right? My strength as a leader is in having open communication, creating safe places for teams, and then teaching other people how to do that as well. But my kryptonite is in the belief that I have to do it all myself, that it’s difficult for me to delegate sometimes, that if it if it’s going to get done, it needs to get done right by me. My kryptonite is in allowing other people to help me.
Allowing, allowing myself to receive support because the opposite side of the catalyst leader is the martyr. And that’s 100% in my past. Right? Raised by martyrs became a martyr. I’m a recovering martyr. It shows up around the corner, oh, poor me, you know, I’ll just do it myself, work yourself to the bone.
Because my value was in how hard I worked and the fact that I could solve problems, right? Yeah. But for me to step into being the catalyst leader, I needed to. I need to let go of those things. And then the cool thing is, the report that you get after you take this quiz gives you specific things that you can start doing to begin to step more into the superpower side of your leader and out of the kryptonite side of your visionary leadership role.
So it’s not just one of those tools that you see on Facebook that tells you, oh, you’re a lion and here’s why you’re like a lion.
David
No, it’s really an assessment.
Steph
It’s very much an assessment. It’s very much a tool. An assessment that helps you uncover your blindspots.
David
Yeah. In an incredible way, too.
Steph
Yeah. And you know, so blindspots. Right. These are the things that you can’t see for yourself. Most of the time people get something that is not right, but you can’t figure out what that not right thing is, you feel like there’s something that you’re missing. There’s something that you don’t understand, but you’re not sure what it is you don’t understand.
But you know that there’s something that you don’t understand because you keep getting the result that you don’t want. That’s a blind spot. The purpose of this tool is to help you see that blind spot so that you can begin to make changes and begin and start to head in the right direction.
David
Yeah. Well, the other thing about the blind spot is that you have a tendency to unconsciously keep approaching it from what seems normal to you and you don’t understand why you’re not getting a different result. And it can be extremely frustrating, right? Because you see the world the way that you do and that makes sense to you. But why this doesn’t make sense to change it from your perspective is very confusing for people.
Steph
Right. Well, let’s take let’s take you, for example. Yeah. You are a charismatic leader. Right. And here’s the thing with charismatic leaders. They don’t want to be a leader. They don’t want to lead a team. And I don’t know how many times I’ve had conversations with business owners and finally pulled it out of them that they actually don’t want to be the leader of their company.
And there’s nothing wrong with that. But if you’re a charismatic leader and you’re feeling constantly pushed to be the leader in your company, you’re going to create an absolute mess, right? Your team’s not going to be clear on the direction that you’re going. You’re going to constantly feel like you can’t communicate, like no one understands you.
David
Well, that’s the kryptonite part of it. That’s the key. You’re constantly misunderstood, right? We think fast. We think big, broad pictures. We’re very creative. We get bored extremely easily. That’s totally true for me. It’s my whole life. And as the interesting thing about this stuff is as a kid, the board was I was disciplined for the board part.
Instead of anybody recognizing what my gift was, I was ridiculed for it because it affected everybody else in a negative way. So it’s a constant. All my life I felt like I was misunderstood, like I was trying to get a message across. But the people that I was around, it was misunderstood. And it wasn’t till I got into business that I actually got celebrated, which was a huge shock for me.
Steph
Yeah. And just think you being the charismatic leader, if you wouldn’t have been able to step outside yourself and say, I’m not the best person for this job, I mean.
David
Right.
Steph
God only knows what would have happened.
David
There would have been no growth. You would just completely standstill forever.
Steph
And it opened the door for me to come in and say, I’ll be the leader and I know how to communicate with you. You have an idea. I’m thinking, I have no idea what he means. And I know the questions to ask, to pull out all the information that I need to be able to make it so.
So there are two other types of leaders. There’s Legacy Leader and there’s Limitless leader. I’m not going to go into them, but I guarantee that everyone, including you, falls into one of those four leadership characteristics. And every single one of you has a superpower that you may not even be aware of. That, if you could tap into more, would create amazing results for your business.
And you also have some kryptonite that you could actually have tied to your ankles right now because you’re doing things that you think you should be doing or not doing, things that you don’t even know you should be doing because of your leadership style. Right. Does that make sense?
David
Yeah. Oh, absolutely. You know, I’ve seen many people that are charismatic leaders that think that they’ve consistently hired the wrong people and they have trouble with people leaving. And so it goes back to that. I’m completely misunderstood. And what they don’t understand is they don’t have somebody with your talent and gifts to be able to communicate and build.
So there’s a balance that it has to happen. And I was talking to somebody about this. I said it’s really interesting. You have two people who bring these amazing gifts and it creates a third entity, right? It’s a beautiful creation. What comes out of those two things when you consider just actually working together, but you have to understand it to be able to do that, right?
Steph
And the purpose of this assessment is to not only help you understand, but it’s also to give you actual action things that you can begin to implement now to begin to change these things. So like I said, it’s not your typical quiz on Facebook that you take. It inspires you that you’re alive because of you, you know what I mean?
You’ve all seen those, right? And they’re fun, they’re great, whatever. But we wanted to add, you know, real value and make this something that can be super useful and also, you know, helpful for the person receiving the quiz and also helpful for a person who’s coaching the person receiving the quiz because that helps that person understand the person better.
And it also helps teams understand their leader better. So I just think this is going to create a ripple effect that we haven’t even thought of yet. .
David
Completely.
Steph
And I’m really excited to announce it, which is why we’re doing this special super quick.
David
Yes.
Steph
So if you’re interested in finding out what your visionary leader type is, we’d love for you to take this quiz. It’s completely free. We launched it to our list yesterday. So if you’re on our list, you would have gotten an email form. Make sure you check your email. And if you’re not on our list, you can take this quiz by going to lifeisnowinc.com/leader. So, super simple lifeisnowinc.com/leader.
We hope to see your quiz come through. We hope it provides an incredible amount of value for you and gives you some insights on what you need to stop doing. Yeah, and also what you need to start doing.
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Most of us grew up hearing messages that reinforced the idea that money is scarce and that we should hold onto our money and avoid spending it on anything that’s “too much.” People will drive 30 minutes across town just to save $0.03 on a gallon of gas, as if that’s what makes you a good person. We’ve also heard things like, “It’s stupid to waste money on expensive things.” These are your money stories.
In fact, spending money on certain things isn’t part of most people’s value system. For example, “Why spend money on breakfast?” “Why buy a $450 bottle of wine when you can buy it cheaper at the liquor store?” ($450 used to be Steph’s car payment!)
When you’re in business, these kinds of lack-based and scarcity-based ideas can actually hold you back from growth.
In today’s episode, we discuss:
Various memories that Steph, BT, and I all have around childhood experiences with money—and how these money stories impacted our sense of value and worth as adults
How BT’s rich uncle told him to “buy anything you want” at the sporting goods store—BT chose an $80 skateboard that was his mom’s salary for the entire week, and she made him take it back
How Steph was only allowed to spend money on certain things when she was growing up
The mindset behind people who think, “it’s stupid to waste money”
How Steph and BT’s daughter, Emma, purchased a $70 stuffed animal with her own Christmas money at age 7, and how this upset members of the family
Why your desire for something (e.g., a house) is actually the thing that will pull your business forward
Many business owners are terrified to spend money. They run their business based on survival. They’re worried about, “What if something bad happens? What if the other shoe drops?” Deep down, they have a fear of looking stupid.
The truth is, if you hold on to money, your business dies. If you run your business based on survival, your business dies.
You can change a lack mindset by focusing on what you desire. You get to choose what to believe in. You can choose to operate based on abundance rather than lack.
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A Conversation with Marc Polymeropoulos
Oct 27, 2022
Marc Polymeropoulos is a retired CIA officer from the Senior intelligence service ranks. He served for years in the intelligence community, in the operational field and leadership assignments. He’s an expert in counterterrorism, covert action, and Human Intelligence Collection.
As one of the CIA’s most decorated field officers, Marc honed a unique style of leadership based on decision making under pressure, inclusivity, camaraderie, and competition. He’s the author of Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA.
Marc Polymeropoulos has a goal to pass on his knowledge to people in the sports and business world who could benefit from his unique experiences serving his country in the hotspots of the world.
In this episode, Marc and I discuss:
How Marc got into the CIA—and why he wants people to get excited about serving their country, whether it’s at the local, state, or federal level
How his mom put him on an airplane by himself at age ten, and he flew from JFK Airport to Paris alone—then his dad drove them miles through the Sahara Desert (and this is what got Marc hooked on the Middle East)
Principles on how to lead elite teams in times of crisis and how to deal with fear and uncertainty from a leadership perspective
The process of recruiting a foreigner, a spy, and getting someone to betray their own country, by identifying their motivations
How Marc was the base chief in Afghanistan for a year with 20 Americans and 1,000 Afghan indigenous fighters—and how being deployed taught him humility
How everyone at the CIA wants to be promoted quickly, but there’s something to be said for a slower, more methodical rise—because nothing beats experience
Marc’s thoughts on Pineapple Express and how the U.S. blundered the exit from Afghanistan
Marc Polymeropoulos also shares how he had “a really awful end of his career,” due to Havana Syndrome. He got physically sick and experienced a loss of cognitive abilities, and didn’t get the help he needed.
“I was a highly decorated officer, rising to the top. I didn’t want to retire, but I had to,” he says. The clear leadership lesson for any organization is that, “You’ve got to take care of your people. And unfortunately, the CIA didn’t take care of me when I needed them most. It was a moral betrayal for me.”
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The Terror Barrier: The Gateway to Success
Oct 24, 2022
Whenever you’re about to do something new, your subconscious mind will often create a circumstance or problem to distract you. It will try to get you to stop taking action. It does this, because it’s trying to protect you from the unknown. This phenomenon is known as the terror barrier.
Growth is littered with terror barriers. Every time you do something to advance, you’ll always have something new to face. “New level, new devil.” It’s estimated that 80% of businesses fail within their first five years, and this is due to the terror barrier. It’s because the owner refuses to do things that are required for growth and which are outside their comfort zone.
In this episode Steph and I discuss:
How everyone has a terror barrier—and it develops at an early age
Why 80% of people who go to personal development seminars never do anything with the information they learn (due to the terror barrier)
How we, as parents, pass along our insecurities, terror barriers, and what we think we can’t do to our children, to try to protect them—and how this makes them less effective at life
How the subconscious mind gets you to agree with the problem that seems to be in front of you, so that you’ll quit
Steph’s skydiving experience in her 20s—and how “nothing could have prepared her for the onslaught of thoughts that plagued her as she was in the plane”
How stepping through the discomfort and into possibility makes you feel better
Plus, I share the details of how I knew my marriage wouldn’t make it back in 1993—and how my own terror barrier was around that relationship (and divorce). I realized my ex-wife and I were on completely different tracks in life, headed for two different destinations.
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Vulnerability: Is It Good For Business?
Oct 17, 2022
Being in business requires vulnerability. In fact, vulnerability is an essential part of growing. You’re vulnerable just picking up the phone and making sales calls.
To get from 6 figures to 7 figures a year or higher, you need to create the right team. In order to build a team that stands behind you, you have to be vulnerable in your leadership. You must create a culture and environment in which your team can also be vulnerable with you, share ideas, innovate, and not be afraid to make mistakes. The fear of vulnerability is why many business owners don’t grow.
People walk around with fear and anxiety, because they’re afraid to be vulnerable. Often, they were raised in an abusive or toxic environment. So they don’t know how to be vulnerable. By learning this skill set, you can bring calm, peace, and joy to yourself every day.
In this episode, we discuss:
How NOT being vulnerable is like wearing armor, putting up a shield, self protecting, and not letting anyone see what’s under the armor
How low retention rates are a huge problem for many businesses, and team turnover is really expensive, both in time and money
What it takes to cultivate an environment that retains a team and builds a business
How most people are conflict averse and try to avoid conflict—but as a business owner, you have to learn to embrace conflict
Why you must communicate your EXACT expectations to your team (which is also vulnerable—because what will people think of your expectations?)
Why your relationships shouldn’t based on assumptions
You can’t innovate without vulnerability. You need to have bad ideas and make mistakes in order to innovate.
Being vulnerable requires being courageous. You must be willing to open yourself up to whatever happens. Choose courage over fear.
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Are Your “Rules” Helping or Hurting Your Success?
Oct 10, 2022
We all have certain rules in place that we follow in our life, yet we’ve never questioned where they came from.
We have rules about which foods we’ll eat, what places we’ll travel to, and which experiences we’ll allow ourselves to have (or not have). From the cars we buy, to the lipstick we wear, to how we make pot roast—rules control our lives, even if we’re not aware of them and even if they’re illogical.
This conversation was inspired by our team’s discussion of the topic, “foods we would never eat.” Particularly—chocolate chip cookies dipped in apple juice.
In today’s episode, Steph and I discuss:
How we pick up behaviors, ideas, and ideologies from our parents while we’re growing up—and how many of these rules aren’t based on anything other than a belief
How your subconscious mind uses RULES to keep you from doing what you want to do, having what you want to have, and experiencing incredible things that you might not even know you’re missing out on
How rules can be unspoken, yet are handed down from one generation to the next, with no rhyme or reason as to why they exist
How Steph never tried a banana until her 20s—because her mother hated them and made a face every time someone brought them up
How Brandon didn’t get contact lenses for years, simply because his mom never had contacts (he changed this after Steph questioned him about it)
How 7-figure business owners follow hidden rules about leadership that hamper their growth and suck their joy
How as a kid, I was fascinated with Europe—and my father always told me, “You don’t want to go to Europe” (yet he’d never been there)
What rules do you follow? Why are you following them? Where are you letting someone else’s belief control your actions? What ideas did you take on that you never challenged?
Developing rules is a way of staying safe and in control. Rules give us a level of certainty about something, even if it’s not true.
In business, rules often create a value conflict that holds you back from growth—like not wanting to spend money on certain things, not wanting to go into debt, and not wanting to be “irresponsible” with money.
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Are you under the illusion that you’re moving forward, experiencing growth, but nothing seems to be changing?
You’re busy. You’re working hard. You’re studying. You’re solving problems. But the results you’d love to see allude you, and you can’t figure out WHY. Your growth may be stunted and its time to change that.
If this describes you and your own personal growth, you’ve come to the right place. Drop everything and listen to this Special Release episode I put together that gives you the answer you’re searching for.
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A Conversation with LTC Scott Mann (US Army, Retired)
Oct 06, 2022
Scott Mann is a retired lieutenant colonel who spent 23 years in the United States Army, 18 of which were as a Green Beret, the US Army Special Forces. He was a member of seventh Special Forces Group, working in Central and South America.
I spoke with Scott Mann about his experiences in Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks, as well as his thoughts on the recent withdrawal from Afghanistan, and how people were left behind. That event felt like a slap in the face to the American people and to the military, yet nobody is talking about it. Our senior leaders, political leaders, and even our generals aren’t acknowledging these issues. If people talk about it, their careers are being ended.
Recruiting and retention for the U.S. military is in the toilet. 73% of veterans feel betrayed by the Afghan departure and the abandonment of our allies (there’s been an 81% spike in the VA hotline since August). All of this indicates we’ve got a serious leadership crisis on our hands.
In this episode, Scott and I discuss:
How the world shifted for the special operations community and Green Beret community after 9/11
The mental health challenges, suicides, post-traumatic stress, survivor’s guilt, TBI, and now COVID challenges that veterans have experienced, especially Vietnam veterans
How some military officers and senior officers are basically politicians who have succumbed to the corrosiveness of power and careerism
How Al Qaida is reconstituting Afghanistan, and turning it back into a terrorist state
How the United States has “lost our myth”—we no longer have a unifying, national myth that brings people together; storytelling is what binds us and gives us our sense of self
How our current narrative is based on factions, tribalism, and divisiveness meant to stir up fear and anger
Scott Mann still has a lot of optimism about this country. He believes our best days are still in front of us. But it starts with us. Nobody else is coming. Leadership will come from the bottom up—from moms and dads, brothers and sisters, leaders, veterans, and business owners in a civil society.
There needs to be accountability, personal ownership, lessons learned, mistakes acknowledged, corrections and adjustments made regarding what happened in Afghanistan.
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Divine Timing: Is There Such a Thing?
Oct 03, 2022
Timing is one of the biggest reasons why someone won’t take action on a goal they have right now. People often use divine timing as an excuse not to take action. It may appear as though God is saying, “Nope, this is the wrong time,” or, “This isn’t the right time.” But that is superstition.
The truth is, you have the power to change any situation in your life, right now. Fear and ignorance get in the way of us creating the life we really want.
Everyone has the same amount of time. The only time is now. If we’re not focused on the now, we’re either projecting into the future (worrying or escaping), or we’re dealing with a memory of the past (reminiscing). Neither one exists.
In this episode, Steph Tuss and I discuss:
Why so many people are terrified of the present, because they have anxiety and don’t know what to do right now
How worrying is the act of using your imagination incorrectly—people worry because they don’t know how to control their mind, and they don’t understand the laws of the universe
How people who were raised to be religious often weren’t taught that God is inside you—and we’re often taught to look outside of ourselves for everything
How opportunity rarely shows up at “the right time”
Why we need to get past superstition if we want to be successful
What divine timing”really means and why people use it as an excuse
The idea of divine timing is superstition in the sense that there is a divinity outside of yourself. YOU are the divinity. You’re responsible for creating the life you want. We determine our own divine timing.
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Whenever something bad happens, you might be tempted to think it’s the universe giving you a “sign” that you’re headed in the wrong direction. That’s actually not the case.
When you set a big goal, make a decision to do something new, or take a risk in business—crazy stuff often shows up. This may seem like God or the universe is trying to stop you. But it’s actually your subconscious mind engaging in a sabotage pattern, trying to get you to quit.
The universe doesn’t have a sense of humor. Nor is it “testing” you or giving you a big “clue.” There’s no old white guy in the sky or grand wizard behind the scenes, directing everything with puppet strings. Your mind is just hyper programmed to ask, “What does this mean?” Your subconscious mind wants to give meaning to everything, so that you can define it—which then tells you how to create a pattern to react to it, so that you don’t have to think about it.
In today’s episode, Steph and I discuss:
A text Steph got from a client who was shocked when someone asked for a refund (was this a “test”?)
How to determine if you’re on the wrong path—and what the hidden meaning is in all the chaos showing up in your life
How people look for validation outside themselves to figure out if they’re making the right decision and doing the right thing
All the crazy sh*t that happened in Steph’s life when she first made the decision to coach with me
Why negative things show up after you make a decision to do something new—and how this is your subconscious programming hijacking your focus
Why personal responsibility is a MUST if you want any sort of success in life (complaining and being a victim is the exact opposite of personal responsibility)
Why there are no “signs”—because you’ll see whatever you’re programmed to see, and you’ll interpret it however you’re programmed to interpret it
Chaos usually shows up when you’re stuck in a state of indecision or limbo. That’s when you create your own personal hell. Once you make a firm decision, all the chaos stops.
What you call a “problem” in your life exists only because you’re giving it energy. You’re literally creating the problem; it’s just an illusion.
Sometimes the signs you think you’re getting aren’t signs at all, merely your subconscious mind attempting to keep you from growing. Learn to silence those voices and trust yourself and your direction with more gems fromThe Successful Mind Podcast:
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Understanding Psychological Safety in Business
Sep 19, 2022
In business, psychological safety means that the people who work for you can work without the fear of repercussions if they make a mistake, challenge the status quo, or come up with an idea that doesn’t work.
Psychological safety allows your team to be free to do their best without having to worry about being humiliated or made to feel “less than,” because their idea didn’t work out.
Many organizations practice psychological safety, including Google. In fact, they credit their ability to innovate with how psychologically safe their organization is.
The problem is, many of us were raised in an environment that didn’t allow us to make mistakes. We were guilted, shamed, or humiliated instead of having our mistakes celebrated. So, as adults we have a tendency to hide our mistakes rather than bringing them forward, learning from them, and figuring out what caused them. Many of us also get triggered when other people make a mistake.
In today’s episode, Steph and I discuss:
What happens when organizations aren’t psychologically safe (hospitals are a key example of this—where people end up getting hurt, because nurses aren’t allowed to point out the mistakes of doctors)
How the highest performing, most innovative schools make it psychologically safe for kids to make mistakes
Why you should create a culture of psychological safety in your business, lead by example, sunshine your mistakes, and be vulnerable with your team
Why you shouldn’t hire “more of you”—because then you’ll have a bunch of you’s running around, saying yes to all of your ideas instead of innovating
Why failing to have clear expectations creates an unsafe environment for your team—because people don’t know what expectations they’re trying to hit; they don’t know what is considered a win
Why we get triggered and what’s at the root of it
Plus, Steph and I give examples of “nightmare bosses” we’ve witnessed throughout our lives. Some of our coaching clients are unknowingly creating a culture that’s the opposite of psychological safety, because they react to employees in a very harsh way.
Instead of getting angry with your underperforming team, make sure you set up measures of success or KPIs (key performance indicators) for each role that tell people when they’re successful
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 546 – Mindset Monday’s – The Sly Disguises of Fear
Sep 12, 2022
We often talk about the sly disguises of opportunity. But in today’s episode, Steph and I discuss the sly disguises of fear.
Many of the clients in our TEM90 program ask questions that show fear in disguise. They’ll ask about one thing, thinking they’re solving a particular problem—when really, the underlying issue is fear.
There are many fears associated with being the leader of a company. People are often great at doing the thing they sell, but they don’t have the skills or knowledge to run the business from an operational standpoint. They have fear around those things.
They think:
“What if I do the wrong thing and someone leaves?
“What if I don’t set this up right and I have to redo it all over again?”
“What if I hire someone and I can’t pay them?”
One of the big disguises of fear is resistance or procrastination. If you’re procrastinating—there’s something you’re resisting being, doing, or having.
In today’s episode, we discuss:
How fear is designed to keep you alive
Why you must be mindful, so that you can spot fear in your mind before it takes control of your behavior and results
How your decisions (or lack of a decision) can be controlled by fear—and this is tough to see sometimes, because your subconscious mind doesn’t want you to see that, because then you can change it
How confusion is a key indicator of fear—and confusion is strategy of your mind to try to stop you from moving forward into the unknown
Why, if you don’t have the results that you want in your business, you’re in resistance to something
How many business owners resist growing, because they don’t want to upset the apple cart
Plus, Steph shares the story of how she caught herself experiencing fear and procrastination while working on a project on the plane this past week.
Most people want to move away from fear, but I think you should move INTO it. Fear is our friend. It tells you a tremendous amount of information about your next step. You can’t reverse engineer a multi 7-figure business if you’re in resistance. Maybe you need to make a decision about something. Whatever it is, procrastination exists because there’s some kind of fear underneath it.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 545 – Full Throttle Thursday – Woodstock 99: The Mess That No One Planned For
Sep 08, 2022
In 1999, the world as we knew it was about to change. With Y2K around the corner, everyone was in a frenzy and needed to blow off steam. Woodstock 99 was the perfect vehicle to do that.
Produced by Michael Lang, Woodstock 99 was to be the biggest concert of the millennium. Taking place at a giant, decommissioned Air Force base in New York, in 100-degree heat, 200,000 people were jammed in together like sardines for three days. Bands like Rage Against the Machine, Metallica, Korn, and Limp Bizkit stirred up the crowd. Everyone was drunk, naked, and/or on every kind of drug imaginable.
Netflix’s 3-part documentary, “Train Wreck: Woodstock 99,” shows how the concert deteriorated fast. Everything that could go wrong, DID go wrong. The promoters manipulated 200,000 people—including confiscating all their water on the way in. With no water, no working toilets, trash everywhere, overpriced food, and no sleep—people began to lose their minds. The crowd’s mindset began to dissolve into anarchy—with fires, riots, and chaos.
What was the mindset at play that caused Woodstock 99 to morph into an insane mess? It’s a fascinating look into human psychology.
In this episode, BT and I discuss:
How the promoters obviously didn’t plan properly for Woodstock 99
How the evils of capitalism played a definite role in Woodstock 99—with pricing gauging, denying people food and water, and the Pay-Per-View event, which showed people taking their tops off
How toilets overflowed and poured out into the grass, and people broke the waterline because they couldn’t get water fast enough—and everyone had trench mouth
How no one took responsibility for anything that went wrong—they all had the same story—“It’s not my fault” (even Michael Lang, the person who put on the event)
The major differences between Woodstock 69 and Woodstock 99, especially the aggressiveness of the music
How music raises emotions and controls much of how we’re feeling
Why most people think Woodstock 69 was all about peace, yet it in reality—both concerts had riots, people died, and the US military had to step in and airlift supplies
When you’re a teenager, all that stuff looks exciting and full of energy.
When you’re older, you’re like, “Screw that.” You understand the consequences of things much differently. When people are that young, they really don’t.
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What Exactly is Leverage In Business? – Mindset Mondays – The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 544
Sep 05, 2022
Leverage is our ability to move big things with small levers, with a minimal amount of effort. The way we move ahead in the world is through leverage. Our smart phone is leverage. It gives us tons of information at our fingertips. A calculator is leverage. It lets us do math problems quickly and easily.
Yet, for some reason, we’re taught from a young age to “work hard” and make things more difficult. In math class, we’re told, “show your work” and “don’t use a calculator at school.” When we take this ideology into our business, we block ourselves from experiencing real growth and success.
In business, leverage is about “whom, not how.” If you want to grow, you must leverage the knowledge and expertise of other people who are further ahead of you. You can’t do everything yourself, and you don’t need to figure everything out yourself. It can take a lifetime to develop knowledge, a skill set, and expertise—and you can only learn so much on your own. Resisting hiring people can slow down your business growth.
In today’s episode, Steph and I discuss:
How relying on “hard work” only took me so far (I was taught, “In order to have success, you must work hard, suffer, and sacrifice”)
How one small adjustment in my thinking changed my whole life—and I went from NOT being able to pay my bills to tripling my income and having more than enough (because I leveraged my mentor’s expertise)
What leverage means[, and how people see it differently—e.g., leverage can mean one thing to a mechanical engineer, and something totally different to a business owner
Steph’s experience with nursing a sick baby who had food allergies—and how the doctor was clueless and could only recommend surgery (this was the catalyst for Steph questioning authority and making major changes in her life)
How Steph leveraged the expertise of a massage therapist, lactation consultant, and Chinese herbalist—all of whom helped her baby’s symptoms stop overnight
How many of us grew up in an environment where it wasn’t OK to ask for help—in fact, it was humiliating
You can leverage tools, software, a new hire, a consultant, or even podcast equipment—to reach thousands of people and grow your business.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 543 – Full Throttle Thursday – Are UFOs Real?
Sep 01, 2022
During the pandemic, the Pentagon publicly announced that UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) are real, and that we’ve known about them for a long time. They also admitted that UFOs are of non-human origin. The Navy has been tracking them visually and capturing UFOs on radar over the last 15 years.
It’s interesting that this information about UFOs was announced during COVID —when almost nobody was paying attention. Apparently, large parts of the government (like Congress) weren’t aware of this, and now they’re having discussions about whether UFOs are a security risk, and what to do about them.
More people became aware of UFOs after Bob Lazar came on the Joe Rogan show. Lazar shared his story of being hired by the government in the late 1980s. As a physicist, his specialty was jet propulsion. He was hired to work at “Area 51,” and worked on nine UFOs that our government had in their possession.
Lazar says life has been miserable since he first talked about his experiences. (Even his Wikipedia page calls him a “self-proclaimed” physicist, in an attempt to debunk everything he’s said.) The government tapped his phones, followed him around, and considered him a security risk. They wiped out his history, including his birth record and his studies at MIT. But as time passed, everything Lazar said turned out to be true.
Today BT and I discuss:
Our thoughts on UFOs—and how life may not be as we know it
How human beings have a tendency to think we know everything, but we’re still very young as a civilization—we’re still basically learning to find our way
How the awareness of UFOs can really mess with our foundation of values and our beliefs about how the world operates
How images of UFOs appear on historic art pieces that were constructed in the 1700s—including the image of the baptism of Christ
My own personal experience seeing something very strange that might have been a UFO
It seems improbable that we’d be the only form of life living in this vast universe.
No matter what you want to call these visitors—aliens, spacecraft, UFOs, UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena)—they’re certainly intriguing, and we want to be the first ones to unlock them.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 542 – Mindset Monday’s – Reverse Engineer Your Vision
Aug 29, 2022
There are many misunderstandings about what it means to have a vision. Many business owners get tripped up over their vision. They think if they speak it out loud, then it’s set in stone, and they’ll be pigeonholed into that. Or they think once they create their vision, they’ll know exactly how to do it and what all the steps will be in advance. That’s just not how it works.
People often get stuck around their vision, because they immediately want to know “how” it will work. If they can’t see how, then they won’t let themselves even want it. When you create a vision, you’ll ONLY see the first step. Once you take action on it, then you’ll see the next step. You must trust in yourself, have faith in the people around you, and know that no matter what happens as you follow your vision—you’ll get there.
In this episode, Steph and I discuss:
How your vision can change as you grow—and why you should give yourself permission to want something, even if it’s small
How Steph’s vision was to replace her teacher income when she first started (that’s as far as far she could see)
How most people don’t want to be seen, because they’re afraid of screwing up (they’re more focused on what they might lose, rather than what they’ll gain by following their vision)
Why it’s important to get out of survival mode, so that you can be creative when thinking about your vision
Steph’s love for LEGO and how she and Brandon have put together the craziest LEGO sets—and how this relates to what happens in business when you’re trying to overcome problem after problem
How kids create entire worlds with their imagination where anything is possible and there are no rules—and then it gets shut down
Plus, we talk about why you should paint a picture of what you want your life and business to look like in 3 years. Let yourself dream and fantasize a bit. Don’t focus on the “how.” Give yourself the time and space to figure out what you want your vision to look like. Hone it, make sure it excites you, and feel it in your body. Don’t censor yourself. There’s nothing you can’t have, and there’s nothing you can’t do.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 541 – Full Throttle Thursday – Sam Harris & The Death of Reason
Aug 25, 2022
Sam Harris is a public intellectual and brilliant thought leader with many strong opinions. For years, he’s tried to present a rational argument for atheism. I love learning from people I disagree with, and while I disagree with Sam on many things—I respect that he’s tried to figure out how we can have a good moral value system without religion.
Sam is supposed to be an intelligent guy who can think rationally. Last week, he was on the TRIGGERnometry Podcastwith Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster. On that show, I saw Sam not thinking rationally. He was extremely biased to the point of destruction. Instead of using reason, he entered into the world of judgment.
Some of the things he said about Donald Trump is complete derangement. Sam said that the Trump University scandal is worse than colluding with China, Russia, and having hookers, Coke, crack, and dead babies in the basement. He’s basically saying that anything Trump could do is worse than all of the above—and that statement isn’t rational.
You can see the look on Konstantin’s face—like, “I can’t believe I’m hearing this.” Konstantin and Francis give Sam multiple opportunities to fix this as it’s happening in real time. And Sam just keeps doubling down. It’s a fascinating view into human thought.
Today, BT and I discuss:
Why it’s dangerous to stay locked into your own point of view without hearing other people’s viewpoints
How we’re living in a world where reason is being thrown down the toilet (we can’t even figure out what a boy or a girl is anymore)
How the United States constitution is designed so that everybody gets a voice—and yet many people think free speech is a four-letter word and that we shouldn’t have it
How the human brain gets warped to the point where, in a democratic society, it becomes okay to disrupt a person being elected into office
Why I think Sam Harris has a blind spot—because in his mind, a person of higher education can’t be a moron, but anybody who doesn’t have a higher education can be
When it comes to the upcoming election, we all have emotional issues around it. But can we stick to reason or is this the death of reason?
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 540 – Mindset Monday’s – Saying Yes Creates More
Aug 22, 2022
Have you wanted to do something for a very long time? Have wanted to move somewhere, buy something, or do something for no reason other than, “I want it”? If so, then follow that desire—even if it’s something small. This expands your life and opens up incredible opportunities for you. In short, saying yes matters.
People often tell my CEO, Steph Tuss, “I’ve wanted this thing for a long time. I can feel it in my body. On the surface it seems silly, but I’ve always wanted it.”
Steph’s response to them is, “By when will you have it?” Most people come up with excuses on why they can’t do it. But it’s just a decision.
In this episode, we discuss:
How getting the thing you want, pushes against some of your old values that no longer serve you
How the universe expands to meet you—and brings you more opportunities—when you take action on your desire
Why it’s not the thing you want that matters—it’s the reason WHY you’re saying yes or no to it that makes the difference
How purchasing something you want that’s unrelated to business will absolutely have an impact on your business
Steph’s story of deciding to move to Maryland 11 years ago into a house at a much higher price point than her family was used to, and how everything in her life expanded as a result of this decision
How your environment impacts your growth
Why the phrase, “You don’t need that” shuts down a person’s desire
If you’ve been wanting to do something for a long time, do it. Book the trip. Buy the Rolex. Get the house you want. Make a decision to do something that will cause you to grow. Allow yourself to follow your desire. The universe will open up incredible opportunities for you.
The Universe gives us exactly what we ask for. It just comes down to making a decision, and doing something for expansion.
If you’re willing to do whatever it takes to pay for that thing, then set a date by when you’ll have it. And follow through. You’ll be amazed at what changes for you.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 539 – Full Throttle Thursday – Is Detachment From Media Dangerous?
Aug 18, 2022
Huge changes are coming upon our world. The World Economic Forum has essentially said that in 2030 you’re not going to own anything and you’re going to be happy. And they’re seriously trying to make this happen. The White House has criminalized free speech in many cases. The academic system is changing our history and inserting all kinds of crazy things in there. By the time people get out of school, they don’t know how to think.
If you don’t know what’s happening—and you don’t know where to get accurate information about it—you won’t be able to make correct decisions for yourself. Detachment from the media (including mainstream media and social media) can be dangerous and irresponsible. Yes, there are good and bad things about it, and there’s constant noise and negativity…but you still need to know what’s happening, because it WILL affect you.
In this episode, BT and I discuss:
How all news is a business with an agenda—and corruption comes from media being loyal to their shareholders and advertisers
How CNN got in big trouble, and they’re almost out of business because of things they’ve lied about
How journalistic integrity has taken a backseat in favor of clickbait headlines and, “If it bleeds, it leads” (there’s no such thing as “unbiased” news, because all humans are biased)
The nature of propaganda—how it consistently sells you on FEAR, in order to intentionally manipulate you
My thoughts on “wokeness,” and how derogatory attitudes towards police can be traced back to the 60s and 70s—in shows like Dragnet and Adam-12
How the generation of kids from the ’50s and ‘60s are now in power in this country
How, during the Civil War, only 30% of people cared about what was happening back then—because people have a tendency to want to ignore what’s going on
Plus, I share why I don’t think everyone will end up “in the same boat” in our country. Historically, propaganda has always gone after the weakest among us: the uneducated, those who aren’t prepared, and those who aren’t keeping up to date on what’s going on. Things can be taken away from those people very easily.
It will be much more difficult for the government to take money away from big multimillion dollar companies. They’re going after “the little guy.” Those people are in big, big trouble.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 538 – Mindset Monday’s – Winning Through Intimidation
Aug 15, 2022
Winning Through Intimidation by Robert J. Ringer is one of the top 15 books I’d recommend for business people to read. I first found out about this book in the 1990s, and my initial response was, “I don’t want to win through intimidation.” Although it’s catchy, the title is a bit misleading.
The author tells stories through the metaphor of “Screw U” university and defines the 3 types of intimidators—people who show up in your life who will cause you to lose. A big idea in the book is to stop assuming people have your best interests in mind, because they don’t.
The 3 types of intimidators are:
People who openly act in their own self-interest and basically give zero sh#ts about you.
People who work behind your back to cut you out. They say one thing to you, but behind your back they’re very much working against you.
People, who despite their best intentions, cut you out regardless.
All three types are dangerous.
In this episode, Steph Tuss and I discuss:
How Winning Through Intimidation translates to business and how, in any financial transaction, the person who’s most intimidated will earn the least
How you can avoid being intimidated and losing
Why you should stop assuming that just because someone’s “nice” to you, they have your best interest in mind (they don’t)
The importance of looking at a person’s “performance data” before you blindly trust them (which from the book, Trust, by Iyanla Vanzant)
Why you should make decisions based on performance data—not on what people are constantly telling you
How “triangulation” is key part of someone’s psychology who has narcissist borderline personality disorder—they feel like a terrible person inside and are constantly trying to see how many pawns they can move in their favor, so that they don’t feel like a terrible person
How many business owners hire people who are either “them” or someone below them—rather than looking for the absolute best that they could hire to move them forward
If you feel intimidated by someone, it’s either because your self-esteem is low, or you see yourself as “below” that person. This book helps bring you up, so that you see yourself as an equal.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 537 – Full Throttle Thursday – A Conversation with Dr. Andrew Benedek
Aug 11, 2022
Dr. Andrew Benedek is an entrepreneur who focuses on the idea of climate change. His current company, Anaergia, is designed to help offset climate change by generating “renewable natural gas” to replace the natural gas currently being used. His previous company developed technology for recycling water.
When it comes to climate change, many people believe the biggest problem is carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuel. Dr. Andrew Benedek says, “Methane is 84 times worse than carbon dioxide.” Food waste and organic waste that goes into landfills is being converted into methane—which then goes in the atmosphere. “The concentration of methane is low, but the impact is very significant. About 37% of the impact on climate change is due to the increase in methane in the atmosphere,” he says.
With increases in population, we have more and more landfills, especially in Asia. Dr. Andrew Benedek’s company is trying to convert methane from being a problem to a positive fuel replacement.
In this episode we discuss:
How it’s remarkably difficult to change our fuel infrastructure, and it can take 60 years or more to do (e.g., solar power was invented 60 years ago, and today only 10% of the world’s energy in solar or wind)
Why Dr. Andrew Benedek thinks “the problem with climate change is that it’s very complicated”—and that the current structure of government and the four-year cycle of American elections makes it difficult to solve the problem, because it causes a “short-term view”
Why many technical people are frustrated, because they can see how things can be done, but they don’t know how to get technology commercialized
How 25% of Denmark’s natural gas is renewable—and they plan to get to 100% renewable by 2030
How government leadership and incentive can help us change infrastructure relatively quickly—yet at the same time, government often does not make a good business partner
Why Dr. Andrew Benedek believes the secret to creating a successful company in the environmental space is to “pick a problem that’s not going to go away, but will increase”
We also discuss Ford’s plans to lay off 8,000 people, GM’s announcement that they won’t make anything but electric by 2035; and Volvo’s plans to go all electric by 2030. Dr. Andrew Benedek says “The tipping point is going to happen soon.”
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 536 – Mindset Monday’s – Embrace the Imbalance
Aug 08, 2022
People often ask us how to create “balance” in their business—particularly between work and family. As a business owner and/or parent, you’re responsible for so many different things. Whether you’re devoting time to a marriage, a family, a job, your church, your civic duties, or social interests—everything requires a certain time investment from you, for it to be effective.
When a person starts a business, that requires almost all of their time in order to be successful, especially in the beginning when they’re bootstrapping and doing everything themselves.
In this episode my CEO, Steph Tuss, and I discuss:
Why searching for “balance” is often a way to avoid feeling guilty—and how the search for balance is really someone looking for comfort
The phenomenon of “mom guilt”—and how parents can be emotionally torn between wanting to grow their business, and being afraid to take time away from their kids (so they end up using their kids as an excuse not to grow)
How being “out of balance” means discomfort
How you can eliminate feeling “off balance” by putting proper boundaries in place—when you’re working, you’re working; when you’re with your family, you’re with your family
Why you must adjust your goals based on your responsibilities and the things that are important to you
How Steph planned for imbalance as a mom, wife, and leader—and this helped her stay married
How being a people-pleaser and a peacekeeper can make you lose sense of who you really are—so it’s important to carve time out to be by yourself and to know what’s important to you
Just like with nature, there are seasons in your business. There are times when you’re planting seeds, setting yourself up, and things feel more quiet. Then there are times when you’re harvesting, and things are hectic. There’s no way to achieve balance when you’re harvesting—and you wouldn’t want to, because you want to capitalize on the opportunity in the moment.
If you’re at a flat line all year long, there’s no innovation, challenge, or adversity. Imbalance in business is what drives innovation. For that reason, you must welcome the discomfort that comes with owning your business. Embrace it, and get comfortable being uncomfortable.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 535 – Full Throttle Thursday – A Conversation with Kelly Bandas
Aug 04, 2022
Kelly Bandas is a writer and comedian best known for her popular Instagram and TikTok videos, which satirize everything from millennial motherhood to social media culture. Using self-deprecating humor (with her being from the Northeast), her mission is to empower and lift up other women through community, inclusivity, and laughter.
In this episode, I ask Kelly what inspired her to write her book, where she got her humor and insight from, and what her intention is with her book. She says, “I wanted to send the message that you’re never too old to change your mind.” Her book is light and uplifting for those who may be silently struggling with mental health and wellness.
We discuss:
How Kelly found inspiration from some of the toughest, darkest times of her life—and how humor got her through those tough times
Her passion for being a writer and a storyteller—someone who can get people to turn the pages and read “below the fold”
How Kelly was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety at an early age, and her experience as a failed mommy blogger
How people are making it through the day, thanks to being part of a community
The story of her dad taking her to a baseball game in the 90s (a time when it was “boys over here, girls over there”)—and how that experience created a bond with her dad, and brought about Kelly’s lifelong love of sports and baseball (she later got hired by the Boston Red Sox)
How people get “mired down in their own camp,” not wanting to hear any other ideas and wanting to be right (Kelly calls this “screaming into the void to other people who agree with me”)
How she played with format while writing her book, using light writing that’s like “coming up for air”
Plus, we discuss Kelly’s process for creating social media posts, and how her family helps her with that. She shares what life is like with her three boys who are 11, 8, and 6.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 534 – What It Means To Be a Leader
Aug 02, 2022
With everything going on in the country right now, we could all use more discussions on leadership. Today we’ve got Steph Tuss, CEO of Life is Now, Inc., on the podcast with her husband BT, and they’re discussing what it means to be a leader.
Many leaders today expect their team and employees to follow through on things, yet they themselves fail to follow through on their own expectations—because they’re not “being their word.” As a leader, you have to learn to lead yourself. In business, you either sink or swim. Leadership is about getting yourself to do the things you really don’t feel like doing, or that feel uncomfortable.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
How Steph was called “bossy” as a kid, and how she embraced the role of a leader from an early age, starting with her standing up to bullies on the playground
How she became the face of the teacher’s union in California in her early 20s—and how her role as President of the Teacher’s Association came about because she was dissatisfied with how everything was run
Why Steph sees a “leader” not as someone who has authority, but as someone who represents other people; it’s not “you against them”—it’s you standing FOR them and WITH them
How Steph and Brandon’s weekly grocery budget was only $125, with nothing left over, while they were living in a small house in midwestern Wisconsin—and yet even at that time, Steph became aware of the need to invest in herself
How she transitioned away from the classroom and into a leadership position in her own nutrition business—and quickly ramped up to making six figures, thanks to working with several mentors
The leadership lessonsSteph learned along the way, especially when it comes to leading yourself
Steph believes life and business are both an adventure. As with any adventure, there are risks. There are up times, down times, blown tires, heat waves—but there are also beautiful sunsets and sunrises. The idea is for you to enjoy the journey, develop yourself along the way, and develop other people.
Regardless of what conflict happens along the way, it’s about knowing that “We’re going to be okay.” No matter what happens—every mistake, every misstep, every bad result—know that, “We’re going to be okay.”
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 533 – Mindset Monday’s – The Answer is Leadership
Aug 01, 2022
People often tell me they want to make a quantum leap in their business. They want to know when things will get easier. When you ask for a quantum leap, understand that you’re also asking for a quantum leap in problems. They go hand in hand. Success doesn’t necessarily go hand in hand with things being easier.
Many people are looking for a great leader in their company, but they’re looking for it out of desperation. It’s like, “Please, someone just take this mess I’ve created off my plate.” No good leader wants that. They want an opportunity to take their talent and skills, and do something great with it that makes a difference in people’s lives. They’re looking for the potential to fulfill their dream.
Sometimes people will say, “I need to hire my own Steph Tuss.” My CEO, Steph, and I always laugh when we hear that. I don’t think people understand exactly what Steph does, or to the extent in which she does it. Most people have no idea what she went through to become the leader she is today—to be able to run our company in the way she does now.
If you want to “find your own Steph”…ask yourself, are you prepared to be that leader yourself? Are you willing to put in the time, money, and dedication that’s required?
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
The history of how Steph and I began working together, starting back in 2009—and how she was a consummate student, with a strong desire and passion to learn
How it takes a certain level of commitment to become a great leader
Great leaders don’t just lead a company to a vision; they also manage and solve the “human” problems and conflicts that come up along the way
Just because you start your own business and have a product or service doesn’t make you a leader—leadership is something you must grow into, and be dedicated to mastering
Most people don’t want to quantum-leap their problems—they want to run away from them
A leader must walk in their own leadership (which is damn hard) before they can become a great leader of other people
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 532 – Lessons on Leadership – Part IV – A Players vs B Players: How Tolerating an Adequate Team Will Destroy Your Business
Jul 25, 2022
In business, tolerations are dangerous. The things you tolerate are keeping you from growing and moving forward. If you’re not growing, you’re dying.
One of the biggest tolerations business owners have is an adequate team filled with B-players or C-players. These are people who show up, do what’s necessary, then go home. An adequate player is concerned with, “How can we stay the same?”—not with innovation or doing what’s best for the company. This puts the brakes on your business.
You don’t want an adequate team. Instead, you want A-players who are above adequate. A-players are hungry. They’re looking at where they can do more. They solve their own problems and think through solutions before bringing problems to you. Someone once told me that a deck of cards only has so many Aces, and the problem with most people is that they try to turn every other card into an Ace.
In this episode, Steph Tuss and I discuss:
How most people are raised with the idea that you have to tolerate negativity, wrong thinking, or unnecessary suffering
How negative circumstances are an opportunity—like a flag pointing you in the direction of something that needs to be changed in your life
How once you fix or remove a toleration, you can have an amazing outcome on the other side of it
The reason businesses don’t grow (hint: it’s because they spend all their time trying to take a Queen, a King, a Ten, a Jack, a Deuce, and turn it into an Ace)
The key characteristics of A-players—and why you can’t coach desire
Why you must hire early, and hire based on where you’re going, not based on where you are
Why business owners get emotional when hiring or firing people, or holding them accountable—and one of the main things you have to learn in business is to master your emotions
My company helps people move through difficulties in their businesses. When someone is stuck, we we start by looking at what they’re tolerating. The first question we ask is, “What are you in resistance to?” or, “What are you tolerating?” At the root of a toleration is a resistance to change something.
Your underlying mindset must be to do what’s best for the company, even if this means firing or hiring people.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 531 – Lessons on Leadership – Part III – Communication & Accountability: Sunshine Your Mistakes to Make Them Your Greatest Successes
Jul 18, 2022
Today my CEO, Steph Tuss, and I are talking about communication and conflict. Most people avoid conflict because of things that happened in their childhood. They associate it with mom and dad fighting over something…a bar fight or physical alteration … a winner and a loser… or with someone being made wrong. All of these things can feel painful, dangerous, and unsafe, especially when you’re a child.
Many of our clients are afraid to hold people accountable in their business, because they don’t want conflict. However, being conflict averse or conflict avoidant can bring your business to its knees.
Conflict is actually a good thing for business, because it brings out the best ideas . Disagreement, debate, different opinions, and different personalities are what bring about innovation. This can only happen through effective communication.
In this episode you’ll learn:
How the outside world reinforces the idea that you shouldn’t want to participate in conflict—because you could be canceled for speaking your opinion
Fundamentally, the US was built on the concept of freedom—to have a different opinion, have a different idea, to be heard, and to let the best idea win the day
Meritocracy means the best idea wins—not the most important person in the room wins; and you can’t get good ideas without conflict
Why conflict is required for commitment and buy-in on your team (because you can’t get someone’s commitment if they won’t voice their opinions)
How Steph brings a new idea to our team and wants the team to poke holes in it, and tell her why it won’t work and what could go wrong—so that she can see it from a different perspective (this is how we find our most innovative ideas)
Why our team has instilled the belief of “sun-shining your mistakes,” which means turning the light on your mistake (not sweeping it under the rug or hiding it from anyone)—because mistakes are an opportunity to grow and learn something new, so you get a different result
We should all embrace conflict in a business setting, and learn to nurture it in our companies. We should develop a healthy attitude around conflict, instead of trying avoid it or to change it to sooth our internal, emotional issues that we have about it.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 530 – Lessons on Leadership – Part II – Hiring: Humble, Hungry & Smart
Jul 11, 2022
Today my CEO, Steph Tuss, and I are talking about how to hire the best person for your business or team. Most people don’t understand how to hire or fire someone. People tend to hire people they like, or people who are like them—but this is a mistake.
If you want to win in business, you must hire the best person for the job. Instead of treating your business as a family, it’s better to treat it as a professional sports team. As “general manager coach,” your job is to make sure each position is manned by the absolute best.
In this episode, we discuss:
What Steph has learned on her journey of hiring, firing, and team building
How most people make decisions based on avoiding conflict and avoiding being uncomfortable
How our company made an enormous paradigm shift in hiring by thinking of ourselves as an elite sports team, rather than a family—because nobody wants to fire their family, hold a family member accountable, or have a hard conversation with them if they’re not meeting their KPIs
Specific things to look for when you’re hiring someone—and why you should find someone who’s “humble, hungry, and smart”
What being humble, hungry and smart actually looks like—and which questions to ask during the interview process to determine if someone has these traits
Why “sunshining” your mistakes creates psychological safety within an organization
Why you should pay attention to how a potential hire is showing up, because who a person is “being” is everything
Having the best player in each position ensures that you can create the right culture in your team. In our company, we say all the time, “What’s in the best interest of the company?” It’s easy to default into saying, “What’s in the best interest of me?” or “What’s most comfortable for me?” But decisions need to be made based on what’s best for the whole company.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 529 – Lessons on Leadership – Part I – Scaling: The Key to Scaling Your Business
Jul 04, 2022
One of the most common things we hear growing up is, “Why should I hire someone to do it, if I can do it myself for free?” But as entrepreneurs, the only way we can grow is if we receive support and hire help.
Business owners only have so much time in a day. There are only so many tasks you can manage, and only so many people you can talk to. So if you want to grow and scale your business, you must delegate and allow yourself to receive support. The problem is, we’re raised with the idea that we must be a “self-made” person and do everything ourselves. This idea comes from the working class mindset.
In this episode, Steph Tuss and I discuss:
Why people have difficulty being supported in their business—and why so many are a “one-person show,” doing everything themselves and wearing all the hats (and this prevents them from scaling and growing)
How some people get their value from doing everything themselves at the expense of their self-esteem (and how this boils down to a “core wound” issue that says, “I’m not enough”)
Why my decision to sell my John Deere tractor and never cut my own grass again led to “more life” for three different people (myself included)
How hiring help gives other people and yourself an opportunity for growth—because it’s all for more life
How there’s shame associated with asking for help
Steph’s experience with starting a nutrition business with the goal of replacing her teacher’s salary—and how she discovered she could increase her earning capacity if she took specific things off her plate
Plus, we share an exercise to uncover the excuses you have that are rooted in fear, that are causing you NOT to hire the help you need. Learn the importance of scaling your business today.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 528 – Full Throttle Thursday – Soft White Underbelly: The Whittaker Family
Jun 30, 2022
“Soft White Underbelly” is a YouTube channel created by Mark Laita, a photographer who interviews and humanizes marginalized people in society. Many of the individuals featured have survived traumas and are living difficult, rough lives. It’s a huge series, with over a thousand videos uploaded onto the channel, interesting stories, beautiful photography, and millions of views.
In today’s episode, BT and I discuss one video in particular of the Whittakers, an inbred family from West Virginia whom Mark has interviewed multiple times. They come from a family that is obviously limited intellectually, physically, and verbally. Their understanding of things is limited. By watching, you can see that the most intelligent part of the family has the least amount of incest. The deeper the incest goes, the worse it deteriorates. The average person probably doesn’t want to see these people and will pretend they’re not there. But Mark brings their stories to the surface.
We discuss:
The range of non-traditional individuals Mark interviews on “Soft White Underbelly”
Why I’m on the fence about whether or not I like this YouTube channel—because most people are probably watching it for entertainment, not to help
How “Soft White Underbelly” reminds me of when I was young, traveling through different parts of the United States and saw homeless people, interviewed them, and talked to them, while trying to understand their plight
How people who live in abject poverty protect each other and defend the life they live
How, from a resourceful aspect, even homeless people are able to get what they need to survive
What I think Mark’s motives are for creating this channel, and whether or not it’s exploitative
How he takes the Whittakers to Walmart, gets them clothes and food, and buys them appliances
Jordan Peterson spoke on the “disgust factor” in human beings and how we seem to have a genetic reaction to certain things that impact our survival. A healthy individual will most likely be repulsed by certain things that would potentially harm them psychologically, emotionally, physically, or in other ways.
I’d encourage you to watch the video on the Whittakers and think about what your first reaction is—and why you’re reacting that way.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 527 – Think About What You’re Thinking
Jun 28, 2022
Very often, we have repetitive thoughts running through our mind over and over again where we can’t make decisions, and we’re stuck in fear. The voice in our head says we can’t or shouldn’t do something, and we’re reliving the past. It goes on and on, never-ending. One of the most common questions I get is, “How do I get this to stop?”
For a long time, my rescue dog, Ferguson, did crate spins where he constantly went in circles—because he was abused by his previous owner and was left in a crate constantly. A dog spinning like that is a physical representation of what happens in most people’s minds of what happens when we can’t come to a resolution about something. It becomes somewhat of a threat to us. Our mind doesn’t know what to do with it, because we’re not resolving it—so it spins.
In today’s episode, you’ll learn:
Why we don’t see this repetitive, “stuck” behavior in nature unless humans get involved
How my dog couldn’t get away from the people who were abusing it, but it still had an instinctive desire to move, because that’s in its DNA—that internal impulse is strong, regardless of the fact that it can’t go anywhere or logically think about it
When humans keep suffering the same problem over and over again, it’s very similar to a dog spinning in its crate
A lot of people live in the past
The way to resolve the mental “spinning” is to condition your mind to the truth around the situation; give it a resolve—separate yourself from the thought and bring truth to it
The illusion is that “because there’s movement, something’s happening,” but if there’s no clear outcome on your part, then you’re not really moving
When you’re experiencing the same problem over and over again—or having the same thought patterns repetitively—ask yourself, “Why am I thinking what I’m thinking? Why am I constantly repeating this thought process?”
To stop the spinning, ask, “What is my outcome? Where am I going? What’s the direction I’m moving in?” You must have a destination. The spinning will stop once you begin to move in a straight line. You have to retrain your mind to move in the direction you want it to go, every time.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your podcast feed. David has released YouTube specific episodes beginning with his series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 526 – Mindset Monday’s – What Makes You Feel Significant?
Jun 27, 2022
Many years ago, my mentor Bob Proctor made an observation about great salespeople. He said, “If you look at any salesperson who is really good, they have a completely different belief system and a different level of intensity about them than your average salesperson.”
To be successful, salespeople and business people MUST have an intense level of belief in something. What do you believe in? What’s your mission and purpose? When you approach your business, your life, your sales, and everything else with a passion—with a different level of intensity—you can have a significant impact in what you do.
To understand this, we can look at people who do missionary work. They need a high level of intensity and belief to be able to go somewhere and convert people to Christianity (or whatever religion they have). The amount of rejection and ridicule these folks get is unbelievably intense.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
How I felt like I was on a mission (even before I started my business) because there was a sense of purpose for me
Everyone has a specific purpose—given to them by God—and it’s the reason why we’re all here
Your job is to discover your purpose inside of yourself, and nobody else can tell you what it is
Your purpose, mission, and how you help people should be where you get your significance and fulfillment from—by doing whatever you’re put here to do
Why you should love the work you’re doing, no matter what you’re doing, and do it to the best of your ability—because that’s what you have to offer humanity
Human beings need the cycle of “ups and downs,” which are a part of the law of rhythm
Why we need to stay focused on our purpose—on the things we’re here to do—even during these strange times
When you know your purpose, you also know what NOT to get involved in, because it’s not part of your purpose.
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When you know your purpose your life becomes more fulfilled than you could ever imagine. Get on the right track by listening to these powerful episodes fromThe Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 525 – Full Throttle Thursday – LIV Golf & Making Sense of Sportswashing
Jun 23, 2022
In the US, sports are sacred. They’re a source of bringing excellence and inspiration to the world. The way we’ve built sports, they’ve become part of the backbone of what we stand for and who we are.
Recently there’s been a practice of “sportswashing”—where an individual, group, corporation, or government uses sport to improve their tarnished reputation. They host an event, purchase a sponsorship or a team, or participate in the sport itself.
The LIV Golf tour is a professional golf tour that’s financed by the “Public Investment Fund”—a sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia—which has a lot of oil money behind it. If someone shoots a 54 on this tour (which is virtually impossible), they’ll get $54 million. The PGA is up in arms about this, because they say they’re destroying golf by having this tour, and the PGA can’t compete with that.
In this episode, BT and I discuss:
Why sportswashing might crush golf as we know it—and why other sports might be next
How Saudi Arabia pumps money into a product (football—a.k.a soccer in the US) to make people forget about their transgressions, questionable activities, and human rights violations
How we’ve seen sports being hosted in places with horrendous human rights records—like the Olympics in Russia , the Olympics in China, and soon the World Cup in Qatar
How COVID changed everything, and more and more people are now playing golf]
How the younger generation is being targeted by sportswashing, because they’re not very tied to the past, and they’re motivated by money
Why people who are playing in the LIV Golf tour are receiving backlash for accepting “blood money—just by being paid by this Public Investment Fund from Saudi Arabia
How most of the public doesn’t realize how much business we do with countries that have human rights violations—and how the US being beholden to China for products and services makes us prime for a takeover
I think the more our sports get stripped away in the US—and it becomes more about the money than the sport itself—eventually, we’ll get to the place where the sport doesn’t matter anymore. Before you know it, your favorite NBA team or professional football team might be owned by money that’s not coming from here.
Looking to take your mindset to the next level? Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. You can now binge an entire series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. See you there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 524 – You Are the Author of Your Own Life Story – Part II
Jun 21, 2022
In today’s episode I’m continuing where I left off, teaching from Don Miguel Ruiz’s book, The Voice of Knowledge.
All human beings live in a story of their own creation. That goes for your family members too. You live in your own story. Your mother lives in her own story. Your family members all have their own story, their own beliefs, and their perceived role that you have.
For example, your mother can swear that she knows you well, but is it true? She has no idea what you have in your mind. She only knows what she believes about you…which means she knows almost nothing.
In this episode you’ll learn:
You are a secondary character in another person’s story
As a secondary character, you play a role for someone (e.g., your mother sees you as her son or daughter—she creates an image of you, and she wants you to fit the image she creates)
Everyone in your immediate family has created a story about you—and a role—which began in your childhood
That story and role begin to change as time goes on
We live in an increasingly agitated society about what people believe—and many young people believe we can control what others believe, but they’re in for a rude awakening, because we cannot
Remember, everyone is dealing with their own individual story and how you show up in the role of that story. If you don’t show up according to someone’s story, they’ll feel hurt by you. They’ll try to make you fit their image of you. They’ll feel the need to control you, tell you what to do, and what not to do.
The best thing you can do is not to defend your point of view, but to change the conversation, enjoy that person’s presence, and love them anyway.
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Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your podcast feed. David has released YouTube specific episodes beginning with his series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 523 – You Are the Author of Your Own Life Story – Part I
Jun 20, 2022
In The Voice of Knowledge, Don Miguel Ruiz has a chapter called “The Storyteller.” In it, he questions everything about his beliefs about himself and invites us to do the same.
Throughout our life, we all live in a story of our own creation, without even noticing it. We should question our beliefs about ourselves. Are they true? Or were these stories just passed down to us as “knowledge” from someone else? In today’s episode, I’m reading and teaching from this chapter.
You’ll learn:
How more than 90% of the concepts we have stored in our minds are based on lies—especially the concepts we believe about ourselves
How a “whole society of storytellers” existed before we were born—and how generation after generation of people shared their “knowledge” with us (which is really just stories of what they believe)
How the stories we are told (i.e., the knowledge we’re given) might not even be accurate—it’s often based on someone’s religion, superstition, or even witchcraft
We can’t ever truly know everything about a person; we can only know what we believe about them
There’s a whole side to every person that’s just theirs, that you don’t know (and I often tell people to “look at your secret thoughts” if you want to find out what you truly desire in life)
How you can reinvent yourself by changing the story you have about yourself
Our beliefs about who we are have incredible power over our life—even if those beliefs aren’t true. Ask yourself, “What do I believe about myself?” Most of us believe whatever the “storytellers” told us (i.e., our parents, teachers, society, etc.).
You have the power to change what you believe—and you can change the story you’re living. You’re the author of your own life.
Be sure to join me and my CEO, Steph Tuss, on June 20-22 for a never-before-seen 3-Day Bootcamp:“Work Smarter Not Harder Bootcamp for Entrepreneurs.We’re co-facilitating this bootcamp to help you find your focus, reclaim your day, and grow your business.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your podcast feed. David has released YouTube specific episodes beginning with his series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
Our beliefs about who we are have incredible power over our life. Dive into more powerful work by Don Miguel Ruiz by listening to these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 522 – Full Throttle Thursday – Recreational Manifestation
Jun 16, 2022
Throughout my life, I’ve had a history of being able to manifest the things I wanted, whether it was in business or other areas. In 1993, I had an obsession around fishing. However, I made the decision to give up that obsession, so that I could focus on my business and family interests. Because of my obsessive nature, I have to put all my energies into a specific direction (I can’t have them split).
I closed the door on fishing and never considered doing it again…until the past two years, when the desire to own a boat and start fishing again showed up for me. Recently I manifested the boat I wanted—even when boat production has been delayed throughout the country.
In this episode, BT and I discuss:
Our interesting manifestation stories around boats, recreational vehicles, and the power of intention—and how our company has gone on a buying spree lately (especially with buying RVs)
How I manifested the perfect boat, in the color I wanted—but only AFTER I was about to settle for a different boat that I didn’t want
How I’ve had similar manifesting experiences with my Bentley, my Aston Martin, the house I live in on the water, our office, our team members, and even moving
How the universe wants you to have the things you want more than you want to have them (Wallace Wattles wrote about this in The Science of Getting Rich)
How BT and his wife, Steph Tuss, manifested their desired Airstream instead of settling for something they didn’t want
Why you should pay close attention to your desire if it never goes away—because something else is trying to get in (you just have to let it come in)
Don’t give up on your dreams. If you feel an ‘itch’ to go out and do something—go out and do it. Stop waffling on it. Make the decision, take action, and get out there and do it today.
Looking to take your mindset to the next level? Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. You can now binge an entire series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. See you there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 521 – Life Is a Dance Between Desire and Fear
Jun 14, 2022
Your success is the equivalent of what you can get yourself to follow through on. What you follow through on, is a “dance” between what you desire the most and what you fear the most.
If you let fear stop you, then you stop. If you desire safety over uncertainty, adventure, and risk—then you let that desire for safety stop you. The idea is to push to another level and break through the fear—because that’s the only way you’ll grow.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Fear makes you instantly look at why you CAN’T do something—it wants you to look at the facts, the figures, and the past, which causes you to stop in your tracks
How I learned to “recruit up” when I worked with a network marketing company—which means “find people who are more effective than you are and who have more influence”
How I was able to recruit doctors by getting past gatekeepers and trying a new approach
If something’s not working, you don’t give up—you change your approach
Most salespeople are very concerned about rejection; superstar sales people don’t care about rejection—they’re completely driven, money focused, sales focused, and they want to put numbers up on the board
Why sales people must be consistently resourceful to keep creating the numbers and the sales
Going into a fear state won’t make you resourceful
Every day, your job is to break through fear in order to get yourself to do what you need to do to become as successful as you want to be. The only way to do that is by setting a higher standard for yourself—and immediately taking action on the opportunities that come to you.
If opportunities don’t come to you, then you have to create those opportunities.
Be sure to join me and my CEO, Steph Tuss, on June 20-22 for a never-before-seen 3-Day Bootcamp:“Work Smarter Not Harder Bootcamp for Entrepreneurs.We’re co-facilitating this bootcamp to help you find your focus, reclaim your day, and grow your business.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your podcast feed. David has released YouTube specific episodes beginning with his series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
Break through your fears in order to do what you need to do to become successful by listening to these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 520 – Mindset Monday’s – Working Harder is Not an Elite Mindset
Jun 13, 2022
In business, people often get frustrated because they’re not making enough sales, and they don’t have enough people to contact. They’re up against the ropes every month, and they’re exhausted. “How long do I have to keep doing this?” they ask.
What they’re really asking is, “Why am I not harvesting enough?”
Farming is a great metaphor for business. When you farm, you plant crops at a certain time, and you harvest them at a certain time. When you’re in business, one of the most frustrating things you can do is to try to harvest at the same time you’re planting.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
There’s a LOT that must be done to “plant” something before you harvest it
Most people have to go through a period of planting and harvesting in the same season when they first start their business—because unless someone is investing big into your dream, you’re bootstrapping everything
You must do more, so that you can break the cycle of planting and harvesting in the same season—otherwise it will never change
If you start feeling anxious, nervous, or frustrated, like, “Is this ever going to happen?”—then you must understand that you’re trying to plant and harvest in the same season
Work and money have nothing to do with each other; you can work hard your entire life and never make any money
Sales is the only thing that makes money move in the universe
Becoming a multi-millionaire, being in your purpose, and having the lifestyle and relationships you want is possible, but it doesn’t show up by accident. It shows up by really thinking about what you’re doing and preparing to receive it. Ask yourself, “What has to be done this year, so that I can harvest the amount of money I want next year?”
We all want to be able to consistently reap what we sow in the right season. Where are your weaknesses in the things that need to be done? What are you going to harvest two or three seasons from now? Because that time is coming. It’s going to show up.
Be sure to join me and my CEO, Steph Tuss, on June 20-22 for a never-before-seen 3-Day Bootcamp:“Work Smarter Not Harder Bootcamp for Entrepreneurs.We’re co-facilitating this bootcamp to help you find your focus, reclaim your day, and grow your business.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your podcast feed. David has released YouTube specific episodes beginning with his series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 519 – Full Throttle Thursday – A Conversation with Mattias Desmet
Jun 09, 2022
Mattias Desmet is a professor of clinical psychology at Ghent University in Belgium. He lectures on psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and the process of how society gets hypnotized on a mass scale. He has a PhD in Psychological Sciences and a master’s degree in statistics. His new book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, comes out June 23 and is already hitting the Amazon bestseller lists.
While doing his PhD in 2005, Mattias noticed that most academic research is seriously flawed, with “many erroneous and forced conclusions.” Over 85% of the published studies in the medical sciences are radically flawed. When COVID hit, he immediately suspected that the Corona statistics were also wrong—and that people were dramatically overestimating the dangerousness of the virus.
Mattias says there’s a psychological phenomenon that causes people to stick to absurd beliefs and radically wrong information under certain circumstances. This phenomenon is as old as mankind itself. It was seen during the crusades, the witch hunts, and the French Revolution. If left unchecked, it can lead to the emergence of totalitarian states.
In this episode we discuss:
The difference between a dictatorship and a totalitarian state (a dictatorship controls the public and political space; a totalitarian state controls political space, public space, AND private life and private space)
Why Mattias says we’re now at risk of “technocratic totalitarianism,” which Hannah Arendt warned us about in 1951 (she said it would not be led by gang leaders such as Stalin and Hitler, but by dull bureaucrats and technocrats)
How a growing sense of loneliness, disconnection, and lack of meaning can make people more susceptible to being hypnotized, which allows totalitarianism to emerge
How our technology has led to a “mechanistic” view of the world, which has increased the number of lonely people throughout the last few hundred years
Why a “mystical view” on humanity should be preferred above a “mechanist view”—and why the basis of human existence should not be rational understanding, but ethical principles
How the corona narrative disappeared a bit, only to be immediately replaced with a new “object of anxiety” that popped up in society—the war in Ukraine (and now the monkeypox)
Mattias says that in the end, a totalitarian system always destroys itself. We just need to make sure it destroys itself before it destroys us. The most crucial thing we can do is to continue speaking out in a quiet way—not by trying to convince people, but by claiming our right to articulate our own opinion in public space.
Looking to take your mindset to the next level? Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. You can now binge an entire series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. See you there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 518 – Do You Want to Know the Truth or Do You Want to be Right?
Jun 07, 2022
People have a tendency to get stuck in their thinking. No matter what, they can’t seem to make a decision, come to a resolution, or move forward.
My mentor used to say, “If you have a problem, look in the mirror—you are your only problem, and you are your only solution.”
If you understand how to think accurately, you can move yourself through any problem or moment of feeling stuck.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
A person will stay stuck if they have a need to be right—and the need to be right usually indicates they don’t want to know the truth about something
The more emotional you are about something, the more attached you are to the need to be right (this is the ego’s way of engaging in self-preservation)
When you’re confused or stuck, there’s usually something you’re resisting being, doing, having, or letting go of
The only way to get to the truth of any situation is to take 100% responsibility for everything you think, feel, do, and experience from your point of view
Taking responsibility for everything in your life cancels out the blame (and the need to be right will always have a thread of blame attached to it)
If you need other people to change for you to be happy, you’ll stay captive to the problem
There’s an old saying, “Know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Do you want to know the truth, or do you want to be right? If you’re being held in bondage by any problem, situation, or untrue idea that’s stuck in your mind—that’s not freedom.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your podcast feed. David has released YouTube specific episodes beginning with his series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
Know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Light the fuse of your own truth bomb by taking in these previously released bangers from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 517 – Mindset Monday’s – My Mind is a Center of Divine Operation
Jun 06, 2022
Thomas Troward taught us that our mind is a center of divine operation. Every person is the center of their own universe—including you. And your mind is where everything starts to happen.
In her book, Your Invisible Power, Geneviève Behrend (who was Troward’s only student) wrote that, “When your understanding grasps the power to visualize your heart’s desire and hold it with your will, it attracts to you all things requisite to the fulfillment of the picture by the harmonious vibration of the law of attraction.”
She wrote that, “Order is heaven’s first law. Visualization places things in their natural order. Therefore, it must be a heavenly thing to visualize.”
In this episode you’ll learn:
The law of attraction is not a law—it’s a subsidiary law under the law of vibration
All of the seven universal laws are connected; you can’t work with one without working all of them simultaneously (it’s a consciousness thing)
You’re always operating within the laws, whether you’re aware of it or not
The more conscious you become of the laws, the more you realize you were born to be a success
God’s laws are the modus operandi for how the universe operates
All space is filled with a creative power; and the creative power is amenable to suggestion
The subconscious mind is very open to suggestion and it will pick up any suggestion—like dropping a little seed into it, it will begin to plant itself, take root, and begin to manifest in your life
Your mind is a center of divine operation. It’s always seeking for expansion and fuller expression. All it needs to do is to grasp onto an idea to start manifesting it.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your podcast feed. David has released YouTube specific episodes beginning with his series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
Your mind is a center of divine operation. Seek for your fuller expression. with these past episodes fromThe Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 516 – Full Throttle Thursday – Sixty: The Rolling Stones
Jun 02, 2022
The Rolling Stones have just set out on their 60th anniversary tour in Europe. Having formed their band in 1962, they’re still going strong today. This shows their unbelievable work ethic, dedication to what they do, and commitment to putting on a good show. It’s amazing how they’ve been able to achieve longevity and sustained greatness over the many decades they’ve been together.
In this episode, BT and I discuss:
How the Rolling Stones have stayed true to their vision, because they really haven’t changed much over the years—they’ve played mostly the same type of music, while elevating their craft each and every time out
How Mick still runs around like he was doing in his 20s, bringing the same high-octane energy to every performance even in his 70s
Why I think maturity has helped the band stay together for so long
How music has an amazing ability to transport you to another time and place
The importance of loving what you do, loving yourself, and accepting yourself completely if you want longevity
What it takes to do amazing things, and the necessity of loving what you do, well into your 70s and beyond
It’s obvious the Rolling Stones love what they do. For them, it’s not about the money. They’ve been on the road for 60 years and simply won’t quit. People constantly ask them, “Why are you still doing it?” As long as they can do it, why would they ever stop?
Looking to take your mindset to the next level? Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. You can now binge the entire series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. See you there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 515 – Know Your Friends
May 31, 2022
The Reverend TD Jakes did a sermon awhile back where he talked about the 3 types of “friends” who come into your life, and it’s important to understand the difference between them.
They are:
1) Confidant—someone who’s there for you no matter what. They love you unconditionally. They can cheer with you, cry with you, and “feed” you what you need to grow. You’ll be lucky if you have two or three of these people in your lifetime. In fact, you’ll never reach the heights of success in your lifetime until you meet this person.
2) Constituent—someone who’s for what you’re for, but they’re not for YOU. (This is where most people live.) The day you find out they’re not for you and they leave, you’ll have your heart broken.
3) Comrade—someone who’s not for you; nor are they for what you’re for. But they’re against what you’re against. They’ll come into your life when you need to fight a great battle. They’ll help you tackle an enemy. And when the battle’s over, they leave.
In this episode you’ll learn:
One of the biggest problems we have is that we surround ourselves with people whom we THINK are confidants, but they’re not
How we can hire team members, work with business partners, or even get into marriages while thinking the other person is our confidant—when really, they’re a constituent or a comrade
In most of our relationships, we’re constantly feeding the other person, but we’re not getting fed in the way we need to be fed to create the success we truly want—unless that person is a confidant
We have a tendency to project what we want onto other people and make them something that they’re not
How having good boundaries can help us avoid codependency
Plus, I share a crazy story from when I taught a seminar many years ago. One guy got so triggered by this information about “knowing your friends,” that he set fire to the hotel we were staying at—because he thought I was telling his wife to divorce him (I wasn’t).
This lesson really teaches you where you need to grow as a person, how to choose the people you have in your life, and how you need to interact with those individuals.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your podcast feed. David has released YouTube specific episodes beginning with his series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
Take stock of your existing relationships and whether or not they are feeding you or draining you. Learn more about your true friends by diving deeper into these past episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 514 – Mindset Monday’s – Tackling The Terror Barrier
May 30, 2022
Any time you’re trying make a change in your life, do something new, or get a different result, you usually bump up against “the terror barrier.” This is where your subconscious programming clashes with the new idea, possibility or result that you want to explore. It clashes against any new information you gather about how to obtain that result.
When people search for answers to a “new” question, often they’ll have a real dilemma going on in their mind. The programmed information that’s already in their mind is constantly trying to answer the question for them. But your programming won’t get you to the next level. It will only keep you at the level you’re at.
In this episode you’ll learn:
“This can be as good as you want it to be, or as bad as you don’t want it to be”… so why not choose to show up happy, with joy and fun?
If you’re miserable, the question is why are you choosing that experience?
You can choose to change your perception on anything you’re doing
No matter what we do in life, we’re always going to bump up against the terror barrier—because things change, and we may lose people
Most people are thinking programmed thoughts all day long—they don’t realize they have a choice to think something different
When you’re trying to get information from a new or different source, your subconscious mind doesn’t really want you to do this—so it tries to create confusion or conflict, so that you’ll quit
When you’re searching for answers to a new question, the question itself is often not in harmony with your old way of thinking (i.e., your programming)—they actually clash. Every person has a unique “unconscious sabotage” pattern that can screw with their thought process and make doubt, fear, and worry creep into their thinking.
The key is to be aware of this pattern with yourself. The next time you want to uplevel or create a new result—watch your subconscious mind as it tries to create confusion or conflict for you, so that you’ll give up.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your podcast feed. David has released YouTube specific episodes beginning with his series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
Uplevel yourself through the terror barrier and shift your existing paradigm with these powerful episodes fromThe Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 513 – Full Throttle Thursday – How to Avoid a Summer Slump
May 26, 2022
When I first started my business back in 1999, I made a conscious decision to become a master salesperson. I knew that if I could master this skill set, it would not only be a great benefit financially—it would also take out all the worry from my business . I made sales calls every day, even when I had small children at home.
Over time, I became aware of how salespeople got stuck in a mindset that caused them to back off of making sales. They used holidays, school time, seasons, and summertime as an excuse to stop making sales.
As a business owner, if you’re not making sales every day, you’re one step closer to going out of business.
In today’s episode BT and I discuss:
Why, as a salesperson, you can’t buy into your own BS about why people won’t buy from you—people buy things every day, and it’s just a matter of reaching them and finding out what’s important to them in the moment
Why entrepreneurs need to stop viewing their work as a “job”
How to NOT let summertime interrupt your normal pattern of working at home—even if you have gardeners and leaf blowers outside your window
How I kept myself motivated to make sales calls even amidst distractions and how we created rules and boundaries in our household based on our lifestyle (not based on what was normal for everybody else)
Why I couldn’t allow holidays or the current season to become a reason or excuse as to why I couldn’t sell
The importance of scheduling everything in your calendar—and making sure you’re working when it’s time to work and taking time off when it’s time to be off
As entrepreneurs, we’re always “on .” For business people, there are no vacations.
The calendar can be your greatest friend and a great productivity tool—or it can become a nightmare, if you’re not doing the things you’re scheduled to do.
Looking to take your mindset to the next level? Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. You can now binge the entire series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. See you there!
Sales is the great equalizer. If you know how to sell you will never go without. Lock in your sales process with these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 512 – Never Apologize for What You Desire
May 24, 2022
In Working With the Law, Raymond Holliwell says that “God does not give us the spirit of fear, but of courage and a sound mind.”
Fear is not a bad thing, but we don’t want to be controlled by it. Instead, we want to be led by our desire. We must not make decisions based on fear—including the fear of being judged by other people.
In this episode you’ll learn:
When you make a decision, it’s as if the universe opens and it’s waiting for you to commit around your decision
The universe can’t change anything—whatever you decide, it receives and it begins to move into form, based on the level of your commitment to that idea
The first step to succeeding is to become “thoroughly saturated with the spirit of progress”
To succeed, you must have the desire to advance
The fact that you have a desire implies that you already have the power to do or accomplish that thing—it’s always speaking the truth of what you already have
The fact that you desire to succeed is evidence that you have the power to succeed
The only difference between someone who succeeds and someone who fails is whether they have a positive mental attitude or a negative one
Everything you achieve is about your commitment to consistent development. You cannot always change the circumstance you’re in. But you have the power to change your attitude around it. It’s not the size of the goal that makes the difference, but the commitment to doing the work that delivers the win.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your podcast feed. David has released YouTube specific episodes beginning with his series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
Everything you achieve is about your commitment to consistent development. Take that to the next level and achieve what your heart desires by listening to these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than a minute and really makes a difference in helping us spread the “Successful Mind” message to those who need it most.
The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 511 – Mindset Monday’s – Give Full Value to Receive Full Value
May 23, 2022
In Working with the Law (in the chapter called “The Law of Receiving”), Raymond Holliwell says that, “Money came into form to fill the need for exchange.” Humans needed a way to exchange things. Bartering was our first form of exchange until it was no longer practical to trade things that we didn’t need or want.
Today money touches everything we do—and everything has a financial component to it. Unfortunately, most people don’t get to live the life they truly want to live, because they can’t afford what they want… and they don’t understand the principles of money or abundance, including the idea of “giving full value.”
In this episode you’ll learn:
Why money is a misunderstood concept that’s difficult for most people to grasp—because it butts up against their belief system
Most people have a deep-seated belief that there’s a lack of money (and this idea goes against the laws of prosperity)
Why looking for bargains, cutting out coupons, and waiting for sales indicates that a person doesn’t understand how money works
When you search for a bargain or discount, you’re coming from a spirit of lack, rather than a spirit of abundance
Why I decided to no longer look for deals, bargains, coupons, or sales—if I want something, I just buy it and pay full price for it
The way you use money is all about your intent and your attitude towards it
How you can begin to master the principles of money and abundance by being willing to do things, based on cause and effect, to bring in whatever amount of money you want
To break free from a lack mindset around money, you have to start giving yourself a new experience. Start giving and receiving money in a new way. (You have to do both, not just one or the other.)
Give some, and receive some. Give full value, receive full value. Allow yourself to energetically open up to it—because when you’re fully open, the rewards are absolutely unbelievable.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your podcast feed. David has released YouTube specific episodes beginning with his series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
Money touches everything we do. Shift your mindset to always give full value to both yourself and others by listening to these past episodes fromThe Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 510 – Full Throttle Thursday – Age is Just a Number
May 19, 2022
Today BT and I are having a fascinating discussion on getting older without necessarily getting “old.”
Lester Wright ran 100 meters in 26 seconds the day after his 100th birthday.
Rick Clunn is considered one of the best of the best tournament fishermen in the world, at 76.
Harriet Thompson set a record for the oldest woman to run a marathon at 92.
All three of these individuals prove that life doesn’t stop at a certain age or number. Society’s narrative about age and usefulness does a disservice to the older generations. It’s also a detriment to younger folks who are programmed to think life stops at “retirement.”
In today’s episode, you’ll learn:
How a positive outlook builds a world-class mindset as you age
What we speak, we speak into existence
People retire from jobs, but they’ll do what they love until they die
When people retire and don’t have a purpose, they tend to age quickly
How athletes continue to play even while getting older instead of “aging out”—and many of them take better care of their bodies with newer technology
Retirement without purpose or passion is just existing and doesn’t help anyone
What it takes to keep your youthful spirit by being passionate about what you do
The idea that we need to act a certain way when we hit a certain age is ridiculous. People leave their jobs to start their businesses at 70 or 80 years old. It’s the difference between existing and living.
Looking to take your mindset to the next level? Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. You can now binge the entire series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. See you there!
Age is just a number! Fuel your youthful spirit and passionate exuberance for life with more insightful episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 509 – Work the Plan
May 17, 2022
Most of our lives are spent in a constant state of fear, pain, or avoidance. We find what’s comfortable and we stay there…until we can’t anymore. The job becomes toxic. The stress becomes unbearable. And suddenly we need to make a huge change—or else live the rest of our lives in a state of lack.
There’s only one way to manage the fear—and that is to “work the plan.”
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Your success or failure in life depends on how well you can manage your fear
How proactively “working the plan” eliminates fear
How people create problems by not communicating
How the emotional pendulum is constantly swaying—from excitement to fear, hope to doubt (and it’s all taking place in your head)
Your subconscious mind can fight you on anything, except a different result
Plus, I share stories of two of my clients who were tested by massive personal challenges. They could either learn to manage their fear or risk bankruptcy. My team and I could only help them so much. Their successes relied solely on their desire to succeed and work the plan. Notice the similarities between the two stories; how these two strangers allowed fear to affect them and how working the plan was the only thing left they could do.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your podcast feed. David has released YouTube specific episodes beginning with his series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
Your success or failure in life depends on how well you can manage fear. Take steps in the right direction and work the plan by diving deeper into these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than a minute and really makes a difference in helping us spread the “Successful Mind” message to those who need it most.
The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 508 – Mindset Monday’s – You’re Stronger Than You Think You Are
May 16, 2022
Everything we desire—and everything that’s involved in living our purpose—comes through the process of believing. Belief is a spiritual and a scriptural promise that’s based on universal law.
Nothing exists in and of itself; it’s always connected to something else. When you believe this to be true—and you have a strong belief in it—you can accomplish remarkable things.
The idea of belief and inner strength is biblical. The Christian Bible talks about making your belief exponentially stronger. The process of believing is an active process, not a passive one. That means if you want to create a certain outcome in your life, you have to take certain actions. And this all comes back to how strong your belief is.
In this episode you’ll learn:
You can’t have a desire and a purpose, without the possibility of those things being manifested right now
If you start doing certain things in a certain way, your desires will start showing up in your life, due to the law of “cause and effect”
The mind tells the body what to do, and we control the mind
If you think strong, you’ll be strong; if you think weak, you’ll be weak
If you’re in the energy of fear, you’re probably picturing an undesirable outcome through the improper use of your imagination—and this is weak thinking
Going to the next level always costs us something, and we have to be willing to pay that price
You’re stronger than you think you are. The utter strength of your ability to think is astounding. And you don’t need anybody else to do it, or even to agree with you. You just need to have a strong belief in universal laws.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 507 – Full Throttle Thursday – Breaking Down “The System”
May 12, 2022
America is a relatively young nation, going on its 250th year of becoming a free nation in a few years. However, for the first time in history, the United States could be destroyed. There are kids who have never learned the history of what this country has gone through—because they’re trying to erase that history in schools.
Abraham Lincoln talked about how the United States would not come down by some foreign oppressor or attack. It would come down from within. If we give up our Bill of Rights or Constitutional rights, we are absolutely not going to get that back—and that’s scary.
Recently, Tom McDonald released a rap song called “The System,” which I think perfectly explains what’s going on in the world today. Everything that’s going on is a distraction designed to get people to react and hyper-react to everything. It’s all designed to get us pick a side and fight its opposition. As long as society remains distracted, we can’t come together. We can’t find out what we have in common or work together to build and create the society we really want.
In this episode, BT and I discuss:
How society is being taken from one catastrophe to the next, which is causing people to become extraordinarily divided—and that’s not by accident; it’s by plan
How people are getting so emotional about what they think is a problem, that they don’t actually see that they’re being manipulated
How the distractions keep us polarized—and that’s the real problem
How people are given the illusion of choice
Tom McDonald’s background as a former professional wrestler from Canada who battled with alcoholism and became a rapper after the pandemic—and today he’s not afraid to take on difficult conversations or topics
I encourage you to listen to the lyrics of Tom McDonald’s song, because he talks about this “system” that we’re all a part of. Upon first glance, he looks scary and intimidating. However, I was astonished at how well he nailed the problem.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 506 – Do the Things You Say You’re Going to Do
May 10, 2022
Humans are the only species that gives meaning to things. The meaning we give to something is the cause and effect of how we interact with that thing. For example, if you give a negative meaning to your alarm clock, then you train yourself to ignore it when it goes off in the morning. Then you deepen that habit in your nervous system.
Instead, you want to train your nervous system to take action immediately on whatever you need to do. If you say—then do it.
In this episode you’ll learn:
If we become successful at the foundational things, we’ll be successful at anything else—and everything will be much easier
The more we do anything, the easier it gets
The faster you rewire your nervous system—by diving right into the actions you want to take—the easier it becomes (and this has been shown scientifically to be true)
Jumping into the cold water is much more efficient than dipping your toe in and saying, “No way”
How having 100 conversations in 7 days made me amazingly good at sales—because I broke through my fear of talking to people; I was speed learning and adapting
Plus, I share an exercise that will help you immediately take action on things you say you want to do. Make a list of 10 silly, simple things to do each day—and do them at a certain time, to train your nervous system to take action quickly. By building that internal muscle, taking action on becomes easy and automatic. You’ll no longer have to wrestle with your mind when you’re trying to do something.
It’s unbelievable how much better we get when we dive right into action.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 505 – Mindset Monday’s – How I Can vs. Why I Can’t
May 09, 2022
When people attend a seminar, 85% or more of them walk away and do nothing with the information they learned. This has to do with their attitude and outlook on life.
People who go to seminars tend to fall into one of three mindsets:
1) “This is fricking amazing. I love this. How can I do this?”
2) “That’s interesting. It’d be cool if it was true, but I doubt whether it’s valid or if I can actually do it myself.”
3) “This is total BS.”
Let’s take out the middle person and look at the two extremes—someone who says, “Holy crap, this is amazing; I want to do this.” And someone who thinks it’s total BS. One person will be able to take the information and create an extraordinary increase in income; and the other won’t. It boils down to the attitude of that individual.
In this episode you’ll learn:
You either see the world and find reasons why you CAN do something; or you find reasons why you CAN’T do something
Why some people immediately look for “why it won’t work”
How your desire controls your attitude and how you see the world
Why avoiding mistakes is parallel to the attitude of “why I can’t”
Nothing is dormant in your subconscious mind; you’re either feeding it or you’re starving it
As individuals, we need to comb through our own mindset and look for toxic attitudes and get them out.
Someone with a frugal mindset won’t spend money on anything they don’t “need ,” period. This person will go their entire life without having many experiences outside of whatever their belief system is.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 504 – Full Throttle Thursday – Acres of Wisdom from The Biggest Little Farm
May 05, 2022
SPOILER ALERT: If you have plans to watch the 2019 documentary, The Biggest Little Farm you may want to hold off on listening to this until after you’ve seen the film.
Today Steph Tuss shares her views on the documentary, “The Biggest Little Farm.” This beautifully shot film details how Molly and John Chester dreamed of creating a sustainable farm in southern California. They didn’t know how to do it, didn’t have the money for it, and faced one problem after another.
Steph saw things in this documentary that most people don’t see. Having spent her childhood summers at her grandparents’ dairy farm, she had a strong emotional reaction to the film. She recommends you drop everything and go watch it, because it’s full of amazing life lessons that reflect universal truth principles.
In this episode you’ll learn:
How hearing truth is like an arrow through your heart—and you can see the universal laws playing out in every aspect of “The Biggest Little Farm”
How a dog named Todd was what that pushed Molly and John to finally pursue their dream
If you have a desire, then the way to do it is also present (because according to the law of polarity, nothing is created in halves; everything is created as a whole)
How most people are raised to focus on problems, rather than look for solutions
How one problem after another kept showing up on the farm—from cover crop getting too high, to endless snails eating profits, to a drought causing ducks not to get enough fresh water, to gophers overtaking the farm, to snakes, and coyotes killing chickens
All the failures that Apricot Lane Farms went through over the years, and how each problem became a solution to another problem
The film teaches us that we can get super emotional and angry by only focusing on the problems in our life. But if we do that, we’ll never see a solution. In “The Biggest Little Farm,” the solutions were all intertwined with each other—which, when combined, made the farm overall a better place, hence “more life.”
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 503 – Nice is Not a Value
May 03, 2022
“Being nice” is one of the biggest con jobs that people do. Nice is not a virtue or a value (being kind is)—and yet we’re raised with the idea of being nice. The word “nice” can have a detrimental effect on the people who use it, as well as on the people who are used by it.
Today I’m teaching from Jordan Peterson’s book, 12 Rules for Life. In it, he says that, “doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, or loving your neighbor as yourself” has nothing to do with being nice.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
You don’t belong to yourself—you belong to God—and you should not bully, torture, or mistreat yourself
Mistreating yourself can have catastrophic consequences for others (e.g., a suicide)
You’re important; you matter—and what you think and say is important, even if you’re wrong
If you don’t ever express yourself and allow yourself to be wrong, it becomes very difficult for you to learn
You don’t learn anything if your goal is to “be perfect or don’t show up at all”
Voluntarily accepting somebody else’s opinion or expertise without question is dangerous
Peterson says, “We are low resolution versions of God, and we can make order from chaos and vice versa…It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully you.”
When you tell yourself, “I can’t get myself to do this, that, or the other,” you’re abusing yourself—because you’re making yourself less than your capabilities; you’re experiencing less than your possibilities.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 502 – Mindset Monday’s – Opportunity Knocks at the Door of Chaos
May 02, 2022
Whenever we ask the universe for something—opportunity, money, people, situations, circumstances, sales—we’re also asking for chaos to show up in our life.
Most people have a tendency to want to run away from chaos, rather than accept it when it shows up. (And it will show up.) Although we want peace in our mind and in our heart, we need chaos in order to experience growth. Chaos consistently keeps us on the edge of life and gives us growth, and it can be very uncomfortable.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Leadership is born in chaos, not in calm
A leader can recognize chaos and develop a plan of action in order to break through the unnatural state that keeps most people stuck
When you’re trying to reach your goal, comfort is the enemy
One of the purposes of money is to be able to extend our service far beyond our physical presence
Money allows us to take advantage of chaotic situations in a way that lets us establish a pattern for growth
We don’t want chaos all the time, but we want to have enough calm in our life so that we can think, plan, and create systems and structures to move forward—and this is the job of the leader
There’s a very healthy dose of chaos within the universe.
Close your eyes, sit quietly, and ask yourself, “What do I want to create?” Get yourself really focused on the thing you want to create. As you do that, you’re creating calm and significance out of chaos. That’s what it means to be a leader.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 501 – Full Throttle Thursday – After Burn: Fyre Festival & The Greatest Party That Never Was
Apr 28, 2022
Five years ago, in 2017, the infamous Fyre Festival was scheduled to go off in Great Exuma in the Bahamas. Co-founded by con artist, Billy McFarland, and rapper Ja Rule, the festival was intended to launch an app for Fyre Media. They used slick marketing in their promotional videos to appeal to millennials, while using social media influencers and beautiful models to sell the dream. It was supposed to be this massive event that would disrupt the industry.
Then everything fell apart. Fyre Festival was “the greatest event that never was.” Billy McFarland went to prison for fraud. And now the question remains whether he was truly trying to con people—or if he really intended to pull off the festival, but just couldn’t make it work.
In today’s episode, BT and I discuss:
Billy McFarland, his intentions; his intelligent, yet manipulative nature, and how he was a sociopathic narcissist
How he got loans based on fake financials, while reinventing ways to make money to just keep creditors at bay and to be able to get the festival off the ground
My take on what Billy was doing, and how he got so deep into it that he couldn’t call it off even if he tried
Why our intention is everything—and there was a way to actually make the festival work with what they wanted, but they had no real plan
My experience with being conned when I was really young—and how they get you to believe something that’s 100% false
Human psychology, “fake-it-till-you make-it” mentality and how the millennial generation got duped into—and shamed for—going to this festival-that-never-was
I’m not convinced either way if Billy was intentionally trying to con people, or whether he intended to see the festival through. However, it’s a fascinating discussion on our intention, why we need a plan for success, and our ability to follow through on our plan.
I highly recommend you check out both the Netflix and Hulu documentaries on the Fyre Festival.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 500 – Something Good is Coming Your Way
Apr 26, 2022
Often when God (or the universe) speaks to me, I wake up at 2:20 in the morning and hear a particular message over and over again.
This happened years ago before I started my business. I kept waking up at 2:20 in the morning, hearing a voice in my head say, “If you want to live your dream, you have to leave.” Spirit was telling me to quit my job so that I could start the business that I’m in today. I didn’t know it at the time, but the voice was directing me to my life’s purpose. If I hadn’t listened, I wouldn’t be where I’m at today.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Why I almost needed a guarantee or certainty that quitting my job was the right path for me (it was important to me to know that the message I was hearing was coming from Spirit)
Why I didn’t tell anyone I was quitting my job, once I finally made the decision to do so
What I learned about setting intentions, manifestation, and believing for the thing you want—and why I needed to put all of that to the ultimate test
When you hear a message from God, it’s very important that you follow those instructions and don’t change what you’re doing (even if a door closes)
Why you should keep doing what you’re doing, and pay attention to whatever is showing up—because there’s something great coming to you
God is good all the time
Plus, I share the crazy story of how a neighbor gave me a message from Godthat was an absolute verification of what I was hearing from the universe—which confirmed that I’d made the right choice of quitting my job. (It gave me chills.)
Whatever you’re waiting for, or working on right now—“it’s on its way to you.”
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 499 – Mindset Monday’s – Three Steps to Mastering Sales
Apr 25, 2022
To become a master salesperson, you must first address your own attitude and belief about sales. If you don’t address this first, you’ll have trouble with everything else—including hiring amazing salespeople and building a sales team.
All people are born salespeople. Selling is not only required for human life to exist, but to continue moving forward. It’s in our genes to sell. Anytime two people come together, one person will sell the other on SOMETHING.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
The 2 kinds of sales—a “need” sale (where a person needs something but doesn’t necessarily want it) and a sale where someone knows they want something, and they just need to figure out how to get it and move past the obstacles in their way
Why I made a decision early on, to learn to love sales and to be extremely passionate about it
Why it’s a mistake to let your potential client sell you on the reasons why they can’t do something
3 things to learn before you start hiring sales people (these are: how to find potential clients, how to sell them—i.e., “close the sale”—and how to develop a continued relationship with them, so that more sales or referrals come out of it)
Why you shouldn’t ever be afraid to NOT make a sale (I believe this is simply a decision you can make)
Sales requires a lot of work. You must know your product or service inside out and understand how it benefits someone else. You have to develop people skills, improve your ability to have a conversation, ask for what you want, and listen. You have to pay attention to the objections you get and the questions people ask you about your product or service—what it does, how long will it take, and everything else involved. It’s different for every business, product, and service.
You must also have a strong self-image and build up your belief in yourself to succeed at sales. If you don’t, a potential client will see that a mile away.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 498 – Full Throttle Thursday – The Pursuit of Happiness
Apr 21, 2022
On Easter Sunday, Jordan Peterson made an Instagram post titled, “Pursue Your Life’s Adventure.” In it, he said, “To pursue your life’s adventure is better than happiness…and maybe if you’re lucky, while you’re pursuing it, you get to be happy.”(Click here to read the full post)
This is something I completely disagree with. Peterson struggles with happiness himself, which is why he says things like this. He’s made it very public that he struggles with depression.
I don’t think happiness comes from luck. Happiness is a state of being. It’s a choice, and a level of consciousness. As conscious beings, our greatest power is our ability to choose. That’s how we create our reality.
In today’s episode, BT and I discuss our thoughts on Peterson’s post. You’ll learn:
Our perception creates all of our emotional states, and we can choose to change our perception
Why some people are miserable from the time they wake up until the time they go to bed
How I was miserable at 22 years old, but I found out that I could change it—and I wanted to change it (and I ended up tripling my income in 30 days after I changed my attitude)
How Jordan Peterson has studied very dark subjects all of his life—and when you only study the dark side of human nature, you can get stuck there
It’s not one person’s responsibility to save the world —everyone must stay in their own “conscious lane”
Complaining about everything doesn’t solve anything—you need focused action, a plan, and people who can think
How the law of polarity can help you choose to be happy
We’re all part of an amazing intelligence in the universe that continues to push life forward. Everything that happens (whether “good” or “bad”) can be seen as something that’s leading up to something greater. Every problem is leading to something better.
Each of us can have an intention to feel a certain way or experience whatever we want—whether it’s feeling happy, sad, angry, or mad. You can choose to show up in a certain way, and this is a choice based on your level of consciousness or understanding
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 497 – Insider Secrets for Creating Consistent Cashflow – Part II
Apr 19, 2022
The smartest thing I ever did was to step into an environment that allowed me to increase my own intelligence so that I could make a lot of money.
If you hang around people who are millionaires, before you know it—you’ll become a millionaire. If you hang around broke people, you’ll stay broke. Many people are loyal to the broke environment they grew up in, and so, they’ll stay broke their whole lives because of that.
You don’t have to be really smart to make a lot of money. You just need to put yourself in the right environment where your beliefs about money can be challenged.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
There’s no such thing as a stupid person
The brain is elastic, meaning whatever environment we put ourselves in, our brain will adapt itself to that environment
If you want to be rich, you have to get all the crap ideas about money out of your mind (like “money won’t make you happy” and “money is the root of all evil”)
Money is a tool that is absolutely essential for us to live a quality life
You either do something, or you don’t—“trying” is a pre-excuse for failure
We fail and make mistakes before we learn how to do something
Human beings have the ability to create (and this is a divine principle)
You can’t unlock your full potential unless you change your beliefs about money. If money—or the lack it—is making all of your decisions, then you’re making money your god, and that’s a false idea you need to get rid of.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 496 – Insider Secrets for Creating Consistent Cashflow – Part I
Apr 18, 2022
All of us have extraordinary potential inside of us that we can use at a moment’s notice. To earn more income and create consistent cashflow, the #1 insider secret is to put yourself into an environment where success is actually possible.
When everything in your current environment is telling you that you can’t do something—you must put yourself in the environment of someone who’s successfully done what you want to do. Hire a mentor who has the results you want, because that person can challenge you to reevaluate your belief system. They can challenge you to replace your belief with something that’s true.
Most people believe it takes a long time and a lot of hard work to make 6 figures a month. When I worked with my mentor, Bob Proctor, he allowed me to reevaluate my belief system, one belief at a time. As I did this, my results changed accordingly. I went from making $20K a year to $60k—and soon after that, I took my business over a million.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Belief is absolutely essential for the success you want to have
Our belief is based on our evaluation of something
Many people don’t break through to the next level, because they only evaluate their results—not their belief system
A belief you haven’t evaluated is controlling how you think, feel, and act (we call that a “paradigm”)
When we reevaluate our belief, we can change it—which then changes our results
Nothing will change in your life without you making a decision to do something different and making the commitment to stick to that decision
Why we need to put ourselves into the environment of someone who can show us it’s possible for big income to happen fast
Earl Nightingale said attitude is the magic word—meaning that when you change your attitude, you change your outlook on what you see in life.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 495 – Full Throttle Thursday – A Conversation with Quan Huynh
Apr 14, 2022
My guest today is Quan Huynh, a former prison inmate, published author, and business owner who is now working to help those with a criminal past transform their lives.
A product of the California prison system, Quan served 22 years of his life in and out of correctional facilities. After receiving a life sentence for murder, he was paroled in 2015. Today he’s the executive director for Defy Ventures, a nonprofit whose mission is to shift mindsets, and to give people with criminal histories their best shot at a second chance through career readiness, personal development, and entrepreneurship training programs.
Quan’s life growing up in Provo, Utah, in a Roman Catholic, Vietnamese family, while experiencing racism as a boy
How he never felt like he fit in anywhere—until he and his friends started breaking into cars and stealing stereos[
The dark path Quan took that ended up with him facing 45 years to life in prison at the age of 17, for conspiracy to commit murder (and that was just his first arrest)
How employers can legally discriminate against former prisoners who are looking for work
The moment when Quan completely shifted his viewpoint—hearing a sparrow chip outside, he started seeing his prison sentence as an opportunity to remake himself into a better person
How Quan helped other inmates prepare to go in front of the parole board—by looking at the reality of their past, versus the inaccurate stories they told themselves about their past crimes
How Quan started a business within six months of being paroled, and how his work is helping people prepare to transition from prison to the outside world
The cost of incarcerating one person in California is $90,000 a year—versus $1500 to put someone through Quan’s program. Most inmates walk out of prison with $200 and no support. Quan is now working to shift mindset of the business community and those who can directly help them solve this problem
His story is remarkable, and I urge you to give it a listen!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 494 – Be Mighty in the Mundane
Apr 12, 2022
You weren’t born into living your dream. You’re being prepared for your dream. As you’re working, showing up each day, doing what’s required to get there—sometimes it feels like nothing is happening. Still, you must consider how important your behavior is during these mundane times.
When you plant seeds in the ground, there’s a time lapse that occurs before the harvest comes in. Doubt can enter your mind while you’re waiting if you’re not careful. This is why you must be “mighty in the mundane.”
In this episode you’ll learn:
Challenges happen every day to everyone—you must pay attention to how you handle the small things, or you’ll completely miss it with the big things
We must be just as strong and magnificent in cleaning up dog poop, taking the kids to school, or handling some mundane crisis—as we are in landing a big contract, making a big sale, or turning your annual income into your monthly income
Being immature and impatient causes great delays in getting to your dream
How entitlement can creep in—and we’re like, “How dare this thing happen when I’m on purpose and headed for greatness in my life?”
We have to learn to function within the reality of our dream
Our behavior with small things is being tested for our behavior with big things
Why you shouldn’t drop down into a lower energy just because something isn’t fun or exciting to do—you must bring your energy back up to where you’re a king or queen in your own life
Nothing moves until you speak. Your words are so powerful, you’re either speaking life into something, or you’re speaking death into something. There’s no middle ground.
If you’re complaining, causing problems, being disagreeable, or bitter about the fact that you have to do something—or frustrated because you’re in a test period for whatever you’re doing—then you’re not being psychologically mature in order to be great.
When you’re showing up whiny, check yourself. What’s going on in your mind? Do you think you’re too good for it? Do you think it’s beneath you? Identify your energy around the mundane things in your life, so that you can experience the exact place of your next level of growth.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 493 – Mindset Monday’s – Grow Your Sense of Self-Responsibility
Apr 11, 2022
One of the greatest things you can consistently do, is to grow your sense of self-responsibility. Everything you achieve and everything you fail to achieve is the direct result of your own thoughts—that’s responsibility right there.
Any time you’re stuck, you can ask yourself, “Where am I with my self-responsibility right now?” Check to see if there’s any part of your psychology that’s blaming, going into self pity, or making excuses because you’re afraid to step up to the next level.
In today’s episode I’m teaching from As A Man Thinketh (from the chapter titled, “The Thought Factor in Achievement”), which discusses this idea of self-responsibility.
You’ll learn:
The more you grow your self-responsibility, the more empowered you are
God is good all the time, so even if someone in your life is a pain in your butt, there’s something good about the situation that you might not be recognizing
The moment you start to move into acceptance, you see things differently
Why you should always look for the blessing even in a challenging situation
Why you can’t coach a client to their full potential if they can’t see the vision for themselves (they have to reach the place where they want change)
Throughout the day ask yourself, “What is important right now?” This is a great question to subconsciously program your mind to stay on track. It keeps the hierarchy of what you need to do right in front of your mind.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 492 – Full Throttle Thursday – Passion is an Inside Job
Apr 07, 2022
Many people are looking in the wrong place to find what they love. We’re programmed with the idea that we need to “find our passion” or “find our purpose”—as if it’s outside of us—but this idea keeps people blind to their passion and purpose all their life. Why? Because it’s already inside of you.
The truth is, when you decide to show up in a state of joy, love, and passion to whatever you’re doing right now—you’ll be led right to the thing you’re searching for.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Changing your attitude can completely transform your life (like it did with me when I was working on the dock)
Why you should follow your bliss that’s inside of you—because if you’re NOT, then you’re following someone else’s rules and value
The intellect isn’t the only intelligence we have access to
When you wake up in a foul mood, you alone can change that in an instant
How I used visualization to trick myself into loving my commute to my job (and how this led to me transforming my whole life)
Why I almost got in a fist fight with my auto shop teacher when I was a kid
Passionate people approach everything with enthusiasm, no matter what. Successful people accept themselves 100% for who they are (and you should do the same). They accept their purpose and follow their bliss.
When we become an adult, we shouldn’t be the problem anymore. We’re supposed to be adults who are working on problems and solving them. But the big problem is that WE’RE still the problem. The reason we’re the problem is because we don’t know how to manage our mind and emotions.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 491 – Successful Sales Strategies Part II – I Can. I Will. I Must.
Apr 05, 2022
In the book You2, Price Pritchett talks about making a quantum leap. He constantly repeats two ideas:
1) You’re already prepared to make a quantum leap—because once a person recognizes that they want something, they already have the first part required to actually do it.
2) In order to do something you’ve never done before, you have to reverse your rules, think differently, and get outside the box. Instead of leading with the head, you have to lead with the heart, and change your rules for success.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
The educational system doesn’t teach you what you need to learn to become successful
People become successful when they go out into the world, adjust their knowledge, and turn it into action
How I had two major breakthroughs in my life that totally changed everything for me
What it means to “burn the ships”
Why holding the vision of where you want to go causes your brain to adapt to those demands (and why holding an image from your past will pull you backwards)
Why you must be able to see the outcome you want in your mind before you can get it (because you need to give your mind a target to shoot for)
Plus, I will give you an exercise to help you understand the way your mind works. This will help you determine whether you’re trying to work with your mind—or whether you’re trying to change your mind and get it to adapt, so that you can move to the next level.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 490 – Successful Sales Strategies Part I – Skillset & Mindset Exercise
Apr 04, 2022
You can’t become successful if you’re doing the wrong strategy.
In today’s episode I’m teaching on 2 things you must be brutally honest with yourself about if you’re in business:
#1 – The thing you need to do (strategy).
#2 – The mindset part (getting yourself to do it).
You choose your strategy based on the goals you’ve set. Examples of a strategy include marketing, advertising, team building, making sales calls, lead generation, a sales strategy, a sales funnel, or even firing someone.
You either need to do something, get better at it, get great at it, or do more of it. What is that thing?—the actual tactical strategy? What do you need to do in order to hit your goal? It’s all cause and effect.
Mindset is about getting yourself to do the thing. It doesn’t matter what it is—if you can’t get yourself to do it (and do it consistently), then you’ve got a problem.
This is where you say:
“I can’t get myself to pick up the phone.”
“I can’t get myself to sit down and write the marketing copy.”
“I can’t get myself to fire the person.”
“I can’t get myself to draw a boundary in this relationship.”
Where are you having difficulties right now?
Plus, I give you a simple exercise to identify these two things—strategy and mindset—so you can prioritize what’s most important, and change whatever is blocking you from reaching your goal. This will help you do more of what’s working and less of what’s not working, while speeding up your ability to hit your goal faster.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 489 – Full Throttle Thursday – The Slap of the Century: Will Smith, Chris Rock & an Unforgettable Oscar’s
Mar 31, 2022
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably seen the video of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscar’s—after Chris made a poor joke about Will’s wife, Jada. Will began screaming, “Keep my wife’s name out your effing mouth!” For 24 hours this incident became more popular than the war.
Many people have asked me what I think about it. I think Will Smith is a great guy, but he’s so conflicted inside. As a young boy, he watched his father beat up his mother, and he froze in fear and didn’t do anything. As a result, he internalized a tremendous amount of guilt and shame around the idea that he didn’t protect his mother. (He goes into great detail about this in his autobiography.) That’s where his rage comes from.
People are trying to make “the slap” about race, culture, hair (Jada’s alopecia), violence, women versus men, etc. But none of that has anything to do with it. Nobody is connecting Will’s reaction to what happened in his childhood. It’s the perfect example of how our childhood stories get played out as an adult. It’s very obvious to me that this is a classic replay of a childhood problem.
In today’s episode, BT and I discuss:
How violence on the outside is a result of violence on the inside
How everything Will’s done in his career—and everything with Jada—is the result of him trying to resolve a conflict inside of himself
How people react to situations is based on whatever programming is being triggered in their minds
Why the conflict is always on the inside—and when people discover their own humanity and who they really are, the violence will stop
How people could begin to heal if they looked at their own reactions as a reflection of what’s going on inside of themselves (a projection)—instead of making somebody else wrong
We should all be mindful of why we’re reacting to certain situations. Ask yourself: “What’s going on inside of me that’s causing me to react this way?” Every individual is telling their own made-up story about what’s happening—and justifying their own story.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 488 – Challenge Yourself To Become Great
Mar 29, 2022
Many years ago, when I was just starting my career, I was working with Bob Proctor and attending his seminars. After a seminar ended, most people would run to the pool to relax, while I would go up to my hotel room and make sales calls. I took the work way more seriously than most of my peers did.
In business, you’re responsible for everything. You must be able to identify opportunities and know how to build off of them. You must take your skill level to a place that’s above and beyond what anyone else is willing to do, so that you become irreplaceable. Most people don’t take this responsibility seriously enough.
People want to live an extraordinary life—but they don’t want to do what it takes to get there. Yet they’ll BS themselves into thinking they’ve done the work.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
You could have an extraordinary life if you do something amazing with the opportunity right in front of you
There are no days off in business —you can’t skate through the day (there’s no time, and the ramifications are too huge)
Sales is the foundation of everything in business
How I committed to myself by saying, “I’m not going to stop—there won’t be a day when I don’t do what’s necessary”
How Richard Branson started an airline from nothing, and now works with the best people on the planet—because of who he is
Why you must constantly learn something new, or else your company won’t grow
Plus, I share how I started selling in every circumstance imaginable, so that I could prove that excuses weren’t real, and anyone can sell in any situation. I made sales in the bathroom. I sold to a cop who was about to give me a ticket. I sold on Christmas day. I even sold to Steph Tuss (who’s now my CEO) in the elevator. I had to prove to myself that I could it, so that I could lead others to do the same.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 487 – Mindset Monday’s – You Can Move Mountains
Mar 28, 2022
I’m glad we all get to experience the chaos that’s happening in the world today, because it’s such a great teaching point for keeping your head straight and staying focused.
Napoleon Bonaparte was known for his intense ability to focus. He broke through so many things that nobody thought was even possible. From his life, we can learn that, “If you focus past a problem, it must give way.” Problems are mountains that can be removed from your life if you have faith as small as a mustard seed.
In today’s episode I’m teaching on the various components of focus (including trust)—and diving into Neville Goddard book, At Your Command.
You’ll learn:
We all have an incredible power to choose, which also means we can choose what we focus on
Why we must have faith in the unseen—because without faith, it’s impossible to realize anything
Our desires are “a promise” from God—and we shouldn’t be worried or concerned about HOW our desires will happen
Even the best marketers don’t know who will buy from them (or how those people will find them), but they’re doing their best to put out their marketing content into the world to reach people (through faith)
“Man distorts the gifts of God through his lack of faith”
Through our use of faith, we can create a new heaven on earth. But to do this, we need to focus and not get distracted.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 486 – Full Throttle Thursday – Sadhguru & The Journey to Save Our Soil
Mar 24, 2022
Sadhguru is embarking on a 100-day motorcycle ride through Europe and the Middle East to promote his “Save the Soil” movement. He’s bringing awareness to soil and how important it is to life itself, because everything—including our ability to grow food—comes from the soil. At age 65, he’ll cover 18,600 miles on his journey. He’ll meet with celebrities, environmentalists, and influencers throughout Europe and India.
Although “dirt” is a new topic for me, I’m fascinated by what I’ve learned so far. Today BT and I discuss our perspectives on what Sadhguru is doing to save the soil.
In this episode you’ll learn:
How our soil is apparently degrading to the point where it may someday become “sand” (like the desert) with no organic material in it
How the entire world could be in civil wars by 2030-2035, because there won’t be any food, due to the soil not being rich enough to grow any food
How our government only gets interested in certain issues, based on where it’s getting its funding from
What I heard about Bill Gates buying up the world’s farmland
How some big industries wouldn’t be needed anymore if we fixed our soil in the right way
Why the soil problem will most likely be solved by entrepreneurship (unless there’s something corrupt going on)
While the government wants to get rid of all gasoline vehicles and switch everything to electric—solving our soil problem would solve the “carbon emissions” problem.
I encourage you to check out Sadhguru’s website and learn more about this important topic.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 485 – Psychological Reciprocity: The Genius Is In the Bag
Mar 22, 2022
Decades ago, we used “psychological reciprocity” at Bob Proctor’s seminars to sell out products at the back of the room. We did this by giving away free bags—and we were amazed at the results.
The psychological law of reciprocity says that when you induce certain feelings in a person, they’re programmed to automatically respond in a grateful way of some kind. If you give them something, very often they feel compelled (in a good way) to give something back.
If you want to see your sales go up dramatically, there are two things to consider: psychological reciprocity, and how to handle objections. You’ll also want to be able to determine whether an objection is real, or just an excuse.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Why using psychological reciprocity in your sales or marketing makes people feel special—and will increase your sales
The 2 types of objections in a sales conversation—“psychological blocks” (when a person convinces themselves not to move forward) and circumstantial objections (like, “I don’t have the time or money”)
How to figure out if an objection is real or just an excuse—and why you shouldn’t try to solve a problem that isn’t real
How asking a “split question” gets you to the true answer with 98% of the people you talk to (because the human brain cannot think about two things at the same time)
Once your industry finds out that something is working with psychological reciprocity, everyone will start doing it—and then it’ll stop working
A sales professional does not get agitated; they don’t feel threatened or take anything personally that happens in a sales conversation
Your belief as a salesperson needs to be rock solid. You must understand human behavior and the nature of human beings. It’s your job to get better—and to ask better questions to help bring clarity to the other person during a sales call.
Your belief in why they CAN do something, needs to be more solid than their belief in why they can’t. Otherwise, they’re going to convince themselves not to do it. That’s human nature.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 484 – Mindset Monday’s – Ask For What You Want
Mar 21, 2022
Many years ago, I noticed a problem that came up in my mastermind group. Intelligent people in the group had tremendous potential, and they all wanted to take their businesses to multi seven figures. But the problem was—they couldn’t ask for what they wanted.
So I created a seminar to help them deal with that issue. It involved doing a simple exercise—walk up to strangers and ask, “What would it take for you to give me $20 and feel happy about the experience?”
This exercise is a great mirror that reflects yourself right back to yourself. It quickly exposes whatever is going on inside of you psychologically and physiologically when you ask someone for money. Every one of your issues starts to come to the surface. It’s fascinating and life-changing if you actually do it.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Why most people have issues around giving and receiving—due to shame, embarrassment, and fear around “breaking the rules”
Why you might have a “getting” energy behind your asking—and why this drives others away from you
What you want is already here—the problem is, you don’t know how to ask for it
You can’t desire (or need) something, without that thing already being in your life somewhere, right now
How two women sat next to each other and had two different experiences at the seminar—one became a multimillion, and the other went home and criticized people for a living and didn’t make any money
How one of my seminar attendees received $20,000 after sharing their story of struggle (and this floored the whole audience)
Why you must check your energy to make sure you’re giving (or receiving) from the right energy
Whatever you believe deep down is causing you to not be able to get what you want. This block often has to do with a psychological issue when it comes to asking for what you want.
Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. We’ve already dropped several episodes in the series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 483 – Full Throttle Thursday – Here’s The Thing About Luck…
Mar 17, 2022
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we’re diving into the topic of “luck.” What makes some people have good fortune or bad fortune? Is there a scientific process behind it, or is it all just pure superstition?
Many years ago, I was sucked through the dam on the Illinois River. People told me I was “lucky” to survive. But I don’t believe it was luck. It was the cause and effect of certain events happening on the river.
We have an insatiable need to give meaning to everything. We’ll even look for meaning where it doesn’t exist. Our mind is constantly looking for patterns, recognizing what’s happening around us. Our brain is always putting things together, based on whether we want to repeat or avoid certain experiences.
In today’s episode BT and I discuss:
Why so many extremely successful people say that “luck” contributed to their success
Why I believe luck is the result of your BELIEF—i.e., you either believe you have good fortune, or you believe you have bad fortune
Why working class, broke people often spend their welfare checks on slot machines, while holding “lucky” monkeys, rabbit’s feet, and chains
How casinos in Vegas use a “cooler” to disrupt you if you’re winning—because they understand that your vibrational pattern affects what’s happening
How I win at roulette, because I’m not emotionally attached to the money, and I recognize the patterns they use to try to throw you off (like switching the dealer when you’re winning)
How our mind operates on frequencies—and our belief controls the vibration at which we’re thinking and being
How Michael Jordan wore his “lucky” North Carolina Tar heels practice shorts under his Bulls shorts and went back to his “lucky” number 23 after retiring
Plus, I share the story of how my daughter, Erin, became “really lucky” starting when she was a child—with a 10-year streak of winning incredible amounts of money.
If you focus on good fortune, you’ll get more of it, because of the vibration you’re sending out. If you’re constantly saying “I’m unlucky,” that’s the energy you’re putting out there.
Looking to take your mindset to the next level? Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. We’ve already dropped several episodes in the series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. See you there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 482 – Cash Flow Killers – 4 Ways You’re Letting Success Pass You By – Part II
Mar 15, 2022
Today I’m teaching on the remaining two of the 4 major cash flow killers in business:
#3 – The middle class mindset
#4 – Indecision
The middle class mindset is based on the idea of “safety.” As children, we’re taught to tiptoe through life, make it safely to death, and avoid all risk. We’re NOT taught how to step into our purpose or create a magnificent life. Because of this, the middle class mindset is like a prison cell that most people can’t ever get out of.
Most people aren’t programmed to see opportunity—all they see is risk, danger, anxiety, nervousness, judgment, shame, or guilt around spending money
In this episode you’ll learn:
“What entrepreneurs get paid for, the middle class get shamed for”
In order to make money, you have to change in a good way
To become wealthy, you must put good out into the world
We’re not taught how to make decisions; we’re taught how to follow what we’re told to do and be obedient little children
Your biggest cash flow to killer is YOU not making a decision to do something different
The truth of the universe is abundance, not lack
If you want to break out of the middle class mindset, you need to learn to be comfortable taking risks. If you make a wrong decision, you can always make a different decision.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your audio podcast feed. David recently began releasing YouTube only episodes beginning with a series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 481 – Cash Flow Killers – 4 Ways You’re Letting Success Pass You By – Part I
Mar 14, 2022
Many business owners are inadvertently stifling and restricting the cash flow of their business. In working with thousands of entrepreneurs over the past several years, I’ve found that there are 4 key ways you might be letting success slip by you. These are major cash flow killers.
In today’s episode, I’m teaching on two of the four ways:
#1 – Codependency—which means you’re reliant on others to get your needs met (emotional needs, financial needs, and other needs).
#2 – Using hope as a strategy for growth.
Codependency shows up in the following ways:
You think and feel responsible for other people’s thoughts, actions, choices, wants, needs, wellbeing (or lack thereof), and their ultimate destiny—and you feel like you have to fix them.
You feel anxiety, pity, and guilt when other people have a problem—and you take on their dysfunctional story.
You feel compelled to help a person solve a problem, or rescue them.
You offer unwanted advice and suggestions, due to feeling inadequate and wanting to feel important.
You try to fix a person’s feelings—and therefore, you’re not focused on where you’re growing.
You feel angry when your help isn’t effective—you take it personally, start self-judging, or self-shaming.
You try to please other people instead of yourself. This leads to you NOT showing up as a whole, healthy individual who’s giving all of yourself to another person.
You find it easier to feel or express anger about injustices done to others rather than injustices that are done to yourself.
You feel safest when giving in a way that’s not healthy (think: giving with conditions or giving in a manipulative way).
You feel insecure and guilty when somebody gives something to you.
You feel sad because you spend your whole life giving to other people and nobody gives to you. (That’s actually a receiving problem where you don’t feel worthy of receiving something.)
Meanwhile, using hope as a strategy is also a cash flow killer. Instead of using the law of cause and effect to grow your business, you use wishful (or magical) thinking, while “hoping” that something will happen in your favor.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your audio podcast feed. David recently began releasing YouTube only episodes beginning with a series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 480 – Full Throttle Thursday – Hell No, Joe Won’t Go: How Cancel Culture is Like Schoolyard Bullying
Mar 10, 2022
The more successful you become, the more you open yourself up to trolls, criticism, and even being canceled. In this age of cancel culture, anyone can find themselves being canceled at any time for any reason. When that happens, it can feel like the whole world is coming after you. It’s intense—but really, it’s just a few people. It usually gets magnified by the media.
Joe Rogan’s audience exploded over the past few years, reaching millions of people on Spotify. The media has tried to cancel him, but he refuses to give in. After he posted an apology on Instagram—Samuel L. Jackson suddenly spoke up about how “comfortable” Rogan seemed to be using a particular racial slur. Once again, the news media has blown this up, as a way to try to bring Rogan down again.
In today’s episode, BT and I discuss:
Why I think Samuel L. Jackson’s response to Joe Rogan was ridiculous and probably strategic
How cancel culture is no different than schoolyard bullying
The way the media uses click bait headlines to overcome a slow news cycle
How the news makes money off selling you a story about the destruction of a human being or the potential destruction of a human being
How Joe Rogan stood up to cancel culture and became one of the largest voices in the world if not THE largest
There are no perfect people. Everyone makes mistakes. Being criticized is never about you. It’s about the people criticizing you. You just have to stand up, own what you’re doing, and not let yourself be bullied. They can only cancel you if you allow yourself to be canceled.
Looking to take your mindset to the next level? Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. We’ve already dropped several episodes in the series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. See you there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 479 – Rise High for Success to See You
Mar 08, 2022
Most people are taught a certain philosophy around work—that we must “start at the bottom,” and work really hard in order to rise up to a higher position in life.
In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill said that’s one of the worst concepts for achievement possible—starting at the bottom. Because, “When you start at the bottom, you never raise high enough for success to see you.”
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
To achieve success, you need other successful people (“people of value”) to help you
People of value are looking for other people of value to help them
When we’re starting at the bottom, we’re not demonstrating much value
If you want to be wealthy, you must provide more value than most people do
Coming from a place of “need” is survival based—and way different than desire (survival is about saying, “I need to be safe; I can’t risk; I don’t want to lose anything”)
The principles most people practice are NOT principles of success—they’re principles of survival
How self-worth issues hold a person back—and why one of the biggest mistakes you can make is to project your emotional worth onto your product, service, or your client
You have to really think, “What rules are keeping me stuck?” Einstein said, “You can’t get out of a problem with the same thinking that created the problem.” In order to create a quantum leap, you have to move higher in your thinking. Raise your consciousness.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your audio podcast feed. David recently began releasing YouTube only episodes beginning with a series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
What rules are you living by that are keeping you stuck? No better time than the present to strengthen that mindset muscle and soaking in these past episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 478 – Mindset Monday’s – Everything is Preparing You for Something Better
Mar 07, 2022
Any time you have a setback, challenge, or “WTF” moment, it provides an opportunity for good. Everything you’ve experienced in life is preparing you for something greater. You can look back on your own childhood, through the present day, and see how everything got you to this point.
The real gift in your experiences might not show up right away—it might come tomorrow, or 5-10 years from now. That’s why you should be flexible and not take anything personally. When you act as if something is happening “to” you, you start to victimize and get indignant. But that doesn’t prepare you for the next challenge. How you meet current challenges will determine how prepared you are for future challenges.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Why I don’t necessarily think “God tests people” or that we have to be prepared to pass the test
The modus operandi of the universe is “more life”—which means everything you experience makes you stronger, so that you can sustain more life and ADD to life
There’s either growth or death—there’s no in between
How having an unstable mother and family life as a kid allowed me to adapt to instability very easily (which is great for business, where you have to stay calm under pressure)
How moving 21 times as a kid taught me many different things that prepared me for when I went into the armed services…which later helped me save my own life when I went through the dam
Why we should look at everything from a “God’s eye view” rather than a bug’s eye view
Plus, I share a crazy story about the most disturbing email I’ve ever received—in which someone attempted to extort money from me and my company. This experience taught me how to stand up in the face of fear, and how to handle it when someone is threatening to bring down everything you’ve worked for for 15-20 years. As it turns out, being embezzled out of $5 million (in the past) helped me navigate through that experience.
Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. We’ve already dropped several episodes in the series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available.
Stand up in the face of fear by listening to these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 477 – Full Throttle Thursday – Inventing Anna
Mar 03, 2022
SPOILER ALERT: If you have plans to watch the Netflix limited Series, Inventing Anna, you may want to hold off on listening to this until after you’ve seen the show.
The new Netflix limited series, Inventing Anna, gives a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a classic narcissist—Anna Delvey, aka Anna Sorokin, an Instagram influencer who charmed her way into stealing money from New York’s social elite.
The show is told from the point of view of Vivian Kent, a journalist who interviews people who were impacted by Anna’s schemes and charms. Anna is played spectacularly by Julia Garner from the hit series Ozark.
In today’s episode BT and I, along with my CEO, Steph Tuss, discuss some of our takeaways from binging the show:
Why Steph relates to Anna Delvey, in the sense of being “underestimated” in life
How Anna learned to manipulate as a child, from seeing that her father could completely destroy people—and how Anna learns and grows in her ability to manipulate throughout the show
How Anna had no boundaries and no barriers on when to stop—she knew which buttons to press, and if one button didn’t work, she’d switch her tactic midstream
How narcissists hook us in by finding out what we want and feeding it back to us
How a narcissist is like a Velociraptor testing the fence in Jurassic Park, trying to find a weakness so it can rip you apart
The book Trust by Iyanla Vanzant—and how you should determine who you want in your life based on their “performance data”
We’re constantly putting people into the structure of whatever our own internal story is. That’s why many of us are susceptible to narcissists. I highly recommend watching Inventing Anna for its fascinating psychological perspective on human behavior.
Looking to take your mindset to the next level? Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. We’ve already dropped several episodes in the series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. See you there!
Undrestanding how the mind of a narcissist works is a skill unto itself. Learn more about this and other mindset strengthening magic by diving into these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 476 – The Desire to Succeed
Mar 01, 2022
The fact that you desire to succeed is evidence that you have the power to succeed.
However, when doubt creeps into your mind, it attacks whatever you’re thinking about. When you’re working towards your goals or vision—and you’re trying to keep a positive mindset—something can happen in your external life, and doubt can creep in. It’s very suggestible, depending on what you’re experiencing.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Why doubt is like a virus that attacks your thinking—and it changes HOW you’re thinking
When we get immersed in doubt, we start to believe it and get emotionally entrenched in it
When we get sucked into the drama of something, we can’t see the lie (or non-truth) in it
Most people are programmed to ask, “When do we get to stop doing the thing we don’t like?”—that’s why we have “hump day” and “thank God it’s Friday”
As entrepreneurs, we need to schedule our time off, to avoid becoming resentful
The more fatigued your mind is, the easier it is for doubt to creep in
Your desire is a roadmap, and everything you need to succeed is already here. But doubt will screw up your desire faster than anything else, because it will turn it into fatigue. Suddenly you’ll question whether you can reach your goal, and you’ll feel like you’re never going to get there.
If you want to succeed at reaching your goals, you need to keep doubt completely out of your mind.
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your audio podcast feed. David recently began releasing YouTube only episodes beginning with a series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
Remove doubt and set your sights on reaching your goals by diving into these past episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 475 – Mindset Monday’s – Stay Committed
Feb 28, 2022
When you set a goal, you must have a white-hot desire inside of you to reach that goal. The desire needs to be kept alive, because it guides you when everything else is gone. Another word for this is commitment.
Desire and commitment illuminate the vision for what you want to create for yourself. It’s your compass—the thing that always needs to be there.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
You can’t see something on the screen of your mind if there wasn’t a way to actually do it
“There’s always a way” when you’re committed
You must periodically check your level of commitment (like checking that your gas tank has enough fuel)
Your commitment needs to be thorough—in other words, what are you actually committed to (starting? reaching a goal? completing the follow-through after the goal?)
Why climbing Mount Everest takes real commitment not only to get to the top, but also to come back down
Your goal is just one piece of the puzzle in the giant picture of everything you’re doing—so it’s not just about reaching your goal—it’s about “making it back down the mountain”
It takes a toll on us to psychologically and physically to reach a goal—because of the amount of learning, adapting, and growing we have to do in order to win (commitment is what gets us through this)
My mentor once told me, “Never, ever finish a goal without setting the next one before you finish the first one. Never.”
Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. We’ve already dropped several episodes in the series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available.
Desire and commitment illuminate the vision for what you want to create for yourself. Take that and run by listening to these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 474 – Full Throttle Thursday – Canadian Crackdown: A Democracy in Crisis
Feb 24, 2022
Canada’s government has literally turned into a dictatorship. After Canadian truckers organized a peaceful protest, asking that mandates for truck drivers be dropped—this escalated into a fight for freedom. The truckers’ equipment was impounded. Their livelihoods were taken. And the government seized their GoFundMe account, which raised $10 million in support of the truckers. Now the government is going after anyone who donated to the GoFundMe, which they call a “terrorist organization.” And apparently it’s retroactive.
The downfall of Canada’s democracy is one of the most terrifying things we’ve ever experienced. It can potentially affect much of the western world. Most people have no idea what’s happening, because none of the news channels are covering it.
In today’s episode BT and I discuss:
A Department of Homeland Security bulletin from February 7th saying you cannot speak out against your government (even if what you’re saying is true) because if you do, you’ll be labeled a “domestic terrorist” in the United States
Joe Rogan’s interview with Maajid Nawaz—a former Islamic terrorist who says everything that’s happening in these free countries today is exactly how he was trained to bring governments down (and he has proof)
How all the free countries are playing by the same playbook—extending mandates, and overstepping the line when it comes to power grabs and the rights of their citizens (and this is no coincidence)
Jordan Peterson’s interview with someone who helped create the Canadian Charter of Rights (which is similar to the United States’ Bill of Rights)—and how that person is suing the Canadian government because the charter of rights has been broken
How our governments are supposed to work for the people and address our concerns, but they’re not doing that
And much more
The assault on democracy is not a hyperbole. I don’t think people realize we could lose our freedom. How Canada responds to this is going to say a lot.
I know this is a sensitive topic and it’s quite scary. My objective isn’t to sway your opinion one way or another, but to give you the information so you can make your own decisions about what’s been happening.
Looking to take your mindset to the next level? Be sure to stop over on The Successful Mind Podcast Channel on YouTube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere in your audio podcast feed. We’ve already dropped several episodes in the series where David takes you through high level teachings around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you’re ready to take the next step in exploring the Universal Laws and mindset it requires to be a huge success you’ll want to check this series out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. See you there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 473 – Simplicity In Itself
Feb 22, 2022
In “Mystic Path to Cosmic Power,” Vernon Howard says, “A man cannot see anything he is unwilling to see. He is unwilling because he fears the loss of his false and fixed viewpoints—and those things mean the loss of himself.”
Think about the fixed viewpoints you have about various things in your life. How are those holding you back?
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
You can boil anything down to its essence by looking at the truth of what it is
Simplicity is about asking, “What is it, in itself?”
Human beings give meaning to everything, including negative meanings—because this keeps us safe, certain, and in our bubble
Vernon Howard was all about breaking through fixed ideas that are false
Most people will never change until something drastic happens in their life; they need to experience intense suffering before they’ll see the light
How Vernon Howard’s book, Psycho-Pictography, helps people replace the fixed images in their mind with new images that get them better results
Be willing to see the truth about your fixed viewpoints.
As Vernon says, “If you want opposite results from what you’ve been getting, take the opposite course. Turn all demands inward. Demand your own power. Insist that your mind work for you, not against you. Command your habits to be what you wish. Demand constant and sincere work toward your own deliverance.”
Be sure to join David over on You Tube for EXCLUSIVE content that you won’t find anywhere near your audio podcast feed. David recently began releasing YouTube only episodes beginning with a series around Raymond Holliwell’s classic book, Working With the Law. If you are looking for a deeper dive into Universal Laws and the mindset it requires to be a success you’ll want to check this out. Remember, these are ONLY available on our YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/TheSuccessfulMindPodcast, be sure to subscribe, and ring the bell so you won’t miss any of these EXCLUSIVE drops as they become available. Get your binge on and we’ll see you over there!
Be willing to see the truth about your fixed mindset. by diving deep into these past episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 472 – Mindset Monday’s – Be the Gatekeeper of Your Thoughts
Feb 21, 2022
How often have you started to take action on something to move your business forward—and then something else grabs your attention? Or you don’t feel like doing it? Or you say, “I’ll do it later”? Then you stop and go in a completely different direction, never giving yourself a chance to build momentum in the direction of success.
That’s because you’re not taking control of your thoughts. Something else is. People don’t fail because they want to fail—they fail because they don’t see the pattern in themselves of switching their focus to something else, rather than sticking to the task in front of them.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Great things are built over time, through consistency and repetition of doing the things that work
How our brain gets manipulated to seek “immediate satisfaction”—and why people quit because they don’t get results in five minute
“Lack of decision” is one of the major causes of failure
Procrastination is the opposite of decision—it’s a common enemy that everyone must conquer
The highest power in the world is willpower
Why you must consciously be on guard and be the gatekeeper of your own thought process
How to make decisions based on by looking at whether something will move you forward
Using your consciousness in the correct way means choosing, “Where am I going to direct my thoughts and feelings?” You must be the overseer of your own thinking so that it’s not distracted based on how you feel.
Ask yourself, “Why am I thinking and making the decisions that I’m making?” Where are you going? Focus on what’s important to you and the vision you have for yourself, and stay in your lane.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 471 – In Search of the Truth: Dr. Peter McCullough
Feb 17, 2022
Today I’m interviewing Dr. Peter McCullough, whose recent interview with Joe Rogan blew up the internet. The information he’s sharing is causing people to ask so many questions about COVID, vaccines, the lack of vaccine safety, and who’s behind the planning of the pandemic.
Dr. Peter McCullough is a practicing internist and cardiologist who is trained in epidemiology. Before COVID-19, he was the most published person in his field in the world—with over 660 publications in peer-reviewed literature. He spends half his time seeing and caring for patients, and the other half as an author, editor, and clinical investigator. Dr. McCullough is a frequent contributor to Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, and other news outlets. He’s testified twice in the US Senate under oath, and in multiple state senates. His opinion has been relied upon, because he’s been true to the data, and not to any narrative. “We don’t tell stories in medicine,” he says.
In today’s episode, we discuss:
How 200 papers in peer-reviewed literature on myocarditis show that there’s a “giant safety issue” with vaccines—and people are dying because they’ve taken the vaccine
How most people who developed Omicron were fully vaccinated individuals, including Americans
Why US hospitalization data aren’t trustable
How the vaccines are “gene transfer technology platforms” that get distributed throughout the body, go into the brain, deposit genetic material, and start producing “a dangerous spike protein right in the brain, the heart, and the bone marrow”
Why courage is an uncommon quality, and why Dr. McCullough thinks “there’s a lot of intelligent doctors, but…relatively few who have strong minds” (and the difference between the two)
Dr. McCullough’s recommended resource for learning about who planned the COVID-19 pandemic and the various vaccine stakeholders
Dr. McCullough says the CDC and FDA are sponsors of the vaccine program. “They won’t be unbiased when it comes to vaccines, because they’ve been told to get a needle in every arm. Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson can’t be unbiased,” he says.
Plus, I share the story of how my own daughter was turned away at the hospital when they found out she wasn’t vaccinated.
“No one should be denied care,” Dr. McCullough says.
I’m bringing this information to you so you can make your own informed decisions. This is an interview you don’t want to miss.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 470 – Be Grateful For the Opportunity to Work
Feb 15, 2022
I grew up in an environment where there was resentment about working. There was some good work ethic, there was also indignation about it. I think that comes from people not doing what they love. They’re working for the wrong reasons.
Working for survival is actually the worst reason to have to work. Part of your responsibility is to find out what you love to do in life and to never stop searching until you find it—because what else is there?
In this episode you’ll learn:
The purpose of your work should be contribution, because that’s where we get our fulfillment
Why you shouldn’t merely for the goal of getting to retirement
Why people who make a lot of money can get bored or paranoid of losing their money (hint: because they lack contribution and service to others)
“Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results”
“Bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results”
What James Allen said about the role of suffering in As A Man Thinketh
Being grateful for the opportunity to work is really about coming from a place of service and contribution. If your work causes you any kind of suffering, you may want to take an honest look at how you’re thinking about it.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 469 – Mindset Monday’s – Am I In Love?
Feb 14, 2022
You can be in love with anything—a person, a thing, a business, a pet, or anything else in your life. But what does it mean to actually “be in love”? Not only is love an amazing experience, but it also lifts our entire outlook on everything.
Today I’m reading from Thomas Troward’s book, The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science. He says being in love means being in resonance with something and “entering into the spirit of it.” Entering in the spirit of something is an attitude of mind and a conscious choice. You don’t have to wait until it happens to you—you can choose it.
In this episode you’ll learn:
To love something is to “enter into the spirit of it”
To appreciate a book, artwork, picture, or music, we must enter into the spirit of it and share the mental attitude of its creator—otherwise these things are meaningless to us
When you have a desire to do something, there’s a spirit, an internal pressure, and an urge to manifest that desire
The artist can create something out of nothing; whereas the scientist or mathematician measures something that’s already in existence
We’re not supposed to create from a place of lack or fear, but from love and harmony
When we resist something, we shut down and the mind becomes unresourceful; the body becomes less strong
Being in a higher energy state doesn’t just make us happy; it also allows us to be more resourceful
As human beings, we all have the ability to take our capacity for love and engage it consciously with something. As you go about your day, notice if you’re entering into the spirit of love, growth, or harmony with whatever you’re doing?
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 468 – Full Throttle Thursday – Is Rogan a Racist?!? Apologizing In the Age of Information Warfare
Feb 10, 2022
Joe Rogan has become the voice of a generation. A comedian and a talk show host, somehow he’s also ended up becoming the voice of freedom of speech—by giving a platform to those who have different views other than the official ‘Covid narrative.’ If and when he makes a mistake, Rogan always apologizes and moves forward. Meanwhile, he always seems to be searching for the truth on a variety of subjects.
Recently, Spotify purged 70 of Rogan’s podcast episodes, after the singer India.Arie posted a compilation video of Rogan using the N-word, repeatedly, over 12 years of his show. Rogan has since apologized, saying it’s the most “regretful and shameful thing” he’s ever had to talk about publicly. Meanwhile, legacy media continues to pile on him, while trying to silence him. Instead of making it about “Covid misinformation,” they’re now making it about race.
In today’s episode, BT and I discuss:
Why I think Joe Rogan’s apology is a good one
How talk show hosts have discussed sensitive subjects over the last 50 years—yet Rogan is being attacked for doing the same thing
How our society has reached a level of messed up values, to where people aren’t allowed to have different opinions
How cancel culture is setting us back hundreds of years into dictatorships—when people living under tyrants couldn’t say or do the wrong thing, or else they’d be killed (like the Salem witch trials)
Why canceling someone is the real form of hate speech—it says, “I disagree with you so much, I can’t tolerate you even existing; you should be removed from everything”
How the presidential museum for Abraham Lincoln shows that racism throughout the ages was much worse than it is today, but today we’re just so ultra-sensitive to it
The difference between arguing and debate—and why we need to have open, thought-provoking conversations with each other regardless of race, nationality, race, creed, or anything else
Everybody has a skeleton in their closet. People are afraid to say anything, for fear of something resurfacing later.
Good conversations can only happen when people can come together and are able to listen to one another.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 467 – Be Miracle Minded
Feb 08, 2022
I believe we create our own miracles. When you work with the laws of the universe, the universe meets you with what you put out. That’s why it’s important to always give consistently—because it all comes back to you. (However, it might not always come back from the person you gave it to.)
No matter what line of business you’re in, you should adopt the belief that, “Whatever I need—whether it’s an opportunity, a client, or some kind of break—it’s always coming toward me.” And this idea should be backed with relentless work.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Why you should “start where you want to be” (because you don’t have to wait 10 years to charge the fees you want)
How I made $20,000 for my first speaking gig, simply by being ready for the opportunity and asking for that fee
My experiences in the early days when I was on the phone constantly calling people, making sales, and speaking—and how I got over a dry spell
How I sold enough product at one event to last me six months’ worth of income—and how I filled my database with enough leads to call and network for an entire year
Why I constantly hold the idea in my mind that, “This is going to happen. It’s going to work.”
The quantum leap is always there—but you have to be willing to go the extra mile to make it happen
Miracles don’t always come in at the same level that you’re at. Very often, like Napoleon Hill said in Think and Grow Rich, they come disguised—and accompanied by hard work. However, if you always act on the opportunity, it will always move you forward.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 466 – Mindset Monday’s – Get to Know the Higher Side of Yourself
Feb 07, 2022
When you keep your commitment, you’re acknowledging the higher side of yourself—i.e., the great side of you.
The higher side of you is already in you. It’s saying, “I’m here. I’m in this body. Pay attention to me.” But if you don’t keep your commitment, you’re denying that part of you.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Everything you want in life is already here—but you won’t experience it until you believe you can acquire it
Believing in the higher side of yourself is the first step to acquiring your desire
You can get to know the higher side of you by following a desire and keeping your commitment
You must constantly study information that tells you about who you really are, and what you’re capable of doing
You must see yourself in possession of the goal—every single day
Why you should always expect to win
Many people struggle to keep their commitment, because they don’t want to step out and do uncomfortable things—like spending money on something, investing in a business, etc. Many were raised to believe they’re someone they’re not. They lack faith in their higher self.
To overcome this, all you need to do is start acknowledging that part of you. Ask, “What do I need to commit to today?” Pay attention to your higher self—because it’s the compass guiding you in the direction you want to go in life.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 465 – Full Throttle Thursday – The Power of Will Smith
Feb 03, 2022
**Spoiler: If you plan on reading Will, please come back to this episode after you’ve read the book. We will be discussing some specific details in today’s episode.**
Today we’re diving into Will Smith’s career, his new autobiography, and how he “gets” universal truth. Will Smith is one of the biggest movie stars in the world, having been in eight #1 movies in a row—a record. His success was entirely orchestrated. It didn’t happen by accident, chance, or luck.
From an early age, his father taught him what to be, and what not to be. His father put discipline into his subconscious mind very early on, and this carried him far.
In this episode, BT and I discuss:
The story of the wall—how Will’s dad had him and his brother build a wall that seemed impossible to finish, yet they did it in a year by laying one brick at a time
In order to pull off what you set out to do, you must have discipline and “lay each brick perfectly” (this follows the law of cause and effect)
How a trip to the Five & Dime to pick up cigarettes for his dad taught Will, “When you’re given a mission, you either you complete the mission or you die”
The birth of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and why you must be in the right place at the right time, always ready for the opportunity
How saying, “I can’t do this; I’m not ready” is a way to pass up life-changing opportunities
How role in The Matrix might have gone to Will Smith instead of Keanu Reeves
The advice Arnold Schwarzenegger gave to Will when asked, “I want to be the best movie star in the world—what do I do?”
Everything in life changes, and you need to prepare yourself BEFORE it changes, so that you’re not stuck in a down cycle. You can’t just rest on your laurels. Will Smith is consistently preparing himself for the next thing, while knowing that nothing he’s currently doing will last forever.
I highly recommend reading Will, the autobiography. Do yourself a favor and get the audio version of it, because he sings and does all sorts of fun voices.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 464 – Rewire Your Mind: The Quality of Your Life Equals the Quality of Your Decisions
Feb 01, 2022
When you’re manifesting something you want, it’s important to have your conscious mind, subconscious mind, and actions all lined up in integrity. Many people struggle with this, because they battle themselves internally all day long. They associate negative feelings to the actions they need to take to reach their goals.
In today’s episode I’m sharing a powerful exercise you can do to rewire your mind and associate good feelings to your goal, so you can manifest the results quicker in your life.
You’ll learn:
How to speed things up when you’re trying to manifest something
A scientific process of using “constant space repetition” and re-association in the mind that helps you have tremendous control over the way you think
How “acting like you love what you do” conditions your brain to operate in a new way
How to put yourself in an open state, so that your mind is open to new possibilities and you can see the opportunity
Why I started pretending in my mind that my 57-mile drive to work was the drive to Castle Rock Flowage (a place I loved going to as a kid)—and how this changed my attitude, demeanor, and emotional state before I got to work
A super-quick breathing exercise to change your emotional state quickly (I used this technique right before a 2-day seminar, when I found out my mother was dying)
The more you learn to associate good feelings to your goal—and your process for reaching that goal—the faster you’ll get the results.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 463 – Mindset Monday’s – Make My Belief a Tool
Jan 31, 2022
When facing a challenge, many people hear a voice in their head that gets them to believe they’re having trouble with the tasks they’re doing. They start to feel shaky on the inside. They tell themselves, “I’m no good.” “I don’t know if I’ll ever get there.” “When will it happen for me?” “Is this for me?” “I’m not feeling well today.” “My energy’s low.” “Nobody will say yes.” “I don’t have enough people to talk to.” “I have a stack of debt.”
These are the voices in our head that hold us back. They’re based on subconscious programming. The way to change this is to understand that your belief can be used as a tool. You can choose to believe the opposite of whatever the problem is. That provides instant change.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
How to use the clarity of your desire and belief to override any fearful emotions or inner voices
You can choose how you think
Your subconscious mind wants to complete whatever pattern you’ve created (or whatever pattern was created somewhere in your life) to the Nth degree
Most middle class people weren’t taught that it’s okay to go after the things we want—and that’s a big problem
The friendliest voice to your subconscious mind is your own mouth—i.e., your own words—so encourage yourself every day and don’t tolerate negative talk
Your subconscious mind can’t tell the difference between reality and imagination
When you’re going after a big goal, you need to engage a new belief system to consciously override whatever the subconscious program is that’s stopping you. Keep that at the front of your mind and remind yourself of it every day.
The more you say it—the more you see it in your mind—the more it goes into the subconscious, where it literally takes over and becomes habitual.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 462 – Full Throttle Thursday – Spotify Under Siege: The Death of Legacy Media & The Growing Influence of Joe Rogan
Jan 27, 2022
Joe Rogan has become one of our most important influencers, averaging 11 million podcast views per episode on Spotify. His recent interview with Dr. Robert Malone had over 50 million views. Hands down, Rogan is the most listened-to person in the world.
Meanwhile, CNN and MSNBC’s ratings have dropped from a million views per episode last year, to under 100,000 views per episode today. This rapid decline indicates that people no longer trust legacy media and are seeking alternative perspectives. Many are realizing that so much of what we’ve been told over the last two years is turning out to be BS.
In this episode, BT and I discuss:
How the legacy media is attacking Rogan with a big smear campaign, while trying to shut down his voice
How our country was built on freedom of speech, meaning we can debate, talk about opposing opinions, hear different sides, and work things out together
How people are hearing (perhaps for the first time) a different view on COVID and vaccines
A petition that 270 “doctors” signed (most of whom weren’t actually doctors), calling for Spotify to remove Joe Rogan
Jimmy Dore’s podcast, in which he showed clip after clip of news stations that said, “Brought to you by Pfizer”
How YouTube removed the ‘dislike’ button because news videos were getting more dislikes than likes
The situation with Russia and whether they’ll invade the Ukraine—and why our country is probably more in danger now than it’s been since World War II, due to “the nuclear option” being on the table
My whole life has been spent looking for the truth, which seems to be what Joe Rogan is doing. I’m grateful he’s out there challenging the established narrative. I care deeply about our country and where we’re headed. I think we’re dangerously close to reaching an edge we might not be able to come back from—with the totalitarian push to shut down certain voices. That’s why I’m bringing you this important conversation—not to change your opinion, but to get you to really think about what’s true.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 461 – There’s Always a Way
Jan 25, 2022
In the Tao, the Bhagavad Gita, and most religions, there’s the idea of non-attachment. However, many people misunderstood what it means.
Non-attachment means everything comes into our life, then moves out of it. Nothing ever stays. It’s the flow of life. But when we become attached to something in an unhealthy way, that’s when we create pain and fear.
The fear often makes us ask, “What happens if we don’t get the outcome we want? What happens if it leaves? What happens if it’s wrong or something goes wrong?”
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Everything in business is about a result—something either works, or it doesn’t
We can drive ourselves crazy by getting hung up on the most minute things
Your subconscious mind doesn’t want to experience the unknown—it hijacks the process and throws your self-image, fears, and insecurity into it
We get attached to the result because we attach it to our self-image, other people’s acceptance or rejection, or our success
“If you’re not concerned about the outcome of circumstances, you will experience no fear”
In business, you shouldn’t be focused on making the sale or making the money. Instead focus on, “Did that conversation work? Did that marketing campaign work? Did that reach-out work? If it didn’t, let’s change it and do something different.”
“It either worked or it didn’t.” The phone call either worked or it didn’t. The person either said yes or they didn’t.
Success is that simple. If this thing didn’t work, let’s try something else.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 460 – Mindset Monday’s – Who’s Your Puppeteer?
Jan 24, 2022
Chin Nin Chu says, “The fear of success is much more powerful than the fear of failure.”
Personally, I don’t believe there’s such a thing as a fear of success or a fear of failure—because it goes much deeper than that. Most of us want things in life, but we’re afraid of leaving behind the familiar and venturing into the unknown.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Before you can succeed, you must understand that success means change and the risk of failure
Most new ideas or endeavors are met with disapproval from others
When you start to go past your financial set point, people see you—they judge, ridicule, and reject you
All the ‘problems’ and circumstances you experience are an illusion designed to pull your attention away from what’s really going on—that deep down, you don’t want to be rejected or ‘wrong’
If you’re trying to control and mediate how other people think about you, then you’re being a puppet—you’re not being the real you
People stay stuck because they don’t know how they’re going to manage too many people thinking about them. That all becomes an illusion and an excuse for you to not move forward.
Once you stop trying to control and mediate how other people think about you…you’re free.
Stop worrying about what others think about you and move forward. That that necessary step here with more inspiring episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 459 – Full Throttle Thursday – Mass Formation: How Groups Can Be Led to Think in One Direction
Jan 20, 2022
How is it that so many smart, educated people—who are supposedly individuals of science—become completely one-sided? How is it that their minds can’t look at any other information? And when you show them the truth, they deny it? It’s freaky weird. This is not just a problem in the United States. We’re seeing this same mindset all around the world. And it’s very disturbing.
In his recent podcast, Dr. Mattias Desmet discusses “mass formation”—a phenomenon in which an extraordinarily large group of people are hypnotized into thinking in one direction. (This is such a sensitive topic, I can’t even use the word that comes after it.) When people’s sense of safety is jeopardized and destabilized like it was with COVID, they become extremely suggestible to any information—especially when that information is going in one direction only.
In today’s episode BT and I discuss:
How big tech platforms are censoring people to keep one message and one narrative moving forward—while locking people into ‘mass formation,’ where they only believe the one thing that’s being told to them
How some doctors are turning people away from treatment because they’re not vaccinated—and how Nazi Germany made a certain group of people ‘bad,’ ‘dirty,’ and ‘wrong’ during World War II—to the point where they could justify extermination
What Jordan Peterson said about Germans becoming Nazis—it didn’t happen overnight; it happened over a period of time
Freedom of speech in the United States, and how it’s the only reason why we haven’t gotten as far as the extreme measures taking place in Canada and Australia
Why the need to be right (or the need to not be wrong) keeps people stuck in their beliefs—where they deny new information, even if it’s true
Why it’s dangerous to demonize anybody who thinks differently
The power of thinking for yourself
Eric Hoffer wrote a fantastic book called The True Believer, in which he explains the concept of ‘mass formation,’ how mass belief systems start, and how they’re created. I highly recommend you read it—and also check out Dr. Mattias Desmet’s podcast.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 458 – In Search of the Truth: DeMark Thompson
Jan 18, 2022
Today I have a special guest named DeMark Thompson, who is an actor born and raised in Washington, DC. His acting career began in 2011 with a role in the film, “After Earth,” starring Will and Jayden Smith. DeMark went on to do additional TV roles on CBS, NBC, and HBO.
Shortly before his mother passed away, DeMark promised her that he’d continue acting. Since then, he’s dedicated his career to his mother, and to keeping the promise he made.
In today’s episode we discuss:
How life is short, and you should pursue your passions
DeMark’s work in cybersecurity with the Department of Energy
What it was like seeing Will Smith for the first time on set
The fierce competition in the acting industry—and why you need to be totally dedicated to the process of auditioning if you want to be a successful actor, because rejection happens often
How DeMark shifted from “competing” against other individuals to forming relationships that could lead to other opportunities
What makes an actor marketable—and why you need to get your work out there, so that others can know you and your work ethic
Why we need to train ourselves to “always stay ready”
DeMark also shares how trained himself not to doubt or worry, because “words have power.” He uses affirmations while waiting to hear back on acting jobs. “Today could be my day. Everything could change today. Anything can happen today,” he tells himself.
DeMark encourages people who are willing to take a leap of faith to pursue their dreams. No matter what we do, people are watching us, and we’re either being an example of what someone could be—or we’re being an example of what NOT to do.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 457 – Mindset Monday’s – Where Did I Stop?
Jan 17, 2022
Many people are stuck in a certain kind of thinking that keeps them experiencing the same problems over and over again. Their thinking causes them to go in circles.
If you want to break free—especially when it comes to money—you have to start holding yourself to a higher standard. You must force yourself to make decisions differently. Or else it never changes.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Your mind is programmed to think if you want something (like money), you have to give up something else
When you’re running a business, you can’t deny one area that needs your attention in order to get something in another area—it’s the wrong sacrifice (you can do BOTH)
Why you need to break the paradigm of “either/or” (of not being able to do two things at once)
How emotions keep us habitually locked in to the idea of “either/or” thinking
Changing how you think is a lifelong pursuit that takes time
Desire is important in the beginning, because you need to break through your paradigm
Many people want the result, but few actually want to change. If you want to change several things in your life, take one thing at a time and prove to yourself, to the Nth degree, that you can change it…by doing it.
Don’t stop until you get the result. If you keep going—and don’t stop—you’ll see doors opening all over the place.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 456 – Full Throttle Thursday – Think For Yourself: Censorship, Freedom of Speech, & the Direction Our Country is Headed
Jan 13, 2022
In today’s episode, BT and I have a serious conversation about what’s been taking place in our country (the United States). It’s obvious to me there’s been something very ‘off’ about what’s happening. Historically, we’ve had censorship in the past, but never to the extent that we’re currently experiencing it.
Highly regarded doctors and scientists with tremendous credibility are being kicked off YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. They’re being discredited for sharing views that don’t fit the COVID narrative. Today we’re bringing some of these issues to light.
In this episode, we discuss:
How top vaccine companies have rampant criminal behavior—with lawsuits and billions of dollars paid out for vaccine injuries—and they’re not liable for any of the harm they’ve caused
The war being waged between vaccinated and unvaccinated people, with unprecedented division in the United States right now
The Supreme Court argument on whether to stop vaccine mandates (meanwhile, the information some of the justices have is completely wrong)
The intense pushback other countries are seeing in response to totalitarian governments—meanwhile, the United States isn’t seeing this, because we’ve had it good for so long here; we don’t know what it’s like to have to fight for our freedom
The whole basis of our Constitution and our country has been that we can have civil debates and discuss different issues
Our Constitution has freedom of speech and other countries don’t (because it’s not in their Constitution)—this is why Australia is putting people in camps and having lockdowns
How the traditional media is making up stories and blowing things out of proportion—and the opposite side isn’t being broadcast in a way where everybody can easily access the information to be able to make their own decisions
Something very scary is taking place in all the free, democratic countries of the world. If you love this country, you need to be aware of what’s really going on. We need to think for ourselves, and not just accept any narrative across the board. It’s a very dangerous thing to have dissenting voices silenced. I encourage you to do your own research and make up your own mind about it.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 455 – Be Hungry
Jan 11, 2022
Many years ago, I found a book filled with gems on ambition and desire. It was called The Secret of the Ages by Robert Collier. It’s a phenomenal piece of work that most people have never read.
In today’s episode I’m teaching on some of the ideas in that book.
You’ll learn:
Ambition and desire are the two keys to success
Before you can accomplish anything, you must be possessed by ambition
Ambition means “a deep seated desire to materialize certain ideals which exist in the mind as mental pictures”
One of the biggest problems I see with people is that they don’t have enough desire to overcome the challenges to get where they want to go
Most people were taught that it’s not okay to want something better
Being exposed to something better can open up a desire in your mind to want more
To get where we want to go in life, we must learn to use our internal compass to want something more than anything else. This is the essence of desire. Instead of just having an intellectual focus on our desire, we need to really feel it, be consumed by it…and be hungry for it.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 454 – Mindset Monday’s – Be Persistent To Achieve Your Goals
Jan 10, 2022
If you want to accomplish anything in life, you need to be persistent in your goals. Persistence needs to be a constant in your life—it needs to be a belief and also ingrained in your character. When a goal requires some difficulty or effort, you need persistence to reach it.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Amateurs’ minds are impregnated with mediocrity, and they’re playing life like a lottery game—they want to abandon their goals at the first sign of things getting difficult
How Napoleon Hill interviewed 500 of the world’s most successful individuals who all agreed that there are certain principles for being successful in whatever you’re doing
You need to be clear on what you want to trade your life for
You need persistence to transmute desire into a monetary equivalent
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat
Poverty is attracted to the person whose mind is favorable to it, as money is attracted to him whose mind has been deliberately prepared to attract it
6 steps on how to build up your desires, so you can increase your persistence
To reach your goals, you must do things with intention and actually change your character so that you’re lined up with principles that allow you to succeed. Asking, “When is it going to happen?” is the wrong question when it comes to your goals.
Persistence will help you make it through the starts and stops, reboots and failures, as you’re trying to correct your own behavior.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 453 – Full Throttle Thursday – How To Trust Yourself In the Year Ahead
Jan 06, 2022
When a new year starts, millions of people make resolutions and then don’t do a damn thing with them. Most people will blow off their own goals and not follow through on anything they said they would do.
Today BT and I discuss why it’s important to trust yourself to do what you say you’re going to do. Trusting yourself is the foundation for having an incredible 2022 and beyond.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
If you repeatedly say you’re going to do something, then don’t do it, it’s damaging to your psychology
Your brain starts to develop a pattern that makes you not trust yourself every time you fail to follow through on something
If you don’t understand how you’re sabotaging yourself, you become a victim to your own self (and your subconscious mind actually has a strategy to get you to do this)
It can take years and years to go up, and going down can happen so fast—so you shouldn’t even allow yourself to take a step down
If we’re going to do something we’ve never done before, we have to learn how to do it
Why BT doesn’t partake in social media—and why he plans on ending his five-year streak of daily running in 2022
When you build self trust, you create a rock-solid belief system where nothing can stop you, because your mind is so used to you keeping your word
2022 can be an amazing year if you start to really build trust with yourself.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 452 – In Search of the Truth: Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
Jan 04, 2022
Today I’ve got Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying on the show, and I couldn’t be more excited. Both evolutionary biologists (and a husband and wife team), they’ve spent their careers studying things like tropical biology, behavior, evolution of behavior, and sexual selection. Their book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, became a New York Times bestseller almost instantly, and yet it’s received almost no mainstream press.
Bret and Heather were both popular professors at Evergreen State College for 15 years, teaching students how to think evolutionarily. That all changed in 2017—when 50 students (whom Bret had never met) showed up at his classroom and demanded his firing and resignation over claims that he was a racist. This led to protests and eventually riots. Bret and Heather found themselves dragged into a very public fight at the college over diversity, equity, and inclusion measures. They left the college and are now reaching a much larger audience.
In search of the truth, I had to interview them. In today’s episode, we discuss:
How the free speech crisis on college campuses isn’t really a “free speech” crisis—but a crisis of a much different nature (and it’s not limited to college campuses)
How we all function by heuristics, which leads us to making all kinds of assumptions about what we see
Why resorting to heuristics is leading many people to see a very compelling, but false, picture—and why seemingly intelligent individuals can’t see what’s actually taking place in the world
Science is supposed to be based on challenging the status quo and letting the data prove what the answer (or truth) is—but what we’re seeing is, in fact, an anti-scientific approach
Why massive protests are taking place all around the world in countries where the people understand what tyranny is and are standing up against it—yet we’re not seeing any of that in the US
Why people who were raised in the “WEIRD world” (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) are susceptible to certain optical illusions, while other people aren’t
Bret and Heather say the rate of change in our world is outpacing our ability to keep up with it—as well as our ability to understand what is true. From an evolutionary perspective, if we can’t keep up with the rate of change, we will perish. And that’s the whole point.
This is a fascinating interview you don’t want to miss!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 451 – Mindset Monday’s – What You Choose to Believe is a Place
Jan 03, 2022
Many years ago, I was traveling and stayed in a beautiful four-star hotel. It was different from anything I’d ever experienced growing up. I wanted to hold that image and have all the beauty and luxury of that place burned into the cells of my mind.
I was on my way to fly home. One of the biggest snowstorms in history was causing all the flights to be canceled. I remember sitting in a limo and having a conversation with my mentor, Bob Proctor. I told him I wasn’t sure if I’d make it home, due to the weather. He looked at me, dead serious, and asked, “When are you going to start practicing what we teach?”
In today’s episode I’m sharing that story and revealing details about it that I’ve never told anyone. You’ll learn:
Why “holding the image” of what you want is so powerful (even while everyone around you is complaining)
Why you don’t have to be bound by the ‘rules’ of your circumstances
How I found myself at a hotel that was a hell hole—and made a decision, “I’m not staying here. I’m going home.”
Why you should never let the facts of an old belief control the decision you make for you want
How many people have come up to my team and said, “I’m going to be one of your best students”—and then we never hear from them again (because they don’t have the belief in themselves)
There’s a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it
No one is ready for a thing, until he BELIEVES he can acquire it
No matter what you want in life, your job is to hold the image of it in your mind—and to actively believe it. Build that image, make the decision, and manifest something new in your life.
As Napoleon Hill says, “No more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity than is required to accept misery and poverty.”
Make an unshakable belief your new normal and get the jumpstart you need in the new year with these powerful episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 450 – Full Throttle Thursday – 2021: A Look Back on the Year That Was
Dec 30, 2021
Most people were probably expecting 2021 to be way different from 2020. We were hoping things would get back to normal—and instead, they took a turn for the worse.
I’ve had many interesting observations throughout this year. I’ve watched what’s been happening in the world, while also helping my clients and students adapt to these changes so they can prosper. Today BT and I reflect on 2021 and how it unfolded.
In this episode we discuss:
The massive changes humanity is facing that we’ve never seen before—and why I believe we’re heading in a dangerous direction
Why we need to let go of “how things were before” and ask different questions, so we can adapt, move forward, and make things even better than they were before
How constant fear is psychologically damaging and messes with people’s minds to no end
Some thoughts on my interview with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, two evolutionary biologists (coming in January!)
Why people in different countries are responding to totalitarian measures with enormous pushback, taking to the streets in huge protests—yet we’re seeing none of that in the US
Why many people are questioning whether to start a family and have children—and how Elon Musk believes human beings could go extinct if we don’t boost the population back up
For decades, we’ve heard that the world is falling apart, the political left is going to kill us, the political right is going to kill us…etc. It’s like the story, “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” It’s led many people to bury their head in the sand, but right now, people need to wake up.
We’re in a very serious time in history that requires us all to dig a little deeper to learn how to think, to treat each other with love and respect, and to start looking for real solutions for our life. If we keep burying our head in the sand, we’re going to find ourselves in a world we don’t recognize—and one that we’re ill-equipped to handle.
Regardless of the change taking place, the good news is, change always brings with it opportunity. There’s opportunity in any environment if you’re willing to put in the work.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 449 – Movers & Shakers – Ashley Bernardi
Dec 28, 2021
Ashley Bernardi is an entrepreneur, a mom with three young kids, and the author of Authentic Power: Give Yourself Permission to Feel. She runs a PR firm called Nardi Media.
Ashley is a trauma survivor who spent the pandemic meditating upon her early traumas from childhood. When she was 11 years old, her father died tragically in front of her. She buried her feelings around this event for years and didn’t even tell her high school friends that he’d died. Ashley says when you bury uncomfortable feelings—instead of feeling them and moving through them—this is a detriment to your health, wellbeing, and livelihood.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Why it’s important to feel your feelings—and to know that no matter how uncomfortable they are, feelings are temporary and won’t last forever
The F.E.E.L. framework—focus, enter, experience, listen, learn, and love (as taught in Ashley’s book)
“Authentic power” means accessing the wisdom you have within you
Ashley’s experience with postpartum depression and Lyme disease, which she sees as her greatest gift—because it was the universe telling her, “Your body has no more room to store the trauma and grief you’ve been burying your whole life”
Every emotion has a specific breathing pattern
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to healing
True healing always seems to have a spiritual component to it
“As human beings, we’re all meant to feel,” Ashley says. “By accessing our feelings and giving ourself permission to feel all the feelings, there is so much growth and transformation within.”
Authentic Power is a fantastic book that I think should be in everybody’s library. It should be required reading for your own spiritual and psychological health.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 448 – Mindset Monday’s – What Am I Resisting?
Dec 27, 2021
Napoleon Hill says there are seven major positive emotions (or states of mind)—desire, faith, love, sex, enthusiasm, romance, and hope. He says there are seven major negative emotions (or states of mind)—fear, jealousy, hatred, revenge, greed, superstition, and anger. I would also add resistance to that list.
When you’re in resistance, your subconscious mind is trying to keep you from changing. What’s interesting is, you have a very specific process of going into resistance. You might go into denial, blame, confusion, sadness, depression, or procrastination. Your physical body might be affected in a negative way. Or you might walk away from a situation instead of facing it.
We all have a ‘strategy’ for staying in resistance.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Why we need to pay close attention to which negative emotions (or states of mind) get in our way, prevent us from seeing the truth, and cause us to keep creating things we DON’T want in our life
“Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time; one must dominate”
When you’re in resistance, you’re not in harmony with the thing you say you want
Whatever you’re experiencing, it’s a projection of your own thinking—i.e., your own state of mind (this is why the Bible talks so much about not judging, because the moment you go into judgment, it’s about you, not what you’re seeing)
Blame gives away our power and our personal responsibility; it’s also a way of being in control
Problems or “conditions” keep showing up in your life because you’re not seeing the truth about something—and if you change how you see the problem, you can remove it from your life
To extend a loving thought to anyone or anything, removes the opposition
Hill says, “Only when we cease to recognize a condition, do we cease to attract it. The only way we can cease to recognize things is to change our minds about them.”
What are you resisting in yourself that’s causing you to not see the truth?
What are you resisting? Get out of resistance and into harmony with the things you want in life by listening to these powerful episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 447 – Full Throttle Thursday – Magic or Manipulation? The Santa Claus Conundrum
Dec 23, 2021
**SPOILER ALERT: Don’t listen to this episode with your kids in the car!**
Santa Claus has been around for generations. As adults, we think of Christmas as a time for kids to get excited over presents and visits with Santa. We want to make it a magical time for them and tend to go overboard with the gifts, lights, and festivities. Some parents use Santa Claus as a way to keep their kids in line. After all, Santa knows who’s been naughty or nice. If children are good, they’ll get the presents they want. If they’re naughty, they risk receiving coal in their stocking or, in some cultures, being beaten with a stick.
But what about our own Christmas experiences? How have they shaped us as adults?
In this episode, BT and I discuss how the Santa Claus mythos could be detrimental to developing a successful mind.
You’ll learn:
Whether the intention behind the Santa Claus myth is to encourage focused, good behavior or just to manipulate kids
How jolly fat Saint Nicholas was actually propaganda created by a Civil War cartoonist in the 1860s as a way to bring the country together, because people were so divided over the Civil War
The difference between magical thinking and the law of cause and effect
How the idea of Santa can get kids to think of success only as an end game (i.e., “If I’m good enough, a fat man will come down a chimney and give me presents”)
How the media portrays success only as an end result—it doesn’t show the work, discipline, practice, tough decisions, failures, and mistakes it took to get there
How three Christmas characters—Zwarte Piet, Belsnickel, and Krampus—have been used to scare kids into behaving.
In my company, we teach the law of cause and effect, and how diligent work (not luck or wishful thinking) gets you the desired outcome. While we all have good intentions to celebrate Christmas in the same old ways, we must be honest about the long-term effects those traditions have. We should critically reflect on our own experiences that we had as children around Santa.
However you choose to celebrate, we wish you all a Merry Christmas!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 446 – Trust vs Magical Thinking – You Must Know the Difference
Dec 21, 2021
Knowing how to evaluate someone’s character and knowing whether or not to trust them is a skillset. Unfortunately, most people weren’t taught how to do this. Growing up, many people (myself included) were taught not to take candy from strangers—and that it’s okay to talk to certain people because they’re “nice.”
The problem is, “nice” isn’t a value by which to evaluate a person’s character. Anyone can have a horrible character and be nice for a few minutes. We can get ourselves into big trouble by hiring people or getting into relationships with someone because they’re “nice.” This is magical thinking, and it often stems from a need to be liked.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
The difference between trust and magical thinking
Why we need to evaluate a person’s character before we hire them or get into a relationship with them (business or personal)
How I was embezzled out of five million dollars in 2004, because I went into business with people whom I thought were nice—without any deeper evaluation of whether I could trust them
We have to learn trust, starting with ourselves
Why you should hire people based on the merits of what they can do
Plus, I discuss Iyanla Vanzant’s book, Trust, which I consider to be one of the top five “must-read books.” She teaches that in order to trust others, you must first learn how to develop trust with yourself.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 445 – Mindset Monday’s – Seven Levels of Awareness
Dec 20, 2021
In today’s episode I’m teaching on the seven levels of awareness that you can experience as a human being.
These are:
Animal—Basic survival instincts. Many people in third world countries where there’s extreme poverty are at this level. The main question is always, “How do we survive?”
Mass consciousness—Beliefs are driven into people that aren’t based in factual evidence; they’re emotional and fear driven. We see this as large groups of people become indoctrinated in mass consciousness.
Aspiration—We start thinking beyond mass consciousness and aspire to find the truth. We look for something else about ourselves that can move us forward in a different direction.
Individuality—We start to accept ourselves for who we are. They get to know ourselves and want to express ourselves. We start to care less and less about what other people think.
Discipline—We become “a disciple or student of” something that we’re working to master…whether it’s health and fitness, becoming wealthy, running an eight figure business, marketing, or anything else.
Experience—We practice the thing we’re going to master. We become a cause set in motion. We’re practicing cause and effect. We’re getting feedback, which shows up as results, circumstances, environment, people, places, and things. Everything becomes a reflection for us.
Mastery—We go through the process over and over again, until we start to internalize it. We become so proficient at it, we don’t have to think about it. It becomes automatic.
Today, think about these levels of awareness in all the different areas of your life. Ask yourself, “Where am I in those levels with different things?” Just because you’re aware in one area of your life doesn’t mean you’re aware in another area.
The goal is to really indoctrinate and train yourself to think successfully—where you’re always asking the right questions about something. You’re never getting sucked into a rabbit hole emotionally. You automatically think about the things that need to be done, based on cause and effect.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 444 – Full Throttle Thursday – Ear Candy For Your Holiday Road Trips
Dec 16, 2021
My podcast listeners are always asking, “What are you currently reading or listening to?” With the upcoming holiday road trips, I decided to share some of my favorites.
Always a student, I listen to podcasts and audiobooks for two reasons—interest and learning. I’m fascinated with how people conduct their podcasts—their communication skills, speaking abilities, patterns of speech, how they interview others, how they run their show, and the rhythm of their podcast. I pay attention to what I like and don’t like about the guests (and the show itself), and what makes me to want to sit through a three-hour show.
In this episode BT and I discuss:
Which podcasts and audiobooks we’re listening to, why we listen, and why you might want to listen too
How you can learn from every person (even those you don’t like)—and why you should learn from every person
How Joe Rogan’s personality has evolved since the early years of his podcast—and how he learned to NOT get so emotionally involved with what other people are thinking or saying
How so many people still think the news is true, even though very little of it is based in truth—it’s all based in narrative or the slant that one side wants to play over another
Why I like listening to both sides of an issue, because you can learn from both sides
I hope you enjoy these resources and maybe even be inspired to start your own podcast one day!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 443 – See Beyond the Appearance of Things
Dec 14, 2021
The connection with God or the universe is never severed. It’s with you all the time. You’re either using the energy to move towards growth or disintegration—but it’s always there. The energy never leaves.
For that reason, we don’t need to operate in fear. If something doesn’t happen the way you wanted it to happen, there’s a reason for that. There’s a ‘cause and effect’ at play. So what’s the use of being disappointed about it? If we stay in gratitude, we can figure out what caused it to happen. We should never allow ourselves to feel disappointed, because that indicates entitlement.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
If you obey the universal laws, you cannot fail to get rich
Why you must always speak in terms of advancement, not failure (because to do otherwise is to deny your faith—and to deny your faith is to lose it)
Why you need to be above fear
If you believe everything you need is already here, this gets rid of worry and doubt
If you do the thing, you’ll get the energy to do the thing
You get the equivalent of what you become
Every difficulty contains the ability for it to be overcome. As Wallace Wattles says in The Science of Getting Rich, we should only be concerned with doing today’s work in a perfectly successful manner. We don’t need to concern ourselves with the emergencies of the future. When and if those arise, we have the resources to handle them in the future—because of our connection with God or the universe.
Every challenge can be overcome, every obstacle turned into an afterthought. Learn to tap into this mindset on the daily with these fear-busting episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 442 – Mindset Monday’s – Triggers Are a Window To Your Breakthrough
Dec 13, 2021
Think of the last time you got really upset by something. This is what’s known as a “trigger.” A trigger signals a ‘growth edge’ in you—a.k.a., an area where you need to learn something or grow beyond something.
Because it doesn’t feel good, many people want to walk away from the situation, or get it to stop. But a trigger isn’t something to run away from. It’s something to pay close attention to. It’s a window to your breakthrough.
You could also say a trigger is whatever you’re resisting being, doing, or having. “Whatever I resist, my breakthrough is there also.”
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Being attached to something that’s changing, is what causes a trigger inside
Change can seem difficult, because we resist letting go of something we’re attached to—but it’s not actually difficult
Your thinking is a creative force that causes the universe to respond
It doesn’t matter whether you’re creating something good or bad—it’s your THOUGHTS that are creating it
Thinking and acting in a certain way will bring riches to you
You must arrange your own business affairs so that you can receive “supply” from the universe when it comes to you—even if the channels of distribution have changed
Triggers can happen with everything—your business, your team, a client, a partner, spouse, friend, parent, family, COVID, the economy, or the channels of distribution changing.
Regardless of your circumstance, it’s telling you there’s something here—within this upsetting situation—that you need to learn. If you really go deep into it, you’ll find your next level of growth.
Triggers happen. Dig deep within yourself to find that next level of growth, starting here with these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 441 – Full Throttle Thursday – A Propensity for Prosperity & Why I Pay Full Price
Dec 09, 2021
Most people have been programmed to believe there’s a lack of money or resources in the world. Marketers take advantage of this by manipulating people to buy, based on their fear of lack. This causes people to cut coupons, chase after discounts and sales, and try to get something for nothing. They try to shortcut life in all kinds of ways.
Having studied prosperity for many decades, I’m now one of the world’s leading experts on this topic. And whenever I talk about how bargain-hunting affects your income in a negative way—many people get triggered and fiercely reject this idea.
In today’s episode, BT and I discuss:
Why I pay full price for things and don’t waste energy waiting around for discounts
How we’re taught from day 1 that there’s “not enough”—and how this idea gets programmed into a person’s mind (when, in fact, it’s total BS)
Why putting lack out into the universe will cause lack to come right back to you
Why you shouldn’t have to rearrange your entire life in order to take advantage of a $20 sale on a pair of shoes
How the Law of Cause and Effect plays a role in your ability to create wealth
How, when you cut something out of your life because you don’t have a discount for it, you’re limiting your experience in life
In my company we help people understand the truth—which is that the universe is completely abundant. We teach people how to earn whatever amount of money they need, whenever they need it. I believe true wealth and prosperity isn’t how much you have in the bank—it’s your ability to create the amount of money you need right now, and to develop a skill set to be able to do it.
When you have no fear because you can create prosperity whenever you need it, that’s total freedom.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 440 – In Search of the Truth: Nico Jenkins
Dec 07, 2021
Nico Jenkins, Ph.D, is a professor of philosophy at the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. We had a fascinating discussion about the current education system and the direction that it’s going in, especially in the United States.
Having grown up all around the world—with a family of writers, Pulitzer Prize winners, and a father who was a war journalist for Newsweek and then the Washington Post—Nico wasn’t exposed to the American education system at a young age. But having taught many students, he believes our current education system has many problems.
In today’s episode, we discuss:
Nico’s experience firsthand with students who’ve shown significant gaps in their education—including many of them not knowing what the Mona Lisa is or where certain countries are on a map
What a “common currency” is and why we need a base of understanding in order to even teach about art, critique it, and decide whether it’s beautiful (because without having that common currency—it’s almost impossible to have a cultural connection)
What has changed between the college students of the ‘60s and the college students of today
How the rise in technology and distractions (by devices) have impacted kids and their education
Where the divisive temperaments are coming from—and why people are so far apart in understanding things that have been common issues in our country
How many of Nico’s first-year students are having many problems with socialization—because they spent the last two years in their mother’s basement looking at a screen—and the impact this is having on them
Why students are so depressed about things like climate change (with good reason), that they feel like there’s no point in doing anything about it
Nico says democracy is about people being able to have a dialogue and being able to disagree. (Dialogue means “words between two people.”) However, we’re losing the ability to even have a dialogue, because people can’t find a common ground to even have the discussion.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 439 – Mindset Monday’s – Is Opportunity Monopolized?
Dec 06, 2021
In The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace Wattles says everything on earth is made from one “original substance.” There’s an inexhaustible storehouse of riches, and the supply will never run short. In fact, the concept of a “shortage” is all based on manipulation—whether it’s money, resources, or anything else.
The problem is, we live in a society that’s so ‘fact’ based. It’s like, “Here’s the science, here’s the science, here’s the science. Here’s the propaganda. Here’s the agenda we’re going to push.” This kind of thinking starts to attack our belief system at a fundamental level, especially around the idea of abundance.
Abundance is the truth. Scarcity only exists based on people’s ignorance. If you can allow your mind to consider this possibility, it will begin to change everything in your life.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
If a lie is told loudly enough and long enough, it can seep into the minds of people and be considered a “truth”
Believing in lack causes all kinds of problems to show up in your life (due to the law of cause and effect)
Lack thinking leads to poverty, restriction, and eventually death
Abundant thinking leads to solutions, more growth, and more life
It’s more productive to believe in abundance than it is to believe in lack
Everything you want is already here, but you must stay focused on the idea that we live in an abundant universe. Ask yourself, “What am I going to choose to believe?”
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 438 – Full Throttle Thursday – Epic Migrations & Bracing for the Armadillo Apocalypse
Dec 02, 2021
Animals and insects are known to make epic migrations throughout the world. They’ll travel thousands of miles and even risk their own demise just to follow their internally guided purpose. Sometimes it takes generations for these animals to make the move, but they’re programmed to keep pushing forward.
Recently, armadillos have been migrating from their southern lands into the western part of North Carolina. The last time this happened was about 10 years ago. What’s interesting is that the media is using this natural migration—and many other “news” stories—to make everyone afraid.
A study showed that if you can keep people in fear for two months, you can basically program their mind to accept anything. The media is constantly playing off of our fears, while suggesting that “there’s something coming after you”—whether it’s the O-variant, some other variant, climate change, or the armadillo apocalypse.
In this episode, BT and I discuss:
Why, if you don’t have anything solid to grab onto psychologically, you’ll stay stuck in fear—and you’ll become extremely programmable and will buy into anything
The epic migrations of monarch butterflies, humpback whales, leatherback sea turtles, wildebeests, Arctic terns, salmon, love bugs in Florida, armadillos, and more
Why people are leaving major cities in large numbers, due to the exploding homeless population (and this also counts as a form of migration)
What happened to people’s minds after the Dust Bowl and World War II
Where the idea of the American dream originally came from—and how “certainty” and “safety” overtook humans’ desire to live their purpose
Animals migrating is nothing new. Migration patterns change based on the weather all the time. The armadillo are simply following their purpose…as humans should be doing too.
The way nature goes about doing things is very intuitive, and humans have that same ability to follow their own internal guidance.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 437 – Movers & Shakers – Liz Brunner
Nov 30, 2021
Liz Brunner is an Emmy Award winning journalist who just wrote an amazing book, Dare To Own You: Taking Your Authenticity and Dreams into Your Next Chapter. In today’s episode I chatted with her about the story behind how her book came about and how serendipitous, synchronistic things happen when you’re ready to write. The book-writing process flows, as if you’re getting downloads from the Universe, Source, or God.
Liz shares my belief that we all have a purpose. We’re all here for a reason. “There’s something we’re supposed to do with the gifts and talents we have. They may be on a grand scale or a small scale; it doesn’t matter,” she says. “When you can begin to identify that—and when you can own who you are and your authenticity—then I think you’re living a full life.”
In this episode, we discuss:
The meaning of authenticity and how to be vulnerable and courageous
What it means to “own yourself,” and why it’s so important to accept yourself and learn how to be your best authentic self, “warts and all”
Why Liz was compelled to write about her family’s lineage and genealogy—and how her lineage goes back to the Mayflower and people coming over on the boat to Boston and actually developing some of the city
The transitions and shifts in attitude that we go through in life as we get closer to living our purpose
Liz’s thoughts on how the year 2020 (like “2020 vision”) was not a coincidence—it forced us to look at our lives and say, “Where am I? What are my priorities? What am I doing? What means the most to me?”
How to step back and put yourself in “the witness position,” so you’re outside of yourself, looking at your life, seeing all the patterns playing out
Many people are asking, “What am I supposed to do with my life? What’s my purpose? What do I do next?” especially after COVID. Liz’s book will help you figure out the next chapters for your life.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 436 – Mindset Monday’s – As You Pursue You Grow
Nov 29, 2021
In Working with the Law, Raymond Holliwell talks about “giving your substance where it can do the most good.” This is based on a Biblical principle, in which Jesus cautioned others about unwise giving. He said, “Do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn and rend you.” This means don’t give your substance (your time, energy, or effort) to anyone who can’t appreciate it or improve with it.
In today’s episode, I’m talking about how this principle relates to pursuing growth in your business.
You’ll learn:
Why it’s a problem to think you can help everybody (and how this desire usually comes from a deep hole in someone’s heart)
We need to find the “aces” in the deck of cards—in other words, find the people who not only need what you offer, but they WANT the benefits of it and they WANT to change
People demonstrate their willingness to do what it takes to get the result they want by paying for it
The way to move through doubt, uncertainty, or depression, is to DO the thing you’re going after (that’s the nature of life)
Why we need to stop trying to turn B players into A players
You’ll only get the result if you want it bad enough—you can’t sit around and wait for it to show up
As you pursue a goal or desire, you grow as a person. You enter into the spirit of that thing. You get excited. But you also need to make sure you’re pursuing the right thing and not getting caught up in trying to change the wrong thing.
To get the success you desire you have to have persistence. Learn how to forge that lifelong power with these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 435 – Full Throttle Thursday – Should Thanksgiving Be Cancelled?!?
Nov 25, 2021
As human beings, we’ve evolved quite a bit from the first Thanksgiving in 1621, to the one we’re celebrating now in 2021. We’ve evolved in consciousness and awareness.
Thanksgiving is a holiday meant to be about gratitude and giving thanks…and I find it deplorable that people want to rip it apart because of what they perceive happened hundreds of years ago.
As a race overall, we basically came out of caves, practically animals. Humanity is advancing, learning through trial and error. As we evolve, we develop a hierarchy of values and ethics, which isn’t something other life forms do. I think it’s a big mistake not to look back at our former human relatives and cut them some slack, based on the level of consciousness they were at. We can’t condemn humanity for lacking consciousness in the past.
We shouldn’t look back on our history in anger or judgment; we should see it with awareness—as an opportunity to learn and grow from it.
Today BT and I discuss:
What Thanksgiving means to us individually
How humans have evolved in consciousness over time
Why so many people are uncomfortable around the homeless (and how I wasn’t at a young age)
How there’s freedom in not making your ancestry wrong
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 434 – The Amazing Power of Gratitude
Nov 23, 2021
All around the world, major societies have designated special days during which they choose to be collectively grateful. Practicing gratitude isn’t just a nice thing to do. It’s an extraordinarily powerful process that “keeps us connected to our source of supply” (a.k.a. God or the universe).
You’re either in a mindset of gratitude, or you’re in a mindset of victimization. You can actually see this being played out over generations, where a line of thinking gets passed down from one generation to the next. You can train yourself to think with gratitude. With everything that happens in your life, you can pre-think, or pre-decide that your first reaction to it will always be gratitude.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Gratitude must be the “first thought” we have about everything that happens in our life
Everything that happened in the past was 100% necessary for you to become the person you are today—and for that, you should be grateful
We can’t create the outcomes we want if we’re disconnected from our source of supply; gratitude keeps us connected
Any problem can be solved, and any circumstance can be redirected to the outcome you want, by having positive expectation
Expectation is a powerful mental force—like gravity, it pulls things (good or bad) into your life
You should never expect something you don’t want, and never desire something you don’t expect
Gratitude is positive expectation
By practicing gratitude, you’ll start to grow through each problem that shows up in your life. You’ll start to see things completely differently. This can forever change your future, because now you’re seeing something at a higher level that you couldn’t see before. Gratitude opens the door; victim-minded thinking shuts it closed. So be grateful for everything.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 433 – Mindset Monday’s – Be Persistent
Nov 22, 2021
In order for us to create what we want in life, we need persistence. Most people don’t like hearing this, because it implies that things will go wrong. Failures will happen, and you’ll have to keep going anyway if you want to reach your desire.
To get what you want, you need to be persistent and have more certainty (i.e., faith) in your higher self than in your weaker self to overcome any challenges. This is especially true in sales, where you’re dealing with other people’s fears and insecurities on a regular basis.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
How I used to struggle with sales, because I was believing the prospects’ excuses on why they couldn’t buy
How I used persistence to have 100 sales conversations in seven days, and break through my internal barriers around closing the sale (once I did this, I never struggled with sales calls ever again)
How I realized I needed to “be bolder than the problem” (i.e., objection) that the prospect was facing
If you can see something in your mind, you can create it in your hand (like Edison did with the light bulb)
Like a tuning fork, you must “tune” in your thoughts and actions to align them with everything in the universe to bring what you want into your life
In God Works Through Faith, Robert A. Russell says persistency and faith are like fire under the boiler; together they generate the energy needed for success. Most people don’t hold onto their faith long enough to realize the fulfillment of their desire. Their persistence wavers—and because of this, the universe can’t give them what they want.
The law says if we want success, we must have faith and persistency.
To get the success you desire you have to have persistence. Learn how to forge that lifelong power with these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 432 – Full Throttle Thursday – Supply Chain Issues & the Age of Opportunity
Nov 18, 2021
One of the interesting things that came out of the pandemic was that more and more people have realized they don’t have to work for someone else. After the world shut down, many people couldn’t do their jobs. Being forced to stay home for an extended period of time, they had to figure out other ways of making money. The great illusion was shattered, as many people decided to stop working at a job they hated. They realized they could do side hustles or even start their own business.
Since then, we’ve seen a huge depletion of the workforce—known as “The Great Resignation”—where people are quitting their jobs in droves. There were 10.4 million job openings in August. It’s been reported that about 4.3 million people left the workforce and aren’t coming back.
This is affecting every aspect of our supply chain—from stores not having certain items on the shelf, to new trucks not being able to be sold, due to chips being unavailable. Truck drivers are quitting, and we don’t have enough people working to move things that need to be moved.
On the bright side, there’s more opportunity now than ever before to grow a business. Opportunity is everywhere.
In today’s episode, BT and I discuss what’s happening with our fragile supply chain—and what I (as a former truck driver) believe we can expect going forward.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 431 – Do a Little More, Be a Little More
Nov 16, 2021
To expand on the idea of “giving your best,” today I’m teaching on what it means to “do a little more” and “be a little more.”
It’s not enough just to be your best. You also need to “better your best.” You have to look closely at how you’re using your thoughts on a daily basis—and make sure your thoughts are tied to your purpose. As you do this, you get stronger in character. You build confidence, deepen your belief, and expand your vision. This forms the starting point for manifesting anything you want in life.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Every thought you have should be linked to your purpose; otherwise, you can’t accomplish much of anything
Being aimless is a vice—and letting your thoughts drift to anything other than your purpose brings catastrophe and destruction
To connect to your “why,” you must ask yourself, “What is the reason why I’m doing ANYTHING?”
People without a central purpose in life are “easy prey” to worries, fears, doubts, and troubles—which all indicate weakness of mind
If you lack a specific purpose and aren’t conscious of what you’re doing, you open yourself up to being manipulated and conned by other people —because you’re not thinking
By conquering doubt and fear, you also conquer failure
You should devote yourself entirely to the attainment of your life’s purpose—and never allow your thoughts to wander away from this. As James Allen wrote in As a Man Thinketh, we need to stay present in what we’re doing each day. We need to be conscious of our thoughts and make sure we’re bettering our best.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 430 – Mindset Monday’s – Do Your Best
Nov 15, 2021
Many years ago, when I first tripled my income in 30 days, this happened as a result of changing three things in my attitude. One of those was, I decided to “do my best with everything.”
Most people, myself included, were programmed NOT to give their best, but to approach work from the idea of, “When do I get to be done?” “When do I get to go home?” “When is it over?” This way of thinking shows up throughout the middle class and keeps many people stuck.
If you want to transform your life, you must approach your work differently. You must come with the attitude of, “How can I give my best?”
In today’s episode I’m drawing from James Allen’s book, As a Man Thinketh, to help you do your best. You’ll learn:
How your thoughts impact your health and body
“Unlawful” or impure thoughts and habits cause the body to sink into disease and decay
The body is a “delicate, plastic instrument” that responds readily to whatever thoughts are impressed upon it
Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body
Out of a defiled mind comes a defiled life and a corrupt body
The body is the mind’s servant; it obeys the mind, whether your thoughts are deliberately chosen or unconsciously expressed
There’s no “physician” like cheerful thought for dissolving the body’s ills
In order to do your best, always remember that your thoughts really do affect how you feel. Your thoughts also help you attract the right people you want into your life—happy, healthy, and wealthy people.
What does your best actually look like? And how can you bring that out of yourself? It would serve you to find out what that really looks like for you.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 429 – Full Throttle Thursday – Dishonorably Discharged: Mandates & Our Military
Nov 11, 2021
In the United States, it’s our right to openly disagree with our government, without consequence. People have fought and died to protect this right. Veterans Day was turned into a national holiday by President Eisenhower on May 26th, 1954, to honor those who have served in our great military, both past and present.
In today’s episode, BT and I discuss what the Biden administration is trying to do to dishonor these very important people. President Biden has apparently said that anybody who’s active military who declines to get the COVID vaccine, will be dishonorably discharged. I served in the military many years ago, and I find this inappropriate, disturbing, and completely wrong.
A dishonorable discharge is the equivalent of a felony. It ruins your life. You lose all military privileges and benefits. You lose your right to vote in most states. You lose the right to carry or own a gun in the United States, just as if you were a regular felon.
When you go down the road of punishing people who disagree with the government, that sets a dangerous precedent. World history shows what this kind of mindset leads to. The Nazis didn’t become the Nazis overnight—it all slipped away gradually, over time. Germany slipped away one mandate, one idea, at a time. Russia slipped away a little bit at a time. All the communist countries and those with totalitarian regimes slipped away—until the people couldn’t do anything anymore.
We can’t tolerate that in the United States. If we tolerate this, we’ll start turning into a totalitarian government. That’s how these things start. Our government does not get to say, “You have to agree with this, or you’ll be punished.”
I want to state for the record: I’m not an anti-vax person. I’m an anti-mandate person. There’s something about the Covid vaccine mandate that concerns me and is extremely wrong to me. In my opinion, it’s a dangerous mindset. It can cause us to risk losing our rights and our beloved country.
We wish all of our veterans out there a “Happy Veterans Day.” We honor you and thank you for your commitment to keeping us safe and doing what you do.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 428 – The Inner Game of Sales – Part V
Nov 09, 2021
Are you looking for ways to boost sales in your business? Listen in its entirely this 5-part series titled, “The Inner Game of Sales.” You’ll learn tips and tricks to boosting your income in a short period of time. These tips will make selling easier, more profitable, and more fun. To get the best results, be sure to listen to and study all 5 episodes. This is part 5 of 5.
To get really good at sales, you need to have courage during your sales conversations. This means you need to be in control of what you’re doing, you need to be able to ask questions that might not seem very “nice,” and you need to be able to sit in the uncomfortable silence after you’ve asked a question. You need to be able to challenge people’s deeply held personal beliefs, and then ask for a commitment. All of that takes courage.
One of the fastest ways to become amazing at sales is to get over your own resistance. You must first overcome any challenges you have within yourself—including any limited beliefs you have around money, time, boundaries, or other things. You have to get a lot of things straight with YOU first, before you can influence someone else.
In this episode you’ll learn:
A sales conversation is NOT the place to have casual talk about anything unrelated to the sale
A person’s mind is highly reactive to any stimulus, so talking about something casual is a distraction
In a sales conversation, your job is to ask for the commitment
Questions you can ask to get a person to make a commitment to go after what they want
What it means when somebody tells you, “I don’t have enough money” (hint: it has to do with urgency)
Why having a value conflict in your own mind about money (or other things) will cause you have a “double binding message,” which will kill the sale
You must always convey the “impression of increase” during a sales call, so that people feel like YOU have the answer to their problem
Why you should never try to get the other person to “like” you (they’ll think, “If this person’s like me, then they can’t really help me”)
To influence someone else, you must first be able to influence yourself. How much do YOU go after what you really want (versus just what you “need”)?
This concludes the 5-part series, “The Inner Game of Sales.” Be sure to listen to this series over and over in order to take your sales game to the TOP! See the links to the entire series below:
Now that you’ve got all the tools it’s time to boost your sales and take your business to the next level. Start today with more sales specific episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 427 – Mindset Monday’s – Create Your Own Destiny
Nov 08, 2021
In As a Man Thinketh, James Allen teaches how our thoughts play a role in our ability to achieve anything. Everything we achieve—and fail to achieve—is the direct result of our own thoughts. Once you understand this, you realize YOU’RE responsible for everything in your life, including the successes and the failures.
Many people believe their achievements and failures are based on something outside of them. That’s simply not true. They often tighten up around the idea of taking “responsibility” for their own life. If you’re doing that, then you’ve linked that word—responsibility—to something you’re judging negatively.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
In a just and orderly universe, individual responsibility must be absolute; it has to come first above all else
Responsibility is one of the most freeing things—it gets rid of shame and guilt, and removes the BS from your thinking
Your greatest power is your ability to choose: “I can choose to think something different”
When you have a genuine desire for something, pursuing that thing is often essential to your next level of growth
A strong man cannot help a weaker man unless the weaker one is willing to be helped—and even then, the weak man must be strong himself
Before you can achieve anything, you must lift your thoughts above “slobbish animal indulgence” (i.e., survival thinking)
There can be no progress or achievement without sacrifice (i.e., letting go of something of a lower nature, in order to gain something of a higher nature)
Every one of us has the ability to create our own destiny. We’re not held down, held back, or underpaid by any other person, unless we allow that to happen. We don’t have to change society to be free. We need to step into our freedom, regardless of what society thinks, because society won’t change in order to fix your problem.
Personal responsibility is the key to creating your own destiny, Dive deeper into this concept by listening to more mindset shifting content from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 426 – Full Throttle Thursday – You CAN Always Get What You Want: The Rolling Stones & The Power of Music
Nov 04, 2021
The Rolling Stones have created some of the most amazing music the world has ever known. They’ve been rocking since 1962—for nearly 60 years, thanks to their insane work ethic, unparalleled commitment to their craft, and professionalism. Their longevity is rare in the music world. No matter what their age is, they keep going at a high level. They’re not doing it for the money—they’re doing it because they love doing what they do. You won’t find a more prolific band than that. I recently got to see them in concert, and it was so fun.
In today’s episode, BT and I chat about some of the bands, singers, and songs we’ve fallen in love with over the years, and how music has a deep impact on people—because it can transport you to the past, and to other worlds.
We discuss:
How I was exposed to many types of music growing up (my parents loved Motown, and my dad grew up with the Buckinghams on the south Side of Chicago)
My earliest memory of being deeply moved by a song (for BT, “Time in a Bottle” by Jim Croce brings him instantly to his past)
How music has evolved from albums to eight tracks, cassettes, CDs, and beyond
How going to the record store was like a rite of passage as a teenage boy or girl
Some of our favorite bands and singers—including the Beatles, The British invasion, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Ginsburg, and many others
How different genres of rock music have changed between 1980 and 2000
How weird it is to see people age (especially when you’re the same age as them)
All of the musicians and bands we’ve loved have gone through the same human struggles that you and I go through. They’ve just found a way to persevere—and they did it through music. Here’s to all the great musicians out there who just won’t quit.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 425 – The Inner Game of Sales – Part IV
Nov 02, 2021
Are you looking for ways to boost sales in your business? Listen to this 5-part series titled, “The Inner Game of Sales.” You’ll learn tips and tricks to boosting your income in a short period of time. These tips will make selling easier, more profitable, and more fun. To get the best results, please listen to and study all 5 episodes. This is part 4 of 5.
Sales conversations can be fun and seriously life-changing for people, as long as you really believe in what you’re offering to someone. The key to selling is get people to buy into what THEY want to do—and to tap into THEIR reasons for wanting to do it (not your reasons why you think they should buy).
Given that you’re in control of the sales conversation, you can guide the process of creating urgency for the other person to go after what they truly want.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Amazing salespeople understand how the mind works, and how to lead the mind
How to bypass psychological resistance on a sales call by asking the person, “What do you really want?”
How to get people to think deeply in the moment, so they can answer your questions (and why you shouldn’t rush in to “save” a person from answering a really deep question)
How thinking about consequences of NOT doing something creates urgency, which moves the conversation into a buying conversation
What causes a person to say “yes” during a sales call(they became aware that there’s something important in their life that they need—and want—to change)
People who have a barrier up and don’t want to share anything aren’t your ideal clients (your ideal clients WANT to engage with you)
How to limit refunds, lawsuits, and unhappy people talking about your product or service on the internet—by having great customer service
Plus, I share how I recognize where a sales conversation goes bad. (Hint: it has to do with “telling” versus “asking questions.”)
Very few people have relationships in their life where somebody really cares about what they want—so when you actively show up and passionately ask the person what they want, they become fully, emotionally engaged in the question. This is what ramps up your sales!
Stay tuned next week for the final episode in this 5-part series!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 424 – Mindset Monday’s – Keep The Truth In Front of You
Nov 01, 2021
Many people have created their life out of fear, ignorance, or insecurity. As they start to wake up to who they are and what they truly desire, they’re like, “What the hell have I created?” Their life is a big problem, like the Titanic. They’re wondering, “How do I turn this thing around and get everything moving in the right direction?”
If you want to start pursuing your desire, there will be a transition phase as you move in a new direction. This transition can spark more fear. The tendency is to hold onto something to try to feel better, more secure, or grounded. In order to move forward, you have to hold onto the truth—and keep the truth in front of you as you take action.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
The higher side of yourself wants something different that’s not based in fear or insecurity
Everything you secretly desire in your heart is also seeking you—but it can’t see you until AFTER you make the decision to step into it and trust it
When you get tired—emotionally tired, physically tired, or psychologically tired—it’s easier just to accept “what is” than to take a stand for what you truly want
No matter what you’re facing, you should always ask, “Who am I?” and, “Am I coming from fear or desire?”
Whether you make a decision based in fear or desire—either way, it has to grow
When you put yourself in the right state of mind and alter your thoughts toward things and people—those things and people will alter the way they show up for you
Law, not confusion is the dominating principle in the universe
To create what you want, you’ll have to let go of certain things to make space for what you really desire.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 423 – Full Throttle Thursday – Beam Me Up Bezos! William Shatner & The Final Frontier
Oct 28, 2021
Captain Kirk just went to space! At the age of 90, William Shatner, best known for his famous role in Star Trek, went to space aboard Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. He was only up there for 10 minutes (and it’s debatable whether it was really “space” or just the edge of space)—but doing that at his age broke so many paradigms about what’s possible.
Ten years ago, Shatner turned down an offer from Virgin Galactic to go into space, due to his fear of flying. He eventually overcame his fear, then blasted into space with Bezos’ rocket.
In today’s episode BT and I discuss:
William Shatner’s trip to space, his emotional reaction to it, and my thoughts on space tourism as a business
How things that were once “science fiction” a few decades ago (like the flip phone) are now a real part of our everyday life
The drama around Shatner and some of his co-workers (like George Takei) on Star Trek
How the Pentagon admitted they have the footage of “unidentified aerial phenomenon” (a.k.a. UFOs) in San Diego and on the east coast
Humanity’s tendency to tell stories about aliens being hostile towards us (as if we assume other lifeforms won’t have advanced emotional maturity)
How strange it is that we haven’t gone back to the moon, because we apparently “lost” the information on how to get back
Why some intellectuals and scientists can’t enjoy science fiction, due to their need to be right
The billionaire rivalry between Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk and the race to get humanity into space
Going into space is an act of risking your life. It’s not something I personally have on my bucket list. But I find it very interesting how people are exploring and using their imagination to bring new things into the world.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 422 – The Inner Game of Sales – Part III
Oct 26, 2021
Are you looking for ways to boost sales in your business? Listen to this 5-part series titled, “The Inner Game of Sales.” You’ll learn tips and tricks to boosting your income in a short period of time. These tips will make selling easier, more profitable, and more fun. To get the best results, please listen to and study all 5 episodes. This is part 3 of 5.
Understanding how to take control of a sales conversation makes you a much stronger salesperson. During a sales call, it’s more effective to ask questions than to “tell” a person anything. People are programmed to answer questions—and if you understand this, you can greatly improve your sales.
Two of the most important questions to ask during a sales call are:
“What do you want?” (And understanding why they want it)
“Why do you think you’re not getting it?” (This gives you some perspective on how they view the world. Do they see themselves as a victim? Or as responsible for their outcomes?)
You also need to determine the “perceived value” the prospect has in their mind—i.e., why they see your offer as valuable (or not). Their perceived value is based on their perception, not your perception. The prospect isn’t buying the features and benefits you think they’re buying
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
How to maintain control of a sales conversation and ensure the person is focused (not distracted) during the call
You don’t have to “create rapport” on a sales call—instead, people will follow your directive if it’s presented the right way
Whenever you tell somebody the price of your offer, it causes a psychological reaction in every person—and they immediately compare your price to something else
Why you should never be in a rush during a sales conversation
Why you must pay close attention to your tone of voice when you’re asking someone a question (like “what do you want?”)
Why “zero noise” should come out of your mouth after you ask the questions
You should treat sales calls as important—because what you’re offering is important, and these aren’t just casual conversations at a bar. You should feel deep in your soul that your product or your service changes someone’s life and makes it better in some way.
Stay tuned next week for part 4 of this 5-part series!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 421 – Mindset Monday’s – Mind is the Master Power
Oct 25, 2021
In As a Man Thinketh, James Allen writes about the power of your mind. Through your mind, you can literally shape your entire world. You create everything in your life—including what you want and what you DON’T want.
“Mind is the master power that molds and makes,” he writes. You can “bring forth a thousand joys” or “a thousand ills.”
Your thinking may be done in secret, but as Allen demonstrates—whatever you continually manifest in the exterior world is a clue as to what you’ve been thinking about for a long time.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
A man is literally what he thinks
You’re the master of your own life, even in your weakest state—and even if you misgovern your own household
Your character and who you are is the sum of all of your thoughts
People create drama in their life, because they don’t have any another option in their consciousness
Whenever someone does something that appears to be “bad,” remember this phrase—“I understand that they don’t understand”
Nobody intentionally destroys another person or themselves from a conscious perspective; it’s always an unconscious belief that’s causing them to do that
So much of what we do (and how we react to others) is completely unconscious
When we judge things in our life, this makes our experience more difficult. Judgment not only destroys our self-esteem, but it keeps us locked into our “story,” which is difficult to break out of. It blocks us from seeing the truth.
No matter what’s going on in your life, you can remove the judgment from it and say, “This is interesting—why am I creating this in my life?” Remember that your mind is creating your circumstances; not the other way around.
Once you’re aware of this, you can then begin to change the patterns of thought that are causing things to show up that you don’t want.
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Remember that your mind is creating your circumstances. Get a refresher on that concept here at the The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 420 – Full Throttle Thursday – Finding TRUTH In the Joe Rogan vs Sanjay Gupta Interview
Oct 21, 2021
The internet is buzzing over Joe Rogan’s recent podcast interview with CNN head doctor, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. For three hours they discussed COVID, vaccinations, and how the media has been handling the pandemic.
I’ve been watching Rogan for many years—he’s a very curious human being with a wide range of guests from all different landscapes. I was excited to hear that Gupta would be on the show. I thought, “This will make sense. This will bring some real answers. There will probably be a good debate here.”
But what happened during the podcast—and what happened after—caused so many questions in my mind about what Gupta’s real agenda was…I had to share my take on it.
Like many others, Rogan is simply trying to find the truth. But it’s apparent that we’re not allowed to have that conversation, because it keeps getting shut down. The narrative is, “Don’t talk about it. Our way is the only right way.”
In today’s episode, BT and I discuss what we saw and heard in that interview. My hope is that we shed some light on what actually happened. I highly recommend you watch the JRE interview for yourself and be your own judge. We’ll leave it up to you to decide where you stand.
I also want to encourage everybody to have open, honest conversations without fear of anybody, or fear of any repercussions. Say what you want to say instead of hiding behind it. You have an opinion that matters. This isn’t about “wins and losses” or “my side is better than yours”—it’s about coming to an understanding, having civil conversations, and being able to voice your opinion even if you think you may get canceled.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 419 – The Inner Game of Sales – Part II
Oct 19, 2021
Are you looking for ways to boost sales in your business? Listen to this 5-part series titled, “The Inner Game of Sales.” You’ll learn tips and tricks to boosting your income in a short period of time. These tips will make selling easier, more profitable, and more fun. To get the best results, please listen to and study all 5 episodes. This is part 2 of 5.
Most people who grew up in a middle-class, blue-collar family have negative associations about salespeople, and therefore don’t feel comfortable with sales. The only people who were taught that sales are amazing tend to be those who grew up in an entrepreneurial family.
Your internal “stories” and beliefs about sales are controlling your ability to influence other people during sales conversations. If you want to change this, you need to get comfortable with influencing people—which starts with how you view sales, and the questions you ask people.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Your job as a salesperson is to influence people and help them say “yes” to what they want
Everybody wants something; they just have a difficult time getting to it inside of themselves
The number one question to ask in a sales conversation is, “What do you want?”
The goal of a sales conversation is NOT to convince anyone of anything; it’s to create a safe space for them to say “yes” to what they want—and to help them understand why they want to do something
Most of us resist being “told” something; but everyone is programmed to answer questions
If you have someone’s engagement—if you have them volunteering information to you—you’re influencing them
If there’s something “off” in your subconscious mind about how YOU feel about money, sales, or even yourself—you’ll have a value conflict and a “double binding message” that will cause the person not to want to buy from you
It’s amazing how often we talk ourselves out of doing something good for ourselves. The statistics around this are unbelievable. As a salesperson, if you understand this phenomenon, you can help people avoid doing that to themselves—by influencing them to say “yes” to what they truly want.
Stay tuned next week for part 3 of this 5-part series!
Everybody wants something; they just have a difficult time finding exactly what that is. Get on the right track with more sales focused episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 418 – Mindset Monday’s – Break Your Rules
Oct 18, 2021
The average person knows all about what’s “impossible,” why something won’t work, why it can’t be done, and the “rules” that don’t work. That’s the definition of mediocrity.
However, for those who seek success, there are certain rules that make you successful. You have to be willing to stake everything on those rules. As Napoleon Hill said in Think and Grow Rich, “Success comes to those who become success conscious.”
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Being “success conscious” means you’re aware of what it takes to win
Being “failure conscious” means you let your external reality control what you think
If you’re not getting the results you want, it’s because there’s a problem you’re not aware of—and once you become aware of it, you can change it
If you’re not seeing a solution, you might have a “rule” set up in your mind that’s causing you not to see it—and which is causing you to go into the perfect excuse for why you can’t reach your goal
You can demand to yourself that you see the solution to your problem (by understanding that if a problem exists, the solution must be here)
Being “success conscious” is all about yes’s—everything in your marketing, advertising, speaking, books, and sales calls should be designed to do one thing very clearly—get a person to a “yes” or a “no”
It’s better to get to a “no” quickly than to stay in the ambiguity of mediocrity and confusion
When you stop pursuing your goal because of a problem that shows up, it’s because you’ve convinced yourself you can’t do it, it won’t work, your resources have run out, or the thing you need isn’t here.
Becoming success conscious allows you to change your reality based on how you think. Break the “rules” you’ve set up that have been holding you back.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 417 – Full Throttle Thursday – Best Biographies
Oct 14, 2021
Today BT and I are delving into some of the best biographies I’ve ever read. Many of the world’s greatest leaders, businesspeople, and athletes didn’t experience success until later in life—after an arduous, continuous battle of overcoming themselves in order to get to that point.
Many of the world’s greats went through extraordinary hardship, overcoming terrible things in their childhoods. While some people with difficult upbringings go on to do terrible things with their adult life, others (like Michael Jordan) channel their early difficulties into becoming one of the greatest of the greats.
In this episode, we discuss:
How Michael Jordan was cut from his high school team and had a difficult childhood, yet went on to become of the greatest basketball players of all time
How Abraham Lincoln faced depression, psychiatric issues, and failure after failure—and yet he made one of the greatest decisions ever in human history (“do we make slavery illegal? Are all men actually created equal?”)
How Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation changed everything, as he tried to get back to the vision the founding fathers had for America—and why his decision to free the slaves was so unpopular at the time (if you think people hated Trump—you should see the hate they had for Lincoln)
How General Patton’s biggest challenge was overcoming internally whether or not he was a coward—and if it weren’t for his actions during World War II, we might all be speaking German today
How Ray Kroc believed he was here to do something big, and how he changed the world with McDonald’s (whether you think it’s good or bad, he ultimately changed the world)
When you read about these people’s lives, it seems like they were preparing for something big their whole life. If there’s anything we can learn from their stories, it’s that in order to become great, you have to overcome something great.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 416 – The Inner Game of Sales – Part I
Oct 12, 2021
Are you looking for ways to boost sales in your business? Listen to this 5-part series titled, “The Inner Game of Sales.” You’ll learn tips and tricks to boosting your income in a short period of time. These tips will make selling easier, more profitable, and more fun. To get the best results, please listen to and study all 5 episodes. This is part 1 of 5.
My philosophy on sales is to have a simple conversation with people that takes them to a “yes” or a “no” right away. You’re either in or you’re out. Then we’re on to the next person. That’s it. This conversation has made me hundreds of millions of dollars over the years. My clients have made millions of dollars using these same teachings. And it’s not difficult.
In today’s episode, you’ll learn:
My story of how I started off in sales 22 years ago, and how a friend who was really good at sales helped me pinpoint what I was doing wrong in my conversations
Making sales is about influencing a person to get very clear on one of two things—their “yes” or their “no”
Anytime you make a sale, it changes the other person—and what matters most is why they’re doing it (not why you think they should do it)
You either sell someone on the reasons why they CAN do it, or they’ll sell you on their reasons why they CAN’T do it
If you’re having trouble closing the sale, it’s because you’re not selling the other person—they’re selling YOU on why they can’t buy
How your emotional reactions are getting in the way of your sales—and why you need to break through your own internal resistance on asking someone to buy something
What’s really happening when someone says, “Let me get back to you,” and then you never hear from them again
Plus, I share a simple exercise that will help you get past your own discomfort, so you show up powerful to a sales call: have 100 conversations in the next seven days, and stay on the phone until they either buy or hang up on you. I did this 22 years ago, and it had a magical effect on my sales. I started seeing the patterns that showed up, because I was having conversations back to back, almost 18 hours a day.
Your biggest challenge in sales is getting yourself straight—i.e., really understanding what’s going on inside of you, so that you can be the most powerful, compassionate, clear, communicative salesperson out there with extraordinary results.
Stay tuned next week for part 2 of this 5-part series!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 415 – Mindset Monday’s – Fall In Love With The Process
Oct 11, 2021
Back when I worked on a forklift, I changed three things in my attitude that transformed my whole life:
acted like I love what I did
did everything to the best of my ability
treated everybody with total respect
The first one—acting like I love what I did—completely changed my perception. “Love” is a feeling of resonance. When you’re in harmony with something, you feel that resonance within you. It creates a sense of passion. You can use love proactively in your life and see massive changes take place right in front of your face.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
How to think about the state and quality of everything in your life by asking, “Am I in love? ”—whether it’s with another person, your work, yourself, or anything else
When you’re in love with something, you don’t have to hold it in your mind with your will—it’s always there at the forefront of your mind
If you’re not in love with something, you shouldn’t be doing it—or at the very least, you should change how you’re perceiving it
Changing your evaluation of something can allow you to fall in love with it more easily
Your passion needs to be fueled by your deeper desire (think: a magnificent obsession)
Look at everything in your life—including people, your work, your home, your car, your pets, and everything else. Ask, “Am I in love?” Is there a feeling of passion around everything in your life? If not, what needs to change?
Once you get to the truth inside of you, you can begin to determine whether (and what) you want to change. If you’re not in love with something, change it—or change your perception of it.
Links & Resources
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 414 – Full Throttle Thursday – It’s Conor’s World & We’re Just Living In It
Oct 07, 2021
Conor McGregor is an MMA fighter, a businessman, a fantastic marketer, and a master at promoting himself. He’s almost known more for what goes on outside the octagon, than what goes on in it. By the age of 32, he amassed a net worth of $200 million, which includes MMA, boxing, endorsements, a whiskey business, sponsors, men’s wear, and sports management.
From a business perspective, I find Conor fascinating. He sells himself constantly and keeps himself relevant—always in the conversation. He’s building a legacy for himself, making a ton of money, and probably going down as one of the greatest fighters in history.
In today’s episode, BT and I chat about all things Conor. We discuss:
Conor’s background as a proud Irishman
How he exemplifies greatness, even while playing the role of a “bad guy”
Why he credits The Secret to changing his life—he “attracts all this stuff to him” by building an image of it in his mind
Why Conor’s brand can only keep improving, and why he’ll probably end up as a billionaire—as long as he keeps doing what he’s doing, stays relevant in the minds of people, and doesn’t mess up too much
CTE in athletes, psychotic breaks, and people with extreme personalities who don’t express their feelings in a healthy way
What I would ask Conor McGregor if he was on my podcast
Clearly it’s Conor’s world, and we’re just living in it.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 413 – Movers & Shakers – Chris & Nik Nikic
Oct 05, 2021
In today’s episode I’ve got an incredible interview with Chris & Nik Nikic. Chris is the first person with Down syndrome to finish an Ironman triathlon. He’s the author of 1% Better: Reaching My Full Potential and How You Can Too. He’s like the Roger Bannister of Down syndrome—after Bannister broke the four-minute mile, so many other people were able to do it too. As a public speaker, Chris is inspiring people to re-think what’s possible.
His father, Nik, is a business coach and entrepreneur. Nik says from the moment Chris was born, doctors told him and his wife they’d have no independence—they’d have to take care of their son for the rest of his (and their) life. Believing this idea for 18 years was one of their biggest regrets. They realized they could either let their son sit on a couch for the rest of his life—or they could push him to see what he was capable of doing. They chose to prepare Chris for independence, while giving him a sense of purpose.
In this episode we discuss:
How measuring Chris’s progress changed Nik’s perception of what was possible
How Chris used his “1% better” system to build up to doing 400 pushups—by adopting the philosophy of “one more”
The “1% better” concept builds on itself, like compound interest, and you can use it to improve each day
One of the biggest problems we have in the world right now is that we’re not raising people to have a sense of purpose
Why you must choose between the pain of pursuing your dream—or the dream itself (which one is going to win?)
How Chris set a goal to do an Ironman and completed it even during the middle of the pandemic
Chris is proof that anyone can train their mind and body to do things that go beyond what others thought was possible. Nik believes his son can achieve anything he sets his mind to. And if Chris can do it—so can you.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 412 – Mindset Monday’s – Who Am I?
Oct 04, 2021
Today I’m pulling some gems from Neville Goddard’s book, Five Lessons. He has an amazing chapter on how your thoughts affect your circumstances (similar to James Allen’s book, As a Man Thinketh).
Most people are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. So they stay stuck where they are—then blame their circumstances for where they’re at in life. But circumstance does not make the man. It reveals him to himself.
In other words, the outer conditions of your life will always be in harmony with your inner state. If you wish to radically alter your circumstances, you can begin by simply asking yourself, “Who am I?”
In this episode you’ll learn:
What it takes to become “the rightful master of yourself”
The most important thing in the world is your concept of self (i.e., how you view yourself)
The alteration of your circumstances reflects the exact ratio of your altered mental condition
You can produce a major shift in your thinking by realizing, “God, himself is incomplete without me”
“Good thoughts bear good fruits; bad thoughts bear bad fruits”
If you’re reacting to something emotionally, you can pause and ask yourself, “Who am I in this situation?”—this brings you to a place of higher consciousness
The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought
One of the best examples of impressing one’s thought upon challenging circumstance is Viktor Frankl, a Jewish psychiatrist and Nazi concentration camp survivor. Instead of being sucked into the brutal reality of the concentration camp itself—he held the thought of what he desired as an outcome, and this caused him and others to be looked over, and their lives were spared.
If you want to change your world, start by asking “Who am I?” Before every call, every meeting, and every interaction—pause for 10 seconds and ask, “Who am I?” You’ll be greatly rewarded.
Links & Resources
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 411 – Full Throttle Thursday – Gone Too Soon
Sep 30, 2021
Today BT and I are delving into some interesting topics we don’t normally cover, including celebrities and famous people who died way too young. Think: the “27 Club”—people who left this world around age 27. Many of them abused drugs and alcohol, lived a hard life, and lost themselves to fame.
Celebrity status is so interesting, because you’re dealing with people who go from having nothing—to all of a sudden, having a limitless, exhaustive amount of money to spend on whatever they want. This does something very interesting to a person spiritually, if they’re not grounded in themselves.
In today’s episode we discuss:
Why “age 27” seems to be a turning point for many people, where they enter a maturing process
A Human Design reading I had once that was very accurate
How numerology and astrology readings can be accurate, but you’ve also got to be careful with them, because they can lock you into certain “ideas” about yourself
You’re not limited to anything that happens during a “reading”—because you have conscious choice; you can choose to do something different in regards to what you know about yourself
Why many celebrities who died early just sort of spiritually “checked out”
The idea of connecting to your own mortality and understanding that you can go at any time; nothing is promised or guaranteed—so you really have to live for today
Fame is not all glitz and glam. A lot of nasty stuff goes on behind the scenes that’s absolutely bonkers.
We touch on entertainers who died in their 20s and 30s including Kurt Cobain, James Dean, Brian Jones, Sharon Tate, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Tupac, Chris Farley—and others who died way too soon, like Anthony Bourdain, Kobe Bryant, and more.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 410 – Movers & Shakers – Laurie Woolever
Sep 28, 2021
Laurie Woolever is the author of Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography, a fantastic book about the life of Anthony Bourdain. She also worked with him on World Travel: An Irreverent Guide.
In today’s episode Laurie shares how she first met Bourdain, and how he hired her to help with recipe editing and testing for his first cookbook, Anthony Bourdain’s Le Halles Cookbook. She sheds light on what it was like to work with him, his personality, and what she’d do differently if she could go back and do it all over again.
We discuss:
How Bourdain was a gifted writer who was very good at reading people and understanding what would motivate them—whether it was harsh feedback or a gentle touch
The parts of Bourdain’s career that seemed to make him the happiest and most proud
Laurie’s observations on the “cynical part” coming out of Bourdain’s personality —“he was deeply cynical about humanity, the human condition, how we treat each other, and how much government can help people,” she says—and yet, “he was also always looking for hope.”
How his traveling took a physical toll on him, and how this plays into the idea of “the burden of leadership”
How Laurie’s book evolved as an oral biography, reflecting Bourdain’s way of telling stories on television
Many people adored Anthony Bourdain. He took us to places around the world that stirred up goals and aspirations for our own lives. Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography provides a sense of closure for anyone who treasured his work.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 409 – Everything Is Already Here
Sep 27, 2021
Today I’m covering some gems from Price Pritchett’s book, You Squared.
He says you don’t have to be content with improving things incrementally or gradually in your life. You can create an “explosive jump” in your personal performance that puts you far beyond the next logical step.
To multiply your personal effectiveness and achieve a quantum leap, you need to be ready for it. That means you must become the “receptacle” to receive something bigger. It’s not that you’re achieving something—you’re receiving what’s already inside of you.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
You must create a space in your life to receive the good you desire
You need to obsess on your desire (like you did as a child) and be persistent about reaching it
A magnificent obsession is a very good thing—it means you’re focusing on what you want in life
Experiencing a breakthrough will demand “a radical departure from some of your habits”
How to create a new model in your mind where you can change the rules about what’s possible for you to earn, and in what timeframe
To experience doubt, guilt, and shame is to deny your ambitious human nature
Everything you want is already inside you—it’s already here. Prepare to make the quantum leap. Pay attention to what you see today, including the opportunities all around you. A quantum leap will often require you to say “yes” to an opportunity. The decision always comes first—then the “how” shows up.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 408 – Common Misconceptions Around Health, Wealth & Happiness
Sep 23, 2021
Today I’m answering a question from a client who wants to know if there’s a connection between having health and happiness, and being wealthy. She has health and happiness in her life, but doesn’t have wealth—and wonders why the first two don’t automatically transfer over to the latter (and vice versa)?
The answer is, you are in control of whatever you want, as long as you can leverage two things—money and time.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Money is a very different animal from health and happiness—and there’s not necessarily a “crossover” between these things
Happiness and health energetically and spiritually go together, and they can be created regardless of whatever income a person has or doesn’t have
Society encourages us to be happy and healthy, but most of society does NOT encourage or teach us to become wealthy
Society encourages us to be “safe,” which is a value of the middle-class and working class mindset (neither of which can produce wealth—because they’re based on safety)
Many people don’t experience wealth, either due to living in an oppressed country—or due to living in a free society, but not being raised with a wealthy mindset
To become wealthy, you must shift how you think about money, income, and business. Most people think about, “How do I get more money?” Business people think, “How do I GIVE more, produce more, and share more?”
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 407 – The Power Within
Sep 21, 2021
Today BT and I are discussing the power that we all have inside of us.
We’re living in a world that’s full of distractions. Technology is allowing us to see so many things. If you don’t understand what your purpose is, and what your role is in the world, you might have a tendency to get off track.
Some people are seeing an opportunity to grow their business 10X, 20X even amidst the distractions—while others aren’t seeing any opportunity at all.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Everything in nature (including human beings) is intended to live as the most successful version of itself
We’re all born with what I call a “spiritual DNA”—or the DNA of success
Everything in nature has a purpose—YOU have a purpose and a direction to go in, and to find these things, you must look inside of yourself for clues
Paying attention to what you’re drawn to will guide you to all the success you want
Every person on this planet is here for a reason, and they’re essential for the greater good
The problem we’re dealing with now is that people have different belief systems that clash
Humanity needs strong leaders who can bring everyone together with some kind of a common value—but most people are afraid to step up and lead
Fear is what’s leading the world right now
Plus, we touch on what’s happening collectively as a society, and why, if we don’t turn things around soon, it could be too late for us. What’s causing our society to crumble from within, is that we’re beating each other to death with what we believe.
You can only control who you are as a person, who you’re being, and how you’re showing up. To come back to your purpose, ask yourself: “Where can I be of the greatest benefit?”
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 407 – The Power Within
Sep 20, 2021
We’re at a time in history when we’re so distracted by everything. And most of us don’t see the amazing power that’s in each of us.
In the book, Three Magic Words by US Anderson, the author verbalizes this idea by saying, “You are God.” This just means we each have an amazing ability to create whatever we want, on an unbelievable level. We can do this faster than ever before in history. “You are not just a part of God; you are altogether God and God is altogether you.”
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
You are the “God” of your life, and you have the ability to create your life to be however you want
If you have more, you’ll get more; if you don’t have much, even what you have will be taken away from you
People who are conscious will continue to grow their consciousness and more will be added to their life
People who are in a victim mindset, or an entitled mindset—will see what they have taken away from them
What it means to “call into existence more abundance”
Getting things from external sources is an illusion—because YOU are the power, and your internal resource is where everything comes from
If you want to step into your purpose in life, you have to understand the power that lies within you.
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BONUS: How to Navigate Uncertainty During a Crisis
Sep 17, 2021
Over the past 18 months, the world has changed immensely. YOUR world has probably changed quite a bit. Today we find ourselves facing even more uncertainty as we enter the latter part of 2021. With the chaos of current world events, compounded by major media, social media, government, forecasters, and more—most of us feel like we have no idea what the next day will bring.
The world is changing so rapidly. And it seems to be split in two, with both sides thinking they’re right and the other side is wrong. Worse, there appears to be no real leadership during this time. People who are supposed to be experts are having differences of opinion. Nobody seems to know how to evaluate what’s true or not. Sadly, many people haven’t been resourceful—they’ve been completely drawn into the energy of fear.
We all care deeply about the health of our families and our own financial future. How you respond to this situation is critical to both.
In today’s bonus episode, you’ll learn how to:
Evaluate a situation, so you can make decisions based in truth rather than fear
Regulate and control your own emotions in the face of uncertainty
Tap into your own innate resourcefulness and think outside the box
Help others navigate fear and hysteria
Figure out what to do?—what to decide? How to react? Who to trust?
Entrepreneurship is challenging enough during normal times—but during a crisis, you absolutely MUST have a solid foundation to lean on.
If you need support in making the right decisions, don’t miss this special BONUS episode!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 406 – David From The Stage: Master Class – Get Off The Revenue Rollercoaster
Sep 16, 2021
For many entrepreneurs, an interesting phenomenon takes place that causes an “up-and-down” pattern in their revenue.
It goes like this: you decide you want to make a certain amount of money each month, so you can pay your bills. The first month you hit your goal, no problem. The next month you don’t. (And…repeat.) Sometimes your income gets so far away from what it was during that previous month, it really screws with your mind. You’re like, “How the hell did I nail this the first month, but I can’t repeat it?”
This is what I call the “revenue rollercoaster.” In today’s episode I’m sharing a masterclass I recently did called “Get Off the Revenue Rollercoaster.”
You’ll learn:
Most people were taught that you have to live your life based on what you “need” and not what you want—and this creates your “need” story
How you were raised—i.e., what you were taught about money as a child—plays a significant role in how much you’re able to earn as an adult (and how consistently you earn it)
Your “financial set point” is determined by your need story, your wealth story, and your poverty story (all of which you can change)
If you want to increase your income, you must RAISE your need line
How changing three things in my attitude helped me triple my income within a month (love what you do, do everything to the best of your ability, and treat people with respect)
What to do to start seeing the opportunity that’s already all around you
Plus, I share what I do to take my clients from having roller coaster revenue in their business—to earning seven, eight, and even nine figures in their income.
There’s no lack in the universe. There is only abundance. Due to the law of polarity, if you’re experiencing “lack” in your finances, then the money you want HAS to be there—you’re just not seeing the opportunity to create it.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 405 – See No Evil
Sep 14, 2021
If you see evil, it’s because on some level, you believe in that evil. (You can also substitute “evil” for anything undesirable—e.g., problems, tragedies, negative patterns, etc.) You’re creating it, but it’s not necessarily there. It’s all based on your belief system.
In today’s episode, BT and I are going deeper into what it means to “see no evil”—and why we need to see the vision for our life instead.
You’ll learn:
Positive growth requires taking a risk—and you must be willing to release control and let the universe show you what’s next
Asking yourself the two questions, “Am I able?” and “Am I willing?” is necessary to move forward and be successful
Not knowing what you want—or not seeing a vision or goal that you’re interested in—is a sign that you’re resisting being, doing, or having something
If you want to get out of resistance, you must adjust your thinking and be honest about what you want
Why it’s so difficult for most people to see that they’re in resistance to something
How BT views risk (and how his wife, Steph Tuss, views risk completely differently)—plus, BT shares his early experience with opening an Edible Arrangements franchise
How you’re showing up in your business and your relationships is connected to something you acquired in childhood
We also discuss what it means to be triggered by something. For example, when you see “evil” (or problems) in the outside world and you get triggered by it, ask yourself, “What do I not yet understand about this, that’s causing me to react this way?” Go to the ends of the earth to figure out what it is. Once you understand it—it could be the next big thing that allows you to become aware of an opportunity, or create a quantum leap in what you’re doing.
To make any sort of positive change there’s bound to be a risk. Get the support you need by listening to these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 405 – See No Evil
Sep 13, 2021
Many people have trouble clearly seeing their vision for their life or business. Instead of seeing what they want, they continually see what they DON’T want—e.g., their past hurts, traumas, or failures. Whatever you “see” or recognize precipitates what you speak.
What do you see? Are you seeing yourself living the exact life you want?
In today’s episode I’m teaching on the idea of “see no evil”—which means, “stop recognizing what you DON’T want in your life.”
You’ll learn:
That in order to move forward, you need to know two things—where you are, and where you’re going
The ego gets in the way of us knowing where we are in our growth
You know you’re dealing with ego (not Spirit) when confusion enters your thought process, because you’re not bringing in truth
When you hold a vision in your heart of something you want, you have to be willing to say yes to it—and be willing to sacrifice anything that gets in the way of it
To move forward, ask yourself: “Am I able?” and “Am I willing?”
If you’re struggling and NOT getting what you want—a simple question you can ask yourself is, “What am I resisting?”
Spirit never speaks to us through fear—it only tells us which way to go, or what to do. Spirit (or the universe) will always show you where you are and what your next step is. It presents to you an opportunity to change something, learn something, or to be, do, or have something. People often argue with whatever the next step is that Spirit is sending them.
The universe doesn’t care what your rationalization or excuse is; it’s trying to teach you a lesson. It’s trying to show where you need to grow next. The opportunity that shows up will require a sacrifice. You may need to sacrifice time, money, a behavior, a habit, an idea you’re holding onto that’s kept you “safe,” or even a relationship. You may need to spend MORE money in a way that’s uncomfortable, so that you can get the information or opportunity you need.
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Sprit never speaks to you though fear. Take that understanding to a whole new level with these previously released episodes from the The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 404 – There’s Something In Me I Don’t Want To See
Sep 09, 2021
Our subconscious mind is brilliant at protecting us from threats. Once we’ve established a pattern in our mind, the subconscious will cause us to go into “confusion” around anything that goes against the pattern or makes us feel unsafe.
This can show up as us getting upset, being stuck, sabotaging ourselves, and not moving forward.
Whenever you hear something that threatens an unconscious pattern in you, your mind will create confusion, so that you don’t see the truth about what’s going on.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Most unconscious patterns involve our own resistance, judgment, and control towards something
Resistance keeps us safe from having to look at ourselves and change something in our own thinking or behavior
When we judge and label others, we’re projecting our inner fear, wound, pain, problem, or insecurity onto people, places, and things
If you’re not experiencing the results you want, you’re in resistance to something
When you have the same “problem” over and over again, it’s because you can’t see the truth about something
You can’t see the truth, because your mind wants to see whatever it needs to see, in order to verify its pattern
You keep seeing the same problem, because you’re still recognizing it as being in your life
Think of the last time you got seriously upset about something. Realize that situation is calling you to grow in some area. It’s an indication of where you’re being called to grow next.
Due to the Law of Polarity, nothing can be “all bad” or “all good.” If there’s something bad about it, there has to be something good about it. How is the situation reflecting something about you that you don’t want to see?
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 403 – Produce Your Own Experience
Sep 07, 2021
In today’s episode BT and I are going deeper into Book 3 of Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch.
From a young age, I had so many questions about God and how religion fits into life, success, and personal growth. Sometimes I got in trouble for asking “provocative” questions at school. I wasn’t trying to be provocative—I was seriously seeking answers (and I didn’t get any that made sense). That’s why I find Conversations with God to be such a fascinating book.
In a world that’s changing so fast, I think we all need to have sincere conversations about God, our values, why we believe the things we believe—and be okay with disagreeing with others. We need to question these things, because if we stop asking questions, we’ll believe whatever we’re told to believe. And that never ends well.
This episode may ruffle a few feathers! You’ll learn:
We should question why we believe the things we do—because often our beliefs were just passed down to us from someone else
The fascinating things people can do with religion—everything from creating inner peace and helping others, to killing someone they don’t agree with
Both religion and science agree that there is no real death—it’s all just a transference of energy
The world today is changing so quickly—information is coming at us so fast, we don’t have time to even think about what we’re experiencing
We should all be free to live the life we want, but we must do things that add to our lives (through the idea of “more life”)
It’s important for us to really think about what we’re experiencing and doing—and choose solid values that allow us to create the life we want.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 403 – Produce Your Own Experience
Sep 06, 2021
Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Walsch, is a book that’s basically written as a conversation between the author and God. In it, he shares his questions and the answers he believes God or Spirit is responding with.
If you wish to understand why (and how) people react to, and construct their lives, I highly recommend you study the whole trilogy.
In today’s episode, I’m covering Book 3 of Conversations with God. You’ll learn:
Why it’s beneficial to detach from something for a short period of time (such as social media or news), in order to observe it and learn from it
To “produce your own experience” in life, you must decide ahead of time what you’ll choose to be
How I use my “Sacred Seven” process each morning to choose what I want to be—and how I’ve ingrained this process into my way of thinking about EVERYTHING
You cannot think your way into a new way of acting—you must act your way into a new way of thinking
People fail to reach their goals because their behavior is inconsistent
Our body, mind, and spirit must be “unified” as one—or else we’ll be in conflict and we’ll produce mixed results in our life
What it means to have “fear bias”—and how we’re always looking for evidence to “prove” whatever state of mind that we’re in
An interesting exercise you can do while observing someone who gets emotionally charged by political situations that are going on
Walsch says everything that happens in your life is the “perfect opportunity for you to heal something, create something, or experience something that you wish to heal, create, or experience—in order to be who you really are.”
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 402 – We Hear With Our Ears But Listen With Our Emotions
Sep 02, 2021
In Proverbs 4:20, Christ said, “My son, attend to my words; incline thine ears unto my sayings.”
He was basically saying we need to come up to his level of understanding. He’s not coming down to our level. We need to raise our awareness and consciousness, so that we come up to a higher level.
We “hear” with our ears, but we listen with our emotions. This means we listen based on our current level of understanding.
Think about a mentor you’re working with who’s at a higher level than you—they understand something you don’t understand. So you have to come up to their level. It doesn’t help you for them to come down to your level.
In this episode you’ll learn:
How to raise your awareness, as Christ talked about
Why you need to start “listening” differently to what’s happening in your life, because there is gold in what life is trying to tell you (beyond the surface-level experience)
How visualizing what you want keeps your mind in order
Why you must raise your desire to a higher level—until it becomes a magnificent obsession
We must hold the picture of what we want in our mind, and keep it free and clear of the cobwebs of doubt, worry, and fear
If something takes you off course of what your purpose is, it’s not for you—it’s just a distraction
There will always be distractions and reasons NOT to do something, tempting you to change what you’re visualizing in your mind
Plus, I share the story of how I went from working on a forklift to tripling my income—just by changing my attitude and becoming aware of the opportunity that was already right in front of me.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 401 – Accelerate Your Income Series: Abundant Surroundings – Part II
Aug 31, 2021
Looking to avoid the “Summer Swoon” when it comes to your sales? Be sure to listen to this entire 8-part series, so you can “Accelerate Your Income” and finish the season off in style. This is the final episode in the series. Binge time!
Everything in your life—including your environment—is created out of your belief system.
Upleveling your environment is one of the most powerful things you can do to accelerate your income. Why? Because your current environment was created out of your past consciousness. And if you don’t upgrade your environment—your old environment will draw you right back into your old way of thinking.
In today’s episode I’m sharing the last 7 of my 9 “efficient action steps for upgrading your environment.” (To recap, I’ve also included the first 2 steps here):
Make a decision.
Ask: “What do I need to release in order to get what I want?”
Determine what you need to believe in order to create what you want.
Take action on the first thing you become aware of.
Follow the action all the way through.
Realize your next step won’t be shown until you take action on the one you’re facing.
Be a student, always.
Before going to bed each night, decide what you’ll take action on the next day. List 6 of the most important tasks for the next day and do them in their order of importance. Don’t move onto the second one until you’ve completed the first one.
Make sure you have a burning desire for what you want. All desires must be greater than the fear that has suppressed them.
Follow these steps to up-level your physical, emotional, intellectual, and/or business environment. You’ll be astounded at how your life changes!
That’s a wrap in this 8-part series full of mindset munchies to digest on the fly. We hope you got what you needed and are ready to Accelerate Your Income in the days and months ahead! Be sure to tell your friends and above all, keep on making that paper.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 400 – Accelerate Your Income Series: Abundant Surroundings – Part I
Aug 30, 2021
Want to avoid low-income months this summer? Listen to this 8-part series, so you can “Accelerate Your Income” as we head into Q4. To get the best results, please listen to and study all 8 episodes. This is part 7 of 8.
To accelerate your income, one of the first things to do is up-level your environment immediately. Replace something that’s broken, add beautiful artwork or furniture, get rid of something toxic, or simply put fresh flowers in your home.
Many of my clients and students don’t want to upgrade their environment until AFTER they have the money and resources to do so. But this approach is detrimental, because your current environment was created out of your past consciousness.
If you don’t support yourself in where you want to go—by changing the structures in which you live, travel, work, associate, socialize, and play—you’ll fall right back into your old consciousness. You’ll be saturated by it all over again.
Look at everything in your environment and ask yourself: “If I were the successful person I want to be, would this be here?”
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Environment is comprised of 3 things—people, places, and things
Your environment has many facets—physical, emotional, intellectual, and business—and you should strive to up-level all of them
Your current environment was largely created out of beliefs and experiences that no longer fit the vision of where you want to go
Changing your environment is like “immersion therapy”
If something doesn’t reflect where you want to be, you must get rid of it—and replace it with something that reflects the success you want to experience
How to make sure your thoughts are in harmony with the direction you want to go
How to upgrade your business environment, so it reflects back to you where you want to go (this is also known as “raising your standards”)
Plus, I share the first two of my 9 “efficient action steps for upgrading your environment”:
Make a decision.
Ask yourself what you have to release in order to get what you want.
Check back tomorrow for the culmination of this 8-part series
Links & Resources
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 399 – Movers & Shakers – Richfresh
Aug 26, 2021
Today I have an incredible guest named Richfresh (a.k.a. “Fresh”), who is a celebrity tailor, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. His fashion line, Richfresh, has been seen on the likes of Justin Bieber, Dwayne Wade, and Diddy. He’s also the CEO and co-founder of Henry Mask.
The road to success was not an easy one for Fresh. Previously being an alcoholic, having no money, and having to care for his young daughter alone, he ended up living in a homeless shelter. After being taken for $15,000 by a client, he says he heard the “voice of God” speaking to him—and from there, everything changed.
In this episode, we discuss:
Fresh’s childhood, background story, and how he transformed from being “super nerdy, quiet, and insecure” to being “cool” and “the best-dressed kid at high school”
Why he turned down scholarships to pursue fashion (even though his parents didn’t approve)
How he started a business, made almost $20,000 in a weekend—yet still had bad habits (coke, drugs, alcohol, etc.) and was broke and stressed about not being able to pay the bills
His “spirituality moment” that changed everything—“I heard the voice of God laughing at me, mocking me, and chastising me for going to a man more than I come to God,” he says
How Fresh was given a vision of himself being rich, famous, and successful—even while he was sleeping on the floor at the shelter
His journey going from “not having a good reputation in business”—to branding himself as a celebrity tailor and being in high demand
The power of words, manifestation, and making things happen with your energy
“You can have all the advantages in the world,” Fresh says. “But if you lack the desire to do something with it, you won’t get any outcome.”
Plus, he shares how he began asking God for what he wanted—bigger and bigger amounts of money—and the money showed up…but only AFTER he sacrificed the things that were holding him back.
Fresh’s story illustrates the law of sacrifice—which says in order to receive something of a higher nature, you must first let go of something of a lower nature.
More inspiring Movers & Shakers to show that you can overcome anything as long as you’re willing to be authentic and persistent from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 398 – Accelerate Your Income Series: The Power of Will – Part II
Aug 24, 2021
Want to avoid low-income months this summer? Listen to this 8-part series, so you can “Accelerate Your Income” as we head into Q4. To get the best results, please listen to and study all 8 episodes. This is part 6 of 8.
Everything in our being is always trying to pull us into alignment with the truth:
Love is truth.
Abundance is truth.
Happiness is truth.
When we align our thoughts, feelings, and actions with the truth (by using our will power), we can begin to change everything instantaneously.
No matter what you desire, you must apply your will in order to achieve it. The will is like a mental muscle you use to hold the thought of your desire—and keep away contrary thoughts.
In today’s episode, I reveal 5 action steps to strengthen the will:
1.) Decide what you love. (The best use of your will is to bring about your deepest desire.)
2.) Commit to removing temptation from your life. (Remove anything that pulls your focus and your will away from doing what you love.)
3.) Be inquisitive about your feelings of temptation; don’t resist them. (Allow yourself to emotionally discharge from how you reacted to a temptation.)
4.) Release all ideas that are not in harmony with your desire. (Who do you have to become to embrace your purpose?)
5.) Surround yourself with visual reminders of what to focus on. (What inspires you? What keeps you in a spirit of opulence?)
Commit to doing all 5 action steps, and watch your life transform!
Be sure to come back next week for the completion of this life and income changing series!
Would you like to join other successful minds in a supportive community full of people focused on growth? If so, check out my FREE Transformation Facebook Group. To get in, just answer 3 simple questions. Share your wins, get support from your peers, and transform your life! I’ll see you there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 397 – Accelerate Your Income Series: The Power of Will – Part I
Aug 23, 2021
Want to avoid low-income months this summer? Listen to this 8-part series, so you can “Accelerate Your Income” as we head into Q4. To get the best results, please listen to and study all 8 episodes. This is part 5 of 8.
If you want to accelerate your income, you need to get really good at focusing.
Your “will” is your ability to focus. The alchemists of the old days referred to the human will as “the philosopher’s stone.” It’s the magic that turns lead into gold.
With your will, you can take any circumstance or situation that’s not working the way you want it to—and change it very rapidly. You can use your will to create anything you desire.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Spirit wants you to have what you want
You have a divine right to be rich, and there is no more effective way to serve humanity than by getting rich yourself
Whatever you focus on grows
“Will” equals focus—your will is a mental muscle; it’s your ability to hold a single thought or idea in your consciousness and not waiver from it
You must use your will to keep out any thoughts or ideas that might take you off course or distract you
No coercion or manipulation is required to get what you want
Willpower can be to resist temptations (especially the problematic ones that distract you from your desired result)
When you combine your will with something you love, your action becomes virtually effortless
No matter what you desire, your will is the way—it will point you in the correct direction. Use your will to hold the thought of your desire, and don’t allow a contrary thought to come into your mind. Stay completely focused on what you want.
Apply your will to keep yourself singularly focused on the thoughts and the actions that will lead you to your goal. Don’t waiver until you’ve reached the end result.
Check back tomorrow for part 6 of this 8-part series
Links & Resources
Would you like to join other successful minds in a supportive community full of people focused on growth? If so, check out my FREE Transformation Facebook Group. To get in, just answer 3 simple questions. Share your wins, get support from your peers, and transform your life! I’ll see you there!
Have you checked out the first half of David Neagle’s Accelerate Your Income series? Catch up here at The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 396 – The Closer the Breakthrough the Bigger the Obstacle
Aug 19, 2021
When someone is really close to reaching their goal, something odd happens—an obstacle will show up and cause the person to quit.
My team and I see this all the time—people get so damn close to having a breakthrough, then they stop. They get exhausted, all kinds of problems show up, and their subconscious is screaming at them, trying to get them to agree with the situation and stop.
In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill called this phenomenon being “three feet from gold,” then quitting.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
The closer you get to having a big breakthrough, the bigger the obstacle is
Once you quit, you have to go all the way back to the beginning—and fight the same demons all over again
When you concede to one demon, you lose the strength you built on the ones prior to it, because you start to question your faith
The demon you’re battling in your mind is really mediocrity—and believing in all the lies the world tells us
The demon in your head isn’t real—and once you break through the obstacle, the lie loses its strength
You don’t need to know “how” you’re going to overcome the obstacle—but you can’t back down from it
How the movie “Whiplash” reveals where you’re at in your growth (if you’re coming from any kind of victim mindset, the movie will bring out your victim mindset)
Once you break through to the other side, all of a sudden it becomes easy. But you have to get to the point where you say, “I will not be denied my success.”
Would you like to join other successful minds in a supportive community full of people focused on growth? If so, check out my FREE Transformation Facebook Group. To get in, just answer 3 simple questions. Share your wins, get support from your peers, and transform your life! I’ll see you there!
Are you primed for a breakthrough? Seize the moment with these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 395 – Accelerate Your Income Series: The Key To Empowered Prosperity – Part II
Aug 17, 2021
Want to avoid low-income months this summer? Listen to this 8-part series, so you can “Accelerate Your Income” as we head into Q4. To get the best results, please listen to and study all 8 episodes. This is part 4 of 8.
One of the biggest ways we limit our prosperity is by telling ourselves a disempowering “story” over and over again.
“Someone stole money from me…someone hurt me…my parents did this…I failed…I didn’t come from a good background…” These stories are steeped in blaming someone else for your experience. They turn into excuses that keep you from moving forward.
Even though these things happened, and they’re part of your past, they don’t have to be part of your future.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Why telling the same story is like commanding your mind to keep looking at the negative side of it
How to reframe your story so that you see the “good” in it (not just the “bad”)
You have to train yourself to be able to see the good in everything
Why you need to reach a place where nobody else is responsible for your income or how you feel—but you
Why we might have fears about taking responsibility, so we avoid doing something
Everything you want comes down to making a decision
Sales is that about selling an outcome (not a product)
Plus, I cover my 6 action steps to taking responsibility, so you can experience total freedom.
Check back next week for part 5 in this 8-part series!
Would you like to join other successful minds in a supportive community full of people focused on growth? If so, check out my FREE Transformation Facebook Group. To get in, just answer 3 simple questions. Share your wins, get support from your peers, and transform your life! I’ll see you there!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 394 – Accelerate Your Income Series: The Key To Empowered Prosperity – Part I
Aug 16, 2021
Want to avoid low-income months this summer? Listen to this 8-part series, so you can “Accelerate Your Income” as we head into Q4. To get the best results, please listen to and study all 8 episodes. This is part 3 of 8.
Over the last 25 years, I’ve asked thousands of people who’ve made a transformation (not people who haven’t, but people who actually have—one simple question: “What do you feel was the first key to becoming empowered, prosperous, and achieving your dreams?”
Without fail, nearly every one of them said, “personal responsibility.”
Personal responsibility is the absolute first key required to create what you want in your life and accelerate your income.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Many of us were taught to blame others for our feelings, our problems, and the situations we find ourselves in—but by blaming, we give our power away
No one is responsible for your thoughts, feelings, or circumstances—but you
With blame comes a kind of judgment that creates limitation
Nothing has any meaning until we give it one
Why we need to let go of our “story”—because it’s just another form of blaming
It’s easier to earn seven figures and above than it is to stay below that number
Everybody on the planet controls their own income
The only thing you can change is your experience of the situation
To take back your power, you must take responsibility for every thought you think, every emotion you feel, every action you take, and every result in your life.
By taking full responsibility, you’ll be able to create whatever you want and break free from all the limits you previously thought were holding you back.
Come back tomorrow for part 4 of this 8-part series
Links & Resources
Would you like to join other successful minds in a supportive community full of people focused on growth? If so, check out my FREE Transformation Facebook Group. To get in, just answer 3 simple questions. Share your wins, get support from your peers, and transform your life! I’ll see you there!
Have you caught the first two episodes in David Neagle’s Accelerate Your Income series? Catch up here at The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 393 – The Universe Won’t Hold Your Past Against You
Aug 12, 2021
If you want to change something in your life, you need to commit to building a 90-day foundation to change the habit.
My clients often ask me, “What do I do if I break my commitment?” The moment you break it, you have to start over again. Otherwise, you’re programming your mind to fail. You have to be honest with yourself. You can’t shortcut this. We want to get this right for ourselves, so that it’s no longer a problem in our life.
It doesn’t matter how much you screwed up yesterday—the universe does not hold your past against you. It immediately responds to whatever you’re putting out TODAY.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
How to leverage the foundation you build, so you can maximize your potential
When you gain a higher level of awareness, you never lose it (and you can’t go back)
How we limit ourselves by choosing to work in a “vehicle” (e.g., a job) that has limits
Why you must act and behave like the person who’s already getting the results you want
What it means to “suspend disbelief” and act as if your success is certain
How I went from being miserable, making $20,000 a year, to changing my attitude and tripling my income in 30 days
What to do if you’re struggling to keep your commitment
It’s either win or die. We’re not here to be average. We’re here to do something really magnificent and play by a different set of rules.
Once you make a commitment, you can’t go back (not even for one day)—you must “burn the ships” and be in the mindset that you’ll win no matter what.
Would you like to join other successful minds in a supportive community full of people focused on growth? If so, check out my FREE Transformation Facebook Group. To get in, just answer 3 simple questions. Share your wins, get support from your peers, and transform your life! I’ll see you there!
Are you struggling to keep your commitments? Get back on track with these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 392 – Accelerate Your Income Series: Operating Without Limits – Part II
Aug 10, 2021
Want to avoid low-income months this summer? Listen to this 8-part series, so you can “Accelerate Your Income” as we head into Q4. To get the best results, please listen to and study all 8 episodes. This is part 2 of 8.
Many years ago, I wanted to transform my life and significantly increase my income. I wanted to be who I truly was—not the version of me who’d been created out of a dysfunctional family, with hard times and poor decision-making. (That wasn’t who I wanted to be.) So I decided to do 3 simple things for an entire year:
– Fall in love with what I was doing
– Change my poor work ethic from “hating what I did,” to giving my best in everything I did
– Treat every person with respect for the rest of my life
I put faith behind the idea that if I focused on these 3 things, my life would transform. This was me “claiming my results.” I changed who I was being, and my income tripled in 30 days.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
What it means to put yourself in harmony with what you desire on an energetic level
How “loving what you’re doing” cause you to see things with a completely different eye of understanding
We get results when we claim them
You must train your mind to think the way you want to think
We need to stop talking about how bad things are—and start talking about the things we WANT
Your desire is the divine plan for your life, and your faith guides you through that plan (it’s like an invisible roadmap of “yeses”)
We get whatever we expect—so we need to have positive expectancy about what we want
Entrepreneurs need to master the concept of faith and get to the place where you know you can manifest whatever you need
Plus, I share an exercise to help you strengthen your faith. Whatever you want the universe to manifest in your life, it will come through the strength of your faith. This means you must say “yes” to what you desire—even when you don’t know how it will happen.
Your income will start to accelerate rapidly once you’re harmonizing with everything that is beautiful, good, and love in your life.
Stay tuned next week for part 3 of this 8-part series!
Would you like to join other successful minds in a supportive community full of people focused on growth? If so, check out my FREE Transformation Facebook Group. To get in, just answer 3 simple questions. Share your wins, get support from your peers, and transform your life! I’ll see you there!
Learn to say YES to your desire and trust it will happen by listening to these past episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 391 – Accelerate Your Income Series: Operating Without Limits – Part I
Aug 09, 2021
Want to avoid low-income months this summer? Listen to this 8-part series, so you can “Accelerate Your Income” as we head into Q4. To get the best results, please listen to and study all 8 episodes. This is part 1 of 8.
Most of us were raised with the idea that we can’t do something until we have everything we need—the resources, the money, etc.—in order to do it. But that’s not how spirit or the laws of the universe work.
The laws of the universe work in such a way that when you say “yes” to your desire—and you make a decision to act on it—you’ll be met with the next thing you have to do.
In Napoleon Hill’s great book, Think and Grow Rich, he called this “opportunity.” He wrote about the “sly disguise of opportunity”—and how we’re usually blind to something that’s right in front of us, due to our belief system.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
If you have a desire, the way to fulfill it is already here—otherwise, you wouldn’t be conscious of that desire
There’s a difference between “change” and “transformation”—and if you want to accelerate your income, you have to transform who you are on some level
We struggle, because we’re tied to the person we think we are
Why we need to stop looking at our past (where our memory and experiences are stored)—and instead, let our desire lead us into our future
Transformation is about becoming something new and bringing in something new
Desire is spiritual in nature; it has a magical element to it
God doesn’t speak to us through fear
To manifest your desire, you need to make a decision
If you want to accelerate your income, you need to be willing to step into a transformation (not just a change) and allow EVERYTHING in your life to radically transform itself.
You can begin to say to yourself, “What if this was true? What if I actually allowed this possibility to come into my life?”
Stay tuned tomorrow for part 2 of this 8-part series!
Would you like to join other successful minds in a supportive community full of people focused on growth? If so, check out my FREE Transformation Facebook Group. To get in, just answer 3 simple questions. Share your wins, get support from your peers, and transform your life! I’ll see you there!
Continue your journey towards personal transformation with these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 390 – Lessons From The Vault: Overwhelm & Bright Shiny Object Syndrome
Aug 05, 2021
In order to bring wealth into our life, we need to focus on the end result. It’s often said that if we focus on something, we’ll either attract it to us—or we’ll manifest an opportunity to get it.
While that’s true, we also need to have a “vehicle” (such as a business) through which to bring in wealth. Without some kind of vehicle in place, wealth can’t come in.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Why you can’t count on random money to consistently show up “out of the blue”
You have to have a vehicle (e.g., a business) in order to create wealth—and you have to be entirely focused on growing that vehicle
Why the feeling of overwhelm shows up, and what it’s an indication of
How to prioritize what needs to be done and remove the drama and emotion from whatever you’re dealing with
Why a so-called “easier path” is often bright, shiny object syndrome in disguise—and a distraction that creates more problems
One question to ask yourself whenever you’re getting distracted
To reach a specific end result, you need to move forward within the “vehicle” you’ve chosen to grow. Bright, shiny object syndrome attacks you where you’re weak. It’s often your subconscious mind trying to get you to go a different way, when you already have a sound plan in place.
The distraction protects you, so that you don’t have to grow. It promises to be easier—when really, you’ll be headed for disaster if you go in a different direction. All it means is, it’s showing you where you need to grow in your current place.
If you enjoy the show, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than a minute and really makes a difference in helping us spread the “Successful Mind” message to those who need it most.
The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 389 – We Live In Truth
Aug 03, 2021
Growth is a moving target that we never fully reach, and this makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Most people would rather avoid growth than go through it. Change and growth are threatening for many people. But if we’re not growing, we’re dying.
If you want to set yourself free (from an awareness perspective) in this lifetime… then you have to WANT to change, and you have to WANT to know the truth. We need to face the truth of why we’re here, and what we were created to be.
Today BT and I are going deeper into what it means to “live in truth.” We discuss:
How I discovered the work of Sterling Sill (he wrote the book, The Laws of Success and comes from the LDS community)
Thurman Fleet’s background as a chiropractor (he was involved in the healing arts and taught his students about how the mind works)
Fleet’s philosophy on how higher consciousness can heal the body, and how we can stay in the right vibration
Why you should “test” all information for yourself to see if it’s accurate (and this strengthens your belief in it)
Why it takes so long to get out of negative programming and replace it with accurate thinking
How to strengthen your focus—and not be distracted by outside influences or be reactive to circumstances that pop up
Plus, I share a story I’ve never shared before about an old friend whose wife was threatened by the possibility of him changing his life for the better.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 389 – We Live In Truth
Aug 02, 2021
We all have a spiritual energy that’s moving to and through us—and it becomes an exact replica of our outside world. Whatever is going on inside of us, is also what we see outside of us—whether we’re conscious of it or not.
Just like a computer can only do what it’s been programmed to do—your mind operates based on however it was programmed to operate. That’s why we must pay close attention to what we’re feeding our minds,, what we’re “ingesting” on a regular basis, and what we’re being programmed by.
Today I’m teaching on the idea of “living in truth.” I’m drawing upon the wisdom of Sterling Sill and Thurman Fleet (from manuscripts that are unavailable to the general public).
You’ll learn:
Our eyes see whatever our perception tells our eyes to see
We’re constantly being inundated with a verification of whatever we’re programmed to believe
How the mind becomes susceptible to the ridiculous
What it means to create a “split of consciousness”—separating your mind’s reactions from universal consciousness, Christ consciousness, Krishna consciousness, etc.
How many people are “molding themselves into a deformity and shifting away from the divine” by focusing on criticism and hate
We model our mind into whatever we’re focusing on (even if it’s the crazy political situation)
Our judgment about what we’re observing unconsciously carries over into our business
Plus I’ll share some gems and quotes that can help you deepen your understanding of the truth…like Fleet’s idea that “When one acts as though he wants to be a nobody, nature assumes he is in earnest and grants his wish.” Or Confucius’s line, “Jest not over holy matters.” Or what it means to “Love your enemies” (as Christ said).
The truth is… if you want to change your opportunities and results, you must first change how you SEE things—so you can make different choices, to create the life you want.
If you want to take advantage of the opportunities being presented to you start NOW with these previously released episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 388 – The Common Denominator of Success
Jul 29, 2021
In 1940, Albert E.N. Gray gave an incredible speech to life insurance salesmen at the National Association of Life Underwriters (NALU), in which he spoke on “the common denominator of success.” The common denominator of success is a belief that eliminates chaos, brings order, guides you on what to do, and shows you what to focus on.
In today’s episode, I’m reading Gray’s speech and highlighting some of his biggest gems…which include:
The secret of success isn’t hard work alone—many people work hard without ever succeeding, and many people succeed without working hard
Successful people are influenced by the desire for “pleasing results”—while failures are influenced by the desire for “pleasing methods”
Successful people form the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do
Success is “unnatural” and isn’t achieved by following our natural likes and dislikes—nor by being guided by our natural preferences and prejudices
Supporting your family isn’t a sufficiently strong purpose to make you form the habit of doing things you don’t like to do—because it’s easier to adjust ourselves to the hardships of poor living than it is to adjust ourselves to the hardships to make a better one
Gray says every business person must get good at 4 habits to be successful—prospecting, calling, selling, and working. If you master the first three, the fourth one (working) will take care of itself.
Ask yourself: “How can I embrace the things I don’t like doing, do them with enthusiasm, and make them fun?”
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 387 – Know Thyself
Jul 27, 2021
Today BT and I are going deeper into what it means to “know thyself.”
Knowing yourself—and understanding why you want the things you want (i.e., your motives) is everything. By NOT having this understanding, you risk blindly going through life, reacting to everything without understanding why.
In today’s episode we discuss:
Why it’s important to know yourself and understand how you’re perceiving things
You’re the center of your own universe—and nobody else is observing things in the same way YOU’RE observing them
You either see yourself as a victim life…or you don’t (and the difference between the two)
Your perception is based on the meanings that were given to you about the things you’re perceiving
What we can learn about truth versus falsehood from the movie, “The Silence of the Lambs”
Why Vernon Howard was such a huge influence on my own personal growth—and how he helped me learn more about my behaviors, my ways of thinking, and my judgements (which I had no clue were there)
Good books to read to understand stoic philosophy and how to keep things simple
There’s an old stoic saying: “Know the truth and the truth will set you free.” There’s a very different energy about the truth…versus a “story” you’re convinced is true.
Do you know yourself and why you do the things you do?
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 387 – Know Thyself
Jul 26, 2021
The early Greeks instructed us to “know thyself.” This maxim is the key to self-improvement and self-enlightenment.
Knowing yourself is about knowing who you are, what you do, your tendencies, your weaknesses, your strengths, and uncovering the hidden things about you that control you. When you know yourself, you know everyone else. You understand their motives, intentions, and what they’re doing.
Vernon Howard is one of the best authors and teachers I know of who can help you study yourself. In today’s episode I’m covering many of his ideas, along with Marcus Aurelius’s principle of simplicity.
You’ll learn:
How to look at complex problems and break them down to each separate part
Truth cannot and will not force itself on anyone who’s not ready to see it—we have to actually WANT to see the truth before we can see it
The truth is simple; lies and falsehood are complicated
To understand the truth, you have to know yourself
What it means to “see the wrongness” (i.e., ignorance or misunderstanding) in what you’re doing
Every obstacle exists within ourselves
There’s only one “true gate” and a thousand false gates
The higher the barrier, the greater opportunity is for advancement
Why you should let your higher self think for you
When you see the truth in any situation, the suffering goes away. When you shine a light on the darkness, the darkness goes away. But you have to be willing to see the truth. You’ll see it when you’re ready to see it.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 386 – David From The Stage: The Subconscious Shift Needed For Sales Mastery
Jul 22, 2021
Being in sales gives you a way to earn far more money than the average person, because it’s all based on YOU and how much you sell.
In the late 1980s I began working for Metropolitan Life Insurance. A guy named Rick started outselling everybody, even the rockstar salespeople at the company. I observed him, trying to understand what he was doing to sell so much.
In today’s episode I share:
What it takes to become a master salesperson and the subconscious “shift” you need to make in order to sell more
Why inserting your subconscious “financial issues” into a sales conversation is never a good idea (don’t ever assume other people are viewing money the exact same way you are)
How I improved my sales overnight and went from making $50,000 a year to $50,000 a month—by doing two specific things
Why confidence is so powerful in sales—because it gives you the ability to change someone’s energy
You must not be afraid to ask really personal questions or go to “sensitive” topics during a sales conversation
Why you must learn to “ask for more”
Understanding what your sales prospect’s goals are (i.e., what they really want and why they want it) is the key to sales
Plus, I share how to identify your own internal “buying strategy” and your internal stories about money and sales, so that you can recognize when these show up with someone else.
If you want to change anything in your life—including your ability to sell—you must realize just how powerful your subconscious mind is at trying to stop you from changing it. You must become aware of what you’re currently unconscious of.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 385 – Study Where You’re Going
Jul 20, 2021
If you’re going through your life, experiencing the same problems over and over again, not getting the results you want —chances are, your parents and your grandparents also had those same problems. We’re all programmed to be a certain way, and unless you take the time to study a new way of being and doing things, you’ll stay stuck in the program.
If you want to advance your life , make it better, and become a success, you have to study. Specifically, you have to study where you’re going.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Human beings are supposed to learn from their mistakes, get better, and move forward—and when we don’t do that, something else is driving our behavior
If you keep repeating the same problems over and over again, you most likely have a core wound at play
There’s something you can take away from every successful person’s story that will make your life better—and if you’re not interested in a particular lesson, you could be shutting yourself off and avoiding going to some place inside of yourself
The idea of “life isn’t fair” comes from a cancerous sense of entitlement growing in our society
We’re not entitled to anything—if you want something in this life, you have to work towards it to become it
You must accept yourself for who you are, how you want to live, and what you want to believe in, regardless of what other people think
Consciously, we always have a choice as to how we feel
If you don’t study, you’re never going to know any of this.
I’ve always had a process of studying. It always comes back to answering these two questions: “Where am I going in my career?” and “What is it that I’m doing?”
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 385 – Study Where You’re Going
Jul 19, 2021
Successful people have put in thousands, tens of thousands of hours, in mastering what they do. Our brain often wants to find a “hack” so we can reach our end result faster. But there’s no secret hack. It’s all based on cause and effect. You must BECOME the person who does it by studying where you’re going. That involves experiencing constant change, growth, and making adjustments.
Many people can’t change, won’t change, or get tired of changing, so they drop out of whatever they’re doing. They look for a magical transformation that never happens. If you want to achieve anything in life, you need to make a lifelong study out of that thing.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Understanding someone’s journey—what they had to overcome, how they overcame it, and what they learned—can help you reach your desired end result
Why looking only at the end result of success can be an “illusion” that doesn’t show the process it took to get there—or the mistakes successful people made along the way
Why getting the end result won’t solve all of your problems—and the idea of “short-cutting” your way to success is often based on unconscious programming and core wounds
How your subconscious mind gets you to avoid doing the things necessary to get you where you want to go (so you can avoid experiencing your core wound)
Why so many people adapted poorly to COVID
My own process of studying everything that stands out to me, including biographies of people who are in completely different fields
By making a study out of where you’re going—you’ll get to see, understand, and hear about the work, the transformations, the hard times, the failures, the mistakes, and the adjustments successful people made along the way.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 384 – Lessons From The Vault: Raising the Bar
Jul 15, 2021
Increasing your income is largely a matter of changing your mindset around how much money you’ll tolerate earning (as part of your “bottom line”). My specialty is in helping people make that mental shift, so that they can increase their wealth consciousness.
In all my years of coaching, I’ve found that most people engage in a similar pattern: when they try to have a quantum leap in earning more money, they struggle.
They navigate between two invisible “lines” that were literally programmed into them.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Why most people who were raised middle class, working class or below, spend a lot of time bouncing back and forth between their “need line” and their “bottom line”
Everyone’s “bottom line” is different—and it’s based on the amount of income they’ll tolerate earning
What you’re comfortable with tells the whole story
What “survival” and “toleration” have to do with your income
What it takes to “raise the bar” in your income and create a new set point (or a “new normal”) for yourself
How to permanently increase your income
Plus, I’ll walk you through an exercise to show you how you’re programmed around money.]
Until you learn how to raise your bottom line, you’ll never raise the top one (i.e., the amount of money you dream of earning). Our programming is geared towards what we “need” and what our bottom line is—so if you want to increase your income, you have to increase your bottom line. This is the greatest abundance lesson I could ever give you.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 383 – The Proper Use of the Will
Jul 13, 2021
Nobody’s ever really taught how to make a decision—and yet decisions are what shape our life and give us direction. Each day, do you consciously decide what to focus on? Or do you let your mind get pulled by whatever distraction pops up?
If you want to be successful in life, you must engage in the proper use of the will. This basically means learning how to focus and be “single of mind” in whatever you’re doing.
In today’s episode, you’ll learn:
How to take out the negative connotation associated with using your “will” (which is really just your ability to focus)
Why people who get distracted aren’t efficient in what they’re doing
Why you must guard yourself against other people’s problems and fears
2 ways to program your subconscious mind
4 questions to help you make the right decisions
My advice for what to do if fear starts creeping into your thinking (hint: starve the fear by not engaging in it)
A simple mindset tweak to help you believe the results you want are possible for you (hint: in involves breaking your goal “down to the ridiculous”
Plus, I’ll share the internal shift I made last year during Covid that helped my company move forward without missing a beat.
Most people are constantly trying to change their outside circumstances—but the only thing you ever need to focus on is changing yourself.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 383 – The Proper Use of the Will
Jul 12, 2021
The ability to focus is what allows you to make changes in your life. In order to focus, you have to be able to use your “will” in the correct way.
The will is an intellectual factor. It’s what separates us from all other living things. We have the conscious ability to focus, make choices, and ignore distractions (whereas animals can’t choose what they focus on). In fact, we can strengthen our ability to focus and use it to get rich on the creative plane.
In this episode I’m drawing from Wallace Wattles’ book, The Science of Getting Rich, in which he teaches “How to Use the Will.”
You’ll learn:
The energy or motive behind what you’re doing is what matters most
To get rich, you only need to use your willpower upon yourself—you never have to apply it to anything outside of yourself (nor do you have the right to do so anyway)
It’s blatantly wrong to mentally coerce people to do anything
If you want to become rich, you must not study poverty—nothing comes into being by thinking about its opposite
“The thinking substance is friendly to you and is more anxious to give you what you want than you are to get it.”
You’re not here to solve every problem on the planet; you’re here to solve the problem that speaks to your heart the most
Why you should give your attention wholly to riches and ignore poverty
Aiming to become rich is the noblest aim you could possibly have in life, because it includes everything else. The best thing you could ever do for the entire world is to make the most of yourself. You can serve God and your fellow human beings in no greater way than by getting rich—and by being an example of someone who is rich.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 382 – Start From Where You Are
Jul 08, 2021
Everything you do is either effective or ineffective—it’s either a successful act or a failure. If you spend your life doing ineffective acts, your whole life will be a failure. But if you spend your life making each act—and each day—a success, you can’t help but become successful.
Wallace Wattles covers this principle of effective action in The Science of Getting Rich. He says the only way you can advance in life is by “becoming larger than your present place.” That means doing all that you can do each day—wherever you are—and not putting off anything for the next day.
In today’s episode, you’ll learn:
To get where you want to go, you have to know where you currently are
You must begin to do everything you can, wherever you are
When you procrastinate and put off doing what needs to be done each day, you slow down the forces that have been set in motion on your behalf
You must be willing to become the person who gets the result you want (you can’t just skip steps and go directly to the result)
When you start to become bigger than your present place, you will grow
It’s not the number of things you do, but the efficiency in how you do them that matters most.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 381 – There is a Science to Getting Rich
Jul 06, 2021
Today BT and I are going deeper into The Science of Getting Rich, as I share how I used Wallace Wattles’ principles in my own growth.
Making lots of money isn’t just about your skillset or understanding a few business techniques. Nor is it industry specific.
It’s about how you’re showing up as a human being, what you’re doing with the universal laws, and how you’re applying those laws to each thing you’re doing.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Raising your standard is a huge part of attracting riches to you
How I’ve raised my own standards in business in the past few decades
Why you need a systematic process of identifying what you’re tolerating—so that you can let it go and step into a higher version of yourself
The lower working class ideology is about trading your life away on things you don’t even like doing
To become wealthy, you have to work on YOURSELF, so you can actually receive the amount of money you want (and not just dump it right back out someplace)
A simple exercise to help you identify and remove the things you’re tolerating in your life
Plus, I share a story about when I was a kid setting up a lemonade stand. I made $50 selling lemonade, and my mother made me shut it down. She thought I was making “too much money” and didn’t want me to think making money was “easy.”
Our parents’ stories about money can impact our mindset when we’re grown up. These beliefs then create “value conflicts” that cause riches to evade us.
But you have a choice on what to keep in your life—and that includes your beliefs about money.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 381 – There is a Science to Getting Rich
Jul 05, 2021
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles is THE book to read if you want to understand how to become rich. Wattle explains that getting rich is a scientific process—not a superstitious one. It’s not based on luck, gambling, or anything that’s not grounded in “cause and effect.” The science of getting rich is “an exact science like algebra or arithmetic.” And once you learn these laws and obey them, you’ll get rich with mathematical certainty.
When I first read this book many years ago, it shifted my thinking. I went from not being able to pay my bills—to never paying a single bill late in over 20 years.
This book teaches you how to develop the certainty that you’ll always have the money for everything you need.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Why you must determine the “causes” of the effects you desire—and actually do what will cause those effects to show up
Cause and effect is about consistency (i.e., you’ll never boil water by taking the pot on and off the stove)
We have a conscious choice to direct our life any way that we want to direct it, thanks to free will
Getting rich is the result of doing things in a certain way
How your tolerations and excuses are preventing you from attaining riches
Why you need to raise your standards if you want to be rich
The only thing causes money to move in the world is SALES—which is also the most essential skillset in business
Environment, talent, intelligence, and being in a specific industry aren’t required for being rich. All that’s required is doing things “in the certain way,” which simply means “by law” or according to universal laws.
That should become your main focus if you want to get rich.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 380 – Lessons From The Vault: The Reality of Belief
Jul 01, 2021
Sales are difficult for most people, because asking for what they want (i.e., money in exchange for their product or service) directly goes against their value system. Most of us were taught that it’s wrong to ask for what you want.
One of the quickest ways to get over this is to practice SEEING yourself making sales successfully in your mind on a daily basis. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve—it’s that powerful. If you can visualize yourself confidently asking for the sales, helping the other person, and receiving the money—this will speed up the process of you heading towards sales mastery.
In this episode you’ll learn:
There’s a huge energetic difference between wishing you could have something, and believing you can have it
No one is ready to receive a thing until they BELIEVE they can acquire it
Imagination is more important than knowledge —the subconscious mind can’t tell the difference between what’s real and what’s imagined
All the knowledge in the world doesn’t matter if your belief system goes against it
How to create a new belief—and a new “movie” in your mind—so that you can have everything you want
How to address the price issue in sales by understanding that everything is relative (nothing is big or small until you relate it to something else)
You can be paid tremendously for helping people get the answer that’s already within them
A simple exercise to help you get comfortable asking for the sale at higher price points
My mantra every day is, “How can I help this person?” I’ve actually trained my mind to look for where I can leave an “impression of increase” with every single person who comes into my life. Being successful at business and sales is about leaving the impression of increase everywhere you go. You cannot leave the impression of increase if you’re programmed with lack.
So start using your imagination to build a mental “movie” in your mind of you going through the sales process and having somebody say yes. Create the belief that you can do it, and you’ll start doing it.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 379 – Who Am I? What Do I Believe?
Jun 29, 2021
Today BT and I are going deeper into the questions: “Who am I?” and “What do I believe?” I recommend you take these questions seriously, because in order to be successful in life , you need to know the answers to both.
Many people assume I’ve always been successful, but that wasn’t the case. I went from being bankrupt, having my car repossessed, and being angry at life in the early 1990s—to building myself into the person I am today. I had to choose what kind of person I was going to be and change my beliefs to support that.
In today’s episode, you’ll learn:
You are the cause of all the results in your life
Your current results reveal what your beliefs really are
The beliefs running around in your subconscious mind control your perception, which affects how you see your environment
Confusion is the mind’s way of trying to keep you from seeing the truth about something
Why people need to remove the “superstition” from their mind that’s causing them to fail
How changing your attitude can literally change your entire life
If you don’t like your current results, ask, “What must I believe or think in order to create a different result?”
Once you start to change your belief system, it’s remarkable how fast your results can start changing.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 379 – Who Am I? What Do I Believe?
Jun 28, 2021
To be successful in business, you have to constantly work on YOU and your belief system. Two of the most important questions to ask yourself are, “Who am I?” and “What do I believe?”
Being clear on what you want, who you want to be, and what you believe will bring you all the ways for you to manifest these things.
In today’s episode, I’m digging into the process of how we need to think in order to be successful, and what it looks like to think with an “elite mind.”
You’ll learn:
You can manifest success regardless of whether you’re a “good” or a “bad” person
Success is just a magnifier of everything (good or bad)
How ideas like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy cause us to have an erroneous idea of “cause and effect” from a very early age
Why you must “lift up your thoughts” so you can experience the principle of “more life”
The role that sacrifice plays in accomplishing big things in life (hint: to step into your heart’s true desire, you must let go of thoughts and possibilities of a lower nature)
A quick, simple way to reveal what your current beliefs are
All confusion, lack of follow-through, and problems that don’t appear to budge in your life point back to you having a belief problem.
To change this, all you need to do is change what you believe. Make a decision and don’t look back. Take the blinders off and really step into the belief of what you desire.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 378 – Movers & Shakers – Adolfo Sanchez
Jun 24, 2021
Today my guest is Adolfo Sanchez, a fashion designer who has overcome incredible adversity while building his business. He was on the Netflix show, “Next in Fashion” and is from Orange County in Los Angeles. Adolfo comes from a working-class family, with both his parents being from Mexico. He got interested in fashion as a hobby, then worked at Macy’s, selling Versace. He climbed the corporate retail ladder, working for Gucci, Cavalli, and Loro Piana.
After starting his business, a fire caused him to lose everything. He had to start over and rebuild again—after his partner and business partner had walked out on him months prior.
As someone who’s worked with business people all over the world, I’ve seen many people want to give up if things aren’t going perfectly. That’s why I was so fascinated by Adolfo’s story—he sees challenges differently. He’s willing to do whatever it takes to keep his dream going.
In this episode we discuss:
How Adolfo got into the fashion industry and how he landed a spot on a Netflix show
How he battled depression after the fire, hitting “a really dark place”—and how he pulled himself out of it
The positive impact his mother (“a very strong woman and a two-time breast cancer survivor”) had on him during that time
The big turning point when Adolfo realized he was done working with other businesses and was going to completely build his own brand
What he did to pivot after the lockdowns impacted his business during Covid
His penchant for learning and growing, becoming better at business, and soaking everything up “like a sponge” even through the adversity
Adolfo says if you’re doing something only for the money, you probably won’t be satisfied—and you’ll have regrets at the end of your life. You’ve got to love what you do.
Quitting was never an option for him. “When a situation (like the fire) happens, it’s done—all you can do is grasp how bad the damage is and assess what the next step is…I’ve always just wanted to keep going,” he says.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 377 – Freedom & Romance – Part II
Jun 22, 2021
My mentor always used to say, “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” And… “You have to become comfortable being uncomfortable.”
Living on the edge and being uncomfortable play a major role in experiencing the freedom and romance of life. This includes “probing the silent places” inside yourself and facing the truth about what you want (or don’t want). This can be very uncomfortable for people.
In this episode, we’ll look deeper at the poem, “The Call of the Wild” by Robert William Service —which is about bringing you closer to the truth.
You’ll learn:
Your soul and your spirit are always looking to take you in the right direction, not the wrong direction
Your vision dictates what to do next in life, where to go, and who to become
Freedom isn’t about approaching everything from a “nice” perspective, but from an honest perspective
The cost of freedom is giving up security, letting it go, and embracing uncertainty
Why “learning the lesson” requires you to step into your perfect “no” and be truthful about your “yes”
There’s only one person who can be the leader of your vision—and that’s you
When you’re pursuing romance and freedom, the challenge lies in truth and responsibility. Can you be responsible for yourself? Can you accept that responsibility of being who you were put here to be? Can you live and speak the truth?
…Or do you constantly need to conform your own thinking and desires to that of other people?
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 376 – Freedom & Romance – Part I
Jun 21, 2021
There’s a certain sense of “romance” and freedom that show up when we pursue the things we want to be, do, and have in life.
Romance is a feeling of mystery that comes from everyday life or love. When you fully embrace the excitement, uncertainty, and risk of life, you feel a sense of romance and freedom.
However, there’s no freedom without risk and uncertainty. Having true freedom requires being responsible to yourself first (before anything else).
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
The key to getting rid of stress, depression and pressure
How we’re all being called to be free—and how to spot the ways in which you’re NOT free
Why learning to say “no” is such an important ability (almost equally as important as knowing how to say “yes” to what you want)
Decision is what changes your life—you can decide to make your life a certain way, rather than following the “rules,” roles, or patterns that everyone else gave you
This is your life—you get to decide what it looks like, who you spend your time with, what you share, and how you’re going to do it (and responsibility is the essence of all of this!)
Plus, I’m teaching on two incredible poems, “The Call of the Wild” by Robert William Service and “I Have Dreamed of You So Much” by Robert Desnos. These poems tap into the ideas of love, passion, freedom, and romance—which many of us long to get back to.
Whether that’s in a relationship, a business, or a calling from our soul—we all dream of experiencing freedom and romance. And we should experience these things. That’s why we’re here.
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The Succcessful Mind Podcast – Episode 375 – The Clubhouse Sessions: Business & The Universal Laws
Jun 17, 2021
Studying the universal laws is one thing… but applying them correctly to get real results in your business is quite another.
In today’s episode I’m chatting with three amazing female business owners who’ve built successful 7-figure businesses—Lee Heyward, Alejandra Leibovich, and Sara Khaki. Every one of them used the universal laws in their own unique ways to propel their growth.
In today’s episode you’ll learn about:
The Law of Cause and Effect—so you can understand what builds your business and what doesn’t
The Law of Polarity—so you know how to develop a heightened sense of awareness on identifying massive opportunity hiding in plain sight
The Law of Rhythm—so you can know when to advance forward in your business, and when patience must rule the day
The principle of “more life” and how it can shift your ability to make sales
Plus, these 7-figure business owners answer questions from the audience about their experiences and what they’ve learned along the way.
To join David on future Clubhouse sessions, once you access the platform, search “David Neagle” on the home dashboard, be sure to follow, and tap the bell icon. That way every time he starts a meeting or is speaking in other rooms you will be notified.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 374 – The Essentials of an Abundant Life
Jun 15, 2021
Today BT and I are going deeper into the book, The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles. Reading this book can unlock so much potential in you, if you really take the time to study it.
In this episode I share:
The contradictory religious ideas I heard at a young age—and how this led me to question how the universe really works
How The Science of Getting Rich brought me to tears, because it gave me the correct language to finally form the right questions and understand the truth about money
How to figure out what you’re in harmony with
Why you should burn “the impression of increase” principle into your consciousness
The way in which God tells us what direction to go in, and what our purpose is
How to remove all the “superstition” around money by understanding the real cause and effect of how it comes in
My advice to people who are constantly worried that there won’t be enough money
No matter who you are, you have a divine right to be rich. It’s our divine right to be loved, to be worthy, to do something productive with our life, to help other individuals, to create wealth, to spread wealth, to create education, to spread education, and to treat people well. That’s what it means to be rich. It’s not just about the cash—it’s about being rich in all areas.
If you’re rich in one area, but broke everywhere else in your life, you’re not rich.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 374 – The Essentials of an Abundant Life
Jun 14, 2021
The book, The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles has so many gems when it comes to understanding how money works. When I first read it many years, it brought so much order and clarity to my mind. It gave me a breakthrough in grasping how the universe works, as well as the essentials of living an abundant life. I ended up teaching the book as a seminar for seven years.
In today’s episode, I’m sharing some of the biggest takeaways of the book.
You’ll learn:
It’s not possible to live a complete or successful life unless you’re rich (according to Wattles)
Money is simply an “idea” that allows us to leverage resources—it has no value other than what we assign to it
You can create your own economy by first understanding that you have a right to be rich
You manifest whatever you’re in harmony with—and if you want to manifest something different, then you have to change what you’re in harmony with
How conflicting ideas around money cause us NOT to have it
The “cause and effect” of what brings in money—and why reaching your greatest “soul development” requires plenty of money
The 3 most important chapters to study in The Science of Getting Rich
If you get rich by following the Laws of the Universe, everybody who’s involved in what you do will benefit from that. You won’t be taking anything away from anyone—instead, you’ll be adding to the life of all. This is in harmony with the primary modus operandi of the Universe, which is: “more life to all.”
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 373 – Lessons From The Vault: You Don’t Want It Bad Enough
Jun 10, 2021
By the time you reach the end of your life, you’ll either have one of two things in your hands—results or excuses.
How badly do you want the results?
If you want amazing success in life, you have to get really honest with yourself about what want and what you’re willing to do to get it. You have to be willing to work and not be entitled or make excuses for anything. Most people don’t even know what “hard work” is, or what their “best” really is.
In today’s episode I’m covering:
Why we need to reevaluate what “hard work” is—and know that our work can be as fun, challenging, or miserable as we want it to be
To get over your fear, you have to do the thing you’re afraid of
Two reasons why it’s much easier to become successful today than it was 30, 50, or 100 years ago
Why it doesn’t make sense to separate your “work life” from your personal life
The only person who can deny your success is YOU
Why seeking love, appreciation, or recognition are the wrong motives for getting into business
If you have a “block,” you need to keep working anyway
Plus, I share what I’ve learned from reading Keith Richards’ biography, Life. As the guitarist for The Rolling Stones, he shares how much work and dedication went into creating the success of that band—which is over 50 years old!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 372 – I Choose How I Feel
Jun 08, 2021
The subconscious mind literally controls how you think, feel, act, and react each day—and understanding how it works can help you move forward in life.
Biologically, the subconscious mind was developed a few million years ago. It’s a couple hundred thousand years old in human beings. Its purpose is to make sure we’re safe in an unsafe world. It’s what allowed the human species to procreate and survive.
The subconscious mind is designed to notice anything that seems like a “threat” to you, and get you to avoid it. There’s no thinking involved; it’s an automatic response—fight, flight, or freeze. However, the “threats” we have today aren’t the same as they were thousands of years ago. Even something like “becoming a millionaire” can seem like a threat to your subconscious mind.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Your subconscious mind is always try to bring you back to “what’s known” versus what’s unknown
You were taught to react to things in very specific ways (usually by your parents)
Why understanding your “set points” is crucial to your success
How the emotion you experienced around money as a kid controls the level of wealth you’re able to attain as an adult today
A simple question you can ask yourself anytime you’re faced with a triggering situation—so you can find out the truth about it
How the subconscious mind affects your ability to make sales in your business[9]
Happiness is a choice
Once you understand how the subconscious mind works, you can begin to choose how you feel. You can find the truth about something, give any circumstance a new meaning, and no longer be a victim to how you were programmed to feel.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 372 – I Choose How I Feel
Jun 07, 2021
In life, we have certain “set points” around everything. You have a financial set point, a social interaction set point, a weight set point, a health set point, a relationship set point, etc. These are all based on how you’re programmed.
Your subconscious mind is designed to carry out whatever your current program is. It automatically brings you back to your set point, without you realizing it. This can become a problem when you’re trying to change something in your life.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
How the subconscious mind is underneath the surface, quietly observing everything you’re doing, looking for pattern recognition, and keeping you on the track you’re on—not the track you WANT to be on
Anything you create repetitively becomes a pattern and a set point —and your subconscious mind constantly works to keep you at whatever your set point is
The insidious ways in which your subconscious mind gets you to STOP doing the behaviors needed to move forward
Why you shouldn’t let your results in life be controlled by how you feel (because your emotions don’t always tell the truth about what you’re experiencing)
Your subconscious mind is always trying to get you to feel a certain way, so that you don’t change
The quickest way to change how you feel about something
Plus, I’ll walk you through an example of what happens when someone tries to break out of their financial set point. There are certain thoughts, actions, and emotions that go along with making $50K a year—versus making $1 million a year.
If you want to go from making $50K a year to $1 million a year, know that your subconscious mind will do everything it can to get you to STOP taking the daily actions that would bring you to that financial goal.
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The Succcessful Mind Podcast – Episode 371 – The Clubhouse Sessions: Reprogram Your Middle Class Mindset
Jun 03, 2021
Welcome to The Clubhouse Sessions! On today’s episode I’m once again joined by my CEO Steph Tuss to provide you with tips and tricks to Reprogram Your Middle Class Mindset.
Do you ever feel like your mindset is holding you back from creating the wealth you want?
Most of us were programmed to be “middle-class” in everything we think, say, and do. This programming governs our entire life, unless we choose to break out of it.
When you’re programmed in this way, everything you see is literally filtered with a middle-class perspective…
— “Can’t get ahead…”
— “Gotta work long hours…”
— “That’s too expensive…”
— “I could never afford that…”
— “Life will always be a struggle…”
— “Why me?…”
These are some of the ideas that come out of being programmed with a middle-class mindset.
Looking at the world in this way sabotages your ability to create wealth. And guess what? If you stay stuck in that mode of thinking, you’ll never create the level of wealth you want.
That’s just facts.
To change your wealth, you must first change your mindset to be able to accommodate “bigger thinking.”
In this episode you’ll gain new awareness to break out of the mindset that holds you back:
Identify 3 sneaky middle-class beliefs that sabotage even the best success strategies;
1 key mindset technique that will instantly flip you from a middle-class mindset to a wealth mindset;
Plus, you’ll hear questions being answered that will undoubtedly help you uncover any hidden beliefs that are wreaking havoc on your current results.
Grab a notebook and pen… and get ready for some huge “aha’s” to break you out of the mindset that’s blocking your wealth.
To join David on future Clubhouse sessions, once you access the platform, search “David Neagle” on the home dashboard, be sure to follow, and tap the bell icon. That way every time he starts a meeting or is speaking in other rooms you will be notified.
Break you out of the mindset that’s blocking your wealth. with more powerful episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 370 – My Best Is All That Matters
Jun 01, 2021
Today BT and I go deeper into the topics of jealousy, envy, comparing yourself to other people, and what it means to be your best.
With social media serving as a constant reminder of what everyone else is doing, it’s easy to feel like you’re not enough. The feeling of “not being enough” is a shame pattern that often stems from childhood—and it can lead to self-sabotage.
If you were constantly criticized or made wrong as a child, you likely didn’t build any confidence in your own self-esteem. That causes you to be hyper-focused on what other people think about you today, as an adult.
Ultimately, we all want to get to the place where we’re not concerned what other people think. We want to trust what we think about ourselves, and focus on being our best.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Perfection is unattainable, because there’s always something more that can be worked on
You have to be okay with making mistakes, because that’s how you learn and grow
Shame is self-hate
Every human being has a specific purpose, and we need to express ourselves in a way that cultivates greatness in our purpose
How to change the way you react to situations
Every negative has a positive side to it
The importance of choosing the words you use to describe yourself carefully—because your subconscious mind will take whatever you turn over to it and grow it
I also share how I used my imagination over time to fuel my own life and growth. You can do the same. Use your imagination to create yourself into the person you want to be, and focus on doing your best…regardless of what other people are doing!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 370 – My Best Is All That Matters
May 31, 2021
Are you comparing yourself to what others are doing, and feeling like you’re not enough? If so, you may be slipping into a dangerous mindset based on shame. Comparing yourself to the world can make you spiral downward and view yourself in a nonproductive way.
In today’s episode, I’m teaching on the idea that, “My best is all that matters.” You don’t need to feel embarrassed because somebody else is ahead of you, or going faster than you. You just need to focus on YOUR process, and on being your best.
You’ll learn:
How to let an old, negative thought pattern drop away, so that a new concept will take its place
How to condition your mind to hold a positive idea so firmly, you don’t have to think about it anymore—it becomes the ruling factor in your thoughts, words, and actions
How to reverse “negative polarity” by replacing faith in evil with faith in good
The role that desire and imagination play in getting what you want
Why you must EXPECT to receive what you’re asking for (i.e., expect the best and you’ll get the best)
How to use your will and give attention to that which is good
You can’t be envious of someone if you don’t already have the ability to do what they’re doing
Being your best is about building an image of what you want, holding it in your mind, claiming it as yours, and knowing it’s going to happen. You don’t need to worry about it or get stuck in the “how.”
You just need to start seeing yourself as being the person you want to be—and be grateful and happy for those who are winning and who are ahead of you.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 369 – Lessons From The Vault: Developing Self-Confidence & Self-Control
May 27, 2021
A lack of confidence is one of the biggest problems plaguing most people. One question I’ve been asked often is, “How do I develop self-confidence?” Early on in my career, I learned that you can’t teach someone to be confident. However, you can guide them to develop confidence within themselves.
We were all born with natural confidence, which was either built up, or torn down over time. As children, we were either taught confidence, or fear. We were taught what TO do…or what NOT to do. We were taught to succeed, or to be “safe.”
When you’re repeatedly told what NOT to do, you develop fears, anxieties, and worries. Your mind then gets programmed with all the reasons why you “can’t” do something. This is where a lack of self-confidence comes from.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
How other people’s beliefs and values were programmed into you, and are most likely controlling you today.
One simple statement that may be lurking in your mind, that reveals how you’re programmed
3 areas to focus on if you want to create a new belief and a new story about what you’re capable of
A simple process you can use to develop unshakable self-confidence, so you can go out and make things happen
Why you must take the right actions in a bold way—to create the “cause and effect” of the results you want, while speeding up the process
Your ability to choose gets weaker if you don’t use it
If you’ve ever said, “I would like to do that, but I can’t because…” take note of what follows the word, “because.” Whatever it is, it reinforces the message of fear you were taught as a child. This fear breaks down your natural confidence.
The truth is, you can do virtually anything you can wrap your mind around—but in order to do it, you have to be in control of YOU.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 368 – Live Your Life
May 25, 2021
We can’t “un-COVID” the world or change the past. However, we can look at ourselves and ask, “Where do I want my life to go, from this point forward?”
If you’re not happy with where you’re at, you need to get to a place of honesty within yourself and ask, “Is this really what I want?”—whether it’s a relationship, a job, living situation, or anything else.
Most people live based on how others told them they should live. They avoid going for what they REALLY want, because they find it hard to change and adapt.
Today, BT and I are going deeper into what it means to “live your life” the way you want to live it. You’ll learn:
Why most people settle in life and get stuck in a place they don’t want to be in
What you should focus on each day in order to get the right results
How “the will” gives you the ability to focus your thought in a singular direction and hold it there, so that you can get the outcomes you want
Why taking personal responsibility for everything in y our life opens up the doors to everything you want
Why you should be mindful of what you say, because if you’re saying it—chances are you’re going to live it out in your life
“What you abuse or don’t use—you lose”
If you want something new in life, use my “6 steps to manifesting what you want” (mentioned in the previous episode). These will show you exactly what to focus on. If you’re focused on the right things, you’ll get the right results.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 368 – Live Your Life
May 24, 2021
Are you living your life the way you want to live it? Are you putting everything you’ve got into what you’re doing?
Whatever you desire—whatever sort of life you want to live—the first step is always knowing what you want, and holding an image of it in your mind with your “will.”
Most people have a hard time in life, due to them not understanding that they’re the ones who hold the key to everything they want. Most people aren’t taught to focus on what they want, or to use their will to hold the image of that thing in their mind.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Why you need to structure your life around BEING the kind of person you want to be
The 6 steps to manifesting what you want
The power of acting every day “as if” your desire is already fulfilled
How we’re raised with the idea of “stopping” (e.g., retiring)—and how that’s counter to living the life you really want
How your environment can cause you to doubt that you’re capable of doing something
The force of your thoughts (whether positive or negative) is always in direct ratio to your faith—if you have more faith in evil than in good, then your results will be more negative than positive
Whatever you abuse (or don’t use), you’ll lose
No matter what you want…see yourself being the person you want to be. See yourself living in the house you want, driving the car you want, having the spouse you want, and growing the business you want—all while using your will to hold this vision in your mind.
Expect these things to happen, and be grateful for them (before they happen)…and watch your entire world shift.
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The Succcessful Mind Podcast – Episode 367 – The Clubhouse Sessions: Let Spirit Lead in Your Business
May 20, 2021
Welcome to The Clubhouse Sessions! On today’s episode I’m once again joined by my CEO Steph Tuss to provide you with tips and tricks to Let Spirit Lead In Your Business.
Let’s be honest… many people are miserable, unhappy, and unfulfilled in their life—and yet, they’re afraid to make any changes. The idea of change is so scary or uncomfortable to them, they’d rather just live with their dissatisfaction.
But here’s the problem: life is always changing. I don’t care who you are, where you’re from, or what your background is—life is going to change from one day to the next. Sometimes it’s big or painful changes. Sometimes it’s great changes that we love. But change is the one constant.
On this episode you’ll learn:
How to listen to that internal voice that’s guiding you on where to go
The difference between the voice of fear and the voice of Spirit
Why it’s our responsibility as a human being to figure out how to listen to the voice of our higher self
The power of moving into acceptance—because there are things in this universe we can’t change
Fundamentally, there seems to be something in the human psyche that keeps us locked into doing the same thing. It’s almost like a rigged system. But if you learn to look at life as an adventure, in anticipation of change, you’ll find it much easier to enjoy the process
To join David on future Clubhouse sessions, once you access the platform, search “David Neagle” on the home dashboard, be sure to follow, and tap the bell icon. That way every time he starts a meeting or is speaking in other rooms you will be notified.
Change is scary but these episodes are not! Dive head first into your own growth with more thought provoking episodes from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 366 – Be Relentless to Become Unstoppable
May 18, 2021
Relentless by Tim Grover is one of the greatest, most succinct, no-BS books on success ever written. It’s very similar to a modern-day Napoleon Hill talking to “the greatest of the greatest” in Think and Grow Rich. Tim strips away everything unessential and gives you exactly what you need to become unstoppable.
The book is a goldmine of information about the elite mindset. In his company, ATTACK Athletics, Tim Grover pushed Michael Jordan—and other great basketball players—to be the excellent players they were. They were already great, but he brought them to that unstoppable place. His book gives a rare, inside look into how these elite athletes thought.
The average person is always thinking about, “When do I get to stop?” Whether it’s in school, work, exercise, or anything else. Elite athletes don’t think that way. They’re thinking, “How do I get to that next level that goes beyond what’s comfortable for me mentally, psychologically, physically, even emotionally?” They’re thinking, “Where do I need to go to take myself to the next piece of expertise, or the next expansion in my talent?” It’s not about where they get to stop.
If you want to be great in life, you must abandon the idea of stopping when you’re uncomfortable.
In this episode, BT and I discuss:
How there’s no growth in “giving it your best”—growth only comes AFTER you go beyond your best
Why leaders need to develop a mindset where they don’t fold under pressure
The parallels between elite athletes and elite entrepreneurs (and the difference between AVERAGE entrepreneurs and elite entrepreneurs)
Why it’s crucial to have a deep, almost incomprehensible desire (or obsession) for the outcome you want—if you want to be great
How Tim Grover didn’t buy into elite athletes’ excuses—because even the best of the best can backslide and believe their own BS
Tim’s “relentless 13” essential traits that are shared by the most intense competitors and achievers in sports, business, and all walks of life
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 366 – Be Relentless to Become Unstoppable
May 17, 2021
Tim Grover is the author of the bestselling book, Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable. He has coached many of the greats in basketball, including Michael Jordan, Dwayne Wade, Kobe Bryant, Charles Barkley, and many others. He calls these individuals “cleaners,” meaning they’re relentless in getting the results they want. The book dives deep into their mindset and what it takes to become unstoppable.
(Tim is also releasing a brand new book called W1nning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness.)
In today’s episode, I’m going over Tim’s 13 principles for being unstoppable.
You’ll learn:
Why you must put in more work if you want results that are above average
Why, if you want to be considered one of the greats in what you do, you need to be playing a completely different game than everybody else
The mindset required to “master the game” (no matter what your work or business is)
Why leaders must make decisions quickly—because no matter what challenge is in front of you, everything is just a guess until you make a decision and DO something
How to transfer that winning mindset into the work you’re doing
Why you must be careful of the “story” you’re building in your mind, because it will gain momentum
Really great people think very differently than the average person—and if we want to be relentless, we need to weed out the mediocre thought processes in our life.
If you really want to be great, you have to learn to be unstoppable. Get this book. Get it today. Listen to it. Study it. Become it.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 365 – What Causes Blindspots?
May 13, 2021
As children, most of us were taught that life is all about staying safe. We were never taught how to experience the best life possible, or how to create something nobody’s ever created before. We weren’t taught to figure out what we want, or how to make our dream a reality.
We were taught to avoid anything “risky” that could go wrong. We were taught to prioritize “safety” above all else. But the idea of safety is a complete illusion. We’re never really “safe.” At any moment, life can change.
Most people tend to avoid anything that jeopardizes their sense of safety—even if it’s something they want. Unfortunately, this way of viewing life creates a “blind spot,” which causes us to NOT see how we can make our dreams a reality.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
How the idea of “safety” acts as a control mechanism that tells your mind how to think about everything
You were programmed with a “need story” that becomes a financial set point in your mind
Your “wealth story” and “poverty story” both work to keep you stuck earning the same amount of income throughout your life—unless you consciously change both
Why your income goes up a little bit—then something always happens to bring it back down again
How the subconscious mind kicks into high gear and starts looking for all the reasons to bring you back down
How shame and guilt control your patterns of behavior and life experiences
Give this episode a listen to understand how this sneaky blind spot gets created!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 364 – David From The Stage: The Roles We Chose – Part II
May 11, 2021
Today we’re going deeper into the topic of the role(s) you took on in childhood—and how these roles were created out of shame and guilt.
A role is basically an agreement between you and your parents for you to be a certain way, and to never change that. If you don’t do the internal work to change your role, you’ll be stuck being that person for the rest of your life.
When we’re first born, we have no self-image. We can’t consciously reflect on who we are. We don’t even know who we are yet. All we can do is take in everything that’s going on around us. Whatever we’re exposed to on a regular basis (as far as emotions go) becomes part of how we see the world.
From a young age, most of us were shamed into changing our behavior and suppressing who we naturally are. We internalized a core image of ourself based on shame and guilt. It’s like a computer hard drive—the programming causes us to grow up and be “robots” for the world instead of being our authentic, individual selves.
In this episode you’ll learn:
How we adapted, as children, to our parents’ manipulation
How shame and guilt prevent you from expressing who you really are today
Where that internal voice of doubt comes from that says, “You can’t do that. You can’t be that. You can’t have that”—even if you’re in your 30s, 40s, or beyond
How you consistently bring people into your life who act like the “internal parents” in your subconscious mind
Free yourself from the role(s) you took on as a child. Don’t miss this episode!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 363 – David From The Stage: The Roles We Chose – Part I
May 10, 2021
In today’s episode I’m teaching on the “roles” we took on as kids in our family dynamic, and how they affect our adult life today.
From the moment we’re born, we learn that we need other people in order to survive and be secure. It all starts with the connection between us and Mom. We’re physically connected to our mother before we’re born. Once we’re born, that connection is cut (via the umbilical cord). After we’re disconnected from our mother physically, we start trying to connect emotionally through sounds, gestures, and crying.
Most people go through their entire life trying to regain that metaphorical connection or keep it alive to some degree…and that’s what causes us to take on “roles.”
In this episode you’ll learn:
How to identify the role(s) you took on as a child that you might still be carrying out today
Why your role keeps you safe and connected to your parents (even though you’re not a child anymore)
How you created “rules” in your life in order to reinforce the role you’re playing
The purpose of your spiritual side—and why the internal desire to be, do, or have more actually threatens the internal role
Why accepting personal responsibility is the key to breaking free from your role
There are hundreds of roles we can play throughout our life. Ultimately, the role was designed to protect us from something. Unless we become conscious of our role, we’ll most likely carry it throughout our adult life. Once we become aware of it, we can begin to change it, and step into our authentic self. Then we can start to express ourselves more fully in life.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 362 – Movers & Shakers – Josh Aryeh – Smiles Through Cars
May 06, 2021
Today I have an amazing guest, Josh Aryeh. Otherwise known as Batman, he turned his car into the “Batmobile,” so that he could help sick children going through dark times find happiness.
Growing up as a car enthusiast, Josh always loved exotic cars such as Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Bentleys. Through his organization, Smiles Through Cars, he and his team make hospital visits to kids and adults who are battling cancer or other illnesses. He shows up as “Batman” to brighten their day. Many of them have dreams of going inside a Lamborghini, so he takes people for a ride.
As an entrepreneur, Josh has been involved in real estate, venture capital, and various businesses, including previously working with the Chocolate Factory. However, his true passion is giving back and volunteering as Batman. Since he started, he’s visited more than 20,000 children, helping them find light during their darkest moments. Josh also visits kids with autism, kids who are bullied, and those who’ve experienced domestic violence. For that brief visit, whether it’s for a minute or an hour, the child gets to be a child—sometimes for the first time. The memories created for the families are priceless.
Smiles Through Cars has been in six states, including Nevada, California, Florida, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. His organization also helps adults who are in their 50s and 60s, battling cancer, and who’ve always wanted to sit in an exotic car. “I mean, if it makes that person happy, why not? To me it’s about spreading hope and inspiration,” he says.
To hear more of Josh’s story, give this episode a listen!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 361 – Neville Goddard & The Law of Assumption
May 04, 2021
Today BT and I are diving deeper into Neville Goddard’s “law of assumption,” which comes from his book, The Power of Awareness.
Neville was an American author who taught from a perspective of higher truth. He fully believed in what he was teaching and got tremendous results in his own life. He was confident that you could change your life by changing how you think about and speak into the “problems” you might be having.
The law of assumption is about using your imagination correctly and “assuming” the right things. We’re always assuming things, all the time. Are your assumptions helping you manifest what you want?…or what you don’t want?
Using our imagination is the first step in creating what we want. We can build an image of something we want in our mind, even if we don’t yet have it in our hand. When we focus on that image—and stay in the conscious expectancy of it—we start to assume it’s going to happen.
In this episode you’ll learn:
How to be in control of your imagination, until the thing you desire is manifested in your life
What it means to “rest in the assumption that you already have what you want”
The difference between your genetic DNA and your spiritual DNA (both of which you were born with)
Why your desire gives you direction for your life
Why doubt and fear attacks your thinking and is very crippling—it takes over your imagination and causes you to build images of what you don’t want
If you’re not getting what you want, then there’s something amiss with your mindset—you may be misusing your imagination and expecting the wrong things.
You have to yield to that feeling of the wish being fulfilled. In that yielding, expect amazing things to come your way.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 361 – Neville Goddard & The Law of Assumption
May 03, 2021
In today’s episode I’m teaching on a powerful concept known as the “law of assumption.” It comes from Neville Goddard’s book, The Power of Awareness.
Drawing on Christian tradition, Goddard says you can master your life by mastering your assumptions. Every moment of your life, you’re always assuming a feeling, whether it’s consciously or unconsciously. This is as natural as eating or drinking. All of your experiences are the result of whatever you’re assuming.
To have a happier, more liberated life, you must control the nature of your assumptions. You must persist in the assumption that your desire is already fulfilled —and assume you’re already the person you want to be.
The law of assumption is based on the idea that everything is already created. All the knowledge that ever was, or ever will be, is 100% equally present in all places at the same time. Even if we don’t have something in the physical realm, it lives in the spiritual or potential realm—in the all-ness of the universe. You can change circumstances that seem unchangeable, simply by the power of your assumption.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Why you should surrender yourself completely to the feeling of already having whatever you desire—until your whole being is possessed by it
Why you shouldn’t be governed or influenced by outer appearances
The true meaning of “righteousness,” and why it’s the only thing that can save you from “sin”
To “sin” simply means “to miss the mark”—i.e., to not attain your desire, and to not be the person you want to be
When you rest in the assumption that you’re already the person you want to be…you’ll no longer have any reason for fear, worry, or doubt!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 360 – Lessons From The Vault: 5 Points
Apr 29, 2021
Today I’m sharing five points or ideas that will help you be more successful this year than any previous year, if you choose to use them. These ideas have helped me tremendously throughout the years. I’ve found that whenever I stray from them, I usually get into trouble. The 5 points are:
“The only sin is being unconscious.” – Carl Jung
“God shows up when other gods leave.”
“Success is easy but requires diligent work.”
“Money is everywhere, but you must ask.”
“What fascinates you?”
In this episode, I go deep into each point and explain what it means.
You’ll learn:
Why being unconscious creates an “alternate destiny” in your life, because you end up following the unconscious ideas of other people
How to stand aside yourself and observe your own behavior, thinking patterns, and emotions without judgment—and say, “I’m responsible for all of it”
What happens when you let go of the other “gods” that rule your life and control your thinking
What to do if you want better relationships (hint: it has to do with allowing other people to have their own viewpoints, without pushing against them—I share a story about Chick-fil-A to illustrate this)
Why being fascinated by something causes you to bring in a whole different energy into your being, so that you lose track of time as you’re working
Your vision and life’s purpose dictate who you need to be, what your behavior needs to be, and how to structure your life
Keep these 5 points in mind as you outline your goals and strategies for the next year, and get clear on what you really want.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 359 – The Premise of Pursuit
Apr 27, 2021
The Universe can only give you what you pursue in it. Unfortunately, fear stops most people from pursuing what they desire—including fear of rejection in sales. Elite people move past their fears.
If you’ve ever wanted to be an elite person…you must rewire and reprogram your brain to think like an elite person. One of the best ways to do this is by “doing a little more than what you said you’d do yesterday.” By adopting this philosophy, you’ll stay on a path of continuous growth and keep moving forward.
In today’s episode BT and I dive deeper into “the premise of pursuit.” You’ll learn:
How I went from being the person everyone wanted to fire, to working for a company where everyone thought I’d come down from heaven—because there wasn’t anything I couldn’t, or wouldn’t, do
Three things I changed in my attitude when I was driving a forklift, that caused me to increase my income
How to build and create a rock-solid habit of following through on what you start
Why acting like you love what you do changes your whole experience and lets you see the opportunities all around you
Why you need to understand things on an emotional level, not just an intellectual level (or else you don’t really “know” it)—and you have to be willing to make mistakes
Price Pritchett said, “You must leave the cover of safety that goes with merely wishing for something. You must place your trust in action. Ask, seek, knock, and the dream shall be yours.”
How many doors aren’t open to you, because you didn’t knock on them?
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 359 – The Premise of Pursuit
Apr 26, 2021
Wishing, wanting, and desiring aren’t the same as pursuing a dream. These mental states can play an important role in creating a quantum leap. However, they’re essentially passive.
Pursuit, on the other hand, is active. Pursuit is about taking action and reaching for your dream—actually doing something to make it a reality. The world behaves differently when you take action to go after what you want. Pursuit is what makes the difference.
If you study the world’s most elite, successful people, nearly all of them have some of kind “pursuit” story. Many of them ran into walls, roadblocks, and hearing others tell them “No” over and over again. The people who win in life are those who go past the no’s. They go past the resistance, the denials, and the failures—and they keep going. They do whatever it takes.
In today’s episode, you’ll learn:
Why you should always do, and give, a little bit more
How to keep your desire alive through the continuous expectation of its fulfillment
How to link up cause and effect in your mind, so that you realize, “I’m creating this experience”
How to burn a concept in your mind that makes a huge difference in your results
Law, not confusion, is the dominating principle in the universe
If you want to have a certain experience, you must insist on it happening
What happens when you desire one thing, but expect something else in your heart
Don’t miss it! Pursue your dream and go hard on what you want.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 358 – Movers & Shakers – Joshua Esnard – The Cut Buddy
Apr 22, 2021
Joshua Esnard is the “accidental” inventor of The Cut Buddy, a device that helps you avoid making errors while cutting your own (or someone else’s) hair. The Cut Buddy has been featured on the popular show, Shark Tank, and over 80,000 people have used it to cut hair.
In today’s episode, Joshua shares a bit on his story. Originally from St. Lucia (a small developing country), he invented his product at the age of 13 while living in Ithaca, New York. For many years, his dad cut his hair using the only style he knew—the buzz cut. Joshua wanted to look cool, so he started cutting his own hair. But he inadvertently gave himself bald spots. “I looked like a cheetah,” he says.
He began playing with the idea of inventing something that would help him cut hair without making errors. Fast forward fifteen years later…his girlfriend pointed out, “You never finish what you start”—and this casual comment set in motion Joshua’s determination to bring The Cut Buddy to life. He met with a lawyer, filed a patent, and went through many challenges and obstacles to bring his product to the marketplace. (Side note: he ended up being mentored by Daymond John from Shark Tank!)
Joshua’s mission is to “make haircuts easy” and to help people gain confidence in their appearance and their ability to cut hair well. His product is especially useful for those with disabilities, mental health issues, and dexterity issues.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 357 – Command Your Success
Apr 20, 2021
Today BT and I are diving deeper into the idea of “commanding your success” and what that actually looks like.
If we want to be successful in life, we need to be paying close attention to whatever we’re hearing on the inside that we’re drawn to. We should explore the things we’re drawn to, and ask ourselves, “Why was I drawn to this? What did I learn? What is it teaching me? Where is it leading me next?”
By doing this, you’re taking your life seriously—which is something most people don’t do.
A person has to seriously ask what their life is about, and what they really want, before they can ever be successful. They have to pursue that, every day, for the rest of their lives.
In this episode you’ll learn:
The difference between “asking” for your success and “commanding” it—and why that subtle shift is so important
How our desire plays a role in the success we want
How to determine what you want (or don’t want) by giving yourself new experiences
What it means to bring your mind up to the level of the image you want (also known as “raising your consciousness”)
Why, if you’re in debt, you should stop hyper-focusing on what you don’t have, and start focusing on wealth and opportunities
How to use the Law of Sacrifice to let go of your story of low self-esteem, so that you can experience something of a higher nature
What happens when the mind goes into a pre-judgment about something that could be an opportunity for growth
Opportunities come in all different shapes and forms, and once you have clarity about what you want, you’ll actually be able to see them.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 357 – Command Your Success
Apr 19, 2021
There’s a huge difference between asking for your success and commanding it. Most of us weren’t taught how to command what we want in life. We were taught to ask for it, which implies the possibility of being told “no.” At some point, we must realize we don’t need to ask anymore. We can command what we desire—simply by understanding certain universal principles.
There are “unseen forces” standing by, ready to assist us in reaching our dreams. All you have to do is open up and let them in.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
Why you’ll never achieve your dreams through your own sheer willpower—you must rely on unseen forces to bring valuable strength to your own hand
Whatever you consistently hold on the screen of your mind will manifest in your life
How to develop a “correct concept” in your mind that you can grasp onto (similar to a visualization of what you’re doing)
What doubt and worry are clear indications of
How to build the connection in your mind that you’re causing the results you want to show up
Unseen forces might seem like mystical, phantom powers that cannot be fully explained. But they make amazing contributions to your efforts. Spirit and Energy are unseen forces, which you can access and use as resources. They operate through your subconscious mind, mental imagery, intuition, and what some would call “luck.”
When you’re plugged into this remarkable power source, quantum leaps come easily.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 356 – David From The Stage: Art of Success Virtual Summit Sneak Peek – The Law of Relativity
Apr 16, 2021
The Law of Relativity states that everything in the universe is “relative.” This law governs how we think, how we give things meaning, and the “story” we create about things.
What meaning are you giving to things? If we don’t understand the law of relativity, we’ll end up creating a story about what’s happening in our life “by default,” or based on our previous stories. Once we create a story about something, it becomes very powerful. It either moves us forward, keeps us where we are, or moves us backward in our life.
The Law of Relativity also states that everything in the universe just is. It’s neither big nor small, good nor bad, pleasurable nor painful—until we attach a meaning to it. When you say something’s “expensive,” what are you comparing it to? When you say something is “difficult,” what are you comparing it to?
Often we bring in comparisons that rob us of our energy, desire, and ultimately our future. When we give something a negative comparison, we immediately create a story around it that becomes disempowering. That story then holds us in the same place. And as long as we have those disempowering stories, we create mental “blind spots” almost everywhere in our life, because our mind must take the shape of the reality we’re experiencing.
The goal is to give things meaning in a way that empowers us, and helps feed our desire, so we continue to move forward. How you use the Law of Relativity will determine the quality of your entire existence…don’t miss today’s episode!
As long as you’re sitting there and you’re breathing, you have the ability to change anything. And whether we like it or not, the day is going to come for each one of us where it’s too late… where we don’t have the ability to change.
It’s for this reason that my team and I have created a 3-Day Virtual Event that I’m hosting this month. I’ve named it The Art of Success Summit, because you really can create the life you desire, and I plan to share how you can start to make the shifts necessary to live without the “should haves” and “wish I would haves” in life.
If you’re not happy with where you are in life right now…whether it’s in your business, in your love life or in your environment, click below and get ready … it’s time for change.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 355 – David From The Stage: Art of Success Virtual Summit Sneak Peek – The Law of Polarity
Apr 15, 2021
The Law of Polarity states that everything in the universe has an opposite, and it’s equal and opposite. Everything is created as a whole. Everything is complete. There’s no “half” of anything created. It’s holistic, including ideas and problems. If you have a problem, the opposite side of that must also be here—the solution.
In today’s episode, I’m applying the Law of Polarity to money. If you have a desire for more money, but you don’t see it in your bank account—then the opposite side of that is more money in its physical reality, in your bank account.
If you’re experiencing a lack of money, you’re on the “lack” side of it. But you must know that on the other side of that is “abundance,” even if you can’t see it. The basic truth of the universe is abundance.
Why aren’t you able to see the thing you desire (more money)? Because you have a blind spot. The unconscious mind is always trying to keep you safe, and always trying to protect you from going up against a massive unknown. Whatever you need to do to actually make the money will seem risky or unappealing to you.
If you desire to be wealthy, but all you see is lack, you want to move from the “poverty” side to the “abundance” side. Give this episode a listen to learn more!
As long as you’re sitting there and you’re breathing, you have the ability to change anything. And whether we like it or not, the day is going to come for each one of us where it’s too late… where we don’t have the ability to change.
It’s for this reason that my team and I have created a 3-Day Virtual Event that I’m hosting this month. I’ve named it The Art of Success Summit, because you really can create the life you desire, and I plan to share how you can start to make the shifts necessary to live without the “should haves” and “wish I would haves” in life.
If you’re not happy with where you are in life right now…whether it’s in your business, in your love life or in your environment, click below and get ready … it’s time for change.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 354 – David From The Stage: Art of Success Virtual Summit Sneak Peek – The Law of Cause & Effect
Apr 13, 2021
In today’s episode I’m teaching on the Law of Cause and Effect, which Emerson called “the law of laws.” This law is so important that if we don’t understand it, we become very susceptible to superstition. Superstition is basically any kind of magical thinking where you think you can get a result without doing whatever would “cause” that result to show up.
If you’re in business and you’ve never earned a lot of money before, I guarantee it’s because you have an unhelpful paradigm around money in your subconscious mind. This paradigm is causing your results around money. You don’t have the right “cause and effect” linked up in your mind as to what it takes to earn the money you want.
How do I know this? Because if you had the correct paradigm for being a millionaire, you’d already be a millionaire.
In this episode you’ll learn:
How the “Law of Attraction” has been perverted and misunderstood by many
You can’t just think “warm, fuzzy, high-vibrational thoughts” to cause money to show up in your life
Anything that’s in your subconscious mind will continue to manifest itself in, and through, your body and your life, without any conscious effort on your part
“Going to work” is not the actual cause of money showing up
Busy work won’t bring an income
Plus, I reveal the most important skill you can learn in business. It’s the real “cause” of the “effect” you want—lots of money!
As long as you’re sitting there and you’re breathing, you have the ability to change anything. And whether we like it or not, the day is going to come for each one of us where it’s too late… where we don’t have the ability to change.
It’s for this reason that my team and I have created a 3-Day Virtual Event that I’m hosting this month. I’ve named it The Art of Success Summit, because you really can create the life you desire, and I plan to share how you can start to make the shifts necessary to live without the “should haves” and “wish I would haves” in life.
If you’re not happy with where you are in life right now…whether it’s in your business, in your love life or in your environment, click below and get ready … it’s time for change.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 353 – David From The Stage: Art of Success Virtual Summit Sneak Peek – The Law of Perpetual Transmutation
Apr 12, 2021
The Law of Perpetual Transmutation of energy states that all the energy in the universe is constantly moving from a “non-form,” into form, then back to a non-form again. Energy must take the shape of whatever it’s flowing through, whether it’s people, animals, objects, or anything else. It becomes the thing it moves through.
When you understand this law, you know that nothing outside of you—not your environment, your circumstances, or your results—can keep you from creating the life you desire.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
As humans, we manifest or experience things in our life based on a pattern set in our subconscious mind
Whatever’s going on on the inside comes out on the outside
If you have a specific belief held deeply in your subconscious mind, you’ll see evidence of it everywhere in your external life
How to change the image you hold in your subconscious mind
How to use the Law of Perpetual tTansmutation to get what you desire
Our job is to strengthen our desire and consistently put the image of the thing we want into our consciousness. By doing this, we impress those images onto the subconscious mind until we create a new belief and a new behavior. Once we do that, we can create a new result.
Whatever image you continually hold in your mind, that’s what you’ll create in your life.
As long as you’re sitting there and you’re breathing, you have the ability to change anything. And whether we like it or not, the day is going to come for each one of us where it’s too late… where we don’t have the ability to change.
It’s for this reason that my team and I have created a 3-Day Virtual Event that I’m hosting this month. I’ve named it The Art of Success Summit, because you really can create the life you desire, and I plan to share how you can start to make the shifts necessary to live without the “should haves” and “wish I would haves” in life.
If you’re not happy with where you are in life right now…whether it’s in your business, in your love life or in your environment, click below and get ready … it’s time for change.
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The Clubhouse Sessions: Get Off the Revenue Rollercoaster
Apr 09, 2021
Welcome to The Clubhouse Sessions! On today’s episode I’m joined by my CEO Steph Tuss to provide you with tips and tricks to Get Off the Revenue Rollercoaster.
In a recent room hosted on the Clubhouse application, the two of us explored why the revenue rollercoaster phenomenon happens, what you need to do in order to breakthrough it, and ways to create consistent cash flow to grow and scale your business.
For those who find themselves struggling from month to month, lacking the consistency required to take your business to the next level, you’ve probably asked yourself more than once, “What the hell is going on? Why is my income up one month and down the next? How can I make this easier?”
To the many thousands of people I’ve talked to over the years that have struggled with this problem, not one person has ever connected the issue to their mindset, specifically their subconscious mind. To be honest, had I not gone through the training I did so many years ago, I would have never known that either.
It’s time to talk about the real truth around this revenue rollercoaster problem and how the patterns you adopted long ago are controlling your perception, essentially choking off your ability to consistently bring in cash. We’ll dive into the concept of the financial set point and how it shows up in your life.
At this time, Clubhouse is only available to iOS users and is “invitation only”. To join David on future Clubhouse sessions, once you access the platform, search “David Neagle” on the home dashboard, be sure to follow, and tap the bell icon. That way every time he starts a meeting or is speaking in other rooms you will be notified.
Do you find yourself repelling sales and living from month to month with little or not consistency in your business? If you said YES. I’d like to invite you to a FREE four hour workshop I’ll be hosting on this very topic – How the financial set point & the revenue rollercoaster ties directly into your sales results. This FREE training is happening Tuesday, April 13th. For more information and an invitation to join me simply go to my Instagram page, send me a direct message with the word CASHFLOW, and I’ll take it from there. Do that and you’ll know you’ve just taken the step to create more consistent cashflow in your business. All it takes is a decision…
Creating consistent cash flow is crucial in growing and scaling your business. Here are more episodes to help you to put that issue to bed from The Successful Mind Podcast:
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 352 – Setting High Expectations
Apr 08, 2021
What does it take to turn your vision into a reality? The answer has to do with setting high expectations, being willing to fail, and being unreasonable.
Everyone who has ever achieved greatness did so, because they could see something no one else could see. They had a vision, and they believed in that vision.
When we set high expectations, we’re essentially making the decision to be great. If you have a vision for greatness—it’s because God is giving you that vision. Other people won’t necessarily see it or get it. They’ll only see the risk in it.
To bring your vision to reality, you have to have to be able to set a higher expectation for yourself on a consistent basis. Then you have to communicate that higher expectation to others. You’re also going to have to be what most people consider “unreasonable.” That’s part of being your authentic self.
Most people stop themselves from bringing their vision to reality. They stop where they have shame or guilt. They stop where they bump up against their own self-limitations.
When you’re aiming to achieve greatness—when you’re going to be a leader in your life—you cannot accept where other people stop. You have to be willing to set a higher expectation for yourself. You have to fulfill the commitment of bringing your vision into reality by being unreasonable.
In this episode I’ll walk you through a series of questions, and a simple exercise you can do to set high expectations for yourself. Don’t miss it!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 351 – Ignore Conventional Approaches
Apr 06, 2021
Today BT and I go deeper into what it means to “ignore conventional approaches.”
As human beings, our greatest power is our ability to choose. Our job is to decide what we want. God’s job is to figure out “how” it will happen.
We already know how many things work—mathematics, science, chemistry, the universe, the stars, electricity, etc. How these things work has already been established.
But when someone says, “I need to know how everything works” before they go after their desire—that’s usually a control issue for most people. They’re trying to avoid failure, embarrassment, and ridicule. They want to determine in advance whether or not they’re going to fail before they make the decision, so they don’t look foolish.
Instead of trying to control how things happen, we need to decide to do something.
In this episode you’ll learn:
What it means to “practice doing the right things”
What to shift in your mindset if you’re making your growth challenging right now, or if you you feel stuck
How God uses our desire to speak to us and give direction to our life
Why you should never sit around and allow the circumstances of the world to determine who you’re going to be
We learn and grow by making mistakes
When you make a decision, you open yourself up to all the information available in the universe, so that you raise your level of awareness and understand “how” to do something
I also explain how to use faith to build yourself up to the point where you believe you can have whatever you desire.
If you enjoy the show, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than a minute and really makes a difference in helping us spread the “Successful Mind” message to those who need it most.
The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 351 – Ignore Conventional Approaches
Apr 05, 2021
If you rely merely on “reasonable approaches” to get what you want in life, then you’ll experience reasonable performance gains.
But if you want a quantum leap, you have to take a totally different approach—one that involves ignoring unconventional approaches. This idea comes from Price Pritchett’s book, You2.
One way to ignore conventional approaches is to “make a decision first.” When you want to create something different in your life, you must focus on what you want—not on how you’re going to do it. The “how” is God’s job. Our job is to make a decision about what we want. Conventional thinking is about waiting until you know “how” first, before doing something you want to do.
The decision must come first. Once you make the decision, the way to do it manifests itself in your life.
In this episode I cover:
Why visualizing your heart’s desire is so powerful
How to put yourself on the same frequency as the thing you want
Why “raising your vibration” doesn’t really do anything (and what’s really required to get what you want)
How to change your internal paradigm and belief system, so you can get different results
The difference between lower frequency thoughts and higher frequency thoughts
The principle that, “Nothing unworthy of God is worthy of you”
How to move from chaos to order and clarity in your mind
I also share my story of buying a new Bentley Continental without test-driving it and without knowing (or caring about) the price—because it’s what I wanted.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 350 – Movers & Shakers – Sameer Bhide – One Fine Day
Apr 01, 2021
Sameer Bhide is the author of the book, One Fine Day. In today’s episode, he shares his incredible journey of overcoming serious life challenges, learning to accept reality as it is, and being resilient in the face of great difficulty.
Born in India, Sameer grew up in Mumbai, then moved to the United States 30 years ago. He worked in global consulting and technology firms and eventually became a citizen. Married, with a young family, everything was going fine…until “that fateful day on January 31st, 2017.”
At 47, Sameer suffered a massive and rare stroke, which led to a brain hemorrhage and being in a coma for 30 days. After working nonstop for 24 years, he was forced to stop working. In 2018 he went through a divorce —“my entire life came crashing down,” he says.
So he started journaling…and writing. At first, his initial question was, “Why me?” But as he continued writing, he developed a strong calling to help others who are going through adversity or major life changes.
Sameer says we don’t need to have a major crisis in life before we can start journaling or changing our attitude —we can begin today! He shares his stories, experiences, and lessons in his memoir, which I highly recommend you read.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 349 – Quit Trying Harder
Mar 30, 2021
Most of us were taught that working hard and putting your best effort forward are the keys to success. While those are both great things, we were also taught that if something isn’t working, we should “try harder.” And if a task seems impossible, we should apply sheer, brute force to it.
Trying harder isn’t always the best course of action. Nor does it necessarily get us where we want to go. Many people don’t see the bigger picture of what they’re doing, and because of this, they fail.
In today’s episode BT and I go deeper into Price Pritchett’s concept of “Quit Trying Harder” (from his book, You2). Pritchett isn’t suggesting that we get rid of hard work altogether. Instead, he says it’s about being more efficient in your efforts to bring in what you want—whether it’s money, opportunities, more business, or anything else.
Just like the fly who repeatedly bangs itself against the window, attempting to get out (all the while, an open door is nearby), if we could change our perspective about our situation, we could become more efficient at what we’re doing. We could get the result we want with less effort.
Instead of forcing and pushing, we need to use our intellect, think differently, and see things differently. This allows us to use leverage and make things easier. It’s about doing more with a little less effort…so we can create different results.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 349 – Quit Trying Harder
Mar 29, 2021
What you want is already here, and it’s just a matter of seeing it clearly in your mind. In fact, when we plant an image of what we want into the fertile ground of our subconscious mind…we can create a quantum leap in our life.
Price Pritchett explains in his book You2 that if you want to experience a quantum leap, it can’t be done through “trying harder” or by “doing more of the same.” If you do more of the same, it just gives you…more of the same.
Nor can quantum leaps be achieved through incremental steps. You reach a point where you can’t try any harder and you start to see diminishing returns. In some cases, intensifying your efforts creates bigger problems (like the little fly in the opening scene of his book—it wears itself out trying to push through a closed window, when all it needs to do is make a 180-degree shift and fly out the open door to achieve freedom).
To move from normal, everyday performance to “You squared,” you must think and act radically differently. You have to shift gears and follow new patterns of thought, while taking action.
In this episode I’ll walk you through a powerful visualization exercise to help you reach your goal or vision. Don’t miss it!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 348 – The Decision to be Great
Mar 25, 2021
All greatness begins with a decision.
It doesn’t matter what your job, work, or business is—you can achieve greatness in whatever your purpose is. Everyone is here to fulfill a very specific purpose in this lifetime. This is not something you should take lightly.
The decision to be great is one of the most important decisions you could ever make in life.
Most people in society are conditioned not to be great, but to be mediocre. Success is actually easy, but if you’re not success-minded (or “greatness-minded”), then you’re mediocre-minded, failure-minded or dysfunctional-minded.
In this episode you’ll learn:
How to create a value system of “being great”
How to condition your mind to follow through on commitments (or else it will be wishy washy and waver back and forth)
How to understand what’s causing your results, why you’ve accepted mediocrity in your life—and how to change that
What it takes to reposition yourself in your mind to see yourself as divine greatness put here for a specific purpose to carry out
The role that authenticity plays in fulfilling your purpose
Plus, I’ll walk you through an exercise to help you achieve greatness in your life.
If you want to be great, some commitments will need to be broken (such as the unconscious commitment to be mediocre). You’ll need to be very honest with yourself about what you’ve established, what you’re doing, and who you’re being in your life right now. It’s very easy to tell just by the results you have.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 347 – Distractions Are Distractions
Mar 23, 2021
With everything that’s taken place over the last year, now more than ever, we need to master our mind, our focus, and how we show up in life.
COVID, the political scene, the news, and all the racial injustice became all-consuming for many people. Some entrepreneurs saw fantastic opportunities in the past year, and they acted on it. Others got so caught up with distractions, they didn’t move forward at all.
If you weren’t clear on your purpose, you were probably distracted. And if you didn’t adapt to how things have changed —now you may be in danger of going out of business.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
The importance of personal responsibility and keeping your commitments
How to get yourself to consistently do your best each day and push to the next level—despite any distractions that show up
How to choose a goal, make a commitment, and ensure you meet it—by increasing your follow-through
The unconscious “self-sabotage strategy ” you might be using—and how to change this
The difference between the entrepreneurial mindset and the middle class (working class) mindset (hint: they’re polar opposites)
How to figure out what’s causing you to not get the results you want
What you spend your time and money on indicate what you value the most
It’s time to identify what you’re choosing to believe in and take a stand for the position you want to have in life.
Whatever you value will dictate the direction you go in, from this point forward. If you value the right things, you’ll produce the results you want…so you have to make a choice on what you value.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 347 – Distractions Are Distractions
Mar 22, 2021
Each day, so many things and situations come into our life with varying degrees of priority. Many of these are distractions.
Sometimes the situation has an “emergency” quality to it, or we feel responsible for taking care of it.
Sometimes it comes in the form of something we think we want to do or feel good about doing —but it’s actually distracting us from what we’re supposed to do.
No matter what happens, our first responsibility is to us first. We always need to have a boundary in place, because a distraction is a distraction.
In today’s episode you’ll learn:
How to handle distractions and make sure “value conflicts” don’t prevent you from keeping your commitments
Why you need to be the drill sergeant for your brain, and “show your brain who’s boss”
When something is a priority to you, your unconscious subconscious mind will pave the path and open the gates for you to live up to your commitment
If something shows up to prevent you from keeping your commitment, it’s because you don’t want the result bad enough
How to rewire your brain for success, and focus on “wins” to lift your confidence
How to stop dragging yesterday into today
Whatever you create in your subconscious mind will manifest in the physical world, if you do it correctly.
If you need help figuring out what to commit to today…don’t miss this episode!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 346 – Movers & Shakers – Reese Scott – Women’s World of Boxing
Mar 18, 2021
Reese Scott is a boxer, an artist, and an amazing, astounding woman. What she’s doing for the world of boxing, and for women all over New York City and the world, is nothing short of incredible.
After becoming frustrated with her 19-year career in print publishing, she left her corporate job and wondered, “What’s next?” Feeling angry about her life (and her weight of 220 pounds), she was walking down the street one day and saw a boxing gym. She walked in…and that’s when everything changed.
Deciding to train in a gym full of guys, Reese didn’t feel welcomed and didn’t feel like she belonged there. “But in a weird way, this was the only place I was happy,” she says.
She began to see the connection between what she experienced in the gym (not being heard or respected by the guys)—and what she had experienced in her childhood (not being seen or heard by her family). Standing up for herself in the gym caused her to find her voice…which became a metaphor for taking her power back from her family.
In this episode, Reese shares:
How she discovered it’s her responsibility to stand up for herself—and how she’s teaching women to do the same
The importance of being clear in your communication, and not worrying about how others respond to you
How she opened up the only women’s boxing gym in New York City
The challenges of owning a brick-and-mortar business, building it from the ground up, and doing everything yourself
How she’s always been guided to do what feels right to her
Reese’s story is a great lesson on standing up to others and teaching them what you will, and won’t allow. Don’t miss this interview!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 345 – Thomas Troward’s Principle of Guidance
Mar 16, 2021
Today I’m teaching on Thomas Troward’s Principle of Guidance.
Ancient wisdom says, “With all thy getting, get understanding.” That means the whole purpose of studying anything is to understand. Understanding takes place inside of us. The more we understand the truth about things, the more we can create the success we want on the outside. That’s because what we become on the inside gets reflected on the outside.
Troward explains how we can—and should—trust the guidance that comes from inside of us. By doing so, we can tap into the infinite mind and all the possibility and potential that comes along with it.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Why truth needs to be the basis for everything we do, and it should always come first before anything else
Thoughts are things, and we can will our thoughts to become whatever we want
The “infinite mind” is a superior intelligence that doesn’t come from any external source—but rather, it comes from the innermost part of your being
Why listening to this internal guidance increases your confidence and guarantees your success
How our desire is leading us in the direction we want to go—and why the idea of “getting rid of all our desires” is actually misguided and harmful
What happens when we focus on problems instead of focusing on what we want to create
Why our own personal growth is the fundamental value we should have, first and foremost
When we surrender to the guidance within that is seeking expression without, we have the power to create something greater in our lives.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 344 – Thomas Troward’s Completeness
Mar 15, 2021
In today’s episode I’m teaching Thomas Troward’s essay on “completeness.”
From a young age, most of us have heard the message over and over again that there’s something wrong with us, and there’s something wrong with the world.
This idea drives us to believe we’re not whole or complete; so we constantly look outside of ourselves for completeness. Whether it’s looking for the perfect job or career, more money, or other external things, we’re always looking for something to fill a perceived void in us.
Troward suggests a radical and liberating idea—that we’re already complete now. We already have greatness inside of us now. Nothing is lacking in us. All we have to do is look inward, rather than outward, to find all the answers we need in life.
In this episode you’ll learn:
How to build a better concept of yourself—who you are, what you’re capable of doing, and the incredible potential you carry inside of you
Why you must apply daily action to change your programming and beliefs (you can’t just think something intellectually and expect to change)
Why seeing imperfections all around you is more an indication of the programming that lies within you
Why really successful people are often seen as coldhearted—because they have an incredible ability to focus on their greater purpose of why they’re here, while shutting out the drama of the world
Why getting involved in drama is actually a way of searching for that ‘completeness’ that’s already inside you
As we begin to see our own completeness, we find that we no longer need to go outside ourselves for anything. The more we focus inward rather than outward, the more we’ll tap into success.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 343 – Earl Nightingale – The Dean of Personal Development
Mar 12, 2021
Today we have a special episode for you as we celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Earl Nightingale. He’s considered the Dean of Personal Development, having played a huge role in advancing the personal development industry.
From the time he was a child through his adulthood, Earl was always seeking the true meaning of success —and that would become his life’s purpose. He became one of the greatest minds of his generation and a true expert on the principle of success and what it takes to be successful. I believe he wanted people to really understand the power of their mind. His philosophy was that anyone can reach their highest potential merely through living by one simple message—you become what you think, you reap what you sow, and you must provide service to others whom you meet.
Earl brought the ideas and knowledge of Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone, Wallace Wattles, and others to the common person. He was great at taking somewhat esoteric messages and making them accessible so that the masses could really get behind it. To this day, even 100 years after his birth, millions of people continue to seek out Earl Nightingale’s words of wisdom through replays of his work.
Don’t miss today’s episode as BT and I dig into Earl’s life, history, and some of the amazing things he accomplished!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 342 – Let Spirit Lead
Mar 09, 2021
In today’s episode, BT and I delve more into the idea of “letting Spirit lead. ”
Many people are miserable, unhappy, and unfulfilled in their life—and yet, they’re afraid to make any changes. The idea of change is so scary or uncomfortable to them, they’d rather just live with their dissatisfaction.
But here’s the problem: life is always changing. I don’t care who you are, where you’re from, or what your background is—life is going to change from one day to the next. Sometimes it’s big or painful changes. Sometimes it’s great changes that we love. But change is the one constant.
Fundamentally, there seems to be something in the human psyche that keeps us locked into doing the same thing. It’s almost like a rigged system. But if you learn to look at life as an adventure, in anticipation of change, you’ll find it much easier to enjoy the process.
In this episode you’ll learn:
The mindset needed to not view every change as a “catastrophe” that brings pain
How to listen to that internal voice that’s guiding you on where to go
The difference between the voice of fear and the voice of Spirit
Why it’s our responsibility as a human being to figure out how to listen to the voice of our higher self
The power of moving into acceptance—because there are things in this universe we can’t change
Why if your partner or spouse is adapting, but you aren’t, this could affect the connectedness you have, and the things you have in common with them
If you feel like you’ve lost your ability to adapt, this episode is for you. Give it a listen!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 342 – Let Spirit Lead
Mar 08, 2021
Many of the world’s greatest philosophers say that suffering begins in the idea of attachment. Suffering begins when we resist something (usually change). We get attached to a particular way of doing or experiencing things. We can’t let things go, or we can’t “flow” like water through a changing environment.
Instead, we get very rigid, and we resist the change that life naturally brings us. When we get attached to the old way of doing things, we become miserable.
Change is a constant thing in our life. Whether it’s big or small, life is always surprising us with something unexpected. And this can often have huge effects on us. You’ll have to deal with change at some point—and you can either go through it kicking and screaming, or you can actually try to go with the flow and see what the opportunity is behind it.
In today’s episode, you’ll learn:
The 2 ways significant change usually takes place in a person’s life
How dissatisfaction with life is often the gateway to creating something better
Why looking at the big picture (the God’s eye view) versus the small picture (the bug’s eye view) puts everything into perspective and lets you see the patterns of what’s happening
Simple questions you can ask yourself to be able to handle change
Why a willingness to be adaptable (and not so rigid) opens the way up for opportunity and possibility that sparks your soul
Whatever’s currently going on in your life, I invite you to get really quiet, tune in, and let Spirit lead you through it.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 341 – Movers & Shakers – Dave Crenshaw – The Myth of Multitasking
Mar 04, 2021
Dave Crenshaw is the author of the bestselling book, The Myth of Multitasking. He specializes in productive leadership, helping individuals and organizations become as productive as they can possibly be. He also is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies.
After being diagnosed with “freaking-off-the-charts ADHD,” Dave went on a journey to learn more about productivity. He created a system to help himself get organized; then he started teaching it to others. That was 20 years ago; today his 30+ online courses on LinkedIn Learning have tens of millions of downloads.
In this episode you’ll learn that:
Most people spend less than 25% of their day doing their most valuable activities… and over 75% of their day doing things that are worth less—driving their value down every minute they work
Multitasking causes you to make more mistakes, increase your stress levels, and causes tasks to take longer to complete
The average person loses 28-35% of their day due to interruptions and the recovery time associated with those interruptions (the equivalent of one work week every year)
Multitasking (AKA “switch tasking”) has a negative effect on your relationships, because you make people think they’re unimportant
Solving the problem of “attention switches” (otherwise known as “the classic squirrel”) frees up a ton of time
Your goal shouldn’t be to make multitasking your superpower—but instead, to make focusing your superpower
Dave also shares a quick exercise you can do to see how much time multitasking is costing you.
If you think multitasking is your superpower, don’t miss today’s episode!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 340 – You Can’t Be a Winner if You’re Not in a Fight
Mar 02, 2021
In today’s episode, BT and I go deeper into the ongoing “fight” that everyone is engaged in on a daily basis—the battle to overcome your subconscious mind.
In my Elite Mind program, I watch my clients battle with their subconscious mind every day. It’s nonstop. They’re literally fighting for their life—fighting for the success they desperately want. Some weeks, they win the battle. Other weeks, they get knocked out. Like a fighter getting pummeled, they risk being taken down.
It really is a fight. It’s not a kid’s game. Understanding how to battle your subconscious mind is “Successful Mind 101.”
Many people are teaching a Pollyanna idea that “there’s no battle in life.” Frankly, that’s BS, and they’re doing others a disservice by suggesting that.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Why your subconscious mind tries to confuse you with “problems” that show up in your life
How your programming sees anything that goes against it as a threat to your survival
Why you shouldn’t let confusion control your mouth; only use your mouth to speak what you want into existence
Two starkly different natures that exist in human beings (based on our friends, “the lion and the pig”!)—one creates things and moves life forward; the other is programmed to develop lazy attitudes
Why successful people focus on finding solutions to problems
How to have peace even when problems show up
By the time you’re done listening to this episode, you’ll be so clear, you’ll be unstoppable.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 340 – You Can’t Be a Winner if You’re Not in a Fight
Mar 01, 2021
Everyone wants to be a winner in life. But we can’t actually be a winner if we’re not in a fight.
All of us are all in a fight or battle to be successful in life. Our main battle is to overcome ourselves—the parts of us that need to be reconditioned in order to be successful.
To live our dream, we need to expand our thinking, build new skill sets, and create more engagement in the direction we’re going. All of that requires a battle.
Today’s episode is a lesson on how to do battle with “the enemy. ” The enemy I’m referring to is your subconscious mind. There’s no “power” out in the universe that’s preventing you from getting what you want or that’s against you, trying to make your life miserable. The real enemy is your programmed mind.
You’ll learn:
How the enemy uses five specific weapons to keep you stuck and prevent you from moving forward
Five tools you can use to overcome the enemy, win the battle, and create the life you want
How to maintain your peace while you’re growing, engaging with the world, and getting better at being successful
The “three types of peace” related to God or spirituality
The real meaning of faith and how it affects your ability to get the results you want
Two characters—the lion and the pig—one of them aggressively goes out and creates the world they want; the other is in either denial or vindictive about their life and they stay stuck (which one are you?)
I believe each person was put here to be something exceptional in their life. We’re here for a reason and a purpose—to live our divine destiny.
There’s a certain sense of peace that comes with knowing everything you do, and everything you experience (even if it’s something painful or that you don’t like) is actually adding to life. That means we can rest in the idea that everything we’re going through is for our own growth.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 339 – The Common Denominator of Success
Feb 25, 2021
In today’s episode I’m teaching on Albert E.N. Gray’s speech, “The Common Denominator of Success.”
Most of us were taught that hard work is the secret to success. However, Gray points out that although hard work may be required—it’s not the real secret to success.
Gray says success lies in the fact that successful people “formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.” The key word here is “habit.” Successful people are in the habit of doing things failures don’t like—and don’t want—to do.
“Men form the habits, and habits form futures. If you do not deliberately form good habits, then unconsciously you will form bad ones.”
If you want to be great, you have to habitually do great things. You have to do the correct things over and over again. Once it’s a habit, we no longer have to think about doing it.
In this episode you’ll learn:
How to make success a habit
How we’re born to be a success, yet we’re programmed to be mediocre in life
The difference between what mediocre, normal people (or failures) do, and what successful people do
Why you’re not getting the results you want
The 4 main habits that bring about success business or work
Why your “needs” will only push you so far, but your desires will keep pushing you long after your needs are satisfied
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 338 – My Three Friends
Feb 23, 2021
Most of us, myself included, never had any instruction on how to discern the character of a friend or anyone we meet in life. We were taught to see people as “nice” or a “jerk”—but this doesn’t mean anything, nor does it tell us about their character.
On the last episode, I shared how there are 3 types of important people who will come into our life: confidants, constituents, and comrades. Understanding the difference between these, and knowing the roles they play in your life, is the foundation for success.
In today’s episode we’ll dive deeper into:
Why the character of the people in your life is so important
How to know if a person is truly a confidant or not —and why treating a “constituent” like a “confidant” is the cause of so much pain and turmoil in people’s relationships!
Discerning a person’s secret motivations—why they’re in a relationship with you, what they’re trying to get from you, or what they’re trying to help you with
Knowing how much to share with certain people in your life
Getting to know yourself better and finding out if you’re a confidant, constituent, or comrade to yourself
Relationships are so important. Most of us weren’t taught how to properly evaluate relationships, and so we’ve suffered through very challenging issues.
This episode will help you understand why so many things went wrong with certain people in your life… and why so many things went right with certain people.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 338 – My Three Friends
Feb 22, 2021
One of the most important things we could learn in life is how to pick good friends.
Most people, when they’re raised as children, don’t ever get a solid understanding of how to evaluate the relationships we take on in life. Most of us don’t know how to evaluate the character of people in our life, or what role they’re meant to play. This causes us to make errors in bringing certain people into our life.
For us to move forward, we need other people. There’s no such thing as a “self-made man” or “self-made woman.” That’s total BS. Nobody is self-made. We all need relationships. We need relationships with people who are better than us, who know more than us.
We’re also going to have relationships with people who don’t know as much as we do, and we’re going to help them. We’ll have intimate relationships, friendships, and relationships with people we don’t even know as we go through life.
If we don’t know how to discern the basic character of why people come into our life, not only can we set ourselves up for a big fall, but there could also be hurt feelings on the opposite side of this.
In today’s episode, I’m drawing on the wisdom of Reverend TD Jakes , a well-known minister out of Houston, Texas. I’ve been listening to him for a long time. Today’s episode is based on one of his 30-minute Sunday sermons that really stuck with me.
We need to understand that there are 3 types of important people who will come into our life: confidants, constituents, and comrades. Understanding the foundation of each relationship will help us know how to survive as an adult. Very often, we think a relationship is something that it’s actually not. And that’s where we set ourselves up for disappointment and hurt feelings.
By understanding these 3 types of people, knowing your friends, and keeping them in the right context of what relationships are supposed to look like in your life—you’ll save yourself a lot of pain. You’ll also have big wins in the future.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 337 – Movers & Shakers – Garry McIntosh – Operation Underground Railroad
Feb 18, 2021
Today’s episode may be disturbing for some listeners. My guest is Garry McIntosh from Operation Underground Railroad (OUR). We discuss a dark topic that most people want to avoid thinking about—the horrors of sex trafficking in the United States and around the world. Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the history of the world, surpassing the gun trade and closing in on the drug trade.
Operation Underground Railroad exists to rescue and rehabilitate children from sex trafficking. Garry and I discuss why this criminal behavior is so prevalent, and why it’s growing so quickly. As someone who is fairly new to this topic, I was surprised by these horrible statistics:
An estimated 30 to 40 million people are in slavery around the world right now; a quarter of these are children
2 million of those children are sold for sex; the others are sold for forced labor, organ harvesting, and child sacrifice
The US has the highest demand for child pornography out of any other country in the world
85% of trafficking cases start online with fake relationships or fake job opportunities
Traffickers use encrypted messaging apps to prey on vulnerable teens and people who don’t understand they’re being manipulated or coerced.
OUR partners with law enforcement, sets up sting operations, and facilitates the arrest of individuals who are harming children, trafficking them, and exploiting them. Once the children are liberated, they’re put into Aftercare, where they begin their journey of healing from the trauma and darkness of sex trafficking. How OUR is able to rescue and rehabilitate survivors of sex trafficking is nothing short of amazing.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 336 – Everything is Created as a Whole
Feb 16, 2021
The Law of Polarity says everything in the universe is created as a “whole.” This means everything has an opposite, and it’s equal and opposite.
If you have a problem in your life, then there must be a solution right here and now. If you have a desire, then the way to fulfill that desire is already here.
Our goal should be to become more aware of this truth each day, and realize our oneness with God or the universe. This allows us to tap into our infinite human potential, which goes from being “potential” to power.
In this episode you’ll learn:
There’s no other time in the universe than right now
Everything is already here—and it’s here now
Your “reality” is much more than whatever you’re experiencing in this moment
Money is abundant—whether you have an abundance of wealth, or an abundance of poverty or debt
We’re always manifesting our heart’s desire —even if that desire is unconscious
The more you become aware that everything is created as a whole, the faster your life will change, the more money you’ll make, the more limitless your ideas will become, and the more people you’ll help, including yourself.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 335 – Inside The Mind: Tiger Woods
Feb 15, 2021
Tiger Woods is best known for his massively successful golf career, and perhaps equally known for the personal problems following the death of his father. You may remember the controversy that surrounded Tiger’s personal life . As a celebrity athlete, he was constantly put under a microscope, starting at a young age. He was treated like a “god,” and was seen as a savior of the sport of golf . When you’re placed on that high of a pedestal, there’s only one way to go from there—and that’s down.
Recently HBO came out with a fascinating documentary on Tiger Woods that reveals how he dealt with the pressure of being in the spotlight. It sheds light on how Tiger’s dad controlled everything in his early life, and how this impacted his behavior later in life. When you have a parent who’s domineering, overbearing, and even narcissistic, your entire experience in life is based on whether or not you have your parent’s approval and permission to feel anything.
In this new show, BT and I discuss the complicated life of Tiger Woods and what it teaches us about the psychology of getting great at something. It’s not just about golf—it’s about how Tiger showed up in his world, and how his experience was based on the idea of him being “the best.”
Whether you admire him or not, he’s an interesting person to study when it comes to being the best at something you set your mind to. It teaches us that “winning solves everything”… and at the same time, we can’t let things we don’t understand destroy us. We need to be able to ask for help when we need it.
Even if you’re not a sports fan or a Tiger Woods fan, I highly recommend you check out the documentary.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 334 – Movers & Shakers – Hillary Walsh – Your Sh*t Matters
Feb 11, 2021
Hillary Walsh is an award-winning, nationally-renowned immigration attorney. She’s a published author and a law professor at one of the top law schools in the nation, and she’s a wildly successful entrepreneur. Her mission is to help others give meaning to their painful past, so they can start living the life they couldn’t even imagine before.
In this Movers & Shakers episode, Hillary shares her story of childhood abuse and trauma, and how she uses her past to help immigrants who are facing similar abuse, but in different formats. Abuse tends to be generational, and it’s ingrained into a family cycle. Growing up in rural Kansas, Hillary was severely beaten and put in foster care. Her rock-bottom moment came when she engaged with the legal system for the first time… where she learned that often, “The client has no voice.”
Many of her immigration clients are abused by their U.S. citizen spouse, or even by their kids, who use their undocumented, illegal status as leverage over their parents. She’s seen kids threatening to call ICE on their parents, and manipulating them to get what they want. Hillary uses these difficult situations to have hard conversations that result in positive changes. This is how she helps her clients give meaning to their pain.
Hillary believes there’s a purpose for everything we’ve been through. By being vulnerable and sharing our “rock-bottom moments,” we can serve other people.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 333 – The Psychology of Sales
Feb 09, 2021
Many entrepreneurs and business owners avoid selling because they don’t want to be associated with “sleazy salespeople” or unethical selling tactics. We all want to avoid being a bad salesperson.
But can you grow a business without selling?
Today, BT and I go inside Episode 333 – The Psychology of Sales — and we delve into why so many people are averse to selling. Most of us didn’t hear positive messages about salespeople while we were growing up… and we’ve all had bad experiences with salespeople at some point. This shapes a person’s ability to sell later in life.
If you’re not making sales, you’re not making money and you have no business. It’s one thing to know how to have sales calls; it’s quite another to actually do them on a regular basis. Most entrepreneurs either avoid making sales … or they bring nervous energy to their sales calls and sabotage their ability to sell.
If you’re an entrepreneur who is struggling with sales, don’t miss today’s episode!
We explore:
How the fear of rejection stops people from selling
Why you should get past your need for acceptance, so that hearing a “no” doesn’t psychologically screw with your head
How to tame nervous, misdirected energy on a sales call—and instead show up cool, calm, and direct, while understanding this conversation is a tool; it has a purpose
Why “dealing with objections” and “building rapport during sales calls” can be a trap
Why you should avoid “telling” people anything in a sales call—and what to do instead
The mindset to adopt if you want to skyrocket your sales
How to be mindful about the energy you’re bringing to each sales call. Train your mind to do the right things during a call—and put your success all on you.
I also share a terrible experience I had with a car salesman that I’ll never forget! (It was when I was young and had just gotten out of the army.) Give the episode a listen and find out what happened!
No matter what happens in your business, there’s always an opportunity to sell. No matter what you’re selling, you’re having an impact on another human being. This is an amazing idea, and you can train your mind to see it that way.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 333 – The Psychology of Sales
Feb 08, 2021
When you’re having a sales call with someone, it’s not a normal conversation. It’s a special conversation that requires you to conduct yourself as an authority, so that you can direct the other person’s (i.e., the prospect’s) thinking.
The psychology of selling is about understanding what’s actually going on with the other person, and what’s going on in yourself during the call. Having done sales training for 20 years, I’ve taught thousands of entrepreneurs and business people about the psychology of sales . I see so many people making common mistakes during sales calls that disrupt their ability to help the other person, let alone sell. In this episode, I share the most important concepts you can use to speed up your skill of selling.
If more entrepreneurs knew these ideas upfront when they first started learning how to sell, it would greatly speed up their skill set much quicker.
If you struggle with sales, once you understand this information, it will straighten out your sales quite a bit and allow you to get to mastery much faster.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Why seeing yourself as an “authority” is a must during a sales call—and how to avoid bringing any “weird energy” to the call
The #1 most important question to answer during a sales call (and why interjecting your thoughts about it can disrupt your ability to sell!)
How to use questions in the correct way when in a sales conversation (because we’re all programmed to answer questions!)
The top mistake amateur salespeople make during a call (hint: it has to do with distracting the potential prospect!)
What to do before a sales call to make sure you show up grounded and ready to help the other person
Why “awkward silences” during a sales call can be powerful, if used correctly
How to conduct yourself during a sales conversation so that the other person sets you apart in their mind as someone rare whom they trust
Every single thing you say and do on a sales call causes a psychological and physical reaction to occur in the person you’re presenting to—and I mean everything you do. Whether you’re on Zoom, in person, or on a phone call, learn how to master yourself during these calls, so you can start strengthening your sales conversations today!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 332 – Raymond Holliwell & The Law of Forgiveness
Feb 04, 2021
Today, I’m going to go through Law of Forgiveness based on Raymond Holliwell’s book, Working With The Law. The link between gratitude and forgiveness makes a tremendous amount of sense and today, and you’re going to see how this applies to your life.
In this episode, learn how forgiveness can:
Allow flow and growth to take place
Heal the physical body
Liberate sins and mistakes
Release thoughts of fear and guilt
Lift you from debt to abundance
And so much more …
Understanding and living based on the Law of Forgiveness is life-changing and forges a successful mindset that can carry you through even the most difficult times in your life. Forgiveness will bring forth the bigness of character life calls for, and through forgiveness lessons of life are learned. This poem sums it up perfectly…
Forgive
That slight misdeed of yesterday, why should it mar today? The thing he said, the thing you did, have long since passed away;
For yesterday was but a trial; today you will succeed, And from mistakes of yesterday will come some noble deed.
Forgive yourself for thoughtlessness, do not condemn the past; For it is gone with its mistakes; their mem’ry cannot last;
Forget the failures and misdeeds, from such experience rise, Why should you let your head be bowed, Lift up your heart and eyes!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 331 – I Can’t Change the World But I Can Change Myself
Feb 02, 2021
Today, David & BT go inside Episode 331 – I Can’t Change The World But I Can Change Myself. David dives deeper into the power of choice, how it affected his growth early on, and how attaining significant, lasting change is easier than you might think. He also talks about our current issues, why and avoiding judgement with the “I told you so” rhetoric is so important, and how being around toxic people will stunt your personal growth.
Through understanding and applying the Law of Polarity, a person is able to make huge changes in their current situation. For David, all those years ago, it boiled down to the simplest of things – changing his attitude. In doing so more opportunities presented themselves than ever before, allowing him to eventually start his own business and help others do the same. Had he not done that, and chose to do the internal work to break away from the machine, he admits he wouldn’t be here today. You have to change your thinking in order to get there, period.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 331 – I Can’t Change the World But I Can Change Myself
Feb 01, 2021
Many people have an idea in their mind about the world changing to fit whatever narrative they have for themselves and how they believe the world should operate. I’ve listened to people present questions or statements and say that if this person would only do this or if that person would only do that the world would get better. Always looking outside oneself for change is not accurate thinking. Change is an inside job, and to make any sort of difference in the world it first has to start from within,
What I’ve begun to understand, now more than ever, is the sense of frustration facing our world today. If we could wave a magic wand and bring this back to a more calm place I’m sure most of us would not hesitate. That said, there is no Fairy Godmother waiting to save the day. This isn’t a fairy tale, this is real life.
That being said, even though most people aren’t able to exact huge changes in how the world thinks, we are able to make a difference in the way WE think. We can change ourselves and the way we experience the world, which I believe is something that’s very much overlooked in so many cases. But how?
After working with thousands upon thousands of people for the last several decades, mostly those who are dissatisfied with their current results, I have come to maintain that with the simple shift of seeing things differently all that you desire can be yours. In the beginning, there is a common starting point where most believe that change must come from those around you, outside of yourself. What most people don’t realize, and I can understand this quite well because there was a time in my life when I was in the same boat, is that each of us has the ability to change our own world by utilizing the greatest power of all. The ability to choose.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 330 – Movers & Shakers – Sloane – Daring Life Society
Jan 28, 2021
Sloane is a former business attorney turned core belief consultant. Just a few years ago, she successfully scaled her boutique law firm in Santa Monica to over 400 happy clients while working 1,000 hours per year and traveling the world.
She attributes her firm’s success to delivering a superb client experience and being her client’s partner in business, not just a voice in legal expertise. Having been behind the scenes of hundreds of businesses – she had a unique vantage point to catch blind spots in profitability, operations, and her client’s mindset around it all.
After coaching hundreds of clients to help them through their toughest business challenges – Sloane sold her firm to pursue her heart’s calling. She is now a core belief consultant to ambitious women who are ready to expand beyond conventional possibilities and live fully while creating even more success in business.
In this Movers & Shakers episode, Sloane shares the years spent diligently laying the groundwork that lead her to retooling her consultant business to focus on women and empowering her clients to tap into their inner warrior. She also shares thoughts around the difference between men and women in terms of growing a business and how the current shift in the landscape is a promising one from an equality perspective. Working harder is not the answer, but having a clear goal, the passion to work towards it and the ability to push through when things become difficult inevitably leads to a more fulfilled life.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 329 – David From The Stage: The Impression of Increase
Jan 26, 2021
Today I’m getting back into The Science of Getting Rich, and specifically The Impression of Increase. This is my favorite chapter of any book I’ve ever read. Why? This chapter alone has the ability to change your life, your business, and even your relationships. The Impression of Increase has huge potential to change absolutely everything you are doing.
Get ready to learn:
How to get more increase for yourself and others by following the Certain Way
How to get more customers by conveying a sense of increase to everyone you interact with
How to communicate a greater use value versus cash value by understanding the potential of what it is you offer
How to master your environment by staying out of competitive mind and staying in creative mind
This is a chapter you will want to go over again and again and again. Let the idea of the impression of increase infiltrate everything you are being. Do that and you will be able to write your own ticket to earn whatever it is you want!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 328 – David From The Stage: The First Principle
Jan 25, 2021
I’m constantly being asked if there was one book that made a huge difference in my life. You may have heard me say that The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles is THAT BOOK.
Over the next two episodes, I’m going to take a deep dive into the most important chapters in a uniquely distinct progression. Today, I’m going to go over the chapter entitled The First Principle in the Science of Getting Rich.
On this episode, you’ll learn:
Thought is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the formless substance
You have the ability to hold an idea and the ability to focus on something until you move it from thought to form
Everything in your life is in a constant state of motion and momentum – to get unstuck and to change, momentum must be broken
and much more …
Just wanting more money doesn’t make it happen. You need to think of the idea, put it in thought form, and then do everything needed to bring it about. You will bring ways and means for opportunity for riches to happen.
There IS a science to getting rich! Let’s get to it …
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 327 – Movers & Shakers – Jason Redman – Surviving Life’s Ambushes
Jan 21, 2021
Jason Redman is a retired Navy lieutenant, best-selling author and sought-after personal/professional-development speaker and trainer. During his 21-year Navy career, LT Redman spent 11 years as an enlisted SEAL and nearly 10 years as a SEAL officer, where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor, the Purple Heart, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, five Navy Achievement Medals, and two Combat Action Ribbons.
On September 13, 2007, while acting as Assault Force Commander on an operation to capture a high value Al Qaeda individual, LT Redman and his Assault Team came under heavy machine gun and small arms fire where he was severely wounded in the firefight. Despite being shot twice in the arm, once in the face, as well as taking multiple rounds to his helmet and body armor, LT Redman and his team fought valiantly ensuring that everyone came home alive. His career in the military ended that day, but his long road to overcoming his injuries was just beginning.
While recovering at Bethesda Naval Medical Center, LT Redman wrote and hung a bright orange sign on his door, which became a statement and symbol for wounded warriors everywhere. This sign gained national recognition and earned him and his family an invitation to meet President George W. Bush in the Oval Office. The original sign on the door, signed by the former President, now hangs in the Wounded Ward at the National Naval Medical Center Bethesda.
On today’s episode, LT Redman shares his love of country and how a small, self-described weakling went on to become a decorated Navy Seal through persistence, determination, and good old-fashioned hard work. He shares his Overcome mindset and how in one of the most difficult years ever faced we all came out of it better because we stared adversity and hardship in the eye and refused to succumb to being a victim. Once you take this in, you’ll understand that when life sends you an ambush it’s time to Get Off the X. Surviving Life’s Ambushes will be your new mantra!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 326 – Know Your Enemy
Jan 19, 2021
Today, David & BT go inside Episode 326 – Know Your Enemy. David talks more about Earl Nightingale and his definition of success, the anger he dealt with when he was struggling making sales calls, and the exercise he went through to finally break through the fear of what others might think. He also shares the importance of surrounding yourself with people who support you and dumping those who try to hold you back.
When embarking on a journey of self-discovery it is important to know your enemy. One thing I’ve come to realize about success is that while it’s important to have something to shoot for, there’s always some level of resistance around leaving your comfort zone to go after it. When you realize the shame of the past no longer serves you and you make the decision to live a life with no regrets, the seeds of success are sown and will absolutely bear fruit through commitment and determination. It’s time to get to know your enemy. Make the decision, back it with desire and realize that you get one chance in this life so why not live it!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 326 – Know Your Enemy
Jan 18, 2021
Do you know the thing that’s working against you? The thing that’s making it difficult for you to achieve a certain level of success? If you aren’t quite sure what that thing might be then take solace in the fact that you’re not alone. The truth is that most people don’t understand what they’re up against, looking at their struggles from a victim place rather than taking ownership of their situation. You may have an idea that times are tough, that there are challenging moments that come up way too frequently, but not understanding the enemy at work will keep you from achieving the success you desire.
Earl Nightingale provided us with the best definition of success I have ever heard: “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.” In other words, if you’re progressively going after a worthy ideal and realizing that each and every day, you’re already a successful person. You’re successful because you’re aware that this journey has no final destination – if it did you’d reach it and be done. You don’t want to be done growing do you? The Universe is about more life, and if you’re not growing you’re dying. The progression, also referred to as the journey, is what keeps you in a constant state of flow and growth.
The point is this. If you’re not getting the results you want in your life or your business then something must be that’s holding you back. That something is your “enemy” and identifying what it is only half the battle. Just know you weren’t born with it, you were given it, and now is the time to give it back. This thing is the real enemy of success. The enemy of individuality. The enemy of expressing yourself as the beautiful person that you are in every area of your life. It’s time to make the decision that you are no longer going to stifle that side of yourself that is destined for success. To do that you have to truly understand who the enemy is. That’s where I come in. It’s time to get down to brass tax and know your enemy.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 325 – Movers & Shakers – A.M. Williams – Leverage Without Limits
Jan 14, 2021
Coach A.M. Williams is a Results Coach who specializes in helping experts transform their expertise into high leveraged offers. He is the owner of A.M. Williams Coaching and has personally coached and trained numerous executives, lawyers, doctors, recording artists, and other coaches and consultants over the past 10 years from a bed-bound state.
Having been diagnosed with incomplete paraplegia, Coach A.M. learned to discover the gift of challenges, and has mastered the art of transforming adversity into one’s greatest advantage. His Yes,Go! radio show on BSRNradio.com is syndicated across 300 radio stations and reaches international listeners across the UK and North America each month. His magnificent obsession is helping high performing professionals and entrepreneurs use leverage to create the life they want, which is evident from our conversation.
On today’s episode, A.M. shares how he went from running a successful business, living a healthy and productive life to being told he only had ten days to live. It was in the darkest of these periods, lying in bed without the ability to get up, where he shifted from giving up to realizing that everything in your life can be leveraged to create something that you want. In that moment his purpose was revealed and he has not looked back since.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 324 – Be Pulled Into Success
Jan 12, 2021
Today, David & BT go inside Episode 324 – Be Pulled Into Success. David breaks down the difference between being pulled into success rather than pushed, how understanding that concept allows you to solve problems at a completely different level, and what to do when the sly disguises of opportunity present themselves. David also shares some stories from early on in his career and the lessons learned around believing that having money would solve all problems.
There’s an old saying that goes “when the student’s ready, the teacher will appear.” To anyone on a growth journey sometimes it feels like you’re wandering alone in the desert just trying to find your way. As long as you are clear in what you want, willing to put in the work to get there, and find the help you need to pull yourself to the top, success is the inevitable outcome.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 324 – Be Pulled Into Success
Jan 11, 2021
In Napoleon Hill’s book, Think and Grow Rich, there is an idea he shares around success and that most people believe you have to start at the bottom and work your way to the top. Hill refutes this notion by stating that a person who wants to be hugely successful must be able to lift their head high enough in order to be seen by success. I remember when I first read this idea I didn’t understand any of it.
After studying the book over and over again I was finally able to take in that if a person wants to do something extraordinary they’re going to need to get help from other extraordinary people. Typically this means finding a person, a mentor that is further along in their journey, that can contribute to your growth to a large degree. Sadly enough, most people won’t ever get to the place of taking on a mentor because it’s too uncomfortable, either financially or emotionally. In that instance they sacrifice the potential of what might have been to staying stuck exactly where they are.
When I was first starting out I actually had opportunities that could help me dig myself out of where I was, getting off the ground floor and start climbing my way to success. It started with a shift in my attitude, followed by seven years of study, and a ruthless discipline to not stop until I achieved my goals. It wasn’t always easy, but I made it and you can too.
On today’s episode I share what my mentor did that allowed this shift in my mindset to take place and how I moved away from being pushed into success to being energetically pulled in the right direction. There is a difference between push and pull and I’m here to help you understand it, use it to up-level your current situation, and achieve all that you truly desire.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 323 – Lessons To Live By – Embracing Opulence & Beauty In Your Life
Jan 07, 2021
As you already know by being an avid listener of the show, one of my favorite authors is Thomas Troward. My absolute favorite work by him is titled The Spirit of Opulence & Beauty and is a great study on the subjects of prosperity and personal growth. It can be a little difficult to understand since it was written in he early 1900s, but today, I’m here to simplify it.
By diving deeper into this impactful work, you’ll discover that you really need to live and enjoy the successes you experience in life. In order to get there it is necessary to think opulence — largely, generously, and liberally with no limits! I have to warn you though, you’ll be asked to question what you think beauty is in your life and the lessons you were taught around it, be that good or bad.
On this episode, you’ll realize that:
The meaning of sacrifice and why giving up something of a lower nature to gain something of a higher nature is imperative to growth
Everything you desire is necessary to ascend to the next level in life
Beauty represents the most supreme quality of thought & harmony
It’s time to beautify your life, rid yourself of shame and guilt, and prepare yourself for a life of absolute opulence.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 322 – Making the World a Better Place: Tim Ballard & Operation Underground Railroad
Jan 05, 2021
Today, David & BT go inside Episode 322 – Making The World A Better Place – Tim Ballard & Operation Underground Railroad. David talks more about why this mission is so important, what specifically spoke to him about O.U.R. and how going into the dark and addressing the issues we all face inevitably leads to change. He also shares his thoughts on why this is rarely talked about subject and what you can do to help those who need it most.
It’s no surprise why people stray away from this topic based on how dark the subject matter is. Once the images get into your mind, horrific images, they are hard to ignore. However, any kind of evil or horror that exists in the world never goes away by simply turning a blind eye and ignoring the issue. It takes brave people standing up and bringing awareness to these atrocities which forces others to take notice. That is when true change occurs, and we can all be a part of that movement.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 322 – Making the World a Better Place: Tim Ballard & Operation Underground Railroad
Jan 04, 2021
If the past year has taught us anything it is the power of community and coming together that eventually makes the world a better place. Recently in a moment of reflection, as I am prone to do when embarking on a new year, I was overwhelmed by the amount of adversity and division our world has been going through in recent times. This is not to say there haven’t been amazing moments of growth, far from it. However, nothing unites people like a common enemy and I am committed to contributing to something that will make this world a better place for the lives of our children and beyond. Which is why I’m bringing a very uncomfortable topic to the podcast today, and a deviation from our usual topics. Today I want to talk about human trafficking.
I was recently introduced to an organization called Operation Underground Railroad and its founder Tim Ballard. Ballard spent over a decade working as a Special Agent for the Department of Homeland Security where he was assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and deployed as an undercover operative for the U.S. Child Sex Tourism Jump Team. He has worked every type of case imaginable in the fight to dismantle child trafficking rings, which is what led me to want to understand more about his mission and get involved personally.
Here are some shocking facts to consider:
There are an estimated 40 million modern-day slaves in the world, 10 million of which are children
Child trafficking is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world, accounting for $150 billion dollars in annual revenue
An estimated 2 million children, the majority of them girls, are forced into the commercial sex trade annually
The United States is the #1 consumer of child exploitation material in the world and in the top 3 destinations for human trafficking.
If these statistics make you uncomfortable they should. Armed with this information and an incredible amount of respect I have for Tim Ballard and his global mission to save as many kids as possible, I wanted to share this information with you and remove as much ignorance as I can to be part of the movement that stops this growing problem. I cannot imagine what it must be like for a family to lose a child or for a child to suffer through as part of this. As is the case with growth and understanding, in order to make significant change you have to dig into the darkest crevices of yourself and shine the light on the parts that aren’t so great and be courageous enough to deal with them. This is exactly that.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 321 – Thomas Troward’s Entering Into The Spirit- Part II
Dec 31, 2020
Ask yourself, what is the position in which you are approaching life? Do you see yourself as being the cause or as a mechanism being guided? If you are like most, you see yourself as the mechanism and therefore, are not as effective as you could or should be.
My goal is to help you go from powerless to having a POWER of authority – the power to be super effective in your job, in your business, and in your relationships.
In today’s episode, you are going to:
Learn how to change your position to that of a creator
Discover how to shift to the game changing “I Am” mindset
Realize the importance of giving up your rigid ideas and how to get there
It’s time to once again enter into the spirit. To move from the “It is happening to me” mindset to the “I’m creating the life I want” position. Once you do, prepare to embody the spirit of more — more wealth, more health, more life!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 320 – What’s Going To Be Different This Year?
Dec 29, 2020
Today, David & BT go inside Episode 320 – What’s Going To Be Different This Year? David reflects back on the year that was, his ability to adapt and pivot during times of uncertainty, and how adversity and rolling up your sleeves to work the problem brings out the best in people. He also shares more around his mentality when it comes to growing a business and breaking through the threshold of control to remain consistent as the years tick by.
In order to achieve a successful mindset, a person should fundamentally understand how the laws of the universe work. This isn’t magical thinking, but rather a strategic way to think so that you can get to the answers you need to move forward. During times of struggle, and this past year was definitely that for so many people, it is important to know that every problem has a solution and every question has an answer. To avoid the suffering and poor me pity party that often comes with challenging situations, it’s important to stare your fears down and never stop moving forward. If you’re not moving you’re not growing, and if you’re not growing you’re dying. That is no way to live a fulfilling life.
David and the team at The Successful Mind Podcast would like to wish all of you the peace, joy, and love that comes with the end of the year and many blessings of success and continued growth in the New Year. Cheers and we’ll see you in 2021!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 320 – What’s Going To Be Different This Year?
Dec 28, 2020
What’s going to be different for you in 2021? What’s going to change in your life, in your business? Really take a moment to think about these questions. Search your thoughts and find these answers because if you can, the potential to make an enormous difference in the year ahead is palpable. Trust me, the opportunity for change is all around you and already here.
Here are some statistics when it comes to going into business for yourself:
50% of new businesses fail within the first year
80% of those businesses don’t make it to five years
96% of those businesses don’t make it beyond a decade
That means that 4% of all businesses succeed and remain relevant in a ten year span. That doesn’t mean they make money, it just means they are still standing and serving. Starting a business, running a business, and being an entrepreneur is one of the riskiest propositions a person could take on when observing from an outside perspective. Which is what makes you special. Makes you unique!
If you study successful people from the past, like Andrew Carnegie, the person responsible for commissioning Napoleon Hill to write the mindset classic, Think and Grow Rich, you begin to recognize an important pattern. It’s simple really. There is an actual formula or science behind being successful in matters of business building. By following this formula and embracing a set of principles, values, and beliefs, you have the potential to set yourself up for the long haul. It’s time to break through that 1 year – 5 year – 10 year threshold and build the business of your dreams. Time to get resourceful!
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 319 – Thomas Troward’s Entering Into The Spirit- Part I
Dec 24, 2020
What if I told you that you do not need to try to control every situation? Not only should you not try to control it, but you should totally give it up. You should give it up to the spirit (the Universe, God, the Source….whatever it is you want to call it).
In today’s show, we’re going to explore letting the spirit guide you. We’re going to explore letting the spirit guide all the what’s and how’s of what you are doing.
Also in today’s episode, you are going to:
Understand how you are not bringing life, but robbing yourself of more life
Recognize how to move from a spirit of certainty to a spirit of expansion
Learn how to be right to a spirit of a thing so you can enter into a spirit of growth
Just imagine the freedom you will feel once you realize that you no longer need to know how, but just need to step into the decision — the decision of stepping into the spirit and everything else will come.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 318 – The Ghosts of Our Past
Dec 22, 2020
Today, David & BT go inside Episodes 318 – The Ghosts of Our Past. David talks more about happiness is not only a choice but an awareness to be achieved, what role survivor mode plays in your day-to-day, and that the conditioning you received from the ghosts in your past are alive and kicking in your life. David also shares more about the mindset shift needed to take the emotional charge out of any situation.
The truth is that many of us are afraid to experience the pain that comes with being human and getting to our natural state being. That natural state, believe it or not, is one of peace, love, and joy. If you want to achieve that on a regular basis, you have to be willing to let go of pain and release it in a healthy way. To do so involves a purge of judgment and a release of shame and guilt. This is when acceptance rules the day.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 318 – The Ghosts of Our Past
Dec 21, 2020
We find ourselves just a few days out from the Christmas holiday . For some it is the most wonderful time of the year, filled with the traditions, the music, and the general revelry that embodies the spirit of the season. For others, this couldn’t be any further from their experience. The unrealistic expectations, the financial pressures, and the excessive commitments that inevitably lead to stress and anxiety. Whether you celebrate the holidays or not, in this episode I want to teach a very specific idea that can allow each of us to find the joy and happiness in our life, not just this time of the year but all the year long.
If you observe nature, it goes about its business thriving with the livingness of itself. Humans on the other hand carry around the trauma, the grief, and the pain of experiences not just in the moment but long after that moment has passed. It does not carry the pain in which it experiences with and through its next existence. The main difference is that nature moves on while humans seem content to sit in discomfort, judging their behavior over and over again.
Very small children, before they’ve gotten too much programming from their parents, will have an experience and throw a tantrum right in the middle of the floor. Interestingly enough, when this dramatic outpouring of emotion has run its course and the child has expressed his/her feelings physically, it’s over and they go about their day. There’s no story. There’s no harboring resentment around the problem. It’s a complete and total release of the energy. Like the character of Elsa, from Disney’s hit film Frozen, said…Let. It Go! Let go of the frustration, the anger, the fear, the grief, and the sadness. Only then will you experience true freedom.
On today’s episode I explore:
The natural state of being that resides in all of us but has been suppressed for far too long
How tapping into your higher self allows for the release you desire
The curse of suppressed emotions and how when bottled up inevitably leads to a blow up
A few vital tools you can start implementing right now to ensure you aren’t caught up in the stress and anxiety of the holidays
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 317 – What’s The Truth? – Growing Your Business From Zero to Hero
Dec 17, 2020
Welcome to this episode of What’s The Truth?. Today, I sit down with Meaghan and offer up strategies in order to help her achieve financial success in her startup coaching business. By providing a simple tweak to her marketing language and realizing she is worth asking for more, she is given the key to unlocking exponential growth moving forward. Add to that some very loud subconscious program that is continually running in the background, you begin to realize just how close you are to receiving the breakthrough you desire.
Through providing your audience with authenticity, either through social media channels or personal video messages, you not only inspire others but also get in front of the people who will propel your business ahead of where it is now. If you are an entrepreneur who struggles with a consistent brand message and having difficulties finding the right clients, you’re going to want to tune into this.
On today’s episode, you’ll learn more about:
The power that comes with having a clear message in your marketing
What the shame spiral is and how it affects your growth without even knowing it
Why raising your prices is the fastest path to growing your business
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 316 – Generational Victimhood
Dec 15, 2020
Today, David & BT go inside Episode 316 – Generational Victimhood. David talks more about where beliefs come from, the absolute way those beliefs became your own at such a young age, and how these limiting beliefs are holding you back from experiencing genuine freedom.
This is made clear when David shares the infamous “pot roast” story and the twisted way things are passed down from one generation to the next without even considering the why. We’ve seen it over and over again. When a person has a bad experience that becomes the rule. They fail to see that the bad experience was intended as a growth moment, nothing more, and avoiding anything resembling all-or-nothing thinking could have saved years and years of suffering. Let’s be honest, being a victim is a choice and oftentimes an avoidance tactic to keep you from looking at the deep dark corners inside.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 316 – Generational Victimhood
Dec 14, 2020
No one can argue that the human function of thought is the highest capability we possess. The fact that we are able to consciously think and accomplish so much separates us from all other forms of life as we know it. Everything that human beings have created has come from people first thinking about it and then working to bring it into existence. The phone you carry, the computer you use, the car you drive. All of it.
With that in mind I want to challenge the way you think about what it means to be a victim. If you had a computer that was in charge of something like the guidance system on an airplane, and it all of a sudden went haywire and wasn’t working as it should, what would you do? Would you blame another computer for that problem? Would you find something else to blame? What would you do?
In this scenario, the logical way to get to the root of the issue would be to figure out exactly what went wrong inside the computer and fix it. You’d diagnose the problem, think about what to do in order to get it back online, and forge ahead hoping it wouldn’t happen again. This is almost the polar opposite of how most of us handle our business when it comes to embracing victimhood. If you are someone who is not getting the results you desire in life, rather than diagnosing the problem and taking steps to correct them internally you are quick to lay blame elsewhere. Welcome to the perpetual cycle of the blame game, and in this game there are no winners..
On today’s episode I explore:
The idea of generational victimhood and how a faulty belief system is passed on
The harsh reality that comes with believing the problems we have are due to other people.
Why being oblivious to the power of personal responsibility is a dangerous proposition.
How a basic understanding of cause & effect holds the key to every successful mind .
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 315 – Movers & Shakers – Marques Ogden – The Success Cycle
Dec 10, 2020
In 2003, Marques was drafted into the NFL as an offensive lineman. After five years of playing in the league, he decided to retire and pursue a career in construction and contracting. At the age 27, Marques founded a construction company called Kayden Premier Enterprises which eventually gained him the coveted African American Subcontractor of the Year Award in the state of Maryland. Shortly thereafter adversity struck, his business now bankrupt, losing almost two million dollars on one project in a matter of 90 days.
During his darkest hours, he had not choice but to pull himself together. Swallowing his pride he took a part-time job as a custodian and with hard work and determination turned his life around, again. He eventually became an inspirational keynote speaker, executive coach, and now best-selling author. Through his dynamic story he has captivated audiences around the country, inspiring those who hear it to chase their own success.
On today’s episode Marques shares his long journey to success, going from a single scholarship offer from Howard University to being drafted into the NFL where only the best of the best are selected. As the injuries began piling up and he was no longer able to perform at the highest level it was time to transition to a new phase in life. When a seven-figure project his construction company was overseeing came crashing down, costing him everything in the process, it was then where his story of overcoming incredible adversity and accepting personal responsibility really begins.
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 314 – The Hidden Power: Truth In Manifestation
Dec 08, 2020
Today, David & BT go inside Episode 314 – The Hidden Power: Truth In Manifestation. David talks about his fascination with Thomas Troward and his works, how embracing your own power is crucial to the manifestation process, and the role Tony Robbins played in his early growth.
They say you can only connect the dots moving backward, which is true. David shares how that late night infomercial back in 1993 opened his mind to the possibility and eventually led to so many doors being opened in the lifelong pursuit of learning that continues to this very day. There’s unlimited power in the YES and living a life with no regrets. It is inevitable, we all face the end at some point in this life. How do you want to be remembered?
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 314 – The Hidden Power: Truth In Manifestation
Dec 07, 2020
“Thoroughly to realize the true nature of affirmative power is to possess the key to the great secret…” -Thomas Troward
Upon reading those words, so perfectly written by Troward in his book The Hidden Power, I had my first experience where making significant changes in the direction my life was going was solely in my hands. That power he referred to, the one that was laying dormant inside of me, was about to be unleashed. I had the awareness, but how do I build on that and create the change I desired? Not only that, but what is the “secret” he is speaking about? That is the journey.
My story is one you’ve heard countless times, and it may not be that different from your own. You’ve heard me say change is easy, but it took time to get to that place. It took years of study and overcoming thoughts of inadequacy, not being enough, and releasing any shame and guilt around who I was as a person. When I accepted personal responsibility and took control of my life, the good and the bad, everything shifted.
On today’s episode I dive deeper into my study of Thomas Troward and how impactful his works meant to my personal development. When I first started this journey back in the early 1990’s, my growth was dependent on employing three simple changes in how I was living my life:
Act like I loved what I did
Do every job to the best of my ability
Treat everyone with total respect
So how did I go from being bitter and resentful to embracing positivity and assertiveness in my life? That secret lies inside…
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The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 313 – What’s The Truth? – Taking Your Business Online
Dec 03, 2020
Welcome to this episode of the Successful Mind Podcast and What’s The Truth?. Today, I sit down with Rhonda, a communication guide, to help her figure out why she is having a hard time transitioning from conducting her business offline to online. I work her through strategies to recognize ways to make the seamless transition and increase the likelihood of her growth and success.
If you are in the same situation as Rhonda and finding it difficult moving from meeting clients face-to-face to an online centered approach, you’re going to want to pay close attention to what I walk her through.
On today’s episode, you’ll hear more around the benefits of:
The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 312 – Why Are You Choosing To Have This Experience?
Dec 01, 2020
Let’s talk about goals. I want to caution you though, we’re going to be brutally honest in this episode.
Today’s world is crazy when you stop to consider just how many people use blame and victimization to justify their experience and why they are stuck. Chances are It has become so easy to point the finger and deflect personal responsibility because you learned that from an early age. It’s not yours and certainly not intended to be your default. Ditch the excuses that are keeping you from enjoying the life you deserve and your whole world gets flipped upside down, for the better..
You see, humans are capable of creating amazing things. Good or bad, we are known for achieving the incredible. Throughout history we have invented, discovered, and created things that have made all our lives easier. What separates them from you? Absolutely nothing.
In this episode, David & BT discuss the twisted ideas that filter how we view the outside world, why it’s time to ditch those filters and accept responsibility in your life, and the secret mindset shifts necessary to move you forward.
The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 312 – Why Are You Choosing To Have This Experience?
Nov 30, 2020
Do you ever wonder why you’re stuck where you are?
I want to explain to you why you can’t move forward. That no matter how much you want to change or improve your life…It just doesn’t seem to happen.
Today I want to share with you the 2 most important questions that will help you reach your goals. With these questions I’m going to reveal some important truths that will really open your eyes to what is possible.
Here’s the hard truth – it doesn’t matter what you’re going through right now or what experience you find yourself in. I’ve encountered people who started from really dire situations, embraced the message that I share in this episode, and went on to become unbelievably happy individuals.
The reality is, we are all capable of that. You’re capable of that!
The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 311 – Gratitude: A Cause Set In Motion
Nov 26, 2020
Happy Thanksgiving! I want to start off with a simple yet serious question to ask yourself – “What am I grateful for?” For some, the answer may include your amazing job, your successful business, your health, or your loving family. For others it may have been realizations that came from getting laid off, losing a big client, or a recent setback that caused you to reevaluate your direction in life.
On this Thanksgiving edition of the podcast, I’m going through one of my favorite chapters from Wallace Wattle’s The Science of Getting Rich, aptly titled Gratitude.
The more you embody an attitude of gratitude, the more rapidly your life will change. No better time than the present to learn how to turn yourself into the powerful magnet that attracts all things you desire!
In this episode, you’re going to learn:
How to relate yourself harmoniously to the one intelligent substance
How to switch from focusing on what you don’t want to what you do want
How to become clear on your wants and desired results, and how to convey this to the universe
The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 310 – Actionable Gratitude
Nov 24, 2020
Gratitude is important. With all the negativity and darkness in the world today, it’s increasingly easy to slip out of gratitude. When that happens, things get worse, our mindset changes and it spirals further into the darkness.
With all that is going on around us, we need to take a closer look at how we are showing up and start taking steps to doing things differently. If we want to get through all the negativity that surrounds us, we have to change how we practice and express it.
It’s not just enough to feel thankful for what you have. We all need to start doing something that we can be thankful for.
In this episode, David & BT talk about why this approach is so much better for your own successful mindset, how to be of service to those around you, and specific examples of how to implement actionable gratitude moving forward.
The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 310 – Actionable Gratitude
Nov 23, 2020
Do you have something to be grateful for, or not? My observation for this year is this… it’s a mixed bag of gratitude. That means there’s an awful lot of people out there who don’t feel grateful for anything. If you look at everything that happened, I can’t blame them. BUT that’s not what I really want to focus on.
No matter what you’re going through right now, I’d really like to encourage you to find something to be grateful for. Why? Because the difficulties around us are meant to provide us with valuable insight.
You don’t believe me? Listen to this episode and I’ll explain to you why this is the truth.
I believe we are in the midst of a transformation and I want to share with you how you can change your mindset to feel gratitude no matter what’s going on in and around you. If you can make this shift, it will not only transform your life for the better, but you can also make an impact in the lives of the people around you.
Are you ready to celebrate the real meaning of Thanksgiving?
Episode 309: Flipping the Switch From Struggle to Success
Nov 19, 2020
Welcome to today’s episode of The Successful Mind Podcast and Lessons from the Vault. Today, I talk about flipping the switch from struggle to success.
In this episode, you’ll learn a few things that will help you create success a little faster. I specifically want to focus on why success was meant to be easy, why we make it so hard, and how a simple mindset shift can help you flip the switch from struggle to ease.
On today’s episode, you’ll learn how to:
Remove the struggle from making money
Bring a new set of values into your life to live, do, and be better
Remove conflict in your life so all that’s left is truth
Get out of your own way so you can get the results you want
The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 308 – Press On or Pack It In?
Nov 17, 2020
Today, David & BT go inside Episode 308 – Press On or Pack It In? David talks more about why people set goals they’ve already achieved, the repetitive nature of the goal setting process, and how stretching into something is a powerful practice that leads to success. He also shares a fork-in-the-road moment from his past where he was discouraged to follow a passion which set him back from learning the powerful habit of following through.
The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 308 – Press On or Pack It In?
Nov 16, 2020
Welcome to The Successful Mind Podcast. Today, I’m taking a question from another listener about goal setting and whether one should press on or pack it in. You may be thinking the same thing – “How do I know when I set a goal, when it’s time to give up on the goal, or when do I keep pushing?” Sometimes when we don’t get the immediate results we’re looking for, we are all too quick to simply give up.
On today’s episode, I’m going to delve deeper into the idea that if the goal is something that you really want, you’ll stop at nothing to achieve it. Also, I want to help you become more clear in how to properly set a goal and why your mindset in this initial phase is crucial to getting there.
On today’s episode, you’ll learn:
Goals should be something you’ve never done before
Fantasy is the first stage of creation
What you really want, not just what you think you can accomplish
The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 307 – What’s The Truth? – Overcoming Lack & Discomfort When Scaling Your Business
Nov 12, 2020
Welcome to The Successful Mind Podcast and “What’s The Truth?”. Today, I’m helping Walter, an attorney, figure out the truth behind why he’s been stuck and hasn’t been able to breakthrough and scale his business.
On today’s episode, I’m ask Walter the hard questions needed to understand why he hasn’t been able to hire the help necessary to move his business forward. Questions such as: “Do you want the breakthrough of success that you say you want, more than whatever reason you have for not scaling?”. In order to get where he wants to go, he will have to overcome lack thoughts and the discomfort that comes with building a successful business.
On today’s episode, you’ll learn:
Scaling correctly will allow you to make more money, not less.
Earning money is a cause and effect situation.
Money is never the issue. It is a symptom of another problem.
Needing to control is dysfunctional and doesn’t translate into adult life.
The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 306 – Making Decisions – Intuition vs. Ego
Nov 10, 2020
Today, David & BT go inside Episode 306 – Making Decisions: Intuition vs Ego. David talks more about the ego, the masks we wear that hide our true selves, and the belief systems that were forged early that may no longer serve you. They also talk about the Law of Rhythm and how those you think would be your biggest cheerleader can often be a detriment to your own growth.
The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 306 – Making Decisions – Intuition vs. Ego
Nov 09, 2020
Welcome to The Successful Mind Podcast. Today, I’m taking a question from a listener about making decisions: How can I tell if the voice in my head is ego, intuition, fear, spirit guiding me?
On today’s episode, I want to help you understand about the three very different voices in your head, ego, intuition, and fear. In understanding these voices you can not only cultivate your own internal voice but learn to recognize and listen to it more.
Spoiler Alert … Fear usually tells you what not to do. Your internal voice, your intuition, your higher self will always keep you on track with your desires and help you to live your best life!
On today’s episode, you’ll learn:
How to tell the difference between spirit and fear
How to recognize whose voices are making up your ego
How not to get disconnected from your internal voice, your directive that’s coming from within
The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 305 – David From The Stage: Fantasy vs Reality: Understanding the Creative Process
Nov 05, 2020
Welcome to The Successful Mind Podcast. Today, I’m going to cover with you how to create goals and put them in place so that you can achieve them. Most people are familiar with the idea of goal setting, but most people don’t achieve their goals, so there is likely something fundamentally incorrect about the way we actually settle on a goal and set it in order to achieve it.
I’m going to teach you the basic fundamentals of how to not only choose your goal wisely, but how a basic understanding of the creative process can help you achieve any goal that you set for yourself.
On today’s episode, you’ll learn:
How to overcome the unknown
The importance of fantasizing and how to get the creative process back
Two crucial questions you must ask yourself in order to reach your goals
The Successful Mind Podcast – Inside Episode 304 – The Power is In You, The Power IS You
Nov 03, 2020
Today, David & BT go inside Episode 304 – The Power is In You, The Power IS You. On this Election Day here in the States, David talks about the fracture and divide within our society, the slow and steady erosion of our core values, and how victimhood only fuels the issues we face. He also shares how to apply the laws to be less reactive and more proactive when it comes to leading with a successful mind.
The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 304 – The Power is In You, The Power IS You
Nov 02, 2020
Welcome to The Successful Mind. Today, I continue diving into the works of Thomas Troward and US Andersen, talking specifically about the power that resides within each one of us.
Today I’m focusing on the power that is behind the desire, the power of the Universe, and where we place that idea in our life. This episode is designed to get you to think differently in an effort to shift your current mindset.
On today’s episode, you’ll learn:
You have the power to make the right choices to change your life
The Successful Mind Podcast – Episode 303 – Movers & Shakers – Ian Lenhart – Podcasting For Business
Oct 29, 2020
In 2018, Ian launched his podcast, LenJones Party of 2, which focuses on educating entrepreneurs by dissecting the come-up stories of today’s incredible achievers. Today, Ian helps people navigate podcasting for business through online education programs that teach people how to upgrade their network to grow their show. He believes effective communication is based on foundational principles and focuses his time on creating genuine connections while teaching others to do the same.
But Ian’s story didn’t start in podcasting for business …
After stumbling into the direct sales industry at the age of twenty, Ian fell in love with networking and connecting with people from various backgrounds. Shortly after hitting the elite ranks in his first company, it was forced to close its doors. This led him to dive into the technology world, fast becoming the first employee of a computer vision startup using machine learning to build facial recognition and object detection models. It was there he helped scale the company to 15+ employees and led the sales team to achieve over $1,000,000 in business.
On this episode, you’ll learn:
How to take imperfect action to see results
How to figure out what your niche is
How to build your foundation and eliminate luck in the equation
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