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0:00Since 2003, I've built six companies,
0:02I've sold three for 300 million. Doesn't
0:04make me Jeff Bezos or or
0:06or Google or anything like that, but
0:07it's a pretty good result. When we use
0:09our imagination well, we do so from a
0:11perspective of familiarity. So, it's
0:13hard to imagine something we we have no
0:16concept of. It's vague. You know, it's
0:18easy to imagine when we know exactly
0:20what the thing we imagine is like. So,
0:22if we want to go on a world cruise, it's
0:24easier to imagine a world cruise if we
0:26actually visit a cruise ship and go on
0:27an open day on a cruise ship and walk
0:28around. It's harder to imagine if we
0:30just stand on the dock and watch a
0:31cruise ship. Although that's still
0:33helpful. It's even harder to imagine if
0:35we just sit at home and look at a cruise
0:36magazine, but that still helps. It's
0:38even more harder if we just simply sit
0:40in the chair and try to imagine it
0:42having never read the magazine or been
0:43to a dock or been on an actual cruise
0:45liner, okay? So, so the more familiar,
0:47the more specific we can get with that
0:49thing that we want, then the easier it
0:51is to imagine. And the easier it is to
0:53imagine, the quicker it shows up. So,
0:55what we do is we window shop. And so,
0:57for instance, if you want a house on the
0:59beach, you have to know what that feels
1:01like. And so, it's easy. You just go and
1:02visit an open house on the beach, and
1:04you touch everything, and you smell
1:05everything, and you talk to the realtor,
1:07and you sense the you you hear
1:09everything, and you just feel like you
1:11you imagine yourself living there. And
1:13that fires up your imagination to a
1:15really high level. We need at the same
1:17time, you you know, you have to live
1:18that lifestyle, you need to sample the
1:20best restaurants for their atmosphere.
1:22You need to experience flying first
1:23class. You need to ignore the thrift
1:25stores, never do coupon deals, avoid
1:27holiday sales, because you want to
1:29change your mentality to be able to be
1:30financially independent. When you're
1:32financially independent, you don't go to
1:33those things. You just don't, cuz you
1:35don't need to. So, in short, we need to
1:37be creative to find ways to get to know
1:39the feel of the lifestyle that we've
1:41chosen to have. So, you get to window
1:44shop to fuel your imagination. It's just
1:46simply window shopping. It does take
1:49courage, but it delivers in multiples.
1:51So, Sunday afternoon for me is window
1:53shopping, no matter what. It's
1:54exhilarating. First time it's terrifying
1:57typically, at least for me, and after
1:58that it's just exhilarating.
2:00>> And not everybody's window shopping.
2:02Some people haven't even started, and
2:04I'm shocked. And the shock is not um
2:06because people should have started and
2:08they haven't started. The shock is that
2:09I haven't been explicit enough
2:11uh in explaining the essential nature of
2:15window shopping. Window shopping isn't
2:17an option. It's not something that you
2:18wish you could do, but you don't you're
2:20a little bit too shy at the moment. You
2:21don't want to do it. Maybe you'll do it
2:22later. You will not achieve a single
2:25intention unless you window shop because
2:27it's about how things feel. When you can
2:30feel a day in the life, when you can
2:32truly feel it, it becomes yours. When
2:34you imagine it, but don't feel it
2:36because you don't you haven't exposed
2:37yourself to the actual experiences, it's
2:39going to always elude you. This isn't an
2:41option. This is a tool and technique
2:42that you have to get down pat. Now, I
2:45know how hard it is, and I know how much
2:47courage it takes because I've been
2:48there. I remember the first time I ever
2:51had the courage to go into a hotel. I
2:52was 18 and had never been in a hotel.
2:55And and I had the courage, and I planned
2:57it, and I thought I honestly thought
2:58that the the doorman was going to trip
3:00me up and throw me out because I didn't
3:02belong, right? What right did I have to
3:04be in this hotel?
3:05And so I made myself climb the steps. It
3:07was a big fancy hotel, and I was waiting
3:09for the interrogation by the doorman,
3:11you know, I assumed he'd say, "What are
3:13you doing?" Because I I assumed that he
3:15would look at me and think, "Oh, he
3:16doesn't deserve to be here." But no, he
3:17just opened the door.
3:19And I went straight in, and I was so
3:20intimidated I walked straight through
3:22the lobby, down the corridor past some
3:24of the the ballrooms, and straight out
3:26the back door and into the into the
3:27parking lot. I didn't I didn't see
3:29anything, do anything,
3:31but I got that first one out of the way,
3:33and that was so important. So, now I'd
3:35learned, okay, the doorman opens the
3:36door for you. He's not going to stop
3:38you. So, then the next time then it
3:39wasn't that same day, it was on another
3:41occasion. Then the next time I went more
3:43slowly, the doorman opened the door, and
3:45I stopped in the lobby, and I looked
3:46around as if I was looking for a friend,
3:48and then I noticed the coffee shop, and
3:50then I noticed the lounge and people
3:52just hanging out. And I walked around
3:54and again went out the back door
3:56straight into the parking lot, but I'd
3:57slowed down and then like third or
3:59fourth time, you know, I had the courage
4:01to go and sit down and order a coffee
4:02and that's what it takes. It takes
4:04courage. I have um it you've you've got
4:07to do it. There's there's no easy pass
4:09to this.
4:10>> So everybody needs a starting point. So
4:12if any of this resonates with you
4:14watching this or listening to this, the
4:16foundation is three simple steps, a book
4:18I wrote in 2012. It has all the basic
4:21tools you need to completely change your
4:24life into a new trajectory tomorrow.
4:26Just read the book once and the tools
4:27are there.
4:28>> So if in your intentions you have, you
4:30know, your super car and your fancy
4:32house on the beach and
4:33traveling first class and or private and
4:35then and you know, going through Europe
4:37and all it whatever it may be, whatever
4:38is in your intention, you've got to
4:40expose yourself to each one of those
4:42parameters, each one of those events,
4:43each one of those bits of material. You
4:45have to know what it feels like, what it
4:47smells like, what the sounds are like,
4:49uh what the atmosphere, the energy.
4:51You've got to understand what it's like
4:53in order to build a mini mind movie
4:55that's going to work. And I thought I
4:57had taught this and I realized now
4:58actually I don't talk about this very
4:59much at all and so as as all the great
5:03teachers will say, it's not your
5:04responsibility to learn, it's my
5:06responsibility to teach.
5:08So if you don't get this yet, that's my
5:10fault and I take it on and that's why
5:11I'm doing this podcast. So I'm I'm going
5:13to say to you I'm not encouraging you
5:15and I'm not suggesting and I'm not
5:16offering advice, I'm telling you
5:18directly you have to shop. You have to
5:22window shop.
5:23You've got to go in, you've got to pluck
5:25up the courage, take a deep breath,
5:27swallow,
5:28put your chest up, head up high and walk
5:31into the fancy hotel or walk into the
5:33dealership or walk into the open houses
5:35on the beach. And and although you'll
5:37feel like a fraud at first
5:39uh and you might be uncomfortable,
5:40you'll slowly settle into it and you'll
5:42slowly realize that you know what,
5:44everybody else who's here, they don't
5:46they don't they can't afford to stay
5:47here either. You know, the people who
5:48can afford to stay here, they're
5:49probably in their hotel rooms and
5:50they're probably they've already bought
5:52their cars or whatever. You just have to
5:54get used to the environment. And you do
5:57it with all these things that are part
5:58of your mini mind movie, whatever that
6:01may be. So,
6:02you know, in in my in my case it was
6:04fancy hotels and fancy restaurants that
6:06I really couldn't afford, but I would
6:07find a reason to go in and sit at the
6:09bar and have a half a half glass of beer
6:11or something.
6:13Open houses, you know, I got the courage
6:15It was really intimidating first cuz the
6:17the beautiful open houses are typically
6:18behind gates and they have security
6:20guards who who have guns. And so, it's
6:22really intimidating first, but then the
6:24very first time that Len and I had the
6:26courage to go to the $5 open house that
6:28we really liked and that we'd seen
6:29online and we wanted to go to it. Yeah,
6:31there was a guard there. He had the
6:33uniform on, security guard and
6:34everything. And I don't know whether he
6:35had any gun or not, but he he had his
6:37pockets look quite full. I had my speech
6:39ready to justify why we were there that
6:41day. And he talked to me and he was
6:43Scouse. He had He had the Liverpool
6:44accent. And we just And we And straight
6:46away And we were off talking about
6:47Liverpool and then of course he said,
6:48"Hey, go and enjoy yourself." I was
6:49like,
6:50"Um I'm just saying that you just need
6:52the courage and life will fill in the
6:53details for you. Life will not make it
6:55difficult.
6:56Life will not make this a challenge for
6:58you. The challenge is in your head. And
7:00once you overcome the nervousness and
7:03you make yourself do it, life will point
7:05out, "See how easy this is? See how nice
7:07people are? See how kind they are to
7:09you?" And it's just it it becomes a
7:10really good experience. In the
7:13Facebook group, Shawn Morrissey I think
7:15started this conversation and he was
7:17saying a similar story how intimidated
7:19he was the first time that he was sat in
7:21a in a hotel. He thought he was bound to
7:23get thrown out, you know, probably
7:24beaten up or something. That's how it
7:26feels the first time. I understand that.
7:28But you're just going to get through
7:29that first time. Now, he treats hotels
7:31like he would his own lounge, as I do. I
7:33places to hang out, places to meet.
7:35I have my own I have my own coffee that
7:37I I have shipped to me. Um
7:40and it's really the only coffee that I
7:41like. it's a really healthy coffee. So,
7:43so I typically just make my coffee. But
7:45if I was to have a coffee out, the last
7:47place I would have it would be in a
7:48chain store. I mean, I don't think the
7:50price of a coffee in something like a
7:51Starbucks is going to be that different
7:53to the price in a five-star hotel. And I
7:55can tell you, I can guarantee that the
7:56coffee in a five-star hotel is going to
7:58be a lot better quality and taste a lot
7:59better and be prepared with love
8:02and uh served with finesse. And so, I
8:04would I can't understand why people say,
8:06"I need to go for a Starbucks." I'd say,
8:08"Go to
8:09a five-star hotel and order a coffee and
8:11you could at least you get it served in
8:12a proper cup, for goodness sake, and a
8:14in a nice environment. And while you're
8:15there, you can take in the beautiful
8:17artwork, the wonderful flower displays,
8:20the the architecture of the place, the
8:22history, the smell of it. And and you
8:24can do all of that just having a coffee
8:26in the lobby of a or or in the next to
8:28the lobby in in a fancy hotel.
8:31But most people will say, "I just need a
8:32coffee, I'll go to Starbucks." And
8:34completely miss the point of window
8:36shopping.
8:37And so, if you're one of those, please
8:38please listen to what I'm saying. You've
8:40got to change your approach.
8:42You've got to say, "Okay, so right,
8:43today I've decided today is the day that
8:46I'm going out for dinner, okay?" And so,
8:48typically you I don't know what your
8:49dinner would be, but let's say, you
8:50know,
8:51me and my wife or me and my husband or
8:53me and my family, where I would we
8:54typically go out and we have a pizza,
8:56okay? And there's nothing wrong with
8:57that. That's great fun. It's a great
8:58family thing to do, but it's not going
8:59to get you to the next level. So, you
9:01have to think about that and you say,
9:02"Okay, here's the budget that I would
9:03normally spend on just going for pizza.
9:05What I'll do instead is we'll get a
9:06pizza in and, you know, we'll we'll save
9:08like 10, 20% to that. And with that 10,
9:1120%, I'm just going to take my partner
9:13out for a coffee in a fancy hotel or a
9:15beer in a fancy hotel. I'm just going to
9:16we're just going to sit at the bar for
9:17an hour. We're going to make this drink
9:19last an hour." And I can guarantee you
9:21all kinds of magic will happen.
9:23And I I look forward to you describing,
9:26"You won't believe what happened."
9:27Because I will, because I've done it.
9:29I remember specifically going through
9:31this mental process. I've got X amount
9:33of money. We're not going to go and
9:34spend it on a cheap meal somewhere uh in
9:36in a crap place.
9:38We're going to go to the bar and we're
9:40just going to sit and we're going to
9:41have a drink and I remember Lynn had a
9:43she only ever drank Pinot Grigio, which
9:45I don't even consider alcohol, but but
9:47she but anyway, she has a Pinot Grigio
9:49and I've got a beer, just a small beer.
9:51And we sat there and of course, someone
9:53comes and sits next to us, we start
9:54talking. The synchronicity was almost
9:56unbelievable. It was like it was a like
9:58God had planted somebody right next to
9:59us who who really needed to be in a
10:01light right now. And this guy loved us
10:03and the next thing he's buying us
10:05drinks. And we end up having two or
10:06three drinks at his expense and he pays
10:08for our bill and everything. We, you
10:10know, he gives me his card. We we pat we
10:11pat each other on the back and off we
10:13go. Wonderful experiences come out of
10:15doing window shopping. But they don't
10:17come out of just saying I fancy a
10:18coffee, I'll go to Starbucks. Or um you
10:21know, we've got enough money for
10:22something to eat, let's take the whole
10:23family out for pizza. As nice as that is
10:25to do, that's not going to create the
10:28synchronicity you need. You need to put
10:30yourself into a
10:31uncomfortable position. The same thing
10:33happens in dealerships when you go to
10:34the fancy car dealership and but you you
10:37go in with the attitude first of all, I
10:38don't belong, no one's going to talk to
10:40you. When you go in thinking that this
10:41car's mine one day and I'm just pulling
10:43it to me right now
10:45and you've gone in with a little bit of
10:46pre-knowledge. So you've gone onto the
10:47internet, you've looked at you know
10:48everything there is to know about this
10:49car. You I mean, why would you go into a
10:51dealership and not know everything about
10:52the car if it's the car you want. So you
10:54go in and you ask a couple of questions
10:56of the sales guy. Is this the one with
10:58the such and such, you know, whatever
10:59the engine is you're looking at. Is is
11:02this is this this version or is this
11:03last year's version? You just start a
11:05conversation and before you know it,
11:07you've got a best friend for life. This
11:08is window shopping. So it's it's not
11:11it's 90% window shopping is about
11:13feeling comfortable and feeling your
11:16future now and 10% is kind of the
11:19synchronicity that that kicks off that
11:21will blow your mind away.
11:23So en- enough lecturing, enough enough
11:25um preaching. I just I was a bit shocked
11:28that people aren't even window shopping
11:29and I'm sorry, I apologize I haven't
11:31picked up on this before. So, please
11:33jump in on the conversation and get into
11:34Facebook. Don't don't be crazy about
11:36this. Just get into Facebook and share
11:38with your wizardry colleagues anything
11:40that you feel like sharing or just hang
11:42out and get the energy. It's a good
11:43thing to do. That's number one. And
11:45number two, please start the window
11:47shopping and feel free to share You
11:48don't have to, but feel free to share
11:50your experiences because they're
11:51typically amazing and funny.
11:53Um I've never had a bad experience doing
11:55it. And I still get nervous, by the way.
11:57I was just last week I was down in Key
11:58West, one of my favorite places on the
12:00whole of this planet. And I would look
12:03at There's a There's an island for sale.
12:05It's owned at 50 million. And then I was
12:07I'm seriously thinking about something
12:09like that. And but it took a lot of
12:11courage because that's a significant
12:12amount of cash.
12:14Um you know, you don't get mortgages for
12:15private islands, at least I don't think
12:17you do. So So it's a significant amount
12:19of cash and and it takes courage to, you
12:21know,
12:21to get to that island and use up a whole
12:23day of somebody of the of the broker's
12:25time in order to figure out what to do
12:28with this island and how it's going to
12:29work and everything. Takes courage,
12:31always.
12:32Um but it starts off with that very
12:33first one, which is getting into a hotel
12:35lobby or getting into a dealership or
12:37something like that.
12:38So, I hope this is useful. Please please
12:40please start the window shopping. You
12:42will not achieve your intentions without
12:44it. Have a great week. Make a positive
12:45difference in someone's life. Maybe, you
12:47know what? Pick someone in the
12:49dealership or in a fancy restaurant or
12:50something and make a difference in their
12:52life because they can't afford to live
12:53or to buy those cars and they can't
12:55afford to eat in that restaurant,
12:56either. They're work- They're working
12:57there. And so you can uplift these
12:59people and and you'll have as a result.
13:02So, make a positive difference in
13:04someone's life. Have fun doing it.
13:06Cuz this is all fun.
13:08And share in all the rewards, material
13:09and otherwise, they come naturally as a
13:11result of setting the energy in flow.
13:13>> A quick interruption for a crucial
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13:44[clears throat] it.
13:45Thank you.

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