Quality of Life- Day 23 - Mind — Transcript

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1. 0:06Hello and welcome to day 23 of
2. 0:09Lifebook's 30-day challenge. So good to
3. 0:11have you here with me today.
4. 0:13Do you realize that you've thought more
5. 0:15about your life during this program than
6. 0:17most people will do in an entire
7. 0:19lifetime?
8. 0:20I really want to acknowledge you for
9. 0:22doing this important life-changing work,
10. 0:25even though it can be tough at times.
11. 0:27I'm sure that you'll agree that the
12. 0:29heavy lifting can feel good because
13. 0:31that's the way we grow. It's the way
14. 0:33that we break through barriers and make
15. 0:35positive change in our lives.
16. 0:38Well, I'm happy to announce that the
17. 0:39heavy lifting's over and now comes the
18. 0:42fun part and you've really earned it.
19. 0:44We're going to talk about quality of
20. 0:46life today.
21. 0:49This category is about your happiness
22. 0:51and your fulfillment. It's about living
23. 0:54joyfully and fully every single day.
24. 0:57Living a life of abundance. Having
25. 1:00leisure time to enjoy with loved ones.
26. 1:03It's about having fun.
27. 1:05Having great stuff. Having good times
28. 1:08and enjoying yourself. Now, as far as
29. 1:11I'm concerned, quality of life is the
30. 1:14key category of Lifebook cuz it's kind
31. 1:17of where everything comes together. It's
32. 1:19what everything adds up to. All the work
33. 1:22that you've done so far. This is what
34. 1:23it's all about.
35. 1:25All the thinking, all the planning, all
36. 1:28the visualization that we've done in
37. 1:30every category is designed for one thing
38. 1:34and one thing only, to improve your
39. 1:36overall quality of life.
40. 1:39This category is about the material
41. 1:41things that you want,
42. 1:43the experiences that you want to have in
43. 1:45your life, and the environments that you
44. 1:47want to be surrounded by every day.
45. 1:50So, this is where you define the stuff
46. 1:52that you want. If you're a car person,
47. 1:54this is where your cars live. If you're
48. 1:56a boat person, this is where you create
49. 1:58and manifest that vision.
50. 2:00This is where your dream house lives.
51. 2:02It's where exotic travel and helicopter
52. 2:04rides and white sand beaches live.
53. 2:08This is where all the material rewards
54. 2:10for doing this work can be found.
55. 2:14Now, before we get too deep here, I want
56. 2:16to address an issue that we've
57. 2:17discovered at Lifebook really tends to
58. 2:20hold some people back from creating
59. 2:21success and fulfillment in this
60. 2:23category.
61. 2:25During the course of this 30-day
62. 2:26challenge, you spend a lot of time
63. 2:28thinking about you. Your health and
64. 2:31fitness, what you want emotionally and
65. 2:34intellectually, what kind of a person
66. 2:36you want to become, what kind of
67. 2:38relationships you want to have, how much
68. 2:40money you want to make, what kind of a
69. 2:42career you want to have. You, you, you,
70. 2:44you. Sounds pretty selfish, right?
71. 2:47Matter of fact, the whole Lifebook
72. 2:48process seems a little selfish, doesn't
73. 2:51it? I mean, this isn't missionary work
74. 2:53here. All we've been doing from the very
75. 2:55beginning of this program is thinking
76. 2:57about ourselves.
77. 2:59Well, some people have guilt about that.
78. 3:02They have guilt about creating an
79. 3:04extraordinary life for themselves, and
80. 3:06I'll tell you something.
81. 3:07Guilt is a quality of life killer.
82. 3:11Now, personally,
83. 3:13I believe that you have the right to
84. 3:15enjoy this one life that you've been
85. 3:18given.
86. 3:19You have the right to live for your own
87. 3:21sake.
88. 3:22Matter of fact, I think the world would
89. 3:24be a whole lot better place if we just
90. 3:26gave ourselves permission to be the best
91. 3:29people we could be, to put together the
92. 3:31best quality of life that we could
93. 3:32possibly create for ourselves, to create
94. 3:35the most wealth, to have the best
95. 3:37possible time while we're here. I mean,
96. 3:40I believe in fulfillment. I believe in
97. 3:42self-actualization.
98. 3:44I also believe in kindness and in
99. 3:47contribution.
100. 3:49And in benevolence and charity, can't
101. 3:51have a decent world without those
102. 3:53things.
103. 3:55But I also don't think that you need to
104. 3:56justify your existence as a human being
105. 3:59in terms of helping others. I think it's
106. 4:01perfectly valid to work hard on your own
107. 4:04life. As a matter of fact, I think that
108. 4:07we have a moral duty to do that.
109. 4:10But you may be the kind of a person that
110. 4:13has feelings of guilt about taking so
111. 4:15much time to work on nothing but you,
112. 4:18you, you.
113. 4:20And if you are, and if you don't handle
114. 4:22those beliefs,
115. 4:23you probably won't really ever create an
116. 4:26extraordinary life for yourself. You may
117. 4:28believe that it's selfish to spend so
118. 4:30much time on yourself when there are
119. 4:33others that really need your help.
120. 4:35Fair enough, I totally get that. But
121. 4:38here's my advice.
122. 4:40Please place your own oxygen mask firmly
123. 4:44on your own mouth and nose before
124. 4:46attempting to help the people around
125. 4:48you.
126. 4:49You can't give away what you don't have.
127. 4:51You can't help anyone if your own life
128. 4:54isn't working.
129. 4:56So if your thing is contribution, I
130. 4:58promise you this. Working on yourself,
131. 5:02it's exactly what's going to allow you
132. 5:04to contribute at a very, very high
133. 5:06level.
134. 5:07Being the best you can possibly be will
135. 5:10allow you to do more and more and more
136. 5:12for others. Now, on the other hand,
137. 5:15holding yourself back and making
138. 5:17yourself small isn't going to serve
139. 5:20anyone.
140. 5:22So as we begin to explore this category,
141. 5:24you might want to really ask yourself
142. 5:26whether or not you have any guilt
143. 5:28surrounding having a great life, making
144. 5:31money, having a fulfilling career, great
145. 5:34relationships, having great things and
146. 5:37experiences.
147. 5:39Is it going to be difficult for you
148. 5:40psychologically to become the best
149. 5:42person you can possibly be and make
150. 5:44yourself 12 categories smart?
151. 5:47Because the fact of the matter is this,
152. 5:49if you continue with Lifebook, over time
153. 5:52you will begin to outshine just about
154. 5:54everyone you know. That's what happens.
155. 5:56That's what Lifebook does.
156. 5:58Is that okay with you? I certainly hope
157. 6:01it is. And if it's not, this is where we
158. 6:03deal with it. This is where it's going
159. 6:05to come up in the quality of life
160. 6:08category.
161. 6:09I'd like to share a clip from the
162. 6:11classic Lifebook program now, which
163. 6:13outlines my purpose for this fascinating
164. 6:16category. Take a look.
165. 6:41My first car cost 300 bucks, and it had
166. 6:44a big hole rusted through the floor on
167. 6:46the driver's side. I could see the road
168. 6:48going by under my feet like Fred
169. 6:50Flintstone.
170. 6:51Now, don't get me wrong. This was my
171. 6:53most cherished possession.
172. 6:55But my point is this, I can tell you
173. 6:57from personal experience, it's better to
174. 6:59have a car that starts in the winter
175. 7:01than one that doesn't.
176. 7:03You don't need a Ferrari to survive, but
177. 7:05a nice car is better than one that
178. 7:07doesn't start.
179. 7:09A nice house is better than living in a
180. 7:11broken-down old shack. Nice things make
181. 7:14life better and easier and more
182. 7:17enjoyable.
183. 7:19Surrounding yourself with nice things is
184. 7:21a privilege. Throughout the vast
185. 7:23majority of human history, it wasn't
186. 7:25even possible.
187. 7:26We're so fortunate that we live in a
188. 7:28time and a place where we can do that.
189. 7:30If you manage your life well, you really
190. 7:33do have the opportunity to create a life
191. 7:36of luxury if you want to.
192. 7:39My reason for wanting the best possible
193. 7:42quality of life is tied to my purpose in
194. 7:45life, which I've already shared with
195. 7:46you.
196. 7:47It's to create the best possible quality
197. 7:49of life that I can for myself and for
198. 7:52the people I love
199. 7:54and to help others around me do the
200. 7:55same.
201. 7:57I want to really enjoy my short time on
202. 8:00this planet as much as I possibly can.
203. 8:04Life goes by like that. It's a flash.
204. 8:07I want to enjoy every day in all 12
205. 8:10categories.
206. 8:11The better my quality of life, the more
207. 8:14I'm going to be able to contribute to
208. 8:16others and to the world. And more
209. 8:18contribution means creating more value
210. 8:20for others, which will in turn create
211. 8:23more financial abundance for me and
212. 8:26allow me to increase my quality of life
213. 8:28even more. It's just a big positive
214. 8:30spiral.
215. 8:33Surrounding yourself with wonderful
216. 8:35things and creating fantastic
217. 8:37experiences in your life,
218. 8:40it's not only fun and enjoyable, it can
219. 8:42literally change your life and improve
220. 8:45you as a human being. It can take you to
221. 8:47the next level as a person.
222. 8:51Here are a couple of examples.
223. 8:53Miss and I have built our dream home and
224. 8:56it changed our lives. It changed us as
225. 8:59people.
226. 9:00Like most people in industrialized
227. 9:02countries, we spend 90% of our time
228. 9:04indoors. So, we looked at our home as
229. 9:07part of our health plan
230. 9:09and investment in our physical,
231. 9:11intellectual, emotional, and spiritual
232. 9:14well-being.
233. 9:16Our lives can be very busy and they can
234. 9:18be stressful sometimes. So, we wanted to
235. 9:21create an environment that would care
236. 9:22for us and revive us and allow us to
237. 9:26recover from the demands of the day.
238. 9:28Our goal was to completely banish stress
239. 9:31and chaos from our living environment
240. 9:33and create a calm, relaxing, peaceful
241. 9:36atmosphere for ourselves and for our
242. 9:39children.
243. 9:40And that's what we did. And I'll share
244. 9:42how we did that in the strategy section.
245. 9:47Our home is a sedate, peaceful, calm,
246. 9:51beautiful environment.
247. 9:54Spending time in our home is a really
248. 9:56wonderful experience. We're literally
249. 9:58surrounded by tranquility and
250. 10:00peacefulness and beauty every day of our
251. 10:03lives.
252. 10:05Our home is a certifiable healing
253. 10:07environment with 24-hour health
254. 10:09benefits. It will really allow us to
255. 10:12enjoy our years more
256. 10:14and to enjoy more years together.
257. 10:18This home has changed the way we live.
258. 10:20It's made us healthier and it's made us
259. 10:22happier.
260. 10:24That's an example of how a thing can
261. 10:27change your life.
262. 10:32Experiences can also change your life.
263. 10:35As you already know, Missy and I are
264. 10:37travelers. We've been to over 50
265. 10:39countries together on six continents and
266. 10:42this has changed who we are as people.
267. 10:46It's difficult to communicate exactly
268. 10:47how much this has added to our lives,
269. 10:49but I'll just say that travel is by far
270. 10:52the most important way we educate
271. 10:54ourselves. It's made us so much smarter.
272. 10:58It's blown our minds wide open and
273. 11:00seriously expanded our understanding of
274. 11:04what life on Earth is all about, of what
275. 11:06it means to be a human being.
276. 11:08It's given us an incredible appreciation
277. 11:11for the country we live in and for what
278. 11:13we have.
279. 11:15It's brought us so much closer together.
280. 11:17It's one of the reasons that we have the
281. 11:19great relationship that we have. We've
282. 11:21experienced so much joy and so much fun
283. 11:24and so much adventure together, so much
284. 11:26richness of life.
285. 11:29Standing at the base of the Great
286. 11:31Pyramid in Giza,
287. 11:33walking hand in hand through the Witch
288. 11:34Market in Bolivia, or the night markets
289. 11:37in Kuala Lumpur,
290. 11:38spending time in a Maasai village in
291. 11:40Central Africa,
292. 11:42I'll tell you, Missy and I look at each
293. 11:44other over dinner, and we say, "We've
294. 11:47really lived this life. We're really
295. 11:49experiencing it."
296. 11:51We've known what it's like to be alive
297. 11:54on this planet, and to experience the
298. 11:56whole world with someone we love.
299. 12:01Quality things and quality experiences
300. 12:05will make you smarter,
301. 12:06they'll make you better, and they'll
302. 12:08make you happier.
303. 12:10They're an investment in you.
304. 12:12They make you more interesting and more
305. 12:14knowledgeable as a person.
306. 12:17They can help you become more
307. 12:18successful. They can attract more of the
308. 12:20things and the people that you want in
309. 12:22your life.
310. 12:24How's that for a purpose for this
311. 12:26category?
312. 12:27Things and experiences aren't just nice
313. 12:29to have, they can change your life.
314. 12:32They can lead to deeply rewarding
315. 12:34spiritual and emotional breakthroughs.
316. 12:38They can enhance your life in amazing
317. 12:40ways.
318. 12:47My life book started out as a page of
319. 12:50goals.
320. 12:51Over the years, I continually thought
321. 12:53about what I wanted and why, and what I
322. 12:56needed to do to manifest my vision. And
323. 12:59that life book just kept growing and
324. 13:01growing and growing.
325. 13:02The categories evolved over the years
326. 13:05based on what I was working on in my own
327. 13:08life.
328. 13:09I never showed my life book to anyone
329. 13:11except for Missy. It wasn't that it was
330. 13:13a secret, it's just that I never really
331. 13:14thought about showing it to anyone else.
332. 13:17This This was simply my tool, my
333. 13:18personal tool, to keep my own life
334. 13:21organized, and to keep it moving forward
335. 13:23in the direction that I wanted. Why
336. 13:24would anyone else want to see it?
337. 13:26I wasn't thinking about helping anyone.
338. 13:28I was thinking about me. I was thinking
339. 13:30about how to make my life better.
340. 13:33That's how it all began, me working on
341. 13:36me.
342. 13:37That's what led to you doing this 30-day
343. 13:40challenge right now.
344. 13:42Lifebook is out there changing lives on
345. 13:44a massive scale in the world, but guess
346. 13:47what? I had to change my own life first.
347. 13:50Had I not selfishly focused so much
348. 13:53attention on my own life, I wouldn't be
349. 13:55here right now, and neither would you.
350. 13:58Like I said before, I believe that each
351. 14:01of us is an end in ourselves. We have
352. 14:04the right to exist for our own sake.
353. 14:07Our happiness, our fulfillment are
354. 14:10important for their own sake.
355. 14:12But I also believe that the very best
356. 14:16thing you can do for the world and for
357. 14:18others is to work on yourself, to make
358. 14:22yourself the best you you can be, to
359. 14:25make your life the best it can possibly
360. 14:28be, and then you'll really have
361. 14:29something to bring to the party. You
362. 14:30know, you'll have something to share
363. 14:32with others, and you'll have something
364. 14:33to contribute to the world that helps
365. 14:35people.
366. 14:37So, take a moment now to write in your
367. 14:40journal any thoughts that you might have
368. 14:42on your quality of life and what it
369. 14:44means to you.
370. 14:46I want to really thank you for being
371. 14:48here with me today, and I'll look
372. 14:50forward to seeing you tomorrow when
373. 14:51we'll explore this wonderful,
374. 14:53fascinating category even more deeply.
375. 14:56See you tomorrow.