Taking Control of Your Thinking- Day 05 — Transcript

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1. 0:07Hello and welcome to day five of
2. 0:09Lifebook's 30-day challenge. So happy to
3. 0:11have you here with me today as we
4. 0:13explore one of my favorite Lifebook
5. 0:15categories and one that's often
6. 0:16overlooked, your intellectual life.
7. 0:21You know, as human beings, we don't have
8. 0:23four rows of razor-sharp teeth that can
9. 0:25bite through steel.
10. 0:27We can't see in the dark, we can't run
11. 0:2975 miles an hour, and we can't change
12. 0:32the color of our skin to match our
13. 0:34environment. We're human beings and that
14. 0:37means that our minds are our basic tools
15. 0:40of survival.
16. 0:42It's our intellectual abilities that
17. 0:44define us as a species. Our ability to
18. 0:47think is what keeps us alive.
19. 0:50Everything we have in our civilization,
20. 0:52from computers to mailboxes, from
21. 0:55refrigerators to books, the chair you're
22. 0:57sitting on, the clothes I'm wearing,
23. 1:00everything was brought into existence by
24. 1:03the process of thinking.
25. 1:06For humans, it's all about what we have
26. 1:08in between our ears. This is the reason
27. 1:10we're here.
28. 1:12But there's a very, very interesting
29. 1:15complication to all this.
30. 1:17Thinking is a choice.
31. 1:19We can choose to think or not to think.
32. 1:23We can choose to face an issue or not
33. 1:25face it. We can choose to focus on
34. 1:27solving a problem or just not bother.
35. 1:31We're not obligated to monitor the
36. 1:32beating of our hearts, that happens
37. 1:34automatically. But when it comes to
38. 1:36thinking, nature has given us an
39. 1:38extraordinary responsibility.
40. 1:40In just about any situation, we can make
41. 1:43our consciousness brighter or dimmer.
42. 1:47We literally have a choice to think or
43. 1:50not to think.
44. 1:52And choosing to think is only half the
45. 1:54battle. The other half is choosing what
46. 1:57to think about.
47. 1:59What you choose to think about is
48. 2:00incredibly important.
49. 2:02Because thoughts become things.
50. 2:06Everything starts with a thought.
51. 2:08Every great work of art, every building,
52. 2:11every invention, everything in our
53. 2:13entire civilization began with a thought
54. 2:16and was brought into existence through a
55. 2:18process of thinking. And in exactly the
56. 2:21same way,
57. 2:22everything in your life began with a
58. 2:25thought and was brought into existence
59. 2:28by a process of thinking.
60. 2:30Your education,
61. 2:32which school do I want to go to? Do I
62. 2:34even want to go to school?
63. 2:36Your relationships, is this person
64. 2:39really the right one for me?
65. 2:41Your career, your level of health and
66. 2:43fitness, the house you've chosen to live
67. 2:46in, everything in your life,
68. 2:49thoughts become things. What you choose
69. 2:52to think about expands and creates your
70. 2:55life.
71. 2:56What you think about manifests in your
72. 2:59reality.
73. 3:00We all manifest something. We are all
74. 3:02creators of our own reality. The
75. 3:04question is, are we creating our world
76. 3:07consciously or are we doing it by
77. 3:10default? See, most people live their
78. 3:13lives with their thoughts on autopilot,
79. 3:16thinking just barely enough to get by.
80. 3:19Now, they're still going to be creating
81. 3:20their worlds through their thoughts, but
82. 3:22if you live in a mental fog, you kind of
83. 3:25create your world by accident.
84. 3:28One of the most powerful single concepts
85. 3:30that you could ever understand is this.
86. 3:33You can take control of your thinking.
87. 3:37You can begin thinking deliberately,
88. 3:40guiding your thoughts and actions toward
89. 3:42a clearly defined vision for your life.
90. 3:45And if you do that, the things that you
91. 3:47think about over and over are going to
92. 3:50start to show up.
93. 3:52Now, I'd like to share a clip from the
94. 3:54Classical Lifebook program that outlines
95. 3:57how I view my own intellectual life.
96. 4:00Now, everyone's stuff is going to be
97. 4:01different, but we can learn from each
98. 4:03other and not have to reinvent the
99. 4:05wheel. So, I want to share my values
100. 4:07with you on my own intellectual life
101. 4:10right now.
102. 4:35I'd like to start by sharing my
103. 4:37foundational beliefs with you. I've got
104. 4:39four beliefs that make up the premise
105. 4:41for my intellectual life.
106. 4:43The first is this.
107. 4:46My mind is my greatest asset.
108. 4:50All my goals, all my dreams, all my
109. 4:53aspirations rest on my ability to think
110. 4:56in a high-quality way.
111. 4:59So, I really need to value my mind. I
112. 5:01need to exercise it. I need to nurture
113. 5:03it. I I really need to take care of it.
114. 5:07Here's my second belief, and this is an
115. 5:09interesting one.
116. 5:11The best single indicator of true
117. 5:13intelligence is how intelligently you
118. 5:16live your life.
119. 5:18To me, true intelligence isn't about an
120. 5:20IQ test. It's not about an SAT score.
121. 5:24It's not about grades in school or
122. 5:25anything like that. And this is the way
123. 5:28our culture tends to view intelligence.
124. 5:30I think it's way too narrow.
125. 5:33What good is intelligence if you can't
126. 5:35use it to make your life better?
127. 5:37It doesn't matter how smart you are. If
128. 5:39your life is a wreck, how smart are you
129. 5:41really?
130. 5:42Living a successful, balanced,
131. 5:45intelligent life in our culture, that's
132. 5:47a highly complex task and it requires
133. 5:49some deep thinking.
134. 5:51When you see a person who's living that
135. 5:52way, you can know you're looking at a
136. 5:54great accomplishment. You're looking at
137. 5:56a really smart person there.
138. 5:59Here's my third belief.
139. 6:02I can choose to think
140. 6:04and I can choose what to think about.
141. 6:06Again, it's choice. It's
142. 6:08self-responsibility, the Life Book
143. 6:10mantra.
144. 6:13Humans can choose to think or not and I
145. 6:15choose to think.
146. 6:17And I also choose exactly what I want to
147. 6:18think about. I can't control all the
148. 6:21events in the outside world, obviously,
149. 6:23but I can control my inner world. I can
150. 6:25control my thinking. I can take control
151. 6:28of that process and begin thinking
152. 6:30deliberately and guide my thoughts
153. 6:33toward a clearly defined image of my
154. 6:35ideal future.
155. 6:37I can be purposeful with my thinking
156. 6:40and I can manage my thoughts to create
157. 6:42the world I want.
158. 6:44I can build the image, the mental image
159. 6:48of what I want. I can hold onto that
160. 6:50image and just stay in it and think
161. 6:53about it every day and if I do, I know
162. 6:55I'm going to attract that into my life.
163. 6:59And that brings me to my next belief.
164. 7:02What I think about, I bring about. My
165. 7:06thoughts become things.
166. 7:08This is called the law of attraction.
167. 7:11I know that what I think about over and
168. 7:14over absolutely programs itself into my
169. 7:18nervous system.
170. 7:19It's what I'll create. It's what I'll
171. 7:21experience in my life. It's what I'll
172. 7:23become. It's like magic. It's like
173. 7:25casting a spell on myself and then
174. 7:27sending it out to the universe.
175. 7:29And by the way, that spell can be good
176. 7:31or evil, so you got to be careful. You
177. 7:33can make yourself well with your
178. 7:35thoughts and you can make yourself sick
179. 7:36with your thoughts. It just all depends
180. 7:38on what you think about.
181. 7:41Your Life Book is going to be the best
182. 7:43tool you could ever have for activating
183. 7:46the law of attraction and manifesting
184. 7:48everything you want in your life.
185. 7:50Right now, this week, you're in the
186. 7:52process of thinking through every
187. 7:54important area of your life, defining
188. 7:57it, illustrating it, living with it,
189. 8:00flooding yourself with it on a daily
190. 8:02basis.
191. 8:04That image is going to be so clear, so
192. 8:06powerful
193. 8:08that eventually the vision and the
194. 8:10reality are going to become one.
195. 8:19Your mind is incredibly important. Honor
196. 8:23it. Value it. Choose to think
197. 8:27and think about everything that's
198. 8:29important to you.
199. 8:31Work hard to develop your mind and let
200. 8:33it take you where you want to go.
201. 8:35You can use your magnificent, glorious
202. 8:38ability to think to literally manifest
203. 8:41everything you want in your life.
204. 8:44Well, that's it for today. I look
205. 8:46forward to seeing you tomorrow and we're
206. 8:48going to dive deeper into how to enrich
207. 8:51your intellectual life and use that big,
208. 8:53beautiful brain of yours. Until then,
209. 8:56have a great day and I'll see you
210. 8:58tomorrow.