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0:00How do you define transformation?
0:02>> Transformation transformation is what
0:04people think it is. It's not just
0:05change. Transformation is I think the
0:08dictionary definition is a radical shift
0:12in nature, character or form. A radical
0:16shift irreversible
0:18>> in nature, character or form. So it's
0:20not just changed. It's not just
0:22improvement. When water is boiled, when
0:26it gets hotter,
0:27>> yeah,
0:27>> it gets hotter by degree until it hits
0:29100° C and then it changes state. It
0:32changes from the liquid state to a gas.
0:36It literally It's not different by
0:38degree. It's different in kind. It's
0:40it's completely transformed. When soft,
0:43porous coal, you know, under the earth
0:46under enough pressure, it becomes the
0:49hardest substance on earth, a diamond.
0:51It's irreversible. Yeah,
0:54>> you got a diamond.
1:01It's an ircoon.
1:04>> It's an irreversible shift in the nature
1:06of something, right? And transformation
1:09always happens according to the unique
1:12attributes of that which is being
1:14transformed. So water's molecular
1:18structure is what allows it to transform
1:20into steam. That's why it becomes steam
1:22because of its molecular structure.
1:24Cole's atomic structure allows it to
1:26transform into a diamond under enough
1:29pressure. And a caterpillar's genetic
1:32programming allows it to transform into
1:34a butterfly when those genetics are
1:36activated. With a human being, what
1:38allows us to transform ourselves and the
1:41world around us in the image of our
1:42values? The unique attribute that allows
1:45us to do that is our ability to envision
1:47our future. That's a strange thing to
1:50say, but we're the only animal that can
1:52do that,
1:52>> right?
1:53>> We're the only animal that has a concept
1:55of later.
1:56>> Yep.
1:56>> Next week, next month, next year.
1:59>> We have our frontal lobe is what makes
2:01it possible. We're the only ones that
2:02have this this particular brain
2:05mechanism. Our frontal lobe allows us to
2:07think about the future in a way no other
2:09animal ever has, can, or will. We can
2:12imagine limitless possible futures. What
2:16our future might be like. a whole bunch
2:18of different ones and we can choose the
2:20ones that we want to create and avoid
2:22the ones that we don't want to create.
2:25We decide which paths we want to go down
2:28and we're the only ones that can do
2:30that. We can imagine things that don't
2:32exist now but could exist if we make
2:35them real.
2:36>> That is a unique human attribute and
2:39that is at the root of the
2:40transformation equation. So I I I feel
2:43like when when people think of
2:45transformation, they think of vast
2:47improvement.
2:48>> Sure. Change, Right. Right. But it's
2:49it's not it's not that.
2:50>> It's not that. It's
2:51>> it's a radical shift in nature,
2:54character, or form.
2:55>> It's irreversible. It's a radical it's a
2:58radical shift in character, nature,
3:00form, all of these things. And also
3:03something must die or be left behind in
3:06order for the new correct no more
3:08caterpillar when the butterfly is here.
3:10There's no more coal. You don't put the
3:12water back into the kettle. It's no it's
3:14no longer water. It's a different state.
3:16So something always has to die or be
3:18left behind or be obliterated in order
3:20for transformation to occur in order for
3:22the new to arise. So like when you when
3:24you create an apple pie, when you
3:26transform flour and sugar and apples
3:29into an apple pie, the flour and sugar
3:31and apples don't exist anymore. They
3:32they become a new thing.
3:33>> You can't extract the power from. So
3:36what does what does that look like for
3:37for humans? What do we obliterate and
3:39leave behind? Is it our old selves? Is
3:41it bad habits? Is it is it these things?
3:44What what what is that?
3:45>> I think that in the coming age that
3:48we're moving into, like you said before,
3:51it's a create your own player reality.
3:55It's a create your own adventure. It's a
3:57work on your own avatar. Right. So what
4:00luminism, the power, the transformation
4:02equation makes possible is for you to
4:05shape your world, your reality in the
4:08image of your values. And if we're all
4:10doing that, we're all going to be
4:13shaping our re realities according to
4:15our unique values, which are all going
4:17to be different. This is going to be a
4:19create your own adventure deal, and
4:21we're all going to be doing it. And that
4:22means that everyone is going to be
4:26self-actualizing and self-expressing in
4:28their own unique way.
4:30>> We got to get rid of a couple things in
4:32order to fully step into that future,
4:34which is going to be magnificent to see
4:36a world of self-s sovereign individuals
4:39marching to their own drummer,
4:41respecting each other's rights, and
4:42transforming the world into something
4:44new. But the two mindsets both born of
4:47much darker times that need to go are
4:50first the oppressor mindset which says
4:54my way is the one right way for everyone
4:57>> and the victim mindset which says my
5:00problems are someone else's fault.
5:02>> Yeah.
5:03>> Those are the two concepts that need to
5:04go.
5:05>> The the the oppressor concept that my
5:09religion should be your religion. My
5:11morality should govern your life. My
5:14politics should be the law. I know
5:16better for you than you do. You I am
5:19going to exercise control over your
5:21world. There's no there's no room in the
5:24in the new coming golden age for that
5:27mentality. We're done with it. We need
5:29to throw that off.
5:30>> Yeah.
5:31>> Likewise, the victim mentality, which is
5:33literally being taught to young people
5:36that they're oppressed, that that you
5:38know that they're being taught to be
5:39victims. That's complete utter nonsense
5:42in in today's you have all the world's
5:45information at in your pocket at the
5:47speed of light. You have more computing
5:49power in your pocket than NASA had when
5:51they put men on the moon in 1969. You
5:54have you can access anything now.
5:56There's that message that old-fashioned
5:59message that was born of a much darker
6:01time and was valid. There was a time
6:03when literally the only way to wealth
6:05was conquest. that if you were born the
6:08wrong race, in the wrong country, the
6:09wrong gender, your destiny was preset.
6:12That time is over for humanity. There's
6:14no excuse anymore. Anyone with a frigin
6:16phone, anyone who's listening to this
6:18message right now has the power to take
6:21control of their life and shape their
6:23own reality in the image of their
6:25values. Those are the two mindsets that
6:27have to go. My way is the one right way
6:29for everyone, and my problems are
6:31someone else's fault. They're the
6:33antithesis of lumenism. They're
6:35completely against self-s sovereignty
6:36and autonomy and they've got to go.
6:39>> So that is the caterpillar we leave
6:41behind as a as a species to turn into
6:45>> to turn into our butterflies. Got we got
6:47to let those shackles that have held us
6:49back. We got to free ourselves shackles.
6:52>> Let's let's talk about the the the
6:53transformation equation because this is
6:55super super interesting. It's V plus P
6:59multiplied by A equals T. vision plus
7:02plan multiplied by action equals
7:04transformation. I would love for you to
7:06just give us a little explanation and
7:07then sort of define why there's a
7:10multiplication sign in there
7:12>> for for for action. Why isn't it just
7:14plus action?
7:15>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's
7:16consistent. It's it's multiplied. It's
7:19it's it's continuous. So the the
7:22equation is get crystal clear on the
7:24vision of what you want to materialize.
7:25Yep. develop a detailed plan,
7:28comprehensive plan to materialize that
7:31vision. So, it's vision plus plan.
7:33>> Yeah.
7:33>> Times action, multiple action,
7:36consistent daily action. And then you've
7:38got to feed back your results into the
7:40plan to adjust accordingly. And if you
7:42do that for long enough, you will
7:44transform whatever the object of your
7:47vision is,
7:49>> good or bad. Right.
7:50>> Yeah. Exactly.
7:51>> It's a completely neutral like we were
7:52talking about earlier. It's um it's a
7:56amazing, awesome, fantastical thing, but
8:00it is completely neutral. You can choose
8:02to transform your life into literally
8:06whatever you want. Right. But there are
8:08there are limitations to this in the
8:10physical world. Correct. I can't
8:12transform myself into an elephant,
8:14>> right? You can in the mental world.
8:15That's true.
8:15>> You can you can visualize that. There's
8:17no limitations to what you can visualize
8:20in the unlimited mental world. But but
8:23your job is to create your vision in
8:25your unlimited mental world and then to
8:28bridge that with your plan
8:30>> and execute it in the limited physical
8:33world, right?
8:34>> And your plan is the bridge between the
8:36two. Your plan has to say you don't your
8:39plan sort of vets your vision. Sorry,
8:41you can't turn yourself into an elephant
8:43in the physical world. You're gonna have
8:44to come up with a different vision.
8:45>> Yeah. And your plan also defines the the
8:49way to put it in in terms of of cause
8:51and effect is follows. This is this is
8:53how the transformation equation relates
8:56to cause and effect. Your vision is the
8:58effect that you've decided to create.
9:01>> Your plan consists of the causes that
9:04will have to be put in motion to create
9:05that effect. Taking action on your plan
9:08is what causes the effect.
9:10>> Gotcha. So this the transformation
9:13equation allows you to harness the law
9:16of cause and effect and wield it such
9:18that your energetic intention
9:20materializes in 3D physical reality.
9:24>> So in in other words the transformation
9:26could the transformation equation could
9:28be effect desired effect plus causes
9:32that make up that effect or would create
9:34that effect multiplied by consistent
9:38causation
9:38>> causes of that effect. Yeah.
9:40>> Equals effect.
9:42>> Yeah. But that's clunky as hell.
9:44>> Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So, how
9:46>> But that but that's it.
9:47>> How do you ensure that your vision is
9:50motivating enough to consistently take
9:53action on?
9:54>> The way to develop an ideal life vision.
9:56It consists of three parts. It's not
9:58just defining what you want. It's first
10:00defining your beliefs to make sure that
10:01there's no contradiction between your
10:03beliefs and what. So, let's take a
10:04category. health and fitness, love,
10:06relationship, financial, whatever
10:08category you you decide to take. Let's
10:10let's take let's take health and fitness
10:12for example. My beliefs about I'll start
10:14with my vision. If my vision is to be a
10:17strong muscular athlete for the rest of
10:18my life, I've got to make sure I don't
10:20have beliefs that contradict that. Yeah.
10:22>> Right. So, I've got my beliefs piece in
10:24in place and then I've got my vision
10:26piece in place. And then the last thing
10:29we do is we define the purpose for that
10:31vision. What do I believe about this
10:33category? What precisely do I want in
10:35this area of my life? And why do I want
10:38that? Why do I want to be in the best
10:40possible shape for my entire life? So
10:42that I can fit into a nice suit. That's
10:44a that's a weak purpose. How about so
10:47that I can live a longer life? So that I
10:49can live a better life. So that I can be
10:50an inspirational example to the people
10:52around me. So I can wrestle with my
10:54kids. So that I can climb up Mount
10:55Everest. So that you're like you just
10:57you try to increase the amplitude of
11:00your purpose until it's so until the
11:03reasons that you want something are so
11:05compelling that you're just going to
11:07jump out of bed every morning and take
11:09action to get it. The the stronger your
11:11purpose, the more likely it is that
11:13you're going to achieve that vision.
11:15>> I think um
11:16>> it's the fuel.
11:17>> Yeah, 100%. It's it's your motivation,
11:19it's your inspiration, it's all things.
11:21I think that Jeff Bezos says be be
11:24flexible on the how and rigid on the
11:26why.
11:26>> That's good,
11:27>> right? Which is like your your plan is
11:29flexible, but why you are doing this,
11:30the purpose, the impact you want to
11:32create that stays. And you you can also
11:35engineer and and change your purpose
11:36over time.
11:37>> Well, the you know the the thing is if
11:40you're clear on the what and if you have
11:42a strong enough why, you can figure out
11:44just about anyh how.
11:45>> Yeah. There's the the we we we've talked
11:48about this multiple times, the Buster
11:49Douglas and Mike Tyson thing, right?
11:51Where he's like uh he he talked to his
11:54mom on on on his uh on her deathbed
11:56before his Mike Tyson fight and she was
11:58like, "You got to knock out Mike Tyson."
12:00And he's like, "I promise you I'm going
12:01to knock out Mike Tyson." He was the he
12:03was the first guy.
12:03>> Absolutely he was. No one had ever done
12:05that before.
12:06>> Yeah. That's because his why wasn't I
12:08want to get the championship belt or I
12:10want to beat Mike Tyson. He was like, I
12:11gotta do it for mom. I got to keep my
12:13promise to my mom. And Mike Tyson's why
12:16>> was I want to add another jewel to this
12:17championship belt or or whatever it was,
12:19right? And it's not as not as compelling
12:22a purpose as I want to make sure that
12:26the promise I made to my mom who is now
12:28dead is kept.
12:29>> Yeah, that's huge.
12:30>> Yeah, exactly. And that's why he, you
12:32know, was the first person to knock out
12:34Mike Tyson. That's massive. You know
12:35what I mean? There's there's a lot of
12:38that that is that is your fuel. That's
12:39the fire that ignites or I guess the
12:41spark that ignites your your your
12:43journey or whatever it is. If you
12:45engineer a purpose that is so strong,
12:48you can basically do just about anything
12:51as long as the laws of the physical
12:53universe allow it.
12:54>> Yeah. Your purpose is going to pull you
12:57forward in the to toward your desires.
13:00Your your purpose is going to give you
13:02the fuel to get up out of bed any you've
13:04got to want it and you got to know why
13:06you want it. And it's got to be a
13:07burning desire inside of you.
13:09>> Of course.
13:09>> Yeah.
13:10>> So why this this may be a a, you know,
13:15simpleish question, but why must your
13:18goals be derived from your highest
13:21values? Why can't you just go, well, I
13:22want that. I don't really I don't really
13:24know why. I don't really know what I
13:25believe about it, but I want that.
13:27>> There's no there's no law. This is this
13:29is just one philosophy. There are a lot
13:32of different ways to achieve
13:33transformation. There are a lot of
13:34different ways to to to to get a really
13:36good life. And there's no rule that says
13:38that you got to wake up and try your
13:39best every single freaking day. This is
13:41a create your own adventure reality,
13:43right? There's no there's no law that
13:45says that you've got to every day come
13:48at life with I'm going to be the best
13:49and I'm going to be sometimes you just
13:51want to relax or whatever. So no, it
13:54you've got to look inside of yourself
13:55and you've got to ask yourself what kind
13:57of a life do I want, right? And and some
13:59look, if you like surfing and if you
14:01want to do more of that, there's
14:02absolutely nothing wrong with that. I
14:05would love to live in a world where
14:06everybody is self-actualized and
14:09everybody is self- sovereign and
14:11everyone's living the exact life that
14:12they want to live without violating the
14:14rights of the people around them. And if
14:16that means surfing more and working less
14:18for you, I'm good with that, man. I'm so
14:21good with that. I just want you to be
14:22happy. For me, I want to see if I can
14:25scrape up against my potential. That's
14:27what turns me on.
14:29>> That's always what's what has turned me
14:30on is how far can I take this? How how
14:33great can I make my life? How how
14:35extraordinary can my experience be in
14:38every area of human endeavor? That is
14:40what has driven me? And that's my own
14:44unique create your own adventure
14:47reality. My wife is my frigin sidekick
14:51and and she has the exact same thing. So
14:54we're we're we're good. We're having a
14:56good time.
14:56>> Alex,
14:57>> but we don't begrudge anyone else for
15:00living just the way they want to live.
15:02Not it's not the oppressor thing. It's
15:04not my way is is your way.
15:05>> Alex Ramosi has a really interesting
15:07frame for what you just said, scraping
15:08up against your potential. He um
15:10whenever he's faced with a with a
15:11decision that he doesn't know exactly
15:13what the the right choice is,
15:15>> he asks himself, what would be the more
15:17epic story when I'm old?
15:19>> That's cool.
15:20>> And he's because he's like, I want to be
15:21that dude that has the big scraggly
15:23beard and all these badass scars
15:24and and all and all this stuff, which is
15:27that's pretty damn cool. There's there's
15:28this concept of um you you show up to
15:30the gates of heaven and there's there's
15:32two people. There's you who who you are
15:35who you have become and then the person
15:37who is across from you
15:39>> and he is he has done everything that
15:41you're scared of. He's done he's risked
15:43everything and he's he's the he's the
15:44badass guy with the scraggly beard and
15:45all these scars and God's like, "Okay, I
15:48can let one of you guys in. I think it's
15:49going to be this this guy and not you
15:51cuz you you you're not you didn't go for
15:53it."
15:53>> Exactly. You didn't go for it. I would
15:55like to be the guy with the scraggly
15:57beard with all these epic stories,
15:59>> right? As opposed to just like I don't
16:01really have to I don't really have to do
16:03anything. So, but again, it's not the um
16:06>> it's not my way is the one right way,
16:08right?
16:08>> And the reason why luminism is so unique
16:11as a philosophy is because we accept the
16:14fact that there is no one right answer
16:17for anyone. There's no one right diet.
16:18There's no one right exercise plan.
16:20There's no one right relationship
16:21strategy or anything. That's why the
16:23oppressor mindset doesn't work.
16:24>> Exactly.
16:25>> Because they've got that wrong. Their
16:27way is not the right way for And how we
16:29know that is is with decades of
16:31experience with Lifebook, seeing so many
16:33thousands and thousands of life visions,
16:35we absolutely know there is no one right
16:39strategy that'll work for everyone in
16:41any area of life. That's why oppressors
16:44are dead wrong and we don't need them in
16:45in in the coming world. And I mean, we
16:47say this straight up in in the Luminous
16:50Manifesto that Luminism holds firmly to
16:53the belief that there is no one right
16:54philosophy, theology, or ideology that
16:57works for everyone, including Luminism.
17:00>> Yeah. There's there's no one right plan.
17:02>> That's right.
17:02>> Because everybody's different.
17:04>> Everyone's so vastly different.
17:05>> So, I I have a question about the I
17:08guess planning process, keeping in mind
17:11that we just said that no no plan is is
17:13similar. Is there a different process
17:15for someone who is more cynical, more
17:18pessimistic as opposed to someone who is
17:20more optimistic like like we've talked
17:22about before going away from people and
17:24going toward people? Is there a
17:26different planning process for those two
17:27people?
17:27>> I wouldn't say there's a different
17:29planning process, but I would say you
17:31take your own unique personality into
17:34consideration when you're creating your
17:36plan. So, I'm optimistic. I'm a
17:38risktaker. I I am I'm I'm a certain
17:42personality. I've got to be careful.
17:44I've got to be careful that I don't I
17:46have in my life paid a big price for not
17:49being riskaverse enough. Yeah.
17:51>> Right. I've got, you know, relatives who
17:54are the exact opposite of me. They can't
17:56get themselves to take risk. There's
17:58danger there, too. So in the software
18:01that we've created that that basically
18:03allows somebody to um get complete grip
18:08on the transformation equation. It's
18:09software that basically leads you
18:11through the process of putting your
18:12vision into the software and the
18:15software helps you develop your plan by
18:18recommending the goals upon which that
18:20vision rests and the daily habits that
18:22you need to perform in order to achieve
18:24those goals and then holds you
18:25accountable for daily process uh for
18:28daily progress in that software. How it
18:32starts is you load it with as many
18:34assessments as you can possibly load it
18:36with
18:36>> MyersBriggs anagram. Exactly.
18:38Personality thing.
18:39>> You have Clifton Strength Finders. Um
18:41you can do the esoteric stuff like human
18:43design and you just you load it with as
18:46much information about you as possible.
18:48Right.
18:48>> So that when it creates your plan, it's
18:50going to give it's going to give a
18:52different plan. It's going to give
18:53different goals. is going to give
18:54different habits to someone like me
18:57who's a go-getter and not risk averse
18:59and and is is a quick start versus
19:02somebody else who's who is risk averse
19:05who's much more conservative. They need
19:07a different kind of a plan,
19:09>> right?
19:09>> The planning process is is the same, but
19:12you've got to take your strengths and
19:13weaknesses into into consideration.
19:15>> I I think there's this idea that either
19:17came from ancient Greece or ancient
19:19Rome. I think it was ancient Greece. But
19:21basically, it's like if you if you have
19:24not enough of this virtue, it like let's
19:27say courage. If you have not enough
19:28courage, you are a coward. If you have
19:30too much courage, you are reckless. If
19:32if your virtue, whatever it is, is too
19:34potent, it could be an issue. If it's
19:36not potent enough, it could be issue.
19:38>> Nice. How How do people kind of strike
19:40that balance? Of course, it's different
19:41for everyone. like you said, you're
19:43you're less riskaverse than than some of
19:45your relatives and things like this. But
19:46if if someone is more of a risk averse
19:49person, how would they go about maybe
19:52developing an appetite for healthy risk
19:55as opposed to being reckless?
19:56>> It's it's about practice
19:58>> 100%. Aristotle said we must turn our
20:01virtues into habits. So that's what it
20:03is. It's about practice. If you want to
20:05develop a trait like courage in your
20:07life, you literally have to practice it.
20:09And and courage is courage is an easy
20:12one because if you're in a situation if
20:15you want to develop courage and you're
20:17in a situation where you're feeling
20:19afraid and you can get yourself to
20:21pretend like you're not afraid that is
20:24courage. That's what courage is. Courage
20:26is not not feeling fear.
20:28>> It's being able to take action in the
20:30face of fear.
20:30>> Exactly.
20:31>> Right. So any trait you can think of,
20:33self-discipline,
20:35>> compassion, kindness, any personality
20:37trait you can think of, the way to
20:40install that personality trait into
20:42yourself is to practice it. Character
20:46means stamped mark. It means engraved
20:48mark like a Chinese character. Yeah.
20:50>> Chinese character. Yeah. So, it it comes
20:52from ancient Greece and and and they
20:54used to stamp a character into a a pot
20:58while the while while it was still wet
21:00and that would be the signature of the
21:02um of the artist and and if if it had
21:06the character of Amos, hey, you you knew
21:09Amos made great pots, right? So,
21:12character means a stamped mark. You can
21:14literally stamp qualities, attributes
21:18into yourself. That's what what what
21:20character means. And the way you stamp
21:23traits like discipline, reliability,
21:27honesty, integrity into yourself is by
21:30practice, practice, practice. You turn
21:32those virtues into habits and then they
21:34generalize in your system and they
21:35become who you are. There's um again
21:39Alexi has a really interesting frame
21:40about um about traits. He says that
21:42traits exist but they are not singular
21:47things. Like take patience for example.
21:49That is a collection of skills that are
21:51lumped together in this bucket called
21:52patience. Patience is knowing what to do
21:55in the meantime, not acting prematurely.
21:58All all of these things, right? And so
22:00is being being charismatic. It's looking
22:03people in the eyes. It's smiling when
22:05people walk into the room. It's nodding
22:06your head and and things like that.
22:07>> So So they're not individual things.
22:09They're they're collections.
22:11>> They're collections. They're buckets of
22:13of of skills, right? And that means
22:16because a lot of people are, well, I'm
22:18I'm not charismatic. I wasn't born with
22:20that. You can learn to nod when when
22:22people talk to you. You can learn to
22:24keep eye contact, raise your voice when
22:26you're talking to a
22:26>> Every character trait's learnable.
22:28Exactly. And and all you It's about
22:30repetitive. It's about it's about
22:32turning that virtue into a habit.
22:34>> Kenny Arinoff says that uh repet
22:36repetition is preparation for success.
22:38>> Yeah.
22:39>> And it's like it's absolutely true. And
22:41Tony Robbins says repetition is the
22:43mother of skill. Like that is the sort
22:46of name of of this game is consistent
22:49repetitive action to get towards
22:52something.
22:53>> But you have consciously decided what
22:56the focus of that action is going to be.
22:57It's all thought down. You know
22:59precisely where you want to end up.
23:00That's your vision. You've got your plan
23:02to get there. That that that's your
23:03goals and your habits. And then you take
23:05action on that plan every single day.
23:08and pay attention to the results you're
23:10getting so you can adjust if you need
23:12to. That's the formula for shaping your
23:15own reality and and transforming your
23:17thoughts into matter.
23:18>> So in the luminism manifesto, why are
23:22habits deemed sacred? Why why are they
23:26the 12 sacred practices as opposed to
23:29>> because you are what you continuously
23:30do. Your habits are what shape your
23:32life. You're absolutely your habits are
23:36what shape your life. um the person that
23:38you are right now, if you take a look at
23:40everything good in your life, your
23:42health and fitness, your relationship
23:43with your wife, everything that you love
23:46about your life is going to be a result
23:49of your good habits. And likewise, every
23:52weak area of your life is going to be as
23:54a result of poor habits. Just straight
23:56up, that's the deal.
23:57>> Yeah. I mean, that's again going back to
24:00this thing where um the the past and the
24:03future don't exist in the physical
24:04world. They exist in the mental world.
24:06Of course, you can envision the future
24:07and remember the past and these and
24:09these things, but you can't physically
24:11go to the future or physically go to the
24:14past. All that
24:16>> exists physically is right now, right?
24:18>> It's it is it is always right now.
24:21>> In the physical world, it's always the
24:22present. So breaking down your large
24:26goals, your your your future goals, your
24:29foundational goals, things that you wish
24:30to accomplish in the future into things
24:33that you can do today is so the whole
24:35game.
24:36>> It's so powerful.
24:36>> It's the whole game.
24:37>> It's so powerful.
24:38>> Yep. For sure.
24:38>> And if you do that enough and if you do
24:40that consistently enough,
24:41>> you wake up in the future that you
24:45envisioned in your mind where only the
24:47future can only exist in your mind, but
24:48you envisioned that. You figured out
24:50what it was going to take. You took
24:52action in the present and one day you'll
24:54wake up in the present in that very
24:56future. Justin, we are powerful
24:59creators. This is the God spark. You
25:01know, if God created this universe, but
25:04we can create this universe, too. We can
25:08decide in our energetic intention what
25:11we want to materialize and then shape
25:14physical reality to reflect our
25:16energetic intention. That's the same
25:18thing. It's the same thing. There's
25:21there's there can be nothing more
25:23powerful in the universe than a mind
25:25that has the ability to shape that very
25:28universe in the image of its values.
25:31It's just it's this is this is and
25:33there's nothing mystical about it. This
25:35is just happens to be our most unique
25:37attribute and our highest power.
25:39>> It's it's not woowoo at all. In fact,
25:41it's objectively defined.
25:43>> Well, that's exactly right. Luminism is
25:45an objective philosophy strongly rooted
25:48in the principle of cause and effect.
25:49It's a rational philosophy.
25:51>> The the transformation equation is
25:54basically a playbook to turning yourself
25:57into a luminary, shaping the world
25:59around you.
25:59>> That is correct.
26:00>> And sort of by proxy shaping others
26:04worlds as as as well.
26:06>> Yes. And if you're doing a good job, if
26:08you're shaping the world, if you're sh
26:10if you're if you're focused on the
26:13highest and most valuable use of the
26:15power, which is to transform yourself
26:18inside and out
26:19>> in the image of your highest values,
26:21that's nothing but good for everyone.
26:23>> Exactly.
26:24>> That's the that's the wellspring from
26:26which all your other values will flow.
26:28And if we were all doing that, we would
26:30have a world that would be so beautiful
26:33that the religions that describe heaven
26:35wouldn't even come close to that world.
26:37>> It's it's the um you know, when you're
26:39on an airplane, they're like, "Put your
26:40own oxygen mask on first and then you
26:42can then you can help others." It's that
26:43same kind of a kind of a concept. If you
26:46achieve everything that you want to
26:48achieve, now you sort of have the maybe
26:50wiggle room isn't the right term, but
26:52you have the wherewithal to be like,
26:54"Oh, I can I can help you do whatever it
26:56is you want to do. I can help you become
26:58a a luminary yourself.
27:00>> And you don't even usually have to do
27:01that consciously if you're if you're in
27:03your own zone. Like for instance, my
27:05deal, my wife and I start companies and
27:08we start companies around products that
27:10do good in the world, healthiest coffee
27:12in the world and and causes that matter,
27:15the Blackar Addiction Project. Yeah.
27:17>> And that's our passion. We want to see
27:19those things come into reality.
27:21>> And those things help people that we
27:22don't even know. So we don't even have
27:24to consciously say, "Oh, I now that I've
27:26achieved my vision, I want to help you
27:27achieve yours." By us becoming the best
27:30best version of ourselves that we can
27:32become. We're contributing to the best
27:34world. And and that's the thing. This
27:37transformation that's sweeping humanity
27:39right now is not happening around us.
27:41It's happening within us. If we are all
27:44committed and dedicated to becoming the
27:45best version of ourselves, we're
27:48automatically creating the best version
27:50of the world.
27:51>> 100%. So you get one vote vote and that
27:54vote doesn't happen at the ballot box.
27:56That vote happens with the way that you
27:58decide to live your life, the way you
27:59decide to interact with reality. And
28:01we're all going through that right now.
28:03>> Nathaniel Brandon wrote a essay called
28:06Foundations of a Free Society in which
28:08he talked about
28:09>> Brilliant. Brilliant.
28:10>> He he talked about a um a businessman
28:12that barely anyone knows about
28:14>> Earn smaller
28:15>> and he helped thousands if not hundreds
28:18of millions. Exactly. women.
28:21>> He was it Kimberly Clark that he
28:23>> I think that he founded Kimberly Clark,
28:24the paper company that ended up I I
28:27think that they uh did uh women's
28:31hygiene and feminine products and he
28:34basically he unleashed an immense amount
28:37of extravagance into into the world. He
28:39helped whole generations of women. No
28:40one even knows his name.
28:42>> Exactly.
28:42>> But he contributed so much to the
28:44well-being of so many. And that's
28:46exactly my point.
28:47>> And that's that Yeah, that's that's
28:48exactly what you just said. You don't
28:49even have to do that consciously.
28:51>> There are millions and millions of
28:52people like that that we don't even know
28:53their names that are responsible for
28:55making our lives better, safer, easier.
28:58This world that we we live in, this
29:00amazing world that we live in was given
29:03to us by luminaries that came before us
29:06that we owe a big debt of gratitude to.
29:08Yeah. Because life used to be faking
29:10hard.
29:11>> It's It's interesting.
29:13>> Oh, of course it used to. I mean, we've
29:16we talk about this a lot. We've never
29:18lived as humans, not just as as people,
29:20but as a as a collective species, we've
29:24never lived in an easier time,
29:25>> right?
29:26>> Ever.
29:26>> Ever.
29:27>> Like, I can open up my phone, click
29:29buttons, and then have someone bring me
29:31food to my door.
29:33>> It's crazy.
29:33>> It's magical. If you brought that back
29:36to, you know, the 1600s, they'd look at
29:37you like you were a witch.
29:38>> It's ridiculous. Yeah. King King Louis
29:40the 14th lived in Versailles, but he
29:42still had to wake up and pee in a jar
29:43every morning. So, I mean, we're we're
29:46Yeah. our world which is taken for
29:48granted by everybody about you know
29:51history is one of my favorite subjects
29:53and one of your favorite subjects too
29:55>> you know history deeply you know how
29:56unbelievably fortunate we are to live in
29:59today's world. Yeah, absolutely. And it
30:01it it seems like a large proponent of
30:05the whole the I guess you could call it
30:07the Ernst Mer effect, helping people
30:09that you don't even know. And maybe
30:11that's not even your your motivation.
30:12You just want to it's a large proponent
30:14of that sort of concept is capitalism.
30:19Right. Right. You can if if you look
30:20around this room, everything was created
30:23by people who want to get dollars in
30:25exchange in which you go, "Oo, I I value
30:27this iPad. I value these mic stands.
30:29value these microphones.
30:30>> Value is the word. Exactly.
30:31>> Ern Smaller, his primary mission was not
30:34to make women's lives better. That was
30:37his strategy. His primary mission was to
30:39make a profit. In order to make a
30:41profit, he had to figure out how to
30:42create immense value for as many people
30:44as possible. Yeah. And and he designed a
30:46strategy to improve the lives of two
30:48generations of women. And he made a
30:50profit proportionate to the value he
30:52created. That's the world that that that
30:55we live in. It can go sideways. It can
30:57go sideways but that's the basic that's
30:59the basic principle that makes
31:00capitalism
31:02uh work and and has basically freed the
31:05world from poverty in the last 100
31:07years. In 1895
31:1090 plus% of the world lived in what is
31:13characterized today as extreme poverty.
31:16Today it's less than 10%. And capitalism
31:18did that 100%. In other words, Ernst
31:21Mueller's uh vision was to gain, you
31:25know, capital or or money or dollars or
31:28whatever.
31:29>> His plan was to help women in a
31:31financial model for him. Yeah.
31:34>> And his his action was doing just that.
31:36He helped women in exchange for for
31:39dollars. He he ran a company and he
31:41created the effect that he wanted to to
31:43to cause
31:44>> 100%.
31:45>> Yeah. So why why do you think it's so
31:48especially in my generation which is
31:50wild to me. Why do you think it's so
31:53pervasive this almost hatred of of of
31:56capitalism? Why? Like that doesn't make
31:58any sense to me.
31:59>> Well, it's it's being taught in schools.
32:01Our children are educated by Marxists.
32:03Yeah. We socialist we've allowed
32:05socialists to educate our our children.
32:08We've mis miseducated two generations of
32:10kids as a result. And it's a very very
32:12difficult thing to recover from. But I
32:15do think we're going to recover from it.
32:16>> And and it's it's rooted in the in the
32:18victim mentality that we must combine in
32:20order to prosper in this.
32:23>> It's postmodernism. It's the it's the
32:26frame up that that all of human history
32:29and human sociology is the oppressor
32:32oppressed model. Yeah. You're either an
32:33oppressor or you're it's it's an
32:35absolutely horrendous way to look at
32:37history. It's completely inacc I
32:39shouldn't say completely inaccurate
32:40because there's a grain of truth in all
32:42of those all of those ridiculous
32:45ideologies. There's always got to be a
32:47grain of truth, right? But to look at
32:50history with nothing but an oppressor
32:53oppressed paradigm is is absolute
32:56disaster and incorrect. But you know,
32:58whatever. That's one of the things that
33:00we're really going to help people with
33:02is to pull out of the victim mindset.
33:05You cannot put a human being in front of
33:07me and tell me that's a victim that
33:09can't be helped. Give me give me one day
33:11with that person and and we'll see about
33:13that. Exactly.
33:14>> That this is shortselling a human life.
33:16It's ridiculous. Anyone who is willing
33:19can now take complete control of their
33:20lives and learn how to direct it
33:22themselves consciously. And anyone who
33:24says they can is literally a victimizer
33:27because they're turning someone into a
33:29victim. And I'm not down with it.
33:30>> And and the way that you do that is
33:32through the transformation equation. you
33:33get clear on your vision plan and yeah
33:36well that that is one way to do it.
33:37That's exactly right. And you know we
33:40we've we've talked time and time again
33:41about the importance of feedback in in
33:44your plan. How do you tell when one of
33:47your habits isn't getting you closer to
33:49to your to your vision?
33:51>> So there's a couple ways to tell it. One
33:53is if you're not doing it. That's the
33:55most important. We know about that.
33:57Right. Yeah.
33:58>> Right. So sometimes you're like, I
34:01really my life would benefit huge if I
34:04could get up every day at 5:30 and do my
34:05yoga
34:06>> and then you're tracking that habit
34:08throughout the month and you're like, I
34:09didn't do it and I didn't do it and I
34:11didn't do it. And you get to the middle
34:12of the month and you haven't done it
34:13once and you're like, okay, I guess I'm
34:16not going to get up at 5:30 in the
34:17morning and do my yoga. So there's
34:19there's two reasons that you don't that
34:21you don't do what you know you should
34:23do. It's either too difficult or you
34:25don't have enough motivation. It's one
34:27of those two things,
34:28>> right? So, what is it? What is it for
34:30you? And so, if you're if if you've
34:32defined a habit that will help your life
34:33and you're not doing it,
34:35>> it's taking up valuable real estate that
34:38you could have another habit in there
34:39that would push your life forward.
34:40>> Exactly.
34:41>> And then the question is, are you
34:44performing a habit that's really getting
34:45you nowhere? You know, I think that
34:48that's just a matter of discernment and
34:51being able because what you want to do
34:52with both your goals and your habits is
34:55you want to select the highest leverage
34:57goals that will have the biggest impact
35:00on the most important areas of your
35:01life. And the same thing with your
35:03habits. When you're doing your habit
35:04setting, you want to set the highest
35:06leverage habits that will that will
35:08create the most positive change across
35:10the most areas of your life. I've been
35:12doing it for that particular personal
35:14development technique is the most
35:16powerful personal development technique
35:17I've ever experienced. Meditation is
35:20probably number two. And meditation is
35:22faking huge. It has a a massively
35:25positive effect on it. But but there's
35:27nothing like choosing 12 behaviors that
35:30are going to shape you into the person
35:31that you want to be in every life
35:33category and performing them
35:34consistently and tracking whether or not
35:37that you you you've done it. And I think
35:39if you do a good job of selecting those
35:40habits, and it takes time,
35:42>> right, you you know that you got trial
35:45and error really.
35:47>> Um but once you really lock into the
35:49right set, it is if if you can get
35:51yourself to do it, and that's the thing.
35:52Yeah.
35:53>> You can get yourself to do it
35:54consistently, it is absolutely
35:56miraculous. It's the number one personal
35:58development strategy.
36:00>> What would you say to people that can't
36:02Well, we we we we touched on you just
36:04said it's either a a competency issue. I
36:07literally can't do this. I don't have
36:09the Yeah, it's it's too hard
36:11>> or I'm not motivated enough.
36:12>> Right.
36:12>> What would you say to people that it's
36:14it's not that these habits are too hard
36:16or I'm not motivated to do it. I
36:19literally do not have enough time in the
36:20day. There's only 24 hours in the day
36:22and I have to spend 5 hours on my real
36:24estate job and I have to work for 4
36:26hours and I have to spend an hour with
36:27my wife and I got to do all of these
36:29things that add up to literally more
36:30than 24 hours in the day. What What's
36:33the inoculation to that issue? that
36:34that's the biggest hurdle that that's
36:36literally the biggest hurdle to
36:39effectively implementing the
36:40transformation equation is the fact that
36:42you're very very busy.
36:43>> Uhhuh.
36:44>> And and what it is is it's a matter of
36:47priorities. That's what it is. So this
36:49is the way to overcome that. Once you've
36:52gotten clear on your vision and done the
36:54work of the life that you want to create
36:55for yourself, you then define the five
36:58to six goals upon which that life vision
37:00rests. Right? If you can tell me that
37:03once you achieve those five to six
37:04goals, you will be your ideal self
37:06living your ideal life, I will be asking
37:09you why you should be spending your time
37:11on just about anything else straight up.
37:14So you've got to understand that
37:16firstly. Yeah.
37:17>> Then then secondly, your your habits,
37:20the wise discerning selection of your
37:24habits are going to totally determine
37:26whether or not those goals get
37:28accomplished and how quickly. So once
37:30you've defined the correct habits that
37:32will ensure the accomplishment of your
37:34goals, which will ensure the
37:35accomplishment of your life vision,
37:37there's nothing more important in
37:39performing those habits every day. Yeah.
37:41>> The critical skill that you've got to
37:43learn in order to do that is the ability
37:46to say no. The ability to say no to the
37:49meaningless.
37:50>> Yep. to say no to distractions, to say
37:53no to the mundane, to say no to the
37:58ridiculous, to say no to things that
38:00people try to put on you that have no
38:02business in your life. It's that great
38:04quote by It's that great quote by Warren
38:07Buffett. The difference between
38:08successful people and highly successful
38:10people is that highly successful people
38:13say no to almost everything. Yeah.
38:15>> Why? So they can say yes to the right
38:17things. Most of us have lost control of
38:20our days. We have we do not wake up in
38:22the morning and say, "What do I want to
38:24do today?" We wake up in the morning and
38:25say, "What do I have to do today?" We've
38:27given control to our boss, to our kids
38:30after school activities,
38:31>> to our emails, to our frigin inbox, to
38:34our texts, to our frigin mindless busy
38:38work that keeps us super busy but gets
38:40us nowhere. And as a result, our lives
38:43are full of perpetual action and we are
38:47spinning our wheels and never getting
38:48closer to the life we want to live. In
38:50other words, our lives can be extremely
38:53full and empty at the same time, right?
38:55>> Our days are full and our lives are
38:56empty. So that's the trick, Justin. Once
39:00you've defined the vision that you're
39:02committed to accomplishing, the habit
39:04the the goals that will make it possible
39:06and the habits that will make those
39:07goals possible, you must be committed to
39:10your 12 sacred choices as your priority.
39:13Every opportunity, every crisis, every
39:16new thing that comes into your life is
39:18going to compete for your limited
39:21resources and your limited attention and
39:24your limited focus. And it's got to be
39:27held up to one single standard. Does
39:29this move me closer to my life vision or
39:31not? I know my 12 sacred choices are
39:33going to move me closer to my to my life
39:35vision. You've got to develop the
39:37ability to say no and to keep the main
39:39thing the main thing. And the main thing
39:41is your life vision which will come
39:43about as a result of the accomplishment
39:45of your goals which will come about as a
39:47as a as a result of your consistent
39:50performance of of very carefully
39:53selected that's why we call them sacred
39:56>> daily choices and actions hold your
39:58habits.
39:58>> The main thing is to keep the main thing
40:00the main thing.
40:01>> That's Stephven CVY best freaking quote
40:03ever. The main thing is to keep the main
40:05thing the main thing. And the main thing
40:07is the person you want to turn into
40:09living the life that you want to live.
40:11Everything else is Yep.
40:12>> Because that is that highest you. It
40:15doesn't matter what your values are.
40:17That highest you can make the biggest
40:18contribution if that if that is your
40:20thing%
40:21>> that highest you can have the biggest
40:24positive impact on the environment. It
40:26can it can that highest you is the
40:29wellspring from which every other value
40:31in your life is going to flow. So I I I
40:34don't put my philosophy on anybody else,
40:36but but from my perspective, there's
40:39nothing more important than becoming the
40:41best person I can become, living the
40:43best life that I can live, because from
40:45there, I can do the most positive good
40:47for myself, for the people I love, and
40:50for the world in general. And if we were
40:51all doing that, man, would we have a
40:53good planet.
40:54>> Absolutely. I think it was Steve Jobs
40:55who defined focus as the amount of
40:57things you say no to. Steve Jobs said,
41:00"We are more proud of things at Apple
41:02that we said no to than we Can you
41:04imagine the opportunities they had?"
41:06>> Yeah. Exactly.
41:07>> And they're like, "No, we're doing four
41:09things."
41:09>> Exactly. And that's why they do they did
41:11those four things better than anyone.
41:13>> Absolutely. That's the key, man. I'm
41:15telling you that that once you get all
41:17this thinking done, you've got your
41:19vision, you've got your plan, you've got
41:22your daily habits in place, you're
41:24you're willing to take action, your
41:26number one obstacle to being successful
41:30is going to be that you're very very
41:32busy, and the number one attribute that
41:33you've got to develop is learning to say
41:35no to the unimportant so that you can
41:37say yes to the important. That's the
41:39deal
41:39>> there. Um, so there's there's this
41:41there's this fallacy with the word
41:43priorities and and it comes from there
41:45is pri priority means what comes first.
41:48There can only be one thing.
41:49>> Exactly. There's no such thing as
41:50priorities.
41:51>> Exactly. It is a priority to become the
41:54person I want to become. It is a
41:55priority to become to transform
41:58literally into the person that lives my
42:01best life.
42:02>> Exactly.
42:03>> Right. that like
42:04>> but you can have a hierarchy of I guess
42:07I guess priorities does that that word
42:10is valid because check it out my
42:12priority is my life vision
42:14>> and that
42:14>> in order to accomplish that
42:16>> okay
42:17>> I've got to prioritize my goals in order
42:19to accomplish that I've got to
42:20prioritize my habits so so there's a
42:23there's a hierarchy to priorities
42:25>> yeah that that that does make sense to
42:26me but like you said man why would you
42:30focus on just about anything else Well,
42:33we get caught in the life catches us.
42:36You know, here's what happens, Justin.
42:37This is what happens.
42:38>> We we we're all full of spit and vinegar
42:41in our in our 20s, right? We go to
42:43school and we're going to be this great
42:44thing and we we, you know, graduate from
42:48college and we get out into life and we
42:50we get a job and truthfully that begins
42:55the process of limited options. Yeah. We
42:57we meet a significant other. We get
43:01married. We've got a car. We've got two
43:03cars. We've got a house. We've got a
43:05mortgage payment. The kids come. We got
43:07we got stuff we've got to buy. We got
43:09Now we're tied to our jobs. Our options
43:11are getting the walls are closing in,
43:13closing in, closing in. And all of a
43:15sudden, we find ourselves, especially in
43:17this consumer society that we live in,
43:19we find ourselves now we're slaves to
43:22the system. Yeah. We're we're debt
43:24slaves. We we we can't we cannot
43:26maintain our lifestyle without every
43:29single day doing the grind. And now
43:31we're trying to keep our heads above
43:32water. What Joe Rogan says about that
43:35life, which I would never want to live
43:37that life, and I feel sorry for anyone
43:38who is living that life, just trying to
43:40keep their head above water and and and
43:43trading the hours of their precious
43:45lives so they can make their Lexus
43:46payment. And then here's here's the
43:48crazy thing. I need a nice car and I
43:51need nice clothes so that I can go to
43:53work and afford my nice car and my nice
43:56clothes. It is this it is this loop.
43:59Yeah. Of of and it's a downward spiral.
44:02Yeah.
44:02>> And what what Joe Rogan said, I've never
44:04heard anyone say this, but he's so right
44:06on about this. If you want to escape
44:08that life, which he did, what you have
44:10to do is you have to figure out how to
44:12either put away enough or create a plan
44:15to hit escape velocity. Yeah. You've got
44:18to you got to put enough away that you
44:20can you can escape that system just for
44:22enough time to get a foothold and and
44:24and start that dream of becoming an
44:27entrepreneur, start that dream of that
44:28online business or or moving to, you
44:32know, become a park ranger. What
44:33whatever it is for you,
44:35>> right?
44:36You've got to make a plan to escape that
44:39system. That's I'm not saying this in in
44:42any kind of a conspiratorial nefarious
44:44way, but that is literally designed to
44:47keep you broke
44:49>> and in debt and consuming and busy to
44:54the point where you will never even
44:55scrape up against your true potential.
44:57Exactly. You'll never even you'll never
44:59even get a glimpse of what you could
45:01have become had you not had to had to
45:04trade the valuable hours of your life to
45:07someone else to achieve their life
45:09vision. Exactly. Instead of work,
45:11instead of being able to focus on your
45:12own.
45:12>> Yeah. There's what you just said is
45:14really interesting. I I buy the nice
45:16clothes and the nice car so I can drive
45:18to work and afford the nice clothes and
45:19the nice car. A lot of the consumerism I
45:23suppose in the west would be mostly
45:26status and posturing. Like that's that's
45:30why there's there's some I'm so going to
45:33mess up this statistic, but it's like 70
45:35to 80% of the people that buy designer
45:38goods are in less they they have less
45:40money than you would expect because they
45:42would like to look rich instead of be
45:43rich, right?
45:44>> Yeah. Chris Williamson has this really
45:46really interesting idea where he goes um
45:48a lot of people say when when I become
45:52successful then I will be happy. I need
45:54to do all of these hard things that make
45:56me unhappy in order to achieve
45:57happiness. But then you're going to have
45:59all of these responsibilities and all
46:00these things taking up your time and all
46:02all of this busy busy stuff.
46:04>> So why not just start from happy
46:07>> right?
46:08>> Like for for me I define happiness as my
46:11sort of baseline emotion. It's it's like
46:14if if I'm not in existential danger, if
46:17I am not completely depressed in my bed
46:19and I can't get out of the the slump
46:21that I'm in, I'm happy.
46:23>> Like it's not it's not joyous and like
46:26gleeful. It's I'm
46:28>> you're not ecstatic. You're your
46:30baseline is contentment and fulfillment
46:32and happiness. That's wonderful.
46:34>> There you go. That's like
46:35>> that is the the way that I operate. And
46:38sometimes I get, and this is what I this
46:40is what I love about luminism is that
46:41you uh it's it's the serenity prayer
46:43again. Um discerning between what you
46:47can and cannot control helps a lot with
46:49with with happiness because sometimes I
46:51get angry about things that I can't
46:52control.
46:53>> That's true. That's true.
46:54>> And then I'm like, well, and then I
46:56remind myself, I'm an idiot because I'm
46:58thinking about things that I cannot
46:59control. Why am I worried about this?
47:01What is worry going to do here?
47:03>> Yep.
47:03>> Right.
47:04>> What man by worrying can add a day to
47:06his life? Jesus said, "It's true, man."
47:08And listen, I have I've discovered that
47:11totally, Justin. Worry is worthless.
47:14Here's the deal. If you've got to think
47:16through something, think through it.
47:18Once you've thought through it and made
47:19your commitment, worry literally doesn't
47:21do anything but hold you back. Doubt and
47:24worry are They're they don't
47:26help in any way, shape, or form. If
47:28you've got a if you've got a challenge
47:30or if you've got an exposure, think it
47:32down and mitigate it. Once you've
47:33decided that you're going to go in this
47:35direction, worry doesn't help anymore.
47:37>> Worry to to kind of bounce off what what
47:40Jesus said, great philosopher, by the
47:42way, worry actually takes days off of
47:44your life. I was I was speaking with a
47:46cardiologist named Dr. Donnise Warden,
47:48>> and she said that it's actually more
47:50detrimental. Say you're trying to stick
47:52to a meal plan or something like this,
47:53and you you miss a day and you you had a
47:55cheat day and it wasn't programmed in,
47:57and you're like, "Ah, I feel bad." The
47:59bad food that you ate is less
48:01detrimental to your body than the stress
48:03and the worry that you put yourself
48:04under%. That will literally take more
48:06days off of your life than having a
48:08cheeseburger or two.
48:09>> Yeah, I love it.
48:09>> Right. And it's absolutely true cuz what
48:12what man by worrying can add a day to
48:13his life? Was that the thing?
48:14>> That's the quote.
48:15>> It's so true. That's so true. And it's
48:18the same thing with habits, man. It's
48:20like like we were just talking about I
48:22have this habit that is that I am able
48:24to complete. It's it's easy enough for
48:26me to do and I am motivated to do it.
48:28but I'm just not doing it.
48:30>> There's like you just got to slap
48:31yourself in the face and be like, I got
48:32to put on this backpack full of 80
48:34pounds and go on a walk or I got to,
48:36>> you know, that's one of the reasons that
48:38human accountability can be very very
48:40effective. Absolutely. If you've got if
48:42you got a couple other dudes that you're
48:44doing this with, if you're in a woman's
48:46group that you got a little bit of
48:47support, if you've got if you've got
48:49someone who cares enough about you to
48:51hold you accountable for doing what you
48:52say you're going to do, you know, a
48:55little self-discipline, which is
48:56literally the definition of
48:58self-discipline is is is your ability to
49:00get yourself to do what you know you
49:01should do when you should do it, whether
49:02you want to or not. Yeah,
49:03>> that's like a huge key. And I love Jaco
49:07has a quote about this. Self-discipline
49:09is the ultimate form of self-love. I
49:12love that quote. I love that quote. It
49:16It's caring enough about yourself that
49:18you're going to defer small unimportant
49:20pleasure pleasures in the moment for the
49:22big reward of becoming who you who you
49:25know you can become.
49:26>> The priority.
49:27>> I love that quote.
49:28>> Exactly. My um my mentor and your
49:30longtime friend, Alex Mendozian,
49:33uh well, he he he says two things.
49:35Number one, accountability works because
49:37of fear of public embarrassment.
49:39>> That's one of the reasons
49:40>> that's like that's that's probably
49:42>> And we were in an accountability group,
49:43me and
49:44>> Exactly. Yeah. And you you didn't want
49:45to be the guy that came to that
49:46accountability group and said, "Guys, I
49:48didn't do it."
49:48>> You would be do just about anything to
49:50avoid that experience.
49:51>> Exactly. Especially doing the thing that
49:53you said you were going to do. Right.
49:55>> He he used to do this thing with his
49:57clients. I forget what he calls it, but
49:58it's like I I I think it was like
50:00negative accountability or something
50:01like this. and he had them put uh some
50:04money into an escrow account and that
50:07escrow account if they didn't do what
50:09they said they were going to do would go
50:10to a foundation that actively does bad
50:13in the world.
50:14>> Wow.
50:14>> Like what whatever it is I I I don't I
50:17don't know what theirs was, but a
50:19foundation that they really disliked,
50:20they would put money into this account
50:22>> and he said, "If you don't do this, that
50:24money is going to go to them and they're
50:25going to do bad shit."
50:26>> Oh my god.
50:26>> And it worked 100% of the I don't want
50:29to participate, but I'll bet that just
50:31>> Exactly. And it worked amazingly. And
50:34it's it's really interesting because
50:36like this this is why groups like Weight
50:39Watchers worked so well. You would get
50:41up in front of the people and you'd step
50:43on the scale and then they'd be like,
50:44"Nice, you did it."
50:45>> Exactly. It's it's this
50:47>> public forum type of situation where you
50:51want to be The word accountability comes
50:53from the Roman Senate and it means to be
50:55accounted for.
50:56>> Oh wow. If you weren't there, you were
50:59not accounted for. Therefore, your vote
51:01doesn't matter. Interesting,
51:02>> right? So, you needed to be there and
51:04obviously put put in your two cents or
51:06whatever it was. But accountability is
51:08so
51:09>> so so so important, dude.
51:10>> It is. It's huge. You can do it over the
51:12phone and you can you can do it in
51:14person, which is probably the best. But
51:16how holding yourself accountable is
51:19probably synonymous with with
51:21self-discipline, right? And it's it's
51:23the it's the process of tracking your
51:25behaviors and really being honest with
51:27yourself, being the coach and the player
51:28at the same time. Yes. And and you know,
51:30giving yourself the the grace needed
51:32when necessary, and giving yourself the
51:34the hard kick in the ass when it's
51:36necessary.
51:36>> 100. That's right.
51:37>> How how do you make sure how do you
51:40track your habits and practices in a way
51:42that keeps you motivated and honest?
51:44>> Well, just tracking your habits at all
51:47is like I said, it's the number one
51:49personal development strategy I've ever
51:51encountered.
51:53the the the entire strategy of defining
51:56the habits, the highest leverage habits
51:59that are going to turn you into the
52:00person that has a life like you want and
52:03then tracking those habits every day is
52:05the number one personal development
52:07strategy of all time as far as I'm
52:09concerned. And I've been in this
52:11business for 35 years. That is the one
52:13that will change your life more than any
52:15other single personal development
52:17strategy. And it's a it's a it's a
52:20do-it-yourself. Like if you are if
52:22you're motivated enough as a person and
52:25not everybody is. Some people need help.
52:27Some people need other people to nudge
52:30them along. I'm not one of those people.
52:32I I mean it always helps. Yeah, it
52:34always helps. Accountability. We figured
52:37one year, and this isn't empirical, but
52:39it's it's it's a gut feeling. Me and my
52:42accountability partners sort of felt
52:44that having accountability versus not
52:47having accountability is about a 50%
52:51difference in efficacy. Yeah.
52:53>> So if you are being held accountable,
52:55you're going to basically be double as
52:58effective as if you're just holding
53:00yourself.
53:00>> It supercharges the
53:01>> It really does. It really does. It
53:04guarantees that someone's going to be
53:05watching you and you're going to have to
53:07well in in the definition you just did
53:10showing up to the Senate. You got to be
53:11showing up to the Senate and giving your
53:13report.
53:14>> And like I said, you'll do just about
53:16anything to avoid being the guy that
53:17says, "I didn't do what I said I was
53:19going to do."
53:19>> And so it's just it's it's it's highly
53:21effective. If you can take that habit
53:23tracking system and put accountability
53:25around it, you're I mean you are going
53:28to explode from a personal development
53:30context. So the the habit tracking
53:32system that we use is a binary
53:35checklist.
53:36>> Yep. Simple binary checklist. You either
53:38did it or you didn't do it.
53:39>> Exactly. And the the enemy of that sort
53:42of binary uh checklist is being vague.
53:46>> Gray area.
53:47>> Yeah. Exactly.
53:47>> You don't want that.
53:48>> It's I I did my workout or I did not do
53:52my workout. I
53:53>> I I drank my my three liters of water or
53:56I did
53:57>> Exactly. I worked on my business for
53:58four hours or I didn't or whatever it
54:00is. That's right.
54:01>> And that sort of excuse me that that
54:03sort of binary um component to this to
54:07this checklist is so important.
54:09>> There's no place to hide.
54:10>> Yeah. It's and and you can
54:12>> it's on off. Yes. No.
54:13>> You can look back at the end of the
54:14month and be like, "Oh, I did so good
54:16for the first two weeks and then I did
54:18really
54:18>> right." Or you can dude I have noticed
54:20so many patterns. It's like
54:22>> it's like look at how poorly I perform
54:24on Monday and Tuesday. Why the Oh,
54:27because I drank way too much on the
54:28weekend. like like back when I I I
54:31actually figured that out like 10 10
54:33years ago before I stopped drinking. I
54:35was like I I could start to see patterns
54:37and and then you can get some real good
54:39information on how you behave by
54:41tracking your
54:42>> habits. Well, what is what is not
54:44tracked can never improve something like
54:46this.
54:47>> What what isn't measured is difficult to
54:50improve. Yeah.
54:51>> What is what is measured and reported
54:53improves exponentially. And that's so so
54:56this whole system is based on based on
54:59basically corporate efficacy. What I did
55:02for to create the lifebook mastery
55:04program which this is based on is I
55:07studied best practices and execution and
55:10no one does it better than corporations.
55:11I mean if you want to if you want to
55:14design manufacture and roll out a Boeing
55:17747
55:19that's a freaking job.
55:20>> You got a pretty you got
55:21>> you study what those people do. Yeah.
55:23you study what those people do to get
55:24that stuff done. It's quarterly rhythms.
55:27It's crystal clear objectives. It's
55:29everything's broken down into milestones
55:31and it's daily rhythms. It's reporting
55:34and and Yeah. Exactly. So, that's what
55:36the system's kind of based on.
55:37>> Yeah. And and what what you just said
55:39about the um Oh, I I drink way too much
55:42on the weekends and that's why I'm
55:44always not as as performative on
55:46Mondays.
55:47>> Exactly. I noticed that. There's there's
55:49a lot of um you can get a lot of
55:51feedback just by looking at what you
55:53have tracked in the last whatever time
55:54frame, month, year, whatever it is. How
55:56how do you know when you there's there's
56:00this push or pivot kind of kind of
56:02thing. I need to push through this and
56:04keep doing these things that I'm not
56:05doing or I need to pivot
56:07>> and stop putting these on my list. And
56:10>> that's a real that's a real skill to
56:13develop because you're not and I used to
56:16be this guy. I used to be the guy that
56:19drove with intention toward my goals
56:21every second of the day. Yeah. Right.
56:23That was my mo. I'm a driver. And and
56:26I've
56:27>> I've realized not so recently, quite
56:30quite a while ago, I realized that the
56:33most graceful and probably efficacious
56:36way to achieve your life vision is a
56:38balance between intention and allowing.
56:40It's like the serenity prayer. It's
56:42putting the serenity prayer into motion.
56:44The universe expects you to get off your
56:46ass and do something in order to achieve
56:48your life vision.
56:49>> But if you demonstrate clarity around
56:52what you want and the willingness to
56:55take action to move in that direction,
56:57the universe is going to support you.
56:59And if you're just doing nothing but
57:01driving every day with blinders on,
57:03you'll miss the benevolence that is
57:06surrounding you. You you miss the
57:08support that the universe is giving you.
57:10So, what I am doing right now is a dance
57:12between intention and allowing. I wake
57:14up every day, most days. I wake up and
57:16I'm like, I'm going to kick some ass
57:17today and I I I do my thing and then I I
57:21take a little pause and I I let things
57:23happen. I'm way way better than I used
57:25to be about waking up and you know what?
57:28I'm not feeling it today. Yeah.
57:30>> I'm not I I'm having a hard time
57:32writing. I'm not I don't tend to put my
57:34head down and plow through like I used
57:37to.
57:38>> Rather, I'm like, you know what? Today
57:39I'm just going to um and it may be
57:41because I'm older now and there's not as
57:43much of a sense of urgency as when I was
57:45building everything in my younger years,
57:47but
57:48>> I just think that life is a dance
57:50between intention and allowing. If you
57:53if you allow too much and never bring
57:55your intention, you never put the
57:56universe on notice with what you really
57:58want and you're not going to get
57:59supported in the same way that you would
58:02be supported if you were actually
58:03putting out some effort. But if you on
58:05the other hand spend your entire life
58:08driving with your head down,
58:10single-mindedly nose to the grindstone,
58:13focused on what you got to get done in
58:14order to achieve your goals, you're not
58:16open to what the universe has to to give
58:19you by way of shortcuts or gifts
58:22>> or opportunities.
58:23>> Or opportunities. Exactly. So
58:25>> there's that golden balance, right?
58:26>> It's a real It's a real dance. I think
58:28it's George Bernard Shaw or again one of
58:30these quote machines that said leisure
58:32time is how one cultivates the estate of
58:34the soul or something like that.
58:35>> Only through leisure time can one
58:37cultivate the soul's estate.
58:39>> Love that.
58:40>> Yeah, it's it's magical. And one of one
58:41of my habits now is actively pursuing
58:45leisure time. It's great
58:46>> because like you said, if you just have
58:48your nose to the grindstoneone and
58:49you're doing these things all day, you
58:51will pick your head up and be like, "Oh,
58:53it's it's that um it's that Ferris
58:55Beller quote from from Ferris Buer's Day
58:57Off." He's like, "If you don't stop to
58:58look around for if life goes so fast, if
59:02you don't stop and look around, it'll
59:03it'll pass you by or whatever he said."
59:04>> Yeah, for sure.
59:05>> That's absolutely true.
59:06>> I'll tell you a little story about that,
59:08Justin. This is this is one of my
59:10favorite stories. I haven't said it
59:12much, but so Nathaniel Brener was my
59:14mentor and in his last year he was at my
59:18house in Chicago. It was the last time
59:21this was the last real conversation I
59:23had with him before he started to sort
59:26of deteriorate. And I knew I knew that I
59:30knew it was and I remember we were
59:32sitting in my living room under the
59:33trees by the waterfall and I said
59:36basically I don't remember how I said it
59:38but I basically said, "Nathaniel, give
59:40me the Give me what do you need to
59:41leave me with? Like, you know,
59:43>> we both know where this is. I'm your my
59:47mentor. What do you want to tell me?
59:50What What do you want to leave me with?
59:52What are the most important things that
59:54I need to know? And I think I framed it
59:56up, Justin, by saying, "What do you wish
59:59you would have done different?" I don't
1:00:00remember exactly how I put it, but you
1:00:02get the idea. I asked him to give me the
1:00:05>> your success or give me the stuff.
1:00:06>> Give Give me the Give me the stuff. He
1:00:08paused for literally two minutes. Two
1:00:11minutes. That's a long frigin time when
1:00:13you're sitting there waiting for his
1:00:15response. And then he said to me, first
1:00:17thing he said was, "I wish that I would
1:00:20have understood when I was much younger
1:00:22that leisure time was a valid form of
1:00:26human activity." That's the first thing
1:00:27he said to me. And that changed my life
1:00:29right there on the spot because I was
1:00:31the guy that was I was the guy that did
1:00:34not view leisure time as a valid form of
1:00:36human activity. And that changed my life
1:00:38that day. Um and and I've even
1:00:41gravitated a little more toward because
1:00:42leisure time is when you can cultivate
1:00:44the soul's estate.
1:00:45>> Exactly.
1:00:46>> It's when you can just be just be
1:00:50grateful. Just give some space for some
1:00:52things to come in that wouldn't have
1:00:54otherwise come in or not. Right. Just
1:00:57just be on this planet.
1:00:59>> That rocked my world, man.
1:01:01>> Yeah. That's that is especially for
1:01:03someone in your position jarring, right?
1:01:06Cuz you're like, "Oh, okay.
1:01:08>> Okay. I'm changing my life tomorrow."
1:01:10>> Exactly. And there's this um there's
1:01:12this sort of paradox with relaxation and
1:01:15sleep where if you try to relax with
1:01:18intensity, you're doing the opposite of
1:01:20what you should be doing. If you try to
1:01:22sleep with intensity, you're doing the
1:01:23opposite of what you should be doing.
1:01:25It's it's interesting that just
1:01:27especially in today's day and age where
1:01:29we have social media and all of the
1:01:31stimulus you could ever ask for putting
1:01:33down the screens and just being or even
1:01:36reading a book like the the the idea of
1:01:39reading a book now is not to gain the
1:01:41information from that book. It is to
1:01:43practice slowing down your brain and
1:01:46reading stack on the page.
1:01:48>> If you want information there there are
1:01:49better ways to get information these
1:01:51days than a book. But a book is is is
1:01:54you're right is it's a it's a different
1:01:55discipline than it used to be. It's a
1:01:57practice.
1:01:57>> But here is the habit that I installed
1:01:59after that. I I remember and this isn't
1:02:02you know probably optimal but it was a
1:02:04major improvement for my life. I
1:02:07literally scheduled time on Saturday to
1:02:10do nothing except walk around my garden.
1:02:13>> Sometimes think about my life cultivate
1:02:16my soul's estate. Yeah.
1:02:17>> But other times not. Other times just be
1:02:20in nature. I literally said, "I'm going
1:02:22to block time." And and then and that
1:02:24was interesting because then I'd have
1:02:26times during the week I remember I was
1:02:28talking to Pat Genempo about some
1:02:30subject. Pat brought some awesome
1:02:32thought up and I said, "Pat, that's
1:02:34freaking awesome. I'm going to think
1:02:36about that on Saturday, right?" And I
1:02:38knew what I was going to do. I've got my
1:02:39two hours in between two and four that I
1:02:41walk around my garden every single day
1:02:42and do nothing. I'm going to think about
1:02:44that this Saturday. And it's it it was
1:02:47wonderful. But that was really that that
1:02:49really was a big big shift for me.
1:02:52>> Yeah, of course. Cuz it's
1:02:53>> like you know my dad my dad never
1:02:56stopped for 10 seconds his entire life.
1:02:58>> Yeah. He was he was your grandpa.
1:03:00>> It was consistent and intense action. Y
1:03:03>> right. But in in in the philosophy of
1:03:05luminism there there is a sort of
1:03:08hierarchy to these attributes when it
1:03:11comes to action. Consistency is more
1:03:14important than intensity. Because if you
1:03:16work out super intensely for a day,
1:03:18that's less great for muscle growth and
1:03:21getting in shape than working out with
1:03:23moderate intensity for a month.
1:03:25>> That's 100% right.
1:03:26>> Right.
1:03:26>> Consistency is the deal. Structured
1:03:29rhythms are the deal. That's
1:03:31>> that's um
1:03:33>> uh the second law of thermodynamics
1:03:36proved that any closed system that
1:03:39doesn't have energy coming in from the
1:03:41outside of it will eventually dissipate.
1:03:44Every every system needs energy,
1:03:47consistent energy. And the way to get
1:03:49that consistent energy is through
1:03:52structured rhythms. It if if you leave
1:03:56>> entropy is is a is a law of the
1:03:58universe. When left alone, everything
1:04:01falls apart. Everything moves toward
1:04:03disorder. The only way to impose order
1:04:06on any area of your life is through
1:04:09consistent energy bringing into the
1:04:11system. you stop paying attention to
1:04:13your body, it's going to disintegrate.
1:04:16You stop paying attention to your
1:04:17relationships, they will disintegrate.
1:04:20And and and that that goes with every
1:04:21area of your life. Which is why
1:04:23>> once you've defined what you want in
1:04:25every area of your life and you've got a
1:04:27clear life vision, what you want to do
1:04:28then with your habits is put consistent
1:04:31positive energy into each of those areas
1:04:34of your life. And those and and that's
1:04:36done through structured rhythms. It it
1:04:38is what it's what keeps entropy at bay.
1:04:40>> Yeah. Absolutely. This this may seem a
1:04:43little unrelated, but I promise it's
1:04:44not. We're both fans of the UFC and
1:04:47we've seen the phenomenon of Russian
1:04:48wrestlers come up in the last five,
1:04:50seven years.
1:04:52>> And I was um I was listening to a
1:04:54podcast with Joe Rogan and and some
1:04:56super super smart MMA guy. And he said
1:04:59the reason why Russian wrestlers are so
1:05:02much better frankly than than American
1:05:04wrestlers is because the training
1:05:07cadence of American wrestlers goes like
1:05:09we do an on day and an off day and an on
1:05:11day and an off day and an on day and an
1:05:12off day. So we're working hard for for
1:05:15three I think it was two hours three
1:05:17days out of the week. So that's six
1:05:18hours a week. Russian wrestlers do two
1:05:21hours of moderate training every day. So
1:05:24they do 14 hours every week as opposed
1:05:26to six hours every week.
1:05:27>> But they don't push as hard. They don't
1:05:28push. It's much more flowy. But they
1:05:31have double the practice is the deal.
1:05:33>> Interesting.
1:05:34>> Right. Stack that up over a year.
1:05:36>> Yeah. Because you couldn't do the
1:05:37American way.
1:05:38>> Exactly. You're It's too much stress
1:05:40under your belt. Things like this. But
1:05:42if you stack that up over a year, they
1:05:43have trained a year longer than you in
1:05:46the same amount of time. Right.
1:05:47>> And it's it's kind of the same idea with
1:05:49um
1:05:50>> like like we were talking about working
1:05:51out. If you work out twice or three
1:05:54times every week, that's three hours a
1:05:57week and stack that up over a year. It's
1:05:59how however many times. Imagine if you
1:06:01worked out half as as intensely, but
1:06:05double the time. That would probably
1:06:08yield higher gains than that.
1:06:09>> Could, right? So, it's it's a it's an
1:06:11interesting sort of back and forth type
1:06:14of deal with consistency and intensity.
1:06:18You want to find again that golden
1:06:19balance of I want to do this with the
1:06:21most intensity possible whereas to keep
1:06:24in mind I don't want to detract from my
1:06:27consistent action.
1:06:28>> You know it's interesting. I don't
1:06:30really have a lot of intensity in my
1:06:32habits when I when I think about my
1:06:34habits. I've got my meal planning. I've
1:06:36got my my workouts. And I you know I I
1:06:39don't push too hard anymore. I don't
1:06:41need to. I I've been doing this for so
1:06:42long. I I'm in sort of maintenance mode.
1:06:45Um, I delight my wife every day. I I
1:06:49make sure that I am hydrated. Half of my
1:06:52habits are self-care. Yeah, that's a big
1:06:55big tip is that regardless of what what
1:06:58values you want to bring to life in your
1:07:01life vision, taking care of yourself,
1:07:04being strong physically, being, you
1:07:06know, being stable emotionally, being
1:07:09fulfilled spiritually, taking care of
1:07:11yourself.
1:07:12>> Yeah. you're going to be much more
1:07:14effective across anything you want to
1:07:16accomplish in life.
1:07:17>> Absolutely. How, speaking of of of
1:07:20self-care habits, kind of taking that as
1:07:22an example, how can you distinguish
1:07:24between habits that are just nice to do
1:07:26and habits that are actively pushing you
1:07:27forward to your to your life vision, is
1:07:29is washing your face every day going to
1:07:31help you build your dream house? I don't
1:07:33know. Like, what's the
1:07:35>> Yeah. So, how do you do that?
1:07:36>> There's math involved. Um, but it's not
1:07:40straight deductive reasoning. So your
1:07:42goals are straight deductive reasoning.
1:07:44And here's what I mean by that. Once
1:07:45you've defined your life vision, AI is
1:07:48really, really good at suggesting the
1:07:49goals upon which that life vision rests
1:07:51because that's deductive. Yeah. If you
1:07:53want to accomplish that, then this is
1:07:55what you have to do. Habits aren't quite
1:07:57the same way. We've had to use best
1:07:59practices uh known best practices when
1:08:03creating. Some of your habits are
1:08:04deductive, but but the math works like
1:08:06this. One of your habits should be to
1:08:08touch your most important goals every
1:08:10single day. Yep. That's math. So if your
1:08:12life vision is dependent on your goals
1:08:14and you have a habit to touch your goals
1:08:16every day, you're gonna make progress
1:08:18towards your life vision. There can be
1:08:20no other way that that is the only way
1:08:22that that can go.
1:08:23>> Exactly.
1:08:23>> And then we've defined probably I would
1:08:27say five to six habits that you know
1:08:29everyone's got different values,
1:08:31everyone's got different goals, but
1:08:32there are five to six habits that almost
1:08:35everyone should have. You want to know
1:08:36what they are? Yeah.
1:08:37>> You want to hear what they are? Okay.
1:08:38The the first one is to touch your most
1:08:40important goals every day. That that
1:08:42that's the mechanism that makes the
1:08:43transformation equation work. But but we
1:08:45set that one aside. Almost every
1:08:47successful person has some kind of a
1:08:49morning ritual. It can consist of
1:08:50meditation. It can consist of a walk in
1:08:53nature, a devotional, journaling.
1:08:56There's a lot of different things it can
1:08:57be. But what a morning ritual does is it
1:09:01starts the day on your terms.
1:09:03>> Exactly.
1:09:03>> You set the rules of engagement for the
1:09:05world. You do not let the world set the
1:09:07rules of engagement for you. So that
1:09:08almost all successful people have some
1:09:10sort of a morning ritual that gets their
1:09:13heads right.
1:09:13>> Waking up and immediately doing some
1:09:15sort of creative output or or whatever
1:09:17it is,
1:09:17>> whatever it is for you. Whatever it is
1:09:19that that has you starting your day on
1:09:22your own terms and setting the the rules
1:09:24of engagement for the world as opposed
1:09:26to allowing the world to set the rules
1:09:28of engagement for you. So that's that's
1:09:30a really good habit for for anyone.
1:09:32Second habit is meal planning. Every
1:09:34single person should consciously decide
1:09:37what they want to put into their body.
1:09:39Your There's I don't even need to
1:09:40explain that.
1:09:41>> Yeah. Exactly.
1:09:41>> Right. You I don't even need to explain
1:09:43that one. It's so basic. And then and
1:09:44the third one is very related and that's
1:09:46exercise.
1:09:47>> Yep.
1:09:47>> Every everyone should have an exercise.
1:09:49>> Some form of movement.
1:09:50>> An exercise plan. That's exactly right.
1:09:52Hold on one sec. Um
1:09:54>> meditation.
1:09:54>> Yeah. Meditation. Education. I'm just
1:09:56trying to get them all. Okay. Yeah,
1:09:58that's what it is. The next and one of
1:09:59the highest leverage habits of all is
1:10:01meditation. Meditation has probably a
1:10:05more profound effect on more categories
1:10:07of your life than any other single
1:10:09strategy, right? It helps your health
1:10:11and fitness. It helps your emotional
1:10:13life. It helps your spiritual life. It
1:10:14helps your character. It's going to
1:10:16improve your relationships. It's just
1:10:17your whole well-being. It's it it it
1:10:21affects everything. And again, it's you
1:10:25exercising command of your inner world
1:10:28so that you don't allow the external
1:10:31world to do that. Right. Right. If you
1:10:33don't set your internal world the way
1:10:36you want it, it's going to get set for
1:10:37you. Exactly.
1:10:38>> So, that's a big one. And then another
1:10:40thing that you should probably engage
1:10:42with every day is education
1:10:45>> and not the old 20 20th century kind of
1:10:49education which is basically memorizing
1:10:52and regurgitating facts. We live in a
1:10:54world today where you can learn where
1:10:56you've got all the world's knowledge in
1:10:57your pocket at the speed of light. You
1:11:00you should spend at least a few minutes
1:11:01a day educating yourself on things that
1:11:04are going to move you forward in your
1:11:07life. Sorry. Continue, please. You
1:11:09should spend at least a few minutes of
1:11:10of your day educating yourself on things
1:11:13that are going to have a direct positive
1:11:15impact on the goals that you're
1:11:16currently pursuing. You should study
1:11:19things that are going to help you
1:11:20achieve your goals because you can you
1:11:22can do that now, especially with with
1:11:24AI. So, those are some of the highest
1:11:26leverage habits. Work on your goals
1:11:28every day. Pay attention to what you're
1:11:30putting into your body. Exercise your
1:11:31body. Meditate and and some form of
1:11:35education. But it's laser learning. It's
1:11:38not just general education.
1:11:40It's not going to not going to have any
1:11:42effect on your life. It's specifically
1:11:44what you need to to to advance towards
1:11:47your life vision.
1:11:48>> If you want to become an investment
1:11:50banker, maybe the the the highest
1:11:52priority would be learning about
1:11:53investment banking, not animal
1:11:55psychology.
1:11:56>> Yep. Exactly.
1:11:57>> Right. And that may help for whatever
1:11:59reason, but it's it's learning about
1:12:01>> you know, you can you can educate
1:12:02yourself for fun. I love watching nature
1:12:03shows. We watch undersea shows. watch
1:12:06history shows all the time, but that's
1:12:07not what I'm talking about. I'm talking
1:12:09about a habit of I'm going to learn
1:12:11something every single day that's going
1:12:14to educate me on on one of the things
1:12:16that I'm trying to accomplish in my
1:12:18life.
1:12:18>> And our software, by the way, does a
1:12:20beautiful job of handing those lessons.
1:12:23>> I'm I'm very excited about that. So, I
1:12:25guess we'll we'll we'll end on what is
1:12:27the maybe not the simplest way, but what
1:12:30is the fastest way or one of the fastest
1:12:32ways for people to put the
1:12:34transformation equation into into place
1:12:36into into their lives?
1:12:38>> Well, you should go to
1:12:39luminism.foundation
1:12:41and that basically has a transcript and
1:12:44an audio recording of the power which is
1:12:47a brief introduction to luminism. And
1:12:49then there's a bunch of resources that
1:12:50you can you can use. There's our
1:12:52miraculous app that really brings it to
1:12:55life. Um there's the there's the
1:12:57lifebook program that that guides you
1:12:59through the process of creating a
1:13:01compelling life vision. There's all
1:13:03kinds of free stuff. um that that's the
1:13:06site to go to to learn about this
1:13:07philosophy that allows you to get
1:13:10control of yourself and control of your
1:13:12life and begin to shape your reality
1:13:14consciously by literally learning how to
1:13:17be really really good at transforming
1:13:20your thoughts into physical 3D matter.

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