Churchill, Gandhi, Edison, Ford, Einstein, Buddha, Thoreau, Aristotle, Jesus, Carnegie, Rockefeller,
. . . the greatest leaders, thinkers, authors, teachers, scientists and businessmen in history, though
they shared few similar viewpoints, all agreed on just one thing. The mind is everything, what you
think you become. The consistency with which the world’s greatest achievers speak about the
power of thought, thinking and the mind is unparalleled with any other topic of discussion in the
history of the world.
And yet this unanimously proclaimed power of the mind which shapes the fabric of our every
experience and dictates the very destiny of our lives is dismissed as some broken and exhausted
cliché or modern hippy spiritual “woo woo.” Thoughts are things that create our reality? Come on.
Really?
Churchill, Gandhi, Edison, Ford, Einstein, Buddha, Thoreau,
Aristotle, Jesus, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Really.
Mind Hack is the simplification and distillation of nearly a
decade of intense research into neuroscience, behavioral
psychology, personal development, metaphysics,
quantum physics and spirituality. It is a product of deep
analysis and evaluation of the biographies, personal
writings and histories of the most successful, powerful
The Empires of
the Future are the
Empires of the Mind
— Churchill
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and influential people in the world. It is an effect of ten years of personal experimentation and
thousands of hours of coaching, supporting, and mentoring hundreds of successful entrepreneurs
who have utilized the Mind Hack principles to create more success, more fulfillment and more
freedom in every area of their lives.
In Mind Hack, you’ll discover the 4 Mental Habits of the most successful people in history.
What’s more, you’ll understand why these habits or methods of thinking have the capacity to
rapidly and dramatically transform every area of your business and life, not just conceptually
but at a profoundly practical and absolutely scientific level. The reason why you feel frustrated,
overwhelmed, anxious or stressed out about your business, or the reason why your business has
hit a plateau, is not for any reason other than the fact that you are not consistently and diligently
practicing these Four Habits. Before I introduce the Four Habits I want to ensure we are aligned in
our common perception of reality, since it is central to your ability to leverage these principles.
Life is energy. Your physical world and your interaction with it, what we call reality, consists of tiny
vibrating particles that are comprised of mostly nothing. The device you’re reading this book on
consists of thousands of trillions of nearly invisible spinning particles which themselves are made
of 99.9% nothing. Yet just as a web browser translates HTML code into a usable web page for your
browsing, your senses transform this rapidly moving almost nothing vibrational activity into your
reality.
You live in a sea of vibration that your five senses interpret into the reality you experience. Your
eyes translate this buffet of energetic activity into images. Your ears convert it into sound. Your
skin transforms it into tactile feeling. And so on and so forth. As equally strange as it is true. Why is
this important and how is this relevant to the most successful people in the world? Because they
perceive life for what it is, not for what it appears to be.
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Reality is an Illusion, albeit a persistent one. – Einstein
When you want to modify a web page, you have to understand and work with the underlying code.
And if you want to understand how to create an extraordinary mission-driven business and life akin
to the most successful people in the world, you have to understand how to get into the code of your
inner world and rewrite it.
When you look beyond the illusion of reality and begin to understand the system at work you
discover an extraordinary truth hidden among the philosophical, spiritual and academic teachings
of the most extraordinary people in history: your brain is the browser for your life, and your
thoughts create the code.
If you are here it’s because you have awakened to the fact that you’re no longer willing to allow
your inner conflicts to prevent you from achieving your highest potential and from bringing the
vision you have for your work and your life into the world. You are no longer willing to accept from
yourself anything less than the highest and greatest form of who you are. You have come to the
realization that in order for things to change, you must change, and perhaps unconsciously you’ve
been asking for some guidance, some support and for some answers. To that end it is my privilege
to share with you the principles, tools and strategies that I’ve learned over the last decade that
have helped hundreds of mission-driven entrepreneurs just like you break through to their next
level of success, happiness and fulfillment.
Perhaps like me you’ve had periods of time where you’ve felt frustrated and overwhelmed. How
are you, an army of one or a small battalion of a few, going to get it all done? You’ve questioned
whether or not this big vision you have is really possible. Perhaps it’s too big. Where do I start? What
do I do next? You wonder if you’re making the right choices or the wrong decisions. Perhaps there’s
not enough money, or enough time or resources. Perhaps you believe that others might reject your
ideas or your proposals. Maybe you think that if you want to get the job done right, you’re the only
one who can do it. Maybe, just maybe, you’re comparing yourself to other people and, in doing so,
dissipating the most precious resource you have, which is your mental energy. You may even be
feeling stuck or, if you’re not humble enough yet to admit it, you’ve ‘hit a plateau’.
The MIND is EVERYTHING. What you THINK
you BECOME. – Buddha
Here’s the bad news – these beliefs and thoughts are literally forming the structure of your
brain and becoming the lens through which you view life. They are preventing you from
accessing the creativity, inspiration, ideas and resources you need to further your vision and
mission. They are creating the blind spots that are keeping you stuck AND causing the journey of bringing your vision into the world to become a painful one. Yet here’s the great news . . . this
mind is the same in all of us and I’m going to teach you how to hack yours in order to get it working
consistently towards your desired outcomes, rather than against you.
There’s an internal conflict that takes place the moment we set big goals for ourselves. Consciously
you’ve decided you’re going to create this incredible business. But unconsciously you’ve decided
money is hard to make, or that you don’t have the talents necessary, or that other people do it
better than you, or that people don’t like you, and so on and so forth. Until you become aware
of these unconscious decisions and extract these weeds from the garden of your mind, you
will continue to feel the resistance as you trudge forward towards your goals. Like an invisible
tractor beam your mind will keep you trapped in doubt, anxiety and overwhelm, sapping your
creative energy and twisting your life’s purpose into another thing that you’re not doing good
enough, and not doing fast enough. You can learn the skills, the marketing and the strategies. But
ultimately your ability to execute them properly all depends on your mindset. You can teach an
idiot how to market their business, but at the end of the day, he’s going to market like an idiot.
Likewise, you can teach someone every master strategy in the book, but if they are doubtful, fearful,
overwhelmed, anxious and frustrated or creating blocks at an unconscious level – the strategies are
not going to do them much good.
I know this because I was in a similar place to where you either are or will be in your journey. Like
some rite of passage, EVERY entrepreneur I’ve worked with has at some point hit a plateau which
can only be overcome by going within and doing what I call the ‘INNER WORK.’ There was a point
in my life where I knew I was capable of greatness. I had this extraordinary vision for my life and I
had all the strategies, but there was a part of me that doubted. There was a part of me that doubted
whether or not I was capable of doing it. There was a part of me that was constantly comparing
myself to other people and their dreams, and their gifts, and their talents instead of paying attention
to my own. There was a part of me that was afraid of making the wrong decisions. What I figured
out over the last decade was what that part was, and how to prevent it from continuing to
own me. I learned how to apply the 4 Habits to my life and now teach these powerful mind hacking
techniques to my clients to help them consistently create massive breakthroughs in their businesses
and their lives. And that’s what I’m going to help you do, too.
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Having spent the last 20 years as an entrepreneur & CEO and now having coached and worked
with hundreds of entrepreneurs just like you, there’s one glaring commonality among those
entrepreneurs that succeed in bringing their visions into the world and those that fail. That one
thing is MINDSET. I know we’ve all heard about how important MINDSET is but what I’ve discovered
having been obsessed about mindset and immersing myself for the last decade in everything
from behavioral psychology, to neuroscience, to quantum physics, to metaphysics, to personal
development, to studying all the major spiritual teachings is this: 80% of success is mindset. It’s not
tactics, not natural gifts, not intelligence, not creative genius, not financial leverage, not who they
know, not anything other than having the ability to establish within themselves a very specific and
particular MINDSET.
The man who thinks he CAN, and the man he thinks
he CAN’T, are both right. – Henry Ford
Mindset isn’t a small part of success. It is the singular determinant of success or failure. Your
strategy, your online marketing tactics, your brand, finding your ideal customer, building a big list –
all of those things are helpful (and if you stick with me I will help you with those too) but the results
that those activities produce are dependent upon the beliefs you have about yourself, your business
and your life. This isn’t woo-woo modern hippy shit.
Your thoughts are manufacturing your experience of reality. More specifically, your subconscious
mind which is represented by more than 1 quadrillion neurosynaptic connections is determining
which opportunities you see, what ideas you have access to, the thoughts you have, what
coincidences you attract into your life and how others are going to respond to you. It is the
underlying code that is producing the results of your life. Your ability to rapidly and joyfully bring
your vision into the world all comes down to just one thing – understanding how to get the
incredible technology that resides between your ears working for you 24/7 so you can thrive,
rather than allowing it to keep you stuck in the status quo in its effort to simply keep you alive
(which is by nature what it is designed to do.) If you want to change your life, you have to change
your brain.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon AWARENESS
and the power of contemplation, rather than upon
mere survival. — Aristotle
How does this powerful interconnection between the mind and our reality really work? What ‘hacks’
are available in order to harness the power of the mind to command and control your reality so that
you can easily, rapidly and joyfully bring your vision into the world? Those are the questions that
have playfully haunted me for the last decade and which I begin to address in this book. Let me be
frank – this body of work is extensive and I’ve only included a handful of powerful distinctions in this
book. If you’re really interested in immersing yourself in the one thing that can absolutely transform
your work, your life, your passion and your purpose, please make sure you are subscribed to my
email list, subscribe to my YouTube channel and consider going deeper into this work through one
of the many programs or live events that I offer. This book isn’t the transformation – it’s the tip of the
iceberg of the teachings. What comes later are more teachings and the real transformation as we go
hand in hand on this journey together to bring our solutions into the world through our work while
creating abundance for ourselves and those around us. This is only the beginning.
David
The Perfect Search Engine
The system of life is a highly intelligent, intentional search engine that operates according to a
set of fundamental laws or rules. The experiences you have in your life on a moment by moment
basis should be considered your search results. Just like videos on YouTube, your experiences
are 3-dimensional video results based on a search query that you’ve made. In many instances in
your life this universal search engine is returning results that you don’t want. However despite
your poor results, you continue to input the same ineffective search query into the search engine,
producing the same unwanted results over and over and over again. While we would never operate
a traditional search engine in this way – you would simply change your search request – in the
universal search engine of life you continue to make the same unproductive search time after time
simply because you don’t understand how this search engine works, and how you’ve been making
your requests.
A man is but a product of his thoughts.
What he thinks, he becomes. — Mahatma Gandhi
You know how to use search engines better than you do your own brain. Despite the fact that
within our heads we house the most extraordinary technology ever designed by man or nature, no
one – not your parents, not your teachers, not your mentors or peers – taught you about how to
effectively use your brain in order to manufacture the results that you want in your life. You’re not
aware of how you’ve been making your search requests and so you keep doing it over and over and
over again despite the fact that you continue to get results that you don’t like.
So here’s the first key – your BELIEFS are the search request.
‘Money is hard to make?’ Ok says life, here you go. ‘Other people do it better than me?’ Yep I can give
you a search result for that. ‘If I want it done right I have to do it myself?’ Sure thing here you go.
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Whatever it is you believe manufactures the experiences of your life. The belief dictates what your
brain pays attention to. It shapes what information your brain allows in or filters out. It shapes the
ideas that come to you. It shapes the coincidence in your matrix-like life. The belief is the search
query, your experience is the result. Not fully convinced? Stick with me.
So, where did these beliefs come from? These beliefs come from the past. Maybe you overheard
an argument between Mom and Dad about money and you came to the conclusion at five years
old that money was hard to come by. At the very moment that you applied that meaning to the
experience you were observing, you created wiring in your brain that began to shape the lens
through which you viewed the world. The next time you had an experience that involved money,
your brain automatically and unconsciously brought your past into that new experience where you
HAD to conclude that money was hard to make. Your brain would automatically and effectively find
evidence in that new situation to support your original hypothesis, and ignore and filter out any
evidence to the contrary.
Perhaps at a young age your parents divorced, so you concluded or believed that relationships
never work out. Maybe you were supposed to meet your little friends near the drinking fountain
and when they didn’t show up you concluded that you shouldn’t trust people. Perhaps a family
member projected their opinion into your little unprotected brain when they said that good things
never work out. Regardless of how it happened, thousands of embedded search commands were
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programmed into your mind at a time that even today you can’t remember, and yet they are
responsible for determining the quality and the outcomes of your life.
These beliefs dictate the quality of your life and your business and anywhere you’ve hit a
plateau, feel frustrated, stressed, overwhelmed, anxious or stuck – the embedded belief is
preventing you from moving forward. The number one challenge that entrepreneurs experience in
taking their businesses to a higher level is this: while they consciously want to achieve a great
outcome, unconsciously they have a series of beliefs that it’s not possible. It is an entrepreneur’s
ability to identify and eliminate these inner conflicts that determines his or her ability to propel
themselves to the next level of their business and lives. In order to accomplish this reprogramming,
you must learn the 4 Habits for hacking your mind, rewiring your brain, and transforming your life.
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THE POWER OF
DECISION
The First Habit:
Nothing is impossible to
those who decide upon possibility.
The universe responds by becoming
the thing you determined shall be. The
framework of your preconceived notions is
your only limitation. These are subject to
change at a moment’s notice when you
have arrived at a new DECISION.
– William Walker Atkinson
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The Power of Decisions
Working with beliefs is a challenge for most people. What’s a belief? How do I change it? In the Mind
Hack Program, I’ve gone to extraordinary lengths to explain the science behind the psychology
in order to empower you to materialize real, long-lasting and powerful change. You can’t work
with something if you don’t know what it is and you can’t transform your beliefs if you don’t know
precisely what beliefs are.
Beliefs are a series of connections in the brain that represent the memory of an experience AND the
meaning you gave it. When an individual has a fear of dogs, it’s because at some point they had an
experience with a dog and the meaning they gave that experience was that dogs are dangerous.
From that moment onward, unless a new meaning becomes attributed to the experience, the brain
will experience every subsequent interaction with a dog as dangerous. In every new instance,
the brain will identify data that it can interpret as ‘dogs are dangerous’ and will communicate
that information to you in the form of your experience or what you also call your REALITY. You will
experience that the dog is dangerous and the brain will prevent you from identifying any evidence
that may exist that dogs are safe, friendly, cuddly or man’s best friend. As long as the original
meaning remains intact with the original or past experience, your reality will repeat itself as the
brain continues to do what it is designed to do, use your past experiences to interpret the present
moment. Whether you realize it or not, you are never truly experiencing the present moment, but
simply the brain’s interpretation of it through the lens of the past.
What does the fear of dogs have to do with growing your mission-driven business to the next
level while creating an extraordinary life with freedom, time, income and influence? Because
unconsciously you’ve programmed your brain with beliefs that are preventing you from seeing
the opportunities for growth that are right in front of you, and instead you’ve trained it to focus on
problems that don’t even really exist.
So, what do we need to do in order to uninstall these beliefs which were neurophysiologically
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programmed into our brains and are preventing us from creating the extraordinary vision we have
for our mission-driven businesses and lives? We have to hack our minds, and change our brains. And
in order to do that, one must understand a very important two-millimeter distinction that takes the
concept of belief and materializes it into something that is actionable.
Beliefs are actually DECISIONS.
The original decision at the age of 5 that money is bad, or that you’re not good enough, or that
only people born rich will ever have any success was an unconscious decision. The moment you
become conscious of this decision which has been creating the results in your life that are in perfect
alignment with it – your search results – you can make a different search query. You make a new
decision.
In fact once you become conscious of what you had believed or what you unconsciously decided
before, you have an ability to respond (a responsibility) by simply making a new decision. You’re
continuing to decide that money is hard to make. You’re continuing to decide that it’s going to be
too difficult to transition from the job you’ve been working for the last 15 years to what you’d really
love to do. You’re continuing to decide that there’s no possible way to grow your business to the
next level because you’ve practically killed yourself getting it to where it is now. Until you make a
new decision you will continue to experience a reality that is in absolute congruence with the old
one.
All of your power is in the decision. To be clear, I’m not speaking necessarily about the decision ‘to
do’ something. I’m talking about the decisions you’ve made unconsciously ABOUT how life is, how
you are, how money is, what relationships are like, what it means to be a business owner, to work
for someone, to be an only child, the decision that you’re not a morning person. Your decisions
ABOUT determine your decisions to DO.
Your decisions dictate your destiny.
Once you become conscious of the fact that you’ve been making unconscious decisions in your life
that have been dictating the results that you don’t want, that have been keeping you stuck, that
have been preventing you from creating the next level of your life and business, what do you do?
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You make a new decision.
The single most destructive assumption that human beings make regarding the ability to make
decisions freely is the false belief that before making a decision one must know the how. Most
people assume they need to find evidence, or a reason, or that something needs to happen before
they make a new decision, before they can change their mind. Nothing could be further from the
truth. Nothing needs to happen in order for you to decide that you’re capable of and will create a
7-figure business. Nothing needs to be ‘figured out’ before declaring that you will find the perfect
partner or investor. No plan needs to be clear prior to your decision that despite the fact that you
don’t know how, and you don’t know when, you WILL transition from the job you’ve been working
into your mission, passion and purpose. You simply DECIDE it will be. You just decide that you will
enjoy dogs and that they will be friendly despite the evidence you’ve collected from the past to the
contrary. Because the moment you fully commit to a decision, you activate the power of decision.
Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind. – Romans 12:2
The first thing that happens is that you begin to access and attract an entirely new set of ideas
and thoughts. Science has shown that your brain does not know the difference between what
you allow yourself to imagine and your reality. To the brain, it’s one and the same. An impressive
study conducted at Harvard Medical School in 2009 showed brain scans of pianists as they played
the piano. Later the musicians were asked to simply imagine playing the piano, and the identical
parts of the brain became active. The brain doesn’t know the difference between what’s actually
happening in your life or what you imagine. Imagining activates the same neural pathways as the
real experience.
The moment you make a new decision you give your brain “permission” to begin experiencing
the new decision which initiates the growth of new neurosynaptic connections. Your decision
then begins a visualization process that enrolls the brain to begin focusing your attention towards
the object of your desired outcome. Once your brain begins to build new connections associated
with the decision, three powerful reality hacking effects take place.
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First, these new connections begin to attract the thoughts and ideas that are in perfect
alignment with the experience that you’ve just manufactured. The HOW or the action plan
comes in the form of creative inspiration but only AFTER the decision is made, not before. The
neurophysiological change that results from the brain’s inability to distinguish between imagination
and reality is the key to unlocking the thoughts and ideas necessary for determining “the how.”
Second, when you make a new decision, you recalibrate a part of your brain called the
Reticular Activating System (RAS). The RAS acts as the filter for the millions of bits of sensory
information that occur around you every moment. The RAS allows in only the information that is
congruent with the conscious and unconscious decisions that you’ve made, and it filters the rest
of the information out. This is the part of the brain that WILL find the attack signs of a dog, even
friendly ones, if you’ve determined that dogs are dangerous. This is the same part of your brain
that begins to notice all of the other cars on the road identical to the make, model and color of
the vehicle you just purchased. It’s not that everyone has recently chosen to purchase your same
automobile, it’s simply that your car has now become more important to you and the RAS has been
modified to include noticing that particular car.
The moment you make a new decision — that you’ll be more financially prosperous or abundant,
that you’re going to be living your passion, that you’re going to be attracting that soulmate — you
will immediately begin to find evidence that already existed and has always existed in your reality
that you’ve been filtering out. You literally alter the way you perceive the reality around you.
In any area where you’ve hit a plateau or been stuck; where you have an unconscious limiting belief
or decision you’ve made that’s not congruent with what you really want to create; where you’ve
been unconsciously making a search query that’s producing results that you don’t want . . . the RAS
has been filtering out all of the opportunities, and only allowing in the problems and limitations. By
making a new empowering decision that’s in alignment with your desired outcome (even without
knowing the how), the RAS will recalibrate and begin to notice information that was always in your
experience that it was previously filtering out.
The third effect of the brain change that results from consciously making new decisions, is that
you activate the power of coincidence. If you choose you can write off the correlation between
thoughts and coincidence as some sort of hippy B.S., but it’s not. Every successful entrepreneur
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I work with appreciates the correlation between our beliefs (or as I’m calling decisions) and the
experiences that we manufacture of our own reality. This is the idea behind ‘The Law of Attraction’
which was first discussed in 1890 in William Walker Atkinson’s brilliant book by the same name and
later elaborated upon and made popular by Napoleon Hill in the world’s sixth most sold business
book (70 million copies) Think & Grow Rich. The moment you change your brain by making a new
decision, the electrical structure of your brain changes. The change in structure emits a different
vibration or frequency which interacts with the vibrational nature of reality and you attract the
people, the circumstances and the resources that are perfectly in alignment with what you want to
accomplish. That’s the power of decision. All of your power is in the decision. It’s just most people
are not aware of the decisions that they’ve made.
Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
– Albert Einstein
So why do so many people consciously want one thing and instead experience another? The reality
is that most people are not aware of their inner world. They aren’t conscious of the core beliefs that
are the makeup of their unconscious minds. To put it simply, most people are simply not aware of
what they are thinking. They aren’t aware of the decisions that they’ve made that aren’t congruent
with the life that they want to create.
So how do you become conscious of something you’re not aware of? What tools are available to
begin to evaluate what limiting beliefs or unconscious decisions you’ve made that are preventing
you from creating the business, impact, income and life that you want? The answer is simple. Look
at the results of your life. Evaluate the results that you are producing and rest assured they are
precisely in alignment with the unconscious search request you’ve been making. What’s more, if
you look at any area of your life or any experience you’re having and you notice your reaction to
that experience – your reaction is the belief that created it. Your reaction to an experience that
you don’t like isn’t the effect, it’s the cause. The belief that you can’t trust people, or that you’re
not good enough, or that you have to sacrifice your life in order to have success – those beliefs
were there prior to the experience that you are having of them. The belief is the cause and your
experience is the effect. When you become conscious of the unconscious decisions that you’ve
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw
back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative
(and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of
which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment
one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. A
whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s
favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material
assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come
his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. – W.H. Murray
made that aren’t congruent with what you want to consciously create in your life, then you can
simply make a new decision. Change your decision, change your brain, and you change your life.
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THE POWER OF
ENERGY
The Success Model:
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The Success Model
Of the 4 mental habits of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, The Power of Decisions
is the first and primary principle because it lays the foundation for maximizing one thing: Energy.
Your ability to bring energy to any situation in your life determines whether or not the current
conditions change or remain the same. Where you’ve hit a plateau or where you feel stuck,
you aren’t bringing enough energy to transform the environment. A high energetic state leads to
improved ideas, thoughts, creativity, inspiration, motivated action and makes you and all of your
efforts more attractive to the people and the resources around you. Feeling stressed, worried,
overwhelmed, angry, frustrated, resentful and exhausted isn’t attractive, neither physically nor
metaphorically. Up until now your energy has been trapped in a series of unconscious decisions
that weren’t in alignment with what you really want which has been preventing the maximum
flow of energy within you. Once you align your unconscious thought patterns with your conscious
outcomes, you bring a new level of energy and resourcefulness to your mission, your business and
your life.
It is helpful to understand that the Four Habits are derived from the Mind Hack Success System
which consists of a series of levels of thought process, or mental habits, that lend to optimal
performance and outcomes. If you want to be productive and create a breakthrough in any area of
your life, you have to begin noticing all of the unconscious decisions and thought patterns that you
previously weren’t aware of. When you begin to recognize the choices you can make about how you
think and learn and how to direct your thought in ways that other people don’t even perceive, you
create a fundamental advantage in everything that you do. This advantage not only empowers you
to create breakthroughs where you’ve been hitting walls, but it allows you to create in ways that are
bigger, better and faster than everyone else around you. Becoming aware of your inner world and
learning how to manage it, which is what the Four Habits and the Success System teach, will allow
you the ultimate advantage in everything you do.
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The Ordinary Model of Thinking
The Ordinary Model of Thinking is the model followed by the natural functioning of the brain. The
brain is designed to help you survive. It is not designed for you to thrive, to focus on opportunities,
to clearly direct you to creating a 7-figure business and having 12 weeks of vacation a year or
for being present for the people you love. By nature the brain is designed to identify problems
that it perceives as a possible threat and the blueprint from which it operates are the decisions,
conclusions, beliefs and meanings that you gave to your life experiences prior to the age of 5
years old.
In any area of your life where you’ve hit a plateau, or you feel stuck, or you’re consistently
experiencing low energy emotions like fear, overwhelm, frustration, worry, anger or resentment, you
are unconsciously operating according to The Ordinary Method of Thinking, the default function of
the brain. Like a toddler that has been told no, the unconscious decisions that you’ve made against
yourself at Level 1 are creating inner emotional tantrums that drain your mental and physical
resources and place you in a low energy state.
6 Level 6: (RE)-ACTIONS
5 Level 5: FEAR
4 Level 4: QUESTIONS
3 Level 3: CLARITY
2 Level 2: PROBLEMS
1 Level 1: DECISIONS
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In the low energy state produced by the unconscious decision and the inner conflict, the brain
transitions to Level 2 where it begins to focus exclusively on problems. Because the brain is by
design an effective problem finder with the sole automatic function to keep you alive, it requires
very little energy to focus on problems. As the brain unconsciously directs your attention towards
problems, the low energy states from Level 1 are perpetuated and lacking the energy and
corresponding thoughts and ideas to effectively find solutions and identify opportunities. For this
reason you remain stuck in a mindset that is conducive to nothing more than at best drifting and
unproductive action and worst yet complaining, hopelessness, a complete lack of presence and a
world full of problems.
In Level 3 of the Ordinary Model and as a result of the continual and inefficient expenditure of
energy, you lack the one thing necessary to chart a course to success — Clarity. Clarity requires
energy and as a result of unconscious limiting decisions and a habitual focus on problems, there
isn’t enough energy in the system in order to have the clarity necessary to produce your desired
outcomes. In the absence of clarity, you become, simply, confused. I’m not suggesting you operate
according to this model in ALL areas of your life. However, in any area of your life where you’re
experiencing low energy emotions or not producing the results that you want, this is the reason
why.
Once the brain identifies that its human being container is operating according to a dangerously
ineffective trio of limiting decisions, problems, and confusion – it moves into major problem-solving
mode by asking questions. “Why is this happening? Why doesn’t it ever work out for me? What am
I doing wrong? What is it working for them but not working for me?” Left to its own devices it will
begin to try to solve the problem by asking a series of highly ineffective and unproductive questions
that in and of themselves produce even more low-level emotions which ultimately throws the
individual into Level 5: Fear.
As a response to the decisions, problems, confusion and unproductive questions, the brain
responds at Level 5 by inducing Fear. Fear manifests inwardly in the form of overwhelm, worry,
panic, doubt, rejection and fear of failure. Level 5 which represents the height of low-level energy
and unresourcefulness is the point from which most people are taking action in the areas of their
businesses or lives where they are not producing the results that they want. Outwardly Level 5
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produces either a tremendous amount of ‘doing’ that fails to produce desired results and is often
a “reaction plan” rather than an action plan or Level 5 thought patterns consist of lots of ‘trying to
solve the problem from the mind’ with very little physical or real-world action or activity.
The most successful people in the world, however, operate according to a different model, what we
call the Mind Hack Success Model. The Success Model is a series of mental habits that manufacture
energy at every level and culminates in powerful, productive and precise action that more often
than not produces the desired results.
6 Level 6: ACTIONS
5 Level 5: CONFIDENCE
4 Level 4: QUESTIONS
3 Level 3: CLARITY
2 Level 2: GRATITUDE
1 Level 1: DECISIONS
High achievers, peak performers and successful entrepreneurs operate according to a consciously
constructed model that uses the technology of the brain to achieve their desired outcomes
as opposed to allowing the brain to continue in its survival based method of operation. These
individuals operate their minds according to a Success Model that empowers them to place their
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The Mind Hack Success Model
consistent thought and attention towards their desired outcomes. At Level 1of the model, these
people have consciously constructed a strong foundation of empowering decisions that are
congruent with who they want to be and what they want to accomplish in the world. By creating
an alignment between their inner and outer worlds, they unlock a tremendous amount of internal
energy that propels them upwards in the Success Model. At Level 2, because they have learned
how to maximize their internal energy reserves, they are capable of directing the mind’s attention
away from problems and towards opportunities and those things that are working in their lives.
They have developed an attitude of gratitude and despite their external circumstances, they have
enrolled the brain in finding the gift, blessing and opportunity in every experience. They see what
others cannot see because they have created enough energetic momentum to direct the brain
rather than be directed by it.
With this incredible energetic storehouse, these individuals achieve tremendous Clarity at Level 3.
They’ve identified clearly what their outcomes are, who their customers are, how they are different
from their competition, where there are opportunities to take untapped market share – they know
where they are going and they begin to understand how they are going to get there. At Level 4,
they have taken advantage of the brain’s extraordinary capacity to source answers. By consciously
directing the brain by asking key strategic and empowering questions, they are able to source the
thoughts, ideas, images, creativity and inspiration necessary for taking effective action. With all of
the right answers, they move forward into Level 5 with an unparalleled confidence. Sure of where
they are going and how they are going to get there, they arrive at Level 6 with a short list of powerful
and tactical activities to engage in that will produce impressive results. Often times these people
produce so much in such a short period that they seem to defy time. They are not defying time, they
are simply leveraging the power of energy to bring massive resources into this area of their life in
order to create massive breakthroughs and outcomes. Mastering the 4 Mental Habits of the Success
Model: Decisions, Gratitude, Clarity & Questions and learning how to deconstruct Fear in order to
move towards your intended outcome Confidently is the method by which successful entrepreneurs
take their businesses and their lives to the next level.
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THE POWER OF
GRATITUDE
The Second Habit:
Often people ask how I manage to
be happy despite having no arms and
no legs. The quick answer is that I have a
CHOICE. I can be angry about not having
limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a
purpose. I chose gratitude.
– Nick Vujicic
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The Power of Gratitude
The Second Habit and the second level of the Mind Hack Success Model is the Power of Gratitude.
The most successful people in the world have trained their brains to focus not on problems, which
is the natural tendency of the brain, but on what they can appreciate regardless of the circumstance
or situation. In our everyday experiences, the problem is never the problem. The problem is
the meaning that we give the experience we are having. Successful individuals have developed
a habit of attributing empowering meaning, or meaning that feels good and therefore generates
energy, to the otherwise perceived problems in their lives. They literally find the gratitude and in
doing so reshape their moment by moment experiences and position themselves in a state of high
energy and therefore high mental activity.
In each moment of our lives we have the ability to assign a meaning to the experiences we are
having. The meaning in and of itself is absolutely arbitrary yet critically important in determining
your future success or failure. Every player in the game of basketball experiences a shooting slump
– a period of time where they develop a streak of missing shots. Great shooters give a different
meaning to a missing streak than average shooters. The best shooters give every miss the meaning
that the next made basket is even closer, for they believe that the streak must end at some point
and that every missed shot is one shot closer to a make. Average shooters focus on the missed shot
and attribute a meaning that there is still something wrong with them as a result of not having yet
ended the streak. In the former example the empowering meaning, that the streak is near an end,
provides the player with the energy, focus, determination and presence to more likely make the next
shot. In the latter, the player is in a poor energetic state and more likely to perpetuate the slump.
Neither meaning is more or less correct than the other, yet the meaning that is given determines the
likelihood of success or failure in the next instance.
In business and in our lives we experience the same types of slumps. Life is constantly bringing
us experiences that, if we allow the brain to operate by its default mechanism, become problems.
However, in every problem, there is a blessing, a gift, a lesson or teaching, or some other
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opportunity. The ability to find that gift is the ability to find gratitude. In finding gratitude we tap
into an unlimited energetic credit line with the universe that fuels us with the vitality, energy,
resourcefulness, creativity and ideas necessary to create a breakthrough in any area of our lives.
Take for example Alex and Carol, a pair of executives that I worked with. These two highly capable
and effective executives came to me because they were having challenges working together. Alex
seemed always to be focused on what could and what was going wrong, while Carol naturally
found the opportunity in every challenge the two experienced. As a result, Carol felt that Alex
was no longer effective in his role in their partnership and equally important wasn’t particularly
enjoyable to work with. In my conversations with Alex, he was consistently focused on the fact that
the company had lost its last 6 pitches to other clients and he found himself spending a significant
amount of time worrying about whether or not the company was going to continue to be successful
and thinking about what had gone wrong in the pitches. Carol, on the other hand, was focused on
taking the feedback from the client prospects and building new features into their services’ offering.
Because Alex was so focused on the problems, he became stressed and overwhelmed, began
showing up at work later and leaving earlier, and had lost his creative and intellectual spark. While
Alex believed he was spending a lot of time trying to ‘figure out’ the problem, the reality was that
he had become so focused on the problem that he became paralyzed. Because Carol was focused
on the new features and the possibility of improving their offering, she was consistently in action
working towards identifying the right resources both internally and externally to expand their
services and revamping existing marketing material in order to reflect the new features. Both Alex
and Carol believed that their company needed to make a shift in order to adapt to the changing
market, but Carol’s focus on what was working and her positive forward thinking outlook gave her
the energy to tap into a whole new level of creativity and inspiration while taking massive action.
Alex’s focus on problems propelled him into fear and separated him from his internal creative
resources and literally drained him of his physical energy.
By working with Alex to help him enroll his brain to notice all of the great opportunities, resources,
people, and financial prosperity that still existed for the company, and by giving him some neuroreconditioning
rituals to begin to train his brain to focus on the opportunities rather than the
problems, Alex was able to re-engage with the organization with a new level of high energy and
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productivity. Alex was allowing fear to attract his attention (which it will naturally do in a low state
of energy) while Carol was naturally focused on what was working, and what could be great in the
future. Neither Alex nor Carol were right or wrong, but their perspective and where they placed their
mental attention determined the quality of their outcomes and results.
What’s more, gratitude is a mental method by which we signal to the brain that this thing over here
that we’ve experienced, we want more of. We can actually study the brain and see that when people
are grateful the specific parts of the brain that represent the memory of that experience light up.
The myelin sheaths of the neurosynaptic connections around that memory become thicker. The
electrical impulse between those connections in your brain actually become stronger. The result is
an enrolling of the brain to find more of that which you are already grateful for. You have more ideas
in alignment with the experiences that you’re grateful for. You begin to perceive things in your reality
that were always there that are similar to that which you are grateful for, and you begin to attract
even more experiences, people, and resources in your life to be grateful for. The seeds you sow
with gratitude reap the rewards in your reality.
Expect problems. And eat them for breakfast. – Alfred Montapert
Our responsibility is to master our minds and enroll the brain by training it to focus on all of the
abundance, opportunity and support that is and has always been there for us, but that it has
been ignoring. By doing so, successful entrepreneurs and achievers are able to take the energetic
foundation created by empowering decisions to a whole new level by practicing an attitude of
gratitude and maintaining that high energy state in order to move upward within the Mind Hack
Success Model to take full advantage of the next Mental Habit: Clarity.
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THE POWER OF
CLARITY
The Third Habit:
The only thing worse than
being blind is having sight
but no vision.
– Helen Keller
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The Power of Clarity
Your brain is a powerful technology that, when given proper instructions, will enroll your entire
neurophysiology in finding whatever it is that you are looking for or wanting to accomplish. In
many areas of our lives, however, we are unconsciously giving instructions for the brain to find
what we don’t want. At the first stage of the Mind Hack Success Model, we correct this instruction
set by becoming conscious of the decisions that we’ve made that aren’t congruent with what we
consciously want to create. By aligning our conscious and unconscious intentions we access an
entirely new level of energy. Once this alignment is attained, we maintain this energy by developing
an attitude of gratitude and appreciation. We achieve this by constantly redirecting the brain’s
natural focus on problems to finding gifts, blessings and opportunities that exist in every moment
and in every experience. From this sustained energetic foundation, we are able to clearly define
what it is that we want to create as our intended outcome. By making the transition out of fear,
worry, anxiety and overwhelm we have the ability to attain a new level of intention and clarity which
empowers us to utilize the brain to begin to map out the ‘how’ or the action plan that will allow us
to create a breakthrough in any area of our lives.
Despite its obvious benefits, many entrepreneurs have failed to establish Clarity in the areas of
their lives or their businesses where they feel stuck, OR they simply haven’t yet mastered the first or
second levels of the Success Model in order to generate enough energy to have adequate clarity. You
can’t have clarity in fear, worry, overwhelm or other low-level emotional states. What’s more, even
when a high level of energy has been attained, the importance of Clarity is often overlooked.
A colleague of mine was recently sharing with me that he felt stuck and wasn’t making much
progress on a new project that he had started. When I asked him what the problem was, he
mentioned that he didn’t have the money necessary to get the project off the ground. I responded,
“Well, how much money do you need exactly?” His response: “Well, I’m not sure, I haven’t really laid
that out yet.” So, he knows he wants to start his business, he’s made a decision, but he’s not clear on
how much money he needs to get it off the ground. Wanting something and lacking clarity around
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the details is like wanting to set sail without a destination. Clarity is critical because, as I mentioned
before, the brain does not know the difference between what you imagine and what’s actually going
on in your life. As a mental habit, clarity begins the process of brain change. As we gain clarity and
we begin to imagine our outcome – speaking on stage in front of 500 people, raising $250,000 in
investment, landing 10 new high paying clients by the end of the year – the brain records what you
imagine as if it has already happened. The new neurosynaptic connections that are created as a
result of this brain change are part of the bridge to attracting the thoughts and ideas that become
the execution plan. Becoming absolutely clear on the outcomes that you want gives the brain
images and ideas that enable it to find the ‘how.’ Similar to what we experience in making Decisions,
practicing Clarity attracts new thoughts and ideas that are in alignment with the desired outcome,
begins to affect your perception so that you can more easily identify opportunities that already
exist in your reality, and initiates the power of coincidence to help you acquire the resources,
relationships and experiences you need in order to achieve your ultimate goals.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought
into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans
into reality The beginning, as you will observe, is in your
imagination. – Napoleon Hill
Let’s look at a common example. You’ve been wanting to leave your job, which is a good job that
you’ve been working for the last 15 years, to go and pursue your passion, your mission, and your
purpose. Maybe you want to start your own consulting company or perhaps you’re really passionate
about creating a socially conscious company. But, you’ve got this story about how your job is safe
and secure and, at some point in time, you make a new decision. You say, “I don’t know how. I don’t
know when. But I know I’m going to transition from this job that I’ve been working for my mission,
and my passion, and my purpose.” Great first step.
From there, choose to live in a state of gratitude in order to maximize your energy and to focus your
attention on all the things that are working in your life. You have gratitude for the job you have, the
people you work with, the opportunity your employer has given you over the last few years and
the skills you’ve developed EVEN though you know that you ultimately want to create this new
business.
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The next thing to do is to start getting Clarity. What would this business look like? Would you be
working from home or would you be working from an office? Would you be working by yourself or
would you be working with a team? What type of industry would you be working in? What would
your finances look like one year, two years, three years into creating this new business? Would you
be serving people and, if so, in what way would you be serving and contributing to the world? Would
you be writing? Would you be speaking? Get as much clarity as you can about this opportunity
because as you do this you enroll the brain. You build new neurosynaptic connections as if what
you want has already happened as if it were an actual memory. Those new connections, what we
might call the “new frequency”, are what will begin to attract the new ideas (the how) and will start
to create the circumstances in your life to guide you there. This is how you manufacture what you
want in your life by leveraging this Principle of Power: Clarity. With a strong energetic foundation
based on empowering decisions and living in a state of gratitude, and by establishing clarity around
your desired outcomes, you can tap into the Fourth and final Mental Habit of the world’s most
successful entrepreneurs: The Habit of Questions.
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THE POWER OF
QUESTIONS
The Fourth Habit:
Ask and ye shall receive. Seek
and ye shall find. Knock and it
shall be opened unto you.
– Matthew 7:7
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The Power of Questions
Not only is life an intelligent feedback system akin to a search engine but your brain itself is also
a search engine. Left to its own devices, the mind is constantly firing off unconscious questions
that are producing results in the form of an inner voice, or the voice in your head. Why doesn’t it
ever work out for me? Why do they have it and I don’t? Am I making the wrong decision? What if it
doesn’t work out? These are common questions derived from the survival-based nature of the mind.
The brain, like a loyal golden retriever, will fetch an answer to these questions from your personal
history. Why doesn’t it ever work out for you? The brain will bring to mind all of the reasons that it
never works out for you according to its recorded history of your life. “Because you never do it right.
Because somehow you manage to always screw it up. Because you’re not smart enough. Because
others know how to do it better than you do.” Ask, and ye shall receive.
The storage capacity of the brain is 250 times the size of the Library of Congress. Every experience
of your entire life is mapped out in extraordinary detail within the neurosynaptic connections of
your brain. As such it has the capacity to review every moment of your life and to provide you with
an answer based on the quality of your questions. Most people, in any area of their lives where they
are stuck, are not asking quality questions. And so, the majority of people get caught in the energydraining,
stress-inducing, pressure-filled loop of unconscious questions and shitty answers.
The world’s most successful people have learned how to retake control of their minds and
consciously ask empowering questions that result in constructive and productive ideas, thoughts
and answers. One of my CEO clients was in the process of making a major acquisition of a smaller
supplier. In the short run, the acquisition was going to create a significant strain on the company’s
cash flow and resources. About a month prior to the expected close date, this CEO called me to
discuss the incredible pressure he was undergoing and to get my opinion on whether or not he
should move forward with the acquisition. “I’ve been feeling so overwhelmed over this whole
thing,” he shared. “I haven’t slept in weeks and I’m not feeling confident or clear any more about
this move. All I keep thinking to myself is ‘what if this is the wrong move?’”
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A question like that can only produce results that illustrate what happens when making the wrong
move. When I asked him what thoughts came to mind, he shared an image he had of the financial
statements showing massive losses, of a board meeting where the board was chastising him for the
acquisition, of what it would look like to have to let people go and downsize as a result of the ‘wrong
move.’ Not only did the question not serve his intended outcomes, but it was also putting him into a
state of fear, overwhelm and anxiety that was affecting his judgment, energy, clarity and creativity.
What’s more, unconsciously he was enrolling his entire neurophysiology to focus on how the deal
could go wrong which has a self-fulfilling effect on actual outcomes.
“What’s a better question you could be asking yourself that would enroll the brain in giving you an
answer you want?” I asked. He thought for a moment and responded. “What are 3 to 5 metrics we
should be paying attention to in order to ensure this is a successful transaction for us?”
“That’s a good question,” I responded. He thought for a moment and came up with a list of 5 areas
that he and his team needed to focus on in order to make sure the transaction was going to go
smoothly. By becoming aware of the unconscious questions that he had been asking, it was clear
why my client felt stuck and was moving into a low energy state – what we see from the Ordinary
Model. By consciously designing questions that would lead to productive answers, he was able to
develop an action plan that would lead to his feeling confident about the business decisions he was
about to make. By becoming acutely aware of his internal dialogue – by changing his being – this
CEO was able to craft an action plan that ultimately led to one of the most successful transactions in
the company’s history.
Too often entrepreneurs and achievers move into the zone of action before doing the appropriate
inner work. Most people are trying to achieve their goals in the outer world while their inner world is
cluttered with disempowering decisions, a focus on problems, a lack of clarity, and asking questions
that are producing unproductive answers. An overemphasis on “the doing” vs. “the being” – or how
your inner world is being properly managed – is the number one cause of professional and personal
failure. An effective action plan can only be achieved in a high energy state with absolute clarity and
strategic, intentional questions. The ‘how’ or the action plan is an effect or a result of consciously
constructing questions that are in the greatest alignment with the outcome that you are wanting to
achieve. Far too often individuals respond to the pressure and anxiety created by these unconscious
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negative questions – what I call a “re-action” plan – or worse yet these unconscious questions hurl
the individual into such a low state of energy that the result is drifting, procrastination and inaction.
Questions are the key to tapping into a larger intelligence that contains the images, thoughts,
ideas and answers – the HOW – that will ultimately lead you to a breakthrough in any area of your
business and life.
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HACKING FEAR
OF FAILURE
Deconstructing Fear:
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“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
Deconstructing Fear
If you’ve operated according to the Mind Hack Success System and you’ve created a foundation
of empowering and congruent decisions, have maintained a consistent state of gratitude and
appreciation, achieved a high level of clarity and have developed a practice of asking powerful
conscious questions, what could go wrong? The answer is fear and in particular fear of failure.
I like to call fear, “Forgetting Everything About Reality” because every time we experience fear,
we can look back on the past and see that our actual results were completely different than what we
were afraid of. Fear of failure, fear of making the wrong decision and fear of rejection can prevent
you from moving forward in any area of your life. You can make a new decision. You can have clarity.
You can be asking the right questions. You can have gratitude. And, as you go out and you begin to
take action, the reality is that you’re not going to get the results that you expect. It rarely goes the
way we expect it to and when reality doesn’t match our expectations, we often view it as failure. But
is it?
People don’t realize you are born to fail and born to get up. It is the goal
of every spiritual being to try to live as big a life as possible; to love as
much as possible; to give as much as possible, and fail as often as
possible. — Gary Keller, Founder Keller Williams
THE FOUR BLESSINGS OF FAILURE
Let me deconstruct and dispel failure for you because there really is no such thing. When we take
action from a place of right decision, the right questions, right clarity, right gratitude, and it doesn’t
go the way that we expect it to, something really miraculous is happening. Unfortunately, we call it
failure. But really, it’s one of the four types of blessings.
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The first blessing is that your perceived failure is a Learning. Your “failure” is simply a result
of the fact that life knows precisely what you need to learn — a new skill or the development of
new character — in order for you to accomplish your longer-term vision. We learn through the
experiences that we have, but far too often we call this learning, failure. Yet we can look back at any
point in our lives and we can see that all of those times that we thought were failures in the past
turned out instead to be something that helped us to accomplish what we’re accomplishing now.
A really great question to ask yourself when things don’t go the way that you expect is, ‘What am I
learning here?’ What am I learning here that I’m going to be able to take with me in the future that’s
going to empower me to create the life that I dream of living?
Blessing #1 Learning
The second phenomenon that we often overlook as failure is Redirection. You’re being
redirected from one relationship to another relationship, from one job to another job, from one
geographic place to another geographic place, and you’re being redirected in a positive way. Again,
I don’t need to convince you of this. You can find evidence in your own life that this has always
happened to you time, and time, and time again. Things always get better. But, in the moment when
we don’t have that perspective, we think that what we’re experiencing is failure and oftentimes we
miss the opportunity. It’s simply a redirection – Learning and Redirection.
Blessing #2 Redirection
The third blessing that “failure” brings is that of Reflection. If we live in this universal search
engine, if we live in this intelligent system that is giving us everything that we want, everything that
we’ve decided which shapes the neurosynaptic connections of our brain, sometimes what we’re
experiencing is a search result. In fact, these reflections, experiencing the search result that we
don’t like, is a tremendous opportunity. It’s the moment that, if you start to become conscious of
your reaction to this experience, you can make a different search request. You can make a different
decision about life and you’ll start getting better search results. So, for example, let’s say you were in
Blessing #3 Reflection
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a particular business relationship or business deal and things didn’t go well for you. When the deal
went south, you had a reaction, which was “Things never work out for me. I can’t trust people in
business.”
This is important for you to understand because, until you realize that you’ve made this decision
about people and business, you’re going to continue to manufacture the same results in your life.
This experience that you’re having, that you’re calling failure because it’s not going the way that
you expect it to, is the blessing of revelation. If you’re present for it, you can realize that you’ve been
making these decisions (for a long time) unconsciously. Make a new decision and, like we talked
about before, hack your mind, and change your results. So, the third is a Reflection.
The fourth is the Setup and it’s one of my favorites. We are always being set up. We’re constantly
being set up by ourselves. This is where I get a little bit on my woo woo but the higher intelligent
part of ourselves that does not come into the physical body is constantly guiding us. That part
of us which you could call your authentic self or your higher self oftentimes knows before we do
precisely what we really want now and in the future. Because it has this future-oriented vision, it’s
consistently setting up the plan for us to accomplish our ultimate goals, our ultimate vision, our
ultimate dreams. Oftentimes, we run into the Setup and the Setup is designed, again, to redirect us,
to teach us something, but it’s often something quite significant and longer term and thus at the
moment, we can’t possibly see how this is working for us in our lives. I remember one point in time I
had a significant “crisis” happen in my business and nearly lost my entire business. Looking back on
it, of course, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me because it was a setup for what
I needed five years down the road. So, oftentimes, we look at the Setup as a breakdown and, again,
we miss all the opportunities.
When you can get to a point that you truly realize and understand that life is ALWAYS working for you
even when in the moment you might not yet have that insight, you can take inspired action without
the fear of what might go wrong because in reality, there is no such thing. Nothing can ever go
wrong. There is no such thing as failure. It’s one of four things: It’s a Learning, Redirection, Reflection
or a Setup. The big mistake that we make is that we think we’ve failed and, in the failure, we revert
Blessing #4 The Setup
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back to operating according to the Ordinary Model. We revert back to old decisions, we focus on
problems, we’re not exactly sure what happens next, and we ask ourselves some downright crappy
questions. There’s never a right or wrong decision. The reality is that the only wrong decision is
indecision. Embrace life and take action based on these new decisions that you’ve made, based
on the clarity that you have, based on the empowering questions that you’re asking, and based on
living in a state of gratitude, and you WILL create a breakthrough in any area of your business or
your life.
I hope this has been helpful for you. As part of this training, I’ve sent you 4 videos that will reinforce
everything that we spoke about here and a fourth video which will expose you to the larger body
of work to hack your mind, transform your business and allow you to live a truly limitless life.
I honor you and your journey and the opportunity to support you in your personal and spiritual
transformation.