Whatever situation you’re in, it’s not the situation. It’s how you respond to the situation that determines your life.

That means you have got to practice being the wizard, the one who goes with the flow…the one who is attraction-based…the one who is able to allow things to unfold, who is patient…the one who breathes a lot and maintains their happiness no matter what chaos is going on.

If you are one of the millions of people out there who derives your satisfaction and happiness from how well you’re doing, you will not be a happy person for a lot of your life because then you will have the type of mind that is always looking for what’s wrong, so you cannot win.

I was one of these people who derived a lot of my happiness from my success. When I play golf, for example, I’m not really all that successful. The funny thing is that golf's important to me, and I’m working on it the best I can, but I find myself stressed out playing golf. Why is that? It’s supposed to be an enjoyable game.

It’s because I want to do well, and if I don’t do well I’m not happy with myself. It’s the same thing with business and every other part of your life.

About three weeks ago, I played golf. In golf you play 18 holes. There’s a front nine and the back nine. On the back nine, I played better than I had in 20 years. I thought, “Oh my god! Who is this guy playing all of a sudden?” Everything I was doing was working.

At the end of it I was happy, but then right away my mind went into thinking, “This isn’t going to last. You’d better get ready for disappointment because next time it isn’t going to be so easy. It took 20 years to have a round like this.”

Of course, the next time I played I wasn’t quite as good, and I was not happy again. I said, “I should just give up this game. It’s really stupid. It’s not good for my back.” I started to make myself crazy.

This is what everybody tends to do. It’s not “the golf.” It’s me.

I’m going to give you a tip that will change your life. If you can grow yourself to a person that is bigger than any of your problems, you’ll be a happy person. If you can grow yourself to the person that is the wizard, a person who succeeds with elegance and joy; you will be a person that is bothered by very little.

If you can be that kind of person, then you’ll have the biggest success of life, which is to grow yourself to the highest level that is more successful than anything you could do with business, money or any other situation. If you can grow yourself to that level, you will be successful at anything you do.

Unsuccessful people are smaller than their problems.

Now I want you to think about something for a moment…

If you’re still with me, then maybe you can handle what I’ll call the truth for most people. Most people just can’t handle it. However, I think you reading this puts you into a class of people that can.

I want to ask you a hard question: what are you really like when life gets hard? What do you do or not do when the going is not so good?

Successful people dig deep and do whatever it takes, and I mean whatever it takes, to succeed. What do unsuccessful people do?

They do what they always do when it gets hard. They quit, give up and say, “This business is too hard. This company has this problem. The product has this problem. If I went over there to that other company or business, then I could really succeed.”

It’s the old “there is better than here” excuse. In other words, the grass is greener. Here’s the reality, my friends, like it or not. If you can’t make it here, you won’t make it there or anywhere else.

It’s not about the other company or business. It’s about the you that’s going to either be bigger or smaller than any challenge life has to give you; happy and successful or side-railed by inevitable bumps along the way. The choice is always yours.

Tell us what you think. Share your experiences of overcoming what seemed like insurmountable odds at a time in your life. What was the trigger or catalyst for you growing bigger than the challenge? Give us your story; we want to hear from you!

The answer… practice dealing with chaos and commit to seeing through anything you say you’re going to do… NO MATTER WHAT.

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Do you have ongoing feelings that are just there constantly; that irritate, upset, or disappointment you?

When I talk to a lot of students, I get the feeling that a lot of people feel disappointed in parts of their lives. They feel disappointed, frustrated and think, “Why can’t I fix this? Why can’t I be where I want to be? Why can’t I do or have what I want to have? I don’t understand. I’m trying. I feel like I don’t have any control over this.”

That’s very frustrating, isn’t it?

When you have these feelings, I want to offer you this:

First, it’s important to get in touch with your feelings in the first place. The more you hide them, the more they’re under the surface, the more they get lodged into the cells of your body, and they stay there and they stick like poison. They stay there forever until you acknowledge them by bringing them up to the surface and articulating them. If you don’t have anyone to articulate them to, pick up a piece of paper, a pencil or pen, and journal your feelings.

I promise you this is huge because I know that I’ve gone from feeling like semi-crap recently for many weeks, to feeling pretty good. It all started with me articulating my feelings, getting in touch with them; being able to open up about them even if no one’s around, and I began journaling as well.

Secondly, it’s accepting that you and I are just human beings, that we will have feelings, that we’re not weak for having these feelings; that they’re not negative feelings. Feelings are feelings. It’s only you and I that make them positive or negative. We all do this to ourselves. The most important thing is to recognize that you’re the one who’s labeling these feelings. Otherwise they aren’t anything but what they are: feelings.

Lastly, do things that make you feel good about you. When you can’t do as much as you’d like to, the worst thing you can do to your happiness and state of mind is make yourself feel bad about yourself. If you can’t do something outdoorsy because of injury limitations, or can’t go where you want to go because you’re broke, engage your mind in something: reading, writing, whatever your down-time thing is, do it!

Embarrassment is not bad. Disappointment is not bad. I’m not saying they’re necessarily good, but everything is neutral. Remember that. I needed to get a kick in the pants recently to remember it.

The most important thing you can learn to do is get in touch with your feelings and be able to articulate them.

Once they’re out there, it’s not that hard to release them. All you have to do is look at them, and they won’t look so scary anymore.

That’s why it is essential that you begin to see what’s inside of you because what’s inside is always going to come out.

When you’re angry, people smell it on you. You don’t have to tell anyone you’re angry. They already know, or they know there’s something going on with you, and they’re not attracted to it.

I’m not saying that it’s a good thing or a bad thing, but it’s not a good thing if it festers inside of you and you don’t bring it to the surface.

Trust me…I will be following my own advice, and I will be doing this same exercise as you on a continuous basis.

I really learned something literally in the last few days about the importance of my feelings: that they’re okay, and to make sure they don’t get stuck inside.

Try this on for an exercise. It’s an old idea from Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way and it’s called the Morning Pages.

Every morning, before you brush your teeth even, write non-stop and whatever is on your mind without editing, for 5-10 minutes. No matter how ridiculous, how vulgar (respect your privacy, of course), how immature, childish, whatever…just write!

See how that feels for a few mornings, then tell us what you think. Share as much as you’d like, but tell us about the experience. We want to hear from you!

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For Your Freedom,

Whether it’s climbing Mt. Everest or any other challenging mountain it’s not safe to scale it alone.

The potential for danger is high; and like most journeys in life, having someone with you who’s been there before and who has your back — to guide you, encourage you to climb higher, and to warn you of any roadblocks or dangers — is critical to your success.

Guides make all mountaintops attainable. And the same goes for success and building wealth.

Having guides, coaches, or teachers to help you climb that mountain of financial freedom is one of the most important principles to guarantee your life success.

 

Learn And Model From Others Who Have Succeeded Before You

What does “model” mean?

It means to emulate or follow someone else’s method.

If you were to climb Mt. Everest, would you try finding your own way up the whole mountain on your own? Or would you maybe get an experienced guide to show you the way and lead you up the mountain?

I think you’d get a guide, yes? Why? Because otherwise you’d be dead.

It’s really simple. It’s no different when it comes to success in any field of endeavor. Why on earth would you try to figure everything out on your own when you can learn from others who have succeeded before you?

That is one of the best things about the network marketing industry, for example.

In what other business would other people who sell the same product as you, actually do whatever they can to help you? It would never happen. People selling the same stuff as you would usually never help you.

Yet there are tons of people in the network marketing industry earning $20,000, $50,000, $100,000 or more per month.

Why isn’t everybody earning that kind of money in other industries?

It’s simple. They’re not willing to learn and follow the method to earn that kind of money, to be rich and financially free.

Why? Because they have to do it their way.

I’m not saying copy every blink the person who teaches you makes. But when climbing Mt. Everest, the difference between stepping directly in your sherpa’s footprint and 12 inches outside of it could be the difference between life and death.

I want to remind you of something I tell all of my students:

Your way has gotten you exactly where you are. I’m not saying that that’s bad, but it may not be all that fantastic either.

If you want something different, you’re going to need a new and different way. Your way doesn’t work like that.

You have to be willing to follow your teacher’s guidance to the letter and do it exactly the way that they tell you to do so.

You do that for a certain amount of time, then you can do it your way.

How much time do you try it their way? It’s simple. Until you’re rich! When you’re rich, then do it your own way. Until then, you do it the way of the person who is successful ahead of you.

Don’t be a smarty pants and say, “I know better. It’s my life, this works better.”

Well… I’ll say it again: Your way has gotten you exactly where you are. Are you happy with that?

Now I want to share with you one more bonus principle that radically changed my life and I believe it will do the same for you.

 

Rich And Financially Free People Admire Other Rich And Financially Free People

I want to share with you a philosophy that changed my life.

It comes from Huna, an ancient Hawaiian philosophy of life:

“Bless that which you want.”

If you see a beautiful car, bless that car and the owner of that car…

If you see a beautiful house, bless that house and the person who owns the house…

If you see somebody with a wonderful, amazing business, bless that business and that person…

Why? Because anything that you negate, you can never have.

It doesn’t mean don’t be uncritical of the principles of the rich and successful folks you admire, but even then, there’s no room for jealousy.

The more you can learn to admire their achievements, the more you will spiritually be open to learning how they did it.

So when you find a teacher, a coach, or a person in a field of area doing really well that you relate to…

  1. Learn and model from them
  2. Admire them
  3. Follow their lead and don’t veer from it until you’ve made it to the top!

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For Your Freedom,

Most people don’t trust themselves.

Why would you have a fear about anything if you trusted yourself that you could get through it no matter what? You wouldn’t. I’d say 99% of people do not trust themselves.

Trust, like anything else, comes from repetition. Trust is a habit. Let me give you an example.

I had a car in the late ‘60s. In those days I couldn’t afford a great car. I had to buy a used one.

When it was cold, the chances of my car starting were about 50/50. You had to go out early, try to start your car and see if it would start. Even when it started when it was cold out, it would stall almost 50% of the time when you were driving it.

I was scared to death every time I got in the car. “Is it going to start or am I going to get to school or not?” I didn’t know.

And when I say scared about my car working right, you think my fear stopped once I got out of the car? It didn’t. It was embarrassing; it made me more overall nervous about myself.

Today, do you think I trust that my car is going to start? Yes, I do because it’s started a thousand times in a row. And I haven’t had any issues with it.

So how do you learn to trust something? By having that result repeat again and again. Pretty soon you expect the result, so you trust it.

Now how do you learn to trust yourself? By getting the same result again and again until you say, “Of course I trust this result. I expect it. I trust that this situation is going to happen.”

Start with one tiny little win. I’m talking about smaller goals. It’s one tiny win. That’s all.

When people learn not to trust themselves, it’s usually because they’re taking on too much.

If you want to actually follow through on a New Year’s resolution like, say, losing some weight to look and feel better–and it’s been years since you’ve paid attention to this sort of thing–forget about exercise routines and healthy eating plans, for now, if they’ve never worked before. How about trying just one new habit?

How about a healthy meal, one meal? It’s not two, two days, two meals or two weeks. It’s not a plan. Can you commit to one healthy meal?

What would one healthy breakfast look like? How hard is that? You’re not looking at a lunch. You just say, “Tomorrow for breakfast I’m having a healthy shake.” You do. That’s your breakfast. Then you can eat lunch two hours later and decide then what choice you’re going to make.

Then experiment with that for a week, and maybe give yourself two days off of doing it–maybe you choose to, maybe you don’t. The point is not to make this about pressure, at first. Small wins here matter more than the big picture ahead. Trust that you’ll get to that.

All you started with was one healthy breakfast, and you set it up so you could win. When you win, you gain confidence. When you gain confidence, you gain trust. Get enough small wins, then you take on bigger goals.

I swear you’ll realize one day, “Wow, I’ve been doing this for weeks, and it really wasn’t that hard. Now I’m ready for… ” whatever that is for you.

Whatever the goal, it’s all the same. If you’re not trusting yourself in one area of your life, chances are it’s affecting multiple if not all areas. The content just changes. This time it’s eating. The next time it’s business. The next time it’s the kids.

The truth is that if you trusted yourself a lot of the issues you have in your life would just disappear.

Tell us what you think. Does any of this ring true for you? Share your experiences with the subject of learning to trust oneself. We want to hear from you!

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For Your Freedom,