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There are three ways to handle things if something doesn’t go your way: resistance, acceptance, and the golden one, which hardly anybody knows or uses, utilization.

Let’s talk about resistance. All pain comes from resistance to what is. This is basic Buddhism: life is suffering because we desire something other, rather than what’s presented before us at the moment.

This is not something to get depressed about; there’s nothing inherently wrong with desire, but it’s how we respond to what life gives us that ultimately empowers us, if you choose to look at it that way. It’s one of the greatest life-changing lessons one is fortunate to learn, understand and do something with.

If you don’t resist what’s going on, there’s no pain.

If you don’t try to make it something that it’s not, there’s no pain.

If you don’t have judgment and criticism around it, there’s no pain.

If you don’t add the emotion to it, there’s no pain.

Resistance means, “I cannot believe this happened!” So what happens then? Not only did you not get the promotion, which I’m sure doesn’t feel great, but now you’ve just gotten yourself upset. You’re not in peace. You’re stressed out. You’re going to make bad decisions. Now you’ve compounded the situation, haven’t you?

You may say, “Harv, I’m not a robot.” I know. It’s too bad, really. Robots are probably happier than we are.

Maybe you could be a dog! Think about it. If a dog doesn’t get the bone, it doesn’t freak out. They go to sleep or go play with something else. Dogs are happier than we are, yes or frickin’ yes?

We’re too freaking smart! We’re so smart that we’re not happy!

Do you see yourself in any of this? Do you see how you bum yourself out by freaking out about what you didn’t get? That’s resistance.

Acceptance says, “I’m okay. I’m going to take a breath and just continue on and not think about it too much.” That’s cool. That’s where people are at if they’re conscious.

Wizards go to the next level; they go to utilization. They ask, “How do I use this to my benefit?

“How can something good come out of this?”

Here’s a declaration I want you to repeat 2 times. Put your hand on your heart and say the following…

I utilize every situation to my benefit. I turn lead into gold. I turn garbage into gold. I turn crap into something good. I turn lemons into lemonade.

That’s not positive thinking, my friends. That is the highest form of alchemy. That is true magic. It’s taking a situation that has occurred in your life and turning it from a bad thing to a good thing. The good thing comes from asking:

• “How do I utilize this?”
• “How do I make my life better because of it?”
• “What sign is this giving me so that I can go from here and make things better?”

Is this easy or hard? If it were easy the world would be way different. If you’re like me and most of my students, it’s hard. If you’re like the average person, it’s really hard.

It’s a practice, but it does get easier. It becomes your normal way of being. If you can do this, you will be at the top 1% of all people in the world when it comes to consciousness.

Practice just that one thing for this month.

You can resist what is and freak out about it. You can accept what is and be okay with it, or you go to the next stage and do something extraordinary with it.

Comment below and write ONE thing you’re going to choose to utilize instead of resist…We want to hear your answer!

It’s up to you to raise the bar and start living your Level 10 life.

To support you in doing that I designed a web class where I’ll guide you through my 7-step system for creating success and happiness.

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For Your Freedom,

If I was going to ask, “How are you?”, you would say, “Fine, or okay, or good, or great”…yes? You wouldn’t really answer the question, or you’d answer it superficially if you were like the majority of people.

If I ask, “What’s going on for you right now? What’s happening in your mind? What’s happening in your heart? What’s your predominant energy right now? What are you thinking about a lot of the time?” Most people would have an answer to that if they really thought about what they were thinking about.

I do that quite a bit. As long as I don’t overdo it, I actually find it quite helpful to keep myself in check.

One of the key elements that we teach, and that a lot of people teach, is the element of consciousness. Consciousness is about acting from the present moment instead of based on programming from the past. It’s about making conscious choices in this moment and not being habitual or automatic like we normally are.

If you notice, the key element that many monks have taken 40 years in caves to consider is the element of observation. It’s observing yourself, being your own witness.

It means thinking about what you’re thinking about. It means taking a bird’s eye view of your life, your situation, and where you’re at.

It’s your way of thinking, feeling, and acting and observing that. Not in a judgmental way as in, “Oh my god! What an idiot I am!”, or, “How great am I?” It’s not like that. It’s just watching how you do your life.

My Zen teacher is Cheri Huber. I love Cheri! She’s so great because she makes things really simple. It’s like being aware of what’s going on for you in your life and coming from a place of, “Here’s how I’m thinking, what I’m thinking, and what I’m feeling,” and then working backward to say, “Is that what I want to be doing?”

If you can do this without judgment, you’re going to be in great shape. What Cheri says is the problem most people have is that they do it, but they do it with judgment.

Considering that most of us grow up in a culture that emphasizes on superficial things, it’s no wonder most people have a part in them that’s near neurotically self-critical, when people feel like they don’t compare to others who are successful.

And that’s not including those circumstances from our childhood and life traumas that pile on feelings of lowered self-worth.

It’s tough for a lot of people to look critically at their lives and accept, without judgment, that whatever happened before to make us who we are now, we do have a now to work with! But sometimes there are places within themselves people just don’t want to go.

The issue is that when we do look at ourselves, it’s like turning the lights on in a dark room. Let me ask you a simple question:

When you put the light on, do you see more or less dirt? You’re going to see more of everything, aren’t you?

Our mind is generally focused on what’s wrong because it’s always looking to protect us. It’s not going to protect us by looking for what’s right.

The trick here is observation without judgment and criticism. It’s observation and being able to just observe, leaving right or wrong out of the equation.

What will that help you conquer in life?

1. You will be able to be very conscious about what’s going on and then make changes if you need to.

2. You will be able to practice observing without judgment.

Here’s the cool thing, my friends. If you can practice observing yourself without judgment, then you can practice observing life and other people without judgment.

Life gets a lot more peaceful and more enjoyable regardless of your situation. You get more inner balance to sustain through success or setback. You become more resilient. People like that energy and want to be around it. That’s Zen, baby.

So tell us … what’s been on your mind? We’re not here to fix or to provide remedy. Tell us what you’re really thinking and feeling these days, and observe how much of yourself you might see in others’ responses.

Looking at those dark corners doesn’t take as much courage as it does compassion. Start with yourself…

 
For Your Freedom,

I’m in the corner of anyone who’s tired of mediocrity in their lives; tired of the same ole same ole; tired of just getting by at a job they despise. I say, Amen. Go get what you want. I have the privilege of helping people do that.

With or without my help, though, people do it. You may not think of that corner deli you go to as a business per se, but from the pizza shop to the nail salon to the key maker, everyday people are starting and maintaining businesses all the time. Some succeed, some fail. Some just kinda … never change, always there, like that one place you know that’s been there forever. All sizes for all people.

I say if you’re gonna do it, really do it. Save yourself some pain and hassle by knowing exactly what level you want to be playing at. Take this case for example.

I had a student who lost a big customer and whose company subsequently took big losses. Despite that, he was still profitable, but all that profit went into paying his old suppliers. Eventually, he got to a point where he couldn’t even pay his personal bills.

So what did he do?

The first lesson from that story is you can’t have your entire business depend on one customer. It’s just crazy to do that. Secondly, he was playing small. If you’re so tight that your business is profitable, and you still can’t pay yourself, the whole thing is too small for you.

There are four key arenas in the area of value and profitability:

1) Apply–Get yourself out there.
2) Demand–The problem you’re going to solve.
3) Quality–How well or differently you solve that problem.
4) Quantity–How much you can duplicate the process.

How much of what you offer are you getting out of there? How are you doing it? How many clients are you helping solve this problem for?

If you have five clients now, you need to have 50 clients. I already know what a lot of people will immediately think: “I can’t handle 50 clients.” Fine, understandable, we’re only human. If you can’t handle 50 clients, then you need to leverage other resources because regardless of what you think you can or can’t do, you need 50 clients if you want to play bigger and not get stuck in a cycle of boom or bust.

If you have 50, then you need to have 250. There shouldn’t even be a question of whether or not your personal bills are getting paid, let alone stacking profit for yourself. If your profits are so low you can barely pay yourself, that’s not even earning a living.

Leverage yourself and be able to help 10 times the number of people or companies that you’re helping right now. That will give you 10 times the income.

No questions asked. Double the amount of customers you have in the next 90 days, whatever it is you do “for a living.” When you can figure out how to do that, you’ll be able to double that again in the next 180 days.

Create a system that works, then duplicate that system. Step on the gas. How will you apply your answer to a problem that a lot of people have? How would you market and sell this, generating enough demand to increase your profit beyond “getting by?” How will you duplicate your sales while not sacrificing the quality of it?

Some businesses get by, some people get by. Some don’t. Some crush it. Which of these do you want?

Again, whatever that answer is, that’s okay. To each their own. But, anybody who’s “gotten by” before knows exactly what that means: stress, anxiety, worry. How do you be creative and imaginative, or happy, when you’re constantly in that state?

“Getting by” is, quite frankly, bad for your health. I say “Get Buy,” as in get more people to buy from you because you’re solving a problem. Get cash to spare. There’s nothing greedy about ensuring the future success of your business and the livelihood of you and your loved ones.

Don’t short yourself or them: think big!

 
For Your Freedom,

In most people’s minds, work means getting a “job. ” The thing is I get comments from people all the time who complain about their jobs, or really just frickin’ hate their job, or are looking for a better one, or a job that actually allows them to use the skills and passions they want to use, etc.

It’s like, “I’m sorry, did you confuse me for a recruiter?” I’m not the guy to give advice on how to find a better job. I’m the guy that’s gonna tell you to stop trying to earn a living!

If you keep trying to earn a living, that’s exactly what you’re going to get! You’ll earn a minimum standard and you’ll never get rich. You’ll never get wealthy.

What are you waiting for … “to attract your dream job”? That’s so … 90’s and 2000’s, folks. Get with it! Don’t “attract” your dream job … frickin’ create it!!! What are you looking for here? Jeez!

Look, in a climate where you could get yourself into some trouble for telling things like it is, some of this stuff may hit close to home, and that’s okay. I’m not here to judge or belittle anyone, especially when this stuff is so common, where lots of folks are just scraping by to “earn a living.” You’re reading this because you want more, because you’ve got something in you that wants to play bigger.

So play big, and it doesn’t frickin’ matter what it is you do. If you’re a trainer, train! For goodness sake, you don’t need a job for that! You need to have your own business. Your own business could be a contractor for a company if you want, but if you’re a trainer, you don’t need to work for somebody else.

How do you know what to train and what your message is? It’s simple:

(1)How can you best help people and solve problems? Come from what they want and what you could help them with.

(2)Wants versus needs. Does everyone need disaster preparedness? Yes, for sure. Do they want it? No. Nobody cares until something happens. If you want to make money once every decade when disaster hits, fine. Other than that, that’s not what they want to be focusing on. Think about what they want, not just what you want them to have.

Get specific on a specific problem that you can help people with now. Stop beating around the bush. Go for something that’s in demand, not just stuff that you know.

Stop piddling around with petty cash, everybody. Play bigger. Think bigger. Find people with an audience. Get on stages that have 300, 500 or 1,000 people. Get on those stages. How? Put together a program or a talk. Make sure it’s different. Start with having one thing that really helps people.

If you’ve got information, a talk, a seminar, a workshop or just a methodology that can help somebody, put it out there in an organized format. Get in front of a lot of people, teach what you need to teach, tell what you’ve got, and then have them get a hold of you.

How do you think I would feel if I walked into a room where there were five or six participants? Not so great. I’d still do the same event, but I’d think to myself, “What the hell is wrong here? I don’t want five. I want 500. I don’t want 500. I want 5,000.”

You don’t have to wait to get to that point, either. Whatever you got going now, you should be able to do one thing to double your clients in one week. Get on media. Get in a magazine. Write a frickin’ article. Do something that exposes you.

Play bigger and don’t wait!

For Your Freedom,

What motivates us? Either pain or pleasure, they say.

Let me tell you what motivates us even deeper than that: purpose; a sense of fulfillment, of pride that what we do really helps people and is making a difference for people in their lives.

When someone else is counting on us–if you’ve ever noticed–we tend to get the job done, and we get a lot of satisfaction out of it. When it’s only ourselves that we need to deal with or us against our minds, it’s a tough slog.

What’s your purpose in life? How can you really help people?

I’m best suited to help people with inspiration, motivation and information, especially when it comes to money, business and happiness. Do you think I always knew that? Kind of, but I never could do it. Why? Because I felt if I stood up and talked in front a group of people, they might think I’m stupid.

However, once I stopped focusing on me, thinking, “Do I know enough? Will it work? Will I make enough money? Will they like me?” I just started naturally helping people with what I could help them with.

I started by getting eight people at my house on the couch one night and taught them. I even gave them a free lunch so they would SHOW UP.

They really enjoyed it, (not the lunch)…. my training and started telling other people. Pretty soon, word got out and I was off to the races. It was as simple as that.

I wasn’t finding that my profession was fixing phones, making lipstick or makeup, or finding a cure for digestive issues. That’s not who I was. From the time I was young, I would always give people advice and consult people on their problems.

So what’s your purpose here? Why were you put you on Earth? The answer to that question is simple. “How could I best help people? More specifically How could I best help just one person?”

Once you figure this out, then you can get RICH and here’s how:

1. Create a System. Identify the problem you know you can help people with. Go ahead and help just one person. Create a process to do this and then duplicate it.

2. Duplicate it. Look at my business as an example. I have information that I share. I write it and I create a system around it. Those are the companies that I own. I created a system called the Life Makeover. I have coaches that coach that system. I like teaching so I want to stay involved once a month and help out as well as I can.

Other than that, I have seven other trainers. I only teach about 3% of all the courses. There’s a course happening somewhere every weekend somewhere in the world. I don’t even know where they are. I don’t have a clue, but I still make $20,000, $50,000 or $100,000 a weekend from the courses.

It’s called a system. It’s called duplication. If I can do it, you can do it.

Look for a problem people have that you can solve. Look for just one problem, not two. Create a way to solve that problem with you at first. Solve that problem for one person. Get good at solving the problem, add a few more people, and then create a system that takes you out of having to be there to solve the problem.

When the system can solve the problem via technology or other people that work instead of you, then duplicate that system and help a lot more people. Go from helping 100 people a day to 1,000 people a day. The end result is that you’re rich because money is a result.

A lot of money is a result of helping a lot of people.

I just told you how to get rich: there’s no other way. If you want to make money, then help a person. If you want to make a lot of money, then help a lot of people. Don’t complicate it.

For Your Freedom,