December 15, 2021 • 36 mins
Have you been watching the new Beatles documentary on Disney Plus?
Dan has! And while he's been watching it, he's noticed so many correlations between the members of the band AND the things he teaches.
This week, Dan goes over what he's seen from the series and how you can use the lessons to help you get back to your highest potential.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
For four years on the Life Amplified podcast, we've delivered
episodes about prospering in your life's purpose and overcoming the
mindset obstacles that get in the way of you doing that.
So why then am I going to spend thirty minutes
talking about a new Beatles documentary on Disney Plus this week?
Well because, as I learned while watching the eight hour
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series Get Back, despite being arguably the most important rock
band of all time, the Beatles were also human beings
with a lot of the same problems that you and
I face. They struggled with their own insecurities and feelings
of not being respected. They struggled to maintain their own
individual voice while also belonging to a greater group. They
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struggled with the pressures of enormous success, and ultimately they
couldn't maintain it. The rise and fall of the Beatles
happened in just about six years, but along their journey
there are six important life lessons that apply to anybody
who wants to create amplified success and fulfillment. So, whether
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you're joining me today is somebody who is at the
top of your game. You've climbed the top of the
ladder and you're wondering where the hell do I go
from here, or you're somebody who's struggling. You know that
there's a bigger gift within you that you haven't shared
with the world, but insecurity and doubt has kept you
playing small. There are lessons from the Beatles that will
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help you create your next level of greatness in I'm
honored to share them with you this week Welcome Back.
What is an amplified life. It's having amplified relationships with
people who support and encourage you to be your best.
It's having amplified energy to conquer the challenges of the day.
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And it's having an amplified career, one that's meaningful to you,
the world, and your bank accounts. I'm Dan Mason, life
reinvention coach, helping you discover your calling and create an
amplified life on your terms. This is the Life Amplified Podcast.
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So I went deep down the Beatles rabbit hole last
weekend on Disney Plus and watched all eight hours of
the Get Back documentary, which, look, I'm not a paid
Indorsery and Disney and given me a dime to talk
about their products. They don't need me to, but I
will say, the Getback documentary is one of the best
pieces of content I have ever consumed. And I'm not
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somebody who is necessarily like a historian on the Beatles.
I really watched this documentary from a coaching perspective, because,
as Tony Robbins says, success leaves clues. We can learn
a lot by watching people who have achieved enormous success
and being able to replicate some of those practices in
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our life. However, there's also a cautionary tale and learning
from people who couldn't maintain the success, at least not
in its original form. I mean, all four of the
of the Beatles went on to have great individual success,
but their time together is a group was really a
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brief period of time, you know, it was. It's hard
to believe that for the huge catalog of hits and
all the movies, it was really six years from the
time Beatle maning a hit until they dissolved in and
there's also lessons to learn from that as well. So
what I thought I would do today is share the
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six notes that I jotted down after watching this series
from beginning to end, because you know, as we look
at each of the four Beatles, they represent a different
archetype of the clients who come into my practice who
are looking to create their next level, and we'll break
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these down one by one for you. I want to
start with John Lennon and the archetype here is the
person who believes it's lonely at the top. And you know,
it's an interesting journey when we meet John here and
they get back documentary because the Beatles at its inception
were his band. You know, they started out as the corryman.
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He was the leader. He was really the primary creative
force behind everything that happened, and of course they became
the biggest rock and roll band in the world. And
it's almost the more like that that they climbed the ladder,
and the more successful they became, the more isolated John became.
And what you start to discover is that what the
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band turned into at their peak was almost antithetical to
why he started doing music in the first place. They
weren't just a band, they were a brand. They were
creating movies and you know, spending a lot of time
on film sets, and then they became public figures. So
a lot of the things that John would say in
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the media were put under a microscope. There's a legendary
comment that he made at one point that the Beatles
were bigger than Jesus. And while that comment didn't really
grab headlines in the UK, it caused a firestorm in
the United States where people were burning their records and
they were protesting, to the point where the Beatles actually
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quit touring. They just became a studio band and kept
making movies. And what you start to see is that
wasn't what John signed up for, was, you know, to
be this uh celebrity. He didn't sign up to be
a movie star. He's just a guy like playing music
with his friends and like playing in front of audiences.
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So the very thing that drew him towards this life
path in the first place had kind of been taken
away also along the way. What you started to see
is that it was a tremendous personal cost to the success. Uh.
It's almost like a rock and roll cliche, the person
who's on the road all the time and then he
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realizes his relationship is starting to disintegrate. It cost him
his first marriage, and even though he was rapidly starting
to isolate, and this is where I think his drug
addiction really came into play. One of the things that
you'll notice when you want to get back documentary is
Lennon is definitely high through the whole film. You know,
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I'm sure that every rock band was doing enormous amounts
of pot, but John had also picked up a serious
heroin habit around this time and just was not functioning well.
You could see that he was numbing out from a
lot of the pain that he felt. And the other
sort of subtle energy that you notice in this movie
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that I think is relatable for other people is when
you know the career path that you're on is no
longer aligned with your highest level of expression or the
person that you want to be, but you feel trapped
that you have to stay on that path because you
don't want to ruin things for the other for the
others around you. You know, John was not a solo
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artist at this point. He was with his three childhood friends.
They had achieved enormous success together, so for him to
walk away for the group isn't just affecting him, It's
affecting everyone else. And that sense of obligation can become
very heavy. And as I share this, reflect in your life,
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where are you staying on a path that isn't true
for you because you feel obligated to do it for
other people. A lot of clients come to me who
are trapped in a loveless marriage that they've outgrown, but
they believe that they're holding it together for the kids.
There's a lot of times people will stay in that
proverbial soul sucking corporate job because they believe, well, God,
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I'm going to hurt family if I walk away from this,
if I give up the sure thing of the income.
You know, that's a question I was asked earlier this
year when I was interviewed on the Tamarain Hall Show.
And I don't think this made it to the final
video package, but they asked me, had I had stayed
in my marriage many years ago, would I have reinvented
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my life? Would I have given up my radio career
and pursued my life's purpose. And I'm not proud to
say this, but I'm sure at that time the answer
would be no. You know, every time that I spoke
up about a desire to walk a different path, my
ex wife at the time would say, well, look, we
have a lifestyle to maintain. And what she really meant
is it was my lifestyle, that it was our lifestyle
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for me to maintain for the family because she didn't work.
So I think that there's a lot of times that
that feeling, you know, it becomes this feeling of obligation
rather than a passion in our life, we start just
getting ruled by a sense of duty and obligation rather
than following our authentic passions. And it clearly in this
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documentary was taking a gigantic toll on John. He was
rolling in late to rehearsals. He would just disappear. He
was not really engaged when you see them on the set.
You know, originally when this documentary begins, they're planning a
live TV special, and he just didn't want any of
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that anymore. It was almost like there was this subconscious
belief system that more success would lead to more scrutiny,
and more success would also have to lead to a
collapse on himself. You know, he was becoming to get
very politically aware. He wanted to focus his energy on
political causes he believed in, especially once he met Yoko
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Ono and and the music and the fame became the
secondary thing. So as we talk about key takeaway number
one here it's really more a one A and one B.
Success should never come at a price, right, You shouldn't
have to give up who you are now. Are there
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certain sacrifices that we have to make? Yes? Or is
there a certain amount of work that gets put in
to building a new dream or a vision for your life?
Of course, but that should never come at your own
personal happiness, your success, your family. And also this idea
that a lot of people think they only need support
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is they're climbing the ladder to success, and then when
they get to the top that they isolate. I would
argue that you need support even more once you reach
the top of the ladder, because what good is it,
you know, building a dream if you can't maintain it
or you feel no ability to pivots or to change
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in your life. So, you know, think about that in
your life right now? Where could your life benefit from
having some support? And where are you isolating and just
keeping things going? Is they are because you're afraid to
rock the boat or you're afraid to shake things up?
And if any of this is resonating for you, I
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Mason on Instagram. I'd love to know does this resonate
for you now? We talked to her about John Lennon
and the archetype of the person who feels lonely at
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the top. Let's move over and talk about George Harrison,
who really is one of the most fascinating figures in
the documentary, because there's all these perceptions that I believed
that have just sort of been passed down historically that
the Beatles broke up because of Yoko Ono, that she
got in the way, which when you watch this documentary
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is not true. I mean, she is they're knitting and
reading during the recording session, but she isn't really a
problem within the context of the group. And there's also
this belief that John and Paul hated each other, when
in fact, the real tension in the group in this
documentary is between Paul and George. And the archetype that
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we're going to look at here with George is the
person who just doesn't feel seen or valued. Uh, And
think about this from a historical context. When the Beatles
first got together, George was the baby of the group.
He was thirteen years old. He was not writing songs.
He could barely play the guitar. He was just a guitarist,
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and you know, he was just this secondary member of
the group, and you know, he was surrounded by his
older brothers. There's a story that thankfully it's not documented
in the movie because we wouldn't want to watch that footage,
or maybe you do. I don't know, but there's a
historical story that George was the last in the group
to lose his virginity and all the their beatles were
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in the room when it happened. So when he finished,
he got this big round of cheers and standing ovation
for the other people in the group. And when you
think about that, you know a lot of times in
the circles that we run in and this can happen
within corporations and companies, but this can also happen within
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a family. Is that people don't see us always as
the person we are now or is the person that
we're becoming. They see us through this mental filter of
who we used to be and and and George, over
the course of this documentary is trying so hard to
fit in to get a seat at the table to
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have people recognize that he was a very gifted songwriter.
In fact, when you look at you know, the Beatles
catalog songs like Here Comes the Sun something in the
Way She Moves, those were actually George Harrison compositions. But
no matter how much his work of all, they never
took him seriously. Uh, Paul and John just always looked
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at him, his baby George, and that he just wasn't
at their level. And there's a scene in the movie
where George is playing on his guitar and sharing his
song All Things Must Pass, and he wants so much
to get everybody to give him an ad a boy,
and they're just dismissive, they ignore it, and he's so
proud of the work and he can't get anybody's attention.
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So what ends up happening in episode one is George
ends up on a break, just walking away and quitting
the band. By the way, this is a huge attachment
related pattern that shows up for people. We've talked a
lot about attachment theory and how it affects our relationships.
You know, people with anxious attachment often believe the only
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way that they can be seen or heard or experienced
in the world is if they have an over the
top emotional melt down, which is not what George does here.
He leaves very quietly and just tells everybody, hey, he'll
see you around at the clubs and literally quits and
walks out and just disappears for several days. Now, the
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avoidant attachment approach to this is to isolate and withdraw
and to pull away from the people around you, because
what they're really hoping for is that somebody will come
chase after them to make them feel loved. So these
are patterns that we can establish very early in life,
but it will play out in our career. So start
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to think about the relationships in your life that might
not be on fire or where you're not getting your
needs meant, how do you get people to show up
for you? Do you just have to have like a
huge hysterical fit or are you the person who SLINKs
away and just withdraws from everybody and waits for them
to come to you. And you see this pattern play
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out here in the movies and is toxic? Could things
it had become within the Beatles. What's interesting is for
their arguments, there aren't any big emotional outbursts It's very
subtle and passive aggressive the way that they relate to
each other and the way that they deal with the
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conflict within the group. Now Eventually, as always plays out
when there is an avoidant attachment pattern, the Beatles eventually
did have to go to George's house for several meetings.
They came to an understanding, They scrapped the television special
that they were going to work on, and they went
back into the recording studio to finish this last album.
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But the interesting footnote here on George's journey is that
as much as he didn't feel respected, as much as
he had written like this catalog of songs that he
wanted to include on a Beatles record that John and
Paul did not see value in. All those songs eventually
became George's solo album. Right after the breakup of the
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Beatles in seventy he put out a double album called
All Things Must Pass, which, interestingly enough, you know, from
a songwriting perspective, from an artist perspective, was probably the
best of the initial Beatles solo records. It was better
than John Lennon's debut solo album. It was better than
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some of the early McCartney stuff, although he did. You know,
Paul found his way with the group Wings much later on.
But isn't that the irony that George had to actually
separate from what was known and familiar to achieve his
highest level of artistic expression. So as we talk about
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some of these key points, uh, there are three within
the lesson of George Harrison that I think are so
important for you. Uh. Number two, You've got to be
able to strike out on your own. It is not
anybody else's responsibility to bring your vision to life or
to appreciate your vision more than you do. So George
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had to go become his own man and stop operating
as the baby of the group before he could really
achieve the level of personal success that he wanted. Number Two, Uh,
you can't let other people determine the value of your work.
In fact, if everybody is in total agreement that your
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vision is amazing, you're probably not really risk taking. If
you don't have a couple of people telling you that
you're dreaming too big, you might actually be playing small.
And I will tell you, and I think that this
is one of the most important points that we're going
to discuss today, is that you level up your game
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based on the quality of the people that you're surrounding
your self with. George Harrison did not start out as
a very good songwriter, but by being in the genius
of Paul McCartney and John Lennon and watching these guys
hone their craft, he began to develop new skills and
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new insights and was able to take what he learned
and apply it to his own work. So one of
the things that we talked about all the time is like,
how do you how far are you going to go
in and beyond? You need to look at who are
the people that you're surrounding yourself with. Now. There's a
lot of people who say that they want to leave
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that soul sucking job and start their own business. We've
seen that during the Great Resignation, but they're still surrounding
themselves with a group of people that say, no, no,
I just gotta have this nine to five j O
B every day. You know, there's a lot of people
that want to commit to a life of sobriety, or
maybe they want to make more healthful changes, but the
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still running around with their social group from ten years
ago who are shutting it down at the bar and
partying way too hard. So start to assess, you know,
the people that I surround myself with, are they going
to help me elevate my game or are they just
like a cinder block hanging from my ankle that are
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pulling me down? You know that that are keeping me
drowning from the life that I want to create. And
I also wants you to consider where in your life
do you feel disrespected? Do you feel that people don't
fully see their value. I saw this happen all the
time in my corporate media career, that we would have
really talented young people who were, you know, started out
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as an intern or at an entry level job, and
they climb the ladder and they could get up to
a middle position within the company. But when it came
time to really elevate into a better position, they kept
hitting that glass ceiling. Be because people in the company,
particularly the decision makers, only saw them is the young
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kid who started out as the intern. They didn't see
them as somebody that could really be a leader to
move the company forward. In those positions, almost every instance,
the person had to leave the job that they were in.
They had to go away to another another company, another
city to go get to that next level, and then
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in many instances they were able to come home to
the company once they had those stripes, you know, to
become a VP or a program director or a general
manager or whatever it was they were working towards, then
they could come back home and do the thing that
they loved in the first place. So sometimes you have
to take that detour. And again this is that idea,
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you gotta strike out on your own and stop waiting
for other people to find your to find value in
you or your skill set. I think that this is
a fascinating conversation to have. As we talked about spending
the holidays with your family, this is a very triggering time.
Why do so many people get frustrated going home to
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spend Christmas with loved ones because a lot of times
the family is still relating to you. Is if you
were that age back in the day when you were
powerless and they made all the decisions for you that
you couldn't individuate from the family. And a lot of
times we show up going to visit our family at
the holidays from that place of powerlessness. And you see
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that dynamic play out here with George within the context
of the Beatles. But my guess is there are elements
of this that applied to you. So where is it
on you to really step into your power to set
a boundary? Uh, to say no, this, this is who
I am, this is what I'm doing now, and hey,
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I would love to do it with you guys, or
I can go out here and do it on my
own again. Would love to get your insights. Feel free
to send me a d M on Instagram at c
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talk about the third and final archetype is what's going
on with Paul McCartney here in the Get Back documentary.
And boy, this one's going to apply to all my
control freaks out there, because an interesting thing started to
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happen is John Lennon lost interest and was no no
longer actively engaged in the day to day of the
Beatles empire. What happened was Paul McCartney started to take
a bigger hand in the vision of the band, not
just in the songwriting, but also in the musical arrangements
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and also within the businessman shais. Remember the Beatles also
set up their own company, uh you know, Apple Holdings
that were all about music and film, and they were
sort of the pioneers back before there was an mp
TV about having the right visuals to go with every
new album release. But that was really more of Paul's vision,
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and he could see the bands starting to fall apart.
He could see that he was losing his friendship with John.
He could be he was losing that writing partnership, so
he started really trying to control the situation and controlling
everyone and everything around him. There are so many scenes
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where he's trying to specifically tell Ringo how to play
a drumbeat or a sequence that he's arguing with George
on how he wants George to play the guitar. And
he's trying so hard to micromanage every detail to keep
the empire of the Beatles afloat that what ends up
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happening is is he's ultimately out of control. And the
more he's trying to control the other band members, the
more tension that it creates. You know, where are you
doing this in your life? For you somebody who is
trying so hard to control your partner in a relationship,
and it's just you know, you're trying to tell them
what they should do, what they should say, how they
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should act, what they should believe that it's causing tension.
You probably have experiences if you're a parent with your kids.
The more you try to control them, it's almost like
the more frustrated that you become. And the master lesson
here is to stay in your lane. The only thing
that you really have control over is yourself and how
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you're showing up. And there's a fascinating scene here in
the Get Back documentary where there's all these conversations going
on and people are trying to get a TV special,
getting put to work, and people are like wondering, where
the hell John is, Why hasn't he's shown up for rehearsal,
And George is pouting and he's not happy, And amidst
all this chaos happening externally, Paul McCartney just retreats himself
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and he sits at a piano, and what you actually
witness as a viewer are the beginnings of him writing
let it be You hear you know, those opening piano chords,
and you hear him starting to put together the lyrics
to create like this, you know, top ten most famous
Beatles song, uh, maybe one of the ten most famous
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songs of all time. And as Paul was able to
let go and stop trying to micromanage all the external
world around him, his own genius was able to emerge
and he was able to make his great artistic contribution
to the world. And trying to control other people is
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a huge pattern that gets in the way of us
living in our own zone of genius and us sharing
our gifts with the world. You know, we can't ever
go within and start to wonder, Hey, what wants to
emerge through me? When you're trying to manage how everybody
else in life shows up. Plus it's just a poor
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life strategy to try to control other people. And I'm
not saying that I'm Jesus Christ over here. And there
aren't places in my life where I haven't fallen into
this pattern in my life and in my business. But
it's always a recipe for pain. You know. The formula
to experience pain in your life in two is to
keep focusing on all the things that aren't in your
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sphere of influence and make it really big. And meanwhile,
the formula for inner peace and for fulfillment is to
focus what is in your control and make that really,
really big, so very quickly. Before we get into the
six point here, I want to recap some of the
key takeaways personal growth wise from the Beatles Get Back documentary.
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As we learned through the Journey of John Lennon, success
doesn't have to come at a cost to you, and
actually your highest levels of success should require higher goals
of support around you. Three key lessons from the Journey
of George Harrison right, striking out on your own is
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necessary for self expression. Point number three. Other people cannot
validate your vision or your work for you. And number four,
genius grows through osmosis. Who you hang out with is
who you'll become. As we talk about Paul McCartney point
number five here, you've got to stay in your lane
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and control what is in your sphere of influence, which
is yourself, your own discipline, the work that you put
in and the dedication to your goals and taking action
towards that. And that will bring me to the final
point that I wanted to share here. As we talk
about to get back documentary, what became very evident and
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you hear multiple times throughout the documentary Paul McCartney talks
about this is the band itself lost mentorship and when
they lost their mentors, when they lost their way. You know,
their longtime manager was a gentleman by the name of
Brian Epstein. He was a record store owner in Liverpool
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who took an interest in in the Beatles when they
were teenagers playing music. So he was also the behind
the scenes brains and mentor. He could create accountability for
the group. He would tell them what time to show up,
where they needed to be, He could maintain a schedule
and they had to answer to him right of course
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they had to answer to each other in the group,
but there was somebody to hold them accountable. There was
somebody who could be a mentor and provide more structure
into their lives. And Brian Epstein tragically and unexpectedly passed away.
And in the aftermath of that, the Beatles put out
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a press release saying that they were going to manage themselves.
And that's in the wheels really started to come off,
the off the truck and things began to fall apart.
And what we see, particularly with creatives. You know, when
you look at most successful organizations and companies, you have
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a visionary, you have the person who is the creative force,
but you also have an implementer, who's the person who's
great at structure, admin creating deadlines, holding people accountable. Now,
for instance, Facebook, they're set up there would be Mark
Zuckerberg is just sort of like the weirdo creator, but
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he has Cheryl Sandberg who is the implementer. If we
look at the early days of Apple, Steve Jobs, without
question was the visionary, but he also had Steve Wozniak
who was the implement er. And what you could see
here within the Beatles is they didn't really have that implementer.
Paul was trying to become that, but he was also
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torn with you know, his own artistic expression. And then
all of a sudden, you know, that final album Let
It Be. Essentially it was like a Paul solo record.
You know that that was mostly his work because the
other guys, uh, the other guys were less involved. But
you wonder what would have happened, what new art could
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have been created together as a group had the Beatles
had that mentorship in their life. And any time you're
trying to go it alone usually ends up being a
poor strategy. So another great reflection question for you as
you step into twenty two is where have I been
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resistant to allowing some outside accountability and support? You know,
this is why you know, coaching is such a powerful
modality and I invest in coaches. One of you know,
the big breakthroughs for me in my business this year
that I talked about with guys way back in January,
and I had been talking about for some time, was
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building a television brand for myself and becoming an expert
guest on media outlets and not just local television but national.
But it wasn't until I invested and having some pr
coaches that could help give me the structure and accountability
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and the knowledge on how to build that once I
made that investment. This year, you know, I did well
over forty television appearances this year, including some of the
the biggest nationally syndicated talk shows UH in the United States.
And this isn't a dance so awesome brag. This is
simply talking about having that support behind you to reach
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do it alone, if you feel like you keep running
into the same brick wall, if another year has gone
by and you're no closer to exiting that soul sucking career,
or maybe you're a John Lennon that you've created the
career but it's come at a huge personal cost to use,
so the success doesn't even feel good anymore. Maybe it's
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So why then am I going to spend thirty minutes
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Well because, as I learned while watching the eight hour
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happened in just about six years, but along their journey
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So I went deep down the Beatles rabbit hole last
weekend on Disney Plus and watched all eight hours of
the Get Back documentary, which, look, I'm not a paid
Indorsery and Disney and given me a dime to talk
about their products. They don't need me to, but I
will say, the Getback documentary is one of the best
pieces of content I have ever consumed. And I'm not
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somebody who is necessarily like a historian on the Beatles.
I really watched this documentary from a coaching perspective, because,
as Tony Robbins says, success leaves clues. We can learn
a lot by watching people who have achieved enormous success
and being able to replicate some of those practices in
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our life. However, there's also a cautionary tale and learning
from people who couldn't maintain the success, at least not
in its original form. I mean, all four of the
of the Beatles went on to have great individual success,
but their time together is a group was really a
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brief period of time, you know, it was. It's hard
to believe that for the huge catalog of hits and
all the movies, it was really six years from the
time Beatle maning a hit until they dissolved in and
there's also lessons to learn from that as well. So
what I thought I would do today is share the
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six notes that I jotted down after watching this series
from beginning to end, because you know, as we look
at each of the four Beatles, they represent a different
archetype of the clients who come into my practice who
are looking to create their next level, and we'll break
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these down one by one for you. I want to
start with John Lennon and the archetype here is the
person who believes it's lonely at the top. And you know,
it's an interesting journey when we meet John here and
they get back documentary because the Beatles at its inception
were his band. You know, they started out as the corryman.
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He was the leader. He was really the primary creative
force behind everything that happened, and of course they became
the biggest rock and roll band in the world. And
it's almost the more like that that they climbed the ladder,
and the more successful they became, the more isolated John became.
And what you start to discover is that what the
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band turned into at their peak was almost antithetical to
why he started doing music in the first place. They
weren't just a band, they were a brand. They were
creating movies and you know, spending a lot of time
on film sets, and then they became public figures. So
a lot of the things that John would say in
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the media were put under a microscope. There's a legendary
comment that he made at one point that the Beatles
were bigger than Jesus. And while that comment didn't really
grab headlines in the UK, it caused a firestorm in
the United States where people were burning their records and
they were protesting, to the point where the Beatles actually
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quit touring. They just became a studio band and kept
making movies. And what you start to see is that
wasn't what John signed up for, was, you know, to
be this uh celebrity. He didn't sign up to be
a movie star. He's just a guy like playing music
with his friends and like playing in front of audiences.
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So the very thing that drew him towards this life
path in the first place had kind of been taken
away also along the way. What you started to see
is that it was a tremendous personal cost to the success. Uh.
It's almost like a rock and roll cliche, the person
who's on the road all the time and then he
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realizes his relationship is starting to disintegrate. It cost him
his first marriage, and even though he was rapidly starting
to isolate, and this is where I think his drug
addiction really came into play. One of the things that
you'll notice when you want to get back documentary is
Lennon is definitely high through the whole film. You know,
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I'm sure that every rock band was doing enormous amounts
of pot, but John had also picked up a serious
heroin habit around this time and just was not functioning well.
You could see that he was numbing out from a
lot of the pain that he felt. And the other
sort of subtle energy that you notice in this movie
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that I think is relatable for other people is when
you know the career path that you're on is no
longer aligned with your highest level of expression or the
person that you want to be, but you feel trapped
that you have to stay on that path because you
don't want to ruin things for the other for the
others around you. You know, John was not a solo
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artist at this point. He was with his three childhood friends.
They had achieved enormous success together, so for him to
walk away for the group isn't just affecting him, It's
affecting everyone else. And that sense of obligation can become
very heavy. And as I share this, reflect in your life,
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where are you staying on a path that isn't true
for you because you feel obligated to do it for
other people. A lot of clients come to me who
are trapped in a loveless marriage that they've outgrown, but
they believe that they're holding it together for the kids.
There's a lot of times people will stay in that
proverbial soul sucking corporate job because they believe, well, God,
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I'm going to hurt family if I walk away from this,
if I give up the sure thing of the income.
You know, that's a question I was asked earlier this
year when I was interviewed on the Tamarain Hall Show.
And I don't think this made it to the final
video package, but they asked me, had I had stayed
in my marriage many years ago, would I have reinvented
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my life? Would I have given up my radio career
and pursued my life's purpose. And I'm not proud to
say this, but I'm sure at that time the answer
would be no. You know, every time that I spoke
up about a desire to walk a different path, my
ex wife at the time would say, well, look, we
have a lifestyle to maintain. And what she really meant
is it was my lifestyle, that it was our lifestyle
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for me to maintain for the family because she didn't work.
So I think that there's a lot of times that
that feeling, you know, it becomes this feeling of obligation
rather than a passion in our life, we start just
getting ruled by a sense of duty and obligation rather
than following our authentic passions. And it clearly in this
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documentary was taking a gigantic toll on John. He was
rolling in late to rehearsals. He would just disappear. He
was not really engaged when you see them on the set.
You know, originally when this documentary begins, they're planning a
live TV special, and he just didn't want any of
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that anymore. It was almost like there was this subconscious
belief system that more success would lead to more scrutiny,
and more success would also have to lead to a
collapse on himself. You know, he was becoming to get
very politically aware. He wanted to focus his energy on
political causes he believed in, especially once he met Yoko
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Ono and and the music and the fame became the
secondary thing. So as we talk about key takeaway number
one here it's really more a one A and one B.
Success should never come at a price, right, You shouldn't
have to give up who you are now. Are there
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certain sacrifices that we have to make? Yes? Or is
there a certain amount of work that gets put in
to building a new dream or a vision for your life?
Of course, but that should never come at your own
personal happiness, your success, your family. And also this idea
that a lot of people think they only need support
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is they're climbing the ladder to success, and then when
they get to the top that they isolate. I would
argue that you need support even more once you reach
the top of the ladder, because what good is it,
you know, building a dream if you can't maintain it
or you feel no ability to pivots or to change
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in your life. So, you know, think about that in
your life right now? Where could your life benefit from
having some support? And where are you isolating and just
keeping things going? Is they are because you're afraid to
rock the boat or you're afraid to shake things up?
And if any of this is resonating for you, I
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for you now? We talked to her about John Lennon
and the archetype of the person who feels lonely at
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the top. Let's move over and talk about George Harrison,
who really is one of the most fascinating figures in
the documentary, because there's all these perceptions that I believed
that have just sort of been passed down historically that
the Beatles broke up because of Yoko Ono, that she
got in the way, which when you watch this documentary
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is not true. I mean, she is they're knitting and
reading during the recording session, but she isn't really a
problem within the context of the group. And there's also
this belief that John and Paul hated each other, when
in fact, the real tension in the group in this
documentary is between Paul and George. And the archetype that
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we're going to look at here with George is the
person who just doesn't feel seen or valued. Uh, And
think about this from a historical context. When the Beatles
first got together, George was the baby of the group.
He was thirteen years old. He was not writing songs.
He could barely play the guitar. He was just a guitarist,
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and you know, he was just this secondary member of
the group, and you know, he was surrounded by his
older brothers. There's a story that thankfully it's not documented
in the movie because we wouldn't want to watch that footage,
or maybe you do. I don't know, but there's a
historical story that George was the last in the group
to lose his virginity and all the their beatles were
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in the room when it happened. So when he finished,
he got this big round of cheers and standing ovation
for the other people in the group. And when you
think about that, you know a lot of times in
the circles that we run in and this can happen
within corporations and companies, but this can also happen within
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a family. Is that people don't see us always as
the person we are now or is the person that
we're becoming. They see us through this mental filter of
who we used to be and and and George, over
the course of this documentary is trying so hard to
fit in to get a seat at the table to
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have people recognize that he was a very gifted songwriter.
In fact, when you look at you know, the Beatles
catalog songs like Here Comes the Sun something in the
Way She Moves, those were actually George Harrison compositions. But
no matter how much his work of all, they never
took him seriously. Uh, Paul and John just always looked
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at him, his baby George, and that he just wasn't
at their level. And there's a scene in the movie
where George is playing on his guitar and sharing his
song All Things Must Pass, and he wants so much
to get everybody to give him an ad a boy,
and they're just dismissive, they ignore it, and he's so
proud of the work and he can't get anybody's attention.
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So what ends up happening in episode one is George
ends up on a break, just walking away and quitting
the band. By the way, this is a huge attachment
related pattern that shows up for people. We've talked a
lot about attachment theory and how it affects our relationships.
You know, people with anxious attachment often believe the only
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way that they can be seen or heard or experienced
in the world is if they have an over the
top emotional melt down, which is not what George does here.
He leaves very quietly and just tells everybody, hey, he'll
see you around at the clubs and literally quits and
walks out and just disappears for several days. Now, the
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avoidant attachment approach to this is to isolate and withdraw
and to pull away from the people around you, because
what they're really hoping for is that somebody will come
chase after them to make them feel loved. So these
are patterns that we can establish very early in life,
but it will play out in our career. So start
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to think about the relationships in your life that might
not be on fire or where you're not getting your
needs meant, how do you get people to show up
for you? Do you just have to have like a
huge hysterical fit or are you the person who SLINKs
away and just withdraws from everybody and waits for them
to come to you. And you see this pattern play
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out here in the movies and is toxic? Could things
it had become within the Beatles. What's interesting is for
their arguments, there aren't any big emotional outbursts It's very
subtle and passive aggressive the way that they relate to
each other and the way that they deal with the
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conflict within the group. Now Eventually, as always plays out
when there is an avoidant attachment pattern, the Beatles eventually
did have to go to George's house for several meetings.
They came to an understanding, They scrapped the television special
that they were going to work on, and they went
back into the recording studio to finish this last album.
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But the interesting footnote here on George's journey is that
as much as he didn't feel respected, as much as
he had written like this catalog of songs that he
wanted to include on a Beatles record that John and
Paul did not see value in. All those songs eventually
became George's solo album. Right after the breakup of the
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Beatles in seventy he put out a double album called
All Things Must Pass, which, interestingly enough, you know, from
a songwriting perspective, from an artist perspective, was probably the
best of the initial Beatles solo records. It was better
than John Lennon's debut solo album. It was better than
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some of the early McCartney stuff, although he did. You know,
Paul found his way with the group Wings much later on.
But isn't that the irony that George had to actually
separate from what was known and familiar to achieve his
highest level of artistic expression. So as we talk about
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some of these key points, uh, there are three within
the lesson of George Harrison that I think are so
important for you. Uh. Number two, You've got to be
able to strike out on your own. It is not
anybody else's responsibility to bring your vision to life or
to appreciate your vision more than you do. So George
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had to go become his own man and stop operating
as the baby of the group before he could really
achieve the level of personal success that he wanted. Number Two, Uh,
you can't let other people determine the value of your work.
In fact, if everybody is in total agreement that your
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vision is amazing, you're probably not really risk taking. If
you don't have a couple of people telling you that
you're dreaming too big, you might actually be playing small.
And I will tell you, and I think that this
is one of the most important points that we're going
to discuss today, is that you level up your game
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based on the quality of the people that you're surrounding
your self with. George Harrison did not start out as
a very good songwriter, but by being in the genius
of Paul McCartney and John Lennon and watching these guys
hone their craft, he began to develop new skills and
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new insights and was able to take what he learned
and apply it to his own work. So one of
the things that we talked about all the time is like,
how do you how far are you going to go
in and beyond? You need to look at who are
the people that you're surrounding yourself with. Now. There's a
lot of people who say that they want to leave
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that soul sucking job and start their own business. We've
seen that during the Great Resignation, but they're still surrounding
themselves with a group of people that say, no, no,
I just gotta have this nine to five j O
B every day. You know, there's a lot of people
that want to commit to a life of sobriety, or
maybe they want to make more healthful changes, but the
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still running around with their social group from ten years
ago who are shutting it down at the bar and
partying way too hard. So start to assess, you know,
the people that I surround myself with, are they going
to help me elevate my game or are they just
like a cinder block hanging from my ankle that are
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pulling me down? You know that that are keeping me
drowning from the life that I want to create. And
I also wants you to consider where in your life
do you feel disrespected? Do you feel that people don't
fully see their value. I saw this happen all the
time in my corporate media career, that we would have
really talented young people who were, you know, started out
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as an intern or at an entry level job, and
they climb the ladder and they could get up to
a middle position within the company. But when it came
time to really elevate into a better position, they kept
hitting that glass ceiling. Be because people in the company,
particularly the decision makers, only saw them is the young
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kid who started out as the intern. They didn't see
them as somebody that could really be a leader to
move the company forward. In those positions, almost every instance,
the person had to leave the job that they were in.
They had to go away to another another company, another
city to go get to that next level, and then
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in many instances they were able to come home to
the company once they had those stripes, you know, to
become a VP or a program director or a general
manager or whatever it was they were working towards, then
they could come back home and do the thing that
they loved in the first place. So sometimes you have
to take that detour. And again this is that idea,
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you gotta strike out on your own and stop waiting
for other people to find your to find value in
you or your skill set. I think that this is
a fascinating conversation to have. As we talked about spending
the holidays with your family, this is a very triggering time.
Why do so many people get frustrated going home to
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spend Christmas with loved ones because a lot of times
the family is still relating to you. Is if you
were that age back in the day when you were
powerless and they made all the decisions for you that
you couldn't individuate from the family. And a lot of
times we show up going to visit our family at
the holidays from that place of powerlessness. And you see
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that dynamic play out here with George within the context
of the Beatles. But my guess is there are elements
of this that applied to you. So where is it
on you to really step into your power to set
a boundary? Uh, to say no, this, this is who
I am, this is what I'm doing now, and hey,
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I would love to do it with you guys, or
I can go out here and do it on my
own again. Would love to get your insights. Feel free
to send me a d M on Instagram at c
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talk about the third and final archetype is what's going
on with Paul McCartney here in the Get Back documentary.
And boy, this one's going to apply to all my
control freaks out there, because an interesting thing started to
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happen is John Lennon lost interest and was no no
longer actively engaged in the day to day of the
Beatles empire. What happened was Paul McCartney started to take
a bigger hand in the vision of the band, not
just in the songwriting, but also in the musical arrangements
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and also within the businessman shais. Remember the Beatles also
set up their own company, uh you know, Apple Holdings
that were all about music and film, and they were
sort of the pioneers back before there was an mp
TV about having the right visuals to go with every
new album release. But that was really more of Paul's vision,
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and he could see the bands starting to fall apart.
He could see that he was losing his friendship with John.
He could be he was losing that writing partnership, so
he started really trying to control the situation and controlling
everyone and everything around him. There are so many scenes
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where he's trying to specifically tell Ringo how to play
a drumbeat or a sequence that he's arguing with George
on how he wants George to play the guitar. And
he's trying so hard to micromanage every detail to keep
the empire of the Beatles afloat that what ends up
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happening is is he's ultimately out of control. And the
more he's trying to control the other band members, the
more tension that it creates. You know, where are you
doing this in your life? For you somebody who is
trying so hard to control your partner in a relationship,
and it's just you know, you're trying to tell them
what they should do, what they should say, how they
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should act, what they should believe that it's causing tension.
You probably have experiences if you're a parent with your kids.
The more you try to control them, it's almost like
the more frustrated that you become. And the master lesson
here is to stay in your lane. The only thing
that you really have control over is yourself and how
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you're showing up. And there's a fascinating scene here in
the Get Back documentary where there's all these conversations going
on and people are trying to get a TV special,
getting put to work, and people are like wondering, where
the hell John is, Why hasn't he's shown up for rehearsal,
And George is pouting and he's not happy, And amidst
all this chaos happening externally, Paul McCartney just retreats himself
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and he sits at a piano, and what you actually
witness as a viewer are the beginnings of him writing
let it be You hear you know, those opening piano chords,
and you hear him starting to put together the lyrics
to create like this, you know, top ten most famous
Beatles song, uh, maybe one of the ten most famous
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songs of all time. And as Paul was able to
let go and stop trying to micromanage all the external
world around him, his own genius was able to emerge
and he was able to make his great artistic contribution
to the world. And trying to control other people is
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a huge pattern that gets in the way of us
living in our own zone of genius and us sharing
our gifts with the world. You know, we can't ever
go within and start to wonder, Hey, what wants to
emerge through me? When you're trying to manage how everybody
else in life shows up. Plus it's just a poor
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life strategy to try to control other people. And I'm
not saying that I'm Jesus Christ over here. And there
aren't places in my life where I haven't fallen into
this pattern in my life and in my business. But
it's always a recipe for pain. You know. The formula
to experience pain in your life in two is to
keep focusing on all the things that aren't in your
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sphere of influence and make it really big. And meanwhile,
the formula for inner peace and for fulfillment is to
focus what is in your control and make that really,
really big, so very quickly. Before we get into the
six point here, I want to recap some of the
key takeaways personal growth wise from the Beatles Get Back documentary.
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As we learned through the Journey of John Lennon, success
doesn't have to come at a cost to you, and
actually your highest levels of success should require higher goals
of support around you. Three key lessons from the Journey
of George Harrison right, striking out on your own is
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necessary for self expression. Point number three. Other people cannot
validate your vision or your work for you. And number four,
genius grows through osmosis. Who you hang out with is
who you'll become. As we talk about Paul McCartney point
number five here, you've got to stay in your lane
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and control what is in your sphere of influence, which
is yourself, your own discipline, the work that you put
in and the dedication to your goals and taking action
towards that. And that will bring me to the final
point that I wanted to share here. As we talk
about to get back documentary, what became very evident and
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you hear multiple times throughout the documentary Paul McCartney talks
about this is the band itself lost mentorship and when
they lost their mentors, when they lost their way. You know,
their longtime manager was a gentleman by the name of
Brian Epstein. He was a record store owner in Liverpool
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who took an interest in in the Beatles when they
were teenagers playing music. So he was also the behind
the scenes brains and mentor. He could create accountability for
the group. He would tell them what time to show up,
where they needed to be, He could maintain a schedule
and they had to answer to him right of course
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they had to answer to each other in the group,
but there was somebody to hold them accountable. There was
somebody who could be a mentor and provide more structure
into their lives. And Brian Epstein tragically and unexpectedly passed away.
And in the aftermath of that, the Beatles put out
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a press release saying that they were going to manage themselves.
And that's in the wheels really started to come off,
the off the truck and things began to fall apart.
And what we see, particularly with creatives. You know, when
you look at most successful organizations and companies, you have
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a visionary, you have the person who is the creative force,
but you also have an implementer, who's the person who's
great at structure, admin creating deadlines, holding people accountable. Now,
for instance, Facebook, they're set up there would be Mark
Zuckerberg is just sort of like the weirdo creator, but
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he has Cheryl Sandberg who is the implementer. If we
look at the early days of Apple, Steve Jobs, without
question was the visionary, but he also had Steve Wozniak
who was the implement er. And what you could see
here within the Beatles is they didn't really have that implementer.
Paul was trying to become that, but he was also
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torn with you know, his own artistic expression. And then
all of a sudden, you know, that final album Let
It Be. Essentially it was like a Paul solo record.
You know that that was mostly his work because the
other guys, uh, the other guys were less involved. But
you wonder what would have happened, what new art could
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have been created together as a group had the Beatles
had that mentorship in their life. And any time you're
trying to go it alone usually ends up being a
poor strategy. So another great reflection question for you as
you step into twenty two is where have I been
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resistant to allowing some outside accountability and support? You know,
this is why you know, coaching is such a powerful
modality and I invest in coaches. One of you know,
the big breakthroughs for me in my business this year
that I talked about with guys way back in January,
and I had been talking about for some time, was
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building a television brand for myself and becoming an expert
guest on media outlets and not just local television but national.
But it wasn't until I invested and having some pr
coaches that could help give me the structure and accountability
(34:26):
and the knowledge on how to build that once I
made that investment. This year, you know, I did well
over forty television appearances this year, including some of the
the biggest nationally syndicated talk shows UH in the United States.
And this isn't a dance so awesome brag. This is
simply talking about having that support behind you to reach
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your goals becomes everything. And if you've been trying to
do it alone, if you feel like you keep running
into the same brick wall, if another year has gone
by and you're no closer to exiting that soul sucking career,
or maybe you're a John Lennon that you've created the
career but it's come at a huge personal cost to use,
so the success doesn't even feel good anymore. Maybe it's
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time to allow in some mentorship. I'd love to be
able to work with you on that. And now is
the best time to get signed up for coaching is
you know, my rates and my investment levels and my
coaching programs will be going up on January one, so
hit me up on my website click that link to
fill out an application. Let's set up a complimentary discovery call.
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You know, I've been so privileged this year to watch
my clients, uh literally as much as quadruple their income.
I've had people get off the nine to five treadmill,
They've built their own businesses. We've had two engagements in
my community this year from clients who you know, actually
found love and found that personal life balance to go
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with the career success. So whatever it is you're working toward,
you know, the principles of creating it and making it
real in the world are the same, and I would
love to help you replicate that in your life. Creative
Soul Coaching dot net is where you go for the info. Uh,
make sure you reach out And if you love this
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podcast this week, if you could do me a favor
and just share it with your friends. You can screenshot that.
You can upload it to Instagram or Twitter. Be sure
to tag me at c sc Dan Mason, and for
those of you on Apple, you can leave those five
star ratings and reviews as well. I love you so
much for listening, my friend. I appreciate you, and I
(36:39):
will talk to you again next week. In the meantime,
turn down the volume on your negativity. Turn up the
volume on your purpose so you can live life amplified.
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