Mastering Your Goals: Brian Tracy's Proven Strategies for Achieving Your Dreams

Successful entrepreneurship often requires a significant investment of time, with Brian Tracy emphasizing that it typically takes seven years to achieve true success in business.

During a wide-ranging conversation, Tracy shares insights on personal growth, the importance of setting clear goals, and the transformative power of forgiveness. He discusses how the person you become through the process of striving for success is often more valuable than the financial rewards themselves. The episode also highlights the significance of helping others and learning as key components of achieving personal and professional goals.

Tracy's inspiring anecdotes and practical advice encourage listeners to take responsibility for their lives and to focus on continuous improvement and goal setting as pathways to success.

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Brian Tracy shares profound insights on the journey to success, emphasizing the critical lesson that it often takes seven years to truly find success in any business endeavor, whether it’s a multi-level marketing (MLM) venture or a more complex enterprise. He draws from his own life experiences, recounting how he started with nothing and struggled for years before finding his stride. Tracy echoes the wisdom of his mentor, Jim Rohn, highlighting that becoming a millionaire is less about acquiring wealth and more about evolving into the type of person capable of achieving such success. He passionately advocates for the power of goal-setting, asserting that clarity on what one desires can activate the universe to work in one’s favor. The episode delves into the importance of self-discipline and task completion, insisting that success is not merely about starting tasks but about finishing them. Tracy offers actionable advice on how to set and pursue goals, illustrating that writing goals down and revisiting them regularly can lead to extraordinary transformations in one’s life. He shares inspiring anecdotes of individuals who have achieved remarkable success through the application of his principles, reinforcing the idea that anyone can change their destiny by taking definitive action towards their aspirations.

Takeaways:

• It takes seven years of persistent effort to truly achieve success in any business.
• Becoming a millionaire is more about personal growth than simply accumulating wealth.
• To attract the right partner, clearly define the qualities you're looking for in a relationship.
• Setting clear and achievable goals can drastically change your life positively over time.
• You can increase your chances of success by continuously learning and adapting your skills.
• Focusing on helping others will often lead to your own financial success and fulfillment.

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Episode Transcript

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Takes seven years.
When you start your ownbusiness, whether it's an MLM business
or something even morecomplicated, it takes seven years
to become successful.
You know, my friend Jim Rohnsays that the most important part
of becoming a millionaire isnot the money.
It's the person you have tobecome to become a millionaire.

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If you want to be in theperfect relationship, this works
just like you.
It works for everybody.
And everybody I've ever giventhis idea to has come back to me
and said, it's unbelievablehow fast you attract into your life
the right person working.

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Seven days a week.
Dr.
Brian Tracy, welcome to the show.
Welcome to become your own superhero.
Well, thank you.
I'm very happy to be here andto share ideas with you.
We both have the same goal in life.
We want to help people bebetter and achieve better goals than

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they would in the absence ofour help.
So we'll have a great time today.
Brian, I was in researchingfor this interview of which I'm so
grateful to Jim Cathcart andJohn demartini for helping make the
introduction there.
I wanted to ask you somethingand maybe a little bit left of center
and just share from my ownexperience because I know a number

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of the audience here have gonethrough similar stuff.
I found my purpose and myreason for being on earth only in
the last four or five years.
And I've experienced a lot ofcensorship through a lot of the guests
that I've chosen to platformbecause my philosophy in life is

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I just want to know the truthso I can make an informed decision.
And I know one of your corebeliefs is always speak the truth.
And my question really is, howdo you navigate getting your name
and message out there afterbeing censored mainly by social media
platforms when you've got suchan important message to get out into

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the world?
Well, the common desire.
I studied economics for almost50 years and I studied free market
Austrian economics, which arebased on incentives, free markets,
entrepreneurship, individualthinking, individual responsibility.

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And I found that everybody hasone thing in common, is they want
to enjoy the highest qualityof life possible.
When I do seminars all overthe world with Zoom, I ask them and
they have an average of athousand to two thousand people.
I ask these people who bringme in, I say, what is it that they

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want to learn?
What is it they want to learn?
And the answer is they want tomake more money.
They're aggressive.
They want to make more moneybecause money represents freedom.
And what I have found, becauseI started off poor, I had no money,
I worked at laboring jobs Islept in my car for years and years.

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I worked on farms and ranches.
I worked as a dishwasher.
And I bit my, brought myselfup bit by bit and.
But what I found is that moneyrepresents freedom.
If you have enough money, thenyou don't worry about money.
And one of the great goals inlife is to have enough money so that
you never worry about money again.

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And when I learned that phrasefrom a dear coach of mine, I thought,
wow.
Because that is the number onereason why people are not happy.
You know, there's, there's twotypes of emotions in life, positive
emotions and negative emotions.
And the primary negativeemotions worry about money.

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So I finally began to earn money.
I was a salesperson.
I became more and more successful.
I studied and studied andstudied and practiced and practiced
and taught other people.
Eventually, by the time I was25, I had 95 people working for me
on commission in six countries.

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And I earned more money than Iever dreamed possible.
And it was by learning how todo my job well, learning how to sell
products and services thatenhance the lives of other people.
And so if you want to besuccessful, help other people to
be successful.
If you want to be successful,give other people tools and training.

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I developed a sales trainingprogram some years later called the
Psychology of Selling, whichhas now sold millions of copies in
39 languages.
And it's made people rich.
I've countless people thatI've done interviews like this, they
said they became millionairesand multimillionaires after they

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used that program because ittaught them a specific, low keyed,
friendly, trust based salesprocess that led to sale after sale
after sale.
And I did programs on personaldevelopment, personal success, goal
setting and goal achieving,time management, personal relationships,

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peace of mind, all the good things.
And people had never heardthese things before or they'd heard
them sort of like I call it,like random, measured, random pieces
of it.
So I put my stuff together is systems.
And if you follow the systems,you get results that are extraordinary.

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I mean, I have now threepeople who were struggling, who are
billionaires and who told methat, that my material turned them
into billionaires.
And at the beginning they were broken.
One guy was pushing a gurneyon a hospital in St.
Petersburg, Russia andsomebody left a Russian translated

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version of maximum achievementon the gurney.
And he took it and began toread it and it totally transformed
his life.
And within 10 years he wasworth $6.5 billion.
And I know because he hired meto come and be his coach for one
day at his condominium, whichwas a $300 billion condominium in

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Switzerland.
It was the most amazing,extraordinary event.
Anyway, the thing is that yourjob in life is to become as successful
as you possibly can.
So I sometimes say toaudiences, I'll say, you can be rich
or you can be poor, andwhichever you choose, that's the
one you get.

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But if you don't choose to berich, you automatically become poor.
And the 8020 rule, which is, Icall it a face slapper, taught to
me by a very successful guy.
And he said, you know, I justsaid, by the by, you know, 20% of
people earn 80% of the moneyin every field.
I said, really?

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He said, oh, yeah, everybodyknows it.
It's a common law.
It's called the Pareto principle.
I said, well, I still rememberthe time, the date, the place, the
sidewalk, the sunshine wheremy friend was standing, where I made
a decision.
I'm going to be in the top 20%.
And that changed my life forever.
One of the things I recommendfor our friends here make a decision

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to be in the top 20%.
And then the only question youask is, how.
How do I get there?
And the answer is, the answerswill come to you.
They'll flow to you like a river.
You.
When you.
When you prime your with aquestion, the answers will come and
the next answers and the next answers.
Books, audio programs,seminars, all kinds of things.

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People will guide you.
They will tell you, take this,learn this, try this, and so on.
And it works.
It works.
I've had so many people,literally thousands, maybe tens,
hundreds of thousands ofpeople who've gone from rags to riches
as a result of learning thesystems that I teach in my books
and audio programs and seminars.

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So I really have been devotedto helping people to become more
successful.
And I call it, mmm, make more money.
And now your audience is thepeople who watch this show and other
shows like this are ambitious.
And ambitious people arealmost always entrepreneurs.

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There are people who are evenserial entrepreneurs.
They try one business, theystart another, and they start another,
just like you have.
Just like everybody has.
They constantly seeing opportunities.
Well, the only way that youcould be you can.
Mmm.
Is by SMSing.
And that is sell more stuff.

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Sell more stuff.
That's the way that you becomesuccessful, whether it's Jack Bezos,
who was temporarily therichest man in the world, or someone
like Elon Musk that in everycase they sell stuff.
And your job is to becomereally good at selling.
I'm so proud of the fact thatpeople have taken my psychology of

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selling process and gone fromRags to riches, including Fortune
500 companies have literallyachieved extraordinary things after
they began to teach that program.
And again it's based on logicand friends, friend, trust, trustee
relationships, no gimmicks, nopressure, no techniques, just really

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helping your customers enjoythe benefits of your product and
service and explain why it worked.
So people's job is to MMM bySMSC now my job is to help them get
better and better in each of area.
So every book that I havewritten has been a book that gives

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specific ideas and techniquesthat are practiced and proven by
other successful people.
And if you use them, sometimesone book, each of my books has usually
12 chapters, some of them have21 chapters.
But sometimes one idea willmake you rich if it's the right idea
at the right time.
But here's the interestingthing is you don't know in advance

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what is going to be the right idea.
So what you do is you have tocollect lots of ideas and then, and
then the right idea will pop out.
And that's so important.
When I was in my 30s, peoplesaid I want, I was thinking of going
into politics, what couldchange the world.
And a friend of mine asked me,do you know anybody who's successful

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in politics who never went to university?
Well of course I had tograduated from high school so I said
no.
They said you need auniversity education.
And in the paper this is what happens.
It had an ad for people withlife experience to take an executive
MBA at the university.
And so I signed up and verycomplicated deal but eventually they

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let me in and I got an mba.
Didn't do me a damn bit ofgood because it's all theoretical
but the idea of education wasreally important.
I love to learn stuff but oneof the things that they taught was
probability theory and you hadto pass it and it required a knowledge

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of calculus, differentialcalculus, which is it was invented
by Sir Isaac Newton and it'sso difficult, so difficult.
And I took the course and Ifailed it.
And my professor said you'regoing to have to take it over another
full semester.
So I hired a student to be mycoach and he taught me enough differential

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calculus to get through it.
Now probability theory again,most of it you forget, but it teaches
you one thing, is that thereis a probability that everything
can happen and that you canmanage the probabilities, you can
control them by finding outwhat other successful people have
done and doing those thingsover and over.

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So in other words there's aprobability that you are going to
become wealthy and live in abig house.
In a big car and have a bigbank account.
And when you retire, you wantto have a nice boat and travel to
Europe and so on.
And the probability is high.
But you can increase theprobabilities by doing more of the

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things that other people nowin Australia.
Australia.
In Australia, what we know isthat most people start off in Australia,
start off with nothing.
Again, there's less than 10%of people start off with money or
from good families.
Is Australian entrepreneursare very world famous because what

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they do is they have no choice.
It's not as if anybody's goingto ever give them anything.
So they're going to have tomake it themselves.
They're going to have to makemore money by selling more stuff.
And again, 80% of people coast.
They just coast.
But the problem with coastingis you could only do it in one direction.
You can only do it in one direction.

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But the top 20% of people say,I'm going to be in the top 20%.
I am going to earn a lot ofmoney, by gum.
And they make that a decisionand they write it down and they work
on it and they achieve it.
And then everybody says, ohgeez, you're lucky.
You sure were lucky.
You sure were lucky to getinto that business at that time and

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so on.
There was no luck.
There was 16 hour days for years.
You know, it takes seven yearsto break out.
Takes seven years when youstart your own business, whether
it's an MLM business orsomething even more complicated,
it takes seven years to become successful.
It takes two years of struggleto just survive.

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It takes two more years to payback the money that you borrowed
from every person that youever knew in the first two years.
And then the next three yearsyou start to learn, establish systems
that enable you to do it overand over again.
Into the seventh year, like aplane bursting out of the clouds
into the sunset, into thesunshine, is you start to really

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make great money.
And you never go back.
Even if you lost all yourmoney, you would bounce back like
a trampoline very fast becauseyou've already paid the price.
You've learned how.
And many people go broke.
Billionaires.
There's stories of people whobecame went from billionaires to
sleeping on the couches oftheir friend's apartment.

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They had no money at all.
And two years later they'rebillionaires again.
Why?
It's because, you know, myfriend Jim Rohn says that the most
important part of becoming amillionaire is not the money.
It's the person you have tobecome to become a Millionaire.
Because once you become thatperson, you are that person.

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Once you become that person,if you lose it all, you'll make it
all back very fast because youare inside, you're all a millionaire
or a multimillionaire or a billionaire.
So you see stories of rags toriches and back to rags and backs
to riches again.
That's the way the world works.

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But the probabilities ofsuccess become greater and greater
when you do the things that we teach.
I'm so happy.
I have thousands of peoplethat write to me and they say basically
one opening sentence whichI've heard a thousand times.
You changed my life.
You made me rich.
You changed my life, you mademe rich.

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And I always ask, well, whatwas the, what was the factor of my
teaching that was so helpful?
Almost always they say it wasthe goals.
It was the goals.
I never understood theimportance of goals until I read
your material.
Eat that Frog, which youtalked about before.

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Eat that Frog is the bestselling book on time management and
personal success in the worldin 39 languages.
And really what it does is itsays, be clear about what you want.
Be clear about the mostimportant thing you can do to achieve
it, and start on that onething and stay with it.
So it's 100% complete.
Now that's.

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There's much more to the bookthan that.
I just rewrote it, by the way,and added a whole bunch of new stuff.
But that's basically it is,have the self discipline to get started
and keep going, get startedand keep going, and don't stop until
you finish your most important task.
Make it a habit of what I calltask completion.

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In life, you don't get paidfor working on tasks unless you're
going to work for a companyfor a salary and struggle your whole
life is you don't get paid forworking on tasks.
You get paid for completingtasks or finishing tasks.
And it's amazing how manypeople will take a task to 95% and

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then they'll take a break andgo talk to their friends and go home
and watch television.
No, discipline yourself.
Force yourself to complete the task.
Because if you like, so youstart your day and you start focusing
on task completion.
Now, one of the things I teachis make a list of 10 goals that you

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want to achieve in the next year.
This is for people who are listening.
This is very important.
Make a list of 10 goals, writethem in a spiral notebook, and then
do that every day withoutlooking back at the previous page.
Every day, open to a cleanpage and Write down your 10 goals.
The first time you do it,however, you look at the list of

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goals and you say, if I couldonly achieve one goal on this list,
which one goal would have thegreatest positive impact on my life?
Which one goal?
And that will jump out at you.
You know what it is?
It's almost always financial.
Or maybe it's an achievementthat would lead to financial success.

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Sometimes it's losing weightso that you're physically more attractive
to members of the opposite sex.
Sometimes it's something elsesolving other problems.
But mostly it's financial.
80, 20, 80% of the time it's financial.
And then you say, all right,what one skill, if I was absolutely

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excellent at it, would help methe most to achieve that goal?
And that will jump out at youas well.
When I asked myself this goal,I was in sales.
I was making 70 calls a dayand no sales.
I didn't make my first saleuntil the 31st day after.
I started with this product,knocking door to door and evening

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from home to home andapartment to apartment.
I made it at 9:30 at night inan apartment on the last place.
I called on at the end of along day and I made the sale.
And it was a small sale, butthank heavens I made the sale.
And that kept me in the game.
I learned that you have tomake a decision at the beginning

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and then stick to that decision.
This is a mark of your character.
People with character, peoplewith quality can make a decision
and stick to it.
People who are weak are easily distracted.
So I worked and worked and Isaid to myself, what one skill would
help me the most?
And the answer was closing thesale, knowing how to ask the customer

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to buy.
So I did a full court press,as they say in basketball.
I began to read everything Icould find on closing sales techniques.
And I became really good at it.
Eventually I did a programthat was still used all over the
world.
And many people say it madethem rich because the it's a systematic

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series of steps that you cantake to get make sales anyway.
So I began to practice salesclosing techniques and surprise,
surprise, within a year I wasearning five times as much.
Within two years I was earningten times as much.
Suddenly, companies wereasking me to train their salespeople.
They began to train people andthose people doubled and tripled

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and quadrupled their income.
It was the most amazing thing.
So ask these questions.
What one goal, if you achievedit, would have the greatest positive
impact on your life?
And what one skill, if youwere excellent at it, would help
you the most?
And then put your head downand work single mindedly on developing

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the skill to achieve the goal.
And that sounds so simple, butit is totally life transforming.
And everybody who does itbecomes one of the highest paid 20%
of people in our society.
I'm going to take a break hereand let you speak.

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No, well, I just.
What am I going to say to that?
It's brilliant and I thinksimple is always, almost always,
in my opinion, the best way forward.
My wife, two weeks before Iapproached her in the streets of
Melbourne during the middle ofthe day, was going through a very

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tough time.
She was separated in hermarriage at the time and she was
ready to.
She was in such a state ofdepression, she was ready to take
her own life.
And she called her mother.
And her mother had studiedsome psychology because of the, the
trauma that her family hadgone through, you know, with the
next husband.

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And she said, Anna, my wife's name.
Before you do anything, justwrite down the list of your ideal
man.
Write down what exactly whatyou want is what she wrote.
That's two weeks before I cameup to her.
She wanted a bald NewZealander who didn't drink, he didn't
do drugs, he didn't gamble,who loved fitness, steak, coffee,

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who wanted to make love twicea day, who loved traveling, who wanted
to build an empire together.
And the manner in which we metwas extraordinary.
I'd never seen this one beforein my life.
And with the benefit ofhindsight, I had been preparing myself
for that moment for thepreceding two or three years, getting

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my health and all.
I lost a heap of weight,improved my getting rid of the drink
and the drugs and the gambling.
So if you need a real lifeexample, folks, there's one right
there.
Plus a litany of other goalsthat have come come to fruition.
There was a question that Ihad around and there was something

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you said at the very beginningabout take seven years.
And that was a very reassuringthing for me to hear because I'm
think about four years into this.
So you made me feel a lotbetter about myself.
I feel like, Brian, that I'mexperiencing an apprenticeship from
God or from the universe tonot give me maybe the massive abundance

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right now because I'm stilldoing the work in order to be able
to fully receive it.
Is that a limiting belief oris that something that I'm tapping
into intuitively?
Do you think?
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(24:22):
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Now back to the show.
Oh, you're not ready for itand you know that you have a you
haven't earned it yet.
So what you do is you justkeep concentrating on getting better
and better at what you do.
There is my favorite one of myfavorite laws is called the law of

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indirect effort is that youfocus on becoming really, really
good at helping other peopleto improve their lives.
And then, surprise, surprise,you become wealthy.
And most people who becomewealthy became wealthy without even
being aware of it.
They forgot about theirmonthly income.

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They forgot about how muchthey were putting in the bank.
They just became focused onhelping other people improve their
lives.
And surprise, surprise, theystarted to make money from all kinds
of different areas.
They started opportunitiesbegan to come to them.
So focus on helping othersimprove their life and work and everything

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else will take care of itself.
People will always want to seea direct connection.
They want to see what's in itfor me.
If I do this, how do I getmore money?
Don't worry about it.
It's in the universe.
I oh, by the way, I have totell you, back off and tell leave
a story about writing down adescription of your perfect person
many years ago.

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I've been married 45 years andBarbara and I have been together
for 48.
But congratulations.
I read that someone said youshould if you want to have the perfect
person, make a list of all thequalities that the perfect person
would have.
And I thought, well, that's agreat idea.
So I wrote it down.

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I wrote down everything.
The the perfect person for mewould be colon.
And then I ended up with 30,40 different qualities and characteristics
and I met that person rightdown to the hair color and height
and background and education experience.
The one thing I didn't knowabout was that she was neurotic and

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I didn't write normal.
I should have written normalbecause she was all over the place.
And she A neurotic person willmake your life crazy until you finally
get free.
They're all extremelyattractive and funny and seductive
and everything else, butyou're just in a state of chaos the

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whole time.
So I finally got free of itand rewrote my list and I wrote normal,
very normal, absolutelystable, calm, confident, unruffled,
and everything else.
Meanwhile, I was going to takecourses at the university and I met
lots of people.
And one girl I met with abunch of others was going through

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a bad relationship and shesaid, what can I do to solve this
relationship?
I said, well, just make a listof everything that you want in the
perfect person and they willjust walk into your life.
People say, well, that onedoesn't work.
It is absolutely astonishingbecause when you make a list of everything
that you want, a positivelist, you activate the law of attraction

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and you start to create aforce field in the field, in the
energy in the.
In the universe that starts todraw people into your life and the
right people.
So anyway, time passed.
I saw her every so often,every week or two at the university.
And one day she phoned me up.
I'd give it all my number.

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She said, can I, can I meetwith you for a couple of minutes?
I need to ask you some a question.
And I said, sure.
And so she came over and shesaid, you know that advice you gave
me about making a list?
She said, I did it.
I said, well, that's great, wonderful.
I said, what did you come up with?
She said, it's you.
I said, what?

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She said, it's you.
You are the perfect person onmy list.
And we've been together for 48 years.
However, I took out my list eventually.
We took grand compared list.
Her.
Her personality was my listand my personality was her list.
And we've never had an argument.

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We have four beautifulchildren, eight grandchildren, we've
built a great life andbusiness together.
We've been as happy as theysay, pigs and shit.
But for 48 years we've just never.
We never fought, we've neverdisagreed, we just have a great relationship.
So I tell that story becauseif you want to be in the perfect

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relationship, this works justlike you.
It works for everybody.
And everybody I've ever giventhis idea to has come back to me
and said, it's unbelievablehow fast you attract into your life
the right person.
You meet them at a bus stop,you'll sit next to them on a plane,
you'll meet them at a person'shome or party or something else totally

(29:59):
unpredictable.
And yet they will turn out tobe exactly what you wrote down.
So that's really important.
Well, it's good to hear youbacking that up, Brian.
And just to share somethingthat warmed my heart.
Just the other day, there wasa young gentleman that my wife and
I got talking to at a.
A park next to a lake inVirginia when we were in America

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recently would have been lastyear to say this young boy who I
think was 19, was handicapped.
He had just about every knownailment to man.
He was unable to really standup or move his body.
And he had, like, atracheotomy thing as well.

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I just.
We connected on Facebook, andI remember talking to him about meeting
his dream person.
Now, I don't know whatinvolvement that Anna and I had in
this, because my wife spoke tohim too, but he's just gotten engaged.
Like, it's unbelievable.
I think I got really emotionalseeing that.
So if he can do it, no one'sgot an excuse.

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So isn't that fantastic?
I teach in my seminars.
People have asked me ontelevision and on radio and interviews,
what is the key to your success?
I say, well, I start.
I start off with what I callthe My golden triangle.
And my golden triangle hasthree parts.

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And the first part, the mostimportant of all, is accepting 100%
responsibility for your life.
No excuses, no compromises, no blaming.
Is to say over and over again,I am responsible.
Now.
I began studying psychologymany years ago when I was single,

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and I spent 4,000 hours on onesubject, the subject of negative
emotions.
And what we find is that thenumber one obstacle to positive emotions
is negative emotions.
And nature abhors a vacuum.
So if you get rid of negativeemotions, your mind and psyche fill

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with positive emotions automatically.
How do you get rid of negative emotions?
Well, I began to teach this inmy seminar, which I've taught.
I had 150 people traveledaround the world.
We had companies that taught45,000 people this personal development
seminar.
And the key starting point wasto say, I am responsible because

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you cannot acceptresponsibility and have negative
emotions at the same time.
All negative emotions, oralmost all, come from blaming someone
else or something else forsomething that makes you unhappy
in life.
And it's always a past event.
So what you do is, no matterwhat, who and what it was, say just,

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I forgive them for everything.
I forgive them 100% foreverything, and I am responsible.
And as soon as you accepttotal responsibility, which, by the
way, is the stepping pointfrom childhood to adulthood, you
can imagine a line.
And you come to the line.
You're a child when you'reblaming someone else for any part

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of your life.
And when you step across theline, you accept responsibility.
You become an adult.
And there are 50 year oldpeople in our society who are still
children because they're stillmad at something their parents did
when they were 10 years old.
So except I say, keep saying Iam responsible.
As soon as you say that, yourmind goes calm and clearer and you

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start to have ideas of thingsthat you can do and be up to that
time, you're wasting all ofyour energies on thinking about that
person who you're mad at, whohurt you in some way and says, stop
it, just let it go.
One of the things that I teachis never become upset about something

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you can't change.
Never become upset aboutsomething you can't change.
And you cannot change a past event.
You cannot change a past event.
If it's over, it's over.
You can't change it.
So don't waste a single wit ofemotion on a past event.

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And you know, most people whoare unhappy are still mad about something
that happened in the past.
Even they're somebody who'sdead, they're still mad at the person
who's dead.
Just say, I'm responsible andjust sweep it all aside.
Now the second part of mygolden triangle is setting goals.

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When I learned about goalsetting when I was 24, it changed
my life forever.
I subsequently written threebooks on goals, same goal book rewritten
and rewritten, and I'm nowcoming out with the third edition.
And more people have becomerich reading my materials on goals.

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And I teach the migrantmaterials in my seminars and workshops
and so on.
And so goals means when youset a goal and you write it down,
and this is the key, writingit down, you, you program it into
your subconscious and yoursuper conscious minds and then they
start to send out energyvibrations that start to attract

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into your life everything youneed to achieve the goals.
You, you can have no idea howyou're going to achieve a preposterous
goal.
You want to be a millionaire?
Write it down.
I am a millionaire.
Within five years or withinseven years.
Be reasonable.
Don't people say I want to bea millionaire next week or by the

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end of the month, and so on.
How much have you got now?
I'm, I'm broke and sleeping onthe street.
No.
So give yourself some time.
Be reasonable.
And people say, what if youdon't achieve your goal by the date?
Set a new date.
That's all right, you know,sometimes you'll achieve the goal

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before, sometimes afterwardsjust set a new date.
The thing is that there's nounrealistic goals.
There's only unrealistic timelines.
The goals are all, if anybodyelse has achieved it, you can achieve
it as well.
Don't tell me you want to be abillionaire when you're broke.
It's not the way the world works.
Just I say, some people justsay you want to be a thousandaire,

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you want to be worth 10,000,you want to be worth a hundred thousand.
Be reasonable so that yourmind can get around it.
And then this force field ofenergy goes into the universe and
starts to attract everythingthat you need to achieve the goal.
I used to have a coachingprogram which I brought in people

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once every three months for afull day.
There's a group coaching program.
I'd have about 25 or 35 people.
I charged them $5,000 each.
And people would say, well youknow, that's a lot of money.
How can I be, how can Ijustify that amount?
I said, well I'll give you a guarantee.

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They have to be earning$100,000 a year today.
They 250 had to be ear$100,000 a year.
I said I'll give you aguarantee is that if in one year
you do not double your incomeand double your time off, I call
it my double double guarantee.
You'll double your income anddouble your time off.

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I'll give you 100% of yourmoney back, no questions asked.
And then I would say, now letme introduce you to your new best
friend.
And I take out a spiralnotebook and hand it out to everybody.
And what you're going to writedown do is write down 10 goals.
Not a single person in sevenyears, not a thousand clients or

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business owners asked theirmoney back.
Ask for their money back.
Most of them doubled theirincome, sometimes in within a month,
sometimes within a week.
They were absolutelyastonished at the very act of setting
a goal transforms your life.
And so my go my book Goals,which is available in Australia,

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is life changing.
And I just rewrote it and Ihad not read it for a while.
But it's reason why I live ina $5 billion house on a golf course
and have a bank account fullof money.
And my kids are all graduatefrom universities with no debts and
they all have their own homes.
And it's been astonishingbecause you just write it down.

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Now people say, well what ifit doesn't work?
No, you nitwit, the questionshould be what if it does work?
What if it does work?
I'm not asking you to cut offyour arm or to, you know, invest
all a huge amount of money.
I'm asking you to take a pieceof paper and write down 10 goals,
pick one, and then think aboutthat goal all the time.

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And the most amazing thingswill happen.
Sometimes within a day, thingswill happen that you say, well, this
is astonishing because thisperson who I haven't seen for five
years called me up today andhe had this idea or this opportunity
and it's exactly in harmonywith my goal.
How can he know?
He lives on the other side ofthe country and I haven't seen him

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for five years.
That's what happened.
People don't realize that yourmind is so powerful.
It's an, it's an extraordinary.
It's like a nuclear reactorthat has so much power.
And your super conscious mind,which I explain in different places,
your super conscious mind issomething that's been known throughout

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human history.
It's the foundation of allcreativity, all great success, all
great achievement is thissuper conscious ability that you
have.
And all you have to do toswitch it on is give it a goal to
work on.
And then your whole world changes.
And this works over and over.

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I have here in San Diego,we'll have about 25 people coming
from all over the world for afive day sort of intensive workshop.
And these people are payingmany thousands of dollars to come
here to be with me.
And so again, I've asked myclient what is the number one reason

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why they are coming.
They said it was the goal isthey learned how to set goals from
you and went from rags to riches.
They increased their income ahundred times.
The goal said.
And it's the same thing whenpeople say, you changed my life,
you made me rich.
It was the goals.
It was the goals.
And now I've been hearing thisfor 40 years.

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40, 50 years.
I've never had an exception.
So please, please, I love you.
I'm talking to our friend.
I love you.
Please just take a sheet ofpaper and write down 10 goals.
In my seminars, I used toevery so often say, oh, by the way,
I know nobody's going to dothis, but I'm going to give you a

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way to change your lifepermanently, forever guaranteed is
at the end of this seminarthis weekend.
Get some newspapers,magazines, and sit down and write
down 100 goals that you'd liketo achieve in your lifetime.
And it's going to take you twoor three hours.

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You could go throughnewspapers and see advertisements
for boats and travel and carsand homes and furs and things like
that.
Write it down, write it down,write it down.
And it's easy.
The first few goals will be Fine.
The next will be harder.
The rest of the goals aregoing to be so difficult.
But just keep pushing yourself.

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It takes tremendous effort.
Keep writing till you get to100 goals and you will be astonished
at what happens.
Anyway, I've had greatfeedback on this from people who
did it, but I was at a seminarin Atlanta and this gentleman came
up to me, he said at thebreak, and he's really good looking

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guy, buff as they say, well dressed.
And he said, Mr.
Tracy said, could I get acouple of minutes of your time?
And I said, sure.
He said, well, about 10 yearsago, 10, 12 years ago, I was broke.
I was living at home with my mother.
I was in sales and I wasterrible salesperson.

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And I came to your seminar andI couldn't even pay for it.
So a friend of mine paid forme to come to the seminar.
And in there you told aboutthat 100 gold idea.
And I didn't have much goingfor me, so I decided that I would
do that this weekend.
And he did follow my instructions.
He got newspapers andmagazines and there are all kinds

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of things that he could write down.
And he said.
He said it took him a whole afternoon.
He wrote out 100 goals in aspiral notebook.
And then he took.
And he was exhausted.
He put all the stuff away, putthe spiral notebook in a drawer and
went back to work.
And his life changed.
He.

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One of his goals was to meetand marry the woman of his dreams.
And he said, now who would bethe woman of my dreams?
And it was a really popularcheerleader that he went to high
school with.
And she never had anything todo with him.
She was one of the mostpopular girls in school.
And she lived in a town 200miles away.
So he called up a friend ofhis who lived in that town and got

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connected with her, phoned herup and invited her out for lunch
and then drove 200 miles tohave lunch with her.
And they chatted and they got off.
They got off on each other.
And he did this every week.
He drove back and forth andback and forth.
They fell in love and they gotmarried and they had two children.

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And she was the girl of his dreams.
Meanwhile, he said, what kindof income would I have?
What would I have to.
And he started to earn more money.
He started.
I was an expert in sales,really excellent.
Then I made much more money.
And he did.
He began to study and studyand study, study until he was really,

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really good.
And of course, the better youget, the better you get, because
the better you get, the morePeople you talk to, more people you
talk to, the better you get.
It's a.
It's an upward spiral of success.
Anyway, he said, it's now been12 years.
He said, I have a company withbusinesses in six states.
He said, we live in abeautiful home on the water.

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We have a beautiful yacht and boat.
I said, two kids.
And I said, and.
And so we were moving to ourdream house not long ago.
And as we were unpacking, Iopened up the drawer and I found
that list.
And I had never looked at thelist again.

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I had written out the hundred goals.
I could kind of skeptical.
I thought it was probably alittle bit hyper and, you know, motivational.
But I never looked at it again.
I'd been too busy.
And so I said, I wonder howmany of those goals I've achieved.
And so he took a pen and hewent down and he ticked off number
one.
And he ticked off number two.

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He ticked off number three,and number four, he ticked off all
100 goals.
All 100 goals.
He said it was astonishing.
Not 99, but all 100 goals havebeen achieved in 12 years.
And he said, it's just phenomenal.

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And they achieved in the mostremarkable ways.
Now, the reason I tell youthis story is, first of all, it's
true, which is also often helpful.
But second of all, everybodywho does it has the same report.
They say they were astonished.
Sometimes they only accomplish95 or 96 of the goals, but that was

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only because time has run out.
If you write down the goals,you will eventually achieve the goals,
and you will achieve them inways that you cannot now imagine.
So you have to overcome yourskepticism where people are skeptical.
Oh, yeah, that sounds likehyper stuff.
And, you know, motivationalspeaker and so on.

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No, no, this is true.
Write down the goal andsomething will happen.
You know, you.
There's a story that sayssomething will happen.
You never know what.
It's one of the cartoons.
Something will happen.
You never know what.
But you can't achieve the goalunless you decide upon it.

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So it's really important.
And what I suggest that you dois get my book goals, and the book
will transform your life andmake you rich.
Now, the third triangle, firstpart of the triangle is continuous
learning.
All successful people, allwealthy people, all leaders.
Bill Gates is six richest manin the world.

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He reads two books a week andannotates them and then writes the
notes and puts them on his website.
I mean, he's.
And Warren Buffett is like the35th richest man in the world, and
he reads five hours a day.
Successful people read all thetime and as a result, they accomplish

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so much.
They see differentopportunities and possibilities.
They, they read good books.
One of the things that you cando which can change your life is
each time you meet a personwho you think is intelligent, ask
them, one book, what one bookwould you recommend that I read?

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And everybody has a book thatthey'll give you.
Oh, you should read Think andGrow Rich or you should read that
Fog.
They'll all have one book.
And then whatever they tellyou, get the book immediately.
Don't hesitate.
Forget the price.
I remember Jim Rohn said manyyears ago, it's not the price of
the book, it's the price ofyour not knowing what's in the book

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that is important.
So if somebody recommends abook, somebody who's intelligent,
who's read the book, read thesame book, just, just order it.
That's why I have so many books.
But I love to read.
It's just that I have.
I'm never going to run out of books.
And some of the books thatI've finally sat down and read have

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been just mind blowing.
I say your head slappers,they're so good.
And sometimes one idea in onebook will change your whole course
of your life, but you don't.
You never know what that ideais unless you read the book.
And always read the book witha red pen, red pen.

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And underline the keywords.
What I used to do many yearsago before Amazon, is I would buy
the book and I would read itand underline and then I would take
out a big spiral notebook andI would write down everything I had
underlined.
And then later I could go backand reread all my notes and read
all the best of the book.

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And people say, how come youhave such a good memory?
You remember so much detail?
It's because I wrote it down.
I underlined it.
I wrote it down and reviewedit over and over.
I have not got a great mind,but boy, I can study and it really
works.
So if people will do thesethings, they are life changing and

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they are not life changingoccasionally and once upon a time
and so on.
They are life changing 100% ofthe time.
And so please, this advicethat we're sharing, this is such
good stuff.
I've heard so many thousandsof people.
I get letters and emails everyday saying, this changed my life.

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It changed my life.
You changed my life.
You made me rich.
And then they tell a story ofone single part of a particular book
or another book or a Different book.
So as we say, why don't yougive it a try?
If you like what we're talkingabout, Imagine that everything I'm

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saying is totally true.
You can save yourself years ofhard work by just following the path
of people like you've gone before.
We have sort of broken thehead through the jungle and you can
just follow us.
Are you up for a challenge?
A goal setting challenge?
So if I could share somethingpersonal with you and my wife and

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I talk about this stuffpublicly and for people that have
listened to the podcastpreviously or watched this, they
might have heard this.
My wife and I have had 20consecutive miscarriages.
And the reason that came aboutwas some stuff that went on when
she was a young woman andmechanical issues.

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Now we are fully reliant onivf, the in vitro fertilization process.
How do you, how do you frame agoal or even the mindset to ensure,
like, she wants to be a mothermore than anything in the world,
and I want to be a father, youknow, biologically and.

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But we're also cognizant ofthe fact that the universe may have
other ideas for us.
Do you have any particulartechnique to get something like that
positively to happen?
Yes.
The, the, the, the answer isthe end result.

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You say you want a child, ofcourse, and 20 miscarriages is remarkable,
must be very, very distressfulfor your wife.
But you say, why do I want a child?
What kind of a child do I want?
And then write down adescription of the perfect child.

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Happy, healthy, confident,enjoys their parents, gets good grades,
is popular, and in otherwords, describe the perfect child
for you.
And you will be astonished athow that perfect child somehow comes
into your life and you thinkit's going to come from in vitro

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fertilization, and maybe it will.
Maybe because you know exactlywhat kind of a child you want, in
vitro fertilization will work,and that's the kind of child you'll
have.
Or somehow the child may comefrom a different source, but the
critical thing is the end result.
So instead of focusing on theinterim steps which you cannot control,

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maybe just focus and say, thisis the end result.
When you are clear about yourend result, the perfect person you
want to meet when you're clearabout your end result.
It's astonishing how theuniverse conspires to bring it to
you.
The number one reason whypeople fail is they don't know what
they want.
So say just, just in thisidea, you say, well, what if it doesn't

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work?
Never say that.
You always say, what if itdoes work, what it costs is a piece
of paper.
You and your wife sit togetherand say, our perfect child would
be happy, healthy, full ofenergy, loves their parents, enjoyable,
good sense of humor.
Forehead to hear.

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My kids.
I've raised my children and studied.
My wife and I studied 30different books on children before
we had our first child.
And one of the things welearned most important is negative
emotions.
And negative emotions comefrom criticism.
And so we said, we are nevergoing to criticize our children.

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The children will never hear anegative word.
And our children have neverbeen criticized.
And you know what?
They're all here.
Yesterday we had a sort of apseudo Thanksgiving because some
of our kids couldn't come here.
And what happens is they'reall happy.
And you know how you can tellthe quality of a relationship?

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It's laughter.
How much laughter do you havebetween you two?
How much laughter do you havein the house?
When our kids get togetherwith their now with the grandkids,
they all laugh all the time.
Why?
It's because we've nevercriticized our kids.
They never criticize their kids.
Everybody is just happy there.

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It's a wonderful darn thing.
So if you're going to havechildren, say, all right, we are
going to have a happy,healthy, self confident child.
No question about that.
So start to do some research,start to read about how to raise
happy, healthy children.
I have a book, by the way,just in case you were wondering,

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what's the name?
What's the name?
Happy Health how to raiseHappy, healthy, self confident Children.
And it's exactly what we didto raise our four and now they're
eight grandchildren.
It really, really works.
And so, and somehow youattract those kind of children.
They grow up to be happy,healthy and self confident.

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Did your kids, did your kidswrite the endorsements or the forward
for any of those books by any chance?
No.
That would be great.
Now I've written books withtwo of my two oldest children.
We written two books with oneand three with another.
And soon they will have theirown books on the market.

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And why?
Because they can and becausethey're confident, because they know
they can.
And it never occurs to themthat they could ever fail at anything.
They're not afraid of failure,they're not afraid of criticism.
They just are so happy and soconfident and they pass it on to
their kids.
So the whole family, we tookthem all on an Alaskan cruise in

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June and So we had 17 familymembers on this cruise.
And they all do whatever theywant during the day.
But in the evening, we allcome together and we all sit together
and we all have dinner together.
And it's just like a laugh festival.
Everybody is so happy.
And that's your goal.
So I want to raise a familywhere everybody's happy all the time.

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And then you say, how do youdo that?
Then you don't have anycriticism, no negativity allowed.
What if people.
What if your kids do stuffthey shouldn't do?
Then you have recognized their children.
They're not adults.
And so therefore you ask them,what did you learn from this experience?
So you turn every singleproblem situation into a learning

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experience.
Then they start to practicethat with their kids.
It's the most amazing thing.
They ask their kids, what didyou learn from this experience?
And so there's no negativity,there's just learning, just becoming
better and just growing as a person.
And it really works.
It really works.
I'm going to show my wife.

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Well, she's going to edit thisvideo anyway, Doc.
So we're going to go over thisand then we'll report back when we
get some great news.
How about that for a deal?
And maybe that by writing outa description of this beautiful child
that you're going to have andraise, somehow that child comes into

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your life.
And it may come in the normalway with in vitro fertilization or
normal fertilization, or itmay come in a different way.
Well, if it comes through thenormal way, it'll be the immaculate
bloody conception.
I tell you that much fornothing, because we've got no floppy
juice left.
But given.
Given what you're talkingabout, I would love to report back

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being able to have animmaculate conception with that kind
of thing.
Dang, I totally misplaced thebrilliant thing.
I was going to ask you off theback of that.
Oh, that's right.
One thing that I would say,Doc, is what my wife and I have learned.
We've been together just oversix years, by the way.

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What we've learned throughgoing through all of those challenges,
by the way, has been a litanyof things that have allowed us to
learn about healthoptimization for ourselves.
So once this baby comes along,it's going to benefit from the knowledge
that we've developed andlearned through going through that

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adversity.
And we look at all of thesethings as, like, I call it the gift
of adversity.
And it's not a new phrase.
But, you know, I'm verygrateful for these, for this experience,
as challenging it as it is.
And you met Anna earlier.
She's not putting on A facade,like, that's who she is.
You know, she forgave theperson that inflicted this on her.
And every day that I wake upand I look at her, this example of

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forgiveness and taking fullownership and responsibility for
her life, I'm re inspired in away that I can't even quantify.
Yes, forgiveness is.
They say that if Jesus onlytaught forgiveness as he did, then
he would be one of thegreatest spiritual teachers in history.

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Because forgiveness is reallythe key to the kingdom.
The number one reason fornegative emotions is the inability
to forgive.
And by forgiving, you just letit go, let it go, let it go.
And when you let it go, yourwhole life changes.

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And the way that you do thatis you say, I am responsible.
I may not be responsible forwhat happened, but I'm responsible
for what I do from now on.
I'm responsible for thismoment forward and accept responsibility.
One of the key qualities ofleadership, in fact, leadership is
the key, whether it's a familyor a business, is that the leader

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accepts responsibility.
You cannot imagine a leaderthat blames everybody else for everything
and avoids responsibility.
It is the number one step tobecoming a leader is the acceptance
of complete responsibility for results.
And then you have to be specific.
What results am I responsible for?

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Exactly what results?
And how do you measure them?
And you get so focused ongetting results that you don't blame
anybody else.
And with my company, I, at onetime, I had 35 people working for
me.
And I made it clear therecould be no negativity, no criticism.
So I told everybody, I said,that if you're trying to do anything,

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you're going to make mistakes.
There's no possibility ofsuccess without making mistakes.
So therefore, the more youtry, the more likely is you make
mistakes.
So if you make a mistake, whenyou come to me, I'm going to ask
you three questions.
And so.
And they are going to be, thisis what exactly happened.
And whatever happens inbusiness, I learned, costs money.

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So every mistake, everymistake is a financial mistake.
And it's you who bears themistake, not them.
Number two is, what did youlearn from this mistake?
And number three, what are yougoing to do differently as a result?
And so I remembered whenpeople come to me and they said,
I need to talk to you becauseI've made a mistake.

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And they had their littlecheat sheet ready to go.
And here's exactly what itwas, is like, we tried this and we
tried that, and we thought wewere doing this, and this is what
happened.
Okay, and what did you learn?
Well, I Learned you need todouble check certain things and to
not trust to the opinions ofothers and so on.
And number three, this is whatI'm going to do next.

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Next.
And that was it.
And it was a completelypositive discussion.
And I say, great, that'sfabulous, go with God.
And they would bounce out ofmy office, but still happy and full
of energy and so on.
Because nobody ever gotcriticized for making a mistake.

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They were just helped tobecome better from the mistake by
the magic questions.
And you can take those threemagic questions.
I didn't invent them, I'm sureI picked them up over the years is
exactly what happened.
What did you learn?
What are you going to do differently?
And everybody's happy at the end.

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And what you do is you step onthe accelerator of their ability
to learn and grow.
They learn and grow faster andfaster, knowing that if they made
a mistake, they don't have tocover it up or hide it or, or anything
else.
And I learned this by the way,working for the big boss in a huge
billion dollar company who hehired me as his personal assistant

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and he gave me all kinds ofassignments and I was very aggressive
and sometimes I made mistakes.
And I would be very, veryworried about making mistakes.
And I take them to him andhe'd say, well, I've experienced
this before.
Why don't you do this and dothat and then stop doing that, See

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if that works.
And he always had an answer.
And I remember I cost thecompany $25 million in purchasing
vehicles from Japan and theyweren't selling.
And I was just almost sick, Iwas so worried.
So I went to him and I toldhim what had happened and where we
were and where we were at riskand so on.

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And I remember he said this,he said, brian, it's just too early
to tell.
It's just a bit too early to tell.
Let's be patient and just seewhat happens in the next few months.
And in the next few monthseverything cleared up.
But I remember that this guywas worth again, he owned 200 companies

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worth almost a billion dollars.
Smartest man I ever met.
I just love the man and I willnever forget that.
Well, Brian, maybe it's just abit too early to tell.
And that's true.
Whenever you make a mistake,whenever you have any problems at
all, sometimes you can say,well, maybe it's a bit too early
to tell.

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Maybe the solution will come.
And maybe it's, it's not, notready yet.
And just be a little bit more patient.
That's one of the Marks, youknow, the Sun Tzu teaches the art
of war, says one of the thingsof great generals is they are very
patient.
They patient and they bidetheir time and they wait, which is

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why they win great victories.
And so that's important.
Patience is a virtue, as they say.
Are you the most relaxedperson on the planet, do you think?
Because you seem like it.
No, not at all.
I continue learning andgrowing like, like spending time

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with you Lam is reallyenriching for me because we have
a chance to share yarns, as weused to say, talk back and forth.
And the, the more you talkabout what you have learned, the
more you learn it and the moreyou explain what you've learned and

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how you learned it to others,the more you internalize it and the
more it becomes part of you.
And so exchanging back andforth, that's why having one or two
good friends.
There's an interesting book,Think and Grow Rich, which is my
first success book.
And he said that the principleof the mastermind, getting together

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with other like minded peopleand just sharing ideas was the most
important principle that ledto the success of the people.
The 500 wealthy people he discovered.
He said none of them reachedtheir full potential until they began
getting together in amastermind group with others.
Now a mastermind group can betwo people.

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Yourself and your spouse arethe best mastermind group of all.
If you are well tuned to eachother, then you continually help
each other understand betterand so on.
Like I always ask my wife,what about this, what about that
especially?
Which has to do with people?
And she said yes, no, do moreof that, do less of that, don't do

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that, and so on.
I never go against her advice.
And then what people do isthey sit together and they just have
lunch together once a month,sometimes once a week.
But once a month they gettogether and it's just a free flowing
conversation.
What have you been doing,how's it worked?

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And so on.
I have three masterminds thatI manage.
One is for my Hispanic distributors.
There's four of them.
One is in Spain, one is inMexico, two are in Miami.
And we get together on thephone, all four of them plus me,

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and we just share ideas about.
They're all in the same business.
And I also have a mastermindof other people in business and I
have a third mastermind.
What I do is I bring themtogether once a month and we just
share ideas.
And these people sayafterwards that's the most powerful

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hour.
They call the hour of hour inthe month because they Learn so much
from each other and they share ideas.
And I tried this and I triedand I learned this and then I did
it and it's just astonishinghow helpful it is.
So the more you help otherpeople, the better off you'll do
yourself.
And a mastermind is the verybest way you look at you go into

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a mastermind and lunch is the best.
Just invite people for lunchand four people is perfect.
Sit down and just say, whatare you doing now?
How's it going?
What sort of problems did you have?
What, what happened last weekor last month and so on and everybody
has a story to tell.
Everybody has a story to tell.

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If I were to ask you what isyour most important goal in business
right now and what is thebiggest obstacle that stands between
you and achieving that goal?
Boy, we've got, we're off tothe races.
Conversation that can go onand on and people can share.
And I had the same thing andmy goal was this.
And this is what's holding me back.

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And it's astonishing howvaluable it is to just so kick the
can around the table.
And people get togetheroutside of the mastermind, just one
on one, they'll phone eachother up.
You know, you mentionedsomething on lunch.
Could you elaborate on that?

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Because that's exactly whatI'm facing today.
It's amazing.
So people, each person thatyou work with has an enormously rich
inner life, an enormously richbackground of experiences and they
can help you with just one ortwo words in a particular area can
save your life.
It can make you rich.

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It's wonderful.
Anyway, so there's some greatstuff there, Brian, and I gotta say
I'm so grateful for yourgenerous gift of time today.
We have, we've really put agreat effort in there and I, and
I, and I want to give you therest of the day to go and relax.
You've been working your tailoff for the last three days with
the speaker training program,which I would recommend people get

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behind.
How do people get a hold ofyou and how do they find your work,
more importantly?
Well, if you want to read anyof my books, just go to Amazon.
I'm sure you have Amazon in Australia.
We do, yeah.
We're not that backward yet.
My website is briantracy.comand there are some free things that

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we give out.
There's a goal setting guide,a 14 point goal setting guide that
is life transforming and it's free.
There's a, an entire programcalled how to write a Book and get
Published and we give you Acomplete the first 20 steps of how
to write a book and get published.
And then a program that youcan take.

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And it works.
People have struggled to writebooks for years.
Come and take this program.
They got a book out in six months.
And now we're teaching peoplehow to use AI to write a book.
And people can have a book outin 30 days.
You could take a book we'vebeen wanting to write for years.
And we show you a specific andliterally the book will be in your

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hand, it's sent out, it'sreproduced, it's put in a box and
sent back to you within 30 days.
And you can begin to marketyourself for that book.
So these are, these are things.
Download the goal setting.
Just download it and just fillin the blanks.
And I'll say 30 days from nowyour life will have changed and you'll

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attribute it to the, to thegoal setting.
But.
And it's free.
Free is, and I used to write advertising.
I used to work for a majoradvertising agency.
And so you study what are themost emotive words in any language.
Number one is free.
Number two is easy, fast free.

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The free easy event.
Do you have any concludingthoughts for our amazing audience
today?
Well, here is, I emphasize this.
We are living at the very besttime in human history.
Your country, my country, allof that.
Actually the English speakingcountries, the European countries

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are going deeper and deeperinto socialism and where the taxes
and regulations are higher and higher.
But Australia, New Zealand,the United States, Singapore, Canada,
these places have the mostunlimited potential of any places
in the world today.

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So if you, you can now setgoals that other people say in other
countries will say that'scrazy, it's not possible.
Yes it is possible.
They say if you can dream it,you can do it.
If you can imagine it, you cancreate it.
Just imagine there are nolimitations except the limitations
you place on your own mind.
And it's true because so many people.

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Do you know that almost allthe self made billionaires and multi
billionaires started with nothing.
The richest man in the worldincreased his value, elon musk from
2.3 million to 235.
2.3 billion to 235 billion intwo years.
That's a hundred times in twoyears the amount of wealth that is

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being created.
And that wealth fuses like agusher in a, in an oil well.
It just spews with gusher thewealth going everywhere.
So there's no limit except thelimits you place in your own life.
And the starting point is foryou to take a pen and paper and write

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down what you want to achieveand the person you want to be.
And it will happen in the mostremarkable ways.
Ladies and gentlemen, Dr.
Brian Tracy.