March 25, 2024 • 42 mins
Unlock the transformative power of your morning with guidance from me, Greg Kuhn, your personal manifesting coach and mindset maestro. As we dissect the art of morning preparation, you'll find yourself equipped with practical skills to influence the subconscious mind and set the stage for a day that resonates with your deepest aspirations. Each morning presents a fresh performance in the theater of life, and with my insights into meditation, visualization, and emotional charting, you'll learn to curate a prelude to daily empowerment, ensuring your life's acts are in harmony with your goals.
Step into your role as the star of your own show and embrace the rituals that prime you for manifestation success. We'll explore how a structured morning routine can elevate your mental clarity, amplify your focus, and solidify a positive mindset. By intertwining actionable steps with your visualizations, you'll transcend beyond mere daydreaming into the realm of tangible achievements. Join me in investing this sacred time in yourself, and together, let's harness the shared energy of our collective journey towards growth, where reality informs but does not confine us, and every day is an opportunity to deliver our best performance, for the most important audience—ourselves.
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Greg Kuhn (00:12):
Welcome to Manifest the Big Stuff.
I am Greg Kuhn.
I am a manifesting coach.
I am a mindset coach.
I love to help you turn up yourmanifesting power and anytime I
take the time to be with youand anytime you take the time to
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be with me, that's what we'redoing.
That is the intent of our timetogether, every time we are
together.
Today, we are going to delvedirectly into one of the four
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primary access points that weall have to coach our
subconscious, to coach ourlimbic system.
If you're a neurobiologicalresearcher, that's really what
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we're talking about here,because our subconscious
recognizes our life.
Our subconscious is whatrecognizes the things that
manifest our life up to 10 timesfaster than our conscious
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awareness.
Our subconscious is manifestingour life for us in every moment
and our conscious mind makesthe best of it.
Our conscious mind, which isthe CEO of who we are, the
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thinker and the decider, isultimately making the best of
the life or the reality that oursubconscious manifests for us
in every moment.
So I've identified fourresearch-based points of access
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where we have great leverage tocoach our subconscious up, to
help it become more aligned withour conscious desires for our
life and thus to manifestversions of life for us that are
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more aligned with our consciousdesires for them.
These four access points areplaces where you have great
leverage, increased leverageover what your subconscious is
manifesting for you.
Thus, when you employ thesefour access points that are all
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research-based even if you don'tthoroughly understand and take
a deep dive into the science ofthese access points, they work.
These are places where you cantruly coach up your subconscious
and make a substantialdifference.
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And those four points of accessare preparation how you begin
your day.
Also framing how you tell thestory of yourself and your life
to yourself in every moment.
Also, effort, focusing solelyon your efforts as opposed to
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the results of your efforts.
And finally, the last accesspoint is growth how you grow in
a formative and growth mindset,where you learn, grow and change
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from reality, essentially usingreality or the life that you
manifest to inform you ratherthan define you.
We're going to talk about eachof these four points of access
where you have great leverage toinfluence and coach up your
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subconscious.
Today we're going to start withaccess point number one
preparation the way you beginyour day.
Let's begin our discussion ofthis access point by
acknowledging something that isfoundational and easy to
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undervalue, overlook because itis a cliche.
Certainly it sounds like acliche and in this case, as is
often the case, it's a clichebecause of how true it is.
And here it is.
Each day, you and I are goingto be on a stage, a public stage
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, where we will be giving apublic performance.
Now, I realize that those termscan sometimes be a little
intimidating, if not a littlefrightening stage and
performance.
We don't all enjoy the thoughtof being in front of people.
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Public speaking and the liketends to be one of the most
predominant fears mentioned, oneof the most common fears the
fear of public speaking.
And yet it is undeniably truethat each day we're on a public
stage.
In fact, let's take it a stepfurther Each moment we are on a
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public stage giving aperformance for all to see.
Even if we do not leave ourbedroom all day, we are still
giving a public performance,because we are giving a
performance for ourselves, which, it probably comes as no
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surprise, is actually one of themost important audiences we
ever performed for.
So, whether we like the idea ofbeing on a stage giving a
public performance in everymoment of the day today, whether
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we're happy about it.
Whether we want it, whether weasked for it or not, it is
occurring.
And since it is occurring, whynot take advantage of any and
every opportunity to helpourselves deliver the best, most
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successful performance possible, once again, even if the only
audience is ourselves,especially if the only audience
is ourselves and, of course, wecertainly have important
audiences other than ourselveson most days.
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So you're going to give aperformance when you wake up.
You're giving a performanceright now, because I'm assuming
that you're watching andlistening to this in the middle
of your day.
So you're in the middle of yourperformance.
When you're giving aperformance, you're doing it on
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a stage that is set to supportyour performance.
That's what an actor or aperformer does.
Ideally.
You want that stage, as aperformer, to be set in a way
that supports you to thegreatest degree possible.
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To be set in a way thatfacilitates the performance that
you want to deliver.
To be set in a way thatmaximizes the potential that
your audience, which includesyou, perceives a performance
that is in line with theperformance you want them to
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perceive.
Once again, this audienceincludes you, and what I would
say as somebody who has donesome theater if you are going to
perform Macbeth.
That's challenging enough in andof itself.
You certainly don't want toperform Macbeth on a stage that
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is set for the Starlight Express, which you've you've never seen
is a musical performed byperformers on roller skates, and
typically there are ramps thattake them around the entire
theater.
You don't want to performMacbeth on that set, on that
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stage.
Yes, you can do it, but what isgoing to be a challenging
opportunity for you as aperformer is made all the more
challenging because you'reperforming on a stage that's not
set up to support your Macbethdelivery.
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We don't want this.
It's the equivalent of being abasketball player going to the
free throw line and, as a righthanded shooter, shooting your
free throw left handed and onlyusing your left hand.
You can do that.
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There's no rule in thebasketball rulebook that says
you have to shoot using bothhands.
Nor is there a rule that saysyou have to shoot your free
throw using your actual shootinghand.
You can limit yourself by usingone hand and the opposite one
you normally shoot with when youshoot your free throws.
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You might want to do that ifyou want to make it extra
challenging, but if your goal isto be successful, why would you
do that?
Likewise, if your goal is to besuccessful today, in your day,
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during your ongoing publicperformance which, by the way,
you're not performing Macbethtoday you're performing you, you
are performing your life, youare demonstrating to all who
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care to pay attention,especially yourself, the actions
you've chosen, the ideas you'veselected, the attitudes you've
decided upon and the focus thatyou're choosing in every single
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moment.
That is on display for you andothers.
I hope I don't need to say, butI will say it because I often
need to say it to myself theexpectation of you, by you, from
you, for perfection would beridiculous.
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Yes, we are on a public stagegiving a performance.
The expectation, however, isnot to hit a home run in every
moment.
If that is what occurs, that'sfantastic.
That's rarely what occurs.
For me, however, and myassumption is you would say the
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same thing the expectation forpreparing yourself, for taking
advantage of this point ofaccess that you have to coach up
and align your subconscious, isthat you will create the
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greatest potential in eachmoment for you to be successful,
not that you will be successfulin every moment.
That is my first researchbacked takeaway from and about
this access point when youprepare yourself to be
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successful by starting yourmorning with an intentional
practice of preparation, you arenot preparing yourself for
success.
You are preparing yourself tobe open to success.
You are preparing yourself bycreating the best opportunity
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and potential for success ineach moment.
At the end of the day, isn'tthat really what each of us need
the opportunity.
We won't always come throughwith flying colors when we
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engage every opportunity, but wecan't ever come through with
flying colors withoutopportunity.
Ultimately, a practice ofmorning preparation is about
aligning yourself with thepotential to manifest a life
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that is aligned with yourdesires, the greatest potential
for that possible.
That is exactly how to takeadvantage of the leverage that
you have each morning.
The reason for a practice ofpreparation, the reason that
this practice allows you toexert so much leverage in
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coaching up your subconscious,is that the morning is your one
and only opportunity each day tobegin your day by preparing
yourself.
The good news is it does notneed to take a long time.
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It does not need to becomplicated or convoluted.
It does not need to include avast array of practices.
You can actually pick andchoose, and I would recommend
that you pick and choose thepractices that you want to
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include in your opportunitypreparation each morning.
So what does research say?
What does neurobiology tell usabout practices that truly set
the bar for us and create thegreatest potential for us to be
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successful?
However, we want to define thatin each moment of the day ahead
.
First of all, I want to sayresearch indicates very clearly
that any morning opportunityalignment, any morning
opportunity preparation, shouldbe done before you engage with
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your day at large, and thatmeans before you leave the door
for work, before you getinvolved with your morning
chores and definitely before youopen up and begin to involve
yourself with emails, texts andsocial media.
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Save these activities until youare finished with your morning
routine and if you do that, allof the things that you do that
you include in your morningroutine will have the greatest
effect that they can.
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And all of these practices thatyou can choose from and
probably others, but I'm goingto share with you
researched-backed practices thatwill do exactly what you want
them to do prepare you forsuccess.
And what I'm going to share.
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There are five beneficialimpacts that you can create for
yourself with a morning routinethat are all backed by research.
Number one you can clear yourmind and reduce stress.
Now imagine that as a startingpoint for your day, and it's not
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hard to imagine how much of animpact that can have as you sail
out onto that stage free fromstress and with a clear mind.
Second research-backed benefitthat you can employ into your
life with morning practice is anincreased focus and energy
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level.
Who doesn't want more focusduring the day?
Who doesn't want more energyduring the day?
These are highly desiredexperiences for all of us.
The third thing you cancultivate is a positive mindset,
not a mindset of guaranteedsuccess, but an authentically
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positive mindset, a mindsetwhere, even if you don't succeed
at the level you truly desire,you're learning and growing and
changing.
That's a positive mindset and,of course, all of these things
increase your opportunity to besuccessful, of course.
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The fourth thing is you havethe opportunity to set
intentions and clarify yourgoals.
Absolutely, you want to takeadvantage of that.
The number one requirement forhitting a target if you want to
hit a target, like with a bowand arrow, the very most
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important thing is to have atarget, otherwise you're not
going to hit a thing right.
That's not silly.
I'm not saying that to befacetious.
That is literally true.
If you pass up the opportunityto create your target or targets
, you are passing up quite anopportunity.
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The last thing, the fifth thingthat research tells us we can
invoke with an intentionalmorning preparation practice is
to boost our creativity and ourproductivity.
I don't know about you, for me,when my creativity is
constrained, it limits me notjust in my work, it limits me in
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my relationships.
It limits how I understand mylife.
It really puts a damper on theopportunities that I identify.
Of course, productivity ishighly valued.
So how can we invoke thesecharacteristics, how can we
bring these characteristics toour day in substantial and
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tangible ways through a morningpreparation practice?
To clear your mind and reducestress, you can practice
meditation and or visualization.
Now I do want to say, if youwant to take advantage, as I do,
of what the research shows usthat these two practices bring,
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you want to meditate by simplykeeping your mind as free from
conscious thought as possible.
If you're not a practicemeditator, I suggest don't try
to control thoughts.
I like to imagine that there'sa little escape hatch at the top
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of my head, or an antenna whenI'm meditating, as thoughts
arise in my conscious mind, Ilet them escape like a chimney
at the top of my head and simplybe blown away by the breeze.
It's fine that they're there.
I'm not concerned.
I'm not getting mad at myself.
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I'm just letting my thoughts goup the chimney and be blown
away by a soft breeze.
To the best of my ability.
I meditate for 15 minutes everymorning.
I love the way it clears mymind and the way it reduces
stress and sets me for the day.
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If you are going to visualize, Iwill let you know that research
indicates that it is importantto not focus your visualization
on the ultimate success you'reaiming for, to not visualize the
end results, but rather tovisualize the tangible next
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right steps that you will taketo take a step forward, that
ultimate goal.
In other words, if I'm going tovisualize building a house from
scratch, best practice is notfor me to visualize the
completed house.
If I'm just starting, it's tovisualize going to the lumber
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yard and picking out the lumberand picking out the plumbing
supplies and picking out theinsulation and picking out the
bricks and bringing them back tothe building site and
organizing them appropriately.
In other words, visualize thenext practical things that you
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will be doing that are the bestnext right things to move toward
the completion of the projector your ultimate goal.
Okay, to increase focus andenergy levels, you want to
exercise by exercise every day.
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There are untold benefits forthat.
The reason I bring it up as amorning practice is that you do
not actually need to get onto atreadmill or hit the trail to go
for a vigorous walk or runoutside To get the benefits of
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physical activity in the morning.
Research shows that if the onlything you do is go outside and
let fresh air and sunlight hityou, your brain, your
subconscious is enlivened, it isjuiced.
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Of course, if you're willingand inclined to go further than
that and go for a vigorous walkor go for a run or ride your
bicycle or do something that isappropriate for you physically,
in conjunction with a medicalprofessional giving you the
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thumbs up for the activity, thebenefits increase Absolutely.
Take advantage of this, even ifonly to step outside.
A way to cultivate a positivemindset and bring that to the
forefront is to give yourselfaffirmations or gratitude first
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thing in the morning as part ofyour morning opportunity
alignment and preparation foropportunity.
When you do this practice, whenyou give yourself affirmations
or gratitude, research indicatesthat the best way to do this is
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to focus on real, tangiblethings and not ideals.
In this particular instance,when we're talking about morning
preparation, my practice in themorning, for example, is that I
journal about gratitude.
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I allow my business, manifestthe big stuff, to speak to me
through my journaling.
One of the things that manifestthe big stuff always journals
about is its gratitude for me.
Its gratitude for the abilityto work with me and manifest.
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The big stuff always tells methings that it is grateful for
about me my diligence, my workethic, my discipline, my open,
caring, giving heart, my focuson being helpful, my
intentionality.
These things are always true.
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Even when I'm in a bad mood,even when I'm facing a day with
things ahead that I don't like.
I can find a gratitude forthose things, and I would highly
encourage you, if you are goingto have a morning gratitude
practice or a morningaffirmation practice, to follow
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suit.
Do not necessarily, or do notforce yourself to reach for the
highest rung of the ladder here.
Look directly in front of youand identify things that
sometimes are easy to overlook.
Maybe that's a good way to putit.
Research indicates that that isthe best way to infuse your
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subconscious with that energy ofgratitude and affirmation.
The fourth area settingintentions and clarifying goals,
and best be enlivened through ajournaling practice.
Now, I journal every morningand I want to be specific about
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what I'm journaling about,because I do hear frequently
from folks who are in they'renot fans of journaling, they're
not confident writers.
People often look at me and saywell, you've published nine
books.
Of course you can journal.
Of course you are amenable tothat practice.
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Of course that practice iseffective for you.
You're a writer.
What I will tell you is thiswhen I journal, I free-form,
right?
That's what I would recommendto you if you would like to
adopt this powerful practice inyour life to set intentions and
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clarify goals.
I do not plan out what I'mgoing to write in my head before
I write it.
I let my pen flow and whatevercomes out comes out, and I will
tell you this To take fulladvantage of the power of
journaling and how it can coachup and influence your
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subconscious.
Double down on journaling toalign yourself with the
opportunities you are receivingthat day, rather than trying to
align yourself with successfuloutcomes.
Now, that might soundcounterintuitive, but hear me
out.
I mentioned before that we'reon a stage every moment of the
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day and when we are practicing apreparation routine to take
advantage of the leverage wehave in such a routine, it's
extra valuable to double down onaligning yourself, through
journaling, with opportunity,because being on this stage,
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every moment of the day is anopportunity.
I may not always be as chargedup about taking advantage of
this opportunity or eachopportunity during the day.
I have days where I am just notnaturally feeling it, where I'm
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low, where I'm not asoptimistic, and even on those
days, I can align myself withthe opportunities ahead of me.
I simply journal about how, ineach moment today, whether I
want them or not, I am beinggiven strings free, by the way,
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the opportunities to demonstratethe actions, the ideas, the
attitudes and the focus thatI've decided upon Not only
demonstrate those things, butpractice them.
I'm being given the opportunityto bring God to life through me
.
I'm being given the opportunityto be the best ally possible
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for future, greg.
In this moment, I'm being giventhe opportunity to manifest or
recognize my life intentionallyrather than by default, and I
can take advantage of theseopportunities and more in every
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single moment.
And through that free formjournaling process, I'm able to
come to a place where, even whenI don't feel great about myself
or my day, I can recognize andunderstand those opportunities
and say today I choose to givemy best effort to take advantage
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of those opportunities in eachmoment, no matter what my best
effort looks like from moment tomoment.
That is an incredibly alignedplace from which to start the
day and I can't recommendopportunity journaling enough.
I also utilize a practice Ipicked up from Maria Brito's
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book how Creativity Rules theWorld, where I then set my
intention further by writingabout what I want to accomplish
in the day ahead and how to bestaccomplish that, and I keep
that simple.
I write about how the best wayto accomplish it ultimately is
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to be fully focused and fullypresent with a compassionate,
self-compassionate, checklistmentality, and that today I will
give my best effort to bringthat to each moment, regardless
of what my best effort lookslike in each moment, because, as
we all know, it will lookdifferent from moment to moment.
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And finally, to boostcreativity and productivity,
this is one of my favorites do aproductive task.
Research shows that doing aproductive task once again, just
like the rest of thesepractices before we open our
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email, before we start readingour texts, before we get on
social media, before we go outinto the day, before we start
our chores and tactile activitythat says all right, the day's
underway.
Do a productive task Now totake advantage of this
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research-based activity and itsbenefits in boosting your
creativity and productivity.
All you need to do is a smalltask.
If it's work-related forexample, don't let it be
answering emails, of course butfor me, my productive task this
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morning was I sat down and Iwrote out the description for
this episode of Manifest, theBig Stuff and I made the
thumbnail for this episode.
Now, that sort of activitydoesn't take me very long.
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It took me approximately sevenminutes and when I was done, I
got up and I went into brush myteeth and wash my face and do my
normal routines, becauseproductive task for me is almost
always the last part of myintentional opportunity
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preparation the last part of mypreparation routine.
Your productive task could beemptying the dishwasher, it
could be making your bed, itcould be feeding the dog, it
could be a small combination,but it should be something short
and sweet.
You don't even have to completethe task.
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It could be doing the nextright thing on your plate.
That takes you one step closerto completing the larger task.
That is absolutely fine, butdon't spend any more than five
to 10 minutes on it, andresearch indicates you will have
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infused yourself withcreativity and productivity.
All five of these practices thatI have mentioned are 100%
backed by plenty ofpeer-reviewed research.
They truly have a tremendouseffect and allow you to exert
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great leverage when you includethem in your morning preparation
, in your practice of settingthe stage for yourself so that
you can perform Macbeth the wayit's intended to be performed,
which will give you the bestchance possible to give the
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greatest performance possible.
Now you don't have to win theAcademy Award to say I had a
successful performance.
You and I both know that aslong as you've given the best
performance possible in eachmoment, there's nothing else you
could have done.
And if you're doing that on aregular basis, you're going to
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hit the mark more and more often.
And that's the extreme valuehere, the extreme leverage that
you get to introduce, poachingup your subconscious,
manifesting new, more alignedversions of reality.
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And you'll find that as youmake the best of these new, more
aligned versions of realitywith your conscious mind, you're
not having to work as hard tobe successful because your
beliefs changing as you coach upyour subconscious.
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Thank you so much for spendingsome time with me today.
Next time we meet, we'reabsolutely going to delve into
the second window of greatleverage on your subconscious,
framing how you tell the storyof yourself and your life in
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ways that coach up yoursubconscious, in ways that align
the beliefs stored there withyour true desires for your life.
Want you to practice themorning opportunity operation
routine as we discussed today.
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I want you to choose from thosefive research based activities
and I want you to get up earlyenough that you have time to do
them.
I do not want you toshortchange your opportunity to
set your stage for your greatestperformance, for your most
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important performance, which isthe one that's happening in this
moment.
Why shoot your free throws, lefthanded, what you don't have to?
We don't want life to be anymore challenging than it needs
to be, than what it already is.
As a final word, I will say Amy morning preparation practice
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makes me anywhere from 25 to 35minutes and remember I'm
meditating for 15 of thoseminutes.
Sometimes, when I'm using mybelief raising process, it takes
me a little longer, because Iwill write myself into the next
emotional perspective on myemotional reference chart.
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As my productive task andtypically that can take a little
longer, but budgeting 30minutes, 40 minutes, will
probably be enough time for you.
I don't know about you, but itis completely worth it for me to
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get out of bed 40 minutesearlier than I would without a
morning routine to set my stagefor Macbeth After all, I'm going
to be performing Macbeth allday long.
I want it set for Macbeth.
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So until we get a chance to gettogether again and, by the way,
thank you so much again forspending time with me.
You can't share anything morevaluable with me than your time,
so I never take that forgranted.
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I am so empowered by that and Ido receive your energy, even
when you're watching this in myfuture, because you're watching
it right now.
But to me that's the future.
Of course you're watching itright now and to you my
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recording of this episode is thepast.
So we are meeting in the middlein a primitive form of time
travel.
You're creating a common rightnow that you're sharing from my
future with me and I'm sharingfrom your past with you.
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Isn't that fun?
I so appreciate the opportunityto do that.
Thank you for giving it to meand until we get to be together
again, keep believing and keepmanifesting.
Welcome to Manifest the Big Stuff.
I am Greg Kuhn.
I am a manifesting coach.
I am a mindset coach.
I love to help you turn up yourmanifesting power and anytime I
take the time to be with youand anytime you take the time to
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be with me, that's what we'redoing.
That is the intent of our timetogether, every time we are
together.
Today, we are going to delvedirectly into one of the four
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primary access points that weall have to coach our
subconscious, to coach ourlimbic system.
If you're a neurobiologicalresearcher, that's really what
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we're talking about here,because our subconscious
recognizes our life.
Our subconscious is whatrecognizes the things that
manifest our life up to 10 timesfaster than our conscious
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awareness.
Our subconscious is manifestingour life for us in every moment
and our conscious mind makesthe best of it.
Our conscious mind, which isthe CEO of who we are, the
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thinker and the decider, isultimately making the best of
the life or the reality that oursubconscious manifests for us
in every moment.
So I've identified fourresearch-based points of access
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where we have great leverage tocoach our subconscious up, to
help it become more aligned withour conscious desires for our
life and thus to manifestversions of life for us that are
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more aligned with our consciousdesires for them.
These four access points areplaces where you have great
leverage, increased leverageover what your subconscious is
manifesting for you.
Thus, when you employ thesefour access points that are all
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research-based even if you don'tthoroughly understand and take
a deep dive into the science ofthese access points, they work.
These are places where you cantruly coach up your subconscious
and make a substantialdifference.
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And those four points of accessare preparation how you begin
your day.
Also framing how you tell thestory of yourself and your life
to yourself in every moment.
Also, effort, focusing solelyon your efforts as opposed to
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the results of your efforts.
And finally, the last accesspoint is growth how you grow in
a formative and growth mindset,where you learn, grow and change
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from reality, essentially usingreality or the life that you
manifest to inform you ratherthan define you.
We're going to talk about eachof these four points of access
where you have great leverage toinfluence and coach up your
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subconscious.
Today we're going to start withaccess point number one
preparation the way you beginyour day.
Let's begin our discussion ofthis access point by
acknowledging something that isfoundational and easy to
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undervalue, overlook because itis a cliche.
Certainly it sounds like acliche and in this case, as is
often the case, it's a clichebecause of how true it is.
And here it is.
Each day, you and I are goingto be on a stage, a public stage
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, where we will be giving apublic performance.
Now, I realize that those termscan sometimes be a little
intimidating, if not a littlefrightening stage and
performance.
We don't all enjoy the thoughtof being in front of people.
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Public speaking and the liketends to be one of the most
predominant fears mentioned, oneof the most common fears the
fear of public speaking.
And yet it is undeniably truethat each day we're on a public
stage.
In fact, let's take it a stepfurther Each moment we are on a
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public stage giving aperformance for all to see.
Even if we do not leave ourbedroom all day, we are still
giving a public performance,because we are giving a
performance for ourselves, which, it probably comes as no
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surprise, is actually one of themost important audiences we
ever performed for.
So, whether we like the idea ofbeing on a stage giving a
public performance in everymoment of the day today, whether
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we're happy about it.
Whether we want it, whether weasked for it or not, it is
occurring.
And since it is occurring, whynot take advantage of any and
every opportunity to helpourselves deliver the best, most
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successful performance possible, once again, even if the only
audience is ourselves,especially if the only audience
is ourselves and, of course, wecertainly have important
audiences other than ourselveson most days.
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So you're going to give aperformance when you wake up.
You're giving a performanceright now, because I'm assuming
that you're watching andlistening to this in the middle
of your day.
So you're in the middle of yourperformance.
When you're giving aperformance, you're doing it on
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a stage that is set to supportyour performance.
That's what an actor or aperformer does.
Ideally.
You want that stage, as aperformer, to be set in a way
that supports you to thegreatest degree possible.
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To be set in a way thatfacilitates the performance that
you want to deliver.
To be set in a way thatmaximizes the potential that
your audience, which includesyou, perceives a performance
that is in line with theperformance you want them to
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perceive.
Once again, this audienceincludes you, and what I would
say as somebody who has donesome theater if you are going to
perform Macbeth.
That's challenging enough in andof itself.
You certainly don't want toperform Macbeth on a stage that
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is set for the Starlight Express, which you've you've never seen
is a musical performed byperformers on roller skates, and
typically there are ramps thattake them around the entire
theater.
You don't want to performMacbeth on that set, on that
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stage.
Yes, you can do it, but what isgoing to be a challenging
opportunity for you as aperformer is made all the more
challenging because you'reperforming on a stage that's not
set up to support your Macbethdelivery.
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We don't want this.
It's the equivalent of being abasketball player going to the
free throw line and, as a righthanded shooter, shooting your
free throw left handed and onlyusing your left hand.
You can do that.
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There's no rule in thebasketball rulebook that says
you have to shoot using bothhands.
Nor is there a rule that saysyou have to shoot your free
throw using your actual shootinghand.
You can limit yourself by usingone hand and the opposite one
you normally shoot with when youshoot your free throws.
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You might want to do that ifyou want to make it extra
challenging, but if your goal isto be successful, why would you
do that?
Likewise, if your goal is to besuccessful today, in your day,
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during your ongoing publicperformance which, by the way,
you're not performing Macbethtoday you're performing you, you
are performing your life, youare demonstrating to all who
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care to pay attention,especially yourself, the actions
you've chosen, the ideas you'veselected, the attitudes you've
decided upon and the focus thatyou're choosing in every single
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moment.
That is on display for you andothers.
I hope I don't need to say, butI will say it because I often
need to say it to myself theexpectation of you, by you, from
you, for perfection would beridiculous.
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Yes, we are on a public stagegiving a performance.
The expectation, however, isnot to hit a home run in every
moment.
If that is what occurs, that'sfantastic.
That's rarely what occurs.
For me, however, and myassumption is you would say the
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same thing the expectation forpreparing yourself, for taking
advantage of this point ofaccess that you have to coach up
and align your subconscious, isthat you will create the
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greatest potential in eachmoment for you to be successful,
not that you will be successfulin every moment.
That is my first researchbacked takeaway from and about
this access point when youprepare yourself to be
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successful by starting yourmorning with an intentional
practice of preparation, you arenot preparing yourself for
success.
You are preparing yourself tobe open to success.
You are preparing yourself bycreating the best opportunity
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and potential for success ineach moment.
At the end of the day, isn'tthat really what each of us need
the opportunity.
We won't always come throughwith flying colors when we
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engage every opportunity, but wecan't ever come through with
flying colors withoutopportunity.
Ultimately, a practice ofmorning preparation is about
aligning yourself with thepotential to manifest a life
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that is aligned with yourdesires, the greatest potential
for that possible.
That is exactly how to takeadvantage of the leverage that
you have each morning.
The reason for a practice ofpreparation, the reason that
this practice allows you toexert so much leverage in
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coaching up your subconscious,is that the morning is your one
and only opportunity each day tobegin your day by preparing
yourself.
The good news is it does notneed to take a long time.
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It does not need to becomplicated or convoluted.
It does not need to include avast array of practices.
You can actually pick andchoose, and I would recommend
that you pick and choose thepractices that you want to
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include in your opportunitypreparation each morning.
So what does research say?
What does neurobiology tell usabout practices that truly set
the bar for us and create thegreatest potential for us to be
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successful?
However, we want to define thatin each moment of the day ahead
.
First of all, I want to sayresearch indicates very clearly
that any morning opportunityalignment, any morning
opportunity preparation, shouldbe done before you engage with
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your day at large, and thatmeans before you leave the door
for work, before you getinvolved with your morning
chores and definitely before youopen up and begin to involve
yourself with emails, texts andsocial media.
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Save these activities until youare finished with your morning
routine and if you do that, allof the things that you do that
you include in your morningroutine will have the greatest
effect that they can.
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And all of these practices thatyou can choose from and
probably others, but I'm goingto share with you
researched-backed practices thatwill do exactly what you want
them to do prepare you forsuccess.
And what I'm going to share.
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There are five beneficialimpacts that you can create for
yourself with a morning routinethat are all backed by research.
Number one you can clear yourmind and reduce stress.
Now imagine that as a startingpoint for your day, and it's not
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hard to imagine how much of animpact that can have as you sail
out onto that stage free fromstress and with a clear mind.
Second research-backed benefitthat you can employ into your
life with morning practice is anincreased focus and energy
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level.
Who doesn't want more focusduring the day?
Who doesn't want more energyduring the day?
These are highly desiredexperiences for all of us.
The third thing you cancultivate is a positive mindset,
not a mindset of guaranteedsuccess, but an authentically
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positive mindset, a mindsetwhere, even if you don't succeed
at the level you truly desire,you're learning and growing and
changing.
That's a positive mindset and,of course, all of these things
increase your opportunity to besuccessful, of course.
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The fourth thing is you havethe opportunity to set
intentions and clarify yourgoals.
Absolutely, you want to takeadvantage of that.
The number one requirement forhitting a target if you want to
hit a target, like with a bowand arrow, the very most
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important thing is to have atarget, otherwise you're not
going to hit a thing right.
That's not silly.
I'm not saying that to befacetious.
That is literally true.
If you pass up the opportunityto create your target or targets
, you are passing up quite anopportunity.
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The last thing, the fifth thingthat research tells us we can
invoke with an intentionalmorning preparation practice is
to boost our creativity and ourproductivity.
I don't know about you, for me,when my creativity is
constrained, it limits me notjust in my work, it limits me in
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my relationships.
It limits how I understand mylife.
It really puts a damper on theopportunities that I identify.
Of course, productivity ishighly valued.
So how can we invoke thesecharacteristics, how can we
bring these characteristics toour day in substantial and
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tangible ways through a morningpreparation practice?
To clear your mind and reducestress, you can practice
meditation and or visualization.
Now I do want to say, if youwant to take advantage, as I do,
of what the research shows usthat these two practices bring,
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you want to meditate by simplykeeping your mind as free from
conscious thought as possible.
If you're not a practicemeditator, I suggest don't try
to control thoughts.
I like to imagine that there'sa little escape hatch at the top
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of my head, or an antenna whenI'm meditating, as thoughts
arise in my conscious mind, Ilet them escape like a chimney
at the top of my head and simplybe blown away by the breeze.
It's fine that they're there.
I'm not concerned.
I'm not getting mad at myself.
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I'm just letting my thoughts goup the chimney and be blown
away by a soft breeze.
To the best of my ability.
I meditate for 15 minutes everymorning.
I love the way it clears mymind and the way it reduces
stress and sets me for the day.
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If you are going to visualize, Iwill let you know that research
indicates that it is importantto not focus your visualization
on the ultimate success you'reaiming for, to not visualize the
end results, but rather tovisualize the tangible next
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right steps that you will taketo take a step forward, that
ultimate goal.
In other words, if I'm going tovisualize building a house from
scratch, best practice is notfor me to visualize the
completed house.
If I'm just starting, it's tovisualize going to the lumber
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yard and picking out the lumberand picking out the plumbing
supplies and picking out theinsulation and picking out the
bricks and bringing them back tothe building site and
organizing them appropriately.
In other words, visualize thenext practical things that you
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will be doing that are the bestnext right things to move toward
the completion of the projector your ultimate goal.
Okay, to increase focus andenergy levels, you want to
exercise by exercise every day.
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There are untold benefits forthat.
The reason I bring it up as amorning practice is that you do
not actually need to get onto atreadmill or hit the trail to go
for a vigorous walk or runoutside To get the benefits of
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physical activity in the morning.
Research shows that if the onlything you do is go outside and
let fresh air and sunlight hityou, your brain, your
subconscious is enlivened, it isjuiced.
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Of course, if you're willingand inclined to go further than
that and go for a vigorous walkor go for a run or ride your
bicycle or do something that isappropriate for you physically,
in conjunction with a medicalprofessional giving you the
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thumbs up for the activity, thebenefits increase Absolutely.
Take advantage of this, even ifonly to step outside.
A way to cultivate a positivemindset and bring that to the
forefront is to give yourselfaffirmations or gratitude first
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thing in the morning as part ofyour morning opportunity
alignment and preparation foropportunity.
When you do this practice, whenyou give yourself affirmations
or gratitude, research indicatesthat the best way to do this is
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to focus on real, tangiblethings and not ideals.
In this particular instance,when we're talking about morning
preparation, my practice in themorning, for example, is that I
journal about gratitude.
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I allow my business, manifestthe big stuff, to speak to me
through my journaling.
One of the things that manifestthe big stuff always journals
about is its gratitude for me.
Its gratitude for the abilityto work with me and manifest.
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The big stuff always tells methings that it is grateful for
about me my diligence, my workethic, my discipline, my open,
caring, giving heart, my focuson being helpful, my
intentionality.
These things are always true.
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Even when I'm in a bad mood,even when I'm facing a day with
things ahead that I don't like.
I can find a gratitude forthose things, and I would highly
encourage you, if you are goingto have a morning gratitude
practice or a morningaffirmation practice, to follow
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suit.
Do not necessarily, or do notforce yourself to reach for the
highest rung of the ladder here.
Look directly in front of youand identify things that
sometimes are easy to overlook.
Maybe that's a good way to putit.
Research indicates that that isthe best way to infuse your
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subconscious with that energy ofgratitude and affirmation.
The fourth area settingintentions and clarifying goals,
and best be enlivened through ajournaling practice.
Now, I journal every morningand I want to be specific about
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what I'm journaling about,because I do hear frequently
from folks who are in they'renot fans of journaling, they're
not confident writers.
People often look at me and saywell, you've published nine
books.
Of course you can journal.
Of course you are amenable tothat practice.
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Of course that practice iseffective for you.
You're a writer.
What I will tell you is thiswhen I journal, I free-form,
right?
That's what I would recommendto you if you would like to
adopt this powerful practice inyour life to set intentions and
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clarify goals.
I do not plan out what I'mgoing to write in my head before
I write it.
I let my pen flow and whatevercomes out comes out, and I will
tell you this To take fulladvantage of the power of
journaling and how it can coachup and influence your
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subconscious.
Double down on journaling toalign yourself with the
opportunities you are receivingthat day, rather than trying to
align yourself with successfuloutcomes.
Now, that might soundcounterintuitive, but hear me
out.
I mentioned before that we'reon a stage every moment of the
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day and when we are practicing apreparation routine to take
advantage of the leverage wehave in such a routine, it's
extra valuable to double down onaligning yourself, through
journaling, with opportunity,because being on this stage,
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every moment of the day is anopportunity.
I may not always be as chargedup about taking advantage of
this opportunity or eachopportunity during the day.
I have days where I am just notnaturally feeling it, where I'm
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low, where I'm not asoptimistic, and even on those
days, I can align myself withthe opportunities ahead of me.
I simply journal about how, ineach moment today, whether I
want them or not, I am beinggiven strings free, by the way,
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the opportunities to demonstratethe actions, the ideas, the
attitudes and the focus thatI've decided upon Not only
demonstrate those things, butpractice them.
I'm being given the opportunityto bring God to life through me
.
I'm being given the opportunityto be the best ally possible
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for future, greg.
In this moment, I'm being giventhe opportunity to manifest or
recognize my life intentionallyrather than by default, and I
can take advantage of theseopportunities and more in every
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single moment.
And through that free formjournaling process, I'm able to
come to a place where, even whenI don't feel great about myself
or my day, I can recognize andunderstand those opportunities
and say today I choose to givemy best effort to take advantage
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of those opportunities in eachmoment, no matter what my best
effort looks like from moment tomoment.
That is an incredibly alignedplace from which to start the
day and I can't recommendopportunity journaling enough.
I also utilize a practice Ipicked up from Maria Brito's
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book how Creativity Rules theWorld, where I then set my
intention further by writingabout what I want to accomplish
in the day ahead and how to bestaccomplish that, and I keep
that simple.
I write about how the best wayto accomplish it ultimately is
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to be fully focused and fullypresent with a compassionate,
self-compassionate, checklistmentality, and that today I will
give my best effort to bringthat to each moment, regardless
of what my best effort lookslike in each moment, because, as
we all know, it will lookdifferent from moment to moment.
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And finally, to boostcreativity and productivity,
this is one of my favorites do aproductive task.
Research shows that doing aproductive task once again, just
like the rest of thesepractices before we open our
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email, before we start readingour texts, before we get on
social media, before we go outinto the day, before we start
our chores and tactile activitythat says all right, the day's
underway.
Do a productive task Now totake advantage of this
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research-based activity and itsbenefits in boosting your
creativity and productivity.
All you need to do is a smalltask.
If it's work-related forexample, don't let it be
answering emails, of course butfor me, my productive task this
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morning was I sat down and Iwrote out the description for
this episode of Manifest, theBig Stuff and I made the
thumbnail for this episode.
Now, that sort of activitydoesn't take me very long.
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It took me approximately sevenminutes and when I was done, I
got up and I went into brush myteeth and wash my face and do my
normal routines, becauseproductive task for me is almost
always the last part of myintentional opportunity
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preparation the last part of mypreparation routine.
Your productive task could beemptying the dishwasher, it
could be making your bed, itcould be feeding the dog, it
could be a small combination,but it should be something short
and sweet.
You don't even have to completethe task.
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It could be doing the nextright thing on your plate.
That takes you one step closerto completing the larger task.
That is absolutely fine, butdon't spend any more than five
to 10 minutes on it, andresearch indicates you will have
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infused yourself withcreativity and productivity.
All five of these practices thatI have mentioned are 100%
backed by plenty ofpeer-reviewed research.
They truly have a tremendouseffect and allow you to exert
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great leverage when you includethem in your morning preparation
, in your practice of settingthe stage for yourself so that
you can perform Macbeth the wayit's intended to be performed,
which will give you the bestchance possible to give the
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greatest performance possible.
Now you don't have to win theAcademy Award to say I had a
successful performance.
You and I both know that aslong as you've given the best
performance possible in eachmoment, there's nothing else you
could have done.
And if you're doing that on aregular basis, you're going to
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hit the mark more and more often.
And that's the extreme valuehere, the extreme leverage that
you get to introduce, poachingup your subconscious,
manifesting new, more alignedversions of reality.
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And you'll find that as youmake the best of these new, more
aligned versions of realitywith your conscious mind, you're
not having to work as hard tobe successful because your
beliefs changing as you coach upyour subconscious.
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Thank you so much for spendingsome time with me today.
Next time we meet, we'reabsolutely going to delve into
the second window of greatleverage on your subconscious,
framing how you tell the storyof yourself and your life in
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ways that coach up yoursubconscious, in ways that align
the beliefs stored there withyour true desires for your life.
Want you to practice themorning opportunity operation
routine as we discussed today.
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I want you to choose from thosefive research based activities
and I want you to get up earlyenough that you have time to do
them.
I do not want you toshortchange your opportunity to
set your stage for your greatestperformance, for your most
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important performance, which isthe one that's happening in this
moment.
Why shoot your free throws, lefthanded, what you don't have to?
We don't want life to be anymore challenging than it needs
to be, than what it already is.
As a final word, I will say Amy morning preparation practice
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makes me anywhere from 25 to 35minutes and remember I'm
meditating for 15 of thoseminutes.
Sometimes, when I'm using mybelief raising process, it takes
me a little longer, because Iwill write myself into the next
emotional perspective on myemotional reference chart.
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As my productive task andtypically that can take a little
longer, but budgeting 30minutes, 40 minutes, will
probably be enough time for you.
I don't know about you, but itis completely worth it for me to
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get out of bed 40 minutesearlier than I would without a
morning routine to set my stagefor Macbeth After all, I'm going
to be performing Macbeth allday long.
I want it set for Macbeth.
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So until we get a chance to gettogether again and, by the way,
thank you so much again forspending time with me.
You can't share anything morevaluable with me than your time,
so I never take that forgranted.
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I am so empowered by that and Ido receive your energy, even
when you're watching this in myfuture, because you're watching
it right now.
But to me that's the future.
Of course you're watching itright now and to you my
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recording of this episode is thepast.
So we are meeting in the middlein a primitive form of time
travel.
You're creating a common rightnow that you're sharing from my
future with me and I'm sharingfrom your past with you.
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Isn't that fun?
I so appreciate the opportunityto do that.
Thank you for giving it to meand until we get to be together
again, keep believing and keepmanifesting.
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