November 8, 2024 • 56 mins
In this episode of The Wayfinder Show, host Luis Hernandez speaks with Scott Allen, author of several bestselling books including 'Do the Hard Things First.' Scott shares his journey from Canada to Japan, detailing how visualization and intentional journaling helped him achieve his dreams. The conversation touches on creating vision boards, breaking negative behavior patterns, and the power of gratitude. Scott and Luis also discuss overcoming limiting beliefs, gaining clarity on life goals, and managing 'shiny object syndrome.' The episode is filled with actionable advice for listeners looking to lead more authentic and fulfilling lives.
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You can do anything you want toonce you decide what it is.
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And that was like to get clarityon these things though.
I mean, I had to be veryintentional with what it is that
I wanted.
So, um, not just with the visionboard, like I, I would, I
journal all the time and I wouldwrite things down all the time.
Like I want to do, you know,this is what I really want to
do.
And I would just make a storyout of it.
I would make a narrative.
out of that.
You know, I would journal thesethings, um, all the time about,
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you know, how it's going to bean author and travel the world
and do book signings.
And again, you know, this ispart of like visualizing the
thing that you really want, butthat's what you had to, uh, to
do to get clarity on it.
Um, and you have to spend timewith yourself, right?
You really have to, you know,sit down and think about these
things.
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Welcome to The Wayfinder Showwith Luis Hernandez, where
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Come join us and find the way toyour dream life.
Welcome back to the way findershow.
This is your host, LouieHernandez.
And today I'm here with ScottAllen.
Scott Allen is the author ofmultiple bestselling books,
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including do the hard thingsfirst undefeated and empower
your thoughts as a formercorporate business trainer in
Japan for over 20 years.
He has invested.
Over 10, 000 hours of practiceand research and confidence
development, cognitivebehavioral therapy, and mindset
optimization.
Scott is passionate aboutteaching, building life skills,
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and inspiring others to takecharge of their lives.
Scott, welcome to the wayfindershow.
Oh, it's great to be here.
Thanks for having me on theshow.
Thank you for being here.
You, you, you write and teachabout our favorite subjects to
talk about really.
So this is going to be a funconversation, you know, but
before we get into all of that,could you tell the folks a
little bit about yourself?
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You know, I'm a particular, Iknow you're not originally from
Japan, so I'd love for you totalk a little bit how you got
there.
Sure thing.
So yes, I've been living inJapan for about 27 years.
So it's been a little while andI'm originally from Canada and I
moved here way back in 98 afterI was going through a period in
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my life where I was just goingthrough some changes.
And a friend of mine had givenme a book by Tony Robbins called
The Wick and the Giant Within.
He was one of my mentors,actually.
And he said, you have to readit.
read this book.
He knew that I was goingthrough, uh, you know, just a
period in my life where I, I, Ihad this feeling that I had to
change the way things were, theway that I was living, and I
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wanted to do something that I'dnever done before, you know,
something exciting, fun,adventurous.
So I read Tony's book, I puttogether A list of goals for
myself.
I created a vision board from,uh, the advice in the book, and
within a week or two, I hadtransformed my apartment into
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one big vision board.
And on the vision board I hadimages of all the places I
wanted to go and I hadpositivity quotes everywhere
and, uh, you know, a list of mygoals.
And so I just was basically.
Building the life that I wantedto create for myself.
So that was really exciting.
You know, I'd never doneanything like that before.
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And one of the things, uh, oneof my goals was actually, well,
I had three goals.
One of them was to become a, anauthor, which eventually
happened.
And the other one was I wantedto travel the world.
So I made a decision that a yearfrom that date, maybe this was
back in 97, I said, okay, oneyear from now, I'm going to move
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to, and I didn't have Japan onthe radar at the time, that came
a little bit later.
I think my plan was just to moveto Thailand or Asia and start
something new.
I wasn't sure what it was, but Iwas just going to get on a plane
on this date and So a few monthslater, I was browsing through
the newspaper and came across anad that, uh, said, teach English
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in Japan, apply now.
And I thought that's a greatidea.
So that's exactly what I did.
Sent in a resume with a reallynice cover letter.
And, uh, this company got backto me within about a month, I
think, and they invited me foran interview.
So next thing I knew I was indowntown Vancouver in a uh,
having a business lunch withthe, you know, Japanese
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businessman who owned these, uh,business schools in Japan.
And, um, yeah, they ended uphiring me, uh, brought me over
to Japan and, uh, set me up in ahomestay and gave me a car to
drive.
And, you know, I had, uh, cashin my pocket and I just thought
it was great.
And I was living this dream lifethat I never imagined.
Yes, I went to, you know, Kyotoand, uh, I was living in, so I
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live in this city calledYokohama.
It's just outside of Kobe andended up traveling all over.
for the country and thentraveling to other countries.
And of course I stayed here,which was another journey in and
of itself, you know, justgetting visas and all those
things.
So there's always theseobstacles that I, you know, had
to go through to, in order tostay here and maintain my
lifestyle, but, uh, it allworked out.
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You know, and, uh, yeah, like Isaid, I've been here for almost
half my life now, so, and, uh,continue to, um, live the dream,
I think.
And that's what I love to teachabout in, in the material I
write and everything.
It's all about, uh, you know,building that, uh, life of
greatness.
And not all the books are aboutthat, but that's really the core
concept behind everything that Iteach is, uh, you know, how to
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use magic to create the lifethat you want.
Hmm.
You know, I, or how I like toframe it, you know, building.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, you know, I, our listenersknow that I went to Japan
earlier in 24 and I absolutelyfell in love with it.
And we were talking before theshow about, about, uh, that's
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something we, we may do as well.
It's just a magical place, butlet's go back to the part where
you were doing the vision board.
You said you, you turned, uh,your apartment into a big vision
board.
There is, there is something,I've done this a few times in my
life and I've done it with, youknow, agent who worked for me
and such and, and, uh, there'ssomething very exciting about
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that, right?
Like, it's just, as you start todo it, it's very difficult to
start.
Sometimes it's almost scary, butthen when you get started,
there's some excitement thatbuilds, right?
And, and you start to dream and,and, and it just becomes a lot
of fun, right?
I mean, what do you think it isabout that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Process.
I think there's a, um, there'san inner power that you tap into
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when you put something like thattogether.
Because I truly believe, youknow, I started to dive a little
bit into neuroscience, you know,in the last year or two.
I'm not an expert in thesubject, but I'm learning a lot
from this.
Something I've learned aboutjust studying about the quantum
field and neuroscience andScientology is that uh, When you
start to you know, build avision for your life and you
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focus on this thing every day Solike that's what a vision board
really is is it was a vision forthe life that I want to create
inside my mind And then I just,you know, externally, I, you
know, put that onto a, uh, pieceof paper and I just, and so
every day it's right there.
And that's the thing, it's like,the things that you talk about,
the things that you look at,everything you think about, all
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of these things, it starts to,um, You know, rewire your brain
really, you know, and I wascoming from a place of, uh, you
know, before that I had a lifeof where I was partying all the
time and I was just like, that'sall I really wanted to do with
my life.
And so I believe that whateveryou want, uh, and not just that
I believe it, I've proven itthat whatever you want, the
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universe is going to give itback to you.
So when I was out there partyingand drinking, doing all the, you
know, having this, uh, chaoticlifestyle, I wanted that and I
got that, you know, and thenwhen I didn't want it I ended up
leaving that behind pursuingsomething greater and that was
where the I got more into theself help and personal
development and then dream boardcame from that and then I
realized, Oh, I actually wantsomething, you know, greater for
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myself.
And that was when I put theboard together.
I started thinking.
Thinking about that every dayand seeing that every day and
then, um, part of it is as wellas like I would go to the
library or the bookstore and Iwould take out books on, you
know, how to speak Thai orVietnamese and I would get these
language books and bring themhome and I started reading them
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and my roommates would be like,what are you doing?
I'm like, Oh, well, I'm leavingfor Southeast Asia next, uh,
next year.
So I've got to prepare.
And they thought I was, uh, youknow, joking, of course.
But that's the thing is like, Iwas building that life before I
even had it, you know, and thatwas the vision board was a big
part of that.
It was like a construct ofeverything that I wanted to, you
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know, the life that I wanted tobe living in the future was
right there.
So, yeah, I think that itreally, really rewires your
brain in a way that, uh, itstarts to make things happen.
So here's what happened aftermaking the vision board.
Well, three months later, I cameacross the opportunity to apply
for a job in Japan.
And then I kept meeting otherpeople who.
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had been overseas and they hadtraveled around the world.
So, there were these, uh, um,synchronicities that started
popping up all over the place.
And once I realized that,there's like, there's a couple,
there's a few things happeninghere.
There was, um, you know, I waspreparing myself for future
events, but there's also thepower of belief.
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Like I believed, no matter what,that this was going to happen.
And so I never, there might'vebeen a few moments where I kind
of had some self doubt, youknow, is this really going to
happen?
You know, I don't really haveenough.
I don't even have the money.
I didn't have enough money forthe plane ticket and things like
that, but none of that matteredbecause I wasn't focused on, uh,
the outcome, you know, like, uh,just thinking about, um, I was
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just thinking about the nextstep, you know, like, how am I
going to get to the next step soI can eventually get to the
airport, get to the airplane.
So all these things, you know, Iwas kind of going through the
steps and everything, but ofcourse, once I had the job set
up in Japan, then it was just,it was gravy after that because
the company had set upeverything.
And it's like, once that was,uh, a, you know, uh, Definitive,
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um, um, action that's going totake place in the future.
Then that just, um, added morefuel to the fire.
But again, it all came back fromreading that book, taking
action, which is the other pieceof the puzzle, like you have to.
Take action.
You have to believe no matterwhat that is going to happen.
And then everything that you,you know, all of my thoughts,
everything, they were justaligning with all of these, like
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this, uh, vision that I reallywanted.
So, um, part of that was just,you know, and I started to,
Visualize myself, visit, likegoing to these other cultures
and interacting with otherpeople.
So I got into, um, I didn'trealize it at the time.
It was called, you know, likevisual meditation is really what
I was practicing.
And everybody has this power.
I mean, anybody can sit downand, you know, we all know about
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meditation and maybe noteverybody does it.
But when you are thinking aboutsomething with intention.
Uh, you bring attention to thethings that you want to bring
into your life.
Like you manifest everythingthat, um, you truly want.
And this is the, the power ofthe brain is that, um, you know,
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that same, the same brain thatputs these obstacles in our path
and holds us back and, uh, Givesus the things that we don't
want.
Well, it's the same power thatcan give you everything you do
want, right?
And you realize, like, you arethe power, right?
It's not just the, uh, thoughtsthat are powerful.
It's that, um, I may be quotingsomething I think that I read in
The Secret, but it's like, weare powerful.
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So, uh, I just lean right in toall those, you know, all those
ideas and beliefs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, it's, um, uh, I'm alsobig into self help, uh, type,
uh, studies and, and, you know,some after a while it all
started to certain principlesthat, uh, are, are all the same.
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Right.
And, and amongst them are, youknow, visualization and
affirmations that the dreamboard is a, is a version of
that.
Right.
It's just probably with a longerterm outlook and maybe more, um,
you know, Well, visual.
Um, you're actually creating itright there.
Uh, I mean, I just think there'sa reason.
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It sounds kind of woo woo, butclearly you are, there's a
reason why it works.
No matter what, um, you know,what you, what spiritual
practice you believe in orwhatever.
They all preach the same thing,uh, about these practices and
how, how they work.
And so it seems magical, but itworks, right?
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, there's another thing too.
And you know, people don't haveto make a vision board.
You can, it doesn't matter ifit's a vision board or if you're
journaling things down.
I journal things down all thetime and that's something you
can do too.
You can just write everythingdown in a journal, a notebook,
whatever it is, but it'simportant to, to make a vision
board.
You get it out of your head andonto paper or, you know, onto a
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wall.
I mean, you can use software forit.
It doesn't matter as long asyou're clear on what your
intention is.
Like, what is it that you wantto create?
What is it that you want to seein your life?
And I think a lot of people,when they think, Oh, that's woo.
I don't believe it.
That's fine.
But, uh, if you're stuck in aplace in your life where you're
not moving forward, you wantsomething.
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Greater than what you have rightnow.
And I honestly think most peoplewant that.
Um, they need to practicesomething that's different
because.
If you, uh, if you don't believethat, uh, there is something
greater out there that you couldachieve or have or be.
And I think B is the key, uh,key point there, then you're not
going to move forward.
You're not going to have that.
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You know, so, and there are alot of people out there that
don't believe it can happen forthem just because, uh, well,
they're believing in thosethoughts, you know, um, we
really do have to rewire our ownminds, you know, and we have the
power to do that.
So, and I forget that sometimestoo, where I've is where, you
know, I don't, um, yeah, look atmy vision board.
I don't want to think about, uh,my greater self.
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I just want to, sometimes I'lljust stay, you know, you know,
stuck in my problems.
You know, I'll just focus onthat.
And then I'm focusing on.
The lack of everything I don'thave, then I'm lost in my own
scarcity mindset.
Well, when you focus on lack,you get more of that, you know,
and I, this is a constantreminder for me as well.
And I'm sure for a lot of peoplethat, you know, even though, um,
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you may achieve a certain level,you still have to keep working
at it no matter what, you know,so.
Yeah, totally.
So, is that what you talk aboutin, in your book, uh, Relaunch
Your Life?
To a certain extent, but notreally, I didn't really go into
it in great detail.
I'm actually, um, everythingthat I'm talking about now, a
lot of the things, uh, appearedsporadically in several of the
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books.
So, I'm writing a new book rightnow that is more in align with,
uh, you know, building yourgreat life actually.
And, uh, I'm going to be puttingmore of these, but I'm going to,
so I have a bits and pieces ofthese things all over the place,
you know, in, in various booksand blog posts and stuff like
that.
And on, um, you know, in other,uh, interviews, I talk about
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this a lot as well, but relaunchyour life was really about how
to break your negative behaviorand, um, yeah, rewiring your
mindset and overcoming, youknow, your fearful mind, your
scarcity mindset.
And, uh, once you overcomethose, uh, and my mindset is
really just your way ofthinking.
Right.
So that's really what the bookis focused on is how to.
Relaunch your life and, uh,yeah, start something new.
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But yeah, there's, uh, certainlya, uh, newer version of that
book that I think I, I could puttogether.
So that book came out five orsix years ago and, you know, we,
you know, as an author and as acreator, you know, and, and I
think is, For all of us as humanbeings, we're evolving all the
time.
So, you know, your ideas change,your concepts change, uh, your
perception changes.
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So as it changes, I need tocreate a new material to reflect
that as well.
But relaunch your life is a veryimportant book that I wrote, um,
you know, back just, I think itwas just after my father had
passed away.
And, uh, you know, he knew thatI was putting these books
together and everything I wasworking on the book at that
time.
So, um, after he had passedaway, you know, one of the
things he had said to me islike, you know, you have to keep
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going at this thing.
And, uh, and so when I finishedthat book, it was more like a
dedication to, uh, to his life.
So it has a lot of, uh, I thinkpersonal, uh, meaning to me
anyway.
So, uh, yeah, it is actually oneof my favorite books.
So, Oh, wow.
Nice.
So, You know, when, when you'rein a dark place, right.
And all you can think about is,you know, there, uh, there's a
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saying, I think that there's,when you're in a dark place,
something like, uh, there's nota, a solution that you can't
find a problem to, right.
Uh, I've heard say before, um,and that, that seems to be, I
know I've been there at times,sometimes I still go there.
What are some strategies forbreaking out of that?
That's a great question.
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Well, here's what I think aboutthe dark place or the darkness
is that when we're there, whenwe're going through hard times
and.
And sometimes, I mean, that darkplace is just, that's the place
in your mind where, you know,you can't see beyond that at
times.
And honestly, I think it'sactually good to spend time
there.
You know, I think it's a goodthing to spend time in that dark
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place.
To be looking at the things thatyou're afraid to look at.
To be looking at the side ofyourself that you're afraid to
look at.
And I think, um, to your point,you know, like, how do we break
out of that?
Um, I would also question like,like, should we be breaking out
of that right away?
I think it's good to actuallyspend some time there because,
uh, when we're in that darkplace or we're, let's just say
we're going through a hard time,you know, and this could be,
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Yeah, um, maybe you just lostyour job, you know, you ended a
relationship or you're goingthrough depression or something,
whatever it is, and you're justin this space where you want to
escape from that.
And we all want that.
I mean, when we're going througha hard time, we want to, you
know, we don't just want to, ofcourse, you know, sit there and
go through it, but I thinkthat's an important thing to do.
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do because we're forced to, uh,face something that we normally
wouldn't face.
So first of all, don't thinkthat you have to look for some
kind of a, you know, a doorwayright away.
You might have to stay there fora little bit, but in order to
move past that, you need to lookFrom what happens with, you
know, a lot of people as wefocus on the problem.
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So let's just say, for example,that, um, you know, you, um, you
just lost all your money or youwent bankrupt or, you know,
you're having a hard timefinancially.
A lot of people, like, that's adark space for a lot of people.
Um, you know, of course, we'drather have more money.
We want to be more abundant and,uh, thriving more.
But when you're in that space,you're just, you know, I am
anyway, I'm focusing on theproblem.
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Right.
Oh, I don't have enough money.
Money doesn't grow on tree.
I'm lacking everything and thatbecomes my dark place.
That doesn't mean the world is adark place.
It just means that, uh, my mindin that, in that moment or that
period, you know, I've turned itinto my dark place because of my
thoughts are focusing on theproblem.
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So I really, so I think youreally need to, um, do a mindset
shift there, right?
Where, uh, in that case, youknow, I turn from.
What is the opposite of lack?
It's gratitude or it'sabundance, right?
So I start to focus on thethings that I have in my life.
I'm sure, okay, I don't have themillion dollars in my bank
account that I want and it's notgoing to show up there because
I'm focused on, you know, thelack of everything that I, that
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I don't have.
So I need to start focusing on,uh, It's not a material thing
either.
It's not like a, okay, well, Iwant to have be driving on a
fancy car and be living in agreater, bigger house.
So I'm just going to think aboutthose things that are going to
materialize.
I don't really believe in that.
I mean, and although, you know,I could say like, yeah, if you
think about, you want thosethings, you want those things,
you'll always, you'll, you'rejust going to create more of the
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wanting it.
Right.
Doesn't mean those things aregoing to show up.
So you really need to leanharder into the thoughts you're
having around, you know,shifting from focusing on that
lack to abundance and gratitude.
And I think it begins withgratitude.
Gratitude for me is like one ofthe number, the number one
practice every day, you know,and here's what happens in the
morning to a lot of people wakeup myself included.
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First thing I think about a lotof mornings is the thought is
right there and you latch ontoit.
And the thought is.
You know, what's going to happentoday.
I don't, and some, somewhereit's like, I don't have enough
of, and then it's like that onethought just grips me in the
morning and then we build on it.
We compound on it.
And then half hour later, you'rekind of lost in your negativity.
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And you're a lot of people likeour day starts that day that
way.
So in the morning, it's reallyimportant.
Actually, even before themorning, I'll, I'll jump into
that in a minute.
The night before I spend about15 to 30 minutes doing some
meditation.
What am I doing during thismeditation?
I'm visualizing somethingamazing, like an amazing day.
Um, you know, how do I want tobe living my life, uh, like this
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week, this month, you know, whodo I want to be talking to?
You know, I visualize myselftalking to people in my life
that really matter, you know,the people I care about, the
people I love.
And then I'll write down thethings in my journal that I'm
gratified, I'm grateful for.
So when you go to bed, you needto, um, prepare yourself so
that, uh, you know, you have agood sleep, you wake up and then
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I have, uh, affirmations that Iread in the morning as well.
And, uh, you can get theseanywhere.
I mean, you can like, they're inbooks and they're on the
internet there.
You can make them up yourself,right?
Yeah.
But you really need to programyour mind every day.
And I have many days where Iforget to do this, you know,
like before I go to bed, Imight, you know, maybe I'm not
saying watching Netflix beforebed is a bad thing, but you have
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a choice.
Like if you are watching TVevery night before bed.
bed or the news or whatever,then boom, you turn it off, go
right to bed.
Your, your mind is at work allthe time.
And it's going to be, uh, youknow, materializing the things
that you were looking at justbefore you went to sleep.
So I try to prepare myself forthe next day, the night before,
you know, um, in that way, youknow, like when you wake up and,
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and, What I find in the firstthing in the morning, I wake up,
I have my multivitamins, I havesome water, and then I spend 10
to 15 minutes of meditationpractice just sitting down,
getting control of my thoughts,and I can tell you, the rest of
my day goes really well.
On the days when I don't dothat.
it doesn't go as well.
And I get attacked by all the,you know, the negativity and,
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and the lack and the scarcitymindset and all these things.
Like it's a, it's a daily battleactually, but it's a battle
worth fighting.
And it doesn't have to be abattle.
If you just take care of thesethings, like it's really
actually easier than a lot ofpeople think, you know, my
vision boards up upstairs, I'llspend five, 10 minutes, uh, you
know, in the morning looking atthat again Afternoon, you know,
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I'm always adding, I still havea vision board to this day, you
know, I, I got out of thepractice for a long time and now
I've got a new one and I keepadding to it all the time.
So, I just, you know, you haveto have these things forefront
in your mind, always thinkingabout, uh, it's not just
thinking about positive thinkingand all that.
I mean, yeah, that stuff'simportant, but you have to be,
um, Uh, think with intention,right?
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So, uh, have those, uh, havethose, you know, affirmations,
be journaling about the thingsthat you're really passionate
about, you know, what is it youreally want?
And just be really intentionalwith, um, always reminding, we,
we have to constantly remindourselves of these things,
right?
It's not just a one off thingwhere, you know, and it's not,
and again, it's not just aboutlike, uh, you know, making a, a
Christmas list where, you know,like, I want this, this, and
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this.
It's like, if you really wantsomething that matters, like
focusing on, for me, I've alwayswanted to be, you know.
author.
That was my biggest dream was tobe an author and write a bunch
of books.
And, and look, I mean, there waswhen I first started, I, I
really struggled with thebelief, like, you know, is it
going to happen?
Am I good enough?
And, and when you let all thosethoughts and beliefs, uh, kind
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of, you know, uh, break intoyour mind, then that holds you
back from taking action.
So I just put all that aside.
I just focused on my one actionfor the day was to do some
writing for one or two hours.
And yes, I did that for a goodmany years.
But that kept things movingforward, you know, that kept the
dream alive.
So, yeah.
No, that's great.
I, I think going back to thebeginning of that with
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gratitude, I, I, I just thinkthat's so important.
And that, that one singlepractice alone is, is, um, so
great for rewiring the brain,right?
Um, I, you know, the way I makea living is selling real estate
and I've had a team and, and wewould start our morning meetings
every day, a little huddle tojust 10 minute meetings, but
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we'd all start going around justsaying what we're grateful for.
And I remember at the beginning,people having a hard time with
that because we want to justtalk about all the problems we
have coming up, right?
So we can just solve them rightthere and then we can go.
But uh, it really grounds you,you know, just to be grateful
for just a beautiful morning,right?
Um, a great cup of coffee,anything, uh, the little things,
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you know, oftentimes it just, itjust does wonders for you, for
the way you think andeverything.
So.
Yeah, it does.
It does.
Yeah.
It doesn't have to be hard, youknow, just, I think, um, a lot
of people were afraid to spendtime with ourselves, you know,
as part of that, going back tothe darkness, uh, we spend time
with ourselves where I think,you know, and me too, I'm afraid
of like, you know, what am Igoing to see?
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What am I going to think about?
Oh, I've got all these, uh, youknow, Yeah.
It could be financial problems,health problems, whatever it is,
but whatever the problem is,just like identify what it is.
And then I write down thesolution to that right away.
Otherwise I just focus on.
So again, just if I'm going backto, um, a financial situation,
you're like, Oh, I'm in debt.
I have no money and dah, dah,dah.
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And I'm just thinking about thatall day long.
You just get more of that.
And then you're stressed out.
And then, nothing comes of that.
But if I'm looking at, okay,well, what if I did this, this,
and this, and I started to turnthings around.
So you, you got to be moresolution based, like, uh, going
from, you know, focusing on theproblem to right away, like,
what are those solutions?
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And then that becomes yourvision.
You know, it becomes the thingyou meditate on is the solution
to, uh, you know, um, Solvingyour problems, solving your
issues, right?
I mean, we'll always have issuesto solve.
That's great.
But once you figure out how todo it, you know, you've got, uh,
that's the magic and that's thepower, I think.
Totally.
You know, I think financialdistress is, is big.
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Probably most unique in, uh, youknow, I, I've been very
fortunate in my life, right?
Like I've had good health, goodfamily, everything you could
possibly ask for, uh,relationship wise, the whole
nine.
Financially though is where I'vealways kind of been up and down.
It's been a roller coaster forme most of my life, really.
And, and it's funny because inthe times when I'm doing very
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well financially, I'm not oftenin doing any of the things.
That I set out, you know, on myvision board, for example,
right?
And in this, I, you know, nowI'm in my late 40s.
Um, so in this season of mylife, I stopped to look at and
think about that.
I'm like, I, I haven't done anyof the things I wanted to do
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with traveling and, and such.
Um, And because I always thoughtmoney was the obstacle.
I didn't have it.
I had to do more, you know, and,and, and, and then even when I
did have it, I didn't do itanyways.
So, about, you know, 10 yearsago, we just started setting big
dreams and going after them,regardless of the money, whether
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we have it or not.
And somehow, we just Seem toaccomplish them.
You know what I mean?
And uh, the world just providesfor you the universe for so
Tokyo was you know running theTokyo Marathon was an example of
that.
That was my last world major Ihad set out a while back to go
and run all the world majors Ididn't know how I was even gonna
afford to pay the race entriesat times, you know and and then
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uh, and I have now and done manyof races and all over the world
and and And you know it it justIt just happens, you know, and
we're not in bigger debt for itor anything.
I mean, it's just, uh, we, wesomehow figure out how to do it.
So I, I think we create theseobstacles, especially
financially, so many times.
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And I know people who do reallywell and then they're thinking,
Oh, I don't have enough.
I don't have enough inretirement.
I don't have enough, uh, youknow, for this or, uh, and I, I
think that, It's, it's just suchan obstacle we put in front of
ourselves to keep us from doingthe things we want to do, you
know what I mean?
Absolutely.
I totally agree.
I love that too.
It's like, you know, um, youdecide that thing that you want
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to do and you go and do it.
And, um, yeah, for me, it wasalways the same thing.
The thing about, uh, you know,we could talk for hours about
money and I, and I really like,I struggled with the scarcity
mindset my whole life.
You're like, I was like just alife of lack.
And yet when I had money or whenI didn't have money, regardless,
I still always took the trips Iwanted to take, you know,
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whether I had to use a card or,or somehow the money was just
always there.
You know, it took my family too.
You know, in Bali or wherever.
It's like, it was like, once wedecided we're going to do it.
And sometimes we had to do itjust to get away.
Um, it was just there.
I mean, and sometimes if itwasn't there, I'd find a way to
get it, you know, so.
Yeah, but, um, I was going tosay something really important.
Like, I was listening to a, uh,podcast interview recently with
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Dan Martell, who wrote Buy BackYour Time, and he was talking
about this.
And, uh, you know, he says, youknow, If you focus on the cost
of something like that becomeslike, that's kind of like
you're, you're focusing on thescarcity part of it.
Like, oh, I don't have the moneyfor this thing.
You know, he's actually talkingabout a big trip he took with
his whole family and it wasreally expensive and he paid for
the whole thing.
Right.
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But he says like, if there's thecost of this, but then there's
how much is it worth to you?
Right.
So, um, you know, I went backto, I went to Canada, Hawaii
this year and yes, those werevery costly.
Right.
And, um, Uh, when I, you know,got the credit card bills, I was
like, wow, okay.
We spent a lot of money on thesetrips and I really focused on
that.
Like, it really, uh, dug intome, but then I realized, like
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after listening to Dan Martel, Iwas like, but those trips were
so, like the w the, I could not,uh, take the worth of those
trips.
Like, they were just like withfamilies.
So like, I would not trade themfor anything, right.
They had to be done, you know?
So yes, you've gotta measure thecost of something too.
much is actually worth to youemotionally, to your family, to
everything.
And I realized, wow, like, Imean, I have the power to really
like, like make as much money asI want to.
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And I think, again, that's like,people think they're limited,
you know, like, oh, I have it.
And I, I get it.
Like people are maybe, maybeyou're a paycheck.
Check is fixed.
Of course, you're working a jobor whatever it is, you know, so
there's certain and I'm not evensaying those are limitations
because I mean, you know, I backwhen I did have a job.
Sure.
I had a paycheck that was fixed.
And so we had to learn, youknow, we have, we do have to
live within a certain budget, Ithink.
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But, um, you know, if I, uh,wanted more money and I wanted
to manifest more of it, Irealized, wow, I could just, uh,
that's when I actually startedputting the books together and
realize, oh, I can createproducts in the marketplace.
So I just, I learned the skill Ineeded to, in order to make that
happen.
And that's just another kind oflike side note is that if you,
you figure out what your goal isand you need to develop a skill
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in order to make it happen,well, you can go learn that
skill, you know, whether it'sbuilding a Shopify store to sell
products or whatever it is, andif you can't learn the skill,
maybe you can, you know, You getsome money together, you can
hire somebody for it.
But I think that's the, the, theobstacle there is that a lot of
people don't actually know whatthey want yet.
You know, in fact, probably 90percent of people don't really
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know what they want, which iswhy they can't move forward with
their, uh, you know, yeah, theirgoals in their life and they get
stuck and then they get, uh,kind of, you know, fixed on just
the problems and how darkeverything is.
And that's when we get stuck inthe dark spot and we tend to
stay there for just a very longtime.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Talk about that part about, uh,You know, how you gain some of
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that clarity to figure out whatyou want, because I think you're
right.
We do get into a place sometimesin life where we just don't even
know what we want anymore.
And we start to questionpossibly our very existence,
right?
And how, how do we gain clarityin that?
Yeah.
What are some good exercises forthat?
Well, yeah.
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Yeah.
So just going back to when I wasin my 20s, I, so I went to, went
to a university, got to, um, Igot, uh, And as an electrical
engineer.
So that was, uh, that wasactually going way back.
You know, that was my professionat the time.
And I think, um, even at thetime, like I knew that I didn't,
I wasn't going to pursue thatcareer forever.
Like I thought, okay, you know,I'm going to maybe do this for
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four or five or six years, eventhough put a lot of time and
money into getting trained forit and everything.
But I knew that it wasn't what Iwanted to do for the rest of my
life.
And, And here's the thing, like,my point to this is that a lot
of people, you know, we gettrained in something, we learn
something, maybe at a young ageor an older age, and we get
locked into this thing, and wethink that now, you know, now
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that I've been, you know,trained into doing this one
skill, like, this is the thing Ihave to do for the rest of my
life, so we just end up on this,you know, kind of like this one
path where it's like, this isall I can do.
And I hear this all the timefrom you.
Oh, well, this is what I do.
It's all I can do.
I don't know how to do anythingelse.
But when I decided to like, likemove to Japan, for example, I
mean, the company brought meover here to teach English.
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Now I do not have a backgroundin education.
Yes.
I speak the language and thatwas all you needed.
Really.
You also need to have a, like adegree to get a visa and stuff
like that.
And, um, so, but the thing Ididn't have any formal training,
they brought me over here.
They taught us the skill sets inorder for.
I still go out to companies to,you know, teach biggest business
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English and do presentations inthese corporations, but that was
the thing is like, you know, Ichanged my, uh, my profession
from one to the other, that theywere completely unrelated now
with the, um, the books as wellwith publishing.
I didn't know anything aboutpublishing when I first started,
started out, but I knew I wantedto do it and be successful at
it.
So I learned.
That, that skill set as well.
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And that's the thing is that,um, you know, you can, and
again, it comes back to rewiringyour, your mindset and, uh, you
know, realizing like you can doanything you want to once you
decide what it is.
And that was like to get clarityon these things though.
I mean, I had to be veryintentional with what it is that
I wanted.
So, um, not just with the visionboard.
Like I, I would, I.
Journal all the time and I wouldwrite things down all the time.
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Like I want to do, you know,this is what I really want to
do.
And I would just make a storyout of it.
I would make a narrative out ofthat.
You know, I would journal thesethings all the time about, you
know, how it's going to be anauthor and travel the world and
do book signings.
And again, you know, this ispart of like visualizing the
thing that you really want, butthat's what you have to do to
get clarity on it.
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Um, and you have to spend timewith yourself, right?
You really have to, you know,sit down and think about these
things.
Cause I think what happens isthat, um, at the end of the day,
we come home, we're tired, youknow, you, maybe you just, you
just come home from your workand you want to chill out and
just spend the rest of theevening, yeah, watching TV.
And maybe you're spending timewith family and these things,
but, you know, you do have totake that time out for yourself
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to get really like make things.
Ill and quiet, so that you canactually take the time to think
about these things.
And again, what happens with alot of people is, when that,
when we put ourselves in thatsituation, we start thinking
about our problems and all thethings we don't like, right?
So now you've got to think aboutthe things that you, you know,
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coming back to the gratitude.
Okay, start with that.
What are you grateful for now?
How do you want to take this,uh, new power that you're
developing and turn that intosomething that you really want?
And again, this is hard foreverybody because you might be
in your 20s, 30s, 50s, you mightbe 80 years old.
I believe this power exists foranybody.
I've seen people in their 70sand their 80s turn things around
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and do things completelydifferent, you know, so it, Not
just possible.
I've seen it happen, you know,and so, and that's good.
I mean, I need to see that so Ican go.
Wow.
There's an example of, you know,you know, Mary was, um, I don't
know, she maybe had this illnessor she had this belief that she
couldn't do this thing.
And now she's doing it.
So, you know, I asked Mary, howdid you do it?
She goes, Oh, well, I justdecided one day that, uh, you
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know, I wasn't going to let theillness, uh, or this obstacle
get in my way.
So I made a decision.
I made like this definitivedecision to do something about
it.
And she took action.
You know, so you have to, um,you know, you'll get clarity on
the things if you think aboutthe things that, uh, you really
want and, uh, move, you know,move past the, you know, the
negativity, the limitations,which by the way, we're creating
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ourselves, um, it doesn'tmatter, uh, what somebody said
to you in the past or what wasdone.
Um, and we all hold, you know,we all hold on to those, um, old
thoughts and the things thatwere said to us way back when,
and it could be something that,um, you know, somebody had told
you when you were a child thatyou're never going to be worth
anything.
You might have carried thatbelief with you, whether you're
aware of it or not.
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So every, all of your actionswere focused on that one thing,
you know, I'm not worthy.
I'm not worthy.
So we, end up creating that kindof lifestyle.
But, um, that's the thing islike, once you recognize the
monster, once you see it forwhat it is, then you're like,
ah, there it is.
Um, I don't have to believe inthat anymore.
I can create something greaterthan myself.
So, yeah.
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Yeah.
And that's really powerful,isn't it?
How do you think about that?
Um, actually, no, let, let mechange subjects altogether if I
could, because, uh, there'ssomething I, I suspect Kind of
kindred spirits on, and that isshiny object syndrome.
You seem like a very creativeperson.
You, you, which means you, andcorrect me if I'm wrong, but you
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have a lot of ideas and probablylike to work on a lot of things
at once, which is the classicdefinition.
Yeah.
And that's the classic shinyobject syndrome, right?
How do you, uh, tackle that?
Cause I know you've writtenabout that quite a bit and I, I
suffer from this big time.
So could you talk about Surething.
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Yeah, it's one of the newerbooks.
Actually, I just put out maybelike I think it was like last
month Yeah, so shiny objectsyndrome is Yeah, it's just one
of those things where yeah,you're right.
I mean, I have lots of ideas.
I I create I battle against theTemptation to create a new
project every day.
I have new ideas every day fornew books and courses and
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businesses that I won't want topursue and I What I do to handle
that is like, okay, there's thenew idea.
I just write it down on a stickynote, and I have a journal where
I just put all these, or you canput up on your wall or whatever,
but I just will take that idea,I'll file it away somewhere, and
later, I'll actually set asidetime to go through all of the
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ideas that I've had in the lastweek or month, you know, so I
think ideas, we need thoseideas.
They're great.
Um, what happens is when youstart to act on them,
Impulsively, you know, like, Oh,there's a new idea for a new,
whatever it might be a newbusiness.
I'm going to go start thattoday.
And you start pursuing thatforgetting that over here,
you're still working on yourother thing.
And I will just abandon thatthing in the middle and go start
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working on this other thing.
So that's, that's, it is like,you know, I have to.
Um, it's a discipline though.
It's a discipline that you haveto first of all recognize that,
uh, you know, as a creative, mymind is going to do that all day
long.
When it does happen, I can juststop it and go, whoa, whoa, I'm
not finished this over here yet.
I'm just, you know, I'm going towrite down this thought that I
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just had for this new thing.
And, you know, we'll take a lookat it later.
And if it's something that Ineed to pursue, I might do that
because I have, um, started orpursued many things where, yeah,
I regretted it later on.
Maybe I bought something Ishouldn't have, or I invested in
something, or I put time intosomething that I realized, um,
if I just said, no, I couldhave, um, finished this thing
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over here.
That is still half undone.
And I have several projectsthat, I mean, right now that
are, you know, suffering becauseI got distracted by other
things.
things in the last week, month,year.
And so I've made a decision.
And again, making a decision isreally important that I'm going
to finish this thing before I gopursue something else.
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And again, it's just adiscipline.
It's a practice that you haveto, you have to become self
aware.
First of all, that it'shappening.
I think it happens to mostpeople really, you know, and
especially it happens when webecome bored with something or
when you're, if you're workingon something and it becomes
difficult, you know, I mean,When I was putting together my
first, um, I mean, it stillhappens, but when I was putting
together my first book or two,um, you know, it's just, there
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were times when, uh, that gotreally hard when I didn't
believe that I was actuallygoing to finish that project.
So I go start a new one becausestarting something new, you
know, taking that new journey,that's really exciting until the
journey gets tough and thenyou're looking for a new path to
follow.
So I think that's, um, you know,it's, it seems to be, um, It's
something that the, you know,the mind likes to move towards
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comfort, right?
So as soon as something gets,uh, you know, you feel that
discomfort or it's really, youknow, you're, you're now on the
hard path.
We want to tend to, you know,back away from it because, but
here's my advice to like it,like lean harder into it, go
through that, uh, whenever thathard time is, like go.
through it, push yourselfthrough it, make a list.
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And I just have an action list.
Okay.
In order to get this thing doneand stop chasing shiny objects,
I've got to do this today.
And I'll just focus on that oneaction thing so that I can move
forward on my, um, you know, myproject.
Right.
And, and I mean, you can usethis for anything.
Like, I mean, you might be, um,maybe you're, you know, going to
the gym every day.
Like you want to go to the gymand work out all the And, uh,
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you know, There's, uh, there aremany days when I don't want to
go to the gym, so I'll look forsomething else to do, you know,
like something that's more fun,and then I end up, um, probably
eating junk food instead ofgoing to the gym, so I just
break things down into smallsteps, you know, the small steps
works, and it's like, okay,okay.
Okay.
In order to go to the gym, Ihave to pack my bag.
I have to, you know, bike to thegym and I'm gonna, you know,
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park my bike and I just walkmyself through that process.
And that way, I can stay fixedon the goal for that day.
Like the one thing that I wantto do, I just stay on that path
by knowing what the next step isthat I need to take to move
forward.
Do you think it's important tojust make it one thing per day,
or can it be a couple?
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It can be a couple for sure.
In the, yeah, the thing about todo lists is that, and I make
them all the time, and Ihonestly think they're kind of
like the devil's advocate, whereI have this big to do list, and
um, I make a list, actually mylist is short, so I love, the to
do list is great, just make itshort.
So I do three things.
Three things that I want to dofor today.
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they don't have to be related tothe same project because to your
point, actually, that's a goodpoint.
It's like, although I, I lovethe concept of doing one thing
until finished.
Well, if I'm building, I don'tknow, a website or writing a
book, well, that's not going tobe finished in a week or a day.
So it's kind of like a longerproject and it's going to take a
few months.
But the thing is, is like everyday I'll choose one thing to
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work on for that project, whichmeans I'm moving towards that,
you know, and yes, I mean, Weall have multiple projects,
right?
So, you know, and maybe one ofyour projects might be to get
into great shape.
Another project is to, uh, youknow, build more income streams
so you can invest money, thingslike this, like whatever your
projects are, just, um, breakthat, break that down into
smaller action steps.
And that way just do one, youknow, maybe two things a day.
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That's moving it towards thatgoal.
And that way you're going to,um, be less likely to go into,
you know, to fall into like theshiny object syndrome.
I mean, there'll be otheropportunities and things that
pop up.
And, and I think that's great.
I mean, there will beopportunities that come up where
it's like, You know, it might besomething that you really want,
but it's like, do you, I reallyneed this at this time?
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Is this something I shouldpursue right now?
And sometimes it might be a oncein a lifetime opportunity.
I don't remember who said this.
It was Warren Buffett who saidthis, but I think he said, you
know, lifetime opportunities popup twice a month or something or
twice a week or something likethat.
So I think he was alluding toshiny object syndrome where, you
know, you're going to begetting, there will be other
opportunities, but you do haveto, you know, you can't.
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Sue them all, obviously.
Right.
So, yeah, but yeah, that's agreat question.
Yeah.
You know, when I first gotstarted in real estate, uh, as
an investor, I had a mentor whotold me the deal of a lifetime
comes by once a week.
So, which speaks to that.
And I think that's really good.
But, um, well, you know, we,we're going to have to have you
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back on because you, we didn'teven start to scratch the
surface of all of the stuff youwrite about.
Uh, but it's right up our alley,like we mentioned, but if, if
you're up for it, I'd love tohave you back on at some point.
Sure, yeah, we were just gettinggoing.
I know, I know.
Maybe I need to make the podcastlonger, but, uh, we are about at
that point where we should getinto our world famous Wayfinder
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4.
Okay.
And since you're in Japan, thatmakes us, you know, world famous
now since we're in two otherparts of the world.
What part, what time is it overthere by the way?
Love it.
It is almost 8 a.
m.
on Wednesday.
Is it Thursday?
Yeah, Thursday morning.
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
Oh, so, you know what thewinning look if you're yeah
Well, it's almost it's onlyWednesday afternoon here So, you
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know what tonight's lotterywinning lottery ticket numbers
are if you could let us let meknow after I got my numbers
Yeah, I already got the ticketSo Scott What is a hack that you
use?
So a hack that I use, um, I mayhave mentioned several of them
already, but, uh, if it's aproductivity hack, so one of the
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hacks that I use is, um, uh,yeah, just having like an
evening routine.
Right?
So my evening routine is to getclear on what I want to do for
the next day.
And so again, I will write downthose three things that I just
mentioned previously that I wantto do for the next day.
My hack is to put those onpaper.
again, before I go to bed, I'llspend 10, 15 minutes.
And again, that just gets me,you know, I believe in clarity.
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I love clarity.
Not every day.
I don't have clarity every day.
And the reason is like when Idon't, it's because, oh yeah, I
forgot to do that thing, youknow, which is just get clear on
like, you know, you know whatyour goal is.
Now you've got your actionsteps.
Now you have to do.
Uh, you know, every night for afew minutes, just write down
three things, maybe it's onething, you know, one, two, three
things.
I think it's good not to make abig to do list because, um, I
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find that's a very overwhelming.
So that's just one of my hacksfor, you know, like knowing how
it is that I want to show up inthe world the next day.
Excellent.
Uh, you know, we've had a guestwho's actually a friend of mine
from a mastermind group.
I belong to his name is NeilSchwepp, and he wrote this
journal.
I happen to keep it.
I happen to bring it, broughtit, you know, to my desk today,
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but, uh, it's called ResultsOver Excuses, and he, um, every
day, in there, just a couple ofthings, uh, starts the night
before, he just wants you towrite three things that you're
gonna do the next day.
And then, you know, that's howhe starts, you know, that
journal.
So I do think there is somethingto that.
the evening routine as well.
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We talked so much about themorning routine, but, uh, I
thought that was pretty good.
So how about a favorite?
Could be a book, a TV show,movie, show, hobby?
Yep.
Lots of favorite things.
I would say, uh, probably one ofmy favorite books right now, um,
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I'm reading, uh, Mind Magic.
So I have a lot of books, ofcourse, you know, I could
probably Pull it from a wholebunch of them.
But, uh, yeah, Mind Magic is,uh, very powerful.
It was written by the sameauthor who wrote Into the Magic
Shop.
I definitely recommend one orboth of those books.
It's all about, uh, going up inthe world and tapping into your
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inner magic to manifest the lifethat you want.
So there's the word again,manifestation.
Um, you know, Creating a lifethat you want through magic.
You know, he gets into his, hewas a neuroscientist.
Right.
So, and, uh, so he really getsinto that a lot in the book.
I'm only halfway through thebook, but I've read into the
magic shop where actually thatcan't maybe five or six years
ago, but yeah, those books aregame changers.
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So, um, at another 20 minutes, Igo through my.
My whole book collection of allthe other books I recommend, but
if you're into productivity oryou want to, you want to just
like, uh, like I alreadymentioned Dan Martell's Buy Back
Your Time.
Love that book.
Um, it's certainly helped me inmy life and my business.
Excellent.
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Um, how about a piece of advicefor your younger self?
For my younger self?
Uh, yeah, the piece of advicefor my younger self is, um, you
know, just be yourself.
keep going because, um, it getsbetter, you know, don't give up.
And I think my younger self wasnever somebody who would have
given up anyway.
But, you know, there are momentswhen I just, I needed to hear
that from somebody, I think.
So, you know, like there's a,you know, if you, you know, if
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you keep pushing forward, greatthings are going to happen.
So, but I always believe that toa certain extent, I think, uh,
you know, but, uh, yeah, I do.
And by the way, just a quicklittle visualization practice
that I do, I do visualize myselfnow going back in time Younger
self and having thatconversation, you know, what is
that conversation?
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How would you, what would youtalk about to your, your younger
self?
Yeah.
Cause I think it's important toconnect with that, uh, that
person.
Okay.
I love that.
I never heard that, but I, Iguess in, I know in like trauma,
uh, relief, that's somethingthat is often done, right.
Identify, you know, the innerchild and go there and talk to
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him and say, it's okay, kind ofthing.
So that's, that's interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, here's just one more.
I'll add one more thing to that.
There's that piece of it.
Now, imagine yourself right nowand your future self is coming
back to have a conversation withyou.
What would that look like?
Yeah.
That conversation is actuallysomething I'm leaning more into
these days because I think thatwhatever actions that I'm taking
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today, my future self is comingback to thank me for those
things.
So I visualize my future self20, 30 years in the future
coming back and maybe 10 years,you know, coming back to meet
you right now.
And, uh, you know, they'resaying, wow, you know, I'm so
glad the.
You, you know, you changed, youchanged the way that you're
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doing this thing or you, youknow, like whatever it is that
you're working on right now,that is your future.
You know, your, the future isnot like it's something that's
happening, you know, later ontoday or tomorrow or next week.
It's right now, you know, so.
That's right.
Yeah, no, that, that's reallypowerful.
I find myself saying that a lotmore now.
I had a guest on, uh, about ayear ago now, a guy named Jamie
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Gruber.
He just.
Flipped that question on itshead to me and told me exactly
that, Hey, I'd like to answer itis what will my 80 year old self
be telling me to do now?
And that was the first time Iheard that.
And it was, I found that to bevery profound.
And now I've had conversationswith folks who are in their
eighties and are completebadasses and, and they're just
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thinking, Hey, I'm just gettingstarted.
I'm going to live to 120.
Had one gentleman tell me that.
And I was like, Oh wow.
And so then when you reallystart to think about it in that
case, it just.
Amazing, right?
Like, we still have a shot atjust compounding so much
success, right?
Like, and, and, uh, andachievement.
It's wild.
What, um, what about, let youchoose this last one, uh, a
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limiting belief, perhaps thatyou've had or how to overcome
it, or a big opportunity?
That you're pursuing, or you seeout there in the world.
Mm hmm.
Okay.
Well, a limiting belief thatI've had to overcome is I'm not
enough, you know, um, stillworking at that every day.
I think it's something you haveto work at again and again and
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again.
Comes back to the, you know, thelack mindset, scarcity mindset,
just, um, tackling that everyday, you know?
So there's that.
Uh, the, um, the second thingyou mentioned though, like,
yeah, that's, uh, the bigopportunity that I'm pursuing
is, uh, I want.
To get onto big stages and talkto millions of people and just,
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um, you know, um, deliver myframeworks and, uh, share with
people the, uh, you know, the,the pathway, you know, the path
that they can build to have thatgreatest, that, that great life
that, uh, a lot of people aren'teven aware, I think, of the
potential, the true potentialthat we have.
Like, my message is that, It's,it's untapped.
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It's unlimited.
You know, you are limitless andI just want to get there out
there into, uh, in front of themany and, um, share the message,
you know, share the dream.
And, um, you know, I, um, I'mdoing that I think now with, uh,
you know, doing interviews andpodcast interviews and
everything, and that's great.
But eventually I'm going to thebig stage where I'm really
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excited to, uh, you know,building out that opportunity
for the near future.
So.
Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, thank you for, for beinghere and doing that with us.
That was actually one of ouroriginal intentions with the
Wayfinder show.
Um, I, I thought what better wayto inspire people, you know, uh,
uh, than to get other peoplewho, who have done it, you know,
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and share their stories with,with everybody.
And hopefully, uh, people willlisten and, and get something
out of it.
So what about a show?
It's been great.
Yeah.
Thank you for being here.
And I mean it when I say weshould I'd love to do a repeat
Maybe a few times because writequite and you're writing even
more so and it's right up ouralley So Scott if people want to
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know a little bit more aboutyou, maybe where to find your
books and such Where can we whatcan we find you?
Absolutely.
So they can visit us atScottAllenBooks.
com and I also have a newslettercalled The Daily Mentor and they
can subscribe for that.
We can put the links in the showlater.
And then, um, they can go to,probably go to YouTube and they
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can find a lot of interviews onthere or probably just Google.
And of course we have, um, JustGoogle, Scott Allen interviews
or Scott Allen.
Scott, uh, Scott Allen books orauthor.
And of course we have Amazonwhere they tend to, they, they
sell everything on there.
So you can always find the bookson there as well.
That's right.
Is the, the daily mentor, How,how do you sign up for that?
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Yeah, I can, um, send you the,link you can put it in the show
notes if you want to.
Oh, perfect.
So yeah, we're just, we'reactually just in the process of
building out a landing page forthat, so.
Okay.
because we, we switch over fromour, our software, so yeah,
we've got a new page.
It's gonna be ready next day orso, so I can send that link over
to you and people can just, findthat in the show notes if that's
okay.
that's great.
Thank you so much.
Well, Scott, it's been a realjoy.
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in everything that we'd like totalk about here.
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You can do anything you want toonce you decide what it is.
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And that was like to get clarityon these things though.
I mean, I had to be veryintentional with what it is that
I wanted.
So, um, not just with the visionboard, like I, I would, I
journal all the time and I wouldwrite things down all the time.
Like I want to do, you know,this is what I really want to
do.
And I would just make a storyout of it.
I would make a narrative.
out of that.
You know, I would journal thesethings, um, all the time about,
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you know, how it's going to bean author and travel the world
and do book signings.
And again, you know, this ispart of like visualizing the
thing that you really want, butthat's what you had to, uh, to
do to get clarity on it.
Um, and you have to spend timewith yourself, right?
You really have to, you know,sit down and think about these
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Come join us and find the way toyour dream life.
Welcome back to the way findershow.
This is your host, LouieHernandez.
And today I'm here with ScottAllen.
Scott Allen is the author ofmultiple bestselling books,
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including do the hard thingsfirst undefeated and empower
your thoughts as a formercorporate business trainer in
Japan for over 20 years.
He has invested.
Over 10, 000 hours of practiceand research and confidence
development, cognitivebehavioral therapy, and mindset
optimization.
Scott is passionate aboutteaching, building life skills,
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and inspiring others to takecharge of their lives.
Scott, welcome to the wayfindershow.
Oh, it's great to be here.
Thanks for having me on theshow.
Thank you for being here.
You, you, you write and teachabout our favorite subjects to
talk about really.
So this is going to be a funconversation, you know, but
before we get into all of that,could you tell the folks a
little bit about yourself?
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You know, I'm a particular, Iknow you're not originally from
Japan, so I'd love for you totalk a little bit how you got
there.
Sure thing.
So yes, I've been living inJapan for about 27 years.
So it's been a little while andI'm originally from Canada and I
moved here way back in 98 afterI was going through a period in
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my life where I was just goingthrough some changes.
And a friend of mine had givenme a book by Tony Robbins called
The Wick and the Giant Within.
He was one of my mentors,actually.
And he said, you have to readit.
read this book.
He knew that I was goingthrough, uh, you know, just a
period in my life where I, I, Ihad this feeling that I had to
change the way things were, theway that I was living, and I
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wanted to do something that I'dnever done before, you know,
something exciting, fun,adventurous.
So I read Tony's book, I puttogether A list of goals for
myself.
I created a vision board from,uh, the advice in the book, and
within a week or two, I hadtransformed my apartment into
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one big vision board.
And on the vision board I hadimages of all the places I
wanted to go and I hadpositivity quotes everywhere
and, uh, you know, a list of mygoals.
And so I just was basically.
Building the life that I wantedto create for myself.
So that was really exciting.
You know, I'd never doneanything like that before.
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And one of the things, uh, oneof my goals was actually, well,
I had three goals.
One of them was to become a, anauthor, which eventually
happened.
And the other one was I wantedto travel the world.
So I made a decision that a yearfrom that date, maybe this was
back in 97, I said, okay, oneyear from now, I'm going to move
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to, and I didn't have Japan onthe radar at the time, that came
a little bit later.
I think my plan was just to moveto Thailand or Asia and start
something new.
I wasn't sure what it was, but Iwas just going to get on a plane
on this date and So a few monthslater, I was browsing through
the newspaper and came across anad that, uh, said, teach English
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in Japan, apply now.
And I thought that's a greatidea.
So that's exactly what I did.
Sent in a resume with a reallynice cover letter.
And, uh, this company got backto me within about a month, I
think, and they invited me foran interview.
So next thing I knew I was indowntown Vancouver in a uh,
having a business lunch withthe, you know, Japanese
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businessman who owned these, uh,business schools in Japan.
And, um, yeah, they ended uphiring me, uh, brought me over
to Japan and, uh, set me up in ahomestay and gave me a car to
drive.
And, you know, I had, uh, cashin my pocket and I just thought
it was great.
And I was living this dream lifethat I never imagined.
Yes, I went to, you know, Kyotoand, uh, I was living in, so I
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live in this city calledYokohama.
It's just outside of Kobe andended up traveling all over.
for the country and thentraveling to other countries.
And of course I stayed here,which was another journey in and
of itself, you know, justgetting visas and all those
things.
So there's always theseobstacles that I, you know, had
to go through to, in order tostay here and maintain my
lifestyle, but, uh, it allworked out.
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You know, and, uh, yeah, like Isaid, I've been here for almost
half my life now, so, and, uh,continue to, um, live the dream,
I think.
And that's what I love to teachabout in, in the material I
write and everything.
It's all about, uh, you know,building that, uh, life of
greatness.
And not all the books are aboutthat, but that's really the core
concept behind everything that Iteach is, uh, you know, how to
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use magic to create the lifethat you want.
Hmm.
You know, I, or how I like toframe it, you know, building.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, you know, I, our listenersknow that I went to Japan
earlier in 24 and I absolutelyfell in love with it.
And we were talking before theshow about, about, uh, that's
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something we, we may do as well.
It's just a magical place, butlet's go back to the part where
you were doing the vision board.
You said you, you turned, uh,your apartment into a big vision
board.
There is, there is something,I've done this a few times in my
life and I've done it with, youknow, agent who worked for me
and such and, and, uh, there'ssomething very exciting about
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that, right?
Like, it's just, as you start todo it, it's very difficult to
start.
Sometimes it's almost scary, butthen when you get started,
there's some excitement thatbuilds, right?
And, and you start to dream and,and, and it just becomes a lot
of fun, right?
I mean, what do you think it isabout that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Process.
I think there's a, um, there'san inner power that you tap into
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when you put something like thattogether.
Because I truly believe, youknow, I started to dive a little
bit into neuroscience, you know,in the last year or two.
I'm not an expert in thesubject, but I'm learning a lot
from this.
Something I've learned aboutjust studying about the quantum
field and neuroscience andScientology is that uh, When you
start to you know, build avision for your life and you
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focus on this thing every day Solike that's what a vision board
really is is it was a vision forthe life that I want to create
inside my mind And then I just,you know, externally, I, you
know, put that onto a, uh, pieceof paper and I just, and so
every day it's right there.
And that's the thing, it's like,the things that you talk about,
the things that you look at,everything you think about, all
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of these things, it starts to,um, You know, rewire your brain
really, you know, and I wascoming from a place of, uh, you
know, before that I had a lifeof where I was partying all the
time and I was just like, that'sall I really wanted to do with
my life.
And so I believe that whateveryou want, uh, and not just that
I believe it, I've proven itthat whatever you want, the
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universe is going to give itback to you.
So when I was out there partyingand drinking, doing all the, you
know, having this, uh, chaoticlifestyle, I wanted that and I
got that, you know, and thenwhen I didn't want it I ended up
leaving that behind pursuingsomething greater and that was
where the I got more into theself help and personal
development and then dream boardcame from that and then I
realized, Oh, I actually wantsomething, you know, greater for
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myself.
And that was when I put theboard together.
I started thinking.
Thinking about that every dayand seeing that every day and
then, um, part of it is as wellas like I would go to the
library or the bookstore and Iwould take out books on, you
know, how to speak Thai orVietnamese and I would get these
language books and bring themhome and I started reading them
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and my roommates would be like,what are you doing?
I'm like, Oh, well, I'm leavingfor Southeast Asia next, uh,
next year.
So I've got to prepare.
And they thought I was, uh, youknow, joking, of course.
But that's the thing is like, Iwas building that life before I
even had it, you know, and thatwas the vision board was a big
part of that.
It was like a construct ofeverything that I wanted to, you
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know, the life that I wanted tobe living in the future was
right there.
So, yeah, I think that itreally, really rewires your
brain in a way that, uh, itstarts to make things happen.
So here's what happened aftermaking the vision board.
Well, three months later, I cameacross the opportunity to apply
for a job in Japan.
And then I kept meeting otherpeople who.
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had been overseas and they hadtraveled around the world.
So, there were these, uh, um,synchronicities that started
popping up all over the place.
And once I realized that,there's like, there's a couple,
there's a few things happeninghere.
There was, um, you know, I waspreparing myself for future
events, but there's also thepower of belief.
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Like I believed, no matter what,that this was going to happen.
And so I never, there might'vebeen a few moments where I kind
of had some self doubt, youknow, is this really going to
happen?
You know, I don't really haveenough.
I don't even have the money.
I didn't have enough money forthe plane ticket and things like
that, but none of that matteredbecause I wasn't focused on, uh,
the outcome, you know, like, uh,just thinking about, um, I was
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just thinking about the nextstep, you know, like, how am I
going to get to the next step soI can eventually get to the
airport, get to the airplane.
So all these things, you know, Iwas kind of going through the
steps and everything, but ofcourse, once I had the job set
up in Japan, then it was just,it was gravy after that because
the company had set upeverything.
And it's like, once that was,uh, a, you know, uh, Definitive,
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um, um, action that's going totake place in the future.
Then that just, um, added morefuel to the fire.
But again, it all came back fromreading that book, taking
action, which is the other pieceof the puzzle, like you have to.
Take action.
You have to believe no matterwhat that is going to happen.
And then everything that you,you know, all of my thoughts,
everything, they were justaligning with all of these, like
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this, uh, vision that I reallywanted.
So, um, part of that was just,you know, and I started to,
Visualize myself, visit, likegoing to these other cultures
and interacting with otherpeople.
So I got into, um, I didn'trealize it at the time.
It was called, you know, likevisual meditation is really what
I was practicing.
And everybody has this power.
I mean, anybody can sit downand, you know, we all know about
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meditation and maybe noteverybody does it.
But when you are thinking aboutsomething with intention.
Uh, you bring attention to thethings that you want to bring
into your life.
Like you manifest everythingthat, um, you truly want.
And this is the, the power ofthe brain is that, um, you know,
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that same, the same brain thatputs these obstacles in our path
and holds us back and, uh, Givesus the things that we don't
want.
Well, it's the same power thatcan give you everything you do
want, right?
And you realize, like, you arethe power, right?
It's not just the, uh, thoughtsthat are powerful.
It's that, um, I may be quotingsomething I think that I read in
The Secret, but it's like, weare powerful.
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So, uh, I just lean right in toall those, you know, all those
ideas and beliefs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, it's, um, uh, I'm alsobig into self help, uh, type,
uh, studies and, and, you know,some after a while it all
started to certain principlesthat, uh, are, are all the same.
(12:25):
Right.
And, and amongst them are, youknow, visualization and
affirmations that the dreamboard is a, is a version of
that.
Right.
It's just probably with a longerterm outlook and maybe more, um,
you know, Well, visual.
Um, you're actually creating itright there.
Uh, I mean, I just think there'sa reason.
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It sounds kind of woo woo, butclearly you are, there's a
reason why it works.
No matter what, um, you know,what you, what spiritual
practice you believe in orwhatever.
They all preach the same thing,uh, about these practices and
how, how they work.
And so it seems magical, but itworks, right?
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, there's another thing too.
And you know, people don't haveto make a vision board.
You can, it doesn't matter ifit's a vision board or if you're
journaling things down.
I journal things down all thetime and that's something you
can do too.
You can just write everythingdown in a journal, a notebook,
whatever it is, but it'simportant to, to make a vision
board.
You get it out of your head andonto paper or, you know, onto a
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wall.
I mean, you can use software forit.
It doesn't matter as long asyou're clear on what your
intention is.
Like, what is it that you wantto create?
What is it that you want to seein your life?
And I think a lot of people,when they think, Oh, that's woo.
I don't believe it.
That's fine.
But, uh, if you're stuck in aplace in your life where you're
not moving forward, you wantsomething.
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Greater than what you have rightnow.
And I honestly think most peoplewant that.
Um, they need to practicesomething that's different
because.
If you, uh, if you don't believethat, uh, there is something
greater out there that you couldachieve or have or be.
And I think B is the key, uh,key point there, then you're not
going to move forward.
You're not going to have that.
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You know, so, and there are alot of people out there that
don't believe it can happen forthem just because, uh, well,
they're believing in thosethoughts, you know, um, we
really do have to rewire our ownminds, you know, and we have the
power to do that.
So, and I forget that sometimestoo, where I've is where, you
know, I don't, um, yeah, look atmy vision board.
I don't want to think about, uh,my greater self.
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I just want to, sometimes I'lljust stay, you know, you know,
stuck in my problems.
You know, I'll just focus onthat.
And then I'm focusing on.
The lack of everything I don'thave, then I'm lost in my own
scarcity mindset.
Well, when you focus on lack,you get more of that, you know,
and I, this is a constantreminder for me as well.
And I'm sure for a lot of peoplethat, you know, even though, um,
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you may achieve a certain level,you still have to keep working
at it no matter what, you know,so.
Yeah, totally.
So, is that what you talk aboutin, in your book, uh, Relaunch
Your Life?
To a certain extent, but notreally, I didn't really go into
it in great detail.
I'm actually, um, everythingthat I'm talking about now, a
lot of the things, uh, appearedsporadically in several of the
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books.
So, I'm writing a new book rightnow that is more in align with,
uh, you know, building yourgreat life actually.
And, uh, I'm going to be puttingmore of these, but I'm going to,
so I have a bits and pieces ofthese things all over the place,
you know, in, in various booksand blog posts and stuff like
that.
And on, um, you know, in other,uh, interviews, I talk about
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this a lot as well, but relaunchyour life was really about how
to break your negative behaviorand, um, yeah, rewiring your
mindset and overcoming, youknow, your fearful mind, your
scarcity mindset.
And, uh, once you overcomethose, uh, and my mindset is
really just your way ofthinking.
Right.
So that's really what the bookis focused on is how to.
Relaunch your life and, uh,yeah, start something new.
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But yeah, there's, uh, certainlya, uh, newer version of that
book that I think I, I could puttogether.
So that book came out five orsix years ago and, you know, we,
you know, as an author and as acreator, you know, and, and I
think is, For all of us as humanbeings, we're evolving all the
time.
So, you know, your ideas change,your concepts change, uh, your
perception changes.
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So as it changes, I need tocreate a new material to reflect
that as well.
But relaunch your life is a veryimportant book that I wrote, um,
you know, back just, I think itwas just after my father had
passed away.
And, uh, you know, he knew thatI was putting these books
together and everything I wasworking on the book at that
time.
So, um, after he had passedaway, you know, one of the
things he had said to me islike, you know, you have to keep
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going at this thing.
And, uh, and so when I finishedthat book, it was more like a
dedication to, uh, to his life.
So it has a lot of, uh, I thinkpersonal, uh, meaning to me
anyway.
So, uh, yeah, it is actually oneof my favorite books.
So, Oh, wow.
Nice.
So, You know, when, when you'rein a dark place, right.
And all you can think about is,you know, there, uh, there's a
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saying, I think that there's,when you're in a dark place,
something like, uh, there's nota, a solution that you can't
find a problem to, right.
Uh, I've heard say before, um,and that, that seems to be, I
know I've been there at times,sometimes I still go there.
What are some strategies forbreaking out of that?
That's a great question.
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Well, here's what I think aboutthe dark place or the darkness
is that when we're there, whenwe're going through hard times
and.
And sometimes, I mean, that darkplace is just, that's the place
in your mind where, you know,you can't see beyond that at
times.
And honestly, I think it'sactually good to spend time
there.
You know, I think it's a goodthing to spend time in that dark
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place.
To be looking at the things thatyou're afraid to look at.
To be looking at the side ofyourself that you're afraid to
look at.
And I think, um, to your point,you know, like, how do we break
out of that?
Um, I would also question like,like, should we be breaking out
of that right away?
I think it's good to actuallyspend some time there because,
uh, when we're in that darkplace or we're, let's just say
we're going through a hard time,you know, and this could be,
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Yeah, um, maybe you just lostyour job, you know, you ended a
relationship or you're goingthrough depression or something,
whatever it is, and you're justin this space where you want to
escape from that.
And we all want that.
I mean, when we're going througha hard time, we want to, you
know, we don't just want to, ofcourse, you know, sit there and
go through it, but I thinkthat's an important thing to do.
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do because we're forced to, uh,face something that we normally
wouldn't face.
So first of all, don't thinkthat you have to look for some
kind of a, you know, a doorwayright away.
You might have to stay there fora little bit, but in order to
move past that, you need to lookFrom what happens with, you
know, a lot of people as wefocus on the problem.
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So let's just say, for example,that, um, you know, you, um, you
just lost all your money or youwent bankrupt or, you know,
you're having a hard timefinancially.
A lot of people, like, that's adark space for a lot of people.
Um, you know, of course, we'drather have more money.
We want to be more abundant and,uh, thriving more.
But when you're in that space,you're just, you know, I am
anyway, I'm focusing on theproblem.
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Right.
Oh, I don't have enough money.
Money doesn't grow on tree.
I'm lacking everything and thatbecomes my dark place.
That doesn't mean the world is adark place.
It just means that, uh, my mindin that, in that moment or that
period, you know, I've turned itinto my dark place because of my
thoughts are focusing on theproblem.
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So I really, so I think youreally need to, um, do a mindset
shift there, right?
Where, uh, in that case, youknow, I turn from.
What is the opposite of lack?
It's gratitude or it'sabundance, right?
So I start to focus on thethings that I have in my life.
I'm sure, okay, I don't have themillion dollars in my bank
account that I want and it's notgoing to show up there because
I'm focused on, you know, thelack of everything that I, that
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I don't have.
So I need to start focusing on,uh, It's not a material thing
either.
It's not like a, okay, well, Iwant to have be driving on a
fancy car and be living in agreater, bigger house.
So I'm just going to think aboutthose things that are going to
materialize.
I don't really believe in that.
I mean, and although, you know,I could say like, yeah, if you
think about, you want thosethings, you want those things,
you'll always, you'll, you'rejust going to create more of the
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wanting it.
Right.
Doesn't mean those things aregoing to show up.
So you really need to leanharder into the thoughts you're
having around, you know,shifting from focusing on that
lack to abundance and gratitude.
And I think it begins withgratitude.
Gratitude for me is like one ofthe number, the number one
practice every day, you know,and here's what happens in the
morning to a lot of people wakeup myself included.
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First thing I think about a lotof mornings is the thought is
right there and you latch ontoit.
And the thought is.
You know, what's going to happentoday.
I don't, and some, somewhereit's like, I don't have enough
of, and then it's like that onethought just grips me in the
morning and then we build on it.
We compound on it.
And then half hour later, you'rekind of lost in your negativity.
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And you're a lot of people likeour day starts that day that
way.
So in the morning, it's reallyimportant.
Actually, even before themorning, I'll, I'll jump into
that in a minute.
The night before I spend about15 to 30 minutes doing some
meditation.
What am I doing during thismeditation?
I'm visualizing somethingamazing, like an amazing day.
Um, you know, how do I want tobe living my life, uh, like this
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week, this month, you know, whodo I want to be talking to?
You know, I visualize myselftalking to people in my life
that really matter, you know,the people I care about, the
people I love.
And then I'll write down thethings in my journal that I'm
gratified, I'm grateful for.
So when you go to bed, you needto, um, prepare yourself so
that, uh, you know, you have agood sleep, you wake up and then
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I have, uh, affirmations that Iread in the morning as well.
And, uh, you can get theseanywhere.
I mean, you can like, they're inbooks and they're on the
internet there.
You can make them up yourself,right?
Yeah.
But you really need to programyour mind every day.
And I have many days where Iforget to do this, you know,
like before I go to bed, Imight, you know, maybe I'm not
saying watching Netflix beforebed is a bad thing, but you have
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a choice.
Like if you are watching TVevery night before bed.
bed or the news or whatever,then boom, you turn it off, go
right to bed.
Your, your mind is at work allthe time.
And it's going to be, uh, youknow, materializing the things
that you were looking at justbefore you went to sleep.
So I try to prepare myself forthe next day, the night before,
you know, um, in that way, youknow, like when you wake up and,
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and, What I find in the firstthing in the morning, I wake up,
I have my multivitamins, I havesome water, and then I spend 10
to 15 minutes of meditationpractice just sitting down,
getting control of my thoughts,and I can tell you, the rest of
my day goes really well.
On the days when I don't dothat.
it doesn't go as well.
And I get attacked by all the,you know, the negativity and,
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and the lack and the scarcitymindset and all these things.
Like it's a, it's a daily battleactually, but it's a battle
worth fighting.
And it doesn't have to be abattle.
If you just take care of thesethings, like it's really
actually easier than a lot ofpeople think, you know, my
vision boards up upstairs, I'llspend five, 10 minutes, uh, you
know, in the morning looking atthat again Afternoon, you know,
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I'm always adding, I still havea vision board to this day, you
know, I, I got out of thepractice for a long time and now
I've got a new one and I keepadding to it all the time.
So, I just, you know, you haveto have these things forefront
in your mind, always thinkingabout, uh, it's not just
thinking about positive thinkingand all that.
I mean, yeah, that stuff'simportant, but you have to be,
um, Uh, think with intention,right?
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So, uh, have those, uh, havethose, you know, affirmations,
be journaling about the thingsthat you're really passionate
about, you know, what is it youreally want?
And just be really intentionalwith, um, always reminding, we,
we have to constantly remindourselves of these things,
right?
It's not just a one off thingwhere, you know, and it's not,
and again, it's not just aboutlike, uh, you know, making a, a
Christmas list where, you know,like, I want this, this, and
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this.
It's like, if you really wantsomething that matters, like
focusing on, for me, I've alwayswanted to be, you know.
author.
That was my biggest dream was tobe an author and write a bunch
of books.
And, and look, I mean, there waswhen I first started, I, I
really struggled with thebelief, like, you know, is it
going to happen?
Am I good enough?
And, and when you let all thosethoughts and beliefs, uh, kind
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of, you know, uh, break intoyour mind, then that holds you
back from taking action.
So I just put all that aside.
I just focused on my one actionfor the day was to do some
writing for one or two hours.
And yes, I did that for a goodmany years.
But that kept things movingforward, you know, that kept the
dream alive.
So, yeah.
No, that's great.
I, I think going back to thebeginning of that with
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gratitude, I, I, I just thinkthat's so important.
And that, that one singlepractice alone is, is, um, so
great for rewiring the brain,right?
Um, I, you know, the way I makea living is selling real estate
and I've had a team and, and wewould start our morning meetings
every day, a little huddle tojust 10 minute meetings, but
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we'd all start going around justsaying what we're grateful for.
And I remember at the beginning,people having a hard time with
that because we want to justtalk about all the problems we
have coming up, right?
So we can just solve them rightthere and then we can go.
But uh, it really grounds you,you know, just to be grateful
for just a beautiful morning,right?
Um, a great cup of coffee,anything, uh, the little things,
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you know, oftentimes it just, itjust does wonders for you, for
the way you think andeverything.
So.
Yeah, it does.
It does.
Yeah.
It doesn't have to be hard, youknow, just, I think, um, a lot
of people were afraid to spendtime with ourselves, you know,
as part of that, going back tothe darkness, uh, we spend time
with ourselves where I think,you know, and me too, I'm afraid
of like, you know, what am Igoing to see?
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What am I going to think about?
Oh, I've got all these, uh, youknow, Yeah.
It could be financial problems,health problems, whatever it is,
but whatever the problem is,just like identify what it is.
And then I write down thesolution to that right away.
Otherwise I just focus on.
So again, just if I'm going backto, um, a financial situation,
you're like, Oh, I'm in debt.
I have no money and dah, dah,dah.
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And I'm just thinking about thatall day long.
You just get more of that.
And then you're stressed out.
And then, nothing comes of that.
But if I'm looking at, okay,well, what if I did this, this,
and this, and I started to turnthings around.
So you, you got to be moresolution based, like, uh, going
from, you know, focusing on theproblem to right away, like,
what are those solutions?
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And then that becomes yourvision.
You know, it becomes the thingyou meditate on is the solution
to, uh, you know, um, Solvingyour problems, solving your
issues, right?
I mean, we'll always have issuesto solve.
That's great.
But once you figure out how todo it, you know, you've got, uh,
that's the magic and that's thepower, I think.
Totally.
You know, I think financialdistress is, is big.
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Probably most unique in, uh, youknow, I, I've been very
fortunate in my life, right?
Like I've had good health, goodfamily, everything you could
possibly ask for, uh,relationship wise, the whole
nine.
Financially though is where I'vealways kind of been up and down.
It's been a roller coaster forme most of my life, really.
And, and it's funny because inthe times when I'm doing very
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well financially, I'm not oftenin doing any of the things.
That I set out, you know, on myvision board, for example,
right?
And in this, I, you know, nowI'm in my late 40s.
Um, so in this season of mylife, I stopped to look at and
think about that.
I'm like, I, I haven't done anyof the things I wanted to do
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with traveling and, and such.
Um, And because I always thoughtmoney was the obstacle.
I didn't have it.
I had to do more, you know, and,and, and, and then even when I
did have it, I didn't do itanyways.
So, about, you know, 10 yearsago, we just started setting big
dreams and going after them,regardless of the money, whether
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we have it or not.
And somehow, we just Seem toaccomplish them.
You know what I mean?
And uh, the world just providesfor you the universe for so
Tokyo was you know running theTokyo Marathon was an example of
that.
That was my last world major Ihad set out a while back to go
and run all the world majors Ididn't know how I was even gonna
afford to pay the race entriesat times, you know and and then
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uh, and I have now and done manyof races and all over the world
and and And you know it it justIt just happens, you know, and
we're not in bigger debt for itor anything.
I mean, it's just, uh, we, wesomehow figure out how to do it.
So I, I think we create theseobstacles, especially
financially, so many times.
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And I know people who do reallywell and then they're thinking,
Oh, I don't have enough.
I don't have enough inretirement.
I don't have enough, uh, youknow, for this or, uh, and I, I
think that, It's, it's just suchan obstacle we put in front of
ourselves to keep us from doingthe things we want to do, you
know what I mean?
Absolutely.
I totally agree.
I love that too.
It's like, you know, um, youdecide that thing that you want
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to do and you go and do it.
And, um, yeah, for me, it wasalways the same thing.
The thing about, uh, you know,we could talk for hours about
money and I, and I really like,I struggled with the scarcity
mindset my whole life.
You're like, I was like just alife of lack.
And yet when I had money or whenI didn't have money, regardless,
I still always took the trips Iwanted to take, you know,
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whether I had to use a card or,or somehow the money was just
always there.
You know, it took my family too.
You know, in Bali or wherever.
It's like, it was like, once wedecided we're going to do it.
And sometimes we had to do itjust to get away.
Um, it was just there.
I mean, and sometimes if itwasn't there, I'd find a way to
get it, you know, so.
Yeah, but, um, I was going tosay something really important.
Like, I was listening to a, uh,podcast interview recently with
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Dan Martell, who wrote Buy BackYour Time, and he was talking
about this.
And, uh, you know, he says, youknow, If you focus on the cost
of something like that becomeslike, that's kind of like
you're, you're focusing on thescarcity part of it.
Like, oh, I don't have the moneyfor this thing.
You know, he's actually talkingabout a big trip he took with
his whole family and it wasreally expensive and he paid for
the whole thing.
Right.
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But he says like, if there's thecost of this, but then there's
how much is it worth to you?
Right.
So, um, you know, I went backto, I went to Canada, Hawaii
this year and yes, those werevery costly.
Right.
And, um, Uh, when I, you know,got the credit card bills, I was
like, wow, okay.
We spent a lot of money on thesetrips and I really focused on
that.
Like, it really, uh, dug intome, but then I realized, like
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after listening to Dan Martel, Iwas like, but those trips were
so, like the w the, I could not,uh, take the worth of those
trips.
Like, they were just like withfamilies.
So like, I would not trade themfor anything, right.
They had to be done, you know?
So yes, you've gotta measure thecost of something too.
much is actually worth to youemotionally, to your family, to
everything.
And I realized, wow, like, Imean, I have the power to really
like, like make as much money asI want to.
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And I think, again, that's like,people think they're limited,
you know, like, oh, I have it.
And I, I get it.
Like people are maybe, maybeyou're a paycheck.
Check is fixed.
Of course, you're working a jobor whatever it is, you know, so
there's certain and I'm not evensaying those are limitations
because I mean, you know, I backwhen I did have a job.
Sure.
I had a paycheck that was fixed.
And so we had to learn, youknow, we have, we do have to
live within a certain budget, Ithink.
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But, um, you know, if I, uh,wanted more money and I wanted
to manifest more of it, Irealized, wow, I could just, uh,
that's when I actually startedputting the books together and
realize, oh, I can createproducts in the marketplace.
So I just, I learned the skill Ineeded to, in order to make that
happen.
And that's just another kind oflike side note is that if you,
you figure out what your goal isand you need to develop a skill
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in order to make it happen,well, you can go learn that
skill, you know, whether it'sbuilding a Shopify store to sell
products or whatever it is, andif you can't learn the skill,
maybe you can, you know, You getsome money together, you can
hire somebody for it.
But I think that's the, the, theobstacle there is that a lot of
people don't actually know whatthey want yet.
You know, in fact, probably 90percent of people don't really
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know what they want, which iswhy they can't move forward with
their, uh, you know, yeah, theirgoals in their life and they get
stuck and then they get, uh,kind of, you know, fixed on just
the problems and how darkeverything is.
And that's when we get stuck inthe dark spot and we tend to
stay there for just a very longtime.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Talk about that part about, uh,You know, how you gain some of
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that clarity to figure out whatyou want, because I think you're
right.
We do get into a place sometimesin life where we just don't even
know what we want anymore.
And we start to questionpossibly our very existence,
right?
And how, how do we gain clarityin that?
Yeah.
What are some good exercises forthat?
Well, yeah.
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Yeah.
So just going back to when I wasin my 20s, I, so I went to, went
to a university, got to, um, Igot, uh, And as an electrical
engineer.
So that was, uh, that wasactually going way back.
You know, that was my professionat the time.
And I think, um, even at thetime, like I knew that I didn't,
I wasn't going to pursue thatcareer forever.
Like I thought, okay, you know,I'm going to maybe do this for
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four or five or six years, eventhough put a lot of time and
money into getting trained forit and everything.
But I knew that it wasn't what Iwanted to do for the rest of my
life.
And, And here's the thing, like,my point to this is that a lot
of people, you know, we gettrained in something, we learn
something, maybe at a young ageor an older age, and we get
locked into this thing, and wethink that now, you know, now
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that I've been, you know,trained into doing this one
skill, like, this is the thing Ihave to do for the rest of my
life, so we just end up on this,you know, kind of like this one
path where it's like, this isall I can do.
And I hear this all the timefrom you.
Oh, well, this is what I do.
It's all I can do.
I don't know how to do anythingelse.
But when I decided to like, likemove to Japan, for example, I
mean, the company brought meover here to teach English.
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Now I do not have a backgroundin education.
Yes.
I speak the language and thatwas all you needed.
Really.
You also need to have a, like adegree to get a visa and stuff
like that.
And, um, so, but the thing Ididn't have any formal training,
they brought me over here.
They taught us the skill sets inorder for.
I still go out to companies to,you know, teach biggest business
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English and do presentations inthese corporations, but that was
the thing is like, you know, Ichanged my, uh, my profession
from one to the other, that theywere completely unrelated now
with the, um, the books as wellwith publishing.
I didn't know anything aboutpublishing when I first started,
started out, but I knew I wantedto do it and be successful at
it.
So I learned.
That, that skill set as well.
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And that's the thing is that,um, you know, you can, and
again, it comes back to rewiringyour, your mindset and, uh, you
know, realizing like you can doanything you want to once you
decide what it is.
And that was like to get clarityon these things though.
I mean, I had to be veryintentional with what it is that
I wanted.
So, um, not just with the visionboard.
Like I, I would, I.
Journal all the time and I wouldwrite things down all the time.
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Like I want to do, you know,this is what I really want to
do.
And I would just make a storyout of it.
I would make a narrative out ofthat.
You know, I would journal thesethings all the time about, you
know, how it's going to be anauthor and travel the world and
do book signings.
And again, you know, this ispart of like visualizing the
thing that you really want, butthat's what you have to do to
get clarity on it.
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Um, and you have to spend timewith yourself, right?
You really have to, you know,sit down and think about these
things.
Cause I think what happens isthat, um, at the end of the day,
we come home, we're tired, youknow, you, maybe you just, you
just come home from your workand you want to chill out and
just spend the rest of theevening, yeah, watching TV.
And maybe you're spending timewith family and these things,
but, you know, you do have totake that time out for yourself
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to get really like make things.
Ill and quiet, so that you canactually take the time to think
about these things.
And again, what happens with alot of people is, when that,
when we put ourselves in thatsituation, we start thinking
about our problems and all thethings we don't like, right?
So now you've got to think aboutthe things that you, you know,
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coming back to the gratitude.
Okay, start with that.
What are you grateful for now?
How do you want to take this,uh, new power that you're
developing and turn that intosomething that you really want?
And again, this is hard foreverybody because you might be
in your 20s, 30s, 50s, you mightbe 80 years old.
I believe this power exists foranybody.
I've seen people in their 70sand their 80s turn things around
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and do things completelydifferent, you know, so it, Not
just possible.
I've seen it happen, you know,and so, and that's good.
I mean, I need to see that so Ican go.
Wow.
There's an example of, you know,you know, Mary was, um, I don't
know, she maybe had this illnessor she had this belief that she
couldn't do this thing.
And now she's doing it.
So, you know, I asked Mary, howdid you do it?
She goes, Oh, well, I justdecided one day that, uh, you
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know, I wasn't going to let theillness, uh, or this obstacle
get in my way.
So I made a decision.
I made like this definitivedecision to do something about
it.
And she took action.
You know, so you have to, um,you know, you'll get clarity on
the things if you think aboutthe things that, uh, you really
want and, uh, move, you know,move past the, you know, the
negativity, the limitations,which by the way, we're creating
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ourselves, um, it doesn'tmatter, uh, what somebody said
to you in the past or what wasdone.
Um, and we all hold, you know,we all hold on to those, um, old
thoughts and the things thatwere said to us way back when,
and it could be something that,um, you know, somebody had told
you when you were a child thatyou're never going to be worth
anything.
You might have carried thatbelief with you, whether you're
aware of it or not.
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So every, all of your actionswere focused on that one thing,
you know, I'm not worthy.
I'm not worthy.
So we, end up creating that kindof lifestyle.
But, um, that's the thing islike, once you recognize the
monster, once you see it forwhat it is, then you're like,
ah, there it is.
Um, I don't have to believe inthat anymore.
I can create something greaterthan myself.
So, yeah.
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Yeah.
And that's really powerful,isn't it?
How do you think about that?
Um, actually, no, let, let mechange subjects altogether if I
could, because, uh, there'ssomething I, I suspect Kind of
kindred spirits on, and that isshiny object syndrome.
You seem like a very creativeperson.
You, you, which means you, andcorrect me if I'm wrong, but you
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have a lot of ideas and probablylike to work on a lot of things
at once, which is the classicdefinition.
Yeah.
And that's the classic shinyobject syndrome, right?
How do you, uh, tackle that?
Cause I know you've writtenabout that quite a bit and I, I
suffer from this big time.
So could you talk about Surething.
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Yeah, it's one of the newerbooks.
Actually, I just put out maybelike I think it was like last
month Yeah, so shiny objectsyndrome is Yeah, it's just one
of those things where yeah,you're right.
I mean, I have lots of ideas.
I I create I battle against theTemptation to create a new
project every day.
I have new ideas every day fornew books and courses and
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businesses that I won't want topursue and I What I do to handle
that is like, okay, there's thenew idea.
I just write it down on a stickynote, and I have a journal where
I just put all these, or you canput up on your wall or whatever,
but I just will take that idea,I'll file it away somewhere, and
later, I'll actually set asidetime to go through all of the
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ideas that I've had in the lastweek or month, you know, so I
think ideas, we need thoseideas.
They're great.
Um, what happens is when youstart to act on them,
Impulsively, you know, like, Oh,there's a new idea for a new,
whatever it might be a newbusiness.
I'm going to go start thattoday.
And you start pursuing thatforgetting that over here,
you're still working on yourother thing.
And I will just abandon thatthing in the middle and go start
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working on this other thing.
So that's, that's, it is like,you know, I have to.
Um, it's a discipline though.
It's a discipline that you haveto first of all recognize that,
uh, you know, as a creative, mymind is going to do that all day
long.
When it does happen, I can juststop it and go, whoa, whoa, I'm
not finished this over here yet.
I'm just, you know, I'm going towrite down this thought that I
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just had for this new thing.
And, you know, we'll take a lookat it later.
And if it's something that Ineed to pursue, I might do that
because I have, um, started orpursued many things where, yeah,
I regretted it later on.
Maybe I bought something Ishouldn't have, or I invested in
something, or I put time intosomething that I realized, um,
if I just said, no, I couldhave, um, finished this thing
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over here.
That is still half undone.
And I have several projectsthat, I mean, right now that
are, you know, suffering becauseI got distracted by other
things.
things in the last week, month,year.
And so I've made a decision.
And again, making a decision isreally important that I'm going
to finish this thing before I gopursue something else.
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And again, it's just adiscipline.
It's a practice that you haveto, you have to become self
aware.
First of all, that it'shappening.
I think it happens to mostpeople really, you know, and
especially it happens when webecome bored with something or
when you're, if you're workingon something and it becomes
difficult, you know, I mean,When I was putting together my
first, um, I mean, it stillhappens, but when I was putting
together my first book or two,um, you know, it's just, there
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were times when, uh, that gotreally hard when I didn't
believe that I was actuallygoing to finish that project.
So I go start a new one becausestarting something new, you
know, taking that new journey,that's really exciting until the
journey gets tough and thenyou're looking for a new path to
follow.
So I think that's, um, you know,it's, it seems to be, um, It's
something that the, you know,the mind likes to move towards
(40:59):
comfort, right?
So as soon as something gets,uh, you know, you feel that
discomfort or it's really, youknow, you're, you're now on the
hard path.
We want to tend to, you know,back away from it because, but
here's my advice to like it,like lean harder into it, go
through that, uh, whenever thathard time is, like go.
through it, push yourselfthrough it, make a list.
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And I just have an action list.
Okay.
In order to get this thing doneand stop chasing shiny objects,
I've got to do this today.
And I'll just focus on that oneaction thing so that I can move
forward on my, um, you know, myproject.
Right.
And, and I mean, you can usethis for anything.
Like, I mean, you might be, um,maybe you're, you know, going to
the gym every day.
Like you want to go to the gymand work out all the And, uh,
(41:42):
you know, There's, uh, there aremany days when I don't want to
go to the gym, so I'll look forsomething else to do, you know,
like something that's more fun,and then I end up, um, probably
eating junk food instead ofgoing to the gym, so I just
break things down into smallsteps, you know, the small steps
works, and it's like, okay,okay.
Okay.
In order to go to the gym, Ihave to pack my bag.
I have to, you know, bike to thegym and I'm gonna, you know,
(42:04):
park my bike and I just walkmyself through that process.
And that way, I can stay fixedon the goal for that day.
Like the one thing that I wantto do, I just stay on that path
by knowing what the next step isthat I need to take to move
forward.
Do you think it's important tojust make it one thing per day,
or can it be a couple?
(42:26):
It can be a couple for sure.
In the, yeah, the thing about todo lists is that, and I make
them all the time, and Ihonestly think they're kind of
like the devil's advocate, whereI have this big to do list, and
um, I make a list, actually mylist is short, so I love, the to
do list is great, just make itshort.
So I do three things.
Three things that I want to dofor today.
(42:46):
they don't have to be related tothe same project because to your
point, actually, that's a goodpoint.
It's like, although I, I lovethe concept of doing one thing
until finished.
Well, if I'm building, I don'tknow, a website or writing a
book, well, that's not going tobe finished in a week or a day.
So it's kind of like a longerproject and it's going to take a
few months.
But the thing is, is like everyday I'll choose one thing to
(43:08):
work on for that project, whichmeans I'm moving towards that,
you know, and yes, I mean, Weall have multiple projects,
right?
So, you know, and maybe one ofyour projects might be to get
into great shape.
Another project is to, uh, youknow, build more income streams
so you can invest money, thingslike this, like whatever your
projects are, just, um, breakthat, break that down into
smaller action steps.
And that way just do one, youknow, maybe two things a day.
(43:31):
That's moving it towards thatgoal.
And that way you're going to,um, be less likely to go into,
you know, to fall into like theshiny object syndrome.
I mean, there'll be otheropportunities and things that
pop up.
And, and I think that's great.
I mean, there will beopportunities that come up where
it's like, You know, it might besomething that you really want,
but it's like, do you, I reallyneed this at this time?
(43:51):
Is this something I shouldpursue right now?
And sometimes it might be a oncein a lifetime opportunity.
I don't remember who said this.
It was Warren Buffett who saidthis, but I think he said, you
know, lifetime opportunities popup twice a month or something or
twice a week or something likethat.
So I think he was alluding toshiny object syndrome where, you
know, you're going to begetting, there will be other
opportunities, but you do haveto, you know, you can't.
(44:12):
Sue them all, obviously.
Right.
So, yeah, but yeah, that's agreat question.
Yeah.
You know, when I first gotstarted in real estate, uh, as
an investor, I had a mentor whotold me the deal of a lifetime
comes by once a week.
So, which speaks to that.
And I think that's really good.
But, um, well, you know, we,we're going to have to have you
(44:35):
back on because you, we didn'teven start to scratch the
surface of all of the stuff youwrite about.
Uh, but it's right up our alley,like we mentioned, but if, if
you're up for it, I'd love tohave you back on at some point.
Sure, yeah, we were just gettinggoing.
I know, I know.
Maybe I need to make the podcastlonger, but, uh, we are about at
that point where we should getinto our world famous Wayfinder
(44:58):
4.
Okay.
And since you're in Japan, thatmakes us, you know, world famous
now since we're in two otherparts of the world.
What part, what time is it overthere by the way?
Love it.
It is almost 8 a.
m.
on Wednesday.
Is it Thursday?
Yeah, Thursday morning.
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
Oh, so, you know what thewinning look if you're yeah
Well, it's almost it's onlyWednesday afternoon here So, you
(45:21):
know what tonight's lotterywinning lottery ticket numbers
are if you could let us let meknow after I got my numbers
Yeah, I already got the ticketSo Scott What is a hack that you
use?
So a hack that I use, um, I mayhave mentioned several of them
already, but, uh, if it's aproductivity hack, so one of the
(45:44):
hacks that I use is, um, uh,yeah, just having like an
evening routine.
Right?
So my evening routine is to getclear on what I want to do for
the next day.
And so again, I will write downthose three things that I just
mentioned previously that I wantto do for the next day.
My hack is to put those onpaper.
again, before I go to bed, I'llspend 10, 15 minutes.
And again, that just gets me,you know, I believe in clarity.
(46:04):
I love clarity.
Not every day.
I don't have clarity every day.
And the reason is like when Idon't, it's because, oh yeah, I
forgot to do that thing, youknow, which is just get clear on
like, you know, you know whatyour goal is.
Now you've got your actionsteps.
Now you have to do.
Uh, you know, every night for afew minutes, just write down
three things, maybe it's onething, you know, one, two, three
things.
I think it's good not to make abig to do list because, um, I
(46:27):
find that's a very overwhelming.
So that's just one of my hacksfor, you know, like knowing how
it is that I want to show up inthe world the next day.
Excellent.
Uh, you know, we've had a guestwho's actually a friend of mine
from a mastermind group.
I belong to his name is NeilSchwepp, and he wrote this
journal.
I happen to keep it.
I happen to bring it, broughtit, you know, to my desk today,
(46:49):
but, uh, it's called ResultsOver Excuses, and he, um, every
day, in there, just a couple ofthings, uh, starts the night
before, he just wants you towrite three things that you're
gonna do the next day.
And then, you know, that's howhe starts, you know, that
journal.
So I do think there is somethingto that.
the evening routine as well.
(47:09):
We talked so much about themorning routine, but, uh, I
thought that was pretty good.
So how about a favorite?
Could be a book, a TV show,movie, show, hobby?
Yep.
Lots of favorite things.
I would say, uh, probably one ofmy favorite books right now, um,
(47:30):
I'm reading, uh, Mind Magic.
So I have a lot of books, ofcourse, you know, I could
probably Pull it from a wholebunch of them.
But, uh, yeah, Mind Magic is,uh, very powerful.
It was written by the sameauthor who wrote Into the Magic
Shop.
I definitely recommend one orboth of those books.
It's all about, uh, going up inthe world and tapping into your
(47:51):
inner magic to manifest the lifethat you want.
So there's the word again,manifestation.
Um, you know, Creating a lifethat you want through magic.
You know, he gets into his, hewas a neuroscientist.
Right.
So, and, uh, so he really getsinto that a lot in the book.
I'm only halfway through thebook, but I've read into the
magic shop where actually thatcan't maybe five or six years
ago, but yeah, those books aregame changers.
(48:12):
So, um, at another 20 minutes, Igo through my.
My whole book collection of allthe other books I recommend, but
if you're into productivity oryou want to, you want to just
like, uh, like I alreadymentioned Dan Martell's Buy Back
Your Time.
Love that book.
Um, it's certainly helped me inmy life and my business.
Excellent.
(48:32):
Um, how about a piece of advicefor your younger self?
For my younger self?
Uh, yeah, the piece of advicefor my younger self is, um, you
know, just be yourself.
keep going because, um, it getsbetter, you know, don't give up.
And I think my younger self wasnever somebody who would have
given up anyway.
But, you know, there are momentswhen I just, I needed to hear
that from somebody, I think.
So, you know, like there's a,you know, if you, you know, if
(48:54):
you keep pushing forward, greatthings are going to happen.
So, but I always believe that toa certain extent, I think, uh,
you know, but, uh, yeah, I do.
And by the way, just a quicklittle visualization practice
that I do, I do visualize myselfnow going back in time Younger
self and having thatconversation, you know, what is
that conversation?
(49:15):
How would you, what would youtalk about to your, your younger
self?
Yeah.
Cause I think it's important toconnect with that, uh, that
person.
Okay.
I love that.
I never heard that, but I, Iguess in, I know in like trauma,
uh, relief, that's somethingthat is often done, right.
Identify, you know, the innerchild and go there and talk to
(49:35):
him and say, it's okay, kind ofthing.
So that's, that's interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, here's just one more.
I'll add one more thing to that.
There's that piece of it.
Now, imagine yourself right nowand your future self is coming
back to have a conversation withyou.
What would that look like?
Yeah.
That conversation is actuallysomething I'm leaning more into
these days because I think thatwhatever actions that I'm taking
(49:57):
today, my future self is comingback to thank me for those
things.
So I visualize my future self20, 30 years in the future
coming back and maybe 10 years,you know, coming back to meet
you right now.
And, uh, you know, they'resaying, wow, you know, I'm so
glad the.
You, you know, you changed, youchanged the way that you're
(50:17):
doing this thing or you, youknow, like whatever it is that
you're working on right now,that is your future.
You know, your, the future isnot like it's something that's
happening, you know, later ontoday or tomorrow or next week.
It's right now, you know, so.
That's right.
Yeah, no, that, that's reallypowerful.
I find myself saying that a lotmore now.
I had a guest on, uh, about ayear ago now, a guy named Jamie
(50:39):
Gruber.
He just.
Flipped that question on itshead to me and told me exactly
that, Hey, I'd like to answer itis what will my 80 year old self
be telling me to do now?
And that was the first time Iheard that.
And it was, I found that to bevery profound.
And now I've had conversationswith folks who are in their
eighties and are completebadasses and, and they're just
(51:00):
thinking, Hey, I'm just gettingstarted.
I'm going to live to 120.
Had one gentleman tell me that.
And I was like, Oh wow.
And so then when you reallystart to think about it in that
case, it just.
Amazing, right?
Like, we still have a shot atjust compounding so much
success, right?
Like, and, and, uh, andachievement.
It's wild.
What, um, what about, let youchoose this last one, uh, a
(51:24):
limiting belief, perhaps thatyou've had or how to overcome
it, or a big opportunity?
That you're pursuing, or you seeout there in the world.
Mm hmm.
Okay.
Well, a limiting belief thatI've had to overcome is I'm not
enough, you know, um, stillworking at that every day.
I think it's something you haveto work at again and again and
(51:44):
again.
Comes back to the, you know, thelack mindset, scarcity mindset,
just, um, tackling that everyday, you know?
So there's that.
Uh, the, um, the second thingyou mentioned though, like,
yeah, that's, uh, the bigopportunity that I'm pursuing
is, uh, I want.
To get onto big stages and talkto millions of people and just,
(52:07):
um, you know, um, deliver myframeworks and, uh, share with
people the, uh, you know, the,the pathway, you know, the path
that they can build to have thatgreatest, that, that great life
that, uh, a lot of people aren'teven aware, I think, of the
potential, the true potentialthat we have.
Like, my message is that, It's,it's untapped.
(52:29):
It's unlimited.
You know, you are limitless andI just want to get there out
there into, uh, in front of themany and, um, share the message,
you know, share the dream.
And, um, you know, I, um, I'mdoing that I think now with, uh,
you know, doing interviews andpodcast interviews and
everything, and that's great.
But eventually I'm going to thebig stage where I'm really
(52:50):
excited to, uh, you know,building out that opportunity
for the near future.
So.
Yeah, I love that.
Yeah, thank you for, for beinghere and doing that with us.
That was actually one of ouroriginal intentions with the
Wayfinder show.
Um, I, I thought what better wayto inspire people, you know, uh,
uh, than to get other peoplewho, who have done it, you know,
(53:11):
and share their stories with,with everybody.
And hopefully, uh, people willlisten and, and get something
out of it.
So what about a show?
It's been great.
Yeah.
Thank you for being here.
And I mean it when I say weshould I'd love to do a repeat
Maybe a few times because writequite and you're writing even
more so and it's right up ouralley So Scott if people want to
(53:32):
know a little bit more aboutyou, maybe where to find your
books and such Where can we whatcan we find you?
Absolutely.
So they can visit us atScottAllenBooks.
com and I also have a newslettercalled The Daily Mentor and they
can subscribe for that.
We can put the links in the showlater.
And then, um, they can go to,probably go to YouTube and they
(53:56):
can find a lot of interviews onthere or probably just Google.
And of course we have, um, JustGoogle, Scott Allen interviews
or Scott Allen.
Scott, uh, Scott Allen books orauthor.
And of course we have Amazonwhere they tend to, they, they
sell everything on there.
So you can always find the bookson there as well.
That's right.
Is the, the daily mentor, How,how do you sign up for that?
(54:16):
Yeah, I can, um, send you the,link you can put it in the show
notes if you want to.
Oh, perfect.
So yeah, we're just, we'reactually just in the process of
building out a landing page forthat, so.
Okay.
because we, we switch over fromour, our software, so yeah,
we've got a new page.
It's gonna be ready next day orso, so I can send that link over
to you and people can just, findthat in the show notes if that's
okay.
that's great.
Thank you so much.
Well, Scott, it's been a realjoy.
(54:38):
like I said, you're, you're,you're pretty much are an expert
in everything that we'd like totalk about here.
we'd to do it again.
So thanks for being here.
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