How I Brainwashed Myself to Success…
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When I was 17 years old, I was angry, depressed, and I honestly thought something was wrong with me. Fast forward to today, my life looks completely different. I have the privilege of speaking on stages around the world like Tony Robbins, I run a $100 million company, I fly around on my jet, I even have a best selling book, but it didn t happen overnight. It took me from the age of 17 up until 26 years old - almost 9 years - until I ever made my first million dollars.
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When I was 17 years old, I was angry, depressed,
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and I honestly thought something was wrong with me.
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I have the privilege of speaking on stages around the world
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like Tony Robbins, I run a $100 million company,
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I fly around on my jet, I even have a best-selling book,
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It took me from the age of 17 up until 26 years old,
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almost nine years until I ever made my first million dollars,
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but it was implementing these habits and rituals into my life
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that essentially allowed me to brainwash myself
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It's designed to help build a plan for your life.
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so you don't slide yourself back into old patterns
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It allowed me to stay sober, build a new peer group,
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I did the same thing at 22 when I decided to move out west
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to go see if there was any other opportunities out there.
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to change your environment and make new friends,
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they're gonna be upset with you, and I get that.
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is that the people that I thought were supporting me
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Family members that I was born into this family
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My rule is if you're the smartest person on your street,
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because you need to make sure that you have the space
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Which brings us to step two, which is remove all vices.
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You know, often when I'm driving around in my McLaren,
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I have kids that run up and they're always screaming like,
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I don't spend time with people that don't support me.
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that actually creates the space for me to be successful.
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And that's why I think vices will mess with your mind.
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this simple question, how do you self-medicate your pain?
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you got to look at your vices you got to look at the things that you use to alter your state so
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that you don't have to feel because it's in that space that you're going to avoid doing the work
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to brainwash yourself to be successful you can't have the vices because the vices turn off the
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part of the brain that's actually going to receive habits of success but honestly as you go up the
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pyramid of success you realize that if we don't address what i call the bugaboos the things that
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are holding them back that those are the things they're going to show up to self-sabotage all the
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success they've had up to that point and give it all back. And you see these people that are
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financially successful only to watch them live a life that looks like they're trying to escape
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from something. They're in pain. They don't want to feel. And those are usually the things that
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cause them to fail, which brings us to step three, which is replacing those vices with a positive
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habit like reading. My dad taught me the value of feeding my mind of educating. If you want to
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brainwash yourself to success, it's really important to feed your mind, to read every day.
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For $30, you can acquire 25 years of experience
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from a person in six to eight hour investment of your time.
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we attract our future by focusing on the right things.
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And that's how I brainwash myself into success using books.
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In rehab, one of the processes that we went through
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was to write down our feelings, write down our beliefs,
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how old is that fear? Where did that come from? And just continue to audit your thoughts, your
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words, you'll start to build a self-reflection process. Like for me, that is literally how I've
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brainwashed myself to success is by being able to look on a piece of paper what I was thinking
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and even go back to last year and see the upgrade in my mind. You can actually teach yourself the
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process of upgrading your mind. One process is I have the list of all my top 12 goals for the year
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That is one of the most important processes of journaling
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So oftentimes, you know, we are not our reality.
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So do 20 minutes every day as a daily habit, which brings us to step five, which is to take
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massive imperfect action. You know, one of my life mottos is JFDI, which stands for just effing do
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it. I have this belief that if something speaks to my soul, I have to take action before I
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overthink it. We already know the right path. We just got to move towards it as fast as possible.
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When I got out of rehab, I had a plan. I worked on the plan every day and every night I took
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action. You know, that was one of the biggest things when they would report back to us and
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do our groups we always had to share like what did we move forward in our life people actually
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know what they got to do eat less than you're eating you probably got to move your body you
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probably should read some books you should get around positive people like a lot of these things
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are known but what is the first next action see oftentimes we're paralyzed because we haven't been
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clear but what is the one next action i need to take to actually move things forward and that is
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why for me brainwashing my mind is making a commitment to the next step but what is the next
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logical step to move this outcome forward and i'm just making a commitment to it and before i can
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overthink it i just move i take action and that's why i think that action is one of the best ways
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for you to brainwash yourself to success which brings us to step six which is dream big you know
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when i started my first company spheric technologies i had a pretty modest goal today at the time it
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felt massive which was get to five million a year in five years with 25 people that was aiming higher
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than high. I thought if I could do that, I could do anything. That would be the craziest thing ever.
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And within the first year, following the process of brainwashing myself to success, we did almost
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a million dollars in the first year. Here's the thing. Big dreams inspire people. Small dreams
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don't. Shoot for the stars because even if you only land on the moon, at least you're amongst
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the skies. Dreaming big forces you to stop caring about what other people think because it would be
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impossible for you to go for something that other people think is impossible and you actually care
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what they think that allows you to speak your future into reality every person you admire every
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social media influencer every celebrity every athlete you admire them because they've spoken
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their dreams out loud you know their goals they tell you this is the shot they call their shot
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and those shots are not little because they wouldn't inspire anybody so think about this
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you need to build the process of not only thinking big but actually speaking big out loud to yourself
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to your friends find people that are going to protect the idea and not shoot it down too quick
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but is the process of allowing myself to continue to upgrade my thoughts upgrade my dreams because
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i'll never expand past the bigness of my ideas if you think about it all the people you admire
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from gary v what does he want to buy new york jets elon musk what does he want to do colonize
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mars jeff bezos what does he want to do the largest bookstore in the world and now the largest
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retailer in the world essentially amazon.com is the number one place for people to buy these are
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all things that they said publicly they called their shot they first dreamed big but then spoke
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big that manifested that created those things into their lives that is why this process of dreaming
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big is one of the best ways for you to brainwash yourself into success which brings us to step seven
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which is dedicate a thousand days see most people they're only thinking in the next 90 days the next
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six months if you actually dedicated yourself to an outcome what could you do within that time
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frame. So here's my invitation. I want you to consider thinking bigger. This is about actually
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doing it. If you showed up every day, eating well, working out, focusing on positivity,
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any action towards your habits, towards your dreams, towards your goals. If you did that
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every day for a thousand days, I actually think you'd wake up and you'd be living a completely
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different life, which is kind of crazy. If you think about it in three years, whatever dream
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goal you want to achieve is actually possible. If you can dedicate yourself to a thousand days
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of execution, a thousand days of discipline, a thousand days of being consistent. Give yourself
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permission to think bigger. Make yourself really focus on what you say yes to because saying yes
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to something that isn't aligned is a no to your dreams, but saying no to something that isn't
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aligned is saying yes to your dream, right? When I say a thousand days, that's three years. That's
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not a long time. Imagine being rich, being healthy, being in an incredible relationship,
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you know, having an incredible group of friends that you can celebrate life with. Those are all
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things that are available to you on the other side of showing up every day for you, for your dreams,
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for your family. If you're that person, you're going to stand out so much quicker. See, the work
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instills the worth. So when you show up and you do the work, you're telling yourself that you're
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worth it. And that is why for me, dedicating myself to at least a thousand days for change
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and anything meaningful in my life is how I brainwash myself into success. If you want to
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learn the eight habits that are keeping you poor, click the link and I'll see you on the other side.