Nov. 20, 2024

Reach Higher

Reach Higher

So often we find ourselves having a desire to reach higher in our lives, both personally and. professionally. Yet the way to do that evades us.
Welcome to Christian Ray Flores on the show. Christian has lived a fascinating life and has achieved some...

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So often we find ourselves having a desire to reach higher in our lives, both personally and. professionally. Yet the way to do that evades us.
Welcome to Christian Ray Flores on the show. Christian has lived a fascinating life and has achieved some amazing levels in is life. He shares with us some of the techniques we can apply to help us reach higher and find the success, peace and joy that we all desire.
https://www.christianrayflores.com/
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who you've made better. It's about what you've given back.

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Denzel Washington, Welcome to Inspire Vision. Our sole purpose is

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to elevate the lives of others and to inspire you

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to do the same.

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Christian Welcome to the show. Thanks, Thanks doug Hey.

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I appreciate you on the show. You know, as I've

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looked at your biography, as I've gone to your website

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and kind of looked at what you've done kind of

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who you are, I find it fascinating and I'd love

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for you to share it with the audience, your journey

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because you've kind of gone in different directions and done

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a bunch of different things, and here you are now

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at a different level in your life. So share with

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the audience what brought you to this point and kind

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of what's your history.

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So yeah, I think it's probably somewhere in the range

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in the spectrum between confused and hyperactive. You know. That's

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and I do a few things now, and I'll tell

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you what the backstory is. I do performance coaching for

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high achievers. That's sort of you know, my focus is

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purpose driven professionals that can help them really perform at

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the peak of their abilities and beyond actually what they

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believe they're capable of. The other business I run is

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a media company. It's basically brand strategy, development and execution right,

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It's called Third Drive Media. We do everything from sort

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of the positioning, the the heart the heavy lifting of

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brand strategy of okay, how are you, who are you serving?

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How you can communicate effectively, all the way to creating

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all of the assets where websites, videos, logos, all those things.

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And we have enough to school academy in Africa. That's

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sort of my philanthropic arm and we just help kids

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in Mozambique and Maputu get sort of character building, mentorship,

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computer literacy, and English skills, which basically the idea is

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to get them out of poverty. So that's sort of

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the main focus focal points. I'm very involved in Christian

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ministry as well, but you know, but you know, I

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can just go down the list, but those are the

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main things. So the backstory that leads to that is

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that I just grew up all over the world, right.

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I grew up on four different countries, three continents, and

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there was just a lot of turmoil in exposure to

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different cultures early on, and that sort of I think

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explains the weirdness the Yeah, I grew up in Chile.

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There was sort of this classic Latin American military coup

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in the seventies there, and my father ended up in

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a concentration camp. We ended up being refugees in this

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United Nations facility. It's just really dramatic early on. I

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mean I was five years old and I was a refugee,

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and that sort of sent us traveling. We ended up

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in Germany, Russia, Africa. My dad got a contract there

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and we were helping this country sort of get back

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on their feet. There's a whole bunch of expats working

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there because they just sort of got their independence from Portugal,

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and like a year in there was a civil war

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that started there, so we got that. And then eventually

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after divorce my parents who ended up in Russia and

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with my mother who's Russian, my dad's Chilean, so I

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don't look Slavic at all, but I'm half Russian, and like,

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sure enough, a few years and the Soviet Union fell apart,

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and we saw like tanks in the streets and all

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kinds of stuff going on there as well, and it

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all sort of so there's a lot of change, a

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lot of uncertainty, a lot of suffering, poverty, things like that,

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but also there was a lot of exposure to just

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what the world offers, bad and good, right, and that

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sent me into sort of this path of professional development.

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I got a degree in economics, and I was very

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musical my whole life, so I was like, eh, I'm

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sort of bored doing this. Let me do some music.

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And by the end of maybe year two, I was

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already on national television and became one of the top

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pop stars in all of that space fifteen different countries.

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We ended up helping even a president get elected. They

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used my anthem my song as the anthem for their

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election campaign, Porisy Elson did when he was trying to

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defeat the Communists. And that was sort of the beginning

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of this entrepreneurial journey where I was able to do

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several things, had like five different careers, and when we

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moved to the States with we started three companies to nonprofits.

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is sort of almost like a mosaic of the things

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that came from the origin story. If that makes sense,

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Well it doesn't.

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And how did you end up getting into pastoring because

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that's so totally outside of what you're Well, maybe not,

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but how did you get into that? Because that's something

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you haven't mentioned. But I know that that's what you do.

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Yeah, I you know, Actually that is both incredibly unlikely

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and it is actually the root why I do coaching now. Right. So,

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I was brought up atheist. Both my parents were Marxists,

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So it's zero exposure to the Bible to like that

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world of the moral code of the universe, right, that

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that Biblical wisdom brings. And I was extremely successful in

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my mid twenties as an artist, and because I lacked

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some of that character, some of that worldview. It really

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hurt me. And I was just I literally had a

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number one hit at the time, and I was clinically depressed.

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I was hurting in relationships, very very confused about all

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kinds of things. And I met this guy who was

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a Canadian missionary and he was a pastor, and he

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became my pastor, but he also became my coach. You know,

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there's a difference between somebody who every once in a

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while speaks like you know, speaks wisdom into your life

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and gives you advice, etc. And someone who you cling to,

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like you know, mister Miyagi, right, right, And that's how

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I treated him, like my coach, right, he was mister Miyagi,

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and I was just sort of this apprentice and I'm like, look,

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my glass is empty, please fail it with it because

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I'm just desperate, and which was an unlikely thing to

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do for someone who is a major pop star at

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the time, right. So people were like, you're in a cult,

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for sure, You're in a cult. You're letting this guy

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control you, right, And in a way, I was, actually

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because I just felt that he could give me something.

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I just couldn't get anywhere else, and I, you know,

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he introduced me to the Bible, and I had such

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disdain for the Bible and for Christians at the time.

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I was so arrogant. And I started reading it and

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he started telling me, this is how it looks in

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real life. You know, this is what it looks like,

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with marriage, with family, with friendships, with money, with power,

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with fame, and he just helped me reframe my whole worldview.

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And it was just so dramatically transformative for me that

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maybe two years in, I said, you know, I feel

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like I'm entertaining millions of people, but I'm not changing

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anybody's life. And Andy, my mentor, he's changed my life,

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and he's changing many lives as a matter of fact,

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and there's this domino effect of people influencing each other

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and becoming Christians who become who make other Christians disciples,

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who make disciples that kind of thing, right, and like

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this is to me, it just appealed at a deeper level.

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So I, you know, I just felt a tug and

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I said, I want to do what you do, basically,

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and that's how it transitioned into pastoring. And I, you know,

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I've been doing it ever since, you know, never stopped.

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I've been by vocational most of that time, but have

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never stopped, and it probably won't will never stop. Actually,

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so well, and.

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You know, it's interesting you talk about I mean, you

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have achieved a lot. You've achieved a lot. I guarantee

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you more than most of us that are listening today

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or you know, talking to you and so forth. What

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would you say the motivation was for you to achieve

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what you've been able to achieve in your life.

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You know, I thought I think about that a lot

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because obviously one of the things that I do now

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with performance coaching is helping people that are very gifted

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already to have a broader imagination of what can be

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and to see what is missing. Right, And you know

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where I land with it is almost like this combination

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of we don't allow ourselves to imagine, and the reason

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why we don't allow ourselves to imagine is because we

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are too busy distracted to being distracted by just the

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responsibilities of life. Right. You know, you go from your

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twenties to your thirties, there's a massive change. You know,

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most of the time, you acquire some skills, you become

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more successful. You have a family, you have kids, you

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have a mortgage, you have responsibilities, employees, whatever. Right this

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it becomes a big thing and you have very little

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bandwidth if you don't create and learn how to do that,

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to imagine what is possible. So you go from sort

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of accelerating in life to slowing down, to stopping altogether,

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to going in circles and perhaps hitting some walls, burnout,

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things like that. So that's one aspect I think, and

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I just have a lifestyle even now in my fifties

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where I'm actively imagining what is possible, and anyone can

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learn that basically, right. And the other piece I think

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is fear and fear it's really not it's very irrational fear,

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and it's always there for everybody, right. But the more

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successful mature you become, the more the fear of failing

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becomes a reality because you have too much to lose

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in your mind, and it's all completely like tinety nine

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point nine percent of it is completely unwarranted. So people

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stop taking risks, people stop trying new things, and because

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they stop trying new things, they stop growing. And I

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think if you you can also learn how to diminish

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this resistance this imposter syndrome, this thing that blocks you

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from that little whisper in your head of what if

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I still pursue the thing that really makes me come

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fully alive. But it's risky, it's it's perhaps irresponsible, you know.

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And I think those two things, between fear and the

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ability to imagine something bigger are major factors.

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Well, and I smile before we got on and I

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was listening to the song to Dream the Impossible Dream,

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and I kind of thought about that, and then you

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brought up those two words, the dreamed, the impossible, And

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you know, it's it's interesting. You know, you're working with

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very high level from what I can gather, you're working

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with very high level or you know, people who are

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very successful that you're helping them even be more. And

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yet that's what percentage would you say the population fits

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into that model versus the rest of us who are

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just really seeking to live a good life and to

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experience some peace and join our lives and some success.

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How would you work with those people? And I guess

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number one, just help them to understand that there is

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that impossible dream that they can achieve if they're willing

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to take the steps.

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That's an excellent question. And by the way, I do

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work with people that are forward leaning, but they're not

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these sort of stratospheric, out of this world type people.

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So I mean, the range could be they're all basically

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people who really want something other than what they have.

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Oh, okay, that's much better explanation.

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Yeah. Yeah, So it could be a thirty year old,

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you know, guy or girl who is maybe five six

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seven years out of college, has some has a lot

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of expertise, now has some mastery. By age thirty you

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start knowing what you're doing right approximately, but then you're

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taught some things that block you from pursuing something higher,

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you know. And it sort of it seems to be

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the cycle that starts around thirty ish when you start

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seeing the first Oh you know, it's more life is

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more complicated than I thought it was it would be,

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and maybe forty actually it sort of repeats itself because

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the season shifts, your interests shift, your value shift, and

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what satisfied you, yes, that it doesn't satisfy you anymore,

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and that by probably by age forty, people start getting

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more mastery, more money, more status, et cetera, et cetera. Right,

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executive or manager or maybe upper level manager or something

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like that, all the way to be obviously very very

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very influential people. But the anatomy of exponential growth is

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actually the same. The elements, the core elements right of it,

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are the same. And I want to tell you a

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quick story not to not to say this is everybody

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will fly in this particular direction or reach these heights,

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because it's really individual. The point is what do you

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perceive as the normal and what and what do you

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perceive as desirable? Right, because we settle for the status quo.

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describe right now that you go, well that we're just

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trying to to lead normal lives. What is normal actually right,

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is normal actual true contentment, which is fantastic. It doesn't

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have to be a big thing. As a matter of fact,

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you know, one of the things that I did as

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a pastor is going from leading a church of three

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thousand members plus to planting a church that was by

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design maximum maybe one hundred and fifty. You know, I

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call the tribe and we still have it here in Austin.

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And the reason for that is because I really wanted

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something on a spiritual level that is small, high quality,

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true community rather than scale glory smoke machines and megachurch stuff,

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right for me personally, So I opted for the smaller

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because for me, that was better, that was more aspirational

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than the bigger. Does that make sense? It does? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, And.

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You know it takes me back to what you were saying.

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You know, as you were a pop star, and you know,

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you grew up with your your faults that were atheist,

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you were an atheist, and you felt like something was missing.

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And you know, I wonder how many of us, and

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a point in time and who knows what age and

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maturity we're at when it's like who am I? And

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why am I really here? What's my purpose? Yeah? And

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what have you found? Are some of the elements to

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help someone to really discover what their purpose is in

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this life? Because I imagine without that understanding, they kind

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of are going all over the place.

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how it works, right A. But ninety plus percent of

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what we do is subconscious. I mean, we were created

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in the image of God, and in his wisdom he said,

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you know what the brain will it is not capable of,

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you know, of processing more than about ten percent. I

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will teach you and create habits and ways of thinking

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and acting and doing, and that will be all stored

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and they will be brought up when the situation is

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produt I'll give you an example. You know, when you

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pull out of your driveway in your car, you actually

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don't think about, you know, changing the shift from reverse

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to drive, turning on the blinker or even the road.

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As a matter of fact, you're an autopilot, right, you

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don't think about it. Right, it's a beautiful thing. It's

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a beautiful thing like it does not it doesn't consume

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more image than it has to. Basically, it's all pre

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programmed software stuff, right. But it's the same thing in

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the good way, and it's the same thing in a

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bad way, right, so that it serves you and it

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makes you an incredibly efficient, incredibly skillful person. A neurosurgeon

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creating a performing a surgery is mostly still operating an

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autopilot because he's done so many surgeries in his life. Right,

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your life, So even very complex things can be done

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on autopilot. But the problem with that is what if

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the software is flawed. What if you have experiences, even

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generational ideas that were candied down to you, that are

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instilled software, and they're they're keeping you stagnant, unhappy, settling

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for the mediocre. And that is also true, right, all

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of us inherit all kinds of stuff, not only nurture nature,

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but also nurture. So if you don't question the status quo,

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if you don't go you know what, this autopilot has

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gotten me here, and actually I'm not satisfied where it's

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gotten me. You know. You imagine like if you get

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you get into a plane in New York and you're

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supposed to go to Japan, and then the autopilot take

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you to North Korea? Right, Like, how long are you

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going to fly that airline? How long will the keep

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his job? Not very long? You know, you're not going

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to do it more than once. Right, you land in

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North Korea and you go, yeah, that's not cool, right,

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And but that happens to us all the time in life. Right.

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We keep making the same mistakes, repeating the same relational patterns,

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professional patterns, and we just it's just an autopilot. So

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the answer to your question is how do you develop

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a practice that is daily that allows you to question

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the status quo, question the autopilot and then reprogram it

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in a very specific way so that you start succeeding

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on autopilot in where you failed on autopilot before. Does

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that make sense?

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And you know what's interesting is, I think so many

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of us don't realize, you know, we're experiencing life. And

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you know, obviously, even as you were that pop star,

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you finally realized that there was some in this un

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and so you went searching for it. And yet so

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many people continue to experience their life and hate it,

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don't like it, and yet they don't take the time

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to really look and analyze and go, Okay, what's going on?

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And how can I start to take personal responsibility from

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my experiences rather than blaming this person or that person

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or this situation or that situation.

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legitimately be a victim of generational dysfunction, of abuse, of bullying,

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all kinds of things, right, Yeah, I mean, and we

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all are at some point in our life all kinds

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of abuse, right, that's so the messy world will live in.

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But the question is will you remain a victim and

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will you will you turn your victimhood into rationalizing why

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you are you know, not questioning the status quo? And

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I think most people, most people don't question status quo enough.

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I would say, well, and it's kind of like, I

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love the comp I love the thought of impostor syndrome

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because you know, it's so true that if we had

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not really discovered who we are and what our purpose is,

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you know, long term, then we are really living as

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an impost in our life because we're not being true

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to ourselves and to those gifts and those you know,

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purposes that we were born to fulfill.

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Yeah, And and the reason for that is fear, right,

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it's the reason for that is here. And fear is

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ninety nine percent completely irrational, like that has it literally

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has no no root in reality. I'll tell you a

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quick story that I sort of I use that to

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illustrate how do to break out of that status quo?

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Right the settling for the for the app for the mediocre.

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Growing up I was I traveled a lot. We grew

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up in Africa, and we flew to this island called

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Santa Carlina. My dad and I are. Thing we did

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together was spearfishing. And there was this guy there on

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this island who we literally spotted him on a plane

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going to the island like miles away from the coast

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with no boat, and we asked the pie. I was like,

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what is this and he goes, oh, that's Juan. Juan

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gets lobster for the hotel and like we're at the boat.

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He's too poor to have a boat. He just swims

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out and there gets lobster, right, And it was crazy.

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we wanted him to show us the spots around the island.

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I was in awe of this guy. I was probably

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twelve thirteen something like that, and he taught us this.

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We saw him in action and he was like, you

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know aquaman, you know it. And he told us this

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thing that stuck with me. He was telling me, so

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the lobster is always under the rocks. That's where you

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get it right. You have to go under the rocks,

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and you know, spearfishing and what else is under the

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rocks if you want to get to the lobster sometimes

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is sharks they sleep under the rocks because they that's

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where the current goes under and goes through their gills,

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and they can't really stop moving, you know, they or

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they die, so that's where they rest sometimes. And we go, oh,

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so what do you do when you see a shark

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under the rocks and you behind the shark or under

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the rocks is the is the lobster? And he goes,

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I just shake them, And we go what are you

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talking about? And he goes, yeah, I just grab by

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the fin I shake them. They swim away, and it

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just stuck with me as this incredible allegory of if

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you want, if you want to get to the lobster

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of life, you know the good stuff, you have to

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shake a shark or two, which is if you know

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that the shark is not a threat to you, you

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can shake the shark. But most people will spot the

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shark and immediately panic it starts swearing in the other direction.

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But this guy show, he's like, no, I mean, sharks

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don't attack people. The chances of you being bitten by

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a shark that you shake is close to zero because

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you're scaring the shark, not the other way around. That's

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the reality of it, right, and most things in life

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are incredibly disproportionately high on our fear list, and we

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shouldn't fear those things. So there's a way to train

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yourself and through coaching, through community, through accountability, through sort

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of daily practices of really understanding what you're thinking, what

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you're feeling, and why you're not doing the things that

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you're supposed to do. That is essentially shaking the shark

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so you can get to the lobster.

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Well, you know, and I saw on your website this

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quote from the New Testament, you know, Romans twelve two,

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and I read it and I thought, okay, I'm going

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to go and read it again just to see which,

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you know, which Bible you got it from, because there's

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so many out there, and see if there's a different interpretation.

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And there was not up that there was more to

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that particular verse than what was shown. And it fascinated

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me because I think that, you know, we don't understand

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this higher level of what was being said, and you know,

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I have it in front of me, and the way

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that I have at least is be not conformed of

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this world. In other words, don't just be worldly, but

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be transformed by the renewing of your mind. And I

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think that's kind of what we're talking about, is there's

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got to be an effort to literally renew our minds

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to go, as you say, from accepting all of these

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subconscious beliefs that may be fighting against what we're really

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trying to achieve. We need to renew that and develop

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a mindset that's going to allow us to achieve.

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That's it. I love that, as you probably can see,

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right because I have it on my website. But you're right.

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And the thing is, if you think about it, sometimes

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as Christians, we can sort of create a very narrow

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narrative or even of that verse, right, So do not

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be conformed to the patterns of this world, and it

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could be interpreted and it's for sure including sort of

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the bad things that you know that we don't need

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to be doing. Right, So don't don't conform to that.

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But if you think about it, we are completely shaped

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by our environment all the time. And I think in

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a broader sense, we're all shaped by our environment, and

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we need to be able to discern which is the world.

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It's nature, nurture, parents, friends, social circles or ensure choices.

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All of it together is that world shaping us into

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I would say, misshaping us from what we were intended

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to be. Right, So we're misshapen by the world. And

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basically it's a very rebellious verse because it says, do

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not come form in otherwise, don't conform to the status quo. Yeah. Yeah,

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And there's an if and then, and it says if

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you are if you don't conform, if you are allowed,

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if you allow yourself to be transformed by the renewing

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of your mind, changing the way you think, and you

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can go all kinds of depth into that, right, neural pathways,

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autopilot stuff, all of that training, skills, fears, all of

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that is is renewing your your mind. But then there's

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that then if you do the work, and that's where

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I think, you know, I just love teaching people how

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to do that work, how to acquire those skills. If

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00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:44.599
you do the work of renewing your mind, being transformed

459
00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:49.279
with in really your mind, then you will see God's

460
00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:51.240
good and perfect plan.

461
00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:54.880
Right, yes, and his will for you.

462
00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:59.960
Exactly specifically for you. And it says, and you said,

463
00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.000
a test, you test it a test it right, the

464
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:06.440
word a test is there, which basically means you will experience,

465
00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:11.200
not just understand the goodness that's on the other side

466
00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:12.599
of that of not conforming.

467
00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:16.359
Yes, and all of a sudden there is going back

468
00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:19.599
to that original question that I made a while ago

469
00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:24.759
was how do we discover our purpose? And what is

470
00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:28.079
it that we're here to achieve? And so the question

471
00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:30.720
is how do you do that? And you know, I

472
00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:32.960
know that there's a lot of elements to this, but

473
00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:36.759
could you share with the audience those basic elements that

474
00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:39.079
you have found that you use as you teach and

475
00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:43.400
as you coach to help people to learn how to

476
00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:47.559
transform and renew their mind. Oh?

477
00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:52.720
Absolutely, I can talk about this for hours. Okay, Well,

478
00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:57.000
the first thing is this get guidance. You know, we

479
00:28:57.079 --> 00:28:59.359
get so much guidance when we're children. That's why we

480
00:28:59.400 --> 00:29:03.640
grow so much. We have the we are learning and

481
00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:07.440
absorbing and growing machines when you're children. But think about it,

482
00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:09.400
it's not we go oh, this is the child's heart,

483
00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:11.319
this and this and this, it just goes away. No, no, no,

484
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:15.000
there's so much, so many studies that show that neuroplasticity

485
00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:20.839
never stops. Right. But here's what happens you are in

486
00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:23.839
learning mode, that's one thing. But you have all this

487
00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:27.000
guidance around you when you're when you're a kid. When

488
00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:30.640
you grow up, that guidance goes away. You become the

489
00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:33.880
one who gives guidance. But don't you think you need

490
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:35.519
guidance too well?

491
00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:39.400
And I and I use the word curiosity. Curiosity is

492
00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:42.319
an element that we have to have in our lives,

493
00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:45.079
which then brings about.

494
00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:52.119
Guidance, yes and vice versa. Because curiosity goes away because

495
00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:55.640
of disappointments and because of busyness, and because of the

496
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:59.079
status pose. Settling in the world shapes you. You conform

497
00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:02.119
to this world and you stop being curious because even

498
00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:06.400
sort of the presence of possibility goes away. And that's

499
00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:09.319
where guidance comes in. If you have accountability with people

500
00:30:09.359 --> 00:30:14.599
who basically get you up from where you are, so

501
00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:16.839
it's a safe place and a challenging place at the

502
00:30:16.839 --> 00:30:21.559
same time. That is a huge element. You ask me,

503
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.279
how find you know? I call it a friend blend.

504
00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:29.039
You know, a friend blend is sort of the app

505
00:30:29.160 --> 00:30:31.200
you become the average of the of the closest five

506
00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:37.200
people year around. That's that's just irrefutable yes, so what

507
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:39.200
do we do in real life? So if we go

508
00:30:39.319 --> 00:30:43.599
real practical here we end up and there's nothing wrong

509
00:30:43.640 --> 00:30:46.119
with be friends with everybody, right with whoever you love

510
00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:49.319
and loves you, et cetera. But for the purposes of

511
00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:53.640
growth and direction in life, if you think about the

512
00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:57.079
five the average of the five people you're surrounded by.

513
00:30:57.200 --> 00:30:59.880
You know, I even do this exercise. There's like two

514
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:02.240
levels of the exercise where you go, okay, write out

515
00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:04.359
the names of your inner circle. They have five to

516
00:31:04.400 --> 00:31:08.119
six people whatever, right, a dash if it's sort of

517
00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:13.279
a neutral relationship, an arrow down if it's a relationship

518
00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:15.240
that sucks the life out of you. And sometimes those

519
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:19.759
are even you know, sometimes those things are unavoidable because

520
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:21.559
you know, you have this crazy uncle and you're the

521
00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:24.480
crazy ancle. Maybe you know blood is blood. You have

522
00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:26.960
to figure those things out. But sometimes you stay in

523
00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.599
toxic relationships way too long, and then what are how

524
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:33.920
many of those are arabs up where this person is

525
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:35.160
making you better? Right?

526
00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:36.240
Right?

527
00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:38.599
Most of the time, we see a lot of downs

528
00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:42.160
and neutrals, not a lot of apps most of the time.

529
00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:45.279
And then there's a lot of more sophisticated layer of

530
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:48.319
sort of understanding and then starting to shape your your

531
00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:50.920
friend blend that I'm not going to go into because

532
00:31:50.960 --> 00:31:52.599
it's a little bit more. It takes more time, right,

533
00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:59.480
But the idea is that you have coaches, mentors, friends,

534
00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:02.319
et cetera. I have concentric circles of those in my life.

535
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:06.400
I'm fifty five years old and I have extraordinary guidance,

536
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:10.119
extraordinary and wisdom around me. And it takes a lot

537
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:12.359
of time, a lot of intentionality to do that right.

538
00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:15.519
So that's one piece. And coaching is a good spark.

539
00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:24.559
So when my first mentor, the Canadian missionary, the presence

540
00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:29.839
that the growth he provided was five x seven x,

541
00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:34.119
like what would have probably gotten me in normal a

542
00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:38.079
normal pace even as a Christian, to get to maybe

543
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:42.240
five years. He got me there in a year. And

544
00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:45.240
the question is that's why it's worth investing in both

545
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:49.000
coaching and mentoring. Whatever you can get right, it's worth

546
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.519
fighting for and nurturing those relationships because they accelerate your life.

547
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:54.920
It does make a difference if you want to get

548
00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:57.400
to a nice place like you know, Key West from Texas.

549
00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:00.279
It does make a big difference if I walk or

550
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:05.000
if I fly there, you know, and guidance will provide

551
00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:07.400
that for you. Right. So the other piece if you

552
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:09.960
if we're talking about staying on the practical side of things,

553
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:14.000
is this capacity for medical cognition. Medical cognition is essentially

554
00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:18.279
self awareness, right, It's it's sort of a fancy term

555
00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:20.160
for self awareness. And what does that look like on

556
00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:22.920
a practical level. Well, if you're an out pilot ninety

557
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.319
percent of the time, you know, you get up in

558
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:28.279
the morning and you follow a certain pattern of action, feeling,

559
00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:35.880
actually action and thought. Are you capable of creating a

560
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:40.640
new future for yourself? The only way that usually not.

561
00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:44.920
You're repeating, You're rinsing and repeating, right, So your actions

562
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:47.599
today create your future. If the actions today are not

563
00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:51.200
different from the actions last month, last year, your future

564
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:51.839
is not coming.

565
00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:52.799
You know.

566
00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:58.000
I hate to break it to you. So medicognition is

567
00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:01.799
a is a daily ritual. And that's why prayer is

568
00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:04.000
so important. That's why you draw it from that from

569
00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:08.280
the Bible. Prayer is a bridge to mediccognition. Why is that, Well,

570
00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:10.639
because if you are the center of the universe and

571
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:12.880
you can, even as as a Christian sort of mechanically

572
00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:16.320
pray and sort of say the thing but not really

573
00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:20.199
expanding your view of yourself. But I think it's really

574
00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:25.440
meant prayer, Bible study, contemplation, meditation, journaling, and some other

575
00:34:25.480 --> 00:34:28.360
elements that I teach people how to do is teaching

576
00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:30.960
them how to become, how to be able stop the

577
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:36.440
autopilot and analyze the software and go huh, this is off,

578
00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:41.000
and then start reprogramming it and then changing your patterns

579
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:45.159
of thought, emotion, behavior every single day. Now, that might go,

580
00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:48.480
that might feel overwhelming and surmountable, but my point is

581
00:34:48.519 --> 00:34:49.480
it's all incremental.

582
00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:52.920
Well it is. And you know you talk about a

583
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:55.400
lot of things. You talk about meditation, you talk about prayer,

584
00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:58.159
you talk about coaching or finding someone to be that

585
00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:00.800
guide for you and so forth. One thing you haven't

586
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:04.079
mentioned that I have found for me is an amazing

587
00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:08.920
is reading or in some cases I do audible because

588
00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:13.519
I love to listen rather than read. But what are

589
00:35:13.559 --> 00:35:15.320
your thoughts on that? Because I know a lot of

590
00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:17.599
people might say, you know what, right now, I can't

591
00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:19.840
afford to get a coach, I can't afford to do

592
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:24.320
this and that, and yet they can easily afford to

593
00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:28.920
start getting into those higher level books of understanding of

594
00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:33.880
personal development. Of all those things that can then instill

595
00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:37.960
within them that desire to learn more. And I do

596
00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:41.159
not disagree with you. I think having a personal coach

597
00:35:41.239 --> 00:35:45.800
or mentor is essential, and sometimes you go from one

598
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:48.559
to another to another depending on what you're doing. You know,

599
00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:52.159
when I started my meditation, I found a coach to

600
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:54.960
follow and went to one of his seminars or you know,

601
00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:58.559
week long workshops, and it was great. And then all

602
00:35:58.599 --> 00:36:01.119
of a sudden, as I was doing that, I found, Okay,

603
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:04.079
this isn't quite working for me the way I want.

604
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:07.800
So I started looking and reading and found higher level

605
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:11.639
mentors that helped me in a different way. And so

606
00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:15.519
what are your thoughts about encouraging people to get that

607
00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:18.960
curiosity and read books and read those higher level type

608
00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:19.440
of books.

609
00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:24.840
So basically what you said is exactly true, and I

610
00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:27.679
call I mean, I teach that. But I can tell

611
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:29.840
you that you can do this right now, quite literally.

612
00:36:29.880 --> 00:36:33.719
It doesn't cost you anything. Every morning set aside one

613
00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:36.280
hour every single but it has to be every morning

614
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:41.880
and you do three things. You have a contemplative practice, prayer, journaling, reading,

615
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:50.800
reading wisdom, right understanding yourself. The self awareness piece. Journaling

616
00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:53.800
is actually an important piece because what you feel, You

617
00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:56.199
think you know what you feel, but you don't know.

618
00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:58.039
You actually don't know, because it's a different part of

619
00:36:58.079 --> 00:37:00.639
the brain that engages. When you start writing words, you

620
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:03.000
start engaging your feelings from a different perspective. I'm not

621
00:37:03.039 --> 00:37:05.519
going to go into all the let's say, twenty minutes

622
00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:09.239
of contemplation, para meditation, journaling, you know that kind of thing.

623
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:13.880
Twenty minutes of physical activity will wake you up. It

624
00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:20.599
will get you all kinds of internal pharmacy substances essentially

625
00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:23.119
that we're wired into us and to the pressence all

626
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:25.199
the things that you go to Walgreens for. You don't

627
00:37:25.239 --> 00:37:27.679
need those things most of the time if you just

628
00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:32.039
exercise every day twenty minutes. The third piece of thirty

629
00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:37.320
minutes is learning. It's audiobooks, books, the stuff that is

630
00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:41.320
the most pain point surf centric, right, what is it

631
00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:43.760
that you need to learn about life that will take

632
00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:46.480
you to the next level? And it could be everything

633
00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:54.440
from relationships, romance, to marketing, social media, sales, whatever, right, philosophy, history, economics.

634
00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:57.320
You know, it's individual to you. But learning every single

635
00:37:57.400 --> 00:38:01.519
day engages your mind and spark this curiosity and gives

636
00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:07.079
you the sense of Oh, I am not the status,

637
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:11.320
the static blob that doesn't change. I can change. I

638
00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:15.519
can develop skills, abilities, character traits that will give me

639
00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:18.199
a different life, a different future. So if you basically

640
00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:22.760
do twenty twenty twenty one hour right, contemplation, physical activity,

641
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:27.000
learning will and you do that every day. And it's

642
00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:30.039
hard in the beginning, and then after a while it

643
00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:34.559
becomes a habit. Right, It goes from a routine and

644
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:38.320
routines so hard to maintain, it becomes a habit. Oh yeah,

645
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:41.039
I'm more comfortable with it. But then it becomes a ritual.

646
00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:44.280
It becomes a thing that just feeds your soul and

647
00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:48.079
starts your day and inserts that spark into your day

648
00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:51.239
that makes you do everything else and think and feel

649
00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:54.039
and do everything else differently during that one day.

650
00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:56.360
Well, I mean, you know, it's interesting, as you may

651
00:38:56.440 --> 00:38:59.320
or may not know. I'm in Thailand right now, and

652
00:38:59.400 --> 00:39:05.719
so I I find fascinating the Buddhism concepts and have

653
00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:09.360
studied them to some extent. And it amazes me that

654
00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:12.920
he talks about suffering and I look at that word

655
00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:16.760
and I think about stress and how you know, in Buddhism,

656
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:19.159
the whole goal is to get to a point where

657
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:23.760
you're not experiencing that suffering. And you know, when we

658
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:26.559
get into Christianity where he says man is that he

659
00:39:26.679 --> 00:39:30.039
might have joy. And yet how many of us are

660
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:35.559
experiencing stress in our daily lives every day? And how

661
00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:40.599
do we turn that into joy and creativity in our lives?

662
00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:42.480
Is it the same thing you've been talking about or

663
00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:45.159
are there other elements that we haven't talked about yet?

664
00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:53.000
You know, it's it's of course metaphysically true that joy

665
00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:57.119
and suffering are two size of the same coin, you know,

666
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.000
and so and you probably will see it in Boot

667
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:04.599
as well. You know. Sidharthart Sidharth god Thomas at Hardock,

668
00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:13.800
he was a prince the Buddha, and he left a

669
00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:18.480
life of opulence. His parents shielded him, according to the

670
00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:22.079
stories of anything that has to do with suffering, right,

671
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:31.440
even aging disease, and he was so empaty because of

672
00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:34.239
that that he actually did this radical thing and left

673
00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:38.960
everything behind and he embraced, you know, the life of

674
00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:43.519
an asthetic just extreme versions of that, and then he

675
00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:47.280
embraced the life of extreme pleasure. And then he found

676
00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:48.960
sort of the middle way, right, that's sort of the

677
00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:54.440
essence of Buddhism. And it's what's fascinating about about the

678
00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:59.000
insights that you can draw from that is that, in

679
00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:05.039
a way, it's very hard to find joy, true joy, right,

680
00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:11.000
not entertainment, not distraction, not something escape is behavior that

681
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:16.760
we practice quite a bit without learning how to suffer well,

682
00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:21.159
and I mean some and part of part of what

683
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:23.559
I attribute my ability to do some of the things

684
00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:25.199
that I was able to do is because I suffered

685
00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:27.519
quite a bit as a kid, you know, and a

686
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:30.800
lot of it was also self inflicted suffering as a

687
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.559
grown up, where you just do things that are terrible.

688
00:41:34.599 --> 00:41:37.639
Your character needs change, and you need to you cause

689
00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:40.079
suffering to other people in yourself. But if you don't

690
00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:42.840
know how to suffer, and if you're afraid of suffering,

691
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:46.199
you will never find joy and you will never be changed.

692
00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:49.079
So I mean, it's sort of a side of that

693
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:53.159
shake the sharks thing, right, You don't we try to

694
00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:57.199
avoid suffering at all costs, but suffering shapes us, and

695
00:41:57.239 --> 00:41:59.559
the suffering that shapes us won't kill us most of

696
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:02.079
the time. Right, So we don't try new things, we

697
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:04.000
don't write the book, we don't start the company, we

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don't you know, ask the girl out. We don't pursue

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spiritual change and transformation and repentance because we think we're

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trying to avoid suffering by not doing that. But the

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suffering is the thing that forges us into a new

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person and joys on the other side.

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You know, yes, amen to that and yeah again, time

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has just gone by. So as we cause a couple

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of questions. Number one, how do people find you?

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Well, if you want to just get access to a

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lot of the content that I do, the newsletter is

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the best one. Christian Rayflores dot com is the is

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the website. You can subscribe. All the new stuff is free.

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If you want access to the whole thing, you can

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just you know, pay like the equivalent to a latte

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a month, and there's a lot of good stuff there.

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And I drop an episode in or a newsletter every Sunday.

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So that's one way to do it. If you want

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to get a bit more serious and you feel like

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you need some more help, or you just want to

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be more self aware. Exponential that life without the E

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startups with an X. You know the cool way to

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spell exponential If you go to that website. It's my

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coaching website. On it, you will find a tool that

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we offer for free that we use all the time

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with our clients, and it's called the Exponential Scorecard. It

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asks you a bunch of questions like forty plus maybe

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seven to eight minutes to complete, but it gives you

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this incredible insight into the areas of your life that

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you need to pay attention to, and you get a

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very clear answer, Oh, this is my reality and now

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I need to know. Now I need to decide what

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to do with it. So go to Exponential that Life

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or Exponential Life slash Score. In either of those places

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you'll find the scorecard.

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You know.

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For my coaching, I'm oversubscribed. I usually have a wait

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list and if somebody in the audience goes, I really

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need to talk to this guy, please reach out. That's fine.

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I won't be able to coach you right away, for sure,

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but you can join the wait list and down the

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road you'll probably get You know, you'll hear from us saying, hey,

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there's a spot opening and would you be interested?

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Okay, and what would be a final message to the

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audience that you'd like to share?

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You can do so much more than you think you

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can do, and you should never settle for the mediocre.

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Lovely and that was shortened right to the point, Christian,

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this has been a wonderful discussion. I've really appreciated your insights.

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Thanks Doug, thank you, thanks for tuning in from Thailand

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all the way. I love Thailand.

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I've been It's it's great and I'm enjoying it. And

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I appreciate what you're doing. I mean, when when you

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look at what you're doing, you're you're not only coaching individuals,

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You've got the services, the service projects that you're doing

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over in Africa and in different places. To me, that

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becomes the whole point of making a difference in people's lives.

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And and I think that.

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As we look at that, and I want the audience

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to understand that the whole point of this podcast is

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to inspire each of us to make a difference in

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someone else's life. And in order to do that, we

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need to become someone who has the ability to do

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that by becoming our true selves. And when we do that,

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then we're going to be able to make a difference.

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Beautiful words, Yes, that's what you're true.

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And thanks so much, and folks, thanks for listening. Hope

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you enjoyed it, and we really look forward to having

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you join us again soon