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Are you stuck in the Workaholic Trap? Some reports show that business owners work an average of 75 hours per week. That's the equivalent of two full-time jobs, and that's just the average! I have worked with couples who boast of working 120 hours/week. How does one even sleep when there are only 168 hours in a week? What is the point of owning a business when you can't own your destiny? This chapter of the Marry and Grow Rich Book will outline what the Workaholic Trap is, where you might be in this trap, and how to get out of it while growing your business!
On this episode of the Character Outs podcast I have the honor of chatting with this beautiful light in the world, Founder & CEO of Beautiful Disaster Clothing, Christina DuVarney. Christina DuVarney is the visionary force behind Beautiful Disaster Clothing, a brand that transcends mere fashion to become a symbol of resilience and empowerment. Drawing from her own journey of overcoming personal trials and traumas, Christina has transformed her experiences into the very essence of her brand. Beautiful Disaster Clothing is not just about stylish apparel; it's about wearing strength and confidence as a statement of empowerment.As the founder and owner, Christina's mission goes beyond designing clothes; it's about encouraging women to move away from pain and towards happiness, to embrace their inner strength, and to find solace in the journey of self-discovery. With each garment she creates, Christina imbues a message of resilience, reminding women that they are capable of rising above any adversity they may face.In Christina's vision, Beautiful Disaster Clothing isn't just something you wear; it's a wearable reminder of the strength that lies within every woman. It's about having a piece of confidence hanging in your closet, ready to be worn whenever you need a reminder of your own power and resilience. Through her brand, Christina continues to inspire women to embrace their flaws, celebrate their uniqueness, and move confidently towards a brighter, happier future. ENJOY!!! Shop the Beautiful Disaster clothing line here: http://bdrocks.com/ Christina's Resources: *Think & Grow Rich Book: https://a.co/d/07sfls4 *Think & Grow Rich Workbook: https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Workbook-Transforming/dp/158542711X *Three Feet From Gold: https://a.co/d/b2ljkuC
In this episode, the geeks share their personal and professional goals for the year, offering insights you can apply to your own financial journey. Join The Finance Geeks as we unleash our inner financial nerd and crush 2024 like the fiscally responsible rockstars we are. ===================== Podcast Reference Links: UK House Price Index https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/housepriceindex/november2023 When will we get back to low inflation https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/will-inflation-in-the-uk-keep-rising Rising cost of living in the UK https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9428/ Inflation and Price indices https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices RPI versus CPI https://www.thetimes.co.uk/money-mentor/income-budgeting/how-to-budget/rpi-versus-cpi Triple Lock State Pension future changes https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/the-triple-lock-how-will-state-pensions-be-uprated-in-future/ Transcendental Meditation https://uk.tm.org/ HUM Premium Newsletter for Financial Planners (Andy Hart) https://www.humansundermanagement.com/ Family Location App (App) https://www.life360.com/uk/ Birthday App (App) https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/birthday-reminder-countdown/id1453656360 How to Think About Money (Book) https://tandemfinancial.co.uk/book-reviews/how-to-think-about-money-book-review/ and https://amzn.eu/d/daorWPN Get Things Done - David Allen (Book) https://amzn.eu/d/cKeNgSF Get More Referrals Now (Book) https://amzn.eu/d/3GAdcJM Think and Grow Rich (Book) https://amzn.eu/d/7uR2ONi The Dawn Wall (Film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7286916/ Quotes https://www.flickr.com/photos/tandemfinancial/albums/72157687946672833/ ===================== Disclaimer: This show is designed to be informational only and does not constitute investment or financial advice. Please contact a regulated financial adviser before taking any specific action.
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The Childfree Wealth Podcast, hosted by Bri Conn and Dr. Jay Zigmont, CFP®, is a financial and lifestyle podcast that explores the unique perspectives and concerns of childfree individuals and couples. In this episode, Bri & Dr. Jay discuss Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill for their August book club selection. Written by Napoleon Hill and published in 1937, Think & Grow Rich is the original motivation book where many of today's motivational content comes from. Hill met with millionaires of the time, asking questions such as “What makes a winner,” and discussing how you find one's definite purpose in life.Join us for next month's read, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle. Have a book suggestion? Let us know!Resources:Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon HillThe Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. BogleBe sure to join the conversation by emailing us at podcast@childfreewealth.com, following Childfree Wealth on social media, or visiting our website www.childfreewealth.com!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/childfreewealth/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChildfreeWealthLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/childfree-wealth/Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational & entertainment purposes. Please consult your advisor before implementing any ideas heard on this podcast.
As I spoke with Nicole Greer in today's episode, I was reminded that we all have blind spots, habits or practices that hold us back. By deliberately creating a community of sisters to nudge us out of our comfort zone, we become better every single day. Curious about what I am saying? Listen to today's conversation. As principal coach and CEO of Build a Vibrant CultureTM, Nicole Greer helps individuals, corporations, government, faith-based organizations and nonprofits become the people they were created to be through fulfilling a mission, to work in teams, and exemplify VIBRANT LeadershipTM. Using transformational change leadership coaching & training programs, Nicole offers foundational tools and uncommon wisdom to Build a Vibrant CultureTM. Nichole and I dish on: - What is a vibrant culture - A few steps on how to cultivate vibrancy in your work - The need for a leader to do an honest self-assessment - Learning curve explained and how to go through it - 6 energies that each one of us have access to - The relationship that women have with the energy of money Purchase your copy of Love Based Feminine Marketing: The Art of Growing a 6-Figure Business Without Hustle, Grind, or Force, (https://tinyurl.com/ydmzb6qz) TODAY!!! Subscribe now so you'll never miss an episode and leave us a review. It really helps us know which content is most important to you. Join our Feminine Business Magic Facebook Group (https://tinyurl.com/ygdkw7ce) with your host, Julie Foucht. This is a community of women dedicated to connecting, supporting, and celebrating each other in growing businesses that honor their Divine Feminine while filling their bank accounts abundantly. Resources mentioned: Purchase Love-Based Feminine Marketing (https://tinyurl.com/ydmzb6qz) Think and Grow Rich (Book)- by Napoleon Hill https://twitter.com/TheVibrantCoach https://www.instagram.com/nicolegreervibrantcoaching/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-greer-b57945b/ https://www.facebook.com/VibrantCoaching/ **Contact Nichole Greer via Facebook or https://buildavibrantculture.com/** **Connect with Julie Foucht via Facebook (https://tinyurl.com/yeb82uuj) or email at https://juliefoucht.com/**
Welcome back to Season 10 of The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast, where we connect the science-based evidence behind social and emotional learning (that's finally being taught in our schools today) and emotional intelligence training (used in our modern workplaces) for improved well-being, achievement, productivity and results—using what I saw as the missing link (since we weren't taught this when we were growing up in school), the application of practical neuroscience. I'm Andrea Samadi, an author, and an educator with a passion for learning and launched this podcast 5 years ago with the goal of bringing ALL the leading experts together (in one place) to uncover the most current research that would back up how the brain learns best, taking us ALL to new, and often unimaginable heights. For today's episode #294, we are going back to the basics, with the Fundamentals of Understanding How Our Mind Works, that started for me with Bob Proctor's Youth Mentor Program, that I was the Executive Director with, until the program dissolved with the Sept 11th, 2001 tragedy. This weekend I reviewed ALL of these cassette tapes, and when I got to the last one, the tape broke. I didn't want to miss anything that might be important that I could share with you here, so I watched a YouTube video on “how to fix a broken cassette tape” and what do you know, it worked! Times really are different than the days we used to carry these cassette tapes around, with our Sony Walkmans, but what came through loud and clear to me, was that the messages and lessons we were teaching those teens were timeless, and it all began with an understanding of our mind, how it works, and how to use it. The program consisted of 6 SERIES: SERIES 1, The Fundamentals (you can see these tapes in the image in the show notes). SERIES 2 went into the importance of your attitude, SERIES 3, Your Self-Image, SERIES 4- How to Set and Achieve Goals, SERIES 5- The Laws of the Universe and how to use these laws for your health and relationships and SERIES 6 reviewed all lessons, with the goal that the teens would experience PRAXIS, or they integrated their beliefs with their behaviors. It was strange for me to hear some of these tapes that were recorded back in early 2001, using conference calls, but what was interesting to me, was hearing the teens explaining exactly HOW these timeless principles were helping them. Teens would call into a conference call line, from around the world, and meet with Bob Proctor monthly, to review these lessons, and how they were applying them. Nothing made him happier than to hear someone applying what he had dedicated his life teaching, and I know it surprised him that the teens seemed to pick these concepts up quickly. This makes sense to me now that we know how neuroplasticity works, as it's much easier for a young person to learn something new, because their brains are more plastic, and they also have less habits to overcome. I listened to one call, and there was a young guy named Greg who shared how he used visualization to go from the last place on his golf team to be the 3rd highest on his team. I wondered why he picked the 3rd highest, and not first on his team, but anyway, that was his goal, and he achieved it. We asked him “what exactly did you do when you were visualizing?” and he said “he put himself at the 5th hole on the golf course, then pictured himself hitting the club, feeling the wind on his face, and imagined where the ball would land.” His vision was clear and specific, and listening to him talking was something else. He was confidently telling the others how he achieved his goal. Greg had mastered TAPE 2 of the Fundamentals thinking in pictures, TAPE 3, using his conscious mind and his senses (to set his goal, he even showed us how he felt it), he used TAPE 4 when he threw his goal into his subconscious mind, and TAPE 6, Greg was able to review exactly what he had done, inspiring others on this call. No wonder these kids caught my attention. There's nothing like hearing how young people, from countries around the world, were helping each other to create exciting lives. If you look at the date on the cassette tape, it was just months before September 11th, 2001, and the program would dissolve before SERIES 4, 5 and 6 were even created, but I hope that sharing these ideas with you, will help someone, somewhere in the world, to implement these ideas in your own life. So for today's episode, #294, we will cover TAPE 5 and dive into “Going Beyond Our 5 Senses: Understanding and Using the 6 Faculties of Our Mind.” We will cover: ✔What are the 6 Faculties of the Mind, and How Do They Relate to Going Beyond Our 5 Senses? ✔Where Napoleon Hill talks about these 6 Faculties in his best-selling Think and Grow Rich Book. ✔Where neuroscience fits into our understanding of these Faculties, to help us to understand our inside world, and how physicist Albert Einstein used these faculties. ✔A starting point for all of us to DEVELOP and PRACTICE using our own 6 Faculties of the Mind, giving us an edge as we are working on our 2023 goals. If I were to ask you, can you name the higher faculties in your mind, I'm pretty sure that maybe on 2/100 could list them off. This is something else that blows my mind, as I clearly remember being taught all about our 5 senses in school, tasting salt and sugar, and writing about these senses, what we can see, hear, smell, taste and touch, that allow us to make sense of our outside world. But what about our inside world? If we can learn to understand, fully develop and then use our higher faculties, we will experience life at higher levels, than just living through the 5 senses alone, that we saw on our last episode #293[i] with David Eagleman's work, there's much more than our human eyes can see. Napoleon Hill talks about these higher faculties in chapter 5 of his best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich when he says: Just as we have 5 senses that help us to experience the outside world, we also have non-physical, creative faculties that help us to experience our inner world. When I first learned about these faculties, I got really excited. Look how Napoleon Hill describes our imagination. He says: When you start to use your imagination, like Greg did with his golf game, changing your results, and entire future, with this skill, I can't imagine that you wouldn't get as excited as I do, and wonder how you can use this “marvelous, inconceivably powerful force” in YOUR life. When I started to see that science could explain some of these ideas that might seem kind of spiritual in nature, or my friend Greg Link[ii], who worked with Dr. Stephen Covey would say “woo woo” it just helped me to have more confidence as I continue to develop and use these faculties. They started to become my superpower, and what's interesting that I was reminded of when I listened to those teens talking about how they used these faculties to improve their relationships, get better grades, or like Greg's story, where he used these ideas to improve his results in sports that helped get him into the College he wanted to attend, we ALL have the ability to use, and develop these faculties for outstanding results, or a razor's edge advantage in our own lives. Before diving into our 6 Higher Faculties (Our Reason, Intuition, Perception, Our Will, Memory and Imagination” let's see what science has to say about our higher faculties. What Does the Research Say About Our Higher Faculties? We know that many visionaries have used their intuition and dreams to create life-changing ideas, but Albert Einstein would say something profound about one of these faculties. He said “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” I know that Stanford Professor Dr. Andrew Huberman has covered what happens in the brain during visualization on his podcast on “How to Learn Skills Faster”[iii] and he talks about 3 components of learning any new skill: Sensory Perception: Where you are perceiving what you are doing using your 5 senses. Movement: That involves our CPGS (central pattern generators) located in our spinal cord and generates repetitive movements like walking, and running etc. When we are really good at something, this part of the brain controls our movement. Proprioception: That he says is like a 6th sense, or knowing where your limbs are in relation to our body. I'm always looking to see if the research could possibly support the results I've seen working over and over again over the years, and while Dr. Huberman goes deep into the way our brain works while acquiring a new skill, and what part of the brain is active when we become really good at a new skill, to me, he also explains that when learning a new skill, we can use our 5 senses, and our outside world, (called sensory perception) and that we can also look outside of ourselves, with what he called proprioception. He also explains what part of the brain becomes active with visualization, and I think the key is that with practice, we move from using our upper motor neurons in our brain to a whole new area he called the Central Pattern Generators, when the skill becomes highly developed. I thought about Greg talking about his golf swing that he practiced using visualization, until he had mastered the skill enough to take his results to new heights, going from last place to 3rd from the top. Over time, he began using a different part of his brain for playing golf. This practice he was doing, would change his future, and put him in the College of his choice. I wish I had kept in touch with all of the teens from this program, I only follow the original 12, but I would bet that Greg continued to use this skill for the rest of his life for improved results in College and into his career. Then I looked at another episode that Dr. Huberman did with Rick Ruben, an American record executive, on “How to Access Creativity”[iv] and I did cover some of Dr. Huberman's research on PART 4 of The Silva Method[v], but I thought it was fitting that Rick Rubin, while discussing the creative process with Dr. Huberman, says that It's important to “pay attention to physical sensations in your body in your creative pursuits.” And neuroscientist Antonio Damasio actually coined this term to be called “interoception.” So, I know I'm not too far off from what the research says as we cover the 6 Faculties of our Mind, and how to develop them for a razor's edge advantage. REASON: We talked about our ability to think, and reason on our last episode #293[vi] which is a skill that can help us to understand things on a deeper level. We have the incredible ability to THINK, and then we can decide if we like an idea, and accept it, or we can reject an idea. We use this ability to put our thoughts together, and create ideas. HOW TO DEVELOP THIS FACULTY: Have you ever participated in brainstorming sessions or Think Tanks with others? Mastermind sessions like this allows each person to use this faculty. You write down ideas on idea maps, and discuss the pros and cons of whatever ideas are thrown out. Meetings like this are highly creative, and new advancements in business often begin this way, when two or more minds get together, and the thinking/reasoning faculty is exercised. INTUITION: This faculty I could spend a year talking about. This is where we learn how to read the energy we feel around us. We can all do this—pick up the “vibe” of another person, just by feeling their energy. Remember Anotnio Damasio called this Interoception, or learning to listen to what we feel from within our body. With practice, we can learn to trust what we feel and become confident with using this tool. HOW TO DEVELOP THIS FACULTY: The best way I have seen is to ask for feedback when you think and feel something about someone. When you can see you are on the right track, you'll gain confidence with this skill, and keep learning to use it. PERCEPTION: David Eagleman talks about this faculty in his book, The Brain, and wow, can his work really bend your mind. Just search for the word “perception” in his book, and you'll see 26 times that he gives an example of how our brain tricks us in many different ways, and “our brains constantly pull information from the environment and use it to steer our behavior” (Page 86, The Brain) and reminds us of Freuds work that our mind works like an iceberg, “the majority of it is hidden from our awareness.” (Page 86, The Brain). With this in mind, when we perceive something, remember we are seeing it from our point of view, with our senses that we know are limited. HOW TO DEVELOP THIS FACULTY: Try seeing things from someone else's point of view, and see if this changes your perception of a situation. We did talk about this strategy in depth on a recent interview #289[vii] with Dr. Maiysha Clairborne who reminded us to look at situations from 3 points of view. Our own, from the other person's shoes, and then look at the entire situation as if you were looking at all points of view from above. This will help you to see that your point of view, isn't the only possible route, and will help to develop and improve empathy with this practice. YOUR WILL: This is another of my favorite faculties. This one gives you the ability to concentrate. While sitting down to write this episode, I've gotten up from my desk a few times, but I'm determined to finish writing this, so I can record and release this today. That's the will at work. You can also use the will to hold a thought on the screen of your mind, or choose thoughts of success, over thoughts of failure. If you have a highly evolved will, you'll lock into doing something, block out all distractions, and accomplish what you set out to do. HOW TO DEVELOP THIS FACULTY: Developing the will takes practice. Meditation can strengthen your will, but so can staring at a candle flame until you and the flame become one. I tried this activity in my late 20s, and remember it was a few hours of staring at this candle flame, before I was able to block out the distractions of the outside world, and the flame extended towards me. This faculty, like the others, takes time and practice, but once you've developed this faculty, you'll know you have the ability to sit, focus, and do anything. MEMORY: We've covered memory on many episodes, but my favorite was with Chris Farrow, who is a two-time Guiness World Record Holder for most decks of playing cards memorized, from EP #149.[viii] This is another faculty that requires practice, and most of us don't practice this skill. A highly developed memory can be valuable in all types of work, and most people who have a highly developed memory share they use certain strategies to remember things, usually by association, and even by ridiculous association, to really make memories stick. HOW TO DEVELOP THIS FACULTY: Chris Farrow had memory programs through his website www.FarrowMemory.com and when I was listening to those old youht mentoring tapes, Bob suggested a memory program through Nightingale Conant[ix]. Whatever method you use to improve your memory, it begins with a system or strategy. Names are sometimes difficult for me, especially on the hiking trails, when I meet someone I see often. I try to associate the person's name with someone I know already, who they might remind me of, to make their name stick. IMAGINATION: I've saved my favorite faculty to cover last. This faculty, when developed, gives you incredible creative power. Remember that Napoleon Hill said it to be “the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known” and Albert Einstein said imagination is “more important than knowledge.” This is where the power comes in, and honestly, if I hadn't have seen all the people, who over the years, used their imagination faculty to create what many would say to be impossible, and then go out and accomplish exactly what they had imagined, I'm not sure I'd believe it all myself. HOW TO DEVELOP THIS FACULTY: This is what the Think and Grow Rich[x] book study was all about, as well as learning to visualize with The Silva Method. The important thing to note here is that you must be careful what you wish for. Remember Greg, with the teens, he wished to be the 3rd best on his team, and that's exactly what he achieved. Why not go for the top, if I swear to you, I believe it to be possible? Here's how I did this recently. At the start of 2023, when setting my goals, I put them all in written form, and made sure they stretched me. Remember, if you listened to the interview with Brian Proctor, if your goal doesn't stretch you, there won't be any inspiration in it. The end of January, I was starting a new corporate position, going back to sales, and working for someone else, something I hadn't done in 10 years. Selling my own programs into schools, there was pressure, but if I didn't make a sale, I didn't have a sales manager asking me to explain my pipeline. It was a new experience, and I wrote down that I wanted to be a LEADER in sales, in my division. Then the work began. I would read that goal out loud every morning, and many mornings, it felt weird, especially when I saw I was LAST on my team. But like Greg proved, even someone who is last, can do things a certain way, and become FIRST. It took me 6 months, and a series of sales has now led me to be the leader of my division. I honestly didn't believe it to be possible until maybe the 4th or 5th month. It began when I took my imagination, and just started to dream. That was just one of the goals I wrote down at the start of the year. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get exactly what you dreamed of. There's no limits to our creative ability and I've just proved it. I always believed this to be possible, especially for others, but doing something yourself, gives you an incredible amount of belief. I hope whatever it is that YOU want, that you've imagined on the screen of your mind, that you GET IT, and then I hope that you'll show others the way forward. All great inventions are created in two places: the mind of the inventor, and then in the world, when they create their vision. REVIEW AND CONCLUSION: To review and conclude this lesson, I hope that you'll go back and review EPISODE 291[xi] on “Unleashing the Power of Our Subconscious Mind” then EPISODE #293 on “Our Conscious Mind and Five Senses” which will prepare you for this final episode on “Going Beyond Our 5 Senses: Understanding and Using the 6 Faculties of Our Mind.” Reminder, today we covered: ✔What are the 6 Faculties of the Mind, and How Do They Relate to Going Beyond Our 5 Senses? (The 5 senses help us to see the outside world, and our 6 Faculties help us to strengthen our inner world). ✔Where Napoleon Hill talks about these 6 Faculties in his best-selling Think and Grow Rich Book. ✔Where neuroscience fits into our understanding of these Faculties, to help us to understand our inside world, and how physicist Albert Einstein used these faculties (he said that imagination was more important than knowledge)! ✔A starting point for all of us to DEVELOP and PRACTICE using our own 6 Faculties of the Mind, giving us an edge as we are working on our 2023 goals. I hope you have found the past few episodes to be helpful for using your mind to think, and create the goals that you'd like for yourself (and others) in 2023 and beyond. I've included a link to worksheets that I created for students on these 6 faculties in he resource section of the show notes. These are old lessons, but like I said with the cassette tapes, the content is still applicable over 20 years later. Feel free to download these lessons and use them as you would like. Coming up next: We have Mike Bordick, who had a 14 year MLB career and is now looking at neuroscience and youth! Futurist and Behavioral Scientist Chris Marshall who will prepare us for the uncertainty of tomorrow. A fascinating interview with Dr. Wallace J Nichols on his book and movement Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do. I'll see you next weekend! RESOURCES: Worksheets on the 6 Faculties of the Mind https://bit.ly/3rke3qB Think and Grow Rich Book Study with Andrea Samadi Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #193 PART 3 on “Putting Our Goals on Autopilot with Autosuggestion and Our Imagination” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-3-using-autosuggestion-and-your-imagination-to-put-your-goals-on-autopilot/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #194 PART 4 on “Perfecting the Skills of Organized Planning, Decision-Making, and Persistence” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-4-on-perfecting-the-skills-of-organized-planning-decision-making-and-persistence/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #195 PART 5 [xxviii] on “The Power of the Mastermind, Taking the Mystery Out of Sex Transmutation, and Linking ALL Parts of the Mind” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-5-on-the-power-of-the-mastermind-taking-the-mystery-out-of-sex-transmutation-and-linking-all-parts-of-our-mind/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #196 PART 6 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-behind-the-15-success-principles-of-napoleon-hill-s-classic-boo-think-and-grow-rich/ The Silva Mind Control Method Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #261 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/a-deep-dive-with-andrea-samadi-into-applying-the-silva-method-for-improved-intuition-creativity-and-focus-part-1/ REFERENCES: [i] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #293 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-our-conscious-mind-and-the-five-senses/ [ii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #207 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/co-founder-of-coveylink-greg-link-on-unleashing-greatness-with-neuroscience-sel-trust-and-the-7-habits/ (207) [iii] How to Learn Skills Faster EPISODE #22 Dr. Andrew Huberman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ0IBzCjEPk [iv] How to Access Your Creativity Dr. Andrew Huberman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycOBZZeVeAc [v]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #261 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-behind-the-silva-method-improving-creativity-and-innovation-in-our-schools-sports-and-modern-workplaces/ (261) [vi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #293 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-our-conscious-mind-and-the-five-senses/ [vii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #289 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/maiysha-clairborne-md-on-what-holds-us-back-getting-to-the-root-of-our-doubts-fears-and-beliefs/ [viii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #149 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/2-time-guinness-world-record-holder-dave-farrow-on-focus-fatigue-and-memory-hacks-for-students-and-the-workplace/ [ix] https://www.nightingale.com/quantum-memory-power.html[xi]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #291 https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-unleashing-the-power-of-our-subconscious-mind/ (291)
Greg Writer, dubbed "The Entrepreneur's Best Friend," is a business coach, digital marketer, and CEO of Launch Cart, a cloud-based eCommerce platform. With a notable record in corporate finance, he became the youngest owner of a full-service investment bank in U.S. history at 21 and has participated in the success of many startups, demonstrating his entrepreneurial acumen. An influential speaker and author, Greg offers profound insights on business strategy and digital marketing.The discussion initially traces a journey of personal and professional growth, from lessons learned through hardship, the importance of finding purpose, to key insights from various ventures including the creation of a child-safe web browser and understanding branding with Master P and Shrek. The latter part of the conversation delves deeper into business strategies and philosophies including effective management, the role of networking and self-investment, meaningful relationships, overcoming addiction, understanding the intricacies of e-commerce and drop shipping, embracing growth through money, and staying current in digital marketing, concluding with learning how to avoid exploitation in business.Chapters:00:00:00 - The School of Hard Knocks and Early Investment Lessons00:02:22 - Lessons from the School of Hard Knocks and Personal Development00:04:45 - Finding Your Why00:07:06 - Creating a Child-Safe Web Browser with Master P00:09:33 - From Shrek to Master P: Lessons in Licensing and Branding.00:11:49 - Focus and Sequence: How to Successfully Manage Multiple Opportunities00:14:18 - The Importance of Hiring the Right People and the Role of Management and Marketing in Business Success00:18:48 - The Importance of Networking and Investing in Yourself00:21:16 - The Importance of Meaningful Relationships and Giving First, David Shapiro's Rating System00:23:42 - A Personal Story of Addiction and Spiritual Transformation00:26:01 - Blame it on the Devil, the Healing Power of Demons, and Launching a Brand00:28:30 - From Investment Banking to E-commerce Success00:30:58 - Building a Marketplace with Improved Drop Shipping and Native Features00:33:17 - The Importance of Must-Have and Should-Have Features in E-Commerce Platforms00:35:34 - Split payment system and open-sourcing marketing for suppliers00:38:08 - Duplicating Brick and Mortar Distribution Model Online Through Dropshipping and Bringing Real Brands into the Market00:42:43 - Money as a Tool for Growth and Empowerment00:45:09 - Staying Cutting Edge in Digital Marketing00:47:28 - Learning to avoid being taken advantage of in businessCheck out the Launch Cart:→ Website: launchcart.com→ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/launchcart→ Facebook: facebook.com/launchcart → Twitter: twitter.com/LaunchCart→ Instagram: instagram.com/launchcart→ TikTok: tiktok.com/@launchcart→ Youtube: youtube.com/c/LaunchCartConnect with Greg Writer:→ Website: gregwriter.com→ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gregwriter→ Facebook: facebook.com/GregWriterOfficial→ Twitter: twitter.com/gregwriter→ Instagram: instagram.com/officialgregwriter/→ TikTok: tiktok.com/@gregwriter→ Youtube: youtube.com/@GregWriterLiveResources Mentioned in The Episode:→ Think and Grow Rich (Book): amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Landmark-Bestseller→ Rich Dad Poor Dad (Book): amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle→ Zig Ziglar: ziglar.com→ Brian Tracy: briantracy.com→ Jim Rooney: adifferentwaytowin.com→ Dennis Waitely: deniswaitley.com→ Tony Robbins: tonyrobbins.com→ Master P: trutanksoldiers.com→ Spin Gym: amazon.com/Spin-Gym-Forbes-Riley-SilverHelp The Louis and Kyle Show:→ If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend or leave a review!→ Leave a review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1504333834→ Drop us an email: LouisandKyleShow@gmail.com→ Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb6qBiV1HAYcep87nKJmGhAFollow The Show on Social Media:→ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouisKyleShow→ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louiskyleshow/→ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/65567567/Connect with Louis and Kyle:→ Read Louis' Newsletter: https://louisshulman.substack.com/→ Louis' Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouisShulman→ Kyle's Twitter: https://twitter.com/_kylebishop→ Louis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisshulman/→ Kyle's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-bishop-7b790050/
This episode is part 3 of a 4-part book series where I'll be sharing and discussing advice from my favorite books on entrepreneurship, money & success, and how the advice from these books are helping me make more in my business this year. This episode is called how to think & grow rich, and the book I'll be sharing from is called Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It helps entrepreneurs examine the psychological power of thought and the brain in furthering your business financially and also for personal fulfillment. This is what I've always been saying - everything starts with your mindset, and this book breaks down the psychology of successful people and how achieving your big, bold goals starts with your thoughts. Having the ability to shift and control your thinking is what will make or break you as a business owner. It will determine whether you succeed in your entrepreneur journey. So let's get into 9 of Napoleon Hill's laws of success as written in Think & Grow Rich.
In this special edition episode, John, Rich, and guest Nicky Billou perform the first ever EU Podcast Book Review on the best selling self help book of all time, Think and Grow Rich! Napoleon Hill's book first published in 1937 has played a major role in the development of millions of entrepreneurs and the discussion in this podcast should be both a refresher to listeners who had already read the book or a nudge to read it today!
“Once we learn to use our mind to train it, it will do some astounding things for us, as you will soon see.” Jose Silva (August 11, 1914-February 7, 1999) author of The Silva Mind Control Method. Welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast and PART 2 of our Review of Jose Silva's Mind Control Program. I'm Andrea Samadi an author and an educator, who like many of you listening, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind ANY high performance strategy proven to increase our results in our schools, sports, and modern workplaces. If there's something NEW that I come across that can help us in any way, I'll investigate it, connect it with the most current research, and then share what I learn with you here. At the start of this year, I reviewed Napoleon Hill's Best-Selling Think and Grow Rich[i] book, with a deep dive into many of the concepts that have been put to a practical test by millions of people around the world over the years. This is THE book that my mentor Bob Proctor spent his lifetime studying, and it remains on my desk as a resource to visit when I need some inspiration, or some wise words of wisdom to push me forward. Then I came across Jose Silva's work on our resent EPISODE #260, a fascinating program that I had heard about when I worked in the seminar industry, and I knew it was time to slow down the podcast, and see what Jose Silva's program covered, and if his work could help us all with whatever it is that we are working on. My goal with this review of The Silva Method[ii], is to help all of us to learn something new to refine our current meditation practice whether we are working in our schools to improve learning, in our sports environments for improved results towards a specific goal, or in the corporate workplace to generate new ideas. I wouldn't have picked this book to review if it hadn't made such an impact on the world, like Napoleon Hills' book. In PART 1[iii] of our review, on our last episode, we covered: ✔ CH 1- Using More of Our Mind in Special Ways: An Introduction to the Silva Mind Control Method ✔ What this program has done for others. ✔ Ch 2- Meet Jose ✔ Ch 3- How to Meditate: A review of the brain states (BETA, ALPHA, THETA, DELTA). ✔ How to quickly access the ALPHA STATE to improve creativity, and intuition. ✔ Using A Mental Screen in Your Mind for Heightened Visualization ✔ How to Help Yourself and Others Using a Mental Screen in Our Mind After recording this episode, there were some important parts that I forgot to add in, but since each of these episodes is cumulative, building off the last episode, I'll be sure to add in anything important along the way. As I'm writing these episodes, as I'm also learning along with you. ***If you are listening to this episode, and have not yet listened to PART 1, please do begin with PART 1 of this series, to maximize each concept we will be learning, and practicing. Each lesson builds off the next, in The Silva Method, which to me could be described as a combination between meditation, and self-hypnosis all in one. I'll be sharing Silva's Method, chapter by chapter, with clear examples of how to put it into practice, and how his method can help all of us to train our brain to do some astounding things. I wanted to cover The Silva Method on this podcast, as years ago, no one spoke about the power of hypnosis, or meditation, in our corporate workplaces, or in our schools. It's taken some time, but now these concepts are no longer weird, they are mainstream, embraced worldwide, and have helped millions of people from celebrities, and high level CEOS, to regular people in search of their own personal breakthroughs. I hope this episode series will help all of us to sharpen our saw with our own meditation practice, and help us to reach new heights in our personal and professional lives. On our last episode #261, we practiced accessing the Alpha Brain State using the countdown method, were introduced to the use of the Mental Screen for Heightened Visualization, and learned that it would be this mental screen where we would utilize the power of Silva's Mind Control Program, that is about controlling our own mind for the betterment of mankind. The idea is that we will be learning sequential exercises, created by Jose Silva, and tested by thousands of others, endorsed and practiced by many of the world's most well-known and respected scientists, and thought leaders. On today's Episode #262 we will cover: ✔ Ch 4- Dynamic Meditation ✔ Ch 5- Improving Memory and we will build off from where we left on the last episode, where we were practicing building mental images on the screen of our mind, while in the Alpha Brain State. Chapter 3 on Dynamic Meditation involves “training your mind for organized, dynamic activities” that Jose Silva thinks is what our mind was designed for. He says “once you have reached the meditative level, to simply stay there and wait for something to happen is not enough. It is beautiful and calming and it does contribute to your good health, but these are modest accomplishments compared with what is possible.” This is where The Silva program gets exciting as we step past passive meditation techniques, to use it dynamically to solve problems. Now we'll see why it's so important to perfect what we see on the Screen of our Mind, and why daily practice of these skills is crucial. Let's Do This! Let's use our mind for something that's useful for us—something of value. It all begins with our imagination, on this screen of our mind, but Silva says there are 4 important laws we must follow next. The Silva Program says that --Whatever it is that you want, you must: Law 1: You must desire that the event take place. Law 2: You must believe the event can take place. Law 3: You must expect the event to take place. Law 4: You cannot create a problem. When I heard these laws, that Silva wants us to consider BEFORE we begin visualizing what we want, I connected them to Napoleon Hill's best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich, probably because this book review is still fresh in my mind. Law 1: You must desire that the event take place. (Which reminds me of the Second chapter of the TAGR book. If you recall, this is the chapter where Barnes had a burning desire to work with Edison, so intense that he “burned all bridges behind him. He stood by his desire until it became the dominating obsession of his life.” (TAGR, Ch 2, Page 20). BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO USE THE SCREEN IN YOUR MIND, THINK ABOUT THIS. Do you have a burning desire for whatever it is that you want to create? If not, keep thinking for what you REALLY want, and choose this to focus on for this activity. Law 2: You must believe the event can take place. (This reminds me of Chapter 3 in TAGR, the chapter of Faith: Visualizing and Believing in the Attainments of the Desire. Napoleon Hill said that “every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat” (TAGR, Ch 2, Page 21) and you'll do this, because you won't believe in any other outcome. In PART 2 of our TAGR Study, I wrote an example I saw while researching Dr. David Sinclair, who we covered on EPISODE #189[iv] (and he's come up a few times on the podcast with his pioneering work in the field of anti-aging). While researching him, I found out that he had to self-funded his trip from Australia to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to interview to work in their lab, which he did. He didn't let his lack of funds stop him from finding his way to MIT. He had a clear vision of what he wanted, and he BELIEVED in his vision, and didn't let any obstacles get in his way. BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO USE THE SCREEN IN YOUR MIND, THINK ABOUT THIS: Do you BELIEVE the event you'll create on the screen of your mind can take place? Unwavering belief drives behavior, and it will come through, and be obvious by the way you walk (with purpose), the way you talk (with conviction) and finally, by the actions you will take, directed towards the attainment of whatever it is that you want. You will NEVER outperform your self-image. Without belief, you'll miss the boat. Law 3: You must expect the event to take place. While reading Silva's laws, I couldn't believe that these were all a part of the Napoleon Hill's best-selling book. I wondered if Silva learned them from Hill? I'll never know for sure, but expectation connects everything we are doing and when we expect something to happen, when it eventually does, we'll recognize it because it's been in our mind all along. In Silva's program, you will have spent some time with what you want on the screen of your mind, so expecting it is the next step. Law 4: You cannot create a problem. This law says a lot about who Jose Silva was as a person. He says “there is plenty of evil on this planet, and we humans perpetrate more than our share of it. This is done in Beta, not Alpha, not Theta, and probably not in Delta.” He says his research has proved this and I believe him. I don't believe in time wasting to prove what Silva has already proven, but it you want to use the Alpha Brain State to wish ill-will on someone else, you'll be wasting your time, as you will quickly snap out of Alpha in this process. You must only visualize something that's for the betterment of mankind. LET'S USE THE POWER OF OUR MIND TO SOLVE A PROBLEM ***To practice this, choose an event that's a solution to a problem you have. Something you desire, believe can come about, and can learn to expect it, with this exercise. STEP 1: PICK A PROBLEM Follow the steps that will get you into the Alpha Brain State, from our last episode (counting backwards from 100-1) and then lift your eyes upwards, and with your mind, create a mental screen where you will re-create the problem you want to solve. Relive the problem by seeing it and feeling it. For Schools: A problem could be a poor grade on a test, resulting in a low overall grade. For Sports: The problem could be a losing streak, or poor performance leading with the loss. For the Workplace: The problem could be a lack of sales in your organization, or poor performance somewhere. Pick the problem you want to solve, and visualize it on the screen of your mind. STEP 2: TAKE SOME SORT OF ACTION Next, you will gently push the problem scene off to the right which Silva explains in his book will represent the PAST. The past is now over, so push the problem aside. To the left of the problem, (that represents the FUTURE), create a NEW mental screen with the SOLUTION. Whatever you imagine will require ACTION of some sort showing you solving the problem. Most of us don't spend time thinking about the present moment or the future. We can easily get bogged down in what happened in the past. This is what I love about Silva's Method. The past is over, moved off to the side and we now focus ONLY on the present (taking action to solve the problem) and the FUTURE, which will highlight the changed outcome. For Schools: A solution could involve a student studying with more focus. For Sports: A solution could involve practicing a skill that is known for needed improvement. For the Workplace: A solution could involve presenting your product to a group of people who see its value, and decide they will purchase a large order. STEP 3: THE SOLUTION Finally, the action you have taken pays off, and you will envision the solution on the screen of your mind. Everything here is positive, and all of the feelings associated with the problem have been resolved. You celebrate the WIN here in as much detail as you can. What does this win feel like? Who's there watching you? What do you hear? What do you see? Involve all of your senses. For Schools: Picture the student celebrating when they see their efforts were rewarded with an A+ grade. This A+ will lead to many more, eventually allowing the student to receive an honor roll award at the end of the year. For Sports: You'll picture your team celebrating when the practice pays off with a WIN that eventually leads to a trophy or award at the end of the season. For the Workplace: You'll picture your team celebrating when they receive the large order that came from the hard work from the recent presentation. The team celebrates by hosting a lunch where all those involved are recognized for their efforts. These are some examples of using The Silva Method to train your brain towards your desired outcome. Does it always work? No, Silva says, but with time and practice, you'll start to see improvements that you might chalk up to be coincidences. He suggests stopping this practice altogether, and the coincidences will also stop. Start back up again, and they will reappear. You'll see…just practice this, and let me know what YOU see. With practice, the results you will see will be more and more astounding. The part that I forgot to mention was that in this Mind Control Exercise, “you will establish two routines. One for going to your level (with the countdown method) and the other for coming out of it.” Silva suggests at the end of STEP 3, after you've successfully visualized your solution, to say “I will slowly come out as I count from 1-5, feeling wide awake and better than before. One, two, prepare to open your eyes, three, open your eyes, four, five, eyes open, wide awake, feeling better than before.” This entire exercise, with practice, can be done with just 15 minute blocks of time, especially once you've reached the countdown method from counting from 5-1 to enter your level. You can also reach this state at any point in the day (morning upon wake, night, before sleep, or any time of day that you can a block of time where you can close your eyes and visualize yourself solving your problem). Chapter 5: Improving Memory We've covered memory hacks on this podcast with EPISODE #145[v] with Howard Berg, The World's Fastest Speed Reader on “Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension and Recall” or EPISODE #149[vi] with Two-Time Guinness World Record Holder Dave Farrow on “Focus, Fatigue, and Memory Hacks.” I'll use what Howard Berg said in our interview together[vii] as he said “take a list that you know, and link it to what you want to remember” which is exactly what Jose Silva suggests with his memory strategy. Howard had me remember a list from 1-10 using words and images (1 looks like pole, 2 is shoe, 3 is a tricycle since it has three wheels), 4 is a car (four wheels), 5 is a glove (five fingers in a glove)…etc. Next, Howard had me speed learning this list of numbers using imagery, showing me how to remember longer lists of numbers with these images. If you had ever attended a seminar with Bob Proctor, he also did this activity, linking words that we want to remember to a list of 10 words we already know by what he called ridiculous association. With the audience, he would pick a list of 20 words they wanted to recall (the audience would shout out 20 things). I wrote them down in my notes you can see (if you can read my writing). Then Bob would tie the words we want to recall to the numbers we already knew, by ridiculous association. 1-run, the audience picked a water bottle to remember and he'd say, (imagine a water bottle running around the room) 2-zoo (imaging a whole bunch of watches behind the glass with the lions as they are walking around them at the zoo 3-tree (growing a whole bunch of telephones), 4-door (with eye-glasses on the handle balancing there about to drop off when someone opens the door)…Bob's memory technique was like Howard's linking images (ridiculous images that were difficult to forget) to a list of numbers we already knew. Silva also believed in creating visual images to remember words and called these images “memory pegs” and mentioned this type of learning is a whole other area. To keep it simple, he says, to remember something He says that “all that you have to do, once you've learned to work with your mental screen, is visualize a past event that surrounds an incident you believe you have forgotten, and it will be there. I say an incident you believe you have forgotten because in reality you have not forgotten it at all. You simply do not recall it. There is a significant difference.” (Ch. 5, Silva Silva Method). He says that our brains record far more than we realize, and goes on to give some fascinating examples of what people have remembered while under general anesthesia, which is a whole other area I'll cover another time. 3 Finger Technique: In this chapter, Silva shows us how we can use what he calls the 3 Finger Technique to help us to quickly access the Alpha Brain State and solve simple things, like memory recall. He says, “Here is how simple it is: Just bring together the thumb and first two fingers of either hand and your mind will instantly adjust to a deeper level” to accomplish what you want. Try it for yourself. STEP 1: Join together your thumb and your first two fingers. What do you notice? He says this instantly brings us into the Alpha State. STEP 2: REPEAT silently or out loud “Whenever I join my fingers together like this”—now join them—“for a serious purpose I will instantly reach this level of mind to accomplish whatever I desire.” I heard Vishen Lakhiani, the CEO of MindValley say that he calms himself down during public speaking with this method. I agree that it's very calming, and use this technique to relax when I'm feeling stressed or anxious. I just used it yesterday while driving my girls to gymnastics in heavy traffic. Silva says that teacher from Denver used this Three Finger Technique to teach her students spelling with a list of 20 words. To test them, she asks them to write down the words they studied that week, recall the words using the Three Finger Technique, and see the words on the screen of their minds. She's able to teach all of her students to remember their spelling list with this method. This concept is not new. It's often how people place their hands during meditation, while sitting crossed-legged, but Silva has taken this technique to new heights, and those who have applied to to their line of work have noticed a significant improvement with memory/recall. REMEMBER: “When a person learns to function mentally at this deeper level, creativity is enhanced. Memory is improved and a person is better able to solve problems.” (Jose Silva). TO REVIEW PART 2 OF THE SILVA METHOD: We covered ✔ REVIEW of EPISODE #261 PART 1 ✔ Ch 4- Dynamic Meditation ✔ The 4 Laws that must be in place BEFORE you visualize something. ✔ We Solved a Problem with 3 STEPS (Problem, Action, Solution) with ideas to use this method for schools, sports or the workplace. ✔ Ch 5- Improving Memory ✔ The 3 Finger Technique SOME FINAL THOUGHTS: As we close out this episode, I want to reinforce that solving problems using the screen of our mind is something that takes some practice. This isn't something I've mastered yet, but as I have said, the purpose of these episodes are to see how we can improve our own meditation practices. It's only been 9 days for me now practicing the countdown method, and I'm noticing that I can access this beautiful Alpha Brain State quicker than I was from day 1 with improved focus, and clarity. My current goal is to be in better control of the images that I see on the screen of my mind. Right now, it's taking a lot of effort to override what I can see there already, and put something new on the screen that I want to create. When I need to access this state in the day, I'm using the 3 Finger Technique and finding another solution to instantly calm my brain. I'd obviously love to solve all of my problems overnight, but that's not how The Silva Program was designed. It's a journey of the mind, that I think is fascinating. “Once we learn to use our mind to train it, it will do some astounding things for us, as you will soon see.” Jose Silva I can see how many of Jose Silva's techniques have created geniuses, as Howard Berg, The World's Fastest Speed Reader used similar strategies, as well as the 2-time World Guinness Record Holder, Dave Farrow. Thank you for listening, and coming on this journey with me. I'd love to know what you notice if you have tried out the exercises with your field of work. With that, I'll close out for now, and will see you in a few days with Episode #163 on ✔ Ch 6-Speed Learning ✔ Ch 7-Creative Sleep REFERENCES: [i] Think and Grow Rich Book Review with Andrea Samadi Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #193 PART 3 on “Putting Our Goals on Autopilot with Autosuggestion and Our Imagination” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-3-using-autosuggestion-and-your-imagination-to-put-your-goals-on-autopilot/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #194 PART 4 on “Perfecting the Skills of Organized Planning, Decision-Making, and Persistence” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-4-on-perfecting-the-skills-of-organized-planning-decision-making-and-persistence/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #195 PART 5 on “The Power of the Mastermind, Taking the Mystery Out of Sex Transmutation, and Linking all Parts of Our Mind” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-5-on-the-power-of-the-mastermind-taking-the-mystery-out-of-sex-transmutation-and-linking-all-parts-of-our-mind/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #196 PART 6 in Memory of Bob Proctor on “The 15 Principles Behind Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich Book” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-behind-the-15-success-principles-of-napoleon-hill-s-classic-boo-think-and-grow-rich/ [ii] The Silva Mind Control Method https://silvamethod.com/ [iii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #261 PART 1 “A Deep Dive into Applying the Silva Method for Improved Intuition, Creativity and Focus” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/a-deep-dive-with-andrea-samadi-into-applying-the-silva-method-for-improved-intuition-creativity-and-focus-part-1/ [iv] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #189 on “Understanding Hormesis: Why Stress and Adversity Make Us Physically and Mentally Stronger” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/understanding-hormesis-why-stress-and-adversity-make-us-physically-and-mentally-stronger/ [v]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #145 with Howard Berg, the World's Fastest Speed Reader on “Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension and Recall” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-worlds-fastest-reader-howard-stephen-berg-on-strategies-to-improve-reading-comprehension-and-recall-for-educators-and-the-workplace/ [vi]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #149 with Two-Time Guinness World Record Holder Dave Farrow on “Focus, Fatigue and Memory Hacks” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/2-time-guinness-world-record-holder-dave-farrow-on-focus-fatigue-and-memory-hacks-for-students-and-the-workplace/ [vii] Howard Berg's Memory Trick with Andrea (40:20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al0B6HzxtEk
“Once we learn to use our mind to train it, it will do some astounding things for us, as you will soon see.” Jose Silva (August 11, 1914-February 7, 1999) author of The Silva Mind Control Method. Welcome back to The Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast I'm Andrea Samadi and like many of you listening, have been fascinated with learning and understanding the science behind high performance strategies to increase our results in our schools, sports, and modern workplaces. As we are in the midst of holiday season here with Thanksgiving this past week in the US, and Christmas fast approaching, we will be narrowing our focus here on the podcast and resuming interviews in the New Year. Until then, this episode will launch a series where I'll be taking us on a deep dive into the benefits of developing a meditation practice. While I'm sure those who tune into this podcast already have a practice in place, I wanted to cover a meditation method that I came across years ago, that our last interview, with Dr. Hasan Ibne Akram reminded me about. The goal of this series is to help all of us to reduce stress with this practice, but also to see if we can learn something new, and refine our practice for those who work in our schools to improve learning, in our sports environments for improved focus and concentration towards a specific goal, and in the corporate workplace for ideas to improve creativity and focus. We will begin this series reviewing Jose Silva and Philip Miele's The Silva Mind Control Method[i] that's based on the Revolutionary Program by the Founder of the World's Most Famous Mind Control Course. Ch 1: Using Our Mind in Special Ways This course is something I came across while working in the seminar industry, and while interviewing Dr. Hasan Ibne Akram, on our last EPISODE #260[ii], he reminded me of Jose Silva's program, that helped him with his self-esteem as a teenager, in addition to his studies, and a few other areas of his life, and this reminded me that I had come across Jose Silva's work years ago. I'd actually forgotten about this book, and many of the techniques we learned that were adaptations of Silva's work, and I thought that since meditation is helping so many people around the world, and it's now mainstream in our schools, with athletes, and in the corporate world, it would be fascinating to look closer at Jose Silva's Method, to see if it could help all of us to enhance our current meditation practice, myself included. Then I dove into The Silva Method, and realized his work is going to need to be broken up over a few episodes, like we did with The Think and Grow Rich[iii] book review, just to make it applicable for all of us, and give each chapter careful consideration as we look to see what parts of The Silva Method, could help us to improve our own lives. I wanted to release this episode last Friday, but in order to cover this topic properly, I knew I had to review the Silva Method thoroughly myself, do exactly what he instructs us to do, and not cut any corners. So this weekend, instead of recording, I reviewed and practiced the strategies in the first three chapters of this book, making more connections to past episodes, and increasing my learning and understanding before sharing these ideas with you. If you listened to our episode #258 with Friederike Fabritius, on her new book, The Brain-Friendly Workplace, I asked her what science has to say about those flashes of insight that we ALL have access to for improved creativity and performance, and she explained that “when you are relaxed, your brain waves slow down to the alpha state.” Friederike further explained that we can measure these brain waves with EEG scans and that at moments of insight, or those AHA Moments, the brain has “gamma oscillations” that can be trained and measured that she called “The Gamma Insight Effect.” After speaking with Friederike, I wondered HOW we could ALL train our brain to reach these levels to gain those flashes of insight on demand, or at least more often, to help us with our lives and work? Whenever I've had a flash of insight about something, it's often during times where I'm relaxed (during a massage, in the shower, or during meditation) but they happen when I'm not expecting them, so I've learned to write them down, to see I can learn the meaning behind them, and determines if the insight is useful. Have you had flashes of insight? When do they happen for you? How do you make use of what you are seeing? Next, I remembered our interview #148[iv] with Dr. James Hardt and his Biocybernaut Alpha One Training that helped people (like Tony Robbins) to access the zone, or peak performance, on demand, and increase those heightened levels of awareness for reduced stress and increased productivity. I wondered if there was a way we could do this ourselves, without having to pay the money to attend a training somewhere. Dr. Hasan spoke about attending Dave Asprey's 5 Day 40 Years of Zen Training[v], that was life-changing, but he also mentioned The Silva Method on EPISODE #260, that's designed specifically to help us to tap into the Alpha (deeply relaxed brain state) with other parts of the program that could train us to reach the Theta State (relaxed consciousness, deep meditation, light sleep, REM state) and the Delta State where we are in a deep sleep. Dr. Hasan Ibne Akram, who has successfully built 7 companies, believes that the Silva Method launched his mind to a whole new way of thinking and spoke about how Einstein and Edison would gain flashes of insight from relaxing their minds in a certain way, something that we ALL have access to do. Dr. Hasan is a huge believer in The Silva Method, that shows us how to access these creative brain states, and then give us some ideas of what to do with them once we are there. Jose Silva himself believed that once we learn how to use the tools in his program, that we all have the ability to become geniuses. Napoleon Hill even wrote about this in his best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich, when he said that a better definition of genius “is a man who had discovered how to increase the intensity of thought to a point where he can communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of thought.” Read that quote a few times and keep thinking. How could YOU benefit from diving a bit deeper into your meditation practice? We have covered meditation on this podcast, beginning with Dr. Dan Siegel all the way back to EPISODE #28[vi] where we spoke with Dr. Siegel about something he calls Mindsight, or seeing the mind in another person, and he says this is the “basis for social and emotional intelligence.” Then on EPISODE #60[vii], we dove deeper into his Wheel of Awareness Meditation, and the science behind a meditation practice, which is evident to anyone who goes to www.pubmed.gov and types in the word “meditation” as they will see over 9,000 results showing that mindfulness and meditation clearly improves our health and wellness. Dr. Dan Siegel has mentioned the research often with his Wheel of Awareness Meditation, that “integrates the structure and function of the brain.” By integration, he meant moving towards well-being. But with ALL of these episodes, we've focused on WHAT meditation does (improves mental and physical health and well-being) but I've never covered exactly HOW to access these altered states of consciousness, or what to do when we get there, mostly because until I read Jose Silva's book, I had no idea what I was doing when I was meditating. I'd been doing many of the exercises in Silva's Program, that I had learned from different seminars and sources over the years, without fully understanding exactly what I was doing, and noticed I could use some improvement with my own practice. When Friederike Fabritius said that accessing these different brain states could be trained, and then suddenly Dr. Hasan mentioned HOW he trained his brain all those years ago, I thought it was time to take a closer look at our brain states. My goal with this episode is to help me to be more intentional with my meditation practice, and then share what I learn with you here. Just keep an open mind. As I share my insights with you from each chapter, see how the ideas could help you to improve YOUR practice, and perhaps give you some new insights along the way. On PART 1 of this book review we will cover: ✔ CH 1- Using More of Our Mind in Special Ways: An Introduction to the Silva Mind Control Method ✔ What this program has done for others. ✔ Ch 2- Meet Jose ✔ Ch 3- How to Meditate: A review of the brain states (BETA,ALPHA,THETA,DELTA). ✔ How to quickly access the ALPHA STATE to improve creativity, and intuition. ✔ Using A Mental Screen in Your Mind for Heightened Visualization ✔ How to Help Yourself and Others With this Practice What This Program Has Done for Others: For this episode, #261, we will begin our DEEP DIVE into Jose Silva's Mind Control Method, used by over 10 million students around the world, to see if we can all use his work, that's based on accessing altered states of consciousness, to train our brain in ways where school just never taught us. The only reason I had heard about Jose Silva's Method, was that when I sold seminars for Bob Proctor, back in the late 1990s, many of the seminar attendees asked me if I had heard of Silva's Training. Over the years, I learned that parts of Silva's Methods were used in many of the seminars I had attended in the personal development industry, but I had never looked at the entire program as Jose Silva had written it. Much like I had only read parts of Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich book, until I decided to review it myself on this podcast earlier this year. We will be going through the chapters together, and see what resonates with our current practice enough to dive deeper into. Now, there are two ways you could learn about these concepts. You can either learn with me here on the podcast, or, if you want to go deeper, you could pay to do one of the trainings like Dr. Hasan Akram did (with Dave Asprey), or what Tony Robbins did, with Dr. James Hardt and his Biocybernaut Alpha One Training, or even dive deeper into The Silva Method as this Method is now called The UltraMind System[viii] that you can purchase through Mind Valley which is where the program exists today. It's here that the CEO of Mind Valley, a New York Times Best-Selling author himself, Vishen Lakhiani[ix] was asked to be the face of Jose Silva's work, just a few years after he passed away. PART 1 of My Review of the Silva Method: Remember when Dr. Hasan held up his copy of Jose Silva's book, from our last episode? The book is actually written as a book within a book, as the outside chapters 1 and 2, and 17-20 were written by Philipe Miele, who orients us to Jose Silva, and the millions of graduates who have benefitted from the program, while the inside of the book consists of the techniques we will learn, written by Jose Silva. We will learn more about the type of man Jose Silva was, but I have to clarify the title of the program, that is based solely on learning to control our mind for “the betterment of mankind.” (Page 6, The Silva Mind Control Method). The program cannot be used in any other way and is not meant to be used to “control” anyone, other than our own minds. As we saw with the quote we opened up with, once we can learn how to use our mind, it will do some astounding things. Throughout this series, we will see how it can be used to improve our own intuitive and creativity skills, solve large and small problems that we might have in business and in life, and will even uncover ways we can use the tools to improve our own health, or the health of others. Just keep an open mind as we go through the chapters, and I'll show you how I've either used the tools myself, or have seen them being used by others for results that cannot be denied. What This Program Has done for Others Now, don't just take my word for the deep work we will uncover in the next few episodes, here's what some of the leading experts have said about Jose Silva's Method as well as what Jose Silva himself has said that his program has done for others. ✔ A marketing company used it to create 18 new products. ✔ 14 Chicago White Socks players used it to boost their scores. ✔ Celebrities have used it and credit Jose Silva for improving their focus and creativity. ✔ Colleges and universities have used it to help students study less, but learn more. To access the research[x] that has been done on this program to date, I'll link it in the show notes. The late Dr. Wayne Dyer has said that “anything with the name Jose Silva as the author has my vote before I open to page one. Read it with a pen for underlining.” The Founder of Precious Moments, Jon Butler said that “Any CEO who is not using altered states of mind is at a competitive disadvantage.” (from Vishen Lakiani's Masterclass).[xi] As you go through this book review with me, think of where The Silva Program could help you. There will be some areas that will resonate with you, that you can practice and refine, and others that you can set aside for a later time. At the end of each of these review episodes, I'll have a section for you to put the ideas into action with clear examples of how I have used these exercises. REMEMBER: “When a person learns to function mentally at this deeper level, creativity is enhanced. Memory is improved and a person is better able to solve problems.” (Jose Silva). Ch 2- Meet Jose Silva What's crazy for me to see, looking back at Silva's work, is that he began The Silva Method, with his children while he was working on a way to improve learning. Like any parent, he wanted the best for his own children and their academics. But Jose Silva went above and beyond what most of would do for this to occur. He took his knowledge of working with radios and electronic circuitry, (what he did for his work that he excelled at) and combined this knowledge with the fact that we know that the mind generates energy, and developed a program that he hoped would help the brain to work more efficiently. He tested his ideas on his children. Imagine Jose Silva, as a young man, with young children, who would work his job in radio repair until 9pm every night, come home, eat dinner, help put his children to bed, and then when his house was quiet, he would go on to study until midnight. He would learn the ideas that would eventually help his own children improve their grades, extending the course to other children, who achieved even better results with his program, as he refined and improved it along the way, and then within 3 years, developed the course that we know today. This is where The Silva Method began, that has now been validated by over 500,000 experiments, providing the results that no one could ignore. Ch 3- How to Meditate: A review of the brain states (BETA,ALPHA,THETA,DELTA). A Review of the Brain States: Beta Brain States: are where most of us spend our waking time, in normal and alert consciousness with brain waves at 15-30 cycles/second. It's here that we can feel the stress and anxiousness of daily life, so finding ways to offset this stress can be helpful. ***Alpha Brain State: where our brain slows down and we begin to feel healing, a sense of relaxation, or bliss, at around 9-14 cycles/second with our brain waves. This brain state is where most of Jose Silva's Programs are centered around. Theta Brain State: involves deeper relaxation with access to problem solving while these waves slow down to 4-8 cycles/second. If we can train our brain to stay awake here, we will be able to access heightened levels of creativity and intuition for solving problems. In chapter 7 of the book, Jose Silva covers Creative Sleep. He says “Understand a Man's Dreams, and You Understand the Man” Delta State: our brain waves slow to 1-3 cycles/second while we are in deep dreamless sleep. How Do We Use the Silva Method to Access the Alpha State Where All the Magic Begins? STEP 1: HOW TO ACCESS THE ALPHA STATE: YOU CAN ACCES THE ALPHA STATE WHEN YOU FIRST WAKE UP, BEFORE BED, and ANY OTHER TIME YOU HAVE 15 MINUTES TO RELAX YOUR MIND. The Alpha State is the easiest state to access as we will already be in this state the first 5 minutes after we wake up. Jose Silva suggests: Jose Silva suggests the 40 Day Technique to guarantee you are at the Alpha Level where you begin by counting backwards from 100 to 1 for 10 mornings, then you can count from 50-1 for the next 10 mornings, then from 20-1 for 10 mornings, and then 10-1 until you get to 5 to 1. I'm currently in the first 10 days of counting backwards from 100-1 to allow myself to drift deeper into Alpha in the morning as well as before I go to sleep at night. I noticed that I'm more focused on my morning meditation, whereas before, I was just sitting there, not as focused as I know I could have been. I practice Dan Siegel's Wheel of Awareness Meditation each morning, and going into the Alpha State FIRST, has deepened my brain state into the Alpha level, where I no longer drift off when I hear a noise or something. PUT THIS INTO PRACTICE: Begin using the 100-1 countdown to at night, in the morning, or whenever you plan to access the alpha level to begin to improve your current practice. I'm in my first few days of practicing this method before sleep, and the first couple of nights, fell asleep before I could get to 1. I'll keep trying, as I'd like to get to the point where I can just count from 5-1 to access the Alpha State, like Jose Silva suggests. If you are as serious about accessing this level as I am, I suggest keeping a note card next to your work place to check off where you are in this process. After 10 days, you can progress to the next step, until you are able to access the alpha state from counting from 5-1. STEP 2: ONCE YOU REACH THE ALPHA STATE, THEN WHAT? Next, You will learn to use a Mental Screen for Heightened Visualization Once you have accessed the Alpha State, Silva reminds us: Central to Jose's Silva Method of Mind Control is with the power of visualization, and he says “right from the beginning, from the very moment you reach your meditative level (what he calls accessing the Alpha State), you must learn to practice visualization. The better you learn to visualize, the more powerful will be your experience with Mind Control.” He also believes that his process goes far beyond what many of us have come across with other meditation programs, and as I go through each chapter, I'll leave it to you to pick and choose which parts of his program resonate with you to use and practice, but this part is important to master for EVERYTHING else we will be learning. PUT THIS INTO PRACTICE: When you close your eyes, what do you see? Raise your eyes up a bit (about 20% upwards above the horizon of what you see). Is it black, or can you use your mind to create things? Begin with simple things like an orange or an apple. This takes time and practice. This mental screen will help you in many ways as we move through different lessons, and is important, but don't be tied to what you think you should see. We are all at different stages of learning. I started seeing things on the screen of my mind starting in my late 20s, and things would flash sometimes when I was relaxed. I never did have control over what I was seeing. It just happened, and I would either know what I was seeing, or be wondering “what on the earth is that” so I'm hoping that with time, effort and practice, I will gain better control over what I'm able to visualize, so I can put it to better use. STEP 3: Now Utilize This Power With time and practice, it will be this screen that you will learn how to help yourself and others. You begin with creating simple things, until you are ready to solve small problems in your daily life, from work, to health, and improve learning/creativity. PUT THIS INTO PRACTICE: Just begin here with playing around with what you can create on the screen of your mind in the Alpha State. If you do nothing else, other than these 3 steps, you will experience what William Wordsworth called “a happy stillness of mind.” (Page 27, The Silva Method). Think of this as a journey within your mind. Each day you will be getting better and better, mentally stronger and stronger, and remember the quote we opened this episode with? “Once we learn to use our mind to train it, it will do some astounding things for us, you will soon see.” (Jose Silva) TO REVIEW PART 1 of THE SILVA METHOD: We covered: ✔ CH 1- Using More of Our Mind in Special Ways: An Introduction to the Silva Mind Control Method ✔ What this program has done for others. ✔ Ch 2- Meet Jose Silva and learned about his passion for helping others to improve their ability to learn. ✔ Ch 3- How to Meditate: A review of the brain states (BETA,ALPHA,THETA,DELTA). ✔ How to quickly access the ALPHA STATE to improve creativity, and intuition using the countdown Method. ✔ Using A Mental Screen in Your Mind for Heightened Visualization ✔ It Will Be This Screen That We Will Use to Help Yourself and Others in Future Chapters. SOME FINAL THOUGHTS: As we close out this episode, I wanted to share that while there are many programs out there, and I'm not here to say that one is better than the next. If you have studied the father of mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn, you'll recall that he reminds us that we are already perfect, and that mindfulness is not about “attaining a certain state, (that brings us to this new level of perfection) but that we are already whole and perfect.” Whatever program you are doing now, see if there's anything we cover that interests you to dive deeper into to further enhance what you are already doing. And with that, I'll post the topics in upcoming episodes on the show notes, and I'll see you in a few days, with EPISODE #162 on Dynamic Meditation and Improving Our Memory. COMING NEXT: Episode #162 we will cover ✔ Ch 4- Dynamic Meditation ✔ Ch 5- Improving Memory Episode #163 ✔ Ch 6-Speed Learning ✔ Ch 7-Creative Sleep Episode #164 ✔ Ch 8-Your Words Have Power ✔ Ch 9-The Power of Imagination ✔ Ch 10-Using Your Mind to Improve Your Health Episode #165 ✔ Ch 12- You Can Practice ESP ✔ Ch 13- Form Your Own Practice Group ✔ Ch 14- How to Help Others Episode #166 ✔ Ch 16- A Checklist ✔ Ch 17- A Psychiatrist Works with The Silva Program ✔ Ch 18- Your Self-Esteem Will Soar ✔ Ch 19- Mind Control in the Business World ✔ Ch 20- Where Do We Go from Here? REFERENCES: [i] The Silva Mind Control Method https://silvamethod.com/ [ii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #260 with Dr. Hasan Ibne Akram on “Breaking Down the Mindset of the Million Dollar Monk” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/serial-entrepreneur-and-computer-scientist-hasan-ibne-akram-pd-d-on-breaking-down-the-mindset-of-the-million-dollar-monk/ [iii] Think and Grow Rich Book Review with Andrea Samadi Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #193 PART 3 on “Putting Our Goals on Autopilot with Autosuggestion and Our Imagination” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-3-using-autosuggestion-and-your-imagination-to-put-your-goals-on-autopilot/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #194 PART 4 on “Perfecting the Skills of Organized Planning, Decision-Making, and Persistence” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-4-on-perfecting-the-skills-of-organized-planning-decision-making-and-persistence/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #195 PART 5 on “The Power of the Mastermind, Taking the Mystery Out of Sex Transmutation, and Linking all Parts of Our Mind” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-5-on-the-power-of-the-mastermind-taking-the-mystery-out-of-sex-transmutation-and-linking-all-parts-of-our-mind/ Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #196 PART 6 in Memory of Bob Proctor on “The 15 Principles Behind Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich Book” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-behind-the-15-success-principles-of-napoleon-hill-s-classic-boo-think-and-grow-rich/ [iv] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #148 with Dr. James Hardt on his “Biocybernaut Alpha Training” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/dr-james-hardt-of-biocybernaut-alpha-training-on-change-your-brain-waves-change-your-life/ [v] https://40yearsofzen.com/dave/ [vi] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #28 with Dr. Daniel Siegel on “Mindsight, the Basis for Social and Emotional Intelligence” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/clinical-professor-of-psychiatry-at-the-ucla-school-of-medicine-dr-daniel-siegel-on-mindsight-the-basis-for-social-and-emotional-intelligence/ [vii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #60 on “The Science Behind a Meditation Practice with a Deep Dive into Dr. Daniel Siegel's Wheel of Awareness Meditation https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-science-behind-a-meditation-practice-with-a-deep-dive-into-dr-dan-siegel-s-wheel-of-awareness/ [viii] Mind Valley The Silva UltraMind System https://www.mindvalley.com/ultramind/sales?utm_source=google-paid&utm_medium=ocpm&otag=%5Bgg-ads%5D-%5Bvsl%5D-%5B17753276300%5D-%5B%5D-%5B%5D-%5Bsums%5D&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsoycBhC6ARIsAPPbeLvitYEzBdYZUiIjVD6DfQhvBjckA4peckfGlr0NpnXnvs0dK2jXTLEaAiZoEALw_wcB [ix] Mind Valley The Silva UltraMind System https://www.mindvalley.com/ultramind/sales?utm_source=google-paid&utm_medium=ocpm&otag=%5Bgg-ads%5D-%5Bvsl%5D-%5B17753276300%5D-%5B%5D-%5B%5D-%5Bsums%5D&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsoycBhC6ARIsAPPbeLvitYEzBdYZUiIjVD6DfQhvBjckA4peckfGlr0NpnXnvs0dK2jXTLEaAiZoEALw_wcB [x] Research on The Silva Method https://silvamethod.com/research [xi] Vishen Lakiani's Masterclass on The Silva Method https://www.mindvalley.com/ultramind?itm_source=storefront_w2.0&itm_campaign=sums_evergreen_evergreen_sums&otag=storefront_sums&itm_medium=email&itm_content=%5Bwatch_later%5D
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In this episode, Alex Kurm discusses his 20 years of lean experience in a variety of sectors, including nuclear engineering, food manufacturing, logistics, banking, pharmaceuticals, and lastly as a lean consultant and he shares his different types of practices in different businesses. He discussed the behavioral strategies that enable sustainability and are a component of the lean management system. He also mentioned how 80 percent of everyone's conduct is determined by consequences in ABC. Alex's favorite book is "Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill ", have you read it? Check out all our guests book top book recommendations here" and let us know your favorite. https://theleaneffectpodcast.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TheLeanEffectPodcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/272448766629082/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-lean-effect-podcast/ Insta: @theleaneffectpodcast Twitter @TheLeanEffect Guest: Alex Kurm alex@kurmconsulting.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-kurm-7014aa1 Host: Mark Dejong: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-de-jong-investor-lean-advisor-0288695/ Mark@4ppartners.ca https://www.4ppartners.ca Phone: 1-778-807-9691
Do you want the Granddaddy of ALL Motivational Literature? Well, here it is! Remember, with each episode, we will provide a helpful Deep-Dive infographic where we break down the entire book on to 1 page! Check out, and download, this week's infographic below!Napoleon Hill is known as the winner of all winners. And in this book, Think and Grow Rich, he asks (and answers) "what makes a winner?". This book was originally written in 1937, and Hill uses entrepreneurs, millionaires, and geniuses of that time, such as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie to illustrate his principles of being a winner. In this updated version, Arthur Pell, an expert on Hill's thoughts, uses modern-day success stories such as Bill Gates, Mary Kay Ash, and more. Here are our top 10 takeaways:Mental ClarityDominating ThoughtsThe Subconscious Belief Proceeds SuccessAffirmationBe DecisiveYour EdgeSpecialized KnowledgeDownload the infographic here!Tweetable Quotes:"You don't know what you're capable of until you're forced to dig deep and do the thing that you never thought you could do." – Anthony Vicino"This is gonna tell you how to program your brain so that you've got the appropriate environment, the appropriate mental environment to be successful." – Dan KruegerLEAVE A REVIEW if you liked this episode!!Keep up with the podcast! Follow us on Apple, Stitcher, Google, and other podcast streaming platforms.To learn more, visit us at https://invictusmultifamily.com/**Want to learn more about investing with us?**We'd love to learn more about you and your investment goals. Please fill out this form and let's schedule a call: https://invictusmultifamily.com/contact/**Let's Connect On Social Media!**LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/11681388/admin/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/invictuscapitalventures/YouTube: https://bit.ly/2Lc0ctX
Welcome back to PART 5 of Making 2022 You Best Year Ever with EPISODE #195 on “The Power of the Mastermind, Taking the Mystery Out of Sex Transmutation, and Linking ALL Parts of Our Mind” as we continue our deep dive into Napoleon Hill's Classic book, Think and Grow Rich, that has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Before I go on with this episode, I just want to say that out of those 15 million copies of this book sold, I wonder how many people of those 15 million people read the book the way that Napoleon Hill intended? I know I didn't until Paul Martinelli taught me how to read it, and I know from doing this book study that I'm only scratching the surface of these 15 principles, used by some of the wisest people in the world. Hill himself would say that if you haven't read the book three times, or completed the exercises, you haven't read the book yet! I hope this book study is helping you to dive deeper into these important chapters of one of this classic and timeless book, and that you are gaining a deeper awareness as we're reading this book together. On this episode, you will learn: ✔︎ Review PART 1, 2, 3 and 4 to Reinforce the First 9 Chapters of Think and Grow Rich. ✔︎ What "power" can be felt and seen when we Mastermind with Others. ✔︎ What is the "Irresistible Force" That Hill Says Gifts Us With a Super Power for Action? ✔︎ How Do ALL Parts of Our Mind Work Together? For those new, or returning guests, welcome back. I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of you who tune in, have been fascinated with learning, understanding, and applying the most current brain research to improve productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments. If you have been following our book study of Napoleon Hill's Classic book, Think and Grow Rich, we are nearing the end of this study. Just to review, you will recall how PART 1 began with a reminder from Grant Cardone that “in order to get to the next level of whatever it is that we are doing, we must think and act in a wildly different way than we previously have been.”[i] We outlined all of the 15 principles that we will be diving into (have covered 9 of them so far) and in PART 2[ii] we looked at the importance of positive thinking, being crystal clear with what we want, and choosing faith over fear in pursuit of our goals. PART 3[iii] we examined the importance of putting these goals on autopilot with what Hill calls “autosuggestion” and then further honing our craft by studying, learning, and developing specialized knowledge that will separate you from others, making you truly unique with your talent that you'll continue to perfect in your lifetime, while using your imagination to keep building and perfecting whatever it is that you want to create in your life. PART 4[iv] we dove deep into why organized planning, decision-making and persistence are important and timeless leadership characteristics, with strategies to help all of us to improve our persistence muscles. Leading us to the final chapters of the book with the last two episodes that will cover Chapter 10 on the Power of the Mastermind, Chapter 11 (one of the most misunderstood chapters in the book) The Mystery of Sex Transmutation, Chapter 12, The Subconscious Mind on this episode, and the final episode in this series, that will cover Chapter 13, The Brain, Chapter 14, the Sixth Sense and 15 on Outwitting the Ghosts of Fear. Before I began recording these episodes, I didn't know how many it would take to cover these chapters thoroughly, but if you are like me, and just want to learn, keep listening and see if you can add anything new to your goal-setting/achieving process. I had no idea it would cover the entire month of January to properly review this book. We really could keep going all year, as each principle we could talk about for an entire month. Therefore, I think it's important to revisit this book, every year, as we are working on new goals, to continue to improve our own process, and take our understanding of each principle, to a new level. Remember that Hill says that if we haven't read the book three times, and completed the exercises, we haven't read the book at all. Chapter 10 The Power of the Mastermind Bringing us to Chapter 10 on The Power of the Mastermind that Hill brings to life when he says that “no two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible, intangible force that may be likened to a third mind.” (CH 10, Page 195, TAGR). Hill is describing the power that happens, the “collective consciousness” that's created when 2 or more people come together for a sustained period of time to drive forward an idea. I know that we have all felt this happen. No one has said it better than the late Doug Wead[v], who I first heard talk about this power May, 2001 when I worked in the seminar industry and heard him speak for the first time. His speech was called “The Third-Party Principle” and the wisdom that's held when you take your idea or whatever it is you are working on, to two or more other people. He called it the “triple-braided cord” that would form when 2 or more minds came together. This is the power of the mastermind that Hill wants us to pay attention to, where he says that “no two minds ever come together without creating a third, invisible, intangible force, that may be likened to a third mind” and the reason why we should always look for people smarter than we are, to learn from. “The Master Mind may be defined as coordinated knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.” (CH 10, Pag 195, TAGR). Whatever it is you are working on, if you can create a Mastermind group to help push your idea forward, you will notice the “power” of this Mastermind, that Hill titled this chapter on. There's something magical that happens, that you won't miss. Every person will feel it and be forever changed from each meeting that you have. Have you ever seen this principle in action? You'll know exactly what I'm talking about, if you have. “Plans are inert and useless without the sufficient power to translate them into action.” (CH 10, Page 193, TAGR) and “this chapter will describe the method by which an individual may attain and apply power…Power refers to an organized effort …of two or more people who work towards a definite end in a spirit of harmony.” (CH 10, Page 195, TAGR). Hill reminds us to “keep in mind the fact that there are only two known elements in the whole universe—energy and matter. Matter may be broken down into molecules, atoms and electrons” and that the “human mind is a form of energy” (CHA 10, Page 196, TAGR) that will be an important part of the next chapter, but will show us in this chapter, why one plus one equals three. Always surround yourself with people who are smarter than you for this compounding effect to occur. Do you have a Mastermind group that you participate in? I'm sure for people who tune into this podcast, that this is not a new concept, but just a reminder of the success principles that have been proven over the years to yield the highest results. “Henry Ford began his business career under the handicap of poverty, illiteracy and ignorance. Within the conceivably short period of 10 years, Mr. Ford mastered these three handicaps, and within 25 years, made himself one of the richest men in America. Connect with the additional knowledge that Mr. Ford's most rapid strides became noticeable from the time he became a personal friend of Thomas A Edison, and you will begin to understand what the influence of one mind upon another can accomplish.” (CH 10, Page 197, TAGR). Setting Up Your Own Mastermind Group: To make use of this principle, align yourself with others you can learn from, and begin. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Jeff Bezos all had their inner circle of “thinking partners” to help take their ideas to new heights. “Economic advantages may be created by people who surround themselves with the advice, counsel, and personal cooperation of a group of people who are willing to lend them wholehearted aid in the spirit of perfect harmony.” (CH 10, Page 195, TAGR). WHO DO YOU INVITE? “Some of the best sources for creating your own Mastermind are your own employees.” (CH 10, Page 100, TAGR). Come together with people who are in harmony as you (with the same beliefs as you, and what you think is possible) but the people you choose must THINK differently than you to take you beyond where your mind can see. You will see this in action when you meet and be prepared to draw new ideas and knowledge from others, who can see things that you might not be able to see. WHEN DO YOU MEET? Pick a date to meet either in person or online and stick to that same date (whether it's once a month or once a quarter), keep your meetings going for at least a year. WHAT SHOULD YOU NOTICE? First, you will notice a sense of peace and certainty that comes from these meetings, because of the energies coming together with a common goal, of helping each other. You will notice a calmness of mind, in addition to new ideas and ways forward. Next, you will notice these meetings are highly creative. Ideas will flow, and you will move away from the competitive plane, to a more creative one. Finally, you will notice that others will see things that you cannot see. They will be able to notice progress moving forward, when you see roadblocks, and the idea is that together, your minds move past all obstacles, with the powerful force that you create together. Do you see how these chapters and principles all work together, like the colors of the rainbow. You will remember the image that shows how our thoughts can move from one frequency to another. If you want to think and act in a wildly different way than we previously have been (from Chapter 1) then it would be with the help of your Master Mind. The new ideas generated will take you from where you are now, to new levels of awareness, in pursuit of your goal. Bringing us to Chapter 11, The Mystery of Sex Transmutation Which I think is one of the most misunderstood chapters in this entire book. Many people teach this book, and many skip over this chapter, and I it's because many people can get stuck with the physical side of this concept, that they miss that there's more than the physical, and how simple yet important this concept is. Simple, and easily explained, but not at all easy to do. We could go down a rabbit hole here, but let's stick to why Hill thinks this idea is “simple and easily explained” to begin with, so we can see why he included this principle as one of the main chapters in this book. At first glance, I know, we can make up our own mind of what we think this chapter is about but let's look at Hill's definition. What is Sex Transmutation? It means the switching of the mind from thoughts of physical expressions to thoughts of some other nature” (CH 11, Page 206, TAGR) and can be better understood with that same image we just looked at to explain how our mastermind group can take us to new levels of awareness, where we can see how our thoughts can move us to different frequencies. Remember that we live simultaneously on three planes; we are spiritual beings, with an intellect, and we live in a physical body. If you look at the diagram in the show notes, we have labelled the lines or different levels of frequency S for spiritual realm, where we will feel the need to expand or always move forward, I for the intellectual realm where we access our creativity to build our dreams, and P for physical. I'm sure it's easy for us to imagine the energy that exists on the physical plane (just the same as we would imagine where we currently are with our goals on the physical plane, or what can use our 5 senses to see, feel, taste, touch and smell) but there's much more to this energy, that goes beyond our 5 senses, to the intellectual and spiritual frequencies. Hill says to transmute this energy “It means the switching of the mind from thoughts of physical expressions (the lowest form of energy) to thoughts of some other nature (on a higher frequency)” (CH 11, Page 206, TAGR). 3 Planes of Existence (Spiritual, Intellectual, and Physical). Remember it is “simple and easily explained” but not easy to do the switching from the plane that you predominantly operate from. This is where I think most people will miss the value in this chapter, and not spend enough time thinking beyond the physical. There is so much more for us to experience if we can detach from the physical, but it's difficult to think beyond our five senses, because we have not been taught to operate with the unseen world or to “switch our mind from thoughts of physical expressions to some other nature.” (Hill). We look at our bank accounts, and see how much money we have, and can't “imagine” beyond what we see. We can use our higher faculties our (intuition, imagination, will, reason, perception and memory) to see beyond our senses to attain new results, switch to different frequencies, and “transmute” our energy. How Do We Do This? We can take this idea of sex that we know as “the perpetuation of mankind, the maintenance of health, and the transformation of mediocrity into genius through transmutation” (CH 11, Page 205, TAGR) and switch it from “thoughts of physical expression, (on the physical plane) to thoughts of some other nature” (on a higher level of frequency or plane) (CH 11, Page 206, TAGR). We must actually do the switching and go from the physical level, where it's very easy to get attached emotionally, detach (or let go) and switch our thoughts to another frequency with effort. This is “simple and easily explained” but not easy to do, and Hill warns us this is why people seldom succeed before age 40. He notes “more often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50” (CH 11, Page 216, TAGR) and this chapter goes on to explain how to use this vital force to communicate with others, and inspire others through compassion, encouragement and enthusiasm. Hill says this energy “is the most powerful of human desires. When driven by this desire, people develop keenness of imagination, courage, willpower, persistence and creative ability unknown to them at other times. When harnessed and redirected along other lines, the positive attributes of this motivating force may be used as powerful creative forces in literature, art or in any other profession or calling.” (CH 11, Page 206, TAGR). We will become highly attractive and appealing to people if we can balance these three planes of existence. You'll see a creative force that really is unstoppable. Where does this energy exist predominantly in you? Some people have higher drives of this energy on different planes. Do you know where you operate from with this energy most of the time? It's useful to know this, so you can work on balancing all three areas for improved results. Paul Martinelli explained this to me in a way that made complete sense. He said to think about a singer[vi] who may have incredible talent, with a voice that moves you to the core. She sings and it strikes your emotions, and even on a spiritual level, you are moved. But there is something missing. She is shy and is lacking when it comes to her stage presence. She may have mastered the spiritual and intellectual realm but has not fully developed her talent in the physical realm and lacks the charisma needed for her to perform on stage. Hill reminds us about the “irresistible force against which there can be no opposition—when driven by this emotion, men and women become gifted with a super power for action. Understand this truth and you will catch the significance of the statement that sex transmutation will lift one to the status of genius. The emotion of sex contains the secret of creative ability.” (CH 11, Page 207, TAGR). We can transmute or “transfer one form of energy into another” (CH 11, Page 205, TAGR) which is how we move from one frequency or vibration to another. Don't get trapped into thinking that we can exist only on the physical plane or that this energy exists only on the physical plane. It can also exist on the intellectual and spiritual plane with the use of “transmutation” that transfers or changes the physical energy into another form. Remember, this idea links back to the first chapter, when we had to think “wildly different thoughts”[vii] to get new results, that would take us from where we are now (physical realm) to where our goals sit (spiritual realm in the diagram). Think about where you operate from predominantly. If you are dominant in the physical realm, you will be missing something in the intellectual and spiritual realm, just as if you are dominant in the intellectual realm, there will be something missing for you in the physical realm. This is just another way to become more self-aware and find balance in all three areas to experience the “superpowers for action” that Hill explains is possible with this energy. Chapter 12: The Subconscious Mind Bringing us to Chapter 12 on what Hill calls the Subconscious Mind. We will call it this in this description but have been taught to label this part of the mind in recent years as the nonconscious mind (with any mental process that goes on in which the individual is unaware). Don't forget to READ and WRITE the 6 STEPS every day, to influence this part of your mind. We did cover this in PART 2[viii] of this series. We did also cover this part of the mind on PART 3[ix] when exploring autosuggestion with the three parts of your mind: The conscious mind, The Non-Conscious Mind and how our mind impacts The Body. Hill reminds us in this chapter that “The subconscious mind works day and night” (CH 12, Page 230, TAGR) and that you “cannot entirely control your subconscious mind, but you can voluntarily hand over to it, any plan, desire or purpose you wish to be transformed into concrete form” (CH 12, Page 230, TAGR) and reminds us to go back to Chapter 4 on Autosuggestion and read this chapter again. Since each of these principles are connected, like the colors of the rainbow, it's good practice to keep your book tabbed, so that you can go back and forth to previous chapters when needed. To review PART 5 of this SERIES: The Power of the Mastermind: Remember the third-party principle or the “third, invisible, intangible force that may be likened to a third mind.” (CH 10, Page 195, TAGR). with the “collective consciousness” that's created when 2 or more people come together for a sustained period of time to drive forward an idea. Do you have a Mastermind Group that you participate in? This is a powerful practice that will guarantee forward motion. Taking the Mystery Out of Sex Transmutation: Do you know what plane you predominantly operate on? To make full use of this power, how could you create more balance in all 3 of these areas? Linking All Parts of Our Mind: Have you formed the practice of reading and writing your goals twice a day? If not, you are missing the power of autosuggestion created from the power of your non-conscious mind that works day and night and accepts whatever you tell it. With that, we will bring this episode into a close, and I will see you in a few days for the final episode of this series, that will cover Chapter 13, The Brain, Chapter 14, the Sixth Sense and 15 on Outwitting the Ghosts of Fear. Have a wonderful weekend! REFERENCES: [i] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ [ii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/ [iii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #193 PART 3 on “Putting Our Goals on Autopilot with Autosuggestion and Our Imagination” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-3-using-autosuggestion-and-your-imagination-to-put-your-goals-on-autopilot/ [iv]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #195 PART 4 on “Perfecting the Skills of Organized Planning, Decision-Making, and Persistence” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-4-on-perfecting-the-skills-of-organized-planning-decision-making-and-persistence/ [v] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #187 “In Memory of Presidential Historian Doug Wead on Leadership and Character Lessons from the Greatest US Presidents” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/in-memory-of-presidential-historian-doug-wead-on-applying-leadership-and-character-lessons-from-the-greatest-us-presidents/ [vi] Paul Martinelli on The Mystery of Sex Transmutation Published May 1, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QlYitpjpvM&list=PLO4Y7YoQ7TKPBOWw15h1DhlYQcKK8Hhub&index=13 [vii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/ [viii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/ [ix] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #193 PART 3 on “Putting Our Goals on Autopilot with Autosuggestion and Our Imagination” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-3-using-autosuggestion-and-your-imagination-to-put-your-goals-on-autopilot/
Welcome back to PART 4 of Making 2022 You Best Year Ever with EPISODE #194 on “Perfecting the Skills of Organized Planning, Decision-Making and Persistence” as we continue our deep dive into Napoleon Hill's Classic book, Think and Grow Rich, that has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. On this episode, you will learn: ✔︎ Review PART 1, 2, 3 to Reinforce the First 6 Chapters of Think and Grow Rich. ✔︎ Why the Skills of Organized Planning , Decision-Making and Persistence are important and Timeless Leadership Characteristics. ✔︎The Major Attributes of Leadership. ✔︎ The Major Causes of Failure in Leadership. ✔︎ Strategies to Improve Your Decision-Making and Persistence Muscles. For those new, or returning guests, welcome back. I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of you who tune in, have been fascinated with learning, understanding, and applying the most current brain research to improve productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments. This month, I decided to share my notes with you on a book that I have been studying every January since 2018, with Paul Martinelli, who has studied this book for most of his career. It was the book that my mentor Bob Proctor has studied for his entire life, over 57 years, and a book that some of the wisest people in the world have studied. If you have been following our episodes of Napoleon Hill's Classic book, you will recall how PART 1 began with a reminder from Grant Cardone that “in order to get to the next level of whatever it is that we are doing, we must think and act in a wildly different way than we previously have been.”[i] We outlined all of the 15 principles that we will be diving into and in PART 2[ii] we looked at the importance of positive thinking, being crystal clear with what we want, and choosing faith over fear in pursuit of our goals. PART 3[iii] we examined the importance of putting these goals on autopilot with what Hill calls “autosuggestion” and then further honing our craft by studying, learning, and developing specialized knowledge that will separate you from others, making you truly unique with your talent that you'll continue to perfect in your lifetime, while using your imagination to keep building and perfecting whatever it is that you want to create in your life. Now we move into Chapter 7 on Organized Planning, Chapter 8 on Decision, and Chapter 9, my all-time favorite, on Persistence. If you think about it, we have developed our vision in the first six chapters, have probably created a plan to move towards what we want, and are using our mind, our five senses, and even thinking beyond our five senses with our 6 faculties of the mind that we reviewed on episode #67.[iv] These next three chapters are integral for making sure our plans stay on track, that we take continual action steps towards our crystal-clear vision, with a never give up attitude. Which leads us to… Chapter 7 Organized Planning This chapter holds some timeless secrets for success that are so important, you can go to Amazon and find hundreds of books that focus on “organization” whether in your personal or professional life. You can browse through Netflix and find shows based on the importance of keeping your home “organized” with the show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo[v] where she explains the energy that frees up when your home goes from disorderly to orderly. Hill reminds us in the beginning of this chapter on the importance of organized planning when he states “if the plan you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan” (CH7, Page 117, TAGR) and that “temporary defeat should only mean one thing—the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan.” (CH7, Page 117, TAGR). Remember Thomas Edison “failed” 10,000 times before he perfected the incandescent light bulb. “A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS” Hill suggests writing this sentence out on a piece of paper “and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.” (CH7, Page 118, TAGR). I remember in 6th grade, my teacher, Mr. Ron Walker had a poster above the clock in our classroom at Norman Ingram Public School in Toronto, with a beat-up kid trying to learn hockey. He has band aids all over him, cuts, and bruises, but at the top of the poster was written that phrase “A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS.” I used to stare at that poster often, not because I wanted to learn that sport, maybe a bit because it was right over the clock that I kept my eye on, but that phrase would later be something that would become a habit and would lead me to places that most people would never see, because the win often occurs AFTER most people would typically give up. We'll examine this on a deeper level in the Persistence chapter. In this chapter, on Organized Planning, Hill writes about the TOP 11 Major Attributes of Leadership, and while all of them are important, the ones that stood out to me are that leaders possess: Unwavering Courage “that comes from knowledge of self and of one's occupation”(CH 7, Page 120, TAGR) Self-control “people who cannot control themselves cannot control others”(CH 7, Page 120, TAGR) Definiteness of Decision “People who waver in their decisions show that they are not sure of themselves” (CH 7, Page 120, TAGR) Definiteness of Plans “The successful leader must plan the work and work the plan.”(CH 7, Page 120, TAGR) The Habit of Doing More Than Paid For “One of the penalties of leadership is the necessity and of willingness, upon the part of the leaders, to do more than they require of their followers” (CH 7, Page 120, TAGR) and Mastery of Detail of everything that pertains to “the leader's position” (CH 7, Page 120, TAGR) You will see how these characteristics of leadership all tie into the next few chapters we will be looking at. Napoleon Hill also lists the TOP 10 Major Causes of Failure in Leadership in this chapter, and the first one is “The inability to organize details” (CH.7, page 122, TAGR) where “the successful leader must be the master of all details connected to that position” (CH.7, page 123, TAGR). While I think ALL the 10 Major Causes of Failure are important to read through, and take an honest look at, the first one will set you up for success if you can master organization in your personal and professional life as the ability to organize details in our workplace begins with the ability to organize details within ALL the major areas of our life. I covered the nine environments of our life, on our episode that launched 2021 last January, on EPISODE #103 “3 Ways to Reset, Refuel and Recharge Your Brain”[vi] and I do highly recommend taking a 360 look at our life every year to evaluate where energy might be leaking that could be directed somewhere else. Our environments (that surround us) either inspire us or expire us. They either add energy and move you ahead or drain your energy and hold you back. Whether this is fair or not, it's easy to walk past someone's work environment and notice if it's organized, (giving energy vs draining energy) or sit in their car, and look around and notice if it's kept clean, (giving energy vs draining energy) or open up their closet and see how their clothes are organized, (you get the picture) Our environments and how we keep them give anyone a glimpse into how we value organization in the major areas of our life. The statement “How you do anything is how you do everything” which says a lot and means that the small details matter. Hill put the inability to organize details as his first Major Cause of Failure and he even leaves a spot open for you to add you own idea to this list, in spot #31. He reminds us to “know thyself” and we couldn't agree more. Our second episode on this podcast was called “Know Thyself”[vii] still remains as one of our most popular episodes. We launched our podcast with the topic of Self-Awareness to kick off our first social and emotional learning competency since to “know thyself” is the most substantial achievement we can have in our lifetime. “The major value in life is not what you get. It's what you become.” (Jim Rohn, American author, speaker and entrepreneur). Hill reminds us that “you should know all of your weaknesses so that you may either bridge them or eliminate them entirely…you can know yourself only through accurate analysis.” (CH 7, Page 144, TAGR). Do you know yourself? Your strengths AND weaknesses? Hill offers a 28-question inventory to help us to self-assess ourselves, decrease our faults, and increase our virtues. Chapter 8 Decision Hill opens up this chapter by sharing that an “accurate analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure disclosed the fact that lack of decision was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of failure.” (CH 8, Page 157, TAGR). He says that this is not a statement of theory, but a fact and that successful people “had the habit of reaching decisions promptly and of changing these decisions slowly, if and when they were changed.” (CH 8, Page 157, TAGR) He shared that one of Henry Ford's outstanding qualities was “his habit of reaching decisions quickly and definitely and changing them slowly.” (CH 8, Page 158, TAGR) How do you make decisions? Remember that you “have a brain and mind of your own. Use it and reach your own decisions.” (CH 8, Page 159, TAGR). Making decisions requires courage and “the great decisions which served as the foundation of civilization were reached by assuming great risks.” (CH 8, Page 160, TAGR). You can read through some examples that Hill provides of those famous people in history who made decisions that required courage. Some of them are so moving, that they inspired me many years ago, before deciding to move from Toronto to the United States, to purchase a poster that has been in my office ever since I made this move, with the word Courage is written on the top, along with the poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that says “The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it.” (Goethe) This is true (with a committed decision all sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred) and cannot be experienced until AFTER the committed decision is made, and all other options or bridges are burned. Like we mentioned in PART 2 of this study, in Chapter 1 where “Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.” (CH 2, page 21, TAGR). Barnes did this when he found his way to New Jersey to meet with Edison, and Dr. David Sinclair did it when he left Australia for MIT.[viii] Do you make decisions quickly and change them slowly? “You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it and reach you own decisions.” (CH8, Page 159, TAGR). Chapter 9 Persistence This chapter is to me, the most important chapter of the book. It's so important that I put a tab labelled PERSISTENCE instead of just a chapter number so I could refer to this chapter often when needed. People who reach high levels of success in their life can usually tell you where they have applied persistence to get what they wanted, with the mixture of their will (one of the higher faculties of the mind). Successful people are often “known as cold-blooded and sometimes ruthless. Often they are misunderstood. What they have is willpower, which they mix with persistence” (CH. 9, Page 175, TAGR) to get what they want. The word “persistence” is “to character, what carbon is to steel.” (CH 9, Page 178, TAGR). “Without persistence, you will be defeated, even before you start. With persistence, you will win.” (CH 9, Page 178, TAGR). STRENGTHENING YOUR “PERSISTENCE” MUSCLES I was taught to use this skill in my early days of working with Proctor. There was an activity he would have us to do that was meant to develop “Persistence” so that it became a habit. He would have us read this chapter, for 14 days in a row. The entire chapter, every day, for 14 days, and if for some reason, you missed a day, you would need to start over again. This was much easier for me in the days before I had children, and I read this chapter often. Fast forward to 2019 when Paul Martinelli challenged us to read the chapter for 14 days in a row, I thought “that's a piece of cake” and I took the challenge. I would have to say this was one of the most difficult things I have done in recent years and could see exactly how it builds your persistence muscles. I set my alarm to wake up a bit earlier than usual, and went to my office, and every morning, would read this chapter using the small light in my office, so I didn't wake anyone else up in the house. I wouldn't say it was easy but try it yourself and see how you do. It was smooth sailing for me until one morning I was at my desk reading, and one of the kids came into my office not feeling well, and I put my book down to solve her tummy ache and get her ready for school. The day had started, and I had missed reading the chapter. I didn't have a block of time in the work day to do this, so I had to take something off my schedule, to get back on track. This activity will open your eyes to how different roadblocks will come your way, and take your eye off your goals, and without the use of your will, you would probably let that one thing fall off your radar. And you will have to start over again at day 1 if that happens. Try this challenge, and tick off every day that you read the Persistence chapter from start to finish and see if you can do this 14 days in a row. It's an eye-opening activity that will give you incredible self-awareness. Try it, and let me know what you notice. Never underestimate the compounding effect of consistency. “A good example of the power of persistence is show business. From all over the world people have come to Hollywood seeking fame, fortune, power, love or whatever it is that human beings call success…But Hollywood is not easily nor quickly conquered. It acknowledges talent, recognizes genius and pays off in money only after one has refused to quit. The secret is always inseparably attached to one word—persistence.” (CH 9, Page 180, TAGR). It requires discipline—the ability to give yourself a command and follow through. Who do you know who is persistent? If you are in the profession of sales, someone who is persistent will be conditioned to not take “no” for an answer in the sales cycle. When the customer says “no” the persistent sales representative will ask questions to see if there is any possible way forward. Asking questions helps them to discover if there is an opportunity, or not. They may uncover that the person said no because they just spent their budget with another company and had no more budget left to spend with you, even if they love your product. A persistent salesperson who can develop and maintain strong relationships with their customers would then be able to ask if it would be possible for them to cancel the order with the other company and purchase with you. It may lead to an opportunity, or not, but without persistence, one would never know. WHEN TO GIVE UP There's always the point where whatever it is we want is out of our reach, and when we have tried all angles, pushed past when most others would have given up, that I think it's ok to give up, only if you put in your best effort. I don't quote my Dad (Frank) often, as sometimes our best teachers in life teach us important life lessons the hard way without any sugar coating that would not lead to intended results. My Dad used to always say “What's for you won't go by you” which helped me a few times I didn't get the job I wanted in my early 20s. I do still believe that saying to be true, and remember that force negates, that there is always a time that you will know you've given your best shot, and this opportunity just wasn't for you. Which leads us to the conclusion of this episode. I'll see you next week as we move into the final chapters of the book, with Chapter 10 on the Power of the Mastermind, Chapter 11 (one of the most misunderstood chapters in the book) The Mystery of Sex Transmutation, Chapter 12, The Subconscious Mind and Chapter 13, The Brain. I hope you are finding value in visiting these timeless principles, used by some of the wisest people in the world, to make your 2022, your best year ever. See you next week! REFERENCES: [i] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ [ii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/ [iii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #193 PART 3 on “Putting Our Goals on Autopilot with Autosuggestion and Our Imagination” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-3-using-autosuggestion-and-your-imagination-to-put-your-goals-on-autopilot/ [iv] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #67 “Expanding Your Awareness with a Deep Dive into Most Important Concepts Learned from Bob Proctor Seminars: https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/expanding-your-awareness-with-a-deep-dive-into-bob-proctors-most-powerful-seminars/ [v] Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80209379 [vi]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #103 on “3 Ways to Reset, Recharge and Refuel Your Brain” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-of-leadership-3-ways-to-reset-recharge-and-refuel-your-brain-for-your-best-year-ever/ [vii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #2 “Know Thyself” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/self-awareness-know-thyself/ [viii] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #191 PART 2 on “Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith Over Fear” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-2-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever-by-thinking-differently-and-choosing-faith-over-fear/
Welcome back to PART 3 of Making 2022 You Best Year Ever with EPISODE #193 on “Making Your Goals Automatic by Putting Autosuggestion into Practice with Your Imagination“ as we continue our deep dive into Napoleon Hill's Classic book, Think and Grow Rich, that has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. On this episode, you will learn: ✔︎ Review PART 1 and 2 to Reinforce the First 3 Chapters of Think and Grow Rich. ✔︎ Chapter 4: How to Use Autosuggestion to Set Your Goals on Autopilot. ✔︎ Chapter 5: Why We Must Acquire and Know How to Use Specialized Knowledge to Reach High Levels of Success ✔︎ Chapter 6: Why Imagination is Everything. For those new, or returning guests, welcome back to Season 7 of our Podcast. I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of you who tune in, have been fascinated with learning, understanding, and applying the most current brain research to improve productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments. This month, I decided to share my notes with you on a book that I have been studying every January since 2018, with Paul Martinelli, who has studied this book for most of his career. It was the book that my mentor Bob Proctor has studied for his entire life, over 57 years, and a book that some of the wisest people in the world have studied. If you have been following our episodes of Napoleon Hill's Classic book, you will recall how PART 1 began with a reminder from Grant Cardone that “in order to get to the next level of whatever it is that you are doing, you must think and act in a wildly different way than we previously have been.”[i] We outlined all of the 15 principles that we will be diving into and in PART 2 we looked at the importance of positive thinking, being crystal clear with what we want, and choosing faith over fear in pursuit of our goals. Before I began recording these episodes, I didn't know how many it would take to cover these chapters thoroughly, but if you are like me, and just want to learn, keep listening and see if you can add anything new to your goal-setting/achieving process. We really could keep going all year, as each principle we could talk about for an entire month. Therefore, I think it's important to revisit this book, every year, as we are working on new goals, to continue to improve our own process, and take our understanding of each principle, to a new level. Whatever it is you are working on—a new job or position at work, or smaller steps to a huge vision that you have, it's normal to be skeptical of anything new, especially when the ideas are so abstract. At first glance the title of this book sounds crazy. Think and Grow Rich! Sounds a bit out there. The only reason I am covering this book on this podcast, is because it is such a classic, and has the ability to challenge anyone's “thinking” and the principles have been used successfully from some of the wisest people in the world. I have met many people while working in the speaking industry who had successfully created beautiful lives with these principles, and they kept coming back to deepen their study, awareness and understanding. It's a process. When I read about how Jim Carrey[ii] used these ideas when he first came into the film industry, visualizing his first $10M check, I wasn't surprised at all. For this episode we will move into chapter 4 on Autosuggestion, Chapter 5 on Specialized Knowledge, and Chapter 6 on Imagination. What I'm noticing is how these chapters all work together, like my mentor Proctor says, “like the colors of the rainbow” as we think back to PART 1 of this book study and remember this whole process began with the realization that we must think about what we want (or desire as Hill would say) with a high degree of clarity, increasing our awareness of the world, adding an unwavering belief and expectation around the attainment of what we want, (by choosing faith over fear, overcoming all obstacles) and then put this worthy goal on autosuggestion by repeating the 6 steps from the Desire Chapter twice a day (reading and writing out our vision). If I were to want to STOP and FREEZE at any moment of these 15 principles, it would be right here, with the importance of understanding chapter 4 on autosuggestion because if we think about it, for anyone who has attained ANY level of success in their life, it began in their mind first and is best said with this poem by Walter D. Wintle. “If you think you are beaten, you are If you think you dare not, you don't, If you like to win, but you think you can't It's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost For out in the world we find, Success begins with a fellow's will It's all in the state of mind. I'm really starting to think that the “secret” in these pages lays somewhere with our ability to “think” and now Hill introduces the term autosuggestion or a way of self-conditioning our non-conscious mind. Sounds deep, but exciting, at least I think it is. I'm sure this is why this book is the #6th bestselling book on Amazon, but I wonder how many people read the book this way and put this much thinking into each chapter. I definitely didn't until Paul Martinelli walked me though each chapter of the book. REVIEW WHAT WE'VE LEARNED in PART 1 and PART 2 to reinforce what we've covered before adding a new layer. KNOW WHAT WE WANT: Begin with identifying what you really want. Clearly defined goals written as if you have already attained your goal. I'm so happy and grateful now that---and write out what you want by a certain date. ADD FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS: Engage your emotions, feelings, and expectation which has a magical power that continues to drive what you are seeking, towards you, and you towards it. GET YOUR SENSES INVOLVED: Use all of your 5 senses to see yourself in attainment of your goal, feel it, even put something in your physical surroundings that you can touch like I did years ago when I put a small cactus in my room in Toronto, to help me to visualize moving to this new location. This small cactus helped me to imagine (beyond my senses) the beautiful landscape and mountains of AZ when I looked outside of my window in Toronto, and could only see snowbanks, frost and icicles. THE POWER OF REPETITION: Write and repeat what you want twice a day, with whatever method works for you. Grant Cardone uses a legal notepad, I read my goals out from where they are written on my wall, and write them on a notepad, and have seen others using letterboards where they have to take the time to write out their goals using letters, or whiteboards they can write on and erase their every day. ACT AS IF WHAT YOU WANT IS YOURS: When someone asks you what you are working on, your language is imperative for the direction of where you are going. Do you say “I'm trying for xyz” or “I'm in the process of achieving xyz” that gives a whole different level of confidence. Whenever I hear someone say they will “try” something, it's a clear indicator it's not even on their radar. There's no such thing as “try.” You are either doing something, or you're not. CHOOSE FAITH OVER FEAR: When you keep moving, past all obstacles, you will notice that new people, circumstances and situations will come your way to help you. There is no such thing as “something for nothing.” This only comes with hard work and perseverance. Which leads us to the next step in the process with Chapter 4: Autosuggestion or “Self-Suggestion” (Chapter 4, Page 69, TAGR). This chapter is best described with a quick lesson on how the mind works. I first wrote about this in my first book, The Secret for Teens Revealed[iii] (page 71) Lesson 2: What is Your Mind? I first learned this concept while working with Proctor in the seminar industry, and it really did change the way that I think. The idea of creating order in our mind with the image of the stickperson originated from Dr. Thurman Fleet in 1934 and is a way of thinking of our mind. If you look at the image in the show notes labelled A, B and C of the stickperson. Our conscious mind (A) in the diagram, is the part of our mind that we use when we are consciously doing something like reading, studying, learning, solving problems, or playing sports. ***Non-Conscious Mind (B)[iv] is the part of our mind that accepts whatever enters it. This is an extremely powerful concept and since I learned this BEFORE I had children, I was very careful of not playing the news around the kids, even when they were babies. We know that watching and listening to the negativity on the news is not good for us, as it all seeps into our mind when it's in this submissive state (or a baby's mind that is wide open to whatever you put into it) and this can change how we feel. That's because what we are hearing is going right into our non-conscious mind and impacting our body and in turn, as adults, impacting our results. If you have young children, you can use this to their advantage by guarding their mind from negativity and adding positivity when you can, by whispering in their ear before they go to bed at night something powerful like “you will achieve all of your goals and live a wonderful happy life” as you send them off to sleep. Always be mindful of what you have playing in the background of your home. With this principle of autosuggestion, it really does matter. It's also important to think about this when we sit down to eat. Our mind goes into a submission state, when it's not thinking, and anyone else's negative thoughts can go straight into our non-conscious mind. It's very important that we are careful who we surround ourselves with, as their thoughts can impact our mood, for this reason. We have all “felt” this happen, and this image explains why. Our Body (C): I know that you will know that our thinking and attitude can impact our health, since our body inherits what our mind expresses. Healthy thoughts, put our body in the best environment for health and conversely, when we dwell on negative situations, that can stress our body and can cause dis-ease. A healthy dose of optimism can go a long way with coping with life's stressful situations. Just by looking at the stickperson diagram, we can see how autosuggestion is one way to access our non-conscious mind so that we must be in integrity of what we are thinking, and feeling, creating the results we want. When our thoughts and feelings are lined up, it's called PRAXIS and is the first step towards putting this principle into action. By repeating your goals twice a day, eventually, with time, you will believe what you are saying, build faith, and it's the belief mixed with faith that will drive your behavior moving forward. REVIEWING YOUR HIGHER FACULTIES: Before we move onto the next chapter, Chapter 5, on Specialized Knowledge, I think it's important to bring up one of the BIG IDEA'S I learned from working with Bob Proctor, who has been reading this book for his entire life (over 57 years). If you go back and listen to EPISODE #67[v], you will see BIG IDEA #4 where I explain the importance of learning to live beyond our 5 senses (or what we can see, hear, smell, taste and touch) that can be limiting. We can access new information, deeper flashes of insight, higher levels of creativity, if we learn to live with our 6 intellectual faculties that operate beyond our 5 senses for a competitive advantage. Napoleon Hill thought that intuition (or the sixth sense as he calls it) and imagination are so important that he added them to his chapters or principles that we will dive into in later episodes. Intuition is a mental tool that gives us answers, by picking up the energy or feeling from another person or situation. Sometimes we feel we just know the answer, or we have a gut feeling. That is our intuition at work, and we must learn to develop and listen to it. With practice, we can learn to trust our intuition and become confident with that which we feel or know. Then, we can move confidently toward that which we want without any doubt, because we've used this higher faculty that instills a level of trust within ourselves. Chapter 5-Specialized Knowledge To further hone in on what we want, chapter 5 reminds us to add an understanding of specialized knowledge which separates you from everyone else, making you special with the knowledge you have acquired. In chapter 5 we learn that knowledge (general or specialized) must be “organized and intelligently directed” (CH 5, page 79, TAGR) “and is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if it is organized into definite plans of action and directed to a definite end.” This makes sense when we think about everything we learn in school (general knowledge) that has no use unless we apply and use it in some way (specialized). Hill explains this is the “missing link in all systems of education … the failure of educational institutions to teach their students HOW TO ORGANIZE AND USE KNOWLEDGE AFTER THEY ACQUIRE IT.” (CH 5, Page 80, TAGR). Henry Ford even said that he has a row of buttons on his desk that he can push to find out answers to anything he wants (general knowledge) and that any “person is educated who knows where to get knowledge when needed, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action. Through the assistance of his Master Mind, Henry Ford had at his command all the specialized knowledge he needed to enable him to become one of the wealthiest men in America.” (Ch.5, Page 81, TAGR). If you think about this principle and what it means, I think about why some books become best sellers, and others are still great, but are missing something. Think about Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People that we covered on EPISODE #68[vi] on The Neuroscience of Personal Change. Why was Covey's book so successful and named the number 1 most influential book of the 20th century, selling more than 40 million copies in 50-plus languages[vii]. I think one of the reasons was that it contained specialized knowledge (The 7 Habits) in a framework that showed us how to organize and use it, after we read the book. We are taught what to do with each habit, with clear steps on how to implement this new and specialized knowledge into our life to manage ourselves, and others. Next, think about another book, Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now[viii] that might still be an incredible book, but it was missing something. If you have read this book, you might be able to recall something about it, or that Tolle worked with Oprah on a series to teach these concepts, or you might remember specifics about the book, but was there a framework to help you to apply what the book was teaching us? Can you remember anything about it? There were incredible lessons in this book, but they were not organized in a framework to help people to use and apply them. “Knowledge is not power until it becomes organized in definite plans and action.” (Ch 5, Page 80, TAGR) and Hill reminds us that just because Henry Ford had little formal education, it didn't mean that he was not “educated.” The word educate comes from the Latin word “educo” that means to “educe, to draw out, to develop from within. An educated person is not necessarily one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. Educated people have developed the faculties of their mind (that we reviewed with BIG IDEA #4 above) so that they may acquire anything they want, or its equivalent, without violating the rights of others.” (CH 5, Page 80, TAGR). How to Use Specialized Knowledge to Reach New Heights? How good are you at what you do? Are you continually looking to improve your talent? When you can take someone who has developed their talent in a way that comes natural to you, but amazes others, you have developed something unique. This must be improved, honed and further developed to continue to grow, expand and meet with success. Do you see how each principle in this book is a part of a formula? It's a process… Be sure that whatever your idea or goal is, that you continue to grow and refine it, adding more and more specialized knowledge to what you are building, which brings us to the last piece of the formula in this episode. Chapter 6-Our Imagination. The final part of this episode is when we add our imagination to the mix, to think beyond what we can see, and into the unknown world where our unattained vision lays. Imagination is Everything[ix] according to author Earl Nightingale. All great inventions are created in two separate places: the mind of the inventor and the physical world when the inventor creates it. Our lives reflect how well we use our imagination, because when we hit one plateau of success, it will be our imagination that will take us to what's next. When we create our crystal-clear vision, that we read and write twice a day, we are activating our imagination to do this. When we write and read our vision in detail it activates cells of recognition in our brain that when we imagine what we write, eventually our brain will accept and recognize what we are telling it, and it will go from feeling like a crazy pipe dream, to eventually something that you can see yourself doing. Then one day, what you imagined, becomes your reality. Think of all the inventions over the past 50 years that changed how we live our lives. Someone had to think of how the world has changed in the past 10 years with the image in the show notes showing how Amazon has almost no stores, Uber owns almost no cars, Facebook creates no content, Airbnb owns no real estate, Netflix is not a TV channel and Bitcoin has no physical coins. All of these ideas began in someone's imagination, and are transforming the world. Did you know that in 2020, Jeff Bezos' annual salary from Amazon was “$81, 840 which qualities as middle-income wage in his home state of California.”[x] Bezos' increase in wealth came in 2020 mostly from Amazon stock prices. He is now said to “make more in one second than most people make in one week. He makes about $8.9 billion per month, $2.5 billion per week, or $321 million per day”[xi] Which brings us to one of the most famous quotes of this book. Napoleon Hill writes “If you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty will bring you riches, perish the thought. It is not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities are never the result of hard work! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to definite demands, based on the application of definite principles, and not by change or luck.” (Chapter 6, Page 108, TAGR). I'm sure we can all see how the Pandemic causes many of us to shop online, which meant there was a demand for what Bezos had created and Bezos was prepared and ready when this demand hit and I'm sure he had a clear pathway for his vision that wanted to build. REVIEW OF PART 3 To sum up this episode, and prepare for Chapter 7 on Organized Planning, Chapter 8 on Decision, and 9 on Persistence, don't forget to review the important steps in PART 1 and 2 that we went over in the past 2 episodes. Next, Review how our mind thinks: with the concept of the stick person so we can see how repeating and writing out our goals is an easy way to put them on autosuggestion. Learn to live beyond our five senses: (or what we can see, hear, smell, taste and touch) that can be limiting. Revisit episode #67 and pay attention to the definition of intuition and imagination, since Hill felt they were important enough to list both of these in his 15 principles. Keep Learning: by thinking of how you will continue to acquire and organize specialized knowledge that will take you to new levels with your craft. Let Your Imagination Soar: Hill suggests reading the entire book first but coming back to this chapter “to put your imagination to work” (Ch. 6, Page 100, TAGR). Remember this is all a part of a process. If it seems like there are many ideas stacked together, just keep reading, and thinking and each time you put in some more thought to the potential of these ideas, your awareness will expand, giving you a new level of confidence for whatever you are working on. See you in a few days with the next 3 chapters. RESOURCES: Chapter 4: Autosuggestion Published on YouTube July 28, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYOc329tEYQ Chapter 5: Specialized Knowledge Published on YouTube July 28, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV9KVZ0sQ7Q REFERENCES: [i] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ [ii] What Oprah Learned from Jim Carrey October 12, 2011 https://www.oprah.com/oprahs-lifeclass/what-oprah-learned-from-jim-carrey-video [iii] The Secret for Teens Revealed by Andrea Samadi, Published September 15, 2008 https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Teens-Revealed-Teenagers-Leadership/dp/1976820030 [iv] ***If you have heard of the term sub-conscious mind used where I say non-conscious, it's just because I have substituted non-conscious as a more recent term for what we used to call the subconscious mind. [v]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #67 “Expanding Your Awareness with a Deep Dive into Most Important Concepts Learned from Bob Proctor Seminars: https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/expanding-your-awareness-with-a-deep-dive-into-bob-proctors-most-powerful-seminars/ [vi]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #68 “The Neuroscience of Personal Change: With Stephen R. Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/the-neuroscience-of-personal-change/ [vii] How Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits Guides Leaders in Times of Challenge and Uncertainty by Marcel Schwantes, https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/stephen-covey-the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-people-leaders.html [viii] The Power of Now by Eckert Tolle August 1, 2004 https://www.amazon.com/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment/dp/1577314808 [ix] Imagination is Everything YouTube by Earl Nightingale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e25hRhKPm4M [x] Mind-Blowing Facts About Jeff Bezos' Wealth Published July 27, 2021 by Dawn Allcot https://www.yahoo.com/now/5-mind-blowing-facts-jeff-182204262.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABJswqzQ-kSEQG-_kMdVZLAFZZRj0X13NDhrKwPFWjvxnht_QzHjo0yPUi5ydMf8G33y7o8SmqRJeHTVTOo3ADKOGRmSXd2d5DGyWiTinM0qb-IoVUVzkXxHpDA0NIvj8BS3hF9mHF5OGCxjC8Fuf_ikfLkGkmENcWHExq_zvzrR [xi] IBID
Welcome back to PART 2 of Making 2022 You Best Year Ever with EPISODE #191 on “The Importance of Thinking Differently and Choosing Faith over Fear” as we continue our deep dive into Napoleon Hill's Classic book, Think and Grow Rich, that has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Be sure to click here to access the images in the show notes. For those new, or returning guests, welcome back to Season 7 of our Podcast I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of you who tune in, have been fascinated with learning, understanding, and applying the most current brain research to improve productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments. This month, I decided to share my notes with you on a book that I have been studying every year, with Paul Martinelli, who has studied this book for most of his career. On our first episode[i] and PART 1 of this book study, where we cover the Author's Introduction and Desire chapter, we opened with a quote from Undercover Billionaire Grant Cardone, who said, “In order to get to the next level of whatever you're doing, you must think and act in a wildly different way than you previously have been” and this is where I wanted to begin this episode, with reviewing Chapter 1 “Thoughts Are Things” with the idea that we must “think” in a wildly different way than we previously have to obtain NEW results in 2022. On this episode, you will learn ✔︎ How to go from fear to hope, using faith, in pursuit of your goals. ✔︎ How to “think” wildly different than you did last year. ✔︎ Examples of people who “thought” their way to their goals, making their ability to “think” the best investment of their lifetime. ✔︎ The 6 STEPS you must take every day, that will put your goal on autosuggestion. ✔︎ Common mistakes made when goal-setting/achieving. ✔︎ 4 steps to overcome your fears, helping you to break through to new levels in 2022. ✔︎ How to becoming unwavering with our faith, helping us when obstacles appear. How Do We “Think in a Wildly Different Way” to Get New Results? The answer is--by expanding our awareness. I'm sure you see now why studying Think and Grow Rich by reading and thinking about every word we are reading is so very important. We could spend a whole year studying this book, which is why I think we should all keep reading it, gaining more awareness long after January and this book study ends. Look at it this way. Remember the last lesson where we looked at how ideas are formed, and how it's up to us to act on our ideas and bring them to fruition. IMAGE: Levels of Frequencies of Thought Look at the image in the show notes of the levels of frequency and think of this as an example of where you are now, or the thoughts, feelings, and actions you are currently living with, giving you a certain result. Then imagine all the lines above where you are now, leading to where you want to go. Think of these frequencies like radio stations. To tune into the radio station you want, you need to turn the dial to that frequency. This is exactly the same idea to think about when we want to tune into the frequency that our goals exist on. And it won't be with the level of thinking you have at your current level. That's the whole point of Marshall Goldsmith's book What Got You Here, Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful.[ii] To ATTAIN your goal, or a new result, you will need to “think and act in a wildly different way that you previously have been” like Grant Cardone, reminded us. That's because the goal is on a different frequency than where you are now. To hit this NEW target, you will need to think NEW thoughts, take NEW actions, that will create NEW results, and none of them will be what you are currently doing. When I first saw this image, I remember wondering “well how on the earth do I magically get on the same level of vibration as the thing that I really want?” and the first time I did this exercise, I wrote down that I wanted to live in the United States (when I lived in Toronto at the time) and had no idea how I would ever make that happen. In the beginning, we don't need to know all the details on “how” we will do what we want to do. How Do You Move to a New Frequency? Over the years, and once I had achieved a few goals this way, it became obvious how this works. Think back 5 years ago to the person you were then. You have probably grown and changed since then and may be nothing like the person you once were. You had new experiences that took you to a new frequency. It can happen with a new job, where you must think in an entirely different way than you had to with a previous job, or maybe you moved to a new location, like I did, and had new experiences that have changed you. Now you can see the importance of why Napoleon Hill called this book “Think and Grow Rich” because it is crucial that we change our thinking to obtain the new results we are looking for. When we change our thinking, we will have new experiences, that will change our conditions, circumstances and environment, changing our vibration or frequency level and put us exactly where we need to be for the attainment of our goal. Only then, will we be able to look back and explain how we did it to others. Yesterday, I ran into my good friend Jeff Gould on the hiking trails, otherwise known as South Mountain Cowboy, who has been horseback riding on these mountains for the past 40 years and he looks younger than most of us who run up and down the hills daily. While chatting with Jeff this morning, who is a huge supporter of this podcast, he shared what he's learning from the episodes, and that he's always challenging himself to “think differently” by tuning into these episodes, which is probably what keeps him looking and feeling so young! I agreed with him that happiness comes naturally when we do what we love, continually challenge ourselves to grow, and live life doing whatever it is that makes us happy. It's a simple formula really--we radiate energy when we are doing what we love and enjoy the most, aligning ourselves with more and more experiences, as we continually expand and grow in pursuit of our vision. Can you see how 2022 can be your best year ever? It just takes your vision, and your will to achieve it, and I love seeing people like Jeff, living their dream on a daily basis. Jeff Gould, Southmountain Cowboy, on Telegraph Pass Mountain, AZ. Edwin C. Barnes In Chapter 1 “The Power of Thought” Hill talks about Edwin C. Barnes who also had a vision that he wanted to achieve when he “thought” his way into a partnership with Thomas Edison. Hill shares how Barnes had this burning desire to work with Thomas Edison. This was his goal, and was way out there for him, because he didn't even know Edison, and was short on money to pay for his rail fare to get him to New Jersey to meet him. Barnes overcame all the obstacles he faced, and Edison described meeting the man he would eventually partner with by recalling the day he arrived. He said, “he stood there before me looking like an ordinary tramp, but there was something in the expression of his face which conveyed the impression that he was determined to get what he had come after.” (Page 2, TAGR). Edison recognized the look in his eyes and it's what allowed him to eventually go into partnership with Barnes, who had no money, or influence to bring to the table, but he did have “initiative, faith and the will to win” (CH 1, page 4, TAGR) which was all Edison needed to see. Barnes thought wildly differently to obtain what he wanted, and Edison picked up the energy or vibration that came from him, and it was easy for him to trust this was going to be a lucrative partnership. There are more important examples in this chapter, that I hope you will read, to see why we should never quit when we experience defeat, and why persistence is a power that often gets a person what they want, but only when one persists long after most people would usually give up. Have you even seen this principle in action? I saw an example of this recently while researching Dr. David Sinclair, who we covered on EPISODE #189[iii] when I uncovered that he had to self-fund his trip from Australia to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to interview to work in their lab, which he did. He didn't let his lack of funds stop him from finding his way to MIT and had many obstacles to overcome when he would eventually begin his work, when he experienced criticism for the direction he wanted to take, when other researchers questioned whether “aging was even a thing”[iv] to study. He had a clear vision of what he wanted and didn't let any obstacles get in his way, even though he faced many that began in his early days and was just something he had to push through. Chapter 2: DESIRE Which brings us to Chapter 2: DESIRE and why we must know what we want, with a crystal-clear vision, and hold an unwavering belief that we can have it, and expect that we will have it, remembering this is where it all begins. That “all achievement, begins with an idea.” (Napoleon Hill). Barnes had a “burning desire” (CH2, page 19 TAGR) that “was not a hope. It was not a wish. It was a pulsating desire, which transcended everything else. It was definite.” (CH2, page 19, TAGR). Barnes wanted to work with Edison, even though there was no evidence of these two meeting. It wasn't like Edison and Barnes had been talking about this idea for a while, it was Barnes's idea, and when he started to move this idea into form, I'm sure he thought it was crazy and something he wouldn't be shouting out from the rooftops. Going from where we are now, to where we want to go, is a process. You are never ready when you start something, but you will never be 100% ready. You just need to start and do the thing that you want to do. When I moved from Canada to the US in early 2001, I remember following this process, and not sure of “how” exactly I was going to do it. Proctor would always remind us that we don't need to know “how” we will do what we want, but just get it started and the way will be shown. That was true. The way will always be shown, along with a billion obstacles that will show up as well, to try to deter you from moving forward. You just need to know WHAT you want and WHY, and this will drive your behavior. You can only explain HOW you did it after the fact, looking back, once you arrive there. Do you know what you want? Do you have that burning desire that Edison saw in Barnes's eyes? Remember, it's difficult to see our own potential, but others can surely see it in us. That burning desire of what you want radiates from you, and others can pick up this energy, and like Edison did with Barnes, help move you to where you need to go. That's why you can't be shy about what you are working on. You will need all the help you can get, from as many different sources as possible. And there's something else to consider. “Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.” (CH 2, page 21, TAGR). Barnes did this when he found his way to New Jersey to meet with Edison, and Dr. David Sinclair did it when he left Australia for MIT. I remember doing this when I left Toronto. There was no going back saying “oh it didn't work out” because I had burned all ships and had no other options. You must be committed with your decision (which is another chapter) but you will see how all of these chapters tie into each other. The Latin root word for the word decision literally means “to cut” so when you make a decision, you must never go back. You've burned your ships and cut all sources of retreat. Which brings us to the important 6 Steps to Achieve Your Goal in chapter 2. You will notice that these steps are written with the idea of drawing finances to you, but these 6 steps can be used to bring ANY goal your way. These are the 6 steps I have written on my wall, that I read every day, and Grant Cardone, Uncover Billionaire says he does this as well, all 6 steps, every day, twice a day. I've watched him do it using a legal pad of paper in less than 3 minutes. Either way, the 6 steps to put any goal into our non-conscious mind, so that it eventually happens on autopilot, without much effort, is as follows: Write out a clear description of what you want. You must be prepared to give something of value up in return for what you want. There no such thing as “something for nothing.” When you begin working on your action steps, it will become clear what you are giving up. Set a date when you intend to have this goal that you desire. Create your action plan, to carry out what you want, whether you are ready for it or not. Write this out in detail! Read what you wrote twice a day! “As you read, see and feel and believe yourself already in the possession” (CH 2, page 23, TAGR) of what you want. It's this simple, but not really, because most people won't follow these steps. I was surprised when I watched Grant Cardone demonstrating how he WRITES and READS his goals twice a day, mostly because I know where this idea originated from, and most people miss that reading out loud part. Cardone didn't. He knows these six steps and didn't miss one of them. It's easy to read this book, and grab some ideas to implement, and make some mistakes, and not do exactly what the book suggests. That's why it's called “Think and Grow Rich.” Common Mistakes That Are Made When Setting Goals-That Will Guarantee That None of this Will Work? People set goals on what they know they can do, or what they've done in the past. You will be sure to fail this way, because there is no inspiration in going after what we already know we can do. You need to really stretch yourself, and think of what you want, that takes you beyond where you have ever been before in this process. You'll be sure to fail if you don't change your plans when they aren't working. If your Plan A fails, do you have a Plan B? Remember—you don't need to know exactly how you will attain your goal. Just begin, do the work, and eventually you will achieve it, and only then will you be able to explain this process to others. Chapter 2 has some examples of well-known, highly successful people who have put these ideas into action and ends with Hill summarizing the process for us when he says “I want to convey the thought that all achievement, no matter what it's nature or purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite. Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire that something which recognizes no such word as impossible and accepts no such reality as failure. We must remember that there's a difference between “wishing for” something and being ready to receive it. Remember that look that Edison saw in Barnes's eyes? Do you have that look with whatever it is you want? If I was standing in front of you, and asked you “what do you really want” would you answer this question clearly and confidently, with that look in your eye, and be able to show me how you would use the 6 steps, with your action plan, or would this question catch you off guard, like when Proctor first asked me, and I wasn't prepared to answer it? This brings new meaning to the quote— “Luck is when preparation and opportunity meet.” How? Over time, we become better at what we do. Every day that we write and repeat our vision out loud, it etches deeper into our being. Our vision becomes who we are, and we never let it rest, until we perfect our craft and achieve our goals. Keep going and remember “if a person is not prepared when the opportunity arises, it will only make them look foolish.” (Earl Nightingale). How Do I Overcome my Fears? What happens when you begin moving towards your big, outrageous idea, and FEAR, or DOUBT starts to set in, ruining your vision, and making you want to give up? This will happen. It will happen more times than you'd like. Dr. Sinclair mentioned it happened to him when he finally got to MIT to work on his vision of creating anti-aging strategies and people he worked with challenged his ideas, urging him to reconsider his vision, and that “anti-aging” wasn't a thing to do study. He talked about this on Joe Rogan's podcast that he called home and was worried that he had made a mistake with his vision. It's easy to see HOW this happens, when it's not you who is experiencing the fear. Look at the image in the show notes where you see your INSPIRED IDEA that you are working on with focused thought. I write about this in my first book, The Secret for Teens Revealed[v], and it's something I learned from my early days of working with Proctor. The Terror Barrier or The Change Mechanism To break through to a new level, you will need to break through what Proctor called the Terror Barrier, and I re-named it The Change Mechanism in my first book. It's what happens when you have a major shift in your life, and you begin to feel scared deep inside that maybe you have made a mistake. Your entire Central Nervous System starts to go off as you begin to think of this new thought. I remember feeling this when I quit my teaching job, broke my contact with TDSB and went to work for Proctor for $10 an hour. It didn't help that my Dad screamed at me that I would regret this decision for the rest of my life, but I really did believe that there was more I needed to learn. You will go through these 4 stages with your new idea. Stage 1: Help I'm Stuck (Bondage). When you are here, you are living in your comfort zone. Life is easy, because you are not stretching outside your comfort zone. There is no discomfort or fear. But, if you were to be honest, this type of life is playing it safe. You might know you are capable of so much more, but are afraid to take the necessary steps needed for this change. You are stuck here, in your old paradigm. If you look at the image in the show notes, I show a person who is thinking x thoughts in their conscious mind, with x thoughts in their non-conscious mind, getting x results. They are not doing anything new, and their results will stay the same. We have all been here, stuck, not sure of how to make a change. Stage 2: I'm Frustrated If we live life stuck for too long, you will become frustrated, because it's natural that we want to BE, DO, and HAVE more with our life. We are either creating (expanding) and growing, or we are going the other way, disintegrating, not growing, and frustrated. The feeling of frustration can be motivating, and push you to make a change, and try something different. Stage 3: I'm Making Changes, But Feeling So Uncomfortable At this stage, you have taken a new idea (I label it a Y idea in my diagram) in your conscious mind, but your non-conscious mind still has the old X idea (or whatever you are currently doing) so there is cognitive dissonance at the brain level. The new idea might be a new job, moving somewhere else, or maybe an entire career change, and suddenly, in the middle of the decision-making process, your entire central nervous system goes out of control, and you are overcome with fear. It's because your non-conscious mind is still operating with your old idea, or whatever you are currently doing, and you will think that you have made a mistake and question your decision. At this point, we must understand that the opposite of FEAR is FAITH, leading us to Chapter 3 of the book. We feel fear because we lack understanding, FAITH is based on understanding, and when we have it, we can move forward, and never look back at our old life. We will only advance forward to new opportunity with understanding, and the use of FAITH. It's here that we BREAK FREE from our past, and experience the final stage, Stage 4: Freedom Freedom is achieved when we step outside of our comfort zone, feeling uncomfortable, but doing it anyway, and keep moving towards growth. You'll see in my diagram the Y (or new idea) in the conscious mind, over time will create a Y idea in your non-conscious mind, and with time, you will notice that you made the switch, broke free from your past where you were stuck, into a more fulfilling life, creating new results. You did this using faith that Hill says “is the head chemist of the mind.” (CH 3, page 45, TAGR). How Do We Develop Faith? “Faith is a state of mind that may be induced, or created by affirmations or repeated instructions..through the principle of auto-suggestion” (CH 3, page 46, TAGR). We develop Faith by following the 6 Steps, writing and reading our goal out loud every day, twice a day, until it moves into our non-conscious mind on autosuggestion. It's a process. If you have never read your goal out loud before, I will tell you that it feels weird in the beginning. When I first started doing this activity, I would close my window, thinking my neighbors will think I'm crazy, especially when I did this process trying to win grant funding for some of the projects I worked on. The first time you do this, you will feel weird, until with time, your words flow quickly, confidently, and easily. You will read your goals out loud “as if you were already in possession of them” (CH 3, page 48, TAGR). I found it helps to say something like “I'm so happy and grateful now that….” and whatever it is that you want “now that I'm awarded a $50,000 grant to work with students in our schools” or whatever it is that you might be working on. This is the part where we may all have different beliefs with this process, but if you are like me, and believe that there is something bigger than you, you can call it whatever you want (God, Spirit, Infinite Intelligence) whatever you call it, you will feel it in this process. Hill wrote that “FAITH is the element, the chemical which when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.” (CH 3, page 49, TAGR). We must have FAITH in our DREAMS, not in our DOUBTS. This is a process, that comes from following the 6 steps of reading/writing our goals every day and doesn't need to take a lot of time, Grant Cardone did it in less than 3 minutes. Faith is a state of mind that will develop as you become more self-aware, self-confident and with experience. Remember—to Become Unwavering with our Faith You must go through the Terror Barrier and match up your conscious mind, with your non-conscious mind. You will continue to build faith through autosuggestion when you write and repeat your goals. Pick one idea that you are working on, and as you move towards it, with new actions, you will develop more self-confidence, self-awareness and self-esteem. This will lead to BELIEF….one day you will be working and think back to the early days when you didn't have the level of confidence, faith and belief that you have today, and you will be grateful that you stepped outside of your comfort zone, through the fear, with faith at your side, into a new life that had more opportunity than you ever realized. Whatever it is that you are working on, remember with that understanding you can move past the fears, doubts, and uncertainties to hope, and this changes your entire mindset, giving you faith, fueling you to keep moving forward. I hope you are enjoying studying this book with me as I'm diving deeper into my notes more thoroughly than I've ever done in the past. Some of the wisest people in the world have studied these principles, and it doesn't matter what your background or level of education is. The playing field is equal for all of us. This book is the essence of success that can be used in anyone's life. I'll see you in the next few days as we move onto Specialized Knowledge, Imagination and Organized planning next episode, with an interview coming with Nick Jonsson, from Singapore, the author of the important and timely book, Executive Loneliness: The 5 Pathways to Overcome Isolation, Stress, Anxiety and Depression in the Modern Business World. FOLLOW ANDREA SAMADI: YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreaSamadi Website https://www.achieveit360.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samadi/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Achieveit360com Neuroscience Meets SEL Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2975814899101697 Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreasamadi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreasamadi/ REFERENCES: [i]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #190 PART 1 “Making 2022 Your Best Year Ever” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/think-and-grow-rich-book-review-part-1-how-to-make-2022-your-best-year-ever/ [ii]What Got You Here, Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith, June 12, 2008 https://www.amazon.com/What-Got-Here-Wont-There/dp/1846681375 [iii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #189 on “Understanding Hormesis: Why Stress and Adversity Make Us Physically and Mentally Stronger” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/understanding-hormesis-why-stress-and-adversity-make-us-physically-and-mentally-stronger/ [iv] The Backlash Dr. Sinclair Faced from the Scientific Community Published Jan.29, 2019 with Joe Rogan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDdAI-X3y1o&t=618s [v] The Secret for Teens Revealed by Andrea Samadi, Published September 15, 2008 https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Teens-Revealed-Teenagers-Leadership/dp/1976820030
“In order to get to the next level of whatever you're doing, you must think and act in a wildly different way than you previously have been. You cannot get to the next phase of a project without a grander mind-set, more acceleration, and extra horsepower.” Grant Cardone, author of the 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure [i] MAKING 2022 YOUR BEST YEAR EVER: WITH CHANGE I chose this quote to launch this episode, and our 7th Season of The Neuroscience Meets SEL Podcast with Grant Cardone,[ii] who I've been watching for years before he starred on Undercover Billionaire[iii] when I saw him working with (at that time) 16 year-old Caleb Maddix[iv], teaching this young man, who is now in his 20s, how to truly make an impact on the world and live his life with a success mindset. Since the day I watched him coaching this teen, I realized he has a heart for helping our next generation to become successful, while inspiring the rest of the world with his 10x Rule book, countless programs that focus on financial education, and encouraging anyone who will listen to shift their mindset to make 2022 their Best Year ever. To do that, Cardone reminds us that we must all THINK differently and “change what we did last year.” For those new, or returning guests, welcome back to Season 7 of our Podcast and Happy New Year! I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator from Toronto, Canada, now in Arizona, and like many of you who tune in, have been fascinated with learning, understanding, and applying the most current brain research to improve productivity in our schools, our sports, and workplace environments. I wanted our first episode to launch our 7th Season to be different from past years. Instead of releasing an episode with goal setting or achieving tips, I challenge you to do something different this year. We all know that in order to achieve different results in 2022, we must CHANGE and I'm pretty sure we all have a list of things that we want to do differently to really make a mark on this year, but to make sure I was on track, I thought I'd better check in with what Uncover Billionaire, Grant Cardone is suggesting we change this year, since his results are proof that he knows what he's talking about. Cardone suggests in order to make this change, we must keep 6 things in mind that will drive us towards our goals. We must have: Discipline: By waking up early, watching the sunrise, and getting to bed early. This practice gives you 2 extra hours to launch your day, which translates into an extra month a year to work on your dreams or yourself. It will also help you to become highly motivated and will be a driver for your year, boosting our Confidence: To further drive what you are doing and help you to fill up your calendar with meaningful work where you will create your Action Plan with Activity: and be open to listening to Feedback: From the marketplace (or your network) on how you can improve. Surrounding Yourself with Your Network: Of other like-minded, successful people who will encourage you/holding you accountable. And there is only one outcome-- Success: This is Our Duty/Obligation. We Must WIN/SUCCEED in 2022. To truly make an impact on this year, so it's our best year ever, I think we should all take a look at what Cardone suggests and do whatever it takes so that we achieve our end result (or whatever it is we are working on) at the end of this year. But how exactly do we do this? Make 2022 Your Best Year Ever by Studying the Best-Selling book Think and Grow Rich[v] I challenge you to practice Cardone's TIP #1 with me, and develop discipline by waking up early, and study the #6th All-time Amazon Best-Seller, Think and Grow Rich with me this month. This is a book that has sold over 15 million copies worldwide, that has timeless principles used by some of the greatest minds of the 20th century, and I hope that together, we will uncover some new ideas that will bring us all new results in 2022. I've been launching my year this way since 2019, with Paul Martinelli, who co-founded and built The John Maxwell Team[vi], by diving deep into the many secrets within Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich book from someone who has studied and taught the principles within this book for his entire career. It was this book, that my mentor Bob Proctor[vii] was inspired by, and often opened up and quoted during his career teaching and speaking about wealth principles around the world, as he carried the same weathered copy around with him, reading, studying, as his bible, that he would open up first thing in the morning, and then again before he went to bed. During the six years I worked with Bob, I knew this book was important to him, and there were times it sat in the middle of the table we were sitting at, and we all just knew not to touch it. I remember looking at it, thinking “what else could he really be learning from this book?” as the pages looked like they were about to fall out, and disintegrate. Napoleon Hill talks about a “secret” that is hidden within the pages of this book, and I have a few ideas of what I think the secret is. Bob would never tell us what the secret was, and would say “if I tell you, then you won't look for it yourself” which is probably true. Bob Proctor's original copy of Think and Grow Rich. I used to think that the secret was that “all achievements begin with an idea” and we just have to gaffe this idea with a pencil, write it down, and act on it, (using the 6 steps that Napoleon Hill suggests in the Desire chapter) or someone else will surely launch it. But each time I studied the book, and the author's preface, that describes this secret, I thought about it again, and each year, come up with a NEW idea or perception of what I think the “secret” is. Bob would say that books will have new meaning each time you read them because you change each year, and you see something in yourself that wasn't there the last time you read it. When you finish the book, and this book study with me, I wonder what you think the secret is in the book? HOW TO READ THINK AND GROW RICH-WITH EFFORT You've got to put some effort into this book study. It took me until 2019 to read this book properly. You know what I mean. You can read a book, flip through the table of contents, skim their meaning, grab some ideas, write them down, even apply them to your life, but then you put the book away, and don't think about the ideas ever again. This is not the way to read this book, and it wasn't until Paul Martinelli started teaching it to me, that I saw HOW to read Think and Grow Rich properly, uncovering the secret for myself, and finally putting it use, the way I think Napoleon Hill intended. I think. If Bob has been studying this book for more than 50 years (reading it twice a day), then I think I'm only scratching the surface of how it's intended to be read and applied. KEEP THE BOOK ON YOUR DESK SO THAT YOU READ AND IMPLEMENT THE IDEAS YOU LEARN This book is always on my desk and opened often and I do highly suggest that you purchase a copy that you keep on your desk so you can refer to the pages on your own, and participate in the activities that I will suggest as we go through the important concepts of these 16 principles that really do have incredible power. I put a tab so I can quickly find the 6 steps to put any idea on auto-suggestion from the DESIRE Chapter (they are also written on my wall) and I practice them daily, and know all about the 30 Major Causes of Failure (so I can avoid them) in the Organized Planning Chapter, with my own #31 added to the end. It was the successful founder of US Steel (the first corporation in the world with a market capitalization of over $1 billion, Andrew Carnegie,[viii] who encouraged the young reporter and author of the book, Napoleon Hill, to uncover why some of the most successful people in the world, became that way, using the principles that Hill would use to create this book. Carnegie thought it was a shame that many of the top leaders in the world, like Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, would go to their grave without sharing their knowledge and success strategies to help others. This book will change your thinking, open up the door to new ideas, help you to create new habits and results. This is why I host this podcast, because like Hill, I think it's important to share the most current research, and any success strategies (for free) so that we can all benefit from this information and apply it to our work and personal lives, since we just weren't taught these concepts in school. I'm grateful that this year, I was reminded of this book by my friend Hans Ajay[ix], who let me know he was studying certain chapters to launch his year. There are many ways to study this book, to make the principles seep into your mind subconsciously, and thanks to Ajay, I decided it was time to look at my notes over the past few years and share them on the podcast to launch 2022 with a new angle. In this podcast series, I will review all chapters of Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, with my notes added, after years of study, and hope these ideas will challenge you to do things differently this year, perhaps with more intention, and that you continue to study this book for years to come. I was so excited to see that even before I had released this episode, some of my social media posts have inspired some of the top leaders in my network, like Matt Stewart,[x] from Scotland, who runs the EntrepreneurMe programs with our next generation of entrepreneurs in the school market, to consider re-reading the book this year. I hope that you will join us, so that we can all make the change needed to make 2022 our best year ever, together. In this series you will learn: ✔︎ How to apply the 15 success principles to your life, used by the most successful leaders of the 20th century like Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford. ✔︎ How to harness the power of your non-conscious mind, when you can create new habits, that you put on autopilot, and work for you, instead of against you. ✔︎ Create a clear vision of what you want to create in your life in 2022 to make it a year that is pivotal for the next few years to come. ✔︎ Create the mindset needed to attain this vision with a 6-step plan of how to do it. Try something new this year and see if diving deep with me into the pages of Think and Grow Rich can make a difference for you, like it has made for millions of people all over the world, who have taken the principles seriously. THINK AND GROW RICH PART 1: INTRODUCTION/THOUGHTS ARE THINGS/ Author's Preface and Introduction “What Exactly is The Secret?” The book begins with the mention of this money-making “secret” that's contained within the book's pages and how Carnegie believed this “secret” should be taught in all schools and colleges and if it were taught properly would “revolutionize the entire educational system and that the time spent in school could be reduced to less than half.” (vi, Think and Grow Rich, 2003 edition). As you read through this book, you'll be reminded of this secret in the pages that jump out at you and every chapter mentions it. I first thought this “secret” was that we must have an idea, and write it down, something that we really want. Then I thought about the VERY first thing Bob Proctor said to me when he met me was after finding out I was a school teacher, in Toronto, and he asked me “What I Really Wanted” to do with my life, and back then, the late 1990s, I definitely didn't have a clear picture of my goals written out to go through with him step by step (like I do now). I was taken back a bit, because no one ever asked me anything like this before. Hill says that “the secret will stand out to you when you are ready for it” and when it appears, you will recognize it. I didn't have a clear picture of what I wanted back then but do now. If you've been following this podcast, you'll agree that it's clear that I want to make an impact on the field of education by bringing together simple neuroscience, with social and emotional learning skills, to help make life easier for future generations with these evidence-based strategies. I wrote down that I wanted to become an expert in the field of educational neuroscience years before I had taken a neuroscience course or understood the structure and function of the brain. I would never have gone on a podcast back then sharing my vision with the world and if you were sitting next to me, and this was written in my notebook, I'm sure I would never let you see that I had written that and might even hide it from anyone who might be looking. Does this resonate with you? What do you think? Where are YOU in this process of what you REALLY want? Can you paint a clear picture of it for anyone who asks? If you look at the image in the show notes (sorry I didn't write neater, I didn't think I would ever share these notes) you will see that we must first THINK to create an IDEA. Hill called the book Think and Grow Rich, and if there is a secret in this book, I now think it's that “there's work required, to actually think” and begin this entire process. If you aren't sure of what your vision is, and it's not yet clear, then sit quietly somewhere and use your imagination and intuition to think for a while. Stuck With Your Vision? Ask Yourself These Questions: What do others say you are good at? What do you enjoy doing that you would do even if you weren't paid for it. Think of an area of life where you are dissatisfied. How would you like this area to improve? It's normal to want to be, do, have more in your life so that you can extend your services and help more people with your services. You can't see your own potential, but you can be made aware of it. I think it's really important to tell people where they are excelling in life, so they know what you see, that they might not be able to see themselves. Once you have a vision, write it down and follow these steps for: Applying the Power of Thought: What's your VISION? If I was to ask you “what do you really want?” would you be able to describe your plan clearly and confidently to me? Or would you hesitate, like I did when Proctor first asked me this question. Do you have CLARITY around this vision? It's not an accident that Brendon Burchard, author of the New York Times Best Seller, High-Performance Habits, found that CLARITY[xi] was one of the habits that research found moved the needle more than any of the other habits for those who are high-performers vs non-performers, meaning that when you have clarity, you are more likely to make decisions that support your vision. Become crystal clear about who you are, and what you want, and you will be able to answer this question quickly and with confidence. The clearer your vision, the less doubt, fear and confusion you will have. What's your BELIEF around your vision? Your belief will drive your behavior and help get you out of bed in the morning and keep moving towards what you envision. Do you believe that you will receive your vision? Are you ready/prepared for it? When you are laser focused on your vision, it will be all that you can see. I talked about “Using the Reticular Activating System to Set Your Intent and Achieve it”[xii] earlier this year, that explains how there is a part of our brain (RAS) that will help you to achieve whatever it is that you are focused on (good or bad) so you might as well use this part of your brain to your advantage. Do you EXPECT that your vision will come true? Expectation hooks you up with what you want and brings it closer to you. Have you ever heard that what you seek, is also seeking you? You will move towards it, and it will move towards you. Remember—you can be hooked up to what you want, but if you don't expect it, you won't bring it towards you. You also cannot force this, or it will not come. Force negates. You seek something first, then it seeks you. What is your vision? What is your goal? Are you prepared? There is no such thing as something for nothing. You must do the work. Be sure to review EPISODE #67[xiii] on “Expanding Your Awareness with Lessons Learned from Bob Proctor's Seminars” especially with BIG IDEA #5 how we bring an idea from our mind (spiritual realm) and bring it to fruition (physical realm) actually making it happen. When I asked Bob about the quantum world that Dr. Dan Siegel[xiv] talks about in our interview, where there is this plane of possibility where we can create anything, Bob answered with “I believe the physical realm that we live in and the spiritual world, are all connected, like the colors of the rainbow.” When we take an idea, it comes in from spirit, hits our intellectual mind, and it's up to us whether we move it into form. Have you ever had an idea that you thought was brilliant, and you never did anything with it, and then suddenly you see someone else has created it? That's because there is only one mind, and that we can all tap into these ideas. This is how ALL ideas happen. They start in the mind of the person who creates it, and then after dedicated work, they hit their target, and people watching might say “Oh wow, that person is so lucky” not realizing the work that went into the attainment of the goal. There are usually years of hard work, persistence, of failures, wrong turns, course corrections, but all starting with that clear vision or idea with an end goal or target. “Luck is when preparation and opportunity meet.” How? Over time, we become better at what we do. Never let it rest, until we perfect our craft. Keep going and remember “if a person is not prepared when the opportunity arises, it will only make them look foolish.” (Earl Nightingale). HOW TO CREATE YOUR VISION FOR AN IMPROVED 2022: To review the INTRO and CHAPTER 1 of Think and Grow Rich, remember that to achieve NEW results in 2022, we must do something differently than we did in prior years. I hope that you continue to listen to this deep dive into Think and Grow Rich, and wake up early, with me, improving our discipline and confidence levels with this new habit. EXAMPLE of ANDREA'S VISION: Grant Cardone reminds us that “Average is a Failing Formula.” (page 70 10x Rule) and he suggests that we write our goals down in the morning/night as if we have already achieved them. Here's my FIRST vision of wanting to become an expert in educational neuroscience from January 2019, 6 months before I launched this podcast. I hadn't even bought the new template for my website when I wrote this and was going to call the podcast Social and Emotional Learning Meets Neuroscience. I had no idea where this idea would lead to, but knew whatever it was, that it needed to have Neuroscience and SEL meshed together somehow. Figure out what it is that you REALLY want, something that's much bigger than you, (that you might not want others to see because it's so big to you) and then believe that you can have it. When I wrote this, I had no idea this podcast was going to become the top Top 15 Best SEL Podcasts for 2021, and Top 20 Best Neuroscience Podcasts for 2021 and would feature some of the leading experts in neuroscience, education and the brain, but I believed this vision was possible even when I didn't know what an RSS feed was (that I now know drives ALL podcasts out to the world). What's YOUR vision? Do you have it written down? Did this episode give you some ideas on making 2022 your best year ever? Please do what Matt did and take a picture of you studying with me and let me know you have learned. It will help motivate others to do the same. Remember: “All achievements begin with an idea.” (Napoleon Hill) and then you expand and refine your ideas as you progress towards them. I'll see you in the next couple of days where we will move onto DESIRE, FAITH and THE 6th SENSE. REFERENCES: [i] Grant Cardone, The 10XRule https://www.amazon.com/10X-Rule-Difference-Between-Success/dp/0470627603 [ii] Grant Cardone Make 2022 Your Best Year Ever published on YouTube Dec. 30, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5QGEBkxuL0 [iii] Undercover Billionaire starring Grant Cardone https://www.amazon.com/Undercover-Billionaire-Season-2/dp/B091J1WPJL [iv] Andrea Samadi interviews Caleb Maddix (Jan 4, 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFKA6CPt_sI&list=PLb5Z3cA_mnKiiOxLqeDi_Jd2eG15S-ALF [v] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_and_Grow_Rich [vi] See Paul Martinelli's work over the years as co-founder of the John Maxwell Team https://www.facebook.com/paul.martinelli/videos/1287039331710834/ [vii] The Secret to Think and Grow Rich Revealed by Bob Proctor Published on YouTube April 11, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU-_vjDssVA [viii] Andrew Carnegie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie [ix] Hans Ajay https://www.instagram.com/hansajayb/ [x] Matt Stewart https://www.instagram.com/entrepreneurme/?ref=badge&hl=en [xi] Brendon Burchard on How to Find Clarity https://brendon.com/blog/how-to-find-clarity/ [xii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast BONUS EPISODE “Using the Reticular Activating System to Set Your Intent and Achieve it” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/brain-fact-friday-on-using-the-reticular-activating-system-to-set-your-intent-and-achieve-it/ [xiii]Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #67 on “Expanding Your Awareness with Lessons Learning from Bob Proctor's Seminars” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/expanding-your-awareness-with-a-deep-dive-into-bob-proctors-most-powerful-seminars/ [xiv] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #28 with Dr. Daniel Siegel on “Mindsight: The Basis for Social and Emotional Learning” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/clinical-professor-of-psychiatry-at-the-ucla-school-of-medicine-dr-daniel-siegel-on-mindsight-the-basis-for-social-and-emotional-intelligence/
Think and grow rich – Book review Let us check out the 13 principles and see how these can be adopted in your lives to get success: Principle No 1: Desire As per the author, everything starts with the desire. If someone has a desire, then only achievement starts. Principle No 2: Faith Faith is also one of the strong belief in this world. If you have faith, you can accomplish your desires. Principle No 3: Auto suggestion Auto suggestion is an idea which one develops by oneself. To know how to do it check the visualization techniques. Principle No 4: Specialized knowledge One thing which can take you a long way is knowledge. It gives you immense power to become rich r fulfill your desire. Principle No 5: Imagination Imagination will be lead to the creation of new things. It is believed and said that if you imagine and believe, you can achieve anything you want. Principle No 6: Organized planning If you want success, then you should have a concrete plan. The plan should be made in a way, that can lead you to achieve what you desire. Principle No 7: Decision One more principle which is really important is making the decision quickly and if change is needed, then do it slowly. Principle No 8: Persistence When we are talking about the principles, then persistence is one principle which one should follow to be successful. : The power of the mastermind In order to achieve what you desire, you should align yourself with like minded people. Principle No 10: Transmutation This is one point which has resulted in lots of controversy. Principle No 11: The subconscious mind This is next and very interesting principle that says we can connect links through any of our five senses. Principle No 12: The power of brain The most powerful organ of our body is the brain that works like a broadcasting and receiving station for your thoughts. Principle No 13: The sixth sense This is the last principle and very important principle known as intuition, gut feeling. This is the sense through which your intelligence is shown. l start reading the book. You can get the book Think and grow rich by Napolean Hill. Please check the following links for more reviews and books. Books to read – click here If you need consultation for your communication skills, career growth, Time management, goals management, and many more things check my website – www.anjujindal.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Anjujindal01/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anju-jindal-life-and-career-coach-44360159/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/anjujindal?s=09 Podcast:https://anchor.fm/anju-jindal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anju_jindal_life_career_coach/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anju-jindal/message
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Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one.” Think and Grow Rich was written by Napoleon Hill in 1937 . This book act as a personal development and self-improvement book. He claimed to be inspired by a suggestion from business magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It's undoubtedly one of the best books ever written on the basic fundamentals of success.This book is a road map to achieve any desire you wish by training yourself.
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In the 79th Episode of The Breakthrough Secrets Podcast, Mike and Chris will talk about the power of awareness, intuition and focus to live your life's purpose.Join us in this insightful and amazing talk!In this chapter you will discover:.(0:40) Strength aerobics, shout out to Brett Jones @brettjonessfg(3:00) Long cycle clean and jerk, shout out to Hector Gutierrez @thedragao(4:50) The hardstyle method, shout out to Tim Almond @hardstyle_method(7:00) Getting more intelligent with your training(11:00) “You can either push yourself or settle down, but either way the time is gonna come”(11:40) Snatch test level 2, Chris story(14:20) 4 Essential Mental Tools for Passing the SFG Level I Cert. Article by Chris Abbott https://www.strongfirst.com/4-essential-mental-tools-passing-sfg-level-i-cert/ (14:30) Relax, shout out to Dan John @coachdanjohn(15:20) “You can get so much in love with your training, that you also need that competitive feeling”(19:00) The zombie apocalypse motivation(21:30) Snatching the 36K(24:00) If you feel like “not today”, save your energy for your snatches and your presses. Enter the Kettlebell! Book by Pavel Tsatsouline @StrongFirst https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Pavel-Tsatsouline/dp/1942812132/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= (26:20) The Way of the Superior Man Book by David Deida @daviddeida.live https://www.amazon.com/Way-Superior-Man-Challenges-Anniversary/dp/1622038320 (26:40) Chief definite aim, Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Original-RevisedTM-ebook/dp/B00VVN4YFW/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=think+and+grow+rich&qid=1617551694&s=books&sr=1-5(28:30) The power of directing your awareness(29:00) Mike's schedule, shout out to Dustin Rippetoe @coachdustinrippetoe(32:30) Remembering struggle porn(34:00) Being busy vs being productive(36:30) Timestamping your day(37:40) “It's interesting how all the news of the world fit in the same newspaper every single day” (41:10) The fisherman and the businessman story, shout out to Tony Robbins @tonyrobbins (43:00) Being aware, intentional and intuitive(46:00) The power of applying the principles.#Kettlebellsports #kettlebells #kettlebellworks #strength #power #speed #endurance #becomethestrongestversionofyourself #confidence #mindset #health #wellness #nextlevelliving #strong #powerful #humble #studentofstrength #strengthhasagreaterpurpose #breakthroughsecretspodcast #hardstyle #strongfirst #hardstylemethodFind Free Resources at www.kettlebell.works Liked the show? Please lease us a review!
In the 69th Episode of The Breakthrough Secrets Podcast, Mike and Chris will talk about the best lessons from the interview with Paul Tracogna Join us in this insightful and amazing talk!In this chapter you will discover:(0:40) Shout out to Paul Tracogna @owl.cat.trapeze(1:00) Skill acquisition and duo trapeze artist(3:40) Strength Aerobics, shout out to Brett Jones @brettjonessfg and Fabio Zonin @x_fab_69(6:50) Mental rehearsal(7:15) Predict the randomness(7:50) Make strength look elegant in performing art(8:50) The mindset for an aerobic artist, Shout out to Denis Vasilev @denisvasilevkbsport, Brian Grasso and Iron Tamer @irontamer(9:50) Embody a belief and sensation, Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Original-RevisedTM-ebook/dp/B00VVN4YFW/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=think+and+grow+rich&qid=1617551694&s=books&sr=1-5(10:50) Mental approach on aerobics art(11:00) Relentless Book by Tim S. Grover https://www.amazon.com/Relentless-Unstoppable-Tim-S-Grover/dp/1476714207 (11:20) The 1% of the 1%, what separates the good from the great and the great from the best(12:00) “You're gonna go through a lot of learning errors, so you have to quickly get rid of the past”(13.20) About Golf. Play and exploration(14:00) The “what happens if” concept and how kids always apply it(17:00) Creativity, falling in love with what you don't know(17:50) Automaticity(21:20) “You have to have some automatic feeling, but also being prepared for the randomness of it” (22:00) Tension training(22:30) The Inner Game of Tennis Book by Timothy Gallwey https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314 (23:00) Open Book by Andre Agassi @agassi https://www.amazon.com/Open-Autobiography-Andre-Agassi/dp/0307388409 (25:00) “Failure = Feedback, Outcome = Process”(26:30) Learning errors(30:30) Mental Rehearsal is a skill(31:15) Detach from the outcome(33:30) Adrienne in America's Got Talent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IXqVt8jgT4 .#Kettlebellsports #kettlebells #kettlebellworks #strength #power #speed #endurance #becomethestrongestversionofyourself #confidence #mindset #health #wellness #nextlevelliving #strong #powerful #humble #studentofstrength #strengthhasagreaterpurpose #breakthroughsecretspodcast #hardstyle #strongfirst #hardstylemethodFind Free Resources at www.kettlebell.works Liked the show? Please lease us a review!
In the 49th Episode of The Breakthrough Secrets Podcast, Chris, Mike and our special guest Senior Strongfirst Certified Instructor, Power Endurance Athlete, Hardstyle Snatch Specialist, and owner of the Hardstyle Method, Tim Almond, will talk about self limiting beliefs, emotional health and Balance.Join us in this insightful and amazing talk!In this chapter you will discover:(0:45) Introducing our special guest Senior Strongfirst Certified Instructor, Power Endurance Athlete, Hardstyle Snatch Specialist, and owner of the Hardstyle Method, Tim Almond(1:00) Listen to the first interview with Tim if you haven't (4:00) Chris went back to back squats(5:40) What do you want to achieve? What is it you want to experience?(6:10) Developing the feeling of power(10:00) Everything starts with the why, Toyota analogy(11:10) Self reflection is a never ending process(12:40) Is it ego using you, or is it you using it as a tool?(14:30) The meaning behind your actions(16:30) “Where can I put my energy so that it's not fueled by ego?” - Tim Almond(19:20) Television and Afghanistan, Tim's story(21:30) “Balance is my mantra at the moment” - Tim Almond(24:10) The mental aspect is a bigger challenge than the physical condition(25:40) Willpower and mental resilience(26:00) Daily self discovery(28:10) Being honest with yourself facing a hard reality(30:10) Leading by example(31:30) Emotional health and self image issues(36:00) “My job is to make myself obsolete from the 1st practice, and to get you to the point where you are intuitive with your training” - Tim Almond(37:00) “I don't sell a service, I sell my energy and my time” - Tim Almond(37:40) Yoga Nidra(39:00) What is it that you believe is bigger than you?(41:10) Ayurveda(42:00) The power of blessing your food(43:10) In Ayurveda, everything you eat has a specific purpose(45:00) Being in love with the food in your mouth(46:00) Your body is built for what you are consuming, the importance of being thoughtful with your food(46:20) Way of the Peaceful Warrior Book by Dan Millman https://www.amazon.com/Way-Peaceful-Warrior-Changes-Lives/dp/1932073205 (50:00) Primal, getting back to the essentials(54:00) Knowledge is potential power Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Original-RevisedTM-ebook/dp/B00VVN4YFW/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=think+and+grow+rich&qid=1617551694&s=books&sr=1-5 (54:30) knowledge can be dangerous without integration(57:30) Precision nutrition level 2 certification also teaches to be good with people(59:40) Success Secrets program(1:02:30) Striving to be better while loving yourself(1:05:10) “When you deprive yourself of the other senses, it becomes louder” - Tim Almond(1:06:30) Gratitude, how do you show yourself that you're grateful with your body?(1:19:20) Where to contact Tim Almond @hardstyle_method@hardstyle_method @danmillmanpw#kettlebells #kettlebellworks #strength #power #speed #endurance #becometheFind Free Resources at www.kettlebell.works Liked the show? Please lease us a review!
In the 47th Episode of The Breakthrough Secrets Podcast, Chris, Mike and our special guest Motivational speaker and Author of the book Superhuman YOU, Iron Tamer Dave Whitley will talk about mastering your thinking, self confidence and what superpowers really are.Join us in this insightful and amazing talk!In this chapter you will discover: (1:00) Introducing our special guest Iron Tamer Dave Whitley, motivational speaker, author of Superhuman YOU (3:50) Taming the Bent Press Book by Iron Tamer Dave Whitley (4:20) Free Gift https://www.tamingthebentpress.com/optin33455197 (5:00) Read Bill Hinbern books to learn more about the bent press (6:30) Big Shoutout to Bill Hinbern(7:00) Tamer's origin story(8:00) What a super power truly means(9:40) Tamer's story as a kid(10:20) Wanting to have super strength(13:00) The Incredible Lou Ferrigno, Book by Douglas Kent Hall and Lou Ferrigno (14:00) Arnold Education of a Bodybuilder Book by Arnold Schwarzenegger (14:20) The power of visualization(15:00) “I realized that when i said i wanted super powers as a kid, what i really wanted was self confidence” - Iron Tamer Dave(16:00) Strength Training to improve confidence(17:10) How did Tamer start working with kettlebells(18:50) Big shout out to Dennis Rogers(21:40) Old Time Strongman University(23:40) One of the biggest lessons from Dennis Rogers(29:30) Big shoutout to Lou Ferrigno(30:30) “If i can master my thinking to develop that high level of self confidence, then anything is possible” - Iron Tamer Dave(31:00) “Confidence is the ability to connect with your unlimited potential” - Iron Tamer Dave(32:00) Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill (32:00) The Science of Getting Rich Book by Wallace D. Wattles (32:30) “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve” - Napoleon Hill(32:30) “If you place no limits upon yourself you have none(33:45) Women trying to be a better mom, case study(36:40) Overcoming self imposed limitations(39:00) Overcoming conflicting beliefs(40:10) The word “NO” as a limitation language when we are kids(42:00) VIsualization of the DOUBT VS visualization of the DESIRE(43:00) Remembering Diane Webb(47:10) “We have the model the way we think and talk to ourselves” - Iron Tamer Dave(51:30) How to start changing self limiting beliefs(53:00) Persistency(53:20) Assuming the feelings of a fulfilled desire(1:02:10) Creeping incrementalism, big shout out to Marty Gallagher (1:08:40) “Never say something about yourself that you don't sincerely wish it's true, cause your subconscious doesn't know the difference” - Iron Tamer Dave(1:09:30) Where to contact Iron Tamer Dave https://www.superhumanyoubook.com/freebook33232516@irontamer @theofficiallouferrigno @schwarzenegger @strongmanism @thatspiritualshrink @themartygallagher @Strongfirst @coach_mike_kbw#kettlebells #kettlebellworks #strength #power #speed #endurance #becomethestrongestversionofyourself #confidencFind Free Resources at www.kettlebell.works Liked the show? Please lease us a review!
In Episode 44 of The Breakthrough Secrets Podcast, Chris and Mike will recall many lessons from all the Strength Titans they have interviewed thus far, choosing the best knowledge and pondering if there is something all of these great teachers have in common.Join us in this insightful and amazing talk!In this chapter you will discover: (0:50) Tim Almond, processing information(2:00) Is there a specific commonality in all the Titans we've interviewed?(3:15) Chris playing “Beautiful Day” by U2 while visualizing doing the Iron Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6WMzDOh1o (6:00) Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Original-RevisedTM-ebook/dp/B00VVN4YFW/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=think+and+grow+rich&qid=1617551694&s=books&sr=1-5 (8:00) “We suffer more in imagination than we do in reality”(8:30) Remembering Levi Markwardt(9:10) Body mind breath, Steve Cotter(11:00) On goal setting(11:15) “In my correct opinion” remembering Aleks Salkin(12:40) Evolution by reduction(13:40) Antifragility, remembering Craig Marker interview(16:20) “The problem is you think you have time” -Steven Head(18:00) Behavioral Change, remembering Dr.Katie Arfa(20:00) Shoutout to Brett Jones and Tim Almond(22:00) Pavel Macek and Fabio Zoning(22:15) “The most important learning happens post graduation” -Dr. Roy Page(24:30) Steve Cotter and Never Let Go Book by Dan John https://www.amazon.com/Never-Let-Go-Philosophy-Learning/dp/1931046387 (27:20) Mastery Book by Robert Greene https://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Robert-Greene/dp/014312417X (28:00) Craig Marker mastering Mitochondrial fusion and fission (29:40) The Deep purpose of Steve Cotter(30:00) Remembering Hector Gutierrez(34:10) Passion means to suffer(36:10) Kettlebell training as a system(36:30) Enjoying the process to be willing to suffer through it, Hector Gutierrez(38:00) Passion and suffering, Chris Iron Man story(44:00) “With great power comes great responsibility”@coach_mike_kbw @leviarsl @stevecotter_ikff @aleks_salkin @craigdmarker @headstrong_fitness_performance @drkatiearfa @brettjonessfg @hardstyle_method @pavelmacekcom @x_fab_69 @roypagedc @coachdanjohn @robertgreeneofficial @thedragao @Strongfirst#NeverLetGo #Mastery #Withgreatpowercomesgreatresponsibility#kettlebells #kettlebellworks #strength #power #speed #endurance #becomethestrongestversionofyourself #confidence #mindset #health #wellness #nextlevelliving #strong #powerful #humble #studentofstrength #strengthhasagreaterpurpose #breakthroughsecretspodcast #hardstyle #strongfirst #hardstylemethodFind Free Resources at www.kettlebell.works Liked the show? Please lease us a review!
Join your host Giuseppe Grammatico and his guest Mark Delaney as he talks the truth about purpose, how it can be fulfilled, and the complicated route people are going for in their lives today. For Mark, there is an excellent purpose for everyone, and it is attainable. In a life with so many ways to tell you otherwise, for him, it is important to get rid of the things that confuse you about your purpose and absorb the things that make it more transparent in your view. In this episode, listen as Mark speaks about why your job is not your purpose, why you need to be able to look at yourself in the mirror, and the many questions you need to be able to answer before you come close to fulfilling your purpose.In this episode you will learn:There is an attainable purpose in life for everyone!“Ever since I stopped being a teacher, I've been a student.”It is the simple things in life that we need to get right.On the different mindsets that confuse you and clear you.What is something that's common sense but not common instinct?About Mark Delaney:Mark is the host of the podcast, The Purpose Mastermind Podcast. A podcast that is all about winning at life and leaving a legacy. Hear from purpose and family expert Mark Delaney, as well as experienced guests, as we discuss developing a proper perspective on life, marriage, parenting, and more. This isn't a podcast about unfounded theories or empty, shallow “make you feel good” talk. It's about the real purpose for your real life. You will leave encouraged and empowered to win at life and leave a legacy.Mark Delaney's Contacts and Resources:Website: http://www.markdelaney.me/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-delaney-3a935b107/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markdelaney.me/Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill:https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Landmark-Bestseller/dp/1585424331Four Minute Books, a YouTube channel that summarizes books:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoGzv_eLEDEHncFEl_xuiqgReplace your burden with boldness through The Purpose Mastermind:https://markdelaney.me/thepurposemastermind/My Life Platform by Mark Delaney:https://www.mylifeplatform.com/Connect with Franchise Freedom on:Website: https://ggthefranchiseguide.com/podcast/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuseppe-grammatico-4407672b/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GGTheFranchiseGuideTwitter: https://twitter.com/ggrammaticoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gg_the_franchise_guide/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWsxLRngbxJEH2m8w-ptYw?view_as=subscriberApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/franchise-freedom/id1499864638Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13LTN5UzA57w2dTB4iV0fmGoogle: https://cutt.ly/gkG7t2gThe Franchise Freedom Book by Giuseppe Grammatico(Discover Your New Path to Freedom Through Franchise Ownership):https://ggthefranchiseguide.com/book/
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Have you heard of the term Mastermind? The first time that I heard the term was from reading Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" Book. The concept made perfect sense. Many successful people have gathered under the idea of using peer to peer mentoring pattern to get ahead, whether in business, educational goals, or even personal goals. In this episode, Tywauna discuss the the 6 ways joining a mastermind group can help you. 6 Ways a Mastermind Group Can Help You: Building strong strategic connections Helps give you a push in the right direction Accountability Feedback Collaboration Advice Ready to join a Mastermind group? Check out this mastermind group to get a jumpstart on your dreams in 2021! Be a Supporter!Listen on Directimpactbroadcasting.com, Spotify, Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast platform. Don't forget to subscribe to the show on your phone, tablet or notebook so you never miss an episode! Most importantly, please share with a friend!!To connect with Tywauna 'Coach Tee Wilson' for more strategies or join the monthly leadership roundtable, find her on LinkedIn at Tywauna Wilson, visit SomeLeadersWearLabCoats.com, or join the Tidbits w/Coach Tee Wilson Facebook group.
To Find Teresa and of course, the email connect: tbarnes@hearcommunication.comhttps://hearcommunication.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/hearteresabarnesrn/https://www.facebook.com/hearcommunication/https://www.instagram.com/teresabarnesrn/https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Advice-Tune-into-Listening/dp/1982209577https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ9TLLKAu7ZxP8lt21fThink and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill is a mind changer. It's one to be read over and over again. Here is the link to see the original newspaper article. https://www.northernmichiganspine.com/blog/napoleon-hills-son-has-hearing-restored-through-chiropracticNikken's Founder also had a son who was born without any ears. This CEO at the time was a ticket agent at a bus depot in Japan. Disabilities in Japan were shamed, so this man figured out a way like Mr. Hill to get his son the plastic surgery he needed therefore he would not be made fun of. Nikken Wellness Company was formed. Here are the Three Boundary Guidelines. Physical - personal space and touch considerationsMental - thoughts and opinions Emotional - feelings We all have a right to have our body space respected, to have our own thoughts and opinions as well as personal feelings. One another person attack's your core being it is a type of abuse. Build your defense boundaries.For Lady Gaga's personal account: https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/134357/Lady-Gaga-My-grandmother-helped-me-get-back-up-after-I-was-raped
#BOOK #REVIEW #Readandgrowrich By #BurkeHedges The book is mainly emphasizing on #reading which I always believe in. I am a #reader who just not believe in reading but #sharing and #implementing the things which I read as many times while reading we came across some things which are put so beautifully in words that, they just dig strong in your head and heart. The #book #read and #grow #rich has a #subtitle which says that the #hidden #power of #reading can make you #richer in all areas of your life. In this book, a few examples are quoted where the people have been #transformed because of reading and one such example is #MatthewMcConaughey- the #actor and #producer who grabbed many Oscars who got to know himself, his true passion, his #capabilities because of #reading. Not #reading & #poverty reading and poverty have got a direct #connection because according to the statistics one-third of the #population do not read after their college and when we do not read, we do not learn and in turn, we do not grow. The people who can read but still choose not to read are like those people who have got treasure in front of them but they do not take them or use them but when they see others growing they just keep saying one day we will also #grow. See it is not the #assumptions that will help you grow rather it is what #knowledge you gain and how you implement it into your life. #Notimetoread This is one #problem which most of us have an excuse for us when somebody says to us to start a good new thing. probably because it requires some #effort or it may be because it is very much last in our #priority list. Whatever may be the case the answer to this #question can only be found out by us. Reading is one such #technology as per the author which is invented so that we human beings can unlock our #hiddenpotential. Reading and #writing #liberates us, activates our thought process, Reading and #watching As per the author, reading is much more powerful than watching a video or tv. because reading involves lots of activities at the same time by our #brain, eyes, hands, and more wherein we are also deceiving the message and taking pictures of it in our brain so that we can refer to them later on. While reading we just do not read we #criticize, #compare, #analyze, #think, and #evaluate the #facts and #content. And so, In my website, I have two sections which are about books only. Books to read - https://www.anjujindal.com/resources Book reviews & Blogs on books - https://www.anjujindal.com/feed/categories/books If you need consulting for your communication skills, career growth, Time management, Goals management, and many more things check my website - www.anjujindal.com. You can check the book here. -https://amzn.to/3eHSDbT Famous video How to make your to-do list?-3 steps: https://youtu.be/RL90rYDAu_o Get more Anjs updates: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Anjujindal01/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anju-jindal-life-and-career-coach-44360159/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/anjujindal?s=09 Podcast:https://anchor.fm/anju-jindal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anju_jindal_life_career_coach/?hl=en Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9x --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anju-jindal/message
Hello Beautiful, I am Haley Helveston, a Holistic Health Coach turned Sex/Relationship Coach. I am all about empowering you sexually, spirituality and in your health. Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Will Nicholls. He is an Astrologer and Coach. Key Takeaways - -Astrology is the study of relationships - Some men become too feminine - Our society has made women too masculine and men too feminine - You must have sexual polarity to have great sex - There is an agenda to make men more feminine - Most men struggle sexually - Most men have Low Testosterone Levels - Women and Men are burned out and too tired for sex - Read Rich Dad Poor Dad, Read Think and Grow Rich Book. - Read - Mediations by Marcus Aurelius - Read 4 Hour Work Week Book - Read Men are from Mars Women are from Venus Book - Own your Masculine Side and Own your Feminine Side Be sure to subscribe to my channel and share it with friends! I upload weekly on sexuality, spirituality and health. Will Nicholls' Links= Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/iamwillnicholls/ Website = https://www.iamwillnicholls.com/ If you are interested in coaching - email me - helvestonhaley@gmail.com I would love to Coach you and support you in your life and relationships. My Links - Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/haley.helveston.3/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/haley.helveston/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/HaleyHelveston Email - helvestonhaley@gmail.com Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU49NnKO6nEAO226_Z2kdIQ?view_as=subscriber
Join me in this touching podcast as Cliff Jones shares about the unconditional love and unity of a family, with a partnership soaked in mutual respect and friendship. In life, mastering the inner game is so important as we figure out our purpose and what will make our time on this planet meaningful. As he was rolling through trauma earlier in his life, he found acceptance, courage, and wisdom on the other side. We talk about neuroscience, what's it's like when your energy is in all the right places, and the books that have been so helpful in solving some of life's biggest challenges. There are so many good tips in this podcast, but mostly you're going to be inspired about a life well lived, and be reminded what it takes to finally live peacefully and contently. https://cliffordjones.com/ Books we referenced: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Book by Susan Cain Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One Book by Joe Dispenza The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles Book by Bruce Lipton
This episode features a wide ranging conversation on the concepts illustrated in Napoleon Hill's popular Think and Grow Rich Book. Since its inception in 1937 there have been over 15 million copies sold worldwide but more importantly, billions made by the individuals who've acted in accordance with its principles. On today's episode, Daray is interviewed by Logan Freeman about Daray's Think and Grow Rich experiment to help us all change and expand our thinking to reach our potential in business and life. The discussion is followed by real life examples and exercises to create financial success beyond our wildest dreams. Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: 5K in 30 Days Challenge (https://www.beforethemillions.com/5k) 90x Goal Planner (https://www.beforethemillions.com/90x)
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Key Learnings- 1) Desire - The first step to achieve any thing in life is to have desire for that things .i.e burning desire . It means that you need to know what you actually want in your life . You need to decide where you want to go in your life . 2) Faith - The author says that the emotions of Faith , Love and sex are the most powerful of all the major positive emotions . Love and faith are related to spiritual side of a man and sex is purely biological. The author says “ Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith . 3) Auto Suggestion - Auto suggestion mean self suggestions . The author says that no thought can enter the subconcious mind without the aid of the priciple of auto suggestion . What you are suggesting to your self is very important so be very concious while auto suggestion . 4 ) Specialized Knowledge - There are two types of knowledge . first one is General Knowledge and 2nd one is specialized knowledge . The specialized knowledge will fetch you more results than the general knowledge. 5) Imagination - It has been said that man can create anythings which he can imagine . So you should imagine whatever you want your future to be. 6) Planning - It is said that if you fails to plan , it means that you are planning to fail. Planning your day, weeks, month and year is very important . Tools to be used Google Calender 7) Decision - It has been analysed over 25000 men and women who have experienced failure, disclosed the fact that “ Lack of decision “ were main reason of their failure. Procrastination , the opposite of decison is common enemy which every man must conquer . 8) Persistence - The author says “ Persistence is an essential factor in the process of transmuting DESIRE into monetary equivalents. The basis of persistence is the power of will . 9) Power of the Master Mind - Master mind “ Coordination of knowledge and effort, in the spirit of harmony between two or more people for the attainment of a definite purpose . 10) The Subconscious Mind - The Subconsious mind works day and night . Even when you are sleeping your subconcious mind is working . Therefore it has been said that never watch news while going to sleep. You should visualise, read good books before sleep. .
Welcome to the “Sober is Dope” Podcast, with your host, POP Buchanan. This episode gives us motivational advice on success and prosperity. Thanks to Oprah Winfrey and Bob Proctor we have greater insight on why using positive thoughts, believing in ourselves, and changing bad habits with good habits, can upgrade and transform our lives. This advice is applicable to recovery, and can be considered a foundational tool for life transformation. Please enjoy. - Sober is Dope! Oprah Winfrey - www.Oprah.com Bob Proctor - https://www.proctorgallagherinstitute.com/our-story The Secret - https://www.thesecret.tv/ Think and Grow Rich Book - https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-ebook/dp/B001NGN2D2 Abraham Hicks - https://abraham-hicks.com Video - https://youtu.be/xvV0duR3TWU --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/soberisdope/message
Do you ever wonder why some entrepreneurs are more successful than others? Aside from pursuing further learning and improving service or product offerings, another way to reach success is by joining a mastermind group. Being part of a mastermind group that is right for you and engaging with like-minded entrepreneurs who desire the same things you want are a surefire way to achieve the things you desire -- both personal and professional growth and success. Today, I dive into how to choose the right mastermind group in 2020. I share relevant decision-making factors such as the right time to join a group, considerations when choosing a coach, and when you should change coaches if you feel like transferring groups. I also share the new mastermind group that will be available to entrepreneurs who want to take their careers and businesses to a whole new level. “Being a part of a mastermind group can not just help you grow your business, but also dramatically improve your life.” - Sigrun In This Episode of The Sigrun Show: Why most entrepreneurs join mastermind groups today. Factors to consider before joining a particular mastermind group. How much you should be earning before you join a mastermind group. The difference between a mastermind and a group coaching program and how to determine which one is right for you. How to pick the right mastermind group for you. What to do if you're considering joining more than one mastermind group. Why mastermind members are discouraged from guru-hopping. The difference between my VIP Mastermind group and the new Red Circle. Why the most significant personal and professional breakthroughs happen at live retreats. Resources Mentioned: Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill Iconic 2019 by Ali Brown Join the 2020 Mastermind Groups Waitlist Are you ready to take your business to the next level? Sign up for the waitlist for my 2020 Mastermind programs. VIP Mastermind is already 50% sold out to existing clients so if you want to join us in 2020 be sure to get on the notification list. Sign up at sigrun.com/masterminds. Please share, subscribe and review on iTunes Thank you for joining me on this episode of the Sigrun Show. If you enjoyed this episode, please share, subscribe and review on Apple Podcasts or Google Play Music so more people can enjoy the show. Don't forget to follow and connect with me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Click here to learn how to leave a review, then head over to Apple Podcasts for your chance to win a special thank you gift!
For today's book review we will be going over: "Think and Grow Rich" By: Napoleon Hill https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Napoleon-Hill/dp/0449214923 Few things that will be talked about in today's podcast will be, -Natural Laws -Greater understanding about faith -How to gain and obtain money and success on a deeper level -Relationship eye openers ———————————————————————————————————— If you like what you heard in today's podcast and would like to know more, we will be going more into depth on May 11th at "Next Generation Wealth and Legacy" workshop. That will be hosted by Travis Brady and I. It will take place in Sandy, UT at Sandy High House from 8:30 am - 6:30 pm ———————————————————————————————————— Connect more with your host Samuel Knickerbocker at: https://www.facebook.com/ssknickerbocker/?ref=profile_intro_card https://www.instagram.com/ssknickerbocker/ https://howmoneyworks.com/samuelknickerbocker If this resonates with you and you would like to learn more please LIKE, COMMENT, & SHARE ———————————————————————————————————— Click The Link Bellow To Join My Legacy Builders Mastermind https://www.facebook.com/groups/254031831967014/ ———————————————————————————————————— Want to regain your financial confidence and begin building your legacy? In this ebook you will learn: - The 9 Pillars To Build A Legacy - Clarify you “why” - Create Daily Action Steps To Launch Forward Want Sam’s FREE E-BOOK? Claim your access here! >>> The 9 Pillars To Build A Legacy ————————————————————————————————————
34. Creating Your Dream Business - Pt. 3; Highlights from the book, Think & Grow Rich from Napoleon Hill On Part 2 of the Business series of Lessons in Life & Love, I cover the brilliant work of Napoleon Hill, author of Think & Grow Rich; a Business & Life classic. To succeed in business, follow all the great tips within his book. I cover: Leaving a Legacy, 30 major causes of failure, Factors & Power of Persistence, 7 major Positive & Negative Emotions, the 10 Mind Stimuli, The 11 major Factors of Leadership, Self-Confidence Formulae, Faith is a State of Mind - induced by Autosuggestion, and more! Resources 1) Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill - The Original Version, Restored, and Revised https://amzn.to/2ZRkfUB 2) To learn how to Podcast from John Lee Dumas; get a FREE Podcast Course at: https://bd140.isrefer.com/go/fpca/RianaMilne/ 3) FREE Audiobook & 30-day trial from Audible: http://www.audibletrial.com/Riana 4) FREE Alexa Daily Flash Briefing - To get - Daily Lesson in Life & Life on Alexa devices: Click this link, then Enable button: http://bit.ly/ALEXALifeLoveLesson http://www.audibletrial.com/Riana 5) For Businesses who want to Start an Alexa Brief, go to this link and tell Nick Riana sent you! https://effct.co/?ref=rianamilne1 6) To Be a Guest on many Podcasts, go to: https://podcastguests.com/join/ref/181/ Books: LIVE Beyond Your Dreams - from Fear & Doubt to Personal Power, Purpose & Success; by Riana Milne & Alexi Panos http://bit.ly/LIVEbook LOVE Beyond Your Dreams - Break Free of Toxic Relationships to Have the Love You Deserve; by Riana Milne http://bit.ly/RianasLOVEbook Always Believe in Yourself and Your Dreams - A Blue Mountain Arts Collection; readings from Debbi Oehman-Finke and Lisa Marie Yost Podcast Website: http://LessonsinLifeandLove.com Riana’s Website: http://RianaMilne.com Free eBook: http://HavetheLoveYouDeserve.com Free App: http://bit.ly/RianaMilneApp #LessonsinLifeandLovePodcast #LifeCoach #LifeCoachNearMe #LoveCoach #DatingCoach #RelationshipCoach #DivorceCoach #RianaMilne #Singles #Couples #PersonalTransformation #ACOA #ChildhoodTrauma #ToxicLove #Divorce #Marriage #Betrayal #Abandonment #Breakups #Narcissist #TerrianaMilne #OnlineDating #Dating #Relationships #LOVEBeyondYourDreams #Love #Anxiety #Abuse #Depression #Addiction #LIVEBeyondYourDreams
MC Laubscher is host of the popular podcast Cashflow Ninja, and president of Producers Wealth investment company. He talks to us about cashflow investing, whole life insurance and infinite banking investment strategies, balancing different types of capital, plus the future of blockchain technology! Cashflow Ninja http://cashflowninja.com/ Producers Wealth Company https://www.producerswealth.com/home Your Own Banking System Webinars https://www.yourownbankingsystem.com/our-value Robert Kiyosaki https://www.richdad.com/ Rich Dad Poor Dad Book https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle/dp/1612680194/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Rich+Dad+Poor+Dad&qid=1554770821&s=books&sr=1-2 The Richest Man In Babylon Book https://www.amazon.com/Richest-Man-Babylon-George-Clason/dp/0451205367/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Richest+Man+In+Babylon&qid=1554770771&s=books&sr=1-3 Think and Grow Rich Book https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Landmark-Bestseller/dp/1585424331
This is the first episode of a new weekly show with Sean (that's me) and Ryan McCabe. I always enjoy my conversations with Ryan. In early January of 2019, I called him for a specific reason, but our discussion expanded into something bigger, as it often does. Ryan is going to be great. You'll know this as soon as you hear him speak. Yet, Ryan and I rarely ever spoke with each other, save for the occasional text message! Unless there was a specific reason to call, we didn't often see each other outside holidays with the family. I wanted to change that. I asked Ryan if he would like to have a weekly call. Only good things can come of it, I said. He agreed. I recognize greatness in Ryan and I want to document what will undoubtedly be his meteoric rise. I also want to have someone like him in my life on a regular and frequent basis. I make a point to get around people with a positive mindset. When I realized 99% of what we say on our phone calls would be valuable to anyone listening in, I asked Ryan if he would be okay with recording the calls and sharing them. That quickly blossomed into the idea for this weekly podcast. That's how this show started: Weekly calls between two brothers shared with the world. But in order for you understand the mindset Ryan has, you will need to read a book. Just one book. Specifically, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Read the physical book, listen to the audio book, or read it for free online, but you must read it. Think and Grow Rich will lay the necessary foundation for all of the conversations to come. If you've read the book, before, read it again. But as I write this, I know few will go and read the book on their own without any accountability. So Ryan and I have decided to make it impossible for you not to! How? We don't yet know what our weekly conversations will look like, but we know the first four months of this show will involve going through the entire book, Think and Grow Rich, one chapter per week. We invite you to join us by reading one chapter of Think and Grow Rich each week before listening to the corresponding episode. Step 1: Get the book (Amazon). The book was written in 1937 and it is now in the public domain. You can purchase the book if you like, but lacking money is no excuse not to read it as you can easily read the book online for free. ⭐️ Simply search the web for "Read Think and Grow Rich". Step 2: Read one chapter per week and listen to the correspondingly titled podcast episode. Can you listen to the podcast without reading the book? Yes, but you rob only yourself. This initial series is not intended to replace the book but rather to deepen your understanding by engaging in deeper discussion and commentary. Is this podcast a book club show? No. We are starting this podcast with the book, Think and Grow Rich, to lay a foundation for the conversations Ryan and I have. We will do normal, conversational, or topical episodes in the future. We may also decide at some point we would like to go through another book with you, but that remains to be seen. I'm subscribed to the seanwes podcast—do I need to subscribe to a new feed to get this show? Nope. New episodes will come out on the same feed you're already subscribed to. Nice and convenient! This episode is an introduction to the book club we're starting next week. You will learn how this book transformed not just Ryan's life, but also the life of our brother, Caleb. Coincidentally, Ryan and Caleb have gone through the book together, meeting weekly in person. You'll hear a bit about our backstory as brothers. Finally, you have your homework assignment and one week to complete it: Get the book, Think and Grow Rich, and read Chapter 1. Next week's episode will be dedicated to discussing this initial chapter.
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Simple Programmer is now BACK with a brand new YouTube Channel SUBSCRIBE HERE: https://simpleprogrammer.com/subscribespyt Getting a job has two aspects: a Technical one and Soft Skills one. The Soft Skills you need to get a programming job are probably more crucial to your success. Today we'll show you how you can build those Back when I was at my first job, I started to teach myself certain soft skills by constantly reading self-improvement books. I was trying to improve my communication skills, my ability to use my brain to its fullest ability. Then... I quit my job because I wanted to become a web developer... But I had no experience. Instantly was faced with rejection email after rejection email. I had never faced this much rejection in my life. Initially, I was fine, thinking I would get one of the next interviews. But then when it became a consistent thing, so consistent that I was constantly rejected for 14 months, some of the toughest people will start to take what is happening to heart. So... How improving my soft skills got me the job at NBC earning $100k/year? Watch this video and find out! Think and Grow Rich Book: https://simpleprogrammer.com/thinkandgrowrich SUBSCRIBE To Antonio's YouTube Channel: https://simpleprogrammer.com/yt/antoniosubscribe Get Antonio’s FREE ebook on Controlling Emotions so you can take action right now: https://www.acucciniello.com/email-list Join Antonio’s Active Instagram Community: https://www.instagram.com/antoniocucc/ Engage in Antonio’s Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/antcucc/ Follow Antonio on Twitter: https://twitter.com/antoniocucc
Time stamped show notes: [2:20] Chris's agency was looking good on the outside but feeling miserable on the inside. [3:25] The company imploded and everything went wrong. [3:50] Turning point where Chris decided to change everything [4:40] The most painful but best time of Chris's life [5:10] Spirituality as a guiding principle of Chris's life [6:28] Brad was raised Catholic and how it now affects his life [7:03] Gratitude is everything. [7:40] How the universe will conspire against and for you [8:40] Gratitude lists and how they have changed Chris's life [11:05] Manifestation/law of attraction [11:40] Trying too hard and getting frustrated when things don't happen [12:30] Meeting with people and not looking for anything and being open and honest about where he was at [13:47] Chris's favorite Steve Jobs quote [15:05] Brad's history and experience with masterminds [18:45] Intuition is everything to Chris. [23:50] Why they don't watch the news [25:00] Deciding whom to spend time with and when to cut people out [27:25] Favorite ego quote from Chris [28:15] Brad's writing about curing depression [30:45] Chris's Unfair Advantage event in New York [32:40] The media needs you just as much as you need them. [34:30] Focusing on writing a book and doing more and more TV [36:45] Chris's beliefs about money growing up [37:30] Whom Chris looks up to in the super connector world [40:20] Reading books and recommendations [45:35] How to support Chris Winfield [47:10] Where to find Chris and his event Three key points: How gratitude, manifestation, and intuition play a big role for Chris Looking into media and books Chris's event and connecting with the best of the best Resources mentioned: Unfair Advantage Event Nevil Goddard Books Vanessa Horn Captivate Book Ray Dalio's Principles Book Think and Grow Rich Book
We've been reading (slash listening) to the book: Think and Grow Rich and it's ahhh-mazing! We're 100% sure it's changing our lives in magical ways. It's a self-help, self-development book written in 1937 by Napolean Hill. We know... that's ages ago but it's still super relevant. As you can tell by the title it's about growing in riches BUT it's not just about our incomes. The philosophy, stories and techniques Hill writes about can be transferred to ANYTHING. This book is about living our full potential. It gives us the tools we need to create the lives we all desire. It's bloody epic. Stuff we talk about... In almost every chapter the importance of desire is brought up. That success starts with a burning desire and knowing what you actually want. There is no such thing as failure, it's just temporary defeat. Everything will make sense eventually. The perceived failure will, in fact, be part of the success. Woah. The magic of persistence. The power of our mindset, how to change our subconscious belief systems. Powerful people are the dreamers who take action and have self-belief. We can all be these people. We talk about how we can be the dreamers who take action. This.... "you are not ready until you believe you are ready". So powerful. Unwavering faith is required. Faith removes limitations. Time will pass anyway, why not go the extra mile and put in extra effort to create the lives we want?! Practising quick decisions will create success. We talk about the top 30 reasons that stop people living their potential. Listen to this list and then it's time for some self-reflection and maybe some habit changes. Enthusiasm is a superpower. SO MUCH MORE! Always merrymaking, Emma + Carla Feature photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Brandon T. Adams from Live to Grind is a serial entrepreneur, owning a stake in a number of businesses, including the Accelerant Media Group, Live to Grind, Young Entrepreneur Convention, Arctic Stick (sold on Amazon), and an ice distributorship that serves three states. He's the V.P. of Business Development for Think Rich Films on the film Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy and the youngest person to be featured in the film. Resources Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy (Site) Live to Grind (Brandon T. Adams Official Site & Podcast) Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success (Book By Napoleon Hill) Think and Grow Rich (Book)
Stephen Rodgers from TheAlchemyAdvisors.com wants to help you discover your higher purpose and develop a life/business plan around that. Steve shares his best resources with us and talks about his daily ritual involving exercise, affirmations, yelling/screaming to music, and his daily scoreboard point system. Resources The Alchemy Advisors (Podcast) Focal Point Coaching from Brian Tracy (Coaching and Training Website) Mind Valley (Website) Code of the Extraordinary Mind (Book) Think and Grow Rich (Book)
Joe Polish invites Anthony Amos onto the show to discuss how he converted a dog grooming business into a multi-million dollar franchise. An Australian with an electric personality, Anthony details his journey from the ranks of professional football, to life as an aspiring entrepreneur. He details his formula for entrepreneurial success (which includes a willingness to eat baked beans), and itemizes his passion for friends, family, and dogs. Listen to learn about the importance of having hope and faith, why enthusiasm is every entrepreneur’s biggest ally, and the value of knowing your business at the ground level. Selected Links from the Episode Think and Grow Rich - Book by Napolean Hill How To Catch A Shark - Book by Anthony Amos The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Book by Stephen Covey Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from Anthony in this episode with show notes: Introduction [00:30] Anthony joins the show [01:06] Anthony describes himself as a lunatic [01:35] How Anthony came up with the idea for HyrdoDog [02:40] When you’re good with people, you’ll go far [05:20] Washing dogs won’t make you a millionaire, learning how to build a business AROUND dog washing will [06:09] Anthony’s thoughts on family [07:06] Hope and faith can carry you a lot of places [09:12] Defining the difference between American and Australian entrepreneurial environment [10:00] Being successful as an entrepreneur means having thick skin [11:50] When the idea for a dog grooming business became a GOOD idea [14:45] Understanding what it’s like to eat baked beans day in and day out, in order to put money back into the company...that’s what it means to be an entrepreneur [15:20] Alignment is paramount for good relationships [16:40] Entrepreneurs are corporate athletes [18:52] How To Catch A Shark- Anthony Amos [19:53] Can and clone marketing is how Joe made his success [22:20] Not all money is created equal [22:45] When all you have is a dream and an idea, your enthusiasm is your fuel [24:10] Be prepared for isolation as an entrepreneur [26:15] Once success has been built, jump into something parallel, not something new [28:43] Do not obsess about the money, don’t chase the money [29:49] When you’re having a conversation with somebody, just be there...be present [33:30] Learn how to become a communication EXPERT [34:21] Defining what animals (specifically dogs) do for people [37:20] People mistake getting out of their comfort zone for taking a risk [42:50] Anthony shares the best business lessons he’s extracted from his life [45:15] Bathe to Save [47:20] The objective is to raise $1M and save 500,000 dogs [47:35] The legacy of the Bathe to Save campaign is to get dog groomers to go to a shelter 1-day per month to wash dogs and raise awareness about shelters [48:28] The different types of sharks [49:28] See the value of what you’re doing and bringing before you sit down at the negotiation table [52:20] Too many people focus on raising money and not on identifying how to SELL their idea [53:45] Know your business from the ground level and you’ll be able to franchise successfully [54:55] The rituals Anthony has to help him deal with the TOUGH times [57:29] Live in the moment [58:19] Say “Thank you” [01:00:00] Where to go to get in contact with Anthony [01:01:03] Be nice to the people you meet on the way up, because they’re the same people you met on the way down [01:02:00] Know when and where to burn bridges [01:02:39] Integrity, Courage, Honor [ 01:04:18] The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People [01:04:50] People Mentioned Anthony Amos ********************* To go deeper on the insights shared on this episode of I Love Marketing, access your FREE COPY of the Breakthrough Report, sharing 8 secrets to profit activation. Genius Network is the place high level entrepreneurs go for collaboration, contribution, and connections not available anywhere else. Members get strategies for exponential growth and opportunities for deal making, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and more. Membership is by application only. Click here to learn more. You can also learn more about the Genius Network Annual Event here – which is the one time per year the group is opened to non-members. ********************* About Anthony Amos: Anthony Amos is the creator of the multi-million dollar Australian franchise Hydrodog. Hydrodog grew to the largest franchise of its kind in the world and Anthony, at the age of 28, became one of Australia’s youngest millionaires. Anthony’s business acumen and engaging personality have made him a desired speaker and author. He is a multi-founding franchisor, partnership expert, creator/inventor and angel investor. ********************* About Joe Polish: Joe fell in love with Marketing when he realized as a 4 year old sitting on the counter of his father’s locksmith shop that if he smiled nicely… people would give him TIPS. He parlayed that into his famous “I’m trying to win a trip to Disneyland” Newspaper subscription sales method… and evolved THAT into the name-dropping, self-aggrandizing, super-generous style we all LOVE about Joe. About Dean Jackson: Dean fell in love with Marketing as a young boy when he first realized that selling stuff on commission was way easier than renting himself out by the hour for a regular job… and I’ve never looked back. I’ve carried that distaste for real work into my adult life and have focused on a lifestyle centered approach to business using marketing as the ultimate lever to a life of freedom and fun.
It's episode 10 and I sit down with father of three, real estate investor and entrepreneur, Mark Pike! Questions I ask: What are two books that have dramatically influenced you as an entrepreneur? What words of wisdom would you offer a new entrepreneur? How do you define success? What's the greatest piece of advice you've ever been given? Do you have any daily habits that contribute to your success? Other resources mentioned: Think and Grow Rich Book Rich Dad, Poor Dad Book Awaken The Giant Within SleepCycle App