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She is indeed a book whisperer and a great storyteller. Our guest this time is Bridget Cook-Birch. Bridget grew up, as she says, being a tom boy. However, she also had an insatiable appetite for reading as much as she could even from an early age. She will tell us about her growing up years and So I will leave that for her.   She had a near death experience that showed her that she had a greater purpose in life than she thought. She found it when she began to write. To date she has written several bestselling books and she has helped others to successfully create and tell their stories. Bridget is firmly convinced that stories of all kinds are an extremely part of all our lives and that we should tell them.   We get to learn much about today's publishing industry and how we can each begin our own story-telling journey. I am sure you will leave this episode and possibly be more ready to tell your own story. If you are, by the way, I would love you to reach out to me at michaelhi@accessibe.com to arrange a time for us to discuss you coming on Unstoppable Mindset. Enjoy this episode with Bridget.       About the Guest:   Bridget Cook-Burch's clients call her “The Book Whisperer”. She is a New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, mentor, trainer, mamma-bear humanitarian, and speaker known for riveting stories of transformation. Her powerful work has been showcased on Oprah, Dateline, CNN, GMA, The History Channel, NPR and in People among many others. She is the CEO and Founder of YourInspiredStory.com and Inspired Legacy Publishing. Bridget is also a co-founder and former executive director of SHEROES United, a non-profit organization that helps women and girls rise from trauma. As a leader, storyteller, trainer and humanitarian, her greatest passion is helping others to discover the importance of their own story, and to become leaders in their own communities, and worldwide. Bridget's many national bestsellers include Divine Turbulence; The Witness Wore Red; Shattered Silence; Skinhead Confessions; Leading Women; and also Living Proof.   Bridget invites you to believe in the power of your story to change the world. Join her writers' retreats and leadership retreats in Utah, Italy, Ireland and more.  Find out more at www.YourInspiredStory.com and www.SHEROESUnited.org.   Ways to connect with Bridget:   Linkedin:  Bridget Cook-Burch “The Book Whisperer” - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbridgetcookburch/   Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/bridgetcookburch   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bridgetcookburch   YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@inspiredlegacypublishing       About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hi once again, wherever you happen to be, I want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset. Today we get to visit with someone who is known as the book whisperer. How about that? Bridget Cook-Birch writes a lot of stories. She writes a lot of books. She is a storyteller, and I love that about Bridget because I believe that everyone in the world has stories to tell that they can tell, and if they don't necessarily know how to tell the stories themselves, they should seek people who can help them bring the stories out into the open for people to hear however they want to do that. But I think we should never be afraid of telling our stories whatever they happen to be. So this is going to be, needless to say, a fun podcast episode to do, because stories really is what it's all about. So with that Bridget Welcome to unstoppable mindset, we're really glad you're here.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 02:18 Thank you, Michael. I'm so honored to be here, and I cannot wait, because I know we're going to have so much fun. And I've, as   Michael Hingson ** 02:24 I've told a number of people, the only hard and fast rule on this podcast, and it's what I've really only made up in the last few months, but it is, we both have to have fun, or there's no sense doing it so. And the other part of that, I suppose, is that listeners have to have fun too, so we'll work on that. We need to make it fun for them and and that's as good as it gets. Well, let's start a little bit by maybe you telling us kind of the story about the early Bridget, growing up and all that.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 02:52 The early Bridget, oh, that's scary.   Michael Hingson ** 02:55 Early Bridget,   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 02:58 well, the early Bridget was adopted by two extraordinary beings, Dick and Pat whirling, who were just amazing folks. But I did have three sets of parents by the time I was six months old, and I didn't know that. Unconsciously there, there were a lot of belief systems like, oh, I can't really trust because the big people will always leave. And so I was pretty firely independent, but they were very patient with me, and I had some amazing siblings, and I read books like crazy. So I was one of those nerds that was a tomboy whenever I was outside. So I play football and climb trees and mountains and, you know, play with rattlesnakes and all the fun stuff. And then when I would go home, I would read every book I could get my hands on, read out the school library, read out the bookmobile, and my mom would let me go downtown to read out the public library. So I read a lot, and I read a lot of things that many people didn't read until they were college age, but they were important to me, and I was profoundly affected by some of those early stories, like the Diary of Anne Frank and Uncle Tom's Cabin and To Kill a Mockingbird. And I think deep down, it inspired within me to do storytelling that could change the world. So   Michael Hingson ** 04:31 now you got me curious. Tell me about playing with a rattlesnake.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 04:36 Well, we lived up against the Rocky Mountains, and we were kind of in a deserted area. And where was this? What's that?   Michael Hingson ** 04:46 Where were you?   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 04:47 I was in Brigham City, Utah, in Utah. Okay, great. All places. My folks had adopted me from, Laramie, Wyoming. And yeah, my folks were from Detroit originally, and they. Came out so my dad, who was an engineer, could work on the Minutemen missile. And, yeah, so he was a, he was a cowboy in in always, except he wasn't from here. Yep, he wore the cowboy boots and a belt buckle the size of Texas and a 10 gallon hat. And loved to take us on historical, you know, sites all around the West. So   Michael Hingson ** 05:26 So playing with rattlesnakes, playing with rattlesnakes.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 05:28 Yep, we we used to climb up into the mountains behind our house, and they were full of rattlesnakes. When I was little, I didn't understand that the baby rattlesnakes were actually more poisonous. I just thought they were kind of cute. So I would do a little playing around with them, until I found out that that that was not the smartest thing.   Michael Hingson ** 05:53 Did you ever get bit by one?   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 05:54 You know what? I never did. I think it's because I have a lot of affination for nature. I had a lot of peace when I was out in nature, and it seems like I never got bit or scratched or anything else. So I was very blessed. We will tell you that, because there is no way that a ambulance would have made it up the mountain, and the baby rattlers are actually more poisonous than the adults, so   Michael Hingson ** 06:23 they're more prone to strike because they don't really have, or at least they haven't yet developed some of the things that they will learn later. But yeah, that is true. My brother in law, so my what my late wife and her family grew up in Fontana and Rialto in California, also sort of on the the lower desert, but lots of things around. And one day, my brother in law, Gary, came into the house holding a black widow spider, and was showing off to everybody. And of course, everyone was just freaked out. And so he then took it outside and let it go, but still, he carried this black widow spider into the house fearlessly. Wow, that   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 07:13 I was not as fearless of spiders. I could handle snakes quite a bit, but no spiders. I would just run screaming from spiders.   Michael Hingson ** 07:22 I have occasionally been in a position where I ended up sitting very close to spiders and didn't know it, but, but nevertheless, I and black widows, among other things, when I was growing up on the desert in Palmdale, that's sort of the high desert, and we had a lot of critters. Of course, my favorites were tortoises, and we had several tortoises come up to our house, and if you decided to live with us for a little while, which is fun. Now we don't see tortoises anymore, unfortunately.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 07:51 Oh, that's too bad, but I do know that they don't bite poisonously, but you still have to watch for them biting you. Well, tortoises, tortoises,   Michael Hingson ** 08:01 you know, there's tortoises and terrapins, which are sometimes called snapping turtles, but tortoises generally won't if you're friendly and and don't do anything that you you shouldn't do to an animal or anyone else. One of the things that I did was fed them lettuce and rose petals and occasionally cantaloupe. And even when they weren't eating, if I would put my hand down in front of a tortoises nose and then slide my finger under the nose, they would stick their head out of the shell to get their neck scratched. They loved it. Oh, yeah, tortoises can be very friendly. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, they're they were fun. And we, we had them a fair amount. And then after growing up and living on the East Coast and coming back to California, we we didn't really have so much with tortoises, it's unfortunate. They're more endangered, I think, than they were, but really enjoy them, which was a lot of fun.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 09:00 Yeah, there's a lot of things that our kids don't have as easy access to, in terms of animals and nature that we once did. Yeah, I hope that shifts. I hope that changes   Michael Hingson ** 09:12 I do too. I think we also need to learn not to be afraid of so many things. I mean, I would say you'd be cautious around rattlesnakes, but I think fear is one of the biggest problems that we face, because animals can sense when you're afraid, like people say, if you're caught out somewhere with a bear or with a wolf or or even dogs that tend to Be aggressive, they're going to be more. So if you're showing fear,   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 09:45 I'll tell you what. I had a situation up in mountain green. I was a single mom, and I had my sweet husband. Now I was dating. We had so much snow that our dog. Were walking out of this the fence, and so he put up like a little compound, and so that they couldn't walk walk out, and a wolf jumped over the fence to get to the dog food, but then couldn't jump back out. And I, you know, and I had kids, and I have Mama Bear instinct when it comes to kids, to my dog, so I ended up having to open every door in the house that led outside to the other and and then finally opened the sliding glass door so the wolf could go all the way through my house and up through and and escape, but that was a pretty harrowing experience. But you said we have to be careful about fear, because they do sense that. And you know that because of all you know your your dogs, and I'm sure that you've had pretty intense connections with certain animals   Michael Hingson ** 10:57 well, and I value that a great deal. And in fact, later this year, we're publishing a new book called Live like a guide dog, true stories from a blind man and his dogs about being brave, overcoming adversity and walking in faith. And the idea is that I use lessons that I've learned directly from all of my dogs on my wife's service dog, Fantasia, to deal with fear. And I'm it's the first time I've really started to work to try to teach people that they don't need to be, as I call it, blinded by fear or paralyzed by fear, that you can use fear as a very powerful tool to help you and that you can use it to help you focus. It isn't to say don't be afraid, but it is a question of how you're afraid and what you do with it. So yeah, I'd be really concerned about a loose wolf or cat in my yard, but I think that the thing to do is to figure out how to deal with it and and try to be peaceful with it. And mostly you can do that unless there's some disease around that, like rabies, that you don't and they don't have any control over and having gotten but mostly, I think we really can learn to be a lot more focused and use fear as a very powerful supportive tool than not. So it is, is something that will be out later this year. It's going to be out in August, and I'm looking forward to it. People have seen links to it. We've already tindalled. The publisher has already put out some pre order links and so on, and people are saying very kind things about it with so I hope it'll be as successful as thunder dog was back in 2011 which was my   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 12:38 first question to say, I can't wait to read this one, because I really enjoyed thunder dog. I enjoyed the storytelling. I enjoyed the teaching that you did with it. Some of those stories, though were were really something in the stairwell, but also when you were out of the building, and you did use fear in a in a smart way and saved people's lives like that was incredible. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 13:05 thank you. And I think that that's really what's important. And I realized when the pandemic occurred that I've been talking about not being afraid for song, but never really worked to try to help people learn how to control fear. So that's what it's about helping people. I'm and really enjoying being able to have the opportunity to get people to understand we're all better than we think we are.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 13:32 I would agree with that 1,000%   Michael Hingson ** 13:36 so you want you went off? Did you go to college? I did,   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 13:41 I started off at University of Utah, and then I ended up at Utah State, little more smaller school that I liked better for just a few different reasons, but especially because I could just be immersed in nature, like the canyon was right there in my backyard, and I spent a lot of time up in the canyon. And so I went to, I've got a BS and a BA. I took political science and Russian language and all different, all different aspects. I got a couple different minors as as well as a couple majors and and loved it. Nothing in English, nothing on writing. So it all had to do, really, with with human relations and international relations. So it was one of those things that I thought I would do, until I began writing, and now I incorporate all of it.   Michael Hingson ** 14:34 So what did you do after college?   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 14:37 Well, I got married, and that's   Michael Hingson ** 14:41 a full time job. Yes,   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 14:43 while I was while I was in college, I had a pretty intense near death experience that solidified my faith in God in a really remarkable way. But it also I've, I've talked to a lot of people who've had near. Experiences and shared death experiences, and it seems like you you often come back with a gift, and the gift that I came back with was to be able to see people's stories in an extraordinary way. And I can almost like they'll be telling me a story, and I can see the threads of it and how that could be used for a speech, or how it could be written into a book, and how it could be, you know, even more compelling in the way that it's told. And and so I was, I was able to see that, and after college, I was able to start writing and working on some of these stories. So it really turned out to be a boon and a blessing for me.   Michael Hingson ** 15:44 If you want to, can you tell us a little bit about what happened with your near death experience?   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 15:50 Yeah, there was a time I was afraid to talk about it because it was so sacred, yeah, but I was also worried that, you know, people might think I was crazy. I hadn't in the beginning. When it first happened, I was in my early 20s. I was working three jobs and going to school and overworking. I got very, very ill and ended up in in the hospital and listening to a couple nurses outside in the corridor saying, this girl's not going to make it until morning. And Michael, I don't know how you felt in the tower, except from what you wrote in the book, but the one thing I knew was that I had not fulfilled the measure of my creation, and I had no idea what that was. I was pretty clueless for a college student, had big dreams, but I didn't know what the fulfillment of my my creation was, but I just knew I hadn't done it yet, and I was so sad that I wasn't going to have that opportunity. And you know, I had what I would call intercessory prayers, my mother really praying to save my life. And I had other people that were praying and and I had a I had actually two figures that filled my room, one I know is an angel, and then one that for me was definitely Jesus Christ, my Creator, and he told me that I was being given a second chance at life, and I didn't take any of it for granted and and the for the first time in days, I fell into a real deep sleep. My fever came down, and when the nurse came in, she's giving me more intravenous antibiotics because I've been so sick. And I told her, I just had this knowledge, like I said, you can give me every single one of these antibiotics, but not this one. It's killing me. And she thought I was a fruitcake, you know, she's like, this is the only thing saving your life. We thought you were going to be gone. And I'm like, No, I can have every one of these, but not this one. And fortunately, I had a doctor who had patients who'd had other experiences, and he listened and he says, well, we might as well take her off this one. She's on the rest of these. And because of that, I was able to walk out of the hospital in the next 24 hours under my own power. So   Michael Hingson ** 18:25 did they ever decide that you were allergic to it, or explanation   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 18:30 deeply allergic to one of those intravenous antibiotics? The moment they took me off, I started doing better. Wow. So it was pretty crazy.   Michael Hingson ** 18:41 Yeah. Well, you know my experience from Thunder dog, where I heard God's voice in in chapter 10 of thunder dog, and that was as real as it could get. And it's one of the things that led me to believe that when one door closes, a window opens, as Alexander Graham Bell once said, and the whole point is that there are things to do, and I didn't even worry about trying to figure out what they were what I needed to do was to look at opportunities as they came along and Do something with them. Of course, the next day after September 11, so on the 12th, Karen, my wife, said, You want to really call Guide Dogs for the Blind and tell them what happened, because several of them had visited us in the World Trade Center. So I did, and that led to the Director of Public Information wanting to do a story. And also she said, you're going to get visible on TV, I bet, where do you want to be first? And I wasn't thinking so. I just said, Larry King Live. And on the 14th of September, we had the first of five interviews on Larry King Live. And you know, the issue is that, again, that led to people starting to call and. And saying, We really would like you to come on and speak to us and talk to us and tell us what we should learn about September 11 and such things. And so I decided to start doing that. And I realized if I could tell people about what happened and teach them how to move forward from September 11, if I could teach people more about blindness and what guide dogs are all about and such than it was worth doing. And that's exactly what I did, and I've been doing it ever since. And then the pandemic came, and some things changed, but we continue to move on. And now I'm actually starting to ramp up speaking again, and looking for more speaking engagements to to help with the the income process, because not ready to retire yet, and don't have the money to retire yet. So anybody who needs a speaker out there, I'd love to talk with you about it. But you know, the the issue is that God gives us the opportunities, and that's really important to deal with. So anyway, I think we really do need to look at opportunities that come. And I really appreciate you talking about what you experienced, because it certainly told you that there's more to do. And I think that for all of us, there's a lot more that we can do, if we would but listen and and ponder and think about and look at what's happening in our lives to be able to move forward.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 21:36 I would agree with that 1,000% and hopefully it doesn't have to take a Mack truck or a near death experience for us to recognize like, what a gift life really is and what a gift our story is, and how we can serve and support and lift one another.   Michael Hingson ** 21:55 Yeah, absolutely. And I think it's really important that we do focus on the stories and so well, tell me a little bit more about you and stories. You you believe that words can change the world and that we all should be telling stories. Talk more about that, and also just about the whole idea of when we're talking about stories. Do we really want to talk about the stories that limit us, and do we focus on those, or the stories of possibilities, or does it really even matter?   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 22:30 Oh, I'll tell you what it does matter. I've seen it over and over again, but I'll tell you a little history of how I discovered that. Uh, so after my near death experience, my husband and I moved to Denver, Colorado, and I had the opportunity to work as a PR consultant for a company called community learning centers, and I got to interview high risk kids, gang youth and others, but especially the ones who had turned their life around. And I was listening to stories that so different from how I had grown up that I was fascinated, but I also saw how the stories that we tell ourselves are the most important stories, and I began to see incredible patterns from that, and from that, I thought I would write a fictional book, like a story of forgiveness and redemption, and was even writing this book and and then I had a dream about this book, but it was different than what I had been writing. And in my dream, the book was about, you know, a gang, gang member who had left his gang had a huge price tag on his head, and in the dream, it was a skinhead. And I didn't know anything about skinheads, because the the kids I worked with in Denver were Bloods and Crips and we stra Familia and several others, but not any white supremacists. I had to do all kinds of research and discover their ideology. And then, you know, it was fascinating. Michael was to to have this dream and have to do this research find out more. And then I come across this guy's website, and he was looking for someone to write his life story that I had been writing from this dream. So to make a long story short, I recognized something guided and divine about stories, at least in terms of of where I was finding them, because they continued to find me. And a woman read his book and and she reached out to me, and she said, You know, I think if someone could take a story of darkness and create something of hope and healing, it would be you. And then she told me that she was the. Happy Face serial killer's daughter and asked if I would write her story. And I gotta tell you what. You know, it was difficult enough for me to write the skinhead story, but I learned and grew so much so I wasn't afraid of the story. I just didn't know how I was going to write something of hope and healing about a serial killer's daughter and and then I interviewed her, and I also received a lot of just inspirational downloads on how to write the book and, and I will tell you, because we chose to be of service. And I think this is really important for anybody who's choosing to write a book, is who are you writing to and how do you want to reach them, because when you choose to write a book to be of service, especially in non fiction. You know, in fiction, there's all different reasons to write education and entertainment, but in non fiction, we have, we have different levels that we can go to and and we chose to be of service. And I think because of that, that book did extraordinary things, and continues to it was on Oprah and Dr Phil and CNN and Good Morning America, and it still remains in the top true crime. And it's transformational true crime, because it was not only the victim story, but the rise of Melissa from victim to Victor. Now she's a producer in LA she's been doing tremendous things. I'm her biggest fan, except for her family and and I gotta tell you just that writing that book and seeing what could happen with a story that could change the world, it changed me and and it made me more open to seeing how one person could change the world. And I got to write my next story was of a woman who was the 19th wife of 65 women right here in our country, and she got married to the Prophet of the FLDS Church, which was an extreme organization, and and they were trafficking children in the name of God. And there were a lot of good and innocent people in that group, and then there were nefarious leaders. But I saw the power of this one woman, Rebecca Musser, to help dismantle an organized crime unit in the name of God, and she put Warren Jeffs behind bars for life plus 20 years. And it wasn't all her. There was a huge team. And there was these amazing you know, like attorneys and Texas Rangers and AGs office members, you know, down in Texas, and they all work together along with other witnesses. But she was a primary player. And what was really cool about that, Michael, I'll tell you, is, is Warren Jeffs had outlawed the color red because that was supposed to be the color that Christ would wear when he came again. And so none of his people were allowed to have red cars or red toys or red clothing. And every time that Rebecca testified more than 20 times in a court of law, she came Sasha and in and in some sort of red which I loved, because it was her way of telling this, this man who said he would break her, that she you know, that he did not break her and and it was really lovely. But the last time she went to testify, she had to face Warren Jeffs on her own because he had fired his attorneys. And I know that she was petrified on the inside, but she she comes into court, and she's wearing this beautiful red suit, and she turns around to be sworn in at the end, sees the galley, and I'll never forget, because I was sitting in the galley watching her, and the whole galley was filled with with red red ties on the Texas Rangers and red flowers and women's hair and, you know, red dresses. And I, I witnessed firsthand the power of one woman to change the world again. And ever since then, I've just been recognizing more and more things about story, and I've written some really incredible books since then. But I wanted to share a quote with you, because you asked about, you know, the stories that we tell ourselves, and another author that I love. He was a professor, Harold Goddard, and he said the destiny of the world is determined less by the battles lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in. And my question to the world is, so are you? Are you going to let. Those stories that you love and believe in be stories of limitation or of possibility. And I've been able to see what happens when someone says, All right, I'm gonna begin to tell myself stories of possibility.   Michael Hingson ** 30:17 How true and so eloquently said. And the the issue is that we we limit ourselves. I've told people on this podcast a number of times that I used to always say to myself, I'm my own worst critic when I'm thinking about things. And I realized over the last year, wrong thing to say. We need to get out of the negative mindset so much in most everything that we do, and I now say I'm my own best teacher, because in reality, I'm the only one who can teach me things, people can offer and give information, but I'm my own best teacher, and I should approach everything that way. And I think more of us should really approach life from a learning and an adventure standpoint, because life really is an adventure, and it's there to give us the opportunity to learn. If we but we'll do it,   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 31:10 I would agree 1,000% it is an adventure, and I think, I think a lot of us will stay in this just just barely getting by, you know, scraping by, whether it's physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, financially, that we hold ourselves in in a box and we're afraid to venture out in the last few years like I love that you realize that people needed a way to overcome fear and really be able to face it and lean into it. And the last several years in our country, we've we've just been facing some things that have made fear come straight up in our face. I think there's a reason for that. I think all things happen for a reason, and it's time for humanity to be able to move beyond fear and to use it as a tool, as you mentioned, but but also as a stepping stone to so many greater things, including, you know, not not having to tear one another down. We've, we've been very territorial, and some of that is, you know, 1000s of years in our DNA of creating an us versus them so we can protect ourselves. And, you know, we've, we've held a lot of judgment for others, but there's this unique and beautiful thing that happens when we let down our walls. And yeah, we still need to discern. We need to, you know, if somebody tells us who they are, we need to believe them. But I also think there's so much good in people, and if we can begin to lift one another up, all the boats rise together, that humanity has some really exciting things in store.   Michael Hingson ** 32:57 We have been experiencing in so many ways from some of our political leaders, and I sort of put leaders in quotation marks, but we've been seeing so much fear. And the other thing is that a lot of people say, Well, I trust what this guy says. I trust what that guy says. And my response is, why do you trust them? Well, because he talks to me, he says what I want to hear again, whoever it is that they're talking about, and my response is, and where it gets back to the whole issue of fear is, how much of it do you verify? And it doesn't matter what political side you're on, how much of it do you really think about and analyze and really look at what one person or everyone is saying right now, I'm in California. We have the the one of the Senate races going on, and there are two major Democrats running, and one is Adam Schiff, who was involved in, of course, the whole issue of the investigation of January 6. And the other one is a woman named Katie Porter. And Adam Schiff's commercials oftentimes talk about, well, they play segments of speeches, and they do other things, and they talk about his accomplishments. And Katie Porter talks about, she doesn't take political PAC money, or federal or large corporate PAC money and other things like that. And when I heard a few of the commercials on both sides, I step back and I say, what is this person really done? Why do I want to vote for this person just because they don't take PAC money or what have they accomplished? What have they done to show me that they're truly going to be able to make our world better than than it is? And I think that it's my obligation as a voter to really look at that. And again, it doesn't matter whether it is in the Democratic side or the Republicans. Side, we really have to analyze, and if we do that, we won't be nearly as fearful of so many things as we are today.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 35:08 I would agree with that. I'm I love what you have to say about that, because a lot of things have to do with tearing one another down, or, like you said, the fear based. But you know, what is someone's track record in building something, in creating something. So that's a very good point. Michael,   Michael Hingson ** 35:29 well, I think that we we really need to look at more than just listening to words. It's our job to to think about, to synthesize, to internalize and come up with answers based on everything, rather than relying on what some people say. I love all these conspiracy theorists all over the place are are so amazing. And you know, I don't know what to say, other than prove it, and   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 36:03 right know is that they know how to use the power of story. They just happen to be using it to tear people down. And if we're not careful, we can get sucked into a rabbit hole. And I love what you said, like more than words. What are they doing? But also, I think it's important for us to do our own research, not believe something just because everybody else says it. In fact, Michael, I had a funny experience last, last year, the year before, when some of these conspiracy theories were really hitting some high points. And there was a lot going on in terms of of human trafficking and and some of these world power theories on that. And, you know, we found out some of these were true in terms of of, you know, some high profile celebrities that got in trouble, when, when some things were going down. But was interesting because I I found out that I was on a hit list that was going out to many people that were going down these rabbit holes of conspiracy theories. And I was grateful that they were trying to do the work, but they accidentally put me on the other sheet, like, here's the enemies that we're going to go after, and then here are those people that actually will do the journalism and the research, and they'll help to bring it down. And I was supposed to be on the journalism and research and writing books that will help to bring you, know, bring down some of these monolithic crime units, and I ended up being accidentally put on the other list. And luckily, a friend of mine said, whoa, whoa, wait a minute before they publish the list. And she says she's actually see supposed to be on the on the other list. But I thought how quickly my reputation could have been ruined a split second, and that that is happening all across the United States, all across the world, and so that's why we have to stand for our own stories, because sometimes we're going to be put on the wrong list, or someone's going to hate something that we have to say. But But I also think it's, it's really important for us to take a stand for something. You know, we're really good at taking stands against things. But what are we what are we good at taking a stand for?   Michael Hingson ** 38:35 Yeah, so tell me, what do you think the deepest need is that humans have, and what do stories have to do with it?   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 38:44 I honestly deep question. It is a deep question, but it's cool, because I get to see it every day. So I'm glad that you asked that the deepest need that I see humans need is for significance. They need to know that they're here for a reason, that they're wanted, that they're needed, that they're seen and heard and valued by someone, and stories can go such a long way in doing this has to start inside of us, because whatever stories we're telling ourselves, we write the script for other people to treat us that way. I see that over and over as well. But then there's also, how do I present myself and my stories out in the world. Doesn't mean that everybody has to write a book or be a best selling author, but every day, we tell stories. We tell stories to ourselves. We tell stories to our spouses. We tell stories to our bosses and the people that are in our chain of command, or our associates. We tell stories to the the grocery clerk, and and and stories are really remarkable in their power. We were just talking about conspiracy theories, and I think we're seeing some huge things happening the last couple years in Russia too, how Russia was able, just like we've seen in the last several World Wars and other altercations, where propaganda could sway an entire nation to go up against their neighbor, who a lot of them were family members, and to believe lies about that neighboring nation. And so stories are relevant. They are important. Ever since we were around the campfire, you know, as early education of humans took place in the storytelling. At that point, we learned our roles, our responsibilities, what was possible, what we believed was impossible. And the beautiful thing is that we continue to show that we're way beyond what we once thought was impossible, and now the question is, is you know, what are we going to do with it? But stories are vital to humankind,   Michael Hingson ** 41:13 and we should appreciate them and love them and and use them to allow us to teach ourselves more things. You know, you talked earlier about fiction isn't so much about service. And I'm not totally sure I would say that. I think that the Yeah, fiction is intended to entertain. So a lot of non fiction, but, but the issue is, I think of books like the Harry Potter series, which really are so inspirational and offer so many lessons that all of us can use. And the reality is, some people say, Well, yeah, it's fiction. Well, really, so what? How many times do we hear about people who have done so many things that no one thought they or anyone can do. And one of my favorite stories is, of course, it was said for many years that no one could break the four minute mile. You would die before you could make the break the four minute mile, until Roger Banister did it in what 1956 I think it was, or 57 and then everybody started to do it, but people said that he would die before he would be able to do that, and it was a medical impossibility. But the reality is, he believed that he could, and he did,   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 42:33 I agree and and how beautiful that, that all of a sudden, he broke that entire barrier of beliefs for people. And I love that you mentioned Harry Potter. I love JK Rowling. I do too. I love what she's created. And she's done what a lot of people considered impossible, you know, a single mom with a little baby and that she had to care for, and she's riding on cocktail napkins, you know, on the train rides and and doing things. And she did something so extraordinary and reinvigorated an entire world, children and adults to want to read again. And how, how beautiful that is. And you're right, there's, there's so many lessons and other things and she does more than entertain, and I would agree with that. I also just want to share too that, you know, our world has changed quite a bit, and in which the literature for young people doesn't include as many of those profound elements of lessons and morals and friendships, and what do we do? There's a lot of darker elements to our entertainment for young people. And the one thing that I would caution in that is I can't tell you how many people you know who I've helped with their stories and write their books and other things, and they were heavily influenced by the media of that time, in that day. And so, you know, it's one of those things where I still think it's important for writers to be able to influence young people towards believing in themselves, believing in possibilities, and to believe that light can be greater than the darkness. I think we all need that right now.   Michael Hingson ** 44:28 I love Stephen King. I think he's a very creative writer, but I don't like to read nearly as much of the dark stuff as I used to. But I also think that he, like so many people, demonstrates a lot of creativity, especially in some of his earlier books, in a lot of different ways. And so I can appreciate that. And I think that any good author is one that you have to look just beyond the words to. What's going on in the story, what kind of creative things that that they bring to it. And he clearly is a good storyteller.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 45:08 He's extremely talented. Yeah, he's jealous as I am, but charts talented, that's for sure, jealous   Michael Hingson ** 45:15 as I am. And, you know? And then there are others. Go to the Western Louis L'Amour and Zane gray. Now, Zane Gray, of course, long time ago, but one of the neat things about Zane Gray was, and is, with his stories, he's so descriptive, he draws you in and makes you feel like you're in the country he's writing about, and he talks so much about the land in the country that he he makes you feel you're there, which is so cool.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 45:46 Oh, that's neat. I you know what? I've not read a lot of Zane Gray. I think only one or two of his back in the day, but I read a lot of Louis L'Amour Yeah. Also add Zane gray to my readers list.   Michael Hingson ** 45:58 I keep looking every so often, in case I find that there's a little and more book I haven't read because I really enjoy his writing. And yeah, a lot of them are all the same sort of basic plot, but, and it's the but, it's the difference, and his stories are all so good,   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 46:14 yeah. And it's interesting about Zayn gray too, finding out that he was a dentist, and always wonder like when he was working in people's mouths, was he, was he crafting plots and storylines, and, you know, other things, I think, and   Michael Hingson ** 46:29 telling stories? Yeah, now you mentioned once that Warren Buffett has an interesting quote that you think is extremely valuable. What is that?   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 46:38 Well, Warren Buffett, as as most people know, has been this incredibly influential business leader.   Michael Hingson ** 46:47 Talk about being a bright and creative guy, a bright and creative guy who's   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 46:51 who's worth so much more than any of us can not any of us, but many of us can conceptualize. And one of the things he's famous for teaching is, you know, if you want to be worth several times more in your lifetime, learn how to express yourself on paper and in person. So he truly believed in the power of story, and I think we've seen that through some of the smartest CEOs of our generation have been the creative storytellers, you know, the ones who who recognize the power of story, and then we're able to put that together. Apple is one of those, those fabulous examples of, you know, when they would fail and then when they could succeed spectacularly is when the storytelling got as good as the technology. The storytelling beam even better than the technology for that particular year, but they've been able to shine because of it.   Michael Hingson ** 47:57 Well, when Steve Jobs really started expressing his vision and talking about what a piece of technology should do and could do, and motivated people to then make it happen. That's so important, I think in an organization,   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 48:15 I think so too. I think so too. And I think we're going to be seeing more and more of that, and sometimes we see when, when some of these leaders fail, you know, they they tell too big of a story, and they can't manage the expectations, or they fall flat in the storytelling, or they hurt someone in the storytelling, which actually ends up not doing them good in the long run, but I think what's important is, can you be inspiring? Can you motivate? And can you be your word when you're when you're choosing to use those stories for for a greater good?   Michael Hingson ** 48:55 Another thing that's coming up, and I was going to call it the elephant in the room, but that's not fair to it. It's not fair to do that. But what about the whole issue of AI and chat, GPT and so on? Where do you see that that fits into the world today and going forward?   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 49:11 Well, that's a fascinating question. And you know, who asked me this the most are some of the young people when I'm on their podcast and I sound so old, like a grandma, and I am Grandma, you know, I'm a Mimi but, but the but these young podcasters, they want to know too, like, hey, you've been around the block. What do you think about AI? And I'm going to tell you something. There's some people who are completely against it, and they feel like we're going to hell in a hand basket really quickly because of AI and and then there are those who are saying, Hey, this is the end all, be all. And, you know, we shouldn't, and couldn't be doing anything without it. And I'm going to tell you, I'm I'm in the middle. I'm going to tell you why. Um, the reason I think that there is merit to AI is that there's certain things that it's going to do so much more quickly for us. It's going to help us with ideas, and in terms of writing, it's going to help us edit more quickly so we can communicate better. Where we run into trouble is if we're asking AI to be our brain, to be our creativity, to be our thinker. And sometimes people get really nervous about that, because they think kids will use AI and that they won't think on their own. But I will tell you this, the kids I've been seeing, even the young ones with AI, it sparks their imagination greater. They're asking smarter questions. They're wanting to see more. They're coming alive with a fire of creativity. They're not relegated to, oh, you couldn't spell a word to save your life. Well, this will spell the word for me, but I want to tell this story, and I want the graphics to look this way, and I want to create a movie and and it it enables the human imagination to take off. All I would say is, don't let it be your brain.   Michael Hingson ** 51:13 I had the honor to talk with someone a couple weeks ago, a gentleman named Glenn Gao, who's a e business coach and supports AI a great deal. He would agree with you and and me, by the way, I believe the same. One of the things that that he said was that he went to a company who wanted his coaching, and they talked about AI, and one day the CEO called his major people together and said, Take the day and study AI and then come back to my I think it was, the next day, and tell us how we should incorporate AI in one way or another, chat, GPT or whatever, into our business. And the creative, incredible ideas that people came back with the next day totally astounded the CEO, and they put things in place, and it improved the company a great deal, because the idea still is it shouldn't be the job of artificial intelligence, I think, no matter how advanced it gets, to be the end all and be all, as you said, it is Still something where I think there's a component of us that we're not going to be able to to create in the near future. Dr Ray Kurzweil would say, We'll join the human brain with with a computer, and that will change all that. I'm not convinced of that. And I know Ray, I used to work for him. I think that the reality is that artificial intelligence is a tool, and I think in the classroom, if teachers embrace it correctly, what they will do, if they think that students are starting to really use it to create their papers is teachers will get more creative and say, Okay, class, everyone's turned in their papers. Now I'm going to call on each of you, and you have a minute and a half to defend your paper in front of the whole class. I mean, there are ways to deal with it, to make sure that the students are really still doing what they should do. And I've used chat GPT to help compose some things that I've worked on. And for me, I get all that I can, I think, from the artificial intelligence system, and then I turn it into my own work by by changing things, adding things that AI didn't catch and I know making a much better article because I started using something else to help me, and I just view it as a collaborative effort, a team, and AI as part of the team.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 53:53 And sometimes it can provide a really valuable framework for the imagination to take fire. So I, yeah, I'm with you on that. I think that there's a lot of beautiful things that can be used for   Michael Hingson ** 54:08 and I think over time, we'll realize that it's, it's such a big hot issue right now, but, you know, the internet was a big hot issue, and we still have the dark web today, and it's it's there with us, but people, by and large, have now accepted the value of the internet and what it can bring I have always believed it's a wonderful treasure trove of information, so I have a lot of fun exploring the internet. Haven't ever been to the dark web. Don't know where it is, and if I ever found it and I discovered it wasn't accessible, I'd see who I could go off and sue because they didn't make it accessible, but that's another story. That's my conspiracy for the day.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 54:47 That's your conspiracy for the day. I've hired private detectives to go on the dark web to research situations for safety for my authors. But that's as far as I've gone.   Michael Hingson ** 54:58 I have. No idea how to get to the dark web or, you know, I mean, I can conceptually, intellectually understand the process, but would have no idea where to go to find it. So I have to, you'll have to tell me when we're done here. I've always been curious, but I hear what you're saying. And the reality is that the internet and AI are two tools that can enhance what we do so much, and I think people will eventually recognize that and will become better for it.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 55:34 I think so too, and again, I just think we have to have faith in each other in humankind and in our own imagination. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 55:45 we just have to work on it, and we have to recognize and think it through and then take action. And we can learn to do that very well. I love to tell people, the best thing I think anyone could do is to take time at the end of the day and while you're falling asleep, think about what happened that day. Think about what worked, what didn't work, and even what worked, what could you do better with it? I never talk about failure, so the things that didn't work aren't failures. It's a learning experience, and we grow from it. And I think we can do that, but I think that it's what we have to do to become better than we are, and we can do that every single day, which is, for me, such a cool idea, and what I like to do. Well, what are some of the problems that you think exists in the world today that we as individuals can change?   56:34 How's that for a general   Michael Hingson ** 56:36 question, for you question,   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 56:37 Michael, Well, honestly, it's, it's pretty crazy. It's pretty wonderful. I I remember sometimes that I have felt helpless in the world when something has happened, particularly like in terms of of humankind, right? Sometimes there was a crime committed, and I felt helpless. Sometimes there was like a school shooting, and I felt helpless, a world disaster, and I felt helpless and I wanted to serve and do something in some capacity, and then I get asked to write a story, or I get asked to help an author, and it's just like God brings me a story to show for one thing for me to let down my judgments and and to see that there are so many solutions out there. So one of the things I'll I'll just say, is that you at talk about conspiracy theories, there is an author that I'm working with who has this tremendous story, and I can't tell you all about it today, but I'll, I'll be singing his praises to high heaven in in a few months. But what I will tell you is he had to come across one of the the roughest and nefarious conspiracy theorists of our time, and and he learned to own his voice, and he learned to be able to tell the truth In a really beautiful, extraordinary way, and part of that was was creating something that made other conspiracy theorists think twice before they were going to tell lies about individuals or families just for their own agenda or to make their own money. That's powerful. You know, when someone can use their own personal story to bring down a conspiracy theorist who's making millions of dollars based on those conspiracies that that tells you, again, the power of one person. I'm seeing world leaders do extraordinary things in terms of, how do we lift one another on the planet? How do we take care of our planet? As you know, nature is so important. Animals are so important. How are we going to take care of that? I love that you are one of those authors who in terms of accessibility and making sure that that people are being taken care of in all their forms. You're you're one that brings solutions. So I love that. Can I share story?   Michael Hingson ** 59:29 Oh, sure.   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 59:31 Okay, so one of the things we've been facing, as we've been discussing, is the last several years, this predilection for humankind to tear down one another in our fear. And I had the opportunity to work with an extraordinary person. His name is Gary Lee price, and he faced a lot of that tearing down when he was a child. He had. A mother and stepfather who he lost through murder suicide on an army base in Mannheim, Germany, and he and his baby brother were shipped from the frying pan back into a couple of horrific situations, and Gary himself faced all kinds of abuse, the worst kinds of abuse and and really a slavery in his own house and, and part of it was because the adults were working nights and they didn't know that he was being tortured and abused. And instead of becoming a horrific, violent, bitter person, Gary found God, and he found art, and he became a very famous painter in his area by the time he was in high school, but was when he found this three dimensional miracle called clay that all of a sudden his imagination took flight literally, and he's, to this day, created 1000s of sculptures that lift humankind, and they're in corporate offices and arboretums and churches and outside the Vatican and in the Hong Kong library like they are all over But in terms of solving human problems or inspiring our solving of problems. Gary was asked to create a symbol that was inspired by Dr Victor Frankel. And you know who that is, right? So he had survived four Nazi concentration camps in three years, and he lost his entire family to the gas chambers, into illness and and he got out, and he wrote this extraordinary book, Man's Search for Meaning. And in that book, eventually, and also when he would teach in the United States, he would say, you know, in the United States, it's wonderful that you have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. And he said, but in Vienna, we learned that that Liberty itself is not the only answer. You need to have responsibility, because without responsibility, there is no liberty. And you know, he'd seen irresponsibility and anarchy and dictatorship and annihilation. And so anyway, Dr Stephen Covey thought, wouldn't it be awesome to honor Dr Frankel with creating a symbol of the statue of responsibility, and Gary created this symbol. And after everything he'd been through as a child, when he was thinking, what is a symbol that can inspire all of humankind? And it was the symbol of one hand reaching down to grasp another to lift it up. And he says, Sometimes we're the hand reaching down, and sometimes we're the hand reaching up. And here's the COVID, Michael. In our lifetime, in fact, very soon from now, we will be seeing the beginning of the building of the statue of responsibility, and it will be 305 feet tall to match the Statue of Liberty, and it will have interactive museums and discussions for children, like, what does responsibility mean? And there's, there's many other things, but this is one of the ways that stories can change the world for the better, and symbols and art and imagination can lift us rather than destroy us,   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:47 and it should be that way. Well, tell me you've written a number of books that have become bestsellers. How does that happen that they become bestsellers?   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 1:03:58 Well, it can happen a number of different ways, especially you've probably noticed, but publishing has changed tremendously over the last 20 years. Yes, and there used to be a time when traditional publishing was pretty much the only way, and there were a few people who wrote books and and and they would do their best to get it out there. And if it was accepted by traditional publishing, it was such a glorious thing, but most people only sold between 250 and 300 books in their lifetime. And then we had the advent of Amazon, and then we had the advent of self publishing, which I'm not going chronological self publishing, it's been around for a long time. Vanity press, also for a long time, and also indie publishing, which helps to create every service you would get through traditional publishing, but you get to keep your own intellectual property and most. Of your proceeds, rather than the lion's share going to traditional and I've had the luxury and pleasure of being able to work on all sides of that like my first two books were published through a small publisher who took a chance and shattered silence when it was on. Oprah became their number one best seller for two years in a row. So it was a win for them, and it was a huge win for me. And then my third book, when it came out, we had a New York agent, and she negotiated an incredible deal with a chat and Grand Central publishing, which was one of their publishing labels underneath a shet so one of the largest publishers in the entire world, and I got to see all the beautiful machinations that New York publishing offers, all the services, all the wonders of that and the credibility that goes along with it, and and also, since that time, I've also been able to help people with national and international bestsellers on Amazon, and that's a different ball game. It's different than a New York Times or a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and it has to do with there's there's two aspects of it is, number one, making sure that all the information is set up well, and that you're in the right categories, and that you're being seen and being visible. And then the other part of the strategy is that you know, you get everyone that's in your inner circle and anyone and everybody in your family and friends and everything else, to purchase your book on the same day, close to the same time, because it raises your visibility in the ranks. And you want to become a hot, new best seller on Amazon. You want other people's eyes to be able to see it. And if you're lucky enough to have an international team, then you can often become an international bestseller and be seen in countries like France and Australia and Canada and and other things. So it's it can be a game and and you've gotta be careful, because in every every industry, they're scammers, yeah. And in terms of of indie publishing and self publishing and traditional publishing, there are scammers out there, and you've got to watch it, but it's it's a smart and fun business. Part of the business strategy in terms of pre launch, launch and post launch, you just need to make sure that you're working with reputable people who care about the longevity of your book, not just a flash in the pan, but something that's going to serve people and have a ripple effect, you know, you hope for 50 years from now, right? And that someone halfway across the world can be absolutely inspired by your book, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 1:08:01 And whenever I get comments from people, even today, some 13 years later, and I think that will continue to happen. But who say I read your book and it's it's such a joy to hear that I'm able to help inspire people and show them something, because it's about it's about them, it's not about me, and that's really the way it should be. Well, last question for you, what's one thing that you would advise someone who wants to write a book for the first time and maybe is a little bit reluctant to do it,   Bridget Cook-Birch ** 1:08:39 so fiction or non fiction? Yes. Okay, I usually have a little different answer, but I will tell you this for whoever your main character is. So if it's non fiction, that main character is going to be you. If it's fiction, you will have an aspect of yourself in that character, but I highly recommend that you put together a chronological timeline, because every good story has backstory, and then it has the current story, and then it also has where you're taking the reader and the journey that you're taking them on. And a lot of times when we're thinking of stories, or writing stories, or writing about our own stories, we'll take down little bits and pieces, but we don't always remember the order in which they happened, or why we reacted a certain way, or certain things happened. When we put together a chronology for our character, there's so much magic that happens. You see patterns of story like, oh, we had this conversation, and then he said this, and I reacted this way, and then I got this phone call, and I said, Yes, and all of a sudden we realized, wow, there were five things that raised the stakes, that built up the tension, that. Created a change in the decision and a commitment to that change, or whatever it might might be, and we understand ourselves better, or we understand our characters better, but we can also tell a much better story to our readers,   Michael Hingson ** 1:10:20 makes perfect sense. And as I think back on thunder dog, although I didn't up front specifically thinking the way you're talking about that is the way the book actually ended up not only being written, but I had the tools that really did go in chronological order. So I was guided to do it, I guess, but it was a lot of fun, and certainly now with the new book, live like a guide dog. We, we definitely spent a lot of time on making sure that it that we did things in a very chronological way, and looked at it a lot of times, kept going back over

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It is so enjoyable and refreshing for me, and I hope you, to hear from a wide variety of guests here on Unstoppable Mindset. Our guest this time is Daniel Mangena. Daniel had what he says is a normal and somewhat boring childhood with no major events along the way. Even so, he grew up to be quite a thinker and person who likes to help transform lives as you will hear.   Daniel talks with me about choices and how we are the ones who most of all limit our life and other choices. He uses, as an example, the story of Roger Banister who was the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes. Wait until you hear what Daniel says about that.   Like many of our guests, Mr. Mangena offers many good nuggets of wisdom and life lessons we all can use and that can help us anchor ourselves to a better and richer life.     About the Guest: Daniel Mangena is a successful entrepreneur, best-selling author, podcast host of Do it with Dan and Beyond Success, a life & business transformation coach, and an international public speaker who is known for programs and content that take clients and students to next level living. He has helped thousands of people across the globe achieve wealth mastery and truly abundant lives.     Featured on CNN, CBS, FOX, the Jack Canfield show, and in Forbes and Entrepreneur magazines, Daniel's mission is to spread his teachings worldwide with the intention to “spearhead an evolutionary uplift in universal consciousness by awakening people to the importance of their unique role and enabling them to manifest their dream life”.   How to connect with Daniel: FB - https://www.facebook.com/thedreamerceo Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dreamerceo/ IG - https://www.instagram.com/danielmangena.official Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMdAvGk6xa5fptmdULliJrg Twitter - https://twitter.com/dreamerCEO Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/do-it-with-dan/id1381226331     About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:21 Welcome once again to unstoppable mindset. Glad you're here with us. Thanks very much for for joining us. We hope that you enjoy our episode today. We're going to have a lot of fun with it one way or another. It's all about having fun, and it's all about being educated. Daniel, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Daniel Mangena  01:40 Thank you for having me, Michael, very excited to be here and dive in.   Michael Hingson  01:45 Well, so we're a little jealous. You're down in Cabo San Lucas, where you live for a good part of the year. That's no fun.   Daniel Mangena  01:54 I just escaped the summer heat. Well, that was really funny. This year, I escaped to Europe thinking that it will be cooler. And actually it was infinitely more hot because of the heatwave. So I was to die. I was still dying from heat, but it's so good.   Michael Hingson  02:08 Well, at least you're here. And that's always fun. Yeah. Well, let's, let's start a little bit, I know that it's fair to say you're a best selling author, you've got your own podcast, you talk about a variety of different things. But let's start a little bit before that. So tell me a little bit about you growing up and what life was like and anything else that you want us to know. And the things you don't want us to know. Tell us those anyway, too.   Daniel Mangena  02:33 Yeah, so I don't really have the early on sub story that some people might have. And I don't say to stop story to a throwaway line. I mean, it you know, some people do have stories that are really quite sad, you know, I didn't have an absentee parent, I didn't have any alcoholism or drug addiction in my family. It was actually quite a normal, middle class upbringing. But what actually happened is, I create some success quite early in my life, and unfortunately didn't have the the experience and the know how to keep that which I created and ended up making and losing to multimillion pound fortunes by the age of 23. And falling into quite deep, dark place of depression. And it was a really dark place I found myself in. And what ended up happening off the back of that was that I got the gift and the gift was learning why Why create couldn't stay. And also learning to be a nicer human being from the humanity of my experience. And what I get to do now is to empower people to take the pain of what I went through through a lot of that, and to create an abundant, joyful, purpose driven life for themselves as they go through life today.   Michael Hingson  03:46 So how's that working out for you?   Daniel Mangena  03:49 We're having fun loving life, we've got to say,   Michael Hingson  03:51 that's, that's great. So how long have you been doing what you do now?   Daniel Mangena  03:57 Since 2018, actually isn't my first. So we started the podcast in March of 2018 or so about March. And I did my first event the 15th of July 2018. And since then, we've now helped literally 10s of 1000s of people around the world through the content that we put out through the podcasts, maybe more than that, through social media. And you know, people from literally all walks of life and all parts of the world.   Michael Hingson  04:25 Do you also do any kind of courses or other kinds of things that people can relate to? Or? Yeah, that helped people   Daniel Mangena  04:32 to do this? Yeah, we do do this. We do some stuff. I've got my next alchemy of abundance. In person workshop. We're starting here in Cabo. In a couple of days at the point of recording this, we're doing the next one, the 31st of March to the second of April, and we've got some programs. micromillions is our signature program that takes people really through this journey of creating a life of abundance in a way that really honors their natural gifts to the natural flow. And what they want to live their life to do.   Michael Hingson  05:03 So what did you do before you were doing this?   Daniel Mangena  05:05 I had a consulting business. I started that in 2000. And God Lord, when did I start quarter four, I started corner for consulting 2005. I think 2000 14,005. That was a business that I took to, you know, quite a lot of success that I ended up losing, I really rebuilt it up again, probably starting about 2011. And then I closed it down in 2018 to 13, February 2018, closed it down to come and do what I do now. But since then, I've gone back to doing a little bit of consulting to do some of it on the side.   Michael Hingson  05:43 What did you do before you were consulting?   Daniel Mangena  05:46 Before that I had entrepreneurship by businesses and those the ones that I built up and lost when I was younger, and money, man 38. Now, my first big business when I was 19. And then another business round, 21 loss at age 23. Built up off the back of that. And proof I've never really had, I worked in a cinema when I was about 15 for a summer. And then when I was rebuilding, or around 2011 2012, I had a job in a call center for six months just to cover the bills while I was building up the business.   Michael Hingson  06:23 So you didn't do college or anything like that.   Daniel Mangena  06:26 I did a year of college, I never finished my degree I did one year exactly one year of university, I took a gap year that's lasted 20 years. That's a good gap year that's lasted 20 years. Finally, though,   Michael Hingson  06:39 I think there's a lot to be said for what you learn in the College of life, as opposed to just going to college. And that's kind of what I hear you saying it's, it's all about what you learned, and then how you deal with it.   Daniel Mangena  06:54 Yeah, and also, I think it really comes down to what your goals are. I mean, if we go back to the original, you know, the old school, where college and universities really, really stepped up and started, they had a purpose. And that was really preparing people for specific roles in society. As that level of education sort of moved out to more people, that became a little bit more, a bit more varied. And when you look at the benefit, especially for the amount of debt that you need to go into, in America, for example, to go, I mean, when I did my degree, it's about three grand a year, maybe including your accommodation, and you could get a student loan for some of it. Now the costs have gone up, I think it's about 10 to 20,000 pounds a year, depending on on where you go, and what city that you're in for your living costs and so on. But you know, people in the US, you guys go into six figures of debt, or for a degree and you have to ask yourself, Is this degree me following a formula that other people told me that I should follow? Or is this contributing to what I want to create for some of us, it's going to contribute to what you can kind of create. For some people, the experience of going to university is a big part of who then growing up and maturing as a person, you think it really should be case by case and you having a personal relationship to that choice, versus I'm going to go and do a degree just because that people told me that's what I'm supposed to do.   Michael Hingson  08:14 I remember when I went to the University of California at Irvine, which is a long time ago, I started there in 1968. And registration was I think, $273 a quarter. But I remember my dorm room and I had a single room was $1,200 a year. And that was room and board and all that. And of course $1,200 wouldn't buy you anything anymore. But yeah, it's it's it's grossly expensive. I do think there is a value in college for the for those who can go and I think that you hit it on the head, a lot of its maturity and a lot of us learning and learning to get along with people. I do think that sometimes we tend to get molded and not always learn to think as, as as creatively as we can. I would hope that college teaches more creativity. But I know that in some places it doesn't and for some students it doesn't. And the reverse is also true.   Daniel Mangena  09:20 Again, I think it's just what are my goals and this is what I'm I'm really big on intentionality and intentionality is a big part of what we do and what we support people in creating for themselves. But when I have a level of intentionality behind what I'm doing, I can start to look at what actions are going to support me getting to the goal that I that I want to get to. If for example, you want to be a medical doctor, you're gonna need to get you back to college. If you want to be in construction, you may not need to go to college. If you want to be in business. Yes, you can go and get a business degree and go and get an MBA. But I can tell you that for the most part. The people who are going to be teaching you about business probably haven't run a business and getting there and getting your Getting your feet, your toes wet and actually just going out and trying, and getting support and mentorship and guidance from in the field is probably going to be better for you. But it really does come down to who am I? What do I want to create? What is my goal or intention? And does this choice actually lead me in that direction?   Michael Hingson  10:17 How do we get colleges to teach that concept to enhance what they do? Because that would clearly enhance what they do? I think we don't teach intentionality. And we don't always necessarily teach as much as we could about taking people through that process.   Daniel Mangena  10:37 Yeah, but I mean, colleges and universities, businesses.   Michael Hingson  10:41 Yeah, that's true.   Daniel Mangena  10:44 People hang let's ease people in.   Michael Hingson  10:48 But it doesn't mean that they can't. But it doesn't mean that they can teach people to be creative, I don't think it necessarily means you're going to talk somebody out of going to college. But rather, what you're doing is teaching them to be more intentional about what what they do in college,   Daniel Mangena  11:02 I think it's going to come down to it's going to come down to the institution, their intentions, their goals. I know, for example, a friend of mine is dear friends with with the dean of a university, that potentially is going to be giving me an honorary doctorate, which is always always fun. And I know that for a fact, that particular institution is really committed to the excellence of their students and for bringing out the best in their students, someone like that, for example, probably would be open to ideas about that, if you've got sort of a, a churn and burn institution that really just cares about getting that tuition fee, they're probably you're probably not going to be able to convince them at all. All that being saying that the approach to getting the university to, to look at these alternative approaches to get the most out of their students really, I believe is going to come down to does the university does the institution actually care? And if so, then can we collaborate with them based on that care, so that they can actually be open to ideas that are going to support them, and then sharing in a way that they're going to understand?   Michael Hingson  12:01 Yeah, it all comes back down to relating to people and to individuals, and it is different for different people. One of the things that society in general doesn't do, and colleges are certainly part of society is that we don't necessarily nearly as well as we could address, the issue of dealing with people who are different or dealing with differences among people, we talk about it, we do some of it, but we don't really do nearly as much of it as we could.   Daniel Mangena  12:31 But again, I think that really comes down then to really comes down to, to your goals, your intentions, what you're looking to create. And then if you've got that nailed down, then you can start to plot a path to where you want to want to get to I think far too many people are just running around with no intentionality with no direction and wondering why they don't actually get somewhere. That's my personal experience and witnessing.   Michael Hingson  12:59 Yeah, well, I think that's, that's very true. We also have, I'm gonna I'm thinking specifically of the category of people who happen to be blind or very low vision. The problem is that most of us are still taught. If you're blind, you can't do anything. And so we're not taught how to be creative, and how to be intentional. And to really set goals and create a mindset. I could call it an unstoppable mindset. But to create a mindset you could create, to create a mindset that says, I'm going to really figure out how to do this, go for it, and make it happen. And, and also be willing to accept setbacks along the way, but still, intentionally getting there. And I and I think that that's part of something that's not just true for blind people, but for a lot of people, we don't teach people that they are really a lot more able to do things and they think or to win, we might as well use it to be on they're not as nearly they don't learn to be as unstoppable as they can be.   Daniel Mangena  14:12 So here's where I sit with with that one. There's a universal or one of the universal laws, the law of vibration, and the law of vibration states that we can only operate in terms of answer to the same level of the question. And so when we look at things like the the was it the one minute the 10 minute mile or the five minute mile, I can't remember which one is probably a five minute mile, whatever it is all the 10 So I think   Michael Hingson  14:50 it was originally the Yeah, I think it was originally the four minute mile formula, which is the one Yeah, I know where you're going. Go ahead.   Daniel Mangena  14:57 So everybody was awkward. Eating on the basis of the belief that you couldn't do the mile run in less than the four minutes, assuming that we're right. And so everybody was operating on that belief. Everyone was coming from that place. And nobody was was doing this. Now, the second that somebody stepped up and broke that four minute mile that it became the norm. Yeah, that the level of ability that people had to meet that new opportunity, that new outcome was presented, and more people than were able to go and create these four minute mile situations.   Michael Hingson  15:33 Yeah, it was amazing what happened after Roger Bannister did it and then suddenly, everyone everyone could do it figured out, they could do it. Because people even said to him, when he said he was gonna do it, you're gonna die, you can't physically do it physiologically, it's.   Daniel Mangena  15:48 And again, their ability to see response was limited to their questioning, they were questioning from the perspective of, oh, I can't this is what's wrong. This is what's not possible. These are my limitations. When we look at people who are in society, who are facing the choice as to whether they're going to stick with AI or whether they're going to move forward. They as individuals are the only one that can be responsible for what's going to happen, if we're waiting for society to step up and say, I'm going to empower you, if you're waiting for the Dean of the University to say, I'm going to give you the tools, we're always going to stay stuck. I would invite anybody who's listening to this episode, who has anything in their life that they're being told from outside of themselves, or even inside of themselves? That they can't do it? Just to play with the question? What would happen on what would it look like if I did? Not even to say, I'm going to do it I have to do I'm certain I can do it, just to toy with the idea? What would it feel like? What would it look like? If I did actually do this? What could that look like? All of a sudden now, where we're operating from changes we're no longer operating from I can't, we're suddenly operating from a maybe. And one of the things that we teach in the work that we do is all that you need is a maybe to open up the doors of possibility, to new opportunities to new insights, to new inspiration to new evidence from outside of yourself, and maybe then a new outcome.   Michael Hingson  17:15 Yeah, it is, it is about getting people to move to that maybe or to move to the CI, maybe this really is possible, or I ought to really explore that better. And as I said, unfortunately, too many people are taught way too often, that you can't do that, and they don't go beyond it. And that's where it really gets to be an extremely unfortunate occurrence in life that so many people have just decided, or have been taught for so long that they can't do more than they do, that they, they believe it and it becomes a very hard wall to break through.   Daniel Mangena  17:57 And this is where podcasts like your stories like yours, these give people that opportunity to have a new choice. But the choice has to be made as an individual. Yeah, we can't, we can lead that we can lead the masses to the well. But we can't make them drink, you know, and, and part and parcel of My journey has actually just being okay with playing that role of bringing people to the world. But at the end of the day, anyone who's depending on someone or something outside of them, to get them over the finish line is never going to get there if you want to. Or if you're feeling a desire, a feeling within you to go and create a beast and do something different, then there has to be a desire within you to actually do the work to get there. And to follow through and make that happen.   Michael Hingson  18:41 Do you think there's room for mentors in a person's life and coaches to help them?   Daniel Mangena  18:46 Not only do I think there's room for it, I think it's an a completely imperative part of the process. I spend multiple six figures a year on my personal development, multiple, six figures. There's always coaches, for me, healers, mentors, guides, I was on the call with one of my coaches earlier. And even if it's a skill that I think that I've got down, I still look to be guided and mentored in that in everything, every part of my life and business. Because, you know, I always joke that, you know, I've never seen my own backside. I've never seen my own face. I've seen a picture of it. I've seen a reflection of it. I can see the video here. But I've never actually seen my own physical face. A man has never seen his own faces and backside. How can he think that he's going to have everything worked out about about his life, there are always going to be blind spots and having guidance, guidance, having leadership having coaching mentorship is what's going to enable you to see those so that then you can have the data and have the insights that can support you in following through on that decision that you've made to move through and create something different.   Michael Hingson  19:50 Yeah. Those people, those individuals who mentor and coach you clearly are people who are helping to open your mind to possibilities, and I think you're right, all of us need mentors, all of us need coaches. What about spending time just by yourself being more introspective? Like one of the things that I advocate is every day, people should take a few minutes at the end of the day and just stop me even when they're lying in bed. Think about what happened today. What worked, what didn't work? What did I do? Well, why was it well, and could I have done it better, and what didn't work and all that I'm a firm believer in introspection, and I used to use the words, I do that because I'm my own worst critic. And I realized that's not the really, that's not the right thing to say, it's, it should be, I do that, because I want to grow. And I'm in the best position possible, if I truly do it, to take that information, and learn from it.   Daniel Mangena  20:52 I mean, I'm a firm advocate in journaling has been a really great practice to use in your day. I've got particular prompts that I use in the morning, and in the evening, just to reflect on what I've created. Because, you know, we're talking about personal responsibility, in terms of, you know, showing up for ourselves and so on. And if I'm not taking audit, then how am I going to know the impact or the effects of the choices that I'm making, so that I can cause corrected, and continue to move forward in a positive direction. So yeah, taking that timeout, and engaging with that, in that time in a way that's going to work for you, and it's going to serve you I think, is imperative. But certainly, recognizing that if you're not taking score, it's gonna be very difficult for you to stay on point and stay on target and get to your end goal.   Michael Hingson  21:37 Yeah, much less even. Figuring out what your end goal ought to be. You've got exactly got to take the time to do it. Yeah. I, since September 11, I have spent a lot of time talking about the fact that I created a mindset, where I wouldn't be afraid. If an emergency happened. Of course, if something happened, where I couldn't do anything about it, then I probably wouldn't be here. But otherwise, I created a mindset that said, you know, what you can do in an emergency, you know how to do it. I learned all about the World Trade Center and such things and spent a lot of time regularly going through different things that I learned and always asking if there's more to learn. But I didn't realize at first that I had created a mindset. But then when September 11, happened, the mindset kicked in, it was just an automatic thing that allowed me to focus and help others and help me and keep my guide dog focus as we went down the stairs and doing all the things that needed to be done to successfully escape from the towers. And as I said, of course, at any time, the building could have come down, and that wouldn't have been anything I had control over.   Daniel Mangena  22:58 So what can we control? What can we look?   Michael Hingson  23:00 Right? That's right, and we'll get to them. But but the thing is, I developed the mindset, but I never really started talking about how others can develop that mindset. And what I've come to realize is, it really started with a concept that was on subconsciously or unconscious to me at the time, I was saying, there's no need to really have such a blinding fear that you can't move beyond it, that you need to use fear as a tool to help you focus on heightened senses. But if you become as I call it blinded by fear, then you've given up and you don't have a way to move forward. And so we're getting ready to write a book, actually, we're started writing a book, we're looking, I'm looking at the first draft of it now. We're calling it a guide dogs Guide to Being brave, because we use dogs throughout the book to talk about what they go through and what people go through and so on. But it's all about teaching people you don't need to be blinded by fear in unexpected situations you can be to use your words intentional about being able to move forward and developing a mindset that allows you to cope with things you don't expect.   Daniel Mangena  24:09 And recognizing, accepting and understanding there's always going to be things that you don't expect. That's like, that's life life has got stuff that's going to show up, there's going to happen that you don't understand that you're not ready for. There's always a tower that can come down on you physically or metaphysic or metaphorically, but it's do you hold on to your guide dog, whether that is a physical dog, whether it's a mentor, whether it's a book, whether it's a podcast, and allow that to be the support for you because the guide dog can lead you out, but it can't walk for you, your coach or your mentor, your your your your guide, they can give you the tools but they can't make you use them. We still have to step up and do that ourselves. Well, it's   Michael Hingson  24:53 even more subtle because a guide dog doesn't lead and that's what most people say and you know, not picking on you for the terminology but what a guy dog does his guide that is to say, it's not the dog's job to know where to go and how to get there. That has to be my job. And my job is to direct the dog. So I will tell the dog when I want the dog to go forward or left or right, the dog's job is to make sure that we walk safely in the process. So we are a team, we each have a job to do to make the team successful. But the reality is it is a team. And the last thing, in fact I want is a dog that thinks it knows where I want to go. So for example, at the World Trade Center, I spent hours and this is one of the ways that helped me, I spent hours trying to walk different ways to get to the same point just so the dog wouldn't get in the habit of going one way to get somewhere because what would happen if that way, were blocked by fire or something else. Now, doing that in a in a building or complex of buildings is a little bit challenging, because there aren't that many ways to get from point A to point B. But even if you have two or three and even if one is instead of going up an escalator, and walking through the arcade in the middle of the World Trade Center, and then going into Tower One, which we did or another time going on the fourth level down through a parking lot and up an escalator right into Tower One, or sometimes going up the escalator to the arcade and then turning left, walking around a little bit. And then going back the bottom line is what I didn't want the dog to do was to get into the habit of knowing where to go, because that could be a dangerous situation. And it's my job to know where to go and how to get there and then instruct the dog command by command. And I think that's sort of the same thing, in a sense that you're really talking about, the individual has to be the one to consciously make the choice and learn the information necessary to make a conscious good choice.   Daniel Mangena  27:03 We need to have the tools and the resources to do what's going to move us forward. But I think it's even more potent in that the guide dog doesn't guide it supports in Go.   Michael Hingson  27:14 Because if you have a guide dog guide, but but it doesn't lead,   Daniel Mangena  27:18 leave this one sorry, the great fig, right? Because even when you're looking at having a coach or having a mentor having a think they can't live your life for you. And if you're waiting for them to tell you, then again, you you've given your power away. So it's actually even more beautiful, that the guide dog guides and doesn't lead. Yeah, it makes the point even more.   Michael Hingson  27:39 You mentioned and I think we both kind of mentioned control a little bit. One of the things that happened to me after September 11 Was I kept hearing people say, We got to get back to normal, we can't, we can't stay the way we are, we got to get back to normal. And it took me a long time to realize that when I felt anger or frustration over that, it was because the reality is normal would never be the same again. And we can't control going back to something that we'll never be able to do again. So I guess they're really two questions. One is getting back to normal. And we always change and we're going to do that. But the other thing is, we stress ourselves by worrying about so many things over which we don't have control.   Daniel Mangena  28:26 Well, I'll tackle the first bit first, in my opinion. So I like to refer back to nature and in nature. If at any point something stops growing, that's when it's dead. We as humans, when we die, something stops functioning, or if we die of old age, what happens is the telomeres in our DNA strand stop replicating. And therefore we lead to expiry, that's literally what happens. A plant that stops growing dies. And so when we say go back to normal, that's assuming that things are not growing and changing much to your point that if they're not growing or changing them, they're dying. So if we are at the same place of normal, then we're on the road to degradation. And so because of that something that's in a healthy space, healthy growing space is never going to be the same same, because it's always going to be move forward. So if we're looking to move back into space of degradation that's never going to be supportive. We want to be looking forward to Okay, based on the new information I've learned today, going back to what I was discussing earlier about reviewing at the end of the day, based on what I love based on the new things that come into my experience, the new input, the new skills, the new challenges, new questions, the new things have been uncovered. How am I going to approach tomorrow from a grown expanded place? Because we are looking for probably this control, we want to go let me go back to places familiar. So that can try and control things. But control is an illusion. And then when we look at the net, you know another big thing that's happened in our lifetimes, which is you know, it's a pandemic that is reportedly coming down to a close or whatever. I think one of the reasons why so many People are thrown into disarray is because they realize just how little control that they actually had, within a very, very short period of time, a lot of illusionary ideas of control was shown to be just that were shown to be illusions. And that's something that people struggled, I think to deal with. But control is an illusion, what we do have is creative capacity. But once the balls rolling, once those things are turning, it's what do I do with what's shown up based on what I can control, which for the most part is only me, my reactions, my choices in terms of Hamelin respond to something and my preparedness to deal with things that may or may not show up in my life. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  30:41 And the problem that we have is that we think we can control everything about us. And so when we don't have control, and we get that rude awakening, from time to time, we get very frustrated rather than going, Oh, why am I even worried about that? What am I going to be able to do about it? I'm in politics, for example, and politicians are always trying to control us through fear. And they don't have that control over us unless we let them. Likewise, we can't control what they do other than to step back in the case of the United States. And the House of Representatives, for example, every two years, we can decide whether this person is best representing us or not, and then say, you're welcome to stay or go away. That's the control that we have. But we we don't have a lot of the control that we think and there's so many other things, people are talking so much about climate change. In this country, it's discussed a lot in this country, we talk about inflation, I'm sure that's something that happens. Most places, the reality is a lot of the factors relating to that we don't have any control over. But we're allowing ourselves to be made to be afraid, by people who are just as clueless about that, but they want to blame somebody else rather than recognizing we don't have control over those things. How do we deal with what we have control over?   Daniel Mangena  32:18 I mean, in the US, for example, is a democratic country, what you've got is you've got the voting booth. Right? And then you've got discernment in terms of listening to people who haven't had a track record in leadership, or provided results or even, I mean, a lot of career politicians, or parts of the world. You look at their track record, what did that what have they done since they've been in office? Besides a career politician? They made promises and been voted into different offices at different points in their career? Have they actually been in integrity to those two points? What are they have they shown up? If you're going to get lost in return, you can get lost in, you know, at the height, which happens, I think, a lot in election cycles. Oh, yes, you know, the hype and all of the things, then that's where your power was your power was in was right there in who you voted in. If once someone's voted in, you're not going to do anything about using your voice in the voting booth or whatever. A lot of people don't bother voting, it doesn't change anything. Anyway, what you saying is, look, they're all the same. Okay, well, then find someone that's not the same. But not every person is the same.   Michael Hingson  33:28 Yeah, right. Well, and true. And yeah, you know, I hear so many people saying, well, why trust this guy, he speaks my language. That's not the issue. The issue is, what is he really done? What can you point to about this man or this woman? Not what other people say, but what has he really done or not done? Or the new person who wants to come in and says, I'm going to make all these changes? The issue still is, what have you done to demonstrate that you can do that don't talk in generalities gets   Daniel Mangena  34:06 not only what, what have you done? To say you can, what have you done to demonstrate that? You will?   Michael Hingson  34:13 Yeah, that's a good point. Absolutely. That's a good point. How do we know you're going to do it, you have to convince us or we should create that mindset. And ask those questions. I think that's really the issue. You're internationally right now than worrying about all the things that we can't control, we need to become more intentional about the way we vote.   Daniel Mangena  34:36 That's one thing. That's one thing. I was speaking to somebody a little while ago, and he was saying, you know, he's creating disruption in entrepreneurship. They said when a lot of these social issues were coming out what he did was he said, Okay, guys, I can talk about the social issues, but that's not going to change anything. Instead, what I'm going to do is we're going to make the voting day, a paid day off in this company, so that you You can actually go and do something real, we're not gonna sit here and talk about it and create division in the workplace, you have a way that you want this country to be run, head over to the voting booth, go and get involved in your local community, go and do something, read about it, and I will give you a paid day off to do that. And that's what he's doing instead, that, I think is a powerful way to approach   Michael Hingson  35:20 things. Yeah, you're giving people the opportunity, and you're sending a strong message, go do it. Mm hmm. Which, which makes a lot of sense. So as people are pondering when we talk about intentionality, and we talked about looking at what happens every day and analyzing what you do, some people might call that meditation what what do you think about the the idea of meditation? Or is that meditation? Or what do you think about all that?   Daniel Mangena  35:49 Meditation, for me is a tool to get into what scientists have measured to be a meditative state. That's literally the brainwaves in your brain operate in a certain speed. And that shows that your brain is then functioning a certain way. Now, not everybody gets to that place through the same medium, some people will try different types of traditionally taught meditation, some people can play a sport or go for a walk or spend time in nature, spending time with a loved one, spending time and just general science, it doesn't necessarily require sitting in lotus position. So there are many different ways to get back to that place. And I think that people should find the way that work for them, rather than looking at the cookie cutter approach to what they believe is going to actually work to get them to that place.   Michael Hingson  36:33 I took a course while in college on Transcendental Meditation. And I think that there's a lot of value and what it can offer. But even there, that as as people said, it's all about getting to a particular state of consciousness. And it's a way that can be very successful. And a lot of it has to do with taking your mind out of just thinking about the typical day to day things that go on in your world, and giving yourself the the opportunity to relax. And, and to get to that meditative state, if you will, which is what we don't do. And, you know, we have, I don't know whether you've Have you ever read read the book 10% happier? No, I've not read Dan, who used to be on Good Morning America. He, he wrote this book called 10%, happier, because he got involved in meditation. And one of the things that he talks about in the book is, there's more than one way to meditate. But And meditation is really all about getting to a particular state of consciousness and getting to the place where you can back off from the typical day to day things, especially those that you don't have any control over.   Daniel Mangena  37:51 Which again, so many of us are just caught up in what we're scared of what we don't want, what we want other people to do what we want from other people versus what is it that I actually desire to create, and what can I do here and now to support my movement towards that? And then doing it?   Michael Hingson  38:07 Yeah. And at the same time, if you suddenly discover well, maybe I need to have a course correction. That's okay, too. Great. We don't tend to do nearly as much as we could about do do court doing course corrections.   Daniel Mangena  38:28 Yeah, but coursework correction often means moving outside of the known moving into the unknown. Sure, nothing moving beyond what feels safe and comfortable. And that's not what we as humans often do, we're often looking for the easy way out, because,   Michael Hingson  38:46 well, that's the society we taught. We taught that.   Daniel Mangena  38:49 Yeah, but guess what, there is also available information for another way to do things. And we have to take responsibility for what we do. I mean, this information that this conversation is going to be out in the wild, right? So people have the opportunity to have an E, an E shop, you know, conversations like this that are happening, there are literally millions of pieces of content out there probably have a positive nature. But if I'm going to be focused on the negativity or fear and doubt and anxiety, then how am I even going to be available for different kinds of input? And it's only my responsibility as to whether I'm going to tune into the uplifting expansive one or get lost in the negative side one.   Michael Hingson  39:32 Yeah. And what we need to do is to really be curious enough to go look for them again, and that gets back to the whole college discussion. I think that way too many of us in what we do we expect somebody just to give us the answers, and we don't tend to be nearly as curious as we ought to be. I remember when I was just a child living in Chicago, before I was five, my father owned a business to repair televisions that was back in the days when you unplug vacuum tubes and you put in new ones, or you replaced a picture tube or you smelled a burn resistor and you replaced it and the TV worked again. And I would go with him occasionally. And one of the things that he said is, don't put your hand inside the TV. And I didn't necessarily deliberately do that. But I remember one time when I got shocked, because I put my hand on something. And I'm, as I sit here and think about it, I think it was an accident, I   Daniel Mangena  40:44 don't think I was going well, what why can't I put my finger in there? What's going to happen? But I learned what an electric shock was all about.   Michael Hingson  40:52 And that actually made me curious more than anything else. And so then he showed me a TV that was not plugged in and discharged. But but I used it as a learning experience. And and I was curious to understand what it was all about. But I think we tend to not grow up to be as curious as we ought to be. There's a lot of validity. And when somebody says, Well, why that you say why not? You know, there's nothing wrong with that.   Daniel Mangena  41:25 When it goes back to we were talking about earlier, when we spoke about about people's challenges in the law of vibration that if I'm only asking for thinking from a place of why not? What can't happen, what's not possible that those are the only quality of answers that I can get, I can only get the quality of answers that matches that level of inquiry.   Michael Hingson  41:44 Right. Right in but you know, for somebody who says, Well, why why should we do that? And then my response is still why not explore something new? Mm hmm. Which, which makes perfect sense. Tell me what what you think about or know about things like the law of attraction.   Daniel Mangena  42:06 Law of Attraction is not a primary universal law. It's a secondary universal law. So primary universal laws are the ones they're like elements. And then you've got compounds which form the secondary laws. So the actual primary law against a from which the law of attraction is is drawn is the law of vibration that we've been speaking about, which is like attracts like, basically, we experienced what we're a vibrational match to, and thought is one of the components of, of that vibrational match, you've got emotional state as well. So I think, in my opinion, the law of attraction has become popular because it feels like the easy way out when actually fully operating to the primary law really means a complete overhaul of what we're doing in terms of how we show up in the world, what we're thinking, what we're feeling, the actions and choices that we're making, because all of those things encompass our vibration. And once we are vibrationally aligned to a particular outcome, the law of attraction kicks in. And we find ourselves being attracted to and being and things been attracted to us that match that state of that state of being that we're in. And so your attraction is real. However, it is not a primary law, it's a secondary law. And it's not more work than people have been led to believe that it is, in my opinion. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  43:20 A lot of it has to do with vibration. And when we, when we aligned vibrations, we are also projecting that whether we realize it or not whatever our vibration or our state is, we do project it. We one person on this podcast a while ago, talked about an experiment that someone did with plants. And when people projected a more positive image in their own mind, the plants reacted differently than when they thought about killing the plant or pouring hot water on the plant or digging the plant up. There was a noticeable difference in the way the plants and what they did were through measurements, actually how they were behaving was all done simply mentally.   Daniel Mangena  44:18 I mean, thought is real thoughts have ideas can be measured. They can be measured, they can be weighted, there's some substance to it. And if we honor that, and, and bring a level of intentionality to how showing up with our thoughts and emotions, we'll start to see that measured things showing up in a measured way in our physical life every day.   Michael Hingson  44:38 One of the things I think you do is you encourage people to manifest money. Tell me about that.   Daniel Mangena  44:44 Yeah, I mean, I'll be quick about this because we're running low on the clock now, but I'm okay. I mean, if you're okay, no, I've got I've got something. I've got something afterwards. We had a lot of people come into our world that wanted to create new license ourselves. And time and time again, what we're finding is that people were using that they don't have enough resources to live that life, it was more concerned with people living a life that was joyful, that was contribution contribution, that nourished and filled them and had meaning. But this excuse of resources kept coming up. And so the move to going a lot more deeply into supporting people around the money was twofold. Firstly, if people have resources, they have less space for that excuse. And secondly, the playbook for creating our reality is the same across the board, there isn't a different playbook for creating different relationships and creating money and creating health. It's the same playbook, but our perspective creates a distorted lens that gives the illusion that all of these playbooks are different, right. And so when we have a measured playing field, that we can develop the skill of manifesting what we want, then we can take that skill, take that level of mastery and start to apply it to other areas. If I tell you, I'm going to help you be happy, we can't really measure that maybe we can have you fill a form in or check your emotions, but your emotions can change second, a second. But if I say here's a playbook for you to bring $100 into your account, and it works, then you know, it works, when you know we've had people that we've taken to be millionaires to be being financially free to having six figures to pay off their debts and all sorts of things. They've got a measured result, and they've gone on a journey with that measured result that they can go and take and apply to other areas. So it's not because I think money is more important than other things. Because when we have resources, we've got more choice number one and number two, when we've got a measured journey that we've gone on, of learning to create a life for ourselves, we can take that skill and apply it to any part of our life.   Michael Hingson  46:44 Money is a great resource and visible item that people can use to discover that playbook. And of course, that makes a lot of sense that that's one of the reasons you would use something like money as a perfect example. Because it is measurable. What is micro shifting?   Daniel Mangena  47:06 Micro shifting is defined as a consistent series of baby steps made in the direction of a consciously chosen outcome. That's literally the dynamism of this definition. And what micro shifting is all about is recognizing that everybody can make big leaps. They can, but will they are but everybody can make baby steps. Everyone has the capacity. So we've all got the potential for big leaps, big Quantum Leap, but everybody has the capacity for baby steps. And we make when we make those on a consistent basis, we can always get to that end goal no matter how big it is.   Michael Hingson  47:36 So you've written how many books now, from time   Daniel Mangena  47:39 to time dream is manifesto for books.   Michael Hingson  47:43 Gotta go figure him out again.   Daniel Mangena  47:45 Hello books. I've contributed in a few more. I've had the honor of being in a book with one of my mentors, Greg Reed. I was in a book with Jack Canfield success and omics. I think that was last year, that book came out. I've contributed chapters to a few other books, but I have four of my own   Michael Hingson  48:00 four of your own. Well, I know that you don't have a lot of time, it's getting late and in time to do whatever one does in Cabo. But how can people reach out to you and learn more about what you do and perhaps contact you and have a chance to visit?   Daniel Mangena  48:23 Definitely get head over to dreamwithdan.com dreamwithdan.com. And we've got a really cool resource, we've actually got a quiz that we developed, that helps you to discover what your block to abundance is, and gives you some resources to actually move through those. So head over to dreamwithdan.com. There's a lot of free resources, including that quiz that they can go and have a go of in there. And just let us know how you get on.   Michael Hingson  48:45 Can they? Can they contact you through that site? Or is there a better way   Daniel Mangena  48:48 that they can always contact through the website? Yeah,   Michael Hingson  48:50 so dreamwithdan.com? Well, I hope people will do that. Have any of your books I always ask this when people have written books, have any of your books to your knowledge been converted to audio,   Daniel Mangena  49:01 yet, we've got stepping beyond intention, but we're doing the re the RE release of that book right now that we got, I got a book deal early this year. And we're releasing that book, when that book is re released, I will be personally re recording the audio books, I'm probably going to do that I'm stopping work in November this year. I'm gonna have a lot of time off. I'm looking to sit down in there and get that audio book re recorded.   Michael Hingson  49:23 Cool. Well be excited to to read it. And I know other people will as well. And hopefully, they'll they'll go out and find some of your other other books and that they will learn and I think we all will I found this instructive and inspiring. And I'm really glad that you came and we appreciate it. And if you want to come back on and we find more to talk about I would love that anytime you'd like to watch as well do it and what's your podcasts so people can find you your podcast?   49:53 Yes, everything's on the website. This is a really great sort of roadmap to everything but we've got Do It With Dan which is my motivational podcast. And we've got beyond success, which is my business podcast. But the links to that information about them and some of the guests that we've had both on the website drew with dan.com.   Michael Hingson  50:08 Cool. Well, Dan, thanks again. And we really appreciate you being with us. And for all of you listening, thanks very much, I hope you'll give us a five star rating, I would appreciate it if you would give us a five star rating right now as we finish, wherever you're listening to us. I would also be very happy if you'd reach out to me directly. If you've got any thoughts or comments. You can email me at Michaelhi at accessibe.com. And or go to our podcast page, Michael hingson.com/podcast. And of course, you know how to now get to Dan dreamwithdan.com. So Dan, is the website accessible? I should ask that Do you know?   Daniel Mangena  50:50 I don't know. But it's definitely something that I'll be looking into having?   Michael Hingson  50:53 Well, we'll talk about that. And we can we can talk about that and accessibe. Which is a great tool to help with that. But Dan, thanks again for being with us. We really appreciate it. And we hope to have you on again.   Daniel Mangena  51:05 Of course. 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When Amy unexpectedly met a woman who made her realise she has only been scratching the surface of her potential. Are you looking to exponentially grow your business? Amy shares her secrets to scaling her business. "The people that you surround yourself with are either going to lift you up or they're going to tear you down."I was recently at a conference and met a woman who changed my perspective on my business. She was in a similar line of work to me, but she was making a million dollars a month. I was blown away. She was so down to earth and happily gave me all of her tips. That moment made me realise that I'm not even scratching the surface of my potential. I am so proud of my accomplishments but I know I can up my game!In this episode, you will learn the following:1. A powerful life lesson that has allowed Amy to go faster and achieve things quicker in business2. The importance of investing in oneself and surrounding oneself with people who will lift you up3. How to know who to invest in to get a great return on your investment. Chapter Summaries:[00:00:00] - Today, Amy will talk about a powerful life lesson that has allowed her to go faster and achieve things quicker in her business. Before that, Mallory has a win and a fail of the week.[00:00:32] - Mallory had a win and a fail this week. Last week, she went back home to Texas to take care of her dad during surgery, and she spent some time with her grandparents. She accidentally sent an email with the wrong subject line to her list of over a quarter million people. [00:03:57] - Amy is taking Friday off to spend time with his best friend and her five-month-old baby on Thursday night and all of Friday. [00:05:49] - Amy started this business years ago as a one-on-one coach. She got her first client 2 years ago. Her husband suffered a brain injury and she had to find a way to cover both of their salaries. Amy and her husband decided to invest in Amy instead of a house deposit. Amy has built a successful business in less than two years. She has over 150 people in her program, and it's scaling every week. She is in the 2CCX program, which is a 25000 US investment per year. It's almost $4000 a month that she's paying to be part of this program. The program is hands down, the best program she's ever been in her life. She's surrounded herself with people who are achieving incredible things and it has accelerated her growth.  [00:14:09] - Who you surround yourself with matters. Roger Banister broke the four minute mile in 1954. Since then, that four minute barrier has been broken 1663 times. A woman who earns a million dollars a month is your four-minute-mile mark. To have a full conversation with somebody like that was a huge opportunity for Amy. Connect with Lady Without Limits:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ladywithoutlimits/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ladywithoutlimitspageWebsite: https://www.ladywithoutlimits.com/Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here: https://ratethispodcast.com/ladywithoutlimitsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

#973: The self-help and personal development world gives primary focus to increasing our performance so we can achieve greater successes in our lives. And it's true we all are capable of more. Nobody is performing at their max capacity. But we won't outperform the level of ability we believe about ourselves and all we have to go on is the proof of what we have and haven't done thus far. It brings to mind Roger Banister breaking the four minute mile mark in running, which was deemed humanly impossible, but more importantly the four other runners who then did it within a year. All that changed is once they believed running a sub four minute mile was possible, they did it. Prior, they could not. Most of us are sitting where we are and desiring greater performance from ourselves but unable to see ourselves being at a higher level. If someone came along and ran a diagnostic test on us and said they had proof we could do it we would in short order. But that won't likely happen, so how can we get ourselves to really see ourselves as a higher performer? To have a performance upgrade we need an upgrade to our identity. I have Anthony Trucks on with me in this episode to talk about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rise — Don't Let Setbacks Stop You Let your courage lose in the world and rise like a phoenix. As we enter the end of the week, we realize that life gives us what we ask of it. Life is one big realization: We feel sad — time to remind ourselves that we are worth it. ❤ We feel disappointed — let's remember to trust and love again. We feel impatient → to embrace the way of a turtle. Going slowly, and still moving forward. :-) We go through our biggest heartbreaks, → remember. These are the biggest blessing. Trust ourselves and life. ❤ Life offers many things. One of the many lessons is to test how much we want to accomplish something. Do we want to grow into daily heroes, more vigorous, more resilient? These opportunities will come our way, just like trains passing by. We have to recognize it's our train and jump on. Every day is a great day to grow. — Brendon Burchard If we want to build a house on the rock and not on sand, we will embrace the tough lessons and challenges. We can still move ahead with grace, love, and laughter and enjoy life. When things don't happen as expected, we can now learn from them. But it doesn't mean to give up, and we will never reach our dreams. It's a temporary setback. DIDN'T ACHIEVE IT? LEARN TO GET OVER IT! MOVE FORWARD! Many of us give up way too soon, way too quickly, crawl away like an injured dog. We feel our luck has ended, and it will probably never happen. Our self-talk starts to confront the reality, and we create our fictitious downward spiral reality, not knowing there might be an even better opportunity behind the corner. We need to go and look. Get up, dust off, reload, recalibrate, and realize, that you are breathing, there is still fight left in you. — Jocko Willing As we are entering the end of the week, let's remember why we do all of this. What's the purpose? What's the real reason. It's to get stronger every day, even just a little bit, tiny, tiny bit more agile. Then, we can safely say we'll try again. This time, we'll try something else. We'll improve. Next time, when we fall, it's just another lesson to pick ourselves up again. BELIEVE & ACHIEVE! It starts with belief. You know it, just like Roger Banister broke his 4-minute mile. So, let's do it today and make it a great end of the week and break our 4-minute mile! :-) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mateomelichar/message

There was once a period in time when a human running the four-minute mile seemed impossible! Then one day, a man named Roger Banister, changed the running world forever by breaking the four-minute barrier. He was now the fastest man alive! On this episode of “Crushing The Day,” we learn that we humans are capable of so much more than we have ever realized! When Banister ran the four-minute mile, he opened a doorway, showing the entire rest of the world that it could be done. Now, several individuals have done the same.  What you think about…where you place your faith and energy, that is what determines whether or not you succeed. Our mindset is everything. We can literally do anything we desire as long as we believe it can be done. The next step…Take Action! Tune in to learn more.   What You'll Learn: How pushing past the uncomfortable flight or fight feeling, allows us to manifest with unlimited potential.  Why our mindset determines our reality.  That when we surround ourselves with people who are doing big things, we can rewire our minds to succeed!   Favorite Quote: “When you can dial in on the mindset, the faith, and in the belief in yourself to achieve…anything is possible.”   —Drewbie Wilson   How to get involved Go to the CRUSHING THE DAY website to get involved!

Mark Richards, the owner of Wasatch Recovery, and Ryan Decker, our Marketing Director, joins us today for another episode of The Wasatch Way. In this episode, Mark, Ryan, and I discuss the Power of Culture. Roger Banister was the first person to run a mile under 4 minutes. Before he accomplished this amazing feat, the culture of the world believed it was impossible. Since his record-breaking day, over 20,000 people have now done the same.   Mark, Decker, and I discuss how culture in treatment affects recovery. It's amazing how culture influences our beliefs. If you or if someone you know is feeling alone, lost, and not connected this episode is for you.     #connection #addiction #mentalhealth #reccovery #recovered #overcome #hope #wasatchrecovery #beliefcast #tsinspires   You can connect with Wasatch here: info@wasatchrecovery.com www.wasatchrecovery.com 801-898-7778  

“Just because they say that it is impossible doesn't mean you can't do it.” Roger BannisterIn this morning inspirational podcast, I talk about how to become better at livin life. When you learn the key elements on how to become better at livin life, you will be able to break free from the shackles of your own limiting beliefs. You will be able to rise up as a livin life warrior and take your life back. You will be able to pull yourself out of the darkest hole and keep moving forward towards the light. Since the beginning of time, there have been people who have changed history by doing what seemed to be impossible. Too many people allow their limiting beliefs to keep them from livin a better life and all it takes is some changes and some discipline to make the necessary changes.Roger Banister was a fine example. He was a British runner who later became a neurologist. What was so fascinating about his story was that he was told that running a four-minute mile was impossible. It COULD NOT be done. The human heart couldn't handle it. All these beliefs were placed in the runners' minds that crossing the finish line in under four minutes would lead to a fatal ending. But Roger Bannister believed deep down to the core of his being that it could be done.  That was when he changed up his training. Instead of putting more effort into his body, he worked on his mind. He had the mental discipline to visualize himself crossing the finish line under four minutes over and over. He conditioned his body to feel as if he had already broken the record. Later on, when he competed in the run of his life, he did something that was unheard of. In 1954 Roger was the first person to break a new record of running a four-minute mile. He crossed the finish line three minutes and fifty-nine seconds. Once this record was broken a little over a month later someone else broke his record. The reason being was that Roger broke the chains of the limiting beliefs that you could die if you run a four-minute mile. He proved it could be done and this opened the other runners up to pushing their bodies a little bit further.Fast-forwarding to the present day there have been over a thousand people who have broken Roger's record.The point of the story is he didn't allow other peoples' limiting beliefs to keep him from shattering a record. But it took mental discipline in order to do it. Many people think discipline is a bad thing, but it is far from the truth. Discipline equals freedom.  The power of habit and the power of your subconscious mind can be changed in order to live a better life. By implementing self improvement be disciplined enough to renew your mind to a new belief you will be able to break the chain of your old habits of limiting beliefs. Music is by EnvatoThanks for listenting. Be well and soulful,Brian Rodgers / Livin Life Warrior

The classic phrase shouldn't be: “I'll believe it when I see it.”But rather,“I'll see it and then believe it.”

Have you ever thought something was impossible? What if it were possible? Think about all the things we have now that were once impossible. What will you create in life that seems impossible right now?

Steven shares the story of Roger Banister who was the first man to run a mile in under 4 minutes. He changed reality which empowered many other runners to do the same. What's your 4-minute mile?

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In the latest Grant Cardone Strategy of the Week, Grant asks us, “what are your false barriers?” Start thinking with this now. What do you believe are barriers in your life that you know are false? Since 1954, anytime you wanted to site an example of what happens when one person does the seemingly impossible and breaks the “unbreakable” barrier, most people would reference Roger Banister. In 1954, Banister became the first person to run 1 mile in under 4 minutes. Prior to this the general consensus was that a sub 4 minute mile was impossible but Banister got it handled in 3:59 seconds. In 1999, Hicham El Guerrouj did it in 3:43.13. This is the current world record. What’s the lesson? Listen UP!

It didn't look like Roger Banister was on track to break the four-minute mile barrier, but he did. It looked like the Nephites were on track for continual righteousness, and they fell. What can we learn from the rise and fall of the Nephites about finishing out our own races and building a happy people/family/class/group?

This Podcast Is Episode Number 0262, And It Will Be About Wealthy Contractor's Selling Secrets I was raised in a great environment. My parents were wonderful people who always did their best and could always be counted on to provide food, clothing, shelter, and opportunity to attend school where I earned my High School Diploma. After that, I attended several Colleges and Universities to further my education.  The point of this article is for contractors who are having any financial struggles is to provide you with the time-tested and proven answer to more cash flow and profits as soon as possible! I was raised in a great environment. My parents were wonderful people who always did their best and could always be counted on to provide food, clothing, shelter, and opportunity to attend school where I earned my High School Diploma. After that, I attended several Colleges and Universities to further my education.  The Simple Answer Is Sell Your way Out! When I was growing up there wasn't money for allowance so I developed my own. I tried many things and discovered nobody would hire an eight-year-old kid part-time after school. So I started acquiring things I could sell door-to-door in our neighborhood. Retailing Pecans $0.35 A Pound Door-To-Door - I purchased brown paper lunch bags from the supermarket. Then I Gathered up pecans that fell on the ground under the tree in our yard, put them in a brown paper bag on the bathroom scale and increased pecans until it equaled one pound, rolled up the top of the bag and repeated the process until I had ten pounds. Then I walked door-to-door in our neighborhood selling them, and I did not stop until I had sold them all. Selling Puzzles Door-To-Door - Our next door neighbor, an industrial parts salesman, had access to small puzzles. I purchased them for $0.05 each and sold them door-to-door for $0.10 each. Every weekday after school I would sell all ten before arriving back home. Selling Pencils Door-To-Door - I purchased 20 pencils from the local office supply store $.0025, two for a nickel. I sold them door-to-door in our neighborhood for $.05 each and I did not stop until I had sold them all. I always had money for comic books, toys, milkshakes, birthday presents, Christmas presents and even opened a savings account. Those life lessons served me well into adult life as a contractor, business owner, entrepreneur and real estate investor. How Does This Help You? It All Comes Down To Cause And Effect – You will accomplish what you anticipate. For many years people believed the world is flat and some people still believe it. For many years people believed it was unimaginable for a human to run a mile under four minutes. That is until May 06, 1954 when Roger Banister did it. Condition Yourself For Success! Be-Do-Have - Be The Person, Do The Work, Have The Results. In life contractors generate reasons or results and, reasons don’t count. The Secret Is In Thinking Patterns And Habits Success is a few simple disciplines practiced everyday Failure is a few errors in judgment repeated everyday Over the years I have accomplished great things and generated some spectacular malfunctions in construction. Success lands whenever I have procured mentors that are already at where I am headed. Failure always comes from engaging people who cannot produce results but think they can. Though the dogs (negative people) may bark, the caravan (long line of successful contractors) moves on. - Randalism Choose wisely the six people you invest the most of your time with as The Leveling Process Operates 24/7/365 Leveling Is Key To Your Success As A Contractor Birds And People - Flock together with others like themselves because it is comfortable. It only makes sense to soar with eagles rather than keeping your head down pecking at the ground with the chickens. Your Income - Is typically within 20% of the average of the six people you spend the most time with.  Leveling Down - If you spend most of your time at the “Contractors Business Round Table”, this is a little round table in a tavern with a pitcher of beer and several contractors all earning $40,000 a year or less telling each other how to run their businesses then your income will hover between $32,000 and $48,000 (20% plus or minus $40,000). Leveling Up - As you develop your Business Strategy for your construction company your income is likely to increase. The impact on your friends will not be pleasant as you will be proving that good people can win in the construction game by playing it with high moral and ethical standards and the willingness to try something different. The Simplest Way To Level Up - is read about successful people. Watch movies about successful people. Surround yourself with successful people and understand "You Alone Stand Guard At The Portals Of Your Mind" - Randalism The Salesman's Prayer By Og Mandino This bit of text one of my mantras. It's extremely powerful and if you interpret it carefully you will discover the hidden meaning. "Oh creator of all things, help me. For this day I go out into the world naked and alone, and without your hand to guide me I will wander far from the path which leads me to success and happiness. I ask not for gold or garments or even opportunities equal to my ability; instead, guide me so that I may acquire ability equal to my opportunities. You have taught the lion and the eagle how to hunt and prosper with teeth and claw. Teach me how to hunt with words and prosper with love so that I may be a lion among men and an eagle in the market place. Help me to remain humble through obstacles and failures; yet hide not from mine eyes the prize that will come with victory. Assign me task to which others have failed; yet guide me to pluck the seeds of success from their failures. Confront me with fears that will temper my spirit; yet endow me with courage to laugh at my misgivings. Spare me sufficient days to reach my goals; yet help me live this day as if it were my last. Bathe me in good habits that the bad ones may drown; yet grant me compassion for the weaknesses in others. Suffer me to know that all things shall pass; yet help me to count my blessings of today. Expose me to hate so it be not a stranger; yet fill my cup with love to turn strangers into friends. But all these things be only if thy will. I am a small and lonely grape clutching the vine yet thou hast made me different from all others. Verily, there must be a special place for me. Guide me. Help me. Show me the way Lord. Let me become all you planned for me when my seed was planted and selected by you to sprout in the vineyard of the world. Help this humble salesman…..Guide me, God." From: The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino Get everything Og Mandino has ever written, interpret it, study it, appreciate it, apply it. You will be rewarded! In Conclusion: Helping Contractors around the world is one of the reasons we added the FastEasyAccountingStore.com Follow our blogs, listen to Contractor Success M.A.P. Podcast. We Appreciate Our Visitors, Listeners, and Subscribers. – Thank You!! Please feel free to download all the Free Forms and Resources that you find useful for your business.   Download The Contractors APP Now! Access code: FEAHEROS The QR Code Below Will Go Apple Or Android Store Whichever One You Need Simply scan the QR code below or search for ‘MyAccountants’ in the App Store and enter the Access code: FEAHEROS to utilize the powerful App features and capabilities, and benefit from having our Construction Accounting App at your fingertips, 24/7. 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This quadruple understanding is what sets him apart from other Intuit ProAdvisors and Xero accountants to the benefit of all of the construction contractors he serves across the USA. Visit http://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/randal-dehart/ to learn more. Our Co-Founder Randal DeHart - Is a Certified PMP (Project Management Professional) with several years of construction project management experience. His expertise is construction accounting systems engineering and process development. His exhaustive study of several leading experts including the work of Dr. W. Edward Deming, Michael Gerber, Walter A. Shewhart, James Lewis and dozens of others was the foundation upon which our Construction Bookkeeping System is based and continues to evolve and improve. Check out our Contractor Success Map Podcast on iTunes and Follow Randal on Google+  We are here to Help “A Little or A Lot” depending on your needs. 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The episode picks up right were Part 1 left off with Carl.   Pain is a benchmark for greatness How Carl gets by on little sleep What changed after Roger Banister broke the 4 minute mile barrier? Realizing the unbelievable power that is inside you Feeling discomfort and the brilliant lobster analogy (6:36 timestamp) When you don’t know what you’re supposed to be doing - start wtih what you love Meditation and PTSD (11:06 timestamp) Carl walks Kate through a breathing exercise How Kate’s dad is her defau [...]

"Taking the invisible and making it visible. That's what creatives do. They use their superpower of imagination." Jim Kwik found himself on a private flight surrounded with the cast of the new X-Men movie. That's the kind of thing that can happen when you unlock your super powers. But he wasn't always like that... Growing up Jim had a hard time reading. He failed spelling bs and he had to work 10 times as hard as the other kids just to pass tests. He was always falling behind and recurring head injuries didn't help. Until one day after recovering from yet another injury, he became facinated with the way the mind works. Now Jim works with top celebrities to maximize thier mind power. He dives deep into sensory deprivation caves, hikes around deep amazonian rain-forests and takes wild trips on zero gravity machines. He's got a picture of him standing next to every top celebrity that you dream of meeting. How did all this happen for a kid who grew up not knowing how to read? You can learn all that and more on this 26th episode of ShopTalk Radio. "You want to change your life? Change your thoughts. You want to change your thoughts? Change the questions you ask all the time." Some things we learn in this podcast: Backstory of Jim Kwik, how he became a superhero trainer The injury that helped Jim excel from a place of stagnation How Jim's rapid learning program helped a girl to read 30 books and save the life of a loved one Learn about how Jim works to achieve his mission: "To change the way the world learns." How to become a problem solving superhero Why jugglers have bigger brains and how to improve with it Understanding brain states of creative output Lucid dreaming and how to use it to train your mind for high level creativity Maximizing your theta state of creativity to jumpstart imaginative projects How to use a visual tracers to improve reading speed by 25-50% The story of dining with an amazonian tribe who had never had contact with the western world How to spend time with the cast of X-Men and watch your dreams become true About Stan Lee and his unstoppable drive at the age of 92 and who Stan's favorite superhero is What separates operating at cause vs. operating from effect Decision Fatigue and how to counteract it The power of asking new questions to change your life 10 Keys to Strong Mental Acuity Diet Kill A.N.T.s - Automatic Negative Thoughts Exercise Brain Nutrients ( B-Vitamins, vitamins etc.) Positive Peer Group Clean Environment Sleep (lucid dreaming) Brain Protection (wear a helmet) New Learnings Stress Management Links mentioned: Learn more about Roger Banister and how he used visualization to break the 4 minute mile Start improving today for free at SuperheroU Read Tony Hsieh's article about collisions mentioned by Jim  Learn about Quincy Jones and how he leaves space with god Music Credit: X-Men Remix by BMKikiBeats Connect with Jim: Instagram | Twitter | Website

In 1954 Sir Chris Chataway paced Roger Banister to the first ever sub four minute mile, broke the World 5,000m record, won Commonwealth gold over three miles, and European silver over 5,000m... and became the first ever BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

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