Limitless Mind Masterclass

Upgrade YOU 2.2. Sing this 5X a day

All I do is win, win, win no matter what…

You may know this opening lyric to the song, All I Do Is Win.

That’s prime mental conditioning right there!

Not saying that’s all you need to build a winning mindset.

But it is one simple example of a Performance Tool.

And not one I go into in this Performance Tools video.

Performance tools drive performance…

See, this is the reason I refer to these as Performance Tools.

Because you can call them ideas.

Or philosophies.

Or principles, practices.

Yet I refer to them as Performance Tools so you have clear intent.

You are using these tools to get your mind in gear.

For thinking and feeling your best.

And unleashing your top performance.

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Upgrade YOU 2.2. Using Performance Tools for changing your mind

If you’re driving a nail, you want a hammer.

For rotating a screw, get a screwdriver.

To build up your pec muscles, you might jump on a bench press.

Increasing your flexibility, harness a tool called stretching.

All these are simple examples of tools you can use to drive goals.

Performance Tools are the same

This all seems so obvious to me now, but years ago it wasn’t.

Topics of the mind were far more complicated.

From reading thousands of books on personal development and hundreds on the mind I had tons of ideas.

Positive thinking.

Affirmations.

Visualizations.

Psychology, neuroscience, dozens of schools of thinking.

Lots and lots and lots of smart-sounding quotes about how you get yourself thinking and feeling your best.

On top of that I added tens of thousands of hours training with whom I perceive to be the best teachers on these topics learning the best tools of the mind.

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Upgrade YOU 2.1. Just one more what?

I’m writing you on this one final time because you know it’s such an important step.

All three Modules of Upgrade YOU—Goals. Mind. Actions—are ridiculously powerful in driving what you want.

Yet this “what?” step is particularly crucial.

That’s because here you’re aligning the way you think and feel with going after your goals.

We all know how much this matters.

Yet it’s not always so easy to do, is it?

Especially coz nobody ever shows you exactly how!

Where are you pointing your magic wand?

See, again, the reason we keep hitting this is because it really matters!

Certainly, this IS happiness.

But especially in our context getting clear on what you’re changing in your mind is key to unlocking your top performance.

So, how clear have you gotten on what you might change?

Come back to the question we asked in this first video—how would you be different?

I mean, really?

Lining up the topics we discussed here, what remedial and generative changes might you make?

How might you invoke the first rule of mind control for optimizing how you think and feel?

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Upgrade YOU 2.1. The first rule of mind control for doing what you want

The brain screws you…

This remedies the #1 mistake in thinking.

It’s so fundamental.

So basic.

Yet it can be extremely “not easy” to do.

I won’t go into detail why.

We go into enough detail together in this video.

All I’ll say here is, so long as you’re thinking, why not be thinking about what you want?

Don’t want to drive to Kansas

OK.

Great.

So, where do you want to drive?

Waze doesn’t ask you for all the destinations you don’t want to go.

Only the one you do.

See my point?

All day every day many of our brains are thinking about what we don’t want.

Ugh, I hate my job.

Haven’t left the house in months.

It’s just so hard with the kids.

Certainly there’s many things in your life you don’t want.

So what do you want?

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S Man 1.2. Wake up full of energy

Ultimate Days

It’s 7:27 am.

I’ve breached one of my protocols.

I haven’t had enough sleep, but the body is so full of energy I just got up, and sat down here to get the day flowing.

My sleep app says I fell asleep at 2:22, so I’m running on less than 5 hours, which I generally consider to be a sleep deficit.

In the early days on Wall Street that was a long night’s sleep.

Even a couple of years ago I might have called that sufficient, but not anymore.

Sleep deprivation…

Is a tried and true form of torture.

Keep a human awake, and ideally in an uncomfortable position, and over a short number of days they’ll break.

In our society, especially in the world of high achievers, getting by on little sleep can be a badge of honor, when ultimately it’s a signal other things are wrong.

Certainly there are times in your life where you’re cutting sleep, but consistently deprive yourself of sleep and it will come out elsewhere.

A client sat for lunch with an accountant who said he was into personal development.

For most of the lunch he kept signaling how hardcore he was, sleeping only a handful of hours a night, cranking, efficient, effective, all that stuff.

My client was kind enough to avoid telling him that’s one of the reasons he is grossly overweight.

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Finally, you can wear this mask in public, or take ones off too

“I no longer have to wear my mask,” Gleefully my friend to said me.

She works in fashion, outside is always dolled up, one of those women who even wears makeup at the gym, so I was surprised when she said—

“It feels freeing that I’m not wearing any makeup or stilts.” (meaning high heels)

And then she added something really meaningful—

“I’ve gotten so used to looking at my face without makeup now that I like it, and I’m never going back.”

“I just get to be myself now,” she said.

One upside from this

There are of course plenty of downsides, but we’re also seeing things that might change for the better.

Whether women feel more free to wear makeup or not might not be such a big deal, yet what it means for our sense of self really is.

In some ways we’re stripping away the veneer, aren’t we?

Seeing more clearly some of the superfluous things that you can remove and never put back in your life.

And then there’s the other side too.

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Quarantine survey: 3 in 5 adults self-improving during lockdown, and 3 things I’m seeing

Beautiful roses grow in manure.

And there are lots of positive things that are coming out of this situation too.

We are spending more time at home with our loves ones, and pets.

“It gets you more focused on what truly matters,” people keep telling me.

Also you see we adapt fast, and as this survey suggests…

We are getting better!

“It would be so easy to give in to the bad mood, worry all day, and focus on all the things you can’t do,” the survey said but “Many adults are choosing to use the time wisely, and in a really encouraging way.”

3 in 5 adults said the lockup “represents an opportunity to catch up on long abandoned goals, ideas or hobbies.”

And they were “Planning on, or already started, self-improving and becoming ‘super human’ during lockdown.”

Pretty cool, ha?

Out of this tragedy might we see a new wave of human development?

Could this be a phase of creative destruction that forces us and our society to evolve?

So we’re not just making it through but coming out of this more super!

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So long as ur home, you might as well swing from the chandelier

This song started playing randomly on my phone this am.

I don’t know if you know it?

By Sia, in the chorus she sings—

I’m gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier

I’m gonna live like tomorrow doesn’t exist

There’s some bad “teachings” from this song I’ll talk about in a bit.

But there’s much good to get from it too.

Lemons from Lemonade

There’s of course lots of bad sh*t going on right now.

People are sick and dying.

Our economy and financial futures look bleak.

For the greater good we’ve given up all of our freedoms, uncertain what we’ll get back.

Yes, we can sink in this.

Spend your days and nights filled with terror, fear, worry, anxiety, depression.

Or you can use these hardest times to get stronger.

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How you stop the virus killing your life, by focusing on these 3 things

When I worked on Wall Street I never understood why busy people wasted so much time.

Much of the day in fact gets slaughtered in things that have zero bearing on your success.

Just chopping things out.

And focusing on what truly matters, you can massively amplify your success in far less time.

Thinking is the same.

70,000 mostly negative redundant thoughts

As I’ve written about lots of times—like here, here, here—the brain is a hellish machine that ruins your life.

Killing your seconds.

Killing any chance you have of living in a positive mindset.

Killing precious moments you could be focused on valuable things.

Killing your life.

Such is the plight of humanity.

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The Mistake We Make On Belief That Holds Us Back From Building Belief

Monster headline, right?

That’s coz it’s a monster topic.

Perhaps this is the biggest monster that eats away at achieving our biggest goals.

“Just Give Me Something To Believe”

The Bravery sing…

The faces all around me they don’t smile they just crack

Waiting for our ship to come but our ship’s not coming back

We do our time like pennies in a jar

What are we saving for? What are we saving for?

So give me something to believe

‘Cause I am living just to breathe

And I need something more

To keep on breathing for

So give me something to believe

So Many Of Us Want To Believe, Don’t We?

A founder said to me last week he still doesn’t believe he’ll get his business to work.

“If I believe it more,” he said, “I know I can find a way.”

“That makes sense to a brain waiting to see pigs fly doesn’t it?” I responded.

Puzzled, he murmured, “What do you mean?”

I told him that for years I tried to convince myself that my outrageous goals were possible.

“And you know what I learned from tens of thousands of hours invested in mental conditioning? “I asked him.

It’s very difficult to get that brain of yours to believe what’s possible.

No matter how much you do, it’s mostly a see-believe faculty, isn’t it?

I’ll believe it when I see it, we say.

But believing gets easier when you see it the other way.

Action Before Believing Takes Bravery

Because it can be hard to convince your brain that your goals are possible…

Many of us never take the actions that make our goals possible.

It makes sense to think, If only you can get yourself to believe it is possible, then you will do those things.

But if instead you can just kick the belief can down the road a little bit…

And take your best action anyways…

The more you believe your goals are possible!

In this short video you can watch me sing about it!

Intel 3

My best learnings on the mind are called Intel 1-4.

I can’t say where I got this intel, only that these are the most important commandments I follow.

Intel 3 describes the endless cycle of thinking and doing that keeps humanity stuck on the treadmill.

Ultimately…

As you see in the diagram, this cause and effect circle jerk goes—

Our thoughts merely reflect the energetic state of the body-mind machine
The computer-like thinking mind computes we need to do something to change it
So we can achieve a result
So we can feel different
So we can have different thoughts
Which only circles back to our thoughts are based on energy

Hence, if we succeed in changing our energy, our thinking changes.

But, as tends to be the case, ultimately the thinking machine reverts back to its energetic set-point.

And so we go…

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Duck Rabbit

We often talk about being open minded, don’t we?

Wanting to unlock our potential.

See another person’s perspective.

The world through another’s eyes.

For some people it comes more naturally, but for most of us it can take some training.

This Or That?

We live in an increasingly polarized world.

Left or right.

Black or white.

Binary or not binary.

Climate change believer or denier, etc.

This tears our world apart, but ultimately has nothing to do with our world.

Only the way our brains are wired.

Like a computer—0,1.

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Transform To Soar

Like most great spiritual teachers he’s a storyteller.

Often avoiding direct answers his stories convey what you need.

I met with him to discuss a leap I was making.

Back then I felt stuck.

There were moves I didn’t know how to make.

Things I wasn’t able to do.

I only knew to continue.

To Transform

After we met I sat in a filmed studio session he was hosting.

I don’t recall where he started but like a dream soon we had arrived here.

“Do you know the caterpillar doesn’t become a butterfly?” he provoked the audience.

When the caterpillar goes into its chrysalis it doesn’t know why.

It’s living its nature.

Building a protective shell encasing itself inside.

It cannot know why.

Nor what it will emerge to be.

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“I Want To Be The Hulk Too”

We received a bunch of emails on this article, When You Must Smash It, basically asking the same thing—

How can I better do this for myself?

Great question.

Let’s smash it!

Perfect Practice

It’s often said that practice makes perfect, but this is wrong.

Practice makes permanent.

Perfect practice makes perfect.

Of course in these articles and even my Masterclasses it’s near impossible to convey how to perfectly use these methods.

Reading even 100 top books on boxing is likely far less valuable than one hour training with a pro.

And the same is true with what we can do here together.

That’s said, let’s Smash It further.

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Silly Cats Having So Much Fun

Chasing around a laser light thinking it’s real.

Shine it on the floor they paw after it like a mouse.

Put it on the wall, they climb up.

Are They Confused?

Maybe they know it’s a game?

An illusion projected from a device?

Perhaps they play anyways because it’s fun?

They are of course just cats, easily confused by what is real.

Yet are they really much different to kids playing made up games?

No care what is real or make believe, just running around having fun.

What happens to us adults?

Have We Forgotten The Play?

I feel I should avoid going deep here.

To say real-ity is an illusion.

Just a light shining through a human machine.

Yet even on a shallow level us adults have mostly forgotten the play.

Taking all this oh so seriously, pawing after “real” things to really change how we feel.

We think…

When I get that house or job or lover or 3 drinks in me, now I’ll be having more fun.

Although our greatest human knowledge tells us that’s the illusion…

We’ve never been taught to really live our dream.

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Stop Doubt Being Redoubtable

Redoubtable was Dictionary.com word of the day.

With my third grade vocabulary I didn’t know what it means.

But I took it in with great meaning.

Being Redoubtable

When you see “Re” at the front of a word it often means to do it again.

e.g. Remember. Reuse. Redo.

But here it means the opposite of doing doubt again…

Redoubtable—that is to be feared; formidable, especially as an opponent.

Great word, right?

Why again doubt when you can have…

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You Hanging In There?

It’s a getting a little gnarly, isn’t it?

The political landscape is fractured like the desert after a quake.

Violence is erupting worse than a summer blockbuster.

Abuse is spewing to the surface from many fissures; Church, Scouts, the global pedo network showing their heads.

Stock market is swelling and dropping, perhaps closing out.

You Doing OK?

In times like these we can all get tossed around, can’t we?

Some of us are directly affected.

Most of us are whipsawed by the media storm.

I’ve trained myself to block out that noisy global catastrophe.

But like I’m sure many of you, some people around me are being battered by the storm.

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“You Should Be Honored By My Lateness”

Last name ever

First name greatest

Like a sprained ankle, boy, I ain’t nothin’ to play with…

Drake raps in Forever.

It May Not Mean Nothing To Y’all

But understand nothin’ was done for me

So I don’t plan on stoppin’ at all

I want this shit forever, man—ever, man—ever, man…

Yeah I’m about my business

Killing all these rappers you would swear I had a hit list

Everyone who doubted me is asking for forgiveness

If you ain’t been a part of it at least you got to witness

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They’re The Same Fisherman

A teacher told me a tale about two fisherman.

One was just a lowly fisherman.

He grew up by sea, his father was a fisherman, so too was he.

The other was a successful merchant.

One of the richest and most respected men in the kingdom.

Through a twist of fate he lost it all.

His business collapsed.

Wife left.

Friends jumped ship.

Desperate. Broken. Nowhere to turn.

He turned to sea.

Oh, that’s tragic, one might think.

How awful it must be to lose it all.

Yet, as the storyteller, perhaps Seneca, was pointing out…

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Die In The Arena

“I want to die on the field,” my client said.

“Like a quarterback unable to move in the end I want to know I gave it all.”

“When I exit this game of life,” looking at me with steely resolve he said, “Every ounce of me I leave here, in the field.”

He’s an intense fellow, but we all get where he’s coming from, don’t we?

Who Wants To Leave This Game…

Knowing we could have done more.

Given more.

Tried harder.

Stretched further.

Overcome more fears.

Unleashed our potential.

Obliterated those things that held us back.

In his words, “Become who I was destined to be.”

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