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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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I Could Never Be “Normal” Again

Normal in our world is having never trained your mind.

I’d rather be dead.

Seriously, this is heaven.

That Mind Is Hell

Constantly thinking.

70,000 mostly redundant, shit thoughts.

Addicted to distraction.

Fear, of basically everything.

Uppers to get started. Booze, pills, drugs to shut it down.

Worry, FOMO, anxiously picking up devices every 8 seconds.

Constantly looking to the future, so desperately hoping it’s not worse, maybe better.

Vomiting opinions, thinking they are our own, not just programmed by someone else.

Thinking how you feel is based on your life and anything other than how you’re using your body and mind.

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Search For Intelligent Life

A beautiful Nordic alien recently told me she was sent here in search of intelligent life.

“So far I’m yet to find it,” she said.

“Ha, what do you mean?”

“Well, I’ve been reading your news and watching your TV and it’s obvious there’s no intelligent species here.”

Ouch

“Have you kept up with the Kardashians?” she asked.

“And your entertainment?”

“What about it?” I asked.

Looking at me with her hypnotic blue eyes she asked, “What type of intelligent species entertains itself with murder and mayhem?”

“Your politicians? They are your leaders?”

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A Warm Bath Of Limitless Thinking

Whenever I talk about negative thinking I need a good bath to wash it off.

You can never ignore this elephant dung in the room…

But you also never want to get stuck in it.

As I talk about in the track below, like cleaning out a wound it’s necessary to clear out limited thinking, yet limitless thinking is better and better.

Driving Limitless Thinking

It’s bizarre that in our world positive thinking is a “thing.”

Why amazing thinking isn’t the default in our brains and world is beyond us, yet we can choose.

For some people it’s easy to choose amazing, but for many of us it can take training.

Yet, because the brain basically cycles the same thoughts every day…

Once you get it thinking more limitless, it keeps driving more this way.

The Greatest Discovery

“The greatest discovery of my generation,” William James, who died in 1910, said, “is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”

It’s a nice-sounding quote, but 100+ years later, how many of us are trained to actually live this way?

This is the greatest discovery of my life—

How you actually live it.

It’s not about knowing you can alter your attitude.

Or even choosing to do it…

Like getting in the best shape of your life at the gym, you want a training program to deeply condition yourself this way.

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Staying Sane In This Insane World

Another Shooting…

I no longer indulge it.

I don’t even know how to talk to people about it anymore.

Different shooting, all the same nonsense.

Another lunatic’s version of reality forced upon the rest of us.

Another media cycle, milking murder for the all the ratings it can get.

More politicians using it to push more of their agenda.

More Victims, More Blame

Who do we not blame?

Football fans hate on each other as much as Democrats and Republicans as much as this holy war that has raged for centuries.

One man killing a bunch of innocent people a microcosm of the game of hate our god-loving Churches and States—Islamic States, included—play on a grander scale.

Blame the gun laws. Blame mental health. Blame parenting. Any donkey we can pin it on.

Video games that taught him to shoot, and helped him direct his POV-style game. Social media that gives him what many teenage girls want, fame.

Our celebrities for acting out their nightly murder for entertainment.

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I Laugh At Chamath The Destroyer Deeply Unhappy

A buddy forwarded me a link to this podcast with redeemed social-destroyer Chamath Palihapitiya.

Inside apparently he shares his deep wisdom on how people in Silicon Valley are deeply unhappy.

He suggested I listen.

I laughed. I never waste time on podcasts, and I only find it funny hearing more privileged folks are deeply unhappy.

Of course they are.

People Are Deeply Unhappy Everywhere…

There’s so few humans on the planet who don’t feel some sense of lack.

Many of us can pretend otherwise…

We can post a fake-smiling picture on Fakebook and claim it ain’t so, but it’s written all over our lives.

We gulp down our coffee just to get started. Kids and adults alike pop their pills to make it through the day. Booze and more drugs to take the edge off at night.

Uppers. Downers. Social. Porn. News. Online. Food. TV. Gaming.

Our lives are a menagerie of addiction and distraction.

Insecurity. Worry. Anxiety. Fear. Crap thinking. Constant one-upping.

This “normal” many of us define as “happy.”

I Did

Even after a decade of searching for what I wanted in thousands of self-help books I would have told you I was happy.

Confused about life. Frustrated with my job.

Filling my head with news, fearful of where the world was headed. Worry. Insecurity. Constant thinking.

It wasn’t until this mission busted my mind and I truly, for the first time, felt deeply unhappy, I saw the light.

Looking up from the ocean floor I could see my old definition of “happy” was the waterline, but there is so much further we can soar.

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