Why Most People Stay Stuck in Pain: The Brutal Truth About Growth, Power, and Purpose
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00:00 - Untitled
00:07 - The Journey to Your Ultimate Life
07:12 - Disruption: Friend or Foe
09:30 - Framing Disruption in Life
17:27 - Embracing Disruption: The Path to Personal Refinement
23:27 - Navigating Disruption: Trust and Discipline
31:06 - Embracing Disruption for Personal Growth
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Speaker AHey there.
Speaker AWelcome to this episode of your ultimate life.
Speaker AYour ultimate life.
Speaker AHey, I had AI make a picture.
Speaker AIsn't that pretty good?
Speaker ARight?
Speaker AKind of fun using all that stuff.
Speaker AAnd, you know, I'm going to, in a couple of episodes, I'm going to devote an entire episode to AI not to educate you, because I'm assuming you're using it like crazy already.
Speaker ABut as to the possibilities and the problems, the premise, the promise of that idea, and I like the phrase the premise and the promise of something because the premise is the foundational principle.
Speaker ALike, what is the premise if you think about the Ten Commandments?
Speaker AThe premise of the Ten Commandments is God the Creator, giving us his creation some instructions.
Speaker AAnd you can look at it as, this is a bunch of don't do this or I'm going to zap you.
Speaker AOr you can look at it as a prescription for a happy and productive life.
Speaker AAnd you can look at it as a bunch of restrictions that you push against, why can't I cheat, steal, lie, commit adultery, kill and do whatever?
Speaker AAnd you could say, one answer is because you know I'm going to get caught and burned.
Speaker AAnother answer is because it's not nice.
Speaker AAnd the more expansive answer to me is because it makes me into a good person if I am kind to others, if I truly don't worship money instead of God.
Speaker AYou know, he says no other gods before me, and he was talking to people with wooden stone gods.
Speaker ABut it's also money and position and status and all the rest.
Speaker ASo the premise and the promise of those, the commandments to me, whatever they are, Ten Commandments or other ones in other books, is this is a prescription for a fully developed, happy, complete life, not a bag of restrictions.
Speaker ADon't do this or I'm going to blow you up kind of stuff, I don't.
Speaker AI choose not to look at it that way.
Speaker AMy life experience shows me that because I lived recalcitrant and rebellious, pushing against that, doing whatever I want.
Speaker AI did that for a long time and it got me into trouble.
Speaker AFailed relationships, drugs, addictions, and you guys know the stories.
Speaker AAnd when I have changed that completely in the last 18 years, since 2007, the divine interventions, and, you know, I refer to that a lot.
Speaker ABut I want to invite you to do something so we're gonna have a whole bunch of invitations today.
Speaker AOne invitation is to read the book Tightrope of Depression.
Speaker ANow just give me a second and I'm going to hold it up for you.
Speaker AI invite you to take a look at this book, not because you're desperately interested in my previous life, but it's a.
Speaker AIt's a manifesto of how you can take terrible struggles in your life and turn them into something.
Speaker AAnd that means your struggles, mine happen to be a certain bunch.
Speaker ABut I invite you to consider the possibility that you're divine.
Speaker AYou're capable, divinity, capability, possibility.
Speaker AI say that all the time.
Speaker AYou're a divine being.
Speaker AYou're made by God, created by God.
Speaker ASo was I.
Speaker ALovingly, carefully, intentionally.
Speaker AAnd then so what?
Speaker AWell, the so what is that means you have divine DNA woven into you.
Speaker ADivine DNA means you're a creator.
Speaker AIt means you have, you know, the heritage, the characteristics and attributes of God in you.
Speaker AObviously in all of us, they're wildly an embryo because we are all miles out of alignment with that ideal.
Speaker AI interviewed someone for the podcast here a little bit ago and we were talking before the show about integrity.
Speaker AAnd he said, yeah, we're all out of integrity.
Speaker AWe're all full of crap.
Speaker AAnd this particular person I know is a person who is fanatic about their integrity.
Speaker AAnd he was still saying, yeah, you know, and I was thinking about that afterwards and even this morning also, and just listing the number of ways where I am not in integrity.
Speaker AAnd what I mean by that is integrity is a set of principles, ideas, thoughts that you only you believe.
Speaker AI'm not talking about externally imposed, that you should conduct your life.
Speaker ABy that you believe it.
Speaker AI don't mean should in the way of shooting on yourself, but I just mean you hold a set of principles dear and anytime you think, act or do anything that's out of alignment, you have integrity.
Speaker ANow that's not an indictment, it's just an observation.
Speaker ASo anyways, I sat and thought about that this morning.
Speaker AI thought, holy moly, there's a boatload of ways where I'm out of integrity.
Speaker ANot that I've gone and done a thing, but.
Speaker ABut the thought, the mere thought of the entertainment of the questioning.
Speaker AThat's where the first deviation from the path of integrity starts.
Speaker AAnyway, so this is about creating your ultimate life.
Speaker AAnd that is daily, moment to moment, choosing to be in integrity with what you think you should be.
Speaker ANot me, you, what you believe in your own heart.
Speaker AAnd then when we're not, which is all the time fixing it constantly Adjusting things.
Speaker AI heard a guy who's a church leader give a talk.
Speaker AHe was a pilot first, you know, big pilot for big jets.
Speaker AFlew for Lufthansa, I think.
Speaker ALong, long flights.
Speaker AGermany to us, Canada and places all over the place.
Speaker AAnd he then, you know, got up in the company and became VP of something or other.
Speaker ABut he was talking about the thousands of tiny course corrections you have to make with an airplane.
Speaker AOtherwise you end up way off course.
Speaker AA tenth of a degree out of alignment means you end up after, you know, six, seven, eight hours of flying way off course.
Speaker AAnd the constant thousands of tiny course corrections that the pilot, and now the computers with pilots there make to the course all the time because of externalities, wind and wind shear and, you know, difference in atmospheric pressure and just all kinds of stuff, right?
Speaker ASo that is.
Speaker AThat is the truth of creating your ultimate life.
Speaker AYour ultimate life is a life of purpose, prosperity, and joy.
Speaker ANow, in order to do that, you got to have a destination.
Speaker AWhat is your purpose?
Speaker AWhat does your ultimate life look like?
Speaker AI have a clear, crystal clear picture of what that is for me, with massive amounts of detail and all kinds of emotional excitement attached to the detail.
Speaker AI know what it feels like, looks like, smells like, and everything.
Speaker AI know what my reaction is to each of those things, physical and spiritual.
Speaker AI also am keenly aware of when I'm in a place at all of, like, deviating from that course.
Speaker AAnd that's the integrity issue.
Speaker ASo integrity is a key piece of this.
Speaker ANow, today I named this episode Disruption Friend or Foe.
Speaker ABecause when you think about getting on or off course, think of the airplane or your life.
Speaker ATons of things pull you, invite you, push you, drag you, beat you, whatever the right word is, probably depending on the disruption and how well you feel that day.
Speaker AOff course, of course, off course.
Speaker AAnd so then the question is, what are you going to do?
Speaker AI'm tired.
Speaker AI'm going to let it go.
Speaker AOh, I'm off course.
Speaker AGee, I better think about that sometimes.
Speaker AOh, I.
Speaker AI better look at that right now.
Speaker AOr, you know, an instantaneous reaction.
Speaker AOkay, little course correction.
Speaker ABecause you and I both know when you get off course very long, you know, and it's a ways down there, it's a lot more work to get back on course.
Speaker AYou know, harking back to my 2007 divine intervention that woke me up from addiction and, you know, ruining my life, et cetera, et cetera, that was a massive shift.
Speaker AI was way the heck off course.
Speaker AIn fact, I.
Speaker AI didn't even know where course was that's the part of the PTAC I've talked often about personal truth.
Speaker AOne of the most important things I've done in the last 18 years is choose my course.
Speaker AThat's where I'm going.
Speaker AThat's who I am.
Speaker ABecause otherwise, how the heck do you know you're off course?
Speaker AI mean, you're free to live any way you want.
Speaker AI don't care.
Speaker AI'm just going to go with the flow every day.
Speaker AAnd I have a client that has done that a lot.
Speaker AAnd they said, yeah, I've done all right and enlisted all these things.
Speaker AThey came back about a month later and said, you know, in thinking about this, I have done that.
Speaker ABut I also noticed that I now start, I'm starting to really believe that my ultimate expression, my ultimate goals, my most powerful contribution isn't just by going with the flow and doing what seems right at the time there needs to be.
Speaker AAnd this is him talking my some structure, some focus in order for me really to achieve that.
Speaker ASo that, you know, we talked about what that meant and what a discovery that was because that's an internal shift.
Speaker AI could say that forever and it wouldn't matter.
Speaker ABut when you discover a thing.
Speaker ASo today is about helping you frame disruptions in your life.
Speaker AHow are you going to frame those?
Speaker AOkay, so here's a possible definition.
Speaker ALet's define disruption as an unexpected change, something that rattles the status quo.
Speaker AYou know, you're pulled off course.
Speaker AAll right, maybe a sudden gust of wind blows your plane off course.
Speaker ASince we used the aviation example earlier, so it might come from many forms.
Speaker ASome event outside of your control.
Speaker AYour business partner rips you off for 100,000 or a million, or some customer leaves a zero star review and rips you to pieces on some social or on feedback.
Speaker AIf you sell on ebay or at work, someone you know runs to your boss and says all kinds of things about you.
Speaker AAll those things can happen and they, they bash you off course.
Speaker AOne, oh, how could they say that?
Speaker AAnd then you personally start wondering, what's wrong with me?
Speaker AAnd then there's another thing.
Speaker AWow, what's the boss going to think?
Speaker AOh no, is my reputation ruin my chances for promotion, etc.
Speaker AEtc.
Speaker AEtc.
Speaker ASo all of those things do and can happen.
Speaker ANow there can be tech shifts like we're in the middle of AI.
Speaker AI mentioned that earlier and I'm going to do a episode on that about the monumental change that it is and how to use it beautifully, faithfully, clearly, elegantly, effectively, ethically and everything else.
Speaker AYou know, Always a lot of questions about ethics of this, that and you know what that comes from people trying to dance at the edge.
Speaker AYou can use these tools fabulously and well without trying to get to the edge of something.
Speaker AHow far can I go before it's unethical?
Speaker AWell, why don't we stop worrying about that and just use it for all the good stuff without worrying about the fringes.
Speaker ABut you know, somebody's always going to do that anyway.
Speaker AThose are disruptions.
Speaker ANow the question is, what are your personal disruptions?
Speaker AYou can have a little one.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker AI got a message from a client the other day that said, I don't know if I want to, you know, keep going.
Speaker AI don't know if, you know, if I'm ready to do all the things you're asking me to do.
Speaker AAnd it's not going to hurt me if that client says I'm done coaching.
Speaker AThat isn't going to hurt me.
Speaker AMy business is thriving.
Speaker AI have clients, I'm doing all kinds of good stuff.
Speaker ABut it makes me sad for them because the truth is we, you and me, we're only as powerful as we choose to be.
Speaker AWe are only as prepared as our daily routine.
Speaker AWe are only as committed as the clarity of our vision.
Speaker AIf we have a fuzzy vision out there, well, it's really hard to get committed to fuzzy, fuzzy stuff, you know, out of focus, picture.
Speaker AIt's not fun.
Speaker ASo get clear on your vision.
Speaker AThat is a tool to get around disruptions.
Speaker AAll right, so you know about some of mine.
Speaker AI died in 2018.
Speaker AYou know, I got a fatal illness, necrotizing MRSA, right.
Speaker AAnd that's a terrible superbug that is antibiotic resistant.
Speaker AAnd I talked to a lady the other day that said, wow, she had it on her elbow once and it about wrecked her arm.
Speaker AI know somebody that had to have a limb amputated because of that.
Speaker AWell, I had that in both my lungs and in my bloodstream.
Speaker AAnd the infectious disease had at the university told me that is a death sentence.
Speaker AHe said the 10 day kill rate of that is 100%.
Speaker AAnd I didn't get to the hospital till the end of day five.
Speaker ASo my survival was a miracle.
Speaker AThat was a disruption.
Speaker AIf you want the details, it's in the book.
Speaker AMeeting God at the door.
Speaker AMeeting God at the door.
Speaker ALooks like this.
Speaker AMeeting God at the door.
Speaker AI've got a green screen on, so it's showing there.
Speaker AMeeting God at the door.
Speaker AConversations, choices and commitments of a near death experience.
Speaker ATells you everything that happened.
Speaker AHad three conversations.
Speaker AAnyway, it was a massive disruption coma for 17 days, couldn't walk, etc.
Speaker AEtc.
Speaker ASo a lot of traumatic stuff.
Speaker ANow, there can be little disruptions.
Speaker AI'll give you an example.
Speaker AI bought a camera online in a store in Canada, and all of a sudden I wasn't getting any.
Speaker AYou know, it didn't get an invoice, didn't get an acknowledgment of payment, and I paid him.
Speaker AAnd it's quite an expensive video camera, several thousand dollars.
Speaker AAll of a sudden they began to think, oh, no, what if it's a scam?
Speaker AWhat if it's a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker ASo we got a hold of PayPal and call, call, call, call, call.
Speaker AAnd finally after several days, got a hold of the merchant, still don't know if they're going to deliver.
Speaker APromise, promise, promise, et cetera.
Speaker ASo that is a disruption.
Speaker ACertainly not one as big as dying, not feeling good.
Speaker AMy.
Speaker AYou guys know from my story that I've got back problems sometimes and I use cane sometimes, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker AAnd some days that's more of a disruption than others.
Speaker AAll right, so those are mine.
Speaker ARight now.
Speaker AI want you to think of yours.
Speaker AInternal disruptions, right?
Speaker AI'm not good enough.
Speaker AI can't do this.
Speaker AI'm lazy.
Speaker AOh, why do I always get distracted?
Speaker AAnd on and on and on.
Speaker AThose are all disruptions.
Speaker AAnd they come from internal stories, they come from your own beliefs.
Speaker AThey come from bad childhood experiences that you've allowed to perpetuate to your adulthood.
Speaker AAnd boy, I did that for decades.
Speaker ALiterally decades, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker ASo here is the issue for you, disruptions.
Speaker AFriend or foe is the way I want to talk about this.
Speaker AAnd so I want to give you some contrast as we go through friend or foe, because they can be either one.
Speaker ALike I've said before, terrible experiences can ruin you, or they can refine you, ruin you or refine you.
Speaker AAnd you know the cool thing?
Speaker AYou get to choose.
Speaker AAnd the other good news is, even if you've chosen up to this very day to let some terrible experience ruin you, you can now choose to let it refine you, because the decision is not permanent.
Speaker AYou can choose to get lessons and make choices so that it refines you.
Speaker ADisruption is going to expose your comfort zones.
Speaker AWhen things get blown out of proportion, you're going to rip the COVID off your mediocrity.
Speaker AAnd where are you settling for mediocrity?
Speaker ARight?
Speaker ADisruptions and the choices you make with them are what life is made out of.
Speaker AThe most important thing you or I have to offer is the story of our life.
Speaker AAnd I don't mean a memoir.
Speaker AI'm talking about the growth choices we make.
Speaker ANow, here's a second invitation.
Speaker AI want you right now, if you're not driving, to go to www.dreambuildwriteit.com www.dreambuildriteit.com three times a year, I conduct a challenge that is an invitation to explore your life story and make money with it.
Speaker ASave the world, change the world, do big things.
Speaker AAnd you might think my story's not interesting.
Speaker AI can't do that.
Speaker AThat's nonsense.
Speaker AThat's fear talking.
Speaker AAnd you have.
Speaker AIt's just not true.
Speaker ABecause you are striving for success.
Speaker AYou are striving to add good to the world or you wouldn't be listening to this show.
Speaker AAnd the story of your growth, your choices, your resilience, ruin refined.
Speaker AThe story of your circumstance is your most valuable asset.
Speaker AMine too.
Speaker AWww.dreambuildwriteit.com Go there and join the next challenge.
Speaker AAll right, so when you have disruptions and they blow off your comfort zone and they expose mediocrity, instead of getting angry or after you've been frustrated or angry for just a minute, why don't you choose to look at it as the refiner's fire?
Speaker AAnd I know that might be uncomfortable.
Speaker AYou might say, why do I got to have a refiner's fire?
Speaker AWhy does everything have to be so hard?
Speaker AOkay, it's not.
Speaker AWhat if we don't?
Speaker AWhat if things went through life easily and we just cruised and we didn't have to fight and we didn't have to work hard and it just cruised?
Speaker AAnd mostly a few little things here and there, but mostly it was okay.
Speaker AHow powerful are you going to be when you're dead at the end, when you're finished?
Speaker AYou and I, we came into the world with nothing, right?
Speaker AHelpless, tiny baby with nothing.
Speaker AWhen we leave, we're not going to take anything either.
Speaker AYou know that old Alan Parsons song, can't take it with you no matter what you do.
Speaker AAnd the it is all the physical stuff, positions, power, money, houses, cars, whatever.
Speaker AYou're not going to take that with you.
Speaker AIt's not even going to matter.
Speaker AThe only thing me and you, we're going to take with us is what we've made out of ourselves.
Speaker AWell, that's the refiner's fire stuff.
Speaker ASo I'll just talk about me, but I want you to hear it for you.
Speaker AIf I go through life avoiding skating not having tough things, then that's the only refinement I get.
Speaker AMediocre.
Speaker ASo I'm going to show up at the end dead, only refined in a mediocre way.
Speaker AI can't stand mediocrity in myself.
Speaker AI went, then my answer is, bring on the fire.
Speaker ABring on the fire.
Speaker ABecause when I go home again.
Speaker AI did that once, Diane.
Speaker AWhen I go home again, I want to stand there as refined as I could be.
Speaker AI want to have done everything I could with the circumstances I had, hard or otherwise, to be as refined as possible.
Speaker AThat's what I want.
Speaker AI'm not telling you what you need to want, but I can tell you the refiner's fire is a gift.
Speaker AIt's not an enemy.
Speaker AOkay, so that is one way to think about that.
Speaker ANow, here's another one.
Speaker AIf you think of disruptions as a friend, it invites you into fierce life ownership.
Speaker ANow, you know, my mission this year is to visit with reach, talk to 300 million people.
Speaker AThat's a horrifically, not horrifically, wonderfully big number, right?
Speaker ATalk to them about what?
Speaker AWell, message.
Speaker AMethod.
Speaker AMastery.
Speaker AMessage.
Speaker AMethod mastery.
Speaker AMessage is what the possibility is.
Speaker AMethod is how to get there.
Speaker AAnd mastery is ultimate fierce life ownership.
Speaker AThe message is really simple.
Speaker AMost of us, in fact, I would say all of us to some degree or another, live at one end of our possibility.
Speaker AAnd there's a continuum.
Speaker AAnd I realize that you may be well on your way, not trying to offend anybody, but the.
Speaker AThe unholy trinity of characteristics over here are learned helplessness, where we believe we just can't do anything, addiction to mediocrity, where we just settle and victim mindset, where we're talking about everything happens to me.
Speaker AThe other end of that rainbow, where the pot of gold is, is a fierce life ownership, where you realize you create everything.
Speaker AYou have a vivid and powerful commitment to excellence, where you choose to demand excellence of yourself.
Speaker AWe can't demand things of others, but demand excellence of yourself.
Speaker AAnd we live every day with a heart, a yearning, a love, a commitment to service.
Speaker ASo the message is you and you alone can move from addiction to mediocrity, learned helplessness, and victim mindset to a place of fierce life ownership, commitment to excellence, and a yearning to serve.
Speaker AThat trinity is the most happy place in the world.
Speaker AIf you take fierce life ownership and you do it, and you create your life every day, and you love serving and you have a commitment to excellence, that doesn't mean perfection, but a commitment to excellence, that is the place of the most joy.
Speaker AI have ever experienced.
Speaker AI want you to think about that.
Speaker AI've never been satisfied with mediocrity.
Speaker AI've never been satisfied with the victim thing.
Speaker AAnd I don't believe you truly are either.
Speaker ASo it is a catalyst.
Speaker ADisruption is a catalyst.
Speaker AIt calls forth awareness.
Speaker AIt calls forth the opportunity to serve, to grow, and you know exactly what I mean.
Speaker ANow, if we treat it as a foe, then it's going to be.
Speaker AI refuse to adapt.
Speaker AI'm afraid of it.
Speaker AI get it mad at it.
Speaker AI rail at it.
Speaker AI yell at whoever caused it, whether it's God or the universe or the economy or the election.
Speaker AYou know, you got people running around frothing at the mouth.
Speaker AI live in Canada, but we just had an election too.
Speaker ASo it's the same up here.
Speaker AYou got people running around in the United States and Canada, at least frothing at the mouth about the fact that Trump won the election.
Speaker AThere would be people frothing at the mouth if the other way had happened, right?
Speaker ABlaming that outcome for your problems is the most ridiculous waste of time because it doesn't change anything.
Speaker AIt doesn't advance your.
Speaker AOur growth.
Speaker AEither one of us did it.
Speaker AIt doesn't do that.
Speaker ASo quit pretending that it does.
Speaker AIf you want to protest, if you want to vote different, if you want to encourage, encourage this or that, go ahead.
Speaker ABut blaming your lack of possibility and success on an externality is like that guy that stood at the seashore trying to hold back the tide.
Speaker AI forgot his name.
Speaker AIt was a mythology story about some dude that, some king, and he thought by the power of his royal presence, he was going to hold back the tide.
Speaker AWell, that's nonsense.
Speaker AYou are sovereign.
Speaker AAct like it.
Speaker AAll right, another role of discipline.
Speaker AI want to talk about the role of trust and discipline in navigating disruption.
Speaker ATrust and discipline.
Speaker AThose are two super powerful words.
Speaker ATrust in your own ability.
Speaker ATrust in your divine capability.
Speaker AYou can refuse to believe in God if you want to, but you have had circumstances in, in your life where, you know, there has been intuition.
Speaker ACall it your higher self, the higher power, the universe, whatever you want.
Speaker AThere's something bigger than you and you know it.
Speaker ATrust.
Speaker ATrust.
Speaker ALearn to develop that intuition and then trust it, which means take action.
Speaker AThat is particularly important when some big disruption has happened.
Speaker ASomething has shut you down, pushed you off course, blown up what you were trying to do, or whatever it is.
Speaker ATrust there's a path back.
Speaker ATrust there is a way forward.
Speaker ATrust there is possibility ahead.
Speaker AIt doesn't mean it's easy and you won't have to crawl over some broken glass or walk over some hot coals.
Speaker ABut trust is so critical in generating the power to do that.
Speaker ABecause if we don't trust that there's anything going forward, then the only thing we're ever going to do is stand at the edge of life and stick our toe in and wait for somebody to promise us that it won't be difficult.
Speaker ANot going to happen.
Speaker ANo one is coming.
Speaker ASo discipline is the same way.
Speaker ADiscipline, some people think, is a harsh word.
Speaker AI have a client who says she loves the word discipline.
Speaker AIt comes from the word disciple, which means a follower of.
Speaker AAre you a follower of excellence?
Speaker AA follower of fierce life ownership, A follower of your own gifts and talents?
Speaker AMost folks don't recognize or value their own gifts and talents.
Speaker AThey don't honor and realize the power and opportunity that they have.
Speaker ASo I'm speaking to you now.
Speaker AYour gifts and talents, your things that you've developed, the stuff you know you do well, the learnings from your life experience.
Speaker AAre you sharing those with others?
Speaker ABecause when we overcome something, you know what, funny, one of the first things that happen is we have this yearning to share with other people, to help them avoid the pain, discomfort, struggle that you or I have endured.
Speaker ASo make a choice.
Speaker AMake a choice, because the choice is yours to prepare every day.
Speaker AThat's why the PTAC is so important.
Speaker AAnother invitation for you is the book Living with Purpose and Power.
Speaker AAnd I don't have it right here.
Speaker AOh yes I do.
Speaker ARight here.
Speaker ALiving with purpose and Power.
Speaker AI invite you to read this.
Speaker AThis is the best book ever written about how to create your life purpose.
Speaker APeople say, well, I can't.
Speaker AI don't know what my purpose is.
Speaker AWell, you know, it's not going to come in an Amazon box.
Speaker AYou're going to go, and you're not going to go dig it up in the yard.
Speaker AIt comes when you mine your gifts and talents.
Speaker AIt comes when you dive into the service of others.
Speaker AThere's a triple helix.
Speaker AYour skills, the things you've learned and are probably selling in the marketplace.
Speaker AYour gifts, which are those natural proclivities you and I came with and your life experience, which is the basket in which all of that unfolded.
Speaker AThose things together you can find your calling, your yearning.
Speaker AAnd that yearning will power you through any disruption.
Speaker ADisruption.
Speaker ASo here's another modern day disruption.
Speaker AAI.
Speaker AYou got people frantic about what it's going to do.
Speaker AAnd I listened to part of the testimony before the United States Congress the other day about Sam Altman, the guy that's running OpenAI at Chat chatgpt company he talked about some scary stuff, but it's only scary if you don't plan for it and use it.
Speaker AYou know, if you want to sit and imagine a future where AI becomes sentient and we're all going to be subject to robots, go ahead.
Speaker AYou can imagine that and be a prepper and doomsday watcher for that if you want to.
Speaker AI don't know how fast and how intelligent and how capable those devices are becoming.
Speaker AI know it's way faster than you or I know because the cutting edge is never what's available to consumers and even smart people that read all the articles.
Speaker AWay past that, experimental things.
Speaker ASo instead of worrying, take that disruption and use it.
Speaker AOkay?
Speaker AI remember in the 80s when synthesizers first came out, musicians of the world thought that was going to be the end of orchestras and music, the music industry.
Speaker AAnd it's turned out here now, 30 years, 40 years later, it's not at all or just another tool.
Speaker AAI is going to be the same way.
Speaker AAnd this tool is getting better and better and faster and faster and who knows, there's going to be a point of singularity where it exceeds our ability and attention.
Speaker AYou know, artificial general intelligence, AGI is what they call that, where the AI can think and reason and do everything a human brain can do.
Speaker AI don't know, a year, five years maybe that will come.
Speaker AIn the meantime, I'm going to prepare and I'm going to use it for all it's worth.
Speaker AI just had a convo with Chat Chatty this morning about a university I'm creating.
Speaker AI am launching your ultimate life coaching university in January of 26.
Speaker AIt's going to be the most powerful, best coaching university in the world with the most powerful profound graduates, the most awesome prepared and you know why?
Speaker ABecause AI is going to disrupt the coaching industry is going to blow it to pieces.
Speaker AMediocrity will no longer be allowed because AI will perform at the level of 85 to 90% of coaching today, which is formulaic and information driven.
Speaker AWell, no Olympic athlete got to the podium with information.
Speaker ANo one got to the podium of in any field with just information.
Speaker AThe transformation, transmutation, the biggest word you can find, which is a state change in the beingness of someone.
Speaker AThat's what got you to the podium when you move from I can't do this, I doubt myself to I know I can.
Speaker AAnd information, however sophisticated, does not provide that growth.
Speaker ASo this huge disruption is a.
Speaker AI use it, maximize it, don't cheat don't plagiarize, don't push the edges, but use it.
Speaker AAnd this isn't the podcast episode to teach about that.
Speaker AAnd I might do that later, I don't know.
Speaker ABut that changes, like every minute.
Speaker AI'm two months ahead, so I'm recording this.
Speaker ABy the time it came out, everything I taught about it would be yesterday's news.
Speaker AI just went and spoke at an event, Philadelphia, a few days ago, and one of the speakers on there was a high powered AI nerd and he talked about every different platform and his view about what it's good for and so forth.
Speaker AAnd I realize in two or three months that'll all be wrong anyway, and that's okay.
Speaker AThat's how fast this is growing.
Speaker ASo this modern day disruption, don't let it wreck your life.
Speaker ADon't let anything wreck your life.
Speaker AYou're the sovereign, you own it.
Speaker AAll right, so here's one more thing.
Speaker AHow did.
Speaker AHow do you.
Speaker AHow do you turn a disruption of any kind, whether it's emotional, in a relationship, financial, technological, how do you turn that into power?
Speaker AWell, let's talk about that.
Speaker ALet's ask.
Speaker AAlways when something happens that wasn't expected, that messes up your status quo, Here's a question.
Speaker AWhat is the gift here?
Speaker ABecause there is always a gift.
Speaker AAnd we might be inclined to rail first and say, there's no gift, it's not fair, and scream at whoever, but the truth is, there's always the seeds of greater opportunity.
Speaker AIn every failure, there is always the seed of equal or greater opportunity.
Speaker ASomebody said that.
Speaker ACan't tell you who the quote was, and I don't even know if I got it right.
Speaker ABut the idea is, I don't care what happens.
Speaker AYou can get past it and exceed it if you want to, or you can let it beat the crap out of you and lay down.
Speaker ABut you know where that goes.
Speaker AFrustration, depression, bad relationships, your addictions.
Speaker AOther places are worse.
Speaker AThis is your sovereign call to stand up, create your ultimate life.
Speaker ANow, when you ask what the gift is, then say, okay, what can I do right now?
Speaker AAnd don't say, well, I'll do it.
Speaker AWhen you know some.
Speaker AIf you blame an externality or wait for something outside to change, you're missing the point.
Speaker ASovereign ownership is taking immediate assessment and acting.
Speaker ASo if you've got a financial disaster, okay, this happened.
Speaker AWhat can I do right now?
Speaker AWho do I need to call?
Speaker AWhat do I need to get organized?
Speaker AWhat do I need to sell?
Speaker AWhen I went to hospital, you know, and died, and we didn't have any idea how long I was going to be there or how long I was going to be in a coma or anything.
Speaker AOur, you know, finances were in disarray because why?
Speaker ABecause I'm a coach and I can't coach when I'm in a coma.
Speaker ASo Joy took immediate action to revitalize something she had done for a long time.
Speaker AShe was an ebay merchant.
Speaker ASo she got a bunch of stuff up, start selling things and getting stuff organized so that we were able to continue while I was helpless and unconscious moving things.
Speaker AAnd she did that on top of coming to see me in the hospital.
Speaker ASo choosing action over flailing is a way to manage a disruption.
Speaker ANow, in the book Living with purpose and Power that I showed you, there's another document called the scroll of Truth and Power.
Speaker AThat document, read it.
Speaker AIt will show you where you're holding back.
Speaker ABecause a disruption, like I said, it kicks you out of your comfort zone earlier.
Speaker AIt will always reveal always where you can take more powerful ownership and create larger growth personally, professionally, financially.
Speaker ABecause none of us have reached the top of that mountain.
Speaker AAnd the only question for me or you is are you willing to walk the path, make friends with the disruption.
Speaker AI don't care what it is, financial, relationship, health, anything else, make friends.
Speaker AWhat is the gift here?
Speaker AWhat is my first step?
Speaker AInherent in that process is personal growth, refiner's fire and success.
Speaker AIt's not just a rhetorical exercise where you try to distract yourself.
Speaker AIt is the path of growth, refinement, where you use a precious metal and heat to take out all the impurities, is real.
Speaker AAnd it's available today, right this minute, no matter what your disruptions are.
Speaker AI know it.
Speaker AI promise it.
Speaker AAnd here's the final invitation.
Speaker AIf you have a story of resilience and overcoming you'd like to share, get a hold of me.
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Speaker AYou are the sovereign of your life.
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