Why Most People Never Change (And How to Finally Break Through)

Pushing Through Discomfort and Building Momentum02:31

Pushing through leads to amazing rewards on the other side. While here, participants must push beyond tiredness and deliberately go beyond where the brain or body would normally be. Each day it will get easier and more fun. The muscle must be built by pushing through. Doing what is comfortable means not growing. Intelligence means seeing things as they are, but not worse than they are. Almost everybody makes it worse than it is because people do not want to be disappointed or have their hopes dashed. Instead, they come up with reasons why something is so horrible it cannot possibly work. After 9/11, people said their business went under because of 9/11, yet companies in the buildings that went down are still operating. It is never the environment, it is always us. Sounds go beyond cognition and wire deep in the brain. Doing these things in the beginning may feel a little weird with a little faith required, but as you keep pushing, it gets easier and pretty soon feels addictive because it wires into the best and most powerful part of the brain. Everything done is for an impact, not randomly.

Stretching Yourself and the Forces of Beliefs and Values04:01

Stretch yourself. If at home with the camera off, turn the camera on and stay engaged so others can see and engage. This is how to tap into the force that changes everything. At the most general level, two things control your whole life: your beliefs and your values. Every decision, everything you have in your life, what you are wearing, the fact you are in this seminar, where you are in the room—everything is controlled by beliefs and values. Most people never consciously sat down to create them. They picked them up along the way, some good and some not so good, by modeling somebody or reacting to what somebody did. In relationships, people often react instead of finding what is really going on and making shifts. The process here is to find what is really going on and make those shifts.

Mastering Internal and External Worlds Across Seasons05:01

There are two worlds to master. The external world currently has tension, passion, and intensity. There are seasons in history and life. Springtime is when everything is easy, flowing, and people are optimistic—businesses grow easily and cash flow is easy. Then comes summertime when things are tested, hot, and difficult—you have to push through. Some people wonder where their crop is after planting in spring, but you must make it through the hot summer. In fall, the fruit of all efforts is rewarded in abundance. Fall is when stock markets go crazy and anyone with a pulse can get a mortgage in real estate. Leaders do not practice positive thinking. They see it as it is, but not worse than it is. Otherwise you are bullshitting yourself. Look at bodies, emotions, relationships, finances, and businesses and ask what is working and what is not. Strengthen what is working and shift what is not. What keeps you from the shift must be addressed. This creates lasting impact. All steps will shift you, but conditioning makes it stick—conditioning the mind, body, energy, and emotion through jumping, leaping, and similar activities. Seeing it as it is, not worse than it is, counters skepticism and pessimism, which require no guts. It takes guts to put yourself on the line, have faith, push through, take chances, and take risks—the only way to rewards. Plans often do not work, but that does not mean the next one will not. Each plan gives input for a better one. Some call it failure, others call it learning, and they keep moving forward.