#32 The Path to Personal Peak Potential, Part 2

hey guys this is Greg Denning and you are in the school of awesome sauce where I share with you Amazing Stories and strategies to help you live an extraordinary

[Music] life hey my friends welcome back to another episode I'm so grateful to be alive and to be healthy and it's actually a little bit of apology here of the the time between episodes I got crazy sick this week I got I'm I'm a super healthy guy rarely get ill um but man I got I got dehydrated uh and I was I was running a little dehydrated and then I did a fast and and you guys know I was doing some intermittent fasting and a little bit of ketosis and that is like the magic combination for trouble and I ended up getting getting this infection um in I don't know and I don't know it was you know in my urinary tract or kidneys or bladder or whatever I don't know but that's like the perfect combination so don't ever do that you guys stay hydrated and oh man it wiped me out completely wiped me out uh and Si like 3 days in bed just miserable rolling and you know sweating and chills and G it was terrible so you make one of those little mistakes and man uh your body reminds you like uhuh I shall not be neglected friend and I'm paying for it so you guys I'm I'm alive and I'm well I'm feeling fantastic and it's a beautiful day so on that note remember so we're continuing our series and the last series the last episode was the physiological needs in maso's hierarchy of needs right and so it's all about the body and isn't that perfect like like my body just like was there it just gave me this perfect like object lesson of what we had talked about like I neglected it a little bit and I was off a little bit and like it boom stopped me like did dead stop me like all the work I wanted to do all the family things I wanted to do all my goals and plans and Ambitions and dreams burnt sto gone like over and like I couldn't even think straight you know when you get a a fever or something you get real sick you can't think clearly and you're just nauseated I literally I didn't eat anything for about a 4day period I had zero appetite that's that's a great that's a great way to kind of thinn down there um but not worth it hash not worth it oh it was brutal but but it's it's right there with that whole thing right if we do not take care of our physiological needs it literally stops us right right there all the other desires all the other things we want to work on and progress on in life get stopped if our body's not in the right place it was interesting in my I was doing some studying this morning like I do every morning in my in my morning routine I came across the word pollute um and it was somebody was referencing you know that we pollute ourselves and you know most of us we we hear a phrase like that and we're like yeah I understand what that means and I used to do that too a ton and I still do it some but I trained myself years ago in order to study deeper I had to stop thinking I understood words and start turning to the de the dictionary and the dictionary is this wealth of understanding and knowledge and we when we unlock words we unlock understanding and so this morning instead of just assuming I'm like no I know what pollute means I'm like I'm going to look it up and I'm so glad I did in in reference to what we're going to talk about today and what we talked about last time here's what it says in in the definition in the dictionary it says to contaminate with harmful or poisonous substances that's the first definition and you're like well yeah I get that understand that but think about it in the context of what we were talking about and caring for our bodies right in food and sleep and uh and air and water right whoa to contaminate our bodies with harmful substances and let's be honest friends a lot of the stuff we put in our bodies like e even if you like it right and I know there's controversy and and like especially with food like you can find reports on everything that's one way or the other but but like a lot of us can agree okay we're putting some stuff that's harmful right or or at least some of us are going to admit yeah it's not good for me is not providing me anything we're putting harmful or even poisonous um it was interesting I did a lot of research on sugar and refined sugars um they've they've done research it's like it it it operates like a drug or a poison and it's it's interesting like we're we're putting things into our bodies that are just like chemicals and so we're like polluting our own bodies and of course the effect on the mind is just can't can't be uh overemphasize how important that is all right so now but how now how does this connect to part two right part two you guys the next level up the next lad up on maso's hierarchy is about safety needs and under the chart that I'm using here it talks about personal security about employment about resources about health and about property okay so really similar tie-ins to part one right with um you know food connecting to health and and sleep and water right and shelter connecting to property um and then then and resources right and then having personal security also a shelter but we're going to talk about different levels there and so again we go back we go back to the original Foundation right most people look at that and say okay personal security I'm like yeah most of us don't live like we we're not concerned every day that we're our life's in threat like somebody's hunting us down or going to kill us most of us we live in a pretty safe area pretty safe time maybe we've had some run-ins and and obviously there are people in the world we know um our family knows a bunch of refugees that have uh M immigrated here to where we are right now in fact I was talking to one of them yesterday in the store just she is a gem and she had to flee her country um and her father they they they they just fled and they got separated and never knew if she never knew if she was going to see her father again and they had to like take on different identities and I mean w just a crazy story but they finally found each other somehow through this miracle um and but her father's still back I think he is in Egypt currently and Mom and the few kids are here but they can't they can't get back together U just just crazy fascinating right so they were literally fleeing for their lives but for most of us most of you listening to this you know you feel like yeah I'm I'm safe right um we have employment and obviously sometimes we lose jobs or we're in between work or or employment's not adequate but but for the most part we're living in pretty pretty affluent times I would say most of you probably are like yeah you know haven't really gone hungry like you don't know what it is to not have food for extended periods of time um and we have you know resources opportunities we can get them um there's there's there's so many there's so many things now n prophets and churches and government assistants I mean we're getting resources but again for for most of us listening to podcasts we got plenty of resources we got clothes and books and computers I mean you're listening to this on some kind of device right um I'm recording it on this nice little laer microphone and on my iPhone 10 um and you know I'm sitting in in my nice vehicle where it's nice and quiet and you know we we have these resources and we enjoy for the most part enjoy good health we talked about that in the previous one and then property and so like we we could look at that and go yeah yeah it's okay pretty good yeah and think we can move on but we can't we can't do it because we're going a deeper level here about safety needs like so many people are stuck here and and if they get everything kind of lined up in in base one physiological needs now we got to move up to the next one but here's what's interesting my friends

we we we're not where we think we are with those things and and you guys you're going to hear me you're going to hear me say that with every level here you're not where you think you are with those things and that's what's stopping us and what's so fascinating and so tragic is so many people could be free if they only knew they were

slaves so many people could be free if they only knew they were

slaves and they don't know they're slaves and and slaves to what right like what you talking about well we're slaves to our mindsets if we have a fixed mindset we're slaves to our own limited skill sets we're going to talk about that more today and throughout this whole training or series like we get to the limits of our own skill sets and we're we're stuck we're slaves to the limits of our own skill sets many of us are slaves to emotional chaos and we're going to talk about that today and many of us are slaves to indecision we we have all these decisions we need to make and we just postpone making them you guys ever experienced that where you you're like ah I'm just going to you kind of void making decisions you got all these things and it gets bundled up and bundled up and piled up and it blocks you up and then all of a sudden like we become slaves to indecision and then we also we becoming slaves to social conditioning we'll talk about that more throughout this where Society has just conditioned us they've trained us they've uh you know in a in a rough sense brainwashed us um and there's a lot of social conditioning and it's fascinating like you'll you'll see people just do things and when you stop and ask hey why do you do that I don't know that's what everybody does this what you're supposed to do like well who told you that like where where does that come from right and it's it's a fascinating to watch people just respond automatically to things they've been conditioned that way and you go to a different society and they've been conditioned a different way and you're like hey why why does everybody do that and they're like whoa I I don't know what doesn't everybody and it's and that's a sign of social conditioning it's fascinating we're going we're going to dig into that right but um this is awesome and again so like the let's tie back in the word pollute here in this context right the the second definition of pollute is to defile or corrupt to defile or corrupt and when I thought of that and I'm going to tie that in today especially in this safety and feeling you know personal safety when there's any kind of defiling or corruption um I thought of I thought of batteries like how many of you how many of you you know use cars on a regular basis probably probably most of you and how many of use batteries this that was a cool idea like how how how much are batteries affecting our lives well think about our laptops our computers our phones our cameras I mean our and our vehicles right especially with our vehicles it's interesting so this vehicle I have I love it it's got this big old engine in it and it actually has two huge batteries that operate on it and what's interesting all the power and the potential of a battery if it gets corrosion on it it gets corrupted and it gets corrosion all built up around the terminal right then then it it loses its Effectiveness it loses its power and isn't that beautiful isn't that like the most beautiful object lesson right there you get corrosion on the battery terminal and now all the potential and power of that battery to help you get what you want is now lost and man that happens so much to us really on each of these levels we can get the corrosion on the battery that just takes away the power whoa I love this stuff all right okay you guys ready let's dig in now to some of these things here on on safety needs and how each of them like affects our life and like where how we're operating and what level we're operating at and I hope you I hope you guys are taking notes I hope you're really thinking through this I know I know I'm going to get into like I geek out on this stuff and I'm going to share all this this cool these cool things and I hope you'll stick with me and just go go through go through this with me and like like okay yeah I get that and look at each area of your life and say yeah I'm I'm how am I doing in each of these aspects really like how am I really doing right because at at a certain point like we should be we should be singing the song that we were born to sing We should be like sharing our music and I mean metaphorically if maybe you are a musician you should share but like if you're not a musician like me you still have this song in you this message this this this life you're born to live right but what's interesting is uh like thorough said I think I've shared this before he said most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to their grave with their song still in them w W so sad so sad okay so we got to dive in here and a quick quick quick pause real quick do you guys know what like what's interesting about people who win the lottery um and most people who do like these temporary diets where they have in common is that their results are really shortlived and it it was fascinating they found that most people that win big big big lotteries like millions and millions of dollars they're usually back to where they were or worse off within 18 months isn't that fascinating doesn't blow your mind like you like some of these Lottery wins are huge tens or hundreds of millions and within 18 months most of them are back to where they were and they just they and with diets these trendy diets like oh that's cool I'm going to try this diet and they try for several weeks they get some results and they're like oh that worked and then they go right back to where they were that caused the problems in the first place and the same is true with us as we're going through this whole journey together and and if we don't make these like shifts and these like commitments and and life altering changes like we can we can go Whoa man you're totally right i' I've gotta I've really got to improve how I'm eating or sleeping or my shelter I got to clean it up and get it organized and get it neat and but then something can throw us off right and if we get thrown off again then we and we slip right back into our old rut or routines then we start getting the old results again and it's so easy to fall back into that and so as as we're thinking through this whole thing like we're we're seeking life long changes right are we ready ready ready ready here we go so safety needs and this is this is a huge huge deal than than most people think obviously we need to be physically safe okay we need to be physically safe um but it's it's a lot more and again like I'm not I'm not going to pass that over like you there should not be any abuse in your life and you should not be abusing anyone else none nothing not that like physically safe okay um you shouldn't be getting beat up or robbed or physically threatened like that that you need to be in a safe

place but then it if if we are in a place like that we're like yeah I don't I don't feel physically threatened all the time then what are the threats and and this is this is where we start digging deep are there threats right now to your

safety are there is there any way that you feel

unsafe right you with me oh I love this stuff so let me ask you this what do you wor wor about what are you afraid of all right oh so we're going to jump back to my story here when I was a young man I'm out on my own right I'm out on my own at 16 um at certain times there was a few times I was living in pretty rough areas that I did feel physically threatened like I was there were times I was terrif ified for my physical safety like like like for my life and I've told you some of those stories you've heard some of the stories right um but here's what I noticed and this is the big aha you guys that I want just to sink in like I was terrified by these sketchy conditions because because that's all I could afford at the time but I noticed that the things that could happen in me were far more threatening than the things that could happen to

me whoa hope you write that down I hope you let that sink in I noticed that even in those threatening conditions that the things that could happen in me were far more threatening than the things that could happen to me

every day I was surrounded by people who were dealing with massive addictions right alcoholism and drugs and pornography and violence was is an addiction and you know abuses and I mean there there was there are so many and I realized addiction is more harmful than getting beat up hatred bitterness a a scarcity mentality or a poverty mentality right my own insecurities my lack of confidence

hopelessness right think about that you might feel physically safe and totally hopeless and is the lack of hope not an attack or um or an undermining of our personal safety you see that how about desperation how about just feeling vulnerable how about false beliefs about life and relationships how about carrying around these these baggage and this issues from P the past right so some of our biggest personal safety threats are coming into our lives through other means than just like physical threats or you know attacking our families and they're coming in mentally emotionally spiritually Etc right whoa isn't that fascinating I hope I hope like just light bulbs are going on you're like okay wow all right personal safety is like this whole big it it's it's all of you it's every part of you and you have to feel totally safe so now you start looking that and you're going whoa wait a minute what about like the things I'm hearing or people say to me right do I feel safe um with words the words that are being said um I I get messages all the time because one of the things we do in our in our monthly coaching program in the school of awesome sauce is we the like right out the gates very first thing we we help everybody comes in and say okay I want you to look at the words you're using and we're going to make this commitment when we do the 28 day challenge especially we're going to make a commitment and I want you every single day to intentionally say good kind positive loving words to the people you love and like you're going to write it down and you're going to check it off and you're going to do it like every day and what's amazing is is everybody does it like has this transformation like whoa like I did not realize number one how negative the words are they're going on regularly in the family we're not even aware of get so used to them um and number two I I didn't realize how like powerful these little intentional kind things are when you do them each day like the the the overall positive effect like it's it's massive it's massive and then I get I'm getting notes every day and so then I got a question the other day like hey look how do I how do I this is so hard like you know when when everything's going smoothly and well and everything's kind it's easy to say those nice words but what we realize is so many of us get into this habit like when when the kids Annoy Us when your siblings annoy you when you're mad at your spouse oo then it's hard right because it's so easy to say mean things and to insult the people we love to call him stupid or dumb or you're an idiot or you're such a jerk or what why why you such a dork and we we get into this this mode of mockery and again talking about social conditioning we've been conditioned as a society to to you know mock each other like regularly and to tear people down just just attack them as soon as we see any kind of mistake right and we got to make this big shift and that those right there the words we're using in our family literally are threatening personal safety and so that's that's one of the biggest ones I want you to consider on this this one and you're going to have others you're going to know ways of personal safety there but the words we're using the things we're hearing like we've got to make um our eles and and our space and our family and our homes places of tremendous safety even our friendships our workplace and like if you're in a toxic relationship or a toxic environment that has to change and you can be the change agent okay you can start making the change you're like well they're like this and they're like that and they're like this and I get it I get it maybe you're around people that just don't they don't understand this and don't buy into it okay but you can be the change you can be the Catalyst and I want to challenge you invite you to do that be the change for this we got to bring up personal safety or was stuck at this level okay another um another threat to personal safety here which is interesting one you're going to like this will blow you away if you guys have read the book men search for meaning by Victor Frankle he was a he was a Jewish guy in a concentration camp in World War II anyways his whole book I love his book so worth a read or reread at the end of his book he talks about logo therapy and logos is meaning right and he talks about meaning therapy and when he gets out he starts going through things he realizes like the one of the biggest problems and he specifically mentions Americans he says the biggest problem with American Clarance is they lack meaning in their lives they don't have meaning he's like they're they're pursuing all these things they're busy they're doing this doing that doing the other but they don't have any like personal meaning and one of the greatest threats to our lives and our personal safety is the lack of meaning you guys we have to know we have to be doing things that matter and we have to know that we matter and what we do matters and we have to help those around us know that they matter and what they do matters but we have to be pursuing meaning and if we if we're just doing all these things we're just going through the motions doing what everybody else is doing and going along but our lives aren't filled with meaning that's a threat to our personal safety we we don't feel safe if we don't feel like we have meaning and it creates so many problems whoa isn't that awesome here here's a couple couple other resources if you want to just really dig into this I love this one the there's a wonderful book called scary close uh by Donald Miller and he talks about how broken people have broken relationships

and so and he talks about words a lot too so so if if we feel something like we feel broken inside then like you you you can't go in and have a good healthy relationship if you are broken right and and again using those words like not that not that you're broken but things can break in us right emotionally and and mentally and and and we just we need healing so maybe it's maybe they're hurt maybe it's an injury it's a wound right so it's not a break so much as a wound and it needs healing and it can be healed that's the hope and that book goes through that's wonderful and then the other resource is called the and the anatomy of Peace which is a phenomenal book and talks about how how we objectify people we put them into boxes we we label them categorize them oh well they're they're uh you know this political or we talked about this in my other episodes right we objectify and so anytime there's any of that threat and we see and we label and we U judge people like that then it removes personal safety isn't it you guys isn't this awesome isn't this stuff like fascinating and incredible like it just it unlocks so many doors you're like whoa like there's so many threats to our personal safety and and hopefully you're realizing right now that like there's there's attacks on your personal safety and you're not feeling safe and that even we got to be honest here for a minute that we have been a threat to other people inadvertently and that they are not going to feel safe because of what we say and do or what we don't say and do right so this is huge and we get stuck at that level W this good okay let's move on to the next ones we'll hit them quickly so resources you got to have resource what are what are the current threats to your family and your family resources um what are the threats to ourselves and our families that have to do with resources um what about false beliefs or negative beliefs about money that's an interesting one that's a huge one um I find that people have for some reason in in many many cultures there are some very strong beliefs and mindsets around money and many of them are quite negative and that think about that think how that's a threat to your resources what about fighting about money um that used to be the number one thing couples would fight about was money now it's about their sexual relationship because that is such a problem in our society today um what about this I I've I've long believed that your greatest resource right your absolute greatest resource is your own resourcefulness it's you right it's your ability to do things that's your greatest asset is your ability to do things and learn things what about attacks on your own resourcefulness interesting right and and well and then and then problems like if problems let me throw this out at you it's interesting like if a problem pops up you guys ever noticed this that um you you you meet people and and maybe this happened to you as well but you you meet people and they see just seem so capable and so awesome and rolling along everything's great and then like a little problem pops up and they collapse and like whoa like and I've been I've seen like really competent big strong wonderful people but certain problems just undo them it's it's the Achilles heel story right you got you got Hercules or no Achilles you got Achilles right so strong so powerful and everything but just that one little cut across the the heel and it was done right um that this the story the whole principle there right of one little teeny slash on the back of the leg and then all strength and potential is gone and I've met people like that their inability to solve problems and their inability to handle problems like removes all their power so that's a threat to their resources all right next is employment what are the threats to employment uh for you or your family um I I got to be honest like sometimes it's not a question of having employment although sometimes it is I've been there too like I've been there's been time periods of my life you guys when when I didn't have work and that is the most gut-wrenching scary desperate

time and and not only not only is it that you just don't have money but you literally start to question your own abilities you start to question yourself you start to question your worth you start to wonder what's wrong with you right think think what that that right there think what that does to your personal progress remember we're we're trying to climb this pyramid to ACT self-actualization fulfillment potential and you're sitting there saying what's wrong with me I must be broken or damaged or inept right who just crushing crushing so that that it is a very very hard thing and I've experienced that there are other times when I had work but I hated it I literally felt like The Walking Dead I I was going through the motions I'd get up Sunday night I'd get sick to my stomach thinking about going to work on Monday hated it couldn't stand the people I worked with or the work I was doing it was meaningless you guys with me you catching in this you see how this all fits together this stuff is so crazy powerful so powerful and and if if you're in employment right now that you that you don't okay let's say you're P say it's okay it's good I got a job whatever it's worked but you're not feeling fulfilled like they they did these surveys and they found massive massive amount like you know 70 80% of people were unfulfilled with their jobs they didn't like their jobs but even a greater percentage of them and and and when they asked them why and then the greater percentage of people said yeah I don't feel like I'm using my full potential that all the skills or abilities or or what I could do here I'm not I'm not being utilized to the max in this role and so they felt underutilized and you you see how that's a threat and how crippling that feels and how you see this you guys this is awesome stuff I I hope you're I hope this is all hitting in and so like whatever your work you're doing whatever your employment is and maybe that maybe your employment isn't even work for money but just it's work you do work as a parent work as as a student your your employment as a student is to study right but in all that there has to be fulfillment there has to be like you you got to feel like you're rocking it and and it feel like you're becoming a Lynch pin Lynch pin that's another book by Seth Goden of just being being indispensable you're being absolute best at what you do that there's always work for you because you're good at what you do right and so this fear of losing employment hating employment like what again in this P piece here you're like hey what can you do about it what can you and I be doing every single day to improve ourselves so we can improve our employment okay what what do you love about what you do what don't you love about what you do how could you love it right how could you change so that you do love it how could you change you or change it to be in a a place of employment that you just love whoow and then when you love what you do and you're really good at it oh man that that right there is a recipe for success and happiness I love that woo okay um and then man you you guys this is so good can I can I I got a couple more right we want to can we hit uh health and property is that okay I know this is like one of the longest ones already um but I want to hit this stuff it's so powerful so good I hope you'll you'll stick with me here so Health what are threats to health what are the threats to Health in your life and in this context especially remember that there's mental health there's physical health there's spirit spiritual health and there's emotional health um my wife was recently reading this study she's doing a lot of research on education family education and and youth in fact you guys

we I love Youth and I work with them all the time and so does my wife and and this is like our focus and our work and we are greatly troubled and concerned about how many youth are failing to launch they they just are not succeeding as adults like they hope we they they would and like we hope they would and and what it is they're just not prepared and we just found Rachel was reading the study that like the College counselors are just overwhelmed with all these troubles and usually it's some kind of mental or emotional health with the stresses of of the social and emotional and financial and this the studies and and handling the rigors of being an adult being on your own working hard studying hard I mean it's it's just massive amounts of problems people young young adults who want to go out and be missionaries or they're coming home they can't handle the rigers they're going to the workforce they're going to life it's just they're having such a hard time it's hard and crazy and so are there threats to our health you had better believe it and we had better be doing things about it or we're all going to be in a whole lot of trouble okay um another interesting little threat here I just got to throw this out here well okay another like oh you guys this has been on my mind for so long and I'm literally preparing stuff so I'm doing a whole course on that on launching okay how to help young adults uh and youth get ready to launch successfully as adults the other thing is anxiety and depression just off the charts off the charts I've been working with youth now for over 20 years and I'm just watching this just this the the meter just I mean it's it's

crazy they're letting fear get the best of them and I understand it I've been there I've felt that kind of anxiety and fear and depression and stress stress is another huge one and people are just so overstressed and they don't know how to handle it or process it they're not they've not been prepared or trained or taught or coached how to process all the emotions of life and either kind of push them down until they explode or implode or they just they're just vomiting them on other people you see what I'm saying man are there threats to our health wow you better believe it are people stuck at this level yes yes yes yes um emotionally mentally physically and spiritually it's it's a massive problem and then we have you know addictions and bad habits and avoidance behaviors and buffers and and we get all these problems that are attacking our holistic overall health yowzers so we've got we've got to have tools to do things about this and you guys and I'm going to give you tools all along the way I'm going to give you tools about this tools to to handle all those things that's that's literally what I do that's why I do it and I've been studying this for over 24 years and I've been working with thousands of people all over the world and learning what works and what doesn't and and helping helping all of us myself included because I I got to I still have to process my emotions in handle difficult situations and I'm I'm constantly working on as as I'm going to invite all of you to do like daily literally daily I have rituals and routines and habits and patterns that help me with my mental health my emotional health my physical health my spiritual health all of it and that's how we stay healthy that's how we stay healthy but if we're neglecting those things or we don't know what to do about them then our health our our health is at risk does this make sense you guys this isn't this crazy and so and you can see you can see how all of this then becomes a barrier wow okay last one threat um property what are the threats to our property to our things um well obviously you know being stolen or ruined or lost but what's interesting is

sometimes um well okay let me let me okay yeah here's here's this twist I want to turn on this it's been fascinating to me and I went through this there so there was a time you guys we we were doing we were doing this was years and years ago we were doing pretty well financially and so we started to buy up a lot of stuff and again social conditioning here like we we just had bought into this like the good life is having nice cars and house and to toys and furniture and all the the the technology and the devices and and more things you have and the more nice you that's that like that's that's how you arrive right that's life and I remember I bought into that I just bought into that in my in my 20s like that's it that's that's how you know if you're successful and happy you got all lots and lots of nice stuff and what's interesting is I and I didn't realize it until we started to get rid of it how attached I had become to

stuff and and you don't even realize you are until there's the potential to lose it and was shortly after that time period of having all that stuff that we you know our businesses collapse when the um when the economy just slammed our business slammed and we end up needing to sell all of our stuff and it it was like something you you really love and value like goes out the door and it feels like somebody just took your arm off right and and I went through that hurt like oh now I don't have stuff and I remember thinking in my it was my

mindset of of the attachment I you know the importance that I had attached to stuff and things and in this context of property we see that in that same book man search for meaning it was sobering how many people simply gave up and died after they lost their stuff and like their titles and their position and like and the the life they had built like because they put so much attachment on you know the the the work they were doing or you know their position in society that everyone thought they were you know everyone respected them and liked them and and they had all the you know nice art and these nice things and they had this there was all this positioning right and once that was gone Victor Frankle says they just gave up and died they just could not handle like with without having their stuff and and what they had they they're done they just gave up and died and Frankle actually suggests that they no longer saw a meaning to life when all of their things had been taken away from them you guys let that sink in he suggested that they no longer had a meaning to life when all of their things had been taken away from them they had attached their personal value to their stuff and I remember made a video of this years ago asking people it really resonated with people online and it was in my YouTube channel and I I just asked a question like who are we what is left when everything else is stripped away when you when you take away the titles and the positions and this certificates and the degrees and the diplomas and you take away the car and the house and the neighborhood and and the clothes the identity when you take away everything who are you when you strip all that away you still have an identity you're still you you still have unbelievable tremendous value and worth and awesomeness you really do like you are still a spectacular human being but what's interesting in our own minds we attach so much value to all of those things things that that really have no life in them then interesting and I've met people I've met people around the world all over the world who literally as far as physical things they have almost nothing and yet they're still incredible men and women and human

beings and so for some of us like it's a very scary thought to have all that stuff Stripped Away and I invite you to ponder to ponder that and and find a healthy Center of Who You Are without your stuff and how you would live and be and act and feel without stuff and again I know some of you I'm scaring you right now that's a scary idea that's an intimidating thought to Think Through like if I had nothing but could you still be you without stuff isn't that so good isn't this so great and I'm not stuff isn't bad we can have property our dream is to have a a gorgeous Chateau in France and a a beautiful beach home in Portugal and and we have a place already in Guatemala and have a place in the state I mean we want to have homes all over and have beautiful things it's okay but our happiness and our extraordinary life is not bound to nor dependent on property woo and one one more quick warning here I heard a true story one time this woman she she had a very nice house and very nice stuff and she' gathered up all these very expensive beautiful things and her house was Immaculate right and she really found value in that and it was important to her I mean she like she was she was good at it and she was all about it and then um she found out she had cancer she was an older woman so she had she had raised her children and had grandchildren and she was she was older now but but not too old and she found out she was dying of cancer and so she invited over uh a leader and was talking to her and was talking to him so the leader came over to talked to her and and she just breaks down just sobbing crying just deep deep deep remorse and he saids what is it and she says it it took me finding out that I was dying to realize how wrong I have been about the way I've been doing life because I literally have forbade my children my grandchildren from coming over to Grandma's house because I was worried about my

stuff my stuff was so important to me that I kept my children and my grandchildren away and how crushing it is to me that I had you know never in my mind I would I say that my things are more important than my family but that's what what she's like that's what I had done I had made my things more important than my

family isn't that fascinating and and none of us right now I like ask you like hey is is your is your phone more important than your relationship well no of course not and yet we often act that way we prioritize our stuff over people and that's that's just another big warning there big aha that I I've had and a huge lesson Like Whoa We we've got to make sure that stuff is in its right place and that the other things the big important things are in the right place so again our relationship with our property will have a huge impact on our growth and progress so you guys this has been long thanks for sticking with me you are the best you're the best and you see how important this stuff is you see how beautiful it is and how like each of these areas like literally we can be slaves and we can be free if we know we're slaves and and how they're affecting us and influencing us I love it love love love it so much and the great news is you guys are awesome and please celebrate where you are I hope nobody feels guilty about this and and are feeling bad or anything like celebrate where you are celebrate where you've come along in your life and celebrate your successes and all things you're doing awesome and then any any things that you could do better be like okay let's do this thing and let's do better and like just just celebrate that way be happy about it and progress like there's no reason to feel bad about any of this and like okay it's where I am it's where I'm at and and let's make some adjustments and move forward make some adjustments move forward and just be totally happy and peaceful love yourself love yourself so much and I love you and you're loved and valued and have infinite worth and and just let's just take these things and say okay let's let's rock it let's keep every day get a little bit better and be the very best we can and moving upward uh through life to reaching our full potential love you guys awesome is always an option reach upward

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