Perhaps you've always meant to sit down and plan your life, but never got around to doing it. Or maybe you just don't know where to begin. In this episode Dr Demartini shares some powerful steps you can take to plan your life and blueprint your heartfelt dreams. Through planning, you create a fulfilled life, one filled with greater satisfaction and accomplishment.

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I'm a firm believer that if you define it and walk towards it and everyday

action steps toward it, you get it. You know,

I think Einstein said it really lovely when he said,

it's the perseverance towards something that really does it.

If you don't give up, you make it.

The topic today is the power of designing your life.

And so I hope you have something right with and write on.

When I was 17 years old,

I had the opportunity to meet an amazing teacher who literally

in Hawaii, where I am right now, I'm in Hawaii right now,

inspired me to do what I'm doing.

And he said to us in a little presentation, I was

he said, you want to set goals for yourself, your family, your community,

your city, your state, your nation, your world,

and beyond for 100-120 years at least.

And that was a part of a shift in my paradigm at the time, because I thought,

wow I think kind of live day to day and week to week, maybe,

maybe month, I think of things, but not much longer than that.

And I remember Seneca the Roman poet and politician who said that,

I didn't know that then, but I know that now,

that you measure an individual by their most distant ends.

And that if you're not outlining and kind of laying out and planning your own

life, other people are. I've said before, and you may have heard this, that

you know, any area of your life you don't empower, people will overpower.

And nobody's getting up in the morning and dedicating their life to your

fulfillment, they may be dedicating their life to helping you fulfill theirs.

People tend to project their values onto you and try to get you to live

in a way where they're getting their values met. If you look carefully,

that's how the world works to you. So nobody's really getting up and thinking,

how do I fulfill Dr. Demartini's dream?

Nobody's doing that for you. So that means that if it's not,

if you're not doing it and nobody's doing it,

you're kind of at the whims of entropy, the tendency to go to disorder in life,

instead of bring order to your life. So I'd like you to take this first note.

And that is that if you don't fill your day with the highest priority actions

that are most inspiring and deeply meaningful to you and fulfilling to you,

and live by priority each day, you can almost be assured, be guarantee,

that entropy and unexpected and frustrating,

distracting stuff is gonna fill your day.

I realized that when I first got into practice years ago,

maybe 40 years ago almost, that that the second I had an idle time,

a little gap between my patient base, weird stuff would happen.

A person would complain or something would break down or a salesperson would

interfere, or there was a, something would happen.

And I noticed that entropy,

the tendency go from order to disorder automatically takes over anything that's

not ordered. So if you don't design and bring order to your life,

it's going to automatically take and have disorder.

I learned that also with money.

I found out that if you don't put money into an asset that accumulates and grows

and works for you and gives you passive income,

it'll automatically get consumed by consumable depreciable's that will take

money outta your pocket. And so I realized at the moment I received income,

I had put some of it away into savings into investments, cuz if not,

unexpected bills would keep surfacing.

And I'd realized that if I didn't design my life with order,

the way I was inspired by, it would end up with disorder the way I wasn't.

Again, if you don't fill your day would challenges that inspire you,

it fills up with challenges you don't want,

and that's called disorder and disease and you know, distress,

if you will. So the point that I'm making is this;

if you don't pull out what's inside you,

that's truly meaningful and important to you,

what's highest on your values that truly inspires you,

that you spontaneously would love to do and lay it out and design and organize

and master kind of plan your life, don't expect to be a master.

Don't expect to have the world get up and read your mind and try to create your

life the way you want.

So I want to have you write this next little note down. And that is that,

start with what you know, and let what you know grow.

I've said that in my seminars, the Breakthrough Experience and many others,

many times and people at first maybe hear that and it just takes a while to sink

in. Start with what you know, and let what you know grow.

When I was 17 I wrote down as a result of the teacher, Paul Bragg,

I wrote down what I knew. I knew that I wanted to travel the world.

I knew that I wanted to overcome my learning problems.

I knew that I wanted to learn how to read.

I knew that I wanted to be intelligent. I knew I want to teach.

Those things just were clear in my mind.

I knew I wanted to travel the world and teach, which I do today.

And so I wrote it down. And it was just a couple sentences at first,

a few phrases at first.

And then I combined into sentences and then into a paragraph and then a

formalized paragraph.

And I kept reading it and refining it and reading it and refining it over time

and got more clear as I became more clear what I was dedicated to,

what I was really, what my life was showing was really important.

You don't wanna write down fantasies.

You don't wanna write down whims and things that aren't really something you

work towards. You wanna write down what you're truly committed to doing,

that really means something. Because if you don't design your life,

you're living by default. You either live by design or live by default.

And just like in your brain,

you have an executive center and you have a default center. ,

it's really called that, the default mode network it's called in the brain.

And that's basically for those non-planned, non

objectives. So,

I basically learned a long time ago to keep records of what I want in life and

write 'em down. Now it could be typed obviously,

but if you don't fill your day with high priority actions that inspire you,

it's going to fill up with low priority distractions that don't,

if you don't fill your week with high priority actions that inspire you,

it's gonna fill up with distractions that don't. If you don't fill your month,

you don't fill your quarter, you don't fill your year,

you don't fill your decade, you don't fill your generation.

If you don't fill your life. And you know what's interesting,

we go around and we say in theology that we're immortal souls.

But where are the immortal goals? Where's the goals that go beyond our life?

Very few people write 'em. Most people have goals within their life,

instead of goals beyond their life, too.

There's no reason why you can't create things that have perpetuity and live

beyond your life. So I'm a firm believer in designing my life.

I have probably the largest collection of

objectives and goals of anybody you'll meet.

It's 30 volumes of very clear,

precise objectives and goals that I do. And I keep metrics on 'em. You know,

when you really want something,

you'll look and take action steps toward it and you'll plan it and you'll then

metric the results and see if it's working and not working and refine it as you

go, to keep getting that objective you want.

So I've been basically, you know, designing my life and planning my life,

master planning. I wanted to master my life. I dunno if you,

I ask people in my Breakthrough Experience and many of the other programs that I

teach, where I show people how to do this, I ask them a very simple question.

How many of you wanna master your life?

And they all put their hands up pretty well. And I said, well,

the way I define it is we have seven areas of life. We have our spiritual quest,

which is our inspired mission in life. We have our mental quest,

which is waking up, you know, conscious, innovative, creative,

and genius ideas that can contribute to the world and leave a mark on the world,

want to be remembered for our ideas too, ideas that can serve in other words.

Then we want to create a business of some form where there's a transaction and

sustainable fair exchange, and you have a remuneration and an income

so you can live a prosperous life,

because money is an important component of the existence.

And that you want to master. You want master financial independence.

So you're not working your whole life for money.

You want to have money working for you. So you're not its slave,

you're its master. You want to have a stable, loving,

intimate relationship with some capacity, that may be local or global.

You want to have some sort of a social influence, make some sort of difference,

so when you pass, they don't go, yeah, I never heard of the guy or the gal.

Yeah. You made some sort of contribution and made a difference.

I've asked people around the world, how many wanna make a difference?

Everybody wants to make a difference. Pretty well that's a standard.

And then you also wanna have a vital body and feel great. I mean,

if you don't have your health, life's not so fun, you know, not so fulfilling.

So you wanna be able to have a vital body and energized body.

You want to not just live to eat. You want to eat to live,

and you wanna do wise things that allow you to perform at peak performance so

you can have a fulfilling life.

I'm a firm believer that you're here to master all of them.

I've set out to do that when I was 18 years old.

And I formalized that as I went along and master planned how I wanted.

How do I want my mind to be, how and what do I want to feed it? You know,

I realized when I started to learn how to read, 18 years old,

and I started to learn faster and faster and faster reading skills, I thought,

you know, at the early stage, I realized I can just read a book every week,

maybe. And then at that time I got faster and faster.

I was reading multiple books in a day, but at the time I thought, well,

if that's so many, that's 50 books a year, 52 books a year. That's,

if I live a hundred years, that's, that's not, that's 5,000 books, that's it.

That's all I'm gonna read. So I go, what's the priority?

What's the highest priority books to read?

Highest priority things to feed my mind?

If you're not planning out and prioritizing what you feed your mind,

you might feed it with something that's not the most nutritious ideas.

The same thing on food.

If you're not designing and prioritizing what you're eating and prioritizing

what you're, who you're hanging out with,

prioritizing who your clients are and prioritizing the actions you do in a day,

you're basically letting the whims of impulse run your life. And as you know,

if you walk in a store and you don't have a real clear objective walking the

store,

you'll be easily swayed by sales gimmick and things that around you and the

world outside you determines your decisions.

So I'm a firm believer if you wanna master your life,

you need to design it and at least decide what you want. Again,

nobody's getting up in the morning and dedicating their life to your

fulfillment, it's up to you.

So I started to master plan my life.

I did that starting when I met Paul Bragg, 17. It started out as a,

you know,

wrote down some goals on a piece of paper and a mission statement that was just

a sentence to three sentences. And then it turned into two pages.

And I did it by pencil on paper originally. And then,

that was 1972. 1973 it was a few pages.

And I typed it for the first time, which was slow.

And I just kept typing it and retyping it and adding to it and reading it and

adding a word and adding a sentence and adding a paragraph and adding a picture

to it. And I started mapping out how I wanted.

It's kinda like a vision board that they talked about in the movie,

The Secret that I got to participate in, but it's down on paper.

I can't say I was really the vision board guy.

I was more the vision document guy.

And so I would cut out pictures and paste them onto a piece of paper and retype

it again. And I just kept building my master plan.

And what was interesting is,

I noticed that as I was writing them,

I noticed that my awareness of my environment was increasing opportunities.

I was noticing that I was taking more actions cause I was focused on it.

I was not as easily distracted. I was more, and I was getting more results.

And I noticed that I actually had more fulfillment on a daily basis because I

had some sort of design going on.

I noticed one time I was out in a field and I was looking at ants.

You probably think I'm a bit crazy,

but I was watching ants in a field and I noticed that there were ants on a path.

Those big ant mounds you see in a field, some ants are on a path.

There's literally a path there and you can see 'em carrying big loads.

And then you look in between all those paths you look,

and there's these weird ants going in all different directions,

looking for something, trying to find something. If they discover it,

then they go on the path and then they do it.

And I noticed that the people that were out there wandering around,

some of 'em were, you know, for hours, not doing anything kind of.

And I found out that 7% of the ants are unemployed,

they're not even doing anything.

But the ones that were actually on a mission and on the path and they're the

ones that are producing and they're actually building the mound,

they were metaphors for a life, an ant hill,

and ant bed or a farm or whatever,

it really gives you a metaphor on human behavior.

Because if you're on your path and you know what you're committed to,

and you're clear about it,

you're gonna go way farther and much more fluent and not have all the obstacles

and getting the machete out in the jungle and trying to clear the path.

But in the process of doing it,

once you define it and you start taking on it, it starts building momentum.

And I learned many years ago, about 27/8 years ago about incremental momentum

to set a goal and take incremental momentum baby

steps, become bigger steps and build a momentum, kinda like the domino effect.

And if we keep working towards our objectives, you know, consistently,

little by little, by little, by little, it becomes more and more,

and it builds momentum. You know, I set out when I was 23,

I wrote down that I wanted to be a bestselling author and I wanted to have on

the front cover of magazines and I had some of these idealisms that I had. Today

they're real. I never gave up on it. But I wrote it down.

I still have the original typed statement,

on my document on this computer that I wrote at 23. And that's real today.

I just signed a deal with a publisher for 10 more books the other day.

And these are real things.

I'm a firm believer that if you define it and walk towards it and everyday

action steps toward it, you get it. You know,

I think Einstein said it really lovely when he said,

it's the perseverance towards something that really does it.

If you don't give up, you make it.

I have a lovely friend of mine that is a singer and she's been working at it for

a while and she just keeps doing it. She just keeps doing it,

keeps being innovative,

keeps working and does another action step towards her dream.

And she's doing enormous and amazing things and impacting a lot of lives today.

And I really believe that that if you persevere towards something,

but if you don't even write down what it is, it's like,

if you don't have a financial plan, if you don't have a business plan,

if you don't have a health plan, you don't have a spirituality plan,

whatever that means to you, cuz there's no rules of what that is,

it's your dream. If you don't have a physical health plan,

you don't have a social impact plan, if you don't have a relationship plan,

you're letting other people decide your life.

And most people fit into the herd instead of stand out and be heard.

They're basically following a culture instead of leading a culture.

And I'm a firm believer if you take and design your life,

you're going to be more of a leader.

And leading is way more fun than following way more fulfilling than

the following process and being, you know, told what to do all the time.

You're living kind of by 'got to's' and 'have to's', deontological they call it,

instead of ontological, which is meaningful and purposeful.

So I believe that you're the one that extracts meaning out of your existence,

you're the one that decides how things are.

You have control over your perceptions, decisions and actions.

If you're not prioritizing your perceptions,

which is why I teach people the Breakthrough Experience, to teach

'em how to master the art of taking whatever happens in their life and see how

it's on the way. But on the way to what?

If they don't decide what their priority actions are and they don't make a

decision about how they want their life,

how they gonna link what life is offering them into that?

So I'm a firm believer in basically getting clear about what you want in life

and writing it down and starting with what you know,

and letting what you know grow and incrementally, refining it, reading it,

refining it and reading it, refining it and asking quality questions.

The quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask.

And I basically, I've been asking questions,

every time I get a question that makes aha and helps me move forward,

I collect it.

And I've been collecting those for a long time now and putting those together

so I have a way of helping other people when I'm doing consulting or I'm

teaching programs or my Master Planning program or any of the programs I'm doing

to make sure I pull out those questions to make people think out of the box,

to help them find out what's really important to them,

to get it down on paper what that is so they can start pursuing it and make it

happen. Again, you're living by default or you're living by design.

And it's up to you and how what you decide to do with your time.

But I know that I prioritize. I started prioritizing what I read.

I started prioritizing what I did. I started prioritizing what I was saying.

Started prioritizing what I was feeding my mind.

Started prioritizing my investments. Prioritizing where my money was going,

prioritizing what I was eating. And if you live by high priority,

you end up at the top. Anytime you do something that's high in value,

you grow in self worth and you attract opportunities and you end up leading.

Anytime you do something low on your values, you do the opposite direction.

And so I just realized that I'm not gonna sit there and wait and hope that some

magical thing on the outside of me is going to make it hell happen for me.

You know, that's not the way to live. If you're living out there,

you'll tend to blame things on the outside cause it's not giving you what you

want. And then you'll look for some outside solution. It's not out there.

It's your perception,

decision and actions that you take upon the world that makes governance of the

world for you.

You have an executive center and you have an amygdala desire center.

The desire center is usually an escape from pain and seeking a pleasure.

And the executive center is the embracing of pain and pleasure in the pursuit of

something deeply meaningful.

And the thing that distinguishes us from the animals is meaning. You know,

anyone can avoid pain and seek pleasure.

Anybody can do that and hedonistically pursue immediate gratification.

But that's not where the power of life is. It's meaning,

doing something that's deeply meaningful.

I've found that people that get wealth without meaning,

they end up in debauchery,

but people that gain wealth with meaning they go out and go out in philanthropy

and do something that contributes.

I'd much rather have a fulfilling life with philanthropy than a debaucherous

life that's immediate gratifying and escaping. Life is pretty magnificent,

when you design it.

So I'm hopefully getting the point across that to take the time to do it.

So I always say, start with what you know.

Now today we have computers and iPhones and iPads and we have ways

we can type onto it. And I personally believe you want a file,

you create a file in your computer that is your master plan file

and start putting every single thing that you know, that you know,

that you know your life demonstrates as meaningful to you,

start putting it in and organizing it. I use the spiritual, mental, career,

financial, family, social and physical areas of life to design by.

And I map that out and I start putting it in there and I put 'em in categories.

Anything that is spiritual that I know I wanna do,

if I wanna do some sort of meditation so every so often,

I want to do some sort of enlightened reading on great philosophers or

mystics or theologically oriented people or religious writings of the world

then, okay, do I wanna spend a half hour a day on that and focus on that?

Do I want to meet great spiritual leaders on the planet? I did.

I set it out and wrote all the great spiritual leaders.

And I've met a lot of these individuals as a result of me writing it down.

I said I wanted to meet celebrities. I wrote 'em down. I met 'em.

I met lots of them.

And I go out and meet people in politics or people of royalty.

I'm a firm believer that if you write it down,

you increase the adds and probabilities of doing it.

If you are really committed to doing something,

you take actions on it and you ask yourself,

what are the highest priority actions I can do to make those happen?

You get there.

I'm a firm believer my life has been by design and I'm pretty inspired by what I

get to do every day. You know,

I've learned that if I don't delegate lower priority things and stick to the

highest priority things, I don't have as fulfilling life.

So I've got surround me,

people that take care of all the things that I'm not designed to do. I,

I teach research, write and travel, that's basically it,

cuz that's what I love doing. But that's because I designed my life,

not because I just hoped and prayed it was going to happen. That'

doesn't help you.

And the people I know that have done the most extraordinary things,

you think Elon Musk going to Mars, that's not by hope.

That's by planning and designing and engineering and thoughtfully dealing with

risks and rewards and using the executive function in a brain.

You don't accomplish things like that without that.

You don't build Amazon without that,

you don't create a movement in the world without some sort of planning and

foresight. I'd much rather have foresight, than I would have hindsight.

Foresight takes you places, but foresight means planning.

And hindsight means reacting.

I'd rather think and act and not react than react and not act and not think.

So I'm a firm believer in planning, as you can guess, and designing your life.

So it's time to prioritize your life. And if you really wanna do that,

I know what I'm about to share with you will help you,

cause I've taken all those questions that I've had in my life that I've picked

up from all the consulting and teaching and everything else over the years in my

own life and my own journey and watching what worked and didn't work,

and I put together a system there called Master Planning for Life. It's,

if you can imagine sitting down for three days and having 2000 questions in

front of you. Imagine, you know,

there's nine questions that determine whether or not you're gonna be financially

independent. What is your total assets? What's your total liabilities?

What is your current net worth?

What exactly is your passive annual income you want to have every year that you

say is financial independent?

What is your average interest rate you can earn on your investment

understanding? What's your inflation rate you're up against?

What exactly is the total net worth that you require in order to give you that

passive income?

What's the shortfall between your current net worth and that desired net worth?

And what's your strategy?

Those are 9 questions outta 2000 questions to hold you accountable.

And somebody asked me those nine questions when I was 27 years old and changed

the trajectory of my financial pathway,

and I'm financially independent because of those questions.

So I've got 2000 questions in a file,

goes to you and a stick goes into your computer and we go to work,

and we sit for three days and we plan out our life. Cuz most people say, well,

yeah, I know I need to plan, but I never get around to doing it. Well,

I'm gonna sit there and I'm gonna be with you and we're gonna help you go and

plan that.

And I just think that it's an absolutely insane thing not to take advantage of

it because, in your life, if you don't organize and structure your life,

everybody else does. And again, nobody's committed to your fulfillment, nobody,

except you. And if you're not, well, don't expect a highly fulfilled life.

You'll wake up with Bronnie Ware's regrets.

The five regrets in life because you didn't plan it.

So Master Planning for Life is an amazing opportunity.

A great life is not by accident. It's by design.

And I'm a firm believer that 2000 questions I've got

to do it and make you sit down and do it and then give you, you know,

feedback and private little meetings and consulting with you and everything else

to do everything I can to help you master plan.

So you got a document in front of you about 300 page document of how you want

your life, that you can work on the rest of your life.

Mine is a vast document today.

It's the most inspiring document and book that I have in my life.

And it's how I want my life.

And I get to read it and refine it and read it and refine it.

And I work on it every single day of my life. It's not a joke.

If you came and met with me and you said, let me see your computer,

let me show it to you,

your mouth would drop looking at the amount of work I put into it.

But as a result of it, I get to live the life that I designed.

And I want you to, I want you to have an inspired life.

I want you to live something, do something magnificent.

I want you to be able to live by design, not by default.

I don't want you to be sitting there and going bitching about what's going on

around you and how the world's stopping you from doing what you dream,

cuz it's absolutely,

whatever's happening out there is ultimately on the

know how to ask the right questions and hold yourself accountable to priorities.

If you can't prioritize your perceptions,

can't prioritize your actions and can't prioritize your decisions,

the three things you have control over, just know that everybody else is.

So I want you to join me at Master Planning cuz I know

in your life and it's coming up very shortly.

I think it's this week and there's another one coming up next week.

But please take advantage of this opportunity because

ragg did for me when I was 17 years old and asked me to write those things down,

those never stopped. Those never stopped. They just kept going.

And I took command of my life from that.

And I noticed that not everybody in the world did that,

but I noticed that the trajectory of my life changed compared to a lot of people

around me. And a lot of people were living by default, not design.

So I just wanted to take the time to go over how important that is.

Right now it's the beginning of the year. It's January. Why not start there?

Why not plan your year out? Plan your life out for that matter.

I have a posthumous biography in my master plan,

it's a thousand years of how I want to be perceived a thousand years from now.

By studying all the great immortal philosophers and

world, I wanted to be able to leave a mark like those individuals.

So I mapped out how I wanna do it and what I'm going to do to increase the odds

of that.

That's why you probably see me on YouTube and podcasts and everything else,

because if I go out and I be of service to people,

Zig Ziglar taught me if I help other people get what they wanna get in life,

It helps me get what I wanna get in life.

So I'm constantly putting something out there to be of service to people because

it helps me fulfill my dream. I want you to do your own dream,

but you gotta decide what the heck that is.

So please take advantage of Master Planning and please

recording again, but actually doing it.

Just hearing it is not the where the power is.

It's actually getting down on paper and working through and make sure you have

congruent poles and you're not contradicting yourself.

And it's really congruent, in line with what you value most.

And what's really priority to you, what your life is demonstrating.

So you'll build momentum and you'll become unstoppable in the achievements.

And that's why I want people to live by design.

Majority of people live, again,

by just the whims and blame things on the outside.

If you want to go and try to live by blame, you're not gonna empower your life,

if you wanna empower your life, you're gonna live by design.

Cuz you have the capacity to change your perception, decisions, and actions.

So join me at Master Planning and take command of your life.

If you want to be a master, it will help you. If you don't well,

then that's fine. But I think deep inside,

the only reason you wouldn't wanna master your life is because somehow you

banged your head against the wall because you didn't know how to go and master

it in the first place. Let me help you.

I've spent 49 years plus of my life working on that objective.

And I think I've got some ideas that can help you.

It's certainly allowed me to live the life I have today.

And it's pretty extraordinary. And I know that you can do that too.

There's no reason why you can't do it. I know some of you think, well I'm older,

whatever. I met a 72 year old man in Dallas,

Texas that said he was too old to do that. And I got in his face and I said,

if you're not, as long as you're green, you're growing.

As soon as you ripen your rot.

If you're not designing your life now you're gonna let other people design it.

And I guarantee if you don't have something to live for, you got nothing,

you got things to die for. And it woke him up and he started planning.

He created a new consulting firm and he was back alive and he looked younger

literally four months later than he did when he was at the program.

So don't come up with excuses, come up with actions. Anyway,

I just wanted to do it. I went a bit over today,

but I just wanted to take the time to talk about how important it is designing

your life. You deserve it. So I know I can help you.

Please join me at Master Planning.

Take advantage of this opportunity and please listen to this more than once.

It might just catalyze a little bit of action towards a dream that you you have

inside you. You deserve to have an extraordinary life. Anyway,

this Dr. Demartini. Thank you for joining me for today.

Please take advantage of Master Planning and I look forward to seeing you there,

look forward to helping you do something extraordinary with your life.