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If you think that you've had setbacks and failures,

that's because you don't really have the thing that's really on fire for you,

because when you're really doing something you're really inspired to do you

don't see failure, you see feedback.

Today I'd like to talk about

the genius that you may or may not be aware of that you have inside

and how to awaken that genius and realize the things in your

life that have led you to where you are today.

And the components of it that can awaken this genius.

And I'll share a little bit about my own journey,

just so you can put it into context.

Because I really believe that the things that you experience in your life

throughout your life are ultimately on the way, not in the way,

ultimately

giving you exactly the experiences that you need in order to do something

really extraordinary on the planet.

So I'm going to start off with myself and then I'll apply it back into your own

life. When I was born in 1954,

I apparently was positioned in an awkward position in the

womb, or maybe I was implanted in a side side position, I don't know,

but when I came out, my arm and leg on the left side was turned inward.

So when I was a child, I think from about age one and a half,

I had to start wearing braces on my arm and leg.

They called it pigeon foot, you know, pigeon arm. I

did not like to wear braces. I didn't like the constraint.

They were clunky, heavy things,

made me kind of do a Forrest Gump kind of thing.

The few kids in the neighborhood that would see these things would not, what's

the word, they'd feel awkward being around it.

I just wanted to be out of the braces.

Now I didn't have to wear them 24 hours a day, but I did have to wear them.

And in the process of doing that,

I think I wanted to be free.

I think that was a catalyst for me to want to be free and to

not be constrained.

So here's something that it seemed to be in the way,

but it turned out to be exactly what I needed in my journey.

I also had a speech problem.

For some reason I could not pronounce things properly.

And I remember going about a year and a half old,

I remember going into a place with my mom in this building,

where I used to do all these muscle exercises with strings and buttons and

things in my mouth, and to try to use my mouth properly,

to be able to do it because I would mispronounce things

to speak. So I had to speaking issue.

When I was four I got out of my braces,

and by the time I was,

and I also sucked my thumb so my front teeth were way forward.

Kind of like, well you've seen people with buck teeth.

And I later got,

I ran into a tree on a horse and broke them and pushed them back.

My dad said I saved him a fortune.

When I got to first kindergarten class,

I wanted to draw with the girls and I didn't want to draw with the boys.

The boys were drawing army and cars and things. And I wasn't into that.

And I wanted to draw a landscaping, landscapes.

And my teacher said, 'You're not a girl. You can't play with the girls.

You're supposed to play with the boys.' And she dragged me over to the boys side

and I didn't want to draw that.

So she finally sat me in the middle. She said,

'If you're not going to play with the boys,

I'm not going to let you play with the girls.

You're going to have to sit and play with yourself in the middle of the room.'

So I think that was a part of a perfection because I think everything I do is

about the middle path between these two polarities of gender.

And I want to be free and I want to be able to be heard

because people, when I would speak, it wouldn't make sense.

When I got to first grade, I

was being told to talk to learn,

big old book with a stick and going through all the letters and stuff and

pronouncing letters and trying to make words and things like that.

And I definitely had dyslexic symptoms and I

could not do it, no matter what I tried to do,

I just kept fumbling words and I didn't get meaning out of it,

no matter what I would see letters and didn't grasp meaning,

semantics didn't make any sense.

And so I went from the normal reading class to a remedial reading and from a

remedial reading to wearing a dunce cap with a guy named Dale Dalrymple.

I don't know what ever happened to him,

but we used to have to sit out and face the window,

looking out into the outdoors until we decided we were going to read properly.

That was the treatment, and wearing a dunce cap. And that dunce cap by the way,

is conical,

which I use in my diagrams today on my work on cones

as conic sections.

But my teacher finally had my parents come to the school

and say, you know, I'm afraid your son's got learning problems,

I'm afraid he's never going to be able to read.

He's not going to be able to write. Cause I wrote backwards.

I still have an awkward handwriting. It's still, you can see that today.

And he's not gonna be able to read. He's not gonna be able to write.

He can't seem to communicate.

I don't think he's going to go very far in life nor amount to anything.

And I remember that sitting in that little room when she said that,

and that was the coolest thing to have to face.

What I did is I got through school by befriending

the smartest kids. There was a Martha Rose Scartozzi,

a beautiful girl that I used to like to walk home, but I did it for two reasons.

I'd walk her home because I liked looking at her, but I also would ask

her what she got out of the class and she would tell me what she got.

And as long as somebody would tell me things, auditorily,

I seem to

Be able to get enough information out to somehow be able to get through school.

And I befriended Jerry Samson and Clinton Duvall and all these other individuals

were the intelligent

kids in the class and befriended them and constantly asked them about their,

what they

learned and what they did and how did they do it and how are they're so smart.

And I think I figured out a strategy to ask questions,

to get information from people, which by the way, is what I do today.

What I do consulting with people.

So that worked really fine until I got to

about sixth grade. And when I turned 12 years old in sixth grade,

I'd passed school with that strategy and become the clown of the class

kind of thing. But that didn't work when my parents moved from Houston,

Texas to Richmond, Texas. And there,

we were in a kind of a low socioeconomic school system with a lot of racial

issues. And there was no,

really smart kids I could befriend and get information from.

And I end up failing and I eventually left school.

I kind of left home at 13, but I formally left school at 14.

I tried to go to school till I was 14. I

then became a street kid and I learned how to, you know, get by

on the streets, which I think is sort of entrepreneurial. And I,

you know, lived in a bowling alley, 24 hour bowling alley.

I lived in a park area. I lived in a car. I lived in friends' houses. I,

you know, I just kind of meander around,

there was a diner that I used to hang out with and sometimes stay there all

night. Cause it was a 24 hour diner just leaning on the table

And did odd jobs that I could do.

And by the time I was 14, I ended up leaving Texas.

I lived at the beach for a while at 14, but then I moved out to California,

and visited California and down into Mexico.

And 15 going on 16 I made my way to Hawaii

and I was into surfing. That was the thing I tried baseball,

but baseball wasn't any fun in that small town. And so I went into surfing.

And Texas wasn't a surf capital,

but California and Hawaii was so I decided to go.

So I first under a bridge,

Kamehameha highway on the sunset beach.

I lived in iakai beach park under a park bench.

I then when it would rain would go into the bathrooms there,

because it was protected from rain. I found an abandoned car,

lived in an abandoned car.

Eventually got to a guy who had to get rid of a tent and I got a tent and I made

a tent in a jungle and a mixture of palm leaves and kind of

a treehouse tent thing.

And I was doing what I did, which was surfing at the time,

pretty well every day.

And then I ended up with strychnine and cyanide poisoning and almost died when I

was 17.

My 17th year was

eventful, but I ended up having a Joe Cocker look,

if you ever remember Joe Cocker the singer with Leon Russell.

He had deformed movements and I was having those types of things from the

strychnine. A week before, well,

a few weeks before my 18th birthday,

I really ended up unconscious in my tent for three and

a half days and I couldn't breathe. My diaphragm stopped on me.

It's a very interesting situation. As a result of that, luckily,

a lady found me in my tent helped me recover from a cathartic

experience, took me to a health food store,

leaving the health food store I saw a flyer on the door,

there was a special guest speaker at a recreational center

called with Paul Bragg at a yoga class.

Somebody told me that if I wanted to control my spasms in my arms and stuff,

and legs would be a yoga class.

So I went to a yoga class and that one night,

with 35 young people sitting on a wooden floor and a little

mats and towels, Paul C. Bragg did

a presentation. Now I never went to presentations, school wasn't my thing,

I didn't read at the time, and

all of a sudden I'm at this class with this amazing teacher and he in

45 minutes to an hour presentation just blew me away. What

he said was that we have a body, we have a mind, and we have a soul.

The body must be directed by the mind.

The mind must be directed by the soul in order to maximize who we are as a human

being and that we need to set goals for our ourselves, our family,

our community, our city, our state, our nation, our world,

and beyond for 120 years.

And then what we think about and what we visualize and what we say to ourselves

and how we feel about ourselves and what actions we take,

determine our outcome and destiny in life.

Kind of like the principles of 'The Secret' almost,

and nobody had ever spoken to me like that.

Nobody ever said that I had a potential inside.

Nobody that I was aware of that really saw

that in me. And I don't think he was pinpointing to me by any means,

but the room was affected by his speech. He was a very animated,

dynamic guy. And at the end of the presentation,

he took us through a guided imagery meditation,

what he called an alpha meditation technique. And in

there I closed my eyes and after his speech,

I was pretty inspired by what he had said.

And I saw a vision that in that meditation,

of me standing on a balcony,

walking through an arched way area and coming out onto an edge or balcony,

standing on a balcony, speaking to a million people. And that was like,

Whoa. And I was in tears and I was inspired.

And I had no idea that, where that came from,

I think it was a dissociative identity disorder at the time.

And it was so

real I was in tears of inspiration and I must've been in that vision 15 -

20 minutes. It was real to me. And when I came out

I looked around the room and everybody in the room, in that room was in tears.

So they must have had the similar type of experience, whatever It was for them.

And I saw Paul Bragg in the front of the room with his eyes closed,

sitting with his hands on his knees, looking up. You

Thank you, dear Divine, for revealing to these young souls, their destiny,

kind of thing.

And I saw something there that I had not seen before. And at that

moment I realized that I really wanted to overcome my learning problems.

It was the first night

I thought that maybe I could be intelligent.

Maybe I could overcome my learning problems and learn how to speak and be

intelligent some day. My sister, named Lynne, who was the smart one in the

family, she could read. And she was great at that.

I was sort of like her antiparticle,

she's always been a great reader and always been very intelligent.

And I thought, wow, I would like to be able to be intelligent.

And so I,

at the end of that experience he said, okay, that's our evening.

And

if anybody would like to join me on the other side of the Island in the mornings

at six o'clock in the morning, I have an exercise and a lecture every morning.

And so by God, at 5:45 in the morning,

I hitchhiked out to the other side of the Island and joined him.

And for the next few weeks I learned everything I could from this guy.

And I never, you know, everybody that he had around him at the time,

were much older, 50, 60, 70 and 80 year old people,

I was the only teenager there. And finally, after doing that each morning,

I mean, I would literally get up and go surfing after getting back,

he

made an announcement that he's going to Santa Barbara or to Mount Shasta area,

whatever, and that he will, you know, hope to see you again, kind of thing,

but he's leaving to go to California. And while he was there,

it was inspiring because I thought, wow, this guy is really, you know,

making me think.

And he gave me a lot of great new information and

and started making a belief that maybe I could do something with my life kind of

thing.

And I didn't know what to do if he's leaving.

And I finally walked up to him on that last day. I said, 'Mr.

Bragg you said a few weeks ago at your talk

on the North shore that whatever we decided that night

destiny.' And he said, 'That's exactly it young man.' I said, 'Well, sir,

I saw that I wanted to be a teacher and I don't know how to read,

I've got learning problems and speaking problems.' And he said,

'That's not a problem. Is there any other problem?' And I said, 'Well, no,

sir.' And he said, he says 'Well, here's what you do, every single day,

every single day I want you to say to yourself,

I am a genius. And I apply my wisdom.'

Now, when he made me say that,

that didn't make any sense to me.

I didn't really know what a genius was exactly. But he said,

I want you to say that statement. I'm a genius and I apply my wisdom.

So I said it, and he made me say it again and again, and again and again,

until my eyes closed. And then when I said it,

and he could sense that there was some sort of meaning to it,

and I could relate to it. He patted me on the shoulder and he says,

'Now you never miss a day for the rest of your life, every day,

you say that statement,

if you do that every single day,

sooner or later the cells of your body will tingle with it and so will the

world.'

So I've never missed a day, this morning I said it.

I didn't know what a genius was, but I started saying it every day.

Right after that, I never saw him again. But after that,

I ended up going to the health food store and I pulled out on a rack of books,

the first book I ever tried to read in my life really, from cover to cover,

was Chico's Organic Gardening and Natural Living.

I pulled out that book, looked at the pictures,

the guy on the front cover looked like me.

So I thought if that guy can write the book, I bet I can read it.

That's why I picked it. And it was mostly pictures of gardens,

but I got some just to that book and it gave me an encouragement to try to get

another book. I tried to get that book and I got lost,

I couldn't understand the words,

but I made a determination that I was going to try to figure out how to learn to

read.

And there was a guy in the tent that I was staying there with named Jackie who

used to read to me. I'd ask him to read for me, he always wondered why.

I never told him until he was 50 something. We met up again.

But he did that for me.

But I then was in a meditation and in the meditation,

a little prompt said it's time to go home and see your parents.

So I ended up flying to Los Angeles, hitchhiking back to Texas.

When I went back,

I remember hitchhiking down the last road to get close to my parents' house.

My sister and father drove right past me.

Didn't even recognize me because I had long hair and a beard kind of thing.

And I got home and my mom was inside cooking some prunes.

And I walked in and I said, she turned around and she says, Oh my God,

she didn't recognize me at first,

she thought I was just a guy walking in the house. And she said, 'Oh my God,

welcome home.' And days later, she said,

'Why don't you take a GED test?

Cause you never know when you might have to need a job and that what gives you a

job.' Well, with their encouragement,

I went down to the university of Houston I took a GED.

A GED is a general education degree.

It's the equivalent of a high school degree. All you do is take a test,

if you pass it, you have high school education. Well,

I went down there and I didn't know how to read half the questions there.

And I just closed my eyes. I said to myself, I'm a

and I put the pencil on the paper or whatever,

little dot that I had to fill in I did.

I figured I got nothing to lose If I don't pass, I'm not lost anything.

If I pass, I got me a high school degree. In

the process of doing that I passed.

It was s a miracle.

My parents were pretty astonished and I was blown away.

And all of a sudden I have me a high school degree and I thought, wow,

that's kind of cool. And I was thinking that there's power in this affirmation.

So I was saying it more than once a day. And my parents said,

'Why don't you take a college entrance exam in case you ever decide to go to

college? The surf is not up until October. Why don't you take it,

take it and try and do that?' So I went down to Wharton and

I I took a three-day test and I guessed,

when I said I'm a genius and I apply my wisdom and frigging somehow passed that

test. And it was purely guessing. And I can't tell you how it was, something,

some higher power working on it. But I passed the test.

And then

I decided I was going to try to take classes because now I have access to go to

college. I decided I'll take a summer school class.

And I took English and history. You had to take those as a basic.

And I had a six week class. And when I tried to take that six week class,

two weeks into that we had our first test.

And I thought that my little tool of affirmation was going to do the job,

but I got a 27 and I needed a 72 to pass. And I got a 27.

I was the only kid that was down below 72.

When I saw that I was devastated. I ran to my car, sunk in my car.

Finally,

I drove home crying and all of a sudden this dream of

being a teacher and traveling the world was shattered.

And I remember coming home and curling up in a fetal position under this Bible

stand, in my parents' house.

And I was really having a low moment. Cause I was thinking,

I thought that I was going to go in this new trajectory,

but if I can't even pass the test, then that's not going to work.

This is never going to happen. I kept hearing my first grade teacher in my head.

And my mom came home from shopping, what she did she said, 'Son,

what's wrong? What happened?' And I said, 'Mom, I blew the test.

I guess I don't have what it takes.

I guess I'll never be able to read or write or communicate or never amount to

anything, never go very far in life.

I'm sorry.' I was apologizing to her because I felt she tried to

encourage me. And she didn't know what to say.

She just kind of stared for a minute.

And finally she said something that only a mother could say that was deeply

meaningful. She said, 'Son,

whether you become a great teacher, healer and philosopher like you dream,

whether you return to Hawaii and ride giant waves like you've done or you return

to the streets and panhandle as a bum,

I just want to let you know that your father and I are going to love you no

matter what,

we just love you.' When she said that I needed that.

She gave me love with certainty,

presence and gratitude, which I call the Cardinal pillars of mastery.

When she said that my hand went into a fist,

I looked up and I saw the vision of me standing on that balcony in front of a

million people again. And it was clear and lucid for a moment.

And I said to myself with my hand in my fist,

I'm going to master this thing called reading and studying and learning.

I'm going to master this thing called teaching and philosophy.

And I'm going to do whatever it takes, I'm going to travel whatever distance,

I'm going to pay whatever price to give my service of love.

I'm not going to let any human being on the face of the earth stop me from this

one. And I got up and I hugged my mom with tears in my eyes.

I went into my room. I got a Funk & Wagnalls dictionary out.

And I made a commitment that I was going to memorize that fricking dictionary.

So I went in there and I took 30 words a day and I went through 30

words a day, spelled them, wrote them out on a piece of paper,

cause we had little pads of paper, 30 words a day, spelled it,

pronounced it properly, put it in a sentence, until I understand its meaning.

And my mom would test me on 30 words a day. And I would get those 30 words.

And if I didn't get them,

I would go back and I wouldn't go to bed at night until 30 words could be

memorized, pronounced, spelled, et cetera.

My mom cared enough to make sure that I did that.

And I was determined to do that. And my vocabulary grew slowly but surely,

which is why I have a great vocabulary today, I believe.

And I ended up starting to pass school. I didn't give up.

And once I did, I wanted to learn more than any of the other kids in the class.

They took it for granted. They would go in there, parents told them to do it,

everything else. I wanted to learn.

So I lived in the library and I stayed in that library.

If I wasn't in the class, I was in the library. If I wasn't in the library,

I was driving home. And if I was driving home,

I was reading a book while I was driving, turning the thing. And

I was driving on the side of the road so I wouldn't interfere with traffic.

And I would get home and I would read. And I'd read encyclopedias.

I didn't stop. Literally a lap, an encyclopedia in my

knees all the time. And I just wanted to learn.

And that went on. And by the time a few months had gone by,

I was now taking off. I was excelling.

I was passing and then I was actually nailing it. I was working so hard on it,

way more than most of the other kids. I started really doing well.

And I started excelling and students started to come

library and started asking me questions,

which was absolutely inspiring at 18 years old,

to have somebody ask you for information. And my teaching career began.

I started teaching at 18 and I never stopped because it was one of the most

inspiring things I got to do. Well,

by the time I was turning 19, my mom asked me, right before my 19th birthday,

my mom said, 'What do you want for your birthday and for Christmas?' I said,

'Mom, I want the greatest teachings on the face of the earth.

The greatest writings humanity's ever created by the greatest minds who ever

lived.' And she said, 'You sure you don't want a t-shirt son?' I said,

'No, I want the greatest teachings on earth.

I just want to learn.' And my mom said, 'Well,

let me see what I can do.' So she contacted her brother

he was uncle Ralph to me,

but professor at MIT and he was a chemist and physicist. And as a gift,

I don't know where he got them. I don't know if it was his own library.

He sent two giant six by six by six foot wooden crates on a flatbed truck to our

home. And they literally loaded them on the ground. I took a crowbar,

went out there and took all those books and filled up my room with books,

just stacks and stacks of books.

I had a little yoga mat in the center where I could do my sun salute in the

morning to the sun. And I sat and I did my yoga and I read.

Every moment I was not in class or driving to and from, I was reading.

I was reading when I was home I was knocking out 18

single day on every imaginable topic.

Cause these books were on all different topics.

And I remember reading Rene Descartes work and I thought, okay,

I want to be a man of letters. I want to be a polymath. I want to understand.

I want to have an encyclopedic mind now.

I started reading eight encyclopedia sets, all of them 20, 25 volumes each.

I just wanted to learn everything I could.

I wanted to be knowledgeable about it.

I want to find the most universal laws that would help me go and do something

amazing as a teacher. I wanted to have the foundation,

most powerful principles I could offer. So why am I saying this?

Because today I'm living out the dream that I set out to do.

I may be not be traveling except by zoom right now because of COVID.

But I made a dream that I wanted to

go around the world and I wanted to teach. I've been to 154 countries,

traveling and speaking. I've done the Breakthrough Experience in 65 countries.

And I can tell you right now that

if you never give up on something that's deeply meaningful to you, It's yours,

but you have to be willing to do whatever it freaking takes.

When I said to my mom, I'll do whatever it takes, travle whatever distance,

pay whatever price to give my service of love. That no

turning back attitude is what gives you your result. Now,

why am I saying this today?

Because I didn't know what a genius was when I started,

but my mom when I came back to Hawaii and I asked her what a genius was.

She says, well, it's like people like Albert Einstein had Da Vinci. I said,

well, then get me every book that's been written on those guys,

let me start learning about them.

I later learned that a genius is one who listens to their inner voice and

follows their inner vision and lets the voice and the vision on the inside be

greater and louder than all opinions on the outside.

They're not living in conformity. They're living in enormity.

They're living in a vision of what they want to create.

And I believe that everyone who's sitting here right now,

looking at this presentation has that inside you.

I have been working,

I used to do a little program called activating your genius, right?

Awakening Your Genius.

And I looked at all the common denominators of some of the most ingenious

polymathic individuals through history,

and what were the common threads to them.

And one thing I'm absolutely certain is they're pursuing something that

absolutely inspires them,

that they see in the vision and they're innovating creative unborrowed,

visionary information and new information that's cutting edge.

That's an original novel that they don't,

they don't subordinate they don't cite other people, they are just originators.

Kind of like John

Nash in 'A Beautiful Mind' when he's going out there looking at the pigeons and

the algorithms of the pigeons, trying to find, you know,

something original while everybody else's reciting other people and doing

citations of other professionals and subordinating to their ideas and limiting

their concepts. He's an original thinker.

I have said since I was 18 to 20 years old, I said that, I'm original, you know,

thinker, I create original ideas that serve humanity. I create original ideas.

And I wanted to create original ideas. Something that no one's thought of.

And I've done it. With the Demartini Method I've got it. I've created it,

something that serves. The information

I share in the Breakthrough Experience is original, it serves.

So I'm a firm believer that if you set your mind to doing something that's

deeply meaningful, that is really calling inside you, amazing

doors of opportunity will keep doing if you persevere on it.

I've always said that if I stay with something long enough,

everybody else dies out you end up at the top.

You just got to stay with it long enough. And perseverance is the key to that.

If you stay persevered towards something that's deeply meaningful,

nothing's going to stop you from that, if you have that much of a drive.

In fact, if you think that you've had setbacks and failures,

that's because you don't really have the thing, that's really on fire for you.

Because when you are really doing something you're really inspired to do,

you don't see failure, you see feedback.

That's been proven now in neurological studies, you see feedback. You say, okay,

refinement. No stopping, refinement.

So in your life right now,

if you scanned your life and looked at the voids that are determining your

values, my voids of being constrained,

wanted me to be free, which allowed me to now travel the world.

My inability to speak made me want to articulate,

now speak probably more voluminously than probably most ever speaker.

My desire to want to not be constrained made me go travel extensively,

20 frigging million miles a year. They said, I'd never read. Well,

frigging over 30,500 books now. And somebody said I would never, she said,

I would never communicate.

We've reached millions of people through every friggin medium possible.

So the very things that we're told we're not going to do,

may be the very things we're going to do.

So when somebody says you can't do something, it may be the very gift.

Right now I wish that teacher in first grade was there, I'd give her a hug.

Thank you for giving me exactly the voids I needed to help me get where I wanted

to go in life. That was the most deeply meaningful path. She wasn't a mistake.

She was on the way. The braces weren't a mistake.

Every one of those components of my life were exactly what was needed to get

me where I am today. And I'm certain

after working with thousands of people in the Breakthrough Experience,

I'm certain that the same thing's going on there.

Because I see people that think, 'Well, my mama wasn't there.

She abandoned me.' Or whatever. 'Great. Who became your mom?' 'Well,

I got this mom and that was the lady that had more money and allowed me to go to

school.

And now I'm educated and I've done what I've done to do.' 'Well if you had your

mom and you blaming your mom for not being there,

but the truth is if she had been there,

you might not have ever gotten to have that education.' 'Never thought about

that.' We constantly compare our lives to fantasies on how it should have been

instead of honoring the way it is and not honoring how those voids are giving us

the gifts we need. So just know that everything in your life,

if you look back at it and make an inventory of all

been through in your life that you thought were errors or mistakes,

or IN the way, or challenges,

all those voids that you think are voids, may not be voids,

they may be gifts. Anything you can't say thank you for is baggage.

Anything you can say, thank you for is fuel.

And I just wanted to share that story because hopefully that makes you look at

your own life because there is a genius inside you. The

genius is when you're authentic and integral to what is that's really deeply

meaningful to you. All of your judgments,

all the things you're too proud or too humble to admit you see in other people

inside yourself are all determining your voids in life.

All the things that you judge out there as extremely pleasureful or painful,

are going to be stored in your subconscious mind as voids wanting to be

neutralized and appreciated and loved.

Everything that's going on in your life is actually part of the path.

I always say that our highest value, our purpose in life is the most efficient,

effective path to fulfill the greatest amount of voids with the greatest amount

of values. So all of those things are on the way, not in the way.

So anything you can't say thank you for is baggage,

but anything you can say thank for is because you've seen how it's catalyzed

exactly what you needed to go to the next step.

And all the jobs you've had and all the careers that you've done and all the

experiences and the boyfriends and girlfriends or whatever the relationships

you've had, all of them are giving you exactly the pieces that you need.

And to not

look and extract meaning out of your existence and not see how all of them are

giving you what you're wanting in life is crazy.

There's two things you want to master in life,

one you want to prioritize your life and fill your day with the highest priority

actions, because when you live by high priority,

you grow in self worth and confidence. And the second one is to ask yourself,

whatever's perceived in your life,

how is it helping you fulfill what's highest on your value?

How's it helping you fulfill your mission?

Anywhere in your life If you look back, if you think, well,

that was in the way that that was a setback and I'm a victim of that,

ask how'd that experience exactly the way it was,

how has it helped me get what I am here to do,

my purpose in life, my highest value? And you'll wake up your genius.

Because when you're living by your highest value,

you pursue challenges that inspire you. And that is the key to building genius.

And a genius is simply the individual who's authentic with original ideas.

And, you know,

there's people out there jumping off bungee jumps and they're doing walking on

coals, doing rope climbing,

and they're doing metaphors for courage and this kind of thing,

but those are totally insignificant,

totally insignificant compared to the courage it takes to be yourself.

And by finding out what all these things are,

is guiding you to be yourself and willing to be yourself and not fit in,

but just to actually stand out as a unique individual with your unique

contribution is the key to your genius.

So I just wanted to share my story on that. Some of you have heard this story.

Some of you may not, but I want to share that

story because I want you to look inside your own life and

take a deep inspection, introspection,

reflection of

all the magnificent things that are necessary in your

the way that you may not have seen.

And just know that any one you don't see on the way, that you see in the way,

is holding you back.

But anything you see on the way is fueling you and no friction, but fuel.

And I believe

that inspiration and enthusiasm and certainty and presence and gratitude and

love, these

transcendental feelings are confirmations that you're perceiving things in a

way that's helping you fulfill what's really meaningful to you.

So I just wanted to take that time to share that story

because I'm a genius and I apply my wisdom,

that one statement impacted my life significantly. In fact,

two years after I started saying that when I was at the Wharton college,

I had a gathering of 17 students gathered around a table and

they were asking me questions on helping

for a test. You know, I was getting ready to take a test.

And I heard this one kid say 'That Demartini is a frigging genius'.

And I remember what Paul Bragg said immediately when I heard him say that,

whispered it to another kid. When I heard him say that, I thought, wow,

Paul Bragg said, if I said that statement every single day,

sooner or later the cells of my body would tingle with it, so will the world.

And that night I went home and I filled literally a 24

hour day list of statements that I wanted to say to myself,

because I thought if one statement could make a difference,

why not fill my whole day with statements like that?

And I realized that if I don't fill my day with high priority actions that

inspire me, my day is going to fill up a low priority distractions that don't.

So you might want to stop and reframe all the things that you've experienced in

your past and see how they can be turned into statements about how you would

love your life and recite those every day, as a reminder,

a checkup from the neck up,

a reminder of you really would love to do in your life.

Because if you don't decide,

nobody else is going to get up in the morning and decide.

They're going to project their values onto your life.

They're not going to decide what you want.

They're going to decide what they feel is wise for you.

So take command of your life. Any area of your life you're not empowering,

any area of your life you're not empowered in, people are going to overpower.

take command, recognize that it's all on the way,

decide exactly how you want it. Prioritize your actions,

prioritize your perceptions,

and let's get on with going and releasing your genius onto the planet.

So that's my message for this morning, I went a few minutes over,

but I just wanted to share that in case that's a value to you,

but do not let anybody on the outside interfere with

your inspiration on the inside.

That's one thing that I learned that day when my mom told me she loved me no

matter what,

I was not going to let anything on this planet interfere with my mission.

Not even myself.

Now to close I just wanted to share something.

I had the opportunity to do a presentation called discover the hidden order that

unites and empowers us all. I was a little wild and on fire. I think,

I don't know, people thought, wow, their comments were 'wow, blown away',

kind of thing.

It may be something that's not inspiring to you. I don't know.

But all I know is if you want to find out how the hidden order is in your life

and see how things are on the way and discover the magnificence of your life and

ask new sets of questions.

So you're not letting the outside world and the apparent chaos interfere with

what you really want in your heart. Please take advantage of this. It's free.

Get this, take advantage of this is a very powerful presentation I did.

I promise you it'll blow you away.

It's about discovering the hidden order in the chaos.

And I went down the rabbit hole. I went deeper than typical. So please get it.

Even if you're not ready for it, just get it.

You're going to say thank you for getting it. And,

I just want you to listen to that maybe more than once.

Cause if you're interested in waking up your genius,

if you're wanting to find the hidden order,

if you want to be individuals that are inspired by your life,

I believe that that little presentation I did will be a very valuable.

Pardon my sniffles a bit,

but I sometimes when I share that it kind of gets to me.

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