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Mind Over Money: Breaking Free from Financial Stress and Unlocking Abundance EP 187
Episode 1872nd June 2023 • The Demartini Show • Dr John Demartini
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One of the great keys that will unlock the door to your dreams and wealth is mastering your own mind. Join Dr Demartini where he'll be discussing how a mind fragmented with emotions reacts with fear and dissipates wealth, and why an integrated mind is where wealth becomes possible.

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It's the attachment of the infatuation or resentment to money.

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That's why Warren Buffet says, until you can manage your emotions,

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don't expect to manage your money.

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Today is about economics or finance,

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I'm going to call it Mind Over Money,

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but it's basically breaking free from the financial stress that many people

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are facing and living a more abundant you know, life,

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having an unlocking the abundance that you can have in life.

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So if you have something to write with and write on, that would be fantastic.

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First thing I want to say is there's two primary

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distresses relating to money. So if you're going to write that,

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write these down.

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The perception or fear of loss of

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that which you seek.

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The perception of loss of money that you're seeking. That's one.

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The other one is the perception of gain of that what you're trying to avoid.

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So let's give an example what that might be.

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If you're seeking new clients to do transactions in sustainable fair

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exchange, where you get remunerated for some service you provide,

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or product that you provide, or some idea that you provide,

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if you consult or coach, and you fear the loss of those clients,

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then you are fearing the loss of that which you seek.

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And that's distressful.

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If you are perceiving bills coming in that you're

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trying to avoid,

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or difficult clients that don't pay and you don't want to deal with them,

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or people that distract you or interfere with you earning the income,

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that's also distressful. There's two basic forms of distress.

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The perception of loss of that which you seek,

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the perception of gain of that which you're trying to avoid. All

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distress falls into those two categories, including financial stress.

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Now those financial stresses are,

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you might say, mitigated or calmed down or governed

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if you're more neutral in your perceptions. For instance,

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if you're infatuated with somebody, highly infatuated,

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you're going to fear their loss and you're going to be highly stressed if they

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were to leave. If you're highly resentful, you're going to fear their gain.

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You're afraid of them coming close.

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If you're neutral and you're not infatuated or resentful,

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then they can come or go with more resilience and adaptability.

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Distress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

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The world's constantly changing. If you can't adapt to it, you got distress.

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Financial distress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

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And the perception of loss of that which you seek and the perception of gain of

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that what you're trying to avoid.

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So the more infatuated you are with getting the money,

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the more you're resentful you are of losing the money or not getting the money

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or having bills or taking money away,

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having money come in or having money go out, those two fears.

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If you're highly polarized, you're more distressed,

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and you're more distracted.

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Because anything you infatuate with and seek occupies space and time in your

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mind.

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We've all been infatuated and couldn't even sleep at night because we're so

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infatuated.

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And we've also been so resentful at night that we couldn't sleep because we're

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distracted.

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So anytime you polarize your perceptions and become highly infatuated or highly

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resentful to the gain or loss of money,

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it runs your life extrinsically and the circumstances and the events in your

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life are running you and you're highly distressed.

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When you are highly polarized and add valency or emotional charge

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to these things, positively or negatively, the subcortical area of the brain,

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called the amygdala,

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which is assigning valency to your memories and your subconscious mind,

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it runs you and it then therefore tends to polarize your perceptions further,

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more subjective bias and distortions on how happy you'll be if you'll get it

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and how sad you'll be if you don't. The more polarized you are,

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the more amygdala driven you are, the more survival emotional you are,

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the more you accentuate the distress levels.

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But if you are more objective, more neutral,

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more balanced in your perception,

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you'll be less distressed about the gain and loss of money.

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You'll be more strategic in your communication

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and in your transactions of service. Also,

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when you are infatuated with somebody, you'll sacrifice for them.

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If you're resentful to somebody, you'll sacrifice them for you.

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Both of which are non-sustainable transactional states.

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But, now you know, I rarely do a presentation without talking about values,

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because everything that goes on in human behavior relates to it.

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You have a set of priorities in life, a set of values in life,

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whatever's highest on that list of priorities, the

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highest value is where you're most objective, most neutral,

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most balanced.

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And whatever's lower on your value list is where you're more subjective,

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more amygdala driven, because you're, you're not fulfilled there in that.

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Anytime you're doing something that's really high on your value,

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you grow your self-worth, you grow your, you get your blood, glucose,

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and oxygen going into the forebrain, your forebrain,

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your orbital medial prefrontal cortex area is the governing center to govern

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the emotional swings and to neutralize the subjective biases of

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extremes and bring them back into more of a balanced objective state.

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So if you're filling your day with high priority actions that inspire you,

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that are being remunerated from serving people in sustainable fair

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exchange manners,

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you will maximize your financial income

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and the most stable you'll be with it.

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And whoever has the most stability with money gets more money.

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Warren Buffett has a nice few sayings if you look through some of his videos and

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read some of his books,

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you'll see he says that money circulates through the economy from those who have

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the least order to those that have the most order with their financial house and

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and their money management.

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They go from those who value it least to those who value it most.

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They go where you have the least amount of certainty to where you have the most

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amount of certainty,

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least amount of emotional stability to the most amount of stability.

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So anytime you're living by your highest values and doing something that's

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really meaningful to you, that's something that inspires you spontaneously,

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something you can't wait to go and do of service to people,

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where you're willing to endure challenges and whatever the pains and pleasures

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in the pursuit is something purposeful and meaningful,

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when you're actually pursuing solving problems for people that you love doing

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that because it's meaningful and it helps you bring fulfillment in your life,

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the executive center governs the amygdala and calms down the

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extremes of subjective bias, which polarize the mind,

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which makes you more distressful.

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But if you follow your highest priority things,

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it calms all that down and reduces the distress.

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It increases the probability of you communicating more

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objectively and not trying to get something for nothing

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or give away something for nothing in an altruistic mode.

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Both of those personas, those false identities,

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those elevated or depressed self-esteem perceptions are all amygdala based.

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They're all emotional based. See if you infatuate with somebody,

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you'll minimize yourself and sacrifice for them,

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you won't end up keeping the money and you won't you

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won't feel worthy of it.

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And if you go around and put people down and resent them and exaggerate

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yourself, a false persona,

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you'll narcissistically try to get them to give you something for nothing.

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None of those are sustainable.

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Trying to get something or give something for nothing is non-sustainable.

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So the second we live by priority, the more we're objective,

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the more we're spontaneously inspired to live, to fulfill and serve people,

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doing something we love, which is fulfilling us so it's a fair exchange,

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and doing it in a way where we're in equanimity,

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not exaggerating or minimizing yourself or minimizing and exaggerating them,

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the more we have access to sustainable fair exchange where you and the

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individual customer wants to do business and you want, you get more referrals.

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There's an abundance there. There's no lack there.

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We only have a perception of gain and loss or lack, something missing,

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when we have imbalanced perspectives, Claude Shannon,

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in his studies on information theory,

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described the tendency to go from order to disorder,

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and disorder means missing information and order means full information.

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In other words,

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when you are able to see things objectively and

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fair exchange manner and you have an objective view,

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you understand the customer's views, you understand your own views,

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and you try to find a win-win relationship,

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which allows you to have more sustainable business transactions,

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and you have more abundance because there's more people that are going to want

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to refer to you because they feel they can trust you.

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Their oxytocin and their vasopressin hormones when they're doing business with

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you go up and they believe in you and they want to refer to you,

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you get more possible business.

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But the second you're not living by priority,

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trying to sell something you don't believe in,

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or trying to exaggerate yourself and get something for nothing,

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or minimize yourself and sacrifice,

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almost everybody's probably had a transaction with somebody they put on a

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pedestal, some celebrity or whatever they were doing business with,

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they didn't want to lose the business so they sacrificed the profits and gave a

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discount. Or maybe they narcissistically thought,

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I don't need this client and I'm just going to gouge them.

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And they've gone to the extreme and narcissistically expected something for

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nothing. Those don't sustain, nobody wants to,

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you're not going to build a brand that way.

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You're going to build a brand with sustainable fair exchange when you have a

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willingness to have a win-win relationship with them.

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So that occurs more probably when you're living by priority,

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which means in your business,

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if you're delegating things that are not inspiring to you,

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to people who are inspired to do it and they're engaged and you're engaged and

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you're both doing high value actions,

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your business goes up in value and there's not a lack of,

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there's never a lack of money to people who care about serving people.

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There's always something out in the world that people need,

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and caring enough about human beings to go out and find out what that is,

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is what brings the abundance.

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Caring enough about it to find out what they really need is not narcissistically

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assuming and presuming you know what they need,

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or altruistically sacrificing what you need for what they need,

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but actually finding out what inspires you that would be fulfilling to other

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people that inspires you with your skill and your competency to go out and

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deliver. Whatever's highest on your value is where your highest, you might say,

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competitive advantage, competitive you know, advantage and opportunity is.

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You know, Ricardo in his work on competitive advantage and comparative,

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you know, opportunities,

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show very well that when you find the thing that you have the greatest resource

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about and exchange that with somebody else that's doing the same,

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you both have the best transactions. Countries do that, cities do that,

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people do that. Your greatest asset is when you're living congruently,

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authentically according to what you value most.

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That's why in the Breakthrough Experience,

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the program I teach pretty well every week or every two weeks,

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I am showing people how to one, identify what their hierarchy of values are.

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If you have not gone onto my website,

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drdemartini.com and done the Value Determination process, do it.

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Take the time to do, it's 30 minutes of your time, it's free,

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it's complimentary, it's private. Take the time to do it.

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Do it again a week from now because you'll lie to yourself the first time,

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probably.

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You'll probably write down what you want it to be as a value structure,

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but answer the questions really integrally,

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be reflective and really take the moment to answer the questions that are on

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that questionnaire. Do it again a week from now. Do it again a month from now.

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Do it again three months from now and do it every three months to keep current

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with what your values because they evolve as you go through life.

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And then make sure that you're prioritizing your daily

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most meaningful to you and doing something that contributes and serves other

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people so you stay in your executive center so you stay

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less,

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you're more resilient and less vulnerable to the distresses of gains and losses,

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or the perception of loss of that which you seek or perception of gain of that

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which you're trying to avoid. And allows you to stay out of the amygdala,

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which is an emergency survival mentality instead of a thrival mentality.

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And you can live more abundantly from that perspective, with more fair exchange,

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more referrals, more opportunities in that mode.

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That's why in the Breakthrough Experience I help people go through and identify

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what their highest value is,

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show them how to prioritize their life and live accordingly.

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And then I give them the Demartini Method. The Demartini Method is,

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is the science on how to ask questions to be conscious of what's

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unconscious.

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Because when you're infatuated with somebody you're conscious of the upsides,

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you're unconscious of the downsides, therefore you're going to fear their loss.

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If you're resentful to somebody, you're going to be conscious of the downsides,

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unconscious of the upsides, you're going to fear their gain.

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If you're infatuated with money or resentful to money,

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it will run you. In the great book by Hubert Howe Bancroft the Book of Wealth,

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which is a classic which I have access to and bought a copy of.

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It's only 400 copies ever printed originally.

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In that book it talks about three things that were common to extremely wealthy

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people. One, they felt that they had by divine province and human sovereignty,

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a desire to serve vast numbers of people. A calling,

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a feeling like it's destined to serve vast numbers of people.

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They also felt that they had a mission to go and raise and elevate the standards

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of people in humanity. And they also, not to be attached,

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pleasure or pain, infatuation resentment, to money.

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Not seeing it as evil or good.

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Seeing it as simply a measuring device of the contribution you're making in

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sustainable fair exchange with human beings on the planet. Not to attach to it.

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It's the attachment of the infatuation or resentment to money,

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that's why Warren Buffet says, until you can manage your emotions,

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don't expect to manage your money. If you're not able to manage your emotions,

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you're going to be highly distressed,

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you're going to not have the abundant mindset, you're going to live in survival.

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And that's why in the Breakthrough Experience I

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on how to dissolve all the emotional,

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subconsciously stored baggage associated with money or different areas

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of your life, not just money, relationships, social issues,

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because as long as you infatuate resent, they are going to run you.

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You are not going to be in command.

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If you want to be a master of your fate and captain of your ship and be a

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master of your destiny, not a victim of your history,

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and not be distracted by emotions and be trapped,

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where you devalue yourself and feel unworthy of having abundance,

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then prioritize your life.

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That's why I help people come to the Breakthrough Experience,

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to show them how to prioritize it and to dissolve the emotional baggage that

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distract people from being present. If you're purposeful,

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which is your highest value, if you're present,

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which you're not wobbling and waffling around with emotions,

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you're productive, you're prioritized,

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and you're basically empowered by your life,

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then you're going to have more abundance in your life than you are

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if you're sitting there in vicisitudes of emotions all the time and falsely

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attributing the things on the outside with blame and credit to things.

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People that blame reasons why they're not abundant and people then give credit

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to people outside them that think they're going to make them abundant,

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they're not going to be as abundant as the people who are living congruently by

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who they are authentically, not giving credit or blames on the outside,

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but taking accountabilities on the inside.

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You want to be able to bring your mind into accountable balance sheet where you

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can see both sides of yourself. Because whatever you infatuate with,

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you're basically disowning in yourself. Whenever you're resentful,

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you're disowning yourself.

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Being accountable is to bring those and have reflective awareness and realize

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you have everything you see out there so you're no longer distracted by them.

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You're not infatuated or resentful.

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That's why in the Breakthrough Experience I show you where you actually already

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have what you're looking for, it's in a form you're not honoring.

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That's a gold mine when you get that,

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to realize that nothing's missing in your life,

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abundant is the realization that nothing's missing,

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and lack is the perception that there's something missing.

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So when Claude Shannon talks about missing information,

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it's because we're unconscious of things. In the Breakthrough Experience,

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I help people become fully conscious, sometimes called mindful,

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sometimes called super conscious or cosmic conscious or spiritual conscious,

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whatever title you want to give it.

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I want people to realize that there is an abundance sitting in their life that

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they can empower all areas of their life, particularly the financial area,

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which is a universal value system.

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And that many times their finances are stored in other areas and they're not

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honoring. They may have some of their wealth in intellectual property.

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They may have wealth in sometimes in a business that they haven't sold yet,

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or products they haven't sold, ideas in their head,

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they may have in their beauty or their attractiveness.

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Sometimes people will exchange finances for that.

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Or their spiritual awareness or possibly their social contacts.

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There's not a lack in your life. In the Breakthrough Experience,

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I show people how to discover what they think is missing,

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where it is in the form it is, so they're not giving power to other people,

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they're giving power back to themselves, contributing to other people,

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in a sustainable fair exchange, objectively by their highest values.

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Because the forebrain is where objectivity is.

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And if you're not living with foresight and planning your life by design,

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you're going to be living by hindsight, living by duty.

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And you're going to be basically minimizing yourself

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yourself to people and judging yourself with gossip,

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which is a symptom of a non-engaged, non ninspired, non prioritized,

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non-focused leader. So if you want to go and grow your leadership,

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if you want to go and empower your life,

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you want to go and build more abundance in your life,

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you want to have a master of your mind and master of your life and basically

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have an integrated mind instead of a disintegrated mind,

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come to the Breakthrough Experience.

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I'm absolutely certain that that program has transformed thousands and thousands

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of people's lives all over the world. And I know it can do the same for you.

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I know it can help you have a trajectory of where there's more abundance in your

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life. I know it can help you have more stability.

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I know it can help you have less distress and more eustress,

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which is a wellness promoting vitality where you get up in the morning and you

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can't wait to go out and be of service, tackling challenges.

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See people that are inspired by what they do look for challenge to solve.

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People that are uninspired are trying to avoid challenges and look for an easy

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path, an immediate gratifying kind of path. A short term thinking.

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The people that are doing what they love and doing something that's inspiring

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and living by their highest values think long term, they start to focus.

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And what is wealth building but deferred gratification.

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It's taking and expanding your space and time horizons.

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In the Breakthrough Experience I show you how to expand the space and time

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horizons to look from a celestial view looking down on the earth instead of a

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terrestrial view looking out from the earth.

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I want you to look down and realize this world,

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what do I want to accomplish on world today?

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Instead of all the world's on top of me?

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I want you to be on top of the world and look down and realize, hey,

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this whole world is mine. You know,

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I've said for years that the universe is my playground, the world is my home,

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every country's a room in the house,

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every city's a platform to share my heart and soul and I hold it in my mind and

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spin the world in my hands and go,

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what do I want to do in this what part of the world today?

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You have the power to have an abundance of whole globe.

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With the internet today and all the knowledge we have access today,

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there's absolutely no reason why you can't live an abundant life.

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So come to the Breakthrough Experience. Let me share with you,

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if you've got something out of this 30 minutes, come there.

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Cause I'm going to take 25 or 26 hours and I'm going to share the most amazing

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information that's going to help you have mastery over your life.

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I've been dedicated for 50 years on self-mastery to help people do something

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extraordinary with their life.

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I'm certain in the Breakthrough Experience I can impart to you information that

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is proven to work with thousands of people, it can work for you.

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So if you would like to have a more abundant life,

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if you'd like to have mind over money and break free the financials distress,

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that's and live more abundantly, come to the Breakthrough Experience.

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Let me spend 26 hours with you and kind of blow your mind on what you're capable

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of doing that you may not have honored in yourselves. Anyway,

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thank you for for joining me today for this little presentation.

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Look forward to seeing you next week.

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If you believe this will be of value to you,

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please pass the torch and let people know out there about our little podcast,

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little message and make it to the Breakthrough Experience.

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I assure you're going to say thank you at the end. You're going to,

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I've asked people at the end of the program every week,

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how many of you learned something this weekend you could have gone your entire

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life and you would never have learned if you hadn't been here?

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Every hand goes up every week.

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So I'm absolutely certain you'll get something out of this experience.

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So come and join me at the Breakthrough Experience and let me help you live a

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