Category: Success Mindset

Common Misconceptions About Being an Entrepreneur

There’s been a huge shift in entrepreneurship in the last 50 years — and also in the last 10 to 15 years.

Being an entrepreneur has become the “cool” thing to do. We’ve “celebritized” it in a way.

We see all these different pictures of people with yachts, private jets, driving their new Bugatti, etc… we see reality TV like the Kardashians showing people “living the life.”

But with these shows, we never see what an entrepreneur is actually doing day in and out.

We don’t see the entrepreneur working 18-hour days, trying to pay their bills. We don’t see them borrowing money, trying to keep their company moving forward. We don’t see them rehabbing their new product or service, because customers are returning what they bought.

We don’t see them hiring, firing employees, people quitting or not showing up to work.

We don’t see the personal problems many entrepreneurs have behind the scenes — like their family hasn’t seen them in six months. Or they’re dealing with overwhelm, depression, binge-drinking, or doing drugs.

There’s a lot of negative shit that comes out of being an entrepreneur that people don’t realize.

Some people go into business with some kind of dream or idea about what they want to experience. The dream is unique to each person. But once they get into business, it becomes like a monster taking over. They don’t know how to control it, tame it, or get the monster moving in one direction.

Starting a business can either lead to personal freedom — or your own personal prison.

We need to ask ourselves a variety of questions about what to do when we start a business — so that we don’t end up creating a giant “job” for ourselves that we don’t even like. That’s what turns a business into a prison, rather than freedom.

Many people who start a business should really think about all of this beforehand.

So let me ask you something… if you’re in business, does it give you freedom, or do you feel like a prisoner?

If it feels like a prison, ask yourself what you are resisting being, doing or having that would shift things to provide you more personal freedom.

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Can You Change a Generational Blind Spot?

If you have a blind spot, then it’s most likely a generational problem.

What I mean by this is that the people in your family have probably had the same problem (or blind spot) for generations… without being aware of it.

Here’s how this happens…

Somewhere back in your history or family lineage, problems started showing up. Your great-great grandparents had some kind of misfortune in their life.

If they focused on that misfortune, didn’t understand it, and couldn’t see a way out of it… then they created a belief system around it.

Everything about the problem — all the circumstances, people involved, and conclusions about it — all got formed into a belief system.

That belief got passed down to the next generation.

The next generation (your great grandparents) weren’t even aware of the original problem. They were only aware of the belief system that was passed down to them. So they accepted the belief system as being true.

This pattern continues. It goes down, down, down… to each new generation.

The next set of grandparents also accepts the belief system as being true.

No one thinks to themselves, “There’s got to be a better way or a different way.” It doesn’t even dawn on them that there could be a different way.

Meanwhile, the problem is getting worse.

The ideas, circumstances, and situations are progressively getting worse with each new generation.

Anything that is dysfunctional, dying, or decaying must continually move in a downward force… until something changes that force and causes it to go in an upward direction.

But if nobody realizes that they’re heading in a downward direction, nobody tries to change it.

So the problem continues from one next generation to the next… until it gets to you.

Now, where do you fall in the mix?

You were born. And you were given a set of beliefs by your parents… which were given to them by their parents, and so forth.

But here’s the thing:

Because you’re reading this article now, you have the ability to turn everything around.

You wouldn’t be reading this article if you weren’t ready to take this downward progression of a blind spot (that has probably been going on for generations in your family lineage)… and turn it around for a big win in your life.

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The Key to Finding the Solution

If you feel stuck, like you’re out of options, or if you feel like you’ve got a block… then I want you to take a deep breath and allow me to lead you through your blind spot.

It doesn’t take luck to uplevel your life, only your desire to grow… and I’m about to show you how.

In the last article, I mentioned that the polar opposite of lack is abundance.

The Law of Polarity says if we’re experiencing anything in lack, the polar opposite of that (abundance) must also exist.

To illustrate this, I want you to do an exercise:

Pick up any object that’s near you — a pen, pencil, sheet of paper. It doesn’t matter what it is. If you hold it in front of you, you’ll realize it’s a “whole” thing.

It’s not a partial thing.

It has a front and a back, a left side and a right side. A top and a bottom.

If I’m holding a marker, I’m holding a WHOLE marker, not half of a marker or a fraction of a marker. The marker has a left side and a right side to it. You can’t have the left without the right. Both must exist for it to be a marker.

The same is true for everything in the universe.

Everything has a polar opposite.

Both sides always exist.

If you have a problem, two sides must exist — the problem and the solution. You can’t have a problem without a solution also being present.

That means if you have a “lack” of money (the problem), then you also have an “abundance” of money all around you (the solution)…even if you can’t see it, due to your belief system not letting you see it!

Now what is the great hope that comes out of this understanding?

Once we begin to see with an inner eye of understanding in our heart, then we’ll start to see something different in our external life. We’ll see with our eyes the outer abundance that lies all around us.

When we do that, we have the possibility of changing any situation. Literally in that moment, we can change our circumstances.

You could even change your income. Turning your annual income to a monthly income becomes a real possibility.

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What Creates a Blind Spot?

What creates a blind spot in our thinking? What causes us to only see lack, limitation, and problems everywhere we look?

The answer is our belief system.

Take a look at your life — specifically your results, circumstances, environment, and money.

Those things are being created by the belief system you have about each of those things.

Our belief system is causing all of this to appear in our life — whether it shows up as “abundance” or “lack.”

First, we see our situation with our eyes. We see our results, circumstances, environment, and our financial situation.

This “information” is then fed back into our conscious mind (i.e., our thinking mind)…which then reinforces the feelings we have about those things.

Usually those feelings don’t make us feel very good… because if we have a blind spot, then there’s a “problem” we can’t seem to change.

The blind spot causes you to focus on problems in your life, rather than solutions.

Back when I was working on the dock, I was frustrated and angry. I didn’t know how to change my circumstances, because my eyes kept telling me the story of what my experience was.

My experience confirmed to me over and over again that my world was filled with “lack.”

I had no time, no money, no opportunities, no friends…

How many times has your life — your eyes —
confirmed the story of “lack” in your life?

How many times has your life — your eyes — confirmed the story of “lack” in your life?

Think about what you don’t have right now.

You might not have enough:
– money
– opportunity
– time
– resources

Ask yourself, “How do I feel about that? What does that feeling cause me to think?”

Often, it causes people to lose hope…because they can’t see beyond whatever their experience is telling them they’re seeing.

This happens because they don’t understand the Law of Polarity.

This law dictates that if we’re experiencing anything in lack, the polar opposite of that is abundance.

If you don’t have something, that’s a clear indication that you DO have it. You’re just not seeing it…because your belief system isn’t allowing you to see it.

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An Exercise to Conquer Fear

Do you let fear stop you from taking action on creating the life of your dreams?

If so, here’s an exercise for you.

Take out a blank sheet of paper. Write down all the things you haven’t done in your life because of fear.

And understand this:

In order for fear to get you to say “no,” it has to get your agreement.

Don’t ever forget this. If you can remember this for the rest of your life, it will allow you to do something most people never do — to step out of the fear briefly, and analyze your decision from a place of TRUTH.

If fear is stopping you…ask yourself, “What am I agreeing with in my fear?”

Is it that you can’t do it? That something will go wrong? That you’ll make a mistake?

All the reasons why you “can’t” do something are wrapped up in your fear.

…That’s how fear stops every person. That’s the only way fear can stop you…

It gets you to agree with something that’s not true.

So…what do you agree with?

Human beings are only born with two fears — the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. Our two-million-year-old brain has a mechanism designed to stop us from doing things that might kill us.

But today, once you grow up, fear is not something that should even be part of your life.

Why? Because you have the ability to choose.

Many people live in fear of all kinds. Maybe they have fear in their relationship, fear in their finances, fear in their health, fear in where they live…

But we have the ability to choose.

If we’re actually in some kind of danger, we can choose to move ourselves out of that danger. So there’s no reason to live in fear.

When fear stops you from doing something — just pause and ask yourself, “What am I agreeing with, in order for this fear to stop me?”

You’re agreeing with something.

For most people, it’s subconscious. They’re not even sure what they’re agreeing with, because they’ve never asked themselves this question before.

All they experience is the emotion — a bad feeling.

All they see are things in their environment that represent “why I can’t do this thing I want to do.”

They agree with it, and they stop right there.

Then there’s no forward movement.

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Are You “Cradled in Convention”?

What is your purpose? Why are you here? And are you taking that “out to the edge”?

In other words — are you pushing yourself to the very edge of what you’re capable of, as it relates to your purpose in life?

In his poem, “The Call of the Wild,” Robert William Service talks about how other people have created us in their convention:

…They have cradled you in custom, they have primed you with their preaching,
They have soaked you in convention through and through;
They have put you in a showcase; you’re a credit to their teaching…

When we’re “cradled in convention,” this results in us seeing the entire world through someone else’s eyes — and through somebody else’s experience (rather than our own).

That’s what our parents did. They soaked us in “convention” — i.e., indoctrinated us into the way they did things.

They created a “box” for us to live in.

Outside of that box is TRUTH…which sets you free.

If we could stand in the full truth of our being (i.e., who we truly are) — it would totally set us free.

We’d stop struggling. We wouldn’t have much difficulty accomplishing what we want to accomplish. We wouldn’t fight ourselves all that much.

It’s very difficult to get to this truth when the only part of your world you can experience, is through a very narrow vision of what life is.

You have your environment, your circumstances, and your results.

…And you have a very narrow “box” through which you observe or perceive those things.

Your beliefs control your perception.

Your values control your perception.

The wounds you’ve had throughout your lifetime control your perception.

When most people get wounded, they don’t see the “truth” in it. They see the pain in it. Instead of expanding their life, the pain contracts it.

It says, “Don’t do this again…don’t experience that again, because that causes pain.” So their life contracts.

They start to see LESS of what they saw before — until their world becomes very small. It keeps them in a very narrow perception of what’s going on. So they can’t see the truth.

If we’re going to change this in our own life…then one of the things we have to do is begin to understand what the truth looks like.

By studying the laws of the universe, we bring truth into our awareness.

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One of my favorite poems

The chef, Francis Mallmann (who I wrote about in the last post), is a romantic. He loves quoting poetry. He introduced me to a poem, “The Call of the Wild,” by Robert William Service.

For about a year, I’ve started off some of my events with this poem. (In one of our master class teachings, I actually broke it down paragraph by paragraph. )

As you read it, sit back and ask yourself, “What does this mean to me?”

I think that’s the best way to interpret poetry or literature — to ask ourselves, “How does this speak to me individually?”

The Call of the Wild

Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there’s nothing else to gaze on,
Set pieces and drop-curtain scenes galore,
Big mountains heaved to heaven, which the blinding sunsets blazon,
Black canyons where the rapids rip and roar?
Have you swept the visioned valley with the green stream streaking through it,
Searched the Vastness for a something you have lost?
Have you strung your soul to silence? Then for God’s sake go and do it;
Hear the challenge, learn the lesson, pay the cost.

Have you wandered in the wilderness, the sagebrush desolation,
The bunch-grass levels where the cattle graze?
Have you whistled bits of rag-time at the end of all creation,
And learned to know the desert’s little ways?
Have you camped upon the foothills, have you galloped o’er the ranges,
Have you roamed the arid sun-lands through and through?
Have you chummed up with the mesa? Do you know its moods and changes?
Then listen to the Wild — it’s calling you.

Have you known the Great White Silence, not a snow-gemmed twig aquiver?
(Eternal truths that shame our soothing lies.)
Have you broken trail on snowshoes? mushed your huskies up the river,
Dared the unknown, led the way, and clutched the prize?
Have you marked the map’s void spaces, mingled with the mongrel races,
Felt the savage strength of brute in every thew?
And though grim as hell the worst is, can you round it off with curses?
Then hearken to the Wild — it’s wanting you.

Have you suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled down, yet grasped at glory,
Grown bigger in the bigness of the whole?
“Done things” just for the doing, letting babblers tell the story,
Seeing through the nice veneer the naked soul?
Have you seen God in His splendors, heard the text that nature renders?
(You’ll never hear it in the family pew.)
The simple things, the true things, the silent men who do things —
Then listen to the Wild — it’s calling you.

They have cradled you in custom, they have primed you with their preaching,
They have soaked you in convention through and through;
They have put you in a showcase; you’re a credit to their teaching —
But can’t you hear the Wild? — it’s calling you.
Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us;
Let us journey to a lonely land I know.
There’s a whisper on the night-wind, there’s a star agleam to guide us,
And the Wild is calling, calling . . . let us go.

~ Robert William Service

After you read this poem, I want you to take a couple of minutes and write down two things.

You now have an opportunity to:

1) take something away from the poem that’s going to benefit you…and

2) leave something behind that no longer serves you.

What do you want to take with you?

What do you want to leave behind?

This poem is really about the experience of life — reaching out, grabbing it, and living it with everything you’ve got.

It’s not just about the different scenarios in the poem. It’s about how do those things reflect your purpose, in your own life?

The poem mentions all kinds of extreme, wild experiences that pull from us a challenge — something that spurs us to make a decision and say, “I’m going to really live my life out on the edge.”

It’s not about living somebody else’s life on the edge — it’s about living your own life on the edge.

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Are you on the edge?

Francis Mallmann is one of the biggest celebrity chefs in South America. He had an awakening when he was 13 years old, which is when he left home. He became a very accomplished French chef at one point, then turned his back on all of that.

He walked in his own path to develop his own style of cooking with fire.

I’ve had dinner with him twice at his restaurant, Los Fuegos, in Miami. He’s a very fascinating person, and he lives what I teach.

He has totally embraced this idea that I’ve been perpetuating now for a very long time — He totally lives it and embodies it in everything he does.

I’d recommend you check out the Netflix program, “Chef’s Table” (Season 1, Episode 3) to learn more about Francis Mallmann.

He has a quote I want to share with you that relates to the idea of personal freedom: 

“You don’t grow on a secure path. All of us should conquer something in life… and it needs a lot of work and it needs lot of risk.”

“In order to grow and to improve, you have to be there ‘a bit on the edge of uncertainty.’”

When I heard him say that on the show, it rang a bell in the back of my head.

For years, my mentor basically said the same thing.

My mentor said: ”If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.”

Many authors I’ve studied have also talked about this idea of “living on the edge.”

What is the “edge” they’re referring to?

It’s the edge between success and failure.

Most people don’t live anywhere near that edge — because they’re raised with the idea of living safely.

But unless you’re living on that edge, no growth can take place in you.

Where is your “edge”?

Are you constantly challenging yourself to do things you’ve never done before?

You know you’re living on the edge when you do something that excites you but also makes you nervous. The fear is guiding you in the right direction. 

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What are You Creating?

We’re all creative beings. You, me, your next-door neighbor, everyone…

In fact, God (or “Spirit,” or the universe) gave us the power to create. The universe itself is creative in nature.

The higher faculties of our intellect are designed to be creative.

The question is — what are you creating?

Are you creating a life you absolutely love?

…Or a life you’re just settling for? (or tolerating?)

We’re always creating something.

…Even if it’s just rearranging the living room.

Think for a moment what it’d be like to create a life you really desire, where you refuse to settle.

What does that look like?

It requires going after everything you want to BE, DO, or HAVE, with everything you’ve got in you — with full excitement and enthusiasm for life itself.

Does that describe you?

A great way to get better at creating the life you want, is to intentionally practice creating something each day.

Try it for 7 days.

List out 7 things you want to “be, do, or have.” On each of the 7 days, create one thing on your list — from start to finish. Do whatever it takes.

Challenge yourself to create all 7 things, even if they’re imperfect!

Make each item on your list simple and fairly easy, so you know you can follow through on it.

This will hone your ability to create the life you really you want.

(Many famous musicians, authors, and artists do this all the time.)

Creating something daily is an amazing habit to have. It allows spirit to flow through you on a consistent basis.

It’s in harmony with the intentional creative energy of the universe. (God or “Spirit” created everything…and we have that same power.)

When we create, we keep the energy of the universe moving through us on a regular basis. This allows us to receive new “downloads” of information on what to do next.

The more we do it, the more the “how” shows up.

The answer of “how” to do something, comes along with the download.

…But in order to get the downloads, we have to first make the decision that we’re going to create what we want.

(If we refuse to do that — then not only will we NOT get any new ideas, but the “how” won’t be revealed to us.)

So… what do you want to create?

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How Do I Find My Purpose?

For the past 20 years, one of the most popular and common questions I’ve gotten is: “What’s my purpose?”

People ask me this all the time.

“What was I put here to do? How do I find my purpose? How do I step into my purpose?”

It almost gets to the point of a dysfunctional obsession… where they can’t think of anything else. They’re like, “I've gotta find my purpose, I’ve gotta find my purpose…”

The answer is not hard.

In fact, our purpose is not something we need to “find” to begin with.

We’re already in our purpose right now.

No matter what you’re doing or experiencing in your life right now — you’re already in your purpose.

You might be thinking, “How could that be? I don’t even like what I’m doing. I’m not making the money I want to make. I’m living in fear. I have anxiety, pain, or sickness. I have trouble in my relationships. I have dreams that I want to pursue, but no idea how to get there…”

“So how could I possibly be in my purpose?”

Here’s the truth:

Whatever you’re doing or experiencing right now, at this point in your life, is absolutely required for you to make a different decision today or tomorrow to do what you were put here to do.

In fact, everything that’s already happened in your life up to this point was 100% essential to get you to where you are right now.

All of your experiences shaped you in some way, and taught you something that you need to understand, in order to move forward.

I suggest you take a pen and paper, and spend several hours reflecting over your life, and everything you’ve learned.

Most people have never examined their own life. Nor have they put much thought into what all of their experiences have taught them.

I encourage you to do this. Think about what you’ve learned throughout your life, what you’d like to change, and what’s needed to move yourself in a different direction.

Going through this process will reveal any changes you want to make in your life.

And remember… you’re already in your purpose.

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