Please, Liam, tell me about your vision.
My vision is very simple.
It's to be successful by being happy right now.
Wow, short and sweet.
So tell me about that.
Where did that come from?
What started that?
Well, it's literally the only thing
that makes any biological or scientific or spiritual sense
is that your purpose is to thrive in this moment.
And the only way you can do that
is by focusing on this moment.
OK, and how do you propose to help people find that goal?
Well, what I do is actually not a goal at all.
It's just a way of being.
You see, I spent many decades studying success
and becoming a successful entrepreneur
and literally studying everything
I could about how we achieve what we do in our life.
But then I lost everything and became homeless.
And I realized that everything I'd studied was wrong.
That this whole idea of setting goals
and even knowing what you want doesn't work.
It didn't work for me.
But when I rebuilt my life in a completely different way,
even a lot more success and happiness I ever had,
it led me down to explore how we really
do get the results we do in our life.
And it's actually quite different the way we've,
most of us, been taught.
Because we haven't been taught that our brain is
a biological success machine that's
designed to ensure that you thrive so that you have
the greatest chance of survival.
And this isn't some spiritual or theoretical idea.
This is pure biology, because this is the way
the rest of nature works.
So all you need to really do is understand
how to use your brain.
And your life will take on its own life, if you like.
And everything you really need to be your best
will show up in your life for you.
And again, I'm not talking about anything spiritual.
I'm talking about pure biology.
It sounds like a very simple idea
to just use your brain like a tool or use it like a weapon.
But it also seems very complex at the same time.
Trying to wrap my mind around how to use,
it would be like relearning how to do everything
and use your brain as a tool or a weapon,
as opposed to just going about your day to day.
Am I following you correctly?
Well, absolutely.
But if you think about a motor car,
because your brain is literally a success machine,
it's designed with one purpose.
And that is to ensure that you are your best,
including being happy, including feeling excited
with your life.
It's to ensure that you are your best,
so that you have the greatest chance for survival.
But if you don't know how to use that machine,
what hope do you have of actually achieving that purpose?
It's a bit like a motor car.
If someone could say to you, that's a motor car.
And if you've never seen it before
and you didn't know how it worked,
and you try to figure it out for yourself,
you're probably not going to drive it the right way.
You're probably going to look at it and say,
well, it's got wheels.
Maybe what I need to do is get out from behind
and push.
And you put in all this effort and struggle
and not get anywhere, if certainly not very far,
and literally exhaust yourself and tell yourself,
well, it's obviously a struggle driving a motor car.
It's not supposed to be an enjoyable journey.
But the machine is designed to make it an enjoyable journey.
You just don't know how to use it.
Everything you'd been taught about how a motor car worked,
you know, silly example.
But imagine looking around and everyone else
is pushing motor cars as well.
And everybody just thought, that's
the way you drive a car.
Nobody knew any different.
And of course, it's all a struggle.
It's exactly the same with our brain.
Your brain is a machine that if you use it the wrong way,
life is a struggle and you end up with problems.
If you use it the right way, life
is meant to be what it's supposed to be,
an experience where you thrive.
Wow.
It's a very different way of looking at things.
I feel like it's sort of difficult to try and teach
someone how to relearn their brain depending
on where they're at already.
And I mean, in general, just the regular everyday person
to unthink and relearn how to use a motor car if everyone
is being taught the same way and it's all incorrect.
To relearn that must be difficult.
Well, the good thing is it's actually quite simple
when you get it.
And really, that's what I spend my time doing
is educating people and talking to people such as yourself
and also people who do my coaching and my programs
to understand that really, this is simple stuff,
but we've been taught to complicate everything.
But nature is simple.
You're right, it's very complex on one level.
But on another level, it's very simple.
There are laws of nature that are very simple.
And when you follow the laws, things work.
I mean, and when you don't follow them,
you end up with trouble.
I mean, imagine standing on the top of a 10-story building
and convincing yourself or trying some fancy technique
that if you jump off, you'll fly in the air.
Well, it doesn't matter what you do
or how complicated you make it.
You jump off, you're going to fall straight down.
And it's very simple.
That's just the law of nature is that you walk off a cliff,
you're going to go down.
It's again with the brain.
So you might have been taught all sorts of complicated things
about how life's a struggle, life's difficult,
you need to set goals, you need to have a vision,
you need to work on things and figure things out
and gather lots of information.
And you're always going to have problems in your life.
You might have been told all that stuff all your life.
And in fact, I'm sure you have.
But that doesn't get away from the fact
that none of that is true.
And I proved it to myself when I went
from being a multimillionaire to homeless
and then rebuilding my life in a much better way.
And when I back engineered what I was doing differently
the second time around,
it was simply using my brain in a different way,
in a more natural way.
Okay, let's jump into, you've said it twice now,
how you went from a multimillionaire to homeless.
Is that how you got started?
Was that the beginning of your story?
Or at least the beginning of this chapter?
I'd like to dive into that if you're all right with that.
What caused the homelessness?
Was it on purpose or was it an accident, a fluke?
I guess it's always on purpose, on one level.
No, no, you know, I'd always been a success seeker,
a driven entrepreneur.
I've had 18 different businesses in my life.
And I've always been someone who wanted to be the best
that I could be and have a great life.
I wanted to be rich, I wanted to be free,
I wanted to have, do lots of exciting things.
And I was doing all of those things.
And at the same time I was doing them
and working really hard on my business,
I was studying everything I could about success.
I was going to lots of seminars and workshops
and taking courses and reading books.
And I was a pretty well an encyclopedia on every,
or a lot of self-help, spiritual motivation, goal setting,
changing your thoughts,
changing your subconscious mind, affirmations,
all of those things.
I knew all the authors, I'd read all the books,
I'd been to seminars,
but it didn't stop me from having a life
that was very stressful.
And I kept thinking there's something more.
I'm not there, I'm not happy yet.
I need to set bigger goals, I need to try harder.
I haven't cracked it, as it were.
And literally it came down to one day,
I remember I was putting,
just finishing building my dream home.
And I walked into the music room that I'd built,
because I'd been a musician and to have my own music room
was one of my dreams as well.
And I had two businesses, I had this beautiful home.
And I remember walking into the music room
and looking out across the fields
to the mountains in the distance, thinking, I've made it.
These are my, I'm living my dreams.
I've reached my goals.
But why is it that I'm absolutely miserable?
Why have I achieved everything I thought I had,
yet I've never achieved the one thing I want,
which is truly to feel successful,
truly to feel happy.
And I was miserable.
And I kept thinking, is this all there is?
Surely there's gotta be more to this.
And then I said to myself, maybe it'd be easier or better
to get rid of everything and start again.
Because I'd rather do that,
I'd rather lose everything I have than lose my soul,
because that's what it felt like.
My life force was being drained.
I had lots of problems and stress
and I couldn't enjoy my life no matter what I had in it.
Well, that became prophetic,
that thought about losing everything,
because that's what happened to me
within a couple of months.
I literally did lose everything.
I went to, you know, the home went, the music room went,
the businesses, the marriage, everything.
And I ended up moving in with my elderly mother
and sleeping in the car.
And I ended up with my mother and sleeping on the sofa
in the living room of her small apartment.
And I had absolutely nothing.
But it was from that experience
that I did something different.
I did something with my brain that was different.
I didn't understand what it was at the time,
but it turned into a life that was completely different,
where things started to show up, great things.
So a business showed up, a great relationship showed up.
Before long, I was doing all sorts of amazing things.
I spent eight years sailing around in my own brand new yacht
around Europe for eight years.
I traveled in motor homes,
all the while managing my own businesses
from anywhere in the world.
And I said to myself, because I was totally confused
as to why this has happened.
And I said, why is it that before I'd spent all that time
creating my visions, setting goals, having plans,
working on achieving things,
always being motivated and trying hard
and really working to make things happen
and try and figure things out?
Why is it that then I was completely stressed,
never really happy, and everything fell apart.
And now everything is working so much better.
I'm not setting any goals.
I don't have any plans.
I haven't got anything worked out.
I'm not struggling and putting in lots of effort.
I don't have problems.
I just take the path of least resistance
and all these things show up.
What am I doing differently?
And I wanted to find out
because I wanted to make sure I kept doing it.
And that's what led me to understand
there's a natural process,
a completely natural process to ensure
that you become the best that you can be
because that is your biological purpose.
And all it comes down to is using your brain,
which is the machine designed to make that happen,
use it in a natural way,
not in the way we've all been taught,
which is through struggle and overcoming problems
and figuring out what you want and setting your goals
and being determined and thinking problems
are a natural part of life because they're not.
None of that works.
And if anyone listening or watching is saying,
you know, is he saying that it doesn't work setting goals?
Yes, I am.
And ask yourself what percentage of the goals
that you set you ever achieve.
Most of the people I asked that question to,
what percentage would you think it is?
Any idea?
Very little, very little, less than 5%, I would say.
Exactly, between 2% and 3%.
So why is it we're all doing something
that has a 2% or 3% success rate,
thinking that's the way to achieve success?
It's pointless.
It's like going to a heart surgeon and saying,
what's the success rate on your surgery?
2%, okay, well, thanks to you, you'll be great.
I'll definitely do what I'll use you.
You wouldn't do it, would you?
But we all have this idea that goal setting
is what it's all about.
And figuring out what we want and striving to achieve it
is what we're here to do.
But it doesn't work and it's not natural.
And it's never going to get you what you really want.
It's just that everybody has always pushed the motor car
instead of getting in it and driving.
And so everyone's used to that.
Throughout history, there've been endless examples
of things that were believed to be the right way
to do things or the truth
that turned out to be completely wrong.
I mean, it wasn't that long ago
that every single person on the planet,
all of the great scientists and thinkers
knew 100% certainty that the earth was flat
and that all of the planets and the sun
revolved around the earth.
That was a fact, but it wasn't the truth, was it?
So could it be that all of the things
that we are 100% convinced about,
that life is a struggle, you need to work hard
to figure out what you want
and put in a lot of effort to achieve it?
Could it be that that's not true as well?
Thank you for being here today.
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