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How you got started, was that the beginning of your story,

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or at least the beginning of this chapter?

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I'd like to dive into that if you're all right with that.

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What caused the homelessness?

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Was it on purpose or was it an accident, a fluke?

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I guess it's always on purpose, on one level.

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No, no, you know, I'd always been a success seeker,

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a driven entrepreneur.

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I've had 18 different businesses in my life,

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and I've always been someone who wanted to be the best

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that I could be and have a great life.

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I wanted to be rich, I wanted to be free,

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I wanted to do lots of exciting things.

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And I was doing all of those things.

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And at the same time I was doing them

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and working really hard on my business,

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I was studying everything I could about success.

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I was going to lots of seminars and workshops

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and taking courses and reading books.

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And I was a pretty well an encyclopedia on every,

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or a lot of self-help, spiritual motivation,

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goal setting, changing your thoughts,

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changing your subconscious mind, affirmations,

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all of those things.

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I knew all the authors, I'd read all the books,

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I'd been to seminars, but it didn't stop me

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from having a life that was very stressful.

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And I kept thinking, there's something more.

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I'm not there, I'm not happy yet.

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I need to set bigger goals, I need to try harder.

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I haven't cracked it, as it were.

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And literally it came down to one day,

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I remember I was putting, just finishing building

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my dream home, and I walked into the music room

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that I'd built because I'd been a musician

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and to have my own music room was one of my dreams as well.

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And I had two businesses, I had this beautiful home.

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And I remember walking into the music room

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and looking out across the fields

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to the mountains in the distance, thinking,

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I've made it, I'm living my dreams, I've reached my goals.

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But why is it that I'm absolutely miserable?

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Why have I achieved everything I thought I had,

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yet I've never achieved the one thing I want,

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which is truly to feel successful, truly feel happy?

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And I was miserable, and I kept thinking,

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is this all there is?

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Surely there's gotta be more to this.

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And then I said to myself, maybe it'd be easier,

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or better, just to get rid of everything and start again.

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Because I'd rather do that, I'd rather lose everything

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I have than lose my soul, because that's what it felt like.

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My life force was being drained.

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I had lots of problems and stress,

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and I couldn't enjoy my life no matter what I had in it.

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Well, that became prophetic,

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that thought about losing everything,

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because that's what happened to me

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within a couple of months.

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I literally did lose everything.

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I went to, the home went, the music room went,

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the businesses, the marriage, everything.

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And I ended up moving in with my elderly mother

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and sleeping on the sofa in the living room

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of her small apartment.

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And I had absolutely nothing.

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But it was from that experience

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that I did something different.

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I did something with my brain that was different.

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I didn't understand what it was at the time,

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but it turned into a life that was completely different,

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where things started to show up, great things.

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So a business showed up, a great relationship showed up.

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Before long, I was doing all sorts of amazing things.

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I spent eight years sailing around

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on my own brand new yacht around Europe.

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For eight years, I traveled in motor homes,

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all the while managing my own businesses

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from anywhere in the world.

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And I said to myself, because I was totally confused

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as to why this has happened.

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And I said, why is it that before I'd spent all that time

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creating my visions, setting goals, having plans,

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working on achieving things, always being motivated

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and trying hard and really working to make things happen

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and try and figure things out.

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Why is it that then I was completely stressed,

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never really happy and everything fell apart

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and now everything is working so much better.

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I'm not setting any goals.

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I don't have any plans.

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I haven't got anything worked out.

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I'm not struggling and putting in lots of effort.

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I don't have problems.

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I just take the path of least resistance

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and all these things show up.

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What am I doing differently?

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And I wanted to find out

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because I wanted to make sure I kept doing it.

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And that's what led me to understand

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there's a natural process, a completely natural process

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to ensure that you become the best that you can be

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because that is your biological purpose.

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And all it comes down to is using your brain,

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which is the machine designed to make that happen,

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use it in a natural way, not in the way we've all been taught,

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which is through struggle and overcoming problems

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and figuring out what you want and setting your goals

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and being determined and thinking problems

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are a natural part of life because they're not.

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None of that works.

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And if anyone listening or watching is saying,

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is he saying that it doesn't work setting goals?

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Yes, I am and ask yourself what percentage of the goals

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that you set you ever achieve.

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Most of the people I asked that question to,

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what percentage would you think it is?

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Any idea?

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Very little, very little, less than 5%, I would say.

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Exactly, between 2% and 3%.

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So why is it we're all doing something

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that has a 2% or 3% success rate

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thinking that's the way to achieve success?

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It's pointless.

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It's like going to a heart surgeon and saying,

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what's the success rate on your surgery?

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2%, OK, well, thanks, you.

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You'll be great.

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I'll definitely do what I'll use you.

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You wouldn't do it, would you?

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But we all have this idea that goal setting

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is what it's all about.

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And figuring out what we want and striving to achieve it

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is what we're here to do.

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But it doesn't work and it's not natural.

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And it's never going to get you what you really want.

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It's just that everybody has always pushed the motor car

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instead of getting in it and driving.

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And so everyone is used to that.

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Throughout history, there have been endless examples

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of things that were believed to be the right way to do things

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or the truth that turned out to be completely wrong.

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I mean, it wasn't that long ago that every single person

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on the planet, all of the great scientists and thinkers,

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knew 100% with 100% certainty that the Earth was flat

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and that all of the planets and the sun

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revolved around the Earth.

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That was a fact, but it wasn't the truth, was it?

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So could it be that all of the things that we are 100%

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convinced about, that life is a struggle,

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you need to work hard to figure out what you want

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and put in a lot of effort to achieve it,

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could it be that that's not true as well?