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 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, 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 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, just 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, the home went, the music room went,
the businesses, the marriage, everything.
And I ended up moving in with my elderly 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
on 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,
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%, OK, well, thanks, 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 is used to that.
Throughout history, there have 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% with 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?