What is, what's your current active vision? It's
a beautiful question. And of course I can interpret
the word vision is that what is my, what is my
purpose? What is my mission? What is my, my moonshot?
So I'll try to kind of roll it into one, some,
the one thing that, that, that drives me, that
gets me thinking, you know what, this is a lifelong.
something that who knows how far along I'll get.
So imagine the ultimate moonshot is one that
you're reaching so far out of your comfort zone
that chances are you'll never reach it. And if
you get close to it, you realize that, you know
what, I need to move it a little bit further
and move it a little further until it's never
about that final moment when you step on the,
you know, plant your... flag at the top of the
mountain. It's truly the cliche, the journey.
And so throughout the course of my life, I continually
ask the question, but where can I make the greatest
difference of all? How could I? What could I
do? Not from an ego standpoint of it's got to
be huge, otherwise I don't matter, but rather
the most significant difference. Now that could
be with one person, but how about... There's
8 billion people on the planet. Why would I want
to leave anyone out if I could make a significant
difference in the life of one person that I truly
felt could transform their lives in, of course,
all the positive manner? Well, why would I want
to deprive anyone of that possibility? It doesn't
have to have anything to do with Mark Fournier.
I don't care. I mean, my nonprofit is Limitless
University. It's not Fournier University. The
only reason my name comes up is when I do one
-on -one coaching, they need to know who they're
talking to. So the bottom line came to me when
I realized that we live in the mind, that the
physical world, it's a backdrop. We keep thinking
that our lives are predicated upon the things
that happen, good weather, bad weather, stock
market, whatever it is that's happening, that
we are reacting to that. And we're spending our
lives attempting to manipulate that world and
attempting to somehow overcome this physical
world. And those who are good at it, I say, well,
those are the people that you hear the word empowered.
They are empowered. I call empowerment is the
ability to influence the world around us. The
greater influence you have, technically, the
more empowered you are. Up until you get to a
certain point, which is where you realize, I
will never have the resources needed to change
the entire planet Earth. The resources, time,
money, connections, energy. I mean, I'm not going
to live forever. Much less will I have even the
resources to guarantee that I will live. truly
a happy and fulfilling life, that my life will
somehow make a difference because we all want
relevance. And so in the long run, I realized
that you can't have world peace. You can't have
end poverty, all these things by trying to change
these physical factors. There's only one way
to ever get there. And that is to raise human
consciousness. That is to get. help as many people
as possible realize that what comes after empowerment
is enlightenment. And that's the ability to influence
the world within. And that's where we live. And
if you have the ability to do that, you start
realizing that ultimately, if I live in the mind,
then my reality is really just the stories, the
thoughts and stories that I buy into. It comes
down to what do I believe? And imagine if you
could. impact the belief system of an entire
culture, of a country, of a world. And if everyone's
beliefs could be in alignment in regard to what
is it that really matters, what is it that we
really need? And if on an elevated level of consciousness,
we realize, well, most of us already have what
we need, food, shelter, water, and oxygen, you
know, classic Maslow. But in the end, Look at
the wars. Look at the famine. Look at all the
problems. How many of them have something to
do with ideologies, with people believing that
I need your land. I need this. I need control
over you. I need this power and all these other
things. And so they fight for it. And, of course,
how many wars are based on religion and so on
and so forth. But in the end, you look at that
song by John Lennon. Imagine. No possessions,
no religion. Imagine just we already accept that
I am all I need to be and I have all I really
truly need. Then imagine what's left as you spend
the rest of your life reaching out to others
so that they can not have everything they need,
but so they can realize they already do. And
of course, the more poverty stricken countries
and so on would be the ultimate recipients of
those who have. finally realized I don't need
to accumulate more of anything. All I need to
do is share this knowledge and this insight.
And so that is a long convoluted answer to a
short question. But all I can tell you is a very
beautiful answer. And I didn't mean to cut you
off. You got all you can tell us. Go ahead and
go with that, Mark. All I can say is that in
the long run, if you want. If you really want
to create a better world, it starts with you.
And you've got to learn how to create a better
world within. And when you reach this level of
enlightenment, of understanding that I don't
need to spend my whole life seeking validation.
I don't need to be special. I just need to accept.
I call it the four pillars of basically of your...
We'll have to get into that. It's know thyself.
And so with my clients, I go, yeah, get to know
who you really are. That's the oldest philosophy
recorded. It was Imhotep. He was an Egyptian
priest who invented all little things like modern
math, modern science, the pyramids, and so on.
Pretty bright guy. Yeah, and the first philosophy
ever recorded is know thyself. It must be pretty
important. Socrates, the others all picked it
up too. Once you know who you really are. What
are the other three, Mark? I know we only got
a couple minutes, but I want to make sure to
- You know what? You're right. I'm taking too
long for this. No, we're going to be able to
dive deep, but I'm also going to extend an invitation
already, Mark. I want you on my other show. Thank
you. Thank you. My other show is the Be Your
Best Show. All right. Oh, okay. The Be Your Best
show is where we're going to dive in two to three
hours and really, really hit the depths. If you
would be willing to be over there, I'd be honored.
You guys are all laughing already because you're
like, Jackson, he's just regurgitating what you
say on almost every episode. Yes, I'm not telling
you anything you haven't already heard. Okay,
I'll give you the other three. No, no, it's okay.
Here's the point. We met 20 minutes and 11 seconds
ago, guys. He didn't know I existed. I didn't
know he existed. Mark's got the Emmys, right?
He's got the awards to his name as well. And
the point I'm making with that, Mark, is most
of the people who come to our show are looking
for this level of depth, and they're hearing
it for the first time, maybe the second time
in their life, right? And so if they don't hear
the repetition, right, coming from different
sources, people who have been there, done that,
people who have different types of backgrounds,
and it may go in one ear and out the other. It
may not stick. So you speak our language and
we speak the language that you're putting out
there as well. You're just new to us today. You
didn't know this community existed here. You
had your own brilliant community that you've
been building for it. And I'm excited for my
community to see and recognize that and be able
to realize like, okay, this guy is a limitless
coach. And sure enough, he talks with the same
types of stories and word choices. And you have
the same type of demeanor as the people who I'm
constantly looking for. So I want to honor that.
If you can hit the three fast, let's do it. But
we're going to keep it less than 45 seconds.
All right. In 45 seconds or less. This is something
that we all want to be striving for. Know thyself.
Figure out who you really are. Strengths and
weaknesses. Step two, accept thyself. Ooh, that's
a big one. Because most of us don't. We only
accept the things about us that we think are
wonderful and incredible. We don't accept the
fact that, well, I'm not so great about this
and so strong. It's okay. I'm not perfect. No
one is. And that's okay. I'm doing my best to
be my best. So I'm going to accept myself. And
number three is now be true to thyself. Now that
you know who you are and you've accepted, build
a life based on who you really are. And the fourth
one is the toughest, but that's what they show
the heroes doing in the movies. And we love them
for it. Speak thy truth. That's when the hero
stands up and says the thing we all wish we could
say, but we're afraid. Afraid that the world
won't accept us for who we are. But if you've
already accepted yourself, then you have the
strength to stand out there and say, this is
what I believe. Thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision
Pros Live. I'm looking forward to seeing your
reactions as these episodes continue to move
forward. This is going to get more and more fun.
We'll have more and more engagement as well.
We'll invite people to participate in the show.
And thank you for giving us your time and attention.
Have an excellent time building out your vision
and becoming a vision pro yourself.