Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode
of Vision Pros Live. I'm your host and coach,
Fletcher Ellingson. Today on the show, we're
talking with Blair Dunkley of rewiringthemind
.com. He teaches people how to rewire their minds
for wealth. This is gonna be an interesting conversation
because everyone's interested in having a little
more wealth or understanding how to attract that
into their lives. So welcome to the show, Blair.
Thank you so much, Fletcher. Yeah. Good, good,
good. Hey, we've got some questions for you.
But before we dive into what you do, I always
like to remind people that there is still a lot
of good happening in the world. I know there's
a lot of uncertainty and suffering in the world,
and it's easy to focus on that. So what we want
to do is remind people that we could still be
the creators of. good things. So start us off
with some wins. What's going well in your life,
professionally and or personally? Well, I've
got a number of great things happen this week.
So my podcasts that I do are up and going again
for mindmodelmasterysecrets .com. That's on YouTube.
So they have been launched. and we got an i you
know you know because you you're doing it right
now it takes a lot of work to put these things
together so and and put it all and whatnot so
um ashley and myself are doing that a student
of mine that became a uh coach in the mind model
method coach training and she's also a podcaster
so she and i decided to team up and continue
doing the mind model uh mastery secrets .com
podcasts so that's a huge win for me the next
thing that's a huge win is um sorting through
my love life believe it or not i got divorced
at 64 i'm now 70 so i'm dating again All right.
Health is going well. And I am 10 weeks post
hip replacement and I'm now walking without a
cane for the last week. And yesterday I got notified
that I get to go in and get my other hip done.
So that's huge. So that's another win. So I'll
be two new hips in short order probably before
the end of the year. So that's another big thing.
And I'm looking to close another major client.
So that's huge. I've got two more spots open
for me in my life with major clients. And that's
generally people that are doing multiple or at
least seven figures. And I generally have been
taking... people from seven figures into multiple
seven figures or beyond in fact one of the biggest
ones I've had over a very long time over 17 years
now is a young guy started out young he's not
that young anymore but he was in mid -20s and
he went from doing personal income of $40 ,000,
gross revenue of $400 ,000. And in the year that
I worked with him, right off the hop, he went
from that $400 ,000 to $2 million. And in the
17 years since I've worked with him, and I've
worked with him often on quite a few other times
as well, he's gone up to over $100 million. So
annual income, by the way, not just gross revenue,
but annual income in one of the two businesses
that he runs. And in the second business, which
is real estate, he's in an opportunity which
looks like he's going to be able to close out
for half a billion. So he could be technically
my first billion dollar client. And my second.
guy young man now he's he's a younger guy he's
26 um he got back to me this week he is re -engaging
with me and we are going forward on i'm supporting
him by training people that he is bringing on
um in the area of mind models because i leveraged
him and he wants me to leverage people that he's
working with so and he's paying me for that so
it's the best of both worlds so i love it so
i have a young man in austria that i'm working
with uh as a result all over the world blair
you have a life full of wins life is working
out for you life is going very well um you know
this week it's going exceptionally well so this
is great so yeah Well, that is good to hear.
Again, like I said, there's a lot of suffering
and uncertainty in the world. I like to remind
people that, you know, we can always find what's
not going well. Yeah. We can also always find
what is going well. It's where we practice placing
our focus. Would you agree with that? Totally.
Yeah. I actually created a model at Life Skills
Colleges back in the day. 100 % of our students
had mental health issues and 80 % of them were
potentially suicidal. And so making sure I did
it for 35 years, nobody died. OK, at the end
of the day, we created or I created a 3 -2 -1
rule and three things that work, write them down
every single day. Two things that didn't work,
stop doing those or fix them quickly. but preferably
park them and do one thing that you want to work
on for tomorrow. And do that every night and
review it every morning. And that can change
your life. It's done it for lots. Yeah. Yeah.
It can change your life. Keeping what's important
in front of you. That was a life changer for
me. Really. training myself to focus on the outcomes
that i wanted i believe that momentum is experienced
when our thinking is in alignment consistently
with our desired outcome and we experience resistance
when our thinking is no longer in alignment with
that outcome can i make one subtle change to
that i basically agree with that okay so I'm
not a proponent of mindset. Actually, there's
science that shows mindset works at best 1 %
of the time if you literally focus on that. But
what happens is I was talking with a lady yesterday
who's done mindset training for, gosh, 15 years.
And she's in leadership. And so she kept on talking
to me about all of the mindset, mindset, mindset.
And I said, excuse me, just a small tweak here.
After you finish talking about the thinking and
the believing, you're constantly talking about
doing. And there is a lot of neuroscience research
that shows belief does not work. Thinking does
not work directly. But thinking paired with behaving
works extremely well. One thing to do to move
yourself forward, that is the gold. To do it.
Because one of my mottos that people keep on
reminding me that I say, if you don't do it,
it doesn't count. And that's the whole thing.
You have to do something. Thinking about it and
feeling good about the thinking about it doesn't
change it. The doing it changes it. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. So the next question
I want to ask you, Blair, and the reason I'm
asking you this is because this show is called
Vision Pros. I want to know, what's your vision?
Well, my vision literally is I want to get mind
models out to over 100 ,000 people in the next
five years. And so that's my mission vision.
Mind models have saved lives, have saved marriages,
have done so many things effectively and worked
with so many people out there already. I do a
thing, BDE Blair Dunkley experience every Tuesday
on YouTube. And I have people coming back for
years who keep on coming back because they. are
seeing the results in their lives and there are
lots of mind models um that i share with people
and point out um here's something that you could
take a look at like you know like in your vision
do you need clarity or are you confused and i
go hold it clarity versus confusion mind model
but we need confusion Because the neuropeptides
that are generated, neuropeptides are the molecules
of emotion in your body. And in your brain, those
neuropeptides of confusion literally grow ganglia.
And that's huge. And when you grow the ganglia,
it actually gives you a direction and a memory
system for you to literally. Go out there and
go from confused to not confused. Now you can
go in an effective direction or an ineffective
direction with that. And that's sort of like
pick your direction. But if you get curious about
moving in your direction, you take, you know,
that confused state with curiosity, finding the
direction you want to go in. And oh, my God,
that's such a potent. cocktail of emotional peptides
and 20 minutes later you've grown new ganglia
in your brain and you've got you've figured shit
out so it's amazing yeah yeah we're talking about
um again we're talking about reprogramming or
rewiring the brain um and a lot of people think
um i don't know if that's possible well it absolutely
is uh the science is there um this is and if
you if you if you wonder if it's if you're of
the opinion that it's too late or that it's not
possible and you're an adult then i encourage
you to consider that it's happening frequently
you just may not know it um you know 15 20 years
ago you didn't understand how to operate a smartphone
and then smartphones came into being and we learned
how to use that uh so You actually be most of
us have become quite tech savvy as opposed to
where we were 50 or 40 or 50 years ago. Right.
Whatever the my point is, you're always able.
You always have the capacity to adapt and learn.
And so if you have been of the opinion like,
oh, it's too late for me. What I think Blair
is wants you to know, it's not too late. In fact,
the time is now. It's absolutely possible. Would
you agree with that? Totally. And there's great
neuroscience to support that because your brain
is neuroplastic. So that has been proven at all
ages. The only time your brain stops becoming
or being neuroplastic is when you die. Yes. Or
if you die inside and you don't try, you die
mentally. So that's the only times where your
brain is not neuroplastic. Yeah, and we should,
for those listening, if you're not familiar with
neuroplasticity, neuroplasticity is the ability
for the brain to adapt, to change, to rewire,
reprogram for whatever language you want to use.
It is the ability to change or to add to. And
so that's good news. That's like brilliant news
because for many years, we thought that the brain
was a fixed, after a certain age, the brain was
fixed. Like to radically change was not available
to us. We know that's not the case any longer.
Yep. So true. Yeah. So true. Why is all of this
important to you? Okay. Fundamentally. A little
bit of my backstory. First of all, I'm dyslexic.
So that's a big part of my driver of going forward.
I needed to figure out ways of thinking and getting
creative so that I could make a living in the
world. This goes way back, like teens, 20s school
into university. I could figure stuff out, but
I had a lot of trouble with it. Then I started
LifeSkills Colleges at 21. And my family was
going together. We were building the business.
My mom and I were building the business with
Vicki. Jolin, the three of us grew it, did a
very good job. But my dad went into a coma. And
he was in a coma for 14 years before he passed.
But he went into the coma. out of open heart
surgery and the doctors pulled us together two
weeks after he went into a coma and told our
family that he had a 99 chance of never coming
out of the coma which he never did now i sort
of had a meltdown but i was already trained as
a life skills coach i was working on my trainer
certification but i was also trained as a mindset
facilitator and I lost my mindset and so I went
back to my trainer who put me through the same
90 minutes of exercises and stuff to get my mindset
back that I put myself through that I put other
people through and the issue was is that i didn't
get my mindset back and i told her that and then
she had the audacity to tell me blair it's because
you just don't believe enough excuse me i gave
her one of those and said f you like i mean this
is a very nice version of it uh for your podcast
but man was i i it still gets me worked up because
it's you cannot blame people when the model is
broken that doesn't work and i'm extraordinarily
passionate about that because at life skills
college 80 of our students were potentially suicidal
if i told them that their stuff that it was because
they didn't believe enough it's like giving people
a loaded gun like somebody's gonna die that's
not acceptable in any way shape or form i'm sorry
I drew the line in the sand. That's it. That's
the last time I did anything related to mindset
in there, and I started testing because I knew
life skills was based on a process, identifiable,
repeatable, and duplicatable. It's basically
the scientific method, okay? It's got to be identified,
named and labeled, made repeatable so you can
get a similar result every time you do it and
transferable so somebody else can do it and duplicate
it in them. If that's not it, well, then that's
not valid. I've got over 100 mind models, every
one tested. So the first time you use it, it'll
work 80 % of the time on. 100 people, 80 % of
the people will get it the first time. Mindset
has a 1 % probability, no matter how long you
practice it, it only upticks 1%. Proven research.
I can give you the scientific paper, the Association
of Psychological Science, February 3rd, 2020,
it was published there, and they gave... Dr.
Carol Dweck, a professional wrist slap in that
article saying she's overstating. by a lot and
using non -scientific methods claiming that mindset
actually is working when all it is, it's just
stories of some people, you know, having success.
Well, you will get some people having success
in virtually anything, but is it sustainable
throughout, you know, the masses? And my stuff
is tested to work 80 % the first time. That's
an 8 ,000 times more effective. So which do you
want? Mind models or mindset? If you want to
change your life, make more money, wire your
mind for wealth. Hello. Your pick. You choose.
Yeah. OK. So if you're listening to this and
you're intrigued, curious, want to learn more.
Blair. Tell our listeners where they can go to
connect with you and and and learn more about
this. Well, I, you know, I didn't actually tell
you that I'm a profiler, too. So my research
was there. So so if you join me on LinkedIn,
just go to, you know, LinkedIn and it's Blair
Dunkley one. and you will find my profile and
if you ask there i'm also offering a free profiling
session for people where i listened i use one
of the mind models question concepts to profile
people i tell people all about themselves you
know number one number two um if you want more
basic information just go to blairdunkley .com
forward slash info and you get all that info
Yeah, you've got an offering there. You can sign
up to connect with you. You can find out about
live seminars or courses there. You've got your
workbook there. So visit him if you are somebody
who would like to learn how to actually create
more wealth in your life and perhaps find out
why you haven't been able to do that consistently.
Then spend some time with Blair. Blair, thanks
so much for bringing this information to our
listeners. And thanks for sharing all the wins.
Delighted for you. I love that. You know, I just
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