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You should be a monster. You know, because everyone says, well, you should be harmless, virtuous. You shouldn't do anyone any harm. You should sheath your competitive instinct. You shouldn't try to win. You don't want to be too aggressive. You don't want to be too assertive. You want to take a back seat and all of that. It's like wrong. You should be a monster, an absolute monster. And then you should learn how to control it. It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war. It's like, is there something wrong with being competitive? There's nothing wrong with it. There's something wrong. There's something. with cheating, there's something wrong with being a tyrant, there's something wrong with winning unfairly. All of those things are bad, but you don't want people to win? What's the difference between trying to win and striving? You want to let to keep striving? Other than death, all failure is psychological. This failure, this upset, this this catastrophe. If you aren't dead, then it's just psychological.

Now, this does not mean that you won't lose some battles because you will. We all will. Every transformation always gets worse before it gets better. It's supposed to be that way. It's not an easy path. It's not for the ill-hearted or the weak nature. It's for the strong people. Before you embark on this journey, mentally you have to prepare yourself for it.

When you embark this journey, you must know that it's going to go down before it comes up. But when it comes up, it's going to go so much higher than you've ever been. been sacrificing today for tomorrow's betterment. Unless you're dead, you are not defeated. And you have not failed. What you've done is you've learned. You've gained experience. And you're still alive.

And you have memories to make. So get up. Get after it. As long as you don't surrender, as long as you don't give up, as long as you don't quit, then you have Even failed. Maybe it's time to stop. No, it's time to move even further.

We're constantly looking at life. What is it? What is it? Where are we? Look how interesting. Look at different cultures, different beliefs. You know, how do they come to that? How do I feel about that?

How do, you know, what do I think? It's a daily adventure. You have your voice. It's there. Just do it, do it, do it, create. You know, don't let anyone stop you. You will go through things and while you're going through them, you can't understand why it's happened to you.

But after you go through it, you get back and you look at it and you say, oh, now I understand why I needed that lesson. I couldn't understand it there. But after I got through it, then I saw that that was preparing me for bigger and better pain. You have to be equipmentally to endure this process. What am I going to do today to change what I see in this mirror? How you address it is you face it. You face it every day. You face it every single day of your life.

The things that how people look, how people act, how smart someone is. This is a race that you run completely alone. And you're all by yourself. Growth only comes to pain. That which you do not hate, you will eventually tolerate. And I think that identifies most people's lives. In other words, they average become sort of, like this slow asphyxiation, it's almost like an anesthetic, and that over time we become

kind of immune and dulled to the average that we're becoming. Your life doesn't have meaning without aspiration or an aim. Okay, so you need a hierarchy of values. There's got to be something at the top. It's got to be something important. If you don't have that, your life doesn't have any meaning. So if you criticize the hierarchy or even the idea of hierarchy, you destroy the idea of aspiration, and then people have nothing. This is, I believe, the single biggest factor for most people that robs them of success. That you use what other people might say or think or be disappointed by as an excuse to not fully be yourself, to not fully go after what you want.

You're going to get out of your life what you'll accept. That's really difficult for people I think to understand is, look, what you think you're worth and what you're going to tolerate is absolutely what you're going to bring into your life. life and what the outward part of your life's going to look like. No, there's two motivators, right? There's the gaining of pleasure, right? Wanting to go get something chasing the dream. But then there's the avoidance of pain.

We surround ourselves around people that make us feel great. They tell us what we want to hear. The second we put ourselves amongst the uncommon people, we don't like that feeling. We like that person who says, hey, you know what I mean, I don't feel good today, man. And they say, oh, it's okay, brother. We don't want them in their lives. We don't want that person constantly challenging our weaknesses. We want that person constantly, you know, making us feel nice and good and secure in us.

That's the mediocrity of life. We want to be the best amongst the average people. If you don't develop your capabilities and realize your potential, you may be successful externally, but you will be deeply unhappy because you're not fulfilling your gifts, your nature. And so that's by the way that's done is bottom up. Each person discovering their gift, turning it into valued skills and then using it to succeed by contributing. But one's career is infinite. There's no end. It's like our lives are finite, but life is infinite. People come and people go, but life continues. They spend their whole life working for one goal, though most will,

never get it. The few that do don't know what to do next because their goals were finite. Their goals were finite. And so there are finite components to your career. But your career should be infinite. So yes, of course you have to win the finite game. You have to get the part. But immediately when you get the part, now you convert to infinite. So the monkey mind is jumping from branch to branch. It doesn't want to focus on the root to the part. You have to get the part. of the issue, it wants to find the next banana, it wants to find the next excuse, it wants to find the next instant gratification,

right, that's the monkey mind. And so the monkey mind is never going to help you focus on your strengths. The reason why we struggle to find our passion is because the world has constantly pushed us away from our strength. We've constantly told to focus on your weaknesses. And so we've all been programmed to say,

oh, your strengths are fine, they're good the way they are, why are you not performing at this? And so the one way to know your strengths is to ask yourself what do you do that you feel the most confidence doing? When you get tired, when you get fatigued, when you get down, when you're in a slump, it's your habits, rituals, routines, and your standards that carry you through. If you don't have good habits, you don't have good rituals, you don't have good routines, always in your life you will fall down in bad times in slumps and fatigue and in stress. So you want to be normal. So you

You just want to be like everybody else that roams the world, not knowing the power that's in them. Being fine with being mediocre. I see a whole bunch of people walking around out here who have no idea how talented they truly are. He wrote deep is to hunger. The voice of the genuine. The sintering moment. One of the things that I can just tell you as you think about your goals and dreams, all of us can say in the spirit of integrity that it's possible. that if anybody at any point in time live their dream,

then it's possible that I can live mine. All I want you to ever do is try. That's it. I just want you to try in those moments where you hear yourself, I want you to try. In those moments where you know that it's time to speak up, I want you to try. That's all that I ever ask of you,

because if you simply do that, and I say simply as if it's so easy, right? You will literally unlock the potential of your life. You have to ask, am I able to turn this fantasy of mine into a fact? Can I actually realize it? Can I turn my dreams into reality? Now, you're either going to say yes, I'm able to or no, I'm not. If you realize you are able, if you have an understanding of this potential, this power within you,

then you have to ask yourself, are you willing? And there's a long series of tests there. You don't even know what you're going to come up against one thing is for certain you'll come up against ridicule You have to be willing to do whatever is required if you really want to turn your fantasy into a fact The second you say yes. I'm willing at that instant you've created your theory What if? Bodies broken minds broken spirit's broken I start to say what if I can pull this off? It's the what if I can pull off a miracle

What if I can become someone that no one thinks I can be? Then you wake up at three in the morning when you let your life go off the rails. The decisions you make right now is up to you. You crying about something that happened to you when you was a kid. You ain't even no kid anymore. The hard thing is taking the first step. Everything else is just persistence. So what I want you to understand about the breakthrough is that 90%

is worth but the last 10% that's fight. You commit to do this for the long term. Whether it's hard or easy doesn't matter. You're doing this. I tell you to set goals beyond your lifetime. I tell you to set goals as soon as humanly possible. You will never exceed your highest expectation. You will never exceed your highest, craziest thought.

That's a guarantee. And so then why to set low goals? Every tool you have and most people will not use every single tool they have because they're afraid, they don't know how to control it, they don't want to acknowledge it, they're afraid of being judged. They want to stand out. They want to be different.

They want women to acknowledge them. But they have so much doubt of what greatness and the unforgiving race actually requires to win over and over again. We all have fear. We all have fear, but these individuals have so much doubt. Think about the times where everything was going wrong. Nothing was going like. What kept you going? What kept you going?

You were in that place. What kept you going? That was your dark energy. When does a new day start? At midnight. If a new day starts in the dark, why are you afraid to have, use your dark side for your new beginnings? We tell ourselves the story.

We play the only part we've ever known. And then that part becomes our own and we don't know how to separate it. So we understand praise, manipulates, we'll accept your own praise. Your mind says if you say it, it must be true, which is why self-criticism goes in and does so much damage. And self-praise goes in and does so much repairing, because the most important word you'll ever hear are the words you say to yourself. You have too many individuals out there that that are not writing their own story. They're letting other people write those stories for them.

So the first thing is, that's the first big problem right there. The first big problem is that you have put a lot of people above you. Put no one above you. No one. And how many times have we given up on a dream because we were mocked by the people around you? And all I'm suggesting to you is when you get laughed at and ridiculed and when people don't understand your next level of world class,

That just means you've got a great dream and that just means you're on the path of growth. But momentum requires you always do the next thing to keep the momentum going. And the reason you get yourself in a passionate place is so that you change your life and the only thing that changes your life is making a decision. Nothing will happen in this world. Everything will happen wonderfully well even if you're not there. Every human being should be aware of this every moment of his life. It does not matter what the whole world says about.

It does not matter how significant a work you're doing. You must understand that tomorrow morning the world will go on fine without you. Whoever you may. If you constantly remind yourself of this, you'll have no reason to be serious. Everything I didn't want to do is what got me to where I'm at today. Every single thing. So where we find comfort, that's where I started getting me. That's why I started getting scared.

When I started saying, oh, it's raining, I'm not going out there. No, you cannot say that. You cannot do that. You have got to do this. So while you're in this passionate state, that's where you make decisions. You make a decision in a state without momentum. If you make a decision from a place where there's no passion, you are not going to get momentum.

It'll kill momentum. It's decide, commit, and resolve. Truly, that you make things happen so that the person you are starting tomorrow is more of who you know you truly are. Most individuals, your mind will make a decision. Say, we're going to do this. Your feelings always make suggestions. When you fail, your feelings give you excuses. Your mind makes you more resilient.

There are things that you know. know that you must focus on, but it scares you. I want you to look at where in your life that story is robbing you of your dreams and where it is giving you an excuse to avoid the things that you know you need to do. People will point out your weaknesses, but there's a big difference between your weaknesses

and your flaws. Your flaws are your gifts, and people are so busy trying to deal with their flaws and change their flaws. when their flaws are actually allows them to stay in that race. Everyone's good at something. You know, you're not meant to be good at everything. It's no good being a jack of all trace and a master of none.

So be really good at what you're good at. Don't worry about what you're not good at, because we're not all supposed to be good at the same thing. Find your talent, you know. Find it what you love to do. What you're meant to do lies directly behind and is absolutely linked to what you love to do. to do. I tell all the people that I love, you got to want the best out of your life for you

because we only have a moment on this earth. And it's going to be people that look you in the face and tell you that they believe in you. They're going to tell you from their litch, they believe in you. But when you look them in their eyes, you're going to know that they're not telling the truth. That's the hardest thing for a man to take because believe, believe, but Belief is what excels and pushes people through the stratosphere. And I can always tell people I know bigger than you, but I tell people it is the way you get to the next level of your life is keep going. Keep going, keep running.

Even when you don't even know, even you get turns into chaos. You cannot be great if you cannot operate with chaos. That's my wife. Because if you can operate in chaos, the world becomes Disneyland. Problems become scratches. Many people focus on problem and not solutions. We spend a split second 15, 20 minutes, tearing our body down, tearing our mind down over something that we can't control. Everybody talks about their faith.

But do they really got faith? Do you got that halfway faith or do you got that whole way faith? Real motivation comes from pain. It comes from the bottle. Building yourself begins with intention, clarity. You have to know who you want to become. You can't just show up in the gym of the mind and do random stuff any more than you can show up in the gym of the body and do random stuff and think you're going to end up on the stage competing for Mr. Olympia.

Because until you know exactly in what way you are trying to serve people, you don't know what skills you need to acquire in order to leave people in awe so that you may become extraordinary. You have to push yourself long past the point of boredom. Bortem kills more people in the pursuit of success than any hater will ever kill. Bordom is the great killer of dreams. Because people don't have the focus, they don't have the clarity of what they're trying to achieve, they've not built into their life, built into their life, an intoxication for what they're trying to accomplish. Why is it so many people have big dreams, but such a small number of people ever make those dreams a reality? And for those that do make a reality, what is it against them not only to follow through, but then to enjoy what they have? I don't know if you've ever had the experience of achieving something that you've always wanted and then afterwards thinking to yourself

Is this all there is? It's one of the worst feelings the worst it's almost worse than than failing because when you fail At least you know hey, I can still find a way to make it happen But when you succeed and you're not happy you're not fulfilled then you got a real problem There's two things that control everything in your life Every thought every feeling every emotion every action you have in your life your beliefs and your values Whatever you believe, if you think life is just a waste of time, doesn't matter what you do. Beliefs control us, but so do our values. Some people value making it happen.

Some people value their family the most. Some people value love. But you know what the real challenge is? We have values in conflict. When we have conflicts between what we want and what we think we can have, or, you know, you have a goal of what you really want to make happen, but then you have this other belief inside that says, this damn stuff never does work. But then there's a problem. time in which people begin to question. They begin to look at their life and they begin to say,

is this really what I want? Have you found yourself with that at any time? And then they do one of two things. They either recommit and they go for another seven years and they take it to another level or they make a strategic decision that shifts the direction of their life. Either way, your decisions control your destiny. And if you don't choose, that's a choice as well. Some people who kind of stay in the middle of that lukewarm place, not sure what they really want. Maybe the The question ask is, where do I want my life to be today? And where am I really going? What is my destiny?

What's going to fill me up? What's going to give me the meaning for my life? That's going to give me joy in my life, not just achievement, but real enjoyment. A sense of meaning and a liveliness. Every human being on this earth has their own journey. And when you don't focus on yours, you will not bring the great gifts and things that you were supposed to bring to the world. Like the best gift come from the bottom.

Like only in the womb of a woman can a man breathe underwater. Like God leaves you, give at the bottom of the stairs. And it's up to you to climb up those stairs and get your gift. You get to build yourself in any direction you want, in any way to become anything you want. Every price to pay. But you can go in any direction. When I say you're immortal, you're not actually thinking you're immoral. thinking you're immortal, but you're not conscious of your mortality. If you're not conscious of your mortality, somewhere you think you're immortal, isn't it?

How many moments in a day? Are you conscious that you're mortal? If you just become conscious of this one thing, that always you're conscious that I'm mortal. Just you know, one day I will die. If you're just conscious of this one thing, you will naturally become spiritual. Every day, every moment if you remind yourself, This is a brief life.

And motto, one day I will end. That's all that's needed. If you want to know the value of life, just know that it's a brief happening. I think people give up because they don't believe what they see. People don't believe the greatness that's in them. And the real reason is, most people never get out the stands and get in the game.

They stay fans their whole life. So everybody, get off the stands and get in the game. Get in the game of life and leave your mark here. Because I wouldn't assemble the story that my past equals my future. The past only equals your future if you live there. If you're using a rearview mirror to guide yourself, you're gonna crash. So what you've been through is horrific. What you've been through is unjust.

I'm on your side. But if you hang on to it, you have no future. And you have no one to blame but yourself. Free yourself from the chains of your past. In other words, the minute you begin to get external in your life, worrying about what other people think about you, right? You've lost all control and it never fills you up. People's admiration, people's gratitude towards you will never fill you up.

It's your own. It's your own inside. You have a lot of potential as a child, but none of that is capable of manifesting itself as freedom before you become disciplined. And discipline is a matter of the imposition. of order and the order is necessary, especially for people who are hopeless and nihilistic. And lots of people are hopeless and nihilistic. Way more people than you think.

And part of that is because no one's ever really encouraged them. You're a life, you're probably never going to exceed your identity. Your identity is the thoughts and concepts that you believe to hold really to be true about yourself. It is so easy to get lost in the day-to-day grind of what you do, what any of us do, if at the core eyeing you is a deep and unending, Why for what you're doing? You've got something. Now you've got a chance to transcend what you're doing.

Because if you want joy, happiness and freedom, and extraordinary life, it will not come from Blake. Never. There's no pride that comes from Blake. That's why you're doing self-esteem. Self-esteem does not come from what people say about you. Self-esteem comes from what you experience about yourself. It's a complete dynamic dance

between what the Vedic tradition would call fate and free will. So fate is what is already created for you and a good example would be the place you were born. The type of family you grew up in, the socioeconomic background you had. It was already there when you walked into the world. But within that you had choices where your free will came over. You had the choice to either do what everyone in your neighborhood did

or to do something different. You had the choice to have a relationship with a particular person or not. So what happens is that we're constantly creating new spaces from which we have another choice.

And so you kind of see as this dynamic dance between, okay, now I'm in this situation and now what is my choice in this situation? So I would say, I'm not saying it's equal, I'm saying it's a dynamic balance and a switching process where you're constantly creating a new level and then now in that level you have a next choice.

First, you're in service to something higher. And you begin to ask yourself, because you've been given everything, you're a composite spiritual idea that carries the infinite and ways beyond your wellness imagining. You have to live in the inquiry of what can I give, what can I share, how can I shine, how can I radiate, you have to give up the thought of what can I get from the world.

The world has nothing for you at all. There is nothing the world. the hassle for you other than an opportunity for you to give, for you to share, for you to serve, for you to radiate, for you to activate your potential. But if you just do your vision every single day, putting one foot in front of the other committed to your desires. Instead of lack, limitation, fear, doubt, worry, separation, not enoughness, your narrative becomes, I have everything that I need within me I am surrendered to something larger than my little self I'm in service to it that flows through me

where fear is physical you feel your throat of your back so it's courage courage isn't you're not afraid it just means you're strong enough you push through in spite of the fear right and courage feels different in the body so when you go lift or you go for a sprint or a strong run or you jump back freezing water when you push your mind you go beyond that's comfortable You feel a strength inside you and that strength will help you to change your body, your emotions, your relationships. And there's lots of different purposes as you go through your life. But most of them are trying to get that.

They haven't even figured out what the hell they're going to do. They haven't even figured out enjoy their life. Your purpose will unfold if you do the right things. It's a hard one for people because we grow up believing that we're not good enough and nothing is right. When you talk about loving yourself, a lot of people think that that's vanity. If you can recognize that you are a being that has self-worth, if you can really recognize your own worth, then you start to treat yourself differently.

And I think that's what's so very important about loving yourself, is you stop beating yourself up, you stop making yourself wrong, you stop talking about how awful you are. And you start to treat yourself with a certain amount of respect. And this makes an enormous difference because what you give, give out in life is what comes back to you. So if you're giving out a feeling of I'm okay, I'm good enough as I am, and I am acceptable, and I love life, and I love me, and you start having gratitude for yourself and for life, then life treats you differently. It's good for you to go take your place in the world. Have some ambition. Have a vision, have a goal, have a strategy. Try to try to be a good person. Not because, It's your duty precisely because that's the proper way to live.

We're in danger of undermining all of that. And it's not good for people. One of the things that I've really learned, for example, recently, is that there's a very tight relationship between aspiration and responsibility. This is what I mean by living our lives by accident, which is we largely lead the direction of our careers and sometimes even our own happiness to others, our bosses, you know, all of that thing. So what it means to live your life on purpose means you understand the direction you're heading,

but you remain agnostic as to the root. Most people try very, very hard to plan the route. And the question is, where are you going? Right? And that, to me, is what it means to have purpose. It means to have destination. That's what it means to live a life of purpose. It means I live every single day of my life,

trying to get to an end point. Getting what you really want and being able to attract it into your life, what we have to look at is basically the obstacles that we have conditioned ourselves. You notice I say that we have conditioned ourselves because I have never believed that we need to be putting the responsibility

on someone else. If you're conditioned, it's because you have allowed yourself to become that. And if we have conditioned ourselves to believe certain kinds of things, and one of the things that we kind of believe and hang on to and live with is this whole idea that all of the things,

things that happened to me in my past are what are keeping me from doing what I'd like to do today. There's two lies we've been told growing up. The first lie is you're nothing. You're stupid. You're worthless. You're not going to make it. And I'm sure many people listening and watching have heard that from teachers, parents, aunts, uncles, whoever it is. And then the other lie that we're actually told, and I don't think it's a lie. I think it's positive, but sometimes it's misconstrued, is you can be anything. And And we all know that's not true too. And it's unfair because sometimes people get misled.

And the Dharma point of view is you can't be anything you want, but you can be everything you are. And what I mean by that is you have a genius, a potential, a power inside of you that you don't know yet why because you're inexperienced. It's not that you're unqualified. It's your inexperienced. So people are saying, I'm stuck. I don't know where my life's going.

I don't know my purposes. So you're perceiving yourself to be unqualified or underqualified. Actually, you're just inexperienced. You just haven't done enough things to let the magnet of your life tell you what it's attracted to. Keep this in mind. If there's something that you want, keep in mind this.

Here you are. This is what you want. I spend a lot of time on lacrosse fields, although they don't really look like this. You tend to think that what you want, you just march right towards it. But if in sports you march right towards the goal, what happens? The defenders come in.

And what the defenders are is it's your brain saying, ain't going to happen. So the second you start moving toward that thing you want, be ready. You're going to tell yourself you don't feel like it. You're going to have to force yourself. It's happening. There's no way to get around it. So what you're going to have to do is you're going to basically get bounced around a lot, all over the place, because it's going to get hard.

And I want to remind you about something. unlike a sports field where there's an in and out of bounds, the great thing about life is there actually aren't any. And it's usually in those moments where you feel like you can't do it, that you're closer than ever to having everything that you want. For me, passion is the result of something, right? So if you work hard for something you don't believe in, that's called stress. And if you work hard for something you do believe in, that's called passion.

So it's finding the belief, it's finding the cause, it's finding the purpose, and the passion then shows up. So it's not about doing something with passion and then finding the cause, starting with why, and then the passion is what results. The way that you want to live it, that's a matter of action, you know, and they say actions speak louder than words, and one of the best things you could possibly be is an inspirational example. So that's not nothing. To believe that you need what you don't have is the definition of insanity. To believe that you need what you don't have. Because you're already here, so you've already proven that you don't need it. So to go around believing that I can't be happy, fulfilled, you know, whatever it is,

unless I get the stuff that I don't already have, it's a complete and total illusion. It's a thought that isn't even true. There's no truth to it whatsoever. You don't need anything. And when you get that, the irony is you're no longer attached. Your total life is about, it's just about living those virtues. How can I serve? How can I be sincere?

How can I be gentle? How can I be supportive? And thinking like that, and that's how I think now. And because of that, I'm in meaning. What did you miss? You thought motivation was the formula. Winners don't need motivation. Winners need discipline.

Disciplines about getting it done because it needs to get done, not because I feel like it. Not because I'm motivated for it. You think Nelson Mandela was motivated to spend 27 years in prison? You think Martin Luther King was motivated to march across the states and proclaim freedom? If you think of the people to change the world, they're not doing it because they're motivated. They're doing it because they made a commitment to do it and they disciplined to see it through. Discipline is far more important than motivation. Which is why you've got to be careful the decisions you make.

Because once you make the decision, you have to see that decision through. First we make the decisions, then the decisions make us. So we're very careful the decisions you make. We're very careful the commitments you make. Motivation I'm telling you now is completely overrated. It's important, not get me wrong. You know, we meet according to motivation, we feel good, rah-rah. But that'll think.

You need a stronger will and a deeper commitment to see things through. People are built for a struggle and they're built for a weight. and you want to take on a heavy burden voluntarily. See if you can put yourself together. See what you can do out in the world while you're waiting to die. It's an all-in-game. It better be worthwhile.

And so there's a tight relationship between responsibility and aspiration and hierarchy. This is the secret. You must remember you can't make a mistake. Now, that's a very difficult thing to do. Because from childhood up, we have had to conform to a certain

social game and if you're going to conform to this game you can make mistakes or not make mistakes you must do the right thing there a certain conduct appropriate here a certain conduct appropriate there and that sticks in us everybody has the reason to be anxious in fact we have the ultimate reason to be anxious because we know that we're vulnerable and we know that we're going to die and how you cannot be anxious under those circumstances is a great mystery it's a massive mystery that's actually the appropriate response in the face of actual non-naive understanding of what constitutes life. Like if you're naive and you move forward, it's like, well, what the hell do you know?

There's no courage in naivity because you don't know what there is to stop you. You don't know what dangers you might apprehend. And then to make the decision to move forward into the unknown and the land of the stranger. Anyways, that's the, I would say, that's one of the secrets to a good life. And if you are in a field by yourself with no clothes, no possessions, no trophies, absolutely nothing, just you by yourself, you're enough. That's it, you're enough. You always have been and you always will be, no matter what.

And I think that's important too that it's not just you are enough, it's you always have been and you always will be. But there's a balance between the mindset of achieving. loving kindness, but it's really hard to get people to let go of the attack and defend achievement mindset and trust the care and concern for your fellow humans as a way of creating higher production. If you get braver, that's not what happens. What happens is, yeah, the damn world's just as dangerous as I thought, or maybe if it's

even more dangerous than I thought, but it turns out that there's something in me that responds to taking that on as a voluntary challenge and grows and thrives as a consequence. And so once you've embraced and decided that this suffering, this sacrifice you're making, is an indicator of progress. It's an indicator of obsession. Suffering and sacrifice and hard work is an indication of progress towards our dreams. Storm, wind, don't blow all morning. A downpour of rain doesn't last all day. Who does this?

Heaven and earth. It's affected to everything you want or need. It will come to you at the exact perfect time as the rivers and the streams come to the ocean at the perfect time and place. The way to visualize properly is to visualize the bridge between where you are and where you need to go. What you do by visualizing the bridge is you train your nervous system and your mind to do the hard work. Why go on? And you only go on if the game is worth the candle.

Now the universe has been going on for an incredible long time. And so really a satisfactory theory of the universe has to be one that's worth betting on. He said fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Ladies and gentlemen, fear kills dreams. Fear kills hope. Fear. Fear can aid you. Fear, ladies and gentlemen, can hold you back from doing something that you know within yourself

that you're capable of doing, but it will paralyze you. And it seemed like you're in a hypnotic spell. What's it feel like when you wake up and it is pouring rain? And you visualize yourself running anyway. That way, when you visualize the work, you are preparing your body for it, so you're not resistant to it when it comes. If you configure your life

so that what you are genuinely doing is aiming at the highest possible good, then the things that you need to survive and to thrive on a day-to-day basis will deliver themselves to you. We play the games of getting on top of things all the time. And so we're in a constant state of competition as to if it's not I'm stronger than you. It's I'm wiser than you. I'm more loving than you.

I'm more tolerant than you. I'm more sophisticated than you. It doesn't matter what it is, but this constant competition is going on. In terms of that competition, we can of course lose place and in that sense make mistakes. But what a Zen student is, is a person who is not involved in the status game.

If you dare to do the most difficult thing that you can conceptualize, your life will work out better than it will, if you do anything else. The ability is that if you manifest yourself properly in the world, that those things will come your way, effective way of operating in the world, then to conceptualize the highest good that you can

and then strive to attain it. You know who you are from the inside to the outside and your behavior is a demonstration of what you believe to be true about you. question what is the benefit what's the benefit of allowing fear to hold you back what's the benefit of giving up on yourself of not stepping out on life and taking life on what is the benefit for you what's the plus the man the same reason that people get stuck at a certain level in life they can't see things being better for them and they think that this is it and this is all they deserve

this is all they've ever seen it's been passed on to them and they think that this is is it for them. What does it mean or is necessary to get it? Purpose that God predestined inside of you. Purpose that a job or purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history. We've been told two lies in our life. The first lie is you're nothing. You're not worth anything.

You haven't got anything. That's the first line. The second lie we've all been told is you can be anything. It's a lie. The way we're wired defines what we can do with that wiring. And therefore the truth is, you can't be anything you want, but you can be everything you are.

Is to give up desiring as much as you can, want to go beyond the point of which you're capable. Not only is it the middle way between the extremes of ascetic discipline and pleasure-seeking, but it's also the middle way in a very subtle sense. Don't desire to give up more desire than you can. And if you find that a problem, don't desire to be successful in giving up more desire when you can. So if I had a gift to give you, it would be maybe make a different decision. And a decision is that no matter what happens in your life, you're going to live in a beautiful state.

A beautiful state. And that could be happy, that could be grateful, that could be being generous. Those are all beautiful states, aren't they? It could be curious. It could be fun. It could be playful. You're not limited to one state, but it's different than suffering. And most people's suffering and all suffering I've ever seen, suffering always comes because you're obsessed about something related to you.

You can only be depressed if you're focusing on yourself. The weeds are greed, negativity, manipulation, power, control. So every day I'm literally gardening my heart by pulling out every weed and plucking out every weed that I no longer want to plant in my house. Because guess what? Weeds end up looking like seeds. Often in our life, the weeds and the seeds look exactly in the the same when they start growing. And that's one of the biggest challenges. We're wired for

generosity, but we're educated for greed. We're so deeply wired for generosity, but everything's trying to pull us away from that. It's about how you think you, what you should have done or shouldn't have done or what someone did to you or didn't do to you in the past, through the future, which don't even exist. So I have a simple goal. My goal is help people make a decision that says, I don't know what's going to happen. Not positive thinking bullshit, just the truth. So if that's going to happen, I say, make a decision now that says, I'm going to live in a beautiful state, and I'm going to find beauty in whatever life brings me.

If it's meant for you, I don't know what your future is. But if you are willing to take the heart away, the more complicated one, the one with more failures at first, their successes, the one that has ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory, you will not regret it. The light of new realization shines on you today with the challenges that you choose to confront. As you commit to your past, press on with pride and press on with purpose. But the equation is something like, you don't want it unless you're willing to sacrifice for it. And if you don't want it, you're not going to get it because you're scattered. But if you do want it,

and you make the proper sacrifices, then God only knows what might happen. When you identify what you're good at, what you love, your wiring, your qualities, your values, your skills, your abilities, and you use that to make a difference in the life of other people, that's when you're going to feel most fulfilled. Fulfurman is not just about doing good. It's about becoming better and then doing good with what you have. Because no one can demonstrate to you that if you straighten yourself out, and aim at what you want and make the proper sacrifices, that your life will turn out in the manner that you might want it to turn out.

It isn't in anyone else's purview to make that judgment. The only person that can possibly figure that out is you. It's something that can't be stolen from you. I would say it's your destiny. It's a destiny that cannot be stolen from you. And you can forego it. You can say, well, I'm not willing to put in the effort, because what if I fail?

Well, first of all, if you don't put in the effort, you will fail. fail because life is hard and it takes everything out of you to do it properly. Because if you let your breath go, it'll come back. So Nirvana is not annihilation. Nirvana is the state of being let go. It is a state of consciousness and a state of being here and now in this life. Beauty is so valuable and we're so afraid of it. But beauty, especially for people who have an affinity for beauty, it's like music. It's one of those things that you can't argue against, right?

You can't even understand, it just hits you. It's like a vision of the potential future, and something like that as well, that if we just got our act together and beautified things, that's the place that we can inhabit and that would ennoble us. Many of you going into moments where you are no more within your sense perception, something else is beginning to happen. Anything new happens, your mind is such, it knows only fear. But if you allow it to happen,

you will see, you will start experiencing the dimension which is beyond sense perception. Only when your experience of life moves beyond sense perception, then your experience of life is absolute, not in comparison with something else. If you truly got passionate about a future, we've all done this. You get a wild idea in your mind and you start holding on to that vision and you're preoccupied with it. All of a sudden the thought in your mind becomes the experience and you start feeling the energy of the future. Now, the stronger the emotion you feel from that vision, the more you're going to pay attention to the picture in your mind and now you're remembering your future. I'm really interested in the invisible world because the invisible world is what makes what you see today possible

Without that we wouldn't see success. We wouldn't see the love. We wouldn't see the relationships but our challenges is that we so much focus on what we see externally that we believe the journey of success should be the same Beauty is the proper dwelling place for an enlightened consciousness and we ignore it at our spiritual and economic peril. It's like it's obvious. There's almost nothing. more valuable than you. We are always thinking that the satisfaction of life will be coming later. There's a good time coming to be ever so far away that one far-off divine event to which all creation moves.

Don't kid yourself. Which is to say, only suckers put hope in the future. It's this business of, because you're not fully alive, now you think maybe someday you will be Confucius very wise and said a man who understands the Tao in the morning may die with content at the evening if you want to make a change you have to change your vision of who you are you have to begin telling yourself a different narrative and the narrative you tell yourself about yourself is everything if you're not feeling great about yourself or where your life is right now the pathway out of

that is giving. And so during the adversities of where we are and what we are facing, you want to have some things that you're doing. And that will give you the tools, the mindset, the mental resolve to handle whatever life throws at you. Why less? Because whatever life throws at you, you have in you. Greater as he that's in you than he that's in the world. You have in you to handle it. You have built in greatness, you have built in power, authority, and dominion to handle whatever life throws at you. Don't you wish you could just hit skip on the worst parts of your life? You know, the same way you can skip an ad? I get it.

I'm Siyaya and I live in Ice Cove. I've made some questionable decisions that didn't end up the way I planned. And today, I'm still figuring it out. Somehow things usually get worse before they get better. Apparently, that's how I roll. So bundle up and come along for the bumpy ride. Stream a new episode of North of North Tuesdays on CBC Gem. This is the covenant idea, this belief.

Because here's the belief. It's the willingness to act as if the world is constructed so that if you do the right thing, the best possible outcome will occur. It's a decision. That's the covenant. It's a decision. about how to live in the world because the evidence can't be there before you make the decision.

The simple part that most people don't understand is that every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. It's as though our thoughts go out into the universe and are accepted and brought back to us as experience. But if you can really accept the fact that every time you think a thought and every time you think a thought and Every time you speak a word, you are literally painting your future, making your dinner, whatever you want to call it. You are creating. And life is going to be throwing a lot of stuff. Nobody's going to be spared. That's why Victor Franco called it unavoidable suffering.

But suffering is a choice. You have a choice because you can suffer or you can choose to do what's. whatever you need to do to liberate yourself, whatever you need to do to reinvent yourself, whatever you need to do, to get the help that you need, to overcome whatever you are stuck in right now. Remember, I'd like to think the universe is listening to everything you say and everything you think and say, okay, you can get that. So then it starts to bring you in and bring things into you. And I know this sounds far-fetched, but it's amazing how it works.

If you do a good general positive statement for yourself, the universe will figure out how to manifest that. How to bring that about in your life? So things could happen that you wouldn't expect at all, but they will happen. How much meaning is there in moving forward towards an ultimate ideal? Well, more meaning, even though it's more difficult, how much? Well, that's the open question. Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream

and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. under control where something is going to happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally you would dream where you are now. You realize that every single

day could be your last or when you appreciate that no matter how long you live life is a short ride, you just sort of let go of the fears and you let go the limits and you live full on and you seize opportunities and you have real conversations with real people and you sort of wear your heart on your sleeve and you bring on the fullness of your authenticity and you do whatever it takes to get your loftiest dreams to get done. The point is that there's some games you don't get to play unless you're all in. And the other thing that's so interesting about being alive is that you're all in. No matter what you do, you're all in. This is going to kill you.

So I think you might as well play the most magnificent game you can while you're waiting because do you have anything better to do? Really? Why not pick the best thing possible that you could do? Why not do that? Maybe you could justify your wretched existence to yourself that way. I think you could. That's what it looks like. You know, people find such meaning in the responsibilities they adopt. It stops making them ask questions about what life is for. Follow your passion first. First, first, first, first, first. And you got to sit there and ask yourself, okay, what am I truly passionate about?

What do I enjoy doing? And when you feel that way, honestly, I mean, you feel like you have never worked the day in your life. It's the most fun thing in the world. You get up in the morning, excited about what you're doing. And you've got to be really honest with yourself about it. If you wake up in the morning and you're dreading going to work, dude, do something else. Do something else. And those are hard decisions to make.

But when you make those decisions, it's a very low. liberating experience and you find out that the rewards will come. Change is inevitable. So here's what's going to happen. No matter what's going on in your life is not permanent. Everything is going to change. So there's two things you can do with change. You can react to it or you can participate in it. It's going to change anyway. So if you keep waiting around, you're going to have to react to the change. And now you're behind.

Your best laid plans has changed. So what you've got to start doing is you've got to start anticipating that it's going to change and just start living your life with the preparation for change. No matter what you're doing, you could be doing more. Remember that. It's 24 hours in the day. You've got to use as many of those hours to prepare stability for yourself as you can. And internally, if not this moment when?

Right? That if we're not going to speak up now, our things are going to be easier or better a year from now? We wait for things to calm down. We wait for it to be the right moment, but this is the right moment. That we look back a year in our life five years ago, and we rarely say, I'm disappointed that I spoke up. I'm disappointed that I did my heart. I'm disappointed that I connected to somebody. We don't. What we regret is not doing that. That responsibility is never given. it's taken. And if you choose to take responsibility, all these doors open up. Because there is no right answer. What there are are challenges we can sign up for and emotions we can experience. And so what I'm suggesting to you is do whatever it takes to be in the moment

and to stay positive, and to stay on your game, and to optimize your craft, and to spend time with your loved ones, take care of your fitness, to learn something new every day, and to enjoy the beauty of sunsets, the star-filled nights, and at the same time as much as possible, please do not lose perspective. Stay connected to your mortality. You are naked. You have nothing to lose. Dreams is, it should be pure. I think a lot of times when we're born into this world, we actually wind up going backwards. And it seems like the more we mature, the more responsible our dreams become, the more governors we put on ourselves and our ability to dream and to reimagine. And it's always a fight for you guys to make sure that your dreams always stay pure. And so it's not a matter

of pushing beyond the limitations or expectations. It's really a matter of protecting your dreams, protecting your imagination, that's really the key. And when you do that, then the world just seems limitless. Because you can't do this without commitment. You have to commit to it first. That's the act of faith that you have to say, I'm going to act as if being is good. I'm going to act as if truth is the pathway to enlightenment.

I'm going to act as if I should pursue the deepest meaning possible in my life. And there's reasons to do none of those. They're real reasons. So it's really a decision. But you can't find out what the consequence of the decision is unless you make the decision. That's the nature of life. But God in the sense of being the self, the deep down basic whatever there is, and you're all that, only you're pretending you're not.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can't be consistently kind or fair. or humane or generous, not without courage, because if you don't have it sooner or later, you'll stop and say, ah, the threat is too much,

the difficulty is too high, the challenge is too great. Every aspect of our life is the way it is. And then the degree to which we have a narrative or commentary about it being the way it is, but we want it to be different, That difference is the degree to which we suffer. When I'm truly in harmony with what is, then there is no resistance.

And, based on the fact that we've got this linear time game, I can still be committed to where I'm going or what I'd like to create, but it is the way it is right now. And my hope is to trigger you to think about, how could you turn your labor into your love? And when your vocation becomes your vacation, that's when life becomes truly magnificent. And I know you know this in your soul is that

we all know if you're going to be masterful, at something, you don't show up, you know, as the best in the world at something. You don't show up in environments that you want to be in. You get there because you did things for thousands and thousands of hours. When you do something enough, with enough intensity, enough intention to constantly get better, when your labor is your love and where your labor is something you have to always get better at, then usually what happens is you get these insights that allow you to serve more. If you are haunted by reveries of the past, they continue to come up in your mind over and over,

and your dreams over and over. You haven't extracted the world out from your past experiences. The potential is still trapped in the past. And to confront the potential means to confront the dragon of the past. And of course that's terrified. And it can seriously be terrified. You're already okay. It's like, no, you're not.

And the reason you're not is because you could be way more than you are. So what do you want to be? You want to be okay as you are? Or do you want to strive towards what's good? towards what's better. The question is whether future takes over your mind, being able to use it for practical purposes is of course great. Clock time is fine, but psychological time is when future takes over your mind and your entire

thought patterns are geared only towards future and you treat the present moment as either just a means to an end because it enables you to get to the next one. You're always reaching out, so to speak, internally to the next, yet never quite here, always looking for some fulfillment there, so you can never embrace the fullness of now. So powerful, it may be that which holds the stars in the front of him. You have to have courage to love somebody because you miss everything, everything. But to accept your pathway without resistance is where you're going to find free. But what happened is one of my quotes.

I'd say, what happened happened, and couldn't have happened any other way because it didn't. And if you really get that, there's a lot of freedom to be found because oftentimes we're judging our history as though that shouldn't have happened. They shouldn't have done that. Well, now you're stuck.

What happened, happened, couldn't have happened the other way because it didn't. When you hit pay dirt like that, when you connect, when you connect to the field, when you connect the divine, whatever you want to call it, when your consciousness merges with a greater consciousness and that arousal creates ecstasy, bliss, bliss, oneness, whatever you want to call that, you realize that it never came from anything out there.

It came from within you, and so you stop looking out there for it. Now the love affair begins, and you never want to miss a date because it's just too good. More fundamental than the outer purpose is what most people usually overlook, and that is the realization that what matters most is finding your inner purpose. So inner purpose is aligning your life fully with the present moment. So that you are no longer out of alignment with the present moment, which leads to the state of dissatisfaction that we talked about, that is the reality for many people.

So you have to go, first of all, beyond the state of dissatisfaction that is so many people's reality. Right. But you cannot go beyond the state of dissatisfaction through some future goal that says one day I would like to be in a state of fulfillment or satisfaction. No, you have to enter the state of fulfillment and satisfaction by becoming one internally with the present world. You can't make yourself interested in something. Interest manifests itself and grips you.

That's a whole different thing. And so what is it that's gripping you? How do you conceptualize that? Is that a divine power? Well, it's divine as far as you're concerned, because it grips you, and you can't do anything about it. And so there's a calling in you towards what you're compelled by and what you're interested in, and sometimes that might be very dark, and sometimes not.

But you're compelled forward by your interest. And so what moves you away from your country in your father's house and the comforts of your child at home is something that's beyond you, that you listen to and hearken to. That's exactly right. But it takes this complexity of pattern to evoke. If you do not listen to that thing that beckons you forward, you will pay for it like you cannot possibly imagine. You'll have everything that's terrible about life

in your life and nothing about it that's good. And worse, you'll know that it was your fault and that you squandered what you could have had.