The Kevin Trudeau Show LIMITLESS - Positive Thinking Will Keep You Broke — Here's What Actually Works

Episode Date: July 8, 2026

🔗 The Truth Survives: https://yourwish.kevintrudeau.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=limitless_channel&utm_campaign=ABPV_jcz6YcFor decades, you've been told that positive thinking is the key to success. But what if that's the very belief keeping you broke?In this eye-opening Classified File, Kevin Trudeau reveals why using positive thinking by itself actually sabotages your results and can keep you broke. Drawing from the teachings he received in the secret society The Brotherhood, Kevin explains why positive thinking is only one piece of a much larger success formula—and he reveals the 3-step energy cycle that billionaires actually use instead.Jim Rohn, the man who trained Tony Robbins, said the most powerful emotion for success isn’t happiness, gratitude, or bliss. It’s disgust. In this video, Kevin explains why. What you’ll discover:00:00 – Why positive thinking alone will keep you broke00:29 – The self-help industry’s dirty secret: their best customer is someone who fails00:57 – The 40-point algorithm from the Brotherhood (positive thinking is just 1 of 40)01:49 – “Not one billionaire said positive thinking was the most important thing”02:31 – Why positive thinking alone is dangerous (rose-colored glasses)02:59 – The acknowledge → accept → define → act framework03:50 – Why “what you resist will persist” is the key to the whole formula04:30 – Why being grateful for everything guarantees you’ll stay stuck05:21 – Jim Rohn’s lesson: why DISGUST is the most powerful emotion for success05:40 – What the Brotherhood taught Kevin about pain, anger, and motivation06:40 – The “be grateful for your crappy car” example (this will change how you think about gratitude)07:41 – “Success is a decision away”08:30 – How Kevin actually lives: he doesn’t walk around happy all day08:37 – The bow and arrow metaphor: contracting energy to launch positive force09:13 – Why athletes scream at each other on the sidelines (and why it works)09:40 – The two types of self-help failures (you’re probably one of them)11:44 – The tiny group that actually gets results — what they do differently12:31 – The lunch with people making hundreds of millions (they described Kevin’s exact formula)12:54 – The 3-step formula: Contract Energy → Positivity → ActionThe formula isn’t “think positive.” It’s “think correctly.” If you’ve been repeating affirmations, visualizing, or trying to manifest your dream life but still aren’t getting results — this video explains exactly why. And exactly what to do instead.WATCH THE ENTIRE VIDEO. The 3-step formula at the end is what separates people who think about success from people who create it.Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a Classified File.📖 Your Wish Is Your Command → Available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Your-Wish-Command-Manifest-Desires/dp/1967151016🔗 More from Kevin → KevinTrudeau.com*******************************************************************************To access the secret training that Kevin received in the secret society called ‘The Brotherhood’, become a member of the exclusive club founded by Kevin Trudeau: https://globalinformationnetwork.comExplore Kevin’s newest book series ‘Nuggets of Gold’ here: https://nuggetsofgold.com*******************************************************************************FREE TRAINING:[https://gurukev.com][https://nuggetsofgold.com][https://t.me/TheKevinTrudeauFanClubChannel]#KevinTrudeau #KevinTrudeauShow #TheKevinTrudeauShow #TheKevinTrudeauShowLimitless #positivethinking #KevinTrudeau #lawofattraction #successmindset #manifestation #affirmations #selfhelp #jimrohn #tonyrobbins #motivation #howtogetrich #thebrotherhood #classified #mindsetshift #wealthmindset #WhyAffirmationsFail #personaldevelopment #PositiveThinkingMyth #ContractEnergy #successformula

Positive thinking alone will keep somebody broke. The self-help industry pitches a positive mental attitude. And it really is a lie. If you just have a positive mental attitude, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it'll keep you broke. Positive thinking is a piece, just one piece, of the puzzle. The puzzle being total success in life. I was taught in the Brotherhood that there's an algorithm.

It's a 40-point algorithm. and all those pieces are the pieces of the puzzle. One piece of the 40-point algorithm is having a positive mental attitude at certain points. And this is what the self-help industry doesn't even know. So with good intentions, they think that promoting you having a positive attitude all the time, feeling good all the time, being grateful, thankful and appreciative all the time, looking for the gold all the time is the key to success. But when you look at people that are truly, truly, truly successful,

they don't have a positive mental attitude all the time. They don't think positive all the time. They're not happy and feeling good all the time. They're not finding the gold all the time. They're getting pissed off. There's a whole bunch of things they do. Positive thinking is critical, but it's only one piece of that puzzle of total success.

And if you just have a positive mental attitude, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it'll keep you broke. I know personally hundreds of people that have made hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars. When you talk to every single one of them, if you say, what is the most important thing that created your success? Not one of them said positive mental attitude or positive thinking. Not one. They do say that's an ingredient, but it's not the single most important thing. And again, if you think positively all the time, it'll keep you broke. The reason positive thinking alone, if you think positive 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you're walking through life wearing rose-colored glasses.

You're not really confronting anything. You're dodging it. You're constantly reframing it. You're not taking something for what it is. You're not acknowledging what truly is. You're denying what truly is. Sometimes you feel bad. And when you feel bad, if you say, I feel good

because you're trying to practice positive thinking, you're not acknowledging it. You're actually denying it. You're saying a lie. You must first acknowledge something, not deny it. And then secondly, you must accept it and not resist it. What you resist will persist. But then you must allow yourself to work through it and define clearly where you want to go.

So it's a step-by-step process. You don't live with acknowledging that you feel terrible or that you feel bad or something in your life is not what you want and it makes you feel bad. angry, you have to acknowledge, not deny it, but you don't live there. You don't resist it. You have to do those first two steps. But then you clearly define what you do want, and then with determination, you work toward that with a positive mental attitude. That's when you engage the positive thinking, the confidence, the belief in yourself at that

point. But you have to do the first two steps first and then engage the positive mental attitude. So positive thinking or finding the gold or looking for the good or being appreciative and grateful is an element. It's an ingredient. It's a piece of the puzzle. But it's not the entire puzzle. If you read positive thinking books or personal development books or books on how to attain success, how to make money, how to achieve prosperity, how to achieve abundance, you read about the law of attraction and all these things, one of the prevalent concept is whatever you put out is you're going to attract. So if you're in a bad mood, you're going to attract bad things.

If you're angry, you're going to attract more things that make you angry. This law of attraction concept. So you don't live in a bad attitude. You don't live angry. You don't live pissed off. You don't live in any of these negative emotions. You don't live there, but you have to visit there. Jim Rohn, one of the greatest personal development coaches of all time.

He trained Tony Robbins. He said that the most powerful emotion you can have if you want to become successful is disgust. Not happiness, joy, bliss, gratitude, or appreciation. He said disgust. And I learned this in the Brotherhood. I learned this clearly in the Brotherhood when I was told, Kevin, in order for you to achieve something, there has to be something in your life that gives you pain, a lot of pain.

There's something that has to be so bad that you will not tolerate it anymore in your life. It has to make you angry. It has to make you disgusted. When you have that emotion, you now clearly. clearly know what you do not want. So you have to acknowledge, I have a crappy car. This car is not what I want. I have a crappy job. I have a crappy income. My credit cards are maxed out. I'm sick and tired of this. I'm not going to take it anymore. That's not positive thinking. That's getting pissed off. That's the opposite of positive thinking, isn't it? But you have to have that.

You have to know what you do not want and you have discussed. You have to be sick and tired. of it and will not tolerate it anymore. But you don't live there. Most people live there. They're there 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And that's why we say, you have to have a positive attitude. You have a crappy attitude. So we tell them you have to have a positive attitude or motivational speakers tell them. You have to have a better attitude, which is true, but they're not understanding all the nuances and dynamics. You have to be in that disgust. If you read some of the books, they say, you always have to be thankful, grateful, and appreciative for everything in your life, then the universe will give you more things to be thankful, grateful,

grateful, and appreciative for. Well, that's the big lie. If you get in your crappy car and go, this is a crappy car and I'm so thankful, I'm so grateful and I'm appreciative for this crappy car, and I feel so good being in it. I'm just grateful and appreciative. Well, I have a positive attitude, don't I? Why would the universe give you a new car? You're so grateful, thankful, and appreciative for that car.

You can't. You have to get in that car and be disgusted with it. Say, I'm not going to tolerate this anymore. But you don't live there. Then you say, let me tell you what I do want. And then when you think about what you do want, you feel now as if you had it, which means you feel good. There's your positive attitude.

And then with the positive attitude, the positive attitude is, I can do this and I'm going to do it. Success is a decision away. So positive attitude, believing in oneself, believing you can do it and making a decision that you're going to do it, that's it, period. That has to be activated and used, but only after you have that negative energy. And that cycle has to be repeated many times in a day. When people live with me, they're surprised. I don't, I don't walk around all. day long going, life is wonderful, life is beautiful, life is this. When I find something that's not right, I tell somebody, hey, this is the third time I've

told you that this shouldn't be this way. There's got to be some anger, there's got to be some emotion that you don't get triggered. You're not getting triggered. You're using this emotion with deliberate intent to change the situation. And you have to contract that energy. The energy is like pulling back the bow and a bow and arrow. When I pull it back, that's contracting energy. I'm getting pissed.

And then when I let it go, I'm putting forth an arrow with massive amount of force, and that's the positivity. So you contract the energy, and then you throw forth the positive energy. That's what they do in sports, don't they? In sports, you see the guy screaming at each other on the sidelines when something goes wrong. They're contracting energy. But then they immediately use that contraction and spring forward. forth the positive energy where they slapping everybody on the back, encouraging everybody,

we can win this game, we can come back, we're not out of it, we can do it. Positive thinking, positive mental attitude. They use it then, but they first contracted the energy. So positive mental attitude, finding the gold, looking for the good, being thankful, grateful and appreciative, and all the positive emotions that you can imagine is an element. It's an ingredient. It's a piece of the puzzle, but it's not the entire puzzle. So let's talk about affirmations.

We hear this a lot. Sometimes we write affirmations down, such as I am wealthy, I am a millionaire, I am a champion, I am confident, I believe in myself, I can do it. So you write down affirmations. Or you speak affirmations. I do it all day long.

When people come into my house for 24 hours and they observe me as a fly on the wall, in my fly on the wall training, which is the same training that I got in the brotherhood, by my mentor and my teachers, where I would go into their homes and watch them and observe them. Most of them talk to themselves all day long, and they're constantly giving themselves a pep top, with the exception of when they're not, which means, I'm pissed off. I've heard this, and I say it.

I look at some numbers and I go, this is unacceptable, and I slam my hand out. I'm not going to take this. I'm better than this. Now we start shifting into the positive affirmations. I'm a champion. I'm a winner. I'm going to make this go up. I can do it. I got what it takes. That's positive thinking. That's a positive mental attitude. Whether you write it down or whether you speak it. But remember, it has to come after you contract the energy. So you visit the land of contraction of the energy. You spend most of your time in a positive attitude, gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation,

but then you go back to contracting the energy. Then you go through the positivity. Then you contract the energy. And sometimes it's short little burst. You contract energy, positive, positive, contract energy, positive, positive, contract energy, positive, contract energy, positive. Sometimes that happens in an hour. You may do it three or four or five times where your emotions, which are controlling.

You're controlling this with deliberate intent. You're contracting energy and then positivity. contracting energy, then positivity. Contracting energy, then positivity. Nobody teaches that. You can't find that in any book. I was taught this very specifically and clearly in the Brotherhood as part of the manifesting training.

We didn't call it manifesting. That's the new age word. We called it how to set goals and achieve them, which is different, because that gives you the picture that you actually have to do something to attain the objective, to attain the goal,

to achieve what you want. There's action involved. So thinking is a critical element, but action is as well. When we use the word manifesting, we think we just sit there and go, I'm just going to think of what I want, and the universe is going to magically create it right. When I open up my eyes, it's going to be there in front of me. The new Mercedes is going to be there.

That's not how it works. You can set a goal for a new Mercedes, but then go out and make it happen and do what you need to do to make the money to get the Mercedes. This action involved. So this thinking as well as action combined will give you what you want. And that thinking has to be contraction, positivity. Contraction, positivity.

You can't find a book that talks about contracting. They always talk about, oh, just, you know, all day long, be happy, be blissful, and the universe will bless you. That's a lie. There's two types of people that are out there who go through personal development courses or self-improvement courses or success training. They think their, so the first group is the ones who think they're positive. Well, they're not.

They're negative all day long. They have a habit of thinking negatively. They have an habit of speaking negatively. So they're actually putting out a negative vibration 24-7. They think they're positive. They think they are. But they'll say, well, I have a concern with this. Or that won't work for me.

I mean, they'll say little things like that, which is just enough negativity to not down any thing, any vibration, positive vibration that will create a result. So the first group actually thinks they're positive. And by the way, this is probably most people. Most people think that they think positive or think they have a positive mental attitude, but they don't. Out of habit, they actually think negative thoughts and they speak negatively, not even knowing it.

So they think that they have a positive mental attitude, but they really don't. Therefore, they're not going to get any results. The second group actually think positively most of the day. They are grateful and appreciative and they continue to work on feeling happiness and bliss and feeling good now and feeling good now and feeling good now and feeling good now. But they don't take any action. They don't do anything. They keep thinking or they're delusional, quite frankly, believing that the universe is going

to magically just create a Mercedes and it's going to show up in the garage the next morning. But they're not willing to put forth any action. And the reason is they actually are not positive thinkers at all. They have massive amounts of fear and doubt. So even though they are feeling good all the time on the surface, on the subconscious level, they have massive fear and doubt, which is not positive thinking at all. That prevents them from taking. action to make something happen. That leaves a very small, tiny group of people that actually do think positive and feel good and take action.

And those are the people that actually produce results. They're the ones who make money. They're the ones who create things in their life. They're the ones who actually attain wealth, riches, a fortune. They actually get stuff and they're giggling and smiling and happy most of the time. But they also have no fear of feeling pissed off from time to time as well and contracting the energy. You can see it.

I mean, right here, we've met people that make hundreds of millions of dollars right upstairs that do that all the time, smile, but also share how they got pissed off and angry and made a decision that they were going to change the situation. And we heard it just today at lunch where everyone was describing, the guy's making all this money describing exactly what I just explained. That system works. Contract energy, positivity, action. Contract energy, positivity, positive mental attitude, positive thoughts, positive affirmations,

action. Those are the three steps. So positive thinking is a critical element. It's a critical piece of the puzzle, but it has to be used correctly in the correct order in order to produce the great results. Positive thinking is not the only ingredient in the formula. You have to use other things in order to get the result. So if you're just thinking that having a positive mental attitude

all day long is gonna give you the result you want, it isn't. And if you've been sold or believed that it is the only ingredient that you need for success, it will absolutely keep you broke. It was just an awakening. My income has doubled. I'm getting close to tripling.

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