The Resilient Mind - Changing Your Mental Paradigm - Bob Proctor

Episode Date: September 6, 2023

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Welcome to the Resilient Mind Podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to Changing Your Mental Paradigm with Bob Proctor. Get access to the Mental Mastery Program and other exclusive episodes by becoming a subscriber. Enjoy. I started to study this information 54 years ago. In fact, last October, I started my 55th year of studying this. Now, that's longer than probably many of you are living, maybe longer than your parents have been living. But I've studied it every day.

I've become absolutely fascinated with this information. And as I go through this, I think you're going to be fascinated with it. Now, I didn't always have this information. Today, I have a company that operates all over the world, are in millions of dollars. I have some wonderful friends. And I live an interesting life. When I wake up in the morning,

I know that I'm going to be doing what I love all day long, and I'm going to be extremely well paid for it. But you know, it wasn't always like that. I have to go back to 1961. And in 1961, a man gave me this book. And that's when everything in my life started to change. The book is Think and Grow Rich. And there was a huge shift in the direction of my life.

Now, I'm not going to be on here long, maybe, I don't know, an hour. But in that hour, I'm going to suggest that you could change everything in your life. You see, today can be the turning point in your life by making a simple decision. But if you don't make decisions, you're going to stay right where you are. We have to make decisions. If we're going to change, we have to change the direction that we're going. And when we change the direction we're going, then we want to make sure we're going in the right direction. Because if we're not, we're going to either go backwards or we're going to stay where we are. Now, I had something pretty interesting happen.

When I committed to study this material every day and follow proven direction, the change that took place was enormous. And you know what can be for you. Now, there's one thing that you absolutely require, if you're going to make a big change, and that's discipline. See, without discipline, nothing happens. Now, I found that discipline is the ability to give ourselves a command and then follow it.

Now, I'm going to suggest as we go through this, and I suggest you make some decisions. Don't look at somebody else and say, what are you going to do? To see, what they're going to do has absolutely nothing to do with where you're going. It's what are you going to do. That's what really makes the difference. Now, I've worked with tens of thousands of people all over the world, and I've watched some absolutely phenomenal changes take place. I've watched kids go from a C&D average to an honors mark almost overnight.

I would have difficulty counting all the people that have gone from ordinary incomes to multi-million dollars. You see, earning money is not difficult. It's just that hardly anyone knows how to do it. And for good reason, we can go right to our school system, and no one ever teaches us how to earn money. And for good reason, they don't know how to earn money. Now, is earning money all this is about? Absolutely not. This is about living the way you want to live.

Now, I've been traveling all over the world. I started to study this, and great change took place, and then I want to know why I changed. And so I started to study it from a different perspective. I want to know what happened to me, which I'll talk again about in a moment. And so I began to study and then when I figured it out, got the dots to connect. All I wanted to do was share it with other people. And everywhere I've gone around the world, I have found that people are essentially the same. Now, I've worked in China, I've worked in South America, I've worked in Australia, New Zealand, all over Asia,

across all over North America and certainly all over Europe. And people are essentially the same. It doesn't matter where you're going. I don't care if you're in Shanghai and Kosovo or New York City. I have found that there's three things. Frequently, after a seminar, I'll sit around and I'll chat with some of the people, maybe that were late leaving the room, and I'll call them aside, and I'll say, what do you really want?

And I've found that not everybody wants to be really wealthy, but what they do want, they want to eliminate any financial concerns. In other words, if they want to get a new car, they want to be able to get it. If they want to take a trip, they want to be able to take the trip. Or if they see a sweater or a dress or a suit they'd like, they want to be able to buy it. They don't want to be wondering, am I going to have enough to pay the mortgage?

They want to eliminate financial concerns. The second thing they want is they want to wake up in the morning and be excited about how they're going to spend their day. See, a lot of people are tied up in traffic, going to a job. They don't like working for somebody that is possibly even incompetent. You can spend your days doing what you absolutely love to do. And the third thing, they wanted to mix with people who were really upbeat, who were enthusiastic, people that are becoming very creatively productive.

Now, that is a pretty good way to live. You don't have any financial concerns. You spend your days doing what you love with people who are upbeat and creatively productive. That's a good way to live. That's the way I live today, but it wasn't always like that. No, it sure wasn't. I had a man sit down with me, and he did essentially what I'm going to do with you right now. He said, Bob, I want you to take a look at the results you're getting in your life.

Really take a look at the results. And then he got me to think. He said, how do results happen, Bob? How do they actually happen? and I didn't know he says to results just happen well of course results don't just happen and this is where this is where the man approached me back in 1961 he said I want to magnify the results that you're getting in your life really take a close look at it because he said people are just falling short in a couple of areas and he pointed out that we're only limited

by weakness of attention and poverty, poverty of imagination. In other words, we've got to stay focused, and we've got to use our imagination to build the kind of world we really want. Now, I think that's what you want to do. That's what I want to do. I don't think you were looking for something to do when you sat down to watch this.

You see, I believe that you do want to improve the quality of your life. And a man named Reece Stanford sat down with me, long time ago in 1961. And he put an R on a sheet of paper. And then he put an H. He said, Bob, that's happiness. He said, that represents health. And that represents wealth. Now, he said, I want you to look at those three areas of your life. Are you getting what you want to get? Are you doing what you want to do? He's, I'm going to tell you something about results. results always tell the truth. By their fruit, you'll know them.

Results always tell the truth. You can kid yourself all over the place if you want, but look at the results. I have people, they'll tell me how much they know about this or about that. Take a look at the results. The results tell the truth. If you're playing golf, the scorecard. The score card tells the truth.

You see? Now think. Your bank account tells the truth. Your sales tell the truth. Your position in life, the healthier body. And he looked at all these areas, and he said, do you think I'm a healthy guy? And I said, yeah, he seemed pretty healthy to me.

He said, have you ever seen me sick? And he said, no. He said, have you ever seen me broke? No. You think I'm a happy guy. And I said, yeah, I mean, he was a healthy guy, happy. I always had a roll of money on him. Well, he said, you know, something,

you're the one of the most miserable people I've ever met, and I was. And he said, you're always sick, and he said you're always broke. Now, he was being kind. I was earning $4,000 a year at the time, but look at this. I owed $6,000. That is not a good position to be in. You see, if I had taken every cent I earned for 18 months and paid debts, I would have just broken even.

It was an impossible situation. He said, Bob, why don't you? change your results. Do you know something? I honestly don't believe that that ever entered my mind. I really don't. You say, well, I must have. No, I don't think it did. I think I got up in the morning and I just went to work. I did whatever I was doing and hoping things would get better, but never sitting down and talking to someone that really knew how to make it happen. If you want to fly a plane, you don't go to a barber and ask them, how do you get the plane off the ground. If you want to learn how to dance, you don't go to a mechanic. You go to a damn

good dancer. It doesn't matter what you want to do. If you're going to do something, go to someone who has demonstrated. Now, this guy had demonstrated he was happy, he was healthy, and he was wealthy. And he said, do you ever read anything? And I said, no, I can't read. Now, that wasn't true. I could, not well, but I could. And that's when he introduced me to this book, Think and Grow Rich. And he said, Bob, if you do exactly what I tell you and you study this book and do exactly what the author tells you,

he said, everything in your life will change. Now, he said, the man that wrote this book, Napoleon Hill, spent his whole life putting this together. It contains the best thinking of over 500 of the world's most successful people. Listen, I've been reading this one now since 1961. Now think about that. That's a long time. He said, he spent his whole life writing this.

He says, I think it would be a very prudent move on your part if you spent your life trying to understand and apply it. Now, I don't know why, but I decided I would. Now, let me explain where I was starting from. I told you I was earning $4,000 and I was six. I had two months high school. Two months high school. That was my formal education.

I had never had a half-decent job. I just bounced from one job to another, in the bar, working in a bar, in the Navy, out-of-the-da-day working in factories. I'd never had a half-decent job. Now, I had every reason why I couldn't win. And he said, Bob, there are reasons why you can't. You've got to quit thinking of those.

You got to start thinking of how you can. He said, do exactly what I tell you. And so, you know something? I decided I would. One year later, I was earning $175,000. My life changed like night and day. You say, well, what were you doing? I was cleaning offices.

And then I took it over a million dollars. I started cleaning one office. I would do anything honest earn money. I was earning about $100 a week, and I got an office to clean where I would wash the floor twice a month, and I got $30. Then I got another office $65 a month, Kirby's Construction. Now I'm up to an extra $100 a month. Do you know in less than five years I was cleaning offices in Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Cleveland, Atlanta, and London, England. Went right through the roof.

Now, if you had asked me what I was doing, I couldn't tell you. I would say I'm cleaning offices. I'm reading Think and Grow Rich. But you know, a lot of people were cleaning offices. They weren't doing what I was doing. A lot of people had bred thinking grow rich, they weren't doing what I was doing. Now, I was trying to figure out how the heck did this happen?

See, I had been raised to believe, if you're going to earn a lot of money, you're going to be really smart. Well, I know I wasn't that smart, but I was earning a lot of money. I was raised to believe if you're going to have a good job, you have to have a good formal education. I didn't have a good formal education.

I didn't have a good job. I owned the whole company. And so I started to study. You see? I thought, I'm believing in lies. You don't have to be smart. There's people that are functionally illiterate. They can neither read or write,

and they're earning millions of dollars. There's people heading up large corporations that's never been inside a school. Now, this is, I'm not anti-school. I've made sure all my kids went through school. I just changed the question. I didn't ask them if they were going to go, ask them where they were going to go.

I'm mentioning this because I believe anyone can do anything if they can sit down and write it out on a piece of paper and then work at changing what's going on inside. See, in 1990, Joel Barker wrote a book. It's called Parodimes. He said, to be able to shape your future, you have to be willing and able to change your paradigm. Now, I had no idea what a paradigm was, and you might ask yourself, do you really know what a paradigm is? Do you understand how the mind works? Because the paradigm has something to do with the mind. I knew nothing about it.

And the man that encouraged me to study this put me on a track where I just kept going from one great mentor to another. I was living in Chicago at the time, and I heard about a man in Vancouver. I was trying to figure out why I changed. I had left my own business. I went to work with Earl Nightgill and Lloyd Conan in Chicago. ended up being their vice president of sales.

I would have gone there. I would have paid them to let me work there. I wanted to work with Earl Nightingale and Lloyd Conant because I wanted to study. I wanted to know why did I change? I knew I wasn't lucky. And I heard him about a man in Vancouver. Somebody said, Bob, you should go and listen to him.

So I got on a plane and I flew out to Vancouver. At the end of the seminar, when the guy got on the stage, I knew that he knew what he was talking about. There was just such certainty in his talk. And so at the end of the seminar, I said, I would like to sit down with you for a couple hours. But he said, you know, I'd like to probably sit down with you for a couple hours, but he looked at his watches, I've got to get out of here. And I said, I've got to go now, too.

He said, where are you going? I said, I can go back to Chicago. He said, what are you doing out here? I said, I come out to hear you speak. Now, I think he was impressed that I had traveled so far to listen to him. So I said, look, and I'm not going to be in Chicago any time in the near future, but I'm going to be in Toronto. And I said, I'm from Toronto.

I'll fly over. I'll meet you over there. And so the two of us sat down in the Skyline Hotel. And we were there. We were supposed to be three hours. We were there for about three days. And he and I were as thick as thieves right up until he died.

Now, he introduced me to this idea that I'm going to introduce you to. And what I'm going to show you is without question, the most powerful idea I have ever learned. And if you don't understand this, the odds of you making great changes are very, very slim. I want you to look at the mind and then look at paradigms.

But let's personalize it. Let's look at your mind and your paradigm. Now, let that drawing represent your mind. That, by the way, is the most valuable concept I have ever learned. There's the conscious mind, the subconscious, and the body. Now, the conscious mind is the thinking mind. Do you know that the average person does not think? Do you know that thinking is a subject that's not talking?

in school. You say everybody thinks. Hardly anyone thinks. I remember old Nightgale used to say, if the average person said what they were thinking, they would be speechless. Do you know what we do? We confuse mental activity with thinking. That's not thinking. Listen to what most people are saying. They'd never say what they're saying if they were thinking. Watch their behavior. They'd never do what they're doing if they were thinking. Back in 1981, I picked up a paper by Dr. Lawrence Rampel. Listen what he said. Thinking is a skill which can be learned just as we learn skills such as typing and playing the piano. Few public schools offer courses devoted expressly to teaching thinking.

Rather, we are expected to learn and teach thinking as a bribe product of learning mathematics, reading, history, science, a trade, and so forth. And we do learn a lot about thinking in that way. That trouble is we learn our thinking skills in bits and pieces. and we never put it together as an overall picture, if asked to describe what all is required in order to think effectively, most of us would be at a loss to give a complete account.

Thus, we are unable to assess our own thinking skills or systematically teach the skill of thinking to others. Well, it's with your conscious mind you think. This is also we call the educated mind, and I'm going to come back to that because I'm going to show you just how far off track we get with that. Now, this is where our intellect is resonant,

and it's the intellectual factors that give you the ability to be the creative ability. You say you're created in God's image? Well, that's where the creative faculty comes in. In our intellectual factors, you have perception, the will, reason, imagination, memory, intuition. Now, the subconscious mind is quite different from the conscious mind.

That's what we call the emotional mind. See, the conscious mind can think, so therefore you have the ability to choose. You literally choose where you're going. Now, the choice may be unconscious, but it is a choice. You have the ability here to accept or reject information. When we see something, come on in the news about the economy, the economy's taking a dive, say maybe for them or you, but not for me. You've got the ability to reject information.

Somebody starts to tell you a bad story, reject it. Now think. You have the ability to accept a real thing. reject in your conscious mind. You have the ability to originate ideas in your conscious mind. You can originate any idea you want. Now your subconscious mind has no ability to reject, it must accept. And here's something else. Whatever is placed in the subconscious mind is going to dictate your world. It really will. And your imagination or your subconscious mind cannot differentiate between what you imagine and what's real. So if you imagine,

Imagine something happening and you get emotionally involved, it's actually starting to happen. You may say, well, that's ridiculous. Well, the Wright brothers didn't think so. Ed Hilary didn't think so. Steve Jobs didn't think so. Think about it. Thomas Edison didn't think so. Alexander Graham Bell.

See, we listen to them and think, well, they're different. No, they're not different. They're exactly the same as you and me. Now look here for a moment. I've given you the basics about the mind. Now, let's look at this. Today, you're being inundated with information in your conscious mind, from radio, from other people, from TVs, from newspapers.

And you have the ability, because you have a reasoning factor, you have the ability to think. And you can say, I don't want that information. I'm not accepting that, and you can cause it to go away. But you know something? We don't do that. Not only don't we not do that, we don't even think about it. We don't even think. Why?

We leave our mind wide open. And it goes right in. What do we say about the subconscious? It has no ability to reject. It must accept. Why do we do that? Because we're programmed to do it. That's why we do it.

That's our paradigm. How did that happen? How did it happen that we go around leaving our subconscious mind wide open because it's what's going on in the subconscious that dictates what you do? Well, let's look at it for a minute. Let's close the window here and open it over here.

Now, I'm hoping you're paying attention to this because this could be worth millions to you. It can cause you to live in a healthier body. It can cause you to build your business. See, this is you as an infant. Not today. This is you as an infant. And what's going on?

Whatever's happening around you goes right into your subconscious mind. And it just keeps going in over and over and over. See, you're programmed genetically. That's why you look like your relatives. There's a little particle of energy from mom and a little particle of energy from dad came together. And that was the nucleus of you.

And 280 days later, you made your debut in the planet, but you have all that DNA, moms and dads, going back for generations. You're genetically programmed. Many of your beliefs have just been passed from one generation to the next, and many of them are absolutely ridiculous. Well, you see, your self-image is formed when you're in your little life. When you don't even have the ability to think. Now, self-image is just one idea. A multitude of ideas are a paradigm. Look at the people we're surrounded by.

Robert Heinlein said, in absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. Now think about that. In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia, until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Now, think of the number of people that you know that are enslaved to daily trivia. They talk about nothing, they never accomplish anything, they get the same results. If they're short money now, they were short a year ago, they were short a year before that, they're forever getting a car on payment.

The idea of going to write and check is just out of their mind. Why? Well, you see, that's probably what the people were doing that we surrounded by as we were little kids. And the idea is that just, keep going in over and over and over again, form the paradigm. A paradigm is nothing but a multitude of ideas that are fixed in the subconscious mind. And so here we are, as hard as is to believe, 20, 30, 50,

60 years later, living exactly the same as we're a program when we were little kids. Do you know that most people on welfare are fourth-fifth-generation welfare recipients? It's rather strange. Now, what do we do? Well, we leave this situation and we go to school. What does school do? Well, let's look at it. School gave us valuable knowledge. However, school never taught us anything about paradigms. Therefore, we frequently do not do what we already know how to do. Now think, superior knowledge. Think about it.

Inferior results. What does that do? That causes confusion and frustration. Now, think about this for a moment. We've gathered great knowledge, but we know nothing about the paradigm. So watch here. Here's the drawing. There's the model. There's all the knowledge we got in school. We've got it packed in there. But you know something? It doesn't equate to the results we're getting. You're going to find absolutely brilliant people getting very

bad results. You're going to find people that are brilliant. They know exactly what to do, but they don't do it. Why? It's the paradigm that controls the behavior. Now listen, I've studied this for over half a century. I have no formal education. I have no business experience. I earn millions of hours. I'm 81 years old. I've got more energy than most people that are 21. I have a sister-in-law that says he's 81, he looks about 60, and he's actually about 30. Well, she's done that down pretty good because that's just about the way it is. Why? It's because I understand how to use the mind. Now look at, if you want to change your results, if you really want to change the results, There's something that you've got to do.

You've got to know how to change the paradigm. Thank you for tuning into this episode. If you're enjoying the content, you can access exclusive material by becoming a subscriber. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.