Episode Transcript
Welcome, and what a fantastic day to be alive. This day has never been before and will never be again.
What will you be like today? What will you change in your life? What will you become that you were not yesterday?
I don't care where you are in life; you can be a better you. I won't tell you the better you (are) because you already know it.
For some, it may be more money, a better parent, or loving more.
Everyone has something they would like to do differently. This "something" could be hiding in a journal or at the back of your mind.
Did you want a business, write a book, or learn a language?
This list is as long as there are people on this earth. So why didn't you do it?
Was it fear? Did you think people would laugh at You? Please don't say you are too old, too young, too tall, too short, or maybe it was raining.
But whatever it was, I am sorry to have told you you are not being truthful with yourself.
You don't need anyone to validate you. And you don't need anyone's permission. And if you do, I am permitting you today to work on materializing that dream because hoping, wishing, and wanting is for dreamers.
You can dream about living in a bigger house but try living in that house in your mind.
Please take a few moments, close your eyes, and think about something you want. No, not a bunch of things, just one thing.
Could you focus on it? I want you to see every detail. I want you to touch it, taste it feel it. I want you to be right there with it. You already have it.
Okay, now release those thoughts. Don't you feel different? Do you feel like you want to go back?
I know everyone has had a dream like this. Did it have money? Or was it with a particular person? Whatever it was, I bet you tried to go back to sleep. Or, that dream crossed your mind during the day, making your heart smile. That same smile may have reached your face.
Now imagine if you were living that life. How would it compare to how you feel about your life now?
Okay, so what? I always dream, but I am still in the same place. Yes, you are because you never took action.
Well, my Mompreneurs, would-be writers, tomorrow's millionaires, or lonely people, I will reveal a pathway hidden in plain sight—all your life.
Even if you have a Ph.D., you started as an embryo. And your journey and growth depended on time and nature's natural flow.
So, let us start at the beginning of your soon-to-be "better Life."
The foundation of any structure starts with the foundation. The foundation may seem boring, uneventful, and tedious. But no colossal system can stand on a weak foundation.
The foundation is the Mindset. You cannot commit to anything that you do not believe in. And your first belief must be in yourself.
You are probably walking or doing something you could not do as a baby. So stop telling yourself you cannot change. Have you looked at a baby as it learns to walk? The baby starts with discovering its hands and feet. Have you seen a baby when they find that thing moving over them as they lay down on their backs is their foot? And this foot thing is under their control.
Then the baby scoots or crawls in its unique fashion. Then the baby pulls up on things and sits back down. But before long, the running begins and is perfected.
What if that baby never believed it could run? Or what if that same baby quits after a couple of perceived fails?
You have already had incredible accomplishments. You have mastered and conquered valleys and mountains. And I will guide you to see your tools of the past and your unbroken horizons for an incredible future.
An elder once said to me. "It's okay to get old, as long as you are not looking back at things you wish you had done, and Didn't."
So as I said, Mindset. Mindset comes from our beliefs. Beliefs come from outside of us, for the most part. But since we are all born with genes, we are all born with differences. Neither good or bad, just different.
I want to tell you some stories as we start our journey. It begins with a young lady that was a child of an Italian migrant before world war one. Her Mother and seven siblings came to England. This lady was considered short and, although very attractive, was often teased by other children.
She later had a child and was abandoned by her husband. Her Mother loved the grandchild but treated her daughter poorly.
The period was over seventy years ago. Times can be rough for women now. But seventy years ago in Europe, women were considered a little more than a dog.
The lady had to work hard even though her Mother owned several rental properties. She worked twelve to sixteen hours a day and often had to walk miles to see her daughter because the buses had already stopped.
On several occasions, her Mother would not open the door when she arrived. On one occasion, she collapsed in the snow and lay on the porch for someone to open the door the following day.
During the war, the lady endured hatred because Mussolini sided with Hitler. Her daughter was housed in the countryside to keep from being bombed and killed during the bombing of London.
This lady then became a resident in the most affluent part of London. Hampstead. This lady, I am proud to say, was my English Grandmother.
I live in a nice neighborhood. There is a five-bedroom house across from my home. There was a lovely Hispanic family that lived there. The husband and I became good friends. One day we were talking, and he mentioned he had purchased his house for cash.
He later explained how he saved the money from years working for a landscaping business out of California.
I came up from an abusive Father and lost two homes and a successful business; my wife died when my son was ten months old, and I was laid off from a great-paying job; I created a successful business to be with my son.
I saved almost twenty thousand dollars to get my first book published, only to have it stolen by a bank. The book was published three years later. But not before I watched the love of my life leave and had to come up from nothing again.
I am blessed with unshakeable faith in myself and embrace everything that has happened because it gave me a triple P.h.D. in living.
I have done so much with so little and know I can do everything from nothing. I am not Super Human, but I am Super at being human.
If you take the time to journey with me, you can also become super at being human.
Let's be great together.
Elevate, Achieve, and Soar. Make the only way - forward and Up!
