How To Succeed In Anything Automatically

Speaker Myron argues that success (and failure) operates automatically from subconscious "operating system" programming rather than by conscious "trying." He uses a computer OS analogy: you cannot run new success "software" on a failure OS. Practical steps to change outcomes are to (1) recognize the operating system you run, (2) remove the old (failure) programming, and (3) replace it with success-oriented programming. He recommends modeling successful people’s belief systems (belief about the thing + belief about self), warns against preset limiting beliefs (money thermostat), and gives examples and presuppositions (e.g., avoid labeling new endeavors as “hard”). The talk mixes anecdote, scripture references, and prescriptive coaching points.
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July 31, 2024.
Myron.
Recognize the operating system, remove it, replace it.
$40,000 per hour.
$1.1 million (he says "we only did, like, 1.1 million last week").
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Have you ever noticed that there are some people that you see and everything that they touch seems to turn to gold? Everything they do, they win. Every time they enter a competition, they come out on top. It's like, how is it humanly possible for one person to have that much good in their life? Well, I've got news for you. People who succeed in life, and it doesn't matter whether it's a sporting endeavor, financially, relationally, people who succeed in life are not trying to succeed any more than people who struggle are trying to struggle. So, in fact, I submit to you that trying is never the formula for achieving anything. In fact, the reason you're trying so hard is because you're not all set. You don't have. You've not set yourself up. You've not set yourself in a position where you can automatically win. And I'm going to tell you something.
I shared with somebody yesterday. I said I work about one tenth as hard now as I did when I was making one tenth the money that I'm making now. And it feels way less effortful and way simpler and requires a lot less human energy for me to produce the results I'm producing now than it did to produce the results I'm producing then. I remember when I used to be really good at golf. I used to be a four handicap. Golf felt effortless. When you shoot low numbers on the golf course, it doesn't feel hard, it feels effortless. But when you're struggling, everything feels hard. And you're trying to fix. Trying to fix it. Well, trying doesn't work. Trying is not the formula for success. Trying is the formula for exhaustion. So here's the preface of what I'm gonna say.
People who succeed are not trying to succeed. It's just automatic. People who fail are not trying to fail. It's just automatic. But why is it automatic? Because there is a preset that is set in us in that particular arena to win or lose, to succeed or struggle. And I know you're saying, myron, that can't be right. Okay, but think about this. How many successful people do you know that are struggling to succeed?
So it has to be automatic. What if you thought of. What if you thought of.
The mechanism that produces your success living on the subconscious area of your mind instead of the conscious area of your mind? Because all of the results that you're producing, you're producing unconsciously, subconsciously, like below the conscious awareness. And so how do I set myself up in such a way that my subconscious is set up for automatic success? Instead of automatic failure. So I'm going to give you an analogy. In fact, I'm going to draw it on the board. So back in the day when we used to have. When computers used to be like, you'd have a separate. You'd have a screen, then you'd have a keyboard, right? You'd have your keys right here. And then you'd have the computer, this big tower thing over here, right? And so. And so you got your monitor, and so you put your software in here. But let's say this is a Mac. And then we got another computer over here.
Put your software in there. And this is a PC. If you take PC software and you put it in a Mac, the only thing you can get is an error message. And I know some people say, well, but there's a way that you can. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm just talking about natively. If you take PC software and put it in a Mac, the only thing you can get is an error message. If you take Mac software and put it in a PC, the only thing you can get is an error message. And so I believe that trying.
Is always a software from a foreign operating system. So if you think of the operating system in a computer as the main software. The what software? The main software that runs in the background. Where does it run? In the background that tells the computer what other programs it can and cannot run.
Let me say that again. An operating system is the main software of a computer that runs in the background that tells the computer what other software programs it can and cannot run. So what happens when I have.
This is my own personal computer, but I'm running instead of I'm running? What if I'm running a success.
Operating system?
Operating system. Then.
If I put in failure software. So if I start trying to fail, I get an error message. Say, why would you try to fail? I don't have time to cover why you would try to fail. But it's as hard for people who succeed to fail as it is for people who fail to succeed. Why? Because it's not a part of their programming. And so if you understand that we will never behave consistently in a way that's inconsistent with our programming. Because when we attempt to behave consistently in a way that's inconsistent with our programming, we get an error message. Like our body even starts to glitch if we attempt to do something that we feel like. It's like we have this internal resistance that won't let us be fluid, right? So, but watch what Happens if I'm running a failure operating system. I just put FOS a 4 failure operating system, and I put some success software in here. Same as trying. And so what happens is I read the success book, and.
I get an error message because my subconscious mind won't allow me to process, to internalize, to make practical the principles that are in success books. In the success book. So I hire a success coach.
And then the coach tells me to do something. And then I translate what the coach said into my own failure language. This is not a judgment play. This is just how our minds work. I translate what the coach says into my failure language, and I say, he said. I think he said what I would have said if I had attempted to say what he actually said. And so I translate it into something that he never said nor never intended. But it's the only way I can process it, because the language he speaks over here in success land is foreign to me over here in failure land, right? And then so what I do is I go to a seminar. And when I go to the seminar, that's more success software. And I'm running in a failure operating system, and I get another error message. So the only way for me to change my life is not by trying to change my life. The only way for me to change my life is to learn what automatic success principles reprogram the unconscious, subconscious, or what I like to call the automatic mind, so that I can stop trying so hard. This is why I believe that something Tony Robbins, I heard Tony Robbins say back in the 90s, he said, if you want to model any form of human excellence, you have to find somebody who's achieving the thing you'd like to achieve. You have to model three things. How many things? Three. What are they? You have to find someone who's succeeding. You model their belief systems. So the primary part of the programming inside of you that allows you to succeed or fail at a thing is what you believe about the thing and what you believe about yourself. And what you believe about yourself in conjunction with the thing are y' all tracking. And so if what you believe about the thing is off, but what you believe about yourself is not off, then you can't have success. And when I say off, it's not how it actually is. Somehow between you and it, there's some kind of delusion, right? You come to an erroneous conclusion based on something that you learned or someone that you learned something from. And so you've come to this erroneous conclusion, and you're operating as if this erroneous conclusion is truth. And so what happens is in order for me. So if you can remember back in the days, and some of you are too young to remember this, back in the days of 8088 and 8086, computers, like my first computer didn't have a hard drive. In fact, my first couple of computers didn't have a hard drive. I remember the first computer I ever got that had a hard drive. I think it was like 440 megabytes. And that was a big hard drive back then. Right? That's like the fraction. That's like a smidgen of a. Smidgen of a thumb drive now. Right. But that was the hard drive on my computer. And when the operating system went out, there was no. Well, just update it. No, what you'd have to do is you'd have to go to the store, to the computer store. You'd have to buy a new operating system. You'd have to uninstall the old operating system and then reinstall the new operating system. Now, some of y' all may not remember that. I remember it because it was grueling, right? And so what you do is you go in the night before. Okay, well, before I tell you that part, so what if, in the computer that is your mind, what if you desire to change the programming of the operating system? You have to, one, recognize the operating system you're operating on. How do I recognize it? Look at the results you're producing.
If the results you're producing are not the results that you desire, then you have to change the programming. Because if all you attempt to do is change your actions, your actions are going. Your internal mechanisms are going to resist taking the new actions that could produce the new results until you change the programming. Why? Because we will never behave consistently. Never behave how consistently? In a way that's inconsistent with our programming. That's why people who hate wealth and think that money is evil can't create wealth. Or even if you don't hate it, just if you think it's evil, like, well, money is evil. The Bible says that money is the root of all evil. Well, it doesn't say that. Number one, it says the love of money is the root of all evil. And number two, like, it doesn't mean that the love of money is the root of every single solitary evil in the world. It just means the love of money is the root of all kinds, all types, all manner of evil, which means human beings who love money will do all types of evil to get It. That's what the verse actually means. It doesn't mean that the love of money is the reason evil is in the world. Because if that were the case, Eve would have eaten the fruit because Satan paid her. It's like we have. Like. All we have to do is use our brain and think. Not a lot, just a little. Okay? And so what happens is I have to recognize the operating system I'm running, then I have to remove it. Now, back in the days when we used to have these computers that had these operating systems that you had to uninstall, the way we did it was we would set this computer to uninstall it overnight right before we went to bed, so that by the time we woke up the next morning, we could reinstall the new operating system. And then you'd have to put a disk in, and then you push go. And it's reading off this 5 1/2 inch floppy disk that's spinning really, really slow. And then. And then all of a sudden, 45 minutes later, you come, take that, it ejects it, and then you come, put another disk in, and then you go do some more stuff for a while, and then you come back. So. So what do we learn about an operating system? Well, number one, you have to recognize it. Number two, you have to remove it. Number three, you have to replace it. But all of those steps take time. And so the problem is, what happens is we get in a hurry for the result, and we think if I try harder to produce the result without recognizing, removing, and replacing the operating system, that'll be faster. But it's not only not faster, it's slower. To the point where if that's all you ever do, you will never achieve the results you're seeking to do that you're seeking to achieve. You. You. It's not possible. Why? Because you can't run a new software on an old operating system. Are y' all tracking? Okay, so what you have to do is you have to, number one, find the beliefs of somebody who's succeeding in the arena you want to succeed in.
So in order to do that, you have to realize you weren't born believing anything. Here's a mistake people make about beliefs. Most people believe they think they believe things because those things are true. Okay, I'm gonna say it again. Most people think they believe things because they believe those things are true. So they think it because they believe it's true.
But they think they believe it because they think it's true, but they think it's True because they believe it. You can't start with belief. You have to start with truth.
Good friend of mine, I got this phrase from him. I don't know where he got it. He couldn't remember where he got it from, but I'm going to give him credit for it. Joe Marcolio. Joe said to me one time, we were just having a regular conversation, and he said, myron, I would rather have questions I can't answer than answers I can't question. I'm like, oh, snap.
And I love that. Because the truth never has to be afraid of or hide from falsehood. So if I believe something's true, I should not have any. I don't have any reason to be afraid of somebody contradicting it if it's true. Why? Because there is no legitimate, real contradiction against the truth. So if somebody disagrees with something that I believe and it's true, like I believe it's true, I'm not worried about them disagreeing with it. And I can have a conversation. I can watch this. I can have a civil, calm, relaxed, unintimidated and unintimidating conversation with somebody about something that I believe is true if I really believe it's true. If I'm unwilling. Hey, watch me now. If I'm unwilling to have a conversation about anything with someone who disagrees with me.
There'S a very good possibility that I have concerns that my own beliefs might not be true.
And that's why we all have to be very, very hyper, intentional and intense.
To be very, very weary of people who attempt to win arguments and cases by silencing opposing voices.
Anyone around, any subject who's seeking to silence opposing voices, there's something in them that's concerned. Even if it doesn't know they're wrong, there's something in them that's concerned that they might be wrong. And oh my goodness, if I'm wrong about this, what else am I wrong about?
And so what we have to do is we have to reprogram ourselves for automatic success. Now, I'm going to give you a couple of presuppositions because you have to set the thermostat like there is right now an amount of money that you think of as a lot. Like not a lot of money necessarily in the world, because we could all say a trillion dollars, right? But I'm talking about there's an amount of money that for you, you feel like is a lot of money that would be a lot of money for you to have. Like, oh, my goodness, I can't believe I had this money. Or it's the amount of money that if you had it on your person, it would make you nervous. Like. And anyway, by the way.
Most rich people don't think like that at all. Like, no, I never carry cash. Oh, my goodness. It's so dangerous. Right? Okay. Like, rich people don't think like that. Okay. However, so there's an amount of money that you think of as a lot of money for you. So I realized something a long time ago that that is a very expensive thought. That's a very expensive belief for me. To believe that a certain amount of money a month, a year, a day, an hour, whatever that is, is a lot is a very expensive belief. What do I mean? Okay.
Seldom will I make as much as.
Never will I make more than.
The amount I allow myself to think of as a lot of money. I'm going to say it again. Seldom will I make as much as. Never will I make more than the amount I allow myself to think of as a lot of money. And by the way.
God did not write on tables of stone in your brain an amount that. That's supposed to be a lot of money to you. So those beliefs, where do they come from? Like, to some of you, it's $10,000 a month. To some of you, it's 20. To some of you, it'S 50 to some of you, it's $100,000 a month. But you have a number that in your mind represents a big number to you, and you will get close to that number. Maybe you might even, like, break through that number every now and then. But you will never consistently make an amount of money that you think of as a lot of money. That's why. And a lot of people think what I'm doing. A lot of people think I'm flexing when I. Yeah, like, we only did, like, 1.1 million last week. Right? Okay, that sounds like a flex, but it's not what it is. It's a communication to my operating system that says, don't you start thinking that's a lot of money. Because if you do, you're stuck like Chuck in a pickup truck. Right. And I get it. I'm going to be misunderstood by people who have a different operating system. That is a chance that I have to take and a risk that I'm willing to walk through. Why? Because what they think about me and why I'm doing what I'm doing does not have a negative impact on my outcomes. But what I think about me and about the Things I believe can have a negative impact. Like, I charge 40,000 an hour. So here's what some. Here's the first word that comes to some people's mind when I say I charge 40,000 an hour for consulting. He's insane. Well, I might be insane, but I still get $40,000 an hour, even though I'm insane. And I'd rather be insane and get 40,000 an hour than be sane and make 40,000 a year. So I'm just. I'm not. There's nothing wrong with making 40,000 a year. I'm just saying, like, my beliefs work for me. They're not like, God didn't write that in stone on the tables of my heart. Okay. Hopefully my heart's not stoned. That was not a good illustration at all. Okay. Okay. But God didn't say, thou shalt believe that a million dollars in a week is not a lot of money, but.
I have to believe something about something. So one of the beliefs that I have, and I'm gonna wrap it up with this, is I believe it's always a bad idea.
To approach any new endeavor and assign a level of difficulty before you get started. Well, it's so hard to learn a new language. Oh, it's so hard to learn how to play a musical instrument. Oh, it's so hard to learn how to play golf. Oh, it's so hard to. And so we make up the story, and. And the reason we make it up is to give ourselves an out in case we don't do the work. So we can say it didn't work, but the problem ain't it. The problem is us. How many all track it. And so what we have to do is we have to reprogram our subconscious mind. Because if God be true and every man a liar, then I can always be becoming more than I've been being.
Always. Because there is no arrival. There's no there there.
There's no there there. There is a here here, though, but there's no there there. What does that mean, there's no there there? The apostle Paul said, who, by the way, wrote 14 books of the 27 books of the New Testament. That's more than half. He said. I count not myself to.
Well, if anybody has apprehended, might be the guy who wrote 14 of the. Like, more than half of the New Testament. I count not myself to have apprehended. What does that mean? I have not arrived, but I press toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Oh, so you're pressing toward the mark, even though from the perspectives of the people who are looking at you, you've already surpassed the mark.
And that's why it doesn't matter how long the other person's yardstick is. I must not ever measure myself with another man's yardstick. Because some people's yardsticks are gonna make me feel smaller than I am, and some of the people's yardsticks are gonna make me feel bigger than I am. And either way, at the end of the day, I am just who I am. And so we have to do is we have to stop trying so hard to make ourselves do something that's against our programming and just recognize the program we have. And if it's not serving us, remove it and then replace it with a programming, subconscious programming that will serve us at a higher level and give us the ability to serve others at a high level. So you're all set for what you get. If you want to know, like what your internal thermostat is set at, what your.
Automatic pilot, your cruise control is set at, financially, relationally, or health wise, look at the results you're getting. If you don't like that, go back and change the belief systems, the mental syntax and your physiology, how you carry yourself so that you can operate at a higher level and produce higher results. Hopefully, this video is beneficial and it will help you somewhere in your life at some point in your life. In the meantime, in between time, stay blessed by the best. We'll see you in the next video. Bye for now.
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