You Are Designed Perfectly (Here’s How I Know)
17 May 2021 · 6 min
Dean Graziosi shares a story from Dying to Be Me about a woman who recovered from stage-four cancer and felt perfectly designed. He argues that silencing your inner critic is the only thing holding you back from what you're meant to do.
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Dying to Be Me
Stage-four cancer; down to 90 pounds
ownyourfuturechallenge.com
Dean Graziosi, Tony Robbins, and 14 other guests
Five days total; about two hours per day
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No regrets. No regrets. We need to live into who we're supposed to be. Whether you believe in God, the universe, your maker, you have so much more to give the world. Welcome to the Dean Grazios Show. All success starts right here. Of course, your biggest critic is you. We got a subconscious in there, we got an inner voice that's like, you're an imposter. You're not smart enough, you don't have the money, no one believes in you. You're going to fail, you're going to look like a fool. Nobody else has had those feelings, right? Of course you have. We all have. Lydia, it sucks. That's the terrible thing. But your subconscious is just. Let's look at it this way. Your subconscious is just there to try to protect you. And if your subconscious can get you not to try, then you'll never get hurt and you'll never fail. And you also never reach your full potential. And you'll look back on life and regret the shit out of it. Right? No regrets. No regrets. We need to. We need to live into who we're supposed to be. Whether you believe in God, the universe, your maker, you have so much more to give the world. Are you going to let your inner critic. Have you ever seen a statue of a critic? Like I said earlier, even your inner critic, this is the one for you at the end of your life, how shitty are you going to feel if you say, I didn't go for it, I didn't believe in me. Imagine that. Imagine being on your last breath. You know, there's a great book that I read many moons ago called Dying to Be Me. And it was a. I'm going to paraphrase this really quick, but Lydia, I want you to hear this woman who had a near death experience, she died and came back. She was down to 90 pounds, stage four cancer. And she was Indian descent that moved to Japan. If I remember, it was a while ago. I read this. She always felt out of place. She Indian, but grew up in Japan learning English. And she said, and this never felt culturally the same. And then when she got to a certain age, her culture wanted to marry her off and pick the husband. She said, no, I wasn't doing this. She just never felt good enough. She felt like she let her family down. She felt she didn't know who her friends were, she didn't know where she fit in. And then she gets cancer and she's dying or has it, you know, dies for a little while, nothing's working. And she felt if you believe in this that she had a near death experience. And you know what she said? When you see the light and she felt. You know, what she felt immediately is like. It could make you emotional. But she said she immediately knew that once her body was dying, she didn't see God or see light. But what she felt immediately is that she knew she was perfectly designed exactly the way she was. That all of those experiences in life were designed for her. That she had no judgment. There was no external judgment. The only person that was judging her is her. And that judgment actually made her sick because she festered. I'm not good enough. I'm not strong enough. I'm not cute enough. I didn't marry the people my father wanted. My dad worked so hard. I didn't go to college. He wanted. I don't know where I fit in. She had all these things of judging herself. And in that moment, she said she knew she was absolutely designed. Perfect. She was the only person in the world that was her. It was just her. And it's just you, Lydia. It's just you. Don't hold back. Not for some silly little voice that's gonna hold you that stop you from being the best version of you. And the best thing about that story is she came back and now she gives speeches. Like, literally, the book. That's so cool about the book. She said she had stage four cancer and was about to die. £90. And then all of a sudden she comes back from this near life experience. And eight days later she's out of the hospital. Forty days later, she's at a wedding. And this doctor from New York said, impossible. I believe in near deaths, but there's no way she could have whatever cancer she had. Pancreatic or whatever cancer. It was stage four, the last. No way. And this doctor went over to prove it wrong and became such a believer. I think he helped her write the book. And she came back and she's thriving because she knows she's perfect. God designed her exactly that way. Whatever your beliefs are, Lydia, you're perfect. You're designed exactly the way you're supposed to be. So throw that BS out. No more protecting. Don't let the inner villain run your life. You have an inner hero that lives inside of you. Let the inner hero shine. Hey, it's Dean. And I had to jump in here real quick and make sure you're already registered for the Own youn Future Challenge. What if you're not? You got to go to OwnYourFutureChallenge.com right now and reserve your free seat, Myself, Tony Robbins and 14 other guests over five days, about two hours a day for free, are going to pull back the curtain and show you how to thrive in these uncertain times, how to enter or scale inside the digital economy, the information age. You do not want to be left behind when the world opens and we don't want you left behind. This is one of those once in a lifetime opportunities where all of us are coming together for free to share with you these capabilities. So what do you got to do right now? Go to ownyourfuturechallenge.com Reserve your spot. Secondly, send a link to a friend. Get an accountability partner. Third, you should pretend you paid $5,000 for this because in any other world you would. That will make you show up with pen in hand ready to take action. This isn't some rah rah session. This is an amazing five day challenge to inspire you, to motivate you but also give you the tools and the tactics that to thrive in this virtual digital economy. I promise you, if you've never thought about it, you want to be there. If you're in this industry, you must be there. Ownyourfuturechallenge.com we'll see you on May 11th.
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