This transcript excerpt records Jack Canfield describing how the Money & You seminar (originally run by Marshall and later D.C. Cordova) influenced his personal and professional development. He recounts being called out for "trying to be a star," participating in the experiential "Blocks game," and learning to cooperate rather than compete. Key lessons mentioned include integrity, agreements, time management, releasing attachment (Zoda method), and applying principles to business; Canfield also states many prominent human-potential leaders attended Money & You.
You know, recently, I went back to something you mentioned earlier in one of the statements. Money and you, D.C. cordova, and our friends and many, many others there. And I went back this last weekend to revisit some of it and the principles that came from Buckminster Fuller and how we are really here to serve humanity, and that it's really all one. And that's what Lester, of course, and the great saints and sages, masters all teach this. And it just takes us a little while that we have to get on our golden motorcycle and find our way back to the place we're supposed to be giving it. But how did money and you impact your life and what happened there?
Well, it came into my life when I was rather young. I think I was in one of Marshall's first seminars in Berkeley, up in Vermont, New Hampshire. And I was really. In my head, I was really trying to impress people, and I was pretty good at it, so I got away with it. And one of the things Marshall called me on in the middle of the training was that I was a star trying to be a star. And he said, you're trying to be a star is getting away with the natural star that you are. So that was a huge, huge impact. Then we played something called the Blocks game, which I'm sure you remember. And what I began to realize from that game was that anytime someone didn't get what I was presenting, I got angry. And instead of just being neutral, like letting go and releasing, as we talked about the Zoda method, which now I do. Okay, that doesn't work. How about this? That doesn't work. How about this? You know, just kind of work with. Flowing with it. Yeah. Instead of, like, getting attached to one thing and then getting upset, probably, because when I was a kid, if I didn't do it perfectly, I got in trouble, would be my guess. But I learned from that to cooperate rather than to compete, that it's an unlimited pie. That, you know, I learned about time management. I learned about agreements and how important they were and integrity. And, I mean, it was a huge, huge, huge quantum leap experience for me. Money and you. And it's evolved since then, you know, under Marshall and later D.C. and all the people that have gone through it. And you look at almost anyone in the human potential movement that's out there, that's big, whether it's Tony Robbins or myself or Mark Victor Hansen or David Blacker, you could write down the list. They all took money in you.
Yeah, it's very, very powerful, because what you're doing is you're applying the principles that work into business, and it really creates a win, win, win, win.
