How to Shift Your MINDSET & Achieve Success | Dr. Wayne Dyer's Advice in 45 Minutes

Are you feeling stuck, unable to move forward in your career or life? Dr. Wayne Dyer often said that the excuses we make for ourselves are simply stories we choose to believe. These stories hold us back from the life and success we truly desire. Today, let's take a moment to challenge those limiting beliefs. By shifting our mindset, we can unlock new opportunities, overcome fear, and step into a career and life that brings us true fulfillment. A special thanks to Hay House for partnering with us to release this video exclusively here on my YouTube channel. If you've been here before, drop a hashtag #believe in the comments below so I can feature you here in a future video. And if you're new, welcome to Believe Nation, the only channel that helps you believe in yourself daily, one video at a time.

Believe.

Wade.

Hey, Don.

Hey, this is a follow-up call. Uh, I had my PET scan and came back negative.

Oh my goodness.

We had just a, uh, a scarring. That was left on the back of the tongue. Last time I talked to you, we had only about a couple minutes to speak, and, uh, I remember.

Yeah.

And so I wanted to give you a follow-up on that. Now, since that time, I've had a chance to see your PBS special and read Biology of the Brain and—

I believe, right?

Right. And viruses of mind. And I have not got a chance to get to your book yet. I wanted— since I seen the special on PBS, I wanted to get the other, the other two-part components that you were speaking of. And so I'm attempting to bring all those together so I can continue to manifest things in my life. And so I was kind of hoping if today that we could— first of all, I wanted to give you a follow-up, and then let you see if you could kind of like give me some tie-ins between these two different books and your book that you wrote.

Yeah, I can. Yeah, they're all part of the PBS, you know, what they call the Learning Library, the Masters Learning Library, which a lot of people are ordering from PBS and contributing to them as well. I put three hardcover books in there in addition to the film The Shift, which we'll send you another copy of today. And also, you know, the 6 CD set as well, or the 7 CD set. The 3 books, the reason for the 3 books, because I was writing a book called Excuses Be Gone before I wrote it. Before I go into writing, I generally take 4 or 5 very important books that have come my way that I've opened up and looked at just sort of briefly and then decided I would read them from COVID to cover. And those 2 books, Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton, I just did 3 hours with him on Coast to Coast Radio just last week, and also Richard Brody's Virus of the Mind. The biology of belief is the big excuse that so many people use is that they can't overcome, you know, something that's going on in their body. People get a diagnosis of a disease, or they've been told that genetically this is what is happening and there's nothing that you can do about it, and you can't change your genes after all. I mean, we know that genetics are something that are impervious to, you know, being changed by our thoughts and the way we process things. Well, he takes a very hard look at that and shows and gives illustrations in there of many, many cases that in fact we have the power by changing a way that we, that we think and process events to change even our genetic codes. So that was the big excuse I wanted to write about at the very beginning of the book. And the other one, of course, is our environment. We all say, well, we can't change all the things that happened to us when we were little boys and little girls. We were just conditioned to be the way that we are. So now we use either we use our genetics or we just say, I've just always been this way. This is the way I was trained to be. This is what my parents taught me to be. These are the mind viruses and the memes that are placed into our heads. And the fact is that, uh, that was the second excuse that I really looked hard at, uh, which is, uh, if you don't like the kinds of, uh, things that are going on in you because you've been conditioned to think that way, then change your conditioning around and take responsibility for it yourself. And Richard Brody's book is as good as anything I've ever seen to illustrate that. In both of these books, the reasons I picked them and brought them to Hay House and asked them to publish them at Hay House is because they're very readable. They're very easy to grasp, and the concepts are presented not in, you know, you don't have to be a nuclear physicist to figure it out. It's there for everybody. And then I wrote Excuses Be Gone and took the most common excuses, but looked at the two big ones at the beginning, and that's why I included them.

I'm feeling stuck, mostly in my career, but also in my personal life and finances too. And I know I feel like I want to change, but I don't know what to do, so I just feel paralyzed, like I'm not doing anything. and then I'm frustrated because I feel I want the change but don't know what next step to take.

So the reason why you're stuck is—

mostly it's centered around my career. I've been doing the same type of work for 28 years, and I stay with it because I need the money, and part of it is I'm self-employed, and it works— part of it works as far as like I get to set my own hours. So I like that aspect of it, but I don't enjoy the work anymore. And I just— it's draining to go to work. It just feels like it's sucking the life out of me.

Oh, well then you, you just have to— you, you're— all of the excuses that you're using for not, you know, making that change, which are probably in the neighborhood, I wouldn't be as financially secure, um, other, you know, other people in my family wouldn't understand that, there would be, you know, there would be family drama that I would have to deal with. You know, I would be frightened because I would be entering into new territory that I've never been in before, and it's not my nature to be risky. It's more my nature to be safe.

Is that right?

Yep.

Yeah, because that's— you wouldn't be in the same place for 28 years. See, all of these are— you know, you're the perfect person. I want you to read my new book, Excuses Be Gone. I wish I had it done for you.

I cannot wait. I heard about it.

Yeah, next year. Yeah, and it's really about some of the stuff we've been talking about here today. It's like is to really go to look at the thoughts that you have, all of those excuses that I just laid out for you. If you were to ask the question, the very first question, I have what I call an excuses be gone paradigm. And this paradigm is like you ask yourself a series of 7 questions. The first question you ask yourself, is it true? And then you look at, well, you know, where did it come from? And then you look at what if I couldn't think these kind of thoughts? And then you begin to look at coming up with rational reasons to change it. But right now for you, you have all the reason, all the rational reasons in the world to change that. Because the description that you just gave— it's gnawing at me, it's painful, it hurts for me to make those kind of changes— I always think, you know, what if you couldn't think those kind of thoughts? What if that wasn't a possibility? And if you were totally free, if you were completely free and didn't have to worry about all those things that I just laid out, what would you be doing? What, what would you be doing that wouldn't make you feel so constrained and so, um, oh, I don't know, even unworthy of the kind of stuff that you're going through in your life? What would you, what would you be doing, do you know?

I always lean towards the arts. Art, writing. I enjoyed it in school and I still enjoy it. I just haven't done anything with it. I just got caught up in everything else and I haven't. But I always go back to drawing or writing. And I've thought of children's— writing children's books. I've kind of dabbled in it about 10 years ago, and then I let it go and didn't do anything with it. But it still comes back to me.

What would keep you from doing that?

I think part of what happens is I have the idea, but then I— and I know I do this to myself— I think too far ahead because I was like, okay, if I write something, then what do I do with that? I don't know what— I think I jump too far ahead. I don't know what's steps to take, right?

And that's a theme of what we're talking about here today. That's really the— like, then so we get into this worry theme, you know, about, uh, so if I were to do this, then this would be the consequence, and then if I were to do this— and so instead of using your mind and your time and your life energy to be doing what you really truly enjoy, which is the whole purpose of life, instead you're using it— the minute that you stop, you say, no, no, no, I'm not deserving of that, I'm not worthy of that, and, and that's— and then I'm not going to be able to make money, and no, what are my family going to think if I were to do that? And so all of that stuff that you twist, I call these memes, you know, these are just the thoughts that we have had implanted in our minds from your parents and their parents and endlessly it goes back into all of this worry stuff. And the way out of it is to say, okay, the artwork. Someone I was on the radio show with last week named Magli in New York, I don't know if you heard the show, but she talked to me about a painting that she had done of Lao Tzu. And I finally got it. It was sent to me and it arrived last week. I think it was 2 weeks ago we did that. Well, it's one of the most beautiful creations. Creations. In fact, it was so terrific that when I got it and I put it up on my wall, I was so inspired by it, I sat down and wrote her a check for $1,000 and sent it to her just because I wanted her to know that her first painting deserved, you know, that kind of reward for it. And I think she's going to be a very famous artist. And I would say the same to you, you know, instead of going through all the worry, anxiety, just be in the present moment. Just be in that and practice that a little bit. Instead of all that worry time.

I'd like to have some feedback about when it doesn't seem to be moving, like really having it move like nobody's business. I'm in a profession now that, you know, hey, work a lot, show up.

Let me respond to that because this is a lot about what Sarah was speaking about. When the obstacles show up, one of the things that she learned from what I was speaking about so many years ago was that these obstacles are really just opportunities, and these slow periods are not really representational of failure. They are opportunities for you to be in a state of gratitude, for you to— don't evaluate how successful you are on the basis of what you see physically out there. Always go within. And what I talked about on the PBS special and in Wishes Fulfilled is this whole idea of you have objective attention and you have subjective attention. Objective attention is the attention that you are placing right now on the fact that it isn't showing up the way that you think it should be showing up. It says so on the internet, the economy is down, you're in a bad place, you're in Gary instead of, you know, someplace else, all of that kind of stuff. What you want to do is shift to what's called subjective inner attention, and that attention is based upon your I am. If you saw the show, the words I am are the words that God spoke to Moses when he said— when Moses said to God, yeah, so Moses says to God, who is telling— who is talking to me?

What is your name?

And God says, my name is I Am That I Am. So every time you use the two words I Am, you're using the name of God. And if you say I am distressed, I am poor, I am sad, I am unhappy, I am discontent, you are really defacing the name of God. What you want to say is I am content, I am fulfilled. I am successful.

I am happy.

And literally have that as your internal mantra, if you will.

And I am—

assume the feeling then of that wish fulfilled. And every single time you start going back to that, it's not happening, and, and, uh, you know, the bills aren't being paid, or the, you know, all of the excuses that you, that you can come up with, go back instead to your I am, and then you'll begin to act on that. And the most important part of this is that you'll start aligning yourself with the source of the universe, which is saying yes. So your subconscious mind has been programmed to believe that because things aren't showing up, that that's an indication that things are always going to be bad. Instead, you start saying to yourself, I am already successful, and then you'll align with God, which makes things happen.

I'm calling today because I'm— it's very interesting. I had a really interesting childhood. Of course, I'm out of it now. I'm 28. And I'm looking at things that I'm really happy with, like I'm getting married next month, and then I start massage therapy school the week after that. And I'm terrified to drive a car, and I'm having terrible panic attacks. And I've had a couple of people say, well, you know, it's just all your insecurity manifesting into your body. And I'm going, wait a minute, I don't really— you know, and I believe that, and it's been getting better. It really has. I've really been working on it, and I've actually started to meditate, which I'd never done before. Even though I'm intuitive and I'm pretty dang psychic and I really should, blah blah blah. Um, and I just, I really just wanted to hear your thoughts on it. And what do you know, I got in. So that's what's going on with me. I got in first caller.

What's the worst thing that could happen to you in that car when you talk about being afraid to drive a car? Which is, um, you know, there's all kinds of things behind that, but what could happen to you? What's the worst thing that could happen? What's the fear about?

In my head, honestly, it's weird and it's totally not what I would call rational, but I think I fear the most getting into a wreck and getting injured without— you know, I mean, I don't really fear the whole dying part. I mean, I talked to dead people, for God's sake, but you know what I mean. I don't fear that part of it. I know what happens when that happens. You know, it's the whole, what if I get hurt? And it's weird because I I've always been a nervous driver. I've always associated with very bad things. I'm like, okay, I've got to change my thinking on this. And, you know, I had never worked on changing my thinking until about 2, maybe a month ago. And it's a lot harder than I thought it would be because I've got all these negative associations. My childhood was very challenging when I know I set that up before I came here to make me a stronger person. But you don't realize the hope you get.

You know?

Yeah. What's your first name?

Leslie.

Leslie. First thing you're saying to yourself is that it's really difficult to change your thoughts. And as soon as you accept that, you're not going to change your thoughts. Because why would you do difficult things when easy things are available? Which is like continuing to think the way you've always thought, which is much easier than changing yourself.

Oh, I hadn't even thought about that.

You're right.

I've set myself up for failure.

Yeah, exactly. So that, that the very first thing you want to do is to stop telling yourself that this is going to be difficult, and in fact to say to yourself, who's in charge of my thoughts? You know, who is making you think any thought? You know, where does it come from? Where do you think it comes from? These thoughts?

Honestly, now that I, I really, really evaluate that, that's me.

That's you, exactly. That's the only answer there is. And so therefore, you're in charge of your thoughts. You know, these are yours. These are not things that just happen to you. They don't just pop into your head. Somebody doesn't place them there. It's not from your childhood. It's like in this now moment, you have convinced yourself that these thoughts that you are having are difficult for you to change and that they're the result of stuff that took place in your life a long time ago. These are what we call memes. You know, they're the mind viruses that we just— that somebody has laid on you. You're an anxious person, you're nervous, and there could be a million reasons for it. The fact is, in the moment now, in this moment, When you tell yourself it's going to be difficult and your driving is going to make you anxious, you are saying thoughts that are just not true. And that's one of the problems that we have with overcoming these kinds of difficulties, these kinds of addictions, or these kinds of fears or phobias or whatever label you want to place on them, is that the thoughts that support them are not true. They just aren't true. So imagine all day long you're having thoughts that you are convinced are true But if you put them to the test of whether they're really true, they're ultimately true, and they're always true, you find out that your head is filled with lies, just like all of these things that you're telling yourself. So now you start to go to work on asking yourself this question, like, what would my life look like? This is a really good question for you, Leslie. What would my life look like if I couldn't think that it was going to be difficult to change these thoughts? If you just for a second, just imagine It's impossible for you to think that, you know. You're not wired together now in such a way that you can think that this is going to be difficult for you to change, or that it's a result of stuff that happened when you were a young girl. You just suddenly— that's all blanked out, and you can't think that thought. You got to think a different thought. What would your life look like? Just try to answer that. What do you think your life might look like?

You know what, I'm going to be just really honest. I think it would be awesome. I mean, I'm getting ready to go to massage therapy school, which I've always wanted to do. And I'm getting married to somebody that I've been with for 6 years, and we've been through a lot, and we worked on our relationship, and he's my best friend. And, you know, I mean, we're getting married in this beautiful park, and I mean, it just, it would be awesome. And I kept— somebody kept saying to me, you know, and this really turned my noodle, she said, I think you're afraid to be happy because you're so used to being unhappy. And I thought, hmm, you know, that's something to think about, you know.

So now you just, you go through this mental processing thing of— and the word that you came up with life was awesome, you know, that your life would be, you know, the other, that you would feel free. You'd be free of this crazy phobia that you've got, you know, that is not, it's not based in anything true or in anything factual.

No, it's totally irrational.

Right.

It's totally irrational.

But irrational really means I am thinking thoughts that are not true and then I'm running my life on the basis of the conclusions I make about thoughts that are not true.

So I'm basing my reaction to my life on lies.

Unlies. Yes, you're absolutely living a lie, and it's an emotional lie that— and everybody does. That's what I'm writing this book called Excuses Be Gone, and this is the paradigm that I use to help people to overcome these excuses, is that if I could just examine the fact that if I couldn't think the thought that this is going to be difficult or it's going to be painful, it's going— if I couldn't think that, then I'd have to think the opposite thought. And the opposite thought of that is that it's going to be easy. And, um, and I'll accomplish it right away, and there's no reason for me to continue to— it's like you just start, you know, have you read Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life? The, uh, no, I'm actually—

no, I have not. I'm not working right now because I'm not driving, so I would totally go get it if I could.

Yeah, but you can. Yeah, you just have to, you just have to get in the car and, and then start talking to yourself in a different way, which is, uh I'm a perfectly intelligent woman. I'm 28 years old. I'm getting married. I'm starting a whole new career. I'm confident in every way. I'm smart. I'm beautiful. I'm all of these things. And driving a car is one of the easiest things in the world to do. And I'm not going to do anything stupid. And I'm not a person who is anxious any longer about this kind of thing. And you just start having that kind of thought. Now, even if you have to convince yourself of it, you take a deep breath and you just keep reminding yourself of this kind of a thought. And you come up with a rational reason within you for you to change. Now, what is a rational reason for you to have the thoughts that I just described, well, it'll take all the anxiety out of your life. It'll help you to go do whatever it is that you want to do. You won't have to be concerned about, you know, getting mangled in a car. Because the fact is, if you want to be rational, the fact is you can be as rational as you want to about this whole idea of, of not driving a car and stay out of a car because of a fear of getting mangled someplace. And, um, you know, you can fall out of your bathtub and get mangled by the showerhead falling on top of you. I mean, you know, you're going to go through your life being worry about getting mangled when it could happen anywhere. I mean, you could have an earthquake right now. The worst earthquake in the history of the United States took place in Kansas, you know, back in the 1930s.

I know, and we're sitting on this huge fault line.

Yeah, you're sitting right on that. You better get off of that, you know, and then move over to Missouri. But wait a minute, they had the worst tornadoes. Well, then maybe I'll try Iowa. Oh my God, if I go up there, then there's going to be floods. You know, you can go through your whole life worried about that, you know.

I could write volumes.

But yeah, and you begin to see how absurd all of it is. But the basic thing is about changing your thoughts is that it's easy. It's not done in the past, it's not in the future, it's done now. It's done in the moment. And then, you know, it's like you just take a look at— that's how you get rid of— that's what I call it, the excuses be gone paradigm.

I put out on my website and ask for everybody who tunes into my website to send me the excuses that you use most commonly in your life. As I sat down to write this book. This is the third chapter in Excuses Be Gone, and I got 5,500 replies. And my friend and I started just taking them apart and just putting them into different— this is the same as this, this is the same as this— and sure enough, there were 18 categories. And so there are 18 excuse categories. On the PBS special, you see them as thought bubbles that'll come up. When it plays on June 1st. I'll just give them to you real quickly, and I want you to understand now, these are all viruses. These are all things that were placed into your mind that you have come to believe that have infiltrated and spread throughout your culture. They're cultural ways of thinking that do not hold up to any of the components of the Excuses Be Gone paradigm, that if you begin to practice it You can change it, whatever it is. I'd like you to think, particularly those of you who are closet addicts in here, and closet eaters as well, I'd like you to just sit right now and just visualize that tomorrow you can be free of it. Tomorrow.

Easily.

Easily.

And everything that you need, and everyone that you need, and whatever money you need, all of it will begin to show up for you. You can make that shift. Tomorrow. You're free of it. That's how powerful this is. I've seen it. Work. It will be difficult.

Excuse.

It will be risky. It will take a long time. There will be family drama if I do this, so I don't do it. I don't deserve it. It's not my nature. I can't afford it. You should never, ever, ever say the words I can't afford it and use money as a reason why you can't attract into your life what you want. Of course there is money out there for you. You just haven't connected to it. You've got to have within you an understanding that that is simply an explanation that keeps you from doing what it is that you want to do. You can afford to go to college. You can afford to travel. You can afford to get anything that you want in your life to make your life work at the level that you want to. You can afford it. The money is out there. The capacity for making it, attracting it into your life, is within you. But if you believe that what I'm saying is not true, you're right. And that's a meme. That's a mind virus. You've already accepted and you haven't challenged whether or not the thought that you are thinking that you can't afford it is true or not. How many in this room have ever had the experience of believing that you couldn't afford to do something and you went home and suddenly an unexpected bonus had showed up in some way in your life? A tax refund, somebody sent you money, whatever, you found it, whatever. How many people have had that experience at one time or another in your life?

Look around.

Everybody's had that experience. It's a universal experience. And yet you convince yourself that it can't happen for you. Why would you continue with that thought? Getting ahead of myself.

All right.

No one will help me. There's 7 billion people on the planet. They all want to help you. Almost all of them are looking to help somebody. And you're convinced that there's nobody out there that will help you with what it is that you want to do or what your dream is. I'm not strong enough. I'm not smart enough. I'm too old or too young. The rules won't let me. It's just too big. I don't have the energy. My family history won't let me. I'm too busy. I'm scared. It's a shift that has only come upon me Even since I finished Excuses Be Gone, but I managed to get a big hunk of it in because I added it because it came later after it had been submitted and I said, "I got to put this in here." But it's even much more detailed for me now. The greatest gift that you have been given is your imagination. In your imagination, in your thoughts, You have the ability to be able to create anything you want for yourself in your life. Anything, in your thoughts. Would you agree with that? That you can think and create an image of what it is that you would like to be able to create. So the first— I'm reading somebody called, named Neville. How many have ever heard of Neville? A few, maybe 25, 30 people out of 2,500. Neville was like an itinerant preacher. He died in 1972. He used to lecture out here on the West Coast in Los Angeles. Neville Goddard, but he just went by the name Neville. And he's written several books. You can find him on the internet. He wrote something called The Power of Awareness, which is, I don't have it. Hay House is going to have it. He's passed away. His daughter Victoria has put out some of it, but it's available and we're going to put it out there because it's one of those little books that I've read 5 times now. I'm not exaggerating. I've read it 5 times. I read it on the flight over here from Maui yesterday. It's not long, 120 pages or so, but you can read a paragraph 40 times and You can just be zowed by it. You can be wowed by it when you contemplate what it is that is being said here and whether it— and I keep thinking my experience in writing has always been to take what some people think of as complicated, like the Tao and quantum physics and things like that, and to just present it in a way that the cab drivers can understand it and that school teachers can understand it and that all of us. All of us regular folks can get. And that's what I want to do with Neville. And I'm going to write a book about it, not this year, but next year. I've already got the COVID for it, and I've already got it sitting on my table. Literally, I do. It's called Wishes Fulfilled. And it's, it's, um, I wrote a book years ago called Manifest Your Destiny. That's like elementary school compared to what this is. And I just want to give you just a little touch of it in the next few minutes. It starts like, I take 7 principles that you have to sort of get if you want to apply the excuses be gone paradigm. And these 7 principles, I'm not going to go through all of them. I'm just going to go through a couple of them. The first one is contemplation. And I've talked about contemplation before. Aristotle said that contemplation is the highest form of action, that it's action, that what you think about is what you become. And that, but it's even more than that. And I wrote out the specifics from Neville of it. I'm just going to go through a few of them here. I did this on the PBS show as well. Contemplation is the continuous use of your thought process. Like, what do you contemplate? What do you think about? How do you use your mind? Remember now, I started this by saying that the greatest gift that you've ever been given is the gift of your imagination, that you can create for yourself in your thoughts what it is that you would like to have for yourself. The problem with it is that most people don't get it. They think that I just think it and it's not really— that's not really reality. What I'm suggesting here is a shift in thinking about how you contemplate so that contemplation doesn't just become something that you think about, it becomes a way of being. That contemplation, that your thoughts are actually like things that begin the process of materialization. That what you contemplate in your mind, ultimately you can harden into material reality, into form. In fact, everything that has been hardened into material form began with someone's imagination, began with a thought.

Okay?

So that William Blake said that everything that you now see was once only imagined. Everything. This room, your cell phone, the clothes you're wearing, everything, including you, that you are imagined into reality by God. That you are a product of the imagination of the Tao of God. And so that sounds like a little far out kind of thing, but it's It's more than that, and just stay with me for a moment. If you contemplate with thoughts that match originating spirit, you have the same power as originating spirit. If you could think like God thinks, you have the same power as God because you are God. You are a piece of God. You must be like what you came from. You must be. I illustrate that in the film in a real beautiful scene in there. We must be like what we come from. If you take out an ounce of blood from my veins and the cholesterol rating is 140, you can be certain for sure that all the rest of the blood going through my veins, the other 5 quarts or pints or whatever's in there, have 140 as well because what was taken out must be like what's in there. Like what it came from. It's just a simple law of the universe, right? When contemplation is a vibrational match to originating spirit, a vibrational match to originating spirit, you gain the cooperation of divine mind, attracting and fulfilling your desires. As you begin to contemplate from a place of not thinking about the end but thinking from the end and never allowing yourself to deter yourself from that thought, you gain the access of Divine Mind. It's how it works. It's— I got the mic, folks, and you paid to hear me. This has always worked for me. It works for me. It's what I do. My children will tell you that. They will tell you how crazy I am, that I get a thought in my mind about what it is that I am going to do and I can't be detracted because I will not allow my attention to be taken away because I'm thinking, I believe that when I have those thoughts and they match originating spirit, that I will get the cooperation. And it always happens.

Always.

Always. Contemplation is therefore a kind of action in and of itself, which sets into motion all of the creative forces of the universe. Now, here's what I want to tell you about excuses. When you rely on excuses, you allow your false self, that is the ego, which I spoke about at the beginning, to contemplate what you do not want or what you cannot get. That's what those 18 excuses are. They're all misalignments. They are contemplating what can't happen, how difficult it's going to be, how long it's going to take, how much money it's going to cost and you don't have it. As you contemplate in that way, you cannot create for yourself what you want. You create what you are contemplating. And then you stay down here and the universe offers you experiences that match up to what you are contemplating. When you contemplate up here in harmony with Divine Mind, the universe offers you experiences that match up here. The problem is that you're so easily taken away from your imagination, but I'm going to change that in the next 6 minutes. The presence of any of the excuses that I just outlined there for you in your life is evidence that you contemplate what you can't do or have. So you're really good at contemplating what you don't want, or what you can't have, or what's impossible. And everybody's doing it all the time and wondering why nothing shows up or the changes don't take place. To rid yourself of excuses, you must learn to practice contemplating what you intend to manifest and simultaneously detach from the outcome.

Like a lot of people, due to the economy, I was recently laid off, and actually I'm happy about that because I was really miserable at my job. So now I have some time to hopefully devote to my spirituality. But I was wondering, you know, how do you, how do you get that inspiration? How can I more easily allow that inspiration that comes come to me. You were talking to another caller about intuition is God talking to you, and I feel that working at that job for 10 years and kind of banging my head against the wall, I don't know how to tap into that, and I'm hoping you can help me.

Yeah, well, first thing I would stop doing is telling myself that I don't know how to do it, because that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you tell yourself, you know, if your thoughts are that you can't do something, then you will act upon those thoughts, even if they're done at the subconscious level, because your subconscious mind— that's talked a lot about in Bruce's book, Biology of Belief— your subconscious mind can't make a distinction between what is happening to you, like when you were batting your head against the wall and all of the frustration that you have from that over 10 years of that working. It can't distinguish between that and the thought that you have that says, because of what I've been doing for the last 10 years, I can't get myself inspired. It can't make a distinction. So then your body starts to feel that you, uh, you know, feel the disappointment and the, and the upset and so on from, from that. And then you'll attract more of exactly what it is that you don't want. So the first thing to do is to say to yourself, I do know how to, uh, uh, in—

because if I were to ask you the question, is it—

can you be 100% certain that you do not know how to attract inspiration into your inspiring way of thinking into your life? Can you be 100% certain that you can't do that? You would have to say no, wouldn't you? You can't ever be 100% certain of anything. So if you can't be 100% certain of that, then why would you pick that thought when the opposite thought is that I can attract this into my life? And then let me ask you this question, uh, Lisa. And that is, what if you couldn't think that thought that you don't know how to do this? What if you just couldn't think that thought? For some reason, something was pushed in your brain and you couldn't. What would your life look like if you couldn't think that thought that you can't do this?

Well, I think it would be a lot better. I think I would feel the calm and I think I would be able to approach every day with renewed energy. I feel a lot tired right now, but if I was inspired every day—

Yeah, and if you couldn't think the thought that I'm— that I can't do this, then you'd have to think the thought that you can. And then, and the, and the result— and what would you feel like? Because we're going to the feeling state.

You already described—

you said, I would feel a lot better. You said those were your words. I would feel better. So feeling better is only a thought away, isn't it?

Yes, it's just a thought.

Yeah, so it's like— and then once you start feeling better This is where manifestation takes place, by the way. You start feeling better, you go into the subconscious mind, and because you're experiencing those feelings in your body, you will start aligning with things that match up to that feeling. Whereas when you feel bad and sad, and so you will start aligning with those kind of things. When you feel bad and sad and depressed and you can't do it, that's when you attract very low energy. What is low energy? Low energy is colds, it's flus, it's sickness, it's tiredness, it's fatigue, it's skin diseases, it's arthritis, it's You know, it's endless kinds of things that are all very low energy that are attracted to that place. Whereas you keep your energy high, which is on, I intend to live an inspired life. This is my intention. And I know you begin to attract healing. You begin to attract energy. You begin to attract, you know, cleanliness. You know, feeling better about yourself, happiness, joy, you know, those kinds of things. It's like the universe starts to align with you depending upon, you know, what it is that you— you're just a magnet, Lisa. You're a magnet like we all are. We're just magnets, and the magnets will be attracted to whatever it is that it is calibrated to become magnetized to spirit. And that is done by— I would really recommend that you look at Excuses Be Gone, because what I did with you for in just these 2-3 minutes that we had is I took you through the two of the components of the Excuses Be Gone paradigm. Which are how to eliminate lifelong thinking, self-defeating thinking habits. You've had 10 years to convince yourself that life is hitting your head against the wall. Now you have to shift that around, and you can shift it around in a very short time.

What's going on?

Well, I've, uh, besides being out of work and, you know, those type of financial challenges, I even as a kid, I was a filmmaker. So I think that was something that was, uh I don't know, kind of a driving force that just through high school, I won many, many awards and was kind of on that road to doing it and then just kind of just quit, gave it all up. And I think now it haunts me more than ever having done that. And trying to get back into it, I realize I don't know anybody, I don't— and I think with the fact that you have just gotten this movie done on an independent level, it's kind of an inspiring thing to me.

Yeah, it really is. It's like, you know what, I always call it holding the vision. What happens is that I go through some principles in this excuses be gone. And one of them is called willingness. You know, it's like, uh, how willing are you to do what it takes in order to, uh, create, you know, make, make your future dream a present fact? You know, to make you the thing that you want to do a fact today. What do you have on your unwillingness list? Um, what are you unwilling to do? Like if it required you leaving, uh, you, you're where, in Atlanta? Is that where you're living? Yes, sir. So if you, if, I mean, if you knew that it required you to leave Atlanta and to go to Los Angeles and to uproot yourself and your family and so on, I mean, would you be willing to do that?

Yeah, I see what you mean. Exactly. Yeah.

Yeah.

So there's, and we usually have a long list of these and I always tell people when I did Erroneous Zones and when I did this film that I'm just done now, I didn't have any, I didn't have anything on my unwilling list. I was willing to leave a job that was a guaranteed tenure position at a major university for the rest of my life. I was willing to walk away from that. I was willing to get in my car and to pay my own expenses and to drive across this entire country for 2 years doing nothing but just talking on radio shows and really being committed to that. I was willing to sleep in my car and sneak into hotels and take showers because I didn't have the money to do that. It's like, you know, if you have whatever you have on your unwilling list, it turns out ultimately to become an excuse and a rationale for, well, I can't do that because it would be, you know, I'm too old, or I've got, you know, any number of those excuses that we talk about. And it's interesting, you want to be a filmmaker, but have you seen the movie Ambition?

Not yet. I've been really excited to want to see it.

I mean, it's— but it's a story about a filmmaker.

Well, that's what I heard. That's why I was kind of excited to kind of see it.

And the idea— so tell me, what is it that's keeping you from acting on this? I mean, I already heard a couple of excuses, you know.

Well, I I had plenty of them. When I was 23, I think I had just won, like, it was a Student Academy Award for my last film, and I moved to LA and kind of was writing and doing a lot of things, and then took a job at a production company back here as a director. So I moved back here, and it was run by a New York producer, and he wasn't really the best person to be around at the time. And he was involved in shady things, and eventually the whole company suffered because of it, fell. And I, at that point, then it just became finding a, you know, a stable job, raising family, and all those things you— I think I've done successfully now, but it's kind of like now suddenly I don't have all those other distractions. Yeah, or a job.

So, so like, so the job going away and the distractions all disappearing You know, do you view those as like signs from the source, signs from God, signs from spirit, signs from the universe, whatever you want to call it, that you now have an opportunity here? Your life has been set up in such a way that there's nothing to really hold you back other than— and the big thing that's holding you back, I think, is fear.

I mean, I agree with you completely.

You know, what fear of success, fear of failure, fear that it's not going to work out. Fear that I don't have enough talent. Fear that the right people won't be there. I mean, it's all of this stuff. And if you start examining each one of them and ask yourself, is it true? You know, is it really? And can you be 100% certain that it's true that you don't have the financing or that you don't have the right people or that, you know, you'll begin to, you begin to examine that and see that you can't be 100% certain about any of that stuff. So stop believing all of those thoughts that you have that that are keeping you from acting on this. I would recommend that you take some time in the next day, maybe even after this phone call, and just do one thing that would be moving you in the direction of getting back as a filmmaker. Whatever it might be, whether it would be picking up the telephone and calling somebody. Do you have a script? Do you have an idea? If you have, if you haven't, then maybe that's something to start on. If you do have a script or or an idea of what kind of a film that you would like to make, then doing one thing today that puts you in the direction of actualizing that, you know, whatever that might be, whether it's a letter, you know, whether it's going out and dusting off your equipment, I don't know, but anything at all that you do, and then you hold on to that vision, and as you hold that vision, you'll take the next step and the next step, and before you know it, you'll be back doing it, and you won't be doing it because of how much money you're going to make. You'll be doing it because your heart tells you that This is who you are. This is your dharma. Because if you've been doing this since you were a little kid and you got awards for it as a young man, this means that this is something that you came into this world to do. This isn't something that, you know, like a fly-by-night or would be nice. This is probably something that you have had. I wouldn't be surprised, Kevin, if every time you go to a movie, you see how you would have set it up and what you would like to have done and what they could have done this way. Is that right?

Or?

Yeah, well, that's— yeah, that's— I mean, I dream it like this, so at night, I mean, it's even— my dreams tend to be set up in the way of, uh, dramatically. And it's just, uh, it is— it is— there is a sense of fear of that. You've hit on a lot of very—

yeah, you know, I think here's— I— and this is what I've been doing for the last month or so, and because I'm going to be writing about this and, uh, and I'm doing a lot of speaking about it, it's some of the, uh, the, the teachings of Neville. What I want you to do is in your mind, in your imagination. Imagine yourself having your— if you want to have your future dream become a present fact, then you have to assume the feeling, assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled. So in your mind, you create for yourself, in your imagination, which is yours, nobody can take that away from you, you create the image of yourself doing, completing a successful film. And then you go to the feeling state of that. So how does that feel in your body? So let me ask you that question. If you were able to be on a film set doing what it is that you really believe in your heart is your dharma and what you came to do, and you could see yourself doing that successfully, how would you feel?

Yeah, just that's just a kind of a swelling right in the center of your chest and stuff.

Yeah. So you'd feel really, really great in your chest, right?

Really great.

Okay.

So now what you do, Kevin, is you stay with that feeling state. And the last 5 minutes before you go to sleep at night, you let your subconscious mind, which believes anything that you feel, your subconscious mind believes is true. So you go to the truth of that and you hold on to that feeling. And by holding on to that feeling, you'll begin to activate that. Every time you think about filmmaking, think about that swelling in your chest and then stay with that feeling and you're on your way.

And congratulations, you're one video closer to who you're meant to be. To be.

Believe.

To watch another amazing Wayne Dyer video, check it out right there next to me. I think you'll love it. Continue to believe, and I'll see you there.

I see, and having written a book about the Tao Te Ching, Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, and produced a movie, you know, around this as well, I kind of— there's a song that I always have my daughter sing when she travels with me. It's called From a Distance.