Maximize Joy and Success: The Mindset Shift You Need | Michael A Singer

This whole thing about abundance and attracting to yourself what it is that you want and how to use mantras and spirituality to make sure you have what you want. True spirituality is about not wanting, is about being filled with joy from inside and then sharing that outside. It's not about attracting to yourself what you want. People ask me, is there a law of attraction? Yes. And you better be scared of it because if it's true that you attract what your mind is thinking, you better take a look at what your mind is thinking. What about your mind all day when it's complaining and it's yelling at people and it doesn't like stuff? What if you're attracting that way? So you You eventually catch on that it is not about getting what you want. It is about learning to find out that what you really want is to stay open and not have conditions on that openness. And then it comes down to how do you do that? Are people capable of doing that, or is that just reserved for, you know, some special beings, Buddha and Christ, that have walked the face of the earth? Everybody is capable of that. If I tell you to pick up 5,000 pounds, you may not be able to do that. So I've told you to do something that you have never done and you're not doing it, so you may not be able to do it. But if you're actually already doing something and I tell you not to do it, you're always capable of that because you're the one who's doing it.

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Inside, you are the one who's closing your heart. You close it. You are the one who's closing your mind. You do that. They're your thoughts. It's your feelings. They're nobody else's. So you are in there doing these things. So if I tell you the way to stay open is to not close— I don't teach how to stay open. That's more like finding out how to get what you want. I'm interested in you learning to not close. What a difference. If I say to you, I want you to open your heart right now, you wouldn't even know how to start. But if I say to you, somebody says something you don't like, don't close, you know where to start, right? Because it's happening inside of you and you see the tendency to do it. All I'm asking you to do is don't do that. And I'm telling you that will take you the whole way. Don't worry about opening, worry about not closing. There are going to be events that unfold in your life that naturally open you. A beautiful sunset, a bird singing. Sometimes you get what your mind wants, all right? You open, great, nothing wrong with that. Don't close. 'How come it only lasts a minute? I'm going to see a beautiful sunset, you feel like, oh my God, I looked into the face of God, then you go right back into your mind with all your problems.' Why? Why don't you learn to not close? Once you get some openness, start to work with yourself to not close. And this is how to get what you really want. The deep spiritual teachings are really teaching how to get what you want, because what you want is to feel love and joy and happiness all the time. And so if you can get that from within, you then can share it.

Rule number 2 is discover your real self.

The mind is very strong, and one of the things the mind does is develop methodologies or ways of thinking that let it interact with life and not get hurt and be more comfortable. And it's the ego. When we develop a self-concept and we change it throughout our lives, but in general, there's a self-concept sitting under there saying, I was the one that did this and I was the one that went to this school and I'm the one that went there and the one that my father left or stayed or whatever the hell it is. Excuse me. And basically all of this unfolds and you end up developing patterns of thinking based upon the experiences you've had.

All right?

And what I'm saying, at least certainly in my experience, is that's not what makes you wake up. That's what keeps you from waking up. All right? The fact that you're identifying with these past experiences and saying, "That's who I am." Well, it's not who you are. You are watching your ego. You see it get upset. You see it fix things. You see it have concepts and views.

Et cetera, et cetera.

And even you're obviously very intelligent. You can use your intellect to support the ego, to support that and so on, right? And yes, you're a very special person, you're an intelligent person, and therefore that becomes part of your self-concept, okay? And then you say you're a religious person, part of your self-concept. All of these things are ways you think of yourself. And there's nothing at all wrong with that. It's wonderful. You've been successful, you're happy, you're doing well.

All right, I'm not happy.

I'm not doing well. I just said that. I'm also like weeping openly at this moment. Okay, but listen to me, right? That identification with your personal self, which is just your mind's thoughts, are what keep you from waking up.

Rule number 3 is recognize your needs.

Instead of asking, why am I not okay? Why am I not okay? You're asking, what do I need to be okay? That's the major difference of whether you're growing inwardly or you're attached to struggling externally, is you think I can only be okay if I get the things that I got before or similar. Extrapolate, right? Things that made me— I had a relationship in 8th grade and it was so beautiful and she was redheaded.

Okay, my wife, no, it's not true.

All right, she was redheaded and She left, you know, her parents moved, right? And it was never a bad experience in that relationship. It was just the most perfect relationship you ever had, right? You understand now, if I'm grown up and I go on a date and she's redheaded, I have a propensity toward being open. You just ask the question, why do we think we need these things?

All right?

Because we're not okay inside and we've had experiences, either you read a book, it'll tell you you need that to be okay. You watch a movie, meet somebody, you can have a thought.

If I had a Tesla, okay, it used to be a Ferrari, now it's a Tesla. All right. I, man, everyone would be proud of me and I feel like I'm helping the ecology.

And so all of a sudden I'm not okay unless I get a Tesla. And if I get a Tesla, oh my God, for a while, how am I doing? Wonderful. So that's how you develop your preferences. Is through programming. You get programmed by your past experiences.

Rule number 4 is find out what you really want.

What do you really want? We talk about wisdom, people talk about attracting to themselves, the laws of attraction and all those sorts of things. But the question really is, from a spiritual point of view, what do you really want? And religion's about what you're supposed to want, and we know how that works. Spirituality is not about that. Spirituality is about looking deeply within and seeking truth, clarity. That's what it's about. So this discussion has nothing to do with my feeling what you should want or you even feeling guilty or weird about what you do want. The question is, what do you really want? And the way to do that, and I'm going to be very bad in doing this, is to say, "Here's a piece of paper," not really, but figuratively, and I want you to write down what you want. Just take a little time, don't do it, take a little time and write down what you want. And if you're like most human beings, probably first on the list is a good relationship, something that makes me feel important, needed, wanted, loved, secure, all that kind of stuff. And so whether you're in a relationship, I'd like it to get better, so-and-so should behave in different ways, should understand me better, "Or if you're not in a relationship, how to find my quote 'soulmate'— somebody who just fits perfectly with me and just fulfills the meaning of my life." And if we're really honest, we write down a nice house and a Ferrari, or at least some sort of a car, and perhaps children, and/or perhaps a little time without the children, and we make our list. Nobody's judging, just be honest, you put that down. The purpose of this discussion is no matter what you put on that list, unless you're very highly evolved, my experience is it's not really what you want. It's not that it's wrong, it's just not really what you want. And the way I prove that is as follows. Let's say you put down, 'I want a relationship. I want to meet somebody. I want to have that special relationship.' And then I would ask you, what if you walked outside after this conversation and all of a sudden there was this bush in front of you and it started burning like it did to Moses and talking to you, and its opening sentence was, "I am the Lord your God and I would like to discuss some things with you," and said enough things that it knew about you to where you were pretty freaked out that you're actually talking to an omniscient, omniscient, omnipotent being, or at least bush. And the question that gets asked of you is, "What would you like? What do you want? I can grant whatever you want." And having gone through this exercise with me, you feel, "God, thank God, Mickey, I'm prepared.

This is neat.

I thought about it." And you say, "I want a relationship. I want to meet somebody. I want to have that thing I've looked for my whole life," or, "I want a house." —"Or I want the perfect job. I want a job that makes me, you know, that fulfills what I'm looking for." And what this bush, what God tells you at that point is, "I can give you that. I have the power to give you that. But there's a caveat which you probably want to hear before I give it to you, which is I can give you that perfect person. They will be loyal to you. They will stay with you your entire life." But the caveat is that you will be completely unfulfilled. You will feel sad every time you come into their presence. You will not feel any love. You will not feel any joy, happiness, meaning, but they'll be there and they will dote all over you and they will just be the most perfect partner that they could possibly be, or give you the job that you thought would be the most amazing thing, but it's hollow for you. You go there and you thought it would turn you on, but it doesn't. And you just loathe going to work and you're just not excited about it. So therein lies the what do you really want? Because what you're going to find is if you were given the opportunity to have a relationship with that person I just described, or have the job I just described, but it didn't do squat for you and it left you hollow inside, you would say, I don't want it. In fact, if it's going to make me miserable inside, I really don't want it, keep it away from me. And so to move quickly, because we only have a little time here, then I say to you, you lied to me when you said it was what you really wanted, because it isn't true you wanted a relationship, it isn't true you wanted children, it isn't true you wanted money, it isn't true you wanted to travel around the world, it isn't true that you wanted etc., etc. What's true is you wanted to feel good inside. You wanted to feel love. You want to feel joy. You want to feel inspiration, excitement, meaning. Those are inner things. They're not outer things. You listed the things you listed because you thought they would give you what you really want. And so wisdom, yoga, spirituality is about going deeper. Buddhists talk about working at the root. So the truth of the matter is the only thing you needed to write on a piece of paper when I asked you, What do you really want is a sense of total well-being. I want to feel love. I want to feel joy. I want to feel inspiration. I want to feel meaning and depth.

Also, to make sure you're actually taking action after watching this video, I've designed a special free worksheet just for this video. The worksheet will highlight all the lessons learned in this video, as well as pull out our 3 favorite learnings and quotes that will inspire you to actually do something. The worksheet will also give you space to write down what your key takeaways are and your specific plan of action to make sure you're getting results. If you want the worksheet designed specifically for this video, absolutely for free, there's a link in the description below. Go click on it and start building the momentum in your life and your business. I'll see you there. Rule number 5 is overcome anxiety.

What you want to do is say what's behind the anxiety. So when people talk, I don't help people make decisions, but we talk about decision-making, is the first thing that matters is what's your motive? Not what should you do? How can you figure out what to do if you don't even know your motive, right? And you became the spiritual teacher with every word you said about this, which is start from the point of view, do I want to get a house or not? Well, okay, yes, I'd like to have a house. All right, can I afford a house? Don't worry about what house. What's your motive? It's very simple. You know, it's just, I'm just on to express myself and have a house and that's that. And then stop there. Don't say it has to be a certain way. When it's all said and done, if you're afraid of making the wrong decision, who defined it as wrong?

You. Well, then don't.

That's what Maya was saying, right? If you don't define it as wrong, I was a builder. Okay, you know, before my personal life program, before the program company, I did Built With Love, my company. I built this house for this beautiful lady, all right, who happened to be the manager of the local bank, and her name was Penny Dollar. I swear to God, her name was Penny Dollar, all right? This is a long time ago, back in the '80s. And basically she once came to me and sat there and said, "I'm so scared." I said, "Look, I'm gonna build a beautiful house for you. We've got it, everything's fine. So I stay up at nights, I can't sleep. What are you worried about? Isn't it turning out nice? I'm afraid, listen to this, I'm afraid that I will build a house and that I'll go to plug in a lamp and the cord won't reach the outlet. Wow.

Wow. Thank you. I said, that's why they make extension cords.

I was gonna say, that's why they make therapists, but yes. Rule number 6 is stop negativity.

When I was, you know, 22, 23 years old, I realized that that voice was running my life. And that's what you're saying. If it wasn't comfortable, I left. If it, you know, whatever it was, it was determining what I said, it was determining how I acted, it was determining everything about my life. And yet I didn't know a thing about that voice. Why was it saying what it was saying? Why is it like one person and not another? Because when you like somebody, your voice says, "I like her." So where did that come from, right? And if all of a sudden it said, "No, I don't think so," then you don't. It's like telling you and your emotions go along with it, and it's this whole psychological system that's going on inside. So I made the decision, and I'm not saying people should, right? But it's nice to share that I wasn't going to live my life without understanding what was going on. Because it didn't make sense. And it had already caused a lot of trouble in my life, just like it does everybody else's. It's like, "Oh, your relationship is so hard," and everything else, and changing jobs. It just decides, "I don't like my boss. I don't like the boss anymore." It's telling you that. Why didn't it just say, "I like the boss?" No one actually pays attention to how much control it has over your life or why it's saying what it's saying. So, what I did was to say, I'm going to take a little sabbatical, hiatus, about a year or so I meant to put aside, and devote my life to watching that voice and figuring out why it says what it says, what is my relationship to it, and I in essence dropped out. I don't like teaching that now because people shouldn't drop out. I mean, not they shouldn't, but they don't need to, and I'm not teaching them to, right? But I did. I was in a doctoral program for economics at the university, and last year, ready to get my doctorate, and I stepped aside and went into solitude, relative solitude, and I watched very, very carefully. And what I saw made me more uncomfortable than what you were talking about, right? Like watching it when it was in its glory, 'cause you pull yourself aside, it's going to say a lot of stuff, made me realize I don't want to listen to that thing, that thing's crazy. It just changes its mind all the time, it says this, it says that. Like the reason people drink and do drugs is because that thing's driving them crazy. Do you understand that? You're trying to get away from that inner mess that's going on inside. So basically, over the course of many years, I started an experiment, which was, "What would happen if I didn't listen to that?" "What does that mean? It tells you what to do," and so on. "Well, what if I listen to life instead?" And that's very subtle. "What if the events unfolding in front of me were more important than whether I liked them or not. And I was willing to listen. If I'm meeting this person, perhaps it has some meaning. The fact that I'm not comfortable with them maybe has no meaning, right? And I started practicing letting go of myself instead of letting go of what it told me to. And sometimes it told me to do something, sometimes I wouldn't do it. And what I got was as follows. Just because it told me to do it is not going to be the reason I do it. Just because it told me not to do it, or that it doesn't like it, is not going to be the reason I don't do it. That doesn't mean that I'm doing or not doing. I will let life, the unfolding of life, the circumstances that unfold in front of me, talk to me instead of that thing talking to me. So that's the basics of what I call surrender. You're not surrendering to life. You're not surrendering to people, you're not saying yes to everything, you're just basically saying, "My head doesn't know what it's talking about, it's just a bunch of noise." Excuse me, I have a little allergies. "It's just a bunch of noise and I'm better off not listening to that personal noise." It doesn't mean intellectually, if I'm solving a math problem or I'm trying to decide, you know, create air conditioning or building— I built for a while— reading plans and so on. The mind is wonderful for that. I'm talking about the personal mind— "I like this, I don't like that, I believe in this, I don't believe in that, I want this to happen, oh my God, I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow because I'll die if it rains," that kind of junk. Just the personal noise that instead of honoring and respecting life is judging it and trying to tell me how to make life be my way, instead of my respecting that life took 13.8 billion years to get here. That's a big shtick I have, right? That every moment in front of me took every single thing to happen exactly like it did for 13.8 billion years for that thing to be in front of me. Do you understand that? Yes. In other words, if your great-great-great-grandmother didn't meet your great-great-great-grandfather, you're not here, okay?

Rule number 7 is be the observer.

You're trying to make your neurosis or your anxiety relax. No, anxiety doesn't know how to relax. Anxiety is anxious. Do you understand that? It's its nature. Right?

It's all jumpy and stuff like that. Right?

But you who's noticing it, you has the hands in there, you can relax. You can sit there and say, okay, fine. Just relax and lean away from the noise.

Just go to that place. Okay? That zone.

It's like a zone. Right?

You know what I'm saying?

Athletes talk about being in the zone. Right? There's a zone inside. If you relax behind that noise, There's a peace back there.

There's a quiet.

Doesn't have to be a big spiritual experience, but it's a heck of a lot nicer than hanging out with anxiety. Yeah, it's the observer. It's what it feels like. You're the observer and you relax. And if you do that over time, not immediately, but over time, you will find that that which was making you anxious, the neurosis downstairs— oh my God, my boss is gonna be mad.

I told him I'd be there.

I'm gonna be late. You're gonna be just as late anyway. Sorry, it's not gonna change a thing.

You look at that and you realize, I'm okay. I'm okay. It doesn't do any good to show up neurotic. Okay? So you let go, and as you let go, you'll notice amazing thing.

That energy that was all weird because you didn't touch it, it changed. It was able to come up. All right?

Or you start using affirmation, right? You sit there and say, oh, come on.

This is probably an older person, like my grandmother, my grandpa, right? I do. I— yes, yes. —and I have to get— that's right, they get to drive, and I should not be honking at them or bothering them or even sending them bad vibes. Maybe they should not be driving any faster. Well, and the point is, it's the latter part of their life, and at least they get to go some places and do something, and it means a lot more to them than this neurosis means to me. And you feel like you're giving something instead of demanding and taking. You can change yourself. It's not about suppressing. It's not about denying. It's about raising. You raise yourself. Pausing almost feels like it generates compassion a little bit. What you'll find out is you back there are the most beautiful thing in the whole universe. You are filled with love. You're filled with compassion. You're filled with inspiration. You're filled with, like, what I call Shakti energy, just spirit energy, call it whatever you want. Filled with it all the time. But you're busy looking down at this garbage. And so you learn to raise yourself. The other example that I like to use, because I'm very much into being broad and seeing the whole universe instead of just your little tiny world, right? Is let's say it's hot out nowadays. We have global warming, we're hot.

Okay? It's very hot out. You're standing there and you have to go from one place to another and you're actually outside with no air conditioning. Isn't that terrible?

And as you're walking, you're complaining, oh my God, it's so freaking hot and I'm sweating. I don't wanna sweat.

I don't like this sort of thing. And I always have to be so hot.

What's wrong with these people? Blah, blah. Okay, well, that doesn't help anything.

It doesn't make it cooler.

It doesn't do a single thing. It's the same thing like the car.

But what if you sat there? I know I trained Mickey this— I trained Michael this way.

All right, as I sit there and I look and I say, how did it get hot? Be quiet. How did it get hot? What do you mean? Why is it hot?

Well, because there's a sun out there.

You mean there's a star 93 million miles away and it's hot. It's so hot that you feel this heat here. I'm in Gainesville, Florida. Miami's about 300 miles away. I asked them, how big would a fire have to be in Miami for you to feel it in Gainesville? If the whole town caught fire, you would not even know what happened. That thing's 93 million. Hear that?

It's 93 million miles away.

And you can feel the star shine. Okay? You can feel— is that neat? And all of a sudden you think, that's neat. That's— yeah, I can feel a star. The stars are neat things, right? And you start working with yourself that way, and it works. You raise yourself. And get curious.

Rule number 8 is recondition your mind.

We call a mindset is the conditioning of the mind that makes it so that things turn you on and turn you off. And that's where you get your list of what you want and what you don't want. It is not true that you want those things. What you want is something that will open you so that you can feel the joy that is natural when you're open. And you don't want the things that close you so that you get blocked off from any joy and you get this sense of depression. So you have a choice even right at that point, and we haven't even gone deep yet. You have a choice. Do you want to spend your life deciding what you want and what you don't want and then chasing it outside, or do you want to sit there and work inside to realize all I really want is the joy and the love and if I stay open I can have those? I don't need outside conditions to keep me open. So I make a very important point because in spirituality it gets mixed up. Spirituality is not about renunciation, there's no renunciation. Renunciation says, "I've decided what it is that will make me happy and I'm not going to do it." Well, that sounds rather absurd, right? Spirituality says, "It was stupid of me to decide what will make me happy instead of being happy with life, instead of being grateful and turned on by all of the amazing things that are happening in front of me and all the past experiences I got to have." Why don't I just enjoy all that and then come into life filled with love, filled with joy, and give the whole of my being to the moments that are unfolding in front of me? That's what spirituality says. So it's not about renunciation. It's not about things are wrong and things are right. It's about understanding that you did this. You did this with your mind. You set up conditions in which your mind would open and then your heart opens, and conditions in which your mind will close and your heart closes. So spirituality is very, because some people say spirituality is not logical and rational. It is so. It's saying to you, why are you doing that? If you want to have a beautiful life spinning around a planet in the middle of nowhere, why don't you just open? It's your heart, it's your mind, it doesn't need conditions to open. It's just you don't know how to do it. It's you've become used to, programmed, habitual, that you had a past experience, by the way, this is where it comes from, How did you decide? How did your mind decide what it is you want and what you don't want? You did not make those decisions. They were programmed into you by your past experiences, all of them. So you had a past experience where something was nice with a certain person, they looked a certain way, they had a certain name, they drove a certain kind of car, whatever it is, and it really was high for you, it was beautiful, years and years ago. Now one of those things shows up, you meet somebody with that name, As shallow as that sounds, don't kid yourself. You meet someone with the name of your ex, you close down, even though it's not the same person. You meet someone with the name of who you had your first date with in high school, that it was a wonderful relationship, and you open up. And likewise, when you see a car they had a nice experience in, it turns you on. So you are programmed by your past experiences such that if they were good experiences, they tend to open you when something reminds you of them. When they were negative experience, they tend to close you. And that is where you get your list of what you want. That's why all of our lists are different. Everyone's list is totally different. Someone tells you the list is the same as yours, they're manipulating you because everyone has had different experiences. And based upon those experiences, it left these impressions on your mind and you came up with this list of what I want. So when you make the list of what you want and what you don't want, you're really making a list of your past. That's how you came up with those things. Even colors that you like, anything, they are impressions. Skinner, the psychologist said, 'Man is the sum of his learned experiences.' It's not true. It's true that your mind and your heart, your personal heart, are the sum of your learned experiences, but you are in there noticing this. So I make a big distinction with BF, right? That you are in there and you are noticing that your mind is a sum of your learned experiences. And it is. That's where psychology meets spirituality. Psychology is right. All of the psyche, your thoughts, your patterns, your likes, your dislikes, your problems and neuroses, etc., are the sum of your learned experiences. But you are in there. You're the consciousness, the awareness of being who notices that what I'm saying is true. So basically you come to the point where you have to decide, do I want to continue letting my past leave impressions on my mind and my heart such that only certain things will open and close me, and then I will spend my life chasing after, manipulating, controlling, conniving, whatever you want, the world around me so that sometimes it unfolds the way I want? Or do you want to sit there and understand that you're the one who's making these decisions? It's your mind who's setting up the conditions. Why don't you just not do that?

Rule number 9 is think positively.

You can start with positive thinking. That's one level that at least you should be doing that, right? You sit there and say, we'll make it through this, and even if I don't, whatever it is, I will be a better person because of this. If you're into God running everything, if that's your state, God knows what he's doing. There are so many different things that you can do with positive thinking to create a nicer environment inside. In my opinion, you have an obligation to do that both for yourself for the health of your body, for people around you, you just lift yourself up. The Gita says, "One should raise the selfless self, not trample down the self." This is a time to be doing that work. So you can't say, "I can't do that." You can make your mind say things. Yogananda used to say, "Every time there's a negative thought, replace it with a positive one." It's a good time to practice that. So it's wailing for itself, "Oh my God, this is terrible." I'll be fine, this is okay, God knows what he's doing, or no, this is just reality, it's just reality. Accept it either way. And then the next level is you sit there and if you do mantra, and mantra doesn't have to be an Eastern, you know, Sanskrit mantra, but just get something going behind that you're hanging on to at a deeper part of your mind. I'll be okay, this is okay, I'll use whatever it is, right? Then what will happen is when the lower self starts, these situations happen, you just settle back into it. So you have a choice, which mind you want to listen to? The lower mind, which we know what it's like, or you've built something beautiful inside. And then ultimately the highest state is you relax every single time something hits your stuff, you relax, you relax, relax and let go. Relaxing itself is letting go. People sometimes say, 'Well, I relax, but how do I let go?' The very fact that you chose to relax relax your shoulders, relax your tummy, et cetera, and just relax inside, that is letting go. You're not getting all involved in what's going on. So that's the highest state, is you just keep letting go. And the worse it is, the better. You just keep letting go. You just commit yourself, I'm going to use this. All right? Then you of course put aside some time in the morning and evening to remind yourself that this is what I'm doing.

And rule number 10, the last one before some very special bonus clips, is work on yourself.

All you can be responsible for is yourself. Your starting position is right. You have to evolve with the different situations that are presented to you. And my experience is if you do that, the rest will happen. The people around you will be raised naturally. Understand that?

Like if you bring anger into a situation, imagine a household where everyone's always fighting.

If all of a sudden somebody's not and somebody's bringing understanding and love, That's all they have to do. It will change things, right?

But you, you can't sit there and say, I won't change until everybody else does. You know, I'm going to protect myself. That doesn't work, right? So that you're asking—

you like, they're so surprised. Big things, all right? It's like, can it be better? Of course it can be better, but it requires that everybody work on themselves. Because while they're not working on themselves, they're working on everybody else, trying to manipulate.

I was CEO of a public corporation, went through all kinds of stuff. I see no difference between being in the temple of the universe, whatever it is, and I found it, kind of people started coming out there, so it happened. That's how my whole life is, right? I never decided to I just followed the energy, like I was saying. I'm there doing services, meditating, whatever it is, and different events unfold. The one particular one that I tell in "The Surrender Experiment" is a sheriff came out to the land, and I was barefoot, a hippie, walking around my land, and he walked up to the temple building that we built, which I was a little concerned. It has Krishna and all these things. Jewish things. It has all the different religions represented. And he's all dressed up in his officer uniform and pulls his big car up there. And I'm walking around barefoot, no shirt on. And he says, "You in charge here?" And okay, yeah, I guess I am. You know what he says? "Did you build this building?" I said, "Yes." He said, "Would you build an addition on my house?" I swear to God, that's exactly what happened, all right? And because I was surrendering to life, nothing inside of me wanted to build a close-in the garage with this sheriff, all right? It's like, I'm not even a builder. I built a couple of buildings on my own land, you know, rough sawn timber, et cetera. And I said yes. And that founded my first company, Built With Love. And they ended up building custom houses and this and that. And then I got into computers and the next thing I knew, people were asking me to write computer programs. And I just taught, I didn't even know I took a course in my life. I just started writing. I found it interesting, like you find stuff interesting and bought a TRS-80 Model 1 when Radio Shack first came out with the little tiny computers, all right? And wrote an accounting program to run Built With Love. And then people wanted to buy the program. That's literally how this company started. And so I said, okay, I guess, all right, and then start surrendering. And then I gotta write this and write that and do this. I'm gonna do this. And eventually somebody asked me to write a medical building system. And I didn't even go to the doctor in those days. And I'd never seen an insurance form in my life, all right? And I took it and I did it. I did it. And it became this major company, you know, with 2,300 employees and public and the whole ballgame. And so I just had to do it. I just did it. Well, while I was doing it, I didn't change. I didn't say, now this is what I'm doing. Now this is a wonderful opportunity to let go of me. You can bet, you know for sure, you can bet that being in that environment, I mean, literally, I'm on earning calls with Wall Street. Like, give me a break, all right? I can't relate to any of it, but I'm doing my best. I'm serving and working hard, doing everything as an act of letting go of myself and serving the universe. I never, it wasn't about business, it wasn't about this or the other thing, but you do that, you try as hard as you can, as you can and just try to serve everybody, and you can do pretty well.

Because you made it this far in the video, I want to celebrate you. Most people start and don't finish. Most people never actually follow through. Most people say they want something, but they don't ever do the work to actually get it. But you are different. You are special. Believe Nation, you made it made it here all the way to the end, and I love you. So as a special celebration, if you put a hashtag #believe down in the comments below on this video, I will showcase you and celebrate you somewhere on the screen in a future video because you are awesome. For 10 more amazing rules from Bruce Lipton, check the video right there next to me. I think you'll love it. Continue to believe, and I'll see you there.

Consciousness is creating your reality. If you put a picture of fear into your reality, then your biology behavior will manifest things to be afraid of. Because this is a short statement, but to me it's the most powerful one.