Why Vision Boards Don't Work (+ the Miracle Equation) with JP Sears and Hal Elrod

Just work a job you hate. Be in a marriage with someone you hate. Have kids who most likely aren't even yours, who also hate you. Ever since I was a kid, I knew there had to be something more.

According to him, JP had monumental adversity to overcome. When he was a child, I had.

This condition where I'd lose my vision and go completely blind for hours on end. This would happen all the time.

JP really didn't understand the concept of of nighttime and darkness till he was like 14.

Then when I was 14, my condition went away.

As a teenager, JP didn't want to do anything that challenged him or made him the slightest bit uncomfortable.

I grew up in a very abusive household.

When he was 12, JP called Child Protective Services because we asked him to clean his room.

You have no idea what it was like.

The next day, Child Protective Services sent a letter apologizing for coming out.

I can't talk about it anymore, but please keep paying attention to me. The happy times of my childhood were playing sports. I excelled as an athlete.

JP was terrible at sports. On the track team, he refused to run because it made his legs feel uncomfortable, so. So he would only walk.

I won every race I entered.

He never actually finished a race. And then he would throw temper tantrums demanding that we buy him trophies. He forced us to usually holding his breath until we gave in.

I have a lot of first place trophies.

Shockingly, as JP became a young man, he felt empty inside. True happiness was eluding him.

Then, When I was 23, I learned about the Law of Attraction. Through the superficial pop culture, the spirit spiritual movement, I discovered I could make all my dreams come true with no effort. Just make a vision board and sit back and let the Law of Attraction do the rest. So, yeah, life is pretty good now. I've got all the things that are still only on my vision board. With the Law of Attraction, there's no action required. Hence, it's the Law of Attraction, not the Law of Action.

For hours at a time, JP sits in front of his vision board repeating vaguely stated goals that aren't measurable.

Vaguely stated goals that aren't measurable. In fact, I'm pretty sure taking action just messes up the Law of Attraction. The secret to making the Law of Attraction work for you is using pictures on your vision board. You can't just write words on it because the universe is illiterate. It won't know what you mean. That's why you have to use pictures. And when you do, the universe will respond, guaranteed. I've been Staring at the same vision board for about 15 years now. So I know everything on it'll be manifesting anytime now.

Oh, I was just checking. Thought I heard my Ferrari being dropped off.

Staring at the same vision board for 15 years and nothing manifesting. Now, no matter how much visualizing and inaction he did, doubt started to penetrate JP's thick skull.

15 years.

Why aren't you working yet?

JP's doubt in his manifesting grew bigger.

I don't know. Maybe I need to use a different kind of construction paper. Why won't you make my dreams come true?

Finally, JP reached a point of breakdown.

Why?

Why won't you work?

Why?

Why?

Maybe I'm just not meant to live the life of my dreams.

Or was it a point of breakthrough?

Jp, I'm here to help you.

Hal Elrod, author of the Miracle Morning. I've had you on my vision board. It did work.

No, it didn't. Your mom hired me, jp. She wants me to help you make your dreams come true because, well, her and your father are frankly tired of you living with them.

He's such a millennial. Last year, he got angry when I told him there would be no more breastfeeding. He needs help, so I called Hal.

Oh, well, there's no use. I've been doing this stuff for 50, 15 years, and it hasn't worked.

JP, I know you mean well with what you've been doing, but you haven't been very smart about it.

Aw.

I do mean well. Thank you.

Jp, what's keeping you from making your dreams come true is you haven't established unwavering faith, and you don't put forth extraordinary effort.

Will I put a big pile of money on my vision board?

Jp, let me level with you. You're controlled by fear. You say you want to play big. You. You put pictures on your vision board, but then you don't take the actions necessary to move you in the direction of your biggest goals and your biggest dreams.

I'm not afraid.

You're afraid to acknowledge your fear.

Well, fear is scary.

And, jp, the other problem is that you don't take action to make your biggest goals and dreams. Your miracles come true.

I made this vision board, didn't I?

Jp, you don't need a vision board. What you need is a formula, a proven formula that the world's most successful people have used for centuries to overcome your limitations and achieve everything you want for your life. What you need is the miracle equation. It'll help anyone. Even you.

Aww.

Come on, jp, let's get Started.

I am committed to positively impacting the lives of 10,000 people. And earn $100,000 doing so by the year 2067.

It's great, JP. It's not ice built people though.

Against all odds, Hal's coaching was helping JP take his life in the direction of his dreams.

Jp, you can do it. You have to be willing to do something you've never done before. That's your extraordinary effort.

I'm scared. I don't know if I can do it.

Jp, it's time to replace your fear with faith. Make the decision to give it everything you have as if there is no other option.

I am positively impacting the lives of 10,000 people.

Hey, guys. Today I'm going to teach you how to get rich. Teaching other people how to get rich. Let's get started. Whoa. Hell. I am so glad I'm done with that. That was so hard.

Jp, you're not done. You're just getting started. In order to get what you want in life, you have to apply extraordinary effort every single day and use the miracle equation to make your extraordinary effort feel ordinary.

Okay, Hal.

Hit record.

Hey, guys, it's J.P. again. What's gonna help take your get rich quick business to the next level is posting sensual shots of you flipping your hair in a pool.

JP had done it. With unwavering faith and extraordinary effort, JP achieved his goal.

Jp, I'm so proud of you. You went from someone who was letting your fear dictate your life to someone who now lives with unwavering faith and extraordinary effort. And that's how you create miracles, my friend.

Thanks, Hal. I couldn't have done it without you. I remember the days where I would just be staring at my vision board for hours at a time. What a ridiculous way to live.

Is this just bath water? Mm.

Jp, your parents want you to move out.

No, they don't.

Yes, we do.

This is getting too weird for me.

Hey, guys, on a serious note, I want to tell you about my friend Hal Elrod's new book, the Miracle Equation. In fact, Hal, would you mind sharing people what this book's gonna do for them?

Yeah. The Miracle Equation is designed to move your biggest goals from possible to probable to inevitable by making the same two decisions that the world's most successful people have made for centuries. And that is establishing unwavering faith that you can do anything that you're committed to doing. And then figuring out how to make extraordinary effort feel ordinary so you can take action every day to ensure that your big goals move from being possible to ultimately becoming inevitable. And that's where your miracles will happen.

I love it.

I'm a huge fan of Hal's work myself, and I am very proud to help inform y' all about the opportunity to grab his new book, Miracle Equation. Where can people get it?

Wherever books are sold. You seriously want a tiger, J.P. no.

That'S not about the tiger. I want Mike Tyson. How cool would that be?