The speaker shares five life-design questions that demand personal responsibility and an open heart. He spent 18 months journaling through them, and warns that trauma or intense emotions need healing first. Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, and Mother Teresa regularly answered these questions to design their lives.
Is there a warning that you would offer to the listener? And I guess I would say yes, um, and it would really come down to what is your arc of perspective. You see, if your perspective is coming from a fixed mindset, coming from a place of lack and doubt and limitation and stuck in the past and worried about what everybody else thinks, these questions are very confronting. right? These questions are basically, I'm sort of punching you in the heart in a loving way and saying, this is your life, you have to be responsible. If you don't wanna answer the questions and you wanna blame everybody else, you're done before you start. But if your heart is open and your mind is open and you realize, you realize, like really in your heart and in your head that there's just so much more in you, then these questions will tap into that. And again, I wanna stress to you, I didn't just sit there with Mike, answer all the questions, nor did I get on the airplane and fly back from Miami to LA and cement it all. It took me 18 months. It took me 18 months of, you know, journaling on it, a little bit here and a little bit there, and reflecting on it and answering the questions and going back and relooking at the values. So, so like everything else in life that's worthwhile, it's gonna require some time and some work on your part. So, you know, if you're in a weird state right now, if you're dealing with a tragedy or something that was really bad for you, post-traumatic stress disorder, anything, divorce, an end, something that really rocked your world, these could be the most important questions you could ever ask. The question is, is it the right timing, right? Do you need to heal first, get through the anger, get through the emotion, and then start making those big decisions, which is, sort of following that natural path. So I hope I'm finding you at the other end of that where you're deciding how you want it to be, or I hope I'm finding you just in a wide open place like, man, I just clicked on this podcast randomly. I heard about this, got referred by a friend, or you're a longtime listener and someone I get to see all the time, and you were just ready to have a coaching moment to really tap into your greatness, 'cause that's really what these 5 questions are about. Remember how it all started? What does Mike Vance, Steve Jobs, Mother Teresa, Walt Disney, right, Jack— what do they all have in common? They'd all answer these questions and they live by it every single day. Now notice, if I would have asked, hey Mike, there's 7.2 billion people on the planet, how do they operate? How do you think he would have answered that question? I don't think he would have said they took the time to answer all these questions and design how they wanted their life to be.
