Jack Canfield on How to Effortlessly Achieve Success

Hi, I'm Jack Canfield. You probably know me as the co author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, the co author of the book the Success how to Get from where youe Are to where youe Want to Be. And as a featured teacher in the movie the Secret. And you know, one of the things I've come to believe in my life is that every one of us is born with a unique life purpose. Something we're meant to do to bring forward our own gifts and talents in service to the world in such a way that we make a difference to others and we also create a great life for ourselves. My life purpose is to inspire and empower people to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy. And I've been doing that for over 45 years in my Breakthrough to Success seminars and the books that I write now inspiring other people. I do that through the Chicken Soup of the Soul books and collecting inspirational stories and telling those stories that to let you know that you normal people can actually achieve extraordinary things if you set your mind to it. And the empowerment part comes from writing books like how to Get from where youe Are to where youe Want to Be, the Success Principles book, and also by running seminars like our Breakthrough to Success seminar and our coaching program and training trainers to do these strategies and techniques that help people succeed. I want to share with you just a couple of tips that I think can help you on your journey to success. Number one, you have to take 100% responsibility for your life and your results. That means you have to give up all blaming, all complaining and all excuse making. And I encourage you to act as if for the next 30 days that everything that happens to you, you either created it, promoted it, or allowed it. And if you do that, you're going to become more empowered to create the life that you want. Because if you created it, you have the power to uncreate it and recreate it the way you want. The second thing is you have to decide exactly what you want out of your life. Get clear about your vision and your goals and what it is you want to accomplish. And the reality of that is that once you have a clear specific goal, a lot of goals that help you achieve your specific vision, then you can move in the direction of creating what you want. It's like having a GPS system in your car. In order to get from where you are to where you want to be, you, you have to decide where is the I want to be. And that's how you put the destination into Your GPS system, your mind will then begin to figure out how to do that. However, one of the things that stops you from getting where you want to go. And I saw this with thousands of people who had come up to me when we were going around the world teaching about the secret after the movie came out, they would say, I've done all these things, but I'm still not getting what I want. What's the problem? Why isn't it working? And the answer was almost always limiting beliefs and fears, often which were subconscious. You didn't even know you had them. And so one of the most important things for success is to get your mindset right so that all the skill sets you learn, the how tos can be put into action and not sabotage or stopped by the unconscious limiting beliefs and fears. So think of this analogy. Let's say I want to go north, but I'm in a boat that has a automatic pilot that's scheduled or programmed to take it east. So now the boat's going east. Now there's a steering wheel for the boat. If I take that wheel and I turn it really hard and I hold it, using my willpower, I can get that boat to go north. But as soon as I let go of that willpower, the automatic pilot takes over and we go east again. So it's critical in your life that you reprogram that automatic pilot. So it's effortless and easy to get to where you want to go. It's natural. We are naturally programmed to do what we want to do easily. If we don't get in the way of that programming, with all of the stuff we picked up in childhood from our teachers and our parents and our coaches and so forth. So the idea here is you want to do that reprogramming now you have a great opportunity coming up. John Assaraf, my good friend I've known for 25 years, I worked with him when he was building REMAX of Indiana and other projects of his. And he's one of the leading researchers on brain science and neuroscience in its relationship to success. And he's holding this thing called a brainathon, which I want to encourage you to attend with some of the top brain researchers and neuroscientists in the world. And he's also gotten Larry King to be the interviewer with him. And I've been on Larry King's shows. Larry King is an amazing guy as well as John is. And so it's going to be an incredible breakthrough day for you, John, to help you overcome and to transcend the barriers that have been keeping you stuck up until now. So just go ahead and click on the registration button that you'll find on this page and make sure you register to attend the Brainathon. I promise you it will be a life changing experience. It literally will be the first day of the rest of your life, which will be much more successful. So click on the registration button and see you there, because I'll be there as well. Take care.