950 Bob Proctor on The Science of Success (SECRETS TO UNLOCK YOUR MIND)

This is episode number nine hundred and fifty with bob proctor.

Welcome to the school of greatness my name is lewis howes former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur.

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Thanks for spending some time with me today now let the class begin napoleon hill said whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve and bruce lee said absorb what is useful discard what is not add what is uniquely your own i am so excited about this episode with the iconic and legendary bob proctor and we had bob on last year and we talked about how to manifest abundance and when i met him in person his energy his essence his just decades of wisdom poured through with his energy and i loved everything he shared then and i thought this is a perfect time to bring him back on to truly help us learn the science of success and the secrets to unlocking our minds and today bob has studied thousands of books and continues to read think and grow rich every single day and he is considered the world's foremost expert on the human mind in nineteen sixty one he started studying think and grow rich and it transformed his life and then bob listened to earl nightingale's condensed recording of the book thousands of times and applied it to his businesses and his life then bob worked shoulder to shoulder with earl nightingale at his companies and before leaving to start with his own personal development company in nineteen seventy and today he continues to share stories about this science about this mindset to speak wisdom into the hearts of millions of people around the world and in this interview we talk about why faith over fear is one of the main keys to success also bob shares his three favorite books he recommends to getting rich the power of setting hard goals that will help you grow and why realistic goals are things you should never set how we can reprogram our minds for the better instead of allowing our minds to be run by fear and why helping others is better than helping yourself especially when you're feeling stuck or uninspired that and so much more this is going to blow you away make sure to share this with your friends right now or at any time you feel moved or inspired during this episode copy and paste the link on the apple podcast or spotify link or wherever you're listening to this or just use the link lewishouse dot com nine hundred fifty text a friend during this episode share it on your instagram story tag me post it on social media because you have the power to transform someone's life today when you share this message with them right now and without further ado let's dive into this episode with the one the only bob proctor the kia sportage.

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Welcome back everyone to the school of greatness podcast we have the legendary the inspirational bob proctor in the house bob thank you so much sir for giving us your time today appreciate.

That it's a pleasure to be here.

The last time we the last time we had you on i think was a few years ago but we were talking beforehand it felt like a few months ago because we had such a great conversation people are still talking about it sharing it like crazy all over the internet and i'm just so grateful for the years of experience i won't give your age but the decades of wisdom that is inside your heart and your mind and your way of being and i'm just so grateful for all that you do for humanity by constantly lifting the consciousness up by lifting people's awareness their insights their capability to think abundantly as opposed to scarcely and i think people are in a place of uncertainty fear worry anxiety right now more than ever and how have you been i know and how have you been coaching and supporting and educating people during a time of scarcity or fearful times for people how do you get people to start getting back to a place of abundance thinking when well we do.

A broadcast we're very fortunate here we've we built our own studio about four years ago and we can broadcast all over the world from here and so i've been doing the odd broadcast at least once a week good news by bob proctor and trying to help people become aware that although you cannot change conditions or circumstance you don't have to let them control you we can't control what's going on outside but we can control what's going on inside and unfortunately i don't think many of us have been raised to really understand that and it's a lack of understanding that's causing all our problems.

But i mean how can you say that to someone who's like well i don't feel like i have control on the inside when it seems like everything has power over me what's something they can start to shift.

You see the truth is for that person that would be true that they're being controlled by outside look at it this way we are the only creature on the planet that's totally disoriented in our environment all the little squirrels the birds all the animals are completely at home in their environment they blend in you and i are totally disoriented in our environment we've been given the mental faculties to create our own environment however we go right through school and we've never learned that we have higher faculties and the average person has no knowledge of how to operate with them how to develop them we have perception the will reason imagination memory and intuition now those mental faculties they're not just words they're actually mental faculties that we can use to take control over our world and to create the environment that we want but unfortunately we grow up we don't know that we've been raised to live through by what we see hear smell taste and touch our physical senses and we've been raised to be controlled by what's going on outside as little kids will you listen to what i'm telling you will you look at this you know and so it's all outside we get our report card and that tells us what kind of student we are but it really tells us where our mind was at for a few minutes three weeks ago got nothing to do with who we are so i think we're raised in ignorance actually there's a very small percentage of the population that have a reasonably clear understanding of who they are and what they're capable of doing but the ones that do are in the minority our whole company has been dedicated to teaching that to people for the last fifty some years.

Powerful you talked about the five faculty the five mental faculties and ian touched on this briefly in our previous interview but i'm curious i have a new question for you which of the faculties typically is the hardest to i guess master or you know become efficient in to use to your advantage in a positive way and which is the one that you feel like hurts us the most when we don't well.

I think reason is probably it's the one that's spoken about by almost all the great leaders yeah they've all been complete unanimous agreement that we become what we think about it's our reasoning factor that enables us to think ford says thinking is the hardest work there is which is the probable reason so few people engage in it doctor ken mcfarland who's gone for a long time now but he was a great educator down in kentucky he one time said two percent of the people think three percent think they think and ninety five percent would actually rather die than think now you know that sounds cute but it's true if you stop and listen to what most people are saying it's going to be fairly obvious they're not thinking if you stand back and watch what most people are doing it's fairly obvious they're not thinking or they would never say or do what they're doing most people today have their television on the news and they're just soaking up all the stuff that's going on that's dominating the media right now so they've become a plaything for what's going on outside and that's why they're living in such fear by.

Consuming the media of whether it's true or accurate or not true you're being manipulated in a sense yeah it's not.

A matter of whether it's true or not is this how you want to spend your life just listening to that that doesn't mean you should deny it it doesn't mean that you should say well that's all false i don't know whether it's true or false it's just bad news i don't want to be involved in it am i aware that it's there well you'd almost have to be dead not to be aware that it's there but that doesn't mean you have to spend your time thinking on that i would much rather activate some of my creative faculties and do something.

That'S constructive in a time under crisis and worry and fear for a lot of people what should we be thinking about how should we be using our imagination in different ways as opposed to fixating on the bad news.

Well i think a good idea right now would be spend some time thinking about how are we going to adapt when this is gone yeah because we're going to live in a different world we're not going to be in the same world when this is all blown over than we're in right now it's going to be quite different people are not going to be rushing out to big events where there's a lot of people they're not going to be rushing to restaurants i think they're going to be very careful about what they do where they think and where they're going i was listening to sinek and he said if you're a public speaker don't look for a stage for a little while because you're not going to have one yeah now this also presents great opportunities it's for us for my company we're going online you know full speed ahead now fortunately we built the studio four or five years ago so you're prepared we're equipped and we're ready yeah we can we can broadcast we were we had a training class going in here just last week with about three hundred of our consultants from all over the world we had a three day training program for them and it was very effective online you didn't have to come together yeah yeah we did it from right.

Here yeah i mean you're known for doing these powerful transformational workshops in person so for someone i mean it's very inspiring for me for someone at your age where would be the excuse of most people your age to say well i don't understand this technology thing and i've been doing this way of business for so long it's always worked this way and i'm not going to try to reinvent or evolve and pivot and grow in this way so it's really inspiring to see someone of your age with your level of experience and say you know what i'm embracing it maybe i don't like it maybe you do like it but you're embracing it and making the most of it as opposed to resisting because what happens when we start to resist in our life what.

Truly happens well we resist it we create it in our mind that's all we think about you see i guess my age really has nothing to do with it but i formed that attitude a long time ago yeah i didn't like the idea that when you've lived for so long you've got to cut out you got to stop i thought hell i don't like that idea at all first of all i think we're i believe we're here to do god's work god's work is creation you know expansion fuller expression greater goodness and if we're going to do that we're going to be working at it all the time we're here on this planet we never stop so age should have no bearing on it i had a couple of people ask me when we started to build this place we put a couple of million dollars into this and somebody said how old are you i think i was probably eighty three when i started to break ground he said you're eighty three and you're going to spend two million dollars building a studio i said yeah like why not i mean you see we let things that really have no concern we let them bother us we let them control us age is a dumb thing to let control you it's our thinking that controls everything that's the one point every great leader agreed on we become what we think about well what's the person thinking i'm thinking if i get old i got to stop well then you'll stop or i'm thinking well if i've been here a long time i've got a lot of experience i want to utilize that experience to keep me going as long as i am here.

I mean.

Anybody had their head screwed on right a few years ago would know that this thing's going to take over and if we don't learn how to use it we're toast so you know i was doing seminars on my ipad because i can run it right onto a monitor a note through to the universe.

Yeah what should we be thinking about the most right now in your mind.

If we should be thinking about our future i think we should be thinking about the greatness like it's the school of greatness i think we ought to be thinking about the greatness that we've got locked up within us and bring it to the surface everyone has deep reservoirs of talent and ability within them and they can bring it to the surface to accomplish anything they want now to sit in fear and wonder what's going to happen that is a dumb waste of your talent and your time and unfortunately that's what most of the media is promoting right now to believe in fear is to believe in something you can't see to believe in faith is to believe in something you can't see well if you have a choice i think i choose faith over fear absolutely i think i believe where i can really see something happen i believe we're going to have a phenomenal year in our company in fact i have business partner sandy gallagher and very bright lady was a securities attorney prior to joining us she ran a program this morning for our entire company we have about seventy people and the company she was teaching masterminding to them all and saying how this is important that every one of us get involved in this that we learn the basics of masterminding that napoleon hill brought to the world let's say way back in the thirties now i think that's what we should be teaching people sandy was on the right track there so i think we ought to be thinking about what we're going to build how big are we going to do it where are we going to do it when are we going to start our goals have not changed they're very big they're very ambitious and we're not letting this virus slow us down one bit as a matter of fact we're trying to figure out how can we use this to speed it up you can't get rid of it use it to your advantage there is a way we can use it to our advantage people are more dependent upon the phone i've got a computer here they're dependent on their phone their computer more than they've ever been we can reach them anywhere in the world through those mediums.

Yeah use them to your advantage you talked about fear for a second i'm curious when we live in a state of fear what does that do to us and when we the second part to this when we feel that fear and we become aware of it what should we be thinking or doing or acting on in order to shift into a more positive state.

You know that is one hell of a good question and it's a question most people are not able to answer first of all the cause of fear is ignorance that is the cause of fear and so if you follow the ignorance it doesn't start out as fear the ignorance starts out in a conscious level as doubt and worry that's on a conscious level we're doubting or we're worrying then we take whatever image comes into our consciousness of the doubt and the worry and we turn it over to our emotional mind that's what causes the fear well that fear then has to be expressed through the body through the only instrument it can be expressed through our physical body it sets up a vibration known as anxiety anxiety is not expressed anxiety becomes suppressed we suppress it and the suppression then turns to depression which turns to disease which turns to decay you see you're talking about a track a person gets on and it's a very negative track it's ignorance don't worry fear anxiety suppression depression disease disintegration now the polar opposite of all that the opposite of ignorance is knowledge there's only one way to get to knowledge and that is to study now unfortunately school didn't do the job that it was designed to do for most of us school should teach us to love to study.

Not to dread studying.

And homework and tests they should teach us to love it because study leads to the opposite of don't worry which is understanding see it's study that leads to understanding we understand how to handle the fear it's understanding that enables us to cause us to understand where the fear starts the understanding then we want to say what do we understand we want to understand this whole universe operates by law one of the laws is the law of opposite the opposite of don't worry is understanding now if the don't worry leads to fear what's understanding leads to understanding leads to faith the faith leads to are you ready to.

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Expression well being and expression it's not depression it's not suppression it's not anxiety the faith leads to well being the well being then is expression acceleration because we're at ease we're not at there's not disease so you're dealing with polar opposites there's two different sides to things and when we understand that our world starts to change it's by understanding that that we learn how to deal with these pandemics when they hit and they will hit there will be others there always has been all down through history if you look back there's been things like this happen in the past and unfortunately the masses are sort of paralyzed by it yeah and as a people we add to that paralysis by feeding them more of what scares them what we should be doing is helping them understand what the hell's going on why do we do that as.

People why do we feed people more of what scares them as opposed to what you and i do which is.

Because that's what people want that's what they buy people don't buy good news people buy bad news why though can you imagine if everybody that tunes into cnn tuned into the school of greatness every week can you imagine if everybody that tunes into fox tuned into your school of greatness every week have you any idea the impact you could have on the world that's what we're trying to do it'd be enormous it'd be enormous people want bad news it resonates with where their mind is programmed they're programmed with negative information their paradigm is all bad news it's what we're programmed with now is everybody new there's a small select group of people that don't fall into that category and they are always working diligently trying to lift everybody up it's not an easy thing to do but every nuncher in a while a lewis howes would come along and start a school of greatness and he'll call in different people that feed into that concept that are in harmony with that that resonate with that and so it makes it interesting for the listener and then that's how it goes and that's what you're doing and that's what i'm doing yeah and it's not a losing battle it just appears like it is i'm winning i think you're winning now we're not drawing the numbers that cnn's drawing but the ones we draw are saying absolutely you got it you.

Got it or making an impact on them for sure i want to ask you more about self doubt because this is something i've been fascinated with for the last few years as i spent most of my life dealing with trying to understand how to overcome doubting myself and achieve the sports goals business goals relationship goals that i had throughout my younger years and i became obsessed with learning how to eliminate doubt and i've been researching this more and just trying to learn from people like yourself on how you have dealt with self doubt over the years and how you think anyone who feels like they're doubting themselves what can they do to go from doubt into confidence what do you think.

Is the path okay that's a good question it ties in with the previous question yes what do we do with fear fear comes from the doubt so the doubt becomes the cause of the fear which is the cause of the anxiety et cetera the doubt is the cause fear is the effect what is the polar opposite to doubt understanding it's understanding that's the opposite of doubt so what is it we want to understand well if it's me that's entertaining doubt why am i entertaining doubt if i were to find out who i really am and i believe everything that's been taught down through the centuries i would have no doubt i would be realizing that i could do anything and the only thing that's causing a doubt is lack of understanding so i'm going to keep studying i'll gain a better understanding i don't doubt myself i don't doubt what i can do does that mean that i can do everything no when doubt appears i'll eliminate it and i'll eliminate it fast and because i'm going to figure out how to do whatever it is i'm doubting yeah and you see if it's me that i'm doubting it's because i don't understand me well enough i did a broadcast the other day it was all over the place we had thousands into it on self image and we've got to get a better image of ourself we have to get a true image of ourself understand who we are how our mind functions realize this physical instrument we're living in is nothing but an instrument it's the instrument of the mind and the mind expresses itself with and through this thing we call our body well let's understand that better this thing you got enough power in your one hand to light up that building you're in for probably a month wow there's about eleven million kilowatt hours per pound potential energy locked up in the electrons and the atoms of the body well that's the invisible power that's in me i want to understand that better that's the physical side what's the higher side higher side is my intellectual side and that is the intellectual factors that i run through earlier perception will reason imagination memory and intuition there's six of them and as i understand those more as i understand my intellectual factors i'm using the things and i'm utilizing and developing the things that separate me from all the rest of the animal kingdom of which i'm a part then i can tap into the spiritual essence of who i am because we're spiritual beings and that's where the greatness lies it lies in understanding the spiritual essence of who we are you see our spiritual dna is perfect it requires no improvement it requires no modification our spiritual essence is perfect and that perfection is within us so the trick is figuring out how to express it in a greater way yeah and not.

Get trapped into a different type of expression through bad news or friends or parents beliefs or whatever it is that tries to shut us down correct exactly.

So and they will try and shut us down because we're coming up and we're saying i'm going to do this they'll say you got to be out of your mind you're going to quit that good job are you crazy we got to be strong enough to say i'm going to follow my dream amen.

To that i'm a big believer like.

Martin luther king i have a dream he didn't say i have a plan he didn't say i have a bank account he didn't say you know i have a dream i have an image in my mind i have a beautiful picture that i want to execute my life.

Self image i love this topic about self image how do we reshape our self image to serve us as opposed to bring us down well it's.

Interesting maltz maxwell maltz actually discovered self image as we know it today he was a cosmetic surgeon and he found if he operated on a person maybe they had a distasteful scar in their face and he removed the scar he said sometimes there was a phenomenal change in the person's personality but he said other times they'd remove the scar he was very successful no change in their personality that led him to postulate that we not only have this physical image that reflects back from the mirror we have an inner image of ourself it's how we see ourselves now that inner image is an idea and that idea is generally planted in our little life when we're infants and it's planted by virtue of the environment that we're surrounded by how we're raised if a child's raised with praise they're going to grow up very confident individuals if a child is raised with criticism they're going to grow up very insecure so you see this image that we have it's a picture of how we see ourselves but most of us that image was planted by people that didn't know what the hell was going on they didn't know the war was over and they were planting they were developing a little mind it was a mind they were shaping it like fresh clay they didn't understand that it was a kid they're looking after them we feed them we keep them warm what the hell you know that's our responsibility no it was a mind and they were developing that mind and if they didn't understand what were they going to put in well all they could give to the child is the insecurities that they had themselves so that was the picture that the kid grows up of themselves now i grew up very insecure i was born during the depression when i first went to school the second world war had just broken out so everybody's rationed for everything it was hard times all the men were away fighting in europe or south pacific there was no men doing anything the women that were there were driving the trucks they were cops they did everything so there wasn't a whole lot of time used for developing a little mind so i just grew up and picked up what i could i grew up very insecure it wasn't until i met a man that gave me this book and gave me some damn good instruction that i started to pay attention to who i was and i have never stopped being fascinated with studying me yeah i am the most fascinating subject that i've ever come across and i have found out that you and i are exactly the same we only appear to be different our physical body looks different we choose different vocations some earns more or less than the other but our potential is exactly the same we both live in a physical body we both have these higher mental faculties we're both spiritual beings we both draw on an infinite source of supply we're the same so the trit i think for the person that has insecurities that hasn't got the strongest image they want they should find a damn good mentor that's what changed my life that's what the school of greatness is for doing for people that are tuning into it on a regular basis because i don't think you have any slacks on here i don't think you have people coming on here don't know what the hell they're talking about i don't think you have people come on here just to make a noise i think you come on to pick the best of their mind you're going to pick their mind for their listening audience you got a big name out there it's a lot of people listen to you pay attention and that's why because you're giving them the right information so as we start to gather this information about ourselves our image starts to change and i started to see i'm not this skinny kid that doesn't know what the hell's happening that did poorly in school i'm a spiritual being i have a marvelous mind i can think if i can imagine it i can hold it in my hand i can do anything that i want i've got a little book here this is a little book i've been studying.

What'S that called this is the book.

The secret was based on this is the original what's it called science of getting rich science of getting rich wallace d wattles in fact we're going to be teaching that online i think starts the first of may we have hundreds of people registered and we're going to be teaching it online science of getting rich it's a wonderful book i will have it sent i'll have a book sent to you oh thank you sir appreciate it but now i've had this book for a long time i just keep reading it keep reading keep reading it think and grow rich i keep reading it keep reading and all the books behind me i got thousands of books i am absolutely fascinated with studying who i am and when i'm studying me i'm studying you because we're really all the same the only difference is in results and understanding what's the thing.

That you want to learn and understand that you feel like you know what i haven't fully grasped this concept or idea and i really want to get.

To another level well i'm always wanting to get to another level hopefully i'm at a higher level today than i was yesterday i'm in here around five thirty every morning studying that's how i start my day here well you see there is no end to the growth you always want to grow so you're created in god's image now there's a problem with this because we're raised on our physical senses we grow up and what we've done is had god created in our image in our mind not that we're creating god's image we're taught that we created god in our image so now we're trying to figure out how can the man be omnipresent how can that person be everywhere and because we're locked in on a physical level we get lost when we understand that you have infinite potential there is no top there's no beginning no end see when it comes to school of greatness there is no finish line when it comes to personal development there is no finish line so how can you tell how well you're doing by the results you're getting by their fruit by their fruit you'll know them by the results they're getting if they're not getting the results they don't know so if you're going to get a mentor get somebody that's getting the results yeah or you.

Don'T want them what's the area of your life you feel like you still want to grow more maybe it's not.

All the areas all areas i want to grow in all areas of my life yeah i never want to stop growing i never want to stop learning.

Is there a specific area for you that you feel like you need more work on than others obviously all areas but is there one well there's well.

All of them because my company is nowhere near where i want it we have i picked up a pen way back in nineteen seventy three i was living in glenview illinois i had just left the nightingale kona corporation i worked with earl nightgel and lloyd conan for five years and i sat down and i said i'm going to build a company that operates all over the world i'd absolutely no idea how i was going to do that but i knew if i could think it i could do it because that's what all the great leaders have agreed on they've disagreed and virtually everything else we operate today the proctor gallagher institute operates in eighty eight different countries wow we have consultants that operate that teach our material that represent us in eighty eight different countries when we stream a program we go into around one hundred fifteen countries now if you'd asked me how are you going to do that when i started no idea but i did know this if you set a goal and you know how to do it the goal probably isn't any good ooh it probably isn't any good because you know how to do it you're going to go sideways it's a repeat performance you got to go after something you have absolutely no idea how you're going to do it i've had the good fortune of working with edmund hillary he was a beekeeper from auckland new zealand he was the first man to climb mount everest he went there in fifty one and he failed he went back in fifty two and he failed but in nineteen fifty three he and tenzing norgay stood on top of of the mountain but he couldn't tell you till after he got there how he was going to do it and nobody could tell him because nobody had ever done it so the trick pick a goal that you really want but you have no idea how to do it now there's got to be a big learning curve there and i'm still learning wow that's inspiring.

I love that and hopefully you can find mentors that can who have done it that can guide you and you.

Pick the right ones right here this author the edinburgh lectures on mental science it is a heavy one here's another one the dory lectures on mental science these are written by a thomas troward they were written he back around nineteen ten nineteen twelve they are incredible and they are my mentors today wow he is my mentor if you could only.

Reckon if you can only recommend five books that the world no other books would ever exist except these five books for people to read for the rest of eternity and there would be no other books hypothetical question what five books would you recommend for people think and.

Grow rich as a man thinketh by james allen i'd recommend my own book you are born rich everybody's born rich most people are a little short of money that's all well they should get into this the edinburgh lectures mental science and then i'm going to give you one that's a long ways away from that u square by price pritchett huh okay it's a little tiny book price pritchett is a consultant over in dallas he's written a little book u square it's on quantum physics quantum leaps it's one of the best books i've ever read wow these books are incredible and it's funny troward taught me he said if you come to a point where you can't learn anything from somebody you go inside he says go to the fonsettarigo go to the fountain and source go inside now i mean this in all humility i've been studying this longer than anybody i know yeah there's probably people studying longer than me but i've been studying for fifty nine years and i study it every day i don't know anybody that teaches what we teach like we teach it i've had absolutely incredible teachers so i don't go running around looking for teachers i've got troward what he's written is so rich in truth he's probably one of the greatest authors of the last five hundred years but the trick though louis is you got to keep studying and you only will keep studying if you're going out.

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Something you have no idea how to get there but you know you can get there the way there will be shown as you go after it step by step it will come to you.

Why isn't it shown to us before we start going after it why why does it take us you wouldn't understand.

It you wouldn't understand it see the purpose of a goal is not to get it's not to reach the goal it's the awareness that you develop as you go after it you're learning who you are it's becoming aware of who you are yeah i was in a seminar years and years ago and there was a speaker bill gove bill gove was considered the frank sinatra of public speakers he was incredible he had a handheld mic and he's looking at the audience and he said if i want to be free i've got to be me not the me i think you think i should be not to me i think my kids think i should be not to me i think my wife thinks i should be if i want to be free i've got to be me he said i better know who me is wow now i had a lot of this information at that time it was years ago but i was shy and i wanted to teach it i was afraid to stand up and ask a question in front of an audience and so i made up my mind i was not only going to learn to speak like him i was going to get him to teach me now he became a mentor of mine and i realized then if i take the areas where i'm a little six bit short i'm just not really very good and i didn't go to school so there's a lot of areas i'm going to get the very best and i'm going to do exactly what they tell me that's what i did when the man gave me this book he said do exactly what i'm telling you i did exactly what he said fifteen years or so ago well first of all he became my mentor and very good friend read him until he passed away our company was having financial problems all the time and i could earn all kinds of money but i don't know how to manage it i didn't know how to run a company i mean i wasn't designed for that and i didn't want to learn it i didn't even like the subject but what you need you will attract and we had a lady come to seminar was a securities attorney she fell in love with what we were doing she was a full partner in a company and over a period of time she became our business partner she owns half the company but she runs the company she's the president chief executive of the company i mentioned to her last time you should get around for an interview sometime because she is a fascinating person but she does a phenomenal job here well so i have found in the areas that i'm not very good at i get the very best and i work with them i don't try and learn what they're teaching i get them to do that i get somebody else to do something else because it's going to take me to where i want to go i have a young guy here that runs our studio he's the director of the studio he's absolutely brilliant he set a goal when he was thirteen to work with me i remember this he was living in manchester in england and he watched the secret and he saw me he said i'm going to work with him thirteen years later he's here in the studio and he runs this place i love that he's incredible he can record and send it from anywhere in the world he can come in here and do everything and i found that's one of the secrets of getting to where you want to go you need help you got to have help you got to have a.

Lot of help you're saying we can't just do it all on our own.

Bob never going to do it on your own it won't go very far if you're doing it alone i'm curious.

I feel like you've got again decades of wisdom and knowledge from history that you you lived through and experienced personally firsthand you said you grew up during the second world war what was the lesson you learned in the second world war at that time that people should know about today during this time two.

Different crisis well it's only in retrospect that i learned these things because we go back and i have to go back and we were all everything was rationed so people were getting accustomed to live on lack and limitation it was part of the programming and in looking back the great lesson is don't let what's going on program you in fact it's a good point to bring out right now because of this pandemic that's going on we must not let this program us this does not have to define us doesn't have to dictate where we're going to go it's got nothing to do with our destiny as a kid everything was rationed i remember gum chewing gum was rationed in fact there's a good story i'm going to take the time to tell you about it we would go to the store our father was in europe fighting and we would send care packages every now and then they would mail them and they would get through and we'd have pictures you know of the family and all this stuff and we'd put a package of gum in sometimes we would be at the store and if somebody if they put a package of gum out it would just be one little box it would be gone like that because you couldn't buy gum during the war wrigley's did not make gum during the war they couldn't and one of us would hold the gum while the other one home see if there was enough money to buy it because tim bank not even enough money we'd have to put it back during the second world war wrigleys could not make gum the basic ingredient apparently for making gum comes from the philippine islands the japanese who were in charge of the philippine islands they had occupied the philippine islands you couldn't get in to get the gum wrigley seemed to know that the war would be over they'd be able to get the stuff we'd win the war and he'd get the stuff to build the gum he never stopped advertising buy wrigley spearmint gum all during the second world war even though they couldn't make it great lesson in there about advertising people wouldn't believe that lived through the second world war wouldn't believe that they couldn't make gum then because he just kept enough and he'd leak a little bit out every now and then to different places wow great lesson in advertising.

There wow it's kind of like but.

I think the greatest lesson that i've learned is looking back my mother god bless her she was a special woman she did not let that control her and i think any really good qualities i've got for growing and building came from her she raised three of us on her own and god only knows how she did it she was like a magician because she sure didn't have any help but she did it and she instilled us that if you want it you can get it that's beautiful.

It sounds like it sounds like you were holding wrigley's gun back then just like people are doing with the hand sanitizer right now so that was the.

Yeah but you see people are permitting this to program them right now.

If.

You'Re not thinking this stuff's going right into your subconscious mind and whatever goes in there repetition over and over and over becomes part of our behavior and.

It'S.

You can't deny it it's there but absolutely refuse to let it control you understand you can be thinking of how to win how to get it done how to go and do better and you may have to adapt you may have to change the game but you can change the game we are probably going to change the way we operate forever over the next few months we're prepared to do that that's what sandy was holding the meeting today with all the company she was teaching them all we got to get together we got to bring our mind together we've got to understand that this doesn't control us we control us yeah how important.

In your mind is writing down things like affirmations gratitude dreams how important is the act of writing what we think down on a daily basis is it.

Important see this page yep well at the top of it today i am grateful for there's ten spaces that'll be done tomorrow morning today was three hundred and thirty three days i've done that every day not only that but then i have a statement here i am so happy and grateful now that i realize my spiritual dna is perfect and that perfection is within me i begin each day looking for areas of my life where i want to see that perfection expressed habitually i write that statement out every day with my left hand and i'm not left handed huh i'm programming myself i've been doing that for three hundred and thirty three days now i'm changing the way i do something i want to gain an understanding of just how powerful that paradigm is i want to go to this hand because i can do it fast it's very awkward but i've been doing it for three hundred thirty three days i'll do it for three hundred sixty five days but i have here written down ten things i'm grateful for that's the first thing i do every morning at five.

Thirty wow so you believe it's very.

Important yeah see the repetition of all good material is very important it's extremely important repetition is how you fix the ideas or the information in your subconscious mind it's the ideas that are fixed in the subconscious mind that control our behavior that's the paradigm you don't think and then do when you get up in the morning you automatically move into action you're programmed it's your paradigm in your subconscious mind what people hear on the school of greatness when they tune into this they're going to hear great ideas most of which they probably don't do if they would hear one and say that is one hell of a good idea i am going to do that they should write it down and then write it out as an affirmation i'm so happy and grateful now that i am do it every day write it out every day until you see yourself automatically doing it see you're not going to do they're not going to do everything they hear on here but if every day they listen they get one idea and say i'm going to turn that into a habitual part of my personality they're going to end up really a big winner that's where greatness comes from i think i might have told you last time i was with you that robert russell was a great author he said there's no secret to greatness he said it's simply doing little things in a great way every day i love that that's the school of greatness is doing little things in a great way every day what's the thing.

That you wish you would have started doing sooner that habitual habit you know ten years ago thirty years ago forty years ago that you just started doing in the last five years that you're like man i wish i would have done this as my routine ten twenty.

Thirty years ago i wished i had got really good financial guidance and listened to it when i first started yeah.

Do you make some bad i didn't.

Do that yeah you see there's no sin in not knowing how to do something the sin is in keep doing it wrong don't follow people's advice i think the trick is to go to people that have demonstrated by results they really know what they're doing then do exactly what they tell you i'll give you a good example i was doing a seminar for a prudential way back in the seventies and i did seminars for that whole company at one time and one of the first groups we had was at the hillside holiday inn in chicago i had four hundred fifty of their agents in the room the prudential give out a president's trophy to the number one anything number one vice president number one manager number one salesperson ron sempertrain was the number one agent out of twenty thousand agents that year and i found out he was in the room so at one point in the seminar i said ron i'd like to ask you a question i said how many people in the last year have asked you if they could take you out for breakfast or lunch with a half a dozen well prepared questions and asked you how did you become number one not one no one had done that and i thought wow well you know i use that as an example i think i was guilty of that for a long time yeah i was really guilty because i kept losing i did nothing right i couldn't go anywhere do anything and then i met a man gave me think and grow rich ray stanford he always i didn't know him well but he always had money a lot of money on him i never had any i mean i was always broke i was unhappy i had dumb jobs i was going nowhere left school two months high school and he said if you do exactly what i'm telling you you can give anything you want of course i didn't believe that here i am i'm in debt nothing was going right and you could have anything you want i don't know why but i listened to him i think the key was he said listen your way's not working why don't you try mine i think that's what got me i started to do exactly what he said my income went from four thousand dollars a year to fourteen thousand five hundred dollars a month in a year i've earned millions of dollars i found earning money as one of the simplest things in the world to do but if you don't know that you won't believe that it's the hardest thing to do yeah most people think it's the hardest that is because we've never been taught how to earn money i was doing a broadcast here a couple of weeks ago and i just did q and a just open q and a people anywhere could ask me we had thousands of people on and there was one person said i'm really stuck i don't know what to do what should i do i just figured out how to go and help somebody stop and think of what you're pretty good at go help somebody quit looking for somebody to help you figure out how to help somebody else now i said that's probably going to be a difficult thing for you to do because you're probably dominated with the fact that you're stuck right now forget that for a moment stop and think how can you go and help somebody because of course that's the secret to success it is it's a secret of earning money i like the way ziglar used to put that zig ziglar help other people get what they want they'll always give you what you want it's so true how.

Can everyone watching and listening right now get more mentorship from you what's the program they can be a part of where can they listen follow because people.

Need to listen to you we've got all kinds of programs lois and first of all if they go on our site go to proctorgallagher dot com comma they can download the book you were born rich it's free we'll give it away and i wrote that in nineteen eighty four what i did i sat down and i broke down into parts how i got to where i was then i was doing very well in nineteen eighty four and had been for a number of years and so i broke it all down and i put it in a book the books in many different languages now and millions of them out there we give it away and we have six minutes to success i think it costs about twenty five dollars a month or something like that where i'll send you a video every morning every morning we have coaching programs if they just leave we will even do we've got all kinds of people in our company we we'll do a half hour coaching program for nothing all a person does is go to proctorgallagher dot com and just leave your name and say i'd like to be coached for an hour half hour we'll do it for nothing what people need to realize yet that there is a simple way out of their dilemma they don't have to look at a black wall that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it's not a train coming at them you know they've got to get the idea that there is a better way and there's places where you can get help we give help that's what our company is all about we have thousands of people as i say in eighty eight countries so it doesn't matter where a person is in the world we can help them and that's what we're all about that's all we want to do that's what my whole life's about and that's what the people in our company is.

All about i think everyone needs to be mentored by you i want to find a way where i can call you once a month or once every couple months bob and just chat on.

The phone i will have you got my phone number you call me anytime.

You want i will i appreciate it.

I will see you get my phone i'll give you my cell number and you can call me anytime you want listen i've got a lot of respect for what you're doing thank you and i think the audience should know you're one of the biggest in the game you're one of the biggest names out there and to be on your program is quite an honor i was humbled that you wanted me to be on the first place you do really good work and i would encourage everybody that comes into your show they get other people to come on you've got to lead more people to this kind of information because you're not hearing it every day and you're not hearing it at all on television anymore and you're not getting it in a newspaper but this good news is out there and there is a better way i don't care how desperate things look it can get better ralph waldo trine wrote a great book in tune with the infinite and in that book he said nothing is good or bad except our thinking makes it so everything just is we make it good or bad through our thinking i don't care what it is we make it good or bad through our thinking michael beckwith who is a dear friend and very wise individual he said something interesting that we could apply to this what's going on in our world today he said when anything happens there's a three step approach to it number one i don't care what happens to you it is what it is accept it it's either going to control you or you're going to control it number two harvest the good there's good in everything i love the term harvest the good see a farmer out there harvesting the good and number three forgive all the rest it is what it is accept it it's going to control you or you'll control it harvest the good and forgive all the rest and i think that's what we got to start doing we got to get more into this we got to lead other people into it help other people understand it there is a way i always say when a guy that was losing as badly as i was and i was really losing when they can turn out and win and at eighty six i've got as much energy as most people thirty six and no intentions of slowing down i mean why would i want to do that and if i can win anybody can win i think that's why i'm effective at what i do because i came from such a horrible place and started winning life is good and i think it's a great trip and we should enjoy every step of it but we only do that when we learn to use our higher faculties i'm going to run through them once more yes please perception the will reason imagination memory and intuition your perception is how you see things i love the way draw the blanket his name now a good friend used to say when you change the way you look at something what you look at changes it's true the will it's the ability to hold one idea on the screen of the mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions memory there's no such thing as a bad memory everybody's got a perfect memory reason it's what gives you the ability to think that enables you to just pluck stuff out of the ether spirit and turned into a thought imagination anything you can hold in your head you can hold in your hand if you can see it in here you can turn it into results what we're doing right now is nothing but the expression of somebody's imagination the fact we're communicating with the thousands of people right now the way we are it's the manifestation of somebody's imagination and the intuition intuition is that higher faculty that picks up energy and reads it it's a psychic ability it's phenomenal i have a very highly tuned in intuitive factor not by accident by design i developed it anybody can you pick up the vibration it's your intuition intuition never lies it's spirit talking to you and every.

Time i get to sit down with bob proctor i'm always taking notes so make sure you guys have your pen and paper out you're taking notes like i am because that's how you learn to remember better is by receiving the information from the great mentors and then applying it in the paper and repeating it over and over like you said bob you're such a gift and inspiration to so many of us thank you for speaking light and wisdom into us thank you for reminding of us of our greatness and for giving us these tools recommendations if you guys are enjoying this and you found some value make sure to share this with your friends online tag bob as well i think proctor gallagher is that your instagram and.

Social media proctor gallagher if they go bob proctor they'll find me yeah make.

Sure you tag prob follow him go to the website get the book you're giving away for free i think other stuff other free content you were born rich you get mentorship on there you can sign up for the other programs you are an inspiration bob and i hope you're around for another eighty six years my friend so thank you for me too all your goodness all the greatness you bring to people and i'm so grateful for you my friend louis.

My pleasure thank you for having me on.

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