A five-step framework for getting what you want: believe in possibilities, expect opportunities, learn to receive help and celebration, become the identity you meditate on, and release or share what you have. The speaker uses stories from Jaws and Nelson Mandela to show how each step works.
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There are five steps to unlocking the magic. Step one is believe. The first step in finding the magic in life. It is realizing that things are still possible. We can get to the point where we believe in our thoughts, our words, and even our actions. Step number two is to expect. In this step, you will learn practical steps that will create an environment for the magic and in your everyday life. Let me just say one thing about expect. I came out of a friend of mine's office in downtown LA and I saw a man that was standing by a bus stop. I thought that was an interesting thing. He was leaning in, looking for something. So I said to him, I said, hey, why are you leaning like that? And he says, I'm waiting for the bus. It's the last bus of the night and I don't want to miss it. So he was expecting that bus to come, but he was leaning in. When you are expecting something, there's a lean in a new job, a lean in a better life, a lean in something to think about. Step three is receive. I will teach you how to embrace the power of being celebrated by yourself in others. Some of you are really good at giving, but you are terrible at receiving. And this has been a challenge in my life. So I'm pretty good at teaching it because I love to help people. I like to be there. If somebody's moving furniture, I want to be the guy that helps carry the couch. But when someone wants to do something for me, when somebody wants to celebrate me or even bless me or give me something for many, many years, it was hard to receive. Well, that's not always positive because you could believe, expect. And then that good thing comes to your door and you push it away. Opportunities, jobs, relationships, friendships. I'm going to teach you how to be a better receiver. Step four, you become. In this step, you will learn how to align yourself with the magic and in every area of your life. There was a movie called Jaws. Jaws was so powerful. Steven Spielberg, it literally made me nervous as a kid to go in a swimming pool. I was thinking, there could be sharks. It's water. You would hear the theme song. Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. In this movie, Jaws, there's a great scene where Richard Dreyfus, in his big breakout movie role, plays this guy and he finds a shark. Some of you guys remember this. He cuts the shark open, cuts it open, and inside was license plates and all kinds of things that the shark had eaten. Whatever the shark had eaten was being cut open by Richard Dreyfus. And I started thinking about this one time. Same thing in our lives. Whatever we are thinking, whatever we are meditating on, that is what is inside of us. So we are what we eat, we are what we think, we are what we imagine. I believe you can get to the point where you believe, expect, receive, and you become a magical person. Wouldn't it be awesome to that? You walked into a room and somebody says, here is an answer. Here's an answer to a difficult day. Here's an answer to a difficult problem. Here is somebody that just changed the temperature of the room. I believe in magic, and I believe that you are magical. Step five, you release. One of my favorite parts of this. Believe, expect, receive, become, and then release. Finally, you will learn how to be the magic in your world. Nelson Mandela, as I said earlier, he became the magic in South Africa, but not only there, but literally all over the world. It's easy enough for me to sit here and tell you the five steps, but I know from experience that it's easier said than done, because most people have a very significant hurdle to overcome before they can even take that first step.
