Voted Best Speech at A-fest Costa Rica 2015, Vishen outlined a path we can all follow to elevate our level of consciousness and live a limitless life.
How To Defy Convention And Become Truly Limitless — Vishen Lakhiani
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so I’m going to share with you what bring work and the panel this
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presentation is the evolution of consciousness but you could just as well
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call it disc how to defy convention and become truly limitless supposed to share
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where I got this framework from so I teach a course online called
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consciousness engineering it is thank you you guys that in the past I believe
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now consciousness engineering started because I thought that billions of
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people today if you are a human being on the planet and you went to school you
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got an inadequate education nobody taught you how to be a better parent how
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to be more conscious how to exercise and take care of your body
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how to contribute to the world how to dream bigger how to get rid of all the
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crap that we get piled on ourselves as children consciousness engineering is
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basically a school ok and what happens is I get hundreds of the world’s
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greatest teachers from billionaire the bio hackers to the world’s best-selling
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authors to come and teach their biggest inside their biggest heart in one hour
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each and all we do is every two weeks released one training and people who
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attend consciousness engineering say it’s one of the most transformational
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programs they’ve ever had and because we want to get the south to millions we
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drop the prices by 29 bucks a month to be made it really accessible for all of
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this with them so thousands of people attended school every month
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ok and they have incredible insights but the thing is as the host of the school I
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also end up getting this incredible insights from the people I talk to you
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and the last couple of months I had a number of conversations trainings with
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these individuals Michael better luck with job I tally Emily Fletcher yes give
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them a round of applause di incredible
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warned them in a bit but there was this pattern that started emerging and I
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started noticing that they seems to be some sort of a road map that people go
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through as they expand their awareness of who they are I want to share that
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with you so I believe that they are five levels of evolution of consciousness now
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but it’s not as culpable but you can see little 0 is where we stopped and we go
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from 0 to 12 340 goes on to level 1 level 2 level 3 level for now
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little 00 not level one because the human Homo Sapien the human race has
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since in the last two thousand or so years bypass
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completely we are now mostly starting off at level one that’s where 95% of
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humanity is right now
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level 1 most of you who are here at level 20 higher and we’ll come to that
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but humanity started out at level 0 let me explain
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little 0 was early man when mankind first separated itself from animal to
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the faculty of language we moved from level 02 level one so lonely man was
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basically more tribal more egocentric to use can can will boast
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definition it was about how complete it was about competing with other men for
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that bush with the berries for that animal that you were going to hunt for
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food but with the faculty of language we begin to differentiate ourselves from
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animals and that’s when we got to level 1 level one is when you see an eight can
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see and study chimpanzees and scientists have found this that chimpanzees can say
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watch out Tiger but early but as men involved men develop language to such a
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degree where it wasn’t just a simple statement we could say hey bob don’t go
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to the river you might get eaten as I saw Tiger lingering there but that
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packwood your flag which also allows us to create
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cognitive world meaning religion mythology culture tribes cultural
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symbols that’s when mankind move to level 18 level one didn’t just stop at
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that in the last 100 years we’ve used level 1 the cognitive world to create
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things such as corporations meditation passion base work careers 925
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mindfulness all of these exist solely in the cockpit of plain you cannot touch
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them but we know what they are because they are ideas that we have in our heads
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so that’s when we moved level one which is more than men
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this is where 95% of the human race is today that the couple unique things
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about level 1 level one is all made up we made up their forefathers made it up
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and explain this to take on these constructs if you believe in your
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religion your level one if you believe in 925 you believe in corporations you
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believe in mindfulness your level 1 there’s no good or bad or judgment in
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level one important thing is we are living in a world of mental constructs
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but a couple of problems in double one level one we tend to be at what some
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people call the victim stage Michael Beckwith calls this the victim stage
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stage means we live in this world of constructs but we have forgotten that we
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can end we can fix weekend more of this world and so rather than go out there
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and try to change this world we react like a victim he said that my government
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is keeping me down the world is like this and most people live like that they
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feel helpless in the face of this giant seven billion human being planet that we
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live on which so much happening all the time but at a certain point you start
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waking up and when you start waking up that’s when you start getting to level 2
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I called able to the state of the culture happier to see what happens at
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level 2 at little to you start questioning culture know what is culture
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culture according to you about how we use to historian who wrote the book
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sapiens culture is nothing more
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then all I human beliefs and all our human rituals and practices coming
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together but culture isn’t just religion culture is ideas of getting a college
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degree to be successful
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its ideas of joining cooperation of being an entrepreneur all of these a
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cockpit of concepts which come from culture but the thing is when you get to
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level two you stop developing an idea that culture is an absolute truth and
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you can hack it you can bend it you can get your own desires in the words of
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Steve Jobs you realize that everything in the world around you was made up of
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people know started the new and you can change things and when you get this said
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Steve Jobs you will never be the same again I love that quote but that’s
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what’s happening at the level of culture hacker culture hacker something
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interesting
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begins the world of questioning we start questioning most people don’t question
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because you know when a kid grows up in this house and the parents why why why
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why most parents will simply say because I told you so but so we did they kill
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the ability to question it an early age but most of you are here because you
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question if you’re watching this is a video on youtube you’re curious you’re
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beginning to question congratulations you already most likely at level 20
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level two is the level of questioning but something else happens at level 2
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and level to not only are you questioning culture but you begin to see
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that the world around you is bendable you don’t like the 95 great you become
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an entrepreneur or you start a company but sexy time you don’t like the idea of
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marriage great you come up with your own ideas of how one man and a woman should
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relate you don’t like the idea of college degree no problem you drop out
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and start your own thing you begin to culture to question the conventions of
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culture and this is where an important insight enters your hit life can happen
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to you all like it happened from you when you grasp the idea that like this
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within your control that you have the ability to bend reality you’re at level
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two now this is what this a test was about teaching you that the Leafs a
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hackable
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believes a swappable remember culture is nothing more than a police bus rituals
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so when you learn that believes are not you
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beliefs that possess you but those beliefs can be plucked out and replaced
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with more empowering beliefs you have started to understand this phrase that
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light can happen to you all I can happen from you you can create life through the
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process of questioning of hacking beliefs and filling your mind with
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empowering beliefs not necessarily the beliefs from your parents your school
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your education your religion or your culture you identify the difference
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between a rule and a bruise or bullshit rule and you start to see that we are
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swimming in a sea of bullshit rules that we can choose to question and if not now
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at this point something interesting happens the idea that your thoughts can
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create your reality this is not just a mystical statement based on mumbo-jumbo
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the Law of Attraction if you believe in that that’s great that’s a bit belief
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that you can literally question and ship reality because you can question because
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the plane most of the world we live in right now is nothing more than ideas
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which may have already hit the expiration date but which we are still
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playing with so now you get to toss out that idea out of your refrigerator and
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put in a fresh one now with this point something interesting happens right
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your level to your the culture hacker and you start growing at an accelerated
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peace when you get to level two so you’ll grow its like this when you get
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to level 2 it starts growing like that because you start seeing that the world
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is under your control that you can question and I want to share with you
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are really important piece of wisdom that I learnt from Michael Beckwith so
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michael was one of the trainers who came on consciousness engineering and we had
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an incredible conversation and he put on an incredible training that people lived
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in that training so this is not just a clip from that training but he spoke
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about an idea call Satori versus can show and he said this right this one of
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the most powerful ideas that work
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Michael Beckwith said that you can learn and grow in one of two ways you can go
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through Sept or early moments of Tory moments of moments of sudden awakening
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this is when you’re meditating and all of a sudden you have this feeling of
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connectedness with the entire world now where they are they are powerful
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awakenings but they are where most people brought you can show can show is
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grope true so someone breaks your heart and it’s painful but you learn to be
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more resilient you learned self-love you learn how to have a healthy relationship
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you ended up hospitalized but you grow thru can show and you learn to take
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better care of your body you might lose a business can show hits you but you
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learn to invest in your group
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learn new business skills plan better and you launched at your business to be
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successful so boats at Orion capsule and nothing more than incredible ways for
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you to grow but we understand the idea of potential you know every time he hits
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you I don’t change my way of dealing with pain every time I’m like 10 I curse
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but I know that it’s just a way to kick my butt and some great learning is gonna
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come from it that’s an incredible believed to have the belief that can
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show is really nothing more than a universe’s way of reaching you to get
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you to turn to the right direction is not amazing and then there’s the tory
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tory also is a great way to grow is a little bit rare but it still happens now
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as you go through enough can show ends the Tory something interesting happens
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you started questioning everything about the world and when you start questioning
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everything about the world including some of the fundamental fruits be an
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entrepreneur get a career you hit level now at level 3 in Michael beckwith’s
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words something very unique happens you stop getting obsessed with goals with
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even the great goals that society says you need to have instead you become a
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servant to a higher calling those are his words so let’s look at global level
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3 is what I call
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state of limitless and I want to share a really interesting thing that happens
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that level 3 and here I’m gonna share from another teacher unconscious
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engineering job Italian soldier by Tali went from homeless was sleeping in his
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car he went from homeless to being the author of 15 books being in 15 + movies
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and producing 15 music albums he’s one of the most incredible generators of
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ideas I’ve ever seen but you like ellie has a really interesting idea on how
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he’s able to produce so much work he says he woke up he didn’t use the same
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language as Michael Beckwith but I know this book these great men were talking
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about that same extension of consciousness now Joe Vitale said
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inspiration leads to intention in fact his exact words were intention is to win
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it you think you’re simply going to go out there and make a list of all your
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goals and decide I’m gonna check that off thats your way of doing it he says
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that a certain level of waking up you are tempted you’re tuned in
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you want not separate from life or so the universal god whatever you want to
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call it
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you what one with it and you get inspiration you get downloads and these
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downloads are what design your intention so you think you came up with a goal to
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write that book a startup company that courts bullshit someone was speaking to
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you and planting that in you and whether you call that light boss or universe you
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were chosen and your job is to just take the order to make it happen
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and this is another belief that I want to discard let me share with you this
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analogy the compass in the rocket most people set goals and then they rocket
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towards those goals decide I’m gonna do this and this and this to get to that
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goal but when you get to stage 3 you don’t just think of a golden rocket
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towards it
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you first tune into an internal pompous to find out if you’re pointing in the
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right direction what if that person you want to be with isn’t really the person
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you’re meant to be with what if that’s cool that you want to get into isn’t
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where you’re going to meet your future stormy
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future business partner what if the trip that you want to take the Brazil isn’t
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going to be the country where you’re going to meet that man or woman that
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you’re going to fall in love with you should really be going to a different
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country what if that business that you want to stop is unnecessary
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it’s going to be able to selling craptastic products but that’s something
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we more important that you need to do for the world when you get to level 3
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ensure mission inspiration died your intention and that was one of the most
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powerful new believes that I developed in the last couple of years now when I
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started doing that things changed now wanna share another word of wisdom this
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game from Emily Fletcher such as an incredible meditation instructor she
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spoke at a fest last year she has spoken at Harvard Business School at Google and
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Emily shed a really interesting story with me so she was talking about this
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idea that the universe does not play favorites
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we’re all equal in the eyes of the universe universe doesn’t play favorites
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and she said she heard the story about Michael Jackson you would wake up at 3
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a.m. and called his agent and go fireflies we need to do fireflies and
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agents like Michael it’s 3 a.m. why you waking me up and I need to write the
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song fireflies in the agents also raided michael kors know I need right at right
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now because if I don’t read it right now
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princes gonna write it
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what Emily was saying is that the universe doesn’t play favorites it
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decides that something has to be born in the human scape you might need a
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convenient person who has the assets to make it really may not realize it but it
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realizes you but if you do not listen to that inspiration it’ll just go over bob
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is already let me go talk to sam so when that inspiration comes no matter what
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people say no matter how crazy it is you want to listen to it and if you want
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level 3 know that you want to start moving towards it now when you do this
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your life starts changing this is when you truly start living a mission
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oriented black and yes happiness is amazing what you can get happiness from
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smoking a joint real real real real gold in like I believe is both filming
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nothing nothing nothing nothing makes you as happy when you’re living a
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mission oriented life and that mission is designed to push the human race ball
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with one of my most favorite waltzes business people do it for the dollars
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that will underpin yes they do with the pushing forward but you get there when
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you’re listening to get inspiration the universe pics you and you’re ready to
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move so that’s level that’s where you want to be named Michael Beckwith said
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something really interesting You Know Why ask them how many accelerate people
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moving to level 2 he says you don’t have to sit or intentions will take care of
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that but here’s the important thing
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Michael said when you can see the levels when you understand the framework you
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immediately are getting yourself away to Ascended Master so just by understanding
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this framework you speed up your evolution from two to three now why is
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the mission oriented important while I spoke about this might be a presentation
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missions give us meaning they give us fulfillment the Dalai Lama once it you
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want to be happy
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learn to make other people happy nothing makes you happier than being able to
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contribute the mission oriented life will not just give you meaning because
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you’re contributing to bettering the human race but
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it will reward you with so much abundance and so much opportunity that
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you never dreamed you could live like that all the greatest entrepreneurs I
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know a living
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mission oriented life’s people like Elon Musk like Larry Page like Peter
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Diamandis they’re doing incredible change the world but you don’t have to
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play at that level you could be running an organic farm you could be writing a
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children’s story book you could be a blogger sharing wisdom with a pool of
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just a thousand people but if that is what you feel is your mission oriented
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life that is what is going to give you full film now there’s something very
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important on why you want to get that we’re going to come down a moment
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mission oriented like it’s just about fulfillment bettering the human race
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there for things that happened when you get to this level and these for things
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like magic will talk about the moment but first let’s talk about the final
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level the gold mine that is level 4 to level four is more mysterious level I
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had conversations with Ken Wilber was America’s most cited living philosopher
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and Ken Wilber said today in the world there may be only four of five people
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were functioning at the gold mine only four or five billion at the goldmine
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you’re basically you basically feel a connection with all life now some of us
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experience glimpses of it while under certain forms of deep meditation under
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certain drugs that works as well I experienced it briefly in the rainforest
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in Ecuador which shamans under but for most of us it’s a single fleeting thing
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many people who experienced out of body experiences experience that got my level
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and when they come back they are suddenly at local police and their lives
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and never the same again so don’t worry about the gold mine is experimenting
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with that was trying to figure out what is this ability this level but is there
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now at the goldmine the fundamental thing is total connectedness you start
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to realize that you are not you you are almost like to use the word
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a particle of God or God Achill
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McGonigle in a meet body on a giant rock crawling through space having a ton of
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fun and experiment with your article creation ability that’s what happens
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when you when you get to level but it also because you are a god you’re part
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of a larger hole a part of a larger hole you tend to be very compassionate
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towards the human race you tend to realize that they are no limits and
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traditional problems that but most people just don’t don’t burden you
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because you are so much more
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ok but again it’s a very very very incredible level of connectedness most
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of us experience it in glimpses may be at a certain point the human race will
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have all the way we are all living as many gods in our own conscious Kingdom
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but that somewhere in the future so for now I want to talk about this state the
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state of limitless no notice something right at state 14 of the state to your
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culture happy you start to understand that your thoughts can create your
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reality you can things you can call the cops on a plane at state three you can
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copy of plane but you walk into a higher calling I compare it this way at state
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you have a boss that boss takes care of you
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he’s going to make you well you gonna get crazy abundance he’s gonna clear
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roadblocks he’s dead a listen to you but you gotta take the marching orders so
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when you get to state three unique entrepreneur but you’re very confident
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entrepreneur because you’re not doing it alone you have a power Abbas that’s
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helping guide you know there are a number of really unique qualities about
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State of the State of limitless gonna be talking a lot about these qualities and
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the state in my upcoming book called to an extraordinary mind but let me assure
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them that we gonna go deep the first is a sense of connectedness with all life
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the second is your tapped into intuition that the inspiration Dr Hugh intention
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and the pot luck is on your side let’s go deeper
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first time that happens when you get to the state of limitless you started
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questioning or the rules all the brew
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rules of bullshit rules of society you realize religion is a broad the great
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things about religion but you can happen religion you don’t just have to be a
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Catholic adjustable you can take the best of all the beauty that human
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spirituality has provided around the world flock together like Lego bricks
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create your own religion you do not have to conform to realize when you get to
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state three that the idea of ethnicity or race or nation court is another
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bullshit human rule we are one race the human race on one planet you do not have
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to come as Ken Wilber sees you were more drunk egocentric to ethnocentric to
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world centric you were just as concerned about Syrian refugees as you are about
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homeless people in your city you I’m not just thinking about your own bank
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account but trying to figure out how can we elevate all people know it doesn’t
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mean that you’re giving away or whether any of those like other crazy theories
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about socialist all it means is that like many of the world’s greatest
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billionaire’s like Bill Gates or Warren Buffett you want thinking about how you
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can use your money and your power for good to uplift humanity ok so the first
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is the state of connectedness now there’s a second thing that happens when
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you get to this level and the second thing is intuition because you’re
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connected your tapped in know what happens when you’re trapped in this is
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when inspiration flows through you when I had to be joined by Tali I noticed
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something really interesting about this man there was no preparation for the
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interview he just flowed and it was poetic and I could see how he could
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write fifty books and produce 15 music albums you just load and he says I don’t
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know what I’m gonna see all I know is I have to open the link and it flows true
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me you’ll notice many other great people
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Lisa Nichols channels Christie Marie Sheldon channels i channel Jeffrey Allen
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sitting over there
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channels this
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in you can learn this to rate brightest great artists great musicians talked
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about situations where they just seemed to channel now we tend to associate this
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with artists musicians but it’s also great entrepreneurs Elon Musk did wake
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up one night with the mathematical formula in his head on how he could help
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his rocket be more optimized and the traditional rockets of its time many
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great entrepreneurs wake up with their crazy ideas I asked Richard Branson once
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how do you know which part the business which he said well when I shake
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someone’s hand I usually get a feeling within 60 seconds
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think about that for a moment intuition is what happens when you get to the
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state so you’re tempted right you’re connected this connection connectedness
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bills that intuition this leads to the build quality inspired action intention
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is for wimps I stopped having a go list what I do is I listened and I get it
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calling or pulse impulse to do certain things often especially one of those
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things to just kind of came to me as a calling i never set a goal when I was
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graduating from college that I would stop a giant party / conference / really
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cool people / Costa Rica beach same pool whirlpool that there wasn’t it
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action you get these crazy ideas and they just feel right and many great
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entrepreneurs I know many great create as many great employees do this they get
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these inspirations so again what is a patent step one you’re connected step 2
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because you connected your downloading step 3 because you downloading you are
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taking inspired action but there’s a fought one and the poor quality that
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happens when you get to the state of limitless is dis luck can explain it but
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I believe this is what’s going on your boss that higher power this just give
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you marching orders he clears the way what happens is if you happen to march
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in the wrong direction
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something will happen bill can show a moment to just correct you and if you’re
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marching towards the right
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hauling everything becomes easy life becomes an uphill climb that’s why
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people who are operating at the state all the obstacles cleared and we call
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them we use words such as a visionary or lucky or you know they had tons of money
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or you know they had political connections maybe but I believe the
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number one thing they have in all of us can learn this too is elevated their
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consciousness to a state where they’ve learnt to tap in to get that calling and
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then to trust to move forward and to see everything else clear from their part
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think about moments in your life where everything seems so easy
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think about the state you want in and you will notice that often when you set
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out on that journey on that part of that company on that project could be really
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small could be really big could be something as simple as deciding that you
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wanted to raise a really beautiful kid and then just becoming a parent or could
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be starting a hundred million dollar business it will feel like it was a
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calling and went obstacles hit you they rapidly clearly maybe been promoted to
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the rapidly create luck comes on your side deals if the universe has your back
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and this is why you want to get to the state of limitless
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first sense of connectedness second you’re tapping tradition good
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inspiration right you intention fought luck is on your side so that’s what I
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wanted to share with you that’s where I wanted to give you a sense of where you
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can go but it all starts with questioning questioning everything about
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the world that you have learnt is absolutely true and beginning to go I
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make my own rules
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thank you
