7 steps to achievement

 change story from im being beat up by life, to I'm on the heroes journey will change everything

ENERGY BUMP

say yes, say yes, say yes. 

how many of you right now are being called on an adventure? 

if you resists it the stress is going to go through the roof. 

when you go through it you have to train yourself. lets take this and turn it into. workshop where you can make progress immediately. you have to be where you be at to feel alive immediately. what actually makes us feel great is progress. on the path of progress , achievement, I know I'm moving forward. if you're overweight and start working out all of sudden , you feel alive. thats what we're all seeking. were all seeking to feel more alive. I'm so cimttied to conditioning. not a thought. a habit. conditioning. 

the 7 steps to go from the begging to achieve anything you want. the first 4 are heard last 3 easy. 

1. what you really want? activate.  lose weight, have energy. be a certain size.  awaken your hunger.  10 figure ppl have one thing in common - hunger. hunger to give. create. most ppl deaden their hunger through food alcohol drugs because they've been disappointed and dont want to get exited. disappointment is the secret to success . like criticism. be nothing do nothing is the secret to not being critizinces .but thats not being alive. dissapoinintemn happens all the time. turn it into drive and you'll have a different life. but you have to train the body and mind to do that. awaken the hunger. develop a vision. without a vision ppl perish. if you don't have a compelling future. anyone cn have a difficult today if they have a compelling tomorrow.  ppl say I dont want this or that. reasons come first. answers come second. if you have a big enough why you'll figure out how. the first step . think of an area of your life where you'd like to make a significant improvement . body finances joy . firs step to knowing your on the path is the brain knows what it wants . activate the RAS. articulating system.  think of 1 area you want to improve. must write it or its worthless . whats a specific result that you want.  not I want to lose weight. specific amount .  what would you really accomplish in this area.  in next 6-12 months or less. 

50 pounds in next 6 months.  will feel powerful . light. energy. strong.  a physical representation of will . a reminder of self actualizing. a living embodiment of these principle. legitimacy for influence .  sets the foundation. how will it feel. fun. joy. energy. love potential. will feel green light for any station with confidence. 

why: how will it make you feel. what will it do for family kids ppl you love. for you. why must you. why will you make it happen. 

summarize, title, apply, " In the elixir, you're the hero of your own life. If the life is magnificent, tell me, what do you think happens? That's right, peace for sure, joy for sure, but the next venture will show up. The next call to adventure will show up. See, it's not life without problems, it's just like better quality ones. Right now, you get a better quality challenge. Apple was trying to survive 20 years ago. Then they came up with the idea of doing music on iTunes, and pretty soon they owned the digital market at 88% of the market. It's hard to grow when you have 88% of the market. That's a quality problem, isn't it? What is the problem? They said, you've got to solve it, keep growing. Now they're one of the most successful companies in history and they're near bankruptcy, right? It's like, we're gonna continue to be called. So why not embrace life instead of feeling beat up by it? Because your story of, I'm being beat up by life versus I'm on the journey, the hero's journey, changes everything. Now let me see value in this and looking at your own life at some stage. You make some noise if you get some value. Stand up, shake your body out just for a moment. Stand up, shake your body out. Make a sound of excitement, ladies and gentlemen. Virtual high five or a fist bump. Say you rock baby, so do I. Nice. Now sit down and peek's fate. If you're feeling strong, make that fist say yes. Say yes. Say yes. How many of you right now, how many of you right now are being called on an adventure? You may have called it I have a big ass problem. How many have been called on an adventure, right? Right? And if you resist it, the stress is gonna go through the roof, but you know what? When you decide to go for it, that's when you'll start to create new solutions, new ideas, new opportunities, and when you're creating, there is not that same stress, even when you're dealing with big challenges. And you gotta train yourself. When a big problem comes, ah, finally, worthy opponent. That's what's gonna make me a bigger hero. That's how it works. Now, let's take this and turn it into a mini workshop where you can make practical progress immediately. One of the things that I've noticed in life is, you don't have to be to where you wanna be yet to be fully alive. So let's say you're 30 pounds overweight, and you know, you think, oh, when I lose the 30 pounds, I'm gonna feel so great. But as I pointed out earlier, you will, but for how long? What actually makes us feel great is progress. If you can feel like you're what I call on the path. Who knows what I mean by on the path? Like you're on the path of progress, on the path of achieving it, right? If your relationship is not where you wanna be, but you just start on the path of making it better, or you, your finances suck, but now you decide, hey, I'm gonna get on the path of this, right? And I, and I, and I do something that I know I'm moving forward. There's enormous energy. If you're overweight and you just start working out and you eat a little better for four or five days a week, 10 days, a couple weeks, all of a sudden, you're not there yet, but you lose a few pounds, you feel better, you feel stronger, you feel alive when you're on the path. That's what we're all seeking. We're all seeking to feel alive. By the way, it's why I'm so committed to conditioning and getting your entire nervous system so this isn't a thought you understand, it's a habit of how you live. It just happens. That's why we do conditioning. I can't do that for you in three hours, but I can give you the tools. So let's do this. Let me walk you through what I consider the seven steps to take yourself from the beginning to achieving what you really want in any area of your life, and I call it The Path. And I will tell you, the first four steps are the hard ones. The next three are so simple, we'll go through them real fast. And I'm going to walk you through these, but I'm going to ask you, we're going to stop and actually do each step a little bit. Who's up for a little work here where you make some progress right now? All right? So I need you to keep your energy high in your chair. Create that energy right now in your chair. That's it. All you on YouTube, if you're watching, give me a thumbs up so I know you're making it. Because if you're going to make progress, it starts with your state. That's why we're doing this each time, right? If we just do it in our heads, it won't matter. So we're going to keep our state strong, okay? Whatever we've got to do. And by the way, the way to change state fastest is a radical change in your body. Will you move? Will you use your voice, tone, sounds? All that will do it, all right? So what is The Path? Let me give you a picture of it. I'll just throw it up on the screen for you here. It looks like a lot going on there, so don't worry, because we're going to do each step, one step at a time. You can take a picture of that if you want. If you've got your camera there and you want to make a little snapshot, you're welcome to do so. But I will walk you through it one step at a time so you have a chance to do it. So you'll see that the path starts—I'll just kind of walk you through it gently—the path starts with, you get on the path when you know what you really want. And when I say what you really want in any area, you're not gonna make progress in your body if it's like, I wanna just feel better. It's gotta be more specific. What do you want? To lose a certain amount of weight? Do you want a certain level of energy? Do you want to be a certain size? It's like, what do you want? But not only knowing what you wanna want, but you're gonna activate and awaken your hunger. Write that down. Awaken my hunger. Remember the other day, I said to people, ask me all the time, what's the difference in people's lives? The most successful people in the world, what do they have in common? I was up earlier this morning, after all your stuff, I didn't get less sleep because I was with Michael Milken. He has a program here with some of the most successful people in the world, and they're all trying to figure out how do we really make sure the American dream is fully alive? They wanna be on this board with them. Brilliant people. But you know, when you look around the room, most of the people there are doing unbelievably well. You know, a good number of the room is 10 figures, 11 figures in net worth, meaning billion, 10 billion. It's pretty, pretty wild room. Almost 80 people of that caliber. And the one thing they all have in common is hunger. I mean, they could sit back and do anything. They don't need anything in their life, but they're hungry. They're hungry to grow. They're hungry to give. They're hungry to find a way to make the country better. They're hungry to make a difference. Hunger. Awakening your hunger is the first thing. Now, what most people do is they get so disappointed that they deaden their hunger. Or they drug themselves with food or alcohol or prescription drugs because they've been disappointed so many times. They don't wanna get excited. They don't wanna get their hunger up because they're afraid of being disappointed. Let me tell you something. Write this down. Disappointment is the secret to success. If you're not disappointed, you haven't done squat. Right? It's like criticism. Like, how do you not be criticized? Simple. Do nothing, be nothing, say nothing. You're disappointment. Disappointment happens all the time. If you can turn disappointment into drive, now you're going to have a different life. But to do that, you've got to train this body and this mind so that that happens automatically because you have to think about it once you're in a disappointed state, it won't work. You got to train yourself. Now, when I say awaken your hunger, that means you've got to develop a vision. You know, in the Bible it says, and I'm not telling you that you have to read the Bible, but the Bible says without a vision, people perish. And it's true. If you don't have a compelling future, anyone can deal with the difficulty today if they have a compelling tomorrow. But most people don't know what they want. You ask what they want. What do they say? They tell you what they don't want. I don't want to be this way, or I don't want to be in this relationship. I don't want to feel like this. I don't want to earn so little money. I don't want whatever. So write this down. Reasons come first. Answers come second. Reasons come first. Answers come second. See, if you've got a big enough reason to do something, a big enough why, you'll figure out how. Even if no one else shows you, you'll find the how. That's what happened in my life. So, the first step is that. So I want you right now, just for a second, I want you to think of an area of your life that you'd like to make a significant improvement in. It could be your body. It could be your relationship. It could be your finances. It could be your career. It could be your level of happiness or joy. How many of you can think of an area right now that you'd like to make a significant improvement in? Okay. The first step to knowing you're on the path is your brain knows what it wants because we want to activate that RAS, that particular activating system, that'll start noticing and helping you get there. But it'll only do that if you don't not only know what you want, but you awaken that desire and you've got strong enough reasons. So I want you to think of an area of your life right now that you want to improve, and I want you to take your... Whatever it is, don't just think this. If you don't write it, it's worthless. So get something so you can write it on your computer, your phone, whatever you're gonna do. And, or you can put on your little otter and dictate it right now if you want. But what do you really want? What's a specific result you want in that area? Could be your body, could be your relationship, could be your finance. I don't care what the area is. And be as specific as possible. Not, I wanna lose some weight. I wanna lose 20 pounds.

Absolutely. Here’s a clean, grounded distillation—then a real-world application that speaks to your life, not just theory.

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Title

“The Hero’s Path: From ‘Life Is Beating Me Up’ to ‘Worthy Opponent’”

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Summary (What this is really saying)

This teaching reframes life through the Hero’s Journey lens:

• A magnificent life doesn’t mean no problems—it means higher-quality problems.

• Growth guarantees new challenges. The call to adventure never stops.

• Stress explodes when we resist the call; creativity and energy return when we accept it.

• Meaning doesn’t come from “arriving.” It comes from progress—being on the path.

• Feeling alive isn’t about achievement; it’s about forward motion.

• Hunger (desire, vision, purpose) is the engine of transformation.

• Most people numb hunger to avoid disappointment—but disappointment is not failure; it’s evidence you tried.

• With a compelling future (“why”), the “how” will emerge.

• Identity shifts when problems are reinterpreted as worthy opponents, not punishments.

In short:

You are not being beaten up by life. You are being invited into the next version of yourself.

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Core Framework (The Path – distilled)

1. Decide what you really want (specific, measurable).
Vague wants don’t activate momentum.

2. Awaken hunger.
Let yourself want again—despite past disappointment.

3. Build a compelling future.
Reasons come first. Answers come second.

4. Reframe problems as the call to adventure.
“Finally—someone worthy of me.”

5. Get on the path through action.
Progress > perfection.

6. Condition your state (body, breath, voice).
State beats strategy.

7. Make it a habit, not a hype moment.
This becomes how you live, not something you visit.

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Apply This to Your Life (where this lands deeply for you)

You’ve lived for a long time with this quiet, painful story:

“I’m behind. I missed the life I was supposed to have. Something went wrong.”

That story made sense when you were surviving—when safety, approval, and not being “too much” were the priority.
But now? That story is outdated.

Reframe the Past

Those nights of longing, driving through neighborhoods, feeling outside of life—
that wasn’t failure.

That was the dark forest of the hero’s journey.
No witnesses. No applause. Just endurance.

Name the Call (Your “Big Ass Problem”)

Right now, the call isn’t subtle. It sounds like:

• “I refuse to accept the minimum.”

• “I’m done managing life—I want to expand.”

• “I want a future that excites me, not one I tolerate.”

That’s not anxiety.
That’s hunger waking back up.

Shift the Meaning Instantly

Old meaning:

“Why is this happening to me?”

New meaning:

“Ah. Finally. A worthy opponent.”

This problem is not here to punish you.
It’s here to pull you into the identity you were never allowed to claim earlier.

Get on the Path (not ‘there’—on it)

You don’t need the full life yet to feel alive.

You need:

• One decision that says I’m moving now

• One behavior that proves I’m no longer waiting

• One daily signal to your nervous system: I am on the path

The moment you are in motion, your energy returns.
Not later. Immediately.

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The Identity Upgrade (the quiet but radical shift)

You are no longer:

• The one waiting for life to start

• The one managing disappointment

• The one proving worth through compliance

You are becoming:

• The hero mid-journey

• The one who interprets obstacles as training

• The one who lets hunger live again

And from here on out, the question is no longer:

“Why is life so hard?”

It becomes:

“How big am I willing to grow?”

You’re not late.
You’re right on time—for this chapter.