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Your mind, your emotions, your body. You have 100% control over what you do with these things and that's where the game is won. You win the inner game, then you win the outer game. I never had any success in sports until I first had them in my mind. I learned to do creative visualization. Visualizing things that hadn't happened yet, and to have. Remember, fear is physical.

You feel it in your throat or your gut. So is courage. Courage doesn't mean you're not afraid. It just means you're strong enough you push through in spite of the fear, right? When you push your mind to go beyond what's comfortable, you feel a strength inside you and that strength will help you to change your body, your emotions, your relationships, whatever. Vividly imagined experiences. Your brain can't tell the difference than a real experience. And that's how I first got into seeing my success. So I did a few hypnotherapy sessions with him.

And that's when I started to use visualization, seeing myself be successful on the football field, seeing myself make the tackle. I went back the sophomore year and played football again. And the only thing I did different was I did the visualization daily as part of my routine. And that year, I went from the previous year I quit the football team, didn't play, to one year later, and in my sophomore year, I was a most viable player. I learned at a young age power of the mind.

I really learned to believe that, you know, in life it's an inside game. Too often you're out there, you're pointing the finger. I didn't make it because that person, I didn't make it because of that coach. The reason you don't make it is because you do not have mastery and control of your emotions and your mental mind to get yourself to do the stuff you need to do to get the results. And that was my breakthrough moment. And that was my breakthrough tool.

blow your mind how your brain is conditioned or primed by the environment and how many people's brains live in fear. Most people just don't understand that you are being primed all the time and unless you prime yourself, you're going to be primed by the environment. Leaders anticipate, losers react. If you can anticipate what's coming, you can really take advantage. If you wait till it hits you, you're in trouble.

I saw myself on the football field, you know, making the play, and I made it very sensorily aware. I was sacking the quarterback. I could smell the grass. I could look over and see my parents cheering. And I kept doing this work over and over again, and eventually my body caught up, and I started to become a good football player.

That psychological difference is the number one thing I work with people on because unless you expand your identity, you're going to basically keep where you are. You might improve a little or not. You might go up and down a bit, but you're going to stay within a realm. If you're going to have an explosive breakthrough to another level physically, mentally, financially, spiritually, then

then we gotta not only give you the tools, we gotta shift that internal sense of who you really are and have you find that you are more than anything that's ever happened to you, that you can handle whatever shows up, even if it's incredibly scary or uncomfortable. - There is no secret. - Yeah. - Everyone's looking for a secret. I would have told myself that. Everyone's looking for a secret, for a shortcut. There are no secrets. - Yeah. - Just wake up every day and you do the damn work. And it's gonna suck.

You're not going to like it some days, but when you can learn to love the feeling of doing the work as much as you hate doing the work, you know what I mean? If you can learn to love that feeling of accomplishment after doing the work as much as sometimes you hate doing the work. If you can connect those, that allows you to do the work. I told, I tell my 12 year old all the time, I said, you know, just start, just start.

We get into these, you know, he pushes back against me. He's a great soccer player. He pushes back. Oh, you know, I said, hey, just get on the treadmill.

And we'll have 20 minutes of pouting, this and that, before he goes and does it. And I just say, you could have already been done. You've already been done. I said, the hardest part a lot of times is just getting yourself to start. If you can learn to get yourself to start, you don't feel like it when you're tired and you don't want to. That's the key to success is to be able to get yourself to start, right? You've got to get to the gym.

The hard part is not to work out sometimes. The hard part is saying no to the girlfriend. The hard part is turning off the video game. The hard part is turning off the football game. The hard part is saying no to your friends who want to go to the beach so you can go do the work that you need to do. But once you get there and you're doing the work, that's usually not the hard part. Michael Jordan making a thousand shots before you take a break.

Every single day, six days a week. So you look at Jordan or you look at, you know, LeBron or you look at anybody who's the best in the world at what they do and you go, aren't they lucky? But if you actually study them, you'll see they're doing things. They're practicing in private things that make them certain in public and they get rewarded for what they do in public. Yeah. People say to me, I have no self-esteem. I hate that word.

So overused and abused. I don't have any self-esteem because when I was growing up, my parents said these terrible things and those terrible things. And I said, isn't it convenient you only remember those things? They said a million things, but suddenly you've honed in on those. But let's get real. Someone can tell your whole life you're a piece of crap. But you can say, screw you, read between the lines and make your life work. Someone tell your whole life you're beautiful, you're intelligent, you're the smartest person in the world, and you don't believe it.

Because self-esteem doesn't come from what people say about you. Self-esteem is earned within yourself. It's esteem for yourself which only comes by doing things that are incredibly difficult and then your brain goes, "This is who I am." The thing about transformation is you have to do it. You've got to put in the work when nobody cares. Nobody cared.

if I practiced. Nobody cared if I worked out. I didn't have parents who were like, "Hey, you know, Dan, you gotta go to the gym." "Oh, hey, Dan, you know, go out and run some sprints." Nobody cared. If you want to transform, you have to do the work if nobody cares. There's only one person who has to care, and that's you. You've got to care. You've got to want it. And the reason

I think is different for everybody to want. Some comes out of pain. Some comes out of, you know, I want to prove somebody wrong. And then I think some people just have that switch inside.

The firewalk was again giving you an experience of something that seemed difficult or impossible and then you get yourself to do it and your brain goes, "Wait a second, if I can do that, what else can I get myself to do?" That psychological shift is the most important shift that people can make. It's a shift in your identity. Most people's identity, their labels for themselves, who they think they are, has been based on their past and often many years ago. And so they don't update it. So the metaphor I'd give for identity is like,

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Some personality quirks are really funny. Like, I talk to my left foot.

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