Key Steps To Manifesting Success & Abundance | Robin Sharma EP 238

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0:51When do you doubt yourself the most? When I'm in a season in my life where I'm meant to have not productive growth but spiritual growth, I start to doubt myself. I actually believe we have a higher power and a higher power isn't necessarily God or spirit or the universe as people call it I believe we have our wounded self like we get knocked around in life So we forget who we are so we've got a wounded self call it our egoic self and we've got our heroic self And to me that's our higher power and every single person on the planet today has a higher self This is the part of us that actually knows the answers to our deepest questions.

1:28This is the part of us that knows we need to be good. It's the part of ourself that instinct is so much more powerful than intellect. So it's the part of us that is the instinct, the silent whispers of, here's what you should be doing. This higher power is the part of us that's unbreakable, even if physically we're broken. It was Albert Camus who said, in the midst of winter I discovered within me an invincible summer. We have this. When we do the work to move through the layers and start to reclaim ourselves, does it happen in a day? No, but day by day by day, we get closer and closer and closer.

2:05We connect with this higher power. When we let go of control and we just say, okay, I'm going to be led by this instinct to be tactical, you know, follow your joy. But I found in my life that there are just seasons. It could be two years. It could be five months where I am meant to be writing books and recording courses and doing social media posts and getting up before 15 in the morning and working out with trainers. And I trust that lead. And then almost naturally, natively, and I think I've got better at this, there's a time where I'm supposed to sunbathe more. There's a time when I'm not supposed to work.

2:40I don't have any ideas. And I just trust that that's a season where I'm not supposed to be producing. Sometimes you can feel guilty. But what I say in the Everyday Hero Manifesto is, please let us start to discern and get to know when we're supposed to be worldly productive. And if we're not worldly productive, but we're being spiritually productive, that's even more valuable. A number of years ago, I was in a long-term relationship that I chose to walk away from. That was very difficult for many reasons. I spent a lot of time journaling and praying and meditating and being out in nature and reflecting on, first of all, my part in the situation, but what I could learn from it.

3:23And then using the current situation to heal ancient wounds. I mean, that is how you can be an alchemist of sorts and turn tragedy into triumph. Fear came up because of that situation. Sadness came up. But sadness could not come up if it had not been preexisting. There's a wonderful idea. If it's hysterical, it's historical. We know the size of the pre-existing wound by the size of the current overreaction. So if we have the awareness and then choose to use the difficulty to remake us and transfigure us, then you triumph over adversity. So that was something that was really big for me. What was the lesson from that experience?

4:06If you don't go full in, you actually are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. There was the lesson of being a better communicator on both parts. One thing I learned is I don't believe in opposites attract. I was reading this article about this very famous divorce lawyer, and she was talking about relationships, and she was asked, you've seen so many relationships fall apart. Uh-huh, what'd she say? 10 ,000 dinners. The interviewer said, what do you mean? She said, well, you've got to ask yourself. I mean, looks fade, and all these other things fade. Look at that person that you want to be with and ask yourself, do you have the compatibility, and do you have the friendship, and do you have the great conversations required to enjoy 10 ,000 dinners with that person.

4:46Those would be some of the things I learned about that over the past number of years, like any person who's running a business. I've had partners completely let me down who promised things that they didn't deliver. I've had people betray me. I work with a lot of billionaires, and many of the billionaires have one formula. They have lost 80 % on their investments. They invested in a few companies that caused them to become billionaires. And it's very easy when you make mistakes to think you're doing something wrong. And failure is the price of greatness. Failure is the highway to success. Like you've got to leave no stone on turns.

5:24You've got to develop this hardiness and resilience and anti-fragility so that you are willing to make mistakes. You won't always have the right teammates. You won't always have the right partners. You won't always make the right decisions. Lick your wounds and move on. The discomfort of growth is always so much more valued than the illusion of safety. Because all those people you asked me, not judging, but just reporting, living life saying, it sounds like a lot of work. Growing sounds like a lot of work. Building great relationships sounds like a lot of work. Emotional healing sounds like a lot of work.

5:55Setting your intentions and goals sounds like a lot of work. Being an excellent person sounds like a lot of work. But what's the alternative? You get to the last hour of your last day, and you look back on your life, and you think about all the potential and genius you've left on the table. You think about the experiences you didn't have, the food you didn't eat, the music you didn't listen to. In the season of productivity, part of building is not that you get FFA, fame, fortune, and applause. Part of building is you get to know your strengths and you get to know your talents. That's the reward, not the outer win.

6:47Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of The Daily Motivation, and I hope you have an amazing rest of your day. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to click the link in the description. That will take you to the full episode of our main podcast on The School of Greatness. And if you are loving the daily motivation, please follow us over on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review over on Apple Podcasts right now. And if you want more exclusive content and ad-free listening experience, make sure to subscribe to our Greatness Plus channel on Apple Podcasts right now. And if you want to get even more inspiration from our world-class guests and learn how to improve your life and take it to the next level, then make sure to sign up for the Greatness newsletter and get it delivered right to your inbox over at greatness.com slash newsletter.

7:37Again, have an amazing day and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.