Bob Proctor’s Simple Mindset Secrets For Attracting Wealth

27:29And which is the one that you feel like, um, hurts us the most when we don't master? Well, I think reason is probably, it's the one that's spoken about by almost all the great leaders. Yeah. Um, they've all been complete unanimous agreement that we become what we think about. It's our reasoning factor that enables us to think. Ford says, thinking's the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few people engage in it. Dr. Ken McFarland, who's gone for a long time now, but he was a great educator down in Kentucky. He one time said 2 % of the people think, 3 % think they think, and 95 % would actually rather die than think now you know that sounds cute but it's true if you stop and listen to what most people are saying it's going to be fairly obvious they're not thinking if you stand back and watch what most people are doing it's fairly obvious they're not thinking but they would never say or do what they're doing.

28:39Most people today have their television on the news and they're just soaking up all the stuff that's going on that's dominating the media right now. So they've become a play thing for what's going on outside. And that's why they're living in such fear. By consuming the media of whether it's true or accurate or not true, you're being Absolutely. It's not a matter of whether it's true or not. Is this how you want to spend your life just listening to that? That doesn't mean you should deny it. It doesn't mean that you should say, well, that's all false. I don't know whether it's true or false. It's just bad news.

29:26I don't want to be involved in it. Am I aware that it's there? Well, you'd almost have to be dead not to be aware that it's there. But that doesn't mean you have to spend your time thinking on that. I would much rather activate some of my creative faculties and do something that's constructive. In a time under crisis and worry and fear for a lot of people, what should we be thinking about? How should we be using our imagination in different ways as opposed to fixating on the bad news? Well, I think a good idea right now would be spend some time thinking about how are we going to adapt when this is gone.

30:06Because we're going to live in a different world. We're not going to be in the same world when this is all blown over than we're in right now. It's going to be quite different. People are not going to be rushing out to big events where there's a lot of people. They're not going to be rushing to restaurants. I think they're going to be very careful about what they do, where they think and where they're going. I was listening to Sinek and he said, if you're a public speaker, don't look for a stage for a little while because you're not going to have one.

30:45Now, this also presents great opportunities. It's for us, for my company, we're going online full speed ahead. Now, fortunately we built the studio four or five years ago. So you're prepared. We're equipped and we're ready. We can broadcast. We had a training class going in here just last week with about 300 of our consultants from all over the world. We had a three day training program for them and it was very effective. We didn't have to come together. We did it from right here. I mean, you're known for doing these powerful transformational workshops in person. So for someone, I mean, it's very inspiring for me, for someone at your age where would be the excuse of most people your age to say, well, I don't understand this technology thing.

31:43And I've been doing this way of business for so long. It's always worked this way. And I'm not going to try to reinvent or evolve and pivot and grow in this way. So it's really inspiring to see someone your age with your level of experience and say, you know what? I'm embracing it. Maybe I don't like it. Maybe you do like it, but you're embracing it and making the most of it as opposed to resisting. Because what happens when we start to resist in our life? What truly happens? Well, we resist it. We create it in our mind. That's all we think about. You see, I guess my age really has nothing to do with it, but I formed that attitude a long time ago.

32:23Yeah. I didn't like the idea that when you've lived for so long, you've got to cut out, you've got to stop. I thought, I don't like that idea at all. First of all, I think we're, I believe we're here to do God's work. God's work is creation, you know, expansion, fuller expression, greater goodness. and if we're going to do that we're going to be working at it all the time we're here on this planet we never stop so age should have no bearing on it i had a couple of people ask me when we started to build this place we put a couple of million dollars into this and somebody said how old are you and i think i was probably 83 when they started to break ground they said you're 83 and you're going to spend two million dollars building a studio and i said yeah like why not i mean you see we let things that really have no concern we let them bother us we let them control us age is a dumb thing to let control you it's our thinking that controls everything that's the one point every great leader of the read on we become what we think about or what's a person thinking I'm thinking if I get old I got to stop well then you'll stop or I'm thinking well if I've been here a long time I've got a lot of experience I want to utilize that experience to keep me going as long as I am here I mean anybody had their head screwed on right a few years ago would know that this thing is going to take over and if we don't learn how to use it we're toast so you know Well, I was doing seminars on my iPad because I can run it right onto a monitor and out through to the universe.

34:22Yeah. What should we be thinking about the most right now, in your mind? I think we should be thinking about our future. I think we should be thinking about the greatness, like it's the school of greatness. I think we ought to be thinking about the greatness that we've got locked up within us and bring it to the surface. Everyone has deep reservoirs of talent and ability within them. And they can bring it to the surface to accomplish anything they want. Now to sit in fear and wonder what's going to happen, that is a dumb waste of your talent and your time. And unfortunately, that's what most of the media is promoting right now.

35:10To believe in fear is to believe in something you can't see. To believe in faith is to believe in something you can't see. Well, if you have a choice, I think I'd choose faith over fear. Absolutely. I think I believe where I can really see something happen. I believe we're going to have a phenomenal year in our company. In fact, I have business partner, Sandy Gallagher, and a very bright lady was a securities attorney prior to joining us. she ran a program this morning for our entire company we have about 70 people in the company she was teaching masterminding to them all and saying how this is important that every one of us get involved in this that we learn the basics of masterminding that napoleon hill uh brought to the world let's say way back in the 30s Now, I think that's what we should be teaching people.

36:12Sandy was on the right track there. So I think we ought to be thinking about what we're going to build. How big are we going to do it? Where are we going to do it? When are we going to start? Our goals have not changed. They're very big. They're very ambitious.

36:29In The Science of Getting Rich, in Chapter 7, Wallace D. Wattles wrote, the chapter on gratitude, and then he said, the entire process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in one word, gratitude. The entire process of mental adjustment. If you're troubled, and it could go wrong, but you're troubled. You've got a big problem. You're just not quite sure how to solve it. It's bothering you. It might be something personal or it could be business. whenever you feel yourself troubled that's a mental problem the entire process of mental adjustment you need a mental adjustment sit down write out what you're grateful for you'd be amazed what it does to you the entire process of mental adjustment and atonement can be summed up in one word gratitude gratitude hooks you up to your source of supply it opens a channel for good to come into your life you cannot feel bad when you're thinking of what you're grateful for.

37:36It's funny, problems just sort of melt. Go away. It's like some kind of mental magic. It's better than magic. There was a creative writer, I got a mental block in the guy's name and I should remember it because it's such a great thing. He said,

38:00I've worked around magicians if I work conventions periodically they'll if there's a magician working at the convention they'll get me to work some kind of a trick with them so he's got to tell a trick to somebody so I'm the guy I've learned all kinds of how these magnificent tricks work and he said when you learn how magic works it's not magic anymore but he said when you learn how your mind works it's real magic ooh yeah that's what I said ooh

38:34so what's the what's another thing that you do to help reprogram your subconscious mind

38:42I I consciously think how I can help people if I'm if I'm in between particular tasks that I'm working on I'll think of somebody I can do something for I'm always thinking on how to help somebody else.

39:03Emerson said that the law of cause and effect is the law of laws. Whatever you put out comes back. Well, if you go around doing enough good, you don't have to worry about what's going to happen to you. It's going to be good. And that's really pretty well how I spend my life.

39:22And I know no one's perfect, me included. And I know even though you've studied this for so long, I'm sure you still have missteps or challenges or your mind goes back into a place of a negative way of thinking. What is the biggest challenge you face with today, even though you've studied this, even though you put these things into practice, even though you're successful? What is that big challenge that you face, Bob? I get caught up in the minutia and the noise that's going on around us, you know, the negative news that we hear. I'll get caught up in it every now and then. And I know it's stupid and I shouldn't.

40:06And so when I realize what I'm doing, I'll get away from it. And I do it. I've often mentioned if we just work at getting rid of our bad habits. Some of our bad habits we don't want to get rid of. We enjoy them. But that's really the secret is replace a bad habit with something that's essentially the opposite. And you take a double jump ahead. Because you're not going to get rid of the bad one. You've added a good one. Right, right. I had the chance to interview Rhonda Byrne on the show a few months ago. And I was doing some research beforehand, and I hadn't seen an interview of her in over a decade online.

40:50And either I was bad at researching or she hasn't put herself out there. So I was really excited to have her on. And some of the stuff she was sharing was amazing. And we were talking about you offline and how much she appreciates your message and your work and your contribution to The Secret. I'm curious, if you could sum up the law of attraction in one phrase, what is that idea of the law of attraction for people if they're still not sure on it? Well, oddly enough, the secret, I think, led some people down the wrong path with the law of attraction in that we didn't take the time or never got into it in depth.

41:33The law of attraction is a secondary law, and most people talk about it as the law of attraction. It's a law. Well, it is, but it's a secondary law. And a lot of people were left with the idea, you just think about it, you'll attract it. Well, that is a bunch of nonsense. That's not true at all. You do attract what you think about, but your thought patterns control the vibration you're in. Vibration is a basic law of the universe. The law of vibration decrees everything moves, nothing rests. The walls around you are moving. If you go and look at them through a microscope, you'll see them move, and the body in a coffin is moving.

42:14If it wasn't moving, how would it ever change to dust? The law of vibration decrees that everything moves. We literally live in a notion of motion. Well, your mind and body is in a vibration, and that's controlled by your thoughts. You activate cells in your brain. Your mind activates cells. That sets up a vibration in the mind and body, and the vibration you set up is going to dictate what you attract. If you're troubled and you're in a bad mood, you're going to attract bad stuff too. You're on a negative frequency. So as long as you stay in that bad vibration, you're going to attract some more bad stuff.

42:50It's just going to keep coming. And you see it happening all the time to people. It's in the Bible. It's probably like when you're not feeling good and you just want more ice cream or pizza. You want bad things to make you feel good as opposed to, let me have a healthy salad when I'm down. You know, it's not what we're thinking. Well, you see, the trick is really to keep yourself feeling good. Feeling is conscious awareness of vibration. The vibration is the basic law. And if you stay feeling good and a good vibration, you're going to attract good stuff. You just magnetize yourself to stuff that's good.

43:30There's very few people really understand the law of vibration. Everybody is utilizing it. every day, all day. You are attracting what you're in harmony with. You always have what you always will. Pardon? Yeah. How do we put ourselves in a state of feeling good when there's nothing to feel good about? Well, there's always something to feel good about. Listen. They're stressed about the world. They're stressed about their job. They're stressed about their health, their family, relationship breakups. How do they change the feeling to feel good when they're in an environment of stress? There's a law called polarity.

44:12The law of polarity decrees everything as an opposite. You couldn't have an up without a down, a hot without a cold. You can't have a bad without a good. If you're looking at bad, that tells you there's got to be good. You cannot have bad without good. And if you want to feel good, start looking for what's good. And if you start looking for what's good, you're going to find it. You're going to find whatever you're looking for. And the idea to say, well, you really can't, there's so much bad going on, that attitude is not going to reward you at all. It's going to give you bad stuff. You've got to know that there's always something good.

44:53You've got to find it. Why is it so hard for people to see the good when there's so much chaos around them? because they're so programmed the wrong way. They're really programmed the wrong way. We're programmed for bad news. You don't find a good news news station. You don't have good news. People wouldn't advertise. They wouldn't go there. People are attracted to bad news because they're in a bad vibration themselves. And when they start to understand that and then realize they can control it and change it, That's when they'll start winning. See, that's where I was. I was in a bad vibration. Everything was bad.

45:38There was nothing good. I mean, I just had one hell of a life up until I was 26. There was nothing good about it at all. And when I was 26, I met a guy that got me on this book, and he started to give me some effective education. And my whole life changed. My income went from$4 ,000 a year to$175 ,000 a year in a year. Washing floors.

46:12First thing he wanted to know, he wanted me to write my goal on a card. He said, what do you really want? I said, all I want is some money. I figured if I had some money, all my problems would go away. I owed everybody and his brother money. And they're always phoning me. Where's the money? Where's the money? And I said, God, if I knew where the money was, you wouldn't have to phone me. And I'd get upset with them for phoning me. And so I said, I want$25 ,000. If we had taken all the money in the neighborhood where I lived, you wouldn't have found$25 ,000. I mean, this was, it was an absurd goal.

46:49and

46:54what he he said write it on the card and read it often and what happened it's only in retrospect that I became aware of what happened because I kept reading it he said like he said to me your way is not working try mine my way is working he was happy healthy wealthy this guy so I kept reading this and what happened is it got me thinking of earning money now prior to that I wasn't I was thinking of debt all I was thinking about is data oh this money all that money they're all phoning me and since I was thinking about I started hear people talking about it and I remember this guy saying there's good money cleaning floors I said I'm not proud I don't think for it in five years I was cleaning floors in Toronto Montreal Boston Cleveland and I don't think you know I mean I was an episode of time you know gotta change the program yeah one of the things that i stopped doing many years ago uh when i had no money i stopped i i got rid of my tv for a few years um because i found myself being you know caught in just consuming a lot of news or just shows that weren't really supporting me because i was sitting there as opposed to creating in action doing something to help me earn more, to generate what I was looking for, and to work on my health and wellness, my relationships, everything, not just money.

48:17And after a few years, I didn't miss the TV, and I started making more money than ever, and I was in great shape, and all these different things happened. And today, I have TV now, and I watch Netflix, I watch sports mostly, but I don't watch the news. It's very rare if I watch the news, and I get criticized for this sometimes from people, because they're like, well, you should be aware of what's happening in the world, you should be educated you should be you know mindful all these things and i i was i live in a building here in los angeles and they have a big tv in kind of the uh in a general room where people can walk in and i went in there the other day and i sat down and sipped some coffee and literally in this massive tv screen they had four different news channels up at once kind of splitting the screen in four parts and for 20 minutes all they were showing on the news screens all four channels was just this bombing and this is happening here in India and this is happening in the US and the rioting and all of it just was chaos.

49:16And I was just like, man, if I sat here and watch this every single day, my mind would be chaotic because I'm consuming chaos. And like you talk about, it's changing the frequency. It's turning the channel off and getting into a different frequency is what we need to do and not consume that. We can still be aware of it. I don't want to live a world where I don't know what's happening, but I don't need to watch it all day to still be aware of it. Isn't that right? You know, I think anything that, that's, I don't know, very important that you know, you'll, you'll overhear it in conversation. You don't have to watch the news to get it.

49:52You're going to get it. Somebody's going to tell you. So I agree. You know, it's a waste of time sitting there soaking all that up because it, it does you no good and it does you a lot of harm it does a lot of harm when i was saying before it makes you feel bad if you feel bad feeling is a word we invented to describe our conscious awareness of the vibration we're in when you are feeling bad you're in a negative vibration when you're feeling good you're in a positive vibration that's just a basic thing that we could go by. So how do you feel good? Well, there's all kinds of ways to feel good. Think of something really pleasant.

50:38You'll start feeling good. Do something kind for somebody and you'll start to feel better. Help somebody out somewhere. You'll start to feel good. Share a good idea. You'll start to feel good. When you're feeling good, you're in a good vibration, you're going to attract good stuff to you. Most people don't understand that feeling is conscious awareness of vibration and the vibration you're in is dictating what you're going to attract oh it's a basic thing it's so basic but it's not understood it's hard for people to change the way they feel because they get i feel like they get trapped in it they're like no this is how i'm feeling it takes them days to get out of it until they go to sleep wake up and maybe that resets the programming because they got some sleep i don't know but i feel like And I've been there many times in my past where I would hold on to things for weeks, months, and hold on to the negative feelings.

51:33So I get it. I've been there. But it's so much better when you can shift it faster or just be aware of it. And I'm not saying don't feel grief and sadness and anger and frustration. These are all feelings we probably should have a balance of feeling, but don't hold on to them. I feel like that's what hurts us in the long run when we hold on to those feelings. Yeah. Because I'm sure you still feel angry and upset and let down and sad at times, right? You know, I don't get angry. That's good. I can't remember the last time I got angry. I may be not very pleased with people sometimes, but I don't get angry.

52:18You might be disappointed. I used to get angry. I used to have a hell of a temper. I had red hair, too. I think red haired have bad tempers. That's what they say. It was true with me. I can't remember the last time I was angry. I just decided it was a really silly waste of energy. What do you think shifted for you in deciding that? There's no question about what shifted. It's the studying. You study. If you study the right material, you're raising your level of awareness. and people that are angry all the time are on a pretty low vibration. They're not really very with it, you know. So how long were you angry for in your life?

53:05How many years did it take until you finally said 40, 50, 60? How old were you? I was probably, I'd probably be 60. 60. And how young are you now, Bob? I'm 86. You look great, man. I hope I look as healthy and young as you at 86. Well, I'm still going strong. I have no intentions of slowing down. That's amazing. So at 60, you feel like you started to be... When I say I haven't been angry for a long time, probably, you know, it was probably up around 60 when I, I think I eliminated it, you know, as I was going along. And I realized, I think I got to the point where I realized just how silly it is to get angry.

53:52and you start to see other people getting angry, you think, why are you doing that? They feel justified. Where do you think you'd be if you let go of anger at 40? Where do you think you'd be in your life now? Further ahead than I am. Really? I don't really know where, but oh yes. There's a tremendous amount of energy that's wasted in anger. Yeah. It's a dumb waste of energy. Why do you think we get angry? We don't learn to control ourselves. What is in our mind? You know, if a person would take, do you have a little book, As a Man Thinketh? I've had it before, but I think you actually sent me one, but I might have given one a copy.

54:41I'm going to send you another. Yeah, yeah, I might have it, but yeah. If you take the last chapter in As a Man Thinketh, It's on serenity. You start reading that, and you read it every day. If you wrote it out every day, I often have people write it every day for 90 days. It changes your life. I want to ask you about money and relationships. You've been around the block a long time. You've met a lot of people. You've had many different relationships in your life. how important is it to have alignment around money mindset when you're in an intimate relationship with your intimate partner or a business partner what conversation should we be having around money to make sure that the partner we're in business or life with is going to support us as opposed to be a kind of thorn in the side of energy, if you will?

55:48Well, I think money plays a very, very big role in our life. We should control the money. We should never let money control us. I love earning it. I love giving it away, too.

56:09if you're in a relationship

56:14understanding money in the relationship plays a very big role you can't have one person with a let's say a poverty consciousness and another one with a prosperity consciousness and expect to have harmony and that relationship is just not going to be there because there's too many things where money comes into involved in decision making and conversations and if you're not on the same page there's trouble in River City you know in the music manual and that's just the way it is so I think it's very important but the truth is not many people understand money very few you know I was mentioning my business partner Sandy Gallagher she was a securities attorney when I first met her.

57:07She came to a seminar and she ended up being my business partner. She owns 50 % of the company and she's the CEO of the company. She runs it. I have a pad here where I write things I'm grateful for. The very top thing, Sandy's financial genius. That's number one in my gratitude list every day.

57:32I've earned millions and millions of dollars. But it wasn't until she became a business partner, about 15 years ago, I guess, that everything in my life changed with money. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey towards greatness. Make sure to check out the show notes in the description for a full rundown of today's episode with all the important links. And if you want weekly exclusive bonus episodes with me personally, as well as ad-free listening, then make sure to subscribe to our Greatness Plus channel exclusively on Apple Podcasts. Share this with a friend on social media and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts as well.

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