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Hi, friends, it's John Assaraf, New York Times bestselling author of The Answer and Having
It All and you may have seen me in the smash hit movie, The Secret or The Quest for Success
with the Dalai Lama and Richard Branson.
Now here's a question for you: Have you ever thought to yourself that you're not smart
enough or you're not good enough or that you don't have the knowledge or the skills to
achieve your biggest goals and dreams? I can share with you that I used to have those exact
thoughts and beliefs about myself.
In this video I'm going to share with you how you can start to have unstoppable confidence
and certainty in yourself so you can become a powerhouse, a person who can not just set
goals, but achieve whatever goals you choose in your life.
Many years ago, when I was on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, I was in the green room with Minnie
Driver and Minnie Driver is a Hollywood celebrity who everybody knows around the world, if you
watch a little bit of television. I asked Minnie a question, I asked her, how is it
that you can take a script that your agent gives you and how do you become the role so
that you can either win an Academy Award or an Oscar or any of the awards that they give
actors and actresses. She said to me, "John, nobody has ever really asked me that question."
Let me share with you what she told me that I think will help you understand what it's
going to take for you to not just set goals, but for you to achieve your goals.
She said to me that once she gets the script, she reads it three, four, five times to see
if she really wants to trade her life for. Then she says when she accepts the script
and the contract that her agent obviously connects her with the studio with, she then
goes by a process of practice, drill and rehearse. What does that mean? What it means is she
takes hours every single day to practice her role in the script. She does research on the
role and then once she thinks, then feels, that she has the role really well felt in
her emotional self, she then moves that to the camera.
Now, why does that process work? Well, the reason the process works is because when we
have a goal that we look at once or twice or three times, our brains really forget what
the goals are unless we get it to go from the conscious aware part of our personality
and our psyche and into the unconscious, implicit part of our brain and psyche.
Through rehearsal, through practice repetition, through practice drilling and rehearsing every
single day what you do is you set up a new neural pathway in your brain, a new pattern
for your brain to not only emotionalize, but a new pattern for your brain to have you think
about, a new pattern for your brain to have you look for, a new pattern for your brain
to get your physical body to move into action towards.
If you want to achieve your goals and dreams, write out your script and then every single
day, what I want you to do is read the script. Visualize and see yourself already being in
the role, having achieved what you want to achieve instead of just having the goal written
on a piece of paper.
What I want you to also do is I want you to practice being that role. If your role is
about being healthier, then I want you to visualize it, I want you to read it, I want
you to look at whatever you've written or whatever you've cut out in a magazine or from
any other source to be able to create a collage of that goal or that dream that you have for
yourself. Then every day I want you to take action toward that and practice that role
until you and the goal and the dream become one. You have to go from the "I want" part
to the "I am" part. The more you can bridge the gap between what you want and who you
are, the more you'll be able to create an Academy Award winning performance in your
own life. The more you integrate your vision with your emotions with your actions, the
more you will become the role, the more you will become the person who sets goals and
achieves goals.
If you do what most people do, you'll set goals and never really emotionalize them.
You'll set goals and never really take actions consistently toward them, but if you thought
about becoming a Hollywood actor or actress and you were going to be paid a million or
$5 million or $50 million to be that role, guess what you would do? You would practice,
you would drill, and you'd rehearse in private and in public so that you and your goal become
one and that's when you start to act and think and feel every single day the way you need
to act and think and feel until you achieve your goals and dreams. If you like this kind
of personal development material, I've created something that I think you'll absolutely love.
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that you can get for free right now, with a 25-minute instruction, from me to teach
you how to set goals, how to achieve goals, but more importantly, how to become the person
you need to become in order to achieve your goals and dreams.
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