A Powerful Exercise to Dramatically Improve Your Inner Joy

There’s a ton of mess on the planet right now, perhaps more so than in the last 100 years. Yet, there is also oh-so-much good, beauty and possibility.
 
Please consider that…
 
…hard times are built for leaders to shine.
 
…it’s never been so easy to win in business because so many people are scared, confused and checked out.
 
…more people than ever before are into personal development, practising their way to better Mindsets, Heartsets, Healthsets and Soulsets (The 4 Interior Empires that I introduced in The 5AM Club, a book that has launched a movement of over 100 million brave and strong human beings).
 
So while there is A Great Restructuring occurring in this age, there is much to be grateful for!

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There are three elements that will help you dramatically improve not only your success and your performance, but also your levels of inner joy. And one of those three elements is the people who steal your joy. In other words, you can do a list in your journal later today or right after this episode. Write down in the first column on the left-hand side of the page, who in my life is stealing or diminishing my joy. And then in the right hand column, write down who are the people in my life who elevate my joy. And then have the wisdom and bravery to start removing and releasing the people in your life who are bringing you down. Even if it's a family member, or you could say it's gonna be selective association, but you have the power to do what feels right to you. The larger point is simply this. You can be around energy vampires. or you can change the world, you don't get to do both. The second thing I wish I'd learned when I was 20 is that everything that happens to you is for your growth. A bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul. So the ego might be saying, oh, that was terrible, that was a tragedy, that was a difficult meeting, that was a hard moment. That's just your ego chattering and your ego is really the voice of your fear. You want to become much more aware, not of your ego, but of your higher self, your, that primal genius, that native hero that lurks at your core under the layers of fear, doubt, and disbelief. And the more you start to get to know your bravest, strongest, truest self, and the more you stand in your true power versus your fake power, the more you're to realize everything that happens to you. Whether it's been a tragedy, A subtle adversity is for your growth, therefore it's all good. You know, what I'd offer to you is simply this, don't be a resentment collector. A lot of people, what they do is, it's all about being positive, it's all about everything being in the sunshine. Well, that's not really a true life. As a matter of fact, if you want to be a legendary leader, you've got to go through a lot of suffering. You've got to be knocked down and then be willing to continue. You're gonna be laughed at and you're gonna be ridiculed. You're gonna face self-doubt. You're gonna be exhausted at times. You're going to face all sorts of challenges if you wanna get to your Mount Everest. And if you're listening to the ego as well as the dominant messaging of our culture which is everything needs to be happy and sunshine and puppies and roses and rainbows and butterflies, then you are gonna miss one of the key insights I wish I learned at 20, which is Everything that happens to you is good. Everything that happens to you is for your growth. Everything that happens to you is designed to help you burn away your ego and build more fluency and intimacy with your authenticity. What do I mean by that? I really think it's the times of suffering that make you great. We all, as we go through life, have our Robben Island seasons. And I'm encouraging you in this episode to develop an appreciation of not only adversity, but maybe even a love of tragedy.