Focus with David Wood

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If you want to see the average earnings, please visit the page at www.empowernetwork.com forward slash income dot php. Who wants to share what their outcome is in the audience? All right, bring the microphone to that gentleman with the orange shirt there. All right, and somebody could pass it to him too, because this is going to be a little bit... What's your name?

Thomas Ta. Now, just as a warning, if anyone rambles on, we will immediately cut off the sound of the microphone. Okay, what's your goal? To connect with actual millionaires, specifically Lawrence Tam and Dave Wood. Okay, all right, well, I'm connecting right now.

Good job, give him a hand. He hit his goal. All right. Where's Lawrence? Hey, Lawrence, say hi.

All right, now what else do you want? To create $3,000 by the end of October. $3,000 by the end of October. All right, give him a hand. All right.

So we got $3,000 by the end of October. You ever made commissions here before? $25. Okay, congratulations. Hey.

Hey, everybody, real quick. Stay in the game. Stay in the game. All right, go ahead. We'll go to the next one.

Who else is willing to share their outcome with everybody? That's a great goal, by the way. You'll hit it. I believe in you. And I'm going to show you how to do that tonight and through the weekend, too.

That's easy. That's easy. That's a beautiful thing. Right here, that girl right back there. Okay, so $3,000.

$3,000 residual in November. Okay? She wants residual. All right. Okay, good job.

Give her a hand. Give her a hand. Come back in a second. All right, somebody else. We'll go over here.

This lady over here. I am here to support my husband. That is why I'm here. Support your husband? Yes.

Okay, is he here with you? Yes, he is. Because I think that family is important and support is important. I'm here to support him. I want him to be happy.

Whatever money he wants to make, I'm here and that is why I'm here. Hey, give her a hand. Come on, folks. Give her a hand. We appreciate you.

We appreciate you. Thank you for being here. All right. All right, here. Who else in here wants to share what your outcome is this weekend?

Okay. Yeah, this lady right here. Works. All right. I'm here to get re-motivated because I joined in January.

Excuse me, what did you say? Can you hear me? Yeah. I came here this weekend to get re-motivated because... -huh.

I've backslidden a little bit. So my goal... Backslidden? You mean you're not following the commandments? No, I am not.

I am not following the Dave's Eight Commandments. Well, you need to repent and follow the commandments. That's right. That's exactly right. Well, we're going to help you get motivated then.

I do. I came for motivation. Okay, give her a hand. Give her a hand. Hey, folks.

Let's talk about this here. Let's talk about this. Why are people motivated? Why are people motivated? Well, because they know what they want, right?

That's part of it. Why else? Why else are people motivated? Huh? Inspiration.

Okay, they listen to inspiration or they get inspiration. Why else are people motivated? They see possibility, right? That motivates people. Why else are people motivated?

Huh? They hope? Hope? Who said that? Hope?

Yeah, hope. Big deal. Big deal. Keeps you alive. Hope does.

Why else? Faith. Right? Faith. Faith in what, though?

Right? Faith in what? Now, faith is a process of believing something, right, that you can't really observe, isn't it? Right? The, what is it?

What's, there's a bunch of Bible people out here, right? The substance of things, of something or other, right? Like I ever read it. See? Right?

So, faith in a new future. Faith in a new future. Faith in something greater. Faith in something greater. Faith in yourself, right?

Belief in something. Belief that you can do something great, right, motivates you. What else motivates you? Family. Big deal.

Family. Who in here is motivated by their family? Who in here has kids? Right? Who in here has kids?

Right? Well, if you love your kids, follow the commandments. Nice. I did just say that, right? Right?

So, you're, you're why? Well, here's the thing. Stuff can provide motivation. Fear can provide motivation. Running from something.

Who in here has been motivated because you've been trying to get out of something before? Right? You guys been motivated by that? Now, there's two different kinds of motivation you can have, and I'm going to explain this, and then you'll be motivated by the end of tonight, and if that's why you're here, just go home. It's fine.

Right? So, so here, here's, here's the deal, right? Running from something. Running from something produces motivation, but here's the problem. Runs out.

Right? Psychologically, it's been proven through studying a lot of people, people who motivate themselves from fear, the motivation runs out when the fear's gone. You get chased by a polar bear, you run faster than you will towards any goal in the world. Right? But you'll collapse after you're done.

Right? When the bear disappears, you escape, the motivation leaves, doesn't it? Right? So, if you're going to use fear-based motivation, some of you have set goals already, I know, in the room to get out of something, it's okay. But if you don't have a carrot you're chasing, right, the motivation will run out the second you get out of whatever it is, and then you'll backslide, you go like this, you'll stop following the commandments.

All right, what are some other things that people are motivated by in the room? Wait, wait, actually, Lawrence, Lawrence raised his hand, pass the microphone to him and then this guy in the green shirt back here. Lawrence, what are you here to get this weekend, brother? Get back into my focus, what I had in Denver, I want to raise $50,000 for a school in Uganda, and I want to have it done by end of the year. You want to have it done by when?

End of the year. End of the year? Yeah. Okay, $50,000 for a school in Uganda, I kind of like that idea. Hey, Sandy?

Where's Sandy? Is she up here? Is she in here? Huh? Oh, she's back there?

Okay. Hey, hey, wait, wait, guys, guys, who in here? Okay, everybody sit down for a second, okay, I'm going to give $20,000 for, you want to build a school in Uganda, right? Okay, I'm going to give $20,000, right? We'll wire it, just give us a bank for the charity, right, and we'll wire it.

Who in here is willing to give some money for a school in Uganda? Okay, okay. How much are you willing to give? He'll go $200. He'll go $200.

Who else in the room is willing to do it? How much are you guys willing to give? A hundred. A hundred? How much are you willing to give?

A hundred. Who else is willing to give money? How much? Huh? A hundred bucks?

How much are you willing to give? Huh? You'll give $1,000. Give her a hand, folks, give all these people a hand. Right?

Who in here is willing to give $500 or $1,000 for a school in Uganda? Who's here willing to do it? Right? Probably not everybody, but I am. Heck, yeah.

You know, the person back there, right? So all together, well, here's the deal. Huh? Huh? What did you say?

Hey, can you give her the microphone? I'm sorry. I have a very, I'm very motivated by giving in the communities and my goal, and I just actually said it to my team, I wasn't even going to say it out loud to everybody because I didn't have the capture page and everybody, everything's set up. But. I'm, I, I, I narrowed it, I'm narrowing it down to three charities right now and I, I love to give back to like kids with disability and I'm actually currently researching a charity in Miami that I wanted to surprise them with $10,000 from our team that we wanted to raise together.

And if there's more, great. But our goal is 10 grand as a team because I'm like that, I'm, I'm motivated by purpose because making money is boring. It is. Making money is boring. It's like.

I, I literally will walk away if it's just all about money. Yeah. And so we just came together as a team just two weeks ago and I'm like, let's do something different. This is, let's come together for purpose and that's what we're doing. So our goal is to surprise a charity in Miami in January.

Give her a hand. Give her a hand. Isn't that a good goal? Isn't that a good goal? Right?

Okay. Surprise. You know, and all sorts of charities need money and things like that and it's good to give. Isn't it? Isn't it good to give?

Everybody repeat like a cult. Remember, it's good to give. It feels good to give. And I'm a giver. I'm a giver.

Because I realize that to get great things in life, you gotta give great things in life. If I want to sponsor good people, I gotta be a good sponsor. Right? You guys understand that? Yes.

All right. Give Lawrence a hand. Good. Non-selfish goal. Give him a hand.

All right. What are some other intentions in here? What are some other things I can help you guys with? What's, what's, who's, give, give this guy the microphone. I want to hit 20,000 residual and, Wait, 20,000 residual?

Yes, sir. Okay. And I also, my intention to come here is to position it ourselves as the Hispanic leaders to Mexico. Ah, si, si. Mi gusto es espanol.

So, so, $20,000 per mes, pero, ¿cuándo? ¿Cuándo? ¿Cuándo? Perdón. ¿Cuán?

No, when. Ya, ya, ya. ¿Cuándo? ¿Cuándo? ¿Sí?

En diciembre. ¿Diciembre? The Mexican Badasses. Ah, Mexican Badasses. Sí.

Pero, pero en español, bad ass is no bien. Bad culo. It's, it's, it's no bueno. Muy bien, muy bien. Ah, si, si.

Tu inglés es muy bueno, David. Si, me gusta español. En enero. Ajá. Empower Network tiene español por todos productos.

Si. Si. Lo creo. Si, so, vive, vive México? Si.

In the United States? Yes, but events in Mexico. Yes, yes, yes. If I want, I want to do events with you in Mexico. You're invited.

We already did one, and you're invited to the next one. Yes, yes, yes. I like it. Bravo, bravo. All right.

That's good, that's good. We need Spanish leaders, right? We need Spanish leaders. And we love it. Some of you are like, what the hell, you speak Spanish?

We are here to serve. You what? We are here to serve. Hey, everybody, everybody, give him a hand for that. Now, repeat after me.

I am here to serve. Because by serving others, I become great. Because the greatest people in the world are there because they're the greatest servants. You guys got it.

Give yourselves a hand. All right, all right, all right. So he wants to lead the Mexican market, right? Who in here was surprised I speak a little Spanish? That's sexy.

That's sexy, right? Everybody, everybody, all right, I'll teach you some Spanish. When I go like this. Yeah, you got it. You're the last event.

All right, so muy sexy, right? Okay. All right, and then when I go like this, you say, but wait, there's more. All right. And then, that's dirty, okay?

That's dirty. That's dirty. One more? Okay, one more, one more, okay? This one's that's it, period, all right?

So first I go this way, that's it, period, okay, so all right, you guys got it, you guys got it. Give yourselves a hand. Hey, can I get a coffee up here or something? Have somebody bring me, appreciate that, thank you. All right, so we got some goals, couple more goals here and then we're gonna move on to this.

Couple more. All right, we got this lady right here. Give it to her. I know we're sticking around the front and then we'll grab one from the back. This guy's yelling and screaming because he wants to shout out.

What's going on? What do you want? Oh, I want a life change. I love that hat. And I never want to be homeless and broke ever again.

Okay, now wait, leave her the microphone, leave her the microphone. What's your name? What? What's your name? It's Elissa.

Huh? Like Elissa. Elissa. Yeah, Elissa. Nice to meet you.

It's a beautiful name. Elissa. Thank you. Thank you. Elissa.

Yes. I like your crazy hat. It's wonderful. Thank you. Okay, and are you homeless and broke right now?

I was homeless about, and then I moved into an apartment after I joined Empower in May. Okay. On no money, and it was a true miracle of God, and I'm about to cry. Give her a hand, come on. Okay.

But, you know, but I've made one sale with Empower, but I'm here to get all in, and... Come up on the stage. Come up on the stage. Give her a hand, folks. Give her a hand.

Okay. Here. Microphone, microphone. Okay. Now, here's the first thing, everybody.

Everybody. Elissa. Here, hugs.

Come on. Appreciate you, Elissa.

If you can sponsor one a week? You can sponsor one a day. And if you can sponsor one a day? You can sponsor two a day. If you can sponsor two a day?

And Alyssa, I believe that you will never be homeless again, that you will live your dreams, and that you're important. And we believe in you. And we bless you. And you will get what you're here to get. That's it.

Appreciate you. Mark my words. She will. Right? She will.

All right. Thanks for coming up. Folks, believing in people is powerful. Okay? Back in 2003 or something, I had been in Amway for a year.

And I just, I mention it, guys, because I'm not critical of Amway. I love Amway. You know what I mean?

They invented our industry. Give Amway a hand. Some people are like, I will not clap for Amway. But seriously, they did great things. And they paved the way.

So network marketing is a legal business, right? Because in the 70s, the FTC sued Amway. And had they won, our whole industry wouldn't exist, right? But Amway fought and they fought and they fought and they fought. And then the FTC made rules that if you follow these rules, this is a legitimate direct sales company, right?

And those rules became the foundation for what created the infrastructure legally to allow us to be in business. So give Amway another hand for that. Right? It doesn't mean you have to like their toothpaste. Some of you know what I'm talking about.

The ones with the yellow teeth know what I'm talking about here. I did just say that, didn't I? I really got to keep my mouth shut. Right? So believing in people is powerful.

So I'd real frustrated. And I remember I was in a hotel room. I was actually at an event like this. And I was just like, man, almost, I was like tearing up because I wanted to go diamond so bad. You know what I mean?

I was like, I just wanted to be a diamond, you know? You guys, if you guys have been in Amway, you know, it's like you, you just want to be a diamond so bad. You know what I mean? It's like you drive around thinking about it. You wake up thinking about it.

It's like you stare at it on your chalkboard, you know, and you're like thinking about just one day I'll be a diamond, right? And I was like, man, I'm frustrated. I'd sponsored like one guy and he grabbed me by the shirt and he pulled me into his face and I could smell his breath. And I was glad he's using this Amway breath mint stuff because it didn't smell like that old man breath. No offense, old guys.

But he pulled me in, looked me right in the eye and he said, David, I believe in you. Don't you ever, ever, ever give up on me. Don't you ever give up on your dreams. Not ever. And he put his finger in my chest and it was like he was pushing that finger all the way into the depths of my soul, man.

And I was like, oh, I ain't never quit. Right. And I didn't, I mean, I changed vehicles, but I kept the dream. You know what I mean? Always fought for my dream.

So guys, you got to believe in people and believing in people is powerful, right? Who in here has had it? And I'm actually curious. Who in here has been significantly changed financially by Empower Network because somebody believed in you? Who in here?

Right. Tom, come up here. Right. Give him a hand. Right.

Now, dude, I, man, can I just touch, I know I can't wear the hat because I read your post on Facebook. He posted on Facebook the other day. He says, trick. And he says, I went to a club right here. I'm going to tell this story you wrote because I just thought it was so damn funny.

He's got this capture page. It's like X pickup, artist stops picking up chicks and starts picking up checks instead. Right. Best headline ever. Something like that.

Right. But it's better than that. But anyway, so he's like on Facebook, he posts this post up. He's like, trick. I go to a nightclub and there's these two girls and one walks up and says, can I put on the furry hat?

He says, hell no. He says, because if I give you the hat, then I'm not the furry hat guy anymore. He's like, step one, tell them off. And now both girls are all over me. Give him a hand.

How much you make here last month? 7,000. I think I butchered your story, but 77, not last month. I mean, oh, in the last month, last month. Yeah.

The what? How much did you make last month? Oh, about five, five figures. Five figures last month. Give him a hand.

Well, I'm number two in the, I ranked number two in the contest too. Give him a hand. Number two in the contest. First time I saw him was a Danny Johnson meeting. Can I share something too?

Well, actually I met Dave. He came up to me at an event called unstoppable millionaire. Remember? Yeah. And he just came up to me and goes, dude, I like know you.

And I went, okay, who are you? And he goes, he's all dude. You're like the furry hat guy. You're like, you're a bad-ass. You're awesome.

And I'm just like, okay. Is he trying to use a hypnotic power? After that I grabbed his ass. Well, he did. And it felt good.

I said, can I touch the hat and then grab? He did. And it both felt good. I felt warm and furry, but, but anyways, it's furry down there too. Yeah.

Well, this morning I shaved it. Anyways, and then I almost crapped my pants. I did. Oh, you did. Okay.

Okay. Nice. So anyways, he came up to me and I'm thinking Dave's using this hypnotic power to try to sign me up in something, you know? And he probably was cause it worked, but, and, yes, about a few months later we met at a Mark Hoverson party. I actually crashed the party.

Pretty cool. That was awesome. And he was very sharp, in power network and they were all in the hotel scheming. We're going to make this thing and we're going to make this thing awesome and stuff like that. And I'm like, cool, badass.

And there was something that I wanted to share that he did. And it's right. Why he probably brought me up here. And it was the thing that I was doing for the longest time is I was online doing things and making things happen, but I was always trying to follow people all the time and not step up as a leader. And he got in my face, he was a little drunk and stuff like that.

And he was like, you know what, Tom, you can do this. You are amazing. I believe in you and I know you can do it. You just have to step out of your comfort zone and do it. And it was weird because Dave looks at you in the eyes and it's almost like he's piercing your soul.

And it's like, holy crap. I know he's drunk, but they always say the truth comes out when you're drunk. Right? I'm like this even if I swear. And you know, he bought us pizza and everything.

We got beef pizza and stuff like that. That was pretty cool. But the point is, is that he believed in me. And that was the point in my life that I felt that was the shift I needed. And that's why I felt I can focus and make this thing successful.

Give him a hand. Give him a hand. Or real quick, what's your goal now? What's your goal for this weekend? My goal is to help 10 people be on stage in the next 12 months.

Okay. 10 people to be on stage in the next 12 months, like in 12 months or just before 12 months? Before 12 months. And then 10 people make six figures? Okay.

10 people make six figures over the next 12 months. That's your goal. Well, before then. Before then. Okay.

Okay. So what's the specific goal? So before the next 12 months, 10 people make six figures. And what? Okay.

Before 12 months. Yeah. You could do way faster than that. I'm going to say you should be speeding this up a little bit. Right.

Now here's the thing. I believe you're going to do that. Okay. Okay. You're going to do it way faster than you think.

And I know you're going to do it. And I love you. Everybody, repeat after me. Right. Here.

I'm going to take this because I'm going to have you, when I do this, I'm going to have you put your hands in your heart and anchor it. All right. Everybody repeat. Go ahead. Put your hands in your heart.

Okay. Both of them. Like a cult. Come on. Like I'm commanding you.

Right. Now I want you to imagine a time when you believed in something. Think about something you believe in more than anything. Right. Stop it.

You're messing it up. Right. Right. Now everybody repeat after me. Tom.

The furry hat guy. I believe louder. I believe you're a leader. I believe you're packing rooms of thousands.

Because, Tom, you've got what it takes. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having a dream. I believed in you. Thank you for believing in me.

And you're going to do it? That's it? Period. Give him a hand, folks. Hey, I love you, man.

Believing in people is powerful. What? Furry. Furry. All right.

We got it. We got it. I was like, this guy loves to shout things, man. Wait. Wait.

All right. When I do that, you say breakthrough. No. That one's confusing because I've got to go like this.

Okay. And then the other one is like this. I love this stuff, right? Okay. There's some other things that are powerful, right?

Sometimes we're holding on to something that's preventing us from moving on. Right? Sometimes we do that. Who in here has held on to something in the past? Right?

I'm going to tell a crazy story, right, about forgiveness here. And this is, by the way, how I stayed alive over the last three months. Because I just had about the hardest three months of my life. And the cool thing is I'm fine. You know what I mean?

Like most of the people that I know in my life, if they had really, because I didn't share most of the stuff that actually happened because there's just no point in talking about it. You know what I mean? But you guys know I just went through some struggles. Right? A lot of you guys know.

Right? Yeah. So the thing that kept me alive was forgiveness. Right? So I'm going to tell you a crazy forgiveness story.

And some of you guys just think this is the wackiest thing ever. I was at a seminar, actually Danny Johnson seminar one time. And you know how she does that thing where you forgive people? You remember that thing she does? Who in here has been to one of her seminars?

Right? So I'm at the seminar. And she does this weird drill where you forgive like somebody in your life. And she says now in a moment there's going to be a lot of you in the room who are going to have somebody pop into your mind that you need to forgive. And actually that's true because you guys all will too.

And so she says some of you in the room, you need to forgive a woman. Right? And I had this woman pop into my mind that I didn't know I had resentment towards from like years ago. And it didn't even make any sense. But I also had this wart on my foot for years.

Like this really nasty huge wart like this big. Right? And I had tried to freeze that sucker off. I had tried to like cut it off with like toenail clippers and stuff. I had gone to the doctor and they had tried to freeze it off.

And it just re-grew itself. And it hurt to walk. Like but at that point I just had kind of consigned myself to a fate of having this huge wart on my foot for the rest of my life because it wouldn't go away. It's like three years. Right?

So we're at this Danny Johnson seminar. Right? She's an MLM trainer. A really cool gal. And she says, some of you have somebody you need to forgive that's popping into your mind now.

Right? And I was like, what the heck? And this lady popped into my mind. Right? And then she walked us through this drill.

And I forgave this girl. Right? Who had like just done something that I had gotten overly hurt from. You know, I didn't have your super powers of being a player or whatever. You know what I mean?

Like getting two girls at once by not allowing them to touch his hat. I didn't know the tricks. You know what I mean? And I forgave this girl and within an hour that wart dried up and rolled off my foot. Like you could watch it because I was wearing sandals.

Right? And I was looking at it and it turned white and then peeled off my foot on its own. Is that a trip? Right? And people say Danny Johnson has super powers.

You know what I'm saying? What did she do? Right? Well, one time I was actually in like a health food seminar because I used to be around all these health nuts.

You know what I'm saying? Like people who only eat raw foods because if you eat anything cooked, it's like evil. You know? And I ate only raw foods for two years until like I realized that it was really hard to make friends. You know what I mean?

It was like, you know, you go to a restaurant and then you hand the waiter a card and it says, hello, I'm an idiot. And I only eat raw foods. You know? So please make me something with broccoli, carrots, and lettuce. You know what I'm saying?

You know? Chris, you remember when I only ate raw foods, right? Well, I went to all these weird seminars. Like I went to a seminar with a guy who apparently didn't eat.

He only breathed and stared into the sun. He was a nut job. And don't ever try that. I know several people that have almost gone blind. Right?

Trying that. One of them that almost went blind also drank his own pee. So just stay away from this stuff. So anyways, I go to a restaurant. So anyways, but I go to this one really interesting seminar, and this one's about forgiveness. And a lady was like an author, and she was in Utah at the time doing a seminar on forgiveness. And she had talked about how she was an alternative health practitioner and she had gotten stomach cancer. Right?

And the stomach cancer just kept progressing and progressing and progressing until it got to a point where if she didn't have surgery to remove a majority of her intestines she was going to die, right, and it was either die or get the surgery and remove most of your intestines. But you know what she did is she said, now I'm not encouraging you guys to do this, I'm not a health person, right, I'm just telling some weird stories. So what she did, and I met this lady, I talked to her for a while afterwards, but she said, no, I believe that there is natural cures to things and the body is a healer, right, and so she said, I am going to figure this out. So you know what she did, she sat there meditating all day and night for like a month on how to heal it, and then spontaneously one day in meditation, right, she went back in time into the past into this memory and had something pop into her head, right, spontaneously was a time that she had really locked up and held on to like this hatred towards another person that had abused her severely when she was a kid or something like that, but she'd held on to it, and it was like her unconscious mind or God or whatever told her, you need to let this go, right, and in the meditation she opened her mouth and she said, I forgive you, I release you, and I bless you and I let you go. Stomach cancer spontaneously healed within a few days. It was gone, right? Sometimes what happens is when you're clinging on to something, it prevents you from succeeding at the next level. You guys know that. All right, so it's just a powerful thing. So here's what we're gonna do, right, you guys have a goal in your mind, everybody clear on your goal, right? Repeat after me: I can achieve my goal. That's it.

Now here's what we're gonna do. Close your eyes for a second, right? Some of you in here have something that you need to let go of that's preventing you from reaching your goal. There's been this resistance, it's been like you're fighting something, and it's time to open up space and let go. And when I count to three and I snap my fingers, those of you in the room, and you know who you are, who have something that you need to let go of will pop into your mind. One, two, three. I heard some responses from that. I want you to raise your hand if you felt like you have something to let go of and you're willing to be honest about it. Look around the room. Okay, look around the room. Okay, somebody, you guys have people you need to forgive. Okay, so here's what I want you to do. Okay, everybody who wants to forgive that person, stand up if you're willing. Not everybody needs to stand up, just the people who want to forgive somebody.

All right, now I want you to do this with me. Okay, first of all, step into a new space. Okay, and I want you to remember a time, and everybody can do this part, close your eyes for a second, everybody remember a time when you felt total forgiveness, complete forgiveness. It could have been you being forgiven or you forgiving somebody else. Just remember what that felt like to be forgiven. Clean slate. And when you've got that feeling, put your hands on your heart, just remember.

Now there's a useful exercise, so here's what we're gonna do. Open your eyes, everybody. In here, this is gonna be a little bit weird, but one thing that's helpful, because everybody, who here knows, everyone does the best they can with the resources they got available all the time, right? Sometimes people don't have very much resources, you're like, you need more resources, but they're doing their best. You guys know people are doing their best. Repeat after me: people always do their best. Even when it seems like they're not doing the right thing, they are doing their best. That implies forgiveness, right?

One thing that helps with letting go is perspective. So just for a second, watch this for a second. Imagine we're gonna make this the space right here. Okay, so I'm gonna get out of it so we don't poison it, or we'll do, right, yeah, right here, this is a space. Imagine the person that you want to forgive, that they did this thing to you, just standing here in this space. Visualize it, right? And we're gonna look at it from a couple of different angles. Watch this, and this can help you let go of anything, right? First thing is step back, and you could go ahead and take a step somewhere if you want and look at this person in a new space. Detach yourself out of the situation and put them there and ask yourself this question: what does this person need, need what resource? Love, forgiveness, understanding, that if they had that resource, they would not have done what they had done, or it would have turned out in a different way. Okay, everybody who needs to forgive somebody, close your eyes, and I'm going to ask the question: what resource does this person need that if they had, this would have turned out differently? And all of you just had something pop into your mind, didn't you?

Okay, imagine sending that as a gift to the person. And you could even say the name of the resource. It could be love, it could be forgiveness, it could be understanding, peace. Go ahead and say the name of the resource. What is it?

Being loved. I'm doing it too. Okay? Being loved. Right?

Now, send that love to them and watch how they change. That's right. Just like that. Okay? You got it.

Now, new space. Imagine you're somebody that's got power, and you know a lot of things. Right? Now, this is a little bit different, because we've got to use our imagination. And if you need to sit down, you can sit down.

If you want to stay, you can stay. Some people have bad legs and stuff. I don't want to have you be burdened if you've got bad knees or whatever. Right? Imagine you're standing in a space where it's like you're Superman or something, or like an angel, and you can see things from there.

And you can see things from a thousand feet above. And you can see both sides at once. Right? Just imagine you're not that person, that you're like in this detached space, and you kind of know everything.

And from this space, I'm going to count to three, snap my fingers, and you're going to send them a different resource. And you'll have something pop into your mind. One, two, three. What could they use that if they had that resource from this new perspective, things would have turned out differently? Peace.

Insight. Forgiving themselves. Right? Anybody who's angry and blows up, usually you've got, has somebody in their life who was angry and blew up at them. They're just doing their best.

That's how they respond to things. Right? Send them that and watch them change. Understanding they were doing their best. That's right.

Now, ask yourself this. What learning do you have now, looking at this in a different way, that can allow you to change? What learning do you have now, looking at this in a different way, that can allow you to let go forever? What learning? What learning do you need to have?

That when you have, you can let go forever. Permanently. If you want to shout it out, you can. If you want to keep it private, you can. Compassion.

Vision. Forgiveness. Yeah, not be angry. Understanding. Love.

People make mistakes, don't they? Who in here has made mistakes? Everybody but like that one guy. Right? So, now, right, standing in the space, knowing that this person was doing their best, we're going to let it go.

Okay? So, imagine them now changed. There they are. Put your hands on your heart. Remember being forgiven.

Repeat after me, those of you who want to forgive and let go. I forgive you. Try that again. I forgive you. I release you.

I bless you. And I love you. And I let this go. Forever. And it's okay.

All debts are canceled. I let you go. That's right. You're free. Give yourselves a hand.

Sit down. It's not just clinging to people. Give this man a hand. Big release, brother. Because here's the thing that happens.

When you're locked in the past, you've got your line of time. You've got your present state and you've got your desired state. And then you've got your past state, which, you know, I'll say past state back here. Right? When you stay locked in your past, how can you get to a new future?

Can't. Sometimes businesses fail. Sometimes you lose a loved one. Sometimes somebody abandons you. Yeah.

Yeah. Sometimes you've got somebody you love and they hurt you again and again and again. Right? Sometimes you've got to let something go. Somebody in your life.

Right? And if you hold on to the past, you can't step into the future. Big deal, isn't it? Who in here just got something out of that big time? Not everybody, but give them a hand.

Give them a hand. As you step into the future, as you step into the future, right? As you step into the future,

you'll continue to see things change from that. Some of you in here, that just changed your life. You just changed your life. I saw it. Right?

I saw it. It did, didn't it? Give them a hand. Hey, come on up here.

Come on up here. Give them a hand. What's your name? Well, I'll wait until I use the microphone. Hey, good seeing you, man.

Hey, hugs. Hey, Dave. Appreciate you. You too, man. Love you, man.

Love you too. Hey, here. What's your name? John Whitaker. John Whitaker.

Oh, dude. John Whitaker. Good seeing you, man. Yeah. You too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. John Whitaker. Give him a hand again. Hey, now here's the deal. You don't have to, don't mention anybody's names in here and don't say anything you don't want to say, but what just happened?

Oh, God set me free and he used you to do it. Give him a hand. Give him a hand. Okay? Those were the exact, that was my, you know, I stood up.

I wrote it down. That's my, that was my, right there. What, your goal? Yeah. What's it say?

I can't, it's a crazy handwriting like a doctor. Okay. Are you a doctor? No. Okay.

A lawyer. -oh. No, that's good. Okay. What is it?

What is it? Oh, I'm... What would break the mold that has been holding me back from doing my full potential? And you, it was forgiving somebody. Yeah.

Who, you don't have to say who they are, but you forgave something really bad, didn't you? Me. Forgiving you. Yeah.

He forgave himself. Yeah. That's what was holding me back. What I'm here for is breakthrough. And what that will do, that will catapult me into...

Here, come here, come here. ...my destiny. Here, come stand out. So, everybody here, I'll take this, I'll take this, lock this in, right? Here, grab this from me for a second, right?

Put your hands on your heart. Tap into that feeling. And everybody repeat after me. John Whitaker.

We forgive you. We love you. We believe in you.

We can do this. Trust me.

At the biggest level. You could imagine. And more.

And right now. You're stepping into.

Your full potential. And we believe. That you, John.

Are great. Right now.

That's it. Period. Oh, here. It's awesome, right?

You got to let go of stuff to step into a new future, right? Now, the interesting thing is your mind can change the future. Whenever you're frustrated, who in here has been frustrated? You know what I mean? Who in here is frustrated?

Well, here's what happens. This is what causes frustration rather than faith, right? And when I'm talking faith, I'm not talking, I might be talking about something spiritual, I don't know. What I'm talking about is believing in something that's not there yet, right? Because it's easy to believe in the floor because it's there.

I'm stepping, you know, my feet are on it, right? Sometimes it can be more difficult to believe in something that hasn't happened yet, especially if what you're doing isn't working the way that you want to yet, right? You guys been there yet? You guys been there a few times? You sponsor a person and you want to sponsor to a day and it's been six months.

And sometimes you focus, you focus on that. Well, if you focus on the past, it keeps you locked in the past. But you can also focus on a new future.

You can also focus on a new future. See, this is what was happening to me. I just went through a whole bunch of stuff, right? And it took me truthfully about a month of really intense work on myself to get over it. I'm over it.

But I got over something, a series of things, that I know people who have held on to things less bad, right? Because I didn't tell you guys nothing, okay? I know people that have held on to things less bad for 20 and 30 years, right? And I let go of it and it was difficult to let go of it in a month, right? Well, what did I keep doing?

My mind kept going back into the past, back into the past, back into the past, thinking about the problem. And if you're focused on problems, you stay stuck. But if you're focused on the future and solutions, right, both, it's really difficult to be frustrated with anything, right?

And frustration is not useful, right? And this man's a pastor. What does the Bible say? Where there is no vision, they perish. What does it mean?

You die, right? So, watch this. I'm going to show you guys how easy it is to stay focused into the future, right? So, we've got the future. Everybody in here, you're clear on what you want this weekend?

Watch this. So, we're going to visualize together and we're going to go get into a state of belief and faith and expectation and then we're going to project and imagine it out into the future at different times and we're going to allow our unconscious mind to produce images of those times together and watch how our mind can create a new future together, right? Because it's powerful to believe in things together too, isn't it? There is something magical that happens.

You're like, dude, when are you going to start talking about like how to sponsor people and stuff? I am. Because people don't want to join people that are holding on to the past and they don't want to join people that don't have faith and they don't want to join people that don't believe in big things for the future and they don't want to join people without vision, right? You want to attract really good people? You've got to learn to believe in people.

You've got to learn to believe in people. Because I'm telling you something, folks. People are everything. Without you guys, you know who I am?

Nobody. I need you. People say, I don't need anybody. Yeah, whatever. Have fun.

You know, have fun by yourself. We need each other. We do. Right?

Why? Because it's more powerful to be together. Sometimes you could go out there and some of you could go make money faster on your own doing something on your own, right? Some of you. Not very many of you.

But some of you. You could. However, you can do greater things together. Everybody repeat after me. It's more powerful to be unified than it is to be perfect. Because I'm not perfect anyway, so I might as well be unified with other people. And they matter to me.

And I love them. And I'll appreciate them. And I'll believe in them. Because their dreams matter just as much as my own.

And I matter just as much as Dave would. I matter to the company just as much as David Sharpe. I matter to the company just as much as the people on stage. Because I'm important. My dreams are important. And I am going to live my dreams. Because other people are important.

And I'm going to help them live their dreams. That's it. Period.

Okay? So, wait, wait. I say that all the time in Spanish for everything. Because I think it's hilarious. I talk the same there as I do in English.

Now I speak probably 60% of the language. So I can talk around anything and say what I want. But sometimes it takes a long time. Like a child.

So I got a private professor for three hours a day. Now an hour. We only speak in Spanish. Every day.

See? Here too. Because my assistant, Sandy, is fluent in Spanish. Tica.

See? Bien. Muy bien. Escucha y repita.

Muy bien. Ah, si, espanol. All right. Spanish is sexy. You just can't help it.

All right. Everybody stand up. Okay. Let's do a vision process here together. And then I'm going to talk about how.

Right? I want you guys to just watch. Allow your mind to create images together. Right? Allow your mind to create images together.

Because having faith is powerful. And like you don't need to be religious to have faith. You know what I mean? I don't know like anything about God or anything like that. You know?

Talk to a pastor about that. I mean maybe he knows what's right. I certainly don't. But I do know that having faith is powerful. And believing in something is powerful.

Believing in a vision is powerful. Because when you believe in a vision, you know, the lady was saying, how am I motivated? A vision.

Right? And it helps if it's connected to a purpose or something like that. But it's really easy to believe in something. So watch this. Okay?

Everybody, you can close your eyes. You can leave them open however you visualize better. And by the way, if there's people in the room, your knees hurt or whatever. You've got back problems. And you need to sit down.

You can sit down. I'm not going to have people stand forever who, you know, they really need to be sitting. I want to be sensitive to that. Close your eyes. Leave them open.

However you visualize better. And I want you to remember a time when you believed in something. And then it actually happened. Everybody in here, have you had that happen before? You believed in something and then it happened?

Right? You believed you'd propose and they'd say yes. You know? Or you were trying to have a kiddo. And you were believing and doing something else and had one.

And you're believing in something. Right? And it happened. Everybody got one? Say yes.

You got it? Okay. I want you to step into that memory. Imagine yourself looking through your own eyes, whether they're open or closed. Step into that memory and tap into that feeling of believing in something that hasn't happened yet.

Of believing in the future. And I want you to breathe the same way that you were breathing. I want you to feel that feeling of belief in your body. I want you to feel that expectation. And where it's located in your body.

Is it a rushing feeling? Is it something that's warm? Is it something that's just an image in your mind? Are you hearing a voice? Yes.

How do you experience belief? Allow that belief to show itself as you look through your eyes, as you experience, as you imagine something in the future. And as you do, put your hands on your heart. And repeat after me. Having faith is easy.

Because to have faith, I just got to remember a time when I believed something before. That's it. It's easy. Right? That's it.

Period. Okay. Now, watch this. Step into that faith. Put your hands on your heart.

And now, see yourself hitting your goal. See yourself in that memory in the future. See yourself. Feel yourself. Be in yourself in this feeling in the future.

Hitting your goal. Raising the money for the charity. Standing on the stage. Speaking at an event. Making the money.

Getting that check. Right? And taking that feeling with you. I want you to step into a memory in the future. And allow that memory to play out.

And allow those feelings to form of being in something that you saw. Of stepping into that car. Of opening the door into your new house. Of being there. Being there more for your family.

Of giving more. Of accomplishing more. Of never being homeless again. Right? Of doing something that's different.

Doing whatever it is that you want to do. Because we're all different in this room. And everyone is important. Imagine yourself being there. And lock in that feeling in the future.

And allow yourself to step further in time into the future. The next event, Miami. Where will you be? What's going on around you? Who are the people around you?

Who's in your team? What are you doing? Are you on the stage? Are you speaking? Do you have a check in your hand?

How much does it say on it? What's the numbers look like? What does the weight of the check feel like in your hands? As you're seeing that, as you're feeling it. As you're hearing the sounds around you.

What does the applause sound like in the room? What does the light feel like on your face as you're standing on the stage? And are you wearing shoes? Or are you weird like me and barefoot? Who knows?

Right? And take that vision. And step further into the future. And let's imagine something so big and so different.

That we couldn't have done it without the people in the room. We need them. Imagine you're standing there and you're believing this. And there's people on the right in front of you. And they're on the left.

And they're behind you. All around the room. And it's like this belief and this faith is reaching out. And it's connecting everywhere to everybody. Like a field going out from our hearts.

Because here's what's happening. When we believe something together. When we believe in a future together. The world changes. Repeat after me.

I believe in my vision. I believe my vision is important. I believe my future is great. I believe in the person to the left of me. I believe in the person to the right of me.

I believe that I am great. I am living my dream. I am stepping into a beautiful future, that I am helping people out there in the world.

And I'm going to do something great with my life. I'm going to break through obstacles. Sometimes I'll climb over them. Because I know they're coming. I'm okay with that.

Because my obstacles are a part of my beautiful future. And I'm going to live that future. No matter what life throws at me. Because I am powerful. And I believe in everyone in this room.

And I believe that everyone in this room is important. And I believe that their dreams matter. And I'm going to be here. No matter what. Stepping into my future.

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