Hello everyone. Welcome to the productivity super hack with Nathan Swan and Ian Griffith. So good to have you here. Welcome. Yes. How are you doing, Nathan? Good to see you. I am doing amazing. I'm really looking forward to sharing today's topic on capturing open loops on, on offloading your mental Ram. This is when, when we were talking a moment ago, I could tell that this was something that was close to your heart and I'm, I'm, I'm fired up about it, man.

I'm fired up. Yeah, absolutely. Ladies and gentlemen, we talk about this before we even start the podcast and we get so psyched up. There are so many things that are so valuable and I can't wait to share them with you. So let's get started. One of the things that I'd love to do is start with a super hack.

Something that you can immediately Put into your life to greatly improve your life. And the one I was talking to you about is, is so simple, right? You're using your phone all the time and you can send something to reminders just by saying, remind podcast four o'clock. You just hit that button, you recorded it, and it adds it to reminders.

So then it does that, and then I have something that just puts it to my to do list on things three. So you see, hey, here's a reminder at four o'clock, and this is the whole thing. So not only does it show up in Apple Reminders, but now I have it available. Very, very exciting. Uh, you know, the thing is, Our mind is not meant to just hold tremendous amounts of information.

It's meant to let it go through. So in order to be truly present, when something comes to us, a great idea or a thought, we better grab onto it, we better put it somewhere, and then move on with our day. So this is the quickest way I've found to do that. What do you think about that, Nathan? Absolutely. I've got so many directions that I could take this.

I'm thinking of so many different, different avenues that relate to this. But the, the one that comes to mind is actually Marie Kondo. Are you familiar with Marie Kondo? Yeah. Yeah. The life changing magic of tidying up. Yeah. And David Allen wrote a book. On, of course, he wrote kind of the staple on any productivity shelf, which is getting things done.

And that's the first step of his five step process to what I think you could call Marie Kondo ing your consciousness. Marie Kondo ing your consciousness. Like having the magic of tidying up. Your mind and your mental space because what Marie Kondo teaches is when you change your physical space It will change the way you feel about yourself.

It'll change The intention that you have by changing the actual way you feel In the room, which changes the intention for your life. If you feel spacious and free first thing in the morning, you'll navigate the world spacious and free. So she's got dominion over the physical space, changing the physical space.

I believe that David Allen's process is like Marie Kondo for your mental space. And the first step of that is like literally just processing it, literally just looking at all the junk in our conscious mind. And, and just looking at it, just like Marie Kondo looks at it and says, does this bring me joy?

Like the first step is awareness, like looking at it. Um, there's five steps to it, but the first step is just capturing. And this is something that I'm doing every day because it's the first step towards, uh, Marie Kondo in the consciousness. Does that make sense to you? What do you think about, uh, your consciousness and how that relates to productivity?

Absolutely. I'm always trying to be more present, you know, presence is such a power and Eckhart Tolle talks about this, but in order to do that, I have to get this stuff out. So I get it out and it goes into like basically an inbox, a place where I can prioritize it against everything else in my life.

Later on, I love Marie Kondo says, uh, you keep what sparks joy in your life. And I think when you go to the other side where you're not writing stuff down, where you're not finding a place for it, you're like, Oh, what did I forget? Oh, what was that thing? And you're constantly nagging yourself about the things and there's more and more and more of them and you start to get overwhelmed, but if you can put it away, put it in its right place or even just.

Do it, delegate it, delete it, defer it. If you can do one of those things, then it's out of your mind and you can have like the joy of being present and only focusing on what you're doing right now. And knowing it's what matters. The in, in the book and getting things done in the first chapter, he talks about somebody who wrote down everything on their mind and they said afterwards, like, Oh, wow, this is a.

amalgam of undoability. Just like, oh, there were all these things on my mind. And it was just, it was, it was weighing her down and it was all things she couldn't really do. Um, and so this kind of relates like when we were aware of it, then she was able to actually start to clarify what to do about it. And in my mind, that's like looking at your stuff and saying, does this bring me joy.

If it's no David Allen would say, is this actionable? Like, what can I do about this? So like the first step is throughout the day writing down, okay, well, what's on my mind, what did it like project podcast? Okay. Well, what's the, the, if we can boil it down to something that's actionable, like. Uh, text Ian about when our next meeting is, then it starts to be process of almost that that gnawing sense of unease that like amalgam of uncertainty starts to become something that's, that's tangible.

They say that the scariest monsters. Are the ones that you can't see the ones that the, the jaws, you know, it's something underneath the water. You don't even know. And this is, this is what takes something that's just like, Oh, I feel anxiety. I don't know why. Uh, uh, and what I've seen is, is people start to actually, um, groundedness.

when they start to look at their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual space, but specifically in this case, the mental space, and they start to actually do something about it. Um, because most people aren't even aware that they're unaware. They just have a sense of unease and this starts to bring more peace to that process is what I think.

Any, what, how do you feel? What's, what's your process? Like what's something like actionable that you do to go from I think we've called it this before in one of our seminars go from chaos to supercharged. I think it goes chaos to clarity, clarity to supercharged. So how do you, you're someone who's, who's, who's Utilizing the everything that you've learned.

What, how do you go from, how do you manage the overwhelm? Yeah, that's a good question. You know, our mind is so powerful that we can immediately imagine something that would take a thousand lifetimes to achieve, right? Uh, we could say, hey, I want to write 10 bestselling books. I want to have four bestselling podcasts.

I want to be a top Tony Robbins speaker. I'd like to have it all in a week. So our mind has the capability. To put out wishes, and that's great, but then what happens is, is we say, I want this, I want this, and then it becomes this layer of, instead of, oh, this is so exciting, I get to go explore in this area, I'm having fun, it's a game, it becomes like, oh, I didn't do this thing, I did, I, and you kind of almost feel dread, and then, Any, any piece of it.

You're like, if you just pick up one little piece, you're like, Oh, this is so much more than this. I'm so overwhelmed. You know, Oh, I have to post on like social media, like five times a day for every day for the next 10 years. And I've Not even doing it once. So you get all this. So the first thing you got to do is you've got to get your psychology right, your mindset, you know, all suffering is caused from resisting the way life truly is.

And, you know, they say that that wisdom. Is knowing the things you can have effect on notice the things that you can't have that much effect on and noticing the difference or, you know, things you can't change, you can't change and noticing the difference. And so what I like to do is I like to really make sure that my energy is spent on something and it's having an actual progressive effect and then the rest of it.

I tell myself, Hey, let that go right in order in order to go up the ladder of life. You gotta be able to let go. Of where you're at and grab onto the thing ahead of you. So, and maybe you want to do all those things, right? All the things I just said. But instead of that, you think, well, what could I do right now to get me somewhere the fastest possible?

And this is where the Pareto principle comes in, or the Eisenhower matrix, these different types of things. And they basically, they pit things against each other to make sure that you're doing the right thing with your time. So here's, here's, here's the problem everyone has. Or a lot of people, they go, I just, I just needed to have more to do's.

If I put out every to do everything I could ever do, then I'll have it all. And then I do them all. And then I get there. That's not how life works. What really happens is we've got a bunch of ideas that are not that great. They're like, uh, there, there are anxieties there. They're like the, the, Oh, it has to be perfect.

There's all these things. But in there is gold. So you put everything out like you said, and I love this. You put everything out, you set it out just like Marie Kondo and you only grab onto the ones that spark joy. You only grab onto the ones that really fill you up. Like doing this podcast with you, super excited about it.

Right. Doing my taxes. Not so excited about it. Yeah. No, you have to accept that, but these things that you're going to do, you grab onto those and you try to let go of, of all the others and you can pick them up later if you really want to do the, the, uh, you know, the books or whatever, maybe you could do the podcast now and pick that one up later, you know, but write it down, have it somewhere.

Have it in these, in these places. So you could go back and say, what was that thing that I wanted to do now that I'm done with this thing and go back to it. Jay, Jay Shetty, the, he actually, you know, he's, he's, he's successful, young, multimillionaire wrote a lot of books, great speaker. And as you know, his whole.

Claim to fame is he, he was a monk and he came out of being a monk to take the principles and bring them to the Western world and something, a productivity hack that he shares that I find really intriguing is he'll actually look at his projects. And he'll look at the intention behind the project and he'll make a decision based on the intention.

Like, is this, uh, is this more to, to, is this coming more from a place of generosity or a play in a place of selfless selflessness? Like and he'll be able to look at it from the perspective of his higher self or his lower self. And he'll make a decision on which projects to prioritize. Um, less about money, less about significance and more about just the, the energetic imprint that yeah, with this and like the money will be a byproduct of the value that he adds.

And I mean, his results really speak for themselves, but the point is that We can't really do that if we're, and this is the whole purpose of, of why I'm passionate about this and what every, every, like I, why I'm passionate about this is the first step is going from the amalgas blob of. Of uncertainty and uh, being pulled in all these different directions to the the groundedness that comes from knowing what's in front of you and then like you said, the next step is prioritizing like clarifying and prioritizing and there's even like an energetic steps of that is like prioritizing based on.

value and intention. Yeah. I love that. I love that. And, and often when I'm trying to get myself to do something that I'm resisting, almost always because of, of fear, fear of success, rarely fear of failure, fear of being judged is a big one. Right. And, and I, and it hits me just like it hits everyone. Uh, it hits me less cause I challenge it straight on.

And the way I challenge is I say, Who am I doing this for, you know, and I, and I always, I always try to find a purpose greater than myself. We'll only do so much for ourself, but if, if, you know, if this podcast just helps two people that I care about, and that means so much more to me. Then if it's just all about me or about you.

And so I know you're, you train speakers, seminar speakers, and one of the top things that you tell them is speak so that the other people can receive that message you're serving, you're serving everyone in the audience. And when you told me that before I gave a seminar, it changed, it changed a lot for me because it wasn't about me anymore.

I was delivering a message for them, and that takes the, this whole ego. Out and everyone thinks the ego is about saying, Oh, I'm so great, but honestly, the ego usually saying, Oh my God, I don't want to be seen, you know, and, and that is, that is kind of a selfish thing, because if you have something very important to share or to give to the world.

And it could really help people move forward. And so many people have helped us so many thousands and millions of people have helped us with everything that's been built, all the technology, the whole world, all our ancestors, all the way from the beginning of time, people have been helping us as selfish of us to hold that back any help that we could give people along the way.

So I think, Oh, go ahead. I asked Logan one time, your son, Logan. What do you think public speaking is all about? What do you think, what do you think great speakers do? And he thought for a moment, and then he just said, I think it's about channeling God. Wow. He was 11 when he said that. And that's what I think that you, I noticed that in your video, in your videos, like you, you, in your, when you're speaking.

You're, you're, you're more of a conduit, and that's what I think the best speakers do is they're more of that, that conduit for the, the experience that the audience is having, and this will be a future where I know we're excited about talking about this in the future, but, um, like surrendering to the experience that we're delivering and, and, and.

Letting go to level up the experience that that's meant to come through. Instead of the, like you said, the experience, there's the experience, our ego wants to create, and then there's the experience of the moment. And I think Logan was right. And he obviously had to get it from somewhere. And I think that that, that, that, that, that's something you do really well when you speak as you're more of a conduit.

Yeah, so much more power when we do that, when we know that, you know, we're, we're part, you know, we, we're being like a piece on a chessboard and there's, there's this force of good and this force of, of, of fear, this force of faith. And, and if we can see ourselves as, as an instrument rather than as the architect, then we can truly just allow ourselves to, to play, to play out to the people.

As we're supposed to, we're not supposed to be muted because we're afraid that people might think that our tone is the wrong one to be heard, you know, so, uh, yeah, I definitely, I asked that a lot. I say, how can I, how can I serve? What can I do before I even get started? And that's the same with productivity, by the way, too.

I asked that question. That's why I like Jay Shetty. What you said is I often think, well, if the purpose of my life is to massively and positively impact this world, what would the next step be? What, what would that be? You know? And, and how can I, how can I do that? Right? So love that. Uh, we definitely talked about a super hack and much more.

Uh, I'd love to move on to the next subject. Yeah, it seems like surrender is our is where is the is a we're on this topic of surrender listening to your calling. Yeah, which I think listening to your calling and surrender, even though we've kind of decided they're there to do two different podcasts on this.

I think that Listening to your calling and surrender kind of go hand in hand, they have been said to listen to the whispers of destiny. And I think that there's ego leadership, just like you said, and there, then there's Just like you said, there's the, there's the service leadership. There's leadership, you know, a lot of social media people.

Hey, what's going on? Hey, look at me. Look at me. Yeah. Look at my money and look at Matt, you know, look at my Lamborghini. Look at these hot women in bikinis. You know, there's like leading, leading from a place of like survival based place, and then leading from a. More of a, I guess there's some, something else there more of a, I have a lot of respect for the, the people that, that are, they, they go on social media and they are vulnerable and I, I can, I can, the, the, there's like a, a more of a courage to that, I think to be vulnerable.

Um, but the point is that, um, I think that, I think that there's something there about humility, leadership and faith versus. ego, and you can lead from either side. And there's something there with the calling. I'm having trouble putting my finger on it, but what's your whole take on following your calling and how to how to discover your north star?

Yeah, I think that if you're trying to with, Hey, look at me. Uh, it can only go so far. Uh, it always ends probably in a, in a little heartache. I've helped people become world famous DJs. I've helped people become millionaires. So I've been around, uh, fame and fortune and, and that is not really what life. Is about, you know, when you're, when you're 98, looking back on your life, you're not going to be like, Oh, I had this car.

I got this many likes on this post, you're going to say, well, what purpose did my life have? And so you could, you could do it a lot of ways, but really it's opening yourself by asking these questions, you know, what, what is my higher power, whatever yours may be. What would they love to see me do if I'm an instrument with, with the tools that I have, with the skills I have, with the courage that I have, what would, what would make them so happy?

Right? And, and the other thing would be, you know, what would I be so happy about if I was 98 looking back on my life that I, Had the courage to do there's there's a lady named brawny wear and she took care of All kinds of people in hospice She was a hospice nurse and hospice is when you have just a few days or weeks to live You're gonna you're you're at the end So she was just curious as to what people's greatest regrets were in by far the number one regret people had Was not going after their dreams and living life like others expected them to live basically kind of hiding in the shadows and not being not really delivering the greatness that they knew that they had inside.

It wasn't not getting the latest Tesla. It wasn't not being famous. It was. Not going there. So what I encourage people to do, is to take that time and ask, you know, if, if money was no object, if all this stuff was no object, if things were no object, if this was the only thing and you could have a mastermind with this future you, the you at the end of your life, what would they love to see you do?

I know it's a little deep, it's a little intense, um, but I mean, I've even written like chapters about this. So I definitely think about it a lot, which is, uh, we're all going to be at the end of our life someday. So are you going to say that you won? Are you going to say that you lost? How are you going to keep that score?

You know what, what matters to you? I think at the end, you're going to, you're going to know one way or the other. For me, for me, it's following that voice and saying, okay, I'm going to surrender to this calling that I have to help the world the way that it helped me to give back the way that things were given to me and, and, um, and doing that makes me so happy.

You know, I, I had a job as a director at top companies in the world. I was in charge of 50 people at a time. I was making good money, but now I get to really help people. On a one to one basis and I'm so much happier and I would never change and go the other way. I'm just so grateful that I took this time.

So what is productivity? Is it making huge amounts of money at a corporation, top 10 corporation in the world? Or is it helping someone break out of somewhere so they feel like living and thriving again, you know? Yeah, yeah. An egg broken from the outside. Can create an omelet, but an egg broken from the inside creates life.

There's two different books that approach life from the egg cracking and the egg from the egg being broken from the outside and the egg being broken from the inside, from a human being standpoint, what wants to come through you versus what you to force the power that you have versus the force that you have.

And the first one is more about the power, which is. The war of art, the war of art. There's the war of art and then there's the art of war. They are of wars by Sun Tzu. And it's about, it's about defeating the enemy and it's about he, who makes the most calculations win. So it's about living in your head and dominating the enemy.

Was Genghis Khan productive? Yes. Was he, was he, was his intention pure? No. Uh, but the point is that there's. The War of Art, which is calculations, force, dominating, taking control, um, forcing. And then there's the War of Art, the Art of War, force, the War of Art. And in this book, the war is between What wants to be come through you and the excuses, the monsters that, that the, the unconscious monsters that kind of keep us small and keep us down.

And, and in this book, the author, Steven Pressfield, he goes, I just knew in my heart, I knew in my heart, I had to write a book about golf. And he said, he said he went to his publisher to give him the bad news. I have to write a book about golf. Oh, come on. But there's this, this kind of calling that he knew that he calls it the muse, this, this, this gift that kind of visits you, the, the there's.

A certain term that I, it's the genius, genius that, the root of that, it actually used to be that people believe you were visited by a genius, by a higher entity. He calls it the muse. Other people, the point being that like something kind of visits you and wants to be born through mm-hmm. you versus you kind of deliberately taking control.

It's you're surrendering and that's where I believe that surrender. Productivity and your calling are kind of all aligned that there's a knowing that if we just kind of trust that things are going in that right direction. I'm sure I'm curious if you have any stories of that. Cause I know with, with a lot of the projects that you've worked on, they've almost you've been, you received it more than created it.

Um, and then use your talents to kind of amplify something that was. You were aligned with. So the point is that's an egg crack from the outside versus an egg that cracks from the inside. What's your perspective on all that? I love that. I'm going to have to read that book, the war of art. It sounds, it sounds good.

And it is right. There's this, there's this genius, this art that comes out of everyone. Everyone has this amazing part of them and they all have those voices that come in. Right. And you know, my story is I had written all these things I wanted to do when I was 17 and I had let them go so long. I'd forgotten about them.

And then I found the journal. Um, Twenty five years later, and I was like, oh, I can't believe that I didn't do these things. I still wanted to do them. If I didn't find this old journal, I would never have done them, and I would have been at the end of my life, hopefully not finding the journal then, knowing that I did not win the war of art.

But when that happened, I had this very cathartic moment and I was like, I was on my knees and I was so I was so afraid of the idea of being 98 and not knowing what my dreams were somehow convincing myself not to not to live them and forgetting about it all. I said, I will never again not listen to this part of me.

That, that tells me what I want, and you know, your soul's purpose, you, this part that speaks inside of you, and we all get it, oh I should write that book, and then you, you know, you wait, you wait, you wait, and then after a while it's like, you know, five years later you're like, oh yeah, I didn't write that book, let it go.

Or worse yet someone comes out with that exact idea and delivers it and you're like, ah, I missed my opportunity, right? It's amazing how that happens a lot. But once I opened myself up to that and I said, when it comes, I'm going to, I'm going to surrender to it, to the calling. I'm going to listen for the calling.

And when I hear it. I'm going to listen really hard, and then I'm going to do it, even if it scares me, even if I hate the idea, even if it's no good, if I know it's right, I'm going to do it. And it, you know, it started with, with, uh, me coaching people on the street, and as you know, you were there when, when I started doing it, and then you're like, well, what gave you the idea?

I'm like, it came to me, and you're like, well, why are you doing it? I'm like, Cause it won't, it won't stop telling me. And I promised I would do these things. And, and it turned into something where we ended up feeding, you know, homeless people and a quarter million dollars worth of food ended up going to them over, over many years.

It's an amazing story, but it all started from that. And then another time, you know, I, I was, you know, this voice said, Hey, You know, work with this Facebook group and and really like light up, highlight this amazing things that you've learned. And I built it in 10, people joined this group and you know, and so it's it's happened again and again.

I know. Uh, one time I was so amazed with this group of people that had hosted this event that I was, that this part of me said, why don't you throw an amazing party for them? And I saw this place in my mind and I'm like, Oh man, I had to do this. And I put down 10, 000 to rent out this place on complete faith.

Yeah. And, and it was for free, everyone, all those 200 people were all free guests. I don't know if you knew that, but of course, anyone that worked there, that it was all for them. Great time. Yeah. And then you, uh, you happened to be there, which is so cool. And that was many years ago that came from an idea.

But what's so crazy is in my mind, I'm like, I need to find this place. It needs to look kind of like this. And I looked and I looked, and then I looked on you and the picture of the place that was perfect. Was right there and I'm like, I can't believe this is exactly what you know, but to put down 10, 000 I knew I could probably lose it all.

It's so funny. All these people saw this event thing and and they paid normal price They were just randoms random people and it ended up paying off Exactly after we paid all the the talents and everything. It was a it was break even This memory that you'll never forget, right? Yeah, it was a great time.

I was there with my, my two, two of my bestest buddies. We had just done the, the, the event itself and then came back from it. It was like this awesome, epic. Yeah, after party where all these people got to come together and the event was so transformational. People were screaming, people were yelling, people were dancing like it was the last night of their life.

They were, they were, it was, it was really, uh, electric because of the energy of the, uh, of the event. And then. Because like everybody had a central place to kind of congregate. So yeah, I bet you did it. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, it was 250 people, over 250 people. And it went, uh, is in that place that it was the greatest party they'd ever hosted in their life.

And so, but again, this all comes from me submitting to that and I could go on and on. Uh, but, but so that's kind of the game that's played and it's a fun game because I'm like, okay, what's, what's coming next? Right. And it's like, here you go, here's something else that you could do. And it's always a good, like high fiving 10, 000 people in a giant race, you know, and beta breakers, uh, high fiving 10, 000 people in one day, congratulating them.

And then, you know, my son got in on the news in front of millions of people, always something happens out of these things. And I know these are all, you know, have doing this seminar saying yes to doing live seminars in front of hundreds of people. These are lots of examples, but I think what I want to say is I never had this thing come to me and said, Oh yeah, I want to do this.

It was always like, what, this is going to be hard. I'm going to be rejected. It's going to cost a lot. It's probably going to open me up to ridicule. And, uh, you know, there's one time. When I was using all my coaching skills and I'm, I did a Facebook live and it was to make a full court basketball shot in under five minutes.

And I was like, no, not this, not this. Cause I knew I knew, but I knew I had these skills and I'm like, Joseph McClennan has taught us these. So I went on live and I'm like, okay, this is going to happen in five minutes. I'm going to shoot this. And I'm going to show even when I miss that I'm able to coach myself in such a way that I get my mind set straight and I'm going to do it in five minutes.

And, uh, you know, 50 people, a hundred people are watching it live and they're like, they're like, I can't believe what's going on. They're watching it at work. And, and, uh, and part of my mind is like, I can't believe this is happening. And the other part is like, it's okay. I've got you covered. You always, whenever you listen to this part of you, it always works out.

And, and I made it with like 10 seconds to spare, a full course shot. And people were like, I just stood up in my office and yeah, yes. I can't believe you did that. You know? Uh, and, and that's the whole point is, um, Magical things happen when you say, I surrender to this, then all these other kinds of energies in you open up and it's like, oh, oh, this is serious.

We're going to do this, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I actually, I did a little experiment one time where I would go on meetup and I would. I would just kind of tune in to the feeling around it. I later learned that, that there's a, something called the Silva method that does the same thing where, where you, you kind of feel into which option will have the, which, which option will lead to something.

There's another book called the biology of belief where he talks about like. You can almost feel into it. Have you ever put on an Oculus before? Have you ever worn an Oculus and you know what you, I think the Oculus is a, it's a pretty potent example of, of, of this, the three dimensional world versus the world outside what we can see.

Like there's, there are energies. Like literally we, we can tune, we can see the spectrum of light. We have instruments to see the spectrum of light outside of what we can see day to day. But I think when I put on an Oculus and there's a moment before you create the boundary around yourself, where you see everything, but you see it through through the Oculus lens.

So everything looks a little bit, it's almost like you're seeing the matrix and it's almost like reality looks like it's actual reality kind of looks like it's. a simulation through that. But the point is, then you create a boundary around yourself and then boom, all of a sudden you're into this, this, this crazy world looking at the Grand Canyon.

But you know that if you take two steps to the left, you'll be back into like your reality. So the point is, You can literally have somebody tap on your shoulder during that and be like, Hey man, are you okay? Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm great. I'm great. Okay, great. Um, you know, what's really good is the, um, is, is the, the VR YouTube video about the Arctic and somebody who can literally like a human being, this is, this is, this happens to me like three, you know, once a week when I'm using the Oculus in a, in an office space.

Okay, cool. I should check that out. And I kind of believe that's that's a good analogy for for tuning into the feeling because they say the universe doesn't speak in language. It speaks an emotion and we can kind of look almost feel into it. And I'm hesitant because it's it's a little pseudo sciency.

You know, we, we, there's not a lot of like hard evidence for this. It's, it's mostly, you know, speculation, a little bit of magic. But what happened is, is I, I just kind of tuned into this and I saw that there was this WeWork event that was sold out. It's like WeWork event sold out, but I felt just like I could feel it.

I could resonate with it. So I went to the sold out WeWork event and stood in line. And they're like, uh, we're sold out, but, um, you know, half the people didn't show up cause it was a free event. So everybody in, and it was awesome. It was like free tacos and I met great people, entrepreneurs. It was, it was like a, you know, incredible party.

And so I started going to meetup groups just based on the, the resonance that I felt internally. Like, even if the surface level said like. No, you know, vacant, you know, your ego wants to just look at the simulation and go, Oh, okay. The simulation is reality versus tuning into the, you know, the whispers, and this is where how it relates to the higher calling is.

I believe that there is, we can kind of feel into it. Like you did with all these other projects, you, you fell into it. Like Jay Shetty talks about what the intention, like the feeling nature of it. Um, yeah, it's so funny. We're talking about productivity and then we go into this deep emotion and feeling, uh, and purpose and calling.

And, but what I would say is I don't know of a single truly productive person that's doing it in a way that is. Sustainable that doesn't tune into these things that doesn't exercise on a regular basis and take care of their body, take care of their mindset, take care of their psychology, and also take care of like their spiritual focus and make sure that what they're doing is in line with their values and actually is a calling inside of them.

And then that's the only way. To break through overwhelm, stress, procrastination, uh, when it becomes like a spiritual game where you're actually doing what you're supposed to do and you're being rewarded with spiritual points, then, then it becomes really fun. Then all of it isn't that painful. I know that we're going a little off subject, but I'd love to ask you this question, because it's asked to me, I go to a lot of events, healing events, and one of the people is like, well, what if this was a complete simulation?

What if this was the ultimate VR video game, and we're in it, and we can't tell, because our senses and everything. If that's the case, what would be the end result? What would you be? What would you be here to do? And for me, it comes back to that 98 year old. I would want to have lived a full life of a fulfilled life.

That was not marked by fear because guess how you would feel. You go, Oh, you take out the VR. You're like, Oh, there wasn't a cliff at all. Oh, you know, and I'm not saying do something crazy that, but I'm saying have the courage. To pull yourself out there right now, we can reach the entire world, the entire world and like eight or nine different platforms.

And so many people are acting like they're not interested in it because they are afraid. You want to be productive? Help nine million people with the post, right? My son did a, did a post. It was 13 seconds long. He reached 15 million people. And I'm like, Do you understand what you did? It would take you your whole life to watch that many of your replays in that many seconds.

You just brought that much light to the world, an entire lifetime. So sometimes productivity is multiplying your effort. If you look at all the things I did, all of them involved many more people than myself. All of them involve putting myself on the spot for a greater good, a greater group of people. And, and this is my call into the audience is when you look into your, your oldest self looking back, what productivity thing could you do that could help a good group of people, a group greater than just yourself and how great would it feel to do that?

Yeah. The super hack. That we kind of dialed in on, and this one was intentionality. Like underneath what we're doing on the surface is the reality of our intention. Uh, there's a, there's an example that was shared with me by a, a spiritual coach. Like he was a Holly Hollywood. In, in Hollywood of all places.

He's like a spiritual coach and he, he was saying how you'll, when a bullet. Is going towards a window, the window for a split second. The window is, has actually opened up before the bullet hits the window. So you can, you can freeze frame it and you can see that the energy of the bullet. Is hitting the window and the window is opening up and then boom.

And then it hits. So the window, the, and that's, that's the, the parallel is just going in with intentionality. Like we've all been in situations where somebody, something smells fishy. Like, we don't know what it is. Like everything on the surface looks good, but there's something fishy here. Like, what is it?

I don't know what it is, but I just, Oh, this is odd. Like. You know, everybody has a story of like, Oh, if I would have gotten in the car, um, five minutes earlier, I would have gotten in a crash and get past the crash and I, I could see, I know I would have gotten in a crash if I got in the car five minutes earlier.

But for some reason I just felt like, you know, I just really felt called to get a coffee, even though I was running late, uh, something like that, where the there's like, but I think an even better example is just us. Proactively looking at everything in our lives and saying, what's my intention here? Is it to love and to serve?

Or is it to, to, to, is, is there, is there another, is there a motive here? So what do you think? Any closing thoughts on this whole subject of higher calling and intentionality? I just think that you have a trust. You have this, this enormous. Amount of power ability. That's I'll call it the sub subconscious ability.

Uh, they've proven that it's, uh, potentially a million times more powerful than your conscious ability because of just the data throughput, just, just your conscious ability has, like, can put out this many bytes of, of information and your subconscious can do like gigabytes and just, just as amazing amounts of information, that's how we survived, right?

Because we can be. On a bike going, you know, 30 miles an hour, we can see a car coming out of the side and we can, you know, sports, all these types of things. There's so much that our mind can, can focus on, uh, subconsciously. We're letting our heart go, our cells, everything's going on. So, the key is to get this magical part of you.

To work with you on things. You know, when, when, when I did make that basketball shot, I'm not a basketball player and my first shot's only made at half court, but at some point, this other part of me says, okay, you believe I can do it. I can do it right? And there's this cooperation. So often I put myself on stage in front of you.

I'm like, okay, do your thing. They're like, you literally like, like, uh, it's another part of you. And I would say the more you listen, To your soul, to your subconscious, to that voice inside of you and the more it comes through. And by the way, that voice has never let me down. Never. Oh wow. Yeah. It's pretty wild.

It should have. I mean, it was pretty crazy situations, but it hasn't yet because I think it really wants, it wants this relationship. I think a lot of people, they don't, they don't let that their selves be tested in that way. So if you can get that that connection between this greater subconscious version of you And the conscious version of you and you say this part says hey I hear you.

I'm going to go for what you're saying, even though part of me says it's impossible. I don't think I can do it. I'm going to go and you push up and you, you, you've lost off. And, and then this part says, I'm coming for you. I'm going to, and it comes through and you're like, you did it right. You got it. It's, it's almost like, I like to talk about it as, as, as if you've got this part of you that's as big as a mountain, like Godzilla.

And you've got this little tiny leash. And, and, and you're like, Okay, I'm hearing you. I'm going to do this for you. And this is your pet. And that's the power that you have. It's this tremendous amount of power that you could unleash. But you gotta have the ability to listen to what it wants and to work with it rather than just saying to it No, you can't do that.

Don't do that uh I'm not i'm afraid and in never letting it truly Have its day in the sun and really show its true potential when you know The artist the the the the warrior all these these these magical parts of people That's the unfulfilled life and it wants it wants to show you How powerful it can be and how much it can be in your corner and deliver for you way beyond what you ever expected.

The, you don't have to be great to start, but you do have to be, start to be great. That's, that's the classic Les Brown quote that I, I think of when you say that traction starts and when that traction starts progress equals happiness and just, just getting it off the ground sometimes is the hardest part.

And I've heard it said you want to give God something to bless and we'll keep watering the seed, keep watering the seed, keep watering the seed that you can't see it, but there's, there's. Roots taking hold, there's, it's underneath the surface, your subconscious mind, it's building something, it's working on something, you know, you're not maybe seeing results immediately, but you're, you're giving God something to bless.

You're watering your subconscious mind, you're envisioning what you want, you're letting it go. Cause maybe there's a better plan that the universe has, maybe there is feeding gratitude that'll come out of the sky and you're, you know. You're committed, but not attached, watering the seeds of your potential every day with exercise, with gratitude, with, with intentionality.

So, I would say that, that, that intentionality, that's, that's a huge part of what we covered today. Faith, right? Faith, uh, even something you can't even imagine that you could do. But deep inside, it's like, I can do this. Give it that platform. Believe in it. You know, be, be, uh, you know, I, I tell my daughter, be a cheerleader to this part of you say, you know, you can actually, uh, you know, she, she says, you know, you can do it.

I believe in you. I know you can do it. And it sounds like affirmations. But really, it's one part of you unleashing another part of you, and it's more like, like communication and like just unleashing your greatness. So yeah, I love it. I'm inspired, man. I'll tell you, everyone right here on the call, there's something I've done a lot.

I've done a lot. I've been an author in four books, but there's another book that my internal voice has told me to do. And it's. It, I have, it does not go with everything that I'm doing right now at all. It reminds me of the golf book, but. It's telling me to write the book and it is, it is all about overcoming socrastic nation.

And it's a fictional book about a man who ends up being at the end of his life and realizing that he hadn't done everything that he was supposed to do. And, uh, it is a very powerful thing, but you know, just so you know, um, that I practiced this, uh, I just, I don't know if you can hear this, but. Okay, this is my daughter.

You are amazing, and I believe you can do this dad. You're the best dad a girl can ever have. Yeah, that's from last night. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, so, she's an amazing, uh, daughter, and that's just a little part of it. But, you know, if you could do that to yourself, or to the people in your life, to that part of you that has dreams.

You can do anything.

All right, everybody. Sounds like, uh, this has been an amazing time. I really appreciate this time with you. Time with you, Nathan. Uh, this is just getting better and better. I can't wait to see what we do next. Uh, we're gonna unleash our greatness here, huh? Amen! Looking forward to it and... Yeah, this is fun.

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