If you want abundance, if you want wealth on the outside, if you want a gorgeous lifestyle on the outside, if you want to live in the rare air of legendary, that begins within as well. The society has got it backwards, the doorway to success swings inward, not outward. Those kinds of things are the by-product of prosperity in your inner life. You want to develop a Mindset and a Heartset and a way of feeling and a
way of being where you’re radically generous. You want to be so full within, it’s
almost like you have an inner well of generosity. You can’t believe how happy you feel. You can’t believe how good you feel about yourself because self-worth is way more valuable than net worth. And because of this interstate of prosperity, it is a DNA because of this wired-in mindset of generosity, this heart that’s overflowing
with givingness, what happens? Your exterior life automatically follows because you give to your teammates. You give ridiculous amounts of value to your customers through your products and the user experience that you create. You want to be a craftsperson of your work because you want to give and you work with love. You want
to give to everyone around you. You go into a restaurant, you want to give to the server who is supposedly there to help you. You want to give to strangers on the street. You want to give to your place. When it comes to your intimate relationships and your loved ones, you’re all about giving in a monomaniacal way. And I say that with a smile on my face, but you get what I mean. If you can install the interstate of prosperity and generosity, you go out in the world and you become this force of nature.
And because of your giving and because of the energy that you’re radiating and because of the kind of human being that people feel you as through the psychological concept of reciprocity, they want to give back to you and life becomes a perpetual state of magicalness. And I say that with, again, a smile on my face, and I know I just made up a new word, but it is stunning what happens when you wire in interior
prosperity. When you care less about money, and more about honoring yourself, honoring your creativity, honoring who you truly are, honoring your authenticity through personal mastery, the money takes care of itself. If you want people to treat you well, let me ask you, do you treat yourself well? If you want people to respect you at work and out on the street and in your home life, do you respect yourself? If you want the world to listen to you, how much do you listen to your own instinct? If you
want the world to adore you, have you wired in self-adoration?
And that’s not about being egotistical, actually, it’s about being ego-free. The more you can work on yourself to quiet the chattering voice of your ego, which is nothing more than the fear within you trying to express itself, the more you’ll walk out in the world and be fearless. Work on developing wisdom and watch what happens to your performance. Work on developing the open-hearted compassion that is your true nature, and watch what happens to your relationships. Work on developing an interior core that knows itself. The great philosophers all said the same thing, “Know thyself.” Well, actually, I’ve realized, knowing thyself is the secret of genius-level performance. Knowing thyself is the secret to becoming legendary in your field. Knowing thyself is the secret of world-class lifestyles. Knowing thyself is the organizing mechanism for changing the world because when you know yourself, you k
now that you have the potential for greatness in you. When you really strip away your fears and the pain that’s accumulated from your past, and when you strip away your anger, and when you forgive yourself and you let go of all the things that have happened to you that have depleted your sense of fearlessness, knocked down your bravery, when you start to know yourself, you know at your core is pure bravery, pure creativity, peak health, natural prosperity, true love. And when you start to access that, which is the birthright of who you truly are, and it’s not about productivity hacks, those are band-aids. It’s not about strategies to elevate your mindset. It’s not
about building a world-class team. Those things are all important, but everything is a reflection of who you truly are. The world mirrors your interior life. And if your life is anything less than world-class on the outside, it’s because of one core reason, your interior life is not world-class. And if you look at the icons, they get that everything
on the outside begins within.