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Jay Shetty (14:36)

If you do one nice thing for yourself today, you'll feel pretty good. But imagine how you'd feel if if you did 19,000 nice things for yourself. Like 19,000 positive thoughts about yourself or 19,000 inspiring possibilities for your future. It would take you to some pretty incredible places. It would change your life. 19,000 makes a big difference. That's why Now Supplements performs 19,000 tests every month to ensure you get the highest quality supplements at the best price possible. Like their vegan non GMO clinically validated magtine, a patented innovative form of magnesium. Now supplements 19,000 reasons to feel good spending less learn more@nowfoods.com purpose step 4 visualize the process, not the result. I'll explain what I mean if I ever say to someone, hey, close your eyes and visualize who you want to be, where you want to be. We often visualize the podium, not the process. We visualize winning, not training. You visualize achieving, not building. You visualize the ending, not the starting. If you want manifestation to work for you, if you want to attract the life that you truly desire, it's about visualizing the process, not perfection. So many of us waste so much time and energy focused on what it will look like when we get there. And while it's important to feel that in our body, it's more important to also train ourselves to visualize the process. Waking up early, meditating, working on our health, building that skill. What does that look like? Because that's the life we have to live. We have to visualize the life we have to live in order to get to the place we want to be. And it's the life that we live that makes us great enough. That's what greatness is. Greatness is not achieving the trophy or winning the award or getting top of the list. That's not greatness. Greatness is the discipline you developed. Greatness is the energy you harnessed. Greatness is the effort you put in. Greatness is the skills you learned, the iterations you made, the improvements and changes you worked hard to deliver on. That's greatness. So visualize that process. I would program when I lived in the monastery what I wanted my thoughts to be in the morning. I see it as coding at night. I would code my mind to say, I will wake up fresh, healthy, energized, and enthusiastic to meditate. And whenever I would do that and set that intention at night, I saw that it programmed and coded my mind to wake up with that in the morning. And if I decided to skip that, I could force myself to feel that in the morning. But it was so much easier to code that the night before. You set your alarm the night before to wake you up the next morning. You don't set it when you want to wake up. You set your intention. You set your coding. You set your energy the night before. Visualize the process. Visualize yourself doing the hard things. Visualize yourself strengthening your body, lifting those weights, going on that run, starting that podcast, recording an episode. Visualize the parts that are the hard parts, because those are the parts that your life will be made up of. Visualize the discomfort, not the comfort, because that's what your life will be made up of. Visualize the hard, not the easy. Because that's what your mind and heart and life will be made up of. Now, when we talk about visualization, people often talk about vision boards. I'm a big fan of vision boards. Why? Because again, we're giving data to the mind. When I was growing up, I remember my wall was covered in lyrics, posters of rappers, music lines from interviews. It was surrounded. I was fully immersed by musicians, lyricists, poets. I would stick up all their stuff with tack on my wall. My mom, it drove her crazy because it would ruin the wallpaper or the paint or whatever she had under it. But I loved it. And what happened, that was my life. Everything that I said sounded lyrical, everything that I felt affected me. Everything I listened to was transforming my life. That's what vision boards are. They're not an activity you do for two hours and then just stick it up there. It's something that allows you to immerse. And it's also picking things that really motivate you. I think sometimes we do a vision board, very theoretically. But does that specific thing, does that specific feeling mean something to you? And if it is just a thing, a material thing, we have to realize what does it stand for? What am I really looking for? Because sometimes you're not really wanting that car, you're wanting confidence, you're not really wanting that home, you're wanting safety. Let's think about that for a second. You don't just want that car, you want confidence that you think comes with that car. You don't want that home, you want safety that you believe comes with that home. You don't just want that business, you want the self esteem that you believe comes from that business, building it. And so as you're creating your vision board, it's important that you also create a verbal board, a verbal board of the emotions that you're hoping those things translate into. This is the biggest mistake people make with vision boards. They only have things, and then when they get the thing, they're unhappy. And when they don't get the thing, they're unhappy. But when you recognize that that thing represented a deeper feeling that you were craving, that you were chasing, that you were pursuing, that becomes a worthy pursuit. Pursuing confidence is greater than pursuing the car, and the car will come anyway. Pursuing safety is greater than pursuing that home, and the home will come anyway. Pursuing joy and abundance will attract more than pursuing a material thing that may look like it stands for that. As much as you pursue and have a vision board, have a verbal board of emotions, an emotional Vocabulary that you're pursuing, Our purpose in life is to pursue that vocabulary, is to pursue those emotions, is to pursue those feelings and figure out where they come from and where they arise. The next step as you're manifesting is you have to ask yourself, what's multiplying in my life? So what's going well? Because you need to zone into that. I think a lot of the time we only focus on what's going wrong. And when you only focus on what's going wrong, you're not able to double down on what's going well. So first start with what's multiplying in my life, what's cascading, what's just growing in my life and doing extremely, extremely well. And then what's actually needing to be subtracted from my life? And then what do I need to edit in my life? One of the things I love, which I learned about through speaking to some of my friends who are Therapists, is the 777 method. The 777 method involves writing down what you are trying to manifest seven times in the morning and seven times at night for seven days in a row. Again, what are we doing here? What we're doing is we're programming your mind to be focused. We're programming your energy to be directed. I speak to so many people who say, jay, I want to start a podcast, I want to start a business. And when I say to them, well, what have you been reading about for the last seven days? They go, politics. I go, got it. All right, well, that doesn't align. There isn't alignment there. Someone will say to me, jay, I really want to write a book. And I go, great, what have you been reading recently? What have you been learning about recently? And they say, oh, I've just been watching the football. And I go, okay, well, that doesn't align. Gandhi said it best. He said that you experience harmony when what you think, what you say and what you do are in alignment. And I think a lot of us are misaligned. And so I want you to really reflect on how are you spending your free time? Is your free time, does it sound like the life you want to live? When your free time becomes immersed in the life you want to live, your non free time becomes that life. And so you want to practice. You actually want to build that skill, you want to build that life that you so want to live in that free 30 minutes you have per day, rather than say, I really want to do that. But that's not what I'm Focused on. I really want to build that, but that's not where my energy is. And I think so many of us are living a misaligned life, and that's actually what's causing our challenges. Our stress and challenges are not created because we don't have good intentions, we don't have goals, we don't have clear ideas. It's because our energy and our focus are misaligned and distracted. You can't attract the life you want if you live a distracted life. You can't create alignment if you're living a misaligned life. If your energy is all over the place and your focus is dispersed, it won't suddenly shift into feeling like an arrow. It just doesn't work that way. Right? It doesn't work that way if you're shooting lots of arrows or if you're looking everywhere. Like, let's say you're saying this is how it actually goes. You're saying, I want this arrow to hit the bullseye, I want it to hit that red dot in the middle. But I'm actually looking around at the leaves, I'm looking around at the trees. I'm looking around the person over there who's kicking a soccer ball around football. I'm looking over that side because someone's playing with their child. I'm looking over that. You know, it's like, but my energy's so distracted, how can I attract that goal? And then, by the way, when you take the shot, you miss the target. Every ounce of our being has to be focused and fixated on that target. And you'll say, well, Jay, how can I? Because I have so many other responsibilities. And you're right, you do. And you have to do all those responsibilities. But at the same time, you're thinking about that target. You're thinking about how what you're learning here applies to that target. You're not seeing it as a space of friction like these things are against each other. You're actually saying, if I solve that target, I'll actually be better at all these things I'm distracted by. Right? I'll actually make better decisions. I was saying this to a friend recently where he was trying to solve something for his family and he's also trying to build his business. And I said, well, if you build that business, you'd be able to solve that problem for your family. But while you think you're trying to solve the problem for your family, you're actually just creating longer term issues because you're not solving the root of the problem. Often if you look at a tree, you can try and spray the leaves, you can take care of the branches. But if we're not watering and nourishing the roots, it's not going to survive. One of my other favorite methods is keeping books open in random places. A book near my bedside table, which is all about sleep. A book on my office table, which is all about creativity. A book in my living room, which is all about community and relationships. Even if you read one paragraph while you're walking through that room, I promise you, it's enough. I've spent years reading, you know, trying to read a book a day, trying to read a book a week. It's been amazing. I've learned a lot, but that's just not practical for most people. But if you just read one paragraph a day, one line a day. Here's the thing. You can read a whole book and it won't change your life until you live one line. Read one line of a book and try to live it. Then read the next line and try to live it. Not only will this make you want to read the next line, it will make you realize how powerful every line is. And you won't just understand it. You'll have realized how knowledge can transform your life because you applied it. Read, study, apply. Read, study, apply. Read, study, apply. Read, study, apply. Apply what you're reading. Keep books open in random places. Read one line. I promise you, if you keep them open on a page, your eyes will be drawn to it. Rather than this idea of, well, I'm scrolling on my phone, walking through this place. Books on a shelf, haven't opened it. Don't know what the first page is about, right? It just. You keep putting it off. This is how manifestation works. You're surrounding yourself in that space with the energy that you want it to have. Remember, as I said in Think Like a Monk, location has energy, time has memory. And the final step I want to share with you today is write things down on post it notes near your mirror, your bedside, and on your laptop. Those affirmations, those belief systems, the ideas, they have to be around you so that your subconscious is just absorbing them like a sponge. Our subconscious is like a child. It absorbs whatever atmosphere it's in. And what ends up happening is we often say, oh, when I'm at home, that's when I get immersed. But when I'm at work, I'm not there. We want to stay connected and rooted to that energy at all times throughout the day. I really hope, actually, I know this will help you manifest the life that you desire. If you practice these principles, share them with me on Instagram, on TikTok. Share your clips, share your stories. I want to see what you're learning, how you're growing. This year, I'm with you all the way. I'm with you all the way. I'm rooting for you. I'm forever in your corner. We're building this together. 2025 is your year. This is the year on purpose is going to help you there. I'm going to help you get there. Stay committed, stay connected here, and I'll be back. Thank you so much. If you love this episode, you will also love my interview with Charles Duhigg on how to hack your brain, change any hack habit effortlessly and the secret to making better decisions look, am I.

Podcast Host (30:12)

Hesitating on this because I'm scared of making the choice because I'm scared of doing the work? Or am I sitting with this because.

Jay Shetty (30:18)

It just doesn't feel right yet?

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This podcast is supported by BetterHelp, offering licensed therapists you can connect with via video phone or chat. Here's BetterHelp head of clinical operations, Hesyu Jo discussing who can benefit from therapy.

BetterHelp Representative (30:36)

I think a lot of people think that you're supposed to be going to therapy once you're like having panic attacks every day. But before you get to that point, I think once you start even noticing that you feel a little bit off and you can't maintain this harmony that you once had in relationships, that could be a sign that maybe you want to go talk to somebody. There's always a benefit in talking to someone because we can all benefit from improved insight about ourselves and who we are and how we behave with other people. So if you're human, that's like a good indicator that you could benefit from talking to somebody.

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Jay Shetty (31:19)

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Hesyu Jo (31:59)

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