Change Your Story, Change Your Life

This episode offers you the exciting challenge to breakthrough limiting beliefs through a "boring" exercise. You will learn the exercise in three parts.

00:25 - Discover Part 1

00:58 - Discover Part 2

01:42 - Goal of Part 2

01:52 - Discover Part 3

02:30 - Why Exercise is Powerful

03:24 - Discover a New Story

03:39 - Ask the Powerful Question

04:08 - Get Unstuck

04:35 - Experience a New Sense of Living

04:48 - Your Main Story Barrier

05:15 - The Lie of "I Am" Statements

05:51 - Quicksand Stories

06:38 - Your comfort Zone

07:10 - Discover Your Most Important Story

07:41 - Are You Ready to Change Your Story and Change Your Life?

Do you really know what a story is? Seems like a silly question, right? Actually, it's the most import question you ever ask?

This episode reveals:

• Why stories are not just entertainment
• An empowering definition of story
• The role of religious stories
• The power of personal stories
• Why you must fully own your inner stories

You'll also discover:

• Why you are an actor
• The true nature of your identity
• How to rewrite your personal story
• How to gain new personal power and freedom

The most important story for you to understand, right now in 2023, and moving forward, is THE EXPONENTIAL STORY. The meaning of that statement has everything to do with dinosaurs.

The dinosaur was king of the Cretaceous Period of planet Earth. That was few years ago. 66 million years to be exact. It was a very hot humid world; most land was submerged under massive oceans.

Can you guess how many years the dinos dominated the earth? If you guessed 100 million years, you are BINGO, correct!

With that kind of staying power, you'd think Dino Dino would be around forever. Oops! An asteroid suddenly appears in the sky. This is one mother of a flying fragment. 10 km wide! Just slightly smaller than San Francisco.

This extraterrestrial intruder decides to land in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Not a gentle landing. It explodes with a blast that releases 2 million times more energy than the largest nuclear bomb ever exploded. This is literally a killer landing.

Megatsunamis, earthquakes, firestorms, and volcanic eruptions swallow the Earth. The sun disappears behind a huge dust cloud and peeps its rays out only 10 years later. That dramatic fanfare was King Dino's last stand.

It was bye-bye Dino, and hello nimble resilient Homo Sapiens. Your ancestors and mine became the new kings of the Earth. Throw a party whydonchya, we're still in charge. Really?

You probably guessed it. The party is about to end. Correction. The party has ended, but most of the guests don't know it. And unless they wake up right away, they will join the dinosaurs in extinction.

The new asteroid has already struck our world. It's called Exponential Technology. Hey, don't believe me. Go directly to the source of the information I'm sharing. You can take a deep fascinating dive into the subject in a factual book that reads like a great adventure novel. The title is Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World, by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler.

This book is not just an eye-opener. It's an alarm call to the 21st century. It's also a playbook for the openminded to reinvent themselves and experience levels of abundance and wealth that they haven't even dreamed about yet.

Bold is a call to action for you to write a new story and live into it.

If you only take one thing from this podcast today, let it be this. Developing an exponential mindset is not an option if you want live with dignity, joy, wealth, and freedom. Yes, wealth is an integral part of the formula.

The book will challenge you to explore different paths to physical, spiritual, and financial wealth. It will reveal how exponential thinking affects every part of your life and the lives of those you care for.

One area that should get your immediate attention is the way you earn money. Most people struggle with money because they are married to linear earning models. What's a linear earning model. The most obvious and prevalent is what we call a job. Working for an hourly wage or a salary, even a lucrative one is still a linear approach to earning money.

What's wrong with that? It puts a ceiling on what you can earn as you trade your limited time (we all have just 24 hours each day) for money.

I will come back to the battle between linear and exponential thinking in future podcasts. In fact every episode I create will touch on this most important story of the 21st century - The Exponential Story.

Understand it, embrace it, and let it change your story and change your life. Or, ignore it and be caught like a deer in the headlights when this happens. (EXPLOSION)

I'm Louis Di Bianco, your host and guide, and fellow storyteller.

YOU ARE YOUR STORY

The dictionary defines story as "an account of imaginary or real people and events told for entertainment."

Wow! The problem phrase in that definition is "told for entertainment." If all stories are told for entertainment, then they don't have much to do with our happiness, relationships, and income. They are just forms of distraction.

That's a dangerous view of stories. Why? Because every action you take, the place you decide to live, the people you spend time with, your happiness and unhappiness, your wealth or struggle for money are all the result of the narratives that you create and allow to shape and define your life.

If you want more empowerment and joy in your life, start thinking of stories as collections of thoughts organized in such a way as to create meaning in your life. That meaning can elevate your or diminish you. It can fill you with energy, trust, and hope, or it can fill you with anxiety, mistrust, and dread.

Everything you believe about yourself, others, and the world, is based on STORIES.

Religious stories shape our beliefs about the origins and the ultimate goal of our lives. Political stories define our degree of freedom or our bondage. Your personal stories determine your happiness or suffering, your social status, and your income.

Here's the thing. Most people are unaware of their constant storytelling. And, they shy away from taking responsibility for their stories. So, their stories are creating their lives and their destinies.

This podcast will explore the implications of that on your happiness, income, and freedom. Plus, it will show you how to step up and choose to Change Your Story & Change Your Life.

WHAT YOU SAY TO YOURSELF

This episode reveals the two most powerful words that determine the quality of your life.

Discover how you are creating the reality you live into every day by using two simple ordinary words.

Then, learn how to remove the limits you put on your thinking and your accomplishments by changing the way you talk to yourself.

BOOK IN THIS PODCAST

Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life by Jim Kwik

QUOTE

“Our eyes only see and our ears only hear what our brain is looking for.” - Dan Sullivan

ARE THERE PROFESSIONAL VICTIMS?

I wish I could answer no, but I can't. Unfortunately, the truth is that there are many professional victims, and their club is growing exponentially in today's world.

This episode explores the victim mindset that I have labelled Rearden Syndrome. The name refers to a principal character, Hank Rearden, in Ayn Rand's 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged. The book quickly became an entrepreneur's manifesto, and it still is today.

Our podcast guest is Randy Gage, a mega-successful entrepreneur, multi-millionaire, international award winning speaker, and prosperity trainer and coach to people around the world who are committed to their personal and financial growth. Atlas Shrugged has been and still is a powerful inspirational book for Randy.

Here are a few of the life changing insights you'll find in my conversation with Randy Gage:

• The true nature of the professional victim
• The personal and financial habits of a victim
• How and why victims get addicted to blame
• The shocking truth that we all teach people how to treat us.
• Why you may let others decide what you are worth
• The importance of value creation in the 21st century
• Why you should face the fear of getting paid for your value rather than your time

You can listen to this episode passively or actively. By choosing the latter, you are choosing to live into a self-directed empowering narrative for a very fulfilling life.

BOOKS IN THIS PODCAST

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Mad Genius by Randy Gage

Risky is the New Safe by Randy Gage

Radical Rebirth (available later this year) by Randy Gage

WHERE TO FIND RANDY

www.RandyGage.com

Randy Gage on Twitter

WHAT'S MORE DEADLY THAN CORONAVIRUS?

This episode presents a fascinating view of COVID 19 that can empower you and give you the strength and hope to face down this dangerous viral threat.

Here are some of the empowering highlights in this podcast:

• You will learn a simple party game called the Telephone Game that will let you experience firsthand the awesome power of storytelling in your life.
• Then, you will see the link between this game and the information that you choose to accept about Coronavirus.
• You'll understand that although the virus poses a very real threat to human life, it cannot conquer your mind and emotions unless you let it.
• You'll discover that the most dangerous threat to your happiness and health is a mind virus.
• You will gain three easy yet powerful strategies for conquering any mind virus, creating hope, attaining peace of mind, and paying these gifts forward to others.

BOOK IN THIS PODCAST

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler

Will You Dare to Fly Too High?

This episode explores the powerful social story that controls many of our lives today.

It is a story that demands our obedience, our conformity, our silence, and our willingness to destroy our dreams that challenge the status quo.

It is a story that made the industrial age and corporate culture dominant for many decades. It is a story that is disintegrating. But, it still hold son to us and stops us from creating, growing, and standing out.

In 2020, we are living in the Connection Age , the Connection Economy. To be fully alive in this new and exciting time, we must not conform. We must, instead, find the courage to create art. I'm not talking about paintings, or sculptures, or music.

You may create those. But, art, in the Connection Age, means your unique authentic voice, your STORY.

These liberating ideas are from a wonderful book, The Icarus Deception, by Seth Godin.

You deserve to listen to this episode. It will help you unleash your pure, strong, authentic voice. It will help you give yourself full permission to create, stop worrying about others' approval, and, ultimately, feel fully alive.

This episode is a continuation of our exploration about you beliefs as made up stories. It takes you on a fascinating, sometimes scary ride, into your unconscious mind and reveals it's power to create reality.

Some things you will discover in this episode:

• The answer to the question, "Would you confess to a crime you did not commit?"
• Any thought that you focus on long enough can become your reality.
• A documented shocking case of false confession.
• What a play about the Salem witch trials of 1692 can teach you about your mind and your life.
• The possibility for remarkable transformation in your life.

BOOKS IN THIS PODCAST

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini