The OpenWorld Podcast: Live Without Limits

The OpenWorld Podcast: Live Without Limits

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  • #132 – How to develop your intuition, enter the “doorway of the subconscious” and consciously direct your life
    "Until You Make The Unconscious Conscious It Will Direct Your Life And You'll Call It Fate" -- Carl Jung
    In some of my recent posts on social media, I have talked about the importance of listening to your intuition and following it throughout your life.
    In today’s episode I want to share a couple of the best ways to develop your intuition and listen to your inner voice and how to use it for creative problem solving.
    This is one of the simplest and most effective ways to develop your intuition and to really understand it and shape it.
    The human brain has five brainwave states, these are: beta, alpha, theta, delta, and gamma.
    We spend most of our waking lives in the first state, which is the beta state. But most of our lives are actually directed by the deeper states of consciousness, and very few of us realize it.
    When we wake up from sleep, for the first 20 minutes our brains are in an alpha state. This is called "the doorway to the subconscious."
    I've always found the most fascinating insights immediately after waking up. My mind is suddenly full of all kinds of thoughts that I would never have consciously ever imagined during waking hours.
    And so one of the ways that you build up the muscles in your alpha brain state is to use what's called the alpha countdown exercise. Basically, within the first 20 minutes of waking you just count down backwards from 100 to 1.
    And what this does, is it trains you to operate within your alpha brain state. If you practice this everyday for a few months, you will start to gain a greater awareness and understanding of your subconscious.
    A couple of other techniques which I like to use involve journaling and guided meditation.
    I use guided meditation to program my subconscious mind with the thoughts and direction that I want it to have, both before going to bed at night and after waking up.
    Journaling before and after waking is great as well. When you write down your to-do list before going to bed, your subconscious mind will go to work on ways to solve tomorrow's tasks and problems while you sleep.
    Likewise, you can listen to guided meditations twenty minutes before and after sleeping so that you can program the thoughts and beliefs that you want to internalize.
    Finally, I find that much of my best writing comes immediately after waking up in the morning (or in the middle of the night). Most of the profound insights come from the alpha brainstate, before I start getting into the beta state and performing a whole bunch of routine daily mundane tasks.
    So when you wake up, whether you have dreams or not, observe the thoughts that you have when you wake up and find a way to record them. You don't always have to write, sometimes I just open my phone and talk and transcribe everything that my subconscious mind is telling me.
    4 min
  • #131 — Why your expectations are keeping you unhappy, and what to do instead
    I have many friends lately that have been telling me that they are disappointed with themselves because of expectations that they have set that they feel like they are not living up to.
    And I think that the solution is very simple. There's something that's better than expectations. What's better than expectations is intuition. It always knows what you have to do. It always knows the next thing that you have to do. I like to think of it like going up a dark staircase.
    You can't really see 10 or 20 steps ahead of you, yet that is what everyone tries to do. You can only see maybe the first step, the next step, maybe the next two steps, maybe the next three steps and those are exactly the steps that you need to take.
    So if you listen to your intuition it's much easier than trying to meet these expectations which you don't even know how to get to in the first place and trying to jump 20 steps ahead when you have no clue. You just end up falling on your face and of course you are going to be disappointed.
    Another analogy that I like to make is that living well is like a form of sailing. You let the natural energy take you, you let the winds energy carry you.
    This is much easier than rowing and trying to use all your strength and all your energy and all your willpower. That might take you short distances but it can't carry you across the entire ocean.
     It burns energy very inefficiently. it's much easier to just let things flow, follow your intuition because it already knows the next thing that you have to do.
    4 min
  • #130 – How to Develop a Bulletproof Mind
    As a marketer and an entrepreneur, programming myself with the right thoughts is something that I find essential to do everyday.
    Like working out the body, it's also important to train the mind. We take showers everyday, it's considered normal. But how many of us actively have systems in place to motivate ourselves and program the right thoughts and attitudes every single day?
    The first and easiest step is to practice some type of active meditation. This is not meditation as most people think of it, where they have to set aside time by themselves and clear their mind. It's about setting an intention and using the gears in your mind to propel you forward your intention. It's not about clearing your mind but setting it in the path that you wanted to go.
    For this, I highly recommend starting with some guided meditations. It's very simple, when you are getting ready for your day or having breakfast, you can listen to simple 20 minute audios that program you to be successful at anything that you choose to do.
    You can find many great guided meditations just from YouTube. You can easily search for and find guided meditations from some of the following creators:
    Dare to do Motivation, Marisa Peer, Paul, McKenna, Bob Proctor, Michael Sealey, etc.
    The power of listening to these audios everyday is that rather than leaving your mind to its own devices, you start it on the course that will give you the best results. You program it to reject disempowering thoughts and replace them with more empowering thoughts and beliefs. And this is especially important when it comes to creating the unshakable foundation that you need to grow your business.
    To successfully promote your product, it is also essential to integrate these types of beliefs:
    At the deeper state you can repeat the following beneficial statements:
    "My increasing mental consciousness is for serving humanity better."
    "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better and better."
    "Positive thoughts bring me benefits and advantages that I desire."
    These are the three beneficial statements from the Silva meditation system.
    In addition to these, you can also program the following beliefs:
    "My job is to serve and give value. I will make the effort to help someone, whenever possible, every single day."
    Now I know that there are some people who may be rolling their eyes at all of this. But my question to you is: when you try and take the required steps out of your comfort zone and the moment of truth comes, are you prepared to face the potential hostility without missing a step?
    Even just the thought of promoting a product and encountering hostility can stop a lot of people from even trying!
    Even just dealing with the clients that you already have can be nerve-rattling! And yes, I do speak from experience.
    That is why what I'm teaching right now is so incredibly important. 
    If you have a purpose, if your mission is to help bring abundance and be a positive influence on everyone around you, doors will open for you where they may once have been shut.
    6 min
  • #129 — My Simplest Productivity “Hack”
    For those of you who have been following me for a while you know I've done a lot of experiments about productivity to see how I can basically become a better version of myself.
    I want to accomplish more and just feel like I'm achieving something everyday and making the most of my time. Here on the blog, I've shared my experiments with different productivity hacks like polyphasic sleep as well as how I engineer my environment for peak productivity.
    One year when I wrote five or six e-books I did all of my writing on the Bangkok SkyTrain because for whatever reason I was in the zone, and without internet I had very little distractions. I just got my laptop out and started typing.
    What I want to share this time around are some of my revelations that I've uncovered within the last year or so. 
    Since the Covid era began, I've spent the time here in Vietnam which is a beautiful country and has a great cost of living so it's a very nice place to wait out a pandemic.
    However, last year Saigon began to go into a lockdown and I got out just before it was too late. I packed all my things and got on my motorcycle and drove up the coast, eventually ending up in a mountain city called Da Lat. 
    The lockdown in Saigon lasted about 4 months and it was extremely severe. But where I was up in the mountains, I was prospering. The cost of living was very low, my expenses were only around 13 USD today, including my room and all of my meals (and I eat a lot). I spent the time focusing on healing what needed to be healed, growing where I needed growth, listening to guided meditations every morning and taking courses from masterclass and mindvalley.
    Because life in the mountains was relatively simple and peaceful it gave me the space I needed to grow and to heal. Oftentimes I would rest early after sunset, sometimes in bed about 8:00 p.m. and waking up around 4 or 5:00 in the morning.
    This was a great exercise in simplifying my life, simplifying my routines, and also simplifying my diet. Basically I got into a routine where I didn't eat anything in the mornings and usually had my first meal in the early afternoon around 2:00 p.m., and ate everything within a 5 to 6 hour window. 
    It was incredibly convenient because in Da Lat, you could eat at an all you can eat vegetarian buffet for only 25,000 vnd (which is about $1 USD).
    And what I have found, is that during that stretch from 5:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., I have no issues at all with energy and productivity. If you have ever studied my work before, then you know that I'm all about managing energy, rather than managing time.
    And fasting seems to be, bar none, the best way that I can have my mind and body on board with what I want to do for the day, and operate at full steam without any sort of resistance or a fatigue. 
    Conversely, I always find myself very tired after I eat a meal and I don't want to do any work anymore. It's like my willpower is sapped. And all I want to do is rest. So on certain days when I want to take a nap, I will try and plan my naps after eating a big meal.
    People often ask me, since I wrote the book "Hack Sleep" and created a video course called The Sleep Hacking Masterclass whether I am sleeping better nowadays. But I think it's actually the wrong question. The issues that I have never really disappeared, but my capacity to manage my day in a way that suits me best has become greatly enhanced since I studied the content needed to write the book. It's about managing my energy and my body so that it does what I need it to get done.
    And this is really, really important for me particularly because I don't like to leave anything half finished. When I start something, it is very important for me to complete it. 
    I'm not interested in earning a participation medal for a good effort. If I say I want to do something, whether to myself or to someone else, it is absolutely essential that I do what I say.
    In any case, there's all kinds of literature about the benefits on the fasting online, from burning fat to extending lifespan. I don't need to get into all of the details on here, I just want it to share my own experiences and related in a way that's easy for the layman to understand, implement and benefit from in their own life.
    8 min
  • #128 – What is a Reality Distortion Field and How Do You Use It?
    We are hardwired to withdraw into a scarcity mindset because we think it protects us. By withdrawing into a figurative “shell,” we believe that we retreat into safety.
    Thousands of years ago, this was the case. This was how we survived. If you were kicked out of the tribe, more than likely you perished.
    And today we tend to continue adhering to this evolutionary mindset. We run away from things that make us feel uncomfortable. We run away from our emails. We run away from our to-do list.
    We stick with what is comfortable and resist doing things that can bring change.
    This can be a huge handicap when it comes to making the right decisions that lead us to abundance and wealth creation.
    Poor decisions caused by “turtling” behavior lead to long periods of hemming and hawing, frustration, and delay. In short, ineptitude. This mindset paralyzes so that we act dead, trapped in a non-generative retreat from living.
    When we hold onto a scarcity mindset, we doubt genuine opportunities. In general, we lack confidence of overall success. And worse still, it causes us to sabotage ourselves.
    But here’s the reality of the situation:
    The entrepreneurs who have experienced meteoric success have a huge “reality distortion field.” Richard Branson, who has undertaken numerous death-defying stunts throughout his lifetime, is an example. Elon Musk is another.
    They aren’t so blindly optimistic that they don’t realize potential risks, but their mindset more than compensates for any potential stumbling blocks.
    Musk, incredibly, is certain that what we experience as reality is nothing more than a sort of virtual simulation created by a more advanced life form. He recently insisted that our odds of living in “base reality” are less than 1 in 1,000,000,000.
    Is it any wonder, then, that his goals (and the expectations he sets for himself and those around him) seem outlandish and far-fetched when compared to our own?
    He literally believes he’s living in an altered reality than the one you or I take for granted. One where he can play by a different set of rules, one where things like failure and rejection are moot, one where he can dare to push the limit of reality.
    I believe there’s enormous power in deliberately calibrating our subjective view of reality in a way that empowers us to the utmost. Through the lens of mindfulness and introspection, we can adjust our subjective reality and thus what we’re able to accomplish.
    It starts with setting unrealistic goals. If your current goals don’t cause you to well up with excitement, then it’s time to go back to the drawing board.
    Embrace ideas and actions that challenge your preconceived notion of reality. Be flexible and fluid of thought. Question everything, including your own habits and beliefs. When presented with a new way of looking or doing things, try it out immediately and test the results in an objective fashion.
    Never become complacent in your routines or attitudes; when you do, it’s time to pause, take a step back, and reflect.
    6 min
  • #127 – The Mindset that Enables Huge Wins
    The world is full of critical people. They destroy dreams, both their own and others, by using words like "can't" and "won't."
    Choose instead to be a creator. Give things and people a chance. See the potential. See things as better than they are. Look for good in others. View events and situations through a positive filter. Always give value and abundance.
    And don't let the small thinking of some other people pollute your thinking. It's not lonely at the top, it's crowded at the bottom.
    Remember, that the most important words that you can ever speak are the ones that you speak to yourself. Your mind does what it thinks that you want. So tell it what you want. Feed it fuel for your intention.
    And remember to quickly forgive yourself whenever you’ve made a mistake. You were simply trying your best in that moment. Never use critical words of self-defeating thoughts, like calling yourself an “idiot.” Just say something else, like “You were so silly.”
    As Bruce Lee said: “Words cast spells. That’s why it’s called spelling.”
    Your words become energy and your energy influences how you shape each day.
    Cover art courtesy of freepik.com
    3 min
  • #126 – Can the Worst Thing Be the Best Thing?
    Is there a possibility that the worst thing that you can imagine happening could actually be the best thing?
    Your life is going to be long and one of the only ways to not be dragged down into bitterness and live a happy life is to develop resilience. Anything you think might seem bad in the moment, can and often does turn out to have positive effects in the long-term.
    Anytime that you feel that you're going through something that is the worst thing that could ever happen, ask yourself is there a chance that this could be the best thing that could ever happen? 
    Maybe you don't see it today but one week, one month, or one year in the future, you might see things differently.
    There is a well-known Chinese proverb about a horse who ran away from a farmer. As it was his only horse, his neighbors sighed and said “What terrible luck.” But the farmer shrugged and said “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.”
    A few days later, the horse returned home, leading a few wild mares back to the farm as well. The neighbors shouted out, “Your horse has returned, and brought several horses home with him. What great luck!” The farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.”
    Later that week, the farmer’s son was trying to break one of the mares and she threw him to the ground, breaking his leg. The villagers cried, “Your son broke his leg, what terrible luck!” The farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.”
    A few weeks later, soldiers from the national army marched through town, recruiting all the able-bodied boys for the army. They did not take the farmer’s son, still recovering from his injury. Friends shouted, “Your boy is spared, what tremendous luck!” To which the farmer replied, “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.”
    The moral of this story, is, of course, that no event, in and of itself, can truly be judged as good or bad, lucky or unlucky, fortunate or unfortunate, but that only time will tell the whole story. 
    Heroes are born in hard times and adversity shapes us and makes us stronger.  
    Life doesn’t always give you what you want, it gives you what you need. Like a child who wants cake, he is given vegetables instead.
    Suffering only begins at the very moment you label something “bad.” But just think: could the “bad” things somehow lead to something good? Is there any way an event you considered “terrible,” could actually be the best thing that ever happened to you? Can you MAKE it the best thing that ever happened to you?
    Cover art courtesy of freepik.com
    5 min
  • #125 After 2 years, we’re back!

    Hi, this is Danny, producer of the open world podcast. After a few years long hiatus we are back to podcasting and rebranding this podcast with a new name and a new format. I have a lot of great content in store for you guys and to make things streamlined and easier, and make it more reliable to provide you with fresh content I will no longer be narrating future episodes. Occasionally I may be jumping in with an interview […]

    The post #125 After 2 years, we’re back! first appeared on OpenWorld Magazine.

    4 min
  • #124 How to Create Opportunities and Live Freely (with @selfmadedt)
    Welcome to another exciting episode of the OpenWorld podcast!
    After a long hiatus, I'm excited to kick off a new season with you all. We have great things in store!
    Today we bring you a value-packed episode from a friend, nomad, and entrepreneur that I truly admire. His name is Drew Taylor and he's one of the most industrious digital nomads that I know. The founder of Digital Nomad University, Drew is always sharing valuable resources about new ventures and income streams that he's tinkering with and enjoying success on.
    His blog (and Facebook group) is full of useful content covering everything from travel hacking and affiliate marketing to effective lead generation techniques to get customers.
    Drew started out with a meat-grinder job doing phone sales, an opportunity he took up just because it was available. But with entrepreneur's DNA, it didn't take him long to branch out on his own.
    Since then, he's tried everything from online freight shipping to social media marketing to blogging and investing. Today, he is the proud owner of about 7 or 8 different sources of income.
    During the interview, we talk about all of this and a lot more. In particular, I was curious to ask Drew how he discovers profitable business opportunities, launches them, and monetizes them in short order. I've observed him do this in a number of different capacities and noticed that he has an uncanny knack for it.
    We talk a bit about our philosophies to life and business and how it guides everything we are doing, the resources that have helped us along the way, and much more.
    A common characteristic that Drew and I share (and that I notice among many people who are having success today) is that we are both doers.
    If we see a fork in the road, we take it. When we see a promising opportunity in front of us, we take a chance on it. I've noticed that 90% of people don't think or act this way -- when they see an opportunity, they delay, they think it over, they pause and wait... and perhaps six months or one year go by and still haven't taken any action.
    Towards the end of the interview we also talk about what I call our own "universal basic income" that we've both set up where we use AI Forex trading software to create a hands-off passive income stream.
    I'm hoping this interview inspires and empowers you to take decisive action as you move down your ideal path in life!
    Resources and Links• Drew's blog, Facebook group, and Instagram• The AI Forex software that Drew and I are using to extract recurring income from the markets.
    55 min
  • #123 Two of the World’s Top Growth Hackers Discuss Growth Hacking (with @VinClancy)
    Welcome to another episode of the OpenWorld podcast!
    Our guest, Vin Clancy, was living on welfare and benefits 3 years ago, until he received a check for $250,000 for one of his ideas. He used the growth hacking techniques he was learning to get millions of visitors to websites he created and raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment, and got into the Techstars accelerator.
    He made over $165,000 with his previous growth hacking book launch, “Secret Sauce,” and was previously on the OpenWorld podcast during the launch of that book in episode #90. Since then, he's changed his name from "Vincent Dignan" to "Vin Clancy." And with his new book, “Ace the Game,” he raised $10,000 in his first hour.
    This will be a fun chat between two deliquents who are living far outside of the conventional norms, having a bunch of fun, and running profitable businesses at the same time. Interestingly enough, Vin is also an expat based in Los Angeles, while I'm an expat based in Asia.
    So if you wanna learn some “hints” on how to do the same, and create freedom and leverage in your life, by having a profitable business that you don’t slave over, I know you will love this discussion.
    Vin starts out the interview by stressing the most important metric of growth hacking: you want sales. Indeed, this is perhaps the most important metric of business in general, and the reason why I no longer track things like website visits.
    Vin then shares his system for brand building -- which is perhaps the most important long-term business growth strategy. Because here's the secret: once you have established a platform and a respected brand, you no longer have to work so hard. It's the key to having customers and prospects rushing to work with you, instead of struggling to hard-sell cold prospects.
    Vin is one of the best self-promoters on the planet. 
    To streamline the process of building a powerful brand, Vin shares his hacks to content marketing and making sure that he's everywhere his prospects can find him. It's a strategy that I've also written about (you may have read about it in our newsletter), but Vin takes it further than perhaps anyone I've seen.
    Throughout the rest of the discussion, Vin shares juicy hacks and tips for creating powerful marketing videos, high-converting landing pages, Facebook ads, market research, influencer marketing, and more. We also talk about creating upsells, subscriptions, and memberships to fully monetize and lifetime value.
    I also ask Vin to share his views about the future of marketing, along with the hot little tool he's bullish on which few people know about and isn't competitive yet. This excellent chat with one of the world's leading growth hackers is definitely one you do not want to miss!
    Aaaand if you enjoy this episode, please be a friend and leave a review on iTunes :)
    0 min

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