What happens when you’re in the “valley of darkness”?

There’s going to be a rainy day in your life. What do you do? Keep walking forward.

If you’re wondering if it will ever get easier, and wondering when the Winter will end, find something to keep faith in, because it will get easier.

Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

The harvest always comes later. You reap what you sow.

There’s seasons to life, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. Everything will pass in due time. There’s uncertainty, and times where self-doubt will arise. Keep faith.

Don’t wish for things to be easier, wish for you to be stronger.

When you get into those muddy situations, remember to be humble and ask for help. 

Nurture, water, and protect the seed. The seed is every garden of your life.

When you’re in the Fall and harvesting, don’t be optimistic because the good times won’t last forever. It will fluctuate. 

There’s a way to appreciate each season of your life. Being aware of it makes the process a lot easier.

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If you put the man together, the world will come together.

In 18 months, the time frame that Peter Drucker recommends, it’s possible to revolutionize your whole life.

You are here because god put you here. You didn’t join a mastermind group out of coincidence. Everything was pre-ordained by the universe. It’s destiny.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. The difference between today and yesterday is the choices your going to make.

In 18 months you can have anything you want.

There is no limit in your life.

Your walls were created by you and the only way to break these limits is to schedule your success.

Be happy for no reason. What brings you your happiness?

Time and money are simply resources. What are you investing your time and money in?

For every positive in your life, take something negative out. Make space in your life!

Where are you on your schedule for success?

On today's Rise With Rock we feature a special guest, Tim Rhode, co-founder of Gobundance and founder of 1Life Fully Lived.

Today, Tim talks about heart centered leadership and genuine contribution.

Say YES and ask HOW later, or the HOW will eventually appear later

You have to take care of yourself before you can take care of others. You have to put the oxygen mask on yourself before you help someone put it on.

Tim says do something for someone you love when you start feeling like you’re a complainer. Get out of yourself, and do something for someone else.

Tim says he looks for ways he can cheat, especially when he was young and busy. He looked for times to cat nap. Think about EAP = Efficient, affective, productive.

When you’re on vacation, think about your vacation, not work. Wherever you are, be there. "I am where I am when I am!”

Tim was fanatical about managing his time, and time blocking certain things.

Tim says you have to do what you do best. Build on strengths.

“The man who chases two rabbits catches none” - Confucius

While you are young, use your energy wisely and invest it into labor. Tim says if he could go back, he would try to enjoy the process more.

Tim retired at 40, and says to ‘save your money’.

A) Understand how much money is coming in and find ways to increase it B) Monitor what’s going out C) Invest wisely

Jay Leno didn’t touch 1 penny from his Tonight Show money, he invested it. He lives off the income from his comedy gigs.

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The little angel and devil on each shoulder tells you different voices.

If, Then statements.

“If I make the sale, then I will be happy”

We have this tendency to say if THIS happens THEN I will be happy.

You give up happiness and the ability to manufacture emotions to the outside world. Become a master of meaning, become an individual that makes his or her own rules for success, for and pride. “I believe you can build your confidence and self-esteem by getting yourself to do things even if you don’t feel like it.”

Make it easier for yourself to feel good. When you feel good, you tend to take better action. Nothing has meaning but the meaning we give it.

Problems don’t go away, they just get upgraded.

You need to find problems you love to solve.

Warning: if you fall in love with the results, you might not pay the price of practice in private.

What pain do you love to experience?

Muhammed Ali was known for hating training, but he wired himself to love the results.

Pain is not meant to go away, emotions are fleeting. They are indicators. If you are a social personality type, you could thrive in a social setting.

It’s wise to find something where the process is fun.

“In your life stop trying to be happy by avoiding your problems, but rather find problems you love to solve.”

Today’s RWR is about choosing your problem, and lusting to solve it.

We must all become better students. People know what to do, but they must do what they know. How many people do you know are humble enough to take notes at every meeting and conference they attend?

We were taught in school to sit down and be quiet. It was not the environment for creativity.

If you live your life like quietly today, you will have some problems. You must affirm to yourself that you are an excellent student. You must look for the nuance, the distinction and anything unique in the person you are studying so you can apply it to your life.

Have child-like excitement.

The next time you learn something, take a micro-action after you set the goal or realize the new distinction.

Decisions lead to more decisions. So when you make better decisions, like learning something and applying it, you move forward.

Hang around people who have strengths where your weaknesses are.

If you do what you love right now, you don’t have to wait to be financially free to do it. Most of us have a limiting belief that we can’t do what we love because it won’t earn us money.

Raise your energy, raise your curiosity, commit to learning and bring that learning into into your world.

Affirm to yourself right now, I AM ______________ (an exceptional student for example).

If you can emotionalize the experience you will have during the upcoming week, you will show up more powerfully. That is why planning is important.

Our mind has one job, it wants to keep us away from the unknown and the dangerous.

The habit of hesitation holds people back. When your brain is protecting you, you tend to be pulled back. That is why struggling people seek for all the information to make a decision, and rich people only need part of the information. Override the part of your brain that keeps you stuck with only what you know. Mix some uncertainty in your life to scramble the programming of your brain and cause creativity.

It’s good to force our nervous system to learn new things, because complacency is a hazard.

Say YES and figure it out later comes from that concept. Perfection is the enemy of doing.

Be proud of being an amazing student. You can be a great student when it comes to learning about anything. Life is an evolution of learning. Oh, and then take what you learn and contribute to the greater good by sharing it with others.

Accountability

What if every month everyone had to improve and report on their budget, compared to the last month? What would happen if you HAD to measure everything, don’t you think it would be managed?

If you put a frog in boiling hot water, it will jump out. If you put a frog into lukewarm water, and turn the heat up slowly, the frog won’t jump out, and slowly die. That’s the same with humans. They start with one bite of a muffin, and then after a year they are overweight.

Are you showing up to your accountability meetings ready, and actually holding your peers accountable to the goals they set the week prior? Or are you showing up and ‘forgetting’ what’s on the agenda?

You must set consequences if you don’t follow through on your goals.

“Life rewards action.” Action is the only way to create new life.

"If people show up, they should be award in my opinion. 80% of success is showing up.” How are YOU showing up in your everyday life? Are you doing your best, and doing all that you can?

When you do your OneSheet, you will become more associated with long-term and short-term goals. Write our your eulogy, and think how you want to be remembered when you die.

How are you holding YOURSELF accountable? Do you believe that some of the most successful people have problems holding themselves accountable to doing whatever it takes?

A compelling future is important to have, because it moves you in the right direction, and it gets you out of bed in the morning.

“If you want to go to Asia, put it in your calendar.”

“Congratulations to Mike Sjrogen who created $4,000 of wealth for himself by referring people to M1”

"If you hang out with 5 losers, you will be the 6th. If you hang out with 5 winners, you will be the 6th."

"Hang out with people in M1.”

"Tell someone how FREAKING awesome they are today!"

Problems are not the problems.

Rock says we are addicted to our problems. 

Rock talks about the human needs in Rule 4. We meet our needs because we must.

People feel a need to tell their problems to other people. People look for problems to use a badge of honour. A whole life millionaire does not fall in love with their problems; they decide to have higher standards, and set goals. 

People that are successful set goals, and create new problems for themselves. The thing is, they chose those problems, and they are empowered because they get to do their problems. They live proactive, not reactive. 

People choose their vibration. People do their miracle morning because they understand the benefits of it.

“You must now break through that conditioning.”

That’s why you put yourself in a tribe like this. People that expect you to step-up every day.

The little things that happen when nobody is watching will pay you a dividend in the long term.

People who fall under their problems use language like; “I hope”

Whole life millionaires defy what is—and they step up and decide what they will make of their lives.

They love challenges. Their energy is percolating on the edge. They understand there’s only ONE TIME AT BAT.

When you’re in a purposeful mode, you don’t have problems. You have solutions. By serving people you will get all of these great things.

Change the way that you look at your problems, and decide you’re going to live in a place of setting goals.

Rock mentions the Super Bowl; winners find a way to win.

Problems = opportunities.

Rock makes us think about a time where we obsessed about something.

Rock mentions when he was on a farm, at 12 years old he realized he had no connection with other people. He thought about getting a scooter to be able to connect with people. He obsessed over getting it.

Rock focused on the burning desire, not the process.

Rock gets us hyped up by dwelling on that obsession that we all had in our mind.

Rock mentions the story of a young man who had a burning desire to work for Thomas Edison.

Rock mentions that it’s not through dabbling that you achieve success; it’s through an obsession.

Rock mentions the Mongolians who brought their family to the front lines of the battlefield. The Mongolians never lost a war.

Rock wanted to become a pilot at the age of 15, he wanted to fly away to freedom. He bussed it to Ontario, with no job. He asked for jobs when he arrived, and he picked tobacco. 80% of people quit that job, that’s how hard it is. Do what’s hard, and life will be easy. Rock didn’t listen to his self-talk. 6 weeks of tobacco picking, Rock came home and took flying lessons. His teacher offered him to be a partner in the business. Rock was obsessed. #BeObsessedOrBeAverage

Rock mentions the Super Bowl, and how the players are obsessed and PPPP (PAID THE PRICE OF PRACTICE IN PRIVATE)!

Rock mentions going down to a movie set, because he wanted to act. Rock kept showing up, he was persistent. He wanted to be around Hollywood. Rock kept showing up, and getting kicked off the set. He visualized, and he kept persisting. He wanted a foot-in-the-door. On the seventh day, someone was sick and didn’t show up. That led to Rock getting a job as an extra. On one day they needed someone kissing a girl, and they grabbed Rock, because he was there. Rock was 23 years old, acting with Patrick Dempsey. Rock had an obsession.

Rock preaches the power of thinking about it, burning the bridges, DECIDE that you are going to create a life of magic. What is it that you want to create?

All the challenges are designed to make you become obsessed about being a whole life millionaire.

Rock was a broker in an office and prepaid his bills 6 months in advanced, and the owner walked in and offered him the business. Opportunities open up when you show up and give it everything you got.

Where are you showing up in your life? What are you obsessed about?

Rock goes off on a tangent about obsession and burning desire. Stop pussy-footing around!

“Succeed or die!”

Rock mentions activating the dormant part of yourself that you didn’t know you had.

Obsess, and life will be more passionate. Your hope will change into certainty. It’s more fun to be obsessed than to live an average life.

“Defy the odds.”

Others will be inspired and moved by your obsession, and people will want to co-create their desires.

Turn the burning desire into a reality.. and stoke it, feed it, obsess on it, like Elvis had music in every room in his house and his plane.

Rock flew in and trained with Burch Harmon to learn golf. He practiced puts from 3-feet, he wanted to master golf

"You will either fuel your desire, or fuel your fear. There’s no failure, only failure to engage yourself 100%”

In Mexico right now, Rock played tennis with a pro for an hour, swam a mile, made fitness a priority which leads to passion.

“Read chapter 2 of Think and Grow Rich”

People will get onboard when you start talking about it. They will think you’re an inspiration.

One day, Jim Carrey wrote a 10 million dollar cheque to himself that would be caused at a later date. Jim went up to people on streets of Hollywood saying "I’m the funniest man in the world," and he told people one day he will cash this cheque. He would make funny faces to people, act in the mirror, talk about it, obsess about it, fall down, get up and try again, and 2 weeks before the day that cheque was supposed to be cashed, he got a deal for Ace Ventura for $10 million.

Rock says doing the lessons with passion and purpose is the key, not just reading something in a book. You must absorb it. You must obsess with it. It’s about you committing on your own personal standards, and defying the odds, and creating the life you want, and dictating it to yourself.

Saying no to what doesn’t serve you is equally important to saying yes to what does.