Summary: Podcast Note: Podcast name has changed to The Successful Life Mindset. Your Life Says More Than Your Words! Life is meant to be lived. It should be enjoyed. Cliff had a dream while working at a very financially successful job at a family owned insurance business. He dreamed of living out his passion by podcasting full time. But, how does one, with family responsibilities, leave a very secure position to venture out and do something so radical? Tracy had a similar experience about the film business. While he was sitting on the set of, Find Me the first movie he directed, he knew this is what he wanted to do full time. Three Keys To Making Your Dreams Happen Tracy shared his three keys to getting there, to making your dreams happen: Choose something that drives you, identify it and believe it’s possible Write it down, on paper, and put it somewhere where you will see it multiple times a day to engage your brain and subconscious to think about it. Tell people about it, and speak it to yourself (aloud or silently as often as possible) to keep it on your mind. A New Perspective Cliff said he was asked his goal for the next year and he named a large sum of money he wanted to make each month. It seemed almost impossibly large. He started thinking about how many hours he would have to work with clients each month to make that happen and it seemed even more impossible. When he looked at it differently, the idea of a webinar with many clients at one time came to him. Each client would pay the fee for his services and it actually produced more than his goal! When we believe it and start thinking about it, we can make it happen, given the abilities and talents God has gifted to each of us. It just takes change, or retraining of the mind to look at things from a different perspective to make it happen. Cliff talked about a Dave Ramsey seminar he heard that mentioned getting to financial security. It all starts with an emergency fund of one-thousand dollars. People say they can't save that amount, but if they had a sick child that required a five-thousand dollar surgery to live a normal life or die, they would find the money – somehow. Do whatever it takes, but build your emergency fund. Tracy talked about how our lives are a culmination of our beliefs. What we are already doing in life, our lives up to today, are based on the choices we’ve made. We live in a buy it now society. We should buy based on need, not want. If you don’t have the money for a want, don’t buy it until you can buy it for cash. Work for it, save for it, and then buy it. Many people today are drowning in a sea of unnecessary debt. The Elephant and The Stick Elephants live as they believe. When they were young, they were tethered by a rope or chain to a post in the ground. They would try to get loose, but were not yet strong enough. Once they learned the tether could not be escaped it stayed with them. When they are full grown and could easily pull up whatever they are tethered by, they no longer try because their mind tells them they can’t escape. Some people live the same way. We need to retrain our brains to think it is possible. Then we can set out to discover how to make it happen. Some may think of this as “new age” thinking, but it is not. Changing our minds and making things happen is is a gift given to us by God. Negative thoughts produce negative results. Positive thoughts produce positive results. We need to feed our subconscious positive thoughts, always. Tracy worked with a young woman that thought she wasn’t pretty, but when he told her he thought she was beautiful and she should write that down, put it on her mirror and say “Tracy thinks I’m beautiful” every day, he saw her transformed in about a month by simply changing what she believed about herself. Cliff said there are listeners that say, sure it worked for Cliff and Tracy, but I have no dreams.
