Creating the Life You Want: Powerful Peak Performance Strategies You Can Start Applying Today

By Jim Britt and Mark Yuzuik

Like most, you have big dreams, and like most you also have questions and doubts about how to achieve those dreams. For now, we encourage you to set aside your doubts and uncertainties and read with an open mind. In this book you’ll discover bold, new ways to harness the unlimited power of your mind and emotions to achieve more of what you

• Language: English
• Publisher: Markmy, Inc
• Release date: Feb 20, 2019
• ISBN: 9781632272843

Jim Britt

Jim Britt is an internationally recognized leader and highly sought after speaker in the field of peak performance, entrepreneurship and personal empowerment training. He is author of 13 best-selling books including, Cracking the Rich Code, Cracking the Life Code, Rings of Truth, The Power of Letting Go, Freedom, Unleashing Your Authentic Power, Do This. Get Rich-For Entrepreneurs, The Flaw in The Law of Attraction, The Law of Realization, and The Change book series, to name a few. Jim has presented seminars throughout the world sharing his success principles and life enhancing realizations with thousands of audiences, totaling over 1,500,000 people from all walks of life. Jim has served as a success counselor to over 300 corporations worldwide. He was recently named as one of the world's top 50 success coaches and again as one of the top 20. He was voted Trainer of the year and received The Best of the Best Award out of the top 100 contributors of all time to the direct selling industry. He was Business partners with the late Jim Rohn for 10 years, where Tony Robbins worked under his direction for 5 years.

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Introduction

By Jim Britt

If I gave you a bunch of meaningless mind clutter that you’d forget in seconds, would you give me 15 years of your life?

Of course not! would probably be your answer. Why would I?

Have you ever seen a room full of people being hypnotized in a split second? The answer is, we have all seen just that very thing take place. We just didn’t realize it because we were one of the victims.

Let me explain. You just walked into a coffee shop or a cocktail lounge where everyone appeared to be having nice, warm, friendly conversations. Then the waiter walked behind the counter and pressed a small button. A large screen lit up at the end of the room.

This instant flicker captured the attention and took over the minds of almost all in the room within seconds. You observed for a moment as you saw all heads staring upwards into the lighted flickering box, hypnotized by what’s on the screen. Oftentimes, there isn’t even a sound, just the flickering picture.

Later that night, you are at the home of a good friend. You were midway through a conversation with your friend when someone turned on the TV. In a split second, her head turned, she looked at the TV, and got lost in what was on the screen. The conversation was over. I know you’ve had that experience. We all have.

Here’s my point: It appears that the average adult watches around five hours of television daily. They sit for five hours, hypnotized, staring into this box, absorbing meaningless information that they will totally forget in fifteen minutes... totally! That’s around 40 hours per week. The average person spends one working week every week being hypnotized with mindless clutter! But here’s the thing, and before I say it, let me ask you that one question again: If I gave you a pile of meaningless mind clutter that you’d forget in seconds, would you give me 15 years of your life?

The answer in your head right now is NO, yet think about this. Most TV is utter meaningless mind clutter, and you forget 99% of what you see and hear in 15 minutes.

How about those police action shows? These are shows where we are entertained by totally unconscious people stealing, committing other crimes, and then getting caught—same show, different characters, week after week. We even record them so that we don’t miss an episode because we are watching another meaningless police drama on another channel.

Wife swapping—This is a show where we play out a fantasy of What if you could swap your wife for another for 14 days, only this time it’s usually four morons with around 35 brain cells between them. Yet we watch it anyway.

Chefs and cooks—These guys are put on TV as almost divine beings. They can swear, humiliate, and treat other people like low-life morons. They then insult us by pretending to make a pile of potatoes look like art. You, the viewer, believe them, and you haven’t even been given a chance to taste their preparation!

Need I go on? My point is that people are actually willing to surrender 15 years of their life, on average, to meaningless nothing… to total brain-destroying crap.

Television should be called hype-vision, and it’s stealing your life—40 hours a week of your life. What could you do with an extra 40 hours each week? Even an hour less each day of TV watching would give you nine 40-hour weeks of vacation each year. What could you do with nine 40-hour weeks every year? You could use it to increase productivity, start a part-time business, earn more, enjoy your life more, relax, exercise, or spend quality time with the family.

Look at the average American: 67% are overweight by 15 pounds or more, and just a little exercise would take care of the problem. Would you be overweight if you exercised one hour each day? I know you don’t have time to exercise, but the average person spends five hours sitting on a giant carbohydrate (sofa) being hypnotized by commercials into buying stuff that will make them fatter. Funny, huh? Not really.

Here’s my point: Once switched on, you almost instantly go into a state of inactivity and hypnosis. A chemical reaction is taking place in your brain. Your brain, not being able to deal with the flickering from the screen fast enough, puts it into a state of suspension—hypnosis—and receptivity.

This state of suspension creates space. This space then can be filled. Filled with what? Filled with meaningless stuff from those people who want you to buy into more meaningless stuff.

This is why advertisers pay outrageous prices for peak-time TV advertising. Think about it: 30 million people in a state of hypnosis. You, the viewer have been inactive, in a state of hypnosis for the past 30 minutes, watching some show about nothing in particular.

This is the peak time to fill the empty space in your mind, or mind gaps, with their buy me or do this or support this message. And it works! It really works! How else do you think a new product becomes a household name overnight? Hype-vision is how, and you are the victim.

And you know what? When people are in that zone, they can’t switch it off. They play, fumble, and even fight over the remote, despite there being nothing of any real lifetime value on TV. It’s unbelievable when you think about it.

The most favorite pastime in the world today is watching TV. And think about it: PAST TIME. That’s exactly what TV does. It passes time. It makes your time go by so fast, until one day you look back on your life and start thinking about all the things you should have done, could have done, or never did. When asked why, the answer is most often the same: I didn’t have time.

Let’s now move away from the hypnotic spell of watching TV into the #1 time waster. That’s right—there is a bigger time waster than TV. What do you think that is? It’s living in the past or future. It’s bringing past experiences into the present and re-experiencing them over and over again. Or it’s living in the future with the anticipation of the past happening again tomorrow, next week, next month. How much time do you spend living in the past and future, hypnotized by what’s already happened, hypnotized by your past programming, or future anticipation of our own subconscious mind?

New studies have found that people tidy up more thoroughly when there’s a faint tang of cleaning liquid in the air. They become more competitive if there’s a briefcase in sight, or more cooperative if they glimpse words like dependable and support, all without being aware of the change or what past programming prompted it. We all walk around to one degree or another in a constant state of hypnosis, and we don’t even know it. This demonstrates how everyday sights, smells, and sounds can selectively activate goals, cause depression, or inspire and motivate.

Goals—be they to eat, mate, or devour an iced latte or take action on a project—are like neural software programs that can only be run one at a time. The unconscious is perfectly capable of running the program it chooses if we don’t know how to control it by choosing the program we want to run.

The give-and-take between these unconscious choices and our rational, conscious aims can help explain some of the more mystifying realities of behavior, like how we can be generous one moment and petty the next, or act rudely at a dinner party while being convinced we are emanating charm.

When it comes to our behavior from moment to moment, the big question is, What to do next? The answer is that we have these unconscious behavioral guidance systems that are continually furnishing suggestions through the day about what to do next, and the brain is considering and often acting on those, all before we are consciously aware of anything.

The purpose of this book is to help you to see more clearly your own subconscious programming, your own state of hypnosis, and—more importantly—how to change the programs that no longer serve your best interest.

The good news is that all TVs are built with an off switch. Just press it and it’ll add 15 years to your life! Wow! Think about that! We are also built, just like a computer, with a delete button, and our aim in this book is to show you how to push it.

This book was written to hopefully make you think more consciously, to consider all the ways we hypnotize ourselves into thinking and acting incorrectly, and to create for ourselves a more sane, stress-free life filled with happiness and abundance.

Enjoy the journey! Your life is about to change!

Mark Yuzuik & Jim Britt

Chapter 1

Decision Creates the Mindset

I met a very wealthy man years ago. I once asked what inspired him to be wealthy. His answer really surprised me. Money is a game, and the man with the most notches on his belt wins.

I was shocked! I was a young man and having grown up without much, I wanted to become financially free. Yet after hearing this person’s response to his wealth plan, I looked deeper into his eyes and frankly he didn’t seem all that happy. The sense of lack of balance in his life was apparent. He was out of shape and had a look in his eyes of anxiety, loneliness, and anger. I could tell that he had stepped on a lot of people to get to where he was.

How about you? Do you think that being financially wealthy means putting yourself first and trampling over those that get in your way? Do you think that being wealthy means putting the lust for money ahead of everything else?

We’ve also heard about very wealthy people who give back to their community, have large circles of friends and always seem to be abundant in so many other ways. If you asked this person the same question, you’d likely get this sort of answer: "Wealth is simply a vehicle to magnify your deeper personality traits. If you are a good person, access to resources will only make you a better one. If your nature is negative, it will also magnify your unhealthy attributes on the downside. Wealth has the ultimate power of leverage. It gives you options as to how you live your life.

Nothing is truer about becoming and deciding to become wealthy. Money can become a magnifying glass into your soul. We have tried to model ourselves after this philosophy, never forgetting that money is simply a means to achieving larger and greater things in life. After all, if the only reason you are pursuing large sums of money is to have large sums of money and that’s it, you may find yourself the richest person in a very unhappy world.

Wouldn't it be nice, though, if you could simply decide to become wealthy and you did? Well, let us fill you in on a big secret: you can!

The reality is that most of us already know the basics to gaining wealth. You know that you should pay off your debt and start budgeting. You know that all you need to do is regularly invest money into your savings, or some other investments that broaden your portfolio, and let time do the work. Spend less, save more,