Practice #19 - No Action = No Manifestation

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,180 I want to talk about a mistake that I made pretty much all summer. 2 00:00:06,180 --> 00:00:15,920 So before I tell you that, let me go back to March of 2023, about nine months ago. 3 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,960 And in March, that's when I discovered a book called Reality Transurfing. 4 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:26,320 And I learned of it through a YouTube short video. 5 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:35,000 And it was basically a fan page talking about Iman Ghaji, my bad. 6 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,600 I realized that I was pronouncing it wrong for a long time. 7 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:48,480 But pretty much that YouTube video, it was basically someone interviewing Iman and asking, 8 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:55,640 well, the person basically said, so Iman, you've recommended all these books. 9 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:01,800 Like Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and the guy listed some other books. 10 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:06,640 And then, but basically these books are for beginners. 11 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,360 They're really beginner level books. 12 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:15,120 And he was asking, what Iman reads nowadays? 13 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,720 What kind of books does Iman read now? 14 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:27,280 Now that he's advanced further than the common man and he's actually become very successful. 15 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,840 And Iman responded, well, I read Reality Transurfing. 16 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,480 That's the book that I'm studying right now. 17 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:38,720 And so I just saw that video and I'd never heard of Transurfing before. 18 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:42,120 And I just saw that video and then something just clicked inside of me and I just went 19 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,880 to Amazon right away and bought the book. 20 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:50,600 And the funny thing is that I was very frugal with my money. 21 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:57,840 I was not very frugal, but I was more frugal with my money back then than I am now. 22 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:06,400 And it took a couple days for me to convince myself to buy a $20 book. 23 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:11,440 That's just how I was back then. 24 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:18,600 And the strange thing about it is I just saw this 10 second clip recommending Transurfing 25 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:23,960 and it caused me to go to Amazon and just buy it on impulse. 26 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:28,360 Even though it was the most expensive book I'd ever purchased in my life. 27 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:34,560 It was like $60, which was, which is a lot for a book. 28 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,920 So I bought it, it came and I read it. 29 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:41,920 And I read, it was actually 750 pages long. 30 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:48,480 So I read like maybe the first 300 pages and then on the surface I said I got bored. 31 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,920 But in reality, I actually couldn't handle the truth. 32 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:57,820 And so I just stopped reading it and switched to a different book. 33 00:02:57,820 --> 00:03:02,720 And then eventually I went back to reading that book and I finished it. 34 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:08,980 And then after the second kind of after the second try reading it, I realized how valuable 35 00:03:08,980 --> 00:03:16,160 it is and how like serious and how real it is because it really explains the truth. 36 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:23,040 So after maybe a month or two of not reading it, I just finished it and then a month or 37 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,960 two passed and I re-read it. 38 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:30,200 I re-read the whole thing, but this time I didn't just passively read it. 39 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:38,120 I actually bought a journal specifically for this book and then wrote down all of the quotes 40 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:43,320 that I liked, wrote down my thoughts, wrote down different things that I was thinking 41 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:44,760 about. 42 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:52,560 And I essentially copied, I probably wrote at least 100 quotes. 43 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:58,040 Like I filled up an entire journal and if you're watching on YouTube, here I'll actually 44 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:02,520 show you the size of the journal that I filled up. 45 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:08,400 This is a different journal, but it's pretty much this big and it's fairly big. 46 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:16,680 It's probably the width of a quarter and it's the size of like a classic like spiral notebook, 47 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,080 but it's not a spiral notebook. 48 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:19,080 It's a hardcover. 49 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:25,040 It's basically the size of a normal standard sheet of paper, maybe a little bit bigger. 50 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:29,720 But I filled up an entire journal full of notes. 51 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:36,400 So I really took this seriously and this book, Transurfing, was all about, man, it's all 52 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:42,960 about your worldview, about how you think, how you perceive things. 53 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:44,320 It's about manifestation. 54 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,120 It's about achieving your goals. 55 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,120 It's about all of the things. 56 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:54,400 And so I really got into that book and talked about it all throughout my podcast. 57 00:04:54,400 --> 00:05:05,320 There was probably a maybe 80 day period where I was just reading, Transurfing, and talking 58 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,720 about it on my podcast. 59 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,000 Maybe less than 80 days, but I was talking about Transurfing a lot. 60 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:17,240 And if you go back on the podcast, Ascend Momentum, it's, and you look for the, and 61 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,760 you look for the episodes that are called Transurfing Principles. 62 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:25,640 You can listen to what I was thinking about back in the day. 63 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:34,720 And so I've gotten this Transurfing Principle pretty much ingrained into my mind. 64 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,120 It's not fully ingrained, but it's fairly ingrained. 65 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:46,080 And back to the story of how I talked about in the beginning of this episode, how I fell 66 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,560 into the trap of inaction. 67 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:56,000 And I thought that I could just manifest my way through my thoughts to my goals. 68 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:02,040 So basically over the summer, I really locked in on Transurfing. 69 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:08,200 I was studying it and I was practicing it on a daily basis. 70 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:14,120 And I remember I would go to the park every single day and I would go with my friend also. 71 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,800 And he was studying Transurfing as well at the time. 72 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:23,720 So we would both go to the park and we would just practice the Transurfing Principles. 73 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:29,200 We would just walk around, practice staying conscious, staying present. 74 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:35,480 And then we would also practice our visualization and we would also just strategize in general. 75 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:40,480 All of this talk and all of this thinking, and then we would go home. 76 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:44,720 I actually don't know what, I can't, I don't know what my friend did when he got home, 77 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:49,800 but I would go home and I would just take action. 78 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:51,360 And I say that with bunny ears. 79 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:59,400 I say that with quotes because the type of action that I took was reading books and it 80 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:05,800 was also just looking at websites or YouTube videos. 81 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:07,480 Now that is not action. 82 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,000 That's inaction. 83 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,280 And that's basically what I did all summer long. 84 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:20,400 I just was paralyzed into inaction and I thought that I was moving closer to my goals because 85 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:21,920 I was visualizing every day. 86 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:27,920 I was visualizing and I was doing all the things, but I wasn't doing the simple act 87 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:29,920 of the work. 88 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:40,680 And then I went down this whole kind of spiral where I was just in inaction and then eventually 89 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:48,040 I saw a YouTube video because I actually did, I was taking action, but the action that I 90 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,080 was taking was just recording podcasts. 91 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:57,280 And so I was recording podcasts, but they weren't getting really much better after a 92 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:58,800 while. 93 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,960 And so I had to figure out something. 94 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:10,080 And then the first kind of change, the first kind of initial spark that caused me to change 95 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:19,160 was I went to, I actually read a book called 10X is 10X is easier than 2X. 96 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:24,640 And in that book, it was basically just talking about like evolving as a person and evolving 97 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,920 as an entrepreneur. 98 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:33,320 And one of the concepts that I learned about in that book that I, to be honest, I believe 99 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,520 that I already knew I was just kind of pushing it away. 100 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:44,360 And I didn't really want to, I didn't really want to confront that emotion or that truth. 101 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:52,320 And the truth was the thing that I learned in that book was that quality is better than 102 00:08:52,320 --> 00:09:01,800 quantity, but quality quantity, wait, wait, wait, it's quality is better than quantity, 103 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,520 but quantity leads to quality. 104 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:13,560 So basically what that meant to me was I was, I had recorded a podcast episode every single 105 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:18,560 day for the past 80 days at that point. 106 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:22,800 And on, on 65 of those days. 107 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:30,400 So ever since episode 15, I've been recording daily one hour episodes at that point. 108 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:40,840 So I probably had 70 hours worth of practice over 80 days. 109 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,960 And that's high quantity. 110 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:47,680 I was recording one hour, which is a lot, it's high quantity. 111 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:50,560 But then I was also recording one hour every single day. 112 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:54,280 So I was getting one hour of practice every single day. 113 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:59,520 So that is quantity, but I was also posting it just raw footage. 114 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,320 That's quantity right there. 115 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:09,960 And so the reason why I didn't want to confront the truth was because I was definitely improving. 116 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:18,520 Ever since, if you go back to my first episode and compare it to this episode or even like 117 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:26,760 the last episode of season one, episode 104, I believe, then you'll realize that I was definitely 118 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:27,760 improving. 119 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:31,080 That high quantity practice helped. 120 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:39,200 But if you compare episode 60 to episode 80, I really believe that you won't find much 121 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:40,640 of a difference. 122 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:45,440 And that's because after a while I was plateauing. 123 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,480 Like in the beginning I was skyrocketing with growth. 124 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:56,240 But then I was just kind of plateauing because after maybe 40 episodes or 50 episodes, I had 125 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:02,760 done the daily one hour practice every single day and I hadn't changed anything yet. 126 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:07,560 And so I'm on episode 80 and I haven't changed anything and I'm plateaued. 127 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:15,240 So then I move forward and I just keep doing it because I still don't want to confront 128 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,240 the truth even after learning of the truth from the book. 129 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:24,560 So I keep doing daily one hour episodes and then eventually it got to the point where 130 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:27,520 I saw a YouTube video and it was Alex Formosa. 131 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,280 He basically said all that remains is the work to be done. 132 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:34,560 And then he talked about the anti-routine, which is basically cutting out all the nonsense 133 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:37,200 and just focusing on the work. 134 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:42,120 And at that time I was already kind of realizing that I needed to transition to higher quality 135 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:43,480 videos. 136 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,880 So I realized that I needed to edit the videos. 137 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:53,720 But then I realized that I wasn't going to grow even if I had the best videos possible 138 00:11:53,720 --> 00:12:00,320 on my podcast because there is no discoverability feature on the podcast like there is on YouTube. 139 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,760 And so I realized I needed to make a transition to YouTube. 140 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,600 And so now I was playing in a whole different ballpark. 141 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,360 I was making YouTube videos instead of podcasts. 142 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:15,560 So now I had to edit the imagery and learn how to make better YouTube videos. 143 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:23,600 But this all didn't happen until months after, until months of inaction. 144 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:33,040 I was literally just visualizing every single day for months over summer and no progress 145 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:34,480 was made. 146 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:42,760 But now I realized that it's the work that is actually going to get you to move forward. 147 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,040 I'm reading a book by David Goggins right now called Can't Hurt Me. 148 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:51,600 And he's basically talking about all these crazy things that he's done in his life. 149 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:58,040 Like he ran a 100 mile race with no training. 150 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:06,120 So imagine if you got out of your bed right now and ran not five miles, not 10 miles, 151 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:11,960 not 20 miles, which 20 miles would be insane for most people, much less 10 miles with no 152 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:13,480 training. 153 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:21,600 If you got out of your bed right now and ran 100 miles, that's like three and a half marathons 154 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:22,720 with no training. 155 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:24,640 And his nutrition was terrible. 156 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:28,800 And he just hit a crazy leg day the night before. 157 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,680 Like imagine that he did all that. 158 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:33,640 That's action. 159 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:39,360 And I kind of connected the dots because he took action and achieved that feat. 160 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:43,200 You can't get that by sitting around visualizing. 161 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:51,360 So that's why I believe that there is no, if you don't have action, you don't have manifestation. 162 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:56,600 Like you must have action in order to manifest stuff. 163 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:05,040 And so I'm reading this book by David Goggins and I'm realizing that this is a man of action. 164 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:06,520 And yes, he does visualize. 165 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:10,960 Like he was talking about how he visualizes possible. 166 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:16,520 He visualizes like the race track, the course of the next race that he's going to run, or 167 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,120 he visualizes his past successes. 168 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:22,400 He visualizes many different things. 169 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:37,000 Action is a tool, but it's not the means to the goal.