Why Happiness is the New Productivity (The Story of Mindvalley) | Vishen Lakhiani

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TLDRThe speaker recounts the journey of founding Mind Valley and the transformative impact of a mindset shift on productivity and happiness. Initially struggling with stress and stagnation, the speaker attended a seminar that emphasized the importance of mindset over strategy. This realization led to a significant increase in revenue and employee satisfaction. The talk introduces the concept of 'flow'—a state of happiness in the present while having a vision for the future—as essential for productivity. The speaker shares ten actionable tactics for fostering a positive work environment, including daily gratitude, profit sharing, and creating a culture of celebration and learning, ultimately demonstrating that happiness is crucial for success in business.

収穫

  • 🌟 Happiness drives productivity.
  • 📈 A mindset shift can transform a business.
  • 💡 Flow is the balance of present happiness and future vision.
  • 🙏 Daily gratitude enhances workplace morale.
  • 💰 Profit sharing aligns employee and company goals.
  • 🎉 Celebrate successes to foster a positive culture.
  • 📚 Invest in employee learning and development.
  • 🧘‍♂️ Group meditation promotes focus and creativity.
  • 🤝 Build a supportive and fun work environment.
  • 🌍 Attract top talent through a positive culture.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker shares his journey of starting a company called Mind Valley in 2002, initially as a side project while working in sales. He recounts how he turned online marketing into a game, gradually increasing his earnings from $4.50 to $7.40 a day, which motivated him to continue building his business.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    As Mind Valley grew into a formal company by 2004, the speaker faced significant stress and challenges, working long hours with little profit. He felt stuck and unable to replicate the early success he had experienced, leading to frustration and confusion about his business direction.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    A pivotal moment occurred in 2007 when the speaker attended a seminar in Malaysia that emphasized the importance of mindset over strategy in business. This realization led to a significant shift in his approach, resulting in a transformative growth period for Mind Valley over the next 18 months.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The speaker describes the positive outcomes of this mindset shift, including a 400% increase in business growth, a more enjoyable work environment, and the ability to attract dream clients. He highlights the importance of having fun and building strong relationships within the company.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    The concept of 'flow' is introduced, defined as a mental state of complete immersion and enjoyment in an activity. The speaker explains that achieving flow requires a balance between being happy in the present and having a vision for the future.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    The speaker outlines four states of mind: negative spiral, current reality trap, stress and anxiety, and flow. He emphasizes that the ideal state is flow, where individuals are both happy now and have aspirations for the future.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    The importance of happiness in the workplace is stressed, with the speaker advocating for individuals to pursue careers they are passionate about. He shares his own experience of leaving a corporate job to follow his passion for meditation, which ultimately led to the success of Mind Valley.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    The speaker shares ten tactics for fostering a state of flow within a company, starting with daily gratitude practices that enhance happiness and appreciation among employees. He emphasizes the positive impact of gratitude on overall well-being.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    The 'Awesomeness Report' is introduced as a weekly celebration of employee achievements, which has contributed to a significant increase in company revenue. The speaker highlights the importance of recognizing and celebrating successes in the workplace.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:52:00

    The speaker concludes by emphasizing the need for leaders to prioritize their own happiness in order to create a positive work environment. He encourages individuals to focus on their passions and to cultivate a culture of joy and fulfillment in their organizations.

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  • What is the main message of the talk?

    Happiness is the new productivity, and a shift in mindset can lead to significant business growth.

  • What is 'flow' as described in the talk?

    Flow is a mental state where a person is fully immersed in an activity, feeling energized and focused, balancing happiness in the present with a vision for the future.

  • What are some tactics mentioned for improving workplace happiness?

    Tactics include daily gratitude, profit sharing, awesomeness reports, and group meditation.

  • How did the speaker's company change after the mindset shift?

    The company experienced a 400% growth in revenue, improved employee satisfaction, and attracted top talent.

  • What is the importance of gratitude in the workplace?

    Expressing gratitude can significantly increase happiness and foster a positive work environment.

  • How does the speaker suggest handling stress and anxiety in the workplace?

    By focusing on positive visions for the future rather than the current problems.

  • What role does fun play in the company culture?

    Fun is essential; the company hosts parties and celebrations to enhance employee morale and engagement.

  • What is the 'awesomeness report'?

    A weekly meeting where employees share successes and celebrate achievements.

  • How does the speaker view employee development?

    The speaker aims to develop intrapreneurs who can innovate within the company and may also support those who wish to start their own ventures.

  • What is the significance of profit sharing in the company?

    It aligns employee goals with company revenue, motivating them to work towards common objectives.

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  • 00:00:24
    I'm going to talk about why happiness is
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    the new productivity and I want to start
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    with a little story I started my company
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    way back in 2002 the company is called
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    mine Valley but back then it was simply
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    a passion I was working as a as a
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    director of sales for a.com in New York
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    and at night in the evenings when I was
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    bored I was tinkering uh tinkering on
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    the internet with online marketing my
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    goal was to see how much money I could
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    make with online marketing I read a
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    couple of books put up a couple of web
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    pages and in my first month I lost 300
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    bucks in my second month I made exactly
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    $10 but by my third month I had this
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    little system going and I was making a
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    grand profit or $4.50 every single day
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    now I turned it into a game four dollars
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    and fifty cents that's a cup of a venti
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    Starbucks hot chocolate by month for I
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    set a goal I wanted to be able to earn
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    enough to upgrade to a grande and by
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    month for sure enough I was earning five
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    dollars and fifty cents a day by month
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    six it was the big one what's that call
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    venti I can never remember the Starbucks
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    system the big one is - venti great so
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    by month six I was with I was on a venti
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    with full whipped cream and get this
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    additional flavoring now this was seven
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    dollars and forty cents every single day
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    and I was proud of myself my grand
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    vision for myself was I could go out
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    brag to my friends that I got to drink
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    free Starbucks every single day now by
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    month eight it kept rolling I could now
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    get Starbucks and the Subway sandwich
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    and that was basically how I built my
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    business it was fun my goals were not
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    dramatically big all I wanted to do is
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    see how much free food I could get and
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    that's why I put up that picture
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    unfortunately well fortunately the
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    business kept growing and by 2004 we
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    were actually a real company and here's
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    what things started to change a little
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    now we had a formal business plan I had
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    to deal with the banks I had me and my
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    my business partner Mike we had four
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    employees
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    um the woman sitting on that chair the
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    beautiful woman that's my wife Christina
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    she's sitting right there holding the
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    camera blushing so what happened was all
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    of a sudden I had a real business and
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    that massive growth that was happening
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    in the beginning started hitting a glass
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    ceiling and for four years it was
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    nothing but stress and toil
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    I would work crazy long hours we would
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    do maybe a million dollars in revenue
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    but the profit margins were raised at
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    then I drove a crappy beat-up car I
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    lived in a very like ugly apartment and
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    I kept wondering why the hell is this
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    happening to me I would go to seminars
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    like you guys watch people on stage the
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    big names in internet marketing
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    I would I would admire them but I could
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    never figure out how to be like them now
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    this period lasted around four years
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    the shift happened in 2007 I was in
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    Malaysia and I attended a seminar and
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    the host of that seminar was ha Becker
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    and our own Rob rayappa Rob where are
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    you ok so Robin half were they in
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    Malaysia and the seminar was called a
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    millionaire mind intensive there were
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    five thousand people in that room and I
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    did not want to be there I was there
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    with my business partner Mike see in
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    that seminar we learned that growing a
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    business was not about strategy or the
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    best marketing or the best business
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    plans or the best people it was first
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    and foremost about mindset we did not
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    want to hear that I had a computer
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    engineering degree from one of the best
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    universities Mike was a Stanford MBA we
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    were like this is a bunch of like woowoo
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    BS it's not going to apply to us after
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    that first day we wanted to get out but
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    we stayed by day three literally Mike
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    and I were in tears we were crying
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    because we'd made this massive mind
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    shift and we realized that the way we
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    approached building our business was
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    completely wrong and that's when I
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    realized why in the early days the free
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    coffee and coffee in Starbucks days my
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    business would accelerate but when it
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    became a real business it hit this it
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    hit this wall it was all about mind
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    shift mindset and when this dawned on us
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    in a span of 18 months our business
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    completely transformed that's an actual
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    sales growth chart for my business I
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    attended the seminar
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    or you can all you can see when I
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    attended that seminar was around 2008
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    and the business exploded since then so
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    what was that change in mindset I'm
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    gonna go go I'm gonna go into that in
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    more detail but before I get there let
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    me show you exactly what happened when
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    this shift in mindset occurred so here
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    the side effects of what I experienced
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    first huge growth our business exploded
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    by 400% we were a five year old five to
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    six year old company we had never seen
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    this sort of revenue explosion second
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    work became fun I had terrific employees
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    we tossed a lot of parties we do an
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    annual 70s party we would fly the entire
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    team to Bali for team vacations we'd
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    hang out on the beaches I got to hang
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    out with Richard Branson the Necker
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    Island I got to hang out with a bunch of
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    other entrepreneurs in Iceland a couple
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    of months ago my life certainly became
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    this dream where I had this beautiful
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    business that was generating money and
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    for the first time I loved it but it
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    didn't stop there we started getting
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    dream clients and contacts Sean
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    Stephenson ended up becoming one of our
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    clients we certainly hit the stage where
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    we no longer had to fight or get in the
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    phone to try to bring and bring in the
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    next author the next client for us to
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    publish they flocked to us and in fact
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    my role became to say no we got started
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    working with Sean Stephenson I got the
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    pleasure of working with Paula Abdul she
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    is crazy hot in person um Glenn Dolman
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    um the Silva method and Brian Johnson
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    from philosophers notes all of a sudden
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    I had this entire area of dream clients
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    and context to work with next we started
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    getting applicants from all around the
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    world applying to our company to the
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    extent where we actually have 21 people
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    sorry something like 50 people from 21
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    countries in our company right now we
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    won an award world's most democratic
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    workplace and Carole Cohen said this
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    yesterday great companies are built from
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    the employee base boy did we have a good
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    employee base our company became so
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    attractive that we got so many resumes
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    that we actually had to say all right
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    folks this is enough we can't go through
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    thousands of resumes if you want to
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    apply the MindValley
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    you've got to take an extra step and
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    create a youtube resume
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    so if you actually go to youtube and you
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    type in mind Ally cavalettis you will
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    see all of these are cavalettis
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    from all around the world of people who
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    take the trouble to go an extra step to
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    try to get our attention so they can
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    work for us and this is amazing because
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    we get the pic of top talent next we
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    ended up with a great team my company
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    went from 24 people to 50 people in just
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    the last one year and I love my team
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    we're almost like family and what we did
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    we call it the MindValley way other
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    entrepreneurs started emulating it and I
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    would get lettuce like this from
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    entrepreneurs around the world and
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    finally time with family
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    that's my son Hayden I don't work more
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    than 45 hours a week and I'm proud of
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    that but the best part is this in May
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    2009
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    I got to spend six days in the office
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    and I spent 21 days on beaches around
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    the world I got to hang out in Fiji at
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    Tony Robbins resort I got to spend some
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    time on Necker Island with Greg and Sean
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    and a bunch of other people who are over
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    here and then I took my family to Cabo
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    Mexico on holiday and in that time my
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    company had its biggest ever salesman
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    and a single biggest sales day and when
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    this happened I was passed out on a
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    beach and so all of this happened with
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    that shift in mindset so I know now
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    you're wondering what is that mindset
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    shift and that's what I'm going to share
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    with you basically it's going in a state
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    of flow now what is flow this is how its
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    defined on Wikipedia it's a mental state
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    of operation in which the person is
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    fully immersed in what he or she is
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    doing by feeling an energized focus full
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    involvement and success in the process
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    of the activity it's a state of supreme
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    activity but how do you get in this
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    state of flow and really it's a balance
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    of two different things the first is you
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    have to be happy in the now right now
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    where you are second you got to have a
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    vision of the future so it's a delicate
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    balance of being happy where you are
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    right now but having these amazing
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    visions of what you want your life to be
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    now
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    for all of us at any point in our life
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    we can be in four different states of
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    mind the first is the negative spiral
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    this is where you are not happy where
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    you are right now and you have no vision
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    of your future so basically you're
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    miserable and it's called a negative
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    spiral because you're miserable and you
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    have no vision of where you want to be
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    and you're focused on being miserable
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    and you spiral into greater and greater
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    and greater and greater depression and
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    that's a negative spiral now very few of
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    you here would probably ever would be in
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    a negative spiral right now but large
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    chunks of humanity are in this state now
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    the second state is the current reality
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    trap this is where you are happy
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    gloriously happy right now but you have
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    no vision of the future
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    now this some people think it's a good
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    state and maybe it is because you're
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    happy right now but here's the problem
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    with the current reality trap Tony
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    Robbins says all of us have two
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    spiritual needs the need to grow and the
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    need to contribute if you're purely
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    happy but you have no vision or
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    direction in your life you can't
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    contribute and you can't grow so you're
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    happy but you're happy in boring utter
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    mediocrity and your life isn't going to
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    give you that sense of fulfillment so
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    it's a good state and I've been in that
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    state my college years smoking weed
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    hanging out with a bunch of friends who
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    didn't really have any direction but
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    it's not a state you want to be in in
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    the long term
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    now the third state is stress and
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    anxiety this is where you are not happy
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    right now but you have big visions of
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    the future
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    a lot of people in the career path these
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    days a lot of entrepreneurs are in this
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    state now it's a good state because you
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    have these terrific visions you're
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    thinking big but it's a state where you
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    cannot function with maximum impact
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    because you aren't happy right now so
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    what is the ideal state it's a state of
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    flow it's where you're happy in the
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    present but you have grand visions of
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    the future now let's do an honest gut
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    check right now how many of you here
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    would say that currently you're in a
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    state of flow that means you love your
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    current job
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    you're happy right now and you have
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    amazing dreams of the future good a
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    large chunk of you how many of you here
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    would say that you're in a state of
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    stress and anxiety that means you have
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    amazing goals but you aren't really sure
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    if you're going to get to these goals
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    and so you feel that certain amount of
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    stress or pain quite a large chunk of
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    you - so what happened to me was that I
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    moved from stress and anxiety to flow
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    I wasn't flow in my early days when my
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    only intention was to play this little
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    game and see how much free coffee I
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    could get and then when I started a real
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    business all that stress and anxiety
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    came with it and that baggage weighed me
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    down when I attended that seminar and so
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    robbery appalling ha Becca talked on
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    stage that set me in a different part I
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    started studying the works of Esther
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    Hicks Neale Donald Walsch I put away the
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    marketing books I studied books and
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    spirituality and my mindset changed and
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    my business exploded as a result so this
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    is basically what it looks like
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    negative spiral current reality stress
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    flow the goal is to keep yourself in
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    that state of flow now here's something
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    interesting
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    remember there will be the secret if
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    you've seen the secret raise your hand
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    it doesn't matter if you liked it in the
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    secret bob Proctor offers this equation
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    thought plus emotion equal attraction
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    now if you think about that that's
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    really similar to the definition for the
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    state of flow thoughts are your visions
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    of the future the thoughts of who you
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    want to be what you want to attract into
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    your life emotions are your feelings of
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    what's going on in your life right now
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    in other words it's the exact same
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    equation so whether the state of flow is
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    what scientists call it being in a state
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    of supreme creativity or whether it's
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    something more mystical as Bob Procter
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    calls it the state where you attract the
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    law of attraction it doesn't matter the
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    fact is being in that state of flow
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    magnifies the impact of whatever you do
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    and when you're able to consciously put
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    yourself in this state it's almost as if
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    the universe bends in your favor
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    now there's something very important
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    which I want you guys to realize and
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    it's called the paradox of intention you
  • 00:13:40
    must have goals but your happiness
  • 00:13:42
    cannot be tied to the
  • 00:13:43
    schools so you can have these big crazy
  • 00:13:46
    dreams of where you want your life to be
  • 00:13:48
    but you will accelerate towards those
  • 00:13:50
    dreams faster if you're happy in the now
  • 00:13:53
    if you're content in other words the
  • 00:13:55
    happiness comes from the journey not the
  • 00:13:57
    destination you guys know what I'm
  • 00:13:58
    talking about so I want to go back to
  • 00:14:03
    what Tony CI said yesterday
  • 00:14:05
    notice when flow happens and change your
  • 00:14:07
    life to make it happen more often and
  • 00:14:09
    that's really the message I wanted to
  • 00:14:11
    share with you guys notice the moments
  • 00:14:14
    when you are in flow and make a
  • 00:14:16
    conscious effort to bring yourself back
  • 00:14:17
    to flow so I call the practice of
  • 00:14:22
    keeping yourself in flow bliss Oakland
  • 00:14:24
    Anthony it's the single most important
  • 00:14:27
    thing I practice every day it's the
  • 00:14:29
    discipline of keeping yourself happy
  • 00:14:31
    bliss appling and what i'm going to talk
  • 00:14:34
    about in this presentation is how to
  • 00:14:35
    take discipline and how to actually turn
  • 00:14:38
    it into an art form
  • 00:14:39
    that you can apply to your team to your
  • 00:14:41
    company to your organization or to your
  • 00:14:43
    nonprofit you guys like the idea of that
  • 00:14:46
    so I want to share a quote Janet said
  • 00:14:50
    this a few hours ago your passions of
  • 00:14:52
    breadcrumbs that lead you on the path to
  • 00:14:54
    your destiny so let me say this the
  • 00:14:58
    problem with most of us is we forget the
  • 00:15:01
    importance of being in that state of
  • 00:15:03
    flow so lean forward I'm gonna tell you
  • 00:15:07
    a secret put your hand in a year you see
  • 00:15:11
    large chunks of humanity right now are
  • 00:15:13
    trapped in jobs or careers that they
  • 00:15:16
    absolutely hate they wake up every
  • 00:15:19
    morning dreading going to work I've been
  • 00:15:21
    there now if you're in a job or a career
  • 00:15:24
    or even if it's your own company and you
  • 00:15:26
    do not enjoy what you do you cannot you
  • 00:15:30
    can never be in a state of flow because
  • 00:15:32
    the joy the emotions the happiness in
  • 00:15:35
    the present they aren't going to come to
  • 00:15:37
    you and because of that you're wasting
  • 00:15:40
    your time I'm serious you can never
  • 00:15:44
    magnify your impact you can have those
  • 00:15:46
    great visions but if the happiness isn't
  • 00:15:48
    there your impact is lost so the big
  • 00:15:53
    secret is if you are in a career or job
  • 00:15:56
    or if your
  • 00:15:57
    if you're in your own business and you
  • 00:15:58
    don't truly enjoy what you do get out
  • 00:16:01
    I'm serious a member of the audience
  • 00:16:04
    shared this with me yesterday over
  • 00:16:05
    dinner he said his name was David
  • 00:16:07
    Morelli he was here a few days ago he
  • 00:16:10
    said vision sometimes you got to destroy
  • 00:16:12
    your life to let the next great thing
  • 00:16:14
    happen and that's what many people have
  • 00:16:16
    to do you have to be in a career or
  • 00:16:19
    business that you're passionate about
  • 00:16:21
    though I learned that the hard way so
  • 00:16:23
    let's say see I grew up in an Indian
  • 00:16:25
    family so in the 1990s I was pushed to
  • 00:16:27
    become a computer engineer why because
  • 00:16:29
    Bill Gates was a computer engineer and
  • 00:16:31
    he was the richest damn man on the
  • 00:16:33
    planet but I hated computer engineering
  • 00:16:35
    I got C's all throughout college I even
  • 00:16:38
    got a job at Microsoft I quit after 11
  • 00:16:40
    weeks actually I got myself fired
  • 00:16:42
    because I just could not be in that
  • 00:16:45
    environment so I ended up working for a
  • 00:16:47
    non-profit living just below the poverty
  • 00:16:49
    line
  • 00:16:49
    then I became a meditation instructor
  • 00:16:51
    and I was working
  • 00:16:53
    owning bread crumbs but I loved what I
  • 00:16:55
    did and from that tiny business teaching
  • 00:16:58
    people meditation in New York
  • 00:16:59
    I built a multi-million dollar company
  • 00:17:01
    with 50 people nobody thought it could
  • 00:17:04
    be done my ex school lecturers my
  • 00:17:07
    friends my family thought I was nuts
  • 00:17:09
    but the thing is they forgot that when
  • 00:17:12
    you love what you're doing and you have
  • 00:17:14
    big dreams you're in that state of flow
  • 00:17:16
    and your impact is amazing and so mine
  • 00:17:20
    value my company really started from me
  • 00:17:22
    quitting Microsoft and doing something
  • 00:17:24
    that for most people would make you live
  • 00:17:27
    in the poverty line so you can aliens
  • 00:17:29
    over here I mean if you are in law or
  • 00:17:31
    accounting or any of those boring
  • 00:17:33
    occupations and you went into it because
  • 00:17:35
    you thought it was going to make you
  • 00:17:36
    money but really deep down inside you
  • 00:17:38
    want to be a maple syrup taster or a
  • 00:17:41
    Mountie or a lumberjack I don't know
  • 00:17:44
    what Canadians are into you might want
  • 00:17:47
    to think about making that change
  • 00:17:49
    because you can be the richest damn
  • 00:17:51
    maple syrup taster in the world once you
  • 00:17:54
    get in that state of flow so here's what
  • 00:17:57
    I'm going to talk about next ten tactics
  • 00:17:59
    to take home today to put yourself and
  • 00:18:01
    your company and your team in that state
  • 00:18:03
    of flow Stephen Covey said this two days
  • 00:18:06
    ago our models of compensation hiring
  • 00:18:08
    firing and recruitment come from out
  • 00:18:11
    Industrial Age models of how society
  • 00:18:13
    works couldn't agree more so I'm going
  • 00:18:16
    to give you ten things that I do in my
  • 00:18:18
    company that is that we've been doing
  • 00:18:21
    for the last one one year to 18 months
  • 00:18:23
    that have made an amazing effect on our
  • 00:18:25
    bottom line and on our levels of
  • 00:18:26
    happiness and allowing us me and my
  • 00:18:29
    employees to be in that state of flow so
  • 00:18:32
    the first thing is really simple it's
  • 00:18:35
    called daily gratitude so what we did
  • 00:18:37
    was we built a website called gratitude
  • 00:18:40
    log and we got all our employees all our
  • 00:18:42
    partners all our customers to get on
  • 00:18:44
    this website join in the community and
  • 00:18:47
    express daily gratitude now I know this
  • 00:18:49
    sounds cheesy bear with me for a second
  • 00:18:51
    Lynn twisted this a few days ago what
  • 00:18:54
    you appreciate appreciates what we found
  • 00:18:56
    is that when you start your day
  • 00:18:58
    appreciating expressing gratitude for
  • 00:19:00
    what you what you did in the last 24
  • 00:19:02
    hours
  • 00:19:03
    you tend to magnify your happiness and
  • 00:19:05
    you tend to grow that elements of your
  • 00:19:09
    life that you're thankful for so if you
  • 00:19:11
    were to look at gratitude log you'll be
  • 00:19:13
    see something like this you'll see that
  • 00:19:16
    we've got our entire community employees
  • 00:19:19
    bring on their family bring on their
  • 00:19:21
    daughters their sons we have our
  • 00:19:23
    partners we have our customers and every
  • 00:19:26
    morning I log in to gratitude log and I
  • 00:19:28
    get to see what people in my team are
  • 00:19:30
    happy about I can see that my business
  • 00:19:32
    partner gay Hendricks is joyful about
  • 00:19:35
    his cat I can see max Simon who's a guy
  • 00:19:37
    I'm mentoring is a happy that he got to
  • 00:19:40
    spend some time helping a couple of
  • 00:19:42
    entrepreneurs I can see Evan who's one
  • 00:19:44
    of my employees happy about free time to
  • 00:19:47
    think I can see Serena one of my
  • 00:19:49
    customers giving a gift of appreciation
  • 00:19:50
    to Shaun Stevenson who's one of my
  • 00:19:52
    clients so it's a beautiful system and
  • 00:19:55
    the funny thing is scientists are now
  • 00:19:58
    saying that when you express gratitude
  • 00:20:00
    your happiness goes up dramatically they
  • 00:20:03
    did a little study in a university in
  • 00:20:05
    California I can't remem the name of the
  • 00:20:06
    university but they found that just
  • 00:20:08
    expressing gratitude for a few minutes
  • 00:20:10
    daily after 30 days your overall
  • 00:20:13
    happiness goes up by 25% imagine we have
  • 00:20:16
    millions of Americans hooked on Prozac
  • 00:20:19
    and other PS pharmaceuticals that
  • 00:20:22
    supposedly make you happy
  • 00:20:23
    yet all you got to do is practice this
  • 00:20:26
    daily practice of gratitude and the
  • 00:20:28
    effects beat the drugs now of course the
  • 00:20:31
    drugs are going to be around for a while
  • 00:20:32
    because the pharmaceutical lobby in
  • 00:20:34
    Washington massive the gratitude Lobby
  • 00:20:37
    not so big but you get what I'm talking
  • 00:20:40
    about
  • 00:20:41
    okay now next we started doing something
  • 00:20:44
    called the awesomeness report rather
  • 00:20:47
    than half regular company meetings every
  • 00:20:49
    Tuesday I get in front of my entire team
  • 00:20:51
    and a day before I send them an email
  • 00:20:54
    that says hey team you know the drill
  • 00:20:56
    send me your Awesomeness updates for the
  • 00:20:57
    week and I asked them for cool stories
  • 00:21:00
    of things they did outside work stories
  • 00:21:02
    of records that they'd broken work new
  • 00:21:04
    product launches new sales new
  • 00:21:06
    innovations we compile all of these and
  • 00:21:08
    we do this like powerful motivating
  • 00:21:11
    PowerPoint celebrating all our successes
  • 00:21:13
    of the previous week we started this a
  • 00:21:15
    year ago in the last year our revenues
  • 00:21:17
    have grown 400% and I believe there's a
  • 00:21:20
    connection see what we're doing in the
  • 00:21:21
    awesomeness report is really taking the
  • 00:21:23
    process of gratitude and formalizing it
  • 00:21:25
    rather than having company meetings
  • 00:21:27
    where you and moan about what went
  • 00:21:29
    wrong you have company meetings where
  • 00:21:31
    you celebrate what went right every
  • 00:21:33
    single week and you recognize your
  • 00:21:35
    employees who did something cool in that
  • 00:21:37
    week and we start bringing in all these
  • 00:21:40
    funny little rituals into these meetings
  • 00:21:42
    to create the sense of joy so for
  • 00:21:44
    example we have a massive bell behind me
  • 00:21:46
    and every time we hit a new sales record
  • 00:21:49
    or website goes up in record time or our
  • 00:21:51
    blogger gets 10 articles up in a in a
  • 00:21:54
    new record time we ring the bell of
  • 00:21:57
    Awesomeness and that Bell has a title
  • 00:21:59
    it's called the Bell of Awesomeness that
  • 00:22:01
    is only to be rung in moments of sheer
  • 00:22:02
    and total awesomeness and you cannot
  • 00:22:05
    just call it the Bell everyone in our
  • 00:22:08
    office treats it like it's the Dalai
  • 00:22:09
    Lama SCAF it has to be called the bell
  • 00:22:12
    of awesomeness that can only be rung in
  • 00:22:13
    moments of sheer and total awesomeness
  • 00:22:14
    and then we have a little statue of
  • 00:22:18
    Wonder Woman we what we our mascot is
  • 00:22:21
    Wonder Woman because our company like
  • 00:22:23
    Richard Branson suggested yesterday 50%
  • 00:22:25
    of the managers in our company a woman
  • 00:22:26
    so a mascot is wonderful so every time
  • 00:22:29
    we have a new employee they have to put
  • 00:22:32
    their hands on Wonder Woman's ass
  • 00:22:34
    and take an oath of Awesomeness and it's
  • 00:22:37
    it's it's a it's a company ritual have
  • 00:22:40
    you guys seen the movie Kung Fu Panda
  • 00:22:41
    so we took a phrase from that movie and
  • 00:22:44
    it became a company model I blind people
  • 00:22:46
    with the light of my awesomeness
  • 00:22:48
    and you notice the Starbucks cup you
  • 00:22:50
    notice Wonder Woman the dog over there
  • 00:22:52
    that's my dog
  • 00:22:53
    Ozzie he was he's a director of PR you
  • 00:22:55
    would not believe how much free PR you
  • 00:22:56
    get from having a dog as your director
  • 00:22:58
    of PR we got in Wired magazine in
  • 00:23:00
    TechCrunch they wouldn't write about a
  • 00:23:02
    technology they just write about this
  • 00:23:03
    funny company in Malaysia that had a dog
  • 00:23:05
    as its PR director actual PR people
  • 00:23:08
    hated me for that and then a company
  • 00:23:11
    meeting started getting so joy is so
  • 00:23:13
    powerful that guests would come in to
  • 00:23:15
    attend them to speak Sean Stephenson
  • 00:23:17
    when he was in Malaysia he attended a
  • 00:23:19
    company meeting you'll see Sean he's the
  • 00:23:21
    PC the short guy he's one of my best
  • 00:23:24
    friends I can make jokes like that um
  • 00:23:25
    Jon Ashura came to Malaysia to address
  • 00:23:27
    the Prime Minister and he takes a break
  • 00:23:29
    away from addressing all these major
  • 00:23:31
    politicians to come to our office and
  • 00:23:33
    watch the awesomeness report John Ashraf
  • 00:23:36
    for those who don't know is one of the
  • 00:23:37
    teachers from the secret so it's become
  • 00:23:39
    this big thing and now other companies
  • 00:23:40
    are emulating it and really it's just
  • 00:23:42
    taking the concept of a company meeting
  • 00:23:44
    and turning it into something
  • 00:23:45
    celebratory Tony say I said this
  • 00:23:48
    yesterday the best companies cultures
  • 00:23:50
    combine profits with pleasure and
  • 00:23:52
    purpose and that's really what we're
  • 00:23:53
    trying to do okay number three this gets
  • 00:23:55
    risky but we decided to share part of
  • 00:23:58
    our profits with our employees so every
  • 00:24:00
    month 10% of our profits get distributed
  • 00:24:02
    to our employees and again the results
  • 00:24:04
    were amazing we used to do what typical
  • 00:24:07
    Silicon Valley companies do where you
  • 00:24:08
    have stock options but with the way the
  • 00:24:10
    stock markets are going right now stock
  • 00:24:12
    options don't work anymore I think it's
  • 00:24:14
    a it's a model of hiring debt belongs in
  • 00:24:17
    the past so all we do is every month 10%
  • 00:24:19
    of profits go straight to employees and
  • 00:24:22
    as a result people salary checks
  • 00:24:25
    literally double now here's why I do
  • 00:24:29
    this now bringing up this quote from
  • 00:24:31
    Greg nothing happens till you have a
  • 00:24:32
    dream and you start thinking big by
  • 00:24:34
    tying in our founders and our management
  • 00:24:38
    goals for revenue without with our
  • 00:24:41
    employee goals because they know that
  • 00:24:43
    part of that revenue is going to go to
  • 00:24:44
    them we have complete alignment on our
  • 00:24:47
    office in
  • 00:24:48
    our office so if there's a massive
  • 00:24:50
    crunch then we got to get a product out
  • 00:24:51
    people don't mind working those extra
  • 00:24:53
    hours because they know the profits
  • 00:24:55
    aren't just going to the founders so
  • 00:24:57
    it's really about having those big goals
  • 00:24:59
    but using this to align those goals okay
  • 00:25:02
    next this is an interesting one and for
  • 00:25:04
    this we actually this is one of the
  • 00:25:06
    reasons why we actually won the award
  • 00:25:07
    world's most democratic workplace we
  • 00:25:09
    call it the sweet sugar Love Machine
  • 00:25:11
    basically I have 50 employees and
  • 00:25:15
    Branson said this yesterday as a leader
  • 00:25:18
    you have to praise lavish praise like
  • 00:25:20
    flowers flourish and water people
  • 00:25:22
    flourish on praise but with 50 employees
  • 00:25:25
    I can't possibly always know what the
  • 00:25:28
    people are saying customer support are
  • 00:25:30
    doing on a daily basis so we created a
  • 00:25:33
    software to allow people to appreciate
  • 00:25:35
    and praise their co-workers so basically
  • 00:25:38
    my employees every single day get on
  • 00:25:40
    this system and they send little gifts
  • 00:25:42
    symbolic gifts to their peers so you'll
  • 00:25:45
    see who won give Jessica a medal and
  • 00:25:48
    said welcome to mine values she's a new
  • 00:25:49
    hire gabrielle gift money a durian it's
  • 00:25:52
    a Southeast Asian fruit and she says
  • 00:25:54
    thanks for the awesome content you gave
  • 00:25:56
    our blog so employees start rewarding
  • 00:25:59
    and appreciating each other and the an
  • 00:26:01
    amazing things happened since we
  • 00:26:03
    launched this office politics pettiness
  • 00:26:06
    people being too busy in their own stuff
  • 00:26:08
    to help their co-workers all of that
  • 00:26:10
    disappeared and we started getting this
  • 00:26:12
    really close-knit team but it did have a
  • 00:26:15
    side effect it caused so much like love
  • 00:26:18
    and appreciation in the office that
  • 00:26:20
    right now 30 percent of my staff is
  • 00:26:23
    dating someone else in the company and I
  • 00:26:25
    I haven't figured out how to deal with
  • 00:26:28
    that right now we're kind of watching
  • 00:26:30
    seeing where that's going to go
  • 00:26:32
    we keep them in different departments
  • 00:26:33
    but there are issues when you bring in
  • 00:26:36
    too much love into a business number
  • 00:26:39
    five we have this rule in our company
  • 00:26:41
    it's called a forty five five rule you
  • 00:26:44
    only should work 45 hours a week because
  • 00:26:46
    you have friends you have family you
  • 00:26:48
    need a social life you got to be
  • 00:26:50
    productive so you can get all your work
  • 00:26:51
    done in 45 hours but here's the sub rule
  • 00:26:55
    five of those 45 hours you must invest
  • 00:26:57
    in learning new stuff so you can work
  • 00:27:00
    you you spend 40 hours
  • 00:27:02
    executing and you can spend that extra
  • 00:27:04
    five hours on a Sunday curled up in bed
  • 00:27:06
    reading a book on marketing on
  • 00:27:08
    meditation on mindset and you get paid
  • 00:27:11
    for that we really want to encourage
  • 00:27:13
    people in growing themselves and we also
  • 00:27:16
    send a lot of our employees to our to
  • 00:27:18
    seminars all around the world so if you
  • 00:27:20
    go to any marketing seminar you'll
  • 00:27:21
    usually see people from my company there
  • 00:27:23
    Garrett Gunderson said this a few days
  • 00:27:25
    ago the more you invest in your mind
  • 00:27:27
    your knowledge and your experiences the
  • 00:27:29
    richer you will be and this is worked
  • 00:27:31
    amazingly well for us because in one
  • 00:27:33
    year I'm able to take 25 23 year old
  • 00:27:36
    people and groom them into managers who
  • 00:27:38
    are running two three million-dollar
  • 00:27:40
    businesses and it's really about
  • 00:27:42
    teaching people the importance of every
  • 00:27:44
    now and then putting aside execution and
  • 00:27:46
    studying number six weekly sharing and
  • 00:27:49
    training when these people study and
  • 00:27:51
    learn new stuff we give them a platform
  • 00:27:53
    where they can come in front of the
  • 00:27:54
    appears and share their knowledge now
  • 00:27:56
    the reason for this Stephen Covey
  • 00:27:59
    brought it up you learn by teaching I
  • 00:28:01
    found that if I have someone read a book
  • 00:28:03
    on marketing or take a new marketing
  • 00:28:05
    course and I bring them back and I have
  • 00:28:07
    them teach their peers they become
  • 00:28:09
    better marketers you learn from teaching
  • 00:28:11
    so it's a simple rule but it works
  • 00:28:13
    really well in our business number seven
  • 00:28:15
    group meditation if you walk into my
  • 00:28:18
    office at three o'clock on a Tuesday you
  • 00:28:20
    will see 50 people meditating together
  • 00:28:23
    on pillows it's kind of weird
  • 00:28:25
    we've had postman UPS delivery people
  • 00:28:28
    get completely freaked out they think
  • 00:28:30
    I'm running a cult but um this is
  • 00:28:32
    basically what we're trying to do Shawn
  • 00:28:34
    said this yesterday
  • 00:28:35
    you better have a vision for what you
  • 00:28:36
    want in your life every week the entire
  • 00:28:39
    company gets together and I take them
  • 00:28:41
    through a guided meditation where they
  • 00:28:43
    visualize their life six to twelve
  • 00:28:45
    months down the road and I ask them to
  • 00:28:47
    see what their work looks like what
  • 00:28:49
    their friends look like what their bonus
  • 00:28:51
    checks look like how productive they are
  • 00:28:53
    what type of promotions they've received
  • 00:28:55
    what are they doing at work and it has
  • 00:28:59
    again it has an amazing effect what I'm
  • 00:29:01
    trying to do here you see we start the
  • 00:29:03
    Awesomeness report by talking about
  • 00:29:05
    gratitude by expressing gratitude for
  • 00:29:08
    all the cool stuff we did right so what
  • 00:29:10
    are we doing we are raising people's
  • 00:29:11
    levels of happiness and then now then
  • 00:29:14
    when we go to the meditation we
  • 00:29:16
    building up their visions of the future
  • 00:29:17
    so really that's what a company meetings
  • 00:29:20
    are about getting people joyful in the
  • 00:29:22
    now celebrating their successes and then
  • 00:29:24
    visualizing the future just like Sean
  • 00:29:27
    said number eight company sponsored fund
  • 00:29:30
    this is the best thing about my company
  • 00:29:31
    every year we toss the best damn
  • 00:29:33
    Halloween party in our city and we toss
  • 00:29:37
    them an amazing 70s party um and if we
  • 00:29:40
    really got this we really live and
  • 00:29:42
    breathe Branson's philosophy he set this
  • 00:29:45
    on stage yesterday have lots of parties
  • 00:29:48
    the manager should be the first one in
  • 00:29:49
    the pool fully clothed preferably and I
  • 00:29:52
    do that that's you you'll notice Shaun
  • 00:29:56
    in that picture as well um he came to me
  • 00:29:59
    like he's one of our clients so he came
  • 00:30:00
    to Malaysia he's working with our team
  • 00:30:02
    so we do actually spend a lot of time
  • 00:30:03
    just getting drunk and wet together um
  • 00:30:09
    unexpected side effects so this is a
  • 00:30:12
    cool story in Branson's book business
  • 00:30:15
    laid bare he shares the story of how he
  • 00:30:19
    had a call centre somewhere in northern
  • 00:30:21
    England and he had 2,000 employees in
  • 00:30:24
    the call center and what he did was he
  • 00:30:25
    tossed a massive party for his employees
  • 00:30:27
    and the press got wind of it and the
  • 00:30:30
    party got a little bit out of hand but
  • 00:30:31
    the press stories got even more out of
  • 00:30:33
    hand so he opens the papers the next day
  • 00:30:35
    and he sees that this journalist is
  • 00:30:37
    talking about how how disgusting virgin
  • 00:30:41
    parties are because people were
  • 00:30:42
    fornicating in the parking lot and
  • 00:30:44
    Branson is like that's ridiculous how
  • 00:30:48
    can they just exaggerate NBS like that
  • 00:30:51
    but the very next day he got 2,000
  • 00:30:55
    applicants for his call center
  • 00:30:59
    and and so what we started doing is we
  • 00:31:04
    would have we we tossed the biggest
  • 00:31:06
    Halloween party in our city every year
  • 00:31:08
    and I give two tickets to each of my
  • 00:31:11
    employees and I say I want you to invite
  • 00:31:13
    the two smartest most brilliant people
  • 00:31:15
    you know so they bring in all the best
  • 00:31:18
    their smartest friends um and we end up
  • 00:31:20
    hiring those people at the party
  • 00:31:22
    so rather than put we used to spend
  • 00:31:24
    $3,000 taking a job at out on an online
  • 00:31:27
    job bulletin board and we would get like
  • 00:31:29
    200 resumes but from mediocre people we
  • 00:31:32
    take the money from the job ad we pump
  • 00:31:34
    it into a party save money we have a ton
  • 00:31:37
    of fun and we now have our employees
  • 00:31:40
    bringing their smartest friends and we
  • 00:31:42
    steal them from those other companies so
  • 00:31:44
    really we poach people from Google from
  • 00:31:46
    McKinsey people quit jobs come work for
  • 00:31:49
    MindValley for half the salary because
  • 00:31:51
    they love the culture that we've built
  • 00:31:54
    and partying is is just one big aspect
  • 00:31:56
    of that okay so number nine positive
  • 00:32:00
    stamina Branson said this yesterday what
  • 00:32:04
    if you asked him a question he say it's
  • 00:32:06
    no point looking backwards not for a
  • 00:32:07
    fleeting moment I can't remember the bad
  • 00:32:09
    moments in my life I only remember the
  • 00:32:11
    good positive stamina is basically that
  • 00:32:14
    that mindset where when things go wrong
  • 00:32:17
    you're able to look past the wrong
  • 00:32:19
    create a ball new vision of the future
  • 00:32:21
    and then stay focused on that vision so
  • 00:32:24
    every now and then my company should
  • 00:32:27
    this happen software breaks down servers
  • 00:32:30
    crash recently we spend about a million
  • 00:32:33
    dollars a year on Google advertising
  • 00:32:35
    recently we have massive issues with a
  • 00:32:37
    Google advertising account and we
  • 00:32:38
    started losing $40,000 a month
  • 00:32:41
    massive problem now when these kind of
  • 00:32:43
    things happen we have an approach for
  • 00:32:45
    dealing with it net approach is called
  • 00:32:46
    positive stamina so when an employee is
  • 00:32:49
    down when a massive mess up has occurred
  • 00:32:51
    rather than have them focus on the mess
  • 00:32:53
    up we have them create a vision board or
  • 00:32:56
    list but a grand new vision of where
  • 00:32:59
    they want their project to be and we now
  • 00:33:02
    have them focus on that vision so we
  • 00:33:05
    flip their mind from focusing on the
  • 00:33:06
    problem to focusing on the vision and
  • 00:33:08
    what happens more often than not is by
  • 00:33:12
    focusing on the vision they start coming
  • 00:33:14
    up with new ideas new solutions that
  • 00:33:16
    make that old problem irrelevant and
  • 00:33:19
    obsolete and positive stamina is so
  • 00:33:23
    important in business that I want you to
  • 00:33:24
    read that quote learn to manage your
  • 00:33:26
    mind
  • 00:33:27
    do not let a situation lure you into
  • 00:33:29
    thinking negatively sometimes you'll
  • 00:33:31
    fail but you'll learn for the next time
  • 00:33:33
    every time a negative thought comes at
  • 00:33:35
    you zap it replace it with positive
  • 00:33:38
    thoughts that takes energy but the
  • 00:33:40
    result will be stamina positive stamina
  • 00:33:42
    a necessary ingredient for success now I
  • 00:33:44
    got the word positive stamina from that
  • 00:33:46
    quote can anyone guess who said that
  • 00:33:49
    Dalai Lama nope
  • 00:33:51
    anyone else Lauryn Hill the singer
  • 00:33:59
    Napoleon nope anyone else nope not me it
  • 00:34:05
    was actually said by this guy Trump can
  • 00:34:08
    you believe that he tries to act big and
  • 00:34:12
    tough too deep down inside he's a softy
  • 00:34:15
    it's from Donald Trump Donald Trump
  • 00:34:17
    believes in it Richard Branson believes
  • 00:34:18
    in it um you might want to try believing
  • 00:34:21
    in it too there's amazing truth in that
  • 00:34:23
    idea next the final thing that we do
  • 00:34:27
    experiences in connections Evan said
  • 00:34:31
    this two days ago the five closest
  • 00:34:33
    people you hang out with will average
  • 00:34:35
    out to who you become now in my business
  • 00:34:38
    I used to do everything I do the HR I do
  • 00:34:40
    the hiring I would come up with a
  • 00:34:42
    business strategy but after a while I
  • 00:34:43
    could not do all these things and I had
  • 00:34:46
    I had to groom people I had to create a
  • 00:34:48
    director of HR a director of marketing a
  • 00:34:50
    person who is an expert at new strategy
  • 00:34:53
    now the way I do that is by working with
  • 00:34:55
    their self-image what I do is I have
  • 00:34:59
    people in my company exposed to
  • 00:35:01
    brilliant minds I expand their circle so
  • 00:35:05
    the five people that they typically work
  • 00:35:06
    with or that they are in contact with I
  • 00:35:08
    expand this and by doing so we allow
  • 00:35:11
    them to grow dramatically well so some
  • 00:35:13
    of the things we do when they are
  • 00:35:14
    speaker gatherings in our city we
  • 00:35:17
    basically host a party invite all these
  • 00:35:19
    amazing minds together and we have them
  • 00:35:21
    mingle with our employees um we send our
  • 00:35:24
    employees to some of them
  • 00:35:26
    most important biggest conferences
  • 00:35:27
    around the world that's Alex she's one
  • 00:35:30
    of my top marketing people and we invest
  • 00:35:34
    a ton of money to send her all the way
  • 00:35:35
    from Malaysia to San Diego to hang out
  • 00:35:37
    with Frank Cohen and Jeff Walker who are
  • 00:35:39
    two of the best minds in marketing and
  • 00:35:41
    she actually became friends with them so
  • 00:35:43
    by taking people in my team and exposing
  • 00:35:46
    them to brilliant minds they themselves
  • 00:35:49
    see an increase in their level of
  • 00:35:51
    brilliance Sean Stephenson who works
  • 00:35:52
    with us he is friends with maybe three
  • 00:35:55
    or four people in my company not just
  • 00:35:56
    with me and he adds a light and a
  • 00:36:00
    certain amount of knowledge and he helps
  • 00:36:01
    these people grow just by being their
  • 00:36:03
    friend am i right Sean Sean needs
  • 00:36:08
    attention every now and then okay I'll
  • 00:36:10
    allow you to get a couple of words in
  • 00:36:13
    okay so it really is about experiences
  • 00:36:15
    and connections whenever we have a best
  • 00:36:17
    selling order a best-selling author
  • 00:36:19
    visit our city we bring him into our
  • 00:36:21
    office he gets to sit for the
  • 00:36:22
    awesomeness report and he gets to meet
  • 00:36:24
    our employees that's Mark Joyner and if
  • 00:36:27
    you heard of mark Joyner brilliant
  • 00:36:28
    marketer Mark Joyner came to our office
  • 00:36:30
    he presented what he befriended one of
  • 00:36:32
    our employees and he's now helping this
  • 00:36:33
    this employee get his book published so
  • 00:36:36
    I believe in creating friendships not
  • 00:36:38
    just with me and my clients but with my
  • 00:36:41
    employees and my clients so the grill
  • 00:36:45
    message is this you're happy when you
  • 00:36:48
    help others become help happy that's
  • 00:36:51
    what the Dalai Lama said and by building
  • 00:36:53
    a business where you focus on keeping
  • 00:36:55
    your employees happy you make yourself
  • 00:37:00
    happy but more important than that by
  • 00:37:02
    raising the I emotions they are feelings
  • 00:37:04
    of joy in the present yet giving them a
  • 00:37:07
    vision of the future you put your
  • 00:37:09
    employees in a state of flow and that's
  • 00:37:12
    why I have I have some 50 employees and
  • 00:37:15
    they are just amazing with the work they
  • 00:37:18
    do I know that when I leave my office
  • 00:37:20
    for weeks stuff gets done and the
  • 00:37:22
    average age in my office is 24
  • 00:37:32
    it's um it's 24 because we are in
  • 00:37:35
    Malaysia and most people over the age of
  • 00:37:37
    30 their wives don't let them come and
  • 00:37:39
    work for me um actually a lot of my
  • 00:37:44
    employees come from Calgary how many of
  • 00:37:46
    you here have a son or daughter working
  • 00:37:48
    for me or brother or sister raise your
  • 00:37:50
    hand okay one two three quite a number
  • 00:37:55
    of you I I have it's really funny but we
  • 00:37:58
    hide one girl from from from a little
  • 00:38:01
    town just outside Calgary she loved mine
  • 00:38:03
    value so much she started writing to her
  • 00:38:05
    friends putting up notes about us on
  • 00:38:07
    Facebook and on Twitter and in one year
  • 00:38:09
    we ended up getting six additional
  • 00:38:11
    people from Calgary
  • 00:38:12
    so Alberta is actually where is actually
  • 00:38:14
    the the region of the world where I have
  • 00:38:16
    the most number of employees from but
  • 00:38:20
    all of them are in Malaysia so this is
  • 00:38:23
    one thing I want to share though it's
  • 00:38:25
    really important to keep your employees
  • 00:38:26
    happy but here's the thing the human
  • 00:38:30
    heart is the most selfish organ in your
  • 00:38:33
    body because all the good blood that
  • 00:38:38
    flows through it the most the richest
  • 00:38:39
    most oxygenate oxygenated blood the
  • 00:38:42
    heart takes for itself it takes all the
  • 00:38:44
    good blood the best oxygenated blood and
  • 00:38:47
    then it lets the rest flow to the rest
  • 00:38:50
    of your organs selfish I know but if the
  • 00:38:53
    heart did not do that the heart would
  • 00:38:55
    die and if the heart died it takes out
  • 00:38:58
    all the other organs with it so the
  • 00:39:00
    heart has to be selfish for all the
  • 00:39:03
    other organs to live and the key idea
  • 00:39:05
    here is you've got to be selfish you've
  • 00:39:09
    got to make sure your own happiness
  • 00:39:10
    comes first and only then you can apply
  • 00:39:14
    all these things to make your business
  • 00:39:17
    your employees your co-workers happy
  • 00:39:19
    you've got to start with yourself you
  • 00:39:21
    guys agree so that's I'm actually we're
  • 00:39:27
    here to schedule that's all I had to
  • 00:39:29
    share right now
  • 00:39:31
    so oh I do want to acknowledge this
  • 00:39:33
    stand up Craig
  • 00:39:35
    no seriously stand up you guys don't
  • 00:39:38
    know this but in our myths we have the
  • 00:39:40
    world's number three top white rapper
  • 00:39:43
    number one is mmm number two is vanilla
  • 00:39:46
    ice number three is Craig handle you see
  • 00:39:48
    our groove so I have I'm gonna allow you
  • 00:39:59
    to ask some questions but before I do
  • 00:40:00
    that just want to give you some next
  • 00:40:04
    steps okay so one thing if you want to
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    well a lot of people in the personal
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  • 00:40:19
    just an amazing way to boost your levels
  • 00:40:21
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    want to ship out to Malaysia ask them to
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    ok so we got 10 minutes for questions
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    Oh finally wait one more thing that's my
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    contact information if you want to do
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    you want to tweet me so we got 10
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    minutes for questions please people
  • 00:41:05
    don't make me look like a fool ask me
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    something you okay so all your employees
  • 00:41:14
    are in Malaysia right does this work for
  • 00:41:18
    telecommuting employees I've been
  • 00:41:21
    struggling absolutely absolutely
  • 00:41:24
    now I could not share all the stuff we
  • 00:41:27
    do but one of the things that we do is
  • 00:41:29
    we give people flexi time so they can
  • 00:41:32
    work from home they can choose to work
  • 00:41:33
    from the local Starbucks they pick their
  • 00:41:36
    own public holiday so they can choose to
  • 00:41:37
    work on Christmas and then take two days
  • 00:41:39
    off the new year right and that includes
  • 00:41:42
    that includes telecommuting the only
  • 00:41:43
    time everyone has
  • 00:41:44
    be in the offices if you have to meet
  • 00:41:46
    with your teammates face-to-face for a
  • 00:41:47
    brainstorming session or even our
  • 00:41:50
    awesomeness reports people who are
  • 00:41:52
    working in different countries or at
  • 00:41:53
    home or who are sick they simply Skype
  • 00:41:55
    in using Skype video chat I'm a big
  • 00:41:58
    believer in telecommuting yes absolutely
  • 00:42:04
    love what you just thank you I live in
  • 00:42:06
    Australia and this is much needed in
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    Australia especially in the
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    corporation's they come from the
  • 00:42:11
    corporate world do you license out what
  • 00:42:14
    you're doing so that we can take your
  • 00:42:16
    programs to other countries actually yes
  • 00:42:18
    a lot of people have asked me that I am
  • 00:42:20
    putting a product together um it's but
  • 00:42:24
    I'm so not disciplined that just sitting
  • 00:42:27
    down and getting it done so probably
  • 00:42:30
    some way in 2014
  • 00:42:32
    um it might be ready shoot me an email
  • 00:42:35
    actually no it'll probably be ready by
  • 00:42:37
    January okay so basically if you get on
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    finer minds
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    as soon as we release it I'm probably
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    gonna get sent an email out to my blog
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    subscribers you'll find out or follow me
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    on Twitter yes you talked a lot about
  • 00:42:54
    how you screen employees do you do this
  • 00:42:56
    with your suppliers customers and and
  • 00:42:58
    your other supply chains screen them
  • 00:43:01
    yeah put yeah yeah I can Ausmus level
  • 00:43:04
    yeah everything we do need to be at
  • 00:43:06
    certain levels of Awesomeness there's a
  • 00:43:08
    bar of Awesomeness that needs to be
  • 00:43:10
    maintained no I'm serious we have a bar
  • 00:43:12
    of Awesomeness and we one of the things
  • 00:43:15
    that we do in our company is people's
  • 00:43:17
    bonuses are voted on by other employees
  • 00:43:20
    so the at every month we give employees
  • 00:43:22
    a hundred points and they decide how
  • 00:43:24
    they want to allocate those points they
  • 00:43:25
    can give all 100 to Jill or they can
  • 00:43:27
    give 20 each to five different people or
  • 00:43:30
    they can scatter it whichever way they
  • 00:43:31
    want we then have a software that
  • 00:43:33
    tabulates all these points and the
  • 00:43:36
    founders me and Mike we get to see who
  • 00:43:38
    our top employees and who are the
  • 00:43:40
    employees who are not doing so good but
  • 00:43:43
    it's all done through the wisdom of
  • 00:43:44
    crowds now based on these people's
  • 00:43:46
    bonuses I actually adjust it so in other
  • 00:43:49
    words employees vote for their own bonus
  • 00:43:51
    now there's a bow of Awesomeness and if
  • 00:43:53
    you're falling below that bar we help
  • 00:43:55
    elevate you back up that bar if you
  • 00:43:57
    cannot get above the
  • 00:43:58
    bah then it means that you may need to
  • 00:44:00
    look for a job elsewhere and again we we
  • 00:44:04
    don't actually give bonuses or allocate
  • 00:44:06
    points to our suppliers and partners but
  • 00:44:08
    we still always make sure we working
  • 00:44:09
    with awesome people
  • 00:44:11
    Shawn slipped through the slip through
  • 00:44:13
    the bar but that's because he's fun to
  • 00:44:16
    hang out with anyone else yes do we fire
  • 00:44:24
    people yeah oh yeah how do you do it I
  • 00:44:26
    love firing people um no we don't fire
  • 00:44:30
    people this is what we do we have a
  • 00:44:32
    series of values in the company right
  • 00:44:34
    seven values when you join the company
  • 00:44:36
    you only join for three months at the
  • 00:44:39
    end of three months we have a review
  • 00:44:41
    where I sit down with you and you rate
  • 00:44:43
    yourself on these seven values now if
  • 00:44:46
    you are really behind in these seven
  • 00:44:49
    values after three months it probably
  • 00:44:51
    means that we don't want to extend the
  • 00:44:52
    offer now because of that it's rare that
  • 00:44:54
    someone actually gets fired because in
  • 00:44:56
    those first three months it's like
  • 00:44:58
    dating we figure out if you know you're
  • 00:45:00
    kind of a good fit for me and we're a
  • 00:45:01
    good fit for you and I'm not trying to
  • 00:45:04
    be sexually suggestive but you know but
  • 00:45:07
    you sort of get the idea yes I thank you
  • 00:45:14
    for the great talk how do you how did
  • 00:45:17
    you personally identify the right
  • 00:45:19
    friends and business associates to
  • 00:45:23
    surround yourself with um I just got
  • 00:45:25
    lucky I guess
  • 00:45:28
    part of the reason is because when I'm a
  • 00:45:30
    speaker I get to meet lots of other
  • 00:45:31
    really cool people um so I ended up
  • 00:45:34
    making a lot of my friends true just
  • 00:45:36
    being on stage coming to events like
  • 00:45:37
    this one of the key reasons my wife and
  • 00:45:39
    I flew 36 hours from Malaysia to come
  • 00:45:42
    here is because we knew we were going to
  • 00:45:43
    meet amazing people and we did both in
  • 00:45:45
    the speaker's corner and in the audience
  • 00:45:47
    and that's really how I how I grow my
  • 00:45:49
    contacts thank you
  • 00:45:53
    well well not all of you have to clap I
  • 00:45:57
    didn't mean all of you were amazing just
  • 00:46:00
    but okay if you want it I'm just kidding
  • 00:46:05
    who else yes I just wanted to ask what
  • 00:46:09
    kind of products are you actually
  • 00:46:11
    marketing you mentioned some publishing
  • 00:46:13
    right well we we published personal
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    development products so home study
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    programs seminars usually in the fields
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    in the fields of self growth more more
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    related to mind and spirituality so how
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    did the meditation Factory and you spoke
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    about going to New York and presentation
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    our first product that we started
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    selling was the Silva method it's a it's
  • 00:46:34
    a 1950s program from the US but they've
  • 00:46:36
    been big so like 12 million books so
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    that was the first thing I started
  • 00:46:41
    selling online and I had such a major
  • 00:46:43
    success with that I started branching
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    out to more and more different products
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    in that same genre next yes the guy who
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    looks like Branson stand up oh my God
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    look at him it's like it's like Branson
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    20 years ago thank you thank you I have
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    a question I make documentaries and I
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    write books about self-development and I
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    think it would be such a great story to
  • 00:47:07
    make a documentary about your company
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    and you it would be inspiring for the
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    whole world so thanks
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    are you open to talk about it yes but
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    only if you promise never to cut your
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    hair and shave okay I promise that thank
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    you thank you yes they the young one um
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    I don't know how much do you cost
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    depends how much would you be willing to
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    pay can you fix my lawnmower yeah sure
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    anytime I'll think about it yeah send me
  • 00:47:42
    a resume sure yes
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    thanks what I simply noticed wood was
  • 00:47:50
    quite difficult for me when big a
  • 00:47:53
    beginning to engage right was well if
  • 00:47:56
    it's a simple company it's simply the
  • 00:47:58
    more money the better right but Stephan
  • 00:48:02
    Covey talks about like a personal score
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    card or something I thought do you have
  • 00:48:08
    some some kind of scores you give you
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    could like when you have a goal how to
  • 00:48:18
    evaluate yourself and how you're doing
  • 00:48:22
    right well we definitely have that in
  • 00:48:24
    terms of revenue metrics I will confess
  • 00:48:26
    that is one part of our company that I
  • 00:48:28
    know is not perfectly excellent yep and
  • 00:48:30
    it's something I want to fix that
  • 00:48:32
    Stephen Covey is absolutely right on
  • 00:48:33
    those aspects well it's it's not
  • 00:48:37
    excellent yet in my company so I don't
  • 00:48:39
    feel qualified to talk about it
  • 00:48:40
    anyone else yes what are the seven
  • 00:48:45
    values that you date your employees with
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    again I'm not going to share that
  • 00:48:49
    because I don't want to influence you
  • 00:48:50
    but this is what you should do okay and
  • 00:48:53
    I'm actually going to give credit to
  • 00:48:54
    Tony on this one because we borrowed the
  • 00:48:57
    system directly from Zappos we modified
  • 00:49:00
    it a bit but basically we employ the
  • 00:49:02
    employees and you together do an
  • 00:49:05
    anonymous poll and you come up with the
  • 00:49:06
    values now the values itself the quote
  • 00:49:09
    Tony are not important it's the
  • 00:49:11
    alignment that's important does that
  • 00:49:13
    make sense so basically I mean if your
  • 00:49:17
    company decides as a whole that dolphins
  • 00:49:20
    are cool and the value is dolphins are
  • 00:49:24
    awesome that's fine as long as everyone
  • 00:49:27
    is aligned along with that value I'm bad
  • 00:49:30
    at coming up with useful examples okay
  • 00:49:33
    next you
  • 00:49:37
    I just have a question I work in a
  • 00:49:39
    government organization where we have a
  • 00:49:40
    lot of unionized employees so I'm just
  • 00:49:44
    curious when you were going through your
  • 00:49:45
    transition period from where you were at
  • 00:49:47
    you're kind of struggling phase to break
  • 00:49:50
    through to when you just catapulted what
  • 00:49:53
    did you do to get everyone to buy in and
  • 00:49:56
    and well they want to go with that's a
  • 00:49:58
    good question
  • 00:49:58
    now it takes a while like when I first
  • 00:50:00
    started the awesomeness report it wasn't
  • 00:50:03
    as wild and crazy as it is right now
  • 00:50:05
    we started simply by acknowledging
  • 00:50:06
    people for cool stuff that they did when
  • 00:50:08
    we first started the profit sharing we
  • 00:50:11
    started with a smaller share of the
  • 00:50:12
    profits just to see how things went when
  • 00:50:14
    we started with employees voting on each
  • 00:50:16
    other's bonuses we started with a
  • 00:50:17
    smaller percentage of bonus so you start
  • 00:50:20
    small you test you experiment and if it
  • 00:50:22
    works you expand that experiment so
  • 00:50:24
    that's basically what I've been doing
  • 00:50:26
    for the last one year experimenting with
  • 00:50:28
    different elements of influencing the
  • 00:50:31
    culture of the company yes and that
  • 00:50:35
    would be the last question hello are you
  • 00:50:39
    developing your employees to be
  • 00:50:41
    entrepreneurs or long term employees now
  • 00:50:44
    both one of the things that I look for
  • 00:50:47
    intrapreneurs in other words people who
  • 00:50:49
    can join a company be highly innovative
  • 00:50:51
    come up with amazing solutions to
  • 00:50:53
    problems but not necessarily the type
  • 00:50:55
    that wants to branch out leave and start
  • 00:50:57
    their own business because that wouldn't
  • 00:50:59
    be healthy for the company still we get
  • 00:51:01
    some entrepreneurs in the company and
  • 00:51:04
    what we sometimes do is when they feel
  • 00:51:07
    that bug to get out and do it on their
  • 00:51:09
    own
  • 00:51:09
    we basically partner with them and
  • 00:51:11
    launch a subsidiary of mine Valley
  • 00:51:13
    now Branson did the same thing with
  • 00:51:15
    Virgin so in the last one year I've
  • 00:51:17
    started three different companies but
  • 00:51:19
    all was started by employees of mine who
  • 00:51:22
    had ideas of say taking our products and
  • 00:51:23
    translating them to Russian or to Latin
  • 00:51:25
    American or taking personal development
  • 00:51:28
    for adults and coming up with a spin-off
  • 00:51:29
    for kids so we started nine valley
  • 00:51:31
    Russia mine Valley Latin America and
  • 00:51:33
    mine Valley parenting and these will
  • 00:51:34
    basically meet partnering with my
  • 00:51:36
    employees okay so that's the last
  • 00:51:38
    question Thanks
  • 00:51:42
    you
  • 00:51:55
    you
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