Leverage yourself to change your world (and others). (Photo: alicepopkorn)

Hey there.

I’m writing this from LAX airport in Los Angeles. I just finished a seminar by Eben Pagan. It was the GURU Business Plan. Eben charges $4997 to attend this seminar. I got in free.

Almond Butter!

It was about managing self and doing the highest leverage things in business and in life. Did you know Eben has an assistant who restocks his groceries weekly/bi-weekly. If he doesn’t have the specific almond butter he requests he gets angry and irritated. He even said to us “You really don’t want to see me when I don’t have my almond butter.” Very high leverage (I really mean it).

Eben Pagan & Bobby Huang

Some of the important stuff I learned I wanted to share with everyone. I’ll start dissecting the content and provide some awesome stuff. If you really want to be a vagabond, there are a lot of things you’ll need to do.

Here is a list

• Have income you can generate through the internet
• Leverage your time now so you can always use your time to do what you want later
• Be disciplined
• Become educated of the places you travel at least a little (for things like currency exchange and if you would die because some sort of war or something)
• Tons more

Some people think a vagabond can do whatever they want and wherever they want, and you’re right. Most people just won’t be one because they think it is impossible.

Why can’t I change?

The biggest problem I see a lot of people having is wanting to change to be better and not being able to stick with the change.

Have you ever wanted to lose weight?

Have you ever wanted to work out everyday?

Have you ever wanted to talk to that beautiful girl or handsome man across the room?

What if there was this little thing, little thing, you change about yourself to be able to start getting the results you are looking for?

Would you do it? Do you even know what it is?

Simple, you already know what it is, this answer, this small thing we could change would change us a lot.

Change this small part of you and you will leverage yourself better in all situations.

The biggest obstacle isn’t external, it is internal.

The biggest obstacle of FREEDOM is not money, it’s not material possession, and it’s not even relationships. It is OURSELVES. It doesn’t matter if a person is making billions of dollars a year. Talk to some billionaires and they’ll say it’s just not enough. They need to keep working, they need to keep earning or else they’ll lose it all.

I don’t know about you, I think I’d do fine living my life well with even a percent of their wealth

Talk to some people who have no money to their name and no home, they’ll tell you they are free. And you know what, they are. They, mentally, are free to think and do what they choose to.

Freedom is possible even inside a job; it is all about who you are INSIDE.

Do you choose to be with your kids every day? Do you choose to be at your job every day?

You’re right, there are some external obstacles as well, and those are easier to take care of when we align our internal selves with the people we want to be. We’ll focus mostly on internal for this duration and talk about external later.

Is it impossible?

The mind set of thinking it impossible does something. The unconscious mind believes what the conscious mind believes. It makes it impossible.

There is much more behind this than just what I write. There are many reasons why and many ways to not make things impossible. I learned most everyone already knows how to do the things they are suppose to. Except, it just seems like too much work for the benefit.

I believe most people are right; it does seem like too much work to do what we should be doing in the short term.

Though in the long term, those few things which take little effort in the short term will pay off 20x-100x more than the required effort.

A few of these things are:

• Exercising
• Eating Good Whole Foods
• Building Healthy Relationships

Our Two Sides

We have two sides to us (actually a ton more than 2).

These different personalities take over us at different times all the time. Whether it is laziness, staying in our comfort zones, changing things, charging the world and making things happen, these different personalities arise at different times.

One side says, “Hey, don’t do that, it’s not safe” or “Don’t take that risk, it’s not good for you.” This side tells us to stop even if it is something we want to do and know is good for us.

The other side tells us, “Hey, you should go do this new thing, it will be good for you.” This side wants you to experience new things and do things outside your comfort zone. It wants to take risks, change everything.

Some people pursue the safe side or the adventurous side and ignore one. This may not be the best approach. The thing about both sides is that they are both there to protect us. It may be best to meet both sides and combine them so we make the best decisions possible.

There’s an exercise Eben Pagan does in a lot of his programs which I think a lot of people will find beneficial. I don’t know if I’m allowed to clip it out and just show that part, so I’ll make my own.

Do the following exercise; Parts Integration, it comes from NLP, just open your mind to it.

Now, after doing the exercise, don’t you feel good?

You can do this anytime you want, anytime you feel an inner conflict or whatever feeling. It will build these “muscles” to help you make a better decision for everything you do.

I barely, BARELY scratched the surface of this, and this probably isn’t too in depth for people like me who need more direction and more detail.

I’ll get into it deeper and cover it more in more posts. Stay tuned!

Posted on June 15th, 2010.