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And welcome back to part two of chapter seven. Are you ready to succeed? By Sreekumar Rao, and we are picking up where we left off. And that is the idea that it's okay, that the tree is cooking. Right? So what happens? What do you do when the universe gives you something beautiful, yet unexpected? Do you know you take a look the rainbows and the trees and all the beautiful VISTAs and you say, Man, that would be that would be better if it was over here to the left, right? That Rainbow is missing a color? Or do you just kind of take it and accept it as beautiful and wonderful. He talks a little bit about the idea of, you know, here, here are some of our, here's, here's some of the other ideas here, as you know, you don't see the world this, this line, right? I think is pretty, pretty impressive. And true, right? You don't see the world as it is, you see it as you are. So the idea is, when something is good, like the rainbows and the trees and the beautiful VISTAs, you want more of it. And then when something shitty is happening, either you get a flat tire, you're stuck in the rain, and it's cold outside, and you can't find the tire jack, that's something that you just want it to end immediately. The funny thing is, is that both our form of clinging, right, both of these ideas of good or bad, wanting more or less of it, our sense of attachment, right? Which, as we all know, if we are falling long, anything that's happening here, and especially you know, Buddhism, right, that that's a form of suffering, you know, attachment leads to suffering. So if if you don't just kind of accept it as it is, maybe that crooked tree, just see it, there's really nothing that can be done about it, you just kind of recognize it and see that it is a crooked tree versus Ooh, that'd be a lot better. That was fixed, right? That type of thing. So the idea then, is that maybe what you don't even realize what happiness is? And he posits that the idea is that happiness is and are the moments where you are free from want. How great would it be Oh, so those are the moments that you're free from want. This is the moments I mean, and then I went back up to the top there, where there's where there's no pressure. Or if you don't want any more than what you've already gotten, you're content with what you've got, and you're not afraid of losing anything. Right? Because that's that's a want as well, then, then you you're happy here in a moment of that could be a moment of happiness is as it springs from acceptance of the universe as it is. Right. Which I think is pretty cool, too. And then the idea is there's absence of constraints, right. But I still I think, I think the biggest part of this one, right? You don't see. You don't see the unit. You don't see the world as it is you see it as you are. When you talk a little bit about this talks about he gives a little story about an alkali and a master. And how he's like how the how the Aqua it's like a dog with a bone. Right. And the idea is that even you know the dog is chewing on a bone and it's cutting his mouth and the blood inside of his mouth makes them feel like there's meat on that bone. And the dog keeps chewing on it because he feels like there's meat on the bone. Right? Yeah, the idea is that he says here peace and contentment and joy seeker inside says master but you keep hunting for it on the outside the worldly things you pined for so desperately and collect so graciously wound you in some manner the bone cuts the dog same as the bone cuts the dog but you think pleasure you derive it from those objects that you've got, right? Like I said, so the things that you want are the things you've already got. So you cling to them so hard, but in reality, right at the things if if the things that you're so afraid to let go of are making you upset, then who owns what right to the things around you or you get that you get the idea. So he says hey, you know, make changes by all means this next piece of the

chapter and talks about acceptance And how it's it doesn't mean that you just accept the things that are out there, you still go ahead and you fight the good fight, right, you're still out there working to bring out something beneficial, that is better for everybody involved, that doesn't mean that it doesn't mean that you just accept everything that that's out there, you're still you're still working, working for everything. uncouple your well being from the upshot, right? Even if the outcome is something, you've used the disasters, right, I think the idea that uncouple your well being from the upshot is that, you again, what you're what you're looking to do, and he says, you know, even if the outcome is something that you've used disasters, this is a learnable skill, right? If when you are working to bring out something that's beneficial for all, if it doesn't turn out, okay, then the idea is, you know, the the effort and the intent towards that was something to be a benefit. And the idea is, if you're, if you can, like it says on couple of your well being from kind of the outcome, and you're not emotionally involved, then you're not going to be you're not going to get upset, you're just gonna understand and maybe take the lesson away from the objective outcome says, references, recent outnet recent email, guys, if you're not on his email list to Sreekumar Rao email list, then then check it out. I forget specifically which one this is the email, but I think that it had to do with things that it had to do with I think it had to do with like, income and making money. And how is basically, our emotions are tied to some outcomes and how things are all working out. But um, again, I forget exactly what the email is get on his email list. And he get he gets out some pretty good emails, usually weekly. So again, if you don't know how it's going to working, you just give it your best before intentional intention, and benefits of all, you can rejoice once once it's over, I've got kind of Henry Ford listed there as well. You know, his intention was to benefit all right, it wasn't he had success, because he was trying to benefit all he could have made things more expensive, but he was looking to help the greater population, and not simply just himself, right. So this is the email, I think that it references more, so it will come if you don't seek it. The idea is to do to do to do this is probably the best line from it, what you seek is within your grasp, but you can only reach it if you let go of what you're clasping to so tightly and this kind of moves up into even the uncouple your well being from the upshot, right. So oftentimes, what we're looking for is right in front of you. And your says here, you're bound by the things I said, again, you're bound by your emotion to the desired outcome. And you're bound by the the, I would dare say call it the narrow vision of how you think it should turn out, and how it should work. But oftentimes, it's already kind of working out right in front of you already. And you're participating in it and it's happening through you and for you and sometimes to you. But you don't see what's happening because you've got an emotional investment to an outcome that you've pictured working out in a certain way. But it will come if you don't seek it to the to the to the let's see what he's got here. In this story times got a really good story. I love the story in here. Just basically about a basically about a king who runs in Osage Sage says hey, he, the king sees that he Sage is super wise. And he wants to Sage to come and teach him the way you know, wisdom of his ways. comes in and sage says Hey, I'll come in and I'll I'll do it. But you've got to give me everything I'll ask for without getting, you know, freaking out at me. And you essentially it gets to a point where Sage does something so that the king gets pissed off and he flies off the handle and stays like alright, I'm out. Right and then the idea is

Sage says he's out he rolls out. And he the cane says no, no, please stay and the king and the sage says, Look, man, I told you, you know, I was gonna roll out and here Here's the deal, I do have something to share with you walk with me for a while, like a week or so as, as I roll out, and I'll share a couple things with you. And what he does is he ends up sharing with them that that, that the sage was still happy, regardless of whether or not he had the things that he had, he was happy when he was the sage with nothing, and he was happy when he had everything as a king. And then he was just as easy to roll out of the kingdom. And, and go back to what it was, and have what he had he was he was happy, and content with the life that he had, whether it was with seemingly little or everything. And the idea to is if it will come if you don't seek it is like the idea it will just come right. Play that like a cat, right or a dog. And you know, as soon as you turn away, it just kind of comes up on you. Right? So exercise list your accomplishment, go ahead and go through, I think that's pretty self explanatory. Do that. And then he's got the exercise corollary, this was one that's still a challenge for me to do, and actually did a little bit of it on an Instagram story, did a little bit of dancing, right. But the idea is, what is something that you truly enjoy something that really brings you joy. And it doesn't, it's not directly aligned to anything, right? It's not directly aligned to like, like, for example, personal growth is not aligned to doing anything better. It's simply aligned to you feeling good and enjoying life. Right. And the idea is that, do it right now, don't stop, stop and wait, and then be grateful for that opportunity to do it. Let's see here. And then yet and then do it now, give thanks to the universe for allowing you the time to do it. And by the law of increase. Right, which we talked about it at some point. And of course, we know the universe is a force multiplier, by the law of increase, more of those moments will appear in your life. The other exercise is dropping destructive habits. Bob last really quick, note the damage being done by your behavior. And this is something that you can work with your kids, if you've got children right recommend same thing. Recognize that you are not a behavior or therefore err, go when you're talking with your kids separate their behavior from them, right. Don't beat yourself up again, with children don't beat them up, though separate them from from the behavior. Admit that you have some bad habits, simply be aware of when you're working on those habits. And when those are being triggered. And then just anytime you bring awareness to anything and you recognize it, you begin to you begin to you begin to kind of lessen it, you begin to do it less because you're you're intentional. Your intent is to drop those destructive behaviors, it's got a pretty cool exercise too along the way. Breathe in Golden strength, giving light. He says also go into witness mode at this point, you know, so breathing golden strength, giving light and breathe out negative emotions that in the visual is leaving your body in a dark stream. I personally still have a challenge with this one. I'd like to breathe in Golden strength giving light and breathe more of it out. And more of like a filtration system. Right. So I could I certainly I don't want to I don't want to. I don't want to put any negative energy out there, I guess is my challenge. Sure. I'll get over it. Let's see. And then finally, the exercise of your ideal life. We'll let this one run a little long. Understand that your ideal job doesn't currently exist? Are you quite literally as co creators with the universe you have to create it? And then really the idea is how can you do something or achieve something or find something? If you don't know what it is just spending some time writing down and writing out what your the vision of your ideal job is.

You will have better chance of succeeding. If you clearly know what it is you're trying to do. Right? So so many people do this The one person that comes to mind each time I think about this is Darren Hardy when he talks about his ideal, his ideal life partner, right, his wife, and how he would write about her, like, all the time and like, coming into his life and what she would be like, and what kind of why should we be. And eventually, at some point, he found exactly those things I can tell you to off my own personal experience, each time I go through this exercise, I see pieces of it come through in my life. And And the thing is, you're essentially just kind of tuning your, your algorithm, and you and your spirit and your whatever, to get aligned to it to recognize it. I've taken all the questions that he's got here that are prompts to do this exercise. And I posted them on spiritual dope, I'll post them on this podcast as well. So you can go it's on jotform. But I put it on side of spiritual dope. So you can go you can you can put your you can answer the questions, you and you write it out as if it's happening right now as if it is present tense. And you just follow the prompts and right through it, and I've made it so that you can save it as you go along. Because it's pretty long. I've also made it so that you can send it to yourself, and and you've got a copy of it. helpful hints. I've got written down here, just fucking do it, right. And if you've got writer's block, just sit down and start writing don't don't on there's nobody's judging you. Except for you. This is yours, your own your very own on the end. Also, you should be doing this one time every four to six months, refining it, right, getting better at this and tightening it up. Again, just getting getting more clarity on your vision, getting more clarity on the job that you are creating. And you know, I love it because we realize this isn't going to happen. Immediately. This he says it's your life's task to assemble all the pieces and the idea is that it truly Could take the rest of your life and that's okay. Right is the ideal, your ideal job. And if it takes you a lifetime to create it I don't know if there's a kind of a more walk well, I mean, are more worthy endeavors and what you're doing those inclusively making your life as good as you can make it by having a job or the work that you do that is corresponding to all of your life's ideals, I suppose, if you want so that is God that's gonna close it down for you on Chapter Chapter Seven of Are you ready to succeed? I circumaural we've only got two more chapters left. They are you know, I think that pretty potent. Chapter Eight is actually pretty short. Doesn't mean there's not a lot packed into it. If you've enjoyed it so far reach out to me let me know your thoughts. love to know which you know, you tried out and use exercises and maybe you run out and grab the book for yourself I know that I've I this is one of the books that I've sent out many times too many different people and always happy to have a conversation about it's Matter of fact I'm just about done having a conversation with somebody else around the book. And she and I just have had a discussion right now what are the what's what's the impact been on her was impacted on me through reading this book? Have you done the exercises so you know, we we kind of hold each other accountable to actually going and doing the things that's where the true value comes from the true value isn't reading these things and being able to spout it out or even just sharing out this conversation the way that I have and with you the true value of this comes from actually doing the work. Alright. Take it easy. We've got plenty of other podcasts coming your way. I will also be saving my mind map right What am I use an X mine the way I mapped these out and I've got the nodes. These are also videos created as I do the podcast. So

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