Jack Canfield Joins Us On The Steve Jobs Inspired Join Up Dots Podcast
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Updated Overview Of The Jack Canfield Interview
The interview with Jack Canfield that you are about to listen to was recorded way back in 2015.
At that time Jack had sold 500,000 books and now god knows how many he has shipped out through Amazon and Barnes And Noble.
But that isnt a surprise as Jack Canfield is a legend, and one of the nicest guys we have had the pleasure to have interviewed on Join Up Dots.
Down to earth, humble, extremely gifted and delight from start to finish…enjoy!
Introducing Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield is today’s guest on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots business coaching podcast.
A man who quite simply needs no introduction.
But hey what kind of host would I be if I didn’t build him up for the big entrance?
Well lets start with saying its rare that you will see a bookshelf or a library that doesn’t have one of his publications sitting amongst their ranks.
He is the author of the astonishingly successful series of books, that are the Jack Canfield Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
These books have been sold the world over, and counts sales as somewhere beyond 500 million copies worldwide.
And now he has delivered an updated version of the Jack Canfield principles of success in the perfectly named “The Success Principles By Jack Canfield” too.
And the fact that Oprah Winfrey can hardly state three words without speaking about her love for this book, then you know he has created something special.
But his life hasn’t always been one of success.
With three marriages under his belt and a less than spectacular start to his professional life, he knows both sides of what makes a fully realised life.
How The Dots Joined Up For Jack
He has worked for a living as a psychotherapist, an educational consultant, and a trainer to name a few.
But it was when he met Mr Mark Victor Hansen co-author of the Chicken Soup Series that things started to move.
It was then that the Jack Canfield success conveyor belt started to appear to them.
Together they saw progress in the direction that he visualised for himself.
And when you see that the world loves to Google the search “Jack Canfield net worth” then you know that life has been to good him.
And through those life experiences, or up and downs, successes and failures, he learnt the Success Principles.
The principles that he found were the key to create the life that you want.
And now ten years later from it first being released, he is re-publishing it.
With greater insights as to what can make an amazing life, he is a man on a vision.
So does he see the up and downs are actually the key points to what gives a life success?
Are they the foundations to maintain the momentum gained?
And does he get told by every waiter in the world “Ah Mr Canfield, I expect you want to have the Chicken Soup tonight, ho ho ho!”
Well let’s find out as its with delight, that we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr Jack Canfield.
Show Highlights
During the show we discussed such weighty topics with Jack Canfield as:
How he bankrupted three companies before he even got anywhere near a success in his life, but was still willing to try everyday.
How he started his first company in such humble surroundings, on a makeshift table in his kitchen, after borrowing $10,000 from his mother in law.
Why we should all focus on a goal for 30 consecutive days, not skipping once, to build pathways in our brain and pathways to success.
How so many great artists and visionaries’ have been turned down many, many times in their lives, but work harder to achieve their goals in life.
And lastly……..
How he is still amazed and surprised when astonishing things happen to him everyday, even though he has seen it time and time again in his life.
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Audio Transcription Of Jack Canfield Interview
Intro
When we’re young, we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be. But somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. join up dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams. This is your blueprint for greatness. So here’s your host live from the back of his garden in the UK David Ralph
David Ralph
Yes. Hello, everybody, and welcome to join up dots. This is Episode 310. And this is an extremely special one for me. Because when I started this show, many months ago, I actually wrote a list of the Top 10 gets, but I wanted the guests that I would love to speak on the show. And I’m proud to say that that that list that I have pinned up on the wall is starting to tick itself off. It’s amazing how these things happen. And we have got one of the guests on there. That was one of my big guests. And quite simply, he needs no introduction. But what kind of host would I be if I didn’t build him up but a big entrance? Well, let’s start with saying it’s rare that you will see a bookshelf over library that doesn’t have one of these publications sitting amongst their ranks. He’s the author of the astonishingly successful series of books that are the Chicken Soup for the Soul series that has been sold the world over and count cells as somewhere beyond the hundred and 23 million copies worldwide. And the fact that Oprah can hold the state three words without speaking about her love for this book, when you know he’s created something special. But his life hasn’t always been one of success. And with three marriages under his belt and a less than spectacular start to his professional life. He knows both sides of what makes a fully realized life. He’s worked for a living as a psychotherapist, and educational consultant and a trainer to name a few. But it was when he met Mr. Mark Victor Hansen co authored a chicken soup series, that things started to move in the direction that he visualized for himself. And through those life experiences, or ups and downs, successes and failures. He learned the success principles, but he found with a key to create the life that you want. And now 10 years later from it first being released. He’s republishing it with greater insights as to what can make an amazing life. Yes, he is a man on a vision. So does he see the ups and downs are actually the key points to what gives a life success of Ada foundation is to maintain the momentum gained? And does he get told by every way to in the world? Mr. can build aspect. Do you want to have the chicken soup tonight? Well, let’s find out as he’s with the light that we bring on to the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr. JACK Canfield. How are you sir?
Jack Canfield
I’m fine. David, thank you for having me
David Ralph
is a lovely to have you on it is weird, because I know you’re sort of very based off the law of attraction and all that kind of stuff. But it is kind of weird when you set things out. And you don’t kind of in your heart of heart believe that it’s just going to naturally occur, but it does and you are part of my sort of natural occurrences. Does that sort still, even though you really understand how it all works? Does that still slightly freak you out that these kind of things happen?
Jack Canfield
Well, as much as I know it and believe it it still surprises me at some level. Yes, it does. I freak out might be a little overstatement. But sometimes they go oh my god. You know, my wife coined the term a couple years ago called synchro mystical. Instead of synchronicity. Yeah. And I now believe it you know, like when you say if you have a list of my names on it, or Tony Robbins, or whoever, that’s but that puts something in the action in the universe. And eventually it occurs if you hold the belief and continue with it.
David Ralph
So So have you always had that believe it? Obviously on that introduction, when I’m reading it out, is quite astonishing, the sounds that you’ve had. And although that’s a success, but you would want and everybody would want, did you really kind of believe at the very beginning it was going to become as big as it has?
Jack Canfield
No, in fact, the current number is 500 million both solid billion. No, no, it’s fine. shocked me as well. But the point being, we set a goal in 1995, two years after the first book came up, to sell a billion books by the year 2020. So we’re well on track to do that. But we didn’t start with that goal. You know, the book when it came out. We said, Let’s sell a million and a half in a year and a half be a best seller and really changed some lives. And then the book took off. And did you know that that first book did over 10 million copies in United States, about 120 million around the world? matters 225 titles in a series we didn’t. We didn’t pursue that either. Really, we we just put at the end of the first book, if you have a story. What do you think is inspirational or motivational or uplifting? Send it in, maybe we’ll do a sequel? Well, here we are 225 books later. So it on Earth, all these incredibly moving and inspiring stories. But I think you start with a goal you dream it and then often the momentum occurs and starts to build. And if it’s the right time in history with the right product, or the right service, often it far outweighs anything anyone ever thought was possible.
David Ralph
I know you’ve probably been asked this so many times. So it’s a boring question. But the actual chicken soup because I come from the United Kingdom. And I have never been offered chicken soup. And especially if I’m sort of ill no one ever offers me chicken soup is a sort of an American thing.
Jack Canfield
I think it is an American thing. There’s actually been research now that chicken soup has antiviral properties in it. So it is actually good for the cold or the flu. But basically, it is kind of a folk lore, if you will, that everyone needs chicken soup. In India, they have this concoction called kedgeree, which is very similar. And so over there, people would often say what’s true for the soul. But you know, I think it comes out of the Jewish tradition as well. A lot of chicken soup, chicken with lots of balls and all of that. I’m not Jewish, particularly But what happened is, the title of this books very interesting is one of the principles I teach in this success principles book, which is that you have to inquire within that all the answers you want are within if you will only look there, but most of us never got taught how to meditate, how to use our intuition. And so we were going to New York to sell the first book, we did not have a name for the book. So Mark, and I decided we would meditate and ask a higher power to give us a name. And first two days, nothing happened. On the third day I was meditating. I saw this green chalkboard, like in school appear, a hand came out and wrote chicken soup. And I said, What the heck does chicken soup have to do with this book, and the voice said that was attached to the hand. Your grandmother always gave you chicken soup when you were sick as a kid. I said, but this is not for sick people. And then the voice said people spirits are sick. They’re living in resignation and fear. We had the big recession in America was during the first Gulf War in Iraq. And a lot of people were losing their homes getting laid off. And so I in my mind and more from chicken soup for the spirit to Chicken Soup for the Soul, I got goosebumps, told mark, he got goosebumps told my wife, my literary agent, they all got goose bumps, went to New York met with 20 publishers. In three days, nobody got goose bumps. So basically, it took us 144 rejections before we got a publisher who would agree to sell the book. And their estimate was we’d sell 20,000. We said no, we want to do a year in the year and a half who wants all a million a half. So, you know, the title is based on I think the fact that you know what you’re saying it’s a full glory kind of healing balm in America. But it became an international brand. It’s now valued at about 100 million dollars.
David Ralph
It’s fantastic, isn’t it? When you hear a story like, especially about you had so many rejections, and you hear it all the way through time you hear that the Beatles got turned down by everyone before they got picked up? And what is it about the success that is almost waiting to sort of explode. But at the beginning, people can’t see it. Because when you look at yourself, and when you look at the Beatles, you think, well, it’s a given, it’s always going to be successful, but you have to work at it, don’t you?
Jack Canfield
You do you do you? I think the universe tests us how committed are you? You know, it’d be really nice if you could come out sing one song and they go, you’re amazing. You’re not getting a recording contract. But, you know, we’ve all watched, you know, Britain’s Got Talent, American, you know, idol, all these kind of programs. And, you know, some of those people have been singing or dancing, you know, for 20 years, and all of a sudden, they get discovered, but they’ve been developing their craft and rejecting rejection and continuing to follow their dream. And I think if you’re passionate about what you do, you’re not going to let the lack of money or the lack of external agreement stop you. You just do it because you have to do it. Like writers will sometimes say, Well, how do you know if you’re a writer? Or how do you know if you’re a dancer? My answer is if you can’t, not right, or if you can’t not dance, you just have to do it. And so we all have something in us we’re passionate about. I have a friend who’s a surfer, and she just want to surf all day long. But you know how to make money at it. Eventually, she started teaching business owners who women to serve and showed them that whatever they were doing on the water was the exact same thing they were doing in their business. Like they’re waiting too long before they paddle so they missing trends in life, just like they’re missing the wave. Or they wouldn’t stand up because they’re afraid they don’t do that in business or they get too far front on the board and they fall over because their weights not distributed was are too far ahead of the curve or too far ahead of the time. So you know, she makes over 100,000 a year teaching business executives to serve she said a bikini all day long in a while having a great time. It’s possible to find a way to monetize any passion.
David Ralph
It is . And once again, that’s one of the things that the listeners out there will probably be going Yes, it’s okay because Mr. Canfield done it he is already out there. But when they’re going to a job that they don’t like and they’re in a relationship they don’t like and we kind of pose this almost on every episode. It’s quite difficult, isn’t it to actually say yes, I could live a life that I really enjoy impact. I could live a life I love and actually make a good money at it because everything is based around hard, A Hard Day’s Night, a hard day’s work, you know, hard graft, everything seems to be based in that. And it’s very difficult for people to shake that off and move on to what you’re saying as opposed to
Jack Canfield
what you first have to believe that is possible. And I think anyone around we always look at the Richard Branson’s and the Bill Gates’s and those people when they’re already a success. What we don’t realize is that Bill Gates dropped out of college, started a little computer company first company went bankrupt. They were basically doing a computers that helped with traffic planning, and didn’t make any money. And you know, I bankrupted three companies before I got mine started. You know, the Beatles had a lot of non hits, you know, when they first started singing? And then you know, that they got to that place down in Liverpool. I can’t remember but I’ve been to it. Where they sang the cave. I think it’s called the cabin and the cabin the cavern. Yeah. And so, you know, the reality is you have to be willing to put up with rejection. I love this quote, I put in the book by Barbara Kingsolver. She’s a novelist, and he said, when your manuscript comes back rejected, it doesn’t mean it’s no good simply means the editor who will love your book doesn’t live at this address. And so 144 rejections, and before we got someone to do it, Dr. Seuss, who everyone knows 22 rejections before he got his first book published, mash, the famous TV show and movie, again about 20 rejections before they got the first book published format. So you got to be willing to take your hits, be willing to persevere in the face of obstacles. And when it looks like it’s impossible. Nothing’s impossible. If someone’s already done it. Most people don’t want to do anything that someone hasn’t already done. They want to be wealthy, they want to lose 50 pounds, they want to start their own business. They’d like to travel more whatever it is, somebody figured out how to do it. So Tony Robbins has a great quote says success leaves clues. And it leaves the clues in the form of books that people right, like my book, the success principles are all the clues to my success. People break, do shows like you’re doing podcast, people leave clues, they leave clues and manuals and boot camps, you can go to TED Talks, whatever. So my point of view is, find somebody who’s already done what you want to do, and go ask them how they did it. I was getting makeup put on for a TV show down in Texas. And I asked the makeup artist. I said, Do you ever dream? What’s your dream? I always asked that of everybody. She said I want to own my own salon. I said, great. That’s fabulous. What are you doing to make that happen? She said nothing. I said that’s a terrible strategy won’t get anywhere. I said, Why don’t you know, why don’t you start? She said, Well, I don’t know what to do. And I said, Well, do you know anyone who wants a slump? She said, yeah. I said, Why don’t you ask him what they did? Oh, she said, that’s a great idea. Now that to me is so obvious. It’s ridiculous. But some people don’t realize you can go up to anybody who’s successful in something you’d like to do. Whether it’s fashion design, or starting a rock band or starting a business and say, Can I buy you breakfast? Can I buy you lunch? Can I buy this seat on the plane next to you next time you travel, and just grill you for three hours. I’ll tell you a story of my success. I had a small training company, we made about $140,000 a year, there was a guy up in Seattle, Washington, who was making about 50 million a year. And I called him that I said, you know I’m in the same business you are I admire your work. I actually use some of your work in my work. Next time you come to LA instead of hiring a limo driver, can I drive you around wherever you need to go? As long as I can ask you questions. He said, Sure. So he came down. I picked him up the airport, took him to his hotel, waited for him took him to a speech but and back the whole time I was pumping him with questions. About a year later, we both bid on a training contract for the Los Angeles County school system was worth $750,000. And I won. And he was gracious enough to send me a letter said you’re a good student. And so you know, we were also afraid of rejection. And rejection is what stops us from asking, you know, and here’s if I ask you to have dinner with me that you say no, my life didn’t get worse. I didn’t anyone eat dinner with before I asked you. I don’t have anyone do that. It was after I asked you. It only gets worse when we go into our head. And we tell ourselves, we’re stupid will never amount to anything. My mother was right. You know, whatever is not worth the effort. And it’s that self talk that’s killing us. Basically asked gas gas, gas, gas, gas gas. We had a training company when I started it, we had to tell a conference group to tell a selling go to would call it people that might be interested and asked if they’d come take our trading. One night, we got 81 nose in a row. And the next thing we yeses. So what if we give it up after 51 wants to do this? So you got to be willing, there’s always a yes out there. I always tell people think of the least attractive, most obnoxious person, you know, and more than likely they’re married. Somebody said yes.
David Ralph
Well, this is a key point, actually. And I’m going to I never expected in a million years to be actually posing it to you. But you know, when you see me kind of, and I’m being harsh here, really. But the unattractive men who have got beautiful ladies. And you saw Well, how did that happen? Now? Do you think that is bad? Because they’re so used to being knocked back over time they’re willing to chance their arm where other people would go, she’s out of my league? I’m not going to give it a go. Do you think it’s that, that they’ve overcome that risk? That fear? Because I just get nose, nose nose all the time? Is that how that occurs? You think?
Jack Canfield
I think I think that could be part of it. I also think from my experience when I was in college, the same thing happened. You know, all the most beautiful girls were dating the geekiest guys and we couldn’t figure it out. And then one day, we realized they don’t even know they’re not cool. So they go right up and ask we’re also, you know, we’re also vested in looking cool. We’re afraid to have anyone say no. And so we ended up not getting dates. And they did. Yeah. So I think sometimes it’s ignorance is bliss. And sometimes it’s they’ve been knocked down so many times, they just don’t give up anymore. I think it’s probably a combination of both of those.
David Ralph
Well, let’s play some words. Now. These were saved by a Hollywood actor recently. But I like to throw him in the show because I have such power. This is Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey
My father could have been a great comedian. But he didn’t believe that that was possible for him. And so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. And when I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job. And our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
David Ralph
Now, obviously powerful words. But if we took you back in time, when you took a chance, was it something that you thought you would love or you knew you would love when you were doing it?
Jack Canfield
It was something I thought I would love. I was a high school teacher. That was my first job. And I got really tired of the administration, which was so conservative, it didn’t really support kids creativity. And so I quit, and I got a job working for a training company that was much more fun. They were all positive people. And then eventually, I left that company and started my own company, which was very scary. I had no money. I was only being paid $38,000 a year by them. I borrowed 10,000 from my my mother in law. And with $10,000 I bought brochures, I bought business cards, I bought stationery, I bought a IBM Selectric typewriter. This was before we had computers really. And I started my company and I was scared to death. But I realized if I was really ever going to do what I loved, and do it my way, I would have to start my own company. And I started in the kitchen. I we took one wall, which was where you’d normally put the breakfast table. And I had a hollow core door you could buy it the lumberyard on sitting on to file cabinets, I had a couple of shelves are made out of you know, one by 12 boards, which is bricks, one of them. And so I started my company, and I had to go out there and be successful really quickly because I didn’t have a lot of capital. And I just beat the pavement and I talked to companies and I got jobs for speaking and it worked my ass off. And you know, we didn’t make a lot of money that first year. But eventually, you know said wouldn’t chicken came out was making about 140,000 a year, which was a lot for me back in the 80s 90s and they went from there now, you know i average $6 million a year.
David Ralph
And so did you always have that hustle muscle? Were you somebody even as a small child about went out and made things happen? Or did you stumble across it later on?
Jack Canfield
I think I stumbled across the later on I was a pretty normal kid I was I didn’t stand out particularly, you know, I went to school and did the things that you do when you go to school and try to get I mean, my dad made $8,000 a year, you know, eight with three zeros after. And so we didn’t have a lot of extra money. And I if I wanted something I had to work for it. So I had summer jobs and things like that. But my dad usually, you know, got those for me because he wanted me to have that experience. But it wasn’t until I was maybe 26 or seven. I met w Clement stone. I was teaching school. At that time still and I my kids weren’t motivated. And I didn’t understand why. I mean, I always was curious about learning. I may not have been a hustler, but I was curious about learning. And so I said why aren’t they curious? Why don’t they want to learn? Well, it turns out, they had low self esteem, they didn’t believe they could learn these are all black kids and in the inner city of Chicago. And there’s a lot of racism back then and the poverty and they lived in a ghetto. And they they never saw anyone who got out of that situation. So I took a seminar at the W Clement and Jesse stone Foundation, W Clement stone was worth $600 million. He was a good friend of Napoleon Hill, who wrote Think and Grow Rich. And so after taking a couple of workshops with him, I realized I was coming from a negative attitude. I was too shy, I was too afraid of rejection. I thought that, you know, having a lot of money was evil. Like you know, the corporate, the industrial corporate complex was screwing over the world. My dad was always a worker bee, not a owner. And so he was of that mindset. So I grew up with that kind of union mentality. And I had to change that I would say it took me about a year and a half before I fully fully changed my point of view. And then my my mentor, W Clement Stone said, I want you to set a goal that’s so big that if you achieve it, you’ll totally blow your mind. And you’ll know it’s only because of what I’ve taught you. And he taught me about goal setting, affirmations, visualization, the law of attraction, taking action, responding to feedback, never giving up things like that. And so I set a goal to make $100,000 in one year. And I talked about that in the in the movie, The Secret. And I didn’t make 100 I mean, 92,326. But at that point, I was like, Whoa, I just 12 times my income in one year. And you know, and I wasn’t even sure I believe that I just did what he taught me. And sure enough, you know, that was the beginning of moving up in the world.
David Ralph
Did we still wondering you isn’t? Even when you’re saying that stalling? You must have said that story thousands of times. When you say the word Well, it still resonates with you?
Jack Canfield
It does it does. It does. I mean, you know, to go from 8000, it’d be like going from 100,000 to one point 2 million in one year. And, you know, doing the work I was doing, which was educating people and doing small trainings and things. So yeah, it was a while and I think I am still in wonder a lot. You know, I just I am I think it’s important that we live in a state of wonder and awe and gratitude. And for me, as much as I know these things work. I mean, we set a goal with chicken soup to sell a million books in one day. No one had ever done that. Now, JK Rowling has done it since then. But you know, by then she had her fifth book coming out and all the pre sales at Amazon. But we set a goal we did what I teach is for 30 days, non stop, can’t miss a day, you visualize it as if it’s already happening for about three or four minutes. You have an affirmation, I’m so happy and grateful that we are just celebrating having sold 1 million copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul in one day. You tell everyone you know about it, you you know, just you just get into the energy of it. And so about 40 days after we set that goal, Mark and I were at the booksellers convention in America where all the bookstore owners and the book sellers, like you know, Simon and Schuster, and all the publishers come together, and I’m getting on a bus to go back to the hotel at you like you do at a convention. And I sit down, this woman sits down next to me. She says you’re jack Canfield. I thought wow, she knows who I am. And she said, You’re wearing a name tag, good. Okay, ego reduction. And then she said, What are you doing with chicken soup these days? I said, Well, we just set a goal a month ago to sell a million books in one day. And as fast as I said that, she said, I can help you do that. And I said, Really how’s that she said, I’m the buyer for the wh Smith bookstores. And we could do a book signing, where we take all your co authors because most of our books have a third author now, or, you know, editor, co author, and we put them in like New York, Boston, DC, Atlanta, Miami will do book signings from six in the morning till eight, put you on a plane, fly you over to Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Detroit, it will make you know, again, all these authors will do book signings in the middle of day, and we’ll fly to the west coast will do them at the end of the day. I bet we could sell a million books in one day. And I said, why would you help us do that? She said, Honey, if we sold a million books in one day at wh Smith, that would make me look pretty good to my boss. So she started coming up with like hotel partners, airline partners, PR partners. And you know, when we set that goal, we didn’t know how to do it. You don’t have to know how you have to commit to the what. And then the How will show up out of the techniques that we just been talking about
David Ralph
Its interesting. Probably 20 episodes ago, I had a gentleman who’s a teacher in Virginia called Mike ferry. And he’s doing a different kind of training. But he’s brought into his classroom, where every day, he teaches the kids to show gratitude, and try to be happy because he seems he believes but happiness is the starting point for success. The kids in high school seem to think that success was how to become happy. And he said know if you go into happiness, first of all, and every day, think about what makes you happy, and visualize it and work towards it. And it was a totally radical kind of meaning that he’s brought in on his own back. But he’s doing some powerful stuff. Do you think that kind of thinking was what you were doing many years ago?
Jack Canfield
Yeah, I do. I think the old model was have to be if you have a lot of money, you can do what rich people do and you’ll be happy. And what we know now is it’s really be do have, be happy. do two things you do when you when you’re happy, and then you’ll have whatever you want. And so he’s absolutely correct. Gratitude is the first step. You have to have gratitude for what you already have, and then have gratitude for the fact you know, what you want is coming, then you’re in a highest state of vibration. I think it was master Eckart was a mystical, a guy from Germany way back when he said, if the only prayer you ever say is thank you, that will be enough. And so you know, we’re supposed to say grace after meals before? Well, before we eat, we said before, we’re grateful for all the bounty that we’re getting, and all the people that help do it even down to the earthworms who moved through the soil that allowed oxygen down here, and so forth. So basically, gratitude, some people say gratitude is the highest vibration of all higher even than love or joy. And I think that’s probably true. So, you know, in the secret, and in my seminars, I wrote a book called Living the law of attraction. We talked about gratitude. That’s how you start today. I start today, by doing what I call the Hour of Power, I do 20 minutes of meditation, which the end I visualize my goals is complete, I do 20 minutes of aerobic exercise. And I do 20 minutes of reading. And I read more during the day, but 20 minutes of reading something uplifting, inspiring, empowering, motivating or educational, not a novel, and you know, 50 Shades of Grey is not going to get you there. And then I wish it did, but it doesn’t. But then the other thing I do is I do about a five minute gratitude exercise at the end of that, where I just literally go into what I call a rampage of appreciation where I just walk around my house. And everything I look at, I’m grateful for the people who installed my rugs, the people who water the plants at my house, the housekeeper who just vacuum the floor, the painters who painted the painting the frame, or who framed it, the food in my refrigerator, the guy who invented refrigerators, you know, there’s so much we have to be grateful for, but most of us are unhappy, you know, half the world lives on less than $3 a day. So anyone listening to your program, literally probably is making somewhere between 25 and $100,000 a year. And if you’re making $100,000 a year, you’re in the top one 10th of 1% of wage earners in the world. And we’re always complaining that we don’t have anything, we have automobiles, we have phone systems, we have TV sets, we have iPhones, there’s so much to be grateful for. But we’re usually focused on what we don’t have, instead of what we do have,
David Ralph
There’s a line in a Sheryl Crow song that always strikes me as quite profound. And she says it’s not having what you want. It’s wanting what you have. And that seems to be when you get to a certain amount of success, that the focus seems to change from the big stuff. That’s all monetary stuff that the nice cars and the houses to the simple stuff. Your in that stage, aren’t you have you been in that stage for a long time where it’s almost like you could take away all the trappings and you would still be content?
Jack Canfield
I would a friend of mine wrote a book called happy for no reason. And the idea is most of us think that’s the external things in our life that make us happy. But it’s really learning how to manage your emotions, learning how to stay and create the states to states of joy, learning how to overcome anger and fear and resignation and all those feelings, its relationships. I remember once saying to my wife, we could be pig farmers living in a tent in Mexico, I’d still be happy. Because you know, when you turn the light side, you’re in bed, it’s the same skin, it’s the same tone of voice, it’s the same touching, it’s the same joy of someone who loves you and accepts you for who you are. All of that doesn’t cost money. Dancing doesn’t cost money going for a walk watching a sunrise. Now, I love having money. It allows me to travel anywhere, give my kids good education is get good medical care. Take trainings, you know, I can afford to take any training anywhere I want. But literally, most of the things if you ask my wife and I while do your favorite experiences in the last year, they’re not things that cost money. They’re things that happened when we were with our eight best friends over New Year’s Eve and we spent all day together for two days. There the times that we take walks and watch the sunset, the times when our dogs do cute things or a cat sleeps on your chest all night. And that can be created anytime, anywhere.
David Ralph
Did you ever get fed up with being Jack Canfield because he got very strong image and it’s a very sort of clean image. I’ve been looking along the internet. And I can’t find a picture of you unshaven looking dishevelled. You always look extremely smart. Is that something that you’re aware that people expect you to look at certain way Do you ever wake up and think, Oh, I just throw on the clothes. I left by the side of the bed last night. I’ll just go out as as normal.
Jack Canfield
On the weekends I sure I do on the weekends. You know, I just put on a pair of jeans and a shirt. I might even wear the same jeans and shirt for two days. And I do shave. I don’t know why I do. My wife doesn’t like stubbly beard, I think I look more. You know, I’ve got a white hair, I just got a white beard. And I know I’m not going to keep the beard because I go do a lot of corporate work. And I think it just appears better. I had a beard for 17 years. And I was a vegetarian for 17 years the same time. And so I looked a lot of different ways in my life. But I’m always happy. I don’t I don’t manage my photographs and you know, approve or disapprove of them. But you’re not likely to find me out with my hair messed up looking drunk like McNulty or some of those pictures we see on the internet. No,
David Ralph
I was listening to an interview with Paul McCartney. And I’d be interested to see if you would feel the same way. And whenever anyone goes to take his photo and he said in the old days, everyone used to want to use an autograph. But he said now it’s all selfies and stuff. And people just want to take the photos. And he says I don’t want them to take a photo of me because Ben it’s like me being the star and I’ve got tonight pose like that would expect Paul McCartney, I’d be happy to stand there shake their hand talk to them one on one like a human being. But I don’t want that that that photo to be taken. And a lot of these friends say, Oh, just do it a photo. It’s so much quicker than you standing there chatting. He says no, this is one of the things I believe in. And I want to relate as an individual. Can you see what he’s saying on that?
Jack Canfield
I do. Well, I love to talk to people. I probably do the longest book signings of anybody because I do actually chat with each person when they come up to get a book sign. If someone wants to take a selfie I do that. Very rarely do you want to take a picture just of me they want to the picture with them in and and i think Keller swift said that. Recently, everyone wants a selfie now texting quicker to do an autograph. But the point is that they want to walk away saying I met this person, I can prove it. He’s someone I admire and love. It is affected my life. And I want them to have that experience when they go away that they met someone that’s been special to them. I like knowing that I I’ve had a special impact on the lives of people. That’s what keeps me going.
David Ralph
Do you go up to sort of famous people and ask for a selfie? Is there anyone that you sort of go up to? Like, people might come up to you starstruck Do you walk into a room of think, Oh, my God, it’s so insane.
Jack Canfield
Yeah, I still get starstruck. But I don’t ask for a photo because I know how much that you know, I don’t mind if I’m at a book signing or an event I’m putting on. But if I’m eating dinner and someone wants to come up and start talking to me, and I’m with my wife, my wife gets, you know, upset because he wants to have private time with me Yes, is rare because I travel so much. So I get people that same space, you know, they’re eating dinner, or eating lunch or, or walking around with our children. And I honor that.
David Ralph
So let’s take it back to the reason that you on the show here today because of the success principles. And I was going through them. And what I loved about it was that the fact that you almost don’t have to read the book, just the titles, said everything. And it was like a staircase that was leading up to bigger and bigger biggest success was was that how you deliberately constructed it for the the like the quick speed readers and then the ones I want to really get into a little bit more deeply?
Jack Canfield
Well, I constructed it, like you said, like a staircase. That’s a good analogy, I’ve never used that I’ve always said it’s like a combination to a lock. And if you do the right numbers in the right order, it doesn’t matter whether you went to college or didn’t whether you’re male or female live in London, England, or Paris, France or Dallas, Texas, the locks going to open up, you know, the combination. The problem is, a lot of people are missing numbers. And they’re also they have numbers in the wrong order. So if you do things in the wrong order, it doesn’t work. So basically, if you go through the contents of the book, and are 67 chapters in this new edition, because I’ve added a whole section on success in a digital age, and how to use modern media, like we’re doing right now, to be able to be more successful. But basically, the first 25 principles are meant to be done in order. And if you do that, it’s like a blueprint, create success in anything you want, whether it’s to lose weight, whether it’s to make more money, whether it’s to have better relationships, become an Olympic athlete, I literally have stories. What’s exciting about this new book, versus the one that came out in 2005 is that book, all the stories were by famous people or about famous people that are they illustrated each technique, each principle with the story. But the principles were illustrated by stories, you know, like Steven jobs, or Bill Gates, or, you know, professional athletes that it made most people go, Well, that’s them. They live in a rarefied world, I could never do that. But this new book, almost every principle is illustrated by a story of someone who read the first book create a tremendous success in their life using those principles or that principle. And now it’s more believable because these were housewives, guys and halfway houses on Skid Row 25 year olds, Alvin slew was in prison in China for two years, one of the worst prison systems on the planet, his wife paid a guard to smuggle in my book, he read, it kept him sane for two years, he comes out, and within two years starts to successful restaurants puts together an international portfolio of real estate, just putting the principles in the right order. And doing them he said it but it’s almost like memorize the Book, the way people memorize the Bible or memorize the Quran. So basically, there is a system. And it’s very clear, I’ve interviewed over 100 of the most successful people on the planet. And to make sure that these principles are the same ones I was using in my life, and they were. So it is like a staircase.
David Ralph
Well, I’ve interviewed 300 people on this show your 310. And the sort of principles I’m finding on the show is, number one, you’ve got to be aware, you’ve got to start looking around outside your environment to see what other people are doing. Because more often than not, if you’re in a happy state, and I see this, a lot of times when people are in a job that they don’t like, the first thing that they do is they quit and almost go to the same job in another company. But I don’t think that they’ve got opportunities galore. But as we’re talking about the surfer lady, you can make money doing the most crazy things nowadays. And the second thing is that there has to be a commitment to do have a small routines, break down the routines, but you’re trapped in and just change your life very subtly doing like the mini adventures, which is hugely powerful and can take you in any direction you want. Is that true? With the the Uber successful guys? Are they still doing the same kind of things where people do when they start off? Or have they taken it to the next level?
Jack Canfield
Well, I think that the principles are universal. I’m working on a book with the guy from Poland right now we’ve interviewed 11 billionaires, and what they’re just normal people who decided to make a few changes, and then just kept the disciplines of those changes forever. They get up early, they exercise, they meditate for the most part there. They appreciate people, they’re willing to take risks, calculated risk, not stupid risks. They’re constantly betting the farm on things that are going to take them to the next level, they’re willing to, you know, they surround themselves with positive people, they they know that success is a team sport. So they have teams around them. You know, and they have daily disciplines. They do I we interviewed one guy who literally runs for 30 minutes every morning. And he showed us that day on his cell phone, because he keeps a record, he got up at 330 in the morning, ran until 415 and then took a shower, and then went to the airport. But even though we only got four and a half hours sleep, he never doesn’t run. And he’s very healthy, we know that when your body is healthy, your mind works better, you make better decisions, you get sick less often, you know you have more dynamic energy. So it these daily disciplines, people, they get them and you made a really important point about it doesn’t take a lot of changes. For instance, if you build in for new success habits a year, in 10 years, you have 40 new success habits, your eating better, you’re drinking more water, you’re you’re taking care of people you’re responding to phone calls, immediately, you’re keeping your agreements, you know, whatever it is you chose to do. And, you know, as a friend of mine wrote a book called The slight edge. And he talked if you if you’re of a cruise ship, and you’re going along, and you change your direction by two degrees, which is not very much. But if you travel 1000 miles at that two degree difference, you end up in Africa instead of Europe. And so the reality is it takes just a little bit of change, you know, a little bit more of like one of the things I teach is cut out an hour of television a day, that gives you 365 additional hours a year to be productive, whether you’re reading, exercising, making more sales calls, you know, doing your internet blog, whatever it is, that’s nine and a half 40 hour work weeks, it’s like having a 14 month year, which gives you a critical advantage over everyone else. Most people in America and Europe are watching three to five hours of television a day that my mentor said you’re watching other people get rich while you’re not. So basically, there’s slow changes like that, that can make a lot of difference in your life. Read a book a day, or a book a week. You know, anyone can read a book a week, I got to the point where I took a speed reading class, I was reading a book a day I’ve read over 3000 books on success, financial success, relationship success. This is why my life so magical.
David Ralph
I saw that on a video you were saying. And so you have actually I thought it was just a sort of throwaway phrase, you have actually read 3000 books.
Jack Canfield
Yeah, I got divorced. But 15 years ago, I had to add them all up in order to figure out what the value of the more so when we separated our property out. I was quite shocked by that, quite frankly. But you know, if 30 years, you read 100 books, which I do easily, then that’s 3000 books,
David Ralph
I can tell you and this isn’t actually you know, to suck up to you. But there is two books that I have read more than once. And one of them is the four hour workweek by Tim Ferriss and I read that four times. And the other one is the the key to the law of attraction your book living with the law of attraction, which I was given by a gentleman that I used to work next to who was a really sort of negative, pessimistic individual. And I was talking to him about something and I’ve always been this sort of opposite. I’ve always been like, Oh, yeah, you can do this, you can do that. And he said to me, why don’t you read this book? I think you’ll love it. And so I hadn’t heard of it before then. And he gave it to me. And I read it and then I’ll read it again. And I’ll read it again. Because what strikes me with that book, and a lot of people go against it, because it’s almost, you know, it is a bit whoo, whoo in places. But to me, and I’d love to get your opinion on this. To me, it seems cause and effect. If you set your stall out to do certain things, if you visualize what you want, if you do the exercises that you say it’s like ripples on a pole, and somehow it’s it starts to hit the edge and then bounce back to you. Is that a simplistic way of thinking about it?
Jack Canfield
Well, no, it’s an accurate way of thinking about it in the sense that, look at your, when you visualize something, you’re doing two things at the same time. One is your programming your subconscious. In your ears, your your subconscious can’t tell the difference between a real event and a vividly imagined event. So you’re building up your self confidence that you’ve actually done this thing already. That’s really important. Your subconscious once is program for 30 days, by visualizing the same thing, we recommend you do it for 30 days or some neuroscience behind that. And if you miss a day or the next day is day one again, so you got to be really religious about this and discipline. But what happens is, then your subconscious mind takes on the task, how can we make this happen? So you start getting creative ideas, you know, when we decided to make $100,000, when I was making $8,000, I did that every day for 30 days, and I was in the bathroom in the shower on about day 40 or something like that. And all of a sudden, I had my first hundred thousand dollar idea. And that’s what allowed me to go on and make $92,300 a year. So you’re, you’re programming your subconscious for creativity, you’re motivating yourself to take action, you’re also programming something in your brain called the particular activating system. Right now you and all the listeners are not aware of what you’re feeling in your right foot. But as soon as I say right foot, you can feel that, then I can say left hand, you’ll go become aware of that. So that information was streaming up your spine all the way to the particular activating system, which acts like a filter into your brain, you can’t perceive everything at once less, maybe you’re on acid or something like that. So what happens is, you have to filter things out. And what causes things to be filtered out are your negative beliefs, not having set goals, and not having visualized what’s important to you. So once you do that, that filter opens up and allows you to see resources that were always there that you never saw before. Think about this, you buy a new car, the next day, you notice 500 of them on the road, when you’re driving around, there was 500 there before you just never saw them. You have a major appliance breaks, you open up the newspaper that evening, or the next morning, and there’s all these sales for appliances. You never saw them. Wow, my lucky day, sales today perfect weather sales in there every single day. There’s that guy selling Persian rugs has been going out of business for the last 22 years. But you don’t see it because you don’t need a rug. So the point is, once you set the goal and you visualize it, you’re going to start to see these things which are resources. And then on the spiritual or trance personal or mystical level, you’re sending out an email called spam to the whole universe. Because every time you think a thought, there’s a thought wave that goes out. We know for example, that a travels a minimum of 250,000 miles. We’ve had research that was done at Duke University with astronauts up on the moon, where they would open up envelopes, they would shuffle them up, pick one out of the pile, record what number it was opened it up to be a shape like a square, a circle, triangle, a pentagon inside. And then they would visualize that for five minutes while students started Duke University 250,000 miles away, withdraw what they were getting. And it was way above statistical chance that they picked it up. And no phone. No no suffocation, though video. So our thought ways we know now from all this research goes 250,000 miles. So everyone who’s wants to participate with you starts to line up and be aligned like iron filings. And then all of a sudden, you know, like when we decide to sell a million books in one day, I sit down a bus and a woman says Oh, you’re jack Canfield, and then helps us figure out how to do it. Was that an accident? No, that was something that was created by our intention. And using the tools of visualization, the affirmation so forth to bring that about. So why it seems whoo is because we’re never taught about it in school. But if you study quantum physics today, it explains it all.
David Ralph
I think it’s fascinating. I really do. And I you know, if we jump back to that speech that Jim Carrey made, he’s a huge visualize. And he he basically visualized his whole success used to sit on a road in Hollywood and look up a notice board and think One day, my face is going to be on there. And for about five years, every single night, he did that. And he always Nico de stream.
Jack Canfield
Yeah, was up on Mulholland Drive. And he wrote himself a check for $10 million, which is what he wanted to make some day from movie and now he gets $20 million a movie. So I What am I students as an actor, and has been in two movies with Jim Carrey. And he went up to him and he asked him just really chill. You did all that. He says, absolutely. They had a nice 20 minute conversation saying, These are the things you need to do. Jim Carrey is one of my heroes. He’s a good guy. And my brother in law met him when he was in Africa, Jim’s developed a new form of corn, I think a wheat something like that. It absolutely produces more of per acre because He cares about feeding starving people. My brother in law was the best leader from us to Cameron. And he said, Jim’s just a fabulous guy. And he shares that with everybody, you have to visualize and affirm and believe. And it doesn’t always happen overnight. That’s the other thing. You know, one of the new awareness is that people in the law of attraction I’ve had recently is that when you’re impatient, you’re focusing on the not having of it. And so whatever you’ve focus on, you get more up. So if you’re focusing on the fact that it’s not there yet, then that’s what makes you impatient. So again, it’s like, appreciate and have gratitude for what you already have, which we talked about earlier. And then then it’ll happen when it happens. And quite often, it happens, it can happen overnight. But usually it takes longer than people give up, they start going back to their negative thinking and they start pushing away that very thing that was on a conveyor belt coming to them.
David Ralph
But let’s play some more words. Now, obviously, Jim talked about taking a risk on doing what you love. But this lady, I think, you know, very well, and she’s got a very good speech about making the next decision.
Oprah Winfrey
the way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, what is the next right move? not think about, Oh, I got all of this. What is the next right move, and then from that space, make the next right move, and the next right move, and not to be overwhelmed by it. Because you know, your life is bigger than that one moment, you know, you’re not defined by what somebody says, is a failure for you. Because failure is just there to point you in a different direction.
David Ralph
Now, you were saying that you failed many, many times. So did it point you in the right direction on those words, Oprah, say, I spot on.
Jack Canfield
Yes, they are several levels. Number one, that it’s really important to just take that next step, all you can ever do is take the next step, I use a metaphor, my work, if you’re driving in the night through the country, your headlights only go so many, you know hundred meters ahead or whatever it is, you can’t see beyond that. But if you drive that hundred meters, the next hundred meters shows up in your headlights, and you can drive all through the night and go 500 miles or whatever. And all you have to see is the next hundred meters. So the reality is for most of us, we we overthink it, we scare ourselves by how many steps or how big it’s going to be. But if I take the next step like someone wants to go back and get their MBA, could you just go online and find three places to offer that degree? Next day? Could you just write for three other catalogs? Next day? Could you open one up and read it next day? Could you decide which one you want to go to? Next day? Could you fill out the form, so you don’t have to do it all at once? You know, when we wrote Chicken Soup for the Soul, it was one story every two days. So basically once twice a week we sat down and wrote a story. And by the end of the week, we had two stories by the end of the year we had a book and so it Don’t be impatient. Just do the next step. don’t overwhelm yourself. And then I love what she says do the next right thing. You know what is the next right thing? success leaves clues find out who already did it. Then go and do some of the things they did. follow your intuition. Follow your inner guidance. Trust your heart sometimes you’ll get inspirations. Jon Bon Jovi, very famous rock and roll singer was going nowhere in his career realized he had to start writing his own music not doing covers. So he did that he couldn’t get airplay anywhere. So one night, he’s listening to DJ saying I slowly here at three o’clock in the morning, vj y x or whatever it was. And so he thought, you’re going to go buy a pizza and some beer and some sodas. I’m going to go over there and take him to the radio station. And so he took him over and waves through the little glass window that they often have but in the studio guy comes in. says come on him. So he goes in and he sits down guy starts eat the pizza was playing a song he says what do you do? So I’m gonna be just a magician. He says anything. I’ve heard of it. No, not really says would you have a demo tape? He says Yeah, I do. So he started to play some of Bon Jovi’s music, he liked it. Bon Jovi Said. Can you think he could play one on the air? He said, Sure. three in the morning, who cares? So he started playing a couple Bon Jovi songs, the phone starts ringing off the hook. I love that. Who is that? Where can I find that record. And that’s how he did that all over New York and New Jersey. And that’s how he built up his career and eventually became one of the leading artists in the world, because he acted on that inspiration. So when you get an idea, take action, you never know exactly where it’s want to go. But if you take the next step, then the next step after that will show up.
David Ralph
And that is the message that I want to over listeners, whoever is listening to the show or any of the shows, don’t think about the overnight success. Oh, it’s okay. It’s happened for them. Think about those steps. Those people have taken to get to that point, because it all starts with a single step, doesn’t it? jack?
Jack Canfield
Yeah, think about this, I started my career doing workshops for teachers, usually from three o’clock to four o’clock after school. Usually at the cafeteria, it smelled like boiled milk. You know, people were sitting on these seats, like benches, you know, around the tables. And I would slip over there and bring my book the hundred ways to enhance self concept in the classroom. And I would slip them back home what I didn’t sell, and I was making like $300 for doing that. But I was building my ability to talk to give speeches to give, you know, seminars that had activities in them, and building my reputation honing my craft. I did that for years and years and years. And I was getting $300. Then I read the success about the Chicken Soup for the Soul book, I might be what up to 3000. Then I wrote the successful principles. Now I get $30,000 to speak, I’ll be in London speaking in October, I think it is. And I’ll get $60,000 for that. I could have I started and got that in my first five years of speaking No, they say it takes about 10 years, 7000 10,000 hours, which is usually take seven years to become a master at anything. And there’s a phrase now you can go there faster with a master. And I believe that’s true. But basically, it takes time to become world class. And people have to be willing to go through that. So if you’re going to change careers, you know, be a little patient with yourself.
David Ralph
Well, these are the theme of the whole show. These are the words that Steve Jobs said back in 2005. If anyone demonstrates the fact that life is a journey is probably this man who started his whole career, and he’s guaranteed you can pretty much get much lower than that. This is Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs
Of course, it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking for forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leaves you off the well worn path. And that will make all the difference.
David Ralph
So when you listen to those words, and you look back over your life, is it a big.is? It a was it meeting Mark Victor Hansen? Was it something else when actually jack Canfield, who we see today started to move?
Jack Canfield
Yeah, I think you know, there is many dots. And at the time, I had no idea what they were about. And but I developed skills, I developed friendships, I developed a huge network of friends, which when the secret came out, all of us were able to get together in one place because I put on a conference. And I think over two thirds of the people in that movie were filmed at a conference that I put on to Rhonda Byrne could come and film all those people I didn’t know when I was meeting all those people along the way that they would become the core of probably one of the most successful change agents in the world called the secret. It’s still the number one best selling DVD in China, when I was in Iran. And I was in Tehran, Iran, which supposedly you know, evil, have access and all that. And they had showed the secret six times on national television, who who would have ever expected that. So the point is, as you look back and go, all that makes sense, you can start to see a trajectory. But when you’re doing and I just say follow your heart, do the thing you’re attracted, do the law of attraction works in two ways. What am I attracted to, as well as what do I want to attract into my life, and, and focus on those things, trust yourself. Don’t let anyone tell you what you love, or what you want to do doesn’t matter isn’t the right thing to do. If you’re come from a family of 11 doctors and you want to be a mechanic, follow your heart do the thing that you love to do. I promise you, if you follow your heart, eventually all the money, everything you want will eventually happen. But you got to follow your heart and then you got to study success. You know, my book is one of them. Tony Robbins, his book, you know, whatever. The point is, study. They don’t teach you anything about success in school, they don’t teach you how to visualize it will teach you how to manage your emotions, manage your mind, how to make friends, how to communicate, how to ask for what you want, how to Reject rejection, how to ask for feedback, and use it not get plugged in by all of that stuff is what makes life really work much more than the War of the Roses, or the five causes of the American Civil War. And so we didn’t get taught that. So now as adults, we have to take responsibility to fill in our own learning and study that which we want to be successful at. And my book the success principles and other books are things you need to be reading and studying and putting into practice.
David Ralph
But just before we send you back on time because this is the end of the show. What What is the thing every morning now that excites jack Canfield you famously used to lying in bed looking at a check that you’d put on to the ceiling? What sort of my you jump out of bed now?
Jack Canfield
Well, I have a train the trainer program where the addition to this book, we train people on how to teach this stuff, using experiential exercises rather than just talking at people. So their transformational kind of car wash. And what happens is that we are now set a goal to train 1 million trainers by the year 2013. And it’s only possible because we just finished a home study online program where you could actually learn to trainees and get certified as a trainer. And now we can have people from the Sudan and Somalia and South Africa, you know, all over the world, including the UK, actually learn how to do this work and bring it to your company or school. So getting that out into the marketplace and getting people enrolled in that. That’s our next big push. And you know, people can learn about that at jack Canfield calm, they can order my book at the success principles calm. And they get a whole bunch of bonuses that come with it, which you know, there’s videos and audios you can download the first two chapters of the book, etc. all for free. If you order it through the success principles calm.
David Ralph
Well, this is the end of the show. And this is the bit that we call this sermon on the mic when I’m going to send you back in time to have a one on one with your younger self. And if you could go back in time and speak to the young jack, what age would you choose? And what advice would you give when I’m going to play the theme. And when it fades, you’re up? This is a sermon on the mic.
Jack Canfield
Well, I would talk to myself when I was 16 when that music was very appropriate back in the late 60s and early 70s. And I would say to young jack, Look, I know you’re shy. You’re afraid of rejection, you’re afraid to ask the girl you’re in love without. You are afraid to follow your heart because you think you have to get a good job because that’s what your dad told you. But I want you to do exactly what you want in life. Decide what you want. Create a vision for it. Really create balance in your life. Go for as many different things as possible. I want you to learn to play an instrument I want you to be athletic. I want you to learn to type learn as many languages as you can learn to play tennis and golf. Learn how to communicate, you know learn about money, really make a study of life. Study the successful people follow what they’ve done in YouTube could create anything you want. No jack that you have everything in you to do anything you want. As long as you’re willing to learn and grow and take feedback and and be coachable. You can have anything. I just love you so much. And I want you to be as successful as you are because you have a great expression to bring into the world to fully manifest yourself and help a lot of other people.
David Ralph
Mr. Canfield How can our audience connect with you sir?
Jack Canfield
Again, Jack Canfield, JACK Canfield.com and for the book, the success principles calm you can learn about all our all of our work at either of those sites.
David Ralph
Thank you so much for spending time with us today. joining up those dots and please come back again when you have more dots to join up because I do believe that by joining up the dots and connecting our past is the best way to build our futures. Mr. Jack Canfield, thank you so much.
Jack Canfield
My pleasure David thanks for having me David
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