4 - How to Rewire Your Mental Operating System

Okay guys, this video is huge. We're getting into one of the foundational pieces of the program and of San OS and I'm about to share some of the most powerful secrets that I've learned from many of my millionaire mentors and people I hugely admire and look up to, some of the things that have helped me through some of my most difficult periods in life and that I

still use every day to this day. These are things that are at the foundation, how I live my life and the foundation of what I teach to others and I'm incredibly excited to share this with you. This is the first time I've ever shared these secrets in any sort of online course so you are the first to hear about this and that's not to say that I

invented them. In fact, I invented none of this but I synthesize it in a way that is particularly effective for people in your stage but by all means I give credit to the books and the mentors and all of the people, the scientists that came before me and figured this out. So let's dive in. In the metaphor that we're using, your mindset, identity and beliefs are still

like your onboard computer and that's not a perfect metaphor because they're actually even more important than that as a human being. Your mindset, identity and beliefs fundamentally affect your perception of the world. They are the lens through which you view and interpret everything. They are the automation of your mind. They are your software. They are your operating system. There are thoughts you control, thoughts you're conscious of

and then there are thoughts that just happen. The thoughts that just happen are your beliefs, the thoughts that are automated. You've thought them enough that they're unconscious, they're assumptions and a lot of us have these automated thoughts, these beliefs and beliefs, identity is a form of belief, belief about who you are in your place in the world. A lot of these automated beliefs are untrue or unhelpful

or both and we need to replace them. So it's vitally important that we're able to identify negative beliefs and replace them with positive beliefs and identities. Your mental operating system is absolutely vital. If you only take one thing away from the program and this is the only video you watch, it will still change your life. In fact, I would go so far as to say is you

could figure out everything in the rest of this program if you just implemented this video. Now you wouldn't want to, it would take you 20 years and tons of pain but you could do it because you would have the right mindset. So with that preface, let's talk about the problem. And mindset is a big area. So this is a distillation and it's not necessarily rigorously scientific but

it is true on an experiential level. So when it comes to business, mindset is everything. Now I heard this for years and years. Even before I got into business, I was into personal development and then when I got into business, I sort of came to the forefront of my life. And to be honest, I never believed it. Not really. I knew like mindset was important, yeah, but

it wasn't, it was just like, it fit into this category of like, I got to learn copywriting, sales, funnel building, technology, and I got to learn mindset and I got to learn this. I viewed it as just another box to check and that was fundamentally incorrect. Mindset is more like the source. If you don't have mindset, if you don't have the right mindset, if you don't have

a good mindset, if you don't have good mental software, you're going to lose. It doesn't matter if you put, you know, a million dollar check and a seven figure business in front of you, you're going to crash it into the ground, it doesn't matter if you have everything going for you because you're going to lose and you're going to lose it all. If you have the right

mindset, you could be homeless, you could have, you could be deeply in debt, which I've been at many, many points in my life. You could be, you know, utterly in a hole and you would still get out of it and you do fine and you would recover and you would make millions and you would be happy because mindset is truly everything and I mean this and if

you're skeptical, that's okay. I always skeptical for the longest, longest time and you will learn as you implement this stuff in this module that mindset truly is the source of all the results you're going to get in this program of your perceptions of the world around you and the ability to influence your mindset and to consciously shape it and let it, instead of letting it be shaped

by society and the expectations of others is one of the single most valuable skills you will ever acquire period. So some benchmarks to tell when you really need to work on your mindset. If you feel like you're driving with a handbrake on, like everything is just more difficult than it needs to be and you're just sabotaging yourself and things are hard or if you feel like you

should be further ahead, like you have plenty of ability but you just don't accomplish enough for whatever reason, then you have mindset issues that you need to address. That's number one. Now, we also talk about identity and why do we talk about identity? Well whenever you do something that can take your life to the next level, it doesn't really feel like you. There's a famous book called

What Got You Here Won't Get You There and the idea of it is whenever you want to get to a new level, whenever you want to achieve something you haven't achieved before, you have to do something that you've never done before. And when you do this, it's novel and it feels uncomfortable. It doesn't fit into your identity and so there's resistance because there's this cognitive dissonance between

how you view yourself and how you're acting. So to eliminate this cognitive dissonance and help you adopt new behaviors and strategies and evolve faster, you want to redefine your identity upfront, redefine the identity of the person that is able to accomplish your goals. And we'll talk about how to do this and it's extremely powerful. Finally, beliefs and identity is a form of belief but beliefs broadly are

automated thoughts. If you think of thought often enough, if you think of thought with enough emotion and enough experience behind it, enough data points, then it will become unconscious. It will just happen. It will become more and more automatic and then it will become a belief. Now what happens is most people, almost everybody, has some sort of unconscious beliefs that self-sabotage them and highly develop people, have

fewer and fewer of these. It's debatable whether you can never completely get rid of them but in general, the more successful and develop somebody is, the fewer of these negative beliefs they have with some egregious exceptions. But talking about most people, it's true as a rule of thumb in my experience. Now some of the most insidious beliefs that completely sabotage you, that you can't really succeed much

without fixing the beliefs that you aren't worthy or you're not capable or you're not good enough or you're just never going to have enough money, all these sort of insidious automated thoughts spinning through your head. A whole lot of examples of this that we'll get into later. These cause blindness to opportunities, because you don't believe you can do something, you don't even see the opportunities to do

it and they completely hold you back from accomplishing your potential. They completely hold you back from achieving everything that you could achieve. Negative beliefs are insidious and they are dangerous and we want to have a careful pulse on them and we want to be able to reshape them. Very early on in the program, the second video I talked about having a pulse, having your eye on what

you expect out of the program. This is the point where you can actually consciously shape that. If you weren't sure how to do that so far, this is how to consciously shape your beliefs about, for example, what you can get out of this program, but more importantly, what you can get out of your life and yourself. So here's the solution. Here's what we're working towards. When you

fix your mindset, when you've put in the work and rewired your mental operating system, you'll be able to tap into your peak states on demand, feel unstoppable and feel just abundance, joy and power every single day. You will have an unshakeable identity as a top performer and as the person that is worthy of achieving your goals and you will fundamentally believe you will know that you are

good enough, you are strong enough, you are smart enough and you are capable of achieving your goals and as a result, your life will be full of happiness and accomplishment. This is powerful. More than any other, you know, in other modules we're going to talk about how you can generate clients and generate money and automate your business and stuff like that and that's all wonderful and important

and nothing else we talk about in this program will have as deep an impact on your life as these solutions, these outcomes because once you have these things, the other things will just become extra, they'll become easy. If you don't have these things, the other things won't really matter. So this is truly the source. Now here's the fundamental belief that I want to start with. This moment

right now is your one chance to seize everything that you've ever wanted. So many people go through life saying, I'll do it tomorrow, I'll do it in a year, I'll do it when this happens, I'll do it when I learn this skill, blah, blah, blah, I'll do it later. That's BS. You'll do it now or you won't do it at all because when you force this decision,

it's amazing what you can accomplish. When you tell yourself that any instant is an opportunity to completely change your life and seize everything you've ever wanted, it completely changes your perspective, it completely changes the way you act and it is incredibly incredibly empowering. My favorite example of this, my favorite way to sort of get myself into the state of mind is to listen to the song Lose

Yourself by Eminem. This is more or less pulled from that and I was listening to that song when I made this mental breakthrough and it fundamentally shifted the way I view my life because as soon as I started believing this, I couldn't put things off. I couldn't say tomorrow, next week, etc. I mean, yes, I could plan stuff and you still will plan stuff. You won't do

everything at once, but you will always do the most important thing right now or else you'll consciously be choosing to not seize everything you've ever wanted. It forces the choice between getting everything you've ever wanted, taking action right now, doing what you know you need to do right now or saying no to it. It's binary. It's yes or no. It's a great area and that is why

this belief is so powerful. So from this moment forward, I want you to recognize, I want you to realize, I want you to live knowing that this very moment is your one chance, your only chance after this is gone to see everything that you've ever wanted. This belief alone will change your life. Now, with that out of the way, I want to talk about some of the

theory behind how beliefs are shaped because a lot of people think beliefs are just these really deep things that are just tapping through some mystical process and they're just set for life and you can't really change them and that is utterly false. Beliefs are like clay or like silly putty, they're like this goo that you can shape around into whatever you want. Beliefs are incredibly malleable. And

the reason for this is that beliefs are just experiences with emotion. Whenever we have an experience, it's encoded as either positive or negative or neutral or somewhere along that spectrum. And if we have positive experiences, experiences with positive emotion attached to them, that forms a positive belief and experiences with negative emotion attached to them, that forms a negative belief. An example of this is maybe somebody told

you and you were younger that you weren't a good dancer. And all of a sudden, you were like, yeah, maybe I'm not a good dancer and then you just didn't dance that much and you thought that you were a really bad dancer. And maybe to this day, you don't really like dancing. And in fact, I know a couple of people who would fit this profile. And in

reality, if you had just decided to dance or not listen to them or had a positive experience where somebody was like, wow, you're an amazing dancer, then you would have a completely different belief system and a completely different outcome. You would be much better at dancing or maybe just enjoy it more. And that's how beliefs work. They're almost silly how simple they are, how simple it is

to reshape your beliefs. Now, if they're really deep, if they're deeply automated, if they're automated on a very unconscious level, it can take a lot of work and practice to overcome them. But you still can overcome them. But most of our beliefs aren't that deeply rooted and you can overcome them with practice. So one of the worksheets that goes along with this video is called daily affirmations.

And I'm going to explain to you how that works right now. So the daily affirmations, just to bring it up. So the daily affirmations worksheet is just a bunch of empowering beliefs that will, as you repeat them, as you internalize them, completely change your outlook and your perspective. So I'm just going to go through a couple of them to give you a sense of what they're like.

And then I'm going to tell you how to use this to fundamentally rewire your belief system. So first I want you to read through this and pay attention to which of these you already believe and which of them feel uncomfortable. If you read something like this, I always think an act today and you respond with, well, okay, I do, I take action today, regardless, then get rid

of it, you don't need it. But if you think, well, I have a problem with procrastination, if I believe this and did this, my life would be completely different, then leave it. So go through and for each of them read it, if it's true, get rid of it, you don't need it. If it's not true, if you feel uncomfortable, like that's not true for me, then keep

it and you need to turn it into a belief. Go through all of them. There's a lot of them. And if you want to add some, I personally have added a bunch of them, add them at the end, type in another belief. I am super funny and everybody always laughs at my jokes. Add a belief and you'll be able to consciously shape your belief system. Now how

do you actually use this? So affirmations get a lot of flack in the personal development community as BS or woo-woo. And to be honest, the way that most people teach it, I would agree with that. Most people teach affirmations not as a science, but as sort of this thing that you do and it's just magical and it happens and if you just tell yourself good things and

they'll come true or something along those lines, that I despise. I was a physics major in college. I've always been into science if something's not scientifically backed. I'm naturally going to be skeptical about it. So I dug into the science behind affirmations and it comes from elite athletes. Elite athletes will often spend as much time on the field of play as they do or spend as much

time sitting and visualizing as they do on the field of play. Because in your mind, you can never go wrong. You can picture whatever you want. You can create positive experiences around things before they even happen. If you've never closed a sale before, you can imagine closing sales and build a positive experience around sales, positive beliefs around sales before you ever even close a sale. That's often

a way to more quickly close a sale and avoid some of the negative beliefs, negative spirals that people get into around sales as an example. So here's how this works. Here's how you implement this science, the science used by top performers. And this has been used by everybody from Michael Jordan to Tiger Woods to Michael Phelps, the science behind this specific type of visualization is very, very

well validated and used by some of the world's top performers. So you're going to go through this and for each belief, you're going to read it, picture one instance of it happening to you, close your eyes, visualize it, and then let the emotions wash over your body, feel the emotions, attach the emotions to that experience. Heroism, confidence, exhilaration, feel those emotions, let them run through your body.

And that's it. Read it, picture one instance of it happening and feel the emotions for 10 to 30 seconds. Do that for as many of these beliefs as you need. And they will fundamentally change your outlook and life in life, guys, this stuff is tremendously powerful. Do not underestimate it. I still do this twice a day with a lot of these beliefs still because I've found them

so powerful and they've just helped me make so much money and generate so much happiness and change the lives of so many people that I cannot imagine my life without them. Final thing I'll say on this note is a way to make this more powerful and this is what I've done. It's optional but it's incredibly powerful is to, once you've completed this, deleted the ones you don't

need and added some extras at the end, you can go through and record audio. So use your phone or, yeah, if you have an iPhone, if you have any phone really today, you can record this super easily, no excuses, if you want to do this, do it. Record yourself saying each of these beliefs with utter conviction in your most confident and empowering voice. Pause briefly after each

one to give yourself time to visualize and then go through each of them. Now this is powerful for two reasons. One, you hear it in your own voice. There's something about hearing your own voice say these incredibly powerful visualizations that is just deeply powerful and it has a tremendous, tremendous effect on your ability to absorb them. Second, you can do them in the car or while you're

working out or something, you don't have to pull out this piece of paper so that's one of the reasons I often do these, listen to these and visualize them in the car and so it saves me some time. But that's optional but it can make it more powerful and more convenient. So that is beliefs, that is how to do affirmations in a way that is scientifically validated

and will work extraordinarily well. Now let's move on. So that alone is incredibly powerful and will fundamentally change your life forever if you use it. Now I want to talk about another one of my favorite beliefs. People, dumber, slower and worse off in every way have done this. Now this belief I am in love with because it obliterates every single excuse that I can possibly come up

with. When I just picture people dumber than me, slower than me and worse off than me doing exactly what I'm trying to do. It just makes me feel behind or angry or just like what is my problem in a good way and it obliterates all the excuses that I can use. I don't know enough, well somebody dumber than you has done it. I don't have enough time,

well somebody slower than you has done it. I don't have enough resources, well somebody worse off than you has done it. It just obliterates all of my excuses and gets me to take massive action and it almost gets me pissed off in the best kind of way because I guarantee this is true. Whatever you're trying to do, I don't care what it is, even if it's building

a billion dollar company, somebody dumber than you, slower than you and worse off than you in every way has done it before. Recognize that. Guys, this is true and when you realize it, when you internalize it, your life changes. They did a study of how Navy SEALs think and Marines and these elite military professionals, how they get through experiences that push the limits of human exertion and

human endurance and they found that they would use beliefs like if somebody else can do it, I can do it too. If anybody's ever done this, I can do it too. Gary Vannerchuk has another example often will say, if anybody has ever done it, you can too. There's nothing standing between it. Any obstacles you set up are just temporary or blown out of proportion in your head.

People dumber, slower and worse off in every way than you have done this so you have no excuses, take action and achieve what you want to achieve. So finally, I'm going to go through the process. So there's a lot in this video, a lot of powerful stuff and so I'm going to distill it into a simple process that you complete and then you can use it for

life, updated every quarter and like I said, if you only take away one thing from this program, this module, this process, this ritual will change your life. So first complete the mental operating system manual. I will walk you through that in a minute. Then first thing every morning and last thing every night, read through your mental operating system manual and listen to your beliefs or read your

beliefs and you will gradually and inevitably rewire your thought patterns of belief systems and then you want to revisit it every quarter and update it as needed. So let's walk through your mental operating system. So this is a document called your mental operating system and your mental operating system manual and you want to put, you want to have one for each quarter. So here put the quarter

start date, the quarter end date, the year. So something like June 1st to September 1st, 2017 and then the beginning of it is your goals. So you're going to write down your theme for the quarter, your goals, just like we talked about before, your wise and that's straightforward. We've already covered that same personal goals, your goals, your wise. And then you're going to write down your identity.

So this is pretty personal. I'm sharing with you guys the identity I wrote out for myself. And it's pretty personal but I figured you guys could benefit from it. So that's okay. I'm very happy to share it. I'm just going to walk you through it. So this first part is defining who your identity is, who do you want to become? So I want to become a multi-millionaire

internet entrepreneur, a world champion Irish dancer. And an enlightened bad boy, that's sort of how I've been pegged and I own it and I sort of love that identity. So that's what I'm consciously cultivating. And then I have my mission here, helping purpose-hungry coaches, consultants and agencies conquer overwhelm, scale to six and seven figures and build legacies. And then I talk about where I live and just

describe myself in a little bit more detail. And then I have some traits and you can write whatever you want for these. These are just my traits. And then body type and style. This helps you visualize. It helps you have some sort of actual outfit or cue that you step into. And you'll get a copy of this. You can read through it. And then here is sort

of like a vision board but I think maybe an identity board is more accurate term. I don't use vision boards but I do use an identity board. And this just keeps your identity tied to these clear images. You know, here's one of my favorite quotes. Here is a check for a million dollars for over a million dollars or a bank balance that appears a picture of a

cop for the world championships of Irish dancing. Here's the sort of physique I'm aiming for. Here's my image and you know relationships are super important to me. So I have pictures that are primarily about relationships. I don't really have many things here. Some of my old identity boards had like designer clothes and really nice apartments and private jets and stuff like that. I don't care about that

stuff as much. It's cool. It's fun but I care more about relationships and just a few key things that I care about. So that's my vision board. But by all means if you're driven by jets and apartments and luxury and stuff like that, put it in here. Whatever gets you electrified and just at the top some descriptive words. You write down your vision and your values. So

here I talk about my vision, my intended legacy, help a hundred purpose driven entrepreneurs conquer over one forever, build seven figure online businesses and create legacies of impact. And I want to disrupt the personal development industry, build software to change the way entrepreneurs operate in their lives to better be able to set boundaries and operate with a zen call in an ever more rapidly moving world. So

that's my vision. I also want to build a dance school with my family and some other stuff and then values. So I recommend three to five values and these are my values, self awareness, execution and legacy. These are the three most important filters that I think about when I make decisions. Then just some achievements, things you want to accomplish in your lifetime, sort of your dream life

list when these are mine, when the world champion to survive or dancing is passing that worth of a hundred million, build this brotherhood, this sort of entrepreneurial motorcycle gang that I'm building, own a private island and have an incredible wife and family and friend circle. Then lists some of your mentors and sources of information. Now this is really interesting because it actually helps you constrain them. We

talked about boundaries. It helps you set boundaries on what information you listen to because you don't want to listen to every information. Just like I said, you should really only consume this course until you've gotten the results out of it. If you consume content outside of it, it's likely to be a distraction and just diminish your results. Similarly, I list my mentors. I list the people that

I'm paying attention to right now, the people that I have personal contact or relationships with and can ask for advice or something like that. Then people that I just listen to that I really like. That's it. I don't really listen to stuff outside of this unless it's something random that I find really valuable, but I don't consciously seek it out. It constrains your sources of information. For

right now, two of your major mentors should be me and Matt, at least for this quarter. We should be one of your primary sources of information, probably your primary source of information until you get the results out of this program that you want until you hit six figures and build that dream lifestyle. Finally, you're going to write down branding just a bunch of words that encapsulate what

you're about. These are mine. Things that you want to attach to your brand, and finally, constant reminder that this is your one chance to seize everything that you've ever wanted. Then once you've completed this, you want to listen to your affirmations. You don't have to do this in the morning. It is a little bit more powerful if you do your affirmations in the morning, but absolutely do

this portion in the morning, do your mental operating system manual. Every morning should take 10 minutes, and then listen to your affirmations. To recap, complete the mental operating system manual, fill it out for yourself. First thing every morning, go through it, last thing every night, go through it, and also go through your daily affirmations, twice per day, and you will gradually and inevitably rewire your thought patterns

and belief systems, and you want to revisit this manual every quarter and update it as needed. Because this is powerful. This will change your life forever. This is incredibly powerful stuff. This is the stuff that dreams are made of. It's backed by science. It's incredibly powerful. Take it very seriously, and it will change your life in powerful ways. The final thing I want to talk about in

this video is meditation, because meditation is one of the single most important pieces of my life, helps me navigate the ups and downs of entrepreneurship better than any other tool that I've ever found. Even better than what I went, what I just took you through. They're sort of different. They're complementary, so I don't even like comparing them, but if I had to pick one, I would just

do meditation. If I only had to pick one personal tool, I'd just do meditation. Because it supercharges everything else we talk in this video, we talk about in this video. It makes you more aware of your thoughts and your unconscious patterns. It keeps you calm. It helps you overcome fear. It just 10Xs. It's a force multiplier for everything else in this video, and literally everything else in

this program and basically everything in your life. It is powerful. It gives you just superpowers, honestly. I think that every human being should meditate at least 20 minutes a day. I think it should be taught in schools, but I'm not going to get into a rant about that right now. But I recommend that you meditate at least 20 minutes per day. Super easy habit to build. It'll

make you happier, calmer. There's no reason not to do it. You'll instantly gain back those 40 minutes in time saved from stress and better planning and clear thinking. And meditation, the kind that I practice, the kind that most people get started with is very simple. You just sit, close your eyes, focus on your breath when you notice thoughts. Gently return your attention to your breath. That's it.

Just pay attention to your breathing. If you get distracted, return your attention to your breathing. Stay calm when your 20-minute timer goes off. Get up and go about your day, and be calmer, more aware, and happier. I recommend as a resource, this mindfulness in plain English. It's a great book that talks about meditation and how to do it and some of the benefits, or the app headspace.

Both of them are fantastic options. And so meditation is, like I said, incredibly powerful. You know, you can probably tell from the name of my business, ZenOS, that Zen and meditation has deeply influenced me. I truly believe it is one of the most powerful resources we as humans have, the ability to deepen our awareness and our control of our attention. And I absolutely think you should give

meditation a try. So that is the end of this video. It's one of the longer videos in this course, and it is incredibly powerful. If you get your mental operating system right, you will win, period, end of story. That's all there is to it. So take this seriously. It's compiled from countless mentors and scientists and probably hundreds of years of study and distillation, and it will change

your life if you take it seriously and practice it twice a day, morning and night. So that's the end of this video.