So when Yosef first asked me to speak here, he asked me to speak about new energy systems like the ones that my company is developing. But then I got here, and I met Charles Eisenstein, and I decided that I needed to speak about new and old energy systems. You see, for most of life on earth, energy has looked like this. For millions of plants in every nook and cranny of the earth have directly harnessed sunlight and stored it in organic molecules. And those energy and those molecules has been distributed throughout the food web by us eating each other. Now, human, now when humans discovered fire, that changed profoundly. All of a sudden, energy was decentralized in fires inside our homes. We use stolen sunlight, energy that was embedded in trees that we cut down for firewood. We stored that energy in our hearth stones and we transmitted it from village to village via the torches that we carried. Now, for the past three generations, we've lived in the fossil electricity paradigm. In this paradigm, energy is centralized. We produce it in mega power plants owned by corporations and governments. We use dead sunlight to power our energy. This is fossils from trees and plants that have been compressed under the earth for millions and millions of years until they become these little dense energy packets that we extract at 300,000 times the replenishment rate. We store that energy in toxic batteries that we also withdraw from underground and we distribute it via electricity to our homes and factories where we then proceed to turn it back into heat and mechanical energy at huge efficiency losses. In fact, efficiency is the reason that we need to use fossil fuels in the first place. When you have energy technologies that are so inefficient, you need fuels that are very energy dense. We can change that system, but I want to give you some examples of what I mean first. The engine in your car only turns 20% of the energy in the fuel into movement. The other 80% is wasted as heat and air pollution. The traditional coal-fired power plants that many of our nations depend on are only 35% energy efficient. And by the time that energy gets to our home, only 11 to 27% of the energy in those original fuels is actually usable. This reminds me a bit of the kid trying to eat spaghetti. Only 20% makes it into his mouth, the other 80% ends up on the floor. It's a lot of fun. Until we have to clean it up. So I'm a scientist and because of that, I couldn't help myself but put in a graph. The vertical axis here is power in terawatts. That's a measure of the energy consumed per second. The horizontal axis is yours. Now you see two lines on this graph. One is green and one is red. The green line represents the energy used by all other 8 million species on our earth collectively. The red line represents human energy consumption. Before we discovered fire, our energy consumption was like every other species on our planet. Then we discovered fire and then we discovered electricity. This is the change in energy consumption over just three generations. Now if we continue our energy status quo, this is where we'll be mid-century. Now there are two problems with that. The first is that one single species, humankind, will use more energy than all of the other species on our planet combined. The other problem is that fossil fuels can't sustain this level of consumption. In fact, there's only one energy source that will. And that's the sun, providing us with 89,000 terawatts of energy. Now it's worth stopping and noting here that sunlight is all the energy that we have here on earth. Sunlight is our direct sunlight. It's our wind, it's our hydropower, it's our wave energy, it's even the fossil fuels that we pull up from underground. We need to know how to use all those sources of energy, especially the ones that we have in the world immediately around us. But most importantly, we need to know how to directly harness sunlight and store it over long periods for the survival and the thriving of our species. Now thankfully, nature has developed this wonderful system called photosynthesis, whereby plants directly harness sunlight and store it in sugars. My company, at One Earth Designs, isn't nearly as smart as nature, but we're working hard to follow her lead, and this is where we've gotten so far. We've developed a solar concentrator that directly harnesses 92% of the sun's energy, and that's on the market today. You can see it even just down the street here. We've also been developing a set of rechargeable organic batteries, solar thermal batteries. These are synthesized from plant oils. They store energy in sugars just like plants do. They're non-toxic, and they have a long lifetime, because it's a regenerative organic system. It's also optimized for your main energy needs. Many of you might not realize, but only 20% of the energy you use inside your home is electricity. The other 80% is for cooking, heating, cooling, and refrigeration, thermal energy. If you take a solar photovoltaic panel on your rooftop and you try to drive that thermal energy, you'll only get 1 to 5% of the sun's energy as thermal output. With our systems, you'll get 87%. So this system is rolling out this year in India, alongside our partners at Tata Trust. We're very excited about it. It's the first of its kind, and we're now moving on to our next frontier. Starting to learn not just from plants, but also from animals. Our next step is to develop a range of thermal batteries that's designed a lot more like proteins. There are two conformational states, an on-state and an off-state. And it's triggered by a small light impulse. So what this allows us to do is two things that have never been done before. The first is to store solar thermal energy, not for hours, but for days and weeks, so that we can go through monsoon seasons and winter times and crazy summers in New Zealand and still power with solar energy. The second thing is to store much more energy than we've been able to store before with the sun and release it on demand to the household. Just like your body is able to control when it releases fat and sugar and protein molecules, your home in the future can control when it releases the energy storage from its solar thermal systems. This is very exciting. These technologies are opening up a whole new paradigm of energy, the age of sunlight. In this paradigm, energy can be distributed. You generate it inside your home and you share home to home. It's living sunlight that you directly harness from the sun, and it's stored in organic batteries instead of toxic batteries mined from under-earth. A lot of people have been very excited about this technology, and in fact we've got two very generous purchase offers at the moment for our business, but we haven't sold, and the reason is that we didn't start here. We started here in a humble home in the Himalayas when this family invited me into their tent. Their traditional fuel systems were disappearing, and the cooking fire was creating so much smoke that the air inside their home was 10 times more polluted than the air in Beijing. I stayed with this family and helped them develop a solar-powered stove, and they helped me survive in a place where I would never have been able to survive on my own. They taught me the love and friendship and trust that can come from depending on each other for day-to-day survival. That's something I never feel I can pay back, so I wake up every morning thinking about how I can pay it forward. For example, when our customers can't pay in cash, we barter with them for local agricultural goods. When the roads are completely impassable for cars, we go out by horse and yak and motorcycle to still deliver to our customers. When local charcoal sellers threaten our customers because they're using solar energy, we're there to support them and protect them, and we think of ourselves as being an integral member of the community beyond business, collaborating on community projects that make a difference in people's lives beyond solar, like helping to finance people getting to the hospital, environmental cleanup projects when minds come in and threaten our communities, taking a stand. Even projects like helping our women get access to much-needed sanitary pads. Over the past four years that we've had our products on the market, we've saved 500,000 working days for women, and thank you, and about $1 million in fuel costs for our families. We've also abated more than 60,000 trees worth of carbon dioxide, and we've brought down the air pollution levels in our family's homes by a factor of five. We've won about 23 different international awards for this work, and had the honor of working alongside people like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Prince Friso of the Netherlands. What started as a hyper-local project to solve a particular problem for a family of 100 nomadic herders in the Himalayas has now become a global business that's still community-focused, and the reason is that 2.8 billion other people around the world face the exact same challenges as our families in the Himalayas. So we work so hard every day to try to change that situation. Our new technologies, our new emerging technologies, are opening up new paradigms and energy. Families in the emerging markets are already leapfrogging over dirty fossil fuel technologies in order to arrive in the age of solar. This technology is for everyone. We don't want to leave anybody behind. We live at this very interesting time in history. In fact, it's a fascinating time in our evolution. When the decisions we make could end up being life or death decisions, not only for us, but for countless other species on our earth. We have a choice. We can stay in the age of fossil electricity and bear the consequences that come along with it, or we can step forward into the age of sunlight. So I hope you'll all join me in stepping into the light. Thank you.


Good morning, cyber traders welcome to this lovely last day of the pay period on Friday, May 31st has everybody doing Hopefully one's all excited. I know I am for a beautiful day here in New York Good to see you too. Phil mark David Brian. Good to see you Chuck all you lovely cyber traders All right. Well, it was so far. We're having a pretty fun morning already on Early bird gets to gets the money doing really well on the s-spot. We called it out earlier We were here, you know, what time did we start on? I don't know why my level two is not updating on this platform But but we called it out. You know, we were here at what eight o'clock this morning and buck 60. It's already at 270 Just told you a little bit earlier. I see a huge order sitting out there.  So it was almost like Kind of like easy pickings right there. I mean once it busted through to you could see there's a lot of Resistance levels right now. So that's probably why it's not really breaking a any more of a new high right here But a stock was definitely definitely a great great mover right there. It was a lot of fun right there so we're gonna check that stock out a little bit and We'll talk a little bit about it. But what is the big news for today? Let's talk about it You got the tariffs present Trump just came out with tariffs on on Mexico because they have this big war on the on the border of illegal Aliens coming across and stuff like that. He's trying to stop that and Obviously, he's not getting help with Congress. So what does he do? He's gonna take another avenue now once again This is great news for traders Okay, and people like what wait wait time out markets down. What are you talking about great? This is great news for traders. Look what happened back in the Christmas crash, right? We made a killing on the Christmas crash and you know everyone at listen Don't look at politics on the side for Then to close down the government look what happened a market crashed Then all of a sudden it didn't work out got egg on his face. Boom He opened up the he funded it and the market took off That was a great opportunity to get to to get out of stocks and go short and then buy stocks cheaper Which you always could have and could have jumped in that was a great Christmas present Secondly, you saw what happened with China. Okay, Tara's kicked in Market starting to take a big hit right now. Did you not learn from the first time? Did you not learn the second time? Now you're talking the third time, okay? So now he's running terrace on now on now, what should we call on Mexico now? Listen, I know they're great, you know Ally of United States a great friend of the United States, but on and you know If you agree with it or don't agree with it as a trader This is great news for you because we're shorting everything across the board If you look at some of the stocks that are getting crushed right now You look at all the all the car stocks.  Where's it down now? They're not terrible. I mean three five percent GM You know all the car stocks taking big hits so that 35 to 33 they're coming back a little bit Markets pretty much kind of hovering right here, but the good thing is this if If if Mexico doesn't do anything about it This is even you should be drooling in your mouth as a trader because the market should probably go lower just by seeing the 5% because apparently every month If they want to they are going to raise the tariffs by 5% by October Which I always love October because we always get a beautiful October crash We could be talking 25% tariffs on our number one trading partner and that could really really crush the market So this could be a great great short now if you eliminate the tariffs this could rally the market You should have learned and the same thing if China can come over to deal the United States You could be a huge rally in the market But as of right now everything looks like a great short and I know it's not the American dream to short But you know what what it is what it is You know what if it if it's if it's a catastrophe would happen in 9-11 and the market closed down or if it was You know a pharmaceutical drug got the cure for cancer You know whatever it may be if it's Boeing, you know that planes are crashing whatever it is There's always opportunities out there.  You're doing this for the rest of your life Okay, remember what I always taught you and we talked about this in my class Do not because I got fired a lot of people in my trading business when I worked as a market maker I got fired because it's when you start taking your personal feelings Towards a company. That's when you're gonna lose it doesn't matter what you think just go with the market Trade with the market. We are just the ants on the floor just trying to get the crumbs Okay, so don't try to outsmart the market. It will beat you every single time always keep that in mind So we got a lot of fun going on now regarding about yesterday there were a couple of nice little stocks that did make some nice moves and Sure enough a lot of those day trades, you know Some of them kind of spilled into being a little bit of a short-term swing trade But let's talk about the OB LN trade that one Was a fun stock for us a 50 cent stock went to $2 Let me just change my time frame here so you can see what's going on stock had a great open it opened up again nicely I guess the rumor is we would keep talking about it. I don't know if it's true or not But Johnson Johnson is gonna buy $8. I don't really the story is but if it did obviously, you know buying rumors sell on news That one did pretty well and then the EL the I don't know what the story with this EL TK But this thing is just like everywhere. It's up. It's down. I mean $2 stock it went to like 12 I mean, it's just basically everywhere the problem with this stock EL TK It is so damn volatile So while you got to be really really advanced to trade this stock and we did this yesterday You just trade little shares don't trade a lot of it. So that's basically what's going on Now we got a lot of stuff that's going on this morning. First of all, let's get back if you logged in late This stock right here has been the best pre-market trading the S-Bot this one up about 73% in pre-market If you got here at 8 o'clock this morning Let me just change the time frame over here because we only to see this far If you got in here at 8 o'clock this morning, everyone should be in at $1.80 You could have trade several thousand shares of the stock stocks got great orders everywhere stocks doing pretty well like I told you I told you earlier since 9 o'clock this morning. I mean actually since 845 I see a lot of orders out there around to 10 to 2 to 12 it's got to get it all the way to 215 I mean big big block orders big iceberg orders out there So it's been basically hovering and sitting there in the time being we got the EL TK going back on our watch list again That's obviously making some moves this morning again. Be just be careful. That stock is pretty volatile. I OVA Another one that came up on my radar and a nice little gap up right here Stock is up about 6% 100,000 shares that one's doing pretty well. We'll keep an eye on that in pre-market Let me tell you a big list for a Monday. I mean for a Friday. I Mean, I don't know if this really has I mean other than some of the pharmaceuticals Car stocks because of the tariffs here's stock taking a really nice hit Looks a hell of a lot lower breaking all-time lows the stock NT and K guys remember we talked about with last the last couple days We saw what happened with With Canadian with Canadian Was it a goose, you know Was it GOOS and bring that up right there So, you know Canadian goose Stock took a huge hit came back a little bit and You know what you get dead cap bounces, but you know it bounced yesterday, but it had a really nice short It was breaking lower lows When it opened up was at 42 it dropped away to 36 So don't be afraid to short everyone which by the way Josh just came up to me and told me earlier that Regarding about the uber trade uber shockingly is on the short list now So I don't know if I would seriously want a short uber and not get my personal feelings of all with that But it did come out with earnings.  They did what they said it wasn't as terrible as they thought now They're reporting. Let's see where it goes from there So I'm gonna keep an eye on that as a swing trade GPS and that's not the thing that's in your car that is gap gap is also taking a very big hit I don't know. You know what I used to shop at gap and back in the 90s I don't even know really goes there as much as it used to but gap has been taking a really big hit here down to 17 You know, I think that you know, like I said, I know they have some expensive stores, but Not really doing too well gap another one's taking a big hit right here is STZ $180 stock down to 73.   I'm just bringing it up to show you what happens when you trade in the spent expensive stock because these things listen What was it? What was the one stock that we traded a long time ago? It was a 250 out 270 it went all the way down to $9 in in one year. Everybody remember was like VTS I think it was I know they changed the symbol, you know people think like these things don't take a hit But it was like V of I don't know if you guys remember it. We changed so many damn socks I don't even remember all of them VRX. That's was it. They change they change the symbol, right? VRX Think they changed the stock symbol. I thought they did.  They changed it but It's BHC now I guess it was so embarrassed on The stock symbol, but you know what look let me go back a month. There it is right there one year 2015 everybody remember that, you know, we don't say it about this stock the BHC I had a I had an old fellow that wanted to be a student of Cybertrain University and You know the stock you could see it went from like 20 all the way to 270 and it came right back down And I feel bad for I had this old fellow that you know retired guy, you know I Just got just got retired wanted to start trading He loved found found us on YouTube got completely sold on Cybertrain program But he couldn't take the class because he was so locked up in this one stock. He says fast Oh, I love you to death. You guys are great your program. He says unfortunately. I got a stockbroker I owned the stock at one, you know, you know was I know it's 260 I bought at 160 my broker told me was a great trade and when I spoke to him was that like 140 So I gotta make my money back. I pretty much got everything in this stock I really don't even have money to take training or I can't even do your program because I'm in the stock so heavily You know from day one when you're a student, that's the first thing we teach you not to do Okay, we all know what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket. You want to go all in Yeah, that's not really gonna work out too well for you and unfortunately I felt really bad for him.  We've seen it and Ron, you know, hey, how about my Canadian friends out there?  I did it like I did it the smart way.   That's the way I look at it. No more pasta I had actually I had I had raviolis last night. You can do that. You know listen as long as your body moving You're fine. So anyway, stay going on a rant talking about me a couple of the stocks We're gonna talk about so we got the STZ. We got that we got the stock. We got the We got all the car stocks that are on that due to the tariffs for GM you know and Fiat because they all do a lot of work up in between the Canadian everything else. All right All right guys. So listen. Good luck today Beautiful day here in New York like I told you I mean it's gorgeous But I don't think anyone's gonna be leaving any time soon to go out into Hamptons enjoy their summer home You know summer started last week with Memorial Day, but but I think it's gonna be a very volatile market markets down We've got the tariffs great news for all of us. So let's go out there and Profit from it, you know, whatever it is what it is But but once again good news a spot just busted through that resistance levels that seller That I saw about 30 40,000 shares got executed. So it looks like a spot you guys are cleaning up That was a great trade. So hopefully you guys that's caring up. I see the next resistance right around 262 25 so we're almost there right now about 225 is the next biggest seller All right guys. Listen. Good luck. See you back at 2 30 for the afternoon meeting if I don't see enjoy your weekend See you back on Monday, right?  Enjoy the rest of your weekend Enjoy the end of the month. Good luck everyone. Happy trading


This is one of the earliest thoughts that came to me when it comes to content creation years ago that allowed me to be liberated to actually become the person you're seeing before you today, someone who is creating on a consistent basis and known for content. So the thought was, hmm, I don't think that anyone is going to remember pretty much most of my content except for the very few pieces that actually made an impact on them. And most of the things I create are not going to make that deep of an impact on people that they're going to remember it because, listen, after something I share, you're going to see 10 more things, you know, whether it's on this platform or somewhere else or on your email you're just inundated with content information every day. So every piece of content makes a tiny, tiny impact, if any, memory at all, except for a few things every now and then that really deeply resonate in such a way that you're going to remember it for, you know, more than five minutes, okay? So in other words, in other words, I became totally liberated to start creating publishing consistently because I realized most of it won't make a difference. Now, this is, this might be well interesting to you because many of you watching this are, have some kind of perfectionism within you or procrastination when it comes to creating. And I think oftentimes the procrastination about creating content is one you realize you think you have to spend so much time doing it. Well, why do you have to spend so much time doing it? Because you're trying to get it right. Well, why are you trying to get it right? Well, because if I don't get it right, then the person watching it or the person reading it is going to have, is not going to like me, essentially, is not going to like me. And I'm not going to be accepted or respected or have a career, have a livelihood, have followers, whatever. So bottom line is, it's the fear of making the wrong impact that makes you take so damn long to write something or record something or to not show up consistently because, well, today, I don't feel like I can get it right. Today, I'm not feeling creative or brilliant or beautiful or confident or authentic. As it may be. But the thing about authentic is, however you show up today, if you show up today and be yourself with a heart open to connecting with your ideal audience member, that is authentic, however it shows up. I mean, for example, before this video, before I started recording, I was having a heck of a time with technology. I couldn't get Zoom to stream to my Facebook business page, so I ended up streaming to my Facebook profile, which is kind of embarrassing for me because my Facebook profile isn't really meant for business type stuff. Not, I mean, sometimes I do post stuff, but it's like a lot of friends, family, and random people following me there. And anyway. So despite the tech, so I'm not in the most grounded and confident state right now, but I'm showing up because it's my commitment, my dedication to showing up, knowing that if I wait until I feel totally grounded, totally ready, you won't be seeing me except once every couple of months online because I never, I never. I mean, I can't remember the last time. No, that's not true. Okay. The only times I feel ready to go is when I've started, after I've started. So right now I'm however, however many minutes into this recording, what, like five minutes into the recording, I'm starting to feel ready. I'm starting to feel ready and grounded for being here. But no, before I started, no, I never feel ready before I start. And that's like a secret that a lot of people don't realize about. Well, I could say performers, but even just people who show up. I mean, it's always a performance. The entire life, I think, is a performance of some kind. George, what about authentic? You know, I thought trying to be authentic here, even authenticity is a performance. It's trying to sense into what's most real and true and being that and sharing that in the moment while the rest of your life, you may be wearing masks of one kind or another when you're with other people and even with yourself. But long story short, let me go back to the original message here. I'm a little all over the place today because of the tech issue and feeling ungrounded. But thank you for being here anyway. And I hope this message makes a difference for you. But the message again is most of your content will not be remembered. Only a few of your pieces of content will be remembered. Those are the few that probably made a positive, deep impact on other people. And they will remember you for those few pieces of content you make. So, for example, you make 100 videos. You'll be remembered for what? Maybe two or three of them? Maybe 10, if you're lucky, honestly. If you write 300 blog posts, you'll be remembered for 10 of them out of the 300, something like that. If you're lucky. I mean, think about it this way. Think about your favorite song or just whatever song comes to your head. Okay, do you have that song? Pick one, a thin air. Old song, new song, doesn't matter. Pick a song that you can think of. Okay, you got it. Do you know all the other songs that that artist created and published? Do you remember even five more of them? Usually not. I mean, sure, you might have a favorite artist that you love like 20 of their songs. But that's pretty rare. Most of the music you remember is from some musician, some band, some artist that you don't even know most of their songs. Or maybe you've heard some of their other songs, but you just don't even remember them. In fact, maybe even many of their songs, I can think of a song right away. It's like I can think of several artists where I loved that one song. And then I listened and back in the 90s, we would have to buy the entire album. Maybe you could buy the single. But you're so excited. Oh, that's a really good single. And then you bought the entire album. And you're like, what is this stuff? Like most of the album you don't like. Guess what? Same thing with your content. Someone gets really deeply impacted by one of your 100 pieces of content. And then they go to your other stuff. They're like, it's okay, right? It's okay. And then, but if you stop there with that one hit song, well, you won't ever get to your second hit song. And by the way, if you've never even gotten to your one hit song, are you going to stop? Well, I hope not. Because how will you get better? How will you get better at creating unless you create more? The practice of creativity, the practice of consistent creating is essential to create the momentum for the practice of mastery. Let me say that again, in a different way. How can you change your direction so that you can go in a better direction unless you're moving, unless you're in motion? Like I could stand here and go, I'm going to go in this direction. I'm going to go in that direction. But then I'm not actually moving anywhere. I'm just going like this and I'm going like this. Once I'm moving in motion, then I can actually direct myself in a better direction or the way that I actually want to go. My North Star or whatever it is my vision is. But without being in motion, you're just going like this, like this and you're never moving anywhere. You have to get on the road of consistent creating before you can reasonably be on the road to mastery of creating to become more skillful at creating. It takes reps. It takes practice. It takes repetitions, reps in order to become strong in your expression of your energy signature to find your voice actually. It takes multiple practices of speaking, of writing, of creating, of taking photos, of recording various kinds of pieces of art, for example. Before you can find your voice, before you can find your genuine style. And it's like once you, the more you discover your genuine style, the more you can then master that style so that you become uniquely known for that style.  Other people. We all emulate other people. So we all emulate, we're all this amalgamation of all the videos we've watched, the things we've read, the things we've listened to, the people we've hung around. We're an amalgamation of all that. But still, you can't find that unique combination that creates the most brilliant style unless, I mean, the most brilliant style for you. Unless you're in motion, you're creating consistently, you're experimenting. And so in other words, when I, thankfully, this idea came to me years ago that, oh my God, most of my content is mediocre. Not, and by the way, it's not for me to judge it. And it's not for you to judge your content either. You're not allowed to judge your content. You're not allowed to evaluate whether your content is good or not. By definition, if your content is good, it's good in the eyes of the people who are consuming your content.  But so the act of creating actually is, I think, a beautiful act of learning to stop judging yourself, learning to set aside the inner critic and put the inner critic in a safe place. The inner critic can do its wonderful job while you're experimenting with creating. I mean, sorry, the inner critic can do its wonderful job later, okay, later, in other situations where it's actually helpful. But when it comes to creating content, when it comes to making videos, writing, recording podcasts, creating art, whatever it is, you have to be experimenting consistently in order to find your voice. And most of that experimentation will be mediocre in the eyes of the audience. You cannot expect that most of your pieces are going to be liked. Did you expect that? Sorry, did someone tell you?  Did you know this? On social media, you're not seeing like the 90% of what's been posted today. The 90% are hidden from you because it was mediocre. In the eyes of the audience.  Not nothing's wrong with you. Mine is also mediocre 95% of the time. Nothing's wrong with me either. Nothing's wrong with any of us. It's just that we are experimenting and we experiment, finding your authentic energy signature and your best voice and your best style is like a fog. You're walking through the fog because you don't really know what treasures are in the fog. Most of the time, there's nothing in the fog. Okay, now set aside monsters in the fog, right? Okay, for this analogy, sorry. This is a mediocre video. I already know it, but that's okay. I'm going to keep going because I'm practicing and I dedicated myself to practice. Most of the time, you are like looking for treasure and most of the time, you won't find treasure. But you have to keep looking. Otherwise, you won't find it. If you knew exactly where the treasure was, then everybody would know where their treasure is and everyone would be successful by now. But by definition, success or remarkability, being this thing being remarkable, means it's above average. Because the thing is, everyone is average. By definition, most people are basically average. I'm average. You're probably average. No, George, I'm brilliant. I'm beautiful. I'm fine. Everyone thinks that. Or not everyone. Those of us with too much ego loving ourselves think that. No. Most of us, whatever we create out there, by definition, is pretty much average. And so it's not remarkable. So people are not going to remember. It's not going to make an impact. Very little of an impact. Sometimes you chance upon, when you're creating, something that just comes out of you, okay, whether you're writing or speaking or recording or creating art, something comes out of you that was unexpected, that you didn't expect. Or the irony. Sometimes something comes out of you that's totally obvious. But whatever, once you put it out there, the audience goes, that's remarkable. That's different and better than most of the stuff I've seen today. And you're like, really? Oh, sometimes you have a sense of it, but a lot of times I have a sense, oh, this is going to be a brilliant, and then none of you find it brilliant. Okay, so much that I have trained myself after all of these experiences to be agnostic about what the response is going to be like. So liberate yourself to say, well, if I have to keep trying a lot to find the gem, I better start trying today. And I better start trying every day or whatever rhythm you're going to dedicate yourself to creating. It could be twice a week. It could be three times a week. It could be five times a week. But you need to experiment so much to find those few gems that make your career. And that's what happened to me. I've made, go to my YouTube channel, I've made almost 2,000 videos, like a handful of them, maybe less than 200 of them, maybe more like 20 of them out of the 2,000 made my career. It set me up for life.  Those videos keep bringing new people all the time. Search engine optimization people know this too. Of all your blog posts, a few of them are suddenly going to go viral. Like, what happened? Oh, really? Okay, you have to put out so much content to find those few gems. You can't be in this fantasy of, I'm going to work really hard on this one thing that's going to go viral. Well, good luck. Have you tried it? Did it work? Oh, it worked. Great. If you can duplicate that, wonderful. Most of us are in the reality that we have to create so much for one of those things to go viral. And the other, everything else, not going to be remembered. No one's going to care. No one's going to think badly of you. You're the only one thinking badly of yourself. So you got to practice. Stop thinking badly of yourself.  Knowing that one of those 100 is going to make your career. It's worth it.  Would you do it? I hope so. Now, I'm not promising that of you. For some of us, maybe myself, it's one out of 1,000 things set me up for life. But I've made 2,000 now. And probably two of those 1,000 things did set me up for life. Keep springing new clients. Keep springing me inquiries about my courses and my services and everything. So get going. Yeah, I hope this is helpful. Thanks for watching.


Okay, so we're going to continue. So we looked at the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and I hope we are clear about that You know, how can we? In what context is it blasphemy, you know, we've had some questions in the sense people saying, okay You know, have I committed the unpardonable sin? Have I committed the unforgivable sin? Now does anyone have any question like that or any fears? Okay So the thing is this, you know, when you if if if you're struggling with that sense that itself is a good thing right If you're struggling with that question, you know, have I committed that sin knowingly unknowingly You know, have I done that? That's a good sign Okay, why is it a good sign? Because the Bible says that the flesh is in conflict with the spirit Spirit is in conflict with the flesh flesh wants to do the things that you know Against the things of the spirit, but then there's that conflict But as long as that conflict is there, which means you're in a good place. You're in a good posture What is that good posture that posture is God? You know, I want to please you and I don't want to be in a place where I You know displease you in any way So that's a good thing But if you if somebody's in a place, we're saying I don't care You know, I don't care what happens. I don't I don't this thing. I just want to go my way Okay, now that's a bad thing but as long as you have that that tension is there in you That's a good thing Which means that your spirit is still sensitive right to the work of the spirit You still want to do the things that please God, right? So So, yeah, I just wanted to mention that. Okay, let's move on Let's just look at some of the other things that the Lord Jesus taught Taught his disciples, right? Let's go to Luke 11 and verse 13 so you be looked at the fact that We are the Lord Jesus taught saying that you will be inspired you will be speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit So, you know, I'm sure you've heard speakers say the Lord told me I woke up this morning the Lord told me and I remember when I was in school and you know me and my friends we used to make You know fun of such people and saying, you know, these people are saying, you know They wake up in the morning and then they the Lord told me and you know, how can it be? You know, it's just that they found something that they wanted to speak and then they did it, you know something interesting How can the Lord tell them, right? But the thing is is that's the truth that you speak under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So That yes, the Lord will speak because he's he's a living God Yes, the Lord will you know, he since he knows the hearts of the people He will move you to or inspire you to speak those things So that's a reality, right? That's something that we saw. Okay. Luke 11 verse 13 The Lord Jesus saying if you then being evil Know how to give good gifts to your children How much more will your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? Okay If you read the verses before that From verse nine onwards So I say to you ask And it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and it will be open to you Everyone who asks receives and he who seeks finds and to him who knocks it will be open If a son asks for a bread From any father among you Will he give him a stone? Or if he asked for a fish will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if you ask for an egg will he offer him a scorpion If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children How much more will your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? So Another important principle here the Lord is saying that You don't have to fight. You don't have to struggle You're asking your heavenly father. You're asking the good thing That he's teaching is saying the He's saying That he's a heavenly father. He knows how to give good things to his children if you ask will he really not give okay so Maybe there are some of us here. I don't know like if all of us are you know started praying in the spirit and you know Maybe, you know, I don't know. I don't want to kind of this thing ask you Have you started praying in tongues? No, but maybe there are some of us who are saying You know, maybe the Lord is it's not giving me. Yeah, it's not happening I don't know why Right if you're struggling with that Just get rid of that Get rid of that mentality. We know sometimes we think okay. Maybe I have to be I've not reached that stage yet I'm not mature enough. I'm not holy enough. I'm not perfect enough In order to be filled with the spirit Somehow I struggled with that Right, but here we see a very different thing Say ask and you receive Right, see can you find knock and it'll be open to you? Okay, and some of us might have that fear. Oh, I don't know want to be filled with the evil spirit Right, um, like I knew someone who we just grew up with in our youth group and like she At that time I was not filled with this. I mean I was I was I didn't have the gift of tongues and So I was open to it, but I did not you know, I did not have it in my own life So I used to be fascinated by all these people who are praying in tongues and all that so she used to pray in tongues but then After many years we met and then I asked her and we do still pray in tongues. She said no, I stopped I stopped because why?  Okay, so it's a lot of saying here If you ask a earthly father who has all faults and you know limitations if you ask the father for bread, will he give a Any, you know decent father will uh, a parent Will he give a stone To a child who's hungry. No So how can we say, you know, how can we have that argument that I asked for the holy spirit, but You know, but but I got filled with something else Right, so the father will never I love that to happen. Yes. There have been instances of people being filled Or opening their doors to the evil spirit. Those are people who are actually in You know in black magic and in witchcraft who are actually open their lives for the demonic spirits to come and work in their lives So they were, you know, they had the spirits, you know in them manifesting You know these kind of things in them Right when you ask the father He gives he's a good father Okay, so that is what the lord taught. He's saying he's a heavenly father He will give good gifts. He will not give you anything to harm you And all you need to do you don't have to struggle. All you need to do is ask Okay, okay next one john chapter three um, okay, I think that's about The the spirit of god and how he moves Is his conversation with nicodemus All right Okay, so let's Okay, I think we we'll just go on to something else. Let's go to the next chapter john chapter four Hey, john chapter three is that interaction with Nicodemus and he says, you know about being born again And how can one be born again? How can the person be born again, etc? You can just go through that and the lord says, you know, this is how it is that That is his born of the flesh is flesh that's the physical birth that which is born of the spirit is spirit Referring to spiritual birth. Okay, um, let's go to uh john chapter four Okay John chapter four versus 23 and 24 um, the lord talks about He's having this conversation with a woman at the well and As part of that conversation towards the end, you know, the lord jesus Makes this interesting statement. He says in verse 23 the hour is coming And now is when the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit And truth for the father is seeking such to worship him God Is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth Okay, so this is in response to that question You know saying should we worship here should we worship there and he's saying this is what True worship will look like and the god is and the father is seeking true worshipers those who will worship in spirit And in truth meaning those who will worship out of their innermost being And those who will worship in truth because god is spirit Okay, so when we say uh those who will worship in spirit and in truth it says out of our innermost being and And as led by the spirit, you know, all that is there, right? Okay. Let's turn to john chapter six and verse 63 John six and verse 63 Okay, um The lord is saying it is the spirit Who gives life? Okay, it is the spirit who gives life The flesh profits nothing The words that I speak to you. They are spirit and they are Life, so he's talking about the work of the holy spirit something that the holy spirit does He brings life Okay, the the holy spirit brings life and and and it's the word used there is zoe Okay Okay, when we see a life there are two kinds of words and one is bios Okay, bios means biological life, right? We we breathe we We live and we have biological life. We say, okay, this person is alive There's another kind of life That's the word zoe. What does that mean god? kind of life Okay, god kind of life where it talks about spiritual life and the lord is saying The words that I speak to you. They are spirit and they are life. It is the spirit who gives life Okay, now you can have physical life But if you need spiritual life, it is the holy spirit who gives Spiritual life. It is the holy spirit who brings zoe Okay Let's move on to chapter seven Chapter seven was 38 and 39 Okay, um, maybe we'll read from verse 37 John chapter seven verse 37 on the last day That great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried out saying if anyone bursts Let him come to me and drink He who believes in me As the scripture has said Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water But this he spoke concerning the spirit Whom those believing in him would receive For the holy spirit was not yet given because jesus was not yet glorified Okay, so let's let's just look at this What is the lord saying if anyone thirsts let him come to me and drink Okay, so he's saying if anyone is thirsty if anyone is What is thirst? You know you feel that okay. You need something Right, you're lacking something you need it And uh, you feel that okay. I need so bad that I can't continue I'm I'm thirsty And the lord is saying if anyone thirsts let him come to me And drink means that okay. I'm going to fulfill that thirst. Let him come to me. Let him Have or experience Sorry, let him come to me right and he says He who believes in me, okay now he has come Yes, lord. I believe in you Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water Okay And then john goes on to explain that he says this he spoke concerning the spirit concerning the holy spirit So the you know out of one's heart rivers of living water flowing out Is talking about the work of the holy spirit or the manifestation of the holy spirit. Okay, so What does the river do? Have you all been to the river? Okay, no Okay, uh, have you tried swimming in the river? Okay, that's where I tried to learn swimming didn't learn it's been many years I swim like this I start like this and then go down down down Okay, so river I think childhood, you know, maybe so if you notice Wherever the river is there is life Right people go to the river to draw water Around the river it's fertile, you know, there are crops There's the civilization actually around the river wherever the river is Right, so the lord is saying hey out of your heart will flow rivers You know multiple rivers of living water Okay, so this river is wherever the river flows. It's going to bring life Saying out of his heart rivers of living water He's talking about the work of the holy spirit. So he who believes in me the believer So when I believe in the lord the holy spirit He comes and indwells us and he's going to flow out of us And he's going to do something through us Out of your heart will flow rivers of living water and that's going to impact Others that's going to touch the lives of others So uh, and john says, you know, this he talked he spoke concerning the spirit And you know very interesting, right? He says concerning the spirit whom those believing in him would receive For the holy spirit was not yet given because just jesus was not yet glorified Okay, and then we further we see I you know these things you will do also because I go to my father If I go to my father, I will send another helper The helper in the barricade right is talking about the holy spirit. So, um To be see this right The holy spirit referred to as rivers of living water flowing out of the life of the out of the heart of the believer Okay, john chapter 14 Um Yeah, we've seen we've read some of these verses Let's just read them again. John chapter 14 verse 16 Okay, and I will pray the father And he will give you another Helper that he may abide with you for ever Okay, so uh very important The the ascension of the lord leading to the outpouring of the holy spirit And the holy spirit will stay with us for ever, you know, that's that's again a very important You know a truth understanding because he's not come to abandon Right. He's not come to leave us as orphans because the lord jesus I will I will not leave you as orphans, but I will send the helper so the helper comes What does he come to help us with? And we're going to learn about that but he comes to help us and live the very normal christian life Okay, the normal christian life is not a boring christian life the normal christian life is an exciting christian life Right, the normal christian life is it's not something with without difficulties But it's not something with you know without challenges, but it's an overcoming life It's an overcoming life because of the Holy spirit, okay, so we the lord is saying that He's the helper. He's called as the paracletos. He was he will come alongside And he will help another Helper, which means one Who is just like me who is apart from me who will be with you Who's just like me well apart from me will be with you Like another allos paracletos Who's just like me apart from me would be with you as a paracletos Who's gonna help you right and he says he'll be that he may abide with you forever That's that's an important thing because you know in our lowest points of life Okay, in our lowest, maybe you know, you are not there yet or you don't have to be there Like you don't have to be there. You don't have to reach that place But you notice someone you see some other believer Who's reached a low point in life and they're saying God has abandoned me Why? Because of that stuff that I've done in life Right because I've stuff that I've done in life things that I've dabbled with The decisions that I've taken the way that I've treated my family my spouse my kids and you know, I've made so many mistakes as a believer So There's no hope God is abandoned There are people who reach that place, you know, I was a person who reached that place I said as a believer Oh man, what kind of a life am I living double life this that and the other that's it. There's no hope God reminds us The very reason He's staying with us is to come out or bring us out of that place Bring us out of that place of hopelessness Right, he will abide with us for ever. He's not one to abandon us, but he will abide with us Yeah, so that's what the Lord is, you know teaching His disciples. Hey, he will abide with you forever. Don't worry. He'll stay with you.  He will be with you forever. Okay. Let's read verse 17 the next verse The spirit of truth He's called the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him But you know him for he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you often I will come to you. Okay, so the Lord is saying, okay, he's the spirit of truth Okay, so what does that mean? Spirit of truth Sorry, he tells the truth. Okay Yeah He's the one who reveals the truth. Yeah. Yeah, he tells the truth. He reveals the truth He leads us into all truth Right um So which means that uh, we if we want to know the truth We can look to him We can rely on him Right, he will lead us into what is truth Right, so there's no nothing falsehood about him now now truth is always Not very comfortable Right, so you go to your friend and say hey, just tell me the truth Is this looking okay? Just tell me the truth And your friend is like, uh, yeah, it's okay. Yeah, it's okay. Fine. Fine. You know No, you tell me the truth is looking okay And then the friend looks at you and says no you change And you're very disappointed you wanted the truth you heard the truth But now you're disappointed because of the truth Right, why because it's the truth. It's not something that you know, you it's it's not always comfortable. It's not always pleasing Right the truth and he's a spirit of truth And sometimes what he speaks will be like sword piercing Like just piercing convicting like it just goes to our heart because What he says agrees with the word He's the living word and the Lord Jesus says right words that I speak to you They are spirit and they are life and it cuts to the innermost being Right and uh, when he does surgery No anesthesia And you feel the pain right throughout Right, so he speaks the truth.   He never leaves in number for six And so there's no reason for us to feel lonely Because he is with us forever, right? Okay 26 verse 26 But when the helper comes whom I shall send to you from the father the spirit of truth Who proceeds from the father? He will testify of me And you also will bear witness because you have been with me from the beginning. Okay So he's talking about the paracletos the helper when he comes whom I shall send to you from the father The spirit of truth who proceeds from the father. He will testify of me So we saw what testify was you know testify is to give proof to give evidence to give reassurance, right to give All that and say yes, this is who he is So what is he giving evidence? What is he giving proof or reassurance about about jesus? He will testify of me. Okay, so You know When you when you came to christ You just knew Of course, all of us have different experience experiences of coming to the lord how it happened, but When you put your faith in the lord You just knew deep inside that this is it right no one had to like Hammer it into you probably they reasoned with you and all that but then there was that moment when you you believe And it suddenly like the lights came on on the inside of you Right. It's like, yeah, this is it. This is the truth Why the holy spirit testified? And it's yeah, he does with reasoning he does with all those, you know arguments and everything But he brings that testifying, you know, he testifies To your spirit to the deepest part of you in a most being And there's no there's no argument against it All right, I know I can't explain it But I know this is the truth I can't explain it, but I know jesus is lord Right and all of us have been in that place. We say I I know this This is it finally Right, so he testifies of Jesus the lord is saying he will testify of me. He will give evidence. He will give proof He will bring that reassurance to your spirit He will testify of me Okay, next We look at john chapter 15 and Verse 26 Okay Oh, sorry. I actually I was looking at 1526, right? Now, let's look at I just skipped down to 1526. Let's look at 1426 for for a minute. Okay John chapter 14 and verse 26 Uh, we we see something very very important here. Okay, john chapter 14 verse 26 But the helper the holy spirit Whom the father will send in my name Okay, he will teach you all things And bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you So who's the holy spirit? he's the teacher Right, he is teaching you all things Okay, so we're saying god, uh, you know, I don't understand these things. I don't understand these concepts You don't teach me. Well the holy spirit will teach Not only will he teach but he will also Remind us. He will bring to Remembrance, you know, many times we say, okay, I I I know I've read it, but then I forget it I can't remember it The lord is saying Hey, the holy spirit, he will bring to Remembrance he will remind you of those things Of the things that I taught. Okay, so I remember um A man of god by the teacher and evangelist And he's got phenomenal Uh, you know, I would I want to say phenomenal memory, but he quotes scripture even as he's ministering He quotes scripture right from Genesis to The revelation. Okay, just the messages are full of Verses and and it's not like The regular scripture, you know something from Nahum something from you know, um, so you you're like, uh, how is it? How does he do that? You know, he's got a fantastic memory, but any but any, you know, he himself says You know, sometimes he goes Uh, and some of the instances sometimes he goes shopping He goes in a vehicle He leaves the car there takes an auto and comes back home because he forgot that he drove to that place He's like, oh no, I'm Names dates and all those things I can't So the secret is this he says, you know, when I read the word I go to this promise John 14 26 The lord says the holy spirit he will teach you. So I'm gonna ask I asked the holy spirit holy spirit. You teach me And he also says that he will remind us bring to remembrance. So I You know, he says I also asked the lord lord. You remind me you bring to remembrance So when he says when he's preaching Like you see that he's he's not really opening the bible. Okay, he's just holding the bible and He says that the holy spirit brings to remembrance because he says I just trust the holy spirit You know, the lord jesus said oh, yeah, I I take him at his word I take him at his word. He will bring to remembrance. Okay, so maybe you can try that You know, uh, we meditate on the word of god. We are called to meditate on the word of god Meditate on the word of god read the word of god declare confess the word of god and also pray You know meditate on this promise saying calm holy spirit.  You remind me you have to mind me all those things Like he will bring to our memory The very things that jesus taught he will remind us Right of the things, right? So, uh, so he's a teacher He's a reminder of what he's taught So, you know, when you think about that, it's a it's a it's a wonderful You know gift It's a wonderful relationship Right, we have a wonderful god Right You want you're not lonely He's he's with you And he's he's flows out of the believer like rivers of living water bringing life bringing change Bringing freshness in the lives of others And he teaches so, you know things that we are Unaware of He teaches us And he brings to remembrance he reminds us of the things That we have taught I mean we have been taught but maybe it's somewhere there, you know, he brings to remembrance Right, so we can ask him by faith and say lord you teach us you show us Okay, let's look at one more. So we are Where are we looking at these verses? We are looking at The teachings of the lord jesus on the holy spirit Right, that's the reason we are looking at these verses um john chapter 16 Let's look at verse seven Okay, 16 and seven It says never nevertheless. I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away You know, why did he say that? We were six The lord says I have said these things to you sorrow has filled your heart because the lord kept saying, you know Okay, I'm going away.  They've done life together And they're feeling sad, you know cloud. Where can I go? You have the words of life, you know, peter himself said you have the words of eternal life Where can we go right that instance when the lord everybody turned away and walked away from the lord So they were dependent on the lord and then now he's saying he's going away So sorrow fills their heart and the lord is saying this verse seven Nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage That I go away. Which means it is to your benefit For if I do not go away the helper will not come to you But if I depart I will send them to you and when he has come, okay, let's Listen to this carefully. I read this He will convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment Okay, he will he does the work of convicting Right convicting which means that There is something that happens deep within where you are When when you say convict, you know, I'm I'm convinced He does the work of conviction. He brings conviction to our heart, right? He testifies of Jesus. He brings conviction. He says he convicts the world of sin Convicts the world of righteousness And of judgment Verse nine of sin because they do not believe in me Of righteousness because I go to my father and you see me no more Of judgment because the ruler of this world is charged I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now However When he the spirit of truth has come he will guide you into all truth for he will Man Okay Okay, the batteries are running a little low everyone so I'm just In case it stops This can need to stay on right, okay Okay, so says I will he the holy spirit will convict the world of of truth of righteousness of sorry of sin of righteousness and of judgment And the Lord says in verse 13 he says the spirit of truth has come He will guide you into all truth for he will speak On as he will not speak on his own authority But whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things to Come okay, so he's the spirit of truth. He will guide you Okay, so holy spirit will guide us into all truth So we say, okay, I need to be guided. I need guidance The holy spirit will guide if we are dependent on him if we ask him He will guide into all truth. Okay, and it also says that He will tell you of things to come. Okay, so what has happened is that For you know the disciples you're saying I have many things to tell you but you cannot bear them now You can't retain it. You cannot, you know, you can't handle it You cannot bear them now But who's going to teach them The holy spirit The holy spirit is going to tell them of things to come and he did that right especially for john And what did he say looking at john chapter 16 and and verse 13 talking about how He will tell us of things to come Okay, and he will do that in our own lives As well that he will teach us he will show us of things to come. You know, maybe You know We are maybe we are concerned About our lives lord. What is it? That that is there in the future like for me He will show he will tell us Right, and he can do that in many different ways It can be through a word which comes from scripture. It can be through a prophetic word It comes from someone he can he can tell us of you know our destiny Our call our plan a purpose that he has for us. He will show us like he will tell us Well, the thing is to trust his timing Right to trust his timing. He will show us. He will tell us.  He knows what is their plans, you know The first time I came to all people's church Okay, um was in the 2000 2001 Okay, 2001 And it was I think it was september It 2001 september the first time i'm stepping into all people's church And I used to be part of another church and we were all you know leading as part of a worship team there and yeah, so We were invited to all people's church to lead worship in one of their meetings and and and all people's church Church was very very small, you know Maybe it was eight to ten people that was it And it was meeting in a place and a small shed kind of a place That's roof and all that so anyway, we came led worship and The very word the first, you know, there was a guest speaker there And I was working with this company. So I finished we were all there finished leading worship went out To make those calls, you know customers had called so it was evening I was returning the calls I went out and then my wife comes and calls me and he says hey the speaker is calling you He has something to tell you just come So I went in and people were looking at me feeling a little weird. I went in and then So this is what the guest speaker said he said, you know, god is calling you to be a pastor okay, so first time somebody's ever Told that first time and I'm hearing anything like that So he said god is calling you to be a pastor Okay, and after the meeting was over he was asking, you know, like we did witness to your spirit and You know, I I came from a church where we did not talk about prophecy But if we did not talk about much about the holy spirit and all that so Everything was new to me. So I said no, this is the first time. I don't know right But god who knew The future Okay, so it's amazing.  It's a holy spirit He'll tell us of things to come. So I remember after that Every september reminding me of Of this of this word remind particular thing every year. So He will tell us He will show us of the things to come. Okay. You know, I just wanted to share that because He is well able to do that in each one of our lives. Okay each one of our lives Okay, some of us are saying, okay, I know what I'm going to do. Okay. This is what what is planned and maybe You know, you're saying, okay the next three years at least I know or next two years at least I know next one year I'm going to be you know, preparing myself and Even during that time Right, you you can ask the lord lord This is who you are You said you will tell us of things to come And in my own life lord, I want to know so that I can prepare I can you know and and just leave it to god Right, let the burden not be on you. You just say, okay lord, this is who you are You will tell And you will prepare me you will show me and I'm just just asking you god. I'm ready. I'm willing Show me teach me tell me Right, so uh, he'll do that. Okay. So that's wonderful, right He'll show us. He's with us He will guide us into all truth. Okay We have a couple of minutes Let's look at a few other scriptures the work of the holy spirit in in the lord jesus death and resurrection Let's look at The scriptures there first timothy 3 and verse 16 First timothy chapter 3 and verse 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness God was manifested in the flesh Justified in the spirit Seen by angels Preached among the Gentiles Believed on in the world received up in glory Okay, that whole word word justification You know by the holy spirit you raised him from the dead and And it was a work of the holy spirit and you know, hybrus 9 Um declares it even more describes it even more Okay, it says hybrus hybrus 9 and verse 14 Okay, hybrus 9 verse 14, uh, let's read 13 and 14, okay For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer Sprinkling the unclean sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh How much more Child the blood of christ Who through the eternal spirit offered himself Without spot to god cleanse your conscience from Dead works to serve the living god Okay, who through the eternal spirit Offered himself to god Without spot. I'm sorry offered himself without spot to god. So this work of Offering himself Uh, this work of offering himself as that sacrifice by the holy spirit For the lord himself, right christ himself offered he offered himself by the Work of the holy spirit by the eternal spirit. Okay, let's look at one more verse first Peter 3 and verse 18 Okay first Peter 3 and verse 18 Christ also suffered once for sins The just the unjust That he brings to god Being put to death in the flesh But made alive by the spirit. Okay, so christ offered himself Uh as a sacrifice By the work of the spirit And he was raised from the dead. He was made alive By the work of the holy spirit and it says here that Put to death in the flesh but made alive by the spirit. Okay, so we'll we'll stop here So we see you know all these things the ministry of the wonderful ministry of the holy spirit in the life of The lord jesus the teachings of the holy spirit by the lord jesus. Okay, so next class, you know I'm sure you might have some questions. We'll answer those questions as well Thank you so much Online class students. Thank you for bearing with all the interruptions. God bless. See you


Happy Monday, welcome to Brain Power number three. Hey, you will notice I'm missing a super attractive counterpart of mine, my better half, Lauren. She's hanging out and with, she's got a lot of family stuff going on today. So, you know what? It may not be as awesome of a show without her, but I promise to deliver the goods when it comes to brain power. Today's all about. We do this every Monday at two, for those that are just joining us, every Monday, two o'clock central centered time. I wanna know what you're thinking in the comments. I wanna know what you're not thinking in the comments, what you wanna hear, what you don't wanna hear. The words you want me to use, the words you don't want me to use, I want them all in the comments, whether you're on Facebook or YouTube. Talk to me, let me know what you're thinking.  When it comes to brain power, what does brain power even mean? What's the purpose of brain power? Brain power to me means, hey, a lot of the battles, a lot of the wars, a lot of the games are won up here, in our head, in our brain, in our psyche, in our confidence, in our ability to talk ourselves into being able to do something, in our ability to be able to deliver when we are called upon. And so when it comes to brain power, that's one of the big things I think about is, hey, you know what? What are we doing that we need to keep doing? What are we doing that we need to quit doing? Everybody's got, everybody's different. When I think about brain power, I think about everything up here.  The other team, the other squad, they may be bigger, they may be more talented, they may be more prepared, they may be, you know, they may be faster, stronger, may be able to jump higher or whatever. Maybe they got more experience, more sales experience. Whatever it is, it doesn't matter, you are in control, but they cannot outwork you. They cannot over deliver more than you can. They can't sell, they can't see more people.  The things that you can make up are, hey, I'm gonna work hard. I'm gonna outwork everyone else. My father taught me a long time ago, man, he said, he said, Cody, don't let anyone ever outwork you. And I think I'd do a pretty good job, but I think my team would agree. Could I do better? Can I work harder? Dude, there's days where, that's one thing. I think on my day, when I'm winding down, and I appreciate Albert joining, James on YouTube, what's up gentlemen? When I'm winding down my day, every night, you know what I'm thinking about? What did I do today to further the cause, to further my mission, to further my legacy? Did I do enough? And a lot of times the answer is, hey, I didn't do enough, can I do more?  It varies day by day. Some days, Cody is a chump man, and some days, Cody is right on freaking point. Dylan, the camera guy back there, he's added freaking to his language now, to his repertoire now, because of me. That's something my mom used growing up a lot, and I think I just picked up on that.  There's a lot of super well-known people that they think they need to use curse words and curse words to get their message across. Dude, I'm here to tell you, it doesn't help. It doesn't at all. Kyle, hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. What's up brother? 100% right. James on YouTube is accepting the mental challenge, getting better, getting stronger. We're still gonna spit some game today. We're still gonna have an incredible show. Now, is the set near as good-looking as normal? Absolutely not, because you know my wife is a babe, and she's awesome. She's one of the most positive people I know. She's got one of the best personalities that I know. She is incredible, and she's missed today, but she'll be back next week, I promise. So today, head games. It all starts up here. I'm a firm believer, it's all about head games. It's all about your mind. It's all about what you're going to do. I think the biggest three areas of head games is, I think the three things that affect your head, when you think about brain power, there's three things that affect your head and play head games with you. The first thing is your previous experiences. When it comes to previous experiences, I'm talking about those things that have affected, a lot of times you wake up and you either think you can do something or can't do something based on your previous 24 hours. I did a video last week, I wake up all the time and I write down my goals every morning. Some days, dude, Cody's jacked, he's rared up, he's ready even more than right now, and he's like, I can accomplish anything. I'm talking to the third person. Some days I can accomplish anything, and I believe it. Some days I'm like, dude, if we only get 1,000, 2,000 people at this event, I'm a chump. And there's other days that maybe I had a poor day or a bad day or not an incredible day, the day before. And during that day, maybe when I wake up the next morning and try to write down my goals, I don't try, I do it. When I write down my goals, I do my push ups, my sit ups, my jump roping, and write down my goals as the fourth thing I do every morning. When I write down my goals, some days I let the previous day affect my head and I start to believe that those goals may be too big, that those goals maybe aren't big enough. That maybe, so a lot of times you're letting your previous experiences, whether it's your previous job experiences, your previous family experiences, your previous sales experience, whatever it is, your previous day, you're letting that, you're taking a bad day and turning it into a bad week. You're turning a bad, you're having a bad week and you're turning it into a bad month.  I want to reset Cody. I want to be the best Cody that I can be day in and day out. So if I don't reset my mind, if I don't think through, okay, hey, I had a bad day yesterday, I'm resetting my mind right down my goals right now and I'm not letting that affect me. There's some days where I write down my goals and I'm like, Cody, dude, you need to be thinking bigger. That's because I'm resetting my mind and I'm making sure I'm focused on that day so that nothing ever, it's easy to do 100 push ups, can I do 100 phone calls, no excuses. Dude, I love that, James, man. Exactly, exactly, have your non-negotiables. I have my non-negotiables, the things that I'm gonna do day in and day out, no matter what, no matter who shows up, I don't care if Tony Robbins wants to come and fly me to the Caribbean.  I also try not to eat things that are gonna affect me. Shoot, lending my assistant, we were about to get some barbecue earlier, but I'm like, you know what? I may be asleep during the show so I may not wanna eat barbecue. Be thinking about what's going on and how it may affect you. So that's the biggest thing, head games. Previous experiences will affect you a lot. The second thing that can also affect you are the people around you. When you think about head games, are you allowing the people in your life to affect you? Fortunately, I've started myself with a lot of great people. Our team never affects me in a negative way at all. Now, does everyone have someone in their life that could easily affect them? Or that could easily bother them? Or that could easily influence them in a negative way? Yeah, I've got some friends that'll call and say, dude, what are you doing?  I'm super nuts. But I don't let them affect me. Some people think that, you know what? That sounds insane, it sounds crazy, you're thinking too big, you're thinking too small, whatever it is. I want people around me that are believing I'm thinking too small. I don't want people around me that are thinking I'm thinking too big or that don't believe in me. DJ, Matt, Rance Daddy, Greg, Dylan, Lindy, all these people on our team that are in the studio right now working away, they believe in us, they believe in me, they believe in our mission, our cause, in helping people, that's the biggest thing, head games, that's the second thing.  If they are, either get rid of them or tell them not to say that garbage around you or in front of you, because I'm promise, there's times or certain people in your life that you will believe that what they're saying is true or that what they're saying could actually be affecting you. What's up, guys? The good, also Mark on Facebook, as you say you have to reset daily. That's the biggest reason I write down my goals every morning. Because if I don't, I notice when I don't because for instance, I had a basketball tournament early Saturday morning. I didn't write down my goals on Saturday morning and I always do every weekday. I ran out of the house and forgot to on Saturday. I'm human. Well, guess what? By Saturday night, I maybe didn't believe in myself or what I wanted to accomplish as much as I previously did.  You gotta win the head game with previous experience. You can't let previous experiences affect your head.  And then number three, you can't let a lack of confidence or a lack of ability in yourself. Or maybe you don't have the ability. At least believe that you do. Because I remember in high school or in college, we would play or you even see it all the time in professional sports all the time. There's teams, one team is always better than the other team. A lot of times, I would talk myself into, hey, this other team's better, we're probably not gonna win this game. If I believe that for a second, I lost.  Naturally, because of the way I'm thinking, naturally I'm not as aggressive on the court as I should be because I'm letting my lack of ability or my confidence affect my attitude. Cody, how do you train yourself to respond with kindness and professionalism when clients are rude? When they talk over you or when they raise their voice? Tell us closer, that's a phenomenal question.  It takes some work, but the biggest thing is, and it happens all the time, even in our office, we get disgruntled customers.  The answer to your question, sales closer on YouTube, is if I let someone else affect me or if I get upset or if I respond negatively or if I respond unprofessional, what's gonna happen? It's not gonna get me closer to my goal.  If I say, well, you're not on the do not call list, if I jumped in and said something like that and I let it affect me, guess what? I'm definitely not making a sale from that. That's the biggest thing is, what's your goal? What's your mission? What do you want to accomplish? If getting rude with someone, if yelling at someone or being unprofessional, isn't gonna get you closer to your goal, then it's not worth doing it. When I'm thinking about what I'm looking to accomplish and what I wanna do with my life, and okay, if my goal is to generate a lead, if I'm rude to somebody, I ain't gettin' that as a lead. And I want every lead. I believe everybody I ever talked to, I can create them as a lead, I can create them as a woman or I can create a sale. But if I let little experiences affect me, just like that, sales closer, we're talking about head games. What was number one? Previous experiences. That's a previous experience, it just happened. Now I've got a chance to respond to it. How am I gonna respond?  You're not a cool kid. Fantastic. I still gotta make sure we get you the free information, should we drop it off like what, Tuesday or Wednesday? I'll make sure I'm gonna better move that day so you like me. Would you prefer Tuesday or Wednesday? Every experience is a chance to further your mission, to further your calls, to get a lead, to set an appointment, to make a sale.  It's an opportunity. And when it's an opportunity, I'm gonna focus and exploit every opportunity I possibly can. So thank you for the question.  Dude, you're so right. It's all about focus. It's all about being on point. It's tough. The average, 92% of insurance agents fail, only 8% of agents actually succeed. How would most agents respond? When that happened, how would most agents respond if you were sitting there and the client said, do not ever call me again? How would most agents respond to that? And then respond the opposite way. Because you know most agents aren't gonna say, you know what, you're right. It'll never happen again. Well, I've got you on the phone. Bam, bam, bam. How are most agents gonna respond? And then respond different. If you do everything, what's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? That's why most agents aren't getting the sales, getting the leads, hitting their goals because they're trying to do the same things or they're having a bad day, a bad week, or a bad month and then they just do the same thing next month. Do more, take more action, see more people, figure it out.   And don't let your lack of ability or lack of confidence in yourself affect you from being you, from dominating like you know you should. James is right, man. We're helping people every day. We're here to help people. We can't help them if we respond negatively. We can't help them if we don't believe in ourself. We can't help them if we're not confident. We can't help them if we're not positive.  That was the biggest thing at 19, at 19 I had no insurance experience, no sales experience. I didn't even know what I was doing at all. But one thing I did know is, hey, what I can control is that I'm persistent, that I overcome every objection I ever hear and that I do it with a positive mental attitude. That's the thing, when you think about it, some things are in our control and some things are out of our control. Some you can control, some you cannot control. If you can't control it, that's fine. But you can always control how you respond to an uncontrollable, something happens in your life, something you don't love, something you're not excited about, maybe a bad experience, whatever it is. Something, if you can control it, control it.  But what we can control when those uncontrollables happen is how we respond as a person.  Great people, nice people, awesome people. But what they can control is how they respond and how you can respond is by staying with me, I'll be right back after this short break. Welcome back to Brain Power. I think this is the third one ever you'll notice. I'm missing my extremely beautiful counterpart, Better Half, Lauren, she does an awesome job. She does a great job on this show. She's, she'll be back next week. She's hanging out with some family. She's got some family coming in from all over the country. She's hanging out with them today. If you'll notice, what's in your screen, man? What's below us? 8% nation. We just added somebody new. We just added Tim's story to the mix. This is in Nashville, end of October, October 26th and 27th. It's at Titan Stadium, Grant Cardone, Ray Lewis, Tim's story, who's a motivational speaker. I'm talking world-renowned motivational speaker. This guy, I hope somebody, I hope someone proves me wrong. But Tim's story will probably be the best motivational speaker at this conference and this event. He is super strong, he's awesome. If I have anybody, if I have any say so over it Vince Pomponato or Tyler Reeves, any of these other guys, we're gonna try to take him down.  He's really, really good. So make sure early bird ticket, early bird pricing ends here in a couple days, July 4th. So make sure that you go over there to 8% nation.com if you're looking to get a ticket that you have to do that very, very soon. So welcome back, thanks for being here. During the break, sell us closer. Hey, come on, man, who has my money? Walk us through how to handle retention communications when you get that email from a carrier that you have charge backs. The first thing is, you gotta address it. A lot of times agents will, a lot of times agents will ignore, I got good old Vince, I love that buddy.  They're like, oh, I don't need to worry about it. The biggest thing is you've gotta talk to that client. Whether you talk to him over the phone or whether you go see them, you have to conserve the business. You have to do what's best for the client. You've gotta be thinking with a positive heart, with a good heart. If your goals actually, to help people and you actually care about people, then you'll call them, you'll see them. They'll try to conserve the business. They may not even be aware. They may have closed a bank account and forgot. You know, you can't assume that just because of that they're naturally just gonna, they're just canceling their policy. You never know what's going on in that person's life. That's what you gotta remember. Again, controllables. You can't control that the chargeback is in process or that they're thinking about canceling. But what you can control is how you respond to it. That you're positive. That you act like they don't, that they're probably unaware. That you assume the whole time that they want to keep their policy. Show me the money, Jose. What's up, buddy? Dude, hey, Tim Story is an animal. Tim is Jim Rohn on steroids. Tim is good. Tim Story is legit. When it comes to public speaking, motivational speaking, empowering an audience, keeping your attention at a conference for 40, 50 minutes, Tim Story is unreal. And I'm super blessed and honored to be on stage with some guys like that that are going to drop the mic, bring the heat and do an incredible, incredible job. So make sure you're there. I wanna address a couple of things real quick. I wanna do a dress and I want you to comment. Anything you want me to address. Anything that's going on in your life. Anything that you do as a ritual in the morning. Post it in comments. I wanna hear from you over the next few minutes before we close out this show. But the biggest thing is I wanna go back to, we started to get some responses. So I'm gonna go back to controlling the controllables. There's things happen in our life all the time. Hey, we can control it or we can't control it. When we can't control it, what you can't control is how you respond. And when you respond, put yourself in the client's shoes, the prospect's shoes. If someone responded the way you do or the way you did or the way you're going to respond, what would you say? If you were the prospect and someone was saying these things to you or responding this way to you, what would you think? Is it good enough? Have you role played? Have you read your script in the mirror? Are you so used to getting objection and rebuttals that you don't pause?  If you pause and stumble or stutter or freak out, click next. They forgot about you. They hung up on you. They don't have time for you. They don't believe in you.  You've got to be able to roll with the punches. When they say, hey, dude, I'm not interested. Absolutely. A lot of people weren't until they realized, hey, I need the new information. I'm assuming you don't have it yet. So I'm assuming a callback's okay, right? So why don't we call you back? What do you think? Mornings or afternoons? This isn't, we're calling in the afternoon. So what do you think? What do you think? Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday afternoon? Which is better? At least respond, at least act like you're planning on overcoming it and getting the result that you want.  What you can control is how you respond when they drop those giant boulders in front of you. Jose says, hey, I'll be buying leads from you pretty soon. Been watching your videos. Thank you, buddy. Appreciate that, man. Our lead department's incredible. James, when they believe that you are their agent, they won't drop their policy ever. That's a big thing. And I wanna touch on that because you sell yourself as much as you sell the policy. Dude, you probably sell it more. The biggest thing I noticed is when I used to send out newsletters to clients, every single month I would manually send out newsletters to hundreds and hundreds of clients, close to 1,000 clients eventually, every single month via paper. And that took a lot of work.  You're like my favorite agent. I miss your newsletter. I miss getting your recipes in the mail. They remember that four years later. Talk about leaving a positive impact on someone's life and building a friend. And hey, anybody that used my email address, it's kody at secureagentmentor.com, kody at secureagentmentor.com. Let's have a show on how to mentally prepare yourself and how to quickly get over procrastination and fear. It's tough because procrastination, fear, obstacles, all those things are going to happen 100% every single day. What you can control is how you respond between your ears, the head games, the head portion, especially fear. And that's the biggest thing is, I noticed with me when I thought about the conference, the more I thought about it, the bigger the fear of throwing a gigantic conference and having Grant Cardone and Ray Lewis and doing a Titan Sadie and all that, the more I thought about it and didn't publicize my thoughts, the bigger the fear got. That's why I'm a very impatient person. That's why I don't think about stuff. That's why when I want to do something, if it's a good idea, I do it immediately. That's why I'm actually not a big fan of patience. Yeah, there's patience, there's times in life where patience is valuable and it's good. But not when it comes to holding me back from doing what I know I should be doing. I need to be taking action. I need to be making decisions. I need to be, I need to not let fear, I need to get rid of fear.  That's the biggest thing. People come up with million and billion dollar ideas all the time, all the time. Things that they know they should do if they're like, oh, if I just had the money, or they're like, oh, I don't have enough money, I don't have enough time, maybe I can't do this, maybe I'm not sure if I can do this. Man, this would be a lot of work.  You talk yourself into not doing stuff that you know you should be doing. Great energy, Cody, thank you, John. Appreciate the, I appreciate all the comments on YouTube, Facebook. Lauren just jumped on Miss Bing on the show today, but Cody Askins holding the fort down. Hey, it's not as good as you being here, babe, but thanks for the comment. She'll be back next week. And the set will get a lot better looking. The set will get a lot more positive. The set will get a lot more exciting. This is for sure. All right, we got a couple of minutes. What else can I, what else can I help answer in comments? I appreciate all the kind words, all the positive thoughts, all the positive comments. When it goes, I'm gonna leave you with three things again. Head games. The third episode of Brain Powers, all about head games. I'm a big believer in mindset. I'm a big believer in head games. There's three things that affect your head all the time. Previous experiences, previous experiences that maybe the previous 24 hours, you're letting those affect your mindset.  I remember it from high school, college, tournaments, whatever it is. When I believed that the opponent was better than me, as soon as I believed that they were, because I wasn't as aggressive, I didn't have that killer mentality. I didn't believe in myself enough to destroy them and that's one of the big reasons that I am a firm believer in mindset. If I would have known and reacted and thought bigger, spent more money, took more action, took more risk, eight years ago when I got started in this business, there's no telling where I would be today. You're gonna learn things along the way.  If it's the right thing to do, do it. And as James says on YouTube, get your butt on the phone, no excuses, I love it. Let's 10x these last two quarters, Cody, let's roll, let's do it, let's keep it up. All right, you guys are awesome. Thanks for being on, Brain Power number three. I look forward to seeing you again next Monday. Brain Power every Monday at two. We also do cold calling every Tuesday at two. Deal breakers would day every Wednesday at two. Nothing on Thursday yet and Fridays, every Friday, we've got Agent Nation with Dallas. We have a lot of fun. We keep it real. We bring positive energy to you to get you jacked up and get you focused on making this week the best week of your life. So in closing, get your head right, believe in yourself, don't let previous experiences affect you.  Have some confidence in yourself and your ability. I promise you can do a lot more than you think and write your goals down every morning and every night. Thanks for being on.