John Assaraf : Reinventing the Entrepreneur

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
— Albert Einstein

Your brain—that three-pound hunk of matter located between your ears—is the most sophisticated, complex, and miraculous piece of equipment ever known to humankind. It controls everything you see, say, feel, and do. With such a powerful tool at your disposal, isn’t it your responsibility to understand how it works and how to make it work optimally?

Let’s start with some fundamentals.

…To finish reading, download the new chapter, Your Powerful Brain with my compliments, from my upcoming book- Having It All: Achieving Your Life’s Goals and Dreams - launching November 13th worldwide!

Hi Friends,

I was on a flight back from a speaking engagement in Edmonton when I got the call from Larry King’s office saying he wanted me back on the show to help people deal with the mental anguish of the trauma you go through when a life-altering event occurs. Even though I was asked to be on the show last minute, it turned out great. This was the third time in less than a year I have been on the show. (You can see a transcript of the call here.)

The interesting fact is that everyone has a different response when they are subjected to these types of life-altering events. Some people rise to the occasion and become stronger immediately. Others are in absolute shambles and may go into depression. What is the difference then between the two?

The main difference is how we have been conditioned to react to life’s ups and downs and the meaning that we give the event or circumstance.

While we were on the show Larry had one guest who was devastated at losing her home while another was grateful for having her life. She had also lost her brother in 9/11 and in contrast, losing her home now was insignificant. I had to ask myself how I would have felt had I lost my home. After careful reflection my thought was that I would be ok with it. I have learned not to get attached to my materialistic possessions and live my life in constant gratitude of the important things like my health, family and God. My wife on the other hand did not share my feelings, she was very distraught at the possibility of losing our home.

Can it be as simple as what we focus on is what we feel? The answer is yes, however, when we are dealing with loss, tragedy and pain, it’s easier said than done.

Our brains go into an automatic mode of protecting us and release neuro chemicals that enter our bloodstream and cause us to feel the effects of those chemicals.

As everyone has different reactions to trauma, the most important part for us to realize is that love, compassion and empathy is the best solution and to allow anyone who is experiencing their feeling to do so with absolute freedom and without judgment.

Time does heal and the right environment of friends, family and a great community helps.

I take my hat off and give thanks to the firefighters and thousands of other people who have helped all of us here in San Diego.

God Bless,

John

P.S. Here is a link to some of the images from the fires.

Hi all,

Just a heads up to let you know that I will be on Larry King Live tonight (Friday, October 26, 2007) to talk about how to handle your mental anguish when you are confronted with an unexpected loss.

This is a timely topic in the wake of this week’s firestorm in Southern California, where more than half a million people had to quickly evacuate and live for a few days with the gut-wrenching possibility of losing their homes (myself included) – and more than 1,700 families, at last count, have had to face that awful reality.

Tune in if you can! That’s the Larry King Live show on CNN, at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific

Hi Friends,

I was recently interviewed by Steve Pavlina and he asked me a bunch of great questions. If you would like to see my answers to his questions and also to look around his blog - which is excellent - you can go to it here.

Here are the questions from the interview:

1. What have been the major contributing factors to your success as an entrepreneur?
2. What are some of the biggest mistakes you’ve made in business, and what did you learn from them?
3. What personal or professional accomplishment(s) have you found most rewarding and fulfilling, and why?
4. In The Secret you told the story of how you manifested your house. What’s your current understanding of the process by which you accomplished this?
5. What is your understanding of the relationship between wealth and spirituality?
6. How has the popularity of The Secret affected you, both personally and professionally?
7. Do you have a purpose or mission? If so, what is it, and how did you discover it?
8. What are your most important guiding values, and what do they mean to you?
9. What do you love most about life? What inspires you?
10. What advice would you offer someone who feels emotionally and financially trapped in an unfulfilling job?

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/09/john-assaraf-interview/

Enjoy!

Welcome to the October 21, 2007 edition of the Having It All Carnival.

This was fun and a learning experience. There are some very interesting and insightful answers to the questions we posed: 1.) Is it possible to “have it all”? 2.) What does “having it all” mean to you? 3.) In what area of your life could you use a boost?

Enjoy!

Business/Careers

Nancy S. Juetten presents Can You Really Have It All? posted at Nancy Juetten’s Main Street Media Savvy Blog.

Financial

Kimberly Hardin presents Healthy & Wealthy & Wise » Blog Archive » You Really Can Have It All posted at Comments for Healthy & Wealthy & Wise.

Law of Attraction

Kristen Marie Schuerlein presents Having It All posted at Affirmagy.

Tia Graham presents What The Law of Attraction Taught Me About Having It All posted at SixRedHeads

That concludes this edition of the Having It All Carnival. Submit your blog article to the next edition of The Having It All carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Technorati tags: having it all carnival, blog carnival.

Hey friends,

I thought you might enjoy these photos of me and my wife Maria with friends Jane Seymour and her dancing partner Tony Dovolani. We were at a dear friend’s house (Mario Simic) the other night to enjoy an art exhibition and Jane was the featured artist.

Check out Mario’s site for world class art at great prices at http://www.simic.com.

It was so much fun! Jane is such a sweet woman and what she has accomplished is truly remarkable.

We ended up buying the art piece in the photo along with another great piece by Yugoslavian artist Milanov.

Anyway, just wanted to share with you some fun things in my life and wishing you a “masterpiece” for yours and your loved ones.

John

Sometimes it seems as if people were born without instruction manuals and yet are forever trying to figure out how all the pieces fit together on the fly. But the truth is, 20 years of research in the field of human potential and performance shows the amazing abilities that every person has and how each person taps into them. In fact, one of the greatest discoveries ever is how the subconscious mind gets programmed and how it controls almost everything people do. This is all part of my program, Having It All: Achieving Your Life’s Goals and Dreams.

But I’d first like to explain one simple idea that I know will open your mind to actually understanding your true potential. First and foremost, understand that the intelligence that created you made no errors in his creation. We are pure intelligent energy with amazing capabilities.

For the purpose of this report, I am going to focus on one of the most important pieces of information you will ever read.

Your subconscious mind has three very distinct responsibilities, and the one we will deal with today is called your ‘psycho-cybernetic mechanism.’ This single piece of information can, and will drastically change your life if you totally understand it and use it! Read the entire explanation, and then get ready to see amazing results in your life.

PSYCHO-CYBERNETIC MECHANISM

A cybernetic mechanism is simply how a system operates automatically. One such system is our brain and nervous system. This is called a psycho-cybernetic mechanism. Another cybernetic system can be mechanical, such as how your home-heating and air-conditioning system works.

As an example of how a ‘cybernetic’ mechanism works, I want you to think of the thermostat in your home that you have set at 70 degrees. Now, let’s say that someone opens a window in the house and heat comes in. The control center (the brain) of the thermostat picks up a deviation from the ’set’ program (being 70 degrees) and automatically sends a message through the electrical system to the furnace that the air conditioning should be turned on. This happens in a nanosecond, and the air conditioning kicks in until the temperature reaches the original set program on the thermostat that you or someone else originally set.

Sounds pretty simple right?

Let’s get to the fun part…

As children, we are programmed and conditioned to have beliefs in each area of our life. All of your beliefs about your potential in each and every area of your life were instilled in you by your parents, teachers, caregivers, through the books you read and the experiences you had.

All of our ‘mental programs’ are housed in our subconscious mind and operate automatically just like the ’set temperature’ in the furnace story.

Our teachers instilled in us the best information they knew and had at the time. Through repetition and study a ‘mental program’ is created in your subconscious mind. The mental programs that each of us have are not good or bad, they just are (some serve us better than others). Once they are embedded in your subconscious mind, they operate automatically exactly like the set temperature on the thermostat.

WEIGHT-LOSS EXAMPLE

So, here’s an example of how this marvelous system works in us:

Let’s say that your internal mental image or current self image for your body weight is 195 lbs. This weight is maintained automatically by your subconscious mind. You will eat and do everything that is in exact accordance with that mental image and set program.

Now, one day you consciously decide that you want to lose weight and you go on a diet. You use your will power to eat differently and you may even start to exercise. Sounds good right? It works for a while and then what happens?

The majority of people gain all their weight back within a very short period of time. Some even gain more!

Here’s why…

No different than the thermostat on the wall, your ‘brain’ senses a deviation from the existing self-image or set ‘internal program’ for your weight and does everything it can and must do, to keep you at the weight that is programmed in the subconscious mind.

It is just doing its job, and this all happens just as fast as in the example with the furnace. Your nervous system operates at lightning speeds. Unless you change the image on the inside first, the outside will never reflect the new weight for very long.

Your subconscious is your power source. Most people use their conscious mind to try and lose weight and they are for the most part, just wasting their time.

God created a perfect system, but didn’t give our parents or us the instruction manuals to operate them perfectly. And you can be certain that you and I operate perfectly.

IT’S UP TO YOU: TAKE CHARGE

Your body and brain are the most sophisticated pieces of equipment known to man. And it’s your sole responsibility to understand how to use them to maximize their potential. If you don’t because you are lazy or uninterested, you will succumb to settling for much less than you are truly capable of.

It is your job to understand exactly how all of your internal mental and external systems work. You can learn more about how to take charge in my program, Having It All: Achieving Your Life’s Goals and Dreams. Not knowing exactly how you really function at every level limits your potential and your results.

INCOME EXAMPLE

Here’s another example…

Let’s say you want to double your financial intake and you do not re-program your subconscious mind. You may have a great month and make a lot more money than in any other month before. As soon as you start to produce better results than you have in the past, your ‘cybernetic’ mechanism will pick up a deviation from the existing financial ’self-image’ and you will automatically revert back to behaving in total sync with the current internal image you have in your subconscious mind.

You will start to do everything possible to keep consistent with the old self-image without even being aware of it – except, now you are!

If you want to learn how to reset your ‘internal programs’ to achieve greater results than ever before, pick up my book and go through the step-by-step plan I used to reset my own mental programs to achieve amazing results in my own life.

Here’s some more food for thought…

Think of some of the extreme groups in our society that believe in order for them to have peace or go to heaven, everyone else except those who believe their ways, must die. Their beliefs are not ‘wrong,’ their beliefs are just what they have been taught and programmed to believe. Their beliefs are survival mechanisms that have been instilled in them at a subconscious level for centuries.

If you believed, rightly or not, that your survival was on the line…what would you do? What would you teach your children about that ‘perceived’ threat?

Begin to understand that you have unlimited potential and that your ‘old conditioning’ or set programs automatically control the thoughts, behaviors and actions that are in harmony with that belief.

As soon as an idea presents itself that is foreign to your nervous system you automatically begin to rationalize or tell yourself ‘rational-lies’ on why you can’t make more money, share land with someone, get a promotion or lose the weight you want. This happens so fast it requires no thought on your part.

There is an incredible force and intelligent energy at work that we cannot see; yet it is part of us and is everywhere. All we have to do is to learn about all of our true physical and mental abilities and the question of our potential suddenly takes on a new meaning.

You have probably heard that we as humans only use about seven to 10 percent of our potential.

With that in mind, may I suggest that you stop doubting your potential and limits, and start questioning where the doubts and fears that are holding you back came from and then begin to eliminate them!

If you want to learn in detail more about why you do what you do, or more importantly, why you don’t do the things you know you should do, then grab a copy of my program, Having It All, and take charge today.

You can find info and testimonials here to learn about many who have applied what you’ve just read.

To your having it all!

John

This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!

The year is 1907. One hundred years ago.

Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the year 1907:

The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years old.

Five leading causes of death in the U.S. were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke

Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.

Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.

The average wage in the U.S. was 22 Cents per hour.
The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year.
A dentist made about $2,500 per year.
A veterinarian made about $1,500 per year.
A mechanical engineer made about $5,000 per year.

More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at home.

Ninety percent of all U.S. doctors had no college education. Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and the government as “substandard.”

Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over-the-counter at the local corner drugstores. Back then pharmacists said, “Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health.”

Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.

There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE United States!
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.

A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.

There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads.

The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.

Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.

The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.

The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn’t been admitted to the Union yet. The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!

Sugar cost four cents a pound.
Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.

Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn’t been invented yet.

There was no Mother’s Day or Father’s Day.

Just try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years. It boggles the mind!

So, John thought it would be fun to start a conversation about what it means to “Have it All” to you. Enter BlogCarnival.com to make it simple and easy to get the conversation going!

The Having It All Carnival is about having more money, more life and more love…what are your thoughts and conversations around that? Is it possible to truly “have it all”?

Here are the 3 questions we’d love you to answer in your Blog Carnival submissions:

• Is it possible to “have it all”?

• What does “having it all” mean to you?

• In what area of your life could you use a boost?

If you have a blog, we invite you to step right up and submit your articles, ideas, postings, musings about “having it all” for consideration and inclusion in the first ever Having It All Carnival.Never been to a Blog Carnival? That’s okay - here’s how it works…

It’s designed to start a conversation about a topic of interest to the blogger who starts it - in this case, John and “having it all” - more money, more life, more love in life and business. In order to have the conversation be two-way, and interesting, you invite other bloggers to submit their thoughts, articles, musings, on the topic to you, the blog carnival host.

The host then reviews all of the submissions, selects the ones they feel are most interesting, provocative, etc. and gathers them according to topic and then posts a short summary of them all on their blog, and links out to the person’s blog for the full read. Fun!

Blog Carnivals are designed to travel (that’s why it’s called a carnival ;-)) to different blogs. John will host the first Having It All Carnival on his blog. Then, we will invite someone else (or someone will volunteer) to host the next edition on THEIR blog.

Got it? Good. No? You can get all the info you need here at the BlogCarnival.com FAQ (opens a new window)

Again, here are the questions we’d love you to answer in your Blog Carnival submissions:

• Is it possible to “have it all”?

• What does “having it all” mean to you?

• In what area of your life could you use a boost?

(choose ONE of the areas listed below, you can submit in one area this time, and then another for the next carnival). You’ll also need to have the “permalink” to your “having it all” blog article/posting ready to copy and paste:

Money
Brain
Business/Career
Spirituality
Law of Attraction
Mental Health
Physical Health
Relationships
Contribution

Step Right Up…Submit your blog articles, musings and rants to this edition of the “Having It All Carnival”! Use our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Hope to see YOUR blog featured in the Having It All Carnival soon…

Create a Great Day,

Michelle Price

Hi again friends,

If you are interested in what and how the ultra-rich think, check out this article on Forbes.com about their lives. There’s some very interesting stuff there. Enjoy!

John

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