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Episode 1838:37

#18 Barry Lynch: Discover What You Want. You Are Capable of More Than You May Think

About Barry Lynch

Barry Lynch is a mindset coach who specializes in developing paradigms and habitual behaviors, primarily working with business-oriented individuals and companies. He started his entrepreneurial journey at 18 with a cleaning business and has been mentored by renowned thought leaders like Bob Proctor, using these experiences to help clients overcome limiting beliefs and achieve their professional and personal growth goals.

Episode Summary

  • Barry Lynch discusses his role as a mindset coach specializing in paradigms and habitual behaviors, working primarily with business people and companies looking to expand.
  • He shares his entrepreneurial journey starting at age 18 with a cleaning business, bypassing traditional education to focus on business and personal development through mentors like Bob Proctor and Tony Robbins.
  • Lynch explains how self-image and limiting beliefs often prevent people from achieving income goals, whether moving from $50k to $200k or $500k to $1M annually.
  • He describes a life-changing moment with Bob Proctor who helped him recognize his sensitivity and ability to read people's energy, transforming his communication and coaching abilities.
  • The conversation explores the difference between focusing on what you 'need' versus what you 'want' and how this shift in mindset can unlock personal and professional growth.

Key Takeaways

  1. Focus on what you want rather than what you need - concentrating on needs creates habitual survival thinking while focusing on wants opens up growth possibilities.
  2. Your external results are a direct reflection of your internal self-image and beliefs, so addressing mindset is crucial for achieving bigger goals.
  3. Develop your sensitivity and ability to listen to others' energy and true desires rather than imposing your own agenda in relationships and business.
  4. When setting income or achievement goals, create a clear roadmap and understand that different income levels require different mindsets and paradigms.
  5. Take time to genuinely discover what you want in life - many people operate only from necessity without ever exploring their true desires and aspirations.

Productivity & Success Habits

Barry Lynch emphasizes the critical importance of working on what you want rather than what you need. He explains that most people get trapped in a cycle of focusing on needs - "I need to pay the bills, I need to pay my car, I need to pay my mortgage" - which creates habitual behaviors that keep them stuck. Lynch advocates for breaking free from this paradigm by identifying and working toward genuine desires and goals that excite you. He uses the ABC framework where A represents things you know you can do, B represents things you might think you need but will do anyway, and C represents the big, transformative goals that truly matter.

Lynch's approach to goal-setting involves what he calls "quantum leaps" - making major jumps rather than incremental improvements. He critiques the common practice of setting comfortable goals, like someone earning $500,000 aiming for $550,000, because these don't create the excitement needed to drive real change. Instead, he encourages setting goals that require you to become "comfortable being uncomfortable" and maintain a high vibration. Lynch learned this after experiencing burnout from working 18-20 hour days in his security business, which he scaled from $1 million to $2 million in four years. Now he works significantly less while maintaining better health and happiness, demonstrating that mindset is 95% of success while strategy is only 5%.

Final Thoughts & Advice

For those in early career stages or entrepreneurship, Lynch offers three fundamental pieces of advice. First, he emphasizes examining your paradigms: "Start to look at what you do, start to look at your paradigms... what is your paradigm surrounding [money, success, etc.] because you could have paradigms around money so you might want to earn a lot of money but it's never going to happen if you have a paradigm around money." He points to lottery winners who quickly return to their previous financial state as evidence of how limiting beliefs can sabotage success.

Lynch strongly advocates for finding mentorship and guidance: "Look for a mentor or a guide that can give you the right information and guide you in the right direction that can help you multiply your results in many different ways." He believes that with the right mindset shifts, extraordinary results are possible - even earning your yearly salary in a month. His final cornerstone advice centers on persistence: "Don't give up, persistence is the key as Napoleon Hill says... you're going to have good days you're going to have bad days but you remember if you're in a high vibration the good days are going to far outweigh the bad days." Lynch's message is ultimately one of possibility, encouraging people to believe they can have what they want in life while developing the habits and mindset to achieve it.

Notable Quotes

"The reason why people don't know what they want is because they are all the time working on what they need... but when you start to concentrate on what you want and start working towards what you want well then you fill the needs."

Barry Lynch Lynch explains why people struggle to identify their true desires versus just focusing on immediate necessities.

"Everything that's going on in the outside world is a direct reflection of what's going on internally with that person."

Barry Lynch Lynch discusses how self-image and internal beliefs directly manifest in external circumstances and results.

"When you tell yourself you're going to do something and you tend not to follow through and get the results well now you don't feel confident in your own ability and it starts to chip away."

Barry Lynch Lynch explains how failing to follow through on commitments to ourselves damages our self-confidence over time.

Episode transcript
[0:00] thank you so much for accepting my
[0:01] request for this interview to the
[0:04] audience uh please share what you do and
[0:07] how they can reach out to you
[0:10] yeah so um
[0:12] i am
[0:13] a mindset coach
[0:14] predominantly develop or deal with
[0:18] paradigms and of course paradigms are
[0:20] our habitual behaviors or almost all our
[0:22] behaviors are habitual
[0:24] and we find that i suppose when it comes
[0:26] to mindset it affects many different
[0:29] people in many different ways
[0:31] so i i would normally say that look i i
[0:34] deal with mainly business people but in
[0:37] fact paradigms affect
[0:38] all types of people in in every way not
[0:41] just business people
[0:43] however my my
[0:45] preferred client or the clients i i
[0:47] attract are predominantly uh business
[0:50] orientated people so people that are in
[0:52] a business or people that want to get
[0:55] into involved in a business and need to
[0:57] create
[0:58] the habits and know how of how to do
[1:00] that okay thank you for
[1:03] um thank you for that information who
[1:05] could who can reach out to you uh do you
[1:08] work with companies or do you work with
[1:09] individuals
[1:11] and i've worked with both and
[1:14] again um when when it's a company it
[1:17] tends to be a group of people so the
[1:19] company wants to expand a division
[1:22] um or a particular area of their
[1:24] business when it comes to an individual
[1:27] it tends to be personal and professional
[1:30] so i suppose when you look at you know
[1:32] most people want some form of personal
[1:34] growth
[1:35] and but also from a professional point
[1:37] of view
[1:38] in most cases we find though
[1:40] that people approach me based on it
[1:42] being professional and then establish
[1:44] that it's actually a lot of personal
[1:46] stuff that's going on stopping them from
[1:48] the growth
[1:50] that does make sense because ultimately
[1:53] [Music]
[1:55] your professional life and personal life
[1:57] we treat it different
[1:59] but there is so much spillover between
[2:02] the two and especially working at home
[2:06] it messes up everything
[2:08] or
[2:09] enhance everything
[2:10] and anybody who have this personal
[2:12] aspiration
[2:15] um they
[2:16] they're very good with the the work
[2:18] because they get the structure but their
[2:20] personal aspiration or side side project
[2:22] they're not that good with them so
[2:25] uh it does make sense that it's all over
[2:28] from professional to personal
[2:30] yeah because what we find is that if an
[2:33] individual wants to grow so let's take
[2:35] an example where somebody wants to earn
[2:38] maybe a couple hundred thousand a year
[2:40] and they're only earning fifty thousand
[2:42] a year or maybe it's somebody that's
[2:43] earning five hundred thousand but they
[2:45] wanna earn a million a year and they
[2:47] can't find uh the how or the gap they
[2:50] can't find the reason why they're stuck
[2:52] effectively and this creates a big
[2:54] challenge but one of the the main areas
[2:56] surrounding it is actually their
[2:58] self-image
[2:59] they might be confident
[3:01] and competent enough to be able to reach
[3:04] that goal but they may find that because
[3:06] of their self-image their beliefs their
[3:08] behaviors maybe how they grew up what
[3:10] they inherited from their ancestors
[3:12] that's what tends to hold them back and
[3:14] when when you establish that with
[3:15] somebody and you get them on the
[3:17] frequency of what they want and not what
[3:20] they need well then you can help them
[3:22] grow
[3:24] one other thing that we have to break is
[3:26] to look for other people aspiration
[3:29] you have to get the inspiration from
[3:31] inside you have to feel ready so that
[3:33] other people can
[3:35] trust you versus we typically look at
[3:37] other people and we ask hey i wanted to
[3:41] become a manager or i want to become
[3:43] this and then based on how other people
[3:45] are responding your your confidence they
[3:48] will go in up and down
[3:50] because um you're looking for the
[3:52] aspiration outside not not inside
[3:57] yeah so again when we talk about our
[3:59] self-image
[4:00] uh everything that's going on in the
[4:02] outside world is a direct reflection of
[4:04] what's going on internally with that
[4:06] person
[4:07] so
[4:08] as i said if they want to grow or they
[4:10] want to develop or they want to you know
[4:11] get a new job or they want to create
[4:13] income they say they're going to do it
[4:16] and they almost decide they're going to
[4:17] do it but then they give up on doing it
[4:19] so something happens and a month passes
[4:21] by three months six months a year and
[4:23] then they realize they never reached a
[4:24] goal and that is down to the self-image
[4:27] and and sometimes that can be
[4:30] damaging in some ways because it can
[4:32] affect your confidence
[4:34] so when you tell yourself you're going
[4:36] to do something and you tend not to
[4:38] follow true and get the results well now
[4:41] you don't feel confident in your own
[4:42] ability and it starts to chip away
[4:45] so then it's almost like the second
[4:46] person talking to yourself in your head
[4:49] and that affects you but when you show
[4:51] people how to develop the skill of
[4:54] avoiding that and show them how to uh
[4:57] get on the frequency of what they want
[4:59] well then you can open up a whole
[5:02] variety of
[5:04] growth with inside somebody
[5:08] that sounds very powerful
[5:12] it is i trust me it is that's something
[5:14] i've learned many years ago
[5:16] how can people reach out to you and do
[5:18] you want to share your pricing how much
[5:21] it cost them to get your services
[5:25] yeah so uh there's a couple of options
[5:27] one is
[5:30] you know
[5:30] v-a-r-y-l-n-c-h-s
[5:32] alternatively jump onto barry lynch.com
[5:36] um and just send me a
[5:39] an email through that
[5:41] or on the autorespond connect on it and
[5:44] uh from a cost point of view uh we have
[5:47] a a set program and that's done over six
[5:50] months so we can do over three months
[5:52] uh they range from uh three thousand
[5:55] eight hundred dollars up to six thousand
[5:56] two hundred and fifty dollars but it
[5:58] really depends on the the end of it the
[6:00] pricings are set but it depends on the
[6:02] individual of what we need to work with
[6:05] so we we adapt that in a free call we
[6:07] offer a free call to anybody that just
[6:08] wants to
[6:09] share get get an open mind to what how
[6:12] they what they can do and what they can
[6:13] achieve
[6:15] okay and i will add all these hyperlink
[6:17] in the
[6:18] show description and
[6:21] in the footnote so i will add that so
[6:23] again thank you so much for offering all
[6:25] these services now we jump into what you
[6:28] wanted to become when you was in high
[6:30] school
[6:32] so when i was younger i always had a
[6:34] passion and desire to be wealthy i
[6:38] always had a passion desire to be in
[6:39] business to create some sort of wealth i
[6:42] have no idea why but it seemed to me
[6:44] that that was the shiny object to me
[6:46] and i suppose when i started in business
[6:48] when i was 18
[6:50] and i originally started with a cleaning
[6:52] business
[6:54] and i built that up quite successfully
[6:57] um and that allowed me to adapt many
[7:01] different things
[7:02] at that age and that i suppose a lot of
[7:05] people didn't have um which was cars and
[7:08] you know jewelry and nice holidays and
[7:11] so i i seem to
[7:13] develop that passion and desire for
[7:15] being in business i loved the label of
[7:18] being a businessman
[7:20] and that's what what helped me grow
[7:21] throughout my years and i i always said
[7:24] you know i was going to be
[7:26] a millionaire when i was by the time i
[7:28] was 40. and it was which was great but
[7:31] it didn't feel like that i suppose when
[7:33] when i first got into business because
[7:35] you know it's it's it's a tough road
[7:38] when you try to do it on your own and
[7:40] that was the problem i tried to do
[7:41] everything on my own without asking for
[7:43] advice
[7:46] so 18 year old so
[7:49] does that mean you didn't go for your
[7:51] bachelor master degree you you started
[7:53] business directly
[7:55] left school quite early and decided to
[7:58] go into business
[8:00] and set up my business and then realized
[8:02] i didn't need to go back to do any more
[8:04] and my my learning didn't stop though
[8:07] and my learning uh
[8:10] transpired into business orientated so
[8:13] um bob proctor
[8:15] um brian tracy jim rohn
[8:18] tony robbins all these people i learned
[8:21] you know cds tapes i used to drive
[8:24] around with cassette tape in my vehicle
[8:25] listening to them over and over again
[8:27] napoleon hill think and grow rich earl
[8:29] nightingale
[8:32] on your linkedin i saw you're a big fan
[8:35] of bob proctor you shared a lot of
[8:37] hyperlink from his videos
[8:39] yes
[8:41] yes i've been connected with bob now for
[8:44] over three and a half years and
[8:47] unfortunately he passed away last week
[8:49] which was a big loss and but his legacy
[8:52] will continue and because the
[8:54] information
[8:56] that i've learned from bob
[8:58] changed my life forever
[9:01] so i was quite successful i started the
[9:03] business when i was 18. i listened to
[9:06] some of bob many years ago and as well
[9:09] as many others but when i became to
[9:11] roughly around my mid-40s
[9:14] and i had i suppose i felt reached the
[9:17] pinnacle of my career you know i had a
[9:20] successful business i had everything i
[9:22] ever wanted and i didn't really want for
[9:25] anything but i think that got too much
[9:28] and it all sort of felt like it was
[9:31] falling apart around me and there are
[9:33] lots of different things happened i was
[9:35] probably getting too confident for my my
[9:37] own boots and i ended up with court
[9:40] cases you know four high court actions
[9:43] and
[9:44] and i i thought that this was the way
[9:46] business was you know someone soon you
[9:48] sue them someone else says you used to
[9:49] them and it was getting it was getting
[9:52] to a stage where
[9:53] i was getting
[9:55] everyone enjoyed anymore and it wasn't a
[9:59] good place to be i wasn't in a good
[10:00] place it affected many things in my life
[10:04] and
[10:05] um i managed to
[10:07] reach out to bob proctor and i did some
[10:10] training with with bob and it literally
[10:13] changed my life forever i was able to
[10:16] scale my business from where it was the
[10:18] next level but become happy and healthy
[10:21] as well whereas before before that i
[10:23] wasn't happy or healthy i was working
[10:25] you know 80 and 20 hours a day whereas
[10:27] now i work a lot less and i'm a lot more
[10:30] happier and a lot more healthier in the
[10:32] process
[10:34] i was i wanted to ask if you met with
[10:36] him but seems like you did as you did
[10:38] training with him
[10:40] i did indeed i met i met bob several
[10:43] times
[10:44] um over the past before the pandemic and
[10:48] i think it was four times actually i met
[10:50] him um but one of the times i clearly
[10:53] remember uh which was another
[10:55] life-changing experience for me and i
[10:58] was in his home and we had had lunch
[11:00] and now not just me it was there was a
[11:03] group of people we were
[11:05] invited to his home and his studio to
[11:07] have lunch and
[11:09] i had asked him a question and i had
[11:12] said
[11:13] bob do you mind me asking you you know
[11:14] how do you develop your intuition
[11:17] um because bob was the type of
[11:19] individual you could stand and talk to
[11:20] him and he could read you he could read
[11:22] your energy and he could tell
[11:24] what you were thinking he could tell you
[11:26] know if you had a problem he could tell
[11:28] and and i was i was really intrigued by
[11:30] this so i asked him and he what he had
[11:32] said to me was um barry he says you're
[11:35] very sensitive
[11:36] and i went okay thanks and that was it
[11:39] that's all he said and
[11:41] i went off for about an hour trying to
[11:42] figure out what did he mean by i was
[11:44] very sensitive
[11:45] because when i was growing up everybody
[11:48] told me i was sensitive but i understood
[11:50] sensitive was in i was angry because i
[11:53] wasn't an angry person
[11:55] so i i was
[11:57] completely confused so i decided to go
[11:59] back to him and about an hour later i
[12:01] walked back over and said i'm sorry i'm
[12:03] gonna have to ask you this again i said
[12:04] you tell me i'm very sensitive can you
[12:06] please tell me and he goes listen to
[12:08] yourself barry listen to yourself and
[12:11] that was it that's all he said
[12:13] so i'm back to the hotel room and got on
[12:15] the bus back to the hotel room and i sat
[12:17] in the hotel room i'd say for about
[12:19] three or four hours trying to you know
[12:21] his words going into my head listen to
[12:23] yourself listen to yourself you're a
[12:25] very sensitive listener and then a light
[12:27] bulb went on and i realized
[12:29] all my life i had been picking up
[12:32] energy from other people but not knowing
[12:34] that's what it was
[12:36] so when when i'm surrounded with people
[12:39] or when i'm with somebody i can almost
[12:42] pick up their energy
[12:45] and i realize that the more you start to
[12:48] listen to it
[12:49] the more you feel it the more you pick
[12:52] it up
[12:53] and that had answered a lot of questions
[12:56] for me because
[12:58] when i was with say a relationship or
[13:00] when i was with an employee
[13:02] you know it was when i was with them it
[13:03] was all about what i wanted you know you
[13:05] better start doing this and if you don't
[13:07] start doing this you're gonna get you're
[13:08] gonna fire you get fired but then i
[13:10] start listening to what they wanted well
[13:13] when when i listen to them i'm watching
[13:15] them and picking up whether they're
[13:16] telling me the truth or whether i
[13:18] genuinely want to you know move on or
[13:20] not
[13:22] because of that it made my communication
[13:24] skills more effective
[13:26] and this is why i find now that i'm very
[13:28] good with clients because i'm not just
[13:32] taking the services from them to get
[13:34] paid and genuinely helping them
[13:36] to better themselves or improve and as a
[13:39] result of bob and what he had shared
[13:42] with me and that life-changing moment as
[13:44] well as the other information i learned
[13:46] so i felt a connection with him and from
[13:48] that day to this you know i admired him
[13:53] this is
[13:55] this is what i like about this
[13:57] discussion with each person that i talk
[13:59] to something from their life comes up
[14:02] and
[14:03] just hearing the energy hearing the
[14:06] sound of your
[14:07] voice hearing the passion behind it
[14:10] it's amazed me
[14:12] okay thank you very much this is one of
[14:14] the life-changing moments for you so
[14:16] amazing
[14:18] well i think it's in everybody that's
[14:19] the difference it's like you know when i
[14:22] talk to people i ask them what is it you
[14:24] want
[14:25] and if somebody hasn't got a desire or
[14:27] passion to want something well that's
[14:30] sometimes can be just down to their they
[14:32] just don't have never asked themselves
[14:33] what they want
[14:35] so when i speak to somebody and i do a
[14:36] 15-minute call with them i'll ask them
[14:38] what do you want and some people don't
[14:40] know what they want
[14:42] they want
[14:43] yeah they want money they say i want
[14:45] money and i say but if i give you a
[14:47] million euros a day what would that do
[14:49] and they say oh i pay my bills
[14:53] i was not buying this camera then what
[14:55] would you do after that what would you
[14:56] do and then they don't know
[14:58] it's because you know when you go from
[15:00] like what i said when you go from
[15:01] somebody that might be earning 500 000
[15:03] to go to somebody one that's earning a
[15:05] million
[15:06] it's two different it's two different
[15:08] mindsets so you know it's a journey you
[15:11] have to go through but when you've
[15:13] spoken to somebody or you deal with
[15:14] somebody that's already being there
[15:16] you're getting solid advice
[15:18] but you first have to decide what it is
[15:20] you want i always knew what i wanted and
[15:22] that's why that's what gets me up in the
[15:24] morning so that's why i find out off
[15:25] somebody else what is it you want do you
[15:27] want to earn that money yes okay well
[15:29] let's let's set up a road map let's
[15:31] guide you to that and then let's get the
[15:33] let the get the ball rolling you know
[15:35] put the road map in place and start
[15:36] giving you the guidance and then you can
[15:38] start to see your dreams come true
[15:40] and if you don't know what you want well
[15:42] then we sit down and we go well okay
[15:44] let's go back a few years let's go back
[15:47] 10 15 20 years what does he want to then
[15:50] and then the light bulb sometimes goes
[15:52] on he realizes actually i know what i
[15:53] want
[15:54] okay but the other thing you've got to
[15:56] remember is the reason why people don't
[15:58] know what they want
[15:59] is because they are all the time working
[16:02] on what they need
[16:04] i need to pay the bills i need to pay my
[16:06] car i need to pay my mortgage i need to
[16:08] pay the school fees you know i need to
[16:10] put a roof over my head
[16:12] so what happens is when you concentrate
[16:14] on what it is you need
[16:16] it it just becomes a habitual behavior
[16:19] day in and day out but when you start to
[16:21] concentrate on what you want and start
[16:23] working towards what you want well then
[16:25] you fill the needs
[16:28] the people who don't know what they want
[16:31] and i have seen many people i have seen
[16:34] my own aspiration that i know up to a
[16:37] certain point what i want
[16:39] and then after that that i did not know
[16:41] what i want and i spent last three years
[16:44] just circling around to figure out and
[16:46] that helped me but
[16:49] i've meet so many people i observe so
[16:51] many people who don't know what they
[16:53] want and and one of the reason that i
[16:56] realize is
[16:58] the way our culture is the way our
[17:00] we grew up
[17:02] in school
[17:05] for
[17:05] like
[17:06] 18 20 years
[17:09] we was looking at teacher for praise and
[17:12] uh we know that every year we're going
[17:13] to go to the next class and next class
[17:15] and then
[17:16] um when we
[17:18] we get out of the college start job
[17:21] we get into this cycle that
[17:24] this person has this type of car this
[17:26] person has this type of a house and
[17:29] that's what i want right i mean that's
[17:31] what everybody want and
[17:34] they go into the cycle for endless cycle
[17:37] and just like you said once they start
[17:39] buying these fancy thing they they go
[17:41] into the neat part that i need to earn
[17:44] this much so i can pay off this so the
[17:46] cycle
[17:49] unknowingly knowing unknowingly we trap
[17:52] into the cycle and we don't even
[17:54] know
[17:56] what we want and many people are in that
[17:58] cycle
[18:00] and i wish if somebody can help or a
[18:04] global
[18:06] phenomenon that can help them that
[18:09] these are the seven things these are the
[18:11] 10 things that you should do at this age
[18:13] or this age that you know at least you
[18:17] start working toward it to know uh or at
[18:20] least recognize that you don't really
[18:21] know what you want you're just going
[18:23] after something but
[18:26] there are so much help
[18:29] once you know what you want
[18:31] there's so much help right you you you
[18:34] know how to to break into goals you know
[18:36] how to to achieve your goals and there's
[18:38] so much
[18:40] you could do once you figure out
[18:43] what you want but the process to
[18:45] figuring out what you really want
[18:48] um is
[18:50] not the defined
[18:52] so there there is actually another
[18:54] process you can use when you're trying
[18:55] to figure out what it is you want
[18:57] you see you've got to remember that
[18:59] everything that we do we're caught up in
[19:00] our paradigms we're kind of in our
[19:02] habitual state you know we get up at the
[19:03] same time we go to bed at the same time
[19:05] we go into our kitchen or we go into our
[19:07] living room we sit in the same chair you
[19:09] know we watch tv in the same position if
[19:11] somebody if we came into the room and
[19:13] somebody was sitting in our chair we're
[19:15] uncomfortable so we asked them to move
[19:17] why because it's our chair
[19:20] so what's happening is we get caught up
[19:21] in the habitual state so when you
[19:23] realize that you i suppose leave high
[19:26] school and you know you get to your
[19:29] uh do your your exams or whatever and
[19:31] you're happy with them and then you get
[19:32] married you have kids you get a house
[19:34] you get a car and now you're competing
[19:36] with everybody else like what you
[19:37] mentioned you know
[19:40] stupid is a brand new standard oh well
[19:43] i'm going to have to buy a course down
[19:44] the road right a better car i'm buying a
[19:46] ferrari you know and it becomes a
[19:48] competition
[19:49] and now you're trying to find the money
[19:51] to do it the need the need whereas if
[19:53] you were to sit down and sit back and
[19:55] actually think about what it is you want
[19:57] and what i mean by that is outside of
[19:59] the bubble so why i say the bubble is
[20:01] because our habitual behaviors are
[20:03] inside the bubble so it's a bit like
[20:04] when you go away in holidays what
[20:06] happens
[20:07] you're in a completely different frame
[20:09] of mind you're laughing you're genuine
[20:12] yeah exactly and that's because you're
[20:14] in a higher state of vibration you're
[20:16] not in your habitual state
[20:18] so they're they're the times when you
[20:20] should be
[20:21] even able to think about more you know
[20:23] you might see something you say oh my
[20:25] god i love that car oh my god i've
[20:26] always wanted a car like that i'm gonna
[20:28] do it that's what i want
[20:30] you see and then you go back home and
[20:31] you get back in your bubble and you get
[20:33] back to your days work and you forget
[20:34] about the car and you forget about all
[20:36] these things that you're going to do but
[20:37] the difference is if they excite you
[20:39] well then that's what you should work
[20:41] towards
[20:43] yeah so it really is it's it's about
[20:46] sitting down and looking at what we call
[20:48] the abc
[20:50] you know
[20:51] an a is something that you do
[20:54] and you know you can do
[20:56] and b is something that
[20:59] you might
[21:00] think you need it but you'll do it
[21:01] anyway whereas the seagull is something
[21:04] big so that might be where i'm on 500
[21:06] thousand i want to earn a million but
[21:08] what most people do is come to goals is
[21:10] they might say i'm on 500 000 and i'm
[21:13] going to earn 550 000 next year why
[21:15] because that's comfortable 50 grand
[21:17] that's no problem yeah so what'll happen
[21:19] is sometimes the economy will get better
[21:21] you'll earn a 50 grand you think you've
[21:22] reached your goal yeah i got my goal
[21:25] well actually you didn't it didn't
[21:26] really make it that happy it didn't get
[21:28] you by bed in the morning but when you
[21:30] start to create the once and what you
[21:32] want and you start working towards it
[21:33] and you build a roadmap around that well
[21:36] now you're excited every day getting up
[21:38] out of bed you know it's hard to keep
[21:39] you down because now you're starting to
[21:41] see that life is much better now the i
[21:44] the the whole idea is keeping on that
[21:47] um
[21:49] almost like the
[21:50] the level or vibration of the goal and
[21:53] that's the key it's all about being
[21:56] comfortable being uncomfortable
[21:58] and when you're comfortable being
[21:59] uncomfortable well then you can stay in
[22:02] the high vibration and you start hitting
[22:04] major goals almost like quantum leaps
[22:06] start to happen
[22:08] well that quantum leap is i guess it's
[22:12] way higher heavy board than i can
[22:15] um yeah i can't believe you know that's
[22:17] that's when you make a a big a big jump
[22:20] a major jump and you know it's a book
[22:22] called uh u-square
[22:24] and uh christ's picture it's very good
[22:28] he talks about quantum leaps you know
[22:30] and he talks about a fly in a room and
[22:32] the fly comes in and it's trying to get
[22:34] out you know to the window and it's
[22:36] beating off the window banging banging
[22:38] back and forward and then eventually it
[22:40] gets exhausted and dies but yet 10 feet
[22:43] behind it the doors open
[22:45] you know it could have flown out the
[22:47] door and gone to freedom but why because
[22:49] it wasn't looking at that it was looking
[22:52] in the wrong direction and that's what
[22:54] people do
[22:55] that's why i was saying mindset is 95
[22:58] strategy is 5
[23:00] but most people do the opposite way
[23:03] they have 95 strategy 5 mindset they're
[23:06] not thinking about the solutions they're
[23:08] thinking about the problem
[23:11] you you recently started youtube right i
[23:14] saw your youtube as well and you've been
[23:16] consistently posting there so
[23:19] very happy about that
[23:21] yeah so it's it's very much i suppose
[23:24] when
[23:25] when i talk about um as i said a few
[23:28] years ago i had a bad self-image
[23:30] you know so that was the reason why i
[23:32] couldn't scale my business i used to
[23:34] blame everybody else like what i said
[23:36] everything that's going on in the
[23:37] exterior world
[23:39] is a direct replication of what's going
[23:40] on internally
[23:42] so i used to blame everybody else and
[23:44] then when i was introduced to all this
[23:46] material and i realized that in fact i
[23:48] was the problem with not everybody else
[23:50] well then i was able to change that
[23:52] and of course then it made me more
[23:53] comfortable being in front of a camera
[23:55] and when i became more comfortable in
[23:56] front of a camera i became me and i
[23:59] could you know when somebody asked me a
[24:00] question i could give a straight answer
[24:02] whereas if you'd asked me this question
[24:04] maybe six years ago i'd be stumbling to
[24:07] give you an answer because i'd be more
[24:09] concerned about how i looked or you know
[24:11] what what i was going to say
[24:14] so yeah youtube already started recently
[24:16] it's uh you know i've i've been
[24:18] concentrating on mainly clients but but
[24:20] now i'm starting to open up into to all
[24:22] areas of platforms i have so much
[24:24] information that i wanted to share i
[24:26] have all the ah and um comes into the
[24:29] play just like what you're saying
[24:31] um when i'm trying to record myself
[24:34] just me myself
[24:37] yeah so
[24:38] you know again when we look at
[24:41] our self-image and we can change our
[24:43] self-image
[24:44] you can reinvent yourself to be whatever
[24:46] you want
[24:47] because you're you through your
[24:49] ancestors and as you were growing up
[24:51] that's what you developed
[24:53] so you know you may be similar to your
[24:54] mom your dad your brothers your sisters
[24:56] you'll talk you'll walk you'll eat
[24:58] you'll drink you'll sleep very same as
[24:59] them
[25:00] but if we want to be different and and
[25:02] i'm i am very different than my brothers
[25:05] and sisters and because i have a passion
[25:07] and desire for business and they didn't
[25:09] have the same passion
[25:11] and so i am almost created my my
[25:14] own self-image of who i wanted to be and
[25:17] that's that's what we can do so you know
[25:20] if if i wanted to be a confident
[25:22] individual well then that's what i've
[25:24] done i created my staff image around my
[25:26] confidence
[25:27] but but what i have to
[25:29] point out here is that
[25:30] i had two personalities for many years
[25:34] because i had the personality when i was
[25:35] the businessman and then i had the
[25:37] personality when i was at home
[25:39] and there were two different people
[25:40] whereas now i'm the same person i i
[25:43] don't you know i don't have to be false
[25:45] i don't have to put on you know that i'm
[25:47] a great businessman i don't have to do
[25:48] it anymore but that's because i had a
[25:50] bad self-image so it's it's about being
[25:53] uh you know being you
[25:54] very i can relate it to like 100
[25:58] um my journey was
[26:01] when i became manager or even before
[26:03] when i wanted to become a manager i was
[26:07] putting the show that
[26:09] i am in this role and i have to act and
[26:12] behave like this
[26:13] and that go on for many years
[26:17] and then just like how you said
[26:20] how i was managing my kids and how i was
[26:23] managing my team is completely different
[26:25] things
[26:27] and how i live and behave and think when
[26:30] i'm alone
[26:32] and how i act when i'm in uh in my
[26:35] office was completely different and i
[26:38] realized that first when i was doing
[26:41] myers-bridge
[26:42] that's a personality check
[26:45] and i started thinking
[26:47] how do i answer these questions if i
[26:50] answer these questions as
[26:52] what i do for my full-time job
[26:56] answers are different
[26:57] i'm very organized big planner if i if i
[27:01] answer them based on how i act when i'm
[27:04] alone
[27:05] it's different
[27:06] so that's when i realized but
[27:09] fortunately so far i was able to blend
[27:12] um them together and i i was able to act
[27:16] more natural initially and even now um i
[27:20] am okay
[27:22] to speak the way i speak
[27:24] versus uh previously i was trying to act
[27:29] like a i'm somebody
[27:31] i act like a professional versus the
[27:34] person that i am now
[27:36] that's it it's getting comfortable being
[27:37] yourself so you know yeah
[27:40] you'd have to like you before you can
[27:42] really really like anybody else that's
[27:45] what i was down to because when you
[27:48] start to like who you are uh your
[27:50] personality and how you you look and how
[27:53] you talk and how you walk well then you
[27:55] know it doesn't matter what anybody else
[27:56] thinks because if they if they're
[27:58] thinking about you that means they've
[28:00] got a problem with them
[28:02] because you need to be thinking about
[28:04] you
[28:04] and even on our own personal perspective
[28:07] you don't like yourself but you're
[28:09] expecting other people likes you
[28:11] right i mean that's the big
[28:13] contradiction
[28:15] you're trying to show off that so that
[28:16] other people likes you versus and but
[28:19] inside you you know that something is
[28:21] missing
[28:23] yeah so like it's very much a case of
[28:24] when we look at our mental faculties you
[28:26] know perception reason will intuition
[28:29] memory you know we've got to remember
[28:31] that we can develop skills so that first
[28:33] of all you start to like you for being
[28:35] you and then if you pick up like what
[28:37] you said with the intuition and you pick
[28:39] up that somebody may dislike you well
[28:41] you can use your mental faculties to
[28:43] allow them to to hone into you so it's
[28:46] almost like gratitude you know leaving
[28:49] someone with a sense of increase you
[28:51] know if you if i pick somebody dislikes
[28:53] me you know
[28:55] i talk to them and say something nicely
[28:57] you know i bring them on board and if
[28:59] they like me well there's nothing i can
[29:00] do about that but i will try i aim to
[29:03] use my mental faculties my communication
[29:06] skills
[29:06] whereas many years ago
[29:08] you know they didn't like me i didn't
[29:09] care well it's tough whatever good luck
[29:12] i don't want to talk to you get out of
[29:13] the room you know what are you doing
[29:14] here whereas now i'll go out of my way
[29:17] to
[29:18] you know leave
[29:19] somebody
[29:22] with a sense of increase
[29:27] what it'll do is if you say something to
[29:28] somebody so i'll give an example when
[29:30] somebody is in um a mode of i suppose
[29:34] south wallowing you know like oh my god
[29:36] it always happens to me and i'm sick of
[29:37] this and oh dude you know this the whole
[29:39] world but when you find somebody's in
[29:41] that state either say something go and
[29:43] do something for somebody go and do
[29:45] something out of your heart buy somebody
[29:46] a cup of coffee that you don't know and
[29:48] watch what happens
[29:50] your vibration will go through the roof
[29:52] because you've done something outside of
[29:54] it and what will that do it'll raise
[29:56] your vibration from low to high and then
[29:59] it'll put you in good form
[30:01] and the same thing happens when you
[30:03] pass a compliment to somebody when you
[30:05] say something nice to somebody
[30:07] especially somebody you don't like
[30:09] because what will happen is that it'll
[30:10] raise your confidence it will also raise
[30:15] them think oh my god what was that all
[30:16] about who will feel so good about it so
[30:19] not only have you made them feel good
[30:21] you've made yourself feel good so it's a
[30:23] double the double-ended sword for a good
[30:25] body
[30:29] so barry you could have been changing
[30:31] the topic um
[30:32] to go on you could have done so many
[30:35] things you started with business you
[30:38] probably have done a few other
[30:39] businesses
[30:41] how did you land into this business
[30:43] so i started off in in chem dry
[30:46] about 18 years of age i ran that for 10
[30:49] years and i then decided to set up with
[30:52] that and move on to the security
[30:53] business um
[30:55] up to about four years ago we were doing
[30:57] about 1 million 1.2 million and then we
[30:59] grew that
[31:00] in the last four years up to 2 million
[31:03] and but
[31:04] whilst i i have lost the passion and
[31:07] desire to run that because i've got
[31:09] caught up in the 18 and 20 hours a day
[31:12] and i certainly don't put in them hours
[31:14] anymore but what it has allowed me to do
[31:16] is to grow myself and so
[31:20] i ended up where i started to teach
[31:22] people how i did it
[31:24] and how i became a seven figure owner of
[31:27] business and of course how they could
[31:29] avoid what happened to me all the
[31:32] problems in the middle that people can
[31:33] now avoid to get there
[31:35] right and of course it makes it easier
[31:37] for them and as well as that then you
[31:40] know i show people systems and guidance
[31:43] mentorship
[31:44] and of course a roadmap of how they too
[31:48] can get there without having to the
[31:50] difficulties that that i encountered
[31:55] that's a quite a journey
[31:58] yeah like i would say in the early part
[32:00] it was probably a roller coaster because
[32:02] it was always expanding every business i
[32:04] was into was always expanding whereas
[32:06] now well like any business is a roller
[32:08] coaster but it's a more defined road map
[32:12] now i know what i want and not what i
[32:14] need
[32:15] you know so i'm now chasing and
[32:17] believing what i can do i've eliminated
[32:19] or eradicated some way unlimiting
[32:21] beliefs that allows me now to expand and
[32:25] in many ways about health and happiness
[32:29] when when you figure this that this is
[32:32] what you will do moving forward
[32:36] i wanted to give what would the process
[32:38] look like how did you figure that
[32:41] the change
[32:43] and so initially what happened was when
[32:45] i looked at uh the problems in my life
[32:49] and they were problems and they were
[32:52] escalating quite rapidly um as i
[32:54] mentioned between high court actions
[32:56] relationship issues with my children my
[32:59] wife and
[33:01] things going on in my own head
[33:03] i started to drink lots of alcohol and
[33:07] you know every day was a problem
[33:09] and and you know bad thoughts were
[33:12] coming into my mind you know what what
[33:13] was i doing this for what was i getting
[33:15] up every day for what was the world you
[33:17] know doing to me what was the problem
[33:19] why am i bothering you know what's this
[33:21] all about and it when it got to that
[33:24] stage then it was like it was all over
[33:26] what's the point in carrying on and then
[33:30] when
[33:31] uh i realized one morning one sunday it
[33:34] was like
[33:35] one o'clock i was still in bed and i
[33:37] have to be now drinking heavily the
[33:38] night before
[33:40] and i'd realized i said like
[33:41] when was there a time when i was
[33:43] actually happy how was it come to all
[33:45] this
[33:46] and then i reflected back i reflected
[33:48] back when i was 17 and 18 driving around
[33:51] in my vehicle listening to napoleon hill
[33:55] and earl nightingale and bob proctor and
[33:58] and i remember saying i know so much of
[34:00] this stuff i should teach it
[34:03] and then a light bulb went down and oh
[34:05] my god
[34:06] that's what i need to do
[34:08] i need to i need to start getting into
[34:09] personal development i can help people
[34:12] don't i don't want people to end up
[34:14] where i am and i'm sure there's lots and
[34:16] then as i started to look at it that's
[34:18] exactly what we stumbled across that you
[34:20] know the entrepreneur
[34:22] is can be a lonely journey
[34:24] and
[34:25] people can feel segregated as a result
[34:28] of that
[34:28] but when you
[34:30] when you reach out nobody is going to
[34:31] tell you they have a problem
[34:33] but when you reach out to people and you
[34:36] know
[34:37] tell them or explain to them well then
[34:38] they can connect with you and then of
[34:40] course
[34:41] it allows you then to be able to help
[34:42] them in some way
[34:45] very it's a
[34:47] 58. i know you said you have a coaching
[34:50] call
[34:52] yeah no don't worry it's fine a couple
[34:54] of minutes won't work yeah no problem
[34:57] okay
[34:58] you you have so much wisdom you have so
[35:01] much knowledge
[35:03] and i know you just started with twitter
[35:06] and i started like four weeks ago
[35:10] um but there are so much community there
[35:12] there's so much so many people um the
[35:16] way it work is where you share a
[35:19] lot of information just like what you're
[35:21] sharing here but more the written format
[35:24] more on the thread twitter thread format
[35:26] and then
[35:28] you build a community of people there i
[35:31] will share some of the reference some of
[35:33] the some of the things that i have
[35:34] learned um
[35:36] even uh hopefully that will give you a
[35:38] jump to start but i think you will find
[35:41] a lot of people that you can help there
[35:44] and there are twitter spaces as well
[35:47] where you will be able to speak and and
[35:50] connect with so many people
[35:52] yeah for sure look i really appreciate
[35:55] you know you taking the time out to you
[35:57] know ask me these questions and i i have
[36:00] a passion now you know for helping
[36:02] people and that's why
[36:04] you know when i'm offered to jump on
[36:06] something like this i love to share
[36:08] not that i expect anything in return for
[36:11] it but just you know somebody out there
[36:14] can can hear it and and almost connect
[36:17] to it and go oh my god it is possible
[36:20] you can i can have what i want in life
[36:22] and you can that's the reality
[36:25] so with the time um
[36:27] we'll
[36:29] jump directly into what's your message
[36:31] for the audience and my audience are
[36:33] people who are in the early career or
[36:35] entrepreneurship or
[36:38] business who are trying to determine how
[36:41] their next 5 10 50 years look like
[36:45] 20 years not 15.
[36:47] yeah
[36:48] yeah well the first thing i would say is
[36:50] start to look at what you do
[36:53] start to look at your paradigms
[36:55] what is your paradigm surrounding so
[36:58] when we talk about paradigms we're
[36:59] talking about our habits our habitual
[37:01] habits our daily habitual currencies
[37:04] because what you got to remember is that
[37:06] you could have paradigms around money so
[37:07] you might want to earn a lot of money
[37:09] but it's never going to happen
[37:11] if you have a paradigm around money and
[37:13] that's like when somebody wins the
[37:14] lottery you find in a very short period
[37:16] of time they end up back to the way they
[37:18] were why because they weren't
[37:21] used to it they didn't know how to
[37:23] utilize how to
[37:25] use it or spend it in a way to develop
[37:28] their life so the first thing i would
[37:29] say is look at your habitual behaviors
[37:31] look at your habits and start to develop
[37:33] the skills that you need or require
[37:36] look for a mentor or a guide that can
[37:39] give you the right information and guide
[37:41] you in the right direction that can help
[37:43] you
[37:44] i suppose multiply your results in many
[37:46] different ways because if you want to
[37:48] earn
[37:49] your yearly salary and a monthly salary
[37:51] it's possible but it's just you don't
[37:53] think like that at the moment so you've
[37:55] got to change your mindset skills and
[37:57] don't give up you know don't give up
[37:59] persistence is the key as napoleon hill
[38:01] says persistence you've got to be
[38:03] persistent in everything you do you're
[38:05] going to have good days you're going to
[38:06] have bad days but you remember if you're
[38:09] in a high vibration the good days are
[38:11] going to far away the bad days and
[38:13] that's what the important thing is
[38:16] well thank you so much very do you have
[38:18] any question for me
[38:20] no no i really enjoy your questioning
[38:25] thank you
[38:36] you

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