http://buildingabrandonline.com/livethedream/ When I first got the idea that maybe it was possible to live the way I choose to, it was a battle. On one side I wanted to believe that I can do it, but on the other I was struggling with the old idea of "do what everybody else does" and "no, you can't". Most people either never get the idea that their dreams can become a reality or they reject it as soon as it hits their mind... because of something I call "The Elephant Phenomenon".

2. Have you ever seen an elephant in a circus?

3. Haven’t you ever wondered why this big, strong,
giant elephant doesn’t just tear that whole place
into pieces along with killing everybody inside who
basically took away its freedom and made it a
slave, rather than just obediently do what it’s told?

4. And what’s even more shocking, the folks over at
the circus put this rope around the elephant’s
neck and put a little stake in the ground to make
sure the elephant stays in one place.

5. I mean, come on! That elephant could fart and
pull that damn thing out!
So why doesn’t the elephant do it?

6. That’s because when it was little and didn’t have
any strength yet, they took this big rope and put it
on the elephant’s neck, and drove a stake in the
ground…
The little, weak elephant struggled, struggled,
struggled until finally it gave up because it
believed it couldn’t pull the stake out.

7. And all throughout its life, the elephant believes
that it can’t pull out the stake,
so it doesn’t even try.

8. You see, sometimes people are like that little
elephant.
When we’re little, we dream about all the great
things we’ll do once when we grow up.
But then we go to school and that’s where the
rope gets put on our necks.

9. We no longer can do what we want, think about
what we want, or just dream because if you do it
in class, it means you’re not paying attention (by
the way, you weren’t paying attention because
that shit was boring anyway…).

10. And of course, you’ve got to do what you’re told,
even it it’s stupid, even if it’s boring, even if it’s
completely useless (like reading books whose
only purpose is to fill your mind with pictures of
pain, suffering, misery, poverty, fear and basically
program you for mediocrity for your entire life),
because if you don’t, you’ll get punished.

11. And you’re told that without a degree and a job,
you’re nothing, you’ll never be successful.
Really?!
This is just such bullshit.
Most of the richest people in the world never
finished school.

12. So then you finish school and go get a job, usually
any job you can get, never realizing that you don’t
have to, that you don’t have to live the way
somebody else wants you to live, that you don’t
have to accept everyone else’s bullshit, that you
can do whatever it is you want to do.

13. But of course, when you were little and couldn’t
think for yourself, somebody but a fucking rope
around your neck, drove a stake in the ground, so
now you’re convinced that is the only way things
work.

14. It’s all programs.
Ways of thinking installed into your mind (usually
by someone else who’s also running someone
else’s program…) that filter everything in your life.

15. So what happens if somehow, someway you get
an idea that maybe you could live a different type
of a life, that maybe you can have it all, that
maybe you can live your life on your terms?

16. “Oh no, I can’t because those people are way
more talented than me…”
“Oh no, I can’t because the people at the top
make all the money…”
“Oh no, I can’t because rich people are evil and
greedy…”
“Oh no, I can’t because I was born in X country…”
“Oh no, I can’t because what will my parents and
teachers think of me…”
“Oh no, I can’t because how will I make a living…”

17. All nothing but bullshit resulting from a program
that’s in your brain.

18. Because you don’t realize that at any moment you
can rip that stake out of the ground, get mad and
tear every single obstacle that stands in your way
into tiny pieces.

19. Just like the elephant, you’ve got all the strength
you’ll ever need inside, just waiting for that mental
virus that’s poisoning your mind to be deleted,
and when that virus is deleted, all that strength, all
that power, all that confidence, all that creativity,
EVERYTHING will be released…

20. And when that happens, everything becomes
possible to you…
And you discover a brand-new world…
A world of freedom…
A world where yesterday’s dreams become
tomorrow’s realities…

21. A world where no man, government, or institution
tells you how you can live, how much money you
can make, what’s possible for you and your
family…

22. Because you KNOW that you’re in charge of your
destiny, you’re in charge of your life, you’re in
charge of your income, you’re in charge… the
second that you decide.

23. (Just like you’re maybe doing… right now…)

24. Human beings… we’re powerful, we really are…

25. Isn’t it about time you found out how powerful
YOU really are?

26. I hope you enjoyed this presentation ;-)
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