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The Missing Secret PodcastGetting More Enlightened – It Will Improve Your LifeIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the concept of getting more enlightened over time. It’s not a linear process. In this episode John goes into eight moments in his life where something happened and he got materially more enlightened. The first time was when he read the book psycho cybernetics at 19. Then it 27 he discovered what his special talent was. The ability to make the complex simple. Then at 30 he saw the power of being an entrepreneur. Then when he was 48 he read the book younger next year. Changed his perspective on ex...2025-05-1535 min
The Missing Secret PodcastYou’re the PROBLEM but You’re Also the SOLUTIONIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the idea that you are both the problem and the solution. And to illustrate this idea, Kelly shares something interesting going on in her recruitment business. Her company wants to go to eight figures a year in revenues. But they can’t seem to get past seven figures a year in revenues. When you step back, Kelly is both the problem and the solution. Her company is a reflection of her. And while they are very successful, the company isn’t as successful as Kelly would like it t...2025-05-0828 min
The Missing Secret PodcastYour Life is Precious – Coming to Grips with ThatIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the idea of making the audience appreciate individually how precious their life is. Coming to grips with that. John talks about when this really came home in his life. It was when his mom was dying of pancreatic cancer when he was 50 years old. At the same time John was engrossed in reading think and grow Rich probably 20 times to figure out the full secret of that legendary book. And as he would go to the hospital every night to see his mom, after he saw her...2025-05-0129 min
The Missing Secret PodcastThe Art of Living – Your Romantic RelationshipIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the art of living as it relates to your romantic relationship. John points out that the fact that your partner has either estrogen or testosterone coursing through their veins. And that’s radically different than what you have coursing through your veins. John points out that people are who they are based on their genetics and what is come into their consciousness to this point. But the third factor is do they have estrogen or testosterone coursing through their veins. The net effect is that ot...2025-04-1722 min
The Missing Secret PodcastThe First 30 Days: What You Will Experience Using This 12-Minute a Day TechniqueIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss what people will experience in the first 30 days of doing this 12 minute a day technique. John mentions that the first 15 days is just creating the habit of doing it consistently every day. And not worrying about doing all the things you say you’re going to do in the visualization. Rather, in the first 15 days, just create the habit of reading it every day. Then about 15 days in, the second phase kicks in. Now you’re embracing taking the actions you’re articulating in your life GPS templa...2025-04-0335 min
The Missing Secret PodcastWorking Smarter Not Harder – What It MeansIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the concept of working smarter not harder. Kelly is a great example of doing this. Recently she went to one of her competitors in the recruiting space. That is more successful than she is. Visited their offices with a couple of her team members. They learned so much. Now they’re in the process of implementing what they learned in their own business. Now that is working smarter not harder. John then talks about the difference in his life of working smarter in his 50s ve...2025-03-2725 min
The Missing Secret PodcastYou’re Not Smart Enough…To Be Successful Without This One ThingIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the concept of the power of personal growth. Kelly had the benefit of growing up with a father who was big into personal growth. Accordingly, ongoing personal growth is who Kelly is. John didn’t have the same good fortune. When he turned 50 and he wasn’t as successful as he thought he should be, he saw that in his 30s and 40s he was too busy for personal growth. Big mistake. And when he got into his 50s, he rectified that. By creating a system for pers...2025-03-2030 min
The Missing Secret PodcastOur 2% Mastermind: Tweaking Up Your Visualization (Encore)In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the newly created quarterly “2% mastermind” that is free to all listeners of The Missing Secret Podcast. For those listeners who are doing our 12 minute a day methodology, you’re living your life quarter by quarter. Accordingly, you have a new goal each quarter for your career, a new goal for your marriage, and a new goal for your health. In the 2% mastermind we answer questions as you tweak up your visualization. We also give you examples of how we’re changing our own various goals.During t...2025-03-1325 min
The Missing Secret PodcastWhy People Don’t See Things Like We Do and the Impact on Them and UsIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the concept of why people don’t always see things like we do. And they discuss what is the effect on both of us and them. During this podcast John points out that sometimes the difference of opinion has no real impact. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. And everybody processes information differently. That’s why there is a difference of opinion. But sometimes there is more at stake. It’s more than that a difference of opinion. It’s right or wrong. The opinion that is right is...2025-03-0620 min
The Missing Secret PodcastBeing Organized – The Mind Thrives on OrderIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the concept of being highly organized. Because the mind thrives on order. The subject came up because John is now teaching his simple organizational system to his class at the University of Texas. Where you plan your day the night before, where you time block your day, and you identify your top three priorities each day. In John’s new book, he provides this to do system to purchasers of the book. John says that the starting point for being highly successful is being highly organized. Like a...2025-02-2020 min
The Missing Secret PodcastYour Intelligence Changes As You Get OlderIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the concept of how your intelligence changes as you get older. As some of you know, John is really into his health. And in addition to his regular doctor, he has a relationship with a health organization called humanaugt health. Where he pays $350 a month and gets his blood tested four times a year. Meets with his doctor once quarter. And the doctor prescribes different peptides or supplements as appropriate. As part of this, John took a mental dexterity test. It involved connecting a hodgepodge of letters...2025-02-1329 min
The Missing Secret PodcastCreating A Nest Egg So You Can RetireIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the concept of creating a nest egg so you can retire. In discussing this, Kelly notes that she was a saver from a young age. Literally putting aside 20% a year. She was taught this by her dad who made her read the classic book Richest Man in Babylon. It truly is a fabulous book that really explains the concept of saving and compounding interest. John points out that he wasn’t that enlightened when he was younger. He didn’t really save in his 30s and 40s beca...2025-02-0626 min
The Missing Secret PodcastI Thought I’d Be Further Along By NowIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the concept that lots of people feel. I thought I’d be further along by now. Both Kelly and John have experienced this. Kelly experienced it when she was about 35 and finally making the leap to entrepreneurship. She always envisioned that she would be an entrepreneur from a very young age. But at 35 she’d never made the leap. John experienced this when he was both 40 and 50.One of the things to do to overcome this is you must establish a personal mission statement. Something that...2025-01-3038 min
The Missing Secret PodcastWhat is MindsetIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the concept of mindset. A concept we hear a lot about today. But what is mindset. John and Kelly discuss this at length. And John has a very simple explanation of mindset. It’s controlling your thoughts. And here’s the significance of controlling your thoughts. Your daily actions determine your success in life. Every action must first be preceded by I thought. Accordingly, when you control your thoughts, you control your actions.Then John points out the most significant thing he ever learned in his...2025-01-2322 min
The Missing Secret PodcastOur 2% Mastermind: Tweaking Up Your VisualizationIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the newly created quarterly “2% mastermind” that is free to all listeners of The Missing Secret Podcast. For those listeners who are doing our 12 minute a day methodology, you’re living your life quarter by quarter. Accordingly, you have a new goal each quarter for your career, a new goal for your marriage, and a new goal for your health. In the 2% mastermind we answer questions as you tweak up your visualization. We also give you examples of how we’re changing our own various goals.During t...2025-01-1625 min
The McClain Method61: How to Create A True Client-Centric Design with Michael MitchellSend us a textThe Designer Within Podcast Episode 61: How to Create A True Client-Centric Design with Michael MitchellIn this episode of the Designer Within podcast, host John McClain discusses the art of creating client-centric designs with Michael Mitchell. They explore Michael's approach to blending diverse styles, his extensive sourcing trips, and the importance of understanding clients' unique stories. Michael shares insights on managing client expectations, the power of intentional mix-and-match decor, and the value of transparency in the design process. The episode also highlights Michael's philanthropic efforts and his p...2025-01-1459 min
The Missing Secret PodcastYou’re Wired for Survival: Why That’s a Problem and How to Fix ItIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly explained that as human beings, we are all innately wired for survival. That’s not a good thing. Because it causes 75% of our thoughts to be fear-based, we’re reactive rather than proactive on our important agenda, and we’re profoundly resistant to change. Now those things were actually what kept us alive 50,000 years ago, but it’s exactly the opposite of how we need to be in order to be productive, creative and happy in the modern world. So you have to overcome being wired for survival.But...2025-01-0927 min
The Missing Secret PodcastEncore: Feeling of “Not Good Enough”In this encore episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John explains the topic of today’s episode. Do you ever have the feeling that you’re “not good enough”? This question comes up from a speaker that presented to John’s class at the University of Texas. Many students came up afterwards to discuss the feeling of not good enough. And John realizes that’s a feeling many people probably have. The source of this is that we are all wired for survival. It causes 75% of our thoughts to be fear-based. And we’re reactive rather than proactive on our important...2025-01-0227 min
The Missing Secret PodcastEncore: Your Spirituality – You Can Re-Create Who You AreIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John explains the topic of today’s episode. Your spirituality – you can re-create who you are. John talks about his class at the University of Texas that he is currently teaching. He’s re-creating 36 lies with intention. As he pointed out to his class, who you are today is a function of good influences and bad influences. That’s created good attributes in yourself and some negative characteristics that you would want to change. But all that happened by happenstance. Very little of who you are today was created with intention and clar...2024-12-2627 min
The Missing Secret PodcastThe Power Of Knowing Your DISC Profile – As Well As Your Spouse’sIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly talk about the most significant things they’ve learned this year. For Kelly, it was reaffirming her resilience. For John, it was learning the disc profile. Understanding that he is a D. He’s an action taker and does things fast and is focused on tasks. Whereas John’s precious wife Ginger is a C. She does things slow and is a perfectionist. Also focused on tasks. This has been powerful in John’s life to understand this because we all have a natural tendency to think that people w...2024-12-1234 min
The Missing Secret PodcastThe Mind Thrives on OrderIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly explain that the mind thrives on order. And when you feed the succinct articulation of your life to yourself each day you create immense order in the mind. And as Kelly points out, it makes you feel lighter. It causes all those half thoughts that are going on in your head to either go away or become full thoughts. To drive home this idea that the mind thrives on order, John points out that’s why you enjoy music. A few years back, John learned how to play bl...2024-11-2821 min
The Missing Secret PodcastLife Lessons : What the Current Kelly Hatfield Would Say to the 20 Year Old Version of Herself Regarding Creating SuccessIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, Kelly explains what she would tell the 20 year old version of herself regarding how to be successful. She starts out talking about the immense power of being a grower and a learner from a young age. Her dad turned her on to reading when she was 13 years old. And that’s where she got it. And it played a significant factor in her life. Approaching life from a curiosity standpoint and learning whatever she could. In seeking people with wisdom beyond her own wisdom. That has been the hallmark trait of Ke...2024-11-1431 min
The Missing Secret PodcastYour Subconscious Mind Is Either Your Greatest Asset or It’s Your Greatest Challenge and Nemesis in LifeIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John welcomes back Steve Prendergast as a guest on today show. It was Steve who came up with a line that your subconscious mind is either your greatest asset or your greatest challenge in life. John and Steve bat that idea around. And John points out that the fact that a person is wired for survival is the biggest thing a person has to overcome. And he makes the analogy using higher forms of life coming to earth. If there was a higher life form that came to our planet and...2024-11-0733 min
The Missing Secret PodcastWhat are the Life Lessons You Would Give The 20 yr Old Version of Yourself?In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John shares with the audience something he did with his class at the University of Texas. John had a student play the 20-year-old version of John Mitchell. And John played the current version. John then imparted lessons to the 20-year-old version of himself that would make his life way easier and way more successful earlier. And here’s the essence of what it came down to. WORK SMARTER. But most of us are ingrained to just work harder. Big mistake. But the natural question is how do you work smarter? ...2024-10-3129 minThe Missing Secret PodcastWhat Are The Life Lessons You Would Give The 20 Yr Old Version of Yourself?In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John shares with the audience something he did with his class at the University of Texas. John had a student play the 20-year-old version of John Mitchell. And John played the current version. John then imparted lessons to the 20-year-old version of himself that would make his life way easier and way more successful earlier. And here’s the essence of what it came down to. WORK SMARTER. But most of us are ingrained to just work harder. Big mistake. But the natural question is how do you work smarter?...2024-10-3129 min
The Missing Secret PodcastWhy This 12 Minute A Day Methodology WorksIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss why this 12 minute a day technique works. John opens the discussion by saying that it’s a combination of two things. It gives a person immense control over themselves. But that is coupled with intelligent success strategies. John points out that when he was in his 50s and was blessed to make 25 times the 200 – $300,000 a year he was making the prior 20 years, it was happening because of the immense control he had over himself. But it also included being able to implement key strategies. Such as being high...2024-10-2422 min
The Missing Secret PodcastThink It Be It – A Paying Customer’s PerspectiveIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John introduces a special guest. A man he met about a year ago that said he wanted to learn this think it be it 12 minute a day methodology. Listened to Steve Prendergast’s journey over the last 12 months. He shared that the big Domino for him was appreciating the profound impact that 95% of his daily thoughts and actions are unconscious. Once he grasped the profound nature that, the big Domino fell and everything going forward that he heard from John made sense.Steve Prendergast also talks about the perspective of...2024-10-1743 min
The Missing Secret PodcastFeeling of “Not Good Enough”In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John explains the topic of today’s episode. Do you ever have the feeling that you’re “not good enough”? This question comes up from a speaker that presented to John’s class at the University of Texas. Many students came up afterwards to discuss the feeling of not good enough. And John realizes that’s a feeling many people probably have. The source of this is that we are all wired for survival. It causes 75% of our thoughts to be fear-based. And we’re reactive rather than proactive on our important agen...2024-10-1027 min
The Missing Secret PodcastYour Spirituality – You Can Re-Create Who You AreIn this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John explains the topic of today’s episode. Your spirituality – you can re-create who you are. John talks about his class at the University of Texas that he is currently teaching. He’s re-creating 36 lies with intention. As he pointed out to his class, who you are today is a function of good influences and bad influences. That’s created good attributes in yourself and some negative characteristics that you would want to change. But all that happened by happenstance. Very little of who you are today was created with intention and clar...2024-10-0327 min
The Missing Secret PodcastHuman Nature – We Are Not Wired For Success (Encore)We’re excited to announce the evolution of our podcast! Formerly known as "Think It, Be It," we’re now rebranding as "The Missing Secret Podcast." Curious about why we made the change and what’s coming next? Tune in to find out!This week, we’re revisiting an insightful episode: Human Nature – We Are Not Wired for Success. In this episode John and Kelly talk about human nature. How humans are wired for survival, not for success. And that plays out regarding the negatives in human nature. We tend to be self focused, we tend to be reactiv...2024-09-0524 min
The Missing Secret PodcastUsing our Life GPS Template – Once You’ve Created it from our AI AlgorithmIn this episode John and Kelly explain how to use our life GPS template after you have created it from our AI algorithm. Where after you answer about 50 questions, you press a button and our template is customized to your unique life. In this week’s episode, we explain actually how to use the life GPS template. Kelly mentions that she reads her visualization every morning and also listens to it. John explains that each morning he just listens to it. Right after he wakes up, he puts on his headphones and listens to his visualization in his own vo...2024-08-2924 min
The Missing Secret PodcastScience Of Success – Leveraging Yourself Through ScienceIn this episode, John and Kelly talk about the science of success. How to leverage yourself through science. And we have a special opportunity for magic 36 over the next three weeks. We’re going to teach you exactly how to do our 12 minute day methodology and give you access to our life GPS template. So here’s how it’s going to work. This week, we’re going to teach you the science behind our methodology. How to leverage yourself through science and why it works. Then next week, our AI algorithm is going to be made available to you so t...2024-08-1534 min
The Missing Secret PodcastYour Success Is Already In Your HeadIn this episode, John and Kelly talk about the fact that your success is already in your head. More specifically your success comes down to the relationship you have with yourself in your moments of solitude. When your head is on the pillow at night. John says that the most significant thing he ever learned in his life is this. That 95% of your daily actions are unconscious. Here’s why that’s significant. If your daily actions determine your success and 95% of them on are unconscious, then clearly your subconscious mind determines both your success in life as well as y...2024-08-0827 min
The Missing Secret PodcastCore Childhood Wounds – Healing Them Through TIBIIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss core wounds. John just got back from a seven day vacation to Sedona. Went to a retreat on marriage and took his whole family. His wife Ginger, and the two kids Will and Hannah who are in the 30s. Along with Hannah’s husband Charlie. It was life-changing for all. One of the key things addressed was core childhood wounds. We all have them. And they play out in our life and particularly in our marriages. So it’s important to understand what your core wound is. John’s core wound is not fe...2024-08-0127 min
The Missing Secret PodcastThe Evolution – of Think It Be ItIn this episode John welcomes and appreciates the magic 36. You know who you are. Today John lays out the evolution of Think It Be It. How it started, where it’s been and where it’s going. With the coming of John’s new book – THE MISSING SECRET … Of the legendary book think and grow Rich, it’s really the second launch of Think It Be It. John outlines the journey he has been on will over the past 10 years to bring his methodology to the world. The mistakes he made and what he has learned. John also discusses the AI algor...2024-07-182h 00
The Missing Secret PodcastSuccess Formula – The SearchIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss John’s new book – THE MISSING SECRET … Of the legendary book think and grow Rich. That is coming out in October of this year. John tells a story about finding a big time editor who edited the wildly successful entrepreneur roller coaster book by Darren Hardy. John met her 10 years ago. But what he didn’t know until recently was that the editor, Amy Anderson, has been using the think it be it methodology for 10 years. Funny how life works. John also talks about the podcast. And how the book and podcast are so c...2024-07-1132 min
The Missing Secret PodcastSpirituality – How It’s Impacted By The TIBI 12 Minute A Day MethodologyIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss spirituality – and how that part of your life is impacted by the think it be it 12 minute a day technique. Spirituality starts by having a compelling mission statement the drives you forward. Typically this mission statement will be about 50 words long. It will also be emotional. John reads what his empowering purpose mission statement is. He says the top book the world on success is think and grow Rich. God chose me to reveal it’s full secret to the world. What I’ve created is life-changing. And only I can give this t...2024-07-0417 min
The Missing Secret PodcastCreating the Person You Want to Be Takes 12 Minutes a DayIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss how to create the person you want to be using our 12 minute a day methodology. John starts the podcast by succinctly explaining what our methodology is. You create immense clarity about your life. Exactly the person you want to be, exactly what you want to accomplish, and precisely how you’re going to achieve your clearly defined goals. Then you feed that clarity to yourself every day. After 21 days, the science kicks in and it starts influencing your daily actions, 95% of which are unconscious. Then those upgraded daily actions create the life yo...2024-06-2733 min
The Missing Secret PodcastYour Health – How Our 12 Minute A Day Methodology AffectsIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss the impact of the think it be it methodology regarding one’s health. Kelly leads off the discussion regarding how is has impacted her health. Then John gets into the difference between one’s intentions and actually taking the actions to make one’s intentions come into reality. John explains how the human mind works. The conscious mind sets your intention and is influenced by logic. The subconscious mind controls your everyday actions, and it’s influenced only by repetition. Here’s the example. Say you want to lose weight. The conscious mind sets...2024-06-2024 min
The Missing Secret PodcastHaving A Great Romantic Relationship – The Impact Of Think It Be ItIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss the impact of the think it be it methodology regarding one’s romantic relationship. To start this off, Kelly discusses how the methodology has affected her marriage. John then explains the think it be it methodology in a nutshell. You create immense clarity. Exactly the person you want to be, exactly what you want to accomplish, and precisely how you can achieve your clearly defined goals. Then you feed that to yourself each day. After 21 days, the subconscious mind (which controls your daily actions) accept the programming and makes the right actions sh...2024-06-1331 min
The Missing Secret PodcastNetting Over $1 Million A YearIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss netting over $1 million a year. Which only one third of 1% of people are able to do. John talks about when he was first able to do this in his early 50s. It happened because he had immensely more control over himself. He could do now five high-performance skills he couldn’t do before. He was highly organized. Planned this day the night before and time blocked his day. He was deep thinking two times a week. He was growing intellectually, in areas that were strategic relative to what he wanted to accomplish. He...2024-06-0622 min
The Missing Secret PodcastThere’s More In The TankIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss something that Kelly actually said to John when she met him. She said she felt like there was more in the tank. She couldn’t understand the disconnect between her efforts and your results. Why weren’t the results better. Again, there was more in the tank that she couldn’t get out. Then as John started to teach her the methodology, he explained to her why she felt that way. Your daily actions determine your success in each area of your life. 95% of your daily actions are unconscious. Therefore if you’re not g...2024-05-3031 min
The Missing Secret PodcastYou’ve Got To Figure Out Your LifeIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss that is on you to figure out your life. John talks about coming to grips with this when he was 50 years old. And not only did he have to accept full responsibility, he also saw that he had to figure out the specific actions he had to take to create the life he wanted. A big challenge. But then the answer appeared. It came from think and grow Rich. Create immense clarity about your life. Exactly the person you want to be, exactly what you want to accomplish, and precisely how you’re...2024-05-2322 min
The Missing Secret PodcastDoing Your Best Doesn't WorkIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss the idea that the doing your best doesn’t work. John discusses that when he was 40 years old, he adopted the strategy for success of just doing his best. That’s all he controlled. So that’s what he focused on. Doing his best. But that didn’t produce big results. Then he got enlightened in his 50s. He understood fundamentally how success works. It comes down to your daily actions. And if you don’t know the proper daily actions to take, even though you might be doing your best, you won’t have...2024-05-1622 min
The Missing Secret PodcastInfluence – Influencing Other People, Influencing Yourself (Encore)In this episode John and Kelly talk about how we are all in the influence business. And influence has two components to it. First, influencing yourself. That means getting yourself to do the key habits required to be successful. Having discipline. John talks about how this is leadership of self. Which means having the mindset of I can achieve anything I set my mind to. I own my results and am never a victim. Being able to summon up grit and perseverance when things don’t go well. Kelly then talked about how she influences other people like her te...2024-05-0916 min
The Missing Secret PodcastWisdom Transfer DilemmaIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss the challenge of taking wisdom and sharing it with other people. John talks about a statue that sits in his den. It has three men that are climbing. The lowest guy is struggling, the middle guy is going sideways, and the third guy is going straight up. When John looks at that statue each morning, he thinks about his own life. The guy at the lowest level was was John in his 30s. The guy going sideways was John in his 40s. And the guy going straight up John in his 50s...2024-05-0228 min
The Missing Secret PodcastJohn’s Story – 12 Minutes A Day to Success (Encore)Upon reflecting upon his life at the age of 50, John Mitchell just did not feel like he was as successful as he should be. Picking up the book Think and Grow Rich, John was intrigued by the advocation of applying science to up your success however the book only gave half the secret to make this happen. Listen as John shares his story as he figured out the full secret and how with the development and application of a 12 minute a day technique, he saw his income rise to $5 million net a year.About the Hosts:2024-04-2523 min
The Missing Secret PodcastSuccess Is Something You Attract, Not Chase (Encore)In this episode, John and Kelly talk about the concept that success is something you attract, rather than something you chase. By being the type of person that does attract success. As Kelly points out, BE then DO. John makes the analogy of someone trying to catch a butterfly. It’s very elusive. Just like success. But if you become the person that you need to be in order to be successful, you will attract success. Kelly talked about the idea of envisioning the best version of yourself 10 years from now. And envisioning what you would have accomplished. Then se...2024-04-1120 min
The Missing Secret PodcastWe All Have A Big Problem We Must Overcome: We Are wired For Survival Not SuccessIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss the idea that we all have a problem in life that we must overcome. We are all innately wired for survival, not success. And here’s the impact of being wired for survival. It causes 70% of our thoughts to be fear-based. We’re reactive rather than proactive on our important agenda. So think about that. If you’re innately wired to be fear-based and reactive, that’s exactly the opposite of how you need to be in order to be productive creative and happy. And to say that another way, you’re wired for...2024-04-0425 min
The Missing Secret PodcastPersonal ResponsibilityIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss personal responsibility. To launch into this topic, John plays a five minute presentation by Darren Hardy. After the clip plays, John and Kelly unpack what we learned. The first thing we learn is that you created the life you have. Whatever you have in your life, both good and bad, you created it. The second thing we learned is that cornerstone of personal responsibility is never being a victim. Eliminating victimhood. They also talk about the idea of looking at what you are tolerating in your life. That can be as bad...2024-03-2822 min
The Missing Secret PodcastWhy Are Only 2% Of People DrivenIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss the fact that only 2% of people are driven. John explains that he first discovered this about five years ago. He decided to go to the top expert in the world on success and share think it be it with him or her. As it turns out, John decided that Darren Hardy was the top expert in the world on success. So after he writes a big check and goes out to California, John meets with Darren. Shows him the think it be it template and explains the methodology. And after Darren looked...2024-03-2118 min
The Missing Secret PodcastWe Live In An “Absence Of Truth” WorldIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss the fact that we live in an absence of truth world. There are no facts today. Everything is opinions. And the effect of that is it is hard to move forward in resolving important issues. John gives the example of rising crime. So how do we solve the problem. When you dig into the facts, you discover that the vast majority of crime is committed by just a few repeat offenders. Well logically, if that is true, the solution is essentially to lock ‘em up and throw away the key. But in th...2024-03-1430 min
The Missing Secret PodcastYou Get In Life What You ExpectIn this episode, John and Kelly discuss that you get in life is what you create. But what drives the creative process? It’s what we expect. Expectations manifest themselves. So let’s think about this a little deeper. If expectations manifest themselves, what drives our expectations? It’s our thoughts. And our thoughts are dictated by the input we have coming in. Garbage in, garbage out. Good in, good out. John plays a two minute presentation by Darren Hardy about this.After the presentation, John and Kelly relate it to the think it be it methodology. Your e...2024-03-0724 min