Welcome everyone! This is Robert Allen. This is Mindset Mondays for the 4th of February. What’s the date today? 6th! The 6th of February 2012. Welcome to our call everyone. We have a little bit of technical difficulty with the recording for tonight’s call with the proper links. So if you didn’t get the link for tonight, we’re going to be recording it. You should be able to watch it later. Welcome to Mindset Mondays!

Last week, we were talking about the inner winner and the inner whiner. Remember, this is about mindset. This is the most important part of any kind of successful regimen. If you don’t know how to communicate with yourself, then when you try to push yourself out in the world and persuade the world and you’re not having what I call inner wealth and your inner winner is working on your side, then it depends on which voice you’re listening to, right? Our conversation that we’ve been continuing on is about this book Cash in a Flash. Just so you can see a copy of what the cover of Cash in a Flash looks like, it looks like this. You don’t have to buy a copy of this book because I’m going to be teaching it to you
here. This is my last book that came out in 2009. Time for me to write a new one, right?

I have sent out the tweets of all of these chapters. And the Chapter 6 tweet was “Ask yourself only empowering questions. Only speak in high-energy words and think only positive thoughts.” Well, what’s so revolutionary about that? Nothing. It’s just that most people have never been taught how to do what I just described right there. Most people have never taken a class on questioning themselves. Last week we talked a little bit about Byron Katie who had an epiphany and she learned that if she would question her mind that she could literally get some clarity on her thinking. If she didn’t question her mind, if she
believed everything that popped into her head usually on a negative basis, that’s what suffering is all about. It’s not questioning your thoughts.

We have a lot of thoughts of positive things. We have normal chatting voice we have with ourselves and then there’s this negative voice we call a critical voice. And by not questioning the critical voice, that can create some serious problems. There’s never been a class, any public school where I’ve been to, more than likely if they started teaching that class, it’ll probably be controversial. Parents would say, “I don’t know if I want you to be teaching my kid how to think like really how to think.” How do we get their minds to work? But that would be one of the most valuable classes those kids could ever get. The first
lesson will be How Do I Question that Doubter in My Mind? How do I question my inner whiner?

The bottom line is questioning yourself is very important. How do you question constantly? I asked you last week to kind of monitor your thinking processes. This next week, I am going to ask you to notice how many times you ask yourself the question? How often? Well, first of all, you got to be aware of what’s going on up there and most of it hurts. Most of the time, we are totally unaware, 100 percent of the time. All we know is we don’t feel and totally energized and sometimes we question our motives and our desires and our thoughts and our thinking, but we are not even aware that we are doing the questioning.

This week, I want you to take a blank piece of paper and I want you to write down the questions that you asked yourself. See if at least three or four times a day you become aware of the questions that you’re asking yourself and put them into two categories. I want you to literally have one blank piece of paper all week long. Keep it in the car next to you, side pocket, throw it into your wallet or your purse. Stick it into your pocket. Put it on to your desk. Stick it on the refrigerator. Put it on the nightstand. Just keep this little piece of paper with you all week long. Write down the question in one or two categories to see if it’s going to be an empowering question or a dis-empowering question.

The question that empowers you or a question that weakens you. One of the fundamental ways to which we communicate to this brain of ours is the most powerful computer in this Earth. The most powerful computer at any place on this planet is going to be this computer right up here. When you ask it an empowering question, it goes and finds an empowering answer. The brain doesn’t question your thinking. If you’re not going to question it, your brain isn’t going to question it. If this critical voice pops into your mind, your mind is not your brain. Your mind is just the thinking of your brain. But your brain is this unbelievably powerful computer that consists of all the things you ever learned in life—all the lessons you ever sat through, all of the books you ever read, all the movies you’ve ever seen, every
conversation you’ve ever had—is all right there in your computer. It records everything.

Of course in my own personal and spiritual beliefs, I believe that this computer is linked to our soul and our soul comes with us to this Earth and brings with us vast amounts of information that we learned in a previous lifetime and comes to this lifetime. That’s my own spiritual belief. You might think that’s hogwash. Whatever. You think whatever you want to think. You asked me to be your mentor so I’m going to mentor you on the way I think that lets you know that’s my personal beliefs that this brain of your is so filled with unbelievably powerful information. Getting it to bubble up in our mind is the hard
part. We got this critical voice in there that’s constantly trying not to get us to communicate with our computer. It’s like a switch. It flips it off. Don’t listen to your computer. Don’t tap into this vast resource of unbelievable information that you bring with you, that you learn in your lifetime.

Your critical voice keeps turning that off. Don’t listen to it. It causes you to ask yourself dis-empowering questions. When this computer gets a message, you’re typing in, you’re Googling, your working is what you’re doing and when you Google your brain a negative question, your brain—just like Google— is going to scan through your whole soul, and it’s going to come up with answers to those negative questions like “Why am I so stupid?” Have you ever asked yourself that question? I know I have. What is your brain supposed to do with that question? That’s a good question. Let’s see. Why am I so stupid?
Why do I seem to have difficulty? Why am I not as successful as I think I ought to be? Wrong questions.

Just don’t ask yourself questions like that. That’s not going to get you to where you want to go so you have to literally make the decision all week long to move the questioning from the dis-empowering column to the empowering column.

Whenever you notice yourself asking yourself a dis-empowering question, a question that weakens you, a question that causes you to doubt anything about the world, your life, your abilities, whenever you ask a question that causes you to doubt, immediately notice it and then make it into an empowering question. If your brain says, “That was a stupid thing. Why did you do that?” First of all, question it. Was that a stupid thing? Who knows? We haven’t got all the evidences in yet. Question it. And then, why did you do that? Well, it’s a good question. You might ask yourself in a positive way. What are the positive reasons? What are some of the good things that come out of that particular interaction?

Step #1 when you get control of this little noggin is to ask yourself only empowering questions. How good could it be today? How can I notice some blessings I haven’t been noticing lately? Where are the opportunities all around me that have been invisible to me? I wonder how powerful my brain really is.

They say we only use about 1 percent of our brain’s capacity. I wonder how I could use 2 percent. See what I’m saying about how to give an empowering question? If you just preoccupy yourself constantly with empowering questions, things get more empowering.

Cash in a Flash is a book that I picked up actually at the Book Seller’s convention. 2008 I think it was. I’ve taken a group of some of my favorite people, book authors, Heidi you were part of that book. As I was sitting at the café there having a sandwich I think, somebody recognized me. He came over and sat down next to me and is an author. Of course, there are a lot of authors there. She said, “I’ve got a book that’s just coming out.” I said, “What’s the name of your book?” I’m looking right here on the book to see if I could find where it is so I can tell you about it. I’m still looking. Oh boy. It’ll come to me. Okay,
here it is. Hah! I know I’m going to find it. Dr. Yvonne Oswald, PhD, she’s written a book entitled Every Word Has Power. I’m going to get some words right now with you and I want you to notice how you feel when I read these words to you. On a scale of 1 to 10, what is the energy that this word emits when you hear it or when you see it? On a scale of 1 to 10, so just tell me whatever number represents the energy of this word. Okay? Here we go.

Happy. And you can text it if you want to. It might kind of be fun to watch that. I hope I think all of you can see the text. Happy. On a scale of 1 to 10, what is the energy of that word? Text it to me. Sorry. Chat it to me right here so I can see it. What was the energy for the word happy. Michelle writes a 10. Deidre writes a 10. Christa writes 8. Tony writes 7. Suzanne writes 10.

I’m going to give you another word. I want you to tell me what energy when I just say this word. When it hits you, when you experience it, what is the energy of this word? Here we go.

Sad. Chat to me. Tell me how that number fits for you. 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 0. Okay. Joshua says 1. Okay. You don’t have to send it in chat if you don’t want to. I’m going to give you another word and tell me what the energy of this word is as you’re hearing it.

Strong. What’s the energy? 8, 9, 10, etc, 10, 9, 9. Here’s the next word. When you absorb this word, what’s your energy of it? Weak. 3, 0, 1, 5, 2. Okay. Optimistic. 9, 10, 9, 10. See how there’s a similarity here? Pessimistic. Easy. Try easy. See how that hits you. How does easy sound to you? 8, 8. Charles, how are you doing, Charles? Joshua 10. Michelle 7. 8. Difficult. How does that hit you? 4, 3, 4, 3, 1, 5.

Beautiful. How does that hit you? 9, 9, 10, 9, 9, 10. Okay. Ugly. How does that hit you on a scale of 1 to 10? 1, 4. Mine is 1. 2, 3, 5.

I want you to start noticing your word patterns. Back in the 80s when I would teach seminars and I would get to the part at the very end where I was getting ready to close and I knew I was going to have to ask people for money and that was really scary to me. I just wasn’t very good at asking for the money. I can teach but I can’t sell. It’s hard for me to do. At the end of the close while I was getting ready to ask for the money, my brain goes blank. My palms started to sweat. I’d get all groppy. The bottom line is my languaging changed. It went from more positive languaging to more of a negative languaging. You got to get this. If you don’t get this, you’re going to lose out. You’re going to make a big mistake. I was using all of these words that literally conveyed this sense of energy that really wasn’t good. The result was always almost the same. When I get done with getting near to the close, I was horrible because what it is, I took a person out of a positive energy and took him into a negative energy which is where they don’t want to make decisions. I don’t know. There’s got to be scientific basis that if a person has a certain mindset, certain level of energy in their mindset, the sixth or seventh or eighth, then you’re more than likely to be more persuasive. If you drop the fives or the fours or the threes or the twos—and I was using a lot of one words. Stupid, loss, it was terrible. Because my mind was working that way, because of the fear that my mind was in, it instigated fear in other people’s minds. My energy caused other negative fear-focused thoughts to appear in other people’s minds. Therefore rather than being excited and ready to act instead it became hesitance and ready to procrastinate.

One of the most important brain exercises is for you to decide that from this time forward, you’re going to allow as much as possible only positive words, high-energy words to come out of your mouth.

For example, she would do a thing in her seminar. She said each individual at the beginning of her seminar would get twenty coins on the first day. Participants are told that if they use low-energy words that they’ll forfeit a coin for every low-energy word that they use. If a person will catch them in a conversation using a low-energy word, they’ll say, “Gotcha!” and they have to relinquish one of their coins. The catcher will say “Switch.” In other words, switch, therefore they have to realize, “Wait a second. I was using a negative word.” “Oh, switch. Can’t use the word negative.” Using a word that was less positive. Since their intention was using a less positive word, they would have to relinquish a coin and now they only got nineteen coins. In their conversation, sometime at lunch, they would take about the fact that they just lost their job. The listener from the class would say “Switch. Give me one of your coins.” They would have to say it in a more positive way. They would have to say, “I have a new opportunity to find a new job” and they would have to literally stop themselves from allowing words that are low-energy come out of their mouth.

I’m reading from page 82 of Cash in a Flash, for example, one person describes a problem. “Switch.” A challenge which they’re dealing with, “I work in a job I hate.” “Switch.” “That I don’t love.” “My boss is a real jerk.” “Switch.” “Not a nice person.” “I need to make more money because I have so much credit card debt.” “Switch.” “I had too much fun using her credit card. Now it’s time to pay the piper.” “Switch. Learn how to be more financially savvy, etc.” I want to have you choose a day today sometime this week. I’m going to challenge you to pick—maybe even tonight, I want you to watch television. Just
watch TV. Could be any channel. Could be a news channel for instance would be more realistic. Pick a news channel and I want you to notice while you’re watching and I want you to watch it for ten minutes. During this ten minute time where you can focus intently not necessarily on the message in the story that the person is telling but on the words that they’re using, every time you notice a not so positive word, I want you to literally just take out a pen and just check because you’re going to be listening so intently you won’t have time to write it down. Just check it. Keep listening. Check another one. Keep listening. Check another one. Check another one. At the end of that ten minutes, I want you to notice
the number of not so positive words and notice what we’re being bombarded in twenty-four hours a day.

You may go ahead and do a ratio. Maybe just do it for five because it’d be pretty exhausting. It might sack your energy. Do five minutes where all you’re focusing on are the not so positive words and then do five minutes where all you’re focusing on are the positive words. If you see a positive word, check that off. Check, check, check. So you’ve got now ten minutes—five of each kind of thinking and listening and I want you to notice the ratio of positive to not so positive words. What is the ratio?

As a matter of fact, next week, I’m going to be in Cancun. I’m going to do my darndest to be on our Mindset Mondays call next Monday. I’ll be at a beautiful resort right on the ocean. As a matter of fact, our suite is going to be literally right on the sand. I know exactly the suite because we picked it out specifically for this. When we get up in the morning and we open up our sliding door, we’re walking literally out in the sand and the beach is right there. This is our 35th wedding anniversary so we want to have a memory for us to have a wonderful memory. I’m going to do my darndest to be on the call for you on Monday for our Mindset Mondays call because it kind of depends on the technology. I’m pretty
sure I’ll be able to pull it off but there’s a slight chance that it might not go quite as I hope.

But the bottom line is by next week since I’ll be probably in a different mindset, I want you to remind me in the chat here that for you to be able to tell me what your ratio is. For instance, suppose you wrote down twenty not so positive checks and you wrote down ten positive checks, that means the ratio would be 3 negatives to 1 positive. Therefore the ratio would be 1 out of 3. So positive, more than three words. Just do that for me. Some of you just write that down as a reminder for our calls next week and let’s do that.

The third part of the three things that should be going through your mind is only think positive thoughts.

Hey, there is a quote that I want to read to you from Bob Proctor who is from The Secret. Bob Proctor, a good friend and an amazing guy, just an amazing gentlemen, he did an audio message one day. I loved it so much that I wrote it down and put it in my book that’s right here on page 86. He says, Let’s get rid of the idea that there’s anything negative. Let’s just see everything as good. It doesn’t matter what we’re thinking about, let’s see the good in it.

I believe if we can train ourselves to do that, we’re going to catapult ourselves ahead. Quantum leaps will become common. We want to see the good in everything. When the negative thoughts comes up, say, “Wait a minute. What’s good about this?” And just start to look for the good. Whenever anything happens that appears negative, let’s just say, “What’s good about that?” I don’t think anything is gained by looking for what’s wrong with something. I think a lot is gained by looking for what’s right in it. You’re not going to correct something by focusing on the negative.

Leave all that kind of thinking to the attorneys. Yeah, of course, there are times when we have to evaluate things and look at the opportunities for good and the opportunities that might take us in the wrong direction. Obviously, we have to be realistic in our thinking. What he’s trying to do is he’s trying to tell us that we need to train ourselves to think more positively because we are inundated with negativity so much we almost need to overcorrect. If you live in an environment like what we’re living in with constant bombardment from all kinds of these kinds of thoughts, then don’t you think you
need to overcorrect? If ten thoughts are not positive and one thought is, then you need to literally, in order to fade away the impact of low-energy words or energy words that are not so high, you need to flood in more positivity. For instance, if you take a beautiful clear glass of water and you drop one drop of real black ink in the middle of that clear beautiful glass of water, it’s going to make things kind of murky. What is it going to take in order for that murkiness to go away? You’re going to have to put more drops of clear water into that container until it overflow. It starts to flush out all those negative kind of thoughts.

Frankly, it may take lots of flushing in order for you to be able to at least counteract the dark spots that seem to get in the place of our thinking.

As I continue, I think of a lot of things. I’m looking for what’s right in things. You’re not going to correct something by focusing on the negative. You’re going to correct it by focusing on the positive.

Don’t get critical about things. Look at the people who are critical, who are looking as what’s wrong. They’re generally not very happy people. They’re in a bad vibration. They’re attracting to themselves more of what’s wrong.

If we would change our languaging on that, we would say, “They’re attracting to themselves more of what’s not right.”

Any dumbbell can find out what’s wrong.

Or any not so smart person can find out what’s not so right.

It’s fairly obvious. We want to train ourselves to find out what’s right. There something good about everything. Now, granted, you sometimes have difficulty finding it. Sometimes you never find it. But I know one thing, if you don’t look for it you’re never going to find it. Seek and ye shall find is very good advice.

This concept of thinking more positively has great and profound deep importance for all of our lives. Notice what’s coming out of your mouth. It’s coming from your thinking. Are the words that are coming out of your mouth high-energy words or low-energy words? Is it because of the questions you’re asking yourself? Are those questions high empowering words or high empowering questions? Or are they weakening questions? Finally, when it comes to thinking of positive thoughts, there’s a story that I told that I told many times. As a matter of fact, it’s found right here in this book as well. It’s one of my all-time favorite stories about how the brain works. I told this story to an audience at the Yes Energy
event in San Diego just a few weeks ago. I’m going to read the story to you one more time.

Those of you who’ve been on Breakfast with Bob have heard me read this before. It’s just there’s so many layers to the story. I’m going to show some images as a result of it so you can see what I’m talking about. Here we go.

It’s called The Wish Fulfilling Tree. It’s about the importance of thinking positively. It’s absolutely essential. The Wish Fulfilling Tree by my friend, Tulshi Sen. As a matter of fact, I’m going to turn off the video so I want you to just focus in on my voice and focus on the images that you have right here.

In a small village far away from anywhere and with no access road to the nearest town lived a poor farmer. He had nobody. No family to help him farm. He was all alone. In the heat of a scorching summer’s day he had to go to town to buy seeds for his next crop. He had to walk there while the sun beat down on the parched earth and on him. It was hot.

Half way to town the farmer saw a beautiful tree with long and strong branches, still filled with green luscious leaves. Under the tree at the base of the trunk it was cool and the shade defiantly challenged the scorching sun. He decided to rest there for a while.

As he was dozing off in the cool of the shade resting under the Tree he thought, “If I could only have a cool glass of water, it would be great.” He did not realize that he was sitting under a Wish Fulfilling Tree.

Before you know it, he saw a very cold and refreshing glass of water before him. He quenched his thirst and wished if only he could have some sweets and some food. Lo and behold he saw a banquet before him.

After having had the meal of his life he wished, if only he would have a bed to take a nap.
He was lying on a most comfortable bed before he could even speak his thought out completely. He immediately thought if only he had a house to sleep in on this comfortable bed and the house was there before you know it.

The fulfillment of one wish led to larger and larger wishes. Before you know it he had water for the most beautiful woman for a wife and had plenty of children to help him in the farm, and there he was surrounded by family and wealth.

When he saw what he got just by wishing, he got a little worried, no as a matter of fact he got a lot worried. He thought, “Now what will happen if a ferocious man eating tiger comes out of the jungle and eats me up?”

A ferocious man-eating tiger appeared and ate him up. He was still sitting under the Wish -Fulfilling Tree.

I just love that story because it’s a profound evidence that that is what we’re doing with our thinking, that each of us is sitting underneath The Wish Fulfilling Tree. We’re in life and wishes do come true.

Most of us never catalog our wishes. But our wishes are constantly being flooded into our minds. If your mind is flooding in prepondrums of thoughts that are not as healthy as they should be, then your wishes shall come to pass. Your wish is your command. When you command yourself to wish that way, the reality that you attract into your life is real. It’s physical. This man-eating tiger is life. It brings it to you.

My challenge for you today is for you to move forward and for you to take these fears that slow us down, the fears of failure, embarrassment, abandonment, rejection, and success, the fear of success especially. You’ll learn to think in a more positive way. You’ll learn to think in a way that empowers you, that strengthens you, that gives you energy. The more you flood yourself with that, the more you get.

I think one of the reasons that… We’re obviously in the house that I’m living in, I am looking here in my office now where I am speaking to you is because I have a lot of challenges that happened in my life— near death experiences, bankruptcies, lots of loss from all kinds of things. It just seems to strengthen me to tell you the truth in the strangest kind of way. It’s almost when a challenge comes, it just taps into this deepest part of me, this part of me that just refuses to give up, just can’t stand it. I’ve got to find the good in it somehow. Sometimes that can be a challenge when you hang on too long and you don’t hold
your cards quickly enough. I had to learn that lesson as well.

Doggedly determined is just the description of the way I want to focus on things. If I know what I want, I’m like a bulldog. I just go get it. Do I get overwhelmed sometimes with challenges and fears? Sure. Of course. I’m just human. That’s part of the human experience. I usually just say to myself, “I’m not feeling very good today. The day’s going to be a little better tomorrow.” It’s usually when I wake up tomorrow, my energy’s better. I’m back on track. I can attack whatever I need to attack. And off I go.

All of us have that inside of us. We all are born with that gene, that gene that says, “I want it. I want to go get it and nothing can stop me from getting it.” That’s my wife and she’s not been well today. As you can tell from her voice, she’s a little bit… I need to go give her some high energy words.

Anyway, the bottom line of our call today on Mindset Mondays is for you to take this week to write down your questioning, empowering questions and dis-empowering questions, to notice the energy words that come out of your mouth. Sometimes, if you want to, take your cell phone. This is my iPhone. My iPhone has got a little microphone that I can push. It records what I’m thinking. Sometimes if you’re in the middle of a meeting where you’re talking, just put the phone down, turn it face down so they can’t see it’s being recorded. It’s only for your own use anyway. You’re trying to record yourself, your own words, just like you are listening to the news broadcast listening for empowering words and weakening words or high energy words and low energy words. Why don’t you count your own words?
Listen to five minutes of you. Listen to yourself again. Notice what was the ratio of high energy words to low energy words that you used.

Here we are in the political season and there’s lots of low energy words being used by our political candidates out there. I happen to have a favorite one who’s running. You probably know who it might be. He seems to be in the lead right now but there’s still a lot of low energy words being thrown around.

I’m going to tell you. This primary season we’re going to go through will soon be over and then we’re
going to get into general election. There’s going to be a lot of low energy words happening there. But as soon as a person becomes president, you’re going to have to notice that they’re going to have to change their languaging dramatically. The political process is a pretty nasty process, a not so nice process. If you want to be a great leader, your energy words have to be a lot higher proportion because when people hear you, they’ll be connected to their possibilities and dreams and the opportunities that are all around
us because they’re all everywhere if you look for them.

I want you to notice as you become president of your own company and the president of your life—we’re all the president of our lives—your job if you want to be a leader is to use lots of high energy words. Change the ratios. If your ratio is one to one and half of your words are low energy words and half of them are high energy words, you make a decision.
I’m going to do my best to try to insert into my life, into my speaking high energy words.

Notice how people will start to react differently to you. They’ll want to be around you. Why? Because you just kind of make them feel better. You’re just the kind of person that people feel higher energy around. Why? Because your words seem to tap into the vocabulary of their energy words and it brings those energy words to life, cause those words to vibrate inside of them. They start feeling these positive vibes. Where are they coming from? They’re coming from your mouth from the things that you’re saying, for the feelings that you’re giving to the people that you’re talking to. And they like you. They
want to be around you. Why? Because you like yourself. You kind of like to be around yourself too.

Why? Because you’ve been working on the way you think about yourself. As you ask yourself more empowering questions, then more energy words just seem to flow out of your mouth. You start thinking more positive thoughts then you find yourself almost impossible for you not to be saying the things that are on your mind. Does that make sense?

You’re amazing. You’re incredible. You’re the best of the best. You must believe it because that’s true. Have a great day. Thanks again for listening and watching on Mindset Mondays. Love you. Buh-bye.