Hey Cody, and welcome back to day two of “How to Create Wealth, Health, and Happiness in Your Life,” the experience that you know you were born to have. Today, I’m excited to talk about a really great topic – moving from fear to faith. This topic is incredibly important, and when people truly understand it, they experience breakthroughs quickly. By the end of this session, I hope to help you achieve the same.
I’ll aim to keep it to 30 minutes, but we’ll see how it goes. Fear is what keeps everyone where they are. Fear keeps people small, in poverty, and destroys relationships. Fear is the destroyer. On the other hand, faith is where the magic happens. It’s the creator, the source of abundance, happiness, and joy. It’s where the world is created, and where lives are changed.
As Henry Thoreau once said, most people are living lives of quiet desperation. I can relate to this as I lived in fear for a long time. Fear keeps us detached from our power, our ability to create, and our ability to receive everything that we were designed to receive. What were we designed to receive? Everything that we have the ability to appreciate, use, and enjoy.
Now, let me ask you a question. How big will a tree grow?
Well, the answer to that question is, “As big as it possibly can.” How much should you desire? It’s as much as you can, and that is true for you too. How much should you desire out of life? The answer to that question is as much as you can possibly enjoy, as much as you can use, as much as you can consume for a better world.
What if you have the ability to get joy out of fine art?
Then it is for you to have fine art and to get yourself in a position in life where you can afford to buy it. If you can appreciate it, that is. If you appreciate fine clothes, then it is for you to be wearing fine clothes and fine linen. If you can appreciate fine cars or great relationships, then it is for you to have them. God intended for you to have those things. Anything you have a desire to experience, or anything you have the ability to appreciate, you have the ability to obtain.
Now we’re talking about faith a little bit, so we’ve got to talk about God and spirituality. When I say “God,” I’m going to refer to God interchangeably here as the universe, infinite intelligence, mother, whatever you want to call God. Whatever your conception of God is, that is perfectly all right with me. I’m not going to continuously keep going and saying “God,” “mother nature,” “infinite intelligence.” So I appeal to everybody, right? I’m just going to say God. You take that to mean whatever God means for you. But without God, it’s going to be very difficult to access faith.
So what is it that God has intended for us to experience?
What is it that God has given us to have in life that fear has stolen from us? Well, the answer to that question is, “What are you capable of enjoying? What are you capable of experiencing? What do you want to experience?” Because whatever that is inside of you, it’s seeking expression. If you have the ability to appreciate fine art, that expression is trying to come out. It’s trying to find itself. And if God has given you the ability to appreciate fine art, it is within you to acquire fine art or to acquire the resources to buy fine art.
Now, I don’t particularly care too much for cars. It’s not my thing. I like a safe car, a nice car, but I’m not going to buy a Ferrari or something like that. That is not something that I can appreciate. So that is not something that’s trying to find expression in me. It might be in you. If you have the ability to appreciate a Ferrari, then it’s for you to have that. Whatever it is that’s inside of you that you have the ability to experience and appreciate, then it is God’s will for you to experience that and to have that. The way we access that is through faith.
The first thing we need to understand when we’re talking about how to move from fear into faith is that everything that we want exists on the other side of the fear barrier. We’ve done everything that it is within our power to do or within our comfort zone to do to get the things that we want. So pretty much everything that we want now exists.
On the other side of the fear barrier, if we want something that we don’t have, it’s likely because we will have to do something uncomfortable, very uncomfortable, or even fearful to achieve it. This is what will produce the results that we desire. So, if we want to enjoy life to the fullest, we need to get control of fear and move into faith. This is where we can access everything that we want. We need to move away from being a destroyer and towards being a creator.
Conquering the mind is the key to achieving this. Fear is only in the mind. The acronym for fear, which you may have heard, is “False Evidence Appearing Real”. Fear appears real only in our minds. If we want to conquer our fears, we need to first understand what the mind is, what it is designed to do, and what it is not.
The conscious mind, the mind we all experience, is not designed to get us what we want or to give us better experiences in life. It’s not there to get us a bigger bank account, a better car, a great relationship, great health, or anything else we desire. The conscious mind is designed for one thing only: to keep us safe. It’s not looking for opportunity, what’s right, or how we can benefit from something. It’s looking for what’s wrong with a situation and how it can keep us safe. Until we understand this, we can’t control our mind and conquer our fears.
Another way to think about the mind is as an overbearing, over-controlling mother. We have all seen kids or maybe had parents who are overbearing and do everything to protect the child. They refuse to let them participate in sports or other exciting activities, and the child remains safe but does not live a quality life. They are very sheltered, have few experiences, are not very happy, and live an average, low-quality life. This is what the mind is designed to do. It finds things that are not right and potentially harmful to you.
When you see an opportunity to move from fear to faith and experience greater wealth, let’s talk about money because that’s easy to measure. If you want to access financial abundance, there is no way to do so without some level of risk. If you want to experience financial freedom, then there will be some level of risk involved. When an opportunity appears, such as investing in cryptocurrency or buying an investment property, the mind is not looking for what could go right. Instead, it looks for what is wrong and how things could go wrong. The mind thinks you might lose all your money, make a bad decision, or look like an idiot.
Maybe you’ll look like a four. That is what the mind is looking for at that particular time, and what we need to do if we want to move from fear to faith. If we want to move from where everything is being destroyed, and unhappiness and misery are being created, to where the things that we want, desire and love live, and they’re being created, that’s where it’s happening. Then we’ve got to move from the fear to the faith, and we’ve got to understand that the mind is designed to keep us in fear. Because as long as you’re in a state of fear, you’re in a state of safety, right? You’re not going to make any bad decisions.
At least, according to what the mind is thinking, as long as you are in a state of fear, you’re not going to make any silly decisions. You’re not going to quit the job and start the business, you’re not going to buy that investment property, and you’re not going to do whatever it is that you know that you need to do to get where it is that you want to be. As long as you are in a state of fear, that is where the mind is going to be able to keep you safe. So, we’ve got to have some tools to overcome that.
Now, here’s how you do it. Here’s the easiest way to overcome that fear and to start moving out of fear and start moving into faith, and that is to understand firstly that the mind is designed to keep us there. Whenever those fears come up, here’s what you do: It’s four simple words, and those words are, “Thank you for sharing.” The mind has done its job, so the mind, or you think the mind, is the boss. The mind thinks that it’s in charge, and for the most part, it’s right. The person that the mind is controlling is going to do exactly what they’re told, exactly what the mind tells them to do. But that’s not going to be true for you. You are going to, if you want to live the victorious life, if you want to move from chaos in your life to control, if you want to take charge of everything that it is that you want to take charge of, then the mind is going to fight that. But you know what? You’re the boss. You are in charge of your mind. The mind has to follow you. You do not have to follow your mind, and that’s really important because most people who are watching this right now are in a place where they do whatever the mind tells them to do. The mind says, “Don’t do that. Don’t go there. Don’t get involved with that.” That’s what an end, and the person follows the mind thinking that this voice in their head is them. This voice in your head is not you. The voice that you hear that keeps you in a place of fear, it’s not you. It’s a voice that’s there that has a purpose, but it really doesn’t serve our higher calling, our higher purpose. It’s there simply to keep us safe, as I’ve said a few times now, because repetition is the key to success. So, you have to take control of this voice, and this is one of the big things that we really look at in the Virtual Victorious Man Academy.
How do you silence that voice in your head? Because the question that I always ask people is, “How much would it be worth to you to silence the voice in your head and be able to create any life that you choose? How much would you be willing to invest to silence that voice in your head and know that you have the ability to create any reality that you want to create, whether it’s finances, wealth, health or whatever it is that makes you happy. What is it that you want to achieve in your life? I asked the question in that order: how much would it be worth to you to silence that voice in your head and then create X, Y, and Z? Because that’s the order that things happen until that voice in your head is mastered; until you’re able to silence it or at least put it in its rightful place.
Now, don’t get me wrong; that voice is never going to go away. It’s always going to be there, but it gets put in its rightful place. It is an advisor, not a master. It is a voice that is sharing advice. You can take that advice that’s been shared or reject it.
Thank you for sharing these four words that will help you achieve whatever it is that you want in life when you’re faced with an opportunity, when you’re faced with a decision, and that voice just won’t shut up. That’s what you say: “Thank you for sharing.” Now, you are going to make a decision. Not that voice in your head, it’s going to be you. You have the choice whether to act out of fear or act out of faith.
We will do a class on decision here in a few days, so I don’t want to go too much into it right now because we’re going to spend a whole day on that. But you have a choice. You can live in faith or fear. Living in faith will create everything that you want. Living in fear will keep you small, scared, and be an existence that, to be honest with you, is not worth living.
Everything that you want in life exists on the other side of fear or discomfort. We’ve all done the things that are easy for us to do to get what it is that we want, right? But to take it to the next level might be uncomfortable, so we don’t take it to the next level. The real transformation happens in the areas that you have postponed and put off because it’s uncomfortable. We call it the fear barrier. You’ve got to learn to break through the fear barrier.
The bigger the goal you’re looking to achieve, the bigger the life that you’re trying to obtain, the more abundance you are looking to achieve and tap into, the greater that fear is going to be. Do you think Richard Branson, for example, doesn’t experience fear when he puts it all on the line? Do you think Elon Musk doesn’t experience fear when he puts it all on the line? But here’s the difference between Elon Musk and most people out there or virtually everybody out there. Elon Musk is willing to risk it all so he can have it all.
Elon Musk is willing to risk it all so he can have it all. He’s like, “Whatever it takes.” I think about Elon all the time when I’m thinking about my own decisions in my life and the things that I need to do when I’m faced with that fear barrier. I need to push through and break through because I know the things that I want are on the other side of that fear barrier. Elon Musk is somebody that always comes to mind with me, and I think Elon Musk has it all because he was willing to put it all on the line. He was willing to do whatever it takes to get through.
What are you willing to do to have the finances that you know you deserve? What are you willing to do to have the passion back in your relationship? What are you willing to do to silence that voice? And the answer is, whatever it takes. That’s the answer. That’s the voice. That’s the answer that the victorious man speaks when the barrier comes up. I’m willing to do whatever it takes. I’m willing to do whatever it takes to push through this barrier that is in front of me, and I no longer am willing to accept fear as being the decision-making mechanism in my life. We talked about that in the video yesterday about the Law of Rejection, and how you change your life. You decide that you are no longer going to allow certain things in your life. You’re going to reject it, and one of those things that you need to decide if you want to move from chaos to control, if you want to get control of your finances, if you want to take your income, your annual income and turn it into your monthly income, if you want to bring back the passion, then you have to decide. You have to make a decision, and you have to reject fear-based decision-making. That’s how you overcome fear, and that’s just all there is to it. I’m afraid there’s no magic buttons here; we just reject it. I say to myself every day, ‘I will not be ruled by fear. I will not be tormented by fear. I will not make decisions out of fear. I will make decisions from a place of faith, and I will make decisions from a place of abundance, and that is where I will operate. I reject fear and fear-based decision-making from my life.’ That’s how you do it. It’s simply a decision, and we’re going to talk about decisions much more in a few days.
Now, what’s the difference between living out of a place of fear when the monkey mind, the animal mind, is simply pointing out consistently every single day what can go wrong? This can go wrong. This can go wrong. This can go wrong. This can go wrong. Moving over to a place of abundance, it’s a completely different way of living. It’s a completely different way of living. Just imagine for a second, what would you do? How would you act differently if you knew that success was assured? How many ventures would you have got involved in? How many decisions would you have got involved in? How many things would you have done differently in your life if you knew 100% that success was assured? It’d be a very different life, I guarantee it. And just think about that for a second, and just think about how your life would be different if the decisions that you would have made if success was 100% assured.
Because I’m here to tell you that success is 100% assured. You cannot lose when you move to the faith-based decision-making, the faith-based mentality. You cannot lose. I promise you, and here’s why you can’t lose. Because when you are living from faith, when you are living out of a place of faith, you understand that all things work to your good. That’s a biblical phrase from the book of Romans in the Bible, I believe, but it’s from the Bible, and it’s, ‘All things work to the good of those who believe.’ And guess what faith is? It’s belief. Napoleon Hill also stated the same thing in the book, ‘Think and Grow Rich,’ which, if you haven’t read it, I highly recommend that you do read it. He said, ‘Every adversity and every failure carries a seed of equal but opposite opportunity.
The bigger the adversity, the bigger the failure, the bigger the opportunity that is presented. If you never fail, you’ll never have any opportunity. If you never face adversity, you never have any opportunity ahead of you. So, moving over to Faith-Based Decision Making from fear-based decision-making, it is literally your success that is 100 percent guaranteed. You cannot make a bad decision if your decision is faith-based because even in the eventuality that the outcome is not what you envisioned it to be, there is a seed of equal opportunity. And the bigger the challenge, the bigger the seed of opportunity that faces you. So, that’s really what I want to share on that. It’s just a decision that you make. You decide that you are going to operate out of a place of faith instead of a place of fear.
Now, one more thing, and then we’ll wrap up today’s class. Here is what are some things that you can do. Because I want to leave you with some practical stuff that you can take with you from today and really start applying it to your life immediately to get the results that you’re looking for. Today’s task is to look for the good in every situation. Look for the gratitude. Find the gratitude that exists in every situation, good, bad, or ugly. Look at that situation and find something to be grateful for. If something goes wrong at work, find something to be grateful for. Find the seed of opportunity there. If you have a fight with your spouse, find the opportunity there. If something’s going on in your life that’s not great, find the seed of opportunity and learn how to experience gratitude in every situation. You will see very quickly that every action in your life is successful and your success is 100% guaranteed because even when things are not going exactly as it is that you would like for them to go, it’s working for your good. It’s working towards the outcome that you’re looking for.
That’s it from me today. Thank you so much. Tomorrow is going to be an absolutely great class. It’s one of my favorite things. We’re going to go over the money consciousness, how to create a consciousness that creates money on autopilot. This is when we’re going to start to look at some of the different mindsets and the different thought patterns and the consciousness that we need to adopt to take our income from our annual income into our monthly income and beyond and to experience any aspect or any level of life that we choose to exist. Because hey, I’m here to tell you and I’ve said it before, and I’m going to continue to say it: if you can hold it in your mind, then it’s for you to experience. Any desire that’s been put in your heart, any experience that it’s within you to experience, then God wants you to experience that. God does not put a desire into your heart and then give you no way to fulfill that desire.
If you have a desire, if there’s something you want to experience, if you have the ability to experience more of life and that you can feel that inside of you, then the means to experience that, to make that a reality, to manifest it into your world, are a lot closer than you can possibly imagine. God does not give us the desire without a very easy way of manifesting that desire. And tomorrow, we’re going to talk about that in the money consciousness. I’ve really enjoyed talking to you today. God bless you.
