Hello there, and welcome. I'm Bob Proctor. Over the next few minutes if you will listen really carefully, take everything I'm saying very serious and test what I'm suggesting, I guarantee you this could change your life like that.
And to an enormous degree. It can change almost everything in your life, First of all, let's stop and think about who we are and what we are. We are a mass of energy and a very high speed of vibration.
We have awesome power, we've got power beyond the scope of our imagination. Now as long as we're living in a physical body and corresponding with a material world, we're gonna use our senses, we can see, hear, smell, taste and touch. You know I've a little dog that can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.
Now it's been pointed out to us by some pretty respectable authorities that you and I are the only creature on the planet that's totally disoriented in our environment. All the other little creatures are completely at home in their environment. The birds and the bees and the squirrels and the trees.
They all blend in, they're completely at home in their environment, you and I are totally disoriented in our environment and that is because we have been given the mental faculties to create our own environment. Now think of that for a moment, we can create our own environment, in other words we don't have to settle for what we see around us, we can change it. Now if we're going to create our own environment and live the way we really wanna live, we're gonna have to use our higher faculties we're gonna have to begin to think we just can't move along at a snail's pace.
Doin the same thing every day, day in day out. We're gonna have to understand what are these higher faculties? You see we have perception, the will, reason, imagination, memory, intuition these are all higher faculties.
I'm gonna talk to you about perception, perception is how you see something, it's your way of looking at something you change the way you look at something and it'll change completely. Now let me explain how I do this. I learned this by the way from Earl Nightingale.
Just one thing I'm gonna show you right now, if I have a particular problem or a challenge, I will take it and I'll write it on a piece of paper and I'll put the paper in the center of the table and I'll sit back and look at it. And then I'll ask myself, is that challenge or that problem in me? Or is it on the paper?
Now as long as it's in me I'm gonna have difficulty with it so I've gotta work to get it on the paper. You say "Well that's silly. " Is it?
Try it. Find out how silly it is. Now when I get it on the paper, then I look at it and I really try and understand it.
Then I may go sit on the other side of the table and I'll look at it and I'll attempt to get into Earl Nightingale's energy and I'll say how would he look at this? How would Earl perceive this particular situation? And I'll start to get ideas in my mind then I'll go look at it from somebody else's perspective.
I may ask someone to share their perspective of it. You see when you change the way ya look at something it changes, our good friend Wayne Dyer gave us that. He said "When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing you look at changes," Why?
Because we have perception, we've got the ability to change how we see things. Peggy McColl one day phoned me and she said, we were just talking on the phone and an idle conversation when we finished the point where we were talking on, she said that she and Denny were looking at a home but it was a million more than they wanted to pay. Just I said right back to her, make the million look small.
You know it was only a couple of hours later, I got a email from her with a book cover, Make a Million Look Small. That's changing your perception of something, 'couple of days later she phoned me, she says why don't we get Mary Morrissey, Gay Hendricks, yourself and myself and we will run a seminar. Make a Million Look Small, and we did and we made a million.
We changed the way we look at things. What are you having your biggest problem with today? Look at it from a totally different point of view.
Now you see your conditioned to see it from the way your looking at it, you've gotta change that. Bang just like that change it! Because you can, you can look at it from a totally different perspective, your mind is very very fluid.
It'll only be rigid if you keep it rigid. Change the way you're looking at it that's what perception's all about. Think of when you have a big problem and you go and you share it with someone wiser than yourself and all of the sudden like that you may not even have a problem, what did they do?
They looked at it from how they saw it, they could see that isn't a big problem, they explained something to you and all of a sudden the problem went away there's just a situation there to be looked after. See perception is a mental faculty, now I told you you have reason, the will, imagination, memory, intuition, and perception. These are all higher faculties.
As you start to shape your perception of something it changes totally. Change your perception or your way of looking at how you earn your money, could you earn more? Could you earn more with less effort?
Could you earn more without working? Could you earn money when you are sleeping? Now this is causing you to look at what you're doing from a different perspective, do you know what the truth is you can earn more money when you're sleeping than you can spend when you're awake.
Sounds wild doesn't it? But it's true, you see all things are possible, we just gotta start to look at them in a different way. And when we do, our whole world starts to change, perception how do you see what you see.
Change it, understand this: It's not rigid it's as fluid as the air, you have to use your perception to look at everything you're looking at from a totally different point of view, that's how we created the world we've got today, somebody changed how they looked at lighting and they came in and lit our studio up properly. Somebody changed the way we look at recording and they built better a microphone. Look at this for a moment, here's a little box I want you to look at it.
A little box, this was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright the great architect, I saw it sitting in a store one day and I said isn't that interesting and I picked it up and looked at it and thought I wonder if it opens? It not only opens but it's got a nice clock in it. And I have this on my desk and I can close it if I wanna, I can open it and it's inside.
Now you see you just changed your perception of this box, when I opened it I changed mine when I opened it and I thought I like that and I gave it to myself as a gift. Matt whose working with me today said "How long have you had that? " I said "20 years.
" How do you look at what you're capable of doing how do you look at your life, how do you look at your business, how do you look at your inability to earn money? Start to shift the way you see things, that's what perception's all about! Don't look at life the same way every day.
Try and upgrade your view, look at it from a different point of view, raise yourself, look down at it, look up at it, look sideways at it! Understand this, it's as you see it, that's the way it is for you. Perception.
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