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Millionaire Mindcast

135: Why You Need To Be More Selfish To Create More Freedom And Wealth In Your Life | Shannon Graham

Millionaire Mindcast

Matt Aitchison

Productivity, Stocks, Realestate, Lifestyle, Finance, Commercialrealestateinvesting, Personalgrowth, Entrepreneur, Business, Entrepreneurship, Rich, Mastermind, Money, Personalfinance, Millionaire, Mentorship, Realestateinvesting, Success, Mentor, Wealth, Investing, Millennials

4.4716 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

For more than 10 years, motivational speaker, self-help author and success mentor Shannon Graham has helped countless individuals and businesses reach their goals through a wide range of effective, life-changing strategies. Shannon invests his work with an unwavering dedication to the success of his students in various facets of their lives and careers.

Recognized across the globe as a premier motivational speaker and leader in the self-help and coaching industry, Shannon Graham has developed two programs to tackle the hurdles of life and business. “The Ultimate Lifestyle Intensive”: a highly popular weekend mentor coaching program and “Legacy”, an intensive one-on-one coaching program and mastermind.

What you will learn:

  • What was the first moment that lead Shannon into the personal development space? (3:45)
  • Using the baseline of mastery comes after 10,000 hours of practice, what are some areas where Shannon considers himself a master in? (7:40)
  • Does Shannon think people need to be selfish in order to succeed at the highest levels? (12:30)
  • How does Shannon practice selfishness in his daily practices? (21:45)
  • How do we give ourselves permission to go after what we really want? (27:25)
  • Who have been some of Shannon’s greatest teachers and mentors? (31:35)
  • Internally where should people start exploring when they look to expand themselves? (45:45)
  • What is Shannon’s definition of “wealth”? (49:08)

Quotes:

  • “I don’t fear the man that has practiced 10,000 kicks one time, I fear the man that has practiced one kick 10,000 times” – Bruce Lee
  • “Sometimes the reason behind why people want to help others so desperately is because they have put themselves last.”
  • “You must be able to ask powerful questions, but you can only ask powerful questions if you listen powerfully.”
  • “You cannot give from an empty cup.”
  • “The most important relationship you will ever have is the one you have with yourself.”
  • “When you give that what you do not have, you turn those who receive from you into thieves.”
  • “Permission is not necessary if total acceptance exists.”
  • “Desire is expansion seeking to express itself.”
  • “Our feelings are the best indicator of the richness of our lives.”
  • “If we have everything but we don’t feel good then we aren’t doing good.”

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shannon.graham.1460
His Website: http://shannongraham.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Millionaire Mindcast, where we broadcast weekly interviews with millionaire minds from across the globe to empower you on your journey of unlocking a rich and fulfilling life.

0:17.1

It's time to unleash your millionaire within. Now, here's your host, Maddie A.

0:25.5

What's going on, guys?

0:26.8

Man, I am super excited for this interview today.

0:30.3

This is probably, honestly, one of my favorite interviews that I've done on the entire show,

0:34.6

definitely in the last, you know, six or so months and this guy was uh referred

0:41.0

to me by one of my buddies lee and he connected me with the gentleman that you're going

0:46.4

to see here in a few minutes mr shannon graham and uh Shannon is a he's a thought leader

0:51.7

he is a mental peak performance coach and I'm sure you've heard that term, you know,

0:57.0

kind of get cliched and thrown around pretty heavily over the last few years.

1:01.5

But this guy's the real deal.

1:03.5

And the conversation that we have today is a deep one.

1:08.3

I will say that.

1:09.8

And if you have, you know, ever heard the term of, you know,

1:14.8

being selfish is service not only to yourself, but to others around you, that doesn't make

1:22.7

a whole lot of sense, right? And we really dove into this idea of how you need to become more selfish, not only for

1:30.0

yourself, but for your business, for your family, for your friends, for everybody around you.

1:35.7

And I don't even want to dive into it too much because I don't want to give it away, but I'm

1:40.2

going to leave you guys with this. Shannon shares why owning 365 Rolls Royces is actually a good thing or why it could be a good

1:51.8

thing.

1:52.5

I'm going to leave you with that.

1:53.5

So with that being said, we're going to go ahead and dive into today's interview.

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