So just ask yourself anytime when something happens and you say, oh my God, this is terrible.

Just pause and ask yourself, is it truly terrible? Is there any way in which perhaps the next year,

it could turn out to be a good thing.

And then ask yourself the follow-up question, is there anything I can do to actually make this a

terrific outcome?

I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and thought leaders on the planet

to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work.

Hello everybody. So today I'm going to talk about something that I run into a great deal in my coaching practice.

And I have a lot of entrepreneurs who are successful and they want to become even more successful in the words of Steve Jobs what they really want to do is they want to leave a dent in the universe.

But they also know that there is something beyond material accomplishment in the world and they have a very strong urge to grow spiritually as well.

And somehow they see this as a conflict. You can have one or the other. You can achieve great success.

Or you can be calm, cool, collected, remaining serene and happy and they think the two are in conflict

with each other. And I'm here to suggest to you that that is absolutely not true. You can achieve great success and you can be as calm as

serene as a Zen monk. In fact, it's incumbent upon you to try to do that because as you go that route you will find that you achieve

even greater success than you ever dreamed of.

And what I'm going to share with you are five powerful mind hacks that will indeed propel you to great success. But here's the thing, it will also release you from the need for that success because if you need to have

great success in order to feel fulfilled you're chasing a wisp that does not exist. Great success is something that can come to you,

but if you need that great success, you won't get it that's the paradox so let's begin by

defining what do we mean by great success and many of us tend to define success by external metrics. One very common

metric is how much wealth you have material wealth how big is your house do you travel first

class do you travel by private jet you know are you known, are you famous?

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