Welcome to the Brian Baphini show, where we explore the mindsets, motivation, and methodologies of success. Here's your host, Brian Baphini.

Well, the top of the morning to you. And thanks for joining me on today's podcast. Today I'm covering part two of Living an Inspired Life.

This is a presentation I gave at one of our live events, and I have gotten thousands of letters and emails from people over the months after I presented this on how it impacted their lives, how it impacted their businesses, how it improved things at home.

And I hope it'll do the same for you. In order to live an inspired life, the first thing you got to do is see the inspired life you want to live. You got to say it and affirm it. And then ultimately you got to go get it. So you got to seize it. So you're going to see it. You're going to say it and you're going to seize it.

I hope you enjoy this podcast. I hope you take some great notes. I hope you get to learn how to live an inspired life.

How many of you liked the idea that you cannot recognize the qualities you admire and others or want those qualities unless you have them? Honestly, how many of you like that? How many of you, that's a newer thought? Could I see your hands?

I don't know if you aren't honestly sure if that's true. Come on. Great. Great. So I want to introduce you to a fantastic phrase and affirmation, if you will, which goes like this.

I did it before. I can do it again. Say with me. I can. Come on. Let's put a little zip on our fastball. I did it before. I can. Is that true?

Only now you'll do it better because you have more experience. Right? The experience just means you've lived some life.

The Greeks, they had three words for everything. In the English language, we got one word for love. The Greeks had three words to describe different types of love. So I love ice cream and I love you. It has a different word.

The Greeks have three words for knowledge. There's a head knowledge. Just what you acquire learning academics in any capacity of learning. Head knowledge. There's heart knowledge, which is the intuitive type of knowledge.

And then the highest type of knowledge the Greeks valued was called epiagnosis. Nosis is knowledge. Epiagnosis is experiential knowledge in our culture in America and in Canada too. Elderly people are not revered.

You can't get old. You can't look old. In other cultures in the world, elderly people who've had a lot of epiagnosis are revered because they have a lot of wisdom.

Now does that mean every old person is a wise person? No. Does that mean that every old person is inspired and loving? No. But there are those that are out there that have a wisdom.

And it's worth our while to plug in and listen to that. You have experiences. I did it before. I can do it again. That's the internal inspiration.

External motivation says this. If they can do it underwhelming. If they can do it, I did it before. I can. That is the affirmation of external and internal inspiration.

And you can have that. You can have that. And you can take whatever little piece. And you can go, if they can do it, I can do it. And how do you apply that to your life?

Man, look what they're overcoming. Maybe I can apply that to what I got going on. My kids and I, we went to see Tim Hawkins the other night. Remember Tim? He is brilliant.

He came up with this little ditty that he went on and it was called The Worst. So he dropped his daughter to the mall. 10 minutes before her friends were there. And she's texting him, Dad, this is the worst. This is just the worst.

And he said, let me get this straight. I'm at a mall in America where I'm going to go shopping with my friends. And I have to sit for 10 minutes on Instagram. And it is the worst.

And he started going off on the riff. He goes, I was thinking about those Chilean miners. There were 60 days underground with no food, no air, no oxygen. And they're talking to one another. They go, this is terrible. But can you imagine being at the mall 10 minutes early?

That would be the worst.

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