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.

As we go into AFES, I want to introduce you to the idea of envisioning, why this concept, this word, means so much to me.

Many of you might know my story.

I was working in Silicon Valley, I had a computer engineering degree that dot-com bubble had burst and the only job I could get was

in sales and I went into meditation so I could simply pull myself out of that

misery right that horrible sales job I was at but what I didn't realize is that meditation would cause me to just

accelerate in my career and soon I became VP in the company. I was only 26 years old. They moved

me to New York and asked me to run their division in New York.

And I got stuck in that. I got stuck in the corporate world for about 18 months.

And then, as I continued meditating, as I continued going deep within,

I realized that this was not me, that something was off.

I was crushing it at my job, but my life felt like there was so much more I needed to do

than just pick up the phone and be selling technology to lawyers in the US.

And so I quit my job and I became a meditation instructor And that's where I certainly had to rebuild everything.

When I first started out, I was so embarrassed at like what I was going through

that I didn't tell my friends that I was teaching meditation.

Remember, this was like 2003 in New York.

Meditation wasn't hip and core as it is right now,

where you have like superstars and celebrities talking about it.

Back then it was like woo-woo.

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