We're in a game of progress here.

We recognize that we are broken crayons.

It's always shame that is demanding immediate idealized perfection.

And that is the kiss of death.

So according to psychology today,

manifesting is the idea that through the power of belief, we can effectively

think a goal into becoming reality. Ian Kron is a best-selling author, speaker, and renowned

Enneagram expert. But behind his success is a moving story of addiction, recovery, and transformation.

Ian is proof that any obstacle can become the catalyst for building a life of purpose and

passion.

The purpose of the 12 steps is not to get you to stop drinking, watching porn, overeating,

or whatever 12-step thing you're doing them for.

Those were the symptoms of the problem.

They're not the problem.

A hundred years from now, people will say that America's greatest contribution to spirituality

was the statement that you made that I cannot

get out of my head and it might haunt me tonight.

I want to start with a pretty interesting piece of data that is troubling, and yet I think

that there's so much hope and opportunity. Across the board, experts are

estimating that over 40% of Americans are struggling with some form of addiction or compulsive

behavior at some point in their lives. So that's a pretty wide piece of data there,

and there are some guesses. But that is still a pretty stark piece of data there and there are some guesses but that is still a pretty stark

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