9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Imagine its one year from today 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and we all agree that we're going to 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 come back for a reunion 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Not maybe, absolutely. We're all going to 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 come back exactly the same group of us 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And we're going to come back for a reunion 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Only want to share the things that has 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 happened in our lives, during the last 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 12 months of our lives. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We're going to share what it is we've 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 dreamed up when we were here at TEDX 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in October of 2016 and what's happening 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in our lives right now 365 days later. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What would you love to be saying about 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 your life? What would you love to say 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in the four areas where humans actually do 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 create results? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We live in a spiral universe.[br] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In a spiral there's an ever upward pole[br]of becomingness. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A little blade of grass feels it as it [br]presses through cement to 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 become more of its self today than [br]yesterday 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 A tree presses to the edges of itself[br]to become more of its self[br]today than yesterday 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And humans feel the same thing, [br]we just feel a little differently 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We feel it through longing[br]and we feel through discontent 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We feel a longing for greater freedom. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We feel a discontent with[br]certain circumstances and situations. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And if we just keep breathing another[br]365 days,we will create results. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Because that's what humans do. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now we create results in four areas. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We create results in health and well-being 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You could look at your results in health[br]and well-being 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but what would you love a year from now? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Because if you keep breathing you're going[br]to have results in that area. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Humans create results in relationships.[br]Some of them are wonderful, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 some of them are deep, some of them[br]are supportive, some of them are not. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What would you love [br]in the area of your relationships? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Would you love to bring that someone[br]special in your life? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Would you like to transform a relationship[br]you are in? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Maybe a relationship is on an auto-pilot[br]and you'd love to have it go deeper 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Humans create results in vocation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What we do with our time and talent. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Whether we earned income doing it or not. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Because just by our beingness we're doing[br]something with our time and talent. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Even if we think we've done so many[br]mistakes and want to go under the covers 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What I create that day is "Covers over my[br]head day in bed" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I don't get to not create out of my[br]experience 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And humans create results in time and[br]money, freedom or constraint 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So if you think about next year when we[br]come to the reunion 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What would you love to be saying?[br] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You know in my calendar the last twelve[br]months here are the evidences 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 More freedom for me and time 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 More freedom for me in the economic[br]freedom 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 where I could go where I wanted to go,[br]do what I wanted to do 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but maybe even more importantly[br]and I believe it is 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 actually give to the things that matter[br]to you 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 provide some of the things for those that[br]matter to you as well 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now...about fourty years ago 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I got very interested in transformation 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I was getting my undergraduate degree 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and I cared deeply about kids 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This has been a longing of mine for[br]quite a while to become a school teacher 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And while I was getting my undergraduate[br]degree I wanted to study everything 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I could in the field of transformation 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And the purpose at that point was to help[br]children discover a kind of self-esteem 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 So no matter what their circumstances,[br]no matter what their situations 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They could actually believe that they[br]could actually become the person 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 they wanted to be and achieve the things[br]they wanted to achieve 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I went on a got a graduate degree in[br]counselling psychology, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I earned an honorary doctorate 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 My first book, 'Building your field[br]of dreams' became a PBS special 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I had the privilege of working with[br]his holiness The Dalai Lama 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Over the course of seven years creating[br]week long conversations 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Conversations with world leaders about how[br]to transform our worlds results 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I got very interested in how results[br]happened and how to transform results 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I had the privilege of speaking at the[br]United Nations 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 with The Martin Luther King kids and Ghandi's grandkids 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 creating a 64 day season for non-violence[br]particularly teaching junior high kids 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 about how to solve problems through acs of[br]non-violence and caring 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And I spoke at the UN three different[br]times, one of them with Rosa Parks 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And I was building my dreams that mattered[br]to me 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I had the privilege of working and flying[br]to Cape Town, South Africa and meeting 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 with Nelson Mandela. I had a deep dream to[br]ask him the question 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "How did you transform your results?" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "How did you be a man that gets sentenced[br]to life in prison?" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "You served 27 years in hard prison and[br]then not only do you get out of prison 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 before you die but you actually then[br]become president of the country that[br]sentences you to life?" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Who on our planet does this?[br]How did you do that? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And that has been my quest, my interest[br]and my deep longing 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 so that I could transfer that and offer[br]that to the people that I had the 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 privilege of working with 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I've had the privilege of working with[br]tens of thousands of people around the 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 world, around changing their results 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Does it mean that because every time I've [br]studied this and worked with my own life 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and others, that every time for me 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 my dreams came true? No. Does it mean[br]everything I did worked out? No. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 My first business that I spent 23 years[br]building. I took my eye of the ball, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I hired somebody to run the finances,[br]it was totally mismanaged 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Everything I had built.[br]It was heartbreaking to me. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But there are three straps that[br]dream builders use either consciously or 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 unconsciously. To transform their results 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 so that the dream wins over conditions 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 so that the dream wins over time 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 so that the dream wins over all kinds of[br]circumstances, situations, and even our 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 history and even no matter how long[br]it's been there 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And sometimes, it's been there for decades 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 About 150 years ago man decided to do an[br]experiment with his life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 That's what we're invited to do over the[br]next twelve months 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Keep breathing and do an experiment with life 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He went to the woods-Henry David Thoreau 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and he said "I wanted to learn to suck the[br]marrow out of aliveness" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I wanted to live a life I loved living[br]while I was living it 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I went to the woods because I wished to[br]delibrately front the only essential facts 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 of life and see if life could not teach me[br]what it had to teach 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and not when I came to die[br]discover that I had not really lived 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now, Henry did this 2 month 2 day[br]experiment and then he wrote an essay 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 about it. In the conclusion of that essay,[br]he writes a quote that is world wide known 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 'If one advances confidently in the[br]direction of their dream it endeavors to 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 live the life they imagined'. He said "I[br]learned this at least by my experiment" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 If one advances confidently in the[br]direction of their dream- 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 you can't advance in a direction you don't[br]already have an idea of 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And the first thing dream builders or[br]people who evolve their results do 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Is they have an idea of what they really[br]loved their life to be like 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 If I say to you 'Your front door',[br]'The kitchen sink', 'the bed you sleep in' 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You did not see the letters B, E, D or[br]S,I,N,K or D,O,O,R 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You saw pictures. You saw picture of a[br]door, sink, bed.