4th Dimension and messages from you to you

The key to all this is time. And in saying this I’ve already lost you because you’re already sick of hearing about time, making time, wasting time, my constant “time energy and resources” as well as my “everyone makes time for what’s most important to them.” Stay with me, because this is different. It’s not about making time, it’s not even about scheduling time.

It’s about you listening to you when you are at your smartest.

Everyone tells you to live in the moment, but that’s exactly what’s preventing you from losing weight, accomplishing that thing, or feeling better.

You take the moment and then your brain considers the best course of action, right.

Nope. That’s a tiny voice in the huge cathedral in your head. There is a loud symphony of emotions (good and bad), the effects of food (and other substances). Though just another emotion, desire plays a huge part in this as well and can have the loudest voice. Then there’s the part of you that wants to plan, and can just plan away what it is you were supposed to do right now

We are constantly three people: our past, present and future selves. We are the past to our future, we are the present to our mindful mind, and we are the future to our past selves. And that last one is the key to everything.

If everything you are doing right now is because of your present mind, you will never make the progress you have wanted to make.

If right now you realize that you want to lose weight, you can’t. No, seriously, you can’t lose weight right now. It’s impossible unless you lose a limb. If you want to lose 50 lbs then you have to plan to lose it.

Yes, you can eat less if you literally have your fork in hand, but that’s as close to your present self telling your present self to lose weight.

Instead you have to make some sort of plan, remind yourself, join a club, get a meal plan, etc. And what do all those things have in common from where we are standing right now?

They are all in the future. Every single one of them.

Mentally that seems obvious but is a bit shocking. Isn’t it? Its all the future.

You can argue that it is a state of being, or a mindset, but I will remind you that you don’t have that state of being or mindset and that’s why you aren’t accomplishing this. So we are talking about you before you’ve engaged the mindset, if that indeed is even a thing.

Message in a bottle

So what I am talking about is sending yourself a message, a message that you will listen to. If you can send your future self (that you will becomes) a mesage that your future self will listen to you get get everything you want.

Everything you want that us based on a set of actions that you have been unable to perform.

Let’s agree on this: if you could snap your fingers and MAKE yourself perform a set of actions to so a thing wouldn’t you ALWAYS do this? If you had a magic word that could cuse you to, with 100% success rate, do a thing that you want to do, wouldn’t you ALWAYS take advantage of that?

Right? C’mon. Of course you would. It would be like cheating.

But if you could snap your fingers and START doing that thing starting right now you would still have to wait days, weeks or even years in some cases to see the results. So iven with this magic ability to “just do it” there wouldn’t be much instant gratification.

However, if you could snap your fingers and start doing that a month ago, you would instantly see the results.

Example: Snap your fingers and two months ago you start eating smaller portions. Poof, you are now 20 lbs lighter right now.

Example: Snap your fingers and three months ago you start going to the gym three times a week. Poof, you are now noticeably healthier, more fit, and lighter. You can go shopping for some fun clothing right now.

Want to buy that, if I’m selling that power?

How much would you pay for that? If that is real I would pay thousands for it, but would want to make sure that there’s no secret drawback because it sounds too good to be true.

Listen to the podcast for more…

Transcript:

you're listening to the mark
Bradford
Alchemy for
Life podcast happy new year new decade and boy do I have some stuff for you well hey there welcome to a special
New
Year's edition of the
Alchemy for
Life podcast that's why you're hearing it on a Thursday if you're hearing it when it's first released and you're one of the smart people who also gets the email in the article and if so thank you if you're listening to this having your coffee and you're hung over then
I'll as always I will speak softly if you are listening to this later on then that's cool too either way happy
New
Year happy 2020 and happy new decade and on that front I want to say a few things before I go on I always have these two formats I have the 10-minute format which is what
I'm doing now and then I have the 45 to an hour format when I interview really cool people I might break that in this one because this might get a little bit longer so bear with me but there's going to be a number of parts to this because you know it's kind of a wrap up and it's a moving forward and all that wonderful stuff so first of all for those of you who like to mark off things and have this clean slate and say well it's a Monday it's a new week or it's the morning I got a new fresh day or it's
New
Year's it's a new year or in this case it's a new decade good for you you go ahead and use that clean slate I mean it's really a hypothetical construct that humans create emotionally and and so forth and we can argue about what time is also but that's great if that's what you do so please use it to your advantage take advantage of the fact that you know everyone's doing that sort of thing but please don't be one of those person and that goes
I'm trying to think of a more appropriate phrase than balls to the wall sorry it don't be one of those people who goes for it and goes 100% for 3 days because you're going to be surrounded by people who suddenly have a change in attitude and suddenly are happier but seem more stressed and are more professional and they handle things better and they have you know they're all together and it's all about me and blah blah blah and then in a week from now they're all order and a pizza don't be one of those people okay don't get high on life for like 24 hours and then go man this high on life stuff is so instead do something else and that brings us to don't make resolutions yeah I can hear the eye rolling don't make resolutions
I've said this before if you're a a listener that or or you've read some of my stuff you know what I mean by that if it's it's something that's a one-off something that you can just tick that's fine you want to check a box that works but for those things that have been really bothering you I mean these long-term things then you're going to need something special in place you're going to need a system right because if you don't have the time if you can't muster the energy and if you don't possess the resources to make something happen that's probably why it's not happening and this is of course basic stuff right I mean if you know this you know this and
I'm repeating myself for the 50th time but if you don't know this you may think oh that kind of makes sense yeah I guess that's why I don't work out that's why I don't do this that's why
I'm never going to accomplish that project that's not that's why
I'm never going to learn that new skill because I don't make the time for it or I can't afford it or you know
I'm just exhausted so that's what the whole balance sheet was all about that's where that all came from so if you stop listening at the minute
Mark then
I'm just going to say subscribe to this podcast fill out the balance sheet buy the
Alchemy for
Life
Book and go for it and say new decade yay okay if you want to hear some more let's talk about a new decade and a new start and let me tell you two really exciting things first of all moving forward
I'm going to have even more guests that are going to
S surprise you see I was so excited there I couldn't say surprise
I'm going to have even more guests that make you go wow how'd you get that person in fact I got a call from someone that literally said how the hell did you get
Scott
Adams on your show I expect more calls like that because I have a couple guests right now lined up that are definitely going to surprise you uh one that
I'm actually going to be talking to and literally I think literally today if you're listening to this on
Thursday and if you're listening later than that I think it's already in the can hopefully is somebody who is not only a presidential candidate but has a very very interesting history so
I'm really looking forward to that discussion that should really be an eyeopener and I plan to have even more chats like that and as always with my chats my guests are also surprised that we have this very cordial insightful conversation because I really don't like the I have 10 questions to ask you and as
I've said before you know oh that's a really interesting deep and thought-provoking thing so I hear you also have a cat I don't I don't want to do that I want to kind of dive deep with people and I want to let them tell me the things that I think you want to know and in fact that's sort of I hear you and I see you behind me looking over my shoulder saying
Mark
Mark ask him ask him this ask him that or wait wait I always wanted to know this or wait why does that do that or why does that person do that so I I it's important to me to sort of ask the questions that I think if you were trapped in an elevator with this person and had the ability to pretty much ask them anything those are the kind of things that I would like to ask them on your behalf in addition to new and even more exciting and interesting guests from not only all over the world but all sorts of of
Life there will be at least one book and you know who am I kidding there's probably going to be a good three books this year from me to those of you who have purchased
The
Sword and the sunflower I thank you from the bottom of my heart honestly it really means a lot to me it also means a lot to me if you have actually read it and enjoyed it and go to
Amazon and rate it
Amazon or good reads I really appreciate that a lot because the feedback certainly helps me and with a podcast and other things like this you're sort of in a one-way relationship and I don't like the one-way relationship I want it to be two- way I want you to give me feedback just like the feedback I get on the podcast so you have something to say you have a question to ask you you want to say this is awesome but could this be different or I have a question about that please you have like 20 ways to contact me and it's it's in this podcast it's in the books so after
I'm done beating that dead horse we'll leave it alone so thank you again new books coming and as
I've said in the podcast stolen validation and also the stolen validation about writing a book and how that feels and telling people about it before it's written I don't like to talk about something unless I have nailed it unless it's done because I don't want all the
Kudos and oh that's great you're doing that and I don't want to get caught up in that before
I've actually done it because that's a great way to fail but I want to give you the first chance to know that there may be an additional podcast in 2020 I have had numerous people in fact most people who've heard this podcast and know me and have talked to me about not only the
Alchemy for
Life book but actually people who've seen me speak and talk to me further have told me that there's another genre that I would do really well in and that people would really want to hear from me on so I may introduce a new podcast
I'm telling you here first and if I do
I'll tell you first that it where to find it and so forth it'll be a different genre than this so it may or may not be for you if you are here for time energy and resources it's going to be different than that and now that we've done all that we've sort of been brought all the way up to speed and moving forward I don't want to just end it here at the 6 Minute
Mark and say hey well thanks for letting me talk about my stuff now I want to tell you something really kind of crazy as you know I talk about time en time energy and resources all the time I truly believe that that's what life's made of you know and the only other thing might be desire so I want to touch on something kind of crazy it's one of those statements when you hear it you'll be like y du but then later on you're going to think about it and go okay
I'm creeped out a little bit so let's talk about fourth dimension and messages from you to you so the key to all this is time and in saying this
I've already lost you because you're already sick of hearing me say time energy and resources make time wasting time everyone makes time for what is most important to them all that stuff but stay with me because this is different it's not about making time and it's not even about scheduling time it's about you listening to you when you are at your smartest if you're hung over today uh the probably isn't right now so everyone tells you to live in the moment but that's exactly what's preventing you from losing weight accomplishing that thing or feeling better see I told you that I was going to say some crazy stuff but just stay with me you take the moment you take in this moment and then your brain considers the best course of action right nope cuz see that's just a tiny voice in a huge cathedral in your head there's a loud
SYM of emotions good and bad the effects of food and other substances mhm I mean even caffeine if you're a smoker that all can affect that moment as well and though just another emotion desire plays a huge part in this as well and can and sometimes does have the loudest voice then there's the part of you that wants to plan and can just plan away what it is you were supposed to do right now I know I have a huge part of me that just is in love with
Logistics and planning stuff we are constantly three people our past our present and future selves we are the past to our future we are the present to our mindful mind and we are the future to our past selves and that last one is key to everything if everything you are doing right now is because of your present mind you will never make the progress you've wanted to make if right now you realize that you want to lose weight you can't no seriously you can't lose weight right now it's impossible unless you lose a limb if you want to lose 50 lbs then you have to play plan to lose it yes you can eat less if you literally have your fork in your hand but that's as close to your present self telling your present self to lose weight instead you have to make some sort of plan remind yourself join a club get a meal plan
Etc and what do all these things have in common from where we are standing right now they are all in the future every single one of them I mean mentally that seems obvious but kind of a bit shocking isn't it it's all in the future and you can argue that it's a state of being that it's a mindset but I will remind you that you don't have that state of being or mindset and that's why you aren't accomplishing this so we are talking about you before you've engaged the mindset if that indeed is even a thing and you can fight me on that so what
I'm talking about is sending yourself a message a message that you will listen to if you can send your future self that you will become a message that your future self will listen to then you get to have everything you want everything you want that is based on a set of actions that you have been unable to perform think about that and let's agree on this if you could snap your fingers and make yourself perform a set of actions to do a thing wouldn't you always do this if you had a magic word that you could use with 100% success rate that would cause you to do a thing that you want to do wouldn't you always take advantage of that come on right what do you have to to lose there's no downside of course you would it would be like cheating you snap your fingers and poof but if you could snap your fingers and start doing that thing starting right now you would still have to wait days weeks or even years in some cases to see the results so even with this magic ability to just do it there wouldn't be much instant gratification would there however if you could snap your fingers and start doing that a month ago you would instantly see the results now let me give you some examples as you think
I'm totally insane example you snap your fingers and two months ago you start eating smaller portions poof you are now 20 lbs lighter right now well yeah here's another one snap your fingers and 3 months ago you start going to the gym three times a week poof you are noticeably healthier more fit and lighter you can go shopping for some fun clothes today want to buy that if
I'm selling that how much would you pay for that if that was real I would pay thousands for it
I'd pay pretty much any price for that and I bet you would too because it would be magic it would be have like having a genie it would be poof but you'd want to make sure there's no secret drawback because it sounds too good to be true doesn't it and of course it is because we don't have that kind of control over time we can't send a message backwards uhhuh see where
I'm going here you can't send a message backwards to your past self and I know every single person who's listening has done that if I could only go back in time I would tell myself
X you know and a lot of people are like well
I'm the sum of my experiences and and for the most part I think that a lot too as much as there are some things that I really would love to change I do think that my experience have brought me to here talking to you but yes of course there are things that if I went back in the past and I changed
I'd be like because of what I know now boom well time only
Moves In One Direction for humans so the statement if I only knew what I know now still applies think about that 3 months from now if I only knew what I know now I wouldn't do a thing well wait you wait you already know that right now and you'll continue to know that in 3 months so why didn't you do it because you didn't become yourself and then go back and look and go why didn't I just do that because it's the past right now right now is the past for your future self it's you dummy sorry as a side note in time travel movies people always go back in time and they're rude to their past selves that's actually the way it works you would be very rude to your past self because there'd be a little bit of condescension and it's because we know we know better we know better and we and we just are disappointed in ourselves and go dude anyway we are are our future selves to our past right but we are also our past selves to our future I know I can't say this with a straight face because it just sounds so funny but it's true we are the past to our future okay so we can still send that message but we have to be the receiver of the message right now so if we look forward and go
Man 3 months ago
I'm sitting there and going why didn't I just start that meal program why didn't I go get that app that helps me to eat less why didn't I just go to the gym one more time or why didn't I start reading books sooner or why didn't I fill out that balance sheet that guy is a brilliant guy that is so smart and his books are great and I should hire him the the future self will will realize that so why not send a message in the only direction we can which is forward right but we can project and say hey if I could send a message back now and
I'm me this is what I would do so this was kind of a convoluted humor filled way to tell you kind of look forward and go what would you want to have happen if you could send a message backwards so this is your this is your guy right now
I'm waving my hands
I'm the two months ago mark from two months in the future right if it's
January 1st then
I'm the two months ago guy from the
March 1st
Mark that's a lot of weight and people get that and that's kind of where resolutions come in sometimes people get that like oh my
God the future is on my shoulders oh my
God don't look at it like that okay because that can be really overwhelming it's the same kind of overwhelming that I talk about in the 3:00 a.m.
wakeup call podcast so don't let that be overwhelming to you but instead try to make it a fun thing you know look at look at your look at your 2 month 3 month 2 week one year self with love and admiration and say that's a better person that's a better person even if
I'm still a schlub it's a better person because I have learned and become wiser and have had experiences added to my life so if you take just this one thing away think about your future self looking back and think about what your future self would tell you and then do it and then what's that next step with the do it the next step is make time energy and resources to get that done and you know what
I'm going to say after that so
I'm not even going to say it okay
I'm going to leave it at that because you have been kind enough to listen for almost 20 minutes to my normal 10-minute podcast so I thank you very much for that I thank you so much for listening
Happy
New
Year to you happy
New
Year happy new decade to you I wish you only the best I truly want you to be happy successful and get what you want and though
I'm selling stuff I ain't selling stuff do you know what I mean
I'm still going to be here next week and next week and next week or so and try to help you even further because I want to because I think this stuff is important and I think
I'm very much enjoying the feedback from people saying literally someone said I listen to your I listened to this podcast and about painting and I picked up my guitar and I started playing and I know that person still plays his guitar now and he never would have had he not listened to the podcast about doing that or when someone contacts me and says that really made a lot of sense and I and I adjusted my perception of things because of that I really like that and I really I and that's most of the motivation for doing this is to get this in your ear holes in a way that's
Pleasant and that doesn't take too much of your time so I look forward to talking to you more in in 2020 please share this with people you know please provide feedback if you want to or you can silently listen that's cool too and um take care of yourselves thanks hey it's me again thanks for listening two things for you if you like this
I'd really love that you rate it on iTunes or
Spotify would love to have the stars that are appropriate and
I'd love to uh hear your thoughts on it and the other thing is I do have a new book out and I would love for you to take a peek at it it's called
The
Sword and the sunflower it's on
Amazon as a Kindle as well as a paperback thanks just a little blurb at the end here take care
  

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