Now if that works for you, you've just been hypnotized Hypnosis is just a natural altered zone focused state And I'm going to teach you now how to use it effectively and efficiently at night as we fall asleep We go into a natural zone state a natural receptive state and Just like this exercise that you just did Where you thought about something and it happened you see your thoughts became congruent with your bodily functions and actions The same thing is true at night when you fall asleep when you fall asleep you go into a natural Receptive state for the last five minutes as you're falling asleep at night Instead of worrying about what's going to happen tomorrow or being anxious about what's going to happen next week I want you to think of what you would like to accomplish to be better I'd like you to make a little movie in your mind of what the ideal you would be like Now if the ideal you sounds a little intimidating Just think about what you want tomorrow to be like how you want tomorrow to go just practice this Try it out make it a ritual for when you fall asleep at night make a little movie in your mind of how you want tomorrow to go or How you want to be as your ideal self?

stop doing something. You see leadership is all about being congruent; a true leader is

They should be congruent with your vision.

The strongest force in the human psychology is the need to remain congruent with how you identify yourself.

So if you want, you know, more happiness, if you want more wealth, if you want deeper relationships, if you want to have more joy, you want to have more fun, you want to, you know, achieve your full potential and really make an impact in the world, then what's really important is to get clear on what that could look like for you and to make sure that what you believe is congruent with that outcome.

And this is congruent with the habits we form around other effort saving technologies like washing machines and cars.

So if you set goals that are congruent, that are truly meaningful to you, and you start chunking them down into small enough bites, so you just keep doing things and keep rewarding yourself by accomplishing immediate steps,

And Covey actually, his approach was very much congruent

But the biggest reason for not saying no like that, Marie, is because it’s not congruent

Another principle is commitment and consistency, the desire to be consistent with what we've said or done, to be congruent with our internal values and what we've said that we're going to do.