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  • And I want to tell you what's in this box.

  • I learnt a technique from a spiritual teacher where every time I have a crazy

  • dream or a goal, I write it in a piece of paper and I put it in this box,

  • and I imagine as if this box is kind of like a genie or a magic machine,

  • and these goals come true.

  • So in this box you'll find some crazy stuff.

  • Don't ask me what this is.

  • It's a unicorn buck.

  • A Christmas card with "Star Wars" characters singing.

  • A broken arrow from a Harv Eker class, where I had to break an arrow

  • with my neck.

  • But this piece of paper, this piece of paper started it all.

  • And this is what we're going to talk about today.

  • This paper says June 2008, Mindvalley 300K in sales, okay?

  • Let me tell you what was going on there.

  • In May of 2008, I had been an entrepreneur for five years and I realized that I was

  • in a horrible situation.

  • We had 18 people working for Mindvalley back then, but we were making about a

  • quarter million a month in revenue, but we were losing money

  • every single month.

  • And we knew if this loss didn't stop, we were about to run out of cash in the

  • bank and we would have to let go of a good chunk of our team.

  • I tried everything; business consultants, marketing strategies, hiring MBAs,

  • nothing was changing that.

  • I went into one of those zones where I just couldn't focus and work because

  • the fear, the anxiety, was so great.

  • Now, back then, my life was really different.

  • I drove a tiny Nissan March.

  • I did not have enough money.

  • Everything was going to this company that was not really going anywhere for the

  • first five years.

  • And I lived in a room still in my parents' house.

  • You see, I had failed to realize that ultimately,

  • And I was trying all the physical outside tools, but not paying attention to the

  • stuff that's right here in between our ears.

  • I flew to San Diego to attend a class by a spiritual teacher.

  • I signed up for a four-day seminar by another personal growth master.

  • I went deep into the works of philosophers like Neale Donald Walsch and Esther Hicks.

  • This piece of paper where I'd written down my goal, 300K, we'd been stuck at 250K

  • for a year.

  • And all of a sudden, an idea clicked and we hit 300K.

  • So I thought, well, why not go a little further.

  • I took my team to the beach to celebrate and there, we held up a sign in the sand

  • with the word 500K.

  • In three months, we hit 500K.

  • Emboldened by ability to just grow all of a sudden so rapidly,

  • we set a new goal for 1 million.

  • And in a mere eight months from May 2008 when I put this in the box,

  • we hit a million.

  • But it wasn't a specific growth strategy.

  • It wasn't some grand new innovation.

  • and if you want to know the exact things that I learned, that caused me to pull

  • Mindvalley out of this situation of near death, moving from a tiny cramped

  • residential house to an office that just made Inc. Magazine

  • top 10 most beautiful offices, I want to invite you to join me on a

  • one-hour deep dive into these ideas.

  • You don't just have to be a CEO or a founder, this class is for anyone who

  • wants to get out of a slump, who feels you're kind of hitting a ceiling

  • and you've tried everything else.

  • And I want to show you how to break through this feeling by expanding your

  • levels of consciousness to go to new heights so that you transform the world

  • based on what you're feeling inside here.

  • So, the masterclass is happening all of this week.

  • It's completely free, go ahead and RSVP.

And I want to tell you what's in this box.

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