Free The Dream (Part 3) You Decide To Be Alive with The Mindset Answerman Cliff Ravenscraft

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Cliff is a business mentor, coach, and public speaker. He can help you take your message, business, and life to the next level so that you can live your dream life and do the things you feel most called to do in the world.

In this episode, Cliff discusses the “50 Things I Want” exercise he has designed, which entails writing down 50 things you would like to have in your life or something you already have but would like to see more frequently.

Cliff advises that from the 50 items, you should create a new list of the top 10 things you desire or dream about, with the first three items being your top three goals. Once you have that, you have granted yourself the liberty to begin dreaming, yearning, and seeking.

Through this activity, Cliff assists individuals in reconnecting with their ability to visualize what they wish to create and gaining clarity as to why they desire this. He is also directing people to come to a place of making a decision. A decision is an incredibly powerful thing; it’s cutting yourself off from any other outcome other than seeing that dream become a reality.

Cliff also tells us about a client she had dealt with who underwent a remarkable shift and found fulfillment in it. Her client started listening to their podcast when she was a teenager, according to Cliff. As a child, she endured some physical abuse. As a result, she attempted suicide and disconnected from the world as early as her teenage years.

Cliff has built a forum for their listeners online. And at the time, it had approximately 40,000 to 50,000 subscribers; this client was one of them. She began socializing with people outside of her household for the first time. She developed relationships with other individuals. They developed such friendships with people from all over the globe that she began to meet with them outside of her house.

She is currently cultivating these significant partnerships and beginning to emerge from her depression. She dreams to become a world traveler.

Now, she has become widely recognized in the online community. Through social media, she has established a small community and a following.

Later on, her client completed Cliff’s A-Z course and launched a podcast titled Fighting Anorexia. Then, a documentary was made about her life. She has appeared in numerous magazines, television show,s and radio, and she has begun a body image coaching career. That is the day she becomes an inspiration to women around the globe.

Cliff Ravenscraft discusses with Dr. Brad how we can eliminate limiting ideas that are preventing us from living the life we desire.

Cliff Ravenscraft’s story is a motivational, inspiring, and influential of a person who continually finds the best path in his life, and follows the mission of his life, which is to be of service to other people. 

Episode 240 of The Beyond Adversity Podcast is a must-listen for anyone who wants to understand why we do the things that we want to do and also to discover an easy-to-remember formula that will give clarity on how to get different results in life. 

The Beyond Hardship Podcast with Dr. Brad Miller is released weekly with the goal of assisting listeners in “Growing Through What They Go Through” as they traverse adversity and achieve their promised life of peace, prosperity, and purpose.

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Transcript
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The first thing that I do is I start in a conversation and ask

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What do you truly desire? What do you want? What's on your heart? What do you want to create in this world?

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What do you want to create in this world?

Dr. Brad Miller:

You help them define that with some tools and things like this as well

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I have an exercise, it's called the “50 Things I want” exercise

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Without any filters without asking, Is this possible? Is this selfish? Is this materialistic?

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What is something you don't currently have in your life that you would like to have in your life

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something you currently have in your life, but you would like to see it show up even more consistently.

Dr. Brad Miller:

It could be a new car, it could be a better marriage, it could be anything like that, right?

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It could be anything. The only thing is the caveat

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You must come up with 50.

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And if it comes to your mind, without any judgment

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You must put it on the piece of paper.

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what I do is I have them take from those top 50. And I say, hey, let's pull out of the 50.

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Just find 10 that you think should be on your top 10 Dreams list.

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Your top 10 doesn't have to be in any order at all

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once you're going through the list of 50, and you're coming up with your top 10

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All of a sudden, a new idea that should be on your top 10 comes up

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I say hey, why don't you go ahead and write that into the top 10 and just add it as a 51st item.

Dr. Brad Miller:

What I've loved about those, it's a process. it's not just a feeling, it's a process.

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Yes, this is absolutely a process. And then what you do

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You say okay, out of these 10, top 10 dreams

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What is most important to you? You put that in position number one

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of your top three goals, out of the remaining nine, top 10 dreams,

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what's most important to you, but that is number two, out of the remaining eight, top 10 dreams

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what's most important to you put that as number three,

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Now you have your top 10 dreams, you have your top three goals

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to go after in life. And once you have that,

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you have the ability, and you've given yourself

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the freedom to begin dreaming

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to begin wanting to begin desiring.

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Again. These are things we've been conditioned not to do.

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So the first thing that I do is I try to help people reconnect with their ability

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To have a vision without vision people will perish.

Dr. Brad Miller:

Sounds a little bit biblical to me my friend.

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Having a vision of what you want to create is essential.

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That's the first thing that I do is help people reconnect

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to their ability to imagine what they want to create

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because thoughts become things. Then what I do

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I help people get clarity about why do they want this?

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Is this what they truly want? Or is this what they've been taught and conditioned

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to believe that they should want? Is this something you want for yourself?

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Or is this something you believe will it will appease somebody

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that you're in relationship with that this is something they want for you and

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you want to appease them, because we want to get clarity

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Oftentimes if if this isn't our dream, but we're trying to make somebody else's dream

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that suppose that they wish were my dream, you'll never be able to accomplish

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that'd be your dream not to dream for somebody else or for your history

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job or your parents or anything else. Then what I do is.

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I help people come to the place of making a decision. And decision

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Decision is incredibly powerful thing; it's cutting yourself off from any other outcome other

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Other than seeing that dream become a reality

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Because the way I like to think about this is how this language we've been using

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through this entire conversation about a lot about living. You know, these dreams

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are there for a reason. And it's what life is all about. I mean

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we're here for just a speck.

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if even if you live 120 years on this planet,

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if you look at the history of human life here

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that's nothing. All right, so So you're and guys, if I'm here I want to live I want to see or I want to create

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If I'm here I want to live I want to see or I want to create

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if you're going to live you might phrase, I've heard recently is drop dead

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You mean you want to live to the very end, you want to live your fullest

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to the very end at first, of course, you a lot of That's Biblical as well.

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tell us about a person or situation that has had a transformation

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that you've been a part of that process and how that's fulfilling to you in and of itself.

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I'll give you an example of this and it kind of threads the

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whole thing together and I didn't think of what story I would tell until this just moment so you're ready for this.

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Anna Sofia Reinhardt from Germany in 2005. She started listening to our podcast when she was is only a teenager.

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she had some abuse trauma in her young childhood.

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she had experienced some physical abuse as a child.

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And as a result of that, as in her teens, she had already tried to commit suicide.

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she had unplugged from the world, she would not leave her house

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She had every sort of fear that you could possibly imagine.

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She locked herself in a room and the one thing that she did was watch TV all the time, she watched television shows

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all the time, she watched television shows. by the way, she lived in Germany.

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She's watching American television shows like the TV show lost the television

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Desperate Housewives, the television show Grey's Anatomy, just so happened that my wife and I had podcasts on all three of those

Dr. Brad Miller:

All right, very good.

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All right, in, we created a bunch

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of other family and entertainment based shows,

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faith based shows and all this other stuff. So, we created an online

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forum for our listeners.

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And at the time, it had about 40,000, maybe 50,000 members,

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in this online discussion forum, all of us our podcast listeners

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A percentage of our podcast listeners and Anna Sophie was one of them as a teenager.

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And Anna Sophie was one of them as a teenager. And she began for the first time

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Interacting with other people outside of her household.

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She developed friendships with other people.

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And she realized, oh, my gosh, I'm not all alone in this world, she began to interact with

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Myself and my wife, she started listening, leaving listener feedback

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and sharing her voice. And we would respond to her in the podcast, we had

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conversations with her online, she began to develop such friendships

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with other people all around the world, that she

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began to meet with them outside of her home.

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She eventually started with people who lived, you know, relatively

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close to her. But all of a sudden, she's making trips to London to meet

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with somebody she met online, like a girlfriend

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that she's met online. she's developing

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these meaningful relationships. And now she's starting

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to really come out of that depression and fog.

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then she all of a sudden

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she's coming alive. And she is now has

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a dream of being a world traveler. She's traveling all over.

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I mean, like all over Europe, all over the world

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into the United States. She comes in lives in the United States

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for I think, at least a year or something like that

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Maybe more. And she starts attending live events

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where my wife and I are hosting these live events, she came and shot her and her

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sister came and stayed in our home for like, over a week at one time.

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And I mean, it's this, she just, she's just come alive.

Dr. Brad Miller:

That's what it's all about when you get fulfilment by seeing others transform.

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That's what it's really all about, for me, at least.

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So she’s now become very popular in our online community. She's developed

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a little bit of a community and a following of her own through social media channels.

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Eventually, at one point, she hires me

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she goes through my podcasting A to Z courses and says

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Oh, let me just tell you that she started blogging. And one of the things

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that she blogged was actually going in and seeking treatment

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and healing from anorexia.

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she had to had a bad case of anorexia.

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she goes in she blogs about the entire experience including

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authentically, transparently the time she left when they told her not to leave.

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She's like, Listen, I'm done with this. This is too much. And when she went back, and she completed

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her her treatment there. So later, she

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then comes to me and says, Cliff, I want to go through your podcasting a to z course. I want you

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To teach me how to have a podcast. And she created a podcast called fighting anorexia.

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Now she began to develop an audience

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in the 1000s of women

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and I don't know probably men as well, who are fighting anorexia.

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So she comes to a conference that I was the director of.

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I just director of podcasting for Blogworld New Media Expo. She comes to New York

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City. Anna Sophie and I are walking down the streets

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in New York City, and I'm not kidding. Some girls came

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and says, “Oh, my gosh, you're Anna Sophie”

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They recognize her. And later that day, she hosted a meet up

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and there were tons of women who showed up for her meetup. By the way,

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since then, she's had a documentary told about her story.

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She's been featured in multiple magazines. She's been on television

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on radio, and she began a coaching career

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of helping people with body image. Today,

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she is somebody who is inspiring

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Women all over the world.

Dr. Brad Miller:

Inspiring people and be an inspiration. That's part of what

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You're all about Cliff, you've been an inspiration

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to me and many others. And what a great story. So, if other people want to be inspired

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by you, like, Sophie and myself and others. How can people

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find out more about you? Where can they find you and get connected to what you're all about?

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Well, I know that many people are going to be listening to this as a podcast.

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for that reason, I would encourage you to just in your favorite podcast directory. Do a search for

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Cliff Ravenscraft show, or just Cliff Ravenscraft. And you're going to see

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that there are a lot of shows, and the one show that I would most recommend starting

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Out with is the Cliff Ravenscraft show. So, check that out. But

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if anything that I've been sharing with you today, if it's resonated

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with you, at any level, I most encourage you to go to mindsetanswerman.com/free

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I will give you free access to the opening keynote

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address to my annual conference called Free the Dream. And the title of the talk

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is all beliefs have consequences. And if there's anything that's going to set

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you free, is breaking free from beliefs that are

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holding you back from living the life you feel you are called to live.

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And I demonstrate how I was doing this, I was sabotaging myself by refusing

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to take people's money. When they were clearly like

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Cliff, let me pay you money for what you've just helped me do. And I'm like, listen, now, this was

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too easy. I didn't earn your money. And we're talking $300

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And I'm like, No, I cannot take

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your $300. it's like you're not. like I'm giving

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It's a gift. No, I will not take it.

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Check it out. It's over at mindsetanswerman.com/free, you'll learn

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that every belief you have has consequences, whether you

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perceive it to be good or bad. The results that you're getting in life is because

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of how you think and feel about anything. And how you think and feel is determined by what

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believe. And in this talk, you'll learn how to break free from

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any limiting belief that's holding you back.

Dr. Brad Miller:

So breaking free from limiting beliefs is what it's all about. And what we try to do here

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at http://www.drbradmiller.com/ to help you transform from

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whatever adversity you're in to a life of peace and prosperity

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and purpose. And we thank you if he is the mindset answerman. We'll put links to everything he's about

Dr. Brad Miller:

Cliff, thanks for being our guest today.

Cliff Ravenscraft:

It has been my honor. Thank you

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