Jack Canfield: “You Do Not Become What You Want, You Become What You Believe.”

Jack Canfield shares inspiring stories and practical wisdom on belief, possibility, and the power of mindset. From Cliff Young’s impossible race to affirmations and visualization, this episode reveals how success begins with what you choose to believe. If you’re ready to dream bigger and remove mental limits, this message will expand what you think is possible. Source: Jack Canfield - Seminar of the CenturyHosted by Sean CroxtonFollow me on InstagramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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  In order to receive something into our life, we have to be feeling the feelings we would feel if we already had the thing that we want to come into our life. So I have to feel like a millionaire before the million can come in. I have to feel abundant. I have to feel full of love before I attract the love I want. Gandhi said, be the thing you want. So if you want love, be loving. You want joy, be joyful. You'll attract more of that into your life.

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  Welcome back to the Quote of the Day Show. I am your host, Shawn Croxton, at seancroxton.com. We got Jack Canfield on the show today. Today's QOD is this. You do not become what you want. You become what you believe. So Jack's going to talk about what could happen when you truly believe that you can do the thing, or when you just don't know any better. He's going to talk about feeling like you've already done it, Neville Goddard style. He's going to talk about affirming who you're becoming and using images to stay locked in on your goals. Jack Canfield's coming up.

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  Now, law of attraction says, believe. You gotta believe it's possible. I want to share with you a story about a guy named Cliff Young. Cliff Young was 61 years old when he showed up at the beginning of a long-distance race in Australia. The race was 875 kilometers. That's about 650 miles. He was wearing overalls. He was wearing construction boots. All the other guys were 25 or 30. They're all in there Adidas, Nike, Puma, Asics running gear. He looks like an old farmer. He actually had galoshes on over his boots, he says, in case it rained. They said, if you ever run a long-distance race before? He said, no. So why do you think you can do this? Have you ever run a marathon? I mean, this is like six and a half days.

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  He said, no, but I'm a farmer and I have to chase my sheep around. And sometimes I have trouble and I have to chase them for two or three days. And I don't seem to get tired. I think I can do it. He said, why don't you start with a shorter race? He said, well, this was the only days that were free on my schedule when it was a race scheduled. He said, okay. So all the racers, the gun goes off and they all take off and they're really running fast. And Cliff's running like this.

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  They called it the Cliff Young Shuffle. Now Cliff had an advantage nobody knew about. Cliff had never talked to a coach. He'd never talked to an elite distance runner. He'd never read Runners World Magazine. He'd never read a book on long-distance running. He didn't know that when you do a long-distance race, you run for 18 hours, sleep for 6. Run for 18, sleep for 6. Run for 18, sleep for 6. So he was running so slow, when he got up to the part where everyone was gone to bed, they were all asleep. No one told him to stop and go to bed. So he just kept running on by.

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  He ran non-stop for 5 and 1/2 days and broke the record by 12 hours. See, sometimes what you think you know gets in the way of what's possible. If you believe you can do something, you can figure it out. But you have to believe. You have to believe it's coming into your life. I love his quote. It says, "Never tell anyone something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing." You know, you think of all the technologies we have. The airplane, FedEx.

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  When the guy that put FedEx together, he was an MBA student at Yale, and he presented the paper that outlined the FedEx process. They gave him an F on it and said, "It's not possible. It will never happen." And now, when you think it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight, you go, "What? FedEx." So, everything that exists started out as somebody's dream, somebody's idea, and 9 times out of 10, they told you it couldn't happen. Here's a kid named Farah Gray. 19 years old, born in the ghetto. Mothers on welfare. At the age of 6, he starts his first company. By the age of 11, he has 3 companies. Now, they're small. They do things like take rocks, paint them, go door-to-door, and sell them as paperware.

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  But he made fifty dollars his first day doing that, which was more than his mother made when she was been the housekeeper. And then he got a bunch of kids together and they would go to older people and they'd say, "We'll go buy your groceries for you, bring them back in our wagons, you just give us a couple of bucks." He gave one to the guy who went to get the groceries, kept one for himself, had a thing going. By the age of twelve, he created something called the Urban Neighborhood Education Economic Council, called Unique. He was getting businessmen like many of you and Harv and people like that to come in and speak to the other kids who were twelve and thirteen to teach them business practices. By the age of fourteen, he had read a book by Deepak Chopra called The Seven Laws of Spirit, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. One of them was the law of least effort.

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  In other words, the thing that is the least effort for you, the thing that's easiest to do, that you can't imagine people would pay you for, is the thing that you need to go for, the thing you love to do. He said, "What do I love? I love food and I love kids. So what I'm gonna do is start a food company for kids." He said, "What do kids like? Kids like sweet things." So he created a syrup, like a maple syrup type thing that his grandmother used to have a recipe for. And in one and a half years, he built that company up to, now he's all of sixteen, and he sells it for one and a half million dollars. He drops out of high school, moves to Las Vegas, starts a newspaper, opens a real estate

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  agency, then a real estate development company, then he writes a book called The Rillionaire at the age of nineteen, and he's worth tens of millions of dollars. Why? Because he believed he could do anything he wanted to do. He said, "If someone else can do it, I can do it. If Harv can do it, you can do it. If Mark can do it, you can do it. If I can do it, you can do it." There's no, if Eric Wyon, Mayor, a blind guy, can climb Mount Everest... There's nothing we can't do, but you have to believe it. So every project you create, you believe you're gonna create, you're gonna get, you're gonna get the result you want. Oprah Winfrey said, "You do not become what you want, you become what you believe."

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  When I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show, sitting next to her, the auric field that came out of her, the level of charisma would almost knock you over. And she said, "I believed this stuff long before it was called the secret," and so on and so forth, but she believed, "There's a little child, I can do anything I want." And she went out and did it, so can you. Step number four says, "Release the brakes." It's another way of saying, "Create a vibrational match." And I'll just talk about this for a few minutes, then I think my time's gonna run out here. Now, how do we do that? In order to receive something into our life, we have to be feeling the feelings we would feel if we already had the thing that we want to come into our life. So I have to feel like a millionaire before the million can come in.

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  I have to feel abundant, I have to feel full of love before I attract the love I want. Gandhi said, "Be the thing you want." So if you want love, be loving. You want joy, be joyful. You'll attract more of that into your life. So I'm gonna teach you four quick techniques. Most of you know these, but ask yourself, "Am I doing them?" Number one, affirmations. So I have an affirmation, since I'm reveling in my $6 million a year personal income. Actually, this year it's up to nine on my affirmation card. So you wanna have an affirmation describing the result is already achieved. I'm reveling in my income, and I close my eyes every morning, I feel the feeling, I see the bank account, I see my IRS report, $9 million gross personal income, and then

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  I move to my next thing. This is one I used a number of years ago. "I'm enjoying looking at my physically fit 185-pound body in the mirror." Now, if you look at that closely, you'll see my face when I have brown hair cut out and put over a body that was in some muscle magazine, and I put that on my, my mirror every morning, and every time I'd look at that, I'd say, "Gee, I don't quite look like that," and then I'd go into the gym, I'd lift weights, and I'd eat better and so forth. Now, I'll never look like that, I'm not gonna spend six hours in the gym, but it basically motivated me, and it said, "I'm already experiencing it right now, even though I wasn't." By the way, a great technique, and I put that off on person, don't freak out in the AV department up there, but I just didn't want you looking at this live. When you're trying to lose weight,

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  take your scale and whatever weight you want to weigh, write it on a piece of paper, put it over your scale. So every time you step on your scale, you go, "Oh, far out, 185. This is cool."

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  Because see what happens? You step on there and go, "Shit,

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  220 pounds. That sucks." And what are you going to attract when you have that? You're going to attract 225 pounds of that sucks. See? So you're basically fooling yourself. You're programming your unconscious to create the 185 or the 115 or whatever you want. When Mark and I were writing Chicken Soup for the Soul, people say, "What are you doing?" "We're writing a bestselling book." We never said we're writing a book. We're writing a bestselling book. And then it changed to, "We're happily celebrating the sale of 1.5 million copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul."

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  What I have right now is I'm sharing my open, loving heart and deep spiritual wisdom with everyone I meet. You want affirmations for every aspect of your vision, and this is one of mine. So you state your desired outcome as if it's already happening, feel the feeling, and then you got it.

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  That was Jack Canfield. His website is jackcanfield.com. You can watch today's entire talk on YouTube. It's called "Jack Canfield Seminar of the Century." Hope you enjoyed today's talk. We've got more of that tomorrow. Dr. Dennis Kimbrough is going to be on. I'll see you then. Have a good day. Peace.