 So let's look at some of the laws. The Seven Laws of Wealth is a methodology, if you will, of distinctions and ideas that I have seen that have worked for me and I have seen really successful people utilising their businesses and the first law is this gain control promote self-leadership and initiative gain control promote self-leadership and initiative reputation distinction and Power will always result. Now, what do I mean by that? This isn't leadership power over people That's not we're talking about we're talking about self-leadership My ability to get myself to do what needs to be done and in reality most people are just simply too lazy to do that kind of they know what they should do and even if they do even if they don't know they're not really willing to do what it takes and for me when I was 24 years old I was sulk in about the situation that I Created for myself and it took me about six months to realise the only person that's going to change this situation Ben is you After complaining and blaming everyone else it was me and in that moment I had a really important thought that and It was this Then if I want things to change I'm going to have to change If I want things to be different I'm going to have to do things different And if I really want to step up I'm going to have to step up and so you need to ask yourself that question. Am I really willing to do what it takes? Being able to step up is to understand some key Principles of what we can control versus what we can't control and I'm going to get some participation Hopefully from you guys What I'm going to do is suggest for a moment that this room is what we would call our control model In fact in your notes on the right hand side if you kind of draw a line across Let me do it for you so you can see it if you draw a line across the page This side right no control This side right total Control now. We're not talking about controlling other people We're talking about controlling you about the kinds of things that you're doing on a daily basis to build a business that you can be proud of So this side of the room. Let's suggest for a moment that this side of the room represents stuff events things over which you have Absolutely no control on a daily basis. Give me some examples of stuff over which you have no control. Do we need a mic? Do we need a mic for this or can you shout it? Shout it. Okay. Give me some examples of stuff over which you have absolutely no control over here Currency fluctuations not a lot of control very relevant for these times good. What else? Natural disasters not a lot of control there good any others Politics we're not going to touch that one with a 10-foot pole, but he's right, isn't he? Politics we have no control over what the government chooses to do individually. What else? Other people. There's a good one other people. I remember asking this question a guy said my wife And he's not far wrong. Is he it's other people. Can we control other people? No, great short-term strategy Can we impact people? Yeah, can we influence? Yeah, but that's not total control Okay, so give me some other words something perhaps this side Give me some other words to describe things over which you have no control. Give me some more The weather. All right. There's another one in England. We spend a lot of time talking about that one, don't we? We have no control over what the weather decides to do or not do what else again Illness okay. There's another one. Maybe if it's hereditary perhaps not a lot of control over that Certain health things perhaps that we can do in terms of maintenance, but generally speaking not a lot of control there Give me some words to describe how you feel inside when you're up against this side of the room. You're out of control. How do you feel? Nervous, thank you. What else? Anxious any other words scared apprehensive Uncomfortable are we describing good feelings on this side of the room? No, what's the self-esteem factor over here? Generally speaking, it's pretty low right But is there much sense in getting upset over an event? I have no control. No, but do we yes We spend a fair amount of time worrying about stuff over which we have no control don't we I went to I Grew up in Texas for a few years and I used to go down to a little place called gavelson Bay and I had a few friends and they would dare me to jump in and swim the width of this little area It was probably about half a mile across and I never swam Properly, I'd kind of passed my 10 meter certificate and that was it But because they were my friends and the peer pressure the peer pressure was so strong They said jumping and swim the width of it So I did one day because if I got to the other end it meant that I would be in their gang So I jumped in and started to swim across Halfway across I thought I was going to drown How many of you have ever been in that situation where you think you're gonna drown a few people in the room? I can see the hands Not a nice place to be out of control right completely out of controlled experience About a hundred and fifty meters away from me. I saw a fin gliding through the water It was not coming towards me, but I saw a fin gliding through the water The need to get to the other side went absolutely crazy And funnily enough I got to the other side. Why? Well, I learned an interesting lesson that day It's okay to drown It is not okay to get eaten Is it and I made it to the other side Why because of this principle and write this down when the need is big enough you learn to control all kinds of stuff That you hook yourself into believing you can't control You say that again when the need is big enough You'll learn to control all kinds of stuff or events that you believe you can't control Next time you go to the circus go outside and have a look at where the fully grown elephants are kept You'll notice an interesting lesson those fully grown elephants are tied with a piece of rope around one of their back legs That rope is attached to a stake three or four foot driven in the ground You look at that elephant and you look at the stake and say you know if that thing wanted to kick it and go home It could but it doesn't why doesn't think it can and the reason it doesn't think it can is that when it was a baby They put a steel clamp around that back leg which was attached to a chain For three weeks never more than four weeks the elephant fights that thing in a frenzy trying to get away And then after three weeks it stops trying right? Well whenever I'm hooked up. I can't get away So literally now I can put a wet noodle around that elephant. It's not going to try and get away. Why? doesn't think it can and we're kind of the same way so Recognize number one. There are a number of things over which we have absolutely no control Let's not spend any time really worrying about those things Let's go to this side of the room and let's give me some examples of things over which you have absolute total complete control Let me say it again absolute total complete control. I Wish you could see your faces. It's like Ben. I don't think I could control anything Give me some examples. What do you have control over? All right yourself And that's the whole reason why you come to events like this right to understand how I can get control of me Good response. Give me another one Your time how I choose to use my time how I choose to do the fit to choose to do the things That I'm supposed to do or I want to do what else Reactions good. Yeah, exactly. That's a really good one. Isn't it? It's a reactions to certain situations And here's an interesting question. Do you react or do you respond? See reaction is something that you do because someone else has acted Responding is more proactive