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hey what's up this is Leo for actualize org and I want to ask you the hundred million dollar question and the hundred million dollar question is this if you had a hundred million dollars right now in your bank account you woke up with a hundred million dollars tomorrow what would you do and here's the trick to this question first of all I want you to actually go through and actually think it through actually visualize try to experience it but do it along the following lines a hundred million dollars is in your bank account now and ask yourself if you woke up tomorrow what would you really do knowing that you had that money sure you'd go probably go out and you'd buy yourself a nice car and then what would you do you would go maybe rent a yacht and sail out into the ocean and have a party and you'd probably go buy some expensive champagne at some fancy nightclub and then maybe you'd go travel to some favourite country that you've always wanted to travel to and maybe you'd buy yourself that dream house that you've always wanted so you'd buy that and maybe you'd move to the city that you want to live in or the country that you want to live in and you'd settle down there and then you would decorate your house full of all the fancy gadgets and electronics that you would want your TVs DVD players game systems audio systems kitchen appliances whatever it is that you wanted you you would do all that and you'd get yourself some nice health insurance and you'd buy if you have kids you'd buy your kids some nice toys that they could have fun with and if you have a spouse you'd buy them some gifts and and and do some good for them but then after all of that you know let's say you have a month to really sit down and use all that money or some chunk of it after that you're still sitting on a hundred million dollars and what would you do then the question is what would you actually be doing with your life what would you be putting your effort and energy into would you be putting that into into some sort of cause would you be doing something creative would you be doing something productive what would that be sit down and just think about this little thought experiment it's a little bit silly but if you sit down and really think it through almost as though you have it like trick yourself into believing that you have 100 million dollars and that you've gone through and you've bought the fancy cars and the houses and all the gadgetry and you've done all the traveling you want to do and now it's kind of like the next day you wake up you've got the cash you've done all this stuff you've gotten that taken care of and then what do you do then and that is the hundred million dollar question this is a really powerful question when I asked myself this question and I got rid of some of all that all that filler like what I would do with that money I would buy myself a nice camera and I'd buy myself with a better car and I'd move to this place and I'd buy myself a condo after all that I just imagined myself you know sitting in that condo that I would have in some high-rise somewhere some some nice city and then I would just kind of wake up and then I would think what is the next step for my life and I really pictured it and for me what I came up with was that I would be doing what I'm doing right now is that I would be traveling and I would be shooting videos and I would be studying self-development the way that I am right now and then I would be presenting that information to people out there like you that would hopefully get some benefit out of it and that for me there's really nothing I would rather be doing than that you know I scanned all the different scenarios do I want to start some other company do I want to launch a new website do I want to maybe become a professional X or professional Y or professional Z do I want to just sit around and party do I want to go buy myself a yacht and travel to the Caribbean you know what what would I do for me it ultimately boiled down to the deepest satisfaction that I would get is is pursuing self-development because to me that's the most interesting thing that I found in life and that's that's personally just me doesn't have to be you for you it might be something else you know maybe for you it's art or maybe for you it's it's running some sort of charity or maybe for you it is travel and all you want to do is travel or maybe for you it's playing some sort of sport or whatever but the hundred million dollar question stands is what would you be doing with your life and then the trick is of course once you've identified that thing is to really have the courage to go out there and do it because that's what's really difficult because of course you don't have 100 million dollars and so you still have the bills to pay and you still have your boss nagging you and maybe you don't have health insurance etc etc so you have your issues that are limited basically you're limited by the money right maybe you don't have the capital of start the business that you want to start but the hundred million dollar question the value of it is that it gets you thinking and it gets you to cut out all the filler cuz right now there's this tendency to think well you know if I had a little bit more money I would go do that and if I had a little bit more I would go do this or what you do is you really you create projects and endeavors for yourself that are just about getting you money but then the question is what would you do when you had that money you know maybe you want to start a business right now and you want to start a business doing something but ultimately if you had 100 million dollars you wouldn't start that business because that's not something you would be doing just for the sake of doing it you're only doing it because you want the reward for it the money that will then get you to someplace else the question is what is that ultimate place that you're trying to get to and for me what I've really figured out as I've done this exercise and I really really imagined it and visualized it and almost lived it like I would wake up in the morning and I would just picture myself having that money and then picturing myself like being totally free like free of all the obligations I would cast aside all my obligations and then I would really just focus on what I want to create the kind of impact that I want to have and for me that is self-development I want to study it I understand it better because the way I understand it right now even though I've been studying it for a while now and I do coaching etc I feel like my level of understanding of self-development is still very very minuscule compared to what it could be and compared to what I want it to be I really want to understand how human beings develop and all the strategies and techniques involved all the challenges involved and also I just want to see how far I can develop myself because for me that's the most rewarding part of life is being able to grow in new by doing new and interesting things and pushing myself and seeing how far I can get and see how much satisfaction I can get out of life so that is my purpose so - so to speak the question is what is yours and I really encourage you to take this 100 million dollar question to heart and think about it think about it as though it was real and have the courage to cast aside what society wants you to do what your parents might think you should be doing what your spouse might think you should be doing all of that cast all that inside and and just ask yourself if you were free of all that if you were free of all the social pressures all the financial pressures that you have in your life what would you be doing and if your answer is that you would be doing nothing or all you would be doing is travelling or all you would be doing is is partying and using this money to buy gadgets and stuff I think that you fail to appreciate the depth of the challenge there you think that the stuff that you're gonna acquire with the money is it going to make you content but really bypass all that because that's it's not going to make you content you've you know better than that you've gotten you've gotten stuff in the past and you know that it has never really satisfied you the only thing that satisfies you is what you're doing it's the action that you're taking towards something the question is what is that thing and for everybody's gonna be different the question is what is it for you so if you had a hundred million dollars what would you be doing like they have been thinking a lot about what it means to be a hundred percent authentic in your expression and what it means to live a life where you're expressing yourself at a hundred percent I feel this is something that most people don't do and I think the people that are able to do this are able to tap into some sort of genius or they're able to create results that most of us are not able to to even match or come close to and that's because these people what they're able to do is they're really able to share who they are at the very core and whatever it is that they're doing in their life whatever their career is what avocation whatever their job they're able to channel that and have their job express who they are 100 percent now what does that mean to me it means whatever your deepest values are whatever you love in life being able to do it do that thing and have it Express express yourself so it's like the the full expression of your personality let's say you were working at a job where you didn't have to hold back at all right you can be just completely 100 percent creative and just put put forward and put poor and just bring out and what you're bringing out ultimately on some level it's certain standards that you have but ultimately if you can get past all the filler like what other people want you to be putting out what what maybe market research tells you to be putting out what surveys tell you to putting out what what economics tell you to be putting out like what's gonna earn you the most money if you get rid of all of those filters and you just are left with like what you feel is most valuable to be creative in and you're able to bring that forward and bring it out and somehow manifest it that is what 100 authentic expression is and I think there's a lot of power behind that but the problem is that most of us are are not in a position to really be that expressive and I don't mean just like going and being an artist that's not what I'm talking about you can be running a business you could be working for somebody else it doesn't really matter what you're doing the question is is it an expression of your deepest personality like who you truly are and your deepest values I think for most people the answer is no because first of all they're either stuck into some job that they're just doing just to pay the bills or they haven't really taken the time to do the deep soul-searching that you got to do in order to even know who it is that you are what your values are to like really get down to the core of those clarify them and then find a medium or a vehicle to translate them to the world so maybe if you're if you're an entrepreneur then for you that's starting a business and maybe you don't even care what kind of business it is you can express your values as as an entrepreneur by starting some sort of business and then just like running that really well so maybe that it's that or maybe if you're an artist then there's a certain you know a certain something that you want to share with the world a certain something about you that you want to express or a way that you're looking at at the world around you and you want to express it in a certain style and so being completely authentic to that style and not holding back because you're not worried about how someone might judge it whether they'll like it or not or whether they'll they'll buy your painting or not you don't care about any of that you're just so comfortable in it that you're able to express just Express Express Express without any sort of attachment to getting validation or feedback from from society or anybody else I think this is a really difficult thing to do to do this completely authentically a hundred percent because well in reality that you do have these issues of well am I gonna get paid for it how am I gonna how am I gonna make ends meet you know what if people don't like it how is that gonna reflect on me what do people think my art sucks what people think the way that I run a business sucks you know putting yourself in that kind of position where you can where you can do this where you can totally express yourself it's very challenging it takes a lot of balls it takes a lot of courage to put yourself on that kind of out there on the line because you do run the risk of being rejected you might even run the risk of being hurt financially as you do this I think the challenge in life is is finding a way to to get yourself in this kind of position where you're able to express yourself authentically first that means you got to know who you are authentically so you have to do a little bit of soul-searching it's not something that you can just get in one day it's something that you got to go out there and test stuff out and through a process of trial and error ultimately you're gonna peel that peel that onion back you're gonna peel the layers back until you get to the core of what your purpose is and once you've got that core then that is like the first step so now you have some sort of idea of what you should be moving towards then of course there are practical challenges to all this even if you know what you should be expressing and what that means is still a challenge to put yourself practically in the situation where you can do that without being beholden to other forces right so maybe you care about what your parents think of you maybe you care about what your spouse thinks of you maybe you care about what your friends think of you or maybe you just care about the money that you're getting and you have to you feel like you have to weigh your creative output with the amount of money that you would be receiving for it so maybe you feel like being a hard percent authentic would be rewarding for you it's like spiritually it would it would feel nice but it wouldn't pay the bills at that level that you want it to pay at you know maybe you wouldn't be a millionaire if you did it maybe you'd only be making fifty thousand a year or maybe you feel like you would even be making that maybe you feel like you wouldn't be able to make any money doing what it is that you really love doing I think the power though is to summon the courage and then of course use user logic user intellect use practical things that you understand tools to kind of put yourself in a position where you can be there expressing yourself hopefully getting rewarded for it financially and also not caring what others think of you I think that's ultimately the most rewarding position to be in in life and the trick though is is figuring out how to get those pieces all fit together and that's a large puzzle to solve that's not something that you can solve in a week it's not something you can solve in a month this is probably gonna be a multiple year-long endeavor for you to get this handled maybe it's gonna take you a decade to get a handle maybe even more because you gotta do some deep soul-searching figure out what you want then you got to actually start putting the the action steps in place to get yourself there maybe that means you got a sort of business that's gonna earn you enough money so that you can be financially independent so that then you could do what it is that you want to do but I think the power of of this concept is that once you get yourself in a position where you can be completely authentic just expressing who you are that is like the core because there's something that you can bring to the world given your unique experiences in your beliefs and your skill sets and your personal history and psychology that nobody else on the planet can do you know and whether that's being manifest through business or through through a job that you have there's some sort of career or whatever is if you do volunteer work doesn't really matter there's something there that you can share with the world that will be a value and that's like your personality right manifest through some sort of lens like a job or whatever I think it's really powerful that once you get aligned once you get aligned with that you get all the elements in your life aligned with that then you can start achieving amazing things you can start feeling really rewarded and great about yourself not because you're earning money but because you're having the kind of impact that you want and it's not even so much about impact it's just that you're just like expressing it's just like a full natural expression you feel so good about that that almost nothing else is even necessary but ironically what happens is that when you are that expressive usually what happens is that stuffs starts aligning with you and you start getting more and more success it's like to start snowballing because you're you're being so expressive people are drawn to it because you're sharing something unique that nobody else is offering and then that all of a sudden puts you in a position where you have prestige you have you have authority you have value so you can charge more and therefore the finances come into place as well and then you get your independence and then that just lets you express yourself even more and so you get this snowball effect going now that is the ultimate goal I think I have for you if you are interested in life purpose and finding your life purpose and getting on track with your life purpose is finding out what it is that you want to express and how exactly you want to express it and then putting the action plan into place for for getting that going so maybe you're just starting this or maybe you're already halfway into it and there's some extra steps you need to take to move it further along either way I encourage you to think about what kind of true expression you want to have in your life you