TEN – Episode 103 Clean Transcript
00:00:00 Gino
Hello and welcome back. This episode I call “Say It Another Way.” I’m
going to bring you back to the basics on the three discoveries for
freeing your True Self. Now, you may know by now that I am a teacher at
heart, and I believe repetition is the mother of learning. And something
is compelling me to bring us back to a refresher on the three
discoveries. And “Saying It Another Way” is kind of the theme because as
I take you through them, I want to try to say it in a completely
different way.
00:00:45 Gino
I don’t know if it’s going to come out that way, but the mini aha around
this is I look at this last 12 months and I see it so many different
ways in so many places, the power of these three discoveries. And it may
simply be my cognitive bias and awareness that just kind of sees it
every way and interprets it the way I want to interpret it. But it’s
everywhere for me. And I’ll share what that means as we dive deeper.
00:01:18 Gino
What’s also interesting about this timing is at the moment of the
release of this episode, the revised version of “Shine” is out today.
And so I hope you will pick up a copy. This is where we completely
revised it from a standpoint of three things. We flipped parts one and
two based on a lot of feedback. We changed the target market and
expanded it to all-driven people, not just driven entrepreneurs. And so
it’s speaking to driven people. And then we’ve revised and updated some
of the content, which again is what’s going to kind of come through in
this conversation. And then I also lovingly like to say I put a little
God in it. So again, pick up a copy if you’re compelled or drawn to. But
again, I’m going to say it another way.
00:02:08 Gino
So I’ll start by giving you the high level of what the three discoveries
to free your True Self are. Obviously, discovery number one is I am
driven. Discovery number two is that all decisions are made out of love
or fear. And discovery number three is that it is possible to be driven
and have peace. And we’re simply going to take them one at a time and
have a conversation about them.
00:02:39 Gino
And so let’s start with I am driven. In the nutshell is that we driven
people, which are the creators of most things on the planet, are a
blessing and a curse. And so I’ve said that certainly many times. But I
want to drill down on the blessing and the curse because we have this
incredible gift. And if we could free our True Selves and let that drive
fly, we will be more creative, more intuitive, more impactful. And
that’s ultimately the goal.
00:03:18 Gino
And so those gifts show up all day, every day. And on the other side of
that, however, is a black trail, is angst, is an amped-up central
nervous system for whatever reason, which we’ll talk about more when we
get to discovery number two. But the point I want to make here is that
gift that you have, is that gift, that driven gift, that ability to
create in this world, does it sit on a foundation of angst or does it
sit on a foundation of peace? And that’s ultimately where we’re going.
And it’s important to distinguish. I could never distinguish. It took me
until five years ago to distinguish the difference between angst and
peace because I thought the angst that I lived with in my foundation
since age 15 and certainly probably before that, I thought it was
normal. I thought that’s how everyone lived. And it’s not normal. And so
to distinguish those things, your drive from angst and peace is a very,
very powerful discovery. I’ll leave it at that and take you to discovery
number two.
00:04:41 Gino
So again, discovery number two is that decisions are made out of love or
fear. And so this is the one that I see this everywhere when I’m reading
personal development-related stuff, reading, listening, learning,
conversations. And again, it may be my cognitive bias. But with that, to
have that clarity and understanding about our thoughts, feelings, and
emotions as we operate all day, every day, at any given moment, the
awareness, am I feeling love? There’s that foundation of peace. Or am I
feeling fear? There’s that foundation of angst. What is going on in my
body at that time? And certainly, it oscillates. For most of us, most of
the time, it’s fear. For some of us, most of the time, it’s love. And
we’re just trying to move that needle, move that needle to more and more
love-based thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
00:05:46 Gino
And with that awareness, I’m not going to take you down the four levels
because I’m going to look at you as my advanced group and you understand
the four levels. But I’m going to touch on the four levels as I try and
say it a different way. But a quick reminder, level one, the True Self
level. Then level two, the pure energy level. Then level three, the
blocked energy level. And then number four, the awareness level. Just a
reminder there for you. But I’m going to kind of roll them all into one
riff, if you will, and one different way of saying it or another way of
saying it.
00:06:22 Gino
And so again, it’s this awareness, clarity, knowing that we have this
beautiful ball of light inside of us, our True Self, our soul, our
spirit, whatever word works for you. And it is typically trapped and
blocked by past pain and memories that we’ve buried down and created a
persona that hides it and we think is protecting us. But unfortunately,
it is not. All it is doing is holding us back from fully being who we
are supposed to be in this world.
00:07:10 Gino
So with that said, I’m going to begin at the end in terms of saying this
another way. And that is, again, it’s very complex thinking about the
ego and how it created that package and it’s blocking all of this stuff.
And there you are, and they’re trapped. And it’s all about just letting
it all go, freeing it, healing, and shining bright.
00:07:37 Gino
Beginning at the end is this realization that maybe we don’t need to
understand any of it, understand any of those layers because it is as
simple as just simply shedding all of our shit, shedding all of the
stuff. And I believe, I’ve said this before, that it can be done in a
snap. And sometimes it’s done for people in a medicine journey. And
sometimes it’s done through a great therapist. And sometimes it’s done
through a crisis, whether it’s a health crisis or divorce or death,
where you have a wake-up call and it’s like you realize, “Holy shit,
none of that stuff matters anymore. Why did I hang on so long?”
00:08:22 Gino
And it could also be as simple as with tenure thinking. And when you
really go deep, as I talked about in the previous episode, in realizing
that there is no time, tenure thinking is about long-range thinking,
getting to that point where there is no time and all there is is today
and there’s no future and there’s no past. And in that place, all of a
sudden, everything from the past just dissolves. So it’s possible that
you don’t have to understand this on such an intellectual level and just
kind of see so clearly this beautiful ball of light encased in this dark
cocoon or all of these blocks from the past and just see yourself
releasing them all and having this aha moment that, “Why in the hell am
I hanging on to all this stuff that is no longer serving me?”
00:09:16 Gino
Now, a boy can dream. So I know that’s a tall order. It’s saying a lot.
But I’m beginning at the end here and saying, “Wow, that’s possible, but
certainly challenging.” But it’s just getting to this place. And I’ll
say it again, that where you realize all this shit doesn’t matter. Why
am I doing this to myself? And at least for me, again, I’m going to say
it again. It might be cognitive bias. But in this last five years, I
feel like I’m hearing people speak this language more, people acting
this way more, having more conversations like this openly. So it just
feels like people are starting to see it. I hope it’s true.
00:10:02 Gino
And then on to discovery number three, that it is possible to be driven
and have peace. And this is the aha, voilà moment. And maybe this takes
us right to the point I’m trying to make where that realization that
this driven being I am that has done both good and bad in the world,
that has done great things and caused a lot of damage, that has left a
black trail behind us, it is possible to be this driven being and have
peace and be on a foundation of peace. It is possible. And it’s almost
like this discovery, if you grasp this discovery, you don’t need to know
any of the other discoveries because this is it. You are a beautiful
being. Sometimes you intimidate people. Sometimes you scare people.
Sometimes you do stupid things because you’re running so hard. But see
your gift and then realize, become aware of that angst that you’re
operating on and that it can all go away.
00:11:11 Gino
Realize it’s from the past. It’s stuff you’re hanging on to for some
reason. And then the ultimate goal here is to live your life from the
inside out, is to live an inside-out life, not an outside-in life. It’s
where you’re operating from a knowing and intuition, your instinct,
where your True Self, soul, spirit, heart, whatever you want to call it,
is leading the charge, the inside of you. And then outwardly, you are
just that as opposed to the way most of us are living our lives. And
that’s outside-in, where everything we’re doing is being weighed against
looking at the outside world and the judgment of others and running it
through this ego filter and doing the math and looking at eight
different ways and how is this going to hurt me or affect me or whatever
it is. That’s outside-in living. And so the goal here with this third
discovery is to get to living an inside-out life.
00:12:19 Gino
And then the last point I’ll make is I want you to think of the True
Self model, that infinity model, where on the left side, we use the word
impact. And on the right side, we use the word peace. Those are the
words that Rob and I love to use. And so that’s why we chose those
words. But you get to choose your word. And just a fun little aha impact
story is one of our mastermind students had an aha. It was actually
yesterday in our mastermind session. And I am obsessing a little bit
about this word toil.
00:12:55 Gino
I’m not going to go into toil in great detail. But the word is used a
lot in the Bible. I’m not a big Bible guy, but I’m a spiritual dude. I
believe in God. I think you all know my beliefs at this point in time.
I’m not preaching or pushing anything. But this word toil keeps coming
up. And the way that Jesus used the word toil, it sometimes has a
negative connotation. And it’s interesting in the Bible because it
starts out with a negative connotation. But as Jesus talks about it, it
has a very powerful spiritual meaning. And when I think about impact in
this gift that we have and this impact we make on the world and this
thing we do in the world, toil to me is almost like the perfect word,
especially if you love the Bible and you’re Christian. And it’s a
beautiful, beautiful word if you really drill down and understand it.
00:13:45 Gino
But the aha for this mastermind client of ours is where, again, the True
Self model, infinity model for us on the left is impact. On the right is
peace. His aha is on the left for him is toil. And on the right is
enlightenment. So again, you get to choose your word. But man, that was
a beautiful moment. And again, it means something to that person. And so
when you come up with your words, what goes on the left, what goes on
the right, and then the infinity model insinuates this beautiful balance
of those two things, in his case, toiling every day while remaining
enlightened. Oh, it’s so beautiful. And so that’s the end game.
00:14:26 Gino
And so with all of that said, I hope maybe I said it another way. Worst
case, even if I repeated myself verbatim, I’m a teacher at heart.
Repetition is the mother of learning. I’m wanting to bring you back to
the basics. So my wish for you is that you free your True Self. Let your
freak flag fly and make a huge impact on this world. Thank you for
listening in today. We truly appreciate you taking the time to spend
with us. And please tune in for the next episode. Until then, we wish
you all the best in freeing your True Self. Stay focused and much love.
