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The 4 Interior Empires by Robin Sharma

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Did and amped and delighted to walk you through this piece. It's called "The Four Interior Empires," and I think when you really understand it, it's going to revolutionize everything in your outer life, from your productivity to your creativity, to your prosperity, to the way you interact with people in your professional life, personal life, and even in terms of your spiritual life. And I've really worked for 20 years to put all this together for you, and so I'm really excited for you. So let's get right into it.

The first interior empire is mindset. And you've heard that word before, mindset. And a lot of people suggest to you that if you get your mindset right, everything will be okay. They suggest to you that your thinking creates your reality. They say, "Just get your focus to where you need it to be, and you will be an elite performer, and you'll rise to world-class, you'll dominate your industry, and you'll live a beautiful life that goes down in history."

Well, I totally agree that your thinking is absolutely important. We know, uh, from some of the positive psychologists like Heidi Grant Halverson, that your interior narrative, your personal story about the way you see yourself, determines the way you behave. Because we always act in alignment to the way we see ourselves. One of my brain tattoos I will offer to you is simply this: Your daily behavior always reflects your deepest beliefs. So, of course, your thinking and your belief system is mission critical, absolutely important. And I will give you my advanced tactics to help you get to mastery level around your mindset.

But here's the key: It's not just your mindset. I'm sure you know a lot of people, they're hopeful, and they're optimistic, they have great mindsets. They read all the psychology books and all the personal mastery books. They go to the courses, they listen to the podcasts, they get. And yet, they get no traction on their ambitions. They've got a great mindset, but nothing ever happens. They've got a great mindset, but they're toxic with their personal relationships. They've got a great mindset, but they are virtuoso-level procrastinators. Why? Have you ever wondered why? Have you ever wondered why a lot of people read a book and nothing happens? They've got a great mindset, they feel the fire in the belly.

Well, here is what I suggest to you: the missing link. And when you understand it, your life will never be the same. And here's the way I would like you to think about it: Mindset without heart is a hollow victory. I'm gonna repeat that again because it's so important. A strong mindset without a purified heart set is an empty win. So you can have a great mindset and be thinking all the right thoughts. You can have cleaned out your toxic belief system. But if you haven't worked on your heart set, your emotional life, then you will always be at war. You see, mindset is your psychology. Heart set is your emotionality.

So I'm going to explain to you and give you some specific tactics that will help you work on your heart set, that will help you release anger you might have, that will help you release any sorrow, that will help you let go of the past. I mean, how can you build a brilliant future if you're still dealing with the trials and resentments and sadnesses of the past?

But it's not just mindset, it's not just heart set. The third interior empire that we're going to work on, so you have this heroic, Mandela-level, this, this Mother Teresa-level, this virtuoso-level interior life. The third interior empire is health set. And that's all about your physical dimension. So mindset is psychology, heart set is emotionality, health set is your physicality. I mean, energy is more valuable than even intelligence, right? Like you can have a great vision, you can have a great team, you can have a great business, you can live in a pocket of opportunity that allows you to change the world. But if you're sick, if you have no energy, if you're depleted, if you haven't learned my advanced strategies on recovery, you'll never own your craft. One of the things I say to you with a smile on my face, and I'm sort of joking, but here's something I encourage you to remember: Don't die. I mean, one of the great secrets to legendary is longevity. So I'm going to help you hack aging. I'm going to show you how to outlive everyone around you.

And then the fourth interior empire is soul set. You can have a great psychology, a great mindset. You have a fantastic health set, so you're feeling grateful and loving and fueled to do epic things in your life. And you can have calibrated your health set so you're in amazing physical condition. But if you haven't worked on your soul set, you're only 75 up the mountaintop to rare air and history-making. And soul set is really all about turning down the chattering voice of your ego. Soul set is really all about connecting with your higher nature. Soul set is all about developing the most important relationship you will ever refine, which is the relationship with who you truly are. You see, in this world that we live in with so much noise, there are very few of us who have actually dialed into the signal. In this world of so much complexity, there are very few of us who have simplified their lives to the point that they understand what life is truly about. You know how short life is, if you really think about it. And soul set, it's really about stripping away the accessories and saying, "It's not about prestige, and it's not about fake power. It's not about being liked in society, and it's not about having nice things." And yes, this program, of course, is going to have you help you have the most beautiful things. There's nothing wrong with having nice things. But soul set is really about your spirituality. Soul set is really about stripping away all of the trivialities, the shiny toys, and saying, "You know what? What's life really about?" It is about giving. It is about serving. It's about using my gifts, talents, and genius to go out there and not only craft a beautiful life for me and my loved ones, it's about going out there and being an instrument of service, to be useful for the world.

So, the four interior empires. Pretty fascinating information, right? Mindset. The second interior empire, heart set. The third interior empire, we're going to work through together on this journey to world-class, is health set. And the fourth interior empire is soul set. Now, you might be wondering, "Robin, why don't we start out with how can I create exponential productivity?" You can say, "Robin, you know, I really want to work on my financial life." You can say, "Robin, come on, I want to run a marathon and I want to live to 173." You can say, "Robin, come on, I want you to share with me how I can build epic relationships so my love life and my social life is at the highest level."

Well, everything begins with it. This is almost a lost principle in the world today. And here's the maxim I want you to tattoo to your brain cells and your heart cells, and perhaps any other part of your body that you feel like tattooing it to: But leadership begins within. Everything starts with what's going on with you. Let me put it to you this way, and here's the key point I am trying to make with great love and respect for you: Your outer life reflects your interior identity. The reason why people don't have money isn't because they can't be billionaires. I mean, I've worked with a lot of billionaires. They're no different from you. They just think different things, they feel different feelings, they have different protocols, they have a different interior life. And I'm going to, as you go through this entire process, if you see life gives you what you give to it. The world has an incredibly accounting system. The world rewards you based on what you give to the world. And this process and this program will give you exactly what you give to this program. And so, staying with the program, doing the work. You know my brain tattoo: No idea works unless you do the work. So if you roll up your sleeves, and if you come to play, and if you go all in, and if you stay with this process with me as your mentor, when it's easy and when it's hard, when you feel like giving up and you keep on going. We know the science of grit, based on Angela Duckworth's research at the University of Pennsylvania. The people who succeed are not the most intelligent. They don't live in the best countries. They haven't had the best backgrounds. They are the people who apply this word that I want to offer to you: persistency. They are the people who stay in the ring longer than the world says they should stay in the ring. The great boxer Muhammad Ali said it far more eloquently than I ever could when he said, "I didn't like any one of those 5 AM runs, but I said to myself, suffer now, do the work, and spend the rest of your life as champion of the world."

So we are now going to get into the four interior empires. Because when you develop your mindset, heart set, health set, and soul set, you are literally going to fortify, battle-proof, insulate a heroic interior core. And then you walk out into the world a fundamentally different human being. And here's the key point: When you have battle-proofed, fire-proofed, insulated, protected, and manufactured a world-class interior life, you will become invincible. You see, other people will say, "Well, I'm not going to do great work." But because you've worked on your inner life, you're going to say, "I will not release anything to the world that is anything less than genius." Other people will say, "You know what? I'm working on this project, I'm getting tired." You will keep on going because you've worked on that inner life. Other people will say, "You know what? I can't make much money, or I can't become a multi- or a deca-millionaire, or a centi-millionaire, or a billionaire." Because you've worked on the interior life. And I'm going to share, I'm going to walk you through everything. I'm going to give you the tactics, not only the philosophy. I'll give you the technology, not only the approach. I will give you the methodology. That's really what this entire program is all about. But your inner life and your interior dimension will set you up for everything. Your financial life, your productivity, your performance, your creativity, your love life, everything is going to come from what's going on within you. I mean, even in terms of your love life, a lot of people are looking for more festivity, more love, more connection, especially in this world where a lot of people are lonely. A lot of people, you know, spend the best hours of their days looking at other people's selfie feeds. Well, your relationships reflect your self-relationship, don't they? Your relationship with your work reflects your relationship with how you see the world. A lot of people get to work and they coast, they take from their company. So we're going to work on your, your soul set so you give to your organization. Or if you're running the organization, we're going to work on your soul set. So literally, what's going to happen is you're going to say to yourself, "I am monotonically focused. I am on a heroic mission to breed incredible amounts of value to my marketplace," versus operating like most people do, "How can I get as much money from my customers as they will pay me?" And that will set you apart.

So fasten your seatbelts, roll up your sleeves. We are going to go through the four interior empires, and I'm so excited for you, and I am absolutely delighted to have you here with me through this journey.