Apr 8, 2019
Unfortunate events show up unpredictably into life. Sometimes you have this feeling that the world is against you. How do you overcome certain circumstances?
Acceptance is key to everything. It drives you to plan, take an action, and divert the direction to make things right and recover yourself. There are many things that you can do. Keep looking at the positive side, who knows, whatever mess you got into is a blessing in disguise. It’s just how you see things and position your mindset.
In this episode of The Rich Life presents Millionaire Mindcast, we have a return guest, Peter Sage who shares tons of incredible stories, insights, perspective, beliefs, and great keys that people can apply to their own journey.
Fasten your seatbelt as we dive in on today’s episode!
Peter Sage is a well-known international & serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, coach, bestselling author, a renowned public speaker, philosopher, and teacher. He’s passionate about raising the global consciousness of humanity and been teaching positive psychology and motivation. His unique way of looking at and relating to life has impacted tens of thousands of people worldwide to Reinvent themselves through seminars, courses, training, and programs. Have been Peter’s cool book ‘5 Keys To Master Your Life’ became an Amazon No. 1 best seller in Japan in its first week and has since sold over 150,000 copies and risen to be in the top 1% of business books ever sold in Japan. Also, awarded the distinguished 2013 Brand Laureate Award from the Asian Pacific Brands Foundation for extraordinary individuals – Previous winners include Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Hillary Clinton & Tiger Woods.; and twice nominated for the “Extraordinary Lives Award” by the largest Social Entrepreneurs Org. – XL Nation
Now, Peter ultimately living a rich life but put into test over a year ago. He went six months in jail as the only non-criminal because of contempt accusation. He wasn’t prepared for that and lost his business went from 53 staff to 3 staff in just three weeks. Despite the challenges he’s facing, Peter is a very optimistic person. He does believe that the things in the universe are conspiring to make his life the best. Everything happens for a reason and so for being there
Hence, Peter didn’t waste his time complaining but used it in a constructive way and this shifted the game completely. The jail bars never stop him to grow himself. He started the six months incredible adventure in jail by writing letters every two weeks to his coaching clients and groups outside the jail. Stating that it’s stupid to waste your time and energy complaining about what’s already happened, but spending your energy and time thinking what’s the next move is the right thing to do. Also, sharing what he was doing, how he was doing it, and everything really happening behind the bars. It creates a huge impact on his clients and later on convinced him to publish the letters in order to inspire more people in the world. The book called, “The Inside Track: An Inspirational Guide to Conquering Adversity.” It went on Amazon #1 in 4 hours and sold 23 countries on the first batch and it changed the life of the people who read the book.
Moreover, in order to shift the mindset of the new people going in, he wrote “New Prisoner Welcome Booklet”, influencing them, teaching them the difference between freedom and liberty, acceptance, and contrasting that give inspiration, and motivation to people who read the book.
Overall, Peter focuses on how to protect himself and how to serve the world and maintaining positive thoughts to attract positive results. He emphasizes of understanding that the mind and body are working together to create a logic that justifies your current emotional states and behavior; therefore, accepting the current circumstances rather than resisting was the massive first step to maneuver things.
“The only thing that matters in life is ‘how do I feel now’.”
Some Questions I Ask:
- Tell us a little bit about your life, works, and perspective? (07:31)
- What has the biggest changes in your life for over the last 2 years? (09:38)
- How did you evolve your mindset and make the impact you’ve made and made the experience what it was? (18:36)
- What is your advice for people who are in hardships and negative mentality victim but wanted to take a change? (26:46)
- What was the plan of action you’ve applied that made big impacts on individuals in the jail? (30:22)
- Did you meet somebody there inside the jail that inspires you? (35:58)
- What are things you’ve done before whether cognitively or physically that you’ve decided not to carry out again after you’ve released from jail? (38:14)
- How did you stay engage with pinpointing your magic moments? (41:50)
- Where people should start mastering the 5 keys and how they can really apply some of these disciplines and mentalities to their own journey? (48:55)
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- The full civil action and jail story. (10:17)
- The realization that gives very different contextual relationship to life. (15:01)
- How did Peter start giving impact to other people regardless of being in jail. (15:51)
- How the beliefs system affects your perspective in life. (18:52)
- How the body’s internal biochemistry reaction affects the end results in every situation. (21:28)
- Advice for people whose business is failing, in bankruptcy, losing spouse and reputation, and/or everything you cared about. (25:00)
- The difference between freedom and liberty. (31:51)
- The important lessons he learned after got released from prison. (38:37)
- An understanding between life chasing success and the life chasing fulfillment. (42:35)
- The 5 keys to master your life. (49:31)
- What more can we expect from Peter Sage. (53:19)
Quotes:
- “I just love playing the game of life.”
- “I have no fear of failure.”
- “There’s never bad, they’re only things that don’t fit the pictures of what we think they should look like.”
- “I believe that the universe is friendly and not hostile.”
- “I’m just you with different stories.”
- “In business, litigation is a tool.”
- “Life is a grow-centric experience, not a comfort-centric experience.”
- “Questions are the steering wheel of the mind.”
- “Liberty is the only thing that has been restricted.”
- “Life is an amazing personal trainer.”