"this is a really difficult question to ask but it is the best question you can ask yourself i don't need to tell you who he is because his reputation precedes himself i enjoyed being a monk as much as..."

"[Music] jay first of all you know i usually start this podcast in a much more serious way but it's good to see you back in the uk mate it's good to see you and i was just saying this to you offline th..."

"so one of the things i always start with with people and i think this comes from my experience with like studying childhood psychology is trying to understand what it was in their early years that tha..."

"or you could be consciously avoiding it and i found that there were parts of me that were really great at avoiding some of the negative things but there were also subconscious parts of me that adopted..."

"second step whatever you want from someone else give it to yourself first and the third step i'd say to get to that self-awareness is simply sitting down and plotting the three most difficult times in..."

"with myself with my thoughts and working through when i'm happy with myself and when i think i could have done better you know i really can relate to that point about um not wanting to be alone with w..."

"have a plus one yeah that's like one of the most stressful things for people i don't know who i'm gonna take why is it that prom if you don't have a date every single major life event graduating weddi..."

"solitude is solitude is i am comfortable spending time with myself for a few moments a day enjoying my own company and speaking of spending time with people then so one of the concepts you write a lot..."

"care my mom there is no one in the world who cares for me more than my mom she would do anything for me she'd be there for me all she wants to make sure it doesn't matter what i've achieved or what i'..."

"and that's beautiful but the problem is when we look at our consistent friend we think why are you not competent we look at our competent friend we think why don't you have good character we look at o..."

"you asked her this question she she wouldn't say that she was doing it intentionally but she's been such a great teacher in light in my life in so many ways and so i'm always just trying to anytime sh..."

"you get an opportunity to learn about your partner's values by what they value in your own success and that doesn't mean that like you just said like your girlfriend or my wife is not happy when somet..."

"whenever you're ready when i was reading through your story and from what i've observed with your story there was um some really interesting similarities that really reminded me of mine but um i feel ..."

"it's such a hard way to live in one sense and such an easy way to live in one step that observation i i never put it in those words but i love those words and i've heard you talk about that before abo..."

"more things trying to quiet that voice today i had a conversation with my team recently i was talking about a few new things i wanted to try out this year and a lot of people said to me they said jay ..."

"i only have trained myself to know that i can only do what i really feel like doing with the awareness that this could be a risk but i'm okay with that does that answer your question yeah and you know..."

"three minutes uh but but that's exactly it that we want to label people we want to label things we want to label everyone now let's take the rock dwayne the rock johnson we lay we could label him a wr..."

"expansive abundant mindset to say well maybe this could be more now i'm not saying that i don't have imperfections and i'm not saying that i don't love things as well like i i like nice things i like ..."

"is in the middle has haunted me for the last couple of weeks since i came back from indonesia because um it seems to be the nature of everything and we're actually moving away from that as a polarized..."

"heard this word meditation for many a year and increasingly over time i've become more compelled by it and started doing it thanks a lot to my girlfriend as well um so and you write about it a lot in ..."

"deepening your relationship with yourself it's almost like saying oh when i'm with my girlfriend or my wife what do i do oh there's few activities and experiences that you do you go out for dinner you..."

"breathe in for the same amount of time as you breathe out simply doing that brings you back into alignment visualization i use for when i think i'm about to start a difficult journey and i think i may..."

"that are said to some people who are who aren't near the middle who are very much at the other end of the spectrum they just turn off to it so if i was just be someone who's listening to this now driv..."

"step the second step i would say is definitely focus on your breath i think the breath is just something we can all relate to it's tangible by the way athletes have to learn how to control their breat..."

"things that feel practical to anyone and everyone yeah i mean i'm i think my natural position on things is to be a little bit of a skeptic and i when i was in indonesia the last time i my girlfriend b..."

"i realized that fear could be healthy or unhealthy based on how i used it and most of us don't realize that we get consumed by fear instead of using fear so fear becomes our being in the sense that fe..."

"that are exhibiting exactly that behavior because i know mine are yeah a young person saying i'm in this job i'm in this relationship i it sucks but yeah fear right yes fear of change fear of uncertai..."

"when it's actually this shell and what's happening inside of it that's defining all of these perspectives so much i mean that was a unbelievably beautiful answer and i'm gonna 100 still that answer i ..."

"universe keeps teaching me so when if i think about this question this is the first thing that came to my mind i keep believing that i'm going to meet someone who's going to help me take my work to th..."

"let's go back and forth i like this yeah there's there's going to be plenty more okay so the loads came to mind yeah so i'll just i'll try and start from the top so the first thing that came to mind t..."

"they are incorrect yes yes i love that i think one of the biggest things i obviously talk about is asking people to take time for themselves and make time for themselves you already know where this is..."

"it and when i was building i was working 18 hours a day i was you know a couple of those were meditations sure but then i was sleeping for six hours but i was working 18 hours a days for two to three ..."

"i think about this it's probably the number one thing i think about i reflect on how i treated people that day yes and there's been too many days in a row where i've gone you [ __ ] that up again stev..."

"joy to our lives and so yeah i you know that that's one of those moments that i was like you know you're really trying to teach me a lesson here because yeah you know what this this whole back and for..."

"especially in coaching where a lot of people think you can change their life and as an immature coach or therapist you may think you can change someone else's life and the more i've coached and the mo..."

"trying to be perfect all of these things actually block something beautiful from happening kind of interesting because it very much links to what you said about not not putting the expectation on the ..."

"about needing more voices and more faces and more people trying to serve but when you talk about what creates change in coaching there's there's four steps to making a change in someone's life it goes..."

"someone still has to sit there and go how do i do that unless you're sitting there with them one-on-one obviously and you can't do the the practical bit for someone else forever ever yeah you could ma..."

"there is no better feeling than that and what i find is i meet a lot of people who've mastered their passion but not for service they mastered it for business they mastered it for money they are maste..."

"let's go to the daily habits like the daily stuff and i want to try and avoid the stuff that i think people have heard and people have probably come across before in many different places maybe i've s..."

"and that's how i've lived for the last three to five years every year i'm learning something every year i'm launching something and every year i'm loving something and i'll give you an example so when..."

"a lot of stuff and uh we're going to talk a little bit about some of those things that you've launched i mean you've got your your genius community which you which has been going for a long time now b..."

"he was trying to build an experience he was trying to build a journey for people to go on he was trying to build a practical daily habit for each and every single person in the world and that was real..."

"they'll have and i've experienced that as a monk i saw it in for years and years and years i've seen it last year during the pandemic i went live for 20 days on instagram and taught meditation just to..."

"each and every single person could build a daily habit every day every day what of seven minutes a day you're gonna do seven minutes a day every day seven minutes a day every day wow five days a week ..."

"created we believe they're meditations that inspire action so all of them are not just sitting there on your own with yourself breathing they're interconnected with a change in your daily behavior so ..."

"well you know you've done so much and really from what i observed even you really started in 2000 and i'd say the the sort of external social media content journey started in 2016. yes that is mad tha..."

"don't want anything i want why why were you successful so i'm going to give you the i'm going to give you my monk answer and then i'm going to give you then i'm going to give the media answer so and a..."

"like that like there were tons of years where i was insecure and you know i was bullied for being overweight and i was bullied for being the only indian at school and there was so much like baggage to..."

"of it and so that would be the monks that i met it would be the coaches that i met the guys that i met looking at it from a very practical strategic standpoint shifting now my parents forced me to go ..."

"because there was no smartphone at the time when we were 11 12 years old and you'd have to create a speech in 15 minutes about that subject from the books that were in the room you had to read from a ..."

"to my monk teachers who gave me that and then when i went to accenture where people were like jay you're just a monk why did you go to accenture i had to pay the bills i couldn't rely on my parents an..."

"podcast soon and i realized i was like you didn't really teach me much about social media but you really taught me about breaking my mindset and he would always repeat napoleon hill you become what yo..."

"challenge your fear why are you so uncomfortable to walk up to that person and tweet them you know all of those kind of things and i saw that my mind just became just open to the idea so he would alwa..."

"doesn't count the 11 year old public speaking classes it's really there's something really beautiful about that because it i think it gives them a sense of it's incredibly inspiring but it also gives ..."

"right you never know when opportunity is going to meet preparation in your life totally and that also speaks to something you said earlier which is it's about the mindset you have when you're doing th..."

"get to interview him and it's the idea of like i don't i'm not worried if he doesn't see them i'm not upset if one day he sees 30 dms from me because i know that that's what it takes and i'm okay with..."

"a completely different way right correct yeah we have a long-standing tradition on this podcast um where the previous guest writes a question for the next guest in the diary that's genius i love that ..."

"amen listen jay i can't thank you enough for coming here and doing this um i know you are a very in demand very um a very very successful man who's who's only in the uk for a short period of time so i..."