E33: How to Succeed Faster and Have a Bigger Impact With Less Stress

Ever wonder why your progress is taking much longer than you expected? Or get frustrated about seeing the same patterns and issues over and over?

Then you'll love this week's episode we're chatting with special guest Shiraz Baboo about:

• A powerful tool that if used properly can totally change your world
• Sneaky things you might actually be addicted that are stealing your joy
• How to big shifts quickly in a way that actually works

More About Shiraz: A recent scientific report says that 92% of people never achieve their success goals. As a multi-award-winning author, an international speaker, and expert in struggle addiction, Shiraz has been helping people hit their success goals for the last decade. He coaches people to get out of what he calls “Reality Addiction” and his book, How to Rewrite Reality has changed lives across the globe. He’s going to show you how to identify where you’re unknowingly addicted to many of the struggles in your life, how to break free of those addictions, and then create success easier and faster than before.

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00;00;04;02 - 00;00;33;02 Speaker 1 Hello. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of The Purposeful Powerhouse Podcast and I am really excited to have another episode talking with amazing guests, sharing incredible tools for you to accelerate your progress, increase your impact, and really have more joy in all areas of your life. And so my special guest today is a friend of mine and fellow incredible speaker Shiraz. 00;00;33;03 - 00;00;47;29 Speaker 1 And we are going to be talking about how you can succeed faster and actually have a bigger impact with less stress. So welcome, Shiraz. It's great to have you. How are you? 00;00;48;02 - 00;00;51;27 Speaker 2 And thank you. It's great to be here. I'm looking forward to our talk. 00;00;51;29 - 00;01;16;28 Speaker 1 Thank you. I am, too. Okay, so our listeners and watchers know that we like to just get right down to business. We want to get to know you want to know a little bit about you, about your story, about your journey, and how maybe take us to a moment in time where maybe there was a realization or an experience that help you to shift your path a little bit and begin to really live into your purpose and do the work that you are doing today. 00;01;17;00 - 00;01;42;06 Speaker 2 Okay, So that moment would be when I was 22 years old. I was at university as a doctor and I was a bodybuilder. And I remember that exact moment where I was doing a bench press and as I'm lifting my arms, I just felt this pain go on my shoulder and I'm like, That's one muscle pain, that's something else. 00;01;42;08 - 00;02;09;04 Speaker 2 And within months I had intense pain in every joints in my body as arthritis just started to ravage my body. And it was it was unexpected. It was traumatic. You know, you had your life set out plans, and all of a sudden the plans are out the window. You're scrambling trying to figure out what the hell to do. 00;02;09;04 - 00;02;38;00 Speaker 2 Now, I know people may have not gone through that physical kind of positioning, but you've had you've had plans that are just out the window of your and you get into self judgment. What did I do wrong? What did I do to deserve this? You get it to self pity sometimes I went into depression and I thought, Well, this is just going to be my life now and what do I do? 00;02;38;03 - 00;02;58;13 Speaker 2 And there was that moment where it's just like, Well, no, you got to make the best of your life. So I started pushing forward and trying to have my life, and I was still trying to get out of the arthritis. I was trying everything you're supposed to your tried medication. I tried diet supplements, yoga, meditation, acupuncture. Nothing was working. 00;02;58;16 - 00;03;23;00 Speaker 2 And I learned to tolerate the pain and went into computers because now I could sit down and do the work and not have to be running around and stuff. But it wasn't until 18 years later that I met the man that changed my entire perception on reality. Yeah, and I had gone to India to work with this guy because it was India. 00;03;23;00 - 00;03;44;12 Speaker 2 I thought he was going to do some sort of Reiki energy healing on me if I was going to heal you. Now, nothing else had worked. I was not into spirituality at that point. I was like, okay, anything that's let's get out of this. But he just talked to me for two weeks. He went through my entire life story and it was like being with a psychiatrist and he wasn't actually trying to solve anything. 00;03;44;12 - 00;04;10;28 Speaker 2 He was just gathering information. At the end of the two weeks, he says, Shreyas you believe you're responsible for everyone in your life? No. No, I don't. Oh, I know you don't think you do, but from everything you've told me, you've created this belief that you need to be responsible for everyone. And it started when you were eight years old. 00;04;11;00 - 00;04;33;23 Speaker 2 Okay, I know I'm responsible, guy. I don't think I'm responsible for everyone. What's this even got to do with arthritis? So. Oh, you don't want to be responsible for everyone. Yeah. And if you're lying in bed in pain, you don't have to be responsible for anyone, and you don't have to feel guilty about it if you're struggling just to get through the day. 00;04;33;23 - 00;05;07;03 Speaker 2 No one's going to ask you to take care of them. The arthritis isn't the problem. It's the solution to the problem. Without looking at. Yeah, you're right. It's so with my response as well. That's messed up. And he said, But that's what most chronic illnesses are solutions to problems people don't realize they have. They said, okay, if what you're saying is true, then all I have to do is stop being responsible for everyone else. 00;05;07;04 - 00;05;37;23 Speaker 2 America should just go away. Yes, if you actually believe it deep down. So I gathered my will and I said, I'm not going to be responsible for anyone but me. Guess what happened in that moment? Nothing. But I woke up the next morning. No pain, no, no inflammation, more mobility. I could even breathe. So I'm freaking out because 18 years of this doesn't go away overnight. 00;05;37;25 - 00;06;00;11 Speaker 2 And yet I'm like, Oh my God, what is happening now? To be clear, the damage done was still there, right? And that's something I'm still working on fixing. And that was a big lesson for me because sometimes when you're in life's journey, you're going to get journeys and you're going to get miracles. And if you're looking for the miracles, you, you don't get them right. 00;06;00;13 - 00;06;29;02 Speaker 2 But if you're willing to go through the journey, you get miracles dropping all along the way. So as I've been rebuilding my body and willing to go on that journey of miracles and healing, it didn't happen to speed things up, which has been great. And here's the crazy thing is I got out. There's a track that was the place we were at and I was on my track of the day, but I was doing like this old man shuffle because my body was like the body of a seven year old man took of getting passed by 70 year old people on the track, which was embarrassing. 00;06;29;05 - 00;06;44;28 Speaker 2 But this day I'm passing everyone. I'm passing people younger than me. I'm weaving in and out. They're looking at me going, What the hell is happening? And I'm like, I know this is great. And when I went home, no one asked me to take care of them. No one asked me to be responsible because that's belief created by an eight year old boy. 00;06;45;06 - 00;07;16;10 Speaker 2 It didn't actually apply in the real world, but it was governing my entire existence. So here's the cool thing. I found out this isn't just about illness. This is about everything. This is the lesson I want to talk about today is every every consistent problem in your life is actually the solution to an emotional issue. You're not looking at your mind prioritizes the avoidance of emotional distress over physical circumstance. 00;07;16;13 - 00;07;38;14 Speaker 2 So rather than feel guilt for not being able to help everyone created arthritis. And I've seen people do this over and over. So things like a lot of people, I want to make a lot more money and then I said, What's going to happen when you make money? And they list all the wonderful things are happening? But as we dig down, Oh, but people are going to start asking me for money and I don't have to deal with that. 00;07;38;18 - 00;08;01;19 Speaker 2 People have asked to invest in their business or am I using my money? Right? And family's going to say, okay, you should need to take care of us. And all that emotional turmoil that comes up your mind goes, Well, wait, if we don't make the money in the first place, we don't have to deal with that. In fact, if we make a little money as possible, we definitely don't have to deal with that and consciously you're like, Why am I not making money? 00;08;01;21 - 00;08;10;11 Speaker 2 You're hearing unconsciously, you might as I thank you for not making money. 00;08;10;13 - 00;08;24;05 Speaker 1 Oh, my goodness. Wow. This is just like literally absolutely incredible. And I love that you found a beautiful man that was able to give you these insights and give you such clarity. 00;08;24;08 - 00;08;25;19 Speaker 2 Oh, I'm so happy to. 00;08;25;21 - 00;08;31;23 Speaker 1 Yeah, that right. I love the part when you're like, and I'm ready now. 00;08;31;25 - 00;08;46;02 Speaker 1 So imagine I just take us to that second. I take us into that exhilaration for a second because you're dealing with eight or so 18 years between years ago being and then to wake up and just feel like I'm free. 00;08;46;04 - 00;09;08;03 Speaker 2 It was just like I'm still not believing it. I'm checking because I wasn't into all that's all that this stuff now that I actually live my life doing. And so it was doubly freaking me out because this goes against physics, this goes against this. I was into medicine. This defies all medicine. Medical law is here and here we are. 00;09;08;05 - 00;09;09;07 Speaker 2 Right? 00;09;09;09 - 00;09;37;04 Speaker 1 Right. But, you know, there is a lot of research around the placebo effect and the mind body connection. And so it's just so incredible that, you know, you were receptive. And so he gave you that insight. And so maybe we could talk a little bit more about if these are running the show, they're unconscious. Right. And so they're they're things that we may not be aware of until we have people like you being able to shine the light and that that beautiful man that was able to give you that perspective and that awareness. 00;09;37;06 - 00;09;56;15 Speaker 1 So if these are unconscious stories, how can we become a little bit more aware of them herself? Because if they are really limiting our success, you know, we want to be impactful. We want to reach more people, we want to do all these things. But we have the story of even if I do that, what if I let more people down and we're like blocking everything, you know, unconsciously. 00;09;56;15 - 00;10;03;05 Speaker 1 So maybe we could talk a little bit more about that and how that might be hindering our impact on our success. 00;10;03;08 - 00;10;25;12 Speaker 2 So there's there's two big things there. Number one is most people don't realize that emotions are a choice. Usually we're just running preprogramed responses, which we can say are these are the emotions I feel. But depending on how you've been reading what you've been through, you can react to a situation probably different than the next person. They're like one person. 00;10;25;15 - 00;10;44;29 Speaker 2 If I was to go up to three people and pull their pants down here, let's say that, all right, The first person is just traumatized. Oh, my gosh. Roz, pull down my pants. Everyone's seeing and they run off. And that may affect them for the rest of us. The second one would be like, Oh, my God, why do you do this? 00;10;45;00 - 00;11;04;01 Speaker 2 You've done this before. Seriously, Come on. It's embarrassing pulling up their pants, in fact. And the third person is like, Okay, everyone, get a good look. It's going to come up soon. The last. Yes. Like those are choices. This is how they want to respond. So I had said, well, if I can't help everyone, I have to feel guilty. 00;11;04;02 - 00;11;22;13 Speaker 2 Now. I just know I don't because that's seemingly impossible. Why should I feel guilty that I can't help everyone? So when you're real and a lot of times we decided what emotions we're going to feel like, have you ever said all our Thanksgiving dinners come up with them? I know my family's good. I know you've decided you're already before you've been there. 00;11;22;16 - 00;11;46;12 Speaker 2 All right. So that's that's one thing, is that you can start to change what emotions you choose to feel. Number two is in order to sort of pinpoint what's going on, instead of saying, why is this happening to me? What's going on here? Why do I want this to happen? What's the benefit I'm not seeing? Right. What's what's the thing that's going to be horrible if I if I let this change? 00;11;46;12 - 00;12;13;29 Speaker 2 Those are the questions you want to look into because it's you creating the situation, you creating the illness, the poverty, the lack of success, the lack of relationship, it's all you. And once you start asking those questions, those unconscious answers can bubble up to the surface. Oh, oh, oh, it's this. I get it. Now, I'm not finding the right partner because when I was six, the girl I had a crush on embarrassed me in front of the whole class and that's still in there. 00;12;13;29 - 00;12;20;09 Speaker 2 And I didn't realize that that memory just popped in my head. Things like that. 00;12;20;11 - 00;12;44;12 Speaker 1 Isn't that so interesting? Right? Because until we start to do the work, we're really running on these old operating systems, on these old stories. But yeah, we have no idea, right. Where so many people are basically, you know, adults living in the mentality and working from the operating system of their five year old self when they had that moment of letting somebody down or getting embarrassed or whatever it was. 00;12;44;18 - 00;13;12;07 Speaker 1 I just those are great questions. Thank you. Thank you. And so would you say that in a sense, because we've created story, we build a lot of identity around these stories and these beliefs that we get sort of addicted to that as who we are and addicted to that negative emotional state because we're so familiar with it that like putting it down might feel a little bit threatening because it's and in your case became sort of this guard. 00;13;12;07 - 00;13;24;13 Speaker 1 And for many of us it's a guard of like, oh, well, don't go any further or you don't want to have that happen again. And so would you say that maybe it's something that we get a little bit addicted to as far as these struggle stories? 00;13;24;16 - 00;13;28;26 Speaker 2 No, I wouldn't say that. I would say it's something we get a lot addicted to. Uri. 00;13;28;29 - 00;13;33;02 Speaker 1 Thank you for your clarification. 00;13;33;05 - 00;13;54;16 Speaker 2 And this is where we actually develop an intellectual, mental and physical addictions. Like people don't realize that physically addicted. So just like you said, it becomes a protection mechanism mentally. And so when you say we're going to change it, your mind's like, But then we lose our safety. It just goes away and your mind prioritizes safety. All right. 00;13;54;16 - 00;14;15;22 Speaker 2 That's avoidance of emotional distress. That's safety. So you have to get to a place where you convince your mind it's going to be fine. Now, here's the other issue. If you've ever read Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Jodi Spencer. So if you're common, like we just go through a whole bunch of motions every day, but everyone has a default emotion that they spend most of their days in. 00;14;15;24 - 00;14;39;27 Speaker 2 And for a lot of people, it's frustration or fear and your cells actually create receptors that look for the chemicals associated with your default emotion. Every emotion has its own unique chemical cocktail. So if you decide, okay, I'm not going to be frustrated anymore, I'm going to be happy, you start being happy, then your cells don't get the chemicals for frustration. 00;14;39;28 - 00;14;58;07 Speaker 2 They go into withdrawal. They send a signal up to your brain saying, Make this person frustrated. You do something that frustrates you. As you watch something, it automatically triggers you to be frustrated and now your cells get their fix. Then you get frustrated because you're frustrated and your cells get a bigger fix, right? Like, why isn't this working? 00;14;58;14 - 00;15;10;18 Speaker 2 So you actually have to go through a period of physical withdrawal to get a new default emotion. And if you don't know that, you can be trapped forever and one you're in. 00;15;10;21 - 00;15;38;01 Speaker 1 Isn't that amazing? Right. And it's so funny because it's it's it's such an intel intelligent design. Right. And thank you, brain for getting us this far. But at the same time when we are especially in this community entrepreneurs and we're really pushing the threshold of comfortability, we're trying to stretch ourself, we're trying to get out there and we're, you know, we're going on podcast and we're doing all the things and literally our brain is like, Whoa, no, no, no, no. 00;15;38;01 - 00;16;01;13 Speaker 1 This is really against our default emotion of feeling sad or fearful or whatever it is. And so even though we have these visions and these goals, it can be really this sort of self-protective mechanism that's holding us in that struggle. And so I see how really, you know, making this shift and shifting that inner constitution at a chemical level is really and is very impactful as far as accelerating our progress and our growth. 00;16;01;13 - 00;16;04;12 Speaker 1 So I love that connection. Thank you. 00;16;04;15 - 00;16;12;21 Speaker 2 Welcome. And the cool thing is, once you get addicted to a positive emotion, it's hard to get out of it. 00;16;12;24 - 00;16;21;00 Speaker 1 Are they more addictive in a sense, or just because you're like, Oh, I like that. I want more. And so you you feed it and you feel it more. 00;16;21;02 - 00;16;45;03 Speaker 2 It's yeah, it's the same mechanism. But the cool thing is positive emotions are actually even healthier for your body. Negative emotions can cause a deterioration to occur, whereas positive emotions become cause growth and they can be infectious. Like, I don't know, like I don't think it's technically emotion, but I know my body is addicted to laughter, right? So there's reasons to laugh that show up every single day for me. 00;16;45;06 - 00;17;08;03 Speaker 2 But as a result, people around me tend to have a lot more fun. I've come back from workshops with other people, get togethers, networking stuff, and a lot of the feedback, and this has been surprising because it's happening more and more when people are saying, Give us some feedback and they're like, Oh sure, I just lit up. The lecture has made me laugh so much and it's not that I'm trying to do this that's just default, right? 00;17;08;05 - 00;17;43;16 Speaker 1 I Oh, I love that too. Yeah. And that's so beautiful, right? Because there is and there's Dr. David Hawkins talks a lot about the the different vibrational frequencies of emotions and how we see that acceleration of homeostasis and joy and that illumination that comes from when we're in those more positive states. And so that's, that's absolutely incredible. And for most people and in the work that I do as far as expanding our vision and getting into that emotional state of our vision, for the most part in our vision, it's all about joyfulness and playfulness and gratitude and all of those emotions. 00;17;43;16 - 00;18;04;21 Speaker 1 Right? But yet, if we have this in our addiction to sadness and struggle and frustration and fear, like you said, that can be really stalling us. And so what are some of the tools that you use yourself or that you help your clients with to begin to shift this reality and change these interstates? 00;18;04;23 - 00;18;29;27 Speaker 2 One tool I have, I have these focusing. They are shows that teach you how to focus on a specific thing for 30 seconds. And I found that's the key is holding that thought for 30 seconds or more is what causes the rewiring of the neurons in your brain. If it's less than that, it doesn't work. And most people can hold the thought for 7 seconds or less. 00;18;29;29 - 00;18;33;04 Speaker 2 So you see why most people don't create what they want. 00;18;33;06 - 00;19;03;26 Speaker 1 Yes. And let's just stop there. 7 seconds. I know it's it's crazy, right? Because the brain is so active. I mean, think about we don't even need to think about all the intricate chemical reactions and things that are happening simultaneously. But the fact that we can't hold our thoughts for more than 7 seconds is it's not voting. Well, And, you know, if you think about it from a social media perspective, those of us that produce content and we know that you literally have to capture people's attention in 2 to 3 seconds, good luck. 00;19;03;26 - 00;19;28;17 Speaker 1 Humanity can. Yeah. So let's go back to your focus. I like that. So let's go back to that. So really focusing in. So I know you have a gift. We'll talk about that in a minute. You have many gifts, but a gift that you're sharing with everybody beyond what you're sharing now. But let's talk about that and then one thing that I know that you mentioned to me ahead of us going live is intentions and a tool that you use. 00;19;28;17 - 00;19;43;23 Speaker 1 And so in yoga, we use that every time we get on the mat. And as part of our purposeful powerhouse practice, we have intentions so that we can really connect to that. And so I love that you speak on that as well. So can you talk a little bit about your perspective on intentions and how powerful they are? 00;19;43;25 - 00;20;04;16 Speaker 2 So for me, there are two levels of intention. Number one is a general intention and magic always happens. Things always go right. People have intentions that they don't realize are there, but they think they're using cliches, right? There's always a price to pay for it. You're damned if you do damned. These are all intentions that you set out and you create in your life. 00;20;04;18 - 00;20;26;16 Speaker 2 So my intentions are always everything. Always look out for me, right? Office, My friends always, always bugged me because there are certain attaches I keep telling them about and then they watch it play out. Then they repeat them back to me, which just further anchors it into me. So this is the nice fun thing. It's to say openly what your intentions are about. 00;20;26;16 - 00;20;38;29 Speaker 2 Oh, wonderful, magical things. There's surprises always happen. Money falls in my lap. And then people are like, How come money? Oh yeah, your intention. Money always falls in your lap. But when they're speaking it back to you, they're speaking it into existence as well. 00;20;39;01 - 00;20;41;09 Speaker 1 All right. Self-fulfilling prophecy. 00;20;41;09 - 00;21;07;10 Speaker 2 Yes. And then the second layer of intention is visualization with emotion. So and this is something like you hear it in the secret picture yourself doing this and feeling what it's like to do that. But I found that there's a there's a missing component that people don't know about, and that's do it in real time, because most people say, oh, I can picture the house on the beach and and I can see myself doing this and that and that. 00;21;07;10 - 00;21;31;05 Speaker 2 But they're still doing less than 7 seconds segments. When you go to that 32nd segment of I am at my computer watching my bank account go and I'm transferring money from business and you go through a whole routine that takes at least 30 seconds to your brain. You're actually doing that. That's who you are. And the more you play that out, the more your brain thinks, Well, this is just normal for me because it doesn't care if you're imagining it or doing it for real. 00;21;31;11 - 00;21;50;14 Speaker 2 It takes everything as true. So what happened recently is I decided I wanted to get fit again, but I didn't really have the drive to work out. So I do go for walks every day. So I spent, what, half an hour of one of my walks imagining being back at the gym and doing the fitness routine. I like, I do flies. 00;21;50;16 - 00;22;12;19 Speaker 2 I can pull back the memory of what it felt like, what the tension, the stress I found. I found myself breathing the same way I would do that. And I played out the entire half hour workout every day without actually working out. And after a month I was actually starting to see changes in my body. My body was actually working itself out, but not with the intensity of an actual workout. 00;22;12;21 - 00;22;29;28 Speaker 2 The muscles were firing. I'm like, Wow, this is happening. But then after about six weeks, I was like, I want to work out. Like the drive came in because in my brain, this is who I am, this is what I do every day. And now I work out twice a day. I do weights in the morning and cardio in the evening because that's just who I am now. 00;22;29;28 - 00;22;44;27 Speaker 2 I still do the visualization and I'm going to keep doing it until my body matches what's in the visualization exercise. But that anchors everything in and it's just like, Wow, I haven't been this fit in years and it's just started for me, going out for walks and imagining working out. 00;22;44;29 - 00;23;02;27 Speaker 1 Congratulations. I love that and like to take us full circle back to that point in your in your body and in your reality. Many years ago, when you were crippled in pain from the arthritis and you were, you know, getting lapped by seven year olds and now you're working out twice a day and you're feeling and seeing that beautiful effect in your life. 00;23;02;27 - 00;23;06;19 Speaker 1 So congratulations, celebrating you big time. Yeah. 00;23;06;22 - 00;23;22;05 Speaker 2 Yeah. I love it. And it's it's it's crazy how simple it is right now. It's not easy because you've got to do this on a regular basis. You've got to be dedicated. You've got to hold that thought for 30 seconds. But the technique is incredibly simple. 00;23;22;07 - 00;23;50;10 Speaker 1 Yeah, I agree with you. And that's so interesting, right? Because often in this fast, shiny world, we're always looking for you know, the next best strategy and the five steps to the 10 seconds and all of those things, you know, and and really when it comes back to it, is these incredible ball practices that have been spoken about for thousands of years, that modern science is now just beginning to conceptually understand. 00;23;50;10 - 00;24;11;07 Speaker 1 And and thank you for all of the people that are doing this research in neuroscience, you know, Dr. Joe and so many incredible people. And but really, you know, not that it needed to be validated, but these ancient wisdom traditions are completely being validated and, you know, supported because it's not just way out there. Stuff, science and spirituality are really coming together. 00;24;11;07 - 00;24;29;00 Speaker 1 And people, you know, thanks to what you're sharing today and so many people that are speaking to this really starting to understand just and really conceptually experience and viscerally experience that connection between science and spirituality because it's such a beautiful overlap. 00;24;29;02 - 00;24;39;07 Speaker 2 Yeah. And especially the work that's being done in quantum physics is demonstrating well, it's not spirituality, it is actually science. Like this is the design of the universe. 00;24;39;09 - 00;24;44;07 Speaker 1 I don't know, but. 00;24;44;09 - 00;24;57;24 Speaker 1 Well, thank you. And let's go back to the the audios and the training, our mind and learning to focus. I know you have a special gift to share with everybody. So could you please tell us a little bit more about that? 00;24;57;27 - 00;25;16;14 Speaker 2 Well, I was taught these these breathing exercises when I was in India, part of part of the training. I didn't know what they were supposed to do at the time, but I got used to doing it. And I do especially. There's one where you just breathing and imagining air coming up through from your feet all the way up to the top of your head and back down. 00;25;16;16 - 00;25;42;06 Speaker 2 And that's a 12 minute exercise. I do. I start the day with that and it gets me focused. It calms me down, and it's teaching me to hold the thoughts for 30 seconds. So when you do the exercises where you have the emotions and do the visualizations, it becomes easier. And that's what I was taught to do. Now, the side effect that I didn't realize this was happening is when you do these consistently that you get calmer, you get less reactive. 00;25;42;08 - 00;26;00;09 Speaker 2 This aura of peace starts to come out of you. And people have always said that like you're because I teach what I do to other people and they say, What are you teaching us how to shift beliefs to do this? But you're always in the state of calmness and non reactivity and how you doing that? And these things have become such an integral part, like just normal for me. 00;26;00;09 - 00;26;19;03 Speaker 2 I didn't think, Oh, that I should teach that right? So and so when I finally figured out and it clicked, I made audios that are 2 minutes, 5 minutes and 12 minutes long. And the cool thing is you trying to hold it off for 30 seconds. So sometimes you just need 2 minutes and this is why this has to be a burden on your day. 00;26;19;09 - 00;26;35;10 Speaker 2 I got 2 minutes before my next meeting. I'll just do the exercises and this is what's going to happen when you do them is you will become less reactive. You will become calmer, you will become more focused. And when you want to do the exercises to recreate your life, it's a lot easier. 00;26;35;13 - 00;26;54;10 Speaker 1 And I love it. Thank you. And I again, congratulations on practicing what you preach. And clearly it's it's evidenced in you, you know, and I love that. And I think that's so important because it's it really is a testament and you are testament to the work that you're doing and the journey that you've been on. And so thank you for sharing all of that. 00;26;54;11 - 00;26;57;20 Speaker 1 Thank you for being here today. It's been really fun to chat with you. 00;26;57;22 - 00;27;00;06 Speaker 2 Thanks for having me. 00;27;00;08 - 00;27;09;05 Speaker 1 Absolutely. Okay. So last question. Yes. What does it mean to you to be a purposeful powerhouse? 00;27;09;08 - 00;27;37;15 Speaker 2 For me, it means doing that thing that I mean that I try to use, not use the word power because it seems redundant, but it empowers you, right? Because there are actions we can take that drain us and the actions that empower. And when you're a purposeful powerhouse, you're doing these actions that have an impact on the people around you, but at the same time empower you to want to do more of them. 00;27;37;18 - 00;27;51;22 Speaker 2 And it becomes a snowball effect because then you look for more people to do it. You can have a bigger impact and it grows and grows and grows. Yet it doesn't tire out because every time you do it, it just empowers you more. And it's an amazing feeling. 00;27;51;25 - 00;28;08;09 Speaker 1 Love it, love it, love it, love it. Well, thank you for sharing that. And again, thank you for your beautiful gift. And so make sure to grab those because. Yes. Don't you want to be able to train your mind to focus on your vision and be able to succeed faster and have a bigger impact? Yes. So make sure to grab those great gifts from Shiraz. 00;28;08;09 - 00;28;28;01 Speaker 1 And thank you. Thank you for being part of this community. Thank you for listening and watching. And also thank you for taking a screenshot and tagging both of us on Instagram and letting us know what landed for you. What are you going to practice? What really kind of went off in your head and was a moment that really gave you some insight. 00;28;28;01 - 00;28;50;03 Speaker 1 We'd love to know that because we want to. We want to see how that's going to land in your life and take shape and take form. And so until next time, thank you for continuing to think and move and breathe and show up on purpose as the purposeful, powerhouse CEO that you truly are. And take good care and we'll see you again very soon. 00;28;50;03 - 00;28;52;01 Speaker 1 Goodbye, everybody ready?