#226 The four questions and two foundations to build your life upon, and are you living 'inside-out' or 'outside-in'?, with Richard Flint.

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Agi Keramidas  0:01  
In today's show, I am delighted to speak with Richard Flint. Richard, you are a keynote speaker, trainer, coach and mentor. Personal development and personal discovery are your areas of expertise. And you have authored 19 books on the subject. You have been sharing your insights and philosophies with audiences all over the world for over 35 years. And you now have dedicated your life to helping others break free and create the life of their dreams. Richard, welcome to Personal Development mastery, it's a joy and a privilege to speak with you.

Richard Flint  0:41  
Again, I've had the privilege is mine. I've been looking forward this ever since Brian told me that I was going to be able to be a guest on your show. So I am excited to have this opportunity to share with your listening audience.

Agi Keramidas  0:54  
That's fantastic. Thank you so much. And let's uh, let me start then with something that I wanted. When I started doing some research about you. So 35 plus years 19 books, I read that before COVID You were doing over 100 events a year live events a year around the world. What's your motivation?

Richard Flint  1:20  
Well, a little bit about me Auggie is that everything that I've achieved in my life, I've had to work to achieve it. I was born here in the United States in New Orleans. And I was born to a mother that was a prostitute. And I was the result of a one night stand she had with a gentleman. And she never wanted me. So when I was two weeks old, I was adopted. And I was adopted into a home where I was only adopted because my dad wanted a son, my adopted mother never wanted me. And she made that very, very clear. She used to tell me almost every day of my life, I'll be you are the stupid this kid I've ever met in my life. You'll never amount to anything in life. And my greatest day will be the day when you're no longer in my house. So when I was 16 years of age, I was left on a street corner with a suitcase. And from the age of 16. From there throughout my life, I've been on my own. And I've had to learn how to move from survival, to living. And to do that, the first thing I had to do was get in touch with who am I and, you know, in learn how to work beyond those three things that my mother told me, because you and I both know that most of what we know about ourselves were taught by our parents. And when your natural mother doesn't want you, your adopted mother doesn't want you, then you struggle with what's wrong with me. And it's and I see this, everywhere that I go. I see it, I feel it in people that so many people live their life, trying to discover who they are through giving their self to other people. And never been willing to pay the price to learn the difference between living outside in inside out. And from outside in the world can control you. From inside out. It's your stage, it's your life, you get to design it. And I went to college, I went to grad school. I taught for a few years at the university level and then ended up on the staff of a very large mega church here in West Palm Beach, Florida where I live and ran the counselling division for the church left there and ran a private Counselling Centre in the Palm Beaches here. And while I was doing that, I wrote some magazine articles, I got some international attention. And I started getting groups that would ask me would you come share your philosophies with us. And I did that on a limited basis for a year and a half. And then I woke up one day and realise this was God's plan for my life. So when I made the decision to leave the Counselling Centre, I had to build a philosophical foundation of why I'm doing this, and what do I want? And what I want every day of my life is I want to help people achieve three things. I want people to be better. You know, one of the things I've seen in years of working with human behaviour is most people accept the circle of sameness as their way of life. And they live every day less than what their life is capable of becoming. And they think what my life is good Because I'm comfortable, comfortable is a death trap. You and I were not put on this earth to be comfortable. We were put on this earth to discover and to discover light. And I also want people to be smarter. You know, God didn't create any dumb people. But there are people who have mastered the art of pay and play and dumb. My book that I'm working on right now that hopefully I'll have out by the end of the year is entitled, so what's your excuse? And what I have found is that so many people get caught up in their world of reasons, excuse and justification, that everybody around them validates that. So they don't have to do anything with their life. But being smarter means looking for the opportunities every day, taking the lessons from those opportunities and implementing them. So that I can show up to tomorrow better than I was yesterday. And then, the third thing I want for people, is I wanted to be stronger internally. Once a person learner learns the value of living from the inside out,

then they begin to understand that the in depth meaning of life, life is not about survival. Life is not about running away. Life is about discovering the adventures that are there in front of you. And having that internal strength, obviously, that internal desire, that determination, that discipline within you, to everyday strive to be stronger, so that we can do one thing. We can create a positive presence that has presence when we're not present. And that's what I want for my life. I get up every day, and I have a little sign that I look at every morning, that simply says someone's going to need me today. And what I want to do is make sure that every day, I'm prepared for that day. And you know, that person always shows up. And by the way, there are some days that I'm the person that needs me that day, of course.

Agi Keramidas  7:21  
Thank you for your answer. And there were so many things that you already shared. And I liked what you said about the wanting people to achieve those three things to be better, smarter and stronger and internally stronger, which I believe is extremely important. And there were a couple of other things. I'm just reiterating now, in my own words, some of the things that that you said that we're not here to be comfortable, but we're here to discover. And again, I suppose that you mean that the inner discovery, discovery, the truth of who we are each each of us.

Richard Flint  8:03  
Well, being it being comfortable is a trap.

Agi Keramidas  8:07  
Yes.

Richard Flint  8:09  
And, you know, I love my life, I've got a great life. But the greatness of my life, is from the discovery process of every day. Being better, being smarter, being stronger, because every day that I improve from the inside out, the value of my presence also improves. And there's so many people that they drop out of the classroom of life. And everyday, there's the possibilities that are there. And because they've dropped out of the classroom of life, they can't see them. So they dig themselves deeper into a circle of sameness. And they say they're comfortable, but they're not. Because that feeling of being comfortable, is a facade. Because you and I were put on this earth for three things we were put here to be happy. And happiness is discovery. We were put here to be fulfilled. There's a purpose for all of our lives. And then we were put here to be free and free to be the individual, the person the personality that we're here and we have been given

Agi Keramidas  9:38  
how people failed and free and the trap as you said have been comfortable. It's it's a very subtle one and many of us don't even realise that it is like that. It is only and I will speak from personal experience. It's true. Only when some kind of discomfort internal discomfort or some discontent that despite the external comfort, that sets one to turn me off. Why is that? Or the, you know, answering the question first that that's what happened to me on the external it was comfortable but inside there was a void. So that mismatch there sent me on my, my own personal development journey and this lifelong process of getting better getting stronger, getting smarter, as you said. And I liked very much how you categorise it and put it into separate, you know, directions,

Richard Flint  10:50  
you know, argue when people come to me and they say, You know what, I'm comfortable in my life. My question back to them is, what are you comfortable with? Are you comfortable with the things that you have? Or are you comfortable with yourself? Because sometimes we think that the things we have are, what life is made up. But those things can be taken away in a heartbeat. And the question is, are you comfortable with yourself? You know, do you get up in the morning? And can you look in the mirror and go, You know what, I like that person. And if you can't say that, then what happens? You have to, you have to live from the outside in to make up the fact that inside, you're lost. And I spend every day of my life, trying to help people understand the difference between outside in and inside out. If I'm living outside in, I give control of my life to other people. So it's not my life. I'm an actor, in their play. But if I'm inside out my number one philosophy for my life, and I had 18 laws that hold my life together, and I stand on it. Number one, is this, why I spend my energy being a carbon copy when I'm the original? There's only one of you, there's only one of me. But if I can't live from the inside out, then I'm not me. If I'm living outside, then I'm a puppet for other people.

Agi Keramidas  12:29  
Yes. Yes, exactly. Richard, I would like to switch gears a little bit and talk about a topic that the main topic there about human behaviour. And I think it relates also to what we have been saying because the human there, the way that we behave, and whether that matches our intentions, or the way that we would like to behave really makes a big difference in our lives. You say that you wrote a book behaviour never lies and and you say that in all these years that you've studied human behaviour, you have discovered some primary questions that will allow one to be on or to build success. So share this with us, please.

Richard Flint  13:26  
Well, I run a philosophy everyday in my life. I have a programme called the morning minute. And everyday it's one of my philosophies of life with a piece of wisdom. If you talk to anyone anywhere around the world, who knows me and you ask them, What do you remember about him? They'll tell you three words. Behaviour never lies. That Agi in life the essence of truth is not what someone says it's what they do. And if you really step as lean back and are step back and look at people, the thing that frustrates you the most about people is behaviour. And the contradiction. The thing that will anger you about a lot of people is behaviour. The contradiction, the thing that disappoints you so much about people is not what they say. It's their behaviour. Because it's impossible for behaviour to lie. It is the essence of truth. And for years, I've had people come to me and they, they asked me, Richard, I want to get my life on track. I want to have that life where what I'm doing is I'm investing in me and I want to be able to live the life. That is the life that I'm supposed to live. How do I do this? And I tell people Auggie there are four questions that you can build your life on. And they come in one order. And you can't go to question number two until you can answer question number one, you can't go to three or four, until you answer question number two, or number three. And here, here are the questions where everything has to start. What do I really want for my life? And it's not what do I want? That's a that's a surface question. The word really is the word that digs inside you. What do you really want for your life? And I find that most people live unhappy with their life. Because it's all outside. You know, I'm known for my definition of words. I've written core values of dictionaries. And this is my definition of a job because people have a job. My definition of a job is an environment that a human goes to every day where they prostitute themselves for a paycheck. But they're not happy doing it. But they do it for the money. Yeah. But yet, they keep talking about what they're going to do someday with their life. And the challenge, the challenge with most people, is they get so locked into that circle of sameness. They never get to the really want for your life. And to have that be better and to be smarter and to be stronger. It's got to be based in what do you really want for your life? And, you know, with what you're doing with your life? Does it give you happiness? Does it give you a sense of fulfilment? Does it let you be free to be you? And if it doesn't, then you're you're a prisoner within yourself. Now, you and I both known people that have had a career, and they've worked one job for 30 years, 40 years, 50 years. But you know what? That's their passion. That's what they want to do with their life. And if you ask him, What do you really want for your life? They'll tell you, I'm doing it. But that's a very small percentage. Auggie. Most people live their life running are not understanding what they could really do with their life. So question number one, why do you really want what do you really want for your life? That's purpose. That's purpose. And then question number two? Why do you really want this? You know, if you can have the if you know the what, why do you really want this? And that's the discovery process. of why am I willing to give myself to this? What's it going to bring to my life? What's it going to allow my life to give to others? And those two questions stand alone of the four. Because that's the purpose and the discovery. Now, once I can answer those two, I'm ready for question number three. And these last two questions really get really get tough.

What price Am I willing to pay to achieve it? I would venture to say that in your life, that not everything for you has come easy. And I would venture to say that you're where you are today. Because you know, what the price tag has been? And you've been willing to pay it? Yes. And it's it's more than financial, it's mental. It's emotional, It's spiritual. For everything you and I want to do with our life, there's a price tag to it. You know, and I would just be very open with your your listeners. You know, until the COVID virus hit I was I was doing 100 to 125 engagements all over the world. And I was living on the walk the road 200 plus days a year. And there were nights alone in a hotel room. Okay, one of my quiet time I've asked God God, why have you chosen me for this? You know, why is this what you want from from my life and nights when I'd be scooting across the sky late at night on an aeroplane getting to the next city? You know, I would struggle with that. You know, why are you doing this? And I'd always come back to understand this. What I'm doing with my life is what I was put on this earth to do. And there's a price tag to it. You If the price tag ever comes to the place where it's too much, then I'll stop. But that price tag has to be built in a passion for what you're doing. And I love what I do. Okay? I love it every day, I am passionate about this, because I really believe that people will pay attention to what I teach, that I can help them find a difference in their life. You know, and there's got to be the self motivation. I mean, people ask me all the time, are you a motivational speaker? And I tell them, No, I'm an educational entertainer. Because what I do is I entertain people with with knowledge. And if I have to motivate Aki, then I have to adopt him. And I don't want to do that. But I can teach you the process for self motivation. I can teach you that. And then there has to be a big price tag, which is discipline. I mean, if you and I are not disciplined, then what do we do? We create procrastination, we create clutter, we get our life just really messed up. Discipline is that inner desire and determination with your feet nailed to the ground to this is what I'm supposed to do with my life. And then question number four is really the is really the ultimate question. What behaviours will I have to improve? To achieve what I want? And I need for people to understand the word I use, I didn't say what behaviours will I need to change. But I said, improve why? Because change is an emotional word. Most people fight change, because change is designed to take you out of a comfortable routine. And I it's not about what I need to change. It's what I need to improve every day my mind wants me to improve. Everyday, my mind opens up opportunities for me. And to continue to grow, I have to look at my life to the self limitations I put on me. And working with human behaviour. And I take on 10 people a year from all over the world, and I'm their their mentor for one year of their life. And the thing that we keep looking at is where do you need to improve? Because limitations are self imposed. And so many of these argue these limitations are imposed, because of people's fear. From the day I was born to the day that I die, and the same thing with you, you and I are going to fight six fears in our life. The fear of the unknown, that can hold people hostage, the fear of abandonment, that will hold someone hostage the fear of failure, the fear of rejection, the fear of loss. And then the number one argue with young people today, the fear of success.

Young people don't know what success is today, they know what it is to be taken care of. But when they have to stand on their own two feet, they haven't been prepared. So what behaviour or behaviours? Am I going to have to improve? In order for me to take my what my why and my price tag and implement them?

Agi Keramidas  23:55  
Thank you so much for this detailed and comprehensive answer and the those questions that you said what do I what do I really want? Why do I really want this? What price Am I willing to pay for it? And what behaviours? Do I have to improve? My question, I wanted to go a bit deeper there and the questions are very simple in their you know expression. I think everyone can understand exactly what they mean. What might be more challenging, though is how one goes to find the answers to this question. So is it a matter of sitting down and thinking intellectually? Do you propose some other method so we say to really find or discover this the answers to these questions within you

Richard Flint  24:58  
Auggie In life, there are only two foundations that we can stand on. And the answers to every question in life is created by which foundation we stand on. And if any of your listeners can, can come up with another foundation other than these two, please email it to me, Richard at Richard flint.com, I have spent years studying this. And I keep coming back to that there are only two foundations that we can stand up. One is the foundation of belief in yourself,

trusting yourself and having the faith to live forward. And that's the inside Foundation. The other foundation is I live my life with doubt.

Worry, and uncertainty. And if I live on that foundation, what I do, I reach outside to other people to tell me what my life is what I should be doing. And I give everybody else permission to design my life. And I hope you're I hope your listeners can understand this. For you and I to implement anything in our life. We have to give ourselves permission to do it doesn't just happen. Every choice you make in your life, you give yourself permission to make that choice. And everyday those choices that I make, are based upon which of these foundations Am I standing on? Doubt. You can't have doubted belief. Worry, you can't have worry and trust. Uncertainty, you can't have uncertainty and faith. And when people come to me and they're struggling, one of the first things I want to know that I want to discover is which of these foundations are you building your life on right now. And it's interesting Auggie when you tear it apart psychologically. I mean, you think about this, I would imagine you and probably 99% of those that listen to your podcast here. I would imagine they go through times when they doubt. And the interesting thing about doubt is you can't doubt without worrying. And doubt is the parent. Worry and uncertainty are the kids. And if I'm uncertain what happens, I'm frozen in light. And what do I do? How do I handle doubt? And where does doubt come from? That comes from my rearview mirror. It comes from me looking at all of the wrongs, all of the frustrations, all the disappointments that I've had in yesterday. And when I'm looking down at rearview mirror, I don't see the purpose of yesterday, yesterday is a reference library not a room to live in. Now, we all have a yesterday. So when I'm in belief, I've also taken stuff from yesterday. But what have I done, I've taken my success. I've taken my celebrations, I've taken my growth, my discovery, my experiences that keep making me better, smarter and stronger. And I build my life off of that. I wish people could understand that yesterday is just a series of file cabinets, one file cabinets, everything in that drawer is about all of my my doubts, my worries and my uncertainties. This other file cabinet is about all of my success, the things that I feel good about the me that I know I am that I celebrate every day. And I define yesterday by which file cabinet I open. And I bring that to today. And I use that to design my day, every day of your life is a design. And that design is is then implemented through the choices that you make. And every choice you make. You have to give yourself permission to make that and people tell me Well, I didn't mean to do that. That's a lie. If you hadn't meant to do it, you wouldn't have done it. There are no excuses. My book I'm working on right now, I hope by the end of the year is entitled so what's your excuse? We live in a world today where excuses have become acceptable. And when excuses become acceptable there is no accountability. You know, I give myself permission to have the life that I have. Let me say one more thing real quick. It's the teaching that I have that gets me in trouble the most. And that is this, you are exactly in your life where you want to be people that well, that's not true. Well, if you didn't want to be there, you wouldn't be parents. There's nothing to blame. There's no justification, there's no excuse. Listen, when I was 16, I could have gone over laid down in the corner, got up in the foetal position and never done anything with my life and blame my mother the rest of my days on this earth. Or I could stand up. And I could look at the life that I want to have.

And every day I choose to implement the behaviours that take me living forward, rather than trapped in yesterday.

Agi Keramidas  31:09  
And that's what you just said, choosing the behaviours every day is what will determine in the end if our behaviour matches what we talk about as well wanted. Do you want to expand a bit more because I know this is the topic of your book, the behaviour never lies, and you also have some process or strategy for someone to create this consistency or I call it congruence when someone's intentions and actions match or the you know, the what they seen what they do?

Richard Flint  31:50  
Well, one of the things I do with people because I I'm a big believer in asking questions. Okay, and one of the things I ask people all the time are you Are you really willing to be honest about your life? I learned in the Counselling Centre Auggie that most people want honesty, as long as it's not honest. I mean, have you ever had this happen to you? Someone comes to you and goes, Okay, now, I want you to be honest with me, I really want you to be honest. And you think, all right, you share honesty with them. And all of a sudden, they look at you and go, well. That's not what I was expecting to hear. And here's the thing that's funny about all this honesty that I hear that I don't want, I translate into criticism. So they walk away from you and they go to someone else, you know, I asked Augie for help and all he wanted to do was criticise me. I mean, you got to be strong, to handle honesty. And then I want to talk to people about what's the fear that's holding you back. I found also in working with human behaviour, those six fears. One of those is your number one fear. And if you can confront and control and poke, hear me, you cannot eliminate emotions. But you can control. I mean, it's like someone coming to you and say, I need to get this out of my life. No, you don't. You need to learn to control it. Emotions cannot be eliminated. But they can be controlled. So which of those fears is your number one fear for years in my life? It was the fear of rejection. I mean, go back. Natural mother didn't want me. Dr. Mother didn't want me must be something wrong with me. And I couldn't reject you if I wanted to. Rejection is not what someone does to you. It's what you tell people to do to you. You ever been around someone who didn't like their self? So they made sure other people couldn't like them? Yeah. Didn't think they were smart. So they always played dumb. So what isn't? What is it in life and mine was rejection. And I had to learn how to love myself. And I couldn't learn to love myself until I learned to like myself. Big difference between those two. But when I learned to love myself, that's when I learned to understand. Most people in my life wanted to control me. Not helped me. Wonder The things that keeps a lot of people from growing Auggie is the fact that the more you want to do with your life, the fewer people you can have in your life. I get asked almost every single day, what percentage of people do you think every use what you teach 2%. And I'll tell you, coming to that realisation was depressing. Because I wanted to change the world. But most of the world wants to hear not listen. And so what I've had to come to is that every day in my life, I look for the 2%. And all I want to be involved in is the lives of the 2%, we're getting ready to release an eight week Mastermind course, into the deepest thing I've ever written. It is beyond a PhD course. And we're starting this and we're going to focus on the business part of people's lives, because that's the number one room in people's lives, which it shouldn't be, but it is.

So we're going to draw a blueprint of how to use that business room correctly. And I have been working on this material for I don't know how many years now. And probably July 1 to August, we're going to release the mastermind group. And it's not for the faint of heart, it's for the 2%. And not everybody is going to get in because I'm going to interview everybody. And if you're not ready for me, I'm not going to let you in, I'm just not going to let you be a part of it. Because I'm looking for that 2% who really want to know what they really want, who want to understand why they know the price tag and they're willing, and they're willing to look in the mirror and say, You know what, I'm the number one obstacle in my life. And I've got to be able to get through these behaviours that are holding me back. And Auggie I just believe that God has given me the ability to make a difference in people's lives. I'm not going to adopt him. You know, I'm not on percent.

Agi Keramidas  37:20  
Yeah,

Richard Flint  37:22  
I'm not going to coach him. What I'm going to do is I'm going to guide them. You have this I have a two people come to me all the time. Well, what should I do? I tell them, I don't know. I'm not you. So let's talk about what you feel you need to do. We spend too much time giving people answers rather than asking them questions. Yeah, and you know what happens? I give you all the answers. You walk into my life with your little umbilical cord, you plug in. And now you you keep draining me and I can't get away from you because you have extension cords with email and with the internet and everything I can't get away from you. But all I want to do is be able to to guide people.

Agi Keramidas  38:16  
And the thing is that if you if you give answers to someone doesn't mean that they are the right answers for them. And I think many people have fallen into that trap of asking for the answers rather than finding trying to find out within themselves. What is the right thing to do rather than, you know having a guru or an expert or how, however you want to call them tell them what is the right thing for them. No one knows better than ourselves.

Richard Flint  38:49  
Yeah, no, no one knows. Auggie better than Aki or I haven't got again, I have a guy called me this this past week. And he said, You know what? He says, I think I'd like to have you as a mentor in my life. He says, How long do you think it'll take to fix me? I said, How old are you? I'm 42. Were you going to have to give me at least 60 years because I can't picture and we live in a quick fix society. Why? Because everything comes so quick. You know, one of the interesting, Google has made it so that people don't have to think I mean, I can I can pick up my phone and go Hey, Siri. I'm looking forward to the day when I asked Siri a question and she goes I don't know. To do that

Agi Keramidas  39:51  
she's there it is. It certainly has stopped us from Using these using knives or brain technology is both a blessing and a curse depends on how one uses them. uses it. It's up to I've, I have found that with the conversation fascinating and it's not, you know only what you have taught throughout the conversation, there were things that the listener can actually pick up us action points and implement them. And that's, for me as a podcast host this, you know, the reason or one of the reasons why I want to present this message to people so that they can do something about it, not just listen to a conversation, no matter how educational or entertaining or inspirational is, the endpoint for me is for them to do something with it. So having said all that, if you were to give to the listeners, after our conversation, now, if you were to give to the listener, one actionable item, something that they can pick up implement, just now or tomorrow morning, what would you say?

Richard Flint  41:16  
I'll give there's, there's, there's one thing that I would tell people every day of your life, live with a positive presence, that creates presence when you're not present. It that's a that's all about everything we've been talking about. It's about being better. It's about being smarter. It's about being stronger. It's about knowing my fears. It's about being able to answer those questions. Because all of us every day, make a presentation about ourselves to other people. And I would imagine you and your listeners to have had people who have passed through your life who today may not even be alive, but they still talk to you in your head. And their presence still lives in your heart. And the greatest compliment anyone can ever pay to another person is that their presence lives on. And if we can do that, we have fulfilled a big part of why we're here on this earth.

Agi Keramidas  42:27  
Thank you. Richard, before I ask you, where to direct people who want to find out more about you, I would still like to ask you two or three quickfire questions which I always ask my guests. So my first one is what does the term personal development mean to you in a in a phrase? I mean, you've been talking about it throughout the conversation, but in a phrase, what does it mean?

Richard Flint  42:54  
Being better, smarter and stronger today than I was yesterday?

Agi Keramidas  42:59  
Fantastic. And a hypothetical question, if you could go back in time and meet your 18 year old self, what one piece of advice you would give

Richard Flint  43:09  
him. So tell me one more time.

Agi Keramidas  43:12  
If you were to go back in time and meet your 18 year old self, what one piece of advice would you give him

Richard Flint  43:23  
Don't let fear overwhelm me. And I wish I wish I understood that earlier age, the strength of the two foundations, and could have lived stronger on my belief, my trust and my pay, which is my my foundation today. And I stand strong on that.

Agi Keramidas  43:45  
That that came there that concept of the two foundations in the way that you described it his for me stay that's probably the most impactful message that I personally got from everything that you that you said so thank you again for that that made the big sense the way that you said that. And I also found it. The reason why I found it personally intriguing is that you can the moment you realise that you're in the wrong foundation of doubt and worry. All you need to do is know that you're there. Become aware of it I mean, and go to the other side if you have felt the trust and the faith which I think most people or I would like to believe that most people have felt how it feels like to believe in yourself. Then it's a matter of switching deliberately once you once you realise that so that was my if I could pick one point or one key learning out of everything today. That would be true. Thank you. So where do you want to direct people who Want to find out more about Richard Flint?

Richard Flint  45:04  
Well, they can go to my website, which is just simply Richard flint.com. And there's a list again, all the things that we're doing, we're doing a complete series of small group retreats. I'm doing a leadership retreat this weekend, and all my retreats are limited to 15 people. And then in September, we're doing one that people have been begging me to do, and that is controlling your procrastination habit. Because it that is probably the most self limiting behaviour that most people have in their life. And everything we're doing, the mastermind programme will be up there in a few weeks. We do an open mic every Friday morning where I put a question out and people call in and we open the mics and we talk about it. And then a once a month virtual seminar, it's all on Richard glint.com. And I'll say this, if I've created any question, or questions in the minds of any of your listeners, and you'd like to reach out to me and help say, you know, you said this, but I need a little more help. then email me at Richard at Richard flint.com. And I personally, I personally answer every email, no one answers my emails, but me. And I would be happy to hear from them. And any way that I can help them become better, stronger and smarter. I'm committed to helping them and I would I'd be glad to hear from him.

Agi Keramidas  46:33  
It's a thank you for for this commitment that you just expressed and for the the abundance of knowledge and transformational pieces of information and action that you shared with us today. I want to wish you all the very best in your continuing mission to make a difference in that 2% As you said, thank you very much once again, last parting words from you.

Richard Flint  47:07  
Just live every day to live forward. Not in your rearview mirror. Live forward.