05 TPE Part I - Beliefs-converted

The speaker believes that everyone has God-given talents waiting to be realized. He demonstrates this by offering a $100 bill to the audience multiple times, but their limiting beliefs prevent them from taking it. Only one person eventually takes the money by changing their beliefs. The speaker emphasizes the importance of destroying limiting beliefs and creating enabling beliefs for entrepreneurial success. At the end of the presentation, when the speaker offers another $100 bill, everyone rushes to grab it, showing the power of enabling beliefs. Part One. Belief. God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody. I believe that each of us have God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition. Mary Kay Ash. At the start of my presentations, I use the old Jack Canfield demonstration. The one with the $100 bill. It goes something like this. I start out by asking, who here wants to be a multimillionaire? A room full of hands goes up. Who here is a multimillionaire? The hands go down. Who wants to have a positive impact on this world? Hands go up. Who has accomplished it? Hands go down. Who wants to be known for the good they did? Hands up. Who's achieved this? Hands down. After I explain to attendees that these are all inspiring aspirations that are truly unattainable in this one moment, I fish through my pocket and pull out a $100 bill and hold it up. I say, this is something we can all see and talk about. Who wants this $100 bill? All the hands go up. I ask again, who wants the $100 bill? The hands stay up, accompanied by strange looks. The third time I ask, I get the same response. Often it takes four or five times before one person sheepishly gets out of his chair, walks over, and cautiously takes the $100 bill from my hand. The rest of the audience looks stupefied. When the $100 buck guy returns to his seat, we go through an exploration of our beliefs. Even though all raised their hands saying they wanted the money, their beliefs prevented them from taking it. The beliefs are always the same. It's a trick. It's embarrassing. You'll just take it back. Someone else deserves it. These powerful, limiting beliefs keep everyone's butt stuck to the seat, even though each wants the $100. But that one person, maybe out of pure frustration, elected to change his beliefs. I'm going to go for it. What's the worst that can happen? So what if it's a trick? At least it will be over. Maybe I can just take it. Maybe it's not a trick. I'm going for it now. The only thing between the audience and the $100 bill is air. There is nothing else. Yet the forces of their beliefs are so powerful that they are literally immobilized. I wonder how many $100 bills and other opportunities they regularly miss out on because of fear. Imagine yourself at that presentation. I bet you would have raised your hand like everyone else, stating you wanted or planned to be a millionaire. But like everyone else, I bet you wouldn't have grabbed that money from me. If you aren't going to get out of your seat to take a $100 bill, what in the world makes you think that you will do anything to make $100 million? You won't. You can't do anything if you don't have the beliefs to back it up. And don't try to fool yourself and say it will be different when the stakes are higher and that then you would do whatever it takes to make millions. If you can't get yourself to grab the first $100 toward your millions, when it literally is waved in your face, what makes you think you will behave any differently in business? If you're going to succeed, you need to destroy your limiting beliefs and create enabling beliefs. About 45 minutes into my presentation, I do a wrap-up that ties back to the opening demonstration. I tell the attendees I can prove that they all have in fact changed their beliefs. I reach back into my pocket and hold up another $100 bill. Before I can say a word, everyone makes a mad dash toward me, and in an instant, the money is gone. That's the power of an enabling belief. Your entrepreneurial success depends on it. Thank you.