You’re listening to the Transform Your Life From the Inside Out podcast. This episode is titled Life Wisdom from a Sorcerer, part two. I did an earlier part last week. And in this episode, I want to do what I did in the last episode. And I want to share some tidbits with you that have been shared from dawn of a year to me. I want to keep them really simple. Hopefully you’ll find takeaways in each and every tidbit and you can use the tidbits to start making your life better and to start transforming your life from the inside out. 
 
So if you want to actually learn a few things that will help you as we see all these crazy changes on the planet, keep listening. Hi, I’m Jim Fortin and you’re about to start transforming your life from the inside out with this podcast. I’m widely considered the leader in subconscious transformation and I’ve coached super achievers all around the world for over 25 years. Here, you’re going to find no rah rah motivation and no hype because this podcast is a combination of brain science, 
 
Transformational psychology and ancient wisdom all rolled into one to take your life to levels you’ve never thought possible. If you’re wanting a lot more in life to feel better, to heal, to have peace of mind, to feel powerful and alive and to bring more abundance and prosperity into your life, then this podcast is for you because you’re going to start learning how to master your mind and evolve your consciousness. And when you do that, anything you want then becomes possible. 
 
for you. I’m glad you’re here. Okay. So when I say, okay, I just noticed I feel like Matthew McConaughey and Magic Mike. If you’ve never seen the movie, I’m not saying see it, don’t see it, but he used to always say, all right, all right, all right. So I guess when I was saying, okay, I’m kind of like, hmm, sound like a broken record. Anyway, number one of the life wisdom that he shared. Number one is we are getting more 
 
impact from earth changes. So as you look around that he means more than anything, the physical earth changes. Now you probably recall, I don’t know where you are in the world, but we had the wildfires in California back at the beginning of the year that burned down Pacific Palisades. I lived in Texas for many years. They are still sorting through the wreckage of these quote once in a generation. 
 
floods, the hundred year flood, so to speak, this flood that as of today, think 180 people have been killed or missing. It’s pretty significant numbers. We see these things happening all over the planet. The magnetic poles are shifting, which is affecting humanity, which is affecting consciousness. We see all the wars in the world. We see the chaos in the United States and 
 
He was saying, I’m going to read again the exact phraseology he said, we’re getting more impacted from Earth changes. So I’m talking in this episode about Earth changes and changes just happening to humanity. But where I want to go here, because what he was really saying is, do you let the external world impact you and control you? Do you let the external world 
 
impact you and control you and if you do, to what degree? Because if you do let the external world impact you and control you, what you’re doing is you are using the impact against your own self. You’re using the impact of the fires, of the floods, of Putin, of the pole shift, everything. You’re using these impacts against yourself 
 
and you’re doing it with how you’re managing your thinking, how you’re managing your mind. So what you want to look at, and I would think that a lot of people who listen to the podcast probably don’t listen to the news. And by the way, the news for the most part is not news. CNN to some degree is not news. Fox to a large degree is not news. A lot of it is just propaganda opinion. That’s all that it is. 
 
The news happened back 30 years ago when I was in or 40 years ago when I was in high school, 45 years ago, you watch the news, they tell you what happens. Here’s what it is. And you make up your own opinions about it. Now the news is pretty much entertainment value for either side of the aisle in the United States and many places in the world. But what I want to ask you here is do the events and actions of humanity and the planet affect you? 
 
Do they consume your day? Do they consume your mind? Do they determine your emotions? Because if you’re letting the external world, whether it be natural disaster or whether it be political events or war, the economy, whatever it might be, if you’re letting these impacts from humanity and from the earth impact you, 
 
then literally what you’re doing is you are abandoning yourself to the impacts, which basically you’re giving away all of your seniority, which we talked a little bit about a tiny bit about in the last episode. And then I’ve recently done some episodes on it. You are completely surrendering your authority, your seniority and authority to the impacted world. I’m just going to share right now that is not a power position to live from, play from or 
 
be from. So ask yourself right now, before we move to the next point is, do I let the physical events of the world or the political economic events of the world, do I let them infiltrate my mind and stay in my mind and my being and my consciousness all day long? Because if you do, you’re letting the external world impact 
 
your internal world and that’s when you metaphorically flip your boat upside down. Next one here. I love this one and it’s so simple and I know because well I know you know this or least you think you know this. The podcast is titled Transform Your Life From The Inside Out. Even though I say that most of us we completely miss that. 
 
Even though you’re listening to the podcast, Transform Your Life From the Inside Out, where most people live from is from the outside. And even like the first point that I just talked about, if you’re letting the external world and the actions of other people on the planet affects you, then you’re living, you know, from the external world and all of your power is internal, not external. But what he said was, here is the quote, what is happening to me is first internal, 
 
because all power is internal. Repeat, what is happening to me is first internal because all power is internal. And he went on to say, quote, causes of success or failure are not apart from you. Causes of success and failure are not apart from you. Now he didn’t say not 
 
a part from you or a part of you, a part from you, meaning all of your causes, all these things that happen in your life that you don’t like. Maybe you’re struggling with your bills. Maybe you’re on your third marriage. Maybe you are perpetually ill and you’re sick all the time. Maybe you’re always struggling with money. What we do is we externalize that and say, it’s the economy. It’s Trump. 
 
It’s Biden, it’s the stock market, it’s the commodities market, it’s the bond market, it is Putin, it is the military industrial complex, it is big pharma, all these kinds of things, they’re all external. What we have to recognize is those things don’t have power. They only have the power you give them because all power is first internal. We have to recognize that life does not happen to us 
 
It happens through us. And are we using our internal power? That internal power for the purpose of this episode and for clarity would be, are you living from your seniority? You see what most people do is they live externally. As I mentioned earlier, and I just rattle off a bunch of different things, the bond market, Putin, the commodities market, the stock market, Trump, the economy, big pharma, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 
 
Then what we do is we live externally and then we blame. You see, I mean, that guy in the White House right now is constantly blaming, even though he’s been in office six months. Not my fault. This is Biden’s economy. Biden’s economy. Blame it on Biden. When you blame, that’s victim mentality. And you listening to this podcast, you’re not a victim. You know, I talked about, I talked about a lot of things over the years. 
 
But when I talked about your seniority, you have the power of the universe in you that works through you, which is why I said life doesn’t happen to you. It happens through you. It happens through the consciousness of the universe. But all of this happens as a reflection of your own internal power and how you’re managing yourself and managing your intention. So whatever you have in your external life, health, no health. 
 
Money, no money. Relationships, no money. That all first starts internally, not externally, which is why you probably heard me say before, be do have. You must be before you can do, before you can have. So a little test or a little assignment for you here is survey your own life. How many things are you blaming on externals? My mother does this. 
 
Biden did that year and I’m still suffering because Biden did XYZ. I mean, look at the amount of people that are still suffering because of the Biden, let’s call it an open border policy. That’s what it looked like to me, at least when I saw the news. Okay. I don’t know what it was and wasn’t, but that’s what it looked like. Many people now are saying, well, Biden did this and all the illegals did. Dude, get over it already. 
 
Be in the moment and be present now and work from where you are. Be 100 % responsible for where you are. Own your life and be 100 % responsible of where you are. And if your life is a shit storm, own it. You created it because it came from the internal power within you, not the external power. If your life is amazing and exactly as you want it, own it. That came from inside of you. That came from your internal power, which is your consciousness. 
 
because the only reality is consciousness. remember point number two, what is happening to me is first internal because all power is external. So what I’m telling you is stop looking to the outside for your power. I’ll say it again. Stop looking to the outside for your power. Stop looking to the outside for your money. Stop looking to the outside 
 
for your happiness. Stop looking to the outside for your relationships because your outside is going to mirror your inside. James Allen, who wrote As a Man Thinketh, there’s a little passage in that book he wrote back, I believe the 1860s. Mind is the master power that molds and makes. Man is mind and evermore he takes. He thinks in secret and it comes to pass that his environment is just his looking. 
 
glass. So I’m telling you right now is where you are in life, be a hundred percent responsible for that and recognize like in the Wizard of Oz, when the wizard told Dorothy, the power has been in you all the time. Stop bitching and moaning and groaning and complaining and being fearful about the conditions of the world. The power is in you. Double slit experiment. You can look that up. The power is in you to manufacture your own reality. 
 
Okay, next point. Expansion helps you let go of your worries. Now in the last episode, I talked about and I said that worrying is insecure thinking. So many of us spend so much time worrying and worrying and worrying, but see worrying is not expansion and we are designed to expand. Worrying is contraction. 
 
So the bullet point again verbatim is expansion helps you let go of your worries. So ponder that when I expand, when I grow, I inadvertently become stronger. And as a result of becoming stronger, I then have the power and the ability and the consciousness to put to bed or destroy any worries that I might have. And the example that he went on to use in this conversation was hoarding. 
 
the amount of people that hoard money and all the years that I’ve known him, I’ve watched him manage his money extremely well, but I’ve never seen him hoard money, meaning, my God. And he even said this verbatim one time. He said, I don’t say for a rainy day because if I say for a rainy day, I would be telling you now verbatim, if you hold the mindset, the thought paradigm, 
 
I must save for a rainy day. Now again, your finances are your own responsibility. I’m not telling you what to do, what not to do. Where I work from is let me just see how much money I can make and I want to make a lot and I cracked a lot. The more I make and I crack, the more I can help people and the more that I can literally extend goodwill to all kinds of people all around the world and even animals because I’m an animal lover. But what he said in this conversation was he goes, I don’t hoard. 
 
Because if I hoard, then I’m telling the universe that I don’t trust it. And he goes, I trust the universe 100%. And he said, when you hoard, you don’t expand, you contract. And if you think back, I know I’m going to get this wrong. Jesus and the parable, I think it was the parable, Talents of Gold or something like that. And he gave gold bars, Talents of Gold to, again, I’m going to mess this up. I believe the apostles or 
 
10 dudes and he said here, take this and one, make a multiplier, whatever. candidly, I wasn’t there when it was said, so I don’t know exactly what was said verbatim. But as I understand what several people did is they hoarded the gold, they buried it. And as I understand in the parable and the story, the gold was taken away from them. Why? Because what we hoard literally creates a contraction, not expansion. And expansion is the way to know yourself better. 
 
And when you know yourself better, then you recognize that you don’t have to actually contract. You have the power that like Don Havre is talking about, the power to trust the universe. Why? Because you’re expanded enough to know when you know yourself as soul, you are expanded enough to know that you can trust the universe. And even you listening right now, get this, you listening right now, even though you’re not conscious about it, you trust the universe 100%. 
 
You don’t go to bed. You didn’t go to bed last night and saying I’m perfectly healthy, but universe, I hope I wake up tomorrow. I hope the sun comes up. I hope my heart is beating. I hope I’ve got a pulse. You don’t do any of that because you automatically trust the universe without even knowing you trust the universe. So the key is becoming conscious of this and creating expansion. My sister often calls it and I’ve said before it and STD surrender, trust and do not doubt. 
 
When you surrender and trust and do not doubt, guess what? There’s no need for the worry. The only reason you worry is because you don’t surrender, you don’t trust, and you constantly doubt. That is exactly why you worry. And then when you worry, you create more of what you’re worrying about because what you think about expands. And again, you’re creating more contraction than you are expansion. So your takeaway from this bullet point, I think it’s number three or four. I don’t know. I lost track. 
 
is expansion helps you let go of your worries. And it doesn’t mean expand physically. It doesn’t mean expand your bank account. It doesn’t mean expand your real estate holdings. Expand yourself as a human being. And if you want to expand yourself as a human being, go back and listen to those episodes I recently did on seniority. Learn to know yourself as soul, because when you know yourself as soul, 
 
that creates gigantic expansion for you. Next point and final point of this episode. People seek value in themselves by seeking the approval of others. I know for a lot of you guys, this is going to hit home. People seek value in themselves by seeking the approval of others. So what many of us do is, part of it’s brain based in fairness to you, okay? 
 
You look at Amazon reviews. This is called social proof. You look at Amazon reviews and if you want to buy something, you look at it. If it’s got a lot of bad reviews, you’re looking for the approval of others as to whether or not you should buy this thing. But it’s got a lot of bad reviews and you’re like, uh-oh, no, all these other people don’t approve of it. I’m not going to buy it. But if you see an Amazon product, whatever, with good reviews, now you’ve gotten the approval from other people that, okay, this is a good item to buy. Why? 
 
because I want to make the right decision. I want to make a good choice. So I’m going to read the reviews and what I’m really going to be doing is seeking the, not only the opinion, but the approval of other people before I buy this product or whatever it is, clothing I want to buy off from Amazon. But a question I have for you is if you’re not judged, think about this. If you’re not judged, how would you value yourself differently? 
 
I know for a fact you listening right now and most people are afraid of judgment. I’m going to be fair and say that I don’t think anyone likes judgment. I have gotten pretty thick skinned over the years doing Facebook ads and being called every name under the book. I’ve been judged on YouTube and comments and all this. I’ve done programs for many years. I’ve been in the public eye. I’m judged constantly. So I know I’m going to be judged. Why? Because humans are meaning making machines. I don’t find my value. 
 
and what you think of me negatively or positively. I find my value in, and candidly just sharing with you during this episode, I don’t feel like I’m doing a great job today. I’m rushing, I got a lot of shit to do. I hadn’t even started packing yet and it’s almost like 5 p.m. my time. I got to be up at five in the morning to hit the road and I got a lot to do. I don’t feel like I’m doing a great job on this episode, but you know what? I’m not going to judge myself because where I work from is this. 
 
If I can create some expansion in your life and I can create some value in your life, even if it’s messy when I create it, I still feel good about what I did. So I don’t need people’s approval. Now it helps the algorithms and everything else and all the five star reviews, which thank you very much for that. The approval helps to let me know that I’m on the right track, meaning for the podcast. But when it comes to my own value as a being, I have inherent worth. 
 
an inherent value by virtue of being on the planet. So I am now looking for my value and how many people like me, how many people don’t like me. And I know for a fact, a lot of people don’t like me. I’ve got no problem with that. Why? Because I don’t like some people. And if I don’t like some people, it would stay on the reason some people don’t like me. I get that completely. But think about how your life would be different if you grew up 
 
Let’s say your parents were really judgmental and they were really hard on you. How did you learn to value yourself? Because see, you would seek the approval of your parents. And that’s what this title of this section is. People seek value in themselves by seeking the approval of others. So what if we have mom and dads that don’t approve of us? I had that. And you know what? I didn’t let it affect me. I didn’t have it as a small child. I had it as an adult. 
 
I didn’t let it affect me. Why? This is my life and I got to live my life. Now, I respect my parents. I love my parents, but I’m not looking at my parents to give me my value because if I did, my dad was verbally abusive. My mom was very judgmental. Good people, but obviously they had their own things they’re working on. So, as an adult, which many of you guys are not like this, you might be 40, 50, even 60 years old, 
 
and you find your value to the degree to which you think your parent values you or society or other people value you. You cannot find your value in the approval of other people. So what if, for example, to show you how faulty this strategy is, what if, for example, you’re like, OK, I’m going to let 1,000 people determine my value. 
 
And when 1,000 people say that I’ve done a good thing or they give me a thumbs up, I’m going to be valuable. But now here’s the twist and here’s the caveat. You have to go to a federal penitentiary in the United States and let convicted felons and rapists and child molesters and murders all evaluate you. Now, what if these 1,000 people in prison all gave you the thumbs up? 
 
Would you still find the same approval of these 1000 people that are really a detriment to society? Would you find your value then as long as 1000 people gave you a thumbs up? You cannot find your value in other people. No one can ever help you find your value. The only way you can find your value is to find it in yourself. And the only way you’re going to find it in yourself is back to a couple of episodes ago, seniority. 
 
You have to know that you are inherently valued because you are on the planet, but you’ve learned not to value yourself by a very critical culture, very critical society, very critical school system, bullies at school, school teachers, Catholic nuns, and Catholic schools. You’ve learned not to value yourself from the disapproval of other people. 
 
And that’s a reality being on this planet is other people are going to this disapprove of you all day long. And if you let yourself find your value in the disapproval, you’re not going to value yourself very highly. So if you’d like to listen to my sharing on this and ways you can apply this in your life a little further, you can listen to this in the secret podcast, go to jimfortin.com slash insiders, jimfortin.com slash insiders. Your transformational takeaway here. 
 
is which of the four caught your attention the most? Which of the four do you want to work on the most? Which of the four do you like the most and you want to choose to master? Because as I’ve said before, the world needs you. The world needs us. The world needs me. It needs people like us. And no matter whether people value me or don’t value me, I’m going to continue to help people. Why? Because that’s one of my highest personal values. 
 
And when I work from one of my highest personal values, which means service to other people, I don’t really give a shit what other people think about me.