The John Demartini Experience

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“Everybody has a billion dollar idea” says John Demartini “and its inline
with their highest values.”

John Demartini is perhaps known to many because of his role in the movie The
Secret, however he has walked his talk for 34 years teaching how to be the person
you can be. A dyslexic told he would never amount to anything, he left school at 14
travelled across the USA to surf the waves of Hawaii where severely affected by
strychnine poisoning he was inspired by health guru Paul Bragg with the mantra “I
am a genius and apply my wisdom.” At the age of 18 john read his first book, the
first of 28,000 volumes, went on to study chiropractic and leave an indelible mark in
this field.

Life was not all plain sailing for the young John Demartini. He guessed his way
through a high school certificate and then a college entrance exam but came face
to face with failure when he received 27% for his first assignment. It was his
mothers certainty and love that reinvigorated his determination and belief that he
could be somebody and every day he learned 30 words from the dictionary, tested
by his mother. This led to his desiring to learn all he could, and an uncle, a professor
from MIT, sent him to containers of books which he read 18 to 20 hours a day.
“There is no loss without gain” “There is no economic crisis but an
economic transformation.”

Economies go through cycles and eventually come back to a mean. This is good,
according to Demartini, as it brings down inflated prices, and just as new growth
springs from the collapse of a huge tree in the forest, the opportunity arises for
those who have managed their wealth well during the hard times and re prepared to
take on challenges.

“It is challenges that make people great” says Demartini and for some the
present uncertainty is a chance at magnificence. Innovators will develop new
technologies to fill the niches formed by the new economy. The reality of the
economy grounds us, and is forcing business people to again find out what the
customer wants.

He predicts “not gloom and doom, but zoom and boom.”

The successful person learns to express his message in terms of the other person’s
value system. The successful employer expresses his message in a way that
matches his staff’s values thus inspiring them to work interdependently. In the same
way, he must connect to the values of his customer if his service will be valued.

“Stress is the inability to adapt to achanging environment.” The giants of the

future will focus on solutions and what can be done for the most people. Everyone
feels satisfaction when they help others experience gratitude and love. By being
grateful for everything we experience we are better able to help others experience
their own joy.

“There is never a lack of money for any one who wants to serve” Think of a
way to serve long term. However he adds the proviso: “If you don’t value yourself
you won’t win.’

Two stories illustrate his point:

John Demartini travelled to give an interview at a radio station. He normally gives

them on the telephone however, this interview promised an audience of 50 million
people so he made an exception. He was surprised to find the interview was in a
warehouse full of wall to wall recordings. For five decades Presidents, business
people and entertainers had been interviewed. There was at least 11 interviews of
Jimi Hendrix alone. Yet at the end of the interview he was asked by the embarrassed
gentleman if he would make a $10 donation to keep the show running.

Here was at least a billion dollars of marketable interviews rotting away. As John
explained to the interviewer, the 11 Little Richard interviews would easily sell for a
$100 copy.

The interviewers value was in information, not in making money.

A woman who was a gifted secretary developed a large network of business
contacts and was often approached to help make connections. Once she realized
her asset her income rose from $47,000 to over 1.5 million within a year.

We all have something within us, according to Demartini yet if money is not in our
top 5 values we will always waste our assets on the other high priorities on our
values list.

“The quality of our life is dependent on asking the right questions.”

It is questions that awaken us to opportunities. The word government comes from

govern – control and ment– mind. Hence, government refers to controlling the
mind. Do I control my own thoughts?

“When the voice and vision on the inside is greater than the forces on the
outside, then you master your world.’

“Its time for me to give myself permission to do something amazing.’

Demartini quotes Foster Hibbard as saying that the number one thing that stops us
is shame and guilt. That is pseudo-altruism.

True altruism is a medium of fair exchange. It is the offering of service and the
combined belief that I am worthy being paid for it.

John Demartini believes there are no disasters, only opportunities. He believes that
in every challenge in life there is something of equal or greater value. He offers as
an example a woman who lost 2.5 million dollars. The woman was going to shortly
retire and leave her husband. The event bought greater unity between the married
couple and forced their children to become more independent. The collective
emotional and spiritual gain added up in her mind as being far more value than the
lost money. Once that realization hit home to her, the dreams she had pushed aside
in life came to the surface and suddenly her new, even more profitable, career
became a reality.

Life is a feedback mechanism to help us see the universe as it really is. For every
negative event search within to gain the insight to find the gain of equal or greater
value than the loss. This requires honest experiential evaluation. A person blinded
by infatuation sees the good only and a victim sees only the bad. With the right
tools, john Demartini argues we can clarify our experience and see the blessing
within the drama as we become truly authentic.

Man has both a spiritual and material quest. That is, knowing what is my service to
the world and knowing that I deserve to be rewarded for that service. John
Demartini encourages people to write a list of reasons why I deserve reward for my
service. He even suggests writing out the negative ideas that come to mind so that
these can be changed into positive affirmations.

He invites us to remember 3 basic social laws and take them to heart:

 1. Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the space and time available

In other words, iof I don’t fill my time with high value activities mt life will fill
with low value distractions,

John Demartini recommends listing every single activity we do -everything –

listing time spent and the reward obtained. Then evaluate your
effectiveness.
2. Pareto's Principle: 20% of our activities get 80% of the results
3. Ricardo’s Law: Specialize in what you love and find people who love to do what you don’t.

Every single person can make a difference. Often it is by inspiring others to follow
our own success. Although the media highlights polarized swings of opinion, the
masters of the new economy remain focused and disciplined in pursuit of their
vision.

To give ourselves permission to be extraordinary we must focus on high value, high

priority activities. They find problems and solve them. People who run away attract
“all kinds of crap” to their lives.

How Do I discover My Passion?

What is it that we will do even if it is [ainful for us? What is it that we want to do
that is congruent with our higher values? If it is not consistent with our values it will
die the death of intense infatuation.

“I can’t wait to get up in the morning to go to my lab to make one more discovery
before I leave this body” said Linus Pauling to John Demartini on the phone.

At a major University Campus some lights were going out around 6:30 PM. It was
explained that was the PHD’s. The professor Emeritus’ turn their lights off around
nine, he was told. Then pointing over further “but those lights will be on way after
midnight – there the Nobel laureates.”

People who have passion don’t work less, but they love the work they do. They
focus on what is possible and not on what is not working. Rather than being held
back by problems we need to walk through the fear and turn on the light.

If we feel stuck we need to ask a new set of questions.

Am I master of my own destiny?

John Demartini recommends writing 1000 reasons to serve, reasons to save money,
invest money and build a fortune.

What is it that so inspires me that I could keep doing it and never retire?

If we develop the passion for our dreams then we can make a difference.
“You can make Piggy Banks into Biggy Banks if you just stick to it.”

By asking evaluative questions of all areas of our lives we can see the possibilities
in ourselves and in others. We need to see reality and honestly appraise our
situation, not exaggerate or minimize our self.

One useful tool is to examine the qualities of people whose success we would
emulate. John Demartini points out that invariably we find that we already have
these characteristics within us, yet we have not clearly seen that they are already a
part of and available within us to use.

By consciously redefining our values we can tap into hidden reserves. If I set goals
congruent with my values I will succeed.

“It takes no time or effort to be at the bottom, but we need an inspiring

vision to reach for the stars.”

“Serve more,

Save more,

Be methodical and consistent.

Build for an eternity”