Mind Development and Resilience With Allan Roberts: Lessons From 65 Years of Learning

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Grand Connection Podcast, where we explore grand growth through

connection, learning, and collaboration. Have you ever

been told you weren't capable of something and wondered how

different your life might be if you stopped believing it? Today,

we're exploring mind development and what 65 years of studying,

teaching, and practicing mindset can teach us about navigating

challenges, changing limiting beliefs, and continuing to move

forward. My guest today is Alan Roberts, and he's a mindset

master coach, speaker, author, mentor, and who has spent more

than 65 years studying and developing the power of mindset.

His mission today is to help young people discover their

potential, develop their inner strengths, and their dreams and

goals. Alan has certainly had to put his own mindset teachings

into practice through major personal, financial, and health

challenges, Including homelessness, and eventually

losing most of his sight, he continued to adapt, learn, and

move forward. Now 81, I think that's what it is now. Alan is

passionate about mentoring the next generation, supporting

charitable causes, and continuing to set some pretty

ambitious goals of his own, he's also a founding member of the

Grand Connection, and I had the pleasure of meeting Alan in

person a couple of years ago in the UK. His philosophy sums up

today's conversation beautifully: you may change

direction, you may slow down, but never give up. Alan, welcome

to the Grand Connection podcast.

Thank you, and it's my pleasure to be here.

Oh, it's my pleasure to have you here. We've

been planning this for a long time, Alan. So I want to start

where this all began. As a child, you fell behind in school

and were told you were, in your words, too stupid to learn. Then

your sisters help you discover that wasn't true and completely

changed the direction of your life. So, what did they help you

understand about your mind and your ability to learn at that

time?

Well, my my parents had taught me to read, write, and do

basic maths by time I was five years old and went to school,

but I had that encouragement when I went to school. The there

wasn't encouragement. They use you know it's a carrot and a

whip. Well, my parents use a carrot, the school use a whip.

It was alien to me, and I couldn't learn under those that

situation, so I started falling behind every time I made a

mistake. I got punished. I just couldn't do it, and I left

school at 15 with an education of less than a 10-year-old, and

I'd been told I was just too stupid to learn. Now my sisters

recognize what happened. They told me I wasn't too stupid. It

was only the school system, and so I had to believe what they

told me. So basically, they put me on a four-week program. They

told me to set myself a goal, which normally I couldn't have

achieved. I had to commit to to putting all my effort in to

achieve it. I had to believe I would I would achieve it. I was

capable of doing it, and I had to put in my very best effort.

Now, in today's language, that is goal setting, commitment,

belief, and excellence. Now, I had to journal every week what I

was doing, and every night I had to read my journal. That's for

four solid weeks.

So, how old were you then?

Um, I would have just turned 16.

Okay, so they were really inspirational in a good

part of your life, where it was very developmental.

I'd have been lost without them.

Ah, this experience that you had working

with them eventually led into what you call mind development.

Well, it had such an effect on me that I went from

expecting a life of menial jobs to high tech. I thought my my

plan at the time was to be a road sweeper because I thought,

well, I can re I can sweep a road, and that was my ambition,

but once they told me I was capable of doing things, and I

realized I was capable because I achieved that particular goal, I

thought, well, I can achieve more, and so I switched from

looking for a menial job to a high tech job, and I moved into

radio and television. It had such an effect on me that I

thought my next goal is not to achieve the technical training

and and get through it, but actually to become the top

student, and so that was my next goal, and I achieved top student

week after week, month after month, and year after year, and

got back what I call my yearning for learning, and I wanted more.

Oh, and that's what you're now trying to

inspire with young adults and youth in the world today.

Well, that's right because it had such an effect on

me. You know, you get excited about something, you want to

tell everybody, and I immediately started telling

fellow students and trying to put it across to them, and I

continued doing that alongside my engineering career for the

last 65 years.

Oh wow! And you've written a lot of books too,

haven't you? Along the way,

having lost my eyesight, you know this is where I was an

offline mindset, an offline business coach, and I lost my

eyesight all in space of less than 20 minutes. I went from

driving my car to being completely blind in in 20

minutes. So I had to change direction. I couldn't continue

being a business coach. I couldn't get to the clients. So

that was a change of direction. So I thought, well, what can I

do? And I thought, well, I started to get in World National

Institute for the Blind talking books, and one came through, and

it was asking for volunteers. Well, I listened to it, and

everything was for sighted people to go out and help the

blind people. But there was one thing I thought: well, nothing

to stop me, and that was public speaking to raise money for the

talking books. And I thought, well, there's nothing to stop me

doing that. And he said, you know, tell them this

information, and then add your own your own situation. What

what happened? So that's what I did, and that's where I took up

public speaking, and I expanded that and expanded it. I

introduced public speaking to my local high school, and I started

joining a local community. I became a town councilor. I

became a trustee for Age UK. I became a trustee for a local

community center. I started contacting carers because

carers, you know, care for the parents, the spouses, the

children, friends, neighbors, and relatives, but nobody cares

about the carer. So I started contacting the carers and

supporting them, and I did that for 15 years until I became, you

know, every week until I became ill myself. Now I also

volunteered at the Museum of Ancient Buildings one day a

week, and I started mentoring children that fall behind at

school because of bullying and abuse. So I kept myself really

busy, but I still needed a personal challenge. And when you

can't see to read or write, I thought, well, a good challenge

would be to write a book, so I went to Sight Concern. They

taught me to touch type. They taught me software for the

blind, so I could get back onto my computer, and I just started

typing. And I wrote a personal development book, and it's this

one here in fight.

There it is. Okay.

Both up.

Yeah.

Don't let the world pass you by.

Don't let the world pass you by. Okay.

I wrote that and two novels, and I had those both

published, or all three of them published in 2015. So. I

thought, well, I've done something, and then in 2016, I

had surgery on both eyes, which has given me enough sight to get

myself around, but it is extremely bad sight. So, you

know, I'm happy. I can move around. I'm independent Again

now, but I put the book onto my computer. I've got a pretty big

screen here, so I was able to read my book. And when you

listening to a book, you don't know the spelling. You don't

know. You don't always pick up the punctuation and things like

that, and I discovered that the publishers hadn't edited it at

all. Everything was wrong. I was listening and expecting my own

words, and I missed all the mistakes. It's only when I was

trying to read it with very large font, I was able to

identify it hadn't been edited. So in 2019, I had this book

republished. I kind of edited it myself, and then in 2021, I had

one of my novels, The Great Bank Heist Mystery. I had that

republished, but this year I thought, well, yeah, I've I've

been overwhelmed in a way because I've spent most of the

last 11 months either in or visiting daily the hospital, so

I I haven't been able to get onto the meetings and things

like that. So I focused on two things. One was writing the next

book, which was rumbling wreck to recognition, the professional

speaker's handbook. So I had that published in February, and

now next month I hope my life story will be published. And

I've already got 50,000 words for my next book already

written. I'm hoping I can get that done before Christmas. And

the other thing I focused on, I've been mentoring two young

girls, two young sisters in India, and I'd already started

mentoring them every week. So I focused on that, and I sent them

a new task week after week after week, regardless of the

problems, I kept on going, and we're into week some 60 odd

something now. But that's what I focused on because I knew I

could keep going and do those things.

Well, it really shows your goal setting, and for

everyone listening, Alan, you've been very sick. It's not just a

little sick. What's what's going on in your world? Well, I lost

my eyesight

originally because of diabetes, and that affects your

legs. So you don't get that link between the brain and the feet

to keep your balance, so I had to start using a walking stick

26 years ago, and it wasn't diagnosed originally. So I went

from my first symptoms to actually being diagnosed was 14

years, so that diabetes was able to get a really grip of me

before the doctor understood what the problem was. So, you

know, that's why I lost my eyesight. And then, I've always

been a keep tick fanatic, so I was training down at the gym a

couple of years ago, and I collapsed, and that was

diagnosed with a heart problem. So I've now got a heart monitor

implant in my chest. It monitors my heart 24 hours a day, keeps a

hospital up to date with what state I'm in, and then 11 months

ago, I had major problems with my back. I was in absolute

agony. It was kidney failure. Rushed into hospital, diagnosed

with bone marrow cancer, and so I've been on dialysis, which has

just stripped me of all my fat and my muscles, so I hadn't got

the strength to stand up. I didn't even have the strength in

my arms to to hold to wash my hair or comb my hair even, and

I've been reduced to a wheelchair over the last few

weeks. I've built enough strength just to kind of hold

myself up, so I'm now just trying to start walking. But

after 11 months, but basically I'm still stuck in a wheelchair

anytime I go outside. But I am making progress, and I know that

a few months, and I will be walking. The medical staff say

it's going to take me 12 months, but my life story will be at a

London book fair in March. So I want to be up and walking so

that I'm totally independent, so I can get down to the London

book first of all, and promote my own book.

Well, you are a testament to mindset and making

those goals and having that run and you know build your life.

It's it's amazing, and you're an inspiration to all of us in the

community when we see what you've been through and how you

still always have a smile on your face, you show up at the

meetings on Zoom and you are mentoring these two young women,

as well as working on getting out your 65 years of wisdom and

mindset over in your in your upcoming book. Now, where did

all of this come from like you you you you started off with

your sisters. Is there anything else like you have a lot of

books in your in your room right now? I can see them behind you.

I know you said there's a full wall. You've obviously done a

lot of reading through your life, and you've learned from

your sisters. Are there any other people in your world that

have helped inspire you too?

Other people aimed. I come across them all the time. I

once I got back that yearning for learning, I wanted to learn

everything. So it didn't matter what the subject was. I would

find information on it and learn. So, in the last 20 years

now, I've collected all of these books: 1000 on personal

interest, and here behind me, another 1000 on personal

development, and 220 plus specifically on how the mind

works. Now, I was without a computer for nine days a few

weeks ago, and instead of just sitting and twiddling my thumbs,

I thought, well, you know what can I do? So, although I can't

pick up a book and physically read it, I have a digital

reader. I put a book in front of the reader, press a button, and

the reader will read the book to me. So I thought, well, let's

make progress. So I simply picked a book from random, and

the book happened to be Secrets of Super Achievers. I put it in

front of the the reader. I can't read my own writing, but if I've

written it and I follow it up fairly soon afterwards, I can

figure out odd words and then I put them all together. So I

started just listening to the book, and I know you can't see,

but

you got some notes there. You've been writing notes

down.

Yeah, I'm writing those down. Which once the computer's

well, once the computer is back up and running, I can put those

on there and add to my overall knowledge. So I've read some of

these books 20 years ago, so it's a reminder. And I thought,

oh yeah, I've forgotten about that. So I put it into then

maybe the next task for the two girls or something like that. So

I'm always on the go. Now, a lot of mind development people say

it takes time to put into your subconscious. It doesn't. It can

be put into your subconscious in an instant. Now, 63 years, or as

a teenager, I used to attend a church youth club, and 63 years

ago, I was going down into the basement where the club was

held, and one of the other members approached me, and he

said, "Had I heard that J.F. Kennedy, your president or U.S.

president, had been shot and killed? Now that's 63 years ago.

Any time I hear of J.F. Kennedy, I automatically think of the

church and the youth club. There, any time I think of the

church or the youth club, I think of J.F. Kennedy. It was

put into my subconscious, and you know instantly, and it's

been there for 63 years, so it doesn't take time to train your

subconscious. But when I'm mentoring the two girls, I send

them the task. I tell them the benefits. I always include a

short personal story, and then I give them the steps to take,

questions, and I get them to journal about that that that

particular task, and then to read it every night for seven

days, but then to read the entire journal every month. Now

this is giving them time to put it into their subconscious, and

over a period of time that builds up, and they will get

similar mind to what I've got, which is always driving me

forward, I've always got a new project on the go. Something

new. I think, well, I can make progress with something there. I

can help somebody here. Whatever it is, you know, my brain is

always several steps ahead of me. I'm not pretty slow

nowadays, but those projects are there because my brain is saying

I can achieve this, I can achieve that, I can do something

else, I can do all these things, and nothing stops me.

Well, and you met those two girls at the Grand

Connection, didn't you?

I did indeed. Yes.

And how long have you been working with them?

Well, it must be like close to 18 months since they

came onto one of the subgroups, and I was so impressed that a 13

and a 15-year-old would come onto that subgroup. It could

have been coaching or something like that. I can't remember the

group. I thought, well, I would love to mentor them. They're

already switched on, so

they love learning. Yeah.

So I contacted them, and I said I would love to mentor

you. I said, talk to your parents, ask them if it's all

right, and if they agree, I will mentor you. And they came back.

Yeah, they'd love to be mentored, so I started sending

them initially things to help them learn because I've done

learning techniques and all sorts of things during my

career. So I started with them on a relatively low basis,

getting them to learn, understand how to learn. Most

students spend weeks studying and studying and studying, and

then they come to the exams and they fail because they haven't

learned how to learn. So I teach them these learning techniques.

Literally, in a couple of evenings, you can learn all all

sorts of things. But I I started with that, and then I've gone

various different directions, getting their mind To operate,

yeah, to think in different directions. This morning, I sent

them a very simple task, which is mistakes. Now, how many

people make mistakes? They make a mistake and they think, "Oh,

I'll move on, and they forget about it. Sometimes it is a

costly mistake, and they might think, "Oh, I will learn not to

do that again. But otherwise, they just switch off those

mistakes. Every mistake you ever make, you should analyze what

caused you to make the mistake? Have you a habit of making

mistakes? Is it something in your background that causes you

to move that direction? Is it distractions, or were you in a

hurry? Were you cutting corners? And all of these things add up.

Now, once you learn all those different reasons and you

analyze all the mistakes you've made, then your brain will

automatically identify these things when you're working in

the future, and you won't make those mistakes. And it's a way,

you know, it's a step forward, step to improve your overall

performance.

That that's interesting. In our self mastery

program, the neuroscience one that we run, you know, we learn

this what we call meta awareness, and by having that,

you're getting them to have meta awareness of the mistakes. So

analyze the mistakes and and not just the the mistake which is

the action but what was the what led up to that mistake so you

get that awareness oh I start to do these things when I'm rushing

or I do these things when I'm extra stressed or if I'm tired

and you may notice it and then you can start once you have meta

awareness you can make change to change that,

that's right. Yeah, the

underlying cause. Yeah, that's that's great. What

what other ones? What what did you start off with them? Like

you must have started off. You said with some easier tasks at

the beginning.

Well, I think the first real task was awareness.

Okay, so that's just what we're talking about.

That's what we learned pretty early on too. Is is developing

the skill of having that awareness,

but it's not just your awareness of what's around you

and things like that. I normally would use a mobility scooter,

and in England, I can do eight miles an hour on the road, and I

can do four miles an hour on the footpath. Now, on the footpath,

most people just slaughter along, and they're doing one to

two miles an hour. They're switched onto the telephone.

They're not aware of the surroundings. I come up behind

them, and it's a quiet scooter. But normally, you would hear me

coming. I blow the horn. I shout at them. I can't get to them

because they're totally oblivious to what's going on

around them, and it takes time to get through to them. Now, a

lot of them are women carrying a bag of shopping, and the purses

and the handbags are on the top. And it's so easy for somebody to

come up behind them, pick up the purse or the handbag. That woman

gets home and she thinks, "Where have I put my handbag? Where

have I put my purse? Totally oblivious to the surroundings,

and I see people parking cars, and they struggle backwards and

forwards trying to maneuver into a parking space. But if they

should, if they look into a shop window, they can see a

reflection of the entire car. They can identify how close they

are to the car behind, because some of them stop maybe six feet

short of the car behind because they can't tell how far away

they are. But it's observing themselves in a shop window

reflection. Well,

most cars now have a lovely camera in there, and

you can know where you are, and it gives you gives you the most

fun job. But back in the day when I learned to drive, that

didn't exist, and I had to learn to parallel park, and it was

quite a challenge to get that awareness. And then, if you

change cars, the car's bigger, right? It's it's got different

different the bumpers in a different place. You really have

to learn that awareness with your car too. So you're teaching

them, I guess, more of the mind awareness, right?

Well, it is general awareness. How many times? Well,

I've I've come across this personally. A woman with all her

shopping went into a car park, dug out her keys, bleeped the

car to unlock it, totally oblivious to who and was around

her. As soon as she unlocked the car, a man grabbed the keys,

pushed her over, ran it, jumped in the car, and drove off. She

was totally oblivious to what was around her. She wasn't, you

know, it's her own safety. But you know, these are things of of

awareness, and there's a whole range of them. So, you know

that's where I started, and so yeah, I I jump from one to

another to get their minds active. So yeah,

yeah, and you how many are there? There's 60 that

you've given them so far, and how many how many? I guess

you'll just keep adding to this list, right?

Well, I've identified 153 things to about the mindset that

I can send them tasks on so far, but occasionally I suddenly

think, ah, maybe we can do something in that direction. So

occasionally I will add that extra one, but at the moment I'm

on 163, so there's a long way to go yet.

Is it? Are these going to be in your wisdom book?

The ones that I achieve before it's printed will,

because I've got to delve into the others and. Create the

program that task. So I haven't done that yet, but I will be

working on each of those to create the task. And once the

tasks are complete, then they can go into the book.

And I know I was looking through your list. I

like the curiosity one. Have you given them a task on curiosity?

That was a fairly early one, yeah, and yeah, because

most people just don't investigate things. So have a

curious mind, and something you don't, you know. Something

instead of just picking something up and think, "Oh

yeah, that's a lot, pick it up and find out what it is. My, you

know, I, I'm an engineer, and because I'm an engineer, I pick

up something that normally other people would throw away, and I

say to myself, what can I create out of this rather than throw it

away? Now I might spend a week playing about with it, changing

it, cutting it up, whatever. I may not achieve anything, but

sometimes I achieve something which I think great. I've I've

developed my own mind a little bit more, developed my

engineering skills because I've created something, and it's all

because of that curiosity. What can I do with this rather than

just throw it away? So yeah, it's.

And I noticed you also had rest and relaxation on

this list. So, for someone as driven as you, why did that make

the list? I don't think you get enough rest, Alan. I, I'm always

telling you to go to bed.

For the last 50 years, I've slept two and a half to

three hours per night, I've never slept more than that per

night. I try to rest, but my mind is on the next task. So

I've learned to go without the sleep. But occasionally, I think

to myself, I would need to have a sit down and rest for half an

hour. I may not, you know, sleep for half an hour, but I'll rest.

And I just think I need the upbrake, and then I'll come back

to my computer and carry on working. I work normally 18

hours on my computer. It does create a strain on my eyes, so

that's really when I need a rest. But other than that, you

know, I'm on the go all the time, and so I understand for

other people they will need more rest, and they need to relax. So

I make a point of mentioning it to other people because I know

what will happen if they don't rest and relax.

Well, we all need rest, and you probably learned

how to take sort of short rests that that reinvigorate yourself,

right? Bring back some energy when you need it. Yeah, yeah. So

you've done that. You've been mentoring these two girls, and

have they helped you learn anything during this process?

Well, to

be honest, when they replied to me, I thought I'd

made a mistake. I thought I should be learning from them

because they were so positive and you know really switched on.

But

yes, I've learned a little bit more patience, a

little bit more understanding of you know how they work. After 65

years, they have become my top students, and they I learn from

them because the way they write is different, and and it's just

little things I learn simply because they are from India and

they do different things. You know, they're different culture,

so I'm constantly learning. I've when I became ill, their parents

are both natural medicine doctors. I don't know what the

term is, and and when they heard I got cancer, they sent me a

package from India of natural medicine to help me get better

because basically they want me to continue mentoring their

daughters because they see the value in the mentor. So you

know, I thought, well, there can't be a better compliment

than that. So yeah, I just I learn little things all the

time. Just you know, the the different culture, different

things. Well, yes, I'm always learning.

Well, and it also gives you it's inspiring too,

because I know that once you're doing working with somebody, and

this is how I am with a podcast: is I'm always listening, and oh,

that would be a good podcast interview. Oh, that book! I

should cover that book in my podcast, and then it it it

motivates me to learn a little bit more about that topic, so I

can prepare for the podcast. And you're doing that to prepare for

your lessons with these with these women, waffling between

women and girls because they're young ladies, they're teenagers

still, both of them, right?

One's now turned 14, the others turned 16.

Okay, so young ladies. So I think that's a

beautiful relationship, and it's lovely that you met them at the

Grand Connection because that's what we're all about-is finding

ways for people to connect, create, and collaborate. What

I'm curious about now-you've had 65 years of teaching mind

development. What are you still learning about your own mind?

We've talked a little bit about what the girls are teaching you,

but as you go through this, are you learning anything now that's

helping you understand your own self?

My mind now controls me. I never stop learning, but my

mind drives me forward, and I never stop and twiddle my

thumbs. I'm always doing something. I've always got the

projects on the go. I I want to learn more, so if I, you know, I

I can't get out at the moment. I I need one of my daughters to

push me in the wheelchair to get out. But when I'm out normally,

and I go past all the what you call junk shops or secondhand

shops, and I'll look at the books. And if there's something

there, I think I can learn from. I'll pick up that book, and I'll

buy it, and I'll bring it home, and I'll read it because I want

to continue learning. It doesn't matter the subject when I When I

did my first year of my sitting gills in radio and television, I

got a certificate at the end of the year, and it didn't say

past. It just said top student, maximum marks, and I'd never

achieved anything like that in my life before, and so I treated

that certificate like gold. And each year, I got another

certificate, and that was more gold, and another one, and

another one. And I then wanted I got this back my yearning for

learning, and I wanted a higher level of education, and that's

why I joined the army, because in the army I could get a degree

and an even higher level of technical training. Now the army

is ideal for going on other courses. There's always courses

you can go on, and so I did six years in the regular army and 20

years in the reserve or the territorial army. That's 26

years of military service, giving me absolutely every

opportunity to go on course after course after course. So

over my lifetime, I've actually received over 300 certificates

and qualifications, which has given me an exceptionally wide

range of information. And when I need it, I will try and recall

it or enough information to move on and possibly create a

conversation or something like that. But all of those, you

know, has driven me forward. Nowadays, on the internet, you

might do a course, but there's no certificates anymore. But it

doesn't matter. The certificate isn't what's important. is only

a piece of paper. The information you receive is

what's important. It broadens your horizons. It broadens your

knowledge and everything. So I never ever stop learning.

Yeah. Oh, that's a great skill to be inspiring in

young youth today. I know when I was my kids were young, I tried

to create an atmosphere where life learning was part of what

they wanted in their world too. And at the Grand Connection, we

call it Grand Learning. And I find that a lot of the people in

our community love learning. And that's why we're here. We learn

from each other. We keep moving forward. We share ideas. We

share books. We're doing. We're writing it in books. We're

reading each other's books, and we can all level up our our

learning together. It's fun. I'd like to just sort of end with

something practical. If someone listening here has had a setback

or is wondering whether they have another attempt left in

them. What would you tell them?

It doesn't matter what's happened in your life. Yesterday

no longer exists. It's nothing more than a memory. So you saw

it today and say, "I've got a problem. Let's see how I can

work through it. If you spend all your time saying, "Oh, I've

lost this, I've done this, and it's bad and whatever, you won't

make progress. You're living in the past, so you have to live in

the present day. Say, "I've got this problem. How can I solve

it? And that's where you should be starting solving any problems

that you've got at that particular time. But don't live

in the past because, well, you won't make any progress, and

you'll just go backwards.

Oh, ruminating on the past is a waste of energy. I

love that. I love Mondays. Actually, that's kind of weird

to say because a lot of people don't like Monday. But you know,

you have this week. The last week might have been a tough

week, right? But you have the weekend. You kind of refresh. I

always do a brain dump on the weekend to get reorganized for

the start of the new week, and it's a fresh week. I don't have

to worry. Let's say we didn't have enough people show up at

our big event, and I'm feeling bad about that for our speakers

on Monday. I'm starting fresh. It's a brand new, brand new day,

brand new week, new ideas with a fresh positive attitude. And I

guess you're learning that positive attitude a little bit

from Karen and Sharon, the two girls that you mentor.

That's right. But you're saying Monday, and I'm saying

every day.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. New day. Yeah, yeah. No, I'm

working on it. I find that mindset is a practice, and when

I talk to people like yourself, it always moves me up and

motivates me to to think a little bit more clearly about

how I'm using my mind to create my future. So, what's one final

practice that you think that people can work on this week?

Now, you talked about waking up every day. It's a new, fresh

day. Forget about the past. What's one other thing that we

can work on for the week? Give us a task.

I have got what I call my A to G, right, and so that is

awareness, belief, commitment, discipline, excellence, focus,

and goals. Now you may do them in a different order, but if you

can practice that seven tasks and keep those tasks in your

mind all the time and work on them, you'll improve your life.

Now, I've always aimed for excellence, so if you aim for

excellence in everything you do; it will change your life. But if

you set goals, then you have to commit to achieving them. You

have to focus on what you're doing to get to your goal. So

you have to be aware. You have to believe you can do it. You

know you commit and all of those things. So remember my A to G

awareness, belief, commitment, discipline, excellence, focus,

and goals.

Okay, and I'm going to put those in the show

notes so you guys can look back and and check it out and and

follow them and write it. Put them right on your post-it and

stick it up on the wall in front of you, so you can remember it

and think about it every day. Alan, thank you for sharing your

wisdom and these lessons that you've learned over 65 years of

mind development. I will be buying your book. I'm on the

list already. I hope for the wisdom one because I just can't

wait to get all of this wisdom in one book. I love it. One of

my biggest takeaways today is that never giving up doesn't

mean doing things the same way. We can adapt, change direction,

keep learning, and keep taking that next meaningful step. If

our listeners would like to connect with you or learn more

about your work. Where's the best place to reach you?

I get too many emails to be able to identify them all. I

I struggle with emails. I'm getting 200 a day, and I can't

cope with them. So. Direct message me on LinkedIn. If you

want to connect with me on LinkedIn, I can do that. I

always check LinkedIn every day. I always answer all the messages

on LinkedIn. So I haven't got my contact. That's okay.

We will put the LinkedIn link in the show notes,

and Alan Roberts is spelled A L L A N, and then Roberts R O B E

R T S. And for everybody that's listening today, don't forget to

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links to all of our gifts in the show notes. And I'm going to

just leave you with this today: maybe the lesson isn't simply

never give up. It's knowing that you can slow down, change

direction, ask for help, and still keep moving towards what

matters. Thank you all for joining us today. Thank you,

Alan, for joining us. I'm so grateful for your time. And

until next time, let's connect, create, collaborate.

Thank you.