Reach Your Greatest Version of Self with Jonathan Dunn

Dr. Cliff Fisher: A person's true character is revealed by what he does or she does when no one is watching.

All right, Tribe. We're coming in hot today. Welcome to awaken greatness with Dr. Cliff Fisher. And Jonathan Dunn, brought to you by Dream leader Institute where we awaken greatness. And we give you the tools to find and create your greatest self, and raise the consciousness of the planet. And today, we are diving deep into really creating the greatest version of yourself and leadership because those two things like people are like, Oh, how do I lead, I'm like, You got to lead yourself before you lead other people. So Jonathan done, I am super excited to dive into this topic with you.

This is a very important topic, everyone, maybe even the most important topic we have discussed yet. And right out of the gates, I want to give all of the credit for this lesson. Two, the late and great, Dr. Wayne Dyer, born 1940, passed away in 2015. And we're happy to say a lot of his work lives on through dream leader Institute. But obviously, a recurring theme of most of our podcasts is the idea that you're here to become the greatest version of yourself. And, you know, asking Dr. Cliff here, you know, Dr. Cliff, the whole viewing audience, do you see any downside at all, to being the greatest version of yourself? No downside? Everyone Answers exactly exactly the same way. Because there is no downside. But then recently, myself and another team member at DLA Nathan, we were talking and the question was presented. How will I know when I arrived there? How will I know that I arrived at the greatest version of myself. The fact of the matter is, I'm not sure you will ever know. But what I'm going to teach you today, which I learned from Dr. Wayne Dyer is probably the best indicator of all time. And I'm going to ask Dr. Cliff a question here. And I'm really when I asked Dr. Cliff, I'm asking the whole viewing audience. Dr. Cliff, would you say and feel free to not agree by the way? You know, we never want a bunch of robots here. Would you say the greatest version of you ultimately loves like Jesus 100% 100%. And whatever anyone's faith background is on here. We're totally respectful of that. We're happier here. So in that case, the question to you would be presented with the greatest version of you be loving a lot. We'd sure you'd nod your head. Yes. So here's the drill to know. Dr. Cliff once again, all credit to Dr. Wayne Dyer. If you squeezed a lemon, what would come out of the lemon, lemon juice. Now? How do you know really that that is lemon juice coming out? I don't really know I guess. Now let's go ahead and go to the second one. And this really is freestyle that everyone you know, probably has a little bit of an idea of where it's going. But based on that answer, not complete. We take a line, we cut the line and a half. You squeeze the lime what comes out lime juice. How do you know?

Dr. Cliff Fisher: I think I'm probably making an assumption. That's what's in the lime is lime juice. So that would be how I would know.

I don't disagree, by the way at all. And just like if you had a whole apple pie, and you caught off a slice of the apple pie, and you ask somebody what it is and they go well of course it's an apple pie. And you go How do you know it's an apple pie and you're like well because it came from apple pie and an apple pie labeled on the blocks. We'll of course, now by the way, if any of you are listening to this going where the hell is this going and you're getting annoyed remember this you know You're not the greatest version of yourself because you're getting annoying and you need to know the answer. But we won't spoil the surprise we'll do you know, one or two more fruits here. You're gonna vegan mandarin orange, he had cut her in half, you squeeze it into the glass, what comes out?

Dr. Cliff Fisher: mandarin orange juice?

How do you know? I'm squeezing the mandarin orange. Okay, exactly. So how do you know if you're the greatest version of yourself? Well, many, many, many years ago, I sought out the help of a very wise counselor named John, who was hired to teach me how to be the greatest dad in the world. And in the beginning, and he was a big Wayne Dyer fan. He presented those questions to me. And he had asked me where I came from. And I look, I broke down crying. And I said, I came from a lot of hate. A lot of pain, a lot of turbulence, a lot of unsafety. And sure enough, when I got squeezed, that's exactly what came out of a pain, hurt, uncertainty, and turbulence. And John asked me that day. If a year from now we're talking and I asked you that question again. And you say I came from love? Would there be any downside to that? At all? Let me tell you, I was a very turbulent individual there. And I wanted every reason to tell that guy he was wrong. That's how my mind worked back in those days. I got to prove them wrong. When I couldn't. I said there would be no downside to one year from now. Being able to say I came from a place of love. Because the reality is before this world was so busted up. And two people got together and made love with one another. That the idea was that we did all come from love. And the reality is, as Cliff did say, he believes in loving like Jesus will complete this drill. Do you believe ultimately cliff? Where do you ultimately believe you came from? From Jesus? Right? I believe that to everyone. So do you believe Jesus is synonymous with pure love? Yes. And he is by the way. So for any of you people that ever let the media tell you that Jesus is a dictator, they just don't want you to follow them because they know if you follow them, you wouldn't need them. And that scares people who need power. So if Jesus, you came from Jesus, and Jesus is pure love, Dr. Cliff, would you like to know how you know if you're the greatest version of yourself? Yes, I would. When you're getting squeezed and all of the pressure in the world is placed upon you. That you're like what you came from, and only love is coming out. That is the best possible way to measure how close you are to becoming the greatest version of yourself. Because it's super easy to be loving, when everything is going well and everything's going amazing. It's easy to be loving them. But you know, find out who you really are when you're getting squeezed. So every time you get squeezed, take a deep breath. Believe it or not give some thanks. Because what it is revealing to you is who you really are. Because in our humble estimation, when you're the greatest version of yourself, only love will be emitting from you and all situations. And ultimately, you are like, what you came from whether or not you believe it's God, Jesus, Buddha, any of those things I asked you like John asked me, because at that time I was not up lever. Do you see any downside? To a year from now? Being able to answer the world, I really came from love. No downside, no downside. And really everyone you know, by listening to these podcasts, you know, it's all about you. But we're hoping that is ultimately one of your big takeaways so that when you are getting squeezed, only love comes out. And what a beautiful world that could be in that we live in, when that's where everyone's emitting from.

Dr. Cliff Fisher: I love that time I was looking up some quotes on character, and the two that some of my favorites are characters revealed when pressure is applied. Yep. And then a person's true character is revealed by what he does, or she does when no one is watching

manga, you know, and interestingly enough, I've shared that story with a lot of business owners. And, you know, the ally, we do a lot of work with Chick fil A. And a bunch of the operators, the first thing they do when they go in, is they walk over to where they keep the lemons, you know, put on a glove, or they use the tongs and they grab that lemon and they squeeze it out and show it to the team. No matter what's going on team today when we're getting squeezed. If we have call outs, there's an unhappy customer, let's remember who we are in only let love calm. Oh. And then by the way, if you don't want to waste the lemon juice, and you know, you mix it with some water and slurp it down. Make sure you brush your teeth afterwards, though, because that high dose of you know, lemon juice can be tough on your teeth. Turns out shot a lemon juice every morning. It reminds me of who you are. And it's also really good for your internal organs. Did you know that?

Dr. Cliff Fisher: I did. My wife does it every morning.

Have you ever had kidney stones? Yes, he does.

Dr. Cliff Fisher: Always does warm tea with lemon and ginger freshly graded. And as we always say,

you know, we're here to raise the consciousness and awareness of the planet. We really are here to awaken greatness, if any of these topics you'd like to discuss more deeply, go to our website, book a call, we're not going to get on there like a used car salesman to start trying to sell you something. It's all about having a conversation with you. Never forget that. That's the way we roll. And we'd love to make your acquaintance. I

Dr. Cliff Fisher: think what I just got out of that was when you squeeze TLI True Love comes out. Right? We only want to create Win win wins. We're just we're just talking about that before we jumped on the call. I know that's in my core values. I know that's in Jonathan's DNA. And so really recognizing we're here to support you. We don't raise the consciousness by forcing we raised the consciousness by, you know, being there listening and help you find your way not our way. That's right. So, all right, and I love like Jonathan, you brought it up as far as like, when things go sideways, it's actually our biggest opportunity to, like, have great stories and stuff like that. Because when everything goes good, it's like, oh, cool, no problem. But when things go sideways, it's like, wow, that company raised up, or I raised up to meet that challenge.

That's right. You know, and I was telling Dr. Cliff right before we got on the golden A, one of our clients yesterday was going out of his way to praise us and was so thankful he had met us and he said, you know, kind of embarrassed to admit how I met you. But we were buying a house, my husband and I and I needed him to measure the garage, but he had forgotten the tape measure. I was away. So this was all happening by a phone call. And I'd made sure my truck fit the garage and he didn't have the measuring tape. So we got bad measurements. And when we finally moved to the house, my truck didn't fit in the garage, and I was mad at him and I yelled at him and I was getting squeezed. What about six months later, when a couple of tragedies that happened in my life, and we met our next door neighbors who happen to be clients of DLA and I ended up on a phone call with you. I wouldn't trade that for the world. So meeting you was literally a matter of inches. And what I thought was the end of the world was actually a blessing.

Dr. Cliff Fisher: What is it when if you ever want to make God laugh, just tell them your plan. Tell them you have a plan.

I know I sometimes feel bad about planning because that one's always in the mind but luck you do have to plan but your plans, you know, put you in a position to be closer to God. Absolutely. That's the fine line.

Dr. Cliff Fisher: I think just understanding like being Being flexible in that space and not always having to, you know, cuz I think sometimes we limit ourselves by making our own plans and not listening to God. And I don't think we spend enough time with God or in that spiritual space wherever people are at in that to really like what's inside of us that needs to come out.

No, in fact, everyone you know, one of the little techniques we teach people to deal ally is it's fine to have an agenda. But say a little prayer every time you're with someone and just say, you know, I've got an agenda here, but I want to be open to the highest possible connection with who I'm about to meet. And, you know, Dr. Cliff, and I said that little prayer and Dr. Cliff and I had gotten on this meeting. And just started casually talking with that both being where our minds were at. And that's what led to this topic today. Which is being open to the highest connection, have an agenda, have a plan, but always be open to the highest possible connection, because there's nothing more important than the highest connection 100%

Dr. Cliff Fisher: All right, try. Well, this has been awesome. Jonathan, I appreciate you and your insights, and I love the conversation. And I think it's a great thing like the next year if you just squeeze out love that would be the greatest version of you. So thank you.

That would be a person anyone would want to be around if I said hey, would you rather be around a person who no matter what goes on only love comes out of them? Or do you rather be around that Hollywood star that's always popping around? I think you know which one you'd rather be around and you got it within you to be that you'll love it. Alright, you guys,

Dr. Cliff Fisher: we'll see you next week tribe. Have fun, Jonathan, thank you and love you guys and become the greatest version yourself. It's inside of you. Don't let anybody else dictate who that is and how you get there. Like be true to you and ask more questions inside