How to Tap Into the Potential You Never Knew You Had

“We often have these emotional guns holding us up. I feel this almost every day…” April 27, 2021 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( | [WEBSITE]( [Altucher Confidential] [Warning] Do you enjoy receiving Altucher Confidential? Please [Click Here Now]( so we know to continue sending you Altucher Confidential for free! “We often have these emotional guns holding us up. I feel this almost every day…” [hero image] How to Tap Into the Potential You Never Knew You Had By James Altucher [Barry Micheal Podcast Banner]( [>>INCOMING MESSAGE FROM JAMES ALTUCHER]( [attention please notice clear background]( you know Coronavirus could have very little to do with these crazy up and down markets? And the reason your retirement account could go down to zero? I’ve been warning readers about the REAL CAUSE behind this… [I explain everything in my video—you can click the image above to play it…]( [(Watch my short video now, before it’s taken down THURSDAY AT 9:30 AM)]( “Give me all your money,” he says. My heart starts racing. I’ll puke soon. I’ve never been physically robbed. But I’ve had another kind of gun to my head… I think we all have. I’ll give an example: It’s Friday afternoon. Your boss or someone who has some power over you calls. He leaves a message and says, “I think we need to talk. Call me back.” It’s 4:59 p.m. One minute before freedom. You call back. But there’s no answer. And now you have to wait. That’s when my palms sweat. And I panic. That’s just ONE out of a million examples. I bet you can come up with your own real life examples. We all can. Because in life, we have these “emotional guns” holding us up. I feel this almost everyday. So I consulted an expert. Barry Michels. He’s the coauthor (with Phil Stutz) of “Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression & Unleash Your Soul’s Potential.” Their tools help me understand my reactions, my dreams, my disappointments. And in this interview, Barry taught me what’s really in the subconscious mind. And how you can tap into the potential you never knew you had. Here’s what he taught me: 1. Do Something Different “Change happens in the present,” Barry said. “In other words, no matter how well you understand how you got to be the way you are now, you have to do something different.” I feel like this quote is a prelude. It’s the last supporting statement before you decide whether you’ll use these tools or listen to this podcast. I learned a lot from Barry. But I think this is the most important… to be willing to do something new. 2. You’re a Mixed Bag (All Humans Are) Being emotional is scary. But Barry said it doesn’t have to be. “You’re never just one thing,” he said. “If you feel rage, you’re not just rage.” You’re not just this one emotion. You’re a mixed bag. Think about this way. There’s a part of you that is aware of the rage (or stress or sadness or hurt). So that means, in that moment, you are one part awareness and one part rage. You’re split. Which means you don’t have to be as stuck as you feel. External Advertisement [“IMPERIUM”: The #1 Investment of the 2020s]( [blueprint of a device in blue]( the technology behind this [odd-looking machine]( really be the most transformative innovation in history? Experts are screaming “YES”! Elon Musk calls it “amazing…” A former Apple CEO says “[it will] have a far bigger impact on humanity than the Internet”… While a Harvard Ph.D. says it will “[surpass] the space, atomic, and electronic revolutions in its significance.” It’s a technology I call “Imperium.” [And it’s about to spark the biggest investment mega trend in history … with one small Silicon Valley company at the center of it all. Want the details? Then click here now…]( 3. Remember the Future “Can I tell you a personal story?” Barry asked. “Sure,” I said. “This is sort of ridiculously personal, but my mother was an extraordinarily difficult person. In psychiatry, they would diagnose her as having borderline personality disorder, which meant she had wide mood swings. When I went off to college, she really felt abandoned. And she would go through these swings where she would call me and she would leave a message on my machine and rage at me.” He told me about the series of messages she’d leave. It was stressful. He’s in college. He didn’t leave out of anger. He left for education. That’s really hard on anyone at any age. But he was young. She’d call a second and third and fourth time. Slowly, she’d calm down. Eventually, she’d show she loved him again. She’d be crying. And apologizing. “I know I’ve been really bad,” she said. “I need to talk to you. I’m so sorry” The cycle kept repeating. Day after day. And he had no control over it. “One time, I kept the whole series of messages. And I replayed them to myself.” “Why?” Why’d you replay the messages?” “To remind myself that the first enraged message, which used to make me terrified and also enraged back, would evolve into something else and we were going to have a good relationship after this. And that it was all going to be OK.” That’s all I ever want when I feel anxious. I want to be reminded that it’s going to be okay. Barry had this. The cycle was sad. But he knew it’d come undone. “You don’t need to get trapped in what’s happening in the present if you can keep the perspective that the future is going to have many, many more present moments that are a lot more sanguine than this one.” I asked Barry why Phil and he wrote this book. “We try to restore the sense of mystery to the human psyche,” he said. “In other words what we’re really trying to get our readers to consider is that there are deep, deep parts of you that you’re not conscious of that may seem like problems, but there actually resources that you’ve never tapped into before.” The emotional guns will keep coming. That’s part of life. But I think that with Barry’s tools from his book and the podcast, the gun will be less loaded. Or I’ll become more bullet proof. I’m happy with either one. Sincerely, [James Altucher] James Altucher A warning from history for all Americans [history is a vast black and white text]( living through a crisis so damaging that the trash piles up in the streets because no one will collect it… …where the dead go unburied because no one will bury them… …where the government mandates a reduced “three day working week” to save energy… …where people are told to brush their teeth in the dark… can’t drive faster than 50mph to save gas… and are told to share baths to conserve water… If you think this is some fictional account of an economic collapse, you’re wrong. It happened in living memory in one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world. According to one of America’s top analysts, who publicly called the 2008 crash, America is on the verge of making the exact same mistake – and suffering a similar fate. [Get the full story here.]( Subsribe To My Podcast [The James Altucher Show]( [The James Altucher Website]( [Subscribe Via Text]( [Subscribe With YouTube]( [Subscribe On Messenger]( [Subscribe With iTunes]( [Connected on LinkedIn]( Add AltucherConfidential@email.threefounderspublishing.com to your address book: [Whitelist Us]( Join the conversation! Follow me on social media: [Facebook Group]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Instagram]( [Three founders Publishing]( To end your Altucher Confidential e-mail subscription and associated external offers sent from Altucher Confidential, feel free to [click here](. If you are having trouble receiving your Altucher Confidential subscription, you can ensure its arrival in your mailbox by [whitelisting Altucher Confidential](. Altucher Confidential is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Please read [our Privacy Statement.]( For any further comments or concerns please email us at AltucherConfidential@threefounderspublishing.com. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized financial advice. Although our employees may answer your general customer service questions, they are not licensed under securities laws to address your particular investment situation. No communication by our employees to you should be deemed as personalized financial advice. We expressly forbid our writers from having a financial interest in any security recommended to our readers. All of our employees and agents must wait 24 hours after online publication or 72 hours after the mailing of a printed-only publication prior to following an initial recommendation. Any investments recommended in this letter should be made only after consulting with your investment advisor and only after reviewing the prospectus or financial statements of the company. © 2021 Three Founders Publishing, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright laws of the United States and international treaties. This newsletter may only be used pursuant to the subscription agreement and any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including on the world wide web), in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Three Founders Publishing, LLC. EMAIL REFERENCE ID: 430ALCED01