Magic Brownies Will Always Get You High

“Wait a minute Matt, I thought you talk about leadership and being a positive role model and example for others to follow?  What the heck are you doing talking about Magic Colorado Marijuana Brownies**?”

Here is why:  When you eat a magic Colorado brownie, they will always get you high, or so I have been told.  The reason is simple.  These brownies carry the ingredients in their recipe to punch you in the face with THC and get you high as a kite.

In my capacity as a coach, motivational speaker, and public figure, I frequently hear this inquiry or remark: “Matt, all of this leadership and personal development advice is excellent. I continue to put in a lot of effort and follow conventional success principles, yet I continue to see the same outcomes. Why’s this?

Do you ever get this feeling? Why do most individuals buy into the thousands of self-help, straightforward strategies, and roads to success, growth, and prosperity, only to find themselves back where they started a few weeks or months later? The solution is straightforward. These people wish to stop using drugs but still consume magic brownies.

Things don’t change because you still carry the same recipe.  What is your recipe?  Your recipe is what you will produce 100% of the time when the heat gets turned on.  Life happens, there will be adversity, there will be challenge, and there will be storms.  The new self help, simple system and pathway to success feels great and is going well until life happens.  This adversity and heat (I call it a fight) tests your resolve and you find yourself right back where you were.  Does this sound familiar?

If you do not change your recipe, you will always get the same results when the heat gets turned on.  You can plug into a new system, seminar, book, counseling, or advice, but if you keep the same recipe you get the same result.  If your brownies are laced with THC, you get high.  If there is a bunch of salt in there, they taste salty. If you have ever baked you know what I am talking about. When you mix the ingredients for brownies into the bowl stir them, throw them in a pan and into the oven, what do you get every time?

BROWNIES!

“But I want pizza!” people tell me.  “I keep getting crappy results, and I want phenomenal results!”

Then stop mixing up crappy ingredients in your bowl.   Your recipe is the pure result of what you carry in your suitcase.  As you journey through life, love and leadership you have experiences that ultimately define you.  Your suitcase carries two types of items that become your recipe: Baggage and luggage.  Baggage is something that somebody else places on you that defines you.  Baggage can be either empowering or disempowering.  Luggage items are the things that you place on yourself that defines you.  Luggage can also be empowering or disempowering.

Whether or not you realize it, the things you carry as your flag include identification assertions, beliefs, wiring, and behaviors. Your identity is formed by these belongings and pieces of luggage. These qualities will be completely expressed and developed in your life when hardship occurs and the heat is turned up. Keep in mind that one faulty component might completely destroy a batch. The effectiveness of some substances varies greatly.

For instance, you would carry wrath in your recipe if you had a life event that made you furious as a result of whatever someone had done to you in the past. If you want to be happy, studying the most recent self-help, leadership, or growth book won’t help you. If you include anger in your cooking, it will manifest in your life and leadership.

So change the recipe!  Unlock your suitcase and evaluate what you carry and who put it there.  Your suitcase carries the tools, beliefs and wirings you need to be the ultra strong, confident, caring, loving, leading warrior version of yourself.  If anything in there is holding you back form that, eliminate it!   Feel free to download the Plant Your Flag workbook where I discuss unpacking your suitcase, luggage and baggage and exactly how to change your recipe.

Here is a video of a speaking engagement I did recently discussing this concept.

I would love your comments about this concept, and would love to hear your experience if you ever ate magic brownies, as I never have.  Go make it a wonderful life, Plant Your Flag, live, love and lead like a Warrior!

**Disclaimer: In no way am I suggesting, promoting or encouraging the consumption of magic Colorado funny brownies by eating, drinking, smoking, or any other way you can get a Rocky Mountain High**

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