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Lance: Welcome, welcome to the Lance Wallnau Show. I’m so glad that you’re here and something we talked about in this last. I got to tell you about that final program we did. It hit something because I didn’t realize how profound some of our material was. I was seeking God when we wrote Your Ultimate Life Strategy, and then I was like, we’re talking about our upcoming Dream Trip where people will be dreaming, the dream God gave them, and learning how to manifest it dream in them. And you were born with a purpose for this hour. I don’t care what’s going on or some acidity. Do you are you upset about what’s going on in the world? No, I was born to be exactly the age I’m at doing what I’m doing. God planned my time in history and yours too.

The question is, are you doing what your unique factor dictates? What is a unique factor? It’s the intersection of your unique design, gifts, talents, abilities, age, temperament, nationality, gender, and skin color, all those factors are meticulously woven into the design features of who you are for a purpose when your design has been matured your character, and your gifts come to fruition. The knowledge that God wants you to have matured and that you’re doing what you’re supposed to do. You’re at the place where you have a unique expression, a unique factor, a unique style of what you do, a unique way that you do it, and you have to be around people that can comp that. If they’re not complimenting it, God gives you people developing it. Here’s a big aha. The people in your life that God puts through are adjutants and irritants, and opponents could be the tools God uses to refine your unique development.

With that thought in mind, I have certain people refining my development. They are to the left and right of me. Mercedes Sparks.

Mercedes: Is he talking about me?

Lance: Mercedes Sparks.

Carl: Is he a tool?

Lance: My son Carl is here.

Carl: Hi.

Lance: Some people are there to refine you, and there are people, as I believe in Mercedes and with Carl, who is there to compliment you. They help you get where you’ve got to go. People are sometimes doing both. That’s called married life. Thirty-five years, there are times when I believe my wife is refining and maturing me. I had an exciting broadcast yesterday. My son helped set me up, and the guy interviewing me doesn’t have the highest opinion of women. He didn’t believe that women could teach a man or educate a man, and in my experience, I’ve had times when Annabelle has heard God where I’ve missed God, and she’ll tell me what she’s hearing. And if I don’t listen, I pay the price. I knew, and he’d yell if I started moving from being an alpha male to being a beta, he’d yell beta. And my big fear was he would yell beta at some point, and he did right in the middle of the interview, and I egged him on and said, that sounds beta. Does he go beta? It was, but listen; you need to hear everybody’s voice. Is that not right, Mercedes? Sometimes. Sometimes you need to be heard too.

Mercedes: Sometimes. But I’m my favorite. When you’re doing the interview, he asked, ” Do you think a man should? What did you think a woman should drive a man and you were like and if the man’s told her to drive? Because I’m thinking about you. I’m like; I drive you, Annabelle drives you.

Lance: All the women in my organization’s run by women. Anyway, it’s like yeah, but I still chose them. I picked them for the job.

Mercedes: Yeah, no, you did you. Have you had some great answers? It was enjoyable to see you.

Carl: It’s going to be fun to slice that one up.

Mercedes: Yeah, totally, and if you’re watching on the podcast, you see we switch some things up today, which I feel this is like an actual news anchor type of a setup right now where it’s like, and here’s Carl with sports. It’s hilarious. I like it.

Lance: No, it’s true. This is different today. This is more like we do when we’re doing election coverage because we’re doing with this, and then we got thrown it over to somebody else. But I want to talk about the Dream Trip content because I’m excited about it.

Carl: Yeah.

Lance: We’ve got some notable experts in the medical field. We will discuss how to get rid of the brain fog post-COVID. Whether you got an injection or didn’t, you got to know how to get yourself back on track and get delivered from COVID side effects. Older people, I’m going to show you. We will have experts on this trip to discuss increasing your strength, mental acuity, and focus. You don’t have to fatigue out like old body parts. There’s a way to renew your strength in the internal organs, including your brain function.

Carl: That’s right.

Lance: And we’re looking at some inspiring speakers coming in. But we’re going to cover finances in the midst of shaking, amid bank failure, amid all this digital anxiety about digital currency. Somebody’s making money. It could be you. Why aren’t you the head and not the tail? Why aren’t you above and not beneath? They will tell you your problem is, “My people perish for lack of knowledge .“People don’t know what they don’t know. Dream Trip helps you discover what you need to know to fulfill the dream God gave you. We don’t surrender our lives to the devil. We make the devil serve the purpose of God. That’s what the Bible does. It causes the devil to serve God’s purpose.

Now, moving to a place where you’re in the Flow, the hard part in our diagram is often, as you know, we have your faces in the future, and then, you’re down here trying to catch up. The path to catching up to your face in the future involves a sure thing, and there are several aspects to it: goal clarity, the right mentors, the correct associations, the right plan, and the right team. But even so, you have to manage your own, and really how do you? We Christians use the term a lot. But the secular world also uses it to learn how to flow with the moment and in the spirit. Carl, talk to us about the factors of the Flow phenomena because we will focus on that on our Dream Trip.

Carl: Yeah, sure. I’ll be happy to. So, going, I’ll answer the factor aspect first, then go into the

four stages of the flow cycle. So, you need three primary things for at least micro Flow. The very first thing is clear goals. Okay, that’s the number one thing, like a thumbs up. Clear goals, you know, if you made, you know if you didn’t, it’s clear, and the main thing on that, more so than goals, is clear clarity. You know what needs to happen to fulfill the goal that you set for yourself. So, clear goals are number one. Number two, it’s a lovely little L right here; this reminds me of the XY graph, which I’ll show you in a second. That is, the challenge and skills ratio needs to be balanced, which means that you need to have a skill set that adequately meets the challenge, and ideally, the challenge is slightly above your current skill set. So, it’s going to force you to focus on what you’re doing in real time, and it also will change the objectives based on what your skill set is.

It stretches you and me again; ideally, the idea is that it’s about 4% above your current skill set ability. The third thing is immediate feedback. It is critical to shorten the feedback loop, so you’re getting real-time information knowing that if I push this forward or push it back, it will move in real-time. I won’t push and have to wait for it to set to see if I’ve done anything. Because that type of delay will not give me the feedback that I need to know that what I’m doing is working, those are some of the primary factors that go into Flow. Now, Flow is a four-stage cycle. I will jump onto the whiteboard and show you what those four are. Invariably, the flow cycle starts over here with struggle. This is an incredible Sharpie. This is such a strong Sharpie.

Lance: That’s powerful. You’re not going to struggle with that Sharpie.

Carl: Hey, there we go. Alright. Peanuts. No, I’m just kidding. Alright. After we’ve struggled. This will help us cultivate the neurochemistry necessary to tap into Flow, which is phase three. So, we got to phase 1; stage 1 is a struggle. Stage 2 is released. Now, what is the release? You can take a moment and step away from the process. You can step away from the project. You can step off of the struggle bus. What is that look like? Taking a walk that might be doing a little coffee break, doing a tea break, spending some time in nature, maybe spending some time in the word, meditating, and doing a little bit of light cardio. It will not completely pull you out of where you were but also allow you to engage your body. Because as the body moves, the brain grooves, and that’s what we’re trying to get to.

After you’ve struggled, after you’ve released, and you come back to the project, it’s probably really going to take anywhere from 5 to 25 minutes, but after you’ve struggled and you’ve released, now it’s time to flow. This is the thing that everybody’s focused on, right? Everybody wants to get into Flow, but so few of us are willing to struggle, the necessary struggle to build up the neurochemicals to tap into Flow. A macro flow experience for sure requires a great deal of struggle. Now, what happens after you flow? You have to recover. You have to recover. So, that’s stage four, recovery. Now, it’s been my experience that most peak performers are not interested in recovery. What they want to do is they want to go from high place to high place. This is an excellent little example right here. So, what people want is a high place. They want the mountain top experience. They want the peak experience. They want to avoid going through the valley to get there. So, how do we get to these high places? How do we get to these peak experiences? We have to go from peak through the process, process, process, process, and you need to trust the process.

On the Dream Trip, I will go into some active recovery protocols. I will talk about some shiny objects that could be more helpful. We need to get adequate rest because if we’re ever going to tap into macro Flow, we need to be able to struggle and to work adequately; we need to be well rested. We need to be recovered to tap into that next flow cycle. So, these are the four stages of Flow. It starts with struggle, release, Flow, and recovery. Now, earlier, I mentioned the two. The first was clear goals, and the second was the challenge-to-skill ratio.

Now, I want to show you what that looks like. Beautiful XY graph here; now, we’ll have your skill set on the bottom, okay? So, it will be skilled, and as you go through life, you will continue to accrue more and more skills. So, think of this as like one, two, three. All the different skill sets will help you in your life. On this, the Y axis is the challenge, challenge graph. And if I had more time, I would do a different color gradient here so you can see where it’s a minimal struggle, a little challenge. It’s not that big a deal. What is that lead to? That leads to boredom. So, we’ll have a friendly little flow channel right here. And what is boredom? Boredom is when you are inadequate and need to meet the challenge with the necessary skill set. You have a skill set that’s greater than the challenge at hand. So, you’re just going to be bored. You’re not going to care. You’re going to be numb.

What happens if you have a high challenge, low skill set, and anxiety, right? That’s when you must be adequately prepared for what’s happening. That’s when you need to have the necessary skill set. This is the area for improvement. Now, the space between this little line right here, this, my friends, that’s our flow channel. So, when we have the necessary skill set to meet the fundamental challenge, we flow our way up and out.

Lance: I like that, and this is so powerful. I want to go back to the previous flip chart and color in the four because I think you need to see them with the green and the red. You got that powerful black.

Carl: You want it in different colors?

Lance: No, any color, but you could see it because I don’t think the camera picks it up. What color in the numbers is what I’m thinking? So, the struggle is where your skill ratio wants to be higher than your present ability so that you’re getting whatever that physiological chemical flow is going. Like, oh, this is not boredom. I’m stretching, but I can do it.

Carl: Right.

Lance: Then, it takes 5 to 25 minutes of release. I don’t understand. That’s the part that’s the hardest for me. What are you talking about? 5 to 25 minutes to release what? Stress?

Carl: It’s actually to remove you from the situation. So, you’re in this struggling phase. You’re going to be having these neurochemicals that are constantly popping up. So, some of your stress or cortisol levels are rising because you don’t have the adequate skill set to meet the challenge. So, it would help if you took time away. You need to separate yourself from the situation. You need to take a minute, take a breather, and after you’ve done this release, it will likely take you about 5 to 25 minutes to tap into Flow once you’ve reentered the struggle phase.

Lance: So, suppose I’m Larry Bird playing basketball.

Carl: Sure.

Lance: I’m struggling because I’m up against, you know, a player that’s like a better than me or as good as me. That’s a classic Larry Byrd thing.

Carl: Right.

Lance: So, I’m struggling, but how will I ever get to release in the middle of a game? I’m in, or I’m on a stage, or I’m at the event, I’ve got 8 hours. What do I do? How do I get this thing to work if I’m struggling, and how do I release it to get into my Flow?

Carl: Well, what you do is you add layers of chaos, and you innovate, so that adds additional struggle for other people. But for you, that’s your release. Because you’re stepping out of the struggle as far as where you were, and now your imagination is allowing you to see things, you can tap into Flow. So, that is one of the ways that you do it personally. Regarding the release with Larry Byrd, other people might take a quick breather. And by breather, I mean he might go on the sidelines and get a sip of water, and that’s his recalibration moment. So that way, he’s stepping out of the struggle. He’s no longer on the treadmill, right? He’s taking a step back, and then he can play when he gets back onto the floor. He’s able to tap into Flow. Also, a lot of people, athletes especially. When they’re doing their warm-ups, that’s them doing phase initially. So, they’re going into that struggling phase to build up that neurochemistry, and they go back to the locker room. They have their release, and they get back on the floor. Boom. It’s time to flow.

Lance: Now, and you had a great point about recovery being that if you don’t take the time to recharge, like to renew, you don’t get a rhythm going, then you could burn out going into that struggle. Working on getting in Flow, constantly staying in the struggle, and creating your kind of release mechanisms to calibrate and get into that channel, you can burn out and dissipate your overall strength, right?

Carl: Absolutely, you can, and if you’re not willing to take the necessary steps to recover actively, you cannot adequately struggle the next time. Because you aren’t entirely there. An excellent example for those of you at home is if any of you ever work out and if you do your morning workouts. But you have yet to sleep well; how well will your workout go? Like, yeah, you might be able to get through it, but are you really up for it, or are you just struggling your way through it? You’re doing the necessary steps, not tapping into the microflow and what you have to look forward to the rest of your day. So, you will likely stay in that struggle area because you still need to give yourself adequate recovery or do any release activity. Which low-grade activity itself can be a release matrix.

Lance: Alright, flip over because I want; we’re running out of time. This program is almost over. Now we’re looking at the Dream Trip concept here, which we will be doing. Dates for that Mercedes?

Mercedes: June 20th, 21st, and 22nd in Carlsbad, California. Do you have a link too?

Lance: Yeah.

Mercedes: “Lancewallnau.com/DreamTrip and Carl will also be talking a lot about Flow there and helping you tap into your flow channel.

Lance: Matter of fact, we have an excellent commercial that you filmed out there, and you were in Flow because you had to innovate it, improvise it, film it, and record it. Stuff that takes days to be able to do. You did it with a camera on location. I’m so impressed. You guys, watch The Flow Mercedes commercial on the Dream Trip. Watch this.

Dream Trip Commercial: You know where I am right now? Carlsbad, California. Everybody’s been asking when we are making another Dream Trip. Dream Trip 2023 is happening here, baby, at the Weston. It’s coming up in June of 2023. You are going to want to take advantage of this trip. I want to show you everything this hotel offers, and I hope to see you there. Check out the dates on the screen because you want to take advantage of this.

Come on. Right behind me is a beautiful pool overlooking the mountains. Check out this gym. They have two red mills. They’ve got ellipticals, alright? This isn’t a break. We’re just working on the mind. You can come. Also, work on your body. Outdoor fire pits are a great place to sit and socialize. They’ve got golf right across the street. We want to remember the spa, and again, for those of you with families, right across the Sister Hotel, the Sheridan has a giant water slide for families.

Come on in. We’re going to go through things like your personal history map. What are the things holding you back right now from going to the next level? We look at your gifts, talents, and abilities. We will look at relationships in your life, so it’s a beautiful time to go deeper into the material that Lance teaches during the Dream Trip. Carlsbad has so much to offer as you watch everybody at the beach and the waves roll in. So, ensure you also stay a few extra days and enjoy the locals. That’s a wrap. We showed you the whole hotel. We told you about all the great things Carlsbad has to offer, but the Dream Trip is one of the best things. The relationships you’ll build there, the content you’ll hear from Lance, and the breakthrough you’ll experience. So, join us in Carlsbad at the West End for the first and only Dream Trip. Check the link below; I can’t wait to see you here.

Lance: Wow, and I want to say that I don’t know why we all laugh when we see Mercedes on a bicycle. It’s not.

Carl: It’s the unexpected.

Lance: It’s the unexpected. Humor comedy is all about what you don’t expect. But what’s funny is you’re holding your phone in your hand, but it looks like a latte, and it looks like you’re working out while you’re sipping your Starbucks latte, which is so Mercedes if you know her—sipping a latte while she’s working out.

Mercedes: So, Chelsea and I went out there and filmed that, and I watched a lot of like YouTubers and stuff, and they use their phone as a mic. Let’s see how this sounds. So, I literally spoke all that great audio from my phone, and Chelsea filmed with her camera, and then she just synced them up. I was so impressed with the sound quality. I was like, and we got to do this all the time.

Carl: It is impressive.

Lance: I’m honestly, to be, I’m serious about this. Chelsea and Mercedes Together just created a commercial. Other people pay $100,000 to a company to create a forum. And that’s just like that’s talent.

Mercedes: Well, actually, I still need to submit the bill, but.

Lance: Well.

Carl: Hard cut.

Lance: Now that I think about it, sending you guys to Carlsbad was the bill. So but Carl has done something exciting here. We got 5 minutes left. I want to talk about the challenge to skill thing. This illustration he’s got here. Suppose the cameraman can go to the flip chart where I’m pointing. So, you’ve got that challenge-to-skill ratio, and I leaned over to Mercedes, and I realized that boredom is rather significant and, of course, anxiety; I live in anxiety a lot. Because I love the adrenaline rush of the unknown. I mean, I create chaos. Kim Clement and I noted that the thing we had in common was we loved uncertainty. Because prophetic and interesting things happen in the area, you don’t control them. You discover stuff.

But d a dog sent to him for Jane called Henry, and Henry was an Alsace Lorraine attack dog. $75 000 Manchurian candidate dog, which had a certain German instruction. It would go boom for the jugular when it heard that word. It would leap 15 feet if necessary to attack. I hoped the German word wasn’t gazuntite or something like that. It’s going to be sorry about that. So, I was there when Henry arrived, and Henry was like a velociraptor in Jurassic Park. Remember how in the opening scene with Steven Spielberg, you see the leaves rustling, and they had like a little lamb or a goat tied there, and like the leaves would rustle and then suddenly. So, the box was trembling, and inside was the killer dog Henry, who was there to protect Jane.

It was important that when the door was opened that day that the first face that the dog saw. This is like the psychological training of these dogs; it’s fantastic. He will bond with whoever’s face is there, so the instructors are off to the side. They opened the door, and Kim was distraught because he wanted that dog to respect him. He messed up the dog because he wanted the dog to respect him when he spoke, not just Jane, but the dog wasn’t trained for Kim. It was trained for Jane. That’s why he got the dog. So, the dog bonded with Jane to protect Jane. Now, I get a call. I find out, “Lance. We have a very serious situation”. Henry, I go, “What has happened with Henry?” He’s depressed. How could the dog be depressed? What kind? He goes, “He’s depressed because he’s bored .“He is built for high-tense drama. He’s built like Jason Bourne. He’s programmed to go repelling off of cliffs and stuff. And so the dog is bored, and because it doesn’t have a challenge, it’s depressed. We had to give the dog to it was Senator Mike Kratz’s son, Caleb, and his son was doing rescue work. And repelling off cliffs and going to, you know, disaster sites where planes have crashed and stuff, the dog will go through the rubbage and the wreckage in search of the bodies.

I said, “Well, what happened? He said, “The amazing thing is other dogs were on the backpacks of their owners going over the edge of cliffs to go down, and they were urinating in the packs getting their owners’ backs wet .“Because the dogs were petrified because they were going over, Henry was thrilled finally; he was doing what he was born to do, the challenge. Henry’s like excelled on every danger test and never once lost control because he was programmed for the challenge. So, a human being can be, I imagine, Carl, I guess Mercedes, that if the challenges in your life, if you don’t have the anxiety of being stretched, you could be suffering from needing medication and having depression and feeling like you’re moody. How do I know that it isn’t because of boredom in your life and that you’re not correctly being challenged? Isn’t it possible? I submitted it to both of you. What do you say?

Mercedes: I mean, yeah, everybody’s created with a different purpose, right? So, Henry had a unique sense. You can be bored if you’re not tapping into that God-given design. Absolutely. I would agree with that.

Lance: If you don’t have anxiety, this is weird, Carl. So be anxious for nothing. The Bible says that if you don’t have some level of anxiety, you don’t have some challenge. Is that true?

Carl: I’d say, in part, there are several things to unpack there. One of them is I don’t want to conflate the idea that there are no mental illnesses. So, I don’t want to say that people with depression don’t have an adequate challenge or live in anxiety because I don’t think that’s fair.

Lance: Yeah, the last thing is another challenge like that.

Carl: Yeah, because that’s quite challenging in and of itself. Many people in my generation don’t have critical challenges from outside sources, so we find internal challenges that we want to overcome. That’s also one of the reasons why so many young people are taking on politics because we have these existential perceived external challenges that we’re not getting in our everyday life. So, back hundreds of years ago, we had to go out and forge for our food. We were facing off against the animals that we were going to eat. Some hunters still do, and thank you for that, but nowadays, we have Door Dash, Postmates, and our food delivered to us, and we have different inherent challenges than previous generations. So, we are not developing the skill sets to meet the challenges because we no longer have those challenges. So, as you said, we are now adopting or taking in these challenges that may not have been ours, to begin with.

Lance: Alright, so my takeaway for you folks at home is that being able to get updated on the call of God on the challenge that you have right now, too; if there’s anything that Jesus gives us, it certainly is a life of adventure. I want to make sure you’re living the adventure God has for you and maximizing 100% of the raw material God gave you. But in addition to that, I want you to be able to meet the people where what you carry in you will resonate with what they carry. So, the body comes together in a very mystical and beautiful way that the body comes together, it brings clarity, and pieces come into place. We plan on making a Dream Trip where you’ll likely have divine appointments all over the Dream Trip. It’s one of the things we pray for; they happen. Divine appointments meet the right person at the right time, having the proper conversation because your missing piece is something Jesus will give you through somebody Jesus sends into your life.

A Dream Trip’s a perfect time to meet with other dreamers, find out where the Flow is in your life, and define what it is you need to know, what you need to do, and what the missing pieces are that you need to grab. I want you to go to “Lancewallnau.com/DreamTrip .“No place else; I mean, I do news, I do speaking, I go out, I do events with my friend Mario Murillo, and they’re for me the place where I’m stretched doing those things that this is a 2-day intensive. It’s like being in an incubator. It’s not a one-hour message that I leave. It’s two days and two and a half days of intense marinating in a certain kind of environment. It has a different kind of prophetic anointing, which is why. I want you guys to go to “Lancewallnau.com/DreamTrip” and ensure you’re registered to go. And if you can’t go for some reason, if you’re not going to be able to do it, I’m not going to tell you, you get the same experience watching it. Because you don’t get to meet and interact with the people, and you’re not in the actual environment. But I have plenty of testimonies of people who have said that they’ve been transformed hearing something because I only met Derek Prince once or twice. I never met Kenneth Hagan, but they all left an imprint and impartation through the books they made and the programs they did in the audio I listened to.

So, there’s a way that they can happen but, if possible, get to where you can get laying on of hands on you, and that’s where we’re going to go. Final thought Mercedes before we sign off.

Mercedes: My final thought is that if this resonates with you, it’s time for you to break out of boredom and become a flow rider. I like that.

Lance: A flow rider.

Mercedes: A flow rider. You jump on that Flow. So, Carl will be talking a lot more at the Dream Trip, and you should come and see them and all of us. Like Lance is saying, join the tribe. Jump in.

Lance: Meet the tribe. Join the tribe, and we’ll have a tribal flow ride. “Lancewallnau.com .“Flow ride.

Mercedes: Flow ride.

Lance: Isn’t Flow Ride a new toothpaste? “Lancewallnau.com/DreamTrip. We’re going to see you tomorrow.

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