The Inside Track (Peter Sage)
About This Episode:
In this episode, Lance Edwards’ guest is Peter Sage. Mr. Sage is a motivational speaker, serial entrepreneur, philosopher, teacher and bestselling author of several books, including The Inside Track: An Inspirational Guide to Conquering Adversity, a collection of private letters that he sent to his elite coaching groups throughout his 6-month prison sentence for being found in contempt of court for a civil matter.
Tune in as Mr. Sage will discuss his bestselling book, The Inside Track: An Inspirational Guide to Conquering Adversity.
Guest Speaker: Peter Sage
Peter Sage is the founder of a number of multi-million dollar companies, including The Energie Fitness Group, World Wide Health Corporation, Space Energy and Sage Business School. He is renowned for his expertise in analyzing human behavior, self-mastery and strategy and therapeutic intervention. Peter is also the recipient of Brand Laureate Award for extraordinary individuals and has been recognized as one of the greatest leaders by Inspiring Leadership Now.
As a professional, he is a professional inspirational speaker and has been a six times TEDx speaker. Sage has shared the stage with celebrities including Kofi Anan, Sir Richard Branson, President Bill Clinton and others.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Peter is a self-made entrepreneur who dropped out of school at 16 and shortly thereafter launched his first business, selling toys at flea markets. By 25, he was running several international companies. Believing that “school taught you how to work for somebody you didn’t like, in a job that didn’t pay you enough,” he threw himself into a lifetime of personal growth study and implementation.
- When achieving material success at a young age proved unfulfilling, he realized there was a difference between a life chasing success and a life chasing fulfillment. His passion ever since has been trying to understand human behavior so that he could be both successful and fulfilled.
- Skills are externally sourced knowledge. So if you’re chasing knowledge mastery without addressing the inner workings of self-mastery, you’re only going to find different ways of earning the same amount of money. Your inner game has to be on point. Peter’s philosophy is: “Mindset plus skill equals jet set.” But without the mindset, most people are just chasing the skill set that they’re not going to find. Everything revolves around successfully mastering one’s relationship to important things in their life.
- Though never accused of an actual crime, Peter received a six month sentence for being found in contempt of court while fighting a civil action with a multi-billion dollar company over business deals. He became the only civil, non-criminal prisoner in the most violent jail in the UK. He lost his business, relationship, everything. This was four years ago. He came out a third of a million dollars in legal debt.
- His goal is to teach people the process he went through so they can apply it to whatever their version of jail is – a business going down, divorce, loss of a loved one, etc. One of the key aspects is identity. “How we see ourselves governs our behavior,” he says. He learned a lot about the importance of identity while working with Tony Robbins for 15 years as one of his most experienced trainers.
- Peter believes that “questions are the steering wheel of the mind. Questions direct focus.” He asked himself, what’s the most empowering identity he could choose under the circumstance of his imprisonment? His answer: “I’m going in as a secret agent of change. I’m an undercover Jedi.” He turned it into an exciting adventure – writing in the first chapter/letter of his book that he was on location for six months filming the prison scene of his movie.
- Another key philosophy: “What makes you a superhero is the size of the super villain you face. That’s what defines you.” He sees us all as starring in the movies of our life. So if he’s fortunate enough to be able to choose the final line in the last scene of his movie, he wants it to be spectacular – a movie he would pay to watch again!
- Stemming from eleven hard hitting, inspirational letters he wrote to students while incarcerated, Sage’s book The Inside Track is part journal, part how to manual. His students encouraged him to publish it because they felt it imparted more wisdom than the previous two years he had spent onstage.
- Peter admits that his own situations may not correlate perfectly to someone doing a real estate deal, but his experience and advice can impact things like the levels of emotion an investor experiences and that person’s ability to handle rejection. A lot of a person’s inner workings have to do with understanding the difference between biological maturity and emotional maturity, which is a choice
- Peter says, “Most people are afraid of rejection because especially when it comes to real estate deals, they don’t understand the difference between concept rejection and personal rejection.”
- Another gem: “Everyone’s running around in this bubble of self-importance wondering what is everyone thinking of me and my bubble of self-importance? Which they’re not because they’re walking around in their own bubble of self-importance, thinking, what’s everybody else think of me and my bubble of self-importance? And when we realize that the illusion around that is, we’ve spent most of our life adapting ourselves and our behaviors and making excuses to avoid scenarios, confrontations, situations, scenarios where we could possibly be judged, rejected or what have you. We’re not even being authentic. We have so much potential to be able to give, but we limit ourselves because we think that everyone’s judging as the star of our movie.”
- And: “The primary fear we all have is that we’re not enough and thus won’t be loved. So we will unconsciously do almost anything to avoid that, including making up excuses. So we will unconsciously do almost anything to avoid that, including making excuses. We’re always looking for skills to replace certainty. Best to shift to a global believe that you live in a friendly universe and there are no mistakes – only lessons you’re looking to learn and you have to learn the lessons.”
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