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Ep.167 - Design Your Next Decade: The Life Blueprint with Zac Deane
What if you could design the next decade of your life with crystal clarity? What would change if you knew exactly where you wanted to be in ten years and had a precise roadmap to get there?
In this profound conversation with visionary entrepreneur Zac Deane, we explore the transformative power of intentional goal setting through his Life Blueprint System. Zac shares how his journey began at just nine years old with his first personal development program, setting the foundation for a lifelong fascination with the power of focused intention.
The heart of our discussion centers on finding balance in the goal-setting process. Many of us swing between rigid planning and complete surrender, never quite finding our rhythm. Zac illuminates a third path that honors both masculine structure and feminine flow, creating a framework for vision while remaining open to divine guidance. As someone who struggled with this very paradox, I found his perspective refreshingly practical and deeply spiritual.
We dive deep into quantum physics, exploring how our focus literally changes reality at a subatomic level. "What we focus on expands," Zac explains, highlighting how our consistent attention toward well-defined goals increases the probability of manifesting those outcomes. This isn't wishful thinking—it's observable science applied to personal development.
Perhaps most compelling is Zac's distinction between worldly desires and spiritual fulfillment. The hustle culture that dominates entrepreneurial circles often creates a bipolar existence of extreme highs and devastating lows. By contrast, focusing on contribution, service, and alignment with deeper values builds a stable foundation for lasting impact.
Whether you're feeling directionless, stuck in old patterns, or simply ready to approach goal setting with renewed intention, this conversation offers practical wisdom for turning your 10-year vision into your 5-year reality. As Carl Jung wisely noted: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
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Hello, ladies and gentlemen. The reason I say that is we have a gentleman on the show today, or a geyser Zach Dean. Zach Dean is someone that I met two years, two and a half, three years ago lifetimes who knows, he's just a really freaking cool guy. You know he's someone who. He's just a really freaking cool guy. You know, he's someone who leads with his heart, very entrepreneurial, and is such a leader of this new paradigm. I remember sitting with you on the beach in Bali, it was, and you were talking about your visions of living off-grid and buying land in Tasmania and crypto and just all this stuff, you know, and I I was like I want to be friends with you and here we are.
Speaker 2:How are you lovely? Thank you for having me. It's been a pleasure to meet you and yeah what an exciting time to be alive so excited for this hello everybody where will we go? Where are we going?
Speaker 1:where are we?
Speaker 1:going well, this is the question. This is the exact question where the fuck are we going? And I, I literally had this meltdown a few weeks ago and I was like where am I going? I'm currently in stoke-on-trent, and what the fuck? And then, literally, as the universe does, the answers appear. You slide into my DMs Kim, would you like to join my free day challenge? And I was like I'm a fuck. Yes to this. By the way, we can swear on this show. It's fine.
Speaker 1:I have been really desiring to create goals, desiring to create goals, and I feel and I'd love you to speak to this, zach is. Previously, I was so goal focused. I kind of thought I was being very masculine, and then the pendulum swung and I'm just going to be feminine and I'm going to allow God to guide me and you know, just see what appears. And then I was in that play, this place of well, actually I'm none of those things are really working for me. How can I merge those two worlds together? And this is where you come in. So please do share more about that and your journey with with where you're at now wow, where do I begin?
Speaker 2:goals, goals, goals goals it reminds me.
Speaker 2:The first thing that comes to mind is the very first personal development program I did was when I was nine years old. My dad was so annoyed that I kept losing my hat. When I went to my friend's place and my friend's houses, he was like I'm not buying you a hat anymore, son. I keep buying you these hats because you keep losing them. I'm going to buy you a personal development program on how to improve your memory. And so it was called Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory Programs cassette tapes, and so, as a nine-year-old kid, I started to learn about the power of the mind and the power of the subconscious mind, and he started saying these amazing affirmations of like I have a mega memory, I recall easily, I remember easily, I have a mega memory. You know, these things have stuck with me for so, so long. And so at a very young age I've been curious to set goals, to past visions, I guess you could say.
Speaker 2:I think one of my very first goals was when I was about eight or nine years old and I wanted a Nintendo Was it a Nintendo or a PlayStation 2? And I didn't have the money because I was at school. So I was like where am I getting money from? I'm getting lunch money every day. I'm going to save my lunch money and not eat any food, and so I was so dedicated. It was such a good saver. I saved up all this money and my mom was wondering why I was so hungry after school. Every day she's like don't you eat? I can't eat the whole house when I go home and I was like, oh, by the way, I've got all this money. Can I buy a Nintendo?
Speaker 2:She's like where did you get all this money from? And so I've always kind of set myself little goals in my own way. But what I was really fascinated by was the challenge that after I went to all these personal development events, at the end of all these events the majority of these events, when I had these conversations with people, they were still lost, they still had no plan and there was still no direction, after they spent so much money on some kind of growth program and they still, at the end, would say, oh, I'm just going to go do another course, and another course, and another course.
Speaker 1:And I was there.
Speaker 2:I was that seminar person just jumping and jumping and jumping and always watching motivational videos, but I never put anything to action. And my favorite quote is like life rewards action. If we don't put any action in, we're not going to be rewarded with whatever that thing is that we're desiring.
Speaker 1:And so we can learn everything.
Speaker 2:And there's a specific moment I had. I was doing a five-month leadership course. It was a psychotherapy course and at the end of this program, after we did this exercise, I was putting my shoes on. I was sitting there in the waiting room, I was hearing this conversation with another two ladies and one of the ladies said to the other lady hey, what's your plan now? We've just done this five-month leadership training. You've put so much energy into it. What's next for you? I'm curious. And the other lady said I have no plan. I have no clarity. I'm just going to go do some more courses.
Speaker 2:I was pulling my hair out going oh my gosh, why did you do this? Why did you start? You know how we start helps how we finish. And so I went home that day and I remember sitting down and I grabbed all my personal development stuff from Tony Robbins and NLP and hypnosis and Kerwin Ray and Zig Ziglar and Brian Trace like all ends of the mega memory program and I put together this document. It was called the self-awareness blueprint and it was leaning on the philosophy to know thyself and to be thyself.
Speaker 2:I think our soul wants to expand and be like why are we here? Because we're stuck in this physical body and life is this incredible paradox where we have the masculine and feminine, there's different ways of setting goals for each and there's this beautiful dance between these polarities. And so I learned through doing this goal, setting this document, I put all these powerful questions and I realized that our focus determines how we feel. Literally, the questions we ask consciously, unconsciously, craft how we see reality. And so I started to ask different questions and each of these pages on this document, which was like 10, 20 pages, had a different question what's my 10-year goal in the eight areas of life?
Speaker 2:What was my?
Speaker 1:one-year goals 90-day goals.
Speaker 2:30-day goals. Weekly goals.
Speaker 2:And it was like what are my values, what are my belief systems, what are my non-negotiables, what are my red flags? It was just this awareness document. What are my non-negotiables? What are my red flags like? It was just this awareness document and from there it's evolved till about a year ago as I started to learn spreadsheets and I started to do it with more people one-on-one. I ran a couple of challenges the last couple of years. I had hundreds of people go through this system and give me a lot of feedback of what worked, what didn't work and eventually, of through meeting my new business partner, asher. He's a neurofeedback scientist and clinician. He brings a lot of neurofeedback into this process and I bring the structure from this document and all these kind of amazing experiences I've had through personal development. We've created the life blueprint system, so it's a way of mapping out what does your next 10 years look like in the eight areas of life, get super crystal clear and then map it back to today, making sure that with the weekly tracker and the daily tracker, that it lines up to our 10-year goals and the reason this became so like.
Speaker 2:It's my belief that from chaos or from pain or from suffering can create a masterpiece. It's like sometimes the catalyst for a masterpiece comes from some kind of pain, and so, as much as the challenging experiences happen in life the trials and tribulations those are crucial to create a higher level of some kind of structure or some kind of art or business or relationship can usually be propelled from that pain. And so what happened to me growing up is I didn't have any focus whatsoever. My second personal development course that I did, we did this breakthrough exercise. We got a piece of wood and we broke through it and it was like what are you breaking through? And I put F-O-C-U-S Because as a kid I had definitely had ADHD and I was jumping around and so I wanted to break through focus. And I still have this wooden plank. It's from Roy McDonald's One Life seminar in Sydney when I was 16 years old. He was teaching about Bob Proctor's work. That was just amazing work. And so the problem that I had around focus and the acronym the acronym that I love around focus is follow one course until successful. Follow one course until successful.
Speaker 2:And so this really landed for me when I'm probably going on a bit of a tangent here, but it was an amazing experience that happened to me, this crazy, challenging experience, which is this is the first time I've probably shared it on a podcast. Is that it's exclusive? It's enough? Don't tell anyone, um. Is that it's exclusive? It's an arc. Don't tell anyone, um. Is that long story short? Long story short is that there was a two and a half month period where there was a massive curveball in the direction of my life and it could be seen as a waste of time or it could be seen as like an incredible gift.
Speaker 2:But, long story short, this experience happened that brought me to an awareness that the people that I was doing it with we had this discussion of like we wouldn't, and it was actually a real life scam. This lady pretended to be from a sovereign wealth fund, an investor with five billion dollars, and she was going to invest in some of the companies I was collaborating and consulting with. Long story short, after two and a half months, and all this running around, crazy amounts of mumbo-jumbo, we found out that she had $2 in her account, she was on Centrelink government payments and she was lying to everyone. She was a crazy influencer, crazy, whatever title you want to put to it, psychopath or narcissistic, you know, wild, uh, manipulator. She did it all and was convincing private bankers at macquarie bank in australia, top lawyer firms in australia, ex-massive CEOs of big companies that were pitching $15 million investments to us. She was able to communicate and get us into these rooms and we had no idea. We didn't do our due diligence. Long story short, she scammed us and lied to all these people and by the end of it we were like that was the weirdest side mission of our lives.
Speaker 2:That was a weird side mission and my friend and I, patrick, said if we had just had clarity of exactly where we wanted to be in 10 years and we knew that with like precision and we knew that what we did today lined up to that we wouldn't have got involved with that experience.
Speaker 2:But what happens is we live in a world with so much uncertainty, so much distraction and so many shiny shiny opportunities that it's easy to get swayed. And this is where, if we had just sat down gosh, you know the philosophy is like. If someone sat you down 10 years ago and got you clear in all the areas of life and held you accountable, privately or in groups, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly for the last 10 years, do you think your life would have been different. I can guarantee you. I can guarantee you would be different, and so that's what we want to do for people now is help people not get swayed and distracted by the quick, fast allures of our society, potentially dark sides of business, with scams and things like that, or we don't want you to get taken on going down a road of wasting time and energy and resources on a path or someone else's vision or someone else's goal. That's not your goal. And so the question is how do you create clarity? Because clarity creates certainty.
Speaker 2:You understand your yes, you understand your no, you have boundaries, you have values, you have a direction and with that certainty, you then have self-leadership when we have self-leadership, we're able to move our lives forward in any direction, and so that's what this program does, and I guess it doesn't even answer your question, your questions around the masculine feminine part of this whole process.
Speaker 2:I think life is a paradox. There's moments of we need focus and there's moments where we just need to let go and just float float in the water and float in the clouds. It's a paradox. We need both and I think that relationship between getting focused and letting go getting focused, letting go is normal and totally natural, and I think it's the relationship between oh, I'm too focused or I'm not letting go enough, or I'm not focused enough, and it's that self-judgment in that dance that causes people to have that pain or suffering or feel like they're not where they're supposed to be. They've got an expectation oh, I should be focused now, I should be letting go, I should be more successful, I should be healthier, I should have letting go, I should be more successful, I should be healthier, I should have this in life, I should have that.
Speaker 2:It's that expectation that I think causes a lot of suffering. And so if, if we've got the polarities of masculine, feminine and goal setting, there's time, it's just good to have a system to come back to, to focus. But once you focus and you got clear, go do some action. You'll get distracted. You'll go do this side mission here, hopefully not to like what we did but come back to our goals and then have time to celebrate and rest, and repair and then get clear again. I think it's a continual journey and a dance wow, podcast complete.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, that's amazing. Um, so much I want to unpack with that um, but I'd love to speak to this piece around faith, because you're a man of god and yeah. So the past couple years I've definitely deepened my connection with you, know God in a different way, and I think I was in a phase where I was like, well, I don't know where I'm going to be in 10 years, because God might guide me somewhere that is unexpected. So what part of it is? How do we know where we want to be in 10 years? Because we're going to be different people. So is there like flexibility with that? Or like, once you've set your vision, you can't, you can't, you can't change it if, if things move it's a good question.
Speaker 2:It's a big question, it's big work and most people you know talk about you know, sometimes in the dating space, as I'm getting back into to dating, it's kind of like you know what's your five-year plan, where do you want to be in five years? And sometimes five years is a long time. So even 12 months is a long time. Now Things can change a lot, but I think what I'm reminded by is, firstly, is the experiment, or the double slit experiment, the quantum experiment?
Speaker 1:Wait, the double slit experiment. Is this something you're doing in your dating life, or is what? What is this? Sorry, I just double slit experiment wow that sounds like a really fun night out wow, wow, this is great.
Speaker 2:So it's a quantum experiment. It's not a dating experiment, let's just and it's an experiment that talks about I'm blushing for sure. So it's a quantum experiment that talks about the saying that what we focus on expands. It's literally an experiment that measures that experience where they were shooting electrons at this wall that had a slit in it, and the electrons, when the experiment was observed by observers, had a certain outcome that was measurable. When the observers left the room and it was not observed, there was a different outcome and what that shows is that our intentional observation of something in stillness, in meditation this is the importance of meditation and stillness, or if we're focusing on, you know, if we are in the dating space.
Speaker 2:We're focusing on the person that we like or desire.
Speaker 2:And the more that we focus on them and think about them and talk about them and move towards and take actions. There's a higher probability it's not guaranteed, but there's a higher probability that that person's going to be magnetized to you yeah, and other people are going to fade away. Or, similarly, if I'm going to be magnetized to you, yeah, and other people are going to fade away. Or similarly, if I'm going to focus on getting a six pack and getting healthy and focusing on healthy food and talking about healthy food, eating healthy food, hanging out with healthy food, people, healthy people, taking action, going to the gym, hanging outside, doing all the healthy habits, there's a higher probability of me getting healthier.
Speaker 2:And so this quantum experiment measures that and it's bizarre Literally the mere observation of our intention and attention on something changes the quantum space. It's not woo-woo, it's science.
Speaker 2:The particles localise and are focused in a specific way, in a measurable way, when we observe it, rather than look it kind of makes sense if we live in this like matrix simulation, this energy amazing grid that we live in, which is so unfathomable, fathomable to our own consciousness, of how intricate and designed this is. You know, to think that this was an accident is just crazy to me. This is total by design, a divine design, beyond our level of comprehension. There must be some kind of laws. There's the laws of the universe, the laws of this matrix, and it makes sense that there's a conservation of energy. There's only so much energy, but energy doesn't destroy it or create it, it's just transferred Like water. When you freeze it, it turns into ice. When the ice melts, it goes into steam and then creates vapor, and there's these different phases of the same thing, the Holy.
Speaker 2:Trinity is this three-phase spiritual process which can be found in, you know, multiple different facets of our physical reality. Um, you know, they say there's three phases of water, but dr jared pollock talks about the fourth phase of water, which is a whole nother topic. But it just shows that there's this, there's this um changing of energy. And so if I'm, if the matrix that we live in is a construct that has energy behind it in some way electromagnetism, you know, it's electricity and it's magnetism. There's this law of how do we boost our own level of magnetism and how do we create in this world there's a way of kind of going deeper than just the surface level. And I think this is the move and the desire for most people to think outside of the physical realms of our life and to think about the spiritual constructs of how this world is really created. And you know whether it's the new age.
Speaker 2:I came from the new age personally. My mom is a total hippie, my first stepdad a yoga teacher at a yoga school, my second stepdad a psychotherapist, all around trauma work. And so I grew up in the new age and I think the new age is great and it's this desire to look for answers outside of the physical. But I think it's just like 1% off and that's just my faith and belief, and I think that 1% of faith, that one percent of where it's slightly off, really can take people down a dark path.
Speaker 2:Um, but this idea that there is this conservation of energy is that when we focus on something, if we're part of the environment, we're part of this in this world, we are part God and we're part connected to the whole thing. When we focus on something, it literally changes it on a quantum level. And so this is coming back to goal setting. If we set goals today, goals this week, next month, this quarter, this year, the next 10 years, it can all line up and there's just a higher probability of it happening. I'm not saying you can guarantee where you're going to be in 10 years, but why not set yourself up for success and allow your inner thoughts and dialogue and identity and actions and community to be in the right lane to set yourself up for success, or a higher probability of success, you know if we want to be depressed and unhappy, um.
Speaker 2:There's a strategy to do that. You know, go. There's a certain way of going that hang out with those people think certain thoughts don't do this, don't don't do that, um. Or if you want to really bring your dreams to life, there's a way of doing that too. And I'm not saying this is there's a perfect way, there's a perfect methodology. It's so individual for everyone. But why not have as much as you can a crystal? Why not have so much clarity, like an artwork? Why not have a painting on your wall every day that you look at? That crafts the lifestyle that you desire, and why not kind of condition that and brainwash ourselves into thinking that? Then what's on social media and the news and things like that? So it's just consciously choosing that direction in that process consciously choosing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because we're always choosing.
Speaker 1:We're choosing where we're at whether we like it or not, you know, and that's a hard thing to face for some people. You know, most people are not taking responsibility for their life and their dreams. And there's something I want to speak to about this because, you know, back in the day, you know, piscean age just kind of coming into Aquarian age, you know, I don't know, there's this energy around like goals and hustle and striving, and I was like going for things and I got the money, I got the car, I got the partner, got the penthouse, got the BMW, all the things, and then I felt empty. And then, of course, the opposite, you know, who am I without all these things? I don't need any of these things. And then you find this kind of inner abundance.
Speaker 1:And so can you speak a bit to this, this, this new evolution of goals? I feel like there's this new evolution because now I'm in a place where I've felt like I've had nothing like all the things that I relied on for validation, safety and self-worth. You know, god removed them from my life so that I could feel provided for by the universe and by creator, and so I feel like I'm now creating from a very different place, from wholeness, from desire versus I need to have that goal because I'm going to feel a certain way by having it. So, yeah, could you speak to this evolution? Because now I'm feeling really excited about setting goals and I know that when we have a vision, that's when life gets exciting and that's where money and life meets us. If we don't have a vision, that's when we go into the hustle, you know. So, yeah, what is this new evolution of goal setting that you feel?
Speaker 1:well or is it new? Is it the same?
Speaker 2:yeah, I don't know I think the philosophy on goal setting it says in the Bible that people perish for a lack of vision and a lack of knowledge, and so I think in our soul in how we've been created. There is a desire to understand or know what this world is. Why are we here? What? Where do we come from? What is what's life about? And I think every ancient civilization even today, where we start talking about it it's just like.
Speaker 1:It's like an inner program.
Speaker 2:So why are we here? What's what's deep? But majority of the time I think, as you mentioned, that hustle culture clouds the program, clouds that inner voice and it's kind of like the noise of the world, these programs that we get from our expectations, from family or social media or movies and things like this around the hustle culture can cloud and the volume's too high on that for most people and it was for me for a long period of time. And so I think, as life evolves and as we experience more of life and as I grow older and wiser you know the ups, I've had amazing ups and I've had amazing downs and I think it's important to. In order to appreciate the ups, I needed to have really low lows. In order to appreciate the lows, I needed to have really low lows. In order to appreciate the lows, I needed to have more of an up.
Speaker 2:And I think there's this kind of wave relationship that happens as entrepreneurs out there, the entrepreneur that's invested in by the investor is not the first entrepreneur off the ranks. It's the person that's failed 5, 10, 15, 20 times because they've had the experience, they've had the knocks down which life will throw at you. It's kind of like getting out of high school and getting into a relationship or starting your first job. You know, eventually, most likely it's not going to be. There's some stories where people find their love, their sweetheart or their lifelong relationship straight away, but the majority of people don't. And they go on dating and they find eventually, because they find out what they don't like and then they find out what they do like. And so the hustle culture is, I think, short-lived, because it really focuses in on the worldly pleasures of life, which might be more ego-focused or more self-centered. As a generalization, wanting that $10,000 a month, yes, I've got it, but it doesn't feel any different.
Speaker 2:It felt great for five minutes but it's not actually what I needed. It's what I wanted, but it's not what I needed. Or you know, I remember having in healy. I made a sixty thousand dollar month and that was cool, but it didn't feel too different to this moment, right here. It was just like oh yeah, some extra money in my bank account you know as I allowed some opportunity and choice and like I felt really excited for like a week or so and then it's like, well, what's the point of that?
Speaker 2:you know the point of that is that what will money bring you? Which is different for everyone. Is it travel, is it family, is it contribution? And so I think the hustle culture is is part of the journey. For someone it's that first job, or it's that first kind of frame of going into business, or that first relationship where it's that first kind of frame of going into business, or that first relationship where you're learning. It just gets you moving and a lot of the time in the world, the worldly pleasures are so alluring and they are part of the lower mind, part of the aspects of society that allow us to have more choice and instant, now, now, now, now, now-ness, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2:But the thing is, and what I've learned over the years and from personal experience, if I chase my physical, the desires of my flesh, they're amazingly pleasure. Some they're super high, highs, it's wildly fun. But typically what goes up must come down, and so when I focus purely on self money, women, power, you know, ego I find it creates a life of chaos. There's just like it's a bipolar life. It's up and down and moving. For me, my experience has been chaos. And if you look at a lot of celebrities and they chase the worldly, the flesh desires, their lives usually end up in chaos or some really horrible, horrible things happen to them.
Speaker 2:But when I've started to change my perspective, focusing on the desires of the spirit, so to speak, kind of how Jesus would live, turn the other cheek, be patient, help one another, ask for forgiveness, be humble, pray like worship God, study the deep philosophy and spiritual philosophy from the Bible, these practices for me have been a test of patience, don't get me wrong. There's less power power, so to speak. There's less money, um, there's less physical pleasure, so to speak. But in that abstinence or in that that space, it's been creating a life. That's.
Speaker 2:That's going towards a masterpiece. It's creating contribution and impact and legacy. That's going to be a life totally worth lived. And the short-term hustle culture type of going towards the fleshly desires, I think was just a phase. I think it's a phase for everyone that people typically need to go through in their own way. But what a lot of the community is seeing is that it's short-lived, it creates chaos really. But if we look at the needs of the spirit and when we sit in that and really study from that place inner, then it creates a life that's of a masterpiece, and so if you think of it as the seven deadly sins.
Speaker 2:that's of a masterpiece, and so if you think of it as the seven deadly sins gluttony, lust, you know, infidelity, like all these seven deadly sins. That's where a lot of society is stuck and I think it's either a soul contract or an individual experience for different people. Some people suffer from addictions or lust or, you know, these different kind of worldly pleasures and if we can transcend that and stand on those problems instead of those problems standing on top of us, then I believe that's where life truly starts, that's where creation and fulfilment truly begins.
Speaker 1:I love that. I love your commitment to your faith. Um, yeah, I think it's beautiful that you know you're, you're using those teachings to really support you and elevate your mission. It's beautiful. And so let's just imagine we're in the live blueprint system, like where do you start with people? Do you get them to dig deep on their why, their values? Where does it even begin?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the first process we run people through? Is this amazing set of questions that extract someone's definite aim. Now reading the book Think and Grow Rich. The first chapter is desire, and it talks about those who are successful have a massive, burning desire, a desire for more, to be more, to give more, to create more and if you don't have desire, then don't even get started right, it's just so important for success in any area.
Speaker 2:But the thing is, the question that I have is how do you turn on the switch for someone's desire? Because if you can turn on that switch for desire, everything else is easier. It's that if someone can be hungry for something, they'll figure it out. They'll figure it out, but if someone doesn't have the desire.
Speaker 2:It's just, you know it's a failure before it even gets started. And so we have this beautiful set of questions that get people to think deep, feel deep with this amazing meditation process to go into that. And then from there, we have this incredible super prompt on AI that we put this amazing super prompt into AI that my business partners crafted through this exclusive like AI course that he's on, that he's in, and then we put the set of questions and the answers into that and AI comes up with this incredible response. And then we edit that, obviously, and tweak that. But the, the language model of AI has been a massive support to bring to life thoughts and ideas or concepts that allow us to. I don't know if you've ever read back something that AI has written and it's like, wow, that's exactly what I was feeling or wanting to say, but I didn't have the words to say it like that. And so we use AI as a language model to help articulate back to us with more specificity and clarity, the words and the experience that we were desiring. And so that's kind of the very, very beginning of the Life Blueprint system is casting out that definite aim.
Speaker 2:We then go into values. I'm a big believer from Dr John Demartini talks about the study of axiology, the study of values and how literally our values run our whole life. They paint a picture of how we see reality. Someone whose highest value is I want to have a baby and I want to have a family is going to see the world in a completely different lens. As to someone who's I want to get a six pack and lose 30 pounds, if that's their highest value, they're going to see the world in a completely different lens and a completely different set of I, of values, um, that allow us to reverse, engineer fulfillment. I think if we could all figure out the one or two things or three things that light us up, if we could figure out those things and just schedule them into our diary every day and do them every day, the world would be a happier, more fulfilled, more, um, uh like like a genuinely uplifted society. But a lot of the time people are in jobs or doing activities or parts of their reality. They just present and bring them down and they forget about their values. They forget about the things that light them up.
Speaker 2:As a kid, I love soccer. You could call me at three in the morning and let's go play soccer, we'll go out. And they forget about their values. They forget about the things that light them up. As a kid I loved soccer. You could call me at three in the morning and let's go play soccer, we'll go out. We'll go play soccer, let's go ride on my bike. I loved riding bikes when I was a young kid or playing computer games. It doesn't matter what time of the day it's, like I'll wake up and I'll do it. But what is that for you? What are those things that you just naturally find energy to do? What are those things that you love talking about, love, learning about, think about, visualize, fantasize, bring to life consistently over your life, and if we get clear on those and schedule them into our diary, you have a fulfilling day Fulfillment can be reverse engineered very, very easily, and so that's kind of where we start.
Speaker 2:And then we go into each of the eight areas of life and we figure out what do you want, why do you want that, who do you need to become in order to bring that to life?
Speaker 2:We then go into 12 month goals and we go okay, this is my 12 month goal in the three main areas. Great, where do we want to be in quarter one, quarter two, quarter three, quarter four of that year in regards to that goal? It's really strategizing every step of the goal-setting process and ideally, that one-year goal, if we project it out to 10 years, will bring us to 10 years. We then go to 90-day goals and we look at okay, where do you want to be in the next 90 days and where do you want to be next month, the month after the month after that, the next 30, 60, 90 days? And then we go 30 days when do you want to be in 30 days?
Speaker 2:And let's create a checklist what are all the things that need to get done to bring that 30-day goal to life? And then, from that checklist, bring it into the weekly neuro focus tracker, and we're going to focus on that just for this week. We're going to tick it off. We're going to figure out how you're going to celebrate when you achieve these goals.
Speaker 2:How are you going to reward yourself? You know, celebrate, go, do something special. What's a mini consequence that if you don't achieve your goals you got to do? Maybe you can't have that glass of wine on the weekend, or mine is, I do 100 burpees don't achieve my goal.
Speaker 1:What is that?
Speaker 2:thing that's going to give you that little bit of pain that's going to keep you moving forward when you don't want to take any action, and who can support you. I'm a big believer that accountability fuels the productivity, and so anytime in business that I've excelled, I'm working with a team, one or more people. Anytime I've improved my health in a short period of time, I've got a trainer or a friend or accountability buddy. Anytime that's you know I've grown in life it's usually because of mentorship. And so what we do on the back of this program is we have a weekly accountability program where we ask you what are your goals this week and how can we support you, how can we hold you accountable this week? And it's going to be different every week, based on people's cycles in life. So how can we support you this week? And then we make sure that what you do today and this week lines up to this month's goal, this quarter, this yearly, this 10-year vision that you have.
Speaker 1:If it's not in alignment.
Speaker 2:Who's going to call you out? We want to be those people to not call you out but to help mirror back to you. Hey, is that really in alignment or is that out of alignment for you? Because I think a lot of people, especially in the entrepreneurial space, they love to be a solo entrepreneur and a lone wolf, because a lone wolf it's great don't take anyone's um, anyone's demands.
Speaker 2:You know I love working by myself. I work really efficiently but I'm proficiently by myself. I don't like anyone telling me what to do, usually typically getting out of a bit, getting out of a job. They're just like I want to be my own boss and no one can tell me what to do, which is really good to a certain level.
Speaker 2:But really those that expand in any area of life. They have a council, like the Knights of the Round Table, around them, a great level of people family, church, community, mentors, coaches, whatever that is around them that reflect parts of themselves and their blind spots that they're not seeing.
Speaker 2:And so, yes, if you're a lone wolf, you can get a lot done, but typically there's even more that you can get done as a result of having a team and having someone see your blind spots, because in a team, I can support your weaknesses and you can support mine, and I can support your strengths and you can support mine, and two can become one plus one can equal a hundred if we work together, and so that's the power of the mastermind. We really bring the power of the mastermind into this process, because doing things in community and in tribe we, we are social beings, we are social creatures, and it's important to lean on that, especially in the goal-setting process. It's super confronting to set goals.
Speaker 2:10 years, I'm going to be 45 years old. How many kids do I want? Where do I want to live? What money do I want? How do I want to feel in my body? My family is going to be this age as well. What's my relationship with them? It's big work, and so to have to do that by yourself is, is, uh, is very confronting. So we like to do it in community's world, to be honest this process is perfect for I think it's.
Speaker 2:I wish the wish. This is the dream, right? This podcast the 4th of august 2025. Where is this process going? We envision this being in schools, out of high school going into the real world as people are getting out of their schooling.
Speaker 1:Where do they want to go? Where do they want to be in?
Speaker 2:10 years. I wish I had this when I left high school. I wish I had this when I left high school. This will be perfect for someone who's maybe an entrepreneur and they want to turn that switch on for desire, increase their level of desire, ability for their goals and their visions.
Speaker 2:This is perfect for someone who's in a relationship or single because getting into the dating space it's so important for me to know exactly what I want Clarity in every area and clarity is sexy, especially in the dating space and I think, or if someone's in union already in partnership, then having awareness together what's your plan for the next 10 years? That's super important. I think this is really great for someone who might be sick, who's in hospital, who's maybe had an operation, who's healing. You know, there's the. They're sick and they're wanting to repair and they're in the hospital and like what do I here? I want to plan the next part of my life.
Speaker 2:After this injury, after this sickness, how do I rebuild myself? So yeah, this process can be used at any age of life. We've got people doing it who are like 17, 16, 17, up to 60 doing this process. So I think it's crucial at every stage of development, any stage of development, and it's kind of like I need to do this myself. Before I really commit to dating properly or finding my wife, I need to really figure out my life blueprint system, because it gives me that clarity and confidence to not waste my time but also not waste anyone else's time and to really honor what it is that I believe is important for me for long term success and happiness and fulfillment, and love and intimacy long term.
Speaker 2:And yeah, if someone's in a business, having that clarity on really what are your skills, what are your advantages in business, how can we hone in on those and focus in on those and build a business around. If you don't clarity on really what are your skills, what are your, what are your advantages in business, how can we hone in on those and focus in on those and build a business around?
Speaker 2:if you don't have a business and you want to create a business. This is the best best place to start, because a business that is aligned to someone's values and skills is vital for success long term so, yeah, I think it's number one and obviously I'm super biased, but you guys will have to try it.
Speaker 1:Prove me wrong and I've tried it. I've tried it, I did, I did the trial and I was like, okay, I love this, um, and the reason why I do love it is, if we are not consciously creating our life, we will subconsciously be living the life by default, and we live in a world where our attention is the most highest commodity. People are trying to grab our attention with hooks, with what's it called Thirst trap, you know, just like photos, get my attention, buy what I'm buying, listen to what I'm saying, and I'm so grateful that I have like a real strong connection to, to myself and and what I want, because when someone is saying something, I'm like, yeah, okay, that's for them, it's not for me. What are the consequences in today's world if people do not get clear on their five, ten year plan?
Speaker 2:Well, I just want to read a quote and this will kind of help me explain my point. And so Carl Jung he talks about until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate, your life and you will call it fate. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will eventually call it fate. And so I think this is where in my life there was so much pain associated to having uncertainty or living in a life that was unfocused. You know whether it was the pain that was in my environment, with family having mental health issues or addictions or suicide in my family, and seeing the pain and suffering for someone's health, for someone's like soul and heart and relationships and love and in business, and the tragedies that happen as a result of people just trying to wing life, wing it, and I was there for so long just going like happy-go-lucky. They say Dr Amen, the brain specialist guy.
Speaker 2:He says the people that are happy-go-lucky, they have like a 10 to 20 year less of life expectancy because they're like oh, don't worry about, I'll just have the extra beer, I don't worry about, I'll just have those extra cigarettes, or just you know whatever, I'll just go get some pharmaceuticals, don't worry about it, I'm just going to stay up late. And you know, it's just these little things that we just think, oh, my body can handle it, and this naivety of like I'm more powerful than you know some people are. But you know, it's this kind of just like wash it aside and not really honour some of these habits that we do every single day, thinking you know the constructs of coffee every day, or lots of coffee, or sugar, or you know a lot of these foods and processed foods and preservatives, being unconscious to those.
Speaker 2:There's so many toxic ingredients in the food these days. Not that coffee's bad, but the mold or the heavy metals and all the crap that's in them. These days, it's just being conscious, being more conscious of what type of coffee are you going to have, where is it from? Has it been tested? What foods are you eating? What are you cooking with at?
Speaker 1:home. Oh, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2:I'm just cooking on this fry pan and this metal thing and it's Teflon. It's got thousands of crazy heavy metals in there that are impacting people's Alzheimer's and dementia these days, and so I think it's important to become conscious, because what is it? Yeah, just being unconscious can eventually lead to pain. I think I just associated being unconscious leads to a lot of pain, and I don't want people to experience pain. God has given me this desire to want to help people like sometimes more than I want to help myself sometimes. So it's beautiful.
Speaker 2:My business partner is the exact same. We have this crazy humanitarian identity and we just really want to make an impact and we work crazy amounts of time, really creating like hours every day, making this system incredible so people can bring their dreams to life, and so, um, it's a process. It's a process they say in the Bible. It's like five generations of trauma gets passed on, and so that's something that's kind of spoken about a lot through the somatic community or a lot of the trauma release experts these days is that there's cellular memory inside of us that we didn't choose.
Speaker 2:You know, we were in our grandmother right with her eggs you know, inside of our mom and like you know, this is with this generational programming and beliefs and experiences and memory stuck in our system and it's such an incredible time to be alive, but we can actually reflect and review and unpack these, these programs that have been there for generations, maybe generational spiritual curses as well. What is going on behind the scenes, behind the veil? We don't know, and so maybe it's the masculine part of it. It's like let's create a plan. If we're going to go and do a road trip from Sydney to Byron Bay or Sydney to somewhere else, I want to put the location in the maps first. I'm not going to go and do a road trip from sydney to byron bay or sydney to somewhere else. I want to put the location in the maps first. I'm not going to start driving. All right, guys, you know, my most important people are in the car with me and we're going for a road trip and I'm driving. I'm the captain. I've got responsibility for the people that I love the most. I'm taking, I'm leading them in a certain direction. Why would I get in the car and not turn the map on and the GPS on? It's like I've got an incredible. It's someone that I love's birthday and I'm inviting them over for dinner or inviting them over to the house. And before they come over to the house.
Speaker 2:I need to clean the house right. I want to make sure the house is perfect and spotless. And then I go and I turn all the lights off in the house, so it's pitch black in the house, and then I start cleaning the house. How can you clean a house with all the lights off? It doesn't make sense. Or you start cooking in the kitchen this beautiful recipe, but you've got no gas or no running water or no cooking utensils, and so I think it's super important to put your coordinates in for your life in your GPS. Turn the lights on in your house in what you're doing day to day. Turn the lights on to the best of your ability so you have that clarity of oh, I'm going to clean this room first, or, if you're going to be cooking an amazing recipe, get the right utensils right, get the best of the best ingredients to bring it to life.
Speaker 2:And so I think the premise of like grandma's cooking, that beautiful recipe that our mum created or dad created or someone that we love created for us. There's love, there's attention, there's intentionality, there's wholesomeness to food, and it's like why not bring that wholesomeness into your life first? How can we give that wholesomeness to others without doing it for ourselves? And so I think the life blueprint system is a is a way of turning your own gps on to the right coordinates, the turning the lights on in your house, or getting the right ingredients for creating your own masterpiece of your life oh beautiful.
Speaker 1:Just see all these lights teetering all around the world. Thank you so much for sharing all of this juice. Now, the question here that is on everyone's lips is how long is this going to take? I've got like five minutes, like what's what. Like realistically, how long would it take to map all of this out for 10 years? And then, what is the commitment in between?
Speaker 2:So, what we did is to get people started. We wanted to build momentum for people. We want people to get out of being in overwhelm, get out of being stressed, get out of being in procrastination mode and just get get moving, get started. And so we created a free program. Well, it's $27, $29. We're about to launch it on Udemy to 40,000 people. I have these old courses that I created, so I've got lots of students on there. We're about to promote it out and we're just looking for some testimonials before we promote it out to everyone.
Speaker 2:And so, if you guys would like the program, it's called NeuroFocus, your five-minute weekly success system, and it allows you, for just with five minutes a day, to plan your daily goals, and it allows you to reflect, do some tick boxes and which, naturally, when we tick things off, it releases dopamine in the brain and we can become addicted to our goals. But it's this spreadsheet on steroids pretty much. It's an amazing spreadsheet. Allows you to get clear on your goal weekly goals, daily goals and then reflect every single week. All went well, what could be done better, what could you delete, what could you delegate and how can you improve for next week. And so this is a process where anyone out there. If you guys want this, maybe we can send the link kim around the If you guys want to download this and experience it. If you get a great experience, please five-star it and give us a great testimonial, and that's something. That's 52 minutes. If you go through all the content, you can master that process in 52 minutes or less.
Speaker 2:And then to go through the actual complete life blueprint system these 12 modules going definite aim and back. It's a meaty process but you could probably do each section in about 30 to 60 minutes. You can do it by yourself. We have the video course online for $4.97. And the video course is presented by my business partner, asher, as I mentioned. He's an incredible facilitator and we walk you through this process step by step by step using the booklet, using the spreadsheets, using the questions, using the AI. The AI is optional, by the way. You don't have to use AI, it just speeds it up and reflects back to you. You know a different way of looking at things, but you don't need to have AI, if you're against.
Speaker 2:AI totally cool.
Speaker 2:It just speeds it up, so that process can take some time, but it's also a work. It's a masterpiece. It takes a while to eat an elephant or it takes a while to clean an elephant. So we have this analogy that we just clean the elephant one step at a time, one stage at a time, kind of thinking about the elephant being the definite aim, being the trunk of the elephant, and there's all these other parts and as we clean the trunk and clean the other parts all the way down to the tail, the tail part is the Neurofocus weekly system, and so everything in between is explained through our online course and online program. We also have an amazing affiliate model. If anyone shares that video course, you get 50% commission as well, and we want to be able to help people get this course for free. Share it with two people and then you can get your course for free or build a cool side income, side hustle.
Speaker 2:There we go, side income on the side there with that as well. And then on the back end of this we have live cohorts. So if you wanted to do this process not in video, but you wanted to do it one-on-one with us, or say you had your family or your inner circle that wants to do this privately you know five to ten people. We also facilitate this on a private basis. Typically we'll do one session a week for three months. So 12 sessions over three months. That's about it, yeah.
Speaker 1:Awesome, yeah, and the reason why I had to get you on is because I went through the five-minute weekly tracker and I felt so good, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. I was like, yes, and it really helped me to focus and it helped me to be on when I was on and off when I was off, and it created so much more peace. You know, because, being self-employed, if there's like time in the day, it's easy for me to go. What can I fill it with? And actually, if I've done what I need to do, I can just go and be and do the things that bring me joy.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it's been really supportive for me and, uh, yeah, I'm definitely going to do the 5-10 year very, very soon. Uh, yeah, I think that's a really important piece. Um, and especially as we're coming up to, you know, the new year as well, it's going to be really, really awesome for many people. Zach dean, thank you so much for sharing your wisdom, your experiments. I would love to know, before we wrap up where, where do you want to be in five years time? Like, where is zach dean in five years time? Question, let me get my blueprint out.
Speaker 2:How long do we have? Get you what get my blueprint now get you bliss, what you call it.
Speaker 1:Okay, I love it um.
Speaker 2:The vision really is to have eco villages around the world that are self-sustaining, that focus on um old world technology, let's put it, and new world technology. To have amazing accommodation for people off the grid where they can grow their own food and have their own community, and to you know, have a system that's outside of our current system, if they like.
Speaker 2:That's. That's the vision, and the idea is that the life blueprint system is in all these different amazing areas around the world whether it's education or health care, or personal development, entrepreneurship and that we have this incredible community that builds where we are more conscious of our goals and we can build a network, a network where I know what your goals are, you know what mine are. We can collaborate and build an ecosystem around helping people achieve their 10-year dreams and vision in five or less. That's really the vision. How do we turn your 10-year vision into a five-year vision or less? And, yeah, in the horizon there'll be family. There'll be incredible philanthropic adventures around the world and I'm currently here in Mexico.
Speaker 2:I've been traveling a year already. I don't miss Australia, but I miss my family. My family is spread all out and, being in network marketing for so long, I've got friends and contacts all around the world. It's been incredible what's been unfolding and, yeah, the first Ecovillages in Tasmania that's already exists. It's building at the moment. The second one's with some friends from Rudy andy and viva rays from he has an incredible blue blocking brand. They have a circadian biology eco village building. It's right on the beach. It's right there and they want to build a farm on the beach.
Speaker 2:That's that's my dream farms on the beach.
Speaker 1:What a better you see, I didn't even know that that is going on my vision board. A farm on the beach, what?
Speaker 2:that's. I was like I want to, I want the farm life, but I love the beach. How can I have both? And then I found out in in january when I, when I first uh got to meet rudy like rudy is is an amazing human being. Um, him and his family are so dedicated to health and wellness. They have an incredible blue blocking brand and I interviewed him originally four years ago on my podcast, and then I got to meet him for the first time six months ago in Mexico.
Speaker 2:And that's where I met Asha, my business partner, and we met and I did the goal setting process. Asha held this amazing reflective piece of this workshop and we thought, hey, let's combine and join forces. But I found out that Rudy's vision is to build these eco communities for circadian living, up with the sun, down with the sun, being in sync with nature, and so that looks like the second eco village to collaborate with them. Not sure where the next one is, probably the maybe in europe, I don't know if you're. If you've got that on your vision board, please reach out. Let's build some eco villages together oh, my goodness, wow.
Speaker 1:I'm definitely inspired and expanded after our conversation and I know my listeners will be too, so I'll make sure I put all the links in the show notes. And um, yeah, I'm looking forward to the day we get to connect in person again, wherever that might be in the show notes. And um, yeah, I'm looking forward to the day we get to connect in person again, wherever that might be in the world.
Speaker 2:Thank you guys, thank you for having me. Thanks everybody.