!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Download Audio/View Show Notes! ! Aaron Kennard: Anil, thank you so much for being here. I'm super excited to have you on the phone today and excited to share everybody... share your wisdom with everybody here on The Truly Amazing Life show. So, how are you today, Anil? Anil Gupta: Amazing. I am very pleased to talk to you and give your listeners amazing content. Aaron Kennard: Good. I am excited to have you. So, Anil has written the book 'Immediate Happiness' which is a best-seller in Amazon and he just gives power pack content on how to find happiness, how to be happy and so obviously he's a very appropriate guest for our show, The Truly Amazing Life show which is also about how to live a truly amazing life and I will just prep it by saying Anil and I met just recently at this really, really cool event called "Awesomeness Fasten". Anil just happened to exude this energy of love and happiness. And it was so... It just had a big effect with everybody around him, including me, and I just... I think you're going to love hearing what Anil has to say. I'm excited actually to dig a little bit more Anil, on some of your story on how you got where you are. In addition to the content that I want to, kind of talk to you about. But I will say to everybody, I already, just in the brief time I've known Anil, he has given me some really valuable pointers on how to increase the happiness in our family, some things that we've done and so I'm just excited to share with you guys Anil right now. So Anil let's just start off, why don't you tell me, what is it about your life that makes it truly amazing right now? EPISOD!E # 18! IMMEDIATE HAPPINESS WITH ANIL GUPTA The Truly Amazing Life Show with Aaron Kennard www.TrulyAmazingLife.com THE TRULY AMAZING LIFE SHOW with Aaron Kennard ! Anil Gupta: The thing that makes it truly amazing is the adversity that I went through. Because I appreciate things more than even when everything was taken away from you, when you're in the verge of suicide and then you can turn it around instead of focusing on me, I just started focusing on serving other people. That every day I get to change every people's lives, every single day. Aaron Kennard: So now... I guess... previously, and I want to get in to that obviously, That's going to be interesting to hear about that adversity. But so today, now, because you've had adversity in the past, you are saying that you are super grateful for what you have and you mentioned the ability to serve others. Is that the main thing that brings you joy and makes life amazing today? Anil Gupta: This is what happens when you have adversity, you become a different man. You become a different person. You show up a different meaning in the world. Your focus has changed. So then you decide what your mission is, what your passion is. Once you start living in mission and passion, all stuff looks great. Beautiful things happen to you and you start serving other people. Once you start focusing on other people, your life completely changes immediately. Aaron Kennard: Got it. I like that. So describe to us what your life feels like right now. What it's like now that you're living this way? Give us more detail about what it is... What it's like to be Anil right now... on a daily basis. Anil Gupta: I'm just... well you know, I was upset this morning and I was upset last night. I mean it doesn't mean I have a perfect life but the levels of joy and fulfilment are enormous. I can just throw myself up just by thinking about my son and my daughter, my wife right now and I get to generate that right now. So if you are able to generate anything you want at will, you can decide on what you want. And I was annoyed about something that happened last night but that's okay because I know I'm not going to live in that world. The Truly Amazing Life Show with Aaron Kennard www.TrulyAmazingLife.com ! But having to overcome that annoyance, I can say 'That was pretty cool.. I was annoyed last night now am not".. But I enjoyed being annoyed because it break up my pattern. So it's where you live, what you live in a world where you're depressed or become poor or do you live in a world full of abundance, joy and love. Aaron Kennard: That's interesting when you would say that you enjoyed being annoyed. That's an interesting perspective, tell me more about why... why you would've enjoyed being annoyed? Anil Gupta: Well because it was an unusual experience for me and it brought me back to the days before I would just get annoyed at everything and I didn't know that I was annoyed like I mean life was affecting me. Now I get to choose where I would run my life. So I was enjoying not being able to handle the situation, I've got like "Ah this is funny..." How am I supposed to do be able to do everything to everybody when I can't do it myself? So I thought "Ah.. this is interesting..." But then I realized that I was holding on to some stuff and that's where I threw awareness at it. Once I realize the awareness wasn't there, I threw some awareness to it. And that allowed me to use the tools that I have. Aaron Kennard: "Threw some awareness at it" that's an interesting phrase here. I don't know if some people have heard... I haven't heard that one much "Threw some awareness at it..." but I like that, I want to hear more about that too. What's that? ! Anil Gupta: Imagine that you're sitting there right now and I said to you "Aaron, I am throwing some awareness at you right now." okay? What are you present to right now? Aaron Kennard: I present to this smiling face of Anil, alright.. right in front of me, talking to me about how to live a truly amazing life. Anil Gupta: Yeah. That's what it does. If you throw that stuff in your face you have to start using it. And it just makes you more present. The Truly Amazing Life Show with Aaron Kennard www.TrulyAmazingLife.com ! Aaron Kennard: Interesting. So, that's cool. I like how you said you enjoyed.. You are able to now... So it sounds like from previously, you just get annoyed all the time and you weren't even aware. It looks like this lack of awareness that you are even annoyed. Now because you are aware that you are being annoyed, you are saying, it's actually kind of comical because you look at it as "Hmmm... That's weird. I'm getting annoyed and it just..." It allows you to break up the pattern and learn more about yourself and get a good kick out of life and discover something new that you maybe didn't see before huh? (06:19 ) Anil Gupta: Right. And it allow me to correct it because I thought I'd handle that but obviously I didn't and there were some issues in my past that came up and I thought "hmmm... that's interesting..." Aaron Kennard: An interesting point on that is, how... that I'd be interesting as we go back in your story is you came to the ability to be able to laugh at getting annoyed like where did that transition point happen and maybe we don't talk about that right now but that's an interesting thought that I have about that and what do you think? Do you think that will come out as we dig into the past as far as what happened in things or do you want to address that? Anil Gupta: It's just this easy, I'm not that important. Aaron Kennard: What do you mean? Anil Gupta: I'm not that important and I ask myself a question 'What's the funny side of this?' See, once you asked that question, you have to answer it. What's great about this situation? What's funny about it? What can I laugh about? [yeah] So, I asked these questions and I thought 'That would be very funny.' ! Aaron Kennard: Ha... Okay. That's good stuff but you were always this. You didn't always feel this way, you didn't always have these tools. The Truly Amazing Life Show with Aaron Kennard www.TrulyAmazingLife.com ! ! So why don't we jump back in to this, tell us what was I mean, you talked about this big adversity and there must have been some big... some transformational story related to that switched gears for you, is that right? Anil Gupta: Correct [inaudible] Aaron Kennard: Take us back. Yeah. But that was after the adversity or through the adversity? Anil Gupta: That was well before. I started what? 12 or 13 years ago. I had a lot of knowledge. [yeah] People think knowledge is power but it is not. Knowledge is in fact powerless unless you implement. So the knowing pattern is wait is knowledge but not doing it makes it more painful. Aaron Kennard: Yeah. That's a good point. Because now you know you're not doing it then you're beating yourself up because you know what to do and you're not even capable of doing it. You feel like a failure, right? That's so... 13 years ago you had been working even with Tony Robbins and something happened between that. Tell me more about your life? Tell us about what... where this transition came that you've figure out how to find this immediate happiness? take us back to his adversity. What got you here to where you are? Anil Gupta: Its... 5 years ago I was investing in stock market. I had millions of dollars invested that lasted long. My savings, reserved funds, children funds... Aaron Kennard: The 2008 thing, it just all got wiped up. Anil Gupta: Yup. I did it before everyone else, you know, I'm like a high achiever. Aaron Kennard: So you did it in 2007 just to make sure you are ahead of the curve? The Truly Amazing Life Show with Aaron Kennard www.TrulyAmazingLife.com ! Anil Gupta: Well I studied then but that was when it hit everything, you know? And I came to Miami and there was this special invite to Teddy Robbins and didn't really want to go because I was surrounded by lots of millionaire. Aaron Kennard: So this is right after you've just lost everything Anil Gupta: Just... During. And it was that week when the final pushed happened. [okay] And I didn't want to be there because everyone else was very successful millionaires, hundred millionaires... Aaron Kennard: At this time in your life though, what was your level of happiness