TFPP 041: Peter Sage- How to stop chasing the Rabbit & build true Wealth

April 18, 2016 By Jiro Taylor Leave a Comment “Wealth is the perception of abundance. Poverty is nothing more than the perception of scarcity”. – Peter Sage I’m honoured to present this episode of the Flowstate Performance podcast, with Peter Sage. Never have I met someone who fits his name so well- Peter is incredibly wise. At the start of the interview I asked Peter how he wanted to be introduced. Some guests are very particular about this. They want me to mention the buzz words, or make clear they are a successful entrepreneur or they once shared a stage with Tony Robbins or similar. Not Peter. Even though he has done more than most in his life, has built many businesses, achieved feats of endurance, done amazing philanthropic work, written books, spent years working closely with Tony Robbins… he asked not to be labelled, not to be put on a pedestal, not to be introduced with grandiosity. So I won’t list his achievements. “So what do you stand for?”, I asked him. “I’m a teacher… I’m here to reveal greatness in others.” “Most people” Peter continued, “go through life as this beautiful shining diamond, layered with dirt and mud and masks.. and finally your Linkedin profile. There is such a lack of authenticity, because people are scared to be real”. (Listen in to find out exactly why this is, and exactly how to change this.) Peter lived this. “I left school at 16, started my first business at 17.. and really it was a scream for validation.” He put in 120 hour weeks, set up business after business. He ego swelled. He became terrified of people realising that he was actually human, and not this super hero character he was portraying. “By the time you make your 1st million you realise I’m still me, I just have more money. You think you need another million in case you lose the first one… then it was 5 businesses, 8 businesses. I was on a hamster wheel to nowhere and I was petrified”. In his late 20s, at 2am, tired after another 16 hour day, he crashed his car into a wall. It was a wake up call. Sat there, realising how close to death he had come, he decided to change his life. “You can not validate your self internally by anything external- that doesn’t work… I finally shifted from sense of needing to prove to the world that I was good enough to aligning to some of the principles of life, which operate on growth and contribution.” What principles of life does he mean? “Everything that doesn’t grow and contribute in nature is taken out of the food chain.” Peter re-designed his life around this law and began the journey of looking within, reconnecting with his inner nature. He began walking his Flow state path. He learned how his “outer word follows the inner world”. He learned a whole new paradigm of wealth and abundance. Please listen in to learn some absolute nuggets of gold from a very wise Sage about how to create a life rich in meaning, abundance and purpose. I came away from this interview feeling absolutely charged with insp