[00:00:00] Ken: we said our beliefs are tied in with our thoughts. Thoughts are going to have an effect on our results and experiences. If you believe that as an entrepreneur, to achieve success, you need to sacrifice, you need to struggle, you need to suffer, you need to be stressed out, that is exactly what you will get. Exact, because you believe it. Because now you have become to associate, you have began to associate success with all of those things.
[00:00:29] Aneta: We often hear people wishing us a long, happy and healthy life, but what if the length isn't what matters most? What if instead, it's the breath depth and purpose of each day that matters most. Welcome to the Live the Width of Your Life podcast. My name is Aneta Ardelian Kuzma and join me weekly as I interview guests who made changes in their own lives to live more fully with intention. Gratitude and joy. Be prepared to be inspired by their stories of how they shifted their mindset, took courageous action, and designed the life that they always wanted to live.
Welcome back to live the width of your life podcast. My guest this week is Ken Attard, and he's the founder of Mindset Malta. After successfully working with various clients over the span of two decades, Ken, now specializes as a mindset consultant, specifically helping frustrated entrepreneurs to adapt and pivot their mindset.
Using his proprietary ARC method, allowing them to move towards true freedom. He helps people to create results that they desire without a doubt. And that is one of his biggest passions. Ken brings to the stage his personal experiences, not only as a mindset consultant, also as an entrepreneur, as a father, as a human being.
And he has a firm belief that life is not meant to be difficult or a continuous struggle, yet it is meant to be fun. And flowing full of new experiences that are fruitful, abundant, and inspiring. We had such a great conversation. First of all, he lives in Malta. So we get a little bit of history and how he found his way to Canada and then back to Malta.
Also learned the framework, of the ARC method. And he shares with us in simple terms, for those that aren't familiar with it. Also talks about the triple. So he really has this proprietary method that is helpful when shifting one's mindset. Especially helpful for entrepreneurs who are looking to incorporate mindset chips into their daily routines and business strategies. I really enjoyed my conversation with Ken and I think you will as well. Take a listen.
Welcome back to Live the Width of Your Life podcast, Ken, it is so nice to have you on the show. I'm so excited for our conversation.
[00:02:38] Ken: Absolutely over the moon that I am here and I am looking forward to a really great conversation and trusting that we're going to offer some very valuable information to the listeners.
[00:02:49] Aneta: And I asked you before we even hit record where you were located and I got an answer I've never heard before on this podcast. So maybe share where do you live, Ken?
[00:03:00] Ken: I am located bang in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea on the beautiful island of Malta and have been here for the past 45 years.
[00:03:11] Aneta: And your English of course is impeccable because you said you were originally born in Canada, right? Yeah.
[00:03:18] Ken: Correct. I'm originally from Toronto, Canada. My parents are both Maltese. And after 16 years in Canada, my parents decided I think it was my dad more than anybody that decided I want to go where the sun shines 300 days a year.
[00:03:32] Aneta: Well, I've never had a chance yet to come to Malta, but it's definitely on my list of places. And I think one of the things that I loved, I had a friend that went to Malta and she said it is such a cultural infusion because the history is so rich. And so what are some of the favorite things of living in Malta would you say, or reasons why people should visit? What to expect?
[00:03:53] Ken: Some of the favorite things of living in Malta. Well, I'd say that the pace is a little slower. It's a Mediterranean culture. I'd say it's a little slower than a lot of places. Not that it isn't fast at times, yet it still is somewhat slower, especially when you can get to the sister island of Gozo. So Malta is 120 square miles, so it's a small island.
The sister island Gozo is actually 60 square miles. I was actually there the other day, and I love to get there because it's even just a bit of a slower, pace the energy is amazing. We've got some wonderful sea to swim in and just chill around. And the fact that it's a small Island, I love it in the sense that, I can call up a friend in 15 minutes.
We can be somewhere having a cappuccino somewhere or coffee and just having a quick conversation potentially and get back to our work or whatever it is, or wind down the day. For those people who love nightlife and that type of stuff, there is plenty of that as well. If people love history.
I mean, it is an amazing place full of history. If you can imagine the capital city, Valletta the whole city is a world heritage site. So it's surrounded by bastions that were built in the 1500s. And when you see some of these bastions, you go like, wow, how did they do that way back then?
So there's some amazing stuff. We actually have temples here, which our freestanding temples, which are actually older than the pyramids.
Yes. A lot of people don't know that we actually have freestanding temples here that are actually older than the pyramids and some of the sizes of those stones.
Again, it's like, how did they do it? That's how do they do it? There was definitely something magical happening for sure.
[00:05:33] Aneta: And the language, the Maltese language is unique also, isn't it? I mean, tell me a little bit more about it because I don't want to say what it is or isn't.
[00:05:44] Ken: it is very unique. It is similar to Arabic, yet it's not Arabic, but it is that type of language at the same time because we've had the Arabs here. We've had the French here. We've had the English here. We've had all of these things. All of these people and so there's been so many influences. Italian was a predominant language for so long I mean, we're 60 miles away from Sicily.
So we have all of these things intertwined and they infiltrated as well into the language. So we you know, for instance in the morning in typical Maltese, pure Maltese to say good morning, you would say Lodwa Taiba now, yet what we very often simply say is bonjour.
[00:06:30] Aneta: Oh, bonjour.
[00:06:30] Ken: Very similar to French. We've got the Italian, so we've got lots of influences. But it is a unique language and tell me about it. Because when I moved here, when I was 14, I did not know the language, although my parents were both Maltese because we were in Canada, they really wanted me to obviously speak English language well, and to obviously to fit in and all that stuff.
So when we came back, I had to learn the language and now I was surrounded by it all the time. So that helps, but school, that was a challenge. You want to talk about challenge school, and taking private lessons and there's a really interesting story and it's about, let's say, adapting and shifting and pivoting, which I think is essential in anybody's life, whether it's business and your personal life.
There was some major shifts that I did have to make when I did move here. And one of the, this with the language was learning the language and I managed to pass my exams in Maltese to be able to get into college because it was obligatory. Yet at the same time when I did that, the education, the powers that be actually made Arabic compulsory.
And I was like, you gotta be kidding. I mean, just slap me in the face. I just got grips with this and now you're going to it wasn't a really high level, but had to go through that Anyways, I think it's a really interesting story. So, yeah.,
[00:07:51] Aneta: I love that.
[00:07:52] Ken: It's a cool place. And the Maltese by nature they're resilient people. A lot of people don't realize that even during World War II, it was the most bombed place on the planet. Even compared to the blitzes that happened in London and the UK, it was bombed more than London. I don't know. I think it was like 440s over the course of, so there was a lot of devastation. So the Maltese people are quite the resilient people.
[00:08:16] Aneta: Yeah. Well, it's interesting then that you became a mindset consultant. So it seems like you've had some practice over your lifetime. So tell me a little bit about starting Mindset Malta and how you work with your clients or even like what got you into this line of work.
[00:08:35] Ken: Yeah, sure. So essentially way back, I think it was 2004. 2003-2004, I got involved in network marketing. Like many of those who get involved in network marketing, part and parcel of the network marketing was personal development. And I started to listen to speakers. I started to read books and I started to really and truly get blown away with some of the stuff that I was learning.
I was like, this is really cool stuff. I do not recall anybody teaching any of this stuff in school and it was one of the things that inspired me to continue and I said, this is really cool, I think a lot of people need to know this stuff and understand that they actually can start to take some control with the way they think and take control of their lives.
So for me, that was the catalyst for me to continue learning. And I just continued to delve into personal development, the nature of the business with network marketing at that time when I was doing it I was finding myself getting in front of groups of people on a regular basis. On a weekly basis, I would have anywhere between 40 and 60 people in my office.
And I was speaking to them and I felt comfortable. I felt comfortable speaking. I felt it was something that was, came quite naturally to me to do. I wasn't scared of it or anything like that. A lot of people have this fear of public speaking and I really didn't have it. I mean, it doesn't mean that you don't get nervous once in a while yet it wasn't something that bothered me.
And I had the opportunity to have an impact on people. I had the opportunity to help people transform their lives. And I just continued to delve into personal development, continue to learn, continue to read, listen, attend conferences and programs and retreats.
And at one point in time I was also selling some events for other people as well, who were doing personal development as well. And I just carried on learning and I've done my NLP master practitioner as well. That's another tool that I use and I'm just an avid learner of personal development.
For me, it's part and parcel of my life every single day. I make it a point every day, every morning. My day starts with a bit of meditation, some reading, some listening, and it just really sets the tone for the day. And in all honesty, it's taught me that, without a doubt, I have no reservations at all in saying that mindset, the way you are thinking predominantly, truly is your superpower if you allow it to be, if you actually purposefully begin to understand how the process works.
And this is one of the messages that I really love to get out to entrepreneurs who I predominantly work with. It doesn't mean that any individual can use it. It's not rocket science because if it was, I wouldn't be the one teaching it.
[00:11:18] Aneta: Yeah. Tell me some of the things that you see that people predominantly struggle with when it comes to their mindset.
[00:11:25] Ken: Well, the first thing that I believe the majority of people struggle with is something that I like to call the triple U syndrome and the U being the letter U. And it's really simple when you think about it yet. I think it's profound in the sense that the majority of people have heard about mindset in one way or another, the majority of individuals, the majority of entrepreneurs have heard about mindset in one way or another.
The amount of information that is available is unlimited. I'm offering information, yet I'm not reinventing the wheel. I'm reinventing potentially some aspects of how I want to teach it. And how I want to convey it. And some people might resonate with that more. I'm not reinventing the wheel, the information's there.
And I've said this time and time again, you and I, anybody listening here can have more information available to them in one day than my grandparents could have had available to them in a lifetime.
There's plenty of information out there yet what happens, and this is where the triple U's syndrome comes in, is that someone hears about Mindset. Someone listens to this podcast, for instance, and goes, wow, that's pretty intriguing, that's interesting. One day, I'll look into it.
[00:12:51] Aneta: Right.
[00:12:52] Ken: Because it's still very much underrated for many people.
It's underrated. They don't realize yet how powerful it truly is. So that's the first U of the triple U syndrome, is that it's underrated.
So it's like, I'll get to it one day. Let me put it on the back burner for now. Yet one day I'll get there. I like to use the example of and most people can relate to this. I don't know about you, Aneta. Maybe you can relate to this. Have you ever bought a book? And then didn't read it for some time, just left it there.
I know I have, for whatever reasons, didn't get around to it. I bought it, but it's on the shelf. It's there. I simply need to pull it down from the shelf, open it up and begin to read. It's the same thing with mindset. You simply need to begin to learn yet they put it on the back burner.
And because of that, it's because it's underrated. The second view is, it is underestimated. Again, the power of it is underestimated as to how it can profoundly change your life. When you start to understand how the process of your thinking actually affects every single result and experience that you're having in your life.
If you know that, if you truly know that, wouldn't you give it the time of day that it actually deserves to purposely begin to have an effect on all the results and experiences in your life, rather than living haphazardly, living randomly. One day is a good day, the next day is not such a good day, and not knowing why, potentially.
And because it's underrated, and because it's underestimated, the final U of the Triple U Syndrome is that it is underutilized. Now this is where I'd like to let people off the hook. The only reason that you or anybody underrates, underestimates, and because of that underutilizes mindset is for one reason only, and that's because there simply isn't a strong enough belief in the power of mindset yet. Because if that belief was strong, if you truly did believe it, you'd be doing things differently without a doubt. So I think this is something that is truly one of the stumbling blocks of many, because many individuals will say something to the effect. That life got in the way. I've got too many things to be doing.
I have all of these tasks to be doing. I have to be doing this. I don't have time to dedicate to mindset, the thing is, this it's when you think you don't have that time is when you actually need to be doing it more and again, letting people off the hook.
This is really key as well, why are people, why are individual entrepreneurs specifically, saying, but I got to do this and I have to do this and I have to get this done and if I don't get this done, this is going to happen. I got to get this done and they're all valid.
Yet, the reason that so many do that is again because of the way they've been taught. And this is one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to mindset, is that you have been taught, many entrepreneurs have been taught, how important it is to take action. And to carry out all of those tasks. And not only is it important to take action, it's important to be taking massive action.
And then on top of that, if you're the one that's not taking massive action, watch out because there's someone that is, and they're going to take something away from you. So now you've gone into fear and you're thinking that this proverbial pie of abundance is being taken away from you. And which is simply coming from a lack mindset rather than an abundant mindset, because you think there's not enough.
So you start to panic. And because you believe it's about taking action, you're taking action. You're taking action, constantly chase and you're chasing it. You're chasing the money. You're chasing the success. You're chasing all those things that you want, which are all wonderful. Do not get me wrong. Yet there is a significant difference between taking action and taking inspired action, and I'll let you interject.
[00:17:21] Aneta: Thank you for sharing that the triple U. I think that resonates and I love that. It's pretty simple to remember with the three U's. So when people work with you or when they contact you, because I know you primarily work with entrepreneurs, although you work with other clients as well. One of the things I've observed is that, if people already are at the state where they say I'm busy, or I can't do something about it. I also feel like that's a step beyond because they have some awareness, but there's so many people who are walking around having these thoughts and maybe struggling with repeat thoughts, negative thoughts all the time.
But they're not even present enough to be aware of what's happening. So when they actually can acknowledge, I know I should do something and maybe I just don't have the time to do it. I almost feel like that's a step beyond the lack of awareness, which many people struggle to begin with. So when clients do contact you and maybe they're like, okay, I haven't done something up until this point, but I'm finally ready.
What are some of the initial things that you do from your consulting perspective, how do you get people to change their mindset to really start to apply some of the principles that you share?
[00:18:29] Ken: Well, I see where people are, there are five pillars that I intertwine throughout all of the teaching. I call it the ARC method. And ARC is not an acronym. I chose ARC simply because an ARC or an ARCH in the architectural world is a very sound and solid structure.
It's a very sound foundation. It's one of the strongest structures in the architectural world. So the ARC method, when it comes to mindset is a very strong foundation. And that's why the five pillars intertwine all of my teachings whether I'm working with someone one to one.
And it does start. And the first pillar actually is, and you've mentioned it, is awareness and it's phenomenal that someone actually steps forward and says. You know what? I can see that there's something better. I just don't know what exactly that is yet. So there is an element of awareness there.
And that's like the first level of the learning stages. It's actually the second level. The first level is unconscious incompetence. Like, what you don't know, you don't know, right? But the second level then is conscious incompetence.
So you know there is something better yet you just don't know how to do it. And now it starts to begin. And this is where we started. We start from awareness. Awareness of how the process is working. So very simply put, the way you are thinking has an effect on, or creates an emotion.
So what you're thinking creates an emotion. Now we could slow it down even more, but let's keep things really simple. When you're thinking you're creating some sort of picture or movie. A lot of people don't realize this. They're creating pictures, movies with every thought that they have.
So if I were to ask someone or ask you what's the color of your front door? You have to pull up a picture of your front door or a movie of a front door to be able to tell me the color. The thing that a lot of people don't realize is that those thoughts that they're having and the pictures and the movies they're creating, many of them are unresourceful.
They're not taking them towards the result they want. They're actually thinking about what they don't want more and more, creating more of it. So the thoughts create an emotion. Very simply put, it's either going to create a good feeling emotion or a bad feeling emotion, depending on what you're thinking.
Now, whether it's a bad feeling emotion or a good feeling emotion, that's going to have a bearing on the actions that you take, or how you behave. And the actions you take and how you behave is going to have an effect on the results and the experiences that you're having. So if there are results, if there are experiences that you are having that you're not happy with we got to go right back to the thinking, what's going on, what's happening, and that thinking is connected with the beliefs.
And some of those beliefs are coming from when you were a kid, from the very young ages between zero and seven, a lot of programs were put in there. Sometimes we think we're not good enough because some stuff happened when we were younger. Sometimes we think we don't deserve to have the success.
Sometimes we're not trusting ourselves enough. So all of these components start to intertwine. So everything begins from awareness. So now one of the biggest awareness that anybody's ever going to have, and it is a hard pill to swallow for so many, you are creating the results and the experiences in your life, the good ones.
The great ones and the crappy ones too. Yet a lot will say, but Ken, I would never want to create that. I get it. There's some unconscious stuff going on. So let's start to ship that. Let's start to change that. And one of the first things that I get people to do is take time to appreciate.
First thing, especially first thing in the morning, take time to appreciate. Do you actually slow yourself down enough? Another thing with entrepreneurs is getting them to slow down enough. We mentioned action versus inspired action. How can you receive inspiration if you're not even slowing yourself down enough to receive it?
Because your mind's going so fast. That you're not even allowing yourself to receive it. So you really need to start to learn how to slow yourself down. And when I can get someone to actually just slow down and take five minutes, ten minutes in the morning, just to write down a few things that you can appreciate.
Now, right away, they haven't gone straight into the day and all the tasks and all the problems and all the challenges that they're going to face, they've actually taken time to appreciate, and by doing that, they can allow more of that to enter into their life.
[00:23:15] Aneta: I love that. And so do you partner with any other somatic practices that helps to really deal with some of the subconscious thoughts or maybe what's stored in the body that people may not even be aware of, like breath work or I know you mentioned meditation before.
[00:23:32] Ken: Yeah, without a doubt. One of the biggest things for me and actually the third pillar is alignment. And alignment is all about really connecting. It is all about that connecting because when you begin to understand when you connect. And again, call it whatever you'd like to call it, you can call it God, you can call it source, you can call it source energy, you can call it field, quantum field. I tend to like to call it. I coined something myself. I call it the Umami self
[00:24:01] Aneta: Umami self. What does that mean?
[00:24:03] Ken: Yeah, let me tell you what that means. I came up with that simply because in the food world, for those of you who might not know, Umami is when you eat something and it's so delicious that it's indescribable, they call that Umami.
In fact, the definition of umami is the essence of deliciousness. So the umami self is the essence of deliciousness of who you truly are. Not who you think you are, yet who you truly are. And that happens when you do have that connection.
[00:24:40] Aneta: Yeah.
[00:24:40] Ken: And when you have that connection, there's everything there. So, quiet time, we can call it meditation.
I like to call it quiet time because people tend to understand that more. Sometimes, when you say meditation to someone, they want to make things like something way more difficult than it actually is, or that you have to have certain, I don't know, a certain environment to be able to do it.
Whereas quiet time, a lot of times, is just simply, listen, find 15 minutes a day. Let's start off with that. Let's start off with five minutes where you're just disconnected from everything like you there's no internet going on. There's no phones going on. There's no TV going on there's no radio. No partners.
No children just on your own for 15 minutes. Just be quiet I don't even want you to think because a lot of people think meditation is really think. It's simply Slowing yours down so much, you really don't think you slow yourself down enough to actually receive And you will receive thoughts and some of those thoughts sometimes will and it's practice like anything else. You will receive some of those thoughts, and some thoughts will not be resourceful ones You learn to just be thankful those and say thank you.
Give me something a little more resourceful, if that happens. And it's just practice where you actually just slow yourself down enough And I highly like I suggest this so much. And this is why I say it's, if you can start your day that way, even better. Yet I do understand people are living their lives.
People do have young children who wake up early and there's all of these things that, so you find a way that is convenient for you. The last thing that I want with anybody who's going through a program of mine is to feel this undue pressure that they have to get through something within a certain timeframe that is so tight that it's literally impossible.
I have an eight week program where I allow people a year to go through it. Why? Because I want them to enjoy it. I just want them to be consistent with it. And consistency is going to be different for different people. Some people can do one a week, no problem, because that's where they are in their life.
But some people need one a month. That's okay. Some people it's one every two weeks. So it's okay. Simply make a decision though, to be consistent. And notice for yourself, anybody listening here, I can guarantee you that whenever you were successful in your life at something particular, you were being consistent.
So whether it was with your studies, whether it was with your health, whether it was with your relationships, you were being consistent. The minute that starts to become inconsistent, it starts to become more erratic. So quiet time, absolutely essential.
And if I can just throw this in as well, aligned with the quiet time, is what a lot of people don't realize. I thought of something and I came up with something and I call it the one times 365 equals 42. And people say what does that mean? Well, it's this, if you took one hour a day for yourself, just one hour a day for yourself, whether that's part of it is quiet time, part of it might be some exercise, part of it might be some reading, whatever it is, but one hour a day for yourself for a full year.
That would be the equivalent of 365 hours. Now what's really cool is this though, and that a lot don't realize 365 hours is the equivalent of 42, eight hour working days.
Yet, if I came to you today, Aneta, and said, you know what, I want you to take 42 days off. You'd probably say that's not happening. It can't happen. Like, you know, there's no way. Yet, if you took one hour a day, which I can probably guarantee it's going to be far more balanced because we hear these concepts of how people are taught as well, I don't know, work hard, play hard.
Balanced doesn't happen like that. So if you actually took that one hour a day for yourself. It would make a significant difference. Now, let's say you can't take one hour a day. Even if you took half an hour a day, you'd still be looking at 21 8 hour days in year.
[00:29:00] Aneta: Yeah. And the compound effect of showing up for yourself every day and building on that growth. I mean, it's more than just the cumulative hours that you put together. It's like, and then what? Because we're not starting from zero. It's like, you're continuing to grow.
You're continuing to show up for yourself. You're getting more insights. I love that approach, especially for people who are busy entrepreneurs or people who are working a lot, but really it works for everyone. And something else that you say that I want you to talk about is you said that life is not meant to be difficult or continuous struggle.
This kind of goes into the have to work hard, play hard. It's meant to be fun and flowing. Full of new experiences that are fruitful, abundant, and inspiring. Where did that come from? And how do you infuse that into the work that you do with entrepreneurs? Because I love this idea that it's not supposed to be so hard.
It gets to be easier. We get to be more joyful and have more abundance in our life. So tell me a little bit more about that, because that definitely resonates with me.
[00:30:03] Ken: Yeah, absolutely. And again, this comes back to beliefs. And again, I like to let people off the hook. And sometimes when I say this, when I talk about this, it rubs people the wrong way, in all honesty. Like, there are some leaders out there, it will rub the wrong way. And again, over the course of years, and the books and, and listening to the CDs and YouTube and all that stuff and attending conferences and attending events and wonderful teachers, don't get me wrong, there's magnificent.
Yet the one thing that I started to notice more and more so often was that the majority teach, that listen, if you want to be an entrepreneur, you need to be prepared to struggle. If you want to be an entrepreneur, you need to be prepared to sacrifice. You need to be prepared to feel stressed. You need to be prepared to suffer.
Now, what is a belief? A belief is simply a thought that has been thought over and over. How many times do I need to hear that as an entrepreneur, be prepared to suffer, sacrifice, be stressed and all of these things and struggle? How many times do I have to listen to that before I begin to believe it? Now, what we were talking about before, we said our beliefs are tied in with our thoughts. Thoughts are going to have an effect on our results and experiences. If you believe that as an entrepreneur, to achieve success, you need to sacrifice, you need to struggle, you need to suffer, you need to be stressed out, that is exactly what you will get.
Exact, because you believe it. Because now you have become to associate, you have began to associate success with all of those things. That It's amazing how so many entrepreneurs, the minute things become somewhat easy going, all of a sudden, there's a bit of a guilt feeling.
All of a sudden, they're feeling like this is too easy. I should be suffering. I should be struggling. I should be sacrificing more. So this is where I say, listen, you can flip it. Because if your belief is that your business, can be fun. If your business can be inspiring, can be impactful, can be inspirational.
Does this mean that you're never going to have a challenge? Absolutely not. Does this mean that there's never going to be difficult moments?
Absolutely not. Challenges? Yes, without a doubt. Those are your growth spurts. That is when you become an even, I don't want to use the word better, you grow as a person. You're going to the next stage. You're growing as a person because ultimately it is about the person that you become along the journey.
It is all about the joy, in the journey. And this is the key part. That many get stuck on is that it's not about chasing the money or whatever your definition of success is. It's not about chasing it because the more you chase it, the more you push it further away. It's truly about being joyful along the way, being joyful in the difficult moment, in the challenging moments.
Now you start to talk about true success, true freedom, because that's where you want to go. You want to have true freedom and to have true freedom, you got to be able to accept really and truly whatever there is. And what's happening and still be joyful throughout it. So this is the part that is significant for me when it comes to guiding entrepreneurs is guiding them towards understanding, listen, man, they're going to be challenged. It's okay. Yet you can still have fun along the way. And that's what it's all about.
[00:34:07] Aneta: I love that. And why live life? Why start a business? Why do all these things if we're not able to enjoy it and we're not able to show up every day? And I love that you said these beliefs are just the thoughts that we keep thinking over and over again. So in your experience how long does it typically take for people to really start to see a significant shift in their mindset by incorporating some of these practices?
[00:34:32] Ken: I truly believe they start to see results very quickly, and again, I make this very clear, as long as there is a dedication to it. In fact, this is why I prefer to work with clients long term. Not that they don't get results quickly yet, it isn't a matter of a quick fix or anything like that.
It's a matter of being dedicated to it. So what do I mean by dedicated to it, is simply you're doing. At peace every day. Every day, you are reminding yourself because at this point, while as you're beginning, you're going to have some defaults and you potentially can fall back to your defaults the way you were thinking.
But if you stay, when you stay dedicated to it and consistent with it, changes will happen very quickly. Honestly, they will happen very quickly because now you are resonating. You begin to resonate at a completely different frequency. Like if you're waking up every morning and now you're tapping into appreciation where never before have you actually really thought about the fact that like, man, I'm blessed to have a pillow to sleep on, to have a bed to sleep on, to have food in the fridge or have running water or, the relationships that you have and you are starting to connect with that everything begins to change.
[00:35:50] Aneta: Yeah.
[00:35:51] Ken: Again, this is where I get, I like to say this, I honestly believe the majority of individuals have been fooled to believe that the physical aspect of our lives is the most important aspect of our lives. Because it's not. It really and truly is the non physical part of our lives, our umami self, source, spirit, whatever you'd like to call it, which is the most significant.
Personally nowadays, I don't even like to call it a positive mindset or a growth mindset in all honesty. I like to call it a good feeling mindset. When you can think about stuff that makes you feel good, immediately you change your frequency. Immediately, your physiology changes.
And as your physiology changes, it affects your neurology. When you change your neurology, it affects your physiology. So immediately you begin to see changes and the awareness part. This is crucial because ultimately if someone hasn't been taught something, they just don't know. They just don't know what you don't know.
You don't know. And, up to a certain extent, there are things that people have been taught because that's the other thing as well. People have been taught stuff that isn't necessarily the truth.
[00:37:11] Aneta: Like what?
[00:37:12] Ken: like the most common thing that we hear life is difficult.
[00:37:16] Aneta: Right. So imparting someone else's beliefs. Some people, we take on other people's beliefs without challenging them.
[00:37:25] Ken: And rightly so. And again, with the greatest, the best of intentions, people have really great intentions. I mean, let's take parents. More often than not, they could potentially slow down your potential. Because in their eyes they are protecting you.
So the greatest of intentions. Keep your feet firmly on the ground. Don't dream too big. And all of these things rather than, you know what? Listen, I haven't quite figured it out completely, so as a father, for instance, saying to their daughter or to their son, I haven't quite figured out everything completely, you got some amazing dreams there, potentially, you can achieve whatever you'd like to achieve and it's going to happen in steps.
You're going to get your inspired action and what's the next step to take and what's the next step to take, and it will unfold in a way that it's meant to unfold, and this is where trust starts to come in. The final pillar of my ARC method is actually allowing, which is all about trust and understanding that you want to trust yourself.
You want to trust your umami self more than anything, that everything is always working out. Even though sometimes it appears not to be working out, yet you simply do not have the full picture yet. I'm not omnipotent yet. I don't have the full picture. So, yeah, there's some stuff that's happening that I think is bad right now, when in actual fact, it's not, it's just part of the puzzle that I'm not seeing the complete picture yet.
[00:38:57] Aneta: I love that. And that's wonderful because then there is no arriving. We get to enjoy the journey, allow ourselves, as you said, to show up consistently every day, know that there's more. Ken, if folks want to work with you, what is the best way that they can find you and connect with you?
[00:39:13] Ken: Sure. Best way they can connect with me. They can definitely find me both on Instagram and Facebook. If they just go to Mindset Malta. So they can find me there. If someone wants to send me an email, by all means, they can send me an email at ken@mindsetmalta.com.
And, I'd like to offer your listeners a free gift, if they'd like, if they go to growth4, the number 4, entrepreneurs. com, and there they'll get a little more information about myself as well, but they can also register for a free online program, it's a short online program which is called the Mindset Choice, the choice that changes everything. And although it is a recorded program, they have the potential to interact with me personally as well as they're going through the program as well.
They get all the instructions and everything. So if someone would like to go there and they want to go through the program, it's 100 percent free, no obligation for anything. They can do that as well.
[00:40:18] Aneta: Thank you so much for being so generous, Ken. And I hope people take advantage of that. I think that you have so much to share and we shared just a little bit today of all the things I know that you do and we'll include all the details in the show notes. And the final question I have for you is what does it mean to you to live the width of your life?
[00:40:37] Ken: What does it mean to live the width of my life? Something that I like to say a lot, and remind myself and remind anybody that. I come in contact with two things. Actually, two things. One is I want people to walk when I meet with people and I interact with people. I want people to walk away feeling a lot better than when we met.
So I want them to walk away feeling so much better about themselves when we met. So that for me, that is living my life the width of my life, because I'm having an impact on someone else and they can potentially take that somewhere else as well. So we're impacting many people.
And I like to remind people, remember to laugh a lot more, especially when you can laugh at yourself.
[00:41:23] Aneta: Thank you so much for joining me today and look forward to further conversations in the future. Thank you.
[00:41:29] Ken: Absolute pleasure. Thanks a million.
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