# The Christmas Framework Episode

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- Published: 2020-12-23T09:00:00-07:00
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As you watch your Christmas movies and think about your relationship with God, I
hope that this will give you something interesting to think about.

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—Transcript—

Hey everybody. This is Russell Brunson. Welcome back to the Marketing Secrets Podcast.
And actually we’re like a couple of days before Christmas. Instead of “Hey”, maybe
I should say, “Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas.” And welcome to the Marketing Secrets
Podcast. All right, everybody, we are getting ready for the holidays. I hope you
are as well. I know this year has been nuts for pretty much everybody. And so I 
hope that we are, like me, looking forward to a time where we get to stop thinking
and stressing and just think about our families for a little bit. I’m looking forward
to it, and hopefully you are as well.

Anyway, I’m telling you a story happened last night. It was kind of interesting.
So I was, we were going to, my wife was actually, we were with the kids, it was 
after church and we’re kind of getting the kids settled in. And we had a Christmas
program at church, which was really nice, but kind of the tone in the house, hasn’t
been Christmasy and my wife, Colette, was just like, we need to do something so 
it feels like Christmas in here. And so she went and put in The Polar Express, which,
obviously we’ve seen that a million times. It was kind of fun as a family to sit
and watch it. And it was interesting as I was watching this, the whole concept is
believe, and it’s talking about believing in Santa and things like that. And I’m
not going to talk too much about that, but I think that obviously all the things
that are happening in the Christmas holiday are symbolic, right? It’s the symbolism
of gifts. And Christmas is representing Christ and him coming and him bringing the
ultimate gift of his life to us and how amazing it is.

And then our job is to believe in him and believe in that gift to believe in these
things. And again, I know that there are different faiths and denominations listening
to this, and if you’re not Christian, that’s okay. This is, if you were telling 
me some of your beliefs and no matter what you had, I would respect that and listen,
and it wouldn’t be offensive to me. So hopefully it’s not to you either, but as 
a Christian, as someone who believes in Christ, I think that Christmas is all symbolic,
obviously of him and this gift he brought and our job is to believe in him and then
having a belief that our belief actually leads into actions, right? Like if you 
do believe him, then what does that mean about you? How are you going to try to 
change your life? How do you become a better person? How are you going to try to
live?

And it’s interesting, as I was thinking about that, I was thinking, Christmas is
such a type and shadow of Christ. And I started thinking about just how many other
things throughout life are types and shadows of that, right? For those who read 
the Old Testament, you have the story of Abraham and Isaac and how he had to sacrifice
his son. Right. And that is the type and shadow of when our heavenly Father had 
to sacrifice his son Christ. And throughout the Bible and through other scriptures,
like there’s all these types and shadows where things are happening and it’s foreshadowing
events that are happening later in time. Right. And it’s so interesting.

And I think that, I feel like we have this consistent, I don’t know how to explain
this correctly. Hopefully I don’t mess this up too bad, but throughout our lives,
there’s these patterns that repeat themselves for us to see and to notice. Right.
And it’s interesting because my goal is not to get sacrilegious with it. So hopefully
I’m not, but it’s interesting, you guys are here listening to this podcast because
you’re entrepreneurs and you’re trying to figure out how to market your business
and things like that. And so what’s the correlation for us, right? And you think
about that, in the movie, The Polar Express, these kids are getting on a train and
the train’s moving forward. And one of the lines of the end is your job is not to
think of the train, try to decide if the train’s real or not, your job is just to
get on the train. Right?

And they go through the whole process and talk about how important is to believe.
And you’ve got to believe in this thing you can’t see yet and there’s kind of the
guy in the top of the Polar Express, who’s like the opposite. He’s the naysayer.
He’s like, if you can’t see it, you can’t believe it. You know? And there’s kind
of the light and the dark and a pulling in both directions. Right? And so obviously
there’s the spiritual journey that that’s symbolizing, right? This is life. We’re
on this train. We’re going towards something… You believe, you don’t believe, there’s
people holding you away and all those kinds of things as you were going to this 
destination.

But I think about it with business, how similar it is too. We come on this business
and it’s like, okay, the train’s moving, right? All you guys were here, either you’re
on the train now, or you’re watching the train go by. You’re seeing stories of a
person after person after person having success. And you’re like, “I don’t know 
what to do. I’d get on the train ride. I get off the train. Is that train even real?
Like, is this stuff real what Russell’s talking about? Is a fake? Are people actually
having success? There’s all these things, right. And the first step is your goal
is not to try to believe that the trains real or not, it’s just to get on the train,
right. And so if you’re not on the train, that’s the first step. Then you get on
the train and then it’s like, I still think there’s so many people that are skeptical.
Oh, is this real? Is it not real? Like, do I believe, do I not believe?

And it’s like, you’ve got to believe, because if you don’t believe, if you don’t
have faith first then your actions aren’t going to follow. I think this might be
real but I’m not really sure. The way that you pursue that is going to change, right.
It’s a reason why when we have faith in God, or in Christ, wherever you have faith
in, right? If you have faith and you actually believe, you’re going to do things
differently. You’re going to live differently. You can become someone different 
because you have belief in it. And if you’re like, “Ah, this may or may not be.”
You’re more skeptical, you’re not going to take the steps you need to do. And the
same thing is true in business. Like in business, if you’re getting on this train
and you’re, “I think it’s true, but I’m not really sure. I’m kind of going back 
and forth. Maybe it’s a scam. Maybe it’s not, maybe I’m successful, I’m not going
to be able to be successful.” All the things, right. If you don’t have belief, you’re
not going to take the steps necessary to be successful. That’s just, it’s an eternal
principle in anything, and it’s true in…

Obviously this is a business podcast, but is true in all aspects of life, right?
With marriage. When you meet your spouse, your significant other, the person that
you’re going to marry, it’s like, “Ah, do I get on the train? Do I not going on 
the train. Is this the right person?” It’s like no, like you have to believe this
is the right person. Right. You have to have belief in it. And then if you believe
like this is your person that you’re going to marry, this is my spouse, you do things
differently. Right. You become someone different.

And so it’s true in all aspects of life, same with if you’re going to school, if
you’re going into, I don’t care what it is. And so I just, as I was watching, I 
was just like thinking how interesting it is. How we have these types and these 
shadows, that the process is the same though over and over and over again. Right?

And so in this Christmas season, I just, I don’t know, this is kind of a weird podcast
to do, and I’m just nervous recording it. Maybe it makes no sense to you. But I 
think that these principles, as we use them in the Christmas thing, they’re kind
of funny and they’re cute. We watched all the cartoons and the TV shows and there’s
that version of it. But if you look at it through the lens of like, this is a type
and a shadow of my beliefs in God, or my beliefs in my business, or my beliefs in
my spouse, my beliefs in myself, my own identity, my own… I can start looking at
that.

There’s these really cool patterns that happen consistently over and over and over
and over and over again. And maybe the movies talking about belief in something 
that may not actually be real, but it’s, again, it’s a fable, it’s a story to illustrate
something differently. Right. And so, I don’t know, that’s kind of been my interesting
thing for me as I’ve been watching this and just looking at… I used to watch Christmas
movies just for an enjoying thing, but I’m trying to look at them now, at least 
as of yesterday, like as a personal development seminar, right? Like what are the
principles here? They’re talking about belief, they’re talking about faith, they’re
talking about, if you do have belief, like how does that change? If you have real
faith, how does that change your actions? And then what’s the fruits of that? Like
what happens because of it? Right.

And so, anyway, it’s kind of interesting. So my challenge for you guys in this Christmas
season, you guys are watching these things and having fun with your family is just
start looking at it because it’s something that you can use in different areas of
your life, again, from your business, to your spiritual life, to your family life,
to relationships. The pattern is there and it repeats itself over and over and over
again.

It’s interesting. It’s like when I was geeking out and doing all this study on the
hero’s two journeys, if I’ve done some episodes on that, but if you read the book,
The Hero With a Thousand Faces, right, he talks about Joseph Campbell in that book,
talks about if you look at all a story from like the beginning of time, until now,
it doesn’t matter what society, what language, what time, what era, the story frameworks
are the same.

And you see them over and over and over again, right? Almost all successful movie,
book, folklore, myth, story, like they all follow the same pattern. I think for 
a lot of us, at least for me, I look and I’m like, that’s really cool. I’m going
to, this is the pattern that George Lucas used to build Star Wars. Like, it’s really
cool. There’s the pattern. I see it. I’m going to go back and replicate it. But 
it’s like, why is that pattern everywhere? Why has it been in our DNA as a society
from the beginning of time till now? It doesn’t matter what language, what society,
what time, what era you live in that, that thing is there. And say, maybe it’s just
not a storyline that someone invented and taught everybody back way back in the 
day. Maybe it’s a framework. Maybe it’s true. Maybe it’s something there. In fact,
if you start looking at just The Hero With a Thousand Faces, right. That book or
that framework, it’s like, oh my gosh, like the reason why this storyline has been
used so many times, it’s because it’s our storyline, it’s your storyline. Right.
You start looking at that and that’s why we really connect with those movies, because
we start seeing this over and over and over again, it’s like, this is my story.

And so, I don’t know, maybe I’m overthinking things. Maybe it’s out of place when
we talk about this on a marketing podcast. But I just want you guys to, as you’re
watching movies and things, is just try to put yourself in that, how does this relate
to your business, how does it relate to your life, how does it relate to your spirituality?
How does really through relationship with a God? Because it does. And even though
the stories may be goofy, maybe a reindeer with a red nose and maybe, whatever, 
the frameworks, the stories that you guys are hearing are based on true principles
and there’s there’s truth in all these things.

So anyway, there you go. I’m sure it offends someone. For you, I apologize. For 
everybody else, hope you enjoyed it. And if you got nothing from this, then just
skip through it and listen to next episode after Christmas. But that said, Merry
Christmas. I appreciate you guys all. I’m grateful to be here. Grateful, honestly,
for your attention. The fact that you listen in this podcast means the world to 
me, hopefully you get value from it. And we have some new things coming up in the
new year and moving forward to make the podcast even better, more exciting. So I’ll
keep you guys loop on that. With that said, if I don’t talk to you before the end
of the holidays, have a great holiday and we’ll talk to you all again later. Bye,
everybody.