Make Bob Proctor YOUR personal mentor!   The Art of Living presents transcripts from legendary business speaker and mentor Bob Proctor’s most popular workshop—Matrixx—and brings this wisdom to a wider audience. With this book, readers will become a student of Bob Proctor’s as he teaches lessons and presents jewels of wisdom on living an extraordinary life. Readers will marvel at Proctor’s miraculous way of disseminating his decades of business wisdom into easy-to-understand parables and learn lessons on what our creative faculties are and how to use them, why we need to unlearn most of the false beliefs we’ve been indoctrinated with our whole lives, and how our intellects have the ability not only to put us ahead in life, but also to be our biggest detriment. Among many other invaluable lessons contained herein, as a new student of Bob’s, readers will learn:   -How to obtain whatever it is that’s desired in life -How to erase negative thought patterns and retrain the brain for success -How to arrange work for maximum effectiveness A speaker, author, consultant, coach, and mentor,  Bob Proctor  was already a legendary figure in the world of personal development long before his appearance in the hit film  The Secret . For more than forty years, Proctor has been one of the biggest names in prosperity and personal development, delivering talks throughout the world that help people achieve success and prosperity. Through his work with the Proctor Gallagher Institute, which he cofounded, he has transformed countless lives with his message of prosperity. Sandy Gallagher— as an esteemed attorney with a successful career in banking law—regularly handled billions of dollars in merger and acquisitions, IPOs, and other big-ticket transactions, and was an adviser to boards and top executives of Fortune 500 firms. Yet an encounter with Bob Proctor set Sandy on an extraordinary new path—one that would ultimately change nor only her life, but the lives of countless others. Today, as the cofounder, CEO, and president of the Proctor Gallagher Institute, Sandy shares international speaking stages with Bob and works closely with him and their team of professionals to provide coaching, training, and consulting on the most profound, powerful, and transformative concepts and strategies humankind has ever known. PREFACE As far as I know, Bob Proctor is the only person who has been studying personal development every day for more than half a century. His work conveys the most valuable kind of information—how to get out of your own way so you can have a happy, healthy and massively wealthy life. He has done phenomenal work around the world, helping millions of people and countless organizations reach their biggest goals. Bob is the last living teacher with a direct link to the great lineage of Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill and Earl Nightingale. There is no one on the planet like this man and his life-transforming teachings. And he doesn’t just teach it, he lives it! Bob is in his early eighties and he has more energy and enthusiasm for life than anyone I know. He acts like he is just getting started as his life’s mission continues to be what it has been for the past fifty-plus years—to help as many people as possible master the art of living with no limits. The most extraordinary aspect of Bob Proctor and his teachings is that he is a true conscious competent. In other words, he does extremely well, and he is consciously aware of why he does extremely well so he can share it with others in a way they can immediately put to use. It took him nine and a half years of serious searching, working with great mentors, teachers and books, to find out how and why his life changed. When he realized the truth of what had happened, all he wanted to do was teach it to others. To his amazement he found that almost all highly successful people are unable to articulate why they are so successful. They or their superiors satisfy themselves with the idea they are smart or have a good education or had good teachers. But there are a lot of smart people who had a great education and had smart teachers who are not doing well at all. When a person is highly successful in an endeavor and they cannot articulate why they are, they have something very powerful going for them that they are unable to give to another. Proctor is not only successful, he knows why he is and therefore he has the most valuable kind of information and it is transferable. Bob Proctor truly believes we are all God’s highest form of creation, that we have been blessed with magnificent mental faculties, and that the only thing missing is what wise King Solomon urged us to develop, and that is our understanding. We must understand who we are, why we are doing what we are doing and how to change what we are doing if we are not satisfied with our results. Proctor is a master at teaching just that. I am grateful for the invaluable contribution he has made to my life. His tea