CELEBRITY ATHLETE Reveals The MINDSET You Need To WIN IN LIFE | Novak Djokovic & Jay Shetty

I can show the world that, you know, a kid from a war-torn country can be the best at a sport that's very global, that's what happened, but all these experiences have been there for a reason and I don't regret it. . Anything, I don't feel sorry for anything, I just feel like it's something I had to go through and I think it's so beautiful that you're mentoring other Serbian talents and tennis players because I think that's what everyone

need

s, they

need

a hand to help them. guide, they need someone. who's been there, we absolutely need to share it, yeah, and I think a lot of the time we live with this scarcity mentality, even with deals, people say things like oh, it's good for you right now, but it may not be anymore late, so make the most of it. and then that intention is fueling people's real greedy mentality like, oh, now is the time to use it.

Otherwise, you know, I know, I know because I have been and continue to try to learn how to handle this myself. because I also have a lot of opportunities and being number one in the world and tennis is a global sport and all that, but you know, I'm going through this kind of process of focusing to understand what I need. to better organize my

life

to focus on what is the most important aspect of my existence. here you know inner peace. you know spiritual growth. understanding myself and, of course, the family. the close ones. but you know, for most of my career it was about tennis all the time, you know, tennis, dennis dennis, and then my ego plays with me so much, I mean, he plays with all of us, you absolutely know that, but you know which is me I've been thinking first of all that the ego is the enemy, but actually now I'm leaning more towards the theory that the ego should be a friend, you know, it should be part of your thought process. of feeling and this way you are also disarming your ego in a right way instead of trying to reject it and then you create this and this is so much that you know what we are really going through in an outside world.

Well, yes, absolutely yes, so let me introduce you and then I'll explain why I did it because I think it makes sense Hello everyone, thank you so much for coming back for this very special episode. I feel truly honored and grateful. To introduce our next guest, not only is he the number one tennis player in the world, he has 14 Grand Slam titles, including four Wimbledon titles, but on top of all that, he is extremely spiritual, an incredible transformative healer and someone who He is doing great work in the world. I've had the pleasure of meeting him through Instagram and WhatsApp and today I get to sit down with him for the first time, but he's definitely someone who attracted me here to Monaco through his energy and his incredibly humble and elegant spirit. .

So Novak, it's an absolute pleasure with you, my friend, my friend and I, and I feel your energy about what's happening on Instagram, I feel it in front of you right now and I really think we just bonded, so, very good, I mean. Thank you so much for coming to see me here, I feel very honored and like you said, you know social media was the platform through which we made the first connection, but I feel like you know I look at you and and what you do and by sharing your message, I felt like I connected with you instantly and your message resonates deeply with me with the people close to me and uh, it's a dream come true to be with you here today, no, you're the sweetest. man and I really feel like when you have a good connection and anyone listening, I highly recommend if you have a good online connection with someone, disconnect them as quickly as you can, yeah, make it face to face and that's what I saw . that we were connecting so wonderfully, I remember one of the first things you told me was that the higher forces are connecting us as if the higher forces were between us connecting us and when you told me that I felt like I had to meet you, there is no need to keep this online relationship, you don't have to just have it here if you're someone who really believes there's a deeper connection here, let's meet, let's see each other, so I'm very grateful that you've opened up this opportunity for me to visit you, thank you.

Thank you so much and I'm really grateful for that and overall it's an honor that you guys came all the way from Los Angeles, you know it's a long journey and I think we all share a common kind of vision. and compassion for, you know, for the world and us, I think we all interact, you know, with the world in very similar ways, even though you know I'm an

athlete

, uh, but I don't like to categorize myself or label myself as an

athlete

, you know, like society likes, I think we expanded a lot more than that and social media and the internet is great if you use it the right way so I feel like it's a great platform that connected us and You're here today uh and it doesn't make I very much sent you a message on Instagram because I am your fan, I follow you, of course, I follow your message and I follow your energy and everything that you have been spreading. and share with people, so I'm happy to be able to go deeper and talk about things that I don't normally get asked at tennis tournaments, so it's really exciting, absolutely, and that's what I love about you and that's what What excites me for everyone listening and watching is that you are an athlete, but what I was telling you before is that you are much more and have much more to give.

You've worked really hard on the court, but what I love about you is that you're also an inner athlete as you're doing this inner work and you've really focused on growing, healing and working on yourself, so let's dive into it all. that today, make this the interview when you make this the interview where you can talk about everything that's important to you and that's why this podcast started. I was speaking at an event last year and Tom Brady was speaking before me and he was interviewed by a sports journalist and the talk was actually about building meaningful lives, so they asked me to talk about the topic that Tom was talking about before and the interviewer asked him a question and Tom started talking about his family, he started talking about being a father, he started talking about all these beautiful values ​​and responsibilities and and how he's growing now that his sports career is coming to a natural end, etc. , and the sports journalists just told him to leave all this soft stuff, let's talk about sports and I felt really bad for him because I felt like he was really trying to open his heart and the sports journalist was almost squashing all of that and saying, let's talk about your rings like we talk about medals so I wanted to build a platform where people like you and people from music media, movies, films, everyone can come and talk about their deeper sides and their true heart, so I want feel really comfortable being able to do that today.

I'm definitely one of the few people that uh in my

life

and that I've met, you know so far and of course, uh, that I follow you, that I can share this message with and I really mean it because and I don't mean it bad way for the society I'm not judging I don't like judgment I don't like that you know the word hate or something like that you know I respect everyone and we respect also this kind of moment in time where we like people say yes, you know, and our society is where it is, for a reason and we just have to go through that stage of development, I think, and an evolution, and it took me time I really feel like getting to that understanding somehow. because I was also for many years in the process of building my character and spiritual development and kind of opening my mind to different dimensions and horizons of, you know, self-awareness and self-care.

I felt many times, uh, alone, you know. And I felt like what I was doing wasn't understood, especially in my world, and it wasn't just understood, it wasn't accepted, which was even worse because then you know you're labeled as some kind of black sheep. I know in the pack and and but I still wanted to play tennis and still stay in that in that in that sport in that uh you know field of life and that I have and I'm not, you know regret me on the contrary, I'm very lucky to do what I love I started playing tennis when I was four years old and my family didn't have any tennis traditions so it was literally a sign of a destiny, three tennis courts in front of my parents' restaurant in a small mountain place in Serbia it was called coponic mi father was sorry, but I'll give you a little bit of history, yes, my family was a professional skier, he was a ski instructor, that's how he met my mother on the ski slope and you know it's a funny story, you know she likes to tell it. we that she you know she was skiing and then she fell and then he was there and he says I need to help he didn't trip I think I can help you he probably organized everything you know but you know that's how they met and you know , they, you know, six months later they got married and I was already my mom was pregnant with me and then, a year later, they opened a restaurant on the same mountain where they met and that's the restaurant.

It was the business that generated the budget for our family, so we spent a lot of time there because we lived a three-hour drive away in Serbia's capital city, Belgrade, where I went to school and my two younger brothers have two younger children. brothers, um, their names are marco and georgia, one is four years younger than me and the other is eight years younger than me and this is like we're talking about, you know my kids and the indigo children, who are like a new wave You know the energy, the consciousness and the consciousness that we are receiving from above through the children that already have, you know what we don't have, you know and that's what I see in my brother, you know, and he was born with this capacity and ability. just multitasking and dealing with things so successfully and still being happy and it's pretty amazing, so you know, going back to my story, you know, I felt like in my world of tennis just... when you're a professional athlete You know it's all about winning or losing, right?

I just don't see loss or failure as such. I see it as another great lesson waiting for me to learn. Did you always have that even when you were young? Yes, no, just like I said, I went through my evolution and I was very lucky that when I started playing tennis I met people who were really knowledgeable about tennis and life, in particular a woman and her name is Yelena. Gentich, she is no longer with us, she passed away in 2012, but my mother was a tennis player, so my parents, you know, invested a lot of energy and effort and in those times during the '90s, when I was a child, we had two wars, Unfortunately we had a war that broke the entire Yugoslav region because it was a large, very strong Yugoslav country, made up of six different states, I mean countries that are now independent.

I come from one of them, which is Serbia and then during the 90s, like 91 92. Until the year 2000 we had an embargo, so people stood in line to receive bread and milk and, like most, you know the necessary things , and then in Serbia we had bombings for two and a half months, every day and every night, I was there. The family was there every day, we woke up every night for two and a half months because of the alarm and the planes flying overhead and it was devastating, it was terrifying, it was the worst thing that we definitely, you know, us.

Have you ever experienced, you know, seeing planes overhead and just dropping bombs and everything you know, hospitals and everything was terrible, a lot of innocent people died thankfully. I didn't personally lose anyone who was very close to me, but I know people. that they lost, you know their loved ones and uh, that's a scar that stays with you forever, so this memory remains and will stay with me forever, but at first I felt like probably most of the people in my country felt like I wanted to avenge you. . I know I felt like you knew who these guys are that bomb innocent people.

What the hell is going on? I was 12 and I remember being there day and night and celebrating my 12th birthday during the day because we didn't go. to the schools, obviously, it was just hiding in shelters and everything, and then after a week or two of hiding in shelters, we just said okay, we're going to move on with our lives and that's it, you know, I didn't do it. we make. You're not going to care what happens if you know that if we get hit, we get hit, you know what we can do, I mean, and I remember on my 12th birthday, the kids were singing with my friends at the tennis club because we had a lot of time.

A lot of times we played tennis because we didn't go to school, so for us it was great and uh and then we were singing the happy birthday song and there was a plane flying and I have this picture and I was playing. and I was just throwing bombs everywhere and it was terrible, but at the same time I felt like I was growing, you know, from the inside out I felt that too and I think my parents helped me a lot with that. It's that they know that we can't judge the entire nation or everyone by the actions of certain individuals or certain groups or institutions or whatever decided to bomb our country.

And just killing innocent people, we can't, you know, judge everyone by that, you know, and that's when I switched and just understood, you know, thismoment he forgave absolutely everyone and everything that has done that, but you can't forget it. You know, you can't forget that it remains like I said like a scar, but on the positive side it has brought a lot of value to my life and a lot of appreciation for value. I felt that this experience was very grateful for this experience. I really am because it has helped me become the person I am today, the tennis player that I am, it has made me hungrier for success in tennis, it has made me hungrier to work, train, build myself so I can show it to the world. world.

What do you know, guy from a war-torn country, he may actually be the best in a sport that is very global and that's what happened, but all of these experiences have definitely been there for a reason and I don't regret it all. , I don't feel sorry for anything, I just feel good, you know, that's my karma, you know, that's something that I had to go through and I had to live, uh, that and and and and if we get through that like not only. As a family, but as a people as a nation, you know that there's not much that can bring you down, so historically you know that the Serbian people and the people of the region have had a lot of hard wars and hardships, and they.

I've been through that, so it was really nice to see the unity with people and I remember one of those I was talking to my brother and wife the other day about continuing to reflect on that stay in that period and what it was like. The strongest image that we have left of these bombings of two and a half months in '99 and one of them for me was obviously the one that I explained to you about a birthday and shelters but there was one where I remember uh thousands of people gathered on the bridge , one of the most important bridges in our city, with t-shirts that have targets there and everyone painted their heads with tar like it was in the shape of a target and they sang songs and you know, I just enjoy having fun and somehow showing the world and whoever you are, you know, you know, like throwing bombs, that we're the target, so we're protecting this bridge, we're protecting this city, you know, if you want.

It crashes, you have to go through us and it was, I think more than that, it was just that power of unity, you know, that energy and that strength that just showed their resilience and that was beautiful, you know, in those moments. of difficulties that's incredible man that's that I heard you tell that story I strayed from your search no and I don't have no I'm glad you did it because I've heard that story before I'm glad that everyone who hasn't heard that story before has an opportunity now and the reason it's so beautiful is because probably most of the planet doesn't experience that, that's pretty extreme, yeah right, and for someone like you to come from that. extreme and especially what you said, your initial response was revenge, to be able to transform that revenge into resilience, that's amazing because it would have been so much easier to just have that pain and that unforgiveness, so it was a great story that that um, it I have read and I am sure it is quite popular on social media, everyone is sharing it, it is about the snake and the soul, okay, I don't know if you found it and you know that the snake is kind. from his true story, actually the snake walked into the woodworking shop, uh uh uh, and um, it was like he was going and he got caught by a saw and the saw cut him and the snake didn't realize what. was happening so he went to bite himself, to bite the saw and he hurt himself even more so the snake didn't know what was happening so he started to circle around the saw to know how to suffocate it thinking that the saw is attacking it so that protected itself and finally, the snake died and this translates into life and many times we get angry or upset, you know, with some people who think that we want to hurt them because we feel hurt, but ultimately we are hurting ourselves and it was a message so deep that I really resonated with and I think that sums up my evolution in a way and and my growth uh mentally of how you know I should. dealing with these particular circumstances and in events that have been quite significant in my life and you know, the wars and those moments where you know the difficulties were definitely one of the most significant moments in my life in my career where I experienced what it feels like having literally ten dollars at home in the apartment with uh you know, for my father and mother with three children to feed them and uh having to wait in line to get a piece of bread for hours and uh. and not being able to travel around the world to play tennis.

Tennis is an absolutely expensive sport and you know that you need money to pay for the record, the tennis balls, the court coach, so all these things you know and them. I think at the end of the day, like I said, it brings light and value to my life because you know, I think going through all that has made me stronger but at the same time it's made me more grateful because I understand both extremes. say because today I really enjoy a lot of success in this society and sport and I can afford a lot of things and I am really very grateful for that and blessed, but I have been quite the opposite. side, so I think that story is really something that absolutely enriches me, man, and the story of your life is such a beautiful message to the world, it's a great message to the world, it's incredible and I'm glad I saw it. the way I see it you too live it as a message it's not about you that's how I feel when I'm with you it's not about you it's not like I do this it's actually a story and a message to the world You know, any child, any person who finds themselves in such abject conditions, can really transform their lives, so thank you for being there, thank you, thank you and I feel that you know the message that I can share from my experience and that I never want to. so that people feel like I'm preaching or something, I just feel like my experience has helped me achieve some success, if you want to call it, you know, yeah, both professionally and privately.

There is always time for everything and you know, I am learning for myself even today to be patient, to know how to coordinate certain things in my life, to create space for the most quality time I can have with my priorities, which are my family, which It's my growth and it's a constant juggling and you can't, you can't, I really believe in balance, but I don't think we can ever reach a stage and a point where we can Say I'm in balance, you can be in balance, but the next moment you are not in balance because that is life and everything moves and is happening, so, that is why I feel that through tennis I have learned.

You know the biggest and hardest lessons in life and I've experienced those emotions and for me you know that the tennis court is still a field, you know, where I have the opportunity to really grow and when I'm not in tennis. On the court I find it much easier to achieve certain things that I want to do on a daily basis, but then I use the tennis court exactly as that platform that challenges me and challenges my ego, so I still have, for example, outbursts on the court, I break a record. I scream like I'm cursing, I know you don't curse at all and I admire how amazing you took, wow, you have to teach me how to do it and uh, and and, when that happens instantly, I feel like, oh my god.

Why? What I did do? You know and I have two children. You know a lot of kids around the world are watching and you know to watch what you're doing and imitate yourself in some way, so you're sending that kind of message. I always try to have that in the back of my mind and you know subconsciously, okay, you know, try to do, you know what you do best, but do it with dignity, do it with style, do it, you know, always having that kind of inner voice. telling you that you know there are thousands you know of children around the world who are watching you play right now and absorbing like a sponge every move, everything you say, everything you do, but I still do it, I still go through this rush and I felt uh disappointed in myself for a while wow that's why I really felt like I was betraying myself I wasn't getting to uh do what I intended to do and uh and and then I learned about surrender and uh and then I learned that there's a time for everything in life. and there's a reason we have to take every step of the way to get to the top whatever way you feel the top is for you and uh and I and then I understood that you know I have to accept I have to embrace I have to channel it and understand that you know that I still have to work and I have to work until the last day I breathe and and and and I am happy With that I really feel that I managed to take that positive leap in that direction.

What have you played several times? So I want to delve into it deeply. You mentioned success, getting to the top, the world sees your success, the world sees your achievements, but. in

novak

djokovic

's eyes in your own eyes what has been your greatest success your greatest achievement so far in your perspective is a good question my greatest achievement is my open mind I feel like with an open mind mindless guy you know the perspective and the approach of life helps all the natural processes in you to flourish and excel and you are embracing the natural flow of life where you have to evolve and you have to develop and you have to learn and only if I have to define it shortly I would say that it is simply a open mind because I feel the ignorance and the narrow mindedness and certain convictions that those people have are so strong that you know you go your whole life without really allowing yourself to know that you are open. to the world and learn about all these different cultures and things that can enrich your life and make you feel more fulfilled and live a fuller life be more joyful have that inner peace and balance and emotional stability that we all strive for and I just feel with open mind, you're just helping yourself and you're able to receive a kind of filter and then you know how to give at the same time because you know the Taurus field, everything has to flow, that's how it flows, but if you don't If you don't have open mind, then obviously everything closes, whether it's your health, whether it's your health, whether you know the profession, whatever it is in your life, you just feel it and I was there, I was there, I don't want people to think I know. . everything or whatever I just feel like you know also that I'm sharing the experiences of my process because I was there like I said I felt resentment I felt you know feeling of revenge I felt hate I felt all of that everyone you know, we're all human beings, you know, you know, we experience that kind of emotions, but I feel like with training, repetition and discipline, obviously sport has taught me so well that you can really achieve anything you really want. desire in your life and where did that open-mindedness begin?

Where did you start to notice that the closed mind was limiting you and the open mind was expanding? I think it was very early to be honest as I wanted to play tennis just when I was four or five years old and tennis was never a sport in our family. I think I also helped my parents expand out of their comfort zone and go into the sport or field of life. completely unknown to them in a way and I think, uh, you know, I started playing tennis when I was four and a half, I think I was five, and before that I was uh, I skied a lot and I remember it even before I started running. .

I was already with my dad, you know, skiing, he would carry me and go down the slopes, so the first sport for me was king, and until I was nine years old, I don't think I knew if I wanted to ski or play. tennis, it was a little bit of soccer, but it was mostly skiing or tennis and unfortunately, I mean, we've been through all this and my father, my father, asked me. I remember, I remember that day when I sat down with my mom and he said: I'm ready to support anything you want to do in your life and I'm here for you, but you have to tell me if it's sport, it's okay and what sport, and I said , okay, give me something. it was necessary, you know, and a big decision, yeah, I mean, and then you get an investment.

I was thinking and then I said it didn't take me long. I thought I said maybe just a little time to think, but then after halftime. One hour I went to him and said it's tennis, right, and he said okay, tennis, it is, and then I think entering this uncomfortable, unknown, unknown zone or area or field of life has allowed us all to expand. and and also having certain mentors and people who have affected me very positively on many levels. My wife mentioned my tennis mom as I like to call her. I met her when I was five and six years old and then I started training with her. tennis camp summer tennis camp coming from Belgrade from the capital city to Coponic in this place in the mountains and then when I was six seven I also startedI had some private lessons with her in Belgrade while I was going to school and she was happy that he could play with me because he felt that I was very talented and then he told my parents that I really feel like you should do it.

Try to do your best to support this kid to play tennis because I have never seen a bigger talent than him, Monica Selish, who was obviously the best tennis player in the world and one of the best tennis players of all time and she was also her coach and because Monica was born in Serbia and then went to live in the states where she is today and of course my parents said: "If I were a person with so much experience and knowledge abouttennis." says that, then you know we should try to support our son, so that's what happened and I remember I was watching tennis practices and sessions on the fence, I was climbing, I was really in love with the sport, I was passionate a lot and she taught me about a holistic approach to life, I think even back then, when I was seven eight, she really taught me how to, you know, think about grades in school, the music that I listen to, mindfulness , the observation, the approach, the kindness, the relationship with the people I worked with in a team with my parents and my parents, you know, I am very grateful to my parents because they recognized the role of a mentor from the beginning, so they teamed up with her and So you know, I was learning a lot from my parents, obviously, and I kept learning from my tennis mom, so that's helped me be open-minded and understand, but obviously I went through my phases and you know. through the learning process and those who deal with those emotions, although I felt it when I started traveling alone because I traveled with my father until I was 16 and then 6 17, I started having my coach and and you know.

I didn't go too deep into the conversations with my dad and my mom and I felt like there are some topics that you know I want to talk about and especially in puberty and adolescence, you know you're experiencing so many. changes and I was into tennis so much that I didn't really have time for other school activities that my fellow friends and you know, students were going through, because I was into tennis a lot and then I started sharing a lot. with my coach, I think I remember my dad saying to me: why don't you share that with me? and I was like, why no, I don't feel like, first of all, I've never shared that.

Particular topics and types of conversations with you and no, I don't feel like we can, we can resonate on that level and we tried, but it never worked, but he was understanding and that I have to have you too. I meet people who are close to me and then they influence me on different levels and that is what I feel has helped me develop a lot. Wow, and one of the things I noticed about you is that I would also love to have your Thoughts on this I feel like it's hard to get to the top, but it seems to be even harder to get to the top, have a bad streak or a moment of challenge and then trying to come back because you've experienced something and it's like I know you've even given credit to your wife for her dedication to self-care and your work and what she's trained you or shared with you in a journal.

Tell us a little about the process you've taken to get to the top. You have challenges. and then still return because everyone has been obviously citing having the return impossible and but you made possible what was happening mentally spiritually for you not only physically but what was happening mentally and spiritually for you, first of all reflect on the word impossible in the word that you have, I am possible, right, so I don't really believe in it and you know that something is impossible, really everything is possible, as we talked about before, uh, my wife has been, you know, my girlfriend for a long time a long time. since I was 18 she was 19 that's when we started dating and she used to play tennis and that's how we met and we knew each other four or five years before we started dating and you know through tennis and then she went to study in Italy to Milan and I came around the same time here to Monaco to follow my coach at the time and I started using Monaco as a base and she came to Milan, it's close to Monaco so she came and That's how It all started and when she finished her studies, she obviously thought she had a lot of opportunities for her own career, but she sacrificed that to be able to live my career, live my dream to save the relationship in some way, so I am very grateful for her and for what what she has done for our relationship and for me and I have learned.

I continue to learn so much from her that she introduced me to yoga actually in the past. days when she was studying and she's a big reader, she likes to read everything and anything, and she, you know, she also likes to write and she liked to keep a diary all the time and I remember when I was quite young with my tennis mother . and from my parents I learned to write and to have specific things that I want to share in the newspaper. I did, you know, what I'm grateful for and stuff like that, which was nice, but then I lost it.

I didn't do it for many years and then she reminded me so I started doing it again and it felt great because I felt like I could release a lot of things that were holding me up in Germany by writing exactly right, but also through yoga you know that she she learned about this because she was very stressed during her studies, you know, uh, she spent the whole day obviously starting with books and you know student life is not easy, so she was looking for ways to relax. she got more energy herself and you know she wasn't drinking coffee or any of this stuff so she got into yoga and she was sharing it with me so I started doing it with her you know everything the breathing pranayama you know cheers in the sun and all that and since then we've been doing obviously some form of yoga, you know, try it every day and, you know, she's been a very important integral part of my life and my evolution. and what I am really grateful for is that not only do we know that we truly love each other and are very transparent and honest, but also that we have the help of the universe to be in a very similar state of consciousness in certain phases of life. our lives so that we can help each other learn better and grow faster in certain areas that we choose, you know, you know, part of those particular periods, so yeah, I think she would agree with that when we became parents. , uh, four years.

Does that completely change our world, you know, up until that point we were also spiritual, but it's still pretty basic compared to what happened after that and we really believe that our children are our teachers and our masters and then they come into this life It will bring us lessons and help us understand many things about ourselves at the deepest levels and what we have to work on, which is quite contrary to what you know in some ways, yes, society, which is like us. We're teaching them what we are, of course, but I've actually been talking to her a lot about it and now we have a little girl who's one year old and she was mentioning that she's a healer. she really is and she brings that kind of energy to this world and yeah, I mean, it shot up our attention for the moments, you know, awareness, awareness above all, I mean even more and we were like, oh my gosh, you know what. there is another. level there's another level so you know we help each other grow and I think that's like that I'm so grateful to be able to share with her literally everything and anything that I'm interested in and that I'm going through and you know she she always He's been the shoulder to lean on and he's always been there in difficult times for me in my career when, you know, I went through an injury recently and I had to take six months off to break tennis and then when I came back and I was wondering if I should continue to play at that level or not and I was going through some hard work inside and then she, you know she was there and helped me get through all of that. of course with uh along with the help of uh some spiritual teachers of life that I have and that I can yes a little bit um well, there are two guys in particular uh jose pepe maz and jar koilich um jose pepe is from spain and jacques from serbia and I really consider them my spiritual and life teachers, my teachers that I have learned a lot from and in 2010 or 11, I met jarko, so about seven eight years ago and I met him. him through my wife actually because my wife had a friend who knew him and that's how we got involved, he is a reiki healer but he is much more than that and you know, he helped both my wife and me a lot . again open our minds even more to understand how we can have internal conversations with ourselves because I didn't know how to do it, I didn't know how to verbalize my emotions and that's where my wife beat me to it and that's where we struggled. in our relationship because she was trying to discover things for me and make me share more, but I couldn't do it because I didn't know what she was like, talk to me, how do you feel?

I don't know, I feel something that I just don't feel, so I think Jacques was a big help with that and it sounds like everyone needs that, everyone, yeah, I mean, everyone needs that, of course, but I think you know there's a great saying know when when when the student is ready the teacher will come yeah so I felt like the first initial step that I needed to take I needed to decide in my mind internally that okay this is exactly what I need for my heart, for my soul. For my growth, this is the priority that I have to learn how to manage my emotions, how to not only be a better tennis player but also a better human being and um and so then the teacher appeared obviously and then after that obviously, I started to expand my conscience and you know, observing the world and then I met Pepe, who is a very close person and also a spiritual life teacher of my brother Marco and they live in the same place, actually Marco, my brother.

I went to live in Spain thanks to Pepe Wow and Pepe's whole philosophy of life is love and peace and he brought that type of energy to our lives, the perspeda perception of love and peace, what it really means and at the beginning I It was really uh. I don't support myself much, I must say about my brother because he started doing that before me, he started going through this whole learning process with Pepe and moved to Spain so he could be closer to him because he felt that deep down you know that something is. It's very important that he has to address it, uh, and I just didn't understand it at the time.

I thought, well, you know you have to do it because he was playing professional tennis. I thought you can't really, you know, just love and peace, you know? you have to come back and train and yeah, have this mentality, if you love peace on the court, the other guy will beat you and this is what it comes down to what you know in sports and he said, listen, I. he says I understand but I trust myself I have to go through this and I just feel like this is my growth and I did it I didn't understand it at the time and then I was attracted to Pepe because I felt his energy was amazing and you can never get mad at him, you know, you talk to him, he's like you, you know, he always smiles and everything you know, even when we have difficult conversations, he always smiles and sends because he always prays inside and sends you love, yeah. and that's what he had to work for and he still continues to work for, I mean immensely and I didn't understand what he kept emphasizing inner work, inner growth, inner work, inner growth, universal love, I didn't really understand it, you know, and then and then obviously uh uh all this energy attracted my wife and me and we connected with pepe and with my brother on different levels and today you know, obviously, we understand, you know what he really means because we took that job, yeah. and we have to do it daily, yes, and I just wanted to briefly reflect on that inner work for the purpose or objective.

My goal for internal work until not long ago was tennis, wow, and that and me, the inner feeling that you can. Call it ego, whatever drew me to that feeling that I need to do this because it will help me play better tennis but it didn't resonate something that I was living a successful but unfulfilled life yeah, if you know what I mean, yeah, uh and and there was something wrong with that, I just felt like I felt the answers of that truth and the essence and what it really means to do that on a daily basis for yourself and your growth as a human being and not just as a tennis player or a doctor or whatever, but he wasn't, he was weaker compared to the other side, which he was since he was seven years old.

I go, I dreamed of being number one in the world, that is my ambition, that is the goal of my life, I have to fulfill it when I fulfilled it in 2011 I kept going I just want to be more grand slam I have war grand slam trophies I want to be the number one as long as you can just keep going and I think from my experience you need goals and objectives, you know, but you need to balance it with what really is the most important work, which is the inner work, yes and, uh, no. I managed it until a while ago.honest and that was when I started to understand it and that was when I started to understand Pepe's message, he was whatever you do, you do it with emotion, joy, passion, but at the same time never forget of what you have to do before, during and after that, which is a much bigger and longer job and no, now I really understand that yeah, give us, give us, for anyone who's listening and they're like no, I'm like You, I don't understand it.

Yes, yes, you know, because there are so many people today that I feel like it's spiritual energy. All these words fly around the Internet. People talk about it, but there are so many people who don't understand it. Explain it to us your way. look what inner work is and what inner work you do what you said before that during that after that has helped you not only in tennis you have spoken and reflected so wonderfully on this in many of your videos about the habits about the addictions that we have everything The day passes, we are not, we do not even remembera single moment of the day because we've just been distracted all the time, so you know, if we've learned and trained to distract ourselves, that is. how you know our life will unfold, we will get distracted, but if we train ourselves to be present and be more aware, we are obviously diverting attention from the subconscious and all the internal external energies and nature and everything towards that.

You know, in a simplified way, work on habits. I mean, I still have some habits that need to be worked on. You know. You know, for example, the telephone. Yes, that is very addictive and you go on Instagram. that, by the way, I love it, I love it, it's great, fantastic, that's how we connect, yes, yes, but if you let it become your teacher, then that's how it will be and you will be distracted, you will feel lacking. of energy you're going to feel a lack of inner peace you're going to feel upset you know you're going to have a brief respite you know all these different things and that's reflected in relationships that's reflected in you know your performance at your job or whatever you're doing. doing and and for me, I try to think inside, okay, what am I doing on the tennis court?

How can I translate that? And off the tennis court it's interesting and on the tennis court what I'm doing. the right thing is complete 100 focus and presence of mind and body and all discipline working towards the target organ organized preparing myself this is a big thing, I think you know that if you don't prepare, you prepare to fail, absolutely, so preparation is a huge thing, I mean. at least in my world of tennis it has helped me a lot because I don't want to put a number on it but let's say 80 to 90 of your match that you want for example or any success before stepping on the Of course, exactly, yes, exactly how do you do your homework, uh , you know, in my case, you know, um, obviously, working on all my strengths and weaknesses, uh, preparing myself physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually for the game that's coming up, I have all the short-term and long-term planning, How can I get from here to there in the shortest time possible?

That kind of stuff and then you know, obviously, do your homework on the guy, the opponent you're going to play against, where you're going to play, the stadium. fill the weather, you know, it's really a complete task that you have to do in order before you go in and then you win a tennis match and then it's not just about the tennis match, it's 89% of the work that you do before that. That's why I think you know that preparation is very important, working on habits. You know science says you need 20 or two or three days to change from a bad habit to a healthy habit, so we need perseverance.

We need discipline, you know we need, we need repetition and Bruce Lipton, which I also like to listen to a lot. He was talking about the subconscious, right? and how the subconscious controls probably 90 95 of our daily lives, so if we can feed our subconscious with the information that is going to allow us to excel and live the life we ​​want, then that is what is going to happen because your subconscious does not He knows what's good or bad for you, he only knows what you tell him, yeah and there are the seeds that you plant, so he was talking, you know, there are two ways to hack your subconscious, which is hypnosis, which happens since you know until you know you're seven years old and then repetition, that's why I I mean, my wife and I are very passionate about preschool education and early childhood development until you're six or seven years old, which is when Brain growth is vaster and that is where you know the foundations and foundations of your life are established.

That's where you know Bruce was talking about it very well and it made sense and then after the seventh year, it's repetition, it's discipline, okay, I'm turning off all my phones after a certain time, you know, I'm doing my job of prayer, uh. because I believe in the invisible world, science proves that quantum science talks about it, where most points of distance are actually one in a fraction of a second and we have all proven it, so you just need to really believe it to achieve it . you know where your attention is you know where your attention goes the energy flows and I think it all starts with an open mind and you have to do it I think with a question it's always great to ask yourself questions who am I why am I here what do I want to do what do I want to be? which was you know, just all these questions written on the paper, write them down, review them, you know it in your mind, whatever your method is, but you just have to address it if you don't.

Address it, you're going to do the same things that you did and then you're going to get the same result that you don't want, so I feel like that kind of awareness about that just helps you know that it helps. learn and you know I'm learning a lot from you on a daily basis too because you know I obviously follow your work and there are so many great messages out there and I feel like this is the time where we can expand our consciousness and get closer to who we are because you know the two questions most important and all this probably on this planet since the existence of humans.

You know who we are and why we are here absolutely, so I think truth looks for that element as well. And the part is also quite important because I want to say that I consider myself a seeker of truth. I like it. You know, trying to dig even deeper and deeper and understand who we are. Do you know why we are here? Is this a planet? Is this a kingdom? Know? Is this a matrix? No? You do not know? I think it's important for us to ask these questions and do your research and dig into that because even though you know, I think it comes down to you knowing whether you're your own teacher or not, so I think if you're your own teacher, then it allows you to take actions the way you want instead of you know I love the gym fast, which I really like too and he talks about the thermostat. and the thermometer so it doesn't determine it but it's the terminator set the temperature set the room temperature and set it the way you want and the thermostat if you set it then you have to set it to be reactive and I think that's great wisdom, yeah, great advice man, I loved what you said before, it's great advice and I hope everyone is listening and taking notes, but what you said before, I loved it, you said it for a long time.

You believed that the ego is the enemy, yes, and now you have begun to understand that you actually have to befriend the ego, yes, and I thought it was. I could not agree more with you. I could not agree more with you. Sometimes I think The ego is like a perfect mirror for yourself in the self that you don't want, but at least it starts teaching you. The ego can teach you a lot if you are aware of it, so I want to hear your insight into how you have behaved. I've been switching between egos, the enemy, and actually befriending the ego.

Well, this is because you have all the reasons to have a great year, as if you have all the reasons, and you are not a very humble person, but you have all of them. right and I am and I am and this is the point I didn't understand at the time and we talked about it a little bit and as you reflected, I have a big ego, but I have to accept it. that and learning to be friends with it and deal with it in a way that I'm going to work, work and team up with my ego instead of being an enemy to my ego because, again, I'm reacting, so the ego, can you persuade you and do different things and mask?

You know certain things are very clever and clever and then you have to react and then you have to try to try to manage and juggle so many. things instead of hey, let's team up you're inside me I'm you're me okay, let's figure this out how can we work together? and you have to know please, and at the same time you have to control and although I don't really like the word world control, I still feel like you know that if you create your controlled environment, it will be better for you in your life, yes, I have the that ended.

Wrapping up with each interview is called my final five, so the five, the first five, so these are five quick questions, yeah, you have to answer, so the first question I was going to answer is, what's the first thing you do you do every morning? What I do every morning is prayer. Beautiful second question. Why do you pray first? I express my gratitude for my body, for myself, for the opportunity to continue my evolution as a multidimensional being in this realm. I am grateful for my family. I'm grateful to be able to have my senses and have a big bed and have a beautiful sunrise every morning.

Is incredible. Third, how do you make sure your energy is where you want it to be spiritually internally? um, I'm still working on um. The things we talked about, aside from physical work and tennis, and duties as a father and husband, I need to do something daily in my self-care work, whether it's just a meditation or two minutes. Breathing prayer, whatever it is, is sometimes just because you don't have time, but you know it's important to keep doing it and be disciplined. What is the best advice you have received? Keep an open mind. I love that theme, that's the theme of this, openness is like a theme, surely when you have an open mind, you are ready to receive everything that surrounds us in such a beautiful world and we are so blessed. uh, that we live in this world and that we go through the process of evolution and I think that when you get closer to the realization that you know who you are, I think that you continue to search for that truth, it just brings you closer to the source of where you came from and makes you so present. and it makes you so calm and it makes you so happy and grateful for yourself for the people around you for everything you have, what you do, what surrounds you, what fills you, I feel like that is the essence of our life is amazing and the fifth question the fifth and final question is if your racket was a magic wand and you could make everyone understand one thing, what would you like everyone to understand?

That our consciousness expands infinitely beautiful, straight to the point. What do you mean by that? What do you want to be understood and am I going to give you the opportunity? Gosh, we don't have enough time for our conscious spending to mean infinitely good, at least in my own perception, that's it. We are more than what we think or feel with our five senses than we really are and when I feel that when I realized this it opened the door to a completely different universe for me and I mentioned it to myself and I feel that my evolution and My growth in all aspects of who I am and who I am has quadrupled in light years ahead.

I feel calm at the same time, but very excited about everything that life has to offer and that I can learn. Thanks Novak, I still have to do a second part, please dive into all that, we are going to have to make it happen, yes, thank you very much, friend, I am very grateful, friend, thank you for your time and energy, I know you have so many things. about his incredible wife, I love you so much, infinite love, if you want more videos like this, click on the boxes here and if you want to continue seeing these types of stories, you can subscribe by clicking on the link here.