The Demartini Show Defining Life on Your Own Terms - EP 324
Jan 30, 2026
Explores choosing personal design over duty and escaping internalized external authorities. Discusses empowering yourself across intellect, finance, relationships and spirit. Contrasts distractions with equanimity and prioritization. Examines authenticity in relationships and the permission to be fully yourself.
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Design Your Life By Your Highest Value
- Living by other people's shoulds diminishes fulfillment because you act from duty, not design.
- John Demartini says your highest value (telos) must drive action to avoid a confused hierarchy of values.
Empower Yourself Rather Than Subordinate
- Stop subordinating to outer authorities and empower yourself intellectually and spiritually.
- Do identify and live aligned with your hierarchy of values so you actualize your full potential, not relative potential.
Disempowerment Invites External Control
- Disempowerment in any area invites others to overpower you in that domain.
- Demartini links distractions to pleasure-pain seeking impulses that pull you off your priorities.