I woke up one morning a few years ago, and something was off.
On paper, everything looked great. Mindvalley was growing. The books were selling. I had a beautiful family, an incredible team, a life most people would envy.
But inside? I felt hollow. Reactive. Constantly chasing the next goal, the next milestone, the next validation.
I had spent years building something extraordinary — and I couldn’t even enjoy it.
That’s when I started asking a different question.
Not “How do I achieve more?” but “What state am I operating from?”
That question changed everything.
“Your goals will only match your frequency.”
This single insight rewired how I approach everything: business, relationships, and life itself.
When you set goals from anxiety, you create more things to be anxious about.
When you make decisions from confusion, you create more confusion.
When you build from scarcity, you attract scarcity.
But when you shift the state you’re operating from? Everything changes.
I’ve now shared this framework in seminar rooms in London, at island retreats in Mykonos, with entrepreneurs, with artists, with people who run billion-dollar companies and people just starting out.
The response is always the same:
“It makes me feel different. It makes me look at my life through a different lens. For the longest time, I’ve been chasing goals. Now I finally understand the truth.”
The Truth Nobody Talks About
Here it is: Most people try to change their external circumstances while operating from a broken internal state.
They set goals from anxiety and create more things to be anxious about.
They make decisions from confusion and create more confusion.
They build relationships from scarcity and attract scarcity.
Think about it. When you sit down to plan your new year, what state are you usually in?
Exhausted. Scattered. Anxious about whether things will work out. Still carrying wounds from past failures.
And from that place you try to design your dream life?
| Here’s the thing: You don’t need better goals. You need a better state. When you upgrade your internal operating system, your goals, decisions, and actions automatically upgrade with it. This is the leverage point most people miss entirely. |
The ancient Greeks had a word for this ideal state: Ataraxia, a serene calmness that cannot be disturbed by external events.
I call it being unfuckwithable.
And after 22 years of studying human transformation, I’ve identified exactly seven internal states that create it.
The 7 Sacred States
Each one is trainable. Each one compounds the others. Together, they create a way of being that transforms not just what you achieve but who you become.
State #1: Knowingness
Understanding who you are at the deepest level.
The universe reflects who you ARE, not what you want. When you stand in your worth with unshakeable certainty, opportunities align, because you’re no longer sending mixed signals to the world.
“The world cannot give you what you’re not willing to claim.”
State #2: Faith
Trusting before you have proof.
What’s meant for you cannot miss you. What misses you was never yours. When you embody faith, you stop white-knuckling life, and paradoxically, that’s when things start flowing.
“Doubt is just faith pointed in the wrong direction.”
State #3: Love
Generating love within and beaming it outward.
HeartMath research shows this literally changes your biology and the biology of people around you. When you operate from love, doors open that force could never unlock.
“Love is not something you find. It’s something you become.”
State #4: Stillness
Becoming the eye of the storm.
Your best ideas, clearest decisions, and deepest intuition all come from the quiet. The warrior’s secret weapon isn’t aggression; it’s the ability to remain still when everyone else is panicking.
“The answers you seek are already within you. They’re just waiting for you to get quiet enough to hear them.”
State #5: Non-Attachment
I want it. Working for it. But not needing it.
Steve Jobs got fired from Apple. He shrugged, started Pixar, and eventually returned to build the most valuable company on Earth. When rejection loses its sting, you become antifragile.
“Hold your dreams like water, tightly enough to carry them, loosely enough to let them flow.”
State #6: Devotion
Discipline elevated to a sacred practice.
When your work becomes worship and your commitment becomes unbreakable, you tap into a reservoir of energy that willpower alone can never access. This is the state that creates legacies.
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
State #7: Receiving
Opening your cup and letting it fill.
Most people unconsciously block what life wants to give them. Receiving is the active practice of allowing, and it’s often the missing piece for people who work hard but never get what they deserve.
“You cannot pour from an empty cup, and you cannot fill a cup you won’t hold out.”
Here’s what’s remarkable:
Each state amplifies the others.
Knowingness makes Faith easier.
Faith makes Non-Attachment natural.
Non-Attachment opens up Receiving.
Together, they compound into something extraordinary — a state of being that is genuinely unfuckwithable.
This is the core framework from my upcoming book, The Art of Becoming Unfuckwithable.
But the book won’t be out until 2027. And I don’t want you to wait that long.
The Art Of Becoming Unfuckwithable By Vishen Lakhiani
Coming 2027

My next book introduces the complete 7 Sacred States methodology.
But you don’t have to wait.
I’m going to LIVE for free to teach you the entire framework before the new year.
Why Now?
We’re about to enter a new year. And right now, millions of people are preparing to set goals, make resolutions, and try to change their lives.
Most of them will fail.
Not because they lack willpower. Because they’re trying to create change from the wrong state.
What if you could enter 2025 differently?
What if, instead of setting goals from exhaustion and anxiety, you set them from Knowingness, Faith, and Stillness?
What if you approached your biggest challenges with Non-Attachment and Devotion?
What if you were finally open to Receiving everything life wants to give you?
The 7 Sacred States Challenge

Starting Tomorrow, Dec 18 till Dec 24, I’m running a free 7-day challenge where I’ll guide you through each of these states, one per day.
This isn’t a surface-level overview. Each day, you’ll get:
- The philosophy: the deeper meaning behind each state and why it matters.
- The science: what modern research tells us about how these states work.
- The stories: tales from history, culture, and my encounters with prominent people who embody these states, to make each lesson land.
- A daily ritual: a 10-15 minute practice you can use immediately.
- Live Q&A: where I’ll answer your questions directly
By December 24th, you’ll have a complete toolkit for becoming unfuckwithable. And you’ll enter 2025 from a state you may never have experienced before.
And I’m offering it completely free.
Join the 7 Sacred States Challenge
December 18-24, 2024 • Completely Free
Reset your state before you set your goals.
Here’s my promise to you:
If you show up for all seven days and do the practices, you will not be the same person on December 24th that you were on December 18th.
The way you think will shift. The way you feel will shift. The way you approach your goals, your relationships, your challenges — all of it will shift.
Because you’ll finally be operating from the state that makes everything else possible.
Most people will spend New Year’s Eve making promises to a version of themselves that doesn’t exist yet.
You? You’ll already be that person.
That’s the difference between hoping for change and embodying it
Don’t enter 2026 the way you entered 2024.
Enter it unfuckwithable.
I’ll see you tomorrow on Day 1 of the challenge (Dec 18).







87 Responses
Will we be able to watch the replay as this will be 3am here in Australia?
thank you vishen for pushing on to improve us all. maybe check the year dates in your post, i think they are a bit confused 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Non-attachment is the one for me, still the same dream, yet letting go of the way in which it will show up for me. Along with non-attachment comes faith and knowingness. They all seem intertwined and equally important to me.
Hi, the title of this is disrespectful to someone like myself who values Discipline in language.
For me knowingness is the one I lack the most…
#6 Devotion. It’s something that I struggle. I have phase where I really work hard but it follow by state of procrastination
I can see how each state blends into the other. This quickens excitement within me. Motivating me to take this journey into more of my becoming. I don’t feel I’m missing any of them but in a state of revealing each quickening within my being. I am most grateful to be nudged into a state of remembrance.
#6 devotion is most challenging for me. Every morning and every night my intention is to meditate and journal, connect with Spirit, and every day I don’t. I have such guilt and pressure about that. I don’t understand why I don’t do it because when I was doing it I absolutely loved it. I’m really looking forward to this presentation. 🙏
Devotion is the one of the seven I have most problems with for sure.
I ex used to learn more about every one of these steps but choice of one would be Stillness – I experienced something special when I felt and saw chaos all around me during covid and had a leader spoke from a point if calmness, anchoring and stilling me in the midst of chaos.
Greetings Vishen
I get the in my mansion are many rooms. Sometimes I notice that I am in the wrong room (state) and immediately re enter my room of love and joy. Other times I notice but don’t return. What I require is a solid lock for my favourite room. Or the ability to wander through the mansion and still feel like I am in the right place
One Love
Vishen, these states you just described have most literally what this whole year has been about for me. The knowing that I am worthy of anything and everything my heart desires. The faith and certainty that if I have the desire, it is 100% meant for me. The love that is all around me the love that flows through me from the universe from others. That is a true prosperity are true abundance. Allowing myself to receive this love, prosperity and abundance, and with an unshakable truth that I deserve it. I deserve all of it. The clarity that comes with knowing what I really want and claiming it for myself and lastly, the devotion I feel that if there’s one area that I’ve struggled with a bit is the devotion practice. it i’ve had so much growth and already the universe/infinite intelligence this all around me shows me on a daily basis. How loved and blessed I am I have so much gratitude for my journey so far. I still feel myself getting a little lost in the weeds with the devotion part. I find it’s such a dance of doing but not doing too much. Not OVERdoing and OVERgiving and being desperate with my devotion. That is my old way and i’m a mom, a small business owner trying to grow and develop a bigger better business that can allow me the true freedom I crave and I desire. and I get lost a bit it doing and being all the things and staying on track with my devotion to help co-create the physical things in the 3D world. I would love for you to speak more on devotion while keeping the other sacred laws in practice. Thank you, thank you thank you for everything you share and do for our community.
The Love state speaks to me loudest.
Oh boy…..your 7 sacred state challenge could not have aligned better….beyond excited!! 2025 was a year of self discovery 2026 ready to become unf**kwithable with a leap into shaking the world in the right direction towards togetherness!! A BIG THANK YOU Vishen with plenty of gratitude 💫 I’m looking forward to obtaining knowledge about all 7 aspects from the Jedi master 🙌🏻 Peace & Love ☮️✨💖 Keep shining
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Eager to hear these sessions & implement. Particularly state 7 requires more clarity to me.
I want to fine-tune my frequency. The past 18 months have thrown me into a whirlwind of inner struggles, self doubt and lack of closeness & intimacy with my wife. We are overcoming the hurdles and I want to go all in.
This completely resonates with me — especially as someone who has done the deeper work, including the 12 Steps. Probably the area I need to work on the most is “Receiving,” which is grounded in not feeling worthy enough. I know this is a sweeping generalization, but many women overgive and underreceive. I have taken care of a lot of people at the expense of myself over the course of my lifetime.
Sounds like good insights and information but the unf*ck is a poor choice of words that cheapens it. I also think that this word is not in alignment with the content. just a poor choice of words.