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When they like you more, you're going to make more money. Hello, my friend. It's Kevin Ward, the founder of yes Masters Real Estate Success Training, helping you get more yeses and more successes in your business and in your life. And today, I have a very simple question for you. How likable are you? And the answer to that question can largely be answered by the next question. How much do you like other people? In other words, when you meet somebody, when you first are introduced to somebody, or you see somebody, or you bump into somebody, or you talk to somebody, a new acquaintance, do you tend to automatically like people and give people the benefit of the doubt, believe in them? Or do you tend to look at people and start out with them like you're skeptical, maybe a little cynical, and just not really quite sure you like them. And I know you've done this. You've met people, you run across people, you see people and you say hi to them. And just by the way that they respond to you, you go like, you know, I don't think I want to be friends with them. And the reason is because they come across as like, you interrupted their day or as like, they think you're probably the enemy and they're just waiting for proof. And I know that I've had friends like that. I've had friends whose first impression was of everyone was super critical, that it was like I'd actually hear them say. And I remember this also, back in my younger days, back when I was in high school and junior high, is you'd hear people go like, they meet somebody new, or there's a new kid in school shows up in class, and one of the kids sitting there like, I don't like her. I don't like him. Why not? I don't know. I just don't. There's just something about him. I just don't like him. Is that you? Are you the person that likes everybody? Are you the person that doesn't like anybody? Because I'm going to tell you that one of the greatest realities in life is if you want more people to like you, and here's the bottom line. You want more business, you want to make more money, like people more. Because when you like people more, they are going to like you more. It's just an automatic fact. I think one of the greatest quotes that I've ever heard was from a guy named Will Rogers, and it's a pretty famous quote. He said, I never met a man I didn't like. And he said, I'm so convicted by that he said, that is what is going to be inscribed on my gravestone. I never met a man I didn't like. Now, this was back in the 1920s, 1930s, long before you would have to be gender neutral or anything on that. So he never met a person he didn't like. Okay, that's the point. Now, here's what's crazy about Will Rogers. Will Rogers was his lifetime one of the most famous, one of the most popular people in the world, certainly one of the most popular people in America. Now, what's crazy about that is that Will Rogers did not have everything going his way in the 1920s. Will Rogers was a Native American. He identified himself as a Cherokee Indian. Now, this was back in the 1920s and the 1930s, when prejudice against Native Americans was still rampant. And you know that growing up. And he was born in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, what they called Indian Territory back then. And you know that growing up, he faced racism, he faced prejudice just because of his background, just because of who he was. And yet he never took on that identity of being the victim. He never took on the identity of saying, if there was anybody at any time in the world that would have the right to be cynical, that would have the right to be negative and to play the victim and to be like, the world's against me. It would be somebody like Will Rogers. But instead, what Will Rogers decided to do was he decided to. To be positive toward everybody. He decided that his worldview, his view of life was to give people the benefit of the doubt was, when I meet somebody, I like them. Now, it doesn't mean yet to be naive. It doesn't mean you're, you know, you just blindly trust people. But it simply means you choose to open up to people with a positive attitude that says, I like you. I just treat you as a friend, even though we've never, never met. Now, I'm one of those people that if I see somebody, a friend requests me. Of course, I can't do this anymore because I'm maxed out on friends. But for a long time, when people would send me a friend request, I just assumed they wanted to be my friend. And I felt like there were two kinds of friends in the world. There were friends that I knew, and there were friends that I hadn't met yet. And that's just the way I look at it. And the question is, how do you look at it? Because we live in a world where, yeah, there's bad characters out there and not everybody you can tr. And all of that is True, but how do you start out? Do you start out believing or do you start out cynical? I'm just going to give you two really simple principles for how to make people like you more. Number one, be yourself. Just be you. Be the best you stand for. Stand for what you believe in, stand for who you are and be yourself. And number two, like people. It's so simple. Be positive about other people. Look, it doesn't mean to be. Again, it doesn't mean to be naive or to be gullible. You can be vigilant and still be friendly and kind and happy to meet somebody all at the same time. And when you approach life with this attitude of I've never met a person I didn't like and that's just your approach of how you go into a conversation, how you go into an interaction with another human being, it will change everything about how respond to you. You like people more and they will like you more. And when they like you more, they're going to say yes to you. When they like you more, they're going to want to do business with you. When they like you more, you're going to make more money. Yeah, it really is that simple. So I hope this video has been helpful for you. If you like it, if you agree with it, if this is powerful for you, make sure you give the video a thumbs up. Comment below. I'd love to see your comments, questions, share this with other people because, you know, there's some people that, you know, I know some people like this too that need to see this video because if they like people more, they would get better results.
