Get Rich Starting From $0 Part 3

Hey there. I want to continue what we started like two weeks ago. I'm teaching you how to get rich starting from zero. And I've had a lot of comments and I want to address this because I've had a lot of comments, people saying, when is this guy going to get to how to get rich starting from zero? And I find that fascinating and I can appreciate the lack of patience and I appreciate your desire to get it. But I started getting to it when I first opened my mouth two weeks ago. The idea that how to get rich starting from zero. I mean, think about it. You're an adult. Think about whatever age you are. Think about however long you've been working. I started working when I was 14. I'm 63. So I started working like, what is that, 39 years ago. Got my first job, Right? And so the idea that you can work for most of your life and barely eke out a meager existence, and then somebody's going to get on a 30 minute video and tell you how to get rich starting from zero in 30 minutes. I think that desire is delusional. There's so much to it. There's so many nuances. What I'm attempting to do in this video is I'm attempting to show you, like, how do you get rich starting from zero? If it were just one, just step one, step two, step three, step four, if it were that simple and that easy, everybody would already be doing it. But there's so much more to it than that. And so I'm going to read you some numbers because I had my accountant give me some more numbers. So. And right. Currently, currently, if you average out our revenue for the last four and a half years, it's a little over $9 million per year. Okay, a little over 9 million for the last four years. But when I look at that like individual revenue, 2020 $1,584,060.37. That's what we generated in revenue for 2020. 2021. $6,058,554. That's 2021, 2022. $15,630,227.42. 2023 $12,814,787.27 so far in 2024. Is this 2024? Yeah. 2024 so far in 2024. $6,463,680.94 a total over the last four and a half years. $42,551,310.90. And the reason I'm giving you those specific numbers is because anybody can talk about how to make $10 million, anybody can talk about how to make 50 million, 100 million, but nobody makes num generates revenue in even numbers for a whole year. It just doesn't work like that. So I'm giving you specific numbers so you can understand that there are specific things that you have to do. And yes, it's taking like three. So, yeah, you may have to go back and watch part one again, and you may have to go back and watch part two again, and you may have to go back and watch part three again, and maybe there'll be a part four. Maybe I'll get through all of it today. But regardless, like, you have to put in the work, and the work, the most valuable work you will ever do is the work you do on yourself. And so becoming the person who can even receive what I'm talking about is a bigger part of the work than me giving you steps that you think you're going to go fulfill just because you know what they are. The reality is, if I only talk to you about what to do instead of about who to become. What's up, Steve? Instead of who to become, right? If I don't talk to you about who to become before I talk to you about what you have to do, if you're not the person who can do it, you're not going to do it anyway, even if you know what to do. And that's most people's story, right? It ain't what like, it's not. People say, I don't understand the Bible, okay? But it's not the parts of the Bible you don't understand. You got a problem with. It's the parts you do understand. It's not the parts of life that you don't understand that you have a problem with. It's the parts you do understand you ain't doing. And so what we gotta do is we gotta get to the place where we understand that becoming the person who is able and willing to do the thing is as critical as the steps. In fact, more critical than the steps on how to do the thing. And until you get that down, it doesn't matter who talks. It doesn't matter if it's me, if it's Alex Hormozi, if it's Jordan Peterson, doesn't matter if it's Dan Lok, it doesn't matter who it is. Anybody teaching you how to create wealth. If you don't Become the person. It doesn't matter who's teaching you, you're still not gonna do it. Because the formula that God gave in Genesis chapter one is be, do, have, which means, don't be, can't do, can't do, can't have. Be a little, do a little, do a little, have a little, be a lot, do a lot, do a lot, have a lot. And so the number one objective that would be beneficial for all of us to have is, how can I become more than I've been being? Okay, so now that I said all that, let's get into how to get rich, starting from zero. And I read the passage, and I'm not going to read the whole thing because I did that on parts 1 and 2. But Deuteronomy 8, 18. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God. For it is he that giveth thee the power to get wealth that he may establish his covenant, which he swear unto thy fathers, as it is this day. Let me start with that part. The reason God promised to give his children wealth was not just so they could buy new stuff, but so he could establish his covenant which he swear unto their fathers. What does that mean? Well, if you go back and you read Genesis chapter 12 and Genesis chapter 13, and then you read Genesis chapter 14, you will see that in Genesis chapter 12, God called a man named Abram.

I believe that Abram's name was the source of Abram's shame and the source of Abram's pain. Because his name means high father. But he couldn't have any children. And so he's the high father with no children. And so every time somebody called his name, it reminded him of who he was. Not right. And so just like there are people in your life right now who won't let you forget who you were in the past so you can step into who you're supposed to be in the present and the future. God said to Abram, you've got to get out of the land of the familiar. You've got to leave your country. You got to leave your kindred. You got to leave your father's house. And the reason you have to leave those four things is because if you stay there, they will will not let you step into your new identity that I'm going to give you.

Which is Father of many nations. I'm not going to take you from being the high father with no children to being the father of many nations. And God said, if you will leave the land of the familiar. By the way, do you understand God is calling all of us from the land of the familiar. If what you knew worked to do what you're supposed to do, you'd already be doing it, right. It's the stuff you're familiar with that's got you stuck like Chuck in a pickup truck. It's the stuff you know how to do that's got you broke as a joke and ready to joke. So we got to learn something. We got to learn how to become a different kind of a new kind of person. It's not about just learning how some new stuff to do. Okay? So God said, if you will leave, I'll bless you in ways you can't bless yourself. I'll give you things you can't get yourself. I'm going to take the source of your shame, make the source of your fame. He said, I'm going to bless those that bless you and curse those that curse you. And in you, all the families of the earth will be blessed. That was God's call on Abram's life. The very next chapter says in Genesis, chapter 13, verse number two, it says, and Abram was very rich in cattle and silver and gold. God gave Abram the power to create wealth. So much so that that was in Genesis, chapter 13. That in Genesis, chapter 14, when Abraham waged war against five nations with 300 and, I think, 18 servants that were born in his house, he waged war against five nations and won. And then wouldn't accept any reward from the kings of the kingdoms who he saved because he didn't want them to say they made Abraham rich.

Why? Because he wants the world to know that my blessing comes from above. It doesn't come from around me. It comes from above me. Okay, so because God promised to bless Abraham. God and Abraham's seed after him. And according to Galatians, chapter two, by the way, Christianity does not replace the Jews. So don't get that in your goofy little doctrine. That's a goofy little doctrine, right? Goofy little churchy Antioch. We replaced the Jews. Yeah, the Brits thought that too, but they didn't either. Anyway, another conversation for a different day. There's no replacing the Jews. That's God's tree. And then when you receive Christ as Savior, then you get grafted into their tree. You don't replace their tree. By the way, there's so much in the Bible about trees. Mind blowing.

So? So when you understand that we're grafted in his tree, the scripture says we are the seed of Abraham by faith in Christ Jesus.

And heirs with him of the Same promise. God keeps his promise to establish his covenant. Not just so you can have a Lamborghini or Rolls Royce or Mercedes Benz or BMW. Nothing wrong with those things. But those are not the purpose of the wealth God has blessed you to create. The purpose of the wealth that God has blessed you to create is to establish his covenant, which he swear unto our fathers, as it is this day. That's the reason. Okay, now, and a covenant, by the way, is not a contract. It's the opposite of a contract. A contract's an agreement between two or more individuals based upon a mutual distrust. A covenant is an agreement between two or more individuals based upon a mutual love interest. And when you enter into covenant with somebody, you're literally swearing on your own existence. You're swearing on your life to keep your promise. And if you don't keep your promise, you're you die the death of a mutilated animal. So when God says, I'm doing this to establish my covenant, God's literally saying, if I'm lying, I'm dying. In fact, the word truth is Aleph, mem tav and Aleph is God. And Mem tav is the word met, which means death. Which implies. It doesn't mean this, but it implies that if God does not keep his word, then God himself has to die. And if God dies, everything ceases to exist. So literally, the existential nature of the universe is, is predicated upon God keeping His word. Okay, so now that was a whole mouthful. Let's get into.

The. We talked about last week, proficiency and skill set, innovation, marketing and sales and money management. Now we're going to talk about proficiency of your tool set. You need to have proficiency in your tool sets that you use for building your awareness. Everything. All transformation begins with awareness. You have to become aware of what's missing. You have to become aware of what's possible. You have to become aware of what's possible for you. You have to become aware of who you have to become. You have to become aware of what you have to do. And then you have to become aware of what you can have. You don't have to become aware of all of those at the same time, but your awareness has to be becoming increasingly more and more. And if you are like, do you understand that the awareness that we have of the things that we have awareness of also make us unaware of the things that things we don't have awareness of. Like our awareness is a blind spot. The biggest hindrance to learning is thinking that you already know. And you may actually already know. But the things that you know, you have to become hyper intentional not to let those things keep you from learning what you don't know. And so.

It'S interesting when you have conversations with people and you can see clearly that they're previously programmed, preconceived notions that they think are original thoughts that they were born with, that they learn from somebody else who may or may not have had their best interest in mind. They operate as if that is the gospel truth, right? Like, well, this is what I believe. Oh, you got to work hard for eight hours, work for eight hours pay. I get that that's what you believe, but you weren't born believing that. So where did that belief come from? And does it serve you? And does it give you the ability to serve other people? And does it give you the ability to serve your family at the highest level? I get that that's what you believe, right?

Making money is evil. Okay, that's great, I understand that you believe that, but you weren't born believing that, that money is inherently evil. Somebody programmed you to believe that. And the dangers of being programmed to believe that is, we will never work to produce intentionally something that we despise subconsciously. And so if you subconsciously despise wealth, it doesn't matter who teaches you what, you're not going to create wealth because you will be a double minded man. You'll have a desire for the wealth, but at the same time you'll have a disdain for the same wealth. And the scripture says a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Let not that man think he shall receive anything of the Lord. So what I've got to do is I've got to figure out how can I get my understanding of doctrine to be more congruent. How can I get my understanding of the way life works to be more in line with the way life works and less in line with the way the people who I learned from thought life worked. Even though that may or may not be how life worked. I wish I had some help in here. And so.

You'Ve got to increase your awareness. And the only way to increase your awareness is by learning what you don't know. And the only way to learn what you don't know is to be okay with the idea that what you currently believe may not be so. If it is so, you don't have to worry about it not being so. If it's so like I don't have, like I believe the Bible, but I'm open to somebody coming and challenging Me, by the way, if you don't know the Bible, if you've never studied the Bible, like, I don't know the Bible, but I'm a pretty diligent student of it, and I've studied it for a long time. I'm open to somebody having a conversation with me that doesn't believe the Bible. Why? I'm not afraid of what they might say. Why? Because I've made myself infinite. I've made myself.

What's the word? Not Infinitely familiar. I've made myself consciously and unconsciously familiar with the principles of Scripture over a long enough period of time that I'm not worried about somebody shaking my faith. But even when I read the Bible, I attempt to approach it without a preconceived notion, even of the things I already believe, so that the spirit of God can show me what I don't know yet. I don't approach it seeking to prove what I know. I approach it seeking to learn what I don't know. And the same thing is true in business. Like, yes, I'm successful, but could I be more successful? Yes, our business makes a lot of money. Could it make more money? Say, well, I don't think it matters if you can make more money. I'm going to let you go ahead and keep believing that delusion. I don't even have time to work on that right now. But just like every other aspect of my life, my desire is to max out my life financially without it being detrimental to the other aspects of my life that are as important. And so if you're like, how much money do you want to make? As much as I can.

That's my total answer. And I know a lot of people don't like that. I know a lot of people watching YouTube. I can't believe you said that. This guy is such a prosperity gospel. Whatever, do your thing.

But if your only argument is against someone's opinion, is calling them a name that in your mind disqualifies their opinion, you might want to go back and study some.

Okay, just saying, like, maybe you should come up with a logical argument. Like, come up with some actual reasons why you disagree as opposed to just emotionally disagreeing, because that's what the people who programmed you, programmed you to believe and feel. Hashtag, just saying. Okay, so increase your awareness. How? Read more books. Turn your television off if you are struggling financially. A television, like a tv, you're. Or watching movies on Netflix on your computer or your phone or Amazon. You're watching other people live fake lives. And that time that you're spending watching them live fake lives, live fake lives is keeping you from developing a real life.

You're watching other people live their dreams while you're living a nightmare. It doesn't make any sense. Well, it doesn't make sense to me. Maybe it does make sense. Maybe there's something I'm missing. That possibility does exist. However, I don't believe it's the case. So.

Your awareness has to increase. Your awareness of the possibilities increase when you read more books, when you attend more seminars, when you study more, when you have think time. Do you have think time? Do you have time to just sit down and think about the things you think about? Because most people don't think, they just think. They think.

So you build your awareness. You need to use tools for building awareness. Or primary tool for me for building awareness is books, audio books and physical books. I personally don't like ebooks. I mean, they're out there and I have some ebooks that I produce because some people like them. I don't like reading ebooks because I feel like I'm on the same page the entire time. And I know that's my own internal weirdness. I'm willing to own that. I'm willing to own that. But you know what I like about a physical book? When I get halfway through my left hand and my right hand can tell I'm halfway through. I like that. And I know it's probably an old school thing. Some of you young people are thinking, that's really goofy. I know, but I'm old and goofy, so deal with it. Okay? So build your awareness. Books, ebooks. Start there. Here's why I recommend start with books. Because even if you don't have money, your town probably, probably has a library. They will let you borrow the books for free. What? When I was broke, guess what I did? I used my library card. I'd go to the library, I'd borrow the books for free. I'd read them, I'd take notes, I'd apply what I learned. And lo and behold, I eventually made enough money to buy my own books. Now I got my own library. Are you tracking? And so increase your awareness. Tool sets for increasing your awareness. Number two tool sets for increasing your audience. There are tools that we have today for increasing your audience that have never existed in the history of the world. And now, like anybody who has any business, can attract clients and build an audience around the world. It's kind of mind blowing. It's kind of mind blowing to me that right now, while I'M talking to a group of people in this room. I don't know, it looks like maybe 40 people in this room. There's probably another thousand 1200 people watching me on the Internet all around the world right now. That's mind blowing to me. When has that existed ever? Right, so you want to learn to use the tools that can build your audience. Why? Because all of the money that you desire to make and don't have right now, it's in somebody else's pocket. They're only going to hand it over if you hit them in the head. Otherwise, hold them up or provide something to them that's of more value than the money that they'd have to pay you for that value. I don't want to hold anybody up. I don't want to hit anybody in the head. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to keep on creating value for other people so that they can hand over money to me and I can hand over something to them that's more valuable to them than the money that they gave me. Are you all tracking everybody say yes. Okay, cool. So you use the tools to build your audience. What kind of tools am I talking about? I'm talking about email marketing. I'm talking about audience building on YouTube. I'm talking about audience building on Instagram. I'm talking about audience building on LinkedIn. I'm talking about audience building on podcasts. I'm talking about audience building on Facebook. Like, any way possible. Audience building by being a guest, a virtual guest on other people's platforms. All of these are ways or tools that exist. I don't like social media. Guess what? Neither do I. But guess what? The people I serve like social media. So guess what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna get on social media so they can find me. Like, I'm not. I, like. I do watch a lot of YouTube videos because I'm watching YouTube videos to learn things I don't know. So I watch a lot of YouTube. I don't mean a little. I mean a lot. Like, I watch guitar videos on YouTube. I watch business videos on YouTube. I watch investment videos on YouTube. Why? To learn the things that I don't know. I know that the vast ocean of information and knowledge that I don't know is so much greater than the little teaspoon of knowledge I have. That, man, it's not like every day I want to go swimming in that knowledge pool every day. Go swimming, Go swimming. See if I can soak up some more knowledge okay, so audience building. So I want to. I want to use the tool set. I want to master and become proficient. And by the way, when it comes to building.

An audience, what if your objective was to.

What's the word I'm looking for? What if your objective was to diligently put out content.

And then allow the feedback that comes back from that content to mean what it means and nothing else? What does that mean? So you put out content, One person likes it. You think, nobody likes my content. I'm not doing this anymore. Well, that's one way to look at it. But what if you looked at the fact, okay, people didn't like my content because I was talking to them about stuff I wanted to talk about instead of talking to them about stuff they wanted to hear about. Oh, my next piece of content I can make better by just making it more for them than for me. Instead of attempting to get the world interested in my stuff, show the world that I'm interested in their stuff.

Did anybody else hear choir singing when I said that? It's like, the reality is I am blown away by how people who think that they want to be entrepreneurs, but they're really entrepreneurs, they go out into the marketplace touting things that they want to tout and are mad at the world because nobody wants to hear about it. It's mind blowing. Like, let the feedback mean what the feedback means. I did 17 presentations. Nobody bought. Great. That's feedback. What does it mean? It means you have to get better at sales or you are going to starve. That's what it means. Like you say, well, I put out a video and I only got 10 views. I've done conferences, I've done events. Hear me now. That had six people in them, nine people, and made thousands of dollars in an hour. But we think somehow 10 people on YouTube doesn't matter. Well, if we look, if we look at those 10 views, like, oh, that's 10 people. My audience grew. You get 10 new subscribers a month. That's 10 new people per month. Who said, ooh, I want to know when you create something new. See, to you, that's not that big of a deal. You know why? Because you're too busy doing what the scripture tells you not to do. What tells us isn't wise to do. They that compare themselves among themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, are not wise. I could sit here and compare myself with other people.

My content is just as good as theirs now. 10 times the number of subscribers, I could do that. Or I could just get better.

And see.

Do you realize that having a desire to be good is the enemy of the desire to get better?

Did you hear what I just said? The desire to be good and for people to think you're good is the enemy to the desire to get better. My desire is to get better. So I know I'm gonna tell you something. Now we have 691,000 subscribers on YouTube. I'm not good at YouTube yet. And I know some of you are thinking, well, if you're not good at YouTube, there's no hope for me. No, if I'm not good at YouTube, that's all the hope for you. That's all the hope for you, because you can get better. I've been on YouTube for.

17 years.

I didn't even know for the first 15 years that YouTube monetization was a thing. I did not know it existed. Like, I know some of you are thinking, dude, how could you not know that? I just didn't know. You don't know what you don't know. But guess what? When I decided I'm going to be consistent on YouTube, my objective was not, I'm going to be consistent on YouTube. If I get 1,000 subscribers a month, I'm going to be consistent on YouTube. If I can get 10,000 subscribers a month, no, I'm going to be consistent on YouTube for 10 years. And after 10 years, I'm going to go back and look at how well it's working. I'm going to double down on the stuff that's working. And by the way, you don't have to wait for 10 years. You can do it on the way. And guess what? Fortunately for me, because most of the gravitropic work that I did, if you don't know what gravitropic means, go watch my video on the gardener who is the garden. I think that's the name of it. But anyway.

Gravitropic means the stuff that happens in the dark when nobody's watching. The gravitropic work that I did, I did before I got on YouTube. I did before I realized YouTube had monetization. So when I turned the camera on, the roots that could produce the fruit were already deep enough to produce a very high tree. Like, my YouTube channels, like, what do you call it? The Japanese bamboo tree. You water it for five years and nothing happens. And then the fifth year, boom, it grows 90ft, right? So, but you got to keep cultivating it. When it looks like nothing's happening, but something is happening, it's just happening out of your sight. Don't worry. Don't let the things that you see discourage you from the things that you can't see. That's what it means when it says we walk by faith and not by sight. He's. Paul's not commending us for doing that. He's commanding us to do that. That's what we're supposed to be doing. Are y' all tracking? Okay, so build your audience and just make up your mind. I'm gonna get good at audience building. What if that was your only goal? I'm gonna get better. Every time I produce content, I'm gonna make that content somewhat better than the last time. Like when I come in. One of the reasons I love coming here and I only come here a couple times a week, but I love coming here is because I remember when this room used to look like the other side over there of our studio. And now I come in here and it's like this state of the art studio. Why? Because every month we're going to make it better. We're going to make it better, we're going to make it better. We're going to make the quality of the cameras better, we're going to make the lighting better, we're going to make. And we just kept on iterating, and we're still iterating now. All of my focus on how can I make the content better? Make the content better. Make the content better. Make the content better. Make the content better. Make the content better. But your content's already good enough. It's good enough for you. It's not good enough for me.

And because my objective is to get better and to get to the point where I'm eventually really, really good. Because I believe that it's possible. Even in the enterprise space, I believe it's eventually. But it's possible to get to the point where you put out a video and it gets 2, 3, 4, 5 million views in the first 30 days. I believe that's possible, but I'm not good enough to do that yet. But I'm okay with not being good enough to do that yet because I'm willing to get better at it as I'm doing it. Are y' all tracking? Okay, so.

The first part is become proficient in building your tool sets that build your awareness, proficient in your tool sets that build your audience, and then proficient in tool sets that build your app. Your assets. When I talk about assets, assets are anything that you create that income can follow. Okay, so if you understand that assets are anything that you create that income can follow, Then the question is, what can I create that income can follow? Does that make sense? So you can either invent a product, like you can invent something. People invent stuff all the time. And then you can let the world know, hey, I invented this really, really cool thing that helps you get this thing that a lot of people want to do and almost nobody can do it. Then you tell the world and they say, okay, I'll take one. Right? So you can invent something or. Because inventing is. Yeah, let's look at it. So how can I become more proficient?

How can I become more proficient in building my assets? So if you look at the four levels of value, right, and the lowest level of value is implementation. And on the implementation level, I use my muscles.

Over time.

Muscles are a physical resource. Time is a limited resource. So when I'm implementing, I'm using a physical resource times a limited resource. And by the way, wealth is a spiritual outcome. Wealth.

Is spiritual.

Which, by the way, is one of the reasons gold is the physical substance that represents abundance. Because gold is a type of spirituality. What do you mean? It's a type of spirituality? Because gold is the only. Is one of the few precious metals that does not corrode or rust. So it's timeless. Like, it's. Like it holds its value over time. Okay, anyway, so I can invent stuff down here. I can either work a job or, or I can come down here, go into my little lab and I can create stuff into my little workstation. I can make stuff, right? Or the second level is unification. And on the unification level, unification level of value, then that means I'm managing a team. So.

I manage a team and I'm managing the team, and the team's producing whatever I'm doing. But the wealth begins to be created above this dotted line. So I can either use my muscles over time, or I can go recruit a bunch of people, teach them how to use their muscles over time. Or I can step into the arena of communication, where wealth begins to be created. Communication.

Communication.

Communication. So now what if I start. If I create assets down here, the amount of revenue these assets down here can generate for me is going to be limited. If I create assets here, it's greater than the ones here, but it's less than the ones up here. Because up here, now I could write a song and that song could become a hit and I could sell 100 million albums. Wouldn't that be cool? 100 million albums at $10 a piece, that'd be like a billion dollar Maybe I should go work on that song. Okay. Or.

I could sell insurance, or I could sell cars, or I could sell houses, or I could write books. Oh, I can write. Conjure it up in my head. Like, just think about an idea. I put it on paper, see if anybody wants to buy it, and then I say, hey, I wrote this book on this thing, and then people buy it. So when I'm. I become proficient in creating assets, it could be a book, it could be a course. It could be a course, it could be a mastermind, it could be a certification. So all of these things are like, I want to. How can I create value? Or I come up here to the imagination level.

And when I'm up here working on my imagination level, all of this stuff that I'm doing, all this stuff that I'm doing up here, people are just paying me for my ideas because they want my ideas in their head, and they'll pay me money to get my ideas in their head. So I become proficient in creating assets. So one of my favorite kind of assets to create is what I call an anyway offer. Okay. Say, Meyer, what's an anyway offer? Okay, an anyway offer is when I take something I'm going to do. Anyway. Take something I'm going to do. What anyway? And then I let people either watch me do it or do it with me. If they pay me, because I'm going to do it. What Anyway, Right. So, for instance, I was talking earlier about how, you know, I have masterminds in the sky for my VIPs. VIPs pay me $350,000. Why do they pay me $350,000? So they can get eight hours of coaching from me. They get an interview on my YouTube channel, they get to do masterminds in the sky with me, which means they get to fly to Tampa and then fly with me wherever I'm going. Literally had a VIP flying today. She just got here. She is going to fly. She flew here from Atlanta this morning to fly back to Atlanta with me this afternoon.

That's an any. I'm going to fly to Atlanta anyway, right? I remember one time I was at a mastermind in Boise, Idaho. I'm there a guy, another guy who's there who used to be in my mastermind, he's like, hey, if you got room on your jet, I'd love to fly back to Tampa with you. And I thought to myself, I bet you would. Right? And so what I do, I created an anyway offer. I said, I'll tell you what, I'm going to do. I'll let you. Because it was just me and Jose, right? We're going to fly back. I'm going to take a nap, or I can make an offer in any way. Offer? What kind of offer? Anyway offer. So I said, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I said, you pay me $25,000, you can fly back with me on my jet.

And I'll teach you how I get paid to fly private so you can stop getting stuck. Because his flight was. He had to fly private from Boise, Idaho to San Francisco to fly back to Tampa. But if he came back with me, he'd get back that same day. Then he flew back the other way. He'd get back in the middle of the night. So I made that offer to him. He said, okay. So he wired me $25,000. I said, well, I already made this offer, and I'm going to make the trip anyway. And somebody already paid me. What? Anyway, so I might as well make the offer to a couple more people, right? And so I made the offer to maybe six more people. Two other people said, hey, I'll pay you $25,000 for your anyway offer, right? So that's three people who paid me $25,000 to fly back on the plane with me. And I was gonna fly back how? Anyway, so I turned my ideas. They weren't paying just to fly on the plane. They were paying so they could be on the plane with me and so they could learn what I know, so they could apply it to what they do. So I created an anyway offer. So I used I. That's like turning my imagination into compensation. But, like, am I gonna sell a book for 25,000? Probably not. Am I gonna sell an invention for 25,000? Probably not. Am I gonna build a team that's gonna generate $25,000 worth of conversation? Probably not. But I can say, hey, I'm gonna be doing this thing anyway, and if you want to do it with me, hey, just pay me this money. And they pay me. Now, I'm telling you that because I would have never thought of that idea I would have never thought of that idea if I were the kind of person who resisted paying for premium value. Because the only reason I came up with that offer was because I got sick of being shuffled around by. We will inconvenience you at our convenience airlines, you say, which one's that? Delta, American, Southwest, all of them. All the commercial airlines. Cattle cars in the sky. I got tired of. I got tired of Losing my luggage. I got tired of delaying my flights. I got tired of them canceling my flights. I got tired of all of it. I ain't doing it anymore, Right? So what did I do? I said, what I'm gonna do is I am going to create. I'm gonna fly private from now on. Before I knew how much it was gonna cost. When I found out how much it was gonna cost, it cost more than twice as much as I thought it was gonna cost. You know, what most people do right there, you know, I spoke too soon. But because I decided, and we had a trip going from Tampa to Las Vegas, I contacted a friend. I thought it was gonna be 25 to 30,000. He said, it's gonna be $60,000. I said, it's gonna be how much? He said, yeah, you gotta put your big boy pants on. I said, I only got big boy pants. Get the jet. Because now you done ticked me off.

But guess what I did then. I said, okay, I've already decided to do this. How can I create an offer that will pay for it? But if I would have. When he said it was 60,000, if I would have retreated to the land of the familiar, I would not have figured out a way to not pay for it, but to get paid for operating at that level. Because when I decided to do something that was outside my current currency comfort zone.

My current currency comfort zone, I decided to do something that was outside of that. It gave me the ability to tap into a level of creativity that I could not tap into any other way. So when you resist opportunities because of how much they cost, you're not just. You're not just resisting the opportunity to pay. You're also resisting the opportunity to get paid. Okay, y', all tracking.

So.

You have to have proficiency in your tool set. You have to have proficiency. So the next one. So the power to get well. So we talked about the proficiency of your tool set. Now let's talk about the power of your passion. We talked about the power of proficiency. Now we're going to talk about the power of passion. What's the power of passion? Your passion for your purpose. You have to have a passion for your purpose. Like, you have to become the kind of person for whom purpose is one of your most.

Obsessive pursuits. You were created for a purpose. You cannot be successful apart from that purpose. You can make money apart from that purpose. You can have lots of friends apart from that purpose. You can have lots of fame apart from that purpose. But you cannot be successful apart from your purpose. Are y' all tracking? And so what you have to do is you have to decide, okay, I am going to do the thing that makes the most sense.

For me, staying in my purpose. Now, I can't tell you specifically what your purpose is, but I can tell you generally what your purpose is, and I can tell you specifically how to find it. So, generally, what is your purpose? Please, God, serve people. That's your purpose. That's everybody's purpose who's ever existed. Please, God, serve people. You do one of those, you're going to be maybe marginally fulfilled. You do both of them, you will be more fulfilled in ways you can't even begin to imagine otherwise. Okay? So serve God. I mean, please, God, serve people. That's number one. Number two, you're gonna find your purpose at the intersection of your passion, the thing you love to do, and your proficiency, the thing you're good at. So I love. And by the way, you might. That intersection might be something you've never seen exist in the world before, right? You might find that intersection of passion and proficiency at a place where nobody's ever done this thing before, or you've never seen anybody do this thing before. And so now you're in this new place. You got to figure it out. It's okay, though, because if God made you for that purpose, it's already in you to figure it out. And the stuff you're supposed to figure it out with is already in your path because God put the garden there before he put the man there to dress it and keep it. So your purpose was here before you were here for your purpose. Okay? So you gotta be the power of passion. Why is the power of passion so important? Because.

If I'm focused on if I have a passion for my purpose, then now I have two drivers and not just one. What are the two drivers? One, I love doing this thing. Two, I know it's what I was created for. So I know. And I know there are people. There are church people who are practicing what I call churchianity who, like, think I am the devil incarnate. I've been called the Antichrist. I've been called a false prophet. I've been called a prosperity gospel preacher. I get it. I know, like, your emotions are high because, like, that's what oftentimes, like, churchianity does to people. It gets them high emotions, but they don't. Like, they don't dive deep on the doctrine. And so I get it. And I don't have any hate for those people. I just understand What I'm dealing with, right? But I know my purpose. I love the Bible. I've loved it since I started reading it. And I never read anything before that. Like, I loved it since I started reading it. It made sense to me. And I've been confused since I was 16 years old. Why more people who go to church and claim to believe the Bible? How come we ain't practicing this stuff? What? Love thy neighbor as thyself, Be ye kind one to another. Like, he that hath friends must show himself friendly. These are all practical things that we can all do and we can measure whether or not we're doing them. And it seems like, it seems like, you know, it's like you go to the grocery store and I'm sure other people have had this happen and you say something to the cashier, how are you doing? I'm blessed. Like, okay, if you're happy and you know it, tell your face right? Not just the words you say. Like, be the person. Okay? So.

Passion, the power of your passion, the power of your passion for your purpose, Passion for your people. I know, I know that the cultural, hypnotic societal mechanism would make you believe that people are the problem. Because people are a problem.

And people are a problem. But I promise you they're not the problem. The reason you have difficult people in your lives is to mold you into the person who can deal with difficult people.

Oh snap. You want to be godlike, don't you? The only people he has to deal with are difficult people.

He don't have any un difficult people to deal with. We all difficult. And peopling requires energy. Like we're here to please God and serve people. Sometimes people make it hard for you to serve them, but you will be more like God when you serve them anyway.

You have to have a passion for people. Like your passion for people. If you're going to be a successful, like uber long term successful entrepreneur, your passion for people has to be greater than your passion for profits. It's not that profits don't matter, but profits don't matter more than people. And if in your business and in your life, profits matter more than people, you are confused. Okay, you have a passion for your people, but you have to like, you have to have a passion for your progeny. What's that mean? You have to have a passion for legacy, a passion for leaving an inheritance. See, what we do is we don't read every word when we're reading the Bible. So some people say like. And people have commented on my videos. They say stuff like but the Bible says no man can serve two masters. You'll love one and hate the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Right. The Bible says, lay not for yourselves treasures upon the earth. Okay, great. Lay not for yourselves treasures upon the earth. What's the key word there? Yourselves. I'm not supposed to lay up treasures for myself upon the earth, but I am supposed to. Biblically, I'm supposed to lay up treasures for my children and my children's children. That is a biblical mandate. Imagine if your parents had followed that mandate and when you got started, they gave you a house and some riches. How much different would your life be? Well, in the words of my good friend, Dr. Sonya Stribling, you may not come from a wealthy family, but a wealthy family should come from you. And I'll say this, you may not come from a wealthy family, but a wealthy family could come from you. Wouldn't it be cool for you to be the first person in your entire lineage for at least for thousands of years, that when you're children went off and got married, you were able to give them an inheritance before you die?

So you have to have a passion for your progeny. Like, I am not building wealth so I can drive a nicer car. There may be nicer cars, and there are, there are nicer. There are more expensive cars. I don't know if they're any nicer, but there are nicer cars. But that's not why I'm doing it. Nice cars are a bonus. Nice house is a bonus. Nice clothes are a bonus. You know what the real benefit is? The real benefit is I get to serve people. I get to live in my purpose, and I get to provide a, like a launch pad for my progeny so they don't have to start from scratch like I did. And I didn't start from scratch because my parents, they didn't give me money, but they gave me skills. They gave my brothers and I skills. They gave us perspective. They gave us people skills. Right? So we didn't start from zero, but financially we started from zero. Right? Okay, so you are tracking cool. And then so we talked about the power of passion. Let's talk about the power of persistence.

Why do we need persistence in business? Here's why. Because disruption always follows intention. See, Myron, how do you create wealth? Well.

You might receive the wealth in a day. Like you might have $100,000 day, you might have a million dollar day, but you becoming the person who can have that $100,000 day or that million dollar day, or that 5 million dollar day or that $10 million day, you becoming the person who can do that, that may take decades.

That's the reality. And it takes different people different amounts of time depending on where they are in the success ladder when they enter into the arena in the first place. If you enter in the arena with no influence over anybody, it's going to take you longer than somebody who enters into the arena who already has influence over hundreds or thousands or tens of thousand thousands of people. Okay? But don't become discouraged because anybody can have influence. Like, I just, just last Thursday, I think it was, a good friend of mine from college, Owen Ivey, was here. And we played. We used to play table tennis and taunt each other and just talk trash. Because half of the fun of any athletic competition is the trash talk. In fact, that might be actually 70% of the fun. Unless, of course, you win. Then it's about 90. Then it's only about 30% of the fun. Okay, so. But we used to talk trash. And I was thinking to myself, you know, it's really interesting that, okay, this guy knew me before I had any influence. Like, I was the person people said no to before they knew what the deal was.

I had to become the person people who said yes to before they knew what the deal was. That took what, time? And see, a lot of us, what we want to do is we want to slipstream the time and we want to jump from being the person everybody says no to because of who brought it to them, and to being the person who everybody says yes to without going through the iterations that cause us to have the level of character that people can count on that causes them to say yes before they know what the deal is. Okay? So you need persistence because disruption always follows intention. Have you ever thought about that before? Like, this is a biblical pattern. Disruption following intention is a biblical pattern. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.

Y' all pray for my coordination. Okay? So in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. The very next thing it says, and the earth was without form and void and darkness upon the face of the deep. The word was is not the word used to be. It's the word became. The earth became without form and void. Even for God, disruption followed intention. Now, why would God ordain that disruption will follow intention even for him? Because in Genesis chapter one, that is Creator Week. God is creator week. Created everything out of nothing in six days, rested on the seventh day, and then didn't just tell us that he did it. Told us how he did it step by step in Genesis, chapter one. Like, he laid out the process because he made us in his image. So he wanted us to know when we start making stuff, this is the process you go through. Are y' all tracking? Are y' all with me? Okay. So he's. So God said, okay, My intention is to create. But the first thing that showed up was disruption. Disruption followed intention. You need persistence because disruption follows intention. Joseph had a dream. What happened after Joseph's dream? What showed up after Joseph's dream? Joseph's dream showed up first. Joseph's drama showed up second. Right. Why? Because sometimes your dream will drag you through some drama on the way to your destiny. That's how life works. Disruption always follows intention. David gets anointed to be the king of Israel, and now Saul puts out a contract on his life and tries to kill him for a very long time. You're talking about years. You're hiding for your life for years. Okay, okay. Y' all ain't picking up what I'm putting down. Let me give you this one. How about this? Jesus. He gets baptized in Jordan, which is a picture of his death, burial, and resurrection. He comes up, the heavens open. The voice of God speaks from him. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. The Spirit of God descends on him like a dove. Here's what it says next. And immediately. When? Immediately. He was led of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Why? Disruption always follows intention. It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter what you're doing. Disruption always follows intention. So you need persistence. Because if you don't have persistence, as soon as disruption shows up, you're going to let yourself off the hook with rationalization. You're going to rationalize, which means you're going to tell yourself rational lies.

And you're going to justify quitting because you didn't understand the pattern.

So, disruption. You need persistence. How do you find persistence? Go read Genesis, chapter one. And the earth was without form and void and darkness upon the face of the deep. What does it say next? And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. I need to find a source of inspiration for you in this particular situation. It may be praying until you get back in tune with God. So on my phone, I have this app called Tuner Pro, right? So Guitar Tuner Pro. So what I do when I pick up my guitar, the first thing I do is I tune my guitar. And I don't change the tuner to make the tuner in tune with the guitar. I change the guitar to make the guitar in tune with the tuner. Do you understand that the purpose of prayer is not to get God in tune with your desires. The purpose of prayer is to get you in tune with God's desires for your desires. And so prayer, the objective is to get me back in alignment with the one who created me. I'm gonna find a source of inspiration when I'm praying, because now I'm getting back in harmony with the God who created me.

So.

Proficient persistence through inspiration. I might watch a video that inspires me. I might listen to. I might have a conversation with someone who inspires me. But after disruption follows my intention, the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to find a source of inspiration. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light. The next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to look for a source of illumination. I'm going to look for a light source. By the way, did you know that content is light? What does that mean? Content is light. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. And the Word was with God. The same was in the beginning with God. And without him was not anything made that was made. And in him was the life. Him who? Him, the Word. And the life was the light of men. Now, I want you to notice this next part. It says, and the light shined in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.

Illumination is learning something that you don't know, so you can see something that you could not see. Learning is a source of illumination. And see, that's why we have to be compassionately.

Consumed with learning the things that we don't know, because those are the things that move the needle. Okay, so then, so persistent with inspiration, persistent with illumination, and then persistent with segmentation to completion. There are more, but I'm going to let this point be done with this one. Segmentation to completion is a skill that you're going to have to develop if you desire to become successful. What? Segmentation to completion. Here's what it says. And the evening and the morning were the first day or the evening and the morning day one and the evening and the morning day two. What are we learning from that? Why does God keep saying the same thing in the evening and the morning, day three, and the more than day four? Because God wants us to know that if we desire to be productive, if we're going to do it like he did it. We don't save any of day one's work for day two. We get day one's work done on day one. This is literally a project management strategy. Segmentation to completion. You have six things to work on. Let's. You got five. I held five fingers and said six. Okay. I just want. I was testing y' all to see if y' all knew how many fingers. Okay, so you got five things to get done. And so what you do is you work on all five of them. And let's say each one of them takes you a week to get to the point where it's like making money. You say, I'm gonna work on all of them at the same time.

So now you don't make any money until week six.

Does that make sense? Yeah. But let's say each one of these things can make you $1,000 extra a month. And you decide, I'm gonna work on one thing for a week and let it start making me $1,000 a month. This thing makes me 1, 2, 3, $4,000.

Starting in week two. The next thing makes me.

1, 2, $3,000. So now in five weeks, just with the first two things, I've made $7,000 that I wouldn't have made if I had worked on all of them at the same time, but I segmented them to completion. Is what I'm saying making sense. Then the third thing, I work on that for a week, and I've got one, two weeks now I'm up to $9,000. And then the last.

I don't know how many I've done now two weeks. Okay? So now I work on this thing. It makes me money for one week, and so now I've got another thousand. So now I'm up to $10,000. And then when I get to the fifth week, I work on that for a week, and then that starts making me $1,000 a month. So now I'm at $11,000 a month by the time I get to the end of five weeks. Whereas if I did it the other way, I would have made no money in the first six weeks. So that's why you do one thing at a time, and you work on it until it's done. In business, I'm building multiple streams of income. Well, build one first.

And get it making you money before you start working on the other one. Segmentation to completion. Okay, so this is so great. I went really, really fast today.

Okay, now the last one is the power of perspective. What is the power of perspective? The power to get wealth. God gave us the power to get wealth. What is the power to get wealth? The power of pain. We talked about that week one. The power of purpose. The power of perception. The power of proficiency. Proficient in our skill set. Proficient with our tool set.

And then the power of passion. We talked about that today. The power of persistence. Now we're going to talk about the power of perspective. What is the perspective? It is the Lord that gives you the power to get wealth. You know what that reminds me of? Reminds me of James, Chapter one. Huh? What does James, chapter one say? Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow turning. What does that tell us? That tells us that we should be thankful for everything and proud of nothing. Why? Because it's all a gift.

You say? What do you mean, it's all a gift? Byron, you don't know how hard I worked. I know, but there are other people who would have loved to have worked as hard as you, but they were not given the gifts. You were given to be able to complete that work. So even your ability to do the work is a gift. So, yeah, I get it. You're good at what you do. I get it. You're proficient. I get it. You have skill. I get it. You've worked on this for years, maybe even decades. However, your ability to become the person who can do the thing is a gift. So go through life with an attitude of gratitude. Not an attitude of condescension, not an attitude of entitlement, but an attitude of gratitude. Because every good thing in your life. Every good thing in my life is a gift. People erroneously think I'm positive. I'm not positive. I'm just aware. What does that mean? I'm aware of the fact that everything is a gift. When I wake up in the morning, I am aware fully that everybody who went to bed last night did not wake up this morning.

When I get out of my bed and I stand up, I am fully aware that when I'm standing, everybody can't stand up. When I pick up something with my hands, I'm fully aware that there are people who are paralyzed from the neck down and they haven't picked up things with their hands for decades. The ability to pick something up with your hand, the fact that we're not in awe of all of the things that we can do, that we've been gifted, and we don't just have it like, no wonder the scripture says, blessed be the Lord. Who daily loadeth us with benefits. And we go through life thinking that we did something by ourselves. And we're so proud.

Right? I think one of the biggest abominations for a lot of reasons that America has ever. Pride Week. Really? We're gonna have a week dedicated to these six things as the Lord. Pride month. Yeah, month. These six things as the Lord hate. Yea, seven are an abomination to him. A proud look is number one. God hates pride. I don't have anything to be proud of. I have nothing to be proud of. I have a whole lot of stuff to be thankful for. Myron, you built a really successful business. I know, but it was the Lord that gave me the power to get this wealth. I am not confused. I'm not going to forget who gave it to me. Because if I do, he might come get it back. What, the wealth? No, the power. I've had the wealth go away before, but the power was still there. I don't want to lose the power.

Okay.

The perspective that the Lord gave you the power to get the wealth. The perspective that loving and serving people is the power to get wealth. Wow. Loving and serving people is the power to get wealth. It's so hard to stop thinking about yourself long enough to create an elegant solution. Effective, efficient and elegant solution that serves people at the highest possible level. Because I'm so busy thinking about all of the things that the enemy wants me to think about. But I need to pay this bill and I need to pay that bill. And as long as you're thinking about yourself and you're consumed with your own needs and your own desires, you cannot build a business that's going to create massive, insane profits because you're too focused on you. You got to stop focusing on you. Okay? You get it? I'm not going to beat a dead horse. Okay? The perspective of loving and serving people is the power to get. Well, you know what? One of the reasons why I love to go and support businesses and my favorite thing to make for dinner is a reservation.

Why is it that I don't mind paying the people who serve me? Because I love the people that I'm paying more than I love the money that I'm paying them.

Like, I used. I'm keeping. Can I be transparent? Payroll used to freak. The idea of payroll used to freak me out. Like, but what if. What if payroll comes and we don't have the money to pay them? That used to freak me out. Like, I didn't want to hire people because I was afraid I might not be able to, like, like, be true to my commitment to make sure people get a paycheck every week. What if I can't? Right? How many all know? I'm telling, like, anybody else ever had that? Like, yeah, but what if I can't afford? Right, Exactly. That's like a real thing. Well, guess, guess what? When you understand that when you're focused on, like, their opportunity.

You don't have to be in competition with the people who serve you as employees and contractors when you want them to win. Because you know that the only way for you to win is if everybody wins. You don't ever desire to win at somebody else's expense. When that happens, it takes your business and your life to another level. Don't use the people and love the money. Use the money and love the people. And then when you really mature, you will use the money to love the people.

So the perspective that loving and serving people is the power to get wealth and the perspective that all work works. Stop believing.

That something you're working on is not working. It is working. It is either working on you or it is working for you. If you continue to resist the work that it's doing on you, the work that it can do for you is going to continue to resist you.

So just embrace it. It's only hard for me right now because I don't know how to do it yet. It's only difficult for me right now because I haven't become the person yet. But as I continue to implement the iterations, eventually I will become the person for whom this thing that now feels so excruciatingly hard, it eventually becomes easy. And as a good friend of mine said to me when I was talking to him on the phone a few weeks ago, he said, man, I'm gonna tell you something. Eventually is undefeated.

Just get in the game and determine you're gonna stay in the game and let eventually do what only eventually can do. And this is how you go from zero to rich. You have to develop these character traits inside of you, and then you have to figure out a way to do these things that serve people and then just allow yourself to be blown away by going through the process to becoming a person. It'll change your life for the rest of your life. I hope this video blesses you beyond measure. You say, Maya, but you didn't tell me what to sell.

You missed the point. I got other videos on that. I'm talking about becoming the person who has the power to create wealth and walking in that. I hope this video blesses you beyond measure. And I will look forward to hearing your testimony at some time in the future. In the meantime, in between time, stay blessed by the best, and we'll see you on the next video. Peace out, Cub Scouts.

Well.

You'Re welcome.