How To Get The Most Out Of 4 Levels Of Value

Myron Golden breaks down four levels of value: Implementation (physical work, up to $80k), Unification (managing people, $40k–$250k), Communication (influence through speech, $100k to millions), and Imagination (creating scale, $1M and up). He argues that moving from labor toward communication and imagination is how you build wealth.
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You've probably heard me teach on the four levels of value. If you're There are four levels of value in the earth because every number has significance. One is the number of unity, the unity of God. Two is the number of separation or holiness. Three is the number of God. Four is the number of the earth. Four is the number of the earth. Why is four the number of the earth? Well, there are four directions on the earth. North, south, east, and west. There are four seasons, Winter, spring, summer, and fall. The earth is round, they say. But we talk about the four corners of the earth. When was the last time you saw something round with one corner, let alone four corners? We talk about the four winds of the earth. Oftentimes when we find things that apply to the earth realm, they show up in fours. Right? There are four levels of value. There are four levels of teaching for four levels of learning. There are four levels of parenting for four levels of child development. But in this video, we're going to talk about how you can get the most out of the four levels of value that God set up in Genesis, chapter one. What are the four levels of value? Well, the lowest level value is implementation. Implementation. This is the lowest level. Then you got the next level, then you have the next level, and then you have the highest level. So implementation is the lowest level of value. If you are working, if you make money on the implementation level, you make somewhere between minimum wage and.
$80,000 a year on the lowest level of value implementation. You can't. Like, there's a very, very low ceiling on the lowest level of value because wealth. Okay, let me give this to you first. Wealth is a spiritual.
Outcome.
So not only is wealth a spiritual outcome, I'm going to make some statements that I'm not going to necessarily back up right this minute, but maybe I'll come back and revisit them. Wealth is a spiritual outcome. Poverty is always the result of spiritual warfare. Because Satan, the enemy, he cometh not but for to steal, to kill and destroy. So lack is the result of Satan's interaction or effect on your life or my life. Right. So before the serpent spoke to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. I'm not going to get into how why snakes could talk. I don't have time for that. Go watch all of my other videos. I promise you I addressed it in one of them. Okay, so, but before the serpent spoke to Adam and Eve, they lacked nothing except one thing. They only lacked one thing. And they were totally unaware of the thing they lacked because of all the abundance they had. They only lacked. They only lacked approval to eat off of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. That's the only thing they lacked.
And they weren't even aware of that lack because they were so focused on all the abundance they had every freely of every tree of the garden that may as freely eat that they were unaware of what was missing. By the way, that's called a lesson, right? What's it called? A lesson. And that's a lesson that can be a blessing. What's the lesson? The lesson is this. When you're focused on abundance, you're ignoring your lack. But when you're focused on lack, you're ignoring your abundance. So make sure you've got your attention in the right place. Right? So the reason you can't make a lot of money on the implementation level is because you're using a limited resource. You're using your muscles.
Over times time. So you're working on something for so many dollars an hour. Muscle muscles times time equals somewhere between minimum wage, $80,000 a year. Who makes $80,000 a year on the implementation level? Somebody works on a Rolls Royce, somebody works on a Bentley, somebody works on a Mercedes. They might be a mechanic making $80,000 a year. However, if you stay down here, like this is a seal, this is your ceiling. 80,000 is your ceiling. Your floor is minimum wage. Well, if you move up to the next level, which is unification, unification is you're going to make more money. How much are you going to make? You're going to make somewhere between 40,000.
Per year and.
250,000. 250,000 a year. Okay, cool.
Why? Because you're using a different resource. The resource you're using down here, muscles over time are muscles times time. The resource you're using here is you're using your management skills times the people you manage.
The more people you manage, the more money you make. Okay, so you're making 40,000 a year if you're managing Taco Bell, 250,000 a year if you're managing a middle manager at Lockheed Martin. Right. And so $250,000 a year is better than minimum wage. We can all agree to that. But it's still a level of stuckness involved in 250,000 a year. Because 250,000 a year just. It's about. It's about.
21,000Amonth gross. Now, you don't want a whole month to go by and you only make 20,000, $21,000. Right. So how do I level up? Well, I level up by breaking through.
To the next level. Everything above that dotted line is where wealth is created. And so on. This level.
Is called communication.
The resource you use on this level is your mouth caveat. You have to have a mouth. Congratulations, you, phase one complete. But you have to learn how to use it. To have conversations that create cash flow, to develop messages that move the masses. When you do that, on this level, the amount of wealth that you can create is somewhere. On the low end, you're gonna make 100 grand a year. High end, you could make.
100 million.
Okay, let me get rid of that, because that was 100 million a year.
What? Communicators make 100,000. You might sell cars, make 100,000 a year. You might sell insurance and make somewhere between 300,000 a year and a million a year. Or you might be a communicator who's an A list actor. You might make 100 million a year. You might be an A list singer. Create 100 million a year. Okay, and you're using your mouth. One of the reasons so many people today are broke is because when you were a child, somebody taught you the erroneous lesson that children would be seen and not heard, sit still and be quiet. Communication. Nobody ever told you if you get really, really good at talking, you get really, really good at communicating. You can become influential, powerful and wealthy. Nobody ever taught you that. Nobody ever said that to me when I was growing up. Anybody ever say that to you? No. I didn't think me either. Okay, now, when we get to the highest level, the highest level is called.
Imagination. I thought that was green. I'm so colorblind until I started writing with it and I said, that ain't green. Okay.
Okay. Imagination.
Imagine imagination.
Now, on this level, there are two things you use. Use your mind.
Or you use your money to make money. On this level.
This level you make. On the low end, you're gonna make a million dollars a year. Whoops. On the low end, you're gonna make a million dollars a year. Top end, it's gone now to the place where we're at. Trillions. We have trillionaires now.
Now.
Since you get to decide where you make money.
It makes sense to decide if you desire to create wealth. You're gonna create way more wealth above the dotted line than you are below the dotted. The dotted line. You can create wealth, but you're going to have to invest your way to wealth. But in that case, you're going to go up to the imagination level anyway, even if you make most of Your money down here, managing people for $250,000 a year. You're going to take some of that money and you're going to use your imagination and multiply that money. Are you. Is what I'm saying making sense? Now, the fastest path to break out of poverty and into wealth is to become a better communicator. Maybe that's being a songwriter. If you're good at writing songs, maybe that's being a salesperson, maybe that's being a podcaster. Maybe it's starting a YouTube channel, maybe it's starting a newsletter. But you communicate some message to people that they value and are willing to pay for.
Now, a lot of people find themselves in jobs where everything they're doing is down here. I'm going to tell you how to get a raise. They hired you to do this, but if you start using this and this, you'll get promoted at your job. Why? Because it's just how God set up in the beginning. I know y' all are saying, this is not. I've never seen this in Genesis chapter one, but you will. So I'm gonna tell you where it is in Genesis chapter one, so you can start thinking about what I'm saying and stop thinking about that.
Okay? Okay. Genesis, chapter one. Here's what it says. Now. God made three categories in creation. This is gonna be helpful. Three categories in creation. He created creation. The sun, the moon, the stars, the water, the grass and the trees, etc. Etc. Etc. That's called creation. It's called what? Creation. Then he created creatures. He created what creatures? Creatures are dogs, cats, alligators, chimpanzees, horses, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, mosquitoes, birds, fish, all that. That's called creatures. Creatures. What's it called? Creatures. And then the last thing God created was he created creators. Some people like to say creatives, Creative, creator, or whatever you want to use. It doesn't matter to me. But he created creators. He created many versions of him that are like him, but not Him.
Now, here's what's interesting. When God created creation, he said, let there be. Let there be light. Let there be a firmament in the heavens. Right? God said, let there be when he created creation. When he created creatures, he said, let the earth bring forth and let the water bring forth. The earth brought forth the land animals. The water brought forth the fish and the fowl. Are y' all with me still? But when God created man, this is how we know. This is one of the reasons we know man is not a higher form of animal. God didn't say, let there be man, because man's not create. Man's not creation. He didn't say, let the earth bring forth man or let the water bring forth man. So that's how we know man's not a creature. But when God made man, he said, let us make man in our image. Hmm, that's very different. Now.
If God said, let us make man in our image, guess what had to exist before God could say that? The image had to exist first.
If there's no image, there's no image to make man in. You say, let us make man in our image. If there's no image, there's nothing to make. So the image of God. And it's really interesting. The image of God is invisible. We know that because the scripture says that Christ was made in the image of the invisible God when he came, when God took on flesh. Right? Huh. That's interesting. So the image is invisible. So the part of you that's like God is not the part of you that I can see. The part of me that's like God is not the part of me that you can see. The part of you that's like God is the part you can't see, but you can feel it.
Can I get a witness? Right. Okay. So the image existed first. After the image existed. Now that the image exists, I say after, but the image has always existed. But because the image exists, God can say, let us make man. Well, then God communicated. He said it. He didn't just make man. He said, let us make man. Who's he talking to? Well, we're going to get to that in a minute. But he after he imagined he communicated by the way communication was second. He said, let us make man. Who's he talking to? He's talking to himself. How's he talking to himself? He's saying, let us. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Man is body, soul, and spirit. We are made in the image of God. I'm one person, but I have three different expressions. I have my body that relates to material things on the earth. Right? So my body can experience materialism. Right. Or material. My soul. That's how I relate to other people. That's my social aspect of my being. And then my spirit. That's my spiritual aspect. That's how I relate to God. Everybody is everybody with me. Okay. So when God said, let us make man in our image, he was talking to himself. But the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were in unity about creating man in God's image. Are y' all tracking. Hey, thanks for watching this video. I hope you're enjoying it, but I want to take some time to invite you to join us at the Make More Offers Challenge. The Make More Offers Challenge. We do it once a month where I invite a bunch of entrepreneurs, or would be entrepreneurs to come and have me teach them in detail the four moves that can scale any business. I want to invite you to join us on the Make More Offers Challenge. Click the link in the description below. You will be glad you did join as a VIP and you make the rest of your life the best of your life. And now back to the video you were watching. But the last thing God did was in Genesis, chapter 2, verse 7. It says, and the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground. That word formed a squeeze. So he actually got down and did something physical. God, who is a spirit, got down and did something in physicality. I don't understand it all. I'm not going to pretend to understand it all, but I know he did it. How do I know? Because that's what he said he did. He can't lie. And then it says, and he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became the living soul. I believe that God breathed the man that was made in his image into the body that he made for the image to have expression. See.
Earth, man is like. Man is like a combination of heaven and earth, right? Heaven, Earth. Heaven gives earth meaning, but earth gives heaven expression.
But man, we have both of those things, expression and meaning, wrapped up in one place. And so this is where the four now if I the more I focus on the higher levels of value, the more valuable I'm going to be to the people that I come across. Why? Because I'm gonna watch you do something and I'm gonna see clearly that you have a problem. And I'm gonna use my imagination to figure out what problem you have. And and then I'm gonna use my mouth to communicate to you that I figured out a problem. And then you're gonna pay me. And your life got better because of my imagination and my communication. And my life got better. Cause your money came over to me. And now it's my money. Do you see how that works? And the same thing's true about you. Like, you're gonna watch people have a problem and you're gonna say, I can't believe they have a problem with that. I fixed that when I was in the seventh grade. Here, let me show you how I fixed that. And then you're explaining to Them how you fixed it, and then all of a sudden they're gonna pay you. And so, and here's what's really interesting. People say, well, nobody's gonna pay you unless the thing they're buying is worth what they're paying for. I disagree with that. I think people are not gonna buy something from you unless the thing they're buying is worth more than the money they're paying you for it.
If I say you give me a dollar, I give you a dollar. Neither one of our lives are better off. You give me another dollar, I give you another dollar. We do that all day long. You can stand up here on the stage giving each other a dollar all day, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And neither one of our lives got better. But if I say, if you give me a dollar, I give you $10. Now your life just got better, Right? So people only want to buy things from you when the thing they're buying is worth more than the money they're paying to buy the thing they're buying. So how do I make myself more valuable? Stop thinking that because you're working harder and longer down here implementing things.
Manipulating material matter because you think that's valuable. Because it's hard. Because that's what we were programmed to believe. Hard days work for a hard day's pay. You think it's worth more because it was harder to do.
I don't get paid more because I work harder. I get paid because I know what to do and I know how to say what to do. That's why I make money.
Do you understand? When you can demonstrate that you've thought about your ideal client's problem more than they have, and you've come up with way more elegant solutions than they've ever thought about, they will happily pay you. This is how you get the most. Like, thinking is the hardest work most people never do.
Don't let it be the hardest work you never do.
Right. Stop making your. If you'll make your brain sweat more, you can make your body sweat less.
And so if you will get better at these two.
Then if you get better at imagination communication, that's automatically going to make you better at unification. By the way, all of us operate on all of these. There are things like, I still do some implementation. I'm doing implementation right now, but I'm doing implementation of things I've already thought about. Right. I'm doing right now. I'm doing implementation, I'm doing communication, and I'm doing imagination all at the same time, right? But if I wouldn't have imagined it, if I wouldn't have, like, if I wouldn't have read it in the Bible and I wouldn't have meditated on it, I wouldn't have thought about it. I would have never seen those four levels of value in Genesis chapter number one. Now, here's what's really interesting. Remember we were talking about what God created? So we're going to talk about how do I make. How do I make the four levels of value? Like, how do I get more out of the four levels of value for my life? So God created three categories in creation. He created creation. What was the first one? Creation. Well, when God created creation, the interesting thing about creation is it was beautiful, but it didn't know it was beautiful. It was amazing, but it didn't know it was amazing. So it could not appreciate itself, its attributes, or the God that made it.
So God created creatures, and it didn't do anything. Like a rock doesn't move. It just sits there and rocks.
Right? So a rock can't move. So all it can do is be a rock. Right? A tree can grow and it can blow like it can blow in the wind. But, like, trees don't generally animate, right? And so God created creatures, they can animate. And like birds can use tree limbs or tree limbs and branches and twigs that fall to the ground to make nests. They can do things. And beavers can build dams in the creek. And so God made creatures to be able to do stuff. But guess what? The creatures that God made, they didn't know that God made them. They didn't even know. All they knew was what they knew and all they could do is what they could do and what they could do the first day they were put on this earth. That's all they can still do today. This whole idea, evolution, evolution is a farce. There's no such thing as evolution. Evolution, like, goes against the second law of thermodynamics, which is entropy. Anything left to itself tends to move more and more towards disorder. So we say something evolved, but nothing has ever evolved. Things develop. We say, I've evolved into a better person. No, you didn't. You developed into a better person. Because if you say you've evolved, you're implying that you didn't do anything and just got better. That's what evolution says. Well, natural selection, things just get better over time. Show me that in nature, one place in nature, that anything got better over time without intention. Show me one thing that's ever Gotten better without intention. You can't find one.
It's like, well, there was an explosion at the Ford plant and all those parts just landed in the parking lot as 150,000 F150s. It doesn't work like that. See, we laugh when I say that because we know that's ridiculous. There's an explosion and then order came out of the. Out of chaos. Really? You really believe that? Okay, do you? I don't even have time to mess up your delusion. Not to mention the fact that Charles Darwin was not a scientist. He was just a racist. That's a fact. His book, the Origin of Species, the other title for it is a fight for the preservation of life in favored races. That's the name of Google it. Don't take my word for it. Google it. And then look at images. The first image you'll see, like the original. Like, original Origin of Species. If you go type that in and then you hit images on Google, it'll show you what the title looked like. I'm not making this stuff up.
Darwin was Hitler's hero.
We think this guy. Oh, evolution. We think we're doing something smart. Okay, whatever. Different conversation for a different day. Creatures can't appreciate. There are creatures. In fact, the Hebrew word for a beast is bahema. You know what bahemaim means? Ba means in hey means what?
I mean, hey means behold or look, and ma means is or means what. So basically, it means in it is what it is. A horse is. A horse is a horse. Of course, a dog is a dog. A cat's a cat, a bird's a bird. They can't. Like, they don't even know why they do what they do. They just do it because that's what they're programmed to do.
So God.
Made man in his image, and the man could appreciate the image of the God he was made in. He could appreciate God. He could appreciate himself.
But God said it's not good for man to be alone. How did God know that it wasn't good for man to be alone? Other than the fact that God knows everything? Well, because man's made in the image of God, and it wasn't good for God to be alone.
So God created creation as an expression of his creativity. That's why when I create something, I feel partially fulfilled because I'm exercising my God likeness. What if you worked to exercise your godlikeness instead of just working to make money? How much better would your life be? Like? Lots better.
But then.
He created creation. I mean, he created creatures. He created creatures. And he created. He created man. And still same thing with creatures like he made it. He created creatures and they could do what they could do. That's cool. So God created creation. So when we create, we feel fulfilled. But guess what? God could not connect with animals because they couldn't even appreciate the God that made him. So God made man in his image. So God would have somebody like him to appreciate him for who he is. Not because he needed it, but just because he desired it and it pleased him. So he made man in his image. That's why not only when I create something do I feel fulfilled, but I also feel another level of fulfillment when I become connected to other people. So God created us for the purpose of creating, but he also created us for the purpose of connection.
Man severed the connection between God and man. But man also, when he severed the connection between God and man, because man now no longer had the same appreciation for life. Cain killed Abel and created a separation between man and man.
And so God put a plan in place. He already had the plan in place before. He created everything anyway because he created it to do the stuff that it does. But that's a different conversation for a different day.
God created Adam. After Adam and Eve sinned, what did they do? They made themselves aprons out of what? Big leaves. And they tried to cover up the fact that they had sinned. But it says the Lord God made them coats of skin. Coats of skin. Hmm. That's interesting. What does that mean? There had to be a sacrifice. Something had to die.
To fix the problem. And that's contribution.
God did something for Adam and Eve that they couldn't do for themselves. They say, why did he kill an animal? Because it was a foreshadowing. It was a picture of the fact that without the shedding of blood, there's no remission of sins. And so what God did, he said, just like this animal had to die, I'm gonna send my son to die in your place. And either you're gonna trust in his death, burial and resurrection, or you're gonna try to do it yourself through religion. And you're gonna come up short. Or you're going to trust in the contribution that I made. That's why human beings, we feel fulfilled when we are creating, when we are connecting and we're contributing to something that can't contribute back to us.
That's why we feel fulfilled. You might have one of those and feel partially fulfilled, but largely frustrated. You might have two of those and feel partially fulfilled, but somewhat frustrated. But when you have all three of those. Oh, that's the sweet spot. And if you will do that, if you will focus on the four levels of value for the purpose of creating, connecting and contributing, not only will you change your life, but you will be living in your purpose. Which is to do what? Live in your creative space and make the world a better place. I hope this blesses you.
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