Money Follow$ Ma$tery // Easy Money // Myron Golden Ph.D.

The people in the YouTube rooms out there in your living room, in your bedroom, in your kitchen, in your dining room, and all the rooms you're in. And then here in the live room and also in the zoom room. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Glad to have you. All of you here.

Today. I'm going to talk to you about the fact that money follows mastery.

Money follows mastery. And it's so interesting.

That.

When I teach entrepreneurs about business.

One of the things I teach is the purpose of learning. And so most people mistakenly believe that the purpose of learning is knowing, but the purpose of learning is not knowing. The purpose of learning is mastery. And I believe one of the reasons people find themselves frustrated.

Disillusioned, overwhelmed, is because they thought that because they passed tests and got good grades, that automatically means they're prepared for life. And, you know, when they find out that wasn't necessarily true, when they get out there in life, they're like, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, time out. They told me, right? If I did this, if I studied hard, got good grades and did all my homework, like, I graduate, get a good job, and work for 40 years, and when I retired, they'd take care of me for the rest of my life. Life. So who moved my cheese.

Right?

And so.

Money follows mastery. What is mastery? Mastery. So if you're looking for a definition, I believe the best definition of mastery is this. Mastery is the ability to execute effortlessly without the use of conscious resources. And we've all seen mastery. We've all seen mastery exhibited by people who've mastered their craft, right? They've mastered their assignment, they've mastered their game, they've mastered their niche. And it's really fascinating because when somebody is a master, they can take something very, very complicated and make it look effortlessly easy, right?

I was sharing with Carter yesterday, like, I'm a black belt martial arts, right? And I've broken, like, five concrete slabs on fire with my bare hands. And I'm a golfer. And golf is way more harder than breaking five concrete slabs with your bare hand, right? But when you watch professional golfers, it doesn't look that hard. They make it look so easy that you got people out there chopping up the golf course in all kinds of crazy ways, right? But they make it look easy because they've mastered it one component at a time. So even before I get into the text this morning, what I want to read to you today, I want you to understand that money follows mastery. So, number one, we should all have the objective, mastery as an objective for Our learning, for our growing. We should be seeking mastery. Not just, oh, I learned it. We think that because I read a book about it. Well, I learned it, right? They think that reading is knowing. They think that hearing is knowing. They think that watching is knowing or is learning. I'm sorry, not knowing. But they think that watching is learning. They think the hearing is learning. They think that reading is learning. They think that listening is learning. But really, the purpose of learning is mastery. And I have not mastered it, which means I haven't learned it until I can execute it effortlessly without the use of conscious resources. When I can execute it effortlessly without the use of conscious resources, I've mastered it. And there are people. Like, there are people and there are levels to mastery, right? I mean, there's the Michael Jordan level in basketball, right? And then there's the other levels. There's a Tiger woods level in golf, and then there are the other levels, right? So there are levels to mastery. And so the more you master your craft and the more you master creating a value that serves a broad array of people, the more money you're gonna make. That's just real life. So. But one of the things that's. That I've noticed as an entrepreneur, I've noticed that.

You can't. It's hard to be only good at one thing and be a solopreneur and make significant income. It's hard. It's. It's hard to the point of being all of feeling impossible. It's not impossible, but it's hard to the point of feeling impossible. Why? Because, like, we have to master so many different things to have run a successful business that it feels like it's impossible, right? And so. So there are a couple of things that we can do, though, in the arena of mastery that will help us build a successful business so that. So that money can follow our mastery. There are several things we can do and that we can take control over, like how much wealth we are able to create in the businesses that we build. So one of those is, first of all, we have to decide. We have to decide. So I'm going to write that word down. We have to decide.

That we are going to seek mastery. The prefix de means of or from.

The suffix side means to cut.

So when I decide something, I'm not choosing. When I decide something, choose means pick one. Decide means cut yourself off from any other possibility. And so when I decide that mastery is going to be my objective, when I decide that I've made a decision that very few people are willing to make.

Okay, cool. So let's say in order for me to build a successful business, I have to, I have to master one, lead generation, two lead conversion, three.

Customer ascension, and four.

Customer retention. So let's say those are the four components of business that I need to master in order for me to build a successful business that makes a significant amount of money for it to support me and my family as well as the families of the people who work on my team. Right? So that's my. Let's say that's my objective. But let's say now these are the components, but each one of these components, they have sub levels, right? Because if I'm going to generate leads, that means I need to have an opt in funnel, that means I need to have a lead magnet, that means I need to have an autoresponder and I need to know how all those things work. So I need to like, mastering this one thing is more than just mastering the words to be able to say lead generation. Right? Lead conversion. Well, now I need to understand how I need to get better at my communication and I need to get better at communicating value and I need to get better at positioning and I need to get better at pre framing. I need to get better at presenting. Then I need to get better at closing, right? And then when I come down here, I need to get better at creating perceived value, but I also need to get better at creating intrinsic value. I need to get better at taking a product and turning it into an experience and then I need to get better at branding. But now I've got all these things. I've got four things timed. Now I'm up to seven. Like, I can't remember all those things.

So that's why I master one component at a time in any new discipline. It doesn't matter if you're gonna learn how to play golf. It doesn't matter if you're gonna do martial arts. I was so frustrated when I first started taking karate because when I first started it was like weeks and all we were allowed to do was like punches. What about the kicks? That's the karate. That's the I wanted. What about the kick part? Right? And then you'd learn to start learning katas. And then you like, you'd spend like two months learning isshin route H form number one. And you're doing the same things motion over and over. Two months. Like, what is this? I don't remember who said this, but somebody said I'm not afraid of the person who knows 10,000 kicks. I'm afraid of the person who's practiced 1 kick 10,000 times.

Mastery. Mastery is key. Are y' all tracking? So mastery is what again? It's the ability to execute effortlessly without the use of conscious resources. Y' all tracking? Okay, so now I'm gonna read an amazing, amazing passage, and then we're gonna get into how can you begin to develop mastery in your business? Okay, and what should you be mastering? Like what's. What's the overarching mastery with all the little sub masteries under it? What's the overarching mastery that I need to focus on so that I can build a successful business right, according to biblical principles? So here's what it says in Proverbs, chapter 8. By the way, Proverbs was written by King Solomon. King Solomon was the wisest, wealthiest man who ever lived. If King Solomon were alive today, he'd be a multi trillionaire. So if you wrap your mind around a multi trillionaire, right, because what's interesting is a million is a thousand thousand. Now when you say a million is a thousand thousand, we've all had a thousand dollars before, so a million, a thousand thousand. That doesn't seem like that much when you put it in those. That perspective. Millions, thousand, thousand. A billion is a thousand million. Oh, snap. Now we talking about time out, time out, time out, right? A billion is a thousand million. A trillion is a thousand billion.

Like, what does that even mean? Right? And so if Solomon were alive today with the wealth he had back then, he would be a multi trillionaire. Why? Because God downloaded a business model into Solomon's mind that made him the wisest wealthiest man on earth. And guess what, lays it out in great detail in the Bible. If I have time, I'll share some of, some of that with you if I have time. And if I don't have time, I have a video on YouTube that you can go watch called How Solomon Made Me Rich. Okay. Because I literally built my business based on the business model of King Solomon. Okay? Y' all track it. So here's what it says in Proverbs. Proverbs, chapter 8. Starting with verse 13, we're going to read down to verse number 21. Here's what it says. It says, the fear of the Lord is to hate evil, pride, arrogancy and the evil way. And the froward mouth do I hate. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom I am understanding, I have strength by me, me who wisdom and understanding kings reign. What does that tell me? Well, when I have wisdom and understanding, that gives me Authority by me, princes decree. Justice by me, princes rule and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. I love them that love me. And those that seek me early shall find me. So let me ask you a question. Are wisdom and understanding hiding from us? No, they're not hiding for us. They're looking for people who are looking for them.

But here's the problem. Most people can't be bothered. Why? Because one of the things I learned a couple of decades ago is, is that poor people primarily entertain themselves, whereas rich people primarily educate themselves. And when I say educate yourself, I'm not talking about school and I'm not talking about college. I'm talking about the books you read when you're done with both of those. I'm talking about the classes you attend after you graduate. I'm talking about the lessons you learned when most people think the learning has stopped. Okay, Y' all dragging? Okay. I love them that love me. And those who seek me early shall find me. Now watch what it says. Here's the good news. Wisdom and understanding never travel alone. So let me ask you a question. Before I even go any further, let me ask you this question. Does God desire for his people to be wise and knowledgeable and understanding? Yes. Okay. So if God desires that, he has to desire the byproducts. So it's. It's like one of the reasons. One of the reasons that I see a lot of people in churches, they don't do well in life is because they're walking around with all of these internal, conflicting beliefs, right? Well, I believe that God wants me to be poor, but he also wants me to be wise. He doesn't want me to be a glutton and a drunkard and lazy, but he does want me to be poor. None of that makes any sense. The scripture says the glutton and the drunkard shall lie down together and drowsiness will clothe the man with rags. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands of sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth and thy want or your lack as an armed man. It says you're like if you are lazy. I'm not saying all poor people are lazy. I am saying all lazy people are destined to be poor.

So if you want to increase your chances of not being poor, don't be lazy. None of us can afford to. People say, I love sleep. I don't understand that. How do you know you love sleep? You don't even know you sleep when you sleep.

I'm unconscious. When I'm asleep, y'. All. You can come in. You can come in. It's fine. So, like, you know, like, when I'm asleep. You know what? I know when I'm asleep. I know when I woke up that I was dreaming when I was sleep. But while I'm asleep, I don't know nothing. I am totally unaware of everything people say. I love sleep. I don't love sleep. Sleep is an enemy that wants to rob me like a bandit.

And I love it. No. Okay. Anyway, I do it. I have to. But here's what it says. I love them. Love me and they seek me early shall find me. Riches and honor are with me. Whoa, whoa, whoa. What happened? Wisdom and understanding. Said, when I come. I ain't coming by myself.

I got some partners.

My partners are riches and honor. Who? Your partners?

He said riches and honor are with me. Yea, durable riches and righteousness. Oh, one more time. And time out. You can't have righteousness and riches, can you? Okay, and here's what people start thinking. They start thinking. Yeah, but, Myron, the Bible says it's easier for camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter into heaven. I know it says that. So whatever that means, whatever the meaning of that verse is, it can't be something that contradicts this verse.

Right? Because if it is, now there's a problem, because God can't lie. And so if God said that it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter into heaven, guess what? It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle. By the way, how possible. And by the way, that's a literal camera. Literal camel and a literal needle. Let me ask you a question. Is it possible for a camel to go through the eye of a needle? No, it's not. What? Yeah, it depends on how big the needle is.

There's one in every crowd. Trudy, you're both of them. Okay. Okay. So she said it depends. Okay. How big is your needle? Okay, so.

Like, a camel is not gonna go through the eye of a needle. So whatever Jesus is talking about, by the way, if you want to know what he's talking about, because I don't have time to teach it to you today. I literally have a YouTube video where I'm teaching you that passage in context, where I'm giving you the definitions of the words. And by the way, the key word in that verse is not a word that you Would. You'll learn when you watch the video. Because I'm not gonna tell you what it is like. All I'm saying is this the same God that put. It's hard. It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter into heaven. Is the same God who used the word rich the first time in the Bible to describe Abraham, who was the friend of God. So whatever it means, it can't mean what you thought it meant. If you're afraid of making money, it can't mean that it has to mean something else. And if you want to know what it means, go watch the other video on the camel and the eye of the needle. Okay. Okay. I think it's called camel and needle. But the thumbnail says why a rich man can't enter heaven. That's what the thumbnail says. If you want to go watch it, if you want to know what it says. So I just want you to see that. Wisdom, understanding. When they come, they got riches and honor, durable riches and righteousness. So riches, honor, durable riches. What are durable riches? Riches that last. And righteousness are with wisdom and understanding. Okay, y' all tracking. Then it says, my fruit is better than gold. Why? Because if you have gold, you can lose the gold. But if you have the wisdom, you can get the gold back.

Yea, then find gold. And my revenue is better than choice silver. I lead in the way of righteousness. Wait a minute. Wisdom leads us in the way of righteousness. So you don't have to be evil to create wealth.

And just because you created wealth, that doesn't mean you're evil.

And by the way, I'm gonna say something else. You don't have to give all your wealth away not to be evil.

In fact, the same Bible that says that says a good man.

Leaves an inheritance to his children's children. So what does that mean? That means papa ain't supposed to be a rolling stone. And when he leaves us, all he leaves us is alone.

Am I telling the truth? I mean, that's a good vibe, right? Papa was a rolling stone. I say, wha. Right? That sounds good. But Papa ain't supposed to be a rolling stone.

And when he leaves, wherever he laid his hat was on. And all he left when he died, all he left was alone. No, I want to leave my children. I want to leave my children and my children's children, starting from the place of abundance. Why? Because I never thought of this before until just now. The word for father in Hebrew.

The word for father in Hebrew is abba. Now, if we spell abba in English, it's just a word when we write it. It's just a sound when we say it. But when we write, we're talking about mastery, we're talking about money following mastery. Okay? Wisdom has some prerequisites. First prerequisite of wisdom is.

Ignorance. Congratulations. You were born with it and so was I. We were born, we were all born into ignorance. You didn't know your name, your first name, or your last name when you got here. You didn't know your mama from your daddy. You didn't know your brother from your cousin. You didn't know your hand from your foot, food from water, hot from cold, up from down. You were like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing.

Congratulations. Ignorance is a prerequisite for knowledge, wisdom, understanding and wisdom. But guess what? Just because that's where you landed, that don't mean that's where you're supposed to stay, right? Ignorance. What comes out. By the way, what is ignorance? Let me give you that too. Ignorance is the absence.

Of truth.

Oh, wisdom. I mean, ignorance is the absence of truth. That's why the first verse, we read Proverbs 8, 13. What did it say? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. What is? What is, by the way? There's a difference between truth and facts. See, facts are sometimes true and they're sometimes just something that. Sometimes just opinions. They're just opinions, these so called facts, right? But there's a difference between what's true and what's truth. What's true is dynamic and it can change.

My name is Myron. I'm here at my office right now. Later on today. Right now. That's true, but it's not truth. Why it's not truth? Because it can change. It's not truth because it will change. But it's true. How many are tracking? And so, so, so. But what's truth can't change. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west that don't change. Are y' all tracking? There's 24 hours of the day that don't change, right? So truth never changes. It always stays the same. So the absence ignorance is the absence of truth. Two, we have to go from a place of ignorance to a place of knowledge. We have to go get some knowledge in our heads. What is knowledge? Knowledge is the accumulation of truth.

So now I'm accumulating truth. I'm learning things. I'm learning about things. I'm getting like I learned my ABCs, but I still can't read. What's that? I have knowledge, but I have no understanding how many are tracking. I know my numbers, but I still can't. I still can't do addition and subtract. I can count, but I can't do. Can't do math. What's that? That's knowledge. Knowledge is foundational to understanding. It's a prerequisite. And then three, you have to add to your knowledge. Understanding.

What's understanding? Understanding is the assimilation of truth.

What's assimilation of truth? That means I comprehend the truth that I've collected.

Here's the problem with a lot of Christians. They have Bible knowledge and no Bible understanding. You know what it says here. You have no idea what it's saying.

Can I get a witness? We've been told what it says, but we've not been taught what it means. See, the logos is the written word, but the rhema is the spoken. The rhema is what the word, the logos word is saying. It's what it means. It's the revelation. It's not just the proclamation. So understanding.

So we got ignorance, knowledge, understanding. Then we can finally get to ha, ha, ignore. Here it is, wisdom.

What is wisdom? Wisdom is the application of truth.

Application of truth.

Now, here's what's really interesting. We start out here gathering knowledge. There are some lessons that knowledge can teach us that wisdom can't teach us because we don't have the knowledge yet. But guess what? Even after we get knowledge, there's some lessons we can't learn with just knowledge and understanding. There are some lessons that only wisdom can teach us. There are some lessons that can only be learned while you're doing the thing that you're learning.

Can I get a witness?

People say, well, you attempt to teach people how to do better in life. What they say is, well, as soon as I understand everything, I'll do something. You don't get to do anything until you learn something. I mean, you don't get to learn anything until you do. Like when it comes. Like when I know. As soon as I know how it works. You don't get to know how it works until you do something. You have to trust. Like there is a certain level of trust in the present activity that produces the future outcome. How many are tracking. And so what we have to do is we have to develop mastery in three areas and we will produce wealth. So I don't know if you've ever read any of Daniel Priestley's book. Daniel Priestley wrote, key person of influence he also wrote over subscribe, He also wrote 24 assets, and he also wrote the Entrepreneur Revolution. So one of the premises that Daniel Priestley says in his book, in his writings is.

Income.

Follows.

Follows.

Assets. And if you think about that, if you look at the amount of income you're making, it's going to be in direct proportion to the amount of assets you've accumulated. Now here's the problem. Some of you. The only asset you have is a skill that your employer pays you for. And so your asset is literally your asset is literally you being someone else's asset. Are you all tracking. So what you've got to do is you got to create some assets. What's an asset? Well, real estate, that would be some asset. Like if you own a house, somebody else pays you to live there, that's an asset. You own an apartment building, a whole bunch of people pay you to live there, that's even a better asset, right? If you own cars that you rent out on Turo or hire car or what, that's an asset, right? If it does not pay you, it is not an asset. Congratulations. You were born with it and so was I. We were born, we were all born into ignorance. You didn't know your name, your first name or your last name when you got here. You didn't know your mama from your daddy. You didn't know your brother from your cousin. You didn't know your hand from your foot, food from water, hot from cold up from down. You were like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing.

Congratulations. Ignorance is a prerequisite for knowledge, wisdom, understanding and wisdom. But guess what? Just because that's where you landed, that don't mean that's where you're supposed to stay, right? Ignorance, what comes out. By the way, what is ignorance? Let me give you that too. Ignorance is the absence.

Of truth.

Oh, wisdom. I mean, ignorance is the absence of truth. That's why the first verse we read Proverbs 8, 13, what did it say? The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. What is, what is? By the way, there's a difference between truth and facts. See, facts are sometimes true and they're sometimes just something that there's sometimes just opinion. They're just opinions, these so called facts, right? But there's a difference between what's true and what's truth. What's true is dynamic and it can change.

My name is Myron. I'm here at my office right now. Later on today, right now, that's true, but it's not truth. Why, it's not truth because it can change. It's not truth because it will change. But it's true. How many are tracking? And so. But what's truth can't change. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west that don't change. Are y' all tracking? There's 24 hours in a day that don't change, right? So truth never changes. It always stays the same. So the absence. Ignorance is the absence of truth. Two, we have to go from a place of ignorance to a place of knowledge. We have to go get some knowledge in our heads. What is knowledge? Knowledge is the accumulation of truth.

So now I'm accumulating truth. I'm learning things. I'm learning about things. I'm getting like, I learned my ABCs, but I still can't read. What's that? I have knowledge, but I have no understanding. How many are tracking? I know my numbers, but I still can't. I still can't do addition and subtract. I can count, but I can't do math. Can't do math. What's that? That's knowledge. Knowledge is foundational to understanding. It's a prerequisite. And then three, you have to add to your knowledge. Understanding.

What's understanding? Understanding is the assimilation of truth.

What's the assimilation of truth? That means I comprehend the truth that I've collected.

Here's the problem with a lot of Christians. They have Bible knowledge and no Bible understanding. You know what it says, you have no idea what it's saying.

Can I get a witness? We've been told what it says, but we've not been taught what it means. See, the logos is the written word, but the rhema is the spoken. The rhema is what the word, the logos word is saying. It's what it means. It's the revelation. It's not just the proclamation. So understanding.

So we got ignorance, knowledge, understanding. Then we can finally get to. Ha, ha. Here it is. Wisdom.

What is wisdom? Wisdom is the application of truth.

Application of truth.

Now, here's what's really interesting. We start out here gathering knowledge. There are some lessons that knowledge can teach us that wisdom can't teach us because we don't have the knowledge yet. But guess what? Even after we get knowledge, there's some lessons we can't learn with just knowledge and understanding. There are some lessons that only wisdom can teach us. There are some lessons that can only be learned while you're doing the thing that you're learning.

Can I get a witness? Sometimes, like people say, well, you attempt to Teach people how to do better in life. And what they say is, well, as soon as I understand everything, I'll do something. You don't get to do anything until you learn something. I mean, you don't get to learn anything until you do. Like when it comes. Like when I know. As soon as I know how it works. You don't get to know how it works until you do something. You have to trust, like there is a certain level of trust in the present activity that produces the future outcome. How many of y' all tracking? And so what we have to do is we have to develop mastery in three areas and we will produce wealth. So I don't know if you've ever read any of Daniel Priestley's book. Daniel Priestley wrote Key Person of Influence. He also wrote Over Subscribe. He also wrote 24 assets, and he also wrote the Entrepreneurial Revolution. So one of the premises that Daniel Priestley says in his book, in his writings is.

Income.

Follows.

Follows assets. And if you think about that, if you look at the amount of income you're making, it's going to be in direct proportion to the amount of assets you've accumulated. Now, here's the problem. Some of you, the only asset you have is a skill that your employer pays you for. And so your asset is literally your asset is literally you being someone else's asset.

Are y' all tracking? So what you've got to do is you gotta create some assets. What's an asset? Well, real estate, that would be some asset. Like if you own a house, somebody else pays you to live there, that's an asset. You own an apartment building, a whole bunch of people pay you to live there, that's even a better asset, right? If you own cars that you rent out on Turo or hire car or what, that's an asset, right? If it does not pay you, it is not an asset. Guess what? If you write a book and you sell that book, it's an asset. How many? All tracking. Okay, so income follows assets. So where do I get assets from? You get assets from mastery.

Of.

Mastery of mindset.

Mastery of mindset? What does that even mean, mastery of mindset? So what, like, if I'm going to master my mindset, what do I actually do? What am I actually doing? What I'm actually doing is I am starting with intention.

It's so fascinating. I can talk to somebody. I can talk somebody I've never met before for five minutes, and I can pretty much assess where they are financially just by what they talk about. You know why? Because, like, I've talked to a lot of people who are successful. Successful financially is what I'm talking about.

But in any. In any area of life, people who are successful.

Obsess.

Over intention and ignore distraction.

Now, I'm going to define intention and I'm going to define distraction. Intention is anything that you focus on that moves the needle in your favor.

See, like somebody's complaining about the stuff that somebody on television did. Somebody is. Like, you're consumed with the life that somebody else is living because you agree with them or you disagree with them or you like them, or you're a fan or you're a hater or whatever. It doesn't matter.

Whether that person wins or loses does not affect your life. And you're obsessing over something that doesn't make your life better. Like, that's one of the common denominators of people who live on a struggle bus. They know what time the game's coming on and what time it ends. And they talk about my team, my team, my team. And none of them people on that team know your name. And that team don't send you a check. So it ain't your team. You can be delusional and think it's your team, but I want to see if they win. They don't want to see you lose. Why do you care? Like, it does not make sense for people who are living a nightmare, turning on the electronic income reducer and watching other people live their dreams.

Don't you want to see them? I don't want to see them. I want to be them. I don't want to watch other people live a good life while I'm struggling.

My daughter. My daughter was the youngest, right? She was 16 when we got a television. Why I am not gonna watch other people live their dreams. I'm living a nightmare. I'm gonna figure this thing out and I'm not gonna distract myself and anesthetize myself with people living fake lives in a movie or a television show. And my life ain't working. And I don't want to see the game. I don't want to know all the players names. I don't want to know all their stats. I don't care. Don't care if they're. If they're. If the name on the back of their jersey doesn't say golden. I don't care if they win, lose, or draw.

Why? It's a distraction.

In the slavery days, the slave masters on the weekends and holidays would give the slaves alcohol so they could anesthetize themselves, so they could forget about how horrible their life was.

And now people are free in their bodies. They're making everybody slaves by anesthetizing themselves with media and social media and stuff that doesn't make your life better. So we just anesthetized ourselves in a different way.

So mindset is first of all intention. And then. So we have to set our intention and then we have to pay.

Attention.

Pay attention to what? Pay attention to intention. Pay attention to things that are going to make our lives better and ignore the things that won't ignore them. You're going to ignore something. You're so obsessed. Yeah, I know. So are you. I'm just obsessed over making sure my family doesn't die in poverty. I'm obsessing over the fact that making sure somebody in my family needs help. If nobody else can help them, I can help them. I'm obsessing over the fact that when I meet somebody and they're hungry, I don't have to. I don't have to wonder if I can afford to buy them some food.

Why? Because who is your neighbor?

Jesus said, you saw me in prison. You didn't visit me. I was thirsty. You didn't give me anything to drink. I was hungry. You didn't give me any food. I was naked. You didn't give me any clothes. They said, well, when did we do all that? Inasmuch as you've done it unto the least of these, who are the least of these, when you can serve somebody who has nothing to offer you, God says, how you treat them is how you treat me.

So we set our intention, and then we pay attention, and then we obtain.

Instruction. We need to find somebody who knows how to get to where we instruction how to get to where we desire to go. And when we do that, now, our mindset. We need to master our mindset. And when we master our mindset, once we set our intention, once I set my intention.

I need to act as if anything other than that intention is impossible for me.

I need to ignore distractions when they show up in the form of difficulties, when they show up in the form of entertainment, when they show up in the form of enemies. I need to disregard distractions. Why? Because the only reason they exist is to distract you.

How many of y' all tracking? It's interesting. It says in Second Corinthians, Chapter 11, verse number three, I fear lest by any means, as.

The serpent beguiled or tricked Eve, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity In Christ, huh? How's my mind going to be corrupted from the simplicities in Christ? Well, however. However Satan corrupted E's mind. That's how you're going to corrupt your mind. What does that tell us? Satan does not need a new toolbox. The one he's had for 6,000 years is still working fine. They might be a little rusty, but they still work.

Gary, y' all can come over this way. The cameras are up here. You're fine. So understand. Understand that Satan is going to use the same methodologies on you that he used on Eve. So if I want to understand how Satan distracts me, all I gotta do is go back and read the story in the Garden of Eden. So what did Satan do in the Garden of Eden? Okay. Garden of Eden, the word garden means enclosure. So it was a protected place?

It was a protected place. The word Eden means pleasure. So the Garden of Eden was God's protected place of pleasure for man? Some people say. Okay, and then. So God said. God. Genesis, chapter 2, verse 16, 17. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden, thou mayest freely eat. Of every tree, freely eat. Which tree? Every tree. How do you eat freely? Every tree of the garden you may freely eat. These are trees, by the way, in case you're wondering what those are. These are trees. Palm trees, like plum trees and pear trees and pomegranate trees and walnut trees and avocado trees and pineapple trees and. And trees and more trees and cherry trees and mulberry trees and trees and trees and olive trees and almond trees and trees and more trees and more trees. And then it says, of every tree of the garden, thou mayest freely eat. But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

But of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, where thou shalt not eat of it, for the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. So God said, don't eat off of the tree. How many of y' all with me now? Let me ask you a question. Every tree freely eat. So he said. He said, every.

Tree freely eat. I want to ask you all a question now. Here we go. Every and freely. Are those. Are those abundance words or lack words? That's abundance. Every and freely. If everything was yours for free, it don't get no more abundant than that. That's about as abundant as we got, right? If you want more abundance than that, you're gonna have to check someplace else, because that's all we got here. Everything's free.

Then he said, but of.

The tree, how many is that? One is one. Abundance or lack? Lack. So God said, have as much of the abundance as you want. Stay away from the lack.

Wait a minute. Wait. Time out. Oh, it gets more better. Watch this. Adam and Eve are down here in the garden.

And it says, now the serpent in Genesis 3. The serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, yea, hath God said, watch what he says. You shall not eat of every tree of the garden. What did he do? He added the word not. And he took out the word freely. Why did he do that? Because Satan understood something we haven't learned to this very day. Words are not just a communication tool. They are the window through which we see the world.

What does that mean? That means when you change what you say, it changes what you see. How's that work? Well, the Bible says that adultery is an abomination. So guess what we did? We changed the word from adultery to a fair.

Fair Sounds like a party. Maybe I should bring a gift, invite some friends. No. Right. We changed the language. Affair doesn't sound nearly as terrible as adultery. Am I telling the truth?

God calls it drunkenness.

God calls the people who do it drunkards. It's a disease.

Well, either we're right or God's right. I'm gonna take his side. Say, what are you saying, Myron? I'm saying when you change the words, it changes the way you see it. He's changing words to desensitize us.

Are y' all tracking? And so here's what Satan did. He got Adam and Eve's attention off of all their abundance. He got their attention off of all this abundance.

Of trees that they had for free. And he got them to pay attention to the one thing they lacked. Why did he do that? Because Satan understood something we don't understand. Where attention goes, intention follows. That's why we have to be very, very, very.

Discreet about what we give attention to. Because if I give enough attention to it for a long enough period of time, I will set my intention on it.

Y' all tracking. So what happens is we got. They set their intention on the tree. So he said, I fearless by any means that as serpent begot Eve through a subtlety, so your mind shall be corrupted from the simplicity that's in Christ. So guess what, Eve. Guess what Adam and Eve had to do? They had to walk past all of this abundance and ignore it to get to the only thing they lacked. And when they got to the thing that they lacked, they lost everything they had. What do we learn from that? Satan wants to distract us with discontentment.

Because when he distracts us with discontentment and we stop being thankful for all the gifts we open every day, we begin to lose the gifts we have.

Think about it. Why do people really get divorced? Because one or more of those people stop being thankful for the other person.

Got your attention off what you had? What happens when you get your attention off what you have? You start paying attention to what you don't have. And when you get the thing you don't have, then you lose the stuff you had.

Wow. So Satan is a master at distracting us by getting us to focus on what's missing so we lose what's there.

So my mindset has to be like, when something comes against, I have to trust God's word. Fear not, Abram. I'm your shield. I'm your exceeding great reward. Like, I don't have to be afraid of what's happening around me because I know who's called me. I know the one that created me for a purpose called. Called me to that purpose. And if I will prepare myself for that purpose, he will establish me in that purpose. And the things that are for me, no one can take away from me. And the things that are not for me, no one can get to me. All I have to do is yield.

Mastery of mindset. When I have mastery of mindset, my intention is set, I pay attention, and then I obtain instruction to learn how to do the thing I don't know how to do yet. Like.

People say, well, I don't know how to. And you can fill in the blank with whatever you want to. And they say that like, that's a final judgment. I don't know how to use a computer. You didn't know how to walk when you got here, but you didn't lay in the bed your whole life. You figured it out.

Right? Some things that you don't know how to do are just worth figuring out.

But if I'm going to figure something out, the first thing I have to do is I have to determine that it is figureoutable. I will never face an obstacle that's bigger than me. How do I know that the first thing God ever said to a human being, Be fruitful, do multiply, do replenish, do subdue. Subdue. What's subdue mean? Like, all the rest of them sounded good. Be fruitful. What's fruitful? Produce on the outside based on what I put on the inside. Multiply what's multiply, increase, replenish. What's that? Fill up the earth and then subdue. What's that mean? Trample down. Wait, what does that have to do with it? See, God understands that entropy follows energy and disruption always follows intention. And so when I set out to do something good, the first thing that shows up is not a paycheck.

When I set out to start working out, the first thing that shows up is not big muscles. The first thing that shows up is sore muscles. When I've been eating junk my whole life and I start eating right, I don't feel better first. I feel worse first.

If I've been hooked on drugs or alcohol or nicotine. When I give it up, I don't feel better initially. I feel worse initially.

How many of y' all tracking? And so we have to understand is we. In order for us to be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, we have to subdue it. We have to step on the things that try to stop us. Why? Well, because if I don't, I may be stuck like chucking a pickup truck. I have to step on the things that stop me. Now, if God is telling me to trample things, he's telling me to step on things. Here's what that means. Everything that tries to stop me is both smaller than me and beneath me. So if he told me to step on it, that means I can step on it.

You think you can stop me.

Just because you're hard to learn? You think I'm not going to learn new language just because you're hard to learn? You think I'm not going to learn how to play that musical instrument just because it's hard to learn? You got to be confused with someone else. I'm made in the image of God. I got it covered. I will stomp you.

How many y' all tracking? So what we have to do. We have to do is we have to wrap our minds around the fact that we are who God says we are. We can do what he says we can do, and he created us for a purpose.

So, mindset. What's the next one? I have to master my mindset. Then what do I have to do? The next one, B? I have to master my skill set.

What does that mean? The word skill. The word wisdom in the Bible is the word skill. How many are tracking? The word wisdom is the word skill. Do you have a call, Carter that you need to do? Oh, you're leaving? You're getting ready to go. Okay, cool.

So the word. The word Skill. The word wisdom in the Bible is the word skill. How many are tracking? So, like, getting wisdom is literally what is wisdom? The application of truth. What does that mean? I'm doing something. I have a skill. So I'm going to master my skill set. I'm going to master my skill set with practice.

And precision. Because like people say, practice makes perfect. Not if you're practicing mistakes, it don't.

Precision.

And then what happens? Then I can finally get to the place where I have productivity.

Oh, I got it. So skill set is like practice. I got to do it, and then I got to do it again. And I got to do it again. Then I got to do it again. Then I got to do it again. And then I can start developing some precision. I can start refining my movements, and then eventually I can be productive. And then guess what happens when I start being productive now? Profits will begin to follow because what am I doing? I'm producing things that serve other people. I'm producing things that other people value more than they value the money they have in their pockets. Okay, what happens next? Well, actually, what happens next is I need to go and get.

See my tool set.

And depending on what kind of business you are, that's going to determine your tool set. So for some, if you're a musician, your tool set is an instrument. If you're a filmmaker, your tool set is a camera. If you're a pilot, your tool set is a plane.

But you have to get a tool set. You apply your mindset and your skill set to your tool sets. And what do tool sets give you? They give you leverage.

What is leverage? Leverage means a small input creates a multiplied output.

Now I get it. I'm telling you, if you will become the person who can do the thing.

I remember. I remember as a young man when I met the woman who would be my wife. And when I met her, the day I met her, I went back to my room and told my brother, who was my roommate. I said, I met the girl today I'm gonna marry.

She didn't go back to her room and tell antibody she was gonna marry me.

I had my work cut out for me, let me tell you. And by the way, I wasn't the Myron golden back in those days. I was Myron who? Right? And I didn't have nice cars, I didn't have nice clothes, I didn't have pockets full of money. I was broke as a joke. Two things going for me. I talked fairly good. I could write poetry, make you hurt yourself.

You all right? Kenny. And I said. I said, you know what? I'm gonna write this girl a poem. So I wrote this poem.

I wrote this poem called what Will it take?

I was 21. It was 27 stanzas.

I ain't gonna give you all of it. Y' all want me to give you a little bit of it?

What will it take to win thine heart, thou fairest of the fair? Will it take a prince of princes or a valiant knight to dare to win in one so beautiful as you? Might that require a nobleman, a priest, a king or someone even higher? What will it take to win the heart of one so kind and fair? In youth it will probably take a rich man or handsome of a truth what will it take to win the heart of one so comely and sublime? Must one be a sovereign ruler Or a monarch in his prime? None of these do I possess and yet I seek to win thine heart Thou queen of elegance above these valiant men I'm not a prince of princes and I've never been a knight but if I had a chance to win your heart I think I might I'm not a nobleman I'm not a priest or king but to win your heart thou fairest I'd make the bells of heaven ring Since I don't know what it takes to win your heart so true Please tell me what it takes to win and that's what I would do she said, oh, Myron. I said, it's on now, boy. It's out. Let's go, let's go.

And a whole bunch of poems later.

Oh, y' all said it only took one. No, no, no, no, no, no. It wasn't that kind of part. A whole bunch of poems later, whole bunch of promises later. Finally got her to say, I do.

And nobody taught me the marriage math.

I'll tell you how the marriage math works in case you're about to get married, so you know how it works.

If you having a hard time taking care of one person financially, it's twice as hard to take care of two people. And I can remember when my wife was eight months pregnant with our first child. And after making all these promises and writing all these poems.

Our water and our electricity were both disconnected at the same time. We moved across the country from Gary, Indiana, to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on a Greyhound bus.

Shortly after that time, I got a job driving a trash truck for $6.25 an hour. Hence the trash man to the Cashman book, right? Got a job driving a trash truck. And I can remember saying to my Wife, if we can make $300 a week with some overtime, baby, we will be alright. Our rent was 250. Our car payment was 140. Some food, some utilities, we ate. That was as big as my thinking was.

And I can remember struggling for years. And then years turned into decades. And I worked on it, but it wasn't working for me. But it was still working. I didn't make the mistake of thinking that because it wasn't working for me, that it wasn't working because the scripture says all work works. In all labor there is profit. So when I'm working on something that isn't working for me, it's still working. It's just working on me. And if I will let it work on me until I become the person for whom it can work, eventually it will work for me so well that it will seem effortless.

But that's mastery of mindset, mastery of skill set, mastery of tool set. I can remember not so long ago, after having already made millions of dollars.

I remember going through seven years of tragedy after tragedy after tragedy after tragedy after tragedy for seven years. Not for. Not for 15 minutes. Seven years. And I can remember in 2014, right after we moved to Tampa on borrowed money after I had already been a millionaire and lost all my money and had to sell my house on a short sale. And I didn't like, my Mercedes didn't get repossessed. It got me possessed. I just took it back to them. They didn't have to come get it. I said, where do y' all want me to bring it? Right? Okay. Like I was. I'm just telling y' all the whole story. I was broke. And in 2014, I can remember sitting on my back patio after living on borrowed money for two years. I can remember sitting on my back patio crying on my wife's shoulder. I don't know what's going to try it and nothing's working.

I don't know what to do. Yeah, the same one I wrote the poem to.

Because I lost my mindset, no longer had mastery. I allowed circumstances to distract me from the mastery of my mindset.

And it caused me to believe that my skill set was no longer useful and the tool sets that I had that worked in the past weren't working anymore. And I'm like, I don't know what to do.

But I stayed in the game. I got my mindset back, right? Sharpened my skill set again, got back out to Doe and started doing it again. And now what in 2014 felt impossible?

In 2023, feels effortless because money follows mastery. Become a master of your craft. Become a master of your niche. Become a master of your assignment.

Watch and see if the money doesn't follow.

All right, my peeps. Thank you all for watching. Thank you all for subscribing. Thank you all for liking and commenting and all the rest of the stuff you do. I hope you all can feel the love. See y' all next Wednesday. By the grace of God. In the meantime, in between time, peace out, Cub Scouts.