Why The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Poorer

We've all heard it said that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. But I think a mistake that we sometimes make is that we think that the poor get poorer because the rich get richer. And we think the rich get richer because the poor get poorer. And I'm going to say, like, commonality does not equal causality. Or what do they say?

I used to talk, now I just read about it. Commonality does not equal causation. Or correlation does not equal causation. That's what I was thinking of. I'm going to tell you today why I believe the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. And the first reason is because poor people and rich people use their minds very differently. And I think about when I was poor, how I used my mind and how that my mind perpetuated poverty. And the primary way that my mind perpetuated poverty when I was poor was by anticipating poverty, my expectation of lack, of perpetuated lack. I believe, like with every fiber of my being, that the very first temptation in the history of the world was the temptation to focus on lack. I think about Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. And they're in this garden, this enclosure, this protected place. Eden means pleasure. And they've got provision that's free. And God said, of every tree of the garden, thou mayest freely eat. Every freely, every freely, every. And freely are words of abundance. They're not words of lack. Then God said, but of the tree, how many trees is that one? The tree that's in the midst of the garden, thou shalt not eat it. For the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. So Adam and Eve had access to everything but one thing. And as long as they were focused on all of the good that they had, they had all good things. But the enemy came and said to them. It says in Genesis, chapter three, verse number one. It says, now 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, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Well, that's not what God said. God said, of every tree of the garden. Genesis 2, 16, 17. The Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden, thou mayest freely eat. Every tree freely eat.

But of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, thou shalt not eat of it. For the day thou eest thereof, thou shalt surely die. So serpent was more subtle than any beasts of the field which the Lord God made. He said, Unto a woman. Yea, if God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden, the woman said, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden. Now, here's what's interesting.

The enemy came and said, in fact, I'm going to write it on the board so you can see it instead of just hearing me talk about it. So God said, every.

Tree.

Freely.

Eat. The serpent came and said, yea. Hath God said, ye shall not eat of every? So he added the word not. He took out the word freely. Does that change the meaning? Totally changed the meaning. Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden.

The woman said, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden.

Trees. She took out the word every and the word freely. By the way.

Satan is a master at changing the definition of words.

Why? Because he understand that. Understands that words are not just a communication tool. Words are the window through which we see the world.

And if God calls it drunkenness.

And then I change the word to alcoholism and turn it into a disease.

Now it becomes more acceptable. Are y' all tracking?

If God calls it adultery and it's an abomination, but we call it an affair, which sounds like a party, and maybe I should bring a gift.

And flowers.

Maybe that's why it becomes more acceptable. Are y' all tracking?

You take something like homosexuality, and I know that's a touchy subject for some, but it's in the Bible. God calls it an abomination, which means he hates it. We call it being gay, which means happy. So now, well, I guess that's the only way to be happy.

I'm talking about changing words matters because words have meaning. And so he changed the words. Why? Because when you change what you say, it changes what you see. Can two walk together? Except they be agreed? That's why when I'm talking about adultery, I don't call it an affair. Because I can't walk with God if I call it an affair.

Oh, snap.

I have to call it the same thing he calls it. Or he's going one way and I'm going the other way. How many are tracking? And by the way, when I talk about adultery, I get it. We all have people that we know who've committed adultery. Doesn't mean we have to hate them, but we still have to acknowledge that it's adultery. We all know people who are drunks. Like many of us have people in our family who are drunks.

Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Alcoholics, right? No, they're drunks.

But that doesn't mean we have to hate them. We have to acknowledge either I'm going to be on my family side or I'm going to be on God's side. I'm going to be on my friend's side. I'm going to be on God's side. We have people that are friends of ours. We have people who are in our family who've decided they're going to be homosexuals. I know they say you're born that way. I get all of that, but I'm just talking about what the scripture says. I have to call it the same thing God says. You say, marion, what does it have to do with the rich getting richer? Well, the first temptation in the world was the temptation to focus on what was missing.

And so Adam and Eve are in the garden.

Adam and Eve are in the garden.

And they're surrounded by trees. Every tree freely eaten. Y' all seen me do this a thousand times, but I'm going to do it one more time. No, that's not a pea. That's a tree. Okay, so there are trees. Trees. Every tree freely eat. Every tree freely eat every tree freely eat every tree freely eat every tree. There's all these trees, pomegranate trees and peach trees and plum trees and pineapple trees and orange trees, grapefruit trees. There's just trees on top of trees. Avocado trees, almond trees. And then there's the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and there's the Tree of Life.

Don't eat this one.

Adam and Eve are like, you mean we got all this? That there's only one thing we lack? Yep, there's only one thing we lack.

And somebody asked this morning, like, why is the Tree of Knowledge, good and evil there if they're not supposed to eat off of it? Because if there's no opportunity to do wrong, there's no opportunity to do right.

Right. If there's no Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, then they're not doing good by not doing evil. They're just doing default. So what did this enemy do?

He got Eve's attention off of all that she had. He got Adam's attention off of God and onto Eve. And what they did was she focused on this. And both of them, here's what they had to do. They had to go past all of their abundance and ignore all of its abundance to get to the thing they lacked. Let me ask you a question. What if you're doing the same thing? What if the problem is not that the resource that you think is missing is not there? What if that's not the problem? What if the fact. What if the real problem were that the resourcefulness that's inside of you is blocked by your perception of lack? What if that's the reality? Because I am telling you, I know for a fact I was there. I was the poor guy. I was the guy who was broke as a joke and ready to choke. I know what it's like, like to.

Put an exhaust system under a car and tie it up with clothes hangers because you can't afford like the things, the strap, I get all that. I know what it's like.

To put stop leak into your radiator of your car because you can't afford to buy a new radiator. And then the heat doesn't work anymore, Right? And what happens is we make our decisions based on what's missing. And those decisions are not just a decision that I'm making today, but it's also a seed that I'm planting in the garden of my future. And so when I do something because something's missing, I'm literally planting the seeds for more lack because I'm reacting to the lack and ignoring the abundance.

I submit to you the primary reason the poor stay poor, the primary reason it's not the only reason, because there are evil people in the world and there are evil governments in the world, like you say, which governments are evil? Pretty much all of them.

Right? And there are evil people in the world who desire to take advantage of other people and they think the only way for them to get ahead is at the expense of other people. But when you realize that the best way for you to get ahead and to create what the scripture calls durable riches and righteousness is not at the expense of your fellow man, woman, but to the advantage and betterment of your fellow man and woman, that's what's going to take your life to another level when you wake up every day seeking to serve someone other than yourself and you're looking to bring value into the world so that the world is a better place for the people who are there, not just for you, like yours will be the bonus.

But if I'm focused on what's missing, well, it's like Jim Rohn said. He said, he said, I was talking to Mr. Shoaff, my mentor, and I said to Mr. Shoaf, he said, I would make more, but this is all they pay at my job. And he said, Mr. Rohn, that's not all they pay. That's all they pay. You, surely there are people at your job, they pay more than they pay you. That's not all they pay. That's all they pay you. Instead of wishing it were better. I mean, instead of wishing it were easier, wish you were better.

And see, that's something all of us can do. But what we do instead is we look at what's missing. Well, the reason my life isn't working is because the government did this. The reason my life isn't working is because I live in a male dominated, misogynistic. Misogynistic, Is that the right word? World. Okay. The reason my life isn't working is because the world's racist and I live in a racist country. The reason my life's not working. Cause nobody will give me a chance. Okay, so if nobody will give you a chance, go take one.

Is that too tough? There have been people in history.

Who'Ve done better than you, who started with less than you and less opportunity than you, and were more likely to fail than you. The difference between them and you is they decided.

Mmm, I wish I had. Okay?

And so, like, stop focusing on what's missing. It's interesting.

You got.

You got a rich person, you got a poor person.

They come to this wall, a big old wall, okay? So I'm not good at drawing walls. Okay? So this person looks at this wall and they think that is. That is an eraser. They think that is a big old obstacle.

That's an obstacle. This person looks at it and says, wow, what an opportunity.

Yeah, but it's in my way. Yeah, but, man, it gives me something to climb over. It gives me something to break through. It gives me something to dig under. It gives me something to go around.

Poor people, by the way, this is not a judgment call. Like, I get it. I was poor for a very long time. My very first job as a married man with a wife and a child was driving a garbage truck for $6.25 an hour. And I remember what it was like to decide, am I going to pay my electric bill this month or my water bill.

I was there. I was so aware of what was missing, and I was so programmed by the culture hypnotic societal mechanism. I thought the only way for me to get money was for me to go sell my time. And so what I'd do is I'd go sell my time.

That's what I did during the day. But at night, I went out and attempted to sell insurance. And everybody said, no. But see, some people would conclude that that doesn't work. Well, clearly, if People tell you no for a year and a half, you're clearly not good. Would you agree with that? Like, you're not good if everybody says no, Even people in your family and your friends and strangers and everybody's giving you the same two letter word no. I mean, some of them are like filing the edges off a little bit. Nah, bro.

But at the end of the day, they're still not buying. You're just not good yet. But see, we look at not good as a judgment, right? We look at it as, oh, well, this is the way I am. I'm just not good. Or is not good an opportunity to get better?

I see not good as an opportunity to get better. Like the stuff I'm not good at. That's my greatest opportunity for growth right there. I don't have to be great right now. I don't have to be great when I get started. But if I'm going to be great, I got to get started. And so poor people, what they do is they are so zoned in on lack. It's like the story of Hagar. And y' all heard me tell the story again, so I'm not going to do it again. But she's out in the desert with her son and she ran out of water. And she ran out of. And the sun's beating down on him. She puts him under a shrub because she didn't want to see him die. And then she starts crying and. And the angel calls unto Hagar and says, what aileth thee, Hagar? Do you understand how devastatingly, like, tragic and dangerous it is to be a woman in the desert with a child and no water? It's pretty, pretty dire circumstances. I mean, on the scale of like traumatic. It's up there. And she's crying and the angel says to her, what aileth thee, Hagar? What are you crying about? My question is. What kind of question is that kind of question? Is that what Alethy, like what you cry about?

Who's going to ask a woman in the desert with a child and no water, what are they crying about? Only an angel.

That's crazy. Only an angel. And he said, oh, don't fear not, lift up the lad. God's going to make him a great nation.

And here's what the angel said to her. For God hath heard the voice of the lad.

You were crying. He was praying. God heard his prayer. And then it says, and he opened her eyes.

And she saw a well of water and took the water and gave the lad drink. You go read Genesis chapter 21, you'll see it. And here's what's fascinating about that whole story.

If he opened her eyes and she saw the well of water, what does that tell us about the well of water? It was already there.

So she thought that the resource was missing, but the resource wasn't missing. The resourcefulness is what was missing. And what if the thing you're crying about right now in your life, the thing that you know is missing because it's missing. What if the angel came to you right now? What do you say? What you cry about?

The answer that you're looking for is right in front of you. But like Hagar.

Maybe you can't see the well of water in front of your eyes because of the well water that's welling up in your eyes.

And I believe that oftentimes what happens is we're so focused on what's not working.

That we can't see what would work even though it's right beside it.

It's like.

When I think about maybe the most mind blowing awareness of my life, all of the things, for the most part, most of the things I do right now, I could have been doing those when I was 21 and broke 25 and broke 32 and broke 33, 34, 35 and broke. I could have been doing this. Like I could have been teaching people stuff I knew back then, but I was suffering from I'm just me. Itis inflammation of the I'm just me gland. And so because it was something I could do, I didn't value it, just like you. So you think something's missing, but the only thing that's missing is your perspective of what's there.

Because all of us have something to win with. Go read Matthew 25 when it's the story about the Lord who called, or the Lord meaning the boss, the business owner who called his servants to him and divided unto them his goods. And to one he gave one talent, to another he gave two, to another he gave five.

But then it says he gave to every man according to his several ability. What if.

The gifts that God has given you, he's given them to you according to your ability? And then when you use those gifts and increase your ability, maybe you'll get more gifts.

But what's happening is we're so focused on the gifts we don't have because somebody else has them. I went to dinner when I was in Pennsylvania this past weekend with my family and I saw my nephew Daniel and he was there and he's like.

We were talking about guitar, and I was talking about some guitar theory. He's like, yeah, I don't know any of that stuff. I just know shapes, and I just know what it's supposed to sound like.

I was like, I know shapes too, but I don't know what it's supposed to sound like. So, like. And he plays the guitar better than me for the time being. I'm coming for you, Daniel. I'm coming for you. Okay, but, but, but, like, I don't understand how you can just sit down at a musical instrument and just start playing it. That doesn't make sense to me. But it's in him and he lets it out. And I'm telling you, for me, I got to understand how it works, or there's no use of me even attempting to do it. So. So the poor get poorer because, number one, they use their. We use our minds differently. Poor people use their mind to focus on lack. Rich people use our minds. I'm just going to tell you, we see abundance everywhere. Like, people will call me with business opportunities. I'm like, I don't have time to look at your business opportunity. I don't even have time to look at all the business opportunities that are in front of me right now. Right. There's so much opportunity in the world today that all of us together can't take advantage of all of it. But if you're focused on what's missing, you cannot see what's there. But if you're focused on what's there, you can see that there are things missing. But what you actually see when you see what's there is you just see that people are missing things that are there.

Like, and they like. And the people who are missing things that are there think that the things are missing. They don't realize they're just missing the things.

It's a game changer. Like.

It'S.

We use our minds differently. So I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you a couple of things that poor people do with their minds that you don't want to do ever. Number one, do not focus on distraction. It is the kiss of death to financial freedom. Distractions are the kiss of death to financial freedom. They're the kiss of death to wealth creation. You say, myron, what's a distraction? Anything that you focus on that does not move the needle in your favor financially is a distraction. The football game, the baseball game, the basketball game, the bowling league, the golf league, the. Like, anything that's not moving that's not Moving the needle in your favor. The television show, the game show, all of the stuff that we fight to go waste time with and amuse ourselves with. Amuse. Isn't that a fascinating word? Amuse? You know what the word amuse means? It means to think. And when you put a in front of a word, it means against. So the word amuse literally means against thinking. A lot of people don't know that.

But it's not amusing. Like, the results of amusement are not amusing. Amuse on that. Okay.

So.

What we have to do is we have to stop focusing on distractions. I'm blown away by how much time, effort, and energy people who are broke put into things that don't matter.

Like. But don't you want to see them win? No, I want to be them win. I want somebody to see me win. That's way better than seeing them win. People are like, my team won, bruh. Bruh.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but somebody gotta rescue your family. Them people don't know you, and that is not your team. And if you think they're your team, go ask them for your paycheck and see what they give you. This is not your team. They don't care nothing about you. My favorite show is on, sister. Let me help you. That is not your show.

You ain't on it. They don't know you. You say, Myron, what are you saying? I'm saying stop focusing on distractions. The only time we should focus on distractions are to intentionally clear our cash so that we can have more energy to focus on attention.

Like, I go play golf, but it's not totally clear my cache because I do think about stuff while I'm there too. But for the most part, I'm thinking about how to send this golf ball to that target.

In that direction, that distance. What shot do I need to hit from here? That's what I'm thinking about when I'm at the golf course. So I'm not thinking about other stuff. So when I get done playing golf, my mind is very relaxed. Why? Because I wasn't thinking about all that other heavy lifting stuff. And I get it. Golf is a distraction for me. But it's more than a distraction. It's recreation. What I'm doing is I'm recreating my creative ability. I'm, like, letting it rest so it can. Like, when it wakes back up, it's got more energy. So. But guess what I didn't do. I didn't do that when I was broke.

Like, we Were we was all in. I mean, I was like, I'm gonna leave it all on the field today. I didn't have a TV when I was broke.

I have three TVs now, but I didn't have one when I was broke.

Why? I couldn't afford to watch other people live their dreams while I was living a nightmare. Not gonna happen anyway, so. So number one, don't focus on distractions. So what should I focus on? Focus on intention. What is intention? Intention is what I'm focused on as the result of a decision.

In other words, I decide in advance. See, a distraction can just pop up and I start paying attention to it. But if I'm focused on intention, I'm going to pre determine the thing I'm going to focus on and then I'm going to put my energy into focusing on that. And I'm gonna predetermine what to focus on based on the objective of the whole conversation in the first place. Now, for me, I'm gonna run a business, right? Cause I can have a job, but nobody's willing to pay me the amount that I think I'm worth at a job. The most I've ever made at a job was like $30,000 a year, right? So like, I can't let a whole year go by and I only make 30,000. Like, so I gotta do something different. So I start a business. The only problem with starting a business is you, you don't know where the money's coming from.

No, no, you don't get it ever. Like, you just don't know. You just know it's gonna come from somewhere. Like, I don't know, I don't know, like all the money's gonna come in today and all the money's already come in today. I don't know where it came from, but I know it's coming. How do you know it's coming? Because I've sown seeds in the past.

And I sowed them for a very long time. And I knew harvest time was coming. Even though when it seemed like harvest time wasn't coming. I remember what it said In Galatians, chapter 6, verse number 9, where it says, be weary and well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. And if you ain't reaping yet, it ain't due season yet. Okay?

So focus on intention. Most people don't have good intention muscles because they don't have good decision muscles. Rich people have very good decision making muscles. Poor people are very bad at making decisions. They make choices, which means it takes them a long time to make up their mind, and then they change it. Very often, rich people, we make up our minds, like, in a hurry. Like, we just decide, yes, no. And people say, well, think about it, okay, but it's not going to change. I already decided. Right. And so when we make up our minds to.

Do a thing, we just decide, and then we just put our intention in that thing we decided to do. And there's no, well, I hope if I'll try, sort of, kind of, maybe hope. So, no, there's none of that. Just going to do it. And so focus on intention. Ignore distraction. Use your mind differently.

Look for. So if you're going to stop doing what poor people do, stop looking.

At the obstacle in every opportunity.

And instead do what rich people do. What do we do? We look for the opportunity in every obstacle. Because an obstacle, by its very nature, creates an opportunity. Why? Because the law of polarity is a law, but govern. So that's part of God's automation. So if there's something negative, there has to be something positive. Like, that's the other side of the coin. There is no wet without dry. There's no hot without cold. There's no up without down. There's no potential for gain if there's no potential for loss. There's no opportunity if there is no obstacle.

So because that's the case, because that's the case, I'm going to use my mind to focus on finding the opportunity in this obstacle that's in front of me. It's so funny. I was doing my. I think it was our. It was in December of 2023. No, December of 2022. It was December 16th, to be exact. I'm doing my challenge. The stage was back there. Then I'm doing my challenge, it's raining outside. Then all of a sudden I'm teaching, I'm doing my whole thing, and all of a sudden it sounds like it's raining inside. Now, raining outside and raining inside are two very different things, right? So it's raining outside, but then I'm like, can y' all go look in that closet? Cause it sounds like it's raining back there.

And it was like a waterfall just coming down in the building, starts coming across the floor.

Well, there's an obstacle, right? I'm in the middle of doing a presentation. I'm teaching people. Needless to say, I ranted less, sped up the presentation. We got done, got all the water cleaned up, but it was an opportunity for us. Okay, so now we need to look at fixing the roof. Oh, well, if we get a different kind of roof, it'll be better for soundproofing. So there was an opportunity in the obstacle. There always is. There always is. There's always an obstacle, opportunity, obstacle. On our older videos, you could see there used to be this floating black line that would float up the LED wall, right? It just would float. And guess what I found out? It's because the frame rate on the cameras and the frame rate on the LED wall didn't match each other or something like that. I don't even know what a frame rate is, but something like that. And so guess what? It gave us an opportunity to get new cameras that are better, that match the frame rate. There's an opportunity in every obstacle, and now our videos look better. And some people say, yeah, but Myron, cameras cost money. I get that. But my point is, there's an opportunity there. Cameras cost money, like, but everything costs money. You're gonna spend the money on something. Might as well spend it on something that's gonna put money in your pocket anyway. Focus on the opportunity. So we use our minds differently. Here's another one. We use our mouths differently.

I can tell what somebody's economic level is when I ask them, when I say, hello, how are you today? Whatever, their response is going to give me a clue to where they are financially.

If they say, I'm above the dirt, they're broken. They're broke.

If they say. If they say, I'm surviving broke.

If they say, oh, not too bad. Okay?

Upper ends of poverty, lower middle class.

I'm just telling you, it is a fact. If I ask somebody how they're doing and they say, utterly fantastic, okay, this person is either doing really well right now or on the verge. Why? Because our words have power. What do they have power to do? They have the power to help us focus.

It's interesting that it says In Romans chapter 10 that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Now, I know. I know that people believe and they say that you can speak things into existence. I'm going to debunk that myth. And I get it. People are going to disagree with me. They've been wrong before, they'll be wrong again.

You can't speak things into existence. If you could, you'd already spoken something different into existence than what you've got in existence right now. But words still have power, even though the to speak into existence is the word Bara. If you read Genesis 1:1 in Hebrew, it says.

Elohim et hashemimba et aheretz Brasheet. In beginning, bara created. They do the noun they do the verb before the noun in Hebrew, elohim, God. In beginning, created God, the heavens and the earth.

Guess what? The only one in the entire Bible who ever barras anything is God.

So man can't speak things into existence. We can't. To speak something into existence out of nothingness is something that only God can do. Okay, Abara kadabara Bara. Ah, Allah. That's God. Bara creates.

As Debar speaks. Ah, that's the Aleph again. God. God creates as speaks God, or God creates as God speaks? Abracadabra. Watch God pull the universe out of nothing.

Only God can speak things into existence. But God gave human beings language.

Language is a power.

It's a very, very powerful power. How powerful is it? The wisest, wealthiest man who ever lived said, death and life are in the power of the tongue. And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth, which means every word is a seed that I'm sowing into the garden of my future. If I don't like the fruit of experience I'm eating today, I need to sow different seeds of expression.

For the future.

Are y' all tracking? And so we have the ability to speak words, but here's what our words do have the ability to do. I can't speak something into existence, but here's what I can do. If I say to me what God has said to me about my situation.

I'm gonna say it again. If I say to me what God said to me about my situation, the situation I'm in, then.

I am speaking faith into a space in my life where doubt used to exist.

And when doubt exists in a space in my life, in that space, I cannot take action.

Doubt inhibits action. It blocks it. So when it says, and faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God, what I need to learn to do is I need to learn to speak what God has said to me about me and about my situation. And then I will have faith to take an action that I could not take when I was in doubt. And so when I speak to myself what God has spoken to me, and I insert faith into a space where doubt used to exist, I can now take an action that I could not take when I was doubting. That gives me a result that I could not get when I was get when I was doubting. And that's why people make the mistake of thinking that they spoke a thing into existence, when what they really did was they spoke faith into a space where doubt used to exist and took an action that they could not take previously. I don't. Hopefully that makes sense. That's why it says faith without works is dead.

Right. But when I. Like.

So in James chapter two, there are three different kinds of faith mentioned. There is dead faith. That's faith without works. It's like cognitive knowledge. Yes, I believe that. Okay, great. There's demonic faith.

The devils believe also and tremble. So they. They believe enough to fear, but not enough to change. That's demonic faith. And then there's dynamic faith. And dynamic faith is the kind of faith that causes you to act.

And so it's not just important that we have faith. It's important that we have the right kind of faith, the kind that causes us to act, the kind of faith that gives us the. I can't help it. Y' all tracking. Okay, so we use our mouths differently. So I don't. I would recommend that you don't. Like, like, eliminate the word try from your vocabulary. Try and trying. Stop trying to do things. Well, what I'm trying to do is this. Stop trying to do it and just do it.

That's a hard one. That's like. It's like, what if you turn try into profanity? Like it's proof. It's like, I can't say that word.

Well, what I'm trying to do is stop trying to do it and just do it.

What if you just become a doer instead of a trier?

How would that change your life?

Sometimes, by the way, when you start becoming hyper intentional with the words that you use, people who don't understand what you are doing, they are going to think you're arrogant.

Like, you will be misunderstood. I hope you're ready.

There's a scripture. Like.

When I'm selling, I'm kind, but I'm very direct.

Like, I'm not so excited you're gonna get this. Oh, my God, this is gonna be so amazing.

I'm not excited. Maybe you'll get it, maybe you won't. And if you do, congratulations. If you don't, maybe next time, Like, I've got no vested interest in you saying yes to my offer.

Which sounds really not. It's. It almost sounds. It almost sounds.

Arrogant, doesn't it? Right. But here's what the scripture says. The poor useth entreaties, but the rich answereth roughly.

What does that mean? Poor people beg, but rich people Just. They just say it the way it is.

Like, I'm not gonna beg you to buy my thing, first of all, because I don't need you to buy it. You need it more than I need you to need it. So therefore, I don't need you to need it. Tell me yes or tell me no, but tell me now. I gotta go. Right? So we use our mouths different.

Poor people are very good at using their mouths to come up with excuses. You tell people the excuse why you didn't do the thing that you said you were going to do or that you were supposed to do, and then you think they should care.

Like, I'm going to tell you what they won't tell you. When you tell somebody you're going to be there and you don't show up. They don't care why, they won't tell you that, but they don't care. Now, you just lost a little bit of trust, and then you do it again. You lost a little bit more, and then you do it again and you tell somebody you're going to do something. You don't do it, and you lost more trust. And before you know it, you become the person people say no to before they even know what you're going to ask because they don't trust you.

It's really interesting. Like.

A lot of times poor people.

Expect people to care about their reasons.

But they don't. They don't. They may feel sad for you, they may feel badly for you, but, like, your reasons are not like, well, hey, can you help me with this? Because I really need it.

Well, I can see that clearly that matters to you.

If you're going to negotiate with somebody or you're going to attempt to persuade somebody and you're going to attempt to get them to do something that will be in your benefit, at least sit down for an hour or two and figure out, like, how this could potentially benefit them. Talk to them about that stuff only.

So we use our minds differently and we use our mouths differently. The last big difference that I'm going to talk about, difference between why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer is because we have different models for making money.

If I were to advise somebody who's struggling financially and they would say, myron, what, like, what financial thing can I do to make my life better? I'd say.

Say, myron, what, like, what financial thing can I do to make my life better? I'd say.

Disconnect your revenue generation from limitations.

What does that mean? Right. Disconnect your revenue generation from limitations. Well, so there's this resource that we all have. At least we have it while we're here. When we're gone, we have it no more. What's it called? Time. Time is. So let me ask you a question. Is time a limited resource or an unlimited resource? It's a limited resource. Time is a limited resource. So since time, the time that you have on this earth is limited, don't anchor your revenue generation to time. And if you do, make sure that it pays well.

Like so well, that it's kind of irksome for other people.

Okay, so disconnect your revenue generation from time. Why? Because time is a limited resource. As long as your revenue generation is anchored to time, the amount of money you make will always be limited. Why? Because time is something you have in limited quantity. So you, you are making it so you can't make more money because you're selling your time by the hour. Cool. Now I do that too. But mine's 40,000 an hour. Why? And it's 40,000 an hour because I'm, I don't really need the money and I don't want to do one on one coaching. So if you're gonna make me do something I don't want to do, I'm gonna make you pay.

Everybody's happy, right? So maybe the market won't bear 40,000 an hour for you, but it'll probably bear more than you're bearing than it's bearing right now.

Right. Okay. So disconnect your revenue generation from time.

Disconnect your revenue generation from labor. From physical labor. Physical strength. Is that something you have in infinite quantities or limited? Limited, right. That's why working harder doesn't make you richer. That's a myth that somebody perpetuated to keep poor people poor. Well, just work harder. Work harder at what's not working.

No, that can't be it.

That can't be it. So what am I going to do instead? Instead of working harder at what's not working, what I'm going to do is I'm going to figure out what would work better and only work on that. Ah. Now there's a formula whose time has come that makes sense to me. And so.

Poor people exchange time for money. And then when they start a business, they start a service based business, which now they go from having one boss to having 17 bosses called clients.

And you have to fulfill something that you sold over a period of time. And you probably do that with some sort of physical labor. And I'm telling you, like you can Create wealth in a service based physical labor job. You're just going to have to outsource a lot of the work through delegation. And now you have to become a human resources department.

So. But you know what? You know what any of us could do?

Any of us could write a book.

Like, I've written several. What do you know? Books. Wow. Books. We could write a book. Wow, look at all these books. Oh, sorry, Books. These are just books I wrote. One of them is an anthology. I wrote one chapter. But those we can write books. My books. Look, just books. We're talking. We're talking 40,000 to 70,000amonth. Just books. Like. And guess what? I don't even have to be there to sell the book. I don't have to be there to write the book. I wrote the book once. Get paid on it from now on. Figure out some systems like I get like.

You say, but I don't have time to write a book. Okay, good. Go sell somebody else's affiliate offer. I make six figures a year just selling other people's stuff.

Do you hear what I just said? Like an extra six figures a year part time selling other people's stuff. Not even my own stuff. Stuff I didn't even create. Just telling people that I know about other people's stuff. And then they buy it. Then those companies pay me. Who could do that? We all could do that.

So there's so much opportunity in the world. Like, if you will shift the way you use your mind, the way you use your mouth.

And the way you use your money.

And business models, it'll change your life financially. It's one of the reasons why, like, my business models are so good. If you want to learn about business models, you can go read my book Boss Moves. But.

Like, my business model, I patterned after King Solomon and I thought if it worked for him, maybe it'll work for me. I didn't know if it would. Man, you talking about working.

Talking about it's crazy how well it works and anybody could do it. And I've taught on it on YouTube. I've got videos on King Solomon's business model. Like, I just. That's literally what I do. That's what I'm doing right now. I'm being Solomon esque right now. Just talking to people about stuff that I care about and stuff that I've learned. And then they come and pay attention to it. Who knew it could be a thing, right? So the rich get richer because we use our mind different, our mouth different, our business models and our money differently than poor people. The poor are not getting poor because the rich are getting richer. The rich are not getting richer because the poor are getting poorer. If I go.

And I hold my breath and you ask me what I'm doing, ask me what I'm doing, I'm holding my breath, ask me why.

I don't want to breathe too much air, there might not be enough leftover for everybody else.

Right? That sounds ridiculous, right? But isn't it fascinating that people say that about money all the time? I don't want to make too much money. I want to leave some for the next guy. As if you making less causes them to make more. Where the two have nothing to do with each other.

I heard somebody say one time, money is like oxygen.

Not the most important thing in the world, but it's like oxygen. What does that mean? You gotta have it every day to live. And when you don't have enough, you feel like you can't breathe. Can I get a witness?

But also, money's like oxygen in that there's more than enough for everybody to have more than enough. And there'd still be more than enough leftover. Thanks for watching. Hope this blesses you. We'll see you in the next video.