In this motivational monologue, the speaker reflects on his personal journey from relying on addictive behaviors for short‑term pleasure to discovering a sustainable, authentic form of happiness rooted in love and service. He explains that true happiness is a conscious choice that requires filling the mind with positive thoughts and cultivating genuine relationships. Drawing on his faith that "God is love," he argues that helping others triggers a deeper, lasting joy. The speaker applies these principles to his own entrepreneurship, describing how he transformed his real‑estate business from a self‑centered, profit‑driven venture into a people‑focused operation that blesses employees and clients alike. He emphasizes that success and love are not mutually exclusive; rather, integrating love into leadership creates both prosperity and fulfillment.
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So I'm doing all these addictions daily because in the moment it makes you feel good, but it's not a lasting, sustainable way to be happy. And thankfully, thank God, I end up making some like guided choices. I get guided to, hey, let's move away from these addictions, like literally move away from the people that, that you— that are, are like part of this world and go start a new world without them. That was the way that I I left that behind and then I started studying different ways to actually feel good about myself. And, uh, and you can be super successful and super happy at the same time. That's what's cool is that we don't have to be successful driven by I'm not enough because yeah, you'll have success that way, but you'll never feel happy. You can actually be successful and happy at the same time. And, uh, I've learned that and now that's what I teach people how to do. But we all can be that way. Yeah, we all can be that way. And I think you just beautifully demonstrated like how, how happiness is a choice. We have to purposefully put positive things in our head. That's why people love listening to your show. That's why people come listen to the Good Mood Revolution podcast, is because we're out there like talking positive. People are picking it up, and then what's coming out of their mouth is positive, what's in their heart is positive. You said one other thing that, that like I really agree with. And that is that the people you interview are helping other people. Yes, like the signature emotion of happiness is love. When we're loving other people, when we're helping other people, we are happy. We were actually designed to help other people and to feel good when we do it. Like, that's how God made us. God was like when you help other people, it feels good for you. Yeah. So when I remember we were talking about inauthentic happiness— inauthentic happiness is addictions and like getting, you know, tricking our brain to give us dopamine. Authentic happiness is loving other people, having real relationships. You know, again, it's not about that. It's about a real relationship with real people that you actually care about, and then doing real things that help them out. And then when we do that, man, we're rewarded beyond our wildest dreams. Like, life becomes so happy. And so the foundation of all happiness ultimately comes down to love. I love that you said God is love. I mean, the Bible says that God is love, and when we abide in God, we are abiding in love, right? That means— this is what I'm talking about— love is the basis of all good moods. The power of love That's where I'm going to serve humanity. I'm going to, even in my business, right? So I own a real estate business, man. I want to serve the 80 people that work in my business. I want to love them. Today I trained them. Before I walked into my training, I sent blessings to the people I was going to see in my office. And I want them to love their clients that want to buy and sell houses. I want them to, to bless their clients. Yeah, it's business. But man, a business powered by love, you can be successful and happy, and then that makes you feel really good. So we can, we can have both. I know that this show is, is really focused on entrepreneurship and leadership, and I just want all the entrepreneurs and leaders out there to know it's not an either-or game. You can be extremely successful and extremely loving at the exact same time. It's not either-or, it can be both. The number one thing that happened that made us that that helped us get that is me learning how to be happy. We weren't getting those awards when I was going after personal gain. And I was— I started the business trying to be super successful from a selfish reason. I wanted the money, I wanted the fame. I was the person that was put— that had the love of power, right? I was the person that had the love of money. I was the person that had greed. I had all of that. But I got— I got everything I wanted. I got the success, I got the money, I got, you know, the house I wanted, blah blah blah. But I wasn't happy, and people that work with me weren't happy.
