The Secret to a Fulfilling Life is Simple...

What I'm telling you what success can do. It can allow you to spend the time on the things you really need to do that you're avoiding through work, you're avoiding through cocktails, you're avoiding through surfing on the Internet. And when you get money out of the way and you get to look at you in the mirror, you could say, now it's time to be a better version of me. If you're a little confused about money, if you're a little guilty to make money, if you're a little bit guilty that you're here, that you want to make more money, I got to get that crap out of your system. Because that is just a lie someone else downloaded into you. I want to tell you. When I was able to get money so it wasn't the front and center worry of my life. Guess who was left standing in the mirror? Just me. I didn't have to worry about the rent. I didn't have to worry about the car I wanted. I didn't have to worry about my kids. Only person standing. I couldn't use that excuse of, I'll worry about this later. Let me just slam a drink and keep moving harder. Let me just do this or let me be distracted. When I was in my 20s, I dated obsessively. I went out and partied a lot. I always found a way to, like, hide the crap that was living inside. And most of it was through work. If I was going to say I was an aholic of something, I was a workaholic for sure in my 20s. And then guess what happened. By the time I was 30, 35, I started getting successful. I started paying, paid off all my debts. I retired. My parents, I get in my 40s and I'm like really successful. And I don't have to think about money anymore. I don't have to worry about it. I worry about my companies, my family and all that stuff. And the only person left standing in the mirror was me. What I'm telling you what success can do. It can allow you to spend the time on the things you really need to do that you're avoiding through work, you're avoiding through cocktails, you're avoiding through surfing on the Internet, avoiding because you binge out on Netflix. Avoiding through sex, through anything. There's things that we can put out there to hide and mask. And when you get money out of the way and you get to look at you in the mirror, you could say, now it's time to be a better version of me. And if anybody would have ever told me that in my 20s. I'd be like, what the hell are you talking about? If I get money, I don't have to worry anymore. When I got money out of the way, the worry went up because I had nothing to worry about anymore except look in the mirror and go, this guy's pretty screwed up. Like, you made the money. Now let's find a way to be a better human. And when I got to work on me, I went from being in my previous relationship a good provider, as a husband, an amazing dad. But I wasn't amazing. I got to work on me. And now I'm married to the love of my life, and I get to know what real love is. Real compassion, real intimacy, real connection, real friendship. I get to be a dad that's completely connected to my children in a way that I thought I was, but in a whole different world. Because I got the coaching, I spent the money, I spent the time. I interviewed people who are good parents and who have great relationships. I got to heal the child I was. I got to forgive my dad all the way. Completely forgive my dad. My heart is complete. There's no animosity anywhere for my dad. I won't die with any regrets. I don't. I think all the time. What regrets would I have? How do I solve them now, right? And it gave me a freedom that I never realized existed. So if you want something today to fight for, to fight for the person you're supposed to be, you're meant to be, fight for that. Fight for the healing that you could be. And then here's the cool part. Then, like, when I got that. And listen, I also know how many of you are successful on here. Please. I'm not talking to you like you have nothing and I have. That's not what I'm saying. But I want to tell you this. Evolution is, I got money out of the way. I started seeing success. And then when I started becoming a better version of me, I got in better relationships. I was better to my team. I became a better trainer. I became a better human. Then all of a sudden, when I got my own money out of the way. I love that saying. When you're on an airplane and it says, put your oxygen mask on first, right? Think about that. You put your oxygen mask on first, and then what's the next thing you do? Then you put it on other people. Once you get your oxygen mask on, then you could say, okay, I'm safe. I'm secure. You get to focus on the things that Are really important. You see, I watched my mom and dad my whole childhood. They didn't even realize it. Now I'm older. I didn't realize it as a kid. Money was their number one thing. I lived in a trailer park with my mom. We couldn't even afford the rent. We got evicted from the trailer park we lived in and moved in with my grandmother. My mom worked three jobs. Money was always the thing. She was a slave to it. She didn't have a degree. My mother's the most beautiful woman on the planet. Had dyslexia really bad and never really got that fixed. So she always considered herself not that smart. So she would never go for a real job. Like something that filled her heart. She would go for cleaning houses and painting houses and cleaning up salons and cutting hair when she could on the side. And like, she did all these things and none of those are disrespectful. She worked, right? But money was her thing. She didn't have time to work on her personal growth or work on her emotional intelligence or overcome the things that may have went a little sideways as a kid and try to heal that child that was scared. She didn't. But my father was the youngest of 12, was beat physically, really bad. To where. That's why he didn't stay married long. That's why he had 11 brothers and sisters and didn't talk to any of them. He was in a physically abusive relationship and never took the time to heal that or forgive himself or forgive his father. Right. Because all he worried about was making the next dollar. Right. I get that. Maybe that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I saw both my parents struggle so much with that that it's like, I want to get that crap out of the way. Like they never had time to work on themselves. Right. And I want to tell you, as a person who didn't come from anything and legit went to school without lunch money some days that I always thought money was going to heal me. I just thought, I'll get more successful, get more rich, and I'll be good. It's kind of true, but not really. Not in the way I thought. Being successful allows you to help flourish the economy, of course, but it also gives you leverage to help, to donate, to fix, to serve, to bring people together to help make effective change. If you don't think money solves problems, then first off, I don't believe you've ever given enough away. Think about that one. If you don't think money solves problems. You haven't given enough away. When money is something that's on your list of things to worry about, it should be. We can't do anything without money. We can't just sit at home and manifest everything to go great in our life. We'd love that. But they'll come throw you out of your house or your apartment. They'll take your tv. They'll take your car. We got to pay the bills, right? When money isn't as much of a worry, you get to focus on the things that are really important, Sam.