I lied that I was rich until it became true

Stories move us into doing some pretty incredible things. It's like the emotion and like the transformation that we see the hero go through that prompts us as human beings to kind of do some pretty incredible things. And that's why movies are so powerful. That's why, you know, whether it be like a church is so powerful, or, you know, books are so powerful, or even like somebody that was super inspirational inside of your life, whether maybe it was a father figure or maybe your mother or somebody that had an incredible story. And that is because, like I said, stories have huge, immense impact inside of us. And it's always that point right after, you know, like, thing after thing after thing that keeps, you know, pushing the hero down to really become challenged and to eventually get to the point where they decide enough is enough and. And they have the decision that's in front of me in front of them to decide on which way that they're going to be going with their life. Are they going to just keep suffering and keep allowing for what's happening to them, or are they going to actually do something about it and make a huge change and. And go and destroy the enemy and kill the dragon? Or, you know, it's not always the dragon, but they're gonna go, you know, trend. Like they decide to become this greatest version of themselves or to trust the process or whatever the big, huge epiphany is. And that is what separates the person that is the hero versus the person that is the character number two or whatever the cast or the janitor number three inside of the movie, or, you know, bank teller number four? That is the difference of the hero and big teller number four. So let me ask you, are you gonna be bank teller number four inside of your life, or are you going to be the main character? Are you gonna be the hero in your own movie? Are you gonna be the hero in your own story? And that is the question I have for you, is where are you right now? What are the things that have beat you down? What are the. What are the things that have shaped you into the way that you are that most that you would probably see as a weakness? What are those things that happen to you that makes your story special, that makes your circumstances the way that they are? What are those special things that, like, you can either claim as being a victim or you can leverage to be your biggest superpower? Because that's the thing when it comes to. Whenever you're watching a super power superhero movie, the difference of the villain and the difference of the hero is one subtle Thing they both had to experience, you know, they're same in a lot of ways. They had to experience something that was painful, that was agonizing, something that, you know, it made them, you know, it was painful. And the difference of the hero and the villain is the hero decides to use that, that thing that happened to him to do good for the world. And the villain decides to use that thing that, that set them back or that hurt them or that scar that they have, they use that as a reminder to wreak havoc on the world and to provide pain to the world. You think of any villain in the movie, like Thanos, he saw in front of him, like half of his, like, he saw like his mom taken from him. He was, his family was killed and, you know, on his planet, he saw all of this, you know, this destroying and all his death and all this, you know, ending of a lot of his people that he was close with. And he wanted to provide the exact same thing to the world. He wanted to, he wanted the rest of the world to feel his suffering and his pain. And he felt like that was the just thing to do and that was what was right. And in his eyes, he was the hero, but in reality, you know, for the greater good, he was the villain. And that's because he used that pain and that suffering in a way that, you know, transformed him into somebody that was a super villain. And so the question is, is what is your situation? You know, is it that you just lost a job? Is that you're stuck in a lame ass job? Is it that, you know, you're tired and maybe it's like, you know, your mom's in the hospital or maybe it's, you know, that, that version of yourself that's right there in front of you that you totally could be. And I would say all the things that makes you disqualified from being someone that is successful are actually all the qualifications that you have that makes you successful. Like, I just watched a woman speak on stage today and she was talking about how she was, you know, for the sake of YouTube's algorithm, I'm not gonna say the words. But you know, she was, when she was little, she had people, you know, touch her in inappropriate ways, let's say multiple times in her life. And most people, and then I think she even had a kid at the age of like 16 or 17. And most people, they would take something like that and they would use that as all the reasons why they can't be great in life and why they aren't made for anything in this life. But instead, she took those things and those things that happen in her life at an early age and use that as her superpower and made that into somebody that's written multiple books, and she was able to speak on stages all across the world, and she's able to, you know, make hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars a month from her story and from her experience. And that's because she perceived her experience and her story as something that was a superpower for her. That was. That was her reason of being. That was why she had the qualifications to be the person that she was, is because she went through those things and she turned that into her superpower. So the question is, what is your superpower? What are the things that you've been disqualifying yourself for? What are the. What are the things that have led you to this rock bottom that now you can change and get out of and help other people just like you going through the exact same thing to becoming a greater version of yourself. And that happened to me. You know, I like the person that you see today making millions of dollars a year, wearing beautiful watches and living, traveling the world and driving supercars and, you know, impacting thousands of people's lives and helping thousands of people become financially free and being able to live life on their terms. I wasn't always this way for me personally. You know, I was somebody that I moved a lot growing up, and I saw, you know, I saw my parents lose a lot, and I saw my, you know, when I was going through middle school and high school, I saw my. Someone that was very close to me, my father that I looked up to call quits and give up. Not. He didn't, like, kill himself. God bless. But he did, you know, lose a lot of his feet underneath him. He had to. He lost everything. I had to see my parents foreclose on their house. I had to see him and my mom, like, argue a lot and try to get through a lot of things and work through a lot of things while raising me and my two sisters. And throughout that, you know, I didn't have a lot of certainty in myself because my, you know, my family didn't have a lot of certainty in themselves. And that translated to me. And I was the outcast in school. I came in at a later stage because we had to move out of California into Colorado. And when we did that, when we moved states, I was the new person. And I wasn't very secure in myself. I wasn't very sure in myself, because I didn't. I wasn't instilled with a lot of security and a lot of sureness. Now, sports did kind of help out with that a little bit, but right away it was unnatural for me. And I had to. I had to, like, I wasn't really given a chance to get my feet underneath myself and have sureness and security in myself because that wasn't really instilled in me. And that resulted in me getting bullied a lot. That resulted in me being the outcast. That means that resulted in me being different than everybody else. That resulted in me being the weirdo that like it I was. Instead of, you know, like a lot of these accolades. Like what? Like, maybe my social life suffered, but what I was good at was I was good at sports and I was good at school. Those are the two things that kind of kept me going. Other than that, everything else I sucked at. I didn't know how to make friends. I was kind of a weirdo. Like, I didn't know how to talk to girls. Even though women always wanted to date me. I, like, I. I don't know, I just wasn't good at that stuff. And now that is something that made me an outcast in a lot of different departments because I was. I had a tough time relating to a lot of other people because I was so much different than everybody else. But it also made me good at things. And, you know, that those things that disqualified me in a lot of ways became a lot of the driving factors and a lot of the driving force for the future. And then I even, like, let's say, you know, when I had the times where I ran out of money and I had to find a way and those things when I ran out of money, but I had, you know, those skill sets and those, those things that got me to. Out of those circumstances and out of those situations, those things that would normally disqualify me for being whatever, loser, those are the things that qualified me for incredible, immense success. And so what are the things that you're disqualifying yourself that you tell yourself why you don't deserve things, and actually, let's flip the script and let's use those as your superpowers. So the question I have for you today is, what's your superpower?