This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "I Found $4,000 On The Ground…" featuring Lewis Howes sharing a personal story about finding a valuable 1945 wheat penny in New York City and reflecting on the importance of being open to opportunities and setting intentions for financial abundance.
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The next day I go to New York City and I'm in the subway. It's freezing right now in New York, it's like 15 degrees. And I'm just saying this to myself in the subway. And as I get off the subway, I go up the stairs and it's fricking filthy in the New York subway, right? And the stairs are dirty. And I see a penny, heads up. And I thought to myself, this is filthy, this is dirty. It's not valuable, it's not enough money. I don't need to pick this up. But I was like, no, I'm doing this experiment. Money comes to me abundantly and freely. I'm a magnet for money. And, and I'm gonna manifest money, right? And so I see it's heads up, I pick it up, put in my pocket, and I just say, thank you money for coming to me. The next day I put it in my bedside table. I don't think anything of it. The next day I wake up and I look at this penny and I said, cause I'm doing this experiment every day. I'm a magnet for money. Money comes to me abundantly and freely. And I look at it as a reminder. These two pennies, look, this is a reminder that money came to me. Maybe it's not thousands of dollars or millions of dollars, it's not something that's magically right here, but it's a remind. And I flipped over this one. No, I looked at the penny because it was heads up and I noticed something. I go, oh, that's really interesting. It said 1945 on this penny. That's an 80 year old penny. And I go, huh, that's unique. I haven't seen a penny that old in a long time. And I flip it over and I notice something and I get chills thinking about it. I notice it's a wheat penny. I don't know if you know what a wheat penny is. So a wheat penny looks different than a normal penny. It's got like two stalks of wheat on the outside of the penny. It's this old penny. And I look it up And I Google 1945 wheat penny value. And one just sold. I kid you not, I get chills thinking about it. One just sold. Guess for how much? I have no idea. $4,000. No way. Online. One sold for $4,000. Now it's all based on the condition and all these different things. Like, who knows, maybe it's worth $20, maybe it's worth $5,000, maybe it's worth a hundred dollars. But the idea is that there was more value inside of that penny than what met the eye originally. And the experiment of let me be open to possibilities for money to come to me and what I thought was two pennies might be $2,000, and all I had to do was be willing to look for it. Yeah. Be willing to pick it up and say, I receive. Thank you. If I didn't look for. If I didn't set that intention, if I didn't see the possibilities in front of me, I may not have received that penny that could have. Would be worth thousands. And it's the same thing in life. We may not see the opportunity in front of us right now. We may not reach out to the people we already know and say, hey, this is what I'm looking to create in my life. I have these skills, I have these talents. Is there anything that you need right now that I can be of service for you with? Yeah. And that's for that first year. How you create multiple six figures in that first year when you had nothing, was reaching out to hundreds of people.
