Grow Your Wealth To Outrageous Levels (4 Simple Steps)

What if I told you that there are just four simple steps that anyone could take in order to scale and skyrocket their business and their finances? Well, in today's training, I'm going to be sharing with you some insights that the Bible says, to the natural eye, they seem small, but they are extremely wise. And in fact, if you begin to apply these principles to your life and to your business, you too can become wise beyond your size. If you're interested in growing your business and your finances to outrageous levels that. Then listen up and let's get right on into it. Proverbs chapter 30, starting at verse 24, if you're taking notes, write this down. Okay? This is absolutely mind blowing. And like I said, I have literally only shared this level of insight with my diamond clients, my students, who pay $100,000 or more to work with me. And I want to give it to you guys and gals today on this training. Proverbs 30:24, starting at verse 24 says this. Four things on the earth are small yet. And I want you to write that word down yet and circle that word yet, because it says, four things on earth are small, yet they are extremely wise. Okay, Somebody in the chat's dropped these words extremely wise. Okay? So again, we are pointing to the picture of you can be wise beyond your size. Because here Egger is saying, look these things at the. At a quick glance, they're small, but if you actually look at them through the lens of wisdom, they're extremely wise. Okay, and here are those four things. What I'm going to do is read through the four, and then I'm going to break each of the four down for you. Just some wisdom insights that God has given me. I've applied them and they've worked powerfully in my businesses. Okay, so four things on the earth. They're small, yet extremely wise. Number one, verse 25. Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer. Hyraxes. Or in other words, rock badgers. Okay, so they're either called rock badgers or hyraxes. You can Google it later. But rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their home in the crags, or in other words, in the rocks in the rock formations. Okay? Locusts who have no king, yet they advance together in ranks. And then verse 28, this is the fourth one. A lizard, or in some. Some translations say a spider. A lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it is found in kings palaces. So you might be sitting here going, rick, all that Sounds cool. It sounds like Old Testament mumbo jumbo to me. I don't know what that means. I'm glad you're here because I want to break these down for you. Okay, so the first thing, and make sure you're writing this down. Okay? The first thing that I want to highlight today in this training is, is the wisdom of the ant. Okay? So write that down if you're taking notes. The wisdom of the ant. Okay? And verse 24, sorry, verse 25 says it like this. Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer. Hmm, Interesting. What does this mean? Okay, what is the wisdom of the ant? The wisdom of the ant is to think winter all summer long. Okay. The wisdom of the ant is to have an insight, to prepare even when times are good. Okay? If you're taking notes, write this one down. If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready. Huh? Oh. If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready. What does that mean? It means that the whole time in the summer seasons that people are like, oh, man, we got enough. We're good, We've got abundance. All is well. It's always going to be like this. Well, how many of y' all who've lived maybe more than 25 years, 30 years, maybe you're a little past that now. How many of y' all watching this training, right? You've lived enough life to understand that just because times are good sometimes doesn't necessarily mean that it's always going to be like that. Drop some fire emojis in the comments if y' all know what I'm talking about. Okay? And so the wisdom of the ant that the book of Proverbs is encouraging us to look to is that ants. Roman, if you could bring my notes back down there. I'm not quite down on the top there. Ants, though, they are creatures of little strength, okay. Yet they store up food in the summer. So in your business, you have got to begin to tap into the wisdom of the ant, understanding that when times are good, you need to always be having an insight to look around the next corner and say, I am going to prepare for the winter, even though it's summertime right now. Okay, so let me give you three quick tips on the ant, and I really want to break these down for you because ants just have this godly ability. God has given it to them to stay ready so they don't have to get ready. Okay, so what's something interesting here? Well, earlier in the book of Proverbs, King Solomon at this point urges us to consider the ant, you sluggard. Right? And you've probably heard that phrase before and in that passage where he's saying consider the ant. There are three things that we need to look at, at the life of the ant so that we can begin to apply these, these principles to our lives, to our businesses. Okay, number one, the ant. Okay, the ant has no guide. What does this mean? Okay, the ant has no guide. Whoops. Just dropped my pen there. There we go. This means that the ant is self taught. How many of y' all know that there are people out there waiting around for someone just to like literally hold them by the hand and teach them exactly like this? And exactly like this. Nothing wrong with mentorship or coaching, but if you don't have that drive like the ant to be like, I'm thinking winter all summer long. I'm going to stay ready so I don't have to get read. Right. Like you need to be self taught. You need to say like man, I'm going to figure this out or I'm going to figure this out. Which one is it? Right, so ants, number one, they've got no guide, they're self taught. Number two, ants have no overseer. Oops. Ants have no overseer. What does this mean? They are self motivated. Okay, how many of you guys and gals know that every day that you wake up and it's time to go build your business, it's time to go make an offer, it's time to post on social media, it's time to bring value to your market. Not every single day that you wake up, you're going to be powerfully motivated. Like woohoo. Like I'm on level 10 all the time. No. So guess what? You have got to learn like the ant to be self motivated. Motivated. Okay. And the best way that I have found, especially over the past, you know, 25 years of me like really growing into this, especially the past seven years or so that my wife and I have really started to take off and blossom in business and even physically in the past year or so that I've been on a health journey, I'm down over £100. All that to say you have to become a self motivator. And the best way I've found to be a self motivator is, is you have got to become more disciplined. Okay, I love it. I believe it's a Mike Tyson quote, but it is a powerful quote. Mike Tyson said it like this. Discipline is doing something that you hate. Like you Love it. Come on, y'. All. Drop some fire emojis in the comments if you guys are getting fired up. You got to be self taught. You got to be self motivated. You have to be. You have to be disciplined, man. And that actually leads me to the third one. Watch this. So the ants, they got no guide, they got no overseer, okay? They have no ruler, right? And so that means that they are self disciplined, okay? You have got to sign up for discipline, not for motivation. Because if you're only going off of motivation, there's going to be plenty of days where you are not motivated to do the thing. But if you can be disciplined to the point where you're like, I am going to do the right thing no matter what, no matter what it feels like. If it's sunny outside, if it's rainy outside, if I feel like it, if I don't feel like it. If you can be self taught, self motivated and self disciplined, you're going to begin to tap into the wisdom of the ant to where you don't have to get ready. Now, rum, you can bring it down. Thank you. You don't have to get ready, but you could stay ready, man. Okay? The wisdom. If you're taking notes, write this down. The wisdom of the ant is the gift of contemplation, okay? The wisdom of the ant is the gift of contemplation. That means that this will allow you to be so prepared that when the test comes and knocks other people out, okay? You breeze through it because you didn't wait for trouble to come. You already knew that it was coming, okay? This means that when you have the gift of contemplation, the gift like the anti, to be a self taught, self motivated, self disciplined, self starter, okay? When you have the gift of contemplation to think winter all summer long, okay, then guess what? Now, as you're contemplating and as you're looking with wisdom, trying to see around the next corner and preparing for what you know is inevitably coming. Now, I'm not saying doom and gloom. I'm just saying the ebbs and flows of life. When you tap into the wisdom of the ant like this, guess what that means? That you can learn the lesson before the test is even given. What? Like, ask yourself that question for a second. Like, what if I could learn the lesson before the test is even given? How are you going to do this? You are going to tap into the wisdom of the ant. Hey, I really hope that you're enjoying the video. I want to invite you guys. I have recently created A free training teaching people how to make money online. My students are literally making anywhere from five to $10,000 a month. And some of them even make hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not in a year, but in a single day. If you want more information on how you can get started, all you need is a phone and a laptop. You can go to digitalproductacademy.org or you can click the link below in the description. Guys, after you watch the free training, if it sounds like it might be something cool for you to check out, you can book a free call with one of my client success coaches and they'll be able to help you more. Now back to the video. Though they are weak creatures, though they're small creatures, right? They store up food for the winter. They're contemplative, okay? And this is the crazy part about it, okay? Back in the pandemic, back in those days, all right, we were taught the power of being contemplative, of thinking winter all summer long when the pandemic happened, okay? Like this was a time that if you were prepared, that a season that was the worst time in somebody's life was actually the best time in other people's lives. Why? Because there were people tapping into the wisdom of the ant that were literally preparing. And maybe they didn't even know that they were preparing. Can I give you all a story? How many all want to hear a story, right? Just wave at me if you want to hear a story. Check this out. Okay, so this is back in 2018. Maybe some of you guys and gals have been following me since back then, okay? I was a missionary worship leader all over the world, 79 nations. And I had this bright idea, looking back now is from God, okay? I had this idea that I am going to hire a full time videographer and they are literally just going to follow me all over the globe on my missions trips, in my worship journeys. I'm just going to document all of my stuff out there, okay? And at the time, literally no one was doing this, okay? There's a marketing guy named Gary Vaynerchuk. He was doing this at the time. But guys, I was deep in the missions and ministry and worship world. I didn't even know who the heck that was, right? So I didn't even know that he was doing it. I would just had this idea, dude, I should have somebody follow me around with the camera and just start making crazy social media content and just see what happens. At the time that I started this, I had 30,000 followers collectively, like across every single social media platform combined, it was like 30,000 followers, okay? And within a year, I'm just doing my thing. We're doing missions trips, right? And I have a camera in my face. We're putting out content. Stuff starts blowing up, and I'm like, this is crazy. What is all this stuff? And before I knew it, a lot of my peers, a lot of people that you and I both love, I still absolutely love them. I. A lot of people who we've been blessed by their music, a lot of preachers, a lot of people who were my peers, are my peers at the time and still are at this time, they would rebuke me, man. They would literally send me a text message and be like, rick, this is so prideful. Like, I can't believe you're posting so many times. Like, posting three or four times a day is prideful. And I'm like, well, how many times should I post a day? Like, does posting two times a day make me, like, humble? Like, what's. What's the number? Right? Like, and they're like, well, you're posting this for your own selfish gain and blah, blah, blah. And Jesus said blah. And they're just throwing all this religious garbage at me. And guess what I did to all of them. Okay, thank you. Okay, thank you. You love me, Cool. You hate me, cool. I'm going to do what I feel like I need to prepare to do, okay? So this whole time, I'm getting some kickback from people. Like, this is too much. What's going on? Well, guess what? In the business world, in a lot of different spheres, a lot of people start putting out more content online. Before I knew it, I had millions of people following me collectively all over the Internet. And we started opening up training programs, and all of a sudden, I had this audience, and I could monetize this audience, and I was training them. Back in late 2018, I discovered this little software that no one knew about at the time, rarely, like, no one knew about. It was called Zoom, okay? Like, no one knew about this software. Everyone was still doing Skype, right? And I was like, dude, Zoom is crazy. I can get a bunch of people on here. I started investing into cameras, into lights. I bought a studio. Like, we just started going for it. Like, I just started. No one knew, right? No one knew what was coming in a year and a half. But if you tap into the wisdom of the ant, right? And you want to stay ready so you don't have to get ready. Something powerful happens, guys, because now you start Building an ark long before you ever see the rain. Okay, and here's the punchline. Like, Noah didn't stop to try to explain himself to every hater that was trying to tell him, like, bro, why are you building this ark? Like, what is rain? Like, that doesn't even exist. Like, you're so prideful, you're so this, you're that. Thank God Noah didn't stop to explain himself to every hater. He just did what God called him to do, and then he let the rain do the talking. Okay, I want to encourage you, if you're watching this training today, you got to tap into the wisdom of the anti. Because if you can have the gift of contemplation, if you can be one of these self taught, self motivated, self disciplined, self starter people like the ant, thinking winter, even in the summer, guess what happened then the pandemic happened and everyone's scrambling, and guess what I did because I had already been through the wisdom of the ant, looking around the next corner, unknowing that anything was coming, while everyone's scrambling, trying to figure out, oh, my gosh, what are we going to do? And everyone, we gotta pivot and this and that. You know what I did? I just said, I'm already ready for this. Does anybody want help? And everybody came. Like, we had a deluge of clients, a deluge of flood. I mean, literally, when the pandemic happened and everyone was like struggling and this and that, we were laughing all the way to the bank, like we made millions upon millions upon millions of dollars through the pandemic. Not because I'm anything special, but because, like the ant, you have got to think winter, even in the summer. Like, my wife and I right now, we are planning things behind the scenes none of y' all know about. But just in case something happens, we're going to be ready, man. Right? So you have got to consider the wisdom of the ant. It's a small thing, but Proverbs tells us, and the spirit of wisdom tells us this is an extremely wise thing to not just live for the now, you need to live for the future. Okay, and, and if you're taking notes, I want you to write this down. Most people, they desire prosperity now. But people of wisdom, they don't just desire prosperity now. They desire posterity for the generations. If you don't know what posterity is, posterity is more of what I believe that the Bible's calling us to. Not just to prosper, but to focus on posterity, which is to plan for generations. Like, what Good is prosperity alone. If we just have this surplus when we are not even thinking for tomorrow, we got to start getting like the ant. Guys, we got to tap into this thing that with a quick glance it seems small, but through the eyes of wisdom, it is extremely wise. I need at least 10 people in the comments to drop these words extremely wise. If you want to tap into the wisdom of the ant, drop those words in the comments. Say extremely wise. Okay. Okay, so the first thing that we need to consider is. We need to consider the ant. Okay, the second thing, you can roll me down the notes there, number two. And you have my, my numbers blocked off. I don't know if you can adjust that there. Okay, number two, guys. Okay, in Proverbs, chapter 30, the second thing it tells us is this. Rock badgers are creatures of little power. And if you're taking notes, I want you to write that down. Little power, yet they make their home in the rocks. Okay, what in the world does this mean? Okay, what in the world does this mean? Why in the world should we consider rock badgers? And even though they're little power, they make their homes in the rocks. How is this extremely wise? I'm glad you asked. Okay, Because I want to take a few minutes here and break this down for you. Okay, if you're taking notes, write this down. You don't have to be physically strong if you build your life on strong principles. Uh oh. You don't have to be physically strong if you actually build your life on strong principles. What does that mean? See, rock badgers, you can go. Just do a quick Google search. Okay, rock badgers, they actually spend 95% of their life sunbathing. Like they chilling. Y' all. Like rock badgers are just out there like woo hoo. They're just chilling it up. But guess what? The Bible tells us you need to pay attention. Because even though they're creatures of little power, why are they so at peace to just be chilling out all day? Because their home is made in the strength of the rocks. And to me, guys, it's the strength of principles. If you're taking notes, write this down. Principles are God's success. Automation. I want to see by a show of fire emojis in the comments how many of you guys and gals would like to see success in your life. But not just any success. You would like to hit a button to where you literally automate success in your life. It's just automated. It's just, you don't even have to think about it. You just hit the button. And success just goes bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. How many y' all want some of that? Drop some fire emojis in the comments? Well, guess what, guys? God has made that available to us, and it is in the form of principles, okay? Principles are God's success. Automation, okay? Also, if you're taking notes, write this down, because if you're watching this training here, you are a new entrepreneur, you've been an entrepreneur, or you're an aspiring entrepreneur. And the punchline is this. Many, many, many times my students come to me, and as their businesses begin to grow, they always seem to ask me this one question. Rick, who's the first staff member that I should hire? And guess what I always tell them. The first staff member that you should hire besides yourself is out of all the staff that you hire. Make sure that you hire principals, okay? Because here's the punchline, guys, principals are going to work for you 24, 7. Principals don't call in sick, okay? Principals, they work 24, 7. They don't call in sick. They're never late. They're always on time. And. And principles never quit. How in the world can you be extremely wise like these rock badgers and live a life of such peace where you are not, like, concerned about calamity coming your way? Because you don't have to. Your home is in the rocks. Your home is in the strength of God's principles, man. Like, you need to begin to take some of these principles that I'm giving you guys and gals in these trainings, and. And you need to actually apply them. Here's the punchline. This is what I love about principles. Principles just work. Okay? I need at least 10 people in the comments. Drop these words. Principles just work. I'm going to write it on the board, okay? Principles work. Oops. Did I do that right? Yep. Here we go. Watch this. Principles work, okay? Principles work. And they work no matter what. Okay? Let's just take gravity, for instance, okay? Gravity is one of God's principles. Gravity works in India. Gravity works in America, okay? Gravity works in Mexico, right? Gravity works if you're tall, if you're big, if you're small, right? If you're a man, if you're a woman, if you're a kid. Oops. Yep, woman. There we go. Why does gravity work for everybody? Because gravity is a principle. And everything that I teach in my programs, everything that I teach you guys and gals here on these trainings, none of it is theory. Like, I'm never going to give you something in a training and be like, well, I mean, it could work. I mean, who knows? Like, I'm never going to do that. I'm always going to give you principles. Because the punchline is I have people who are like, well, Rick, you know, I live in the Middle East. Does this business training apply to me if you do the principle? Yes. Right. Well, Rick, you know, I'm a woman who lives wherever in Egypt. Did this apply to me if you do the principle? Yes. Because just like gravity works for everybody. No matter where you're at, the same thing goes for God's success. Principles. How can you be extremely wise and like the rock badger who literally just chills out 95% of the day because they're not worried about calamity coming. This is different, by the way, than being like the ant and preparing. This is being able to rest at ease, not worried about calamity. Because, again, like the ant, you've already prepared. Your home is already in the strength of the rocks of God's principles. So now you can just chill out. Because even though you are weak physically, even though your business might just be getting started and it feels like it's small or weak, you don't have to worry about any calamity coming your way because your home is in the rocks. You have built your home upon principles. Okay? And so, guys, I'm telling you this right now. Out of all the staff members that you hire, hire yourself some principals, man, because principals never quit. I mean, how many of y' all would like to have. You know what's so crazy? My staff members, we have a wonderful team. We've got a larger team now. We're growing and growing every month. It seems like, at this point, God's blessing. But the staff members that I refuse to not hire are principals. Because though my people, which I love dearly and we try to take care of and their humongous helps, and they help me build the business. Though those people, humans, they need to go home at night. They need to have time with their families. They need to eat dinner. They need to, like, get some sleep. Principles don't need any of that, bruh. Like, principles just work. Principles are working for me 24 7. Like, when I'm sleeping, when I'm on vacation, when I choose to show up to the office, like, no matter what, my principles, like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Like, God's principles are just working, and that's how you build your life. The rocks, okay? You've got to hire yourself some principles. I need at least 10 people in the comments right now. If you're getting some value out of this, if your mind is being expanded, if you're drinking from the fountain of wisdom, drop this word. Principles. Principles. Okay, let's go on to number three. Okay, so again we see that there are four things that though they are small, they are extremely wise. I just want to caution you as you are going through this training, as you're listening today, okay, I want you to begin to try to view life through the eyes of wisdom. Because so many of us, we're just going through life through the motions, doing the best that we know how to do. But James, chapter one, verse five says, if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who gives abundantly to all, okay? God has plenty of wisdom for each and every one of us and all we need to do is ask, okay? And like I've taught you guys and gals here before, but if you're new here to the trainings, okay, the word wisdom is actually the word hakma and it's the English word for skill. Okay? When we ask God for wisdom, it's not this thing that God just poofs into our life. Like, stop thinking like a religious Christian. I'm just going to pray and God's going to poof everything. And it's going to be miracles, signs and wonders 24 7. That's not how God works. Okay? We say, God, please give me wisdom. And guess what God usually does next he goes, okay, you want wisdom? Here is a brand new problem. And we're like, wait, what the heck, God? I asked you for wisdom and now the devil's attacking me. And God's going, no, no, no, no. I am presenting. I'm allowing a problem to come into your life so that you can become more skilled. God, please give me financial breakthrough. Okay, cool. Here's an opportunity. God, I didn't ask you for an opportunity. I asked you for financial breakthrough. Well, cool. Here's an opportunity to learn. And here's a coach, here's a mentor that you should probably pay them so you can learn what they know. So you can not have to go around the mountain over and over and over. Guys, wisdom is skill. I need at least 10 people in the comments. Drop these words. Wisdom is skill. Okay, how many of you guys and gals are ready for the third thing out of Proverbs, chapter 30? Though at a quick glance, it looks small, okay? It is extremely wise. Okay, number three, what's the third thing that is mentioned here? Okay, so it says Ants, right? They're. They're of little strength, but yet they store up their food for the winter. The rock badgers, though they are of small stature, they make their home in the rocks. Check this one out, guys. This one is insane. Okay, number three, it says locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks. Hmm. What does that mean? Okay, if you're taking notes, I want you to write these two words down or just drop them here in the comments. Okay, I want you to write these two words down. Strategic partnerships. Think about this, guys. Like, God is literally, through the spirit of wisdom, opening up our eyes to see. Guys, consider the locusts. Like they don't have a king. They don't have a ruler. Like, no one's giving charge over them, and yet they advance together in ranks. If you're taking notes, write these three things down. Together in ranks. Together in ranks. God right now is beginning to open it up your mind and opening up your heart to begin to consider strategic partnerships. Okay? And by the way, a strategic partnership is not to where it's 90% good for 1 and 10% good for the other, okay? A strategic partnership is not to where it's like, you know, 60% good for one and 40% good for the other. Strategic partnerships. And I'm about to explain this math to you in a second. It's going to blow your mind. Strategic partnerships are where it's 500% better for one and 500% better for the other. What does that mean? I'm glad you asked. Come with me to the board. If y' all are getting some some insight today, just drop some fire emojis. I told y', all this is one of the plays out of my $100,000 playbook. I'm just giving it to y' all for free today. Okay? So strategic partnerships, Okay? Why do we need to look at the locus? Because the locus advances together in ranks. So why did I say a strategic partnership? It shouldn't just be 90% for one and 10% for the other or 40% for one and 60% for the other? Why did Rick say a real strategic partnership should be 500% for one and 500% for the other? Where is Rick getting this math from? I'm glad you asked. Check this out. Okay, one of us sends 1,000 to flight, but two of us send someone. Talk to me in the comments. How many do we send to flight, guys? 10,000. Just with one strategic partnership. Okay, so what's the math on this? Think about this. Okay, the math on this is Very simple. It's this. Okay? By yourself, you can do by yourself. Yourself. Yeah, there you go. By yourself. Okay, you're at 100%. Okay? But with a partner, you now go up times 10. So with a partner, you literally go to 1000%. So guess what? 1000 divided by. Oops. The cool thing is if you want to build wealth, you don't even really need to be that smart. Look at me. Okay? 1,000. There we go. Divided by two is 500. So a godly strategic partnership is not just like. It's kind of good for you, it's kind of good for me. No, no, a strategic partnership. The way that you want to advance is with strategic partnerships and that literally you get to leverage 500%, they get to leverage 500%. Together you're at, you're at 10,000. Instead of I'm only 1,000 by myself, you're only 1,000 by yourself. Right, but together we are 10,000. And that means you are literally 5Xing your potential just by having a strategic partnership. Okay, let me ask you a question and if you're taking notes, I want you to write this down, okay? Would you rather have let me draw a little nice little picture for you here, ok? Let me ask you guys a question, ok? I'm going somewhere with this. Just follow with me here, ok, Watch this. I'm going to draw you all a nice picture. If you know what this is, don't tell anybody. Oops. If you know what this is, don't tell anyone. But I have a question to ask you, okay? And then let's put some seeds in it. How many of y' all know what this is yet, right? That's a watermelon. Okay? So my question to you is, would you rather have. A whole grape or would you rather have half of a watermelon? The problem that most people have, the problem that most people have when it comes to advancing or their businesses scaling to the next level is that most people have a scarcity, lack mindset to where they're like, I'm not going to do a partnership because then I'm going to have to give up some percentage. That is the most foolish way to think. That is the most scarcity, most lack kind of mindset that you could have. Guys, you need to start thinking abundantly and think about it like this, okay? We learn a lot of this from King Solomon, okay? The power of strategic partnerships. Here's just one I wish I had time to break down like, like 12 or 13 that I found in the word but Just check this out. This is one of Solomon's strategic partnerships. Think about this. Okay? Traditionally, what were some of Israelites biggest enemies? Okay, hint. They used to be slaves to this nation for 400 years and then the nation drowned in the sea. Answer. Egypt, right? So traditionally like from day one, before they even knew about the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, any before they even knew about any of them. Like their arch nemesis usually was Egypt. Okay? But watch King Solomon. Guess what King Solomon does? King Solomon forms a strategic partnership and he marries Pharaoh's daughter. What? Hold on a second, hold on a second. Let me break this down for you. Why would Solomon marry Pharaoh's daughter? Because guess what? Now instead of your biggest, baddest enemy wanting to come and attack your nation, that's not probably not going to happen if you are literally fathering the king's grandson. Like drop some fire emojis in the comments if you are tracking with me here. You guys see the power of strategic partnerships. You've got to start thinking strategically in partnerships. Stop living in so much lack. Stop living in such small mindedness. Like I'm not going to partner with nobody because then I'm going to have to give up a percentage. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm telling you this right now. Would you rather have a whole grape or half of a watermelon? And I will tell you this every single day, all day long, I would rather have half a watermelon than a whole grape. Guys, that's the power of strategic partnerships. If you want to see your business scale, if you want to see your business skyrocket, if you want to see your business go to the next level. If you would like to see your business advance, okay, then do what the locust does and create some strategic partnerships. Locusts have no king yet they advance together in ranks. One more time. Let me see at least 10 people in the comments. Drop these words. Advance together in ranks, okay? God has literally designed our lives. If you want to do more, you need to find strategic partnerships. One of the best ways to do this is figure out something that you're really, really, really, really good at, okay? And then something that you really, really, really, really despise, okay? And then guess what? God is so big, he's so cool that he goes, guess what guys? The stuff that you really, really, really despise doing in your business, but you're really, really good at this. There's another person or there's more people out there who are really, really, really good at the thing that you hate. And they're really, really, really bad at the thing that you're good at. And guess what God does. He says you guys should partner together, right? Why? What's the point of just going after 100% when you could go after 1,000%? What's the point of only leveraging to one when you could leverage to five? That's the beauty of strategic partnerships. And, guys, number four, if you're ready for number four. How many of y' all want to hear from number four? Drop a four in the comments. Are y' all learning something today? Like, I'm telling y', all, man, every single piece of wisdom that God has for us, not just for our lives, but for our businesses. Okay, God. I believe that God has put all of the secrets in his word. And the Bible even tells us the secret of the Lord is with those who fear him. All you got to do is start fearing him. Because the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And if you want wisdom, if you want skill for life, if you want skill for your business, then you've got to get some wisdom, man. And when you get some wisdom, the secret of the Lord is with you. Okay, number four, this one is so fun. Okay, number four says this. A lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it is found in kings, palaces. What in the world does this mean? Right? Like, how in the world is this extremely wise? How many of y' all would like to be extremely wise? Okay, if that's you, just drop. That's me in the comments, okay? How is it extremely wise to say, okay, well, a lizard can be caught with your hand, but a lizard could also be found in a king's palace. Like, that doesn't make any sense to me. Okay, well, let me break this down for you. Because if you look at it with a quick glance, without wisdom, it seems small. But if you look at it through the eyes of wisdom, I'm about to reveal and break down to you why this is so powerful when it comes to building your business. Okay? So here's the thing. Though you are small, if you're taking notes, write this down. Though you are small, if you can leverage the greatness of others, then you will be found. Great. What? See, here's. Here's what it means. Okay? Though the lizard is so tiny you can catch him with the hand, the lizard can also be found in the palace of a king. Now, let me ask you a question. A little bit of. A Little bit of a trick question, maybe not. How many. How many palaces have Y' all ever seen a lizard build any. You ever seen a lizard build a palace? No. Or no, right? No, of course not. But guess what? If the lizard is found in the palace, then even the lizard. That lizard is appearing a lot more great than the lizard who lives in the swamp. Right? So what is. What am I trying to say here, guys? You need to begin to understand the power of leverage, okay? If you're taking notes, write that word down. Leverage. Leverage. Leverage. Hey, real quick. If you've made it this far into the video and you're liking it, do me a favor. Share this video with somebody that you think might also receive some value. My biggest heart in this channel is to simply bring some awareness, financial literacy, and do it all from a biblical perspective. So go ahead and share the video. Like, and subscribe. Do all that stuff, too. Back to the video. Now, there was a Greek mathematician. Okay, I tell this story from time to time in my trainings, but if you haven't heard it, check this out. There was a Greek mathematician by the name of Archimedes. Okay? And if you've ever heard the. This. The phrase Eureka. Eureka, right? Well, the story goes, is Archimedes, he's taking a bath, and he's trying to solve this really crazy, complicated math problem. And he solves it in the bathtub. And it's such a breakthrough for him. He jumps out of the bathtub. He's running down the street naked, and he's screaming the word eureka. Right? That's where that word comes from. So that's what made him famous. But what he was famous for in his. In his mathematical and scientific work was this phrase that he would always say. He said it like this. Give me a lever and a sure foundation, and I can move the earth. Okay, so what does that mean? Like, though you are small, okay? Like, lizards can be caught with the hand. Like, that's super tiny. Me and my boys, we catch lizards in the front yard and backyard all the time. You could literally just catch them like this. They're super tiny, super fragile. But what if that lizard were to be found in the palace? Okay. Though right now, it feels like, man, I'm just tiny. I'm just small. I'm just starting. I don't know what I'm doing. Like, I could be caught with the hand, right? It's like, just. I just Nothing. But guess what? If you learn the power of leverage, you don't have to be the one to build the palace. You just have to leverage the person who already built the palace. Is this Making sense to y'. All? Like, are y' all getting this today? Like, I'm telling you, like, there are tools, there are softwares, there are programs, there are, there are people. Like, you could leverage all kinds of stuff. Guys, give me a lever and a sure foundation, and I can move the earth. Let me draw a picture for you right quick, what that looks like. Okay? Say you're here, okay? And you've been assigned with this task to move this gigantic boulder, okay? Now if you just try to move the boulder by yourself, you're overwhelmed. Oh, my gosh, that boulder's bigger than me. There's no way I can move this boulder. Right, but what if you had, uh. Oh, what if you had a lever? Okay? And then what if that lever was put just right on a sure foundation? Now let me ask you a question, okay? Where's my. Where's my little laser at? Check this out. Let me ask you this question, okay? This is not a trick question. Is this boulder bigger or smaller than this person? Okay, it's bigger, right? And if the person just tried to use their own sheer force by themselves, without a lever, without a sure foundation, it would be impossible to move the boulder. However, if the person had a lever and a sure foundation. Now, even though this lever is gigantic, it's bigger than them. All they have to do is just use a little bit of force right here and the lever does all the work for them. So what am I trying to say here? Okay? What am I trying to say here? Okay? Your lever could literally be anything, okay? So I love to leverage other people's money. That's called debt, okay? If you're going to be a successful business owner, you need to understand the power of leveraging debt, leveraging other people's money. Of course there are good debts. There are bad debts. Good debts, you invest into assets that make you money. Bad debts, they're usually spent on spending that cost you money. Because bad debt doesn't just cost you once, it costs you all the time because you're paying bad commercial interest on bad debt. But good debt, I could literally, if I needed to purchase. Here's one small example, okay? If I wanted to purchase an apartment complex and it was say a million dollars for a 12 unit apartment complex up in Waco, Texas, just north of where I live, okay? And I'm like, I'm looking at this, this apartment complex. Well, instead of me needing to have the million dollars liquid, I could just take 200,000, okay? And that's like a share foundation, because I have this and then I could literally take my 200,000, I could borrow the other 800k from the bank and just push a little hard with my 200k. And now I get the huge asset that's worth a million, but I only use 200,000 to acquire it. And now the rents are paying down. My note, right, the interest is going, or the. Sorry, the property is going up in value over time. And so now I am literally becoming more and more wealthy because I used a lever and a sure foundation. Okay, your lever might be going through some of my trainings, going through my programs. Your lever might be okay. I know a person who is wealthy and they don't have a bunch of time. I have a bunch of time. I'm not quite wealthy yet, but I'm a hustler and I've got time. Remember those locusts and those partnerships, right? You could literally leverage other people's money, other people's stages, other people's audiences. You can literally begin to leverage to where by yourself. It's a humongously impossible task. But when you begin to leverage, just like the lizard, even though they're small, they can be captured with the hand. Well, you don't have to build the palace. You just have to leverage the person that already built the palace. And here's the punchline. People who are successful in this way, they want you to leverage them. I'm about to enter into a partnership in the next week or so of a dear friend of mine, another multimillion dollar business owner. And I presented an idea because I'm always looking for strategic partnerships. I'm trying to be like the anti and I'm trying to, you know, plan for winter, even in the summer. I'm trying to be a locust and advance together in ranks. I'm trying to make my home and principles I want to leverage. I don't have to build the palace. I can just leverage the palace. And so I presented this idea to him, and guess what this guy says? He looks at me, goes, man, this idea is incredible. We should absolutely leverage each other. Like, guys, this is how the wealthy think. This is how successful business people think. Like, if you have something that you could bring to the table and it's going to 500 times what. I'm sorry, five times what I'm doing. Take me to 500%, then I'm all about it. Because if you can take me to 500% and I can take you to 500%, then we should leverage each other. Like, guys, we have got to begin to understand. If you want to be successful in your business, okay, you have got to get these four steps down so that we. That way you could be wise beyond your size. I'm going to read this one more time. Proverbs, chapter 30, verses 24 through 28. Four things on the earth that are small, yet they are extremely wise. Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up food in the summer. Hyraxes or rock badgers. They're creatures of little power, yet they make their home in the rocks. Locusts have no king, yet they advance together in ranks. A lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it's found in kings palaces. Ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to see your business explode and go to the next level, you need to tap in to this wisdom that God has already made available to us. And don't just tap into it. Don't just read it. Don't just be a hearer of the word only and deceive yourself. You've got to do what it says.