Think And Grow Rich Or You Will Think And Grow Broke

You've heard of the book Think and Grow Rich. Many of you have read the book Think and Grow Rich. Well, doesn't it stand to reason that if you can think and grow rich, that automatically means you can think and grow broke? The difference is, for most people, though, in order to think and grow rich, it requires intention. But to think and grow broke, it only requires neglect. So let's not neglect being intentional about our thoughts, because if we do, we might end up being one of those people who think and grow broke. In this video, I'm going to talk about the kinds of thoughts you have to avoid if you don't want to think and grow broke. Because Earl Nightingale said in his Strangest Secret, he said thoughts are things, and incredibly powerful things. And a man's life, what his thoughts make of it. See, I say believing, believing, believing you will be living what you're believing even though you be lying. What does that mean? Anything I tell myself about a future outcome, I made it up. You can say I'm going home, but what you really mean is I intend to go home. You're not guaranteed to get there and see. What we have to understand is we have to understand that we have to become hyper intentional about our work, about our thoughts. If we're going to become hyper intentional about our thoughts, we automatically have to be hyper intentional about our words. Because the reality is you can speak without thinking, but you can't think without using words. So let's get this party started. What kind of thoughts cause people to think and grow broke? And I've noticed. I've noticed. I can tell if I'm having a conversation with a person that's not even about money, it could be about something else. I can pretty much gauge where they are financially because how you think, both on a conscious and subconscious level, determines how you communicate. But then it's a cycle because how you communicate contributes to how you think. And so what are the thoughts that we have to avoid? Well, I think, number one, thinking from the past instead of thinking from the future. What does that even mean? Most people take their past experiences, they project it on the screen of their future. They recreate the past and think they're living in the present. But what they're really doing is living Groundhog Day. Most people are living their yesterday, today. They're living their last week, this week, they're living their last month, this month they were living their last year, this year, they're living their last decade, this decade. And their life isn't getting better, which goes against the Very first thing that God ever said to a human being when he spoke to man, he said, be fruitful and multiply. Replenish the earth, subdue it and have dominion. Well, when he said, be fruitful, a fruit is a living organism whose seed is in itself. The ability of a fruit to reproduce is inside the fruit. So when God said to man, be fruitful, he wasn't just talking about having children. He was talking about, I put an aspect of my creativity inside of you. Now, what's really interesting is he put a different aspect of his creativity inside of all of us. Like, some of y' all can sing better than me. Probably not many of you, but some. No, I'm just kidding. Some of y' all can sing better than me. Some of y' all can write better than me. Some of you can, like, dunk a basketball better than me. Well, if you can dunk a basketball, you can automatically dunk it better than me. Okay, so what's my point? But there's things I can do better than you. Why? Because God didn't put every aspect of his creativity inside of anybody. But he put an aspect of his creativity inside of everybody. And so that creativity, that aspect of his creativity that he put inside of us, it is our job to produce on the outside based on what God put on the inside. But he said, be fruitful. Now, the other interesting thing about a fruit is this. Because it has a seed in it. When you sow the seed, you don't reap a piece of fruit. You reap to fill up. Don't make the mistake of thinking that when a beaver uses its limited creativity to build a dam and a creek in the forest, that that's organic. When an ant uses its limited creativity to build an anthill in the ground, that's organic. When an eagle uses its limited creativity to build a nest in a tree, that's organic. But when a human being uses unlimited creativity to build a city that's somehow inorganic, a city is as organic as an anthill, a beaver dam or an eagle's nest. So when God said, be fruitful and multiply, what he's telling us to do, he's telling us to increase and fill up the earth. Replenish means to fill up the earth with the multiplication of the things that we create. That's our job. So when God said, be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth. And they said, subdue it. What does subdue mean? Trample down. Stomp it with. What does that mean? That means trample down anything tries to stop you. Which. And if he's telling me to trample it, that means whatever opposes me is both beneath me and smaller than me. So if he told me to trample it, that means I have the ability to trample it. It's already under my feet. Now all I have to do is take the action to step on all of the stoppers. Well, so, so, so we have. We have to be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth. What is God saying? God is saying that a human being's life is supposed to be progressively productive. What does that tell us? We shouldn't be living Groundhog Day. Today should be better than yesterday. This week should be better than last week. This month should be better than last month. This year should be better than last year. And I'm not just talking about better financially, but I'm including better financially. This whole idea that as you get older, you have to get sicker and weaker and broker is hideous. But if you believe that, then that's exactly how you're going to set up your life. I know people my age who talk like they're 100. Guess what? They also walk like they're 100. They move like they're 100. Right? They act like they're on death's doorstep. I know people younger than me act like they're on death's doorstep. I'm only 62. I'm just getting started. Let's get this party started. Let's go. So stop thinking from the past. The past is nothing more than your launch pad for your future. Treat it like that. But people who live in the past and they just dwell on the past. Yeah, but. But this happened to me. And that happened to me. A bunch of stuff happened to all of us. We have to make sure we don't allow our past to imprison our future in a life of lack and limitation. Well, thinking from the past instead of the future, that's one. Thinking that you're smaller than your challenges. What does that mean? You will never face anything that's bigger than you. If you are operating based on Kingdom principles, nothing's bigger than you. You'll face challenges, but the challenges aren't bigger than you. Somebody say, well, you don't understand, Myron. You're gonna die one of these days. That's not a challenge bigger than me. I've already received Christ, so when I die, I just begin to live. Jesus said, whosoever believeth in me shall never die. And whosoever liveth in believeth. I mean, whosoever liveth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. And then he said this, Believest thou this. So I even win when I die. Well, here's the problem with a lot of Christians, though. They think they start winning when they die. I wake up winning every day. Every step I take is a step in the direction of victory. But, Myron, how can you say that? Because we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. That doesn't mean I'm going to win. I already am already winning. I'm already more than winning. I expect things to work out in my favor. Why? Because I'm me and I understand who me is in Him. So stop thinking that you're smaller than your challenges. You're not smaller than your financial challenges. You're not smaller than your health challenges. I get it. I get it. See, here's what's really interesting. You can't fix every problem that you have. There are some people who get diseases, who contract diseases, and they die from them. But. And I don't want to minimize that because it's real. But you ain't dead till you die. So while you're alive, you might as well keep on living. There are people who've had traumatic experiences in the past, and instead of allowing peace to replace the pain, they just keep reliving the pain every day. It's like I cut my hand and it gets a scab on. So I scratch the scab off, and then I get a new scab and I scratch that one off. It's never gonna heal. Like, we gotta let go of yesterday if we're gonna take hold of today, if we're gonna march into tomorrow. We've got to understand that we are bigger than our challenges. I had polio as an infant. I got this big old metal brace on my leg that. That I gotta dress. And, like, this leg doesn't hold me up if I don't have the brace on. I'm walking on crutches. And there are people that don't have any legs. So I'm gonna go walk around crying. Cause I got one. Or am I gonna be thankful for the. I mean, I got two, but I got one that's strong and one that's weak. I'm gonna thank God for everything I got. Helen Keller was thanking God. She couldn't hear or talk. She couldn't hear or see. She learned how to read and talk. She learned how to communicate by somebody holding onto her hands. And you think you got a problem. I mean, you do have a problem, but it ain't bigger than you. Another thought that you want to think if you want to keep being broke. Thinking negative when you should think positive. Some people can see the obstacle in every opportunity. Huh? They can see the defeat in every victory. They can see the downside of every upside. And they wonder why their life ain't working. Because you're glum. Who's glum? Glum is one of the Lilliputians on Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver will never make it. Will never make it. And that's your whole attitude as you go through life. Or what's the guy's name on the Flintstones? I'm talking about stuff from when I used to watch tv. Right? Bad luck schlep rock. Right. Bad luck schlep rock. Everywhere he went, just stuff went wrong. Or pigpen on Charlie Brown. Right? Like there are people that just. They just carry a cloud with them everywhere they go. They can turn happiness into sadness just by showing up, Right? Turn a party into a funeral procession with their attitude. Don't think like. Don't think negative. Like, if you're going to put your effort into something and you're gonna work on something, you cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought. I'm going to write a book. I can't afford to think that it won't sell. I'm going to build a business. I can't afford to think that I'm not going to get any clients. Some people won't get married because they're too afraid they're going to end up in divorce. That's why thinking negative when you think positive is a great way to think and grow broke. But I'm going to tell you one you probably weren't expecting. Thinking positive when you should think negative, you should think negative. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Sometimes you say, when's the best time to think negative? Best time to think negative is when things are positive. What. What does that mean? Here's what it says in Proverbs. Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise. Which having no guide or overseer or ruler, watch this. Gather. Provideth her food, her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. So the ant thinks winter all summer. What does that mean? That means. What does think negative when things are positive mean? It means you've got to. When things are going well, you have to be preparing for. When things aren't going to go well. When things. When you have seven years of plenty. You have to be preparing for seven years of famine. How do you do that? Here's what God told Joseph to tell Pharaoh to do. When things are going good, put back that 1 5th part. What is that 1 5th part? 20%. When things are going great, stash 20%. Hold on to 20%. Because when the whole bottom falls out for the entire world, while everybody else is getting broker, you're going to be getting richer. While everybody else is starving, you're going to have food. Got to think negative when things are positive. You have to. If you, if, when you look at an opportunity you only see the good side, you are probably going to end up broke. That too strong. You have to consider like, you have to believe it will work, but take into consideration the consequences if it doesn't. And, and if you don't do that, you're as naive as a first grader. None of us, not even me, there's not a single solid person I've ever met that everything we attempted to do worked out fine. So you have to count the cost of it not working and be okay with that price and then make your decision. Expect it to work. Work on it like it's gonna work, but be ready if it doesn't. And no, I'm not talking out of both sides of my mouth. One of the reasons I don't live in a mansion, even though I could go buy a mansion if I wanted to, I could go buy 15 million dollar mansion if I wanted to. And do what? Have more rooms I don't go into than the house I got now. I might have been in my living room 10 times in the last six years. I might have eaten in my dining room five times in the last six years. And that's only when people come down for Thanksgiving and we're having a big Thanksgiving dinner and we got to sit them somewhere. I don't need more rooms, not to go into. I don't need more cars, not to drive. I mean, I got a couple of cars, but I could have more. I could have more, a whole bunch more. But why, why would I spend money, wintertime money, the summer, thinking that it's always going to be summer? That's called naivete. How many are tracking? So you got to think positive when things are negative. See, when things are going. See, here's what most people do. They think negative when things are positive. I mean, they think negative when things are. They think negative when things are negative and positive when things are positive. You got to flip the script. You got to think negative when things are positive. You got to think positive when things are negative, because negative thinking when things. When things are negative can't help you. And only having positive thinking when things are positive will hurt you. It's like the person who goes on a long trip with no spare tire and no jack in their car because people don't get flat tires. Oh, they do. And they usually get them when they don't have a jack and a flat tire. Jim Rohn. Jim Rohn said. Somebody came to me and said, Mr. Rohn. Mr. Rohn, I don't understand. This happens to me. This happens to me. This happens to me. This happens to me. I don't understand why Mr. Rohn said, I don't know. Maybe it's just that things like that always happen to people like you. What does that mean? That means. That means things that people aren't prepared for happen to people who don't prepare. I wish I had some help in here, but here's some money thoughts that will cause you to think and grow broke thinking that money is evil. A lot of people think money's evil. Well, money's the root of all evil. You know where you got that from? It's in the Bible. No, it's definitely not in the Bible. The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil. And when it says the love of money is the root of all evil, it does not mean the love of money is the root of every single solitary evil in the world. It means that the love of money is the root of all kinds, all types, all manner of evil. It doesn't mean every evil in the world exists because of money. It means people will do all kinds of evil things because they love money. That's what the love of money is, the root of all evil means. I know. I've studied it. I didn't just listen to somebody say it and walk around parroting it like I'm a parrot thinking that money is evil. I know, Myron. Money's not inherently evil. It's inherently neutral. It just makes you more of what you already are. No, it's not inherently neutral either. It's inherently like wealth is inherently good. How do I know? Because God said there's gold in that land, and the gold of that land is good. Scripture says the blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. If. What money? How can God giving you something that's evil be a blessing? Just use your. Just use your brain. You don't have to. We don't want you to make it sweat, but use it a little. Thinking that all rich people are dishonest. So fascinating. I'll do a video like the video. Our most watched video is why Evil people are rich. And so many people read that according to their scotoma. You know what scotoma is, right? It's a blind spot. So they'll read it with their blind spot and they'll say. It says why evil people are rich. They'll say rich people are evil because they're dishonest. The title of the video is not why Rich people are Evil. It's why evil people are rich. Those two sentences don't mean the same thing. You do understand that, right? They don't mean the same thing. They mean two very different things. That means evil people are rich. What does that mean? There are some people who are evil who are rich. Now if I said why rich people are evil, that would mean all rich people are evil. That's not true. I know a lot of rich people who are not evil. Present company not excluded. Are y' all tracking so thinking that money is evil, Thinking that all rich people are dishonest. Well, the only way people get rich is by being dishonest and stealing stuff from people that is as dumb as a box of rocks. The best way to get to create wealth is to create value for other people that they value more than the money they have to pay for the thing you created for them. There's no dishonesty in that. Why? Because everybody wins. When I sell something to somebody, everybody got what they wanted in the transaction. When I go to Eddie V's and I take my family out to dinner and it's me and my wife and my son and my daughter and my son in law and my granddaughter and it comes to $800, including the tip. They didn't take advantage of me. I got what I wanted. I got a nice meal with my family that we didn't have to prepare, we didn't have to cook, we didn't have to clean up after. We could eat anything we wanted. We got great service. I'm happy I got to spend time with the people I love. I got to give some people some money in exchange for some food and some service. Everybody won. Ah, that's how that works. That's how that works. And the last thought that will make you broke as a joke and ready to choke is thinking that poverty is piety. People think that the broker you are, the more holy you are. Or as I heard a lady say, in our Facebook group this morning. I was so deceived for most of my life, thinking the more lowly, the more holy. Guys, poverty does not equal piety. In fact, there's a word in Hebrew. That word is assure. It's spelled ein shinrash assure. It means rich. It means wealthy. It means abundant. Right. In Hebrew, a lot of times, if you want to say an opposite word of the word that you just said, you just spell it backwards and it's the opposite meaning. So the word rich, wealthy. One of the words. There are a bunch of different words in Hebrew for rich, but one of the words for rich is assure, ein, shin, resh. But when you spell it backwards, it's reish shin, ein, which is rsha. Well, if rasha is rich backwards, sure. What would you think that the meaning of the word Russia is? Would you think it is poor? Broke, Right. It's not. It's literally the word. Are you ready? Evil? Ungodly? What? Yes. Now, am I saying that people who are poor are ungodly? No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying if you do. If I'm saying if you do evil as a society, and we've seen this, societies that have been historically evil are also historically broke. That's an interesting observation. But I think it also shows that when you do the opposite of the things that can make you rich, those things can make you broke. Like what? Like lying, like stealing, like cheating, like defrauding. When you do the things that are the opposite of the things that will make you rich, like serving people, providing value, telling the truth, being on time, having character, fulfilling on your promises, those are things that can make you rich. When you do the opposite of those things, they can make you broke. So let's be the kind of people that don't go. That don't think and go broke because we neglect to intentionally think and grow rich and think and get better and think and grow smarter and think and grow healthier and think and grow better relationships. Let's become the kind of people who are intentional so our life gets better. Because improvement requires intention. Entropy, anything left to itself, tends to move more and more towards disorder. Entropy only requires neglect. So if you neglect to be intentional about your thinking about what you think about, congratulations, you're going to think and grow broke. Hope this helps you stay blessed by the best. In the meantime, in between time, we'll see you on the next video. Peace out, Cub Scouts.