"If You Feel LOST & LAZY In Life, Watch This To FIND YOURSELF!" | Tim Storey

I have had a saying that a lot of people quote, and that is God's opinion of you makes man's opinion irrelevant.

One of the things I love most about what you've been doing, the last little bit with the miracle mentality is this essence of being okay with miracles being possible. Again, why do you think people have all but given up on miracles when, you know, there's talk of lots of them around the world?

I think one of the things is that, you know, when we're young, we're thinking very much in terms of miracles. Like little girls fantasize about a princess. Little boys, they fantasize about superheroes. But I think as we get a little older, things start to chip away at us. Maybe our parents get divorced.

Yeah.

Maybe we have an illness. Maybe we have setbacks, like as young kids. And it begins to chip away and begins to minimize what I call the miracle mentality or the miracle mindset. And so the book, miracle mentality is about getting back to that childlike faith that all things are still possible. I mean, you believe that? I believe that. I'm sure your listeners and viewers believe that.

Well, I think that's the primary purpose behind the entire show. I intentionally titled the show Stuck to Unstoppable because from my experience with the right perspective and the right training and the right commitment, that literally anything is possible. And like I was sharing with you briefly off air, is, you know, going from homelessness where I'm at today, you know, one of the key things that have happened was there was this essence of committing, changing perspective, all of that. And that's when I actually started to see the divine favor start to touch different pieces.

Yeah.

You know, is that what you found in your life as well, when you're looking at that? Because you've been operating in the miracles, in miracles for a long time. You've helped people witness their own miracles.

Well, number one, I'm fascinated by your story and the fact that you were able to find supernatural help. Because I think that sometimes.

Problems that we face that could devastate us and almost finish us off.

Okay.

That we can't use the normal tools to get out.

Yeah.

And that's why I see people just continuing to struggle. And it sounds to me that you found, like, a supernatural way to recover, but you had to come back and beyond.

Oh, yeah. So.

So a lot of what I teach is like your story. You know, you had a setback, but you didn't sit or settle in it. You decided to have a supernatural comeback. I mean, I'm teaching your story.

And maybe that's why it's so effective. I mean, the life transformations that you've been able to partake in have been nothing short of beautiful. And as a result, you know, creating a legacy that outlives you is touching every single life. So if you help one, you help 100. And I'm trying to, you know, make sure that people understand that moving forward with my specific story, you know, having parents from, you know, my alcoholic father, very disjointed relationship, end up being raised by my single grandmother for a while. And, you know, at nine years old, I got a GI Joe in one hand and transform in the other. And she comes to me and tells me I have to begin cooking and cleaning and helping. Helping her because she had just got diagnosed with cancers and cancer in the 80s, you know, which was horrible. So, you know, I've. For my life, one of the things I've tried to help people understand is there's different levels of what I refer to as surrender. Yeah. If you've seen that in your own life and the people that you work with. But it seems like, you know, there's this. There's a. There's a choice that we make to just believe, like, childlike faith like you were talking about. And then there's the next step, which is put it in activity. And then there's a growth and then another, what I call a crushing and so on and so forth. Is that. Is that the kind of the framework that you see happening over and over again?

100%. And I mean, what you just said. You have two toys in your hands, and then your grandmother comes to you and talks to you about chores because she is dying.

Yeah.

The word dying means fading. Okay. So, wow. Let's just stop there for a second, because I think that that's a lot of people's lives.

Yeah.

Like, right when I'm getting happy.

Something interrupts me and says, no, pay attention to this. Your mother's an alcoholic. Or, pay attention to this. This marriage is not working. Pay attention to this. Your daughter has asthma.

Yeah.

And so I think people want to live and play and think magical, miraculous thoughts, but these, like, interruptions hit. So what do we do? Tim's story. When the life interruptions hit, we have to understand that we go through two things at once. Recovery and discovery. Recovery is dealing with the pain of the present and of the past. Discovery is dealing with the beauty of the present and in the future. And if you don't pay attention to Discovery Zone, your life will just be given to the recovery zone.

Yeah. And I think that's where, at least for me, that's where I hung inside the pain for too long. I let pain become a discomfort, if you will, become. Well, you know, being comfortable with the uncomfortable is not a bad thing if it's done the right way. But I settled in that pain for a long time, ended up suffering for several more years than I needed to because I didn't want to awaken. Yeah. Now, you talk a lot about overcoming roadblocks. I mean, you're always talking about the setback and the comeback and how those things play a role in our lives. When you're working with folks one on one. Right. How are you able to see some of the roadblocks that they're not able to see themselves? Is it through the lens of your personal experience or the things that you went through yourself? Yeah.

I think, if you don't mind, because, you know, I life coach people, I think that I'm gonna play with your story a little bit because I personally think you wanted to get better but did not know how.

True.

So I think that the reason I went there is because I think a lot of people want, but they don't know how.

So if they don't know how, then many times if you're frustrated, it's almost like I remember sitting in Math class and Mr. Crow was in freshman math, and he says, okay, that was great. Now we're going to. And I'm like, whoa, dude, I just got down. I just got what you. The thing you've been teaching for a month.

Yeah, I own that.

What's all that crap on the board?

Yeah, Right.

That's deep. Right?

Yeah. It's like A Beautiful Mind. Yeah.

So I promise you, I wanted to just shut down and just go, no, seriously. I think my mind can't take what that guy is now writing on the board. And I remember going like this to one of the girls in the class that used to help tutor me in that class in science, which were my difficulties. I said, I need your help. She goes, I know you do.

And so had I not had her, Julie, my neighbor.

I would have been in a pickle, as they say.

So I think that you wanted to, but didn't know how. And then I think that that's one great thing about your podcast, is you're teaching people the skills, the tools, and the attitude. Yep. Because the skills you need to get out of a tough situation, the tools you need to get out of the situation, and the attitude you need to get out of the situation. So, yeah, we're doing similar things. That's why we're vibing so much.

Yeah, absolutely. Well, you know, there's nothing. There's. There's. To me, the best business in world is helping people become better people. Yeah, Right. Because.

We all have journeys that we face. And I'm a big believer that principles govern promises. So if I live by the right principles.

See, I like that. I think you need to rewind that. You can't just be dropping these gems and move on.

Dude, I'm just starting to have a.

Conversation, so say that again. Principles.

So principles govern promises. Okay.

Tell us what that means.

Yeah. So in essence, if I'm having a hard time with my finances. Okay. There are principles that help me alleviate the strain of bad poor behaviors and finances.

Super good. Yeah.

I let the principle govern the promise. The promise is if I do these things and I act in accordance with this principle, I know over time I can expect this promise.

Yes, the promise.

The same thing with relationships.

Okay, I like that.

So if I've got a relationship, maybe a strained marriage, which I've unfortunately had a divorce before, and now married to a wonderful woman, but going through that process, I didn't know at the time that I was accidentally not spending enough time with her in the moment because I was so focused on building the business that I thought that I needed to build to provide for her in the first place.

Yeah, makes sense.

So I wasn't living by the principle of connection or the intention of connection. I was living by the principle of a scared kid who's scared he's going to lose everything again.

Yes, that makes sense.

So that's where I see some of the roadblocks come into play. And one of the things that I love so much about the miracle mentality is there are so many beautiful stories. And number one, you share incredibly vulnerably throughout the book of your own story.

Yes, finally.

But in doing so, I think. I think there's hidden. There's. There's not just the tactical takeaways that are in the book, but there's also this essence of the principle that governs the promises that you're now living that you're now also trying to give. Yeah.

So the reason I say finally is.

Because, you know, once I started to find my way and to find my footing in life is that a lot of people that I've always had around me have been very protective of me, and that's been like a blessing.

Sure.

And so even though I went through Certain hardships. I think I was smart enough to, like, keep it within the circle of people that could help me, strengthen me. That were my real power partners.

Yeah.

But I think that.

In this book, I felt. To share more about my life just because I feel like a lot of those areas.

Are healed in a better way. I won't even say completely healed. I'm just saying healed in a better way. So I didn't want to share when I had just gotten wounded because then you would start spilling stuff that probably shouldn't spill.

True.

I watch a lot of speakers do that, actually.

Yeah.

They're like, I'm just being vulnerable. It's like, stop.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I get into some things on this about how, you know, life can be mundane, Life could be messy, but life could escalate and go to the madness.

Yeah.

And when you're living in the. In the madness, it's hard to think about the miracles.

Yeah.

So I talk about some of the madness that I created in my own life or madness that just kind of showed up on my table.

Yeah. Well. And again, I think. I think that's one of the things that I love most about the work you've been doing, as well as the miracle mentality is it's kind of a roadmap because it's. I've discovered. I'm sure you've discovered that when we share our personal stories about what we've been through and the sufferings that we've been through, and it's coming from a healed place. You know, it gives us sympathy, empathy, and compassion for the person who's now going through something very similar. But it also gives that. It seems like it gives that person. Person the permission. The permission to kind of try again and maybe learn to dream again. Is that. Has that been what you've been finding as well? Yeah.

And I like. And I like. I like your perspective. And we won't name his name, but we have a mutual friend that's an actor. And, you know, you came into his life and you assisted him and helped him in that. And one of the things I love about that is that he's from a whole different culture.

Yeah.

Like, he's from my culture. Like, I'm from Compton, California. He is from the same culture.

Yeah.

And there you are all the way in North Carolina. Like, what do you know about Compton?

Yeah.

So I think that's cool that, you know, compassion.

Doesn'T see geography. Compassion doesn't see skin color.

Compassion just sees pain, hurt, need.

And tries to fill that need yeah.

One of the things that our mutual friend that we've resonated both on is we both knew what it was like to suffer and to go without a home or to go without a meal.

And I know, remember when our relationship first started, he was very honest with me about some of the expectations that he thought might come out of the relationship. And he was very excited when he just found out he had another brother.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

You know, kind of thing. And I think that's so beautiful. You know, one of the other concepts in the book is this essence of not walking out or not walking in your truest identity. I find that a lot of people don't know who they are. In fact, I actually find a lot of people. It seems like they're really like three major important questions in life. You know, who am I, why am I here, and what do I do about it? Essentially the same thing in several different ways. But, you know, when it comes to identity, it seems like identity is at the root of the lack of transformation if the identity has not been sought or pursued.

Yes.

What have you seen in your work as it relates to identity and helping people discover their true identity?

I mean, I truly. I have to go Bible on people.

Yeah.

People always say this about my journey. They're like, tim, I can't believe your platform on how you teach so much Bible and draw so many people who are not Christian.

Yeah.

I would say as high as 60% of my following on social media has nothing to do with Christianity. But they see the message of compassion that I am bringing forth, and they're like, either tolerating my Bible talk.

I think you're feeding them.

Are starting to like it.

Yeah.

So I gotta go Bible because I think that we can try to keep looking within and we can go to various destinations that are known for awakenings. Or we could think about Ephesians 2:10 for you are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works that God prepared in advance for you to do. So watch how cool this is. So I'm sitting in Oprah Winfrey's backyard, just me and her were talking as friends. And she says, I like this thought that you have when you talk about you don't believe in chasing dreams. You believe in cooperating with what heaven has already said.

Oh, that's good.

So I don't chase anything.

Yeah.

I really don't.

I don't chase. I don't believe in the chase.

I believe in the cooperation. So I believe that everybody has been spoken over.

Yes.

That God Has a purpose for their life.

Yes.

Ephesians 4:1 says, Walk worthy of your calling.

Yes.

I think your calling calls you. So you have. You have your calling and your identity is in who God says you are.

Who does God say you are? He says you're. You're wonderful. You're made in his image.

You're creative, Right?

Yeah.

So that's, that's where the identity is found. And I have had a saying that a lot of people quote, and that is God's opinion of you makes man's opinion irrelevant.

That's so true.

And so when you get a God's eye view on you and God's label, God's tag, God's mark on you. Whoa.

Yeah.

That's a good place to be. That's why you could be.

Quiet guy. But that's who you are. You're cool with being quiet.

Yeah.

You know, you could be a guy with nine jobs and that's working for you. Be the guy with nine jobs.

Yeah.

So your identity is found. And knowing him, I love it.

I love it. My grandfather used to say, in fact, he passed away. He's my. He actually. Quick story. My grandfather told me from the day that I was born, I was the first grandbaby that they had in the family on my mother's side. And my grandfather, from the day I was born to the day he died about two years ago.

Yeah.

Always introduced me to other people as his little soul winner.

Yeah.

From the day I was born to the day passed, including five years when I was a practicing professing atheist in my worst of worst, when I was going through that basically the hell on earth, half of which was my doing and half of which was me just figuring out life and God. You now using that to help me help other people, essentially. And when you said the word calling, there's an essence of even myself now. And I think everybody feels this. I know you've felt it before yourself.

Yes.

Essence of. I'm feeling like I'm being wooed, but I don't know where and I don't know why. Which then necessitates the fear, the fear of doubt or the essence of doubt in the how that you mentioned earlier?

Yes.

How have you been able to work with folks to help awaken maybe the calling that's kind of dormant because I find that a lot of people that I bump into, they're so close to their calling or they're so close to the impact, or they're so close to what I would refer. They're meant to do. They were designed for that. It becomes. It's so second nature. They're not thinking about it. I know that was true for me.

Yes.

I generally wasn't thinking about it. And it took other people. How have you been able to work with people to get them discover that?

I think one of the ways that we get back to the person's calling is get back to the person's innocence is that we got to go back to the innocence. So when I life coach somebody, I say to them, when you were a senior in high school, what did you dream about becoming? And many times, like, a really powerful businessman or woman will just stare at me like, is that how we're starting this session? And the reason for that is I want to trigger them to go back to a place of more innocence than where they're living now. And then I'll go back even deeper. I'll say, okay, that's great. So now let's take you, like at sixth grade, what was going through your mind? And many times people will get emotional.

Yeah.

And they'll say, wow, at sixth grade, I believed I could do this. I believed I could do that. I could believe I could do that. But by the time I was a senior year, some of those dreams had been whittled down. I think one way to rediscover your calling or to discover your calling for the first time is you got to go back to the place of innocence. And I think, again, just saying, God, here on your planet, I'm doing my best, and please do me a favor and help me understand my calling. And I think when you do that simple prayer, what happens is that your calling calls you.

Oh, that's good. Yeah.

Your calling calls you.

Like the fact that you say, hey.

I may want to come to la.

You didn't say, take me to the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel. You didn't say, take me to the Ivy on Robertson because I know I could see a lot of stars there. You didn't say, take me to the Soho House.

Yeah.

Private club. You didn't say that. You said, take me to the Herding.

Yes. That's.

That's deep, right?

Yeah.

So that's part of your calling. Your calling calls you.

I can see why people love hanging out with you so much. I really do.

Well, feel the same about you.

Rock on. Well, you know, it seems like that there's a pathway that. It seems like a lot of folks are searching for a microwave success or a microwave identity. They want it quick, quick, quick. Now, now, now. I have yet to see that actually be an experience that. That actually takes place.

Yeah, I think few people have it. I mean, some people win the lottery or, you know, some people, they get on YouTube and they do silly tricks and they become famous. So that can happen. It's not common, but I really think it breaks down to this idea of, you know, what is success? And to me, this idea of success, success, and that is like a longing fulfilled or a dream fulfilled. I think success is living your life.

Because I think that life is a gift.

So the fact that both of us are breathing without an oxygen machine.

Yeah, very true.

Or we could move our hands because some people are watching who are on oxygen machine or maybe cannot move their hands. And so, you know, living the life that we have and being appreciative for what has been given to us. And it's an interesting thing. I was talking to a friend of mine that's in a wheelchair, and I said, on a scale of 1 to 10, how happy do you think you are? And he said, a nine. And I said, what would be the one that's missing? And it had nothing to do with the wheelchair.

Wow.

He said, I feel like I don't cooperate with certain things God says to me about my dream. I think I should really be a writer. And I've been afraid. He said nothing about the wheelchair.

Wow.

So to me, success is really just.

Being grateful for being alive.

And then being open to what your life assignment is.

Just being a person that flows with that life assignment. So to me, success is being a mother of two, being a kindergarten teacher, being a mechanic, being the plumber, being the air conditioner guy. That's success. If that's your God idea.

Yeah. No, I love it. In kind of retrospect, I also think it seems that.

What we want most is almost always on the opposite side of what we fear most or what we're scared of. You know, we're scared to take the stage, to speak at something, you know, and maybe it's the pta. Yes, the butterflies. You're going to the pta. Maybe it's actually asking for the promotion that, you know, you've got the skills for or that, you know, just to put yourself out there because maybe you're more timid personality type, more introverted, you know, I know that before my divine encounter that I had, I was very much a pushover, hide in the shadows kind of person. And once I met my faith, which we unfortunately don't have time to get into today directly, but once I discovered my Faith and how important Jesus was to me and how important.

My life was to him that he came and sought me out.

Right.

Everything changed very rapidly. Went from the sleeping on bard friends, couches and cars and all kinds of stuff to very quickly, literally pulling stuff out of the trash piles to build my first business.

Yes.

And all of that courage came from. Come. Came from that faith moment. Why do you think it's so difficult for people to operate or discover faith nowadays?

I think part of it is that the representatives are not that cool.

That's probably true.

Like a lot of my friends that are in the entertainment world, they just don't think that a lot of the guys that I know that are spiritual leaders are that cool.

Yeah.

And so I think that I don't blame. Some of them are, you know, they see religion as being restrictive and confining and they're not really understanding what you're describing as the Jesus style.

Yeah.

And the Jesus way.

Yeah.

That's more of what we're into. We're more into like the gospel Jesus.

Yeah.

Of loving people, serving people, caring about people. And I think when that side of God is displayed, then it piques people's interest. But in all fairness to anybody that's watching, I think that, you know, when you get hit by life, it causes us to wonder and wander.

I wonder what's going on.

Wonder if I'll be okay.

Wonder what's next.

And many times wander.

Yeah.

And so some of you have been wandering for a year. Some have been wandering for 7 years, 10 years, 27 years. But this is like a good conversation to. For you to wake up.

Yeah.

The miracle mentality. I take you through the steps. You got to wake up, you got to take inventory.

You got to.

You got to partner with the right people, you got to get the right principles, then you have the right plan, then you got to be persistent. And I think that it's almost as though I wrote this book with you and your story in mind, because that's what you did. You woke up, you took inventory. You partnered with right people. Right. You got the right principles, the right plan, and then you had to get persistent. And that's what you are now.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I mean, my wake up call was actually, you know, my. My father's employer. I was a late teen. My grandmother already passed me with my dad. My brother went to go live with my mother in Florida, which was already kind of disjointed. But when all that happened, I'd been working with my dad and noticed that he Had a certain element of lack. In other words, we never really had enough to, you know, we either chose, okay, pay the light bill or fill up the refrigerator.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

That kind of scenario. And it was kind of like always an either or. And I remember one day I was working on a job site with my father and Steve, Mark was his name, came up to me and pulled me down off the crew, put me in his Jeep Grand Cherokee and literally just looked at me and said, I got a question for you. What's the difference between a rich man and a poor man?

Yeah.

And I was like, well, you know, in my naivety, so to speak, I just throw money. And, you know, it was funny because the look on his face was like, almost like I was about to get a spanking kind of thing. Right. And he said, absolutely not. It's the way they think.

Ah, I like that.

And the follow up question was the start of the oak tree under the soil. And he said, do you want to be like me or do you want to be like your father? Yeah. Now, Steve Meyer was very affluent. Steve Meyer. It was nothing for him to go and go to a restaurant. I saw it numerous times, specifically a barbecue restaurant he used to frequent. A single waitress would be weighed in on him. He, you know, there's, you know, this is small, was a small town. He would walk in, have his dinner, not saying, you know, treat him very nice or whatever waitress is doing her thing. There's nothing for him to very quietly leave $1,000 in cash under the hush puppy basket and quickly walk out with his wife and just leave.

Wow.

While I would watch, I would watch this waitress come over. She'd see the, the basket and she would just begin weeping. Like, almost like literally knees buckle. And then, you know, several times I could, I didn't know I was going to pay my light bill and stuff like that would come out of her mouth. And when he asked me that question, I thought of that image.

Yes.

I was like, this is.

I want, I want to be able to do that.

Yes.

People at scale. And I think it seems like people are scared to walk into their calling. It seems like they're scared or maybe it's not having the know how. What are you saying?

Yeah, I think, number one, your friend, is he still alive?

He passed away in 2003. Unfortunately, he never got to see everything that his, his seed became his legacy. Yep.

So thanks for keeping his legacy alive. I figured the way you said a past tense that maybe he had passed, but thanks for keeping his name alive. So I'm glad you said his full name. I think that, to me is. Life is not always as complicated as we make it.

I feel that.

You know, life gives us assignments, and if you do the.

Best you can in that assignment, like, my first job was as a dishwasher. I did the best I could, which was good.

Yeah.

Because my mother taught us, don't do a halfway job. Then I was a busboy. I was pretty good at that, too.

So much so that other restaurant owners were trying to hire me. But I would tell them I'm very faithful to Mr. Anderson.

And he later found that out from.

One of the owners that was trying to hire me. So I think it's a. It's about prospering where you're planted.

Oh, yeah.

And so again, you know, if you're working at Arby's Roast Beef, just do it with everything you got.

Yeah.

And if you're running nine companies, do with everything you got.

Yeah.

And I think that when you do that, that God sees you and says, that was a great assignment. And then you don't mind, go do this and go own that, and go do this and go bless all these people. And he gives assignments.

Yeah. I'm a big believer in the five talent story, five talent principle parable. I've always. I've been trying to teach my kids because my. All three of my kids are. My daughter's a young lady we adopted when she was single and pregnant a few years back and is now, like, now I'm a grandfather. I've got a grandchild that's five and one on the way.

I've got two boys that became my sons when I married my wife. And the one thing that I hope they've been seeing and I've been illustrating on their behalf is to be faithful with the little and then be made master over much. Because that's been my experience. It seems that people who want to be made masters over much without the experience, without putting in the work, without putting in the heart and the effort, unfortunately, it seemed like they're chasing their tail. And the people that seem to surrender to, okay, I'm going to do the best I can, like you were just saying, tend to prosper.

As a rule of thumb.

I agree. And I think that also, it's like your friend that gave these large tips and gave them to waiters or waitresses.

People in need. Always people in need.

People in need. I feel that, you know, people that really are what I call world shakers, that bring big impact usually don't even know that they're doing it at that level while they're doing it.

Yeah.

They're not really doing like a daily evaluation of how much impact they're having.

Yeah.

I think it's just their nature.

Yeah.

Yeah. Real, real people who change the planet. It's. It's just their nature and they do it and we get impacted and then we talk about.

Yeah. I mean, it's. And it's. And it's beautiful to see. I mean, like I said, you know, Steve, Susan Batts, there's been so many people that were my surrogate parents along the way. And I. And I give all glory to God for that because without them, I would be a very different young man.

Yeah, right. And you turned up pretty good young man.

Well, I appreciate that. I appreciate that.

Well, just for a second, because you're gonna get some of my followers, tell them what kind of companies you own nowadays.

Oh, gosh. So I started in the construction industry, as you can imagine. So I built my first business out of the trash piles that I mentioned earlier. That company became a.

High eight figure business that is in three states with 400 team members plus. That led me into the real estate game. So buying and flipping and holding. I actually in the center that I'm in now, I'm in a live event center. I was telling Evan he can come host one of his seminars here if he ever decides he wants to do them, for example.

Yeah.

And then outside of that, I got into thought leadership. You know, I'm an author and a speaker and travel and do as much as I can. I've been trying to serve as many people as possible during the COVID thing. We've got a live event coming up in the near future. And you know that I'm just trying to. Trying to give back. I mean, there's, you know, my specialty is taking something of little value and increasing it in value. And that's kind of where the wheelhouse is. And almost all the business acumen that I've discovered has either come through God directly or through Steve Myrick and people like him along the way.

So somehow along the line, you got.

A miracle mentality and you believed in miracles, expected miracles, and now you have become a miracle. And so, yeah, I mean, how cool is that, that you're like a miracle story?

Well, I definitely want to be that for other people because I had that illustrated for me. For me as well. Yeah, people do that. You know, it was interesting. In fact, the whole reason that I'm even back to this, to the thought leadership world because I experienced a pretty large embezzlement with one of my businesses about three and a half years ago and had to put a quick pull back. And I'd been praying in my closet for about six months and God, do you want me to pick this thing back up again? Do you want me to pick this thing back up again? Do you want me to pick this thing back up?

For the non religious people, Were you actually in a real closet or where were you?

I was in my real walk in closet in my house. That's why I write all my prayers on the wall.

And it's always normal. Yeah, we've had him tested.

Hey, I'm normal. Like this is normal.

Because some of your followers of mine are going like, wait a second, really dude?

Loving him?

When he was talking about how he makes millions.

Of closet.

Well, you know, it's so. Especially when you go to a larger family and there's lots of noise and lots of racket and you're trying to get centered and you're trying to get to a place where you can meditate. It just so happens a good sized walk in closet does the trick.

So it was in the closet, guys.

That's why I was in the closet. So, you know, But I've been praying for a while and then a buddy of mine text me out of the blue and he said, hey man, you need to go to this event. I'm like, what are you talking about, man? Like, you know, we're gonna go see this guy in a few weeks. Like, you know, on a different speaking event. He's like, no, I'm telling you. I just really feel like I'm led to tell you have to be at this event. Yeah. And I was thinking to myself, nah man, don't worry about, you know, there's no way my calendar looks like a Christmas tree. Like there's always something on every day. But because he's a buddy of mine and because he's had this essence of having a prophetic voice, you know, enough to make me go like, all right, maybe there's something to this. I promised him. I said, look man, I'll tell you what, if I don't have anything on my calendar that day, I'll go, thank you, God would. And of course, it's the only day of within a three month window that I have nothing on it.

Oh yeah.

Wake up at 4am, fly to Dallas, Texas. I was there for four hours, went through a whole set of events essentially thinking that I was supposed to be there. To have some prophetic word or something be answered. Got to the very end of the event. And I'm really summarizing it in short form, but Sean Bowles invited me to come up and ask a question. I went there as an intelligent man with a business seminar, not thinking anything about it. And when I get to the corner of the stage and he literally just takes the mic and does like this, this is what happens.

Out of nowhere, right?

Yeah. Not, not just crying, wailing.

Right.

And as a result, Sean's obviously, he's like, oh, oh, yeah, come. Took him by surprise. Ended up, ended up that one event ended up sending me to the back room where someone began to literally interpret three of my dreams. Yeah. Now, for those of you don't share my faith, no big deal. Like, this is my world, this is, these are my real life experiences. But in that came out of this, I want you to pick this back up. But it's not going to look anything like what you want it to look like. In fact, it's not for your glory, it's for mine. And that was kind of like the message behind it. And sure enough, we began rebuilding. I say rebuilding, literally what he meant is more of a brand new venture altogether with the same concepts. And to me that's the definition of a miracle. If you're seeking the, if you're seeking the divine, the divine will typically answer.

Yeah. And I think that God also came at you according to your personality.

Ain't no doubt about it.

For real, like, if somebody has five kids, you don't deal with them all the same. They're different personalities. Right. So I think that you had to have some like, God happenings.

Yeah.

That got your attention and they did. And now, you know, we get to hear from you and you're living this, this life that is, is full and overflowing and you want to help more people.

I do, I do, I do. And you know, it's like I said, it's, it's, it's been one of the situations where we are all trying. I think those that are really trying to make a difference will end up making a difference.

See, I'm just staying quiet sometimes. Cause you come up with such good things. Like, what am I going to say next? Well, first of all, it's like, it's like watch if Michael Jordan's got the ball and he scores.

You know, shoots eight shots in a row that go in. If you're Scottie Pippen, you just stay quiet.

Well, you're no Scottie Pippen. Young Man. All right.

I'm all right in that role right now.

Well, I don't know, and you can totally tell me this might be off limits, but one of the stories that I actually enjoyed a lot, I was actually listening.

I have five minutes, because they make me go from one thing to another in my job.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Final question.

Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, the final question.

What did the experience of your divorce teach you about the miracle mentality?

I think that. I think divorce. I won't say about mine. Let's just say divorce from anything. Divorce means divided force. Divided force. So I think divorce from.

A company.

Business, women, businessmen that are connected, and something happens, and you get divided force. My situation in divorce from a woman who's amazing and we're so close to each other.

Nowadays that she has a key to my house, is that that divorce was very, very painful. And so I think any form of divorce that we go through, that we got to say, like, what role did I play in this divorce? What could I have done different? What can I learn? And then don't be the divorce. Like, I was talking to this guy on an airplane, American Airlines, and I said to him, are you single or are you married? And he said, I'm divorced. I said, no, are you single? Are you married? He goes, I'm divorced because he liked me. We've been talking for an hour. And I go, come on, man. I gave you two categories. Single, married. He goes, no, I'm divorced. I go, buddy. And I said, how long ago? True story. He thought about it, and he goes, 22 years ago.

You were divorced 22 years ago, and you're still living by the stigma and the label.

Yeah. So.

So I think if somebody is divorced from a long time, don't label yourself. I'm a divorcee. Just say, I'm single.

Yeah.

And you. You learn from the lessons. You grow, you adjust.

If you.

You need to apologize to anybody you've been divorced from, in business or any form of relationship, because, again, divorce is a split. Yeah. Then apologize and get better and move forward.

Yeah.

So I think any type of challenge in my life, that the way I take it is.

I like to learn.

Yeah.

So. And I'm okay with being undone. Okay with constantly growing, learning, adapting, and adjusting.

Yeah. I love it. I love it. Well, look, Tim, I can't thank you enough for coming on for a little bit and hanging out with us.

Privilege.

Yeah. It's been an honor for me as well. Where can everybody find out more about the miracle mentality?

I Think the best way to get the book, which is essential reading. I don't know if you saw that on the news.

Yeah.

So this is essential reading. I really mean this.

No, it is. I mean, it's. I mean, it is. It is a book that everyone needs to read. I will say that hands down. I've been now through it twice.

Yes. So you can get it on Amazon right now. The audio version I read over five hours of My Voice you have to hear, and the written version I wrote with an amazing editor who teaches at Princeton, Nick Childs. So it's a essential reading. It'll take you there. It's a miracle mentality in your business, in your finances, in parenting, as a single person. I actually break it up into categories.

So you can get it on Amazon right now or wherever books are sold.

I love it, man. Well, look, you have a great rest of your day. I know you got the next thing to get to. I can't thank you enough for spending some time with us. There's anything we can ever do to help you, just let us know.

What a privilege. Thank you very much.

All right. Take care of my friend. See ya. Tim Story is such an amazing human being. I'm so glad we got to hang out with him for a little bit. If you haven't already done so, make sure you go ahead and pick up your copy of the Miracle Mentality. It's on bookstores now. Check it out for sure. And if you love that interview, I know you're going to love this one right here. So check it out. Next.

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