you always carry a hundred-dollar bill in your pocket oh I've several in my
pocket at the moment so the reality is every time you go and even if you don't
have it to spend you've got it in your pocket and you go oh yeah I'm rich I
got hundred bucks yeah as opposed to you go home and only got $12 so you don't ever
want to be that "I've only got" mentality just opening it up and see nothing
exactly interesting so that was one thing another thing he told us to do was
go down to the Chicago Stock Exchange when all these billionaires were coming
out getting their limos say thank you for being a model of abundance thank you
for modeling that it's possible to be wealthy so we all did that one day it
was a little embarrassing but but it worked but it worked but but the most
important thing is to do what I call a rampage of appreciation something I
learned from the Abraham work of Esther and Jerry Hicks where you take five
minutes and just walk around your house the hotel you're in wherever you might
be and just start appreciating everything you know the people who made
those wax candles over there and I get to romantically light this room with
people that made that television where I just watched the Super Bowl the other day my
team lost and who cares they lost it was a great game very exciting and there's
flowers over there that I didn't plant the seeds of and the woman comes in and
water some you know and even if you're living in the ghetto you have a roof
over your head there's people in the world sleeping on the street sleeping in
the jungle sleeping out there you have fresh water you know people in Africa
are dying because of lack of water that doesn't have disease in it more likely
you have clothes on you have food to eat it may not be gourmet food but it's food
yeah you know you have medical care so just look at everything and look just
like just a rampage of appreciation every single thing I appreciate that I
appreciate this we have indoor plumbing you know how many people
don't have indoor plumbing yeah exactly you turn on the lights we turn on the
lights and the electricity comes on yeah you know in India I saw this movie
recently about in India people don't have phone service if you don't have
phone service you can't play in today's world there's a guy I forget his name
right now but he actually goes up and he cuts a little wire the phone puts a clip
and puts phone service from the people in the ghetto and and and and he's a
Robin Hood he's a hero yeah you know so just
there's so much we have to be grateful for one of the principles about money
you talk about is to pay yourself first yes now does that always mean
financially or is that something else too well well I think financially for
sure you know it was if I make $100 $10 that goes in the savings so I've always
been a 10% yourself first and then you want to be at some
percentage to the rest of the world why sorry to interrupt
but why pay yourself first because if you don't pay yourself first you're
paying everyone else you're going to work all week long month long you get
your paycheck and then it all goes out in bills you go damn I didn't get
anything from that more importantly is you have to build up capital that makes
money either interest in an investment or it has money you can invest in
starting your own company there was a great opportunities come along like I
remember when Apple stock came out and I went I think this is a good thing please tell
me go into any Apple store and you have to wait to get waited on
that's like Starbucks you have to wait to get a cup of coffee any place where
people are waiting all day long all day long that's a good investment right and
I had to convince this guy that I buy stock for him to do it you know and it's
doubled and it's you know split and all that kind of stuff but basically I
forgot the question what was your I'll pay yourself first yes so paying
yourself first is you have to have money to build up money so eventually you can
live off the money rather than living off your labor you know and so you know
I talked about Sir John Templeton who used to take 50% of every dollar he made
and put it into savings he's now a billionaire 50% John Demartini who's in
this book is the other guy who was in the secret he said to his staff every
month I get paid this I'm not paying your salaries if we don't make enough
money Wow so you got to be watching the bottom line and if we're not getting
enough client he's a chiropractor you need to go out and advertise and bring
in the people cuz I'm paying me first Wow and his staff got Whoa you
know but they took responsibility sure and as a result of that he's made
millions of dollars he's a millionaire and so is that is that a self but when
someone say well that sounds selfish why not support your team first or give back
first what'd he say to that he was teaching his team one of the most
powerful principles ever take care of yourself what do they tell you on the
airline we masks on first so you
can help take care of other everyone else so you know it's like you want to
take care of others you want to be in service you and I whatever we do is in
service yes you know we're having fun and getting paid for it but it's serving
people yes now not every profession is that but in general you know we're not
saying take all the money for yourself take 10% and invest that over time
and if that grows and it creates you know 6% 8% interest if you're a good
investor sure you know you're you know what's the guy who wrote the automatic
millionaire you become an automatic millionaire
David Bach and so that's what i did
taught me to do that he gave me a book called "the greatest secret ever" I think
it was in another book about this guy who was in Iran or
someplace where he always put his 10% aside there was a book in Canada called
"the wealthy barber" and he had all this money and only a barber why because he
put money aside to work for him and you watch your money making money sure and if
you're not taking care of yourself you can't serve on a bigger level it's true
Bob Proctor has a wonderful quote I was watching him do a secret
conference and we were both teaching at this conference when he put on and he
said if you don't have a lot of money the good you can do is limited to where
you are that means called your physical actions yeah but if you have a
lot of money you can build a school in Africa you can do cataract operations in
India you can fund you know micro loans in Africa you know whatever so I I tithe
I remember when I the hardest thing I ever did I one year I made six million
dollars and I had to give away six hundred thousand that it's easy to say
tithe when it's not that big yeah yeah and it was like writing a check for like a $100,000
yeah but then I remembered you are so lucky to be able to write a check that
big sure you know so let's let's let's change how this I'm going here right 5.4
million more yeah exactly and everything you send out comes back
multiplied we know that it's a principle that seems to work in universe