- [Audience] Good evening.
Evening.
- This is different, me being on a stage.
I'm used to being out in the audience.
I'm grateful to be here tonight,
here in Vancouver.
I live here but I'm not here much,
when I'm on the road traveling
and next week I'm in Edmonton
and I'm off to Africa again.
So how many of you so far in January of this calendar year
have been on track for achieving
your New Year's goals, resolutions or dreams or targets?
Great.
So what happens is a lot of times
as we get started a new calendar year
or in Q one,
we go through the peaks and valleys,
we go through dealing with the distractions,
to the chaos,
the things that's going on.
In my own personal life,
for those of you who know my story, some of you don't.
I've had a lot of adversity,
a lot of challenges, failures, setbacks
similar to Dan Lok.
His first 13 businesses went bust,
his 14th was a home run.
And what I've learned from my own adversities,
challenges, mistakes, failures, setbacks, drawbacks,
all that kind of stuff,
is that it's actually blessings in disguise
and there's learning opportunities
and I've been very grateful
in the last almost 20 years of my career,
to travel the world, 44 countries on four continents
and started in Vernon, British Columbia
as a kid who was on welfare, homeless,
and I just wanted to be somebody.
I hit rock bottom when I was 22,
about 21-22 years of age,
ended up being on welfare, living in an apple orchard,
and I remember it like it was yesterday.
And the interesting thing was in my life now,
my goals,
I just wanted to overcome in my life,
I had a,
my insecurity was not being good enough
and so people asked me the other day,
"What drives you?"
The insecurity that I have,
with inside myself not being good enough
and that was a driving force for me
and today what I do is I have a journal
and I invest 20 minutes a day
into a private conversation.
So I take 20 minutes a day
and I have a private conversation with myself
between myself and this book
and this book will be read when I die.
Somebody will pick it up and read it
but I have a private conversation.
And I want you to think about it in your life,
whether you're here to earn more money,
you're here to learn to develop a millionaire,
a multi-millionaire or billionaire mindset,
you wanna learn more, earn more cash
which we'll talk about today.
These different things is realizing
it's the time that you spend with yourself every day
and one of the things that I've learned in my life
was that I originally wanted to,
just learn to improve my self-confidence.
I got into this industry kind of by accident.
I had done multiple suicide attempts in the early 1990s,
to try and end my life.
I was in Vernon, British Columbia,
Predator Ridge Golf Course
and I'd done over 200 practice tries
to try and run my car into a telephone pole
at 140 kilometers an hour, 85 miles an hour.
And on the final attempt
something inside me shifted
realizing there was a higher purpose in life,
didn't know what it was.
And I drove in to a guidance counselor's office,
outreach program, crisis line.
I went in there and a lady sat with me
and she says,
"You have so much potential in your life."
And what was interesting was
she sent me to a Dale Carnegie program.
Now I didn't know who Dale Carnegie was
and what was interesting was
I went to the Prestige Inn Hotel,
walking around looking for Dale Carnegie
'cause I thought this man was alive,
went upstairs and asked a couple different people
and they said go into this room.
I walked into a room like you're in tonight,
terrified.
Didn't have the self-confidence,
didn't believe in myself.
I was just thinking
how I can get through another day of life.
I had incredible amounts of negative self-talk,
shame and guilt from my past.
I was a kid who at age one,
my sister, I was,
when I was a year old my sister died at four
of a heart transplant failure.
So my childhood was very micromanaged.
I failed grade one
and I grew up with a learning and reading disability.
By grade five I was labeled
most likely not to ever succeed
and in grade 11 I was taken out of the class
by a guidance counselor and a school teacher
and they said to me,
they said, "We hope that you will succeed
"working in construction or pouring concrete or paving
"because you'll never go far."
And out of 200 and some kids
that graduated from my high school class,
I was labeled most likely not to ever succeed
and that was the label.
I had a guidance counselor who told me that
I would never amount to much, never go far.
These were mentors, these were role models in my life.
In my late teens, early 20s
I never did drugs.
Never done a drug in my life.
Totally drug-free 'cause I wanted to protect my mind.
And the thing was,
I was very grateful to be on the side of the road one day
in Armstrong, British Columbia
and I met a gentleman while I was selling watermelon.
I was working for a farmer for cash,
getting off of welfare
and I met a guy who had a grade three formal education
who lived off his money's interest interest,
and he was a guy that taught me things.
He had a grade three formal education
and he became my mentor up until the day he died.
I was with him just moments before he had passed away.
And he was kinda like Dan Pena.
He was a guy that would drive me down a road
in Vernon and Kelowna.
We drive around,
he says, "What do you see?"
And I would say,
"Well I see a bunch of dirt and a fence."
And he goes, "Oh man, I see a 36 unit complex."
And he would drill into me mindset training
and some things I'm gonna share with you tonight
I've been very fortunate now
to work with 11 different billionaires,
soon to be 12
and I've had a chance to spend time
with some of the most influential people on planet earth.
When I first started in this industry
I just wanted to meet a branch manager.
I wanted to meet a supervisor, a team leader.
I wanted to meet somebody who had built a company.
Now I'm being introduced
to presidents of countries and royal families.
It's a whole different level
but yet they're people at the end of the day.
And I had a conversation last week on Skype
with one of the wealthiest people in the world
and it was a six-minute conversation.
Six minutes.
And that's,
and that's how they micro time.
In six minutes.
Bill Gates's six minutes by the way.