- And in your life, you're going to be faced
with things, with projects, with opportunities,
where you're going to be all alone.
I feel a part of me right now in my life
when starting on this new adventure
and think, I'm all alone.
There's times where I'm traveling
around the world, where when I
go into a village in Africa and
I see horrendous things.
I travel with armed bodyguards now
in Africa to protect myself.
Because there's corruption over there.
And there's benefits and draws.
There's people who love me come over there,
there's people who want to kill me.
Because I'm educating people, that
people are preying on them,
staying to keep them down, so they
can slave them, they can do things to them.
But to me it's about doing what's right.
I deal with the people. I go spend
time with the villagers and
find out with them.
What they want.
Some of you were laughing with me last week
when I brought some of the kids over
from Uganda and East Africa at
that concert last week here in Vancouver .
Some children or orphaned kids ages
3 to thirteen years of age they've
lost their parents.
You spend time with these children
it changes your life.
See when you go to a children's hospital
you walk in and volunteer for a couple hours
(unintelligble) it changes your perspective on life.
And when you realize that when you get out
of your way of yourself, and realize that
there's a greater purpose to your life,
than rather just being a schoolteacher
saying, "Oh I'm just gonna get these
kids that come in every day." Saying
"How can I contribute to the future
of these kid's lives?"
When you get up tomorrow and you
realize you have a client or a customer
it's like, how can I breathe something
into this client's life that can
make a difference in their life?
Help people more than just with their
job and their career.
Help them with their lives.
Empower them with their lives.
Some of you are involved in real estate
in this room.
Realize that in real estate and investing
it's not just getting more doors.
It's creating education, it's creating
opportunities for people in their lives
to live some place.
And what you'll find is that some of the most
successful people in terms of
millionaire mindset, billionaire mindset,
what they do is they solve problems.
It's with solving problems.
I met a gentleman one time who flew in
to the airport here in Vancouver.
We met at the Fairmont Hotel.
He's a very high net worth man.
And I had done a lot of research
and due diligence on the man before
I went and met with him.
I walk up to see him, and he had
a whole stack of newspapers.
And I said to him, I said, "Can I
ask you a question, sir? I've watched
videos of you, I've read articles online
and you're a very optimistic person.
Why do you have all these newspapers?
You're not reading the financial stuff.
You're reading all this doom and gloom."
He looks at me, he says,
"It's my God's to do list."
I said, "What do you mean?"
He said, "I look at all the areas of
problems around the world and I think how
can I create an opportunity
to solve those problems.
While the masses are in stress and
panicked and taking medications and all
that stuff, I look at a way through
my mindset of how can I serve and
make a difference, and solve that problem."
And he goes, "the bigger the problem I have,
the bigger the benefits, the
bigger the drawbacks.
The more I get hugged, and
the more I get slugged.
The more I get kissed,
the more I get kicked."
Does that make sense?
You're gonna always be hugged and slugged.
I have people attack me all the time.
He has no education, he has no PhD,
he has no MBA, he has no formal education.
How's he gonna train our company?
How does he do this?
But the thing to me is noise, because
alls they do is go out there and persevere.
It's not always easy.
See the thing is you'll see a lot of
speakers and trainers that will
tell you all about success.
They don't tell you about the organized chaos
behind the scenes.
They don't tell you bout the adversities and
challenges and financial challenges that
you go through, and struggles.
And things that they go through on
a consistent basis.
They hide all that stuff.
But as you start playing different levels,
you'll realize the authenticity
of where people say, "Listen, let me tell ya".
One of the greatest things that I love doing
when I sit down with business owners
and entrepreneurs is don't tell me about
you success, tell me about all the mistakes
and failures and challenges you've overcome
in your life, and what did you learn from them?
That's the juice for me.
I'd rather sit down with somebody and tell me
about all the mistakes,
and challenges you've done. Like Dan.
Dan going through thirteen businesses
that have failed.
Bust.
Do you think he's learned a lot?
Of what to do and what not to do?
Right?
And no one's ever asked him.
When I first met him and I learned about him,
Roslyn who introduced me.
Where's Roslyn?
Roslyn here.
Hey, Roslyn introduced me to Dan.
When I first learned about Dan,
first thing I thought was what has this guy
learned, and why is he so consistent
in persevering, with thirteen business failures?
Immigrant coming to this country, he
doesn't speak the language, no money,
what's the driver?
What drives him to get up in the morning?
What drives him to stay up late at night?
Why does he just keep working all the time?
What's the driving force?
What's that human need?
Does that make sense?
It's one of the things I want to encourage
you to do is when you're around people,
for somebody in this room
you're out networking, business prospecting,
somebody you'd like to go to Starbucks,
and The Blends, and Wave coffeehouses.
I want to encourage you this year to level up.
Start going to the Fairmont Hotels.
Go to the Four Seasons.
Go to the Pacific Rim.
Go there and have your meetings there.
Go there and make your phone calls there.
If you got to write a business proposal,
go there write a business proposal.
Change your environment.
Every couple of months go to an art gallery.
Every couple of months go to an art gallery,
and walk around looking at
all the beautiful paintings.
Today I was walking down Burrard Street
I was looking at all the buildings.
In terms of the sacrifice that these
men and women made to build these buildings
and the engineering, and the blueprints,
and how much behind the scenes
they had to hustle to find the money.
When you meet the guy here in a couple weeks
that's born with the Trump thing here
you see you see it all in the front.
Oh my gosh, they're gonna be so successful.
You don't see the sleepless nights
that guy goes through behind the scenes.
You don't see that.
Cause it's polished, it's good.
I wanna know, that guy?
What keeps him going.
When he has adversities, and challenges,
and setbacks.
You need to understand something.
If you want to become a millionaire,
or a multimillionaire, or a billionaire,
there's benefits and there's drawbacks to it.
And what happens is we focus on
all of the benefits.
We don't see the drawbacks of maybe
having to get an alarm system for your house.
Having to live in a gated community.
You don't see the drawbacks of having to now
have accountants, attorneys, trust accounts,
holding companies, tax planning.
You don't see all the stuff behind the scenes,
the things you've gotta learn.
Different life insurances, or insurances.
You don't go from dating, you go to interviewing.
Does that make sense?
In your teens and your early twenties, you date.
In your thirties, forties, and
fifties you interview.
How many of you know that you
need to learn from experience?
Right?
So the thing is, you start to
you don't run into things as quickly.
So what I want you to be aware of is
you travel around, and there's incredible
amounts of knowledge and wisdom.
If you want to become a millionaire
this month find two millionaires to
take them out for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Take them to a coffee.
And say, "Listen. I've got 10 questions I
want to ask you about the steps
that it took for you to get to become
a millionaire or a multimillionaire.
You'd be amazed.