You got to a point where you didn’t think it was worth living?
No. So I just made a decision and
took a whole bunch of and tried to myself.
I’m gonna share with you a little bit of my childhood,
what I went through you know,
and for me to come to what I am. So I had to go through
the reality of being poor. We’re from a poor background.
So I was super poor, sometimes we eat, sometimes we don’t.
I was a farm boy, and I was a dog boy.
And the dog boy was actually “el perrero”. Which in Mexico, “el perrero” wasn’t
something positive, it wasn’t something that you should celebrate.
It was a kid that smells like dog, that has fleas or ticks,
that’s the perception. So I went through that in my childhood right,
because dogs would follow me. I didn’t know why,
but dogs followed me. So people would go after me just because
dogs would follow me you know, saying mean things to me.
Then in my adolescent stage dogs still followed me,
I was still being called “el perrero”. I was not hip at all,
and I was not popular at all. So I gotta jump the border,
my dad gave me a hundred dollars, that’s his life savings.
And so I ended up giving it to a “coyote” guy
and after that I was homeless for two months.
I was homeless, I didn’t have a place to live
so I lived in the streets for two months. And then,
I spoke no English. But it got better.
It got better because I stayed focused on what I really wanted
for me to happen. I wanted to be the best dog trainer in the
world. I was 13 years old when I told my mom
“Mom, you think I can be the best dog trainer in the world?”
and she believed in me, she says “yes, you can be whatever you want.”
And that’s really what we need to attach ourselves to,
not what somebody else might see on us, you know all the negativity
that they want us to pay attention to. Yes I was poor,
but not from the heart, not from the mind. Money, fame and power only exist in the intellectual
world. So I can be happy with or without money.
I already mastered how not to have money. I was poor-
my whole childhood and adolescent stage. Of course I mastered that.
Do I feel bad about it? No I feel great.
Because I can say I mastered poverty. You know what I mean?
And most people who make money, and then lose money,
and then they get depressed because they have never experienced
to be happy without money, fame and power.
So I rather know how I feel,
than know how much money I have. So that’s how I’m gonna guarantee myself
that I will never choose. I lost my feeling.
I lost what I treasured the most. So I gave my
influence to the outside world. And you own your world.
Every step you do is yours. You need to believe in yourself
and you need somebody to believe in you. When you declare something,
you have to do it around people who don’t have a block.
Who their belief in you is 100%, love to you is 100%,
and there is no negativity. Miracles do exist,
but you have to do it with a group of people that are at your level.
The only way you can cross one place to another place on a rope
is because you focus. Just look at the people that cross
from one tower to another tower on a rope, and the only reason why they can do it
is because they focus. Really, the deep side of you is that
is the soul, the spirit, and the heart, where the passion lives.
That is really what we have to always connect, and everything else is secondary.
You understand? So most of the time people can’t accept the fact they
don’t have enough money, so they postpone happiness.
Or they don’t feel good enough – that means I have to work on my appearance,
I don’t accept myself for who I am, so they’re not happy with themselves,
therefore they don’t love themselves, and that becomes shameful.
So what I did is I got hold of the people that believed in
me, and that was very important for,
and that was very important to me. I don’t like to use the word success,
but I just like to use the words “I accomplish something”,
because I believed in me, because everybody has a gift,
I don’t think I’m the only human in the world that has a gift.
Everybody has their own special gift. So I just wanna let you know,
that sometimes when somebody sees something different in you,
it’s actually a gift. It’s a gift that they don’t have.
Whatever that gift might be you know, they don’t have it,
and they don’t know how to deal with it. Sometimes if you’re happy they will go after
you because you’re happy.
So in the meantime, if there are no humans around
that wanna support your uniqueness, your gift,
you can always count on somebody that I personally count on,
and that is dogs. Because one thing that dogs don’t do,
is they don’t judge. They just accept you as who you are,
and the gifts you have, right? But you need to accept yourself first
because that automatically creates space of freedom.
“Freedom.” Simple word but it has so much meaning.
But again, it gets better.
It gets absolutely better. I was called “el perrero”.
I was the dirty kid with dogs and everything was wrong about me
because dogs were following me right? And so, as you see it got better.
So trust, respect and love, is not so much for somebody else,
it’s that you actually trust yourself, respect yourself,
love yourself. You know what I mean?
And most people have learned not to love themselves, not to trust themselves,
not to respect themselves. Unfortunately, that is going to hurt your
spirit. That’s gonna hurt your heart,
so trust, respect and love is definitely not not something you learn outside,
but you master it inside. I like to have a purpose in life.
I wanna do something, I wanna help others.
That’s what drives me. What makes you wise in life
is not the successes. It’s when you go down and come back.