the best lesson for me was coming back from what happened you know going to jail losing everything
coming back and building another business so what happens very often is that you know when
you make money so fast on wall street you don't really build anything you're buying and selling
and trading the ingenuity of others there's no way to really feel like you know how do you put value
on what you're doing you then only have money is the only barometer of what you're doing so
and then money will okay it's in the bank so you have to buy something to make it real so you buy a
huge house a yacht a jet so then that feels really great for like a minute and then we all got to buy
a bigger house and a bigger yacht your money is always money's like alcohol it amplifies doesn't
change you you know you if someone's an [ __ ] and they drink you know they're a giant [ __ ]
when they're drunk right if someone's an awesome funny person they drink they're the life of the
party right money's very similar it's not going to make you anything that you're not but it'll make
you more of what you are so what happens a lot of people just amplifies the bad and amplifies
the good as well right most of us and i'll be the first to never i emerged from my adolescence
i wasn't the captain of the football the most popular guy the suave girls like most of us we
struggled with those things when we were teenagers so i go into my adulthood like these insecurities
and say you know what but once i get rich and i get like powerful then i'll feel good
so while you're out there striving for success and porn for it even though you feel
insecure a lot and you don't feel like you're really comfortable in your own skin you say
i know why it's because i don't have success yet but then you achieve massive success and you get
everything that you always wanted and then uh-oh i still feel the same way inside what do i do now
you know there are two types of people in this world now let me arrive four points here for a
reason on one side of the equation we have what are called reasoned people and reason people
are the ones that give you all the freaking reasons why they can't go out and become
successful they are filled with reasons to it costs too much money i have to work too hard i
have to travel too far i have to risk taking it and i call them ducks quack quack [ __ ] ducks
those are basically the losers in life and they wallow around in a duck pond
filled with duck [ __ ] and don't really ever go anywhere they're so sold on their own story
the story they create up here their own narrative the tale they create
about why they can't get what they want and it's actually the story that they tell themselves
about why they can't get what they want that stops them from getting what they want
they're so ingrained they're so sold on their own story about it's their parents fault it's the
government's fault it's society's fault it's their boss's fault it was their third grade teacher's
fault it's their mommy quack quack quack [ __ ] quack it's all a bunch of [ __ ] those are the
ducks of the world and we all know them we know some of them and on the other side of the equation
you have what are called results people and these are the people who just get [ __ ] done
they get results they don't buy into a [ __ ] story they take action
they overcome they either find a way or they make a away and i call those people
eagles you call these people eagles because they soar eagles soar and they get [ __ ] done
these are the people that end up getting rich in life they get promotions at work
they become top producers they start successful companies they employ other people they take care
of their parents they help out people in their community they solve people from their eagles
powering beliefs lead to a lifetime of joy and happiness and disempowering beliefs lead to life
and quiet desperation the way it is you cannot rise above the level of your limiting beliefs
crack those limiting beliefs and the way you do it is very simple because a belief is nothing
but an idea that you're really certain about just imagine the belief is a tabletop that's the idea
and the legs beneath the table are the references that think make you think you're right because we
take beliefs as the facts of life so my belief was what that my past will always haunt me and
my references were any negative article anything that happened they'd say ah you see i'm right
my past will always haunt me that's how a belief is built but what happens is this the truth is and
one of the fundamental tenets of neuro linguistic programs we are not our past experiences
we are the capabilities and the resources that we've gleaned from them
and that's what you see happen not just on wall street but in hollywood yeah with people like
lindsay lohan his child they get so famous and they feel like and then while they're trying to
get famous they're they're okay because they say i don't feel great but i i know i'll feel great once
i get famous because that's what i'm my vision is when i achieve my vision when i get that then i'll
feel good then you get you're like that's when the real product sets it so with me it's like i said
if i ever get rich in calories you know and every all of a sudden i had every girl after me i'm like
i'm rich by the way you know and i'm still the same guy that's when i think a lot of the problems
start you want to start self-medicating and and because you're again your success doesn't change
you it just amplifies you so any insecurities you have become even bigger and so forth
if at the end of the life if you have a partner a wife or a husband or significant other
that you really connect with and understand you and you can trust a couple of good friends
you're doing really well in this world i had this desire for instant gratification there's
just sort of a mentality that you you know want everything tomorrow now looking back as a sober
adult now and 50 plus years old right you know what is business what is the purpose of business
the purpose of business is to monetize the delivery of value that's what businesses do right
a business has a product a good service which lost the problem of a customer yeah and and it's
valuable to someone else right and the purpose of an organized business is to deliver the value
in a way that actually makes money like if you if it costs you more to deliver the value then
you can get without well then you lose money not in business so the purpose of the business
is to deliver value right [ __ ] happens to people you make huge mistakes but you're not
those mistakes you're not your bankruptcy you're not your failure what you are is the lessons
that you've learned from that that you can use now you're the resources that you've gleaned from that
that you could use now when you change the way you look at things the things you look at change and
it's true you go back to any belief that you have and you look at it from a different angle with
different resources and you unconditional love confidence clarity certainty and your beliefs
all of a sudden take on an entirely new meaning and it starts with the language that you apply
to them is it the end or is the beginning is god punishing me or is god god give me the opportunity
of a lifetime it's language and these beliefs that we have because they're below the surface
we take them as facts of life and they're not they're just beliefs
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