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How to build a good life? Answer - it's simple. it's not easy, but it's simple. Select the right ingredients, keep out the wrong ingredients and it starts with thought. Everything starts with thought. So you must be wise and careful what you think about, because that starts everything

If you took a hundred classical composers ten of them produce half the music that's played. And then if you take the ten composers and you take a thousand of their songs, thirty of those songs which is the square root of a thousand roughly speaking are played fifty percent of the time

You're not going to score on every shot. It doesn't mean you shouldn't take the shots. It doesn't mean you shouldn't try to hit the goal. But part of being able to continue to take shots is to have the strength of character to tolerate the fact that in that instance you weren't on top

What's the best thing you can do?

You need some reason to get the hell out of bed on a terrible day because you've got something good to do. What's the best thing you can do? - Transcend your current wretched and miserable self. There's meaning to be found in that. That's a meaning that's associated with responsibility

Read books, Learn financial literacy!

Read books - "Rich Dad Poor Dad", "The Psychology of Money",.. Learn financial literacy - how to save money, invest wisely, and think long term. Remember: Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. The more you understand that difference, the better your financial decisions will be.

There is only room at the top!

There is only room at the top. I wanted to be the best in class. And that's the only place that I've really wanted to operate. I still believe that. You've got to shoot to be the best. And you want your organization and people to believe in that. And to create a team that work together.

Always leave the door open!

I love diversification. That's called multiples. You got to give yourself the opportunity. I don't close the doors on myself. Leave the door open. Even if something happened and it don't go the way I want it to, I'm not closing the door on that... That might not have been the right time.

Success Isn't Reserved for Special People

I saw other people doing it and thought, “They’re not smarter than me. They don’t work harder than me. They don’t have anything special. We’re all human.” If I could do it - smuggled into this country at five years old without speaking English - the opportunities are endless.

Culture is a study. It's not an amount. Somebody says - if you have an amount of money you will be cultured - the answer is: No. Culture is a study. Culture is a refinement of the mind. Tu be cultured you must study culture and practice culture.
Money does not solve the culture challenge

Learn all you can!
We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning. Don't be lazy in going through the books, building your library, coming to classes like this consistently, consistently. Some of them will be so dramatic your life will never be the same

If you want to put together a championship team, one simple requirement for all those who participate - just do your best.
If everybody does their best, whatever that brings us to #1, #2 wherever we arrive when the final count is made is OKAY if we all know when it's over - WE DID OUR BEST

Murder is a clear example that any one person any given day can forever alter the course of their life. It just happens to be a negative act. But just as sure as you can commit a negative act, you can also commit a positive act and forever alter your life. Whenever you wish. That's exciting

To be a winner...

To be a winner, you want to be disciplined, you want to know what you are doing and you want to be on the edge where your skills are being developed. That way you are at a place where losing is always a possibility, because otherwise you are not pushing yourself beyond your current capacity

Miracles come when you reach your limit

I think miracles happen when you're so hopeless and you've done everything you can, but you're still failing - and then suddenly, something you thought would never work becomes a breakthrough. I asked for that in prayer, and it makes you believe miracles exist - and ultimately that God exists.

Read all the books!
There's millions of books so you can't read all the books but read all the books you need to read to make you as wealthy as you want to be, as healthy as you want to be, as prosperous, as productive, as unique human being as you want to be. Don't leave those books go unread

Do you believe in God? How did you know God was real?

Yes I believe in God. When I disrespected God, I felt the wrath. When I respected Him and opened my heart and started having real conversations with him daily, I led with gratitude, I felt His presence in that way as well. My life has been a 180'd ever since I connected the creator, God, Jesus!

Read the best you can, study the best you can, take the best notes you can and then do this - then you decide out of all of that which is valuable enough to try, valuable enough to do and add to the dimensions of your life that are already underway - that's the key for study, exercising the mind

What if they don't show up?

It takes self motivation to really alter your life. You don't want to give self motivation away to somebody else and make it somebody else to motivate you. The guy says - boy if somebody just come by and turn me on... - what if they don't show up? See you got to have a better plan for your life.

Take care of yourself!
Take care of your intimate partner!
Take care of your damn family!
Don't run off!
Take care of your community!
Rescue the wisdom from the past!
Stand up straight and be courageous despite the fact that life is tragic and tainted by malevolence!
That's ancient wisdom

Private jets don’t define success. Just go grind!

Don’t try to chase things like flying on a private jet - that’s not how it really works. You’ve got to grind. I don’t live a fancy or showy life. I have one car, I drive myself, and I live beneath my means. I live a fantastic life, but I’ve never tried to impress anyone. Just go grind.

Hard work

I know some guys that work all the time. They don't just work, they work so efficiently and so effectively and make use of every second in ways you can't even imagine unless you're in that sort of position. Doing that doesn't mean you'll succeed but not doing it certainly means that you will fail

Things happen to build, prepare, and grow you!

Things happen for you, not to you. Things happen to build you, prepare you, and grow you. Once you know that everything happens for you, you take it with courage. You take it with a big smile, and you look for the blessing in disguise. The moment you look for the good thing, the good thing appears.

The Ikigai Formula for Success

Ikigai: what makes money, what you're good at, and what helps the world - when you put those things together, that is ultimately success. A lot of people create products just to make money; they'll just move on to the next thing. What's different is being truly committed to changing people's lives.

If you really want to help somebody / motivated idiot

If you really want to help somebody, change their life you have to start changing their mind, change their philosophy. Change how they think. Somebody said - well just motivation that'll do. The answer is - NO, motivation won't do it. If a guy's an idiot and you motivate him you got a motivated idiot