Money Expert: If I Was Broke Today, This is EXACTLY What I'd Do! | Patrick Bet David

what is at the top what is number one above all is it being the richest man in the world no is it being a billionaire no is it being the smartest no it's one thing and by the when I figure this thing out my life changed pck money and success is not attracted to people that talk down to that money wants to be respected what do I need to do to get more of it well guess what oh man what a question you're asking you guys grab a tissue if you got a tissue box out there freaking I do million interviews in this thing you had to start all over again with nothing in your pocket what would be your first three moves try to really think about this because in in my mind welcome back everyone at the school of greatness very excited about our guests we have the inspiring Patrick B David who is the founder of value tainment and uh now best-selling author of choose your enemies wisely business planning for the audacious few good to have you back on Sir great to be on great to see you I'm very excited my audience is pumped and we did a poll and we said what do you want to hear the most from Patrick and they asked and I'm sure you've answered this before but they said if you had to start all over again because you are an audacious guy let's say for some reason everything goes bust one day you saw Elon talking about this the other day I hope everyone's you know what if it all goes bankrupt I'm going to go for bigger moves and if you had to start all over again with nothing in your pocket what would be your first three moves so if I'm 25 I would be less concerned about the industry because back then I may have been cocky but I wasn't yet certain if my philosophies were right or wrong because there's not validation in the marketplace yet you wrote a book about this where you're kind of covering the facade to kind of impose you got but you don't know and if you're 25 today though with all the chaos that's happening and insecurities and uncertainties and you've never made money before really what would you be thinking about I'm find I'm making a list of 10 people and 10 circles I want to be in and I would make a draft pick of these 10 circles I would say okay what's my number one Circle I want to be a part of then I would go all the way down to number 10 I would research I would look at guys that I like guys life that I admire the way they carry themselves the way they handle themselves so this circle I would say those guys are really close to each other I like the way they are boom that's one Circle boom I really like this circle that's pretty cool how these guys are always they've known each other for all these years they're so tight it looks like they're enjoying boom boom boom then I would make individuals because I have more odds so if I got 10 circles I can get in I want to work for number one first so I reach out to number one then I go to second draft pick third draft pick boom boom boom boom boom because I'm more interested in working for a guy to like for example the girl I promoted to be the president of our insurance company today moral she's been with me for 13 years she used to be my banker at w and when I would go to her she handled me very well if I was upset if I was annoyed if I wasn't happy with something she know how to bring me from a nine to a five and I like that skill set so I'm like if this is how you are with me I want you my company so I brought her in and over the last 12 years obviously the last year she got promoted to become the president of the insurance company but the 12 years she spent the most time in the rooms negotiating chaotic moments conflict about to go out of business finances all these things that we got to do she saw so much of that that now when those things come up she's not even thinking about it it's like yeah here's what we're going to do here's what we're going to do here's what we're going to do here's what we're going to do we're going to do this because she's seen she's seen how to manage that so the edge is working under somebody that's a killer and you're able to get behind closed doors not just the front because the front is an act but I want to get in the room with five people were negotiating for example like let's just say we're about to negotiate a big deal typic typically if we're doing a big negotiation deal we'll debri debrief before to prepare we'll okay guys what do you think he's going to say what do you think she's going to say what do you think is going to be their concerns let's write it down da d d da what do you think is going to be their objection what do you think they're going to want what do you think they're not going to want where do they have leverage where do we have leverage how are you going to answer this how you going to answer this boom anything I'm missing what's my blind spot as any what do you think about what he just said do you agree with them do you agree with her so if you're in these types of meetings for thousand times and then we go into the real meeting then when you're in the real meeting and the guy says uh hey uh Lewis do you mind if we ask you to step out and you're like yeah no problem because we've role plated what if they ask you to step out totally fine you don't even like you want me to step out we would rle playay don't be offended just very nice absolutely get up and walk at the shows we're not insecure we're not worried oh wow they were comfortable about it hey Patrick you mind have you step up totally fine I'm going to go in and use a restroom shows confidence they're okay with not being in the room and then after the meeting okay so how do we do you did this you did that you did this this was good I like the way you said this how do you think you could have said this better maybe you could have said this do you think what I like what you said fantastic okay great what's the next step we're not going to follow up we'll wait for 48 hours and then I'm going to send the email first they ask for this make sure you send that send them a box of this remember when he talked about his daughter has a birthday coming up let's make sure we send that birthday present go on the wife's Instagram account and see what she likes and send them that gift boom boom boom okay great we move on Okay so that situation you're in you know how much inventory that is you're not going to get that in a college degree or an MBA you go get 2300 case studies so that's the guy then okay the 25 finding someone you respect that you want to go work with and learn from get into the right Circle and go work under a killer by far accelerate your amount of learning by a decade it's not even close right but if I'm 45 today and I lose everything I'm not worried about it at all I'm not worried about it at all because my uh the way the market works is in a following way it's mathematically impossible mathematically impossible for the market to not pay you what you are worth period it's mathematically impossible you could lose it all the market will say he's going through a Bad season she's going through Bad season within a year two years three years the market is still going to come back and give you that money now if youve made a fatal mistake if you've made a royal mistake what does that mean if you lost your money over the last 20 years because the way people saw who you were for 20 years was a profile of a guy who did this this this this this great and then all of a sudden you flip and you all of a sudden start doing something dumb that has not been part of who we've known you for 20 years then yes the market is not going to pay the same thing you just ruin your reputation the marketplace and you're going to take a hit and you're going to have to come back and to that you can still do it but it's going to be a lot of work but if you lost it because of a business decision if you lost it because something happened to the market the money is going to come back up really no question about it people fear that too much no question about it if you're still willing to teed up if you're still willing to go out there and you know improve yourself you know earlier today I wrote something on my notes the this temptation of falling for a few trap you know like the moment you start thinking you made it PLS around the corner the moment you fall for the Trap of you know flattery and flattery is a very dark thing and it's used in a very eloquent way by your opponents and you don't even know it me an example so for example hey L I got to tell you man all these other guys I know you and Jay are good friends but dude Jay's not at your Jay's not at your level you're 10 times better than Jay you know you're better than Jay and I think Jay kind of picks some of the stuff that you're doing now you and Jay are friends yeah yeah what an move right that's flattery yeah I'm pinning you against somebody a friend a a friend so now you're going to walk away and say oh but he's right and then next time you see Jay and you're talking to him you kind of like are drugged up and you don't even know it because somebody so so you have to be very by the way this happens in marriages this happens in relationships people will say things like well look let's face it you know Lewis she's lucky she's got a guy like you you know any woman will be lucky to marry gu like you right right and then guess what people are telling her hey he's lucky to have a Girl Like You him he's super lucky to have a you can have any guy you want this is a form of flattery you know and then when you're winning I think I don't I don't think they appreciate you enough I don't think the company app I don't think they appreciate you more yeah you know what you know how many times you see these wide receivers Divas they flip against the team with a quarterback your quarterback doesn't throw you the ball the team doesn't do this to you right so you have to be like this right and understand all this gamesmanship wow and keep telling yourself I'm not there yet yet if this gets to your head oh follows around the corner look what happened to Scotty Pippen you went from being the top 50 greatest players of all time your book comes out the guy asks you how do you want to be remembered I want to be remembered as the greatest you ain't the greatest you play with the greatest why are you undermining Michael well the last dance wasn't about us it was only about Michael because Michael's the goat we watched The Last Dance for Michael we didn't watch it for you you're the best flag carrier ever you're the best Robin ever but someone behind close doors told Scotty Michael would have never won because of you Michael doesn't give you enough credit Michael doesn't do this whoever fed that flattery into him is what caused him to lose his reputation now when people watch Scotty say stuff he's got a lot of credibility because he's one of the greatest of all time you kind of look at him and say you're a little bit delusional if you think you're better than Michael you're not so flatteries are very very dangerous um element you got to be aware of with choose your enemies wise business planning for the audacious Fe this book I want people to get um do you think Elon is choosing the right enemy with Disney and all these you know other brands and advertisers yes because I think Elon is choosing his vision over wanting to Cave to these guys who have ESG money from Black Rock from State Street from Vanguard and he's telling them no I don't need your money there's power in saying no to sponsorship can you imagine a guy comes and says I'll give you million dollars for you to do a one minute whatever and I need you to do this and you say no I'll give you 2 million brother you give me 20 million I'm not going to do it you know how much power there is in the know you know how much power there is in a guy to say don't do it don't do it and a New York Times interview is like you know what did you say but but but but go f yourself don't do it yeah Bob don't need your money so what is Bob GNA do Bob came out today and said he's he's stepping down in 2026 this guy writes one of the best books of all time in business right of a lifetime great book he has been probably the best executive we've had in the last 40 years I don't think we've had a better executive I didn't say founder I didn't say founder founder is different but he's probably the best non-founder executive we've had in the last 40 years maybe you take Welch in that category but he's but running and building the business this no one's been a bigger dealmaker than this guy you know Star Wars and fox and Marvel Pixar all this stuff that he's done just fascinating what this guy's done he goes from ride of a lifetime to putting Bob shapack then he has to come back five movies back to back to back flop they lose $195 billion in Market valuation like a year year and a half their stock is down 56% he's trying to divide the companies into two or three so he can sell them at pieces there's only one company that can buy them and that is apple and Tim Cook is brilliant they're sitting on a bunch of money of cash nearly a couple hundred billion dollars of cash and get guess what Tim is going to do Tim's like they're still going to go down they're still going to go down they're still going to go down they're still going to go down they're still going to go down he's going to buy them out a discount and then this is going to be under apple and Apple's going to be the most powerful company in the world if not there already are they been the most powerful company in the world and he made a few mistakes the mistakes Apple made I'm sorry Bob Iger made he forgot who his customers were whoever controls the remote control is your customer he thought the kids are his customers your the kids are not your customers buddy I control the remote I'm your customer well no no no no I'm your customer I can say we will never watch Disney ever again unsubscribe because you're imposing certain movies on my kids that I don't like we're done with Disney okay whoa so his allies were a 1% sect of America to please then to increase his ESG score or de score or CI score and he forgot there was these all these other parents that all they want is for their kids to be entertained not to be getting all these other messages he forgot this so he chose this as the Ally he chose the parents as an enemy he got destroyed wow he lose $200 billion Blockbuster you know whose Blockbusters enemies were Blockbusters enemies they're like we're Blockbuster Netflix can you buy us for 50 million no we're block who are you guys we're Blockbuster are you kidding me but your customers this is late fee I'm sorry I haven't returned it for 18 days it was in the bottom of my car I don't care 18 days times 3399 you got to pay us 72 $72 this movie is worth 19 bucks what but it's late for you better can you really make a break no I'm not going to I mean when you did that customers are like screw you we're out of here an $8 billion Empire Falls because they were their own enemies they didn't think they were threat from smaller companies coming up boom Blockbuster's gone how many movies did you and I go rent that Blockbuster that was like Friday night Saturday night let's get two let's get three you'd come back you'd watch it there's so many of these situations of choosing The Wrong Enemy I think Elon the market is going to dictate whether it's the right enemy or not that's going to take a minute but I think Elon is feared and envied by all these guys because all these guys they can go in and get whatever they want by throwing around some money and when you can't buy people or win people over by throwing around money you don't like that and they do not like that and Elan doesn't give the leverage goes to him wow now he's got to prove his argument right though now you got it might have some pain for a few months right that or yours by the way or yours yeah and then how are you going to shift and adjust and and that's on him he chose this life he chose this Vision guess what go what do you think's going to happen the next I don't know about 12 months but I think I think elon's going to win and I think yon's going to be a Target and I think yon's just getting started with the enemies he's creating he's just getting warmed up like this is the beginning like Elon when did heon start having enemies year and a half ago think about when Elon started having enemies year and a half ago and Elon doesn't care if he'll never be invited to those parties ever again because he's been to those parties and more he's dated all of the girls every one of them he's hooked up with all of them that we don't even know about elon's dated some of the hottest scrs in the world he's partied he's had a blast he's played the video he's done everything I think Elon sitting there saying I want to be invited to your flipping party I don't care if you never there's so much power and Liberation in not caring to be invited to those groups anymore because you know how you're doing it like like let me bring it to our level you know how you got a certain guest that you want to interview okay you have your list of guests you want to interview okay so what do you do these guests you want to have you have to protect them you can't say bad things about them so you have to almost match the values they got because if you don't they may not come on your show and all this other stuff and then you know maybe this happens maybe that happens maybe this happens but what are you doing it's not a real show that they own you you I don't want to be owned I want to be fair I want tell you how I live this is what I stand for bro if you don't like it totally understand sometimes I don't like myself I don't blame you but at the same time if you want to have a real conversation with a guy that's not going to fake it and just going to talk to like a brother and he still going to give you love and he's going to give you opinions that maybe you disagree with let's sit down and have the conversation yeah if that's not what you like I'm not your cup of tea and I'm okay by the way the day I made that decision to know I don't don't care if I interviewed those guests we blew up really I swear to god wow we blew up I'm like you know what I don't care I'm good yeah I'm good I don't care and you may never get those guests but you'll have other great things too by the way I will end up getting all of them oh well you know why because in the market when when you're the biggest in the market if you're able to prove that you can have real conversations and then that one person who doesn't want to come 75 people around them say you have to go there then that guy is being pressured by the people that love him to say you got to go there that would be the way by the way this doesn't mean they're going to be here but the point is this kind of a position gets the market to say what they're going to say you got to at least respect like yeah look at Howard Stern you think Howard Stern did easy interviews like what do you think Howard does eventually everybody went to Howard so and and he's caving now a little bit he's playing a different game now but he's obviously got all the money he's playing a different life but for me um when that happened to me when I no longer cared I raised tens of millions of dollars wow business blew up I let everybody around me better I interviewed better I got better guests I got better opportunities I got everything changed but you can't be you can't be a jerk you can't be arrogant as long as you're not having that you'll be forgiven eventually for the values you believe in you just can't have this right I don't know if that makes sense you got to be kind you got to be nice be considerate respectful you do you do you can have your opinion and be honest no problem right but you can't be a jerk no you cannot be because the then then you're just not attractive as a personality you know what I just don't want to deal with a personal like that that's a different story you know but if you double down on your values kind of like Elon is Marcus like us and we love or hate him and freaking guy is telling you is you've had some big moves in the last you know couple of years but in the last year it just seems like things keep exponentially growing for you in every area of Life what has been the biggest lessons in the last year you've learned that have helped you with that exponential growth compounding efforts works man keeping your head down and you know minimizing distractions minimizing dumb mistakes minimizing falling for the Trap of flattery falling for the Trap of you've made it already you're successful you're rich look at this look what that guy said about you look what this guy said about you um no I I have one fear I have one big fear and my biggest fear I got as a man is losing favor of God nothing I fear is a bigger fear than that when I tell you nothing I don't fear anything more than that I fear losing favor from God so how do you lose favor think about how you like imagine if you're the head coach of a football team 52 kids okay and I'm uh the running back but I'm the backup running back but you like me CU I I bust my I stay practice I do this I do that in the lock room got a good attitude I'm like yes coach hey Johnny come on man you got it what are we doing bro let's get it I'm like non-stop the entire time I'm training I'm there with you I'm watching the tape I'm on time everything so I'm your guy okay so I have your favor not the most talented guy I'm not I'm not at all but I have your favor okay so I'm setting a good example for you to say look at Patrick look at Patrick look at Patrick so what do you do well hey but David get in there get in there coach get in there boom I get six yards come out boom great job pbd okay all right get in there boom boom get the first down get in there you got get the pass 11 y great job okay game ball boom but pbd great job today all right hey thanks coach he comes afterwards hey I want to see my office afterwards what's up coach you play like this you G have big things happen to you you keep doing this no problem three games four games five games then the six game I'm like how come you're not putting me in coach what a freak he should have put me in if you would have put me I would have gone the first down why don't you put me in you should have put me in and then really yeah okay then you come in you sit all the way in the back and you're not even taking notes you're on your phone you show seven minutes late you're talking back to the trainer you're talking he hears one of the leader offensive line hears you talking about the coach and the offensive line that's a veteran been there for 12 years goes and tells hey coach I think you're losing by David man he's saying such and such to the other running back and I I don't think he's good for for locker room anymore guess what happens I'm being traded or dropped and I'm done cuz I lost favor this concept of losing favor applies to the people you work with it applies with your clients it applies with your audience it applies with your customers it applies with God it applies with all of it but remember number one to me in life is to be a leader right to lead to be a leader amongst leaders so that's number one and number one fear is losing favor of God not losing favor from mainstream media media not losing favor from YouTube not losing favor from you know XYZ people it's losing favor from God when I put those to at the top so you know it's it's very uh you know so when all of a sudden it's like hey look what you got oh do you see what I'm doing man you see how much of a big deal how do no how do you keep how do you manage your e or your when when okay I'm you know part owner of the New York Yankees this has been my dream a whole life how do I talk about it in a positive and empowering way to to Showcase how far I've come and acknowledge my hard work but also not just brag about it every day that look at me I'm a New York Yankees owner all these things here's a big multi hundred million doll exit here's this thing we're number one how do you promote it and Market it for business opportunity and momentum but not allow ego to consume you to think you've got your doesn't stink so here's what contradiction comes in so brace for impact cuz it's going to get very confusing very soon so for me you know uh uh we've gotten away from the life of the Rich and Famous as kids we used to be like oh my God one day I want to be picked up in a limo yeah what happened to limos by the way they they're gone can you see when's the last time you saw limo right dead right imagine all these Armenians were in the limo business they're like what are they doing with the they're driving their kids to school in a limo and no one cares today right so but it was like oh my God you know that guy's got a helicopter what if I can have a swimming po R de drive going shopping and a shopper takes me in the mansions and the oh this bedroom is so big and you got all this stuff so we went from the life of the Rich and Famous to now the life of the poor and the victims now we're turning that into Heroes so it's like oh if I complain I get 88,000 likes but if I talk about how I took responsibility and I went out there and did this 2200 likes so going to cry more and complain more because it's going to get me more eyeballs oh my God I can't stop crying why am I crying why am I crying why am I crying they stop crying why am I crying oh my God stop it's disgusting it's like victim credibility it is disgusting for me I mean if my skin hurts watching this kind of stuff that we got so there's an element of this whole thing that we have to also sell why you ought to win why you ought to go out there and set the example for others to say I want also go out there and win and have the life that you have you have to also show that you can how to manage it together how you're not ering about it you know at the same time I like a nice car I like driving a nice million auto car I like having my 10 million Auto C collection I like having my boat parked outside we're on the weekend I like having my few watches here and there I like having my nice closing I like going to nice restaurants I like it I I like all of that I like being pampered and taken care of it's one of the reasons why I worked so hard because I wanted phenomenal service I can't stand bad service if you want great service you have to pay premium to get great service you can't expect premium from McDonald's when you're buying a 3.99 w a Big Mac you can't expect it this is a reason why 90% of McDonald's Nationwide you go on yel they're all one and a half Stars there's a reason for that cuz what are you expecting from me they're not paying me a lot any anyways go to a three Michel and star restaurant and see what they're doing go to Ana Madison go to AA D'Angelo go to some of these big places and Nobles in the right places see what kind of food they go to catch last night where I catch we ordered his wagu you know Tomahawk thing the guy brought with the salt on top of it oh my God it was insane the food and the service was phenomenal so there's an element of selling that and where this is a possibility that you can have this if you work very hard but not from the standpoint of show off I'm better you're not from the standpoint of listen if you got Big Dreams here's what I did it was hard if you stick it out can happen to you as well that's the concept of you know capitalism that most capitalists today don't know how to sell entrepreneurship like they used to back in the days today they're embarrassed they're ashamed we have to be comfortable selling that as well because the next Generation like we had need the right Heroes to emulate if you don't talk about you winning who the hell am I going to emulate yeah I need somebody to emulate wow so I need to know what it's like when you win who's the dead Mentor that gives you the best advice most frequently who's the dead Mentor that gives me the best advice who tells you you're just a man oh that's Marcus aelius oh he's Whispering that into your ear walk down the street me the greatest emperor of Rome ever had from 62 to 69 ad and he had a slave telling him in his ear You're Nobody You're Nobody you're just a man you're nobody You're Nobody when he's going he was a legend I mean meditation is the mandatory reading for any man any man drop everything you're doing pause the video go order meditations before you order choose your enemies wisely and go read the book that is a must read for any man human to read you got to read meditations the way he was a journal it was not even supposed to be a book just kind of a couple of the writings that took off but probably him because again for me my number one goal in life is being a leader amongst leaders and I guy was a leader amongst leaders you know he was able to bring peace and in a country with chaos and put it all together and he was a synergist that didn't buy his own hype um not easy to do this is why my favorite movie is probably Gladiator it's amazing movie Man Make You Weep every time huh God that's just freaking it's such a great I'm watching that this weekend after I watched chosen is that what was the the AI one you're talking about oh Creator Creator oh dude you're going to love it I'm going to watch that this week you're going love it it's going to make you think yeah it's going to make you think so he's the one that that speaks to you and tells you I'm just you're just a man what does God say to you uh you I'm I talk to him the most that's why I didn't say dead Mentor because to me I don't consider him dead He's Alive so but he's number one nothing is more than that where I'm like hey am I doing the right thing what's going on with this why why are you doing this right now like what what what's the purpose of this right now what do you want me to learn from this like tell me what I'm supposed to take away from this CU I'm confused can you please clarify for me what this is all about and some of the things you're not going to find out for decades which kind of sucks but I wish I would get a text back and saying here's the seventh reason why I'm doing that he doesn't do that he makes it hard for you but no you what do you say to him and what does he say to you most frequently what do you want me to do at the space of my life I want to do this with the vision I think I'm on the right track I think the world needs this I think you've given me this weird life of experiences and put this fire in my belly I can't get rid of I fck not talking about politics on YouTube for flipping five years I kept saying Mario don't let me talk politics don't let me create we would do 20 minute clip we would delete the video and never go live because he would say Pat you talk politics and I would be piss pissed at Mario we're arguing it's 12:00 at night midnight I'm like but it wasn't politics pad that's politics look at what you just said here 5 years were cutting cutting cutting all the political clips and I'm like why' you put this in my heart why are you putting this in my heart everybody's saying watch pbd is about to lose everything you know this guy's going to go from entrepreneurship and he's going to lose everything because you never talk politics and he's going to collapse and you know there's no way in the world is you know you go doing pbd podcast talk all this politics you take the clips you put it on by your audience going to get so pissed off it's done it's the kiss of death okay we grew it did the complete opposite thing that we thought it was going to do but it was a risk but the reason why I did it is because he gave me Comfort I'm like it's in my heart I'm going you know if you if he if he put that here why'd you put it here take it out why is it an obsession I don't want to think about this Life's a lot more peaceful if I'm not dissecting every policy and thing that person is doing and destroying this great state and destroying that thing why are you doing this to me let me just be a business guy and go do what I'm doing with the business nope the Fire gets bigger and bigger and bigger and Mom's family communist dad's family imperialist and then boom and you're living in a refugee camp and you coming from this chaotic environment of 10 years in Iran and then eventually I'm you know what what I trust let's go you made me like this this is your doing it's not my doing right right so guess what I'm going to do whatever best I can with me but this is your creation it's not my I didn't create PVD you created a PVD yeah so if you created me with the help of Diana and Gabriel this is either your right doing or your mistake yeah so if it's your mistake hey man I didn't do it you did it right right but I'll do the best I can with the sky and I'm going to try to make you proud because that's the ultimate thing you want to make him proud what if you had that fire again five 10 years away where it was you felt like you're supposed to be doing something else but you thought oh this is going to ruin everything my like literally my business will end right everything I've built will be over if I choose to do what I feel feel God is telling me to do after years of resisting and pushing in and deleting and cutting the next thing whatever that is how would you feel if you lost it all but you had the favor of one I don't care I'm good I I don't care I don't care oh man what a question you're asking me yeah yeah all the money all the business all the oh wait let me tell you man the Yankees the everything you Dre you know uh when my wife and I what the hell is this all about freaking a I do million interview and this never happens um no he changed my life ah you guys grab a tissue if you got a tissue box out there now man ah it's just so annoying but real man I mean it's not annoying it's it's it's how you feel and I think it's a beautiful thing to for people to know that what you care about so deeply yes you are a killer in business and yes you are a media you know you're building a media Empire and yes you're talented but it for people to know how much you care about God and your relationship to God and how much you love you know the gifts he's given me my wife and I we have three kids at the time and she comes home and she says she wants a fourth I so really yeah okay you want a fort I thought you said you're done when she was pregnant with Senna we're having dinner at Flemings in Preston Hollow Highland Park and we're out on her birthday February 14th Valentine's Day and she says babe I want one gift from you I said what's stand I don't want you to pressure me to have any more kids I said B I don't want to talk about it right now she says no we got to talk about it says I just want that gift from me I don't want anymore this is too much for me you said this she's saying it to me yeah and I said huh interesting so I have a hard time receiving that because we talked about five kids before we got married one questions to ask before we get engaged so she had already made an agreement agreement so this is a problem so Watch What Happens because you're not in charge God is in charge so then we half Sena first daughter first kid I ever cried my two boys were born I was very happy but Senai cried for St Senai help sen was freaking life changing was different so then she tells me this in the house in Plano she says I want a fourth do you want a fourth baby I do you want a fourth baby I do huh you sure yeah positive yeah and she's crying I mean dude I I'm you want to go right now like what do you want to do I want a for I want a fit so then she's pregnant she says baby I'm pregnant no wait yes we go to the doctor pregnant yeah awesome then we go to kind of see where it's like week eight or nine whatever so I got news for you what you're having TNS no yeah I'm laughing so hard she's crying because we said five and we're GNA have five so ecstatic we come back testing every week all this stuff and then week 10 um we go and the doctor says we have a problem one of the kids is uh is what do you call it not um could potentially be um not fully developed but the word for it where uh def deformation or yeah there it's not going to be it's it's going to be a kid you're going to be having problems with for the rest of your life and we're like oh my God what do you want us to do and so they come in and they're having a meeting and they're telling you all this stuff you know it could be this it could be that it could be this like okay interesting then we go home and it still hasn't hit us whether this is going to happen or not and then we sit down and we start watching videos raising a a child that is you know disabilities or disabilities and all this stuff and how it affects kids and every night for four weeks weeks we're dealing with this what do we do what do we not do do we go through this do we go through that and she's like what two three months pregnant at this time or yeah she's two three months pregnant pregnant 11 12 weeks pregnant at this time and uh they said you know you can have a problem with this and you have to accept you want to do this and doctor's recommending hey my recommendation is you know if you guys don't risk it you know the average person would abort because it's going to affect your family this is going to affect this it's going to affect you're 42 years old you're no longer 35 years old or 32 years old so then we go in and we finally accept the fact that you know Scott's doing we're good let's roll we go in two weeks later one of them doesn't make it now we don't know which one did it make it so they're saying there's most likely the one that didn't make it isn't the healthy one but you don't know till the baby's born really yeah so we're like well you know and they're giving these percentages and all this stuff but we suggest you do this and we're researching no you shouldn't do that because because it can hurt the kid that's left and that kid can get hurt if you go and try to do this procedure with the needle that all this stuff that you got I like do it just shows eventually we're just praying and Brooklyn is born Brooklyn Ivy bet davit Brooklyn is the most animated kid we have in our family and uh her twin the brother didn't make it but Brooklyn is the most animated kid in the family and she changed everything I can't imagine Lewis living life never meeting Brooklyn wow I can't imagine that like you know to me when people say well we just want to have one I said dude you don't even know you got two more you can't wait to meet that's going to change you go for the three and four if you're able to do it if your doctor says you're healthy go for it why am I giving you that story because you know when we moved to bokeh Florida the first month I was going through a lot we're moving people Young by myself did I make the right decision should I have state you're leaving a company you haven't even sold yet and all you're doing it for is because of this did you make the right move your wife and kid they're living in here in this house you're renting and your 100 employees of PHP are in Addison Texas you're in B so every night at 11:00 Mario and I would walk he can tell you stories himself he'll give you a complete different perspective and I would listen to Amazing Grace by this lady that sings it and the it's a picture the thumbnail of the video and I would listen to Amazing Grace it's got like 70 million views wow and I would just listen to it on repeat it's a photo on YouTube it's it's a it's a photo but it's a song photo is just a photo right and he starts with the sound of rain and then she sings it's the best voice for Amazing Grace for there's a lot of great ones nothing comes close to this lady here I'll give you her name afterwards matter of fact I want to give it because if the audience wants to listen to it I don't want to miss out on this great opportunity so I listen to this thing every day for one hour while walking and Ls I'm in tears The Amazing Grace it's called best version by far the hour I first believed is what it says on the cover it's 5 minutes and 14 seconds it takes about 45 seconds till she starts singing and the Rain Sound comes but worth listening to it so I'm crying and I'm I probably talked to God the most during that month and I said God I think I made the right decision but uh you know I need your help right now I need you to be here with me the amount of times this man's done what he's done for me I owe my entire life to him are you kidding me like you he can take me today that's my weak spot he he's uh he's done a lot for me my life's been a great life Iran was tough you know all these other things was different but um life's been a great life wow yeah I wanted to ask you kind of I'm loving this part of the conversation by the way but I I feel like people are going to want to learn about money and the mindset of money in a big way because I feel like you've been pretty fearless and how you've approached money and I've heard your story you know many different times about you know the bodybuilding days being broke and getting on a sales job and all these different things but what is it you think that blocks people from making money the most is it mental is it an emotional thing that blocks them what holds people back from earning more or making more well I mean one of them is uh whatever you hate uh or you don't respect you're not going to get so if you don't respect rich people you're not going to be rich if you don't respect people who make a lot of money you always talk trash about them behind their backs you're you're not going to be that person you're just not if you admire somebody that's a great executive and an earner and recreating themselves then guess what you'll eventually make that money so you know uh money and success is not attracted to people that talk down to them just like any anything else they're not attracted to you they they want to be uh respected money wants to be respected uh not loved but money wants to be respect respect it it wants you to say you know what I respect what we can do with money and how much power you can bring to my family I respect it what do I need to do to get more of it well guess what right now your market value is $668,000 per year you want to improve it I do here's what you got to do boom boom boom boom boom okay great and and the way of making money for the longest time you know everybody wants to say entrepreneurship Entre ENT entrepreneurship entrepreneurship there's many other ways of making it you can that's one way to go you can be a Creator you know Mr Beast has proven the fact that you can be a billionaire by being being a YouTuber the guy's got 3 400 million subscribers probably by the time this video comes out he's at 500 million subscribers the way he's growing you can make a lot of money being a YouTuber Talent Creator behind the scenes you know growing a company to the next level sales you know communication executive leadership but no matter what you do I don't care what you do whatever business you're in I'm interested in learning skill sets that are evergreen to 100% of Industries what are skill sets let's talk about that so one is leadership okay in every environment like we had a a a we have a team of 30 people in our production team at the office right and it was a lot of chaos two weeks ago three weeks ago and I held a meeting in a meeting I held I'm watching to see who's showing signs of leadership on what's going to happen this is an opportunity for them to show who's the leader and then the person you weren't expecting stood up and the person you were expecting to lead it's kind of like quiet not saying anything well maybe this guy's not a leader he's a technical expert but he's not a leader this person is not technically as an as much of an expert as this person but this guy knows how to bring everybody together and get you know all the Productions to be done on time delivered high quality thumbnails everything that guy's a better leader even though technically he's not as good as this the market pays for great leaders so whether I'm a assistant whether I'm an executive itive assistant whether I'm a salesperson whether I'm a coder an editor whether I'm a you know in the military whether I'm a cop firefighter politician a an athlete it does not matter Steve Kerr wasn't technically the best player but he's one of the best coaches in the league today right so why is he where he's at because of leadership right so leadership is what getting people to do things they wouldn't do on their own and setting a great example great so that means you have to be able to do what you have to learn how to build relationships with people to win them over you have to be able to give tough news bad news direct news in a gentle way where it's received you have to be able to bring people together you have to be able to challenge people poke them you know challenge them have the tough conversations with them manage expectations with them challenge them to recreate themselves when they hit a plateau we had a talent dinner this week two nights ago at the house I brought everybody over and I brought my chiropract over everybody got adjustments at the end till God knows what time but we're sitting there with the talent dinner and I said guys there's one word I want you to be thinking about going into 2024 I want everybody here to keep this one word as their M MO is to recreate yourself going into 2024 and I gave him goals what I wanted by attainment to happen what I want bytim comedy to do what I want this to do and that to do and this to do all this other stuff that we got but what's the most annoying thing about recreating yourself the most annoying thing about recreating yourself is you have to accept the fact that the current you is not good enough for the next level nobody likes that because whenever you get good at the level you're at you kind of have this warm fuzzy feeling you're getting the accolades you're getting the respect you're getting the fame you're like look at me I'm so special but to go to the next like oh my God nobody here cares about my success I am so small here but that's what you're not good enough for the next level so what do I need to do to recreate myself to get to that next level do I need to read more do I need to study more do I need to watch myself more do I need to sit down with other people that know me well and ask them to give me you know very sincere direction do I need to hire somebody to you know give me feedback what do I need to be doing do I need what is that for you what do you need to reinvent next year for yourself for me yeah oh it's it's just hiring tens what do I need to do to hire tens I I read this book by Steven schwarzman I think it's called whatever it takes or it's a blue book blue uh Blue Book Billy 2030 billion Guy this is the Blackstone guy phenomenal phenomenal they used to be partners with Larry Fin and they had a fallen out and that's how black rock and Blackstone got started one of them wanted to give Equity to all their employees the other one kind of didn't want to do they wanted different structures both of them are very successful but schwarzman talks about what happened to their company when they started hiring tens and there's a difference between you think a person is a 10 and then a person is a 10 that person could be an eight and a half but in your world you've never hired an8 and a half I feel like a 10 for so to you that's a 10 but that's an8 and A2 in a black stone yeah that's an8 and a half in maybe you know uh an apple or something like that but in your company they're they're 10 today so I I know the power of getting people that are smarter and sharper to bring them in here so right now we're hiring a lot of people that means we have to pay bigger salaries that means we have to be creative on our comp that means we have to have a better offering we have to bring better brains and right now I I I just see a big opportunity with B David Consulting we have the first three phases are scored away the last two phases are going to come here the next 24 to 36 months very excited about that and uh so so to me is we're getting the most random people right now applying at Value tment people that are super qualified from Executives at Disney that are I won't give the position because then you'll Google who it is and it's that person you know executives at Apple who are very happy with what happened but they want to be part of a company that's going to go from zero to you know the next level and they want to bring that value to it and they see it and they kind of like some of the philosophies that we stand for but now it's about do we want to spend the money to get these guys how do we got the create how do we need to create the environment to have the upside for them to come here do we have the climate our benefits plan right now solid very good benefits package that we're offering 401K health insurance but everything's about creating the right climate to attract and retain them with us long term to take the companies to the next level so that's probably my biggest Obsession right climate meaning the right climate and culture kind of that type of envir the whole environment yes culture benefits package one of the reasons why I moved away from Dallas and I went to for laudale instead of even going to Tampa because at first I was looking at Tampa then I was going to go to uh uh um Manalapan in Palm Beach and I was going to go to Miami and then I said we're going to make 4 Lauderdale the Burbank of east coast is what we're going to do wow we're going to make for Lauderdale the Burbank of East Coast so that's cool I chose that because it's easy to recruit people to Florida it's not that easy to recruit creatives to Dallas well you can recruit creatives to La why are people still in La give me a better weather than a place like this and a climate and water water all this stuff but Florida if Texas and California had a baby it's Florida Florida gives you the best of both worlds so that part was intentional to be able to recruit talent to move there so that's leadership is the skill set number one skill set what would be another skill set or two to help people increase their value in the marketplace what is the better thing they can do to increase their value in the marketplace so because you said marketpl for great leaders first what would be another skill or two I mean I would put within leadership uh sales negotiation and conflict resolution because a great leader typically knows how to sell a vision a great leader typically knows how to communicate a great leader typically knows how to negotiate a great leader typically knows how to resolve conflict a great leader knows how to bring people together to me a great leader is a multifaceted person period Steve Curry there's a scene where he's sitting there and and and Steve and Steph cman missing all these he says hey son I want to tell you something you know what happened at one time when Michael went such and such when we were playing together you know what he kept doing he kept shooting wow he said you keep shooting son keep shooting we trust you right so what is that he's selling him trust yourself trust yourself that is selling that is selling when he's calling out the refs what is he doing he's negotiating um right when he's going into the media and they're trying to pin the team against each other with Draymond Green and P he's negotiating in conflict resolution this is this is our leadership so and that's why you get paid the big buck that's why you get paid the big buck so if you choose if you choose your number one thing to become very like if you become maniacal on one thing in 2024 and you only order everything is on leadership strategy planning all of that you're you're ahead of the game wow but the pillar has to be leadership that's the pillar yes if the pillar is the leader everything else comes from there um and a Market's going to know it very quickly we've be in meetings right and we're trying to you know there's a conflict that happens unpredictable conflict that happens right and then all of a sudden you're like huh instead of you solving it you kind of back down a little bit because this is how you filter people out and said Mary what do you think about what John just said I disagree with them why is that well because I don't think that John sees baah ba ba ba okay Jack do you agree with Mary I mean I understand what Mary is saying but I I kind of like Mario's point but I think we're missing the point here what's that Jack do you mind if I get on the uh a stage here and just kind of write something on the board absolutely can I grab the marker here's a marker see we're all focused on this but we're not thinking about the real problem and what we're solving for Pat six months ago you said this was our goal for 2021 yeah if we're trying to do this we have to look Beyond this and go to Da what do you think about what he said I think he's got a good point what do you think about what Jack just said I I can see what he's saying he just became a leader he just became a leader in that meaning right there right right so that's the dynamic of being a leader you automatically are seen amongst a group of a 100 Bingo you're spotted you're different you're a leader you're somebody that we can rely on you're somebody that's going to come through you're the guy that's going to come through with the wars when he said we're going to hit the deadline we hit it you're the guy that brings people together so I don't want to give too many things I would much rather to have the audience obsess over one thing for 2024 and that's leadership M the book choose your enemies wisely business planning for the audacious few I want people to get a copy of this book but something I'm curious about on how you would apply the message from this book if someone's in their 20s and they want to give it a shot in business they want to start their own business be an entrepreneur which I don't think is for everyone but give it a shot but if someone wanted to start their own business in their 20s and they said I've never really made any money right I've never really made any money I'm just getting started there's so many options in 2024 there's so many different Industries and sectors and all these different things and if they said my goal is to make my first million dollar if they set out to make a million dollars mhm how long should they be thinking about making that first million in sales how many years months whatever it might be and should they be choosing enemies from the beginning also should they hate their enemies or should they be friends with their enemies yeah great question so to me you're asking that there's a logical component to this and there's an emotional component to this so let's address both for the long today I visit my old office in Granada Hills and I my pointed out my office that I used to have in a corner right off the 45 freeway and I said that was the first time I ever did a real business plan cuz you know most of your life we're we're we're generally Wingers we Wing a lot of stuff right if you think about it ever tried this thing dabble yeah we're winging and by the way you may you may be a prolific guy in one area but we're still winging 19 other areas in our life you don't need to be prolific in every aspect of your life by the way right right so how old are you during this time when you I'm 25 years old at Granada Hills I rent lease this office space is 30 3660 sare ft at Buck 70 I get this from a guy named Shane Pew who was a Countrywide guy and I take the office space I go in one day my partner's like well I got this health issues I'm going to go to Costa Rica I got to do surgery I said you going to Costa Rico to do surgery and how long you going to be there nine months what so I got to pay the rent now no help what anyways so I said okay Pat you're either about to lose everything or you got to figure this thing out so I sit down and I do real business plan and that was the first time I wrote out a plan where I believed it I was excited about it and I wanted to read it constantly I wanted to go through it over and over and over again then I realized a couple things I had a guy I was working with that on paper he would have been the best insurance agent out there guy had a north of Grumman background he had an M he had a master's degree he had this he had that he had a great Market all this stuff and then I had another guy who was super emotional super big reasons to win no education no 8-year no fouryear nothing but this guy was emotionally charged to prove people wrong and to win at the highest level right this guy was like yeah I think if I do this much sales and this much I'm going to make $100,000 and here's what's going to happen and I'm planning on buying a house for my wife when here and I get married and we're going to do this okay so but why are you doing this I should to make I'm at a phas of my life that I need to be doing this I'm I'm I'm at that age no emotion no emotion M so who's right is it this guy or is it this guy so then I'm like well let me kind of test this I don't know yet I'm only 25 so I'm like this guy sounds more convincing because I would buy from this guy but man this guy is embarrassing if you put him in front of a client he may scare the crap out of the client because he has no clue what he's talking about he talks slang his ghetto a little bit who the hell is going to win here and then you kind of size it up and you realize neither one of them are going to win because one without the other is not going to happen so then I said you need you need both you need emotion Logic the best people have both in the book there's 12 building blocks six are logical building blocks six of them are emotional building blocks this whole concept on why I wrote this book when I talked to the co penguin I said there's not a single book out there on there any I can talk about a leadership book you'll give me 20 recommendations I can talk about a sales book there's plenty of recommendations I can talk about a strategy book plenty of them there's not a single book on Amazon you can go find right down business planning that is simple that a billionaire can read a brand new person can read a politician can read a military person can Le read and they can put a plan together you you will literally see this today there's not a single business planning book on Amazon so the answer to your question 25 years old wants a million bucks number one industry product average sale per commission are you the only one that's selling it how many other people can you get to sell it what is your method of getting clients if you're going to do digital what is the roow ass how much cash do you have how soon can you get access to cash so the road to a million it's a mathematical formula on how you're going to take it I don't know how you're going to take it I don't know the industry I don't know the product is it real estate is it insurance is it courses is it you know solar is it you know being a lawyer where you're dealing with cases what is it all of that is the mathematical formula and how many hours I need to be working how much do I need to be prospecting following up the right habits being different than the guys that are out there with is my differentiator all this other stuff you got to be thinking about on the other side is which reality is going to set which is when you write out the plan you're all excited you're like let's go let's go we're going to take over the world boom right off the bat it's like you know how you watch the movie Gladiator a boom guy's killed right right off the bat you come out and the guy hits you with like a you know H Hammer oh I'm dead already so you got all this excitement and drive and passion but then boom boom you're going to get hit rejection first week first day first second first call then like maybe this business plan is bad it's not the business plan the reason why enemies are the most important element of the 12 building blocks because something has to get you to tolerate the pain that you're going to go through it's guaranteed if you don't have a real reason and it's typically the right enemy you're not going to tolerate that pain so one day on on a flight back from Chicago I take my notepad blue yellow notepad and I'm writing down not the typical affirmations we write which is what I'm the greatest I'm a leader you're a this and I go no it's write down 20 things if you can come up with most painful piercing things anyone's ever told you before what a weird exercise so I start writing it down and I'm on displ I'm like that one time that ex said this and she also said this and at one time M Rose my Ceramics teacher said this and at one time that cousin said this or this kid said this or that teacher said this or that one guy in the Army said this or that one relative said this and then you're gone and then you read it and you say which one gets emotional the most oh then you rank them this is my number one this really doesn't do anything I'm over oh this the other one too four three yep I got my five boom imagine you start your day with that got you that's fire oh you kidding me somebody rejects you yeah okay no problem totally fine because if I feel sorry for myself these guys are going to be right so unless if you don't want to go through the pain of getting to the number that you want that's a million bucks don't do it these guys will forever be able to say I'm right and you're wrong you quit you're quit for the rest of your life you have to live the fact that you quit and you prove them right how do you feel about that then you have to kind of answer that question so for me you know that person you have to have the mathematical logical formula on how many calls how many contacts how many appointments how many employees how many salesp people how much money you need to have to be able to do the ads and software and technology and tools and all this other stuff but you need to know why you're going to go through the pain and if you don't spend time with this part you're going to quit on this one in no time so you need to know that and what's the difference between an enemy and a competitor competitor is logical like for example you know we're competitors but you don't drive me I don't drive you like I don't you're not an enemy to me I'm not an enemy to you but we're competitors so he what do your data look like what's looking like let me see what you're doing on social blade what's going on with this what's working for these guys do you notice how they're doing this look at their greatness Instagram with look at how this competitor a it's it's friendship it's not a but you have to study the competition yeah I look at it more like collaborators but yeah totally fine but what I'm the word we use as competitors is you look at the entire Marketplace but they don't produce anything em there's not emal there there's nothing you and I every time we spend time together and you know some people would say we're in the same space because we're doing interviews I've never once looked at you as a person that's going to drive me and I'm sure you've never looked at me as a person that's going to drive you right celebrate your success it's a likewise it's a likewise you know relationship that we have but now you go through this exercise and then all of a sudden you're like no man that's an enemy I remember one time I'm 20 25 years old 24 years old we're in Glendale at this Christmas party and my dad and I are there and while we're at this Christmas party my one of my dad's relatives makes a condescending remark to my dad nothing bad but it's condescending and I saw my dad's shoulders in his back kind of got down a little bit and he laughed you know the laugh like you laugh at yourself but it's like you know which laugh I'm talking about right we did it as kids when we were 13 14 years old being punked and I look at the guy in the face it didn't feel good for him oh no way I look at my dad and I'm like and I look at that man and um the the level of Rage I felt here I can describe you so I look at my then I said D we're leaving so what are you talking about I said we're leaving Clow so what do you mean I said we're leaving we're not GNA be we're gonna we got to go home right now says you're not going to leave we're here we just got here it's Christmas I said Dad telling you right now we're leaving we're fighting eventually it's so bad that we have to leave so we tell everybody we're leaving the walk to the car we're fighting we get in the car we're screaming at each other I said dad that man can never talk to you like that ever again I said number two I brought my sister my brother-in-law over to the house I said they're going to have to kill me but the world's going to know your last name wow the world is going to know your last name do you know that's when I started working 80 to 100 hours a week I dropped clubbing I dropped everything I said the world is going to know your last name you've been such an incredible father to me without you I wouldn't be the man that I am who the hell is he to talk to like that it's game over do you know that scene from 20 years ago till today still fires me up do you know that and by the way I've told this story multiple it still fires me up till today so so that's your enime my enemy is my dad was the you know how certain people can use the word sweet like he's a sweet man my dad's a sweet man and he was so good to everybody was very good to everybody you don't you don't talk to my dad that way you just don't talk to call me whatever you want to tell me go for it I don't have a problem with it but that moment and by the way sometimes in life you don't even know that's what drives you but you got to use it you can't miss that opportunity like you know you're at a place and you see a girl and she's looking at you you're looking at her and you know who she is because at a different event they were trying to introduce you to each other you know she's a good girl and you kind of want to date her but then you don't go talk to her and you walk away and 20 minutes later another guy goes talks to her they're married 15 years L they got two kids you see her at the mall and you're like hey and she says hey did yeah yeah did you know that I was you would say yes yes ah could have been complete different life crazy right okay so when an emotion comes and you feel it and it does something to you don't walk away and I know some people say well walk away it's a very different philosophical thing that I'm saying right to me it's use it and see if it's something that's temporary that's going to bring the ugly side of you or keep it and say no this is this is fuel for 20 years the way I measure the right enemy is lifespan of the emotion and the fire and the level of the fire so it's the lifespan it could be as 30 seconds I can hit it longer than you I did it it's gone yeah but then it's a level 9 and a half for 20 years you're part of the lucky Fu if if you read elon's book I don't know if you read elon's book book you read elon's book Walter isacon you will realize why this guy's as driven as he is really oh no question about it I'm excited I read Bob Iger I thought it was a great book amazing book you'll be blown away by must I'm gonna check this one out too after people check this one out make sure you get the uh the must book as well uh and meditations which was your number one recommendation we're just selling a lot of books I sell a lot of salesman today choose your enemies wisely business planning for the audacious few if you guys want to learn these 12 tennis these 12 strategies to help you really launch your business to the next level and have a clear game plan and know which enemies to Choose Wisely uh then make sure to get a copy of this follow you everywhere vt.com now is that right congrats on that um your podcast on YouTube is the main place I think I see Clips everywhere but I follow you there where are you spending the most time for people to try to like get in your comment section or your feed where do you see and notice comments the most what man is the only place where I respond to 100% the messages man is an app we developed seven years ago I talked to a lawyer of mine for 7 minutes and he charged me for 30 minutes and I was upset at him and I called the lawyer I said what do you charge by the minute and he says no lawyer charges by the minute I said one day I'm going to build an app so m is do you have a minute to connect let's M on M we have thousands of experts and influencers and Consultants you can ask for any questions you can DM them you can get back a response and text audio video or you can do 15-minute FaceTime if you man me 100% I'm responding back to you really wow how much does it man you varies if you want to do a text a video call or FaceTime it varies and there's a bunch of guys on there that you came in like we had a guy came in he has 20 different real estate experts the same exact question and they all gave different strategies and he took that he's like okay this guy's winning that guy's winning this could working my market it's a great tool to use to ask experts questions me what what's it MI NE c m do you m m.com.com you can get the app on app on Android and Apple love that uh couple final questions for you uh but is there anything on your heart that you want to share before I ask those couple final questions yeah I mean listen on my heart you got me to cry today bro what else you want me to do for you today you you kidding me I do interviews and I you asked the one question like no one asked me my relationship with God I don't think I've ever seen you cry in an interview no no God to me is a very emotional place to go this life changing for me I don't cry about but that one area man you hit it oh man yeah I wasn't trying I was just curious list it was a great conversation it wasn't a strategy it was just curiosity um I've asked you about your three truths before so I want to not ask you that this time maybe the next time around I'll see where you're at with that um but I do want to ask you about something that is on your heart which is god um and say you get to live as as long as you want and live all these dreams that you have and you're 85 and then you're 105 and however long you extend your life you got the family there you got everyone you know with you you got the annoying in-laws whatever it might be they're all there but you're having this dream life of yours and you're looking back and you're realizing all that you were able to create accomplish overcome reinvent all these different things that you did at every stage and season of life but then it's over and you meet your maker what are the three things you hope God would say to you in that moment I'm proud of you right I'm proud of you um he's probably going to critique me and say that one time or that two times or that three time or that one time he did this but what do you hope he really says I I it's really the I'm I'm proud of you you know I'm proud of uh you know what you did with your life I'm proud of the example you did your best to set um that you didn't waste the time here you know you were able to enjoy it's very important to also enjoy it like because you can't just be in Grind Mode and not enjoy so many things to enjoy we sometimes forget to do that as well but yeah it's simply good for you like I wasn't expecting you to do this but you were not on my list of guys that were going to do XYZ but guess what you showed up and I respect it I'm proud of you oh that's cool it's almost like a your 199 draft pick and you win Seven Super Bowls where it's kind of like you know your name is Tom Brady yeah I I don't know if I thought you were going to be one of my guys but respect yeah that's the the moment that's what you want I'm looking forward to yeah I want to acknowledge you before the final question Patrick for the way you consistently show up as a leader in life I love watching your content I love the times we get to connect or text because you show up with a set of values principles and energy that is caring that is giving that is courageous and that is clear and I'm just grateful for the example that you set for myself and so many people to to just watch to learn from and to to gain value from so I'm grateful for you I'm grateful for you leading the way and um I appreciate your your wisdom constantly it's a lot of fun and I can't wait to have you back on in the future appreciate you very kind words of course final question what's your definition of greatness uh definition of greatness it's it's the same for me it's been the same for me for I want to say 15 14 years it's purely alignment like if you are living if your life matches your values and principles I think you're you're experiencing greatness so you first have to figure out your values and principles what it is and then your behavior on a day-to-day basis on everything you do matches that the the more that sometimes we go out of whack and we kind of lose ourselves and we come back in but the goal is to make those to be as aligned as possible I found myself when that's out of whack I am bitter and unhappy and I have found when those two are 100% aligned I am at peace and very happy yes so I would say alignment pbd appreciate you man thanks so much oh man' appreciate you this was great then he says ma'am how much do you make and she says $50,000 so he writes $50,000 underneath of the million and then he subtracts it it says $950,000 he looks at says every single year he said you pay life $950,000 for not knowing how to make a million dollar

Channel: Lewis Howes

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Length: 73min 1sec (4381 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 18 2023