Next Level Pros - #33: My Turning Point: When It All Started Clicking

Starting point is 00:00:00 it's all connected. Association, spirituality, economic, and physique. How you do anything is how you do everything. And unless I got that all dialed in, it really didn't matter. Yo, yo, yo, yo. Welcome to another episode of the Founder Podcast. Today, I'm joining you post-workout. So if I'm a little out of breath, I apologize. But today, I got an incredible message that I want to share. I've been thinking about just some of the things that have made me successful throughout my career. And really, at what point really was the turning, right? Like at what point did things start to work for me? And the interesting thing, it doesn't matter where you're at in life right now. I don't care if you are down in the dumps, you lost every penny. I don't care if you're running a successful

Starting point is 00:00:44 business. I don't care if you're working for every penny. I don't care if you're running a successful business. I don't care if you're working for somebody else. I don't care if you're thinking about taking the jump and going and starting your own thing right now. This message is for you because ultimately, it wasn't until much later in life, after I had started businesses, that things really began to start to turn. And I really started to understand this principle of creation. And so it's interesting when I look back and I think about at what point did things really start to turn? It was when I really started working on self-development and creating value in all areas of life, not just business, right? A lot of times us as entrepreneurs, we focus on just the business, the capitalistic. Can I bring in more revenue than I have expenses and thus produce a profit?

Starting point is 00:01:28 If I can do that, therefore I'm successful. And, you know, I did that for a lot of years and I got by, right? I made enough money. I did enough things. But it wasn't until I started to understand that, like, it's all connected. Association, spirituality, economic and physique. Like, how you do anything is how you do everything. And unless I got that all dialed in, it really didn't matter. And there's this principle

Starting point is 00:01:51 of operating in consumption deficit that really, really turned and changed my life. And this is a principle that you already know and understand at least to some degree. For example, let's use fitness. Let's use food, for example. We know that if we consume less calories than we burn on a daily basis, we're operating in a consumption deficit or a caloric deficit. And therefore, we should be either losing weight or burning fat, potentially burning muscle, depending how on point our diet is. But regardless, we should be losing weight when we have good, healthy body that's operating properly. That's when we operate in a caloric deficit. And so as I began to understand, I'm like, okay, what are we all chasing? Each of us are chasing feelings, right? There's a feeling associated with absolutely everything that we're chasing. It really has

Starting point is 00:02:51 nothing to do with the object, even the relationship, right? Like we want the feeling that is derived from that. Like, for example, we think if we go in, we drive a $300,000 sports car. It's not about the car. It's not about how fast it is, how good looking it is or whatnot. It's about how we potentially feel while driving it, when we're in front of our friends, when we're in front of our haters, when we're potentially trying to appeal to our consumer and say, look at me, I'm successful. These are all feelings. They're all feelings that we're going after. And so each of us desire to have joy. That is what I believe is the purpose of life. In fact, the scriptures that I read say that

Starting point is 00:03:32 man is that they might have joy. And I believe that really with everything. And so it's like, how do I create joy in every area of life? And it's interesting. I've traveled the world. I've been in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. I've been in the poorest country in the Eastern hemisphere. So Honduras in the Western hemisphere fear and Nepal in the Eastern hemisphere. And I've seen people that are joyful. And it's like, I've asked myself, how is it that this person that has nothing, right? They can barely provide for themselves. Potentially they're starving, right? They can barely provide for themselves. Potentially they're starving, right? They just got electricity maybe two years ago. They have to poop outside in a closet outside of their house, right? They got to bathe in a stream. How is it that this person has

Starting point is 00:04:17 joy? And it's because they really, whether they intend to or not, they understand and they live this principle of consumption deficit. Okay. And what that is, is whatever we're doing, whether it's association, spirituality, economic, or physique, we have to consume less than we produce to create. And when we create, right, when we build more than what we destroy, we produce happiness. We produce joy. And this is what we each of us are after in this life. And so when I finally started to get things in line was when I started working out, right? So I started burning more calories than I was consuming.

Starting point is 00:05:00 I really started taking this body serious. In fact, I was, I was overweight. I hadn't worked out since high school. It had been 13 or 14 years since high school. This was about seven, seven, eight years ago now. And since then I've had a pretty good workout regimen. I've, you know, up and down of course, since then, but, but, but that's like really when things started to change. And it's when I started understanding that like I got to apply this in every day, every area of my life. And so I have some examples that I've been writing down in my journal this morning that I really want to share with you and really understand like how this works. And like, and so you can kind of have a mental checklist, like where am I at in life right now? OK, so we already talked about, right, the caloric deficit. We must be burning. I'm talking living expenses. Okay. Are you investing? Are you taking what you're producing and putting more towards value creation towards investing in real estate stocks, your business, yourself, whatever it may be more than just your

Starting point is 00:06:17 living expenses. And by living expenses, I mean the basics, right? I mean, roof over the head, over your head, food on the table, potentially a modest car, potentially a cell phone, right? Like if it really is required to live, like these are your basic living expenses. Are you out producing and out investing that? That is a question that you have to ask yourself because that would put you in a consumption deficit. You're consuming less than you're producing.

Starting point is 00:06:45 Here's another one. Fun, fun one. Are you creating more content than what you're scrolling and consuming at night? Man, that's a, that's a gut check for me all the time. I'm like, all right. You know, occasionally in bed, I love to like scroll through Tik TOK or, or Instagram, the reels, you know, those really can suck you in and everything like that. Am I spending more time doing this right now, producing more content than I am scrolling? And that's a good gut check and something that we all have to look at. Another fun one is like, am I spending more time serving, service of others, service of my wife, my kids, my neighbor, my friends, my people that I don't know more than I'm vegging on myself and just kind of sitting, watching TV, you know, just kind of like spending alone time. And I'm not talking about investment in alone time.

Starting point is 00:07:37 I'm talking about just time wasters. Am I serving more than I'm vegging? The other one is, am I educating? Am I consuming? So this is the good kind of consumption. We're not talking about the scrolling on Facebook. Now, potentially, some of those things are, right? If you're listening to this podcast, if you're reading a good book, if you're doing things that are educating, like for example, I'm going to Harvard here in a couple of days. I'm really excited. I'm hoping to shoot a couple of podcasts while I'm out there. This OPM group, you guys have potentially heard me talk about this on some of the previous episodes in which I go, I have 160 business owners from throughout the

Starting point is 00:08:16 world. I'm going to be spending time educating. Am I spending more time on education than I am on entertainment? Entertainment, going to the movies, just doing things that are just simply me sitting there and be like, reading. I mean, even I would even call fictional books entertainment. Am I spending more time educating myself than I am with entertainment? The other one from a spiritual standpoint, am I praying and reading God's word, right? Am I looking up, and I don't care where you're at, right? Like if you believe in God, the universe or whatnot, am I self-introspecting, trying to get my creator to speak to me, right? Like am I reading God's word in what I, what I deem the scriptures? Am I

Starting point is 00:09:06 communicating on a regular basis more than I am expecting to be blessed or receive revelation? Now, now here's the interesting thing with God. He tends to bless us more than what we can produce, right? Like, but expectation of blessings and expectation of receiving the Lord's word revelation, what I, what I call it, right. Him speaking to me through, through the spirit, right. Am I, am I making an effort greater than what I expect him to give in return? And, you know, it's, it's interesting, like, as you self-introspect, I want you to ask those questions. Like, am I living in that consumption deficit? Am I doing the things that are really going to change my life? Once I started doing this, like this is when life

Starting point is 00:09:57 started to win for me. And you, and you can start seeing it in every aspect, because like I said, at the beginning of the podcast, how you do everything, how you do anything is how you do everything, right? You cannot lie to yourself at work and expect to have a great body. You cannot be consuming the cookies in the dark, in the pantry late at night or whatnot and expect to have rigid discipline with your relationships. It's just impossible. How you do anything is how you do everything. For those that are following me on Instagram or Facebook, you may know I have recently gone sober. And by sober, I mean sugar sober. I have been sober now for 74 days, no sugar, no white flour, no fried foods. And, uh, day 100, I'm actually going to take on another sober challenge in which, uh, and, and I'm going to continue the sugar,

Starting point is 00:10:53 white flour and fried foods, uh, sober challenge in which I'm going to be making additional sacrifices, additional, uh, deficits, creating additional deficits in my consumption as I sacrifice. And I do things to be able to progress, to be able to become the best version of myself. Last but not least, whether, whether, whatever your belief system, Hindu, atheist, Christian, I do want to share with you from a master teacher, Jesus Christ himself, and I don't care if you believe in him, you cannot argue with his teachings. The teachings that come from Matthew chapter 25, verse 14 through 30, in which he talks about the parable of the talents. It is speaking this language of operating in a consumption deficit. And essentially what it was, there was three men and he gave one,

Starting point is 00:11:48 five talents. So the Lord gave one, five talents. He gave the other one, two talents. Now this is a parable. This wasn't something that actually took place, right? He says, for the kingdom of heaven is as this. So one had five talents, one had two talents and one received one talent. And he sent them on their way and said, go and produce, go and create, go and be a creator, go and bring joy into your life. And what happened was the one that had five, he doubled his talents. He went and created an additional five and he brought it back. And the one that had two did he didn't complain that the one had five, got more talents than him. He said, this is what I've been blessed with. And I'm going to operate in a consumption deficit. And I'm not just going to consume these two talents. I'm going to produce two more talents. And he went and did it.

Starting point is 00:12:33 And the one that received one talent, he hoarded it. He consumed it. He did not produce anything else. And I want to go over to the scriptures and show you the difference of what happened. So in verse 20, it says, I've gained beside them five talents more. And in verse 21, this is the important thing. The Lord speaks to him. And at the end, he says, enter thou into the joy.

Starting point is 00:12:57 Man, I forgot to put my phone on silent. Apologize. He says, enter thou into the joy of the Lord. And what that means is like, that is how we receive joy when we operate in a consumption deficit. And then he skips down and he talks to the one that received the one talent and hoarded it and did not create, did not produce. And he says in verse 25, he says, I was afraid and I went and I hid the talent in the earth.

Starting point is 00:13:23 How often are we operating from a point of fear because we are afraid we are not producing, right? I've seen so many people that produce so much money, right? Like they create all this value, but then they spend on luxuries. They spend on all these things because they're afraid of what everybody's going to think of them, that they're not going to be feel validated that they're actually producing this. And so they have to go and they have spend and guess what? That joy is ripped from them, right? They hide the talent in the earth in which they can go and they could be charitable. They can give more than what they consume and they could do it so much, right? And the crazy thing is,

Starting point is 00:14:04 what ultimately happens is verse 28. He says, take therefore the talent from him. So the one that had the one talent had his talent ripped and it gave to the man that had doubled his five talents to 10 and was given to him. The Lord wants to bless no matter what you believe in universe, whatnot, wants to bless those that take care that are good shepherds, that are good creators, that are good producers. Go and do likewise. Be a producer. Create joy. Create incredible relationships. Invest more than you consume. I hope you make it a great day.

Starting point is 00:14:41 Have an incredible one. Until next time.

Next Level Pros - #33: My Turning Point: When It All Started Clicking

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