One Hour Of Myron Mivation Myron Golden

Introduction

You’re about to discover how to stop letting yourself off the hook when the going gets tough. You’re going to learn how to become the tough that gets going because I promise you, I know that you can do more than you think you can do. You can last longer than you thought you could last. You could experience more than you thought you could experience, and you can win bigger than you ever thought you could win because you can develop that level of confidence and competence. Confidence comes from keeping your word to yourself.

Achievements

I have broken with my bare hand five concrete blocks on fire. I’ve done millions of dollars in sales in under an hour. Did not give me the sense of personal power.

Empowerment

What I’m about to tell you, and the thing that I’m going to tell you, here’s the cool thing about it – everyone in here can do it. Who can do it? Everybody say, “I can.” Let me say, “I can.” Let me say, “I can.” Now, here’s the question, will you? Let me hear you say, “I will.”

Pain Perception

Pain is not an input from the body. Pain is an output from the brain. I’m like, “What do you mean, pain?” Pain is your brain attempting to protect you from what it perceives to be a dangerous situation, and so your body sends – I mean, your brain says – pain, sends pain to your body to freak you out. When I discovered that, here’s what the guy said. He said, “I can prove to you that pain is an output from the brain and not an input from the body.” He said, “Watch this.”

Phantom Pain

He said, “Have you ever heard of phantom pain?” So, yeah, I’ve heard of phantom pain. What’s phantom pain? Phantom pain is when somebody loses a limb – their arms, they get their arms severed, or their legs severed – but they still feel pain in the severed limb that’s not there anymore. So why is that important? Because you control your mind in order to impact your destiny. Every time you get ready to step into a new situation that is unfamiliar, I promise you, your brain is going to send you a pain signal.

Brain’s Warning

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Signal it is warning, warning, warning. Danger, danger, danger. You’re gonna die, you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die. And if you listen to that voice and that pain signal, you’ll opt out of the only thing that can get you the transformation you desire. And here’s what I – you deserve to understand. Who deserves it? Everybody say, “I do.” You deserve to understand that there have been so many times in your life you could have gone further than you went, but you let yourself off the hook because it was hard.

Overcoming the Freak Out Mechanism

Being further than you are right now is your freak out mechanism that has talked you out of all your chances. I told you this morning that if I had a chance to do it all over again, what would I do differently? I would get it done faster so I could enjoy it longer with the people I love the most. Why didn’t I get it done sooner? Because when I started to do it earlier in my life, I allowed my freak-out mechanism to cheat me out of my early opportunities. I’m just not gonna do that anymore.

The Greatest Gift

If I could give you a gift, the greatest gift that I would be able to give you is the ability to only give energy to outcomes you desire. That would be the greatest gift. Like if I could take my beliefs about belief and install it in your brain, that would be better than any amount of money I could give you because I know how to act as if the only thing that’s impossible for me is that something would be impossible for me.

Belief in Action

Do you let me ask you a question? How many of you would attempt more than you attempt right now if you knew you could not fail? Come on, be honest with me. Right, so now you just showed yourself the real reason you don’t attempt more is because you actually believe that, yeah, I get it, other people can do this, but not me. I am telling you the difference between you and me is not money, it’s not experience, the difference between you and I is belief.

The Power of Belief

When I look at a mountain that I want to buy, I’m saying, “Oh yeah, I’m going to buy that mountain.” You say, “I’d like to buy that mountain, I’m gonna try to buy that mountain,” or you say, “Who needs a mountain?” But when I see a mountain that has everything that one could desire in a mountain, here’s what I say, “I’m gonna buy that mountain.” No, I get it, Lord willing, I’m gonna buy that mountain, but my whole life is, Lord willing, I’m not confused.

The Illusion of Control

Dude, if there’s one thing, where there are many things, but if there’s one thing that going to a funeral will remind you, it’s the illusion of control. Did I say that too fast? Control’s an illusion. How many look like I have some control? But here’s what it says, here’s what the scripture says, “Riches profit not in the day of death.”

Fulfilling Your Assignment

Like if I had to choose between being rich and losing my soul, I choose to lose the money. He even had the money, I’m not confused. Some of y’all, though, y’all waiting to start living till you get to heaven. If God would have wanted you to start living when you got to Heaven, you would have been born there. You have an assignment. I have an assignment because my life is not my life, I get that. I’m not confused, my life belongs to God, everything that I am belongs to God, anyway. I’m not confused.

Money as a Tool

The money is a tool for what? For expansion of the Kingdom, not my kingdom, His kingdom. I’m not confused about that, but I don’t have to make excuses about it either. See, here’s what’s beautiful about an assignment: when you own your assignment, you don’t need to understand, you don’t need somebody else to understand your assignment. You to release me to my assignment. God gave me a field,

Perception of Riches

Like too rich is the person who has more than me [Music]. The person who’s too rich is the person who has more money than me. So they need, if I had that much money, I’d go feed all these hungry orphans. But the problem is you don’t care enough about those hungry orphans to go make enough money to feed them. You just want to spend somebody else’s money to feed [Applause]. Real talk, yeah, you know how to spend somebody else’s money on giving. She already feeds orphans, we already take care of widows. I’m not, I’m not confused. The point is Kingdom expansion costs money.

The First Temptation

See, the first Temptation in the history of the world was the temptation to focus on lack. Why? Because the scripture says the thief cometh not but for to steal, to kill, and destroy. When you steal, kill, and destroy, there’s less. Satan is the god (little G) of lack. But here’s what Christ said, “But I am come that you might have life.” It’s actually the word is actually lives, but you might have life because you’re not just your life. See, if you have children, those lives are in you. They’re your grandchildren, great-grandchildren. Those lives, when you’re not just a life, your lives, you’re all the lives that will come through you. How do I know that? Because the scripture says that Levi, who hasn’t, before he’s born, paid tithes to Melchizedek while yet, while he was yet in his father Abraham’s loins. See, what we EDs that our children and our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren, receive blessings based on our being a blessing, and they receive curses based on our following curses. Satan is a god (little G) of lack, and Satan knows he cannot block your blessing, so guess what he does? He mental blocks you from the blessing. Because he can’t block the blessing from you, what he can do is mental block you from the blessing.

Satan’s Deception

Satan is a master of making people think good is bad and bad is good. Your friends are your enemies, your enemies are your friends. What’s right is wrong, and what’s wrong is right. More is less, and less is more. That’s Satan’s Master deception. Here’s what Satan told him, “If you disobey God, you will be more like God. If you will focus on the thing that you don’t have, that’s lack, the one tree that they couldn’t have. If you will focus on the land that will make you more like God, ignore all of your abundance, ignore all the trees that you can have freely, focus on the one thing you don’t have, focus on lack, perpetuates lack.”

Fear of Giving

I’m not afraid to give money, you know why? Because I know there’s more where that came from. I’m not afraid to invest money, you know why? I know there’s more where that came from. I’m not holding on to it, I’m not holding on to the seed, thinking that it’s cereal. The farmer who thinks his seed is cereal when it’s time to plant will be very hungry when it’s time to harvest. Far too many of us who’ve been programmed to believe that the seed that we’re supposed to sow in our own garden [Music] is something we’re supposed to consume upon our own lust. See, people think I have competence because I’m good at stuff. I’m good at stuff because I have confidence.

Faith in God’s Faithfulness

My confidence comes, see, I don’t have faith in faith, I have faith in the one who is faithful [Music]. I know God can’t lie. He said if you do this, this will happen. So guess what? I make sure I do this so this can happen. I don’t ever wonder what’s gonna happen. I’ve had so many people say to me, Myron, you have more certainty than any human being I’ve ever seen. Do you teach that? Really teach it, but I can tell you where to get it. I said, “I got this book,” they know, they said, “Where does that come from?” I said, “I know what’s going to happen.” So, what do you mean you know what’s going to happen? I know what’s gonna happen. I don’t have to worry about what’s gonna happen. Like so many people are worried about, “Is it gonna work? Is it gonna work? Is it gonna work? I don’t know if it’s gonna work.” Is it gonna work? Is it gonna work? I don’t know if it’s gonna work. And so what they do is they drive a vehicle of their life down the highway of their experience with one foot on the gas and one foot on the brake.

Formula for Success

Would you like me to give you a formula for Success? Everybody say yes. Accelerate into the curves, even when you don’t know what’s around the corner. I was born in a segregated hospital called Clara Frye Hospital. It was a post-civil war hospital, and the conditions in that hospital were so poor that I contracted polio before I was a year old. And my parents moved from Tampa all the way to Pennsylvania at a time in the United States of America where a black person wasn’t even allowed to move from the state of Florida to another state up north unless they had papers to…

Learning About Money

…to prove they already had a job. Being the glutton for punishment that I was, I decided to go to college, and I got financially withdrawn every semester because I never learned how to make money work for me. And a lot of people will act like there’s something wrong with money. But the reality is if you don’t have any money, it’s hard to make anything work in your life.

Disruption and Intention

See, disruption always follows intention. There are no exceptions to that. And because disruption always follows intention, a lot of times people get on the path to success, and when disruption shows up, they think that’s a sign that they’re going in the wrong direction. But it’s not a sign that you’re going in the wrong direction. In fact, oftentimes, in fact, I think I can safely say most of the time, it’s a sign that you’re going in the right direction when you say, “I’m tracking.” And so, we have to learn how to press through the disruption.

Doing Things Faster

How many of you guys, let me hear you say, “I got it.” Most people take way too long to do the thing. People ask me all the time, “If you could go back and do your entrepreneurial journey over, or if you could talk to your 18-year-old self, what would you say?” I’d say, “You are going to get rich, you’re going to become successful, you’re going to impact a lot of people. Get it out of the way, do it faster so you can enjoy it longer with the people you love the most.” [Music] Acting as if we think we’re going to live to be 972 years old. I promise you that ain’t gonna happen, so you might as well be about the business now when, because it’s now o’clock. It’s now o’clock.

Facing Obstacles

Seldom in life can we be stretched to our full potential unless we’re first broken. Gotta go through some stuff to get to our stuff. And most people are unwilling to go through what they’ve got to go through to get to what they desire to get to. How y’all tracking? Let me hear you say, “I’m tracking.” And so we come to an obstacle, and then what most people do when they come to an obstacle, they turn around and go the other way. And then they find a coach, that coach says, “Well, just go through the wall.” “If it is too hard when they go around the wall, I would, but it’s too far, but I go over the wall, and Karen’s too high.” And most people fight tooth and nail to defend their limitations [Music], and I promise you if you fight for your limitations, you will get to keep them. How many are tracking?

Going Through Difficulties

So you’ve got to go through some stuff to get to your stuff. But if there’s no destiny without difficulty, there’s no strength without struggle, there’s no advancement without adversity. So if you’d like to get to something but you’re unwilling to go through something, you’re only going to frustrate yourself for the rest of your life. I recommend highly that you don’t do that. What you do…

Taking Action and Persistence

Loudly, people can’t hear what you’re saying. Come on, tracker. I got started in October of 1985. I did not make my first sale until April of 1987. 18 months later, I made my first sale. I became the top salesperson in our office month after month after month after month after month after month.

Persistence and Improvement

So just because you’re not good at starting [Music], doesn’t mean you can’t be good at it when you finish. See, here’s what happens when you decide to do something good, and you’re not good at it. Most people quit when they’re bad. Well, that’s not a good time to quit. You quit after you get six championship rings, not before you get one.

The Power of Repetition

I used to weigh 40 pounds more than I weigh right now, and I decided I’m going to start working out every day. I started, let’s just do 30 push-ups a day and 30 sit-ups a day. And I got down to do 30. This is gonna mess up my time, but I don’t care. I got down to do 30 push-ups, and I said I can only do four. Next day, I came back, guess what? The next day, I could only do three. I didn’t get stronger; I got weaker. But then one day in this process, I said I’m gonna see if I can get up to 10. And I just, I, one, two, three, four. Oh my goodness, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I don’t, I don’t know how to stop. Forty!

The Lesson

What’s the lesson? Here’s the lesson. Repetitive use of a limited ability will always produce an increased capacity. Don’t be deceived by your limited assurance that just because you can’t do it now, that means you’ll never do it. You keep doing it while you can’t do it. That’s how you earn the right to deserve to do it. It took me a year and a half to make my first sale, and now I have thousands of students all around the world who’ve made collectively hundreds of millions of dollars because I did not quit.

Commitment to Belief

So now, here’s what I want to do. I want to make sure you commit to yourself to who everybody say to me that 10 years from now, five years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, you’re going to keep going so somebody can thank you. You will be living what you’re believing even though you be lying. What does that mean? I know it’s not good grammar; it’s a really good illustration. Here’s what that means: anything I tell myself about a future outcome, I made it up. Who made it up? Nobody would want to buy that for me. I made that up. I mean, everybody’s gonna want to buy that for me. I made that up. Are y’all tracking? If I wrote a book, nobody would want to read it. I made that up. If I wrote a book, everybody would want to read it. I made that up. We go through life making up stories about future outcomes, and we buy into them and act like they are cast in stone.

Belief through Action

Here’s why: because we don’t believe what we say we believe; we only believe what we do ourselves into believing that we believe things because we said we believe them. I don’t actually believe anything until I do something about it. We don’t ever have to tell anybody what…

Seize Opportunities with Urgency

So just because you’re not good at starting [Music], doesn’t mean you can’t be good at it when you finish. See, here’s what happens when you decide to do something good, and you’re not good at it. Most people quit when they’re bad. Well, that’s not a good time to quit. You quit after you get six championship rings, not before you get one.

The Power of Repetition

I used to weigh 40 pounds more than I weigh right now, and I decided I’m going to start working out every day. I started, let’s just do 30 push-ups a day and 30 sit-ups a day. And I got down to do 30. This is gonna mess up my time, but I don’t care. I got down to do 30 push-ups, and I said I can only do four. Next day, I came back, guess what? The next day, I could only do three. I didn’t get stronger; I got weaker. But then one day in this process, I said I’m gonna see if I can get up to 10. And I just, I, one, two, three, four. Oh my goodness, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I don’t, I don’t know how to stop. Forty!

The Lesson

What’s the lesson? Here’s the lesson. Repetitive use of a limited ability will always produce an increased capacity. Don’t be deceived by your limited assurance that just because you can’t do it now, that means you’ll never do it. You keep doing it while you can’t do it. That’s how you earn the right to deserve to do it. It took me a year and a half to make my first sale, and now I have thousands of students all around the world who’ve made collectively hundreds of millions of dollars because I did not quit.

Commitment to Belief

So now, here’s what I want to do. I want to make sure you commit to yourself to who everybody say to me that 10 years from now, five years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, you’re going to keep going so somebody can thank you. You will be living what you’re believing even though you be lying. What does that mean? I know it’s not good grammar; it’s a really good illustration. Here’s what that means: anything I tell myself about a future outcome, I made it up. Who made it up? Nobody would want to buy that for me. I made that up. I mean, everybody’s gonna want to buy that for me. I made that up. Are y’all tracking? If I wrote a book, nobody would want to read it. I made that up. If I wrote a book, everybody would want to read it. I made that up. We go through life making up stories about future outcomes, and we buy into them and act like they are cast in stone.

Belief through Action

Here’s why: because we don’t believe what we say we believe; we only believe what we do ourselves into believing that we believe things because we said we believe them. I don’t actually believe anything until I do something about it. We don’t ever have to tell anybody what…

Seize Opportunities with Urgency

So just because you’re not good at starting [Music], doesn’t mean you can’t be good at it when you finish. See, here’s what happens when you decide to do something good, and you’re not good at it. Most people quit when they’re bad. Well, that’s not a good time to quit. You quit after you get six championship rings, not before you get one.

The Power of Repetition

I used to weigh 40 pounds more than I weigh right now, and I decided I’m going to start working out every day. I started, let’s just do 30 push-ups a day and 30 sit-ups a day. And I got down to do 30. This is gonna mess up my time, but I don’t care. I got down to do 30 push-ups, and I said I can only do four. Next day, I came back, guess what? The next day, I could only do three. I didn’t get stronger; I got weaker. But then one day in this process, I said I’m gonna see if I can get up to 10. And I just, I, one, two, three, four. Oh my goodness, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I can’t stop. I don’t, I don’t know how to stop. Forty!

The Lesson

What’s the lesson? Here’s the lesson. Repetitive use of a limited ability will always produce an increased capacity. Don’t be deceived by your limited assurance that just because you can’t do it now, that means you’ll never do it. You keep doing it while you can’t do it. That’s how you earn the right to deserve to do it. It took me a year and a half to make my first sale, and now I have thousands of students all around the world who’ve made collectively hundreds of millions of dollars because I did not quit.

Commitment to Belief

So now, here’s what I want to do. I want to make sure you commit to yourself to who everybody say to me that 10 years from now, five years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, you’re going to keep going so somebody can thank you. You will be living what you’re believing even though you be lying. What does that mean? I know it’s not good grammar; it’s a really good illustration. Here’s what that means: anything I tell myself about a future outcome, I made it up. Who made it up? Nobody would want to buy that for me. I made that up. I mean, everybody’s gonna want to buy that for me. I made that up. Are y’all tracking? If I wrote a book, nobody would want to read it. I made that up. If I wrote a book, everybody would want to read it. I made that up. We go through life making up stories about future outcomes, and we buy into them and act like they are cast in stone.

Belief through Action

Here’s why: because we don’t believe what we say we believe; we only believe what we do ourselves into believing that we believe things because we said we believe them. I don’t actually believe anything until I do something about it. We don’t ever have to tell anybody what…

Inside of each of us [Music], he gave some of y’all musical seed.

He gave some of y’all carpentry seed; he gave some of y’all a plumbing seed, some of y’all a mechanical seed, some of y’all are writing seed, some of y’all talking seed. He put a different aspect, a seed of a different aspect of his creativity inside of each of us. He did not put all of those aspects of his creative activity inside of any of us. Why? Because he created man to be interdependent.

In a bakery, consumption creates reduction. But in a garden, consumption creates production. He said, “Don’t you want to be like…” He said he should be like a tree planter.

Now here’s the interesting thing about a tree. Trees don’t grow in one direction; they grow in two directions. How many directions? Talk to me, two. How many directions do they grow? Down and they grow up. They have to grow down before they can grow up. The part of the tree that grows down is the root system. The what? Talking to everybody, what? The part of the tree that grows up is the fruit system. It’s the what? It’s the fruit system.

Here’s what I found out about entrepreneurs. We all want to grow phototropically. Everybody sees the growth of the trees that’s below the surface. The growth of the tree that produces the fruit that makes the fruit possible is done in silence, in the dark, in a lonely place, in a dark place, in a damp place, in a difficult place. Nobody’s clapping for you when you’re in the dirt. Nobody’s singing your praises when you’re in the dirt. Nobody knows your name when you’re in the dirt. Nobody’s read your book when you’re in the dirt. You don’t get any lights on your post in the dirt. But if you don’t go in the dirt where none of that stuff is happening, you will never grow towards the light where all that stuff can happen.

Abraham Lincoln said, “I will prepare myself, and perhaps my time will come.” Myron Golden says your time is going to come whether you prepare yourself or not. All right, if you are prepared when your time comes, it will reveal you. If you are not prepared when your time comes, it will expose you.

The difference between professionals and amateurs: amateurs spend about four to ten times the amount of time performing as they do preparing. Professionals spend four to ten times as much time preparing as they do performing. You say, “Myra, what does that mean?” Well, this is what that means. This means amateurs practice until they get it right once. Professionals practice so they can’t get it wrong.

Anybody who’s better at you than anything, don’t copy what you see them do. Copy the stuff you can’t see them do. He said he should be like a tree planted. You’ve got to plant yourself and end up in a business, in an arena, on a platform, in a niche, and stay there until your roots grow deep enough to produce good fruit.

You want to be famous, but you don’t realize that if you get famous right now, you’re going to be famous for being terrible. I ain’t mad at you. I love you. I want you to win. You’ve got to go down; you’ve got to go deep before you can go high. And most people are unwilling to go deep. You know why? Because it’s hard. It’s hard. You’ve got to go down in the dirt. You’ve got to start pushing stuff through stuff that’s hard, and you’ve got to start squeezing and pushing and the roots, and then you’ve got to start growing the other way and start pushing through. It’s just hard.

But the easy-hard principle says hard on the front end produces easy on the back end. Easy on the front end produces hard on the back end. And see, what most people want is the easy stuff on the front end. Life doesn’t work that way.

You see some of y’all trying to skip cycles, trying to produce ripe fruit with shallow roots. Shallow roots don’t produce ripe fruit. It’s hard. It’s difficult. It’s not just difficult, though. Not just difficult; that’d be terrible enough. It’s different if it was only difficult. But it’s difficult, and it’s dark.

Now here’s what darkness represents because you know when you put something in the ground, there’s no light down there. I mean, darkness is a picture of anxiety, fear, and confusion. That’s the darkness is a picture of. And see, we’ve got to do enough iterations in the dark where we make mistakes in the dark, where we bust our knuckles in the dark, where we bump our head in the dark, where we stub our toe in the dark, so that we come to the light. We don’t have to do those steps anymore.

You’re not just the gardener; you are the garden. And God planted a seed of his creativity, an aspect of his creativity inside of each and every one of us. And it’s our job as the gardener and the garden to cultivate that seed. What do we need to do? We need to put some Isaiah 55 on people. People can smell it when they’re being faked out, right? You can’t fake real love. You can’t fake real concern. You can’t fake real caring. People can smell it from a mile away. I know I can. Like people don’t need more people with more tactics; they need more. The world needs more people who actually care.

It’s really interesting. Somebody asked me one time; I was in a conference that was probably about this size, and I was one of the coaches there, and I was on stage, and somebody said, “Myron, what do you think is the best solution? There’s so much social unrest. There’s so many social ills in our society right now. What do you think is the solution for that?” I said, “That’s easy.” But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

The Power of Identity

In this video, the significance of identity is emphasized. It delves into how our beliefs about who we are can influence our actions and achievements. It explores how our experiences and others’ opinions can shape our self-perception.

Changing the Success Formula

A success formula is introduced: “If you don’t like the result, change the input.” The importance of altering our beliefs and identity to achieve different outcomes in life is stressed.

The Concept of Time

The concept of time is discussed, highlighting how in the realm of time, there is no constant “now.” Time is viewed as a succession of pasts and futures, leading to reflections on being present in the current moment.

Thoughts on Money

Your relationship with money is going to ultimately determine your relationship with money, and it’s going to ultimately determine money’s relationship with you. And I promise you, if you do not become intentional about it, your finances will be haphazard for the rest of your life.

It’s really fascinating because most of the Church-going, Bible-believing Christian people, like that I know, most of them pretend not to care about money at all. And it’s the thing they work for the longest and worry about the most. Like, it’s mind-blowing to me.

And then, well, money’s not that important to me. If you’ll lie about that, you’ll lie about other stuff. You are literally spending more of your waking hours exchanging those hours for money, for dollars, than you are doing any other single thing in your waking hours. And then you want to say, “I don’t care about money.” You are lying.

Why do you feel like you have to? Because money, wealth, abundance has a social stigma because the enemy is a liar. The money is a bonus. The ability to have options is a bonus. It’s not the objective.

How much money you want to make? Me, I want to make as much as I possibly can living in alignment with my purpose. That’s how much money I want to make. If that’s a hundred dollars a year, I’m good with it. And if it’s a hundred million dollars a year, I’m good with that. If it’s 300 billion dollars a year, I’m okay with that. I want to make as much money as I can in alignment with my purpose. I want to be as healthy as I can in alignment with my purpose. I want to learn as much as I can, be as learned as I can in alignment with my purpose.

And until you break free of your need for other people to think things about you, you will never be financially free because you’re not even socially and emotionally free. And as long as you are attached to the need for people to have a particular opinion of you, you will never be free.

Maybe that’s why the scripture says, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” What does it say after that? “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.” Sounds to me like he knew who he was. But watch what it says next: “But made himself of no reputation and took upon the form of service.” He knew who he was so much he didn’t need you to know who he was, need you to acknowledge the fact that he is God in order for him to acknowledge the fact that he is God.

And see, you need for people to acknowledge that your motives are good in order for you to sleep at night. The only person that you need to be true to is yourself and God. If I didn’t tell you something that I need you to think something about me, then why do I even…

Thoughts on Money (Continued)

Because the reality is I don’t, and if I did, I wouldn’t do what I do. If I cared what other people think about me, I would do something very different. I would do something in the booth, in the back, in the corner, in the dark where nobody could see me. And if they didn’t approve, they wouldn’t even know who did it. Because as long as you need people to think something about you, like you need them to believe something about you financially, you need people to think you’re rich, you need people to think you’re broke, you need people to think that you don’t care about money, you need people to think that you do care. Whatever the thing that you need them to think is, you have no control over their thoughts. You barely have control over your own. Let it go. Stop allowing yourself to think these toxic thoughts about money.

If we’re going to become hyper-intentional about our thoughts, we automatically have to be hyper-intentional about our words. Because the reality is you can speak without thinking, but you can’t think without using words. Most people take their past experiences, they project it on the screen of their future, they recreate the past, and think they’re living in the present. But what they’re really doing is living Groundhog Day. Most people are living their yesterday today, they’re living their last week this week, they’re living their last month this month, they’re living their last year this year, they’re living their last decade this decade, and their life isn’t getting better. Which goes against the very first thing that God ever said to a human being when he spoke to man. He said, “Be fruitful and multiply, replenish the Earth, subdue it, and have dominion.”

Well, when he said “be fruitful,” a fruit is a living organism whose seed is in itself. The ability of a fruit to reproduce is inside the fruit. So when God said to man, “Be fruitful,” he wasn’t just talking about having children. He was talking about, “I put an aspect of my creativity inside of you.” Now, what’s really interesting is he put a different aspect of his creativity inside of all of us. Every aspect of his creativity inside of anybody. But he put an aspect of his creativity inside of everybody. And so that creativity, that aspect of his creativity he put inside of us, it is our job to produce on the outside based on what God put on the inside. But he said, “Be fruitful.”

Now, the other interesting thing about a fruit is this, because it has a seed in it. When you sow the seed, you don’t reap a piece of fruit. You reap a tree. And the tree might produce 100, 200, 300 apples a year, oranges, whatever your kind of seeds you plant might. Once it’s mature, it might produce 100 to 300 pieces of fruit per year. And I love what Warren Wiersbe said. He said, “Any fool can count the number of seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.” And so what we have to do is we have to make sure that we cultivate the seed of creativity that God put inside of us so we can be fruitful and multiply. Because you reap what you sow. But you don’t reap when you sow, you eat later than you sow. You reap what you sow. But you don’t reap the amount you sowed, you reap more than you sowed, later than you sowed.

I hope y’all picking up what I’m putting down. And so God said, “Be fruitful and multiply.” Why? Because multiplication is the natural output of the input of fruitfulness. Like a fruit, a seed that you plant in the ground does not have the ability to only produce one fruit. Nothing in nature grows by addition. In nature, everything grows by multiplication, which means when God said, “Be fruitful and multiply,” the word multiply means to increase. But it’s not just an incremental increase, it’s an exponential increase. It’s a geometric increase.

See, there are people in the world who want to act like human beings are destroying the planet. But human beings aren’t here for the planet. The planet’s here for the human beings. God said clearly, “Pollute not the land in which ye dwell.” But the environment isn’t God. The Earth is not my mother. It is here to serve me. I am not here to serve it. When he said, “Be fruitful and multiply, replenish the Earth,” the word replenish means to fill up. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that when a beaver uses its limited creativity to build a dam in a creek in the forest that that’s organic. When an ant uses its limited creativity to build an anthill in the ground, that’s organic. When an eagle uses its limited creativity to build a nest in a tree, that’s organic. But when a human being uses unlimited creativity to build a city, that’s somehow inorganic. A city is as organic as an anthill, a beaver dam, or an eagle’s nest.

So when God said, “Be fruitful and multiply,” what he’s telling us to do, he’s telling us to increase and fill up the Earth. Replenish means to fill up the Earth with the multiplication of the things that we create. That’s our job. So when God said, “Be fruitful and multiply, replenish the Earth,” and then he said, “Subdue it,” what does “subdue” mean? Trample down. Stomp it. What does that mean? That means trample down anything that tries to stop you. And if he’s telling me to trample it, that means whatever opposes me is both beneath me and smaller than me. So if he told me to trample it, that means I have the ability to trample it. It’s already under my feet. Now all I have to do is take the action to step on all of the stoppers.

Today should be better than yesterday. This week should be better than last week. This month should be better than last month. This year should be better than last year. And I’m not just talking about better financially, but I’m including better financially. This whole idea that as you get older, you have to get sicker and weaker and broker is hideous. But if you believe that, then that’s exactly how you’re going to set up your life. I know people my age who talk like they’re a hundred. Guess what? They also walk like they’re a hundred. They move like they’re a hundred. You’ve got to, when things are going well, you have to be preparing for when things aren’t going to go well. When things are going great, 20%. Hold on to 20% because when the whole bottom falls out for the entire world, while everybody else is getting broker, you’re going to be getting richer. While everybody else is starving, you’re going to have food.

So stop thinking from the past. The past is nothing more than your launchpad for your future. Treat it like that. The biggest financial breakthrough of my life, I learned last June. I remember it like it was yesterday. And here’s what I discovered: that poor people and middle-class people feel like

everything is expensive because they pay for things with money they’ve exchanged their time for, so they feel like they’re paying for everything with their life. Because they are. Wealthy people pay for things according to their creativity. Now notice, I didn’t say that wealthy people paid for things out of their creativity. I didn’t say wealthy people pay for things with their creativity. I said wealthy people pay for things according to their creativity. Why did I say that? Because if I paid for it out of my creativity, I’d have less creativity after I paid for it than I had before I paid for it. If I said I paid for it with my creativity, I’d have less creativity after I paid for it than before I paid for it. But if I pay for it according to my creativity, then I have no less creativity after I paid for it than I had before I paid for it.

That’s why it says, “My God shall supply all your need according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus.” Why? Because when he supplies your need according to his riches and glory, he has no less riches and no less glory. Are y’all tracking? Like, when you learn how to pay for things according to your creativity, everything costs the same amount. Start paying for stuff with offers. If I desire to go buy a brand new house, I’ll just create an offer, and it’ll pay for the house. When I want to buy an apartment building, I just create an offer, and that offer will pay for the apartment building. I created an offer that pays for all my private jet traveling. Are y’all tracking?

So to me, my Rolls-Royce costs me no more than this box to take Tic Tacs because you know what I paid for both of them with the same thing? An offer. Oh, he hit you, didn’t he? It hit you, didn’t it? See, and guess what? Here’s the cool thing. Do you create an offer because you want to buy something? After you create an offer because you desire to buy something, after you buy the thing, you still have all the creativity you had before you created the thing. You already…