2021-05-05_I_Make_Dreams_Come_True
00:00:00.000 | Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,
00:00:03.960 | skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while
00:00:08.080 | building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.
00:00:11.040 | My name is Joshua.
00:00:12.040 | I am your host, and today on the show I want to talk with you about money mindset.
00:00:16.680 | Or at least I want to begin talking with you about money mindset, or a different mindset
00:00:23.120 | about money.
00:00:24.440 | These words, mindset, money, money mindset, these words are words that I hear, not uncommonly,
00:00:33.320 | in financial circles, but they are some words that I didn't use to understand.
00:00:36.640 | They're words that didn't use to compute with me or mean anything to me.
00:00:40.440 | I would hear people talk about having a certain money mindset, but I just didn't have a way
00:00:45.540 | to articulate it.
00:00:46.680 | I didn't deny the existence of some kind of way of thinking about money that makes a difference,
00:00:52.960 | but I didn't have a way to talk about it.
00:00:54.800 | However, over the last couple of years, I feel like I've personally gained a lot more
00:00:58.560 | clarity on this subject, to the point where I look at myself and I realize that I have
00:01:03.760 | a different mindset around money than I once had, and how I like my current mindset better
00:01:10.520 | than I like my old mindset.
00:01:12.520 | I also recognize, as I talk to lots of people about money, I recognize how differently people
00:01:18.760 | think about money, and yet how these differences are not objectively true or objectively false.
00:01:24.640 | It's not like there's something that, "Oh, this is an ironclad law of the universe that
00:01:28.500 | things work this way."
00:01:30.200 | It's just that people have different mindsets with regard to money, different mindsets as
00:01:33.880 | to how they want to live their life.
00:01:35.900 | And so I can't, in today's show, articulate everything that I now see.
00:01:40.080 | I want to begin the process of articulating some of the things that I do see, in hopes
00:01:44.860 | that this will be some ideas that will help you with your own mindset, to consider it,
00:01:50.360 | to think about it, to test it, see if you like it and you want to keep it, or see if
00:01:54.120 | you don't like it and you want to discard it.
00:01:56.680 | And today we're going to begin with one simple saying that I made up.
00:02:00.600 | No one told it to me.
00:02:01.760 | It's original with me.
00:02:03.280 | But I like it so much that I want to share it with you, and I want you to feel free to
00:02:07.280 | take it and use it.
00:02:08.280 | Feel free to steal it, because I think this is something really powerful about it.
00:02:12.440 | The statement is simply this.
00:02:14.280 | It's a statement of identity.
00:02:17.840 | Very very simple.
00:02:18.840 | Just a few words.
00:02:19.840 | Here's the statement.
00:02:22.120 | I make dreams come true.
00:02:27.520 | I make dreams come true.
00:02:32.240 | I make dreams come true.
00:02:34.800 | This is a statement that I thought of first some months ago, and as I was thinking about
00:02:39.320 | I realized, this is me.
00:02:42.040 | This is what I do.
00:02:45.080 | And I applied it on a very personal level.
00:02:48.240 | We could add some pronouns, right?
00:02:50.360 | We could say, I make my dreams come true.
00:02:54.040 | I think that's appropriate.
00:02:55.040 | I want to talk about that.
00:02:56.040 | I make my dreams come true.
00:02:57.760 | But I have thought about it a lot in terms of the people in my life, right?
00:03:00.800 | I make my wife's dreams come true.
00:03:03.800 | I make my children's dreams come true.
00:03:06.760 | I make my siblings' dreams come true.
00:03:08.640 | I make my parents' dreams come true.
00:03:10.480 | I make dreams come true.
00:03:13.400 | And then I expanded out to that.
00:03:15.040 | I make my neighbors' dreams come true.
00:03:16.960 | I make my clients' dreams come true.
00:03:19.680 | I make my listeners' dreams come true.
00:03:24.680 | And for me, this has become an extremely powerful form of my identity.
00:03:30.000 | And it's given me a different mindset about money than I once had.
00:03:38.120 | If I were to articulate in just a few words some of the things that I once thought about
00:03:43.920 | money, I would say that—well, I hate to actually use these words because they're quite
00:03:49.000 | trite and overused—I would say that in the past, I operated from a scarcity mentality,
00:03:57.280 | from the perspective that there's only so much money around, right?
00:04:01.040 | There's only so many—there's only a certain amount, and you've got to make sure you're
00:04:03.920 | careful with it.
00:04:06.160 | And I don't discard that entirely, right?
00:04:11.160 | I believe in being careful with money.
00:04:13.960 | There's a different mindset if you think of money as being a scarce resource that has
00:04:17.840 | to be held onto and guarded versus money being a tool that is available to you in abundance.
00:04:24.960 | And what has helped me to identify how I want to use money is that, for me, I want money
00:04:31.640 | to be used to make dreams come true.
00:04:35.840 | As I record this podcast episode, I am sitting in my family's hotel room in the beautiful
00:04:42.880 | country of Mexico.
00:04:44.680 | We've just begun a fairly—I don't know exactly how long this trip is going to go.
00:04:50.160 | Let's call it a short to medium to long-term trip.
00:04:53.840 | And I don't know how far this trip is going to take us, but I've loaded up, you know,
00:04:57.920 | my wife, we have our four children, and we've gotten on airplanes, we've discarded all of
00:05:02.200 | our stuff, gotten down to suitcases again, and we're hitting the road.
00:05:06.720 | And we're planning to travel for some time.
00:05:09.720 | The exact details are still a little bit fuzzy because of the challenges of traveling during
00:05:14.200 | a global pandemic and all of the border closings and all of the administrative challenges due
00:05:19.760 | to that.
00:05:21.360 | But right now we're hitting the road.
00:05:23.020 | And part of that comes directly out of this concept of identity.
00:05:28.500 | Am I the kind of person who sits back and who waits and who hopes that someday I might
00:05:34.320 | be able to make a dream come true?
00:05:36.160 | Or am I the kind of person who makes dreams come true?
00:05:42.320 | The reality is I make dreams come true.
00:05:50.860 | I make dreams come true.
00:05:56.720 | And this is becoming more and more a core component of my personal identity.
00:06:02.660 | And it gives me something that I find very useful as a metric to which I can hold something
00:06:08.220 | up.
00:06:09.220 | Right?
00:06:10.220 | Is there somebody that I can help make a dream come true?
00:06:16.060 | Here's somebody in need.
00:06:17.060 | Can I make their dream come true?
00:06:21.180 | Can I help friends and family members who have unfulfilled dreams?
00:06:25.020 | Is there anything I can do to make dreams come true for them?
00:06:28.460 | Because I make dreams come true.
00:06:32.700 | Now I'll share more in future episodes about our travels.
00:06:35.660 | I'll share a lot as we go actually.
00:06:37.960 | When we traveled before I didn't share a lot publicly.
00:06:39.980 | But I'll share about the hard times and the good times.
00:06:43.260 | Because one of the things that I like to do is I like to test things.
00:06:47.020 | I like to test things for myself.
00:06:48.820 | And it's part of – but I also like to test them for you and learn along the way.
00:06:52.940 | Because I've done so much financial coaching over the years that I've learned that we
00:06:55.960 | really have just as human beings we really more or less share probably about 80% of our
00:07:04.140 | dreams commonly.
00:07:06.500 | Meaning that you'll have your own 20% that are unique to you.
00:07:09.580 | I don't have any interest in painting world class portraits.
00:07:14.020 | But somebody does.
00:07:15.020 | I don't have any interest in racing motorcycles.
00:07:17.620 | But somebody does.
00:07:18.980 | But more or less many of our dreams they're similar to each other in about 80% of them.
00:07:25.800 | And so I want to be one who makes dreams come true for you.
00:07:29.100 | I want to be one who shows you the way to do things.
00:07:31.540 | I want to be one who tests things and says, "Here's how you can do it.
00:07:34.020 | Here's how you can do this quickly.
00:07:35.220 | Here's how you can achieve this rapidly."
00:07:37.140 | Because I've learned so much that if you identify yourself as a person who takes action,
00:07:41.860 | as a person who doesn't just sit around and wait for your dreams, you can achieve
00:07:45.060 | dreams much faster than many people think possible.
00:07:48.920 | This has actually become more and more part of my own personal identity.
00:07:51.900 | I've realized I make dreams come true.
00:07:54.900 | Which means that I can have a client who can come to me and say, "Joshua, here's my
00:07:58.540 | dream."
00:07:59.540 | And I can work out very quickly ways for that dream to come true quickly.
00:08:03.500 | And so you don't need to wait 30 years.
00:08:05.500 | You can do it now.
00:08:06.500 | You can do it in two years.
00:08:07.500 | You can do it in five years, 10 years.
00:08:08.740 | I make dreams come true.
00:08:10.620 | And so I want to walk you through that statement with a little bit of change of emphasis so
00:08:18.140 | that you can understand how that simple statement can give you a track to run on if you like
00:08:26.180 | it.
00:08:27.540 | Because when you adjust your emphasis, you often get different aspects of truth.
00:08:34.280 | Let's begin at the beginning.
00:08:35.860 | I make dreams come true.
00:08:39.500 | I make dreams come true.
00:08:41.700 | I am that man who makes dreams come true.
00:08:45.020 | That's me.
00:08:46.500 | The one who makes dreams come true?
00:08:47.500 | Yep, that's me.
00:08:48.500 | I do it.
00:08:50.140 | I do it.
00:08:52.980 | And I think a lot of times this really is the beginning of personal growth.
00:08:58.460 | If you read a dozen or so self-development, personal development books, at least half
00:09:04.220 | of them will talk about how the starting point of personal success is personal responsibility,
00:09:11.180 | where you take responsibility for your life and you stop expecting anything from anyone
00:09:15.660 | else.
00:09:16.780 | You stand up and say, "I am in charge of me."
00:09:22.700 | And the day that you take personal responsibility for your life, complete and total 100% responsibility
00:09:27.800 | for your life and for everything in it can be a day in which everything changes.
00:09:35.340 | And for me, I make dreams come true puts the pressure in the right place.
00:09:45.540 | I'm the one who makes dreams come true.
00:09:48.580 | Because if I'm the one who makes dreams come true, then I'm the one who can start to think
00:09:53.420 | about the process of how I might go about it.
00:09:58.580 | I think any one of us who is perhaps older than 15 years old would recognize that there
00:10:02.880 | are always things that will happen outside of our control.
00:10:07.940 | There are things and situations that the world throws at us that we did not choose.
00:10:14.920 | But even though we are not ultimately in control, we can still take responsibility for what
00:10:24.200 | we can control.
00:10:26.880 | And I can be the man who makes dreams come true.
00:10:35.160 | One of the trends in our day and age that really concerns me very deeply is the trend
00:10:42.240 | of disempowerment and victimization.
00:10:47.560 | For some reason, it has become hip and cool to be a victim.
00:10:54.240 | It's become a better way to be.
00:10:59.400 | If you can be somebody who is victimized, if you can be somebody who is oppressed, it
00:11:04.840 | gains you social credit.
00:11:07.600 | And with your social credit now, you can enhance your circumstances.
00:11:12.400 | The challenge is, when you start seeing yourself as an oppressed victim, it's really hard to
00:11:17.760 | change that perspective of yourself.
00:11:21.200 | It's really hard to look at yourself as an oppressed victim and simultaneously see yourself
00:11:25.880 | as a powerful victor.
00:11:28.320 | Those two things don't really go very well together.
00:11:32.440 | And so pretty much in life, I'm convinced at this point that you kind of have to choose.
00:11:36.720 | You have to choose the life that you're going to live.
00:11:40.960 | Are you going to choose to be the person who is oppressed by your circumstances?
00:11:45.880 | Are you going to choose to be the person who is being victimized by those around you?
00:11:50.760 | Are you going to be the person who is a victim of the world at large?
00:11:57.520 | Or are you going to be the person who steps up and says, "I am responsible and I'm going
00:12:04.720 | to overcome this."
00:12:06.920 | Here's what I've observed about this particular line of thinking.
00:12:10.240 | It doesn't actually matter whether it's true or whether it's not.
00:12:17.400 | Meaning you could have a person who is genuinely a victim, who is an oppressed victim, and
00:12:27.280 | yet that person can study the mindset of victims and recognize, "That really doesn't serve
00:12:33.720 | me.
00:12:34.720 | It doesn't help me."
00:12:36.800 | And they can acknowledge freely, "I'm oppressed.
00:12:40.560 | I'm a victim.
00:12:42.440 | I'm persecuted."
00:12:43.920 | They can acknowledge that as absolutely true.
00:12:46.880 | But if they will discard that and choose a different way of thinking, there's no guarantee
00:12:54.360 | that it'll help them to no longer be an oppressed victim, but there's a far higher likelihood
00:13:00.280 | that they'll be able to escape their oppression than if they didn't believe it.
00:13:06.680 | And so when you think about your personal identity and how you see yourself, regardless
00:13:10.520 | of what the actual circumstances are, regardless of the actual truth, the actual veracity of
00:13:17.240 | whether you are powerful and in control or not, recognize that the mindset of somebody
00:13:24.620 | who chooses to take responsibility is going to have a higher probability of success than
00:13:33.240 | the mindset of somebody who doesn't, somebody who just sits back and waits for things to
00:13:36.520 | happen.
00:13:38.600 | So in that tiny little word "I," there's actually a huge, huge amount of personal impact waiting
00:13:49.800 | to happen.
00:13:52.880 | When you step up and you say, "I make dreams come true," and I encourage you even to start
00:13:58.320 | with simply this, "I make my dreams come true.
00:14:02.320 | I make my dreams come true."
00:14:04.440 | You step up and you say, "I make my dreams come true."
00:14:08.560 | It starts to fill you with a sense of clarity, a sense of purpose, and a sense of direction.
00:14:12.520 | All right, well, if I'm the guy who's going to make my dreams come true, I got to actually
00:14:16.640 | step up and say, "It's time to make progress.
00:14:19.760 | What do I do?"
00:14:20.760 | And I got to pull the problem apart, study it, start working on it, because I make my
00:14:26.000 | dreams come true.
00:14:27.240 | It's all on me.
00:14:28.240 | If it's to be, it's up to me.
00:14:29.920 | If it's to be, it's up to me.
00:14:32.880 | I hope you find that useful.
00:14:33.960 | I do.
00:14:35.480 | I wholeheartedly concede that the world around gives me a set of circumstances that I can't
00:14:41.960 | control.
00:14:45.120 | If it's to be, is it truly, ultimately, completely up to me?
00:14:49.600 | The answer is an obvious no.
00:14:51.440 | No, it's not.
00:14:54.440 | But the, "If it's to be, it's up to me," mindset, that puts me in a place where I can take responsibility
00:15:02.040 | for how I respond to the circumstances that are outside of my control, and it puts me
00:15:07.200 | in a place of growth.
00:15:09.480 | I make dreams come true.
00:15:13.120 | I make my dreams come true.
00:15:16.880 | Next, I make dreams come true.
00:15:22.680 | I make dreams come true.
00:15:24.880 | I make dreams come true.
00:15:28.600 | Make is an action verb.
00:15:30.680 | It's a doing.
00:15:33.600 | There's work involved.
00:15:34.960 | There's effort.
00:15:37.480 | If I make dreams come true, then the obvious question comes, "How?
00:15:43.120 | How?
00:15:44.120 | What?
00:15:45.120 | How?
00:15:46.120 | How?"
00:15:47.120 | Right?
00:15:48.120 | "I make," as a standalone sentence, doesn't make any sense.
00:15:53.480 | It only makes sense to use the word "make" if there is an object.
00:15:57.160 | I make what?
00:16:00.880 | I make where?
00:16:02.080 | I make how?
00:16:03.140 | There has to be some modification of that word "make."
00:16:07.620 | But the word "make" is a really good action verb.
00:16:11.400 | And by focusing on action verbs, I'm teaching my brain to look for the things that can be
00:16:19.440 | done.
00:16:20.440 | Again, back to this victimization mindset.
00:16:24.040 | A victim looks at the world and says, "I'm a victim.
00:16:26.360 | I'm oppressed.
00:16:27.360 | I'm pushed down.
00:16:28.360 | These circumstances that I'm in are just too difficult for me."
00:16:31.840 | And what happens is the brain accepts that as true.
00:16:36.160 | The brain sits back and says, "You know what?
00:16:38.560 | It's true.
00:16:39.560 | You're right.
00:16:40.560 | You're right."
00:16:41.560 | And all you start to see constantly is reasons why that's true.
00:16:48.360 | I used to believe that people believe what they see.
00:16:53.560 | I no longer do.
00:16:54.560 | I now believe that we see what we believe.
00:16:57.480 | I know this is sounding super frou-frou and fluffy.
00:17:01.240 | I get it.
00:17:02.240 | I get it.
00:17:03.360 | I'm convinced it's true.
00:17:06.680 | That's why I'm saying it.
00:17:07.960 | I hate sounding like a motivational speaker because I kind of feel there's so many motivational
00:17:12.240 | speakers that their words often are hollow.
00:17:14.720 | But I'm convinced it's true, which is why I'm talking about it.
00:17:17.920 | So forgive how it sounds.
00:17:19.840 | I'm convinced it's true.
00:17:23.280 | You'd weigh it and test it for yourself.
00:17:26.100 | In life, we don't believe what we see.
00:17:29.080 | We simply see what we believe.
00:17:31.480 | We live our lives looking to see the movie that's in our head expressed in reality around
00:17:40.360 | us.
00:17:42.720 | And the vast majority of the time, the reality that's expressed around us is exactly the
00:17:49.280 | movie that we saw in our head.
00:17:51.400 | It's crazy.
00:17:53.360 | It's crazy.
00:17:55.520 | I think you could see this most obviously in politics.
00:17:58.400 | As a longtime observer of politics, I've taken a great deal of interest in reading over the
00:18:03.480 | years people's political opinions.
00:18:05.080 | Because people are so obvious and clear with their political opinions, you can see what
00:18:07.600 | they think.
00:18:08.600 | And you'll see an event happen.
00:18:10.040 | And if you keep lists of political people who disagree with each other, who see the
00:18:14.560 | world differently, you'll see the exact same event, the exact same facts, the exact same
00:18:19.360 | video, the exact same thing.
00:18:23.880 | And two people will walk away with it with polarized opposite perspectives.
00:18:29.040 | It's crazy.
00:18:30.440 | It's absolutely crazy.
00:18:32.960 | And you sit and you read them and you say, "Are they talking about the same event?"
00:18:36.260 | They're talking about the same event, the same video clip, the same speech, the same
00:18:40.000 | policy.
00:18:41.320 | And yet they walk away with two exactly opposite perspectives on it.
00:18:48.480 | Because they see what they believe.
00:18:51.000 | They see what they believe.
00:18:56.360 | So if that's true, then we need to be very careful about what we believe.
00:19:03.840 | And if you believe that I make dreams come true, then what you constantly see is opportunities
00:19:14.200 | to make that truth.
00:19:18.960 | If you believe I'm waiting for my dreams to come true, then what you constantly see
00:19:24.440 | is opportunities for you to sit and wait.
00:19:29.240 | Now there's a fineness, a finesse, a texture to this.
00:19:34.080 | All of my dreams have not yet come true.
00:19:37.960 | I am waiting on many parts of my dreams to come true.
00:19:43.960 | And I'm sure you are too.
00:19:45.640 | Because dreams don't come true just because you wish them to be true.
00:19:50.920 | But if you see yourself as the person who makes dreams come true, then you see opportunities
00:19:57.320 | to be making your dreams come true.
00:20:00.280 | Whereas if you see yourself as the person who waits for your dreams to come true, then
00:20:04.920 | you see opportunities for you to be the kind of person who waits for your dreams to come
00:20:08.960 | true.
00:20:09.960 | And I think that sucks myself.
00:20:12.800 | I don't want to live that way.
00:20:15.480 | So I choose to believe I make dreams come true.
00:20:25.040 | Now you'll notice that I'm using either four or five words in this little statement.
00:20:32.040 | I'm including a pronoun or sometimes I'm excluding the pronoun.
00:20:35.840 | I make my dreams come true.
00:20:37.520 | I make my wife's dreams come true.
00:20:39.200 | I make my children's dreams come true.
00:20:41.320 | I like to simply say to myself, I make dreams come true.
00:20:44.160 | I'm the kind of person who makes dreams come true.
00:20:47.080 | And the reason I do this is I believe that it opens my brain up.
00:20:51.000 | It opens my mind up to see opportunities to make dreams come true for anybody that comes
00:20:56.400 | across my path.
00:20:58.400 | And what I'm convinced, I'm still convinced 20 years later, ever since I first heard Zig
00:21:02.400 | Ziglar say it 20 years ago, that you can have everything in life that you want if you just
00:21:05.800 | help enough other people get what they want.
00:21:10.080 | Or as I like to think about it, if you can love enough neighbors, you'll have plenty
00:21:13.700 | of love from your neighbors.
00:21:15.480 | If you can help enough people, you'll have plenty of help from other people.
00:21:20.280 | And so I love the way to think about this word, this amply.
00:21:24.160 | I make dreams come true because by not restricting it to one particular pronoun, I make my dreams
00:21:33.820 | come true.
00:21:35.400 | I can look at the world and say, are there any opportunities for me to make a dream come
00:21:39.080 | true today?
00:21:42.140 | And I'm convinced that practically on a daily basis, the answer is yes.
00:21:46.240 | Yes.
00:21:47.240 | I heard a story years ago.
00:21:49.320 | I think it was about John Maxwell, but I'm not sure.
00:21:52.240 | I think it was a friend of John Maxwell's was telling me they were doing some trip with
00:21:55.360 | him.
00:21:56.360 | He did like some trip to Israel and they were on this trip with him and he had inserted
00:22:01.160 | something like a special thing.
00:22:03.280 | I don't remember, like a special dinner, special event on that trip.
00:22:07.760 | And it just blew them away about how thoughtful he was.
00:22:12.080 | He had thought ahead and he had arranged this certain event.
00:22:16.260 | And I thought to myself, I want to be that kind of guy.
00:22:20.560 | I want to be the guy who we're all on a trip or we're going somewhere and here's the spontaneous
00:22:27.280 | surprise.
00:22:28.280 | Here's the event, the special meal, the special touch, the special singer or piece of music.
00:22:35.420 | It's just a special thing.
00:22:37.460 | I want to be the kind of guy who brings that kind of joy to the party.
00:22:40.840 | And a lot of my life I've not been that kind of guy, but I want to be that kind of guy.
00:22:46.480 | And I want to be the kind of guy who thinks about opportunities to make dreams come true.
00:22:52.520 | Because a lot of times it's within my capacity to make a dream come true for someone if I'll
00:22:58.460 | simply pay attention.
00:23:03.320 | Same for you.
00:23:04.320 | All right, let me give an example.
00:23:09.480 | I am sure that you personally engage in various kinds of charity.
00:23:19.680 | Most people do, where they give money away to others expecting nothing in return.
00:23:24.960 | A lot of times though, I think that we give money away in contexts where we don't get
00:23:32.160 | to experience the power of the gift.
00:23:36.920 | An emergency happens across the world and we call up and make a donation to the Red
00:23:42.840 | Cross and they take your $300 and they put it in with the rest of the thousands and hundreds
00:23:48.380 | of thousands of dollars into their general fund and they do their job.
00:23:52.480 | But it doesn't change somebody's life.
00:23:55.320 | But take that same $300 and if you can give it a disaster, sure, I'm not saying don't
00:23:59.280 | do it, but think about how you could take that $300 and how you could make a dream come
00:24:03.000 | true for someone.
00:24:05.640 | What if you gave that $300 donation to one person?
00:24:08.520 | Maybe there's a guy sleeping on the street in your neighborhood and you just went to
00:24:13.040 | him and you gave him $300 or $300 worth of help of some kind if you could find some way
00:24:20.080 | to help him.
00:24:21.880 | What if you went to a struggling single mom that's in your church and instead of giving
00:24:28.320 | $300 to the Red Cross, you paid her rent this month or you sent her and her family on a
00:24:35.160 | vacation or something like that?
00:24:38.640 | The point is that life is full of opportunities and if we look through the lens of I make
00:24:43.920 | dreams come true, then it puts us in a place of looking around and saying, "What dream
00:24:50.480 | could I make come true for someone else?"
00:24:53.120 | And even at the small level, even at let's say the $300 level, are you going to change
00:24:57.540 | somebody's life with $300?
00:25:00.000 | Probably not.
00:25:01.000 | You're not going to solve the homeless guy living in your neighborhood.
00:25:03.520 | You're not going to solve his problems with $300.
00:25:05.960 | You're not going to solve the problem for a single mom with $300 if she doesn't have
00:25:10.520 | any money.
00:25:11.520 | But what you can often do is you can make a dream come true.
00:25:15.640 | You can take somebody on a helicopter ride.
00:25:19.200 | You can take somebody to an event that they just would never spend the money on.
00:25:23.220 | Take them to a concert.
00:25:25.840 | Take them to, I don't know, Disney World or something that makes sense to you.
00:25:31.760 | I've always been fairly practical.
00:25:33.120 | I used to look at people and I used to think, "Why would they spend the money on that?"
00:25:38.120 | Especially poor people.
00:25:39.120 | I used to judge poor people a lot and say, "Why would so-and-so spend money on that?
00:25:42.640 | That's dumb.
00:25:43.640 | If they just saved their money, they could not be poor anymore."
00:25:46.680 | But along the way, I started to observe that when people spend money frivolously, it brings
00:25:52.720 | little sparks of joy into their life.
00:25:55.980 | It brings little bits of light into their life.
00:26:00.880 | And while I personally, I don't think that if I were in financial difficulty, I would
00:26:05.080 | choose to be frivolous with money, I would still want joy in my life.
00:26:09.680 | And maybe there are times that I would.
00:26:14.840 | To this day, I guess this is confessions of Joshua, I have never in my life bought a firework.
00:26:20.280 | I've never spent a dollar on a firework.
00:26:22.120 | I've always thought, "Why would I burn money up?
00:26:23.880 | It doesn't make sense to me.
00:26:25.280 | I'll go to a firework presentation that someone else has done and sure, is there some of my
00:26:28.840 | tax dollar supporting it?"
00:26:30.120 | Maybe sometimes.
00:26:31.120 | But I've never personally gone to a firework stand and purchased fireworks.
00:26:35.880 | But I can't deny the joy that you can bring to your children's heart with some fireworks.
00:26:42.120 | I think that in the coming years, I'll probably for the first time buy some fireworks or some
00:26:47.520 | version of those kinds of events.
00:26:50.440 | I thought about that right now while I'm on this trip.
00:26:53.760 | Why am I on this trip?
00:26:54.760 | Well, part of it is I make dreams come true.
00:26:56.560 | I make dreams come true.
00:26:57.640 | I'm the person who looks and says, "What dreams are out there?"
00:27:01.200 | And that means I'm going to pay attention to my dreams, my wife's dreams, my children's
00:27:04.800 | dreams and I'm going to look for opportunities to make them come true.
00:27:07.640 | And I'm going to do this on a daily basis.
00:27:09.200 | I'm going to say, "What would be something cool?
00:27:10.920 | What would be something special?
00:27:12.200 | How could I bring some joy to life?
00:27:14.640 | How can I bring some life to this party that's around me?"
00:27:19.680 | I don't much see what the point is of getting rich if you don't enjoy it.
00:27:24.920 | Again, change of mindset, didn't used to see that.
00:27:28.560 | But at this point in time, I honestly genuinely don't see what the point of getting rich is
00:27:33.240 | if you don't bring some joy to life.
00:27:35.520 | I have a very hard time these days reading a lot of frugal blogs, reading people's stories
00:27:40.920 | and whatnot because a lot of what they say just doesn't resonate with me because it's
00:27:47.680 | not wrapped in the wrapper of a joyful life.
00:27:51.760 | Now I respect people's ability to make their own decisions.
00:27:56.040 | I respect each person's ability to choose what to do.
00:28:01.520 | But I don't get it.
00:28:04.400 | I don't see what the point of it is.
00:28:05.400 | I'll give you just an example from a friend of mine.
00:28:07.600 | I have a friend of mine who lives near Orlando.
00:28:11.360 | And each year, this particular friend, a couple of friends, they enjoy going sometimes, they
00:28:20.080 | have enjoyed going to the Gaylord Palms in Orlando to see the Christmas celebrations.
00:28:24.040 | If you've never been to Gaylord Palms Resort, they're pretty spectacular.
00:28:27.200 | They're pretty amazing.
00:28:28.200 | I still remember the first time I went to Gaylord Palms in Orlando and just it's pretty
00:28:31.640 | jaw-dropping to see.
00:28:33.200 | Beautiful.
00:28:34.200 | Then inside the Gaylord Palms, I think there's one in Washington, I think, one in Tennessee,
00:28:39.000 | one in Orlando and there may be one more.
00:28:40.880 | But inside the Gaylord Palms, they have different scenes that are set up.
00:28:45.280 | And they have this giant atrium with a glass roof and they have all the different animals
00:28:50.960 | and flora.
00:28:54.840 | And it's really incredible to see.
00:28:56.840 | And then they decorate beautifully for Christmas.
00:28:59.500 | And so my friends who went, they have a lot of money.
00:29:03.440 | They're financially independent.
00:29:04.640 | They have a lot of money.
00:29:05.840 | Now, they got there by being very careful with their expenses.
00:29:09.840 | They're very frugal and they got there by being frugal with their expenses.
00:29:14.300 | But they planned and they drove to Orlando to go and have lunch at the Gaylord Palms.
00:29:17.080 | And they got to the parking lot and to park, I think it's $14 to park your car at the Gaylord
00:29:21.960 | Palms, regardless of how much time it is.
00:29:24.240 | And they were so annoyed by the $14 fee that instead of going in and having lunch, they
00:29:28.400 | turned around and they left.
00:29:31.440 | And when I heard the story, I just thought, "What is the point of being rich if you don't
00:29:36.200 | go to the Gaylord Palms for lunch to enjoy the Christmas decorations?
00:29:39.600 | And why would $14 be the point that turns you away?"
00:29:43.160 | Now, in defense, if I actually asked my friends directly, they would say, "Listen, Joshua,
00:29:51.480 | we like saving money and we're happier to save money than we are to squander it on $14
00:29:57.440 | of a parking fee.
00:29:59.720 | And it's their money.
00:30:00.720 | They're responsible.
00:30:01.720 | They don't answer to me or to anybody and I respect them and their decisions.
00:30:04.820 | But it doesn't make sense to me, me personally."
00:30:07.240 | Now, share it with you because perhaps you've done things like that, that you could have
00:30:12.440 | the nice thing, but you don't.
00:30:15.200 | Why not?
00:30:17.120 | Why not?
00:30:19.600 | If you're financially independent, you're not going to all of a sudden go broke because
00:30:23.680 | you bought the $14 parking fee to go and enjoy the experience.
00:30:29.080 | It's kind of similar in like the way I scratch my head sometimes with people who go to run-of-the-mill
00:30:34.640 | ordinary restaurants all the time.
00:30:36.800 | And I think, "Why do you go to Chili's?"
00:30:38.680 | I actually like Chili's.
00:30:39.680 | I'm a weirdo.
00:30:40.680 | I don't go to Chili's or Friday's or these restaurants chains in the United States.
00:30:42.880 | I enjoy Olive Garden breadsticks.
00:30:45.480 | But there are a lot of people who go to those things constantly and I think, "Why not switch
00:30:49.480 | it up?"
00:30:50.480 | Right?
00:30:51.480 | Go this week, but the next week take a bottle of wine and a nice baguette to the park so
00:30:56.400 | that the following week you can go to the really great steakhouse.
00:31:00.120 | Why not have the variety, the zest of life?
00:31:03.520 | We're not all the same.
00:31:04.520 | People are different.
00:31:05.560 | But look for the opportunities to make dreams come true.
00:31:08.120 | Look for the opportunities to do things that are genuinely special.
00:31:11.600 | Because if you don't do that, if you don't make dreams come true, then life just has
00:31:16.640 | a certain sameness to it.
00:31:18.640 | It's kind of the same old, same old, same old.
00:31:22.000 | And this is easy, right?
00:31:23.160 | I have four young children.
00:31:26.280 | It's challenging for me to say, to keep my life full of the kinds of experiences that
00:31:31.600 | I want to keep it full of.
00:31:32.760 | It's challenging.
00:31:33.760 | It's really tough.
00:31:35.600 | I enjoy a Netflix and chill night just like anybody else does.
00:31:38.440 | In fact, I probably enjoy it more than going to a theater.
00:31:42.000 | But if life is not made up of moments with some spice, some moments that make you go,
00:31:53.120 | "This is nice," then there's this just boring sameness to it all, this humdrum existence.
00:31:59.680 | And I don't think that's necessary.
00:32:02.200 | You can do better and I think you should.
00:32:04.000 | Make dreams come true.
00:32:05.000 | I stole my thunder on the next one.
00:32:07.440 | I make dreams come true.
00:32:10.520 | Now a dream doesn't have to be a big thing.
00:32:14.040 | I just started listening on this trip.
00:32:16.760 | We've been driving with the children and I'm always looking for...
00:32:19.520 | I find it really hard to find good Spanish audio books for them.
00:32:23.520 | And so I just started them off on Anne of Green Gables in Spanish, "Anna de las Tejas
00:32:28.960 | Verdes."
00:32:29.960 | I've read Anne of Green Gables when I was a kid and I enjoyed it.
00:32:32.880 | But so I've been listening to it yesterday in the car while driving across Mexico with
00:32:36.920 | my family.
00:32:38.680 | And I was listening to it and I was just thinking about, I love that protagonist's view of life.
00:32:48.640 | She's just got this zest for living, this desire to take full advantage of everything.
00:32:54.960 | And the things that she is dreaming of are profoundly simple.
00:33:00.620 | And yet in the story, they're meaningful to her.
00:33:05.160 | And I think a lot of times we're scared to talk about dreams.
00:33:09.620 | We're scared to talk about dreams because somehow we unconsciously assign multimillion
00:33:14.440 | dollar price tags to dreams.
00:33:18.480 | And yet you don't have to do that.
00:33:21.640 | I make dreams come true.
00:33:25.960 | The first step of making a dream come true is to identify what the dream is.
00:33:30.880 | And a lot of times these are very simple.
00:33:33.240 | I'll share one of mine.
00:33:35.760 | It's no secret.
00:33:38.040 | I spent a lot of my life living a very structured existence, getting up, very, very busy, packed
00:33:45.400 | schedule, et cetera.
00:33:46.400 | A number of years ago, I just realized one of my dreams...
00:33:50.240 | Why did I want to be financially independent?
00:33:51.480 | Why do I want to be financially independent?
00:33:53.240 | Because I don't want to have an alarm clock.
00:33:57.000 | Realized one of my dreams is to live a life where I don't have to have an alarm clock.
00:34:02.360 | Now you can take that in two ways.
00:34:05.440 | You can say, "Well, I got to have $10 million in the bank so I don't have to get up in the
00:34:08.400 | morning."
00:34:09.400 | Or you can just adjust your life in some way that you don't need an alarm clock.
00:34:13.480 | And I personally find living more or less without an alarm clock...
00:34:16.760 | Of course, I have a phone like everyone else that I have to catch a flight.
00:34:20.400 | I set an alarm clock.
00:34:22.160 | But I enjoy very much the existence of living without answering to an alarm clock.
00:34:29.760 | I've made my dream come true.
00:34:32.600 | And when you sit back and you start thinking about dreams, you have to begin with a list.
00:34:38.840 | If you say, "I make dreams come true," in addition to whose dreams, which we just talked
00:34:45.640 | about, what are those dreams?
00:34:51.920 | What are they?
00:34:52.920 | And you start to pay attention.
00:34:55.720 | Now it would be nice if we could all have a list of all the dreams and write them down,
00:34:59.160 | but the reality is none of us are that structured in life.
00:35:02.880 | But by actually paying attention and realizing, "You know what?
00:35:05.040 | This is a dream of mine," then you can identify something that you want and you can pay attention
00:35:09.600 | to it.
00:35:10.760 | And so much of the time, we don't pay attention to the things that we want and thus we have
00:35:14.400 | no clarity on where we want to go, no clear idea of what we want to do or why.
00:35:21.320 | And with that lack of clarity, we move through life without any sense of direction, without
00:35:26.160 | any sense of certainty.
00:35:27.800 | We live out the dreams that other people have handed to us.
00:35:30.200 | The society has said that this is what you should do, and we don't go with it.
00:35:34.920 | Give you an example, okay?
00:35:37.320 | Very simple example.
00:35:39.040 | I may at some point in the future own a house again.
00:35:41.800 | I'm not opposed to owning a house.
00:35:44.360 | But my dream is not to own a house.
00:35:48.280 | That's not me.
00:35:49.280 | I don't want to just have a big, beautiful house and be there all the time and whatnot.
00:35:54.600 | I have people that I love very much.
00:35:56.280 | That is their dream.
00:35:58.280 | And so by just simply recognizing that's not my dream, you can give yourself permission
00:36:05.280 | to imagine a whole different lifestyle and recognize that we don't all have to live the
00:36:12.880 | same lifestyle.
00:36:15.440 | Maybe this is.
00:36:16.440 | I don't know maybe about it.
00:36:17.760 | This is a very millennial type of thing.
00:36:19.920 | But I remember the day when I ticked the last box on life's list.
00:36:27.640 | I ticked that last box, right?
00:36:29.600 | I graduated from high school.
00:36:31.800 | I went to college.
00:36:32.800 | I graduated from college.
00:36:33.800 | I got a job.
00:36:36.240 | I got married.
00:36:37.240 | I got a dog.
00:36:38.240 | And the last box, I bought a house.
00:36:40.520 | And the last box that I ticked was have a baby.
00:36:42.240 | I remember when I bought my wife and I had our first child and I just thought, "I'm done.
00:36:47.120 | I've done it.
00:36:48.720 | I'm done."
00:36:49.720 | I never worried about, "Oh, you're going to have a college fund."
00:36:52.360 | I'm done.
00:36:53.360 | I ticked all the boxes.
00:36:55.800 | Now I've experienced what this is like and I can consciously choose to enjoy these things
00:37:02.320 | or I can consciously choose to make different decisions in life.
00:37:07.320 | Got rid of my job.
00:37:08.320 | Got rid of my house.
00:37:10.080 | Not going to get rid of my dogs, my kids, or my wife, but I'm willing to think about
00:37:14.120 | a different lifestyles than most people do.
00:37:17.200 | And I love it.
00:37:18.200 | It's exciting.
00:37:19.760 | Why?
00:37:21.000 | Because I've become more attuned to what my personal dreams are.
00:37:27.040 | Now I'm trying to pay a lot of attention also to what are the dreams of those around me.
00:37:32.400 | I've become a much better listener over the last years.
00:37:34.880 | What are my wife's dreams?
00:37:37.400 | What are my children's dreams?
00:37:38.400 | What are my parents' dreams?
00:37:40.720 | Because if I make dreams come true, I'm the kind of person who has to listen for what
00:37:44.360 | those are and look for opportunities to bring some spice to life.
00:37:50.000 | Not always been very good at it, but I want to be good at it.
00:37:53.320 | I want to get better because I want to be the kind of person who makes dreams come true.
00:38:03.440 | I make dreams come true.
00:38:10.200 | In order to make a dream come true, you have to follow through.
00:38:14.240 | You have to actually do it.
00:38:17.380 | I make dreams come true.
00:38:21.920 | Not just in my head, not just imagining them.
00:38:24.840 | I actually make them come true.
00:38:29.720 | We come back again to that point of action, that point of commitment, that point of actually
00:38:33.880 | doing something.
00:38:34.880 | I'll give you an example from my own set of dreams.
00:38:41.800 | Later this year, I personally hope to, that's the idea again, administrative challenges,
00:38:47.760 | but later this summer and this fall, I hope to be in Israel.
00:38:53.520 | The reason that I hope to be there is because a number of years ago I went to Egypt.
00:39:00.440 | When I was in Egypt, my entire perspective of the history of the human race completely
00:39:05.440 | changed.
00:39:07.240 | To put it in just a few words, growing up in the West, you basically have this idea,
00:39:15.400 | this archetype that's instilled upon you, it's imprinted on your brain, that things
00:39:20.880 | throughout the world have come from a place of crude beast, let me be careful with that
00:39:28.240 | word, crude beastliness, a place of crude, rough beginnings, no culture, no anything,
00:39:36.680 | to our current age where we are the most advanced creatures who've ever walked the planet.
00:39:41.640 | This is certainly common in the evolutionary paradigm in which so much of our world swims.
00:39:49.160 | The idea that there was a point in time where there was chaos and disorder, and yet through
00:39:55.160 | the power of a biological evolutionary process, things are just getting better and better
00:40:00.480 | and better all the time, more and more sophisticated and better and better.
00:40:03.600 | But yet it goes deeper than that.
00:40:04.840 | It's not just a biological argument that people make.
00:40:07.560 | It's just more of the societal argument.
00:40:09.540 | You see this happen right now in our society where people say, "Well, we're more enlightened.
00:40:13.560 | We understand more about life.
00:40:16.320 | We understand the world.
00:40:17.600 | We're enlightened, much more enlightened than our forebears.
00:40:19.800 | How could so-and-so have believed these beastly concepts, these crude and rough concepts?
00:40:26.640 | Today we know what the verdict of history is going to be, and so we're going to be on
00:40:30.160 | the right side of history going forward."
00:40:32.080 | That's the basic, I would say, mindset that infuses our culture.
00:40:35.640 | This is especially powerful in the United States of America because US Americans generally
00:40:40.240 | see themselves as superior to virtually every country in the world on virtually every metric,
00:40:45.400 | and it's just accepted as a matter of faith.
00:40:48.520 | That's the way it is.
00:40:49.520 | Of course it's the way it is.
00:40:50.520 | After all, this is the United States of America.
00:40:53.440 | I remember the first time I went to ... I've only been to Egypt one time so far.
00:40:57.000 | I went to Egypt, and I started walking through ... The pyramids were ... I don't know.
00:41:02.600 | It was neat to see them, but they didn't impress me all that much.
00:41:05.080 | What impressed me was the temples.
00:41:08.840 | Egypt is so full of these temples, and you walk through some of these ... I think it's
00:41:15.680 | Luxor and Aswan, and you look at these temples and you think, "This is amazing."
00:41:23.880 | I read my Bible a lot over the years, but I was reading when I was there in Egypt through
00:41:29.520 | Genesis and all of a sudden the world looked totally different, and I realized I could
00:41:33.600 | never go back.
00:41:35.440 | If you read the Bible and it talks about Joseph being put a second in command under the pharaoh,
00:41:39.940 | you think, "Oh, Joseph was this little guy out here.
00:41:43.720 | He had ... It says he had granaries full of grain to save the children of Israel from
00:41:47.680 | the famine.
00:41:48.680 | Maybe he had a barn or two."
00:41:49.680 | No.
00:41:51.720 | This was a stunning culture.
00:41:54.580 | The sophistication, the cultural sophistication of the Egyptian people of that day was absolutely
00:42:02.120 | breathtaking.
00:42:03.120 | I realized I'd like to see this better.
00:42:06.040 | I want to go to Petra.
00:42:07.040 | I want to go to Jordan.
00:42:08.040 | I want to go to Israel.
00:42:09.040 | I want to understand these ancient cultures, because this concept that somehow was imprinted
00:42:15.000 | upon me was completely wrong.
00:42:19.080 | The problem is that although I said it, I spent several years just sitting there.
00:42:25.000 | It's like, "Okay, I'd like to do it someday.
00:42:27.200 | I'd like to do it someday, but that's not a good time.
00:42:29.800 | We're having a baby.
00:42:30.840 | It's expensive to go to Israel, et cetera."
00:42:33.440 | I'm like, "No, I really want to do it.
00:42:34.960 | I want to go to Israel.
00:42:35.960 | I want to go to Jordan.
00:42:36.960 | I want to go back to Egypt.
00:42:38.200 | I want to see it for myself."
00:42:40.360 | Finally, at some point in time, I realized, "Listen, Joshua, if you're the kind of guy
00:42:44.700 | who makes dreams come true, you got to actually make them come true, which means you make
00:42:48.960 | the decision.
00:42:50.720 | You pull out the credit card and you put the numbers in and you buy a plane ticket.
00:42:56.040 | You make a hotel reservation.
00:42:59.200 | You sign on the dotted line.
00:43:00.880 | You pull the trigger.
00:43:02.220 | You insert your favorite metaphor, but action is necessary to make dreams come true.
00:43:10.720 | But action only proceeds from a clearer vision of who you are.
00:43:16.520 | It only proceeds from your mindset.
00:43:20.680 | If I'm the kind of person who has dreams, then I'm the kind of person who can look at
00:43:26.680 | life and say, "I've got dreams.
00:43:28.360 | I've got goals.
00:43:29.360 | I've got plans.
00:43:30.360 | I've got things I'd like to do.
00:43:31.360 | I've got dreams.
00:43:33.080 | Who doesn't?"
00:43:35.320 | But if I'm the kind of person who makes dreams come true, it changes the world and it makes
00:43:45.000 | you realize that, "All right, Joshua, you want to go to Israel.
00:43:48.260 | You've said for three years you want to go to Israel.
00:43:50.560 | You've written it down.
00:43:51.560 | I'd like to go to Israel, but it's just never been convenient."
00:43:53.720 | Are you the kind of person who makes dreams come true or are you the kind of person who
00:43:58.320 | just, "Maybe I didn't actually want to go to Israel."
00:44:02.280 | It's actually not that hard to go to Israel.
00:44:03.480 | It's hard in a pandemic, of course, with closed borders, but it shouldn't be very hard pretty
00:44:08.040 | soon.
00:44:09.040 | You buy a plane ticket.
00:44:11.680 | You go.
00:44:12.680 | Hire a tour guide, tour around, and you go and do it.
00:44:22.400 | And almost any dream is actually about that simple.
00:44:28.880 | Notice I said simple, not easy.
00:44:32.000 | Almost any dream is about that simple.
00:44:37.960 | Many times we have dreams that are hard.
00:44:41.120 | Hard is okay.
00:44:42.120 | I like Cliff Gravenscraft's thing, "I don't need easy.
00:44:45.520 | I just need worth it."
00:44:46.520 | It's his favorite saying.
00:44:47.680 | I love that saying.
00:44:48.680 | It's great.
00:44:49.680 | "I don't need easy.
00:44:50.680 | I just need worth it."
00:44:51.680 | It's hard to do easy.
00:44:52.680 | I don't mind hard things.
00:44:53.680 | Doing hard things is fun.
00:44:54.680 | As human beings, we're wired to do hard things.
00:44:57.400 | Why do people go out and run marathons?
00:44:59.200 | There's no reason for them to go run a marathon.
00:45:01.480 | The car works a lot better.
00:45:03.520 | The car gets them from point A to point B. A marathon is terrible for you.
00:45:08.020 | Running marathons is awful for you, but it's hard, and so psychologically it's good for
00:45:13.720 | you, because it's something hard.
00:45:15.880 | We like doing hard things.
00:45:17.200 | Why do we want to save a million dollars or earn $100,000 or get a college degree?
00:45:22.640 | We're not scared of these hard things.
00:45:25.860 | Hard things make us feel alive.
00:45:27.320 | They make us feel excited, enthusiastic about life.
00:45:30.300 | Doing hard things is actually quite fun.
00:45:34.320 | Just think about this.
00:45:35.320 | Think about your friends.
00:45:36.320 | Here's my tough mudder pictures.
00:45:38.340 | Why are you in the freezing rain crawling under barbed wire through the mud?
00:45:42.800 | Because it was fun.
00:45:43.800 | Why was it fun?
00:45:44.800 | It was hard.
00:45:45.800 | I didn't like it, and I wanted to do it.
00:45:47.720 | The examples are endless.
00:45:49.680 | People do hard things because they're fun.
00:45:53.400 | It feels good to do something difficult.
00:45:55.040 | It feels good to have a sense of accomplishment.
00:45:56.760 | Yeah, I did that thing.
00:45:58.840 | I hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back out.
00:46:01.120 | I drove my motorcycle across the United States.
00:46:04.320 | We hiked to the tip of Ushuaia.
00:46:06.440 | Whatever it is, we did it.
00:46:10.840 | It's fun to do hard things.
00:46:16.080 | We don't need easy.
00:46:17.760 | We just need worth it.
00:46:22.000 | I'm not scared by a hard dream.
00:46:28.360 | Hard dream is probably simple.
00:46:31.680 | Take almost any hard thing that you have in life.
00:46:34.800 | I want to become a millionaire.
00:46:37.800 | It's not that hard to become a millionaire.
00:46:40.360 | It's a fairly simple process.
00:46:42.960 | How much money do you earn?
00:46:44.640 | How much money do you spend?
00:46:46.300 | How much money do you invest, and at what rate of return?
00:46:49.120 | Do the math.
00:46:50.120 | We'll tell you when to become a millionaire.
00:46:51.840 | It's very simple.
00:46:53.640 | It's not easy, but it's simple.
00:46:55.120 | If your dream is to become a millionaire, there you go.
00:46:59.320 | You can do it.
00:47:00.360 | But once you count the cost, you actually have to sit down and say, "Okay, I'm making
00:47:04.800 | this much.
00:47:05.800 | I probably need to make more.
00:47:07.240 | I'm spending this much.
00:47:08.360 | I probably need to spend less, and I'm investing at this amount.
00:47:10.520 | I probably need to make a little more money on my investments."
00:47:14.080 | These things are simple, but they're doable, and you can achieve the dream.
00:47:17.320 | But you have to see yourself as the kind of person who can do it and actually start doing
00:47:20.840 | it to make it come true.
00:47:23.720 | If your dream is to go to Israel, you got to make it come true.
00:47:28.800 | If your dream is to run a marathon, you got to make it come true.
00:47:31.320 | If your dream is to get married, make it come true.
00:47:34.040 | Whatever.
00:47:35.280 | You got to make it come true.
00:47:41.040 | If you have the right mindset, and by right, I mean a mindset that is useful to you, a
00:47:49.400 | mindset that serves you.
00:47:51.800 | I'm not arguing here that there's a mindset that's objectively true and objectively wrong.
00:47:57.640 | True and false, right and wrong.
00:47:59.340 | By right, I mean you have a mindset that serves you as a person that helps you.
00:48:02.920 | If you have the right mindset, all of a sudden, life becomes a lot simpler, a lot clearer.
00:48:11.680 | I wish I could have understood that 15 years ago.
00:48:14.640 | I didn't.
00:48:15.640 | But I feel like today I do.
00:48:20.160 | And one component of that is this very simple statement.
00:48:25.200 | I make dreams come true.
00:48:30.120 | If you like my statement, I encourage you to say it to yourself,
00:48:34.760 | and really think about it.
00:48:37.640 | I make dreams come true.
00:48:39.920 | I make dreams come true.
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00:48:47.460 | I make dreams come true.
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00:48:59.280 | I make dreams come true.
00:49:02.280 | I make dreams come true.
00:49:07.440 | I make my dreams come true.
00:49:11.640 | I make my wife's dreams come true.
00:49:13.240 | I make my children's dreams come true.
00:49:17.280 | I make dreams come true.
00:49:21.040 | I make dreams come true.
00:49:27.160 | Not to-do lists.
00:49:28.320 | I make dreams come true.
00:49:32.720 | I make dreams come true.
00:49:36.080 | I make dreams come true.
00:49:40.840 | I make dreams come true.
00:49:46.560 | I make dreams come true.
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