Five Daily Practices for Becoming Unstoppable

In today’s episode, I share how losing everything changed my understanding of success and the daily practices that helped me rebuild. Drawing on lessons from my mom, I explain why receiving help makes us better givers and how gratitude, forgiveness, accountability, and faith shape our ability to move forward. I walk through five practices for becoming unstoppable, from knowing what we want and who can help us to prioritizing what we do now and applying our why. I also share how consistent attention to sleep, health, family, and purpose helps us overcome uncertainty, reduce resistance, and make money for the sake of helping others and having fun. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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  Unstoppable is the common denominator of all successful people. I've been blessed to be around the biggest billionaires, millionaires, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, and entertainers in the world. And the common denominator that they have is the desire that they must be what they can be. And that was instilled in me at a very young age, I apologize. My mom, I'm a fifty-eight-year-old mama's boy, and I lost my mom last year. She raised six kids on her own. My dad left when I was five. She, five boys, one girl. All my siblings went to the Ivy Leagues, Harvard, Penn, Columbia.

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  Not only went to the Ivy Leagues, but graduated summa cum laude and became extraordinary people. I, of course, sit in the low end of the gene pool. I did not go to Harvard, Penn, or Columbia. But I did play football in college, which drove my mom crazy. I actually thought the only thing I wanted when I was young, because I had this extraordinary, unstoppable mom, was to be rich, so I could buy my mom a house and a car. I wanted to be rich to provide financial security, because it was the only thing in my life that was missing, that created stress, and financial stress especially, but unhappiness for me. So I thought I'd be a professional football player.

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  My mom used to say, "You can do whatever you want after graduate school." In fact, she thought the fetus wasn't fully developed till after graduate school. Her favorite saying was, "Doctor, lawyer, or failure." And so my very first college football game, I was the fastest and smallest one on my college football team, so they put me as a bullet on the kickoff team. And I remember thinking in my head, "I'm gonna show all these people that I'm gonna play in the NFL. This is my chance." So I'm flying down on the very first play of my college career. And of course, I get there first, and sure enough, I lay all one hundred and forty-seven pounds of me into the ball carrier. And right then, all of a sudden, he lifts his leg, and I go flying back, and he stepped

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  on me and kept on running. I'm not lying, I lied there on my back thinking, "Doctor, lawyer, or failure." So that was the end of my professional dreams as a football player. There's a lot of lessons I like to teach. And the first lesson, and we'll have time for Q and A, because I don't like to talk to people all the time, I love to listen for things. And I speak two hundred days a year across the country, and I do, in volunteer, a minimum of an hour in each of the places I visit to do a meetup for people that can't afford the help that I give, or the coaching that I give. So I literally, in Times Square, in a lobby of a hotel, will meet up with people.

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  And the lesson about lessons that I've learned is, and I get reminded, because I have a twelve-hundred-dollar bill in California, because I have a storage facility full of banker's boxes, so undergrad, law school, business school, Bob Proctor, Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, all these notes, because I was someone who loved to write down all the things that I learned, and now they're completely useless in those boxes, and I have to pay for them. So what I like to teach people about lessons, because life's about lessons. That's all this is, is about lessons. And I promise you one thing, the lessons will keep on coming until you learn them. I have three daughters and a son, and I see my daughters keep on dating, I mean, learning

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  the same lesson. They look differently every single time, and I'm praying that they'll learn that lesson. So what I've learned about lessons is, we only want to capture, whatever that means to you, it used to mean write it down, we only want to capture the lessons that resonate with us. So we don't want to write down everything, we definitely don't want to capture nothing. But if you feel strongly about a lesson that you learn, you should capture it. And not just strongly for something. So, oh, I'll give you an example. My mom had this quote, it dropped me to my knees when I heard it. I wish I would have heard it at an earlier age, but she said, when I was super successful

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  in my twenties, "You know, son, you're either humble, or you're about to be." And it dropped me to my knees, and it resonates with me. But I also think it's important, if something you feel strongly against, to also capture that lesson. That's where the secrets in life live, is this indication that this is going to be important to you. Right? Intuition is extremely powerful, but the mistake that most people make about intuition, especially in business, is they think that intuition, which is infinite in its nature, and part of the lessons you'll learn today about being unstoppable, is that the reason we're unstoppable is that we actually are always connected to an infinite, abundant,

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  unified system of thought. We are all connected to an infinite amount of energy, so there is no tired in my world. Infinite intuition, intelligence, inspiration, you're just interfering with it. So if you see clues, patterns, in the choices people are making that seem to be tired, it's because people are just interfering, for all the list of the reasons that you talked about, they're interfering with the infinite more and more. And so I'll have professional athletes want to shadow me, so I have them meet me at four a.m., and they stay with me until five p.m. And recently, I had an NBA All-Star come to travel with me, and at three o'clock, he's sleeping in the back of my mobile office. He's out cold.

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  So I'm waking him up, he's like, "Ah." And he's twenty-eight years old, he's taller than me, faster than me, younger than me, stronger than me, better cardio shape than I'll ever be in, or ever probably was, and yet he's exhausted at three p.m. He's one of those people that you talk about, they're tired. And he said, "Mr. Meltzer, how is it? You're old and out of shape, and you have way more money." More money, I had more money than I wish. He's an NBA All-Star. "You have more energy than me? How is that possible?" And I said, "'Cause I listen to you all day interfere with the infinite. You have a need to be right, a need to be offended, a need to be separate, a need to be superior, inferior, literally worried, angry, resentful, guilty.

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  I listen to you all day long, talk to your agent, and your girlfriends, and all these other people, and that's all I saw, was interference, interference, interference." Where I still feel angry, upset, separate, inferior, superior, anxious, frustrated, guilty, resentful, worried, but only for minutes and moments. Only for minutes and moments. So I'm utilizing the infinite much better. Intuition is something that I utilize, but I know one thing about the infinite, it's not applicable to man-made constructs. So it's not applicable to man-made constructs. So what does that mean? Is that too many people mistake the gut feeling with time. I'll give you the perfect example. Anyone ever play the game Craps in Las Vegas? Anyone gamble?

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  Everyone know what Craps is, the dice game? Yeah, it's the ultimate example of intuition being mistakenly put into man-made constructs of time. And I was a victim of this when I was young, because I was stupid, and I would gamble and party, and I remember being at the Craps table, and God would tell me, "Heart eight." That means double fours. God, I swear to God, God called me and said, "Heart eight." And so I put a thousand dollars on heart eight, I roll, no heart eight. So then I go, "Oh, shit, another thousand, no heart eight." Maybe another two or three, until I quit, and then three rolls later, heart eight, and I'd say, "See?" Well, your intuition is just elevating your awareness to something that's going to be

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  important to you sometime in the future, not on the next roll. Not on the next rolls. It's like giving. Right? People think, anyone here believe the more you give, the more you receive? Please raise your hand. Absolutely true in the infinite. More love you give, the more love you receive. The more kindness you give, the more kindness you receive. The more forgiveness you give, the more forgiveness you receive. The more value you give, the more value you receive. But if I told you, the more napkins you give, the more napkins you're gonna receive, does anyone believe me? Then why do so many people believe that the more money I give, the more money I receive, because it's the same as a napkin? Your money is exactly the same as a napkin.

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  It is a man-made construct. Now, the more value you give, the more value you receive. And so I see a ton of people who are the kindest, most generous, loving, forgiving, value-giving people, that end up broke, because they think it's applicable to man-made constructs, and they keep giving all their money away and receiving less. Mostly because those people think that receiving is not a way of giving. I will tell you, one of the greatest ways to be successful is to understand receiving more than giving. Naturally, you want to give, and I'll tell you why. Because when you give, you're closest to God. When you're able and capable of helping someone else, that's the closest we feel to God. It's your higher self.

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  And so many of us, especially entrepreneurs, especially the kindest, most generous, giving, forgiving, loving people, they don't like to receive. My mom was one of them, drove me crazy. You can imagine how broke we were, we were on food stamps sometimes, and my uncles were wealthy. And my uncles were like, "Oh, you know, let us help you out." "No, it's okay, we don't need anything." And I'm sitting there at twelve years old, going, "What the..." I need a car. What do you mean we don't need? I'm living in two-bedroom apartment with six of us. I need more. But yet, my mom didn't realize that by receiving, you allow someone else to be able and capable of helping you. You allow someone else to be closer to God, to feel their highest self. That's true fulfillment.

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  You are cheating people if you don't receive or ask for help. And I want, if you can think about, or if it resonates with you, I want you to leave here with that lesson. Because your life will change forever. If you can grasp the fact that you are a greater giver because you receive and ask for more, you have more faith in the illustration of faith that there's more than enough of everything for everyone because you ask for more, for the sake of what? Helping other people. Because if you give more, you're given more. If you're given more, you receive more. If you receive more, you can ask for more than more. Now you can give more than more. Be given more than more. Receive more than more and ask for more than more than more. But most of us give more and receive less and wonder why we're living in a zero-sum game

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  with the man-made constructs, not with the infinite. So, we're going to talk about utilizing the infinite to its greatest advantage to make a lot of money for the sake of helping others and having fun. That's my mission. I was called on this mission after I made my first million nine months out of law school, bought my mom a house. We exited my first business in 1995 to Thomson Reuters for $3.4 billion, with a B in 1995. By the time 2008 came, I was worth over $100 million and lost everything and went bankrupt. Every penny I had.

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  And there was people who warned me along the way. My dad, my mom, my best friend, and my wife. And before I lost everything, I remember sitting going, "I hate my mom, I hate my dad, I hate my best friend, and I hate my wife." You want to know why? Because they told me the truth. Everybody else was sucking up to me all the time, telling me how amazing I was so they could fly on my plane, go on my boats, hang out at my houses, do all the cool shit and have me pay for it. But the only people that really loved me told me the truth. "You're lost, I'm worried about you, you're going to end up dead." In fact, I represented a guy named From Here, Little John.

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  And John invited, yeah, yeah. John invited me to the Grammy Awards. And I lived in Rancho Santa Fe in San Diego. And I said to my wife, "I'd like to go to the Grammys with John." She said, "Bad idea. I don't like what you're doing. You're not paying attention to the family, and I'm worried you're going to end up dead. Please don't go." So I lied to her. Told her I had a business meeting out of town. Went to the Grammy Awards, came home 5:30 in the morning, a complete disaster. And she was waiting for me, surprisingly, to tell me she wasn't happy and she was going to leave me. I remember looking at her going, "Are you kidding me?

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  Look around you. Who did all this? Who do you think did all this?" She goes, "I really don't care. I'm worried about you. And I don't want my three..." At the time, I had three daughters. "I do not want them to be around this. You're going to end up dead." I told her, "F you," went to bed. Woke up in the morning, hating my mom, my dad, my best friend, and my wife. And there it was. I looked over in my closet. When I was 30 years old, my dad gave me a jacket for my 30th birthday. I hadn't talked to my dad for years. I was so excited to get this jacket. And when I put it on, it fit perfectly, which made me even more excited because he actually cared enough to fit this odd body perfectly.

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  So I opened it up and I look inside to see if it says, "Especially made for my son," or "Armani." But he had torn out the pockets of my jacket. I told my dad, I called him, and I said, "Why would you give me, after all these years, a birthday present I can't use?" He goes, "Well, you can use it, it's just not for wearing." I go, "Why would you give me a jacket I can't wear?" He said, "It's to remind you that money doesn't buy love. I'm worried about you. You're just like me. You think money will buy everything you desire." And I remember telling him straight out, "Nothing like you. You're a liar, a cheater, manipulator, overseller, back-end seller, and I hate you." And I hung up on him. I was sitting there in bed six years later,

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  and I look over in my closet and there's that jacket. I hadn't seen that jacket. I looked over and there's that jacket. And I thought to myself, "I don't hate my mom, don't hate my dad, I don't hate my best friend, Rob, definitely don't hate my wife, I hated myself." I was the liar, the cheater, manipulator, overseller, and back-end seller. Two years after that, as I went through this journey that I'm going to teach you, these practices that changed my life, I lost everything. My basement had a basement that day that I lost everything. Because what you don't realize, when you lose over $100 million and go bankrupt, most people that go bankrupt would understand this, but let alone when you lose that much money,

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  you wait till the very last second to tell your wife. And you don't tell anybody else in the whole world. Right? That's the formula that I've realized about losing everything. Wait till the very last minute to tell your wife and do not tell anybody else. So, I had to go tell my mom that I lost everything. And she had no clue the financial disaster that I created for myself by not paying attention and giving attention to what I desired. Not following the values, the practices, and the execution model that my mom taught me, not by listening to her, but by watching her. Watching the number-one unstoppable person I've ever met. Sorry.

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  So, I go up to my mom's door, and I just start crying like this, but way worse, like a four-year-old when you can't understand them. And she's like, "What? What's the matter? Are you okay? Are your family okay? The kids are okay? Yeah, mom, mom, I lost everything. But I forgot to take your name, my name off of your title. I lost your home. You're being evicted and you need to move." Now, the universe has a great sense of humor. Only reason I wanted to be rich was to buy my mom a house and a car. And I had to tell my mom, not only had I lost everything, but I lost her home and she needed to move. And she looked at me, and I thought, if any of you are old enough to remember Sanford and Son,

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  I thought it was going to be a Red Fox moment, for sure. But it wasn't. My mom looked at me and said, "Are you okay?" "No." "Do you need some money?" "Mom, I don't think you heard me. I lost everything. You need to move." "Oh, sweetheart, I heard you. What can I do to help you?" I said, "Mom, why is God punishing me?" My mom's very religious. And she looked at me and she smirked. She said, "God doesn't punish anyone. He's protecting you, promoting you, loving and perfecting you. You're almost 40 years old, son. You've got to figure this out, and I'm happy to help you." That was her response. So my response to that, I don't believe in God.

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  And that's when she just smiled at me, hugged me, and said, "Oh, you believe in God. You just believe in the wrong God. I want you to go home and take stock in who you were and what you want to become. People will call on you for what you were, but God will call on you for what you want to become. I want you to take stock in the values that I taught you and the practices that will get you to your divine direction and execute them every single day. Enjoy the consistent, persistent pursuit of that potential. And I promise you, you'll have more than enough of everything." And so I did. Years passed, and I made more money, helped more people,

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  and had more fun, to a point where I was back to where I was. I bought my wife her dream house in San Diego on the beach. And I remember having a conversation with her that day. "What else can I do for you? You saved my life. I would not be alive but for you." "Whatever you wish." And her first answer was, "Take care of yourself. All you're doing is taking care of everyone else. You're going to, again, end up dead if you don't take care of yourself."

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  And then, right then, my 12-year-old daughter came in crying. Once again, you want to make God laugh, come up with a well-developed plan. This 12-year-old comes in crying, like, now what? She looks at me, her best friend committed suicide. A 12-year-old. Now, I've been around CTE, PTSD, alcoholism, drug abuse, all the different variant ways that people want to kill themselves, depression, as grown-ups. But in my wildest dreams, I could not figure out that day why a 12-year-old who comes from a really good family that wasn't using drugs, had everything you could ever think of, would take her own life.

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  I took off my shoes, socks, told my wife I needed to go walk on the beach. I was walking on the beach, and God called on me. Said, "Son, you have the power to empower other people to be happy. You can change the world." And literally, in my mind, I'm like, I don't even believe still that much in God, let alone God calling on me or talking to me, you know, burning bushes and all the things I had studied as a kid. I'm like, "Oh, God, this is crazy." And it kept resonating with me. You can teach people to make a lot of money for the sake of helping others and having fun. And the truth is, I've never met anyone

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  who makes a lot of money for the sake of helping others and having fun that isn't happy. So now, the bigger challenge was to go back to my house and tell my wife that I'm on a mission to change the world. How am I gonna do this? So I called this guy, Tim Story. Anyone ever, he's known as the Comeback Coach? So Tim Story's my comeback coach. I hired Tim Story, I hired a sleep coach. Those are the first two coaches I hired when I lost everything. Spent a third of my life sleeping. I thought, "Shit, if I can recover and access information from God while I sleep, I'm gonna be able to perform better than everyone else, and Tim Story's gonna teach me how to make this comeback." He did it for Robert Downey Jr., did it for all these, he's gonna help me.

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  So I called Tim Story, I was like, "Dude, you're super religious, you're like a minister." God talked to me. "Really? What did he say?" "Said I can change the world." "Really? How are you gonna do that?" I said, "Well, I'm really good at three things. Making a lot of money, helping people and having fun, and I'm gonna teach people through values, practices, and executing consistently, persistently on that, how to do it. I'm gonna find a thousand people, I'm gonna do shows, speak around the world. I'm gonna find a thousand people, a thousand leaders like you that will empower a thousand to empower a thousand, a thousand times a thousand's a million, a million times a thousand's a billion. I'll create a collective consciousness of a billion people. One particle of light overcomes a million particles of darkness. I can change the world." And he goes, "Yeah, you can."

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  I said, "But I can't tell people this." "Why not? They're gonna think I'm nuts." Like, here's the guy that lost everything, made it back, now he's some narcissistic bullshitter, and he's going to tell the world he's gonna change it by teaching them these three things through values, daily practices, and execution model. And he said something that literally changed my life. He said, "David, God is not going to give you an invitation without already knowing your limitations." If there's a better lesson for entrepreneurs in this world, because I guarantee, if you don't have a calling for the business you're in, you won't be unstoppable.

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  You won't have a desire that you must be what you can be. You will continue just to interfere with the infinite amount of energy, inspiration, intuition, intelligence that exists. It exists. You just need to practice getting out of your own way or stop interfering with it. And so that's what I've been doing for all this time. The values are quite simple. Gratitude gives you perspective. Remember, the thoughts that we have create a perspective. The perspective you have creates meaning. Meaning you have creates intention. What you pay attention to and what you give intention to equals the coincidences in your life. The coinciding of what you desire.

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  Napoleon Hill, which I'm the chairman not only of the Unstoppable Foundation, but the Napoleon Hill Institute. Napoleon Hill makes it quite clear, if you haven't read Think and Grow Rich or Outwitting the Devil, that you need a definiteness of purpose. You need to do, say, think, feel, and believe aligned in your divine direction and figure out what you're doing to interfere with it. Your thoughts become perception, perception, meaning, meaning becomes your intention, and intentions become your behaviors. Your behaviors then become your result.

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  Forgiveness will give you the ease. Accountability will give you control. Accountability is not just, "I'm responsible for it," or "I attracted this to myself," or "I'm participating in this perception." It has to include, "What did I do to learn? What am I supposed to learn from this? What did I do to be responsible, to attract it, to participate in this perception? What am I supposed to learn from it?" And then, to live inspired in spirit. There's no searching for why, there's just applying your why. It already exists. So many people in my coaching world, "Mr. Meltzer, help me find my purpose, help me find my why."

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  I'm like, "It's already here, right inside of you." I'll help you stop interfering with it. And so, through gratitude, forgiveness, accountability, and effective communication, inspiration, we now can utilize and practice those things. So how do we do that? The first practice that I'm gonna teach you is know your what. Each and every day, see, your life is divided by a guarantee by God. Your God, not mine. Whatever religious philosophy, theory, spirituality you believe in, it's yours. Not mine. But I promise you, your God gave you 24 hours a day like everybody else. It's a guarantee. You will receive 24 hours a day, every single day of your life,

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  except for your last day, you'll be cheated. That's the whole man-made construct of your lifetime. Your heart will start, day one, your heart will stop, last day. 24 hours each and every day. So knowing your what is, what am I going to do today in alignment with where I think I want to be in the future? Your divine direction, where you think you want to be in the future, and aligning not only with the divine direction, personally, experientially, giving and receiving, but aligning what? The thoughts, the perceptions, and the meaning of your past. Mistakes, failures, setbacks, defining moments, historical relevances, all of these things in your past, you must align them with your divine direction

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  as much as you have a divine direction. Why? Because if you don't, the meaning you give, those mistakes, setbacks, failures, defining moments, historical relevances, will limit your self-image. And I will tell you one thing about all the thousands of people, now even millions of people that I've coached and helped, nobody, none of them will ever overachieve their own self-image. You will never overachieve your own self-image. So if you're not spending time aligning the meaning of your past, the thoughts, perception, and meaning of that, you will not achieve your potential, even if you're pursuing your divine direction of where you think you want to be every single day. Now, here's a problem that occurs for so many entrepreneurs especially,

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  is there's this thing called uncertainty. Has anybody ever read like Housel, Psychology of Money? Right? One little thing that people think about can screw up the whole plan, regardless of the history, regardless. So we have only one thing to be certain, which is uncertainty. So how can we hedge our bet as entrepreneurs to be successful when we know time, emotion, and value changes instantly, no matter what the decision you make or agreement you make? Verbal, implied, written, doesn't matter, even with consideration. The minute you take a check and sign an agreement, time, emotion, and value changes, which makes business so difficult. Because time, emotion, and value has changed.

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  So how do we take advantage of this? Well, we know it's 24 hours, so I split my day in half. Half of the 24 hours is non-negotiable behavior. What does that mean, non-negotiable behavior? I take out circumstance, I take out uncertainty. So I tell myself, no matter what happens in the next 24 hours, I'm gonna assign a minimum amount of time to these activities. No matter what happens. Interest rates, weather, diverted to Alabama, have to Uber into Atlanta for EO. No matter what happens. And so, I started to create 12 hours, and starting with the easiest one, called sleep. I used to be, wanna be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I represented the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I now wanna be in the Sleep Hall of Fame.

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  I got a sleep coach in Tim Story when I went broke. Why? Because I spent a third of my life sleeping. Sleeping is for recovery and access of information from the divine, if you do it appropriately. So I assign a minimum amount of time to my sleep, my health, my family, my faith, then my finance, then the study of time, so I'm better at it, and the study of relativity or meaning, thoughts, and perception of time. And that equals a minimum of 12 hours a day. Now, do I miss? Yes. When my mom got sick at 2:00 in the morning and I had to go to the hospital, I didn't get my minimum sleep in. But I tell you, my commitment to non-negotiable behavior was, if I had to make an exception and I didn't get the time

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  that was assigned, minimum amount of time, then I would double down on it the next day and make it a super priority so I wouldn't stack losses. They wouldn't become habits. I would continually to move and progress in an exponential manner. So knowing my what was divided by non-negotiable behavior, and believe it or not, what I found as an entrepreneur, and this is hard for you to believe, because it was hard for me, that 90% of my success, when people ask, doesn't come from wise business decisions. All the shit that I've written, read, studied, all these amazing people and connections that I have. You know where my true success, 90% of it comes from? Being consistent and persistent with my sleep, my health, my family, my faith,

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  the study of finance, the study of time and relativity. All the other things that I thought was making the difference, buy, sell, invest, don't invest, all the... Excuse my language, I wrote a book called Don't Do Business with Dick. It doesn't mean dick. But if you stay consistent on your sleep, your health, your family, your faith, your finance, your study of time and relativity, everything takes care of itself, and you'll get better at prioritizing the other 12 hours and enjoying it, knowing that it's so uncertain, and you'll remind yourself of those 12 hours, "I'm either humble or I'm about to be."

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  That's what I remind myself on. I still make stupid, especially with their kids, right? We give bad advice as parents. Just because someone loves you doesn't mean they give you good advice. The reason parents give such shitty advice is, one, they don't know what they don't know, which is basically about everything. And, two, their whole role is to protect their children. So, all they're doing is spewing bullshit to their kids to protect them. "Don't play video games. Don't be a DJ." Meanwhile, frickin', Little John makes forty million dollars a year, and my cousin who went to Brown and went to med school makes like, nothing. He owes more than he makes.

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  And I guarantee, my mom would have told Little John, "Don't be a DJ. Go to med school." Right? I was about to throw my kid's calculus books away when he was playing Fortnite during COVID. Because I don't know what I don't know. But just the other day, my middle daughter bought a place in Chicago, and she, "Dad, should I lock in my rate?" I'm like, "Oh, yeah." You know, you don't want to lock in. Interest rates are only going down. What am I thinking? Yeah, I know exactly what I'm thinking. This is all uncertain. As long as I'm spending a minimum on a time. I showed Sean earlier, I said, "Look what I text my kids every day." "I love you. I'm proud of you, and I always have your back." Minimum, every day.

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  Here's what I text my mom, including now, even though she's passed. I kept her phone, and I pay for her plan, so I can text her what I did for over eighteen years. "I am happy. I am healthy. I love you and appreciate you forever."

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  Every day. Two minutes a day is worth more than two hours on a Saturday. Study physics. I promise you that's true. Two minutes of what you pay attention and give intention to is worth more than two hours on a Saturday. If you don't believe me, who here has kids? Any of them ever take math or Spanish? Good. I'll tell you this. I've never met a kid who studies math or Spanish fifteen minutes a day that doesn't get an A. Your kid studies math or Spanish fifteen minutes a day, seven days a week, I will guarantee them an A. But I know a ton of kids who study fifteen hours before the test and don't get As. This is the way attention and intention works in the coinciding of what you desire or better. Know your what. Number two.

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  The easiest way to get to where you want to be or better is to find someone that's already there and ask them for help. That's what this group is about. Know your who is daily practice number two. Know who you can help and who can help you. As I align my divine direction each and every day, I'm trying to find people who sit in the situation that I want to be in, but also find people that I can help get to where they want to be as well. So, the person who said you're the aggregate of the five people you spend the most time with is full of shit as well. They were giving good advice, in their opinion, to help you. But the truth is, you need to form teams of people by subject matter, topic, and expertise. You want to know AI?

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  I'm a ball boy on the AI team, but I have the Zen masters that are teaching me. And then, there's the water boy who I'm trying to help be the ball boy. When it came to family, right? You're the team owner, maybe, or like me, just the coach, and your wife's the team owner. So, she helps you get to where you're... My mom, right, was the commissioner of the league when it came to family. But my kids are here. We want to have these teams. Know your who. Because most people live their lives in nothingness. I have, now that you're done eating, a description of most people. Napoleon Hill calls them drifters. Ninety-eight percent of the people are drifters.

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  Read Outwitting the Devil, extraordinary book that talks about drifting. I like to call the ninety-eight percent of the people on earth tubes. They live their lives like tubes. Food in, food out. That's their whole life. Because they live in nothingness. But the minute you know your what, the nothingness becomes a possibility, a mathematical advantage, over nothing. And if you know your who, the possibility becomes a probability. Another mathematical advantage. Statistically, it's advantageous just to know your what and your who. The third is know your how.

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  Know your how is the third. Look at your day, study your calendar with lenses of productivity, accessibility, and gratitude. How productive, how much value am I providing? How accessible am I to others? And how am I accessing what I desire? And how am I finding the light, the love, and the lessons in the stuff that makes no sense? See, here's the formula for entrepreneurs with knowing your how. You're doing all the right behaviors, but the evidence every day aligned with your behaviors is nonexistent that you're ever going to be successful. Or worse, most of the time, as an entrepreneur, you're doing everything you're supposed to be doing, thinking, saying, believing, and feeling, most of the time.

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  But the evidence is contrary to where you want to be or better. When I lost everything, if somebody would have told me that day, when my mom told me I was protected, promoted, loved, and perfected, I had to bite my tongue not to tell my mom to F off. Like, why? My life's over. My basement had a basement. There's no evidence that I'd be here in a position financially, helping philanthropically, and enjoying my life at this level. If somebody would have told me that eighteen years ago, I had this much faith. But I did have this much faith, and I was encouraged by my wife, my best friend, my dad, and my mom especially, to encourage that faith. Because what I've learned in the eighteen years in knowing my how is that to shorten the distance of resistance,

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  to shorten that interference, you need two things. Wisdom, which is found by either experience or others' experiences, and faith. Wisdom and faith are what shortens the distance of resistance. Because every problem that you have today, every setback, failure, and mistake that you have today, the solution is already there. It's already there. It's already there. It's just what? A lapse of time until you figure it out. That's why they call it a what? A resolution. Because it's already there. It's not the solution. It's the resolution to that problem. Because it's already there, you just had to figure it out. And in order to do so, we need to know our how.

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  Productivity, accessibility, and gratitude to find the light, the love, and the lessons when we're responsible, attracted, or we're participating in a perception that's interfering with our higher self. That's why gratitude, forgiveness, accountability, and inspiration, or effective communication are so essential to knowing our how. If you know your how, the possibility becomes the probability, now becomes your perspective, and your perspective will guide your intention, which will create the behaviors, and the behaviors will create the results. Or better. Because we don't really know what we want. We just think we know what we want. And when we have all these practices in place, we realize by protection, promotion, love, and perfection, wisdom, and faith, that we're getting better than what we anticipated. And I will tell you, if I did not lose everything,

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  if I did not have my wife, and my mom especially, I would be dead.

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  Absolutely divorced, which then I would be dead. But I'd be dead for sure. The best thing. Did I know so when there was no evidence or the evidence was contrary? Not a chance. But I'm here to tell you, through these practices, I absolutely have faith that when I don't see the evidence I want or it's contrary, that I'm being protected, promoted, loved, and perfected. I got to seek the wisdom and continue my faith to be unstoppable.

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  Know your what, know your who, know your how. The fourth daily practice, know your now. There's a lot of statistics out there. My favorite statistic of all? Ninety-nine percent of all statistics are made up.

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  My second one is a hundred percent of the things you do now get done. A hundred percent of the things you do next get done. When you know your now and know your next, you know what's important to you by what, who, and how. If you learn to know what's important to you, if you learn to prioritize, if you learn to do it now and do it next, you have the antidote to the two things... And we'll talk to our EOS guy, he'll probably agree with me. The two things that stop entrepreneurs the most? Feeling overwhelmed and procrastination.

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  It's impossible to feel overwhelmed or procrastinate if you're doing things now and doing things next. It's the antidote to the two things that interfere with most entrepreneurs' success.

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  So, when we know our now, it becomes a reality in this man-made construct. The fifth daily practice, apply your why.

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  You have to shift the paradigm. You don't have to go get anything. It's already there. It's already done. It's already become. You're just interfering with it. An infinite amount of whatever you want, more than enough of everything for everyone. You're just interfering with it. How are you interfering with it? You're interfering with it not with your reaction to the uncertainty, circumstances, or fear. It's actually the response to the natural reaction. You see, the ego does three things. It will defend you. It will prove something to other people. Or it'll try to take control of the uncontrollable, the uncertain. That's what the ego does. So, if there's uncertainty, it says to itself, "You better defend yourself. You better prove yourself, or you better take control of this situation."

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  And that has nothing to do with interference. What really has to do with interference is the next step is how you respond to that. Do you have a need to be right, a need to be offended, a need to be separate, inferior, superior, anxious, frustrated, angry, guilty, resentful, worried? Worried's a duplicative interference. Not only is it interfering with your potential, but it's wishing for what you don't want.

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  And it happens all the time. People respond to the natural reaction to uncertainty and fear all the time, and they create a distance of resistance between them and what they desire. So, what do we do when we start seeing the clues and the patterns and the choices of how we respond to a natural reaction to defend, control, and prove? Well, most people do what? They do what I did when I was younger. I tried to go over it, under it, through it, around it, lie to it, cheat it, manipulate it, deny it. And all you're doing is creating more and more resistance and getting farther and farther away from your divine direction.

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  My mom gave me a lot of great advice in my life, but this one was essential because she told me, "When you catch on fire, you gotta stop, drop, and roll." So when your mind, body, and soul are on fire with the need to be right, offended, separate, inferior, superior, anxious, frustrated, angry, guilty, and worried, don't try to go over it, under it, through it, around it, lie to it, cheat it, manipulate it, or deny it. Just stop. Breathe through your nose and out through your mouth. Drop. Remind yourself of your God. Recollect with your God. Remember what you are part of, and then roll into your divine direction. You've just gotta stop, drop, and roll

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  when you learn the clues and the patterns and the choices that you make responding to a natural reaction to uncertainty and fear, which is to defend myself, to prove myself, or control the uncontrollable, the uncertainty. Just stop, drop, and roll. I will promise you this and then take some questions. If you know your what, you'll have unlimited possibilities. If you know your who, unlimited probabilities. If you know your how, unlimited perception, meaning, intention, and behavior. If you know your now, it will be a reality. But if you apply your why, if you stop, drop, and roll, if you shorten the distance of resistance, only spending minutes and moments every day in that natural response to a natural reaction

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  to uncertainty and fear, I promise you three things. You will make a lot of money for the sake of helping others and having fun. I will also promise you, if you have all three things in your life, you will be happy. And if you're happy, you'll teach other people to be happy and teach other people to be happy, which certainly would make me happy. Be unstoppable. God bless all of you. Thank you for your time.