$2 Magic: Creating Wealth through Surprising Generosity | Lewis Howes EP 933

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0:38Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.

0:49One point in my life, I was a truck driver making$250 a week, driving a truck six hours a day from Columbus, Ohio to Cincinnati, Ohio and back every day, five days a week. I bounced on the weekends for, you know, 10 bucks an hour and trying to get some tips at a nightclub. And I played arena football where I got paid$250 a week as well back in 2007. So I had many different seasons of life where I had no money. I was broke and I had no clue how I was going to make money. I didn't have a college degree when kind of the housing crisis crashed and the economy crashed in 2008-2009. People weren't hiring during that time with those individuals that had, you know, bachelor's degrees and master's, let alone people like me who were sleeping on their sister's couch after getting an injury, playing football.

1:41And I really just didn't have a lot of the tools. Now, I was lucky enough that my dad instilled some principles in me early on. And unfortunately, when I turned 22, my dad got into a pretty tragic car accident. He was in a coma for many months. And for 17 years, he never was able to work again. So I learned some lessons from him early on about the mindset of making money. And I watched him work so hard early on. We didn't have a lot of money. Then when I turned about 16, his business finally started to take off after 25 years of hard work. He started to make a little bit more money for five to seven years before his accident.

2:25And then he just wasn't himself. He wasn't able to work anymore. He lost his memory a lot. And his personality shifted where he wasn't able to do much without the care of others for 17 years until he passed. But there was a big thing that he taught me early on. Not necessarily by what he said, but what he did. And I want to share this with you because I think it's really important And i'm going to talk about kind of these principles in the book and how you can start to apply them in your life now But there was one thing he did early on every time we went out to dinner or to a restaurant or You know, he would take me out after a baseball game to buy ice cream with a local Dairy point in delaware, ohio small town in ohio And he would always do something that would just make people smile bring so much joy to people's life for a moment and it would give people a story and something he did is he would always tip in two dollar bills he would tip in two dollar bills and it was like it was like a magic trick every time he did this because i would see him tip or he put it in you know kind of the the restaurant receipt thing where you put your money in and you fold it up when the waiter would open it up and they would see$2 bill tip or multiple$2 bills, they would just light up.

3:45It was like if they were having a horrible day, their energy shifted. It was literally like a magic trick. If you wanted to make someone smile, they would rather take a$2 bill than three, four, or five single dollar bills. It was like they would take less in money, but the experience, the joy that people would gain from a$2 bill was magic. And there was a mindset that he taught me. It's how can you be generous with your time? How can you be generous with your money? And a lot of the billionaires, a lot of the mega millionaires, there are some of them who are unhappy that stress out a lot. But there are others who just seem like they keep earning and they have a richness to their life.

4:32When I asked them, like, what is the secret to being rich and happy? because not all millionaires are happy. They might have money, but it doesn't make them rich in life. And I'd ask the happy ones, the ones who are fulfilled in their purpose, the ones who have healthy, intact families still. And I'd ask them, you know, what's the key? And so many of them will tell me, be generous. Be generous with your money. Be generous in how you tip, tip big. And I think what my dad taught me early on is something that I still do today. I carry on his legacy in my wallet. I have$2 bills. I tip with$2 bills.

5:11I've been doing it for a long time since his accident. And the joy that this brings people is priceless. You don't have to spend a ton of money to be generous, but you can do it in a generous way to create a moment for people. So again, the$2 bill tip strategy is one of the coolest things that you can do. Something I've been doing since my early 20s. You don't need a ton of money to tip in twos, but it'll make someone's day much happier and richer in that moment. And you have the power to shift someone's energy by how you show up with your positive attitude, but also with just a creative act of generosity.

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