How To Become A Happy Millionaire | Ken Honda EP 893

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0:43That's what's so beautiful about humankind. Somehow the spender gets married with moneymaker. Someone's making all the money and someone loves to spend it all. Right. So you have to have the balance. That's where Zen comes in. If you're spending too much, you have to start saving. If you're saving too much, you have to start spending. So the prescription I give to each client is different. For some people, the savers, I said, withdraw$1 ,000 and spend it for nothing in 24 hours. A week later, they came back and said, can I withdraw$1 ,000? I didn't spend it. But I spent like$20. Oh, man. Because they cannot waste their money.

1:27It's against their constitution. So don't think about it because just enjoy the money flow. You can give it to people. You can throw it away on the floor because somebody is going to pick it up and make somebody very happy. So you can be creative with money. But we are taught from a young child that you have to take care of money well. What if you just throw your$100 bills on the street? What would your mother say? What happens when we are attached to money? I think the flow of energy gets stopped. So if you let go of money easily, the more opportunities come easily. Because you cannot let go of money you cannot receive.

2:09If you let go easily, the more to come. So those people are losing out opportunities. I had a friend in my 20s when I asked him to go out and have some fun. And he said, no, no, no, I don't want to do that because it's going to cost something. Say, you know,$50 or$100 for a party, right? But just look at what he's missing. He's missing out the opportunity of meeting new people. Like I met many great mentors by attending very expensive seminars. You know, I attended like$200 seminar. At the time, it felt like a million dollars. But since I was the only student at the time to attend a business seminar, everybody loved me.

2:51So that was a great investment, for example. So if you let go of money easily, you get so much. Why don't you think letting go of money as almost like a shopping for your memories? Because I didn't have to fly. I'm going around the world this time. I'm just meeting up a lot of people. It costs some money, right? By spending so much money on hotels and airplanes, I'm having such a great time. Yes. You have experiences, life memories. Yes. So when I'm in a senior home sometime in the future, I think of having this conversation with you. or meeting a lot of great people in the world. If you don't spend the money, you don't get all the fun memories.

3:32Right. So think of money as a person. I talk to thousands of people all the time and just ask a big audience, how many of you love money? You know, if it's a business seminar, they say, yes. And my next question is, how many people do you think money loves you as much? And they think, I love money, but I don't know if I'm being loved by money. Feelings must be mutual, right? It's the same thing with a relationship. Even if you love her, love him so much, if you don't get the same amount of love from the other part, it doesn't mean anything. If you want to be in love with money, you have to respect your money as your best friend or your love of your life.

4:14So love and money can love you back. I always ask my money where it wants to go. The other day, I got a big check from overseas. It's about$10 ,000. Oh, thank you. Thank you, money. And I asked money, do you want to stay with me or do you want to go somewhere? And the money said, I hear it in imagination. The money says, I want to go to Cambodia to help kids. Wow. And then I remember there is a friend of mine who is doing an orphanage in Cambodia. So that$10 ,000 is helping kids for fruits and electricity and the rent for a whole year, like 36 kids. And that$10 ,000, I could have used for something else, but I have already enough.

4:56By asking the money where it wants to go, it went to the right place to bless the kids. If I start doing that, the more money comes in. So more money comes in from the world, and I've written 200 books. So almost like every few other days, I get money from somewhere. Amazing. Yeah, so I ask money, where do you want to go? And then I want to take your family out for dinner. That's good. I'm not saying that you should spend your money for somebody else. It could be, you know, I want to buy a car or whatever that is. So if you can have some distance from money, instead of like, this is all my money, you can be free from money.

5:34I think you have all the rights to see how your happy money can help others. Right. So if you just hoard your money and then die without doing anything, you are missing out the most fun because you have such an impact. You could have an impact for other people. And I think that's a reward for making so much money.

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