True Wealth Is Gratitude - Why The Richest People Seek To Give Back | Dean Graziosi

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0:50What's the difference between people who are acting rich versus people who are actually rich? Oh, man, that's a good one. there's a certain level of wealth where at least the people I get blessed to be with that it flips completely from making it to how to give it back and usually and you can call this karma god goodwill I've watched so many people get to that point and when they start finding obsessing on ways to give back their business is exponentially growing it's just crazy like I've been studying i've been thinking about this a lot lately and why i'm i'm in this phase of my life that i want to give back more i love that i get to make more i'm just giving more away but one is the heart kind of shifts from what can i do to who can i serve that's at least people i get to be around that's number one um number two the ones that keep going always we talked about earlier but they just replace the hunger if one was to get out of being broke and now they own a billion dollar company then how do I serve more do more be more how do I grow as a human like there's there's a term I've been using lately it's a thought process is like there's a whole bunch of people we have a group you're coming to in July we have a group of people that we get together a couple times a year very successful people and it's the type of people where when everybody looks at them they go oh he made it he's the top got everything she made it she's the top but when they look in the mirror they know there's another level and it could be another level of contribution another level of finally loving someone else or maybe loving themselves another level of service right so it's there's this transition that happens of like hey it's time to be maybe what we talked about earlier money's out of the way time to be a better version of me leave the world a better place and you also see on the way up like this is the stuff that's obvious is from the cars and the flash and and kind of the the positioning and how you position yourself when people get to a certain level, it's almost they regress back to who they were when they started.

2:50How so? What do you mean? Like simple, very simple. I mean, if I think of the wealthiest people I know, we do simple stuff. You don't need a lot. Yeah, we do simple stuff. Go fly fish or go to a pizza restaurant because we haven't had pizza in a while. You know, it's like, it's a really good question. I'm going to think about that one more, but it's, and I could just be lucky with the people I surround myself, but very humble. You find very, you realize there's another time you realize it's not us. Like, I think as you're doing things like I have to conquer this, I'm doing this, I'm doing this, my podcast, I'm not saying you are.

3:26And then you get to a certain point and you realize I never could have got here without the collection of everything. Whether that's my beliefs in God or spirituality, the team that worked around me, the parents who did their absolute best to put me on this earth, the past relationship that even though it went bad, it taught me to be a better man. And like you start realizing that God of the universe put all these things in place, even the struggles. And then for me, at least, I'm going to just share with me, I'm starting to appreciate all the things I went through. Because if they weren't all collectively added up, I wouldn't be who I am today.

3:57And maybe for the first time in my life, I really love who I am today. I love the husband I am to my wife. I love the father I get to be to my kids. I love the friendships that I have in my life. I didn't always feel that way. And maybe it's because I'm really grateful that everybody had a part in like raising me. Even the relationships that went sideways. Yeah. But those then that you know who are extremely wealthy, what's the difference between those who are wealthy and fulfilled versus those who are wealthy and everything's a struggle still or it's still not enough or they have just problems in their life?

4:29What's the difference? Not to oversimplify it, but it's gratitude. And I hope that all of them are filled. They find this place. Sometimes we need to look in the rearview mirror because there's always a bigger jet and a bigger house and a bigger yacht. and a bigger vacation is always bigger. It doesn't matter what you do. There's somebody who's got more. And if you have envy in what someone else has, there's no way to find peace in your heart. And for me, and I don't know if it was Tony or somebody said at one point, whenever you're feeling that way, just look in the rear view mirror and see how far you've come.

5:04And look at the culture of progress that you've had from where you were. And there's no way you can't be grateful because where you came from, you're further than 99.9 % of the world. But if we look at the bigger we get in our ego, we're chasing, I heard somebody say once you're chasing a sunset, but you're running east, right? Yeah, you're just going to chase something that doesn't exist. You're chasing the ideal, perfect version of yourself when really you've done so much. I think just looking backwards helps.

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