Wealth Beyond Work - Why Multiple Income Streams Are Your Path to Prosperity | Bob Proctor

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

0:49I think earning money is one of the simplest things I've ever learned. And it's one of the most misunderstood things. wealthy people historically have always had multiple sources of income they don't have one they have many i was cleaning floors i thought the answer was work harder because i wonder i really wanted to earn some money yeah of course and i thought it was all important today my attitude towards money has changed dramatically but i thought the answer was get another office to clean. Well, I was working so hard I passed out on the street. I would have been maybe 27, 28. I literally passed out on the street.

1:31I was working so hard. I came to and there's a great big cop looking at me. I was laying there. It was scary. There was a group of people around me. I saw lights flashing Then I saw a couple of guys in uniform with a stretcher. And it was scary. I had passed out. I guess they thought I had dropped dead. I had a heck of a time getting away from them, but I did get away. They didn't take me to the hospital. I talked to them out of it. I got away, and I got thinking, I'm not doing this right. Working harder, working more hours is not the way. No. Yeah. In fact, Napoleon Hill wrote that Think and Grow Rich.

2:14He said, if you are one of those people who believe that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches, terrors the thought, it is not true. Riches, when they come in huge quantities, never come as a result of hard work. They come as they come at all in response to definite demands, based upon the application of definite principles and not by chance or luck. So you've got to find a demand and fill it, but you've got to follow definite principles to do it. In other words, you've got to be in harmony with the law. You've got to give more than you get. If you're trying to get, forget it.

2:49Well, I got by myself and I thought, I'm doing something wrong. I was earning more money, but here I'm passionate. This is not normal. and it's like a little voice in my head said, if you can't clean all of them, don't clean any of them. So I got all dressed up. People now accuse me of sleeping in my suit. I got, I wouldn't take a suit off. I didn't matter where I was because I knew the cleaners were tired and I would go around. I got other people cleaning offices and I knew pretty well where they'd be. So I'd drop around, I'd bring coffee and donuts. I would drop in and I would talk to them about goals.

3:29Then I'd go to the next person. But I always was dressed up because I knew how tired you get. And if I was in working clothes, they'd expect me to help them so they could finish and go home. Interesting. But when I had shiny shoes and a suit and shirt and tie, they didn't expect me to help them clean. So I'd go on to the next place and then the next place. And that's when I started to open offices. I went from Toronto to Montreal to Boston to Cleveland to Atlanta to London, England. And you hired cleaners? Uh-huh. Everywhere I went. Yeah. I had people cleaning. What should someone think about if they're struggling financially right now or they feel like they've been struggling for many years and it feels like they're just surviving week after week, month after month.

4:10They're not sure how to get to that kind of sense of freedom for at least a six-month runway or beyond. What should they start thinking about? Do you know what you just described? I believe the majority of people are living that way. The majority. Now, that's rather sad, but I think it's true. And it's because we only have one problem in the whole world, and that's egg mix. They're living in ignorance. They don't know that what they're doing is going to keep them where they are. And they keep doing it because they don't know how to change. They're overwhelmed with the debt. People are saying, I need the money.

4:45They haven't got it. They want to take their family on a vacation. They don't have the money to go. So they may borrow and go anyway. Now they got more debt. They have to understand that they don't have to live that way. I wrote a book called You're Born Rich. The truth is you are. Most people are just a little short of money, but you are born rich, rich in potential. Anybody can go to our site, go to BobProctor.com. You can download the book, You Were Born Rich, free. It won't cost you a cent. And chapter two is how much is enough. It's described very well how to get out of debt. You've got to create a debt repayment program where it's all done automatically.

5:28and then you focus on prosperity. You've got to have a financial goal. You've got to work toward it, and you've got to understand that you can earn more than you're earning. And wealthy people don't have one source of income. They have more than one. I was earning money all last night while I was sleeping. You can actually earn more money when you're sleeping than you can spend when you're awake. It sounds like a cute line, but it's true. There's no end to what we can earn. if you are not getting information from someone who is already wealthy, then you're probably getting information from the wrong people.

6:05Most people ask their brother-in-law, the guy next door, the girl they know, how do I earn more? Hell, if they knew, they'd be earning it. They don't know. And most people talk to people that don't know. Carlisle put it very well. He said he did not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. And that's where most people are getting it from people that don't know anymore than themselves. I think you have to go. that's why these seminars are so important today. People have the opportunity to go and learn. Most people won't pay to go. I tell people, listen, you invest in this, it'll probably be the, borrow the money to do it.

6:39It's probably the last time you'll ever have to borrow money. We, I'm not, our seminars are not rah-rah. It's not, not that. Our seminars teach people about themselves. It's like when Bill Goff said, if I want to be free, I got to be me. I'm thinking I better know who me is. I didn't know who me was. I was doing a lot of things. I was doing them right. I was very much, but I didn't know who I was. I started to study me. And the more I know me, the better I know you. You only have to study yourself. You don't know what everybody, because we're all the same. It's our behavior that's different. Our results that are different.

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