April 25, 2025 • 27 mins
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Timestamps:
00:00: Intro
00:18: The Paradigm Shift: Break Self Limiting Beliefs
02:05: Excuses Destroy Success: Mindset Matters
02:52: Law of Momentum
03:55: You are in Control (Despite Free Will)
05:07: Imagine Your Best Self - Then Become Them
07:46: The Real American Dream (Thinking Bigger)
08:37: Imagine Your Worst Enemy Achieving Your Dreams
09:10: The Hero or Villain Framework
10:06: The Pursuit of Happiness (The Prerequisites)
10:29: "The Matrix" Explained
11:33: The Power of Faith
12:05: Pick Up The Phone and Start Dialing
14:15: Free Will and The Simulation - How to Overcome
16:27: This is Why You'r
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Robert Greene, the author of the 33 Strategies of
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War.
He had a quote that made a lotof sense to me, and it goes like
this you are your own worstenemy.
You waste precious timedreaming of the future instead
of engaging in the present,since nothing seems to urgent
you.
You are only half involved inwhat you do.
The only way to change isthrough action and outside
pressure.
So the truth is yes, everythingthat happens in our lives, it
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is up to us.
We are the only ones we cantruly blame.
At the end of the day, we arethe only ones that can take
accountability.
You are your own worst enemy.
At the end of the day.
The reason for your success isbecause you are driven to
succeed, because you have forcedyourself to win.
You have motivated yourself towin.
The reason you're notsuccessful is because you're
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probably lazy.
You're probably putting thingsoff.
You're not making decisions.
At the end of the day, there'ssimple frameworks that can fix
this, though, and I understand.
I've been there Now.
Part of success in business isbeing able to prosper through
the hard times.
The only way that you can trulychange is through action.
Now, this is easier said thandone.
Many people can talk about it.
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We can talk about doing thingsand taking action on things and
taking actionable steps towardsthings, but it requires a mental
framework to be able to do it.
Everybody says I'm notmotivated for that, I'm not
motivated for this, I'm notmotivated.
It doesn't matter.
You have to always be motivated.
This world is too hard, it's toodifficult.
It truly is.
It's a world where you have towin.
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You have to be extraordinaryjust to be average, and if
you're average, you're poor.
See how it works, and if you'velived poor, then you understand
how poor that is.
It's a pretty terrible way tolive.
It's a terrible existence to bepoor.
At the end of the day, we areall our own worst enemy Our
beliefs, our self-limitingbeliefs.
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The paradigm that you live inbasically defines your future.
The paradigm that you live indefines everything that you're
doing right now.
The paradigm that you're livingin is the reason that you're
experiencing everything you are.
This world is unpredictable,and so, therefore, the
unpredictable twists of fatewill dominate your average day,
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and so everybody wants to makeexcuses.
Well, I couldn't win for this.
I couldn't win because I didn'tgo to college.
I couldn't win because I waspoor.
I couldn't win because I didn'thave these resources.
I couldn't win because of X, yand Z, but those people will
always stay not winning.
And the reason is because it'sit's a, it's a mindset thing.
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And now we talk about mindset.
What does mindset really mean?
What does a mindset?
Everybody talks about mindset.
Well, I think mindset is theway you associate yourself with
your success, your brand.
How do people associate youwith your brand, mindset?
How are you able to handle theunpredictable twists of fate?
Do you understand the natureand the philosophy of losing?
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Because the nature andphilosophy of losing is the
paradigm of winning.
Most people don't understandthis.
Most people don't even want tolose a few times.
Okay, but at the end of the day,when you were a little kid and
you were getting on a bike, ittook you multiple attempts
before you were able to ride thebike right.
Dad had to push, you had tokeep pushing you.
You kept falling off, you keptcrying, you scraped your little
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knee and then eventually you gotso scared of falling again that
eventually you knew you justhad to keep pedaling.
And when you pedaled, you justkept going and the momentum took
you forward.
Okay, like a train.
When a train starts moving,then it's going to keep on going
.
It's going to keep on chugging,chugging, chugging.
That momentum of the train isgoing to really ride a lot of
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its entire pathway.
With a bullet, you fire a bullet, that bullet, that momentum, is
going to take it to thatdestination.
But if something gets in theway of the bullet, that bullet
is either going to do one of twothings the bullet's either
going to go through that barrieror the bullet's going to get
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stopped.
And so, yes, one could say,well, a bullet can't control
that, and in some ways you'reright.
In life, you're the bullet youcan't control.
When there's going to bebarriers in your way, you're not
going to be able to control.
When things are going perfectly, when things are going bad,
you're not going to be able tocontrol.
When life throws a bunch ofcrap at you, you're not going to
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be able to control the economy.
Look at the people in NorthCarolina with the hurricane.
Look at people with all of thehomes that they lost in
California.
These things happened out ofthings.
They could not control,decisions that were made by
higher, more wealthy people.
At the end of the day, mostlikely.
But the point of this is that weonly have so much control over
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the universe, but we still havecontrol and we can decide
whether we're the bullet orwhether we're the person behind
the bullet.
Are we going to be the personbehind the gun firing,
controlling things, or are wegoing to be the bullet that gets
fired by somebody else,literally, and then you get
stopped?
So, anyways, life is not easy.
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Life is not easy.
Winning is not easy, and themost important lesson I really
learned was that nobody was evergoing to save me.
Nobody was ever going to saveme.
Nobody was ever going to saveme.
At the end of the day, I wasonly going to be able to save
myself.
So, for example, your income canbe controlled.
There are a million infiniteways to make money, but most
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people think there's only oneGoing to a job, get insurance,
get this, get that.
You basically get trapped intothe system.
You pay a 401k.
Maybe you'll get a pension in30 years if you stay there the
whole time.
And then, next thing you knowyou've been there 30 years and
all your friends are livingtheir dreams, living their lives
, and you're just like man.
I could have been so great, Icould have been so amazing, I
could have been extraordinary,but I'm not.
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Why?
What did I do?
Where did I go wrong?
And you should never letyourself get to this point.
Life is a very difficultchallenge.
It's not easy to win, and Iknow that.
I know that making a lot ofmoney isn't easy.
I know that.
I understand that the things inlife that happen to us are not
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fair.
We lose a loved one, we lose apet.
So let me give you a littleframework that really helped me
out in terms of making sure thatI'm always getting shit done
and not being lazy.
Okay.
So I think a great way to makesure that you're always getting
things done and you're not beinglazy is that you have to have a
mental framework that you areyourself and that that other
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person that is you is doing allof those things that you're not
doing.
Okay.
So imagine you want to go to thegym.
Maybe you're, maybe you're 300pounds.
You want to go to the gym.
You want to lose weight.
You want to look good.
You're sick of living the wayyou are.
Well, you just need to imagineyourself looking the way you
want to look and how that wouldlook and how you would get there
, and you should write out anactionable plan.
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Okay.
So for that specific person, Iwould tell them well, create a
workout, okay.
Well, I don't know whatworkouts to do.
You have chat GPT, you havecroc three, you have Google
Gemini, you have Google itself,you have YouTube.
There's a million ways you canlearn ways to work out.
You have to want to learn,though.
Before you can ever change yourlife, you have to want it.
Okay, you have to want it.
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You have to have a will, adesire that outpaces everybody
else's, because a lot of peoplewant to be in great shape.
A lot of people want to have aneight pack.
A lot of people want to be lean.
A lot of people want to bemuscular.
A lot of people want to begreat in powerlifting.
A lot of people want to be goodat sports.
A lot of people want to be goodat business.
A lot of people want to be goodat horseback riding.
A lot of people want to be goodbaseball players or football
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players, whatever it might be,okay.
Everybody wants to be great,but not everybody can be,
because only one person is goingto outwork everybody else, and
this is the entire economy welive in.
This is America, the Americansystem is built on success and a
divine devotion to achievement.
Okay, the American dream isabout building something that
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nobody thought you could buildand going against the tides.
Okay, the American dream isabout quitting your job at a
place you hated and you buildsomething from scratch, and it's
beautiful.
That's the American dream.
The American dream is beingable to own a home.
No, the American dream is beingable to own a home.
No, the American dream is beingable to own many homes.
You see, you were always taughtthat you need a white picket
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fence house, get your littlespace, blah, blah, blah.
No, the American dream is tohave it all, to have many
properties and the way that youacquire many properties, many
wealth, many reps that will getyou in shape, to get you the
sitzpat to help you lose theweight.
It all comes together when itcomes to where your head is at,
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and so a great framework forthis.
That always helped me.
I try to envision my worstenemy doing the exact things
that I want to do in life.
Imagine right now, that yourworst enemy, the person you
dislike the most or hate themost hopefully not hate, but
let's just say that personimagine them doing everything
you want to do right now.
So let's just say, like I said,you want to go to the gym, you
want to.
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You're 300 pounds, you want tolose weight?
Well, you have another enemy ofyours who's also maybe 300
pounds.
They also want to lose weight.
Well, what if that person?
Imagine that person going tothe gym and losing the weight
and you're not doing it.
Imagine yourself as a superhero.
And the other you is thevillain.
The villain you is the one whodoesn't take the action.
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The villain is the one whodoesn't go to the gym.
The villain is the one who sitsaround.
He hates, he wonders, heponders, he worries.
Is the one who sits around.
He hates, he wonders, heponders, he worries.
And then the winner, the goodman, the good, the good you is
the one who essentially takesaction.
The good you is the one whotakes initiative.
You're industrious, you takedrive, you're not afraid to take
risks.
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You're brave, you're courageousenough to stand up for what you
believe in.
You go for what you want.
You're a go-getter, you'reself-made.
That's going to hurt when yousee other people doing what you
knew you could achieve.
That's where people really getcaught up in life.
Okay, when people get off thetrain that they originally
wanted to be on and they go anddo something else that they
really didn't know.
They weren't sure, but they didit.
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And they did it out of goodintentions, but they didn't do
it because it was what was goingto truly make them happy.
Okay, and so what is happy Now?
Should we just be happy all thetime?
No, but you should achieve andstrive to be happy.
You should strive.
The pursuit of happiness, verysimple, the pursuit of happiness
.
If you want to be happy in thislife, if you want to be
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fulfilled and successful, thenyou need to be able to take the
steps, got to be able to imagineyourself doing it.
You got to think with the endin mind.
This life on planet Earth is amatrix, no doubt about it.
Everything in this life is atest, everything in this life is
a simulation.
It's like a video game.
God's playing the video gameand Satan's playing against him.
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We're all just the charactersinside of this video game, god
and the devil.
They can both pause the gamewhenever they want, because
they're just it's 1v1.
But we're all just the playersin this entire system.
But here's the kicker we havefree will.
So, with all of this free will.
God and the devil areconstantly fighting back and
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forth, and here they're using usas these placeholders, these
pawns on earth.
And that's the truth.
And so it begs the questionwhat are you going to do in
order to make sure you achievethe things that you want to
achieve, while also making surethat you fulfill God's plan for
you and for the rest of theworld?
We need to make a pact with God.
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People laugh at this.
People think well, I don't needGod.
Well, it's like, at the end ofthe day, despite how many
religions there are, you know,you can say maybe you believe in
Christianity, maybe you believein atheism, maybe you hopefully
not atheism, maybe you believein Buddhists, maybe you're Hindu
.
No-transcript, the endlessdimensions that will be
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traveling in this next threedecades.
You guys don't even know what'scoming.
So the point is in business andentrepreneurship, you have to
take actions and you are yourworst enemy all the time.
It's your decision to stay onthe couch and to not work out
that day.
It's your decision to not pickup the phone and make 100 phone
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calls, 200 phone calls, 300phone calls, and to spread time
out of your every single day.
And do that thing, because Iguarantee you, if you were to do
that as a business owner, as anentrepreneur, you're going to
make a shit ton of money,because that's how I've made my
money.
We're not a perfect business,but we make a lot of money.
We do pretty well at the end ofthe day.
And, by the way, if you want togrow your business, work with
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goldsharkmediacom.
We will make sure that we growyour business with website SEO,
lead generation, we'll get youcold email outreach, we'll get
you social media management.
We really just do it all.
We handle all of it for you.
So you don't got to waste thetime, so you don't got to worry
about anybody else.
We take care of it for you.
Okay, yes, we already knowevery other agency does the same
things.
You're going to get the samecall.
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You're going to get the sameconversation blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah how their technologyis great, how they're working
with these companies and thosecompanies.
Really, they just want yourmoney and we all know this.
Okay, and we've all worked withmarketing agencies that don
don't work.
But Gold Shark Media is a littledifferent because, you know, I
consider us more of a growthpartnership agency.
We charge high premiums,because what we are in for is a
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partnership, and so that's kindof what I've.
Honestly, in my opinion, that'swhat works best.
You know, we have a system atGold Shark Media where we help
promote business owners andtheir social media, their videos
.
We help do video editing, growyour YouTube channel for you.
We do all of this stuff forentrepreneurs just like you, so
we can make sure that you'rewinning and building your
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American dream.
Okay, we're a growing agency.
We're here for the long haul.
We're going to win, and that'swhat I'm all about.
I'm all about winning, I'm allabout success.
I'm all about adversity.
I'm all about proving everybodywrong.
When society tells you no, Isay fucking yes.
When society says no, I saybullshit.
When society says no, I say why?
I always, always, am thedifficult one, because I believe
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that humanity is capable ofmuch, much more than what we
really allow ourselves to admit.
But you have control over yourdiet.
You have control over thethings that you consume on
social media, on Instagram, onTwitter, whatever over your diet
.
You have control over thethings that you consume on
social media, on Instagram, onTwitter, x, whatever it might be
.
You have control over who youhang out with the friends that
you associate with.
You have control over yourspouses.
Your mate is who you're goingto have children with.
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You have control where you sendyour kids to school.
You have control where,essentially, your kids, or how
your kids are going to be raised.
You control your life.
At the end of the day, you havefree will.
It's the beauty of planet earthand also the curse of planet
earth.
This is the place where we goas human beings to, but maybe we
get kicked down from heaven.
Maybe we're fallen angels andwe just we come here on planet
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earth to basically pay our billand to essentially make up for
all the bad things.
Maybe the reason for thetragedy, maybe the reason for
the craziness and the chaos, theanarchy, the murder, the blood,
the deceit, the chaos, theanarchy, the war, all of it.
Maybe the reason for this isbecause Planet Earth is a
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testing ground.
Maybe it's because it is avideo game.
It's God versus Satan, it's Godversus the devil, it's, you
know, good versus evil, andthat's and we're just players
inside of this game.
But the catch is we have controlover our actions and the things
we say, the things we do andthe things we want to do.
We have the will and the powerto manifest our futures through
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action.
See, planet earth is the placewhere creativity and
spirituality and physical matterall connect the Holy Spirit,
almost Father, the Son and theHoly Trinity.
Planet Earth is very much likethat.
Planet Earth is a place wherephysical matter and spirituality
come together.
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Amazing inventions, the mostamazing sequences of history of
things that might not be reallyunderstood by other intelligent
life forms in the universe.
We're a royal species.
As human beings, we can doanything we want to do.
We can go beyond the stars.
We can go beyond the firmament.
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We can go beyond all of thesethings.
We can go beyond the dome.
We can go beyond the earth, allthe different planets, all the
different galaxies, all thedifferent dimensions.
The truth is we can do anythingas human beings and it is only
us who gets in our way.
What gets in your way?
I bet the things that aregetting your way right now are
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probably financial, probablyhaving a lot of problems keeping
up with bills, paying groceries, paying gas, and you're going
to this job.
You're living this life youdon't want to live.
You're going in circles becauseyou're living in the hardest
economy that's ever existed theAmerican economy.
There's so many things we cando on planet Earth and if we
really want it bad enough, thenwe can achieve anything we want.
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But we are the only things thatget in our own way.
Usually, the things that get inour way on our path to success
is not making decisions, it'snot doing the little things, and
once you can control your life,you're going to find life gets
a lot easier when you havecontrol of your finances, for
example.
So most people don't havecontrol over anything and they
think they do.
They're very arrogant.
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Again, most people are.
What did Andrew Tate say?
They're either lazy, they'restupid or they're arrogant, and
I really agree with that.
I think not everybody's stupid.
I think that's like maybe 2% ofpeople, and then I would say
most of the majority would belazy, and then I would say the
smaller majority would bearrogant, and I think there's
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actually a mix of arrogance andlaziness.
Okay, people want to believethat they're greater than they
are, but they don't want to backit up with facts, with evidence
, and they don't want to put inthe work for it.
You know they ain't going to dietrying, and that's what you got
to do.
You got to get rich or dietrying, and the only way you're
going to be able to succeed isif you understand that you are
your own worst enemy.
Every single time.
It's always going to be yourfault.
So if you're an entrepreneur,if you're, even if you're not an
entrepreneur, you're livingthrough life, doing whatever
you're doing, and maybe you'reblaming somebody else for your
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shit, and I totally get this.
I understand why.
I see how this can happen.
I'm like this too.
I like to blame other peoplesometimes do, but I always try
to blame myself.
At the end of the day, I blamemyself for everything.
I blame myself for anything inmy life that I haven't perfected
yet and made great, because Ihad the opportunities when I was
younger to learn those things,but I took time and wasted it.
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So today I try to not wastetime.
In college, you know, althoughit wasn't a complete waste of
time, I did get my degree,criminal justice, which is kind
of cool, but it was a waste oftime.
It's a waste of money.
You know, I was this four yearvacation.
I learned how to live alone andI learned, you know, how to
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love my country out of mycolleges, teaching me to like
hate my country.
I was surrounded by pre-medstudents and pre-law students,
super liberal environment, andthat's most colleges or
universities.
Anybody who's been to college,you understand.
Um, it's just anybody.
Any conservative who's been tocollege, you understand.
It's just anybody.
Any conservative, anyconservative, republican, trump
voter at the time who voted orwho was in college.
You guys know what I'm talkingabout.
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I had to live through collegewith the whole COVID vaccine
stuff and all this crazy, allthe craziness that went on.
I had to live through that andit was just ridiculous.
I ended up graduating.
Still, I ended up getting.
I'm graduating because I endedup getting to basically go to
the police academy in order tofulfill my college credits.
And so we did that.
We succeeded, became a cop andI.
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That was when I learned thebiggest lesson of my life and,
at the end of the day, thebiggest lesson of my life was
that nobody is going to save you.
Nobody is going to come andgive you a million dollars.
Nobody is going to save you.
Nobody is going to come andgive you a million dollars.
Nobody is going to build yourdreams for you.
Nobody's going to build yourbusiness for you.
Everybody wants to make so muchmoney that they can just hire
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everybody to do all the work andit's just, it's laughable to
anybody like me who's like,really been in the ringer.
At the end of the day, I stillwant to make sure that we are
able to help as many businessowners as possible, because the
hardest part about business isunderstanding that it's all a
learning curve, and the hardestpart about business for a lot of
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people is the fact that ittakes a lot of failing.
It takes a lot of wasting moneyand losing money and people
telling you it's not going towork, Telling you to hang up
your cleats, just get out ofhere, close the business, go
back and get a job that's stable.
You know, be like be like JohnDonner over over here, who has a
gas station job and he'sworking this, and be like this
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lady who's doing this or thisguy who's doing fuck that.
You need to figure out what youwant to do, figure out what you
love, figure out what you'regoing to, figure out what's
going to make you the mostamount of money.
How much money do you want tomake?
Okay, that's the secondquestion you ask.
The first question you ask ishow do I want to make my money?
How do I want to become wealthy?
What do I want to be rememberedfor?
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Okay, you got to think big, andif you're going to think big,
then you're finally going to bemaking bigger moves.
Right, you've heard the termyou shoot for the stars.
You'll probably you'll misshigh, you know.
You'll shoot for the stars.
You're going to at least getout into this.
You're going to get in space,you know, and so you'll leave
Earth and you'll actually get totravel.
You'll get to be expansionist,you'll get to go on the voyage.
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Still, you might not just hitthat star, but you'll at least
get closer than you were, as ifyou were aiming for nothing.
You know, if you're aiming fornothing, nothing at all, you'd
have big dreams in business,you'd have big goals, and if you
don't believe in yourself,that's already the first problem
.
So, believing in yourself,knowing what you want to do, how
you want to make your money,how you want to be remembered as
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a business owner, as anentrepreneur what do you want to
be known for?
Okay, how do you want to beknown for?
Like, when people Google you,what do you want them to talk
about?
What do you want them to sayLike for me.
What do I want people to saywhen they look up Brendan Acker,
brendan Scott Acker, gold SharkMedia I'm a business owner.
I'm a businessman, entrepreneur.
I'm an investor.
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I'm an investor.
I love investing in companies.
I love helping other businesses.
I love AI.
I like project management, Ilike marketing.
I like sales.
I like all of it.
I'm business.
I hope that anybody who looksme up I want them to see
business.
And then YouTube or my books.
I'm also an author.
If you guys want to buy mybooks, you can buy my books
beyond the beat or how I made mydoor in my office from Amazon.
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Those are 20 bucks.
You can get those for free.
Also on Kindle for like 99cents.
So go ahead and do that.
And yeah, you guys like thebooks.
I think they'll help you inbusiness.
Again, they were about myjourney in college and law
enforcement, of course, but alsohow and why I got into business
and explains my path a littlebit.
So if you want to learn aboutme, what made me want to get
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into business, what made me wantto escape the matrix and be
free from law enforcement andall this other stuff and again,
I'm still a cop, I'm just parttime right now by choice,
because I like freedom, I likehaving a decision, like having
control, baby.
So that's the idea we are ourown worst enemy and you can
never forget this.
We are our own worst enemy andyou can never forget this.
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We are our own worst enemy, youare your own worst enemy.
So, if you just take action,write out an actionable plan.
What do you want to do?
How do you want to get there?
Okay, how much money you wantto make?
Okay, how are you going to gomake that money?
Chat, gpt, google, rock okay,how can I make?
You want to make twenty eightthousand dollars a month passive
income, easy.
Well, for, for example, how areyou going to do that?
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Well, let's look.
How are you going to makeenough money?
How are you going to make$700,000 or $150,000 so you
could put that down payment onan apartment complex?
That will generate you $28,000a month and, noi, net operating
income?
What are you going to do tomake that happen?
What are you going to do tomake that happen?
What are you going to do inyour life to take real steps and
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figure yourself out.
Figure out what you really wantand how you want to make your
money.
The real reason most people Ireally think most why most
business owners fail and whythey fail and it takes them
years to succeed if they don'tfail, is because they have this.
They have this continuingbelief that it's just going to
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be this easy ride.
A lot of business owners theydon't realize that a big part of
business is losing, and losinga lot of money.
A big part of business ismaking sacrifices and being told
that what you're doing sucks.
A big part of business is notmaking sales right away, but an
also big part of that is keepingthe game going.
A lot of business owners theyquit.
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They give up too early.
They stop playing the game whenthey don't see success, when
they, when they get sick ofother people reaching out to
them, when they get tired of thegame, they just stop it.
But the problem is, when youstop the game, you stop making
money, and so money is important.
Why do you need money?
Well, if you don't have money,you can't have health, wealth,
love or happiness.
That's the end of the day.
You need to have wealth.
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Wealth is the fuel to get youthere.
Then you need to have yourhealth where.
Okay, now you got your wealth.
You got enough to give you agood life.
Now you can be comfortable, youcan mentally, you don't have to
stress about bills or financesanymore.
Good, we're financially free.
Step one check.
Then you should focus on yourhealth.
You know, okay, now we got.
Now we're making 100K a monthplus.
So how are we going to do that?
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How are we going to stay ingood shape?
How are we going to getstronger every single day?
How are we going to get moreeffective as a human being?
So this should be your nextstep.
After that, and so 12, love andhappiness.
How are you going to get thosethings?
Okay, well, the first step isyou got to have the wealth.
I think you got to havesomething to pay your way in.
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Okay, how are you going to geton the ark?
Remember seeing the movie 2012?
They all have to get on the ark.
Well, it costs you.
You got to be rich.
It was all the rich people,sorry, or the powerful people.
Rich or powerful, rich orpowerful One of the two.
You have to be Okay, because ifyou're not, then essentially
you're going to be locked out ofthe game Again.
This is planet Earth.
Here.
I didn't make the rules.
This is the way the world is.
This is a jungle, survival ofthe fittest, and it pretty much
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is at the end of the day, andit's a tough world we live in.
But again, you have to rememberthat we're all being tested all
the time on this Earth.
I believe that this is asimulation test, so in order to
pass the test, you just have tostay alive.
As long as you alive, you justgotta, or as long as you can.
You know you gotta stay aliveas long as you can stick it out,
and then you know, you'll learna lot about yourself, your soul
.
We're so trapped into thismatrix of going to these stupid
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jobs and doing these stupidthings that really don't push
forward the human race in anyway.
You know you're stuck at thisjob and you got people just
telling you how important thisis and how, oh, you're going to
have this.
You know, when I was your age,when I was getting a house at 20
years old, it's like yeah.
When you were getting a house,when it was like what?
3% interest rates, 6% interestrates maybe, like okay, come on,
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you know it ain't the samegeneration.
So in today's generation, learnhow to make money with modern
creativity.
Modern creativity and modernwealth strategies are going to
make you the most amount ofmoney.
For example, how many peopleare you investing in XRP and
Bitcoin?
Okay, I don't really likeBitcoin.
I've never been a fan of it.
I think it's kind of a scam.
I could see it going to zero,but we'll see, Maybe I'll be
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wrong.
But how many of you areinvested in XRP, hbar?
How many of you are invested inCardano, ada?
How many of you are invested inAlgorand?
How many of you are invested inOnyxCoin or all these other?
Ondo, finance, all thesedifferent great digital assets?
Right, xlm forgot to leave thatone in there Dogecoin.
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That will probably have someuse case soon.
So all I know, guys, is that inorder for you to succeed, in
order for you to becomeeverything you want to become,
you have to understand that youare your own worst enemy and you
have to overcome yourself.
You have to overcome your worstfears, your worst desires.
You have to believe that youcan achieve.
You have to believe that youcan get out of it and just like
that, if you don't conquer yourdreams, the lights go out and
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that's the you know.
Robert Greene, the author of the 33 Strategies of
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War.
He had a quote that made a lotof sense to me, and it goes like
this you are your own worstenemy.
You waste precious timedreaming of the future instead
of engaging in the present,since nothing seems to urgent
you.
You are only half involved inwhat you do.
The only way to change isthrough action and outside
pressure.
So the truth is yes, everythingthat happens in our lives, it
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is up to us.
We are the only ones we cantruly blame.
At the end of the day, we arethe only ones that can take
accountability.
You are your own worst enemy.
At the end of the day.
The reason for your success isbecause you are driven to
succeed, because you have forcedyourself to win.
You have motivated yourself towin.
The reason you're notsuccessful is because you're
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probably lazy.
You're probably putting thingsoff.
You're not making decisions.
At the end of the day, there'ssimple frameworks that can fix
this, though, and I understand.
I've been there Now.
Part of success in business isbeing able to prosper through
the hard times.
The only way that you can trulychange is through action.
Now, this is easier said thandone.
Many people can talk about it.
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We can talk about doing thingsand taking action on things and
taking actionable steps towardsthings, but it requires a mental
framework to be able to do it.
Everybody says I'm notmotivated for that, I'm not
motivated for this, I'm notmotivated.
It doesn't matter.
You have to always be motivated.
This world is too hard, it's toodifficult.
It truly is.
It's a world where you have towin.
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You have to be extraordinaryjust to be average, and if
you're average, you're poor.
See how it works, and if you'velived poor, then you understand
how poor that is.
It's a pretty terrible way tolive.
It's a terrible existence to bepoor.
At the end of the day, we areall our own worst enemy Our
beliefs, our self-limitingbeliefs.
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The paradigm that you live inbasically defines your future.
The paradigm that you live indefines everything that you're
doing right now.
The paradigm that you're livingin is the reason that you're
experiencing everything you are.
This world is unpredictable,and so, therefore, the
unpredictable twists of fatewill dominate your average day,
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and so everybody wants to makeexcuses.
Well, I couldn't win for this.
I couldn't win because I didn'tgo to college.
I couldn't win because I waspoor.
I couldn't win because I didn'thave these resources.
I couldn't win because of X, yand Z, but those people will
always stay not winning.
And the reason is because it'sit's a, it's a mindset thing.
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And now we talk about mindset.
What does mindset really mean?
What does a mindset?
Everybody talks about mindset.
Well, I think mindset is theway you associate yourself with
your success, your brand.
How do people associate youwith your brand, mindset?
How are you able to handle theunpredictable twists of fate?
Do you understand the natureand the philosophy of losing?
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Because the nature andphilosophy of losing is the
paradigm of winning.
Most people don't understandthis.
Most people don't even want tolose a few times.
Okay, but at the end of the day,when you were a little kid and
you were getting on a bike, ittook you multiple attempts
before you were able to ride thebike right.
Dad had to push, you had tokeep pushing you.
You kept falling off, you keptcrying, you scraped your little
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knee and then eventually you gotso scared of falling again that
eventually you knew you justhad to keep pedaling.
And when you pedaled, you justkept going and the momentum took
you forward.
Okay, like a train.
When a train starts moving,then it's going to keep on going
.
It's going to keep on chugging,chugging, chugging.
That momentum of the train isgoing to really ride a lot of
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its entire pathway.
With a bullet, you fire a bullet, that bullet, that momentum, is
going to take it to thatdestination.
But if something gets in theway of the bullet, that bullet
is either going to do one of twothings the bullet's either
going to go through that barrieror the bullet's going to get
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stopped.
And so, yes, one could say,well, a bullet can't control
that, and in some ways you'reright.
In life, you're the bullet youcan't control.
When there's going to bebarriers in your way, you're not
going to be able to control.
When things are going perfectly, when things are going bad,
you're not going to be able tocontrol.
When life throws a bunch ofcrap at you, you're not going to
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be able to control the economy.
Look at the people in NorthCarolina with the hurricane.
Look at people with all of thehomes that they lost in
California.
These things happened out ofthings.
They could not control,decisions that were made by
higher, more wealthy people.
At the end of the day, mostlikely.
But the point of this is that weonly have so much control over
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the universe, but we still havecontrol and we can decide
whether we're the bullet orwhether we're the person behind
the bullet.
Are we going to be the personbehind the gun firing,
controlling things, or are wegoing to be the bullet that gets
fired by somebody else,literally, and then you get
stopped?
So, anyways, life is not easy.
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Life is not easy.
Winning is not easy, and themost important lesson I really
learned was that nobody was evergoing to save me.
Nobody was ever going to saveme.
Nobody was ever going to saveme.
At the end of the day, I wasonly going to be able to save
myself.
So, for example, your income canbe controlled.
There are a million infiniteways to make money, but most
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people think there's only oneGoing to a job, get insurance,
get this, get that.
You basically get trapped intothe system.
You pay a 401k.
Maybe you'll get a pension in30 years if you stay there the
whole time.
And then, next thing you knowyou've been there 30 years and
all your friends are livingtheir dreams, living their lives
, and you're just like man.
I could have been so great, Icould have been so amazing, I
could have been extraordinary,but I'm not.
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Why?
What did I do?
Where did I go wrong?
And you should never letyourself get to this point.
Life is a very difficultchallenge.
It's not easy to win, and Iknow that.
I know that making a lot ofmoney isn't easy.
I know that.
I understand that the things inlife that happen to us are not
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fair.
We lose a loved one, we lose apet.
So let me give you a littleframework that really helped me
out in terms of making sure thatI'm always getting shit done
and not being lazy.
Okay.
So I think a great way to makesure that you're always getting
things done and you're not beinglazy is that you have to have a
mental framework that you areyourself and that that other
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person that is you is doing allof those things that you're not
doing.
Okay.
So imagine you want to go to thegym.
Maybe you're, maybe you're 300pounds.
You want to go to the gym.
You want to lose weight.
You want to look good.
You're sick of living the wayyou are.
Well, you just need to imagineyourself looking the way you
want to look and how that wouldlook and how you would get there
, and you should write out anactionable plan.
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Okay.
So for that specific person, Iwould tell them well, create a
workout, okay.
Well, I don't know whatworkouts to do.
You have chat GPT, you havecroc three, you have Google
Gemini, you have Google itself,you have YouTube.
There's a million ways you canlearn ways to work out.
You have to want to learn,though.
Before you can ever change yourlife, you have to want it.
Okay, you have to want it.
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You have to have a will, adesire that outpaces everybody
else's, because a lot of peoplewant to be in great shape.
A lot of people want to have aneight pack.
A lot of people want to be lean.
A lot of people want to bemuscular.
A lot of people want to begreat in powerlifting.
A lot of people want to be goodat sports.
A lot of people want to be goodat business.
A lot of people want to be goodat horseback riding.
A lot of people want to be goodbaseball players or football
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players, whatever it might be,okay.
Everybody wants to be great,but not everybody can be,
because only one person is goingto outwork everybody else, and
this is the entire economy welive in.
This is America, the Americansystem is built on success and a
divine devotion to achievement.
Okay, the American dream isabout building something that
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nobody thought you could buildand going against the tides.
Okay, the American dream isabout quitting your job at a
place you hated and you buildsomething from scratch, and it's
beautiful.
That's the American dream.
The American dream is beingable to own a home.
No, the American dream is beingable to own a home.
No, the American dream is beingable to own many homes.
You see, you were always taughtthat you need a white picket
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fence house, get your littlespace, blah, blah, blah.
No, the American dream is tohave it all, to have many
properties and the way that youacquire many properties, many
wealth, many reps that will getyou in shape, to get you the
sitzpat to help you lose theweight.
It all comes together when itcomes to where your head is at,
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and so a great framework forthis.
That always helped me.
I try to envision my worstenemy doing the exact things
that I want to do in life.
Imagine right now, that yourworst enemy, the person you
dislike the most or hate themost hopefully not hate, but
let's just say that personimagine them doing everything
you want to do right now.
So let's just say, like I said,you want to go to the gym, you
want to.
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You're 300 pounds, you want tolose weight?
Well, you have another enemy ofyours who's also maybe 300
pounds.
They also want to lose weight.
Well, what if that person?
Imagine that person going tothe gym and losing the weight
and you're not doing it.
Imagine yourself as a superhero.
And the other you is thevillain.
The villain you is the one whodoesn't take the action.
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The villain is the one whodoesn't go to the gym.
The villain is the one who sitsaround.
He hates, he wonders, heponders, he worries.
Is the one who sits around.
He hates, he wonders, heponders, he worries.
And then the winner, the goodman, the good, the good you is
the one who essentially takesaction.
The good you is the one whotakes initiative.
You're industrious, you takedrive, you're not afraid to take
risks.
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You're brave, you're courageousenough to stand up for what you
believe in.
You go for what you want.
You're a go-getter, you'reself-made.
That's going to hurt when yousee other people doing what you
knew you could achieve.
That's where people really getcaught up in life.
Okay, when people get off thetrain that they originally
wanted to be on and they go anddo something else that they
really didn't know.
They weren't sure, but they didit.
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And they did it out of goodintentions, but they didn't do
it because it was what was goingto truly make them happy.
Okay, and so what is happy Now?
Should we just be happy all thetime?
No, but you should achieve andstrive to be happy.
You should strive.
The pursuit of happiness, verysimple, the pursuit of happiness
.
If you want to be happy in thislife, if you want to be
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fulfilled and successful, thenyou need to be able to take the
steps, got to be able to imagineyourself doing it.
You got to think with the endin mind.
This life on planet Earth is amatrix, no doubt about it.
Everything in this life is atest, everything in this life is
a simulation.
It's like a video game.
God's playing the video gameand Satan's playing against him.
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We're all just the charactersinside of this video game, god
and the devil.
They can both pause the gamewhenever they want, because
they're just it's 1v1.
But we're all just the playersin this entire system.
But here's the kicker we havefree will.
So, with all of this free will.
God and the devil areconstantly fighting back and
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forth, and here they're using usas these placeholders, these
pawns on earth.
And that's the truth.
And so it begs the questionwhat are you going to do in
order to make sure you achievethe things that you want to
achieve, while also making surethat you fulfill God's plan for
you and for the rest of theworld?
We need to make a pact with God.
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People laugh at this.
People think well, I don't needGod.
Well, it's like, at the end ofthe day, despite how many
religions there are, you know,you can say maybe you believe in
Christianity, maybe you believein atheism, maybe you hopefully
not atheism, maybe you believein Buddhists, maybe you're Hindu
.
No-transcript, the endlessdimensions that will be
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traveling in this next threedecades.
You guys don't even know what'scoming.
So the point is in business andentrepreneurship, you have to
take actions and you are yourworst enemy all the time.
It's your decision to stay onthe couch and to not work out
that day.
It's your decision to not pickup the phone and make 100 phone
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calls, 200 phone calls, 300phone calls, and to spread time
out of your every single day.
And do that thing, because Iguarantee you, if you were to do
that as a business owner, as anentrepreneur, you're going to
make a shit ton of money,because that's how I've made my
money.
We're not a perfect business,but we make a lot of money.
We do pretty well at the end ofthe day.
And, by the way, if you want togrow your business, work with
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goldsharkmediacom.
We will make sure that we growyour business with website SEO,
lead generation, we'll get youcold email outreach, we'll get
you social media management.
We really just do it all.
We handle all of it for you.
So you don't got to waste thetime, so you don't got to worry
about anybody else.
We take care of it for you.
Okay, yes, we already knowevery other agency does the same
things.
You're going to get the samecall.
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You're going to get the sameconversation blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah how their technologyis great, how they're working
with these companies and thosecompanies.
Really, they just want yourmoney and we all know this.
Okay, and we've all worked withmarketing agencies that don
don't work.
But Gold Shark Media is a littledifferent because, you know, I
consider us more of a growthpartnership agency.
We charge high premiums,because what we are in for is a
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partnership, and so that's kindof what I've.
Honestly, in my opinion, that'swhat works best.
You know, we have a system atGold Shark Media where we help
promote business owners andtheir social media, their videos
.
We help do video editing, growyour YouTube channel for you.
We do all of this stuff forentrepreneurs just like you, so
we can make sure that you'rewinning and building your
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American dream.
Okay, we're a growing agency.
We're here for the long haul.
We're going to win, and that'swhat I'm all about.
I'm all about winning, I'm allabout success.
I'm all about adversity.
I'm all about proving everybodywrong.
When society tells you no, Isay fucking yes.
When society says no, I saybullshit.
When society says no, I say why?
I always, always, am thedifficult one, because I believe
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that humanity is capable ofmuch, much more than what we
really allow ourselves to admit.
But you have control over yourdiet.
You have control over thethings that you consume on
social media, on Instagram, onTwitter, whatever over your diet
.
You have control over thethings that you consume on
social media, on Instagram, onTwitter, x, whatever it might be
.
You have control over who youhang out with the friends that
you associate with.
You have control over yourspouses.
Your mate is who you're goingto have children with.
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You have control where you sendyour kids to school.
You have control where,essentially, your kids, or how
your kids are going to be raised.
You control your life.
At the end of the day, you havefree will.
It's the beauty of planet earthand also the curse of planet
earth.
This is the place where we goas human beings to, but maybe we
get kicked down from heaven.
Maybe we're fallen angels andwe just we come here on planet
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earth to basically pay our billand to essentially make up for
all the bad things.
Maybe the reason for thetragedy, maybe the reason for
the craziness and the chaos, theanarchy, the murder, the blood,
the deceit, the chaos, theanarchy, the war, all of it.
Maybe the reason for this isbecause Planet Earth is a
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testing ground.
Maybe it's because it is avideo game.
It's God versus Satan, it's Godversus the devil, it's, you
know, good versus evil, andthat's and we're just players
inside of this game.
But the catch is we have controlover our actions and the things
we say, the things we do andthe things we want to do.
We have the will and the powerto manifest our futures through
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action.
See, planet earth is the placewhere creativity and
spirituality and physical matterall connect the Holy Spirit,
almost Father, the Son and theHoly Trinity.
Planet Earth is very much likethat.
Planet Earth is a place wherephysical matter and spirituality
come together.
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Amazing inventions, the mostamazing sequences of history of
things that might not be reallyunderstood by other intelligent
life forms in the universe.
We're a royal species.
As human beings, we can doanything we want to do.
We can go beyond the stars.
We can go beyond the firmament.
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We can go beyond all of thesethings.
We can go beyond the dome.
We can go beyond the earth, allthe different planets, all the
different galaxies, all thedifferent dimensions.
The truth is we can do anythingas human beings and it is only
us who gets in our way.
What gets in your way?
I bet the things that aregetting your way right now are
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probably financial, probablyhaving a lot of problems keeping
up with bills, paying groceries, paying gas, and you're going
to this job.
You're living this life youdon't want to live.
You're going in circles becauseyou're living in the hardest
economy that's ever existed theAmerican economy.
There's so many things we cando on planet Earth and if we
really want it bad enough, thenwe can achieve anything we want.
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But we are the only things thatget in our own way.
Usually, the things that get inour way on our path to success
is not making decisions, it'snot doing the little things, and
once you can control your life,you're going to find life gets
a lot easier when you havecontrol of your finances, for
example.
So most people don't havecontrol over anything and they
think they do.
They're very arrogant.
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Again, most people are.
What did Andrew Tate say?
They're either lazy, they'restupid or they're arrogant, and
I really agree with that.
I think not everybody's stupid.
I think that's like maybe 2% ofpeople, and then I would say
most of the majority would belazy, and then I would say the
smaller majority would bearrogant, and I think there's
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actually a mix of arrogance andlaziness.
Okay, people want to believethat they're greater than they
are, but they don't want to backit up with facts, with evidence
, and they don't want to put inthe work for it.
You know they ain't going to dietrying, and that's what you got
to do.
You got to get rich or dietrying, and the only way you're
going to be able to succeed isif you understand that you are
your own worst enemy.
Every single time.
It's always going to be yourfault.
So if you're an entrepreneur,if you're, even if you're not an
entrepreneur, you're livingthrough life, doing whatever
you're doing, and maybe you'reblaming somebody else for your
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shit, and I totally get this.
I understand why.
I see how this can happen.
I'm like this too.
I like to blame other peoplesometimes do, but I always try
to blame myself.
At the end of the day, I blamemyself for everything.
I blame myself for anything inmy life that I haven't perfected
yet and made great, because Ihad the opportunities when I was
younger to learn those things,but I took time and wasted it.
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So today I try to not wastetime.
In college, you know, althoughit wasn't a complete waste of
time, I did get my degree,criminal justice, which is kind
of cool, but it was a waste oftime.
It's a waste of money.
You know, I was this four yearvacation.
I learned how to live alone andI learned, you know, how to
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love my country out of mycolleges, teaching me to like
hate my country.
I was surrounded by pre-medstudents and pre-law students,
super liberal environment, andthat's most colleges or
universities.
Anybody who's been to college,you understand.
Um, it's just anybody.
Any conservative who's been tocollege, you understand.
It's just anybody.
Any conservative, anyconservative, republican, trump
voter at the time who voted orwho was in college.
You guys know what I'm talkingabout.
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I had to live through collegewith the whole COVID vaccine
stuff and all this crazy, allthe craziness that went on.
I had to live through that andit was just ridiculous.
I ended up graduating.
Still, I ended up getting.
I'm graduating because I endedup getting to basically go to
the police academy in order tofulfill my college credits.
And so we did that.
We succeeded, became a cop andI.
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That was when I learned thebiggest lesson of my life and,
at the end of the day, thebiggest lesson of my life was
that nobody is going to save you.
Nobody is going to come andgive you a million dollars.
Nobody is going to save you.
Nobody is going to come andgive you a million dollars.
Nobody is going to build yourdreams for you.
Nobody's going to build yourbusiness for you.
Everybody wants to make so muchmoney that they can just hire
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everybody to do all the work andit's just, it's laughable to
anybody like me who's like,really been in the ringer.
At the end of the day, I stillwant to make sure that we are
able to help as many businessowners as possible, because the
hardest part about business isunderstanding that it's all a
learning curve, and the hardestpart about business for a lot of
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people is the fact that ittakes a lot of failing.
It takes a lot of wasting moneyand losing money and people
telling you it's not going towork, Telling you to hang up
your cleats, just get out ofhere, close the business, go
back and get a job that's stable.
You know, be like be like JohnDonner over over here, who has a
gas station job and he'sworking this, and be like this
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lady who's doing this or thisguy who's doing fuck that.
You need to figure out what youwant to do, figure out what you
love, figure out what you'regoing to, figure out what's
going to make you the mostamount of money.
How much money do you want tomake?
Okay, that's the secondquestion you ask.
The first question you ask ishow do I want to make my money?
How do I want to become wealthy?
What do I want to be rememberedfor?
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Okay, you got to think big, andif you're going to think big,
then you're finally going to bemaking bigger moves.
Right, you've heard the termyou shoot for the stars.
You'll probably you'll misshigh, you know.
You'll shoot for the stars.
You're going to at least getout into this.
You're going to get in space,you know, and so you'll leave
Earth and you'll actually get totravel.
You'll get to be expansionist,you'll get to go on the voyage.
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Still, you might not just hitthat star, but you'll at least
get closer than you were, as ifyou were aiming for nothing.
You know, if you're aiming fornothing, nothing at all, you'd
have big dreams in business,you'd have big goals, and if you
don't believe in yourself,that's already the first problem
.
So, believing in yourself,knowing what you want to do, how
you want to make your money,how you want to be remembered as
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a business owner, as anentrepreneur what do you want to
be known for?
Okay, how do you want to beknown for?
Like, when people Google you,what do you want them to talk
about?
What do you want them to sayLike for me.
What do I want people to saywhen they look up Brendan Acker,
brendan Scott Acker, gold SharkMedia I'm a business owner.
I'm a businessman, entrepreneur.
I'm an investor.
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I'm an investor.
I love investing in companies.
I love helping other businesses.
I love AI.
I like project management, Ilike marketing.
I like sales.
I like all of it.
I'm business.
I hope that anybody who looksme up I want them to see
business.
And then YouTube or my books.
I'm also an author.
If you guys want to buy mybooks, you can buy my books
beyond the beat or how I made mydoor in my office from Amazon.
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Those are 20 bucks.
You can get those for free.
Also on Kindle for like 99cents.
So go ahead and do that.
And yeah, you guys like thebooks.
I think they'll help you inbusiness.
Again, they were about myjourney in college and law
enforcement, of course, but alsohow and why I got into business
and explains my path a littlebit.
So if you want to learn aboutme, what made me want to get
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into business, what made me wantto escape the matrix and be
free from law enforcement andall this other stuff and again,
I'm still a cop, I'm just parttime right now by choice,
because I like freedom, I likehaving a decision, like having
control, baby.
So that's the idea we are ourown worst enemy and you can
never forget this.
We are our own worst enemy andyou can never forget this.
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We are our own worst enemy, youare your own worst enemy.
So, if you just take action,write out an actionable plan.
What do you want to do?
How do you want to get there?
Okay, how much money you wantto make?
Okay, how are you going to gomake that money?
Chat, gpt, google, rock okay,how can I make?
You want to make twenty eightthousand dollars a month passive
income, easy.
Well, for, for example, how areyou going to do that?
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Well, let's look.
How are you going to makeenough money?
How are you going to make$700,000 or $150,000 so you
could put that down payment onan apartment complex?
That will generate you $28,000a month and, noi, net operating
income?
What are you going to do tomake that happen?
What are you going to do tomake that happen?
What are you going to do inyour life to take real steps and
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figure yourself out.
Figure out what you really wantand how you want to make your
money.
The real reason most people Ireally think most why most
business owners fail and whythey fail and it takes them
years to succeed if they don'tfail, is because they have this.
They have this continuingbelief that it's just going to
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be this easy ride.
A lot of business owners theydon't realize that a big part of
business is losing, and losinga lot of money.
A big part of business ismaking sacrifices and being told
that what you're doing sucks.
A big part of business is notmaking sales right away, but an
also big part of that is keepingthe game going.
A lot of business owners theyquit.
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They give up too early.
They stop playing the game whenthey don't see success, when
they, when they get sick ofother people reaching out to
them, when they get tired of thegame, they just stop it.
But the problem is, when youstop the game, you stop making
money, and so money is important.
Why do you need money?
Well, if you don't have money,you can't have health, wealth,
love or happiness.
That's the end of the day.
You need to have wealth.
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Wealth is the fuel to get youthere.
Then you need to have yourhealth where.
Okay, now you got your wealth.
You got enough to give you agood life.
Now you can be comfortable, youcan mentally, you don't have to
stress about bills or financesanymore.
Good, we're financially free.
Step one check.
Then you should focus on yourhealth.
You know, okay, now we got.
Now we're making 100K a monthplus.
So how are we going to do that?
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How are we going to stay ingood shape?
How are we going to getstronger every single day?
How are we going to get moreeffective as a human being?
So this should be your nextstep.
After that, and so 12, love andhappiness.
How are you going to get thosethings?
Okay, well, the first step isyou got to have the wealth.
I think you got to havesomething to pay your way in.
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Okay, how are you going to geton the ark?
Remember seeing the movie 2012?
They all have to get on the ark.
Well, it costs you.
You got to be rich.
It was all the rich people,sorry, or the powerful people.
Rich or powerful, rich orpowerful One of the two.
You have to be Okay, because ifyou're not, then essentially
you're going to be locked out ofthe game Again.
This is planet Earth.
Here.
I didn't make the rules.
This is the way the world is.
This is a jungle, survival ofthe fittest, and it pretty much
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is at the end of the day, andit's a tough world we live in.
But again, you have to rememberthat we're all being tested all
the time on this Earth.
I believe that this is asimulation test, so in order to
pass the test, you just have tostay alive.
As long as you alive, you justgotta, or as long as you can.
You know you gotta stay aliveas long as you can stick it out,
and then you know, you'll learna lot about yourself, your soul
.
We're so trapped into thismatrix of going to these stupid
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jobs and doing these stupidthings that really don't push
forward the human race in anyway.
You know you're stuck at thisjob and you got people just
telling you how important thisis and how, oh, you're going to
have this.
You know, when I was your age,when I was getting a house at 20
years old, it's like yeah.
When you were getting a house,when it was like what?
3% interest rates, 6% interestrates maybe, like okay, come on,
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you know it ain't the samegeneration.
So in today's generation, learnhow to make money with modern
creativity.
Modern creativity and modernwealth strategies are going to
make you the most amount ofmoney.
For example, how many peopleare you investing in XRP and
Bitcoin?
Okay, I don't really likeBitcoin.
I've never been a fan of it.
I think it's kind of a scam.
I could see it going to zero,but we'll see, Maybe I'll be
(26:54):
wrong.
But how many of you areinvested in XRP, hbar?
How many of you are invested inCardano, ada?
How many of you are invested inAlgorand?
How many of you are invested inOnyxCoin or all these other?
Ondo, finance, all thesedifferent great digital assets?
Right, xlm forgot to leave thatone in there Dogecoin.
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That will probably have someuse case soon.
So all I know, guys, is that inorder for you to succeed, in
order for you to becomeeverything you want to become,
you have to understand that youare your own worst enemy and you
have to overcome yourself.
You have to overcome your worstfears, your worst desires.
You have to believe that youcan achieve.
You have to believe that youcan get out of it and just like
that, if you don't conquer yourdreams, the lights go out and
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that's the you know.
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