Welcome to radical personal finance. My name is Joshua Sheets. Today, I want to share with you about an idea that I believe is fundamental to your success, to your success in every area of life.

And that idea is encapsulated eloquently by the phrase that Zig Zigler drilled into my head many years ago

goes like this. Joshua, you can have everything you want in life if you'll just help enough

other people get what they want. I want to say that to you today.

You can have everything that you want in life if you'll just help enough other people get

what they want.

Now, you can apply this on a large scale.

Usually that's what we do in the context of business.

But really, it's also applied to the individual.

What I want you to do is I want you to think about all of the people that are important to you in your life.

When I do this exercise, I think of my wife, I think of my children,

I think of my parents, I think of my siblings, think of my coworkers, I think of people that I

want to be friends with, that I am friends with. I think of you. And I think, how can I help you get what you want in life?

When I think of my wife, I can easily make a list of all of the things that I want from her.

But if I want those things from her, there's two pathways that I can try.

Pathway number one, I'll tell you, doesn't work very well, which is where I sit her down.

I make a long list of demands and I say, I demand these things from you.

And maybe she's nice and she does some of those things.

But if she does, they kind of peter out over time.

Doesn't last very long.

Demanding things of other people doesn't tend to work very well.

I don't find it works well with anybody, even those that are the closest to me.

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