Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.

I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies. those who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain

and teach you exactly what you need to do the same.

Ready? Here we go.

If I think back to my upbringing I grew up in Michigan to really two really

wonderful down-to-earth parents my mom was a school teacher initially dad

was a dentist and did things like giving away, you know,

procedures or discounted things to families that couldn't afford it. So I always had

these really nice as I look back

in an adult influences in my life and role models so to speak. But something

kind of changed in me when I got out of college.

And I don't know what that switch was that flip,

but it wasn't a good switch.

It was essentially, I got into the rat race, so to speak.

And my first job was in IT sales and I became very, very focused on accumulating as much wealth

as humanly possible.

And I'm not, as I've said on a number of shows, I'm not anti-capitalism, I'm not

entrepreneurship, in fact, quite the opposite. But I think I wanted stuff for the purposes of having stuff to have a really expensive car for the purposes of saying look what I can drive and one day and this was back in 2001, which was kind of an ordinary day for me.

I got in the car and I was driving to go have dinner with the cousins, with one of my cousins, and I was kind of sitting at the base of a hill where it was

five o'clock and the sun was in my eyes and this silver BMW just came flying. I flat out didn't see it. I got the ticket. I'm sure I

deserve to get the ticket. I've rehashed that scene a million times in my mind since then. But essentially as I'm in the middle of this left-hand

turn I see a car screaming at me and what's really interesting what we know

...