One of my favorite thinkers, Jim Rohn, he says, life doesn't give us what we need. Life gives us what we

deserve. You don't reap the harvest because you need it. You reap the harvest because you deserve it.

Because you planted in the spring and took care of it in the summer.

And oh, what a shift.

Right? A hard truth to learn, actually, that the universe doesn't care what you need.

It's indifferent to you and your want.

It doesn't care about what you'd like to accomplish or solve.

It rewards the question,

how can I be more deserving of my ideal life?

When you become more personally,

your ability to acquire increases proportionally.

When you build yourself up, the world conforms.

And I remember being frustrated, being in a tough spot

and just thinking, why won't the world give me what I need?

I'm down and out.

I need some type of guidance, of help.

Just a break, right?

I'm out here struggling, and it turns out the answer was simple.

I had to go manufacture some sort of momentum.

Increase the value that I added to others, improve my skills.

I remember, you know, saying I want a million dollars. I want a huge personal brand. And I look back

now and it's like, in what world did I think I was entitled to those things? Because I wanted them? That's not the way the

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