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Sir John Templeton told me that he's never seen anyone tithe, which you know tithing is usually 10% of what you earn for at least a decade.

You didn't become incredibly financially free. Wow. And I think the reason is I had a moment like when my whole life changed. It was kind of twofold. I was really gotten like yourself back then, right? Working my tail off trying to build a business. I mean, big goals, you know, you don't always succeed to start. Right. Right. Right. come together, right?

You know, it was hard.

And I remember I was so

frustrated because I was working 18-hour days and nothing was working and I was broke and I felt

embarrassed you know I should be doing better than this and so I was driving home from Orange County on

the 57 freeway in San Gerville Valley out near a place in Pimona California and probably just

not anybody else but I remember so vividly because it was almost midnight.

And I was at this breaking point. And then I was like, why am I not, you know, doing better? And then I just pulled over the road. And I used to keep these journals. I still have them, written journals. And I wrote in big lines, you know, the secret to living is giving. And I started crying. and I realized I am so focused on what am I not getting.

I'm not focusing on what I'm giving.

So for six months, man, it turned me around. But then, you know, somebody else that gets in your body. It was in my head. It was in my heart, but I had to get in there to stay. And I started going through some really tough times. And I lost everything financially. And I was mad at everything because, like, I'd loaned a friend a thousand and you know how I'd done doing well. You know when you return my phone call. And what changed me was I was down, I don't know, 22, 23 bucks, something like that, I was $24. Enough that I knew that I didn't have money for food for the next week, clearly. And I didn't have any prospects. And I was living in Venice in this 400 square of a bachelor apartment, feeling sorry for myself, I'm getting pissed off. And I thought, you know what? I got to eat. So I'm not going to drive my car because I'm not going to spend the gas. I'm not going to pay for parking. I'm going to go to all you can eat place and load up for the winter, right? So I can get more like one meal a day. There's a place called Marina del Rey, not far from Venice. and it's beautiful community and it's right on the water. And there's a place called El Trito. It's still there.

So I walked there for the... There's a place called Marina Del Rey, not far from Venice, and it's beautiful community, and it's right on the water.

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