I have one semester of college to my credit, but yet I am probably the most educated person I know,

because all I've done is spent an enormous amount of time continuing to educate myself

in the areas of skills and attributes that are most important to progressing me towards my goals.

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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Yeah, so what I do to keep myself positive is I was taught something at 18 years of age. The most important

personal development principle I think I could put my finger on that caused a lot of my path

to this point. It was from Brian Tracy and he said, okay, you want to take it every dollar

that you earn from this point forward and take 10 cents out and use it to tithe

to help less fortunate people. We've all heard that ancient tradition. He says, now you want to

take another 10 cents out from that dollar and you want to use it to tithe to help yourself.

You want to reinvest it in your personal development. And so at 18, I had a goal to make a six-figure income. I want to make $100,000

when I was 18 years old. So I took out $10,000 and I used it to invest in my personal development.

I went to seminars, about books, I went to workshops, and so forth. And that year I made $150,000.

So I thought, wait a minute, there must be something to this. The next year,

I set a goal to make a quarter of a million dollars. So I set aside $25,000 and invested it into my

personal involvement. And I superseded that goal. Every year, I have taken 10% of that income

and use it to reinvest in my personal. I mean, it gets harder and harder every year.

I have conversations with my team.

It's like, I've got to spend some money in personal development.

What can I invest in for you to go to we can grow as a group?

Because it's getting harder and harder.

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