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I lost everything because of the lack of humility,

because I forgot to take stock and who I was

and what I wanted to become.

And it was interesting, people asked me, how the hell it is someone that's so educated and had such business success?

How do you lose over $100 million?

How do you go from that high up? Someone that, I'm not a football player, you know

know I'm the one who is helping all the players not go bankrupt how how does that

happen and it was simply I surrounded myself with the wrong people and the wrong ideas.

And so I started looking at the criteria of what that actually meant when Napoleon Hill said you're the aggregate of the five people that you spend the most time with.

I went beyond what he was teaching. I said to myself, who feeds me and who bleeds me and then determinative upon who feeds me and who bleeds

me is how relative are they to me because for example I'm sure your children bleed you,

and I'm sure we bled our parents.

Well, we're so relative to them

that it's a joy to be bled by your children.

It's just like I believe it's a joy to be bled by my mom now that she's 80 and so relativity became a criteria

After I determined whether somebody was feeding me or bleeding me and then this the third component was association that was

association,

that sometimes we're put in association with people

where we have to protect ourselves,

but we're at a cubby hole next to them at work or we're both on the board of directors

of a large company or an organization and so when I was dissecting how I ended up bankrupt, how I ended up making such major mistakes, not just financially, I almost ended up divorced.

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