Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Why is it important to be thinking of giving and contribution in order to generate wealth?

When people say that, well, I don't have much to give,

I'm barely making enough to pay my rent, my food. How can I have the mindset of giving in order to build wealth? What would you say? It's the only, you never get beyond scarcity. You've got to start beyond it. You got to plant your feet. And, you know, so many people say, well, when I'm rich, I'll give some money.

If you won't give a dime out of a dollar,

I can promise you you're not going to give

$10 million out of $100 million.

Right. You know, so many people say, well, when I'm rich, I'll give some money. If you won't give a dime out of a dollar, I can promise you, you're not going to give 10 million out of 100 million, not in a trillion years. So if you, but if you start, what I always believe is it, it transforms you. When you, I had a group of kids that I went to, like when I was 31 years old, I was invited to this grade school in Houston, Texas. And each grade did a little mini assembly for me of what they, how do you use my stuff, you know, at that year. And at the end, I was really emotional. And I was like, you guys asked me to come inspire you. You've inspired me. And so the sixth graders have only done it for one year. And I said, I'm going to sponsor your college educations.

I had no idea how it's going to do it.

I was doing well, but not that well.

And I said, I'm going to pay for your college educations, but I said, here are the rules of the game. I just made it up while I was right there. I said, you got to keep a B average. I'll get you mentors. There's no excuse not to be above average.

You gotta not use drugs.

You not get yourself in prison.

And you gotta give me 20 hours of community service. excuse not to be above average. You got to not use drugs, you'd not get yourself in prison,

and you got to give me 20 hours of community service a year. The reason I did that is I don't

have a college education, but I knew if I got these kids who thought they needed something

to be the ones to go give something, it would change their identity, would change their

life more than college. Right. And ironically, I think we had 70 kids originally. I lost 95 kids I was going to lose. I lost the first year. It was like 30 kids. And the reason was their parents did not want them to do community service. They said they should be receiving. They shouldn't have to work. But the ones that

did it, I mean, some have PhDs now, went through that process. So I really believe that the secret

the living is giving is corny as it sounds. I have an experience where I was driving on the 57 freeway,

not far from here in San Gabriel Valley. And it was midnight. I was driving my 1968 Volkswagen

Baja bug, Baja bug. And I was been in business for, you know, a year, and it was midnight. I was driving my 1968 Volkswagen bug, Baja bug,

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