184-Your Self Image is Everything

How do you see yourself, do you see yourself wealthy, or do you see yourself poor?

Do you see yourself ugly or beautiful?

Do you see yourself successful or failing?

Do you see yourself struggling or learning?

Wow, do you see yourself giving, or do you see yourself stingy?

I'm sure it's giving.

Do you see yourself stylish or do you see yourself unrefined?

Do you see yourself young or do you see yourself old?

Well, here's the thing.

You will become exactly how you see yourself.

Self-image is actually no joke.

It's a real thing.

How you see yourself is what you will become.

Listen to me.

I know people that were 40 years old.

And as soon as they hit 40, they just felt like they were so old and they had the old me talk.

Oh my gosh, I'm getting so old.

I'm over the hill.

Give me my black and white balloons.

Oh, it's all downhill from here.

And you know what?

I've seen those same people at 40 years old.

I'm talking about people in my family.

And those same people end up living 90 to 100 years old.

Little did they know that they weren't even halfway there.

They still had another 50 or 60 years left.

I've seen other people in my family sit around and talk that old me talk.

Oh, I'm getting so old.

Yeah, I'm getting up there too.

Oh my gosh, and they sat in their living rooms.

For 40 more years watching the ceiling fan turn around and looking out the window seeing who was driving by.

Who is that?

I don't know.

I think that's aunt so and so.

Oh, who is that?

Oh my gosh, look outside.

Let's see who's coming up.

And they would sit in the living room every single day with the ceiling fan waiting to die.

But they didn't die.

The ceiling fan that same ceiling fan turned and turned for 40 more years.

I saw it.

But then I've seen some people.

Let's say Bob Proctor.

He was a great motivational speaker and he was the author of the secret.

And that guy was like 86 years old.

And he had a studio at home and he talked like a young person.

He acted like a young person.

And he said that he planned on living.

And he said, why did you?

Why did you build a studio in your 80s, man?

Most people are like, wait, they're just trying to rest and relax.

And he said, hey, I'm in my prime.

I'm in my prime.

And you know what's crazy?

Is that man ended up dying maybe a couple of years later after that?

But he lived like a young person.

And I'm telling you my friends, whatever you think about,

however you see yourself that is exactly what you will become.

I've seen poor people believe that they're rich and they get rich eventually.

I've seen rich people so stingy, so thrifty, so penny-pinching.

They think that they're, oh my gosh, I'm pouring them.

I got 182,000.

I only got 182,000 in my savings in my 401k.

Oh, I sure hope nothing happens to me.

Oh, I sure hope I'm okay.

And they end up losing it all.

Or worse, they end up dying not spending a penny of it

because they're so afraid that they're going to die broke.

Well, I got news for you, my friend.

We're all going to die broke.

You're not taking any of it with you.

Not none of it, none zero.

Not the car, not the house, not the clothes, not the bank accounts,

not the 401s, not the nothing.

You're going to die broke just like everybody else.

So, you might as well enjoy life.

You might as well spend a little bit of that money.

You might as well travel a little bit.

You can afford to travel.

You might as well go get yourself a nice hotel room every once in a while.

Spend yourself three or four hundred dollars man a night for two or three nights.

Get some room service because if you see yourself as happy, you will be happy.

If you see yourself as a person that lives, you will live.

If you see yourself as a overcomer, you will be an overcomer.

But those that see themselves as a victim, and they've been telling that same old story

for 40 years of what she did and what he did and what divorced and my first husband,

my first wife and my people done this, my that.

Let me tell you, you will become a permanent victim.

Not me, my friends.

Not me and not you.

You are no victim.

You are an overcomer.

You are a victor.

You are that one person in your family.

That is going to make it.

You have to see yourself as that hero.

You have to see yourself as that one golden eagle in the family.

You have to see yourself as that one strange black sheep that doesn't do anything like everybody else.

Nope.

I am a successful entrepreneur.

I am wealthy.

I am the one that's going to bring my family out of these generational curses.

I am that one that is going to see that all my close relatives and the ones that I like

are going to be financially free too.

I'm going to make sure that my kids and grandkids know that there was this one man or this one person

in our family.

He made it and he left some breadcrumbs.

He left a trail.

I'd say some golden nuggets.

I didn't leave breadcrumbs.

I'm going to change that.

I'm leaving gold and golden nuggets for my generations to come.

How do you see yourself, my friend?

Do you see yourself living to a hundred?

Or do you see yourself dying early?

It's up to you.

But I would warn you, you should see yourself as a success and not a failure.

Go live your life.

Enjoy every minute of it.