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Here, aka Forbidden Knowledge. Early in the morning, it's 6:20 a.m. on the east coast of the United States of America. I'm glad to be back in my house for a few days. I've been on a hell of a run. And so uh why don't y'all come on and have a cup of coffee with me? Go ahead and get this. Uh I gotta get my coffee going in the morning, you know. Get me started. Anyway, I'm up early as usual. I already been up for two hours working on some projects, getting some things done. Now I'm gonna drink this cup of coffee and I'm gonna head on over to the gym. But I want to jump in real quick and share a couple minutes with y'all this morning. I know it's an early morning live. Like, man, what the hell is Billy doing jumping on here at 6 30 a.m.? You know? Uh, you know, sometimes I just randomly jump on. Obviously, you know, I go live a lot. Sometimes I'm streaming, sometimes I'm live live. Right now, I'm live live. Um and uh just finally getting back in there after one hell of a schedule over the next over the last uh few weeks and kind of really just getting myself ready for the next big push towards the end of the year. And uh let me see if I can get in here and let me get this uh phone set up in the stand real quick. Hold on, y'all. In my family room area. I hardly get to sit here. Because I'm usually traveling nonstop. You know? So it's good to be here, it's good to be back. Um thank y'all for hopping on, just getting the notification and hopping on. I appreciate that as well. I just wanted to share something with y'all while we drink this coffee together. You know, um, my schedule is pretty crazy, and um in the last week and a half, I've been on seven flights total. Seven flights in a week and a half. That's a lot. You know, that's a lot. I had to go hit a couple of podcasts, and I had to fly to the UK, uh, take a two-hour drive down into Eastbourne in the UK, do a four-day, technically really a three-day um conference, which was meet and greet, being on the stage. Phenomenal opportunity. I got to be on the stage with David Icke, the living legend. I got to be on stage with him twice, work with David Icke, sit with David Icke, have lunch, breakfast, dinner with David Icke, really get a chance to pick his mind behind the scenes, you know. And uh, you know, sometimes they say, you know, sometimes you don't want to meet your heroes, right? And uh this particular case, you really want to meet your hero because David Icke was uh exactly what I thought he was: a real person, a real man, um, a conscious man, uh a very empathetic man. And um he doesn't like play fake in front of the camera and then turn into a different person behind the camera. Because what I see, a lot of the people that I rock with, you know, or you know, that I've dealt with or seen have been like, man, I'd like to meet this guy. And then I meet them, you know, in person. And behind the scenes, I'm sitting and I'm just observing, and I'm observing how they interact with the fans, how they interact with the people, or how they hide from the people, you know, uh the limited pictures they take with people, um, the limited conversations. Um, and I'm like, wow, I see. So some of them are really like for this, for the cause and for the people. And some of them are just, I guess they got on this high horse, you know, they got on this uh they got on this throne, I guess, that they created in their mind. And you know what I'm saying? They just um they're not really for the people like that, you know. I still go out and I get I get with the people, I go out and meet and greet, you know, I sign autographs, I take the selfies, I, you know, I shake their hands, I ask them for their names. There isn't one person that has met me, I don't care if it's an airport, walking down the sidewalk at the beach, inside a hotel, uh wherever they've seen me, once they acknowledge me, the first thing I do is I ask them for their name. And people respect that. And then when I and then when we depart each other's energy, I say thank you, and I I quote their name, you know, and people remember that. There's one thing about people, they're always gonna remember how you make them feel. People will always remember how you make them feel, and uh and I never look I never want to leave people feeling uh any type of way, you know. I always want them to feel like they they you know they had an interaction with me and they left feeling either they were at the same level or higher when they walked away, you know, or when we departed, our energies kind of separated. And um, you know, sometimes I don't see that, but I got to meet David Ike and work with him, and he's an amazing person. He is the real deal. He's the real deal. Um, and then also, you know, just meeting all the other great speakers that were there and getting to spend time with them was incredible. And seeing all these people come in from all over the world to that conference was amazing. And it was a lot of work. I'm not gonna lie, it was a lot of work doing that conference. It took a lot of energy, you know, 10, 12 hours a day. And then on the last day, I decided to take a day trip. I went on a day trip to the British Museum to go visit the Sumerian tablets, to go visit some of the Sumerian artifacts and some of the Egyptian artifacts as well, which I'll be making a video about and posting some of my photos here probably today or tomorrow. Um, and then that day trip, you know, it's about five hours in a car, you know, five hours in a car. And I had to find a driver to take me out there on the way back. You know, for whatever reason, I don't understand why. In Europe, this shouldn't be happening. But that area of the UK, the the roads were horrible. The potholes were I thought I was in Detroit. We hit a pothole and the tire blew up. I had to call the Uber to pick me up for my driver to get me back to the final destination. But uh, it was all good, everything worked out fine. And then I had to uh get up at three o'clock in the morning, hop on another plane, fly all the way back to the USA, hit the ground, get cleaned up, go get a haircut, run a couple errands that day. Within like I only had like four hours to go back to the airport to fly to Colorado to go film with Regina Meredith at Gaia. Uh, and went to go film with her, which was great. Uh, went to studio, you know, nine o'clock in the morning, left the studio like around maybe 1, 30, 2 o'clock in the afternoon, then took that hour and a half ride back to the airport, flew back from Colorado, landed, same thing, you know, get get cleaned up, run a few errands, go back to the airport, fly to Tampa, do another podcast. Um, you know, did that podcast for about four hours, and then take that hour and a half drive back. I don't know why these airports are so far away from some of these places. Uh, and then you go back to the airport and you fly back, you know, and then fly to another city, then do another podcast, and then get back. So I had basically um tons and tons of flights. I've been jumping on flights left and right, and I got a couple days off before I have to hop on a flight again because I'm flying to Atlanta to do another podcast with Killer Mike, and uh and Outcast is supposed to be there as well. So I'm looking forward to that. You know, that's gonna be nice. So that's coming up in a few days, and we're gonna film three podcasts back to back to back uh so they can release them over time, you know, and then I come back, and then I got a couple of days before I have to fly to a movie premiere from one of my producers who's hosting. And then I have after that, I got one day to get ready to fly to Egypt and be gone for 14 days in the deserts of the Sahara with my tour group. I have a hundred people coming with me on tour, and then I fly from Egypt all the way to Austin, Texas to do my lecture. Do my lecture and my um my keynote speech at the Quest for Ancient Civilizations Conference in Austin, Texas, at the Moody Theater in Austin on the 18th. And then I come back to Florida, I clean up, I take, you know, run some quick errands, then I hop on a plane and fly straight to Mexico for my sold-out Mexico tour. I'll be in Mexico for 14 days in the jungles. Um, you know, so it's it's a lot. I get back somewhere like around November the 5th or 6th or something like that. So October is completely gone. I won't even be able to sit in this chair in uh in October, you know, and so I'm saying that not because I'm complaining, I'm saying that because I want you to understand that you should be thankful and grateful if you have something to do. You know, some people go, man, that's a lot of work, and it is a lot of work, but you know what? I'm grateful and I'm thankful. Because there are people out there that have absolutely nothing to do, and I mean nothing. There are kids out there, teenagers that are so bored they get in trouble just because they're bored, because they can't find anything to do. There are adults out there that are in you know bad situations, and maybe even some level of depression because they just can't find what their passion is, and they can't find something to do. There's nobody calling them, there is nobody booking them, there is nobody asking them to complete a task, there's nobody hiring them. And so my point is if you have something to do, no matter how small or how large it is, embrace it, be grateful and thankful for that, and make sure you execute, make sure you get it done, don't procrastinate, don't self-sabotage, don't ruin it, and don't be like, ah, you know, there'll be another opportunity, or there'll be another this or another that, or yeah, I got this job, I don't like it, so I'm gonna half-ass it today. I don't care if you're working for somebody or you're working for yourself, you you're supposed to give 110% every single day on every single task. That is what you're supposed to do. And if you don't do that, you're not cheating the boss, you're not cheating your customers or clients, you're cheating yourself. You're cheating yourself. It's up to us to put the effort in, you know. I was in Cambodia. This is back in um, it must have been 2017, I guess. The first time I went to Cambodia. And in this area um of Cambodia, we had hiked through the jungle to get to this phenomenal waterfall. This waterfall was like a 120-meter waterfall. It was incredible. Um, it was one of the most beautiful places I'd ever seen with my own eyes. There were monks swimming in the water right next to the waterfall, and we got a chance to go in the water and swim with the monks. And um I'm coming back up through the mountainside, and we're getting back up to this other area, and I've got to use the restroom. And there's some houses in the jungle because these people live all throughout the jungles of Cambodia. Like it's not like a normal city, you know, like wherever you normally live, and there's a city, and then there's a rural area where there's like just bushes, like there's people living everywhere. And as we're cutting through this area, I see this monk, like an adult monk, but I see children monks. And at that point, I'll be honest, I did not know that monks started as children, as boys. I had no idea. First time ever seen something like this, and I'm observing them and I'm asking my guide if I can go speak to them. He's like, No, no, no, no, no, no. You can't speak to these kids, you can't speak to the monks. You know, they don't only if they are taking photos or allowing you to speak to them, but if they're working or doing their thing, you cannot interrupt them. It's okay. So I'm walking and I'm looking, and I'm looking so intently, the adult monk, he's like, he calls me over. So I look on my guide, I look at my guide and I'm like, is it okay? He's like, I mean, hey, he said, I never seen anything like it, but go on over there. So I went over to the monk and he's standing out there. And what the little baby monks were doing, or children monks, they were sweeping and cleaning and throwing out trash, but they were sweeping like they were sweeping places that were already clean, you know. Um, and I was talking to him, and uh, and uh he spoke some decent English, and I was asking him can I ask you a question? I noticed that these children are out here, you know, they're cleaning, but just I mean, from my perspective, everything looks pristine, and they're still sweeping on a concrete slab that looks completely clean, like these tiles or whatever it was, they were it's nothing there. And he said something interesting to me that stayed with me for the it's gonna stay with me for the rest of my life. Okay, it impacted me in a way that you know I'll never forget it. He said, everything that we do, we must do to perfection. If it's washing the dishes, it must be perfected. If it's taking out the trash, it must be perfected. If it's sweeping up, it must be perfected. Everything that we do, it must be done to perfection. And I was like, wow. I mean, sweeping the ground must be perfection, washing the dishes must be perfection. Can you imagine if we took that mindset? Because I just started extrapolating. What if I took that mindset into everything that I did? Like, what if I literally took that mindset into every aspect of life? How my life would transform, how things around me would transform, how things would change. Imagine how much more incredible and impactful the things that I do and the work that I do would be uh would increase, and how much more of an impact that would have not only on myself, but also on the world, and and and how I can, you know, and it's not about being perfect, it's about working towards perfection, it's about giving your best effort. It's not about being a perfectionist, it's about working towards perfection with that in mind and doing the absolute best you can, not half-assing it, you know? And I was like, wow, what an incredible concept. So when I go out to these conferences, when I go out to these lectures and these workshops and these book signings and meet and greets and movie premieres and events and tours, I give it my 110% best effort. Like I don't have acid, I don't hide from the people. I don't hide from the questions, I don't hide from the interactions, you know. I don't put myself on a pedestal. I go and I'm there, I'm with the people, you know, as timing as sometimes it might be. I remember one time I stood in the line. I had I stood uh stood with a line in front of me of 1,400 people. Each one wanted a photo, a signbook, you know, and they're gonna all gonna ask, well, not all, but probably 70% are gonna ask me a question or have some questions to ask. Sometimes people come with a notepad on their phone open. And I try to move the line as quickly as I possibly can, but I never disrespect the people. I always try to give them a word of something, you know, in passing. And the point I'm making here again is uh be grateful, be thankful for having something to do, but not only because you have it to do, whatever that is, but also give it your absolute best. Give it your absolute best. When I coached basketball, which I coached basketball for quite some time, some of y'all know that. I coached Team USA youth basketball, and I was in Team USA Youth Development, women's basketball. I also coached AAU elite basketball, as well as high school basketball. And even when my kids were younger, I coached middle school and YMCA. So I went up all the different ranks. I had college offers to coach in colleges, D1 colleges, because I had acquired over time 15 gold medals and won AAU championships a couple times, and several bowl tournaments as well that I won. But I declined that because that just wasn't my passion to coach at the college level. However, um one of the things I would tell my kids, so I had two starting fives on my teams. My teams were stacked, not because we had the best talent, but because we had the hardest workers. I don't care if you if you're your the other teams might have better talent than some of my players, but I had the hardcore workers. In my practices, I would say 70% of my practice was fundamental training and defensive drills. 70%. Sometimes we never got a chance to run scrimmages and do the fun stuff in practice. We were on the track for the entire practice, we were in the gym running windsprints, we were working the diamond press to perfection. We were working the hell out of that diamond press, and we would go over that diamond press for hours. Every single practice. Why? Because in youth sports, turnovers are high. And if you can operate and execute the diamond press effectively, you're going to create turnovers, which means 60 to 70 percent of your points are going to be layups, wide open layups or a three-on-two, two-on-one situation, which again gives you a higher percentage of score in the basket, right? And so the things we would do were like that, but that takes a lot of energy. Playing defense with a defensive mindset, it will drain you because you're giving 110% on every single defensive play. So I would rotate in and give them five hearts. I said, Leave everything you have on the court. Give me everything you've got. I bring them back to the bench, I rotate another powerhouse defensive team in. When they pick off right where they they pick up right where the other team left off, my team, and two team. I call it two, I got two teams in one. Five and five. Then when they wear those kids out and they turn all the turn the ball over, and we get all them layups again, and they're exhausted. I bring them back out, I bring the other ones back in. And I say, I don't care if you miss every shot, I don't care if you miss every layup. What I do want though, I want you to leave your heart on the court. I want you to go after everything, do everything you're supposed to do, slide those feet, use the proper hand for deflections, all the things you're supposed to do, all the anticipation, everything you've been trained to do. And I want you to use full energy, don't pace yourself, use up everything you have and leave it on the court. And that's why we were so successful. 85% win rate. In most cases, by 30 points a game. The only time we didn't beat people by 30 points or more was when we got to the national championships or the tournament championships or the the big uh, you know, the big events, the big uh you know, 17 and under Uh team USA uh events and things like that. That's when it came down to the wire. But most of the time, we won by 20, 30 points. Easy. Easy. Because the other coaches I know aren't working on the fundamentals with their players. They're letting their players go to come to practice and have fun. Let's run scrimmages. Let's run offensive plays. I don't care if you've got the best shooter in the world on your team, we're gonna make that shooter turn that damn ball over. Because we're gonna execute defensive strategy. We're gonna use all of our energy and leave our heart on the court. It's very similar to the mindset of what these um monks were telling me, which is why I can I was able to really relate, but I never saw it that way, like applying that same mindset to life until the monks hit me with that. It's like I was teaching that, but I wasn't really understanding and recognizing that that's really what it was. And so if you have a situation where you know you've been given a task or you've given yourself a task, leave your heart on that virtual court of whatever that task is, give it your 110% effort, and that way, if you walk away from it and it doesn't work out, it's okay. All right. I think my I think my coffee machine just ran out of water, and that way, if you you know, like I said, if you you know, if you walk away and it doesn't work out, you're gonna be like, okay, I gave it my all. I put 110% effort and it just didn't work out this time. And guess what? You can walk away with your head up and your chest out because you gave it everything you had, right? And that's what is that's what I'm talking about being able to do that, being able to have that knowledge of self that you gave it everything you had. And um a lot of people aren't doing that, and because they aren't doing that, what's happening is they are they're walking away with regrets, you know. I literally have very few regrets in life, very few. I'm not gonna say zero because that would be an absolute lie. If anyone tells you that they got zero regrets, they're lying to you. Run away from them as fast as you possibly can. But there are some things where I feel like I gave it 110%, you know. Um I got into a few relationships that didn't work out. I gave them 110%. I did whatever I could possibly do. I hung on to them for as long as I possibly can. You know, you know, I haven't I haven't been with that many people, to be quite honest with you. I've been with less than 10 women in my entire life, which for a man, that's pretty much that's a that's a low body count. That's a very low body count. That's extremely low. And um, I'm a committer. So when I when I get with somebody, I like to try to commit. That's just my thing. I'm a committer, I'm a one-woman type of man. I don't like to be running around the streets with all these different women, and then you got to remember what this one like and that one like and what this one's name is, and this one, this and that, and and all these birthdays and all this stuff, and it just it overwhelms me. I get I get I get anxiety, it's just too much work. I have to spend all this brain power on what I love to do, which is study, research, investigation, and traveling. You know, I don't have any time to be spending splitting my brain up and to try to figure out all these different women's moods and attitudes and understandings. You know, I don't have the time for that shit. I really don't. I just think that's a time for I don't. So I'm a one-woman man. So when I when I find somebody that I like, I lock in with them. It's just how I do, and I give it 110%. Have they all worked out? No. I mean, you know, I was one I was with one woman for over 20 years, though. I was with one woman for more with probably more years than some of y'all have been alive. I'm getting up there now. But but um when I find somebody I try to lock in, you know, and sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. But you know what? When I when it came to the point where I realized that I had to walk away, I felt like I did everything I could possibly do, whether it was counseling, whether it was uh you know, patience, understanding, whatever it was, getting additional guidance, whatever it is, uh you know, giving things more time, I did everything I could possibly do. And then at some point I just came to the realization that you know that just didn't work out. So if you're beating yourself up over situations like that, don't do it. Because if you if you if you can look back and truly say that you gave it 110%, then walk away with your head up and your chest out, man. You did the best you can. Sometimes all we can do is our best. Sometimes all you can do is your best. And you gotta let the chips fall where they may. Whatever task, whatever relationship, whatever uh assignment, whatever job, whatever it is, taking care of your kids. But my kids, I damn sure know I sleep like a baby, I sleep like an embryo in the womb. When I go to sleep at night, I ain't got one thing inside of my head that says, man, I messed up as a father. There's not one thing. Now that's something I will tell you that I feel like I can lay my ass down and go to sleep in complete peace and tranquility. Because I was there with those kids at every step of the way. I volunteered at the elementary school, I volunteered at the middle school, I volunteered at the high school, I coached and trained them in all their sports, all the different sports. I started a sports program in my city. I helped found the YMCA in West Broward. My name is on a granite block inside the building because I gave them $40,000 to help build the building and I donated and built the entire rock climbing wall, and I donated money to fund all the sports programs. I was there every single day, all day, morning, afternoon, night. I trained, I worked with them. Those videos are online. Me, there's a video of me online taking my daughter. This is a I think it's a 16-year-old video or something, 17-year-old video of me taking my daughter to um you know to work out and train at six o'clock in the morning. Trained in the morning, afternoon, we trained at night. We went traveling all around the United States, playing against teams, the best teams in the in the United States of America. You know, and we did this, and all my kids played sports, and they all played for me. I was there with them every step of the way. Wherever they traveled to, I was there. Wherever they went, I was there. Whether it's up to two, three, four, or five o'clock in the morning, whatever it was, they know what a working man looks like. In the house, in the home office, sitting there for countless hours, taking care of business. They saw work, they saw work being done. They understood, they saw they didn't see nobody laying around doing nothing, they saw work, they saw the grind 24-7. And they saw me also partition that and take time for them. And they're every single step of the way, and still there for them every single step of the way. So, you know, that you some things, like I said, if some of them don't work out to be exactly what you perceive them to turn out to be, if they don't turn out to be uh whatever, or if they get in trouble, or if they have situations in their lives, that's not on you if you gave 110%. I never beat my kids, I never yelled at my kids, I never called my kids out of their name, I never cursed them out. Never, not one time. They'll get on, they've been on podcasts talking about that. They know with me, if I'm upset, they're gonna detect my vibration, they're gonna understand that I'm not happy with them, and just the fact that I'm not happy with them, they would break down in tears and start bawling, crying from a snot crying. You don't gotta beat kids to get your point across. My punishment was I just take things away. And in this day and age, that's worse than an ass whooping. So I remember one of my sons, uh Giovanni, loved him to death, but boy, he wasn't getting any good grades anymore. His grades, you know, we had this huge loft in the house, and this loft had two big screen TVs in each corner, and they both both of these TVs were it was a gaming loft, so they had the gaming chair and they had the consoles and all of this going on. And you know, he knows the rules, you know, when you go to bed, that's it, it's bedtime. I'm in my office at around 3 o'clock a.m. and I'm working downstairs, and I can hear a very low. I'm like, what the hell? Somebody left the TV on upstairs or something. So I keep I keep okay. Let me get up. I get up. I rarely go upstairs. I mean that that I mean that house is so big. I mean, I go upstairs maybe like once every two months or something. Then I go upstairs, he's in the loft playing these damn video games at three o'clock in the morning on a school night. I said, okay, I see. So the gray things and the video, I see what's happening here now. Okay, I got you. So I took those consoles out, all four of them, and I waited for the garbage man to come, and I made him stand in front of the window and watch me throw the game consoles into the garbage truck where that thing that comes down and crushes all the trash. And that boy caught the Holy Ghost. He was he caught the Holy Ghost. He literally started speaking in tongues. I said, What the? I didn't exercise the demons. I ain't never seen nothing like that. I didn't have to yell at him, I didn't have to curse him out, I didn't have to say, get your ass back in that bed, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I didn't have to do none of that crazy stuff. I'd have to give myself a stroke or a coronary. All I had to do was take them game consoles and say, stand right here, I'm gonna show you something. Truck comes up, I'm calm. Crush them games. You know, his grades went right back up to A's and B's from D's and F's within a few weeks. Within a few weeks, mission accomplished. No ass whoopings, no screaming and cursing and carrying on and waking up the whole house and all this foolishness. No. I went upstairs, I turned the TV, said, Man, you gotta go to bed. But I got something I want to show you in the morning. Come on down, come over here, Gio. I want to show you something. Stand right here, I want to show you what's gonna happen. I walk outside with them game consoles, throw them things right in the damn dump truck. I think it was over a thousand dollars worth of games or whatever it was. All of them. Boom. Crushed. The truck crushed his games, and him seeing the truck crush his games crushed his doggone mind because he went crazy. But it wore off in a few minutes and he was back to normal again. Was he sad? Yeah, but hey, it is what it is. You see? So I gave my 110%. I did it in a very unique way. I had another son that was acting up. He had about 20 pairs of shoes or sneakers for school. He was he would you know, he pride himself on not having to wear the same pair of sneakers for a month. You know, he had a lot of clothes and all this stuff, and the ladies love him and everything else, and you know. It's okay. Okay, you want to go from making straight A's to straight D's and S. Okay, I got a I got a trick for you. He was ESPN ranked in in uh middle school, by the way. Basketball. I said, Okay, I got something for you. Went to school, clean out his closet. All the sneakers, all the clothes. Went to Kmart, bought some Kmart sneakers, Kmart shoes, put them in the closet, and one outfit. You're gonna wear this every day. There's no money. You got some money to go buy some? Go ahead. You can go to the store if you want to and go buy some clothes. If you got some money, you can you can go. I'm gonna let you go buy them. If you got the money, go. I'll let you go. Go to the store and buy yourself some clothes and buy yourself some sneakers, buy yourself some shoes, whatever you need, go buy it. It's okay. Then you can wear it. If you buy it, you can wear it. But if you can't buy it, then you gotta wear what's in the closet. If somebody wants to lend you clothes or lend you their shoes, you can do that too. Go ahead. You know, that boy went to school with the same clothes on for a month and a half. He got to see what it feels like to have everything that you take pride in, right? Taken away from you. I never yelled, I didn't go crazy, I didn't get a stroke and heart attack and beat and slap and chase and dot dot. What why? Why? You just give them one outfit, one pair of shoes. This is this that's all you need. We got a washing machine at the house. You can come home and wash them every single day. You don't gotta go to school stink. Just throw them in the wash when you get home, let them cycle through, dry them, put them on the mall, and go right back to school again. That's it. You know? Put the same thing on every single day, and with them same cheap shoes, some shame Kmart shoes, every single day. And let's see if that adjusts your attitude a little bit. You become a laughing stock. You see, you don't gotta you don't gotta be going in the backyard and getting switches off of trees and and getting beating beating the kids with extension cords and belts, and you don't have to do that. You just gotta use this. You gotta get into their mind. You see? You gotta get into their mind. You gotta break down and analyze what is it that they love the most. And you just gotta reach in and take that away. Boop, gone. And then hey, let's see what happens. See what happens. I'm telling you, you're gonna be like, damn, that's all I had to do all this time. Take away the cell phone. Yeah, take away the cell phone. What you can do is you can just disconnect the cell phone and let them keep the phone. The phone don't even work no more. So many ways to get them. Shut off the Google Play or the Apple iOS App Store. Disconnect from that. Go on their phone and delete all their apps. There's so many things you can do instead of beating the living daylights out of these kids, which just creates more trauma and creates a person that ends up on drugs, depressed, becomes an abuser, or even abuses them their own selves, like becoming cutters and things like that. We gotta, you know, but again, I see things differently, so I do things differently. But like I said, no matter what any kid does, no matter what situation they get into, if they get arrested, if they have a great life, if they have a mediocre life, if they have a bad life, it doesn't really matter to me because I did everything I was supposed to do, and I was always there at every step of the way. And I left behind a perfect template of what it's like. So at the end of the day, whatever happens in their lives, I still sleep like a brand new baby inside the womb. Because I left 110% of my heart on the court when it came to raising my kids. And not very many fathers can say that. Most of the kids' fathers in the neighborhood that we lived in, which is a high-end neighborhoods the whole time, they were always you know out somewhere working because they they had the conventional jobs. So they were running around, working 16, 17 hours, and these were doctors, lawyers, you know, uh, high-level jobs. And um, sometimes, you know, they don't, sometimes on traveling salesmen or whatever it was, big corporation owners, they're all over the place. They barely get a chance to see their kids, but I didn't. I had a huge company that I exited back in 2004, which also helped bolster my ability to do that. I built a company, I exited. I took all that money and I uh invested it, reinvested it, saved some, and spent 7.5 years with my kids. So again, you know, so but the point I'm making here is you gotta leave your heart on the court in anything you do. You have to do everything to perfection to the best of your ability. Doesn't mean you're gonna be perfect in everything, no. But what it does mean is you put your best effort into every single thing. You put your best effort in, you know, and that's what you do. And um, if you do that, your regrets will be very low in life. You know, I look back on my life. Do I have some regrets? Yeah, a few things here and there. But I use those as learning opportunities, L's for learning, not L's for losses. I reflect on them from time to time when similar situations arise and say, okay, how can I I I was in this situation before, or something similar before. How did I handle it back then? And what was it that I have a regret about with that previous situation? And how am I going to handle something like similar to this moving forward? So I don't, so what so that I get a different result and have no regret. So we have to always bring awareness to everything that's going on in our lives and everything that we're doing. We have to begin to learn how to pre-think our next decision so we can pre-see or pre-envision the next future outcome. If we're just responding instantaneously to things without pre-thinking things, then our result is not always going to be the result that we actually want. And I learned this myself. I learned this myself. Y'all remember back in 2024, two years ago, so that's how fast time is going. Two years ago, I had an online attack for a few months, right? And I responded very abruptly, and I responded very nasty because I was angry. I didn't give a chance between the actual stimulus of the situation, which stimulated my nervous system, and the response that came out. So my stimulus and my stimulated nervous system triggered an instantaneous response, and I came off very angry and very hurt and very victimized and everything else. Versus if I would have had taken awareness and sat back and meditated on it for a couple of days or so and processed it through my body and calmed my nervous system down and let my nervous system know you're okay. It's not a big deal. I would have handled it in a different way, I would have addressed it in a totally different way. Right? Now I can't go back in time and change that, but what I did was I had accountability and I came back with an accountable video. And then what I did was I learned from it. And just the other day, I mean, literally just the other day, we're talking about a couple days ago. I was on somebody's podcast and they tried to trigger me. They tried to pull a very similar scenario as to what happened back in 2024. I show up on this podcast, and the guy begins badgering, making uh assumptions, uh, asking questions, chuckling at my knowledge, uh, challenging what I had said and challenging everything, every single thing I said, you know, not doing accurate searches for their information, like rushing through the searches so that the searches wouldn't pop up on the screen, whatever it was. Very um confrontational. But while this was happening, I remembered and I went back in time to what happened a couple years ago, and I processed it in my mind in real time. I brought awareness to myself. So even though I was getting triggered on the inside, my nervous system started, I started feeling it, I was able to perceive that I was not my thought. I'm the observer of my thoughts. And I was able to override my subconscious programming and my instant response system inside the body. So I overwrote it and I turned it down. I was trying to freeze this way. I'm on the other screen. Turn it down this way. I turned it down. So I dialed it down and I stayed present in the moment and I answered the questions without any confrontational responses. There was no way that I could be triggered. There was no way that I could be angered. There was no way that I can be pissed off. There was no way that I can be frustrated or show frustration. I just bounced and rolled with the conversation. And I allowed perspectives on both sides. And I never got triggered, not even once. Because I was able to take control of what's going on up here. I was able to reflect on past occurrences and is able to learn from those past inferences and apply them to the moment of now. And because I was able to do that, I was able to uh get through that scenario and that situation without repeating the old pattern. And this is how you change yourself, and by changing yourself, you change the world. Now I'll never go on that podcast ever again, ever. I'll never go back to another podcast. I'll never participate in anything dealing with that particular group again. You know, but it is what it is. Sometimes you go to these places, you don't know what you're walking into, you don't know who you're dealing with. You just have no idea. There's so many podcast requests that I get. You kind of evaluate them to the best of your ability. You look who their previous guests were, you look how they act and how they respond on the podcast. And there's been a lot that I've turned down simply because of the way that the people respond and act, or you can tell that they're there to try to trigger their guests, and that's how they're making their views off of triggering guests and getting the guests angry and things like that. But you can't win them all. So sometimes you just show up these podcasts, you don't know really what's gonna happen. Uh, you don't know if the guy's got a bunk up his ass, you don't know if he's happy, sad, glad that Dave's wife just left him, his dog just died, or if he's lost his passion for what he's done, or what his work is or what her work is, you know. And so you just don't know anymore. You know, you just don't know anymore. So it is what it is. So you just, you know, but you have to learn. And as long as we are continuing to work on ourselves, give our 110%, bring awareness to our conscious thoughts, so that we can understand how to deprogram and reprogram or how to adjust to specific situations, we're gonna continue to blossom, we're gonna continue to grow, we're gonna continue to manifest a high percentage of what we want to see in our lives. And my biggest thing right now, I just want to manifest peace, tranquility, happiness, and abundance. That's what I'm on right now. Peace, tranquility, happiness, and abundance. Thank you for the donation. Um I can't read it. Looks like um Susanna or something, but thank you so much. So, you know, that's all it's about. But anyway, I wanted to hop on here this morning before I hit the gym and just have a cup of coffee with y'all and drop a couple nuggets while I'm still here in town. Uh, I've got a crazy schedule coming up. I'm heading out to Egypt uh for this tour. This tour is already sold out, it's been sold out already for a while. But if you want to come with me to the next year's Egypt tour, the link is in the comments or the caption of this video, the caption of this video. Just click that link and register for my next Egypt tour for next year. That'll give you a full year to prepare and be ready for the next tour. Get on that waiting list ASAP because as you can see, the tour for this year, I didn't start marketing it until two months ago. It sold out in two months. A lot of my peers they spend a year trying to sell out a tour, they end up getting 20, 30 people. Uh, and then they take it to hostels and they take it to these low budget places and try to give you their best experience. And I get it, but we our tour costs a little bit more, but we're gonna, you're gonna get a five-star experience. You know, imported chefs, imported food. You're not gonna get sick on our tours, you're gonna stay in a quality five-star or four-star max. Uh uh, you know, you're not gonna go any lower than that, depending on where we are in the world, but then because Egypt is so big we have to fly. We're gonna put you on airplanes, we pay for that flight, you know. We put you on a cruise boat that we actually have reserved the entire cruise just for us. No other passengers are on the boat except for us. So there's no intermingling between groups, it's only us. And we give you a special red carpet night for we so we we can dress up in our nicest clothes, go on a red carpet affair, entertainment, dancing, uh, stage show, uh food, chefs, butlers, the whole works at the temples. Every year we pick a different location, a different, we'll rent out the entire temple complex. Something that nobody does because why? Well, because it's gonna cost us about $60,000 to do that. And for most people, that's what their total profit is. So they don't do it, but we do. We'll rather make less money or break even to give everyone a great experience. And then you'll have me there teaching you every single day, and we do private lectures and conferences on the Nile Cruise. And at the end of the tour, you're gonna get a certificate, a certificate of completion signed off by an Egyptologist and signed off by me. You can put that in a frame and hang it on your wall when you get back home. See? So that's what we do. So if you want to be involved in that, the link is in the caption of this video. I suggest you click that link and register ASAP. I mean register immediately and get yourself on that waiting list for the next tour because it's gonna be amazing. All right. Anyway, I appreciate y'all. Thank y'all. Thank you for hopping on this morning. I'm gonna go hit this gym. You can see now the sun has come up. My backyard's glowing right now. That's my lake back there. I got a quarter of a mile back there. And sometimes I go running down that quarter of a mile. I do wind sprints, you know, whatever it takes to stay in shape. Some people, you know, talk about, you know, it's hard to stay in shape. I can't get to the gym. Use what you have. Go get a gallon of water out of the refrigerator and start doing self-in-place squats. Do push-ups, go for short sprints, whatever it takes. There's no excuses. All right. Click that link in the comments on the caption. And uh, I'll see y'all in Egypt next year. But I'll be back to drop some more knowledge in these mornings before I finally have to take off for the full month of October. All right. I catch y'all later. Peace. I don't know how to end this thing. Let me figure out how I how I end this version of YouTube.