 It's crazy to hear your story in here over the last 43 years, 18 years, whatever you want to look at and compare you probably even what six years ago to today is insane. And it should give a lot of people hope that watch. Yeah, that's all I want to give. I tell people the one thing that you can take. You can take my money. The being broke wasn't the hardest part. The hardest part for me was being hopeless. See, most people think that the money, money's fluid. You can make money. I could have went and worked at McDonald's. I could have found a way, but when you don't have hope, that's a scary place to be. And I was hopeless. If you have hope, you're going to make it. That's it. Man, if you just have hope, you might not know how you're going to make it. You may not know when you may not know where you may not know why. If you have hope, you'll make it. Hope's the one thing you can't take from me. You listen, you can beat me up. Don't mean I was homeless, sleeping in my car. And I had hope because I knew that I had a secret ingredient. If I didn't quit, I knew I was going to make it. Right. I didn't know it was going to happen as fast. So I'm going to circle way back around. Right. I know it's going to happen. If I have that, did I ever dream I was going to make this money? I was dreaming, but I didn't realize what happened as fast. And it took a long freaking time to though, you know, it feels like it was yesterday that I was living in my car. Wow. I mean, let's talk about it. The one thing that I didn't have when I was broke was perspective. Yeah, like now I told you I'm doing some intermittent fasting. Like when I was broke and I didn't eat till lunchtime, I felt sorry for myself because I thought I was hungry. Now I call it intermittent fasting. It's all about perspective. That's right. How do you look at things? And so then I was broke, but I still had my health. I was broke, but I still had friends. I was broke and I had a golden opportunity. Didn't matter. Listen, don't matter what company it is. Yeah, it really doesn't. But I changed my perspective. And that's the thing that I think wealthy people have is they have a different perspective. I don't think I don't think they have more opportunity. I don't think they have more. I think they have more a different perspective. And for me, if I was upright, I was always going to be a father to my children. I was always going to fight for the love of my wife. But the perspective was I got to go out here and win and stop feeling sorry for yourself, start acting as if. So you're not going to ask a question. Well, you're good. You know, this is phenomenal. Well, what was what was your first year like with with symmetry? You know, you came back. You should not, you know, I want 90 days to prove myself. You went to work. You got serious walk us through these. Like, how long have you been with Nate? And I've been in symmetry six and a half years, going on seven years. So it's impressive when you're home. You're like, I was homeless three years ago. Pretty like, I'll be telling the story about I was homeless 47 years ago. But my first year of symmetry was the hardest thing I'd ever done. But it was worth it. I always tell people, don't ask if it's hard, ask if it's worth it. So it was hard because there was a lot of things that that were in me that had to come out that were bad. There were a lot of good things in me that had to come out to create power and wealth. And and so I had a lot of bad habits. I think if you look at any person, I'm talking to you. And when I hear you talk about a lot, you're saying one thing, but I'm hearing it's habits, habits, habits, I think all wealthy people have great habits. And so what I had to change was my bad habits. And so that first year, Nate Offred had a lot of great habits because he had a great mentor that I had to take and change. What was the worst habit you had that you've totally fixed and it's the complete opposite now? I don't know if I'll ever fix it because I think it's it was so natural and it was so comfortable. We know that comfort is where things go to die. I know where you're going. I'm a procrastinator. Hi, my name is Marlon. I'm a procrastinator. It's it's it's it's it's human nature. It's it's what everybody, you know. Well, I just hired Coach Michael Burt to work with me. He says something. He says things. The power of what he says, he talked about, he teaches his mind. The first person you negotiate with every morning is yourself. And I know I'm a procrastinator. So I wake up and I start to do things to keep me from procrastinating. If I don't, like sometimes on the weekends, I'm a procrastinator. My wife's like, can you clean this or can you go pick up stuff? And I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do it tomorrow, baby. You know, I work hard and the kids got basketball games. I'll get I'm a procrastinator. But here's here's what I know that there's pain that hurts and there's pain that alters. The pain that hurts is is not being able to to buy my son tennis shoes to play basketball. A story I tells my daughter, we went to what I don't want to say the name. So I went to a big store and I bought these really inexpensive soccer shoes. They were $13. That's all I could afford. They ripped and they tore like two days later and I took them back and I yelled and screamed on Lady because I didn't have money to buy more. But she said, I'll give you your money. She said, I'll give you a store credit. They didn't have any more of my daughter's size. And so I fought for 30 months to get money to go to another store to get shoes. The pain that's pain that hurts. Pain that alters is when I would go to the refrigerator when I was living at home with my wife and my kids and I'm looking at the refrigerator and I count meals and I turn around and count kids. And I'd have more kids than I had meals. That's the pain that alters. The pain that alters is I'm sitting at a buddy's house drinking and playing video games as a 35 year old gentleman. And my wife calls me and we're on food stamps at the time. And she says the food stamp card won't work. And I said, well, I'm busy. I need to figure it out. That's pain that alters you. So that first year I ran towards here's a good one. OK, people may not get this. The way to beat procrastination is to run towards pain. Gosh, I love that. I run towards things that I don't like to do. The reason I procrastinate is because I don't like to do them. Like the cold shower. Like the cold like the cold showers, which I'll tell that story in a minute. I run towards things. First thing in the morning I get up, I meditate, I read a book, I listen to audio, I go to the gym, I come on and take a cold shower. Why? Because I have to trick my brain into doing something I don't want to do. I've done it for a year now. Listen, it was 30 degrees in Oklahoma the other day. When it's 80 degrees outside, you take a cold shower. That's a little discomforting. When it's 30 degrees, you take a cold shower. I become a woman in so many words like I'm either cussing myself out. I don't want to do it, but I stay in there until I absorb it. And I realize that I'm doing it and I stay in there until I enjoy it. And then I get out. I can take a cold shower for five minutes or 30 minutes. Until I trick my brain and understanding why my first year at Symmetry, I had to beat that demon of procrastination out of me. And I did it because I had a great mentor, Nate Allford. I had a great mentor in Brad Smith, a great mentor in Matt Smith. I had a great mentor, the number one guy at Symmetry Financial Group, Edward Pritchett, one of my biggest fans. This guy is by the buck. He does everything that he's supposed to do. But he told me I do them because I realize if I don't, it'll break me. Like I asked him one time, why do we read? Because we hear people, wealthy people read. I said, why do you read? He said, if I don't read at some point, the money is going to break me. So I forced myself to read and I substituted by listening to a lot of audios. But the first year at Symmetry, I had to get rid of a lot of bad habits. And I'm thankful all those gentlemen I just named a guy like Brian Delaney, who had no financial gain in my future would take time on the phone with me. And they wouldn't yell at me and say, you're wrong. You suck. You. Hey, Marlon, have you ever thought that if you go do what you want to do, you can go do what you get to do? Mm. So these guys, I'm getting mentorship. And like you said earlier, I'm gravitating towards guys who have great energy, guys that are positive guys. I stopped the two most important decisions my mom told me you'll ever make is where you'll spend eternity and who you hang out with. But they say it different in success books. They say you're you're you're welcome to sit with the five people that you hang around with. Well, network is your network. Your network is your net worth. But here's the thing that I tricked. Most people don't believe that. Oh, one hundred one hundred and I didn't believe it either. I didn't either. I thought it was cheesy. I thought that was dumb. Well, that I can have my buddies. Yeah. That they're working at Quickchip and the Quickchip's a great company, but I can't get to where I'm getting to working at the cashier at Quickchip. If I do, I better be doing something on the side. That's right. I can't get to where I'm getting to when you're going to nine to five and you're happy for the weekends and I'm waking up happy about Monday because I get to go get it. I'm happy about Sunday and Monday and Tuesday. I can't be around you because we don't have the same birds and feather flock together. Yeah. So I realized when I started changing the people, it's it's the foundational thing in my life that I'm studying right now is you can check. This is the reason why. Listen, let me let me talk to some of you guys. Hi, my name is Marlon. I'm a procrastinator. Have you ever been to an event, some sort of event? You're you're going to 10 X tomorrow. I leave tomorrow. It starts Friday. Start Friday. Unbelievable. You're sitting second row. Second row. Can I say that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Unbelievable. I called you to ask you how much money? Second row. Why? Association, if you ever go to an event and you came home and you weren't really that changed, here's why I think it is. I don't know at all. I think the reason that you're not changed is because your mentality changed, but your environment didn't change. Wow. So when I go back and I'm an eagle and I've just been with a bunch of eagles and these guys are soaring high and they're rising above the storm, not running from it like a chicken and they're flying and they're on a cliff. You only see eagles by themselves. You don't see what everybody else and you come back and you run a bunch of chickens. At some point, if I'm around a bunch of chickens, what I do is not what they do. And I want to fit in because I like being liked and I start doing chicken activities. Not that the event didn't change me. The event changed my mentality, but if I don't change my environment, it doesn't matter. It's absolutely true. So when I come back from events that first year at Cemetery, I changed my associations and I have a lot of great friends. That doesn't mean I kicked them to the curb. Right. That just means I spent more time with guys that had what I wanted. Smaller doses. Smaller doses, bro. I love you. Hey, we can go out. Let's go out next month and watch the fights. I love to do that. Yeah. Hey, can you come over tomorrow? Actually, I'm working. I'm at the office. I'm staying late. Hey, I got up at three o'clock this morning to read. It's seven o'clock. I'm tired. And you guys heard that, right? I got up at three o'clock. Like, dude, it's insane. I freaking love it. I'm pushing myself a little harder recently because I've got my power five, you know? Five a.m. club, workout, write goals, learn in cold shower. And I went out of the cold shower once a while, you know? When I heard three a.m., meditate for an hour, workout for an hour, learn for an hour, and cold showers are nothing to me. When I heard that in Dallas at Nate's event, I'm like, dang, this dude's out. This dude's out working. This dude's out doing me. You don't like that? No, I don't like that. Is Cody asking his ladies to do it? Dude, I hate it. I'm like, dude, Marlon Faulkner is legit. 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