 When I was a little boy, I usually heard my parents saying something like, money is the foundation for more money. When I grew up, I started hearing a different version of this proverb, the rich get richer. It takes money to make money and so on. At age 17, I started having the dream of becoming rich and there came a big problem. If I believed what my parents have been telling me since I was a child, that money is the foundation for more money, then I'll have to accept my faith and endure poverty for the rest of my life. Because everyone around me is poor, so if my parents, uncles and aunties are poor and money is the foundation for more money, then since I was born my poor parents, I have to remain poor. That destiny seemed darker than what I wanted to accept, so I became curious. I started reading every book that came my way because I wanted to know what the rich say about money instead of what my poor parents say. My first breakthrough came when I read a book by Clement Stone. I think the title of that book is success through a positive mental attitude, or something like that. Reading these books for the first time in my life, I came across the acronyms, which OPM, which is other people's money. Wow, now I see a new possibility. Though I was yet to figure out how to get or use other people's money, the mere fact that there's something like that makes me break away from my parents and societal poor mindsets about money. I was excited. If truly there's something to be called other people's money, I'm going to learn everything I can to know how to get and use it. I continued reading. Then I read Think and Grow Rich, and that furthered my understanding about other people's money and getting rich. My financial breakthrough came around the year 2008. I read Creating Wealth by James Allen, and You Can Negotiate Anything by Herb Cohen. In Creating Wealth, James Allen told the story of how he claimed on the national television that he could buy a piece of real estate property without any money. The journalist decided to take him up on his claim and set him up. He threw Allen into a city he never knew he was going to be, and without money, he bought a piece of real estate. This story got me crazy and nothing in the world could stop me. I said to myself, if someone could be so smart that he could go into a city without money or connections and buy a piece of real estate, I just have to figure out how to do this. If you can negotiate anything, Herb Cohen breaks three simple strategies you can use to get whatever you want from other people, and that includes getting capital and resources to invest. Reading that book is a game-changer for me, and I'll forever be grateful to God for sending me such a book. Since the last 11 years and 6 months, I've been able to get money and resources to invest again and again, even from unbelievable sources. And this is how it all started. It all starts from your mind. I know you've been hearing this for a long time, and I'm sorry I have to tell you again the game is in your mind. Though positive thinking has become a cliche in our society, the truth is, if you think you can do something, you'll look for every possible way to do what you think you can do, and if you think you cannot do anything, you'll look for some excuses. My parents always said that money is the foundation for more money. If I had believed that, then I'll simply tell myself, well, since I don't have that money, I cannot make more money. Throw away that belief, and that's the first thing I ask you to do. Throw away everything poor people thought to you about money. Throw away the mindset that it takes money to make money, because it doesn't have to take your money. I can tell you several of my exploits. I can tell you how I raised capital from strangers even though I had no collateral. I can tell you how I got people to give me their hard-earned money so that I can invest. That year after year is the point where I no longer needed capital, but it all started when I decided to change what I believed about money. So, if you truly want to invest without money, you have to open your mind and change what every poor person you know tells you about money. Everyone needs capital. This is another truth I wish you knew. Everyone needs capital and everyone needs the same capital. Let me explain. Give me three boys who are 15 years old. One of them wants to be an accountant. The other wants to be a lawyer. And the third wants to be an entrepreneur. In our society, we are made to believe that the first two boys who want to be an accountant and a lawyer need school while the third boy needs capital. I'm sorry, that's not true. All of these boys need the same thing and that is knowledge. In other words, the real capital anyone needs is knowledge. And I have a story to prove it. In the year 2009, I traveled to a town in my country with the hope of starting my manufacturing business there. Except that I had no money. I called a friend and he sent me some money not even up to 10% of what I needed. But I started my journey anyway. I knew what I wanted and that was a manufacturer in space. A residential space for me to live and the trust of the supplier of the raw materials needed. Haven't read Create and Wealth? You can negotiate anything and other books. I believed I could get those things I needed even though I had no money. Well, I did everything I needed. Yes, I was rejected a few times but when you believe something is possible, you're not only going to try again after rejections, you're going to be attractive to people because your confidence will convince them that you're worthy of their support. Again, the real capital everyone needs is knowledge. The same knowledge that makes a lawyer employable is the knowledge that makes you get the resources you need to invest. So if you hate books, you probably won't even know how to get the capital you need to invest. You can't possibly want to invest in other things until you've learned how to invest in the most lucrative business of your life which is your mind. Yes, your mind is the most lucrative business in the world and if you are too lazy to invest in the most lucrative business, you want to invest in something else. What do you want to invest in? A few weeks ago, one of my friends came to me to tell me about Forex Trading. He wants to invest in Forex and he needed me to support him financially. I love him, but I didn't support him. Hmm, now you know that I'm a bad devil. But that's not it. You see, when I heard my friend talking I knew that he didn't know what he was talking about and that's another problem most people have is that they want to get other people to invest in their ideas. Don't deceive yourself. Most people who have money to invest in your ideas are very smart. Extremely smart. If you want to see this in real life, watch Shark Tank on YouTube. You'll see how sharks can easily see the loopholes in your ideas and that's what you'll encounter anywhere you try to get others to invest in you because usually people who have money have been engineers or investors for one or two decades. This people know fake enthusiasm, fake ideas and fake market evaluations. So when you sit in front of them to talk about your idea they can smell the rat ten miles away and that's why they won't ever want to support your idea. In the case of my friend I can easily see how he underrated what it takes to make money in Forex Trading. And when someone underrates what it takes to build any business they know they'll throw your money into the lagoon. So what do you want to invest in? How passionate are you about such things? How many hours have you spent studying that industry? How many people, experts have you met to ask questions? How crazy are you about that industry? Don't think you can fake the enthusiasm or the understanding of the market value or anything because anyone qualified to invest with you is probably going to be smarter than you. Just imagine a 15 year old trying to deceive a 25 year old often times it's pretty obvious. So far I have told you my stories. I threw away what my parents believed about money and embraced a new possibility until you do the same you can't get resources to invest in because the battle is in your mind. I challenge you to first invest heavily in yourself and I recommend that you start a few books I mentioned in this video. I also advise you to bury yourself inside whatever you want to invest in. If you are like my friend who simply thinks he can harvest money with forex trading nobody will ever support you because they will smell your fake enthusiasm even before you start talking. In part 2 of this video I'll be talking about some other specific strategies that have helped me to raise capital and I wish this video will be helpful. Thank you for watching it. We love you.