 Hey, thanks for tuning in to the David Wong Entrepreneur Show. I'm David Wong. I'm a martial artist. I'm an entrepreneur. And I'm also a peak performance innovator. And in this video, I'm going to share with you the 10 things that you must do to get your life back. If you got scammed, if you lost a bunch of money in a bad investment, or you just had a serious setback, a serious failure in your life, and you're looking for ways to recover. And why should you listen to me? Because I personally, I've lost $265,000. Money disappeared just like that. By trusting somebody that I thought was a mentor, by trusting somebody that I thought was a guru, which turned out to be just a professional con artist. It's so shocking when you first realize that the person that you trusted turned out to be somebody that just wanted to scab you for money. It's just so disheartening, it's so devastating, it just crushes you. Let me know if this is how you feel, because I've been there by myself. So here's the 10 things that you must do if you find yourself in this situation. And I hope that you can adopt these things that will help your recovery journey become faster and easier. Number 10 on the list is desperation. The first thing you might feel is desperate. Even if you're so desperate, don't jump to another bad deal, okay? Do some soul searching and find out what happened in the first place. How did you get attracted to these bad people in the first place? And really get clear in your mind what they look like and just avoid them. Don't watch their videos, right? Don't read their books. They get you desperate so that they can ask you for more money so that they can get you even more desperate so that they can ask you more money. You get the idea. It's a vicious cycle. It's a trap. Don't get sucked in further. You got to stop it. It's like an addiction, okay? This is like addiction. And this is like fake guru rehab that I'm showing you how to do. Number nine thing to do is you have to decide whether you're going to take legal action or not. Now, obviously I'm not a lawyer, but you need to talk to a lawyer and figure out whether it's worth pursuing or how you can pursue it if you can to get back your money somehow. So really find out what your legal options are. Number eight is you're probably going to lose friends. If you're getting sucked into these cults, these like make money, get rich, quick cults that are led by these gurus, you probably made friends in those communities, like real friends. I'm not saying they're not real, genuine friends and you might lose them when you realize that you've been conned and you've been doomed and you lost all your money and you leave the organization, you leave that family, you leave that cult. And maybe that person, that fake mentor, that con person that you've been following was your friend or at least he or she pretended to be your best friend. In your point of view, you had a genuine deep relationship with this person and that itself is devastating. So what do you do? You need to find a center in yourself so that you're comfortable and you're self-sufficient. Maybe find somebody who was able to recover from a similar situation and learn from them or at least listen to you so that you can express to them how you feel. So the number seven thing that you must do is to deal with failure. I know it's tough. You told everybody that this was the best thing. You told everybody, your friends, your family, oh yeah, this investment is great. We're going to make so much money. And then what happens? You're wrong. So what do you do? You have to be willing to face the embarrassment and the shame and be willing to admit that you made a mistake. We all make mistakes. We learn from them. We can't change the past, but we can make a difference now. You can stay present and make a change now and change what you do from this point forward. The next thing that you must do is dealing with debt. You probably borrowed a ton of money that you didn't have from friends, family, banks and credit cards, whatever it is. And now it's all gone. And now you have this huge amount of debt that you need to pay back. What are you going to do? Now you really need to manage your finance as well. You need to probably cut down a lot of the expenses that are unnecessary so you can focus on whatever you need to sustain your living costs. So look for another job so you can make that income again. If you lost money in the business deal and you originally had a business to start with, well that's good because you can continue build another business. So if you're going to go down that route, make sure you assess your risk. How much money are you willing to risk in your next business venture that doesn't affect your lifestyle? That's the key. You need to be able to risk the money without affecting your day-to-day lifestyle. The fifth thing you must do to get your life back is to deal with depression. It's very common if you've gone through this huge devastation to be depressed and it's normal. One of the surefire ways to overcome depression is to get active. Do a sport, get physically active, go for a job, do some martial arts, do some cycling, do some yoga, do some Tai Chi, do some boxing, whatever it is. You've got to get physically active. That helps get your body energy moving again and helps with depression. Also do breathing exercises, do some Qigong meditation. I teach a lot of that on my channel, how to do Qigong meditation. So watch some of those videos and start practicing that. Some other things you can do is just to think about things that you're proud of in your life. I know that you just experienced this huge setback, but there should be some things that you really enjoy, really proud of, that you really love in your life. Go back to those things. Think about those things one step at a time, one foot in front of another. Just get back up and just keep moving. The fourth thing you must do is to gain your confidence back. So we lose confidence, right? Right after we were wrong, we get embarrassed and then we lose confidence in ourselves. We ask ourselves, oh, it's probably my fault or I'm not really that good. You need to learn the difference between judging yourself and evaluating yourself. Judging yourself is just calling yourself names based on how you feel or based on what other people are telling you. Evaluating yourself is logically analyzing what didn't work, what worked, and what to do differently. So stop asking why. You're probably going to ask, why did this happen? Why did I fall for this crap? Why was I so stupid? And you can't change the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it. So stop that why mentality and why mindset. It keeps you in the loop and it keeps you stuck. You can stay there for months or years, just doing that. So what you need to do is start asking yourself, what used the word what? What didn't work? Your analysis of the business deal, was it listening to the wrong advice? Okay? So list those things so you're clear exactly what it is that didn't work. Then list the things that worked. Maybe there are things that you did learn. So write down, what do you want to do differently? Change your approach towards analyzing a deal or analyzing a person. Change your target. Maybe instead of getting sucked into making a million dollars, just focus on making that next $10,000, even next $1,000, okay? Find out what are the specific steps for you to get there. Okay, third thing that you must do is to learn to trust people again. I know that you just got scammed. The person that you trusted with everything, you were so certain about this person and you feel like you can't trust people anymore. You're always suspicious about people, but not everybody in the world is like that. The key here is learning who to trust. So second thing that you must do is to not give up on your dream. Just change what didn't work. There's other ways to get to your dream. You'll be thinking that you're never going to get there or it's going to take so long, it's too slow. There's a Chinese proverb that says, fear not moving slowly, just fear staying still. So as long as you're moving forward, you're going in the right direction. And the final thing that you must do is don't give up on having a mentor. There are people with power and influence and some people use it for good and some people use it for their own benefit and their own gain. So I'm David Wong. I hope this helps you out. After watching this video, I'd like you to attend my free event. It's called Chi Life Mastery. You go to www.chilifemastery.com and I know what you're thinking. Here's another guru trying to sell me something. Here's another guru trying to pull this shit on me. Okay, look, I'm going to share with you my life experiences. Okay, these are things I've learned. I recover from financial loss. I recover from disease. I recover from depression. So I'm going to share with you the secrets and the techniques and the skills that I've learned using meditation and technology and mindsets, behavioral programming that helped me personally to recover. It took me many, many years to learn these things. I'm going to share with you all those things in this webinar. Save yourself the suffering, the pain that you may be enduring for the next few weeks, few months to even a few years. Yes, I've been there. Okay, you don't want to go there, right? Take 60 minutes of your time, attend this webinar, and you're going to find out things that I've been able to do with my life and hope that you can transform your life as well. So I see you there.