 Good morning everybody. I had a little technical difficulty there. My computer said no, I'm not gonna work and I fought with my computer and we had a battle and I restarted him and he's working now, so that's good So welcome everybody. Good to see you J.R. Fisher here. We've got a really cool session this morning And if you don't take notes, please do so today because I think some of these things could really tremendously help you out It's all about happiness What you can do and what I did is I mean I could sit there and list, you know 50 darn things that make you happy But what I did is I took the ones that really affected my life That I thought were really important and guys if you know, some of these things took me years to learn You know, I've just recently learned some of these things, you know as a 25 year old or 30 year old or 40 year old I didn't know these things. I didn't get it. I didn't understand what it was all about And the older I get the more I do understand And guys, I think it's really going to help you out. I want to make make sure you can hear me So do do put in that chat box there if you can hear me You never know sometimes the stuff I go live and then the sound doesn't work or the you know Video doesn't work or so long those lines. So I want to make sure you can't hear me But also, you know, I do these lives each day Let's see what's up. You're finally finally live and clear and Savannah So, okay, I guess James does that mean I'm working. I saw some notes down there. Hey JR You ain't loud and clear in Savannah. What's up? You're finally live and clear in Savannah So does that mean you can hear me? I want to make sure maybe I need to restart the computer again I don't know. I want to make sure that everybody can hear me there But these are things well worth taking notes on guys And did I know all these in the beginning? No, do I know them now? Yeah, do I practice them a hundred percent? No, do I work on them every day 100%? Yes, I work on them every single day And I think these things will help you out now I do these live each day to help you guys start running grow online businesses and today is not technical or practical It's you know, you got to get your head straight before you can do some of the other things that we talk about So that's what today's about getting your head straight. I get your head screwed on right and making sure That you're doing the right things to get you to your goals and these things today will definitely get you to your goals And do me a favor James or Paul or anybody out there Put in there that you can hear me so I can make sure that I'm not talking to myself there Want to make sure that that's going on. Yeah, we can see and hear you now. Okay, cool So I want to go down this list I want to kind of talk about how these things have related to me However, if you happen to have a question about something else I know Paul's got one in there and I do want to address your question before you started Paul Feel free to put them in there if they had to do with making money online. That's what I do I make money online. I work on it Paul says thoughts on using Facebook lives to promote upcoming videos on YouTube. I will tell you Facebook lives are almost a total waste of time Unless you're a Gary Vaynerchuk or something like that. You are wasting your time They will not show your lives even to Facebook audience that won't show it but as soon as you say anything about YouTube the algorithms will pick that up and Will you get some distribution? You might odds are you won't get any And nobody's gonna see your post Facebook has really changed their algorithm. They're not showing Anything that's organic to people because they want to make money on ads And I know you know their ads do make them a lot of money as a matter of fact Let me look at my portfolio this morning and see how Facebook's performing for me and it usually performs pretty well That's a three hundred to six dollars. I bought Facebook at twenty seven dollars So I've done very well on that but as far as distribution You're totally wasting your time You're nobody's gonna see your videos on Facebook if you're posting them, you know, I I look at this stuff I look at people who really have huge audiences and I see what their distribution is and I see how quickly it's all falling And yeah, James says he's quit Facebook. A lot of people have quit Facebook. I haven't quit Facebook I'm on there and a lot of my videos from YouTube get posted there just out of practice Because YouTube suggests that you post these videos in different places So that's what I do But if you're expecting to build your audience or build your following on Facebook right now and doing it organically Really tough to do you're gonna have to run ads if you hope to get any distribution whatsoever So let's check into these things that I'm talking about that really make a difference for you And I think the number one thing is remain positive remain positive Really to have a good mindset you have to remain positive This is a battle guys because remaining positive means being positive when things aren't going well Being positive when you don't feel great Being positive when people treat you poorly Being positive when things don't work out the way you want Being positive is a decision. Okay, it's not it's you know I used to think being positive was for people who were lucky and everything was working out well in their lives There's nothing to do with being positive being positive is a total choice Okay, it's saying hey, I'm alive today And I need to look around at what I've got today, you know, I'm sitting in this nice office. I'm getting to talk to you guys I'm getting awesome feedback from you people. I get to help people. Why would I want to be negative? Why would I want to be negative about anything right now? I don't want that woe is me thing So that's my first thing. I'm gonna tell you before you do any of these other things. I've got 13 of them I may expand that a little bit But I've got 13 of them. My next thing is celebrate victories celebrate victories And what I mean by that is any little tiny thing that most people would not celebrate or not think it's a big deal I want you to celebrate it. Let's say you make a dinner one night, and it's really good Celebrate that victory. That's something that you know, you think about somebody may be in prison Who doesn't have access to anything or cooking and they've got to eat terrible food If they had a chance to make a nice meal and people like it, don't you think they would enjoy that? Don't you think that would be true? I remember when I first started my company for survival cave food, I was trying to get other websites to sell my products and Nobody was I mean like I was making like 200 phone calls a day I was sending out thousands of emails and nobody would sell my products and they wouldn't sell them because they know anything about me They didn't quite understand it. I have now got thousands of people that sell my products But I remember coming across this guy in New York and he was an older man that he was going to start a website and I had these forms and everything that people had to fill out Of course nobody had filled out any of them because I hadn't got anybody to sell them My idea was to put my product on their website and they sell it and then they just send me the order And I would ship it out. So this guy in New York is like, yeah, I'll do it He's all I'll put I'm gonna start a website and it's gonna be a survival website and I'm gonna put your product on our site and Yeah, I'm gonna sell it. I was so excited. He filled out all the paperwork. I remember to this day I had this Manila folder and I had this file cabinet behind me that was totally empty outside of bills I had one section for bills but in the bottom I was gonna put all my distributors or retailers whatever you want to call it And I had this section for him and I had this name across there and I put that folder in there And I sat back and I looked at that folder and I was like, yes, I'm on my way I'm on my way and that him saying he was gonna sell my product on his website Telling me that another website was gonna sell my product motivated me to the nth degree I was like, oh my gosh, I got one now I can get another one and I can get another one and another one and another one and I did I did get another one And another one and I did grow the business And here's the funny thing that one guy Never started his website He never sold any of my products. He just totally disappeared But it didn't matter because I was celebrating a victory. I had gotten somebody to say yes to me And with all the knows I got and literally I'd had hundreds of thousands of those prior to that That was enough to keep me going If I hadn't celebrated that little victory if I hadn't gotten excited about that one guy in New York I wouldn't have kept going so guys when you have a little victory no matter how small you may think it is Celebrate that victory. Okay, and that's number two by the way. If you're counting We're gonna do number three now and I think I think I scheduled 13 of these things But we're we're gonna, you know, let's let's see how I do The next one is practice being mindful practice being mindful. What does mindful mean? Mindful is a tough thing. You know each day Um when we exercise at the end of our exercise session We lay down we take 3d breaths and we try to clear our mind try to clear our mind Nothing Nothing can be more difficult than trying to clear your mind Except for one other thing being mindful. What is mindful mindful is actually living in that moment. You're in right now Okay, in other words just being where you're at not thinking about what you got to do tomorrow Not thinking about some builds you got to pay not thinking about, you know Some problems you have or you know some fires you got to put out but actually just living in the moment You know, imagine this you go out to dinner with your significant other or a friend And you're sitting there and you're in the moment and you're looking at each other and you're just enjoying that moment How awesome is that? How awesome is that to be able to do that guys? Um, and that's something I never practiced when I was younger I was always thinking to something else and I thought that was efficient I thought when I was doing one thing thinking about something else that I was really getting stuff done And what I was really doing is not enjoying the time I was sitting there with this person or this thing that was going on I was not enjoying it. I was not getting it. Okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna suggest that you do get it Um, let's see here. I'm up to number four That old geezer ignited the fuse that exploded your online business. Yeah, it did it did And I'm very thankful for for that and you know Some of the things you could be thankful for like my last boss of my job was really horrible to me He was not a nice guy. He was a drug addict. He was an alcoholic. He was a very high up executive He was one of the owners of this automotive group And he had very low morals. I won't even get into what he did there And he was lazy and he treated everybody like crap And I'm so thankful that he was my boss Now, why would I be thankful? I'm thankful because he motivated me to quit He motivated me to go find something else He motivated me to dislike him so much that I couldn't stand that job anymore and understand I made decent money on that job You know, I mean it was hard and yeah, I had to work a ton of hours Blah blah blah, but the point is he was the motivation for me quitting and getting my business going So even bad situations you can stop and be thankful for it Number four number four. Let's see you have two far too many Living in the past and let past failures keep them back Very very true very true. Number four guys is learn to be creative learn to be creative Creativity is not something that just happens to you creativity is like positivity Positivity it's something that you decide to do. I said I decide to be creative I decide to sit down and make a sales page I decide to sit down and write some emails all these things are creative. Okay. These are all things that you do You know yours may be art or music or whatever it is But you know mine is sales. So I create things that make me money And being creative number four is so regular I mean it's so important that you do this on a regular basis I'm like every day try to create something. You know, are you consuming or are you creating? We all consume every one of us consume But are you consuming at a much greater rate than you create? Right now I'm doing a video This is creation. This is creation. This is talking to you guys and sharing with you some of my ideas Like them. I don't like them. They're my ideas and I've created these things. Okay. So that's pretty cool It's number four number five You have to accept that you're not perfect Number five except you're not perfect. You're not perfect Um, and you know what? Nobody else is either they may look like it They may seem like they're living the life There's a female that I follow on uh, facebook and she's like motivational person Cryptocurrency person and she's always traveling around the world. I would say she's probably mid 20s You know showing her ferrari's and rolls races and living in these beautiful hotels and all these just awesome stuff And today she posted a picture She's a beautiful girl and she posted a picture and she's in the hospital And she's having organ failure Uh, both of her kidneys She's got sepsis, which you usually kills you And she's just posting on there that things aren't great It's the first negative thing I've ever seen her post And you know, you look at that. Uh, I think we're at number five now. She's not perfect She's not perfect. Um, so You know, what is that the fact is she never was perfect. Um, she looked like it I mean, she posted really nice stuff online But I think she came to the realization that you know, things can happen And she needs support at bad times too So Understand you're not perfect quit telling yourself you're going to be perfect. I'm a perfectionist I hate when people say that because what they're really saying is i'm a procrastinator I mean, that's what they really say when they say i'm a perfectionist because you you could look at them and say No, you're on because you're not perfect You're not perfect But as soon as you accept the fact that you're not perfect things get a lot easier You're like, okay, I screwed that up and it doesn't matter. Can I eat perfect? You know, and I remember being younger thinking I had to do everything just perfectly everything had to work out perfect And when it didn't it just destroyed me. It was so difficult for me And I had a lot of things, you know, my younger adulthood that really kind of slapped me around and showed me. I wasn't so perfect um Just think of that nasty boss had to live with his miserable self for 24 hours a day He did and I tell you james he passed away about She'll want to say four years ago three years ago Um, he got to where he was really lazy. He was drinking too much. He was in and out of rehab um and He actually lost his position with the company and he drank himself to death one night I don't know if he had a heart attack or drugs or whatever it was Uh, but it was sad. It was sad because he had a lot of potential. Uh, he had a lot of potential, but unfortunately It didn't matter. Um, so anyhow, that's that's uh, uh, accepting that you're not perfect. Uh, that's number five And now I want to move on to number six number six Whoo big struggles with number six um number six is Um spend your money carefully Spend your money carefully You know, there's a lot of valuable things you can spend your money on and there's a lot of wasteful things You can spend your money on this took me a long time Um, I thought that if you had fancy brands and fancy cars, uh, you know and and stuff like that that um That was important Uh, and what I found out is it wasn't important Having a bunch of possessions wasn't important. You know, if you if you you know, you may you may feel good for a second If you put a nice in-ground swimming pool, you know at your house and I've had swimming pools before so I learned my lesson You know the house we're building now. They're saying hey, you got so much room You could put a great in-ground swimming pool there Um, and it can make you happy for a second and if I had small kids I may consider it But here's the truth about a swimming pool. Here's the truth about anything you buy It starts to own you it starts to own you so when you get a pool You've got to put water in it. So it's going to there's going to be a cost of water. Okay When you have a pool you've got to put chemicals in it So you're going to expose yourself to chemicals and you got to pay the money for the chemicals Um, when you have a pool you got to get bugs out of it now Certainly all of this can be done by a pool guy a pool guy can do that But now you got to pay a pool guy, right? And now your privacy is limited because he's going to be coming in your backyard once a week or twice a week However long I don't know whatever you're going to have to be filling that pool with water You're going to have to maintain that pool then you're going to have to protect the pool You're going to put a cover on it because what if some little kid in the neighborhood came over and they fell in your pool And they drowns you're going to have insurance and by the way your insurance does go up if you have a pool Now I'm not picking on pools What I'm saying is when you spend money on something like that you've got to understand It may bring you happiness for a moment, but what cost is it? I used to have a boat A boat is an interesting item too because a boat is something that um It's fun. I mean I went out on the boat with my kids I had a blast but when it was setting there and I wasn't going out on it I always worried I was like I should go out on the boat and I got the boat sitting there I haven't been on the boat in three weeks and it was like it kind of gnaws away at you Now I realize if I want to go out on the boat, I can rent one I don't have to own a boat. I don't have to pay the personal property taxes I don't have to put a license on it. I don't have to store it somewhere I don't have to have maintenance done. I don't have to pay all those things Because I'm spending wisely now. Are you spending wisely? What do you spend in your money? Are you buying stuff to impress other people? I think it's really interesting how people work themselves to death To get enough money to buy stuff to show off to people they don't like Maybe think about that. Uh, I don't do that. I'm not here. I mean, here's my jewelry Okay, I got this is probably the most expensive watch now I got a Cartier. Excuse me in my 20s and it sits in some jewelry box somewhere. I don't know But this is the most expensive thing I have on outside of my wedding ring Because I'm not trying to impress you with my jewelry. There's a lot of people online that sit in front of a fancy car And they try to impress you online with all they've got And you know what it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Okay, you gotta spend wisely. All right, my number seven My number seven is a really good one and it's cultivate a gratitude attitude Cultivate a gratitude attitude Find ways to be grateful in your daily Basis and you know, I think I want to see if I can find it for you guys here I think this is such a good here's my gratitude. I have a gratitude app And I I'm reading one of the sayings on here today to you guys because I think it's really interesting This is number seven if I'm keeping track a sense of blessedness comes from change of heart Not for more blessings Inter interesting, right? It's your change of heart. It's your way of looking at things It's being grateful for what you've got Um, let's see perfection is left to god. Yes, definitely. So Like what you've said before that you shouldn't have spent more time On videos than you do creating love that thought. Yes Let's see what else we got in here. James says happiness is wanting and Bring grateful for what you have of being grateful for what you have. Yes It's good, you know, all these things are happiness. I'm talking about today guys Number seven is gratitude But if you don't if you're not grateful for what you have right now, what makes you think You're going to be grateful if you get more Think about that if you're not grateful for what you have right now. What makes you think you're going to be grateful if you get more It's just more. Okay. It isn't going to make you feel grateful. It's up to you to do that This is a mindset change. That's what this is. This is a mindset change number eight number eight Give back on a regular basis. Give back on a regular basis. Now, this is an interesting one because not everybody understands what giving back means. Giving back can take many forms. It can be charity, it can be effort, it can be time, it can be kindness, it can be all kinds of different things. You know, I consider giving back probably one of the best prizes you can ever get, giving back, giving back's awesome. So, to give you an example, I'm doing a video right now. Do I get something out of this? Yes, and I kind of hate that. You know, I looked this morning at my statistics and I had almost 800 people in the past 48 hours that viewed my videos. Not a lot in terms of some people, but I don't compare myself to anybody. How about that? I don't compare myself to anybody, it doesn't matter. I know that I've touched 800 people. 800 people in the past two days have watched stuff I've done, which is pretty amazing. And I range between 12,000 and 14,000 views a month. That's pretty amazing, that many people. So I feel like I'm giving back a little bit. I know one thing we did, which was really fun at Walmart each year in giving back is we would go into a Walmart about three weeks, four weeks before Christmas. And a lot of people have things on the railways. You may not realize this, but a lot of people have things on the railways nowadays. And the employees were really great there because I would say, can I see similar railway tickets and what people have on the railways? I would go through all of the railway tickets and I would pick out ones that had toys and clothing and stuff like that, and I would pay them off except for one dollar. Pay them all off except for one dollar. Because I think they got notified if they got paid off and they had to pick up their item or whatever. So by doing that, the person would go in there to pay off their kid's toy or whatever right before Christmas and see they only owe one dollar. Now I didn't put my name on it. I didn't tell the cashier who I was or anything. And I didn't pay off any big screen TVs or fancy stereos or anything like that. Just small stuff, toys, clothing, stuff like that. Now these people would come back and they would not know who paid off their railway. They would have no idea who paid it off. All they knew was that they owed one dollar and it made them feel good. And it made me feel good because I was giving back. Another thing we would do would be to buy $20 Walmart cards and I would buy $500 worth of them or $1,000 worth of them or whatever. And we would walk around the store when we would see parents with their kids buying stuff or shopping. We would just hand them some of the cards. And they would go, why? I'm like, no reason. I just walk off, just hand them the card. We didn't tell them who we were or anything like that. Man, you try that one year guys. It makes you feel great. It makes you feel awesome. So giving back is super important. And that was number eight, if you're keeping track. Number, let's see here, I wanna make this. I'm looking at some of my notes. Number nine, I'm gonna say number nine. And that is work on relationships. Number nine, work on relationships. This is a tough one. This is a tough one because you have different kinds of relationships in your life. You have friendships. You may have a husband or wife, boyfriend, girlfriend. You may have kids. You may have a relationship with a cashier at the grocery store. I know I do. There's several cashiers at my grocery store. I go in there all the time. I shop almost every day because I like it really fresh. And being kind to them and asking them about their life and how their day is going and all that is building a relationship with them. And I think it's really important. I've got two kids. I've got a son. I've got a daughter. They're both grown adults. They're both taking care of themselves. My relationship with them is really important guys. It really is important. I don't want to be judgmental. I remember, and my dad died when I was 19 years old. So I never really knew my dad as an adult. I knew my mother. We didn't have a good relationship. Once again, I'm not perfect. And she didn't have a good relationship with a lot of people. But the point is I tried and that's all you can do is try. Because you work on these relationship guys doesn't mean it's gonna work out. That's something else you gotta accept because you're trying to be kind to your kids or your wife or your husband or whatever. It doesn't mean it's gonna work out. But what it does for you when you work on these things is it makes you feel better about you. I would say in most marriages, there's always somebody going, well, I'm doing more for them than they're doing for me. And I think probably both people in every relationship kind of feel that way. And it's okay. It's okay to do more for them than they do for you. It's not gonna be equal. And the thing is, even though you think you're doing more for them than they are doing for you, they probably think the same thing. As soon as you can accept the fact that it's not a 50-50 relationship, at times you are gonna be doing more for them than they're doing for you. And sometimes they're gonna be doing more for you. And if you accept that, you'll find that you don't have that resentment. You don't have that regret. You don't have that, you know, that little, ah, I hate when that person does that. Because you're like, you know what? They're human too. They're doing the best they can. Let me do the best I can. When you start doing that with your friends, and you know, I say friends, I have friends from around the world. I have a really good friend in Brazil right now, Donnie Gamble. Shout out to Donnie Gamble there. Donnie has been my friend since 2014, something like that. He's a digital marketer, digital nomad. Travel's around the world. He's in the finance arena. But you know what? Every now and then we just text each other. And we're actually, we're doing signal, telegram, telegram, man, we do telegram. And I see how he's doing. And I'll call him and he'll call me. And I know his brother and I'll call him. I have a friend from high school that I've known since I was 14 years old. And we talk on a regular basis. Maybe once or twice a month. And we just check in with each other. That's a relationship that I'm working on. Okay, that's a relationship. Friendships take work too, you know? You know, you've gotta reach out to people. People haven't talked to you in too much. You reach out to them. Reach out to them and say, hey, I was just thinking about you. You wanna know how things are going. That's number nine. And all these things build guys to get to where it's gonna make you happy. Okay, if you're searching for this happiness, these are the things that make it. I'm telling you, I've been around for a few years. James been around longer than me, he can tell you. Let's see. What else we got in there? I love the wisdom shared here. Like that idea for give back. Yes, yes, there are some cool things you can do for giving back and so on. Other people have good things. And I don't necessarily like telling you about that Walmart story because I wanna keep anonymous on that. But I wanna share with that with you so that maybe you could go do that. Maybe you could go do that. And you don't have to spend $500 or $1,000. Maybe you've got $50 or maybe you got $20 and you wanna pay off one little way. That's okay too. Maybe you wanna buy one gift card for 20 bucks and give it to somebody. That's okay too. You don't have to go and give it to 20 people. The 30 people. It's not the amount. It's not the amount. It's the fact that you did something. You gave it yourself to somebody else. So the meaningful relationships was number nine. We'll see how many of these I can do for you guys. Gosh, I feel like I wanna give you more because I put a lot of notes up here. Stop comparing yourself. Number 10. Stop comparing yourself. For me to go to another person my age and doing the same thing I do and expecting us to be the same is insanity. And when I say that, you're like, well, yeah, that would be kind of dumb, wouldn't it? Well, yeah, it would be, but don't you do it every day? Don't you go, well, you know what? I'm this age and I should be at this stage of my life because this other person is. I'm this age and I'm whatever. Shouldn't I have this amount of money? Shouldn't I have all my bills paid off? I know these other people do. Shouldn't I have that fancy car? I know these other people do. I shouldn't have a great house. I know JR's built a house so I should have the same thing. Everybody's different. Stop comparing yourself. Stop it. Just cut it out. When you compare yourself constantly, you're putting yourself on somebody else's timeline and understand their timeline is different than yours. They had different parents. They had different friends. They had different life experiences. They had different health. They had a lot of different things that shaped them to be where they are. And if you had the same exact things, you're still a different person. You're gonna react differently to all those things. Stop comparing yourself. You'll find yourself so much happier when you quit comparing yourself. You just gotta quit it. It's not gonna do you any good. It really isn't. Ah, let me clear my throat here. That was number 10, okay? Oh, I love, I love number 11. I love number 11. Quit worrying so much. Quit it. Quit worrying so much. You know, there's been studies on this and they say the things that you worry about, of the things you worry about, 85% of them, 85% of them will never happen. 85%. Now, would you do anything else that had a 85% failure rate? Anything, can you imagine doing anything that had a 85% failure rate? If you had a GPS and I said 85% of the time it won't get you to where you're going, would you keep using that GPS? Probably not. You know, if you bought a cell phone, 85% of the time it didn't work. Would you keep it? No, but you know what we do? 85% of the time, you know, we're worrying about things that aren't gonna happen and we keep doing it. We just keep doing it. Ridiculous, we just keep doing it. And 85% of the time it don't happen. Now, let's talk about the other 15%. They say 12% of the time, the stuff's gonna happen and you can't do anything about it. You can't do anything about it. Okay, 12% of the time the things are gonna happen but you can't do anything about it. So whatever we're at now, we're 12 and 85, we're at 97% of the time. You'll have no effect on the things you're worrying about. 97% of the time and you keep doing it. You keep doing it. Now, that leaves you with 3% of the things that you worry about do happen and you could do something about it. Do you wanna keep doing that? Do you wanna keep buying into a losing proposition? Okay, that's a number 11 and let's just stop worrying about things. Just cut it out. Just stop it. Don't search for happiness. You'll never find it. Happiness is a byproduct of doing what you should be doing when you should be doing it. Very true. Thank you for that. Paul says, remember the serenity prayer. I don't know that. I think that's the 10 step thing. I don't know the serenity prayer but I think it's, yeah, God give me the strength to accept the things. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay, I know what you're talking about. All right, so what are we up to now? I don't wanna give you too many of these. Number 11, this can go two ways. Excuse me, number 12. This is number 12. This can go two ways. You could say, start hanging out with happy people or don't hang out with negative people. Either way you wanna put it, you choose your surroundings. You choose your surroundings. Now, some people will say, well, I'm JR, I'm kinda stuck because this person has been a friend of mine since high school and I know they're really negative and I know they're never happy and they're always down but they have been my friends since high school. My reply is so what? So what? I'm sorry you had a negative friend in high school. Do you wanna drag them through your entire life? You had this negative person that you hung out with high school and they liked you in high school and they were nice to you in high school and they did stuff with you in high school and you're gonna keep dragging them through life and keeping yourself down. You don't know them if they're a negative person. If they're a positive person, by all means, hang out. You know, my friend in high school, Steve, a very positive person, always trying to accomplish stuff, has accomplished a lot and we went through a lot in high school together. We got into a lot of trouble together as a matter of fact but I choose to be around him. Luigi, one of my best friends, he's 86, he'll be 87 and I've known him for 34 years and always positive, always positive. He not only is happy to be around me but I've introduced him to some of my other friends and he always says, hey, tell Donnie, I said hi. Donnie's in Brazil, he met Donnie one time, we went windsurfing together about six years ago and he says, tell Donnie, I said hi. He's just a positive person, okay? So, you know, that's your choice, okay? I think that's number 12. Number 12, where at with? Yeah, correct me if I'm not at number 12 because I'm just trying to do these things in my head. Number 12, so hang out with positive people. Don't hang out with negative people, okay? That's number 12. Number 13, I think is pretty cool. Number 13 is invest some time in nature. What? Invest time in nature. I think this kind of brings us back and grounds us a little bit. Being outside, being around nature, seeing stuff, you know, we have a little back patio here and we've got a table set up out there and every now and then we'll go out there and we'll have breakfast just outside. We'll have breakfast outside. Every now and then I'll take my laptop out there and I'll just work outside, outside, you know, it's beautiful. I plan to do the same thing when I get to Texas. Every now and then in the morning, I'll go grab some breakfast and I drive to Lake Miramar and I park at Lake Miramar and I've got this tray that hooks onto my steering wheel with the car and I put my computer and I just work there and look out over the lake. Spend time with nature, guys. That's number 13, spend time with nature. It'll bring you back. It'll ground you, it'll make you feel better and I'm running a little bit over today, guys. I apologize about that. I'm on my last one right now. My last one and my last one's number 14 and that is reminisce over your happy memories. Remember all the happy things, okay? We tend to go back and try to correct all the negative things. First off, correcting the past is somewhat difficult, right? I don't know if you, I'm still trying to find the person that could correct the past. The person that went back and corrected all their mistakes and all the bad things they did. I haven't found that person. Haven't found that person. But reminisce over happy memories, okay? Think of all the good things that's happened in your past. Your nostalgic feelings and all that. I think that's really important too. I mean, I've had a lot of good things, but I had a lot of crappy things, you know what? But I can't change them, but I can think about the positive things. I don't have to think about the negative things. Imagine if you sit there and think about all the negative things in your past and you ignore all the positive things. Too many people do that. Too many people do that. They do that on an ongoing basis. And they wonder why they're not happy today. So there it is. There's 14 things that you can do to be happy. And I bet some of you maybe try to practice some of these. Some of you never really thought of it that way. And I think sometimes it's that mind shift of thinking about things differently that make all the difference in the world, guys. It really does. I hope you enjoyed this today. It wasn't business-like. I wasn't showing you how to build a sales page or write emails or any of that. But for me to do all those things, for me to make money online, for me to generate money, I have to practice these other things every day, too. These are all important. Life is complicated, right? It's not. And nobody gave you a book to it, did they? I mean, parents try to guide you along the way, but nobody gave you this manual that said do all these things and you'll be okay. However, even if you do have a manual, what you do right now for happy, did you get a manual to get 14 things? It's not easy to do these things. It's not easy. This is something that you've got to practice every single day. This is something you got to get your mind and check every single day. You know, if I told you to exercise, I could put that on the list. That would have been a good one. That's not easy today. I mean, exercising is tough. It's hard. But we know we should also do it. Nobody would argue that exercise is bad for you. Nobody would argue that, okay? Exercise is good for you. But it's hard to do. A lot of these things are hard to do. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do them. That just means you need to push just a little bit more. That's all I need. So I hope you like this today. Let's see here. I want to read some of your comments. James is asking what the serenity prayer is. So you may want to fill him in on that. I had a friend in Manhattan who thought a family member was injured every time he heard a siren. Oh, oh my gosh. And can you imagine how often that was? Yeah, and you know, that's a sign of an anxiety problem. It is. It's a sign of a guilt problem. It is. And it's hard to overcome. But here's the thing, you can. You can overcome anything. You really can. As long as you're alive, as long as you're still kicking, you can do a lot. I mean, look at Stephen Hawkins, who was resigned to that wheelchair. And he had a couple, I think he had two or three different lives. So he was living life. But you look at him physically and you say, well, he can't do anything. He did a lot. Let's see here. James Breen, yeah, buddy. Modern man is disconnected from nature. We are, and that's a shame. I think nature's super important, guys. I really love it. I think spending time in nature goes, and I'm gonna share with you a nature thing in a second. I think spending time in nature goes hand in hand with creativity. Getting to good event is good to get around positive people. That's true. Forgive yourself and everyone else for hurts in the past. And yeah, let me share a nature with you. Nature can be cool. You know, in our front yard, we had this little baby rabbit who's about that big and it's so cool because we pull up, you know, probably a few times a week and he's sitting in the front yard. He's looking at us. He's so cute. As soon as we get out of the car, he takes off. And I pulled up yesterday and I see that baby rabbit's body spread out over the front yard and there's this huge crow picking at his carcass, eating him. And I was like, wow. Wow, what a shame. What a shame. And I came in, my wife was on a clubhouse call and I was going to tell her and I'm like, no, I don't even want to tell her. I don't want to tell her. I just don't want to tell her. So later on that day, she had to go outside. She was putting a bird feeder out. She always feeds the hummingbirds and she came back in and she says, oh my God, I'm so depressed. I said, why? She goes, that rabbit. I said, oh, you saw the rabbit. She says, yes, I saw the rabbit. And I was like, wow, that's, you know, it's terrible. It's terrible, but it's nature. It's the way it's supposed to occur, isn't it? And we were driving away that day. We had just seen the rabbit again. And I remember, we were going for a walk. We weren't driving. We were going for walks, we'd walk past it. And there was a little bit left that the bird had left fur was everywhere. And I said, I wonder, you know, what happened to that rabbit? Did that rabbit get injured? And the crow just ate the remains. Did the crow kill it? Can a crow kill a rabbit? I don't know. So I went and did some research. And as it turns out, crows can kill rabbits. And, you know, they don't have the big talons or a huge beak or anything like that, but they've got enough power where they can actually kill a rabbit. Rabbits can run 25 to 35 miles an hour. A bird, a crow, a big crow can swoop down at 70 miles an hour so they can kill the rabbit. And then I ran a little bit further about rabbits. Rabbits actually can be killed by a lot of animals because rabbits have no way of protecting themselves. They don't. The only thing they can do is run away. That's it. That's all they could do. And unfortunately, most animals can run faster than they can. They were designed to be a prey of nature. That's what they are. That's what rabbits are. That's why they produce so fast. That's why so many of them can produce so fast because they have to feed a lot of other animals. That's what they're put on the face of the earth for. They're put out there to be food for other animals. Did you know that? Did you know that rabbits are just food? They're cute. And you do that because the other birds look at them and go, they must be delicious because they're really cute, you know? But that's nature. And that's the way it works. And I'm not quite sure what the point of that story is but I guess the point of the story is now you're educated on rabbits and birds so you know about that. Let's see here. Practice these principles and all your affairs. Great session, JR. Please, a peace and blessings always everyone. See y'all tomorrow. Thank you so much, James. I am gonna get out of here. That was all 14. I hope you enjoyed them. If you like these 14 things, do me a favor, subscribe. I never ask you to do that in the beginning. Don't forget to ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live or I upload a video. I really appreciate talking to you guys. If you're watching this and it's not live, you can still put your comments in the comments section below in the video. And in doing so, I'll come back. I went through last night, I answered like 60 comments I had that built up over the past couple of days. So if you have a comment out there, I probably answered it. If you didn't let me know, put another comment, wake me up a little bit. Sometimes I miss them when you comment on my comments, stuff like that. 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