 hi everyone my name is steve courage and in this video i want to share with you one particular discovery that changed my life this happened more than a decade ago and i hope by sharing that with you it changes your own life as well so it happened that when i was growing up i actually grew up in an environment where everybody was poor in fact i did not understand what poverty means until maybe i was 12 or 13 because think about it if you do not see anybody that has money there is no way you would think some people are poor so in the village where i grew up nobody had money i mean nobody had anything we were poor so there was no reason for me to believe some people are rich some people are poor i simply believe that is how life is then as i was growing up wherever i go to my father to ask him for anything the default response how get was where is the money so for example let's say i want to pay for something in school or i want to buy anything and i go to my father and i ask him for the money it would just reply me with something like where is the money or sometimes says do you think we grow money or we have first money on the tree and if you hear these consistently enough let's say you hear these for the first 15 years of your life it is so natural for you to believe that oh money is really scarce so by the time i was 16 years there about even though i have started my first business at age of 15 a part of me still believe that money is scarce you know everybody says money is scarce my parents said money is scarce so i have made up my mind that yeah maybe money is scarce until one day when i was reading one of the rich dad series so i was reading either this rich dad poor dad or these cash flow contract i cannot remember which of them but i'm very sure it is one of the rich dad series and i read a statement that goes something like money is not scarce because four trillion dollars exchange hand all over the world every day that changed everything for me like oh my life i have believed that money is very scarce now i read that four trillion dollars actually exchange hand between people all over the world every 24 hours that changed everything about the way i see money because i see that and talk about it if four trillion dollars actually roam around the world every 24 hours then you can tell me that four trillions of anything is scarce i'm sure you are getting my point if four trillion dollars actually walk around the world every 24 hours money is not scarce no if four trillions of anything if four trillions of my cap for example is in the world you can tell me that my cap is scarce if four trillion of my bid actually exist in the world every day you can tell me that this bid is scarce if four trillion of this wrist watch actually walk around the world every 24 hours you can tell me that this wrist watch is scarce but steve how the money in the world is in the hand of a few people all the opportunities in the world are in the hand of a few people i mean you should know that yes you are right tomos all of the money in the world are in the hands of a few people but ordinary people like you become rich every day why you are here you know looking for excuses to remain poor forever so let me tell you this the truth is most of the money in the world is actually in the hand of a few people for example statistically the 25 richest people in the world have the amount of money that is equal to 30.5 billion poorest people of the world so think about that 25 people who are the richest people in the world actually have the amount of money that is equal to what 3.5 billion people who are the poorest people in the world have and when you think about these for a moment then you will be tempted to believe what tomos believe which is oh all of the money in the world is in the hand of a few people now if you have believed that before now i want to try and convince you that you are not right and i'm going to do that by telling you two things first is more than 3000 ordinary human beings all over the world become millennia every day statistically 1700 americans become millennia every single day and you can assume that okay all over the world probably more than 3000 ordinary people become millennia every single day oh how is that possible then you might want to ask how are these people able to rise above poverty that takes me to the second thing i wanted to understand and that is change change look at the globe look at the world we have and see how that globe changes and moves every moment changes in the world bringing opportunity for new people people who are not complaining people who are not making excuses to discover a new way to be rich and yes these same changes make people who have money and who are in position of power financially today not to be in that position in the future and that is why if you make a list of every individual in the world who are millennia in the last 10 years and you compare that list with the list of people who are millennia today what you will discover is some of the people who were rich are no longer rich because life has changed and their businesses are no longer in folk then you are going to see a new set of people who were nowhere i mean i think for example max ukabeg was not even among the billionaires in the world if i'm correct today is one of the top you know richest people so because life always moves and things always changes people will look for opportunities always find a loophole to you know take some opportunity that will make them rich but listen to this you will never be among those people who are able to figure out opportunities if you believe that money is cash because naturally people don't tend to look for whatever they think is not available take for example if you come to my home will you be looking around for snake probably not because you are not expecting snake to be in my home so if you are in my car and i'm driving you out will you be looking for scorpion of course you will not be looking for scorpion in my car because you are not expecting it to be there why this example my son so ridiculous it is so perfect that human beings do not look for whatever they have made of their mind that is not available so for example i come from africa nigeria is my country an african person in nigeria who is my hate me believe that we are doomed there is no opportunity in this country i want to run away from nigeria africa is a terrible place i want to run away from africa that is what almost everybody believes but when i was growing up i decided to believe something different i decided to look at my country as okay we have so much problems here and i've learned from studies that people become rich by solving problems so if my country has so many problems it simply means i am in one of the best countries in the world yeah because solving problems is the reason why people get rich now i am fortunate to believe in a country that has so many problems it simply means yeah if only i can build my mind i will be able to solve some problems that will make me rich easier than if i run away from my country so i decided that i will never run away from my country because of money and that is why i stay back in nigeria to learn how people discover opportunities right in the midst of problems and create services products to solve those problems to make money and that is why today i make i make more money than almost everybody i have ever met you know one or one in my country think about this for a moment the only difference between myself and 200 million other people who might be in my country is everybody has to think there are no opportunities in africa because they think there are no opportunities in africa you don't look for what you believe is not available that is kind of a very simple mathematics you cannot come to my home and be looking for snake because you don't believe snake is in my home so because these people believe there are no opportunities in africa they don't look and some of them will for whatever reason try to start a business or two immediately when they fail they remind themselves what they initially believe and that is i have said it before this country is difficult i have said it before there is no way ordinary man can make it in this country and that is the end of their attempt but because i believe there are opportunities in my country in fact i believe too many opportunities i believe there are too many opportunities in africa even when i was failing business world i was telling myself okay the reason why my businesses are failing is probably because there are things i do not understand yet about how to create a product that people want how to sell products the way people want it and how to build a business so i kept on reading reading reading learning everything you see here i mean just to learn and know and understand and as god we have it i had my luck i had my first business breakthrough in the year 2016 now what is the essence of this entire video money is scarce if that is what you believe but money is too much in the world if you will take the courage to believe that as well it is just that it is not the issue between truth and lie it is conflict between what you decide to believe is like think about white color if i ask you what do you think about white color there is no answer to that question you will only give me answer based on your cultural background for example if you are from western world and i ask you what do you think about black color then you might tell me something like oh that is the color people wear when they are money somebody or when they are sad yeah that is your own perspective somebody else will tell me oh that is the color of power and authority i mean we are talking about the same color here so if i ask you about white color you will tell me oh if you are from western countries you tell me oh that is the color people wear when they are getting married that is the color people wear when they are celebrating something it's a color of purity it's a color of joy it's a color of celebration yeah if you are from western world but if you are from some asian country you are going to tell me exactly opposite of what somebody from western world just told me then you will tell me oh white color means a boring thing a money color or any other ugly things your culture has trained you to believe about white color so essentially black or white color does not have any meaning the only meaning those colors have are the meanings we give them and so it is about every other color you know because i'm an entrepreneur i study color psychology a lot and when you are studying color psychology you tend to read a lot of things about the meaning of colors what orange means what blue means what yellow means but those color never mean the same thing for everybody they mean what the culture train us to believe they mean so let's go back to money my father believed that money is scarce my uncles my brothers and sisters and pretty much everybody is in the village and town where i grew up told me every day that money is scarce like maybe 7.9 billion people in the world believe the same thing money is very scarce i too will have believed that all my life and today money will have been scarce for me but reading either of these books which i cannot tell you any of them but i think either of these i discover that four trillion dollars actually exchange hands between people howl over the world every 24 hours then i told myself it is not possible that something is scarce yet four trillion pieces of it actually move around the world so changing the way i look at money means that i started thinking from the perspective of how can i make a tiny percentage out of these four trillion dollars to come to me every day that is different from looking at money from the perspective of oh money is so scarce nobody is getting ahead because money is scarce or from the perspective of oh the rich the few people who are rich they have taken all the money now it is only few money that is available for somebody like me so the only alternative for me the only the only option for me is to look for a job that would just feed me for 40 years then i would die those two perspective can be the difference between somebody who would die in poverty and somebody who would make more money than he can finish in his lifetime and i'm making this video to challenge you to choose the second part by believing that money is not scarce money becomes scarce because people actually convince themselves to believe that money is scarce and because they have believed that they have no passion they have no interest they have no desire to actually figure out how to manufacture money but people would believe that money is too much in the world these people even if they are poor when they are watching this video because they believe that money is too much in the world they are going to strive they are going to desire and they are going to learn how to make more money than they ever need so i don't know maybe telling you these changes anything in you but for me discovering that all around the world every day changed my life if it changed your own life then i would be glad if you still believe like everybody has that money is scarce i have wasted the last how many minutes trying to convince you but maybe i can try a little bit further by offering you one of my best books that is 13 secret school did not teach you about how to be rich you know i wrote this book in the year 2013 and i was actually selling it because you know of course i wanted to make money from my books and people were buying the books and i discovered that when people buy this book they send me mails and give me calls about how the book changed their life which i wasn't expecting you know the testimony had to be that great then i started thinking about it okay if i'm selling this book and people are you know calling me to tell me it changed their life why don't i just decide to give it away so that it can reach more people i can change more lives and i decided to do that starting from 2015 or 2016 that about so between then and now that book has been downloaded by more than 300 000 times uh and more people have even got to know about the books you know because people who downloaded it shared with their friends and family and stuff like that so i think it's a pretty good book and now i'm giving it away for free just because you know uh if i actually to pay for it you might think oh maybe this guy want to get my money but if i actually to download it for free why won't you so check the description box of this video and download my free business book 30 secrets could not teach you about how to be rich if everything i've shared with you make any sense to you you might want to subscribe to this channel i hope to see you in another video