MILLIONAIRE SUCCESS HABITS
So I sat him down and said, “Hey man, glad to have you up here,” as I handed him the microphone. The audience was just sitting, staring, waiting for what was going to happen next. I asked him, “Why are you here? Why did you spend money to come to an event like this and learn how to take your life to the next level?” I remember his first answer was typical. It was “financial freedom” or a version of that. I, of course, proceeded to ask him why financial freedom was important to him. And his second answer was really deep and freaking awesome: “Dean, in my neighborhood a lot of dads just aren’t there. They’re either in jail or they abandoned their kids. I’m working to create a way to give those kids a fatherly influence.” Wow, could there be a better “why”? It was an amazing “why” and an amazing driving factor. I mean, how could he not be empowered and inspired. He was at that event to get juiced up, ready to obtain the tools to go faster and make more money to turn that dream into reality. But from my experience I knew I could get deeper, so I asked him why that was important to him. He then gave another good answer. Then I asked him why again and again and all of his answers were great, but they were coming from his head. Then we got to the last couple of questions, and I watched as his whole body changed. His smile disappeared, his lips started to quiver, and his hands started to shake. This is when he began to speak truth from his heart. He looked at me dead in the eyes and said, “Dean, I can’t believe I’m sharing this with a whole audience. But my mom died a few years ago, and when she died, I was a drug ad- dict. I feel like I completely let her down as a son. She was a good mom who worked her butt off to raise a good boy, but when she died, she didn’t see that. And after she passed, I quit doing drugs. I got my head on straight, and I am on this mission.” He then said, “I’m going to show my mother in heaven that she raised one awesome son who’s going to make a positive im- pact on the world.” The audience members were either in tears or at a loss for words or jumping up and clapping with wild en- thusiasm. He officially found his “why”! And what a “why” that was! That’s a purpose that will carry him through the toughest
30
Made with FlippingBook Online newsletter maker