{"id":100039,"date":"2018-06-21T00:02:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T06:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/renewsblog\/?p=100039"},"modified":"2023-02-09T19:58:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T02:58:59","slug":"biggerpockets-podcast-284-the-miracle-millionaire-hal-elrod-david-osborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/biggerpockets-podcast-284-the-miracle-millionaire-hal-elrod-david-osborn","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cMiracle\u201d Behind Becoming a Millionaire with Hal Elrod and David Osborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wealth is not an accident, it\u2019s a choice. And on today\u2019s powerful episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The BiggerPockets Podcast<\/a>, you\u2019ll learn exactly how to make that choice each and every day. We\u2019re excited to bring back two return guests, <strong>Hal Elrod<\/strong> and <strong>David Osborn<\/strong>, to talk about the choices that wealthy people make to ensure they stay focused on reaching their goals. You\u2019ll hear about Hal\u2019s recent battle with cancer and the mindset that allowed him to overcome the odds and live. You\u2019ll discover how your diet can make you wealthy and how to command your day from the moment you wake\u2014even if you aren\u2019t a morning person. And you\u2019ll discover the powerful concept of having an \u201cair game\u201d in addition to your \u201cground game\u201d\u2014and how understanding the distinction can make you wealthier than you have ever dreamed. Packed with wisdom, humor, and incredible insight, this show will leave you pumped up and ready to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">choose wealth.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/biggerpockets-podcast-real\/id594419649\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to listen on iTunes.<\/p>\n<h2>Listen to the Podcast Here<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=BIGPOC4194337275\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Read the Transcript Here<\/h2>\n<div style=\"overflow-y: scroll; max-height: 400px; background: #eee; padding: 20px; border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>This is the BiggerPockets podcast Show\u2026I don\u2019t even know. 284.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe morning ritual isn\u2019t just like one thing that might help a little or it might not, you know maybe I should try it. It was the lynchpin to success. Because the only way to create a successful life is one day at a time. And the only way to create a successful day is really to start with a successful morning and then you\u2019re off to the races\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You\u2019re listening to BiggerPockets Radio. Simplifying real estate for investors large and small. If you\u2019re here looking to learn about real estate investing without all the hype, you\u2019re in the right place. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned and be sure to join the millions of others who have benefited from BiggerPockets.com. Your home for real estate investing online. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>What is going on, everyone? This is Brandon Turner, host of today\u2019s BiggerPockets broadcast here with cohost once again, my buddy, my friend, my homeboy, Mr. David Greene. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>What is going on, Brandon? I\u2019m doing great. I mean, I\u2019m on cloud nine right now. We just had an incredible interview with two of the most successful people that I think are walking around in America and we\u2019re going to get to share this with everybody.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s cool with this episode is like not only\u2014probably the two most successful people that I know personally in my life. Some of the most successful people I know and I look up to a lot but they are also two of our most popular. I think both are in the top ten most popular podcasts we\u2019ve ever done individually and we brought them in separately today. I mean, together, today, to do an amazing show. We just got done recording it and man, they delivered. It\u2019s really, really, really good.<\/p>\n<p>So before we introduce them and talk about them, let\u2019s get to today\u2019s <em>Quick Tip<\/em>. All right, for today\u2019s <em>Quick Tip, <\/em>we\u2019re actually going to do something a little bit different. Rather than David or I giving the tip, we\u2019ve actually got a message from Lauren, the director of marketing, over at BiggerPockets.com. Take it away, Lauren.<\/p>\n<p>Hello, BiggerPockets podcast listeners. This is Lauren Hogan, director of marketing at BiggerPockets. I have very exciting news to share with you. We have added state-specific landlord forms as the newest feature of the BiggerPockets Pro Annual Membership. These eight forms are the essential starter pack for any landlord. They are easy to use, you can fill them out electronically, and we\u2019ll keep you updated as they are easy to use, you can fill them out electronically and we\u2019ll keep you updated as laws change. We currently have 35 states plus Washington, D.C. and we are working towards all 50. Become a Pro Annual Member and gain access to this essential part of every investor\u2019s toolbox.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>And there you go. This is a huge value add for Pro Members so I\u2019m super glad they went through the work of doing that. Special shout-out to Craig Curlock. Dude, you\u2019re awesome for all your hard work of putting that together there. Our Pro Members are already\u2014we\u2019ve gotten massive feedback. People love that. I mean like my wife and I, when we wrote that book on managing rental properties, constantly stressed the importance of having good proper state-specific legal forms and like talked about how they can save a landlord from massive headaches and problems. So anyway, I\u2019m super pumped about it so if you\u2019re a Pro Annual Member, this could save you hundreds, even thousands of dollars a year. Just another reason that BiggerPockets Pro is awesome. Now, last part of housekeeping before today\u2019s guest, our show sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s episode is brought to you by our friends at RealtyShares.com.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s episode is brought to you by our friends at RealtyShares.com. I love these guys. RealtyShares is a real estate crowdfunding platform that allows accredited investors to invest in pre-vetted real estate deals online. So investors can browse and then invest in both residential and commercial properties that yield returns 8-16% annually. As a Realty Shares member, you can passively invest in professionally managed real estate investments in a variety of asset types and geographies for as little as $5,000, all from the convenience of your living room. So to learn more and to get started with a free account, just go to BiggerPockets.com\/RealtyShares. That\u2019s BiggerPockets.com\/RealtyShares.<\/p>\n<p>All right, big thanks to our show sponsors always. You guys rock. You keep this show on the air. So to all of our sponsors, thank you. Make sure your listeners are supporting them because they rock. All right, with that, it\u2019s time to introduce today\u2019s guests.<\/p>\n<p>So today we have on two amazing people, Hal Elrod, who was on Episode Number 157 of the BiggerPockets podcast. That title was A Lifechanging Morning Ritual with Hal Elrod. And then David Osborne, where he talked about going from becoming a D student to making $400,000 in annual rental property cash flow.<\/p>\n<p>David Osborne is one of the most successful real estate investor we\u2019ve ever had on the show and one of the most successful people I know with real estate. So you guys will love today\u2019s show. It\u2019s all about wealth. And yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>He was on Episode 226 if you want to check that out. Awesome, awesome episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Yeah, it was really, really good. So check those things out. Now to read what we\u2019re kind of talking about today, I want to read you a section of their new book. So they wrote a book together. It\u2019s awesome. But for one reason, there\u2019s a paragraph here because it kind of summarizes what today\u2019s show is a lot about. So here they are. Here is the quote from the book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine a day where you set the agenda. One where the things that matter to you are clear and the steps ahead are exciting. That\u2019s what the Miracle Morning offers you, not just the possibility of financial wealth but also the abundance of peace in the sense of control over your life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019re going to talk about that today, how a morning ritual can actually help you build wealth. We\u2019re going to go through a ton of wealth-building strategies, tips, tricks, things that are mindset changes that you need to have if you want to build true wealth. Whether it\u2019s through real estate or anything. These things are going to come in handy.<\/p>\n<p>And last thing today before we get to the interview, I want to invite you guys to this week\u2019s upcoming webinar. We\u2019re going to be analyzing deals live on an online class, this coming deal, talking about rental properties specifically because I love rental properties. But if you\u2019re into real estate and you want to get into real estate or you\u2019re new to real estate, make sure you show up. Just go to BiggerPockets.com\/webinar and you can sign up there.<\/p>\n<p>So with that, let\u2019s get to today\u2019s interview. All right, Hal and David, welcome back to the BiggerPockets podcast. It\u2019s good to have you guys here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>It\u2019s great to be here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>It\u2019s good to be back but this time all together. This is cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Yeah, it\u2019s like a family reunion, so to speak. All right, I guess all three of us or four of us know each other from other places besides just this podcast, which is kind of cool. So it\u2019s fun to be able to bring this all kind of together. We\u2019re all Go Abundance guys. Yeah, actually I think the reason I\u2019m friends with David is because Hal, you introduced us back like three years ago. I don\u2019t know if you remember that but yeah, you\u2019re the reason that David\u2019s here, even. So thanks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>That\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>You\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>All right, so I want to start this thing. Obviously you guys were both on this show before and people should go back and listen to them but why don\u2019t we just start with an update on what\u2019s been going on in your guys\u2019 life the last few years since you\u2019ve been on the show? Hal\u2019s been on, I think two and a half, three years since you\u2019ve been on and David, it\u2019s been a year. So maybe we\u2019ll start with Hal. What have you been up to?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>Yeah, I guess what stands out the most is I was fighting cancer for a lot of the last year or so. It was about a year and a half years ago that I was diagnosed with a really rare, aggressive form of cancer. I went to the hospital and my lungs, kidneys and heart was failing and I was given a 30% chance of living. This particular cancer is actually 20-30% survival rate. And I\u2019m a really healthy person. So it was very, very unexpected, really surprising.<\/p>\n<p>So I applied something called a miracle equation which we can chat about at some point later if we have time, but yeah, I\u2019m grateful to say that I defied the odds and I beat the cancer. And it\u2019s really a lifelong journey. A lot will come\u2014I\u2019m in what\u2019s called remission and a lot of people come out of remission, right? So I\u2019m really trying to make sure that my lifestyle stays in alignment with staying healthy for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<p>So most recently, David and I just got back this last weekend from Sedona, Arizona, where the world premiere of <em>The Miracle Morning<\/em> movie took place and I\u2019m still like processing it. Last night, I was falling asleep going, I need to like stop and be present to how crazy this is.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a movie about The Miracle Morning and my life, and David was the executive producer on the film and yeah, we just got to be the featured film at the Illuminate Film Festival to a packed house of 400 people, I think. It was pretty wild. So yeah, those are some things that are going on and of course, this new book, <em>Miracle Morning Millionaire <\/em>that David and I just co-authored, this one just came out last month. So lots going on all at once.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>That\u2019s awesome. Yeah, I was really jealous when I saw you\u2014there\u2019s a few people I know who were down there at the movie screening and I was like dangit, I wanted to be there. Anyway, all right. David, what have you been up to the last year? How\u2019s it been?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>Well first of all, that movie experience was incredible. It was the marquis night and the grand stage and the room was packed, standing ovation, brilliant movie, <em>The Miracle Morning<\/em> movie and super-fun to be a part of it and Hal\u2019s generous giving me credit but I\u2019m his good friend and I\u2019m always a stand for Hal to win at everything he does and really, he and his team just put together what I think has got great legs and continuing the Miracle Morning miracle, which is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>I have been a dad so I guess last time, my kid was just four\u2014now he\u2019s 18 months old. He\u2019s way different than my little girl. Like if you look away from him for a minute and he\u2019s holding a stick, he\u2019ll just hit you right in the head.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s so much more aggressive. She was so sweet and I was saying goodbye to him to go to Sedona for The Miracle Morning and he had a golf ball in his hand. I looked over at my wife and he smacked me in the back of the head with a golf ball and I looked over at him and he\u2019s just smiling. I\u2019m like, you are a little guy, I could just destroy you right now but I guess I won\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s fun. And then I wrote this book with Hal, <em>The Miracle Morning Millionaire, <\/em>which is just a great project. I\u2019m just a fan of the Miracle Morning community and to do the one around wealth, which I think is my specialty, is something that was a pleasure and a great gift.<\/p>\n<p>And then lastly, I created a private equity fund since we\u2019ve all spoke before and I\u2019ve been making money along with my money for many, many years. I\u2019ve had investors co-invest with me and I just final decided to go big and create a private equity fund for single-family rentals and single-family flips. And we\u2019ve raised close to $25 million so far on our way to hopefully hundreds of millions. So it\u2019s a lot of fun and I\u2019ve got a great team over there and that\u2019s keeping me busy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>And I gave him some money because I\u2019m counting on that fund doing really well. ALF is an investor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>That\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>I think you\u2019re going to be all right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>Ask yourself if he\u2019ll guarantee a future with Hal just so you know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>So tell me guys, you wrote this book, <em>The Miracle Morning <\/em>for millionaires\u2014how would each of you define the Miracle Morning in your own words?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>So Miracle Morning, to me, it\u2019s a personal development ritual that is designed to help you become the person that you need to be to create everything that you want for your life. And that was the original quote that inspired the Miracle Morning, when I first thought of this, it was from Jim Rone. And Jim Rone says, \u201cYour level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development because success is something you attract by the person you become\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And in that moment when I heard the quote, I had this huge like, eye-opening epiphany and I went, wait a minute\u2014I\u2019m not dedicating time to my personal development every day, at least not at the level I need to really become the person that I need to be that can attract or create or sustain the success that I want.<\/p>\n<p>And I really believe that is the disconnect for 95% of our society. Everybody wants on a scale of 1 to 10, level 10 success, but very few people are focusing every day on becoming a level 10 person. Physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, intellectually in every way. And that\u2019s the way we want to achieve success in the long-term, is it\u2019s not about chasing that success, staying as you are.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about becoming a better version of yourself every single day so that you become the person where the way you think, the way you live, the way you speak, the habits that you have\u2014you can\u2019t help but succeed, not because of what you\u2019re trying to do but because of who you\u2019ve become and what you do automatically as a result of that. And that\u2019s what the Miracle Morning is, doing that every single day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>I love that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>So what you\u2019re saying is we have the power, we have the control to get what we want if we start by focusing on ourselves, not wishing the rest of the world would just give us what it is we want.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>Yeah, that\u2019s exactly what it is. I think people\u2014who is it? I think Tony Robbins said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And that\u2019s often that we go through life, like when is it my turn? When am I going to capture my lucky break? You don\u2019t catch your lucky break, you create your lucky break, right? And again, that really speaks to developing yourself into the type of person that can create the success that you want in your life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>What\u2019s great about what Hal just said is first off you can give credit for any great quote to Tony Robbins because he probably said it at some point or another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>So true.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>And then secondly the reason people like me resonate with the Miracle Morning so clearly and why I was excited to write the <em>Miracle Morning Millionaire<\/em> is because we have figured out in life that it\u2019s not about overthinking things, it\u2019s about finding things that work and putting it into action quickly.<\/p>\n<p>And when I read the Miracle Morning book, even though I was already a multimillionaire and extremely successful in many areas, I was stunned by the Simplicity of this new morning ritual I could add to my life that takes one hour, some of which I was already doing.<\/p>\n<p>I was always scribing in the morning and I was reading in the morning but to have all six digestible, usable making it a ritual, you do every single morning with your first hour. It\u2019s just like an instant lightbulb. I don\u2019t have to think. I know it\u2019ll work the minute I read it.<\/p>\n<p>So once I got through Hal\u2019s first book, which was amazing, and just the wisdom of it\u2014when you have a book that\u2019s so great in content, it\u2019s just so rare and such a pleasure because so many books are just full of the same old, same old and <em>The Miracle Morning <\/em>was like yeah this is all out there but let me tie it together for you in a simple, graspable way.<\/p>\n<p>So when Hal also said let\u2019s write <em>The Miracle Morning Millionaire<\/em> together which I was very interested in, too, I was like just tweak this a tiny bit towards wealth and that savers program added into wealth, they just go together like peanut butter and jelly. It\u2019s just a natural fit. And so I was excited to do the book with Hal and I think we\u2019ve created something pretty special in <em>Miracle Morning Millionaires<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>So Hal, why did you grab David to write it? I mean I\u2019m assuming you know lots of people. So why David? And why did you write it? Why did you think it was important to write?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>Well I\u2019m not as good-looking as David. If you\u2019re watching the video, you know that\u2019s an obvious reason but in all seriousness, if you look behind me on the wall, if you\u2019re watching the video, right? We\u2019ve got roughly ten books in the <em>Miracle Morning<\/em> series. We have <em>Miracle Morning<\/em> for entrepreneurs, for college students, for writers, for salespeople, for real estate agents, on and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>And so this series was born three or four years ago and David and I have been friends for a couple of years and he would bring up in conversation all the time. We should do a Miracle Morning book together! And my thought was always I\u2019d love that but I didn\u2019t know what it would be. Because it was real estate mogul and that\u2019s one area but I thought like gosh, we already wrote a Miracle Morning one for real estate agents. You would have been a great guy to do that one.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s just every time he\u2019d bring it up I would kind of feel guilty like yeah, but I don\u2019t know which one we would do. And so a year or so went by with us just kind of mentioning it, chatting about it, but nothing real concrete. And ironically the very first book that I had an idea for the series was <em>Miracle Morning Millionaires<\/em>. And the tagline was my very first idea. It\u2019s what we ended up using as the subtitle\u2014What the Wealthy Do Before 8:00AM Will Make You Rich.<\/p>\n<p>And the idea was, so just to be clear, this isn\u2019t the Miracle Morning for Millionaires. This isn\u2019t like okay, when I become a millionaire, then I read this book. This is how Miracle Morning Millionaires: What the Wealthy Do Before 8:00AM that will make you rich. So for the people that want to become millionaires or want to become wealthy and studying what do wealthy people do for their morning rituals? So that\u2019s kind of the idea. And so in just one day,<\/p>\n<p>I was looking through my notes of different book title ideas that I had and I saw Miracle Morning Millionaires in my notes and I\u2019m like wait a minute, I had forgotten about that. I hadn\u2019t even thought about it for years and I got excited. I called David. I said to David, you\u2019ve been wanting to write a Miracle Morning book, I have the book that you are the most qualified person that I know to write it.<\/p>\n<p>And I want to say the last thing I want to say is this, David is a multimillionaire so he\u2019s qualified in that regard. But I talk about it in the book that my definition of wealth is really living in an alignment with values. That\u2019s being wealthy, right? And if you value having financial freedom, well then being wealthy in terms of financially, that\u2019s living in alignment with that one value but that\u2019s the thing\u2014it\u2019s only one value.<\/p>\n<p>When being wealthy is about living in alignment with your values, only one of those values has to do with money. The rest are around valuing family, valuing freedom, valuing health, valuing friendships, relationships, and to me David embodies that.<\/p>\n<p>So to my definition of wealth, not just being about the dollars in your bank account or your net worth, being more of a holistic definition. That\u2019s where it was a beautiful synergy was to me, David, he fit the standard definition of wealthy but he fit my definition of wealthy as living in alignment with his values. Nobody does it better in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Wow, that\u2019s fantastic. I totally agree. Everything I know about David, I 100% agree with that. All right, so we covered obviously the morning stuff, the rituals, all that a lot the last time we talked to you, Hal. Why don\u2019t we just run through a little about that before we move onto wealth?<\/p>\n<p>First of all, let\u2019s go through the objections people have. I don\u2019t like waking up early. I am not a morning person. I\u2019ve got kids. I can\u2019t get up before them. They need me the first thing in the morning. I don\u2019t get enough sleep as it is. I\u2019ve got so much going on in my life, I can\u2019t do it. All the excuses you\u2019ve heard 100 times, right? What\u2019s your general response, and each of you, if you want to answer it or just Hal. It\u2019s up to you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>Yeah, so the general response is, well for the biggest objection, it is I\u2019m not a morning person. And when I was writing the original Morning Miracle book, that was the voice in my head which created a lot of kind of insecurity going, people have such a deeply rooted limiting belief that says, I\u2019m not a morning person. And I\u2019ve never been a morning person. And I\u2019ve even tried before. And it didn\u2019t work for me, right?<\/p>\n<p>And so when I was writing the book, I go how am I going to break through that? Like who in the hell am I? How am I going to convince somebody to do this for more than a few days? You know what I mean? And so now, fast forward five to six years later since the original has been published, and we have around a half a million people that do this every day and people posting in the Miracle Morning community all the time, I\u2019m on day 30. I\u2019m on day 300. I\u2019m on day 1259. It\u2019s insane.<\/p>\n<p>So the question or the objection of I\u2019m not a morning person. When I came with the Miracle Morning but I had read enough articles on world-renowned individuals on every field from world champion athletes to multimillionaires to CEOs to world-class entrepreneurs. And the one thing that they had in common more than any others was that there were early risers. They had a morning ritual that set the tone and the concept for their day that allowed them to grow every morning into a better version of themselves so they could be better than they were yesterday, each and every single day.<\/p>\n<p>And so that was my first \u2018aha\u2019. So I thought the morning ritual isn\u2019t just like one thing that might help a little or might not. Maybe I should try it. It was the lynchpin to success because the only way to create a successful life is one day at a time. And the only way to create a successful day is really to start with a successful morning and then you\u2019re off to the races.<\/p>\n<p>And the last thing I\u2019ll share on that is I was asked during an interview a couple of years ago, what percentage of the Miracle Morning community, what percentage of them were not morning people before, so this was a huge breakthrough for them to think, well I\u2019ve never been a morning person and now I am. And what percentage of them were already morning people? So this was just doing something different in the morning instead of checking e-mail. And I didn\u2019t know the answer to that question.<\/p>\n<p>So I surveyed our community of hundreds of thousands of people and I was really blown away. 72% of the Miracle Morning practitioners said that they have never in their entire life been a morning person until they read the Miracle Morning and started practicing it. So that\u2019s what I would say is, if you\u2019re not a morning person, join the club. If you think you can\u2019t be a morning person, you are wrong and it\u2019s been proven now by hundreds of thousands of people, right?<\/p>\n<p>And then the third thing is creating a morning ritual in the morning arguably will change your life more than any other single change that you can make. The ripple effect of how you start your day and you\u2019re doing it in an often way, it changes everything for you and I\u2019ll let David take it from here but there\u2019s one other thing I was going to say. I\u2019ll remember it while David\u2019s talking. David, why don\u2019t you talk?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>There\u2019s no question being a guy that was a night owl, I started off as a night owl, I used to even have a whole philosophy around why I was a night owl because no one would bother me, I could work late at night, I could get all kinds of work done when the world was sleeping at midnight, I was able to get stuff done. And I lived on that philosophy well into my early career. And I really believed it.<\/p>\n<p>But what happened is I would start staying up until one or two or three and then maybe I\u2019d find I had an important meeting at 7:00 o\u2019clock or something in the morning, so I\u2019d have to get up at 6:00. I\u2019d roll in, I\u2019d be tired, I\u2019d screw up the appointment. I\u2019d stumble on my words. I\u2019d forget things. I got to where I\u2019d say okay, I\u2019ve got an appointment tomorrow or I\u2019ll go to bed early. And I couldn\u2019t fall asleep because I was so used to staying up until 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>I was wrecked for half the day and then everybody else is up so by 9:00 or 10:00 or 11:00, my day was just blowing up anyways. There was nothing I could do. So I\u2019ve been getting up at 7:30 or 8:00 and then I\u2019ve got an hour to eat breakfast and do my thing and then roll into my day when it\u2019s already starting to come at me. I never really got ahead of the day. I was already playing catchup.<\/p>\n<p>So even prior to the Miracle Morning, I had started shifting my schedule earlier and earlier. And as I shifted my schedule earlier and earlier, I got more successful and when you have kids, it takes it to an even further level, right? Because you get it before your kids. You get that quiet time in the house where you get to sit there.<\/p>\n<p>And then what Hal added was the dimension of okay, if you\u2019re going to get up early, devoted to that, I had made the transition from yeah, that night owl stuff, it might be great in college when you don\u2019t really have that much to do other than what people tell you to do. But when you\u2019re in mastery and in control of your own life, that morning is how you set up the day. It\u2019s how you align your railroad tracks for massive success.<\/p>\n<p>And then Hal gave me the six things you should do every morning. I was like, wow, I\u2019m doing a couple of these but not all of them. This is exactly what I\u2019m going to do every single morning. And if it came like the \u2018aha\u2019 moment of tying it altogether for me, and I\u2019m rarely out. I\u2019m rarely out. I\u2019m rarely up without a five in front of my digits in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m usually up sometime between 5:00AM and maybe 6:05AM at the latest. And I love it. And I get the visualization done in bed. I do the affirmations in bed often, the silence in bed so I won\u2019t wake my wife up too much. And then I pop out, go do my reading and my scribing.<\/p>\n<p>So Hal tied all that together and I\u2019ve gotten more and more successful as time has gone on and by the way, more and more success doesn\u2019t necessarily mean less. It actually means more and more activity and things going on in your life so you have to really manage it all extremely well.<\/p>\n<p>And the savers just gives me that opportunity to get up in the morning and really just kind of like lock it in. So that day is going to be a successful day and the days I do it are so much better than the days I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Yeah. I totally agree. I feel like yeah, you mentioned\u2014both of you mentioned like this intentionality sort of, you\u2019re not living reactively to whatever the day is going to throw at you. You say, I\u2019m going to define the day. And what I\u2019ve found is when I started doing the miracle morning, it\u2019s totally changed my life as well.<\/p>\n<p>And I even got my sister now doing it. Amber, shout-out to you. She\u2019s got five kids. I mean all under the age of seven. Crazy life, right? And she\u2019s getting up super early and hitting the gym and doing the savers, everything and she loves it.<\/p>\n<p>So whatever people listening to this have an excuse, like I wasn\u2019t a morning person. My sister wasn\u2019t a morning person. You do it anyways, right? So it just has that intentionality. That got me excited about waking up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>And if you have kids, you need it more. Like when people go I have kids, I go, no, no, no\u2014you need it more, right? You need to give into yourself first so that you can be the best mom or be the best dad that your children deserve. And it\u2019s hard to do that when you\u2019re waking up when they\u2019re waking up, right? Or just minutes before.<\/p>\n<p>You haven\u2019t gotten a chance to meditate and calm yourself down and get centered and gain clarity. You haven\u2019t planned the day. And maybe for me every morning, here\u2019s a little bonus tip. Going into this year, I have a rule that I\u2019m not allowed to read a business book until I\u2019ve read ten pages of a parenting book every single day. Or a marriage book. One of those, too.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s been a game-changer because I would gravitate towards business books always and then I wouldn\u2019t almost get to the marriage books. They would just stack up on my shelves, right? And now every morning, I\u2019m learning, literally learning how to be a better dad and a better husband every single day before the kids wake up. And then when they wake up, I\u2019m like, I can apply something I learned that morning.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so effective that my wife and I are even in the process of buying a new house and we bought it already. We\u2019re remodeling it. We\u2019re like 100 yards from Hal and his wife because our kids get along and our wives get along but one of the conversations was hey, where are we going to do our Miracle Morning? Like can we get some really cool meditation chairs that are like rounded so we can sit in the chair and meditate. That is part of our conversation now. Because we know what ties us together in so many different ways.<\/p>\n<p>When you get into <em>Miracle Morning Millionaires<\/em>, the one thing about the wealthy that is consistent across the board, every single wealthy person you\u2019ll ever meet is purposeful. They are purposeful towards the objectives and the goals they have in life and that\u2019s what\u2019s cool about me saying that is all three of you are nodding like this in exactly the same way because you know what I know which is that there\u2019s no way you win in life without having your agenda and being purposeful towards that agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Because there\u2019s way too much chaos and noise. But what the Miracle Morning does for you specifically what it relates to wealth is you get to own your agenda. You get to take life and say okay, this is how today is going to go. I\u2019m going to be peaceful. I\u2019m going to be loving. I\u2019m going to be in my visualizations. I\u2019m going to be in my positive mindset. I\u2019m going to have a little personal journal about how the day is going to be great. About gratitude. I\u2019m going to read a positive book about relationships. Now I\u2019m going to add that into business.<\/p>\n<p>And boom, you\u2019ve like taken that one hour and you are now purposeful for your life. And when the first things come in, you\u2019re like no, I\u2019m ready for this. I\u2019ve got my armor up. I\u2019ve got my shields. I\u2019ve got my purpose. And that\u2019s why it works so well with wealth and what Miracle Morning does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Yeah. That\u2019s so good. You know, I like that both of you guys mentioned this idea of reading books, like relationship books, right? Because as business people, we get so into like I\u2019m going to read business books all the time. I\u2019ve got a hundred real estate books, right? But like if we really value other things in life like our relationships, our family, our kids, why not learn that as well? So thank you for mentioning that. It was awesome.<\/p>\n<p>So now David, you mentioned wealth, you know like they\u2019re intentional about it. They\u2019re choosing to be wealthy. That\u2019s a big part of this book as well. It\u2019s one thing I really, really like that part of this book talking about how wealth is a choice. Now, I read an article recently. I think it was on Forbes or Business Insider or something like that. It said studies show wealth is from luck only.<\/p>\n<p>That was like the top title of the article and the whole thing was this guy saying if you\u2019re rich, it\u2019s only because you\u2019re lucky. But you argue against that. You\u2019re saying in the book that you can choose to be wealthy. Can you talk about that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>First off, a friend of mine sent me that article, a friend of mine who happens to work for the state and doesn\u2019t really want to be wealthy. A good friend, actually. A very intelligent guy. And he said, what do you think about this article? And I know the question behind the question is you\u2019re just a lucky SOB, right?<\/p>\n<p>So it was an interesting article and I have an answer for him but I\u2019ll go back to why it\u2019s a choice. Specifically if you chose to be healthy, let\u2019s say you were out of shape and you said, I\u2019m going to choose to be healthy and in the book, we talk about this analogy of like, life is like a game show. And they say, okay, all you\u2019ve got to do to have a million dollars is choose which door to walk through. There\u2019s door number one and door number two.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, the money is behind door number one, so choose door number one. And you\u2019re like, wait wait wait, this must be a trick. There\u2019s no way it can be that simple. It can\u2019t be as simple as making a choice. But the reality is, it is that simple. If you chose to be healthy and you said, I\u2019m going to be healthy, what would you do? You\u2019d read a book on nutrition and that book on nutrition would say walk around the outside of the store. All of us know this. And buy the healthy living foods and eat that.<\/p>\n<p>And so if you then made that choice, you would read that book. You\u2019d have that information and you\u2019d walk around the outside of the store and you\u2019d need more salads and more vegetables and you maybe need all these better choices for your life, like the Keto diet, like my wife and I do right now. So that\u2019s as simple as it takes to be healthy. You\u2019d exercise more. You\u2019d stretch. You\u2019d get a good rest. You\u2019d do your Miracle Morning in the morning. Well, it\u2019s the same thing, man.<\/p>\n<p>People just think it\u2019s like some lucky break. It\u2019s a choice and if you choose to be wealthy, you will save some of that money. You will invest it. You will hold your investments responsible for a rate of return. You will hang out with people that are wealthy. You\u2019ll learn the ABCs of what it takes to be a more valuable person so you make more money. You\u2019ll do all these things and that will lead to luck and then you will get lucky and you will make money.<\/p>\n<p>So there\u2019s not a single extremely wealthy person I know that hasn\u2019t had a lucky break or two. But every single wealthy person I know put themselves in a position to get that lucky break. And I go back to my friend who sent me this article and I\u2019m thinking, you know what? The bottom of the crash with this particular friend, I said hey, I know a place where real estate is really cheap. I maxed out on my mortgages. If you fly out there and find a local bank because you can\u2019t do it from here, it\u2019s a different state\u2014you have to fly out there\u2014I\u2019ll put all the capital up, all the principal up and we\u2019ll split the profits on these homes and we\u2019ll buy ten together in this area.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what, we\u2019ve got one because I muscled it forward and that\u2019s all we ever got. And there\u2019s not one friend. There\u2019s two friends that I offered that same deal to that I said, go out here to this market where you can buy a home right now for $50,000 that will rent for $800 a month today. They\u2019re all worth $90,000. So you couldn\u2019t do it anymore and neither of them did it. I was busy. I had a lot going on.<\/p>\n<p>I was busy taking advantage of that downturn, which was my second lucky break in life, to build assets and neither one of them took it so that in my mind of yeah, if you were willing to work hard and seize that opportunity, he too would have been lucky. It\u2019s all of us that bought real estate at the bottom did. And I think it\u2019s luck meeting preparation, opportunity meeting preparation equals luck and you never get that luck unless you\u2019re prepared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>What David just said there, I thought it was fascinating. He said the economic downturn was my second lucky break. Only the wealthy people think like that. The economic downturn was my lucky break. I don\u2019t know. I think that\u2019s a really powerful way of looking at it. A lot of people are like, the economic downturn, when life got horrible for everybody. You know like it\u2019s how you look at something, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>You almost feel guilty saying that because it was stressful for me, too. I was scared like everyone else. There was blood in the streets. But I also took advantage of that downturn and it ended up becoming the second greatest wealth-building opportunity for me in my life. And I still feel like I left a lot of chips on the table. I wish I had been more courageous and took advantage of more.<\/p>\n<p>But in spite of all that, I\u2019m super grateful for how lucky I was that I was able to\u2014I already had bought a lot of real estate. I had an experience in that space. I had some wealthy friends but not a lot. I had some capital that I had saved up. So all of those things enabled me to take advantage of a mispriced asset which suddenly it became clear to me that real estate was mispriced.<\/p>\n<p>Not in \u201908. Not in \u201909. Not even in \u201910 but around late \u201910, 2011, I was like this isnt\u2019 right. This is all too cheap. I need to buy as much of it as I can and that\u2019s what I started doing. And if it ever happened the third time, now I\u2019ve got a lot of friends that have a lot of money. I can really take advantage of the crash. But of course, I don\u2019t like the impact of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of things out there right now that would be hurt by a crash, so there\u2019s terror, but there\u2019s also opportunity in that bottom and I think almost all the wealthy that I know that are in real estate that survived the crash made more money because of the crash than they did before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>You know you mentioned that when opportunity meets preparation that\u2019s luck, right? And there was opportunity for everybody in 2010, 2011, and 2012. But very few people were prepared and that\u2019s why they feel like well I just wasn\u2019t lucky. I wasn\u2019t one of the lucky guys. Well you just left out half the equation. That\u2019s all that it was.<\/p>\n<p>David, you put yourself in a position where you had managed money well and you had saved it so you were ready to act when that opportunity came. And I tell people all the time, we can\u2019t control when opportunity is going to show up. I have no control of when the market is down or when somebody is going to bring me a deal. That just happens. But I can control whether I\u2019m prepared and that\u2019s what we should be focusing on.<\/p>\n<p>If these people during 2003 through 2006 who are making the most money of their lives were saving it, they would have been prepared when that came, too. And I just think that that\u2019s like a really good thing to point out. A lot of people get upset that other people got wealthy but we don\u2019t get upset when we see somebody get in great shape.<\/p>\n<p>No one is begrudging someone saying oh look at that jerk with the six-pack abs. Who does he think he is? There\u2019s more to life than six-pack abs, you know. When it comes to money, there\u2019s this stigma that goes along with it. David, you said the exact same thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>Six-pack abs don\u2019t buy happiness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>I don\u2019t want to get six-pack abs because I don\u2019t want to be a jerk like those six-pack abbers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>I have a six-pack, I just keep it hidden under a layer of fat. And you know, Dave, you\u2019re right on. So let me give you an example of that in the <em>Miracle Morning Millionaire. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Wow, that was a [inaudible][32:59] title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>Don\u2019t ask me about BiggerPockets either. That\u2019s a whole other butching of the title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Deeper Pockets?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>I just butchered my own book title so you guys will know DeeperPockets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>There you go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>That was I did last time. I felt terrible. I was apologizing for half the podcast. But now I did my own title. I just\u2014<em>Miracle Morning Millionaire<\/em> is when we talk about choosing to be strategic. And David, one of the things that happened to me in the last downturn is I knew suddenly, around \u201911 that I should buy everything. And I had some friends with some money but not a lot of money so I used their money to make more money and they invested with me and I raised about a half a million bucks and those guys made 42% annualized, 27% in nine months. Some of them rode along with me and they were always in the $30Ks. We were just killing it, right?<\/p>\n<p>But I didn\u2019t know enough wealthy people because I could have honestly bought $200 million worth of assets in that downturn and turn it into $500 million. That\u2019s how mispriced real estate was. So being strategic,, which we talk about in the book, since then I\u2019ve upgraded my social circle. I still have my friends that have $100,000 or $200,000 to invest but I have consciously built a circle now of people that are all in the hundred, $200, $300 million and I\u2019ve done it strategically.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just as easy to be nice to wealthy people as it is to be nice to middle class or upper-to-middle class people and they want the same things. They want community, they want friendship, they want kindness. They usually want people that give to their charity so I specifically have given to a lot of charities that different people run that are wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>And now I have a group of friends that I hang out with once a month. They\u2019re all worth over a hundred million bucks and we visit and learn together but I can tell you what, there\u2019s a downturn, I\u2019d be going to those people and saying hey, don\u2019t give me $100,000. Give me $5 million dollars and I\u2019ll turn it into eight or nine for you.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s partly being strategic so yes, it was opportunity meeting preparation and I\u2019m getting prepared right now, David, for the next opportunity by being kind to these high net worth people who I actually really like and building a circle and that\u2019s part of my preparation, my being strategic for the next possibility.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, for me that\u2019s where the Miracle Morning was just like, yeah, there\u2019s not anything in here that in and of itself is some magic recipe but this behavior tied into what I was already a believer in is enough to absolutely change your life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>And like a jerk, you\u2019re giving money away to charities and being kind to people. Which stereotype\u2014yeah. What are the things, David, that you talk about that Brandon and I, we talk about it ourselves and we love it is your concept of an air game versus a ground game. I\u2019m constantly taking that analogy and playing it into my life. Can you share that with us as a way that people can get prepared for opportunity while still taking care of their daily responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>Yeah, sure. The ground game is what you do naturally, if you\u2019re born and your dad\u2019s a dentist and you go through college and then you go to dental school, you\u2019ll probably be a dentist. That\u2019s all ground game. It comes from football. If you\u2019re the guy running the ball, you\u2019re a football player, that\u2019s her ground game but the guys doing the air game are the people designing the game plan for that football game.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a dentist your whole life and you don\u2019t click into air game mode, air game is okay, where am I going? What am I doing with my life? What direction do you want to go? Am I taking the actions today that lead to great health, great wealth, great relationships. And that\u2019s why <em>The Miracle Morning<\/em> is such a natural, unbelievable tool that covers all the pieces of the air game. So the air game is really you taking control of your life, going up to the 40,000 square foot level, looking down on it and saying is the path I\u2019m on getting me to where I want to go?<\/p>\n<p>And if you ask that question, you\u2019ll get a yes or a no and if the answer is no, and in what areas. And if the answer is no, like I\u2019m working allt he time so I\u2019m not spending time my kids, that would be an answer that might come back. Then you can use your air game to say okay, I\u2019m going to spend one day every week just with my kids. I\u2019ll choose Saturday. Lock it in. Drop it into your ground game, which is what you do every day naturally and now all of a sudden you\u2019re leading your life instead of just being led by your life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>That is so good. Yeah, I love that idea. I think that is where the Miracle Morning comes in so handy. You\u2019re taking time out of your day to do that air game, to plan and to figure out where you\u2019re going.<\/p>\n<p>Hey guys, it\u2019s Brandon real quick. I\u2019m going to break from the interview so here\u2019s the deal. We were just on fire on this show so we actually skipped the<em> Famous Four <\/em>and <em>Fire Round<\/em> but before we get to the last few questions on today\u2019s show, I want to make sure we give a shout-out to today\u2019s <em>Fire Round<\/em> sponsor even though we don\u2019t have a <em>Fire Round<\/em>. Let\u2019s hear from today\u2019s second show sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s why I\u2019m a big fan of SimpliSafe Home Security. SimpliSafe is ready for anything that gets thrown at it. If a storm takes out your power, SimpliSafe is ready. An intruder cuts your phone line, SimpliSafe is ready. Say they destroy your keypad or siren, SimpliSafe will still get you the help you need. And here\u2019s what I love about that. Sure, maybe it\u2019s overkill and maybe you don\u2019t need to be ready for every worst-case scenario but that\u2019s what makes SimpliSafe so great, because it\u2019s always ready. Now, SimpliSafe could cost an arm and a leg. It should but it doesn\u2019t. That\u2019s because they\u2019re good people over there at SimpliSafe. They charge you what\u2019s fair. $14.99 a month. No contracts. No hidden fees. I recommend SimpliSafe to everyone I know. You\u2019ve got to check it out. Go today to SimpliSafePockets.com. Again, that\u2019s SimpliSafePockets.com.<\/p>\n<p>All right, good deal. Now, with that, let\u2019s jump back into the interview with David and Hal. Do you have any advice, I should say, on building that vision of where you want to go? Like I mean, now people they want to get wealthy but that\u2019s as far as most people in the world even take it. They want to get wealthy. They\u2019ve chosen, so to speak, to become wealthy but they don\u2019t ever do anything about it. So what do you suggest about that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>They haven\u2019t. Wanting to be wealthy is not the same as choosing it. Wanting to be wealthy implies a lack thereof. Wanting to be healthy implies a lack thereof. Wanting something doesn\u2019t get it for you. Choosing it leads to actions you have to take towards your health. So that\u2019s why we\u2019ve seen the book. It\u2019s as simple as choosing door number one where the million dollars is and knowing that.<\/p>\n<p>Now then if you chose to be wealthy or chose to be healthy, one of the things you\u2019d have to know is wealthy people are purposeful. Wealthy people have goals. Wealthy people are strategic. So you know, I posted something recently and I saw somebody put\u2014I said it\u2019s about hard work. I said the work ethic you bring to anything is the work ethic you bring into everything and some guy put in there, that\u2019s a slave mentality is what he put.<\/p>\n<p>And I thought it was very interesting. But the reality is, work ethic is not enough. Ants work hard every single day and they\u2019re still ants. What is effective is choosing a path where you can strategically leverage yourself to greater and greater success. So if you\u2019re a brick layer, God Bless you have a great work ethic. You\u2019re not going to get financially free by being the best brick layer of all time.<\/p>\n<p>You are contributing a great thing to society. I honor the hardworking brick layer. The way you would ask yourself, how could I get ahead wealthy, it might be okay, how could I build a house with my brick laying skills with all my friends that happen to be contractors? How can I buy a piece of dirt, maybe even ask the owner of my company, can I borrow so many excess materials and build a house for almost nothing using all your connections, all your relationships and your skills and then have your first rental property or sell that asset to great cash?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s being strategic with your life and then if you factor into the Miracle Morning, what you would do in the morning is first of all, you would silence to center yourself and then you\u2019d affirm. I am a brick layer who also invests in property. I am a brick layer who is going to own rental properties. You would visualize yourself owning that and completing that first house where you would have a tenant paying you monthly. You would then read a book on how to own your real estate and you would scribe and write to yourself, okay, the action steps I have to take today are this, this, and this towards being a landlord and a real estate owner.<\/p>\n<p>And so that\u2019s really where it all ties together is it\u2019s not just about working hard. It\u2019s about the choice must lead you to the actions to winning. And if you ask yourself after making the choice, okay, what do I do now? I\u2019ve chosen to be wealthy. With everything I know in all my relationships and all my skillsets, what are the next steps I should take to be wealthy? You\u2019ll get answers and then you just gotta walk towards those answers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>All right. I mean, we could talk this stuff forever. Obviously people should go get the book so I don\u2019t have to go through every point of the book because it\u2019s so good. I\u2019m not even kidding. It\u2019s so good. But there are a few things I want to hit. First of all, in the book, you talk about a not so obvious millionaire principles and I wanted to make sure we touch on these three things.<\/p>\n<p>The first one was self-leadership. The second one was energy engineering and third was unwavering focus. Can we spend a minute on each of those? Explain what do you mean? What is self-leadership? And then we\u2019ll move onto energy and focus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>Yeah, the idea of self-leadership is really, it starts with responsibility and 2008\u2019s a great example. When the U.S. economy crashed a lot of people got let go of their jobs or for me, I had my own business. I was a coach and I lost over half of my coaching clients because their income was affected by the economic downturn and so that trickled down to me.<\/p>\n<p>It was like either they paid their rent, their mortgage or either they paid their coach and of course, today, go pay your rent, your mortgage, and get it. And then I lost my house as a result of all that. But the point is self-leadership starts with responsibility. I\u2019m a big believer to the degree that you accept responsibility for every aspect of your life determines the degree of power that you maintain to change in the area of your life. I\u2019ll give you an example.<\/p>\n<p>When I was 20 years old, we covered the story on the first interview I did with you guys but I was hit head on by a drunk driver at 70 miles an hour. Another car hit me in the door 70 miles an hour. I broke 11 bones. My heart stopped beating for six minutes. I was in a coma for six days. Came out of the coma and was told I could never walk again.<\/p>\n<p>So again, I was 20 years old and self-leadership began with the mindset going, okay, I can\u2019t change what happened to me but I am 100% responsible for how I interpret this, the meaning that I give it and what actions I take moving forward. So I think the big problem, people go wait a minute. I can\u2019t take responsibility for someone else. How can you take responsibility for a drunk driver? The drunk driver hit you. That wasn\u2019t your fault.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s the big distinction is that responsibility is not the same as blame. Blame determines who\u2019s at fault but responsibility determines who is committed to changing things, to creating the circumstances that they want. And so while I wasn\u2019t at fault for the accident, it wasn\u2019t the drunk driver\u2019s responsibility for me to be happy, for me to learn to walk again, for me to have any kind of quality of life. None of that was his responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>And so that\u2019s where self-leadership begins and I think with wealth and what David is talking about where you make the choice\u2014you choose door number one where the million dollars is, and I think a lot of folks, myself included back when I was thinking about building wealth, I was like but I don\u2019t know how.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t even know\u2014I just have a job that pays me x dollars and there\u2019s no way I\u2019m going to get wealthy of this job, this J-O-B if you will. And so it starts with figuring out the what.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s an example. If you\u2019re listening to this and you\u2019re like all right, I\u2019m at square one. Maybe I\u2019m 20 years old and I\u2019m a millennial. I\u2019ve got a job but I don\u2019t know\u2014I\u2019m in college. I don\u2019t know how to become wealthy. I don\u2019t know how to do that. Well that starts out by the choice begins with, I\u2019m going to schedule time. Maybe it\u2019s one hour a day, five days a week. Maybe it\u2019s four hours on Saturday or it\u2019s the entire day or whatever. I\u2019m going to schedule time to figure out the how. That\u2019s the starting place is figuring out the how.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s okay. I\u2019m going to work one hour a day and I\u2019m going to start reading <em>Miracle Morning Millionaires. <\/em>Then I\u2019m going to read <em>Secret Millionaire Minds<\/em>. Then I\u2019m going to read <em>Rich Dad, Poor Dad<\/em>. And you can\u2019t help but then learn and understand how to build wealth. Oh, you read books on building wealth and you understand how to build wealth and then you can actually take the actions.<\/p>\n<p>So now you schedule that five hours a week that you\u2019re scheduling to learn how to become wealthy, now only two hours of it is dedicated to learning. Now you\u2019ve learned. And the other three hours, you\u2019ve dedicated to implementing the stuff you\u2019ve learned in the previous weeks or months and then you start to see results. So that\u2019s self-leadership. David, you\u2019ve got anything to add to that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>Yeah, I just\u2014people say okay, so you\u2019ve got to get all these lucky things to get wealthy but really, I go back to the first house I ever bought. I think I made $55,000. I was a realtor. I had no money. I was showing property. I showed a lady a house. It was $77,000. It happened to be my sister. I said hey honey, are you going to buy this house? She said no. I said good, I am. So I bought that first house.<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m making at that time, $50,000-$55,000. I don\u2019t have any money. I buy this house. I had enough for the down payment. And then I moved into the house. So I was 29 years old or 28 years old and I rented out rooms to roommates which is funny. I think it\u2019s a great strategy and in my case, my friends hardly ever paid me rent but I still kind of got in some money and it offset some of the bills. And that house today I still own it. It\u2019s worth $300,000. And I bought it in \u201997 so what is that? 20 odd years ago.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to be massively wealthy to start this journey of wealth. Once you\u2019ve read the book <em>Cash Flow Quadrant<\/em>, once you\u2019ve read the book like <em>Wealth Can\u2019t Wait<\/em> and then you realize you\u2019ve got to buy a house today\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>That\u2019s a good book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>You can buy a house and then rent it out to roommates. If you\u2019re a millennial, that\u2019s a perfect first step to do. And people say, well you can\u2019t afford it where I want to live anymore. Well then drive an hour. We\u2019re talking about the choice to be wealthy. I don\u2019t want to eat carrots and vegetables every day. I\u2019d rather eat cheesecake and ice cream every day but I made a choice to be healthy.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what? When I eat healthy, I get healthy. So if you want to build wealth, it\u2019s the choice to be wealthy and if you\u2019ve got to buy a little further out, right now in Austin, Texas, if you\u2019re willing to go 50 minutes out of town, you can buy a home for about $200,000. Three bedroom, maybe four if you\u2019re lucky, you can rent two of those bedrooms out for probably $750 and your entire payment, you would be living for free and building equity on the backs of your lazier friends who are too lazy to go buy their own darned house.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>And building experience as well. Like you\u2019re building that knowledge and experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>Oh yeah, that\u2019s even the most important part is that by only thinking about it, you never get the experience. And if it\u2019s hard for you, we have a DREAMer friend and that DREAMer friend is 27 years old and has like eight rental properties and makes $40,000 or $50,000 free and clear after all expenses never having had a proper work permit or anything else. So if you are thinking you must be lucky\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Yeah, he must be lucky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>Yeah, he is so lucky, that kid. He\u2019s really lucky. Had to bicycle to work because he couldn\u2019t get a driver\u2019s license, that\u2019s how lucky he was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>Take responsibility. Take responsibility. That\u2019s the key.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Yeah, I love that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>And then energy engineering is the idea that for you to be able\u2014I\u2019ll give you an example. Most people\u2014I wish I had more motivation. Right? And I really believe that it\u2019s energy that we want. Because if you have an abundance of physical, mental, and emotional energy, that is motivation, right? And so in the chapter, we basically talk about that for you to be successful, you\u2019ve got to engineer your life for optimum physical, emotional, mental and even spiritual energy.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ll give you kind of the quick and dirty on this, if you will, is your diet. So I learned this years ago. The largest drain on our energy is what we eat. It\u2019s digesting food is what takes more energy than anything else. And if we go from meal to meal to meal and we\u2019re eating unhealthy food, processed food, heavy food, bread, meat, on and on\u2014if you\u2019re eating poor food choices that aren\u2019t going to give you energy.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they require more energy to digest then they give to your body, which is why you become in an energy deficit. That\u2019s why the five-hour energy commercial, right? It\u2019s like, you ever get tired at 2:00 o\u2019clock in afternoon? Yeah because you just had a chicken sandwich for lunch. You\u2019re digesting simple carbohydrates from the bread. You\u2019re digesting some hormone-infested chicken most likely, right? Like that\u2019s why you\u2019re tired at 2:00. You don\u2019t need a five-hour energy. You need to eat a raw vegan or some form of health.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need to be extreme but you need a healthy lunch. You need a lunch that doesn\u2019t have bread, doesn\u2019t have a lot of meat, and it\u2019s a small meal. That\u2019s why think about Thanksgiving. What happens after Thanksgiving? Everybody finds a room at the house to take a nap in because you ate a lot of food. Now you\u2019re digesting that food and you\u2019re exhausted. You\u2019re fatigued.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, to me the biggest step on energy engineering is eating for energy, where you place more value on the energetic consequences of the foods you eat then the value you place on the taste of the foods you eat. And it\u2019s not an either or. It\u2019s just that you\u2019re like okay, I\u2019m going to learn and by the way, go read a book on eating. Go Google eating for energy. I have a podcast on it. I\u2019ve done an episode on it. There\u2019s books on it.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s the idea that you learn how to do that and then you start engineering your life and it becomes easier and easier and you\u2019re like okay, now that I know what types of food give me energy, I\u2019m going to actually play around and figure out, what are the actual foods, the recipes, the salads, the dressings that are healthy and give me energy that tastes good. So like I said, it\u2019s not either or. It\u2019s not oh, I have to give up good taste.<\/p>\n<p>No you prioritize energy first and then you figure out what are the foods that fit the criteria that are living, plant-based foods that will give me an abundance of energy and then how do I make them taste really, really good? And then you get to the point where you don\u2019t even think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Like I couldn\u2019t go back to the way I used to eat now and if I\u2019m travelling and I have to eat unhealthy and I know it\u2019s going to drain my energy, it pains me as I\u2019m eating. I\u2019m like oh yeah, I used to love this. This tastes amazing but I know I\u2019m going to pay for it in an hour and that\u2019s not worth it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>David Osborne, anything to add?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>Yeah, I mean, I think the energy thing is everything. But the beautiful thing about the journey towards wealth is that it\u2019s a complete and total package. So in other words, as you get healthier and you look after your body, you\u2019ll have more energy to make more money, to make better decisions. It\u2019s all a package and that\u2019s\u2014once people really get it, every one of them will want everything because the journey to wealth, the journey to abundance, the journey to all of these things, it\u2019s self-reinforcing.<\/p>\n<p>You end up getting\u2014I manage my energy so carefully and sleep is exactly right but I also manage my friends, who I hang out with. Hal and I have become friends by choice because he and I have a lot of common interests. We\u2019re both ambitious. We both care about our wives and our kids a lot. We have them in the same school. I moved near them, not because that\u2019s exactly where I wanted to live but I understand it takes a village to raise a child.<\/p>\n<p>I think I can influence his children, Sophie, and Hal as they grow and I think he can influence my children as they grow. Hey, Soph! And I also have another good friend nearby. These are the choices I\u2019m making because energy is so important and our kids, being looked after and being comforted and being in the right environment to grow personally is so important to me but it all is a positive feedback loop.<\/p>\n<p>When my family is happy, I\u2019ve got more productivity for work. When my energy and my body is right, I have more capacity for my family. And it all just ties together and so that\u2019s what I love about the Miracle Morning and writing this book and just being on this journey of abundance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>So on that note, one of the final chapters of the book is called The Miracle Equation. Hal, can you tell us a little bit about that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>Yeah, when I was 20 years old, I sold Cutco Cutlery and I was Cutco\u2019s top sales reps and it was this particular sales contest called a push period where I wanted to break the all-time company record. I was trying to do something that 50-year history of the company had never been done before. And we were normally doing these 14-day push period. It was 14 days. And our manager announces the day before we\u2019re starting and I had mentally had to really ramp myself up like I can do this. I know it\u2019s never been done. I\u2019ve never done it but I know I can do it.<\/p>\n<p>And our manager said, by the way you guys, this particular push period is not 14 days. It\u2019s only 10 days because we have the conference four days earlier. And I went, no, no. You\u2019ve got to be kidding me. The thought of doing it in 14 days felt nearly impossible and then to go to 10 felt impossible. I reverse engineered it. I went, okay, if I were to make this what felt like a miracle happen, and this was long before the Miracle Morning but I go, I\u2019ve got to figure out what would it take?<\/p>\n<p>And I reversed engineered it, I\u2019ve got two decisions. Number one, unwavering faith. And number two, extraordinary effort. I made the decision in order for this to happen, I\u2019m going to have a lot of self-doubt. I already do. So I\u2019m going to have to maintain unwavering faith by repeating what I call the Miracle Mantra which is I\u2019m committed to selling blank or achieving blank no matter what. There\u2019s no other option. And I just read that over and over and over and over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>And when you do that you literally are programming your subconscious to follow through with I am committed to do blank no matter what. There is no other option. So that was the unwavering faith piece and then the extraordinary effort was simply that I was committed to do whatever it took, morning til night, to achieve the goal. And long story short, in miraculous fashion, on the last day, the last hour, I sold 20% of the entire two weeks. And it was a miracle.<\/p>\n<p>And then I thought it was just me. I thought well I died in a car accident when I was younger. Maybe I have like a special deed that God is hooking me up with or something, I don\u2019t know. So I thought, I\u2019m going to teach it and see if it works. I started teaching it to colleague after colleague after colleague after colleague and every single one of them, by putting forth unwavering faith, which is counterintuitive, if you\u2019re not on track for the goal, the faith usually goes out the window and then the effort falls right behind it because you think, why am I going to really try when I don\u2019t believe I can actually achieve this goal? I am so far off this goal.<\/p>\n<p>And so, unwavering faith and extraordinary effort, I taught these colleagues of mine and it worked one\u2014and I can literally name the names. On and on, Jerry, Robert, Taylor, they had their first ever\u2014they hit the same milestone. The record was like the four-minute mile. After I broke it, they did it one after another after another after another. I didn\u2019t teach them fancy sales strategies, I said if you want to join the top 1% of our society, of the achievers in this world, whether it\u2019s Michael Jordan who when the game is on the line, he maintains unwavering faith that he can make the game-winning shot even if he missed the last six shots.<\/p>\n<p>Most people doubt themselves, not the champions. And he put forth the extraordinary effort until the last possible second to win the game. And that\u2019s a very rare mindset and approach to life and most recently, I applied it to the cancer journey and I really believe that\u2019s why I was able to defy the odds and given a 30% chance of living, I maintained unwavering faith. I had a mantra. I\u2019m going to beat this cancer no matter what. There is no other option.<\/p>\n<p>And then I put forth extraordinary effort. I did acupuncture. I did coffee enemas. I did ozone saunas. I did the craziest diets. I did whatever it took until the last moment and miraculously the cancer was beat. So that is the miracle equation and I do believe if you can start practicing that, and integrate it into your Miracle Morning, have affirmations that remind you I\u2019m committed to achieving these results. I\u2019ll put forth the extraordinary efforts. Do what it takes and apply that to wealth. It will transform your financial future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>That\u2019s so cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>Well said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>All right, well guys, this has been fantastic. I know there\u2019s a thousand more things to talk about but I\u2019m just going to encourage everyone\u2014you need to get the book. It\u2019s fantastic. Seriously, it\u2019s one of my favorite books I\u2019ve read in a long, long time. <em>Miracle Morning Millionaires<\/em>. Is that plural?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong><em>Miracle Morning Millionaires<\/em>. We want to make lots of millionaires.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Where can I get it at?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hal: <\/strong>Amazon is the best place to get the audiobook, get the Kindle, get the paperback.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>All right, good deal. Well thank you guys so much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>This is my daughter if you\u2019re watching the video. Future <em>Miracle Morning Millionaire<\/em> right here, Sophie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Hi, Sophie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David O: <\/strong>Thanks so much for having us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Thank you, it\u2019s been a lot of fun, we\u2019ll see you guys around.<\/p>\n<p>All righty, that was our interview with David and Hal. That was awesome, just like I thought. I knew it would be. These guys are rock stars and it was a lot of fun talking with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>That was a lot of wisdom packed very, very compoundly into one episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>Yeah, there was a lot of stuff in there. I had like a million notes, too, of things I wanted to cover and we just did not get a chance to. Things like they have a thing called The Woodpecker Principle or something like that. It\u2019s in the book. It\u2019s really good. There\u2019s a thing called The Hedgehog Concept. It\u2019s really, really good.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about goalsetting in the book. They actually go into a four-step process for setting goals and the first one, we can talk about this. And I wanted to but we ran out of time. They talked about setting goals and they talked about setting goals in a peak state. That was like mind-blowing when I read that in the book so make sure you guys just pick up a copy of the book. I think you\u2019ll love it. I just got mine over on Kindle and I seriously took like a hundred notes on my Evernote as I was going through it of things like oh, this is so good.<\/p>\n<p>And then also, one last thing to point out to look for when you\u2019re reading the book, look for the story that David Osborne tells in the book about the conversation he had with a billionaire when he had shingles. It\u2019s a really good story. And it\u2019s humorous but it also demonstrates something really important about how you work your ground game.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m teasing the book a little bit there because I want you guys to go and pick it up because it\u2019s really good. We don\u2019t get any benefit from doing it. It\u2019s not like an affiliate thing or anything. I just really like these guys and I really like the book. So support them. Pick it up today and jump into the Show Notes, of course, at the bottom of the show and let us know if you liked it. With that, David, anything you want to add?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>I just want to say that if you guys don\u2019t know who these two are, Hal is world-renowned for being someone who coaches people into success. I mean, one of the most famous people in the entire world when it comes to helping people achieve their goals. And David Osborne is probably the most successful investor that has ever been on this podcast and that I know. He\u2019s one of my mentors. He\u2019s a person that got me into being a real estate agent. He\u2019s immensely successful. We don\u2019t have time to talk about all the stuff they do but these are people who are not only successful but part of their life is teaching people how to do the same thing. They packed it all into a book and they packed it all into this podcast. I hope you guys really enjoyed that. If you want to know more, pick up the book. Check out what\u2019s going on and then ask questions in the forums. That\u2019s another great way to get people involved and to keep the ball rolling after it\u2019s been started.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>There you go. Good deal. All right, we\u2019ve got to get out of here. Thank you guys for joining us today. I hope you enjoyed today\u2019s episode. If you did, share it over on your Facebook, your Instagram, your Snapchat if you\u2019re nine and that\u2019s all I got for you. So with that, let\u2019s get out of here. David, you want to take us out?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>This is David Greene and Brandon Turner, signing off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>No nickname?<\/p>\n<p><strong>David: <\/strong>You didn\u2019t give me anything this show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brandon: <\/strong>I guess.<\/p>\n<p><em>Y<\/em><em>ou\u2019re listening to BiggerPockets Radio, simplifying real estate for investors, large and small. 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Harv Eker<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/richdadpoordad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Rich Dad Poor Dad<\/em><\/a> by Robert T. Kiyosaki<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2JQCFAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Rich Dad&#8217;s CASHFLOW Quadrant<\/em><\/a> by Robert T. Kiyosaki<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2tuR3Un\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Wealth Can&#8217;t Wait<\/em><\/a> by David Osborn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Tweetable Topics:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s not about overthinking things. It&#8217;s about finding things that work and putting them into action quickly.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=%22It&#039;s%20not%20about%20overthinking%20things.%20It&#039;s%20about%20finding%20things%20that%20work%20and%20putting%20them%20into%20action%20quickly.%22%20BP%20Podcast%20284%20biggerpockets.com\/show284%20%40biggerpockets\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet This!<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;There&#8217;s no way you win in life without having your agenda and being purposeful towards your agenda.&#8221;\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=%22There&#039;s%20no%20way%20you%20win%20in%20life%20without%20having%20your%20agenda%20and%20being%20purposeful%20towards%20your%20agenda.%22%20BP%20Podcast%20284%20biggerpockets.com\/show284%20%40biggerpockets\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet This!<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The economic downturn was my lucky break.&#8221;\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=%22The%20economic%20downturn%20was%20my%20lucky%20break.%22%20BP%20Podcast%20284%20biggerpockets.com\/show284%20%40biggerpockets\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet This!<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Work ethic is not enough.&#8221;\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=%22Work%20ethic%20is%20not%20enough.%22%20BP%20Podcast%20284%20biggerpockets.com\/show284%20%40biggerpockets\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet This!<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Connect with Hal and David<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miraclemorning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Miracle Morning Website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wealth is not an accident, it\u2019s a choice. 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