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Brendon Burchard

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The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

I'm looking for inspiration. I'm going to find inspiration in San Francisco, and I'm going to write this book. This goes on week after week, month after month. I can no longer afford my rent. So now I go and live on some friend's couches, then on some friend's floors. And then I have to make the decision, do I go back to where I'm from, from Montana? and go live with my parents?

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

I'm looking for inspiration. I'm going to find inspiration in San Francisco, and I'm going to write this book. This goes on week after week, month after month. I can no longer afford my rent. So now I go and live on some friend's couches, then on some friend's floors. And then I have to make the decision, do I go back to where I'm from, from Montana? and go live with my parents?

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

Or do I move in with my then-girlfriend?" And somehow she had so much grace, she let me move in. She was paying for all the groceries. She would go and work so hard every day. And knowing that I was at home writing this book, this great book I'm going to write. I'm going to make it with this book. And you weren't making any money at the time. No money. No money. And I had a laptop that I borrowed.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

Or do I move in with my then-girlfriend?" And somehow she had so much grace, she let me move in. She was paying for all the groceries. She would go and work so hard every day. And knowing that I was at home writing this book, this great book I'm going to write. I'm going to make it with this book. And you weren't making any money at the time. No money. No money. And I had a laptop that I borrowed.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

And I had my mom's fold-out little stool. where I was writing and I was writing next to the bed because the apartment was tiny. She was in the marina. So tinier apartment, but she's doing good. She's in the marina. You know, she's doing much better than I was paying for the groceries. And so I'm writing next to the bed. And all of my journals, my books, my vision boards, my research, my papers.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

And I had my mom's fold-out little stool. where I was writing and I was writing next to the bed because the apartment was tiny. She was in the marina. So tinier apartment, but she's doing good. She's in the marina. You know, she's doing much better than I was paying for the groceries. And so I'm writing next to the bed. And all of my journals, my books, my vision boards, my research, my papers.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

my bills are on the bed and she'd go to work she'd come home and usually i'd you know get everything organized clean it up and then one day she comes home i was kind of working a line so i'm still typing and we have dinner i come back i'm typing she comes in to go to bed that night and i hadn't cleared off the bed so she goes and goes to crawl under the bed uh this covers and

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

my bills are on the bed and she'd go to work she'd come home and usually i'd you know get everything organized clean it up and then one day she comes home i was kind of working a line so i'm still typing and we have dinner i come back i'm typing she comes in to go to bed that night and i hadn't cleared off the bed so she goes and goes to crawl under the bed uh this covers and

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

I was writing and I just happened to look over and she had gone under the covers and section of her bed. And that's where my bills were. And she didn't know I was going into bankruptcy. And I get emotional. I'm thinking it's like miles from here. So I look over and I see the woman I love sleeping under the weight of my bills. Wow. Literally she's sleeping under my bills.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

I was writing and I just happened to look over and she had gone under the covers and section of her bed. And that's where my bills were. And she didn't know I was going into bankruptcy. And I get emotional. I'm thinking it's like miles from here. So I look over and I see the woman I love sleeping under the weight of my bills. Wow. Literally she's sleeping under my bills.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

And it was like, it like, you know, it snapped something. None of us want to be the cause of financial insecurity for someone we love. And I've been faking it for several weeks, pretending to write, not getting much done. And that night seeing that it just, it hurts so much. I was like, you know what? I got to get this done. So I wrote and I wrote and I wrote.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

And it was like, it like, you know, it snapped something. None of us want to be the cause of financial insecurity for someone we love. And I've been faking it for several weeks, pretending to write, not getting much done. And that night seeing that it just, it hurts so much. I was like, you know what? I got to get this done. So I wrote and I wrote and I wrote.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

And the next day she went to work and I was still writing. The next day I'm writing, I'm writing, I'm writing, I'm writing. 18 days later, boom, book is done. 18 days later, bam, number one on Amazon. Write another, write another, bam, bam. Bam, bam. Six books, number one on every list imaginable.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

And the next day she went to work and I was still writing. The next day I'm writing, I'm writing, I'm writing, I'm writing. 18 days later, boom, book is done. 18 days later, bam, number one on Amazon. Write another, write another, bam, bam. Bam, bam. Six books, number one on every list imaginable.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

Millions of copies, you know, build this huge empire of courses and memberships and eight big seminars a year all around the country for 15 years straight. And here's why. You need to find someone to fight for. If you're broke, you're fighting for survival. If you're going to break through, you're fighting for somebody else. You need to find somebody or something to fight for that is beyond you.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

Millions of copies, you know, build this huge empire of courses and memberships and eight big seminars a year all around the country for 15 years straight. And here's why. You need to find someone to fight for. If you're broke, you're fighting for survival. If you're going to break through, you're fighting for somebody else. You need to find somebody or something to fight for that is beyond you.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

And when you find that, when you find that, that's when the breakthrough happens. That's when the real breakthroughs happen. I love his show because he asked that question to everybody, you know, at the end about greatness. And everybody basically says in some way, some type of pursuit of their potential and developing themselves. But in pursuit of that potential,

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

And when you find that, when you find that, that's when the breakthrough happens. That's when the real breakthroughs happen. I love his show because he asked that question to everybody, you know, at the end about greatness. And everybody basically says in some way, some type of pursuit of their potential and developing themselves. But in pursuit of that potential,

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

for others and so at some point you go from I need to just survive to I need to be in service to something bigger that will demand something of me and if you don't like the language of you need something to fight for somebody to fight for then just replace it with love. You need to love somebody or love something beyond yourself, otherwise you'll only be in survival mode.

The School of Greatness
How To Reprogram Your Mind For Abundance & Wealth | Brendon Burchard

for others and so at some point you go from I need to just survive to I need to be in service to something bigger that will demand something of me and if you don't like the language of you need something to fight for somebody to fight for then just replace it with love. You need to love somebody or love something beyond yourself, otherwise you'll only be in survival mode.