Garrain Jones
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131 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Garrain Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You must become the kind of man that matches that high valued woman. So if you're not a high valued man, you don't stand a chance.
Thank you so much for having me on. It's always, whenever I'm hearing somebody do an introduction, I try to pretend like I'm not me so that I can be a neutral party listening. And I was like, I would probably want to listen to this guy.
Well, I didn't know that that was rock bottom. I just knew that it felt at that time... I tried everything and for some reason, I could not move forward in my life. And meanwhile, I would see less talented people than me flying all over the world and and doing extraordinary things, I'm like, this is not making sense.
And at that time, I wasn't doing a lot of self-help and learning interpersonal skills and things of that nature. And so I was like, these people just gotta be lucky, but it doesn't make sense. So in my darkest moment, which I now know is my rock bottom, that's when I remember saying, either I die,
In this moment or I do something about it The moment I said do something about it new thoughts Started to enter my brain because typically we're habitual creatures by nature Why does this keep happening to me? Why is this because you probably keep asking the same question? But when I gave myself a new like commanded statement either I die
or I do something about it, it was as if it told the innate nature of my body that I had another option. So in that split second, I'm like, what could I do about it? Well, I can't, I blamed everybody else. I blame my skin color, the news, the weather, the president. I blame everybody for the situation that I was in.
But what I realized was not one of those people said, hey, don't write that book that you always said that you were going to write. Hey, don't do that. That was all me. So it was in that moment I realized I was the bottleneck to my life because I never blamed myself. I never took radical responsibility for where my life was. So.
When I took radical responsibility, I started thinking, well, what could I be responsible for? I was responsible for being overweight, responsible for having a negative attitude, responsible for gossiping and trying to tear people down, complaining. I was responsible for all of the things negative in my life. That's when I threw my hands up. And I'm just like, How can I? I'm tired of fighting.
I don't want to fight anymore. I want to be healthy. I want to be happy. I want to be surrounded by nothing but positive people. I just want to inspire people. And I want to make a bunch of money. And I want that money to represent something that I passionately believe in that I would do for free. Just show me a sign. Show me a sign. Show me a sign. And a week later, I'm at a gas station.
With my last $2, and anybody that knows anything about Los Angeles gas, you get a gallon for like $4.59. So I can even get a gallon. Last $2, putting what I can in there, homeless person asked me for money. And I said, you have more money than me. And he said, change your mindset, change your life. So that statement right there took a life that would have gone on.
I probably would have been dead within a year. And created a conscious interrupt that made me think, wait a second, what if my whole life was a lie based off of how I was thinking? Okay, so let me start thinking the opposite and doing the opposite in every area of my life where I'm not happy.
And there started the trajectory of the man, of the devoted husband, of the devoted father, of the extraordinary businessman that you now see who did not grow up with any model of who I'm representing standing here as a man right now.
For me, yes. I don't think that everybody needs to hit rock bottom if they know what to look for. I didn't know what to look for, and I was hard-headed, and I wouldn't listen to somebody. And so rock bottom is what I needed to hit because as soon as you can bounce on the – then all of a sudden it's one of those things where I just needed something to just slap me up.
And in the past, I've always been hardheaded. But again, I want to say, you don't have to do that. If you know the book to read, the mentors to have, the podcast to watch. I didn't know that at that time. So it was like basically me against the world.
That just kept giving.
The thing that I didn't realize was as valuable as it actually is is a community of forward-thinking, goal-driven people who are living in the direction that you want to live in. I had no idea just how powerful being around the right combination of people, because I was a lone wolf. And I had friends, but in my mind, I was a lone wolf, and I was selfish, and it was just my ego.
I allowed my ego to just take over. And I would say... which would make sense why just even our, our government tries everything they do to try to separate us from actually coming together as a community, whether it's black, white, gay, straight, like man, woman, the trans, cis community, that everything is like, pull them apart, pull them apart, pull them apart. You can clearly see it.
And I'm a gamer, so I can see games played all day long. And, um, When somebody is really wanting to evolve or avoid hitting rock bottom, I'd say accountability is one of the single most things that you can sort out. You don't even need money for it. There is accountability groups all over Facebook. Your energy is worth more than your money.
You just got to know what to look for because it wasn't until I was overweight. I was negative. I didn't have any money. I wanted to make a difference in my life, but I didn't know how to. I... Went into a community that was, they focused on health. They did personal development every day. They inspired their community. They were making a difference in the world.
I just stayed in that environment. So naturally, you become the sum total of the people that you hang out with the most. I started getting healthy. I started feeling better about myself. I started sharing that wealth. which is health, I started motivating people. I started reading the same books because it's a form of language, the frequency that you're continuously in.
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