Tim Storey
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916 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Sep
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But then the proverb says, if you chase fantasies, then you lack wisdom. And you're right. We have a lot of people, even my age, that are still chasing fantasies to this day. But you got to plow, you got to plant, you got to water, and then payday is on its way.
So the mindset is so, so important because, you know, it's not just to rhyme, but truly the mindset will create a mood set. So if you tell a little kid that he's going to do something exciting the next day, you've now put something in his mind and it's created a mindset. His mind is set on something. And so the mindset creates the mood set. Oh my gosh, now I'm happy.
I get to do this thing tomorrow. So what I've become a master at is creating my own mindset. Because when we were kids in Compton, California, we had seven people in a two-bedroom apartment, which is very, very crowded. And then we had seven people in a Volkswagen Bug, which is called illegal. You're not supposed to have that mindset. So I created my own mindset through the realm of imagination.
So I started seeing things on TV, predominantly Disney things that we would see. They would come on on Sunday nights, and my older sisters would watch, and my mind just started taking off. So my mindset became beyond. I was thinking beyond, dreaming beyond,
So my mindset changed my mood set that even though I was in cramped and crowded places, my sisters used to say, this guy, he walks like he's a king. But we were poor. But it was my mindset.
So I'm going to be good at this question because I've just spent three years writing a book, as you know, called The Miracle Mentality. So literally three years I've been writing with an amazing editor, like, holy schmoly, this guy's so good, teaches at Princeton. But here's what happens.
In my travels, I found out that people usually live in these categories, what I call the messy, disheveled, the mundane, which is like the regular, the status quo, or many times lived in the madness. So they lived in the messy where their life was just disheveled, okay? Or some lived in the mundane where it's just mundane day after day after day after day with no break.
And then some lived in the madness. And I found that if you are constantly in the messy and the madness, it's hard to make room for the magic. You got to make room for magic. And so I teach people in my seminars, don't sprinkle magic on your messy. Like, oh my gosh, I'm going with my girls. We're going to Vegas.
But you're like all living a messy life, but you're going to sprinkle like a magical weekend. I mean, that's great because you need to rest and live, but we got to deal with your mess to make some permanent room for magic. And that's where I'm good.
So when I was a kid at 15 and a half, I got my first job as a dishwasher. And I remember the cook used to make fun of me. Because he would say, Timmy, why are you washing these dishes like you own the place? And I remember I was just so happy about having this job. So I was just hustling. I was plowing. I was planting good seed. I was watering.
And I would show up early every single day, just plowing, planting, watering. So the owner, Mr. Anderson, saw this. And he said, Timmy, I want to put you from dishwasher to busboy. And so that was like a big deal. And I'll never forget that as a busboy, I was hustling, doing the same thing.
I was plowing, I was planting, I was plowing, I was planting, I was watering, I was plowing, planting, watering. And then different owners of restaurants would come into this nice restaurant I was working at and they would try to hire me. So I said to Mr. Anderson, now, you know, these friends of yours are trying to give me jobs. He goes, no, I know. He goes, Tim, because you're a hustler.
He goes, I can't believe your mindset. And you're so happy about it. I said, but I'm loyal to you. So he kept that loyalty and kept me there until I was 17. And then I went and worked at a really good restaurant called Jimmy's that a lot of people wanted to work at. But it was that plowing, that planting, that watering, but I was in the moment. I was fully present, fully feeling, fully alive.
When I was a dishwasher, bam, I was there. Busboy, bam, I was there. Waiter, bam, I was there. So I think it's important mostly for young people to be in the moment, fully present, fully feeling, fully alive. Don't just do it to get you there. Just do it and excel where you are.
No, I like what you're saying there. And let's just stop there for a moment, if you don't mind, because I think that You have really figured this out because if you plow the ground, plant the seed, water the seed, you're going to get a harvest. And what I have found is that people came looking for me. I don't go knock on everybody's door to get in places.
People always say, how did you get in with Oprah? She's one of my great friends. How did you get in with Steve Harvey and do a 20-city tour? How did you get in with him or her or bam or boom or boom or bam? I never looked for one person. I was working my land. I was just loving people, coaching people, helping people, being a humanitarian. And these people look for me.
Okay, so people say, Tim's story. How do I find direction in my life? You got to stop. You got to look. You got to listen. So people say, well, follow your heart, but we got to make sure your heart is purified. So if you have the wrong things in your heart, let's not follow your heart. Then take you to the wrong places.
But if your intentions are correct, I like that word you used earlier, and your heart has the right motives, right? Then when you stop, you can look within and your heart is trying to talk to you. Why? Because your dream has a voice. So powerful. Your dream has a voice. And there's times that you're going to date somebody, some of you guys that are watching, and your heart is telling you, no.
But you do it anyway. So in those cases, you need to follow your heart. And so I feel that you can plow in the wrong areas. And if you feel like you've started to do that, whether it's a major you've started in college or jobs once you got out or a relationship you've been in for a long time that's not working, you need to stop again, look again, and listen again.
So I don't really like blame certain parents that go like, you know, I created this empire and go here. I created this and go here. Because I started off, mentoring and tutoring and life coaching famous people's kids. Like the most famous celebrities you can imagine, their kids. I started mentoring them when they were like young kids, okay?
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