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From Bankruptcy to Four Companies: The 168 Game Revealed

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Bill Corman transforms how we navigate life's most precious resource in this eye-opening exploration of time mastery. A Navy veteran of 20 years who simultaneously built multiple successful businesses, Corman reveals his revolutionary system—"The 168 Game"—that's helping entrepreneurs, athletes, and everyday people reclaim control of their 168 weekly hours.

The conversation takes a powerful turn when Corman shares his journey through bankruptcy during the 2008 financial crisis. "I spent three hours bawling my eyes out having a conversation with God," he recalls of his lowest moment. This rock-bottom experience catalyzed his transformation and quest to understand what wealthy people know about money that most Americans haven't been taught—knowledge he now shares through his financial services company.

At the heart of Corman's philosophy lies the distinction between time management and time ownership. "Owners see things completely through a different lens than the best manager in the world," he explains. While traditional time management starts with tools and strategies, Corman's approach begins with identifying your personal morals, values, and principles—the compass that guides all your decisions. He introduces practical strategies like scheduling in 15-minute increments to uncover hidden pockets of time and his "Yes For Later" system to capture opportunities without overcommitting.

The episode delivers profound insights for listeners at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey. From practical calendar management techniques to the mindset shifts that enabled Corman to run four companies while maintaining balance across his "four pillars" of faith, family, fitness, and finance, you'll walk away with actionable strategies to reclaim ownership of your time and align it with your deepest values.

Ready to transform how you approach your 168 hours? Visit the168game.com to learn more about Corman's system and take the first step toward becoming a time owner rather than just a time manager.

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Speaker 1:

What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Surviving the Side Hustle. Today's episode. We've got a good buddy of mine, bill Corman. Bill, how are you doing, dude? Oh man, I'm blessed and highly favored. It's great to see you today. Yeah, I love that, love that. I'm excited to have you here because we chatted a little bit. I got to see you speak briefly at the A to B con and I'm just excited, man, when we were chatting, I love your story, love to hear a lot of things that you were doing and I'm excited to kind of dive in, absolutely Looking forward to it. Sweet. So with that, why don't we just kind of jump right in you mind sharing a little bit about yourself, what it is you do, who do you help, kind of thing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so my background is first generation born in America, my dad, my grandparents immigrants. They came over during the Holocaust and grew up with a sick work ethic and in my family back in the day, like moms would decide what you're going to be. So my mom and she would say that's my son, billy, he's going to be a doctor. So we have a lot of doctors, attorneys and different things our family. So that's what I grew up thinking and did well in school but didn't get the scholarships. My parents got a divorce and I got told that they couldn't afford college and medical school. So I went into military. So I joined the United States Navy. I figured out serve four years and get my education paid for and then go on from college to medical school and do all that cool stuff. Uh, what I've realized was that that was really my mom's dream.

Speaker 2:

I love helping people, I love being in the medical field. I was in. I was a Navy corpsman. Uh, wanted to spend in 20 years, uh, in the Navy, um, and along the way I became a serial entrepreneur. So I started my first business when I was around 20, um got into the gym and fitness business and did really well, found out after a couple of years of being in a business with a partner that we decided to go different ways because we had a disagreement of where the company was supposed to go. And so I got out of that industry and I started multiple other businesses over the years, built a massive network marketing company, got involved in coaching, got involved in training let's see Real estate and so I went through that and then today I own four companies and a nonprofit.

Speaker 1:

Wow, wow. And so you let me back it up there for a second you, you, so you were in the Navy for 20 years, 20 years, yeah. So so how were you juggling that and all these other things at the same time?

Speaker 2:

So you can see behind me the book there, right? The 168 game. So that is um a system. Uh, one of my mentors back in the old Amway business had come up with this strategy called the 168 strategy, which was basically teaching you how to better manage your time. Over the years, I developed that into the 168 game and teaching people how to become time owners versus time managers, and there's a very distinct difference between being a manager-owner, just like if you're a manager of a company or you own the company. Owners see things completely through a whole different lens than the best manager in the world, and so perfecting that system over the years has allowed me to do all those things right Be on active duty in the military, deploy, married, four kids, very strong in my faith.

Speaker 2:

I give all my glory to everything we have been done to my Lord and Savior, and it's a process of when you understand that time is the true currency of life. Right, I went through a bankruptcy. You can screw up with money and start all over again, but time, when it's gone, it's gone forever, right, and the reason they call it the present is because it's a gift, right? So what are you doing? What are you doing with today? What are you doing with your 168 hours in a week? And so that's been my passion over the years. All the companies I've owned is to teach people how to get rid of the stress, the anxiety, the stress, the depression, all the stuff they're going through, because most of the statistics behind that lean back to that. Everybody feels overwhelmed, right, and that kind of triggers people and things like that. So I've learned over the years that I wanted to do many things God put on my heart to do, and the only way to make that happen is to master your time.

Speaker 1:

Wow, yeah, I mean that's so important to hear, it's such a great reminder too. And you said your mentor kind of showed you taught you this a little bit at first.

Speaker 2:

Right, was that in the military or was that afterwards it was actually one of my mentors in the Amway business, one of my mentors. I had the privilege we had to achieve a certain level to work with him and he owned multiple companies. I said how are you doing that? He sold these courses on time management. But you really got to learn to start owning things like you own a business. And so he taught me the basics. And then over the years, I'm like man, this guy's onto something. I said do you mind if I work on it? He goes, it's yours. And so he didn't really have a formal process to it, it was just kind of one-on-one teaching, didn't really have a formal process to it, it was just kind of one-on-one teaching.

Speaker 2:

So over the years I did the same thing. I started to, you know, pick through things. I've read tons and tons of time management books. I got all the systems, the Covey you know Franco Covey system, the old Franco Covey planner, the apps and all that kind of stuff. And I'm like there's something missing because all these amazing strategies and people are still failing with managing their time. And I realized, oh, it's because we all have it wrong.

Speaker 2:

Time management is assuming. Even the best time management strategy in the world starts in the middle right. It starts with a tool, a strategy, a worksheet, but the mastery of time goes all the way back to the beginning of identifying your morals, values and principles. Once you know thyself, you understand your morals, values and principles. Once you know thyself, you understand your morals, you dab it down and that's what we spend in the book and when I'm coaching people is we spend a lot of time on that. I go when are we going to get to the good stuff? I said this is the good stuff Breaking down your morals, your values, principles, because that gives you the code on what you say in yes and no to for the rest of your life. Right, how you guide what you decide to get involved in or pass up. And most of us have no clue, we have no guidepost, we have no checklist, we have no system to say yes or no to those things. Because we've never identified, gone back to the beginning, because we're never taught it. You know, if our parents don't know it, they didn't teach it to us. We don't get taught in school. How do you come up with and how do you determine what are your personal morals? Not what you got from your parents. That's some of it. You know culture, community, your background, you know some genetics, but outside of that, what is your guiding principles? And that's where most people screw up. Once you identify your morals, values, principles, becoming a time owner is easy because now you have a guidepost, a compass on how you navigate the rest of your life. So that's been kind of the claim to fame in the book.

Speaker 2:

People say, oh, that's what. When people have read the book they go, oh, now it makes sense, like now that I have MVP. Everybody that comes in out of my life, from their spouses to their kids, to the PTAs, to the. You know we need a coach. You know, like we need a football coach, we need a. You know we need you to volunteer for this. The church wants you to volunteer for stuff. Everything you now view for the rest of your life through the lenses of those MVPs.

Speaker 2:

And if I say yes to this, is it moving me closer or further away from my goals? And if it's really, really important to you but you can't say yes to it now, we teach you to create a list called yes for later, because what that does is it takes that question mark, because the subconscious mind never turns off right. So we learned through the research we've done that if you say you're going to go do something, I'm going to lose 20 pounds, you may never do it, but that subconscious mind is still trying to figure out how to lose those 20 pounds because you said you wanted to do it. So we created this whole system called yes for Later. So if something's really important to you but you look through your MVPs, you can't do it today. You can't say yes to it today. Let's target because it's important. Let's target because it's important to put it on the list. Yes for later. And as you're working through your 168 game, you will come to the time where you can say I'll take that off the shelf and say yes.

Speaker 1:

So yeah, wow, yeah, I love, I love where you you just mentioned everything there and um, kind of a silly story.

Speaker 1:

But like back in the day I used to go out with a bunch of my friends to eat and stuff and everybody was so indecisive on what they wanted whenever we would go out, like where we were going, what we were eating and all that, and it would like annoy me so much because I would just be like it doesn't really matter, just like we got to pick it, pick, make some sort of decision.

Speaker 1:

And I remember from then on I was like all right, I'm not going to be this wishy-washy kind of person. I'm going to decide quick and fast and with pretty much everything that I'm trying to do, as soon as I have enough information and I'm feeling good enough, I'm just either going to dive in with whatever it is a burger, if I'm going here clothes, business operations, things and whatever it may be and for me to go through that I had to do some sort of reflection on myself to figure out, okay, well, what are my go-tos, what do I like to eat, or what are my preferred workout movements and stuff, so that I could minimize a lot of that decision time. It sounds like that's what you do, except what you do is on steroids version of that. You dive in deep on the morals and the values and all of those things.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, absolutely, and it's a great analogy to it. I mean because, again, how much time do we waste like being indecisive, right, but what are we going to eat? Where are we going to go for dinner, you know? Where are we going to go on vacation? I don't know where you want to go, you know, especially if you have a spouse right.

Speaker 2:

What are we going to watch on Netflix? I don't know. Well, last week we watched chick flick. So, you know, can I watch some actions? You know some some people being killed on the screen, okay, okay, well, yeah, sure, so, yeah, I mean, and we found, like even every business, right, you can't, you can't scale a business outside of the systems, right, you can't outgrow your systems, you know. And so if you don't develop systems in life, whether it's your life, raising kids, your relationships, business, you cannot grow. That limits your growth, right, so you can't outgrow your system. So that that's what we realize is that this 168 game we call it three numbers life's ultimate cheat code, right, 168.

Speaker 2:

And the other thing we found is that we waste a lot of time because most of them have been taught when they'll say, hey, let's get together for lunch, people are looking at the calendar, looking to block out an hour right for lunch. When somebody says let's meet, it's an hour right usually, and so we've been ingrained in most calendars are either in a 30-minute chunk or an hour chunk. What we teach people is get a 15-minute calendar and let's map everything out in 15 minute blocks. Watch what happens to your life, because it opens up so you map out all the things you have to do, what's left over. It looks like a checkerboard, right, and you've got oh my God, look, I got 15 minutes here, 30 minutes here, an hour there, 45 here. So we taught people how to do that and, it's amazing, one of my students one time goes wait a minute, I know where you got that from. If you add one plus six, plus eight, the 168, that equals 15.

Speaker 2:

I'm like, well, that's really cool. I like that. We're putting that in a book. That's not where it came from. We just found that managing time. Most people were doing 30 minute, one hour blocks, but owners, owners actually measure it down to the minute. Like when you become a time owner, you see time as your number one currency of life. Right, everything's related to time the kind of money you can make, the enhancement of your relationships. You know. You know building a business Everything has a given take of time, right, you're either you're either using it and it's helping you grow linear and exponentially, or you're wasting. So that's another cool thing we discovered over time.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, oh, I love that. I can't remember who told me back in the day, but I had originally heard that somebody told me it was like the more white space on your calendar, the worse. So I had gone through this huge period of time where I just was booking as much as I could, and I'm at the point where my calendar is kind of ridiculous looking. I color coded, I've got everything down not quite to the minute like what you were saying, but it's pretty dialed in, and my point here that I'm trying to get to, though, is so, with all this, I have to role switch pretty frequently between coaching, podcasting, social media, doing this, doing that. How do you handle things like that? Or do you have systems in place that you can smooth that out, the whole shifting around and such?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, absolutely. I have four companies and a nonprofit and four kids and married, and so, yeah, we have systems to help you identify all of those and basically what you do is you're prioritizing again through those moral values and principles and so you don't have to sacrifice. So many people I meet today they're massively successful in business, but they have these regrets right, like they didn't spend enough time with their kids, their family you know didn't build.

Speaker 2:

You know enhanced relationships and all those kinds of things. So, yeah, we teach you a system of that. It doesn't have to be one or the other, it can be all of the above. And the way you do all the above is that through the process of always going through your calendar and identifying those cracks of time and giving authority across all your so, for example, my life, we have four pillars Faith, number one, family fitness and finance. Right, so money comes last. Everything goes in that order Faith first, family fitness, finance. So I'm always looking across my four pillars and we teach everyone has different pillars, different morals, values and principles. We teach you how to allocate time and there's parts of your life where one of them will have more than the other, but what most of us do is we get to a point where one of them is really really solid and the other ones are anemic, like a flamingo leg. Our goal is to teach you how to give time across all of those and the problem is, like you said, most of us are just wandering right.

Speaker 2:

There's an incredible book out there that Napoleon Hill wrote and was so controversial. The family requested that it stay locked away forever. It's called outwitting the devil right. And in there the devil reveals to Napoleon Hill his playbook and he says I don't have any special powers, I just keep man distracted. That's it. Good versus great right, this shiny object versus that. And you see, today, especially with apps and social media and technology, there's some amazing technology, companies, amazing technology, but it can keep us going like this, like all all over the place, and you're like why am I not getting ahead? Like email was supposed to solve, like the world, like oh, you can send it electronically rather than waiting for time. But what's happened today is that technology in some cases has made us even more confused, more distracted, you know, especially with social media, social media is powerful if it's used correctly, right? So we teach you how to learn to master those pillars of your life, when and where and what times of your life you give more to this one versus that one. And so, yeah, so we've developed those systems to help you win.

Speaker 2:

Whether it's a single mom, single dad, right, a growing young family, a single person going to college, you're working, you're in middle school, high school and you're frustrated with the pressure your parents are putting on you, the 168 game works for everybody Zero entrepreneurs, large corporations We've been truly blessed to ask to come in to teach it. You know some companies recently athletes. We're truly blessed A couple of athletes who reached out to our team and said, hey, can Bill come in and teach me? I want to. You know, I want to push through and break through. I want to break this record. I want to go here. I want to get on this team. Yeah, I would love to honor privilege to be able to teach people what I've learned in mastering. There's like a whole world changes when you go from managing to owning.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and that's just like wild to think about because you've got you said, four businesses and a nonprofit right. Yes, so what is your goal? Where are you trying to get to? Are you trying to get to like 100 businesses and like 20 nonprofits, or where are you working?

Speaker 2:

towards so interesting. So January 3rd of 2024, I'm on my knees praying and God laid on my heart that BFL Agency, my financial service company, will be the number one company in the world that everyone compares to, every single industry, every company in the world will compare themselves to what we're building in, built for Life, financial Aid. So that's a lot of where my energy and focus is right now. But it blends in my technology company. It blends in, you know, opportunities for real estate. We have a real estate investment company, bill Corman's Mindset Revolution, which is my teaching and coaching, where I teach the power of the 168 game. All those uh blend together. So ultimately, um, the goal is I want to um, eventually and again, it's not me, it's what god want me to do I want to be a full-time philanthropist. Um, every, every area in the world, like for a non-profit. Their voice, global wars.

Speaker 2:

One of our fourth pillar is global coordination. We have Christian education. We have the second pillars extraction. Get people out that are in these situations. Third is short-term, long-term housing and counseling, because a lot of organizations can raise short-term money but you can't go through that trauma and be out on the street in 30 days. It doesn't work that way.

Speaker 2:

So a lot of these organizations fail, but the number one, the one I'm most excited about it's going to be most challenging is global coordination. We actually raise more money across the globe to combat human trafficking than the industry makes, but everybody's doing their own thing. Everybody's got. I got this great idea, I got this organization, I raised money over here. Imagine if we brought all those resources together. These criminals wouldn't even think it, wouldn't even enter their mind anymore about doing this, because everybody will be watching. Everybody knows about it. Everybody's watching, everybody knows it's evil to do is that these businesses, the businesses we help, the individuals we help, all goes to the master plan of being able to go full-time in a nonprofit and full-time as a philanthropist, to be able to help causes around the world that move the needle for humanity.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I mean, you said it yourself just a few minutes ago. You said that the devil's toolkit was to keep them distracted, and everybody's all over the place doing different things. It's working towards the same goal, but it's like diluted focus, and if you can bring everybody together into that, that's just going to make a crazy impact. That's really inspiring to hear that. That's awesome, thank you. Well so, bill, you got a lot of things going on there, but the system's got to be such a key to success. I can hear it, I can see it and I can feel it even. But along the journey it must not have always been smooth sailing with the systems. Like, tell me about some times when, like maybe you were working through some of these systems or you were coming up with some things where things weren't running as smoothly.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, absolutely so. Growing up my dad was an abusive alcoholic and so I dealt with that. You know, growing up my stepdad came into my life. He was in the military, created some normalcy finally in a life, and then I thought again success would be in a doctor. I decided to go in a different path. That didn't work out. And then I thought again, success would be in a doctor. I decided to go in a different path. That didn't work out and my whole life was wrapped around busting my tail in school to become a doctor. And my mom wasn't happy when I told her I went in a different pathway because a lot of rifts in our family. But then I started cranking and early 2000s got involved in real estate. And then we hit the global financial crisis and I was flopping in the wind. I thought I knew what I was doing, but we lost everything Bankruptcy, personal business, literally to zero, had to start all over again.

Speaker 2:

I went to bankruptcy court in Baltimore, maryland. The day I went to bankruptcy court it was pouring down rain. Every parking garage was full and so I had to park four blocks away in the pouring down rain and walk. I didn't have an umbrella. I go soaking wet, looked like a drenched rat by the time I got into the court. Then this judge who, in my mind, when I tell the story in the book that she was about two feet tall, she had to stand on a box she's screaming at me telling me how irresponsible I was Maybe I'll let you keep your house, maybe I won't. And I'm looking at my attorney like what am I paying you for? What's going on here? She's screaming at me and I left that, walked back in the rain, back down the parking garage and spent three hours bawling my eyes out having a conversation with God.

Speaker 2:

I'm like I thought I was doing everything right. I got jobs for people, I'm in the military, I got this, we're invested in real estate, all this stuff and I lost everything. And I said, god, what in the heck is going on? And so that was a turning point in my life, because that was the first time in my life I actually heard God speak to me directly. And he said my son, there is a plan. I'm not going to tell you yet, but I'm preparing you. And I was like, okay.

Speaker 2:

So I remember the day before my buddy had called me to pray for me before bankruptcy court and he said, hey, I just read an article that knucklehead Warren Buffett only throws 3% of his wealth into recession. I didn't think anything of it but after coming out of bankruptcy court and spending three hours in a parking garage having a conversation with God, I said, you know what? I'm going to go by Barnes Noble and I started buying books. I bought a bunch of books that day on Warren Buffett. What does he know about money?

Speaker 2:

And that's how I got eventually in starting my financial services companies, because I got curious. I'm like what do wealthy people know about money that the rest of us haven't been taught? What are the wealthy people Not your Dave Ramsey or Susie Orman as your financial advisor? What do actual wealthy people, wealthy families, what do they do and what do they teach their kids for generations that we're not being taught? And I got curious and that's you know.

Speaker 2:

Eventually I got connected with one company which led me to starting, you know, built for Life Financial Agency. And that's what we do every day is we teach middle class America what the wealthy people do, right, and giving this information away free to middle-class America so that they now know how it's done, and changing that huge disparity between the haves and the have-nots, I mean the middle-class America, busts their tail every single day. You know working hard entrepreneurs, you know single people, single moms, dads, everybody busting their tail. And we've been told that if you just put money into a dollar-cost averaging model and don't take any money out, everything will be okay. Well, we're finding out today. It's not right. But what are the wealthy people doing that the rest of us haven't taught and Built for Life Financial Agency, that's our honor and privilege every day to come alongside of you as a client and teach you that stuff and help you with the real wealth and the real money game.

Speaker 1:

Oh man, wow, that was crazy. And then, I'm guessing, you just consumed all the books. You're just bringing it together, and that's what launched you into, so where did you go from that though? So there you are, you're bankruptcy. You just pick up a couple of books and then boom, you're just like boom, I got all these businesses now, or?

Speaker 2:

I went to every course that I can afford. And where I couldn't afford them, I try to leverage, I try to barter. I got into every course, every program out there because I wanted. I knew that there it wasn't a one size fits all. Right, and that's one of the problems Most financial advisors today again your Dave Ramsey, susie Orms it's an assumption that it's a one size fits all. You know, buy some insurance right to protect yourself and then invest the rest in the market. Well, that's only part of the story.

Speaker 2:

So I went to all these seminars and got around wealthy people and you know and begged people. To lunch them or breakfast was all I could afford at the beginning. To get around these smart people that had built wealth right and not just built it one time, but they're maintaining it. I'm like what do you do? I would love to learn anything I can do to help you and have anything much to offer at the time. And then, through the journey, a guy reached out to me on LinkedIn about coming to work with this company. So I was able to partner with them.

Speaker 2:

I learned a lot working with that company and then that gave me the inspiration set up to start my own thing. I learned a lot from them. I'm like I love what they do, but God's called me for my company to be number one in the world, so I need to be on my own, independent and my own platform, and so that's what we've done. So we've created an incredible platform for our clients, for agents, and to set the standard, our values and principles, our code of honor in our company. We believe should be the standard in every business in the world. It's like, wherever you are in the world, no matter what business you're in, and we're going to go out and prove that, and then it'll be our honor and privilege to then share that with everybody. I believe in the law of abundance, right? I'm not going to like keep it to myself and say, oh, we kicked your butt and this is, and you can't, you know, we're not going to show you.

Speaker 2:

I believe that there's an opportunity, most importantly here in America, but also on a global scale, if businesses operate on the foundation of our code that we created. If they operate that way, there's plenty of money to be made in the industries, whatever industry, there's plenty of money to be made, but to do it the right way. And if you do it that way, you won't have to worry about recruiting, retention your ROI. If you do it correctly, not only will people come, they're going to want to stay, from clients to your employees, to partnerships. So that's our goal in the BFL company and we have that same philosophy across all four of our companies. It's the same code.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that's got to be great to drive in Getting away from that diluted focus. I love how clear and to the point you are with everything that you're doing, and so I wanted to share with you that. I've got a pretty dialed in audience, I would say. But there are a lot of people from different industries, some a little bit more experienced with their businesses and a little bit further down the journey of entrepreneurship, and then I've got a lot of guys who are just starting out. They're just kind of working through some of their hobbies. They're contemplating on whether or not they should take their hobbies into more of like a career type move. So there's a little bit of a wide range there, and so I'm setting this up. So I want to ask you, what kind of advice do you have for some of those younger guys who are trying to kind of dial in and maybe get themselves and maybe they are serious enough to kind of jump into the next level to take their finances under control?

Speaker 2:

What kind of advice do you have to those listeners listening right now Absolutely One thing is just take some time, some quiet time for yourself, and ask yourself this question right, who do I think I am right? Who does God say I am right and who do I want to become? If you don't like where you want, what's your ultimate destination? Then I highly recommend from that is that you get around people that are like where you want to be right. There's massive value and there's plenty of coaches and mentors out there that will do it for next to nothing or free if you lunch them At least. Not maybe coach you long-term, but give you some nuggets, some advice.

Speaker 2:

So many things in my life changed because I got one nugget over here, one over here and put it together. But the most important thing is to identify what are your moral values and principles, because a lot of times people I mean people all the time are chasing money. I said, okay, what if I help you get there? Then what I need to make a million a year? Okay, you had a million a year. Now what Can you just die? What's next? Where do you go from there? So it's never about the money, right, the money can be a short-term goal, but long-term, what is it that gets you excited about life Like what is. If you could design the ultimate life, what would that be? It's another thing I give exercise, one of the homework assignments If you could, with a blank sheet of paper or on a dry erase board, design your ultimate life, what does that look like? And then the question is what are you willing to sacrifice to get there Right and then have a plan for that? So that's one of the things I help people with is developing that plan, all that kind of stuff. So if anybody wants to connect with us, they can go to the website for the book, the168gamecom, and you can schedule a time to meet me or one of my staff schedule me to come work with me one-on-one or have me come and work with you and your company. It's very, very reasonable. My goal is I want to get this out to the world. I want to change the world one 168 game at a time, and be able to do that. For that I highly recommend that you're clear and you get crystal clear. Read books, ask questions Outside of the Bible.

Speaker 2:

The number one book that has changed my life and I've read it now 40, as of last week, 41 times. I'm taking my financial services company, my agents through, we're doing a scavenger hunt around the book. It's called Think and Grow Rich and Neil Polenio's Think and Grow Rich. Literally. If you read that book every time you pick it up, it will elevate your life every single time you pick it up because you'll be at a different point in your life and things that are in that book will then stand out. You go. I don't remember reading that. It's the same book but you're in a different place. So I highly recommend people you make that a study. Right, it's not something you get on an audio book, even though they offer it. I actually I believe that my original one just shredded Like it was just because I carried it everywhere I read it. Highlight wrote in the margins Thinking Grow Rich literally changed my life and that mentor that told me about the 168 strategy.

Speaker 2:

That's the first book you assign me to read, because that's what I told him. He goes what are you reading? I said I hate reading. I pay people in school to read for me. He's like if you ever want to talk to me again, I better never hear those words come out of your mouth. He says from now on, your daily affirmation is I love reading, and reading changes my life and I adopted it and now I can cruise through books like nothing.

Speaker 2:

So that's what I would say is for those people that are wherever you're at, because no matter where you're at in life, you're at that step, right. You're at the bottom of the next one, right? So the question is what's next? If you've achieved this level of success here, what's next? Do you want to go here? Okay, well, who do I know or who can I get around? That's already there and that changes because the learning curve, the step could be this high or the step can be this high.

Speaker 2:

The way you bring this, the trajectory of the step, the vertical leap, is you get around people that can help you, that are in that industry, that area, the way you want to be, and just get around them. That circle, your circle of influence. Get those people in your world. You want to be in their world and go and ask what you can do to help them. My life has changed by having mentors. Instead of asking them for something, I said what can I do to help you? Is there anything I can do? I can go. Whether it's mow their lawn, wash dishes, take out the, I don't care. I mean to me it doesn't matter If they're in somewhere in life that I want to be, I'm okay with humbling myself down to do whatever it takes to get around them and get some nuggets.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, wow, yeah, I mean you just shared a lot of nuggets there and I love that. You mentioned thinking Grow Rich too. I loved it and I actually bought the video because they made it into a movie and I bought that a couple of years ago and I watched it. I used to watch it on repeat. I'd wake up in the morning and just put it on and start doing my daily work and such. And now every year I get a small group of friends together and I rent out a movie theater and I play it in the movie theater and we just all watch it and we kind of chat afterwards. So, yeah, it's definitely a powerful one. If you haven't read that one, I would get on that immediately. And so, bill, you said the easiest place to find you is at the168gamecom.

Speaker 2:

Yep, you can go to the168gamecom on our financial services company. It's simple, it's bflagencycom, real, simple bflagencycom, either one. You can get in touch with me or my team in whatever you're looking for, if we can help you in any way, we just want to help right. We want to serve. We know that those that serve the most earn the most right. So the more people in life you help, god will bless you a thousandfold if your heart is aligned to serve. So anybody needs help in any of those areas. Any services we provide, we can add value in any way. Please reach out to us.

Speaker 1:

Dude boom fire. Appreciate that and appreciate you taking the time and busy day and for coming on here and sharing some of your experiences and your insights. Man, it's been a pleasure. Thank you so much for being on here today.

Speaker 2:

It's my pleasure, rob. It's great man. I love what you're doing. I love what your show does and the message you get out and the impact you're having it and the impact you're having. It's an honor and privilege to be on here.

Speaker 1:

All right, guys. That's all we got for this week's episode. We'll catch you guys later. Peace, peace, peace.