One moment I have nearly

half a million dollars worth of

cars in my garage.

One moment I have flat screens, plasma screens and DLP tvs in my home.

One moment I have a Gold AMEX card that has no pre-set spending limit and over 600,000 points to use.

One moment I can by breakfast for all my youth group, I can donate to charities, church and scholarships…I can travel and buy almost anything I wants…One moment money is no issue whatsoever…staying at any hotel on the top floors…

And then one moment I literally have

no money and am trying to figure out

how to pay bills and keep the electricity on.

It’s bad enough that I am embarrassed because one moment I am talking about how abundant and good life is. I am speaking across the country about how to become wealthy and how to grow your assets…its bad enough that I am humiliated because as people ask me where my Benz is, or where the Denali is, or where the Escalade is I have no definite answer…

So how did we get through it all and get to where we are now? During the foreclosures and the repossession of cars this is what happened.

I could spend hours writing and telling about it. In fact I will do that in my next book that I write. I have one book down called MoneyBoxSystems and more to come.

One of my goals is to have a legitimate #1 New York Times Best Seller by December 2010. So yes I have my work cut

out for me. For a Creator once the commitment has been made…it’s OVER, SAID AND DONE! So #1 list…here I come.

According to the Encarta Dictionary Liquidation means to pay debt, shut down business, cash in assets or to kill somebody

In my case it meant…sell anything of value to put food on the table because 1-the mortgage and real estate industry hit me hard when it imploded and 2-I wasn’t prepared for what happened.

Believe me when I say I will be prepared.

Liquidating To Survive

So I began liquidating what I owned. First it was the Samsung 65 inch DLP that we had watched T.V. on, home videos and seasons of Smallville. I threw in the stand, the sound system and the DVD player.

Next went the Samsung 42 inch Plasma. Then the Sony 42 inch LCD with the heavy duty wall mounts.

I let go of my Korg Triton (the Lamborgini of Keyboards, or in my case, the Mercedes of Keyboards). I purchased this for $3k. This is what the big boys use in the studios and in the performances you see on the Grammys or MTV Video awards. I sold it for $1500 on ebay to a church in Tennessee. Right now a church is using my keyboard and they got it for a steal of a deal. I am happy it is being put to good use and for a great purpose.

I sold my Takamine guitar to a young boy who found me on KSL. I was grateful that he bought it. He had a disease so I felt much better about letting him live his life out with my Takamine.

I could go on and on about what I sold but my point is this…when you need something, THERE IS ALWAYS A WAY. Tables, beds, pictures, jewelry etc. Yes, I call it liquidation but it can also be called:

• • Simplification
• Humbling
• Being stripped
• Being born again
• Learning divine lessons
• Giving others a great deal

When I write my next book I’ll describe in detail how the LIQUIDATION part of my Defining and Refining Years was indeed just that…defining and refining.

I paid cash for everything when I bought it and now it was coming in handy to liquidate everything so I could have cash. I almost sold my fridge and I would have bought a cheaper fridge.

My question to you is this…Are there things in your life that you need to get rid of? What can you strip yourself of and get rid of to make your life more simpler? If you are broke have you thought about liquidating and simplifying?

Just recently I sold two beds to get down to a workshop. Yep, I wanted to attend a workshop in San Diego that would further my business and my ability to create and produce so I sold my queen size Ikea bed and my King Size guest bed.

I sure loved those beds but someone else needed them more than me because I wanted the funds to get to California. I drove to California and then maximized the trip and the workshop because I knew I sacrificed a lot to be there.

There is nothing embarrassing about this right now.  At first I felt like a FAILURE. At first I was ashamed. But now, I am GRATEFUL for how my life is being shaped. It’s never what happens to us, always what happens inside of us.

What great lessons I am learning through all of this!

One lesson I have learned is that when I want to buy anything from now on I will always go and look on Craigslist or KSL or on eBay. I have sold something on each of those services and people got great deals, like 50% off.

It’s just a matter of time before I have my multi-million dollar empire again (as a result of creating real value and helping people) and of course the whole purpose of having money in today’s world is to utilize it to create more value and to help more people and to give back.

Money is result and also a tool. I want that empire not just for lifestyle but mainly for CONTRIBUTION. I know what it is like to be on the side that can donate generously.  That’s what it is all about right? Using what you have to benefit other people.

We can have and live the life we commit to. Prosperity is NEVER by chance or accident. NEVER!

So what are you committed to?

If your intention is just to get by…well my friend…that is exactly what you are going to get…you’ll get by. If you could have whatever you chose to go after and pay the price for…what would you go after?

I’ve been stripped down to some bare necessities and will give it all up if that is what I must do.

Through all of this I have been developing the mindset of the Creator…an UNSTOPPABLE Belief System…a bullet proof mentality…the heart of a champion. My action muscles and commitment muscles are stronger than ever. There is something about adversity.

You either get weak and succumb or you get up and fight. You get up and work. You get up and build and rebuild and persist. “I will persist until I succeed.”

I truly believe we can create profitable businesses in today’s market because of that thing called…the Internet. That too is another story. By the way, I am building that profitable business this very moment.

I am happy. I am grateful. I will not be stopped.

I am the man who loves his life.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Setema Gali

P.S. I’ve had people tell me that I shouldn’t write about this right now. My response is WHY NOT? Should I pretend that life is amazing and that I am the perfect businessman who has all the answers? Life is amazing indeed…

I am building a business…just like Trump, just like Kiyosaki…just like Gates in his garage…just Ford…just like Vaynerchuk…just like Dillard in Texas…just like Roundy in Utah and just like every other Creator out there who did what it took to build their dreams and to create and add value to the lives of others REGARDLESS OF CIRCUMSTANCE AND REGARDLESS OF SITUATION!

“…to dwell on circumstances and situations as they are only leads to doubt and worry.”

“Faith is the knowledge of things that are true which are not seen.”

Walt Disney saw Disney World before it was ever built. I too see the company I am building and it will literally change hundreds and thousands and millions of lives.

CREATE!

Become a Creator today!

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If you’re just barely getting by or scraping by day to day, paycheck to paycheck and relationship to relationship there are a few fundamental things wrong with YOU, not anything or anyone else but with YOU.

1. You are just a lazy person. If you are, then you deserve what you get. Lazy people know very well how to work. They work at being lazy. It takes work to be lazy. It takes work to not work.

2. You don’t know HOW TO get out of the rut which is still your fault because if you don’t know how, LEARN HOW. With the internet available, knowledge and information are so easily accessible you can ‘Google’ anything and have answers immediately. Learn how. Success is a learnable skill. Money is a learnable skill. Prosperity is a learnable skill.

Yes, you can LEARN how to make and manage more money. You can learn how to develop more meaningful relationships. You can learn how to build a business and how to attract customers and clients. You can learn how to build a site, create a blog and you can learn how to have people pay you for a members site. You can learn everything. You just have to want to learn and pay the price to learn it.

3. Your blueprint, paradigm, perception, values and belief systems are completely wrong. It’s like having a map of New York City that says New York City but it’s actually a map of Baltimore. You are doomed from the start. Your map, which I call a paradigm is your set of beliefs. If you consciously and subconsciously believe that the world is a scary place, a place of scarcity, lack, fear and horror, then the world you see is a place of scarcity, lack, fear and horror.

If your blueprint is wrong, you are going to fail no matter what you do. If the paradigm is rooted in myth, fallacy and lies then no matter how much money you have you’ll be miserable and no matter how much fame and success you experience you lose and no matter how hard you try and pray and work…you’ll fail.

I am not judging anyone for just getting by. There are times in my life that I have merely gotten by and it’s my fault. If you are ignorant and don’t know what you don’t know then yes, getting by is OK. But when you are well aware of the opportunities, the stewardship, the obligation and responsibility to not just get by, but to prosper and create value with what God has given you, then you must do more than just get by.

Click here to read more about this.

“A man filled with the love of God, is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race” Joseph Smith.  This is what being a Creator is all about.

I am creating a 4 disc set called Goal Setting and Goal Getting-You Get What You Want. It is the exact formula that I have used in setting and getting my goals. If you want a sample please email me at SG@MoneyBoxSystems.com and place in the subject -Sample of Goals

I have also written a book and a course for network marketers and small business owners. The whole object of the book is to teach people how to stop doing things that don’t work and actually work against you and start doing the things that allow you to build your customers and distributors without asking, begging and pitching. I also dispel the lies of business building and of signing distributors up as well as most of the myths that people live by that cause only misery and heart ache. Email me at SG@MoneyBoxSystems.com and put in the subject – Free Book Chapters and I will tell you how to get it.

Create the life you want…not the life you get by default.

I am the man who loves his life. Do you love yours and if not, what are you doing about it?

Setema

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I just finished watching Will Smith’s Pursuit of Happyness. It’s the story that is based on the true events from the life of Chris Gardener. I heard Chris speak two years ago and was deeply touched.

What an awesome movie! Inspiring and touching to say the least. I watched it twice in two days while working on my business.

It’s powerful because you have this man who will not quit not matter what.

You have this man who will not be distracted.

You have this man who will not fail regardless of the situations and the circumstances.

How many obstacles did he face?

His wife left him.

He was thrown in jail.

He was kicked out of his apartment.

He failed miserably at selling those machines.

He lived in shelters and on the streets.

He had little or no money at time.

He slept in bathrooms, on the street and endured.

I could go on and on.

What did I learn from the story of Chris Gardener played by Will Smith? I was reminded of many but I’ll share two.

1.  If you really want something, you’ll do anything and everything (ethical and moral) to obtain it.

At anytime in his life he could have quit and blamed it on circumstance, situation, other people, his wife, the color of his skin….BUT HE DIDN’T. People say they really want something  but when it comes to doing what it takes to get it, they won’t do it.

When I played football and wanted to be the best I could, I trained 4 days a week, ate like a horse, ran hard even through the pain of the lactic acid in my legs and even though my lungs felt like they were going to explode.

When I wanted to learn how to play the piano, I spent between 50-70 hours a week practicing. In the beginning of ANYTHING, all your energy and focus must be in the same direction.

When I committed to losing weight (which by the way i am 40 lbs lighter and down to 15% body fat) I didn’t let anything or anyone distract me.

How bad do you want what you want?

Do you even know what really want? Take time to write down exactly what you want and the price you’re willing to pay to do it.

If someone offering you a million dollars to shovel poop for 1 year 50 hours a week would you do it? Well, Chris Gardener shoveled the poop and kept shoveling so to speak. We all have a price to pay, are you willing to pay the price?

2.  Success Is A Decision, A Journey and a Result

Chris Gardener never let failure stop him. In fact, he learned from each ‘failure’ and continued to move forward. How many of us stop after one attempt and failure?  Sad to say most people in Chris’s situation would have failed and quit and given up.

Becoming the right person is the KEY. This right person is what I call becming a CREATOR!

A Creator does what he/she has committed to do NO MATTER WHAT.

A Creator doesn’t make reasons or excuses, they simply get the RESULT. It’s Reasons or Results, can’t be both.

A Creator creates maximum value in all situations regardless of circumstance. Are circumstances and situations stopping you from achieving and obtaining goals? If so, you’ll be stopped no matter what. If discomfort and fear of failure is holding you back from achieving massive success, you’ll be stopped all the time. If fear of what other people think is stopping you from doing what you feel would make a difference in the lives of others, you’ll be miserable most of your life.

Once you figure out exactly what you want, commit to it, set a plan, move forward, course correct and keep moving forward.

As seen in the movie, Chris Gardener NEVER STOPPED BELIEVING, MOVING AND WORKING. If you stop and quit, you fail. Remember that because in the journey of life most people stop and quit then wonder why their life is mediocre at best.

If you keep believing, keep moving, keep searching, keep asking, keep learning, keep working and keep enduring, you’ll find success.

Success is deliberately choosing what you truly desire, then embarking on that journey with a good plan in hand that most never take because of fear, doubt, lack and worry.

Success comes as a result of following the laws and principles that success is based upon. Success like everything else in life follows laws and principles.

Look at every successful person from family, relationships, sports, business, money and on and on. They all follow a set of guideliness and principles that aren’t secrets to most but most act like it’s a secret to find prosperity and success.

Here’s the bottom line:

Are you becoming the type of person who will succeed NO MATTER WHAT or will you make excuses and reasons as to why you can’t and shouldn’t succeed?

Are you willing to pay a hefty price to achieve happiness, prosperity and abundance or will you give in to the circumstances and situations of the daily rigors of life?

I already know how my story ends. I know what awaits me. It’s like watching a movie on the big screen. We knew Chris Gardner would succeed. It was just a matter of watching him go through the ups and downs of what he did to get there. For me, it’s just a matter of going through the script of the ’story’ to become that type of person who attracts and creates success. But I already know in my mind and heart how my life movie ends. This allows me to find joy each and every day.

Can you envision the story of your life and how it’s unfolding?

Do one thing today to make a change in your life. Be a person of your word. Set a goal and do it no matter what. Exercise. Read and study more. Pray more. Serve more. Throw aside the things that are keeping you from becoming a true Creator.

Yesterdays beliefs, thoughts, feelings and actions brought today’s results. Today’s beliefs, thoughts, feelings and actions bring tomorrow’s results.

Setema Gali

This is part 3 in a series entitled “Making $309k A Year and Still Broke”

Part I

Part II

Enjoy Part III…

So how do you change your ingrained beliefs and actually start making and keeping money?

What governs money? What laws and principles are money dependent on? I’ll tell you.

Dollars follow _________.

It’s all begins your mind. Your paradigm (opinions, beliefs, assumptions) will determine your financial wealth. T. Harv Ecker calls it your Money Blueprint.

If your Paradigm or Blueprint is of scarcity, lack, doubt and set at a low level, you’re doomed to financial poverty. . . NO MATTER WHAT!

Win the lottery and have a paradigm of scarcity, lack and doubt…you’ll lose it all and be worse off.

If your Money Blueprint is based on lies, myth and fear….money becomes a curse rather than a blessing and you become worse off with the more money.

If you think and believe money is not important…. well do you think you’ll ever do the necessary actions to receive more if it’s NOT important to you?

However, if your Paradigm or Blueprint is set to that of abundance, wealth, value creation and problem solving, you have an opportunity to be financially wealthy… if you take action and course correct properly as you move forward in yoru journey.

Remember, money is a byproduct, an effect, an end result. It is the result of creating value and then adding and distributing that value to the world. That value can be something people really want or can be solutions to major problems people have.

Everything we have today is the result of someone (what I call a CREATOR) creating value and/or solving problems.

The cell phone I use everyday is the result of someones idea and attempt to solve a problem. The problem was not being able to talk to friends, family and business associates unless I had money for a pay phone or was on or near a land line.

Now, I not only can talk to them, I can email, text, send pictures and keep my day planner and schedule, record voice memos and Google anything I want. I even have GPS on my phone. I traded my money for what I wanted and valued more than my money. . . it’s called a Blackberry.

In your job you are creating value for the company who is paying you. So if you want to make more money become more valuable to the company by increasing your knowledge, skills or what I call your HUMAN CAPITAL.

If you want to make a lot of money, learn what the rich do.

While poor people are looking for opportunities, rich people who I call Creators are looking for problems.

Where poor people look to avoid problems, Creators look to solve those problems.

Becoming the right type of person is what it is all about. If people focused on Creating Maximum Value for other people in all situations regardless of circumstance, what type of world would we have?

To be continued….

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It’s funny when we think “If I just had more money then I’d be (fill in the blank. . ., happy, successful, without trials, comfortable, etc.). As I said in part 1, that is completely wrong.

Money is literally a RESULT. But more on that in part 3.

Where does one start in learning about money, how to make it and keep it?

You don’t start with hard work. You don’t start with finding a job. You don’t start with saving.

You start in your mind with your beliefs and how you view money.

What is the real key and underlying factor when it comes to making and keeping money?

Your beliefs about money and wealth are the key!

If you don’t think or believe (consciously or subconsciously) that money is important do you think you’ll ever have a lot?

If you think or believe (consciously or subconsciously) that having lots of money is NOT for you, do you think you’ll ever have a lot?

If you think or believe (consciously or subconsciously) that having lots of money is only for other people, will you ever do the things that allow you to have it?

If you think or believe (consciously or subconsciously) being rich is greedy, selfish and prideful, will you ever strive to make a lot and keep a lot?

If you think or believe (consciously or subconsciously) that being poor and broke is a sign of humility in God’s eyes do you think you’ll ever be rich?

The answers are obvious.

Clearly as human beings we are hard wired for happiness meaning we will always do things that fall in line with our beliefs to help us find happiness and avoid pain.

If you believe going to church is right then you go. If you believe drinking alcohol is not right then you don’t drink.

You also spend your time, energy and attention with that which is important to you. If your family is important to you you spend time with them. If your relationship with someone is important to you you invest time and energy with that persons. If being entertained is more important than work, obviously you spend time being entertained rather than creating value for other people.

If we subcsonsciously and consciously believe money is bad or we shouldn’t have it or that it is NOT for us, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU’LL ACTUALLY DO THINGS TO GET MORE OF IT? We won’t.  And if we somehow make a lot of it, we’ll find a way to get rid of it because it doesn’t align with our subconscious and conscious beliefs.

Your beliefs are crucial in obtaining wealth. Even if you make a lot of (six, seven and eight figures) money and still have ridiculous and false beliefs about money you’ll find a way to get rid of it or lose it all. Usually people who master the beliefs and utilize useful beliefs about wealth and money have an abundance of it because they understand exactly what it is, how to get it, how to keep it, how to utilize it properly and why.

Are your beliefs about money and wealth helping you to be financially free or causing you to live a financially poor life?

Does God require a poor people? Is it necessary to be poor to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven?

So how do you change your ingrained beliefs and actually start making and keeping money?

Stay tuned. . .

Setema Gali

I used to think if I had more money everything would be just fine. I couldn’t have been more deceived and wrong.

I was a college student receiving a scholarship check each month. I was even living at home too so I had no rent and no car payment to make. By the time the middle of the month came I was nearly broke.  This went on for years. When I went to the NFL I could literally add two and three zeroes to my college check.

What happened to me? You guessed it. I was still broke. Why would I be broke after making a substantially larger and enormous amount of cash?

Because Making Money and Managing/Keeping Money are two completely different ball games. In fact, they are in two different solar systems.

I was broke and living at home with my mom and dad once again at the age of 26 after college and after the NFL. Fortunately I picked up a book that changed everything. It took me less than 3 days to finish it.

Fast forward two years and I was now eclipsing the six-figure mark before the summer. This time around I was a little smarter and a little wiser.

Why do lottery winners usually end up worse off? Why do professional athletes who make all this money end up living like they never had it? I hear people all the time say “If I had that money I’d never do what he does.” People who say and think things like this are completely deceived. What are you doing with the money you have now? Having more of it only enhances whatever problems you have right now.

Well, fast forward a  few more years after making a nice hefty six figure income and once again I hadn’t quite learned all I needed to learn about money. When you think you’ve learned it all you’ll fail again and again until you realize that you don’t ever ‘know’ it all.

How in the world does someone make over $309,000 in a year and still be absolutely broke?

To be continued. . . .

Setema Gali