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Billy Keels  00:22

Welcome to the long podcast, we're back once again to continue to help to educate you so you feel much more comfortable as well as confident investing beyond your backyard. And guess what, I'm your host, Billy keels, and I am super excited to welcome you back to another solo episode. And you know what, I want to thank you right from the beginning, because you continue to tag us you continue to screenshot and share across LinkedIn, Instagram, that's really, really awesome, because you are helping to attract more people to the going long family. Really appreciate that about you. And also, if you've been leaving an honest written review, I want to thank you. And if you haven't done it yet, but you keep listening to me talking about it and you want to do it, we'll go ahead and do it. It's really simple. It's easy to do, just go to, we've made a little video for you. It's really, really simple. So check us out over on the Apple podcast platform, Spotify, and we're on all the major platforms. And yeah, so listen, I also want to recognise somebody today, who has left an honest written view and I'm going to read this one from the name is Blake Coburn's, Blake Carnes. And he says fantastic. Billy is a great leader in business mind on his podcast and shares his wisdom around building skills that lead to building the life you desire. So I want to say big shout out to Blake Karns, thank you so much for investing your time, as well as leaving the honest written review, as well as writing we're going to continue to do and share in the way that's gonna help everybody get closer to their goals much faster. So speaking of which, today is, well another one of these solo episodes, and I want to keep this, this one's going to be like super, super brief. Because it's something that I feel like it's important to say is important to share. Because as we get ready to also start to wrap up the year, I can't believe it's just around the corner, start to recognise a lot of that evolution that's taking place, right. I think at this point in probably about a year out of my corporate role. And yeah, just a lot of things that I started recognising. One of the things that I started recognising is that I'm at a point in life, that, you know, I really want everybody to win. Literally, I want everybody to win. You know, Blake mentioned it, and his honest written review, as well as reading. So if you want to leave one, you can do that. It also helped me to think about some of the things that I think are important. And in this concept of wanting everybody to win, like, it's no surprise, like I shared, I was very open and transparent that I shared this battle that I've had with the scarcity mindset, just because of the way that I grew up, and also how I've overcome some of that. And really, as I talked about, in Episode 271, like, I stopped paying the players like I wanted to learn the game and learn the process around the game, because that's the stuff that's important. And what I mean by that, is as I start to learn the game, and the goal is to be able to master the game, getting the right education, surrounding myself with the right support system and continuing to take action, a very basic three, three point formula. But just to give you an idea, like what do I mean by I want everybody to win. Now, some of my, you know, some of my friends, many of you are listening, you know, you would have recognised things that I recognised growing up, right. As I watched my parents work, two jobs, I watched them struggle financially, because they were doing the things that they knew how to do it, what I saw was my parents were working really, really hard. And they were able to provide things, right, because that's what I saw at the time. That's what I was focused on. It's not the real, most important stuff. Then I also didn't see my other friend's parents and what they were doing, they may have been working just as hard, I assume that they probably were but the results they were getting were very different. And so although I was always told Billy, you can do anything you set your mind to and you work hard and the love that I received from my parents, I was seeing that the results were not the same. So inherently, and I guess this is now what I'm realising is I started thinking that, hey, listen, in order for someone, if someone's doing the exact same work, the results are very different. So in order for me to win, somebody else has to lose. Because if everybody's doing the same amount of work, somebody's gonna win, and somebody's gonna lose because the results were different. And I was never taught this, but this is this things and now I'm realising that I was internalising. And so in order for me to win, somebody else had to lose or in order for somebody else to win, I had to lose and I wasn't getting the things and so it's one of the things that I always used to even say is, you know, if someone was and this was part of even competition, like the the second place was the first loser. Like that's a very much a scarcity mentality. Because the reality is, if I look at the evolution of the things that have occurred to me and occurred for me in my life today. What I'm realising is that with almost 8 billion people on Earth, let me say that again, with almost 8 billion people on Earth. And working to add value to others, there is no reason that someone else can't win. And at the same time, I can win, you can win. I mean, we look at the software space, like I spent a lot of time there. These there are multibillion dollar software companies, and they're selling the exact same thing. Some companies are winning in their space. And other companies are winning in their space, like I came from an ERP world enterprise resource planning, there are billions, if not trillions of dollars generated, year after year in enterprise resource planning, or customer relationship, meaning this is all like software stuff. So don't worry, or human experience management or human capital management, however you want to say it. The point is, there are many, many, many different industries, companies that are winning in their own given space. And as I realised that I was understanding this in the corporate space, I'm now understanding this even better in this world, and the investing world and how we're helping people get closer to their goals and their dreams. Because I can win in my space being the best at what I'm doing, serving our clients, our investor family, to the best of our ability, while others are doing the exact same thing. You can be the best version of you. And you know what you're actually winning, you're winning, because you're becoming continuing to evolve from year to year, day to day, et cetera, et cetera. And because of this recognition in this evolution that I've gone through, I just want to share it for somebody else who may be thinking to themselves, well, in order for me to win, somebody else has to lose well, it doesn't work that way. The reality is, is having an abundant mindset, really wanting everybody else to win, when your space be the best version of you today. And tomorrow, you'll be the best version of yourself. And so the same thing that I told you before, like before, I thought, you know, second place was the first loser. Well, through the evolution of time and experience, I'm now recognising that second place is actually the first place against yourself. Because the constant evolution, working hard doing the reps and becoming the best version of you, just like I continue to work to be the best version of me, I'm always in first place. First place against Billy from yesterday. And tomorrow, I'll be in first place against Billy from today. Now, overall, maybe in second place, if you look at some of these big companies that you're maybe the second place in your specific area. But everybody has the opportunity to win and be the best version of you of your company of your investment strategy that you can that you can be. So like I said, it's just something that's been on my mind, I just wanted to share it with you. Because I think it's important, we'll continue to compete against myself, be the best version of myself, and continue to add value to others along the way. One of the ways we continue to do this, especially with our credit investors, is to help you understand a number of the basic education around numbers and specifically around income types of income. We've written up a nice little, a nice little guide around that. If you want to find out more about specially if you're struggling, you're thinking, Hey, listen, I'm working on all these things. But I still keep paying massive, you know, 40 plus percent in taxes. I'd like to be able to figure out a way how I can keep more of that and use that to create the runway and the freedom for yourself. Just go to first gen cpx.com forward slash going long, how you can pick up the guide, find out reach out to us and be happy to have more conversation around that. But don't forget, continue to be the best version of yourself. Everybody has the opportunity to win and work, do the work, get the results and continue to improve. So while you're downloading the guide while you're thinking about today's solo episode, I'll be here working on the very next episode. So until then go out and make it a great day. And thank you very much. Trust that you enjoy today's conversation and once again, today's conversation was sponsored by first generation Capital Partners. If you're an accredited investor want to find out more about how we're helping accredited investors to gain their personal freedom even faster. Go to firstgencp.com forward slash going long.

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