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[Music] Hello and welcome to episode 3 of your Wednesday dose of wealth wisdom with me, Daniel Kennedy, wealthtrack and coach and CEO of the KML Group and Home Hog Limited. Same scenario. I'm just going to share this into a few places so I can get the maximum people online because I want you all to hear this message. Then, once we've done that, we'll begin. We've already got someone watching. Just bear with me, guys and girls. We'll be done in a moment. As I say, I'm just gonna share it to a few places before we begin. Say hi if you're joining us. Tell me where you're joining us from. I'm feeling particularly good today because I went to the gym after a lot of hard work. I improved quite substantially on something called the Level Method, where it's basically CrossFitting. It's a rowing desk and feeling really good, basically. Alright, that's the last year and then we should be good to go.
Hello and welcome. So, we're beginning episode three of why helping yourself is first is the most effective thing you can do in the long run if you want to help the world. This is the official wealth grabbing podcast. This is episode 3 of your Wednesday dose of wealth wisdom with me, Daniel Kennedy, your host. So, on the topic, so I'm going to talk about my journey and from where I was and where I am today. Initially, I assumed that people who are down on their luck, it was their fault. They were down on their luck. And there's a lot of people, a lot of things they're out of our control, and how you react to them is the most important thing that you can possibly do. Be, be aware of, make sure you act in a positive manner, and stuff that isn't in your control, you just ignore. But some people can't do that.
So, when I was a couple of years ago, before I got into the self-help community, I used to, I used to judge people. I used to judge people who took drugs all the time. I used to think, "You're taking drugs, you're ruining your life, and then you're gonna have no prospects because drugs always get you, they destroy you." And then, what, what changed for me is I went on operational tours to Afghanistan. I went on Herrick 7, 11, 16, and Octo. So, I went there four times. And the first couple of times, I used to judge the Afghans. But I haven't such a country. I used to think, "Why aren't they protecting? I would never do the things that they do. I would never." But it's a different culture. But as I went back more and more and more time, what I realized is that all just a collection of experiences. I'll say like, and we're all just a collection of experiences.
So, this, and the reason really, really defining moment that discovered this ideal with the Afghan National Army when I was over in Afghanistan. Then the first couple of times that I went, they were useless. But on there, on the fourth time when I went, top tour, I was just walking around the camp and the Afghan National Army were guarding the camp. So, it wasn't to do with British national forces or American forces, it was Afghan National forces. And just the standard bloke on the gate, speaking to him, and he said he really, really appreciated what I suffer doing. And I staff is basically their coalition that helped in Afghanistan. And his metaphor was so amazing. He, he said, "Afghan is like sand. It's like wet sand, and it's very unstable, really, really unstable." And for a long, long time, it was American, British, Australian, I staff forces holding the sand together. And the sun's rays, education, and the longer that this sun is shining on this sand, that is the stability of Afghanistan. The harder it's getting, it's getting more stable. And now, what he's really proud of is that it's Afghan National Army holding the country together as they get more educated. And by 2007, 2008, when I first went, no one would have said that. No, no soldier would have said that. But in 2014, or whenever I went, 2015, we had just a random, random bloke saying that. And that really, really, I thought about it because it really was such a different experience to what my first thing happened like my first experience of Afghanistan happened. And I realized because he'd been around us, and he'd been educated by the like, sort of like the barracks that way, but British military get trained, they're trained. He's had a different collection of experience than his predecessors. And so he now has a different outlook in life.
And how does this apply to prog? Do you think in visits a massive tangent? Well, when I used to judge people in my home city or my home town of taking drugs and be really, really against it, I would cut people out. And you've got to realize that if I had those collections of experiences that they had, I would be doing the exact same things as of those people. So, I'll say that again. So, we're all just a collection of experiences. So, that I sat there, ISIS terrorists, the real sort of like slave to his addiction, homeless guy, myself throughout, I would consider myself pretty stable and disciplined. We're all just a collection of experiences. If the person who's shooting up heroin had had the same experiences as me, he would be exactly the same person as me. Just like if I had the same experience as at that person, I would be doing that. So, fortunately, the parents, because you have no control over who your parents are, they, I was raised very well. So, I went on a different path.
When you're trying to help people, the reason why the topics why you need to help yourself first is because I came across a gentleman who was on the street was really, really cold. And last year in Birmingham, UK, we had somebody who died in the cold. And I thought, "That is absolutely atrocious." And immediately, I just wanted to try and help as many people as I possibly can because that's what you do when you're empathetic. And then, so I decided to came out the cinema, really cold, another gentleman in the cold, not much in the way of warm kit. So, I decided to put a post out there to see if anybody would want to help and we could clear our resources and spare resources and maybe help this gentleman out. And a few people said, "Why don't, what if you care about the homeless? This is just a temporary thing. Why don't you expand it out? Why don't you try and help as many people as you can?" And my response was, "You need to help yourself first." Because if I was to throw all my energy into the service of others now, there's probably a little impact that I could do in the long run. Whereas if I continued to work on myself and work on the business and keep expanding, keep growing, increasing income for myself, in a future date when I've got more time and I've got more resources, I can have a much larger impact upon the world or whatever, whatever, for instance, cause that I want to put my name to, be that ending homelessness or ending, trying to help pop, reduce poverty.
So, for me, when you're stepping out on the journey, and if your why is to help other people, spending time on expanding your own business with the future goal of maybe wanting to sell nonprofit, it will put a couple of hundred thousand into a charity. It's not a selfish thing to do for you to focus on your business. And for the time being, just bite your lip, even though you have these resources and potentially you could have really, really great short-term impact. It's not going to be sustainable. So, this is all sort of this little gift that I'm giving to this gentleman that I'm gonna meet on Friday. He's fortunately, we've got a whole range of things for him. It's gonna be a short-term fix or a long-term problem. What he needs, he needs support, accommodation, he needs to be able to come off the drug thing, he needs a safe environment, he needs like a cage that is that lends to his great side. He needs an experience where he can feel him get off the drugs as opposed to an experience where he needs them to cope. And me diverting my resources away now from expanding my own business and focusing on that to try and raise finance, although I'm in an okay position now, I could do a lot more and for a lot more people if I can, if I continue to expand KML Group and work for the wealth dragons. And there was a lot of back and forth for some people, "Why don't we pull our resources together?" And you can do that. But again, I'm gonna say, you need to focus on yourself.
Cuz imagine in five, six years' time, if we keep growing at the rate that we do, I'm gonna have so much more influence. I'm gonna have so much more resources. And I'm gonna be able to do things a lot cheaper than I would be doing now. In terms of say, if I wanted to provide homes and slow down the nonprofit route and take people off the street, I'm gonna need to invest time in psychologists. I'm going to invest time in having people come and chat to discuss their addictions. And that's gonna take an immense amount of time. And really, you can leverage people, you can pull your resources together, but you're gonna need a lot of influence and money. And that only comes after you've worked on yourself. Same with everything in business, you have to build credibility. No one's gonna take you seriously if you just set out. You have to have a proven track record of results. And how are you gonna do that if you have no resources, no influence, but just a good heart? And I'm great. We need, need more people they care. But if you care, you need to work on yourself. Get yourself into the most powerful position. Put the hours in. Don't put angry, fat posts on Facebook. Actually think of a plan of where you want to be in five years, ten years' time. Because you can do a lot for one person. And then, for the moment, that's what I'm planning on doing. But if you want to help millions, how the world change the world? You have to work on yourself. You have to be somebody that someone's going to listen to. You have to live their life that some people want to emulate. Because the people that want to change, no, listen. You'll hear me say it so many times, you are the top five average of the people you spend the most time with. You are the top five average of the people you spend the most time with. If you agree, this comment below. If you've experienced this yourself, let me know the experience. I'd love to hear from you.
So, you have to be somebody that people want to be around. And how do you do that? If you've got like a horrid addiction, or you've got horrid something that's holding you back, chances are you're gonna have to have somebody who's gonna do it pro bono. So, for example, me and the gentleman that I'm going to spend time with, he's been ill. Adopts all of my habits. And just by purely spending time around me, and I'm gonna adopt some of his, that's how it works. But because I'm more aware of it, I'll try and push away the bad ones. And hopefully, in months and weeks' time, with constant contact, he's gonna change his ways. Because at the minute, he's a complete slave to his addictions. And I'm not going to help the world. And that's, that's not gonna happen. I'm gonna help his world. And I'll start by one person at a time. And then I am definitely gonna scale it up. And once I get more influence, I have more resources at my disposal, and then I'm able to build up more contacts, I can then have a much larger impact on the scene. Because I know you've seen it too, everyone has seen it. Homelessness is absolutely insane. I've seen it year after year, it's just exploded. And when you chat to these people, most of them want a conversation. And all they are, slaves, their addictions. As I say, excuse me, one moment.
And for me, it's very ad hoc. I never wanted that. And really help anyone. But slowly, as I become round people that are more empathetic, that's worked on myself. And I always fought, you are the architect of your own world. It's your fault that your life is crap. But there are some circumstances that would completely blindside people. So, speaking to this gentleman in the split with his missus, couldn't really cope with the stress of being kicked out. Came back from work one day, was made homeless. Essentially, came back to Burma, gonna had a few savings that got burned through. And then turned to drugs. And then it's just the downward spiral. And when you have people around you that sort of like watch you and enjoy you failing, and they don't pull you or hold you to task, they don't call you out on your bad behavior, you can just spiral and spiral and you can't get out of it. And the only way you can get out of it by its being helped up. So, a few people get out of it alone, if any, if any. And I'm not speaking from experience, and this is, this is my outside view. You need to create experiences for that person for them to have reference experience on what was good behavior and what is bad behavior. As well as recognizing when somebody does bad behavior, that you need to know that that's bad and not let it be absorbed within your decision-making process.
For example, I went to purchase a van. And somebody else spent a long time where we discussed finances. We really, really hashed out the, what I fought was this, the mindset to get rich. Because there's a mindset, it's not, you've got a business, you've got this is the knowledge and the mindset. It's so much more important than anything that any asset that you have, any income produced an asset that you have. Now, because you lose it if your mindset, it's not right. So, I fought like this was down to tea. And we had option one, then 60,000 miles, 5k. The one that I bought, 2007 or summit, and then was 2015, that was 200,000 miles. And without a shadow of a doubt, I was always going to get for the one with the low miles. But I just, just had a curiosity. I asked, "Are you, which one do you think?" And I'm completely blindsided by this after spend in a couple of years ago, this guy hoping that he'd got sort of like the psyche of, "You need to live through merely invest your money, expand." Well, he said, "I, let's go for the, let's go for the nice van. Go to the nice shiny black van." And I was like, "My goodness." So, even after you put all that effort into somebody, or I spend all that time around you, there might be stronger influences on that person. And that's just one example of how you need to be aware of what's good behavior and what's bad behavior. If I had that van with the two hundred thousand miles, I don't have it for a couple of years, and then it would break. Where the one I've got now is gonna last me a decade. And I'm going to save money. And which enables me to invest more. Which means in a, which enables me to get more influence. Which enables me to have more resources, etc. And it's all, it's all a cycle that feeds into itself.
And if I want to, at the end of this, and I want to help loads of people, go well for, I want to help people get out of the cycle of poverty. Because it is, it's a cycle. You need a helping hand. You don't tend to just wake up one day and you're like, your mindset has changed. It's a, it happens over a gradual slow process. This is, this is good. First time I've had a green tea in this. It's not cold, but it's keeping my throat moisturized. Thanks, Joe, for joining us. Very true, mate. What was very true? Show them good. Show them good. Also to regain faith. All right. Someone needs to go back to school. Agreed. Good point. Well done, pal. From the man. Thank you.
The goal is to help more people in the future. But I recognize that I can have a much larger impact. And I can completely totally dedicate myself to that as opposed to doing half a dozen, one and six of the other and splitting my time and energy. So, the focus for me is going to be expand, expand, expand. Gain loads of influence. Bring it to light the problems that people face. Because there's always will found already, there's great charities out there that are doing do doing the work. But I also feel like I had somewhat of these, just by the people, not not giving them a bed, not giving them food, not, but just by them. So, make this even better than all of that. And that is them being around me. And them adopting some of my habits that will change. I will have ramifications on their life much greater than a temporary fix of a free bed. Because, and I use myself as an example, I didn't want to have anything to do with the financial in my own business. I didn't want anything to do without it. Happy with my lot in life from my nine-to-five job. Obviously, not quite nine-to-five in the military, but doing what I was doing on the career path that was laid out before me. Some of that I wanted to vary from. When I was young, I never entertained the idea of changing it. And then, just by being around other people, and why my friendship would changed was good. The military was gonna pay me money to learn Chinese. So, I started to learn Chinese. And I got loads of Chinese friends. And all they, the conversations were different. They weren't talking about what we did Friday, Saturday night. They were talking about different investment vehicles, different ways of making money, talking to me about, "Keep your life frugal so you can invest more, create more wealth for yourself, and then have a better sort of existence." And it happened slowly but surely. And now, the course of the four or five years, my life has completely changed. And I know that would happen for other people if they adopt my habits. If they, the habits that I picked up from others, I haven't created these habits, let's be clear. I am a complete hodgepodge of different people of who I've invested my time in by reading and watching their videos, making sure that their content is what I'm surrounded with. Like, you can see behind me in there, you've got Donald Trump, to deal, people like that. Reading those books, ingesting that sort of psyche. Because it is mindset. It isn't, he's had a break or he's a lucky break. Because look, it's just opportunity meets preparation. And and having a real strong way, I think is a benefit. And if you want to change the world, or you want to help the world in some way, be that by making them more progressive, or whatever you're planning on doing, working on yourself is the quickest way to change the most lives. And you know what that means? It's going to mean you kind of have to make some hard decisions. It means you're going to have to walk past our own list people sleeping in the street because you can't avoid force. You can't, you can't afford to divert your attention. You can't afford to divert your business path. And that, I know it's really hard. You can volunteer some time and allow other people who have dedicated their whole lives to doing it to take up the slack. Or you work on yourself.
Example one, say, if I stop now, I stop the deals, all the money that I start raising, I put it into a nonprofit organization. And I will probably be able to create a couple of HMOs. And with my time, change a couple of dozen lives. Which wouldn't be a bad thing. It wouldn't be a bad thing. But now, think in five years' time, if I was so inclined, I would have, for example, doing six HMOs this quarter, the next four. And this basically doubling that portfolio. Imagine if we double it a couple of times. I'm gonna be able to do four or five additional HMOs as well as systemizing the business each year for the homeless. I would be able to do four or five instead of just doing it once. I'd be able to repeat the process. And if I got rich enough, powerful enough, had plenty of implements, I would get paid from the council, maybe set up some types of resources to help as many people as possible, get volunteers involved, because it'd be more influential, more powerful, more, more able to employ people with multiple resources. Show the person who are struggling good experiences. And the people so they can regain their faith and their own life and possibilities. Absolutely yes. That is what I'm talking about by giving them an experience. And that's more valuable than giving them something monetarily. I really, really believe that. If you're willing to help people, give them your time, give them your soul. Give them an example of how life can be. And sometimes that's just sitting with them, I'm not saying anything, and just listening. No, not being judgmental. And then perhaps just explaining how that, how you deal with a problem that they've come across. It's, it's so important. That's why these, these programs that people get involved in, they're all giving a positive experience. It's time. It's time is the most precious commodity that we have. It's the one thing you can never buy or buy back. So, when you give someone your time, and you give them that experience of maybe they shouldn't do this, or maybe that they can fight the addiction, or maybe they can chat about why they're taking the drugs. I think that is so much more important than anything you can give them monetarily.
So, in my circle, there's a lot of people who are trying to help others. And that's really, really commendable. So, I'd be really interested to know if your why is there. For example, a gentleman said it was to provide accommodations and veterans or homeless, or helped improve the lives of people in Zimbabwe. I've heard that mentioned. It's, it's really imperative that you work on yourself. And you should be working harder, faster than the person who's giving it for themselves. It'd be really interested to hear if you were, if your why is to help other people, let me know. And tell me why you want that's your why. For example, future gain wealth and hopefully you get a bit of exposure for it. I hope I've answered all the questions that people have asked and the conversation that it generated. And if you have any from moss wrap, please comment. And thank you for joining.