Dan Martell - December 28, 2015


You Can Only Keep What You Give Away

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4 minutes

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226.9

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942

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53


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The more you give, the more you get. You can only keep what you give away. And by doing that, it's gonna bring other people into your life. I'm going to challenge you to give more away, and for you and your circumstance, that's whatever you deem appropriate.

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00:00:00.000 You can only keep what you give away, you know, this is a belief that I learned as a young kid
00:00:04.980 and it's something that's really driven me in my life in a big way. So I remember when I was like
00:00:09.080 seven or eight, I was walking down the street with my dad and we came across a homeless person
00:00:13.460 sitting on the corner and I was just like, oh, he needs money. So I reached into my pocket,
00:00:17.800 I took everything out, whatever change I had, and I put it in his hat. And my dad's like,
00:00:22.540 what are you doing? I just gave you that money. And I was like, yeah, but dad,
00:00:27.120 He needs it more than us.
00:00:28.600 Like, I was thinking in my head, well, he's got more money anyway, so my dad can hook
00:00:32.260 me up.
00:00:32.780 We've got food.
00:00:33.660 We've got a home.
00:00:34.480 We've got a place to sleep.
00:00:35.700 And I just felt right.
00:00:37.880 And I didn't realize at the point, even though my dad was like, why does Dan keep giving
00:00:41.780 away all the money he's ever had to other people?
00:00:44.340 It was just my approach to living in life.
00:00:47.400 You know, and over the years, I've just found that the more I give, the more I get.
00:00:52.380 And that belief, you can only keep what you give away.
00:00:54.880 When you think about money, a lot of people, they have this kind of hoard mentality to wealth.
00:01:00.660 They feel like if they gain it, they got to keep it and they don't give it away.
00:01:03.500 I'm going to challenge you to give more away.
00:01:06.580 And for you and your circumstance, that's whatever you deem appropriate.
00:01:10.520 If you think about different scripture or other ideas in the world and people talk about numbers, maybe it's 10%.
00:01:17.160 Whatever it is for you, I don't want to tell you it's right or wrong.
00:01:20.500 I'm just gonna challenge you to start asking yourself,
00:01:23.020 how can I give more money away?
00:01:25.660 Appreciate it, be grateful for it,
00:01:27.160 put it out there in the world,
00:01:28.760 and trust me when I tell you this,
00:01:30.880 that more will come back to you.
00:01:32.400 That's number one.
00:01:33.440 The second thing that I wanna share with you guys
00:01:35.240 is that if you want more support,
00:01:37.980 if you feel like you're not getting,
00:01:40.140 you don't have any friends that really support you
00:01:41.760 in your life, in your mission,
00:01:43.180 in what you're trying to get done in life,
00:01:45.920 then give more away.
00:01:47.840 You know, when's the last time you went to an event?
00:01:50.500 and you met somebody and you asked them what they did,
00:01:53.200 and then you said, how can I be helpful?
00:01:55.840 If you want more of that,
00:01:57.500 if you want more people to support you,
00:01:59.800 if you want more people to give and help you
00:02:04.720 and be grateful for your friendship,
00:02:06.800 then you gotta go first.
00:02:08.100 You need to do it first.
00:02:09.400 You can only keep what you give away.
00:02:11.800 So give away that support.
00:02:13.560 If you're having a bad day, check this out.
00:02:15.700 If you wanna, if you're having a bad day
00:02:17.480 and things just didn't line up
00:02:18.700 the way you would hope them to do,
00:02:20.460 the best way to fix that is just pick up the phone
00:02:23.080 and call a friend and say, hey man, how can I help out?
00:02:25.460 What are you struggling with today?
00:02:26.800 Is there anything?
00:02:28.120 And if not, I'm just calling to say hello
00:02:29.980 and how much I appreciate you as a person.
00:02:32.060 You know, or maybe it's you just tweet out.
00:02:34.200 If you're on Twitter, just tweet out and say,
00:02:35.780 how can I be helpful?
00:02:37.040 Or does anybody need a phone call?
00:02:38.880 Is there any entrepreneur struggling right now
00:02:40.920 that I can support?
00:02:42.100 That simple act of giving it away,
00:02:44.640 even, and I know you're gonna be like,
00:02:45.980 I feel like such a fraud because I don't feel like
00:02:48.000 I'm really coming from a place.
00:02:49.500 But trust me, it's not about you, it's about helping them.
00:02:53.100 And by doing that, it's gonna bring other people
00:02:54.960 into your life.
00:02:56.500 And then number three is about love, about friendship,
00:02:59.380 about having caring people in your life.
00:03:02.180 Many people make the mistake.
00:03:03.700 Here's the mistake.
00:03:04.820 They go, well, I want more love in my life,
00:03:06.880 so I'm gonna meet everybody halfway.
00:03:09.360 I think that's fair.
00:03:10.220 Halfway, I'm just gonna meet them halfway,
00:03:11.820 and they're gonna meet me halfway.
00:03:13.380 And I'm gonna tell you guys right now,
00:03:14.880 my belief is you give 100%.
00:03:16.920 You don't go 50%.
00:03:19.040 You go 100%.
00:03:20.700 If you want people to care for you,
00:03:22.580 you care for them at 100%.
00:03:24.340 And if they don't reciprocate, that's okay.
00:03:26.840 But if you want more love, you want more caring,
00:03:29.100 you want more happiness in your life,
00:03:31.560 then give 100%.
00:03:33.620 That is my three biggest beliefs in life.
00:03:36.880 The major one is you can only keep what you give away.
00:03:40.080 So if you want more money,
00:03:41.340 you want more people to support you,
00:03:42.560 and you want more love,
00:03:43.740 then give it first.
00:03:45.000 Be an example of that.
00:03:46.520 and it'll come back into you.
00:03:47.940 I wanna thank you guys for being here today.
00:03:49.580 If you don't mind liking this video,
00:03:51.480 sharing it with other people that need to hear this message
00:03:53.600 and leave me a comment.
00:03:54.800 I wanna know from you,
00:03:56.020 what are you gonna do more of today?
00:03:58.220 What do you want more of
00:03:59.700 that you're gonna first give first to receive more?
00:04:03.000 I wanna thank you guys for watching this video.
00:04:04.680 I wanna challenge you to live a bigger life
00:04:07.060 and a bigger business and I'll see you next week.