What is going on everybody? JR Fisher here, let me get my screen so I can see at the same time that I'm talking here and get everything all set up. Do me a favor, post in that chat section. I know some of you guys have been kind enough to already post something in there. I really appreciate that. That means so much to me. I really appreciate you guys being here. And yes, in case you're wondering, in case you're wondering, today is Saturday. Today is gift card day. Okay, so I got some gift cards here. So we're gonna see about giving some of those away. If you guys care about that, I don't know if you care about that. Maybe you don't want money. Maybe you don't care about gift cards. Maybe it doesn't matter to you. I think it might though. I think it might. Okay, so we're gonna get going. Just Roblox just jumped in there. Hola, ¿Cómo está usted, Just Roblox? ¿Usted habla español?  You said hola. All right, very, very cool. And I wanna tell you guys today how I went from not knowing anything online that from the time I started, within 24 months, a million dollars, okay? And I wanna tell you exactly the thoughts that I had. And I wanna share those with you because if you apply the same thoughts, I'll deem what's going on, buddy. And from Jamaica there, James says loud and clear, awesome. Awesome, I got some energy today. Can you tell I got energy today? I do, I have energy today. Hey, Trina, what is going on? Good to see you here. ¿Cómo está? Muy bien, ¿y tú? Buenos días, got a little Spanish going. Everybody's speaking Spanish today. We don't wanna switch this to French. French is a little bit tougher, right? What is French? ¿Cómo voy a plebo? No, okay, a little bit of French in there. Anybody speaking French? But don't forget, don't forget in case, you know, don't forget to remind me that I got these today, okay, these. This is money, money for you, money for you, okay? But Cast 12, what is going on Cast 12? Getting a full house today. Everybody's popping in, man. This is so good to see you guys. But I wanna talk about the fact that I invested $100 that within 24 months, I had a million dollars and I've done millions of dollars since then. Yesterday we did, today, yesterday was a low day. We did about $4,000 or $5,000 yesterday. Low day, okay, but the day before we did 6,000. And that is just off my food company. That is not off any of my other courses or any of my other stuff. That's just off that. And I wanna tell you how we got there. Maya Loren, what's going on? Maya, good to see you. Got a good full house today. Doing very good, Maya. Thank you so much for asking. Oh my gosh, you sent me some flowers. I really appreciate that. That's very, very nice. And guys also, we have that thing where if you wanna support the channel, there's a little dollar sign there. You can click on that. You can throw us a dollar or five dollars or whatever you wanna do. Or a million, a million dollars is always really good. Okay, so if you wanna throw a million dollars my way, I am all in, I am all in. So I wanna tell you this story. First off, and some of you have heard part of this story before, but I wanted to, I'm sharing these thoughts with you today because if you think these thoughts, if you just think these thoughts, it's gonna change your actions and your actions will change your income and you can do the same thing I'm doing. Really, this is not a big deal.  They're this, they're that. No, none of that. None of that. I didn't start when I was young. I wasn't technologically advanced. I mean, I couldn't even type. I still can't type. I didn't have any products to sell. I didn't know what to do. I knew nothing. Okay, so if I can do that same thing you can too. Hi JR, I'm really excited about that. Gift cards, are you really now? Okay, tell me how excited you are. Put that in the chat section. If anybody else is excited about those gift cards, let me know, but also are you excited about the message today? Because the message is what really matters. The gift card may have got you here, but the message can take you in a lot of different directions. Guys, I've traveled around the world. I've been on, I went on like two or three cruises in one single year, one year, and was making money the whole time I was doing it. Does that sound appealing to you? Does that sound like something you'd like to do? Man, I would have never thought I could have done the things I did. I never would have thought that. I never would have thought that if I made $5,000 or $6,000 in a day, it would be a slow day. A slow day, right? A slow day. Heck yeah, all right? So he says, yeah, he's excited. Morad says, hello, what's going on buddy? I love that you guys are putting chats in here. So cool because I'm getting ready to do this. Should I do this like upfront before I get into the story? Should I get into the story first? I don't know. You guys tell me what you want. You tell me what you want. So anyhow, we'll start the story and then you let me know in the chat section what you're looking to do, okay? What you're looking to do, all right? So I wanted to make money online. I heard so many people were making money online. I was like, God, I want to do that too. That's something I want to do. But I don't know what to do. I don't know where to start. So I started selling these cell phone cases and I think I mentioned this with you guys before. Apple, I got Apple in here. I'm excited about the message. Then I can give away gift cards like you're doing. Okay, cool, all right? So I'll start the story. Then we'll go with the gift card. Is that cool? Is everybody cool with that? So, but I told myself that, you know, I never had time to do stuff. And all I did, here's the first thing. I did one little thing. Here's the one little thing I did. I started to, I started. I didn't start with a lot of time. I didn't start with a lot of money. I started turning off the TV from nine to 11 p.m. Because from nine to 11 p.m. I was watching TV. And TV didn't mean no good. No good whatsoever. Kristen Taylor, what is going on, Kristen? Kristen wants Amazon, okay? All right, so exactly. Exactly, Sid Art says. And when I turned off that TV, I had like an hour or two hours and I had to do something with it. And I started doing research. I started looking for ways to make money online. And I found that cell phone cases was the thing because so many were being sold on eBay. I said, that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna sell these cell phone cases. And I started selling these cell phone cases. And I didn't do well. I didn't do well at all.  I was making like 50 cents to maybe, you know, a dollar on some of them.  I've been doing so much stuff and I've been saving so much on my computer that it's filling up. Let me get here. Let me empty this. This should give me the room I need. It's like no matter what computer I get, I run out of room. Maybe I just store too much stuff. Probably got too much stuff that I don't need on here. All right, so that should do that. So anyhow, I'm selling these cell phone cases, right? And on the surface, you would look at this and you would say, JR's a failure because he's not making any money, okay? That's what you would say. But you know what? I was successful. Why was I successful? Because I had started, okay? Just starting is the biggest thing that I see that people don't do, okay? And the next thing they do, and this is changing your thoughts, changing your thoughts. First thing to get started, quit doing research, quit, I mean, not saying don't do research, but quit only doing research, okay? Use some of that stuff. And don't say to yourself, well, I gotta learn it all before I can start. You don't have to learn it all. You just gotta get started. You say, well, JR could mess up, I could lose some money. Yes, you could. So what? So what? At least you're moving forward. If you wait until you're totally ready for everything, you'll never do anything in life.  I posted my first merchandise on Teespring, a design they make and sell fully outsourced and free. Awesome. And you know what, guys? Siddharth, I know Siddharth, he's been here a lot, is 12 years old and he's selling stuff. What are you doing? What are you doing? We had a seven-year-old in here yesterday whose mom listens to me and she came in and listened. She's trying to learn business at seven. At seven, okay? Kristen Taylor says, Amazon. You know, Amazon, now at this point in my career, I don't really care about Amazon or eBay anymore. I did back in 2009 because they were good places to sell, but it's really gotten overcrowded and it's a race to the bottom on prices. So when I was selling these cell phone cases, not making any money, really not making any money, but I was learning. See, this is the key. When you get started, you learn. You learn to do things. You learn how to list products. You learn how to set up accounts. You learn how to do credit card processing. You learn and that's what you gotta do. And the only way to learn is get started. So I changed my thoughts. That was one of the thoughts I changed. Now, let me tell you the thing that kept me going because I wasn't making any money on these cell phones. I looked around and I said, other people are making money and they're doing really well, okay? And they're not better looking than me. They're not supposed, some of them are probably better looking than me and all fairness, but they're not smarter than me, okay? They don't have more talents. They just know what to do. That was the big key. They knew what to do and I didn't know what to do. And the only way to figure out what to do and know what to do is start doing stuff and the stuff that didn't work quit doing them. Now, here's the problem people have with that is they will start a business online and they start a business online. Let's say they're selling, I don't know, tents, okay? Camping tents and they try to sell them and they don't sell and they see other people are selling them. They go, well, gee, I can sell them in and then they don't sell and they go, oh my gosh, I can't sell tents. I'm the person who can't sell tents. Everybody else can. It doesn't work for me. Selling tents doesn't work. Not true. Not true because other people are doing it. And see, that's the key. This is what I want you guys to look at. If somebody else is doing what you want to do and they are successful at it, they are actually making money, then it can be done. If it can be done, and these are the thoughts I'm talking about, if it can be done, then you can do it, you need to change your thoughts. You need to change your thoughts so that you start doing the things that are correct. If you do the things that are correct, it works out, okay?  We've sold millions and millions of dollars of products online, guys. You can Google my name, you can look me up online. I've sold a lot of stuff online. And believe me, I had no clue what I was doing when I started out, but the key was I started, and that's the first key. And then the second key is realizing that if other people are doing this, you can too, okay?  If other people are doing this, if you're listening to me right now, okay? And this is live right now, but you could be listening later on in the future. But if you're listening to me right now, and you gotta be looking at me, go on, wait a second. If that guy can do it, that guy right there, yeah. If he can do it, why can't I? There is no difference. It's all your thoughts. Now, your thoughts don't make you money. They don't. Your thoughts don't make you any money whatsoever. However, your thoughts control your actions. And your actions, and this is the third part, actions get results. They can be good results. They can be bad results, but they get results, okay? And if you say to yourself, well, I don't wanna try anything because I don't wanna fail, then in fact, what you've done is you've decided to fail because failure in itself is lack of results. That's what failure is, lack of results. So so many people say, well, failure is when you try to do something and it doesn't work out the way you want it. No, that's just a result and you succeeded because you got a result.  You see, that's what real failure is. So don't get down on yourself if you do a post and you don't get enough likes or you try to sell a product and you don't make enough money. You just keep trying and as long as you keep trying, you're gonna get results. And what happens is, the same thing that happened with me, I would try to sell some products, like let's say I had a whole bunch of different camping products, okay? And I was buying them from these companies and I was storing them at the house and some of them worked and some of them didn't, okay? So some of them I made money on and some I did not make money on. The ones I did not make money on, I was still successful at because I figured out those weren't the things that I should be selling. Now, other people may have made money on those things but for me, they didn't work out, that's okay. That's a result, that's success. Success is results. And I wanna get into the rest of this but I also wanna give away one of these cards. Are you ready for a card? Kristen Taylor says, time to gift card, sir. Oh, really? Don't call me sir. Don't call me sir. Cast 12 says be patient. All right, you think you guys have been patient enough? Are you ready for a gift card? Have you been patient? All right, have you been good? Do you deserve a gift card at this point? I think you do. Let's go with, well, let's see. I'll let you guys decide in the chat section. I'm gonna hold these up. It's gonna be between Apple or Amazon. Apple, Amazon. Apple, Amazon. Apple, Amazon. Which one? Which one do you want? Apple or Amazon? Now the Amazon, whoops, there it is. The Amazon is 15 to 500 and the Apple is 10 to 500. These are all good, brand new cards. Can you see here? Nothing's been taken off the back. These are all good. Of course, you guys know it. A lot of you guys are in the group here and Christopher Brown says Amazon. Cast 12 says Apple, Apple. Apple, Apple. Somebody likes Apple, Apple. Let me get a drink here while you guys argue. Argue in the chat section there. What do you want? Tell me what you want. There you go. There you go.  Yeah, I'll probably get demonetized out because I said that word. Hope not. Hope not. Okay, which one is it? Well, let's see what votes we got. We got Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple. JustRublox likes Apple, I think. JustRublox probably uses Apple for gaming or something. Moriel Lorenz says Amazon. James Breen says Amazon. Put a few more votes in there. And then I'm gonna add them up real quick. Wow, I can't say that name. The person who just said Apple, Apple. They've got an N2N1MRQ, what? I don't know that channel name. I can't pronounce that one. That's too hard for me to do. That's too hard. Siddharth says, I have both accounts. He's 12-year-old. He's got it all put together. He's, I don't care. I'll take either one. Kristen Taylor's early into Amazon. Video, this says Apple. All right, let's see here. Let me see. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say the last comment I see here is Amazon, I'm gonna go with Amazon. So this is the card, guys. This is the card. It's $15 to $500. You need to be ready. You need to be ready. And do me a favor, guys. Before I do this, before I do this, click down there in that subscribe button if you haven't done so. If you are subscribing today, put subscribing today in the chat, okay? If you already subscribed, put already subscribed. So subscribing today or already subscribed. Put that in the chat section there. Graham, Derek says Amazon, just for a blush, you guys are still arguing over this. I'm gonna do the Amazon, okay? I'm gonna do the Amazon right here. Amazon Fire, Amazon Fire, okay? So put that in there. Just subscribed or already subscribed. Put that in the chat section so that I know that you guys are supporting this channel. I need your support. I really do, I need your support. Video, this says LOL. Video, this is laughing at me. Video, this is laughing at me. That's okay, you can laugh at me.  And look, I don't make more money than everybody online. Goodness gracious, no, there's so many more people that make more money than me. But I make enough, right? And it's nice and it's fun and we have a good time. Cast12 says, no, who's subscribing? I wanna see who's subscribing. Put that in the subscribe box there. Before I pull this card out, yeah, this card is not easy to get out. So I gotta tear all this stuff. See what I'm doing here, tearing all this. Get this card out of here. Ah, this is my workout for the day. Just kidding, of course, I do have to work out. But I'm getting there, I'm getting there. Subscribe long time ago. Thank you so much, Siddharth. Subscribe, cast12 says subscribe. Thank you so much. Don't forget, the rest of you guys, don't forget to subscribe. I need you to subscribe. And don't forget, share the video, right? And also, what do you gotta do? You gotta hit the bell notifications. If you don't turn on the bell, you won't know when I go live. You won't know when I do a new video. You won't know when I upload something. Turn on all bell notifications. Super important you do that. May I know what you can buy with Amazon? Anything you want.  They got, I think they have the world on there now. Something like that. All right, let me start scratching here. You can see what I'm doing here. I'm scratching this stuff off. So this is gonna get all over my desk. It always does. And then I gotta try to clean the desk. But it's okay.  So that, so that, you can get a gift card. I see, I got part of it. See that? All right, you get part of that gift card. Did you write down that first part? You gotta write down that first part as quick as you can. Aldean says subscribe. Thank you so much. I've been subscribed. James Breen, you are the man. You are the man. I appreciate you, James, so much. I really do. My buddy, James. I'm going to dinner tonight with my friend Luigi. He is 87, 86 or seven, something like that. We've been friends, get this. Since he was, I think 49 or 50. So that tells you how long we've been friends. Now I moved out of California for a while. I lived on the East Coast and came back and called him up and he was there and we were just friends again. It's so cool. He's the coolest guy. Siddharth says please tell me the first part. I'm not sure what you're talking about, Siddharth. Let me know. When you work, do you have a daily plan as well as a weekly schedule? I'm going to get to that. That's a good idea. That's a good idea there, Paul. Paul's got always got a good idea. Paul's a man. He's been around for a long time. Paul's been around for a couple of years.  All right, you guys ready for this code? If you're ready, put in the chat section.  If you guys aren't ready, you know, if you're not ready and you can't write it down, that's unfair. So if you want to know what that is, okay, put in the chat section real quick there. It don't say, no, I didn't tell the code yet, Siddharth. They haven't done it. Don't say it's already gone because it's not. Don't be posting that in there. If you post in there, bruh, bruh, Castwell says. If you post in there, it's got to be the amount, okay? Working my way through older videos, some great evergreen material. Thank you so much, Paul. Everybody needs a Paul. Everybody needs a Paul. Somebody who's always there, who's always helpful. You'll always get some comments. He's a nice guy. Everybody needs a Paul, right? Decent man. Look at this stuff all over him and this stuff from his card here. Okay, let's see here. The Amazon is pretty useless if it's in the eastern part of the world. I didn't know that, just Roblox. So is Apple good there? And just Roblox, tell me also, what is good in the eastern part of the world, you know? Tell me something that I could get in the US because I am in the US. James Breen says he's ready. Hey, he's ready. What about the rest of you guys? I haven't heard anybody else saying they're ready. You got one person ready? One person is ready? Just one? Come on. Let's see here. I'm gonna post in here real quick. How many people are ready for the gift cards? All right, that should go through. That should go through. How many people are ready for the gift cards? If you're ready, you ready? Me, sit on it, says you're ready. What about the rest of you? What about the rest of you? You're not posting in there. You gotta post in there because I'm getting ready to hold it up. All right, here's the card. Okay, can you see the number? It's A, Q. Oh, I've got it turned around. It's turned around in the wrong direction. Well, it's because nobody's posting in there that they're ready for it and I don't wanna give them the rest of A, Q, okay, Men are cast 12, only him. He's the only one that's ready. Well, I can't give out the gift card if you guys aren't ready. That would be unfair. That would be an unfair advantage if Sidharth was ready and nobody else was. So when you tell me that you're ready in this chat section, then I'm gonna give out this gift card. But if you're not ready, I would feel terrible giving out this gift card if you guys aren't ready. So after you decided not to sell cell phone cases, how did you decide what your next move was? Good, I'm gonna get to that, Paul. That's really good. He's got some good questions today, but nobody's telling me they're ready for this. Are you ready for this? Are you ready for this? Come on. Post in that chat section, tell me you're ready. I wanna hear it. I wanna hear how ready you are. How excited are you for this gift card? Right here. Isn't that how they, this is how they do it like on TV, right? Hold it up. They make it look like it's special. Okay, Trina's finally ready. Thank you, Trina. And Trina, do you have a channel? Tell me about it if you do. I wanna check it out. Maybe we can help each other. You just never know, all right? All right, Sidharth is still ready, okay? I'm gonna do it for Sidharth. The heck with the rest of you. If you're not ready, Sidharth already knows it's AQ. Okay, are you ready? Here it goes. 100%. Here it is. There it is, AQWR4J4TKEVAN6W. Are you guys getting this? It's AQWR4J4TKEVAN6W. TKEVAN6W. Once again, it is AQWR4J4TKEVAN6W. Do you got it? Do you get it? Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it. All right, it's coming away. It's going away, it's going away. So far gone. Now, let me know who gets it. Put in that chat section, the amount of the gift card and if you got it, okay? Sidharth got it, look at that. He was the only one ready, wasn't he? He was the only one ready and he got it. He got 15 bucks. Good for you, Sidharth. That's awesome, that's awesome, awesome. Let's get back to the story. Okay, let's get back to the story here real quick. So Paul asked, how did I go from cell phones to camping gear? And it was just, it was like a fluke. It's like I was looking through eBay and I saw, sincere, letting the youths get the cards, figured I'm already blessed to let others get the cards. Man, that's nice of you, Paul. Really is. Paul, see, Paul's just handing you guys money. It might as well have come from Paul, right? Might as well have come from Paul. If you got the Amazon, don't get the Apple, okay? So anyone can get some if you got the, oh, I see what it has to say, don't take the other one. Well, that's up to Sidharth.  So anyhow, how did I get to camping gear? I got to camping gear because I found a couple of gadgets on eBay and they were selling for like $10, $15 and I could buy them for a dollar or two. And so it was really more a matter of, I didn't have a whole lot of money to invest in inventory.  So I said, well, I can afford to buy those because they're cheap, okay? So then what happened and understand the next part, the first part is starting, the next part is believing you can do it and the third part is luck, luck, okay? Now you're gonna say, well, J.O., you got lucky at this point. I did get lucky. Let me tell you how I got lucky. I got lucky because I was selling camping gear on eBay and I had started a little website and this company contacted me and they were selling freeze-dried food and they wanted to know if I would sell their food. And I was like, I'll sell anything I can make money on. I mean anything, right? Now you're gonna say, well, J.O., you got lucky. I did get lucky, but how did I get lucky? I got lucky through action. If you want more luck in your life, you need to have action. Luck is a result of action, okay? So here's how it starts out. You think something, you say, well, gee, I think I could do that. That changes your actions and makes you do things because now you think you can do things, okay? And your actions will find luck almost every time. Actions find luck almost every single time. So I got lucky because this company contacted me and I started selling their food and I started doing well. I did like $4,000 in a month, which to me at the time was great. And then after a few months of that, get this. I got up to $80,000 a month, $80,000 a month. I was thrilled.  I mean, this is enough money, right? And that wasn't all profit, obviously. I had to pay for the product. But the point was, I was making money. So I quit my job, I got this little warehouse, and I started selling their product and it was selling really well. But a problem arose. Now this is the next thing that blocks people from success is problems, okay?   Now they're there. You can't avoid them. They don't go anywhere. But here was the problem. They quit shipping the products to my customers. So I was selling these products and they weren't shipping them because they got overrun with orders and they couldn't fulfill the orders. So they were like a few days late and then they were a few weeks late. And guess what eBay did?  They took down all my listings. They took $20,000 out of my bank account through PayPal, which I wanna tell you guys, if you have a bank account and it's attached to PayPal, they can at any point go in there and take money out of your account. Tellin' ya, tellin' ya, I learned this the hard way. So watch that bank account. Whatever you have attached to PayPal, make sure there isn't a ton of money in there because they can swipe it out. What I would do every couple days is just remove money from that bank account after that point. But anyhow, so that was my obstacle. That was my problem I ran into. Now, what do you do at a point like this? You know, I'm losing my eBay account. They took down my listings. They took money out of my account and that was my main source of income. What do you do? Ask yourself at this point, what would you do? Because this is the next step to success right here. And when you hit an obstacle, you can quit and go, man, that happened. That sucks, I'm out of business. Or you can fix it, okay? You can solve the obstacle. Are you gonna solve the obstacle? That's the question, okay? And I had to solve the obstacle. The obstacle was I no longer had the survival food to sell, but I had some things in place. I had customers that were buying from me. I had set up a website. I had done all these things. I just didn't have anything to sell. So what did I do? I got something to sell. And this thing, this was a strike of luck right here. And the luck was that I decided I was gonna start my own brand of survival food. I would have never done that. I would have never done that if the obstacle hadn't gotten thrown in front of me. The obstacle being they wouldn't ship that survival food to these people anymore. So I started my own brand. I found a way to manufacture my own brand and that launched Survival Cave Food, which is in existence to this day. You can look it up, Survival Cave Food. And I did really well. I started selling my own product. And it wasn't that easy. I mean, I had to call websites and I had to ask people to put out the websites. There was a lot of work into it. I don't want you to think, why I came out with this product and then I made money. It wasn't like that. It was really a matter of me calling hundreds and maybe thousands of websites. I think I made 10,000 sales calls. Crazy, right? And I can't count how many emails I sent out to get people to sell my survival food. And then another problem arose, another problem. Now, here's what I want you to notice about problems. As I go through problems, they are opportunities. Every problem is an opportunity. Think about it this way. Every product that's sold solves some problem. If you buy a coat, okay? It solves the problem of being cold. If you sell a hamburger, it solves the problem of being hungry, okay? So there was a problem. Here was the problem. All of a sudden, everybody wanted meat. They didn't want freeze-dried, dehydrated foods. They wanted protein. And when I looked at freeze-dried, dehydrated meat, it was awful. It was like these little crumbled things of sand and you added water to it and turned it into this mush. It's just, it was awful. Let me look at some of these things here, some of these comments. Ba, ba, ba, ba. Where did you buy products? Alibaba, time for people to quit waiting for perfect time. Perfect time was yesterday. Second is today, very true. I did not buy up Alibaba. I didn't know anything about Alibaba at the time. I actually bought it from people who were making manufacturing stuff that I would go to and say, can I buy 50 of these or 100 of these? That's how I started doing that. Yeah, Alibaba is frequent here. You can certainly use it. I will tell you that ePacket is gone. ePacket was a way of getting stuff to you cheaply, but the last administration got rid of it. So it takes longer to get to you and it is more expensive now. Love that you kept your eye on the prize, not the bumps in the road. That's really motivational story. Graham, Derek, it's good to see you, Graham. I don't think I've seen you in here. Maybe I have. May I know why Amazon doesn't expand their store on Asia? That I couldn't tell you. I don't know. I don't know anything about Amazon. Every success story has its own story. Yes, some parts of Asia, production. Did you private label the food for manufacturing, like replacing the dehydrated products? No, we make our own. We make our own products. So anyhow, so now I'm into the situation where people want proteins, okay? So I came up with a method to canned meats and it had a long shelf life, okay? So I came out with that, which is survival-cafe food, canned meats. We did beef, chicken, turkey, pork and ground beef and that took off. That took off. As a matter of fact, the sales that I just gave you yesterday, that was all just canned meats, okay? The five grand or six grand, whatever it was yesterday. Because of Alibaba, why Amazon doesn't expand? I don't know. I don't know anything about Amazon. I don't even have their stock. I should have, I should have had their stock, but I didn't.  So guys, I want you to listen to this whole progression. The first progression was I got started. I turned off the TV. The next progression was I looked around and I believed I could do what other people are doing, okay? These are the steps you have to take, okay? And once I believed I could do what other people are doing and I got started, okay? And got something going, I ran into luck, okay? I got luck. That company contacted me and I got into survival food. It wasn't my intent when I started selling online to sell survival food. That wasn't my intent, not at all. Had nothing to do with what I was wanting to do. But he got me going in that direction. And then I got my own survival food because of a problem. They couldn't supply stuff. So then I got my own survival food and started doing that and then that took off. And is that the end of the story? No, because what I realized, here's what I realized, the stuff I was doing other people wanted to do. They wanted to make money online. They wanted to quit their jobs. They'd like to travel the world. So then what I did is I started coming out with training, like what I'm doing right now with you guys. And I came up with courses and I started selling courses on how to make money online. And if you look at the description, you're gonna see Digital Cash Academy, Web Cash Academy, Ecom Road, all these different things of courses I came out with. I wrote a book in 2016, which was called The Great American Food Shortage. And that was in 2016. And get this, the book was about the possibility of a food shortage during a pandemic, right? Hey, does that sound familiar? Oh, I should have said that word during the illness. I probably have to delete that word. I'm not allowed to say that word on here. But that's what the book was about, The Great American Food Shortage. You can find it on Amazon, The Great American Food Shortage by J.R. Fisher. And I was called a nut. They said, what are you talking about? Running out of food in America? Not having every single thing we want, like paper towels and toilet paper? Yeah, that could happen. And they didn't believe me. And guess what? That book's pretty popular now. That's a pretty popular book now. Why? Because it was true. And it tells you how to prepare what you should do and how this is gonna all play out. So, you know, I came out with that book. And then I wrote another book on how to find products online. And I'm now working, which I've been telling you guys, order it with the $15. Ordering it with the $15.  That's very cool. How hard was it hiring people you trust? Learn the couch and TV or the biggest enemy have dealt with food inspectors. They are a trip at times. Yes, they are. Well, we have the USDA actually, he has an office at our meat facility and he just stays there. It's his place. Let's see, what else? One third of American food was dump in the trash. Yes, yes, it was. Probably greater amount than that. He gets thrown away and yet we have hungry people. That's government, man. Government, that's government. It really is. They just don't do things correctly. But whatever. I'm not gonna get into that. I'm not a political person. So, look at the progression of all this stuff, guys. And look how other things off-shoot from what you're doing, right? I was selling cell phone cases and now I'm selling courses on how to do drop shipping. Where did that come from? That came from effort. That came from work. That came from luck. But you create your own luck. Now, if you don't believe you create your own luck, think about this. You wanna get married, okay?  You wanna get married.  What are your odds of getting married as you sit at home? What are your odds? They're not good, okay?  Nobody's gonna come to the door, knock on your door and go, hey, I'm your new spouse. Okay, let's have a family together. It's not gonna happen. But let me ask you this. What if when you went to the grocery store that day, you just spoke to people. You said hello, hello to people.  Could that be? Could it be if you started going to meet up groups of people with the same interests as you and you met somebody that had same interests you and you met your future spouse? The point is the more you put yourself out there, the more you put yourself in front of people, the more you create your own luck. Luck is a real thing, okay? Luck is a real thing, but of course, and everybody knows the spelling of this, I think you do, labor under correct knowledge. Labor under correct knowledge, luck, okay? I've been incredibly lucky. Oh my God, I've been so lucky. I got lucky with a great wife. I got lucky with a great dog I have that's barking its head off right now in the background. I got really lucky, but it's because I put myself out there, okay? And it's also how you treat other people. When you are in public, and this goes with business, this goes with relationships, it goes with everything, you gotta be honest, you gotta be caring, and you gotta help others. Honest, caring, and help others. If you do those three things, honest, caring, and help others, guess what?   That's the kind of person I wanna be around. And that's the problem I see with people. They say, well, I wanna attract a good business partner. I want to attract a good wife or a husband. How do I do that? And here's what I tell you. Be the kind of person that you wanna attract. Be that kind of person. So if you wanna attract a really good business partner who is generous and who works hard and has a good work ethic and is successful, be that, be that. And other ones will see you and go, I want to associate with you. If you want to attract somebody who's open, and honest, and caring, and loving, and loyal, that's what you gotta be. And that's what you'll attract. So if you're not attracting what you want right now, you gotta look at what you're doing. What are you doing? What are you doing? Okay, let me look at some of these comments here. Time to get some fun. My, I want some gift card time. What's the shelf life of survival cave food? It's actually an indefinite shelf life. We don't have an expiration date on there. According to USDA, it's indefinite. Now what does indefinite mean? Long time? Forever? Of course, now nothing lasts forever. But I would say 12 to 15 years, something like that, you're pretty safe. And we're approaching 12 years now so we can resell everybody, which is kind of interesting, right? We've been around that long. Who inspired and mentored you along the way? Love that luck acronym. Think it's so important to you put yourself out there. You had a big why. Yeah, who inspired me? You know, this is not conceit, but I inspire myself. It's like, what can I do every single day to make myself better? What can I do every single day to make myself better? Am I gonna get up and sit around and do nothing? Or can I start a new venture? Can I do a little bit more extra work? Could I work out a little bit harder? Could I do another pushup?  You know, if I was Elon Musk, maybe not. He wakes up every day and he goes, nobody makes more than me. But I know that, okay? And I know that somebody's gonna be able to be more pushups than me. Now, I know, I do this three sets of pushups thing. I got 40 seconds, 40 seconds, and 40 seconds. Each 40 seconds, I set my timer and I try to do as many pushups as I can. Good form. Right now, I'm at about 120, 100, yeah, I think I got to 121 one day. But I usually do like 43 and then 41 and then 30 something as it goes down. You know what you do that. And I take like a little bit of break between them. But my biggest inspiration is seeing people who are successful, but they're all over the place. And my motivation comes from me. I wanna see what I can improve that I've already done. Because I know if I've done, say, 40 pushups, my goal's gotta be 41 or 42, right? So that's what really motivates me now. I will tell you, David Goggins of all people I've ever listened to, as far as physical health, David Goggins is the man. If you ever looked up David Goggins, check him out. As far as getting your head straight, Jim Rohn. Jim Rohn is one of the best speakers. I think I've ever listened to. I went to, God, I don't know, 10 or 12 of his sessions and a lot of them are the same. I just wanted to hear it over again. Let's see, what else we got? Casey says the harder he works, the luckier he gets. That is so true, isn't it? And when you do stuff, you get lucky. When you don't do anything, you don't get lucky.  How many VA did you go through before you found your fit with one? I gotta tell you, Paul, I went to a warehouse first. So I hired full-time employees. My wife was working there. My daughter worked there. She was full-time and she did the blogs and content and all that. Then I hired a warehouse guy. Then I hired a warehouse manager. And then I got a couple big contracts and I hired about six or seven people to manufacture all the freeze-dried food and put them in buckets. So when I had that warehouse, they were all full-time. I didn't have a VA. I don't really have a VA now. I have people that work for me on my websites. I have full-time social media people. I don't really have a VA that schedules my day and does my appointments. I don't have that. I don't want that, really. I feel like if I call somebody up and go, hey, can you give me a plane ticket to Texas? Because I gotta go look at the construction of my house. By the time I've done that, I could have just gone online and gotten a plane ticket. The VA doesn't work for me. And a VA, and if it works for somebody else, it's fine, but a VA is like an everything person. So they do everything, anything you want done, which means they're not gonna be really good at any one thing. I have a really good video editor now. He does a really good job. Hey, Billy, what's going on? He'll be editing this or at least watching it. I don't know, maybe he'll be watching it. This is a lie. And I would rather hire people who are specialists. So I have a Magento developer who works on my Subelvacate food site and he's a specialist. How and where did you get into affiliate marketing? Oh, that's actually an interesting story. When I was in Cancun, I was there with a group from ClickBank and they were saying they were gonna sell physical products online and they wanted to know if I wanted to do a course on ClickBank for physical products. And I was like, sure, it'd probably be easy. It took me a year and a half and I had a partner on that one there and it was called Digital Cash Academy and it sells to this day. But that was one of the top offerings on ClickBank and that's how I got involved in affiliate marketing. They asked me to do a course and I did it and I said, wow, this course thing's kinda cool. So now I got a bunch of different courses. I have an inner circle, I've got eBusiness Toolbox and I'll be posting about the eBusiness Toolbox. It's very neat. You'll like it. So that's the story and I guess we ought to do one more gift card. Does anybody want one of these? Do you guys want one of these? Are you interested in this gift card right here? Does this interest you? It's going away. Does this interest you? It's coming back, it's coming back. Are you interested in this card right here? Put that in the chat section. I gotta think of what it's called, the chat section. You worked out every day on that cruise. You have incredible discipline. That's one of your biggest strengths. I don't. I don't have an incredible discipline. I really don't. I tell myself I wanna be a certain thing and when I tell myself I wanna be a certain thing, what happens is I say, well, if you wanna be that certain thing, a person who did this or accomplished this, who became this would do these other things. So I just tell myself, well, you would work out every day even if you were on a cruise because that would prove that you mean what you say. So all I do is I tell myself these things. It's not that I want to. Believe me, I don't want to. I don't wanna work out. I don't wanna do a single pushup. Not even interested in a little bit on it but the person I wanna be would do those things. So I pretend to be that person. Is that crazy? It's a little crazy, right? But it works. It works for me. Apple doesn't interest me. I'm so sorry, Trina, that's what I have. Morad says Amazon gift card, Amazon. I don't have any Apple products. I know but I got Apple cards. I gotta give them to somebody. Somebody's gotta get them. Amazon, me, I need Amazon.  You don't like Apple? You don't like Apple cards? They're awesome. They're awesome cards. You can get watches and get iPads. Look, watches, the computer I'm using right here, the iPad rating, all this stuff is all Apple. Apple, Apple. So tell me if anybody wants Apple. JustRoblox says he wants Apple. All right, JustRoblox will do it just for you. Okay, so Apple has this cool little pull tab on the back. Do you see that? And I'm gonna pull that tab right here and it's gonna reveal nothing. It's just the way to get it open. Okay, wait, hang on a second. I want Apple, Cas12 wants Apple. I have both accounts, okay? All right, so people are cool with it. This is the Apple gift card. Get the number. Did you get it? Did you get the number? Get the number. Write it down. Get the number. Am I going too fast? Let me know if I went too fast. If you want me to hold it up again, I will. If you didn't get the number the first time, I can't hold it up one more time if you wanna get the number. Are you interested in getting the number? Put that in the chat section right there. I'd love to hear it. If you are, if you are, let me get another sip here. Okay, LOL, yes. Nearly missed my weekly fix. Richard Brown, what's up? Richard Brown's in the house. Apple, Amazon, of course. Say the code, say the code. Oh, I'll tell you what, I'll hold it up and I'll say it. Is that fair? There is the code. It is XKD4T725LM478J5Y. Once again, XKD4T7Z5LM478J5Y. Did you done get it? Did you done get it? No way it goes. Let me know who got that gift card. Let me know the amount. It's gonna be from 10 to $500. And yeah, so there's a gift card. So I told the story today. So it's a progression of changing your thoughts. Change your frigging thoughts.   So why change them? Because if you change your thoughts, it causes you to change your actions. Actions get results. If the results are poor, what you consider poor, not good, you have still gotten results and that's a good thing. Because now you know what's not working, what you need to change, okay? So understand this progression.  And as soon as you see a problem, you have to go, yay, I found a problem. Because if you find a problem, that means there's probably a solution and it is a sign. It's the universe going, hey, we've got something even better for you. Even better than what you had, okay? And I know that happened with me. I got remarried to much better person. Much better person. But at the time it was a problem when I had to go through doors and do all that stuff. But I'm in a better situation now. Problems are like gems, guys. And I know that it sounds so corny. It's so corny. It's taken me so many years to realize this. It's so corny. One day I had to go to my warehouse and my wife was gonna drive me and she was parked in the driveway. I was parked in the street and we went out to get in her car and it was gone. It was gone. The car was gone. And I said, well, it looks like your car got stolen. Let's take my car. And she looked at me like matter of fact, she was like, well, how do you know that? I said, because it's gone. And if it's gone, it probably got stolen. And she's like, whoa. She's looking down the sides of the house and everything. I'm like, well, nobody's parked the car on the side of the house. It's stolen. Now, she looked at me. She says, this is awful. I said, no, it's a good thing. She said, well, how is it a good thing? I said, I don't know that yet. I don't know that yet. But I know it's a good thing because it's a problem. And she looked at me like I was insane. And guess what happened? That car got found, but it was totaled. It was just totaled. So the insurance company gave her money for the car that was way more than what it was worth. Way more than what it was worth. She got a much nicer car and she wouldn't have got that nicer car without that problem. You've got to start looking at all problems as if they are actually opportunities. This is a hard mind shift for most people. It is a mind shift that super successful people use every day. They use this to their advantage because they know that other people run into problems and they just quit. They go, oh my God, that's a problem. I can't do it anymore. I mean, look at Elon Musk, who has this company now, SpaceX. His first rockets went up in the air and came down and crashed and he lost hundreds of millions of dollars. That's a problem. That's a serious problem. He was out of money. But he didn't look at it that way. He says, we figured out which rockets didn't work. We figured out which ones didn't work. Is that the mindset you're gonna have today going away from this? I sure hope so because that's what I hope to give you today. With this little bit of training today, I wanted to show you the progression of what I did and how anybody can do this. I ain't special. You're not special. Nobody's special, okay? Elon is smarter I think than most of us but his specialness is that he just keeps trying stuff and he works hard and that problems don't stop and he looks at them as opportunities. Is that how you look at problems right now? Think about that. Every problem like that.  Somebody being rude to you. Do you look at all those things as opportunities? They are. They're all opportunities. It's hard for me to always dial this in. I'm not gonna say it comes easy but it's coming more naturally now. And as it comes more naturally, I become more successful and you will too. Let's see here. Are you talking about the law of attraction? Yes, law of attraction is definitely in there. And there's a great movie of the law of attraction too if you haven't seen it. It's been a month. Congratulations. Listen folks, these are golden nuggets. Thank you so much, Paul. I got another congratulations there. Got it. Say it again. Oh, okay, okay. Let's go back to the card. I don't wanna do that. S9 crashed again. SpaceX, Mars, Rocket. SpaceX, Mars, Rocket, Prototype. Yep. Have you read? Entrepreneurs never, ever give in. There's no point. What's the point? If you quit, then what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? You just can't quit. Yeah, no one is special. Very true. No one is. Let me tell you something else, guys. And I'm gonna kinda get in close here. I'm gonna really explain this to you. It took me a long time to figure this one out. Nobody's better than you. Nobody is better than you. You are enough. You are enough, okay? Nobody's better than you. Now, here's the flip side to that. You aren't better than anybody else. Don't think you are. Don't ever get to a point where you get some success and you say, well, I'm so much better than this bagger or this person at the convenience store. No, you're not. No, you're not. They haven't tried other things. You have no idea what they could have done. There's a Chili's little franchise place we go to down here every now and then. And there's a waiter in this Chili's and he has the most amazing voice.    You need to get into voiceover, announcing or something. He said, yeah, I've been told that my entire life. And I'm thinking, wow, everybody has told him he has this golden voice and he chooses to wait tables. Yeah, he has a golden voice and he chooses to wait tables. So even if you've got some really great talents, I mean, incredible talents, maybe you're really good at doing videos. Maybe you're really good at marketing. Maybe you're really good at selling stuff online. If you never try, you'll never realize your talents. You'll never realize them. They're never gonna happen.  I got off the phone with my son who works at the Cleveland Clinic. He's in the cardiac and transplant unit. And he has a patient in there now. He's 24 years old. He has cystic fibrosis and he had a double lung transplant. Okay, double lung transplant and his body is now rejecting those lungs. He's 24. What can he do? What can you do? The thing is, you're not that guy with a double lung transplant that's rejecting those lungs right now. You've got some opportunities that are amazing. But if you don't do it, if you don't dig into your talents and find out what they are, you can never realize them. Let's see here. Got a bounce great show today, thanks. Thank you, Paula. Thank you so much for being here. Bang on, Richard. Ford failed with first two auto manufacturing before successfully building the last one. Yes, yes, yes, failures. Okay, failure's part of the progression. Problems are part of the process. Go do it, okay? I'm gonna go ahead and end today. If you got any more comments, put them in there. If you're watching this and it is not live to you, okay? Cause it is Saturday, the 6th of February, 2021. All this stuff applies no matter what year it is, no matter what day it is. But if you have a question about it, put it in the comments section. If you have questions about this, put this in the chat section. Sidharth, how long is this? I'm ending now. I'm ending, okay? Yeah, I've gone a long time today. I mean, it's been almost an hour. It's 10.52, I started at 10 o'clock. But you guys have been great. You really have. I hope you appreciate the gift cards. I hope you appreciate the message.  You have no idea what's gonna happen. You have no idea what's gonna happen if you just apply this stuff, guys. And then once you apply it and you get great results, which I know you will, you gotta come back and kind of put a comment and say, this is what I did with this. This is what I did with this. Because these are just things that I learned from other people. These are things I observed from other people and I applied them in my life, okay? Now I'm sharing them with you so you can apply them in your life. It's really that simple. If you like it, if you liked what the message was, put that in the chat section today. You guys have been awesome. Mr. JR, is there another Amazon gift card, please? I don't have any more today. But you know what? Show up next Saturday and you'll see one. And I am going live during the week now. So if you wanna hear me at 9 a.m., do a little message each day. You're welcome to listen to that. Thank you so much for being here, guys. I really appreciate it. I say currently one in five jobs. Vulnerable, dug well before you need the water. Dig a well before you need the water. Yes, yes, absolutely. Yes, you do. Thanks a bunch, JR, James Brain.  Thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate every single one of you very, very much. Check out some of my stuff in the description section.


Learning about menswear, developing a personal style, finding what's right for you, it's a journey. We are all on that journey and one of the things that is guaranteed to happen at some point along the way is that you will make some kind of mistake. You'll probably make more than one. Now some mistakes will be very easy to correct. There are tons of posts and videos out there about things you shouldn't do or style mistakes that men make, but there is one mistake that everyone makes, never included on any of these lists that I feel is difficult to identify, difficult to address or remedy, but 100% guaranteed to happen to everyone at some point during their style journey. I'm sure you're wondering what on earth this is, what it could be, but before we get to that, we have to do the intro. What's up guys, I'm Brian Sakawa. You're watching He Spoke Style and today, the one style mistake that is completely unavoidable. So this particular style mistake, I would say typically is something we go through more towards the beginning of our style journeys, just getting into it, not a whole lot of knowledge, but very curious and very eager to quickly get yourself to a different place. So as we're doing this, as we're adding pieces to our wardrobe to dress better, to feel better, and kind of looking to be accepted in some way into this community of men who do dress well, we are bound to do the most terrible thing, I would call it the number one style mistake of all time and that is we try too hard. We've all been this person in some way at some time. If we've gotten past that, it's easy to see and kind of recognize the signs.  They've got the lapel flower, the tie bar, three or four beaded bracelets, one of them with a skull on it, a fedora, basically going way overboard and probably wearing that stuff in a situation that would not require that level of getting dressed up. Now why do people do this? I've thought a lot about the reasons behind this and why this is a thing that people seem to go through and I think it boils down to one very specific thing and that is that when you decide that you are going to start thinking about personal style, about how you dress and you make that commitment to developing your wardrobe that you're super excited about this and you want people to know and you want to show people that you are into style. This always results in going too far, doing too much and trying way too hard. Now, as I mentioned at the beginning of this video, I think this is something that is completely unavoidable. Now, I sit here and talk to you about style on the channel all the time, the He Spoke Style website's been around for almost seven years, but that doesn't mean that I haven't gone through this either. In many ways, the beginning of He Spoke Style was the beginning of my journey to where I'm at now. I did do a video about some of my worst outfits, which I recommend checking out if you haven't already and some of those I classified as bad because I did feel as though I was trying too hard. I do want to show you though, just one of the things I'm talking about from my past so you can see that I too have been there. So here it is. I have no words other than I think this is probably the best example that I could provide. So much going on here from the honey colored sunglasses with the pinstripe suit and kind of electric blue tie, pocket square fold, don't even ask me. I don't know what I was thinking. There's also the contrast club collar shirt. Notice also that the sleeves aren't buttoned or I'm not wearing cuff links. I still do that occasionally, FYI, personal choice. And then the coup de gras, the multiple bracelets, just in case this look did not already have enough flair. Now, as I was scrolling through the archives of the style guide on the He Spoke Style website, I noticed that a lot of the outfits that I would place in this kind of try too hard category were from the early days, maybe the first couple of years of He Spoke Style. So that kind of supports my theory that this kind of thing happens very early on in someone's style journey. And the one thing that jumped out to me as sort of a turning point in my own style as I was scrolling through is that there was definitely this point where you can clearly see that I became more comfortable with the concept of less is more. The point where you discover that you don't have to try so hard is really the turning point for every guy that gets into style and actually gets to a level where they've kind of actually figured it out. Now, although I say that this mistake is unavoidable, it's almost like this terrible rite of passage in some ways, there are a few things I think you can keep in mind to help kind of check yourself as you go through this whole process. I'm not saying that if you do this, that you will miraculously skip through this phase, though I hope that's the case. But what it can do is just make you more aware of it so you might be able to catch yourself a little bit before going too far. The first thing to think about and remember is that less is more and subtlety in my opinion is the most stylish choice you can make any time for any occasion. It doesn't mean you need to be a super minimalist, but doing too much, you know, the lapel flower, lapel pin, bracelets, like all that stuff together that I talked about already is a dead giveaway of someone who is new to the game and trying too hard. There's a great quote by Coco Chanel who said, before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off. Though in this situation we're talking about, it might be better to take more than one thing off. Now with that, there is a certain amount of confidence you need to be okay with keeping it simple. Peacocking is one thing, that's not what we're talking about here. Someone who's a peacock typically knows exactly what they're doing and why they're doing it. It makes sense for them.  And that kind of self-doubt will definitely show and project out into the world. However, if you keep it simple, if you keep it classic, you can be super confident in knowing that you look put together. Next, avoid trending accessories.  All of these things are basically designed to capture attention very quickly and in some cases cheaply, meaning like through a gimmick. Gimmicks aren't stylish, period. The reason this happens is, what do you do when you make a commitment to developing your personal style?  These magazines are always telling you what is trending and sometimes, sometimes their advice is not so good, especially when it comes to these sorts of accessories. Again, keeping it classic, never a bad idea. Along those lines, another thing that happens is that we think about the basic menswear color palette.  I'm gonna add a pop of color.  Now color is fine, but what happens in the scenario that I described is that those pops of color start to overwhelm every outfit. So it's okay to be okay with the basic menswear color palette. I'm not saying you have to be boring and completely swear off color, but if you find yourself thinking about your wardrobe in terms of, oh, I have a lot of blues and grays and browns, but you know what? I don't have a lot of purple. Yeah, I should definitely get some purple because I don't have it. That is not the way to approach your wardrobe. You don't need all the colors of the rainbow to have equal representation. You don't even need to have every single color. Stick with the basics. Add in some color here and there. Pocket squares and ties are good places to start and just be confident in that. So the bad news, you're going to make this mistake. I guarantee it. The good news is that if you've watched this far, you are now equipped with a few things to be aware of to help you through what I really think is something that is completely unavoidable. The thing to remember is that you are not alone. Lots of people before you have made this mistake, myself included, many times, and people will continue to do so. It's fine, we all go through it. And now, unfortunately, there are lots of photos that we can look back at and laugh at, but also learn from. Leave your comments below. If this video helped you in any way, shape, or form, please give it a thumbs up and share it with someone who you think might need it. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel. And until next time, thanks for watching and stay tailored.


express its faith as we deal with this tragedy that's before us. With grateful hearts we've been living a very life. We give thee thanks for each of them for the contribution to these that each made. Especially now we lift up to thee the families and the loved ones for these who died. And God bless you. These are the prayers we ask of thy holy name, of the government. And in the name of the people of the world, I pray grant war to the continent, to the continent, along with the region, to the government of the United States and to the immigrant people for the great tragedy that followed the attack on the left-handed people on April 18, 1985. The idea represented by the immigration of the left, whom we want and are today led to the American standard of our selves and our people. To them that's the word. Third to the families of our loyal Lebanese employees, terriers, and treachery connected along with their American countries. You, here today, the families of each other today, want to speak. You must believe that they're saying


After receiving funding from the state, the Bemidji Veterans Home was another step closer to becoming reality with a face-to-face meeting with officials from three state agencies today. The Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, Minnesota Management and Budgetive Department of Administrative Officials all met with local leaders to plot the next steps and lay out an aggressive timeline. These three agencies will guide Bemidji, Montevideo and Preston through the process of building their veterans homes. Right now, time is of the essence as fundraising moves into full swing. For every dollar that's raised, that's 35% of what is going to be for the facility and the federal government will give a 65% matching. So that is very crucial because construction costs are growing up all the time. So that almost two-for-one ratio is really critical. With a tight timeline, the hope is to hold the groundbreaking in October of 2019 with the Veterans Home opening its doors in May of 2021.


بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب الشرح لي صدري ويسلي أمر وحل العقدة من لسان يفقه قولي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا وحبيب قلوبنا وشفيع نفوسنا أبل قاسم محمد وعلى آل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين لا سيما بقية الله روحي وأرواح العالمين لترابي مقدمه الفداء أول من رب الشرح لي صدري ويسلي ويسلي ويسلي الحبيب المصطفة محمد أول من رب الشرح لي صدري ويسلي الحوراء البتول فاقمه أول من رب الشرح لي صدري ويسلي ويسلي إن شاء الله في الناس of a particular brother that messaged me that's a particular topic he'd like to look in depth and an important one as that which is the topic of justice now the question was that can you define can we comprehend the justice of Allah can we look at it from his guardians on earth from his حجج on earth and the reply inshallah will be for tonight to look at if we or can we or can we not understand or comprehend in one way or another the justice of Allah is there a way to grasp it or is it beyond us and then inshallah by looking into that faculty with a few examples the justice of the messengers of Allah the justice of Allah's vice-chairman on earth the أئمة صلى الله عليه وسلم and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and in that aspect we can have a deeper understanding and a more holistic vision of Allah's justice now in order to start for tonight's lecture please help me in reciting one final salawat for the blessings of everyone here and to go to all the people that have been deceased and of our loved ones please recite justice of Allah سبحانه وتعالى as we know one of the five pillars of our particular school of thought is the justice of Allah where we find the main difference is that we believe in five and other schools of thought only believe in three the five that we believe in is to the idea of توحيد the other school also has the idea of توحيد we believe in the idea of نبوه the other school also has the idea of نبوه we believe in معاد the day of resurrection, judgment day they also believe however they stay there we have an extra two that differentiates us one of which being إمامة which is solely and wholeheartedly within the school of أهل البيت and the final one is عدالة and that's the one we can be proud of when we believe that Allah سبحانه وتعالى does everything with justice everything Allah does is just however other schools of thought have the idea that what that Allah سبحانه وتعالى can do whatever he wants whenever he wants and he can be oppressive he cannot be just he doesn't have to be in a particular containment therefore we can't say that Allah سبحانه وتعالى when he says that I am all just we take that from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we try to understand it even though it's beyond us and I'll give you an example of why Allah سبحانه وتعالى this justice is beyond us however we have to believe in it موسى عليه أفضل الصلاة والسلام he goes and asks Allah the same question he says Allah I know that you are all just however I want to understand it I want to see your justice Allah says you want to see my justice he says yes show me your justice he says it's not a problem he says there's going to be a well I want you to keep an eye on that well so that well موسى looks at that well and he sees a night come or a farce come towards that well you find when that farce comes he's all hooded up he has his armor his horse he comes down to take a bit of water as he wants to take water a money sack falls down into the well or alongside the well he rides off now a young man comes and he finds that near the well there's money near the well he's thinking you know what beautiful he's taking that money and he's gone an old man comes and he comes to the well at the same time the night comes back now the man the old man he's looking at the night can I help you he says you've taken my money I'm sure I dropped it here I need that money back and they have an argument they have collision between them in which the night or the farce at the time takes his sword and beheads the old man then جبرايل comes down he says موسى did you see Allah's justice موسى is thinking where's the justice of Allah سبحانه وتعالى I've seen a man beheaded an old man I've seen someone that lost his money another man that took money and run away with it where's Allah's justice he says this is the essence of Allah's justice you cannot see it he says please explain I want to grasp this I want to grasp the idea of Allah's justice then he says it's easy you see that night and that young boy he says yes he says that night owed that boy's father this amount and the exact amount was in that pouch he's run away with it he says that old man killed that night's father with no reason he says this is the justice that he takes back now look at Allah's justice we can't comprehend that موسى is a prophet of Allah سبحانه وتعالى at first glance without the explanation he could not understand Allah's justice we could not comprehend the depth of Allah's justice in the Quran when we look at صورة الكهف when we find that موسى wants to go to Allah سبحانه وتعالى I want to learn more I want to increase in knowledge and then he sends him as Allah سبحانه وتعالى refers to as one of his servants and he takes him to الخضر when he's in a journey with خضر what does he say خضر says do not ask me or do not question me about what I do remember موسى had the knowledge of شريعة خضر had a different knowledge he saw people's end results their destiny what Allah has written for them he says to موسى do not question anything I do until I tell you so on the way the first thing what does the Quran say there was a ship and he defected that ship so it may sink موسى speaks out he says how could you defect this these people might sink he says didn't I tell you not to question what I act unless I told you he says let me be patient give me another chance on the second account he finds a boy he kills the boy موسى speaks out موسى says how could you kill an F without any reason behind it he says I told you not to question me he says let me be patient give me another chance on the third occasion he finds a wall that's about to collapse and he rebuilds it موسى says why have you rebuilt it you could have actually got an edge for this why did you just do it by yourself he says I told you not to question me this is where our journey departs our path departs why he says I'll give you an explanation as to what I do what I do he says Allah has given me the knowledge that the emperor of the time will take the boats therefore I made this boat defected so they don't take it from these two particular poor people on the second level he says what he says that boy was causing calamities to his parents he was deviated his parents were مؤمنين his parents were very righteous Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala wanted to take his life and wanted to give them a replacement that is not deviant that is righteous that is pure he says on the third level this particular wall that was collapsing had a treasure under it and the treasure belonged to these two boys that were very poor but righteous I built it so when they reach an older age they will open that particular wall and find that which is already theirs so he tells Musa he says this is the justice of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala this is the vision this is what Allah has instilled he says you do not see it now can we imagine nowadays that we want to comprehend why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and we question ourselves these are questions that arise why has Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala given this particular person this amount of money this other person this amount of money this one is in poverty this one is in luxurious homes because we have that thought process why is it Allah has given this person and has not given that person the justice we need days to talk about these ideas and these examples but we know that at the end of the day Allah is just that's what we have belief in Allah is just and all that He does there's a reason behind it in chapter 2 verse 185 he says Allah does not burden a soul more than it can handle they may be able to handle a particular aspect I may not be I may not be able to I may be able to handle a particular concept they may not able to be so that's the concept Allah balances it He knows each and every individual and their needs each and every individual and what they're capable of Allah's justice only profound to those that are of high stature only profound to those such as محمد و آلي محمد let's look at examples from our imams and let's not go past the one person that Jordan comes and writes this is the voice of human justice let's take the examples of the life of علي ابن أبي طالب let's look at what Allah سبحانه وتعالى is representative on earth after the prophet of Islam is and how just he is and take from these examples to understand the difference between a normal ruler and a normal خليف or the خليف of Allah سبحانه وتعالى on earth that's the difference we have to look at so on one analogy or one of the stories of علي ابن أبي طالب and this is a very very interesting one because we have to look at this particular story and put it into the context of our lives when علي ابن أبي طالب takes the خلافة when everyone comes to the house of علي ابن أبي طالب as you know the first Khalif six people chose him they said this will be the ruler for the entire Muslim nation the second Khalifa was a letter basically or a will from the first Khalifa to say you know what this is the second Khalifa the third Khalifa was chosen also by a group of people in a closed house scenario the only Khalifa that was chosen actually by the people that came towards their house that they all gathered in front of the house of علي ابن أبي طالب the only person look at the history books علي ابن أبي طالب when the people gathered in front of his house look at the words of علي ابن أبي طالب they said where is علي so they went searching for علي ابن طالب and they found him fixing his sandals everyone knows this story but I want to look into a specific wording of علي ابن أبي طالب now it's found it's found him what fixing his sandals when he fixes his sandals the person comes to him one of his companions says علي ابن أبي طالب he says يا أمير المؤمنين there are people outside your house wanting to give you your allegiance they want you as their leader so he says they can wait he says everyone's waiting for you he says what is the amount or what's the value of these sandals that I'm fixing he says it's nothing it's worth nothing the sandals imagine I even thought what's the value of these sandals that I'm fixing he says it doesn't really have a value it's worthless kind of he says these sandals that I'm fixing look at the wording of علي ابن أبي طالب he says these sandals that I'm fixing are worth more to me than this خلافة everyone seeks unless justice and gets rid of any injustice that's the wording of علي ابن أبي طالب that's the person when he is compared insha'Allah we'll give him the comparison between علي ابن أبي طالب and the prophets later on tonight when he is compared we'll look at the difference between علي ابن أبي طالب and the others when علي ابن أبي طالب he gains the خلافة two of the people or two of the people that said that they were the companies of علي ابن أبي طالب come to his house طالحة and زبر come to علي ابن أبي طالب's house and they ask him for the خلافة and they said we want you to make us governors of this particular place and this particular place علي ابن أبي طالب replies by saying anyone that's asked me for a position I will not give if you ask me for a position I won't give you a position but before he answers them look at the justice of علي ابن أبي طالب he was writing for بيت المال he was writing and writing and writing for بيت المال it was dark he had a candle as soon as they came in علي ابن أبي طالب asked them they said is it personal or is it for an issue regarding what خلافة regarding بيت المال regarding any issues with Islam they said no it's a personal issue what did علي ابن طالب do he had a candle he extinguishes the candle removes that candle brings another candle out opens that candle and they're looking at علي ابن أبي طالب and they said what are you doing he says that candle look at the justice this is what I want us to look into our lives do we do this in our lives he says that candle what's the value of a candle nowadays a candle you can purchase for under a dollar isn't it a dollar is worthless but look at the justice look at the ID look at the thought process behind such a thing he says that candle was purchased using the wealth of what of the money of the Muslims I only use it when dealing with issues regarding the Muslims of the time he says this candle that I brought out is purchased with علي ابن أبي طالب's money and this will be used with my personal use so small story is so small however look at the significant behind it look at the significant thought process behind it وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله look at the thought process that's علي ابن أبي طالب when Ali was Khalifa at the time and a Christian man took his shield everyone looks and may overlook this particular story but if you analyze the depth of علي ابن أبي طالب's justice you'll begin to see why he's the Khalifa of Allah سبحانه وتعاله on earth a Christian man علي ابن أبي طالب is the Khalifa of the time you can imagine nowadays can you imagine you taking any ruler on earth from the start of history till the end of history can you imagine taking any ruler of the time and taking him to a courtroom anyone the second Khalifa once heard someone say something in a wrong manner about him he had him whipped he had him whipped this Christian man takes a shield of علي ابن أبي طالب Ali says that's my shield he says no it's not prove it he says I want to take you to court he says your court he says yes so they go towards the courtroom look at the depth of علي ابن طالب's justice he goes to the courtroom in front of the judge imagine the judge thinking the Khalifa of the time is he to be judged what's the issue he says well such and such person has the Christian man has my shield he looks at me he looks at me my shield he looks at the Christian man he says is that your shield he says yes that's my shield so he sits them down he says okay he names the Christian man by his name and then he refers to علي ابن أبي طالب by Abu al-Hassan he gave him a status as you know the Kuniya is a status علي ابن طالب objects he says you he says you are my judge in my courtroom he says how could you become unjust by calling this Christian man by his name and me and you honor me by my Kuniya he says if you call him by his name call me by my name don't elevate me from the start he says be just in your actions he's in the courtroom but he's teaching the judge so he says علي ابن أبي طالب do you have anyone to bear witness he says I don't have any bear witness beside myself I know that this is my shield the other person says because you're in position of the shield I will have to grant you the shield because he does not علي ابن طالب didn't have anyone to bear witness for him so the court case goes to the Christian man now look at this after علي ابن أبي طالب gave the shield in the courtroom to the Christian man the Christian man comes outside to علي ابن طالب look at what the Christian man has said the Christian man looks up to علي ابن أبي طالب he says I have bear witness Allah it's justice on earth علي ابن طالب says what do you mean he says where on earth can you even comprehend that a man outside the religion of Islam comes into Islamic territory lives amongst the people takes the position he admits it he says he takes the position of the Khalifa of the time takes him to his own courtroom and wins the case he says that Lord that you worship that Lord that you worship I want to worship him also and then and there he says I bear witness that there is no God but your God and I believe that the prophet محمد is his messenger and you are the Khalifa after him that's the justice that's the justice brothers and sisters علي ابن أبي طالب had a vision like no other when علي ابن أبي طالب would decipher a particular aspect I'll give you a mathematical equation of justice when علي ابن طالب was in the courtroom and I need your focus with this you might even need to use your hands to count what I'm about to tell you there was a stranger that came past two people eating bread one person had five loaves of bread the other one had three loaves of bread in total there's eight loaves of bread let's look at this a man they forced him to come and eat with them he says not a problem I'll eat with you every single slice of bread they made into thirds each slice of bread was made into third and everyone ate equally everyone had eight thirds we're done with that the man on leaving these two people he gave them eight dirhams as soon as he finished they start to have a dispute between them one of them says I provided five loaves of bread you provided three loaves of bread take three dirhams and I'll take five the other man says no he became what do we say he wanted more than he deserved but he says I want half he says you provided loaves of bread I provided loaves of bread let's go four by four they disputed on that one dirham he says let's take this idea to Ali ibn Abi Talib let him decipher between us so they go to Ali ibn Abi Talib he says what's the issue he says such and such has happened he says he wants four I've already given him three because I had five loaves he had three loaves I've taken five dirhams I'll give him three he says he says to the man that wanted four not three he says he's being more than generous towards you take it the man says no I want you to make a judgment I want four out of the eight I want the half Ali ibn Abi Talib says you only deserve one out of that eight take one and the other one deserves seven he says what do you mean Ali ibn Abi Talib he's offering me three if you wanted four you give me only one I says that's the justice of it he says please explain to me let's look at the explanation of Ali ibn Abi Talib this is the mathematical genius of Ali ibn Abi Talib now imagine we have eight loaves of bread each loaf was made into thirds now imagine your fingers each one of these portions is a portion that was eaten each person ate equally so each one had eight pieces the first one that had three he ate seven of those pieces sorry he ate eight of those pieces and remaining was one one piece remaining from his side the other person he ate all his and what was remaining seven was remaining therefore Ali ibn Abi Talib says what he says you fed him with seven pieces therefore you have seven derhams you have fed him with one piece and therefore you only deserve one derham صلى الله عليه وسلم could anyone of us think of it I looked at the hadith I'm reading it I'm saying yeah you know three four he deserves four should he get four there's a difference between our knowledge and Ali ibn Abi Talib there's a difference between what Ali ibn Abi Talib would rule and our imams would rule deciphering the Quran to its utmost depth and our judgments brothers and sisters that's why we need the hudges on earth to give us the right to give us the right ruling the right judgment the right justice of Allah سبحانه وتعالى I end with a story to give you an idea of the status of Ali ibn Abi Talib and I end on this Insha'Allah and I give the pulpit Insha'Allah to the sheikh to enlighten us a woman comes into the courtroom and she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says she says حتى يطلقوا بأنه يقفلون me who is better, I am better He says tell me who is better عليبنا أبي طالب ومعاوية So the woman says What kind of comparison is this? He says just tell me who is better عليبنا ابي طالب ومعاوية He says you are comparing a man of greatness with معاوية He says What would you prefer me to compare him with He says compare需要 عليبنا أبي طالب not with normal people Comparing him with the NBI يقول العليم ابطالب أكثر than the NBI يقول كيف حال؟ ويبدأ يبدأ this narration يقول العليم ابطالب أكثر than ابراهيم يقول كيف؟ يقول ابراهيم إنه قرآن يقول شو مي كيف أنت تصرق قرآن لذا يمكنني أن أتكلم في ما يقين يقول إذا كيف إذا كانوا يتخيلون إذا كانوا يتخيلون إذا كانوا يتخيلون ويبدأ أن أرى كل شيء في مهمة لا أصدق يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول يقول و تعالى not only increased him in blessings he said he opened up his house for his mother to give birth to Ali ibn Abi Talib inside صلى علام محمد و علام محمد that's the comparison that she gave Ali ibn Abi Talib to show you the greatness of Ali ibn Abi Talib I ain't done this birth with brothers and sisters and I just wanted to highlight and to answer the brothers question in the idea of justice and we cannot comprehend it we can analyze it, we can give analogies, examples but we can't comprehend it's depth only the ma'asumi can only Hujaj Allah only the mercy of Allah Allah's mirror images on earth and insha'Allah we keep learning about the Ahl al-Bayt keep increasing our knowledge towards Ahl al-Bayt so in order to have the blessing of them the blessing of the Shafa'a to go in the footsteps of Ahl al-Bayt and insha'Allah learn and follow in their footsteps and insha'Allah we end for tonight by reciting the blessed Surat المباركة الفاتحة تسبقها الصلاة على محمد و علم محمد