10 print-on-demand products you can sell without investing in inventory. This is part two of two. Hey guys, if you haven't watched part one of the series, you want to go back and watch part one first, because in that video I actually list all the products. In this video here, this is the exciting one. After you learn what the products are, in here I'm going to show you how to design and create these products and price them so that they just fly off the shelf. So let's get right into it. If you haven't subscribed yet, make sure you subscribe. Make sure you ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified every single time I do a new video or if I go live. Now creating new products, it's a lot of fun. I've created new products myself from courses to survival food and all that and it's really exciting to come up with a product and to know that that product didn't exist before you came along and you made something out of it. It is super exciting, but you may not think you're creative or you may be creative. There's three ways you can create your product and I want to go through each one here. The first one is the obvious one. You can create it yourself. You can create what the shirt says, what the design says, you know, for your coffee mug, whatever you want to do, you could just do it yourself. The number two way is to hire somebody else. There are a lot of product designers out there. You can go to Upwork. You can go to Fiverr and say, hey, I want to have t-shirts designed. I want to have mugs designed. And you can find somebody to do it pretty cheap, maybe 10, 20 bucks doesn't cost you that much. And then the third way is what you can buy design templates. Now design templates are something where you just change the words around the design is already there. It's already set up. The font's already set up. And I want to go through each one of these things so you can kind of understand what each one of them is going to mean to you and so that you can make a good decision as far as how you want to go about it. Now let's talk about the first one, creating it yourself. This is probably one of the more difficult ways of going about it, but it's not hard to do. A lot of t-shirts, a lot of mugs, a lot of things like that just have a few words on them. It's just a saying so it's not that difficult. Do keep in mind that you're going to need a very high resolution so you're going to need something like, you know, a PDF or you're going to need Photoshop or something like that so you can upload a very high resolution. Also keep in mind if you're designing your own that each product is going to have different dimensions, each company that you deal with is going to have different requirements. So the size of the dimension for a coffee mug is going to be different from a t-shirt, from a wall art, from a shower curtain or whatever. So just keep in mind when you are designing those that there are different dimensions that need to be adhered to. So you want to make sure you select the parental demand companies that you want to use and then go ahead and do your designs based on that criteria. The number two alternative is just to hire somebody else. And fortunately nowadays that's very inexpensive to do. You can go to Upwork, you can go to Fiverr and all you really have to do is give them the words you want to use or give them an idea of the design and nowadays you can get it for 10, 20, 30 dollars. Now I would say the more you pay usually, usually you're going to get a better design but that's not always the case. So whoever you decide on make sure you check their previous reviews, make sure they've got a lot of experience, they've done a lot of designs. Make sure you look at the designs. Almost all of them will have a portfolio and if they don't that's a problem. So make sure you hire somebody with a portfolio and look in their portfolio and see what they've done in the past. That's a great way to get all your designs done quickly and professionally and you'll probably get really good results doing that. Now the last way to get your designs done is to buy design templates. There are actually websites where you can go in and purchase these templates. They usually range from anywhere from seven to 25 dollars. A couple of them that I'll mention to you, a creative market is certainly one of them. Another one is Graphic River and they sell different kinds of graphic assets and templates and you can use them on all kinds of different products. They're very helpful. Just keep in mind that other people are probably using them too. You know they sell those templates to a lot of people so you're not going to be as original. However it's a quick way to get something done. Now your first step is to create a mock-up product. In other words what is it going to look like on that particular product. Now some of these print-on-demand sites have product mock-ups on there and you can actually use them. You can also go to you know creative market or you can go to Graphic River and they have mock-ups there that you can actually purchase and they're usually $10 to about $40 so you can do your mock-up there. But it's really important to kind of see that product before you go out there in the market and try to sell it. The next thing up is pricing. What do you do on pricing? Now since we're talking about print-on-demand products understand that your profit margin and let me explain what profit margin is first to I don't want to go over anybody's head but let's say that you're selling a t-shirt for $25 and the print-on-demand company is going to charge you $10 for that t-shirt and they're going to charge you $3 to ship it out. So that is your dead cost right that $13 and if you're selling it for $25 you're going to make a $12 profit. Now if you were to go out and buy the same t-shirt and bulk and you order 500 of them maybe you could get them for $9 but the point is here we don't want to invest in inventory. That can be something you'll want to do on down the road but in the beginning we want to test it and just because our profit margin is a little bit less doesn't mean we shouldn't do it because understand you don't have to invest any of your money and that's a key component right there is you don't have to invest money so it allows you to test a whole lot of different products without having any investment outside of your time and whatever design it was for that particular product. Now as far as setting the actual price what you want to do is look at some of the places you're going to sell your product so let's say you're going to sell it at Etsy. You can go on Etsy and you can search t-shirts that are similar to what you have you can see what they're selling for and then you can price your product accordingly. I wouldn't say I would be the lowest one in there because there's always somebody who is almost willing to lose money just to get a customer on their books and hopefully sell them something on down the road which is certainly a good business plan in some cases but right now you may not have those other products you can't do that. You also don't want to be on the highest end because those products you know they don't sell as well the most expensive ones don't sell as well so if you can kind of hit that sweet spot in between you're better off. Now some people say oh my gosh it's too late for me to do that there's so many people in the market. That's actually a good thing the fact that there's a lot of people in the market doing this right now gives you a lot of data you can see what designs are working you can see what prices are working you can see who's selling t-shirts especially on something like Etsy you can go in there and see how many sales they had so it's actually really good information for you and that's how I would recommend you actually pricing your product is looking at all the competition that's out there. Now before launching your product you're going to want to create a few pages and you're going to want to have them on your website. The first one is an about us page you want to give the buyer some information about you how you got started what your story was what your goal is you know maybe you're doing eco-friendly products and you want to save the world and save the oceans and all these things you'd want to talk to them about that on your about us page. The next thing you want to have is a contact us a contact us is super important people always look for that because they feel like well if I buy from you and I don't like something or I want to return it what happens you know how am I going to contact you and that brings me to the next page which is a refund page refund pages are so very important this just this morning I had somebody who bought one of our courses okay and it's not a print on demand product but they bought one of our courses and they said you know they didn't think the course was totally for them they just thought they would watch you know my free stuff and they would get a refund on what they bought and we do have a refund policy but part of the refund policy is that they have to go through the course and they have to implement what's in the course or we don't give a refund because they haven't even tried it this particular person said oh yeah well they were they were watching the videos and doing all this but we have software that tracks all this and that person had not watched any of the videos they hadn't done anything and that's that's a big problem right they've got to at least try my courses sitting there by itself if you don't watch the material and you don't implement anything it tells you to do will not make you any money guaranteed it's not going to make you any money so we do have that refund policy that you have to at least try it and implement the stuff and we also track you and we know if you've tried it because we can tell if you've watched the videos it's quite simple the next page you're going to want to have is a terms and conditions page terms and conditions are simple as you know what i'm going to do with your information do we share your information with other people all that good stuff that people want to know about that's really important to have a page on that too next one is of course a shipping policy shipping policy lets people know based on where they are in the world when they can expect to get that particular product now as you're using these print on demand companies they will have a shipping policy too and they'll tell you it takes three to five days to produce it and another three days to you know get it to the customer so you'll want to take whatever that policy is and add a day or two to it so that the customer knows how soon they're going to get the product now some people say well you know i get scared because somebody wouldn't buy if they heard it was 10 days well the point is if you don't tell them and you don't get it to them in 10 days they're going to refund anyhow so it's better just to let them know upfront let them know it's a high demand product and it's going to take 10 days to get to them or whatever the whatever the shipping policy is and the next thing you're going to want to have as far as your pages is what a frequently asked question page this is so important guys because otherwise you're going to be answering the same questions over and over and over and over they're going to be sending you emails and you're going to have to keep answering the same question so what we do is we have a frequently asked question page and we can just direct them to it if they ask any questions whatsoever we can direct them to it and they can get all their questions answered we also have a help desk we do all this through kartra kartra is great marketing software i highly recommend it you'll find a link to it below in the description you can click on the link and you can go there and see what it does if you like kartra which i'm sure you will and you want to build your pages there which is a really good idea you can get it for a trial for only one dollar so do want to check that out now let's talk about how you can market your products that's super important too we got the pricing down and the creation and all but now we got to market it the first way you can market it is through ads facebook ads youtube ads google ads but i will warn you about this do not run ads until you've gotten some training i do have a course on facebook ads you'll find it in the description below you're welcome to check that out if you just run money on ads you're going to lose money in the beginning that's just a fact everybody does because you don't know how to do it so you can either choose to lose money on ads that don't work in the beginning and hopefully try to figure it out which some people never do or what you can do is you can take a course and it teaches you how to do it and you skip over all those pitfalls that's the best way to do it if you want to advertise the next thing you can do is use influencer marketing a lot of influencers out there will give you a shout out or they'll do a post or they'll talk about your product this can be done on instagram it can be done on twitter it can be done on youtube there's plenty of influencers out there that would gladly take your business and talk about your product to their audience another way to sell your products is through affiliate marketing you can use a site like share a sale you can use a site like click bank where you can put your product up for sale and affiliates go there and look for products to market that's a great way to do it you're going to have to pay a commission which print on demand you know you're going to be pretty tight anyhow but if you can afford to pay 10 20% to somebody else and keep it keep in mind when you're paying this other person this is business that you wouldn't have had right because they're going to be sending it out to their list or their people are running an ad for you so you know when you say well gee i don't i don't want to give up any of my profits you're not really giving up your profits you're still gaining more profit as long as what you pay out in commission is less than what your profit margin is it's a good thing it's just added business the last way you can actually promote your products is through content marketing right content marketing you can write blogs you can write stories there's so many things you can do you can do videos about your product you know maybe you talk about your product on your channel i i do that a little bit right with my products because i tell you in the description below there's a course on facebook ads so i'm kind of doing content marketing right now i'm teaching you how to do this print on demand but i'm also giving you some products that will help you along if you want to purchase those products so those are there for you too so content marketing is really good that's what i'm doing right now i'm doing content marketing i'm giving you content but i'm also doing marketing pretty cool and i want to add a bonus to this podcast podcast are really pretty cool i'm not doing one right now you know i'm born into the youtube channel however podcast are very good you could be talking about any subject you know maybe it's animal rescue and that's your podcast or how to take care of your dogs and cats or whatever and then maybe off to the side you had t-shirts that had some of the sayings or some of the beliefs that you had and you could market those t-shirts you could market those mugs you could market hats and caps and wallets and whatever you want to do and that gives you another platform to sell your products so podcasts are pretty good and it doesn't you know a lot of people say well i don't have an audience of millions of people you don't need an audience of millions of people you know you you have a thousand true followers and you know they say you can make a hundred thousand a year off just a thousand people so it really is how you work that audience and what you offer to that audience but it doesn't take as many people as what you would think now the cool thing about print on demand at the end of the series here i want to go over some of this is that anybody can do this anybody can do this you don't have to be an artist you don't have to be a graphic artist you don't have to be some e-commerce genius you don't have to have any experience because there's so many automations nowadays guys from you know sites like etsy where you can put your products or you can use cartridge and build your own pages and then all these print on demand companies make your product for you it's really just a matter of effort and what i've seen over the past decade that i've been doing this more than a decade now is that the majority of the people that don't do well or the people that just quit they just quit they just they try one or two things or they think they're going to do something they never get to it they're quitters okay they're quitters and they're lazy if you're a quitter and you're lazy don't do this this isn't for you this is for people who want to work hard however the payoff is that you can make a lot of money if you want to do that but you're going to have to give up your time you're going to have to give up your effort you're going to have to try some things and everything's not going to work you know don't believe that every time you come up with a design that it's just going to skyrocket because it's not it doesn't work that way you have to come up with a lot of designs and a lot of products and you have to put in a lot of time to do this this is where I lose subscribers because they're like Jay Jay are saying I'm going to have to work hard I don't want to have to work hard that's not what I want to do at all I want that thing where you work four hours a month and you make a million dollars a year that's the thing I want and I say it doesn't exist it doesn't exist it never has exist they sell you that pipe dream because they want your money okay they want you to give them money so that they can tell you that you don't have to do anything and that you're going to make a lot of money it's not going to happen realize it sorry it's the truth now what I'd like for you to do is really you got to 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الحمد لله ربما بجوه الصنات والصنات ويصبحت ربما بجوه صيني ربما بجوه الصيني ربما بجوه الصيني الاقابل الباطئ الاقابل والدين يكون عندما يراد أن يجعله يتحمل من المجال من الناس. وَالْمَاصِطُ مُقُونُ مُوَسِرُوا الْرِسْقِعِ أَلَمْ وَارَادِ وَالْمَاصِطُ is the one who expands the sustenance for whom he desires. قال تعالى و الله أم مُسْتَا يقول الله يُبسِتُ الْرِسْقَ الْمَينِ شَيْعَ وَيَقَدِيرُ So Allah expands sustenance for whom he pleases and he constrains it. يقد يحمد رئيب و قال تعالى و الله أم مُسْتُوا الْرِسْقَ دَيْ و والله لا رقم فل' أم الله يقول و قول لي أخبره يواجه رئيب للسماحة لكما يصدرون أخبارك و قول لله يقبير و يوصل و يقول الله و يكوز و يكوز و يكوز و قال بعضهم و one of them said و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع و يجمع أحد من الإسلامة أو الإصدارة أحد أخرى من الله فهو يجب أن يكون هناك إسلامة أن يكون هناك إسلامة أن يحب someone as they should love Allah ومن النهاة من يوكليه من دوني لها وداده وإن يحبونكم قربي الله والذين عاموا وشدوا قرب اللاله لذلك من الناس يأخذون أشخاص أنهم يحبون كما يجب أن يحبون الله لذلك one constrains oneself from that even if there is an inclination in the person when that's cool so that's it في كل شيء يبدو الله and then we are expensive and open for everything that pleases Allah so we open our hearts to be receptive to everything that pleases Allah and that's how with a basket our hearts are open and expensive and receptive to everything that pleases Allah and they are constrained and closed from worshipping anything other than Allah and the one who debases and elevates خليمان أو قالد إيمان السلوطي إلدي يخفضوا القفارة من استمعان the one who invases those who arrogantly reject the truth and the religion by distancing them so being distanced from Allah is a form of debasement and one thing shaitan must do is debase us he does that by distancing us from Allah makes us think about the dunya and become absorbed in the dunya all of our pursuits are the dunya and so as we become deeper and deeper and deeper immersed in the dunya in the world we are being distanced from Allah and so how does he do that he wants us to stay trapped at the level of the نفس المحمير شهواني أو نفس المحمير شهواني to stay trapped at the level of the بيشتو a lustful soul or in the Quranic term نفس المحمير شهواني which is vile and evil because why it's consumed by its passions to the point that it disregards the guidance of the divine law so I want to drink this it's just haram, it's alcohol so I disregard the guidance that says haram and to avoid but I'm so trapped in my body I like it so much I like the way it makes me feel I love the way it empowers me it gives me a bonus and so that's the carnal advertise and when the soul is trapped in that that love will never reach the نفس المحمير شهواني it starts to rebuke itself why did you do that why did you drink that you know it's haram and it's bad for you it's destroying your brain it's destroying your liver what's wrong with you it's so good it's still haram it rebukes it until it inclines for نفس المحمير شهواني it's an inclination towards نفس المحمير شهواني and نفس المحمير and as it continues to rebuke itself then it gradually inclines towards نفس المحمير the inspired soul the soul that is in a state where نفس المحمير شهواني one of these characteristics it can't hear the messages of divine light it doesn't hear the message of quran because it's so trapped the message of the quran is appealing to the soul to the spirit of the human but it's so trapped in its physical fleshly nature it can't hear that in the message but when it reaches to نفس المحمير شهواني now it's in بالصر now it's been opened and when it's opened it can receive the messages of divine guidance and that's what needs it to the next days and that's نفس المحمير شهواني once it's receptive to the message of divine guidance it comes to peace and it comes to rest so it's now نفس المحمير شهواني the pleased soul and when it's the pleased soul it's pleasing to Allah when it's pleased with Allah when it's pleased with Allah and when it's pleased with Allah and does the things that are consistent which you couldn't do at this stage and so now Allah is pleased with it and when Allah is pleased with the soul now the soul has يجب أن تكون مفتاحة لأن المفتاح فقط يأتي من الله يمكننا أن نفعل ذلك إلى نفسنا فهذا هو المفتاح من السلوح ونفس المرضية ونفس المرحلة ونفس المرضية ونفس المرضية ونفس المرضية ونفس المرحلة بسم الله الرحيم وكذلك وما يجب أن تحفيذ نفس المرحلة ويجب أن تكون نفس المرحلة و نفس الله، و طيب، و نفس اللقاء والدبي والحب و العلم. سأطلب من الله ان يشبه اللقاء في المورد. سأطلب من الله ان يهدي من هذا البحر ال-قرن، some people and they do the same. سأطلب من الله ان يهدي من this البحر ال-قرن. فهذا هو أول شيء ، هذا كتاراتنا. وذلك كتاراتنا again يأتي من الله. وهذا تظهر كيف يوجد جعوة بين لا يُخِلُوا أحدا عمانُكُ الجنة. ولا أنت يا رسول الله ولا أنه أن يتقل لي الله يرحمته وفضلي. لا يُخِلُوا أحدهم وفضلي. ودخلوها بما كنتم تعاملون. وفضل لأنه ما تُخُلِوا. وماذا هو؟ يجب أن يكون. الأشياء لست مهمة، لكنها لا يُخِل. بعض الأشياء لست مهمة، لكنها لا يُخِل. أشياء لست مهمة، لكنها لا يُخِل. أشياء لست مهمة، لكنها لا يُخُل. اللهم يُخِل. وماذا أنه يُخِل؟ أنه يره يُخِل. يُخِل. يُخِل. يُخِل. يُخِل. يُخِل. يُخِل. إستعملون القرآن وحاولة أتسأل القرآنdes in their life. their action .. اللحظ يرفعو بها ذا الكتاب invites the mercy of Allah to elevate them. اللحظ يرفعو بها ذا الكتاب وعملي لا يرفعوني. My actions not elevating me, is Allah through his mercy. ولكن my action is the key to Allah's mercy. Does that make sense? So, and the second humility. ما نقصت صدقة من ذا. هذا من ذا إذا. تأكير الخبر. يعني ما تقدير. ما نقصت صدقة مالا. ما نقصت صدقة مالا. أخبرني ذا. يخبرون الناس. هل أنت بطريقة أخرى؟ لا. الناس are are extraneous to emphasize the ruling that charity will never decrease above. ما نقصت صدقة من ذا. وما زاب الله عبدا بعثن إلا إذا. و الله will only increase a servant who pardons others in honor and nobility. All of these are counterintuitive. This is called the counterintuitive. حديث. Why? Because it goes against reason. If you spend your wealth, your wealth has decreased. What Allah says, if you spend your wealth, it won't increase. It won't decrease. ما نقصت صدقة من ذا. So it's counterintuitive. But in reality, why? Two things. If you give charity and صدقة, the wealth that remains with you, you'll do more with it than you would have done with the original amount. Because we waste money. Sometimes you have a lot of money. You spend it all. You have nothing to show. And what do you ask yourself? Where did it go? It just slipped through my fingers. And secondly, الله will give it back to you more than you gave. You go to the fundraiser. You give $5,000. And then the IRS sends you a check for $6,000. Oh, you made a mistake when you attacked Mr. Abdullah. So we'll be funding you $6,000. We'll say, الله will help you. ما نقصت صدقة من ذا. وما زر الله عبدن وعفن وإن ذا. So we think about if we forgive people they think I'm a pushover it'll make me weak. They think I'm a chump.  They think I'm a pushover. They think I'm weak. But Allah will give you is. You'll be great and mighty.  وما زر الله عبدن وعفن إلا إذا. وما تواضع أحضن لله إلا رفع الله. And who shared. So the point we're trying to make is here. But it's still counterintuitive. You're hungry yourself again. People think you're low. No body. But Allah will elevate you. And so رفع the one who elevates. We invite that elevation through the Quran and through the Millet. Amongst the other things.  So خلق فقال هنا ومن جيت التخلق أن يخفض. ما عمر الله تعالى بخفضه. كالنكس والهواء. جميل. He said that you debase and lower that which Allah has ordered you to lower specifically your nefs and your hewa. حمو your nefs and your inclination. And so by not following them. And they're lower and the nefs in its lower stages of development. Once it's in its higher stages of development. Then you don't have to consciously make an effort to follow it because it leads you to that which is consistent with you. And that's the Hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم. با يُبِن وَحَدُكُمْ حَتَا يَقُونَ هَوَهُ تَبِعْنِ مَجِدْ تُبِينَ. So when the nefs is trained the nefs and the hewa instinctively follow that which is consistent with the Divine Law. But it comes over time and trains طربية. با يُبِن وَحَدُكُمْ حَتَا يَقُونَ هَوَهُ يَقُونَ. طبيعاً لِمَجِدْ تُبِينَ. But when it's not trained the hewa and the nefs are trained وَحَدُكُمْ وَأَمَّا الْمَنْخَافُ وَمَقَامَ رَطِي وَنَّهِنْ نَفْسَ عَنِنْ هَوَهُ. So they don't deal and ask for one who fears the time they will stand before they are born. Before they fear the station of their Lord. مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ مَقَامَ الْمُقُوفِ إِلَّوَ اللَّهِ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَمَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَكَانَةَ اللَّهِ سُبْحَانَهُ وَتَعَلَهِ وَالْنَهِنْ نَفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَهَ and denies the soul the things the hewa encourages towards of sin and rebellion so they have to fight it but once it's conditioned and trained there's no more fight it instinctively follows that which consists of the divine law وَأَنْ بَمَنَ الْقَافَقَ لَا يُبْنِ رَحْبُ مُحَدْتَ يَوْقُونَ هَوَهُ تَرْيَا الْمِنَ جِبْتُ بِتِ So yes and that's your soul which is the essence of your humanity and it's amenable and receptive to external messages that either elevated or debased the hewa is whims that originate within ourselves and caprices that suggest to the next so whims and caprices which can be birthed in our mind which can be birthed by our heart suggest to the next that's why Allah mentioned in the Qur'an وَأَمْ مَنْ مَنْ خَافَقَ وَالْحُفِيرِ مَقَالَ رَحْبِ وَنَهِنْ نَفْسَقْ أَنِ الْهَوَةَ and he realized their soul this quality within us that as we said it can trap us at low level of development or it can elevate us but the one who denies it the following the inclinations that come to it so sometimes these whims that can be referred to almost synonymously not quite as a wadid so a wadid is a suggestion so it can be a wadid matici it can be an angelic suggestion a wadid shaitan it can be a demonic suggestion so these are exterior so the hawa has a truth outside of us and the nuts is integral to us the hawa suggests but the nuts then follows and so the debases that which Allah orders to be debased such as the nuts and this is such as the nuts that are 100% the beast of carnal nuts is the one in debases well hawa and those suggestions that come و يرفعون امر الله و به امر الله امر الله و رفعه تبقى قلبي و الروح and he elevates those things and ordered to be elevated such as the heart and the Ruh by refining them which Allah mentions for the heart يوم لا ينفعون امر و لا بانون إلا من أت الله بقلبي السلي a day no amount of wealth for children who will benefit the only one benefit who wants to come before Allah with a rectified heart and so that's a heart that's been cleansed of the stain of sin بران على القلوبهم so their sin, their heart is to Allah with a rectified heart and so it's elevated through its rectification and the Ruh is elevated and some will say the Ruh is the animating spirit and some say that these are all synonymous with the expressions of different stages of development طيب اللهم سليها الله سيدي و ضحمه so right in the Suyuti he said رحم الله المعزل المذل اللهم يعزل من يشاء و يضل من يشاء the one who gives honor to whom so ever he pleases and the one who humiliates whom so ever he pleases so this is very close to a coffee dorate so the one a coffee the one who debases and move in the one who humiliates so the basement and humiliation are very close and then a rathia so the one who elevates and the one who gives honor because why honor elevates us so these are very close and mean كل اللهم تبت المك من تشاء وتنزل المك من تشاء وتعزل من تشاء وتوذل من تشاء بيديها الخير إنك عليها كل شيء من قليل so we are all the possessors of all sovereignty dominion you give it to whom so ever he pleases you mention this earlier and you withdraw it for whom so ever he pleases you honor and give honor and might you can even say many different shades of meaning you can even give might to whom so ever he pleases and you dishonor humiliate whom so ever he pleases with you is all good you over all things have power you get a higher quality of commission so اللهم عزل من تشاء وتوذل من تشاء ومعزل ومذل اخبق قل so adorning ourselves to whom so ever he pleases and to whom so ever he pleases ومرتب العزاز that you give might in honor to those things you've been ordered to honor such as the شاعر of Allah so the the signs of Allah the signs of Allah many for example dress a person shall it should honor basic clothing that identifies as a Muslim because that's in that is honor to the extent possible under one circumstance everyone circumstance is very and that's might so a person for example they know there are a lot of people that hate Muslims I don't care I'm going out as a Muslim that's is right or wrong I'm putting on today I'm representing a person that consciously you know it's dangerous and it's not like you have I don't have to wear it that person they're humiliating themselves right or wrong now if you're just who you are that's one thing but you're consciously like you know it's dangerous out there I'm just going to blend in today I'm not saying it's a hypocrite the hypocrites don't know it anyone doing that is acting like a hypocrite they don't realize they don't have a sense because their hearts are disease the hypocrites are the ultimate disease it's one of the worst diseases of the heart they fake belief in their heart they hide disbelief in their heart disease in the heart you call it be him marudah marudah disease in the heart so when as we say that the outset خلق this name adorning ourselves with these names it gives us godly character godly as an attribute not as a noun as a descriptive we're reflecting to the extent humanly possible the characteristics of our lord that in and of itself is impoverished and that helps us to cultivate an active and active living relationship with the law سبحانه وتعالى now I'll give this Tothik and again when we talk about these things not trying to indict anybody judge anybody saying when people consciously do things one thing you just do it that's what you do when people calculate them consciously then they debase themselves and when they consciously do the opposite they give mic to themselves so may Allah give us is that نان ثم قال السميع they hear me الذي لا يعزب انتراكي بسموع وانخبية سبيرة that nothing escapes his realization nothing that can be heard escapes his realization even if it's hidden يسر سورة ونجوة يقرأ that which is secret and he hears hidden counsels بالعوة مهو الدقو من دانكه أخفاء even that which is more hidden that which is more سطور and more difficult to detect than those things and that which is more hidden than those things يسر ونغط أسلق التنواء he hears with no ليس سمحت لن يكلموا بأغيcommunي يسان فقط كما يتكلموا بغير يسان، فاَسَمْعُوا إِحَقِّهِ دَعالي عِبْارَقٌ عَلْ سِفَتِنْ يَنْ كَشِفُوا إِنْ كَشِفْ بِهَاِ كَامَهُ الْسْفِتَةِ المَسْبُعَةِ وفي المدينة المتكلمة وفي المدينة المتكلماته تحدي is an expression of an attribute through which in a perfect way all characteristics of things that can be heard are manifested are revealed حكلا وفي المدينة المتكلمة تقول دونو طروف وفي المدينة المتكلمة يعمل منطق وخساب ما هذا يعني ما هو فاعلات المتكلمة لا يوجد منطق وخساب نحن لا نحن نحن نحن لدي منطق وخساب و لقد أخذها و أخذها و أخذها و أخذها و نحن لا نترونها و لذا فعلت أنها مقبولة على المزيد من المدينة فهذا فعلت أنها مقبولة لأنها ليس صحية الليزي أفريقيا المساعدة الذي يريد أن تخفق سلاحك و أن تبقى في مكان و لا تفعل شيئ و أنا أصدقائي من قبض العالم والذي هو الارض من قبض العالم عندما يخبره أني أتكلم العالم و أني أم في المسجد أم في المسجد فأنا أم في المسجد فأنا أم في المسجد أسوأ كذلك أسوأ كذلك نحن أردت بأخي لذا أنت موضوع المنطقة الثلاثة موضوع كليتن هذا موضوع لذا أنت كما ترسل كما ترسل أنك لا تنسوا أننا علينا أن نسع كل هذه الموضوع لذا أنت تقول أننا علينا أن نسع هؤلاء الموضوع هذا هو مجرد أطلقات الأسلحة و هذا فعله مع هذه الأمرية الموضوعية الأمريكية التي تتعرفها كما نرى لا أعطيه أنه لا يوجد إستطاع لكن الله يتكلمها الله يتكلمها الله يتكلمها أطلقات الأسلحة و يوجد إستطاع في المجرد أفضل فهي يتكلمه يجب أن يتحدث عن شيء من إمام الكوشيري، تحبير وحب العبد أن يعلم أن الله سمير ويحفظ على نسانه ويداوي على المراقبة ويطالب نفسه بداقي المحاسبة ويعلم أن الله سمير كل شيء ويجب أن يتواجده في المحاسبة ويشترك في محاسبة السربيين أو محاسبة السربيين من الله ويحسن أن يتعبد الله كأنك تراغه فإن لم تكن تراغه فإن هو يراغه ويشاهده ويضعه ولكنهم يتواجدون إلى المراقبة السربيين الله سبحانه وتعالى ويضعه من خلاله كثيرا محاسبة لأنه يعلم أن الله سمير كل شيء الله سبحانه وتعالى ويعلم أنه لا يخلق نحو السمع إلا يسمع تلام الله وكتابه وحديثة ورصوء إلهي صلى الله عليه وسلم وأنه يعلم أن الله only created his hearing that he hears the book of Allah الله's speech and the book of Allah and the tradition of the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah best the primary purpose of our hearing وما خلق الجن والإنساء إلا يعملون I've only created the jinn and humans that they worship and so our worship is what do we have to do when it comes to messages that are conveyed to us and that our ears will come created to hear that other things explain us so that doesn't mean we use our ears father we have eat festivals so there's dancing and singing and nasheed and we listen but the primary and the ultimate purpose of our ears is to hear the Quran and to hear the Hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم because that's the foundation of our worship and we've only been created to worship وما خلق الجن والإنساء إلا يعملون I've only created the jinn and humans that they worship and so this is what our ears are for he reminds us of that وما صلى الله عليه وسلم وقال أحمد زروك من جيه تخبق أن يكون السميع أن ما يُؤمروا بي that a person adorning himself his character is that a person hears that which he's been commanded to hear وَبَسِيرًا لِمَا يُطْلَبُ مِنْهُ and he sees that and here you can say there's an aspect of insight that which has been requested from him or to use an analogy that's very appropriate from the English language وَبَسِيرًا Here she keeps their eye on the prize so we keep looking at what's commanded of us and looking at what we're going to go what's the prize keep your eye on the prize the prize is the pleasure of Allah وَمَعْنُوا الْجَنْة اللهم إِنْي أَسْهَلُكَ وَيْدَاكَ وَنْ جَنْة اللهم إِنْي أَسْهَلُكَ وَيْدَاكَ وَنْ جَنْة that's the prize keep the eye on the prize this is essentially what الشيخ أحمد أحمد زروك وَمَا يَقَعُ مِنْ عَمْرِ اللَّهِ بِيْهِ عَتَّى يُقْرِمَهُ مَوْلَاهُ بِأَنْ يَقُونَنَاهُ سَمْعًا وَغَصَرًا وَيَدًا وَأَيْدًا من جيت المحضة and so he also so that he sees that which is requested of him and that which occurs from the commandment of Allah concerning him until his Lord honors him and that he has seeing and hearing his hands and his assistant from the direction of his love for him أسراره أسراره and he manifested أسراره عليه and manifest his secrets to him أسراره عليه his secrets to him so keeping the eye on the prize opens up these gifts from Allah in the time of Allah bless us to attain them المقال البصير the scene الذي يشاهد ويرع the one who witnesses and sees us حيون لا يعزب عنه ما تحت تورا the one who is alive and nothing escapes him even that which is beneath the surface of the earth وابساره ملزون عن أن يكون له بهدقة بهدقة وإشفان and his scene is as high as removed far removed from occurring through the intermediary of a pupil or eyelids or other parts of the eye that enable us to see so Allah's scene is without any of that وَأَنْ لَيْسَكَنْ مِنْهِ شَيْقَنْ وَأُرْهُ أَسْسِمُونَ بَأَسِمُونَ there is nothing unlike unto me yet he hears and he sees in a way that's suitable to his incomparable nature his incomparable majesty as he was yet and he doesn't need eyes وَتَقَبْدَسَا أَنْ يَرْجِعَ لَنْ تِبَعِ السُورِي وَالْأَدْوَانِ يِدَاتِ and he's far he's far removed from memory وَالْتَرْكِ الْقُبْدُسَ وَالْقُبْدُسَ وَالْقُبْسُوْ بِمْعَنَ وَالْنَزَاهَ وَالْطَعَرَ so Allah is far removed and Allah is pure from needing images to be imprinted on his essence as they're imprinted on the pupils of our eyes عز وجل من وَتَقَبْدَسَا أن يرجع إلى انتباع إلى انتباع سوبي والألوان في ذاته كما ينطبع في حلقة الإنسان فإن ذلك من التغيير وتأتي للمقتضة للحضقات لأن all of that would involve those things aren't imprinted on his essence as images are imprinted on the pupil of the human being because all of that would require change something wasn't there with his that and when he quote unquote slide it became imprinted on him so there's a change and change is a characteristic of creative things and it was also inquired of a lot of being affected by something to be here with you and a lot so when we see things that image has an effect on our eyes when we see things that image is a change from the previous state that existed before we started so it requires change and effect and Allah is free from all change and Allah is free from being affected Allah is مؤثير وليسه مؤثار he's the one who affects things in his creation he's not affected by anything in his creation there was a law and there was nothing that existed to affect him and he is now as he was then so after his creation he didn't change after he created his creation Allah didn't change وَبُوَ الْأَنْ عَلَا بَا عَرَيْهِ كَانْ he is now as he was then اللهم صلي على رسول الله


Thanks for having me guys. Thanks to Dean for bringing me out. My name is Mike Farg. I went to the school for my entire life. My mom worked here for a very long time as a Spanish teacher. My dad was highly involved in the school with camps and leagues and coaching and different things of that nature. Pretty much grew here and like Dean said, I do kind of a fitness thing now. In my eyes, I'm still just kind of a coach rather than a powerlifter, basketball player, whatever it might be. I've had a lot of opportunities over the last five to ten years to talk to a lot of different groups all over the nation. High school kids, college kids, professional strength coaches, professional athletes, a bunch of different cool people that I get to speak to. But often I'm speaking about a topic. Often I'm speaking about lifting, health, nutrition, discipline, work ethic, whatever it might be. And I talked to Dean about what to talk about today and he said myself. And that's going to be a little difficult.  I'm going to talk about myself a little bit. I'm not good at it. So if you have any questions, think about them. Hold them to yourself. We're going to take them at the end and that's going to allow me to talk a little bit better because talking about myself is, I'm good at a lot of things. Let's be honest. I'm not good at talking about myself. So we'll figure it out as we get there. Always a lot of your guys' ages. I think I was probably in third grade. What's the youngest grade we got in here? Yeah. So I think when the camp was here, whatever year that is, 1998, somehow connections, I snuck in as like a third or fourth grader and the youngest age was sixth grade. So I've been a part of this camp as either going to it up until about eighth grade and then coaching it for probably 10 years after that. So 15 years plus I've been here, fell in love with the sport of basketball, probably around second grade. As many of you have heard the name Michael Jordan. He's built a name in the brand. I just started watching him on TV every single day I could. Started to work out in basketball. I didn't know it was working out. I didn't know it was this thing called training, but every day after school or all summer long, I'd be in my backyard working on different dribbling moves that I saw. Guys like Gary Payton or guys like John Stockton doing on TV, trying to get better, trying to get better every single day just because I knew I love this thing. And the benefit of loving something is, one, you like to do it, but two, if you do it a lot, you're going to get good at it. And so I started to become pretty good. And that's kind of why I think I snuck into that camp as a third grader. Fast forward a little bit. I never really played organized basketball. I had these camps. I never really got onto a team or anything until I had a tryout in sixth or seventh grade. I wish I remembered the name, but it's one of the AAU teams here in the area. Three or four of my best friends were going to try out. And I didn't make the team. I thought it was really good. I was killing things, going left and right, running all these drills, getting all these buckets, getting all these assists. Didn't make the team. All my friends did. That was probably my first taste of what many call failure, what I like to turn around as maybe a lesson. So sixth grade, didn't really make a team, didn't know what to do. I was sad. I probably cried. I probably punched a wall, probably punched a pillow, probably yelled at my sister and my mom. And then luckily enough at this school, we had a seventh grade team. For me, I guess this was maybe my first taste of redemption. My dad coached us. We had a pretty good team. We had probably three or four guys on my team that really loved basketball as much as me. And my dad got us into, I believe, the eighth grade public school league here. We just started smashing heads. We weren't winning all the games. We didn't win a championship, but we're a group of seventh graders coming into this eighth grade league. The public school league, as many of you know, are probably in the Waldorf system. It's a smaller school. We're playing kids with thousands of kids, tryouts, paid coaches, all this stuff. And we're making a name for ourselves. Like, who are these kids from Waldorf? Whatever, whatever. Next year, we weren't allowed in the league. There's another little taste of sourness in my mouth. I'm supposed to be the big eighth grader. I'm supposed to go win a championship. I'm supposed to be, you know, whatever, the queen song. We are the champions, lift my dad up, whatever it might be. We didn't get to do that. That same eighth grade year was a big year for me. I played a lot of basketball, and I focused on nothing more than going to go play professional basketball. That's the only thing that popped in my head. I think that's the time, you know, parents are talking, you guys are talking, what are you going to do for a living? Are you going to go to school? What are you going to study? I didn't even, I didn't even cross my mind. I said, I'm going to go to Arizona because that's where good point guards go. And I'm going to go straight to the NBA. Like, that's just how it goes. That's what happens. My first memory of Dean Stark, we had talked. I was the kid sitting on the baseline at every single waves basketball game. Every away game, me and my dad would drive 40 minutes, hour and a half just to watch the waves. I'm counting stats. I got favorite players. I probably made a jersey, wearing signs. I did it all. I did it all. No joke. Every single game here, it wasn't even here. It was at La Sierra at the time. We didn't even have this facility. Just aging myself. Just aging myself. Talk to Dean. And I said, Dean, I'm going to play varsity next year for your team. Because of that battle I had with this kid named TC, and I know TC played varsity as a freshman. He started. Not a lot of kids got to do that here. Under 10? Under 10 probably in the history. I said, well, I'm the best kid at this school, so I'm going to do it. And so me and my dad had a conversation with Dean. I probably didn't talk, so I was pretty shy. But my dad probably talked for me and said, my son's going to play. And I said, in my head, yes, I am Dean.  I don't know if he said it's going to be very difficult to challenge me, or as a nice way of saying, get lost kid, you're going to be playing JV. But in my head, it was like, get lost kid, you're going to be playing JV. It made me mad. It made me real mad. I remember he played summer league games over at Del Campo. Dean invited me in there. And all I knew how to do was work my tail off. I was a pretty good passer. I could handle the ball pretty good. My jumper was whatever. I was this exact same size. I was five, eight, maybe a buck, 60. So we're playing against, I don't even know who, maybe Capital Christian. They had a seven footer full ride to UCLA.  Now I'm this size, and it's seven footers everywhere. Played pretty well, long story short, ended up making the team, ended up starting that season. And that was kind of my first taste of setting a goal and accomplishing a goal. Writing down, putting in my head every night before I went to sleep. I'm playing varsity, and I'm going to start, whether Dean knows it, whether Steve Kerr, coach of the Warriors knows it, and whoever knows it, it doesn't matter. I'm going to do it, and it's going to happen. Fast forward a little bit. Great career here at playing basketball. Looking back, I'm about to be 30. It's probably some of the best times of my life. Most of my lessons and what I do now for a living, business wise or coaching wise, we're all learned here either through a player or coaching alongside Dean. And we'll dig into those maybe a little bit later. Some of my faults or lessons that I've learned along the way is I was very, very tied into that NBA thought, but I didn't always want to put in the work. Or maybe I misplaced my work. My confidence, my ego, sometimes will start to tip. You always have to find balance in your life. And that's something I struggle with to this day. Balance with work and family. Balance with kindness and weakness. Balance with hard work and laziness. Balance on where to put your work. Ego. I had a couple of offers to play at some schools to walk on to some schools, play at a D3 level. Some junior colleges were lightly recruiting me. And 17-year-old Mike again had that in his head, no, I should be talking to Phil Jackson. Why are you talking to me? Why isn't Phil Jackson hitting up Dean to come get me? This is wrong. And that's where things like perspective and that balance come into play. Ended up playing a year of junior college basketball. It's a blessing and a curse that you all in this school has Dean because then once you get another coach, it just didn't work. He didn't understand me as a player. He didn't understand me as a human. And that's something Dean does very, very well. And so we just didn't get along. He didn't give me the minutes I thought I deserved. He didn't even give me the opportunity I thought I deserved. And I ended up dropping out of that college, transferring schools and getting a coach with Dean. That's kind of where my lessons of coaching and learning about humans came into play, as well as my love for fitness started to work out as hard as I could. I basically went to college or classes, maybe eight to 10 or 11 in the morning. I'd then go to the gym and lift. I'd then go to whatever practice was first here. It started about three. I don't know if it was guys or girls, coach and play with the team. Then I would go for the next practice and actually coach if it was the guys per se, five to seven. And then I would drive to the gym and get my shots up. And that was a regular routine for probably three years where I was deciding on where to go to school next or what I was going to do. That's where I kind of learned the grind, which is something Dean and I were just talking about. The grind is not going all out every single day, not coming in here and shooting free throws. If I shoot a thousand free throws today and then never shoot a free throw again, am I going to be good at shooting free throws? Probably be okay. But what if every single day for the next five years, you come in here and even just shoot 10, just shoot 10 free throws as well as you can, you'll probably be pretty good from five years from now.  So I started to learn that grind, what pace I could handle, how hard I could go, and stretching it out, days, weeks, months, years. I got pretty good at basketball. I got pretty good at basketball. That was probably, sadly, the best I had ever been, 20 to 23. And I wasn't playing on a team. I'm killing high school kids as a coach, killing open gyms, playing in some semi-pro or A leagues with my man Demario over there inviting me to some leagues, playing with XNBA guys, full ride D1 guys, playing really well. And then something just clicked in my head and it just told me this probably wasn't my path, that I think coaching was my path. And that's when I opened my first business. I was probably 21, 22, and I opened a training facility. Started working with some athletes here. Started working with some, my dad's friends, whatever might be in the community, teaching them how to lift, teaching them how to be healthier, feel better, have healthy habits. Long story short, got a job at another gym. This gym created a lot of content, content meaning YouTube videos. We started a podcast, things of that nature. And the last probably seven plus years of my life can basically be found on the internet. I've done, traveled the world making different videos on how to instruct athletes, lifters, normal people that just want to be healthier. I've done thousands of hours of podcasting, which those, I don't know if everyone knows what podcast is. It's just like a radio talk show kind of deal. We got a fan. As well as kind of the social media world that's kind of taken over. That's kind of what I do for a living. At my core, I'm a coach, but in the grand scheme of things, I kind of create content and try to teach people different things and share my experience. The choice that I made when I was probably 23 to do it, whatever it is I do right now, it's even hard to explain. I put my face on the internet and a lot of people watch it. But at my core, my goal, the choice that switched in my head was to do it. I need to help people get better. I need to stop worrying about me going to the NBA or me being whatever it is that I wanted to be. I have to let that go. I have to help people towards their goals and I also have to make people's lives a little bit better. There's a lot of things that happen in my life from about age 18 to 23 that really changed my perspective. I lost a lot of loved ones in that time. This community lost a lot of loved ones in that time that were very close to me in this community. And when you go through hard things in life, you can be sad. You should be sad. You can still on the couch and cry for months, years. You can do whatever you need to do to get going. But if you don't learn from that, if it doesn't change your perspective or change you as a human, like that word failure, it's all kind of a waste. We need to really start to focus on not failing, not losing, not missing a shot. If I miss a shot short, what do I do with my next shot? If I'm hitting the front of the room, every single jumper, what do I do with my next shot? Get a little more leg into it and adjust. That's it. We're going to put a little bit more leg into it and we're going to adjust until that ball goes through this silly hoop and I start getting buckets again.