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Why King Solomon Never Worked for Money (The Biblical Escape from the Salary Trap) · Bible Ascent

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  Speaker 1: What if everything you were ever taught about earning money
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  Speaker 1: was completely backwards. What if the reason you are exhausted, underpaid,
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  Speaker 1: and still counting down to your next paycheck has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with how hard you work and everything to
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  Speaker 1: do with a mental trap that was set for you
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  Speaker 1: before you even started your first job. And what if
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  Speaker 1: the man who cracked the code on this trap lived
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  Speaker 1: three thousand years ago, wrote it all down in a
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  Speaker 1: book most of us own but rarely apply, and never
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  Speaker 1: once traded a single hour of his life for a paycheck.
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  Speaker 1: His name was Solomon, and today we are going to
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  Speaker 1: decode exactly how he escaped the system that is quietly
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  Speaker 1: draining the life out of millions of hard working, God
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  Speaker 1: fearing people. Right now, but before we go any further,
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  Speaker 1: if you have been searching for a community that takes
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  Speaker 1: both faith and financial freedom seriously, you are in the
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  Speaker 1: right place. Bible assent exists to help you rise spiritually, mentally,
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  Speaker 1: and financially through the wisdom God already placed in his word.
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  Speaker 1: Hit that subscribe button right now and drop a comment below,
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  Speaker 1: telling me one word that describes your financial life today.
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  Speaker 1: One word. I want to hear it and I promise
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  Speaker 1: it will shape what we create for you. Next. Now
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  Speaker 1: let us talk about the trap. Meet a man I
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  Speaker 1: will call David, not the King, just an ordinary thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight year old living in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: David worked hard. He always had. He started his first
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  Speaker 1: job at sixteen, worked his way through college, landed a
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  Speaker 1: corporate position that paid him a salary he was genuinely
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  Speaker 1: proud of when he first got the offer letter. He
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  Speaker 1: made decent money, not rich, but comfortable, or so he thought.
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  Speaker 1: Then one op Tuesday morning in February, his company announced
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  Speaker 1: a round of layoffs. By Thursday, David's access badge stopped working.
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  Speaker 1: Fourteen years of loyalty, fourteen years of early mornings and
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  Speaker 1: late nights, and it was over in seventy two hours.
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  Speaker 1: He had no savings that would last beyond four months.
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  Speaker 1: He had no income streams outside of that one job.
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  Speaker 1: He had no system, He had no plan. He had
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  Speaker 1: only the terrible, sinking realization that he had been running
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  Speaker 1: a wheel his entire adult life, and the moment the
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  Speaker 1: wheel stopped, he had nothing to show for it except
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  Speaker 1: a collection of pay stubs. David's story is not rare.
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  Speaker 1: David's story is the story of the American middle class.
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  Speaker 1: And if you are watching this right now and feeling
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  Speaker 1: that not in your stomach because something in that story
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  Speaker 1: sounds uncomfortably familiar, stay with me, because what I am
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  Speaker 1: about to show you from the Book of First Kings
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  Speaker 1: is going to change the framework through which you see
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  Speaker 1: every single financial decision in your life going forward. The
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  Speaker 1: salary trap is not just a financial problem. Let me
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  Speaker 1: define it clearly before we go deeper. The salary trap
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  Speaker 1: is any financial arrangement in which your income completely stops.
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  Speaker 1: The moment you stop working one stream, one source, zero leverage,
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  Speaker 1: and the moment that source disappears, whether by layoff, by illness,
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  Speaker 1: by the economy, or by simply growing old, you are
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  Speaker 1: left with nothing but the memory of how hard you
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  Speaker 1: worked to build someone else's dream. Solomon never allowed himself
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  Speaker 1: to be caught in that trap, not for a single
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  Speaker 1: day of his reign, and the reason why is buried
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  Speaker 1: in a conversation he had with God at the very
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  Speaker 1: beginning of his story, a conversation that contains the single
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  Speaker 1: most powerful financial principle in all of Scripture. First Kings,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three, verses eleven through thirteen. God appears to Solomon
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  Speaker 1: and gives him what sounds like an impossible offer. Ask
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  Speaker 1: me for anything you want. And Solomon, this young king,
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  Speaker 1: who is just in he herited the most powerful kingdom
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  Speaker 1: in the known world, does something that defies every natural
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  Speaker 1: human instinct. He does not ask for money. He does
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  Speaker 1: not ask for military power. He does not ask for
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  Speaker 1: long life or the destruction of his enemies. He asks
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  Speaker 1: for wisdom, for an understanding heart, for the ability to
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  Speaker 1: discern between good and evil so he can lead his
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  Speaker 1: people well. And God's response is breathtaking. He says, because
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  Speaker 1: you asked for this and did not ask for riches
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  Speaker 1: or honor or long life, I will give you the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom you asked for, and I will also give you
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  Speaker 1: what you did not ask for, riches and honor, so
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  Speaker 1: that there will be no one like you among the
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  Speaker 1: kings all your days. Stop right there. Read that exchange
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  Speaker 1: like a financial blueprint, not just a spiritual story. Solomon
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  Speaker 1: asked for wisdom, God gave him wisdom, and then automatically
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  Speaker 1: delivered wealth on top of it. The wealth was not
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  Speaker 1: the target. The wealth was the overflow. It was the
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  Speaker 1: inevitable result of possessing something far more valuable than money,
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  Speaker 1: the ability to solve problems that no one else could solve,
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  Speaker 1: to see clearly what others could not see, to lead
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  Speaker 1: and govern at a level no other human being on
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  Speaker 1: earth could match. Here is the principle in plain language.
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  Speaker 1: Money is not a destination. Money is a by product.
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  Speaker 1: It flows toward the person who creates the most value
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  Speaker 1: for the most people. And the salary trap exists because
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  Speaker 1: it caps the value you can create at exactly forty
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  Speaker 1: outs per week, at exactly the rate your employer decides
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  Speaker 1: you are worth. The moment you understand that your income
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  Speaker 1: sealing is not set by your boss, It is set
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  Speaker 1: by the size of the problems you are willing and
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  Speaker 1: equipped to solve, the trap starts to lose its grip
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  Speaker 1: on you. Your first action step is this, stop spending
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  Speaker 1: your mental energy on how to negotiate a bigger soundery,
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  Speaker 1: start spending it on this question instead. What wisdom do
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  Speaker 1: I need right now to solve a bigger problem for
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  Speaker 1: more people. That shift in the question is the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of your assent. Now Here is something I need you
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  Speaker 1: to feel, not just understand. Can we be honest for
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  Speaker 1: a moment. Most of us have been working harder and
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  Speaker 1: harder for years and the gap between where we are
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  Speaker 1: and where we want to be has not closed. It
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  Speaker 1: may have actually widened. And the reason is not laziness.
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  Speaker 1: The reason is not a lack of faith. The reason
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  Speaker 1: is that we are applying maximum effort to a fundamentally
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  Speaker 1: broken system. You cannot run your way to freedom on
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  Speaker 1: a hamster wheel. You can only run faster, and running
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  Speaker 1: faster is not the same thing as going somewhere. Solomon
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  Speaker 1: did not run harder. He built differently, and the next
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  Speaker 1: three strategies show us exactly how first kings chapter four,
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  Speaker 1: verse seven, and Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel,
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  Speaker 1: who provided food for the king and his household. Each
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  Speaker 1: one made provision for one month of the year. Twelve governors,
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  Speaker 1: each one responsible for one full month of provisions for
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  Speaker 1: the entire royal household. The most powerful kingdom on Earth
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  Speaker 1: ran on a system so well designed, so thoughtfully delegated,
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  Speaker 1: that Solomon himself was not the bottleneck for anything. This
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  Speaker 1: is the administration engine, and it is the second secret
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  Speaker 1: of Solomon's escape from the salary trap. Here is how
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  Speaker 1: most talented, hard working people operate. They get good at
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  Speaker 1: something really good, and because they are good at it,
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  Speaker 1: more work gets added to them. They become the go
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  Speaker 1: to person, the indispensable one, the one who has to
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  Speaker 1: be consulted before any decision gets made, and slowly without
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  Speaker 1: realizing it, they become the single point of failure in
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  Speaker 1: everything they built. Their income is capped at their own capacity.
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  Speaker 1: Their growth is limited by the number of hours in
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  Speaker 1: their day. They are not running a business, or a
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  Speaker 1: ministry or even a career. They are running a job,
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  Speaker 1: a job that lives inside their own body and dies
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  Speaker 1: the moment they stop showing up. Solomon understood something that
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  Speaker 1: most people never grasp. The highest value thing a leader
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  Speaker 1: can do is not the work itself. It is designing
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  Speaker 1: the system through which the work gets done without them.
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  Speaker 1: He was not a manager, He was an architect. His
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  Speaker 1: twelve governors were not just employees. They were proof that
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  Speaker 1: Solomon had built something large enough and strong enough to
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  Speaker 1: function without his constant presence in your life today. This
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  Speaker 1: looks like automation, delegation, and systems. It looks like building
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  Speaker 1: something that produces value while you are sleeping, praying, spending
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  Speaker 1: time with your children, or resting on the sabbath. The
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  Speaker 1: way God designed. It looks like asking a different question
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  Speaker 1: not how do I do this better? But how do
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  Speaker 1: I build a system that does this without me? Your
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  Speaker 1: second action step is to identify the one thing in
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  Speaker 1: your work or your finances that requires you to be
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  Speaker 1: personally present for value to be created. Then ask how
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  Speaker 1: do I remove myself from that equation that is where
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  Speaker 1: your leverage begins. Here is a question that might make
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  Speaker 1: you uncomfortable, and I want you to sit with it
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  Speaker 1: rather than dismiss it too quickly. What are you an
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  Speaker 1: expert in that you have never charged for? What do
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  Speaker 1: you know from your years of experience, your hardships, your study,
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  Speaker 1: your faith journey, that someone somewhere would genuinely pay to learn?
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  Speaker 1: Because if you cannot answer that question, you are leaving
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  Speaker 1: one of your most valuable assets sitting completely dormant. And
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  Speaker 1: Solomon would consider that a waste of the highest order.
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  Speaker 1: First Kings, Chapter ten, Verses twenty four and twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: And all the earth sought the presence of Solomon to
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  Speaker 1: hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.
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  Speaker 1: And they brought every man his tribute articles of silver
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  Speaker 1: and gold, garments, armor, spices, horses and mules, at a
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  Speaker 1: fixed rate, year after year, year after year, This is
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  Speaker 1: not a one time transaction. This is a repeating, annual,
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  Speaker 1: automatic flow of wealth coming to Solomon from across the
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  Speaker 1: entire known world. Not because he was selling a product,
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  Speaker 1: not because he was trading his time, but because his
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  Speaker 1: wisdom had become so demonstrably undeniably valuable that people were
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  Speaker 1: willing to travel enormous distances and pay substantial tribute just
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  Speaker 1: for the chance to sit in his presence. This is
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  Speaker 1: the world's oldest documented model of what we today call
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  Speaker 1: a personal brand generating passive income. Solomon did not chase
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  Speaker 1: the wealth. The wealth came to him because he had
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  Speaker 1: built something intangible but enormously valuable, a reputation, a body
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  Speaker 1: of wisdom, a platform of credibility, an identity so established
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  Speaker 1: that the world self organized around it and voluntarily sent
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  Speaker 1: resources in his direction. Now, think about the world we
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  Speaker 1: live in today. The infrastructure to do exactly what Solomon
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  Speaker 1: did has never been more accessible to ordinary people. A
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  Speaker 1: YouTube channel, a podcast, a book, an online course, a newsletter,
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  Speaker 1: a community built around a specific area of expertise. These
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  Speaker 1: are not gimmicks. They are modern vessels for the exact
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  Speaker 1: principle Solomon operated by three thousand years ago. They are
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  Speaker 1: ways to package your wisdom, multiply your reach, and create
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  Speaker 1: a flow of value and therefore income that does not
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  Speaker 1: require you to physically show up every single time. Your
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  Speaker 1: third action step is to start building what I call
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  Speaker 1: your wisdom equity. Write down the three to five things
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  Speaker 1: you know more deeply than most people around you, things
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  Speaker 1: you have lived, studied, mastered, or survived. Then ask who
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  Speaker 1: in the world is desperately searching for what I already know.
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  Speaker 1: Because the answer to that question is the foundation of
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  Speaker 1: your intangible asset, start building the platform that carries it.
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  Speaker 1: We need to pause here for a moment, because there
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  Speaker 1: is something underneath every strategy we have discussed today, something
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  Speaker 1: that if you miss it, you will try to apply
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  Speaker 1: these principles with the wrong engine and burn out before
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  Speaker 1: you see results. Here it is Solomon did not operate
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  Speaker 1: from fear. He did not hustle because he was desperate.
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  Speaker 1: He did not grind because he was afraid of what
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  Speaker 1: would happen if he stopped. He operated from a position
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  Speaker 1: of settled, unshakable identity. And that identity was rooted not
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  Speaker 1: in his performance, but in his covenant, in who God
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  Speaker 1: said he was before he ever accomplished a single thing Deuteronomy,
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  Speaker 1: chapter eight, verse eighteen. But remember the Lord your God,
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  Speaker 1: for it is he who gives you the ability to
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  Speaker 1: produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant which he swore
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  Speaker 1: to your ancestors. The ability to produce wealth is a
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  Speaker 1: covenant gift. It is not earned through hustle. It is
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  Speaker 1: not unlocked by the right productivity system. It flows from
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  Speaker 1: a relationship, from understanding that you are in covenant with
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  Speaker 1: the God who created every resource that exists, and that
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  Speaker 1: he has already committed to confirming that covenant through the
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  Speaker 1: work of your hands when you align with his wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: The salary trap is not just a financial trap. At
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  Speaker 1: its deepest level, it is an identity trap. It is
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  Speaker 1: what happens when a son or a daughter of the
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  Speaker 1: king forgets who they are and starts operating like an orphan,
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  Speaker 1: working to survive, hustling to prove worth, building from scarcity
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  Speaker 1: instead of abundance, making every decision from the suffocating fear
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  Speaker 1: of not having enough. Solomon never forgot who he was.
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  Speaker 1: He was an heir, he was a steward, he was
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  Speaker 1: a son of the covenant, and because he knew that,
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  Speaker 1: he never made money decisions from fear. He made them
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  Speaker 1: from vision, from wisdom, from the settled confidence of someone
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  Speaker 1: who knew that their provider was not a corporate employer
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  Speaker 1: or a market economy. It was the creator of the
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  Speaker 1: universe himself. Proverbs ten, verse twenty two puts it with
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  Speaker 1: breath taking simplicity. The blessing of the Lord makes a
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  Speaker 1: person rich, and he adds no sorrow with it. The
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom model of wealth does not ask you to sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: your health. It does not require you to be absent
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  Speaker 1: from your family for decades. It does not demand that
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  Speaker 1: you trade your peace, your integrity, or your soul for
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  Speaker 1: a bigger number in a bank account. It asks you
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  Speaker 1: to seek wisdom, to build systems, to steward your gifts,
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  Speaker 1: and to rest in the identity of someone whose provider
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  Speaker 1: has never once run short. Your fourth action step is
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  Speaker 1: the most important one. Stop agreeing with the internal voice
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  Speaker 1: that says wealth is for other people, that it is
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  Speaker 1: too late that you missed your window. Replace it today
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  Speaker 1: with this declaration. I am a steward of God's resources.
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  Speaker 1: I am equipped with wisdom to create, build, and multiply.
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  Speaker 1: I operate from covenant, not from fear. The blessing of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is increasing everything I touch. Say it like
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  Speaker 1: you mean it, because the ascent always starts in the
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  Speaker 1: mind before it shows up in the bank account. Let
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  Speaker 1: me bring everything together now with what we call the
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  Speaker 1: ascent philosophy. The salary trap is ultimately a vision problem.
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  Speaker 1: When your financial horizon shrinks to thirty days, the next paycheck,
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  Speaker 1: the next bill, the next month of survival, you make
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  Speaker 1: thirty day decisions. You never plant trees, you never build systems.
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  Speaker 1: You never think about what you are leaving behind for
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  Speaker 1: the people who come after you. You simply try to make
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  Speaker 1: it through another month. Solomon thought in generations. He built
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  Speaker 1: the temple not just for his own use, but as
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual anchor, meant to serve the people of God
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  Speaker 1: for centuries. His wisdom, recorded in Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the
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  Speaker 1: Song of Solomon, has been read by billions of people
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  Speaker 1: across three thousand years. His administrative structures fed an entire nation.
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  Speaker 1: His trade relationships created economic prosperity that outlasted his reign.
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  Speaker 1: Remember David from Atlanta, the man we met at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of this video. Here is the rest of his story.
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  Speaker 1: After losing his job, David spent three months in what
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  Speaker 1: he describes as the darkest season of his faith. He
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  Speaker 1: was angry, confused, and ashamed. But during that season he
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  Speaker 1: started studying Solomon, not as a historical figure, but as
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  Speaker 1: a financial model. He realized that for fourteen years he
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  Speaker 1: had been selling time and calling it a career. He
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  Speaker 1: had been trading his most irreplaceable asset for a fixed
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  Speaker 1: weekly rate, and he had nothing to show for it
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  Speaker 1: but exhaustion. So he changed the question. Instead of asking
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  Speaker 1: how to find another job, he started asking what wisdom
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  Speaker 1: he had been sitting on. He had spent twelve years
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  Speaker 1: solving a very specific operational problem in his industry. He
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  Speaker 1: knew things that other companies were paying consultants enormous sums
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  Speaker 1: to figure out. He packaged that knowledge, he built a
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  Speaker 1: simple online presence around it. He reached out to three
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  Speaker 1: companies who faced the problem he knew how to solve.
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  Speaker 1: Within eighteen months, David had replaced his salary, without a boss,
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  Speaker 1: without a badge, without a wheel to run on. He
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  Speaker 1: was not rich yet, but for the first time in
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  Speaker 1: his adult life, he was building. And building always beats surviving.
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  Speaker 1: That is the legacy mindset at is what the Solomon
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  Speaker 1: model produces. When you apply it with faith, patience, and wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: So here is where I leave you today. Stop asking
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  Speaker 1: how you can earn a bigger paycheck. Start asking the
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  Speaker 1: question Solomon essentially asked at the beginning of his reign, God,
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  Speaker 1: what wisdom do I need right now? What system am
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  Speaker 1: I supposed to build? What gift have you placed in
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  Speaker 1: me that I have been sitting on because I was
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  Speaker 1: too afraid to step outside the safety of a salary.
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  Speaker 1: You were not created to spend the best decades of
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  Speaker 1: your life surviving month to month. You were created to steward,
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  Speaker 1: to build, to multiply, and to leave behind a legacy
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  Speaker 1: that blesses the people who come after you. The same
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  Speaker 1: God who gave Solomon the wisdom to govern nations, manage economies,
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  Speaker 1: and generate wealth that the ancient world had never seen
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  Speaker 1: before is the exact same God who is available to
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  Speaker 1: you right now in this moment. Your assent is not
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  Speaker 1: waiting on a better economy, a better opportunity, or a
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  Speaker 1: lucky break. It is waiting on a decision, a decision
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  Speaker 1: to seek wisdom before money, to build systems, instead of
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  Speaker 1: selling hours, to package your gifts, instead of burying them,
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  Speaker 1: to walk in the identity of a covenant air instead
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  Speaker 1: of a market slave. Proverbs four, verse seven, Wisdom is
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  Speaker 1: the principal thing. Therefore, get wisdom, and with all your getting,
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  Speaker 1: get understanding. Not money first, wisdom first. Everything else follows.
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  Speaker 1: Right now. In the comments below, type the words I
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  Speaker 1: am a steward, not someday, not I want to be.
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  Speaker 1: I am. Declare it, Own it, and watch what that
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  Speaker 1: declaration begins to produce in you over the next ninety days.
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  Speaker 1: If this video shifted something in you today, share it
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  Speaker 1: with one person you know who is stuck on the
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  Speaker 1: wheel right now, someone who is working hard and wondering
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  Speaker 1: why it never feels like enough. This message could genuinely
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