From Hoping to Knowing: How I Built My First $3,000 Per Month In Residual Income

How I went from a failing business in a trailer home to manifesting my exact residual income goal in 6 months—The Mind Shift That Changed Everything…

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The Rock Bottom Moment

Back in 2009, I was living in a 1984 single-wide mobile home, and I’d been failing in business for about five years.

Frustrated doesn’t even begin to describe it. I felt like I was at the end of my rope. My grandma used to have a little saying hanging in her farmhouse:

“When you’ve reached the end of your rope, don’t let go.”

That’s exactly where I was.

I’d quit my job thinking if I went full time to work my business, that might be the secret to making it work.

Imagine my surprise when I quit my job and my meager home business income actually went down instead of going up.

What does that do to your self-esteem when you realize, “Oh my gosh, I put all my effort in and I actually went backward“?

That’s not the way I wanted it to go. But that’s what happened.

So there I was: jobless, savings dwindling, my income going down.

And then my son Kyson was diagnosed with a head condition called Craniosynostosis.

He was born with the plates in his skull fused together rather than separated. When we’re born, the plates in our skull are supposed to be separate little pieces so that as we grow, there’s room for the brain and head to get bigger. Eventually those pieces fuse together naturally. But his were already fused, and that presented a serious problem.

My wife took him to the doctor, and the doctor said he was going to need a $50,000 surgery down at Primary Children’s Hospital.

Business not working despite everything I was doing. Son needing a $50,000 surgery. No job. Savings dwindling. Living in a trailer.

What was I to do?

In a fateful prayer one night in the back room of that mobile home, next to my two sons’ bed, I received some inspiration. One of the pieces of inspiration that came to me was that I needed to begin a serious study of the book Think and Grow Rich.

That was interesting to me because I’d read the book before. The very first company I joined had a recommended reading list, and Think and Grow Rich was on that list. I read the book, said “that’s a great book,” tossed it up on my shelf, and went on to the next book on the list.

But now, in my darkest hour, I was being directed back to it. And this time, I wouldn’t just read it—I would devour it and live out it’s pages.

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The Vision That Changed Everything

As I dove deep into Napoleon Hill’s teachings, something clicked. I realized I could set a specific vision for myself. Not a vague wish. Not a “someday” dream. A specific vision.

So I did exactly that. I said, “By such and such day of this month, this year, I’m going to have in my possession this amount of monthly residual income, and it’s going to come to me.”

I started repeating the self-confidence formula that Napoleon Hill includes in the book. Every night, I would walk up and down our Idaho driveway beneath the stars, outside of our mobile home, repeating these affirmations.

But here’s what I discovered—and this is the key that changed everything for me.

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The Three-Level Experiment: How You Read Affirmations Matters

I was going through my affirmations one morning before our mastermind call, and I noticed something fascinating. I could read my affirmations in three different ways, and each way had a completely different effect.

Level 1: Reading Quietly in My Mind

I could read my affirmations just quietly in my mind, and they would have one effect. It was better than nothing, but it wasn’t transformative.

Level 2: Reading Out Loud

I could also read those affirmations out loud so that I could hear my voice. That style had a different effect—more powerful than just reading silently, but still not quite there.

Level 3: Reading with Energy and Life Force

Then I discovered the third way. I could read those words out loud with my voice, but not just reading them out loud—I was injecting them with energy and enthusiasm and life force.

That third type had a whole different effect on how I felt.

My feelings would actually change when I did that.

Isn’t that interesting? We can actually change how we feel in any given moment.

We can all perform this experiment on ourselves. And as we do this experiment, it becomes more and more clear that mind conditioning is indeed a thing.

So there I was, every night under those Idaho stars, walking that driveway, speaking my affirmations with posture, with movement of my hands and body, with my voice so I could hear it, with energy pulsing through every word.

Something was happening to me.

Something was shifting.

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From Hope to Knowing: The Shift That Changes Everything

I always remember the words of Jim Rohn on this subject.

He said

When someone has faith, it’s an animating force to their entire being. That’s faith.

And I got faith.

I started to go from this state of hoping that the money was there to knowing that the money was there. All I had to do was perform the service necessary to bring the money from other people’s bank accounts into my bank account by offering something of equal or greater value to those people.

This wasn’t wishful thinking anymore.

This wasn’t “fingers crossed, I hope this works.”

This was a deep, unshakeable knowing that the outcome I’d been visualizing was already mine. I just had to do the work to manifest it in the physical realm.

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The Proof: When Vision Becomes Reality

Within about six months of going through this exercise of mind conditioning, something remarkable happened.

The feeling came first. The shift, the inner shift came first.

And then, not too long after that, the dollars showed up in my bank account—the exact amount of money that I’d been visualizing.

Not close to it. Not in the ballpark. The exact amount.

That was the beginning.

That was the beginning of understanding this mind conditioning thing—that we can take control of our minds, and that we must take control of our minds.

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The Two Paths: Spiritual or Psycho

One of our members, Brett Hudson, says you can take the spiritual path or the psychopath. And the psychopath is real, let me assure you of that.

Maybe you know where your mind can go when you allow it to just wander, when you allow the weeds to grow, when you allow the negativity to come in. That’s the psychopath.

Maybe you know where your mind can go when you try to pay attention to all the news of the world and you wonder, “What is going on? Are we living in crazy land?”

Because yeah, it seems like we’re living in crazy land if you pay too much attention to that stuff. That’s the psychopath.

But the spiritual path, in my opinion, at least in part, is realizing that we are spiritual beings. One of my old mentors used to say we are spiritual entities having a mortal experience.

We want to tap into that. We want to tap into what’s on the inner, and not just tap into it, but realize that the power is there. Then we must take charge, learn to harness it, and put it in a direction that is useful, that is productive, that is serving to ourselves and to the people around us.

This is what mind conditioning can do. And it really needs to be done on an individual basis.

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The Oil You Must Gather Yourself

I’m reminded of the story from the Bible about the ten virgins. These virgins wanted to meet the bridegroom, and the key to getting in the door was having a little container filled with oil. Don’t have the oil, can’t get in.

Five of the virgins had the oil. Five didn’t.

When it came time for the bridegroom to arrive, the virgins who didn’t have oil realized, “Oh no, we don’t have the key. We can’t get in.” They went to the ones who had the oil and said, “Please, can we have some of your oil?”

And the ones who had the oil said, “We’re so sorry. We can’t give you this oil. You have to go get the oil yourself.”

Then the bridegroom showed up. The five that had it got in. The five that didn’t were locked out.

I remember that story because there is some fundamental truth in it. When it comes to conditioning your mind and taking charge of your direction and your life and your future, that is oil that we each must individually gather for ourselves.

No one is going to set your vision for you. You may hear a vision that inspires you, but on an individual basis, no one is going to come and tell you:

• How much money should you generate?
• By when should you generate it?
• What kind of money do you want to generate?
• How are you going to do it?

These are things that we must each individually decide.

No one is going to build the faith inside of you. It’s something only you can do. It’s an individual journey. That oil, we must gather ourselves.

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Your Turn: Begin Your Mind Conditioning Practice Today

This isn’t theory or motivational fluff.

This is the exact process that took me from a single wide mobile home with a failing business to financial freedom.

Start with these steps:

1. Get crystal clear on your vision. Write down the exact amount of monthly residual income you want to generate. Include the specific date you’ll have it by. Be precise. The universe responds to specificity. (i’m including a free guide to help with this down below)
2. Create your affirmations. Based on your vision, write out affirmations that support the vision you’ve set for yourself. (You can get exactly what I used in my story down below)
3. Practice the three levels. Read them silently first. Then out loud. Then out loud with energy, enthusiasm, and life force. Notice the difference in how you feel.
4. Make it a daily practice. Every morning. Every night if you can. Under the stars. In your car. Wherever you can be alone with your thoughts and your voice.
5. Move from hoping to knowing. This is the shift you’re aiming for. When you can feel in your bones that the outcome is already yours, you’re there.

The feeling will come first. The shift will happen internally before it manifests externally. But when it does manifest, you’ll look back on this moment and realize: this is where it all changed.

This is an individual journey. The oil must be gathered by you, for you.

But I can tell you this with absolute certainty: it works. It worked for me in that trailer in 2009. It’s worked for countless others. It can work for you too.

The question is: will you do the work to gather your oil?

I believe in you,

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PS: Ready to take the next step in your journey?

You can get the exact purpose & affirmations documents I used in this process here on this page.

PPS: Looking for a way to build a serious income from home? I started a company in 2016 with the goal of helping people grow residual income much faster. We’ve already paid out $6,801,679 in commisions and I’m always on the lookout for more people we can help. You can learn more about it here…

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