The 5 am club

The Billionaire’s Maxim #6
Money Is the Fruit of Generosity, Not Scarcity.
Be not misled by the dominant philosophy of the world. Poverty is the
consequence of an inner condition, not an outer situation. To believe
otherwise is to hand over your capacity to produce the magic of the prosperity
that you want to the very things you are complaining of.
Money is a currency that must flow like electricity. Yes, cash is a current.
It needs to circulate. Hoarding it stops the flow of it into your business and
private life. All genuine magicians know this. So give more to receive more.
Leave lavish tips for servers in restaurants, housekeepers in hotels and drivers
in taxicabs. Donate to charities. Do wonderful things for your family and
friends without a single thought of any return. A tsunami of abundance will be
sent to you.
You may wonder why so many of us live in such scarcity. This state of
being is due to our money scars. These are the programs hidden deep within
our subconscious that were placed there, unknowingly, by the messaging from
our parents and the teaching of other powerful childhood influencers. Their
common statements, based on the falsehoods that were taught to them, sound
like “be happy with what you have” or “rich people are dishonest” or “money
doesn’t grow on trees.” These words planted the dark seeds of lack within us
at a tender, impressionable age.
Four practices have helped me make my financial fortune, and so I gift
them to you: positive expectancy, active faith, ever-increasing gratitude and
extreme value delivery. By positive expectancy I simply mean to tell you that
I always maintain a mindset where I expect money will come to me regularly
and from highly unexpected sources. Active faith is when you behave in a
way that shows life you trust it in its abundance and benevolence. The
universe adores gestures of affluence like paying for a dinner you had with

---

your friends at an expensive restaurant when you cannot totally afford to do
so. Or buying the tools you need to raise your craft when there’s little cash in
your wallet. I’m in no way suggesting that you throw yourself into a prison of
debt. Not at all. Overleverage is such a destructive force in our civilization
today. Just show nature you know prosperity is coming and perform acts that
make you feel like you have plenty. Ever-increasing gratitude, well, we’ve
discussed that one a lot over our journey together. Continue opening your
heart to everything and everyone in your life. Bless your money when you
pay a bill. Bless the cashier at the grocery store and the farmers who
harvested your food. Bless the motorist who lets you into a line in traffic and
the musicians who write the songs that become the soundtrack of your life.
Bless your legs for carrying you all these years, your eyes for allowing you to
witness beauty and your heart for allowing you to feel alive. And extreme
value delivery just means giving others—teammates, customers, family
members and strangers—exponentially more benefit than they ever could
expect from you. Because we reap what we sow.
Developing and then armor-plating your prosperity consciousness will
realize quantum gains in your income and personal net worth. So, please get
this piece right. Much of the sadness in our culture is because too many of us
don’t have enough money. This need not be so.
“What’s next?” wondered the artist as he pulled a robust grape off a vine and
swallowed it whole.
The billionaire pulled a miniature running shoe from the case saying,
“Exercise is definitely a magic charm. Read the letter I wrote for you both
that goes with it.”
The letter said: