About the Episode
Today, I sit down with an incredible guest, Darren Jacklin, a world-class mentor and a dear friend. Darren shares his remarkable journey, from facing personal and professional challenges to becoming a successful entrepreneur and a global influencer. We dive into the importance of mindset, the power of journaling, and how overcoming adversity can lead to extraordinary success. Darren’s story is not just inspiring; it’s a roadmap for anyone looking to transform their life. His insights on personal development, goal setting, and resilience are invaluable. Join us as we explore Darren’s journey and uncover the secrets to turning struggles into success.
About Darren
Darren Jacklin grew up in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada. At the formative age of one, his four-year-old sister died from complications due to open-heart surgery. This greatly impacted his family. From an early age, Darren had difficulty reading and writing and was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. This resulted in him being put on Ritalin. He then failed and repeated grade one. Darren was then enrolled in a special education class for the rest of his educational years.
Throughout public school, Darren had difficulty focusing on school and making friends. His parents were told that he would not amount to much in life.
At the age of seven, he started a business called “Rent a Kid”. His business included shoveling snow off sidewalks, mowing lawns, and delivering the Regina Leader-Post six days a week. His need for external approval and validation were his driving force.
In school, Darren felt awkward and invisible. In grade eleven, after his parents’ divorce, a high school teacher and guidance counselor sat him down one afternoon. He was told that based on his academic achievement, he probably would not go very far in life, or amount to much. Not only did this further damage his self-confidence, but it also triggered a relentless drive to prove everyone wrong. For years following that conversation, Darren did whatever he could to be liked, loved, accepted, and understood. Following High School, he tried multiple suicide attempts, including driving his car at 140-km / 85-mph into a telephone pole. Darren was also a passenger in a car that went out of control on an icy hill and rolled over a forty-foot embankment. He was ejected through the windshield of the car. That day, Darren nearly lost his life. It then took him months to learn how to walk again.
In his early twenties, he received a settlement from this car accident. Combining this with his income from his “Rent a Kid” business and a few other business ventures throughout his adolescence, Darren unwittingly signed for loans and lines of credit with unscrupulous investors. Lawyers and collection agencies were now harassing him. His car was repossessed, bank accounts frozen, water and electricity were disconnected, and he was evicted from his apartment. Within four months he was broke and homeless.
Hitting rock bottom, he was forced to collect welfare, living on the streets and sleeping in an apple orchard.
These early challenges set the scene for a remarkable transformation.
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- Learn from Darren Jacklin’s incredible life transformation.
- Discover the power of mindset in overcoming challenges.
- Gain insights into effective goal setting and personal development.
- Be inspired by Darren’s journey from adversity to global success.
- Hear practical advice on transforming your own life.
Rick Jordan
Hey, what’s shakin, hey, I’m Rick Jordan today, we’re going all in. Right, I have an amazing guest today. And it’s even more amazing because he’s in the studio. And he’s a good friend of mine and a mentor and just a good human. If you have actually been on the show, I think once prior, a few years ago, you know, in the earlier days of the show, and now he’s back because he’s actually here in Chicago because another company that he’s involved with is going public, and I’m pleased to welcome my friend and mentor, Darren, Jacklin.
Darren Jacklin
Welcome grateful to be here in Chicago has a great beat in the studio with you what what a setup you’ve got here. I’m very impressed with this.
Rick Jordan
Thank you. Thank you.
Darren Jacklin
We try to do some good things, you know, like to production behind the scenes that people don’t see off camera?
Rick Jordan
For sure. Absolutely. It’s, it’s funny because some even think like, this is the green screen. You know, most of our listeners are on it. Most of our winners are on audio to listen to on Spotify, iTunes, you know, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or Google podcasts, all of that. Yeah, there’s there’s only a few that watch videos. But yeah, this is this is exciting in here, man.
Darren Jacklin
Very impressive. You’ve done a lot of work a lot of planning. Yeah, for sure. No doubt.
Rick Jordan
I like doing things with excellence, you know, especially when it comes to this. It’s it’s just a place, right? But that’s a good point. Because it’s wherever we’re all this started. And I’m sure it’s the same for you like with your story. You’ve got your book here, which is awesome until I become, you know, which I’ve read. And it’s it’s an amazing book. First off, but talking about the beginning days, absolutely. And like even the beginning days of this show, you know, I started in I did like seven episodes in Lightspeed studios with Bradley, you know, at the very beginning of the show, and then then I transitioned into here, but here it was literally just myself a webcam, a desk, and a Yeti microphone when we started, like six years ago, and now it’s 500 episodes. And, you know, there’s jeez, I can’t remember. I think it’s 80 countries we’re in now, which is amazing.
Darren Jacklin
Congratulations on that.
Rick Jordan
Thank you. But for you, I mean, you take a look back at where you started. And it’s just, it’s incredible. What I want to ask is because I read the book books. Awesome. I read it because it came out, I think, a year ago, a year and a half ago, two years ago. Yeah, almost two years ago. The title that’s on this, because that’s not something that was very evident to me in the book. I mean, I understand where it is, but how did you come up with a title until I become a question knowing you there’s a story?
Darren Jacklin
Yeah, we had a focus group. So I had a team of people during COVID-19, during the lockdown. So I had no interest to ever ever writing a book I toured two years ago with Mark Victor Hansen, who co-authored Yep. And you know, he’s in the Guinness Book of World Records him and Jack Canfield for books and Marxism. He says, you know, you should write a book, and I had limiting beliefs because of, you know, childhood trauma growing up as a kid and special education from grade one to grade 12. Never went to regular public school. And I just thought, why would I ever, it’s just not my strength and skill set to write a book. So then during COVID-19, to tell my partner, my wife, she’s got a master’s degree in curriculum, education, she’s a very smart, very intelligent woman, you know, is very well, and she says, You know what, we’re going to write a book, your book, and I said, from what and she goes, Darren, you’ve been journaling for 30 years of your life every day, you have a lot of private conversations in your life, you’ve met a lot of very influential people on the planet. And there are a lot of things that you could serve humanity. Because I what I did was I had a standing rule in my life that nobody could read my journal, especially my private conversations till my death. And during COVID, I was very intrigued with it this year, and I want to share some things with you. So sharing things with are very some practical life lessons and things I’ve learned from some most influential people in life or on the planet. They’re in business, finance, celebrities, and a lot of off-topic conversations. So, you know, be late at night, early morning, just out for a hike with people. And people share with me this wisdom that they did in their lives. And I’m like, Oh, my gosh, why don’t you ever share it with people? They said, Darren, nobody ever asked these questions. And because I’m very curious, I’m a sponge learning. So what we did is the book is a very practical book, less than 100 pages was about my backstory comp, story success story. But it’s also about things I learned. For example, one of the things is that most your goals and dreams do not require your actions.
Rick Jordan
You told me that three years ago, man, right, like that was mind-blowing. Yeah. And
Darren Jacklin
once you think what you mean, most of my goals and dreams do not require my actions. What it’s about is creating teams and teamwork. Sir Richard Branson has 400 companies, approximately right? Well, 400 companies, but he’s not involved in the day-to-day operations. And so the key thing is, is that like, I have over 7000 written documented goals for my life. My target is the 10,000 written goal, right? So I’m always changing things, checking things off adding things. And I realized that because I’m here right now doing this podcast see that there are people just like yourself, running day-to-day operations on teams I have around the world internationally working with me in different companies that are doing things that report to me. So I know my genius. I know my strengths. I know my skill set. I know my lane, I stay in that lane, and that’s what I do. And so the book was, I wrote the book in a way with a team until I became was really until I become because a lot of people are searching for who they want to be. What’s their true authentic self-expression of who they are as human beings? Yeah. And for a lot of people, it’s until I become a great father, a great mother, a business owner, or a CEO, whatever it is for them. It was until I become and so I had a lot of adversities, failures, challenges, and setbacks, I was homeless, I lived on the streets, I was on welfare, I had an AR nine credit rating through Equifax and TransUnion credit, which is the worst metric score you can get through. So there and then went from there to becoming a multimillionaire, you know, I mean, so I show people how I never went to college, never went to university, never, you know, is most likely not to ever succeed in life ever amount to much. And yet, when I just had daily habits and routines consistently come out over time, it multiplied and expanded. And now I’ve done things that most people only dream like I’m here in Chicago right now, with a company we’re taking public tomorrow. And I’ve already been to NASDAQ three times ringing the closing bell, and I’m now here at the CBOE exchange here in Chicago with another company. And I just looked at myself, I never went to Wharton School of Finance, or Harvard, or Stanford, really nursing nothing. Nobody ever would have bet on me. You have done these extraordinary things with teams of people.
Rick Jordan
It’s amazing man. It’s I love where the title comes from, you know, now that you’ve explained it, and when you said that, there’s one thing that caught me when you said like, I know my lane, and I try my best to stay in it. It’s a process to figure out exactly what you’re laying out.
Darren Jacklin
I’ll give an example. So a few years ago, I was statistically fat and overweight and obese. Okay, if you look at even looking at a Health Guide, if you measure my body mass index, I was overweight. And what happened was I was in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, speaking at a real estate conference for about 1200 People just before the pandemic broke out with COVID-19. And I remember that day clearly being in my hotel room, putting on a brand new dress shirt in a suit, and feeling insecure thinking oh my gosh, I’m gonna maybe blow some buttons on my dress shirt. Because I’ve been eating so much fast food and it’s compounded. Now, your lifetime will either promote your title exposure, it’s just a matter of time. And now I’m being exposed for my actions of what I’ve consistently been eating by your shirt. Yeah. And because it’s the results, these are the results I’ve produced. And I’m going on stage in front of all the who’s who of real estate in North America, like major players connecting the Grammy Awards for real estate in North America. And their televised nothingness of oh my gosh, I’m on stage for 45 minutes. And I blew these buttons. And I got so disgusted with myself. I said I don’t want to live my life this way anymore. Yeah. So when on stage I felt embarrassed, nobody knew because you know, they because I know my stuff. And I’m pretty very well prepared. But behind it my self-talk was very negative that day saying Look at you, you fat disgusting, paid looking overweight, you are looking at you let you’re 48 years of age, I know you’ve let this go to control. So I flew back from Toronto and Vancouver, Colombo friends, and I said I wanted to go hiking with you. And I go, okay, great. Now remember, I was not a hiker. I was out of shape and under my breath. So when did this hike in Vancouver that normally takes kids in elementary school, but 45 minutes to an hour to hike took me two hours and 40 minutes to get to the top. Wow. When I got to the top two people I was with were licensed real estate agents, they had to go do open houses on a Saturday. So I’m here at the top of this bunny hill, this little hike in Hill. And I’m thinking to myself, I don’t want to call 911 and I don’t want to call search and rescue and I’m embarrassed to have to figure out how I’m gonna get down this hill. Okay, because I’m so out of shape and out of breath.
So I managed to get back down the hill and got to my car, my car doors had this is it, I guess I don’t want to manifest anymore. So I made a change. Today I’m in the best physical shape of my life last year I summited Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, East Africa. Now I’m training next year in January 2025, to summit Mount Vinson in Antarctica for mental health awareness and through Link Foundation to help build schools around the world’s most impoverished children. Now, here’s the turning point for me. One of the gentlemen who’s been helped train me. He said, Darren, the reason why you’re not releasing weight, the reason why you’re not in the best shape of your life is that you do not have a belief system that you’re an athlete. He goes so let’s have a conversation about you being an athlete. And I said, he said what comes up for you? I said, Well, I was always the kid who was last picked on any team in sports and school sports and physical education in elementary school. I was always picked last. I never played sports growing up and never wanted to watch it on TV. I always saw kids that are that’s not me. I’m not that way. I don’t have the genetics the DNA. So every time I saw it, I saw pain. I saw discomfort. Yeah, I never saw myself as an athlete. And when Joe said to me, he said, Joe is a Darren, I want you to start imagining every day you wake up that you eat like an athlete, you breathe like an athlete. You sleep like an athlete, you walk like an athlete, you are an athlete, as your affirmations. Since I started to identify myself as an athlete, over the last couple of years, my life has totally transformed in terms of my health, my fitness, my vitality, and my multiplication of expansion of energy. That’s why I reinvented myself and I really believe in the next 12 months as I train for an article. Within 12 months now I will become unrecognizable because of my daily habits, my routines, my systems, the processes I’ve now incorporated into my life, and the healthy eating habits that I’ve got, but also because like me I didn’t use to sleep a lot. Now I’m focused on Sleep recovery time, the amount of water I drink what I do. And then I metric and track everything that I eat and drink every day into apps on the phone. And every week I have an accountability call with a coach that he goes through with me on Zoom video conferencing virtually and shows me my dashboard of all my metrics, everything I’m eating, I get my bloodwork done quarterly, I was terrified of needles, getting to poke needles mob terrified, almost passed out just last year, when they didn’t put a needle Marvel’s passed out the nurse getting nurses there, because I was feeling very, very weird and stuff. But now just a whole different identity of what I’m doing. And I changed. But the cool thing about also too, is I’m inspiring other people now because they see me as a guy, like, oh, my gosh, Darren is doing these mountains, he’s doing all this stuff, that it’s a whole new identity of who I am. And I’m 51 years of age today, and I’m making changes and making moves at this stage of my life.
Rick Jordan
So what I’m hearing you say throughout this, which, by the way, congratulations on all of that. That’s incredible. You know, I’ve known you for a while I think about four years at this point. Yeah. And it’s, it’s really cool to see the transformation from my side, too. And I noticed that but you know, where I noticed that most is in your mind. Yeah. You know, and I mean, you’ve always been right in front of people, like you said, you could always show up, you’re prepared. Yeah. So you always come off as well-spoken, always, you know, but what I’ve seen is more almost fluency and expressing who you are developed over the last couple of years. And it’s been really cool to see that well,
Darren Jacklin
I’ll share it with you. So interesting thing about that was, that I confronted myself a couple of years ago, of how much I lied to myself as a human being. And I started to map out in a journal of actually how much I lied to myself, for so many years, decades, I lied to myself about my health, my fitness, my nutrition, well, you know, lie to myself in my 40s, about my finances, my relationships, all these things. It’s fascinating when we look at ourselves as human beings, and how much we actually lie to ourselves on a daily basis. Right? And when we confront ourselves, like I have more than once now, it changes my life in terms of authenticity, vulnerability, and realness. That’s cool. Well, that’s
Rick Jordan
a safety mechanism. Is one like, we don’t want to look bad for sure. Yeah. It just keeps us in a place that well, almost a place of complacency but also a place of suffering, yes. To where it’s a mutual friend of ours. David Meltzer always says, Truth has the highest vibration 100% It does, for sure. And I can only imagine it’s like, as you’re talking here, it’s like, I’m almost starting to take inventory. It’s like, what am I doing to myself? Yeah. Are there different areas where I need to I mean, you journal every day, it’s hard for me to get down and write in a journal. I don’t know how you do it for real. But it’s, we were talking last night with my son. And you were encouraging him to do that to journal everything, which is now I know how you wrote your book. I had no idea prior to this. But that’s it’s almost like, if you look at it from a corporate perspective, it’s almost like you’re, you’re setting measurements, you don’t
Darren Jacklin
have to be life if you look at in business, you know, if it’s not, if it hasn’t been written hasn’t been said, right, in a court of law. So when you write things down, you have a verbal agreement or verbal contract, you have a written agreement, written contract, you’ll believe the written over the verbal. So when you write things down, like I always work things out on paper. So when I’m scenario planning, best case, scenario, likely case scenario, worst case scenario, I always plan things out on paper, and you know, whiteboards, flip charts, I’m old school with that stuff, but it works. I use different colored markers, even when I’m drilling different colored markers and pens that I use all the time. But I find it worth things out on paper, getting it out of my head and working on paper. Also, too, what I really discovered in my life is that without integrity, nothing works. Yeah. And what I’ve realized now and be in my 50s, is that you know, in a lifetime, why they promote you, or time will expose you it’s just a matter of time whether you get promoted, you get exposed. So what I’ve realized now, when I consistently do things, I’m about getting promoted versus getting exposed. And so what I really focus on if you look at a lot of people in life, you know, you hear the expression, that talk is cheap. Yeah, I think most people cheapen their talk, because their words have no power. And so what I’ve discovered is that what I do is integrity tests all the time with people, I give them micro-commitments. Well, can
Rick Jordan
you go back real quick and say that again? The talk is cheap. Yeah.
Darren Jacklin
So most people in life Talk is cheap. But most people are cheap in their talk, because their words have no power. Wow.
Rick Jordan
You just blew my mind today. Yeah, that’s incredible.
Darren Jacklin
Because there was this. The thing is, I’ll give you an example in business. I don’t I have a lot of people who work with me like you do as well. I don’t manage people. I don’t manage human beings, I manage people’s promises. Right on. So what I do is I hold people accountable and responsible for giving the word to, them because your word creates your world. When people really get present you that your words, create your world. Wow. So give me an example. Imagine right now, if you pulled out your phone or anybody listening or watching pull up their phone, I said we’re gonna we’re gonna have a dinner party in 30 days from now. And I want you to take 25 of your top people on your mobile phone, and I want you to send him a text message right now. Give him a date and a time and a location and we’re going to Eat them for a dinner party. There’s somebody right now on your phone. If you text them, they’re gonna respond by they’re like, hey, I’ll be there at that date, time location, no problem. And that’s it, you set it, forget it, they will be there done deal. Other people like, oh my gosh, do I have to send my calendar invitation? How many reminders have to give them to order an Uber or a taxi? Are they going to show up how much food you have to prepare? How many people are going to set up the dinner party for all these logistics, you have to plan out. And I said to myself years ago, I want to be the person that when I give my word to some, it’s a done deal. Nobody even questions it. Nobody even questions it though. When I say something it’s done. They don’t question at all. And I take on that accountability and responsibility in my life. And it’s amazing, the doors of opportunities that opened up for me, your bank account changes your lifestyle changes the people around you change, because people know that when you say something, your words create your world.
Rick Jordan
It’s powerful. Yeah, it is. Well. There’s a chapter in here that you talk a little bit about that too, from what I remember, I can’t remember where it was. But it’s there’s so many stories in here. And I’m racking my brain because it’s probably been like a year, as soon as you release this is when I got it, you know, I’ve been ordered off of Amazon because you were willing to send me a book, which I am grateful for. But I ordered from Amazon to get it. And it’s it’s absolutely incredible. There’s a there’s power in what you’re saying today. And the reason is and I think everyone listening needs a grasp on this, too. Because it’s as you’re talking about this, and I’m trying to put myself in the shoes of somebody else like not us, and hearing all of your stories. And with your stories. It’s like, wow, look at all that it’s like, there’s I don’t know why it is, but it’s just a gut instinct that I’ve got people listening today, like, Well, my life, isn’t that exciting? I don’t have those powerful stories. You know, I don’t, I can’t look back and say that I’ve gone through this hardship in my life. And now I’m on top of Mount Kilimanjaro, you know, or wherever it is, what would you say to those people who think it’s like, I don’t have a story,
Darren Jacklin
every human being, you know, it’s like, you’re a chapter two ahead of everybody else. It was globalization on the planet today, you know, living in a first-world country, for example. You know, the biggest what we complain about is something that somebody prays about an example. You know, your biggest complaint is somebody else’s wish. And so what I would say is that, no matter what you’re doing in your life, every day you wake up, count your blessings, be grateful, because your life the way no matter what it is, if you’re average, and ordinary, just whatever it is paycheck to paycheck, or how you’re living. There’s somebody in the world who’s making less than $2 a day, working 10 to 12 hours a day. And we’re very grateful to live here to have electricity clean. Like, as we’re doing this interview right now, you’re not thinking about the power going out. Yeah, or somebody stealing the generator hasn’t put gas in the house before.
Rick Jordan
Right? I don’t think about it. So even what has happened?
Darren Jacklin
Yeah and I mean, the African continent of third world countries, because with our foundation, we do a lot of humanitarian work, you know, we have to continuously plan for all those things, just in case it happened scenario planning. So the thing is, is that the thing is, every human being is following a set of hierarchies of values. Every human being is living according to their value system. And people say, Well, what do you mean by your value system, your life demonstrates, if you look around your environment, your life demonstrates it’s the most important to you. So if you look on social media, people say, Well, you know, I like to spend time with my family, or my children or my spouse or partner significant other other people like Trouw, and other people like doing sports or hobbies or interests. That’s your value system. Right? So sometimes you go pleasing you meet somebody, it’s like, Man, I didn’t even know that person was even in that room, because you’re not the same value system, where somebody’s like, oh, my gosh, we just met together. So the key thing is, look, as every human being contributes to each other on the planet. And here’s a look at how I talked about this. And until I become a human being, all we are is a network of conversations. Powerful. All we are is a network of conversations, and anything that you and I want in our lives, is going to come from having conversations with strangers. But one of the challenges in our environments growing up is that we’re taught not to talk to strangers because strangers are unsafe. We hear all the time in the media, sometimes growing up in our family, families or environments, or communities we live, don’t talk to strangers, but strangers, everything we want need, and desire in our life. And it comes down to two things, requests and promises. So I always ask people, What do you promise to yourself? So what I do is, you know how we set goals, or people set New Year’s resolutions. What I do is I set personal promises to myself, what do I get my word to? What am I accountable, responsible, and committed to? What are my personal promises? So I have personal promises of nuts and bolts. Yeah, I have personal promises around my relationship, but those 10 promises around my health, fitness, and nutrition. I have personal promises about my finances and personal promises about different things. Because when you make a personal promise, it’s different than setting a goal or target. It’s a personal promise. So then you set a personal promise, then what it is, is okay, and then it’s about making requests. So for every question that we don’t ask the answer is always no, but when we make them requests, people only do one of three things. Step number one is they’ll accept the request.
Step number two is they’ll decline the request. Step number three is they’ll counteroffer the request. So what you do is you start to make requests. So what I do is most of my goals and dreams don’t require my actions. But I know that opportunities get created inside of a network of conversations. So what I always share with people is that so I’ll give an example we do these hiking fundraisers across Canada, we’re going to the United States now. Every time we go hiking for a cause we bring people from all walks of life, we then build a school we collect the money through hiking, registration, corporate sponsorship, and merchandise sales, we then click that money to link Foundation, and people get a tax sheet and we build a new school. Now if you’re part of the humanitarian project, and I for three metric systems, step number one is what is our promise how many hikers do we want for this hiking fundraiser? So we’ll have like 100 hikers, okay, so our promise is 100, hikers, okay, what is our actual or actual is? How many hikers have paid and registered? That’s the actual. And then step three is what’s the gap? So when I asked my team all the time it said, what’s our promise? What’s our actual what’s our gap? So what we do is we play a network of conversations game, okay, let’s just start having conversations, enrolling people into coming out the sport, their mental health, making a difference, helping serve people being a community networking, collaboration, and community but also being out in nature. And through that, we’ll get a chance to enrich people’s lives with some of the most impoverished children on the planet, right? And so what I do is I just say, Okay, let’s just have a network of conversations and create the possibility for people to bring people in, find out what is it they really, really want in their lives. And by creating an environment, a culture, within elevated to educator hiking for a cause, we then will create an ecosystem where people can fulfill achieving their personal promises, goals, and dreams because we’ve set the game up to win with people around their like-minded, brilliant secrets, this ecosystem. So like, last time, we did a hiking fundraiser last year, we had six people come out, and are now international best-selling authors. And these people showed up to go on a hike. I never thought they were gonna do that. But the thing is, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know, it’s who you have access to. Because proximity is power, for sure it is. So it’s a network of conversation. So people who say Oh, my gosh, you know, oh, it’s so hard to make money. No, we don’t have money problems in life, we only are thinking problems in life. Yeah, there’s no lack of financial resources on this planet, the lack of thinking of solving problems and serving people, and then having a network of conversations.
Rick Jordan
I’ve noticed the same thing. Yeah, absolutely. Is that everyone asked him, How did you get where you’re at today? You know, it’s like, well, I’ve had, I’m grateful for the mentors I’ve had, you know, because every room that I walk into, I don’t want to be the smartest person unless I’m literally brought there to be that person. Right? You know, if someone seeks me out to be on a stage or, or on a panel or within a peer group, something like that, it’s a little different. But when I choose to go someplace, it’s like, what can I learn from you? What can I even learn from the people that I’m speaking to? You know, and the stuff that you pick up from having a natural curiosity? I’ve been talking about this lately as cultivating curiosity all the time within yourself. You know, it’s like, what do you mean, I’m not a curious person? I just looked at what there are ways to do that, you know, because I, I believe that people that are not curious actually have somewhat of an ego issue that they’ve got to gotta kill. Because it’s so inward focused, you know, and when you start to look outward and realize it’s like, oh, there’s all these other people, but it’s not even so much. What can I get from them? Yeah, it’s like, what can I do for you? How can I? How can I be of service? Exactly, yeah. And that’s where the magic starts to take place. Absolutely, sure. When you bring value to anybody else, that’s when you begin to be lifted up by the environment that you’ve placed yourself into to be of service to,
Darren Jacklin
because as human beings, we’re either coming for a problem, we’re in a problem right now we’re heading towards a problem. That’s what happens in a typical week for somebody. We’re coming for a problem and a problem. We’re heading towards a problem. If you and I right now have a challenge to fly to some country around the world. We didn’t speak the language and had never been there before. They dropped us off and took her passport, credit card, driver’s license, and everything around us. It’s okay. You’re gonna live here for 30 days, you’ve got no money. The first thing I would do in the first 24 hours is establish my base camp, where am I going to live? Okay, then I figure Okay, how much is it going to cost for me for the next three to seven days to live? Okay, great. Where’s it International Hotel I can go to is a four or five-star hotel in a major city, hopefully, as a major city around, can I go to a Fairmont of four seasons of Ritz Carlton, some kind of hotel, it’s an international hotel, where people speak my language, then I’m going to go there, can I shine your shoes? Can I drive you you know, clean your clothes? Can I be your tour guide? Whatever you need me to do, I want to be of service and solve a problem for you to help you as an international traveler. I’m going to find a way to get money, and then that money is going to go and take care of my living expenses for the next three days to seven days. Now that frees up my mind to not be thinking about lack and scarcity, but abundance and prosperity. And I’m not thinking about survival. Right? I’m talking about thriving. So now my basics are covered. Then I’m going to go out there and solve a problem by finding walking around the village walking around the community walking around the streets, and just finding ways to be happy. Service to solve problems to serve people’s affirmative change to get paid for it, then I’m gonna get cashed up money in my pocket, then I’m gonna look at how do I take care of my expense for the next week to two weeks, three weeks and four weeks and do that all within seven days. Now my financial expenses are covered next 30 days I can free up my mind to be of service to other people. Yeah, to be that go-giver. So the key thing is, is that what I’ve done in my life, is creating multiple revenue streams. But also, whenever I do something, am I active or passive in what I’m doing? Yeah. And that’s for a lot of people. We live in this vicious cycle 78% of the North American population lives paycheck to paycheck. Oh, yeah.
Rick Jordan
It’s a lot of passivity. Yeah, yeah. Never break out of that. You got it? Yeah. It’s, it’s accepting what gets thrown at you. Right. You know, and then just dealing with it. So it’s completely in a reactive state. Yeah. And that’s the paycheck to paycheck. You know, it’s the but that brings it back to the curiosity, right? It’s like there’s, there’s almost a, it’s almost like, Oh, I wish things were different. Well, cool. Get curious as to how absolutely could be different. And
Darren Jacklin
when you see somebody doing something rather than hate them on social media. Get curious. Oh, my gosh, how does that person do that? Yeah. Right. Like, like, like, I remember years ago, I saw somebody who was traveling around the world on the then they write off their business trips, Joseph, oh, how do I do that? Well, they never go on vacation. They’re always on a business trip. They think well, how can I do that? How can I create international buzz, right? I always go and read things off, right? And then you see people like that person have to pay taxes? Well, legally, they’re being advised by Saudi, but how do they do it? What are the rules of the game? And most of you don’t know what the rules of the game are. They don’t know how to play the game. That’s so important. Because when the students are ready, the teachers appear. And then when you’re ready, and when you’re open, you’re curious, you’ll attract the right like-minded people to come into your life that will come in as an example or as a warning to your life and say, example warning because somebody will come in your life. I’ve met people in my life who came in as mentors, completely no integrity, dishonest, unethical people. And they’ve been great blessings in my life because they teach me who not want to be for sure. Right. There are other people in my life with great character and integrity and role models. Like that’s why I want to become more like,
Rick Jordan
yeah, I love it. You know. And, on that note, I’m very grateful that you’ve been in my life in that role. Yeah. And so it’s, it’s been a fun, a fun few years that we’ve known. Yeah, man, I appreciate you coming on too, because I didn’t do much of a bio for you at the beginning. So anybody who stayed on this long, which, which is most, we’ll look there and up, you know, Darren jaclyn.com is where we
Darren Jacklin
are, if you want to come up with me sometime, go hiking, fundraiser.com. fundraiser, hiking fundraiser.com. That’s awesome. Bring people from all walks of life, if you want to meet some pretty cool people, we have celebrities, sports athletes, and people from all walks of life come out. And we build these schools around the world. And that’s what really I get so much joy and enrichment. All of this stuff is fun. But making a difference in solving problems serving people and doing things for people who never repay you is much more rewarding.
Rick Jordan
I love it. Absolutely. And we’ll put the notes in the bio or the in-the-show notes. A little bit about your bio, because you might be you know, an independent director of a very small company called Exp Realty. It’s just a little guy, right? Yeah, just a little guy. There’s no office. It’s so small.
Darren Jacklin
It’s all virtual 90,000 people.
Rick Jordan
Yeah. That’s awesome. Thank you, my man, and go to Darren jacqueline.com hiking fundraiser.com You need to get a copy of his book and just read through it a lot more stories.
Darren Jacklin
Brother, thank you for being able to be grateful to be in service.