Your Words Create Your World | Darren Jacklin

Episode Topics:

• Learn how a homeless kid with an R9 credit rating became a multi-millionaire.
• Discover why making personal promises is more powerful than setting goals.
• Find out how to stop lying to yourself and start living with complete integrity.
• Understand why your words create your world and how to make them powerful.
• Get the three metric system that turns conversations into results.

 

Rick Jordan  

What’s shakin? Hey, I’m Rick Jordan, and today we’re going all in. All right, I have an amazing guest today, and it’s even more amazing because he’s in studio, and he’s a good friend of mine and a mentor and just a good human if you he’s 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, welcome.

 

Darren Jacklin  

Grateful to be here in Chicago. It’s great being in the studio with you. What a setup you’ve got here. I’m very impressed with this. Thank you. Thank you. We try to do some good things. You know, it’s a 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, most of our all owners are on. Are on audio. They listen to a Spotify, iTunes, you know, Apple podcasts, Google Play, or Google podcasts, all of that. Yeah, yeah, there’s, there’s only a few that watch video, but yeah, this is, this is exciting in here, man.

 

Rick Jordan  

Yeah, for sure, no doubt I like doing things with excellence. You know, especially when it comes to this, it’s a, it’s just a place for me, but that’s a good point, because it’s a wherever where 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, like, 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 Brad Lee, 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, geez, I can’t remember. I think it’s 80 countries we’re in now, which is amazing. Congratulations on that. Thank you. But for you, I mean, you take a look back at where you started to and it’s just, it’s incredible. What I want to ask, because I read the book, books awesome. I read it because it came out, what, I think, a year ago, year and a half, about 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 the title until I become big question, knowing you, there’s a story. Yeah,

 

Darren Jacklin  

Very impressive. Even a lot of work, a lot of planning,.

 

Darren Jacklin  

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 write a book. I toured 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 Mark said to me, says, you know, you should write a book. And I had limiting beliefs because of, you know, childhood trauma. Growing up as a kid in 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 attend. My partner in my life, she’s got a master’s degree in curriculum education. She’s very smart, very intelligent woman. You know her 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 around the planet, and there’s 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 upon my death and during covid, I was very into it with Tatiana sharing. I want to share some things with you, so I shared some things with her, very some practical life lessons of things I’ve learned for some of the most influential people in life on the planet, they’re in business, finance, celebrities, and a lot of off topic conversations. So it’ll be late night, early mornings, 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 that 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, but it’s 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, I was like, that was mind blowing. 

 

Darren Jacklin  

Yeah. And mostly, like, What do you mean? Most of my goals and dreams not require my actions. What it’s about is creating teams and teamwork. Sir. Richard Branson has 400 companies, approximately, right about 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, get to 10,000 written goals. Wow, right. So I’m always achieving things, checking things off, adding things. And I realized, because I’m here right now doing this podcast, there’s 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 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 become, 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 a human being, yeah. And for a lot of people, it’s until I become, until I become a great father, a great mother, a business owner or CEO, whatever it is. For them, it’s until I become. And so I had a lot of adversities, failures, challenges, setbacks. You know, as watts, homeless. I lived on the streets, I was on welfare. I had an r9 credit rating through Equifax and TransUnion credit, which is the worst metric score you can get through through there, and I went from there to becoming a multi millionaire, you know what I mean. So I show people how I never went to college, never went to university, never was 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 don’t ever dream like I’m here in church. 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 cibo exchange here in Chicago with another company. And I just look at myself. I never went to Wharton School of Finance or Harvard or Stanford, Yale University, nothing, nobody ever would have bet on me. And I’ve done all 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 your lane is, isn’t it? 

 

Darren Jacklin  

Well, I’ll give you an example. So, so a few years ago, I was statistically fat and overweight and obese. Okay, if you look at even look at a Health Guide, if you measure me 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, you know, in lifetime will either promote your time will expose you. 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, kind of like the Grammy Awards for real estate in North America, and they’re televised. And I think myself, oh my gosh, I’m on stage for 45 minutes, and I might blow these buttons. And I got so discussed with myself. I said, I don’t want to live my life this way anymore. Yeah. So went on stage. I felt embarrassed. Nobody knew, because they, you know they because I know my stuff, and I’m very well prepared. But behind it, my self talk was very negative that day, saying, Look at you. You fat, disgusting paid. Look how overweight you are. Look at how you’ve let your 48 years of age. Look how you’ve let this go to control. So I flew back from from Toronto to Vancouver, call up a couple friends of mine. Said I want to go hiking with you. Like, okay, great. I remember I was not a hiker. I was out of shape and out of breath. So I went and did this hike in Vancouver that normally takes kids in elementary school about 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, the two people I was with were licensed real estate agents. They had to go do open houses because on a Saturday. So I hear the top of this bunny hill, this little hiking 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 going to 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, got to my car, opened my car door, I said, this is it I got. So just because I don’t want to live my life, this money this way 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, and 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 for some most impoverished children. Now here’s a 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 a kid who was last picked on any team in school, sports, in physical education. In elementary school, I was always picked last. I never played sports growing up, never identified to it. Watching on TV. Always saw kids, and that’s not me. I’m not that way. I don’t have the genetics, the DNA. So I every time I saw it, I saw pain. I saw discomfort. I never saw myself as an athlete. And when Joe said to me, he said, Joe, he said, 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. And 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, I reinvented myself, and I really believe in the next 12 months, as I train for Antarctica, within 12 months from now, it’ll become unrecognizable because of my daily habits, my routines, my systems, my processes I’ve now incorporated into my life and the healthy eating habits that I’ve got. But also because, like to me, I didn’t used to sleep a lot, now I focus on sleeper. Recovery time, the amount of water I drink, what I eat, and then I metric and track everything that I eat and drink every day into apps on the phone, and every week I have 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 blood work done quarterly. I was terrified of needles getting to poke needle tomorrow. I’m terrified. Almost passed out just last year when they didn’t put a needle, my arm almost passed out the nurse getting the nurses there, because I was feeling very dis, very weird, and all that stuff. But now just a whole different identity of what I’m doing, and I changed. But the cool thing about it also, too, is I’m inspiring other people now, because they see me as a guy like, oh my gosh, Darren’s 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 age in my life.

 

Rick Jordan  

So what I’m hearing you say throughout this, what’s, by the way, congratulations on all that. That’s incredible. You know, I’ve known you for a while, I think about four years at this point, you know. And it’s, uh, it’s really cool to see the transformation from my side, too. And I notice it, but you know, where I notice it 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, you know. So you always come off as well spoken always, you know. But what I’ve seen is more, more almost fluency in expressing who you are develop over the last couple of years, and it’s been really cool to see that. 

 

Darren Jacklin  

I’ll share with you so interesting thing with that was I, I confronted myself a couple years ago that 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. Wow. You know, lied to myself in my 40s about my finances, my relationships, all these things. And it’s fascinating when we look at us as human beings, 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. 

 

Rick Jordan  

That’s cool. Well, that’s a safety mechanism. Absolutely is one. Look good. We don’t want to look bad, for sure. Yeah, it just keeps us in a place to, 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% 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 to where I need to I mean, you journal. You know, 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 that’s, uh, we were talking last night with my son, and you were encouraging him to do that too, you know, journal everything, which is, now I know how you wrote your book. I had no idea prior to this. Yeah, that’s, uh, 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 and also to his life.

 

Darren Jacklin  

If you look at in business, you know, if it’s not, if it hasn’t been written, hasn’t been said right in the court of law. So when you write things down, you have a verbal agreement, or verbal contract, and 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, white boards, flip charts. I’m old school with that stuff, but it works. Yeah, and I use different colored markers, even when I’m journaling, different colored markers and pens that I use all the time. But I find I work things out on paper. I get it out of my head and work it on paper also, too. Is what I really discovered in my life, is that without integrity, nothing works. And what I’ve realized now and be in my 50s, is that, you know, in life, time will either promote you or time will expose you. It’s just a matter of time whether you get promoted you get exposed. So what I realize 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 cheap in 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.

 

Darren Jacklin  

Yeah, so most people in life, talk is cheap, but most people cheap in their talk because their words have no power. Wow.

 

Rick Jordan  

Wow! Can you go back real quick and say that again? The talk is cheap. 

 

Rick Jordan  

You just blew my mind today. Yeah, that’s incredible.

 

Darren Jacklin  

Because their words. So the thing is, I give you an example in business, 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 give their word to because your word creates your world. When people really get present to that, your words create your world. Wow. And so give me an example, imagine right now if you pulled out your phone. Everybody listening or watching pull out 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 in your mobile phone, and I want you to send them a text message right now, give them a date and a time and a location if we’re gonna meet them. For a dinner party. There’s some people right now on your phone. If you text them, they’re going to 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? Do I have to order an Uber or a taxi for them? Are they going to show up? How much food do you have to prepare? How many people are going to set the dinner party for all these logistics you got to plan out. And I said to myself years ago, I want to be the person that when I give my word to something, it’s a done deal. Nobody even questions it. Nobody even questions it, that when I say something, it’s done, they don’t question it at all. And I take on that accountability and responsibility of 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. It’s powerful.

 

Rick Jordan  

Yeah, it is. Wow. 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 a, there’s so many stories in here. 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 haven’t ordered it off of Amazon. You were willing to send me a book, which I’m grateful for, but I ordered off of Amazon to get it. And it’s a, it’s absolutely incredible. There’s a, there’s power in what you’re saying today, and the reason being. And I think everyone listening needs to grasp onto 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 a, I don’t know why it is, but it’s just a gut instinct that I’ve got people 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 of the planet today. You know, living in a first world country, for example. You know, our biggest what we complain about is somewhat what somebody prays about is an example. You know, your biggest complaint is somebody else’s wish. And so what I always say is that no matter what you’re doing in your life, every day you wake up, count your blessings, to 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, you’re not thinking about the power going out, yeah, or somebody stealing the generator, having putting gas in the generator.

 

Darren Jacklin  

But I mean the African continent or third world countries, because with our foundation, we do a lot of humanitarian work. You know, we have to continuously plan for all those, those things, just in case it happens scenario planning. So the thing is, is that. The thing is, every human being is following a set of hierarchy 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 what’s the most important to you. So if you look on social media, people say, Well, you know, I like spending time with my family or my children or my spouse or part of significant other, other people like traveling, other people like doing sports or hobbies or interests, that’s your value system, right? So sometimes you go places and you meet somebody and 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 someone’s like, oh my gosh, we just met together. So the key thing is to look at is that every human being contributes to each other on the planet. And here’s something to look at. I talk about this and until I become as human beings, 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 were taught don’t talk to strangers because strangers are unsafe. We heard all the time in the media. Sometimes grew up in our environment, families, in our environments, our communities we live. Don’t talk to strangers, but strangers everything you want, need and desire in your 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 give my word to? What am I accountable, responsible and committed to? What are my personal promises? So I have personal promises. Yeah, I have personal promises around my relationship with antenna. I have personal promises around my health, fitness and nutrition. I have personal promises around my finances. I have personal promises around different personal promises around different things. Because when you make a personal promise, it’s different than setting a goal or a target. It’s a personal promise. So then you set a personal promise, then what it is is okay, then it’s about making requests. So for every question that we don’t ask, the answer is always no. But when we make a request. 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, or step number three is they’ll counter offer 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 network of conversations. So what I always share with people is that. So I’ll give you an example. We do these hiking fundraisers across Canada. We’re going to the United States now, and every time we do a hiking for a cause, we bring people from all walks of life. We then build the school. We collect the money through hiking registration, corporate sponsorship and merchandise sales. We then collect that money goes to link Foundation, people get a tax sheet, and then we build a new school. Now people are part of the humanitarian project, and I follow a three metric system. 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? Our actual is how many hikers have paid and registered? That’s the actual. And then Step number three is, what’s the gap? So what I ask my teams all the time is, what’s our promise, what’s our actual what’s our gap? And so what we do is we play a network of conversations game. Okay, let’s just start having conversations, enrolling people into coming out, support their mental health, making a difference, helping serve people, being in community, networking, collaboration and community, but also being out in nature. And through that, we’ll get a chance to enrich people’s lives, 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 possibilities for people to bring people and find out what is it they really, really want in their lives. And by creating an environment, a culture, with an elevate to educate or hiking for a cause, we then will create an ecosystem where people then can fulfill on achieving their personal promises, goals and dreams, because we’ve set the game up to win with people around that are like minded, brilliant. So you create this ecosystem. So like last time we did a hiking fundraiser last year, we had six people came out and are now International, best selling authors, and then these people showed up to go on a hike. 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 always 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 have thinking problems in life. Yeah, there’s no lack of financial resources on this planet. It’s a lack of thinking, of solving problems and serving people and then having a network of conversations. 

 

Rick Jordan  

 It has before. You’re right. I don’t think about it still, even though it has happened, yeah? 

 

Rick Jordan  

I’ve noticed the same thing, yeah, absolutely. Is that, you know, everyone asks, 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 all the way, you know, because every room that I walk into, I don’t want to be the smartest person, yeah, 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, is cultivate curiosity all the time within yourself, yeah, you know. And it’s like, What do you mean? I’m not a kid. A curious person. I just looked at what there’s ways to do that, you know? Because I, I, I believe that people that are not curious actually have somewhat of an ego issue that they’ve got to, got to 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 from 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 in to be of service to. 

 

Darren Jacklin  

Oh, because as human beings, we’re either coming for a problem. We’re in a problem right now. We’re in a problem right now. We’re heading towards a problem. And that’s what happens in a typical week for somebody. We’re coming for a problem. In a problem, we’re heading towards problem. If you and I right now got a challenge to fly to some country around the world. We didn’t speak the language, never been there before, and they dropped us off, took our passports, credit cards, driver’s license, everything around with us, and it’s okay. You’re gonna live here for 30 days. You’ve got no money. First thing I would do in the first 24 hours is I establish my base camp. Where am I going to live? Okay, then I figure out, Okay, how much is gonna cost for me for the next three to seven days to live? Okay, great. Where’s an international hotel I can go to, where’s a four or five star hotel in a major city? Hopefully it’s a major city realm. Can I go to a fair amount of four seasons of Ritz Carlton, some kind of hotel? It’s an international hotel where people speak my language. Then I’m gonna go there. Can I shine your shoes? Can I dry your 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 and help you out as an international traveler. They’re gonna find a way to get money. Then that money’s gonna 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 thinking about thriving. So now my basics are covered, then I’m gonna 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 of service to. Solve problems, to serve people as a fair business 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 the next 30 days, so I can free up my mind to be of service to other people, 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 my passive in what I’m doing? Yeah, and that’s for a lot of people. We live in this vicious cycle. 78% the North American population of paycheck to paycheck.

 

Rick Jordan  

Oh, yeah, it’s a lot of passivity. Yeah, yeah. They never break out of that. You got it? Yeah? It’s, it’s accepting what gets thrown at you, correct, you know? And then just dealing with it. So it’s completely in a reactive state, yeah, yeah. And that’s the paycheck to paycheck. You know, it’s a, 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. 

 

Darren Jacklin  

And when you see somebody doing something rather than hate on them on social media, get curious. Say, oh my gosh. How does that person do that? Yeah, right. Like, like, like, I remember years ago, I saw somebody who’s traveling around the world, and then they write off their business trip to something. How do I do that? Well, they never go on vacation. They’re always on a business trip. I think, well, how can I do that? How can I create international business where I can always go and write things off, right? And then you see people like that person doesn’t pay taxes, well, legally, they’re being advised by somebody, but how do they do it? What’s the rules of the game? And most people don’t know what the rules of the game are, so they don’t have to play the game. That’s so important, because when the student’s 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 I say example or warning, because some people come in your life. I’ve met people in my life that came in as mentors, completely, no integrity, dishonest, unethical people, and they’ve been great blessings my life because they teach me who not want to be for sure, right? And there’s other people come to 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, on that note, I’m very grateful that you’ve been in my life, in that role now, and absolutely it’s a 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 will look Darren up, you know, because Darrenjacklin.com

 

Darren Jacklin  

Is where we can recover. Or if you want to come up with me sometime, go hiking fundraiser.com.

 

Rick Jordan  

Fundraiser, hiking fundraiser.com. That’s awesome. 

 

Darren Jacklin  

We bring people from all walks of life. If you want to meet some pretty cool people. We have celebrities, sports, athletes, people from all walks life come out, and we build these schools around the world. And that’s what really I get so much joy and enrichment out of business. Stuff is fun, but making a difference in solving problems and 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 too, you know, or the in the show notes. You’re 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, it’s all virtual. 90,000 people. Yeah, that’s awesome. Thank you, my man. And go to Darren jacklin.com, hiking fundraiser.com. You need to get a copy of his book and just read through it. A lot more stories, brother, thank you!

 

Darren Jacklin  

I’m grateful to be here and grateful to be in service.