Greg Voisen
Well, welcome back to Inside Personal Growth, I have what I would consider a very good friend over even though we've only met, I think once or twice in our life, but I feel like he's second father to me is Don Green. He is the executive director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation. And, Don, how're you doing today?

Don Green
I'm great. I'm great, Greg, it's just good to be on your show. I know, you got a tremendous following. And as I helped a judge to do a book one time, I mean, I he wanted a view until it got him to put on Amazon. It was no but we published in and I told him, You gotta go the newspapers, you got to do get reviews, you got to go to the corners, you got the Lions Club, go the church, tell people about your book. And, of course, typical people, I spend all this time writing a book fair lineup bite, but if they don't know you got to book they're not gonna buy it's Amazon. The last check, they got over 8 million books. And if Don and Greg says down does a book, it was the only one Rosie the only cop is gonna get bolts when we buy. But well,

Greg Voisen
I, I love that. I mean, do your what you're saying is if you don't promote your book, it's never gonna get out there. Now we've got two books here. One is called the millionaire mindset with Don green. And the other one which struck my fancy was achieving your goals. We're still at the first part of the year and people out there. Still always wrestling with goals and goal setting. And achieving is always something that people can do. And so we're going to put links to both of these books. But I'm gonna tell them some of my listeners a bit about you, Don, because not everybody knows you. He's the Executive Director and CEO of Napoleon Hill Foundation. He leverages his extensive experience and personal investment banking industry to share his secrets as to why some individuals succeed financially and others remain in debt, live paycheck to paycheck, we're failed to build enough wealth to live comfortably in retirement. Don tells lots of great stories. He's been with Napoleon Hill Foundation. Now for how many years Don? Wandering for 34 years. So, you couldn't have a better person. And he's co-authored. Or I should say, I just had Greg Reid on here on the Secrets of Happiness. He did a book with many of the authors that Sharon Lightner, Greg Reed, and the list goes on and on who don has actually co-authored with or actually, they co-authored with Napoleon Hill Foundation, it's a go to the website, we're gonna put a link to the website, that the Napoleon Hill Foundation website. There, you can learn more about the books, you can learn more about the courses, you can learn more about everything. It's a great website, and I really appreciate you taking the time to be on. Let's talk about goals. Could you share with us why Napoleon Hills teachings continue to resonate with audiences around the world, even decades after they were first introduced? Because here we are in 2024. And Napoleon Hills Think and Grow Rich goes back to what year was it, that it was actually published first time 1937 Though ere we 1937 to 2024. And it still resonates with people and it still is one of the best sellers that Amazon tell us why you think his teachings have continued to sustain the test of time and especially around definite of purpose and achieving one's goals.

Don Green
While say to young, he just hit on it, he was just he was bothered by growing up or some people rich and others not your course. It the Talmud he was doing the books that could gorge and more success was inner depression and so forth. But I think he discovered Now there's other people before young black Orson Swett Marden 1859, wrote a book self helps psychology. I think, to me, I think it's a first self help book, and he read it, or Swett Marden read it, not a book other people with gasoline which set was Samuel smiles, British, but he interviewed people and I can remember some of them he interviewed, they see people It stuck with some alone time. But he didn't do the interviews, he rose stores. But he'll went out and visited those people 101 and and basically as snow, what they did, or some of them did it without taking some bottom. We have sended it more. But he noticed certain traits that they that they seem to run. And I'll say the pressures are kind of like gravity. If you visit your grandpa over the weekend to you about 40 or 50 feet of mirror type jewelry toe ball, you might get hurt. It's called gravity

Greg Voisen
wagon. You know, it's interesting you say this because I was on I now, Vern Harnish hasn't been on here, but he talked about the Rockefeller habits. Now, Napoleon Hill interviewed Rockefeller, right. Yep. And, and I have the book here, actually. And this, I'm going to show it to mastering the Rockefeller habits. It's by Vern Harnish. It's not by what I'm gonna say, by Rockefeller. But you know, Napoleon Hill was great at synthesizing what others knew in to his work. And that was the key to it. And in this achieving your goals guide, he discussed four proven principles of success. And what I'd like you to do if you could give our law audience a brief overview of the principles and why they're so crucial to goal achievement.

Don Green
Well, as just some studying this is what separates people, and one of them is the verb for his personal initiative. I got those sound wallet Business Award one year, and that's the only time tech does I've just did an interview for you. And I was named Mr. Was to Mr. County, about a third of the local paper. I don't know why they warned at an interview, they wanted a picture and told my citizen some a picture when I was in high school, maybe better to paper. But yeah, initiative, I've got a sound Walton had said, we'll all work a lock, well, more good stock. And I got a plaque. I got his book, and, and so forth. And in his book, we talk about personal initiative. He feels since his stores, you know, Sam did, and one of the stores while they're supermarkets, they were some trace your stuff around the cash register. He told the manager said you need to clean that up. And he said, Oh, we got to take our combined knife to loot and that Sam Don't say a word, he goes back to the back, he has one of the he'll refer burn, and it does small sound comes out to her and cleans up what needs to be done, which his initiative, his personal niche to is simply doing what needs to be done without thinking well as hell don't want to obey somebody else, or let them do it. A personal initiative is separate, seeing something that needs to be done. And he'll said that the two type of people never succeeds. wants can only do what you're told and earns, got him do what he's told, neither one of them was going to succeed. And personal initiative just means if you come in a cement for it, he picked up you don't say, well, we got a janitor who got what got his we got that. And it's to me, it's so simple. I mean, if you want to get ahead, a guy interviewed me and he's just tremendous donor, and I'll mention his name could be private person, but he's worth ungodly amount of money. And he hired me not to 75 and I work in Finance business about probably 75 a week, I guess as to that, because I started over 15 an hour. He started by equity, he's 29 years old. Someone gave me about 90, they told him, he just opened a bank, he needs some help people at new the new Atlantic business and so forth. You could just take a deposit if you're gonna loan money. So he called me and I was about her 15 minutes away a major financial offers. And he said, Don, I've started up a new bank and said I need some help and lending. And, and he told me, the bandstand bit recommended him and, and he said, I'm gonna interview if he'd have an interest. I said, Well, she um, I always thought I'd end up in banking, but she never had the opportunity come to me, but I've tried to prepare myself by getting a degree innovative history breweries and studying finance and so for and he said, Come over one day, this week, narrow view. And I said to him, I could come over serve your Sunday. You can't come through the week. I said, no, these people have played my education. I said, I'm going warm places if I stayed with them, and but I'm always looking for opportunity. So we raised our chemo, we're over sorry. Here's what they said he read the same books. Your dad was a coal miner. He said, Don, you do the lakes to one day, it probably won't matter. Do it for a week, it'll matter. But I promise you, I promise you dedicate fuel work hard and all the people around you. One of these days you have your Moby's success, most of we're only dreamed about, and I won't tell you how much but this guy's this guy was I had lunch with him two weeks ago, this guy can rot and be adored chicks. And I remember I remember what he said, it was 49 years ago, it could have been five minutes ago that I took that latest and of course, I was already practicing a voc Bozo was called me home I shot for the, for the attitude and, and in. But

Greg Voisen
I think one of the things don is and that's a great story. By the way, thank you for telling that. That same individual has a definite nearness of purpose. And there's always a purpose, when you look at people that are setting goals. I remember Steven Kotler being on here, most CEOs or entrepreneurs, they're curious. And then after they're curious, they basically have defined a vision and a purpose in their values and their goals. Now the goals come usually after someone has found that purpose, why the people always say, right, this is the statements and been said so many times, the two greatest days in your life are the day you were born in the day you realize why you're here. And I think that goals that are actually achieved, are in alignment with my values. And the reason why I'm here, which is why Napoleon Hill talks about in his book, The Definiteness of Purpose, speak with us with if you would, because that is a driving force behind you behind me. People ask me they say Why do you still do this show? You've done 1100 podcasts, you've been doing this 17 years, and you never take a salary? And I say, because I have a nonprofit that helps the homeless and Ukrainian refugees, and that's why I do it. And they're going well, then that's your purpose. And I said, that's one of my purposes. Yeah. And so to speak about that, if you would,

Don Green
well, the effect could still search even even the Bible. I can't quote diverse, but the Bible says we must find our purpose. And if you will, oh, Rick, what you read were orange book. Last time I looked at sold 45 million copies. It was a purpose driven life. Right. And it was amazing how he sold sold his sold his books, but we have to have something to get up. I said some people talk about purpose and talk better. I talked about the four piece shot over purpose. And then of course, if we ever purpose for you, or do you got to make some plans. They don't have big good plans. You always change the plans. He'll say that the main thing several purpose in getting started, you don't always say to played into it for no good. But the Bible tells us we will build a build, we must first sit down figure a plan. We got to have a plan. And then I add to that patient, night award crock water crosser said nothing great was ever in, done without enthusiasm. I would call it patient. And the last one is persistence. And if you'll follow those four p's and we have a worthwhile purpose, and option plans, I know we have been good plans was to have a passion of what you want to do. And you have persistence. You want to amaze all people with what you can what you can accomplish. And I agree.

Greg Voisen
I would agree with that persistence element the last one, and I love the four P's per purpose plan. Persistence, and what was the other one I missed? Got a shin patch, passion. And you know, they always talk about the bricklayers laying the building the church, right, you've heard that story a zillion times. And it's the it's the bricklayers that say I'm building the cathedral that literally have the purpose behind them. They're not just laying the bricks, right? And I think many of my listeners have heard that story. But yet put three different guys on a job. And if you got a guy who's just laying bricks for an hourly wage, versus someone who can actually see that cathedral being built, and he's actually building ethic, it's the theory draw, then you got somebody has a definite a purpose. I do know though that and I think some of our listeners, including you and me, we've gotten stuck sometimes. And I always like to address this because goal setting is a fundamental aspect of success. But what advice from somebody at three years like yourself who's been through it all would you have for individuals who are struggling Same with setting their goals and achieving their goals effectively. What do you think might be getting in the way? Or do you believe that it's they have such an attachment to how it's supposed to turn out? That they should really just accept? what has actually happened? What would you say?

Don Green
Well, I think he'd be sure to go back to childhood, the poor development purpose. You know, you grow up as a smoking, for example, you love animals, and you start to think what you'd like to do them you love animals, maybe it a vendor, and we'll get into your mind that you want. You want to have Bednarek become a vendor, or a grooming a dog grooming, business or whatever. But I think if you stop and think you can thank sup nurtured joy, do it. I said, so many people hate your job, Greg, hate you know, they look for Friday, and they hate Mondays. Don't do it on your break. You don't like what you're doing. We don't have slaves on board, find somebody or do and quit. Quit complaining. Because when you start complaining by Confucius, you're just writing yourself with ticket to finger. You got to find something you enjoy. And I'll tell you how the purpose of a kick army comes to you by Heaven, peace of mind. In other words, I have no more animosity towards you, I mean, jealousy, hatred, or whatever, all those negative things with the positive things into our mind, we'll get positive results. We have negative things feed in our subconscious, we can expect negative results. And now they can share pretty much pretty much as samples. And if we can, we can do that. It all comes down to Zig Ziglar said how bad you how bad do you want it? Because when we start making excuses, then we're in trouble. Because you always make an excuse you're better to sit and outline you're not competent. Some were for jail protects District Two, they still have opportunities out there to war. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, you know, good. You might as well reframe for Bichette are awkward. Sure, all day, you may be comfortable, but it's all gonna take you over.

Greg Voisen
Well speak about that Zig Ziglar I always remember him because I used to go to his talks, he would say not your attitude that determines your altitude, it's your attitude. And I think attitude is one of those things because when people have a challenging attitude, persistence becomes very challenging for them to hold on to. Because they they'll say oh, somebody else did it to me somebody else is to blame for this whatever we as you and I know nobody else is to blame for anything other than ourselves. And this comes down to your own self study and your ability to learn this important what would you tell somebody right now who's out there and is maybe given up? They they aren't as persistent. That was one of your keys. And there's they're going through the pity party of woe is me. And they need an uplift. They if they came into your office today and sat down right next to you What would you say to somebody like that? Well,

Don Green
I can give them good I'm give them a good example. Oh, I was up in Pennsylvania if you remember. Charlie tremendous Jones and Greg greet was was upset and he asked me to help Burt do a book and get him some recognition and I started story from ru Darby on three facing goal and persistence and goal was Greg and we never really got it to Dottie complete and, and no Sharon Lechter would have been more to work with us so Jeremy we just did this thing together. And I said I don't have time for the interview. So we got started on the thing and it was cautious surfing from gold the man quit in history we go but if we quit and and we don't stick with something and other than we did ever go out close we are hidden by just will a ball in our world overwhelming the people is pretty simple. It's persistent. Is his one said his or her results. You can you can always you can always quit and say Well, Greg told me I shouldn't try did I didn't have the right education. I didn't know nobody or the misspelled spouse told me when ever but Napoleon would say don't tell them show him and in again it comes down to Woodward renewed warning. You can't jump from one thing to another and put a little bit as well. And even more back at and go to somebody else and go somewhere else. It's if you really Steve Jobs his autobiography, MC Galra Walker, aka Senado i pronounced his name, but he wrote two books he considered geniuses are our top. We're not limited to our DaVinci we're not would have been Franklin Warren was Einstein in the poor, who was Steve Jobs. And fact is he says Steve Jobs said, don't you think you ought to do Kubelik only and Walter told him, Well, maybe you're a little older than six months later, he found Steve Jobs. Founder of Apple was headed, patriotic, catered, he called him. But he set up all the qualities he in, the one he put the most emphasis on was persisters. Washington had an ad that he wanted to do he persist that he may have had to get Greg he be able to get all kinds of playful bakers who want him your wants to put something together. But the main thing once you stick with it, and that sarees

Greg Voisen
everything, I think the most important thing is they don't quit, you know, I've been noted by my wife that when something has to get done, just the simple, small example, around the house, you know, I will continue to persist until I figure it out, or if it's a computer problem, or whatever it might be. And I think not giving up and succeeding at overcoming a challenge is really, really important. And I think there's some people out there listening, that may have encountered fear or self doubt, and in their journey towards success. How would you talk to those individuals, to help them overcome the obstacles and to maintain the confidence that they need, and their abilities to succeed? Because, in essence, if there's anything that gets in the way of our success, it's our own stinking thinking. It's our own mental attitude. We can overcome a lot of things as human souls on this planet and with the help of God and with the help of Ayers spirit and understanding that we're being guided along the way but you got to have a belief in something greater than yourself. It isn't all it is no man is an island right down. Or

Don Green
salutely you have to develop a belief in yourself because I tell you what I learned a long time ago when status didn't say appeal when things didn't work out, right. I took him as the lesson Wang tried again on October you wanna I making T shirts he had them all off to show for and I was always interested in art and a live art K draw street lamp and I clicked it art and good some good stuff. I went to the Gaza auction that wrote the book crew today makes me I would have it was pretty good drywall to pick up some of the other dots seated and interested in and whatever. And in sometimes times things didn't turn out right and one in particular. I did. It was a couple of Sony Kenyon's. I had a friend who was in World War Two Honey, what do you got? He was named CIA is he of what to call them? Then? Best if way people work for her Winston, the joar big Jorah New York City and he collected some Russian arts by this guy uj komanoff He did a discreet save for world peace and pretty famous for Russia. I made his steps on to the University of Virginia or a bit overboard 20 some odd years. And he was in he told me baby step four. We've been an artist. And so what's interesting week shades who messes what? Anyway, I started buying his paintings. It reasonable somebody ah he'll grade him up now. So I sold some Kip. Some steel got some warnings into chanters Owens, but below my friendship Eurocom Sal rar once you sin, he's gonna be in Bethesda Maryland coming up a few months and I did and we went up there immediately. It was wine and cheese and social gathering got all this I got about 10 Russian Payton's into catalog I'm sitting are you to make big money out of your day demonic I just love the process. We'll kiss while I agree some of them thanks so listen when I hear the no and don't you thought you're smart. How do you quit do an art when I shut up did I put I should have said fist sidepiece no break 10,000 orders shipped back to me I did put a minimum in the contract because I will now sign a contract to pay up 50% and so forth but but I didn't in you didn't usual ordered as I get but I had so I had sold to south division where the places I never needed doesn't like it because it always done well. And so I didn't quit doing no art. I just made it sure next time I said so rather off. I determined what the least amount I take for it I put down to contract at 444 chip to pain. So you know I just continue to listen learn and just laugh it off. I made notes if you read some don't turn out right you got like I said when Why learn something, man? You don't have slack it. You put, you can learn from yourself you mindless I put my hand on a hot stove and get burned. And I'll go over dude no more. I see Greg put his hand over watch don't get burned. I don't have to repeat it at work. We can learn from our own things. Don't turn it on we learn from others because shit Wow was young Chimo they're rolling or Wei Lian. Yeah. He said, Now he said in the Bible, they got to the story. So you know, I love her until he said notice to behold, he said, they got these stories and look at it this guy did. He said, he said, they got stores are doing like this guy did. And he said, No, I got stores here that are don't do like his cow did and know where two people got in trouble. He said, Now what I'm doing is fair round about you in a booth. Make sure you're the good example. Not too bad example.

Greg Voisen
Right. Right. Right. Right. And and I totally agree with that. And you know, you're someone that along the way, you know, which is why I believe you're so successful, successful as you are, is you're a master at building relationships. And one of the things that hill emphasizes in this book is collaboration in building meaningful relationships that's emphasized. How could the listeners leverage this power of collaboration, to accelerate their progress toward their goals, because I will carry you for Lou. I've been doing this show for 18 years. And like I said, 11 on her podcast, and it's all about relationships. I am someone who builds relationships with, hopefully everybody on me, hopefully they like me as much as I like to have. But the point is, is that you can't get anywhere. Unless the people you like people and people like you. What would you tell our listeners out there who have or are challenged by figuring out how to collaborate because the world today isn't about competition. It's about collaboration. And if you don't learn how to collaborate, you're, you're gonna be broke.

Don Green
Well, Greg did an interview with a newspaper. Just so cute 30 minutes before I started this with you. And I challenged myself a note to the gods first name was Kim. And I made a note before I leave her Damco Bailey two books and also is a my phone contacts in the notes section of people I recall sir, or whatever. I'll put a note in there. So I know what book awesome shall go repeat the thing. But when we have a chase to do somebody a favor don't do it. We the one gets cheated with cheating or sevens. And we never ever know where it would never know where it mounts to. I mean, I could tell you store it for sure at historic food store. I got one I'm looking to go scripture, Burgin awards from the Persian Rajouri. He called me years ago and wanted to talk and I had to, I had someone with me, I told my assistant, me it gave me my cell phone because I'm late if you manage and he gave me he called me, he said, Mr. Mr. Don, you listen to my story. You still owe me Mr. doll. I said, Sure, appalling. And he said he's in Nigeria at 14 years old on the streets, got a hold of $5 Boston new Sandow robbery Soto and didn't spend the money grew so old Bulger Jusco sold and then went to Hong Kong bought me and the suit so someone recognized him now for him sell drugs, and don't we store it as it is, that's depressing reading. And, and he said he read success. So positive mental attitude, Debbie Klymit Solon, the bow video published nought to 60. And I said yes to Mr. Stone wrote a couple of his own books. I didn't know that he said, Misha gone. I said, Yeah, I wrote blade achieves success. This Merivale I said, you've talked to Nate over the phone, send her your email, your address, but a bell to her not go in that out. I'll send you them to books. And I did. I don't know why much me thought will urge I guess Phenix nigiri. at it. Two or three weeks went by. And he called. He said Dawn, Mr. Dog. I've been in every combin has gone through North Vietnam, North Korea sell malaria drugs, it said and I got back to him two books. You said he's gonna send two books to me. He said they was our I said Paulick novel mother told me to tell somebody you won't do something. You'd be sure you do it. I told you. He said I want to warn you so Lonnie, I said folly word nonprofit, but now we will accept your money. He said I'm gonna worry the $100,000 It won't be $100,000 And when I got the money, I sell the phone number and I called him and I said, folly you love Napoleon you're so good Eurocom the United States I said we're not where he's born I got oldest archives in books and so oh yeah he said my daughter Nielsen Merle and I come visit her yes as I said will you go to come visit me but just let me know what your comments I'll be sure to be there. He said I'll we'll it when I come off bring you $150,000 We're gonna make a quarter million dollars. Wow,

Greg Voisen
what a great story. What a great story. It's

Don Green
nothing from it, but they have been. They've been auger is this is also that that the gold table for

Greg Voisen
privacy, your foundation is definitely worthy of the donation that for certain and I want to let my listeners know just go to Napoleon Hill and you can learn more about the foundation and the good work that Don green is doing. Now. One of the concepts that's talked about in this book in almost every book that Napoleon Hill has, is this concept of masterminding it's kind of central to a Napoleon Hill's teachings. And, you know, when I was growing up in in the selling business, it was it was prevalent, everybody was starting masterminds, I don't see as much of it. Today. Unfortunately, I see it in different ways. There's BNI, and all these other kinds of organizations where people might have tried to do what Napoleon did. How can individuals create and benefit from their own mastermind groups to support their personal and professional growth because there couldn't be anything better than masterminding? A great. I agree.

Don Green
He learned that from the last election of our day Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie, he knows a 12 year old comes over from Scotland is 12 year old he went to work for $1.10 a week in a textile place. But are they currently Edwards he had the boys book story. But but he did, he had this idea of buying up the steel belts and consolidate and of course, they thought he would buy them love but would raise your prices. I think he cut the price about 90% or something. But he didn't steal he did go to England and study it. But he cumulated these other cube right and all these other people, he got what he thought was the best chemists and accountants and lawyers and so forth. And he said his only job was to maintain harmony in a group no worse, in fact is a chemist who was from France. He couldn't get along with other people and he was a high price chemists he let him go he did all this disband his mastermind group got someone to replace him but each one of them contributed and course as I tell people if you use the poor you and he'll is a definition of mash man is not a bunch of guys sit around Turkey Bertie pizza town how great here are a it's a it's a group of working in harmony for a common cause no, originally the US steel or to start a nonprofit to help the homeless like you've done or whatever. And so they certain rules, right if you use his use his thing, but nothing great was ever achieved by one person without him. For example, I like to use Van Gogh because I you know, he died at age 39 up late by suicide. So one painting out a to a brother in law, and he had nobody marketing for him. what he'd done was was paint paint paint. And when he died he's already worth billions of dollars today. But if you'd had a good little guy after light gray cone or marker didn't ship or you know he'd been living in luxury and and what have you, but he never got that he was so concentrated know what he was doing. But there's more to it and pain to dislike it more to six foot book, they just ran it. You got to ask somebody to get marketed and promoted thing, whatever. So

Greg Voisen
it was interesting you say that because I was just talking with a young woman who wrote a book through Wiley and Wiley published it. But at the same time, she said, Well, I'm not getting much support from Wiley and this isn't a down play here. This is just the reality of life when you write a book a lot of times, and she said, you know, process wasn't bad, but I don't understand why it's not selling. And I said because you've got to get out there and promote it. While he's not helping you do it. You got to do it yourself. So you know being on my podcast, that's gonna help but you got to be out a lot of podcasts and talk to a lot of people to sell a lot of books. And that brings me to a point in this interview Don, where I want to talk about the importance of continuous learning. I I think that when you can help somebody, look, I gave her a bunch of tips. And I said, you might want to try this might work. Try that you might want to try this. She was taking notes. Like for a firm viously. She goes, Wow, I wish I had met you before because you're giving me such great ideas to market my book. And I said, Well, I've been doing this 17 years, maybe I know a little bit about getting a book. And I want to talk about this dolphin improvement. What are some practical ways our listeners can invest in their personal development journey? And slash, helping them achieve their goals? What? What would you tell him? You just told me at the beginning of the show, you read four books a week. All right, I told you I was gonna send you but there's somebody really dedicated to their personal growth and development of the written four books a week.

Don Green
Well, a an addition to the writing in my social media girl, when I came back once one day she had hung up on us or excited about sizes, this TV screen, and he said, There are two ways to learn. Looks better browse smarter people don Gary acid mono Why did you put that up? Or said you've told me that 1000 times? I said, well, they face a third way to earn you find out what it is, would you let me know that they do so. And not they get to see it? Because you know what? You read a good book guy and you only get one sadness out of it. You know, what? Then every one of us Yep. Where was at any hour who down? And, and it's it sucks and a seat is not the key to happiness. Happiness is a key says he says

Greg Voisen
yes, there. Yes, sir. That is most definitely true.

Don Green
Self accumulative self nominal. But yeah, happy. No. If you're happy in your circumstances, then you'll be successful.

Greg Voisen
Yes, well, you have a lot of wisdom to give a lot of people in your 83 years of being on this planet, and congratulations for that you just had a birthday March 1. So I want to acknowledge you on that. And as we wrap up this interview, what final words of wisdom or encouragement would you like to share with the audience who's out there listening today? And by the way, we've talked, actually, we've gone back and forth. But we've included some of the content from the millionaire mindset, and some of the content from achieving goals, but you get these books off Amazon, we're gonna have links to both of them. Don green himself is on this one right at the bottom. And this one, well, I guess this is just Napoleon Hill. But Don, what would you want to tell people as we kind of wrap this up about reading studying self development, achieving goals, masterminding Definiteness of Purpose? How would you kind of put a whole read that around that and give them some kind of encouragement as we sum up our podcast? Well,

Don Green
I had a reader use a starting point out that he was coming out of the post office one day and a friend said Dawn you got a new book out? Yeah, I think I might have won a car or send a new chick. I used to curse from the car. A lady was saying Bucha did not know I mean, I'm new to her face by the name and shoot for a conversation she saw a luxury ad and still don't have time. I said you don't have 24 hours a day. I said I don't really mean to you but we'll do what we want to I said I've found it to be and my friend and I'd be awkward to build a cable TV company woman down you know two things so one is one is just saw a at the National stapled watch cable company and older money they stake in was going out to a board might have to bank it to keep buying out to compare them to raise the price above Vader by reposted by our competitors I should hit both with just artist one and we'll put some money and build it with the money profit grow the thigh and grow that gold borrowed money and but I said part must study was average person United States they claim watches TV submersion they don't tell me you don't have time to read. We do what we want to do. We take time to eat down keepsake for sure. And other things basically we do what we want to do but I would say was was to develop a good range and habits. I'll be around I can name a few billion errs who are friends Guess what? There every one every graders and is it and I went in homes when I was in the finance business making $1.15 of our people did not have books. Now were they poured coated in our books. Which one was it? You know, but it may not have a one bite you tell me one time she said almost sugary were so hard if we Bernie got mad money to borrow cigarettes or coffee. Yeah, world bar. We ain't gonna waste no one Are you Oh, no books down there.

Greg Voisen
I liked your words, we're spending more money on cigarettes than we are on books. And it's like you say, it's where you make a choice to do what you do with your time. I remember this saying, if a camera followed you around all day long a video and took the video, would you like what was replayed back again? And if there is no alignment to your values, what do you stand for? What are you out there wanting to do or achieve your goal? And what do you want to change in the world that you don't like about what's going on right now. And there's money out there that all of us have to choose from, from the politics in our country, to the sustainability to our environmental issues, to all the other kinds of things we could get involved in. But the reality is, we have plenty of choices, where we could spend time to make a difference. And I appreciate you because the foundation itself makes a difference just by you as a director, making a connection with people just like the stories you just told. You sent the guy a couple of books, instead he sent you $100,000 Then he said, I'm going to come back, and he brings another $150,000 for you. And I'm sure you have many of those stories. But for everybody out there listening, just listen to what Don did. You see? I'm just gonna show him there's three little labels here that I printed, and I owe people books. When I promised people books, they don't always get them out the same day. I actually put these labels on and I carry them to the post office myself. And people are like, you do that yourself. And I go Yeah, I hear that. That's what I do. I find the books just like Don signed them to me and I take them to the post op That's right, Don it's

Don Green
absolutely my member Mark Twain says people don't read euro but Patri Yeah, that's good. And it is wet and sit is it pretty well because I mean, why would you not take advantage of this millions of people out there what is produced of that survey? You will tubers you know if you know don't matter if you're studying gardening or not daughter became a she's a CPA, but she came up pretty well known interior decorator just from the love of of doing it and is up as a hobby and and started studying the books and and taken of courses and what at any age because when people come home when say Donna who decide you're at your place I did where would you do some for for me and so she picks up records and it's still run by other mothers as to how much you charge should I charge base older material majority of additional time Don is sure interview Gods you don't remember Jacaranda money. She said mom if you don't Georgia Law people think you don't watch her do

Greg Voisen
that. And she's right. She's your daughter's very smart. Well, I will tell you to sitting above you on your left there is a gentleman who started combined insurance W Clement Stone and I see the picture of him because I can recognize him even through this camera that far way. And he was one of one of my kind of mentors and when I was early listening to the recordings. Who were the guys that started fall it wasn't Norman Vincent Peale because I listened to Norman Vincent Peale a ton. But Clement Stone got involved and they did the who is it that I'm thinking of Don all the audio cassette that used to I gotta

Don Green
go corny with old man Dino. Good old man he heard Augmon Dino used to work for him when he grew up

Greg Voisen
I'm trying to think of that the father and then the son took it over and I apologize listeners but if your daughter didn't nine good call now that's what it was. There you go. Yeah. Earl Nightingale

Don Green
Yeah, we probably have 30 or 40 audios with them. I talked to Bill de Goldman. Yeah, good guy. Good. Yeah.

Greg Voisen
Very good guy. As matter of fact you bring something up I need to go check that out night and go cone ad for all of you people who have and I'm sure the websites still up there. And there are some masterpieces from night and gal cone ad dislike there are from Napoleon Hill Foundation. All of this stuff. You may say, Well, this is old, old, old. No, this is timeless. Everything that's written here is timeless. And you'll find whether it's the definiteness of purpose or the mastermind groups or how to achieve goals. Building relationships all of that you couldn't go to a better resource than Napoleon Hill Foundation. So, Don, I appreciate you being back on again and talking about achieving your goals. And also we didn't speak a lot about it but the millionaire mindset but in essence we did, because both of them work together. But you're always an honor and a great person to have on the show. And I'm glad we got this time to talk about these two books. And for my listeners, we'll put links to Napoleon Hill. We'll put links to these books. You can check out all the other books as well. Don, thanks for being on inside personal growth. God bless you.