And we're back to the fun music. Hi, welcome to the Daily Grateful. My name is Michael Croce, and it's been a weird week. It's been a weird week.
Yeah, but I'm enjoying it, and I'm grateful for it. So what can I say? So an old friend of mine who knows I'm doing this podcast and has listened to my podcast, which is strange because nobody's listening to my podcast. I mean, nobody is listening to my podcast.
As a matter of fact, I could go right now and and tell you, let's see, how many people listen to the podcast Yesterday, I'm going to pull it up right here on the computer screen as as I and by the way, I don't want anyone to listen to the podcast now Because I'm developing it. I'm getting good at it I'm you know trying to find the direction to go. So looking at episodes yesterday's episode That's a nice podcast to as you had zero people the day before when I said setting up a gratitude journal Had one person and it's been averaging three to five to six You know tech gratitude got five people Walter Adams got four people so you know And yesterday got no people no one listened yesterday and yesterday was a good one. It was straight from the heart.
Anyway, he said Michael my friend said Michael is being grateful going to help you make money And he said give me one way that being grateful helps you to make money And you know what I read something once that something about the fact that a Gratitude does not make you or help you make money But it puts you in the right frame of mine to cultivate a positive and proactive mindset So your mindset is is more geared towards making money I mean, you know, I can't sit here on a on my daily grateful podcast and saying being grateful Is myself is going to make you a lot of money Did you see the movie the secret when it came out years ago? Oh my gosh everybody saw it was I can think my way to success No, you couldn't now. I love that movie. I absolutely love that movie I love some of the people on that movie some of the people on that movie turned out to be me But um, I will say that that movie helped to change my life It was very good But you could not sit there and think your way the secret is the law of it You know, they tell you that the secret is the law of attraction In other words what the woman did is she took a book that was written years ago by wallace waddles About the law of attraction and you can buy that book or you can download it for free anywhere on the internet It's in the public domain.
So you you can do that Well, she took that public domain book and basically rewrote it into the secret and then had a video production team Interview a bunch of people who knew about the law of attraction But you know you can't call it. I'll have attraction. You have to call it a secret and put them all together in this this movie And the video was released and sold millions and millions of copies But the end result of it is nobody got rich because they thought their way to success They got rich by taking action. They got rich by getting off their behind and doing something And one of the things I've learned in my career Uh, you know my lifelong career and in radio broadcasting and other businesses is that nothing happens until you get off your ass and do something There I said it and it takes motion And and it takes gratitude and if you're grateful that you have the ability to do that.
It's going to help you I'm very grateful that, uh, you know, I have an abundance mindset I do and over my I raised five kids. I you know I The last wife I married had two kids. I adopted them They're now mine and uh then her and I had zack And I you know had us in a beautiful home And we took vacations and we did all of those things and we had a very successful mail order business And I had a very successful long care, you know long fertilization and pest control business And we worked hard and I made money Made boogoo money back then in those days It's because I had the mat the mindset in the mindset is that I was very grateful because I had a ton of people that helped me along the way In radio. I had a guy by the name of sunny block that helped me I had lots of you know, people did you ever listen to click and clack the tappet brothers?
I met them at a National Association of Broadcasters Convention years ago and was totally surprised because I I didn't think I was successful Even though I was on a bunch of radio stations and they had heard my show and the one brother gave me advice gave me the best advice in the world And I followed his advice and my show really took off after that really really by just following his advice And it's because I was and I was very grateful and I had that mindset because I was grateful So be grateful for all of the opportunities that you have be grateful for all that you know Because you know more than you think if you have something that you want to make money with What I've always done and and I learned this a million years ago by a guy He said you take a yellow pad to it If you want if you have a business idea or something that you want to do to make money You take a yellow pad to it and you write down on the top of the yellow pad What you want to do and then you sit there and you just start writing all the things that you're going to need to do it You're going to have to write down all of the assets that you're going to need and then after that you stay with that yellow pad And you find out how you can take the assets that you need and minimize the cost of those or eliminate the cost of those You find a way to make it work if I've ever taught my kids anything Uh, I I've always taught them find a way to make it work Whatever you run into find a way to make it work I think that they're grateful that I've taught them that I'm grateful for the person who taught that to me Very grateful for the person who taught that to me. He said find a way to make it work And this guy was a very successful in the auto repair business I had nothing to do with the auto repair business never wanted to do anything But I knew him he was a friend of my families and I knew it and he would just we would run into challenges He'd say find a way to make it work and that stuck with me being grateful all by itself is not going to help you make money It's going to help you be more productive because you're going to have this better mindset It's going to help you build the relationships that you need you build in order to make money with if that's what you want to do You've got to know people you got to have people help you you've got to help people zig zig zigler said The best way to to make money is to help other people make money and he was right He was absolutely right. So being grateful For everything that you've got gives you that mindset to help other people which will help you I should pay more attention to what i'm saying because whenever I have I've always done well Whenever I haven't I haven't so how about that? I mean, you know for crying out loud Just a little thing like that.
It's it's there's no miracle. Okay. Let me just tell you right now There I do not have the secret sauce. I do not have the secret ingredient I do not have the eight herbs and spices all I have are the following things Find a way to make it work Be grateful all the time because you have the ability to find a way to make it work and go from there How's that?
We'll see you tomorrow. Oh, by the way before the music ends tomorrow. We're going to talk about how does it get any better than this? Oh, you're gonna love that.
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