Listen to What Frank Deardurff and T. Harv Eker Have To Say When They Answered the Heroes Question "When Was The Lowest Point In Your Life and How Did You Change Your Life Path To One Of Victory Over the Obstacles You Were Facing at That Time?"
Frank Deardurff: I try to live very optimistically. To say that I had a low point it’s hard to pick out a low point. My mother has always envisioned in us or passed onto us that you always look for the good things in life no matter what it be.
Coming from a single-parent childhood where there were four kids, my mother never allowed us to think that we were poor or did without. We always had food on the table. We never stopped to think that it wasn’t steak and baked potatoes.
Trying to look for a low point I don’t know if that is possible.
T Harv Eker: First of all I want to make sure we don’t use the word poverty because I never used that word myself. Certainly I wasn’t well off financially, and then became a millionaire.
My parents came from Europe and they came with the proverbial clothes on their backs and nothing else. For us money meant survival, that s what I learnt when I was young. All my friends wanted to be baseball players and astronauts, fireman and policeman. I just wanted to be a millionaire. I left school early, at the end of the first year of college for my quest to the holy financial grail and for the next twelve years I was nothing but frustrated.
Finally, I met up with a friend of my fathers who was a multi multi millionaire and he gave me some good advice. He said “Stop trying to reinvent the wheel if you want to be rich do what rich people do.” So I started studying what rich business people do and in my next business I became a millionaire in only two and a half years.
The problem was that a couple of years later it was all gone again. I happen to have made my money in the fitness business and I knew about this thing called a set point when it comes to your weight and I realized that I was going to come down to the exact amount of money I had started with and I was back down in my bank book. It just kept on coming no matter what I did after getting to that spot and I realized that not only do we have a set point that comes to our weight but we also have a set point when it comes to our money.
I was very involved in personal development at the time because I was attempting to be a much better father than I had been and I had a newborn son and I wanted to make good on that and so I used those principles to reset what I called my financial thermostat or my money blueprint and I haven’t looked back.
Probably that time when I lost my money was one of the lower points and I just kind of looked up at the sky and said “God help me. If I make it I promise I will help other people do the same thing in the same way I know how.” I was very blessed to remake it and now that’s what I do.
I have kept my promise and my vow, to help other people with the same frustrations that I had. The interesting thing is that people, my name is T Harv Eker, the T is an initial that I gave to myself and the reason was because at one point when I was so frustrated I went to a friend of mine and I said “Its not worth this I am going to just go out and get a $30,000 a year job and be happy with that and just drop off the face of the earth without trying to do anything big.”
He said “Stop feeling sorry for yourself you have to remember that there has never been anyone before you who is you and there will never be anyone after you who is you, you have a thumbprint of your own and there is never going to be another Harv Eker in the world and never will be. You are very special like everyone else and you have got to utilize what you have got.”
That kind of had an effect on me and to remember that I put a T in the front of my name to remember that I am “The” one and only Harv Eker and I better start acting like it and keep acting like it.