The Importance of Keeping a Journal | Darren Jacklin

0:00This is different me being on a stage. I'm used to being out in the audience. I'm grateful to be here tonight here in Vancouver. I live here, but I'm not here much when I'm on the road traveling. Next to come in Edmonton and I'm off to Africa again. So how many of you so far in January of this calendar year have been on track for achieving your New Year's goals, resolutions or dreams or targets? Great. So what happens is a lot of times as we get started in a new calendar year or in Q1, we go through the peaks and valleys. We go through dealing with the distractions, to the chaos, to the things that's going on. In my own personal life, for those of you know my source of some of you don't, I've had a lot of adversity, a lot of challenges, failures, setbacks, similar to Dan Locke, you know his first 13 business went bust, his 14th was a home run. And what I've learned from my own adversities, challenges, mistakes, failures, setbacks, drawbacks, all that kind of stuff is that there's actually blessings in disguise and there's learning opportunities.

1:03And I've been very grateful in the last almost 20 years of my career to travel the world, 44 countries and four continents. And you know, started in Vernon, British Columbia, as a kid who was on welfare, homeless, and I just wanted to be somebody. I hit rock bottom, I was 22, but 21, 22 years of age, and I've been on welfare, living in an Apple orchard. And I remember I used yesterday. And the interesting thing was in my life now, my goals, I just wanted to overcome in my life, I had, I had a, my insecurity was not being good enough. And so people asked me the other day, what drives you, the insecurity that I have with inside myself, not being good enough. And that was a driving force for me. And today what I do is I have a journal, and I invest 20 minutes a day into a private conversation. So I take 20 minutes a day, and I have a private conversation with myself, between myself and this book. And this book will be read when I die, somebody will pick it up and read it.

2:11But I have a private conversation. And I want you to think about in your life, whether you hear to earn more money, you hear to learn to develop a millionaire, a multi-millionaire billionaire mindset. You want to learn more, or more casual, which we'll talk about today. These different things is realizing it's the time that you spend with yourself every day. And one of the things that I've learned in my life was that I originally wanted to, you know, just learn to improve myself confidence. I got into this industry kind of by accident. I did multiple suicide attempts in the early 1990s to try and end my life. I was in Vernon British Columbia at Prada Ridge Golf Course, and I'd done over 200 practice tries to try and run my car into a telephone pole at 140 kilometers an hour, 85 miles an hour. And on the final attempt, something inside me shifted, realizing there was a higher purpose in life. So what it was. And I drove into a guidance counselor's office, outreach program, Crisis Line. When in there, a lady sat with me and she said,

3:11you have so much potential in your life. And what was interesting was she sent me to a Dale Carnegie program. Now, I didn't know who Dale Carnegie was. And what was interesting was I went to the Prestige in Hotel, walking around looking for Dale Carnegie. Because I thought this man was alive. Went upstairs and asked a couple different people, and they said, go into this room. I walked into a room like you're in tonight, terrified. Didn't have a self confidence, didn't believe in myself. I was just thinking how I could get through another day of life. I had incredible amounts of negative self-talk, shaming guilt from my past. I was a kid who at age one, my sister, when I was a year old, my sister died at four of a heart transplant failure. So my childhood was very micromanaged. I failed grade one, and I grew up with a learning and reading disability. By grade five, I was labeled most likely not to ever succeed. And in grade 11, I was taken out of class by guidance counselor and school teacher.

4:16And they said to me, they said, we hope that you will succeed working in construction or pouring concrete or paving, because you'll never go far. And out of 200 and some kids at graduate from my high school class, I was labeled most likely not to ever succeed. And that was the label. I had a guidance counselor who told me that I would never amount to much, never go far. These were mentors, these were the role models in my life. In my late teens, early 20s, I never did drugs, never done drug in my life, totally drug free, because I wanted to protect my mind. And the thing was, I was very grateful to be on the side of the road one day in Armstrong, British Columbia, and a metal gentleman while I was selling water milling. I was working for a farmer for cash, getting off a welfare, and I met a guy who had a grade three formal education who lived off his money's interest interest. And he was a guy that taught me things. He had a grade three formal education, and he became my mentor up until the day he died.

5:19I was with him just moments before he had passed away. And he was kind of like Dan Penney. He was a guy that would drive me down a road in Vernon, Kelona. We drive around and he says, what do you see? And I would say, well, I see a bunch of dirt and the fence, and he goes, oh man, I see a 36 unit complex. And he would drill into me mindset training. And some of the things I'm going to share with you tonight, I've been very fortunate now to work with 11 different billionaires soon to be 12. And I've had a chance to spend time with some of the most influential people on planet Earth. When I first started this industry, I just wanted to meet a branch manager. I wanted to meet a supervisor, a team leader. I wanted to meet somebody who had built a company. Now I'm being introduced to presence of countries and rural families. It's a whole different level. But yet they're people at the end of the day. And you know, I had a conversation last week on Skype with one of the wealthiest people in the world. And it was a six minute conversation. Six minutes. And that's how they micro time. And six minutes. Bill Gates is six minutes, by the way.