Dr. John Delony
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
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And it was six or seven months of really gnarly work.
And I ended up telling my wife stuff that happened to me when I was a kid that I had never told a single soul on the planet.
And I'll never forget months after that, wrestling around with my son and my daughter came and she's always the protector.
She'll come and just swing like a hurricane.
She's awesome.
But I remember the words coming out of my mouth, Josephine, get off me.
And then I stopped for a second because I'd never said that sentence before.
And I was like, no, no, no, don't get off.
Don't get off.
But now I can't keep her off of me.
I'm a human jungle gym for her.
And so what I had identified in her as she won't, she can't, she doesn't.
I realized, dude, it was me.
And what I want all entrepreneurs to know, if you will switch your metric from I gotta crush, crush, crush every second of every minute of every day to I will become the most sturdy, peaceful presence in every room I walk into, which means my personal finances are okay, my personal health is okay, my personal relationships are okay, my spiritual life, whatever that looks like is okay.
your ability to work, your ability to earn will be so much greater than being a kinetic, always on the go presence.
And so, yeah, for me, it is, I am solving for peace.
People gave me such grief online when I paid off my mortgage that was at 2.7%.
And mathematically, they were right.
I could have made 5% in a high yield savings account.
But very few people know what it's like to put your head on your pillow and know that nobody can take your house away from you.