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Create Your Own

Prosperity

by Brian K. Wright

I had the honor of interviewing Randy Gage recently, and we talked about a lot of great topics including what
holds us back from success, having a healthy attitude toward wealth and money, the power of leverage, and
much more!

Brian: Welcome, Randy. Did you Randy: When somebody thinks book, or their marriage, those two
envision early in your life that their prosperity is blocked and things come up again and again
you would be where you are right they say, “I’m trying everything as I work with people on how to
now? and I’m working hard and I study, unblock their prosperity.
but it’s not breaking through for
Randy: Depends on how we define me,” I think it’s usually one of two Brian: That’s so interesting. How
“early.” Early in my life, as in before things. do you feel that forgiveness relates
mid-teens, I was just a poor kid to prosperity in general?
with a single mother who raised One is forgiveness. They’re just
three kids. I was the middle one upset. They’re hanging on to Randy: We can hold one dominant
and I didn’t envision myself being something, there’s somebody thought at a time. And if you’re
successful. That wasn’t something they’re upset with. And not holding on to victimhood – “My
I could imagine at that point. infrequently, it’s themselves, ex cleaned me out the divorce
where they won’t forgive and took all the money and the
And then in my teens, I started to themselves. They beat themselves credit cards and I’m never going to
really recognize that I was poor and up for some mistakes they made in make it,” you’re hanging on to that
I hated it. And I started affirming the past. victimhood. You’re never going to
and believing that I was going to allow yourself to be successful.
be a millionaire by the time I was Or I think a lot of times, people
35. And 35 is when I became a don’t realize that they get an Unless, you just say, “I forgive
millionaire, by the way. So, if you emotional payoff from being her, maybe I had something to do
want to talk about the power of a victim from something not with that”. I was shot in a robbery
autosuggestion or affirmation, I working. As a result, they don’t get attempt and I realized I’ve got
felt it, I believed it. the healthy payoff that they would to forgive this guy who shot me
get if they became successful. because as long as I’m hanging
Brian: What do you think are on to this revenge and hate, I can
some of the biggest things that And whether it’s climbing a never move forward.
hold us back from success? mountain, writing a bestselling

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