96: 6 Money Mindset Resolutions for 2024

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Ron Beres 1:59

It's not necessary to have a life of struggle with money.

Ken Honda a show of hands who wants more money this year? So the question right, you know, we could all do with a bit more money in 2024. Yes. But for the money to start rolling in. Consider that you first may have to change your mindset around money. Money can bring us joy. But it can also bring unbelievable stress and fear and frustration and unhappiness. It isn't any wonder that we would unconsciously push money away when it brings us some negative feelings. But the more we push money away, the more unhappy we become with our money and our life. But we can change our relationship with money and open the channels to happiness. After all, money is energy. It can be happy or unhappy. Friends, you are gonna love today's show. We're sharing a few money mindset resolutions for 2024. From one of the world's most acclaimed money and prosperity experts, Zen millionaire Ken Honda.

Ken is Japan's number one best selling personal development guru and author of Happy Money, the Japanese art of making peace with your money with book sales or passing 8 million copies. By understanding the emotions that often unconsciously rule us around money. Ken says that we can break the unhealthy patterns that keep us trapped in a stressful and unhappy life. And Ken is here to talk about six money mindset resolutions for 2024. Welcome to the show, Ken. Yes.

Ken Honda 3:49

Oh, hi. I'm so excited as you are you are you too passionate Fireballs.

Ron Beres 3:58

Well, you had us at money can we are ready to go ready to be abundant. Get all these tips for 2024 and his take it to the moon. Right.

Ken Honda 4:04

All right.

Lisa Beres 4:05

Yes, everybody needs to hear this. Thank you so much for being with us, Ken.

Ken Honda 4:10

Thank you.

Lisa Beres 4:11

Welcome, Ken, a lot of people are going to appreciate this show. You know, the world can seem very unstable today with rising inflation interest rates, so much chaos and uncertainty going on. So let's dive right in with your six mindset resolutions. What's the first one that has to do with gratitude?

Ken Honda 4:34

So my mentor had Takeda, who used to be called Warren Buffett to Japan. When I had 30 seconds of his time, you know, why would you ask Warren Buffett? You know, I said What is the secret of money? And he answered with a big smile. He said, I did Arigatō your money. Arigatō your money. You want to ask another question about that. But I got pushed out. But a few weeks later, I had another opportunity to ask him about this. But he said the same thing. Arigatō your money, thank you money. Say thank you. When money comes in, say thank you. When money leaves you, when you pay your bill, you say thank you, when you get a check, or when you see the money is in your bank account online. You can say Arigatō. Thank you. Che che gracias. Whichever the language you want to use, it'd be cool. If you use a foreign language for you. I use Thank you.

Lisa Beres 5:34

It's good to switch it.

Ken Honda 5:34

Yeah, it sounds cool for me, you know, Arigatō is a bit boring. So maybe you can use Arigatō or Gracias you know, could be a foreign language, because it's kind of fun. So thanks for money.

Lisa Beres 5:47

Arigatō because, you know, obviously, anyone who's eaten sushi here in America knows or I got every time you leave the restaurant chefs are so sweet. And they always bow and say, Arigatō. And it's such an honor. You know, it's like, they honor you as the customer. And I always just thought that was so beautiful. By the way, I love Japanese culture. I happen to love Japanese everything, the people, the culture, just so much about it. But that, you know, you're right. We think when we get things, but we don't always thank when we're giving right when we pay a bill or when we do something maybe with our money that isn't glamorous, or fun or exciting, right? Right.

Ken Honda 6:25

Because unfortunately, a lot of us feel squeezed when we see our bank account online. And also, if you're frustrated when you have to pay the bills, especially taxes.

Lisa Beres 6:36

Especially taxes.

Ken Honda 6:37

When you feel appreciation, when you pay taxes, because your tax money will go into support hospitals, and schools and all the other good things, as well as bad things. But you know, just a few can imagine your money well spent on welfare. So if you're good, so on whatever you can appreciate. It grows. So I suggest thanking your money is the first one.

Ron Beres 7:02

Okay, I love that. And you actually beat me to the punch because I was going to ask you a question. Ken, what happens if you get a parking ticket? You know, but the same thing? Now what the ticket now the money for that? It's gonna go to the city. Yes, there's gonna help the people. So can you've already shifted my mindset, I feel like I'm ready for 2024.

Ken Honda 7:23

I actually got a ticket, you know, the other day? Because I was supposed to stop, but I didn't. So I got a ticket. And I gotta find something. They got $80 or something. And then I thought, Okay, since I got fined for this one. I'll be more careful next time, you know, when I slip side, so can prevent future potential accidents, you know, by getting $100 That's like, Oh, good. It's like an insurance for me.

Lisa Beres 7:51

Yeah, that's a great point.

Ken Honda 7:53

By paying this money. I will not get into car accidents in my entire life. It sounds like a pretty good day insurance policy, isn't it?

Lisa Beres 8:01

Yes, that's right. I one time I was that in LA, your parking ticket.

Ken Honda 8:06

It's in Tokyo.

Lisa Beres 8:08

As I say they're worthless here. On the 4:05. I was driving once with my mom. We were in a hurry. And it was night. And yes, the carpool lane was a solid line. But we're like, no one will see I'll quickly zip over into the other lane. And sure enough, I got caught. The cop came and pulled me over. And it was it was a $400 ticket. I was so upset. Yeah, it's crazy. It's probably even more now. I was carpooling. My mom was with me. I just crossed the solid line. But you know, what, can I never ever, ever cross that line? I have never crossed that line. It's good to make that expensive mistake again, for sure.

Ron Beres 8:45

Well, can I know there's a few more resolutions for a good mindset and 2024. Can you share with us what is the number two mindset that we should be in with appreciation?

Ken Honda 8:55

Okay, so appreciate what you currently have. That means probably a roof over your head, and some clothes, some shoes. Even if you don't have a car, if you have a bus, public transportation system. That's something you can appreciate. If you have a friend or a partner. That's another thing that you can appreciate about. So there are so many small things that you can appreciate about, but we tend to complain about the things we don't have. My iPhone is not the newest, or I got my clothesline is probably in Los Angeles Mall. It's not the most it's not 2024 This is like audit three years ago. I mean, they look the same, but you know, there could be millions of other things if you start complaining about so if you can appreciate what you currently have, and your health, your time or your situation and you feel very good about your life.

Lisa Beres 9:50

Yeah, an attitude of gratitude. I think that I learned that years ago from Abraham Hicks. You know, going down to like a really basic like the sheet on your bed, like appreciating a warm bed, I mean, you look at homeless people, there's a lot of homeless in LA, and a lot of big cities now. And like just appreciating a bed a warm place to rest your head. And you know, getting into that. And I think, would you agree with this? can sometimes people get stuck in all? Well, if I'm stay too much in that energy, I won't attract more? Is that something that you hear? Right? Like, like, if I stay too much in a complacent? Like, everything's so great where it is, then does that keep you from attracting something greater? How would you balance that energy?

Ken Honda 10:33

There are many ways to look at things. Some people always just go hungry, stay hungry, and they keep pushing, pushing, pushing. And this type of people don't find satisfaction in your life. But you know, you can be 100% satisfied, and then you can grow at the same time. For example, I have nothing to complain about. And in my life, you know, but now, I've been offered new opportunities to be able to offer my books in English. That's another big opportunities and also a lot of excitement. So I'm 100% happy with where I am. But I can be 130% happier this year. So that is attitude, you can be full, but you can be more full as your money continue to grow.

Lisa Beres 11:18

Right, the higher vibration you are, you're going to attract more high vibration, right? Yes, I agree with you. Right. And so it's interesting. This has been such a big journey for Ron and I think like learning this and not getting stuck when, because people will do this when everything's going great, right? They're like, Yay, especially at the New Year, like oh, hey, I'm gonna have a great mindset, boom, something happens, right? Something happens because unexpected, you know, their AC breaks or something, and they're like, oh, okay, forget it the year, you know, is doomed, or, you know, they'll they'll spiral down really quick and think, Oh, they're good attitude wasn't working. Right, right. That's what they'll do. And then that'll be their excuse to get back into their negative thinking.

Ken Honda 12:00

Mm hmm.

Ron Beres 12:00

Ken, I'm curious, have you always been appreciative your whole life even as a child, did you always have this mindset? Or did you develop this as an adult?

Ken Honda 12:09

Oh, this is something I learned with sweet and bitter memories. You know, my father was very successful guy in his 20s. But after my father's best friend's class, his client committed committed family suicide. He went into a deep depression, he lost his mother, my grandmother, a few things happened at the same time. So his hero was Elvis Presley. You know, believe it or not just playing guitar, he always made jokes. But after my father's best friend suicide, he went down the hill, and became very abusive to himself and to our family. So we suffered a lot from his addictive behaviors. So it took me a while to heal ourselves of him, myself and my family members. And after I got married, I took four years off of my life for my baby girl who's now 25. And she is professional singer now.

Lisa Beres 13:02

Oh, wow.

Ken Honda 13:03

Yeah, her name is Stella Venus, of album in English word as well. So that's why we are in here in Hollywood. You know, I have so many appreciations now. But life wasn't so easy. So these things are something that you can acquire by just sort of like train yourself, you know, muscle for appreciation is trainable.

Lisa Beres 13:25

I love that. Yeah. So people can't look at you and go, Oh, well, you know, it's easy. Maybe you always had many, you know, because people will say that too. Sometimes. Right? Like, right. Yeah. Yeah, that person was born into money. And so yes,

Ken Honda 13:37

I'm a happy Panda, but I pretty much.

Lisa Beres 13:42

I love it. Very good. So can you please share how our mindset is important when it comes to creating money?

Ken Honda 13:48

Okay, that's number three. adopt your abundance mindset. This is something also I learned from my mentor head Takeda. He used to carry gold coins. Whenever he sees a beautiful smile. Like somebody serving our table in the restaurant. He says, You have the best smile. You know, Lisa, you definitely got his gift. He pulls out his real solid gold coin and give it to the person. Oh, wow. And for a lot of people. It's the first time in their life to have something so tiny but so heavy. Yeah, no, you know, two solid gold point. And she'd say for me, Oh, wow. And after that, and she cries and everything. And then my mentors just saw smiling and so happy. Oh, wow. That's beautiful. But you lost your gold coin. And is that okay? And he said, No, no, I did find shopping. Ask him. What did you shop? He said, If you get a gold coin for your smile, what would you do after that? And I said, Of course she'll keep smiling more to her family to her husband or kids or their colleagues or the customers, right? In other words, I bought A lifetime smile of hers by paying $1,000. That's a great bargain, isn't it? And he was laughing. And it is a abundant mindset. That's amazing. We tend to feel when we spend money when we give, we feel like we lose money. Yeah. But think about it. When we spend money, that means we receive something in return. When we say the restaurant bill is like $200, that means like, we enjoy the food and the beautiful atmosphere and the friendship, because they serve good food. There's a reason to appreciate. So nothing, diminished it. So instead, no money was exchanged for fun, a nice memory and a deeper friendship. So actually, when you spend money, you're not losing anything. So when you start thinking life that way, actually, your life is in constant growth, not just you're gone. So I'm less fortunate. No, you are more abundant in so many ways. Once you can say, this mindset in your heart, you will grow more.

Ron Beres 16:06

Wow, that's very kind.

Lisa Beres 16:08

Imagine if we learned that when we were young, we could have saved a lot of heartache.

Ron Beres 16:13

No, can the irony of all this is that you mentioned this gold coin story. And I'm holding a lucky silver coin. This is a virtual share with you, right. So silver, not quite high as gold. But this is a heavy metal right valuable. So we'll use that as a metaphor or positivity for this podcast

Ken Honda 16:29

Beautiful, thank you. You're also away said, If you don't have the money to share, or knowledge, you can share your smile. Oh, he believed in strong smiles. And both of you have that. So if you keep smiling, people smile at you, when the world will smile back at you. Wow, that's true. That's his teaching.

Lisa Beres 16:52

That's beautiful. I agree with that. Because you know, especially at the holidays, people want to help and give and you know, people are stretched thin sometimes and feel like they can't do everything. But yeah, I always say we'll give your time if you don't have money. You know, we've done the soup kitchens a couple times and volunteered. And there's so many people that need help. It doesn't have to be money. But you're right. Even just a compliment a smile to somebody. It's amazing how much their face lights up, right?

Ken Honda 17:16

Yes. So when you feel a little depressed, I try to come up with, you know, I go over my friend's name with my phone, and then just find one person and just text him or her saying hello, how are you? I miss you. Thank you so much. You're so nice friend. For me. I just write a few emails and just wisdom, you know, happy life. And so after a few emails, I feel usually better.

Lisa Beres 17:41

And if you're feeling down, yeah.

Ken Honda 17:44

So that is something you can do to just say, Hi, how are you? It doesn't cost anything. But you know, it will definitely make you feel much better.

Lisa Beres 17:52

So yeah, I we can do that. Do you meditate every day? And do you recommend that?

Ken Honda 17:57

Yes. And also for me, my life is meditation. So I'm meditating with you. Like having fun?

Ron Beres 18:03

Yeah, well, how about this, I've we're gonna get to the fourth mindset resolution coming up. But I was curious, to help your energy as well believe in energy and, you know, having a positive outlook. Do you ever use music to complement that? What I mean by that background music to tap into a higher frequency?

Ken Honda 18:20

Yes, definitely. You know, I was in New Orleans a few days ago with my author friends. And I really enjoy jazz. You know, I love America. Yeah, for that, and I mean, Hollywood, I need to go to jazz and other classical concerts and all sorts of things. And my wife is a musician, and then my daughters. So I'm surrounded by music. And I have a few studies in my retreat center in my home. I have several homes, and I have a special Yamaha stereo set that plays a good classical music. Good rock and roll, good jazz. On my mood, I just use the room. So music helps me, raise my mood.

Lisa Beres 19:00

I love that. Yeah, there's so many tips we can do to raise our mood. Music. You're right, getting out in nature. Getting out of that funk. If you're in a funk is really important. Not staying in there, right not staying down too long. You did just get it move through that because it's not good. You don't want to stay in depression and that too long.

Ron Beres 19:16

Well, we teased what I wanted to ask you next, what is the fourth mindset resolution? We need to attract more money?

Ken Honda 19:24

This could be a little tricky one because this is hardest. Number four is trust life. Oh, so the biggest money worries or life worries come from not trusting because when we spend money when we have a job and cannot seem to find a next one, we worry, you know what if I just cannot pay the rent or what if I lose my house? What if I can find a good job a good partner, whatever that is worry is a killer for many people. Yeah, it's because we cannot trust life. If we can trust life. Okay, this is just temporary it'll be fine but we cannot feel that way. You know, I'm sure most of us have spent sleepless nights, because we just cannot get off of bad images that will be jobless partner less, or kid less or whatever the situation. So trust life is the hardest one, but yet very important one.

Lisa Beres 20:18

Yeah, I agree with that there's a higher power, right that that is protecting us and wants the best for us. And we fight that sometimes, because we think we know what's best. And I think that that's a really important part. I mean, people generally don't trust, they want to control the outcomes. And usually that ends up messing things up.

Ron Beres 20:36

Right? It's so true. Well, Ken, we're gonna have listeners that say, Okay, well, I've tried trust before, and that's really hard. So what would you tell them? Like, how do you trust so easily that everything's gonna work out?

Lisa Beres 20:49

Or someone who said, I trusted, let's say, I trusted that the sick person was gonna get better, and they did it? How could I trust again?

Ken Honda 20:57

That's not a trust, that's an expectation, and how you expected that he or she will heal, eventually, all of us are going to die. So it's not realistic to trust that I'm not gonna die, we all die. So that's things, we just did a hole for depression or betrayal. So I don't expect anything in my life. Actually, you know, a lot of people think, Oh, so you have no expectation about your future? Actually, no. And also, I don't judge things. When something shows up in my life. I don't judge this is great. This is not great. Because you never know. So when something appears in my life, this could be good. This could be bad. But as long as it's in front of me, I embrace it. So socially, sometimes it's good socially, sometimes it's good, you know, like losing money and all that, right. But whatever shows up in my life, it shows up for reason, and understand right on the spot. But just after five years, I'll have enough intelligence to be able to say, Wow, that's good. Because I read actually, American statistics somewhere psychology magazine, that 95% of American people believe the worst thing that ever happened to their life turned out to be something better, like losing your job or losing your loved ones. And not to time, it's so bad. But after a few years, because you lost a job, because you're betrayed by a partner, you'll find somebody better, something better. So when we are deprived of something, we feel hurt, we feel like life is betraying us, like, life is treating us so unfairly. But give it a few years, it usually turn out good.

Lisa Beres 22:42

Yeah, that's a really, really powerful point. Yeah, cuz it's like the bird's eye perspective. We can't see it from that big vantage point, when we're in pain in some area. But I always say to Ron, let's zoom out, like whenever we're going through a challenge of any kind, let's zoom out and try to see it from a bigger perspective. And I always say the universe, God, whatever people use, knows things we don't know, you know, can see things that we can't see.

Ron Beres 23:09

This is a tough one. So what if we don't trust does that mean, we're not going to get the benefit from that experience, and something else will happen instead?

Ken Honda 23:17

Not trusting is a form of trusting your trusting bad future will be there. Oh, that's a negative future, you're trusting one thing or another. It's almost like you're connecting with certain Wi Fi. You know, if you're connected, beautiful Wi Fi, you see all the great things. And if you're connected to bad Wi Fi, all the bad things start coming pouring in. So the most important thing is take care of your heart and mind. Otherwise, you keep getting nightmares and dreams and also while you're awake. So you have to responsible for feeding your mind and heart with good stuff.

Lisa Beres 23:56

Ah, amen to that. Literally, Ron and I have a thing our listeners probably know this, because I've talked about it a lot. We don't watch anything negative. We don't watch any violence or killing or even movies with like, infidelity. And you know what, just like there's what point 000,5% of choices that we have. Like so many of the movies and TV shows.

Ron Beres 24:18

We're barely watching cartoons, Lisa.

Lisa Beres 24:20

Even some of the cartoons. But yeah, so it's become like a little small window, you know, of what we can watch. But, you know, I would have nightmares and dreams and I would have nightmares. Like, if I watch way back when I went to murder shows like then I would constantly think someone was going to come in and attack me, you know, or whatever. And I was like, this isn't healthy. This isn't helping me. And so we started like together consciously saying, No, we're not going to flood our mind with anything negative. It takes discipline because it's not always easy. It's not like you can always find something, but then you figure out something else, you know, hey, we're gonna play chess or we're gonna listen to music or we're gonna talk or do a hobby you know, the TV shouldn't be our world anyway, but yeah, I found that helped me so much by just, you know, how do you feel about news? Like, do you just avoid it? Kind of get what you need to know, but avoid immersing in it?

Ken Honda 25:08

Yes, I'm not avoiding anything when it comes, it just kind of flows up. So it's like, I have no judgment, whether it's good or bad, because it takes some effort, Is this good or bad? is positive or negative? Whatever happens, I welcome it, and then let it go. Let it go. Let it go. You know, could be God could be good. It's more Zen. I try not to judge something as positive or negative. I don't need to have energy, or like, you know, like a security person who just makes sure that okay, you can let this in or not, it just flows and flows out. My mentor Takeda, you know, was famous, and he is well known for his wealth. But he didn't have a bodyguard. He didn't even have a guard guarding his house. Oh, wow. He had his house wide open. No locks. Wow. And I asked him, I think you should have like a lock.

Lisa Beres 26:02

Yeah. Right. But that deadbolt.

Ken Honda 26:05

Yes. And he said, you know, if you have no protection, or he said no defense, no attack. So if you don't defend yourself, then there cannot be any attack. And he was in total surrender. So people come in and just try to steal things, they will. But I don't trust that. So I was a little worried about that to be he was so defenseless. So I'm learning to be defenseless. You know, you can be powerful, and loving and open. So if you're in total surrender, without judging anything, I think you can find positive energy in you. Naturally.

Lisa Beres 26:45

Wow, that's really, okay. He is definitely the master. That's a level of trust. Yeah, well, I don't think most of us are gonna get to. Okay, so many people hold resentment around money, so and so borrowed money and didn't pay them back, or they got a bill that they didn't feel like was fair, how is the fifth tip that you're going to share with us helpful for people struggling with this resenting money?

Ken Honda 27:09

Thank you, you keep asking great questions. So the number five is forgive and heal your money wounds. I'm often called the money healer, because I deal with people's childhood and also relationship is issues around money. I've heard it so many times when I was doing the accounting, and also when I do a counseling, and then do and they want to ask me about gold manifestation, their money wounds, kind of like got stuck in the way. Like when I was 15, I wanted to come to LA so badly. You know, there was a homestay program 40 years ago, but I just wanted to study English. I love American movies. And so I tried to bring it out to my mom. And I asked her Do you think dad would say yes. And she said, Okay, you can talk about this with your dad when he's in a good mood. My father is our Color Computer addictive and abusive. And he's never really been in good mood. In my household. Oh, you can talk to him whenever he's in a good mood means. Never. I just wanted to come to LA so badly and my friends all came and then I saw their airplace going to, you know, probably the LA, I wanted to shoot it down with a bazooka. I never had any like a dark emotions, but it definitely had. So when you like 13 or 10, you wanted something so badly for your birthday gift presents, and you want it to go to summer camps or, but you're the only one because you can afford it. You know, that really hurts. And that hurt stays with you. Even though your 40s or 50s. And I help one man heal his money wounds when he is 75. Can you believe that?

Ron Beres 28:57

Wow. It's never too late.

Ken Honda 28:59

It happened 50 years ago.

Lisa Beres 29:02

Wow. Something it could be just one incident like that Ken like you can have one moment and then that could keep creating blockages, right? You don't even know the root of that.

Ken Honda 29:12

So the guy who just talked about that is almost 50 years ago, when the electric typewriter was in market, can you believe in 60s or 70s. He wanted to get money for his college right to pay down inflation. And then he sold this electric tape IBM machine to an old lady who was not likely to use it, but he had to make a sale to pay his college. And then he feel so bad. You know, he attended my Happy Money seminar in New York. And he talked about it. He was almost in tears. You know, I still regretted that he did that. I'm a very honest person. But that was not so right. So I told him, why don't you just donate the same amount of money that you made? And then just donated to charity. You have enough money, right? Yeah, that's right. I'm not billionaire, but I'm wealthy enough. So he did it right away. And then he told me, can I feel like so relieved after 50 years, my pain is gone. I feel so free. So whenever you have like a funny issues around money, go, he'll go forgive your parents, you know, they could be younger than you, you know, by now. Well, they're in the 20s and 30s. And they didn't know anything about money. They were also confused as anybody. So can you forgive parents for not having money? Yeah, if you can, it'll free yourself and you get your different world.

Lisa Beres 30:42

Right. Oh, how do you know what your well I guess you could have multiple triggers. How do you know what that one thing is?

Ken Honda 30:48

It's usually a few things, you know, die for summer camps. I was the night collies, you know, couldn't get the scholarship. So that's why I didn't College, stuff like that. So that really stops you from doing what you want. Like, for example, when you want really want to start your own business, like coaching business, but you're too afraid, because you've been denied so many times about what you want to do in your life. So when you feel your past money wounds, you feel like renew, or you feel so free, you can do anything. And then you can give yourself permission. And also at the same time, you feel like a lot of people will support you. You know, I came in America, just getting all the endorsements for my new book, which will come out in May. I feel so spy for asking endorsements from big authors like Jack Canfield. But after hearing so many wounds, I feel like people helped me. My parents would help me, my friends would help me. I'm not shy when I asked something. You know, I think probably American people are the same thing. American people are givers, you know, you are very good at giving. But how about receiving? Receiving, you know?

Lisa Beres 32:03

Yeah, I think that's true. Yeah. You know, I mean, a lot of us grew up with money is the root of all evil, you know, money doesn't grow on trees. We were taught these things. They were ingrained at a young age, for most of us, at least to our age and younger and older. And so it's like, yeah, you know, we had to view money as like, the evil force, you know? And, yeah, not as something good.

Ken Honda 32:27

Yeah. So if you can just change that belief about money, and he can be your best friend and money can be your concierge desk person helping you to tickets to Japan or Italy. Wherever you want to go.

Lisa Beres 32:43

Sign me up. I want to go to Japan. Japan is on my list.

Ron Beres 32:47

Our friends Suzanne Adams, she says we all have a divine blueprint. Can you share? Why?

Lisa Beres 32:53

A divine soul blueprint?

Ron Beres 32:55

Yeah, divine soul blueprint? Can you share why this is important in terms of an abundance mindset?

Ken Honda 33:02

Yeah, this ties into number six, you know, I just prepared, discover, develop, share your gifts, I think that's where we are born to do. I wrote a few books in Japanese on how to find your life purpose. iki gai. It's such an important concept. This iki gai is something that you are born with. That is something that while you're born, it usually comes with adversities. And then your gifts come with it. Like say, when you had a tough time, tough childhood, like me, and later on, and when you heal the pain when you grow out of it, you can help other people using the same techniques that you have done. A lot of people are seeing how to lose weight, because they had weight issues. There are so many terrible things happen to your life, could be the training period for your life. So you can use you can help other people who were in the same situation as you were. So I think there is this blueprint and also, finding your blueprint is the joy of life.

Lisa Beres 34:05

Yeah. What do you call it in Japanese? What's that word?

Ken Honda 34:09

Iki gai?

Lisa Beres 34:09

How do you spell that?

Ken Honda 34:10

Iki gai. There is a beautiful book, actually on iki gai. So I'm writing a book on iki gai and happy money too. Because iki gai brings happy money. If you do what you love when he pours to you, because money comes to you. According to the people, how many people you helped and how the quality of your service, the service the more people you serve, the more money you receive. As an author. I've sold almost 9 million copies. So that means I helped nine new people heal their money with except right. Wow. Yeah, Congratulation. Thank you I receive a lot of money and give away a lot of money and that brings back another Joy too. So the more you give more you receive more you give more you receive. Life is made that way.

Lisa Beres 34:59

Energy flow. So we interviewed on Indian numerologist. And he said in India, the belief is if you win, if you win, like a lottery or a bunch of money, he said, give it all away.

Ron Beres 35:12

A lot of not all of it.

Lisa Beres 35:13

Well, he kind of I think he said, give most of it away. And I was like, wait, what? Isn't that the point of winning that you're going to just like yey. Do you believe in that?

Ken Honda 35:23

Actually, I started testing that 21 years ago, I heard about this principle, what you give what you receive. I didn't believe in that. I didn't buy into that. So I wanted to do some experiment. I printed my booklet. And then I started giving away because a lot of people asked me about happiness and money. So I just started printing 3000 copies and 5000. And another 5000. By the time I gave away 100,000 copies, publisher called me and the rest is history. I've written more than 80 books and just saw 9 million copies. Right. Wow. And I ended up giving away 2.3 million physical booklets which cost 3 million US dollars. Wow, wow. So I gave away $3 million for free. But look at what happened. 20 years later, I saw 9 million copies, that translates roughly into 13 million US dollars. So I gave away 3 million I got 30 million. So like, I got 10 million surplus, and I do other things. So I became even more wealthy by giving. So if you give more, you receive more. That is the law of attraction and law of abundance. But I'm not encouraging you to give everything try 10 cents try $1. Try $10 and just start giving away and see what happens. It's a fun experiment.

Lisa Beres 36:48

Yeah, it is. There's this guy on Instagram, a couple of them, they go around and they randomly find they'll do it. I don't know if you know this guy, he goes up and he'll see some poor, like, maybe even homeless and say, Hey, I need a bus ticket, you know, but I'm $2 short, he'll purposely pick somebody knows doesn't really have the money. And then you'll find this, like, these people are so incredibly generous. And they're like, Well, you know, I think I can scrap up $2 And then really, and then he goes, Oh my God, thank you so much. You know what I'm gonna give you $500. And the person's like, what? Why would you do that? And they're usually like, the type that like, no, no, I can't take that. And he's like, because you gave me your last $2. Like, that was the test. It's such a beautiful he does these little mini stories. It's very inspiring, you know, the power that we have to do that to raise someone's energy. And speaking of Energy, would you say, you know, because there's people who give out of guilt, or obligation or maybe even like a tax write off? Like, how would you say is that different when you give from that energy versus like the joyful energy? How it comes back?

Ken Honda 37:51

That's my favorite topic. I have to keep you for another three hours, but I'll make it very short. Okay. You know, I wrote a book called Happy money. So when you give out freely without any guilt, that is happy money, and happy money usually brings friends and come back to you, but unhappy money, like, you don't want to pay that unhappy money goes somewhere and never comes back. Okay. Okay. So you have to clean out your guilt. And frustration. And when you say when you spend money, you have to say bye bye money. You know, bring your friends, lots of friends, you know?

Lisa Beres 38:35

Here's my number. Yes. Don't lose it.

Ken Honda 38:38

You know where to find me. So you just need to dislike that. from Monday's perspective. You know? Well, that was fun. You know, Rome was so much fun. I should come back soon. Oh, yeah.

Lisa Beres 38:49

I love that. Yeah, having fun with money not taking it so serious, right.

Ken Honda 38:56

Give without any expectation. Just enjoy because it's part of your life.

Lisa Beres 39:01

Okay, last question. Because I know people who have done this, Ron and I are very generous tippers, we believe in tipping aways. And yeah, just hey, listen, like you got to do it. It's part of the process, right? But I have had people and friends who maybe went and got a haircut or a massage and didn't tip or attempt really, really bad. And I would say to them, Well, you can't do that, you know, they rely on these tips. And you know, this is the standard tip, whatever, 20% Whatever it is, and they're like, well, it's too much money. That's just too much money. I'm not going to do it. And I'm like, Well, if you can't, I mean, my philosophy is if you can't tip then you actually shouldn't do the service. Or if you can't, because these people could actually afford it. They just thought it was too much money. So how do you feel about that? People who go out and either don't tip well, or don't tip at all?

Ken Honda 39:49

Okay, once again, I don't judge people but.

Lisa Beres 39:53

I guess I do.

Ken Honda 39:56

But could happen if you're a danger on yourself? The world will be stingy on you too. So your attitude like I don't want to give, that means like, they don't want to give. So anything. So I'm not giving so you're going down, right? That's their choice. So I wouldn't suggest that because what you give more, it comes back My mentor Dr. John Gray. He took me to a steakhouse one day. And then I asked him about a cultural protocol about tipping. And he said, you know, American people usually tip about 15% or 25%. But sometimes I tip 50%. And when we were at the restaurant, you know, I have never seen a headwaiter run so fast to Dr. Gray. You know. He just zipped through us and took us to the table in 22 second. And that is what could happen after taping somebody so well, and he was so happy to see Dr. Gray, you know, so that you will have beautiful opportunities. And the more you give more you receive, so like, you can be stinking tips and all that. And you think nobody's watching. But heaven watching him. Yes, right. Abundance of God is watching you.

Ron Beres 41:14

Is that the famous author, Dr. Gray?

Lisa Beres 41:16

Dr. John Gray. Yeah. Men are From Mars?

Ron Beres 41:20

Okay, wow, is your name dropping, you didn't even try to name drop that was so good.

Ken Honda 41:26

That was so he's such a generous, soul like my mentor Takeda. So I'm surrounded by all the great mentors and happy people. That's why I'm becoming more successful. So the more you give more you receive. So please, don't be stingy. You can, but you're dragging yourself down. So either you want to go up by spinning happy money, or just being stingy and you go down.

Lisa Beres 41:51

You go down. Yeah, everything's energy. I'll tell you, everything's energy. That's can be the motto of our show. Oh, this was so fun. We could talk to you for three more hours. But thank you so much for your time for being with us today. And we know you have a busy schedule, and you're traveling and all of that. So we really appreciate it. Thank you so much, guys. Arigatō! If you want to heal your relationship with money, you can learn more about Ken's incredible work at Kenhonda.com.

Ron Beres 41:51

And thanks for being with us today friends. We'll have all the links in the show notes at Ronandlisa.com forward slash podcast and join us in two weeks for another episode, and get ready to uplevel your health by the bye.

Lisa Beres 42:37

Bye, everyone.

Ron Beres 42:38

Thank you so much, Ken, thank you. Thanks for blessing us.

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