But he was never there. So the only soul ones I had was to work hard. So
I doubled down on that and I worked hard, and I'd call him out to look at
the task. Being done in a very good is never good enough, so I doubled
down again and work harder. It didn't feel good at the time. But in life,
what you do, if you do what is easy, life will be difficult.
But if you do this difficult, it will be easy. I got the difficult part upfront
and he got really good at it. By the time I was 14 I saved up enough
money to get a scooter. By the time I was 16 I had my first car. By the
time I was 17 I thought, you know what? I'm outta here. This sucks. I
mean, I could go out and make four times the amount of money living
on my own, even if I have to pay rent, I don't care.
So I moved out. I drove a taxi, I did carpentry, I cut lawns, I washed
windows, I did anything. That was hard work because that's all I knew.
And then my life changed. I got a call from my stepmom and she said,
your dad has cancer, so jumped on a plane and I did everything I could. I
took care of the house. He said to me, he had some back taxes from
Canada that were unpaid.
I said, yes, I'll pay them for you. I did everything I possibly could, and I
remember the day I had to leave to go back to take care of my family,
and I had a young son at the time. And they had nothing left. And I
asked my dad, well, he was probably 98 pounds sitting, lying in the bed.
And I said, dad, can you think of a time when, um, when I can make you
proud?
And I'm thinking to myself, my God, there's a whole bunch. I, I was
almost a millionaire by that time. I had done so many things. I'd risen
up, I'd opened a restaurant. I've never learned a new language. I've done