2015-11-19 FREEDOM!!!!! – Paul Hutchings.wav

I am Paul Hutchings, and I see before me a whole army of my countrymen and women here today in defiance of tyranny. You have come here today to fight as freedom crusaders, and freedom crusaders you are. What will you do without freedom? Will you fight? Will you fight?

Yes, fight and you may face adversity. Run and you may put it off, at least for a little while. And dying in your bed many years from now, I ask each one of you, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for just one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom! Freedom! Freedom!

Get up if you believe in freedom! Get up! Shake the house if you believe in freedom! That's why we're here, isn't it? Freedom!

That's why we're here. And as I look into each one of your eyes, I see the hearts and the souls of freedom crusaders. Freedom crusaders is who you are. We're fighting against the tyranny of the voices that come at us telling us we're less than. We're fighting against the tyranny of the system.

We're fighting against all kinds of tyranny stepping into freedom. And that's a beautiful thing, is it not? Is it not? If there's one thing that's worth fighting for, it's freedom. It's freedom.

You know, one of my... Thank you guys. You can sit down and relax a little bit. There's a great man by the name of Jim Rohn who said, you want to gather up the past and invest it in the future. There's another quote from a book called Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant that says, the past is the present unrolled for understanding and the present is the past rolled up for action.

And that's why we're here today. We're here to learn from people who have achieved significant results and freedom in their lives. We're here for those people to unroll their past and survey it and gather up the best of the golden nuggets to deliver to the people here today. That's why we're here. And you guys made a great decision to be here.

If there's one thing that I want to do in my time with you today, it's to share from my heart. You know, there's a great line in the Bible that says, out of an abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. And I added my own little twist to that and it goes as, out of the abundance of the heart, the hearer receiveth. And so my intention today is to share my heart with you and I hope that you'll receive it with your hearts. And what I really want to do is as I looked over my freedom journey over the last ten years, there are two precious gifts that I'd like to give each one of you tonight.

If you can imagine two beautifully wrapped packages, shiny paper, beautiful ribbon on top, I want to grab each of these gifts and give them to you if you're willing to receive them. Are you willing to receive these gifts I want to share with you tonight? I better tell you the caveat to this and that is, I can give you the gifts, but you're going to have to do the work of unwrapping the present to find the riches that are stored inside. So if I give you these gifts, are you willing to do the work of unwrapping the presents? You guys willing to do that?

Okay, before I get to the gifts, first I've got to tell you a little bit about me and a little bit about my story. Can I have the slides up please? I'm going to show you a picture of a bunch of freedom crusaders in Idaho. That's my family. I'm married, we've got four little boys, and that's the Hutchings family of freedom crusaders.

I started my journey in a 1984 single wide trailer house in Idaho on my grandfather's land. He has a farm in Idaho and he said, you know, you're getting married. You don't make a lot of money. I was making like 11 bucks an hour. He says, you can park this trailer on our property to get your start in life.

And I remember one night I was sitting in the living room of this 1984 single wide trailer house and I was reading a book. And if you can imagine this, like I had followed the system. I had listened to the voices. I had gone to college, I'd gotten a degree, and I'd gone in debt $40,000 to get a college degree. So here I am, newly married, living in a trailer house, making 11 bucks an hour, driving back and forth to work every day, leaving my wife.

And I wasn't happy about my life. I was hoping that there was maybe more for me. In fact, I remember sitting in this trailer house and I was reading this book and Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, anyone read that book? In that book he says wealthy people get money in different ways than poor people. And I'd never heard these concepts before.

He says wealthy people build systems, they build networks, and they invest their money. And I remember sitting in that trailer, reading that book, and it was almost like a light just got flipped on in my mind, my heart, and my soul. And I wondered, I wondered, sitting in this trailer house, is there something better waiting for me in my future? Could it be possible that I could go forth and generate income in the way that these wealthy people did? And a seed was planted in my heart, a seed of possibility.

And so while I was living in this trailer house, I got married, as I mentioned. This is a picture of my beautiful wife, Corrine. And I love this picture because this picture was snapped right after we'd gotten finished with our wedding ceremony. I was like three minutes on the job. And if you see this picture, my wife's got this like laugh on her face and I'm pointing something at her.

And what had happened was I reached in my pocket, all our friends and family are standing around taking pictures, you know like Jim Rohn says, click, click, got it, click, click, got it. Someone got this picture and I said, honey, you need some breath spray. And I shot her in the face. And someone captured this moment in time and I always love this picture because it reminds me that you don't have to be good at something when you get started because as long as you're willing to stay long enough, you can learn what you need to learn. Right?

So we've been married for 10 years and I've learned a few more lessons. Same with this business. You don't have to be good when you start as long as you're willing to stay committed and be here for the long haul and learn what you need to learn. So real quick, you know, we're living in this trailer house. I'm struggling financially, making a few hundred dollars a month.

My wife comes home one day and she says, she's actually in tears. She just taken our son to his three week checkup. And she said, she said, I said, honey, what's wrong? And she said, well, our, our newborn baby son has a condition called craniosynostosis, which means the bones in his head are fused together and it's going to require $50,000 surgery down at primary children's hospital. What do you do?

Jobless. I wanted freedom. And, my income actually went down. I was in a network marketing company. Then over the next six months, my income went down to like 300.

And then my wife comes home with this scenario. What do you do in a situation like that? Well, what I did in a point of desperation and frustration is I knelt down in the back room of this 1984 single white trailer house and I prayed to God kneeling down on my knees with tears streaming down my face, looking at my two little boys sleeping in bed. And I said, here, I've been fighting in this home business thing for five years, five years. You guys willing to stay for that long?

If it takes that long to win your freedom. Okay. We've got better systems. We've got better leadership. We've got better compensation plans.

So I don't think it'll take you anywhere near that. But what if it did? Would five years be worth winning your freedom? Would 10 years be worth winning your freedom? So I've been fighting for five years.

I prayed and something came to me. One of these gifts that I want to give to you. But before I give you this gift, I want to share with you a week that I had a couple of weeks ago. Fast forward in time. This is a snapshot of my Empower Back office.

A few weeks ago, I sponsored my 500th personal enrollment into Empower Network. That was a milestone. I was really excited about that. And then a couple days later, I crossed half a million dollars in earnings in the company. And I was like, yeah, that's awesome.

All in the same week, right? And then that very Friday, I was at a parent-teacher conference with my son, Caden's teacher, seeing how he was doing, right? And I was in school and she's like, you know, this kid is really doing well. She said, I can tell that you and your wife work with him. She says, I can tell the parents that work with their kids.

And I was just feeling so grateful that I'm in a business where I can be with my children and teach them the things that they need to learn. And then the teacher says, you know, I should show you Caden's journal. And I said, why? And she said, well, we asked these kids who their superheroes are. And she said most kids will say things like Superman or Batman or, you know, Superwoman or Unstoppable Mama or something like that.

And she said what Caden wrote in his journal was he wrote, my superhero is my dad. Because he works hard and provides for our family. And I brought Caden home and I took him in my office and I took this picture but I sat him across from me and I had a talk with him and I was like, I'm so proud of you, son, for all the good things your teacher said about you. And I snapped this picture, right? So this leads me into one of the first gifts that I want to give you.

These are actually a couple pictures out behind my house. One of the things that we've been able to do with the half a million dollars is we bought our dream location in the country in Idaho on seven acres, secluded. And this is our back deck. And my kids, they love to go out on the back deck and they love to cuddle up with dad and hear scary stories. And so this very same week that I had, I crossed the 500 personals and I crossed half a million dollars and I had this experience with my son Caden.

I was standing out on this back deck and the kids, it was nighttime. The kids were running around playing and I'm standing there by the fire and I'm listening to some music, some of my favorite music and the stars are just glittering across the sky. And I look up at the sky, standing on my deck on this property that I own, my family, free and clear, no mortgage, no one, you know, holding a note over our head saying, you must go to work today to pay this mortgage. And I stood there on that deck and I reached my hands up to the sky and I was just like filled from the tip of my head down to the bottom of my toes with this feeling of freedom as my kids ran and played on the yard. And I just said, thank you, God, for putting me in this spot right now, allowing me to be in this spot.

I felt freedom and freedom is important, isn't it? And I want to share with you another story. This is my grandfather. This picture was actually taken in 2003, so quite a long time ago. And this was before I was to leave on a two-year mission trip for my church to Taiwan.

And so I wasn't going to see my grandfather or any of my family for two years. And you can see we're like, we're busted up. We're just, you know, in tears. Well, a week or so ago, I get a text message from my mom who says, your grandpa's in the hospital. He's got blood clots in his legs.

And it was like two o'clock in the afternoon. So I jumped in the car, I went to the hospital and my mom was like, wow, I can't believe how fast you got here. Well, I work from home. I have no boss. I can show up, right?

So I'm standing there next to my grandfather and I'm holding his hand. He's 95 years old and the situation doesn't look good. And I'm just telling him that I love him. And whenever you're in a situation like that where you're with someone who's at the latter portion of their lives, you start to ask yourself some interesting questions. And as I held his hand in the hospital bed, I asked myself, when I get to this spot, what is really going to have mattered in my life?

What is really going to have mattered? And I came up with a couple of interesting answers that I want to share with you guys in the form of the first present that I want to give you. The first thing that I came up with was quality time. Moments. Moments that matter with the people that matter.

I drove out of this hospital because it was three o'clock and it was time to pick my kids up and I was thinking about this, right? Moments that matter. What really matters in life? And I drove over to my son's school, Camden. Here's a picture of Camden.

He's my seven-year-old. He's a cute little guy. I went to the school and I was thinking, moments that matter. Moments that matter. I said, I'm going to make this moment count.

Even though it's just an ordinary, average moment of me picking my son up from school, I opened the door, I jumped out of the car. Camden's over here. I said, Camden! I said, I missed you so much! And I grabbed my arms out and I started running towards him and he runs toward me and I pick him up in my arms and I hug him and I kiss his neck and I say, I love you, son.

And he says, I love you, dad. And we had a moment that mattered. And I think these moments that matter, we're really going to ask ourselves how many of them did we have when we get to the end? Did we have a lot? And that's one of the things that this business gives us.

More of the moments that matter with the people that matter. So that's number one. Did we have quality moments in life? Now the other thing that I think we're going to ask ourselves is did we contribute in meaningful ways to the people around us? Did we make a difference in people's lives?

Did we, you know, there's this old line that says two men looked out from prison bars one saw the mud the other the stars. And there's a lot of people out in the world that are looking at the mud right now were we that guy or that gal that came along and lifted up their chin and said, look there's beautiful stars up that way just gaze off at them see how beautiful your future is. Did we make a difference? Did we contribute? And that's another thing that I absolutely love about this business is it gives us more quality moments as we're contributing to the world around us.

You know, at the end of every day I write in my journal and I ask myself what quality moments did you have today? I wrote in my journal the other night Mike Hobbs and I we just laughed and laughed and laughed the other night and that was one of the things that I wrote in my journal. I was grateful that I had an experience where I laughed with a good friend and then we say what did we contribute? And you know a lot of times what I write down I made a video and posted it on Facebook today I sent out a conference call you know I spoke a kind word to one of my team members and lifted them up and helped them see something better so we get to contribute and we get to have more quality moments and that's the first gift that I want to give to you is the understanding that life is about quality moments and contribution so now it's up to us and me because I've got a lot of life left to live to just remember that and as we're unwrapping the gift of life to remember contribution and quality time I think are the two things that are really going to matter when we get to the end of our lives the next gift that I want to share with you guys you know when I was living in a single wide trailer house I'd listen to audios you know like we teach everyone here to do and one of the audios that I listened to was The Art of Exceptional Living by Jim Rohn anyone heard that audio? I recommend it to everybody The Art of Exceptional Living by Jim Rohn you know Jim Rohn was a millionaire he made his first fortune in network marketing and he tells a story of having this mentor named Earl Shouf where he calls him Mr.

Shouf he got to work with Mr. Shouf and he said I went to work with Mr. Shouf and I made my fortune I worked in several of his businesses but you know the interesting thing is he said the most valuable thing of my first fortune was not working in several of his businesses it was the benefit of his philosophy he said that was the most valuable thing that Mr. Shouf gave him and Jim Rohn goes on to say what is your philosophy he says your philosophy is the major determining factor in how your life works out your philosophy the set of the sale he called it you know what do you believe what do you stand for what do you think is important in life what are you willing to do this is your philosophy and so in this business as we read and as we listen to audios we have the opportunity to develop a strong philosophy a philosophy that guides us that guides our families that guides our teams to prosperity and fortune and honor and a life of abundance right it's the philosophy he says it's the set of the sale so the second gift that I want to give everyone here hopefully if you'll receive it is the idea it's the philosophy that we want to work at we want to develop so what I want to do is I want to share with you a little bit of my philosophy that I've developed over the last 10 years of being in this business and before I share this with you I'll share with you a really cool tip that I got from a guy named Tony Robbins you guys all know who Tony Robbins is he's like the master of change right transforming the world right and so I was listening to an audio by Tony Robbins the other day in the gym and he says of all the metaphors that's the most powerful that has the biggest most far-reaching effects in helping people to change would you guys like to know what he told me I mean I was like what is it like how do we help myself and people change faster he says it's global metaphors you guys watch top producer formula module 2 one of the belief change patterns is metaphors well a global metaphor is something that's like something in life but it applies to all things it's global and when we have a metaphor that we can overlay our life our business our family that has powerful meaning behind it can really be a transformational thing so we have a global metaphor in our team it's called the destiny tree and this global metaphor has a lot of meaning for me and the members of my team and one of the most empowering beliefs that this metaphor gives me and I think it is the understanding that a tree never starts as a tree do you guys understand that a tree never falls out of the sky and is just this magnificent beautiful structure of nature it's like wow where did that tree well it just dropped out of the sky no that doesn't happen right what does a tree start as a seed right a seed one of the most lessons that I've learned in this business from Dave Wood following his example is the importance of believing in not just ourselves but believing in the people around us. And we can get great results when we believe in ourselves.

But then I went a while where I didn't disbelieve in people but I don't think I believed in them either. I believed in myself and then I believed in what was possible for them so I would sponsor them and I would say you know there's a good chance you can make it you know you got pot but I didn't really believe in them. And that has such a massive impact on our ability to sponsor and recruit and lift people up. So what this metaphor reminds me is that all of us are seeds. Every single one of us.

And no one in this room right now is the tree that we're going to be five years from now. Are we? Aren't we going to be more powerful five years from now? Aren't we going to be more persuasive? Aren't we going to be more influential?

Aren't we going to be more prosperous five years from now? And so when we understand that we can look at every single person in this room and say you're a seed just like me. And that helps us not to judge. Not to judge. I was having a conversation with one of my great team members Rob Skinner who had a six thousand dollar day yesterday.

Give Rob a shout out. Rob and Kimberly Skinner for a six thousand dollar day. Not a guarantee of income. See average earnings disclaimer to power network dot com forward slash income dot PHP. But you know we were talking about believing in people and Rob you know was making some nice comments about me which I appreciate Rob and you know anyone who says nice stuff about me thank you.

But I was like you know I said my first year in network marketing I made zero dollars. I was living in a single wide trailer house. I was driving around in a two thousand Honda Civic with paint peeling off the top of the car going to meetings trying to tell people how we're going to make it network marketing and after twelve months I had made zero dollars. It would have been really easy to look at Paul Hutchings back in 2005 and say that guy he's living in a trailer. He thinks he's going to make it in this business a year.

He didn't make any money. That guy right. What a mistake that would have been because I was a seed back then and I've turned into something different now here on this stage and we're all like that. We're all like that. So what does a seed need?

A couple other parts of my philosophy our philosophy that I want to share with you. A seed needs good soil. Okay it needs good soil to grow. And one of the things that I love down to the depths of my soul about this company is that it is good soil. It is soil that's rich that's vibrant that's got good nutrients in it that comes from David Wood's good heart who loves people and is committed to the end is never going to quit on us.

That's good soil my friends. And if you want to grow a freedom tree you got to plant your seed in good soil and our tree this destiny tree means I'm here to stay. Anyone else here to stay for as long as it takes. You know Jim Rohn says if you don't like where you're at change it you're not a tree and I think that's cool in some ways but you know in other ways we need to be like trees. We need to stay planted in good soil.

So that tree that global metaphor reminds me to stay planted for my team and I hope that everyone here will make the decision to do the same. So the other thing then the last thing I got to touch on this real quick that this tree reminds me of is that the seed of our souls also needs to grow in good soil. Would you agree? Needs to grow in good soil. Benjamin Franklin said he said a virtuous he said only a virtuous people is capable of freedom.

When people lose their virtue when nations become corrupt and vicious they have more need of masters. So if we're going to be free and we're going to empower people to be free we've also got to learn how to teach them what it means to be virtuous. Now a lot of people have different ideas on this but here's what I will say is that there are laws there are principles. Stephen Covey says a principle is a principle because it'll work just as well for Kevin and Kim as it will for Paul Hutchings. It'll work just as well for Paul Hutchings as it will for Lionel right.

It'll work for everyone. So when your studies in your books in your audios I challenge you to look for these laws and principles and truths and plant your soul in them and do not waver. Do not waver. Find out what you stand for. Do you stand for having a purpose in life?

We'll stand there and fight for as long as it takes. Do you stand for believing in people? Well then dang it believe in people for as long as it takes. Right? Find out what you stand for.

Last thing I'll share with you guys you know Dave Woods got me listening to this like epic music you know these film scores he said it in a video so I've been listening to like you know Hans Zimmer and stuff and Hans Zimmer's got this song called What Shall We Die For and I was listening to it in the gym and I was like what are there things worth dying for are there principles values ideals that are worth dying for and then I didn't take me very long and I was like of course there are men and women all throughout the history of the world have fought and bled and died for principles they already answered the question they died to give us freedom so the question is not what shall we die for no that's not the question my friends the question is what shall we live for what shall we live for will you live for prosperity will you live for freedom will you live to love the people around you will you live for the great moments in time will you live for contribution will you live to have a purpose will you live to follow the golden rule what will you live for will you live for your dreams great friend of mine super duper Stan says I would rather die with the integrity of having fought for my dreams than live with the disgrace of looking in the mirror at a quitter I'm looking at winners right now and I believe in every single one of you and I know you can do it always go for your dreams my friends thank you very much I love you all