Broke, overweight and hopeless, Nick was stuck in a life he never imagined until his mom gave him an unthinkable gift that changed the direction of his life forever.
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00:00 When I wake up at 28 years old, I was $50,000 in debt.
00:03 You know, couldn't sleep at night
00:05 'cause it felt like I had bricks on my chest.
00:07 I was 213 pounds, which for me and my frame
00:11 was way overweight.
00:13 I was prescribed Lipitor.
00:15 I had to take blood thinners,
00:17 and it was like a total disaster.
00:20 What am I gonna do with my life?
00:21 Like, I cannot take another day in this level of pain.
00:26 I was at my breaking point,
00:28 and my mom must have intuitively known it
00:31 because I used to kind of hide a lot of this.
00:34 I used to make it look like everything was okay
00:35 on the outside, and she gives me a book,
00:39 and in that book, she just writes in the front cover,
00:42 "I believe in you."
00:43 And it was in that moment,
00:46 I'll never forget looking at the book.
00:48 It gave me hope when I didn't have it.
00:51 It gave me the possibility of a future that was bright
00:54 when it seemed so dark and dim and nasty
00:56 and just terrible all around me.
00:59 And in that moment, one person who believed in me,
01:02 because I was no longer believing in me,
01:04 changed everything.
01:06 And I took that in, and I remember crying,
01:08 and I remember reading it,
01:09 and I just kept reading it over and over.
01:10 "I believe in you," and I kept picturing my mom.
01:12 She would always say, "You can do anything
01:14 "you put your mind to," over and over and over.
01:17 I said, "You know what?
01:18 "This is my choice point.
01:21 "I get to either allow this situation to break me.
01:25 "I just give up on my dreams forever,
01:27 "and I do what everyone else is telling me to do.
01:29 "Everyone else is telling me to go get a job.
01:31 "Everyone else is telling me you're not good enough.
01:33 "People are laughing at me."
01:35 And instead, I said, "You know what?
01:37 "I'm gonna borrow my mom's belief.
01:39 "Even though I'm 28 years old, between 28 and 30,
01:42 "I'm gonna set a date."
01:45 And I had always wanted to sell a business
01:46 by the time I was three, but I'm gonna set a date,
01:48 and I'm gonna actually declare it.
01:49 I'm gonna tell people that I'm gonna build
01:52 and sell a company before I turn 30 years old.
01:54 I got a tattoo on my chest with a goal on it,
01:58 a cross, and inside the middle of that cross,
02:00 it says, "Believe 2012" backwards.
02:03 So if you look at me, you're like,
02:04 "What's that on your chest?
02:05 "What does that say?"
02:06 But in the mirror, every single day,
02:08 I could look at myself, and every single day,
02:11 I would look at it and just say,
02:12 "Before I turn 30, I will have sold a business,
02:16 "and I will have achieved my dreams,
02:18 "and this is what my life will be like,"
02:20 and got into action.
02:22 Started a business, people thought I was crazy,
02:25 and I just kept pressing forward, pressing forward,
02:28 and within two years, right before I turned 30,
02:32 I sold the whole company before I turned 30,
02:34 exactly like the tattoo stated.
02:36 What I never would have expected in a million years
02:40 was that it felt so empty, and it felt so empty
02:43 because I didn't have anybody to enjoy it with.
02:46 I was by myself.
02:48 It was just me.
02:51 I started crying, and I started thinking that
02:54 I can't believe that I don't feel fulfilled by this.
02:59 I need to figure out why I feel this way,
03:02 and I said, "Well, I want love."
03:05 After all this time, my greatest desire is love.
03:08 I want to find the person that just lights me up
03:13 and we're able to make each other happy.
03:17 We're able to just start a family together.
03:20 I want to feel that unconditional love,
03:23 so I just started writing.
03:24 I just started writing and writing all of the things
03:26 that I wanted, dark hair and green eyes
03:29 and the most beautiful woman that I've ever seen in my life,
03:32 and I made that declaration, and I made that commitment.
03:35 I'm going to be engaged in the next 12 months
03:37 and read the letter every single day.
03:39 When I'd come home from a blind date
03:43 that was a total disaster, I would read that letter.
03:48 When I'd come home after getting catfished,
03:51 I would read that letter.
03:52 I just had this full faith that it was going to happen.
03:56 Fast forward in February, just a few months later,
03:59 it was a completely random situation
04:02 where I picked up my phone and the Tinder app was open,
04:06 and from a picture, from just one photo,
04:11 I literally knew that this woman would be my wife.
04:14 Everything I had written about in my letter,
04:16 the dark hair, the green eyes, all of these things,
04:19 being so beautiful, and we went out on our first date.
04:22 When we met, it was like everything
04:25 that I had seen in the movies.
04:27 It was like we just stopped.
04:29 You know that look where you look at each other
04:31 and it's almost like your head kind of tilts a little bit?
04:34 Our connection was instant.
04:36 Our conversation was so deep and so connected so fast.
04:41 I mean, it was like we've known each other our whole lives.
04:43 All the things I'd written about in the letter
04:45 about getting engaged, all of these things were in motion,
04:49 happening faster than I ever thought possible.
04:51 You know, from that, we just kept progressing
04:53 until I ended up proposing, and I just thought to myself,
04:56 I made it, I made it.
04:59 This is what my mother saw in me.
05:01 This is what I have been dreaming about
05:03 since I was a little boy.
05:04 I made it.
05:06 What an experience that anything is possible in life,
05:10 that you can change your way of being,
05:12 that you can grow your confidence,
05:14 that anything's possible.
05:15 I declared that I was gonna build and sell a company.
05:17 I declared that I was going to find the love of my life.
05:20 When you've got something that you want
05:22 and you're willing to sacrifice
05:24 and never, ever let off the gas pedal,
05:26 no matter what the circumstance is,
05:28 it doesn't matter who you are,
05:30 it doesn't matter where you grew up,
05:31 it doesn't matter what your current situation is,
05:33 it doesn't matter if you're in debt,
05:34 it doesn't matter what's going on around you,
05:37 that any human being can set their eyes
05:41 on a vision for their life.
05:42 Every time that you speak your vision with your words
05:44 out loud to other human beings,
05:46 you're inflating it with hope,
05:48 you're inflating it with belief,
05:50 and you're inflating it with possibility,
05:52 that you will make it happen.
05:54 And when the world or when someone
05:56 tries to take that dream away,
05:57 when someone else comes at you and says,
05:59 "It's never gonna happen,"
06:00 you can take that and leverage it,
06:02 and you can say, "I can, I will, watch me."
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