JBN Jewish Business Network Dunkin Diamonds March 14th 2012

i would like to thank mr stuart duncan and his whole staff opening up this beautiful beautiful location i think it's beautiful thank you so much for making us feel at home so i'd like to share with you a story which i think from this story you'll have learn a profound insight and to really be a successful business person irrelevant if you're a a retailer a wholesaler a professional doctor an accountant in any industry the concept applies across the board the story goes back approximately 250 years ago and the story took place in the times of the first chabad review which is a ardent follower of the first kabad ravi came to him as many hasidan do they come for spiritual advice blessings concerns that they had and this hassan came to the al-tarabi with a concern this was his story he was a very wealthy individual and as we know the wheel of fortune is a wheel so there's times you're on top and times you're on the bottom and that's the beauty of life because you're in the bottom don't be so depressed because soon you'll be on top and if you're on top you don't have to be so arrogant because you might soon be on the bottom that's the wheel of life so he was a very wealthy individual and also very kind philanthropic had an open house took in people that had no family and brought them up marry them off and so on and so forth but as the wheel of fortune turns his turn for the bad and he lost all his money and he couldn't support his family and not only his family but all the people that were relying on him so he came to the altar of the first kabaddra for advice and comes in and there's a husted opens up his heart and just you know shares with the rebbe his sad story about his struggles and uh he needs this and he needs that and so on and so forth now i'm not a rebbe so it's not my advice i'm sharing with you a story so the rebbe turns them and says to him you know you've been standing here for the last 10 minutes and told me you need this and you need that and you need the other thing and all your needs but i haven't heard you once say why what you're needed for now obviously it hit a cord within this hasid and it moved him that he told his uh people that he came with that he's not going back home he's staying here to really do some soul searching and trying to figure out how he gone from this person that was always thinking about other people but now the only thing he talked about is all his needs and the truth he had many many needs but i mean you should start thinking about what you know what am i needed for in this world he ended up he stayed there for a while didn't go back home and they came they said listen you know we have some questions i don't want to hear anything i need to transform myself once i'm done i'll be ready to come home sean if he stayed there for three months and after three months he was a transformed individual and he got himself back centered once he got himself back centered they got news came to him that it was one of his business deals that he was involved in that actually lost tremendous money one of the deals that pulled him down miraculously turned around as we know every market that goes up comes down everything goes down eventually goes up and it did a miraculous turnaround and he became again fabulously wealthy and obviously he went back home and he became extremely once again successful afterwards they told the author ready the story and they hit them wow how did you know this and he said you know you know this is strictly basic kabbalah which means that if you take care of your spiritual needs and if you're in a healthy spiritual place be concerned about another person god will take care of you and i think if you take this concept and apply it to any any business you're in if you think about what your client your customer your patient um the person that's there that comes to you think what you can do for them you will be taken care of automatically versus if you think about what they can do for me obviously you can think that and eventually nothing happens for yourself i think it's a very simple lesson think what you can do for your customer think what you can do for your client think what you can do for the other and god will take care of you