Hey, thank you for being with us again on our broadcast of money and Christianity. We're a financial broadcast, but we're taking it from a biblical perspective. I'm on holiday again, and so you can probably see the Golden Gate Bridge behind me.
In fact, if you pan out over here, you can see that rock out there, that island, that's Alcatraz. It was a prison back in the day in the United States history. But you know, we can glean great information both from the prison and from the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Golden Gate Bridge was a massive project started in 1933 and opened in 1937. It was a marvel of modern construction at the time, but it took a lot of planning. It took a lot of foresight.
It took a lot of budgeting money and taking care of the plan to get to the next phase. A lot of times, one of the big things that we can learn about our personal lives and money is from the Golden Gate Bridge. Not only did they build it, there's a phrase I use, acquiring something is a lot easier than maintaining something.
I've heard it said that they're constantly repainting the Golden Gate Bridge because of all the salt air. They'll start at one end, they'll go across it, and they'll paint it. By the time they get to the other end of the bridge, they've got to go back and start over because the paint that they put on back there is now seaworn because of the salt and the air and everything.
In our lives, not only is today important, today's sale, today's activity, but we have to have the foresight of, can I maintain what I'm doing? Can I keep the cash flow going? I talk a lot about this to different people in different sessions about short-sighted thinkers and long-sighted thinkers. People that think out 5, 10, 15, 20 years, how will my decision today affect me down the road? When we make the mistakes, we might get on the prison Alcatraz. Here's one of the things that was the penalty of Alcatraz.
If you know anything about American history, Al Capone, our famous mafia leader, spent time out there on the rock. One of the prison elements of it was San Francisco is right behind us over here, the city of San Francisco. You can see it back there.
From the rock, which is about five miles out in the water, it doesn't look that far, but that's the actual distance, is that they could hear the music and the lights of San Francisco as they sat there in their prison cell. That just made prison worse. There's nothing worse than life going on around you, and you don't have the money to participate in life.
You don't have the resources to do what other people are doing. It would be like being on the rock. You're sitting there, you're seeing what other people are doing.
But the bridge gives us insight into if we plan right, in today's U.S. dollars, that bridge cost about $700 million to build. But if you have the right plan, you discipline yourself to do the right things, you figure in what is it going to take to maintain this, we can put a life plan together, a business plan together, that will last a lifetime. That will be multi-generational.
I want to encourage you. I'm going a little bit short this week just because I'm on holiday again, and we're traveling around with some friends. But I wanted to get this video while I was here in San Francisco.
But I want to encourage you, don't just live for today. Start teaching yourself to look out further in life, and how is the decision I'm making right now going to affect me down the road. And build your life so that you create less problems in life.
You have the money, you have the resources, and you plan your future, and you're able to maintain what you build. So thank you again for stopping by. Hit like, ask us a question.
Thank you for joining me in San Francisco, and I'll see you again next week.
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