Zohra Sarwari – Work For Yourself

			There's a chapter in your book that says working for private profits and not for wages. Tell me
about that. I know like a lot of our, you know, we see, you mentioned the Afghans I came here the
first generation, mostly, we see them struggling so much here in America. Tell me, you know what
your thoughts are on that? Or what your thoughts are on the new generation working here?
		

			Mashallah, that's a very good question. I think what I've learned and what all my education has
enabled me to learn from not only just school, but going to seminars and different experiences that
I've seen, I've seen people struggle for a paycheck, I have seen people struggle for getting dollar
the dollar the dollar and for wages working for a salary. I'm thinking, why don't we business people
why businesswoman? I mean, the most successful people are business people, and why aren't we using
our talents to the highest we can to be able to get that. So I see stories of people who are on
welfare. And one idea just makes them millions. I've seen people many times I've seen kids 14 years
		

			old, make a million dollars. So if these people can do it, what are they doing that we're not doing?
So I think what happens is so often that our, we're so stuck on, we can't do it, I can't do it. I
can't do that we don't even allow ourselves a chance to explore, or can we do to explore what else
do we want to do? To explore what what is that? And how did they do it, and to figure out how to do
the halloway. And so what my biggest problem the generations before is, and I even right now with
the Muslim population in America is we like as Muslims financing the most over everything. I mean,
we need it for to help with anything. And I think we got so into, okay, I want a job and feel secure
		

			and safe. And I'm thinking now, take it this way, take it to the route where you go out there and
you become, have your own enterprise and feel secure and safe. And that because whose job is secure?
Is anyone's job actually ever secure. You can get fired like that you can get laid off. So where
does the security come from? It's done mentally, or blocking ourselves. Because we don't want to put
give ourselves that extra benefits that we could do it this way. You feel like okay, I got the
skill. And that's, that's all I'm gonna do. And I'm saying, take that skill and make it 1000 times
more empowering. So that's why when I say working for profits, and not wages, work for yourself,
		

			make it build stronger. And you could do this, anyone who's working nine to five, I mean, most of us
are, you know,
		

			an hour a day, if you follow what I'm telling you in my book an hour a day, and you actually start
to implement and you start to see a new way, and you start to give this new knowledge for an hour a
day. Just say for retirement for for anything you make you get that commitment, you're gonna change
your life and shelter. Yeah, you know, you mentioned welfare. And it's so common, not just in the
Afghan community, but in many other communities. And it brought something to my mind that you wrote
in your book, which was the people that we hang out with, for example, you mentioned that, you know,
we hang out with people that have Muslim on welfare, chances are that we ourselves will be as well
		

			can tell me a little bit more about that, yes, of the five people that you hang around most with
their income will be a reflection of your income. So say, if you're hanging around with people who
are making 50,000, and they're all about 50 60,000, your income will be right around that range. If
you start hanging around people who are making 100,000, your income will be around their range, it's
so vital, because you can be much better, you can be much lower, that's your companion that becomes
your source. So I always tell people, raise your bar, raise the bar, make your companions at a
higher rate, not to let your mom go as long ago but raise it to a higher bar to push yourself up to
		

			have you know, people that really you can associate with they have bigger dreams, bigger visions,
bigger goals, because, you know, honestly At this rate, and being an American seeing the economy,
who can make it off a 50 60,000. Nowadays, even two family homes working full time cannot survive at
that. So we need to think beyond that. We need to think of how can we do it in a censorship Okay,
not only we help ourselves, but we help the rest of the world because we have the resources. America
is giving it to us, America's teaching us. Why aren't we using it? It's out there and I'm telling
you every time by putting it in my book going you could do it shallow Why not? Okay, does that
		

			qualify for that?