The Trust Factor
A daily lesson that focuses on achieving unparalleled success in life using ancient wisdom in modern times.
We will be discussing critical concepts as they are laid out in the book Sha'ar Habitachon - The Gate of Trust. Written 1000 years ago, the author reminds us of the values and wisdom that have allowed humanity to thrive throughout history.
The concept of trusting in a higher power that exists purely for our benefit, puts us in the drivers seat with absolute confidence to achieve greatness.
Eliminate: Fear, Hatred, Anxiety, Depression, Jealousy, Greed...forever!
* Note that some terminology will be in the original Hebrew or Aramaic which I will always follow with the English translation.
The Trust Factor
Episode 177 - A Life Stops Feeling Heavy When You Stop Pretending You’re In Control
What if the real measure of wealth isn’t your balance sheet, but your ability to feel at peace with what you’ve been given today? We take aim at the “never enough” mindset and offer a path that trades restless striving for grounded trust—without asking you to quit your job, abandon ambition, or deny hard realities.
We start by reframing poverty as a chronic dissatisfaction that survives every raise and promotion. From there, we press into the hard places: tight months, uncertain diagnoses, and businesses on the brink. Rather than treating trust as a last-ditch rescue, we explore it as a daily stance that reshapes how we interpret wins and losses. The message is simple and demanding: show up, hone your craft, and contribute—but don’t worship the vehicle. Whether you’re a plumber, an accountant, a real estate agent, or a founder, the value isn’t in the title; it’s in the service you offer and the trust you hold when results swing.
Along the way, we dismantle the myth of 110 percent and rebuild a saner model for effort: one hundred percent, wisely divided among work, family, community, and spiritual growth. We talk about choosing a vocation that fits your strengths, staying the course when a hot market tempts ego or a slow quarter tempts despair, and recognizing provision as something that can arrive through any honest channel. When the blindfold comes off, the hamster wheel stops feeling like destiny. You discover a sweeter rhythm—purpose over panic, gratitude over comparison, clarity over control.
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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Trust Factor, the podcast that guarantees your success when you implement its divine age old teachings. Yesterday we had discussed the idea that as it says in the book, all the days of a poor man are bad, but a good hearted person is at a perpetual feast. What is meant by a poor man? Not a poor man who does not have money, does not have assets. A poor man is somebody a poor man is somebody who is not happy with his lot in life. He is constantly looking to figure out how to get more, how to get different, how to get what is in his eyes considered better than what he currently has. Not content with the things that he has. This is an individual, like many in the world today, who run around thinking that they are responsible for outcomes. They are responsible for the good that happens in their life. The bad that happens in their life is somewhat their responsibility, but oftentimes when it gets really bad, then they find God and find a place to lay their blame. Why does it say all the days of a poor man are bad? What if he made a lot of money? What if this individual who attributes success to himself or to his industry? What if he made a lot of money? Why is all the days of a poor man bad? He made a lot of money. Why is it a bad day? And the answer is because he's not happy with what he made. He's never content. He always wants more. Yeshlomeah, hotzamatime. He has a hundred, he wants two hundred. That's the way we are programmed. If we don't have God in our lives, we are never satisfied with what we've been given. Obviously, when things don't work out, he's not happy because that's not what he wanted, and he's never gonna find the silver lining. He's never gonna stop and say it must be for my benefit. No, no, no, no. I'm lacking right now. I'm not keeping up with the Joneses. I'm not doing what I've expected myself to do. I'm not being or I'm just not able to meet my basic necessities or requirements. That's a tough place to be. For anybody, even somebody who has trust in God, it's a tough place to be. But that's ultimately what we're working on is our ability to recognize that when the money's rolling in, that when we're healthy, that when our children are healthy, when everybody's got what they need, everything is fine. It's easy to be somewhat content. What about when things are difficult, when you can't pay the bills, when you don't know if you're gonna make your month end, when you don't know if your business is going to survive another month, when you don't know if somebody is going to get healed from their illness, a severe illness, and you're constantly dealing with the medical system. To find trust in God in those times, my friends, that's what we're working on, right? I mean, really a lot of us need it in both areas, but the real difficult part is when things are hard. Let's move forward. The third area of distinction we touched on yesterday, we said that one who trusts in God, although he engages in some means of a living, in other words, we need to go out and achieve, we need to go out and work, we need to be involved with this world. We don't attribute our successes to this world, right? It says very clearly that God put us in this world in order to inhabit it and to enhance it. That's why he put us in here. So when we go out and we interact with the world, we're not doing it. Think about this, guys. This is so far removed from where we are as a society. We're not going out to work in order to achieve. We're not going out to work in order to get money for our families. We're not eating healthy in order to live a long, healthy life. You hear this? This just defies everything that we've been taught. Somebody who's holding on a high level understands that God put you into this world simply to inhabit it. That's easy, just exist, but to enhance it. So that means do his mitzvah. Do the things, do the commandments that God tells us to do in order to refine your life, make yourself a better person, and improve the world. That doesn't mean that you have to find the best paying job. That doesn't mean that you have to eat like a rabbit and you have to take every vitamin, mineral, and supplement known to mankind in order to last another day. That's the wrong focus. You're focusing on the wrong thing. You should be focusing simply on inhabiting this world and enhancing it through your actions to improve your life and the lives of those around you. Everything else, and I mean everything, comes from God. The good and the seemingly bad. Guys, understand this. We are so far removed from this. Only the leaders of the generation, only a very select few individuals who have been on a growth path of Torah and commandments their entire life and have been learning on a very high level for a very long time, only they really truly understand the statement that was just made. But that doesn't mean that you and I can't. Of course we can. We can work on ourselves to constantly try and get there, and we will make advancements. We will eventually start to understand these things, some of us earlier than others, but eventually we will all start to have an understanding of this, and we will start to live accordingly, and when you do, then God recognizes that you've made these improvements, you've made these discoveries of how you're supposed to live your life. You're no longer relying on yourself, you're no longer running around like a blind person, like a blindfolded individual who doesn't know where they're going but thinks that they do. I was like that for 30 plus years. Most people are like that their entire lives. The only time you get clarity is when the blindfold is taken off. The only time you understand that there is more to life than running around the hamster wheel. Once you've figured that out, life changes. It becomes sweet, it becomes purposeful. You want to start doing the things that you should have done a long time ago, but you've put them off because you've replaced them with the pursuit of material wealth and happiness, and that is the wrong type of wealth and happiness to pursue. Let's keep reading. He says, if, for example, somebody's occupation brings him success, this individual who's holding on a high level will not develop a greater love and extra affection for that occupation, nor will he have more confidence in it than he did before. Doesn't matter. So now I got into real estate, suddenly I'm making money. Oh, it must have been I was in the wrong industry before. I should have never been a plumber. Obviously, assuming that you've done the homework, like we said a long time ago, that somebody has to make sure that they're in the proper vocation that fits their abilities and their natural tendencies and their traits. Once you've done that and you know you're operating in the right realm, that's it. It doesn't matter. Whether you're an electrician or a plumber or in the HVAC business, you're a trades guy and you know you're cut out for trades. It doesn't matter that you didn't make money in plumbing and suddenly you got into electrical and you made money. It doesn't matter. You were gonna make that money anyway, whether you'd stayed in plumbing or not. But most people don't because they under they're they're constantly chasing, they're in chase mode. I need it and it's not working out for me. I need to make a change. Maybe you need to make a change, but that change is not in the vocation. That change is in your actions, it's in your thoughts, it's in your belief system, it's in your relationship with your creator. When you've made that change, then you can do anything and make all the money that you're supposed to make at the same time. The opposite is true. If you're not supposed to make it, it doesn't matter what you do, it will not come to you. To the contrary, he says, he will strengthen his trust in Hashem and let his heart rely on him without reference to the means through which his success came about. And if on the other hand, the occupation in which he engages does not bring him the desired benefit of earning his keep, he knows and trusts that his livelihood will come to him whenever Hashem wants, through whichever avenue he wants, just as I said. Accordingly, he will not become disgusted with the occupation that he chose because of his lack of success, nor will he stop engaging in it since the reason that he works at an occupation is solely, listen to this, in order to serve Hashem. You're not a plumber, you're not an accountant, you're not a lawyer, you're not a doctor, you're not all of these wonderful things in order to earn a living for your family. Did you hear that? That's not why you got into the business. That's not why you do what you do while you wake up every morning and go to work. That is not the reason. The only reason that you're doing that is to serve your creator, to enhance this world, to be able to get the means necessary to do his work. How much of those means come through that work at any given time does not depend on you and does not depend on your vocation. It depends entirely on what Hashem determines is correct for you at that time in your life. How you respond to that is what's most important. How you accept what God determines is yours today, yesterday, and tomorrow, that is what is most important. Where is your head at? Do you recognize that it all comes from him? Or do you really believe, and if we really do an accounting over here, guys, if we really do some soul searching, you will find, I'm guilty of this as well, that oftentimes we believe it is us. We know God exists, we know he runs the world, we know he's responsible for so much, we know he's all powerful and all capable, but we are immersed in this world. We've got both feet in this world, and we can't help but believe what we have been conditioned to know since we were born and brought into this world that we have to go out and we have to choose right. We have to make the right decisions and we have to give 110%. Number one, there's no such thing as 110%. There is only a hundred percent. And the same hundred percent you give to your business and your earnings, you have to give to your family and to your friends and to your community. So that hundred percent needs to be divided, my friends. Most people don't understand this. When we do, when we come to understand this concept, life becomes sweet. I wish this for all of us, my friends, myself included. That's it for today, my friends. I hope you enjoyed. We'll continue tomorrow with the fourth distinction. Have an amazing day.
