Ken Honda

"You are the only person who gives freely to everyone with both knowledge, wisdoms, care and real monetary items!"

You are the perfect role model by walking the walk. I am touched by your generosity! You shipped free books to us & our friends all over the world because you like to upgrade more people’s lives without expecting anything in return. And you offer a real gold coin, 10 silver coins and pens from Japan for us to reward us to write an essay for feedbacks. I had paid for many online courses and many in person trainings which costed a lot more than this class. 

You are the only person who gives freely to everyone with both knowledge, wisdoms, care and real monetary items! This is the BEST teaching that touch my heart and soul! I’ll remember for my whole life. And I like to model you. I’d like to express my deep gratitude to you! Thank YOU for your brilliant teaching style. Not only did you structure the curriculum well; you made the teachings fun, light and easy to understand. I also admire how you answered our questions after each teaching. Not only did you offer useful suggestions to solve our problems perfectly; you answered them sincerely with ease and grace. You took great care of us like a parent nurturing his children to grow. And I am grateful! I have always been happy whenever I receive money. I only said “thank you” if it was a gift. I never said “thank you” if it was my salary or wages. I never thought about saying “thank you” when I spend money. After you had taught us about the happy flow of money in and out; I started saying thank you whenever I spend money or receive money. I have been experiencing more joy in life. I think about how the money I spent on groceries benefiting others and that put a smile on my face. I found it interesting when you told us that Japanese people say “Arigato” to everything every day. I remember you told us that Japanese people say “Arigato” to coffee maker, stove, etc… daily. I started to experiment that and I said “thank you” to every little thing, big thing all day long. I say “thank you” to my water, rice, water heater, heater, faucet, shower, clothes, bed, light, shoes, socks, trees, birds, flowers, Angels, Spiritual Guides, my organic garden, etc… All of a sudden, I discovered how blessed I have been! I own so many things that adding values to my life daily. In the past, I was focusing on I don’t have a working stove, oven, toilet, and my roof is leaking, etc… Shifting my focus to appreciate what I have instead of focusing on what I don’t have. Arigato for this amazing mind shift, Ken! Arigato for teaching us how to expand our money containers! I share this concept with my friends too. I had been blaming God for being not fair to me. Wish I were taller, smarter, luckier and more social so I could have a higher paying career or business. I felt sorry for myself being born into a poor family. I wish my parents were literate and had high social status careers or business. I wish my parents or grand parents had a lot more money so nobody looked down upon me. My parents put me to work since I was 8 years old. We sold foods on streets after school. I worked on all weekends and holidays. I was bullied by 3 school mates when I was 12 years old because they saw me selling foods on street. Not only did they abused me verbally, I kicked them back after they had kicked me daily in school. I had no friend until I was 15 years old. I used to hate my childhood and teens. Life was not fun. Life was all about making money. My parents showed me that one has to work hard for money. Money was not easy to get. I learned that money equals to survival. I had these beliefs for decades. When I arrived in the USA with US$200 and two suitcases with an “exchange student visa,” I worked at a girl scouts camp in California. That was fun & exciting. I ended up staying here to go to college accidentally! That was a dream come true! Arigato!!! With this new hope and dream; there came the financial responsibilities. Oops, my mother could not give me any money because she had no income and my father went to heaven suddenly. How could I support myself with all living expenses and foreign student college tuition in a new country? That reinforced the concept of money equals to survival! I was determined that I could do it no matter how challenging it looked. I started a journey of working as many hours as possible as a waitress in several restaurants. My life was super simple for a few years. It was all about going to classes, doing homework, studying to get an A in tests, waitressing, sleeping. After marrying a young man from Hong Kong; I started to work much harder. I divorced him after 19 years of marriage. I raised my son alone. That was not easy. After decades of working very hard for more than 70 to 88 hours each week. I still blamed God for not being fair. Why me??? I chose not to date any man until I have $50,000 cash in my bank account. I refuse to date any losers. I thought I needed $50,000 in order to date any man who is financially independent. I ran away from men who started any conversations with me in public places such as the Whole Foods Market because I didn’t feel worthy of their love. I tied my self worth to the amount of money in my bank accounts. The only challenge is, no matter how hard I worked, I was a long way from $50,000. I had worked 2 jobs at the same time. I was thinking to end my life a few years ago because I had no money and I could not make more money. I am smart, intelligent and I have talents and gifts to share with the world. I would like to upgrade more people’s lives. I blamed God, I had guilt and shame. I did not have the courage to tell anyone. I felt alone. I was not lonely. Arigato to your teaching about the importance of finding a community to support each other. You are right! I feel at home when I talked about my money issues with this community. And I am super grateful!! Arigato to your teaching us how to heal our money wounds and expand our money containers. All my past experiences start to make sense to me now. Life happens for me! I am not a victim to my money wounds. I am not a victim of my past lives, linage, etc… I am choosing to be a victor from the moment that I fully understand what you taught. I could upgrade my life by healing my money wounds and expanding my money containers. I set up a fund raising on Facebook. And I started to donate $5 via PayPal to charity a few times. I feel excited whenever I donate because that is happy money out. I found out they deducted $5 from my bank account each time I donated. I set up my Paypal with credit card as the primary to pay. That is how I paying for my foods and daily necessities. I have limited cash in my bank account at the moment. I want that cash to pay for minimum monthly payments of my credit cards. I’m looking for ways to donate with credit card. I am saying “thank you” to all little things and big thing daily. I am practicing “happy money in” and “happy money out” daily. I was a born coach and a gifted motivational speaker. I have been helping many friends in the past without knowing it. I am seeing myself speaking about the concept of happy money at the same stage with you in front of a large crowd in Hong Kong and the USA. I will hire someone to create an app for anyone to donate any amount of money to charity with credit cards instead of deducting from bank accounts. I am setting up “Print on demand” ecommerce store to sell T Shirts, mugs, and gifts. I donate 10% of every sale to charity. On the website and in the emails that I am sending, I explain the side benefits of donating money to charity -- expanding their money containers. Arigato, Ken! I am super grateful for your life changing teaching!! Many blessings and arigato! 

Elaine Chui

Georgia, United States

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