Hey!
Michael Gebben here and I'm super excited to be with you on another rockin' Wednesday.
So recently, I spoke at a video conference called Infocus.
Super awesome, incredible people there.
Well, there's a Facebook group associated with the event and there's a guy who's supposed
to present there, named Adrian.
And Adrian couldn't make it because his wife had a baby right about the same time he was
supposed to present so he couldn't have made it.
Well, he posted a video in there and in the video, it was right on line with lots of things
I speak about every week.
One of the guys commented and he said, "I suffer from a number of the things that you
mentioned.
Stories, voices, circumstance..."
He says, "I have a question for you.
In suffering from these for so long it's so ingrained in me, how do I get out of that?"
And I love Adrian's response to this question.
He started with, "You're probably not gonna like my answer."
And what he said was, "I like to come from a place where I believe that every single
one of us has exactly what we want in life.
And if we didn't want it, we change it."
Because I talk a lot about the idea, "You change your story.
You change your mind.
You change your life."
And things will be awesome.
What I find really interesting about that statement is it's so true.
Every single one of us are exactly where we should be in life.
'Coz Tony Robbins says and I love his quote, "We have our Musts."
What we must have in life are the only things we have, not the things we should do or we
should have where we should've all over ourselves.
And the reality is, every choice and everything you do every single day has led you to where
you are right now.
And where you'll be tomorrow will only be different if you make a choice today to do
something different than what you're doing every single day prior to that.
So if you want things to be different, you have to make that choice for things to be
different.
And I know that there's a lot of different excuses out there.
Well, "I've grown up this way."
"I've been this way my whole life."
"My parents, my friends, or school, or this or that..."
Oh my gosh.
Guys, don't play the victim.
That was one of the things that Adrian said.
Don't be the victim.
You need to think from a place of empowerment.
You have the power to make the choice to do whatever it is you want.
We're just scared.
And I challenge all of you because on Google, a pretty powerful tool, I guarantee between
Google or Youtube here, if you type in what's affecting you, what's bothering you, what's
driving you crazy, there's someone else who's been in that exact same position, who's gotten
out of that position and rose above it.
I can guarantee you, there is not anything that anybody is in out there that someone
else hasn't gone through, someone else hasn't gone through.
And I want you to think about that for one second.
Whether you're married with five kids or three kids or two kids and a mortgage and all these
car payments, and a job you've been at for twenty years that you hate, or you're in school
and you have all these school debt...
Whatever it is, somebody else has been out there.
And there's two different types of people.
The one who keeps moaning and complaining about it every day till they're blue in the
face, that they can't change it, that they're stuck.
And there's the other person who says, "I'm not doing this anymore and I'm gonna change
it.
And so this doesn't have to be complicated.
I know there's a reoccurring theme in some of my videos but the truth of the matter is,
every week that I could bring it to you in a different way, for you to think about it
a little differently, I think it makes a massive, massive difference.
So this week, it's super simple.
You're exactly where you want to be in life.
And probably right now, it's just not bad enough to make you wanna change it.
So don't hae something awful happen before you decide, "Holy crap!
I better make a change."
You can make a change today.
Good buddy of mine, Josh Shipp, he says, "If you're having an awful day, it's your fault.
If you're having a great day, it's your fault."
I love, love, love that quote because it reels right back in to our choices.
We have choices.
You have a choice and you can make that choice everyday.
Keep doing what you're doing and keep getting the results you're getting.
If you're happy with the results, then, high five!
But if you're not, if you're not happy with the results you're getting, then you've got
to make a change.
So I challenge each and every single one of you to make that change, one simple change
today.
Don't overwhelm yourself with a million and a half different changes.
We've already talked about things like that in the past.
It could be very overwhelming.
There are so many different avenues and ways you can go.
Just start today.
Make that one simple change.
Start that one new habit towards your goals, towards your dreams, towards your ambitions,
towards living the life that you've always wanted to live.
Just make that one change today.
Start trying to keep that up for a few weeks, maybe even a month before you start to add
in that next thing.
Because if you take it step by step like that...
I have one more story that just came in my mind.
That's how it is sometimes.
I was in an event recently.
It's called "The Amazing Selling Machine."
And it's about using Amazon to sell physical products and people are just killing it.
There was a thousand people in the room and I met a few different people.
What I find so interesting is one of the ladies I met had just gotten in this in August of
last year, not even a full year.
And I'm talking to her and I said, "How is it going?
Is this thing working out?"
You know there are so many scams out there.
There are so many things.
Make money.
Do this.
Blah, blah, blah... and the list goes on and on.
I said, "Is it really working for you?"
She says, "Oh my gosh.
Absolutely life changing."
"Did you know anything about internet marketing or all these different things about selling
online before you did this?
Do you know email marketing?
Blah, blah, blah... the list goes on and on.
And she's like, "No, I knew nothing."
She says, "I literally followed the steps to a tee."
So, she followed the steps to a tee.
I saw that reoccurring thing over and over again.
And one other person said (which wraps this back in to what we said earlier todayis along
with that), "The people who succeeded the most were the ones who follow the steps but
also when it became overwhelming."
When it became, "Oh my gosh how do I do this?
I have the wife and kids, and this and that and I don't have the time during the day to
get it done."
He said there are thirty steps.
It's called "Thirty steps."
There are thirty steps.
I said if I I'll do no more than one step a day, just one, and at the end of thirty
days, I'll have completed all thirty steps.
Even if I get the one done in twenty minutes, I'm only doing one step today.
And day two, it might take me two hours and I'll get that step done.
And the next day, it may take me an hour, so on and so forth.
But I'm only gonna do one.
And he won, W-O-N at the end of those thirty days because he didn't overwhelm himself.
He didn't go, I'm gonna get twenty steps done today and then he didn't do any for the next
two months and he did five more and then six months later, he did one more and then he
stopped.
'Coz now it's a year later, a year and a half later and he didn't complete it.
That's the thing.
Just start and just keep it simple.
Thank you guys so much.
You guys absolutely rock.
I truly appreciate all the positive feedback.
The messages are outstanding guys.
Keep leaving the comments.
If you've been noticing, you leave a comment, test me, I'm on a roll right now.
I'm using a new program where I record a little audio comment.
So if you leave me comment, I will reply to you with an audio response.
A little link you'll click and you'll hear me leaving you a personalized message.
And so I appreciate all of you and I look forward to hearing more about your stories
and your journeys and how I can potentially help, or send you in the right direction or
whatever it is that I can do.
You guys rock!
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