I want you!

Read it-don’t read it, but considering it is the question!

Let me state my intentions: I AM RECRUITING YOU.

Running into people out and about is one of my favorite things in life! I truly love people and have a great value on personal relationships. In fact, if you’ve ever been in business with me or been in my office you’ll know that I consider personal relationships the foundation of any business. It’s not about things, it’s about the people.

But people want or need things. Life is simple when you boil it down. We want a nice place to live, food, clean clothes, family, friends, and a life that we feel passionate about.

The rub as i see it in countless people is that they are pursuing are partaking in a career that they have no real passion for in the first place.

I have to call bull shit on a lot of people when they try to sell me on what they do as passionate. I’m not here to judge or say i have it all figured out, but what if I do. When is the last time (if ever) that you put challenge to what you do for a living? Have you ever felt like a number 1 guy in a number 2 position? Have you ever felt like the commute is not more important than being with your kids? Have you ever felt like the line of work you are in was never a childhood dream? For me, I found myself in real estate because I had a need to make money and I was good with people. I never grew up aspiring to be in real estate. Most of the people I worked with in that market would tell you the same thing. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that industry, just my thought on the matter.

I really wish I had someone who had a real conversation with me about my goals and dreams back when I was in my 20′s. Many different stages of my 20′s. Heck, i wish that was the conversation in high school rather than where you wanted to go to college because the two rarely had anything to do with each other.

Imagine for a moment that you could have the schedule you want, the income you want, all wrapped in the endeavor that fills you with passion or fire or contentment.

Do you truly have that or are you still eating the same BS sandwich you’ve been feeding yourself for many years?

Sounds harsh but sometimes we just need to rip the bandaid off and breathe for a moment, and realize that we have a choice.

Here’s what you can’t change…..it’s called the past. That’s etched in stone. Done. Period. Final.

Yet your future is literally a blank slate waiting for you to put down on it what YOU REALLY WANT.

Maybe it’s my personal journey. I lost everything we owned at 36 years old and found myself in one of those holy shit kind of moments. Guess what? Shit happens in life. That’s a guarantee. There are a million versions of that story. Health issues, financial despair, death, depression, etc. The real story is in how you handle yourself and how you come out the other side.

At 36, i had an epiphany. Some call it the 50/50 rule, some call it an awakening, an epiphany, whatever you want to label it, i realized that I had spent the first good part of my life chasing things, education, pursuit of jobs, careers, etc. My epiphany was that I realized I wanted to spend the rest of my life chasing significance.

For me that comes in the form of helping other people get healthier physically and/or financially. I’ve made a huge difference in many many people’s lives. To earn, i must help first. So it’s in the right order. If we’re killing it with income it’s only a result from helping a great number of people.

But this isn’t about me, this is about you and what you want to get out of the next year of your life and beyond. The hard question is either what you’re doing in life is getting you to your goals or it’s not. If that doesn’t smack some thought into you, you might want to get checked out or be really stoked that what you’re doing is completely in line with who you are as a person both in values, ethics, reward, and lifestyle.

Either what you’re doing in life is getting you to your goals or it’s not.

Let’s take this from what you want to have the rest of your life look like rather than looking in the rear view mirror.

You want to look better, feel better, sleep better, love better, have more fun, better relationships, more fulfilling time, more time with your kids, more time for your hobbies and the things that make you…well, you? I’ll bet you a dollar that you answered YES to each of those questions.

So how? How are you going to do it?

When you look at any time of profession/career/job/gig, you have a risk & reward & a lifestyle attached. A doctor, hairdresser, nurse, teacher, fire fighter, lawyer, cop, writer, coach, artist, stay at home parent, and on and on. They are a delivery system to get to the lifestyle that you want.

EXCEPT, so many people take a job based only on money. “oh i need to make money, i need this, i need that, i hate having roommates, i’d like a bigger house, i need, i want, i need, i want.”

The reality is that we do have wants and needs and that’s ok. Hear me when I say there’s nothing wrong with that. What i’m talking about is the how. How are you going to do it AND have it line up with who you are as a person?

Let’s cut to the chase, look at the deal, show me the numbers. If you’re going to be a doctor, you’re going to med school and going to graduate with at least $200K in debt. Malpractice insurance starts at about $6800 a month in the state of California. You haven’t seen a patient yet. Insurance is changing as fast as you put on a new outfit. Unless you’re going to be a surgeon or the top specialist in an area with little other competition, good luck on making enough income to pay off the debt in a reasonable time. Of course being a doctor is a very significant thing and you’ll get community respect. You’ll also be on call and have very few people with true empathy for what you go through. If you are making $120K a year and your spouse stays home or has a basic income job, you’ll have a nice life but not of the docs that used to be.

Nurses, teachers, cops, firefighters, plumbers, and many of the good jobs that we seek in society that come with solid benefits have a window of pay range depending on where you live, but these are 5 figure jobs. To be in 6 figures, it’s a doc, lawyer, some software developers, some entrepreneurs, etc. For most people with a masters degree, they tend to have to be in more of an ownership or partner role.

Do you know the stats on college grads getting jobs? I do and it will scare the crap out of you when you see how bleak it is.

Want to start your own business? Do you have 5 years worth of capital reserves and upfront money to start it? Not having that is why most small businesses fail in the first place. They simply can’t hold on long enough to hit critical mass. Then financial ruin tends to follow.

Want to be a CPA, Lawyer, Commercial Broker and hope to have the lifestyle of the main guys in the firm? Guess what, they are partners or owners and/or vested in the company. Do you know why they even have vesting and partnerships? It’s to trap good employees from ever being able to leave. If I own a professional firm like that, my goal is to have as many people that I can justify working there. Justified by their ability to take down market share in a segment. These professional firms want you to believe that you have a chance of being a partner one day but they sure as hell aren’t talking numbers with you when you’re a new hire. It’s all abstract or a couple slips of what someone else at the firm has made, so that you’re excited about the unknown and the prospect of hitting it big and climb that corporate ladder. “if you work hard, come in 6/7 days a week, bust your ass, show us what you’re made of, then down the road, we’ll give you a look at making junior partner. Yeah, this is 5 years later and you’ve given a huge chunk of the money you brought into the firm, to the firm in exchange for know how and a place to ask questions and get experience. So it’s on the job training. But wait, when they make you a partner at this point, you have to buy in, but hey, they’ll float you on that money over the next three years. BOOM, there’s about 8 years of you kicking ass with productivity before you make some bigger money. And a senior partner if further and even after all that, you may cap out around $350K a year. This is after law school, interning, clerking, busting your ass, no time off, high stress, and more. We haven’t even gotten into the talk about if you’re representing people who you feel a connection with or if you’re just another opinion for hire. Mind you that a good district attorney caps out around $120K a year. So when you’re in college and thinking about these numbers or fresh out of college, this looks awesome. It’s not in the grande scheme of things. Have you ever met a great trial attorney? Can you get an ounce of empathy for what they go through and how many hours they work to prep for a case? The quality of life tends to be really hard. This is why so many attorneys want to be business attorneys or in house council. That’s a walk in the park compared to courtroom work. Wait, what did you say? Your family wants to go on vacation? Forget about it unless you plan 6 to 12 months out and it’s a week max.

Do you want to see who makes all the money and takes all the trips? It’s the owner. It’s the senior partner who founded the firm. It’s the owner of a retail store who made a million right decisions, WHO TOOK ALL THE RISK. Why would you expect to work up the corporate ladder and get all this? Do you even realize the amount of change that’s happened in society in employment in the last ten years? The benefits have been cut, the health care downgraded and the retirement windows have been changed. A new fire fighter does not have the same thing as the guy who was hired 20 years ago. This is the same thing with teachers and cops and so many other great professions.

Please don’t misunderstand me, these are awesome and super important professions and we need them all in society. They all play a huge roll and a link in the chain of life. But the life around us by the powers that be have changed things. Just the last financial collapse in 2008 put more change into the world as we know it than anything since the great depression.

You have to know how to navigate this.

Wall Street, Main Street, it’s the same thing. We want to have a good life and put our kids through college and a nice retirement.

How? How’s that working out for you?

You may have just realized that you have a need to stimulate your livelihood.

People ask me all the time how we take all these trips, do all this awesome stuff, live in a nice neighborhood, how are we always with our kids at the park or on the bikes or coaching their teams.

Anytime anyone ever in life is spouting some grand idea, your internal or external question should be “How?”

Then does it line up with who you are.

There are only about 5 reasons why people get involved with my business. It’s to help other people, financial reasons, time freedom, accountability with your own health & fitness, and/or it’s to be part of a group or something bigger than you.

What is that for you? What’s important to you? Every time I ever ask this in person or on the phone, the answer is nearly always the same. “it’s all of those things”

I’m sitting on a flight back from Hawaii earlier this year and the girl sitting next to my son and I, used to work at Lehman Bros. and now working in a different industry after going out for another degree. Her life has been very stressful. In spite of making solid income, she did so living in NYC which has the highest cost of living in the states and she went through the crash of Lehman. Unless you went through the financial crash of 2008 or one of the big ones prior, it’s hard to explain how insane that was. There were no jobs to supplant the ones lost at all the firms closing. She had to go back to school, move in with family, get another degree, to start over in another industry. What i’m hearing is someone who just spent a ton of time and money to go make a living doing something else.

STOP FOR A MOMENT…get up and stretch, soak in all I’m talking about.

You need to know all your options. And hear me when i’m saying that you don’t have to stop your pursuit of your other endeavors, but know about this one as it may be what buys you the time to do the other things that really make you tick. Don’t forget that all the things you’re going to learn in and around this business, will help every other aspect of your life. Will that job at the financial firm do that? I think not.

What if I had a job/career/gig/profession where you got to help other people, you had an unlimited income ceiling, you could do it from where ever you want, you could work from home, the coffee shop, park, just something with an internet connection. Oh and there’s virtually no overhead. Your only real “risk” if you will, is your time. And this comes with all the evidence you want to see others who are doing this at significant levels, making a grand a week, 5, 10, 20+ thousand a week. Not one person. Not the boss. Not the few at the top. Lots of people.

When people talk to me about their time and how they have none of it, i want to magically make my ears hear something beautiful and inspirational rather than the crap diatribe of time wasting they begin to tell me. Seriously, stop! We all get the same 24 hours in a day. So did Einstein, Mozart, Shakespeare, Kennedy, King, Hemingway, Tesla. Look what they did to contribute to society in such a deep and meaningful way.

With your 24 hours in each remaining day you have in life, let it be done so with passion and heart and significance. The hell of it is that you don’t even know when your time is up. So don’t live this life like you have another one in the bank.

Here’s the option, here’s what i’m recruiting you for, here’s where you’ll find a delivery system to get you to your goals and dreams in life: I want you to become part of my team. No more #1 guy/girl stuck in a number 2 position. No more commute, no more. Be in an environment with unlimited income, unlimited time freedom, a way to help people with something so important in life. Adding value to others lives is all we’re about. We are in a market where literally everyone needs what we have. Anyone and everyone is our future customer. It may not be everyone’s time to say yes, but everyone does need what we have.

What do you need to make your life easier? $400 a month, $500 extra a week, $5000 a month? How much?

So there you go. Another option. Degree, no degree, stay at home mom, military, professional, it doesn’t matter because this can be done around all of that.

I was in bankruptcy court just three years ago and now financially free. We’ve been on 40+ trips since and have a ton of fun ones scheduled this year! And many of those trips were reward trips from Beachbody and free! The South of France Bike Tour, On the Oasis in the Eastern Caribbean, Atlantis, Disney World, Laguna Beach, Dana Point 4 times, another cruise on the Western Caribbean and on and one. Free. Just qualified to go. I’m not saying this to impress you, i’m saying this to invite you. You can earn this just like I have.

Is it worth it? I don’t know, all I know is you need to think about that for you and simply know that with this, it’s all possible! A proven plan, the support system, a famous company, one of the top trainers in the business as your personal mentor. Who else is offering you that?

I don’t have the only thing out there. I’m not narcissistic, but i have THE best thing sitting in front of you right now and it gives you a way to leave a legacy in life that meant something, a way to role model amazing behaviors for your kids, a way for you to have the most fun & colorful life possible!

Join me. Come down the successful path in life. Match me step for step. You take ownership of your life and have the most glorious finish ever!

Thanks for your time and consideration in this future endeavor!

Best, Mike