Dear Winner,
So many people haven't received the encouragement, appreciation, approval, and recognition they've needed.
For some this goes back years, decades.
Whether there was a lack of it in your homes, your teachers, your environment or institutions, many people didn't get their SELVES lifted as much as they would have liked.
That was the past. We must correct this injustice.
It's time to release the past and start acknowledging the most important person in the world to you.
YOURSELF. Yes, YOURSELF.
The best way to help others, your family, your clients, and others is to bring your BEST self to the table. By loving yourself, you can then extend great amounts of love to others.
It's tough to give away what you don't have.
I want to CELEBRATE you and your 2007.
Yes, maybe you haven't reached all your goals. Yes, maybe you've made a few mistakes you wish you didn't.
Ok, big deal. You might have procrastinated a little bit more then you've hoped.
So what.
It's time to celebrate and FOCUS on what you did well.
It could be tiny, small victories or large ones. They're ALL important.
All of them lead to greater momentum and service in your life.
I'm opening up the PRAISE PODIUM. We are celebrating YOU and US in 2007.
We are praising and raising ourselves. We MUST be our best cheerleaders. We can't rely on anyone else for this.
I want you to share 2 small or big victories in 2007. 2 things you're excited you did, learned, shared, it doesn't matter. Want to share more than 2, then do it!
If we can't acknowledge and celebrate ourselves, how will others celebrate us?
The best way to be attractive to others, is to FIRST be attractive to yourself.
As you praise yourself, feel free to also praise someone else's achievements you're reading about on the blog.
The best way for others to come in your life and encourage you, is to first encourage other's. BE, what you want.
Your best days are ahead of you and they can't wait to SEE you too.
Step up to the PRAISE PODIUM and share your victories for 2007. Big or small.
Click 'comments' or see the 'Leave A Reply' box and share your 2007 victories.
Praise yourself. Raise others!
Love Ya! You're The Best!
Your Coach,
Michael
P.S. Allow people you care about to celebrate themselves. Share this page with them.
Hi, Mike, thanks for letting me share what I've learned this year. First, I need to tell you that I've been editing a Website for our church as a volunteer. It was always frustrating that I had to ask my husband, who is the original computer "geek" to compress, crop and resize my graphics. I learned how to do that just by being determined to do it on my own, and what a lift it gave me! The site now looks bright and attractive with the graphics highlighting the events or other items we want to call the viewers' attention to.
The second thing to celebrate is that I re-wrote a David and Goliath script for the fifth-eighth grade Sunday School class to perform with hand puppets. Their teacher had a scrolling background for the scenery; it went well with the viewers. I was pleased, even though I wasn't able to attend the two performances. Now I'm working on Noah's Ark script for the teacher to create scenery for and assign parts, etc. It will be unique in that I've fictionalized the story of Noah and his family inside the ark. I'm really jazzed.
BTW, your saying, "You don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going." is so true! That has helped me more than you know! Thanks a million!!!
Hi Mike,
You EHH calls ( http://www.entrepreneurheldhostage.com/testdrive.html ) have been an inspiration and a motivating force for me. I went from one coaching client and a couple of books sold in January to 4 speaking engagemnts, a dozen or more coaching clients, and a CD created by December. I'm pumped and excited and can't wait to see what 2008 has to bring. Keep rockin' and rollin', shakin' and bakin' and being an inspiration!
I want to thank you Mike for all the uplifting advise on being a better myself. As for victories, this year I was lifted from the hospital bed by my wife, learned to be among the living again, shed a few vices, treasured all the work I received and engaged a mini course for the joy of it. Here's for (even) better times ahead!
I finally walked away from a job that I was no longer happy with and returned to school. I feel great! I am pursuing my writing career and I won my first cash prize in a poetry contest this year.
Mike:
Thank you for sharing your inspiration/insights. You are always right on the money, shaking and baking!!
My boss, a state commissioner, received a note from an attorney about me, commending my efforts, excellent service, knowledge and assistance. I then in turned received a personal note on company letterhead from her thanking me for the professional assistance I provided.
(I am a legal assistant)
I also am number 2 in retail sales in my Mary Kay Unit and number 7 in our National Area. I have received many congratulatory notes for these achievements. My goal is to receive on stage recognition at our Mary Kay Seminar in Dallas in July, 2008. ( I am a beauty consultant with Mary Kay Cosmetics)
These are what I am most proud of this year.
Thanks Mike for providing this forum.
Merry Christmas
Debra
Hi Mike, I want to thank you for coming into my life when I had been so discourage. Your daily emails have cause me to have a new and brighter look into my life and the future. This year I began my website, read 15 books (no trash), started taking piano lessons and got a new look on my career that has made a big impact on the bottom line. I'm in real estate and ended the year very well. Thank you and I look foward to 2008 with much excitment! Merry Christmas Mike
Mike, I'd like to take a moment to say THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!!
You are always there, with words of encouragement, when life is pressing - you are there - when IM business sucks - you are there.
Thanks and have a wonderful holiday
nan
Hello, I just wanted to say thankyou for all the encouragement I have recieved from you this year, it has been invaluable. I wanted to share that after working very hard doing my training, I was ordained as a minister in August. I am also a sole parent with a 5 year old son, so you can imagine that life is very hectic, and I often don't get much time for myself.I was beginning to feel burned out. But have realised that I need some time for me, ( to be able to help others I must look aftermyself )so have been spending some time for myself.I really enjoy your e-mails they are inspirational, thankyou for all the good work you do in helping people reach their greatter potential.....God bless
Mike, thanks for being there with motivating words. I made the commitment to be an artist. I got serious about learning, and developing my own personal style. I also discovered my "niche", and have put up a blog where I can show off my work. I'm thinking, that's more than two things right there.
Hi,
Through your and other's wisdom and insights, I fully and finally realize the real value of my time. Specifically that I am worth far more than the level that I have accepted. No more!
Though this a bit off the subject I would like to share something that I have never forgotten. Years ago, Barbara Walters interviewed Bill Gates who at the time, if not the world's wealthiest individual, was certainly close to it. She asked him "others, Mellon, Carnagie, Rockefeller... having acquired great wealth, built libraries, museums, created foundations, and you haven't. Why not?" His reply "it's not time yet".
Not so many years later, after persisting at what he does best, his time has come. His foundation, the largest in history, is changing the world. Vision, goals, action, persistence...Greatness.
Thank you Mike, for sharing the concepts and principles that will bring myself and your other readers to Greatness.
Mark
Hey Mike,this year I have made new friends , I have helped those in need , I have bought my self out of chapter 13 BK with Gods help , Your Inspiration and Motivation emails , have moved me to looking for a home business , I start each day with a whole new out look on life when I read your emails, and I send them to my friends , thanks for all you do, for us all , a friend Rickey
I am really impressed by the motivational words you send to me. Any time i read,it lifts up my inner spirit to move one step ahead. Wishing you more life to motivate us.
Hi Mike
First, I want to echo the thanks of the others who have posted. Your upbeat and motivating e-mails are always appreciated, and I have saved several of them for re-reading. There is something about your infectious enthusiasm that makes it hard to stay down.
Now about my accomplishments. If I have to limit it to two, I think the first one would be having the guts to take a huge risk and fly to Poland to start an import/export business with a friend I met on the internet. We are making progress, and one day soon people will be talking about K&S International Imports - and in a good way.
My second accomplishment is starting a fantasy novel that the people who have seen parts of are very enthused about. I'll have to let you know when it is finished.
All the best to you.
Steve
Mike, I have just completed the purchase of the dental building that I have been leasing the past 2 years. I will have a very positive cash flow on this as compared to my rent that I was paying. Also, I have just purchased a bigger lakefront condiminium. I wasn't looking but the opportunity came and I thought I want both(office and bigger condo) Thanks for your help. You definetly give lots of value. Dan
Hi Mike, thanks so much for all your encouragement this year.
I am proud this year to have taken a design for a revolutionary massage tool through the beginning stages of the patent process, put together a manufacturing operation, and started marketing. This was a real challenge, as I had to learn a lot about things I had no previous exposure to. Your saying "You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going" has been a great help in helping me keep moving from one task to the next without obsessing on them.
I'm also really proud of my progress from healing from a brain injury. For years I've been very irritable, especially when I'm tired, and it was very difficult to live with, because I was previously so calm. This year I'm finally getting that under control with a combination of meditation and relaxation, and I'm feeling more like the person I remember. Your encouraging words helped me stick with practicing every day, despite there being no tangible result to start with. Now I'm reaping the benefits of patience and calmness, even when things get hectic.
Thanks again for your help this year, I really appreciate it.
Katherine
Two victories:
I am a survivor. I became homeless in Feb 2007 after a family member kicked me out. I don't think he appreciated hearing the truth. I had less than $500 to my name and a hope that an income tax refund would arrive soon. After staying at a Red Roof for a few nights, I knew that I had to make some serious decisions. My money was running out. I decided to push through the fear and head to Charlotte, NC from Columbus, OH. Although I had been to Charlotte, NC once or twice for my previous employer in 2005/2006, the city had caught my attention over 15 years ago. It always felt like the right place for me. I was not certain that my 1994 car would make it there or even if I had enough gas money. Nonetheless, I arrived in Charlotte, NC with no job or place to stay determined not to be used and abused again. I was prepared to sleep in my car until I received my tax refund and/or found a job. But the night I arrived I found a weekly rate motel and had enough money left to pay for one week. It did not take long to figure out that the motel was a haven for prostitution and drugs. {The motel was raided by law enforcement shortly after I left it.} Once I found a job, I moved to an extended stay until I was able to convince an apartment manager to give me a chance. {My credit and financial situation were poor after I spent a few years caring for my terminally ill mother. The bigger picture is that I did not know my worth and put other people's needs and wants before mine, I accepted less.} My goal is to own a home (free and clear) and operate a profitable business by the end of 2008. I will do it because I am capable and worthy!
I had the "balls" to turn down a job offer in order to pursue my passions/purpose on a full-time basis. The last few years of my life have been life-changing. I have made up my mind that I will no longer settle for less. I will no longer neglect the life that I am destined to live. I will no longer allow fear and generational curses/habits to limit me.
Thanks to Mike for living his destiny. His e-mails have been timely and helpful.
Well wishes in 2008 to you all.
Mike, For a long time I have wanted to start Madison Shea Enterprises, a business helping others and specializing in Employment consulting, Resumes, Cover letters, Interview assistance, Person centered employment planning, Small business development and start up, Workshop facilitation and training, Motivational speaking, Speech and letter writing.
However because I was so full of fear, afraid of failure, I was trying to make it all just right, perfect, nothing was happenning, I couldn't seem to make the final step. Finally your advise about, it doesn't have to be right, just do it, do something, anything, take action, sunk in. I put an ad in the paper and received two phone calls. One decided to use my services. So I guess Madison Shea Enterprises is on it's way.
Thanks Mike for the jump start your advice is great. I appreciate it.
Sincerely yours,
Michael Heyting
Writer, Employment Consultant, Facilitator,
Motivational Speaker, Coach,
Small Business Development/Start up Solutions
Madison Shea Enterprises
360-533-7827
360-580-3947
heyting@olynet.com
heytings@msn.com
Hi Mike,
I want to thank you for lifting me up each time I open your emails. God knows there have been many times when life can really give one a one-two-, even a one-two-three-punch (as it has done to our family). But we continue to pray and count our blessings. I've learned to forgive myself and others who've hurt me, and healing has started. It is, however, still in process. It could not have happened had it not been for the tragedy that befell upon my family. Funny how God works: He made my brother an instrument of this healing and forgiveness. I had to lower my pride and ask for prayers from people I had not spoken to in ages, and from some I didn't even like (and vise versa). I was afraid that I would be snubbed, but to my surprise, a whole lot of them responded to my plea. Now, I talk to/email most of them again. God bless them all!
Also, I am singing again. Hope to start a CD/DVD in the next few months (something that's been shelved for years now). I still need to conquer myself, though. With you beside me, encouraging and motivating me, I will turn my financial services business around, and IN 2008 I WILL TRULY BE GREAT!
God bless you for all that you do, for all your nuggets of wisdom and encouragement. You are God's gift to the down-trodden. I'm grateful for having you in my life. Merry Christmas!
MIKE!!!!
I love you, man! Merry Christmas!! Thank you for being my coach. While every day I make mistakes, I get up and keep going again, with more experience under my belt. You have no idea how many people's lives you are touching. Keep up the good work. I believe in you!!!
Mike! Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you! You're daily inspiration has assisted me in disciplining myself, keeping on track, keeping the big picture in my sights when procrastination & self sabotage sets in. I have taken control of my life & my destiny, Business is booming (I'm an Independent Herbalife Distributor)I live by your quote "You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going" & my continued success is evidence of this. Here's to continue Success in 2008!
Hi Michael,
Thank you for your inspiration message at this time.
2007 was not a good year for me. I thought 2007 was going too be my year but my husband had other thoughts.
I have been a 7/24 full time caretaker for Hap for over 20 years. My husband Hap had Parkinson’s and in Feb 2007 was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Hr was a great part of my life for 29 years. We were Soul Mates.
My husband Hap made his transition August 12, 2007. I have been his 7/24/ full time caretaker for many years.
He was my life and now I have to move on and carry out our work as he asked me to. I was informed by the work we do I extended his life.
Here is a copy of a poem he wrote in 1980, I read this to him on his last few hours. This was his legacy and the way he lived his life with me for 29 years as we were soul mates. I want to carry out his legacy and continue on with our work. I could use help.
August 12, 2007, the day of his transition, I had my last conversation with Hap. I said goodbye to Hap assuring him that now God would be his new partner. Hap had tears in his eyes, which I wiped away. Those tears assured me that he heard what I said.
Then I read to him this last poem from his journal, “Voyage of a Lifetime†written in 1980. 27 years ago. This poem changed my life, as this is how he lived his life.
SURRENDER, THE FINAL GAME
Who am I to write these words?
What do I choose to make of myself?
Where are the ego traps? What am I?
But a bit of dust amongst the multitudes.
Another soul, a nucleus of divine energy
Looking for a connection with the whole.
Sharing these words with power, love, humility,
As what comes through, inspired from within
As part of our common heritage and experience.
Continuing to learn to love myself and others
Unconditionally---- without need to change,
The ultimate form of love in surrender.
Continuing to carry out my daily tasks
Moving from moment to moment, fully aware,
Just doing whatever needs to be done.
Each makes their own unique contribution
Guided by their needs and capabilities.
No need to be special, what's done is done.
My final conversation with Hap (my husband and soul mate. August 12
Hap, You loved me unconditionally without my need to change for 29 years
You were my life; you gave me a good life.
You lived your life loving yourself and everyone else unconditionally without their need to change, as you stated in your poem.
Hap this is your Legacy. You lived this way your whole life. I promise you I want to live out your legacy to learn to love myself unconditionally and others without their need to change.
I will treasure our life together.
I know that you know that I love you, but what
I want you to know is that I know that you love me.
Goodbye for now my love.
Elizabeth Your soul mate
Mike,
I read your mail daily, it picks up my day no matter what happened. My last position was eliminated after a successful run with ranking number one in the world at the Embassy Suites hotel customer satisfaction rating. Although I was totally bummed out, is when I picked up your mail. I started a new position, although it does not pay as much, your positive words keep me pumped! the new job I took also came with the opposite in customer satisfaction and ranked near dead last with Hampton Inn's. As I look toward the near future I plan to jump at least 70 slots up, and within six months be back on top of the world...Thanks for your motivation.
Have an Fantabulariffic Holiday Season
Scott
Hi Mike,
Thank you for your encouragement this year. I wish you, your family, and everyone who reads this a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
I was able to get started in the internet business this year and set up an LLC for the business. http://www.InternetRealmLLC.com I have particularly enjoyed my free parenting tips website and the comments that I get from it. http://www.child-success-secrets.com
I have helped locally for 3 years with the collection of shoe boxes filled with toys and toiletries for Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child. I have wanted to travel to Atlanta to help at the distribution center there where the shoe boxes are packaged to ship overseas. This year I finally went. When it was time to sign up to volunteer, I didn't make any excuses, I just did it. Serving was a real blessing.
Sincerely,
Bonnie
Hi Mike,
I really enjoy reading your positive words each day. Life for me in 2007 has been really difficult because my husband and I have been picking up the pieces of a business that did not work out for us and left us with huge financial debts, but with your help and inspiration life is turning around and we are looking forward to 2008 and what lies ahead as we are moving after Christmas and starting a new life somewhere else and we trust that this will be the start of bigger, better, brighter things to come. Keep up the good work, you really make a difference in people's lives. Thank you so much.
Dear Mike, your life enhancing emails,wisdom and down to earth advice has helped me keep on track throughout a difficult year. Thank you for sharing your knowledge & life-lessons, your constant encouragement and good humour are priceless!You really matter to me and provide a wonderful service that seems so personal and friendly.
Thank you for being my Coach in 2007, most appreciated. Rae.Love Ya back - You're the best. Merry Christmas Season to you and yours. Keep up the valuable work in 2008.
I'm really trying to say nice things to myself it's hard. I pretend most of the time to be confident and I'm good at it. However in reality I don't believe it. I don't know why I'm writing this except somehow everyone is opening up here that is the effect of someone caring about someone else a stranger; yet so familiar. You seem to have tapped into people and their pain. We all have it in different degree's Thank-you for the way you end you're e-mails Mike you touch people Bravo good job buddy. I will keep trying to move on and build a better me yet like I said I feel like the impossible dreamer.I know what I want to be....... My heart is full of tears that could fill a bucket. Ouch don't want to depress everyone so Merry Xmas and better days ahead. At least I'm a live dog and not a dead lion.
Wow everyone. There have been some massive achievements raised above! And I'm sure we're all going to have even better years in 2008, especially with all the love and inspiration that Mike covers us with on a regualr basis through his blog!
As for my 2 victories for this year.. (yes people, that WAS the original point of this page)
..
1 - I bought another house, and transferred all my investment properties into a Trust structure. I STILL don't really understand what's going on with that, but hey, that's what accountants are for!
2 - I attracted my soon-to-be fiance into my life, after many years of superficial and meaningless 1-3 month long "relationships". I am going to propose to her on Jan 21, 2008 (my 31st Birthday) on the Whitsunday Islands, Great Barrier Reef. (Shhh, don't tell her!)
3 - I lost around 5-7 kilos this year (roughly 11-15 pounds in yank talk!)
Adios!!
Hello Mike!!!
I have been receiving your daily emails, which have been very inspirational to me, for which I wish to thank you.
I particularly like your slogan: "You don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going".
Thanks, Mike!!!
Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Memo.
Hello Mike,
Thanks for letting me share my victories for 2007. I achieved my retailing goal I set for October 2007. Secondly I did achieve what I needed, in order to celebrate our 23rd Wedding anniversary with my husband on 12th of December.
Thanks for your great inspiration which I know will help me to achieve most of my goals in 2008! One I really needed "You are either consistant or non existant"
You have a great Christmas & Happy New Year.
Damayanthi
Good for you ~ and for me, too.
I teach sociology and anthropology at several colleges - don't make much money - and have been informed by several administrators the positive impact I have made in students' lives. One student who was ready to graduate from a four year school told an administrator that one of my courses was the most important course she had taken in her four years at the school and that it had the most impact on her life. I am grateful that I have been able to help so many students not only academically but with their personal growth and development simply by being honest and myself.
Today, I completed the course work to teach hybrid courses and was certified to do it.
Mike, I also really appreciate your honest and inspiring emails.
Hola a todos!
Mike, thank you so much for being the light that shines in the darkness inspiring others to believe in the power we all have within ourselves.
I have burst forth this year ridding myself of all un-serving beliefs--those I willingly and unknowingly accepted from others. I released myself, forgave myself and made a committment to "be myself" the best self--not in comparison to others, but what I "personally' feel is the best me. Striving everyday, to be more and do more.
This release has lead me to understand and realise that there are NO LIMITS save the ones we place on ourselves!
For all who have the courage, and desire to "think outside the box," Congratulations! May 2008 open the doors to happiness, success, and prosperity for EVERYONE!
Here's to you Mike! Good on ya mate!
Hey Mike!
Thank you for all you do. I look forward to my daily emails from you. I've had a few victories this year. Let me tell you about them: 1. Through your Ultimate Lifestyle Workshop, I've taken a hard look at what I have to re-purpose. 5 years ago, I wrote a Wedding Traditions manual that we printed and gave away at our wedding; I'm working on publishing it as a book, as an e-book, and as a daily calendar. While my premature baby girl - born 3.5 months early at 26 weeks, 2 pounds, and damaged lungs - lay in hospital for 137 long days, I posted a daily report so friends and family could follow along. I'm re-directing elements of that to a blog/website and publishing her story as a book. I'm writing daily affirmations for parents of premature babies (or any parent who has a sick child). I'm looking for a kickbutt autoresponder so I can email those out and when I get enough I'll publish it in a book / e-book. I'm simmering! 2. We moved from our claustrophobic, miniscule, 1 bedroom condo to a 3 bedroom townhouse. And thirdly, after spending months and months, sleeping with one ear and one eye open, to make sure my baby was still breathing each night, I'm letting go a little bit. I've got some temporary childcare, 10 hours a week during working hours, so I can make calls for my MLM greeting card business. Soon, I'll find a permanent solution so my time is leveraged. 2007 was a great building block for me; and 2008 promises to be even better. The bystander may think I'm standing still, but really, I'm just digging in my heels to sprint down the track and vault over all my hurdles. Oh, forgot to mention that without my income while nursing my baby in hospital, we have major debt, but that is slowly turning around too. Mike, I'm your next Canadian Success Story. I'm off! Have a great Holiday! You deserve it! Susan James.
hi mike you are such a HERO i love and i apprecaite you a great deal thanx for the daily e-mails, you always and always move my life
Mike
Thank you...Your emails have an uncanny knack of being right on the nail every day. Whatever my current issue is, you have it right there and set me up for the day.
Your catch phrase has so inspired me I have called my business GIG Marketing as in Get It Going Marketing.
Thank you,
Thank youuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!
I can't believe how I grow this year. I'm argentinean and I've lived in Dublin for 1 year. I'm learning english and I now can read and speak (more or less!!!!)and thank this I discovered your great web and your inspirational mails. Thank this also I could live an unhappy marriage (I've been married for 18 years) and found my streghness to provide my two children and support them. I start a new life in a foreign country. I found a job, I'm making friends. And the most important thing is I start to follow my dream that is become writter thank you. For now I'm only translate articles for others writters (from english into spanish!!!!!!!!) but I know that it is only the begining.
Thank you!!!!!!!!! I hope some day, I can do the same (that you do for me) for others.
Merry christmas!!!!!!!!!!!
Mike,
I have been greatly blessed by your daily inspirational and motivating newsletters. Honestly i have received several challenges not to give up my hope and dreams by your news letter and trully i seems to have gotten the fomular to move up.Right now i am in the state to sign up a deal. Year 2008 will really be bountiful for me and my business.
Thanks for being there. Merry Xmas and a Happy New year in advance.
Bravo,Mike
Thank you for one more injection of optimism.
Hi Mike;
Thank you for your inspiration and motivation that you pass on to us each day of every week. Many of your emails seem like they were written just for me.
My father passed way the week of Thanksgiving of 2007 after battling cancer for 9 months. As difficult as it was to see him wither away, the illness allowed our family to say goodbye without any regrets. The memories created during that time are truly priceless.
I am confident that 2008 will be full of blessing and growth as a result of the path traveled to get there.
Merry Christmas!
John
Dear Mike,
I just wanted to say "Thank You" for all the encouraging and motivational e-mails I have received from you. 2007 was (still is) a wonderful year for me.I have so much to be grateful for and because of that everyday I wake up with an attitude of gratitude. For 2007 three of my goal were to get my Series 6,63,26 licenses so I could truly help my clients 100% and also increase my income. Happy to say I did accomplished that. The next on my list is to get my drivers'license. I'm not going to say how old I am but I'm a bit older than you.
On my the door of my refrigerator is a sign that says " FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION" and quotes from John F.Kennedy and Mahatma Ghandi.The first is "We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes" and the other is "Be the change you want to see in the world".
On one of the walls of my bathroom I have a short poem which is entitled:BELIEVE IN YOURSELF..B.Tyler
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
You can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far:
Stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst
that you must not quit.
The other is my "Thought For The Day"..PJ Hacker-Harber
No one can choose your mlountain
or tell you when to climb...
It's yours alone to challenge
at your own pace and time.
Once again "Thanks" Mike. Best wishes to all for a wonderul, prosperous 2008.
Chana S.
PS. I was one of the silent listener on "The Greatness Nation" morning calls from the begining to the end.
Dear Mike,
This year has been a challenge with 4 bad decisions about the wrong jobs. I now use more intuition combined with realism to find the right place to make some money. Your emails are always appreciated and reinforce my optimism and I am careful to quiet the inner critic. My victories this year are more writing in my journal and having the balls to do what I am passionate about. I have also deepened my faith and learned more about the bible. Thanks again.
Mike Lipton,
When I see your name in my inbox, I get an instant urge to read your message. I now consider it one of my positive addiction/habit. Since a marriage separation in 2003 my life has become a roller coaster ride.
If we truly attract life's events and create our own circumstances then the last year has been a true eye opener for me. After relocating for work over a year ago things had been good in many ways. However last July I got the 1,2-3 punch from life. Broke my tail bone in a fall(mid-july), eleven days later sliced my forearm while carying a plate glass, while performing light duties and then August 6th crashed my car. I've been going through re-habilitation to be able to use my hand again but mostly have used this period to truly get a sense of direction for my life. Here's the kicker, for the last two months I've spent more than one month in reading and contemplation. My finances are in the dumps, I've still to settle with my car insurance and have yet to get a single payment for work loss compensation. I have never felt so peaceful and sure of where I must go next. You see, all my life I've been part of the group living lives of quiet desperation. This time I'm not settling for less than the creation of my own life and dreams. I'll keep you posted on the developement through 2008.
Your messages are an important part of what has helped me through these tough times and I am truly grateful to have been inspired by you daily.
Merry Christmas and blessings to all your readers and especially for you Mike that have brought us together in this wonderful uplifting experience.
Gérald
I have a job that I love with an amazing Boss surrounded by fab people.
I am now clear about my direction in life and reconnected to my passions in both work and relationships, this new job is proving to be a transformative spiritual experience.
I see more fantastic and incredible uplifting events and experiences beyond my wildest dreams happening for me in 2008.
Thank you for being a part of aiding in this transformation.
Blessings
KB
Mike - Thanks for all the uplifting emails. So far this year I have moved, bought a house, completed a divorce, rekindled old friendships, started a new job in a new community and renewed my vow to create a great future for myself and my family.
It is all good and I feel wonderful about me finally. Thanks for the inspiration!!!
Wow, what a year. I put my 16yr old daughter through a boarding school program for 6 months. I stepped up to the plate for my daughter on a decision that was so difficult for me, and now she is home and happy and the young lady that has the world at her finger tips. I am so proud of myself for holding to my intution and coming out so great for our family on this.
I had a baby boy this year. I have brought all my relationships to a new level. I have become an even better mother to my 4 wonderful children.
I took a money mgmt course and have started managing my money better for more wealth and abundance.
I really have been paying attention to myself and made a decision to make my life my own...one that I truely love and to truely love myself.
Life is good. I have really worked at changing my perceptions and beleifs this year to be more aligned with how I really want to live my life.
I am starting 3 new businesses and am excited about 2008.
I really enjoyed reading everyone else's posts...you are all amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much! i am steph from quebec, acknowledgement is so rare, we need this, you are right to show the way, i am so grateful of all that i've accomplished this year, have so much to write in my grattitude journal.
Yes we are a winners community, and as they say, we have to take care of ourselves before we see the change in the world. I wish everyone to rememeber their link to the infinite abundance, infinite pleasure, infinte love that is surrounding us in this fabulous creation! take good care! love ya all! Steph x x PS hey Mike! Special thanks to you, i am glad you found me
Hello all and Happy Holidays,
This is hard for me to do. 1. My husband and I started a corporation to manufacture a hockey pad this year. 2. I have been a customer with a company called Melaleuca for 10 years and have decided to tell more people about the fabulous products and business opportunity that exists. I have a website to show people the harmful things that are in their consumable products they have in their home. 3. I got my bonus from work this year (didn't get one last year)and got a great compliment from my boss. He said that I have been doing a very good job this year and he wants to give me more responsibility. 4. I have a supportive husband. 5. I have 2 wonderful married daughters, great son-in-laws and 2 rambuncious and amazing grandsons and know that I make a difference in their lives.
I am trying to find my place in the world. I would like to be philanthropic and help people with their needs.
I just started reading Conversations with Millionaires and Think and Grow Rich and hope that these will help me get going in the direction that I know I should be going.
I know that I need to celebrate my successes more often and hope that this forum will help me do just that.
Reading everyone's accomplishments lets me know that there are others that have trials and tribulations but keep on going. I will adopt the philosophy of "It doesn't have to be perfect, just get it going."
I wish all of you a wonderful holiday and a fantastic 2008!!!!!!
Madeline
Gee, Mike,
Here I am with an hour to kill before Sunday Mass, and I stumble across this tremendous gift you're offering.
My year has been peppered with both successes and failures, and I notice how easy it is for me to focus on the failures. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to share my successes, and who I really am!
First and foremost, I've grown closer to God, and become more comfortable with my all-too familiar human shortcomings(I've stopped "beating myself up" so much). I have made a tremendous difference is people's lives, introducing each to the practice of creating their life, and not just surviving it. I coach people on how to live well and (as a hospice volunteer) how to die well. I ably care for my home and family (I learned to cook!!), successfully quit smoking 3 years ago, helped build up a bodacious business, and have chaired a committee that has seen a significant reduction of crime in my neighborhood. I've created an artistic project that promises citywide benefit, perhaps will become a national (or international) annual event in the years to come. My partner and I have also earned our 1,000th masterpoint in bridge, becoming Silver Life Masters.
More and more I am living a fully expressed life without past-based limitations. Thanks for your coaching, support, and frequently needed kicks in the butt, Mike; they've contributed so much to having this life I love!
Hi Mike
Thank you does not articulate it well enough. I have no idea how I even began getting emails from you but they sure have impacted my life. Thanks for the daily encouragement. I have been saying to myself for a few years now that my brightest days are ahead of me and to hear you confirm that in your emails makes all the difference. 2008 is gonna be GREAT!!! I will not allow anything to stop me living my dream. THIS IS IT!!!!
Thanks again Mike, may you receive 1000 fold from the seeds you have sown. God bless you!
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your newsletter. It's been of tremendous benefit.
I won a couple victories in the course of the year but my greatest victory which I believe is worth celebrating is the level of clarity I am enjoying right now in terms of what I want to do and where I want to take my business.
This is something that I have never experienced in the past. I am really thrilled about it and the knowing that I am in for an exciting time in the coming year.
I love you Mike and I wish all the best that you are reaching out for.
Chuks
Hi Mike!
When looking back at 2007 from the shifted perspective of celebrating my victories, I feel like the kid in the candy shop - do I have to limit myself?
Just a few of these personal victories: I sorted through my late husband's 40 years of accumulated papers, etc. ..then I sorted through my own years of paperwork, etc. accumulation and am now down to one 4 drawer file cabinet of "really important stuff". Additionally I sold most of our furniture - keeping only the bare essentials and a few family antiques. THEN I sorted through the thousands of books we had each acquired and simplified all that into 11 cartons ---- all in preparation for my move out of the large house we had bought 4 months before he died. Not only did I move out of the house, I moved to a completely new community where I knew no one!
Celebration: immediately began meeting the most wonderful people - making incredible contacts - was asked to co-chair a health and wellness expo [GREAT success by the way] - was invited to be a board member of the organization that sponsored the health expo - continue to make and expand on fabulous connections!
Maybe business hasn't grown quite as quickly as I would like since the move, but I am joyously making new connections daily and have shed the "hermit" type existence I led after Duane's death in my old community.
So I celebrate the simplification, the paring down, the abundance that comes from having less "stuff" and more peace, the new connections and friends, the new extended family [if you will], the new opportunities that continue to pour in, the fun of each day!!!!!
Duane died on December 16, 2004 - and Christmas was our favorite holiday! We were married slightly less than 5 years -- but we were soul mates and most people [including us] thought we had been married forever! [in a good way
] This is the first year I've approached this season without depression, sorrow, lack of joy, and so on!
I celebrate the change of location, the new friends and the simpler life this year brought so that I can continue moving forward, honoring Duane's wonderful spirit, sharing his love with the world and finding joy again!
Most of all I celebrate the FABULOUS emails you send out Mike - they have enriched my life, helped keep my mind focused, uplifted me, been the gentle and swift KITA I've needed upon occasion!!! AND they always make me smile! Smiling while learning helps imprint the message more firmly in the brain! I am SO very grateful to be part of your community!
I celebrate YOU! for all you accomplish [the known and the unknown]!
THANK YOU!
Barb
Hi Mike,
I find this to be a very interesting post. It has been my experience that most people hold themselves back from their success because of looking for approval from others.
You know that our success will be based on the value we provide to others, but when we look at others for approval, we are at the mercy of their paradigm, which may not work for us.
It's time to celebrate a break from the masses and a push to success from the value that we provide by the unique value that we provide.
You have an ability to communicate success ideas that resonates with others and my guess is when you started down this path you were faced with opposition from the people who you thought cared about you the most.
"What are you doing that for?"
"Get a real job."
But you have pushed past all of it to the point of helping 1000's of people to reach and go for the success they deserve.
Here's to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark
http://www.lifetosuccess.com
I just read all these responses. You should be proud of yourself, Mike. You've made a huge impact on sooo many people! Including me. I have had a rough financial year as a Realtor in Charlotte, NC. And have decided that it's okay. 2008 is going to be an awesome year because I have this really great mentor/coach who keeps me focused and challenged!! Thanks Mike, for helping me to remember that money isn't always what makes you wealthy!
Two accomplishments: 1. I didn't Quit! 2. I've started meditating and found you!
Bless you Mike Litman.