The room couldn’t believe it last night.
“Mike, they couldn’t believe what?”
Last night, I spoke at the ‘Learning Annex’ in New York
City, the Learning Annex puts on seminars in a few big
cities around the country.
Here’s what people couldn’t believe.
Two things.
First, they couldn’t believe that my #1 best-selling book
‘Conversations with Millionaires’ wasn’t proofread for the
first 6 months it was sold.
“Mike, why wasn’t it proofread?” Because I had no money and
I had to just get it going.
Second, the audience couldn’t believe that when I first did
my success radio show in 1998 (I paid $75 for 30 minutes
of air time each week), I only had 3 listeners to my show.
My parents and one ‘real’ listener.
These radio shows no one ever heard three years later
turned into the conversations featured in my #1
best-selling book ‘Conversations with Millionaires’.
I wasn’t going to wait and start my radio show when
everything was perfect.
No.
I got it going. I got it going.
The audience last night couldn’t believe it.
Most of them had never heard me speak before.
The idea of ‘You don’t have to get it right, you just had
to get it going’ was new to them. Brand new.
Though, after I said it 2x there was a ‘Eureka’ moment in
the room.
They got it.
The light bulb went on.
I said “I don’t have to get it right…”
In unison, out loud they said, “I just have to get it
going.”
They got it.
What a night it was.
Powerful.
18 people approached me after the event and they all said,
“Mike, thanks, I’m going to get it going starting
tomorrow.”
We are powerful, more powerful than we know. Much.
What we don’t use, (gifts, talents, abilities) we lose. Use
it or lose it.
Get it going.
Publish your book.
Upload your website.
Post an article.
Make your prospecting calls.
Make an offer on the real estate property.
Get it going.
One of my early mentors said to me “Mike, nothing great has
ever been achieved without stretching yourself.”
Amigo, stretch yourself today. Get it going.
Ask yourself: What is one thing I don’t want to do today,
but if I did it, would move my life/business forward?
Get it going.
Love Ya! You’re The Best!
Your Coach,
Michael
P.S. Help me, help you. Does it benefit you, does it inspire
you to hear about others who are waving goodbye to
perfection and ‘getting it going’ ?
Should I share these stories with you or is it not
necessary?
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Thanks for being such a powerful inspiration, Mike. Your posts motivate me incredibly…
Hi Mike,
Thank you for your empowering information! Striving to be perfect has been a way of life for many years. Basically, it sucked…However, something happend last month that caused me to reevaluate my perspective on life and perfection. I realized that nobody’s perfect –including me. I can strive to do my best, but if it comes to the point of limiting or holding me back, I’ve just gotta blow off past beliefs and go for it! Please keep sharing your inspiring stories! You’re the best!
Hi Mike!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! You’re awesome! I’ve been reciting your slogan ever since I heard it last week at the conference in Ypsilanti, MI. It’s made such a change in me in such a short period of time. I’ve listened to your “Greatness Held Hostage” CD and it has motivated me to get moving, I’ve got a course to finish and a “How to get well” manual to write and I believe that with your help I’m going to do it because I really don’t have to get it right, I just have to get it going! This is my first time responding on a blog, this is a milestone for me, I owe it to you Mike.
May your inspiration continue to help people around the world!
Delores
Mike,
I’m *On the Road to Greatness*
Thank You for all your words of courage, enthusiasm and ENCOURAGEMENT.
E – Enthusiasm
N – Needs
C – Courage to move us forward.
O – Open-Mindedness is
U – Undeniably
R – Required, and will
A – Always lead us to
G – Greatness!
E – Ever Increasing our
M – Momentum and
E – Eureka!
N – Now is the time! Now is the moment!
T – Thank You so Much.
Bill
http://www.gathergreatness.com
Mike Dear
You are a great Coach.
Keep on coming .It is inspiring ,encouraging and it is absolutely wonderfull.Thanks a million.
Oya
Mike, the words are few, a WORLD OF THANKS TO YOU!!!!
JUST DO IT!!!!!
Thanks Mike,
Fantastic advice….it really hit home to a perfectionist always waiting to get it right and then going nowhere!
I am inspired and taking action NOW….yay I don’t have to get it right!!!!Just get it going!!!!
Thanks for the Words of Wisdom and blasting through the indoctrination of having to get it right (what is “right” anyway????)
Adani
Really need to know how to keep constantly associated with this high feeling after reading your message ” You don’t have to get it right….just have to get it going”.
Cheers
Samir
Wow, Mike. I read a lot of motivational material and I must say,your website is exceptional, simple and very very practical. I love reading your emails. You are indeed a great coach. Your advise is not just book or theoratical knowledge but practical wisdom, things that you have gone through, which makes you a cut above the rest. Thank-you so much for the inspiration and hope, may God continue to richly bless you and add more years to your life. Mike, you are loved and appreciated.
Mike, this is another awakening messages. i have been waiting for the right time to shoot my musical video all along but by this message, i just have to get it going. if i can’t run, i’ll walk, if i can’t walk, i’ll crawl. i love u mike. keep doing the great job. u are the best. waledollar
Hi Mike,
A brilliant blog post today. I have heard the ‘get it going message’ from you before and agree with you but the examples from your own life made it extra powerful.
One example from my own life was back in April 1990 when
I started my martial arts school in Kent. Only one student arrived on the opening night and he was wanted for ‘causing grievous bodily harm’ GBH in the UK. He turned out to be a really nice character and the school is still going strong 18 years later.
Thanks again!
John Watson
Mike – all I can say – you are a gift from above – DON”T STOP – WE NEED YOU!!!! Terri
Hi Mike,
I had to smile, my book “The Elixir of Youth” Secrets of a Spring Chicken-self-published was printed without proof reading. I had to get it going, under the gun to present a book review re: “The Elixir”…and after reviewing, not too many corrections. I choose spiral as opposed to bound cover, this way I can easily delete a page and add.
My greatest strength is TALK RADIO…man, we have so much in common!
Mike, may I…
I specialize in custom-designed RADIO PRODUCTION FOR BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY. An invitation, to all of you RADIO SHOW WANNA-BEs who always dreamed of having YOUR VERY OWN SHOW, but haven’t a clue on how to get started,
I shall be delighted to talk with you.
Mike, you’re the greatest….love ya!
Cathi Watson
http://www.sizzlingsensationalsenior.blogspot.com
Mike,
You have inspired me. I have 3 imperfect books that have been just sitting gathering dust. I am going to get it going and perfect them as I see mistakes or get feedback. Thank you soooo much for your inspiration and your diligence. Brightest blessings to you, Maggie aka rapunzelburke
If only one could integrate your wisdom without all the persistant chains holding us in the undercurrents we all would be able to live the doctrine without the fears, the doubts or whatever else is keeping us down!
Do keep up the great work… I believe as many of the people on here I am breaking free of the bonds but snapping a chain seems to be revealing greater and deeper ones. This is where your unrelenting voice keeps me going… Thank you so much for being there!
Gérald
Thank you Mike, for this great pot. I will never wait to do anything tha will lead me to success ever again. Never! I’ll get it going. I’ll get it going!
I make it a point to read all your letters. Help keep me focused on doing what needs to be done. Thanks!
Yes, please continue. I read just about everything you send. Right now I need all the inspiration I need. Thank you very much Mike.
Mike,
i appreciate all the inspiring words and examples in your newsletter. i say-keep going forward. Even the impossible can be made possible if we just get it going. Thanks again.
Can you believe me that I can hardly express what this meant to me? I’ll print it and read it until I do it.Thank you, my young brother Mike, because that’s what you have become to me, my brother, a very much beloved adviser. Julieta
Once again Mike, you said it! Get it Going! I repeat your words every Wednesday morning on my little listened to am radio show “The Real Estate Rebels” in little old Idaho Falls, Idaho. You don’t have to get it right, You just have to get it going!
Thanks for your support and wisdom!
Gary Norris
Yes, Mike, thank you! Have written article and submitted it to magazine. Now just have to think what next!
Julie
http://www.eftforriders.co.uk
Hi Mike
You are the best! I dont have to get it right I just have to get it going…wow!!!!
i’ll not have enough of this stuff! keep it alife Mike
Hi Mike,
You’re a star!
This is exactly I need now to dare to take to my wings.
Thank you and take care.
Bless (best regards in Icelandic),
Agustina
Mike it exciting to know that once we get started it is hard to stop. I also am a writer a poet and I must say a good speaker as well. I preach and teach my poems are spiritually written. Sometimes we need to get it right at first sometimes it takes a little push. But not giving up takes courage and determination. My book (From Heaven with LOve will be published and in book stores in March 2008 and another by October if not sooner. If you’d like to purchase the book my email address is cfgministries@hotmail.com. Drop a line to me and I will forward the book when it is finished. Getting started is a motivator. Giving up is a disaster. Like Mike said Get started and keep going. Thanks Mike
Thanks Mike, it’s good to be inspired and your words are so true.
Danny
http://www.mindbelief.co.uk
You know Mike with the power you have to change the minds of those who seem to be stuck or lookin for answers to take action on what will only improve their life. Why don’t you test yourself, and go in a totaly different direction of helping others to reach out and take the action (wisdom) they need so they can get where is they want to be in life. I have been reading your posts, the responce your getting is more powerful than what your writing. Your great and wise no doubt, but do you really know what everyone is saying between the lines? Why don’t you go for a goal that ( using time limits) shows once and for all the power of wisdom. The action part of knowing something. Ture wisdom, seeing and feeling the results of your words. How many words of power, would you think are written,read, or thought about in a day. Gravity is the same for all good, and bad. These new thoughts (chemical light patterns) you create in people who where not exposed to this type of thinking before is alive in these posts. The next step must be taken by men of power such as yourself, and that is the step of seeing the wisdom of your works, in these looking human minds. This is the thing and the thing is this when you teach someone, this way of thinking, or sell someone on a idea, you get it again, only deeper and deeper. Just like a coach or teacher that repeats the same course. They get it again.
So how do we get to that point, the new thinkers of belief have to give these ideas to someone else with conviction. They will know that they know they know when they take the action to get where they think they need to be. It’s so easy, once you take the step forward. Adjust for unforseen setbacks and move on. I know this for sure everyone, I mean everyone will be tested with something so important in this life the only way to survive it will be to use the brain chemicals you have built up with this kind of thinking—NOW—while you have the chance. Anything can happen anytime, without notice just bam its there. To those of you about to rock (your brain) Use this new power everyday, every lucky day you have a chance to get where you want to be. Just start. Thanking you for you time and attention. Survior of over 3000 life and death incidents. Captain Gus Ysaguire
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