11/09/2013: Session 3 Assignment Results - Meeting the Man I could have Become

Making of  Millionaire (Exercise 3)

What is a successful entrepreneur to you?

• Someone who loves what they do for a living
• Someone who is in control of their own life
• Someone who can do whatever they want to do when they want to do it
• Someone who is respected and looked up to by their family and others
• Someone who makes a positive impact on others
• Someone who doesn’t have to worry about money
• Someone who is proud of themselves and their accomplishments
• Someone who has a feeling of self fulfillment in both their work and personal lives

  

What would you do if you had all the money and time in the world?  (Who are you in the future?)

• Trade Forex successfully as I travel the world
• Speak about my entrepreneurial experience at various venues throughout the world
• Write a children’s book series
• Write motivational/success books
• Work with fellow entrepreneurs/kids
• Support various charities in a big way

Eliminate the self defeating descriptors and turn them into positive ones:

     Who is the real Bill McManus?

• I am happy and worry free
• I am a highly successful entrepreneur
• I inspire and motivate those around me
• I am a role model to my children, family and those around me
• I am a highly successful Forex Trader
• I am a highly successful speaker and author
• I am free to be whatever and whoever I choose to be

Imaginary Exercise.  

(Greg said Hell on Earth would be meeting the man you could have been.  He said to just imagine it.  If I did not decide to change things, what would it be like.  So, I decided to do just that.  I created a little imaginary exercise where I did imagine meeting the man I could have been - having not taken any action. )

Meeting the man I could have become:

     There it is, reality, staring me right in the face from the National Achievers Congress program:   Bill McManus – “Success through Perseverance”.  The house lights come down and the crowd applauds as Greg Secker enters the stage.  Greg is Bill’s mentor and introduces him.  He tells how he has grown from a “struggling entrepreneur” into an extremely successful entrepreneur by taking action and becoming who he really was inside.

     Then I see him, the me I could have become, walk across the stage to the microphone to the sound of appreciative applause.  The applause comes from the crowd of 5,000 entrepreneurs, many of whom have been helped through the Making of a Millionaire project.  The me I could have become smiles.  He looks fantastic.  He is happy, fit and full of vigor.  His strong presence is felt throughout the audience.  His faith and confidence shine through.  You can tell he is happy and successful just by how he carries himself.

      I sit and listen as he shares “his story”… what could have been my story.  I relate to the pain of the early years and the struggles as I still experience them now.  But then I become jealous as he talks of the later years and the growing success.  He speaks of all the actions taken as he started to become his true self.  The actions taken under Greg’s guidance.  Getting out of his comfort zone to grow.   He speaks about starting small with a blog and little You Tube channel.  Then going on to start speaking to small local groups.  How the groups got larger and people started calling upon him to speak.  He tells about the entrepreneurs that he helped break through their personal barriers, and how his journey helped them.  He described the charity work and his work with children.  He speaks of the joys of working on his children’s book series.  I can only sit there and think about how I have to return back to my job tomorrow.  The job I hate and that I still work at just to survive.  He talks about the projects his is currently working on, a project with Greg Secker and Sir Richard Branson.  He talks about his new success book.  I feel ashamed for wasting even more of my life away, living an unfulfilling life.  His presentation ends and he smiles and exits the stage and the audience applauds with great appreciation. 

      Later on, I muster up the courage to approach the me I could have become.  He is beyond happy.  He is accomplished and lives an exciting and fulfilling life. He has changed the lives of his family, his friends and many others.  He is touching lives and making a difference in this world.  He looks at me and shakes his head sadly.  He feels for me, yet he is disappointed in me.  I don’t know what to say.  I just look on in envy.  He has no words to comfort me.  I am the victim of my own doing, or lack there of.  I feel both sadness and shame.  Tears falls from my eyes as I turn and walk away from the man I could have become.

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