Hello and welcome to transformation and empowerment, the podcast that helps you to find your life's true purpose, the more fulfilled and achieve your life's biggest goals.
Now its time to welcome our guest Mike Pettigrew. Mike is the author of several bestselling books including unlock gratitude now and most powerful goal achievement system in the world. He has built and sold more than 15 businesses and his companies have made millions, but he also knows about the dangers of bad decision making and trusting the wrong people.
After selling his first business to a multinational company, Mike lost everything, even reaching a point where he had no money for food for his wife or their newborn baby. In the end, however, he transformed the situation and went on to become an even greater success. Now we specialize in helping others transform their own circumstances and to achieve their loftiest goals. Mike, it's my pleasure to have you here on the show today. Welcome. Thank you so much, David.
So for most of our viewers, which might be unfamiliar with the story of your loss and recovery, you mind sharing?
Sure, sure. Well, I started my first. Well, actually it started my first business when I was 15, but I'd started my real first real business when, uh, back in 1987 and it was a plant business. We rented and sold tropical plants to offices and that went great. And I built that business over 14 years up to the point where I sold it to a multinational. I thought I'd taken early retirement at that stage, but you know, what? Life often has twists and turns we can't possibly expect.
And as you said a moment ago, I trusted the wrong people. I made bad decisions, bad investments, and just a few short years later it was all gone. Our son was born and I couldn't feed him or my wife or myself. And it's incredibly frightening when you lose everything and you can't look after your loved ones. And I suppose it was, it was a double shock for me because I'd been very successful. I'd been very positive, very optimistic and that served me.
And I'm really, you know, the mind creates and what we dwell upon, the most happens and I really discovered is going through pure hell. I reached the point where I just couldn't take it anymore and I don't know whether my prayer was answered, but I vowed to the universe, this has got to change. I must change, I will change. And the very next day I picked up a book written over a hundred years ago, that book David was all about the power of gratitude.
And I realized really it just hit me so strongly how far I had sunk from someone very optimistic and confident and capable to hating myself, berating myself, doubting myself, feeling so guilty. And I realized that if I was to change the situation, I had to change my dominant thoughts, my dominant emotions, because that's what creates our circumstances.
If he heard people beat themselves up all the time when something goes wrong, you know, I had an incident like that too. I talked about on a recent show over the last couple of weeks where I was in my early twenties. I trusted an old high school friend and I actually borrowed money to invest in his company and ended up losing six figures now I was just me.
I'd have a family to worry about so it wasn't quite as bad, but I also find when I look back that that taught me a lot, not just about gratitude, but also more tangible things about how to make good financial decisions or how to avoid financial decisions. So you tell me what other besides, besides the mental game and the gratitude, what else did that experience teach you? It taught me the power of negative thinking.
It taught me I have to experience the power of positive thinking for many years. It taught me what most people experience to quite acquainted degree and it was shocking and I've come out the other end really was through doing gratitude practices, but I've come out the other end and I like you. I learned so much, so much from this experience about the mind, about human beings, human nature, and I'm so grateful for this experience now.
So grateful because it now enables me to help people all over the world who large numbers of people all over the world overcome
their own difficult situations under help them expand their. What would you say, say their degree of possibility dramatically, and I think it comes down to baby steps. When we take small, consistent actions, they add up, you know the saying, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step said not beating yourself up. It's just the beginning of it. So when I hear the music playing in my ear, that means we need to go for a commercial break. We'll be right back in just a minute.
Stay with us. I know it's time to walk them back. Like pedigree, author of the most powerful goal achievement system in the world. And Mike, we were talking a little bit about some of your own experience that that caused you to get to be motivated to get into this field. But if you had to go back to your own personal experience to say what then the number one emotion was that may be caused you to make a bad in the first place. A simple terms though, is that number one emotion?
Do you think that that was the first domino that caused all the others to fall?
So clear. Fear David Fear and I sold my company, as I say, to a multinational. Then I basically, the way my accountant structured the deal, I had to pay huge amount of tax, huge amount of. He told me he could squash the squash the tax bill, but he couldn't. And when I discovered that he wasn't able to help, I suddenly started panicking, oh no, I'm going to have to go back into business. And you know, when you do, when you, when you are fearful, you make really bad decisions.
And that's why I ended up, you know, trusting someone. All my friends said, you're mad. What are you doing? Trusting this guy, but you know, yet. Fair, fair. That's the biggest.
It's a biggie. I mean, do you think that most people are aware about strong? A role, personal psychology, specifically fear plays and their decisions in determining financial success or failure or do you think most are really
maybe oblivious to it to a certain oblivious or really believe David, most people are oblivious and it's not just fear and negative emotions. It's we're all conditioned. This is the biggest problem. The one thing that stops people achieving a better life, achieving financial freedom.
Success is well, all these subconscious beliefs that we haven't, you know, we're, we're conditioned from the moment we're born as we go through life, right into adult hood where we're told how to think and what we can achieve and what we can to achieve and what not to think and what to think.
And you know, it's parents and relatives and brothers and sisters and teachers and religions and governments and advertising, but the time we get into our early twenties, we have so much baggage we're not even aware of and it's that conditioning that holds people back. So if you don't do something about it, your ability to get to the next level is greatly curtailed. Dramatically curtailed.
Yeah. You really do sound like a psychologist now. It says everything goes back to your childhood and uh, and you're right when it comes to money, if you think about you, I have stories where even people whom I know personally who maybe grew up thinking, oh, you know, money is evil. If you have a lot of money, then then you must be taking advantage of other people. And as a result, as they grew up and started to make money, they'd spend it faster than they make it.
It's almost as if money was dirty. It's like get this money away from me because, uh, you know, my mom and dad would have thought I'm a bad person. Had I made a lot of money. We want, if we want to come back in just a minute after the last commercial break, so please stay with us for one more segment, one more block. But as we do, we want to talk more about your process for getting people to set financial goals. We'll be right back in a minute right now.
It's fine for one final block to welcome back. Mike Pedigree, author of the most powerful goal achievement system in the world. Mike, if you were teaching me about how to set and achieve goals, how would you go about doing it?
Well, to be honest, David, I think that a lot of goal achievement systems are far too complex, far too many steps. When people need simplicity, they need to get results right from the start or else they give up. You know it's simple as that, so the most powerful goal achievement system and the world's only a seven step process and you know I go into it obviously in detail in my best seller, but the first step is decide what you want. Be Crystal clear about what you want.
If you're not sure what you want, chances are you will get it. Number two is then to emotional lies your goals, and you do this by combining goals that can assist each other so that there was a lot more depth of feeling and because honestly, if we don't have much feeling towards our goals, we can achieve them. As Napoleon Hill said, in thinking grow rich, we need to summon up a burning desire.
Emotion is the number one factor is act as a catalyst to make the impossible possible, so that's number two. Number three is give each goal a deadline, self explanatory, and that's in every system. Number Four, program your mind program, your mind. Now that sounds crazy to turn into some sort of sidebar Cyborg on a toll. It's converting your goals into affirmations which are positive, empowering statements that you make to yourself morning and evening with emotionally and these affirmations.
Converting your goals into affirmations works miracles. That's number four. Number Five, plan for accelerated success. You need to plan for how to get from here to where you want to go. Action steps, wonderful way to do this. Wonderful way is to use to use mind mapping. Mind mapping is fantastic. It stimulates the creative process. That's number five.
Number six is become a high performer and a high performance is about succeeding above and beyond standard norms consistently over the long term, and there are simple habits that Brendon burchard's high performance institute have found that these specific habits are adopted by the world's highest performers and anyone can use them to get way beyond how they what they would normally do under their own steam. That's number six.
Number seven is over, and I think it's the biggest overcome limiting beliefs are done. There is a process, right? Simple process to uncover, root out those limiting beliefs that are holding you back in whatever area of life that you're trying to improve, and then there's another very simple process to overcome those limiting beliefs. Very simple, very simple. Simplicity
is what human beings need this these days. Not Complexity though. In the 30 seconds or so we have left telus. Is there anybody that's too old, a kind of rhetorical question to be able to do this type of thing right here and to get excited about their future and then last week working, they find your book. Definitely. I think David, the way to stay perpetually young is to be engaged with the world, to be interested. God is what keeps us alive so it doesn't matter.
I've had someone coming to me for about two months ago for coaching. He's 80 years of age and he has his own business at 80 now. That's what I intend to be doing when I'm age and love and get books available on Amazon. Amazon's first page of personal success, best others for both since last October, and it really can really change people's lives. I love it. I love it. I still want to go out. I think you should get Mike's book. Sounds wonderful.
Mike, thank you for joining us and you stay with us right back with more in just a moment.
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