One business coach has forged his approach to helping entrepreneurs and business executives by using a monumental personal failure and eventual redemption to help get others where they need to go to find their personal success and fulfillment.
At just 18 years old, Miha Matlievski, a Slovenian high school dropout, dreamed of becoming a successful entrepreneur. And he pursued it with a passion, putting in 12 years of hard work that resulted in four successful businesses and a personal net worth of $15M.
But in December 2009, an unexpected call from his bank, which had decided to foreclose on his real estate investments, brought his world crashing down around him. That one negative event instigated an avalanche of ruin for him and his businesses, resulting in his four, once-successful companies going bankrupt.
QUOTE: Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~ Albert Einstein
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https://youtu.be/MnCPXZGW3eo
00:30 - Introduction
10:00 - What you're building is a cascading effect of negative results because you can only go so long that way and then you're going to burn out. You're going to reach a point where referring to your website, "I was literally ready to throw myself over the balcony". I mean, that's a pretty strong statement!
20:00 - The thing was, why all that happened to me, I was that crazy, winging it type of entrepreneur and not laying down any foundations. When I talk about those times, I always reference the Three Little Pigs story, and all my businesses were that first house made out of straws. When the first wind of crisis blew in, bam, it was a domino effect. Because of that, I went through depression, anxiety, darkness, suicide attempts, and so on. Until I had the aha moment and I was able to figure out that I had to take ownership of every mistake that I did in the past that led me to that failure. Then, I could start working on my personal goals and business development.
30:00 - What I see with my clients is often, I see bigger things for them than what they can see. But that's because I was there where they weren't yet. So it's much easier to see and to set big goals, because, for me, eight figures, nine figures, etc, I was there. I know how to do that, I can do it again. That's the difference.
40:00 - I was actually very stupid with my money, spending it like crazy because I could just keep making more at the time.
50:00 - You are that momentum builder and you must create a system that can then move forward. If it relies on you 24-7, 365 days a year, then that's not...