Michael Van Gerpen

11/14/2024

Saying “yes” to a request is casting a vote for someone else’s goals. Saying “no” is casting a vote for your own.

11/12/2024

Are you still doing things the way they’ve always been done, or are you trying to break from the herd in pursuit of a better way?

08/27/2021

Stop settling for the low hanging fruit.

Have the courage and patience to climb to the top.

I promise you the fruit is much sweeter up there.

08/25/2021

When you think about what’s holding you back in your business, what is it?

The problem we have isn’t that we don’t have enough time. It’s that we don’t focus on the solution to our biggest problem and put all of our time and effort into getting past that roadblock.

Sure, on the other side of that roadblock is inevitably another one waiting for us, but there’s also growth.

And after each stage of growth, there’s a period of satisfaction that we’ve accomplished something few people do. We’ve created a business that creates change. That helps the lives of our customers and that gives us a new level of financial security.

My advice when you feel like you’re running out of time, is to pause, identify your biggest problem, and deal with that — and only that — first.

If you feel stuck because you don’t have a plan of action, I can help with that too. The other day I mentioned my Success Blueprint. I created it to help myself and others find clarity on the next step for their business.

It’s not another technique or trick — it’s a way to help you focus on the thing you need to focus on to get to that next level of growth.

Let me know if you’d like to check it out! 👇🏻

08/24/2021

Where is this showing up in your life? 👇🏻

08/22/2021

You may have heard me talk about my Hundred Man rule — essentially the vast majority of us choose to do what everyone else does. It’s only one out of one hundred that goes against the grain and chooses a different path that creates everything they want in life.

It’s been my guiding philosophy throughout my personal and professional life.

The Success Blueprint is how you, too, can choose to become that elusive one out of one hundred.

If you don’t take action, you’ll find time has a way of slipping away from you. If you have kids, you know that better than most.

One day you’re holding this soft, delicate bundle in your arms rocking them to sleep; the next day you’re sending them off into the world on their own adventure.

The same thing happens to your business, and before long, it’ll be time to pass it on to someone else.

How successful your business is when that time comes will depend on the decision you make right now.

Give the Success Blueprint a chance to work for you like it’s worked for me and those I’ve shared it with.

It’s ready when you are — will you take the first step needed to get where you want to be in life?

You’ll be pleasantly surprised how easy it really is!

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08/22/2021

You may have heard me talk about my Hundred Man rule — essentially the vast majority of us choose to do what everyone else does. It’s only one out of one hundred that goes against the grain and chooses a different path that creates everything they want in life.

It’s been my guiding principle throughout my personal and professional life.

The Success Blueprint is how you, too, can choose to become that elusive one out of one hundred.

If you don’t take action, you’ll find time has a way of slipping away from you. If you have kids, you know that better than most.

One day you’re holding this soft, delicate bundle in your arms rocking them to sleep; the next day you’re sending them off into the world on their own adventure.

The same thing happens to your business, and before long, it’ll be time to pass it on to someone else.

How successful your business is when that time comes will depend on the decision you make right now.

Give the Success Blueprint a chance to work for you like it’s worked for me and those I’ve shared it with.

It’s ready when you are — will you take the first step needed to get where you want to be in life?

You’ll be pleasantly surprised how easy it really is!

The 5 Secrets to Successfully Achieving Any Result No Matter How Big, Hairy and Audacious the Goal

08/20/2021

Let me know if this sounds familiar: After reading the latest business guru’s book, you tell yourself you’re going to follow everything they said to achieve your goal. At first you stick with it, then life happens, and you miss a day or two. Before you know it the goal fades away, lost in the grind of running your business.

It happens to all of us. As entrepreneurs we have so much going on that there isn’t much room for anything else. Unless you have the focus of a professional athlete, it’s easy to get distracted by the day-to-day chaos of running your business.

The good news is I have a solution and I’ve been using it for myself and with my clients to achieve any result, no matter how big, hairy and audacious the goal.

I call it my Success Blueprint, and it will officially be available Sunday — you’ll just have to summon up a little more patience. But I promise the wait will be well worth it.

For now, let your imagination run wild. Think about that big, hairy, audacious goal or the most important thing you want to accomplish — after Sunday you’ll be able to plug it into the blueprint and see a path to the other side where you’ve already accomplished it.

08/18/2021

I remember early in my coaching career complaining to my mentor that I couldn’t seem to find a complete blueprint to success that actually worked.

As I was going on and on, I could hear keyboard keys hammering away on the other end of the phone.

Then he said, “I just sent you something — use this.”

I’d love to say this was a magical moment when everything fell into place, but that didn’t happen.

What I saw were two worksheets with barely anything on them.

But I'll never forget what he said next. “All you need to do is use this to determine what you want to achieve, where you’re starting from and the roadblocks getting in your way. Once you’re clear on those three things, focus all your time, energy and resources on removing the roadblocks, and you’ll achieve anything you want.”

Although extremely grateful, I couldn’t help but think, “Well, that’s obvious.”

I really respected his opinion, so decided what the hell!

Over the next few years, I dug into the framework he shared with me. Made some tweaks, tested those tweaks, made some more tweaks, and tested again. Repeating until I got the recipe just right.

In a few days I’ll share more. Until then, if you could achieve even the craziest BHAG, what would it be? 👇🏻

08/17/2021

I used to suffer from the latter.

Each day I’d wake up with a vague sense of what I needed to do for the day, but before I was even finished with breakfast, my plan (if you could even call it that) would unravel like a cheap sweater.

Problems and distractions would pop up like weeds. As soon as I’d deal with one, another would take its place.

Even though I didn’t want to admit it, my days were consistently running me.

If you can relate, I have some good news…it doesn’t have to be like this. There’s actually a better way and I figured it out.

Keep watching my posts this week because I’m going to let you in on all the details!