Mike credits Tony Robbins-style affirmations, particularly one about mentoring top talent, with launching him into entrepreneurship. Over four to five years he built five or six businesses generating about $30 million in annual revenue, then spent half his time mentoring others for free.
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I remember doing positive affirmations or incantations, as Tony Robbins called them, through Tony Robbins' Personal Power 2. And I did them for the first time. I remember writing down the 7th one and it said, I mentor and lead some of the brightest and best people in the world. I knew that I was meant to do that. I'm supposed to do this at some point. But sure enough, 4 or 5 years later, I had started at that point 5 or 6 different businesses and I was doing like $30 million a year in my businesses. I was called to start mentoring because I had people reaching out to me every week saying, Mike, can I get 30 minutes? Mike, Can we grab coffee? Can we grab lunch? I would spend like half my time mentoring people pro bono.