“I’ve spent 20 years understanding the unconscious mind is where all the power is,” explains Michael.  It’s where success and resilience is won or lost, and he’s learned how to train and harness that power to achieve his own massive success. 

He may speak on stages all over the world, but Michael is not a motivational speaker, he says. “I’m not even motivated all the time. I just get myself to do things that I know I need to do.” 

Motivation, says Michael, is nothing more than the ability to get yourself to take action when you need to.

Taking action is precisely what Michael did back in college. When his roommate’s father, who was a successful CEO, encouraged Michael to go into business for himself, that idea lit Michael up, and he went straight to the business school at the University of Arizona to follow up on it. 

Instead of admitting the young man brimming with enthusiasm, they laughed at him. Michael then went to junior college for a year and began down the path he was told was more appropriate for a person like him.

That could have been the summation of his venture into life beyond average, but Michael never fully doused the flame of inspiration that had been lit with the idea of going into business for himself. While he plodded through junior college, the idea smoldered in his mind. Then came the day a reading assignment led him to Dale Carnegie’s book “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” and the smoldering idea swept back up into a flame of inspiration.

That book, says Michael, was the first book he’d ever read that made him realize he was not stuck with who he was at the moment. Until that moment he’d believed there was no way to escape the confines of the mold he was shaped in. He’d had no idea there was education outside of college and its cookie-cutter approach to learning. 

He was hooked and began educating himself by learning from people outside the standard educational system. For over 20 years now, Michael has continued studying the nuances of communication and the power of the unconscious mind. He’s trained himself to push far beyond the expectations of others – expectations he once believed to be unbreakable. 

Today, Michael understands how to help people free themselves from the hold of traumatic memories and self-limiting beliefs. He knows how to rewire his brain to influence his behavior for desired outcomes, and he continually sharpens these skills by challenging himself on a regular basis.