You don’t find this life...

Mike Greene

14h • Level Up Learning

...You build it.

Sometimes I look at my week ahead & genuinely have to pinch myself.

Not because it’s perfect.

Not because there’s no pressure.

But because of the sheer variety, freedom, people & purpose that now fill my weeks.

And because I remember the years when none of this existed:

- The years of Poverty, Abuse, Bankruptcy and even homelessness

- The Stress.

- Working every hour

- Building & losing a businesses.

- Starting again.

Grinding through my 20s, 30s and much of my 40s to create the life I live today.

People often ask me:

“What does your week look like?”

The truth is, no 2 weeks are ever the same

This week alone:

Monday

- I’ll spend the day at an exclusive Rolls-Royce event in Yorkshire.

Not just around beautiful cars, but around philanthropy, networking and one of the greatest examples of British engineering, craftsmanship and quality in the world.

- Then 2x 1-2-1 mentoring sessions in the evening

Tuesday

- starts with breakfast with the Commercial Executive at Peterborough United Football Club. Not because football is everything to me, but because POSH are the heartbeat of my home city.

- Then into London for a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace.

Wednesday

- starts mentoring one of my clients in Bali, who's helping people overcome addiction & rebuild their lives through the incredible work they do there

- Then a group Zoom with one of my longest-known clients, a business that has grown from a handful of pharmacies into one of the UK's Top 1% businesses.

- Then onto a CPCA Business Board at AstraZeneca in Cambridge.

- Then 2 more 1-2-1 mentoring sessions.

- Then our Growth Syndicate group Zoom.

And then Thursday through Monday in Mallorca:

- Sunshine, Friends, Resetting, Re-grounding, Recharging.

Every day above ground truly is a great day!

But some weeks just remind you how important it is to consciously build a life, not simply drift through one.

And before anyone says:

“You’re lucky.”

Maybe.

- But I also earned this life.

- I worked insanely hard for decades to create flexibility, freedom, relationships & opportunities.

And that is the bit people miss

Most people want the outcome

Very few are willing to live the years required to create it

The beautiful thing is this:

In the UK, with freedom of movement, freedom of enterprise and freedom to choose differently, extraordinary lives are still available to everyone willing to think and act differently

I know that because I have worked with people who started with nothing.

- People born in caravans.

- People born into poverty.

- People without qualifications.

- Who then built extraordinary businesses & lives.

Not because they were chosen.

Because they chose.

If you keep doing what you’ve always done,

you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got

So maybe the better question is not:

“What does your week look like?”

Maybe the better question is: