Or a death-by-a-thousand-self-criticisms? It all depends on one thing The relationship you have with yourself Neville Goddard taught that your outer world is nothing more than a mirror of your inner state Everything you experience Every relationship Every success Every failure Reflects the way you see yourself If you love yourself Life opens Opportunities flow People respond differently And you walk with a quiet certainty that cannot be faked If you do not love yourself You carry that wound into every conversation Every partnership Every attempt at success You treat people through the lens of your fear Your doubt Your self judgement And the story becomes tragic, not beautiful Self love is not indulgence It is not ego It is structural It is the foundation on which all confidence and all achievement is built When your cup overflows with self love You stop begging for approval You stop needing validation You stop fearing judgement And you start acting with clarity Conviction And calm Self love leads to self trust Self trust leads to self confidence Self confidence leads to success If you do not love yourself You must learn how You must move differently You must decide that your internal relationship matters more than external noise Here are a few simple places to start One Speak to yourself as you would to someone you deeply care about No one ever shames themselves into greatness Replace self attack with self support This alone changes your posture, tone and energy Two Keep one promise to yourself every day Just one Five minutes of reflection A ten minute walk A glass of water A single boundary When you keep small promises, you build self trust And self trust becomes confidence Three Rewrite the story Neville Goddard taught the power of assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled Imagine the version of you who is whole, capable and grounded Act from that state Not from the echo of past wounds Your life will rise or fall on the relationship you have with yourself

Don’t be stupid, you don’t know me! Do your research... ....Never just believe what someone tells you. Most people take others at face value. Most people don’t check. Most people get burned because of it. But here’s the real question. Do you know what the world knows about you? Do you know what people will find when they search your name? Do you know what your digital profile says about you? One of the most powerful exercises I ask people to do is simple. Profile yourself. ....And if you ever plan to learn from me, work with me, or consider mentoring with me, then you should absolutely do the same. Try it: Research me. Research, research, research. Never trust someone just because they tell you a good story. Go into ChatGPT and type: “Chat, please give me a full digital profile of UK entrepreneur Mike Greene.” It will pull from EVERYTHING publicly known. It will check news stories. It will check records. It will check online history. It will piece together everything the internet holds. Then you can decide for yourself whether I’m worth trusting. This isn’t what I choose to tell you. This is what can be fully sourced and coroberated from what the world already knows. It won’t be 100% complete. It may not capture EVERY mountain I’ve climbed, every endurance event, or event i've spoken at.... ...although you can always drill further and ask it if it can find "any evidence that he did xxx or yyy" Because AI summarises. But it will tell you enough. And you should do the same for yourself. Type your own name in. See what comes up. See what someone else would see before meeting you. Do the same for your business/brand. Understand the footprint you’re leaving. If you want your results to be better, then build your profile. Build your brand. Do more that is worth discovering. Because trust/respect isn’t given. Trust is earned. And in today’s world, trust starts with research. Before I speak to anyone on a discovery call, I always run a digital profile on them.

We think people buy what we do. They do not. People buy how we make them feel. Most trades, most businesses, most professionals lead with the facts. What they fix. What they build. What they deliver. The skills. The features. The logic. But selling is never logical first. It is emotional first. Always. People buy from people who make them feel safe. People buy from people who make things simple. People buy from people who make them feel understood. People buy from people who reduce their anxiety, not increase it. Human connection beats technical competence every time. Because the truth is this: - Trust is emotional. - Safety is emotional. - Confidence is emotional. - Reassurance is emotional. And buying is a trust decision long before it is a price decision. Two tradespeople can offer the same service. One wins the work because the customer liked them more. - Felt calmer with them. - Felt listened to. - Felt respected. - Felt they would be easy to work with. That is human psychology. And it has been true for thousands of years. If you want to sell more, stop talking about what you do. - Start talking like a human. - Start listening like a human. - Start connecting like a human. Because in business, just like in life, people rarely remember the facts. They always remember the feeling. And the person who creates the best feeling usually wins the customer. If you need help in selling and pitching - you should check out the pitch to win course in January... ...it will change everything: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1973980388480?aff=oddtdtcreator

It is Monday. It is the first of December. It is the first day of the week and The first day of the month. We are one month away from the start of a new year. You could not script a better moment to stop, breathe and check in with yourself. What are you doing. What are you achieving. Is what you do each day actually floating your boat or are you simply keeping yourself busy. Too many people are stuck on the hamster wheel. Running, Sweating, Exhausted, yet going nowhere. Today is the perfect day to step off the wheel and step into intention. This can be a great day. It can be the start of a great week. It can set up December to be a great month. And it can become the springboard that launches you into the best year you have ever had. But only if you choose it. Do not shuffle papers around your desk. That is like organising the deck chairs on the Titanic while it is already sinking. Do not focus on the brakes. Focus on the accelerator. Do not focus on being busy. Focus on creating progress and momentum. Ask yourself some simple questions: What will I do today that makes me feel like a winner? What action can I take right now that moves my life or my business forward? What can I commit to that creates motion, momentum and meaning? Make it a great day. Make it a great week. Make it a great month. Prepare yourself for an incredible 2026. Everything begins with a choice, followed by massive immediate action. Because intention changes nothing. Movement changes everything. 2 quotes that come to mind as i write this post: Andrew Carnegie: “The first man gets the oyster. The second man gets the shell.” and: “If you are not the lead dog, the view never changes.”

Today is Budget Day in the UK. And it is being billed as one of the toughest budgets in living memory. People are terrified. The lack of certainty has had everyone talking, worrying, second guessing. Some have paused decisions for months, hoping this budget would bring clarity. Hoping the light at the end of the tunnel wasn’t a train coming the other way. But here is the truth. Change happens every day. Always has. Always will. In the last 20 years alone we have lived through: → The global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 → A decade of austerity measures across the UK → Brexit and the uncertainty that followed → The Covid pandemic and worldwide shutdowns → Supply chain collapses and labour shortages → The war in Ukraine and its impact on energy and commodity prices → Inflation hitting multi-decade highs → Interest rates moving from historic lows to steep rises → The cost of living crisis and energy price shocks → Rapid technological disruption including AI and automation → Global shipping and logistics breakdowns → Political instability in multiple regions affecting trade and investment If you are searching for certainty, you will stay in anxiety. If you are waiting for stability, you will stay stuck. The only real skill is learning to operate in a changing environment. To adapt, to adjust, to keep moving. Whether you see today’s budget as good, bad, or downright ugly, the world keeps turning. And you have to turn with it. But here is what happens instead. People put their lives on hold. They wait for the budget. Then they say we are four weeks from Christmas so they might as well wait. Then January. Then February. And another year disappears. Procrastination is the mother of all failure. Action is the mother of success. So stop waiting. Stop holding back. Stop convincing yourself that tomorrow is safer than today. Take action. Because action is always the answer.