"Part 6: Read the Transcript of Mike Filsaime's In Search Of Heroes Interview" by Ralph Zuranski
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Ralph Zuranski: Is it useful to take a positive view of setbacks, misfortunes and mistakes?
Mike Filsaime: Oh yeah. To answer that directly I think we all need to learn from our mistakes. What I was talking about before about being a student of higher learning I would rather learn from other peoples successes than learn from my own mistakes. We all have to know that being an entrepreneur is that we’re going to have more failures than we do successes.
We need to be able to understand that when we have a failure that negative people are going to welcome that. Saying “Oh you see that, you tried to join that thing and it didn’t work. Well you’re still stuck here in blue collarville.”
The true entrepreneurial spirit will not allow those negative people to effect us. It will understand that we made mistakes and we can ask “What did we do wrong?” Let’s look at the success principles and see what we did and find out where we went off the tract. Then get back on the horse and try it again.
Ralph Zuranski: Is optimism valuable?
Mike Filsaime: Yes. It’s all in that circle Ralph of positive thinking. If you are pessimistic you will achieve pessimistic results. If you are optimist you will achieve optimum results. All going back to the power of positive thinking, the energy you put out there comes back to you in the same way. The entire universe is built on energy.
The reasons why you are sick or if you’re healthy are based on energy. So when you put out positive energy that’s what that is, is optimism. When you put out positive energy it will come back to you in positive ways.
If you are pessimistic, that glass is half empty. I know entrepreneurs and I know you. We believe that the glass is half full. A lot of people believe that the glass is half empty. When people start thinking half empty the sooner or later the glass will be completely empty.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you maintain your sense of humor in the face of serious problems?
Mike Filsaime: Oh absolutely! Probably too much. You know Ralph when I was in the car business I was the joker. I knew when it was time to be serious but even at the most serious points like if I was getting mad or if we had a meeting or something like that I would always throw in a tidbit of humor.
I think it keeps us real. I think it bonds people with you. It’s one of the best qualities you can have is to have a good sense of humor and a good wit. Being able to laugh at yourself but still knowing when business is business and how to put business together.
I think it’s important to create a work environment where people have fun. There’s no place they’d rather be than working with a group of people that they are with. If humor is not somewhere in there then I think the workplace will suffer.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you invest time into daydreaming about what your life will be like when you attain your goals?
Mike Filsaime: Yes I do. I tend to night dream or day dream at night before I go to bed. I’m sure you’ve had that Ralph. Some of the people listening may be racing in their mind and get to bed at 11:30
pm then all of a sudden they look up and the clock says 12:50am. They saw “Wow! I’ve got to get to bed.”
Or you may say “Wow, if I can get this site up tomorrow and get this interview up.” Then you look over and its 2:30am and it’s like you can’t shut your mind off. But that’s healthy. That means that you are thinking in the right terms. Again whatever the mind can conceive the mind can achieve.
That is why Ralph it is so important that people don’t daydream on the negative things. So it’s best they don’t say “Oh my goodness I didn’t do my taxes yet and my car payment is 60 days behind.” You are attracting that negative energy.
If your car payment is 60 days behind and that’s all you are thinking of then you are thinking in wrong terms. You need to think in terms of “I want to gain financial success.” When you think in terms like that you will attract those things and the car payment issues will go away.
Yes I do tend to daydream quite often about my business and always think in terms of positive ways. Sometimes the negative things work their way into your thoughts and there is nothing you can do. You can’t shift on positive things so just don’t think of them at all
Just start thinking of clown feet (Laughter) or something like that. But if you can’t think of anything that’s positive at that time then almost go into a state of denial and just block it out because it’s not going to do any good to dwell on it or the negative.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you feel it is important to make positive statements about yourself...the type of person you are and the your goals?
Mike Filsaime: Yes, those are affirmations. You need to not only say the affirmations but you need to envision the affirmation. Like I said before it’s been proven and it’s a fact that when your mind and in your imagination & you think in terms of the past & look back in your memory bank & you imagine things the mind looks in the same exact place that it does for memories.
The mind cannot distinguish between imagination and reality. So all you have to do is imagine the results that you want & you will suddenly start to live that life. I know I keep on saying that same thing but I believe so strongly in those things that we are talking about right now.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you take time out of your day to feed your subconscious positive thoughts about you, your goals and dreams?
Mike Filsaime: That’s something I believe I should do and something I believe everybody should do. But I can’t tell you that I do that. I think it has become so conscious that once you start living a life of positive thinking you are just on auto pilot and thinking g positively all the time.
However, I believe that meditation is good. I think you should have some type of time where you are doing meditation. Whether you are doing sub-conscious learning programs, any types of hypnotic programs or subliminal programs or anything like that.
I think those things are great to super charge the mind. I don’t actually do it, Ralph. I do research into it. That’s one of the things I said before. Do I actively do everything I know that’s right? No I don’t. But that doesn’t mean that they’re not right. I don’t do as much as I’d like to.
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