A battle rages in every entrepreneur’s mind. It’s not good versus evil. It’s “I can” versus “I can’t.” At the end there can only be one winner. The enemy’s name? We like to call him The One Nut Guy. And today, the epic battle begins. . .
CONTEST: Make Your Own Video (Hint: Cool Prizes Await)
Who or what is your "I can’t" enemy? Make your own video (instructions here) and join Mike Michalowicz, Author of The Pumpkin Plan, for a once-in-a-lifetime dinner in New York City with him and the key influencers in his life. Contest details here.
I love it!! I am in!!
That is awesome! Make a video, brother and send it my way!!!!
Dinner on your dime? Mike, that’s incentive enough. Hope I make the cut.
Can’t wait to see your video.
YES! Dinner on me!!! Going to be an amazing dinner, with some amazing folks!
Mike,
Love watching your stuff, way to go!
Thanks Tommy! Time for you to make a video… perhaps you will be joining me for the dinner!
WOW! That rocks out! I am so laughing right now…..
Happy you liked it Frank. Be sure to make your own video (cheesy, simple, horribly produced is all desired!) and you get a free book and you might be the winner and come to NYC for the dinner of awesomeness!
Mike you are a great inspiration..loved this video too!!
Wow, two comments. You must reallllly like the video.
Mike you are a great inspiration…Loved the video!!
Thanks for checking it out Anant! Make one too! And I will post it!!!!
Talk to me about how you put this together. It’s an entertaining video. How many people were involved? How long did it take you to do it? Was that you Dad? etc.
It was 4 people. Me, Jay (he is the “old man” actor) and is not my father, Grant (our camera guy) and AJ (she is my collaborative author on my books and she and I wrote the script). I did the editing for this on Pinnacle Studio and the process sucked – the system crashed a million times. There just may be a few more videos coming, and Grant (our camera guy) is editing those and using FinalCut to do them. They will be better.
Mike,
Haha, not too shabby!
Looks like a trailer for a new tv show, and as quite a bit of the stuff on tv is crap, you and old one nut have a pretty good chance of up staging a few of them easily!
Thanks Steve!!!!!
Great video, should go into acting.
Well if I can’t make it as an author, acting will be my next attempt.
hahaha I can’t stop laughing. Mike, I think you’re in the wrong bus. I smell oscar!
Marni!!!!!!!!!
LOL and lots to think about before I make my video and for today …
After 30 years in technology & 8 years in construction … my new business requires that I
connect with women from all walks of life and that scares the hell out of me. I want to be true to myself, be authentic in how I connect with women who don’t own a business. As I play out stories, I continue to doubt I can come up with fun, entertaining ways to get women to recognize their homes as their largest financial asset.
personal platform to create the lifestyle they want,while protecting and
investing in their largest financial asset.
I think your One Nut Guy may be from the construction industry. If you made a visual of the nagging mindset, who or what would it be?
Hey, what’s so bad about a guy with one nut?! Excited for the book release, keep up the great work!
True…. nothing wrong with a uni-nut. Just happens to be that he is a one nut man.
This is FABULOUS! Not only are you very entertaining, but you are heading this dead on!
Your the BEST! Now I must begin putting together a video for your contest.
THANKS!
Cindy
Thanks Cindy! YES!!! Please make a video. I would love to see it, and post it up here!
My biggest critic? My dog. Every time I pitch a new idea to him and ask him what he thinks, he says, “Ruff!” Great post Mike. Always love your stuff!
THAT IS AWESOME! I love that your dog is the inner critic. You MUST make a video of that. It would be so funny.
So funny!
Thanks Kath!
My inner critic: the timid shy guy that’s really smart in make innovative stuff & make them work but afraid of getting shot down by the bigger guys who think they know better if approached for discussions on a contracted partnership but won’t & instead copy the idea and make it their own.
Oh my God this is the funniest thing (and the most truthful) I’ve seen in a long time. Thank you Michaloshits!
Thank you so much Amy! Now make your own video!!!
– Michalo-shits out!
My inner critic is a whiny little you-know-what who thinks you have to be beautiful, thin and on some sort of natural speed to realize your dreams. She thinks I’d be better off in a studio apartment in some podunk town, working as a medical transcriptionist by day and hanging with my best friends Ben & Jerry at night. I hate her.
I think she is my ex-girlfriend.
Gee…my critic is that former self—the one who lived in a van in a Walmart Parking lot for a year… Hard to compete with the one-nut guy, but I’ll give it a shot…
Do it! Do it! Do it!!!!!
Awesome! My husband is watching TV while I’m watching this on my mac with the ear pods, laughing my ass off. Can’t wait for your book – loved TPE 🙂
My inner critic thinks… if only i didn’t have a 2 and 3 yr old clawing my legs all day that I’d have time to get done what I need to get done… what I really know it that it’s just an excuse to justify why i failed, if (when) i do. What I really need to do is just drink more coffee (or find a script for adderall – KIDDING) and just get the work done!!
Thanks Mike – love your work!!
Thanks for checking it out Tamara! Maybe your inner critic is a cup of coffee. Maybe it forces you to keep drinking it and distracting you. I would LOVE if you did a video about it.
Thanks for enjoying the stuff I am doing.
I am rooting for your success. Keep kicking entrepreneurial butt.
My Inner Critic just said if I make a video it will be cheesy, simple, and horribly produced. I said, yeah, that’s what Mike wants! I think we’re in business…
Exactly what I want.
It is so ON!!! Script is written, recruiting talent, redeeming points for a flight to NY!
BRING IT!!! BRING IT ON!!!!!
LOL OMG Mike you really crack me up. I hope I never see an old nutty woman in the back seat of my car..lol
I saw a nutty woman that scared the crud-o-la out of me yesterday. Totally spooked me. Now I wonder if it was your nemesis.
At one point my self-directed negativity was so drastic, I scrawled my grand-champion “I can’t’s” on the ceiling above my bed. Yes, everyone thought I’d really lost it (I had, kinda)! Naturally, after almost six months of living under (literally and figuratively) the tyranny of lines like, “You won’t do it…you’ve never finished anything” (re: college degree) and “You’re nothing but a sorry-ass loser”, I couldn’t help but (at long last!) recognize them for the empty lies they are. I’m over halfway through my degree now, tyvm! Rock on Mr. Michalowicz!
Congratulations on the major turn around. At the end of the day it is just as easy to say about ourselves that we suck, or that we rock. What we say, though, we become.
BTW – Good thing you didn’t have a picture of the one-nut-guy above your bed. That would be just gross.