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📩 E-MOVERS | Issue #9

May 26, 2025
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This Week’s Focus: Building Before You’re Ready

The truth is, “ready” is a myth.
Most success stories didn’t start with full confidence—they started with full commitment.

This week is about taking imperfect action.
Because waiting to be ready is costing you results.

LITTLE-KNOWN FACT:

 

Sara Blakely started Spanx with $5,000, no business background, and no outside investors.
She wrote her own patent, cold-called manufacturers, and sold the first products herself.

Was she “ready”? Not by the world’s standards.
But she built anyway—and became the youngest self-made female billionaire in America.

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What some called this back in my day was cutting the foot out of a pair of stockings and wearing them under capries or jeans.  Who knew.  What idea do you have for yourself that could work for others as well?

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🧠 Key takeaway:
You don’t get confidence and clarity by waiting.
You get both by moving.


🎯 YOUR MOVE THIS WEEK:
Ask yourself:

What have I delayed because I thought I needed more time, training, or tools?

✅ That content you keep reworking instead of publishing
✅ That business idea you’ve sat on for years
✅ That client you haven’t pitched because you think you’re not “there yet”

Every master you admire once started unqualified.

💬 COACH MIKE SAYS:
"Build in beta. The version you’re scared to release is someone else’s breakthrough."

Done beats perfect.
Action beats anxiety.
Now beats later.


🚨 CONSIDER THIS WEEK’S FREE PAIN TO PROFIT MASTERCLASS EVENT:  This Thursday at 7pm EST

 


🧠 THINK ON THIS:
"You can’t grow what you won’t start. And you can’t scale what you never launch."

This week, stop building excuses. Start building systems.


🙌 FINAL WORD:
You already have enough to take the first step.
The rest will meet you in motion.

Until next week…
👉 Keep moving forward,
—Dr. Mike
Founder, Essential Movers Mentorship
🌐 www.essentialmovers.org


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