My first Vow Against Mediocrity – My “part time” Fortune
Several years ago when I was in the mortgage banking industry, I was invited by a client of mine to meet him for coffee at Starbucks. I gladly agreed and thought it was a very nice gesture. In my mind I thought it would be really nice to get to know
him better and this seemed like the perfect opportunity. The day of our meeting I arrived and I saw him sitting at a table with another person. I walked over, introduced myself to his friend and sat down. What happened next was completely unexpected! It turns out that I wasn’t invited out of kindness, I was a prospect for a network marketing company! For the next 45 minutes I got double teamed about their “opportunity”. It was one of the most uncomfortable experiences of my career. Unfortunately, that experience kept me from being open to the industry of network marketing for many years.
Because I was pretty good at my job and I knew a lot of people, it seemed that my name made it to the top of every new Network Marketers “Prospect” list. But now I knew their “game”and had my defenses up, they weren’t going to “get” me into their “Pyramid Scheme”!
It took many years but one day a dear friend of mine, Michelle Poe, broke through my defenses. She sent me a video link to an ABC Primetime Report, you know the program that features John Quinones. When I watched the report for the first time, I had no clue what they were talking about! I watched it several more times just so I didn’t seem so stupid when Michelle called me back to talk about it. (even that didn’t help – I still had no clue). When she finally called me back, I was able to put 2+2 together and the first words out of my mouth were “Oh NO!, Not you too!”.
A few days later my Dad had a he
art attack and being the caring friend that Michelle is, she called me back with a friend of hers, a cardiologist from Sioux Falls, SD named Dr. Mark Gordon. She told me that she really cared about me and wanted me to know how important it was, given my families heart disease history, that I immediately start taking the product called Protandim. Reluctantly I did.
For the next 9 months She’d call me and I’d argue with her, she’d email.. I’d argue…She’d text, I’d argue. This went on for about 9 months until I witnessed some people in my life, including her, having great results from both a health and financial perspective. Since my arguments were no longer valid and if
everything she told me was real I wouldn’t have wanted to miss out, so I decided to take a closer look. I’m glad I did!
I’m proud to say that since Feb. 1st of 2012 I have been a successful network marketer. I’m proud to say that because the industry and some of the people that I’ve met along the way have given me my life back. Being an active distributor (meaning I actually work) has allowed me to meet some of the most amazing people from around the US and Canada. They say that you become the sum of the 5 people that you associate with most, if that is the case I will become generous, kind, loving, supportive, philanthropic, spiritual, happy, fun, caring, healthy, wealthy and have the power to positively change a countless number of lives around the world.
I am telling you this story because although I am successful inmy network marketing business, it is one area of my life that I have accepted mediocrity. I have put in “just enough” effort so I could do this work full time. I have done just enough so I could “be comfortable”, have a modest house, a reliable car and not have the stress or pressure that I used to associate with making money or being successful.
From this point forward I vow to leave my old ways of thinking behind. Being successful does NOT mean I can’t do something I love. Making money does NOT mean that I have to have put off having fun until I reach a certain goal. From now on, I will allow happiness, love and prosperity into my life and I will allow them to come together, to co exist. From now on I will vow to no longer be mediocre!
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Welcome to my new blog focused on Defeating Mediocrity
My name is Kevin Messerschmidt. I have lived in the small town of East Troy, WI all my life. I am the proud father of one incredible and energetic 12 year old boy named Ethan and the coolest dog in the world named Norm. About 4 years ago I was married and enjoyed a very successful career as an account executive with a regional mortgage banker.
From the outside, it may have looked like I had it all, cars, money, a big house, and the perfect marriage. Maybe I did but it sure never felt like it to me. For 10 of the 15 years I was in the mortgage banking industry, I hated my job. I never felt inspired and the only certainty was that there was no certainty, things were always changing and most of the time not for the better. The house, cars and “toys” were nothing more than a reminder to me that I had the money to buy all the things that I wanted but no time to actually enjoy them or my family.
Then with little warning my life took a dramatic turn. The company that I had spent the most successful 12 years of my career with went out of business and my marriage of 11 years, which suffered in part due to all the long hours and stress of my job, was over. I was devastated. There is an old saying, “be careful what you wish for because you might just get it all” and while I never wished for the divorce, I did wish for something to happen to my job, so I would have an excuse to move on to something more inspiring.
There’s another old saying that says, “everything happens for a reason” and after living my life for the last 3 years, I couldn’t agree more. Looking back I can say that my life was out of balance, my priorities misaligned and my life had no purpose.
Today, my life looks drastically different than it did 4 years ago. I’m a completely different person, in a different line of work, and have a new found perspective, passion and purpose for my life. The lessons that I learned along the way inspired me to start an empowerment coaching practice so I can help others avoid the mistakes and take advantage of the things I’ve done right. You can look me up at http://www.afreelifenow.com.
With that said, I want be very clear about one thing. Though I have learned many lessons and am fully capable of empowering others, my life is not perfect. I still have many areas of my life that need improving and this blog is about putting myself on display, taking the actions necessary to improve my life and hopefully teaching and inspiring you to do the same.
In October of 2015, I read a book titled “The Miracle Morning” by Hal Elrod and although I was already practicing many of the techniques that he teaches in his book, I was inspired by his story of living up to his potential and beating mediocrity. beating mediocrity? That was an entirely new concept to me. I have read countless books on inspiration, business and motivation. In fact, my ex wife used to get extremely frustrated with me because I’d read the books, learn the information, know exactly what to do, yet I NEVER took action. For much of my adult life I was acting like a mediocre person! I was not been living up to my fullest potential. I quickly became obsessed by the idea of beating mediocrity and in doing so, created this blog.
For the next 12 months I am going to put my life and efforts on display. People may or may not follow my journey and that’s o.k.. Although my dream would be to inspire you to take your own 12 month pledge to fight mediocrity, this blog is for me. It will serve as my proof that by taking all out action to a well thought out plan, I can do, be, and co-create the life that God intended me to live.
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Proverbs 16:3 Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever you do, do it well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
Proverbs 14:23 All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
Defeating Mediocrity 