Mike C-Roc
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134 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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And creating these visions and then executing upon them. And I was seeing results and I was like, wow. But also anytime I saw a setback, a discouragement, I'll tell you one story real quick. So when I was living with my dad, I moved in with him and his new wife when I was 10 years old. Was it 10? No, it was eight. Eight years old.
And very quickly I realized it wasn't an environment conducive for success. My stepmom was jealous of my mom, my dad's side of the family. She was mentally abusive, verbally abusive. It was bad. And I had threats coming my way as a kid. I realized after a few years, that I had an option to get out, and I shouldn't be in this situation. So my mom filed court papers to get me back to move with her.
And I didn't say anything to my dad until he got the papers delivered to him. I came home from school one day, and he said, what's this paper here that says you want to move back with your mom? And my dad was Mason. He had a...
pretty well off my mom not so much and my mom was moving on to her third marriage and all this stuff and so you would think that that wouldn't be the spot that you would want to go yeah but there was love there there's no love here yeah right and so he can't he confronted me and i said yeah i want to move back with my mom there's no discussion need to be had he said all right go back to your room
So I went back to my room, waited for him, and he said, hey, you know what? Now, my dad was a, he was my hero. He had these big forearms and rough hands, hard worker. And he always had a wad of $100 bills in his pocket all the time. Seems it's a very Italian Philly thing to have. He'd show us money all the time. Benjamin Franklin was like, no, that was awesome. And I always won a lot of those.
Well, he came back in the room when he confronted me and he pulled that wad of $100 bills out. He peeled one off and he crumpled it up and he threw it at me. He said, here, you're going to need this when you're living on the streets with your mother then one day. And I was like, Cal, what did I just do? Did I make a mistake? All these thoughts go. At eight years old. No, I was 10 at this point.
All right. Now, still. Still, 10 years old. Yeah, man. Not exactly the seasoned vet at 10. No, but I said, you know, what did I just do? And then all of a sudden it came to me. Wait a minute, dude. You're not going to need that money. Like, you're not going to need that money. Like, let's show him. This is like stuff running through my head, man.
I'm always talking to myself, by the way, ever since I can remember. And I'm like, come on, dude, let's go. Let's rock now. And so I basically used that scene for my life all the way through high school, college, playing football, all that stuff. Anytime I needed it, I just fed off that. That was a fuel. It was fuel, right? Yeah. I didn't understand what I was really doing. I was subconscious.
Well, when I hit my 40s and I started like really working on myself and find out who I am and what I've been through and where I'm going to go, I started to realize this concept, like this rocket fuel law. I was like, what have I been doing all my life that's been like creating this success?
And I realized that if you take everything that comes your way and you have a choice, two choices, one fuel tank or trunk, fuel tank or trunk, And it eliminates chaos. Good analogy. Eliminates chaos. Like chaos comes from when you have too many choices. Binary decision. It's in a tank or it's in a trunk. Trunk weighs you down, slows you down. Tank, convert, rocket fuel, come unstoppable.
And I just became, I was like, oh shit, this is like the way, this is like a law, rocket fuel law. And so I just wrote a book about my story and all the instances of that law. And then during that time, I ran into Grant Cardone. I read the 10X rule and I was like, I vibe with this guy a little bit, this message. And, uh, and then I got him to write the Ford.
I said, while I was writing the book that I was going to get him to write the Ford because his story and a lot of people have the story, right? Yeah. But his story with his dad dying when he's 10, all this stuff, it just resonated with me of how he used that as fuel. And, uh, So I got him to write the forward for the book right when he was doing Undercover Billionaire. And just I see this story.
You have the story, I'm sure. I've seen the story so many times now. It's like it's just like John Maxwell has his leadership laws. This is the rocket fuel law.
Unstoppable.
Everybody's got their own. And you can't compare it to someone else's. It's like a human being's dealing with some kind of tragedy or trauma or conflict. And then it's like, what do you do with that? Obviously, you've figured out how to put it in a tank, not the trunk.
I was talking to a CPA that works with billionaires, right? His company deals with, like, probably most of the billionaires in the United States. Yeah. And he said not one of his clients has been to a situation where they didn't lose everything at least once, most of them twice. Yeah, you're not trying hard enough. And so that's another thing.
Listen, I still deal with it today. I mean, I still have times where things like that are happening, but I always say like now it's like so much quicker. I don't have any emotion tied to it now. It's so much quicker. Like, oh, that's going into tank. Yes. The worse it is, the more octane it has.
Well, and here's the other thing too. Um, at the end of the day, like a lot of times we want to be the hero, but when you take that weight off your shoulders and as a believer, like I just, I give all the like credit to God, man. I mean, and it's takes, it takes the pressure off of you. So I've gone through these transitions and I hit 40 started to realize like, it's not about me.
That made a difference too. Like, Now it's about, okay, what can I do to help other people? And then everything that goes good, just give credit somewhere else. Don't take credit for it.
Yeah.
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