Hi, this is Mike Pettigrew, serial entrepreneur and bestselling author and I help ordinary people to achieve extraordinary goals, but probably not in the way you might think. A lot of people ask me, is it possible to achieve my goals without encountering challenges? Well, as you'll discover in a moment, challenges are really important, really important and they're the very - they are the very thing that actually enable you to achieve your goals, providing you know what to do. But before we get into that, let me just say that if you're ready to get to your next level of success, abundance, freedom, and wealth, check out my ultimate success club as www.achievegoalsfast.com/usc. So are challenges really necessary? Because nobody likes challenges. But you know what? Without challenges, you can't grow new strengths and new abilities.

And whenever you set a big goal for yourself - if you set small goals, you probably won't experience many challenges.

But if you set a big goal for yourself, the first thing you'll notice is that you'll have some sort of setback that will try and stop you. It's almost like a ship that's in a harbor. The water is very calm. Once the captain sets a destination and starts moving the ship out into the sea, it encounters waves that buffet and try to push it back, but it's actually by constantly progressing towards the target that the captain of the ship can reach its destination. But those, those challenges, those waves that crash against you are absolutely necessary because there's a saying that goes a bit like this "The only thing that's separating you from achieving some goal is a certain degree of inner change". So if you want to achieve anything in life, there are inner changes you will need to make before you can achieve that goal. So when you set a big goal and you start experiencing challenges, this is a really good sign.

It's showing you that you're progressing, it's showing you that you're serious about your goal. It's showing you that there's good things ahead - providing you keep progressing. And if you study the lives of the world's most successful people as I've done, you will find that they, in every case - they've gone through huge challenges, huge challenges, far bigger than most people ever, ever have to experience. And you know why? Because they had huge goals. When you have huge goals, you've huge challenges. But those huge challenges, as I say, enable you to grow, enable you to become more resourceful and more capable. And looking back over the last 40 years, I started my first business when I was only 15 - since then I've created, bought, built and sold 18 different businesses in all sorts of different niches. And I've had so many challenges along the way, so many challenges.

But you know what? Extraordinary people, extraordinary successful people - people who have changed the world, never give up. They stumble, they trip, they fall down numerous times, but they keep getting themselves up, dusting themselves down and trying again and trying again. And you know what? When you try so many different times - when you try this and it doesn't work and try that and it doesn't work, you're actually discovering the ways where whatever it is that you're trying to achieve won't work. You've probably heard the story of Thomas Edison the inventor. He was creating the incandescent light bulb. He was trying to invent it and he failed 10,000 times and a reporter said to him, why didn't you give up years ago? And Edison's reply was that every time he failed, he knew he was one step closer to getting it right. So challenges and setbacks are so important, but you need to be persistent.

You must vow to yourself never to give up. And then extraordinary things can happen. What was impossible can suddenly become possible. So how do you overcome challenges? Well, I have a video that I created that shows you a very simple process that enables you to - anytime you encounter a challenge - it enables you to overcome that challenge and move forward more quickly. And the title of the video is "Challenges - how to overcome them". So if you do a Google search or check out my YouTube channel or Facebook page or my website, you'll see how to do this very simple technique you can use anytime you encounter a challenge and it'll help you break through really quickly. So I hope you've enjoyed this video, and if you'd like to get to your next level of success, freedom, abundance, and wealth, check out my Ultimate Success Club at achievegoalsfast.com/USC - because every month I go live for people all around the world and I teach the success strategies, tools, and techniques that have been scientifically proved to work. No need for guesswork. If you want to be highly successful, you need to learn these strategies and techniques. Thank you so much for watching and I look forward to speaking with you again very soon. Bye Bye.