Michael Fanning - Your host and coach, specializing in mindset and achieving goals through the Windermere Coaching Minute. Michael helps individuals transform setbacks into comebacks through proven frameworks and introspective coaching.

Contact: [email protected]

Discover why your biggest setbacks aren't roadblocks but redirections, and learn the three-step framework to fail forward in business and life.

[0:00-2:30] Opening & Core Question

• Key Phrase: "Failure doesn't happen TO you, it happens FOR you"
• What separates those who give up vs. those who use failure as fuel
• Real estate market challenges as opportunities for growth

[2:30-5:45] The Truth About Failure

• Key Phrase: "Failure isn't a verdict, it's intelligence"
• Personal stories of business ventures, investments, and relationship setbacks
• Connection to David Bayer's "A Changed Mind" philosophy
• External reality reflects internal reality

[5:45-9:15] Three Purposes of Failure

1. Course Correction - Life recalculating your route (GPS analogy)
2. Revealing Subconscious Programming - Exposing limiting beliefs
3. Expanding Your Identity - Building who you want to become

[9:15-15:30] The Failing Forward Framework

Step 1: Extract Intelligence (48-hour rule)

• What did this teach me about myself?
• What did this teach me about my approach?
• What subconscious beliefs does this reveal?

Step 2: Shift Internal State

• Key Phrase: "You cannot solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created it"
• Embodying new identity before seeing results
• Reference to Dr. David Hawkins' "Letting Go"

Step 3: Take Aligned Action

• Acting from new identity, not old patterns
• Key Phrase: "What would the version of me who already has this success do right now?"

[15:30-18:45] Why Setbacks Happen

• Viktor Frankl quote: "Choose one's attitude in any given circumstances"
• Purpose may include developing empathy, removing from wrong situations, revealing strengths
• Operating from belief there's always a reason

[18:45-21:00] Your Action Steps

1. Apply framework to current setback
2. Extract intelligence and identify programming
3. Define who you need to become
4. Take aligned action from new identity

[21:00-22:30] Closing & Key Takeaways

• Reframe failure as intelligence and redirection
• Use three-step framework consistently
• Key Phrase: "Your comeback is always one decision away"
• Motto: "Be awesome and help somebody"

• David Bayer - "A Changed Mind" methodology
• Viktor Frankl - Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist
• Dr. David Hawkins - "Letting Go"

Michael Fanning
Email: [email protected]
Podcast: Windermere Coaching Minute

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