Michel Fortin Interview Part 5 of 5

Michel Fortin: If you look at the laws and rules and all that won­der­ful stuff, they do exist for a pur­pose. And I under­stand that. But I also believe in edu­ca­tion because the more you edu­cate peo­ple the more you will change the world rather than forc­ing it to change. So, if you’re going to help out some­body in their own lives you need edu­ca­tion. If you’re going to help out peo­ple to real­ize maybe they are bad peo­ple and they’ve done hurt to oth­ers edu­ca­tion is the answer.

It’s not pros­e­ly­tiz­ing. It’s not try­ing to argue with them. It’s just teach­ing them and teach­ing them until they’re ready to be taught and they’re ready to change. I’ve met a lot of peo­ple who change their lives because they’ve learned and they’ve decided to learn and that’s the key. Edu­ca­tion is prob­a­bly the most pro­found answer I can give to that ques­tion. It’s just education.

Ralph Zuran­ski: What do you think about the “In Search of Heroes” pro­gram and its impact on youth, par­ents and busi­ness people?

Michel Fortin: Well, that’s the point. This is exactly what it is. What do you think it’s doing? It’s edu­cat­ing. This is exactly why I love this pro­gram and I was one of the first peo­ple to actu­ally be fully aware of it and fully aware of my poten­tial con­tri­bu­tion to this program.

I do believe that this pro­gram is not just a point of going out there and being heroes. It is going out there to teach other peo­ple the power of being a hero. It edu­cates them and then makes changes in their lives and the lives of the peo­ple around them. This will grow exponentially.

Ralph, you’ve seen the movie “Pay it For­ward” haven’t you?

Ralph Zuran­ski: Yeah.

Michel Fortin: That’s my point. You don’t nec­es­sar­ily have to be a hero or you don’t nec­es­sar­ily have to get some­body to become a hero. All you have to do is to edu­cate oth­ers on how pow­er­ful it is to become one. If they do become one, then they do it to oth­ers and then they do it to oth­ers and then they do it to oth­ers. It’s one huge multi-​​level mar­ket­ing process.

Ralph Zuran­ski: What are the things par­ents can do that will help their chil­dren real­ize they can be heroes and make a pos­i­tive impact on the lives of others?

Michel Fortin: Well, if I had to, if I could boil it down, I think I said two core actions or two core activ­i­ties on this call. They are teach and listen.

Michel Fortin: How can par­ents make changes in the lives of their kids — the first thing, of course, is to listen.

A lot of the strife that we have in today’s world, I believe, and I’m a firm believer, is because we are all so busy with the goings-​​on in our lives. We don’t stop and lis­ten as much as to our own selves and as much as to the peo­ple around us and more impor­tantly to the kids in our lives… if you take a chance to sit down and just lis­ten! And, the sec­ond part, is to teach, to educate.

Teach­ers are prob­a­bly the most under­rated peo­ple in our soci­ety, the most under­rated pro­fes­sion in our soci­ety. I’m a big believer in teach­ers. I mean, I used to be one. I’m a teacher right now, being a copy­writ­ing coach as much as a moti­va­tional speaker or what­ever you want to call it, but it’s all teach­ing. That’s all it really is. It’s not moti­va­tion. It’s not all that stuff. It’s teach­ing. So, yeah, that would be those two fun­da­men­tal activities:listen and teach.

Ralph Zuran­ski: If you had three wishes for your life and the world that would instantly come true, what would they be?

Michel Fortin: That I would, well the first wish is that I wouldn’t have any wish. I believe in just being. This might sound a lit­tle “woo-​​woo” to some peo­ple, but I don’t want any wishes because I just want to enjoy my life now. I don’t want to wake up at 67 years old and look back on my life and say is this it? And then those are the times that you wish.

Those are the times when you real­ize what you’ve done wrong. No need to wish; just do. Don’t wish for some­thing now. Just be!. And then you enjoy the process. Then when you are 67 you won’t need to have any wishes because you’re going to look back and say I’m happy. I’m sat­is­fied. I’m ful­filled. I did what I needed to do. I did what I loved to do.

The sec­ond wish would be that more peo­ple fol­lowed those two things I men­tioned ear­lier, to lis­ten and to teach. And the only way that I can do that is not nec­es­sar­ily to wish for it but to actu­ally do it myself.

The more you actu­ally lis­ten and teach your­self, the more you’re actu­ally teach­ing other peo­ple to lis­ten and to teach. The third one is a lit­tle hard for me because I don’t wish for much.

Michel Fortin: I wish that if peo­ple lis­ten­ing to this call found some grain of some­thing that helps them, whether it’s at that very moment or later in their lives. It doesn’t mat­ter. To me that would be the one wish I have.

Ralph Zuran­ski: Those are won­der­ful wishes and I just really appre­ci­ate your time in answer­ing these ques­tions and just shar­ing your wis­dom with the world. I just can’t tell you how much I appre­ci­ate you.

Michel Fortin: Oh, same here, Ralph, same here. I think that we are both kin­dred spir­its. You know, the thing is when we meet at sem­i­nars some­times and we just dis­cuss some of the things that are going on in our lives like you and your par­ents and all that stuff, the fact is that it’s not that I just stand there and take time to lis­ten to you, but you also do that to me.

You are the per­fect embod­i­ment of every­thing I spoke about so the whole point is I appre­ci­ate you as much and I appre­ci­ate what you are doing with this pro­gram, Ralph, this is a great pro­gram and I wish you the most, the best.

Ralph Zuran­ski: Well, I thank you for that. You offer to help in the early part of the pro­gram really inspired me. I have been work­ing on the pro­gram for 13 years.

Michel Fortin: I under­stand absolutely.

Ralph Zuran­ski: And I just want to thank you again.

Michel Fortin: You’re most welcome.

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