How I Cracked the MVP Code

 From Classroom Lessons to Life's Success Code

The MVP Code was born out of the classroom. It started in 1994, when Professor Marion Weldon at Edmonds Community College in Lynnwood, Washington, introduced my class to a video by Jack Canfield titled Self-Esteem and Peak Performance. Believe me, I watched that video more than 100 times because I wanted to make sure my brain—especially my subconscious mind—absorbed enough information to build personal and professional success in the future.

From that moment, I understood the power of having a mission and a plan. But my journey neither started nor ended there.

In 1993, I learned the value of bold action when I earned a scholarship to study in the United States. Yet my lesson in action began much earlier—back in 1978, when my father advanced me to the next grade without a passing mark. Don’t ask me how he did it. That challenge pushed me to reclaim my right to be among the elite students in all my classes from that point on. I say “reclaim” because I used to be a top student when I started, but after they made me skip two classes, I failed the class twice. But my dad was convinced that I was a smart kid.

I also discovered the depth of commitment and the power of action through my father’s own example, when he personally cared for his daughter at home after a devastating experience at the general hospital in Haiti. He was able to save her life by taking action at the right time.

Later, in management classes, I was taught about the importance of a vision statement, particularly for businesses. Still, something was missing. And I began to think of building a system inspired by business management techniques that could also help people in personal development.

That missing piece—passion—found me in 2005 during a conversation with a mortgage prospect who shared a quote from the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. I was driving when the inspiration struck—this was the final piece. From all these experiences, I connected the dots.

I realized that true success requires five essential steps: Mission, Vision, Passion, Plan, and Action. That’s how I cracked what I now call The MVP Code—a blueprint for living with purpose and achieving extraordinary success. Since I was always committed to contributing to personal development, I came to understand that a mission must be tied to solving a problem to build a better society and a brighter world—while also becoming a better person. I realized that the MVP model makes both the human and the world better.

Today, I call it The MVP Code, The Leadership Code, or The Success Code.

I can't wait to deliver one of the MVP Code speeches at your next event. Your workforce, your organization's members, and stakeholders at large will greatly benefit from it.