It was a successful first Awakened Life Seminar… and one of the big hits was the extensive working of the Dream>Vision>Goals>Plans>Action process.
For those of you in the Men’s Mastery Course, the P3E Project or Awakened Life, or anyone that is interested in skillfully giving 100%, here are some resources that I have found for thinking big.
1. 12 month, 4 month and 2 month wall calendars. Remarkable Calendars offers 3′ by 4′ wall calendars, about $40 each. Wall Calendars claims to have the largest at 10′ wide and about 4.5′ high, priced at about $340. Big price difference. At-A-Glance, probably the most well known, has 2′ by 3′ standard sizes at about $30 each.
2. GTD Large Work Flow Poster is the next level of organization from productivity expert, David Allen. This, along with one of the above calendars, will be my next important productivity investments.
But even with the best ideas, tools and techniques, it it still up to you to put in the study time, to upgrade your mind first, so that you can integrate a new way of being, then thinking, then doing.
How d0 you make the shift into increased ability to use these tools?
How do you get the focus and the drive in the first place?
Stay tuned for more questions to focus and educe the drive within you!
One of the greatest personal development gurus of all time. Phenomenal Success Principles Detailed In Precise Language. Woo Hoo! Can’t beat that.
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One of the greatest feel good dance scenes of all time. Oh yeah! Put that in your pipe and smoke it! Shake it, Shake it, Shake it. Move that body nice and sweet and sexy!
Basically, they are a bunch of foodies, that are geeked out on health and nutrition and want to share all the cool stuff that they have learned with other people. They get massive results because they have learned the fundamentals of success.
How do they help people?
Health counselors, in this case, graduates from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, are really success counselors. The only way to change habits like diet and lifestyle is to use the great success principles of the ages. Some have used these in business, others in relationships. Health counselors then are organized around health, but are applying the fundamental principles of success.
What are the principles that successful health counselors use?
Goal setting – How to set and reach goals
Emotional Fitness – How to relate to, work with and direct emotional health
Self Love – What do people with high self-esteem do?
Persistence – They teach clients how to keep going when they fail
Faith – How do you cultivate belief that you can succeed?
Balance – This is the root of health
Support – All successful people in any endeavor get support
Action – Consistently, Constantly, moving forward
Accountability – The client is firmly but lovingly held accountable
You can see that a big part of health counseling has nothing to do with nutrition or exercise, even though those are fundamental to our profession.
If you are looking for a way to improve your health, a health counselor is one of the most qualified people to spend time with. Their education in nutrition is cutting edge. The only school in the world teaching all the major dietary theories. They’ll help you find the diet and lifestyle choices that work for your unique needs. It’s not a “one size fits all” approach.
But more importantly, a health counselor is trained to understand the dynamics of success.
So, if you have succeeded in many areas of life and you understand the foundation of these success principles, and you are ready to get your health up to the level that you want, check out a health counselor.
Today I shed my old skin which hath too long suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity.
Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.
Today I will pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest and fullest vines in the vineyard, for these were planted by the wisest of my profession who have come before me, generation upon generation.
Today I will savor the taste of grapes from these vines and verily I will swallow the seed of success buried in each and new life will sprout within me.
The career I have chosen is laden with opportunity yet is fraught with heartbreak and despair and the bodies of those who have failed, were they piled one atop another, would cast its shadow down upon all the pyramids of the earth.
Yet I will not fail, as the others, for in my hands I now hold the charts which will guide me through perilous waters to shores which only yesterday seemed but a dream.
Failure no longer will be my payment for struggle. Just as nature made no provision for my body to tolerate pain neither has it made any provision for my life to suffer failure. Failure, like pain, is alien to my life. In the past I accepted it as I accepted pain. Now I reject it and I am prepared for wisdom and principles which will guide me out of the shadows into the sunlight of wealth, position and happiness far beyond my most extravagant dreams, until even the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides will seem no more than my just reward.
Time teaches all things to he lives forever, but I have not the luxury of eternity. Yet, within my allotted time I must practice the art of patience, for nature acts never in haste. To create the olive, king of all trees, a hundred years is required. An onion plant is old in nine weeks. I have lived as an onion plant. It has not pleased me. Now I wouldst become the greatest of olive trees and, in truth, the greatest of salesman.
And how will this be accomplished? For I have neither the knowledge nor the experience to achieve greatness and already I have stumbled in ignorance and fallen into the pools of self-pity. The answer is simple. I will commence my journey unencumbered with either the weight of unnecessary knowledge or the handicap of meaningless experience. Nature already has supplied me with knowledge and instinct, far greater than any beast in the forest and the value of experience is overrated, usually by old men, who nod widely but speak stupidly.
In truth, experience teaches thoroughly yet her course of instruction devours men’s years so the value of her lessons diminishes with the time necessary to acquire her special wisdom. The end finds it wasted on dead men. Furthermore, experience is comparable to fashion. An action that proves effective today, will be impractical and unworkable tomorrow.
Only principles endure and these I now possess, for the laws that will lead me to greatness are contained within the words of these scrolls. What they will teach me is more to prevent failure than to gain success, for what is success other than a state of mind? Which two among a thousand wise men will describe success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man’s inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.
In truth, the only difference between those who fail and those who succeed lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which will proceedeth all others is I will form good habits and become their slave. When I was a child, I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men. I have surrendered my free will to the years of accumulated habits and the past deeds of my life have already marked out a path which threatens to imprison my future. My actions are ruled by appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love, fear, environment, habit and the worst of these tyrants is habit. Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit, let me be a slave to good habits. My bad habits must destroyed and new furrows prepared for good seed.
I will form good habits and become their slave.
And how will I accomplish this difficult feat?
Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one that will bring me closer to success. For it is another of natures laws that only a habit can subdue another habit. So, in order for these written words to perform their chosen task, I must discipline myself with the first of my new habits which is as follows.
I will read each scroll for thirty days in this prescribed manner, before I proceed to the next scroll.
First, I will read the words in silence when I arise.
Then, I will read the words in silence when I have partaken of my mid day meal.
Last, I will read the words again just before I retire at day’s end, and most important, on this occasion I will read the words aloud.
On the next day I will repeat this procedure, and I will continue in like manner for thirty days. Then, I will turn to the next scroll and repeat this procedure for another thirty days. I will continue in this manner until I have lived with each scroll for thirty days, until my reading has become habit.
And what will be accomplished with this habit?
Herein lies the hidden secret of all of man’s accomplishments. As I repeat the words daily they will become part of my active mind. But more important, they will also seep into my other mind, that mysterious source that never sleeps, that creates my dreams and often makes me act in ways that I do not comprehend.
As the words of these scrolls are consumed by my mysterious mind I will begin to awake, each morning with a vitality I have never known before. My vigor will increase, my enthusiasm will arise, my desire to meet the world will overcome every fear I once knew at sunrise, and I will be happier than I have ever believed possible to be in this world of strife and sorrow.
Eventually, I will find myself reacting to all sitations which confront me as I was commanded in the scrolls to react, and soon these actions and reactions will become easy to perform, for any act with practice becomes easy.
Thus a new and good habit is born. For when an act becomes easy through repitiion it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure to perform it is man’s nature to perform it often. When I perform it often it becomes a habit and I become its slave and since it is a good habit this is my will.
Today I will begin a new life.
And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard my new life’s growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved, nor can I substitute another for it. I must not, I will not, break this habit of daily reading from these scrolls and, in truth, the few moments that I spent each day on this new habit are but a small price to pay for the happiness and success that will be mine.
As I read and re-read the words in the scrolls to follow, never will I allow the brevity of each scroll, nor the simplicity of these worlds to treat these words lightly. Thousands of grapes are pressed to fill one jar of wine, and the grapeskin and pulp are tossed to the birds. So it is with these grapes of wisdom from the ages. Much has been filtered and tossed to the wind. Only the pure truth lies distilled in the words to come. I will drink as instructed and not spill a drop. And the seed of success I will swallow.
Today, my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not, for today, I am a new man with a new life.
If you work for yourself, I highly recommend reading through this book. I recently bought the Audio book of Og Mandino reading it and it is just lovely.
Use this when you want to change stubborn patterns of thought and behavior that may be damaging your well-being.
Today, I determine what I think.
Today, I determine what I feel.
I step up to accomplish the seemingly impossible.
I give myself all that I need.
I treat myself well.
I give myself care and support.
I want what I really want.
I live with my brilliance.
I give myself the best life.
I am kind to myself.
I give myself the opportunity to thrive.
I give myself permission to be fabulous.
I give myself permission to be phenomenal.
I allow myself to move into the experience of complete and total fulfillment of my potential.
Be willing to accept the thing you fear most.
Not want it, not intend it, not create it, not act on it.
Remove the projected tape loop of fear by pulling the plug on the unresolved emotional issue fueling the whole thing.
Practice The Truth That You Know
Get Ongoing Support
If You Are Confused and Frustrated, You Are About To Learn / Synthesize Something Great
The Outer Game of Success
Focus On A Cycle of Accomplishments, Actions, Accountability with Clear Outcomes, Obstacles and Opportunities.
Ask Questions To Create Breakthroughs
Persistent, Consistent Action and Clear Intent Over Time Leads To Unequivocal Mastery
Stories, Role Playing, (Any playful activity) and Multi-Sensory Interaction Help Us Learn Efficiently and Effectively.
Practice The Truth That You Know
Get Ongoing Support
A Consistent Tool For Coaching Power, Poise and Confidence
Practice The 4 Gateways Model: Questions, Play, Stories In Your Coaching
Use The *Principles of Inner and Outer Game of Success In Your Own Life
Integrate The Coaching Model and The Personal Practices Into A Seamless Continuum Of Foundation Life Principles.
Live Under The Aegis of The Power of Principles, Humility, Willingness, Honesty, Persistence, etc.
Practice The Truth That You Know
Get Ongoing Support
*Principle: a fundamental force of nature, as in the principle of yin and yang, an underlying law in system of life, a standard of moral or ethical decision making.
~A force. A standard. A Law.
Success Equation:
1. Hard Work~ “it is all hard work, nothing comes easily, but I have a lot of fun,” Rupert Murdoch,
2. Passion~ I love what I do and would pay to do it. It gets me out of myself.
3. Good~ to be successful get your nose down in something and get damn good at it, there is no magic, practice, practice, practice
4. Persist~ “Persistence is the #1 reason for our success,” Joe Krauss, co-founder of Excite, you have got to persist through failure, you have got to persist through CRAP, Criticism, Rejection, Assholes, Pressure
5. Serve~ “it was s privilege to serve as a doctor,” -Sherwood Newlan, professor of surgery, Yale
6. Focus, ” I think it all has to do with focusing yourself to one thing” -Norman Jewison,
7. Push~ “push yourself physically, mentally, you gotta’ push, push, push. -David Gallo, Marine Scientist, push yourself, through shyness and self doubt, pain and discomfort,
8. Ideas~ “I had an idea, founding the first micro computer software company,” -Bill Gates, software guy,
9. Support – Do you expect Michael Jordan to play with out a coach? Is his coach a better player?
10. Evaluate saboteurs – Who or What throws you off course.
~from Richard St. John 3 minute presentation at TED
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