Living powerfully, what will it take to defy the odds?

living powerfullyLiving powerfully, what will it take to defy the odds?

Do you live powerfully? If the answer is yes, then I can tell you that you have a strong self-esteem.

What is your self-worth?
And I don’t mean how much you want to make an hour, a day, a week, or a year. What you want has nothing to do with self-worth!

Self-worth also has nothing to do with what you know, what you can do, what other people think you can do or can’t do. Self-worth is how much you think, deep inside, when the chips are down, when life looks hopeless, how much do you think you are worth then? Continue reading

When it comes to your life, Are you a race car driver or…

race car driverWhen it comes to your life, Are you a race car driver or a hop-into-the car grocery shopper
Said in another way: If Your Life Were A Car, Who Is Driving Your Life?

This article is about your relationship with your life. It is fundamental, it is at the root of you never amounting to all you can be, it is at the root of why most people can only evolve a little bit in a lifetime (many go backwards!)

Mastering this area of life is the difference between a winner and a loser, and it is so subtle, that without someone pointing it out to you, you would notice no difference.

Let’s start at the beginning: in life you accomplish some stuff (right?) and don’t accomplish some other stuff. You win some races, and you lose some others.

Let’s call all the stuff that you get done an accomplishment, and all the stuff that you don’t (but would like to have done) stuff that you don’t accomplish. OK? Continue reading

What does reading your email do to you…

I am working on something important to me. In fact two things I have two things I am working on: what I teach and how to put myself in the position to have more people to teach… These are important things to me.

So I get up, as always, shuffle to my computer, make my first come of tea with hemp and butter, and tackle my students’ emails…

But then I make a mistake. I look at my email from Medium, and I can feel as I am being dragged away from what is important to me. I am not on the strait and narrow… I am on someone else’s agenda.

And although that agenda may be informative, helpful, close to mine… it is still their agenda… and the further I go from what is important to me, the harder it will be to find my way back there.

If you are in the 67 step coaching program, what you said with that, signing up, that what is important to you is becoming all you can be, by doing tiny steps converging in a life worth living.

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On growing as a person, on getting guidance, on learning

bits and pieces on growthI wrote this article five years ago. I never published it… Enjoy.

  • I am using my squeamishness to learn from it.
  • How I find the next leg of our journey.
  • I turn a controversy into a guidance.
  • How I keep on growing… and you could too… but you forget to do it.

I always take a mental note when I quit watching a certain movie. A movie that until that point I liked…

Today that diligence in watching has led me to a rule, and a principle I didn’t know about.

I am trying to remove a rule every day… this is a new practice I’ve started)

I can’t tolerate, can’t watch, can’t stomach someone putting mind altering drugs, heroin, crack, etc. in their bodies.

It has something to do with my ancestry. Being of a tribe who, unless we were aware, and awake, and beware, were killed, annihilated, burned to the ground.

I probably take it to the extreme.

In 1970 I was offered two full ride scholarships to Princeton, and another University I didn’t even consider. I spent almost a year trying to decide, and in the end the usual scene from an American movie: the husband arrives home. Puts down his hat and walks to the drink cabinet, makes two drinks and walks to his wife and says, then: hello.

Really, I did not want to study in a country that was running from being sober, from being aware, from being all there.

I am not against drinking… I just don’t drink. And don’t want to deal with people who like to live in unreality.

It is mighty strange, if you ask me how I ended up with nearly every client and student a TLB 1.

Freud says in Civilization And Its Discontents:

The life imposed on us is too hard for us to bear: it brings too much pain, too many disappointments, too many insoluble problems. If we are to endure it, we cannot do without palliative measures. (As Theodor Fontane told us, it is impossible without additional help.)

Of such measures there are perhaps three kinds:
–powerful distractions, which cause us to make light of our misery,
–substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it, and
–intoxicants, which anaesthetize us to it.

Something of this sort is indispensable. Voltaire has distractions in mind when he ends his Candide with the advice that one should cultivate one’s garden; another such distraction is scholarly activity.

Substitutive satisfactions, such as art affords, are illusions that contrast with reality, but they are not, for this reason, any less effective psychically, thanks to the role that the imagination has assumed in mental life.

Intoxicants affect our physical constitution and alter its chemistry.

It is not easy to define the position that religion occupies in this series. We shall have to approach the matter from a greater distance.

Now, after reading again Freud’s words: I have, I experience the same aversion to the other ‘palliative measures.’

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I am observing my students. Not much escapes my awareness.

One of the things I noticed, that what’s missing from the 67 step coaching program is what Landmark calls ‘existence’.

Existence is a process with which you keep alive your promises, and projects.

  • One existence system is making lists.
  • Another could be the life-map, that I planned to create a workshop around. Now I remember why.
  • I have an existence system that consists of notes scattered on my desk, and my calendar.

When I am clear that without putting something into the calendar it will never happen: I put it in the calendar. That way I have another choice… I often decide: I am not going to do this… and remove it. but it seemed like such a good idea.

So my students in the 67 step coaching program make a promise in almost every step, and then they forget about them.

Now, this is not a problem, unless without keeping the context alive also disappears.

Some of the foundational principles and distinctions, if they disappear, all the rest of the steps is for naught.

One of these is the law of 33%.

The law of 33% says that unless you spend 33% of your time with people who are ahead of you, who will challenge you, around whom you feel that you could be more: you won’t grow.

And almost everyone I know shies away from people ahead of them.

Why? Because of the relative devaluation of their “I”.

This is true about me too.

So here is a situation where your TLB will decide your future.

If you can’t tolerate feeling stupid, if you think feeling stupid means you are stupid, then you will avoid people who know more, who have conversations that have meat, who talk about ideas, not just people and stuff.

And no matter what you do, you’ll remain the same.

Unless you set your life up to be challenged, you won’t grow. In fact, you’ll grow backwards.

And saying I am your 33% is not a solution: I cannot be your whole 33%. You need to find people who are 10-15 years ahead of you… not 70-80-100.

I have a phone call every Sunday… even just listening in to that call, hearing me talk without trying to dumb it down, so you can understand, I can be part of your 33%.

I can’t find anyone live… so I sign up to courses… and expand myself from going from stupid (yes, me) to competent… and I do this courses back to back. And this is how I grow…

There could be a lot more growing for me… and I am contemplating a project where I can be the dummy. It will be fun.

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I had an altercation with the daughter of Dr. David Hawkins.

I could call her names, I would love to, but she is a lawyer… and I don’t like to be sued.

Anyway, the altercation was about the Map of Consciousness of her father… which is b.s. anyway. But it is eye candy: useless so people like it. I bet you like it too.

But what if there were something, like a chart, or an analysis tool you could use to actually raise your vibration, not just look at it and marvel.

What if…

He who is looking finds… or she, in this case. I asked for ‘levels of clarity’ and…

And to my surprise I found something, and I am in the process of making it available to you.

The biggest surprise is that it works with the senses, sensations… meaning: it helps you return to the Tree of Life, where life happens, not just the shadowplay (Maya), you have been living in.

I am going to test it. Because, although it feels right, I test everything…

So the first step in testing it, I will have a webinar. A Feelings webinar. This is to test the questions for feelings in a live environment where I can test how effective it is in putting you on the Tree of Life.

If it is effective, then I’ll probably create a program around it.

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The boy in striped pajamas – propaganda for what?

the boy in the striped pajamasThe boy in striped pajamas… I must be off my rockers, right?

If you have been reading my articles for any length of time, you know that movies are a fertile ground for me to see stuff about myself, about the nature of ego, etc.

This article I am going to write about The boy in the striped pajamas

Why? I trust my inner voice, and my inner voice has been doing two things today: made me sing the “Amazing Grace” and ponder about the ending of that movie.

So, what’s up with that movie? Great title, eh, the boy in striped pajamas, who would not want to watch that?!

Ever since I read the Ayn Rand book, Atlas Shrugged, my eyes have opened, and see things I didn’t consciously see before. Continue reading

The Quiver of Clarity in many many many words…

PS: Here is an email I got from a fellow coach, Terry Dean.

It’s brilliant, and although he never says the word ‘clarity’, the whole article is about clarity. Awareness. And accuracy. Read it. it’s good read.

I also identify with what he says what is his strength as a coach: being able to see what’s missing, and what is amiss… Amiss = not quite right; inappropriate or out of place.

  • He has a Mentoring Club, where he talks, and the members listen.
  • I have a coaching program that is daily individual conversations between me and the paying member.
  • Two different styles of coaching.
  • The result, alas, depends 100% on the person being coached. On their awareness, on their accuracy, and on their clarity. And, of course on their implementation, aka actions.

OK… here is the email he sent:

Last week I was talking to one of my clients about his long-term business plans.

Where did he want to be 3 years from now?

He saw a multi-million dollar company that was continually growing (he is already coming close to the million dollar mark now).

But he didn’t want to be the manager. Keeping everyone going in the right direction needs to be someone else’s responsibility.

His role would be the mad scientist coming up with discoveries behind the scenes.

Because that’s what he does best.

That’s when he feels most free.

He’s that slightly disheveled guy who’s kept in the back room.

Wouldn’t want him allowed out, or he might scare the ‘normal’ people.

He can’t stand the day-to-day humdrum.

He’s all about testing and tracking… figuring out what works and what doesn’t. Try a totally new mixture. That’s how he creates breakthroughs.

And he’s happiest when he gets to do that without distraction.

My goal is help him get there. It means putting the right team members and systems in place to make it happen.

When you first start a business, pretty much any kind of business, you wear a ton of hats.

You’re in charge of the products, the marketing, the customer service, the planning, and what feels like a million other things.

That’s why you feel so overwhelmed.

It’s too much.

You feel that first measure of freedom though. This is your thing. No longer are you working to make someone else rich.

That initial excitement can carry you through until you gain some momentum.

But you need to discover what your personal gifts are as soon as possible.

Out of all the activities you’re doing, which ones fit your skill set?

There are some things you’ll struggle with. No matter how hard you try to improve, you’ll never be all that great. You need to eliminate, automate, or delegate those activities.

But there are other activities which just seem to come naturally to you.

Not only are you excellent at them, but they also energize you.

They fulfill you.

You’ve probably heard experts talk about how you need to concentrate on $1,000/hour work. Focus on what brings in the money.

But here’s what most of them never talk about.

What you’re passionate about and gifted to do may not be the same thing that floats MY boat.

Over time I’ve discovered I have a talent for spotting the most critical issues that impact a client’s results…and helping them put together a simple focused plan to solve those problems.

I love taking a complex subject and boiling it down to the most important factors.

It’s what I do with my clients. It’s what I do in my products.

The more time I spend doing this, the more value I create for others.

Everyone will pile a bunch of ‘Should-Do’s’ on you. You should do this, that, and the other.

What you really need to do is find your natural talents. Then dedicate as much of your time toward them as possible. That’s where you’ll find freedom, fun, fulfillment, and finances.

In the Monthly Mentor Club, you get a bonus report called, ‘Six and Seven Figure Internet Lifestyles: Simple Lessons for Lifestyle Freedom From My Most Successful, Most Profitable, and Most Respected Clients.’

It talks about how my clients have created Internet Lifestyles they love.

And it gives you simple steps you can model. Your perfect lifestyle may not look like theirs, but you can follow some of the same systems to reach your goals.

Click here now if you want more freedom, fun, fulfillment, and finances…

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What are beliefs? And what keeps you from what you want?

Is there really such a thing as a belief?

One of the things that keep you stuck is the language that you use.

One of the words that definitely hand over the reins to someone else is the word belief.

I, personally, argue that such a thing even exists.

Approaching life, approaching reality, approaching tasks with inadequate tools, antiquated tools will lead to disaster, and that is where you, most of you, find yourself.

Lots of words, lots of books, lots of talking, but no advancement. Neither personally, nor as a race.

As a true empath, I actually see why.

You and everything you read is stuck on the surface. On the seeming working of the Universe, or in this case, the seeming working of a human.

If we dealt with computers, or cars, or even houses the way we deal with, try to fix, etc. humans, ourselves, our thinking, our behavior, we would go back to the stone age. Continue reading