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Wake Up, Jump into Your Life Seminar

Monday, September 17th - 8:00 am - 2:00 pm (Lunch on your own)

• Live the life you've dreamed of!
• Create in your life from a position of power!
• Create the culture in your business that would empower your whole team!
• Lose the victim state, become a powerful creator.
• Wake up to who you really are!
• Take your company to the next level!

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Cost until September 3, 2007: $295 with $50 non-refundable Registration Fee to cover materials. After September 3rd: Cost will be $395 plus $50 non-refundable Registration Fee to cover materials.

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When the s_ _ t hits the fan, who turned the fan on anyway?
By Steve Lentini

"How am I looking at things?" and "Can I look differently at things," are two questions that I have been asking myself. I am getting used to asking these questions of myself as I see how my view is affecting outcomes.  

Who is this that is looking at things? Who is this guy anyway? I am the common denominator in all the events of my life. I am the one constant.

When I think of this, it eliminates the part of me that is the victim. When the s_ _ t hits the fan, who turned the fan on? I did. 

Ok, knowing that and doing something about it is challenging because for me, it means being aware and awake enough to look at things differently than I have. To create something new, I have to "notice" my tendencies to be a reaction. As Dr. Rao of Columbia University points out, "we must develop the observer state of mind in ourselves to begin to change our reactions." How many people actually reach that point? For me, I have been in a training program for seven years that teaches people to be "awake" to one's reactions, and teaching it for five years in my Universal Sales Training classes. I catch myself being a reaction in parts of every day. I am grateful to be noticing that.

Physicists now say that the observer, in experiments with particle accelerators, affect the outcome of those experiments. You are the observer in your life affecting the outcome of situations whether you are awake enough to consciously choose a path or not.

Here are some suggestions for developing a new view, looking at things differently;

1. Work on developing an observer state... a witness state as Dr Rao* likes to say... "the witness to your reactive state." Resolve to notice your tendency to react, to whom and to what over the next few weeks or for a month.

2. Journal those tendencies... write down to who and what you wanted to or did react to.

3. Look over those journal entries, after the test period... who and what pushed your buttons. Are the difficult people in your life on the list? Is your significant other on there? Your job, employees, traffic, lines, authority, etc... Now you have at least become aware of the who and what about your reactions.

4. Think consciously about a new way of looking at each of these people and situations. Change your view now. Begin, as each of these situations appear, to slow down enough to make a new choice. Watch with wonder as things change and you were the only thing that changed. Stop trying to change others... it's a waste of time.

5. Give space to others to be as they are. Since you cannot change them, you change and let the rest go. I don't have the energy to change anyone else and have spent a lot of time trying to do so in the past. Trying anything does not work let alone trying to change anyone else.

6. Shake things up in your life. Notice the actions that bring some discomfort or even some fear as you think of taking that action. DO THEM! A new view, a new way of looking includes taking some new actions. Where are you stuck in an old view, unwilling to change... you are not peat moss... get out of the bog...!

7. Ask those around you for their thoughts about how you could look at things differently... (make sure it's those that love you and have no agenda except to help you grow).

8. Have fun, play with the changes... don't take life too seriously. Just being awake enough to notice and make changes will bring change.

9. Be grateful for now, for all you have and for all you have created up to this point. Nothing is out of order in a Universe and this is true in our lives. Being grateful for where we are means that we will be grateful for all that comes. If you are not grateful now, you will not be grateful when... you will just be stuck in the past or planning a future and you will miss the gift of now.

If you work on noticing and changing how you look at things, you won't care who turned the fan on, you will have gotten an air conditioner!

Gratefully yours,
Steve

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