Last night I listened to a 70 minute training call given by Jack Canfield. The call was also designed to present awareness for his upcoming seven-day “Breakthrough to Success” seminar to be held in August. http://www.CanfieldTrainings.com/2009. I am drooling because I would love to attend!
The call contained pieces of what will be covered at the seminar. I took lots of notes and made the mental commitment to complete his recommended exercises. I am going to type the notes for myself, and thought they may be helpful to you as well. Much of the information can be found in his book The Success Principles. Here are some of the highlights from his teachings last evening.
The Sedona Method: scan your body, head to toe. Note any sensation or feeling. Welcome it, the best you can. Feel it. Lean into it. Explore it. Examine it. Then ask yourself the following questions:
1) Could I let this go?
2) Would I let this go?
3) When?
Notice what has happened inside your body. Now repeat the entire process. Keep repeating the process multiple times. As layer after layer comes off, you can reach simplicity and bliss.
Take 100% responsibility for your life. The world is not responsible if you succeed or fail. You are. Say out loud (to lock this in your consciousness): “If it’s meant to be, it’s up to me.” Take control of these things: what you think, say, do, and imagine. E + R = O: event + response = outcome. The “R” is the response you are having to the way things are. If the outcome is not what you want, you have to change your behavior.
Vision (goals): need to be aligned with your purpose. See p. 23 in The Success Principles. One of Jack’s favorite resources: You Can Have It All by Arnold Patent. If you don’t experience joy, you are doing the wrong thing or doing it the wrong way. Vision is what purpose looks like once it is manifested.
Life Purpose Exercise:
1) Think of two unique personal qualities that most define you, or two qualities you most enjoy expressing.
2) What two ways do you most enjoy expressing those qualities when with others? (The two words should end in “ing.”)
3) Assume the world is perfect right now. What would that world look like?
4) Combine the prior three steps into your life purpose statement.
Clarify your goals. Four techniques:
1) Make an “Irritation List.” Walk through your house and write down things that aren’t the way you want it. Set a goal to accomplish these things – to build up your confidence to handle the big things. Do a weekend blitz.
2) Make a list of 101 goals you want to achieve before you die.
3) Write one breakthrough goal to accomplish in the next one year, a goal that will stretch and quantum leap you. Apply the “Rule of Five” every day, six days a week: do five steps every single day to move that goal along.
4) Vision – three goals in each of the following seven categories that you want to achieve and are willing to commit to in the next twelve months:
- Job/career
- Finance/money
- Relationships
- Health and fitness
- Fun and recreation
- Personal
- Contribution to the world
Take vision to goal: MTO – “Minimum,” “Target,” or “Outrageous”. Minimum puts people into momentum. Target is really where you want to be, but minimum helps get you there.
Every morning, visualize already reaching your goal. Feel it as already achieved. This practice sets up incubation in the subconscious mind and will be activating your RAS (reticular activating system). State the affirmation of your goal as already achieved. Be brief and specific. “I am —ing (a feeling word) ——-. Then add “This or something better” at the end.
I you have trouble with affirmations, or your mind tells you something negative when you say them, try afformations. Ask a “why” question, stating it as a positive. Example: “Why do I enjoy my work?” “Why am I —(fill in the blank with something positive).”
Create a vision board. Say, “I am so happy and grateful now that —- (fill in the blank).” Fill it out as if it is already in place. Write it out in detail, 250 words. Read it every morning, then close your eyes, visualize, and feel it. Feel the feeling as if you already have this.
“Chunk down the goal.” After you meditate, ask your subconscious to give you three specific action steps you could take today.
Jack described an 8 ½ x 11 “Strategic Action Form” to use for each goal that contains the following components:
1) Five lines for strategy. He gave the example of selling a book. Write five groups across and five ways down.
2) The next six or so lines write: Weakness. Solution. Weakness. Solution. Weakness. Solution.
3) Have a numbered list of twenty-five action steps. Across the page from the list have three columns: “Due Date,” “Delegate,” and “Done.” Check off each action item as it is completed.
Law of Attraction: the last six letters spell “action.” Get into ACTION! Use the Sedona Method to dissipate your fears. Ask, ask, ask. Fear of rejection holds us back. It is a numbers game. SWSWSW…some will, some won’t, so what. Rejection isn’t personal. “Oh what the heck, go for it anyway!” You won’t be any worse off if rejected. You haven’t lost anything.
Ask for feedback from anyone involved with the goal. Do not be afraid of feedback. If you don’t ask, you’ll be the only one who doesn’t know, and you are the only one who can fix it. Take that one next step. It is always darkest before the dawn.
