Don't take the path to the dark side

      My friend Keith Johns, who runs the Myriad Music School in San Mateo, California, told me he was "Listening to a mind shift lesson this morning and being 37 years old with a 6 year old son, Star Wars is never far from the brain. Some of your teachings are very similar to that of Yoda, the Jedi master. I once heard an interview of Joseph Campbell talking about George Lucas. Lucas talked frequently with Campbell about the universalities of religion and spirit when developing his theme of the Force and Yoda’s teaching. I thought I would share a few of his best quotes. Perhaps you could use them when addressing a crowd of 30-somethings. Thanks again for all you do!"

     Keith then gave me a number of Yoda's quotes and the one I choose to use today is this marvelous one:

     “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

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ESCAPE THE RAT RACE?
    

 Jim Thompson sent me this email:

    Steve -

    Have you found any fear that is universal? I mean any one fear that everyone has. I have asked this question and have yet to find one. Makes me realize how much we scare ourselves.

    I read your club fearless emails and wonder how did he know that about me. It scares me because I wonder how you know what is going on in there!

    Keep up the great work, look forward to someday meeting you.

    ~Jim Thompson

I wrote back:

Dear Jim,

    I am told by a wise mentor gifted in NLP that the only fears we seem to be born with are the fear of falling, and the fear of loud noises.

    Other than those, we add them as we go based on the thoughts we believe. You are right, we scare ourselves!

    But we don't need to.

    Therefore: club fearless, so that the most possible people at the lowest possible price can see that and begin to unravel all these unnecessary additions to their lives.

   ~Steve

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     Once you are accepted, we will design our program together. You will attend as many of my seminars, keynotes and workshops as you wish. You will be certified by the end of the year to teach and present all my seminar material, and you will have the rights to all that content. You'll receive personal life coaching as well as business coaching from me throughout the year. The many other benefits to you will be discussed in our phone conversation. If you are interested in this program, send an email to me at: 100ways@compuserve.com and once I receive it, we will talk. I base my acceptance of an apprentice on his or her potential to become extremely successful in this work.

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Comments

[Freddie]

My favorite kind of story. I hate it when pploee stick to rules that mean nothing and everyone gets hurt in the long run. Perhaps Steve could have finessed his response with the boss a little more but his actions for the customer were right on. Every company should assess their policies regularly to make sure they still make sense.Julie Walraven | Resume Services recently posted..September 17, 2010 | 9:48 am

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