Extraordinary people

In 2005, Michele Hermansen began a journey that consumed her mind and soul and would leave her changed for life. In her job as her company's vice president of national sales, Michele traveled the US with many Fortune 500 executives.

She maintained a strict, almost obsessive control of her life and emotions until African villagers helped her burst from the armor with which she had surrounded herself. Michele was drawn to Tanzania to help members of a small village to improve day-to-day life. Unexpexcted Journeys (www.mhermansen.com) is the candid account of a life changed.

It is the story of the incredible potential that exists within each of us. In Unexpected Journeys, Michele's passion is expressed through her photojournalism. Each photo tells an emotional story that needs few words.

She sent me her book last week and it is stunning and moving. Michele is a club fearless member and therefore knows how to immediately convert, as she said in her note accompanying the book, "a dream into a project."

Fearless people are not out there dreaming. They are working on projects.

* * * * * *

George Simon is 86. He has had two major heart surgeries in his life and just about every doctor he ever went to told him that if he kept racing he would die. Needless to say, he didn't listen to any of them. He's having the time of his life.

"I don't want to just live longer," he said. "I want to live longer for the right reasons." So he runs every morning, writes his life stories for an adult-school class at the Reseda One Generation Senior Center every  week, visits friends as often as he can, and meets with his track group every Sunday at UCLA. "As long as the passion still flickers and you have the ability to stoke the embers," he said. "There is always the chance to bring back a roaring flame."

That reminded me that the first working title for the book Reinventing Yourself was Set Your Life On Fire.

* * * * * * *

From Julie Blake:

Club Fearless has helped me stop trading my aliveness for survival – it has been a catalyst that has helped me choose being fully present and ALIVE instead of living a life worrying about what others may think of me. This kind of fearlessness is the ultimate freedom and this is what Club Fearless has to offer.

As Steve Chandler says “There is a fearless state that is simple joy - the joy of love, the relaxation that is fearlessness… Being fearless is absolute, relaxed, inner peace, relaxation, connection to the universe, happiness, deep happiness---not surface pleasure. And there's no thought of fear. There's no feeling of fear whatsoever. There's no idea of fear.”

I am deeply grateful to Steve Chandler for creating Club Fearless and for teaching me how to take graceful action from a place of love, creation and fun! Join the Club… www.ClubFearless.net transform fear into love and your life into freedom.

Julie Blake
The Solopreneur Coach
www.GotCourage.com

* * * * * * *

My Fifth Coaching Prosperity School (I can't believe this will be the fifth one...I'd only planned to do one.......but they have been VERY successful in teaching coaches the art of client acquisition and practice-building)..... it starts August 20/21 in Phoenix and has been sold out for a long time but now has an opening because of someone who was unable to attend. If you are interested in that experience, please email me immediately. It will be filled in the next 48 hours and I've had a number of candidates apply already. [email protected]. The fee is $9,000 and if you are not prepared to make that back the first two weeks you are in the program (it's a six month program) do NOT apply. I want only committed people in this school who will be role models for the other coaches.

Comments

[history of connecticut]

There are a lot of extraordinary people we can all learn a lot from. Not just those famous people we can always see on television. When I went to church yesterday, we had this pastor from Uganda who continued to share the gospel even if he was attacked and his face was destroyed by other people. It's inspiring to keep on learning from these people.

[Grace]

Here are some fallacies in Pavlina's self-proclaimed faoums article Do It Now where he claims to graduate in 3 semesters with 2 degrees and advises other people to do risky things like overload their credits to 3-4 times the average courseload and work a full-time job while doing it:- Pavlina claims he has lots and lots of AP credits in one of his articles. These are basically college credits received in high school. With the number he had, most people can graduate in 2 years or less.- He went to college for a year at UC Berkeley and earned one year of credit. This further reduced his workload.- He went to a school that accepts CONVICTED FELONS. It obviously wasn't very rigorous or hard!- His degrees were in computer science and math. They have the same requirements mostly. If you're doing computer science, you don't need to many extra credits to get a degree in math.- His degree was in computer science and he himself claims to have been programming since the age of 10! Obviously it wasn't hard for him when he was competing in classes against other convicted felons who were new to programming computers.- He provides absolutely NO PROOF. - And much more.Steve Pavlina is a sorry excuse for a human being and it's really a shame that some people followed the above advice..

[Regnald]

Way to go Scott. Your a wonderful guide, I eeojynd learning and working with you as guides in the past. There couldn't be a more professional Leader on the job!!! Scott teaches, traines, shares stories, and has a heck of alot of FUN!!! While keeping upmost safety for the group at hand at all times.

[coach outlet]

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.*

[Account Deleted]

excellent article on reorganising life, thru systems and synergy,very scientifically proved, thank u steve ,
thank u buckminister