DOING SOMETHING OR FEELING SOMETHING?

 

     Many many years ago, long before most of us were making a living, one of the most successful people of all time was W. Clement Stone. He was a leader of salespeople and a profoundly effective motivator.

      One thing that he would do with his team of people in the morning was to gather his team together and have them repeat (over and over) the phrase "Do it now!"  

       They would chant in unison! Do it now.  Do it now.  Do it now.  Do it now.  

       And his experience was that repeating that phrase again and again and again-"do it now, do it now, do it now" ... would actually put it inside their systems---the subconscious minds of his salespeople---a real urge, a little command in there, a little voice that would keep repeating that phrase throughout the day.

     You know how you get a song in your head and it just keeps coming up?  You can't get it out of your mind. Stone wanted his team to get that phrase onto the jingle track inside their brains. 

      DO IT NOW!

      So if it occurred to a sales person that day to contact someone in a business, they would think, "Oh, I should contact him.  He would be really good.  He would turn me on to some referrals," and then the little voice would then say, 'Do it now'.  

      And because the voice would say 'do it now' they would pick up the phone, they would contact that person right now.... and then something good would happen and a successful life would move right along.

      Instead of how most people do life, which is a series of putting things off. Which becomes the act of putting life itself off till later. ("I'll live when the time is more appropriate to do so.")

     The ultimate cure for procrastination and the ultimate driver of high productivity will be to DO THINGS NOW.

     There is another example of this kind of ACTION thinking and it is brutal, politically incorrect, insensitive and, therefore, right up my alley. I get in trouble every time I bring it up.  So, why not bring it up, then?   

    Here it comes.  

     I was reading my favorite British philosopher, Collin Wilson, and he was talking about psychology and Abraham Maslow and how the mind works. He was talking about depression.  

     And I know depression is kind of a sacred field now and people have specific drugs for it and family members who have encountered it and all that, so I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings; because what he said was brutal and insensitive, but he was making a point.  

    He was trying to make a point ... and he said the ultimate cure for someone's depression (if you have someone in the world who is depressed) is to throw that person down a flight of stairs.  

    When they get to the bottom of the stairs, they will no longer be depressed.  

    Now they will be something.  And it probably won't even be positive, but it won't be depression. That you see and imagine. (I am not recommending this. This is a mental imaginary exercise.)

    The depression will be gone.  

    Here's the point that he was trying to make---not to belittle depression.  He's trying to return people to the power of taking radical action---some kind of absurdly bold physical action. To WAKE THEM UP TO LIFE.

    So where does that bring us? Aside from being ticked off at the bottom of the stairs. Maybe to this question: Are you a doer or a feeler?  And this is an important question.  I'm not talking about your permanent personality that goes on and on or all the illusory pervasive, permanent patterns in your world because I don't believe in all that.  I'm talking about IN THIS MOMENT: are you a doer or a feeler?

      Or WITH THIS ISSUE, are you a doer or a feeler?  

      Let me give you an example.  So you wake up in the morning and you are thinking about going to the health club.  Maybe you even have a schedule where you have put in on your New Year's resolution to go to the health club three times a week. But now two days have gone by so this is your day to go to the club.  What do you do?  Do you check in with your feelings and find out if you feel like going?  Because if you do that, you are a feeler. That's your primary way of operation at least for this issue called the health club.  

    But what's beautiful about this; and what's beautiful about the whole idea of reinventing yourself, is that it doesn't have to be that way. If you don't want to choose that as a way of operating, you have another choice.

     In other words you could actually be a doer rather than a feeler and it would be up to you.  

     So, for example, you could have it on your calendar (8 AM health club) and you would simply DO THAT and it wouldn't matter how you felt.  You might have felt a little tired, you might have been up all night last night working on something, you might feel a cold coming on, you don't care, it's on the calendar and you do it and you check in with your feelings after you have done what you have done---not before.  

    So if that's how you do this --if that's how you operate---then in this issue called the health club, you are a doer.  You do it first and feel something (usually good) afterwards. 

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    Supercoach Rich Litvin (www.thatconfidenceguy.com) is among the eight wonderful coaches joining me April 1 and 2 in Scottsdale for my Coaching Prosperity School.......I have one more space open for this school. If you are interested email me immediately (stephendchandler@cs.com). Rich attended the school once before and has signed up again because of what this school does. It elevates client acquisition to an art form coaches can enjoy so that they serve people even more than they had before and the world becomes a braver, more creative place for them and their clients. It's the difference between transformation, a school that changes people and information, a school that makes fools out of the attendees. For, as the creative genius Nicholas Nassim Taleb has observed, "To bankrupt a fool, give him information." Information is not the missing piece.

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CALIFORNIA WOMEN PAY ATTENTION 

 

     I have referred some of you, in the past, to the wonderful workshops put on by Carolyn Freyer-Jones (pictured above) and Michelle Bauman (pictured below).

     If you are a woman and you live in California you will be glad to receive this special news. Recently a number of women contacted Carolyn and Michelle and they asked if they would offer a version of their coaching group that would meet during the week. They looked at this and saw that for many women, meeting during the week is a more supportive, Self-honoring choice in terms of how you work and how you handle your life.

    So now they are launching a NEW mid-week 4 month coaching group starting on Tuesday, May 3 in Los Angeles. One space is already filled and 9 precious spaces are available at this time.

     Please note: If you'd like to register or schedule a time to talk more about the group, email us as soon as possible at innerwow@yahoo.com. This new group will fill quickly and we want to make you and your call a priority.

Dates for the mid-week Live Workshops are:

· Tuesday, May 3

· Tuesday, May 31

· Tuesday, July 12

· Tuesday, August 16

    The group is limited to 10 women in support of each participant receiving a high level of support and attention. Each live workshop is 4.5 - 5 hours and will be held from 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. or 10:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

     4-month Coaching Program includes:

· Four live half-day workshops 
· Two personal one-on-one coaching calls
· Four group-coaching calls
· Unlimited email coaching from Carolyn and Michelle
· A high level of support and accountability to take an area of your life to a new level of growth and fulfillment
· Access to the wisdom and support of an extraordinary group of 10 women also committed to growth and expansion

     Tuition: 

     $1,800 paid in full or 4 payments of $500 each for a total of $2,000.

     I encourage you to contact Carolyn and Michelle asap to become part of this next group - e-mail them at innerwow@yahoo.com. They would love to talk with you! 

     "I have participated in the InnerWow 4-month coaching program twice. The first time was so valuable I was compelled to do it again.”

      "I knew I had to make some changes in my life. My work as a CEO was no longer supportive or fulfilling for me. I wanted to make room for a relationship, yet the time I contributed to my work made it improbable. I thought some additional support would be beneficial - I did not foresee the hugely positive impact the coaching group would have on my life. 

     "Much has changed externally - I finally said "no" to working in a non-supportive environment and I left my job. I said "yes" to a new lifestyle and I am now in a new home that almost matches my living vision! I am now dating and more important, I have created time in my life for dating. 

      "Internally, I deepened my trust of my own inner knowing; I have learned to recognize and honor feedback however it comes to me; I now see other possibilities; I have learned how to ask for support when facing a struggle or obstacle; I discovered the value of enjoying the process and detaching from the outcome. 

      "Some of these things seem so obvious - things we all "know", yet without the support, strategic coaching, and loving encouragement of Carolyn and Michelle, they were ways of being that I would not have made a real part of my life, let alone celebrate and acknowledge the progress and the results."

Gina Anistasi
Consultant

Michelle Bauman 

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"If the sun and moon should ever doubt,
they'd immediately go out."

            ~ William Blake

Comments

[Shishir]

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[Amy]

- Thank YOU Michelle! We have enjoyed wrnikog with you from day one and we are glad that you were open to a new perspective, it has made our work for you so much fun! We appreciate not only your business, but also the sweet photos you have captured of our own little ones! MTR is amazing!

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[G.E. Moon II]

Steve, thank you for the great reminder to, "Do It Now!".

Yours In Health!

G.E. Moon II
www.AbundantHealthCenter.com

[dan]

This is the kind of post that keeps me coming back to this blog. Bravo!

[Hank Uhlaender]

Happiness is growing on me like moss...I think happiness feeds on itself, it started with a single thought then a smile, before I knew it I was covered in the stuff!!!