The Actionaut

March 16, 2010

Program your success like a computer

Filed under: Life Coaching and Skills,coaching — Tags: , , — Philippe Til @ 8:30 AM

The brain is the largest organ for perception, and the main one because it also contains the subconscious and the conscious. Change your perception, you can change the way you value something, for instance how you view your fitness progress or how you value investing in a training program with, say ME :)

Neurolinguistic programming patterns are nothing new. Advertisers, teachers, hypnotists, motivational speakers, sales people us some form of it to help you perceive value in a product you want, but may object to get out of fear (am I going to get my money’s worth?)

The concept of psycho-cybernetics is clearly illustrated in the video below. Watch it and map out your success. Don’t watch it and you’re faced with the poor choice to stay in the hole and not crawl out, or you can decide to spend 10 minutes of your time for something worthy, rather than a Facebook update, or chain spam email. I’ve even filtered the most important part for you, as this is a 4-part series, which you can choose to watch at your leisure later. This one has got what you need, as do I!

Invest in yourself, your health.

I’m even going to offer you something I’ve never offered before: a MONEY BACK guarantee.
Seriously, folks you have nothing to lose. If you follow my program, you will get results and your investment is backed by a guarantee even the Federal Government cannot offer!

If you landed on this post because of my email newsletter, you understand already quite well what’s at stake.

I hope to hear from you sooner than later!

February 1, 2010

Five Rings

Filed under: Life Coaching and Skills — Tags: , , , , , — Philippe Til @ 12:49 PM

The Winter Olympics are soon to start, and I am only using that as a clever misdirection to get your attention and allow you to find ways to enjoy your life from any vantage point!

Miyamoto Musashi, arguably the greatest Samurai of all time, expert at using 2 katanas (Japanese swords) at once, wrote in his masterpiece The Book of Five Rings (Bushido–The Way of the Warrior)
about 9 principles to follow, which happen to lead to a fully enlightened life.

I’ve learned these principles in Ninjutsu, and have been applying them my whole life. There are many translations, with varying wording, but they essentially mean the same thing. Here they are, slightly out of order (but that’s not what’s important here). You can click on the image also to get the book. Any manager, any martial artist, any businessman or simply anyone can read this series of strategies and essays and enjoy them!

1. Do not think dishonestly.
2. The way is in training.
3. Know the ways of all professions.
4. Become acquainted with every art.
5. Distinguish between gains and losses in worldly matters.
6. Develop intuitive judgment and understanding for everything.
7. Pay attention to trifles.
8. Perceive what cannot be seen.
9. Do nothing which is of no use.

I have these committed to memory. These suggestions come from observation and cover just about any aspect of life. Even if you think it doesn’t, it does. Just look deeper, or harder. The gap may be an inch wide, but it goes a mile deep!

Other fun book like that, though very powerful, that I suggest as a shelf mate is Sun-Tzu’s THE ART OF WAR

And if thinking differently, laterally is your bag, check out my post on Oblique Strategies at Josh Hanagarne’s web site www.worldsstrongestlibrarian.com.

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