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1. DETERMINING YOUR LEGACY
How to create income/energy with your Unique Identity (UID) and grow your legacy!
Legacy: Synonymous with birthright, your legacy is a basic right that each of us has or is entitled to from birth; we are each entitled to live our dreams! In this lesson, PPSSM Practitioners go through a series of introspective drills that activate both left and right brain processes to identify and/or confirm their legacy. For many, recognizing what truly makes them feel alive, passionate and excited to be alive is an important first step to unlocking and releasing their creative potential.
When we live our legacy, we are perpetually invigorated and need only channel our energy/efforts with intelligently structured goals and sound planning. When we live our legacy, we quickly learn to honestly recognize which skills we have or would enjoy acquiring as part of our journey, and which skills or services are best acquired through the services of others. Merging forces with others who are living their legacy as they help you live yours is a mastermind principle that dramatically increases your chances of fulfilling your goals and your legacy. Your legacy is the source of your desires, and we always find reasons to support our desires. The forces of desire and reason produce our willpower and if willpower and legacy are in-tune, we effectively attract the necessary substance to the idea of our legacy, manifesting it in reality! This lesson alone could change your life forever!
Personal: Your personal life will come alive with bountiful energy when you find your legacy.
Professional: For many, their legacy and their profession become one and the same, giving them great willpower to complete each day as the move to fulfill their legacy. For those whose legacy and profession differ, finding your legacy makes professional pursuits a joy and a breeze because ultimately, they realize that their profession is a means to their desired end.
Spiritual: The spiritual life is a life of creation, of manifesting the Divine in the physical as reality. Anyone living their legacy is expressing Divinity, fulfilling their co-creative potential with, through and in the Divine!
2. YOUR HEALTH ~ YOUR LEGACY – MANAGING YOUR SELF
Let’s suppose for a moment that you were living your legacy, had an effective goal strategy, a good business plan and were financially liquid. What would it mean to you without your health? Wouldn’t it be frustrating to have great ideas, a great plan and a great business vehicle for executing your dreams, yet every day you woke up tired, relying on prescription drugs and addicted to sugar and caffeine? Unfortunately, even the most successful businessmen and women in the world are typically over-stressed, overweight and unhealthy. The difference is, they can afford better doctors and designer drugs. Many times in my career I’ve had millionaires and billionaires as clients who were at their wits end because they had everything they wanted in life, but their health! They could afford to buy anything for their children and grandchildren, but didn’t have the energy to travel to see them or even play with grandchildren once they arrived.
Those of you that are not free from obligations need your health and vitality, for ultimately, it is the wellspring from which all else flows in our physical life. Many of you are still in the creative process of identifying and building your legacy. This is a process that requires optimal health for optimal creative and rational thinking. In fact, all the great Socratic philosophers included a strenuous exercise regimen in their training because as Socrates said, "you have to be fit to think." Your physical body is not only a tool for your Soul, it is the biological interface for your emotional, mental and causal bodies. Think about it, If you give a great builder lousy wood to work with and lousy tools, what percentage of his potential will you be limiting him to? If you gave Michael Schumacher a Formula 1 race car with dirty oil, not enough water in the cooling system, hydraulic leaks and it was a little too fat, chances are good that even with his amazing driving skills, he wouldn’t be able to out perform the other drivers with fully functional vehicles. You are no different!
In this lesson, I will teach you the basics of How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy! You will gain the valuable insights of my book (How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!) as well as many other tips for learning to manage your self (self being a possessive here.) This lesson will be an introduction into what you must know to enjoy your journey and your legacy. We will look at the many layers of physical ~ emotional ~ mental and spiritual development that are directly linked to your health and how your entire being is supported optimally by optimal health. This one lesson alone could save you more than the cost of the whole year's training in drugs and related medical expenses!
Personal: As Byron Katie states, “we only sit, stand or lie down in life,” so the question that begs to be answered is, how do you want to feel while you do it? I regularly tell my students that you can’t give what you don’t have. Being a fact of life, your rational mind will soon realize that if you have a family, have important relationships, have a business to run or goals to accomplish, you health must come first!
Professional: Most professionals, by the nature of business, are in relationships. It is unlikely that anyone who is perpetually unhealthy will maintain good relationships because of the simple law of attraction, which says, like attracts like. If you want to fulfill your dreams, I will show you how to prevent your body from being a limiting factor on your otherwise good plans.
Spiritual: Your body and your health are both spiritual manifestations of your dominant thoughts and choices. For some, that is tough medicine to swallow, yet a little introspection will reveal that this is a reliable truth. The successful executive foremost knows how to how to manage the self and achieves peaceful detachment from having to achieve. Spiritually speaking, less than optimal health is a force the Soul allows into your life because ill health, pain, fatigue and psychological ills like depression and anxiety are all power steering for a soul, encouraging you to take responsibility for the gift the Universe has given you! While there are many paths to enlightenment, in this lesson, I will show you how to chart a direct journey that does not include unnecessary segues into illness!
3. GOAL SETTING (Physical, emotional, mental and spiritual goals)
Many people state that they don’t like to set goals because they have repeatedly not achieved them in the past. This leaves them feeling like a failure. I have analyzed the goals of hundreds of patients, athletes and students in my career. After exploring the goal setting methods used by those that gave up on goal writing, I can assure you that with coaching on how and why to write goals, their interest was renewed and their capacity to achieve magnified manifold!
In our third lesson we look at the different types of goals that can be written. We also look at different methods for effectively reinforcing your use of energy so that it facilitates accomplishing your goals. If you think of your legacy, the source of your willpower and goals, as a means of focusing and steering your creative forces, it quickly becomes clear that without a legacy, you lack a wellspring from which to draw Divine energy. Without goals, you have no means of guiding and directing your energy. The result can be seen every day in the news when reading about athletes, movie stars, rock stars and flash-in-the-pan business successes that acquired massive wealth (energy) only to lose it all due to lack of direction (goals) and a legacy!
Personal: Your pride in being human, your flow, the very bounce in your step is influenced by having a legacy and goals to direct your life~force (energy). When you love yourself, you love your legacy and achieve your goals. When you love your legacy and channel your energy with your goals, you have plenty of vitality passing through your self, therefore your personal experience is that of being truly alive!
Professional: Any professional endeavor is first a personal endeavor. Once you have your personal life tuned to your legacy, your professional life is but an expression of your personal life, for first you are a human being, then you are a professional!
Spiritual: Effective goal writing always improves your creative ability and your ability to manifest. The ultimate source of all energy, all that is, is Divine energy. That said, having goals and knowing how to effectively execute them merely allows more Divinity to pass through you, fulfilling your spiritual objectives. All that is physical, is first spiritual!
4. HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS PLAN
“But I’m not in business, I just have a job” you may be saying now. Or, you may be thinking, “I’ve already got a business going and don’t need a plan (or another one)." Let me assure you, everyone needs a business plan!
If you have a job, then you are a sole proprietor, and your boss is your best customer! For the sole proprietor working as an employee, or those in business under their own license, having a business plan serves to channel your life~force and your business life~force in the same way your personal goals do. In fact, many people’s personal goals are related to the lifestyle they want to live, the type of work they want to do, and how much money they want to make with their business or livelihood. Your business plan is essentially a subdivision of a well-developed goal structure. P~P~S Success Mastery Program Mentor Christine Perakis is an expert in business management and a highly successful consultant and business woman. I have chosen Christine to assist me in developing this lesson plan so that we can offer you the very best training in practical, effective business plan development. Together, we will help you to write a business plan that is synergistic with your personal, professional and spiritual goals.
Personal: Your business planning lesson will teach you to write a business plan that fits seamlessly with your personal goals. By effectively channeling your life~force energy as it emanates from your legacy and through your personal goals into your business plan, you will find yourself vitalized with guided intent on a personal level, making each day an exciting expression of your intentions.
Professional: Approximately 95% of start up businesses are gone within five years. One of the main reasons is that they don’t have a plan - a structured means by which to regulate the accumulation and dissemination of the life~force of their business. This will not be the case for PPS Success Mastery Practitioners!
Spiritual: There is nothing more spiritual than the upsurgance of the PPSSM Practitioner’s life~force through his/her legacy and into personal goals and business planning. To be truly spiritual is to contribute to the evolution of humanity. The very best way to do that is to give others a good example to follow. Our businesses say just as much about us to others and the Universe as our personal relationships and religious or spiritual affiliations and convictions. Money is energy, spirit is energy. Managing energy intelligently means your business practices are in fact spiritual practices!
5. MONEY MANAGEMENT
Money is energy. Energy always wants to create. To create your dreams, you will have to learn to manage energy in all forms, be it physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. Since money is an energy form that affords the ability to shelter, feed, and entertain ourselves, mismanagement can be devastating to our very sense of survival. Today, as you are probably aware, a great percentage of people with advanced degrees from universities all over the world are living lives that are out-of-sorts for the level of training they have. Often, this results from an inability to determine when your expenditures are no longer improving your quality of life, at which point you are no longer gratified by your expenditures.
In this important lesson, PPSSMP Mentor Christine Perakis and I will introduce many simple, practical methods for managing your money. We will talk to people who have demonstrated mastery with money management, and your PPS Success Mastery Program Mentors will share their success methods with you. By applying the principles of this lesson, you will feel uplifted by a confidence that you can manage your financial energy.
Personal: Having money to energize your needs, wants and desires is one of the most liberating experiences we can have as human beings. When your money management skills allow you to rise above the mere need to survive and feel the personal freedom afforded by managing your financial energy, you may actually stop working to get to heaven because you are in heaven!
Professional: When we know how to effectively manage money in our personal lives, we know how to manage it in our professional lives and vice versa. This has to be true because essentially, a business is composed of one or more persons. Your personality and personal skills are what you bring to your business as a contributor or as an owner. This money management lesson will facilitate professional freedom as it grows vertically out of skillful personal money management skills.
Spiritual: Another way of thinking of spirit is to use the term interchangeably with energy. When we are effectively managing money, we are managing energy. Effective management is always a stress reducer because it means that we are in control of energy, not being controlled by it. Because it is true that all we experience in life is spiritual, the beauty of this money management lesson is that you will learn to have a positive spiritual experience with money.
6. MARKETING YOUR SERVICES
Marketing is an area where many professionals fall down and many individuals participate naively. In this important lesson, I will share my experiences with marketing myself, my many businesses in the past and now, as well as my knowledge of the importance of the self as the source of your marketing efforts.
For example, the realization that marketing is merely telling the truth attractively,a tremendous burden is generally lifted. This is because of the stigma that marketing is a combination of strategic bragging and programmed deception. While this is true for those that feel they have to trick people into buying their product, it is an unnecessary concept to subscribe to for those with healthy marketing objectives. For example, once you begin to live your legacy, create well structured goals, generate a business plan and know how to manage your money, you also will know:
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Exactly what you are marketing
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Just how much marketing is needed
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Exactly how much you can afford to spend on your marketing efforts and what your return on your marketing investment must be to make it a worthy investment of your life~force and money (energy).
If you are an employee or don’t have a job at all, you may not feel you need to market. The fact is you already are. If you don’t currently have a job or a business, chances are good you are looking for one. That said, every time you go for an interview you are marketing yourself from the moment you write a response to an ad, call a potential employer on the phone, or go for a job interview. If you buy new clothes to look sharp for an interview, you are marketing. If you can write a good response to an employment query, you are marketing more effectively than someone that can’t. If you go for an interview in attempt to get a job position that you don’t really want, but think you can’t do better, you are marketing to yourself, your family, your friends and your community. You are reinforcing that you can sell what you don’t want!
When you work for someone else, if you are not working toward your own goals, you are only working toward theirs. If working for an employer is a step to your own independence, you will need to market yourself effectively to get promoted and make steps toward your goals and the fulfillment of your legacy. In my program, I will show you that every minute you are on the job, you are marketing yourself. Anytime you are somewhere that anyone you work with, or anyone that knows anyone that you work with can see you, hear you, or read your writings, you are marketing yourself! The question is, are you selling what you really want your boss to buy?
I look forward to sharing my experiences with marketing so that you may take advantage of what I have learned. After completing this lesson, you will be well informed as to what is, and what is not effective marketing.
Personal: We are marketing (projecting) ourselves into our internal and external environment constantly. What we project internally and externally literally acts like a magnet, attracting stuff that sticks to those particular magnetic thoughts. The foundation of any effective marketing plan is You! Therefore, we must get things organized so that first things come first.
Professional: Once you understand the implications and methods of personal marketing, you will be ready to expand your marketing efforts such that you put yourself into your business marketing program. You will learn to attract the right customers to your business through an effective marketing strategy. When you do that, you will find that your stress levels are significantly reduced because you will attract what you want, not what you don’t want. This is called building a successful business.
Spiritual: Truth is the highest form of spiritual reality. Marketing is telling the truth attractively. Whenever we perpetuate any form of truth, we are increasing spirituality in the world and perpetuating spiritual awareness by the mere fact that truth always displaces deception. Whatever in life is really good and true, we need more of!
7. EDUCATION ~ HOW TO LEARN
Did you know that the great majority of the world’s millionaires don’t have college degrees and that approximately 98% of the worlds wealth is owned by ~2% of the population? Did you know that a high percentage of college graduates don’t work in a field related to their degree? Did you know that 95% of the information imparted to students in academic environments is presented in a format (mathematical/logical) that is appropriate for only 5-8% of students? By any academic standard, these are not good statistics, for you, nor for academia.
Let’s face it, the grand majority of academic institutions are there to teach because their business is selling information; they are not there to teach you how to learn! If they were, it is very likely that the above situations would not exist. It is, by default, your job to learn to learn. In this important lesson, I will share the methods I’ve learned for learning. Having only completed the 9th grade in Junior high school, I chose to teach myself to learn by studying people that had demonstrated mastery. To do this, I spent time with many masters and observed how they acquired their knowledge and applied it. I also studied scores of biographies so that I could better understand the great producers of the world. In addition, I paid attention to myself so that I could develop a learning style that works for me. I will teach you how to do the same so that you can be as, or more, productive than I am!
Some of the many areas we will explore in this lesson are:
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How to identify your personal learning style
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How to use your whole brain to enhance your learning process
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How to use emotion to improve learning effectiveness (retention)
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How to choose who to learn from
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How to learn quickly, and,
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How to unlearn ineffective learning habits!
Personal: To learn is to grow. For anyone in touch with their soul, there are fewer greater sources of pleasure than personal growth. When you learn and grow, you have more choices in life. Greater choices make life more fun and having more fun means you will be more passionate about what you do. Passion is the primary fuel for the successful mind. The learning, growing individual is rarely ever sick, is typically full of life and fun to be around, and is the greatest teacher for those who have not learned to learn or express their passion!
Professional: Professional success of any kind is directly linked to your ability to learn, a fact that runs from the top white-collar business to blue-collar workers. In fact, in the sweatiest, stinkiest boxing gyms in the world, you will find athletes learning:
- How to manage themselves effectively
- How to perform their craft more effectively and efficiently
- The strengths and weaknesses of their opponents
- How to market themselves, and
- How to learn from the successes and hardships.
The business owner’s success is directly linked to the ability to both learn and assure that employees learn. In this lesson, I will teach you how to learn!
Spiritual: Some great masters say that we are not here to learn, but that we are here to remember. What they mean by this is that we already contain all there is to know within our Soul and that we needn’t go outside ourselves to find answers that already exist within. Yet, this form of self-realization is, in fact, learning. In my life experience I have found that the more I learn, the more I re-member; meaning to put back together again. With applied knowledge comes wisdom, which serves as an attractor for inspiration. Here we see a self-induced cycle of learning ~ applied knowledge ~ wisdom ~ inspiration ~ re-membering.The more self-realized we become through the process of learning, the more we do for humanity and the world. What can be more spiritual?
8. TIME CAN’T BE MANAGED!
Earl Nightingale, a great teacher and master of getting things done said, “time can’t be managed, only activities can”. He was right. We all have 24 hours in a day to get things done, yet clearly, some are able to get much more done than others.
In this lesson, I will share the many methods I’ve learned for getting things done as efficiently and effectively as possible. I will share:
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Methods for prioritizing your objectives
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How to allow your natural life~force energy to flow upward from your legacy, through your goals and into your daily objectives.
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The importance of keeping yourself vitalized so that you have enough energy to focus and project into your objectives, enlivening them and facilitating productive outcomes.
One need only look at the works of great artists, musicians, poets, thinkers, builders, writers, athletes and businessmen and women to see what can be done in a day; what can be done in a life. We are all going to be here for a lifetime anyway, why not make a legacy of it!
Personal: When you have a legacy and goals, you will need to manage your objectives efficiently to move you toward your desired end-product. With effective management of activities comes effective use of time. The result is always greater power to select what you want over and above what you don’t want. Nothing can be more personally rewarding.
Professional: In most cases, the professional is someone that has to manage others as well as him/herself. Knowing full well that we can’t give others what we don’t have, learning to manage activities is imperative, for it is a necessary catalyst to success in any professional endeavor. There is an old and painfully truth, “time is money”. Any professional, knowing this essential truth is faced with a 24 hour day, yet most of them feel the sun rises and sets like a yo-yo and are perpetually chasing their tail to get everything done. While this may never change, what can change is your level of anxiety over what must be done. The most effective way to reduce anxiety and increase productivity and relieve stress is to effectively manage activities; an objective we will accomplish in this lesson.
Spiritual: Do you find yourself in church, in meditation, doing yoga or Tai-Chi, or playing with your children, only to have a head full of what you’ve got to get done today? Why not learn to effectively manage activities so that you can be transcendental in your spiritual practices, not grounded in your earthly concerns. How about being able to manage your activities well enough that you can actually be present with your loved ones. There is nothing more spiritual than to be with yourself, and then with your loved ones!
9. DON’T GET YOUR FEATHERS WET!
The expression “don’t get your feathers wet!” can be loosely translated to mean:
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Don’t sweat the small stuff, and
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Don’t make other people’s baggage your own!
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Don’t make your baggage the responsibility of others!
It is very common for people in family, love and professional relationships to find themselves stressed over what’s going on with so-and-so… While hard to resist at times, particularly with family and loved ones, allowing other people’s negative energy, or stuff ,to become your stuff is never productive and doesn’t help them, or you!
In this powerful lesson, I will teach you the many techniques for being an effective catalyst in relationships that I have learned in my career as a husband, father, trainer, coach, Holistic Health Practitioner, teacher and businessman. You will learn to have healthy relationships with unhealthy people so that you don’t get your feathers wet. When a duck's feathers get wet underneath the surface of their down coat – they sink and drown! This critical lesson will give you the tools to lead others by example into a healthy, happy existence, giving you the ability to love others without being gobbled up by life.
Personal: The dictum all medical doctors are trained by is “first, do no harm”. Part of the modern Hippocratic Oath also states, “I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of over treatment and therapeutic nihilism.” When we are in relationships with others, we must also live by such guidelines; we must first, do no harm. Second, we must avoid over-treatment by over-involvement, which often produces nihilism (belief that life is pointless and human values are worthless), resulting in our part in any relationship being that of a corrosive agent, not a catalyst. When we cross the point at which our involvement in a relationship (at the moment or in general) is producing pain (not of therapeutic value), further interaction only diminishes both parties. When anger and destructive language are engaged, your feathers get wet and now you and your fellow human being sink in the ugliness of the situation. We must remember that we can only bring into any relationship what we are.
Professional: Most any professional will face the challenges of social interaction. Be they the challenges of other people’s ill physical, emotional and mental health, or the challenges of people’s differing opinions. Often, we will be criticized for our best efforts, and at times because our efforts were lacking. When we learn to see each situation for what it is, building upon self integrity, we will always see that every relationship offers growth to both the professional, and his/her customer.
Spiritual: Managing ourselves effectively and professionally in relationships is our spiritual work. When we get into managing things outside our legitimate control, we are dabbling in God’s work. When we play God, we are often shocked at the amount of energy and level of responsibility it takes to manage everyone else’s stuff, not to mention the management of the Universe. In this lesson, I will show you that we each have an offering to each other and when we are done learning each lesson, the offerings change, but they always match who we are and what we need.
10. UNDERSTANDING THE GREAT POLARITIES
As creatures of the Universe, we are bound in and subject to the laws of the relative. Wherever you have a relative universe, you are going to have relative experiences and expressions. It is typically human to express ourselves in relative terms, yet, being atypical, the P~P~S Success Practitioner will learn to understand and effectively navigate through the great polarities. Some of the most challenging and least understood of the great polarities that we will explore for your self-empowerment include:
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Yin~Yang
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Heaven & Hell
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Good & Evil
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Men~Women (male~female)
By understanding the history, use and abuse of the great polarities, the P~P~S Success Practitioner will be relieved of the burden of dogmatism. This necessary relief will allow your energy to flow into your own life~force and into meaningful relationships. And, it is fun to see how people just get stuck adhering to some very old, outdated, ineffective ideas, even when there are better options around!
Personal: Your personal development is the seed of all relationship development. When you free yourself of unwanted dogma, you will serve all humanity.
Professional: Understanding the great polarities will allow you to understand the great majority of humanity. You will feel empathy for those that don’t have the strength or guidance to move beyond ideas that no longer serve them or humanity at large. Your life is their leadership!
Spiritual: When you understand that body is the polarized expression of Divinity (without polarity, pure potential), you know what direction to go to get home!
11. COMMUNICATION SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
How many times have you tried to share your feelings or needs with a loved one or co-worker, but your words seemed only to escalate the damage?...and when you tried and tried again, you just seemed to jump out of the pan and into the fire?
Do you find yourself wanting to hear constructive criticism in a way that is non-invasive, yet it seems that those with the best of intentions are judging you, even criticizing you or your efforts?
How often do you (honestly now!) find yourself arguing with someone and while they are talking, you are so busy formulating a counterattack, you don't eve hear what they are saying?
Are you someone that uses 400 words to make a 40 word point? Or, are you the person that uses no words and assumes that your partner or co-workers should just get it?
If you said "yes" to any of the above questions, and even if your head was saying no, but your Soul was saying "YES, YES, YES!", then you will be bountifully rewarded by your experience with Non-violent communication. When I first read Marshal Rosenburg's book on Non-violent communication, I repeatedly found myself saying to Penny, "Babe, it's a wonder humanity hasn't killed each other off yet when you see how terribly we communicate with each other". "But what a relief to know that there is a better way! "
You may think that learning Non-violent communication (NVC) is for your clients, or for your family. The truth of the matter is, it may be the greatest gift you've ever given yourself because for the first time, you will actually hear people loving you, they just don't know how to choose the words to express it.
In this valuable lesson, we will be joined by my mother, Meera Censor. Meera is a skilled and very experienced teacher of NVC and will assist me in showing you how to get the most from this month's lesson and Marshall Rosenburg’s book, Non-violent Communication. If this lesson does for you what it did for many of my patients and students, it will be worth the price of your entire years training as a P~P~S Success Practitioner!
Personal: The first and most important communication to master is with yourself. Only then should anyone work radically.
Professional: Short of being a military sniper, most all professions require constant communication. If your communication skills are typical of those passed down by parents in the last several thousand years, you may well be a verbal sniper and not even know it. After this lesson, you will have the opportunity to improve your communications in direct magnitude to your progress with your own interpersonal communications.
Spiritual: We all took bodies to share experiences with each other. With good communication skills, the experiences we share will be more frequently joyful and less frequently hurtful. When we grow to love, we learn that love is the ultimate mode of communication. NVC is one important step to learning to speak in the language of love, not pain and judgment. The less pain and judgment. we express, the less grounded we are to the body and earth-plane in general. If you want to fast track to the next dimension of truth and love, this lesson is vital.
12. DEVELOPING YOUR LISTENING SKILLS
Many people say they listen, but do they hear? Expanding on our previous eleven lessons, this last and very important lesson of our first year of P~P~S Success Mastery training will weave together all the prior lessons, offering you many useful listening techniques to help yourself and help others by hearing their needs. You will learn to hear the true message, regardless of what words it is wrapped in. You will learn to listen, not just with your body, but your intuition, your being, your Soul. This lesson will open you up to an entire universe of visible and invisible helpers. You will learn that effective listening is effective vision. Join me as we explore the messages offered by Mother Nature, her many kingdoms, and her children.
Personal: Learning to listen to yourself will be the first major step to long term health and well-being.
Professional: By truly being able to hear the needs of others, we can offer the best possible service and support for all whom we work with in this lifetime.
Spiritual: There is no higher form of spirituality than to listen to, and hear one’s own Soul.
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