I got an email this week from someone who was interested in attending the most exclusive and intimate training we offer called The Life Transformation Experience. Her question was, on the face of it, a sensible one – how challenging is it to help people who can already afford a $20,000 course to improve their lives?
Personally, I love teaching stories. They enable people to hear things that are sometimes difficult to hear, and can often create what my friend Steve Chandler calls “mindshifts” at a level well below the surface. Once the mind has shifted, behavior shifts too, seemingly “all by itself” and without the effort or struggle often associated with changing old patterns of thinking and doing.
In their excellent book, Buck Up, Suck Up, and Come Back When You Foul Up, James Carville and Paul Begalia share the following analogy to illustrate the reason why most people fail to achieve the level of success they would like:
Creating results in the world is fairly straightforward. If I want to lose weight, I take in less calories than I burn up, regardless of which diet, eating plan, or “lifestyle choices” I make in order to do it. If I want to accumulate wealth, I spend less money than I create (regardless of how much I create or what I do to create it) and keep the rest.
People sometimes ask me how it is I get so much done and seem to take so much time off. My answer is that I have learned “the art of sprinting” – that is, how to give my all to a project and then rest, recover, relax and renew.