Journey to Real Life

Would you like to operate authentically - with more purpose, ease and clarity? That requires that you get real. Brad Isaacs and I offered 20 men and women an Invitation to Get Real this past Saturday at the Fairfield Library. We promised to give them an experience and, boy, did we!

I outlined in the opening of the program that we would take them through a process to reality that follows a format I learned many years ago when I began my journey towards self-improvement - letting go of things that kept me from being fully alive: cigarettes, caffeine, sugar, etc.

Here's the formula I learned and have appreciated ever since:

First it gets BETTER, then it gets WORSE, then it gets DIFFERENT, then it gets REAL.

Read my blog to learn more about the results I witnessed during our workshop. As I said during the session, "What I want in my life is REAL, no masks, no phoniness." I guarantee it's worth the effort!

(The photo was taken at my Leadership course in California where we did high ropes work - 40' up in the air - which helped prepare us for these kinds of challenges.)

Hard Work Equals Lucky Breaks

I'm pleased to share that my client Jessica Bram's book Happily Ever After Divorce: Notes of a Joyful Journey is on the bookshelves now. In a couple of weeks Jessica will have the official launch at Barnes & Noble in Westport, CT where she'll give a talk and sign copies.

I challenged Jessica a few weeks ago, during our Mastermind Group meeting, to practice her talk in front of a friendly group before taking it on the road. She immediately put a date on the calendar, sent out an email invitation to close friends and then got down to work.

Now, I realize, this sounds much easier when I write it than it is to actually do it. It's one of those assignments that separate the winners from the wannabes. It's so easy to find excuses, put it off or decide against the goal entirely. But Jessica knows what she wants and is willing to put in the blood, sweat and tears to accomplish it. Read more about how it went on my blog.

Jessica's experience over the last few years reminds me of Lesson 33 in my book Soul Proprietor, 101 Lessons from a Lifestyle Entrepreneur - "When someone asks you how you got that incredible break, the simple answer is hard work."

After I was interviewed for network television a friend asked me how it happened. I told my friend, :Just lucky, I guess," but I'm going to tell you the truth. After I had time to think about it, I realized that I pursued a lead, followed up, showed up, stayed in touch, sought out future opportunities, pursued those and continued this pattern for nine years.

Keep up the hard work and you'll be amazed by all the lucky breaks!