My Millionaire Mind Intensive
I attended a seminar this past weekend. Called The Millionaire Mind Intensive. Led by T. Harv Ecker. Held in Los Angeles. 3 Days. 1500 people. Free, although they promoted several other seminars put on by the parent company - each costing multiple thousands of dollar$.
The content was......good. T. Harv Ecker is a very skilled public speaker. I dislike his leaning toward selling to ungrounded emotions, and would rather see him point toward grounded and conscious desires for growth. I give him credit for knowing how to keep a crowd's attention, and how to take the crowd through a variety of emotional weather patterns to get his point across. As I have public speaking interests, this was good to see.
The REAL value for me was not in the content, but that I found myself leading groups of 5-70 in various exercises. I even got up on stage and spoke to the audience.
My favorite part was where EVERY person in the audience was given a wooden board to break with their hand. It was designed to be an empowering exercise. I was chosen as my group's leader (of 10 people), and MY job was to demonstrate to my groupmates how to actually break the board...which was fine except I had never broken a board before! A tad bit nervous, I was.
So I broke the board on my first try, and then guided each person to do the same. Some in my group were shouting and hollaring afterwards, others were crying. It was such a joy to see people break through their inhibitions and fears and their board...each on their very first try! (this was not the case for many others, outside of our group)
I grew tremendously through that experience, among others. By the end of the weekend, I stood about 6 inches taller - I had to, as others were looking up to me as an example. I received compliments from people saying I am a really great leader. I just felt in my element. There was no fog, no fuzz, no fatigue, no effort required to do what I saw needed to be done. I found my power.
My only self-critique is that my attention span was short and I missed a couple instructions I needed to hear for the group, until a friend nudged me on the shoulder to pay attention. I'm still learning...
On Monday, I returned to my cubicle office job and resumed life as a computer programmer. Monday night I was extremely ill. Today, Wednesday, most of the power I built up during the weekend is gone.
I AM getting great things out of this I.T. phase of my life, am absolutely appreciative for the growths and opportunities I receive, and want to let in even more. However....Computer programming feels like slow gray. I just feel more alive when I'm doing something that makes a creative difference in other people's lives.
The content was......good. T. Harv Ecker is a very skilled public speaker. I dislike his leaning toward selling to ungrounded emotions, and would rather see him point toward grounded and conscious desires for growth. I give him credit for knowing how to keep a crowd's attention, and how to take the crowd through a variety of emotional weather patterns to get his point across. As I have public speaking interests, this was good to see.
The REAL value for me was not in the content, but that I found myself leading groups of 5-70 in various exercises. I even got up on stage and spoke to the audience.
My favorite part was where EVERY person in the audience was given a wooden board to break with their hand. It was designed to be an empowering exercise. I was chosen as my group's leader (of 10 people), and MY job was to demonstrate to my groupmates how to actually break the board...which was fine except I had never broken a board before! A tad bit nervous, I was.
So I broke the board on my first try, and then guided each person to do the same. Some in my group were shouting and hollaring afterwards, others were crying. It was such a joy to see people break through their inhibitions and fears and their board...each on their very first try! (this was not the case for many others, outside of our group)
I grew tremendously through that experience, among others. By the end of the weekend, I stood about 6 inches taller - I had to, as others were looking up to me as an example. I received compliments from people saying I am a really great leader. I just felt in my element. There was no fog, no fuzz, no fatigue, no effort required to do what I saw needed to be done. I found my power.
My only self-critique is that my attention span was short and I missed a couple instructions I needed to hear for the group, until a friend nudged me on the shoulder to pay attention. I'm still learning...
On Monday, I returned to my cubicle office job and resumed life as a computer programmer. Monday night I was extremely ill. Today, Wednesday, most of the power I built up during the weekend is gone.
I AM getting great things out of this I.T. phase of my life, am absolutely appreciative for the growths and opportunities I receive, and want to let in even more. However....Computer programming feels like slow gray. I just feel more alive when I'm doing something that makes a creative difference in other people's lives.