I wrote back with the following request:
"... If you don't mind, please let me know your intention of attending, your current age, and profession, so that I can advise you better... "
He responded quickly, by saying that:
"... I have just turned 30 this year and I quit my full time job 2 years ago to try and find my passion in life as I felt I was at a dead end with my job. I couldn't see any future and definitely could not picture myself doing what I did for the next 20 years. Now I am studying full time in sound and I hope to be able to do something with it and gain financial freedom whilst delving into my passion. So that's where I am at now... "
I wrote back: "... Let me be very blunt. From your writeup, I can sense that you already have what you actually need to move forward.
First, your passion in "sound", even though I don't know the exact details... presumably, sound as applied to health.
Secondly, you have all the rich material from both the Loral Langmeier's Cash Machine Workshop and Reuben Buchanan's Rich Business Workshop.
Your problem, as I see from here, is that you lack the creative ability to take away what you have already learned from the two seminars/workshops to generate viable ideas for conceiving and plotting a roadmap for achieving your "sound" pursuits.
All I can say is that attending Money and You will not solve your current problem. It's not skills-based; it's just "self awakening". I don't think you need that.
[Their "business school" is more skills-based, but in recent years, it has been watered down to conserve costs for the purveyors. I had attended it in Kona, Hawaii, during the early nineties. It's duration was 16 days.
BTW, don't trust what they talk about "mastermind network". Most graduate folks, especially those "still looking good, but going no where", go into it for that "feeling good" environment.]
Drawing on my own experience, you are now entering the most productive phase of your life, i.e. from 30 to 45.
I am sure you understand the following harsh reality:
It's not what's in your head; it's what you do with what's in your head.
I believe Einstein said it well: "Nothing changes, until something moves... "
There was a further brisk email exchange, whereby I shared with him some other ideas, and after that, I didn't hear from him.
Somehow, the foregoing email exchange sets me thinking about how seemingly intelligent folks can still remain blur and lead "screwed up" lives, after having attended purportedly powerful life-changing seminars.
Then, I began to reflect on my own mid-life transitional experience during the early nineties, and also recall an inspiring piece of advice from the legendary American football coach, Vince Lombardi:
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
That to me, lies the primary problem with a lot of intelligent folks, who unfortunately turn out, with all due respects, to be just "seminar junkies".
Frankly speaking, most folks can generate a lot of ideas in their head, and with the attendance of more seminars, they probably can get some more ideas, but the basic and crucial problem remains: they simply can't narrow down the workability, and translate one of those viable ideas into commercial reality.
Most folks don't realise that all the stuff in seminars are just "word experiences" of other people. Only when one puts those "word experiences" to work in your own life, to produce the results you desire, then only will they become "world experiences".
In a nut shell, only "world experiences" can truly put cash in your hands.
In fairness to the poor seminar attendees, it's a known fact that some unscrupulous seminar purveyors and/or workshop presenters don't tell you precisely and systematically what you need to do to create the intended results in your life with their stuff, which give them ample room to sell more follow-up seminars.
As part of my own personal quest to navigate mid-life transition, I left Singapore on one weekend of May 1991 to attend the Money and You seminar in Adelaide, Australia, which was followed by the Excellerated Business Schools in Kona, Hawaii in May/June 1991. It was on the last day of the final seminar that I had crafted and designed the second half of my life.
Shortly upon my return to Singapore, I then said good bye to the corporate world for good - where I was a hardworking rat for almost a quarter of a century - at the end of 1991. I was only 43 then.
With vivid imagination, sincere belief, ardent desire, and enthusiastic action, I had ultimately translated my passion for reading and personal hobbies into three small entrepreneurial ventures.
As I told the blog reader from Singapore, "My last GM bonus, plus some small savings and all the credit I could draw from banks through their advertised cards - I had applied for all the available "ready credit" facilities against my GM position/salary before I left."
The rest was history.
Maybe, it was my disciplined training as an engineer that had given me the iota of willpower, as engineers are trained to "get things done".
Or maybe, I have the innate ability to convert tasks into results.
Interestingly, in the profile assessment - Asset Report®: The Book of You - done by my "mentor", Dudley Lynch, founder of Brain Technologies, and author of several excellent books on accelarted self-growth, I had been rated as a "Task Commander".
Nonetheless, to cut to the chase, I like to share with readers the quickest way to put ideas to work, by using the S.M.A.R.T. Gameplan.
[to be continued in the Next Post: Developing the S.M.A.R.T. Gameplan.]
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