Sarah's Search for Success

Another hectic week - hurrah!

So just what have I been up to this week?  A bit of culture at the theatre, dahlings, an inspiring evening at the London Yes Group seeing Bob Proctor speak after a breakthrough session with a new client, a meeting with the caretakers of a military museum to discuss installing a new computer network for them to keep their catalogue on, a rowdy night out at the pub having a good boogy to a local band, and a quiet night in having a good old chinwag with a couple of amazing ladies I met through the Money Gym.  Bit of a mixed bag, and I've loved every minute of it!

To coin one of Bob Proctor's sayings, "I am so happy and grateful now that..." I have the most amazing life, filled with friends and variety, love and good old fashioned fun.  Would I change a thing?  Nope, I'm just enjoying the ride!

Being on both ends of the stick!

Blimey what a week it's been - I hardly know where to start!

I spent three days last week coaching on the latest Inner Compass NLP Practitioner training, which was a fantastic experience.  It was wonderful to have the chance to "put something back", having had such great help from other coaches whilst going through my own training.  I also learned a huge amount, from stretching myself to coach people through their tests without actually giving them the answers, to re-visiting and re-learning some of the NLP tools and techniques.  It was also great fun, and lovely to meet up with some of the amazing people who have been a part of my journey to date.  The only down side was not being able to stay for the entire course, as I had another training course to go to at the weekend...

Time to focus...

After an exciting time at Alan's Masterclass last week, and a great chat this morning with one of the contacts I made there, I'm really honing in on my need to focus.  I've had such an amazing year, one of huge changes and growth, and at times, heartache and sorrow.  I've learnt a huge amount on all sorts of different subjects (though it's amazing how they all have that one recurring theme mentioned in my earlier post!), and have ideas and plans constantly buzzing through my head.  It's tremendously exciting, and also tremendously frustrating, as most projects have yet to come to fruition.  I gather this is a common theme for the entrepreneurial mind...

Confessions of a Seminar Junky: Mega Masterclass

I've just returned from Alan Forrest Smith's Mega Masterclass.  Wow!  What an amazing few days!  Hard to know where to start with all the things that I got out of it...  Learning from the amazing Jerry Hart and Shaune Clarke for the first time, and learning more than I ever have before from the just-as-amazing Alan Forrest Smith, Kirt Christensen, Stephen Pierce, Paul Fugle, Philly Richards, Maria Davies, and Mike Stewart.  Meeting friends old and new.  Being challenged and inspired by both.

I have learnt so much, I hardly know where to begin.

The Secret and other Quantum Thoughts

On Thursday I finally watched The Secret, after having had it recommended to me several times over the last few months.  I even bought the DVD a few weeks ago, and it's taken me this long to get around to watching it.  Why did it take me so long?  I don't know.  Perhaps it wasn't the right time for me, I wouldn't have been open to the ideas that it throws forwards, or my mind just wasn't in the right place until now.  Whatever the reasons, I am so glad that I have, and it all made perfect sense.  Not only that, but it added to the bugle-down-a-megaphone message that the universe seems determined to get through to me!

Confessions of a Seminar Junky!

Well, it's official, I've become a total seminar and training junky: I've just booked for another two!  Well, the first one is another freeby, The Internet Millionaires Bootcamp, and as I've said before, I do find the price of "free" a hard one to pass up.  The second I have paid a little for, and really not very much, Alan Forrest Smith's Mega Masterclass.  Alan and one of the other speakers, Stephen Pierce, have been on my list of people to learn from for a while - I had planned on waiting till next year sometime, but at Alan's latest mega deal price of £99 for two, it was just too good to pass up.  Both events are about a subject quite close to my heart: making money on the internet, which is one of my expanding multiple streams of income.  I expect it to expand at lightening speed after all this!

These both promise to be full-on training events rather than the usual short tasters of various speakers followed by a big sales push - watch this space for reports of how it really was, or come along and see for yourselves!

Mental Game of Money

I spent last weekend at a seminar called the Mental Game of Money with Topher Morrison.  Wow, what can I say?  It was excellent, especially considering that it was my favourite price of free!  Topher is an amazing presenter, who speaks with great warmth and humour, whilst delivering heaps of useful and thought-provoking information.  A truly inspiring person, who also impressed me by not being in the least heavy-handed with the sales side of the weekend.  Having said that, his sales offering was so compelling, if I hadn't already committed to Inner Compass for my NLP Practitioner training, I would have signed up with him without a doubt.  Of course, the fact that it takes place on the Gulf of Mexico in Florida helped to make the offer even more enticing!

Highly recommended: if and when the next seminar is held, go - you won't regret it!

NLP Mastery

I have just qualified as a certified Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP as it's rather less tongue-twistingly known.  It's funny that something that's really all about communication and the language we use to ourselves and each other should be so bewilderingly named!  It's also a slippery one to define, and I'll give it a go: NLP is a toolbox of techniques which can be used to empower clients to break old patterns and realise their unlimited potential, in all areas of their lives.  So it's pretty darned cool, really!  The week that I spent on the "classroom" based part of the training with Inner Compass, despite its 12-14 hour days, has to be one of the best weeks of my life, and I now feel strong, confident, and ready to go out onto the world to help others to make positive changes to their lives.

Learning to speak

Most of the people who know me would find it a tad surprising, if not downright worrying, that I've recently been on a training course all about speaking - I'm not exactly the quietest person around at the best of times!  This was a course about public speaking, though, which has not been one of my greatest strengths up until now.  Oh, I put on a good front and do pretty well at the occasional chance to introduce myself at things like business networking meetings, and have even been known to raise the odd laugh here and there, but underneath it all I've been quaking in my boots as much as the next person.  Well, not no more!

World Internet Summit Part 2

Home again, home again after the World Internet Summit UK, tired but inspired, energised and enthused.  I could list the remaining two days worth of speakers, but decided that it would be more interesting (I hope!) to list my main objectives for going to the Summit, and summarise what I actually got from the it along with my immediate action plan.  So here goes...