Jack Black – Leadership Development – Personal Effectiveness

This blog post will be particularly useful for those who have recently done a course with us (now owners of their new home, The House On The Right Bank) and all those who are looking forward to the up and coming Dublin Event, The Best of MindStore. This mini workshop and the unfolding process will be useful to everyone else too, whether you get involved as an individual, family or business team.

Read it through then seriously think of making an appointment with yourself. Find the space and time so that you can do it properly, perhaps you should arrange to book an hour in your schedule to complete it. 

So here’s what to do:

Take an A4 sheet of paper and take a pen or pencil and create 3 equal columns down the page.  Then create 11 equal rows across the page, head up the first column: “TOP ACHIEVEMENTS” in the top row. Now take your time to look back over your life and identify your top ten achievements.  Make sure you consider your family and relationships, career, goals achieved, education, recreation etc, etc. Write them into the boxes in that first column.

Now having identified 10 (or if you have less than this then that’s okay) head up column 2 with: “WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO ME” then in the column below, answer each in turn. As you consider the question, go back in your mind to that actual time and have the desire to remember where you were and what happened and how you felt about it. Think too about the benefits that came to you when that particular achievement came about?

Finally head column 3: “HOW CAN THIS ASSIST ME AT THIS TIME IN MY LIFE” and fill in each of the remaining boxes in column 3.

I will take you all through part 2 of this process next week. For those who have experienced MindStore before, you will know that these 10 achievements will morph into powerful features in your Central Hallway and by working through this exercise, you can improve on what you’ve already created.

For first timers you will be preparing in a fairly profound way by following these four blogs ahead of your course in Dublin on Saturday 23 June. (This preparation  is not essential but will be to your advantage).

WARNING: The Best of MindStore in Dublin has the potential to seriously change your life for the better and I can’t wait to present the new and updated material.

 CLICK HERE TO BOOK ON TODAY

If you have any questions relating to the workshop or The Best of MindStore with Jack Black, feel free to drop us an email to info@mindstore.com

The other day Stephen sent me a copy of a piece in Sundays Telegraph Magazine, perhaps you read it too?

The basis of the article is that recent discoveries from scientists back up the approaches that we take in MindStore. In particular there has been a discovery of a part of the brain that develops after childhood that in effect inhibits us from “letting go and unleashing our creativity”

All of us apparently possess a vast reservoir of untapped creativity. The article quotes Picasso “Every child is an artist; the problem is how to remain one once we grow up.” It turns out that this recent research proves Picasso right. The final part of the brain to develop actually inhibits our creativity. It helps explain the effortless creativity of young children before their brains mature and the sensors of inhibition are established.

It seems that in order to be better problem solvers and unleash our creativity, we need to learn to inhibit our inhibitions. If Picasso was still with us we could show him how, and even the scientists are now able to prove to him exactly why MindStore works.

The article has an insert that reads as follows:

How to have a Eureka Moment

Take a break

Why did Archimedes have his breakthrough in the bath? Moments of insight are always proceeded by a steady rhythm of Alpha waves (induced by relaxing activities) from the brains right hemisphere.

Cheer Up

Studies show happy people solve 25% more “insight” puzzles than unhappy ones. Even fleeting moments of delight can prompt more epiphanies

Stay In Bed

Shortly after wakening is ideal for insights as the drowsy brain is unwound and open to unconventional ideas.

Ditch the Drugs

Stimulants such as caffeine increase our attention (WH Auden edited his poetry for hours, high on Benzedrine) but make epiphanies less likely as they shift attention away from the right hemisphere and its ”remote associations”

Further the main article ends with an experiment lead by the psychologist Michael Robinson apparently he randomly assigned a few hundred under graduates to two different groups. The first was given the following instructions:

“You are 7 years old and school is cancelled. You have the entire day to yourself. What would you do? Where would you go? Who would you see?”

The second was given the same instructions, with the first sentence deleted. These students didn’t imagine themselves as 7 year olds.

After writing for 10 minutes, the subjects in both groups were then given various tests of creativity, such as trying to invent alternative uses for an old car tyre. The students who imagined themselves as young kids scored far more highly, coming up with twice as many ideas as the other group. It turns out that we can recover the creativity we have lost with time. We just have to pretend we’re little kids.

By using the repeatedly tried and tested methods of MindStore, we reach into that part of the brain we worked so well as children. We even have a playground and a playhouse to enter. We have endless uninhibited fun where we can meet inner “friends” with which to imagine all manner of things. We ultimately release our innate creativity and intuition to find breakthroughs and solutions that otherwise would not emerge into our consciousness.

What you and I need to do is to purposefully inhibit our inhibitions and become childlike again to do so all you need to do is….

Find a comfortable position; Close your eyes, Take three deep breaths etc. etc. etc.

Due to an increased number of requests, we are looking to squeeze into the schedule a one day Best of MindStore Course with Jack Black in Dublin before the summer. The 23 June is working for us, so if we organise this event will you be able to attend and/or will you be sending family, colleagues or friends? All the details are included in this email: http://bit.ly/HOY9Ic

To allow us to decide whether to go ahead with this event can you please confirm immediately your intention and estimate for the number of seats you will require before Friday (20th April) to katie.mckenna@mindstore.com

Yesterday I met a highly successful entrepreneur who lives in and runs his business from London. He explained to me that he did MindStore for the first time while still in his teens.

He really excited me when he described how the course gave him access to a part of his brain that he didn’t know existed. He said it gave him ideas, better solutions and it really changed the direction of his life. He believes he would never have started the business which he has built from scratch and is currently number two in his industry had he not attended MindStore.

I was inspired by his enthusiasm and his awareness that he has reached a point where it’s time to push on again and go for the number one spot including more international success, together with also setting up other associated businesses.

His realisation early on that he was able to reach parts of his brain he otherwise wouldn’t be able to by using the MindStore techniques is what I wish every young person I have worked with in recent weeks could hear and take heed of. And for those of you who like me have been around the block a few times, it’s never too late… 

He also made the decision to drop out of University as he just knew he had a natural talent for sales and didn’t want to wait too long before using his skills to earn a living. Using the techniques allowed him to deal with all the usual things that could have held him back when applying for vacancies. He found he was confidently finding himself being offered jobs when he went for interviews, before eventually starting up his own business. 

By the way, he is also fit and healthy, is now 30 yrs old and an international winner in his chosen sport. He has a very busy schedule, and is also married with an 18 month old daughter.

As you can probably tell I was inspired all right, but the truth is this confidence boosting, creative and empowering state is available to all. You too can access this part of your brain that you won’t know exists until you get into the habit of using it.

MindStore works, it has for the really cool guy I met yesterday and it absolutely will for you!

Here are a few additional reminders and techniques.

Firstly please realise that by not engaging your techniques daily you enter the race of life with a self-limiting handicap. The quality of your creativity, problem solving and ultimately your performance are being stifled by the predominantly left brain faculties only.

By purposefully making visits to your House On The Right Bank (#HORB for short) you engage both sides of your brain which hugely improves your thinking on all manner of levels and therefore your day-to-day performance.

Remember to slow down the relaxation component so as to maximise the stress management aspect of our routines.

Get into the habit of programming your day. In the morning enter your “Foundation Level” or in other words the Alpha State by the usual manner. Go through the entire process to find your way to the Media Room. On the Central Screen bring up your to do list or diary of key events or meetings for the day. Take each event in turn through the following procedure. Move your eyes over to the right and find your Past Screen (Screen 2) there remind yourself of a previous time when this type of activity had gone well. This resonates with the part of your brain where the memory is stored and immediately activates your sense of belief and expectation of success again. Let the screen go blank then come back to the Central Screen. Remind yourself of today’s event then move your eyes over to the left and your Future Screen (Screen 3) run through the event going the way you want it to then freeze the end result in other words take your Photograph of The Mind. Then move further left to see the Consequences (on Screen 4) for others when you succeed. Repeat this for each critical event or meeting that day.

Always turn up early ahead of these pre-programmed events in order to find the time and a suitable place, (usually for me that is a loo), and once again get into your #HORB and re-programme by reviewing both the 3rd and 4th screens ahead of wearing your programmed cloak then onto the energising beam before a big stretch, enter the arena and perform.

Your “Well” is a very powerful technique giving you access to all manner of subtle and deep programming methods. For a start pay attention and take care with the drawing and drinking of water before entering the house. Here is a really cool thing to do. As you hold the drinking vessel up above eye level, imagine a beam of thought coming from your forehead with the intention of filling the water with the qualities held in the thought. For example: vibrant health, or clarity of thought or even as an imagined elixir for healing. To be honest the possibilities are endless. Imagine then drinking it and your entire being right down to every cell is charged with the meaning and quality now held in the liquid.

On returning to the left bank and your wide awake state, immediately and purposefully drink a glass of water with the same intention and watch its impact on you as the rest of the day unfolds.

That will do for now, more to follow, remember you can follow my tweets on Twitter @Jack_mindstore, friend me on Facebook Jack MindStore plus there’s the conference call to follow.

Keep Smiling

Jack

Now as many of you know I always start my presentations by asking the audience who they admire and why they do. Across the world, apart from local heroes, the same global giants show up time and time again. Richard Branson, Nelson Mandela, Madonna, Muhammad Ali etc. etc.

If you are attending the forthcoming Best of MindStore Event in Dublin, the following will prepare you for a couple of very powerful sessions and provide you with tools and techniques for personal empowerment and performance improvement. If you are not attending, you will still benefit from this workshop.

Consider if you will that I could arrange for you to have three or four coaches to regularly assist you over the coming years. Let’s just say I could arrange that on your behalf with anyone, no matter their status or current location. If it were really happening who would you choose to work with and how could you begin to benefit?

Now in this imagined little game your “inner coaches” will want to play their part and will be 100% committed to encouraging and supporting you to succeed at anything and everything you apply yourself to.

So take 5 minutes to identify three or four outstanding individuals from any field. You could select them from any number of backgrounds. For example: the stage, the sports field from the world of business, perhaps someone you already know personally, even someone from history or a character from a film or novel. Make sure that you choose at least one from the opposite sex from yourself.

Having done that, now take 10 minutes to identify the specific characteristics that each in turn have and that inspire you. Think clearly about the characteristics they have that you would love to possess, either temporarily for an up and coming event or permanently for use anytime in the future. Having the intention to possess and demonstrate their character traits and applying them where and when necessary is easier than you think.

On the up and coming course, participants will be introduced to and will learn how to use the powerful MindStore tools and techniques. As the day unfolds they will construct in their minds a house by a riverbank, and within the rooms of the house the tools and techniques are found.

There are two rooms in “The House on the Right Bank” that are enhanced by preparing with this workshop; they are the Den and the Cloakroom. These rooms accommodate advanced and indeed our most powerful performance enhancing tools and techniques ever provided on a basic programme.

If you have done any of the courses with me before, then you have been introduced to some of these extraordinary techniques and have met your coaching team in other guises. For example: sitting at the table in the café in the village on The Island, or in the Boardroom of the original course, or in your favorite place in more recent versions.

The serious consideration and intentional application of these ideas will have a profound impact in the future on all manner of situations and outcomes in your life.

I genuinely can’t wait to introduce these rooms in the Mental Architecture of the course as it unfolds and the range of possibilities associated with them on the forthcoming Dublin Event.

If you are unable to attend this time and have attended a previous MindStore course then you know how to engage with these intuitive and creative methods of finding better solutions and ideas each and every day.

Jack will present The Best of MindStore in the Stillorgan Park Hotel, Dublin on Saturday 23 June. Discounts are available to members, students and groups. For more info and booking CLICK HERE

I recently received an inspiring message from a MindStore member on Facebook. Hazel Markou was introduced to MindStore through a friend and after attending a course in London she has been using her toolset to help with all aspects of her life including a return to education, study and passing important examinations. Something she has not done for many years.

I was so inspired by Hazels message and the progress she has made that I set up a call with her. I have recorded our conversation to share with you.

You can download and listen to it here: http://bit.ly/A6cGF2 ( please copy and paste into your web browser and allow time for the file to download)

MindStore Works, it worked for Hazel and it can work for you too! Our next open course The Best of MindStore takes place in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Saturday 3 March for more information and booking details CLICK HERE

This third little workshop will be particularly useful for those who have recently attended a course with us (now owners of their new home, The House on the Right Bank) and all those who are looking forward to the up and coming Dublin Event, The Best of MindStore. This mini workshop and the unfolding process will be useful to everyone else too, whether you get involved as an individual, family or business team.

Read it through then seriously think of making an appointment with yourself. Find the space and time so that you can do it properly, perhaps you should arrange to book 30 minutes in your schedule to complete it.

So here’s what to do:

Consider the following: When I facilitated audiences through the unique personal discovery process that was “The Island” I got them to consider what we were as humans at our core. From across the room folks would offer “Light, Vibration, Goodness, Hope, Belief, Faith, Love, etc, etc. I then had participants write out a statement “At my core I am ……………”, they completed the rest. We then considered how we are affected by being in tune or out of tune with our core before enjoying a rather dramatic yet poignant visualization on a beach located in a secluded bay on The Island.

Now for the purpose of our workshop this week ask yourself – What are my Core values? What is really important to me in how I behave and live my life and how I would prefer others to behave and live theirs? Here are some suggestions (though not in any way complete) that might help you focus. Use them to stimulate you to write out a brainstorm of key values that are critical for you.

Friendship, Success, Work Ethic, Loyalty, Commitment, Inner Calm, Pleasure, Community, Justice, Discipline, Continuous Improvement, Reliable, Wealth, Cooperation, Democracy, Equality, Family, Service, Health, Respect, Goodness, Purpose, Teamwork, Independence, Tolerance, Trust, Integrity, Truth.

Give yourself five minutes to identify what would be on your list.

Now having done this take a further five minutes to identify a top 5 out of your list that are absolute must haves for you without which you would be unhappy.

Create a chart on a page of A4 by drawing a box half an inch in from the edges of the sheet. Draw a line down the centre of the box creating two columns. Then divide the box into 6 equal sized rows. In the box at the top of the left column create the heading “Key Values” and in the top Right column create the heading “Why it’s important to me.” Now place your five top values in the left hand boxes then fill in why each is important to you in the right hand column. Give yourself enough time to feel you have captured the essence of each value.

I will take you all through part 4 of this process next week. For those who have experienced a recent MindStore Event you will know that these 5 Values are a critical feature in the Mental Architecture and process of the new course.

Attendees of the MindStore course in Dublin on Saturday 23 June, will be preparing in a fairly profound way by following these four blogs. (This preparation is not essential but will be to your advantage.)

The Best of MindStore with Jack Black takes place in the Stillorgan Park Hotel, Dublin on Saturday 23 June, discounts are available for members, groups and students. BOOK HERE

Now that you have identified each of your top 10 achievements, have figured out why they are important to you, and how they can benefit your life going forward, here’s what to do next:

If you have attended any of our courses before use the technique to enter into the ‘Alpha State’. Or on the other hand if you are new to all of this, or even better find yourself looking forward to your first course on the 23^rd June, then simply do the following;

Find a quiet place to sit down, make yourself comfortable and close your eyes. Then deliberately relax your body. Start at your head and work your way down to your feet.   Just tell each part of your body to relax, feel your body relax and do what you can to release any tension. Start with your head, then your neck, your shoulders, arms and hands, then your chest, your abdomen, your thighs, your calves and your feet. Now if you are a MindStore member already, simply use your past screen for this exercise, if you are new to our work just trust your imagination.

Now take each achievement in turn and relive it in your minds eye. When was it, where was it, what happened, who was involved? Imagine stepping inside yourself and actually being there, enjoying experiencing the event over again. Remind yourself of how it felt and how it would feel to be achieving this all over again. Sense the benefits that it brought to you at that time and consider how it could support and encourage you today and in the future.

Finally if you were a photographer and wanted to catch the essence of that scene and what it means for you how would you want it to look? Step back out to view a frozen image of the scene just as you actually achieve the outcome.

Do this with each achievement in turn. You can of course attempt all ten achievements in one complete sitting, or spread them out over the coming week.

Apart from the self esteem and confidence building benefits of doing this it will really prepare you for the up and coming MindStore Course if you are attending.

It will certainly be a really enjoyable way of taking time out for relaxing and dissipating your stress.

Catch you next week for part three.   

The Best of MindStore with Jack Black takes place in the Stillorgan Park Hotel, Dublin on Saturday 23 June BOOK HERE 

Mark was walking around the west end of Glasgow after a morning of hard training and happened upon a MindStore Book in a Charity Shop. “This synchronicity may have been the biggest turning point in my approach to life” Mark said. 

He then attended 2 of the MindStore course’s in the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow and used his MindStore techniques to programme his career. He has since went on to represent Great Britain at both the World and European Championships and is currently a professional skater on the hit TV Series Dancing on Ice.

Mark is competing again this Sunday on this prime time TV show. Maybe we could all spread the word through our networks and friendships and give a fellow MindStore member not only our vote but keep our three fingers together for him.

MindStore works, it can work for you, those you care about and work with too. The New Course provides the very best and ground breaking techniques for manifesting and improving life.  Indeed it is unlikely you will find so many practical  tools that are easy to learn and at the forefront of Personal Development over one single day.

Jack will present The Best of MindStore in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Saturday 3 March.  Discounts are available for Members, Students and Groups. CLICK HERE to book on today.

You can vote for Mark during Sunday Nights Show on ITV1 at 6.45pm. You can also follow Mark on Twitter at @Mark_Hanretty

At my last gig of 2011, I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at a “Dragons Den” style final for North Lanarkshire schools.  Upper School students (15-17 year olds) in teams of no more than three from the start of term worked up serious business plans and submitted them to the organisers. There were six finalists and the standard of their business ideas and the enthusiasm in which they presented was just wonderful.

I had the privilege of having 45 minutes to prepare them for the presentations. Rather than a motivational piece, I wanted to give them tools to boost their immediate performance and tools that they can use for the rest of their life.

I have had many fantastic encounters with this age group this last year and always I have found them willing to learn, and genuinely grateful for what MindStore gives them.

I just dived in, suggesting that they must be fairly nervous or anxious as in just over an hour they would be up on their feet presenting to the Dragons. The prizes that were available were significant from Kindles for each of the team members of the top three, to large cash prizes and equipment for the schools.

They seemed genuinely surprised yet eager when I said that I could give them a tool right there and then that could get rid of the anxiety, to ensure that they gave their best possible presentation. I advised them, as I do, that the techniques would seem a little strange at first but added “extraordinary people, do extraordinary things” and that they were far from ordinary school students.

They seemed to like that while also respecting my credibility, working all around the world; over 50% of the FTSE 100 has been clients, nearly 25 years in this field and somewhere in the region of 500,000 people have been through some kind of training with us.

Unlike so many “adults” they had not one ounce of cynicism between them.  This set against the economic reality facing their age group, their optimism and hope was truly inspiring.

So first up was tapping (Thought Field Therapy). I got straight into it and before they knew it they were all humming “Happy birthday” like the best of them. As if to shame “some” of the “adults” who have attended MindStore for Business Courses there was no sniggering, just a wanting to know they were tapping in the right place and getting it correct.

We did four rounds of the Anxiety Algorithm coming down from 10 to 1, as they fed back how their anxiety just melted away. Next, the MindStore Relaxation exercise, a screen for mental rehearsal and programming their Goal. Again, no hesitation, just a willingness to have a go.

In front of their teachers, their peers and fellow competitors, they closed their eyes and took the three deep breaths. It was easy to see that they were enjoying it as the stress on each of their faces quickly dissolved. I pushed the boat out and gave them a version of “The Cloak” and the “Inner Coaches” combined into one.

Forty five minutes later, they were ready, willing and able, and when each of them got up on the stage, they did their school, their parents and themselves proud.

As if it were meant to be, I was immediately approached by a teacher when my coaching session was over.  She explained that she had changed local authority over the summer, she was now with her new school students at the event and she was really enjoying her new job. She then told me that she had brought the entire Fifth Year (16-17 year olds) from her previous school, to the open “Prepare for Exams Day” that I did for Glasgow Schools back in March. The city’s schools took over the Royal Concert Hall and with the support of Glasgow City Council and sponsorship of local businesses; senior pupils were transported in from all over Glasgow.

It was an amazing day, and one of the best experiences of my life, to have nearly 2000 teenagers listen and learn for an entire day was just awesome. The teacher explained that her students then had the previous year been the worst performing Fourth Year in the history of the school. She said after the event they had all agreed to practise the techniques with the full support of teachers in the run up to their formal examinations. In addition, the teachers had agreed to create the space for pre-programming on each of the exam days. She proudly informed me that group of students became the best ever Fifth Year in the school’s history. They all did exceptionally well in all of their subjects. We had already learned that the overall results were the best in the city’s history but to hear it first hand from a dedicated and inspiring teacher quite simply made my year.

She gave me the confidence to tease the regions Director of Education and the leading Politicians who were in attendance. I did a short motivational piece to open the formal event and mentioned the Glasgow Exam Day and offered to do the same for them.

I started my career working with this age group for ten years in an area of intense deprivation. To be able to still find a rapport with them all these years later was genuinely surprising and inspiring. They face an uncertain future and if we can arm this age group with the best tools and techniques it’s now clear to me that they can go on and shine.

I also realise that all of us face a rather challenging and entirely unique immediate future. Economics and Politics aside, the year ahead does seem uncertain. The fact that at MindStore we believe that “thoughts are things” makes it more than concerning that “the 2012” thing is everywhere in popular consciousness.

Perhaps like never before, our tools and techniques are going to be necessary in the coming year. If any of the imagined disasters come, then “survivors” will definitely need them. If all we face is continued disruptive economic conditions then there will be a type of “survival of the fittest” reality playing out. If these tools work so easily for school students without them experiencing yet adult life, how much more would they work in the open hearts and minds of you and your colleagues. Surely if the “adults” could surrender their ego to learn too, and get their pride out of the way to practise and use the tools, then it’s clear the tools and techniques will bring the best out of everyone who chooses to use them. Arguably now is the time we need them most.

Yesterday I also had the privilege of spending the entire day with two hundred and fifty fifth year school students preparing them for their prelims. I had the same response as before. I had the full support of the Head Teacher and his team of committed teachers and the overwhelming enthusiasm go the young people.

I am now seriously looking to find the space to record all of this material and make it available to download for all students.

I will do all I can this year to help keep you on track with your tools and techniques through reminders and support with the use of social media and courses.

Jack Black will present The Best of MindStore in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Saturday 3 March 2012. ** Early Bird offer ends 22 Jan 2012**
High School Students are welcome to attend so long as they are accompanied by an adult.

CLICK HERE For more details and booking

Follow Jack on Twitter 
Friend Jack on Facebook
Connect on LinkedIn

“The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.”

I first said this 20 years ago and all my experience since then supports this truth.  Taking action on your imaginations ideas is what truly makes the difference between those who live life to the full and those who simply dream.

Now, at this time of year we can observe the power of imagination in children as they look forward to Santa coming.  There is so much we can learn from them.  The vividness of what they want from Santa is so obvious and because they are bombarded by constant reminders of Christmas, what they really want is in their minds and imagination all the time.

This alone, is a tremendous validation of all we teach at MindStore regarding success and goal setting.  In the first place, the average person doesn’t really ever get round to setting goals.  If they do it’s probably at their work and something to do with their career.  Most of them actually give little thought or energy to their goals, time slips by and nothing seems to be achieved.  However those who do achieve great things seem to think about their goals all the time.  They build a desire for what they want and that causes them to constantly remind themselves.  By doing so, they build a huge belief that they can actually achieve and ultimately, they have a sense of expectation that whatever they really want will manifest.

Now your average little child just does this instinctively.  The wonder of the myth of Santa is so powerful that they’re always wandering into little day dreams and fantasies of Santa on his sleigh, with Rudolph and the sacks of presents for all the little boys and girls.  They find that they reinforce these ideas constantly as they go about their day and everywhere there are reminders.  Indeed, for up to two months, Christmas lights, trees and music are available in the High Street and everywhere in the media.  The child knows from experience that Christmas day is really special and as if by magic, everything they want just appears.  There is another amazing lesson for the child in that there is no sense of lack because in the story, every little boy and girl gets their presents.  So, in the mind of children there is only abundance.

So, what is going on here?

Well, the child is actually using their right brain as they imagine themselves with their toys, the ones they really want and, they are doing this in a daydream or fantasy like state that is repeated over and over again for weeks.  Every night, they more than likely fall asleep dreaming of Santa coming, and on the nights closer to the 25th,  they even look out of their window before bed, and would swear that they actually saw the sleigh in the night sky.  Further, they awaken in the morning and even start their day by thinking about Christmas right away as they excitingly open their advent calendar with the anticipation of yet another little surprise.

Guess what? For 20 years and more I have been teaching this approach to those who are willing to listen.  It’s true that the greats in history and those who inspire us today, find a dream or goal that motivates them just like a child is motivated and inspired by Christmas.  They constantly find the day dream state in their mind (we can scientifically measure it in the rhythm of the brain) and constantly revisit having achieved their goal just like the child does playing with their toys.  Now because of this repetition they build their desire, their belief and ultimately their expectation.  Just like the child as if by magic they find themselves in the right place at the right time and somehow or other their destination is reached.

So, it’s obvious you need to get in touch with your inner child; you actually need to use your brain like a child to think about what you really want for this coming year believing in abundance while everyone else focuses on lack.  Commit to think about your goal everyday, even fall asleep dreaming about it and waken up thinking about it again.  I recommend you place images in all kinds of unexpected places to remind you of your goals.  Use a MindStore Night Book or a Vision Board and mirror the behaviour of children and watch what happens.

“The greatest gift in life is to take action whilst others simply dream”

For help with establishing and setting goals visit our online store or book onto The Best of MindStore with Jack Black on Saturday 3 March 2012 in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

If you need help or support with your goal setting please email us at info@mindstore.com

Click Here to join in with our “Time for Giving” promotion and you could receive a special gift from MindStore.

You have probably caught onto the “news” that the world will end sometime tomorrow according to a preacher in the US.

If he is right then I can only wish you and everyone who is dear to you the very best of luck though I suspect like me you fully expect to enjoy your well earned weekend.

He has got me to think about what if it was really going to happen and we all just had one more day to live. Each of us no doubt would stop everything we are doing to do all we can to reach loved ones and close friends to say our farewells and God only knows what else.

Perhaps we could all benefit from heeding his warning and take advantage of it to actually sit down and make a compelling “to do” list, as if it were real a list like no other you’ve ever made before. It’s obvious that some seriously important thoughts and intentions would quickly come in to your consciousness. The obvious extension of this is that maybe these things really need to be acted upon anyway. And, if it were really real and the “big man” called it off and gave us another chance provided we made significant changes to our behaviours, attitudes and commitments what would you have to change and what new activities and goals would you commit to?

It also occurs to me that working this through might serve as a good talking point at a dinner party or over a pint presuming we all see Saturday night. Sitting down with loved ones and making separate lists and comparing them will probably lead to deep insights and significant change in how you would relate to each other.

As a subject for a workshop at work it could well have a profound effect on all manner of activities and ultimately on performance and results. At a minimum it would surely help improve on how everyone is valued and treated, particularly colleagues, customers and suppliers.

This has been on my consciousness since reading about it on a flight last Saturday. Indeed, I have found it influencing the design of the new materials I have been working on this week for our courses in future. I have also been more aware of how I am relating to folks too. It has even got me to work more on myself placing particular emphasis on my self management; I’ve reviewed my progress in my personal development and I have made a fresh commitment to strive to reach for performance excellence in each and every day going forward.

Also this week here in Kent the weather finally changed and the autumn is definitely here again. Thoughts turn anyway to ensuring the year ends well and the goals we have set come to fruition. You make choices consciously and unconsciously every day and I am sure like me there is room to make better ones. Anyway, I obviously hope and indeed pray that he has got it all wrong. Whatever comes to pass may I wish you every success going forward and hopefully here or wherever that may be that we meet again.

You might have heard that on Saturday 12 November in Earls Court London, I’m going back to my original “MindStore Operating System” for the mind. It’s completely updated and wonderfully improved and if you fancy taking a trip “Back to the Future” with me you can rest assured you will have much more fun creating compelling Futures and living life to the full.

Probably like never before you and I need to focus on our SELF MANAGEMENT, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT and PERFORMANCE.

I have been personally inspired myself using the “new” techniques. I say new because I have upgraded the original ones and will introduce entirely new tools too. The thing is they all work and work even better with this unique approach. I am pretty certain just like me you really need to work on the characteristics highlighted above.

Not everybody but lots of us are aware that we need to allocate time, precious as it is to actually stop and have a good look at ourselves in order to make the necessary changes to arm ourselves not only to cope with what’s coming but to strive ahead in these very interesting times.

Let me ask you…

Are you completely happy with your day to day outcomes? How would you score yourself with SELF MANAGEMENT on a scale of 1-10? To help you; consider your attitudes, your behaviors, your stress levels, your eating and drinking, your weight, your fitness and wellbeing.

How do you score on your progress and commitment to your PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT? Think about it, are you living with purpose? For example are you working to improve yourself? Do you actually have compelling and specific goals that are driving your behaviors actions and results? Are you venturing out of your comfort zones challenging yourself to grow? And what is the next big thing you are looking forward to?

What about your PERFORMANCE, how you are performing day to day? What tools and techniques do you have at your disposal or have used today or yesterday to ensure you were presenting yourself to the world in the best possible light? Are you constantly coming up with good ideas, finding fresh opportunities and breakthroughs and more importantly seizing on them to stride ahead?

Simply put, are you getting the results that you really want? Are you happy and enjoying life? And do you see futures that inspire you to get up in the morning with a passion to engage in the day ahead?

Forgive me but I am going to say it. I have got the tools and techniques for you right here. Solutions developed over 20 years that have allowed seemingly ordinary people to pick them up, apply them and somehow accomplish extraordinary things. 

They work and now they work even better, believe me even the currently in vogue scientists, the quantum physicists are finding credible language to explain why thousands and thousands of MindStore Members seem to be able to create their own reality and astonishingly manifest their “impossible” desires over and over again and it just keeps happening.  Folks like:

The innocent man, held in prison who applies his MindStore tools to survive and even thrive in horrendous incarceration. Not only survives but goes onto write the book   which is being published and the film rights are already negotiated.

The school pupils who actually transition their attitudes to learning and astound their teachers with their new behaviors and results.

The unlikely lady who is inspired on the course to start her equally unlikely business and becomes an award winning inspiration to her clients and the wider business community not only in her own city but around the world.

The sports enthusiast while also on the course decides to start a club with the clear intention of dominating her chosen sport, winning championship after championship while gaining international recognition and success. Does all of it without any immediate resources, reputation or even experience in the sport itself.

If you are a MindStore member then you will know there is a specific process yet easy to practice and implement that actually tunes your thinking to maximize the ability to use your faculties with profound accuracy to better solve your problems and achieve the things you really want in your life. Whether that’s day to day stuff or those bigger things that matter and especially those things that others so easily talk themselves out of or convince themselves that they don’t deserve or can never have.

In this course you will learn to use that process to create in your mind an imaginary location, a landscape representing your creative and intuitive right brain. The various tools and techniques are built into a home you will construct there and are easily applied into your life. The process itself actually dissipates stress so you will be nice and relaxed as you purposefully exercise and stretch your right brain. As it unfolds among others you learn and experience how too

• Stimulate every cell and regenerating your entire system
• Uncover your unique life’s purpose and drive yourself to profoundly influence your own self, your family and friends and indeed with the wider world around you.
• Diminish those things that annoy you and inspire yourself to focus and take advantage of your opportunities.
• Be more aligned to enhanced self-awareness, better health choices and more nutritious food.
• Connect on a deeper level with those you love and care about. 
• Enhance all working relationships while being more confident in your power to influence and inspire 
• Tune into your intuition, improve your creativity and produce better solutions
• Get much more out of your recreation and literally improve your “game”

Again if you’ve done a MindStore course then you probably accept that our tools and techniques work.  Though maybe you don’t use them nearly enough. We will be able to tackle that too. You will be able to scrutinise your belief system and make the choices that constantly cause you to apply that which you learn and actively change for the better.

We know that most folks “get it” intellectually. They know about the right brain stuff, they know about the benefits of having an optimistic outlook and being positive but they don’t activate methods on a daily basis to access their right brain and more importantly have no purposeful means of reaching the subconscious to re-programme any self-sabotage and limiting beliefs.

You will be able to do both, you will learn to directly link to powerful levels of consciousness and have the means to rearrange how you go about your thinking and functioning. The very best news is that, these our best techniques yet don’t take hours and hours of practicing to perfect, they really do work in a matter of minutes.  That’s just a few minutes a day providing lasting and sustained results when it matters most. They just become a way of life and simply a part of your day to day routine.

I am glad that I have challenged myself to improve on our already wonderful stuff and I suppose I am challenging you now to attend.

See you there?

Jack

For prices and more information CLICK HERE

The Secret

This single book and all of the positive hullabaloo that has come with it catapulted the notion of “manifestation” and “the law of attraction” into the consciousness of millions who otherwise probably would never have come across these concepts. Without doubt here at MindStore, we have the best suite of tools to capitalise on your intention to attract into your life the people you need, the places you need to be and the opportunities required to manifest whatever you genuinely want.

Our Secret is actually the day to day use of the “Alpha State” these powerful frequencies of brain functioning that all our tried and tested methods are tuned to work perfectly with. You may never have bothered to set specific goals before, compelling goals that you readily find a deep, deep desire for, goals that are driven by a profound belief that they can be achieved coupled with an unwavering expectation that they will absolutely come to be.
The latest MindStore programme which I will deliver in Earls Court, London on Saturday 12 November is built around our unique concept of “Mental Architecture” it opens with a brief introduction of our basic beliefs that 5 characteristics are critical to success.

1.  You are able to manage your stress so as to have abundant energy necessary for achieving sustained success.
2.  You live every day with an optimistic outlook and positive mental attitude.
3.  Everything you do is driven by your commitment to achieving compelling goals
4.  You utilise whole brain thinking and in particular choose purposefully to work with the powerful advantages of using your right brain hemisphere. 

You master and have complete dominion and control over your emotions.Then you begin the exciting journey into your right brain via the metaphor of walking into the right bank of a river creating as you go the perfect landscape on which you construct “The House with the Red Roof”. Within the house there are rooms you will find to house the tools and techniques.  The “new” material honors the heritage of the original system but takes it to another level again.
You don’t need to be a seasoned MindStore member to learn this stuff, the very best news is that these our best techniques yet don’t take hours and hours of practicing to perfect they really do work in a matter of minutes.  That’s just a few minutes a day providing lasting and sustained results when it matters most.
If you were a participant of any previous MindStore course you will readily integrate the tools you already have into this concept and of course come away with some more. If you did the Island either online or at a course then you now have a very special place to catch the ferry from.

I can’t wait to share this with you. I am using the techniques daily myself now and have made the transition effortlessly, and honestly I don’t know why I didn’t before now. It is so much better.

Click Here for info or to Book for The Best of MindStore in London

This Blog post is intended to assist those who attended MindStore courses in London and Johannesburg over the past couple of weekends. If you didn’t attend, much of the content will serve as a reminder of the basics while the specific methods are based on our reintroduction of the original MindStore methods that have been upgraded and updated. All courses across our entire portfolio will revert to the new/old material from now on.

I trust you are all settling into your “New Home” and have been having fun and getting fantastic results with your visits. I have been delighted with the feedback and truly inspired by the exceptional stories that have come in since Saturday. As promised here is a blog to remind you of some of the key features plus some additional pointers.

Firstly I would like to impress on you that the greatest gift provided on Saturday was the “Alpha State” or as we have previously called it “Foundation”. This provides us with the means to tune to the rhythm and resonance of the “universal wavelength” for the laws of attraction and manifestation. The process, it’s procedures and discipline allow you the time required to relax into the rhythm and stabilise your connection.

So each day find the position, do the breathing followed by the full head to toe relaxation. Head for your “beach” then onto the bank of the river. Remind yourself of the lush green grass, the blue sky and the construction of your “House With The Red Roof.” Enjoy a drink of crystal clear water from the well as you prepare to step inside your entrance. Remind yourself of the shape of this space, the height of the ceiling, decorative features, lighting and colours. Focus on your 5 values cast before you on the floor selecting one for contemplation. List your 3 “hassles” then enjoy your shower before wiping the slate clean. The house is then open up to you with all its wonder and potential.

Every time you access your new home take the time to meet with your coaches whether directly in “The Den” or elsewhere. Invest in this imaginary tool to build a relationship with that part of you that resonates at a higher level or put another way your intuitive self. Remember you may have the feeling that you are just making this up but that in effect is the point. Make believe at this level of awareness accesses the intuitive faculty of the right brain. As time goes by getting to know each other over leisurely conversations or more directly through sharing in the use of the Media Room is absolutely fantastic. Insights, better problem solving and breakthroughs all result in engaging with this fascinating inner work. Many of you have already fed back how this is becoming much more intuitive and how you have already improved in all manner of ways.

Media Room Tips

For creative “problem (”delete that programme” )…challenge solving” follow this procedure:

Admit and accept your current reality by projecting the image and content of the challenge on the central screen – move to the past (right) screen to study and analyse the challenge, ask yourself who’s involved, what’s involved, where and when does it happen and so on. Then make the screen go blank, come back to the present screen and consider your current reality once more before also making that screen blank too. Now move your eyes to the left and on your future screen (screen 3) explore various alternatives. You will find that in the Alpha State your combined creativity and intuition will begin to come up with possibilities you would otherwise not have considered. You can play forward each solution on the screen till you find the one you feel is the best solution. Create then a scene of the solution being realised, pay attention to what you would expect to see hear and feel. Finally freeze and frame the final “photograph” in brilliant white light. With all your programmed outcomes on the future screen you commit to regularly review it until it is actually manifested in real life. Mohamed Ali called this image a “Future History”.

Now once this is established you move to the 4th screen the consequences screen to consider the benefits for others when your Future History is achieved. The same process is used with each of your 7 key goals and indeed any other goals or programmes you wish to have in your life. Remember too, critically when you go back to review your Future History on your 3rd screen you never ever consider the present or past screen. You are now a futurist and are committed to bring the solution or goal into being by constantly reviewing in The Alpha State screens 3 and 4 only.

Parking cars, finding the best table in a restaurant or seats at the theatre and endless other outcomes can be programmed quickly and purposefully by simply putting your Tip Of The Tongue Trigger in place together with the Kubera Mudra and immediately flashing the 3rd screen into your minds eye and seeing the result you want, a quick glance at the 4th screen will complete the process. Simply open your eyes and go about our business with the desire, belief and expectation that you will succeed.

On every visit to your new home make the commitment to work on your own personal development by engaging with your inner coaches. You can of course meet them in “The Den” though you can choose to maintain your inner relationship at any location. I always involve them in considering my options on the screens in The Media Room and I find it particularly wonderful when they assist me in my study of the images on the walls in my Central Hallway. Clearly there are many other rooms and indeed locations on the landscape where you can enjoy their company too but that is all for another time.

The Energising Beam. You can use this very special tool at any time you feel the need for additional energy or even to take away a headache before it becomes established and intense. Always use it as you leave the house when you have just programmed an important meeting or event in the Media Room or ran a rehearsal in the Theatre of Possibilities.

To use it first consider the 3 general opportunities that are currently on your mind (raising your intention in the Alpha State to focus on opportunities charges the magnetic like characteristic of your mind and causes you to attract into your reality whatever you require to achieve them) then step onto the platform imagine turning on its power and immediately feel a vibrating and vibrant beam of energy rising up from the floor below into every cell of your body. I actually slowly stand up before turning it on and literally shake with the imaginary force deciding and demanding to be charged by its abundant vitality and health. Then turn it off and step away to take a look up at your stained glass window, remind yourself of your core values and leave the house enjoying another drink of crystal clear and refreshing spring water. Look towards the river bank and step forwards as you count from 1-7 and over to the Left Bank where you take action and go about your business.

That’s more than enough for now, stay connected via email or the social networks. I will also provide you with more tools and techniques on a conference call that you can participate on within a couple of weeks time. Do please send me stories of using your new tools and techniques and if you can give me permission to post them with or without your details you will be encouraging others and as the universe seems to operate the intention to assist will come back to you multiplied.

We have now decided to present this course in Glasgow on Saturday 3 March 2012 and are considering Dublin too. Remember if you are interested in how MindStore and all our programmes and solutions can assist you at work or in our business please get in touch. In the meantime enjoy and remember

“It Only Works”

Jack

The Best of MindStore, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Saturday 3 March 2010

CLICK HERE to book and take advantage of Early Bird Discounts.

The other day I was having a chat with Alan Brodie who is the MindStore Associate for Scotland. He was sharing some of his experiences from recently teaching his first few MindStore courses. During one of his sessions, a guy in the audience challenged him by pointing out how he enjoyed being grumpy and having a good moan. It got me to think about it in the context of this season of giving and it stimulated a couple of my recent tweets into the bargain.

You and I give of ourselves every day, our demeanour, our attitudes, the words we use and all the conversations we engage in all impact those involved. A “Good Moan” not only lowers the vibration of the person being grumpy, it does so to the folks in range. Not just through the use of words and content but since thoughts are things, a positive or negative thought field will also have its influence on those around us. You and I know only too well the impact on ourselves of being in the presence of an optimistic, positive and upbeat individual. Likewise, being in the company of the grumpy moaner soon impacts your own energy, drive and outlook.

With MindStore we can choose to be alert to such events and can immediately pull down the “bell jar”, or find a valid excuse to move away from the source of the imbalance. They do say that the real joy of this season is in the giving and not the receiving. Being aware of what you are giving day by day through your presence and purposefully lifting the quality of your consciousness is obviously the best gift you can give.

So does your presence lift and encourage those you come into contact with? Do you create a climate of possibilities and solutions? “Being a problem” or “creating problems” even by just lowering the vibration is hardly a gift others will be grateful for. “As we give so we shall receive” comes to mind. It seems too, that we attract folks of similar resonance, so it would seem that by choosing the higher course by deciding to be positive, to look to find solutions rather than create “problems”, we create the conditions for all involved to thrive and live each moment in a better place than they otherwise would have.

If you have recently attended a MindStore course then you can focus each day through bringing one or all of your five features from your “window” into your thoughts. You can also use your slate in the shower and of course “delete that programme” and your “bell jar”.

In this season of giving you can consider giving the gift of MindStore simply by setting an example or by gifting The Best of MindStore Course, a book or a download.

In acknowledgement of this season of goodness and grace we too will be giving. Each Wednesday from now until 21 December, we will give one of you the gift of MindStore.

Gift 1: 2 x Tickets for The Best of MindStore, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Saturday 3 March 2012 – This has been gifted to Mike Bissett

Gift 2: 1 x Personal Tele-Coaching Session with Jack Black (up to 1 hour) this has been gifted to Meg Moreland.

Gift 3: Our Final Gift is a real Christmas Cracker! 2 x tickets to the Best of MindStore with Jack Black PLUS B&B Accommodation for 2 people in the fabulous 5 Star Blythswood Square Hotel & Spa (on the evening of 2 or 3 March whatever suits best). For more information on this luxury hotel click here. This amazing gift has been given to Gail Rankin

There are different gifts each week and 3 ways you can join in:

1. Simply leave a positive comment below
2. If you’re on Twitter tweet the following (Copy and Paste): The Gift of MindStore http://bit.ly/s3xWC1 #itonlyworks
3. If you’re on Facebook you can leave a comment below and/or share our blog post with your friends

Anyone can join although those under 18 years of age must have parental permission to enter.
• YOU MUST COMMENT below, and/or TWEET and/or Share our Blog on Facebook
• If you are chosen, you will be notified via email, and you must respond within 48hrs. If you do not respond within that period, the gift will be allocated to someone else.
• 3 Gifts will be given. Starting Wednesday 7th December, then on Wednesday 14th December and again on Wednesday 21st December.

This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. You are providing your information to MindStore and not to Facebook.
The information you provide will only be used the purpose of this giveaway and MindStore will never disclose/share your personal information with a 3rd party.

Away back in the beginning of MindStore, I used to hold a goal setting workshop around this time of year. Famously one year, I presented one in the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow and the Novotel at Hammersmith in London. I was really fortunate to have managed to book Sir Ranulph Fiennes to speak at these.  As you can well imagine, he was a wonderful inspiration to the hundreds who attended. That was many years before he even considered running all those marathons, and he lifted everyone up to believe that they could achieve too. His story included endless setbacks and even life-threatening challenges during his quest. He let us all see a slide, containing an image with most of his belongings and provisions sat upon a piece of ice that had broken off where he had camped, and was now floating away from him to be lost forever.

He let us all see that if you are truly committed (in the middle of the Antarctic on your way to the South Pole you have no choice but to be so) then no matter what stumbling blocks get in your way, you have the wherewithal to find deep inside a part of you that can, and will find a way.

You can only discover that part of you if you find yourself tested, and that will come by pushing yourself to set the goals that will inevitably draw on all your resources. You need goals that are big and demand that you be the best you can be. You know that you can do this.  Don’t concern yourself about the HOW question when you start out. Don’t let your doubting left brain put you off. Don’t deny yourself your true desires. Think BIG!  Sir Ranulph helped put any of our limitations in to perspective and he perfectly set up all the participants to work their way through our goal setting process.

Firstly we took a sheet of A4 and wrote down a big gratitude list. We identified everything we were well and truly grateful for and each person worked on that for fifteen minutes before sharing a couple from their list with a stranger.

So before this year is out make sure you get that sheet of paper out. Why not hold a small workshop with your family and friends. Even watch an uplifting movie or documentary first. Write out your gratification list. Share a few of your goals with others and enjoy listening to what they trust you with. We then did a fifteen minute listing on a fresh sheet of eliminations. Here you list all those things that you have “clinging to you” and that are actually holding you back. You can’t create space for the future if your energy is all clogged up with the past. So, empty out the garage, get rid of stuff in cupboards, drawers and definitely your wardrobe. (Those flares are never coming back into fashion!) You will have all manner of stuff you will never really use again and it’s best to move it on.

Creating empty space at home and at work, creates a vacuum and like a magnet the space inevitably attracts all kinds of new things to once again fill it up. When you have made the list and then have taken the time to clear it all out, (you can easily do this sometime between Christmas and New Years Day) you have then created a space of expectation, that space of being receptive, of being ready for the new, where you are open to receive. Then you can and should review or write down your thirty goals before narrowing them down into your top seven.

Do take the time to do this to get them into your consciousness ahead of “the bells” and the New Year. I will provide you with “What to do in the first few days of the New Year”, in the next blog.

Enjoy this wonderful time of renewal, hope and wonder.

For additional help with Goal Setting CLICK HERE to view our range of tools and for information on The Best of MindStore with Jack Black

Goal Setting Workshop 2

This is the best time of the year to commit to a bunch of goals that will inspire your actions day after day.

There are things we know we can do that genuinely help to bring even our wildest dreams into reality.  With our full range of MindStore tools, there is more than enough equipment to make sure you not only set the goals but ultimately achieve them.

Firstly, give yourself the Gift of Seven Goals. Give yourself the gift of actually claiming the goals you truly want, not the ones your doubtful, limiting left brain’s common sense tells you are possible. At MindStore we don’t use common sense when it comes to goal setting. We demand of ourselves not to be limited by needing to know how we are going to achieve our goals. In fact, if you select goals and already know how you’re going to achieve your goals and can write out a full plan of your journey towards them, then you will have no doubt limited yourself in so many ways. Not only have you deprived yourself of much better achievements but you have also deprived yourself of what you are truly capable of, and deprived your loved ones, friends and colleagues of a much better you.

Now you can take advantage of the universal vibe at this time, a time of global intention for setting goals. You can arrange to set the purposeful time to commit to sit down in the “Alpha State” and dare to dream. Talk with your “Inner Coaches” seek their advice , fantasize and imagine what you would love to achieve, what you want to do, what you would like to have, and who you want to become.

Find seven goals that stand out for you, then programme them for the first time with absolute commitment by working them through your four screens ( if you only have the original three then that’s fine too). Now take your Night Book, or make one up as per the instructions in the MindStore Book or just do the following:

Write out each goal in turn on its own page in a notebook. Make sure it’s a notebook that’s only used for your goals and for keeping a journal of your journey towards their realisation.  Get a photograph of the goal, or do a drawing or painting and position it on the same page. It’s best to use photographs, or if you do a drawing, take a photograph of it and place copies in places you would least expect to find them. For example inside your shoes, your wardrobe, the bathroom cabinet, on the dashboard of your car, on the inside of the cupboard where you keep your tea etc, etc. The images will subliminally programme the goals into your subconscious and assist you in creating the gestalt process that facilitates the manifestation of your goals.

Write out an affirmation (that’s a sentence that is constructed using what we call the 3 P’s). It’s positive, it’s personal and it’s in the present tense. Typical examples will be “I am enjoying the challenges of my new role with …..” or “I feel wonderful right now as I have effortlessly lost weight and reached a size….”

You now have a description of your goal, a photograph of the goal, an affirmation, and then you need to commit to a date you want to achieve it by. Write out the date and sign the page.  Over the coming weeks have a look at each page before settling down to sleep at night. In the morning have another look before “Programming Your Day.” Making up collages of your combined images works too. You can also have fun engaging the family and you can have a board placed up somewhere in the kitchen or living room where everyone’s goals and pictures are up there for all to see. You could actually do this as a family workshop, gathering around a table with scissors, paper, glue, old magazines and brochures.

“It only works” and it will work for you and all you love in the year ahead!

For additional help with your goal setting CLICK HERE to view our range of products and tools or find out more about The Best of MindStore with Jack Black taking place in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Saturday 3 March 2012

Goal Setting Workshop 3

Obviously getting into a rhythm early on and sticking with it is very important. It’s also worth accepting that the vibe right round the world at this time is similar. There are millions of folks with the intention of making personal change for the better so take advantage and tune that powerful collective energy.

Having identified your goals, you can get started, and if not just go back over my two previous Blog posts and catch up. There is plenty of time, and whatever you do don’t beat yourself up for not having started already, just join in now.

With MindStore we have our system that has been proven over twenty years, with hundreds of thousands of folks using it, that it works in fact “It Only Works”. It is just a matter of following a few steps every day and letting the process work on you.

Get disciplined to get up each morning a little bit earlier than before, so that you can use the techniques. First thing to do is to have a look at your seven goals preferably in your Night Book or in the notebook version. Then enter the “Alpha State” and programme your seven by running each goal through on your Future Screen, and if you have learned it, your Consequences Screen. Once you have done this, you then Programme Your Day. This is a critical technique that we have consistently found is used daily by the members who have had the more inspiring results over the years.

To do this stay in the Alpha State then take each key event of your day ahead and Programme each on your screens. You would list each event on the Central Screen before reviewing a pervious success of a similar event on your Past Screen. Then letting it go blank remind yourself of today’s event on your Present Screen, then let it go blank too before moving to your Future Screen and Programme it going the way you want it to go. Then if you use the fourth screen consider the consequences there too.

Repeat this process for each of the key events or tasks on your to do list. This only takes a few minutes and actually takes longer to explain than it does to actually do it. You would then come out of the “Alpha State” and go about your day. As each key event comes round, depending on how important it is for you, you should build in the time to arrive early enough to be able to find somewhere private to ensure you can programme it again.

On the way through each day, remember to be on guard with your thoughts and words. Being positive is vital and protecting yourself from the negativity of others is critical too.

By the end of the day, just have a look at your Night Book again before you fall asleep.

Remember too, that you can get constant reminders and tips if you follow me on Twitter or are a friend on Facebook or have linked with me on LinkedIn.

Let’s all enjoy a wonderful 2012 and let’s ensure we achieve our goals rather than just help others to achieve theirs.

CLICK HERE to view our range of goal setting products and tools and to find out more about The Best of MindStore with Jack Black taking place in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Saturday 3 March 2012