Jack Black – Leadership Development – Personal Effectiveness

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
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Anyone can join although those under 18 years of age must have parental permission to enter.
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• 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.

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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

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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.

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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.

I heard today from a MindStore member who came across her old course notes from way back in 2001. She got in touch because so many of the goals identified back then had been achieved; however there were some strange results too and she wanted to share them with me.  What she told me is actually very, very common but worth being aware of.  She had stumbled across them and   on having a look again noticed that some of the goals written down during the course, ones largely forgotten about, had come into being.  I’ve had this feedback time and time again and it is only when the old work sheets are opened up years later that this is discovered.  We know that Night Books work and programming the Top Seven of course does too; however the phenomenon of the other goals showing up as well intrigues and begs a number of questions.

If you will remember we worked our way through a process during the course.  Among other things, I do all I can to build you up to identify an initial 30 goals.  It comes after explaining the left and right brain approaches to goal setting.  It also comes after me urging you to suspend the need for your left brain’s question of “HOW” you are going to achieve your goals.  Rather as you may remember in MindStore we focus on the “WHY”.  Just before turning on the music I point out how few people ever in an entire lifetime take the time to do this and even we only do it for 11 minutes.

Clearly something special happens collectively in that 11 minute period.  Having aroused the desire,   belief and probably the expectation, hundreds of folks are having a go at identifying the goals at exactly the same time.  What happens is everyone gets into a flow of consciousness and ideas inevitably come into their awareness that otherwise probably would never surface.  Trusting the process, they write them down on the work sheet.  It’s believed by many in this field that with the power of intention we probably place an imprint into the universe and with “programming” even just that once the universe gets to work to bring it all together in its own time and place sometime in the future.

Another fanciful viewpoint is that for some reason probably due to the collective intention we tune into the future as if we get a glimpse through some kind of portal and we process what we witness as an idea for a goal that comes into our awareness and then it’s written down.  Conjecture is that it’s already a reality in some dimension and it’s only a matter of time before we catch up. Or of course it’s all just a wonderful coincidence.
In the process, usually the next day, we work the 30 goals down to just 7 and then they are programmed with the four screens, though years ago were just as successful with three screens.  The goals are also written up in Night Books by real enthusiasts and they get to work on programming them by constantly going “Back to the future” in the Alpha State.  Yet so often for countless folks the goals that were thought about for a matter of seconds and written down once in the work sheet of 30, manifest anyway.  As I say this is very, very common.

Today though, my caller also pointed out that some of the specific content covering a number of her goals actually manifested though not as originally programmed.  Without going into her personal details she found specific bits of some came into reality but in a different context but still benefited her.
It’s clear though that given how common this is that something does seem to happen during that extraordinary 11 minutes.  “It’s frightening” she said “that they have come about all these years later and I hadn’t really thought about them again.”

There is definitely real power in the MindStore process and certainly something very special happens during the intensity of the 11 minutes.  It would be well worth you taking the time to look out past work sheets and see what’s happened for yourself.

There seem to be three outcomes from participating:
1. You end up with clarity on particular goals that you can commit to.  You then programme them on your screens and with repetition and the use of the wider tools and techniques the goals are achieved.
2. You think about other goals more or less just once as a result of doing the exercise.  They don’t make your top seven, you get on with your life and low and behold sometime in the future they become a reality too.
3. You create detail in components of goals that somehow or other get cross wired with others and even with not thinking about them again they also show up in the future though not in their original context but still to your advantage.

 My joy is that for hundreds of thousands of people, programming works whether by simply using the tip of the tongue trigger to find a parking space or to achieve big and life changing outcomes through the use of the screens and or Night Books.
What is important though is to actually be there and participate during those 11 minutes with the intention of identifying those initial 30 goals you desire in your life.

Programming works, “It only works” so what are you waiting on – programme the parking space, reaffirm your Top Seven, get the screens going. It’s the start of the summer- go for it, indeed all of it.

Jack Black will be present a very special MindStore Business Course in Glasgow on 14 June, Galway on 16 June and in Dublin on 17 June. To find out more visit: http://www.mindstore.com

It seems almost sinful to consider not mentioning the horrendous disaster that even yet is unfolding into the most desperate of human tragedies.

If you are the kind of person who responds to disasters by donating or engaging in fundraising or even first hand support you no doubt will have done so already or are in the process of doing what you can.

At times like this I find myself being inspired by the typical response by some of the people who have profoundly influenced my thinking and who have taught me amazing things. Bill Spear immediately comes to mind. He is an extraordinary man and one of my “gurus”. Among his fantastic works he facilitates many things including “The Passage”, a life-changing retreat experience that inspired us to create “The Line in the Sand”. He has an outstanding reputation for personally taking action in responding to human tragedy even walking into Chernobyl in order to work with the children when most other human beings were doing everything they could to get out of there.

Others are Dr Roger & Joanne Callahan who discovered and continue to develop Thought Field Therapy. Roger’s passion to free people from trauma lead to his ground breaking solutions. Joanne and many of the TFT Practitioners at their own expense fly out to devastated locations and show those affected how to dissolve trauma and thereby provide them with the confidence to rebuild their lives.