Luz Aguirrebena's Tribe.
The Thought Provoking Irreverent Pearl Necklace Grandmother of the 21 Century. Poet/Marketer, Advocating for Millennials. An Inter - generational Conversation about what it is.
Helping people confront the status quo by crafting the actions of their thoughts into the arrows of their vision, generating enough self belief, to create 50/50 partnerships where they themselves are able to become their own Fearless Unique Selling Proposition. The only thing that makes them different from any body else. Their own Uniqueness. The Selling Power Vehicle of the 21st Century.
"Luz is a precious gift to the world. She has single handedly changed hundreds of lives of our Unlock The Game Inner Circle members.
She has an effortless and natural ability to help people see the truth of why they are struggling and then provide a logical path to happiness, authenticity and success. If you get the chance to work with Luz (I know she has a long waiting list of clients), then grab it while you can!"
Many of you have heard me talk endlessly about my alliance with Martha (Martita) Sue Yeary, my dear friend, CEO of B-I-O-N-I-C GOLF, and the creative and unprecedented business model she presents to raise funds for profit. An incredibly empowering way to raise funds for young entrepreneurs.
Yes, this is one of the resources I am featuring to fund millennials dreams.
So, how does this work?
To help you understand the process and details, Martha Sue and I recorded a podcast in order to help you understand how it works. Here is the link.
Enjoy, and let me know if you have any questions.
Luz
The Thought Provoking, Irreverent Pearl Necklace Grandmother of the 21st Century.
You deserve to dedicate your life to monetize your passion. You deserve to dedicate every day, every hour and every minute to do what you do best and makes you most happy.
Because you will be more productive than you ever imagined.
Because your passion and your contribution will give you more contentment than you ever imagined.
Because the source of your future income streams is within you now. In your wealth.
Enjoy
Luz
The Thought Provoking, Irreverent Pearl Necklace Grandmother of the 21st Century. Poet/Marketer/Mrs Fire.
Teach Yourself to Believe only that which is True to Yourself
Because you will be more productive than you ever imagined. Because your passion and your
contribution will give you more contentment than you ever imagined.
Because the source of your future incomes is within, with your wealth. Teach yourself only to believe what is true to yourself, and keep going…you deserve to be happy and manifest your dream….
Have a Happy Spring.
Luz
The Thought Provoking Pearl Necklace of the 21st Century Poet and Marketer. Mrs. Fire
Yeah…it took me a long time to completely understand it… It’s a tough one… Here is the way it works. The money manifests as the happy result of applying your passion to the service of others.
We are living fascinating times. The old parameters about money are falling apart. They don’t have the foundation of value and contribution to sustain them.
The old unilateral business model of competition, non cooperation is becoming rapidly obsolete.
Especially because things are changing so rapidly. It’s not about a few ruling heads telling people what to do any more. It’s about the 3 C’s. Cooperation, Community, and Caring…Yes…
This is the great opportunity to carefully reinvent our thoughts about that green piece of paper or silver coin, that has seduced the masses for longer than we want to remember.
It’s not any more about any means to an end, in the sense that so many of us have been willing to completely compromise our creativity and happiness for a salary, and a life without real sense. Living in the lethargic inadequacy of not performing at our full potential.
That’s what we settled for. All our life. You see the cruelty towards yourself? And the cruelty towards others… It’s pretty Machiavellic huh?
So, these days it just makes more sense to focus in the means as the service . So the money is attached to the contribution to a better world. Is the result of cooperation. Not control.
Seems it is time to change the focus in the means as to contribution to the end. Not the other way around.
See, instead of any means to an end, it is only one mean to many ends. VALUE of CONTRIBUTION.
Einstein said: “Success without value is not Success”… Look around.He was right on target once more…
Enjoy the video. Is uplifting and revealing.
Luz
The Thought Provoking Irreverent Pearl Necklace Grandmother of the 21st Century- Mrs. Fire.
Are we, the Baby Boomer generation going to finally stop, think, and listen to what Millennials are trying to tell us?
Are we going to do what our parents couldn’t do which is stand up for our children and be open to the perception of the world they have and learn from it instead of dismissing it as non viable?
Are we going to seriously reflect and take responsibility for our part in this dissociated world we created and set the record straight with our children?
Ar we going to surrender to that new unknown world that we are co-creating and admit with humility that our children understand it a lot better…
Ar we going to be brave enough to apologize to our children for making such a mess and mainly for throwing the real values of life out the window?
Are we going to pass the torch of wisdom…or are we going to once again pass the torch of judgment.
Are we going to make an effort to see the big picture the way they do?
I tell you…They hold the keys of the future. Be aware.
We better start rethinking what ADD, ADHD, and even Autism really mean to us. You may not know that underneath each of our ADD or ADHD or Autism prescription there is a genius trying to tell us you are not listening to their actual needs. There needs are a very important thing. They should be a priority.
Check out this video with an in depth analysis of myths created around millennials that have nothing to do with them. They have all to do with the perception of the previous generation about them. That’s the Baby Boomers. Shame on us… for being the propagators of these myths.
Please check this out. It will help a lot in the process of understanding millennials behaviors and their noble motives. I myself, as a 60 years old woman, take my hat of this demographic group, my kids generation, for remaining sane in this environment we have created for them and above all for not putting up with our BS.
That is the choice we have to take. More of the same? or a new world led with passion, cooperation, non competition that can benefit from the insights of all of our experiences in a 4 seasons Vivaldi style combined with hip hop, rock, salsa and so many more in between.
The torch of wisdom threading an inter generational dialogue to connect the dots.
Some of you have come to me lately, in the last months and asked for the newsletter or the post notifications with surprise because you had not received any in a long time, trying to alert me at the same time to make sure the emails were not lost in the immensity of the ciber space.
Thanks guys, for looking out. The truth is I haven’t been posting in the blog since December. More likely slowed down dramatically after the summer.
This doesn’t mean that I have not been writing. As a matter of fact, I have been writing a lot. Mission concepts, sales letters, revenue projections, Business Plan elements. Equity branding.
So, for the ones of you who have been asking about the coaching and the services in Soul Hang Out, those of you who are in my tribe, have been in my tribe for years and those members to come, for years, I have great news.
I have come up with a plan to use Soul Hang Out as the platform of the Soul Hang Out Tribe.
I never imagined how long takes the process of weaving an idea into manifested reality. The study, the research, the focus and passion involved. It has been an amazing process, though. It was the time needed to craft the language that will convey the vision of the mission.
I have to admit, my dear friends, I have been feeling bad about not keeping the connection with you all, through the blog. However, at the same time it was important to go into creating the best systems and elements to get the word out and the most important one. Find the right language that will speak to my audience. So I figured since there is no two of me, I did not have a choice. I did miss you all a lot, though!!!
So, now is the time to come out of the creative cave and voice out my mission. Coming out with my voice has been a whole process in itself. It was kind of comfortable to be in my mute cave and just write.
Believe it or not, 2 years of research, deep study of the masters, internet marketing, business and sales 21st century mindset, combined with a lifetime experience and study of the human mind, and human behavior starting with mine, and a lifetime as a sales person selling advertising, have positioned me in an advantageous position.
My thinking is suddenly the new trend. it feels fantastic!
The irony is that at a time in history that the status quo is collapsing in front of our eyes, and some people are paralyzed and panicking, on one side, it has never been so easy to become an entrepreneur and attain financial freedom while being HAPPY at the same time, on the other side.
The result is that these days you have two kinds of conversations going on. “Oh my god what are we going to do,,, is so bad” and the other one that says “Oh my God, this is such an immense opportunity to create a new world where everybody wins. Because what it is important after all is to do what you love to do for a living. For one thing is more productive. Because it makes people more happy , more creative and of course more productive.
So, I personally don’t engage in conversation about how bad things are. Because I think there has not been a better moment in history to make a difference to make a better world by our actions. As Berny Dohrmann, the Chairman of the Board of CEO Space says, “this is not a cause any more It is a cultural revolution.”
I couldn’t agree more.
The faster we understand the big picture here, the easier the process will be. Change implies some reflection and effort, I am not going to deny it, but what is the alternative. Think about it.
In order to do the shift in a less painful manner, it is important to reconnect with History. It is important to acknowledge the past as the stepping stone from the present to the future. The Past is important, not to reminisce, or dwell, or get hooked without questioning. It needs to be questioned because it holds the keys for the future.
Throughout all this process, while building my equity branding, I came to the conclusion that there are too many gurus out there telling people what to do.
I like the idea of going back to the “primitive” customs, recreate the circle around the bonfire, of those tribes who are connected to what it is. Today, in spite of the technology. The elder, passing the torch of wisdom to the next generation. The stories of their experience. The voice of the Grandmother, bringing the keys for the future, with the acknowledgment of the past. Integrating the Inter-Generational conversation.
Then I realized that I just had to embody that grandmother. I was that grandmother. I am 60 and have one grandson.I am that voice coming out of that grandmother. I was born in 1949.
So, here it goes, what I call my equity branding. Ready?
I am the Thought Provoking Irreverent Pearl Necklace Grandmother of the 21st Century. Poet and Marketer.
I hang out at my Tribe, Soul Hang Out and we help teenagers and millennials monetize their passion providing them with the tools and resources to manifest their dream.
This is the Entrepreneurial Era. Entrepreneurs inspired by their passion to contribute to make the global village of the future. A better world. Working in cooperative spirit to create abundance for everybody. No, I am not hallucinating. It is simply a new, progressive, more productive and effective paradigm shift.
I am also coaching Sales People and Entrepreneurs with the Unlock the Game mindset, to craft the conversation that will help them become their own Fearless Unique Selling Proposition.
Helping Sales people to think like Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs, to think like Sales people.
I am facilitating “The Peaceful Woman” Passages retreats in Hawaii, in September and October two separate weeks. 6 women per week, if somebody is attracted to the idea of revealing the Real You while connecting with the sacred places of the island, I will get you the details soon.
I’ll be celebrating Bionic Golf Tournaments to raise funding for millennials and teenagers. To help them manifest their dreams. Become entrepreneurs, authors, physicists, actors, farmers, musicians, artists, whatever they want. Soulhangout community, helping each other raise capital. Screw the banks.
In view of the situation with the economy, I have decided to create different mastermind groups with 4 people each, on a fixed time frame once a week. One specific subject. That way instead of paying $350 per person, you pay $85 and you can benefit from the input of the group. It is a great way to get unstuck. Accessible and reliable. It expedites the process.
I have started a group on facebook with Paul Meisman, an expert in MLM’s or network marketing companies, where we are guiding people through attaining success in network marketing while at the same time serving as a resource for MLM’s that are designed for everybody to make money. Not just a few. You will have weekly podcast.
I have started a group on facebook with weekly podcast conversations with Natalie Stoltzfus, called The UTG Sales Mindset Chamber. Going deeper into the Ari Galper mindset. If you have trouble selling the old way, this is something you want to consider listening. It will have weekly podcasts.
So, as you see, there is a lot going on. Stay tuned for more. Thank you guys. I couldn’t have done it without you. 50/50, remember?
A big hug to everybody. I am very happy to start the ACTION phase.
I have done sales all my life. It was the best way of making good money for a people’s person who didn’t finish College.
Cold calling always felt intrusive, awkward and imposing. Who was I to interrupt some body’s routine to use my product to obtrude people without any consideration to their needs or wants. It just didn’t feel right. The question crossed my mind numerous times. “Isn’t there another way? The same answer came back every time. “No, there is no other way and it’s never going to change. You better accept it.” I was only able to tweak some parts of the script…not without feeling guilty for going against the laws of the gods of the establishment.
However, you know that no matter how much your left brain tries to convince your right brain, that you have to deal with rejection, keep resisting and objecting your prospect, to make a living, deep down inside there is a part of you that will never swallow it, stop whining about it, get used to it or shut up.
Then there is the dirty word defining sales . The derogatory stereotype we helped develop with our actions following others directions against our gut…
It’s the dark side of sales. On the other hand I loved the relationship I had with my existing clients. I am a people’s person. That’s the beautiful side of selling, and the freedom…
To illustrate the stereotype, I’ll tell you a story…
The other day, I received a call. One of those “get- on - guard, - or- you - are - going -to -get - screwed” calls. The ones that feel like a trap, you know, no way out….it was a telemarketer. A woman.
You are in the comfort of your home, minding your own business. Suddenly, somebody ‘s flair of contempt for you the “prospect” interrupts , in the hopes you are going to buy something, because you are supposed to be the lucky number of a lottery ticket and today, maybe she hits the jackpot by catching you distracted on a Tuesday afternoon.
You are supposed to stop your entire life, “ipso facto”, and focus on this thing, with which you will not be able to live without, after the call. Hopefully without thinking. Because she is not interested in the least in finding what you think or if you really need or want the thing.
If you object too much, there is hell to pay. Your free will to say no doesn’t count.
And they call you the decision maker
Well, back to the call, she starts (I don’t remember her name) talking about some product that I apparently subscribed to in the Internet. I don’t remember a thing. But what’s new, I have too many things on my mind lately, I wouldn’t be surprised she is right. So, by virtue of the benefit of the doubt, some curiosity and an impetus to study the call, I prepare myself to give her some of my time. We chat for a little while.
Before I know, she is giving me instructions: “Urging” me to read the website in 45 minutes and then she’ll call me back. Now I am getting homework from somebody I have never seen in my life, with clear time slots asigned to my next 45 minutes.
Anything else!? Yes, there is more.
“I am not interested” I say for the second time.
Now, she is ready for the kill. “So, you have managed to waste not only my time but also yours with this call… #$&?! I am supposed to sit in a corner with a donkey hat…shame on me.
I am not in the mood to say anything else. I want to go back to my work. “If you feel you wasted your time, I am sorry,” I simply say and hang up…it’s not really her fault she is following “procedure.”
And we call it sales.
Urgency? The denomination of the word is “to exert an impelling force. Push vigorously.” My perception of the word urgency goes more along the lines of rushing a kid to the hospital with a broken nose, a friend who needs help, or Dan Kennedy giving a free Tele Seminar. Dan Kennedy is a force. A cold call? You decide.
What does it say about us! Buyers and Sellers… we are playing a game that looks more like the dysfunctional
behavior of an immature, pathological adult!
Then, in the sales corporate arena, feels almost like you as a Sales Executive, are supposed to leave your humanity every morning sitting in the back seat of your car at the parking lot of your office building. Then, put on your little robot costume, tidy and folded in a Ralph Lauren bag, waiting in the darkness of your trunk, to be wore all day matching a disconnected script to be recited with all the enthusiasm you can muster.
Asking anybody to dissociate from themselves that way for 8 or more hours a day is nothing but unhealthy. And that’s only the human side of it.
On the business side, your work is to interrupt people 100% of your time, with the purpose of getting 20% results. It’s a numbers game.
You are guessing, not targeting.
A story by Christian Andersen. “The little match girl,” comes to mind.
A little girl trying to survive the freezing cold of a Russian winter night, with a box of matches; she is found
dead the next morning because she was so captivated by the hallucinating illusion coming out of each match she lit, that she didn’t think she could build a fire to survive.
Every match stayed only in her imagination, not in her reality. A fleeting star. Bright and short. A dream
without action.
Plus, let’s not forget, that part of the 20% of your sale, (you may want to estimate a percentage) comes from the prospects objected with enough force with your narcissistic script to give you an adrenaline high.
You know. You feel it in your stomach. “How long is that client going to remain in your client base?” You know how it feels to buy under pressure. Most of the time you want to get rid of the damn thing and feel cheated. Not a good scenario for a long term business relationship.
At least not like those old fashioned mom and pop businesses. You see them occasionally making a great living for everybody involved. They all have worked together for 30 years. Their coworkers are their extended family. Their clients are their friends. I assure you, those ones were not built under pressure.
Dan Kennedy tells the story of the richest car sales person he has ever met in his glorious marketing career. It is somebody who has his cubicle in the dealership where he works, covered from top to bottom with his clients and clients’ family members pictures. A human relationship building testimonial. He treats his clients like human beings. Not numbers.
And they call it your client base…
Using urgency with Cold calls, while in the lead generation stage of the process? You are in the freaking cold, with a match box. Captivated by the deceiving illusion of the ephemeral light. Until you run out of matches. You are not building a fire.
Maybe that’s why they are called cold calls. Cold as a winter night in Russia.
Now, that’s your good base. Let’s talk about the other 80%. You follow up with a percentage of the “prospects” who reluctantly told you to send them information only because they didn’t want to hurt your feelings by telling you the truth. They are not interested. Period. Most likely your information will end up in the trash can.
So you keep following up those ones, using some of your precious time hopelessly believing the lies designed to not hurt your feelings… they are not a fit for you…but cannot say it out loud. Aren’t we adults enough to deal with the truth?
Wouldn’t it be better to know the TRUTH ASAP and use the time finding new more fitted clients for your product?
And we call it business…
It’s a dysfunctional business practise. Sometimes seems difficult to believe CEO’s and managers who came up with these “machista” ideas about sales tactics have sold a dollar in their lives.
The truth is, the traditional way of selling has actually worked for a long while. On the basis of annoying the hell out of everybody who is determined as a consumer and that is all of us. However, since the only constant thing in life is change, some practices are designed to end. Repeated interruption with no respect for the prospect can only go so far. Is “contra natura.”
That’s the difference between a technique and a principle. A principle is perennial. It is proven to be true in a
timeless way. Sales on the basis of a principle rather than a technique not only are more productive, they also restore the image we all have about sales.
Of course, change is difficult for all of us. It is hard to exchange your comfort zone for the unknown .
Perry Marshall, the genius marketing guru says the old way of selling is: “Obsolete. Dead. Ancient Technology. Irrelevant. It’s like vynil records, 8 track tapes, carburators and Disco.” He also asks the question: “Do you want to be an unwelcome pest or a welcome guest?”
It is seriously time to build a fire. Are you up to finding out how?
I am sure you are. You have been wandering for a long time if there is light at the end of this tunnel anyway.
And you know what? That part of you that internally is ressisting the traditional sales tactics is right.
Yes!
It is your right brain, dissociated from your left brain, pounding and kicking to make you hear her side of the story, the one that can see the big picture.
If you listen, it can help increase your numbers, and even double your income. The best part, not feeling like a jerk most of the time.
Believe it or not, there is a way. No, it’s not another sales technique. Nothing like that. It’s a principle. Here is the story.
Rather than being another victim of the establishment, Ari Galper decided to do something about it. He was brave enough, to open up and listen to the creativity of his right brain. He chose to take responsibility for his own actions .
Armed with a burning desire to change the status quo, and help people like you and me, Unlocked The Game.…
In his own words,
“The problem wasn’t with the prospect. It was with me. There was something fundamentally wrong with how I was approaching selling. And I needed to change.
I was on that call to make a sale, and the implicit sales pressure I was exerting with every word I spoke made them feel it was okay to lead me on and even lie to me.
*Did it ever occur to me to think about ways I could develop a relationship of trust in which we could explore what issues and problems they were trying to solve? No.
*Did I ever suggest that, without knowing more about their issues and problems, I couldn’t know whether what I had to offer could help them? No.”
*Did it ever occur to me to ask them, “Where do you think you might want to go from here?” No.
It was at this point that I was finally able to let go of the outrage and rejection and take responsibility for having tried to sell the “wrong” way.
Once I shifted my thinking from focusing on them to focusing on what I was doing, the answers started to come. I realized that the old ways of selling had everything backward. And that freed me to begin thinking about what ultimately became Unlock The Game.”
“They knew I had an agenda for that call, which was to make them buy what I had to sell. I tried to do it by going with my script, developing it, dealing with their “objections,” pushing subtly to move things forward…you know the drill.
Rejection can be eliminated. And up to this point, no one has ever provided a way to do that.
You see, rejection is triggered. It’s triggered by the person selling.
And if they are using anything in their approach (their voice, enthusiasm, or words) that associates them with the “salesperson” stereotype, rejection is automatically triggered.
Diffuse the sales pressure, change your mindset and enter the conversation from their point of view, rejection will never happen, because you’ve done nothing to trigger it. (More on this later…).
When you completely shift the way you think, away from “trying to make the sale”, magical things start to happen. You relax, they relax. You are open, they are open. You are both drawn together by your ability to get out of your world and into theirs.
Thousands of my clients are doing this every day, and you can do the same.
What the “sales gurus” don’t understand is that “resistance” is a reaction to traditional sales techniques. They’re the ones creating the vicious cycle, and they don’t even know it.”
It goes somewhat like this, he continues in his comparison.
“Traditional Sales Thinking (when getting the sale is all that matters…)
*Use every technique you can to make the sale
*It’s okay to bend the truth or lie if it’ll make the sale happen
*Go for the “yes.” If you hear a “no,” push and persuade harder to turn it into a “yes.”
The Mindset Approach (when learning your prospect’s truth is all that matters…)
*Create a conversation and build a relationship of trust.
*Focus on finding out whether you can help your prospect solve their problems or issues.
*If you always tell the truth, your prospect will tell you their truth.
*Focus on the “fit.” Create conversation that explores whether you’re a match or not.
Visitors to my website who are considering ordering the Mastery Program often ask me why the Mindset is different from all the other sales programs out there. I always tell them, “It’s a different way of thinking based on integrity, honesty, and truth.”
It’s like this…forget about business for a moment and think about your own personal life. Do you want
relationships with people who are comfortable not telling you the truth?
Well, selling is a relationship too, and you can probably understand why “techniques” endorsed by traditional
sales trainers make building a genuine human relationship virtually impossible.”
There it is… Does this make sense to you or what? … It’s a relief, isn’t it?
From one sales person to another, this is the answer we all have been waiting for a long, long time. Besides,
sales deserves a better rapport in the business community. And it’s up to us to change the stereotype…Nobody else.
The good thing is that somebody already led the way. We only have to follow his footprints.
Using Perry Marshall’s words we could say there is a way to become a welcome guest, leaving behind your unwelcome pest robot costume… For good.
Enjoy!
Ari and his Team will walk you through his program, until you have developed enough trust to build a relationship and you both decide you are a fit for each other.
Some time in the near future when you have a moment, when you are not so busy doubling your sales commission checks, when you are enjoying your new identity of welcome guest, and your newly found peace of mind, stop by and give me your feed back, will you? I would love to hear more about you.
Thanks for being open.
I myself didn’t know there was a new, fresh, revolutionary way.
I always loved Christmas. It was like magic, a time that we dreamed together, and celebrated. Whatever was our belief. Whether the gifts came from Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus, or the 3 kings. Whatever was our age. Seemed that we decided to forget the rapture, the in crescendo frenzy, to focus one day in the “illusion” that everything and everybody come from the same source, and we are all one…It seemed simpler then. Less stuff. The same meaning.
So, beyond that, one day to pretend that this illusion of connection fabricated by a consuming society to celebrate unity and connection? Well, there is Thanksgiving and a couple of others. Still, not enough. Don’t you think we should always be aware of it? Not only through the Christmas Holidays.
I have not been buying gifts this season nor last. Only for my grandson.
It feels that I have been giving people stuff for too long. It doesn’t mean much. It’s material. My impression, after being here for 59 years, is that
what we all really need, more than anything in the world, is
ACKNOWLEDGMENT... Whether we admit it or not, We are longing for it.
And there is SCARCITY OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
I believe is a human condition common to all of us. We need to know we were heard. Recognized. Validated. With Transparency. Why keep those things inside… To ourselves. Bottled? I am talking about the gifts of acknowledgment.
SPEAK THEM OUT LOUD! Take off all the corks! And toast to each and everybody who made a mark in your life.
It’s fascinating to me that, no matter how advanced the teacher is, always needs acknowledgment. To be able to confirm that you are actually connecting with your audience. Every time the opportunity is there. Otherwise you are like an empty vessel. Without a reflection. Think about it. The mirror is your community, or your audience.
At the CEO Space forum I heard Ron Zeller say during one of our lunches, in a complete genuine, humble human powerful tone, something along the lines of :” Thanks so much for the feedback, guys”. (I don’t know if he said “guys” but sure felt like it.) “It’s always so important to receive it, he continued-” It confirms you are actually connecting with your audience…!”
Thanks so much Ron, for saying that. For giving me a piece of your humanity, to help lift another veil to the 1000 and 1 nights tale. Thank you for helping me remember where leadership really is. In that walk that sounds like the talk.
It was instrumental for me at that moment. It feels great to not be the only one. It feels great to understand there is a clear request of constant communication. On both sides. 50/50. The Magic of the Middle Line. It’s a relationship after all…Right?
And yet there is fear…
Of course, at CEO Space that human magic spreads as an antidote to the virus of the mind. At some level acts as a vessel containing and conveying the support, the brilliant information, the truth and the trust.
If there was one piece of the puzzle I needed was that one. It’s huge. There are so many more. I will acknowledge them here one by one. CEO Space deserves all the acknowledgment in the world.
You see? we give stuff away, but the stuff is short lived. Futile.
Fills the need not the Feeling . Like a good ice cream. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with a good ice cream… is just that it is a different thing. It has the short life of the temporal. It passes fast.
Doesn’t have the power to fill the hole of the feeling.
Acknowledgment does.
How about starting an acknowledgment revolution? It wouldn’t be so hard and it would spread fast. How about giving the gift of acknowledgment to every human being who crossed your path and marked your life one way or another. During 2008. You certainly think about it at times. How about letting the relevent people know those thoughts out loud. Publish them in Soul Hang Out.
How about acknowledging the gifts they left with you. Sometimes without knowing. How sometimes just one word made all the difference. In terms of support, brilliant information, trust and truth. Even that challenged anger that turned into action to move forward. The pieces of themselves they gave you, their passion, their humanity, how it made you feel not alone. Because believe it or not, in the end we are all one. There is not much reason to feel alone.
Don’t you think is time to own up to it?
So, this Christmas I invite everybody to think that the stuff is not the answer.
Rather the stuck-ness itself.
I encourage to start with everybody to share their acknowledgment here too.
It will be great. It will feel great It’s going to last. I promise.
I already gave you the above one. Ron Zeller. Here is another one. A more abstract one.
I want to thank the experience of being a spiritual being in a human body…after all, the nectar of an orange cannot be tasted from the spirit alone.
I have been talking in the podcast with Barbara about this. Help me spread the word.
When you acknowledge, you ignite an energy, the knot in the necklace between each pearl. That energy is unstoppable.
I found this picture, as a tribute to “Tribes.” The kaki tree from my childhood. Winter Fruits. A warm fruit bearing its vitality in the naked tree of the winter. Photography by Antonio Bellon a 31 year old from Spain. Flickr.
Thanks Seth, so much for naming the dream of the future.
For validating the partnership between our right and left brain.
For joining the conversation in our minds and confirming we are not alone…and we are on the right track.
It helps dissipate the fear and reinforce the blind faith.
It fuels the burning desire to continue its dedicated path.
It provides the balm of awareness in transition to imminent change.
It acknowledges the scene of the consequences of our actions.
It invites to Step in the Present and Make History…
It reminds us that as Albert Einstein said, success without value is not success.
It revives the quiet tribal wisdom of the past to close the circle of the future.
It shows us that being spiritual is nothing more and nothing less, than being human.
After all, Galileo Galilei was right when he said: “You cannot teach man anything, only help him find the answers within himself.
Who would have guessed that the very answers within ourselves, starting with our passion, can lead to a fulfilled life of abundance. Pretty solid concept. Pretty enchanting scene for the future. It makes pretty darn sense.
I could go on with the the layers of wisdom and the acute/ accurate historical and socio-economic analysis that your book delivers. However, due to its atemporal and perennial nature we can always revisit. This is only the beginning. There will be more revelations and more realizations along the way, In the meantime I want to take the moment to tell you a little newborn tribe story.
It all started perhaps 7 years ago. I was in my early 50’s and had declared to my tribe that after 50 I would celebrate my birthday if possible all year. So, it was around March, my birthday and I had different celebrations going on. Not all necessary on the exact date I was born… One day a year to celebrate you are born, started to seem not long enough to me those days. So I had several gatherings going on. Non of them was going to take place in my house…
“Why don’t you do a women party” -said Becca - “That’s a great idea, -I said - We’ll do it.” When we finally got around it was May, and we were 9 women. All of them my friends. Most of them didn’t know one another. Maybe 2 or 3 but not everybody. They were as diverse as it gets in terms of age, experience and ethnicity. Each one of them was an important part of my world.
We had a blast. I was so happy to have them all dispersed around the house. In many instances they had heard about the other through my excited enthusiasm. (I speak my thoughts out loud). I just got out of the way and alternated my focus between the joy of listening to the echo of the conversations going on, my passion for the food, attending last touches to the great meal I had prepared for them, and conversing with the ones brought to the kitchen by their own organic desire to be there and help.
The conversations were fascinating. The group asserted instant homogeny. You could “taste” the energy, and “feel” the meal. It felt like the ultimate pleasure of being.
Somebody said something along the lines of some studies showing that women getting together help boost up their endorphins in a way that actually adds physical years to your life.
Somebody said “we have to repeat this.”
The next time we did it we were 14. I liked the idea of having a sit down dinner and there is no room for more around my table. I created a special dish for the occasion. They loved it. It was a white lasagna with hearts of artichokes, crab meat, fresh mozzarella, fetta, and a white sauce sprinkled with sherry.
We talked about the need to revive the rites. The wisdom of the ancient tribes. The circle around the bonfire. We called it the White Lasagna. We institutionalized the name of the dish and came up with a name for our encounters. “The rite of the White Lasagna.” The tribe had started its incubating period.
We started having these reunions more often. In each one we had the same menu. A green salad, the white lasagna and a special cake to celebrate again the birthdays of those ones that fell around the date of the reunion. Their extra birthday celebration.
That’s where the seed was planted. The seed of leadership I needed, to grow, and take the tribe to the next level. Sharon said . “You lead, we’ll follow.” It’s true, it wasn’t easy. However, I always had wanted to take my ideas and the coaching I developed and tested with them all to a new level. My coaching career. I was selling TV and print advertisingduring those years. They couldn’t wait for me to start…
A lot has happened since the first “White Lasagna Rite” event.
Today, I have a blog, Soul Hang Out, a hangout place for soul activists, of course males and females who understand that living in the present is History in the Making, and are willing to talk about their thoughts, or listen to other people’s thoughts. Plus, they are intrigued by the assortment of ingredients in our White Lasagna.
Today, I have created a coaching concept called “50/50 Coaching, The Magic of the Middle Line.” People in my tribe have been applying it for years. People in my tribe have encouraged and supported me to follow this path.
Today I have developed a “Thought Champions” Coaching program, and I am starting a blog radio starting in January. People in my tribe want to share those conversations we have been having for years. I want to share them with the world because I wouldn’t be here without them. Their testimonials are coming. They are bringing tears to my eyes. Their words match my words.
As an example, here is one from Silvana in Madrid:
That connection with life that one achieves conversing with you is a wonderful feeling!…time stops and one minute becomes an eternity…Difficult to express it in words…You have a gift to connect the other person with his or her most profound being and revive situations that come back to clarify issues of the past to position them back in a more balanced and sane place in our lives.
My personal experience by your side has been very strong and I believe you have given me many tools to work in my personal development!!! That doesn’t mean it’s all done…no, of course, on the contrary…There is still a long way to learn, grow, be a better person, and you have motivated me to not be satisfied with the obtained achievements…one always can make one more step. Thank you!!!
It’s time to invite other tables around our table. Anyhow, it doesn’t accommodate enough people any more.
Thanks again, Seth for an invaluable gift to the planet…remarkable…your word, not mine.
For everybody who wants to make a difference and challenge the status quo, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us is not a choice to read. Is a must.
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