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 STARTING MONDAY,  MARCH 3, 2014   7– 9  EVERY MONDAY EVENING

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No matter how good our life is, we all feel an area of our life is not working.  That area is causing us pain.  This group will look openly and honestly at every aspect of your life. We will explore intimacy, sexuality, finances, health, friendships, work, family and spirituality and we will help each other heal.  We have all tried to change on our own, and yet here we are, facing the same situations once again. Are you ready to experience the transformation you want in an atmosphere of love and acceptance.   If you are tired of being stuck and are willing to TAKE THE NEXT STEP FORWARD, call or email us today.  Space is limited to the first 10 people.

Facilitators:

ANA ZAFFIRO has a Master’s Degree in Psychology and has been coaching
using the strategic intervention techniques made famous by Tony Robbins for years.

DANNY LEVIN for more info on Danny, please go to:  www.DanielBruceLevin.com

FOR MORE INFO:  call ( 760 525 3300) or email (zenseidanny@me.com).

When the culture of a company is good, trust exists, people take risks and support each other when they fall. When the risks work, exceptional things happen and companies stand out amongst their peers.

In cultures that do not function well, tension exists, happiness does not, and people are scared to take chances. They exists at mediocre; employees live at normal (doing only what needs to be done, and rarely anything more.) They dislike coming to work, do not feel appreciated aand feel they are doing their job when they maintain the status quo.

In most cases where companies do not function well, they have  lost connection with their core values. Ask questions to find out why. Believe it or not, sometimes they just get caught up in their day to day situations, running so fast to keep up with things, they simply forget to live what they believe. These situations are relatively easy to fix. If you can help them slow down and remind them of what they believe, you will be able to help initiate ways to bring them bring those values back to their day to day operations.

If the core values no longer capture their essence of the company (i.e. Quality which used to be central to their belief system has now been replaced by a need for speed.  The company now believes it has to be the innovator and they are willing to sacrifice some quality to be the first in the field to market it), you must create a new set of core values that represent what they believe now.

When a company and it’s employees try to live by conflicting values, it is like the story they tell of a bus which gets stuck in a pothole.  The driver asks the passengers to get off the bus and push and is confused when after 5 minutes, there is no movement.  He gets off the bus to see why and is amazed to discover 1/2 of the people went to the front and were pushing backwards, while the other 1/2 went to the back and were pushing forwards.  The story is comical; but companies do this all the time.  1/2 of their energy goes in one direction while the other 1/2 goes in the other.    

You must not be afraid to take a stand, to make tough decisions that need to be made.  When a company and its employees share the same beliefs, there is no resistance. It is hard to change, but it is impossible to remain the same.

Are you like me, do you tend to see life in broad strokes? Do you think what is happening in your life now, will always be? I have seen, in my few years of life, that the only constant in life is change. I know this. I know in my mind, what is now, will NOT be what is tomorrow. But knowing it in my head and living it in my day to day life is different. This “head-ucation” all sounds good, but until it is constantly applied, means nothing.

King Soloman used to wear a ring on his finger. It had 3 hebrew letters on it, that meant, “This too will pass.” He looked at it when situations in his life were good or bad, to remind him that life is ephemeral. Life changes.

The way we look at these changes in our life, colors everything? For instance, are you facing something right now in your life? Does it represent for you, a sunrise or a sunset? Do you see it as a beginning to a whole new life or is it an end to something you do not want to end, that makes you suffer? Does it inspire you or tire you? Whatever you are facing in this moment, good or bad, remember it will pass.

Tony Robbins has a great saying, “What if life was happening FOR you, rather than TO you?” I love this. One word changes the whole meaning. How could this simple change of thought change the way you see your life. When I remember that life is happening FOR me, it helps me. I look for the gift it is giving rather than feeling that I am a victim.

May our sunsets, be sunrises and may the clouds that hide the sun part, so that we can shine in the light.

SO OFTEN, AS COMPANIES, WE FOCUS ON WHAT WE DO (WE RUN SPAS OR WHATEVER)
AND HOW WE DO IT (BY HIRING THE TOP PEOPLE IN OUR REGION AND USING THE BEST, MOST EXCLUSIVE PRODUCTS)

BUT SIMON SINEK AUTHOR OF “START WITH WHY”
SUGGEST JUST THAT, START WITH WHY !!!!

WHY DO YOU DO WHAT WE DO? WHAT INSPIRES YOU?
HIS WORDS COULD BE MY VERY OWN.
SPENDING 20 YEARS IN A COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY,
I SAW THE POWER OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ALL BELIEVED IN THE SAME VALUES.
MIRACULOUS THINGS HAPPENED.
IN THE EARLY DAYS HOUSES WERE BUILT IN A DAY,
BECAUSE THE WHOLE COMMUNITY WOULD SHOW UP TO HELP.

WHEN WE KNOW WHAT WE BELIEVE
AND WHY WE BELIEVE IT, WE ATTRACT OTHERS WHO BELIEVE SIMILAR IDEALS.
GREAT CHANGES HAPPEN WHEN PEOPLE OF LIKE MIND COME TOGETHER

IN ALL OF CREATION,
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN AND WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU.
I BELIEVE THAT MAKES YOU PRETTY DARN SPECIAL.
HOW ABOUT YOU? DO YOU BELIEVE THAT?
ITS IT TIME TO FIND YOUR TRIBE?
TO BUILD YOUR CORPORATE CULTURE

What do you think happened here?
Tell me the story that runs through your head when you see this picture.
Make it unbelievable, as ironic as you can
And I bet the real story will still make you laugh.
My friend, the person that was driving this car
Got so absorbed listening to her self help, motivational CD
That she didn’t even notice she was driving over the bank in the road.

Do you know people like this? Are you like this sometimes too?
Do you know in your head all the right things to do
But your actions are sometimes completely different?
I sure do this.

Maybe it is time to stop listening to motivational, self help CD’s
And start living them.
So we don’t drive over the bank
We just go there to deposit all that life is giving us.
Just saying . . . . . .

While shopping in the local natural foods market,
I saw Elliot, a guy I was in the monastery with for about 10 years.
I was delighted to see him and went up to him to say hello.
He left the monastery we were in and joined the official organization that represented the teacher we both had followed.
There was some bad blood between the two groups
and I noticed as we were speaking, I was starting to feel put down and judged.
He was talking down to me
And when I asked him why he was doing it,
He said because I know you, Danny.
And he went on to describe (not even accurately) the person that I was 20 years ago.
I said to him, Elliot over the course of 20 years, we all change.
You have no idea who I am now, because you have not even asked.

The conversation got more and more uncomfortable.
He was telling me that I left and was no longer meditating and that I was living a life that was of no value because the only value in this world is finding God.
And finally, I said to him, how do you know what I am doing now?
We have not seen each other in many, many years.
He continued to tell me who I was and why I was wrong to live the way I was living.
It felt like the conversation was not going anywhere,
so I said goodbye and went away.

As I drove home, I thought about it.
This brother had spent 40 years meditating, 40 years!
The result of those 40 years of meditation in the moment I saw him was:
judgement, arrogance, condescension, and pride of pedigree.
Where was the love that his guru had come here to teach?
Where was the kindness of heart?
I left feeling so sad for him.

40 years of meditation had left him like this, at least in the moment I was with him.
It made me realize . . . .
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU DO OR WHAT YOU SAY,
IT MATTERS WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU BECOME!

Let’s love each other more, judge each other less and be kind to all sentient beings.

A story I was asked to write to brand a hotel,
The Andaz Maui @ Wailea Resort and Spa
created what I believe will become a new emerging trend,
a revolution in the hospitality and spa industry.
OHANA (Family), NOT STAFF.

Quietly, it happened
and then BAM, it happened again at the trainings.
The heart and soul of every person was touched.
A little book,
changed not only the lives of people,
but perhaps an industry, as well.
Big changes often happen without anyone even realizing.

I watched it happen.
A little change in thought
and hotel staff
who entered the room
left as family.

And yet,
as big as this impact of this story is,
it is the story they are writing now that will change history.

As the ancient Hawaiian proverb says:
“We are the descendants of our ancestors and the ancestors of our descendants.”

The actions our Ohana take today,
will write the story their descendants read tomorrow.
Time will tell their story as it will yours.

What story are you writing your descendants to tell of you?

This is something I have battled with all my life.
As kind and gentle as I am with others, I find that I am very hard on myself. When I look into the same mirror I use to show others how beautiful they are, I see all my stuff. And then it struck me . . . . .
Our mirrors are covered up with the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and that is all we can see, and yet when I turn my mirror around, no one else sees my stories. All they look for are their own. My mirror does not know their stories, so it reflects back to them who they are, without the stories.
I think this is one of the reasons why my coaching is so effective. New eyes. New Strategies. New Interventions. Try today to see your life through another mirror. It might surprise you.
You might really like what you see!

Just as it is so hard for us to see ourselves clearly, without the distortion our stories place on what we see,
The same is true in branding your company.
It is often hard for us to see and tell the story of our business. I can tell you first hand, this is true. In launching my website, the one you are on right now, I went through what I can only call, “A Dark Night of the Soul”. I asked for feedback and listened to all the responses I received. Some loved it. Some didn’t. Everyone gave feedback. As I tried to integrate everything they said into my copy and design. I started to get depressed and felt like I was not good enough.
They told me I was trying to do too much, “A Jack of All Trades is a Master of None”.
How many times growing up did I hear this? How deep was that belief already within me. When they watered it, all the weeds (lack of self confidence) associated with it grew.
I sat for days in a rut.
Until my friend, poured concrete into my rut and made a road.
She told me,
“You are already doing all the things that people said you couldn’t do.”
In that moment, THE MYTH EXPLODED.
Sure it might be true that most people are better at doing one thing than many. But it is not true for me.
I love the diversity and the excitement of always doing something new.
It made me think,
how many other myths do I just believe because they have been told to me my whole life?
How about you?????

 is an amazing metaphor for life.

The monks spin the wheel all day and night.
The wheel never stops turning, and the monks believe that with each turn the prayers written on the wheel are sent out into the world. How beautiful to know that in distant parts of the world people we don’t even know spend all day and all night praying for us. Prayer is so POWERFUL!
What do you do for people that no one knows about?
Will you write me and let me know.
Can you imagine what an amazing world this would be, if we were to pay forward every act of kindness that we receive?
Let me know if you start doing this and how it makes you feel?
Post your comments here on the website in response to this article or email me.
I would love to know.
In gratitude and appreciation!