Yesterday I posted about the before and after of modern schooling systems. Before schooling, we are all growing at a staggering rate. After schooling, most humans are stuck in their identity of who they are, what they know, how they get by, who they'll be friends with, etc...
Is it nature or nurture? Do our neurons stop developing through the school-age period, and we're simply DONE at age 18 o3 22? Or does the schooling system take it out of us and leave us a shell of the curious, creative soul we were born to be?
I'm sure there's studies and arguments on both sides. This is a fun, light-hearted blog, so I'm not going to get into it.
What I want to consider tho, is what an educational system might be like that fully embraced curiosity, creativity, questions and exploration.
Do you think an adult who was socialized to see failure as growth, change as life and questions as the keys to the kingdom would allow him or herself to be locked into a frustrating job with a mountain of debt and a cocktail of mood altering prescriptions to numb the soul and tolerate the madness of our modern social systems?
I hope not.
Even a slightly inquisitive mind with enough experiences playing sports or music will know that practice is the key to mastery. What if that inquisitive mind turned itself on solving the problems we really face, not just the problems posed to us by big media and a morally absurd social norm that allows us to jet around sipping our collective lattes in our sweat-shop clothes and disposable lifestyles like we're more important than the 200-300,000 starving and impoverished laborers (per each of us) that have been shafted into making this possible?
What if we simply raised our kids to ask bigger, more important questions?
What if we gave them tools and introduced them to teachers or mentors who could help them answer those questions?
What if a generation of young adults emerged like a force of nature and swiftly implemented new solutions to problems that, as Einstein warned us, could not be solved at the level we were at when we created them?
Because we can't solve war with bombs.
And we can't solve the schooling system problems with teachers and administrators who are a product of that schooling system.
I'd love to hear what you're personally doing to take your child's education into your own hands.
Cheers,
Craig
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When It's All Said and Done...
At the end of the day, who do you become?
Are you the same person who woke up that morning?
Have you seen anything, met anyone, learned anything, had some "a-ha!"?
Or are you pretty much the same as this morning, same as yesterday, same as last year or 10 years ago?
Your child is not.
Your child is learning and growing at a staggering rate.
Modern schooling systems are (intentionally or unintentionally) retarding your child's growth in many dimensions. True, the social and emotional intelligences are developing, but the bulk of your child's true potential is slipping away moment by moment as they waste away in schooling facilities around the country.
Perhaps in emerging nations this type of wrote memorization system works. Not for the future 21st Century Knowledge Worker.
We used to work with our food and sustenance directly. We farmed and herded.
In the 21st Century, your child is 99.9% likely to work for food and sustenance indirectly. This means that simple reading, writing, 'rithmatic ain't cuttin it. Not to mention the archaic model of transferring this knowledge to the children.
Can you imagine if, at your age, you continued to grow and learn and stay present with your experience - full of wonder and awe - as though still a child?
Seems simple enough...
Zen, really.
Stay in the flow of the moment and you'll never walk through the same river twice.
Who said that?
Heraclitus?
Cheers,
Craig
to see original post and all my social media links, visit: www.enlightenedchild.com
Are you the same person who woke up that morning?
Have you seen anything, met anyone, learned anything, had some "a-ha!"?
Or are you pretty much the same as this morning, same as yesterday, same as last year or 10 years ago?
Your child is not.
Your child is learning and growing at a staggering rate.
Modern schooling systems are (intentionally or unintentionally) retarding your child's growth in many dimensions. True, the social and emotional intelligences are developing, but the bulk of your child's true potential is slipping away moment by moment as they waste away in schooling facilities around the country.
Perhaps in emerging nations this type of wrote memorization system works. Not for the future 21st Century Knowledge Worker.
We used to work with our food and sustenance directly. We farmed and herded.
In the 21st Century, your child is 99.9% likely to work for food and sustenance indirectly. This means that simple reading, writing, 'rithmatic ain't cuttin it. Not to mention the archaic model of transferring this knowledge to the children.
Can you imagine if, at your age, you continued to grow and learn and stay present with your experience - full of wonder and awe - as though still a child?
Matthew 18:3 Verily I say unto you, Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Seems simple enough...
Zen, really.
Stay in the flow of the moment and you'll never walk through the same river twice.
Who said that?
Heraclitus?
Cheers,
Craig
to see original post and all my social media links, visit: www.enlightenedchild.com
How To Give Your Teenager the Best Secondary Education for FREE!
We all want our kids to have better than we did.
My parents grew up financially strained. They were the first to go to college. They wanted me to have the best education I could get because, in their world, that was the key to a fulfilling life.
In the 21st Century, technology is accelerating so rapidly that information and communication technology is burgeoning on "psychic" (just think of Google) and the iPhone.
Social Media sites are not some novelty or a past-time any more. I rarely email anymore. The bulk of my communication is managed on Facebook and Text Messaging (SMS).
If Markets Are Conversations, then social media is bringing authenticity back to the marketplace. Companies and Professionals will thrive as they reveal their inner workings. How will they do this?
The clients and markets they serve will call B.S. on their social media profiles and they will lose business. Children have terrific B.S. detectors and access to social media as they enter the marketplace will give them a decided advantage when it comes to making major life choices.
For instance: Should I buy this product? Should I work with this business? Should I trust this person? What does my tribe suggest when it comes to...?
These questions are about authenticity and how we represent ourselves in the marketplace. No more anonymous companies, no more faceless internet marketers. The 21st Century market will require an entirely different set of skills for your children to thrive.
In fact, embracing and demonstrating authenticity on social media will be crucial for any professional who wants to thrive in the 21st Century. That includes Boomers and even reluctant or non-marketing oriented Gen-x'ers who have a vision for a business and could really use the inexpensive exposure for their business that social media provides.
To that end, a subset of the Enlightened Child Curriculum is a teen module I coined the Entrepreneurial Academy. It's a program designed to mentor teens with a vision. If they have a vision, they have a sense of what they wanna do, and a reason why they want to do it. This, combined with dependability and competence, is a model student for this program.
What a mentee will learn is:
1.) Timeless Principles of marketing and entrepreneurship
2.) 21st Century knowledge-work systems for getting thing done
3.) Social Media development and cutting edge techniques for improving sales
4.) How to schmooze with clients (who are Experts in their fields) and build a network
5.) How to absorb as much wisdom from each client while helping share the Expertise with the world in a way that is mutually lucrative
6.) Lifestyle Design strategies that create time and financial freedom (to do Good)
7.) The Basic Moral Intuition - Giving Back by Leveraging Freedom to Do Good & Marketing talent to create a Social Media Buzz around real issues and real solutions that ARE working
Basically, the Internship (as my Facebook pal Kevin Munro called it) would consist of me training the mentee how to set up various social media sites and then integrate them together to create a marketing funnel. This frees up my time to do more R&D on the Enlightened Child Philosophy, write, travel, teach... We all earn a handsome salary, and design our lifestyles to help us life our Purpose in life.
Beats hanging around playing xBox all day.
Once a child reaches late teens they should be financially liberated to the point where any educational experience they desire - from college semesters with specific teachers to $5,000 seminars, workshops or coaching periods they don't need to worry about money to live on or invest in the education. They should be flush from relatively passive cashflow.
By that age, they will have Internet businesses, promoted via social media very inexpensively, based on the training and experience they got interning with me at Social Media Maverick.
To read more about the Social Media Maverick Marketing Philosophy and how you can get your teen involved go to my Blog, or enter your name and email on the right of this blog.
Cheers,
Craig
to see original post and all my social media links, visit: www.enlightenedchild.com
My parents grew up financially strained. They were the first to go to college. They wanted me to have the best education I could get because, in their world, that was the key to a fulfilling life.
In the 21st Century, technology is accelerating so rapidly that information and communication technology is burgeoning on "psychic" (just think of Google) and the iPhone.
Social Media sites are not some novelty or a past-time any more. I rarely email anymore. The bulk of my communication is managed on Facebook and Text Messaging (SMS).
If Markets Are Conversations, then social media is bringing authenticity back to the marketplace. Companies and Professionals will thrive as they reveal their inner workings. How will they do this?
The clients and markets they serve will call B.S. on their social media profiles and they will lose business. Children have terrific B.S. detectors and access to social media as they enter the marketplace will give them a decided advantage when it comes to making major life choices.
For instance: Should I buy this product? Should I work with this business? Should I trust this person? What does my tribe suggest when it comes to...?
These questions are about authenticity and how we represent ourselves in the marketplace. No more anonymous companies, no more faceless internet marketers. The 21st Century market will require an entirely different set of skills for your children to thrive.
In fact, embracing and demonstrating authenticity on social media will be crucial for any professional who wants to thrive in the 21st Century. That includes Boomers and even reluctant or non-marketing oriented Gen-x'ers who have a vision for a business and could really use the inexpensive exposure for their business that social media provides.
To that end, a subset of the Enlightened Child Curriculum is a teen module I coined the Entrepreneurial Academy. It's a program designed to mentor teens with a vision. If they have a vision, they have a sense of what they wanna do, and a reason why they want to do it. This, combined with dependability and competence, is a model student for this program.
What a mentee will learn is:
1.) Timeless Principles of marketing and entrepreneurship
2.) 21st Century knowledge-work systems for getting thing done
3.) Social Media development and cutting edge techniques for improving sales
4.) How to schmooze with clients (who are Experts in their fields) and build a network
5.) How to absorb as much wisdom from each client while helping share the Expertise with the world in a way that is mutually lucrative
6.) Lifestyle Design strategies that create time and financial freedom (to do Good)
7.) The Basic Moral Intuition - Giving Back by Leveraging Freedom to Do Good & Marketing talent to create a Social Media Buzz around real issues and real solutions that ARE working
Basically, the Internship (as my Facebook pal Kevin Munro called it) would consist of me training the mentee how to set up various social media sites and then integrate them together to create a marketing funnel. This frees up my time to do more R&D on the Enlightened Child Philosophy, write, travel, teach... We all earn a handsome salary, and design our lifestyles to help us life our Purpose in life.
Beats hanging around playing xBox all day.
Once a child reaches late teens they should be financially liberated to the point where any educational experience they desire - from college semesters with specific teachers to $5,000 seminars, workshops or coaching periods they don't need to worry about money to live on or invest in the education. They should be flush from relatively passive cashflow.
By that age, they will have Internet businesses, promoted via social media very inexpensively, based on the training and experience they got interning with me at Social Media Maverick.
To read more about the Social Media Maverick Marketing Philosophy and how you can get your teen involved go to my Blog, or enter your name and email on the right of this blog.
Cheers,
Craig
to see original post and all my social media links, visit: www.enlightenedchild.com
Is Astrology Worth Examining or Not?
Ever since college when my friend did my astrological birth chart, I have been totally intrigued by the idea that I could learn about myself and others, and our relationships through this ancient system.
A funny story: Back in college at the UW - Madison, my good friend Adam shot me down when I attempted to learn about his chart. He gave me a false birthday. When I read his sign to him he asked me if I thought that sounded like him. I could see how it fit. Then he told me, with a Scorpionic sneer, that he had lied about his birthday and therefore astrology was a load of garbage. Ironically, he is now a professional astrologer: www.theskyisyou.com
This week I'm staying with him in Denver. Not surprisingly, he will read and explain a whole bunch of astrological jargon and then look me dead in the eye and say something like, "Astrolgy is such BS." And it is... yet it's also eerily true in more cases than not - especially when you get under the covers and really explore the deep intricacies of your chart.
Or your child's chart!
(You can get a free Chart for yourself and your child at Astro.com. I highly recommend it. What you learn will help you understand yourself, your child, and the dynamics of your relationship. It's not hard science, true. But the insights will blow your mind.)
Adam's been studying Uranus quite a bit, and gave me a book that details some of the finer points of how this planet can affect.
What I read fit very much with the experiences I've been having the past week. Especially since my Boulder experiences.
The upshot of the book relative to my chart (I have a Uranus/Moon conjuction - which means they are very close together) helped me understand the "Soul DNA" that inspires me to develop the Enlightened Child Philosophy of Education.
Uranus energy has to do with profound insight, brilliance, talent and enlightenment.
Moon energy is associated with emotions, home, nurturing and childhood.
Uranus = Enlightened
Moon = Child
How could I possible make something like that up? There's no way. It's just uncanny.
How does this help me? Well, not only does it validate my own path, it affirms that by helping parents, teachers and children to understand themselves through deep exploration with systems like Astrology (among others - I believe in a "triangulated verification") they can come to know themselves much more intimately and navigate their lives and relationships much more gracefully than just winging it while flying blind. Learning only through trial and error, with no objective reference for personal typology or tendency.
(Being adopted, this method has been my best means of self-understanding. I sincerely wish my parents had taken an interest in how we can know one another more intimately using this tool.)
Another great book Adam showed me is called An Astrological Mandala by Dane Rudhyar. Here's the quote that blew me away today and inspired me to write about what I learned in this post:
I'm gonna stop there because it's already dense enough for this light-hearted blog, but as you can see, the passion I feel for creating a system of educational enlightenment by teaching children the wisdom contained in simple esoteric symbols like the yin-yang and... ironically, astrology, is well founded in my "Soul DNA."
The rest of the passage goes on to talk about how the most characteristic of human natures is to "bind time" or transfer to others yet unborn the hard-won insights and knowledge of those who have come before. It's trans-generational mentoring. It's conscious participation in cosmic evolution.
It's so COOL!
If you've learned anything profound about yourself from a system like Astrology, the Enneagram, Myers-Briggs, etc... I'd love to hear your story. Feel free to share in the comments.
Cheers,
Craig
to see original post and all my social media links, visit: www.enlightenedchild.com
A funny story: Back in college at the UW - Madison, my good friend Adam shot me down when I attempted to learn about his chart. He gave me a false birthday. When I read his sign to him he asked me if I thought that sounded like him. I could see how it fit. Then he told me, with a Scorpionic sneer, that he had lied about his birthday and therefore astrology was a load of garbage. Ironically, he is now a professional astrologer: www.theskyisyou.com
This week I'm staying with him in Denver. Not surprisingly, he will read and explain a whole bunch of astrological jargon and then look me dead in the eye and say something like, "Astrolgy is such BS." And it is... yet it's also eerily true in more cases than not - especially when you get under the covers and really explore the deep intricacies of your chart.
Or your child's chart!
(You can get a free Chart for yourself and your child at Astro.com. I highly recommend it. What you learn will help you understand yourself, your child, and the dynamics of your relationship. It's not hard science, true. But the insights will blow your mind.)
Adam's been studying Uranus quite a bit, and gave me a book that details some of the finer points of how this planet can affect.
What I read fit very much with the experiences I've been having the past week. Especially since my Boulder experiences.
The upshot of the book relative to my chart (I have a Uranus/Moon conjuction - which means they are very close together) helped me understand the "Soul DNA" that inspires me to develop the Enlightened Child Philosophy of Education.
Uranus energy has to do with profound insight, brilliance, talent and enlightenment.
Moon energy is associated with emotions, home, nurturing and childhood.
Uranus = Enlightened
Moon = Child
How could I possible make something like that up? There's no way. It's just uncanny.
How does this help me? Well, not only does it validate my own path, it affirms that by helping parents, teachers and children to understand themselves through deep exploration with systems like Astrology (among others - I believe in a "triangulated verification") they can come to know themselves much more intimately and navigate their lives and relationships much more gracefully than just winging it while flying blind. Learning only through trial and error, with no objective reference for personal typology or tendency.
(Being adopted, this method has been my best means of self-understanding. I sincerely wish my parents had taken an interest in how we can know one another more intimately using this tool.)
Another great book Adam showed me is called An Astrological Mandala by Dane Rudhyar. Here's the quote that blew me away today and inspired me to write about what I learned in this post:
Phase 209 - Libra 29 degree (my moon): Mankind's vast and enduring effort to reach for knowledge transferable from generation to generation.
Keynote: A deep sense of participation in, and commitment to, social processes which seek to bring all men Truth and greater Life.
I'm gonna stop there because it's already dense enough for this light-hearted blog, but as you can see, the passion I feel for creating a system of educational enlightenment by teaching children the wisdom contained in simple esoteric symbols like the yin-yang and... ironically, astrology, is well founded in my "Soul DNA."
The rest of the passage goes on to talk about how the most characteristic of human natures is to "bind time" or transfer to others yet unborn the hard-won insights and knowledge of those who have come before. It's trans-generational mentoring. It's conscious participation in cosmic evolution.
It's so COOL!
If you've learned anything profound about yourself from a system like Astrology, the Enneagram, Myers-Briggs, etc... I'd love to hear your story. Feel free to share in the comments.
Cheers,
Craig
to see original post and all my social media links, visit: www.enlightenedchild.com
Are You Harming Your body with Yoga?
It's true - Yoga can seriously wreck ya!
I have been practicing on and off for 15 years. My back is not trashed, but it's not as solid as it should be.
In Chicago I practiced with various teachers 3-5 times per week for 18 months.
Now that I'm in Rochester, I'm taking with Francois Raoult at Open Sky and I am realizing how poorly my practice has been affecting my body due to a lack of TRUE understanding about how the body works and what certain poses are intended to stretch.
Doing anything improperly over a period of time is deleterious to our health. Smoking and drinking are a good example. Have a smoke, have a drink... it won't kill ya. Smoke & drink a pack a day and you will see steep declines in health, energy and self-esteem. Eventually, it will rot you out.
While a well-informed yoga practice is one of the best things you can do on a regular basis for health, longevity and well-being, all yoga teachers are NOT the same. In fact, most yoga teachers suck (there, I said it) and you should NOT trust them with your body.
Taking a weekend-long "yoga fit" certification does not a teacher make. Even dedicated practitioners with decades of experience could steer you wrong, or leave you hanging. It's true of any teacher, mentor or professional.
The reason I trust Francois is because he CLEARLY understands anatomy, physiology, energy, meditation and how poses can help or hurt the body depending on minute nuances that most teachers are ignorant of.
He is currently training a batch of students - some of whom have traveled from across the country to spend 6 months with him. We've had several conversations about their shock, awe and excitement about how their understanding is deepening. Who knew???
So, the question is: How do you know when your teachers are truly serving you, or hindering you from true health, wealth and connection?
It's critical. Especially for our children. I know I've had many guitar teachers in my youth that ruined me as a musician. Not because they made me "worse" but because when I was young and unfettered by responsibility and had all the time in the world to practice they failed to challenge me, inform my mind and body with truly worthwhile training and inspiration, and in general just sucked.
Here's the deal:
1.) Interview 5-10 local teachers for yourself or your child.
2.) Ask them about their philosophy, teaching style and experience.
3.) Ask them who THEY would take lessons from.
4.) Call the 1-3 people whose name keeps coming up.
5.) Don't skimp on price or distance.
If you have to, take fewer, higher quality lessons with the best teachers you can find. Teachers who, as Emerson admonishes, "will inspire us to be what we know we could be."
Cheers,
Craig
to see original post and all my social media links, visit: www.enlightenedchild.com
I have been practicing on and off for 15 years. My back is not trashed, but it's not as solid as it should be.
In Chicago I practiced with various teachers 3-5 times per week for 18 months.
Now that I'm in Rochester, I'm taking with Francois Raoult at Open Sky and I am realizing how poorly my practice has been affecting my body due to a lack of TRUE understanding about how the body works and what certain poses are intended to stretch.
Doing anything improperly over a period of time is deleterious to our health. Smoking and drinking are a good example. Have a smoke, have a drink... it won't kill ya. Smoke & drink a pack a day and you will see steep declines in health, energy and self-esteem. Eventually, it will rot you out.
While a well-informed yoga practice is one of the best things you can do on a regular basis for health, longevity and well-being, all yoga teachers are NOT the same. In fact, most yoga teachers suck (there, I said it) and you should NOT trust them with your body.
Taking a weekend-long "yoga fit" certification does not a teacher make. Even dedicated practitioners with decades of experience could steer you wrong, or leave you hanging. It's true of any teacher, mentor or professional.
The reason I trust Francois is because he CLEARLY understands anatomy, physiology, energy, meditation and how poses can help or hurt the body depending on minute nuances that most teachers are ignorant of.
He is currently training a batch of students - some of whom have traveled from across the country to spend 6 months with him. We've had several conversations about their shock, awe and excitement about how their understanding is deepening. Who knew???
So, the question is: How do you know when your teachers are truly serving you, or hindering you from true health, wealth and connection?
It's critical. Especially for our children. I know I've had many guitar teachers in my youth that ruined me as a musician. Not because they made me "worse" but because when I was young and unfettered by responsibility and had all the time in the world to practice they failed to challenge me, inform my mind and body with truly worthwhile training and inspiration, and in general just sucked.
Here's the deal:
1.) Interview 5-10 local teachers for yourself or your child.
2.) Ask them about their philosophy, teaching style and experience.
3.) Ask them who THEY would take lessons from.
4.) Call the 1-3 people whose name keeps coming up.
5.) Don't skimp on price or distance.
If you have to, take fewer, higher quality lessons with the best teachers you can find. Teachers who, as Emerson admonishes, "will inspire us to be what we know we could be."
Cheers,
Craig
to see original post and all my social media links, visit: www.enlightenedchild.com
Wanna Know What I Got from My Weekend in Boulder?
This weekend I met 9 other men at the Boulder Integral Center for an intense 2 days of men's work.
The biggest thing I got from the other men was feedback about how I show up in the world and how I'm received.
Suffice to say, the second day I laid off the caffeine and was able to really drop into my feeling-sense rather than going a million-miles-a-minute with my mind.
The feedback I got on the second day was so consistent and direct. It was challenging to hear, sure, but better than not hearing it... and through the process of asking each man what he needed from me in order to feel connected with me and to trust me, I heard reverberations of a lot of other feedback I've received in my life, though far less directly than these 9 other men were able to offer it to me.
What I'm faced with now is a life-challenge. How can I live in my authentic, emotionally grounded self?
Living in my mind is so comfortable (as it is for the majority of men I've met over the years I've been involved in men's work). Feeling into my heart, my gut, my 'nads... it's a real challenge and requires a tremendous amount of conscious awareness to not only catch myself escaping into my rationality, but to release the need to "know" something and just be in my fear, my grief, my uncertainty.
While this is a major piece of work that I will continuously revisit over my lifetime, I want to offer a question more related to the Enlightened Child theme of this blog...
How can we raise our boys into powerful, heart-connected men with the courage to step into (and through) fear, grief, anger, shame... even joy (yes, it's easy to avoid or become attached to feeling anything, including joy) so that the world is served by their mature leadership, rather than the tyranny of adolescent manipulations we all develop in our youth to keep our self-sense "safe"?
One such organization I know of that is taking on the work of initiating young men into sacred masculine consciousness is Boys to Men. Here's the trailer of a great movie that relates the power of the modern initiation experience: Journeyman. I hope you'll check it out - and share this with others you know who are raising or responsible for boys (and girls).
If you know of any other resources, please feel free to share them!
Cheers,
Craig
to see original post and all my social media links, visit: www.enlightenedchild.com
The biggest thing I got from the other men was feedback about how I show up in the world and how I'm received.
Suffice to say, the second day I laid off the caffeine and was able to really drop into my feeling-sense rather than going a million-miles-a-minute with my mind.
The feedback I got on the second day was so consistent and direct. It was challenging to hear, sure, but better than not hearing it... and through the process of asking each man what he needed from me in order to feel connected with me and to trust me, I heard reverberations of a lot of other feedback I've received in my life, though far less directly than these 9 other men were able to offer it to me.
What I'm faced with now is a life-challenge. How can I live in my authentic, emotionally grounded self?
Living in my mind is so comfortable (as it is for the majority of men I've met over the years I've been involved in men's work). Feeling into my heart, my gut, my 'nads... it's a real challenge and requires a tremendous amount of conscious awareness to not only catch myself escaping into my rationality, but to release the need to "know" something and just be in my fear, my grief, my uncertainty.
While this is a major piece of work that I will continuously revisit over my lifetime, I want to offer a question more related to the Enlightened Child theme of this blog...
How can we raise our boys into powerful, heart-connected men with the courage to step into (and through) fear, grief, anger, shame... even joy (yes, it's easy to avoid or become attached to feeling anything, including joy) so that the world is served by their mature leadership, rather than the tyranny of adolescent manipulations we all develop in our youth to keep our self-sense "safe"?
One such organization I know of that is taking on the work of initiating young men into sacred masculine consciousness is Boys to Men. Here's the trailer of a great movie that relates the power of the modern initiation experience: Journeyman. I hope you'll check it out - and share this with others you know who are raising or responsible for boys (and girls).
If you know of any other resources, please feel free to share them!
Cheers,
Craig
to see original post and all my social media links, visit: www.enlightenedchild.com
What I'm Learning in Boulder, CO
This weekend I'm in Boulder, CO for the kickoff of the 108 Day Revolutionary Man's Challenge.
It's a great group - I'm learning a lot about myself and seeing a lot of myself in other men.
Since it's nearly 2am EST and I'm bushed, I'm gonna paste some info about the program from Jayson's website/blog:
One of the biggest things I learned today was how my energy is perceived by others. We did 5 minute presentations and, I swear it's not just the caffeine, I was rambling through my Enlightened Child presentation (100% extemporaneous - which added to the flurry) and not really connecting with the audience.
When they gave me some feedback half-way through I found I was totally able to connect and deliver my content in a way that really moved them.
This alone was worth the price of the program.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow and then a week in Denver with my best bro from college - Adam Galblum. He's a great musician and astrologer - check him out: www.myspace.com/adamgalblum and www.theskyisyou.com
Before I sign off for the night... I see in these men a real passion for life and it makes me happy to be around such inspiring individuals who are not willing to settle for what life offers - they want more. What do you do to keep your edge? To push your limits? To grow as a person?
Cheers,
Craig
to see original post and all my social media links, visit: www.enlightenedchild.com
It's a great group - I'm learning a lot about myself and seeing a lot of myself in other men.
Since it's nearly 2am EST and I'm bushed, I'm gonna paste some info about the program from Jayson's website/blog:
The purpose of this 108-day rite of passage is five-fold:
1. This training will address the 5 Pillars of Being a Revolutionary Man (Chances are within these areas, you are holding back in some way. I will tailor the course to address your strengths and weaknesses. )
* 1. Self Mastery/ Self Knowledge
* 2. Service
* 3. Leadership
* 4. Fun/Play
* 5. Community (relationships)
2. To nudge you to your edge. When a man is at his “edge” he’s alive and growing.
3. To challenge you to step up in your life and take specific action to be bolder, badder and burlier as a leader, father, son, husband, boyfriend and as a man. I am challenging you to change your life in a big way.
4. Having received the training, you will be a Man who will make a massive difference in others lives.
5. Help you find the personal freedom that some of you are looking for.
One of the biggest things I learned today was how my energy is perceived by others. We did 5 minute presentations and, I swear it's not just the caffeine, I was rambling through my Enlightened Child presentation (100% extemporaneous - which added to the flurry) and not really connecting with the audience.
When they gave me some feedback half-way through I found I was totally able to connect and deliver my content in a way that really moved them.
This alone was worth the price of the program.
I'm looking forward to tomorrow and then a week in Denver with my best bro from college - Adam Galblum. He's a great musician and astrologer - check him out: www.myspace.com/adamgalblum and www.theskyisyou.com
Before I sign off for the night... I see in these men a real passion for life and it makes me happy to be around such inspiring individuals who are not willing to settle for what life offers - they want more. What do you do to keep your edge? To push your limits? To grow as a person?
Cheers,
Craig
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