Robert Scheinfeld

I recently made the decision to take a sabbatical from playing "The Teaching Game." It may be temporary, a year or two, or permanent. The sabbatical will likely include not adding entries to this blog.

Please click on the play button below to watch my official announcement, get the reasons and details. The video is 20 minutes long:

Resources Mentioned In The Video

 

Phase 2 Players Community

This is the online community through which Robert will still offer coaching and support for a limited time:

http://phase2players.com

Archives Of Coaching Program Discourses

This is the archive, 2006-2009, of Phase 2 Player "Discourses" Robert created -- audio recordings averaging 2 hours in length through which he shared "advanced level" support for P2 Players, plus details of his own journey, a diary of his journey of expansion:

http://www.robertscheinfeld.com/discourses.html

Archive of "The Daily Inspiration"

This is the daily support audio Robert offered for many years before discontinuing it in 2009. Click on the link below, then scroll down until you see the section for the Daily Inspiration:

http://www.robertscheinfeld.com/p2products.html

The Livestream Events

These 3 multimedia events, created in the final months of 2009, were entitled A Closer Look At The Body Game, A Closer Look At The Relationships Game, and A Closer Look At When The Going Gets Tough in Phase 2. DEtails are here:

http://www.robertscheinfeld.com/livestream-events2.html

Robert's Phase 2 Player Mailing List

If you aren't already subscribed, please click on the link below and subscribe to the list. It's the only way to stay in touch with Robert through his sabbatical and beyond. The system won't allow you to subscribe to the list twice with the same email list, so if you're not sure if you're subscribed, go ahead and subscribe:

http://www.robertscheinfeld.com/email-list-signup.html

Contacting The Office

http://www.robertscheinfeld.com/contact-us.html

 

Today I have a short video to share with you to share a book you might want to read, Dan Brown's Lost Symbol (the follow-up to his Da Vinci Code). I found it to be a gripping and thoroughly enjoyable read, and I also found it to be very supportive for our purposes on this Dynamite The Box blog.

I also share a productivity tip in the video that relates to reading and marking up books.


Enjoy!

Here's a link to the book on Amazon in case you want to grab a copy:

Lost Symbol On Amazon

This post is not about Busting Loose, Phase 2, Consciousness or playing the New Business Game, but I read it this morning and thought you might find it useful if you are playing The Sales Game or communicate regularly, face to face, with clients/customers.

Check out this post on Seth Godin's blog:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/08/the-modern-talking-pad.html

Most players of The Business Game ask themselves questions like this, day-in, day-out:

"How can I be more efficient?"
"How can I be more productive?"
"How can I make more money?"

These types of questions are rarely asked:

"How can I have more fun in my business/career?"
"How can I increase my experience of satisfaction from my work?"
"How can I increase my experience of fulfillment from my work?"

... and if they are asked, the answers generally get ignored, or lost in the shuffle caused by  daily busy-ness.

How would your life and business/career change if you started asking yourself the fun, satisfaction and fulfillment questions -- took the answers VERY seriously, and started taking at least some baby steps towards living the answers?

Could it be True that the fun, satisfaction and fulfillment are our real "abundance"?

Could it be true that if you opened up to that form of abundance, the money, efficiency and productivity would easily follow -- as a natural by-product?

 

Virtually every self help, personal growth, personal development,  spiritual growth, or business success strategy hammers home the importance of setting goals, having targets, preferred outcomes, desired  results, having a clear intent for every action and activity.

The party line on this is that if you don't start with such a focus, you won't get anywhere, and certainly not where you want to go.

I have three things to share about that today:

1. How do you know that the goals, targets, outcomes, intent, and results you focus on are what would REALLY be best for you, enjoyable, fun, etc. -- if achieved?
   
   
2. When you focus so hard on goals, targets, outcomes, intent, and results, you then track your progress, measure your movement, constantly compare where you are to where you want to be, and when you do that, your stress increases, the fun and joy you experience from what you do almost always gets reduced dramatically, and while paying those prices, you'll still fail to achieve most of your goals -- which will make the price you pay even higher.
   
   
3. It is possible to produce extraordinary results -- financial and otherwise -- without focusing on any goals, targets, outcomes, intent, and results at all. If you knock out enough of the "cloud cover" that limits and restricts you, and you expand your Consciousness enough, you can simply focus on what's most fun for you, and by doing that, everything else will align and take care of itself from that expanded state of Consciousness, including the results you produce.

Does that sound crazy? Impossible? Pie in the sky dreaming? Maybe, but it's very do-able. I do it every day as do hundreds, maybe thousands at this point, throughout the world.

For now, I invite you to:

1. Seriously consider the 1 question and the 2 points I made above
2. Allow the possibility that what I'm saying is True incubate in your mind

Cheers ... 

J. Paul Getty, who, at the time was the world's richest man, wrote this about his friend Hal Seymour:

Hal considered himself to be very wealthy in personal freedom. He was always able to do things he wanted to, and always had time in which to do them. He seldom missed a chance to remind me that, in these regards, I was much poorer than he.

Before his death a few years ago, he frequently wrote me letters which opened with the wryly humorous but meaningful salutation: "To the Richest Man in the world from the Wealthiest. ......"

I'll have to admit that I envied Hal his abundance of time--which is one of the forms of wealth that people tend to disregard these days. Rich as I may be from a material standpoint, I've long felt that I'm very poor, indeed, in time.

For decades, my business affairs have made extremely heavy inroads on my time, leaving me little I could use as I pleased. There are books that I have wanted to read--and books I have wanted to write. I've always yearned to travel to remote parts of the globe which I've never seen.

(J. Paul Getty, How To Be Rich, New York: Jove Books, 1965, preface, p. vii)

Why would the world's richest man (and so many others who play The "Old" Business Game in Phase 1) create "poverty" like that? Because in Phase 1, with the "convince yourself you're the opposite of who you really are" dynamics in place, it has to be that way.

Who you really are has total control over Your time and can do as please in every moment. So, in Phase 1, you must experience the opposite of that most or all of the time. In Phase 1, there are so many things outside your control that create endless items on your to-do list, including so many urgent ones, that living in your natural state simply isn't possible.

In Phase 2, however, after you knock out enough cloud cover, the game is about having more and more of a direct experience of who you really are, including total control over your time and absolute freedom to say, be, and do anything.

In Phase 2, therefore, once you expand enough and knock out enough cloud cover, you begin to experience new "stories" that reduce the number of items on your to-do list, reduce or eliminate the need for you to be involved if those items stay on the to-do list for your business, or whatever else you choose to free up your time and energy to focus only on what you really love.

I found the following video, another Seth Godin offering distributed through TED, to be very interesting from both a Phase 1 and Phase 2 perspective:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/seth_godin_on_the_tribes_we_lead.html

Phase 2 Players are definitely a "Tribe"!

Enjoy. It's about 17 minutes long.

Following is a video, Part 3  in "The Hidden Truth About Most Sales And Marketing Techniques And Approaches" series.

Like Part 2 in the series, this video asks some critical questions about playing The Business Game in Phase 1 and Phase 2, and invites you to look at your business and career  in radically different ways.

It will also invite you to bring what could be called a spirituality and business or career, or more of a spiritual management or spiritual leadership and spiritual entrepreneurship approach if you already have one.

For more information on the tools I mentioned and how you can knock out cloud cover and expand into the "place" of freedom, fun and True Success I mentioned, visit this website and register for the Guided Tour.

I welcome your comments and your sharing of this post if you feel so moved.

Following is part two in the Sun and Clouds metaphor series. It continues the discussion of what limits our success in business and personal life, why we experience ups and downs with sales, profits, employee morale, the stock market, the economy, on and on.

It also continues the discussion of Phase 1 and Phase 2 of This Human Game we're all playing.