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

I've always loved the music of Michael Jackson. His career, and the way his music touched the lives of millions around the world, has been very inspiring to me too.

I've been reading several biographies of his life and career since his death as he is a character who has always fascinated me. Yesterday, I discovered something that's very supportive for our purposes here.

As his solo career was beginning to soar, Michael set 2 principal goals for his carer. He wanted to be "the biggest star in show business, and the wealthiest." Those were two HUGE goals, tough to attain for anyone.

Notice that nowhere on his principal goal list was experiencing happiness, joy, satisfaction, fulfillment, peace/serenity, etc. It was all about what I call "outside event focus" versus what I call  "inner feeling focus."

For a time, he achieved the first goal, being "the biggest star in show business." While he never reached the goal of being THE wealthiest star in show business, at his peak, he certainly became one of the wealthiest.

While I'm sure he had moments (especially while performing, recording or writing songs) when he felt joy, happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment, peace/serenity, for the vast majority of his life, even as a kid and especially in his final 10 years, he never got close to experiencing being happy, joyful, satisfied, fulfilled, peaceful, etc.

What can we learn from this as it relates to this blog? If happiness, joy, satisfaction, fulfillment, and peace/serenity aren't Truly part of your focus (beyond lip service), aren't part of your goal setting "package" for your personal and business lives, aren't included in your targeting system, aren't even on your radar screen, it's not likely you'll experience them.

If you focus exclusively on outer events, at best you'll experience those events, though most people fail to achieve most of their stated goals for outer events. But even in the best case, it's unlikely that experiencing those events will bring you what you really want which is happiness, joy, satisfaction, fulfillment, peace/serenity, etc.

The only way to Truly win in business (and life), to Truly succeed in business (and life) as I see it, is to:

1. Begin by combining an outer event focus and an inner feeling focus when you set goals
   
   
2. Ultimately let go of the focus on outer event focus -- completely -- and focus exclusively on inner feelings.
   
   
3. When you expand your Consciousness to the point where you naturally focus exclusively on inner feelings, the outer events take care of themselves as a natural by-product of that expansion in Consciousness. This seems "counter intuitive" from certain perspectives, but it's The Truth nevertheless.
   

 
I'll be talking much more about what we can learn from the life and career of Michael Jackson, other celebrities and traditionally successful people, outer event focus, inner feeling focus and more in my new Illusions and Truth Show which is about to launch. Stay tuned for an announcement about that


 

Business is all about numbers, right?

Maximizing income, minimizing expenses, maximizing profits.

As a result, you've got to look at numbers all the time, manage them, make decisions about them, try to change, fix or improve them.

Is it possible to run a successful, profitable business without looking at numbers at all or giving them any significance if you do look? Yes, no matter how crazy that might sound, but it takes a lot of work knocking out the cloud cover and expansion of Consciousness to be able to do that.

When you can do that, and actually well before you reach that "place," you're able to play what I call "The New Business Game."

On the road to that sort of expansion and experience, is it possible to run a successful, profitable business, still look at numbers, but not give them as much power and significance, and have a different and ever expanding experience of them through time?

Yes, absolutely!

This is one of the keys to "dynamiting the box."

The easiest way to do this is whenever you see numbers of any kind as it relates to business, to whatever degree you can, tell The Truth about them. What's The Truth? They do not accurately show the True State of your abundance, how much money you have, etc. They're just illusions, stories, and lies you told yourself and convinced yourself were real and true.

They're no more "real" or "true" than the numbers, money, and business "results" you see in TV shows, movies, and novels!


 

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.

You may or may not have noticed that in the right sidebar of this blog, there's an image for The Business School of Consciousness E-book. That image was there before the E-book was actually available, but it is available now. If you don't already have a copy, grab one by right-clicking the following link:

http://www.robertscheinfeld.com/business-school-of-consciousness.pdf

At the end of the E-book, you'll see mention of the Busting Loose From The Business Game book that officially launches June 22, 2009.

Please WAIT to get a copy of the book if you feel moved to. There will be special "goodies" offered to book buyers as part of the launch during the week of June 22-26.

I'll let you know here at the Dynamite The Box blog, through my various mailing lists, a Twitter Tweet, on Facebook, etc., when the time comes, so stay tuned.