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August 10, 2009 9:30 AM

Questions And Manifesting True Abundance ...

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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?

 


July 3, 2009 10:21 AM

The Price You Pay For Focusing So Hard On Goals, Targets, Outcomes, Intent, And Results

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target-small.jpgVirtually 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 ... 

June 23, 2009 9:25 AM

Busting Loose From The Business Game

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Well, it's finally out and the launch is on!

If you're playing The "Old" Business Game as an owner, employee or temporarily unemployed at this moment, now is the time to discover and begin playing The New Business Game.

Hallmarks of the "Old" Business Game:

 * Get results, no matter what price you must pay
 * Vulnerability to people and forces beyond your control
 * Scarcity
 * Endless to-do lists
 * Fear
 * Stress
 * Pressure and struggle

Hallmarks of the "New" Business Game:


 * People and outside forces align to support you
 * Abundance
 * To do lists take care of themselves
 * Fun
 * Joy
 * Ease
 * Extraordinary results without focusing on them or paying a "price"
 * And so much more ...

My new book tells the entire story, opens a gateway into playing The New Business Game, and gives you everything you need to leap through it and begin your own personal and professional journey of expansion.

There's a special book launch page with special "offers" if you feel moved to get one or more copies during the launch window.

If you're already a Phase 2 Player, visit here:


http://www.bustingloosefromthebusinessgame.com/p2-opportunity.html


If you're not a Phase 2 Player yet, visit here:

http://www.bustingloosefromthebusinessgame.com/opportunity.html

Enjoy!


June 1, 2009 11:42 AM

What Being Rich, Poor, Wealthy And Prosperous Really Means ...

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getty.jpgJ. 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.


May 27, 2009 11:36 AM

Business School of Consciousness E-Book

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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.




May 27, 2009 10:59 AM

The "Monetization" Trap

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Prior to entering Phase 2, I was deeply involved in direct response marketing, on and off the Internet, for 18 years.

In fact, I actually grew up with Internet marketing -- playing that game way back at the beginning, before most people even had email accounts or knew about the Internet.

After my first year in Phase 2, I created losing interest in The Marketing Game, and let go of it. I unsubscribed from all my marketing newsletters, stopped expressing appreciation for seminars, courses, books, and other educational resources, stopped applying virtually all the strategies (including measurement and tracking of results), and allowed all my businesses to pretty much run on auto-pilot -- generally just sending out an occasional email to announce something new I was doing to my own email list.

I stayed in that "hands off" mode for nearly 5 years. Then I felt moved to dip my toe back into the Internet marketing waters to see what had changed during my absence, especially as it relates to using multimedia (text, audio and video) on the Internet.

When I re-entered The Marketing Game, so to speak, in that way, I noticed something fascinating I never quite "saw" so clearly before. Everywhere I looked, all the talk was about "monetization" of EVERYTHING -- how you could/should make money from using this or that technique, resource, etc.

That's to be expected in discussions about sales and marketing, right? Of course.

What was conspicuously absent from ALL the discussions, every single one, was any mention at all about having fun! Not even the slightest mention!

"You need to do 'X' to build your business ..."

"Use this technique and you can make twenty zillion dollars and dominate your niche ..."

"This technique or resource will get you #1 rankings in Google ..."

"Do this one little thing and you can double your sales and profits overnight ..."

"You absolutely must do z, y and z or you're leaving a fortune on the table ..."

"Time is money, so ...."

"Just do 'Y' and you'll get twice as much done in half the time..."

But NOTHING, not one word about fun, enjoyment, or what I call "lifestyle friendliness" from the doing of all of that, from the playing of The Business Game.

As a result, most of the folks following those pathways, whether they're making twenty zillion dollars or not, are NOT having much fun (even if they swear they are), and, in general, are stressed out maniacs like I used to be in Phase 1.

If you do see a rare exception of someone mentioning the topic of fun and enjoyment, in general and with few exceptions, it's just lip service -- and they're still stressed out maniacs too!

So, here are my two questions for you today:

"Where's the Joy?"

"When is it going to become a priority?"

In Phase 2, as a natural by-product of expansion and knocking out the cloud cover, fun and joy enter the picture, stay in the picture, become more and more of a priority, and your experience of both increases in ways you can't even imagine right now -- without you targeting or "intending" it as an outcome.

But until you get to that point, I invite you today to at least put it on your radar screen as something to track and monitor, and, if you will, an intention for a very powerful form of transformation in your experience of playing The Business Game.


April 29, 2009 9:05 AM

"Might As Well Panic" ...

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Check out this recent post from Seth Godin's blog (one of the few blogs I regularly track):

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/04/might-as-well-panic.html

It beautifully illustrates powerful Phase 1 dynamics, lies, illusions, patterns (and brilliant creations) that are so pervasive in the business world and our personal lives -- especially in "tough times," economically and otherwise.

The opportunity in Phase 2, taking Seth Godin's specific example, is to apply The Process when feelings of panic surface, to ultimately let go of caution and planning, and relax into Trust in your Expanded Self as you ride your rides and play The New Business Game.



April 16, 2009 3:13 PM

The Hidden Truth About Most Sales And Marketing Techniques And Approaches - Part 3

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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.



April 14, 2009 2:58 PM

The Hidden Truth About Most Sales And Marketing Techniques And Approaches - Part 2

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Following is a video, part 2 of 3 (so it may seem to end abruptly) in "The Hidden Truth About Most Sales And Marketing Techniques And Approaches" series.

The video asks some critical questions about playing The Business Game in Phase 1 and Phase 2, and invites you to look at things related to successful businesses, sales and marketing success, small business advice and coaching, small business solutions, successful entrepreneurship, etc. --  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.

I welcome your comments and your sharing of this post if you feel so moved. Part 3 will follow soon.




March 12, 2009 12:11 PM

The Sun And Clouds Metaphor As It Applies
To Business And Marketing Success -- Part 2

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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.



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