Come Visit Me At My New Blog!

This will be my last post at this blog. Come visit me at my new blog: http://JackBergstrom.com.

Blogger was a great place to start and I will continue to grow my knowledge of blogging on that platform, but for me, WordPress and hosting my own blog on my own domain was the way to go.

All 4 of the Blogs that I formerly updated on Blogger will be represented on my own site now, as well as lots of new information on new topics.

What a hoot! Come visit me!

See you there,

Jack

The Next 6 Months

So, how goes your planning for the next 6 months of your life? As a business executive, I am going to assume that you have got some decent plans in place for your business in the next 6 months. How about you? Do you have plans in place for yourself and how you will experience your business life in the next 6 months?

How will you make your business life more fulfilling?
How will you achieve more while working less?
How will you further reduce the stress in your life?
How will you make your work feel more like play to you?
What are tasks, that you are still doing yourself, that it is time to give to someone else?

These are some of the questions that I am asking myself right now as I evaluate the last 6 months of my life and prepare for the next 6 months.

Back to the Blog!

Well, my apologies. I got way too busy for my own good and just never made time for blogging. I think I have made the needed scheduling changes and now I am back to my blogging. I really enjoy it.

How about you? I have talked about blogging by executives before and I still think it is a great way to stay in touch with your troops and to make sure that all of the newest hires rapidly become part of your corporate culture. Blogs are easy to setup and a nice way to unwind at the end of your day.

Bye till next time...Jack

Anthony Robbins and The Time of Your Life

I had the pleasure of working for Anthony "Tony" Robbins as one of his many unpaid assistants. If you are not familiar with Tony or his work, then you are in for a treat. Tony and I are both NLP practitioners, indeed I might give a slight edge in NLP skill to me, but Tony was and is absolute tops in the world in platform skills, marketing and large venue multimedia coaching events. It was for this reason that I was willing to work my behind off for him, pay all of my own expenses and receive no direct pay. I was more than compensated in the many skills that I learned during these times.

I wanted to recommend a program to you. Of all of Tony's products, and I own almost all of them, this is my favorite. It is called "The Time of Your Life" and can be looked at and purchased from this link. I have used this product almost annually since 1998 and I learn more each and every time: http://www.tonyrobbins.com/Solutions/ProductsDetail.aspx?ProductID=625&SubCategory=Multimedia

This product costs between $200 and $500 dollars depending upon the accessories you buy. Trivial in the long run...till next time...Jack

Road Trips

I love going on long solo road trips. I have time to think and focus, I have cleared my schedule from almost all distractions and I get to see and experience new things. I love it! I also love traveling with family and friends, but that is another kind of experience, delightful in different ways.

I traveled just 5 hours each way on this last road trip...10 hours total...and it was fantastic! I took along some great business educational cds that I had selected just for this purpose and my tape recorder...as always...and in 10 hours I made wonderful progress. The cds gave me new insights and I was able to get some valuable new perspective on many projects. This is the question that I asked myself as I was listening: "How can I use this information to enhance my life?" As the answers bubbled up to the surface of my mind, I paused the cds and captured the answers on my tape recorder. It will take me weeks to implement the wonderful ideas that I formulated from this one trip.

When is your next solo road trip?

Till next time...Jack

The End of The First "U" Speech Story

So I gave my first speech that had been totally prepared without my conscious mind. And it went just fine! It was for me a very interesting experience...like having my mind split in half. One part of me was watching me while another part was delivering the speech. Quite interesting!

Well, I got good reviews from my Toastmaster peers. In fact, I won the speech contest! And now I had to prepare to compete at ever higher levels of Toastmasters with this speech. Great! But, I had forgot one thing...I had not given myself any instructions to remember this speech...and I didn't remember it. While I was being congratulated, and people would say something like: "I really liked that speech!". I would respond with thanks and "what specifically did you like about it?" That way I collected enough information to recreate the speech...at least at some level. I did ask myself from that point forward though to remember what I delivered!

Bye for now...Jack

The Best Laid Plans

I gave a seminar a couple of days ago. It was scheduled months ahead of time and everyone knew that I needed the room 30 minutes ahead of time for preparation. Well, almost everyone. When I arrived on time, I learned that the room would not even become available until after my seminar was scheduled to begin. Someone else had double booked the room. Interesting. In spite of my best efforts to follow up, make sure that the room was going to be ready, it wasn't.

So, what happened? A great seminar is what happened. I took the middle of the seminar and dropped it into the beginning. I took the beginning and cut most of it out, since I had no time.

And you know what, it was really no big deal. Do you know why? Because I had started asking myself this question long ago...what is the worst that can happen and what can I do to prepare for it? It is a question that has served me well and can serve you well in the future.