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Will You Invest in Success?

From RED ink to GREEN

You’ve seen the movies where the key character has the cars, the toys, the houses, and every material thing a person could want, and more, but they sacrificed the really important things in life, like love and relationships, to possess them. This post is not about that. Read on and you’ll discover important information regarding how you must proceed to have what you want in life.

A great man and mentor of mine taught me, “You can have anything you want as long as you pay”. This sentence may seem to drop off without a definitive answer as to what must be paid, and that’s the point. Nothing comes without some sort of payment. In order to have love we must give lovingly. In order to have peace, we must create an environment of security. In order to have a thriving business, we must invest energy and resources. And, so on…

What about you and me? Is it not true that if we want to be the best we can be as a person or at some business, sport, art, etc. that we must in some way “pay” to become that? My experience has been that so many people choose to withhold investing in themselves because they believe they can do it (whatever “it” is) on their own and without paying time, attention, money, and other resources. They go against the percentages believeing they can be as successful as people who are top in their field on their own. Let me share a couple of experiences of famous people to see how they got what they wanted because they were willing to “pay”.

The man Sean Combs, Puff Daddy, P Diddy, or whatever other name he has gone by started out as an intern working for free for a record label. He worked hard, was a student of the organization’s practices and processes and had Andre Harrell as his mentor and coach. Combs persoanl and professional growth led him to the point he quit the recording company and started his own record label. The rest is history. He now estimated to be worth close to $800 million. This is an example of having no money and paying with time and attention to achieve success. What if Sean Combs would have decided he needed to go to work for a regular paycheck and refused to pay with attention and time to receive the education in the Recording Industry? Someone else would have taken his place and who knows where he would be now.

Of course, the world has many examples of those who started with very little money, worked out of a garage, reinvested their profits and became millionaires or billionaires, such as Kevin Plank of Under Armour, Bill Gates of Microsoft, and Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google. These successful people worked hard, reinvested into their businesses, and they all built upon the ideas of predecessors and/or contemporaries. They “payed” with time, money, and the humility to know they could learn from others.

Both types of success stories I wrote about above have a commonality: To reach the heights of success these people have, they have all had mentors and coaches. When you think about having a mentor or coach, do you visualize going to them for one time, downloading all their knowledge, and then creating success from that one interaction? No. Most mentorships and coaching experiences last for 6 months, a year, several years, or even a lifetime so that continuous results are obtained. Think Maya Angelou and Oprah. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. Michael Bloomberg and Larry Page. All of these mentor/mentee relationships are/were years long investments.

Finally, consider this: How many times have you gone to your medical doctor with a problem and they didn’t cure your ailment in one visit? It rarely happens. Even if they do, you usually return for a follow-up to show your progress. Most of the time it takes a few visits to discover any underpinning causes so that you go beyond treating the symptoms and treat the root cause. You invest time and money to achieve the result of success with your health. The costs associated with not going to the doctor for help, or minimizing the visits, can be catastrophic, even death-dealing. I recently found that out when I realized my recent critical health problems could have been prevented with regular health checkups. So, I fully understand about investing time and money in yourself in the area of health, personal development, and business.

Now, many of the readers of this newsletter are clients of mine. Some I have mentored and coached to successes beyond what many people would believe, especially in the areas of leadership and sales. I have been told by more than one of those who have witnessed the results to “dumb-down” the stories I share because they cause people’s “BS” alarm to go off. What people sometimes forget is that, even though some of the results happened very quickly, most experiences happened over multiple sessions and a period of time. These people who are living the life of their dreams and who have seen their goals become materialized were willing to invest time and money in regularly scheduled sessions to achieve the level of success they desired.

So, what dreams and goals would you like to achieve? 2016 will be ending in about 14 short weeks. Will you say, “I didn’t achieve all I wanted…AGAIN!” or, will you contact me to discuss how you, too, can be on my list of those who achieved their dreams and goals again, again, and again?!!! Are you willing to make the investment now for a bigger, brighter future?!!

+++++++++++++++About Dr. Edward Lewellen++++++++++++++++++++

Dr. Edward Lewellen an expert in creating methodologies for people to learn to use their mind; their beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors, and put them back in control of their lives and become top-producers. He is a Master Executive Coach, leadership and sales expert, and keynote speaker for some of the largest global organizations.

Author of The 90-Second Mind Manager

972.900.9207

Ed@Trans-Think.com

Calm Out of Chaos – Edward Lewellen

With over 30 years experience serving as a business leader, Dr. Lewellen brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the topic of Creating Calm Out of Chaos with the Power of Your Mind.

Here’s what you’ll experience when you attend this Thursday, June 23, 2016:

1) The one word that, when you use it as described, will change your life!

2) 4 things Neuroscience has recently discovered that will change the way you think!

3) The seven words that cause you more stress than all other words combined!

4) Live demonstrations of just how powerful your mind really is.

What does this mean for you? You’ll fully realize that you already possess everything you need to become your full potential!

So, join me and a group of awesome business professionals at Meridian Executive Suites, 3010 LBJ Fwy, #1200, Dallas, 75234 at 11:30 for this powerful presentation I guarantee you will walk away from knowing you have the potential to be everything you desire!

+++++++++++++++About Dr. Edward Lewellen++++++++++++++++++++

Dr. Edward Lewellen an expert in creating methodologies for people to learn to use their mind; their beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors, and put them back in control of their lives and become top-producers. He is a Master Executive Coach, leadership and sales expert, and keynote speaker for some of the largest global organizations.

Author of The 90-Second Mind Manager

972.900.9207

Ed@Trans-Think.com

The Positive and Negative of Self-Talk

Imagine this scene:

You have a disagreement with a co-worker. Words are shared back-and-forth that may have been building for some time. You part ways, yet, your inner dialogue continues. The words you shared; the look on the face and behaviors of the other person become more intense, bigger, brighter, and more colorful. The emotions which were being kept in check are now growing exponentially; the distrust becomes deeper, the feeling of rejection becomes sharper, the hurt becomes expansive into all the past interactions you’ve had with this person.

You enact whole scenes of anger, resentment, and distrust in your mind! You envision yourself talking angrily, shouting, and saying all the things your emotions now cause to arise. You may even find yourself spending hours in such negative, destructive inner dialogues. Even when you are engaged in other activities that have nothing to do with this person, you find your mind wandering back to the negative self-talk and scenarios. If you’ve ever had your computer infected with Malware, then you can relate the feeling of helplessness of screen after screen of pop-ups cascading across your computer that you have no control over. The screen is dizzying because so much activity is happening so quickly.

There is a continuous conversation going on in everyone’s head. A lot of energy, time and attention are wasted on revivifying small and usually unimportant incidents. For most people, this conversation goes on from the moment of waking until falling asleep. The inner dialogue continues while working, studying, reading, watching TV, talking, walking and eating. There is a constant judging of people, commenting on what is going on, planning, gossiping, and mental conversations with people you know and, sometimes, even with people you don’t know.

These inner dialogues have an aggregation effect. The more you ruminate them, the more you anchor them to your neuropathways and emotions so that they become your new reality, your new belief system and new way of feeling. With each revivification, more power, more energy and more attachment are added. And, because you are creating a new belief system, this has an adverse effect on your behavior, judgment and general performance. The beliefs that you create are built upon your perception that those beliefs are true, so now you look for all the words and actions to support those beliefs and you negate all the words, actions, etc. that disprove them. Like having Mental Malware inserted into your computer programming, your new “infected” programming generalizes, distorts, and deletes critical information to which you once had access.

If you’ve ever read a Self-Development book, seen a Self-Development video, or attended a Self-Development event, then you’re familiar with affirmations. The idea of affirmations is to repeat a thought in your mind enough times so that it becomes your new belief and, supposedly, the old belief will disappear. 21 days of repeating a new affirmation is said to be the “magic” number of days to make this change. As you can tell, I have an issue with this, but that’s not important right now. What is important is that the process and effect of these inner conversations is similar to affirmations. Constant thinking about the same subject affects the neural pathways, which overrides old thoughts thoughts and words and creates a stronger affinity to the new thoughts and actions. However, it doesn’t erase them, as some would have you believe. You cannot consciously change the unconscious mind.

For instance, let’s go back to the beginning of this post. Fully consider what had to happen to send you into this negative mind-loop about the person with whom you had the disagreement. Most likely there was a sharp burst of anger, a threatening of your job, or some other dramatic or traumatic event. During this time something happened that was like “shock” to your mind so that your unconscious mind was opened up to change though an interruption of your neuropathways. Whatever happened next became your new reality. If you had been in good rapport with this person prior to the event, those thoughts and emotions were severed and instantly changed to negative thoughts and emotions. The previous concern, care, and empathy vanish and are replaced with distrust, scorn, and strong dislike. To appreciate the truth of this, think back to a time when you had such an altercation and remember that, even after the “fences were mended”, things just were never the same. This is because your unconscious mind had been accessed to create the deeper belief. Only by accessing the unconscious mind again can the relationship be fully restored.

Is there anything you can do on a day-to-day basis to help control your self-talk?

If you learn to become aware of your thoughts, you gain a certain amount of ability to control them. This is one of the teachings of Mindfulness. Once you make yourself aware of the thoughts going through your mind then you can make a choice as to what you will do with those thoughts. Neuroscience has shown that we have only up to 90-seconds to make this decision. As an example, suppose you have a negative thought occur and you are immediately aware of it, so now separate yourself out of the situation you’re thinking about and become an Objective Bystander. As an Objective Bystander, you now can see the bigger picture and make a wise choice as to what to do with the thoughts and feelings you were having. This is like the person sitting at a stoplight and a car runs through the red light of an intersection. They immediately become angered and begin yelling at the driver! Then, suddenly he hears and then sees the ambulance coming and realizes that the previous driver was in a hurry because a loved one was being rushed to the hospital. What made the difference in the thoughts and emotions? The larger context in which they saw the event. The situation was the same, yet the thoughts and emotions became different.

Be aware of your thoughts. Pay attention to your self-talk. Being aware of your thoughts and separating them from your emotions develops detachment and this makes it easier to control your mind so that negative mind-loops aren’t allowed to form. Rather than creating a mind-loop that says, “Every time I see that person I feel angry”, you can choose to create a mind-loop that says, “Every time I see that person I feel curious about how they think”.

For making changes at the unconscious level, there are a few ways that can be accomplished. Long-term meditation practiced in very precise way is one. Formal prayer is another. Experts say it take a person well-practiced in meditation or prayer about 6 months to remove an old belief and replace it with a new belief. Then there are Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and hypnosis which, in most cases, instantly change belief systems. By the way, NLP, mediation, and prayer all fall under the definition of hypnosis.

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+++++++++++++++About Dr. Edward Lewellen++++++++++++++++++++

Dr. Edward Lewellen an expert in creating methodologies for people to learn to use their mind; their beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors, and put them back in control of their lives and become top-producers. He is a Master Executive Coach, leadership and sales expert, and keynote speaker for some of the largest global organizations.

Author of The 90-Second Mind Manager

972.900.9207

Ed@Trans-Think.com

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May 14, 2016 was when Real Estate Talk with Willie Lambright featured Dr. Edward Lewellen as its guest. Mike Bowman and Dianne VanderWeel of Century 21 Mike Bowman, Inc. are the sponsors and his friends and his largest Real Estate client!

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+++++++++++++++About Dr. Edward Lewellen++++++++++++++++++++

Dr. Edward Lewellen an expert in creating methodologies for people to learn to use their mind; their beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors, and put them back in control of their lives and become top-producers. He is a Master Executive Coach, leadership and sales expert, and keynote speaker for some of the largest global organizations.

Author of The 90-Second Mind Manager

972.900.9207

Ed@Trans-Think.com

The Future of Gene Manipulation Just Took a Giant Step

If you’ve ever been concerned over genetic engineering, then you can be even more concerned now. Scientists have gone beyond the ability to alter genetic dispositions to have what is called a “Gene Drive” that can be installed within the DNA of any organism that reproduces through sex and permanently change the children. In fast reproducing organisms, like mice, and mosquitoes, the effects are seen very quickly. In slow reproducing organisms, like humans, it would hypothetically take centuries.

The good news is that malaria-carrying mosquitoes could be wiped out in a year, saving a 1,000 lives a day and untold repercussions of using pesticides and other poisons which are currently being used to restrain the disease. The bad news is, even a high school student could manufacture these “Gene Drives” with access to the right equipment. This means that not everyone will make good choices in how these are used.

I invite you to watch this TED Talk to learn more and then leave a comment.

#CRISPR #TED

+++++++++++++++About Dr. Edward Lewellen++++++++++++++++++++

Dr. Edward Lewellen an expert in creating methodologies for people to learn to use their mind; their beliefs, thoughts, and behaviors, and put them back in control of their lives and become top-producers. He is a Master Executive Coach, leadership and sales expert, and keynote speaker for some of the largest global organizations.

Author of The 90-Second Mind Manager

972.900.9207

Ed@Trans-Think.com

Best Client Testimonial Video Contest

If you are a client of mine and love the instant transformation and change you were able to make, I encourage you to enter my contest for Best Client Testimonial! Here’s what you have the opportunity to win!!!

3rd Place – One (1) FREE entry for yourself, or someone of your choice, for one of my Stop Smoking seminars ($75 Value!)

2nd Place – One (1) FREE coaching/hypnosis session for yourself, or someone of your choice ($250 Value!)

1st Place – Two (2) FREE coaching/hypnosis sessions for yourself, or people of your choice ($500 Value!)

Here’s what I’ll be judging on:

1) Content – My future clients want to know details of how you’ve changed so that they can know what to expect. For example, some of you have said that “both my personal life and professional life have changed for the better.” My future clients want to know, “In what ways?” How much more productive are you now than before? Is your personal life better because you and your spouse get along better? Are you noticing positive changes in your children because you’re more relaxed? Things such as those.

2) Delivery – I’ll be looking for sincerity and enthusiasm in the delivery. You don’t have to be bouncing off the walls, just show the natural enthusiasm that flows from you because you feel better and are much more relaxed. For instance, notice this video by my client, Michael Sanford:

3) Quality – There’s no need to have your video shot professionally. A cell phone video is fine, if done well. I’ll use Michael Sanford’s video as an example, again. His video was recorded using a cell phone.

4) Length – Your video should be between 2 – 5 minutes, which gives you enough time to share your content and still not be so long future clients won’t watch it in its entirety.

Be sure to read the rules below and now go make a great testimonial video!!!

Rules

1) All videos must be submitted to Edward Lewellen no later than 5:00 PM Central Time on 4/8/2016 to be included in the contest. Please notify Edward Lewellen when your video is ready and you will be provided a Dropbox to upload it. If the format works on YouTube, then it is in the proper format. The format MUST work on YouTube!

2) Edward Lewellen is the sole judge of the contest and all decisions are final. There is no cash value for any of the awards, which means that none of the awards can be exchanged for monetary value.

3) All videos submitted become owned in their entirety by Edward Lewellen and Transformative Thinking and can be used, at their discretion, for marketing on any media they desire and without any compensation to the people submitting the videos. This includes all videos which are not chosen for an award.

4) If three, or fewer, videos are submitted, then no prizes will be awarded.

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