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Most people are not even aware that there is a ceiling above their heads that prevents them from experiencing more than a small percentage of their brain, heart or capability. I’m sure you’ll agree that once you know exactly where the ceiling is, and what material it is made of, you are better placed to remove it.

Our Free 7 day ‘Ceiling Removal e-Course’ will give you the tools you need to remove it.

The 7 days coaching will open your eyes up to a shocking level of new possibilities. This isn’t a traditional approach. If you want traditional results from a traditional approach – then I wish you all the best. This course is for people who have the courage to look at all the areas where possibility has been shut down without their consent, and then begin reconnecting to the birthright we were all given of a life without limits.

Simply doing the 7-day free e-course will change the way you think, act, relate, speak, perform, behave, relax, rehearse and respond in wonderful, rich and surprising new ways. This may seem a bold claim – but there is no catch. I will reiterate that I said “do the course” not “read the course”, and there are many tools within this course to help you follow through and commit, even if you have not seen yourself as someone who follows through until now.

Once you have done that and you are clear like never before on where you are going and who the “you” is that is going there – there area a number of specific resources that can help you really take flight in your chosen direction. But I’ll leave that for you to discover and enjoy should you feel you want to do so.

Where it started

Prussia: 1819.

Napoleon had just decimated Prussia. The Prussians analysis revealed that defeat occurred because in times of battle, soldiers were thinking for themselves: they were thinking like entrepreneurs, not soldiers. To save their country, key meetings were held over 2 years. The solution was found: re-educate 94% of the population to follow orders without question.

Among a host of sweeping “innovations” were:

• the school bell,
• the division of subjects into silos,
• the removal of “real life” context

The Prussian System taught people when to think, how much to think, and what to think. The result was a success. A new generation of people grew up to follow orders and do a better job defending their country.

This system was so successful at creating conformity that it spread to become the global schooling system. By-and-large, this is the system you were educated under.

You learned many useful things. But you also learned some things that did not help you. For example.

1. Connected Thinking

The division of subjects into different areas taught you not to look for connections between things. As a result, even if you are successful in one area of life (say for example, networking) – you will tend to see yourself as simply “good at networking” rather than ask “what general principles that cause me to be good at networking can I use to be more successful in any other area of life?”

2. Time

The school bell told you when to stop and start thinking. Now perhaps an employer does that. If they don’t, or you are self-employed – then deciding how to use your time effectively will tend to be a struggle, because you were trained out deciding for yourself when to think about what.

3. Discipline

Chances are when you hear this word, you have negative associations – not positive ones. Yet we also know that any level of achievement or fulfillment in life requires discipline. So how do you have discipline that creates freedom?

4. Taking Action

You were taught that learning means sitting down passively, generally without interaction and absorbing information which often has no relevance or interest to you, and almost always does not seem to have a real-life application to you. Students who questioned “What’s the point of this?” were called trouble-makers.

Because there was no relevance to what you learnt, when you read something today – you often feel you have “learnt something” simply because you have read it. This of course is not true, you have only learnt something once you consistently apply it to your life.

5. Working in teams

You were rewarded for working by yourself to solve problems. People who asked their fellow-students questions were called cheats. Once you left school, this was called “teamwork”. But how do you work best with a team after many years having this trained out of you?

6. Speaking

Does the most qualified person always get the dream job/ promotion/ date? Does the best product always get the best sales? Does the most intelligent qualified person get the most pay?

For about 12 years, you were taught how to write passably, but never taught how to speak exceptionally. Yet it is your ability to speak exceptionally that gets you ahead. Think of the great leaders of our time – Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill, even Steve Jobs.

They all studied how to speak. And that made all the difference. How much of your success in life is dependent on your ability to inspire other people to take the action you would like them to take ? (hire you, buy you, promote you, listen to you, believe you, support you, want to hang out with you)

And how much time at school did you spend on learning to inspire people? It it just possible that this is an omission you might want to do something about?

7. Self-Talk

Who is your worst critic? You. At school you learnt quickly that things are either right or wrong. If it is not right, then it is bad – and it is failure. And failure means we should probably give up, because we aren’t that good at it. Yet this isn’t the way we start off learning. A child will fall over 1000 times learning to work – because school hasn’t get taught her what failure is. School teaches us very effectively that we are good at a few things, but a failure at most things.

It teaches us to compare ourselves to others, not to ourselves. So we learn to judge and see our own inadequacies all too clearly. We stop doing things that we think will make us look foolish, and at all costs try to make an outward appearance that we are “doing OK”. The result is a life where we seldom do a few things “OK”.

8. Setting and Getting Goals

Think of the word “Goal”. School trains us to think that life is like professional sport: and that what matters is the result, not what happened in getting there. But life in fact bears very little resemblance to sport and that is why the results ironically come the thickest and fastest when we give ourselves permission to “fail”. If life were like professional sport, then all children learning to talk and all children learning to walk would be losers by a score of 1000-1.

Most successful people in business and outside business get incredible results by “winning” as little as one out of 5 times. But most people remain too scared to ever try and remain at “nil all”. Any goal can be accomplished, but only if you do something you enjoy, and you let go of the “SMART” goalsetting techniques you were told that work, but in fact only work for the 5-10% of the population who think naturally like project managers.

9. Doing what you love

School teaches us that this is an extravagance or an irrelevance. We are either overtly or covertly steered away from subjects that are seen as “not vocational” towards ones that some adult believes will be linked to the possibility of a job. The problem is that the world is changing so fast, we can’t even predict the sort of jobs that will exist in the next few years.

All the research points to the fact that doing what you love is the single best predictor of whether you will be successful. But most people have not listened to their inner-wisdom for so long they have become almost deaf to that voice that says “I want to give that a go.”

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