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FREE Personal Development Course (Usual price $194.99)

If you are looking for inspiration and ideas on how to transform your life for the better then this free personal development course ‘Transform your Life – 30 Experiments in Personal Change’ is for you.  It’s not too late to make 2018 your best year yet but time is moving and soon the first half of 2018 will be gone (where does the time go?).

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This online course has just launched on Udemy and is based on the book ‘Experiments in Personal Change‘.  The course includes a free PDF download of the book worth $4.49. There are 32 lectures with over 3 hours of video accompanied by 30 actionable assignments to try out in your own life.  The course covers the following 6 key topics:

  1. Visualisation, goal setting and time management
  2. Attitude
  3. Mindfulness
  4. Risks – expand the comfort zone
  5. Health and Fitness
  6. Continuous learning

You can watch the course introductory video below:

Specially for You!

Subscribers to the Life is a Laboratory.com newsletter before the end of the day on 9th May  will receive  FREE lifetime access to the course (the usual price is $194.99).  I want you to take the course and use the powerful life-changing material to improve your life.  You will also be able to benefit from all future course additions and updates.  You are invited to share this free personal development course offer with friends and family but hurry as there are a limited number of free places.

Enjoy the course!

Best Wishes,

Tom

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Confront the Brutal Facts

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Face the Brutal Facts!

The third lesson from Good to Great by Jim Collins  is Confront the Brutal Facts yet Never Lose Faith.  Wow that is a great lesson, not just for companies but also for life.

I think this is what is wrong with a lot of the positive thinking movement.  If you always think positive and never confront things that are not so positive then you are in for trouble.  You have to face and accept the harsh reality of a situation but still remain upbeat.  There is a famous quote from Winston Churchill “Success Is Going from Failure to Failure Without Losing Your Enthusiasm”.  He didn’t say that you ignore failure and pretend everything is great.  Yes you recognise failure and accept it but you don’t let failure get you down.  Failure is just information – you learn from it, you adjust your future plans in the light of what you have learned and you keep going.

In other words if you live in a Pollyanna world reality will eventually rise up and bite you in the rear!  You cannot impose your vision of how the world should be on reality.  You have to accept reality brutal as it is.  The same happens in companies and organisations.  The brutal facts must be confronted.  If a situation develops where everyone is in awe of the leader and nobody dare bring bad news to him/her then you have a recipe for disaster.

Jim Stockdale was the highest ranking US military officer imprisoned and tortured during the Vietnam war.  According to Stockdale the people who didn’t make it out of the terrible conditions they endured in the prison were the optimists!  Why? because they didn’t face the brutal facts of their imprisonment.  They wanted to believe they would be home by Christmas or some other date and they weren’t.  They were crushed by reality.

So in summary we must keep motivated and moving forward towards our vision for the future but at the same time accept the brutal reality of what happens to us and deal with it. There is no hiding from reality.

Best Wishes,

Tom

PS More lessons from the book next week.  In the meantime have a look at Jim Collins’s website for further information and resources.

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