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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  $300 is nothing. It's a pittance. A committed 12-year old can earn that much. If you think $300 is a lot of money, you're giving too much of your power away to money.
If someone can't come up with $200-300, it's fair to say the DVD content will be beyond their ability to successfully apply. It will probably just frustrate and overwhelm them, or it will go in one ear and out the other with little impact. I want to actively discourage such people from buying this program because I don't think it will help them much. It's not designed with such people in mind. You need a certain minimal level of power to be able to really benefit from this type of content. |
The idea of not giving power away to money only works when a) you have enough money to not worry about it (I don't) and b) the whole of society stops giving away power to money (it hasn't). It's all very well to say it's a pittance but it really isn't, Steve.
Perhaps you've lost sight of it because you make enough money to live very comfortably and support two households. I can't even afford one house. So if it's a toss up between getting a little closer to the deposit on my house or the DVDs, I'll choose my house and use the free content I find instead. (I got your book free through the company I work for
) Most 12 year olds, no matter how committed they are, don't have to pay for their own food, transport, clothes, house, bills, taxes, etc...
I'm not trying to convince you to charge less for them, or criticise your pricing choices because, hell, they're yours and you can do what you like with them, and there will be people who are able to buy them. But just because I can't commit that much money doesn't mean that there would be no value in them for me. If that is true then it suggests to me that there was something inherently wrong with the workshop itself. I'd say the people who don't earn as much are actually the people who need the help more, not the people who are better off. By a certain minimum level of power do you actually mean 'minimum level of wealth'?
I've just always been a believer of 'bums on seats'- charge less, sell more, hence help more people, which you say has always been your aim. Your reply implies that you only want to help people who have money, regardless of their commitment to conscious growth.