The new Stature character sculpting course now has the first 7 lessons published in the portal. The first 4 lessons already have full transcripts available too.

We’re co-creating this course with those who are enrolling now.

So far 134 people have signed up for Stature. I’m sure a lot more will join soon. Join us!

I’ve been receiving some delightful feedback on our new Stature character building deep dive. Some people are already finding it transformational in just the first few lessons.

So far 109 people have already signed up for it, with more still joining each day, so that’s great to see. 🙂

The current sign-up count is displayed at the top of the Stature page, so you can see how may more people have joined at any point during the launch week.

Today I added a new lesson to the course called “Summon Your Power.”

Good news – The new Stature character sculpting deep dive course is now open for enrollment.

You’ll also find it listed on the Courses page and the Courses menu on this website.

I plan to add an invitation video to the website tomorrow, so if you like those video invites from past courses, you may want to wait about 24 hours for that to be added. I like video for conveying the vibe of a course, while text is good for sharing the full details.

This is a weighty course, and it will take a genuine commitment to do the actual character sculpting work, so I prefer if people think about this one a little before deciding if they want to commit to it.

Remember that this course is being co-created as we go, so it’s launching with the first 4 lessons now, and I’ll continue creating and publishing more lessons each week as we build it out in January and February, with some of the bonus material being added in March. This is similar to how we launched and developed the Submersion course.

I’ll continue sharing updates about Stature throughout the launch week.

Today we created a new Facebook group for the upcoming Stature course launch, which begins on January 1st. Everyone who’s interested in sculpting and improving their characters for the New Year is welcome to join now!

Just visit the group, request to join, and we’ll approve you ASAP.

You’re welcome to invite friends, colleagues, and anyone else to join as well – as long as they have a keen interest in personal growth.

The intention is to make this launch more social and fun by providing a place where my blog readers, previous course participants, and other growth-oriented people can connect. Rachelle and I will both be active in the group as well.

Let’s make it a big party!

Just note that this group is temporary, so it will be closed and archived after the launch is complete.

Volume 2 of the Ebook version of the Deep Abundance Integration course is now published to that course’s portal. All DAI participants will find a link to this bonus on the course’s Gifts page, so you can download it now or read it online. It’s yours to keep.

This new volume covers lessons 11-20 and is 144 pages. The previously published Volume 1 (added in June) covers lessons 1-10 and is 155 pages.

The third and final volume covering lessons 21-30 is well underway and will be added to the portal when it’s ready.

Turning an interactive video course into an ebook has been a real challenge. If we’d known in advance how much work this extra bonus would have been, I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t have promised it. But we did promise it, and so we’re delivering on that, however long it takes to do it right.

That said, it does feel good to provide such a hefty bonus that gives people another way to delve into the material. This is a massive course on overcoming scarcity and creating abundance, so the three ebook volumes will likely add up to about 450 pages. This one bonus could make the whole course worthwhile to many people, even without the videos.

Enjoy this new ebook volume!

If you haven’t done the Deep Abundance Integration course yet, do yourself a favor and sign up for it, like hundreds of other readers have already done. DAI has changed many lives, and I’m still receiving grateful stories of the ripples it’s creating. Many people have finished the entire course 2-3 times already. It’s designed to be timeless.

Today (Oct 1) is my blog’s 15th birthday. I wrote my first post on Oct 1, 2004, starting with WordPress 1.0.

Tomorrow (Oct 2) is the 10-year anniversary of our first 3-day workshop (the original Conscious Growth Workshop in Las Vegas). That’s also the day my wife Rachelle and I first met. Since then we’ve done 16 3-day workshops on a variety of different themes.

I’ve really enjoyed this past decade. I’m especially glad I leaned into taking more trips, which comprise some of my fondest memories during this time period. Before 2009 I’d never traveled outside the USA. Now I do so pretty regularly and have been to around 15 countries so far. I’ll add a few more (Panama, Northern Ireland, Scotland) within the next year and Japan in 2021.

So much of what I appreciate in life seems to come from inviting and embracing what feels uncomfortable or uncertain. The challenge is not to do this a few times and then settle into an expanded comfort zone but rather to accept the long-term path of continually finding the edges and stretching beyond them. No matter how big your comfort zone gets, there’s always more to explore beyond it, and that’s where a lot of growth is to be found.

Next month my stretch experience will be to try ayahuasca for the first time (4x in a week actually) with a group of friends in Costa Rica. I’m curious to see what effect it has. I’ve heard the experience can be impossible to put into words, but I think it would be worthwhile to at least try to share what the experience is like.

I’m looking forward to speaking at WordCamp Las Vegas September 7-8, 2019. My talk is titled: Counterintuitive Lessons From 15 Years of Personal Growth Blogging.

There are 30 tickets left for anyone who wants to attend, so they will probably sell out. It’s only $50 for the whole weekend, which is a nice deal for anyone who wants to up-level their WordPress knowledge and skills. I’ve gone to the Vegas WordCamp as an attendee the past two times and found it worthwhile each time.

I believe this will be recorded and perhaps shared on WordPress.tv at some point as well.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve added a significant amount of bonus material to our popular Submersion 60-day audio program to make it even better.

These bonuses include:

• 60-page Submersion Summary Guide – This ebook conveniently summarizes each audio lesson on a single page, so you can refresh yourself on the key ideas at a glance.
• Guided Walkthroughs – I recorded seven new audios (about 10 minutes each) to walk you through applying some of the richest Submersion tools, including practicing the simulation lens, creating your story, healing trust wounds, sparking creative ideas, talking with your future self, and more. These add a great deal of replay value to the course. Some include a few playful surprises as well. 😉
• Guided Walkthrough Transcripts – We’ve added text transcripts for all Guided Walkthroughs, making it easy for you to do the exercises any way you like. You can even use these scripts as a base to record your own customized walkthroughs.
• Subjective Reality Stories – We have six new videos of personal stories about getting results with Subjective Reality, recorded exclusively for Submersion. These stories include manifesting sums of money ranging from pennies to $50,000, manifesting an aligned relationship, turning fear into fun, creating beautiful memories, and more.
• Subjective Reality Explorer’s Guide – Submersion now includes this compact collection of Subjective Reality tools and experiments – a handy resource for when you’re in the mood to explore and experiment with the subjective lens.

And the course already had 7 bonuses before this. Now it has 12. 🙂

Current Submersion customers already have access to all of these bonuses – you’ll find them on the Gifts page in the Submersion portal. Enjoy!

And if you’ve been waiting for the right time to join us, it’s here. This is the perfect time to join hundreds of other Subjective Reality explorers who’ve been having fascinating adventurers using these tools for many months now.

Learn more about Submersion by watching the invitation video.

Then summon some courage, and join us. The simulation will handle the rest. 😉

This course has changed many lives for the better, especially in terms of helping people heal trust wounds and getting into the flow of their creative power. It feels really good to know that we’ve made this even more valuable and useful now.

My friend LuAnn Buechler, who gives super warm hugs, is preparing to travel around the USA sharing hugs during the time of the 2020 Presidential Campaign. She’s stepping up to create more positivity and connection with Hugs Across America during a time of political divisiveness.

Here’s a description of what she’s doing:

The ihug movement is meant to give hope to people, like me, who want to live in a more positive environment. Who is tired of the negative political environment in our country setting the stage for all of our lives? We wish to balance the energy on the planet with the positivity of the simple human connection known as a HUG. We are looking to build a community of people who are willing to hug their neighbor, friend, family, colleagues and community, even when they may fail to see eye to eye on the issues.

The ihug movement’s mission is to combat negativity in our country during the 2020 presidential campaign and beyond. It is a non-partisian movement to remind people to love each other and it’s okay to agree to disagree on the topics.

I encourage you to join or support LuAnn in her mission, either by donating to her Hugs Across America fundraiser or by reaching out to her directly to offer other forms of help and support.

Ultraworking is hosting a 4-day Work Marathon Aug 14-17, 2019, based on their Work Cycles model, which is similar to the Pomodoro method. This involves working in 30-min blocks with 10-min breaks between, and you map out your next work block during each break. I often work in cycles like this and find it pretty effective for some types of work.

Of course you’re not expected to work for 96 hours straight, but they’re providing some structure with extra accountability during this time, so that could indeed help you stay focused and be more productive.

It costs $100 to participate in their online event. I’m not an affiliate, so I have no financial stake in whether you join or not. It seems like an interesting experience, so I signed up today and will be doing it for all 4 days, starting Wednesday morning.

I’ve never done any of Ultraworking’s paid programs, and I just learned about their website last week from a Conscious Growth Club member. Since then I’ve tested some of their free spreadsheets like Work Cycles and Lights, which are well constructed.

I’m going to use this challenge to finish up the remaining Submersion bonuses, so we’ll have all of them published by August 20th. We recently added a 60-page Summary Guide bonus to this course, which any Submersion member can find on the course’s Gifts page now.

If you’re interested in upgrading your productivity, this Work Marathon looks like an interesting event, so consider joining me if this appeals to you. Just be aware that I can’t give this a strong recommendation since I’ve never done it before, but I thought it would be wise to share the potential opportunity with you.