Mar 062012
 

 

Maha Sohona Yakka

Maha Sohona Yakka (Photo credit: Jan Benda)

 

I like… I like…. I LOVE this tool!! WOW!!! You know what I REALLY like the best? I LOVE how your technique naturally pulls out what people need to have pulled out from them! It is such a subtle technique I don’t think the reader really notices. What is noticed is that that by the time you reach the end of this tool you feel like you could take on the world!! WHAT A GIFT!!! ~ Jennifer Liang

 

 From Inner Critic to Inner Ally  March 6, 2012  Posted by at 7:28 pm Comments Off on From Inner Critic to Inner Ally
Nov 122011
 

Angry_Bread_LargeIt has been a busy couple of weeks around here but I wanted to let you know that this book is now available in multiple e-reader formats  here.  We’ll know about Apple and Barnes & Noble soon.

Also, we have a trial publication of the new Inner Critic to Inner Ally: A Beginner’s Guide self-study program here.  This program was originally created for women in direct sales but has been reviewed by other business owners and some therapists who have pronounced it ‘a great tool’ for managing negative self talk.  (Parents don’t ever suffer from that, do they?)

This ‘trial publication’ is priced significantly lower than its retail to enlist users in making sure bugs are worked out, typos and unclear instructions are found,  and difficulties with quizzes, certificates and other downloads are remedied.

And THAT is about enough for this week I think.

Apr 222011
 

For the past six months or so my travels have taken me to meetings and trainings with lots of women in direct sales. A funny thing happened….  I started hearing a term that I hadn’t heard in a long time. I kept running into people who wanted help to manage their “Inner Critic.”

I’ve heard it (the Inner Critic) called a lot of things:

  • When I connect with online writing communities like NaNoWriMo, there’s a lot of talk about “The Inner Editor….”
  • When I worked in the addictions field, lots of people called it “The Addict in the Attic,” or “My Disease”
  • “The Committee,” or “The Jury” comes up in more general conversation

The point is, it seems to be something most of us struggle with from time-to-time.  My friend Annie says “Most people are one thought away from being happier, healthier and more successful.” I agree with her. Regardless of the ‘title’ I have held at any given time, my work has been about offering people the opportunity to connect with a new thought. I like that. Mastering that ‘voice in the head’ that says ‘you’re not good enough’ is important work.

This came in my e-mail the other day and I saved it.  It seems to fit.

“It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.” – Kenichi Ohmae

I’ve created an affordable self-study program to help people think differently about their Inner Critics.  It’s a download, designed to be 3-hole punched and housed in a notebook.  It’s over here.