Last post of 2009 guys. I met some extraordinary people and had some amazing times this year. Some of my highlights were:
Running my first programs in South Africa and going on Safari there
My trip to Alaska with my great buddy Dave Rogers
Taking a group of 25 people to Mexico for Rock Your World – Mayan Prophecy
Completing two tours of Cambodia with Rock Your World
Touring Australia and Asia with Dave Rogers, Glen Levy and Damian Milo
Filming, working on and releasing our movie – Dreamcatchers
Being a mentor for Entrepreneur Business School in Bali
I met some amazing people this year.
No#1 The Dalai Lama
I walked into the business centre of the Langahm hotel and literally bumped into the Dalai Lama. I had seen the security, but this was a pass key area. ‘Hello Your Holiness’ I said. ‘Hello how are you?’ He respnded…. ‘Are you going to have some coffee?’ He asked…. my gosh was the Lamur going to make me coffee? ‘Yes that sounds good I said…black… no sugar…’ We both smiled…he and I knew it wasnt going to happen. I wished him well and he passed by. I love that such an important person can be so humble and gracious that he can share a joke with an everyday person. I learned the art of grace from him in that short exchange.
No#2 Dr Wayne Dyer
Wayne was on our Alaskan cruise along with Louise Hay and numerous others well known authors. Wayne and I shared a few laughs and again he was very gracious. I got to know his children (he has many) very well on the cruise. Wayne is a quiet family man. He doesn’t come across as deeply spiritual in real life, more poised and balanced. he seems very comfortable in his own skin. many famous people I have met are not
No#3 Gregg Braden
Gregg is one of the leading spiritual scientists in the world. Having written books like ‘The GOD Code’ and ‘The Isiaih Effect’ Gregg studies spirituality from a scientific point of view. He is working with governments and associations committed to 2012 and the transformation. Gregg was interesting. I have read his books. But Gregg was very reclusive…stage personality and then gone… I had some corridor chats with him but he was pretty guarded. Made me wonder what working with US government does to a person. Gregg’s work is still exceptional however
No#4 Vincent Barra – The Psychic’s Psychic
Meeting Vincent was exceptional. He must have the most calming voice in the world. And what an ability to tap into the Psychic realm. No wonder he trains John Holland who is on Oprah regularly. Vincent is flow is amazing. I saw him do readings on several people and the information he pulled was more than any other psychic. We did a wonderful session where my mother came in, I lost my voice was uncontrollably crying (in an exhilarating way) and got some wonderful clarity.
No#5 Hilary Carter – The 11:11 Code
Hilary’s book was so profound I invited her to the Mexico trip where she was an amazing leader and giver. She did my numbers and the results were outstanding. Probably the best by far reading I have ever had. I totally understood why I muck up relationships and have always done, why I am who I am…and what I am exceptional at. Hilary is currently in India following 11’s around the world preparing people for their own personal transformations.
People I have reconnected with this year are also very cool. Top of this list are:
Glen Levy – Hollywood stuntman, the most dangerous man on the planet and one of the biggest hearts. Glen’s technology around the human body, electro magnetism and martial arts is exceptional. He is a teacher of the highest order and such a gentle soul.
Emily Gowor - Word Artist. I have known Em for a few years but working with her on a book project this year has been amazing. I have never met someone of her age who is so profound and so in tune. She’s like a global temperature guage that monitors emotion and thought and brings it to paper with these amazing sentences.
Keith Mason – He channels GOD. He wont admit it…but he does. I have known Keith for a few years but as co leader of our Mexico tour I really saw him in his greatness. Want to find out about yourself…then attend one of his programs.
Keith Mason with Hilary Carter and Dave Rogers
Lastly the year finished on a great note with me winning two speaking awards – Business Person of the Year and proudly – Inspirational Speaker of the Year. What a way to finish…very happy and grateful…so my final questions for you in 2009 are:
What did you learn from this year you will remember all your life
What are you going to commit to achieving in 2010
What have you done to contribute to our world this year
What excuses have you made that you need to face up to
What will you do differently in 2010 to get a different result than this year
Thanks for reading all, here are some shots from 2009.
I was just recapping the year, from being in Bali in Jan and Cambodia as well with Dave Rogers and the Rock Your World Team, to Asia and Australia in February, then to South Africa in April and a wonderful Safari, Malaysia and Cambodia again in May, Australian tour with Dave Rogers in June, Alaska and Phoenix and Vegas in July with Hay House and NSA, Australia in August, then Malaysia and Indonesia, followed by the USA and Mexico for Rock Your World Mayan Prophecy in September to October in Australia again and now November. Sounds full on, but in reality over 25% down on 2009 schedule… dont worry…it all gets normal again in 2010.
In November I had a great tour of the eastern states of Australia with my good buddy Glen Levy – The most dangerous person on the planet – National Geographic and NASA approved of course. Fortune events run by Zane & Inga Truscott did a fabulous job of filling venues for Glen and I plus ensuring we had first class treatment. It so awesome when you have a schedule like mine for everything to actually be organised and work. Amazing.
Glen is a wonder. He is so charged he blew my computer up by standing near it, closed down two other people’s computers by walking past in the airport lounge and blew out 2 lights. I think he truly must be off that show – Heroes – as he does have some superhuman abilities. Mostly I loved watching him on stage doing some of his incredible work, showing people how they can break a hold from a 6 foot 7 giant or simply how we can get more oxygen into our lungs.
Testimount to his ability is that he has been putting on weight, about 10kg, to ensure his weight loss techniques work. The moment we got on tour he started losing it, by the end of the week he had lost 5kg. We were eating on the run and the only exercise he did was on stage showing the audience the exercises. How cool is that. I have definetly noticed just by doing the exercises with Glen each night for 5 mins that I too was toning up…wild eh!
After all the touring I finally had a 3 day break, no internet, on Waiheke Island off Auckland. Walking along the beach, watching old 1940’s movies, I even watched the all blacks whip Englands but… something I havent done all 2009.
Now is the time folks to concentrate on 2010 and what you really need to achieve. You can have an awesome life…just dream it and live it.
Dave Rogers and I just completed a week long tour of NZ where we ran courses in Applied Wealth Dynamics. Briefly I am going to cover the anti-game of each profile: This is the game each profile plays when it is under pressure and stress:
Creators – Go into super adaptability and listening to people. They become humble and want to please people. Very people focussed.
Stars – The become highly analytical and ask lots of questions and burst into detail and analysis
Supporters – Star to focus on the money, what are the numbers, what are the profit shares
Deal Makers – Try to look for a system to get through the stress, they create it if it doesnt exist
Traders – They investigate solutions via ideas. They can dream up wild schemes to get through things
Accumulators – The hit out at breaking point and become very single focussed and controlling
Lords – The focus on bringing people together to solve issues – The focus on leading through their knowledge
Mechanics – Begin to trade and negotiate deals in a systematic fashion
It was a great few days and thanks to those that attended and supported. I would like to mention Judith Patterson who found a way to become a salesperson for her business. Judith has www.positivelifebalance.com a business which uses amazing technology I have personally experienced in transformation. I also saw her on a bus in India stop a bleeding nose by pulling a finger. Judith knows amazing information and I hope she can know get better at selling it.
Also in the room was Eva-Maria Salikhova a 19 year old best selling author of ‘You Shut Up’ a book about teenage relationships with parents. An amazing talent she is now the acting President of the Wellington Chapter of the National Speakers Association…. WOW.
Following the meetings we went off to Waiheke Island for the Rock Your Life planning meetings where were joined by the RYL board. We are launching a publishing company, media company, travel company www.souljourneys.co.nz and talent management company.
We are looking for collaborative partners so if you have something extraordinary to offer then talk to us. We are also investigating a way to get massive funding to our charity The SAGE Foundation and really want to congratulate Maya Shahani our chairperson for winning the 2009 Extraordinary Life award. Well done Maya www.thesagefoundation.com
Get on board the Rock Your Life fan club on facebook to keep up to date. Next two weeks I am in Australia with damian Milo and Glen Levy on Tour, check out www.fortuneevents.com.au for times and dates.
Having just returned from taking our group to Rock Your World – Mexico we learnt many things.
- The strength of the mexican military might. On anniversary day we saw 20,000 soldiers parading and they were fully kitted, tanks, bombs, guns and all new kit, funded by…you guessed it…teh good ol USA
- Not a sign of Swine Flu, but the mexican economy is really suffering, tourism is 10% of normal levels, and the economy is shot. Carlos Slim the mexican billionaire at one point the 2nd wealthiest in the world is now back in the pack. Who wanted him there?
- The fear factor of Mexico which is representative of the planet is best summed up below.
We are filming at Chichen Itza on the Yucatan Peninsula, Dave Rogers and I are on camera. The minute we call it a wrap over walks security questioning us about our intentions. They were not happy with us filming. We inveited them to join our group for a healing ceremony at the temple and they stood back while the whole group partook in a very sacred ceremony. It was hot and sunny. As we finished I noticed there were now 5 security around us. They marched Dave, myself, Will our cameraman and our interpreter Lilian off to the management, they had phoned Mexico City and the police about us. We tried to discuss what we were doing but they didnt want to know. As the discussion got heated I heard thunder overhead and a huge rainstorm unleashed. We agreed to erase the film, they grumbled but agreed and we left. When we got outside the rain had cleared and we had cleansed the sacred ground, battled with the elements and everyone was a lot clearer. Amazing how what happens externally reflects internally.
The Chichen Itza police are over the top. There were all of about 100 tourists on site on the fall solstice. They normally get 70,000. The country is realing from the effects of the so called swine flu and they are being forceful and militant. I wouldn’t return to Chichen Itza. The energy there is still dark, like the clouds. Uxmal is much clearer, as is Monte Alban or Teothaucan.
Lesson for the week:
- I don’t like being disliked. Something I have to address because its part of what I do sometimes
- I love Mexican people, the passion, the music, the food…its incredible
- Sometimes I need to give in to get ahead. The minute we gave in at Chichen Itza, we were allowed to go. It could have been a lot worse.
Im in Los Angeles today and due a feat of modern technology we held the first 11:11 radio show or audio zine as I prefer. My co-host Dave Rogers was live from Changi airport in Singapore and our guests Hilary Carter was in Mexico City and Vincent J Barra was in Palm Springs. Go check out these guys, they are amazing.
www.hilarycarter.com
www.vincentmyfuture.com
Vincent gave insights that everyone is psychic, its just practice to hone the skills, just like you would practice anything. He suggested playing with cards and guessing which card comes next until you build a pattern. He did a reading live on air for Hilary, whom he had never met and it was incredible. He told Hilary her home was very unique and had many past lives of her own in it. There was incredible energy there. Hilary lives in an ancient convent in France in which she already realises she has been their many lives before this one.
Hilary wrote the book we named the show after: ‘the 11:11 code’. Basically 11:11 is the transformation number and we could tell we hit a spot of interest as callers came through with questions from New York, Vancouver, Indonesia, Australia, UK, Malaysia and New Zealand. We had numerous callers whose birth number is 11. Just add up the numbers of your birth. EG. 3/8/1962
3 +8 +1+9+6+2 = 29
2+9 = 11
These people have a huge role to play over the next few years as we spin toward 2012. If your numbers ad up, you should do something about it. Maybe email info@rockyourlife.net is a good start.
Hilary said Intuition is just knowing in every sense of your being. How many times have you ignored that? Isn’t it time to stop?
Thanks to all those who showed up or downloaded the show. On Oct 11 we have Don Tolman – a global expert on time and Robyn Pearce, world leader on time management.
Mike’s learning for this week. – Always trust your intuition and always practice your psychic powers. We all have them. In this Millennium twice as many as the 1990’s and growing everyday. If you think its odd to do this these days, then you are probably the odd one.
So this is what’s new this week. Firstly I am changing the title of my blog from lead an extraordinary life to whatever suits on the week. That way I am told it will get more hits. You may wonder what the number is in the title, its the week and year of the blog.
I returned from Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. I was meant to be back Sunday but after 5 years of constant travel I read my boarding pass wrong meaning I was sitting in the noodle bar at KLIA while my plane choofed off down the runway. Ha Ha. That mistake has got me more comments on facebook than anything else.
I got back just in time to speak to the Warehouse Group in Auckland. 400+ of their management together on their summit. What an impressive company. They have got it together and here is why.
- Excellently led by Ian Morris a scotsman with a great sense of humour but passionate and committed to the task
- the senior management play as a team. First time I have really seen it. For example they have the GM Finance as the MC, and he did a great job. The managements presentations involved humour, a fun poke at themselves and even some costuming
- they really do care about their staff. It’s not a family, families can be disfunctional…its more of a sports team approach where everyone is supporting the others
- Founder Sir Stephen Tindall, whom I sat with at dinner, said that his knighthood was everyone’s and he really meant it. He knew people’s names and I watched him ask about their children and families
- Over 30 people in the room I counted with ten years service, each one I spoke saying its been a ride but a great one. A real bond and feeling of solidity
So here’s some questions for you this week.
Who have you not said thank you to that you are well overdue to?
Who has been loyal and a champion of yours who needs recognition?
What can you do to really bond your management and get them working together as a team?
Where is the sense of fun in what you do? Do you still experience it. If not why not?
There are some cool lessons that I learn from working with groups such as this and that is why I love what I do. Even got to play a bit of guitar with them so that was fun as well. Make this week extraordinary. I am planning as I am off to Mexico next week. Stay tuned.
Hi all. I have just finished a whirlwind tour of KL and Jakarta with Dave Rogers. I am still in KL on a Sunday afternoon staying with my friends. I was meant to leave last night but after five years on the road I finally read a boarding pass wrong and missed the flight. (I read the flight time as the boarding time). So this is what has been happening this week.
Dave and I have been putting togtheer the new look Rock Your Life company including the travel side, publishing and media. The media side is very exciting and we were in Jakarta working on the company with Poonam Sagar who will be heading it up. Poonam has been a host on Q TV Indonesia (has millions of viewers) plus has run XL Radio and has a company ‘Infotech’ that provides software programming for TV and radio throughout Asia. Amazing woman.
We completed 2 Rock Your revenue events in Jakarta and KL. Thanks to everyone who showed up. I believed we gave some great value with an overview of Obama’s media strategy, the 7 steps to selling in this millenium, how deals are fun and using Quantum to leverage businesses fast.
Joining us we had some fabulous people including Michael Teoh Lu Sim in KL who is totally driving entrepreneurship for youth and Miriam Oliveries who single handedly put on a festival on health and happiness in KL with over 50 speakers, not bad considering she had never done anything like it.
Dave and I went with our great friend Lilian Lim to El Cerdo, the ‘pig’ restaurant that does all pig. It’s logo says everything from head to toe. We settled on the knuckles…and a few jugs of Sangria. Later we twice bumped into the greenest man on the planet ‘Matthias Gerber’ who now has 2500 fans on his Ecowarriors Malaysia fansite on facebook. Well done Matthias, always making a huge difference.
Lessons for the week:
- Always read your travel documents, even when you fly weekly.
- There are incredible people doing amazing things everwhere such as Matthias, Michael, Miriam and Poonam. Get of you butt and connect
- Creativity and Collabortation – brought home to me by some of the amazing ideas Dave and I had for 2010
- The value of social media. Over 25% of our rooms in each city were filled because of facebook.
Matthia Gelber and Mike Handcock planting trees in Africa
Since returning from Alaska I have been full on rebuilding the Rock Your Life brand. Like many businesses we have been going through lifecycles this year. In our 4th real year with the Rock Your Life brand (www.rockyourlife.net) we have gone from being an event, to a product producer to a coaching group and now its time to enter phase 3 of our business cycle. I really believe in 4 short years we have been through the spring summer autumn winter cycle at least twice times. It’s still winter in cycle two and I have been busy sowing for the next spring. Most importantly are the five key questions that I have been asking myself for the past year. Ask them of yourself and what you do as you are reading this.
Why does Rock Your Life exist?
I believe its a tragedy that most people die without ever reaching their full potential or even 50% of it. That needs to change and if it does the world can become an even more incredible place.
What are you doing about the why?
We are building the number one team of transformational leaders on the planet who will trigger so many others potential
Who are you doing it with?
We have incredible SAGE’s we work with like Don Tolman, Glen Levy, Dave Rogers and many others already. We are attracting really good team members and this has been my focus in the past week.
When are these people coming on board?
In the last week I have had discussions with at least a dozen people to see if they are on board with us and what role they can fullfill. Almost 100% of them are keen to get really involved in our vision
How are you going to create these transformations for the planet?
By working with exceptional people and an exceptional team we are building product, on and off-line, media presence, books, events and coaching programs which will all create and trigger transformation and change.
So as you can see asking the right questions enables the focus to go off difficult questions like how. You may not even need to answer how if you can answer who as they may have an easy answer to what you seek.
The one person we are missing at present (and if you know of anyone I need to meet them) is a specialist at internet marketing product. This persons role will be to run a brand that works across all our businesses from publishing to media to events and tours and make sure everyone is marketed in a co ordinated and effective manner.
Teambuilding is the key to any business and this is my focus at present. If you want to get involved with an organisation such as Rock Your Life and have some very specialized skills then talk to me. I want to hear from you. Next week I am in Malaysia and Indonesia, working with Dave Rogers on our business plan and doing some cool, events called Rock Your Revenue.
Lessons for the week:
1. If you find the who, they can answer the how
2. Always start from the why. If the why is not big enough then nothing gets traction
3. Build an exceptional team. Do not settle for second best.
Hi all, great to be home after a fabulous time in Vegas, Phoenix and Alaska. One of my highlights was hanging out with Derrick McCord and Kelly McCall in Vegas on their first day back in the USA from a long stint serving in Iraq. Both have been in the Air Force for almost 5 years and have been in Iraq on and off for the past 3 years. Both are snipers. It was fascinating for me getting the opinion of these brave soldiers on why they joined up and what they felt about the war in Iraq. I don’t want to break any confidences or put them in a position where they may be compromised by anything they told me, however what I will say is that their understanding of our humanness, what it is to be compassionate and respect for others was incredible, along with a really great sense of fun and life. It was a great evening watching them in sensory overload in Las Vegas after months stuck in the Iraq desert.
Back home I have been editing footage for our movie ‘Dreamcatchers’. When we started the project it seemed like a really fun project that Dave Rogers and I could do together and having done a lot of film and tv I didn’t underestimate the work. Having an absolute myriad of footage to choose from presents its own problem in what to choose, varying quality, composure and also an appreciation for the simple things of film making such as having things in focus and not overexposed.
We are almost half way through the edit now and working on the soundtrack at the same time. One of the things I would suggest to anyone who has ever thought of doing anything is just to get on with it. I always wanted to make a movie. I haven’t got the best script, best footage, best talent or anything like that but I am doing it and I won’t leave this planet not trying to do things I want to do.
I recall once a lady telling me she listened to one of my albums and didn’t like it. I can’t be responsible for what she likes and doesn’t like but one things for sure. I couldn’t have an opinion about her album. She had never made one. People are always full of opinions about you and what you are doing. The important thing is that you are doing something.
When you engage a project such as making a movie there are many things you learn and they are not all technical either like location shots or audio files. They are things like dealing with people’s emotions and desires. Ensuring you are respecting everyones time and talent and simple things like making sure the credits acknowledge all the help you got along the way, not just the obvious contributions.
So what is my thinking about making a movie and whats it about? People love entertainment and they love movies. It’s a way to communicate with people on a whole other level than I normally do, and communicate with people who would never come to a live event. The movie itself is about ordinary people who are creating extraordinary things and its about the greatest transformation of the planet in the last 5,000 years which is occuring in our lifetimes. Watch www.rockyourlife.net or www.dreamcatchersmovie.com for more.
Learnings this past week:
- Make sure you live life to the fullest, every single day
- Be respectful and give thanks to everyone who helps you, not just the obvious ones
- If you want to do something difficult and incredible just take the first steps and the rest will follow.
Hilary Carter
