Jack Canfield

[bethcooks4u]

During the Director Training Jack Canfield did some exercises with us. I thought there were 3. My notes say "do hand exercise with team" and then later (like a page later) I have the how to of when we stretched our hand so it was the same as the other one and then brought it back to normal. I also have the one noted where we stood and turned to point, visualized something beyond that and pointed again.

Anyone know what that third one was? I just can not think!

[bethcooks4u]

Never mind. A director friend reminded me it was when telling something that was not true you can not hold up your arm against the force. Your arm is strong when you are telling the truth.

[darcy]

I did the the grow your hand at our last meeting. I used it as a tool to grow our teams with recruits. For those who need it the directions are: Find the line on the bottom of your hand where it bends, now find the one on the other hand. Slowly put them together keeping the lines together. You will notice on one hand your fingers are longer. Take this hand and hold it in front of you and say 8 times Grow longer, Grow longer ........Now put your lines together again and see what happens. Your fingers should be the same lenght. Now take the same hand and say 6 times Go back to normal, go back to normal........Reline your hands and they are back!

Now my question is on the arm raised, do you have them tense the arm as I have tried this several times and it does not work. What am I doing wrong. I did with my with the girls in my room that day, but for the life of me I can not do it again!

BTW I just received Jack Canfields' The success principles on CD! Love it !

[bethcooks4u]

I did the the grow your hand at our last meeting. I used it as a tool to grow our teams with recruits. For those who need it the directions are: Find the line on the bottom of your hand where it bends, now find the one on the other hand. Slowly put them together keeping the lines together. You will notice on one hand your fingers are longer. Take this hand and hold it in front of you and say 8 times Grow longer, Grow longer ........Now put your lines together again and see what happens. Your fingers should be the same lenght. Now take the same hand and say 6 times Go back to normal, go back to normal........Reline your hands and they are back!

Now my question is on the arm raised, do you have them tense the arm as I have tried this several times and it does not work. What am I doing wrong. I did with my with the girls in my room that day, but for the life of me I can not do it again!

BTW I just received Jack Canfields' The success principles on CD! Love it !

I did it with the girls in my room and my son after conference and again last night and it worked every time. I tell them to not let me push their arm down and I remind them that every time I am going to try to push it. It always works for me.

[baychef]

Jack's formula:

Event + Reaction = Outcome

has been really helping me stay more positive and helping with my self talk and realization of the blame we all do without even thinking about it. As the fall season starts and I go back to my job both will be at full tilt so I will really need to keep reviewing this.

Another great article was in Good Housekeeping's August issue. It was a woman who did a reminder of everytime she or anyone in the house said something in a complaining manner. The article was an eye opener!

[bethcooks4u]

Jack's formula:

Event + Reaction = Outcome

has been really helping me stay more positive and helping with my self talk and realization of the blame we all do without even thinking about it. As the fall season starts and I go back to my job both will be at full tilt so I will really need to keep reviewing this.

Another great article was in Good Housekeeping's August issue. It was a woman who did a reminder of everytime she or anyone in the house said something in a complaining manner. The article was an eye opener!

DH and I go on "OC" dates. We are not allowed to complain about anything on those dates. We leave it all at home - work issues, family issues, etc. It is refreshing to have those real dates, kind of like when a couple is just starting out.

OC = optimist club
When I was 7 months pregnant with my 5th we moved. Our banker invited my DH to join the local optimist club. When we moved away from there I met her again and asked why she hadn't also invited me. She said that I seemed a bit preoccupied and stressed (DUH! - moving my kids the farthest they had ever moved, new schools, new friends, new baby soon...). ANYWAY, we at one point later on we found ourselves complaining about things every time we went on a date and I said "Where is the guy that was invited to the OC?" Thus was born our OC dates.

[baychef]

Love it!!! My oldest brother complains non stop...unless there is a baby nearby then he melts. I came to realize that if I stopped visiting him on a regular basis, I was happier and was able to actually kind of like him. He is intelligent and I know he is in chronic pain and is medicated but it was really hard to like the man. He actually seems to semi (very semi) enjoy my visits.

Then when Jack Canfield mentioned to stay away from people like him...I honestly realized that as much as I want to be a family person, my brother was the person Jack was telling us to stay away from.

I do spend holidays with my family, but when the meal is done, you will find me in the next room reading a paper or magazine while he spews on and on. Soon, his sons who are in their early 20's will come in one by one saying..."Geez Dad, give it a rest. God I can't stand this." And they know I am there to listen and joke around with.