Founders 10 - Red, White and Green

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Founders Eleven - First Weekend

Why would you share that?"

It's a good question. When we open our mouths to say something, more often than not we focus on WHAT is being said rather than THE ENERGY of what's being said. But, the content of our talk means very little. Our energy means a lot.

When we share in a training, especially when we tell a story about our life or our opinions, the story might be marginally interesting, but the ENERGY behind the story tells volumes.

"Why would you share that?" Founders Eleven heard it over and over again -- sometimes to breakthrough, sometimes to exasperation. Each time, the group was challenged to "dip deeper into the truth well" to find the reasons beneath the reasons beneath the things we say and think. Finding those reasons, we discover is ANYTHING BUT an intellectual exercise. It is a question of heart, of fear and of energy.

Within no time, the group began to tune in to the energy each person was communicating more loudly than words. They noticed the masks they wore and the scripts they ran even as they were on their "best behavior" in the GLF's highest-level training. Again, this was no mental exercise. It was a heart workout. And the place they would find by deep-feeling was a place of profound self-love.

As the weekend came to a close, that self-love and self-acceptance began its inevitable transformation into an ability to see one anothers' greatness, even in moments of conflict.

Founders first weekend can be a downer. It's a hard-hitting chance to take a look at precisely what's not working, even after Parts One, Two and Three. As Founders Eleven returned to their lives on Saturday evening, they saw clues as to the final destination of the Founders Training: compassion for oneself and compassion for those with whom we share space.

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Money. Dinero. Moolah. Bread. Dough. Dollars.

Almost nothing evokes a stronger emotional response than money. Even though almost every Founder agrees that we live in a Universe of Abundance, when the rubber meets the road, the wheels blow off and we're sent spinning. We all believe in abundance and all of us live in scarcity.

With the economy in dire straights, this Founders weekend found us even more raw than we normally are when we started poking around our relationship with money. Almost every person in the room discovered that their relationship with money was even more disfunctional than previously imagined.

The bad news: there's no quick fix that'll bury us in money.

The good news: the best fix is the very thing we'd been working on every weekend of Founders.

Living in authenticity.

When you think about it, reaping abundance in this world is a fairly simple equation: create a ton of value and then reap a ton of abundance. Creating value is key.

So who determines what's valuable? If I value stamp collecting a whole bunch, does that mean that the world should value stamp collecting as much as I do?

And, when I'm churning in my victim stories, my pointless worrying and my closed-mindedness am I going to see opportunities to create value?

Even though the abundance equation is pretty simple, we are expert at making a mess of it. Creating value should be easier than we make it.

So Founders Ten took Friday night and Saturday and they worked their ever-living guts out to create massive value in the world. It was spectacular! The world will never be the same.

As we say goodbye to the last moments of the formal Founders Ten training, we look back on stupendous train-wrecks when authenticity was lost, and we remember heart-bursting victories when love and light were re-discovered.

Our life toolbox overfloweth. Now, Founders Ten takes it out to the world. We wish you much love and wonderful lessons to each of you, our dear friends!

P.S. The next Founders is in September! Email the Founders Board for more Details GLFoundersboard@gmail.com

Founders Ten 2nd Weekend - The Light Shines In!

The "Get Real" moments flowed fast and furious as Founders Ten came nose-to-nose with the Godzilla-sized judgment still stomping around in their lives. While the individual scales on the monster might have been smaller than before Part I, the net effect was still global destruction and trampled dreams.

This group didn't hesitate a moment: they plunged into new breakthroughs. What could be possible if we stopped to remember how each person in our lives isn't just a few lines of critique, but rather complex, deep, feeling human spirits just like us?

We all thought we were "done" with this part of our training before coming into Founders, but the realization that a RIGHTNESS ADDICTION still raged within each of us brought up another fascinating question. Could it be that our need to be right was blinding us, making us incapable of inspiring others and miring our dreams?

The only way to get an answer was to experiment. After a month of rough times and broken unity, Founders Ten came together to accomplish something difficult and great. Rightness and judgment were set aside for a couple hours -- just to see what might be possible. The result was a rock-solid miracle of synchronicity, love and play. Life in a space of embracing one another fully -- grokking each person in their fullness -- is life where dreams happen.

During their Saturday stretch, and I believe that this stretch is the most powerful stretch in all the training, Founders Ten stunned the trainers and staff as they returned with tales of riveting breakthrough.

Without a doubt, 38 Great Men and Extraordinary Women walked out of the training room on Saturday night. Literally hundreds of acts of spiritual heroism took place this weekend and the world will never be the same.

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What's the key to good fortune?

Most of us would like to think it's mainly luck.

Good luck = Good fortune.

What if we're actually being showered in good luck all the time -- but we're so busy chasing our need to protect ourselves that we MISS almost every bit of that luscious good luck?

What if we discovered that we dedicate about 95% of our energy not in FORWARD movement, but in SIDEWAYS movement (or even BACKWARDS movement?)

What if there was a way to EMBRACE all our luck-missing, sideways-wiggling craziness and bring it in harmony with our life vision?

This last week in Founders, we discovered how to: Grab more Good Fortune. Move Forward more Easily.

And, Love Ourselves the whole time we're Doing It.

I'd love to hear the good, bad and the ugly from Founders 10. Also, if you're not yet a Founder, feel free to post questions beneath this post to our current Founders.