Yesterday I completed the Personal Power course by Anthony Robbins. I am kind of not very much into doing courses like that (further in the text: seminars) but I got a personal recommendation.

Don’t get me wrong: sometimes seminars are cool. It’s just that often they are packed with useless stuff. Useless general stuff. Mainly, stuff that is unapplicable. “In order to be effective in life, you have to make effective decissions” - you know what I mean. What’s more, they often take people off taking action. Learning things has also taken me off taking action and in continuously does. Whatever, life’s great. :)

What I see now is that I have taken a pre-conception about seminars. But it suits me well. I take stuff and try to learn but I don’t take it too seriously untill it proves itself to be so. I also try to be eclectic and don’t take all courses in a row. Whatever it is, I like this plan of action so there is no need to change that conception yet.

Let’s now mention a few things that I really liked about the Anthony Robbins course. What’s more, I can actually see some usability in it. Of the top of my head:

• Managing your state - I find it that it’s still difficult to control my state but while doing the course I was getting in the state pretty often so if even that could make me feel good, I’d have to conclude it’s possible. :)
• Anchoring - very interesting. Does it work? What’s more, is it controlable? I have tried it and it kinda shows some results but I don’t know if it’s the anchor working or me laughing about finding it fun to be tapping my elbow (or whatever). If you don’t know about anchoring - go find out.
• Enpowering questions - wow, that’s a totally new concept. I knew there was something wrong about positive thinking. The hard part is getting yourself to ask those questions often. But I’d be guessing it’s still worth a try.
• Food - this 3/4 water-rich foods diet is interesting but I dunno, I have heard so many versions about food. Some diets say you should be eating practically only vegetables and others say you’ll die if you do that. I’m a bit lost. I’ve been trying to do this for 10 days, though, but, oh, it’s taugh.
• Breathing - 2 seconds in, 8 seconds hold, 4 seconds out (or at least change the seconds but keep the ratio) - interesting, but I often find myself without air. I have heard that if you do hold your breath and you are moving at least a bit, your organs actually run out of air and it backfires. I’m not sure, again, so many versions…

Next, there were some other good things but I can’t remember them now. Setting goals are very common and not unheard of. Following through is harder… Pain/pleasure linking does not give immediate results for me or I’m doing something wrong. What, it’s not supposed to be giving immediate results? When should I be expecting results then? Next year? Next month? Next solar eclipse? There must be a way to do it now.

Also, I have listened to the extra of the course. Some ideas were interesting. Some Indian guy saying something along the lines of:

We are not physical machines that have learnt how to think, we are thoughts that have figured out how to take shape of a physical machine.

Wow, that really made me think for a second. Sounds kind of un-argumented, though.

I still have a couple of tasks to finish from that course and I’ll be doing them untill the New Year. If I don’t post in the next few days… Happy Christmas, everybody!