What would you do with your life if you knew you had only
10 years?
5 years?
1 year?
6 months?
1 month?
1 day?
Would you still be in the same
job/career?
How would your priorities change?
What would you absolutely stop doing?
What would you do more of?
Who would you spend more time with?
Hey there valiant
readers,
Whenever I ask
myself this series of questions it helps me to get back on
track...my answer is always some combination of:
Recording as
many songs as I can (I've only recorded a little over half of
them)
Spending time
with my family and friends and
Sharing my
love of the Modern Jedi Mind Mastery tools from NLP.
On Monday, I asked
these questions and was pretty happy that for the most part I am
truly living the life I want to live.
Like you, there are
days when I have way, way too much to do. I chose to put off
some stuff like cleaning my house and writing this newsletter to
create a new video of a song I wrote in 1989. For an entire day I
buried myself in this creative project and felt energized and
refreshed by the "work." I'd like to share it with you.
I hope you'll take
3 or 4 minutes of your precious time here on earth to share it with
me. I hope it will be inspirational or merely entertaining. Or,
maybe you have something better to do. If so go for it. Go do
one thing that really matters to you.
If you do choose
to spend the next few minutes with me I am truly and deeply
honored...
Here's "Walls" from 1989...
To set the
scene: It was late in 1989 and the Berlin Wall was coming down.
A journalist friend of mine shot some footage of the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington DC and he used one of my songs,
"David's Star" as the sound track...the juxtaposition of these two
walls just had to be sung about. So I wrote this song. Again, at the
time I had no idea what to do with it. How to get it out into the
world.
All that's
changed. What a difference 20 years of personal growth will do!
Where were you 20years ago? How far have you progressed since then?
Ultimately one of
our greatest tasks in this life is to tear down the walls:
the walls
we've built ourselves
the walls
we've allowed others and society to build
So again, if you lived today as
if it mattered, what walls would you break down? What would you
choose to spend your time and life force on?
Make it count okay?
- Mark
p.s. reminder about this month's Free TeleSeminar
Wednesday, March 5th at 7:00 EASTERN TIME
(BTW "Free" teleseminar means...It's FREE!)
Join me as I interview Kathy McAfee, "The Marketing
Motivator."
Kathy is one of my mentors as well
as one of my Master Practitioner NLP students. I'll be asking her to
share with you some of the tools from NLP that she finds the most
valuable. You'll also be able to ask her questions. One of my goals
for the Free Teleclasses is that they give you real, immediately
useable tools to transform your own life. Another goal is that you
have the chance to rub elbows with people other than me who are
using NLP in their lives and businesses. Join me and Kathy as we
explore: "What is NLP and Why Should You Care?"
Register Now for the FREE March teleclass to Reserve Your Place.Spaces are Limited
P.P.S. San Francisco: I will be in San Francisco the last two weeks in
March. If any of you West Coast folks are interested in working with
me 1:1 or in a small group setting, please let me know ASAP as I am
making arrangements now.
A Life In Song
- 30 Years of Original Music:
What's new this week?
Bill Rodman's "Letters to Daddy" musical starring 12 year old
singing phenom, Rilee O'Neill, (and my songs) is progressing
steadily. We were in the recording studio on Sunday and will be
there again on Saturday. Everyone involved is putting forth a
Herculean effort to get the songs done so the show can be
released.
I still don't have the "go
ahead" to share any of the songs with you. But they are coming.
Oh YES! THEY ARE COMING!
To explore my music site and the
progress of "A Life In Song: 30 Years of Original Music" you can go directly to the members
home page at
www.markshepard.com/members.htm
Play the songs right at the
site or download them to your computer and mp3 players...
Reactions/Reviews Needed! I'm also collecting reviews
and stories of how these songs have impacted your life. If you'd
like to contribute to the site let me know okay? Drop me an e-mail
at: mark@markshepard.com
I'm still tweaking my www.ClearFear.com
website. I created step by step instructions and short concise
videos that walk you through the Time Line Therapy "Anxiety Clearing
Technique." This is one of my best tools for helping people (and
myself) to clear anxiety and keep it cleared
If you haven't already, I'd
really appreciate it if you would check it out and let me know what you think.
I need real feedback from real people who have used the technique so
that I can share it with more folks.
Interns Wanted!
If you or someone you know would like to
gain experience in the world
of online music and information marketing please call or e-mail.
I'm taking applications right now.
Save The Date:
Wednesday, March 5th, 7:00 pm
Free TeleSeminar: What is NLP and Why Should
You Care? With special Guest Kathy McAfee.
How does Kathy McAfee use NLP in Business as a
consultant and executive coach? How has she used the tools and
techniques of NLP to improve her own life?
Register
Now for Feb Call to Reserve Your Placeand learn more before
Valentine's day!
Save The Date: July 12-20, 2008 Modern Jedi Mind Mastery NLP
Certification Training
Any
questions? Any comments? Please feel free to e-mail me at
mark@markshepard.com
I'll be back next week with new
songs, videos, articles and thoughts to help you "defeat the dark
side in your personal and professional life."
Trust the "Force,"
-Mark
p.s. Why does it work out
better than you can possibly imagine?
Mark Shepard, NLPT
Songwriter, Modern Jedi, Courage Coach...
Certified Master Practitioner and
Trainer of NLP, Ericksonian Hypnosis, Time Line Therapy™, EFT
New Haven, CT | San Francisco, CA
203-495-8808 | 1-800-378-4971
