ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE GUTHRIE CASTLE: QLA Seminar will be held between 26 February and 04 March 2012 at the Guthrie Castle, Scotland. The new special 6th day will be conducted for free — 25% extended castle seminar — no extra cost!
Dear High Performance Visionary:
I would like to inform you about this year’s QLA Castle Seminar (I'll keep you posted with the schedule).
If you think you’re not convinced enough yet, I urge you to take the time to read this testimonial by R from Germany, who attended the April 2010 Castle Seminar. I have written about Robert a couple times in recent newsletters. To refresh your memory, Robert waited almost 13 years to come to the castle seminar after buying QLA products and my first book. Of course he had the normal reasons: time; money; family; and fear of the unknown!
Please take the time to read his recent testimonial, dated 2 April 2011 and even the most skeptical of you will say the QLA castle seminar makes a lot of sense!
He has left how much money he made or stands to make in the last 12 months and I don’t blame him. But he does say it is more than he has made in his entire life prior to the last 12 months! What can you say about your last 12 months? Enjoy the read of a high performance guy!
Dear Dan,
Nearly one year has gone, since we met for a whole week in your marvelous and ancient, fully renovated to deluxe class Guthrie Castle in Scotland.
What has happened since then to me?
My family already was very fine until then, but afterwards developed even much better - simply great and nearly unbelievable – thank you very much, Dan.
Until then I had negotiated and realized deals all together of a volume of a few million Euros.
During the last 11 months I could multiply that in a really fantastic way.
I listened to or negotiated about deals over about 1,5 billion Euros, was invited to deals on several continents and already realized a highly satisfactory multiple in project/deal volume of what I have realized during my whole life before.
I now own a multiple in shares/holdings/investments, than I did a year before – so, I earned more last year, than I did my whole life before – and I own more than 50 percent in each deal (in only one deal together with a partner).
Filling my emotional bank account with your support over the last year enabled me to feel something like I could convince the UN or any parliament in the world about anything talking before them literally barefoot:
Even today – on Saturday – I started to work at 5 a. m.
Yesterday I got a contract from the church for a fine project …….
…..I also tried to apply the behavioral patterns you preach, Dan, in a better way, than I did before in other deals:
A few weeks ago I met the director of a bank, who wanted to offer me a few projects. New financing by his bank without personal liability included. He had tried to get into a meeting with me for months. After two and a half hours he had offered me several projects, I immediately told him my opinion about each of them and he seemed quite impressed. After three hours I left and we shook hands again – his hands were cold and wet, my hands dry and warm. I laughed about that quite a lot (after I had left his office).
Yesterday 2:12 p. m. shortly before I was back in the office after fetching the contract and the building permission, he wrote to me that the bank has accepted my offer – letter by letter – for the first of the projects.
I had made this offer yesterday at about high noon before I left to go to the church government and to the mayor - it was the first offer I ever made to this bank – one page in size – one price and about a handful of fine, convenient terms and conditions for us.
As I now simply write down and remember the things that happened only yesterday, I think, you or anyone else would merely believe this – what seems to me even more than reasonable -, but I want to add that to be able to accomplish this in just one day within about two hours is just by accident, of course - but to accomplish all of this AT THE END is just a few hundred hours of applying your QLA strategies and maybe even more your QLA ATTITUDE.
If the mayor writes to you in December 2010 after many months of fighting for it, that you should take back your planning application, because there would be no way for a permission forever for sure, the simple question is: "What will it take, to turn all the nay-sayers into friendly supporters?" I simply never gave up. And by the way: I never gave and never took anything for such support.
But my simple QLA ATTITUDE was: " Whatever it takes – as far as it is legal and honest -, I will do it!".
So I decided to do 1., 2., 3., 4., 5….:
So, I want to thank you again, Dan, for what you gave to me:
1. At the beginning a few years ago in your books and your tapes – I could apply several things immediately by getting all the financings I wanted etc.
2. But last year in April you and the QLA Castle Experience were still another level of graduation. Before that experience I already was convinced by your materials and my own experience, that I could do all of this.
After this experience I do not need this conviction any more, because now I really and deeply know it. And there are no more doubts, now, because if you know something, you do not have to ask a lot of questions about that, you simply are able to use it and to act, as if you had no limits.
Doubts about a deal are useful, but we never share them. We are laser beam focused
We act as if we landed in Britain and we burnt our ships – loosing is no alternative – we act, as if we had no limits. So we do whatever it takes, as far as it is legal and honest…
I did so many things this year, they all told me about "You cannot do that!" – but I did. You are absolutely right, Dan.
I still have not created a dream or a dream team what your suggestion is - so, doing this one day or another could result in entering even higher levels – but I am doing very well now, as you can imagine by simply reading about one great day.
What my conclusion is like your own, besides my deepest thanks:
Super success is not for everyone, maybe especially the touchy-felly ones (but even they can fill their emotional bank accounts with tons of self-esteem, self-consciousness and grow largely in confidence),
But I think super success and QLA is for all of those who are able and willing to do whatever it takes.
Because then they are able to do whatever they dream about, at least they simply are not anymore able to excuse and say, that they did not know how to do it.
So, I think, the best thing for anyone who has the chance and luck to be confronted in any way with themes of Dan Pena and QLA is meeting him in person.
I hope, I will meet you again at one of the next Castle Experiences –
I'll be back.
Thanks a million!
R
P.S.:
Dear Dan, as I thank you so much, you may feel free to use anything of what I wrote to you for your own purpose if appropriate (here and today, I tried to give you again a better testimonial – than you have on video from me from last April when I still had to change my conviction into knowledge), if you remove my name, please - because there are so many details, that some of the guys mentioned above might kick themselves for, if this is shared. And again my offer: If I can do anything for you, please let me know.
If this testimonial isn’t enough motivation to take action, you should take yourself out of the potential high performance arena!
Stop reading self-help books!
Stop surfing wannabe Web sites!
Stop beating yourself up for not being more successful!
Stop bullshitting yourself that you want a different life for you and your family!
Stop and finally admit you’re not willing to take direct action and make the required sacrifices! And yes my friend it will take sacrifice—irrespective of what the silk suited pretend self-help gurus tell you!
Stop making the countless excuses you have been using for years!
But ask yourself: Is this the year for you to suck up your panty hose and get started on the rest of your life?
Is this the year to MAN UP?
Hopefully to your Quantum Leap—this year
Dan
P.S. See additional benefits below when you decide YES!
First, let me congratulate you on the best decision of your life.
Your decision to attend the QLA Castle Seminar at my personal estate in September demonstrates that personal growth is a high priority for you, and it’s a quantum step in the right direction.
There has never been a better time to take advantage of my 40+ years of business.
I will be showing you firsthand what the Pros are doing, and more importantly not doing, to survive and prosper in the current economic climate.
I wanted to take a moment now and share with you something you are not aware of it.
Because you have made a commitment to change your life, I want to see you thru to that end. So in addition to the close personal attention you will be receiving from me in September, I wanted to tell you what else you will be receiving from, which was not advertised.
For a one full year following the QLA Castle Seminar, you will have direct access to me by e-mail. That means you can e-mail me anytime with your questions or problems—and I will give you an honest answer. You will get my personal e-mail address and have direct access to me. If you need to talk personally, I will take your call, but you need to schedule a time with my assistant, as I’m usually traveling or in meetings.
You may be surprised to know that I still communicate with attendees who came to my 1st seminar in 1993.
As if that wasn’t enough, you will also receive the following:
1) You will have access to other QLA devotees in your area for as long as you wish.
2) You will be able to put deals in front of me for my opinion.
3) You will have access to the monthly update conference calls.
4) You will be able to ask me to be involved in your deal. I only pick a few deals each year, but you always can ask!
And finally, if I’m in your neighborhood, we can meet up for a drink. Even though I’m now based in Asia, I travel the world and I’m in the UK and U.S.A. each quarter.
As you may already know, I charge 3,000 Euro/hour for my time, and the world’s top CEOs pay this without batting an eye!
See you!
This is my special web broadcast last October 24, 2010 also the first day of the QLA Castle Seminar. The attendees requested to watch the webcast live sitting behind me.
Cliffs:
Please post your comments below. How I can improve this and make it a better experience.
Here's me broadcasting from my castle in Scotland.
Let me know what you think. Suggestions for improvement are welcome.
Dear High Performer and Visionary,
I have just passed a milestone that virtually no one thought or expected me to pass. No, it was not my first million, five million or 50 million. That was too long ago to remember. It was not me buying my first company. It was not the first time a board of directors threw me out. It was not the first time I took a company public.
When I was young my family, friends, and teachers didn't ever believe I would reach the age of 20, 30, or 40! Yet here I am just passing my 65th birthday. Albeit with a torn rotator cuff and bicep and to add insult to injury – a broken toe. I want to thank all who sent birthday messages via my social media sites and email. I appreciated it!
I have been officially coaching, teaching and mentoring since 1993. It has been the best of times and with a very few instances the not so good of times. But through it all, I have kept in perspective trying to get people to expand their comfort zone is a very difficult task – very difficult. Of course when I began, I thought given the facts of why we as human beings, greatly under perform – ALL would take the lead and charge forward into glory. Boy was I WRONG!
In a few years I gained enough data that showed about 10% can make BIG changes very quickly; 50% can make changes in a short period of time varying from 3 – 6 months, although these changes are relatively small. The other 50% showed progress over time, sometimes years. But the solace I got was almost all improved. Even though some where slow learners – in the end almost all moved forward. Having done a lot of comparisons, I knew few other personal and business enhancement programs showed any real lasting improvement. Hence, after 17 years of coaching/mentoring, I can say with my hand on my heart I have improved the life of many.
On a recent trip I saw a young man I met about 4-5 years ago who drove a limo. He wanted to be in the entertainment business. He subsequently got all my training programs and listened to them countless times. He listens to them even now – over and over again! I have seen him a few times over the years to get an update and give him a bit of encouragement. I saw him again recently and he related his fabulous progress and in fact he had made a low budget movie (not porn) and was working on several lucrative projects in Hollywood. Mike had come full circle from a young 25 year old with a dream to living his dream. The only advantage, if you can call it that, was he was 100% focused on his dream. As an aside, before he came to Hollywood he made pizzas in New York City. Now he makes movie!
I have mentored/coached a Global 20 CEO for 10 years who came to me with a goal and 7 years later he was CEO and countless other successful guys and gals. My recent second edition of YOUR FIRST 100 MILLION talks about many of them, including the foreword by Klaus Kleinfeld, Chairman and CEO of Alcoa, a Fortune 100 company.
In short, I am extremely satisfied with the people I have assisted in achieving their dreams! And I plan on coaching many more for the foreseeable future!
As successful as I have been in personal life I treasure my coaching experiences. And as an extension of giving back I started working with kids in orphanages here in Manila. I get a lot of satisfaction in working with the Nuns and girls of Holy Family Home. This weekend I am taking all the girls (ages 6 – 18) and nuns to the zoo for the day. We all eat dinner twice a month.
As I have written my 91 year old father passed December 2009. I had been planning for months a gift in his name to Lincoln High School, East LA, where he graduated from in 1936. The first Manuel S. Pena Scholarship was given to 5 worthy student athletes in June 2010. I took the kids to lunch recently and was moved by their sincerity and humbleness. My youngest son Derrick is acting as their mentor through undergraduate school. As an aside, Derrick has been in Shanghai since he completed his MBA last year. The level of questions from the kids (2 guys and 3 gals, 4 Hispanic and 1 Vietnamese) was a little strange to me. They focused on where I came from and how I excelled against the odds. Naively I came prepared to tell them how to structure their future.
It was a great lunch. The kids arrived early to be collected by a stretch limo. The limo driver arrived early thinking it would take 90 minutes to meet me for lunch. My limo was late due to excess traffic. The Italian restaurant I made reservations at closed down the week before (of course there is no recession) without telling anyone and the only place to eat nearby was a Mexican eatery; hence we spent the next 2 hours eating food at least 4 of the kids ate daily and the one Asian kid never ate. So as I told them this is a good lesson – MAN PLANS AND GOD LAUGHS! But my main point I emphasized was, "Man doesn't plan to fail – man fails to plan."
As those who were attending the planned Castle Seminar next week, you already know I was forced to postpone it. I was injured while lifting weights a few weeks ago and underwent surgery to repair a torn Rotator Cuff and Bicep. I now am the proud owner of three Titanium anchor bolts in my right shoulder. This is in addition to my already Titanium bar and screws that replaced my shattered collar bone of 10 years ago I got as a consequence of racing dune buggies with my sons. . This in conjunction with my new steel hip from last year causes quite a commotion when I go through security at airports, LOL!
Seriously, I was truly sorry to have to cancel the Castle Event. It is now scheduled for 24 October when I will be back to normal. I am told I can't play golf till January 2011 and am seriously restricted for a few more weeks in any activity with my upper body. As part of this time out for my body, I postponed my trip to Galapagos islands and South America to coincide with my 65th birthday.
Due to the change in dates for the seminar there are a couple vacancies now available. You can contact my assistant Thelma thelmag@guthriecastle.com for information. We are extending the payment plan for this Castle Extravaganza. Again sorry for the delay.
The stock market is still looking for a reason to justify a double dip recession. Only time will tell, but there continues to be great opportunities for doing things with Quantum Leap Advantage. From the entertainment industry to property and health care opportunities exist and are waiting to be exploited. Of course I still say, as I have, since the mid-80's, health care and telecommunications is going to be big in the worlds future for many decades. This is exemplified by Obama care and the internet which is telecommunication.
A few devotees have approached me vis-à-vis mastermind groups. I have written before what it takes to have a successful group. Of course Napoleon Hill made this concept popular 75 years ago. As I recall he had Abe Lincoln, former President of the USA, and other luminaries in his mythical group. From this the group idea sprang to life with real live master mind group members. If you devotees, have an interest in this please let me know. I would put the interested in touch with one another.
In a few weeks I am on the trail again. I will be in Newport, Rhode Island, Boston, Bulgaria, Transylvania/Romania, UK, and Hong Kong then off to South America (65th birthday trip), L.A. and the Castle Seminar. As I used to tell my dearly departed Mother – No rest for the wicked or the goal driven!
We all have them, but they mean much more as you grow older! I have said more times than I can remember when your are processing your last thoughts among them will be the things you didn't do – but wished you had! Hence, your regrets play a big role as you get older. But what you don't realize as you mature is they affect you from a very young age. We all have stuff in our past we would rather not have done! Most of us suppress them deeply. In your QLA journey these regrets will challenge you all the time! As I mentioned above Comfort Zone (CZ) is a key to success for ALL high performance individuals. The key is getting your CZ to expand faster than it would normally. And when it doesn't we all have guilt for the opportunity that passed us by. And that guilt manifests itself over time into BIG REGRETS!
Some of my regrets are of BIBLICAL proportions, of course this isn't the place to do an extensive description. But suffice it to say regrets affect our performance and we MUST be cognizant that our past actions Will affect our future actions! Just as some of us are afraid of the dark, etc, which is probably a manifestation of something that happened in our childhood. Business is just the same. We are products of our social and economic milieus and all the decisions we made while going through that personal history. We can be held hostage by our past more than we know. It becomes much more obvious as we get older. And I can speak from personal experience. These and other personal horror stories I discuss in detail at the seminar. In fact in the last castle seminar while relating such a story, I broke down and I had difficulty relating what occurred almost 25 years ago. The seminar attendees were stunned!
You may wonder why I mention something this personal? I do for two extremely important reasons:
When asked my secret to success, I have often said I have been blessed with self esteem, since I was about 10 years old due to my Mom! But what I did with this self esteem was intricately tied to whatever success I have had. Early in my life I did not fully appreciate what an advantage having self esteem did for an individual! Hence, my candor to a fault at times, has always showed me in a vain that most could not relate to, but almost all admired! And this candor was manifested in my full disclosure covering virtually all aspects of life! And QLA's basic precepts were born!
To Your Quantum Leap,
DAN
P.S. The next QLA Live Webcast will be on Sunday, Septermber 5 at 5:00pm UK time
P.P.S. Here is a picture of our two new puppies and the puppies and my young toy poodle, barely discernable on my chest. This brings the count to 6 dogs and 2 cats which all live in harmony!
P.P.P.S. Sage advice I give to all mentees, protégés and students – "I can't help you out of a hole, if I climb in it with you."
P.P.P.P.S. People will never see past your short comings till you do!
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