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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!

Coaching – Mentoring

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!

Giving Back

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.

Honoring My Dad

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."

Next Seminar

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.

Market environment

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.

Mastermind Groups

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.

Future travels

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!

Regrets

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:

1. It is these personal past experiences that keep us from achieving our goals
2. As Jack Welsh former CEO of GE says – candor and full disclosure are the true keys to success in business and life!

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!

Dan Pena Newsletter coaching, Market, Mentoring, Seminar

Trip Schedule

Northeast USA September 1 – 5

UK Oct 24 – 30

California  Oct 14- 20

Galapagos Oct 9 – 13

August 24 – Sept 9 UK

South America August 2 -15 Cancelled

China July 25 – August 2

Southern Europe  July 10-13

England July 14 – 17

QLA Castle Seminar Schedule

October 24-30

Free Live QLA Webcast

September 5, 5pm UK

July 10, 2010 9 a.m. PST Concluded

Conference Call Schedule (Exclusive for Seminar Attendees)

AUG 21  5PM Manila Time

Dan Pena Blog Schedule, Seminar, Trip, Webcast

This is the recording of my live webcast last July 10, 2010. I'm talking from a hotel terrace in Monte Carlo with the ocean and yachts in the background.

I tried to answer all the questions from participants in the chat room. I talked about available business opportunities arising from current events, business in Asia and QLA methodology during recession.

If you have any suggestions for improvements, please leave your comments below

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How could I do this better? Please comment below.

Dan Pena Blog Monaco, Monte Carlo, Seminar, Webcast

Dear High Performer and Visionary,

Happy Independence Day!

All my teams have been knocked out of the world cup; Larry King has just announced his retirement; the stock market is still looking for a reason to declare a  double dip recession; the gulf of Mexico oil spill is still raging and getting worse (as I predicted); so I have time to write a few thoughts in my news letter, LOL!

I had my second conference call last sat with the April seminar attendees: they say there  are deals available; there is money available; banks are generally amenable to doing transactions; they would not of believed they would be doing the actions they are now taking before they experienced the castle seminar; and I will add though not expressed directly by them.

None of this would have occurred without them TAKING DIRECT FOCUSED ACTION! In simple language, though they all thought they had been working hard in some form or another before the seminar, they now know they have been skating through their lives vis a vis being a high performance person! I am sure many of you can relate. Another one of their emails is below as a p.s. I have also attached as a P.S. a photo of one of the recent seminar attendees from Romania (Transylvania), to illustrate I am an equal opportunity mentor and coach!  We called him "The Impaler" for obvious reasons!

Comfort Zone (CZ)

I received this message on Face book this week:

I was speaking to my sister who graduated from CSUN about you and your work. I was shocked to find out she spent 5 weekends at your home in Palos Verdes in the early 90's. She told me the thing that stuck with her was your asking them " To get out of their comfort zones".

She told me how she remembered how the group no longer wanted to go the event and how it wasn't to later on in her life in teaching her own children to "get out of their comfort zones" that she realized the gift you had given her.

- Adolfo

I remember this class well, I taught at California State University, Northridge, where I attended under graduate school. The class deteriorated in size over the semester. I brought in various mentees of mine to relate different QLA precepts. The students could not relate to the concept of comfort zone, at that time. The all felt they were bright and going to take  the world apart. You can imagine how I got the kids to drop out – I put the heat on their young minds and told them there were consequences to missing my class  – a non passing grade!

That was a long time ago, but as I have been coaching over the years "comfort zone" or CZ  always presents a very formidable hurdle to all who desire success in following their dreams! Whether it is in athletics, business or life, people who feel more confident in their actions will prevail! To step out of one's CZ isn't easy! But the more you do it the easier it becomes. Do you remember the first person you ever went out with? Your first kiss? Your first – well you know what I mean!

Comfort zone was discovered, or created by Jim Newman. This great man was my mentor till his passing. His PACE – personal and company effectiveness was the training grounds to countless high performance people! I am merely one of the very large stable. His book is one of the few I continue to recommend – Release Your Brakes. It is a master piece and I suggest you get it ASAP! It's main premise is -  we go through life with our emergency brakes on. for those of us old enough, we know what it feels like to drive a car with the emergency brakes on (now you can't because you must put the car in gear): u drive very sluggish; it is bad for the tires, differential, engine; and generally drags on the entire performance of the car. Because we tend to always stay in our CZ, we never realize and or appreciate what our bodies, mind and self can really do. For those of us that have gone from being out of shape to getting fit you know what I mean. Well the same thing is possible for our minds and beings!

The major thing I have noticed in the recent seminar alumni, since I have now had two  conference calls with them – they all sound more and more confident! They continue to appear more confident as the weeks go by, and now after 8 weeks they sound completely different. They have stepped out of their CZ's and gained confidence that can never be taken from them – no matter what!

One fairly comprehensive definition of comfort zone:

The comfort zone is a behavioral state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk. The comfort zone refers to the set of environments and behaviors with which somebody is comfortable, without creating a sense of risk. A person's personality can be described by his or her comfort zones. Highly successful persons may routinely step outside their comfort zones, to accomplish what they wish. A comfort zone is a type of mental conditioning that causes a person to create and operate mental boundaries. Such boundaries create an unfounded sense of security. Like inertia, a person who has established a comfort zone in a particular axis of his or her life, will tend to stay within that zone without stepping outside of it. To step outside a person's comfort zone, they must experiment with new and different behaviors, and then experience the new and different responses that then occur within their environment.

Insensitive or Incompetent?

I have said countless times, I may be wrong – but I am never in doubt! I have been accused of many things, but being indecisive isn't one of them. I have always said, I attribute my decisiveness to my training as a young army officer, over 40 years ago.  I have said, I would rather be respected than loved  – including to my three children. I have said these and many more controversial statements because – I would rather be called insensitive than incompetent! I feel strongly most kids are ill prepared for the toughness of life, because parents spend most of their time dealing with their own insecurities as their parents dealt with theirs.

High performance people are decisive, bold, and respected - they are not necessarily loved.  in fact most are only loved by their mom's, LOL!

Being too sensitive can be in the short, intermediate and long term debilitating. Being sensitive can dictate your actions, because you do not want  to make waves. Or you want to be liked and in some cases loved. As many of you know, I have never suffered from this feeling. In fact some say my entire methodology is based on – pissing people off and being tough beyond common decency. This is a gross exaggeration, but does have some merit to it. I am not, nor ever have been, since I was in my teens been afraid of saying what I thought. As I have said many times, I attribute my high self esteem to my mother. God rest her soul. And to this day, my biggest regret is not being a better son! I didn't realize the precious gift she gave me till I was middle age.

If you look and listen to the high performance people of the past 100 years: Ford, Edison, Carnegie; Goodyear, Rockefeller, Gates, Trump, Perot; Ellison, Welsh; M.L. King; Huizenga, Jobs, Buffett, Branson, Murdoch, Disney, Sears, Westinghouse, Walton, Onassis, Kroc, Hilton, Watson and countless other modern day high performance people with their social media programs where they speak their minds on a daily basis – they were and are not now ever shy to say what they thought. None of them could be accused of being sensitive. Of course there are always exceptions to all rules and I am sure for those of you that are sensitive, you will hope and pray you are the exception as well. The odds are your not, but I hope you are for your family's sake.

Needless to say another big difference in the April castle seminar attendees is their perception of what is sensitivity and how they feel vis-à-vis what people think of them. Enough said!

Tax Note

This is not meant to be tax advice in any way, shape manner or form but think about this fact: The upcoming tax hike going into effect 2011 in the USA will by definition shift income into 2010, so it will have a more favorable tax rate. What are the implications? And how can you take advantage of the chaos?

True story

Back in the mid 90's I was assisting in recruiting board members for several companies I was involved with in the UK, Europe and USA. I was always on the road and it was extremely time consuming – looking back. Of course hind sight is always 20/20.

There was a lawyer who was a legend at the time. He represented only the toughest clients in the UK, in fact he had just been successful in getting off the sons of a major industrialist. He was a workaholic. He owned in title one of the only houses in Mayfair (they are all owned by the duke of Westminster) and virtually all are leased on long terms like 99 years. His business cards were platinum coated and he was extremely eccentric.

We had approached him to join one of our boards but he politely declined due to time constraints and possible conflicts of interest.  He did say he would like to meet me, I said yes and showed up for a 7 am breakfast. I remember vividly walking up to his 5 story house looking forward to the experience, though I dislike breakfast meetings! We sat through breakfast and exchanged antidotes on business and life. What I can share with you is as follows: he had not taken a day off since 1971. He was not married. He loved the law, he adored what he did 18 – 20 hrs a day and he loved what he did because, amongst other things, he was so extremely good at it!

I asked him why he wanted to meet me? He laughed and said, "I had heard you had not taken a day off since 1970. I didn't believe it and I wanted to meet you and congratulate you – if true!" We both laughed. I said it was true and we roared again! He said how did you keep it up so long? I said, similarly I loved what I did and I was extremely good at what I did. We both laughed as we sipped our cups of tea and both said we felt bad for all the people who are engaged in things they don't love.

What is the moral to this true story? It should be as plain as the nose on your face, but in the spirit of kindness and brotherly love I will not kick you in the teeth about it. What I will say most people are: inherently lazy; give up on their dreams based on conventional wisdom; say money is not important enough to disrupt their lives when they fail the first, second or third time; and as guru Stuart Goldsmith says – most people live quite lives of desperation!

Since I turned 60, I am working less and I have actually taken days off. Since I turned 60 I am actually taking trips that have almost nothing to do with business. But there is not a day I don't listen to CNN, CNBC, FOX and BBC. There is not a day I don't read and answer emails! there is not a day I don't keep track of the business ventures I am involved. Hence, I cannot say there are days I am totally excluded from business – including my birthday, Christmas, and all holidays. Of course business is still a BIG part of my life! I still love what I do and do what I love! At one time it was almost my entire life!

Live Web Seminar – July 10, 9 am West Coast California time!

As described on my face book and twitter etc, I am giving my very first  FREE live web seminar next week 10 July. the listeners will be able to ask me questions live online. I am looking forward to it.  If successful I will do them, perhaps  quarterly.  Tell your friends that could benefit.  Hell, tell your friends that can't benefit! Click here to get complete details about the Live Webcast.

Travel Schedule

I am fairly busy the next four months in Asia, USA, South America, UK and Europe. Though I don't give seminars other than at Guthrie Castle, I do enjoy seeing QLA devotees during my travels!

Castle Seminar – August 22 to 28

I will have another Castle Extravaganza in August. As I have written, the last one in April went especially well, notwithstanding 5 Germans and The Impaler from Transylvania! LOL! The increased role playing assisted all in their skills set, especially The Impaler! The ongoing conference calls have been extremely successful for focused follow up. Email contact with me has been beneficial to all that have used my candid and sometimes harsh comments.

Again we will allow payments schedules to the attendees to help in these hard economic times! Click here to go to the Castle Seminar web page.

Bye for now!

To Your Quantum Leap,

- Dan

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P.S. A story passed on to me by a long term friend and mentee Tom.

The Toilet Cleaner…Amazing Story……THE RIGHT ATTITUDE GETS YOU PLACES…

Unemployed………………..

An unemployed worker applies to Microsoft for the position of Janitor. After going through tests and interviews ,the H.R. manager informs him that he is selected and request for his email address to which he wanted to send the employment contract and details of the day and time to start work. The man is distraught and answers that he has no computer and therefore he has no email . The H.R. boss tells him that if he has no email address he virtually does not exist and therefore cannot hold a job. The man leaves in a desperate mood without knowing what to do , with his last $ 10 in his pocket. Finally he decides to go into a supermarket and to buy a 10 lb box of strawberries. He starts selling them door to door by the pound. He manages to double his capital in 2 hours. He repeats the deal 3 times more and goes home with $ 60 in his pocket. He comes to see that he can survive this way. He starts every day earlier and come home every day later. So he triples or quadruples his money every day. A short time later he buys a wheel barrow, that he exchanges later into a truck and sooner or later he is the owner of a complete fleet of delivery truck.

5 years go by…..THE MAN IS NOW THE OWNER OF ONE OF THE LARGEST FOOD CHAIN STORES IN THE U.S.A.

Now he starts thinking about the future for him and his family and decides to buy a life insurance policy. He calls an agent and selects a good policy. At the end of the negotiations, the agent asks him for his email address to send him a confirmation of the policy. The man tells him that he doesn't have an email address!!! That's strange says the agent, you have no email address and nevertheless you built this large empire. Can you imagine where would you be if you had an email address?? The man briefly thinks and answers: I WOULD HAVE BEEN A TOILET CLEANER WITH MICROSOFT CORPORATION.

• Moral 1 of the story: The internet does not solve all the problems in our lives.
• Moral 2 of the story: When you have no email address but work hard you can be a millionaire.
• Moral 3 of the story: You have received the story by email. Therefore you are closer to a janitor than a millionaire.

Nevertheless have a great day… networking with the likeminded… linking the very mind , soul, hearts to realize your individual and professional goals, linking to make this world a smaller place to live work meet greet and be a success.

Don't answer this email of mine Since I am out busy buying Strawberries

P.P.S. Here is the photo of "The Impaler" I talked about above

P.P.P.S.  An email sent to me post April Castle Seminar. English is not his first manguage:

Hello Sir,

Thanks a lot for the great and life changing experience at your castle.

I have no questions at the moment, as pretty much everything falls into place when I regain focus. If you like, here my summary meanwhile. It got a little lengthy though …. But I wanted to give you a good picture of the effects of your seminar.

Business

I talked with several people to become director of my night club. I found two prospects – one could be director OR the other one would also invest and be co-director. We could invest to build up another part of the night club or invest in the exiting part. Negotiations are in the run. I will see how it works out. But I am pretty confident. GOAL: Freeing me time, getting away from micro to macro, getting focus. One partner is especially experienced and will bring new energy to the place.

I talked to one business partner about the  "hostile" take over plan I told you about.. I told them I only see 5% -10%  to make it, but he said, if I make it, they´d be easily willing to put up 1 Mio EUR – so we can get the rest at the banks (lended against the property and hopefully some against the existing cashflow of the business, if not I will go for additional investors). It took me just 30 minutes to explain the concept and a very "un-germanic" way on 2 x 1/3 A4 sized paper sheet of jammed notes to explain! I would not have done that before the seminar.

I have a mentor / board member who has been in the business 30y + and the former CEO of the opponent as director! He knows pretty much everything about the business and managed it 3y successfully.

Also I can combine my entertainment business "expertise" with my real estate "expertise". However it will be not easy. But we will go for it anyway! But take this great chance then never going for it.

At this point I am still in the process of finding my vision. But I am getting closer! Acquiring business is likely part of it. Perhaps building them on a more macro level. I will hav to go for passive cashflow at the first step also, so to have more time to go for bigger things. I like the overall idea of "corporate raiding", acquiring. Probably bankrupt ones ? But I´ll have to find out about that and clarify the picture.

I talked to just two banks meanwhile and I turned them both around. Started interviewing mode. I can report in the call if you like. I am quite confident for the future for whatever comes. Totally different. Thanks for that!!!

Overall as result of seminar I started having an astonishing clarity in many situations. I was stubborn before – but now it´s on another level.  If people try to suck my money or time – I simply think of how you described how people suck my life blood out of me and my business and then I just think : "What a s*cker – F*** OFF" and give them hell. I really hammered some suckers into the ground – and the best is I am really feeling good about it – without any feelings of guilt – because now I am (more) true to myself (and to them as well!). If they ask for it – they may have it!!! Give a f***. However this is a process that gets stronger every time I use it.

Private

Immediately after the Castle Seminar I moved to a larger much nice place – I couldn´t stand the old one after the seminar anymore! Second – I kicked several boring affairs I had – without the fear of loss (that the difference!) – I see it now as chance to find something better.

Really looking forward to hearing you again!

Sincerely Yours,

- K

P.P.P.S. I am for the first time adding notable links to my site. the first will be  an orphanage I work with in manila. I will in time add others I feel are noteworthy. Some will be business and some will not. You can check my links page to see the additions, in the future.

Dan Pena Newsletter Comfort Zone, Schedule, Seminar, Sensitivity, Webcast, Webinar

Almost all companies whether large or small have been affected by the recession in some way or another. Businesses have learned to adapt or are left to become a statistic.  Even Dan Pena, business coach and founder of Quantum Leap Advantage, has announced new payment options for his special business seminar held in his own estate in historic Guthrie castle in Scotland.  He has responded to the changing economic conditions by offering installments which have never been accepted as a way to pay for this event. Pena says because of hard times new policies have been made.

This is not your ordinary seminar mind you. It comes with a very hefty price tag of £10,000. Just imagine living a life of luxury in a 15th century story book castle for a week. Pena purchased the Scottish Castle in 1984 in a dilapidated state and underwent major renovation until 2003.  Boasting of 156 acres of outstanding natural beauty; it has a beautiful 2 acre walled garden which dates back to 1616, magnificent lawns a private Loch and its own 9-hole golf course.

Of course, attendees are not your ordinary seminar crowd. This elite few are the cream of the crop of the economic food chain; distinguished company presidents, CEOs and upper tier managers which have already reached a paramount level of success yet crave for more. This follows one of the seminars principles that high performance people are usually in company with the other super successful. This unique 7-day event focuses on exponential business growth in the shortest amount of time. The intensive course includes detailed notes, letters, scripts, and individualized business plans of previous participants.

Dan Pena is a living legend in the seminar circuit and may not be as popular as other business gurus out there today, but for a good reason. Entrepreneurs are afraid of his methodologies because QLA forces people out of their shells and comfort zones.  Pena says that super success is made from hard work, big sacrifices and unconventional wisdom, which are not for the feint at heart.  He guarantees wealth beyond dreams to those with the guts to follow his methods step-by-step. His Castle is proof enough that even a poor Latino from the barrio like himself can achieve his wildest dreams.

Since his retirement in 1992, Dan Pena’s goal and purpose in offering the books, training, and specialized seminars, is to bring out proven strategies for wealth creation and protection starting with no money. He articulates his personal success development strategies and business success coaching methodologies which he and countless others around the world, have used successfully.

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