I just had the most inspiring week with Dr John F Demartini last week….

I spent 3 days with him on the “Master Planning Seminar” which was truly challenging and inspiring. It is a 3 day course spent introspecting & answering 2000 questions about your life, your values, your goals and inspirations. I found it extremely challenging as I found myself questioning whether certain goals and dreams were really my own or simply an ideal that I have injected in to my life to subconsciously impress other ‘authorities’ in my life…

I also had to question whether my doubts were based on reality or simply a result of huge fear that these dreams may actually be truly my own, in which case I would have to face these fears and challenge myself to really live the life of my dreams….

It was a valuable exercise and though I only completed half the work in the allotted time frame, I now have a much better understanding of who I am, what my true values are and what inspires me….. This has given me the framework to complete my master plan ie the plan of how I am going to achieve the goals and dreams I have set for myself without setting myself up for disappoitment and anger by setting unrealistic goals that are not truly aligned with my highest values!

We also attended 2 talks by John: one was on “How to live an Inspired Life” which again was very much based on discovering your true values and being authentic. The other talk was on “The 5 S’s of Leadership” and John was on fore with that one (or at least I was after yhat talk!!!)

According to John Demartini, there are 5 S’s that make us a leader:

(1) service – what service do you want to provide to the world? If you love what you do and do what you love and can’t wait to get up in the morning to do it, the whole world will be excited to receive it and pay you for it!

(2) specialised knowledge – when you are inspired about something, you love to do it, you love to speak about it, you love to learn about it and this naturally leads to specialised knowledge in whatever area you are inspired by. This gives you certainty and the one with the most cretainty rules!!

(3) speaking – a leader has a vision and a message and is inspired to share that message. A leader will also embrace both suppirt and challenge in pursuit of that higher vision. As a result, a leader is a natural speaker – just look at Presdent Barack Obama – he is an inspired man with a vision and a message and knows how to convey that message top the world. He speaks with certainty and from the heart and people are inspired!

(4) selling – a leader knows how to communicate in terms of other people’s values. They know what they want, and they know how to communicate what they want in a way that is meaningful to others. Again, Barack Obama is a prime example pf this – he connects to people in terms of their highest values. This is called caring when you are in a relationship and selling when you are in the busineses world. It’s the same thing! learning the art of communicating in this way is vital if you want to be a leader!

(5) Savings – a leader ahs enough self-worth and values themselves enough to pay themselves first in the form of savings. If you don’t value yourself, how do you expect the world to?

So, it actually all boils down to being authentic. Everyone is a born leader in the area that they are inspired by! If they are authentic, that is, true to their own values, they will naturally be inspired. An inspired person has a vision, a calling, a message and will naturally have a service they wish to provide, will naturally develop specialised knowledge in that area, will naturally want to share that knowledge by speaking, will develop the skills of communicating and selling and in so doing value themselves enough to save and build wealth. The key lies in authenticity…..

Fianlly, I spent the weekend facilitaing at “The Breakthrough Experience” and that was truly inspiring. It was also challenging but that is what makes it so rewarding at the end! The Demartini Method (Regsitered and Trademarked) is a unique set of questions which assist you in balancing perceptions, dissolving fear and guilt, resentment and infatuation and awakening your inspiration. It is a huge honour to be able to assist someone in dissolving years of hurt and anger and then to watch them open their hearts and feel true gratitude for that person or event or themselves….  I am grateful and inspired to be a Trained Demartini Facilitator and I am comiitted to learning and mastering this work so that I can assist more and more people to let go of the emotional baggage and their doubts and fears and guilts and to open their hearts and live inspired lives!!!

I left there on Sunday feeling truly grateful for a wonderful week of challenge and support and growth and learning. I am not here to play small. neither are you! You are not here to play small. Give yourself permission to live an amazing and magnificent life – find the leader that is inside of you and let it emerge and live an inspired life!!! You deserve nothing less! As John always says: “No matter what you have done or not done, you are worthy of love!”

If you would like to learn more about The Demartini Method, I offer private ne-on-one consultations, group facilitation as well as executive and corporate coaching. Email me at: louised@cft.co.za for more details.