Monday, July 23, 2007

Start your own Mastermind today!

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The Magic of the Mastermind
What do Bill Gates, Henry Ford and Albert Einstein have in common?
What do the most brilliant and effective people in the world do to achieve far more – in less time?

They MasterMind!

How big would you dare to dream if you had the support of a highly-skilled team of like-minded individuals behind you? How far could you go with a well-developed network that was as invested in your success as you are? How focused would you be if your decisions were presented to your mentors and peers on a regular basis?
You’d be inspired — committed — dynamic — unstoppable!
Are you ready to take a shortcut to a more productive, profitable way of doing business?
Are you wondering how to move beyond where you are today, and take your business to the next level?
A highly effective MasterMind group could very well be the most powerful tool you ever apply to your business.
Start you own Mastermind today!

The Magic of the Mastermind (e-book valued at $49)

Free to the next 12 people who want to double their business in the next 12 months

In The Magic of the Mastermind ebook you will learn:

• How to design a powerful mastermind group that thrives!
• Where to find your members, and how to craft a compelling invitation.
• A basic framework for your meeting agenda, with tips on what topics to explore and how to build the group’s effectiveness over time.
• How to handle interpersonal challenges, competition and confidentiality, with practical tools to resolve issues and clarify agreements.
• What to do when things get stagnant – innovative ideas to breathe new life into a tired group.
• How to design a group that meets your specific needs. 
• In addition to the “how-to” essentials, The Magic of the MasterMind includes a detailed discussion of… the Magic! An intriguing chapter explores the extraordinary space that a collaborative group can move into, a place of heightened clarity and synchronicity, where solutions materialize effortlessly and insights abound.

Plus you’ll receive the Mastermind Toolkit….

We know you don’t have much time – most successful professionals are running full speed just to keep up. The Magic of the MasterMind includes a MasterMinding Toolkit, a package of templates, scripts, resources and ideas to help you design a group that works for you – quickly. It includes information on:

• Sharing and rotating responsibilities.
• Accessing free teleconferencing services.
• Finding an established group to join.
• Alternative models of masterminding.
• The Toolkit provides you with everything you need to launch your group before the end of today.
• And much more...

Start your own Mastermind today!

The Magic of the Mastermind (e-book valued at $49)

Free to the next 12 people who want to double their business in the next 12 months.

Just send me an email to greg@zencoach.com with (free mastermind ebook) in the subject line and I will send you a free copy of The Magic of the MasterMind ebook.

Greg Clowminzer
760-930-9604
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www.zencoach.com
You can find me at: zaadz

Social Networking

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If you are not building your social network chances are you and your business will get left behind. If you don’t even know what social networking is or what social network services are, you need to know fast.

One of the social networks that I stumbled on about a year ago is www.zaadz.com where it promotes conscious capitalism and helping change the world. They use one of Gandhi’s quotes which is something like “Be the change you are seeking”. Check it out and if you add a profile feel free to invite me as a friend, You can find me at: zaadz

Greg Clowminzer
760-930-9604
YouTube
www.zencoach.com

Monday, July 09, 2007

Stategic One-Page

I have found this process very helpful for both myself and working with clients. It fairly linear but still extremely valuable. Do youself a favor and spend an entire day on it, if that's what it takes.


VISION – A DREAM WITH A PLAN – Most people don’t have visions, they have
dreams. The one-page planning document guides you to answer 7 simple questions
around your dream – Who, What, When, Where, How, Why and the always difficult
“but Should we or Shouldn’t we?” You’ll see these anchor questions at the top of each
column of the one-page planning document and bolded below to provide you a verbal
and visual clue to match the “how to” sections with the appropriate columns on the form.

One-Page Strategic Plan

Greg Clowminzer
760-930-9604
www.zencoach.com
The Enlightenment Intensive

Awakening The Leader Within

Enlightened Leadership begins with awakening an individual to their True-Nature, Authentic-Self, or Higher-Self or whatever name you choose to call it.

When the individual has experienced or awakened to the truth of who they are, what another is, and what life is the Enlightened Leader is born. Once an awaking has taken place it is accompanied by new understandings. The individual then begins to align their deepest truth, values and unique gifts with their role as a leader.

By aligning enlightenment with leadership one gains the wisdom to “Do the right things, the right way”. The Enlightened Leader has the ability to know what actions or non-actions are called for in each moment of truth.

Enlightened Leadership begins with Enlightened Leaders

Enlightened Leaders practice self-reflection and authentic communication

Self-reflection and authentic communication are the core practices of the

Enlightenment Intensive

The Enlightenment Intensive allow leaders to reflect deeply

Deep reflection awakens new understandings

New understandings lead to wiser decisions

Wiser decisions lead to smarter actions

Smarter Actions lead to doing the right thing

Doing the right thing now leads to a brighter future for all.

Greg Clowminzer
760-930-9604
www.zencoach.com
The Enlightenment Intensive

Friday, July 06, 2007

Flipping the Funnel-- ebook

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This new ebook (3 versions, 18 pages each, PDF format) explains how Seth Godin believes some of the new Web 2.0 tools (flickr, del.icio.us, squidoo and others) combine with ideaviruses and the Purple Cow.

Here they are. Free to download from this site, free to post on your site... or to email to your team and colleagues.

Check it out: Download Flipping the Funnel

That's an edition of the ebook optimized for corporations and traditional marketers.

Greg Clowminzer
760-930-9604
www.zencoach.com
The Enlightenment Intensive

Thursday, July 05, 2007

The Midas Managers Webinar

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Wow! What a huge success. I was so excited to hear Rob Slee the Author of the Midas Managers via a webcast hosted by one of my coaching clients Gary Fitzgerald, CPA and R.J. Kelly last week. The conversations it stimulated about doubling the growth of privately held businesses within 3 years was awesome. I can’t wait to tell all my clients and friends about InKnowVision and the Midas Managers next webinar. Every business owner needs to hear this message.

Greg Clowminzer
760-930-9604
www.zencoach.com
The Enlightenment Intensive

Mastering the Challenges of Spiritual Awakening, Growing Your Business, and Deepening Your Relationships

Spiritual awakening will be the first step to doing business in the future and if not the world will be doomed. If your still doing business from a place of self-centeredness and what’s in it for me, your missing the boat. If you haven’t noticed we are becoming interconnected through a global economy and unfortunately most Americans fail to recognize this. It is time to become more conscious of our interconnectedness with others, how we are doing business and wake- up. One of the new skills we will needed to succeed is the ability to think holistically rather than linearly. The The Enlightenment Intensive is a great way to awaken new understandings within you and become a leader in a new economy.

Greg Clowminzer
760-930-9604
www.zencoach.com
The Enlightenment Intensive

The 6-Stages or Evolutions of Coaching (Audio Message)

I have put together a short audio approximately 6-minutes regarding what I call the The 6-Stages or Evolutions of Coaching. A coaching client or most people for that matter will generally find themselves in one of these stage and ideally evolving to the next. Click here to listen


I currently have a few opening in my coaching practice that I would like to fill with individuals who are ready to live totally free and completely fulfilled.

So, if you or someone you know are ready to live your life from your deepest truth and highest purpose then call my office today at 760-930-9604 and find out how coaching can help you start living an extraordinary life. (Your referrals are greatly appreciated)

Greg Clowminzer
760-930-9604
www.zencoach.com
The Enlightenment Intensive

YouTube and More

Playing Around With YouTube

OK, for years I have been asked to write a book. Well I still haven’t written a book but I am starting to play with audio and video. A long-term student and dear friend of mine George Bollendorf who is a true-believer in the work I do is helping me put together some sample video clips of some of my experiences, teachings and understandings.

Here is are very first one.

Check it out and let us know what you think.



Greg Clowminzer
760-930-9604
www.zencoach.com
The Enlightenment Intensive

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Ideal Coaching Canidate Screening

Are You An Ideal Coaching Candidate?

1 Do you own your own business?

2. Do you offer a commission or fee based professional service?

3. Does your annual business income or commission/fee exceed $100k per year?

4. Do you have trouble balancing your work and home life?

5. Are you having difficulty with key relationships?

6. Do you find there are not enough hours in the day to get things done?

7. Do you feel like you could use more support then you currently have?

8. Do you have personal or health goals that just don't seem to get off the ground?

9. Have you longed to be on a more spiritual path?

10. Have you ever been divorced?

11. Do you have trouble sleeping at night?

12 Have you ever considered changing your business or profession?

13. Do you have a difficult time communicating or relating to others?

If you answered yes to 5 or more of the above questions you may be an ideal coaching candidate.

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Life Coach Model

1. Clear Your Past

2. Get To Know Your True-Self

3. Know What You Really Want

4. Live Purposefully

5. Master Basic Skills

6. Open To The Divine

7. The Great Awakening

Deep Reflection, Lasting Change - A Model For Self-Change

Reflection begins when you pick something that you would like to work on and self-reflect. This can be something that you are struggling with, something you would like to understand better, or something that you are natually wondering about. My two favorite inquiries are "Who am I?" and "What do I really Want?".

Choose something to work on

Reflect

Discover

Stay Open

Awaken To The Truth

Experimentation

Practice

Crisis

Repeat with reflection


Reflection generally begins when one of two conditions are present 1) a crisis emerges or 2) a deep desire exists.


Crisis Model

1) Reflecting on a crisis one begins with self-honesty and the inquiry "What really happened here?"

2) Next one focus's on self-discovery "What do I really want?"

3) Next one explores self-awareness "Why don't I have what I really want?"

4) Next phase deals with experimentation "What is an action I could take or a decision I could make?"

To be continued...

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

The Top 10 Reason Why People Don't Get What They Really Want

Last weeks discussion we talked about about "The Top 10 Reasons Why People Don't Have What They Really Want". I thought you might like to take a look at what we talked about.


1. They focus on what they don't want vs. what they do want.

2. They've never really stopped to ask themselves "What do I really want?"

3. They don't feel safe enough to tell the truth about what they really want. There is a major fear of consequence if they told the truth.

4. What they want is really a should, could, or ought to. In other words it's probably someone else's want and not genuinely yours.

5. Missing key life skills which means most of their time energy and resources are going towards putting out fire vs making any really progress towards their desired outcomes.

6. Missing appropriate language and communication skills in order to get what they want.

7. Lack of personal awareness often leaving one clueless as to why they are not getting what they want.

8. Too comfortable, no sense of urgency to get going, unwilling to change, grow or develop.

9. Wants to be right about something rather then get what they want.

10. Still being ruled by ones past which means poor ability to be with the present. Mantra is "I don't know what I want" and often falls victim to the wants of others, life and circumstance.

Bonus:

11. Won't ask for help.


Homework:

1. Self-Reflect on the inquiry of "what do I really want?" This is not a mere question to be answered but an inquiry. An inquiry is dynamic and may change from moment to moment. Your ability to stay open to the truth of what you really want is a skill worth learning and will act as an internal self-correcting navigational system that leads you towards living your life authentically from your true-self.

2. Ask three people if it would be OK if you ask them something. Once you get their permission, give them the following instructions "tell me what they really want" and then watch what happens. Help them stay with it by prompting them with "what else?" see if you can get them to go 4-5 layers deep as you press for the deeper truth of what they really want.

PS. We will be meeting again this Thursday at 7:00 p.m. and I hope you will consider joining us.

Residential Coaching Intensive

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Residential Coaching Intensive with Greg Clowminzer
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Coaching Intensives are designed to help you step back from your life in order to gain clear perspective of where you've been, where you are, and where you want to go next on your journey through life. The coaching intensive focus's on two major inquiries "What do you really want?" and "Who are you?". The coaching intensive is a unique personal, professional, and spiritual development program employing a powerful communicating and relating technique known as dyads.

The communicating and relating dyad process is a formal self-improvement communication excersise that helps you achieve success and happiness within the framework of your highest truth by increasing your ability to know yourself and what you really want.

Residential Coaching Intensive take place at the home of Greg & Monika Clowminzer which is located in San Diego’s North County coastal community of Carlsbad California. The coaching intensives are residential which means you eat, sleep and live on-site. This provides you with the support, guidance and advice you need in a confidential setting for whatever you are facing. It gives you new information and perspective while helping you respond to your own intuitions and choice. The coaching intensive provides a context or a touchstone in which to undertake personal growth projects for improving your life.

How to begin: Call for an initial interview. These are free of charge. We will discuss your situation and you may ask any questions you have. Arrange for an initial interview by calling 760-930-9604.

Dates & Cost: Call for scheduling, available dates and pricing.

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Life Coach For Hire

What is a Life Coach?

A life coach helps you focus and explore the fundemental question. "What do I really want?"

A life coach works with individuals who are interested in maximizing their personal and perfessional effectiveness. Life coaching is particularly valuable for people wanting to discover or rediscover a sense of passion, purpose, and vitaility in their lives.

Individuals have come to realize that in order to be at their very best, they must master basic skills, increase their personal awareness, and acquire the language neccessary in order to perform at their highest capacity.

Hiring a life coach offers insights and tools that indivuals are able to implement imediately in their lives.

Would you like to learn more?

Call for an initial interview. These are free of charge. We will discuss your situation and you may ask any questions you have. Arrange for an initial interview by calling Greg Clowminzer at 760-930-9604.


Greg Clowminzer is a Life Coach who has been studying and practicing not only martial arts and meditation but also shamanic healing arts, tantra, humanistic psychology, yoga, life coaching, and other spiritual and esoteric traditions from around the world for the last 15 years – and by now should know to keep his mouth shut – but has too much information he wants to share with you in order to transform you into a total master of living a life of true happiness - one that you can operate effectively in a cool and sexy way in today’s modern world.

Thursday Night Group

Have you been feeling stuck, need a change or just want to try something new?

The Thursday Night Group is a community of like-minded people who participate in an on-going discussion based on the inquiry of “What is happiness? – How to find it, keep it, and live it?

Each week there is a fresh topic to help individuals in their pursuit of true happiness. So, if you want to surround yourself with positive, cool, and sexy people, come join us on a Thursday evening.

Location: San Diego North County Coastal.

Interested in joining us?

Call first to discuss your interest, get your questions anwsered, and get directions: 760-930-9604

Daily Wisdom Coaching Questions

A gift for you.

It's a new and exciting concept in coaching!

I hope you will consider taking advantage of this free email-coaching program where you will receive free coaching a couple of times per week that include a unique and thought-provoking quotation that starts you thinking, a smart question to draw out your own inner wisdom, a coaching tip that adds perspective and understanding and a second inspirational quotation for further reflection.

Interested?

To subscribe to Daily Wisdom, send a blank email to: DailyWisdom-on@letters.webvalence.com

In love and friendship,

Greg

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Happenings of Greg Clowminzer

Dear Friends,

I am very excited about a few new projects I have been working on and I hope you will take a moment to read through and consider one or more of my current offerings for either yourself or someone you know.

With Love and Gratitude,

Greg

1. Greg's Thursday Night Group
2. Notes From Last Week
3. The Great Awakening 3-day Residential Retreat
4. Residential Coaching Intensive

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1. Greg's Thursday Night Group
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PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Dates for Thursday Night Group

January 12, 19, 26
February 2, 9, 16
March 2, 9, 16
Time: 7:00 pm

Description:
Have you been feeling stuck, need a change or just want to try something new? The Thursday Night Group is a community of like-minded people who participate in an on-going discussion based on the inquiry of “What is happiness? – How to find it, keep it, and live it? Each week there is a fresh topic to help individuals in their pursuit of true happiness. So, if you want to surround yourself with positive, cool, and sexy people, come join us on a Thursday evening.

Location: 6351 Alexandri Circle, Carlsbad, CA 92011
Directions: http://www.zencoach.citymax.com/page/page/1646507.htm
Got Question? To have your questions answered call 760-930-9604.

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2. Notes From Last Week
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Last week we had a lively discussion on desire and how it relates to ones happiness or unhappiness. Everyone was asked to create a list of desires for 2006 in the following three categories.

1. Who do you want to be this year?

2. What do you want do this year? and

3. What do you want to have this year?


See if you can come up with at least 10 things in each of the 3 areas. Then find someone to share your list with or join us Thursday night and share your desires with the group.

Whether you join us this Thursday or not I encourage all of you to do this exercise now.

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3. The Great Awakening 3-day Residential Retreat
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Dates: March 24,25,26
Led by Greg Clowminzer

"Every one of us desires to be awake. Every one of us desires to live from deeper authenticity. We all want to be more real as well as to have relationships that are more real."

The Great Awakening is a residential group retreat for those who seek a pure awareness of self or reality, a moment of that state of direct experience traditionally known as self-realization, satori, or enlightenment. 

Over three days of non-stop, self-exploration, participants of the retreat work on a question such as "Who am I?" The aim is not to find some great 'answer' or great feeling, but to directly experience for oneself, within oneself, the actual truth -- whatever that may be. 

The retreats are designed to support each participant in seeking their own experience of truth entirely through their own efforts. There are no spiritual teachings or philosophical discussions about what that truth could be or should be. Instead, the format simply immerses all participants in a process of inner discovery. A simple technique is taught that combines open self-inquiry with partnered communication exercises. It is a safe, well designed and an extremely powerful process that makes sudden awakening possible for a good number of people in as little as three days.

What will you get and come away with?

• A renewed sense of self, getting in touch with your core. It will help you make decisions based on what is right for you and not just your egoic tendencies.

• A feeling of being alive in your own living truth. So often we are living other’s truths. Our parents Truths, society’s expectations, our false or shallow motives. Feeling your real self helps you live true to your own direction. True to your own character.

• You will have more authentic strength and courage to act from and pursue what is genuinely good for yourself.

• A release from your mind’s traps. So much of what we go for is based on our mind’s traps. Our mind traps us into compromising truth for a pale replacement of what our life is meant to be.

• When you awaken (illuminate) then you will naturally gain distance from your mind. Your mind will not go away, yet you will be able to cultivate a deep sigh of distance from the mind (ego) distractions. This allows you to make decisions from your authentic illuminated self so clarity and peace and true passion guide your daily steps.

• Being understood more fully, Do you feel that people don’t get you fully. They don’t really get your essence or don’t understand you and your core fully enough?

• You will learn how to get yourself and your truth fully across to others so they get you! This is worth the effort of the workshop itself.

• By learning the powerful and simple methods of real authentic truth, sharing your life heart will feel unburdened. Not being understood is a heavy and painful feeling which accumulates over time, turning our passion and deadening our vitality.

• Learn to find, share and speak your truth responsibly so as to liberate deeper and revive/refresh all your important relationships.

Dates: March 23,24,25,26
Location: San Diego (specific location TBA)
Suggested Offering: $495.00 Receive early bird registration and pay only $395 if you register before February 15th.
How to Register: Call for an initial interview. These are free of charge. We will discuss your situation and you may ask any questions you have. Arrange for an initial interview by calling 760-930-9604.

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4. Residential Coaching Intensive with Greg Clowminzer
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How It Works

Coaching and Clearing takes place in a one-to-one setting for the purpose of assisting you with issues of your own choosing. They help you in navigating the inner turmoil that comes with a stuck condition in life or a difficult transition such as a traumatic incident, a sudden loss, or a major change of lifestyle. Once your attention is freed from current issues, Coaching and Clearing also increase your ability to know yourself, respond to others and forward your goals in life. In broad terms, the aim of Coaching and Clearing is the recovery of your personal energy, power of choice and ability to relate. What emerges from this process is who you actually are, with the ability to live, love, create and progress.

Spiritual Coaching addresses issues related to your spiritual growth. This form of coaching recognizes that there are natural stages in our lives that involve spiritual seeking and different types of spiritual experiences. It recognizes that this process can sometimes be accompanied by a lack of language to describe what is happening, divine insight and revelation, an awakening passion for truth, or a growing dissatisfaction with normal life. Spiritual Coaching addresses problems such as the search for spiritual connection, unresolved matters relating to early spiritual education, and the challenges connected with being associated with a spiritual group. Spiritual Coaching accepts that these issues go beyond the confines of many normal therapeutic processes and must be understood in a deeper spiritual context.

Residential Coaching Intensive take place at the home of Greg & Monika Clowminzer which is located in San Diego’s north county coastal community of Carlsbad California. The coaching intensives are residential which means you eat, sleep and live on-site. This provides you with support, guidance and advice in a confidential setting for what you are facing. It gives you new information and perspectives while helping you respond to your own intuitions and choice. The coaching intensive provides a context or a touchstone in which to undertake personal growth projects for improving your life.

How to begin: Call for an initial interview. These are free of charge. We will discuss your situation and you may ask any questions you have. Arrange for an initial interview by calling 760-930-9604.

Dates & Cost: Call for scheduling, available dates and pricing.

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Finally, Someone That Can Help You Grow Your Business and Love Your Life.

Are you ready to take your business to the next level of success?
Are you stressed out and working long hard hours?
Are you going through a difficult time and feel all alone?
Are your priorities in life changing?

Would you like to gain practical tools, get powerful results and master life’s challenges?

My name is Greg Clowminzer and I am a Business and Life Success Coach. Which means I teach entrepreneurs and professionals how to work less, make more money and do what they love.

I have been coaching since 1994 and have coached hundreds of people towards business and life success.

Are You Ready?

To create the quality of life that you really want. Take control of your precious time. Attain a superior level of financial security. Find true meaning. Discover the feelings of happiness that have been so elusive.

Would you like to know more?

For more information about how you might benefit from coaching and to schedule a 30-minute complimentary session contact Greg by phone 760-930-9604 or email greg@zencoach.com

You Can't Buy Happiness

We’ve all heard that you can’t buy happiness, but how many of us live as if this were true? I think a lot of people have given up on the pursuit of happiness and settle for things. Deep down we know that things can never make us truly happy yet will still keep reaching for more in the hopes that the next thing will make us happy. So each day we pull out our list of desires and start chasing the next thing. We settle for more and more things, which gives us an intoxicated feeling of temporary happiness. And when the desire is satiated we are off chasing the next thing. This process of desire and craving and getting what you want and then losing what you have is the definition of sufferng. All happiness that is gained is followed by unhappiness.