Case Studies
Visioning Made His Heart Sing Again
October 20, 2009
When I met Wallace for dinner he looked very depressed and had for months. He is a singer/songwriter and had not performed in 4 years and had stopped even listening to music. He was also a massage therapist but developed carpel tunnel syndrome and went into real estate thinking it would stabilize his income.
He is a loving gentle man and the energy in his office, the aggression, the fear and competitiveness was toxic for him. He felt trapped and hopeless and he was not even making much money because he was not aggressive or competitive though he certainly was afraid.
We did some visioning work about what his ideal life would look like. He wanted to enjoy music again and go back to massage. He had learned a new technique that was easier on his hands but was afraid to leave real estate.
According to Robert Cialdini, author of The Power of Persuasion, by putting your commitments onto paper and signing your name on it, the chance of fulfilling the commitment increases 37%. I had Wallace commit to listen to music every day for a month. That was it.
Only a few months later Wallace had quit real estate and was back in his old job in a prestigious hotel doing massage full time making a lucrative salary and using the new technique which caused him no pain and his clients seemed to prefer. Not only that, he performed live before an audience, to rave reviews!
Forgiveness as a Marketing Tool
May 3, 2009
Releasing a Resentment Brings Abundance
When Stephane called me she was deeply depressed and later in our talk confessed to calling a few suicide hotlines recently. She had started a psychic reading company with a long-time friend she had known for 20 years. In spite of doing all the “right ” thinks on a marketing level, a great website, a radio show, facebook, twitter, you name it, business was terrible and her internet had been shut down so she would not even communicate with clients if she had them. She had made most of her money as a copywriter and had outstanding billed past due 30-90 days and could not collect on them no matter how many times she called and pressured these clients.
Stephane did not have a financial or business problem, she had a metaphysical problem, something deeper.
We talked about how all human beings, those we know and those we don’t know, are connected by a web of energy and any single blockage on the web creates a blockage everywhere else. I asked if she had any resentments towards her clients or her partner and in fact, she did. We discussed using some metaphysical tools to unblock the flow like Colin Tipping’s Radical Forgiveness form available on his website for free.
She committed to do the worksheet on her resentments and I sent her $80 for her internet to open the channels financially, even though she was the client.
Two days later she called me and was ecstatic. The day after we talked she got two checks from the delinquent clients, she had healed the rift with her partner and tons of new work had come in. She sent the $80 back to me.
Jenna Takes Control of Her Web Site for Dhara
April 23, 2009
When Jenna came to me she was very frustrated. She had hired a Web designer to build a site for her non-profit organization, paid “a fortune” and had nothing to show for it after 3 months. All she has was a landing page with three photos and a “Coming Soon” message. She wanted to hire me to design a Web site for her but I had a suspicion the problem was deeper than a Web site.
I asked her if she would let me talk to the designer and see if I could facilitate getting what she had paid for. I called the designer and he exploded at me telling me how angry and frustrated he was with the client. He just wanted to get the job done and never see her again. He said the client made constant changes and didn’t trust his judgement, that she had changed the design so many times he couldn’t get a final OK to create the site. In fact, he was refunding her money back to her.
The problem was metaphysical and physical.
Underlying the problem of not getting her Web site done seemed to be control issues. But Jenna had control issues for a reason. She had a difficult childhood and anytime she paid for a service she could not control, her childhood fears of not getting her needs met triggered her so badly they actually prevented her from getting them met.
The solution was two-fold, metaphysical and physical.
Metaphysically, to treat the childhood issues that were hidden below the surface, I suggested she read about Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to learn how to understand, accept and control her emotions. DBT also teaches interpersonal skills to specifically help people get their needs met. I encouraged her to develop strategies to do things in a way that she could remain in control.
The physical solution was to set up a self-manged, FREE hosted content management system for her Web site using dynamic technology at WordPress.com that Jenna could be in complete control of and that would allow her to make changes and have them take effect immediately. It took just two hours to set up the site and change her from frustrated to satisfied. Within days she was happily filling the pages with content. No designers to deal with and no monthly hosting fees.
Jenna with her teacher on Wudang Mountain in China. Student by day, webmaster by night!
She went off to China for 6 months taking her laptop and working on her Web site wherever she was. Once when was in control of her Web site, she could really focus on building valuable content instead of fighting with her designer every time she changed something and paying high fees for those changes.
“From the start, our working together has been a creative and empowering collaboration. Of importance to Kit is making sure I understand the process. In many ways her initial working with me was a training, so I have now have control over my site, which is important to me. Kit’s talent and expertise in the web world in combination with her intuitive and listening abilities has made for a website that meets my needs and budget. ”
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Magazine production reduced from five to four days.
May 9, 2006
Kit started at the front desk just taking ads for our weekly tourism magazine. She did a good job but then she wanted to design them herself so we let her. Then she learned how to produce them learning typesetting and paste-up. She was lightning fast and eventually started eye-balling the darkroom.
She had never worked in publishing yet within a few weeks she had learned all there was to know. She learned film developing and pre-press production hanging around in the evenings with the prep department and then on the weekend came in and helped us run the press. (At that time we were small and few people knew that the owners ran the presses them selves on Saturday). It was really an adventure for her.
That alone was pretty amazing but what really blew our minds was when she showed us a simple way to restructure our production and let each member of the staff do what they did best.
Once she saw the whole picture of our set-up, she saw a way to improve it immediately and somehow we cut our 5 day production schedule to 4 days leaving Friday to print and giving us exhausted owners a break on the weekend.
Micheal Kieghly – Industry Publishing
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