Michael Gerber is the author and creator of the eMyth, the 'business bible' to many people. He is also the Chief Dreamer of the Dreaming Room. I had an opportunity to work with Michael last year and today he made me realize how much more I can be sharing about the process of realizing dreams. Below is the emails that were exchanged about the journey I"ve been on with MoneyMinding over the past year.
And, I will apologize now, for not sharing more of the details and day to day activities that are part of this process. I do believe that we all have alot to learn from each other and that the day to day stuff is what we all live and therefore need to understand from each other.
Hello Vancouver Dreamers,
I have been watching the emails and looking at my calendar thinking how much I'd like to attend this Friday. The entrepreneurial road is certainly paved with long stretches of loneliness amidst all the chaos of day to day activities and I would love to share in the energy of such an amazing group of people.
However, I have to pass on this meeting as it is the week we are launching our TV show in the US but please count me in for future meetings.
As I was pondering my decision to attend or not, it gave me an opportunity to reflect on the past year since the May 2006 Vancouver Dreaming Room - something I haven't done much of lately - it always seems more natural to look at the mountain of things to do rather than to reflect on the accomplishments.
Yet, this reflection and subsequent realization was actually somewhat of an epiphany for me and I'd like to share with you what has transpired in my business over the past year - and please - hear this as a testimony to the impact of the Dreaming Room, and nothing more – other than my encouragement to anyone else who might have doubts about this whole Dreaming Room experience . I credit the 2.5 days with you all in the Dreaming Room as one of the most significant events of my life, and if this past year is any indication of long term impact, I'm sure it will continue to amaze me.
In addition to all the wonderful insights I gained by listening to you all, Michael said a couple things to me that have made a significant difference: colour up and don't be afraid to be feminine, and simplify with weekend seminars while I build the franchise model for my business. Well, I did what he suggested and…
My office is now decorated in a shabby chic sort of floral design and I enjoy nice bright coloured clothes, and the simplification process for my business has seen the following things actually take shape this past year:
- 2 new books written and published
- 1 audio cd produced
- 1 new online program developed
- A 2-day certification training program ($2000 per financial advisor) rolled out including the marketing to fill the seats and a new sales person hired to roll this out in the US
- Numerous radio and tv appearances
- Regular keynote speeches where my back of the room sales routinely produce several thousand dollars revenue
- A new website built for membership
- A completely new business franchise model created
- Everything converted to US $ pricing
- 3 almost full time people have been hired
- A client marketing process developed and implemented
- A bi-weekly ezine published
- A 30-minute television infomercial has been written and produced and a full web sales support structure built to support it
- And, over $200,000 raised through investors to make all this happen
It sort of takes my breath away. Who woulda thunk??? Certainly not me. Yes I dreamed it. Yes I believed it. And, yes I started doing it, but in the middle of it all it's hard to see that the dream is real until you step back and reflect - and now it's just getting more and more exciting each day.
Thank for organizing these ongoing meetings. Thank you for letting me share my Dreaming Room journey with you and I look forward to the next meeting and to hearing all of your amazing stories.
Abundant Blessings,
Tracy -- You know, as I hear of your extraordinary achievements and your breakthrough from the pained and painful place you were in when I sat across from you in the Hot Seat only a little while ago where nothing you just listed below could have ever been believed by you, and then, oila', here it all is, and I remember seeing it, there as I looked into you and into your stunning ability which was being misused as well as unused solely for the lack of your ability to dream fully, intentionally, radically...all of this comes to me right this moment in the form of a question...Why didn't Tracy share this with us all as it was happening, as the doubts were arising, as the breakthroughs were appearing, as the astonishment and full blown joy was filling your heart...why didn't you share your extraordinary odyssey with all of us, as it was happening, as you were feeling so lonely, as you were feeling out of breath, as you produced and produced despite all of your fear and doubts and negative feelings...so that we all could have been lifted up and lifted you up and lifted each other up, who then, each and every one of us, could have shared ourselves and our achievements and our failures with every one of us...and grown, grown, grown in the process...if only we could all see that the Power of The Dreaming Room is only truly realized after we have left it, as we go back into our world, which has now been completely transformed because our idea of it has been transformed, that the energy of life, the forceful, beyond size, beyond anything you and I know, is simply there waiting to be used by each of us...but not for ourselves, but for every other human being on the face of this earth, and that is the product of your Dreaming Room experience, Tracy. You have now begun to enlist the Energy released by your Imagination and your unbounded desire to create something that will outlive you in this world and that everyone you touch will live a better life for it. That we all need to know this, not after you do it, but as you do it, and that is the logic for the Group. The Group is not for you, Tracy, it is for everyone else in the Group, until you need it that is. If you were to understand that the "lonliness" you speak of is a self imposed idea. It isn't real, needn't to be real, never will need to be real. If you open your heart and your private space to others who will do the same for you. So, allow me to use your letter, and this response, so that every single person who is sitting in question of whether or not the Dreaming Room will be worth their while needs to know that not only is it worth their while but that it is fair to say without it they will never truly understand how limited their life will be. That The Dreaming Room is a Force that opens the door to the infinite range of options that exist for each and every one of us. I am honored to have had such an impact on you and your life, and through that, having an impact on the many thousands of people you will touch in the coming years. But, in return, I need your help. I need you to become a spokesperson for The Dreaming Room. I need you with your immense ability to create to participate in a Group in Vancouver, to make the time for it, to give back, not to me, but to the millions of people I will touch over the next ten years as we all Awaken the Entrepreneur Within the World with great, great, compelling works like the one you are creating, which has the power to transform the economic lives of your customers and clients, and by so doing, transform the reality of the world. Thanks, Tracy. I feel such joy for you, and such joy that you listened to what I shared with you and let go and let God, and my goodness, what a Joy!
Love, Michael
Michael E. Gerber
Chief Dreamer
In The Dreaming Room LLC
P.O. Box 131195
Carlsbad, California, 92013
michael@inthedreamingroom.com
www.inthedreamingroom.com
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Thanks, Tracy. But, not just for them, for you. Just as you are experiencing the thrilling ride you are on right now, so it is inevitable you will lose your way. We all do. It's then, at that moment, when the Group comes alive in the most remarkable ways. Ask people who are doing it. You will see what a gift it is. And remember, there is no cost for the Group. No cost for my help and leadership. Just the cost of sending people to The Dreaming Room so they too can begin the odyssey of their own, to touch more people and more people and more people. Look at the list of names above. It is my Dream that there will be millions of people like those above, like you, over the next few years...all of them on an economic, entrepreneurial, spiritual odyssey unlike anything they have ever known. Your gift to them is to be as big as you can be, just as that is the gift each and every one of the names above will give, to each other, and to people as yet unknown. I love you all. But, dig in. Take a big bite. This is not about one meeting a week. This is about transforming the world! But to do that you have to rise above time management and all the things you have to do. You have one thing to do...to live out your destiny, a destiny you choose to create. Imagine yourself being a powerful resource, a powerful exemplar of entrepreneurial creativity, innovation and inspiration. Simply by letting go and doing the work. That's what this is all about in case you didn't know. I call it The Secret of The Golden Triangle. I will share it with you more and more over time as you rise to your blessed occasion to become a force for entrepreneurial invention in your life and the life of the venture you are inventing.
Love, Tracy, and to you all, and please, please thank Patrick for his incrediblye gracious willingness to take on this Dream and to make it the reality he is making it. He is a Champion. A huge-hearted Warrior. He deserves your respect and your appreciation and your commitment. This would not be happening to the degree it is there in your neck of the woods without him and his selfless commitment to help everyone he knows grow bigger than life.
Love, Michael
Michael E. Gerber
Chief Dreamer
In The Dreaming Room LLC
P.O. Box 131195
Carlsbad, California, 92013
michael@inthedreamingroom.com
www.inthedreamingroom.com
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Thank you Michael,
And yes, it’s never a solo job and supporting and encouraging others to break through their own barriers to their dreams is a purpose all dreamers must have. That positive impact on another’s life and the support of people to cheer me on is what has kept me going this past year. And, I will absolutely help share the Dreaming Room vision and participate in a Vancouver group so that others can feel encouraged to experience their potential to live the magnificent lives of their dreams and be supported along their path.
You have inspired so many people in so many ways – I am so grateful to be one of those people!!
God bless,
Tracy Piercy, CFP
Author, International Speaker, Money Expert
250-592-0457 or toll free 877-764-6444
tracy@moneyminding.com
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Ok Vancouver – “let’s roll”
Thank you Patrick for pulling us together……… Michael’s right – sometimes we need someone to kick us in the pants a little – to shake things up – and Patrick has recognized the need we all have to be supported, encouraged and inspired, so….. we’ve got some sharing to do……… See you all soon.
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Double Cool to all of you! Michael
Michael E. Gerber
Chief Dreamer
In The Dreaming Room LLC
P.O. Box 131195
Carlsbad, California, 92013
michael@inthedreamingroom.com
www.inthedreamingroom.com
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