EVER BETTER LIFE PRINCIPLES

A LIBRARY OF EVER BETTER

Choose from our 77 Week Super Course OR à la carte options for your specific interests.

Melissa and I are super excited to announce the release of our brand new, 77 week super-course called Ever Better Life Principles.

A couple of years ago, we created a special membership program for those who had already taken the Ever Better Life Course and graduated from our one-on-one coaching programs.

The goal was to build upon the foundation laid by the Ever Better Life Course…

And to take a deeper dive into some of the profoundly powerful principles that have shaped both our work helping others as well as our own lives.

But that we have used to great effect in our own lives and that we wanted to present to students so that they can enrich their lives in the ways that they have enriched ours.

These are basically “thought technologies”…

Ways of infusing powerfully positive and deliberately creative new ways of thinking into your daily life that will allow you to take conscious control of it rather than merely operating on “autopilot” and just settling for whatever you have been getting up to this point.

Ever Better Life Principles is presented in an online class/group coaching format…

Most lessons are based around a set curriculum, but there are also many instances in which we answer participant’s questions, help them solve problems that they’re dealing with, and find ways to practically apply the material covered to the reality of their present goals and life situations.

In order to help make each lesson as practical as possible, most include an Awareness Exercise designed to help you practically implement the key principles covered by weaving it seamlessly into the everyday reality of your life.

These exercises help to make it so that your personal improvement can be “automated”, at least in part, which means that, if you set aside the time required to go through each lesson and then use the Awareness Exercises associated with it…

You can sit back, relax, and just kind of allow the positive changes to start happening all by themselves.  

Most lessons also include a note pack in which the key points are summarized and which, in many cases, provide a great deal of additional and very valuable information about the principles covered, how they work, and how you can use them to create the kinds of experiences and results you want in life.

Ever Better Life Principles was originally designed for anyone who has taken the Ever Better Life Course and/or who has worked with us in either a group or one-on-one capacity.

We created with those who are familiar with our style and teachings in mind…

Those who have mastered (or at least had some experience with) the basic aspects of mind mastery that we cover in our other courses.

Although anyone can enroll in and benefit from EBLP…

For most people, it’s best for those who have already enrolled in Awareness School, taken the Ever Better Life Course, done at least some one-on-one work with us or, at the very minimum, have participated in at least one of our Awareness Challenges.

This program is very much about “our approach” to doing this thing called “Improving What It’s Like To Be You”…

If you’re familiar with us and like how we do things and are interested in a treasure-trove of mind-expanding, experience-optimizing, personal freedom-enhancing principles, ideas, and techniques to create more of what you want in the areas of life that are important to you…

Then Ever Better Life Principles is definitely for you.

Here is an overview of what’s included:

•  How to identify your “psychological home”…and how to move.
•  Why your reactions to what happens matter so much more than what happens…and how you can change what happens in your life by changing how you react to it.
•  What real forgiveness is…and how to do it.
•  How you can learn to decline invitations to think, feel, and do what doesn’t serve you.
•  The difference between a state (of consciousness) and its occupant…and how learning to distinguish between these things will set you free.
•  The Art of Revision…and how revising the imperfections of your day will lead to a perfect life.
•  Redemption vs. Condemnation…and why the secret to freeing yourself from the consequences of condemnation is discovering your capacity to redeem all things.
•  Cleaning up your Mental Diet.
•  How you can use “mental pruning sheers” to perfect the memory picture of your life.
•  How revising the past creates a perfect future.
•  Identifying your “default states”…and how to shift into something higher.
•  Why “if…” is your worst enemy.
•  “Seedtime” and “harvest”…and why sowing wisely requires learning to deal effectively with yesterday’s unwise sowing.
•  Building a new and more wonderful psychological home to dwell in and live from.
•  Cultivating the feeling of “of-courseness” and learning to use it to become one who has all the things you want in life.
•  Why who you’re being matters more than what you’re doing…and how to start being someone new.
•  “Getting into character”; rehearsing for the role you want to play in life in your imagination.
•  How doubling your practice and halving your effort will lead to greater results in less time.
•  The “state akin to sleep” and how you can use it to shift states, master your mood, and create the life you want.
•  Why sacrifices the false idol of doubt is a prerequisite for receiving what you want to receive and becoming what you want to be.
•  Habit: the greatest enemy hiding within your own mental houseful (and how to defeat it.)
•  How detachment and non-reaction are the keys to overcoming any obstacle.
•  Mastering the art and act of forgiveness…and why forgiveness means freedom.
•  Non-forgiveness as a drain on your power…and how to plug it.
•  Elevating to a higher state of consciousness vs. resisting the state you’re currently in.
•  How blaming others for my capacity to be adversely affected by them deprives me of the power that is rightfully mine.
•  Why embracing 100% responsibility for your experience is the key to making that experience as good as it can be.
•  How constantly reminding yourself that getting what you want in and from life depends 100% on you is the key to activating and unleashing your unique superpowers.

•  “Leaning in” vs. “Letting up”…the key to perpetual improvement.
•  Why having permission to not know something is a prerequisite for learning it as effectively and efficiently and enjoyably as possible.
•  How identifying and consciously creating “peak experiences” can reignite your life affair with life…and how this makes it possible to create a life that is easy to love.
•  Why defining what constitutes success in the areas of life that are most important to you is the key to attaining it.
•  How to use goals as an excuse to feel good rather than as a reason to feel bad.
•  How to break of habit of “waiting to live.”
•  Pushing past the feeling of doubt.
•  Awakening your imagination by daring to define your chief aim in life.
•  Napoleon Hill’s “12 Great Riches”… and how defining your own version of these riches will bring this principle’s power to life for you.
•  The “6 Step Process” will allow you to create anything you want in life.
•  How developing a willingness to embarrass yourself is a superpower…and a high watermark of personal freedom.
•  Building your “mastermind” to harness the power of the knowledge and skills of those around you.
•  How learning the art of effectively coordinating knowledge and effort is the key to exponentially increasing the positive results you create in life.
•  The power of “applied faith.”
•  How placing the most important things are your “mental doorstep” can help you focus on and create what really matters to you in life.
•  Faith as an emotion…and how to generate it at will.
•  The life (and world) changing power of “going the extra mile.”
•  Why going the extra mile is not the same as “people-pleasing.”
•  How to go the extra mile without compromising healthy personal boundaries.
•  The 29 factors of a “pleasing personality”…and how to develop each.
•  Why developing a pleasing personality is a gift you give yourself, not a sacrifice you make for other people.
•  The power of personal initiative…and how to awaken this power within yourself.
•  The two main obstacles to developing personal initiative…and how to neutralize them.
•  How developing a positive mental attitude can literally change your life…and how to go about doing so.
•  Cultivating enthusiasm and self-discipline so that you can have fun while doing things that feel good to have done.
•  Honing your capacity for both accurate thinking and controlled attention.
•  Mental money…and how to wisely invest it.
•  How you can develop a relationship to adversity and defeat that will allow you to benefit from rather than fearing these things.
•  How to effectively budget your use of time and money.
•  Harnessing the power of Cosmic Habit Force to optimize your autopilot and cause the path of least resistance to lead you to exactly where you want to go.
•  The power of patience…and how to develop it.

•  The 9 Principles of Conscious Living…
•  How letting whatever happens be okay is the key to happiness, peaceful productivity, and positive change.
•  Your emotional threshold…what it is, how it limits you, and how to raise it.
•  How to embrace (and transcend) change and chaos in order to feel good while getting better.
•  Why distinguishing between reality and your perception of it is essential for living a happy, peaceful, and successful life…and how you can learn to make this distinction for yourself.
•  Why responsibility = empowerment.
•  How increasing your conscious awareness allows you to create positive changes in your life faster, easier, and more pleasurably than you ever imagined possible.
•  “Witnessing”: How learning to watch what’s happening in your mind and in your world is the key to effectively changing what is happening in your mind and in your world.
•  How conscious and intentional meaning assigned is the secret passageway out of suffering and into experiences of peace and personal power.

•  Hesitation…why it’s so lethal and how you can free yourself from it.
•  How giving yourself too much time to think is killing your capacity to create the life you want…and how you can become happier and more successful by thinking less.
•  Why feeling good is so important…and how you can get to know yourself well enough to make yourself feel good almost all of the time.
•  How taking yourself too seriously turns you into a joke…And how learning to joke can allow you to create serious success in the areas of life you really care about.
•  How to handle fear: getting rid of more of it and effectively using the rest.
•  Why spending your life believing that you “have to do” all kinds of stuff is actually a huge waste of time…And a new way of thinking and living that will make you freer, happier, and more productive.

This series of lessons is derived from our time studying Richard Bandler, the great magician of personal change who cofounded the field of NLP.

I had already spent quite a lot of time on various personal growth strategies before encountering Richard’s work…

And then I read several of his books before I heard directly from the man himself.  

I’ll never forget the feeling of hearing Richard speak for the first time…

It was like my unconscious mind was absorbing all of these patterns of flexibility and resourceless underlying the things he said and the stories he told…

And like I was hearing for the first time ever someone who really knew how to think about and interact with reality in ways that could persuade it to unlock all of the positive possibilities with which it was filled.

Richard showed me how to start using my mind on purpose…

And how I could show other people how to do it, too.

In these lessons we talk about Richard’s list of the 6 Main Problems that people have…

And also offer practical strategies for implementing life-changing best practices in these areas.

In these lessons you’ll learn as much about the experiences we have had as we have implemented and taught and applied these principles as you will about the principles themselves…

And we hope that hearing about what’s possible and learning from our experiences (and, in some cases, our mistakes) will help make your journey smoother, more enjoyable, and more fulfilling.