(The picture is of a notebook that Honour Leigh, in the Superhero Program created. Ain’t it cool?)
This past Wednesday morning I freaked out for a bit 🙂
Hey, it is relatively rare these days (especially since I began meditation regularly), but it happens once in awhile. I am human…
And when I say I freak-out moment, know what I mean?
It was one of the times where, for whatever reason, there’s an overwhelmed feeling and “holy s___” how will it all get done?
Some big things in the past week all coincided to hit me at once on Wednesday morning (this is pretty much the order they went through in my mind…):
1) SUPERHEROES: Up, Up & Away! We completed the launch of the sold-out Unique Genius Superhero Program, and delivered the bulk of the first module of content, “Define Your Dream Business”.
- Some stats: ~7700 video views, 75 Superheroes in the program, a ~$25k launch (not bad for my first official ‘launch’), and more than $2000 is being donated to Village Enterprise Fund.
2) SKIN CANCER: I found out last Monday, via doctor call, that I have some skin cancer on the side of my nose which must be removed. It’s not dangerous, but still requires a “MOHS”surgery . I’ll know this coming Friday (9/3), when they do it, how much tissue they need to remove.
3) NEXT SEMINAR “Unique Genius Your Call To Adventure”: I also realized on Wednesday that it is only six weeks until the Unique Genius “Your Call To Adventure” Live 3-Day Event. It’ll be awesome, but I do have a bunch of work to do to prepare the materials and get the word out so that you can decide & make travel plans…You have often been a hero to others…do you secretly wish for a hero to come to your rescue? Are you ready to be the hero of your own story?
- SAVE THE DATE… October 15-17th, in the mountains outside of Los Angeles at www.PaliRetreat.com…more details coming in about a week.
- It is going to be fun, walking you through the (Super)Hero’s Journey and have you leave the event having created – while you’re there – something tangible around making money through your purpose and passions.
- Details: YourCallToAdventure.com
4) SALES BOOK: With the Unique Genius launch done, I turned my attention back to completing the draft of my sales book, “Predictable Revenue“. I’m behind on what I’d intended for a release date both because of the launch & need to replace my first editor.
5) SKIPPING TOWN: Of the coming six weeks, I’ll be offline for almost half the time. I wouldn’t want to make things easy on myself now, right? I’m heading out today (Sunday) for “Enlightened Warrior Camp” – not exactly sure what we’re doing there, but several friends said it was one of the best adventures of their lives.
And yep I did this all to myself, this ‘traffic jam’.
But the freak-out didn’t last too long…
What I Did About It (In Order)
1) Meditation: I have access now to “peaceful mind on demand” through meditation. Actually, since the Brian Johnson/PhilosophersNotes interview, I’ve meditated every single day – even if it was at 3am after working on the Unique Genius launch videos.
- How I started meditating: “A lifetime happiness and focus enhancer: Vipassana meditation”.
- I will also have a whole “Meditation 101” chapter in the Superheroes Program.
2) Made lists: Wrote down everything I felt I needed to do, mostly to get it out of my brain so it stopped bouncing around in there. Sometimes just writing stuff out snuffs the brain spazm.
3) I reminded myself that everything always works out. I never learned this lesson in the corporate world, but for some reason, I really ‘got it’ after starting PebbleStorm…because I began consciously creating my happiness. I can beat myself up and be hard on myself – know what I mean? It’s easy to worry about how much money a project will make, or “will people show up” or value it. But now, whenever I have an event, launch or create something, I’ve seen how it all comes together no matter what. I KNOW that it will work out one way or the other.
- Everything is a learning opportunity, and there’s no way to ‘fail’ except by a) Not trying, b) Not learning from something, or c) Giving up.
- When I found out I had skin cancer (again, not serious as far as we know) this attitude also helped. I haven’t been worried about it, since I know it’ll work out fine…whatever happens.
4) Asked for help: Sometimes I forget how much support I have around me. My inspiring girlfriend Jessica Henning (who is starting a company called Bond Girl Bootcamp in LA…more to come in Sept!), my rockstar web woman Lisa Tarrant, and writer/crazy creative Sandie Samuells are three that came to my rescue. Thank you all!
- You have more support around you then you realize…but you have to ask for it.
- PS – anyone looking to intern on some awesome Unique Genius / business projects? Email me!
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The Unique Genius “Your Call To Adventure” Live 3-Day Event
It’s October 15-17th in the mountains outside Los Angeles (YourCallToAdventure.com). When I went to check out the site I had fun doing some impromptu video…
When was the last time you did archery? This is going to be a blast:
See all the details on the YourCallToAdventure.com Page
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Update
The cancer was worse than I expected (instead of a ‘nip’, I walked out of the center on September 3 with 30 stitches in my face), but they got it all and I’ll heal up all nice and pretty again 🙂 Just with a cool pirate-y scar, heh.
My girlfriend has been incredibly supportive in helping me recover and in dealing with the shock of such a fast switch from ‘small not threatening’ to ‘worse than we thought now we need to do some plastic surgery’…it took a day for “my soul to catch up with my body”, for the impact to actually register.
What Do Ya Want?
I haven’t done a longer “Aaron Update” post for awhile, but I always love sharing. If you want them more often, or about specific topics, let me know in the comments below.
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