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    Akasha Madron
    Adventurer
    @mysticsparkling

    I heard what you both said about manifestos on the coaching call and have read your post, Bradley on manifestos.

    I was looking through Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly book and decided to do the thing of opening it blindly and reading what was on the page. So I did and lo and behold the page was “The Daring Greatly Leadership Manifesto” that Brene Brown created. I kid you not. It is at the very end of Chapter 6. It is powerful and inspiring. It is not the manifesto of leaders it is one written to leaders from the followers. A very interesting viewpoint.

    It was very helpful in thinking about manifestos and what they are to accomplish.

    Thanks for all of your inspiring work.

    Akasha

    #22006

    Bradley Morris
    Mountain Guide
    @bradleytmorris

    Well here I am. Six months since we conceived this crazy idea and we just completed ALL the filming for the Great eCourse Adventure (at least version 1). What a wild, amazing, creative, sleep-deprived, dream-come-true experience this has all been.

    It’s so funny because when we started all this we booked @blairfrancis for a weekend of filming. We were like, “ya, we’ll get through it all in a couple days.”

    We did manage to blast out the first few checkpoints in about 10 days (working 16 hours per day).

    Then @andyfreist scheduled himself to come back to Canada 6 weeks later where we intended to finish the entire Great eCourse Adventure HAHA!! ya right. I think we managed to film up to Checkpoint 7 that trip.

    Then in February he came back for THREE weeks, again we were aiming to finish filming the whole course. Nope, guess again. We got through to checkpoint 12, Marketa Ridge.

    Okay, so one more trip. This time we’ll get it all done (barely). The grand finale Launch Summit video took us about three whole days to film, plus another day or two to plan and script. It was a doozie, but so worth the hard work. I think it’s going to make for the cherry on the peak of the ice cream sundae mountain we’ve built.

    I feel so gratetful that we:
    a) said yes to this crazy vision.
    b) managed to follow thorugh again and again to keep up with our insane deadlines.
    c) had no clue how much work it was actually going to take to build this thing when we started out.

    This has been the most rewarding, fun, instence and wonderful thing I’ve ever done. I’ve always wanted to feel the way I do about this course with all the other projects I’ve worked on, but never before have I actually felt 100% conviction and belief in what I was doing… until now.

    I think the reasons i believe so fully in this is because:

    a) I’m working with a committed, brilliant, wildly creative team. Each of us have been fine-tuning our craft for a very long time and now we all get to do it together.

    b) The community we are serving. All of you are amazing. You inspire the shit out of us. You are what keeps us up at night and what wakes us up in the morning with ridiculous ideas that MUST be jotted down.

    c) The timing. The world is ready for this. Just as the world is readying itself to receive what you are creating.

    d) It is what I have always wanted to do (for at least 8 years anyway) and finally I have the people surrounding me who can help to bring this vision to life.

    e) It’s not about the money. Even though we are making money and probably will make more money than we’ve ever made doing anything else in our lives, it’s not even close to being about that. This is about so much more. It’s about leaving our mark. It’s about transforming the world of learning and education. It’s about empowering brilliant teachers with the tools and inspiration they need to get their work out into the world. It’s about building real community with real people who care about the world. It’s about creative expression. It’s about soooooo much more than money.

    I am excited to see what this mountain becomes. As we arrive at the top of our own Launch Summit we realize that we are staring out at a vast mountain range. Each a new peak with a new adventure.

    This is the future of online learning and we’re all only getting started.

    Climb on friends! We salute you and send this smoke signal from the top.
    You’re going to love it up here!

    #22007

    Bradley Morris
    Mountain Guide
    @bradleytmorris

    Looking at the peaks of Launch Summit.

    #24689

    Bradley Morris
    Mountain Guide
    @bradleytmorris

    Nobody ever said creating your dreams would be easy and if they did, they were probably trying to sell you something.

    Creating your dreams takes hard work.

    I know amongst the new agey’ish communities, hard work is something that is frowned upon.

    “You need to be more open and in the flow. Just visualize and allow it.”

    Umm, no. That doesn’t work if you wanna Get Shit Done #GSD and have a bunch of fun doing it.

    A great idea takes millions micro steps to complete. It’s just the reality of turning etheric thought forms into tangible, physical experiences or ‘things’ that have the power to change the world.

    Right now I’m pulling off 20 hour days.

    I know it’s not healthy, but I’m choosing to have a blast because I know it is only temporary.

    Right now I am in Vancouver going through my Golf Teacher Training Course so starting next week I’ll be teaching golf clinics, lessons and retreats to people wanting to be a better golfer by learning relaxation and focus techniques that help them to increase power, accuracy and consistency.

    We are also in launch-mode for The Great eCourse Adventure and this time the stakes are higher. We’re investing $10,000 into Facebook Ads to grow our community and ripple. With that being said, we are busting our asses to create the ultimate on-boarding experience for people when they come to our website.

    The amount of work, self-inquiry and experimentation this takes is way more than we ever imagined.

    This week my schedule is:

    waking up at 5/5:30 a.m and doing a few hours of work.
    going to my Teacher training from 8am – 7pm.
    Getting home and working til 12:30/1am
    Doing it all over again.
    For some reason the purpose feels so much bigger than my need for a typical 7/8 hours of sleep.

    I’m waking up smiling and diving into my work  like it’s a devotional practice.

    This is my meditation right now.

    How can allow myself to stay present, at peace and grateful in the midst of this insane workload, pressure and schedule?

    If you catch yourself saying, “I want this or I want that,” then be prepared to put 100% of your daily actions and intentions into achieving that.

    The thing about achieving these lofty goals is that we have to allow ourselves to be a beginner and adventure through the unknown. It’s just the reality of doing what we’ve never done. Learn to make friends with it.

    Okay, this was only supposed to be an update and now I’m rambling.

    Have a good one!

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    #24882

    Laurie
    Adventurer
    @laurieszott

    That’s quite the schedule, Bradley. Thanks for the update.

    #24898

    Dr.Wayne Buckhanan
    Adventurer
    @waynebuckhanan

    @bradleytmorris, missed you on the call Wednesday and now it makes complete sense why you weren’t there!

    Enjoy the intensity and remember to schedule the “recovery” time. I sometimes describe myself as a steam engine: I’m idling along until I build up enough steam, then look out! I just keep reminding myself that full-on requires the full-off to balance.

    I wonder how your relaxation and focus techniques for golfing are flowing over into your ecourse creating. 🙂

    #24910

    Lisa R
    Adventurer
    @lisa.russell

    This so resonates with me. Thanks for sharing!

    #24932

    Bradley Morris
    Mountain Guide
    @bradleytmorris

    Thanks everybody. Good news. Passed the course at the top of the class. I lit it up in my Playability Test today with the low round and low round of my week (3 under, 69 – if that means anything to you LOL).

    I am gonna lay low this weekend, other than getting caught up on some emails and work with Andy and be back on the mountain Monday. Definitely LOTS OF SLEEP happening this weekend (i hope).

    Love you all. Thanks for cheering me on.

    #25103

    Bradley Morris
    Mountain Guide
    @bradleytmorris

    The higher we get, the steeper the climb.

    At least that’s how I’ve felt the last 24-hours.

    In the last 8-months of building this world, I haven’t some so close to wanting to give up as I have the last day and a half. Of course, I know that would not and could not happen. But those feelings have washed over me.

    The amount of effort it’s taken to re-do our UCSE 3 times in three weeks, on top of all other other tasks. The disappointment I’ve felt from the slow start to our Facebook Ads campaign. The amount of output required to build this incredible creation. The amount of trial, error and re-do we’ve had to persevere through (and still to come).

    It’s easy to get discouraged when the to-do list is longer than the number of hours in a day.

    But I am here. Taking my next step. Checking my next thing off the list. Giving this next task 100%. I am here.

    I will climb this cliff one tiny step at a time.

    I am here.

    Time to create a remarkable webinar.

     

     

    #25122

    Jutta Dobler
    Adventurer
    @Jutta

    Feeling for you @bradleytmorris! And can so relate. Been wanting to pull my blanket over my head and just forget the whole thing many times, especially now that it’s time to market. Guess what makes you successful in the end is to be amongst the few who soldier on. Sending you lots of good vibes! You guys are building something so amazing, and the world will notice sooner or later.

    #25133

    Bradley Morris
    Mountain Guide
    @bradleytmorris

    Indeed you are right @Jutta! At the same time, sometimes we need a few hours or a full day to just pull the blankets over our heads so we build up the courage and reserves to charge outta that blanket fort and go after what we want.

    I honour your courage and how far you’ve come!

    #28414

    Bradley Morris
    Mountain Guide
    @bradleytmorris

    This project is teaching me that good art truly takes time.

    I accept that the moment of completion where it all feels “done” may not come for three years.

    It may actually never come.

    Which means we must pace myself. There is a long stretch of mountain to go.

    Better to enjoy and love the journey than race to the top and feel dead when we get there.

    We can only do what we can do in. Nothing more.

    There will always be more work to do and ways to make it better.

    One step in front of the next is progress.

    I thought completing all the lessons was the summit. But I was wrong.

    I thought “launching the course” was the summit. But I was wrong.

    I thought creating this webinar would be the summit. But I am wrong.

     

    For that is the beauty of art. Good art takes time and with art, we’re never fully done.

    I love this adventure.

    Such a glorious, creative, wonderful vision quest it is.

     

    #28422

    Laurie
    Adventurer
    @laurieszott

    Yes, Bradley- the adventure keeps expanding, unknown nooks and crannies that open large internal spaces, or leave us speaking our visions. Is this insanity, opportunity, or just the muse in a different guise? I’ve stopped asking….just following the path.

     

    #28447

    Lisa R
    Adventurer
    @lisa.russell

    Agreed Bradley. This is definitely less mountain, more mountain range. Even some of the little hills are turning out to be tricky climbs. A few things I take from this:

    1) This is hard.

    2) This is beautiful.

    3) This too shall pass.

    4) Keep going anyway.

    5) Always have biscuits in your backpack.

    🙂

    #30372

    Bradley Morris
    Mountain Guide
    @bradleytmorris

    The depth.

    The layers.

    The height.

    The higher we climb, the more that’s revealed.

    We CANNOT sit around and wait for inspiration to strike.

    We MUST act and trust that inspiration will follow.

    This is what got us here.

    The view is glorious!

    JOIN US!

     

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