Tuesday September 07, 2010

Subscription Packages

The Basics is a package of 23 FREE videos that includes eight FREE introductory videos plus one FREE coaching video for each of the 15 Tasks in Your Own Worst Enemy. For these you need no paid subscription.  These videos are available to everyone FREE and you need only register to use them.

Beyond the Basics subscription packages include additional coaching videos available only by subscription.  These videos expand on the basic information provided in the free videos and introduce concepts and suggestions otherwise unavailable.  If you truly want to go beyond the basics for a deeper treatment of all topics, you owe it to yourself to sign up on either a monthly basis for a modest investment or annually at great savings.

Here is what you get by moving up to a Beyond the Basics subscription package:

The Beyond the Basics (BTB) Package includes all of the FREE videos available in the Basics plus:

  • Thirty-one additional coaching videos that go beyond the basics to provide information impossible to cram into the Your Own Worst Enemy book.
  • Combined with the FREE videos and with OnTask 2.0 free downloadable software, the total package constitutes nothing less that a tutorial course in maximizing your potential.

The Beyond the Basics Subscription Package is available now 24/7 in two subscription lengths for modest investment amounts.

Prices:

One month, $17

One full year, just $77 --  only $6.47 per month! 

There is no better time than now to invest in yourself.

AND NOW YOU HAVE EVEN MORE REASON TO SUBSCRIBE!!  ALL ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW COME WITH A FREE 30-MINUTE COACHING SESSION WITH KEN, PLUS THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO FUTURE COACHING SESSIONS, ON A ONE-OFF, AS-NEEDED, PAY-AS-YOU-GO BASIS, WITH NO UPFRONT COMMITMENT OR UPFRONT MINIMUM INVESTMENT AT THE RIDICULOUSLY REDUCED RATE (COMPARED TO MY MENTORING PROGRAM) OF $100 PER SESSION.  

YOU CAN'T BEAT THIS OFFER.  THE PRICE OF THE SUBSCRIPTION IS LESS THAN A SESSION OF COACHING. 

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Here is the complete list of topics covered in the Beyond the Basics subscription packages with brief descriptions:

The first ten BTB videos address the Master Skills, the crucial bedrock of all that you will build.  Four of those pertain to order

Order:  Cost of disorder, payoffs of order
  • Stuff:  An accumulation of false starts and incompletes
  • Disorder as time suck and ceiling on achievement
  • Disorder as self-attack
  • Order as power tool, as ceiling breaker
  • Order as pleasure
  • Order as precision and self-control
Order:  A Zero Tolerance Pact
  • Adopting zero tolerance for disorder
  • Beneficial ruthlessness
  • A non-proliferation pact
  • Whether to cull or dump
  • What to keep
  • How to keep it

Order:  Shutting Out Disorder

  • Going to extremes
  • Strategic perfectionism
  • Meeting it before
  • Who and what is in control?
  • Purging disorder

Order:  Being Methodical

  • Best practices
  • Scut work
  • Transforming scut work
  • What matters
The next six videos cover the remaining Master Skills, providing tips, tactics and additional depth to what is contained in YOWE:

Patience
  • Methods for cultivating patience
  • Methods for practicing patience

Attention

  • Why attention
  • What to attend to
  • Strengthening focus
  • Clearing the mind
  • The dangerous myth of multi-tasking

Persistence and Consistency

  • Relentlessness revisited
  • Is there another way?
  • Pieces
  • Revisiting
  • Pathways
  • Training

Thoroughness

  • Why slapdash won’t do
  • Meticulous when, about what?
  • Avoiding/escaping the trap of pointless effort

Repetition:  Skill, practice, payoff

  • Repetition:  skill and practice
  • Concert pianist
  • Six thousand repetitions
  • Consistency connection

Finishing:  Completing, closing

  • Attention stopshorts!
  • When to put the period
  • When more is less
  • When less is more
  • Finishing touches
After the four FREE videos related to the Prequisites, the next 16 BTB videos complement, and go beyond, the Basics videos devoted to the 15 Tasks.  Here are the titles and topics of the remaining videos.

Beyond the basics:  Five essential points to understand The relationship between the 15 Tasks and the Master Skills
  • How to approach the 15 Tasks
  • Is it necessary to do all 15?
  • Shuffling the deck
  • Whether, when and how to customize

Beyond the basics:  All about pleasure and its crucial importance

  • Pleasure versus distraction
  • Importance of pleasure
  • How to extract pleasure
  • How to maximize pleasure
  • How much pleasure is enough?
  • Intensive self-care counsels

Beyond the Basics:  Special counsels for Task 2 exercises

  • How long is long enough?
  • Special considerations
  • Benchmarks

Beyond the basics for Task 3

  • The morning and evening exercises
  • Versions 1 & 2

Beyond the Basics:  Gantt charts and other tools

  • What Gantt diagrams can do for you
  • Other tools

Beyond the Basics:  Your worst strength, your best weakness

  • Strengths and weaknesses
  • Your worst strength
  • Your best weakness
  • Working with both

Beyond the Basics:  What to do about where you are now

  • Fine points
  • Subtler shades of understanding
  • Self-acceptance

Beyond the Basics:  Accelerating Task 7 results

  • Accelerating the impact of your effort
  • Amplifying techniques
  • The shortest distance between two points

Beyond the Basics:  Crucial counsels for accelerating Task 8 results

  • How to construct effective operating instructions
  • How to get the most from specific operating instructions
  • You always do exactly what you tell yourself to do
  • How to tell yourself exactly what to do
  • Vague instructions = Bad map = Bad results
  • Magic words:  “Whenever I…I always,” etc.
  • Special counsels on locking in new habits

Beyond the Basics:  Advanced counsels on the miracle question

  • What this does
  • Why this works
  • Tapping its power
  • What to look for

Beyond the Basics:  Special counsels to amplify the success of Task 11

  • The bridge from here to there
  • Works on multiple levels simultaneously
  • A necessary element for making success inevitable
  • Gantt diagrams?  Timelines?

Beyond the Basics:  Deadly goal setting pitfalls and how to avoid them

  • How goals can work against you
  • Other pitfalls to avoid

Beyond the Basics:  Making success inevitable

  • Erring on the side of overdoing redundancy
  • Leave nothing out; leave nothing to chance
Beyond the Basics:  Degree of difficulty and insuring success
  • Degrees of difficulty: simple, a stretch, daunting
  • Which to choose
  • What creates significance is what produces real success

Beyond the Basics:  Advanced methods and operations

  • Drastic measures
  • The right kind of ruthless
  • The right kind of relentless
  • Finishing the project

Beyond the Basics:  Power Scheduling

  • Your two-letter friend, “no”
  • Your three-letter friend, “yes”
  • Frequent interruptions
  • Stopping while fresh
  • Activities as breaks
  • What to do next

The final two BTB videos are devoted to the period dedicated to locking in the gains you have made and strengthening new directions and new successes.

Managing new (and better) problems

  • The problems success brings
  • The special problems of sudden success
  • Mining setbacks
  • Locking in progress

Your own Maximum Potential Project

  • Raising your standard of living
  • Responding to the unexpected
  • Defying gravity
  • Life as art

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