Ever vow to make changes and then stop just as you were getting going?  Ever get started on a major change effort and then stall?

It doesn't have to be that way. The situation isn't hopeless. You can really change.

Help is here:  The Beyond the Basics (BTB) videos were made for you.

If you would like to finally cut through what gets in the way and move steadily toward real accomplishments without delay, BTB videos are one of the most efficient set of tools you can have going for you.   

You can start now by subscribing now to a BTB video package.

Here are just some of the benefits you will gain:

• realistic, reliable information about the task you face
  
• peace of mind from knowing exactly how to proceed and what to do when, step-by-step
• clarity about priorities and where to put your energy
• proven methods fro overcoming procrastination, postponing, delaying and other self-defeating habits
• the confidence needed to handle inevitable obstacles with calm instead of panic 
• the ability to stop burying your head and face the realities of your situation
• confidant steps that replace avoidance
  
• improved ability to focus instead of feeling distracted and scattered
• methods for permanently moving forward that end the need for making excuses
  
• authentic personal effectiveness 
• the ability to see setbacks for what they truly are instead of cause for alarm and fear of failure
  
• real courage—not bravado—in place of fear
• the ability to keep going until your momentum makes you unstoppable
• increased patience and serenity
  
• the wisdom of best practices
• a toughened sense of resolve
  
• how to take intelligent risks while avoiding unnecessary risk-taking
• improved relationships
• improved work habits and work practices
• increased self-esteem from real competence and efficacy
• systematic ways of handling disappointment
• systematic methods for correcting course and staying on task 

If you like the free basic coaching videos, you are going to love the BTB  package. It includes 32 advanced coaching videos that 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:

And here is what people are saying about the BTB videos:

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

• 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

• 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

• 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