Since joining the TMLP in August of 2006, I have more intimacy in my marriage. My wife and I can now be fully expressed with each other without the worry of "activating" each other. This freedom allows us to experience each other like never before!
My relationships with people in my life are incredibly rich and I savour the time I get to spend with them. I especially get to be totally present with my wife and daughter, which is truly a gift for me.
I have freedom and ease around everyday challenges with much less upset when I interact with others (much less annoyance with other drivers, co-workers, slow moving store clerks, and myriad other low-wage service industry workers).
I have higher confidence in my ability to handle all sorts of challenges, especially when dealing with people.
I find that I'm able to take on many more committments than I ever imagined possible and have it be stimulating with low stress. I am given far more opportunities to contribute than ever before. This results in a high level of satisfaction.
All of the above contribute to a general feeling of joy, contentment and "aliveness". The quality of interaction with others coupled with my higher confidence along with more freedom and ease all contribute to an experience of time expanding. This is quite the opposite of my first reaction to all of the committments associated with joining the TMLP, which looked like time was going to shrink into a tiny little ball!
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From being on Team, Management and Leadership Program, I have wanted to give up & quit several times in my 1st quarter. I get though, that that is how I used to do things. Now I get in communication with someone on Team when I have LIFE, and where there used to be a lot of drama and chaos, now there is peace, confidence, & listening on my part.
For instance, yesterday, I was to move stuff in to my apt., be on two calls, help my son with homework,have dinner,& get to bed before 9PM. Then at 7:45,my mom calls crying that her life is a mess & nobody loves her, I was able to listen to her without being hooked into the drama, & able to complete the convo in five minutes without having to cut the call short. Unchained Melody in me.
From the day I joined the TMLP, an entrepreneurial world of possibility opened up. I've had breakthroughs in time, opportunity, and efficiency.
How this has looked is I have been invited to speak at conferences about possibility driven business opportunity, team building, parternships and alliances, and global leadership. I have been named one of the 100 most insoiring people in the life sciences industry (2006), and have been declared an expert in a scientific field that has nothing to do with anything I've ever studies formally. My company has transformed, my games have gotten bigger, and what I'm up to has expanded from self to group, to community, society and world.
The power of the program is in the creative space that comes to exist for one to step into as a result of the conversations of others. It is inside this space that I find myself able to be.
Who I'm being inside of this program is distinguished from who I'm being as a result of this program. Inside, I've learned to create boundaries and listen - I've become more present to the truth, integrity and what works. As a result of this program, I've learned to celebrate and explore what's possible for myself and my life. I believe that this is the ultimate achievement. There's no degree at the end of the course, there's no banner to hang on the wall. All you have is the quality of our expeience and that can only be measured by the extent to which you're left touched, moved and inspired. I know I am!
Being part of a team is something that's always appealed. When I heard that after being in TMLP you'll never have to do anything alone anymore, that you'll know how to create team wherever you go, I was sold. And the magic of this work is that team and loving partnership started showing up in my life in a huge way the moment I chose to join TMLP.
The biggest impact I've noticed is in my family, and the way my family has been coming together is nothing short of amazing. After a lifetime of feeling like an oddball who'd never belonged, I moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco when I was 25 to escape my family. Over the past several years, my family had slowly been falling apart, and I realized only recently that it seemed like no one felt like they belonged.
I took on commitment in my family, and this Christmas was the best I've ever had and with both my mother's and father's sides of the family. In previous Christmases I went to LA for the shortest amount of time I could get away with and spent my energy avoiding people, certain topics, and possible situations, trying to survive the time together, and feeling stressed out.
This year I was able to be present with each and every person and have love and affinity be present like never before. I could be with any conversation, I could accept my mother for who she is and who she isn't, and I finally got how wonderful she is. I was able to bring love and contribution to my family, and brought everyone together. We were a team! I can't ever remember it ever being like this, and I caused that! That's what I've gotten out of Team so far, and I've got two more quarters to go. I can't wait to see how unrecognizable my life is going to be in August!
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