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Earn More, Stress Less Coaching

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:49:00

The idea behind Earn More, Stress Less is simple – get all the money you want and stop worrying about money. You can do it with the book just by doing what it says. But you know how it goes when you try to do something like this by yourself – life often has a habit of getting in the way. Day to day concerns take over, your attention wanders and soon it becomes just another great idea that never came to anything.

With Earn More, Stress Less Coaching from Fergus this won’t happen. You’ll stay focussed. You’ll start to see results very quickly. And your original investment will be repaid many times over as the money you’ve asked for starts to flow to you.

You can begin the process of signing up for coaching now just by sending an email to Fergus Fergus.oconnell@etpint.com explaining what you’re trying to achieve.

Pricing for Earn More, Stress Less Coaching for the next three months of 2010 is as follows.
                                    Sign up in                  Price in Euros
                                        April                               895
                                        May                                995
                                        June                              1,095

Earn More, Stress Less - Read an extract from the book

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:45:00

Introduction

One thing’s for sure. Over the next few years an awful lot of people are going to spend an awful lot of time, effort, energy and sleepless nights worrying about money. People who never, or rarely, had to do it before are going to have to do it now. The Credit Crunch / Collapse of the Banking System / Second Great Depression – whatever you care to call it – is going to result in, is already resulting in, unhappiness, depression, ill-health, broken relationships - and worse - on a scale that is hard to imagine.

Yet there is a way out and numerous teachers / philosophers / writers, both past and present, have pointed to it. Philosophers like Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and Emerson and more recently people like Deepak Chopra in The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Wallace Wattles’ The Science of Getting Rich and The Secret by Rhonda Byrne have all shown how anybody can have as much money as they need.

So why this book?

The answer is that this is practical – like all of my previous books. Rather than giving vague or complicated or airy-fairy or new-age sounding advice, it is a how-to book. It provides examples, exercises, templates and how-to’s to enable the reader to get all the money they want. Deepak Chopra will tell you, for example, to ‘release this list of my desires and surrender it to the womb of creation, trusting that when things don’t seem to go my way, there is a reason, and that the cosmic plan has designs for me much grander than even those that I have conceived’ (Chopra, 1996). I will tell you how (and why you need) to do these things.

You’d be entirely justified in asking what my credentials are in writing it. Am I as rich as Croesus? Why haven’t you seen me on Dragon’s Den? Or in the press trumpeting my own achievements?

Well, my credentials are these. First I have enough money for all my needs. I pay taxes in Ireland and – without in any way meaning to boast – last year, I was in the top 1% of earners in that country. Does this mean I’ve never had money problems? Hell no. I’ve experienced not being able to pay the mortgage, not having money for food, banks regarding me as a lower form of life than pond weed. I’ve had the sheriff call. On January 1 2001 I had a business-related debt of € 750,000. I have more first-hand experience than many of the terrors that come with lack of money.

However, between 2001 and 2006 I cleared that debt using the ideas in this book. My income in 2008 was double what it was in 2007 as a result of using the ideas in this book. My next objective, which I expect to see realised this year, is to make a million euros – € 800,000 in earnings and € 200,000 in debt reduction (i.e. becoming mortgage-free).

In summary - if I’m not any richer than that, it’s because I don’t want to be or need to be. I’m living the life I want on the money I earn and I don’t worry about money.
And so can you. It doesn’t matter what’s happened to you in the past or what your current situation is. It doesn’t matter what bad luck or lousy breaks or terrible things that have happened to you – and I know that lots of lousy things have happened to lots of people. The central proposition of this book is that if you do the things it shows you, you can live the life you want to live, have all the money you want / need and you won’t have to worry about money. If this idea appeals to you then read on.

If you look around at other books on making money, they generally fall into three categories.

Biographies of successful businessmen
‘Stop buying lattes very day and pretty soon you’ll have a big stash in the bank’ kind of books
‘Principles’ of making money or becoming rich.

This book is none of these. Instead it harnesses what is usually referred to – though other people have other names for it - as the universal Law of Attraction. If that’s already sounding too new-age for you, don’t worry. You won’t find much that’s new age in this book. This book is firmly anchored in the practical.

In this book I will ask you to do certain things. They will all seem eminently sensible and practical. Yet in doing them you will be using the Law of Attraction. From time to time, I will refer to this Law and some books on the subject, to provide a context for Earn More, Stress Less. You, on the other hand, can go through this entire book, make all the money you want and never have to think about the Law of Attraction – if that’s what you want.

For the three months that I was writing this book, some people acted as case studies. They were introduced to the ideas in the book and began to try them out. Their experiences, feelings and reactions are dotted throughout the book. All talk about the benefits they have gained. All have said that they intend to continue.

The book is divided into three parts called

Decide how much you want
Have a plan
Believe.

These three things – figure out how much you want, build a plan and believe - are the things you must do if you want to earn more and stress less. Most of the chapters have one or more sections called ‘Go Do It’. These are where I ask you to do the things necessary to begin getting all the money you want. You can see that these are the most important parts of the book. When you come to do these exercises it would be good to keep them together – maybe in a special notebook or in a particular folder on your computer.

Part 1, How Much Do You Want will help you get a sense of what life will be like as your money starts to flow in. As one of my case study people said, ‘I have to say I enjoyed doing it, and the “feel good” aura is still with me.’ As you work your way through Part 2, you will start to feel really positive. You will be taking action. You will be taking your situation by the scruff of the neck and doing something about it instead of passively taking what life is doing to you. I completely accept that no matter how up-beat you are, there are times when it can all become too much. That is what Part 3 is there for – to stop yourself from worrying, stressing or becoming depressed – and, in the process, undoing all the good work you’ve done in Parts 1 and 2.

As part of my research for this book, I came across a number of examples of well-known people who have used the Law of Attraction. These were people like Oprah Winfrey, Scott Adams (author of the Dilbert cartoons), Jack Canfield (one of the people featured in the book, The Secret) and TV presenter Noel Edmonds. Are these people famous and wealthy because the Law of Attraction applies to them, and only to them? Come on - sounds a bit unlikely really, doesn’t it? Are they famous and wealthy because they have some amazing, unique talent? Well, they have talents – for sure – but we all do, don’t we? We all have talents that make us unique? Are they famous and wealthy because they live in a certain city or state or country or area? Nope – doesn’t seem to be that. Or is it because they are involved in a certain line of work? Uh, don’t think so. Maybe they save a lot and that’s why they’re rich? Well I’m sure they have savings but I think we can probably assume that that’s not the answer either.

It’s something else, isn’t it?

In conclusion, let me ask this. What’s your alternative to all of this? Well, it seems to me it’s to sit at home, watch day-time television and bemoan your lot. Don’t! Where’s that going to get you? Get out and do something? Do what this book tells you. Then watch the results flow. It may be a bad time for you – it is for many people. But think of your journey through this book as an adventure – a game, if you like. You may not have a lot to lose. You have much to gain.

So, let’s begin – and good luck.

Work Smarter, Not Harder

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:55:00

Lots of people say it. Very few people know what it means.

Now, with ETP, you can do a course on it.

Of course training budgets have been slashed. But this is the one course that you and your people need to do this year.

To find out why and for more information email info@etpint.com with a title line ‘Work Smarter Not Harder’.

Don’t do anything else on your project until you’ve done this!

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:11:00

If you’ve ever watched TV hospital dramas like ER, then you’ll know the scene when the crash cart comes through the door and the A&E doctor checks for the patient’s ‘vital signs’. The vital signs are the handful of things which tell the doctor the key things they need to know about the patient.

Just as people have vital signs, projects have vital signs. There are a handful of things which, the presence or absence of them, will tell you how your project is doing.

ETP’s PSI (Probability of Success Indicator) checks for these vital signs. If you haven’t yet run a PSI over your project, you should.

ETP’s Project Management Guide #8, How To Assess A Project In Five Minutes, describes how to check for a project’s vital signs and calculate its PSI.

The PSI comes in three forms – Simple, Intermediate and Advanced:

o Simple – checks for a project’s vital signs
o Intermediate – gives you additional diagnostic information about the project
o Advanced – for a full-scale audit or review of a project (particularly useful if a project has gone off the rails)

All three forms of the PSI are described in ETP’s Project Management Guide #18, The Probability of Success Indicator.

ETP cuts prices

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00

Because of the times in which we find ourselves, we've tried to come up with a better deal for our customers and potential customers.

So - we're offering a deal whereby for an annual subscription of € 2,540, an organisation can send any number of people on our three most popular public training courses - How To Run Successful Projects, Work Less, Achieve More, A Little Planning is Better Than a Lot of Firefighting. The Year 1 subscription price is fixed but as more organisations take up subscriptions, our intention is to reduce the year 2 subscription price even further.

This actually means that in 2009 you can train all your staff in project management and time management for € 2,540.

Full details can be found at Training / Subscriptions

Fergus has been promoting his latest book

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00

Fergus has been promoting his latest book, Work Less, Achieve More (see Books / WLAM). He appeared on TV3's Ireland AM programme last week, as well as on RTE1 Radio's Mooney. He also did an extensive round of press interviews.

If you've been made redundant

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00

Maybe now is the time to upskill and we can help you. If you've been made redundant and you want to either (a) retrain as a project manager or (b) sharpen up your skills generally, we'd be happy to have you on any one of our three public courses for just € 95. (Yes, ninety five - it's not a typo!) These courses are:

How To Run Successful Projects [2.5 days - list price € 1,200; includes Work Less, Achieve More content]
A Little Planning Is Better Than A Lot Of Firefighting [2 days - list price €1,000; includes Work Less, Achieve More content]
Work Less, Achieve More [1 day - list price €595]

Contacting Cowen

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00

In July of last year ETP contacted the Taoiseach's office and offered its expertise to help the government solve the problem of runaway projects. We received an acknowledgement and despite two follow-ups have had nothing since. Last month we offered our reduced-price subscription (see 'ETP cuts prices' above) to all the government departments. Again nothing. Presumably they don't need it!

A Little Planning Is Better Than A Lot Of Firefighting

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00

This is a new course and, as a recent attendee said, is 'an ideal course for anyone who has competing demands on their time and a mix of responsibilities on projects and business-as-usual commitments' [Mike R O'Sullivan, FEXCO, Killorglin, Ireland]. For further details check out Training / A Little Planning Is Better Than A Lot Of Firefighting