The Renewal Times

The Renewal Times is a publication of Renewal Technologies Inc. and is edited by Roger Ellerton.

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Included in this newsletter:

• Thought for the day
• Health Notes
• Upcoming Seminars
• Feature Article
• Humour
• More Information

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Thought for the Day
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

         John D. Rockefeller, Sr

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Health Notes
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The teeny pea may pack a mighty anticancer punch.

Pack your pantry with bean, pea, and lentil soups to warm you up all season long. Peas, lentils, and beans contain a compound that a recent study revealed may help protect you against cancer. The compound, inositol pentakisphosphate, inhibits a key pathway in cancer cell growth. The discovery may one day lead to new cancer-fighting treatments.

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Expectations influence how people experience physical pain.

In a study, people tended to experience as much pain from a heat source as they expected to feel. Even when the heat intensity increased, they still experienced only moderate pain, and activity in pain-related areas of their brains were diminished, when they expected the pain to be moderate.

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Upcoming Seminars / Workshops
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We are pleased to offer the following public workshops/seminars in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada:

Introductory NLP Evening

August 8, 2007 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Please come as our guest. Invite a friend to come with you. Registration is required so that we can reserve a seat for you. E-mail your name and the number of people attending to info@renewal.ca. For more information, please see www.renewal.ca/freeseminar.htm.

During this event, we will have a book signing for Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You and offer you a special discounted price.

NLP Practitioner Training

Seven consecutive days: November 5 - 11, 2007.

NLP Master Practitioner Training

Four weekends: March 28 - 30, April 18 - 20, May 2 - 4, May 30 - June 1, 2008.

Getting More Out of Life

A series of three programs designed to help you get more out of life through discovering who you are at many levels -- your place in the world, your mission in life -- and to inspire you to take action to pursue your mission with passion and joy in a way that is respectful of others.

September 15, 16, 2007. Program 1: Discover Yourself -- Find Out What's Holding You Back

Going Beyond the Limits of Traditional Coaching

Discover why goals don't work and experience what does! Learn the nuances in the NLP coaching model for resolving the most common, challenging coaching issues such as procrastination, values conflicts and life transition issues. Presented by NLP trainer John Overdurf.

August 24 – 26, 2007.

For our most recent schedule and a description of these workshops/seminars, please visit www.renewal.ca/neurolinguistic.htm

Click on the following link for the location of our NLP Training Centre in Ottawa (Stittsville), Ontario, Canada.

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Feature Article
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This article may be reproduced, provided it is reproduced in full, including author bio and a reference to Renewal Technologies' website (www.renewal.ca).

Getting Focus in Your Life

By Roger Ellerton Phd, ISP, CMC, Renewal Technologies Inc. www.renewal.ca

Are you one of those people who has a list of things they should do and rarely accomplishes any of the items on your list? Think back five years and notice how your life - career, relationship with your children, parents or spouse, health - would be different today, if you had actually accomplished some of the items on that 'should' list, rather than letting them wither and fall away. If you are a parent, recall all of the great 'shoulds' you thought of doing for/with your children. Great ideas that would have made a significant difference that your children never got to experience with you. Or what about the 'shoulds' you thought about with regard to your parents and now you do not have the opportunity to carry them out. Or think of today's 'should' list. How will your life be different later today, next week, next year or five years from now if you were to identify a few critical items on your 'should' list and actually do them?

This is not about trying to accomplish these critical tasks. This is about making a clear commitment to carry them out to the best of your abilities and available resources. That is, identify a small critical subset of must do activities, each with a clearly defined outcome and timeframe that you will honour.

Try? There is no try. There is only do or not do.
- Yoda, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back

Take a moment to review your 'should' do list. You know, the one you often keep in your head. I encourage you to write all of these 'should' activities on a piece of paper and if necessary on a second or third sheet - one activity below the other. Do you find the sheer number of items on your list overwhelming or demotivating? Does this feel like a heavy weight on your shoulders? How would you feel if, right now, you followed Yoda's advice and identified those that you are clearly prepared to do (and have the time and resources to do), while removing the others from the list?

Sometimes we become so overwhelmed by the number of 'shoulds' we do not know where to start and either choose to do nothing or work on those that really do not advance us toward what we want in life.

To get past this blockage, here is an approach that will allow you to identify those items that are critical to what you choose to accomplish and to discard the remainder. Please put this activity on your must do list now and not on your should do list. Set a time by when you will have completed this activity. How about by the end of today! Take your list of 'shoulds' and add four more columns. Label the four additional columns as follows: 1. What will happen if I do this? 2. What will happen if I don’t do this? 3. What won’t happen if I do this? 4. What won’t happen if I don’t do this? Answer these questions for each of the items on your list. Review your answers and divide your list into two groups. Those activities that you choose to do and are committed to do (Your 'Must' list) with specific timeframes. The second list are those activities that you choose not to do (Your discard list). There may be some activities that do not fall in either list that you choose to delay until the next time you review your list - say this time next week. At that time, you can reconsider these activities in light of what you have accomplished and desire to achieve.

Each week review your progress, keep in mind 'there is no failure, only feedback'. That is, if things did not go as planned, notice what you learned about yourself, about others, about the task so that you can choose a different course of action and accomplish more next time. If during the week, you have identified more 'shoulds', subject them to the same process as above.

Enjoy and best wishes for success and happiness in your life.

Author: Roger Ellerton is a certified NLP trainer, coach, certified management consultant and the founder and managing partner of Renewal Technologies. The above article is based on his book Live Your Dreams Let Reality Catch Up: NLP and Common Sense for Coaches, Managers and You.

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Humour
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Salespeople

When a young salesman met his untimely end, he was informed that he had a choice about where he would spend his eternity: Heaven or Hell. He was allowed to visit both places, and then make his decision afterwards.

"I'll see Heaven first," said the salesman, and an angel led through the gates on a private tour. Inside it was very peaceful and serene, and all the people there were playing harps and eating grapes. It looked very nice, but the salesman was not about to make a decision that could very well condemn him to a life of musical produce.

"Can I see Hell now?" he asked. The angel pointed him to the elevator, and he went down to the basement where he was greeted by one of Satan's loyal followers. For the next half hour, the salesman was led through a tour of what appeared to be the best night clubs he'd ever seen. People were partying loudly, and having a, if you'll pardon the expression, Hell of a time.

When the tour ended, he was sent back up where the angel asked him if he had reached a final decision. "Yes, I have," he replied. "As great as Heaven looks and all, I have to admit that Hell was more of my kind of place. I've decided to spend my eternity down there."

The salesman was sent to hell, where he was immediately thrown into a cave and was chained to a wall, and he was subjected to various tortures. "When I came down here for the tour," he yelled with anger and pain, "I was shown a whole bunch of bars and parties and other great stuff! What happened?!"

The devil replied, "Oh, that! That was just the Sales Demo."

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More Information
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