I used to have this boss. Great boss. I’d love to work with them again.

But…

They had this quirk. They’d go on a business retreat or leadership seminar, then come back to the office bustling with a New Thing to implement.

Something to help us find our core competencies, our strengths, our weaknesses, stuff like that.

And we’d begin implementing that for a while.

But then Business As Usual would take over and we’d have to shelve it.

Then, six months later, another workshop. Another shiny New Thing.

I used to do this. The proof of my growth is that I’ve intensely studied and applied hypnosis for over eight years, neurolinguistic programming for over four years and Christian philosophy for over two years.

Taken together, with some extra things I’ve picked up along the way, they create Operational Christianity.

For most folks, this is new.

But you might not need “new”.

If you keep bouncing from project to project, chasing the shiny new thing, what you need instead is to go back to something that worked and you abandoned. Stop chasing and start implementing.

Don’t hire me, in other words.

Seriously. If I’ll just be one more thing you chase and then bounce off after a while, neither of us wants that.

Shoo. Go back to basics.

Then again…

If you need help sticking with stuff – if, like me, you want to change this terrible, life-eroding habit…

… reach out and sign up:

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“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

Nietzsche said that. Others have quoted him and paraphrased him. It’s a popular sentiment.

And it’s wrong.

Not incorrect – more incomplete. Maybe it’s more obvious in this blighted era of social media, where everyone shrieks constantly about their Big Enough Why:

Racism, global warming and intolerance.

Crime, ethnic replacement and foreign interference.

Tyranny.

The problem isn’t that folks don’t have something important to care about. If anything, there’s too much of that. Too many armchair political analysts and not enough electricians.

These people have a Why to Live, yet they do little more than talk. And they don’t even talk to friends, family, colleagues and people from church – no, they argue with bots online.

A quest to save the world isn’t enough.

It’s necessary, sure, but insufficient.

I have a quest to save the world and I found that arguing online distracts me from it. One of the relevant side quests is saving as many men as possible from weakness, madness and folly.

To do that, I must keep my applied psychology skills sharp. I hold myself to absurd and unrealistic expectations with the work I do. I have to. The smallest, most reasonable mistakes have led me straight to failure in the past.

I also need to dress well enough, embrace hygiene and exercise enough that folks won’t ignore me on sight.

Plus I need to manage my energy levels and morale while working hard.

It means a lot of studying, a lot of writing, a lot of travel (some fun, some not), a lot of brain-breaking practice, a lot of wrestling with my despair…

This flows inevitably from my Why to Live.

“Yeah, I get it. You incorporate your Big Enough Why into your daily decisions, filtering every choice through that.”

Nope. Maybe that works for some folks. It doesn’t seem to – and it led to mixed results for me.

No, I took a different approach.

An approach I often use with my 1 Big Win sessions.

If you know the world is broken in some big way…

If you’d die to fix the problem yet can’t bring yourself to live differently to fix it…

… there’s a disconnect between your why and your how.

Luckily, it’s a quick and simple fix.

Unfortunately, I rarely hear others talk about resolving this disconnect. There’s a lot of talk of “find your purpose!!!” and not so much about how to then live to your purpose.

Bringing your mission into your daily life counts as 1 Big Win – a win big enough to reshape the rest of your existence. And maybe even the world.

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“Chatbots are devouring every white collar industry!”

Eh.

I practice Operational Christianity – it’s like life coaching through a biblical lens. Every so often, I try to use an LLM to render myself obsolete.

It hasn’t happened yet.

The chatbots are decent at refinement – when you know where you’re going and you’re making progress, but you’d like to progress faster.

(Unless your progression requires obscure knowledge or forging a path into the unknown. Then it’s awful.)

The chatbots are sycophantic. That’s a terrible trait for a coach, guide or mentor to have. It’s too indulgent, too unwilling to tell you what you need instead of what you want.

No wonder some folks are getting their eggs scrambled by them. The chatbots are too eager to humour their folly.

“Not me! I prompt mine to be a tough, harsh taskmaster!”

Ah, yes, of course.

Let me predict its response when you told it that:

Yes sir, of course sir, I’ll be as contrary as you want sir – no more, no less.

Uh huh. Colour me unimpressed.

I could point out that the chatbots lack the skills you need from a coach, guide or mentor. How they give the obvious advice around trying new things and having accountability partners.

As if it were that simple.

But its worse than that. Chatbots lack the right attitude. They’re designed and prompted to be as maximally helpful as possible, to the point of uselessness. They struggle to see the big picture, to distinguish what you want from what you need, to help you radically rethink your approach.

That’s fine for most contexts.

Great, even.

But by that standard, I won’t be helpful.

No – with my 1 Big Win program, I give you embodied clarity on some huge, important goal. Or I bust some bad habit of yours. Or I help you find a fulfilling, Christian-friendly life path.

AI lacks the skills to find that.

And the skills to get that into your bones so it’s who you are, not just something you do.

Maybe that will change. It’s folly to say that technology will never solve that problem.

But it won’t come from a chatbot. It’ll take a revolution in the tech before that becomes even plausible.

For now?

A better life is just 1 Big Win away – and the best way to get that is right here:

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Hypnosis can do incredible things.

Using it to help a room full of people relax, focus and learn better?

That’s easy.

So since I found myself providing exactly those outcomes for a recent seminar in Mt Shasta, California, I knew it was going to be easy for me.

That meant I had no choice but to do it well.

What can I say? I demand brilliance from myself. Doing a solid enough job was okay, according to the attendees and organisers. But it wasn’t for me.

I knew I could do more, so I did.

I ran around seven extra sessions, going into more specific content – including how to resist bad advice, establish your personal boundaries and apply what you learn in your daily life.

And I offered one-on-one support where people needed it, which was every day. You can’t push the limits of your mind without occasionally tripping yourself up.

Sometimes, the stuff that comes up when you stumble like this is big. Difficult. Emotionally challenging.

So I helped folks work through that, as well.

I went well above what was expected of me from everyone but myself. That’s how I operate.

And if you operate in a similar way, this will be of interest to you:

I offer 1 Big Win, which is exactly what it sounds like. Take one thing in your life that would count as a big win – by the end of one 90-minute session, you’ll begin moving towards it on a clear, straight path.

That’s assuming you don’t get it right then and there.

You’re 1 Big Win away from levelling up your life, however you feel you’re held back. So then sign up for a session:

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“People don’t change” is an absurdity. Of course they do. Humans can’t not change.

Even the most inflexible person you know continues to grow more stubborn. You see this in their face, their body – the firmness of their brow, the tightness of their grip, the hardness of their eyes.

But people like to share this faux-wisdom for two reasons:

One, it’s a useful reminder that if someone breaks your trust, you should be wary of trusting them again. They might learn their lesson and become trustworthy. That’s unlikely – enough that it pays to assume they won’t.

Two, change seems hard.

You promise to be more ethical and disciplined, but nothing happens. You might even know that you must change, only for everything to stay the same.

Obviously.

Of course talking to yourself rarely leads to change, for the same reason it’s hard to build a house out of spoons. It’s the wrong tool for the job.

During my recent trip to Mt Shasta, where I provided hypnosis services to seminar attendees, people wanted to change. Many approached me with specific requests.

If I told them to simply make the change, that wouldn’t have done much. They already knew what they wanted to be different. Echoing that information back would do little.

Even so, most folks got the change they want. I can’t share what those changes are – that wouldn’t be ethical, even without me naming names. But imagine someone has a way of seeing the world, of operating by default. And this habit only hardens their heart and gets in the way of their relationships.

Now imagine that softening – not because they want it to, but because of enlightened influence.

Because change doesn’t come from information. We’re drowning in data and we’re worse off for it. Knowing what to do isn’t the same as doing it.

Information is irrelevant. Influence is everything.

When someone is influenced to change, they tend to change quickly, immediately and permanently – or, at least, so long as the change serves them. Influence works where information fizzles out.

These people changed because they were ready to – because they genuinely wanted to. But if that was all it took, they didn’t need me.

No, I played my role.

I told them what they told me they wanted, but not at the level of information.

That’s how change works and why talk therapy doesn’t. The last thing you need is more information.

What you need is to change.

I wonder what’s on the top of your list – the thing you want to change the most.

I don’t have to wonder for long. Bring it to me and let’s do something about it.

In 1 Big Win, you get exactly that – a clear plan for achieving some awesome victory. But the plan won’t just be yet more information. It’ll be someone you become – a new source of influence in your mind, with the plan there as your proof that you’re advancing.

If that sounds interesting, sign up here:

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“You need to work harder. But, also, you need to relax more.”

“This is stale and derivative. Also, you’re neglecting the foundations.”

“Cheer up and take this more seriously.”

The weird thing about life is often the best advice is paradoxical. You need to move forward and back, up and down, and left and right all at once.

There’s an art to living life like this, pulling away from the compromise of the centre towards every other direction at once.

I had to use this art during my recent Mt Shasta trip. My intention was to have the group tune into the moment, broaden their senses and attend to the outside world.

And my tool for this was hypnosis – famous for getting people to close their eyes and shift their attention inwards.

So I had people zone out and focus, while paying attention inwardly so they could pay attention to the outside.

That only sounds difficult if you’ve never done it. In fact, like so much of life, it’s easy to go in two opposite directions at once.

The harder part is often staying still.

Because the life of your dreams is likely on the other side of paradox. You’ll get there by working harder and resting more, by innovating more and by sticking to what works, by being more optimistic and more pessimistic…

The road to success is by doing what seems self-defeating.

Of course, striking the right balance isn’t easy. A roadmap helps. And a roadmap is exactly what you get with your 1 Big Win.

You’re a 90-minute session away from having superb clarity on what you need to do and how you need to do it.

If you’re ready for what comes next, sign up now:

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Have you ever walked into a room and immediately known you’re the outsider?

Last week, I provided my hypnotic talents to some training in Mt Shasta, California. One of my many goals was to take this group of a few dozen strangers and get them bonding. It’s lucky that hypnosis is excellent at that sort of thing.

A meet and greet, some dinner and a little hypnosis are a great way to build relationships throughout the group.

It worked well.

Too well.

Because when some of the participants arrived the next day, they walked into a group that had already started bonding.

It can be like hearing an inside joke you’re not part of.

And life can be like that. You often find yourself on the outside, looking in. There’s a group, an industry, an organisation, a club with a storied past that doesn’t include you.

In this case, that past was mere hours long.

Don’t underestimate the power of beginnings. The start is when things transition – when the pre-seminar becomes the seminar. Transitions are meaningful. Miss them at your peril.

But these latecomers weren’t doomed to always sit on the outside of the group looking in. They put the work in, got to know everyone and became part of the crowd.

And hypnosis helped the process along.

Want to bond with strangers? Trance out together.

But that’s not always an option, so here’s something else:

Have you ever met someone and just felt an easy, instant connection?

Or gone somewhere new and felt like you belonged?

It happens.

Not always, but often enough.

And it happens without hypnosis.

How that happens is an open question, but it seems to involve a few things.

Like rhythm.

And your flexibility.

A few simple changes could see you fitting in with more groups and places.

I don’t know if that’s something that’d be useful to you – the ability to go anywhere, meet anyone and join any group like you founded it.

If so, that might be what you’d choose for your 1 Big Win.

And if not?

The change you choose for yourself, received in 90 minutes, must be even better than that.

Lock in that awesome change here:

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I was about to hypnotise 40 strangers. And at least four of them would give me trouble.

I haven’t posted recently. An impromptu opportunity lured me away to the other side of the world for a couple of weeks. “It disrupted my writing schedule” is the mildest honest thing I could say about the trip.

This opportunity lured me to Mount Shasta, California – a place with an earned reputation for being as gorgeous as it is strange. There, I used my skills to help folks learn, grow and stay grounded.

On the first night of this week-long seminar, I was going to hypnotise the group – a few dozen people, all there to stretch their minds in unusual ways.

But a couple of people approached me beforehand, saying they weren’t comfortable with hypnosis.

And another couple told me they were too comfortable with it – being skilled hypnotists themselves, they find most hypnotists clunky and ineffective.

What would you do?

Consider it for a moment. You’re about to do something with a group of people. It’ll only work if they let it work. They don’t know you, so you have to earn their trust fast. If you’re anything less than fully confident in your abilities, there in the moment, that trust will evaporate.

And about 10% of the group has explicitly told you that they’re likely to resist you.

This is why I love being a hypnotist. It’s not the only profession where this happens, but it happens every time I intend to do anything.

Here’s what I did:

I began by speaking of Control and Acceptance. Everyone in the audience had, at every moment, Control. By feeling the surface beneath them – couch, chair, floor – they could resist the hypnotic and experience and stay fully present. Or they could Accept. They could Accept the heaviness of their eyelids as an invitation to close their eyes. And Accept the way their attention was shifting inwards.

Whatever happened next was up to them. If they took Control of their experience, great. If they Accepted the hypnotic experience, also great.

(Everyone Accepted, by the way. I soon had a roomful of about 40 people all tranced out. And those who expressed their concerns enjoyed it more than anyone.)

This is how I operate. Hypnosis isn’t mind control. If it were, I wouldn’t use it. Whenever I work with someone, they are always in Control. I give them something useful, something they struggle to create for themselves – an insight, a rewiring of their neurons – and they can Accept that.

Or not.

If someone “has a lot of hypnotic resistance” (whatever that means) or wants to resist me, that’s fine. In fact, great. I salute their strength and I trust in their wisdom. If I’m not formidable enough to offer something they want, all the way down to their unconscious mind, then that’s on me.

I trusted that these people, even those with concerns, would trust me. And I was right. People spent the seminar raving about my hypnotic skills and seeking me out for more.

That’s what doubts and resistance are all about – less “I don’t like this” and more “I need to know I can trust you”. That’s wise.

People are brilliant. I know the “wise” thing is to bemoan how stupid the average person is. No. People are brilliant. They just get a little lost, a little stuck in bad habits of thought or action. It doesn’t take much for them to break themselves free, to find themselves living as better people.

That’s how I know you’re brilliant, too.

And that it wouldn’t take much for you to transform your life in some meaningful way.

That’s why I offer why I call the 1 Big Win. In 90 minutes, you’ll enjoy something that can only be described as a big win for you.

You’ll go from stuck to free.

Or lost to driven.

You’ll go from not knowing how you could ever overcome this challenge… to not knowing how this could ever have slowed you down.

As always, you are in Control. You can stay as you are, enjoying how far short from your potential you continue to fall. You can go to talk therapy where, after a few years and a lot of money, you’ll have so many words to describe your problem.

Or…

You could stop resisting, start trusting and lock in 1 Big Win right now:

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There’s an underrated part of my exercise routine.

I walk to the gym. Right before I reach the gym, a few buildings down on the same street, there’s a luxury rental business. It looks like every other building on the street – a basic garage, all grime, concrete and old steel.

But inside, it is Beautiful. Posters of yachts and private planes line the walls, surrounding freshly waxed motorbikes and the most luxurious cars around.

Sometimes, they’ll even have some of them parked on the footpath. I might be walking along and then right in front of me is a gleaming, shiny Maserati.

It’s enough to make my heart flutter.

Then I work out for about 45 minutes, then I head back home the way I came – and there these superb vehicles are again, right in front of me. A glimpse of these is a nice little reward for me going to the gym.

And I can’t help but think about the psychology of this. And of Operational Christianity – my approach to life coaching built on Christian principles.

“Oh, I know what you’re doing here! You’re associating the wealth, status and awesomeness of luxury vehicles with exercising. It’s a motivation thing! You think about the gym and you automatically think about a Maserati!”

Well, yes, that’s the case.

“Urgh, how shallow. It’s ridiculous to talk about Christian principles and crass materialism in the same breath.”

Yep, also correct.

But there is far more happening with this than what the armchair psychologists and theologians can spot.

In fact, this short, simple story contains layers of psychological magic. Some more subtle than others, but even the more obvious layers are invisible to most people. It’d take more than someone who’s clever with psychology to see what I’m doing.

This story plants the seeds of psychological growth, even if you don’t know a Porsche from a potato. You might not care about luxury vehicles. That’s fine. You don’t need to to fully benefit from this experience.

Most life coaches have one of two styles:

(1) “What do you want? Okay, let’s create a plan and check in regularly.”

(2) “You’re the best! Believe in yourself and you’ll achieve your dreams!”

Both are valuable.

Lifechanging, sometimes.

But there’s a reason I don’t call myself a life coach. As useful as they can be, what if you don’t know what you want? What if your struggles need more than a basic plan and a motivational speech?

What if you want to advance as a person, not merely achieve a goal?

And do all that while aligning ever closer to your core values?

That requires change you can’t see coming.

It requires mental advancement on parts of your mind outside your awareness. You know that’s possible. The facts in your head are nothing compared to what you know from experience. Even if you can’t fully explain why.

You know that kindness is a positive thing. Good luck proving it though.

And the parts of your mind outside your awareness aren’t outside your ability to influence.

Or my ability, for that matter.

If you want to simply achieve a difficult goal, then there are plenty of talented life coaches out there who can help you.

But if you want to achieve that goal as a side effect of you becoming a greater version of yourself?

Well, now we’re talking.

And we can keep talking when you book in a consultation to discuss your next advancement:

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Apart from hating Western Civilisation, obviously.

A decade or so ago, you could find an English language magazine published by Islamic terrorists. This was before they got all savvy with social media.

It was a hilarious read, filled with cultural gaps and weird phrasing. I’d share my favourite only it would put me on a watch list.

Anyway, they had an article on whether freedom fighters were allowed to use stolen infidel weapons. Apparently the Koran is strict on this – no, you can’t. Make your own weapons. If you claim a cache of weapons in the spoils of war, you can’t use them for holy war.

But many freedom fighters wanted to, obviously. Western guns were better than theirs by any measure.

So they discussed this in this article.

I predicted their conclusion. You probably can too. In their own words, the Koran emphatically and unambiguously forbids this. But the Koran also tells you to serve Allah, and using those guns helps you do that, so it’s okay.

Shocking twist.

You can tell what happened here. They wanted a specific answer, so they twisted themselves – and logic – into pretzels to get it. They decided that, yes, it’s okay, then went back to figure out how they could justify that.

Does that sound familiar?

A woke virtue is tolerance – fair enough, that’s a good one. And that soon leads to a genuine question: should you tolerate intolerant viewpoints?

That’s a nuanced question, worthy or real consideration –

Oh, no, they’ve already decided no and now have to justify it.

See, hating on “intolerant” people is just too much fun. It fills them with a righteousness that’s hard to come by while also believing in moral relativism. They don’t want to give that up, but they don’t want to give up thinking of themselves as tolerant either.

So, yes, it’s perfectly tolerant to for woke folk to hate anyone who disagrees with them. Phew!

You can put this to the test: ask them if they tolerate Islam. The likely answer is an emphatic yes – a woke American will tolerate Islam but not Republicans, then justify it with “I don’t tolerate intolerance”. Then point out how mainstream intolerant mainstream Islam is, by any measure. Sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia… “Not all Muslims! ” Right – the woke will tolerate anyone who happens to agree with them. That’s not tolerance. That’s the opposite of it.

Tolerance means tolerating people you don’t like. The woke fail by this measure catastrophically.

“Why pick on the woke for this! Conservatives do the same thing!” Not really. Conservatives love capitalism and capitalism is truly inclusive. It doesn’t care who or what you are, only what value you offer society. “Only in theory! Real capitalism is racist!” If other companies won’t hire minorities, then you can start your own company and hire them. You’ll make a fortune and do a social good as well.

You can start your own company­ – that little snippet is why capitalism is the best. That’s not true under other systems.

In fact, capitalism is so inclusive you can – and people have – make a fortune selling anticapitalism. Put a hammer and sickle on a shirt, and watch as idiot uni students hand you fistfuls of cash.

That’s what tolerance looks like.

Anyway, this probably has something to do with personal development. Finding the connection is left as an exercise to the reader.

Also on your to-do list:

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