This Time I Did It My Way!

Last night I enjoyed a walk down the street and a night swim with my kids at the hotel we are staying at during Pamela Bruner's Transform Event 2014.  It was wonderful, it was me doing events my way!

I have been attending live events with motivational speakers and coaches since 2006.  I have had various experiences that have taught me much about how I as a participant can better attend events and how I run events now and in the future for my own participants.

My first event was sponsored by Real Estate Expert and Best Selling Author, Robert Allen.  I was a young mom with a few years experience as an entrepreneur.  I had just spent a year "away" from doing anything for income (a story for another blog) and had a couple of experiences that had prompted me to "get back on the horse".  I had committed to be there and I had a habit of keeping my commitments.  It took ALL that I had in time, money and resources to get my kids to my sister's house close to the out of state event and show up.  I had no housing plans and no money to spare.  It was an amazing lesson in the Law of Attraction!  I ended up sharing quarters with a carpenter from Virginia who had a van parked on the street.  I lived on the beef jerkey he had and the apples I brought.
       I was there 100% and fully engaged.  I was at the microphone and actively seeking answers to how I could be a better investor.  Needless to say I signed up for the $40,000 package.   I had no resources to do it but they promised me if I would write a post-dated check I could go home and find someone to help me make the investment.  So I signed up!   I got home physically and emotionally exhausted.  It took me a couple days to just get my body back on track from being spent but at the same time I was talking to people about how to make this investment.
      I called Robert Allen's company more than once that week asking them to withdraw me from the program.  Their response "take courage, it will come, go find someone".  They didn't understand that it wasn't just the money.  I was caught up in the energy of the moment and the firey words from the stage "all you need is the courage to step into this program".  I had courage, I KNEW how powerful I was.  I can do anything and I am destined for greatness so I trusted and stepped forward.... but how can anyone living on a diet of beef jerky and apples, sleeping only so so on a piece of foam on the side of a street in Washington, DC make a good grounded decision?

When attending live events, stay grounded in your purpose and evaluate the offers from a place of peace and intuitive guidance, not the energy of the moment.

     Fast forward 8 years.  I've attended over 20 other events.  I have learned much about events.  I have signed up for 4 programs in those 20 events.  I have also learned that for me, I have to get CLEAR about what I am looking for in the event before I walk in the door.  When I'm not I am more easily swayed into a program that may or may not be the right one for me.  It does not serve me, or the person on the stage, to jump into a program that is not right for me.  So I have learned first and foremost to take care of me.  If the stuff in the room starts to trigger me, I process it.  If I didn't sleep well I skip part of the afternoon session and take a nap.
     I am also clear also clear that many of my most trusted coaches and best clients have come from people in the crowd at the event of mentors I have followed for a long time.  Yet, coming with the focus on judging who is who takes away from the experience for me, the other attendees and the person hosting the event. I keep encounters brief and focus on building up the speaker.
   I am so grateful for the wonderful lessons I have enjoyed at Pamela's Transform event.  She prepared well and presented well.   I am so grateful for the wonderful people I met in the crowd.  I look forward to our continued interactions as we grow in relationships together.