Palm Springs

We (Lizzie and I) are now in sunny California, at the Marriott Desert Springs hotel in Palm Springs. We are basically in the middle of the desert, water is piped in from afar. The skies are perfectly blue all day, and it is warm enough to sun bathe… and they have the audacity to label it as winter!

I surprised Lizzie by waiting at Salt Lake City for 10 hours for her, and it was worth it. So far we have explored the place, done a lot of business planning and met with fellow conference delegates. We are here for Tony Robbins’ Date With Destiny, which is reported as one of his most incredible experiences.

The hotel is amazing, for under £100 per night we get a king-sized room with a balcony overlooking the pools, lakes, golf course, palm trees, and mountains. Our bathroom is bigger than some London hotel rooms. The event starts at 1pm today, and we are both brewing with anticipation.

It is appalling how much energy America uses, from unnecessary lighting through huge cars to appalling insulation… and that’s just what I can see. It’s no surprise that 30% of the world’s energy is consumed by North America alone!

I can snowboard…

… well sort of, in that I can get from the top of a nursery slope to the bottom alive without falling off. I have had an amazing day so far.

 After 4.5 hours of lovely deep sleep I met a fellow ‘Plat’ (short for Platinum Partner) in the gym for a quick workout. And quick it was too thanks to my new found static contraction training, a system that argues that you need only hold weights still until exhaustion to get most of the benefit – watch this space.

Anyway, a lovely avacado, rye bread, tomato and honey breakfast with three other Plats straight after the gym then off to ‘hit the slopes’. My first time ever on a snowboard, first two hours in an adult class and the rest on my own. The whole day cost only $60.

Can’t wait to see Lizzie tomorrow, I want to keep up our wonderful conversation about my new vision: “To help reverse climate change by empowering our customers to massively reduce their carbon footprint”. There are so many exciting posibilities within that mission statement from energy cost hedging, through eco bulbs to educating people about energy use.

The rest of the day will be some work on my project on eCademy, and some drinks in the bar.

On the other side!

Well, I am ‘out the other’ side of Life and Enterprise Management (LEM). What an incredible seminar that was, some days ran from 7 am until 1am the next day! I think Anthony Robbins is trying to tell us something about how little sleep humans need when they are kept stimulated!

I have had revelations on several levels while I have been here. Seeing Anthony sweat blood to give us his content, I have realised that I have a duty to be my passionately intense self. I will no longer lower my high standards for fear of making others feel bad about their code of conduct. Next time I hear ‘chill out’, or ‘have a drink’ I will attempt to inspire that person into stepping-up their standards.

Something else I have realised is that I am fulfilled with my life exactly as it is, I have truly learnt to enjoy the journey! I realise that the only thing that truly motivates me is giving to others. I am re-framing all my intentions in this light. For example I will eat slowly to inspire others to do so, I will build an amazing body to inspire others, I will generate huge wealth so that I can contribute financially, etc.

I have decided to focus my attention in business into just two channels during the first quarter of 2007. In January I will spend 80% of my business time taking BitWeavers to the next level, and 20% researching business opportunities in the area of climate change. I will then transition to 80% time spend on my new vision, and 20% on chairmanship of BitWeavers. My new vision is…

“To help reverse global warming by empowering our customers to dramatically reduce or eliminate their carbon footprint”

The purpose of this enterprise will be to secure a stable environment for ourselves, our children and our children’s children.

I have three days in Sun Valley to read, communicate and integrate what I have learnt.

I love you all