I must say I miss the discipline of writing a blog every day.

This morning in the shower I was especially disappointed that I did not write the series on Service Product, which was due for August.

Busy writing today for BCLA.

It's another reason I had to put this blog to one side. Every day, I decided, I will write another email for the three different E-Zines launched as part of BCLA's marketing program. Each email is only 500 words, but sometimes I spend 2 hours writing just one of them.

Can you guess which of these three E-Zines has proved most popular with the American people who are searching Alexander Technique these days:

1st Email Series
Pain Relief: Alexander's Simple Discovery

I needed a break from blogging.

It is summer after all, right?

Anyway, I've been regrouping my thoughts, reconsidering this website, and wondering about my next move. I still have 9 Pro Members that this website serves – my Japanese students on CareerThinking in Tokyo. So I continue the Pro level for them. Then I thought – well, why not continue the Standard too? So I decided to re-open again. Not that I care much if you join or not – the amount of money I ask you to pay is not worth my worrying about.

Silly boy aren't I?

Top level Marketers understand human behaviour as well as, if not better, than top level Psychologists, Philosophers, Psychiatrists, Counsellors and Humanists.

Why?

Their livelihood depends upon it. Like Alexander, they start with how things are and theorize backwards. Practise and theory. They are quick to dump one theory in place of another, if it predicts behaviour more accurately than the one it supersedes.

Another 12 Point Plan, this time from Pro Member Michiko Kusunoki in Tokyo.

Michiko is a new student at BodyChance, but already runs here own studio, with classes at two different locations, in slightly different niches. She one of a new breed of students at BodyChance – already successful practitioners in their own field, excited by the possibility of bringing Alexander's Discoveries into their niche.

Considering a 5 year lease and committing to $277,704 in rental costs over 5 years, wages of top of that, and a host of other technical, marketing, human, legal and logistical concerns is what woke me up at 3.30am this morning. It's a point of no return – all my planning, thinking and research meets itself at a point where my decision is needed. Mine alone.

For those of you that followed my series of emails on the planning of BCLA, I am happy to report that Brett started today working as the first BodyChance entrepreneur swinging his tongue in America. I flew in from Mullumbimby in Australia this morning, then drove down to San Diego today chatting with Brett about the new studio. We met up with others for a late night chat, and now I am finally a getting to my blog (although I already wrote another one to-day - see below).

I heard to-day that I was not to be invited to a meeting of teachers in LA next Sunday to talk about how they might support each other getting their Alexander Technique practices a little busier. On that day I am in LA, I am available and I (was) willing to attend.

I had heard about this meeting two weeks ago, and I believed I could help them with specific advice to their questions, so I rearranged my schedule in Japan – spending money to change the date on my Japanese return ticket – so I could be in LA for that Sunday meeting.

Updated May 14th, 2013.

In a late night Skype chat with Costin in Romania, he solved my problem of gathering all your information from Survey Monkey and assembling it so that we have only the answers the first step of my 12 Step Plan. Here are your responses*

*This document will be revised tomorrow to include up-to-date data. If yours is not here, come back tomorrow and check…

IN THE ORDER THAT THEY WERE RECEIVED…

Suze Huson (, )

1. What drives you towards this career?

Our friends all suffer from our personality disorders, yet we rarely see or understand them ourselves - although these days I am coming to notice my own more clearly. To me it is perplexing - why is that a problem for other people? How can I possibly change this aspect of myself? Is it my problem or theirs? Finding answers only comes when the information about the disorder is clear.