I just finished my seminar with Richard Koch on How To Build A Star Business and I ended it feeling depressed and disgusted that I made a complete ass of my Self.

BTW - this was a life changing seminar. Richard is destined to move into a new career as a leading biz mentor on a mass scale - there's a new book coming which will blow people away.

But me? I got depressed. I was an ass in the room.

At least, that is what my mind is telling me what happened. Whenever I feel depressed like this, I ask my Self four questions.

I am offering a workshop for Japanese Yoginis today, and it has taken me back into my many years of collecting the tenets of Buddhist philosophy.

The most vexing concept of those studies was that all my efforts - to meditate, to practise good morality, to follow precepts - would not be the cause of my enlightenment. Satori - as the Zen masters call it - has no cause.

Huh?

I do this all this work, and that isn't the cause for me to wake up? What does cause enlightenment then?

Nothing.

Less is more: this is an expression that every Alexander Technique teacher is comfortable with. We understand it. Dammit - we teach it! And yet, today I wonder if I have really even begun to grasp how profound and society-changing this concept can be?

I still have a long way to go - how about you?

I know you don't know me.

That's a comfort. Nothing you say can hurt me, yet I am still curious. Curiosity is the saviour of arrogance. Do I know? Well, let's hear your opinion and there's no risk in that, no pain. Just wonder, and my opportunity to grow.

I've been asking a lot of questions about BodyChance these days: how about your practise, your biz? I am discovering questions open doors, so start with the big one.

Start with your why. What motivates you to be in this profession?

I have been through many whys.

Realizations are like jewels - precious things, and too few of them. But a realization is much, much more. It is abundant energy: it is a force to move you from apathy and emptiness to action and joy.

Why so few? Why so rare?

We live too much thinking: “I know.” Speaking for me, I am always right. I always know. I am built that way - it is biological as much as it is psychological. We have our right, and we stick to it. Alexander hit upon that - it was his breakthrough discovery, and the most misunderstood and abused.

I have been reading Richard Koch's (no relation) 80/20 Principle to decide if I will spend $10,000+ flying to Chicago in September to be part of his 3 day seminar on the Star Principle.

The Star Principle is a biz concept Richard built atop of the 80/20 Principle, and it helped him amass a fortune of $250 million. You don't often find guys like this giving seminars - good to listen. Not cheap.

Two lines jumped out at me, one funny, one serious. First the funny one:

I awoke at 3.38am this morning (in horror as I checked my iPhone) knowing I was awake and that this was the end of sleep. I have a full day of teaching ahead (it's 8.10am now) and I felt anxious, troubled - without an ability to say: "It is this."

How many times have you awoken in this condition? Dreading the day ahead, wondering how to escape it? It has been awhile for me, but life has a wonderful habit of giving the lesson you need most, when you need it most. Time for me to learn more about me again.

I am creating quite a ruckus in Japan these days - I announced that we will now call what we do BodyChance Method, not Alexander Technique.

What?!!

Students are exclaiming: we came to learn Alexander Technique!

Yes, well - of course. I do get that.

But how do you define Alexander Technique?

There are two ways to define Alexander Technique:

1.Alexander Technique is what Alexander discovered.
2.Alexander Technique is a way of teaching what Alexander discovered.

My feeling within ATSuccess this week is that we can do away with Alexander Technique thank you very much, but NOT the work. The old man said it had to evolve, but into what? There's the rub - when it stops looking like what he did, the traditionalists worry. It's right that they worry, but not helpful to them, helpful to me. Why? I know I am doing something different when the feeling all around is "No - that is wrong." Hang on - isn't that exactly a indicator of change? (But not a good one I hear them yelling!)

One of my close family friends always dreams of a biz that will do itself.

A few years ago, she came into a large swop of cash. Money in hand, she sought out an online biz that was delivering profits monthly without too much work. She paid a lot of money to acquire the biz, and then her nightmare started…

It’s every entrepreneur’s dream to find an easy biz like that, and that is mostly what it is. A dream. Within two years my friend had lost all her cash, her fancy car and even her family home. All gone.

No business does itself.