Are You Programmed for Success or Failure?
By Pete Lotterhos
speak, and perceive. The programmed “mechanism,” your mind, is creating the choices you make in your life and thus creating your life path. How do you develop the type of self-awareness that empowers you to expand the number of choices you have access to making in your life, realizing the number is infinite? The moment one gets that they are programmed and that they have access to choosing their lives, they experience the converse reality that they are unlimited possibility. They have expanded their choices from one (the programmed mind) to transcendence, an infinite number of possibilities. I would say that the person feels truly alive in this moment.
Y Through empowerment training, I am
able to see what is possible for healthy human beings. I see people come to grips with the notion that anything is possible and choose to work towards the creation of their intended reality for themselves and the people they love. This experience drives a type of inspiration; the person is ready to play again, to enjoy the challenge of life again or perhaps for the first time. Then, participants go home leaving the supportive environment of the training room where anything is possible to a context that enabled the existence of their programming. They re-enter a world of resistance, excuses and limitations—a programmed environ- ment. They go back to an environment that limits performance and kills off possibility in exchange for power, safety and control.
Transforming Your Environment Thus, the journey begins for the
brave soul when he/she chooses to take on the challenge of transforming their
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our brain is “programmed” to oper- ate and that programmed operation is creating the way you think, feel,
environment. Through their commitment to a life of excellence, one learns how to create transformational opportunities for themselves and for the people they love. Individuals learn how to think, feel, speak and perceive in a way that brings about awareness—the type of awareness that pro- vides possibility versus defense reactions, and listening and accountability versus sarcasm and disconnection. Women learn how to empower their children and hus- bands instead of unconsciously sabotaging their performance for the opportunity to be acknowledged. Men learn how to listen, be vulnerable, and take a stand that empow- ers his family to take on life’s challenges without fear of abandonment or rejection. In essence, people learn how to source transformational possibilities for others. In doing so, an empowered environment, or family life or corporate culture, is born. A symbiotic relationship is created, which I call a win-win reality. The individual shares their transformed Self with the people they love and the people they love empower them to live their transformation.
Transforming The World Starts With You Before you can learn how to create
an environment or culture that empowers others to choose possibility, you must first learn to lead yourself. You must learn how to be fully responsible for your Program- matic Reactions in a way that inspires others to go after transforming their own limiting beliefs, addictions, and behaviors. In practicing the behavior of accountabil- ity, you are learning how to be the source of possibility. This is where your training begins: think of it like this, you come to the empowerment training to stretch your mind the way an athlete goes to the gym to train. The athlete goes to the gym so they
can perform on the field, not so they can perform in the gym.
My passion is inspiring people to
move beyond their limiting behaviors and embrace success that they never imagined possible. For the past 17 years, I’ve been leading three-day intensive seminars that help attendees came to grips with a power- ful insight that all of us are programmed and that programming is dictating the qual- ity of life. I grew up leading this seminar as I started when I was 25. I trained myself as I guided classes through their defensive re- sponses to discover who they programmed themselves to be and how their program- ming operates. Large groups would arrive at this experiential insight getting they were free to create their lives. Graduates report marriages and lives were saved, anxiety and depression was released at alarming rates. Human beings through a three-day intensive seminar were able to access a transformed life.
It’s an awesome experience seeing
people transform, however, at first, people don’t want to face their barriers, and take responsibility, they kick and moan, yell and blame others for the quality of their lives. It’s their husband’s fault, “he’s abusive and that’s why my marriage doesn’t work.” “My boss doesn't care about me, will not give a raise that I deserve and that’s why I can’t get out of debt.” AND what is astonishing is the whole of the group supports them at staying stuck in their lives as they defend the participant I’m coaching against me. I stand in front of the room fighting for their greater potential and the group of 100 edu- cated participants sees me attacking them and this is where the group starts. I take a stand for human beings to get that they are the creating resource of their lives and
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