Succeed Because of What You've Been Through Level 1

Name: Succeed Because of What You've Been Through Level 1
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Gain all five points of prosperity--good relationships, good health, peace, joy, and financial abundance. Do it now!

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Created byRhonda Sciortino

Last updated 3/2013

English

What you'll learn

In this course, you will learn to evaluate your story from your unique perspective. YOU are the world's expert on your story!
You will examine the ways that you survived, how you coped, and what you learned that cannot be taught in a classroom.
You will learn to embrace what you learned from your experiences, and recognize that you are stronger and more resilient than you ever realized.
You will learn how to use your learned abilities, character and personality traits, and coping skills to create personal and professional success.

Course content

3 sections • 9 lectures • 1h 1m total length

Introduction: The beginning of success because of what you've been through4:22
I hope you're ready to do some life-changing work. If you'll take every step of this course, you will literally take charge of your life. YOU, yes you, were put here for a reason. It's up to you to find that reason and fulfill it. And when you do, you begin a journey toward all five points of prosperity.
Your life matters. Your story matters. All that you've been through (or are going through now) can work together for your good. This course will help you make that happen. Start by watching this brief overview. It will tell you what you need and what you can expect to take away.
While you're changing your life for the better, you're helping teenage victims of abuse do the same. A portion of every dollar of the fee for this course goes to the Successful Survivors Foundation to fund the You Are Not An Accident program for foster kids preparing to transition out of the system.
If you have any questions, connect with me at www.rhonda.org. I'm eager to hear about YOUR success!

YOUR STORY MATTERS!7:12
Your story matters. Don't ignore it. Don't pack it away in some deep, dark place. Don't press it down. Pull it out and analyze it with the mature, adult mind and emotions you have now that you didn't have when it happened. Before the end of this course, my hope is that you'll embrace it because it has helped to shape you into the strong, capable person you are.
Getting the emotion out of it7:41
Imagine that a friend asked to meet you for coffee, and had worked up the nerve to share her obviously painful story with you. Imagine how you'd feel as she spoke. Feel the sympathy, the anger, the righteous indignation, and any other emotions that come up as she tells her story. You wouldn't blame her. She was the victim. She was too young and vulnerable to prevent it. She did what she had to do to survive it all. Now imagine that the story you heard is your own, only told through the eyes of someone else. Cut yourself the same slack--give yourself the same mercy as you'd give a friend who bared all this to you.
Decisions, Decisions7:01
You have made decisions in your life that lead to certain outcomes. For good or for bad, it's done. Don't assign a value judgment just now, but consider the decisions you made and own them. Think, too, about the decisions others made that impacted your life. Where were you "taken hostage" by the decisions of others that you were powerless to change? Take an honest, non judgmental look at the choices made that were the tracks on which the train of your life has traveled.
Pitiful or powerful--you choose8:42
The only thing holding you back from living the life of your dreams is YOU. We instinctively make decisions to not go back to school, not start that business, not ask someone out, not going on that job interview, etc., because we aren't qualified, aren't smart enough, aren't educated enough, don't have enough money, don't have the right looks or the right clothes, we're too fat, too skinny, too ethnic, too _______ --you fill in the blank. Then we feel sorry for ourselves because we aren't doing what we want to do, aren't with the people we'd like to be spending time with, not making the difference in the world we'd like to be making. Stop it now. There is no self-pity in success. Most of the things we perceive as holding us back are illusions. Those things that are actual obstacles can be the very things that we become known for having blasted through.
How did you survive?9:10
We've all heard of the successful comedians who came from dysfunctional families--those people who have found a way to profit from making people laugh at their pain. Whether you realize it or not, you somehow figured out how to survive whatever dysfunction or abuse you lived through. If you can analyze your story to find the ways you survived, you can sort through those coping and survival mechanisms and use those tools to create personal and professional success.
Mining the Lessons6:59
Similar to identifying your survival mechanisms, you can sort through your story to figure out how painful experiences changed you. Most people automatically go to the dark, sad side of this. Resist the temptation to do that. Instead, consider what character traits, skills, and abilities you acquired as a result of what you've experienced. Are you stronger than most? Do you have a greater degree of empathy for people who are going through what you've experienced? This lesson is critical to your success because once you understand the characteristics you've acquired because of what you've been through, you can communicate them to potential employers, business partners, and friends. More importantly, you'll then be able to leverage them so that your pain isn't wasted.
Replacing your pain10:23
By this time my hope is that you are beginning to see yourself differently than you did at the beginning of our time together. You are NOT a victim. You ARE a graduate of a very tough, painful boot camp of sorts. For some of us the boot camp was a training ground where opposing parties used live ammunition. Some of us were on the field of this terrifying game wearing nothing more than a diaper. But we're still here. And when we begin to realize, and give ourselves credit for, what we've been through, we stand taller, see ourselves in a better, more powerful light, make better decisions, and consequently, get better results. I want to hear about your success, and I want to see you back here for Succeed Because of What You've Been Through Level 2, where we learn how to monetize your unique combination of skills, talents, and abilities so that you can maximize all five points of prosperity and live the life you were created to live!

Requirements

A willingness to do the work necessary to create a better life.
A computer and printer OR paper and pen

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WHEN YOU ENROLL IN THIS COURSE, YOU ARE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE A PERSONALLY INSCRIBED COPY OF BOTH THE SUCCEED BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH BOOK AND WORKBOOK!

You can succeed personally and professionally and enjoy a life that you might not now be able to imagine. You can have all five points of prosperity, which are good relationships with good people, good health, peace, joy, and financial abundance. You don't have to be the smartest, the most educated, the most beautiful, or the luckiest person. You don't have to know the right people or be at the right place at the right time.

YOU ARE ENOUGH!

YOU MATTER!

YOUR STORY MATTERS!!

There is a good purpose for your life. You are responsible for finding and fulfilling it, and this course will help you do that.

Succeeding because of what you’ve been through will help you to not waste the pain that you’ve experienced. We can’t go back in time, so we can’t undo what’s already been done. So the best that we can do is to mine the lessons out of what we’ve been through and use those things to live our best possible life.

So what are these “lessons” we can learn from the hardships of life? They are the learned abilities, like reading people’s body language and micro-expressions, and survival skills we learned, like learning when to tell a joke and when to redirect the conversation., when to speak up, and when to be quiet. They are the character traits that are developed in adversity, such as resourcefulness, resilience, tenacity, and courage.

Join me for Succeed Because of What You've Been Through to discover and embrace your unique strengths, talents, and abilities. This combination of characteristics qualifies and equips YOU for your unique brand of success.

Who this course is for:

Victims of child abuse, abandonment, neglect, or trafficking.
People in transition, such as divorced, death of a loved one, job loss, or any other life-disrupter.
Anyone who has experienced trauma, such as being the victim of a violent crime, or witnessing a traumatic event.
Anyone who is tired of being sad, depressed, or mistreated by others.
Everyone who is ready for a change.
Everyone who is ready to take control of their life.
Anyone who has ever gone through a difficult season in life and is ready to move on.

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