What is the most valuable thing you can do to better your life?

Value itself lies in producing the end result of all life: Deep, enduring, unconditional, underlying Happiness.  Beyond that, anything that helps one increase the ability or to cause the thing that leads to that value is, of course, of high value.  (It is "derived value" in that it derives value from its ability to insure a direct value is experienced.)

If one identifies what is of highest value, it is always learning that which will give one the capability to produce a lot more value in one's life.  (You MUST gain high Life Competency above all other capabilities!)

What we are to do is to identify what would be of the most value if it were included (or excluded) for your life.  Then we would identify what we need to learn to develop the ability to attain that desired result.

Always, to gain an ability, we need to learn how something works and how to work it - and then we must "install" that knowledge in ourselves so it is actually used.

And it is of tremendous value if we can learn something and implement it very shortly, instead of in dribs and drabs along the way.

Often these educational activities are in an in person live format.

So the question becomes what are the most effective programs, put in order of effectiveness.  Usually they are the ones that go into the most specifics of the how tos and what it takes to understand things to the point of doing them effectively.  Of the programs I know of, I would rank the following as to effectiveness and value in the following order, with attached reasons why: (everything you do must have some days added on AFTER the event, days that are used to fully complete the learning and the plan for follow up as needed - the links below are to pages on my site about these resource, with links to their sites, with no affiliations with me)


DISTINCTIVELY HIGHEST VALUE

Belief changing program at The Hoffman Institute.  The most valuable thing you can do is change one's negative and/or limiting beliefs, for they get in the way of one's being able to harvest the best life.  It is not "capability" that is the differentiating factor in people's being effective in life, but the beliefs that have one not "risking" or "being able to freely step forth" to use and access those capabilities.  We all have lots of levels of capability beyond what we are using.  Its not the capability that is the problem, but what gets in the way of using that capability and ability to think freely without anxiety. The program is a complete immersion program with lots of writing and completing, where one identifies at least a rough form of their fallacious thinking process in disempowering beliefs and THEN have you formulate the replacement that is actually reasonable, which you will install.  The support is par excellence, at an 8 to 1 ratio.  The most effective program I've ever seen, judging from the results obtained by people I know who take it.  The ongoing contact with other graduates is also hugely valuable.
Cost: A little over $4,000. It includes an "all inclusive retreat", including lodging and meals!


OF GREAT VALUE, POTENTIALLY

Date With Destiny, Tony Robbins - Can be life changing, but you MUST set aside time to implement it and finish your homework (which is started during the course).  About $4500 plus your costs of lodging and meals.  [Look at the many free videos I have linked to for your use to learn from.]

LifeSpring Trainings - The corporate organization sold the rights to various individuals to do this tremendous, highly impactful set of two workshops.  First is probably in about the $600 range, the "advanced" around $1,000.  A person can go through and be impressed, but if the person doesn't fully participate and/or does really follow up on it, the person can actually manage to get little out of it, as impossible as this sounds to me - but I've seen it.  It is the most lovely, greatest experience of my life.

The Landmark Forum - Also often life changing, but always there is an IF attached to it.  You must spend at least three days afterwards fully harvesting the ideas and philosophy and the "distinctions" and put them into your life.  (Around $500)

The Option Institute - Living on campus in a beautiful surroundings, the Option Institute trainings can straighten out your thinking dramatically.  In 2007, I took several of their about $2,000/week programs, doing the Summer Sequence (with the idea of affirming my own learnings and perhaps polishing them off) and two other separate weeks for a total of 7 weeks.  Again, you have to harvest the materials!  (Watch selected videos from the links I provide.)

The Strategic Coach - This is for successful entrepreneurs, but while it increases one's productivity it is also about life - every participant dramatically increases not only productivity but also hugely increases the number of their "free days"!


YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO NOT BE AN EXPERT IN "LIFE"

So many people do not utilize every (good) opportunity they can to learn "life competency".  They are selling themselves short, wasting most of their lives compared to what is actually available. These are fairly costly programs, but they have much potential worth far above the cost - and giving up taking them in order to save a few bucks is a poor, shortsighted tradeoff.  You only get one life on earth, so please don't "underutilize" it!

When a good person who is conscientious about life and being good and learning lots asked me "what mistake did I make in my life such that I am not better off?", the answer I came up with was "You 'stopped short' of fully completing what was the most beneficial in life, especially revising and replacing the governing beliefs in your life!"

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Some of the courses I've taken are listed in my About Keith page.  And, yes, I've often failed to do the full harvesting, as I rushed around without adding in the extra days needed, though I improved gradually as I progressed over time.  Please don't make the same mistake!  Put aside the time to take such workshops AND to fully harvest them, and your life will be significantly changed!!