Chip Conley – Emotional Fluency

Dear friends,

How many times have you felt like you’ve finally taken one big step forward – ready to enjoy this or that accomplishment – when an unexpected obstacle, new challenge or crushing disappointment seems to pop up out of nowhere and knock you two steps back?

Or, how many times have the emotional ups and downs of the external world thrown you off course and found you struggling just to keep your head above water?

If you’re like me, the answer may be “too many times to count.”

I had thought that being a success in business and life required one to be a super hero – you know, like leaping tall buildings in a single bound with superhuman strength, speed and invulnerability.

As a result, I was unknowingly setting myself up for disappointment and despair in my personal and professional life. That’s because I was giving over control of my life to external factors, circumstances and events – many of which I had no control. When things on the outside were good, I was good. When they were bad, I suffered.

For example, I’ve spent nearly two dozen years being a CEO of a company that I founded and grew to nearly 3,500 employees.

Sounds fantastic, right? Well, in the same decade, my company faced two once-in-a-lifetime downturns. During one of them, I felt like a gladiator and as a result my company tripled in size. During the other, I felt like a prisoner in my own life and my company seriously struggled.

In the hardest of times, the suffering, regret and even anger at the unpredictability and chaos of the external world sometimes felt like too much to handle. As a successful CEO, wasn’t I supposed to be a superhero?

However, it was during those tough times that I learned the truth: Most successful and happy people in business and life aren’t superheroes at all. They’re simply super humans.

What makes a super human? A super human is someone who has learned how to create their own “internal logic” – a mix of cognitive and emotional intelligence – that allows them to develop a sense of calm and comfort, even while the world outside feels utterly unpredictable.

The result is a person who has mastered their emotions and as a result multiplied their successes in every part of their lives. It’s no coincidence that emotional intelligence (EI), not IQ or the amount of experience a person has on their resume, is one of the leading factors in what makes for a highly successful business leader.

So, what’s the benefit of emotional fluency? The more adept you become at understanding how your emotions affect your personal and professional world, the more balanced, centered, and powerful you will become – no matter what the external circumstances are in your life.

In other words, you will learn how to become the super human who enjoys a resounding sense of calm and comfort even during the most turbulent of times.

If you have ever wanted to better understand and connect with the emotional building blocks that influence all parts of who you are and what you do – particularly as they relate to your business – I invite you to join me for this extraordinary journey of self-discovery!

We’ll explore the mystery of our emotions and how we can become a better leader, better lover, better friend, better parent and better human being as a result of becoming more emotionally fluent. This is an investment that will last a lifetime.

Warmly,
Chip

Module 1: Unlocking the Real Power of Your Emotions

In Module One, you will:

• Discover how to take your life and business to new heights by simply learning how to understand and leverage your secondary emotions
• Find out how to master your “alchemy of emotions” for a more balanced, centered and purpose-driven life
• Learn what “emotional equations” are and how to use them to successfully manage your inner world
• Discover how to unlock the real power of all your emotions with Plutchik’s Wheel
• Learn the secret to overcoming despair, especially during these tough economic times
• Find out how to use “meaning making” tools to enhance and improve your life

Module 2: Traversing Your “Negative” Emotions to Catapult You to Success

In Module Two, you will:

• Learn how your emotions – positive or negative – are contagious and discover why understanding this is so important to your success
• Learn how to recognize, understand and release regret
• Find out exactly how to overcome the debilitating effects of jealousy
• Uncover the secrets to overcoming anxiety with Chip’s “Anxiety Balance Sheet”
• Explore how your relationship to expectations can transform your life
• Understand how to identify and respond to the early signs of your most detrimental fear-based emotions

Module 3: Identifying the Emotional Ingredients for Personal and Professional Excellence

In Module Three, you will:

• Uncover why it’s so important to understand the difference between Happiness and Joy and how to significantly increase both in your life
• Find out how to take advantage of the “momentum of victory” and ride the ripple effect of positivity throughout your life
• Learn how to effectively manage your fear while dramatically magnifying your courage
• Discover a proven formula that leads to abundance in your business, relationships, and personal life
• Find out how to tap into your innate Curiosity such that it can fuel extreme creativity and beneficial innovation in all you do
• Learn how to identify the emotional ingredients that create a wholly authentic life and find out how to leverage these for personal and professional excellence

Module 4: Setting the Emotional Thermostat to Transform Your Business and Work Relationships

In Module Four, you will:

• Discover how to influence both your internal life and your external success
• Examine how to lead powerfully by setting the thermostat of the group around you
• Learn how to dive deeper into fulfilling your deepest desires for meaning and purpose
• Understand how to begin living your true life’s calling
• Explore how to move beyond challenging emotions like envy and narcissism in the workplace
• Unlock the emotional equations for positive emotions including Integrity and Wisdom

Module 5: Creating Your Ultimate Emotional Equation to Empower You for Life

In Module Five, you will:

• Learn how to more masterfully connect your physical sensations with your emotions for greater self understanding
• Discover how to create your own meaningful equations for the 700+ emotions yet to be “computed”
• Create a highly-charged and personal “emotional mantra” that can empower you for life

Get immediately download Chip Conley – Emotional Fluency

SPECIAL BONUS #1
Using the Art of Enchantment to Change Hearts, Minds and Actions
Bonus Audio Dialogue with Business Guru Guy Kawasaki

Enchantment, as defined by bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki, is not about manipulating people. It’s about transforming situations and relationships. Enchantment converts hostility into civility, and civility into affinity. It changes the skeptics and cynics into the believers and the undecided into the loyal.Enchantment can happen during a retail transaction, a high-level corporate negotiation or a Facebook update. And when done right, it’s more powerful than traditional persuasion, influence or marketing techniques.

During this bonus interview with Chip Conley, Guy will explain your goal is not merely to get what you want, but to bring about a voluntary, enduring and delightful change in other people. By enlisting their own goals and desires, by being likable and trustworthy, and by framing a cause that others can embrace, you can change hearts, minds and actions.

In the 1980s, Guy was the chief evangelist for Apple (yes, that was his internal and external title). He’s a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist and one of the best connected businesspeople in Silicon Valley.

SPECIAL BONUS #2
The 9 Essential Practices of Peak Leadership
A 5-Session Course with Chip Conley (downloadable MP3s and transcripts)

If you are an entrepreneur, executive, manager, change agent or simply want to be a leader who can inspire success, this program gives you the essential skills for “PEAK leadership.” Developed by Chip Conley, this toolkit has proven to work at every organizational size and in every industry, helping to grow some of the most successful companies in the world.

In this powerful program, you’ll learn to be a transformational leader that others love, respect and trust. This will allow you to attract better talent, retain them and grow them into the kind of leaders who can grow your business for you. These skills are the single most important skills for success as an entrepreneur just starting out or a leader of an established company. You will discover:

• How to create sustained growth in your organizations or teams
• The key to honing your ability to move between being a transactional leader to being a transformational leader
• How to create the conditions for people to live their callings – essential for breakthrough organizational success
• The secrets to serving your customer’s higher needs, which builds sales and loyalty
• How to measure and apply the value of intangibles (the most important asset in the 21st century) in a way that leads to success
• The key ingredients for creating a sustainable foundation for effective leadership (and great happiness)
• A comprehensive operating manual for business grounded in leading-edge psychology

1. Five 90-minute audio class sessions taught by Chip Conley
2. Unlimited access to recordings of all class sessions and bonuses (listen online or download the mp3 file to your iPod or audio player)
3. PDF transcripts for each class session
4. Weekly exercises and practices for deep inquiry and action-learning
5. Bonus training with business guru Guy Kawasaki
6. Full five-session course on Peak Leadership (downloads and transcripts)