Your Prosperity Future

SWOT is a powerful concept that you need to keep front of mind. Whether you apply it to your business or your life, it will help you to clarify and overcome the obstacles to success.

I have used the SWOT techniques repeatedly in dealing with the growth of Spa Tech Institute.

SWOT stands for:

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats: SWOT

This requires some work on your part but it can be a lot of fun as well. Be clear if you are doing it for your business, personal life, health, finances or relationship. By narrowing it down your questions will produce better results.

After you decide what category of your life you’re covering, make up a questionnaire for your friends and family to answer. It is really easy. Just make a heading for each of the 4 areas of SWOT and leave space for them to fill in their answers. Request that they be as honest as possible.

Once you receive the feedback, here’s how to use it.

1. Remember that you asked for their feedback so do not get defensive or feel hurt or rejected. Be really thankful and positive about the help. Again, do not challenge or defend yourself. Learn from it.
2. Anything that is not clear to you, ask for additional clarification or examples that may help you to understand what is meant. It’s not always possible to give that level of clarity.
3. Compile the information into a report to yourself.
4. Build a strategy for using the data to move that part of your life forward.

Now it’s time to use the information.

1. Remember that your Strengths and Weaknesses probably are closely related. Try to understand how your Strengths contribute to your Weaknesses and how you can use one to help with the other.
2. Threats are probably the hardest areas to address because it requires anticipation. This is where the feedback can be really helpful since it’s hard to see the problems that we may be headed for. It’s much easier to see an accident about to happen when you are outside the situation than when you are in the middle of it.
3. Opportunities are also challenging because they are usually hidden in our blind spots. The same way Strength and Weakness are closely aligned, Threats and Opportunities are also very close to each other. Again, the help of your friends and colleagues can be very valuable.

Now that you have the information, it’s important to put it into an action plan. The key work is ACTION. The plan should describe specific ACTIONS that you can take to turn Threats into Opportunities and Weaknesses into Strengths.

I will address how to develop effective actions plans in future posts. For now, start working on getting the information. Clarity is the first step in action. There is no point to acting if you don’t know what you need to change.

© Copyright 2009, Kris Stecker – All Rights Reserved.

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A new study found that 3 out of 4 women are likely to have a stress related reaction to bad economic news and 22% of men will turn to drinking versus 15% of women during these times. This creates even more stress. The second part was that people are more likely to get sick, not sleep as well and act out in ways that creates even more stress in their lives.

I’m going to keep this simple. Stress cannot be avoided. It can only be managed. As co-owners and managers of a school with 5 locations, my wife and I lead potentially stressful lives. Without polarity therapy, we could never have survived the stress. In fact, polarity therapy was the only thing that helped me recover from the adverse effects from years of stress in high tech and business start up.

What I found was regular polarity sessions made me stronger in the face of adversity.  Stress damages your energy systems. If you don’t get them repaired, the stress leads to secondary physical, mental and emotional problems.

The problem is, there are very few qualified Polarity Realization Therapists who know the techniques to repair the energy systems. Because they are often booked up, they are hard to find. They typically don’t advertise and most people find them by word of mouth.

So if you’re tired of letting stress run (or ruin) your life, start the search for a good polarity practitioner and when you find them, book as many sessions as you can. It will change your life.

Be well.
Kris Stecker
Spa Tech Institute

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I’ve seen this before. The media is hyping the “crash” of the economies of the world. What’s the truth?

No one can say for sure but here is what I know from experience.

The media makes their money by selling advertising. Their success is dependent on eye and ear minutes. The more time you read, watch and listen to the news, the more value their advertisements have and the more money they make.

Fear sells. The more fear the media can generate, the more people tune in and the more advertising they can sell. It’s that simple. Did you know the highest value advertising segments are the weather? This is because they can create fear about storms. They always finish each report by saying, “Stay tuned for developments on this….” whatever the looming end of the world may be. With new technology, they can predict storms up to a week in advance, and they do. Don’t let them create fear. Fear will limit your creativity, health and wealth.

Now what’s happening in the economy is a big storm. It may be disruptive and difficult but it will pass. It may take months or years to pass but you have to stay focused on the fundamentals. And don’t let the media hook you in with fear. It is addictive.

Reality Check

People still need to live. This requires activity to support life. Activities to support life require people to do work. So even though the measurement of work/resources (known as money) is going through a fluctuation, the reality is that there is still work to be done. It’s just the measurement of the work that is changing.

Don’t confuse the measurement tool with the thing being measured. You can change the size of what you call an inch so that something that was once 6 inches is now 12 inches in length. But does the object actually get bigger? Of course not. It is still just as big as before. That’s what’s happening with money with this nuance; Everyone started to believe that changing the size of the measurement was actually changing the amount of the thing that was being measured.

So what’s happening now is that we are going through an adjustment. Money is being readjusted (even though the bankers and others are trying to prevent that from happening) and as it goes through the process the flow is being interrupted. So what happens if the “monetary system” comes to a halt? People will adjust. They will barter and exchange value directly instead of using money.

So what you need to do now is focus on the basics. Continue to develop valuable skills, don’t spend more than you make and take care of your health. Healthy and strong people are more creative and resilient. If you are creative and resilient, you will succeed, no matter what is happening in the world.

Stay well and clear,

Kris Stecker, President
Spa Tech Institute

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Being in balance is the starting point for manifesting what you want. When you are balanced and aligned, you’re able to access your connection with your source which in turn supports receiving the information you need to succeed.

Here’s why. When you aren’t clear, your mind and consciousness are often focused on what you don’t have, things that bother you and other distractions. This is all white noise that prevents you from having clarity on what you want to manifest. This comes from fatigue, drugs, emotional turmoil and other stresses. The bio-chemical reactions make it difficult to focus on what is important.

The ability to manifest requires crystal clear focus. It’s like rowing a boat. If you use both oars equally, you will make a straight line to where you want to go. If you switch back and forth between oars you will go in circles or a curvy line that will make the journey much longer. The difference is balanced or unbalanced force.

There are several ways of gaining balanced force, some of which are faster than others. A long vacation is one way but it takes a lot of time. Exercise (particularly endurance activities like hiking or long distance running, cycling, or swimming) will bring balance through repetition of opposite arm/leg motion that balances the nervous system. Tai Chi and other meditations can contribute to the balance as well. However, these all require a significant commitment of time.

If you don’t have the time you can fast-track the process with Polarity Therapy or RYSE. 

Polarity is all about balancing your energy to restore the optimal flow. The results are both immediate and long lasting. The more regular sessions you receive, the more your energy systems retain the correct flow. This is because your energy patterns are formed by habits. As a child you learn the patterns of those around you. Any dysfunctional patterns lead to problems that reduce health, vitality, creativity and the ability to manifest what you want in your life.

RYSE (Realizing Your Sublime Energies)is for repairing your energy patterns and learning to identify when they go off and how to bring them back into alignment. It’s based on Polarity theory but has been taken to the next level by Nancy Risley, RPP. As a Polarity therapist and teacher Nancy saw how her clients and students had more success manifesting what they wanted when they were cleared. She also saw what happened when they would forget and return to their previous energy patterns. The thing that was the most amazing was how fast it could be changed.

If you are tired of not manifesting what you want, there are several options. You can get a lot of sessions, you can learn to do RYSE on yourself or you can become a Polarity Therapist. The last option is the most powerful. In fact, there is an increasing number of artists, business people and others who are becoming Polarity Therapists because doing several sessions a week helps them to stay in the energy and manifest their creativity to new levels.

So to manifest more of what you want, start by getting clear. Get a session, learn to do RYSE on yourself and move forward with what you want in your life.  If you need more information about RYSE or Polarity, contact the Spa Tech Institute.

Enjoy restoring your balance and manifesting what you truly want.

Be Amazing,
Kris

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