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You Can Live Life
...Like Great Days Skiing
Balance... Flow... Speed... Power...
...and more
Dear Friend,
It's like a mountaintop. What a view! The air is clean and cool. The sun brilliant. The sky azure blue. It is brilliant and new. You can feel it. A life truly alive.
But, sometimes the mountains seem too steep. Cliffs drop into space. Avalanches threaten. Fear envelopes. Doubt creeps in. Are you going to make it? Are you safe? Then someone comes by you. They are smiling and enjoying themselves. They greet you cheerfully, "Ain't it a great day!" and they slide over the edge. You hear them shout for joy. You see their successful journey off into the distance.
 
You can learn to glide in life
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But you're still standing there... even as they disappear into the distance.
Rather like life, don't you think? The steep slopes are everywhere. But, when you see someone else succeeding and enjoying it, you wonder how you can make it, too. If you just have the right knowledge... maybe if you could find a good coach, get focused on success, become a powerful force. You can. Let me tell you how...
I have dedicated my life to helping people uncover their self limiting thoughts and actions and rapidly replace them with correct thinking and goal directed massive action.
You can experience that shift, too.
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Do you want to quickly change the direction in your life--to discover the secrets that allow some people to achieve massive success while others struggle on a day to day basis? It doesn't matter how you define success, either. It could be in terms of your income. It could mean that you have joy and love. It might mean that you can do the things that you want to do, whether traveling the world or something like skiing 200 days this year. What are your dreams?
I wrote the book pictured above to help you learn the concepts of Mastering Life. Now, I'm offering even more guidance as you climb to your success. But, I'm getting ahead of myself. First, let me set the stage...
I Made the Mistakes for You
My name is Stephen Sven Hultquist. I was born in Flint, Michigan, home town of Michael Moore. Remember? He made it famous in his wildly imaginative inaugural movie Roger and Me. I was a midwestern kid growing up in the booming '60s and '70s. I learned to swim, sail, skate, and ski. I was selected as a leader for various groups, from junior safety patrol to church youth groups and the ski team. I was trying to figure out how life works, but I managed to mess it up more often than not. It seemed to me that some people had it figured out, but the secrets hid from me.
I could see that there must be a plan for making life work. I just needed to find it.
I started looking for the secret of success. The path less traveled. A way to discover and realize my dreams. I invested a lot of years -- and more pain than I care to remember -- to uncover it. I made a lot of mistakes. I found a lot of things that don't work, although you hear them thrown around like gospel truth. You can make your own search, too, and experience those dead-ends. But, the book I mentioned earlier uses skiing as a metaphor and outlines how it works. You can get even more personal guidance on your journey, too.
You don't have to go through all the pain. There is a shortcut. You can take it with a guide. Before we look at that, though, a bit more history...
After graduating from Michigan State University, I joined IBM as an engineer and settled into what I expected to be a 30-year career at Big Blue.
'Twas not to be, though, and I'll tell you more about that in a minute.
IBM was a great place to start my career. I learned constantly. Whether expanding my knowledge of geeky tech topics like VLSI engineering, studying leadership and team dynamics, or learning how to focus on getting things done, it seemed there was unlimited opportunity to grow and be successful at IBM. Plus, IBM's"Basic Beliefs" provided me with a solid foundation for the future:
- Respect for the Individual: Respect for the dignity and the rights of each person in the organization.
- Customer Service: To give the best customer service of any company in the world.
- Excellence: The conviction that an organization should pursue all tasks with the objective of accomplishing them in a superior way.
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My IBM experience was great. I met my wife Terry at IBM. We moved twice, first when I hauled her away from family and friends all the way across the country to San Jose, California. She thought I'd moved her to the ends of the earth. A few years later, we moved back towards the east... as far as Boulder, Colorado. Terry "retired" at the ripe old age of 29 when IBM offered their first "reduction in force" and within a few years she was raising our kids. But, in 1994, it was time for a change, and I'll tell you about that shortly.
Something special happened during that time in San Jose that would change me forever. The principles of mastering life began to fit together for me. The ideas started to make sense. I applied them. Through thousands of hours of reading, study, mentoring, and experimentation, the concepts of Mastering Life started to emerge. Our move to Colorado was part of that discovery and experimentation. In fact, our move here proves that the principles I was learning would work. Without them, it was impossible.
You see, when we began to plan a move in 1989, we traveled the western US looking for a place to settle down. We visited wonderful places, but few that fit our needs. It took us a while, but we settled on Boulder, Colorado. We were told, however, that such a move with IBM was impossible: all transfers were frozen, no funds were available to move people, no one could interview, no way, no how! And yet, in April 1990 I started a new position in Boulder with the move fully paid by IBM. How did that happen? The Mastering Life principles work, that's how!
I am dedicated to having them work for you, too. There is no secret. You can be all that you want to be. Only learning and applying stand in your way. That's why I'm offering you a membership in Mastering Life NOW! to guide you in getting there. You will learn how you can...
- Lose weight
- Be joy filled
- Earn more money
- Live with purpose
- Improve your love life
- Get - and stay - healthy
- Wake up every day excited by what you get to do
- ...
Before I found that I had to find the path. It was hard to find...
By 1994, I had reached the pinnacle of my technical career at IBM. I was lined up for the last promotion I would ever get. I had topped out. My income was stagnant. I was going nowhere and had no future. What was I going to do?
I was Stuck in a Dead-End Job
I had to get out of the beast. The answer seemed obvious: go from the biggest technology company in the world to the smallest. In other words, start my own business. Alone.
That's what I did.
I started consulting and had clients right from the start, including IBM, the Government of Guam, smaller businesses here in Colorado, and a "quadrennial amateur sporting event" held in Atlanta in 1996 (they won't let me use the name because I didn't pay millions of dollars as a sponsor -- I just made stuff work so their international ticketing system never crashed). I'm sure you can figure that out. By 1997 I had employees, we brought in our first $ million.
I was burned out and miserable.
I had lost sight of what I had learned. I needed to find them again. I didn't know it, then. I just knew that I was dying. I had no hope. I wanted out. If you have ever felt like you just don't have enough to make it through, you know what I mean.
You've done everything right, worked hard, been honest, done your best, but still, it just keeps going downhill.
I decided I needed something new... So, I jumped into the crazy world of Internet start-ups. What I was thinking...?
I worked for a series of companies. Some were throwing money and stock options around like they were confetti while a few had great ideas and good sense. I learned a lot, helped build some great technology, but I also learned how to run businesses... and how not to run them, too. More of the Mastering Life principles came into focus. Some of the lessons were wonderful. Some were incredibly painful. Let me tell you about one of the painful ones.
Wake up call!
I had been working hard to create one of the first cable Internet companies. I had been traveling a lot, dreaming of the big house on the hill, and looking for the big payoff. Terry and I were often apart, but we did our best to have date nights to stay connected. I thought things were going well enough given that payoff dream. During one of those nights, I got my wakeup call. The tears in her eyes gave me the first hint--I am not completely clueless. Then, her words really got my attention: "I feel like you love your work more than you love me."
Two months later, I was working with a new company, staying near home, and reconnecting with my wife and kids. Another growth experience. Deeper understanding of Mastering Life. More principles coming into focus.
I continued working with tech companies while learning to balance life. It was a crazy time during the Internet boom. So many people had "great ideas" - spending millions and even billions - only to explode later in a ball of flames. A lot of things went up in flames. Careers. Relationships. I'm sure you remember those times. They were painful...
I helped to shut down a brilliant young dot-com company in 2002 when the investors pulled their money out of the bank, right out from under the team. Poof! Gone, just like that.
The CEO was committed to doing right by everyone, and I helped him make sure that customers, staff, and creditors didn't suffer from the fallout. He even wrote checks out of his own pocket to make sure that everything and everyone was okay. He is still a hero of mine... and still a client, too. (By the way, you can read an interview with him in the book.)
After that, there I was, an out-of-work technology exec in the darkest days of the Internet crash. No one was looking for a guy like me. Everyone was hunkered down. The hatches were battened and I was on the outside. It was not good. It tested how I see and measure myself. More learning how to Master Life.
From Riches to Rags?!
I had been a corporate officer and executive. Now I was trying to find anything at all just to feed my family. I worked as a seating host in a restaurant, thanks to a friend who was the manager. I started to teach skiing. According to the Social Security Administration I earned $23,000 in 2003. Not exactly executive wage.
Something was happening, though. Something even more important than the money. The secrets were becoming clear and real to me. The connected and made sense. I could see the way out.
As a result, I quickly recovered from that year. Using the Mastering Life principles, I regained my balance and increased my income ten times. My coaches played big roles in my turnaround, too.
You will learn more about coaches with your membership...
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The good news for you is that you can learn the Mastering Life principles without going through the pain that I did. You can do it without the trial and error, without the false leads and dead ends, and without the hours of study. You can see the principles clearly and understand how to implement them. You can cut through the long and winding road by taking a shortcut. You will have the best material in the world to guide you.
It has been said that you can measure success by looking at the size of a person's TV. Then comparing it to the size of their bookshelves. How big are your bookshelves? How valuable to you are the books and audio albums on them?
Finding the books is a challenge. Making the time to read them even more so. Figuring out what to take from them and apply to your life? What does that take? Think about finding a way to shortcut that process, too.
The Principles
During all these years, I learned a lot about how the universe works. I learned about life. I learned about leadership, productivity, and value. I developed an approach to life that I knew was effective and rare, but I needed a testbed to prove that it would work for others, too. In early 2004, I got my chance.
Two friends who had worked with me in the past were working together at a start-up in Boulder. They were in dire straights, floundering without leadership. Their team had responsibility for keeping customers happy. However, the customers weren't happy. The two begged the CEO to meet me and hire me.
Now I could test the approach.
I had developed a multi-dimentional system that I thought could create a successful organization of successful people. That system has now become the Mastering Life NOW! system. You have the chance to learn it with a mentor to lead you. There are a number of concepts in it, including:
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- Purpose
- Motivation
- Exploration
- Preparation
- Attitude
- Balance
- ...and others...
The real question, though, was would the principles put together in this framework for this new team?
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Proving That It Works
I decided to test it in a 60 Day Makeover.
I spent the first couple weeks observing, listening, and getting to know the team. These were good people who had found themselves in a very difficult environment. Fear was palpable. Customer service staff didn't want to answer the phone. Engineers didn't want to visit customers. Everyone hid from everyone else. It was ugly.
Within 60 days it was a different place. The team was dynamic. They worked together. They were developing cross-functional relationships. Respect was on the rise. You could feel the energy. Plus, it had positive momentum and continued to improve.
As a result, I had my answer. You can now be certain that I understand how Mastering Life works. And how to guide others in it, as well.
And so I started guiding others.
First with smaller companies and their owners, I worked together to change team dynamics and the resulting business value. Companies saw sales swell, revenues rise, and profits pile up. One company saw more than 30% growth in both revenue and profit. Others had comparable success. Furthermore, the people in the companies were happier and more fulfilled. Bingo!
It works!
I have continued to help others apply the principles in their lives; in their businesses, personal lives, marriages, and families. The principles worked for them, and they will work for you, too.
As a result of that success, I was asked to write a book about mastering life. One of the best ways to teach something is by using something else as a metaphor, and Dreamtime Publishing's Open Your Heart series does just that. Publisher Meg Bertini signed me to the book agreement using alpine skiing as a reflection of life. Of course, the book teaches quite a bit about skiing, too...
Open Your Heart with Skiing: Mastering Life through Love of the Turns illustrates many of the Mastering Life principles using skiing as a way of seeing them more easily. Whether you have never made your way down a beginner hill or are an Olympic medalist, the book will give you insights into life through the parallels on the snow. The Mastering Life truths underlie everything in life, and the concepts are reflected in the way things work. Skiing is one of those things. Learn about life from skiing. Learn about skiing from life.
The book is a great way to gather the principles in one place, especially if you are a skier, have thought about skiing, or if you are interested in thinking about life from that perspective. You can get your copy anywhere or pick up an autographed copy right here.
One book will get you started. But no one book is enough. Different perspectives, alternative ways of explaining an idea, repetition. You need to see it and hear it many times. And you need guidance. Each principle has many facets, so get there faster with a Mastering Life NOW! membership. Just click the Join Now button below...
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 Stephen Sven Hultquist, mastering skiing and mastering life.
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Your membership will guide you in putting these principles to work for yourself. You can discover the timeless secrets of life mastery and emerging ideas for application today. As a Gold level member, I will send you a Quick Growth gift box of materials like a book or audio set every month together with a Quick Sheet of things you can begin to apply right away. These books may be timeless classics or recent works, but they will all show you something significant. All have the potential to be life-changing. The Quick Sheet will point you to key passages and outline important ideas so that you can quickly apply the principles even if you can't find time to read or listen to the entire work.
With your membership you will receive:
- The monthly Mastering Life Letter including...
- Monthly focus: clear, in-depth analysis of a principle that will make a difference for you.
- Habit former: a single exercise to ingrain the principle in your daily life -- forever.
- Shared insight: real experience of Master Life NOW! members.
- Answers: a monthly answer to questions sent by members
- The monthly Mastering Life Insight a monthly audio experience of encouragement, insight, and power to lift you above the world trying to drag you down. Overcome with proof that you can accomplish your dreams!
- The monthly Mastering Life Quick Growth package for Gold members including...
- Library Builder: your monthly distinctive addition to your library, guaranteed to deliver life-changing value.
- Mastering Life Quick Sheet: your index into the Library Builder and outline of its materials so you can gain the value without having to devote hours to study.
- Free bonuses: for acting now, I have some special gifts just for you...
How You Find the Shortcut
Think about this... every month another guaranteed excellent addition to your library. It shows up with a Quick Sheet that drills right into the ideas in the book. That Quick Sheet will give you a shortcut. You can easily focus on the new ideas and review the familiar ones. Multiply your investment and make up for the time you don't have to spend.
Every month both Gold and Silver members get the in-depth insights from the Mastering Life Letter. The concepts will be more clear when you read modern examples, specific applications, and be able to ask questions and even help other members see what you see. Getting better together. Plus, right now, get a spcial bonus...
Before we talk about the bonus, let's talk about the details of membership. Each month the newsletter will go in-depth with a principle. You'll see how it is used successfully. You will see how you can avoid beating yourself against it and reaping the unfortunate consequences. Plus, you will get specific focus for your month in applying it.
With your Gold membership, you get even more. Each month you will grow your library, adding a classic book, CD, or DVD to it. One month you might get a Napoleon Hill like "Think and Grow Rich." Another time you might get Earl Nightingale's "The Strangest Secret". Or a modern insight like "The Secret" -- the book, the DVD, or both. Figuring out which ones will actually benefit you and getting those great works into your library is the first step. There are four more.
Once you've got the great book, that's not enough. A book does you no good if it's just sitting on the shelf. You have to read it. So, you need to take the time to get through it fast enough that you don't forget the beginning before you finish it. But just reading it doesn't do you much good alone. You need to get something out of it.
So besides reading it, you have to study it. Just like back in school, if you want to get something out of it, you need to take some notes, maybe write an outline, discover the structure of the book. Perhaps then you'll be able to understand it. That's the next step. Getting it into your thinking and being able to really get what there is for you to learn or remember. You need to really grasp it.
After all that, you have to actually apply it. You have to figure out how to have it work in your life NOW.
That is how you make it work.
Who has time for that? It would take you years just to apply one of the great books if you found it in the first place. That's why Mastering Life NOW! is a shortcut. I have already done the work. With your monthly Quick Growth package, your Gold membership brings you a guaranteed insightful book, CD, or DVD. You don't have to figure out what to get. They are all worth having and sharing with others. Your monthly Quick Sheet gives you a shortcut for reading the entire book and studying it. Like Cliff Notes for your personal growth, they'll give you an overview of the book, plus clear references to the materials for more detail. No more searching for the topic. It's time to join with just a click...
The monthly Mastering Life Letter completes the picture. Showing you ways to apply the ideas and keep you moving forward to your future, you will make progress every month. For a limited time, you'll get all this and some special bonuses, as well.
Special Bonuses for the Next 50
If you are one of the next 50 people to join, you will earn a special bonus. Your new Gold Membership will bring you all the extremely valuable membership materials, but also a personally inscribed autographed copy of "Open Your Heart with Skiing" valued at $25 with the special personal inscription. Plus, for ordering right now, you will also receive printed and personalized copies of the two Lost Chapters cut from the book by the publisher to meet book store shelf requirements. These two Lost Chapters are in their raw, unedited form, and will give you a close look at the unrefined material.
New Silver Members will also receive a free autographed copy of "Open Your Heart with Skiing" without the personal inscription. This book is valued at $15, and is yours free with your Silver Membership.
As either a Gold or Silver level member, you will receive the monthly Mastering Life Letter and companion CD. You will find a clearer path to who you want to be. And you'll join with other members on your journey to Mastering Life NOW! Plus your special bonuses for joining now.
After reading the book, people are asking me how they can dig deeper into the principles. This program is the answer to that question. You can join them in Mastering Your Life. This is that pain-free shortcut I mentioned earlier. Choose your level and get going NOW!
Once you become a Mastering Life NOW! Gold or Silver member, you will receive the Mastering Life Letter and CD as part of your membership with your monthly Mastering Life principles. Gold members receive an exclusive monthly Quick Growth package with an addition to your library guaranteed to be practical and valuable. The package includes your special Mastering Life NOW! Quick Sheet, giving you timeless wisdom and modern insights to accelerate your mastery. Plus, you'll receive your free autographed copy of the book -- personally inscribed and with the lost chapters -- for joining now.
Testimonials for Stephen's Mastering Life NOW! Coaching
"Stephen's coaching was crucial in making the proper hiring and firing with our staff. Because of the changes we made based on Stephen's coaching we have seen substantial sales increases, but more importantly a substantial increase in profit. With Stephen's input regarding hiring and firing, our turnover rate has dropped exponentially.
"Stephen's guidance and coaching has helped me to break a 8 year cycle of trying to handle all of the responsibility on my own. Due to the proper delegation of duties I have been able to work in the area's I am most gifted, and let others do the same.
"Since the start of Stephen's coaching:
- our average project price has increased over 100%
- our annual revenue has increased over 100%
- we have seen a 100% increase in revenue in 3 years, and profit margins are up.
- our turnover rate is down
- employee moral is up
- we have selected the right projects, and let the wrong ones go
- we have been able to refine our vision as a company"
Chris Rayburn
Summit Integrated Technologies
President and Founder
Broomfield, CO
"Stephen's insight and leadership have been instrumental in the successful launch of Cloudpath Networks. Since its inception, I have leaned on Stephen for guidance in a variety of areas, from product positioning to OEM negotiations. The feedback and ideas expressed by Stephen have helped position us well for growth."
Kevin Koster
Cloudpath Networks
President and Founder
Broomfield, CO
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The World has Changed, the Principles Work
With ever-increasing change, your opportunity for personal fulfillment has multiplied. So has all of life. It's different. It's Mastering Life NOW instead of then. It's taking on life from the perspective of reality instead of just hoping. Whatever you are doing and becoming, it's time to live in a new way, taking the dynamics of the new world into account.
Every month, Mastering Life NOW! focuses in on practical ways to improve your life. Drawn from personal experience and the best insights available. Become a Gold member and get the Quick Growth package for clear guidelines in applying new concepts or reinforcing what you are already doing. Mastering Life NOW! will give you a clear plan for the future you want.
You can become the Master of your own life, whether you realize it now or not. You have influence over yourself -- and others. You can make a difference. Be one of those who will grow dramatically by Mastering Life NOW!
Let's go!
Stephen Sven Hultquist
P.S. For your family, your business, and your very best self, you owe it to yourself to create a life that will all you dream it can be. Be Mastering Life NOW!
P.P.S. Your bonus autographed copy of "Open Your Heart with Skiing" and the printed Lost Chapters are available for a limited time. To be sure to get them by joining today.