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Data Mining in the business coaching that I do is an important concept when it comes to helping you evaluate your Intellectual Property.

If you haven’t read the last post that sets the scene for today’s post, please go to the following post…

How To Data Mine

One of the keys in evaluating your Intellectual Property is in knowing how to analyze relationships from experiences that you have gone through.

One of the assignments I encouraged you to take was to evaluate your top three negative experiences in light of your value system.

The following is one process that I use with clients to help them begin to dimensionalize their value.

I am going to use one of the most powerful experiences that I have ever gone through as an example. This experience relates to the proverbial fork in the road scenario that each of us has faced.

I remember the first time that I was faced with a desire to live beyond where I was at and this occurred for the first time in my life during my fifth year of teaching. I remember thinking that I really couldn’t see myself doing anything else but teach. This wasn’t primarily due to a lack of competence, but from a lack of confidence—the confidence to really go for it in life.

Many of you know my story about how I then went into Administration as the youngest Vice Principal with our School Board shortly after this experience. The leaders of my school board had me fast tracking to senior levels of administration and ultimately toward Director Of Education.

I also began to evaluate why I was going this route. Was I doing this because of living someone’s else’s dream for me (very true), was I doing this because I lacked confidence to do something else (very true as mentioned above), was I doing this because it was the path of least resistance…

As I analyzed what I was doing with my life, one of the keys I realized was that the path I was taking with my life and in education looked like the path of ‘least resistance’, but upon analyzing what moving up the ladder in education was doing to me, it was robbing me of what I really wanted to be doing. And this was because at the time I was becoming clearer with ‘what I really wanted to be doing’ and ‘why I wanted this.’
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The ‘Fork In The Road’ Scenario happened on a snowy night a week before Christmas, in December of 2003. I was in Toronto, Ontario, Canada marking papers for graduates from Faculties of Education across Ontario. This is the final test to gain eligibility to teach in Ontario. I did this as a second source of income as our family at that time was tremendously in debt.

I remember looking out of my hotel room at the Delta Chelsea in downtown Toronto and thinking, “Is this it? I wrestled also with the yearning that I was developing about what I really wanted to be doing. Did I have what it took to play big and go for it?

That’s when I got down on my hands and knees and asked God to either put my desire back into education or to make it clear that I should really go for it.

There was a quiet peace that it was my time and although there were a few bumps and hiccups, I hired a coach to help me see more clearly a path of execution and began to understand the importance of going after your passion.
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And this ties into the most powerful letter that I have ever written. It reflects powerful negative emotional experiences that I have overcome about why I don’t deserve success (the story that each of us has running in the back of our minds and which ultimately controls our silent Q&A sessions we have with ourselves each day.)

You can download this letter from here:

Letter of Resignation

And here is a short list of what I learned going through this experience (Note: each of these experiences and skills sets could easily be dimensionalized into separate business entities with a powerful USP using our Awakened Ideation Process™:

  • How to identify your dream
  • How to develop the confidence to play big
  • How to execute
  • How to identify your passion with what you have discovered through the School of Hard Knocks
  • How to create a Curriculum Continuity Program that ties context and content together in ways that allow you to out-educate your competitors
  • How to create Assessment Instruments to easily position yourself as the Standard Of The Market Place and thereby eliminate your competition
  • How to overcome the negative pull from the ones who love you the most and who subconsciously hold you back
  • How to create clarity and a definitive action plan to get what you want—instantly

Now I could go on and on, but I trust that you get my point: Negative experiences are the source of tremendous learning that most people have never analyzed. And Intellectual Property Data Mining is about looking for hidden relationships about what you have discovered “Through The School Of Hard Knocks” with what you are meant to do.

To Your Central Source Of Wealth–Your IP!

Glenn :-)

P.S.

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