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This weekend I was fortune enough to be able to go to Tony Robbins seminar “Unleash the Power Within” in Chicago. We were 2900 attending the seminar. It was a fantastic course with a lot of real interesting tools and ideas for creating an outstanding life. It will defiantly go in to the history as one of my best weekends.

The 2900 attendees at UPW

The first night we had the firewalk, where we walked on hot coals. We had to get into out state and learn to focus our minds on the outcome. The experience was very intense and showed what was possible with focus. Walking on 650-1000 degrees (1200-2000F) hot wood does not sound like something you would like to do for fun. But it was not any problem once we got started with walking.

Just after the fire walk, checking for burns.

We learned a whole bunch of useful tools, than which can be applied to everyday life to be better. This was what I had expected. I had thought that we will learn many more and then try to use the tools to work on creating our goals.

It was some really long days we had. I cannot imagine how it was possible to have such long sessions, with tools without many breaks. There was only a 1 hour lunch break to get something to eat, so it was not like you had breaks every hour. Instead we got up and danced or massaged the persons on our sides every half hour. This was a good way to keep the focus and being much more able to learn. I hope it would be possible on other conferences.

There was a lot of dancing to music, lots of screaming, clapping. It was like a rock concert and it helped lift the voice in the room to extreme levels. Probably the high excitement levels were most different was all and made it easier to learn. Imagine if this was possible in the schools.

Some of the guided sessions were very strong emotionally. It is not every day that I cry of happiness and sadness with short periods between. Just because I’m thinking about will/can happen.

I’m really amazed by how much Tony Robbins is cable of doing on the stage. He was on for 15 hours on Saturday with full energy the whole time. Everyone else had to take breaks during the sessions but he just keep going. Tony was having some problems with his voice and could not run the show for the whole weekend any more. Instead Joseph McClendon III was presenting on two days. Joseph did an outstanding job and was really funny, but he was not as a intense as Tony.

The only thing that I did not like was the all the focus on selling. A lot of products was sold and marketed on the event and with the strong feelings it was difficult to say no. It was really compelling to continue the journey. I sign up for some extra courses, which I hope will be just as intense.

Now I just have to see if the principles we have learned sticks with med. That is the ultimate test that it works. I believe, I need to go thru all my notes and work books again to remember it all that will be one task in the coming week.

I’m really glad I did go to the event, and would strongly recommend others to go and check UPW out. I cannot say it will change my life yet, but it defiantly has the potential to do it. I hope to keep updating the blog with some of the changes that I have applied from the course that have worked.

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I’m currently sitting in an SAS Airbus 340-300 from Copenhagen to Washington. The flight does not have any wireless connection, so this will be posted when I got myself an internet connection. There are 7 SAS planes ever made and this one seems fairly new.

First and foremost, the most important thing about the flight iwas the adequate room for the legs. I’m 183cm and do have around 10 cm extra for my knees. Well, the seats are also very supportive and the neck rest can slide up to support higher persons. I can sit comfortably without disturbing the women on my side.

The flight has an entertainment system in all seats. It has a touch-screen and a joy-pad looking controller. The flight is really nice, because you can sit and relax, watch a movie and select your favorite. There are 23 different new movies in the selection. The two latest movies available are the Angels and Demons and The Terminator Salvation, with some fairly new DVDs. It is really neat since you can catch up on your movies. The problem is that the movies are played in one large loop, that makes it not possible to see when the movies are starting. Since they are new movies I don’t know when they actually start, so I would have to watch the most part of the movie to find out when it is starting over. I think it is better to have an indicator on how long the movie has when I select a movie and the time left in a movie when it is being watched.

The touch-screen reacts a little slow to events and the controller is a bit difficult to get started with.

I have been listening to one of the audio streams, and it seems like the audio stops at certain moments. It is really disturbing to listen and it cuts for a second and then resume. So it is really not useful.

The games available are from 2008. I tried playing Sudoku. It was ok to play, and could help to solve the puzzle with pencil markings. I would like paper and pencil for solving Sudoku. The controller was not easy to use and it missed a numerical keyboard for the Sudoku game. I could just imagine how it would be if it was possible to bundle a Wifi into the onboard gaming systems. But since it is an airplane the software probably have to comply with some tough testing rules, compared to other games.

I would defiantly like to fly with this plane again. It has all the comfort I need.

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