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Aligned Thinking Institute
Hi,
Welcome to the Aligned
Thinking Institute!
The purpose of the Institute is to provide you with the tools to make it
easy to do what most people think impossible:
Align
Every Action
to what you REALLY
Want
When this happens you can expect:
A
quantum leap
in motivation,
accomplishment and satisfaction.
As I said, I know that
sound impossible. I’ll explain how we can make it happen a little later.
But before I explain
how we can help you align every action to what you REALLY want,
let me share two more sets of benefits you can expect when you become a
member of the Aligned Thinking Institute and put the Aligned Thinking tools
in place in your life.
Benefit
Set One
Too much to
do! I Never Get Everything done!
Too many interruptions!
Too much stress!
Woody Bliss has one of
the most stressful jobs with demanding important people interrupting him
regularly. Woody is the First Selectman (mayor) of the wealthiest town in
the richest state in the union, Weston, CT. Look at the hint he gives
related to a solution for the above three challenges:
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“…still helps me live a stress-free life.”
We helped our IBM salespeople, especially the most experienced
ones, become more organized and motivated with Aligned Thinking.
It has been about twenty years since I took the Aligned Thinking
Program. As First Selectman, I use the MIN (Most Important Now) Secret
every day. There are many people calling my office. More than a few
want something “yesterday.” Using the MIN Secret, asking “What is my
MIN related to what I really want?” keeps me sane and focused. It helps
me give this office my all, and still helps me live a stress-free life.
People ask me all the time, “How can you stand being First
Selectman? I could not do that job. I could not take the stress.” Or
“How do you get so much done?” Or “How do you keep your priorities
straight?” Well, I just smile and tell them about MIN and Aligned
Thinking.
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For more details of
Woody Bliss’s insights, go to
www.SSAinternational.com. Under Aligned Thinking, click on Benefits For
Your Organization.
Benefit
Set Two
I have
so little control over my life!
Not enough personal or family time!
Life doesn’t seem to have much meaning anymore.
Ken Blanchard, author
of The One Minute Manager, is one of the best know and highly acclaimed
management specialists in the nation.
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“It
already has made a difference in my life.”
Over twenty years ago I had the good fortune to take one of
Jim Steffen’s Aligned Thinking seminars. The One Minute Manager
had just been published and I was riding the wave of early success. It
was an exciting time—but stressful, too. It seemed I always had too much
to do, too many interruptions, too little control over my life, and that
I wasn’t getting enough accomplished. Taking Jim’s seminar was a turning
point for me. Shortly afterward, I sent him a copy of my book with the
following inscription:
To
Jim,
Thanks for sharing your wonderful time management system. If The One
Minute Manager gets to be #1, the Aligned Thinking process will have
played a major role. It already has made a difference in my life!
Best
regards,
Ken
Blanchard, August 1982
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Note in both the above
cases, these two very successful people have been using Aligned Thinking for
over twenty years. Both testify that Aligned Thinking changed their lives
and has continued to do so for over twenty years. Aligned Thinking has a
track record that assures you of positive results.
The
Key Focus
Besides the six
benefits in blue above, there are at least 43 ½ more benefits. You can see
a longer list on our website,
www.SSAinternational.com - click on “What People Say” or see the end of
this document.
Overcoming the six
challenges in blue above is certainly a significant accomplishment. But
these are an effect of the main benefit of Aligned Thinking. This main
benefit is so huge and there are so many side benefit from it that most
people don’t believe it is possible. The main result you can expect from
Aligned Thinking is to help you meet this mammoth challenge:
Align every action
to what you REALLY want!
When this happens, you
can expect a quantum leap in motivation, accomplishment and satisfaction.
And, in the process, you will overcome all six challenges listed in blue
above.
How To Do The Impossible
If most people believe
it impossible to align every action to what you REALLY want, how do your
learn the process? In the past, the way most people have learned how to do
it is to attend a two-day seminar. This is the method Ken Blanchard, Woody
Bliss, Woody’s IBM executives and people from 140 Fortune 500 companies have
used over the years. And it works!
If you are interested in this seminar method, you can email me
at
rjsteffen@SSAinternational.com or call 203-740-8400.
At Last, A Method For
Those Too Busy To Invest Two Days
Frequently, those who
need the Aligned Thinking tools most, feel they don’t have time to take two
days out of their busy schedule. Consistently, those who have bitten the
bullet and made the two-day investment in themselves like Blanchard and
Bliss – both very busy people – have been able to change their lives. Those
who “don’t have time to invest”, are suffering from the same problems, I
Don’t Get Everything Done etc.
What can we do for
those who still don’t want to take two days off? Or what can we do for
those who don’t want the expense and the time investment of traveling?
The Better Solution
We have just created a
series of webinars that teach the essence of Aligned Thinking in five
60-minute webinars. The benefits jump out at you:
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No travel – done at the convenience of your own computer
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No two days away from work
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The sessions are just 60 minutes each,
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The time is very convenient: noon until 1:00 PM EST or EDT time.
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This give you time to implement smaller pieces after each session.
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Sessions two to five act a like follow-up to the previous session.
It Worked – But We
Wanted More – Going From Better to Best???
The series of five
webinars worked, but we wanted more. How can we take what is taught in
fourteen hours and teach it in five hours. By making the exercises done in
class completed as implementation activities between the five webinars, it
can happen.
However, we again asked
the question, could we come up with a radical idea to make your progress
easier and more certain? Research shows that when you implement something
with a coach, it is much easier and more effective to succeed. A coach can
help you implement real life change easier. So where is that radical idea?
Wouldn’t It Be Great If…
Wouldn’t it be great if you had your own Personal Coach to guide and
motivate you to choose exactly the one or two habits that will help you
enjoy all the Aligned Thinking benefits as quickly as possible? Wouldn’t it
be nice if, with your input, your Personal Coach created a plan, totally
unique to you, so you could build these new habits as easy as possible?
And wouldn’t it be motivating if your Personal Coach scored and tracked your
progress?
Creating a “Wouldn’t It
Be Great Personal Coach”
We though it would not
only be great, it would be very helpful and effective. So we set to work to
create such a Personal Coach using the Internet. This Personal Coach
resides in the Aligned Thinking Institute. As we proceeded, with the help
of many, we discovered it would be efficient if this Personal Coach could
clearly identify both your strengths and weaknesses. Forget your weaknesses;
we found the weaknesses to be growth opportunities. Your Personal Virtual
Coach will help you build on your strengths and implement your growth
opportunities as quickly as possible.
Since the average
person works best when focusing on just one or two habits at a time, we
programmed into your Personal Virtual Coach the ability to select just the
one professional habit and the one personal habit that will give you the
biggest, quickest return for your time and energy.
Other Discoveries: To
Help You Quickly and Easily
Since the key payoff is
the ability to align every action to what you really want, we
began to look for simple activities that will help you in this process. One
of these one-minute helps is to review what you want from life and work
before you set your priorities each morning.
However, we discovered
that less that ten percent people who go to work every day have ever written
what they clearly want from work. And less that five percent have written
what is so important in their personal life that they want to get up every
day and live life to the fullest for.
The First Really Big
Challenge
Further examination
showed one of the reasons why so few people have never overcome this first
really big challenge of writing what they want from their professional and
their personal life: writing what you want from your professional or
personal life without coaching is a very difficult activity. If you sit
down before a blank piece of paper to write what you want from work or
personal life, it might stay blank for a long time. So we program your
Personal Virtual Coach in the Aligned Thinking Institute to guide you to
create both a Work and Personal Life Mission; i.e. help answer the question,
what do I really want from life and work?
Using this tool when
you are a member of the Aligned Thinking Institute will take you about
fifteen minutes to create your Professional or Personal Life Mission.
Just The Beginning
The story above is just
the beginning of the Aligned Thinking Institute. We are regularly refining
the Institute to offer you more and more support. The following is a
summary of what you will presently receive by becoming a member of the
Institute.
- You receive the
assessment of your present habits of using your time. This includes:
- An analysis of how
you presently rate on 32 best practice activities.
- A Personal Virtual
Coach that will score your input, graph it and maintain the graph.
- A tutorial on each
of the 32 best practice activities
- A detailed plan for
your personal improvement as an Aligned
Thinker including:
- Your Professional
Strengths as an Aligned Thinker
- Your Personal
Strengths as an Aligned Thinker
- Your Professional
Growth Opportunities
- Your Personal
Growth Opportunities
- Your virtual
coach’s advice concerning where to start
- A tutorial related
to each habit you wish to improve.
- Your own personal
Home Page
- This includes your
score
- Access to your
work and personal life missions
- A tutorial related
to each of the twenty benefits discussed below.
- The use of all the
tools on your home page including:
- How to create a
Professional Mission in 15 minutes
- How to create a
Personal Mission in 15 minutes
- How to work
smarter not harder setting your daily and weekly priorities
- How to use the
Four Work-Smart Principles
- You as an Aligned
VS Non-aligned Thinker
Your Personal Virtual Coach – Always Ready To Help
Your Personal Virtual Coach will be
available to you 7/24.
Added Bonus
We know you are busy,
possible very busy. However, we know that if you stop growing, you are
moving backwards. So each month, as a member of the Aligned Thinking
Institute, you will receive another session. Each session will take you no
more than fifteen minutes. These monthly sessions will keep you fresh and
growing in your Aligned Thinking skills. A two-year curriculum includes the
following:
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What does
You Can
Master Your
Time & Life!
mean to you?
Does it mean you
want more from your Business Life, like:
1.
Improved productivity
2. Increased satisfaction
3. Balancing your mission and goals with those of your manager
4. Becoming more promotable
5. Decreased stress
The Aligned Thinking
Institute will help you achieve each of these.
Does it mean you
want more from your Personal Life, like:
6.
Improved accomplishment
7. Increased satisfaction
8. Balancing your business and personal purposes and goals
9. Balancing your purpose and goals with those of your significant
other’s
10. Decreased stress
The Aligned
Thinking, Institute will help you achieve each of these.
Does it mean you
want more from Life in General, like:
11.
Increased inner fulfillment and happiness
12. Building a sense of power over your life
13. Becoming the master of your time
14. Defining and reaching your true greatness
15. Creating your life and work as you want them to be
The Aligned Thinking
Institute will help you achieve each of these.
Does it mean
Overcoming Your Time Wasters, like:
16. Trying to do too many
things
17. Interruptions
18. Procrastination
19. Others changing your priorities
20. Management by crisis
The Aligned Thinking
Institute will help you achieve each of these.
As long as what you really want is reasonable,
the Aligned Thinking Process can
and will help you achieve what you really want
and more.
The
key is:
To
align every action to what you really want.
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What Are These Bonuses Worth???
The real value of these bonuses needs to be measured in
terms of the quantum leap you make in motivation, accomplishment and
satisfaction. What value will it be when you make significant progress
overcoming:
Too much to do! I Never Get Everything done!
Too many interruptions!
Too much stress!
I have so little control over my life!
Not enough personal or family time!
Life doesn’t seem to have much meaning anymore
However, many people like to think in dollar terms.
The following is a partial list of the resources and benefits you will
receive from the Aligned Thinking Institute and your Personal Virtual Coach
in dollar values.
The Dollar Value of the
Resource of the Aligned Thinking Institute
Doing the following for
a year:
Ø Assessment of your present
habits of using your time – unlimited access $100.00
Ø Create a plan unique to you
- Updating the plan each time you tell Coach you have conquered a habit
- Scoring your habits
- Graphing your score
- Advising you on the next most important habit to focus on
Ø Reminding you each Tuesday of
the professional habit to focus on
Ø Reminding you each Tuesday of
the personal habit to focus on
Ø Providing a tutorial of each
habit you need
Ø Guiding you to create and
update your Professional Mission
Ø Guiding you to create and
update your Personal Life Mission
Ø Helping you avoid the 5
mistakes of planning your day
Ø Doing all the above 7/24 at
less that a dollar a day - $25 a month $300.00
Ø Ten monthly sessions of the
Professional/Personal Growth Kit
at $10 a session
$100.00
Total bonus $500.00
The Aligned Thinking Institute Bonus
You receive the Aligned Thinking Institute Bonus when
you participate in either the Aligned Thinking seminar or the Aligned
Thinking Webinar Series. These resources of the Aligned Thinking Institute
make it possible to do the fourteen hours seminar in just five 60-minute
webinars.
For immediate information related to seminars or
webinars, contact:
Dr. R. James Steffen 203-740-8400
rjsteffen@SSAinternational.com
You’ll be glad you did! If you have any doubts
about investing five minutes to call or email, read what Diana Waller
Genottia, very experienced HR consultant has to say.
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“The
Aligned Thinking Process gives employees the tools they need…”
As an HR
consultant, I find organizations are struggling with work/life balance.
The Aligned Thinking Process gives employees the tools they need to take
ownership of work/life balance and make it a reality. Everyone wins -
the Company, the employee and the family.
Since taking the Aligned Thinking Process Seminar, I have for the first
time in my life created both a work and life mission, which has enabled
me to keep my MIN (Most Important Now) on target.
Diana Waller Genottia, HR Consultant
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What Do Alumni Say About Aligned Thinking?
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Several of my associates and I have taken time management courses and,
therefore, had certain expectations that I knew a lot of the material.
I was wrong. This is much more than time management. Hats off for the
wonderful insights.
HS CEO
World Health Foundation
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When you are an Aligned Thinker, you can achieve so much more than you
ever anticipated and feel rewarded and self fulfilled by focusing on
what it is you really want.
The program
should be modified and presented in high schools.
KR Accountant
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Helpful process to establish a life of
living every moment in a positive fulfilling manner.
JS Cancer survivor
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Two days well spent. Helped me realize
that my priorities and mission are not selfish but self-caring. Many
useful tools and reinforcements to keep me on track and help me to
establish these tools as part of my life.
JAB Salesperson
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I am so looking forward to aligning my
life! This is just what I needed – the perfect course at the perfect
time. Thank You! This should definitely be offered to a wide audience.
RD Lawyer
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Thank you! This is the best tool and
process I have come across for aligning business and personal.
There
is no way to manage time, but to manage your actions – this method gives
you the understanding of free choice to do that. Other courses ask you
to set you goals and show you how to manage them. This course teaches
you how to figure out what those goals really are!
RM Small Business Owner
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If you are frustrated with your life and
feel overwhelmed I would highly recommend you take the time to attend
Aligned Thinking. You will relieve your pressure and gain control over
your life as never before!
TM Professional Coach
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The seminar exceeded my expectations and
was enjoyable too! I am leaving here really believing it’s possible to
put the Aligned Thinking system into practice.
CF Software Programmer
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This is more than a time management
course; it is a life-changing experience depending upon the amount of
time and energy invested.
DS Pharmaceutical
Scheduling
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This course and its participants
energized me and motivated me to reach my goals. I love the follow-up
incorporated into the course to aid in keeping me on track.
WS Administration
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I was lost with creating a mission
statement and goals. Now I am looking forward to working on both.
LM Accountant
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This will help me now with my
business/personal life balance. Good stuff. I wish I had thought about
this material early on in my career, about forty years ago.
JS Retired
Direct Mail Executive
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This seminar has provided me with the
building blocks to live my dream life. I’ve always looked at my
business life and personal life as two different goals. I now
understand how these two must be in tune with each other to live in
harmony.
CG Full Time Mother and
Full Time Manager
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The program has opened my eyes up to a
better way to manage my business and personal life.
JG Service Manager
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I came in quite skeptical and now feel
empowered with tools to take control of my life.
LD, HR Manager
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For
immediate information related to seminars or webinars, contact:
Dr. R.
James Steffen 203-740-8400
rjsteffen@SSAinternational.com
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