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Nightmares to Miracles: Miracle Mindsets For CEOs, Executives, and Entrepreneurs to Transform Adversity into Success In Health, Wealth, Love, and Enlightenment 

David C. Asomaning Ph.D.

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WHAT’S IN THIS FOR YOU?

5 Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and insure confidence.
—A Course in Miracles, W-50.4.5

I think of miracles as solutions to problems that seem impossible to solve. They are solutions that originate from the Divine source within us. This is my working definition of miracles, and it is what I mean by the term throughout this book. This approach to the term distin- guishes it from other understandings which include technological miracles from the wheel on forward. As we proceed through the book, I hope you come to find miracles as attractive and useful as I do.

This book is an attempt to put the essence of my executive coaching method into a cohesive, straightforward, and easily accessible format. While a book cannot replace the many nuances and dynamics of a person-to-person coaching process, I hope that this book does provide a clear road map for those interested in my method.

This book also provides an overview of what my online course of the same name covers. So, while the benefits of this book are that one receives an organized overview of my method, one of the main draw- backs of putting my method into a book is that the things that I repeat and support clients to rehearse and practice over and over again, which can be exciting, inspiring, and accretive in the context of person-to-person coaching, can come across as a bit flat on paper. Nonetheless, I think the benefits of having my method in book form outweigh the limitations.

As we move forward with this material, which includes suggested inventories and exercises, please make sure you have a dedicated “Nightmares to Miracles” success journal (electronic or otherwise) where you can keep track of your thoughts, feelings, and insights along the way.

In the spirit of trying to be as useful to you as possible, I will now jump right into some initial questions for you.

Four Sets of Questions

As part of any new client’s initial strategy session, I always ask the same questions to identify the client’s needs and set expectations for the work we will do together. Before we dive into The Nightmares to Miracles Program, I want you to ask yourself those same questions.

SET 1:
What are your top three personal and/or professional goals that you want to work towards?

SET 2:
What are your biggest challenges in achieving these goals?
What personal attitudes, mindsets, habits, and behaviors of yours get in the way of your accomplishing your goals?

SET 3:
What have you already tried that hasn’t worked when seeking help to overcome your blocks and challenges?
Have you tried coaching, therapy, or other self-help systems?
What did you get out of them, and what didn’t you get out of them?

SET 4:
What will your life look like in six months as a result of making progress on these goals?
What will your life look like in 12 months after you’ve made progress on these goals?

Is Nightmares to Miracles for You?

I have a 16-point checklist I use to help potential clients identify whether they are a good fit for The Nightmares to Miracles Program. You don’t have to agree with all sixteen points to get some benefit out of this, but I think it’s fair to say that the more of these points you identify with, the more profoundly you are likely to experience the benefits of this program.

To make sure you are in the right place, go through this checklist with me and see if you can recognize yourself in any of these:

You are an ambitious and successful CEO, entrepreneur, attorney, doctor, financier, or other professional.
Despite your many amazing successes, you are still often stressed out and out of balance about your health or other aspects of your life.
You often feel disorganized.
You feel your schedule and responsibilities are often unmanageable or out of control.
You are often deeply worried about money.
You don’t know who to trust.
You lack true inner peace and security.
You desire to make a much greater positive impact on the world.
Your legacy concerns you. This may be your financial or spiritual legacy or your business or personal affairs.
Your personal or professional relationships are often in conflict.
Your overall purpose in life is unclear to you. Despite your accomplishments, you feel adrift or directionless.
You want to do less and achieve more by leveraging your time and energy efficiently and effectively.
You want the teams you lead to be more cohesive, effective, and harmonious.
You feel constricted or trapped by the roles you play in life and others’ expectations of you. The roles you have adopted may no longer fit, and you are ready to evolve. You want to pursue new directions and interests, but you are feeling blocked and stuck. You may be afraid of the consequences of change or feel unable to initiate meaningful change for yourself.
Aspects of your life feel like a terrible, ongoing nightmare. You may feel insecure or powerless to move forward with your business or personal life, or you may be afraid of being found out, exposed, or attacked for something you have done or failed to do.

The last item on the list especially summarizes the feeling of nightmare that The Nightmares to Miracles Program addresses. The overall purpose of the program is to establish foundations in our minds that will help us wake up from the nightmares that we’re experiencing in the various areas of our lives.

How Will You Improve?

If you complete The Nightmare to Miracles Program and implement it in your daily life, you will have more time freedom, work freedom, location freedom, and money freedom.

Time freedom means you will be able to use more of your time the way you want to. You will not be under strict compulsion from others to do things at specific times. You will have more free time to use the way you want to.

You will also have work freedom. In other words, you will be doing the kind of work that is fulfilling to you. It will not just be busy work—going through the motions and doing things you think you have to do, but don’t really want to.

Location freedom means you will be able to work from where you want to work. You can use technology—your phone and your laptop, for example. You can stay in touch with people you need to stay in touch with and get things done. As a leader, you can lead from almost anywhere.

Then, of course, you will have money freedom. You will continue to set and achieve the financial targets that are important to you.

You will also reduce your stress levels significantly. The Night- mares to Miracles Program will become part of your daily regime to prepare for and start your day so that you are reducing stress right from the beginning.

As stress rises, you will have ways of reducing its impact. At the end of the day, you will have a way of preparing for sleep that helps you to reduce stress as well.

You will enjoy greater peace, able to reset in a peaceful mode after disturbing or conflicted experiences. You will also be better organized by working from a master plan that is constantly improving and therefore, that is leading you to be more thoughtful and strategic about everything you do on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis.

You will also live in greater balance. A big part of The Nightmares to Miracles Program is about keeping your eye on health, wealth,

love, and enlightenment on an ongoing basis. By keeping your eye on these four “Doors to Miracle Success” in a synergistic way, you will find yourself in greater balance more consistently.

You will also learn how to do less and accomplish more. This is a key element of miracle-minded approaches to living. As you spend more time refining your mental state, you learn how to do less and get more done.

You will resolve relationship conflicts in so many ways, inter- generationally and multi-dimensionally, as well as in your present circumstances. As a result, you will be able to build stronger teams. A large part of this results from instilling greater alignment between members, so that everybody is coordinated in executing towards the same ends.

You will be able to reach and influence more people, and for the better. There are all kinds of ways one can begin to practice this without undue or unnecessary heavy lifting.

Your bottom line can improve significantly too, and it’s exciting to explore what this could mean if we consider aiming for 10x increases. Just to be clear, 10x is not 10 times your current revenue. It is doubling your revenue 10 times. So, if you are creating $50,000 in revenue, 10x does not result in $500,000 revenue.

In fact, if you double $50,000 ten times, you get the following:

1. $50,000 x 2 = $100,000
2. $100,000 x 2 = $200,000
3. $200,000 x 2 = $400,000
4. $400,000 x 2 = $800,000
5. $800,000 x 2 = $1.6m
6. $1.6m x 2 = $3.2m
7. $3.2m x 2 = $6.4m
8. $6.4m x 2 = $12.8m
9. $12.8.m x 2 = $25.6m
10. $25.6m x 2 = $51.2m ($51,200,000)

In other words, 10x-ing does not add one zero point to your bottom line, it adds three.

Aiming for these kinds of results is important to understand because it is of the nature of the miraculous. It is exponential increase.

You will also live in alignment with your true purpose, a recurring theme of The Nightmares to Miracles Program.

You will undo negative mental patterns, programs, and habits. This is huge. Personally, having been prone to rage and tantrums in earlier stages of my life, as well as alcohol and cigarettes, I know the power of the process that we’ll be using to let go of such patterns. Releasing habits that block our being as effective and as efficient as we can be frees us to move forward more powerfully.

It does not matter what you are faced with in terms of patterns and habits that you don’t like. All of them can be identified clearly and then undone using the techniques and skills that we will be covering in this program.

You will also deepen a practice to forgive yourself completely for all your mistakes and failures. This is huge because forgiveness of self leads to forgiveness of others. All these things then begin to add up to your ability to manifest your goals more rapidly.

You say, “This is a goal I want to achieve for myself,” as you did in the opening questions of this book. By using the many mindset tools outlined in this Nightmares to Miracles Program, you will find that you can set your goals and then manifest the results you desire in faster and more fulfilling and lasting ways.

You will find yourself becoming more successful in all the areas of your life that are significant and important to you. Your entire life will be in divine order. There will be an increased ease in the way you go about your affairs. Frequently you will feel you are in the right place at the right time, which leads to increasing synchronicity. There will be more peace, and more harmony in your relationships. When disruption and conflict occur, you will be better at dealing with them by taking them in stride without falling apart.

You will develop faster learning abilities by using modern tech- nology. In this way, something that might otherwise take years to learn might only take a matter of months, at least in terms of some significant, initial breakthroughs, and we can build on it for a lifetime.

You will learn to crack various codes, or hack various processes, that make life simpler and less stressful. I like the breaking and hacking analogy, whether for health, or financial goals, or relation- ship goals, because there are sets of codes that you can crack. This is where The 3 Keys to Miracle Success come into play. The Keys unlock doors which ordinarily have security codes that keep us from the knowledge that we need to enter into more high-performance spaces in our lives—these restricting codes can be broken. This is another way of thinking about how to gain access to the skills that we need for greater and faster success.

With these tools and techniques, we can manifest miracles more abundantly in all areas of our lives. As you may recall, the definition of miracles that I’m using here goes like this: miracles are solutions to problems that seem impossible to solve.

So you have a seemingly insurmountable problem or many such problems. Ordinarily there is no way you can see yourself solving the one problem let alone the many problems. To be miracle minded is to allow solutions to emerge for you around a problem that just seems impossible to solve.

I will give, and you can experience, examples of miracles as we progress. In some ways, the more challenging the situation—i.e., the more impossible your problem seems to you to solve—the more significant it is as a test case, to lead you towards being more miracle minded.

As you approach solving problems in this miracle minded way, you will not be the one doing the heavy lifting. You will simply be opening your mind to Higher Power, The Inner Genius, the Divine, or however you choose to refer to this Source of Power within your mind by allowing this Source to do the heavy lifting in, through, and for you.

Finally, through this Nightmares to Miracles Program you will release and heal from your guilt, fear, and anger. Therefore, you will have more energy, vitality, and serenity for all aspects of your life.

I hope at least some of this is of interest to you. Enough to invest just a little time to discover more about this Nightmares to Miracles Program and The 3 Keys to Miracle Success, and to apply the related principles and techniques to your life.