Lesterizing Goals Mastery Retreat 2009

"Never think of things as coming in the Future, as the mind will keep it in the future. See it, Feel it, Taste it, Possess it as yours now. Do not see it in its "Will-be-ness" - This quote from Lester Levenson was the inspiration behind this new retreat, as taken from page 27 of the original Abundance Course manual.

I was one of the 230 people that had the opportunity and pleasure to attend Larry Crane's first ever 5-day Lesterizing Goals Mastery Retreat held at the Vail Cascade Resort in Colorado, November 6th-10th, 2009. This was a world class event, held at a first class hotel, in a state of the art conference and meeting center, in a serene alpine mountain setting.

The retreat was co-facilitated by Larry Crane and Rich Furlanic. Larry was great as always with his colorful stories, corny "time release" jokes, and most importantly his prodding and challenging us to drop our garbage and go free. Rich was in rare form and totally at the top of his game. Rich clearly demonstrated his own mastership of the Lesterizing Goals process and right before my eyes I believe I witnessed the student becoming the master in his own right.

I was overwhelmingly impressed with how professional the entire retreat was conducted and how well prepared everyone was. All of the teachers arrived in Vail a few days prior to the retreat for their own training and intention setting. We were given a brand new 129 page Lesterizing Goals Mastery workbook, which had several new exercises related to goals, as well as an updated Abundance Course workbook.

The following are some of the key concepts, recurring statements and processes from the retreat:

Key theme: Focus on having the goal behind your goals, which is: The ultimate state of happiness with no sorrow. A life filled with love, joy and havingness. Go for that. Decide to have that right NOW.

The mind works in thoughts and feelings, which translate into pictures. Bring up all of your I cant's, your fears, the worst thing that can happen and let go of that picture. It's nothing more than a picture. You can choose to let it go.

Tell your mind your intention or goal and what you have decided to do and how you choose things to be: "I choose to be happy now. I'm in charge. I decide right now." Don't resist your mind or your feelings. Thank your feelings and tell them that you are in charge and they can go now. "Thank you for sharing. Thank you mind. Thank you goal." Love the goal unconditionally. Love the mind. It is your servant.

See your goal in your mind and make it real. See it as done. See it completed 1000 times in advance. See it enough times for it to become real. How would you sit, feel, act? Where would you be if you had your goal and who else would be there with you? Get into that state of physiology this minute, right now.

The outer transforms when the inner is complete.

Look at your goals several times per day. Start with some smaller goals that can be accomplished easily. That way you can build up some momentum and become stronger and more confident and then take your goals to the next level.

Lesterizing Goals Process - You must start from the highest energy place of Courageousness, Acceptance and/or Peace (the higher, the better and the deeper you can go)
1.) Think of your goal > What do you want (stated in the positive) > Hold this picture in mind
2.) Think of your goal > From the end result (Be in CAP as high as possible > Hold this picture in mind.
3.) Bring up the Positive & Negative pictures > What's in the way/Worst that can happen? > Release Negative
4.) Bring up the Positive picture > What's left after releasing negative? Positive > Release Positive
5.) Get Hootless > Let the entire goal go (I AM) > Do nothing, Accomplish infinity

In conclusion this retreat was masterfully executed. I overheard several participants saying this was the best live event that they had ever attended and that it helped put the final pieces together for them. Larry and Rich did an outstanding job and all the other teachers and support staff were fabulous, as they always are. Thank you to everyone involved in making this such a great retreat!

Also, my heartfelt thanks goes out to David Y. and Pete Y. for literally talking me into going to this retreat and supporting me, along with several other releasers, when I was struggling at the Final Step retreat last Sept. I would also like to thank and acknowledge Mario as the inspiration for my writing this review, as his previous retreat reviews helped me make a decision to attend my first live event, which ultimately changed my life forever. Thank you all!

*Rich participated on Larry's weekly Accelerated Learning call for 4 weeks after the retreat and did the Lesterizing Goals process with several callers on 11/18/09, 11/25/09, 12/2/09 & 12/9/09. To listen to the full replay of these calls go to: http://www.releasetechnique.com/learning/