The Biggest Life Transformation I've Ever Experienced

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm about to share to you all the most amazing experience I have ever undergone in my entire life. For a long, long while, I was stuck spinning my wheels but going nowhere. I had ideas and ambitions, but I didn't have the discipline and drive to pursue them. But that all changed about 6 months ago when my cousin called me out of the blue one day.

My cousin called me one day, checking up on me. I never heard from him in over a year or two, so him calling me for a private conversation was quite a surreal experience now that I think about it. He told me about this emotional intelligence and leadership training program he went to in Vegas. I was naturally curious since I've attempted so many things to improve upon myself, from pickup to fringe spirituality. While they chipped away layers of myself, there was still something fundamentally...wrong with me, something I never could've really put my hand on. I've been dying to discover a method or a mindset that can start pushing me fully towards my goals and ambitions. He was very generous, even willing to pay a lot of my expenses for going out to Vegas. With such dedication and generosity, I felt like I had to take it, even if I had to put down $300 (which isn't a lot to me now, but back then when I had no job it certainly was!)

The program was called Choice Center. It is an emotional intelligence and leadership training academy. They have many courses, but I went through LV166 (number means the # of classes taught for LV.) LV is kind of like a "Kitchen Sink" of their other courses, the main program adults should sign up for. There are other courses that you can take that are more geared towards a specific subject after graduating LV (I went through a Relationships signature course and boy...I'll save that for another subject!)

This leadership and emotional intelligence training was broken up into 3 parts.

The first part was called Discovery. During this weekend, you learn to find out about who it is you really are underneath all the masks you put on, as well as how you project yourself onto others. You learn what it is that's holding you back, with emotional blockages. It's peels away the layers of protection that you feel you need to have to 'survive,' but ultimately gets in the way. You overcome the fear of being who you really are, because the coaches, the instructor, and the students are there to fully support you.

The second part is called Breakthrough. During this weekend, you learn how to handle breakdowns and...well...break through them! The training also covers some team-work experience as well. You go even deeper into yourself and start putting into practice how to be truly authentic with others. We were tasked with a lot of challenges we had to overcome, and boy the experience was rewarding.

The third part is a 3 month program: The leadership program. Once a month, there will be a weekend you attend to in Vegas. However, throughout this 3 months stretch you are in a team, led by a coach that helps hold you accountable with your goals. In between these weekends, you live your day to day life as you normally would, except you do a lot, lot more with your life! You take action into your dreams and ambitions. You measure your goals and declare new steps to take each week. You break your goals down into chunks that you work towards. And you will be presented with new challenges along the way that will test your ability to withstand circumstances. You also are pushed to go in deep with your friends and family and rekindle relationships.

Each time I went out to this training I came back a whole new man. I got a new voice, a newfound sense of confidence, invaluable, emotional intelligence skills, and so much enriching experience! I no longer feel a victim to my circumstances, nor do I feel victimized to the people I feel have wronged me. My biggest takeaway is that it's all a choice. You can choose to do whatever you want, and with those choices, you choose the consequences too. You are never obligated to do what your parents or society tells you is the 'right' or 'smart' thing to do. You are never obligated to even feel a certain emotion. You can choose your actions, your thoughts, your emotions, and even your mind. Sure, it may not be an instance change once you make the decision and dedicate yourself to it. However, with discipline, and a strong sense of vision, anything you want to accomplish in life is possible.

This was the best, life trans-formative experience I've gone through. And I recommend you all taking a sincere look into it.