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Hey everyone... We have decided to undertake a special production of a documentary that will focus on the science, philosophy, and inherent power of our Imagination.  It will build from how we as a species are not tapping into imagination fully and how we can create generational change on a massive scale by understanding and being aware of our true potential... and backed up by hard core science.  The plan is to start in the US and Canada and make it one big road trip interviewing many people along the way. Artist to Artist, Musician to Musician, Scientist to Scientist and Thought Leader to Thought Leader will chat with us so we can get a huge cross section of knowledge about what Imagination is and what it is not, and how Imagination can literally change the world.  We are in search of willing donors to help us purchase a used RV (or equivalent) so we can tour the country for a period of 3 to 4 months and cross over into Canada as well to speak to some thought leaders there. ALL DONORS will have their BUSINESS LOGO or NAME plastered onto the outside of the RV as we travel the country and we will be highlighting the donors in the documentary as well. The bigger your donation, the BIGGER your NAME or LOGO will be on the RV :) If you or anyone you know would be interested in participating in this documentary project in this way, please take a moment and make a donation and pass this link on as well.  Your help and support are greatly appreciated and we look forward to exploring how IMAGINATION is the OPERATING SYSTEM of the UNIVERSE and backing it up with HARD CORE SCIENCE!

We have all heard it. We have all said it. We have all believed the fallacy that balance is required in life, relationships and business in order to achieve success and happiness. We have all bought into the notion that business bliss is created through facilitating equilibrium throughout our systems and structures. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The word "balance" comes from two Latin words, Bi (two) and Lanx (scales). It was adopted as a measuring and weighing word that was used in accounting and merchant transactions. We have all seen the old school scales with the two pans on either side of a fulcrum and how black and white that apparatus is. We all have enjoyed its definitive and sometimes polarizing effects, and long for that kind of easy and simplicity. We have come to use this term to assess the levels of involvement in our lives, businesses and relationships. We put all of these on the "scales" and attempt to balance them so we feel better about ourselves and hopefully provide a sense of peace and contentment. Unfortunately, we have perverted this process and have begun comparing apples with oranges on our scales of life, rather than using balance for what it was designed for...a diagnosis tool.

When a merchant was using a scale, they were taking the customers gold or silver or whatever precious metal, placing it on the scale and then comparing it to an existing standardized counterweight to determine the actual weight of the precious metal and ultimately determine the value of the precious metal, not unlike what we do today with gold and silver. The point is that the merchant used his scale to determine the level of value. When he achieved balance in the scales, he and the customer now knew where they stood on value... not where they wanted to remain. Unfortunately, many believe in achieving balance and then want to stay thereindefinitely thinking that somehow this will bring them success and peace.

When we talk about balance in business, it is actually one of the most detrimental and misunderstood topics floating around these days. Balance is death to business. Equilibrium in business causes stagnation and results in a lack of agility in the marketplace, thus allowing other companies that are more agile to come in and gobble up your market share and customers that you have worked so hard to acquire. We don't really want balance in business, but we have been programmed to believe that balancing everything will somehow provide a new level of ease and grace in our business, but it is exactly the opposite reaction.

Like I said, balance is a diagnosis tool. We need to measure and weigh everything going on in our businesses and our lives, but balance is achieved by comparing our business elements to an existing standardized and established counterweights to see how we "measure up". Balance is not the end destination, it is a prescription for what to do next. Do you have enough time for your projects? Do you have enough resources? Do you have enough network partners? Do you have enough down time? And the list can go on and on.

Balance by its very nature demands equality. It requires an equalized ratio between both elements...the standard and what you are bringing to the scales. The counterweight "judges" the capacity of the item brought to the scales. If the counterweight overpowers the element, a less heavy counterweight is then used to "judge" the value of the element provided until the scales are balance and value is determined. I also want to point out that true balance is ONLY between two elements at a time. There may be other things going on, but when you enroll balance, you are comparing only two elements and you must not be confused by adding other elements into the picture. That is not balance. That is known as chaos. And the other often overlooked item (I mentioned it briefly above) is that the elements being balanced are not in competition with each other, on the contrary, they are attempting to mirror each other and create a state of flat-line.

Now I use the word flat-line because when a business strives for balance in whatever area they are pursuing, and they achieve it, but then decide to remain balanced on the scales, no transaction can take place. If the merchant who balances the customer's precious metal on the scales does nothing to take the elements off the scales and "break the balance", the transaction will never take place. This is the trap that a lot of business owners and entrepreneurs find themselves. They are using the diagnosis tool of balance as a magic wand, and instead of achieving miracle profits or attracting wonderful clients, they sit in equilibrium and admire the balance that they have achieved and thus allowing their prospects to find other businesses that are willing to take their gold off the scales and actually engage in a transaction.

Balance is a VERY useful tool, but it is NOT a state in which your business needs to remain. It is not a state at all! Balance is a binary process to let you know where individual elements in your business or life stand so you can make additions or subtractions to their values and begin to shift your priorities. You can't have true priorities if everything is equalized. When all is equalized, nothing is more important than anything else. And that simply is not how the world, your life, or your business operate.

There are different seasons in your business and in your life and we all have a list of priorities that we think are the best courses of action. Sometimes with need help to assess those priorities and that is where we employ the use of the diagnosis tool called "balance" to see how we measure up to the established standards and best practices in our industries and how we can adopt and even adapt these to fulfill our current needs and be able to produce customer "transactions".

As mentioned before, balance evokes equality. Just imagine if your company's budget was balanced across the board. You'd be spending the same amount on marketing as you would on office supplies. That would be nuts! I know none of you are doing that (I hope!). It doesn't make sense. Office supplies are important, but nowhere near as important as the marketing and advertising of your business. So, your budget is NEVER balanced, but a good budget is always HARMONIZED.

Balance is the tool to see where you stand and Harmony is the process in which you take your separate elements with different values and different priorities, and seamlessly integrate them together into a beautiful symphony to which your customers can't wait to listen. Harmony deals with multiple elements at the same time, where balance only works with two at time. Harmony never compares the elements, yet it uses each element's strengths and values to create an interactive whole...a business flow or funnel. The same is true in our personal lives and relationships. Harmony is the act of conducting the orchestra, that we call our business, to function as a whole with multiple elements working together.

So to expand of the orchestra analogy, there are not the same number of violins as there are tympanies in an orchestra. Are they out of balance? No. Violins are never compared to tympanies. Apples and oranges. They are compared to the working standards of how many violins are required in an orchestra to perform certain pieces of music. Their numbers (value and volume) has nothing to do with the other components that make up the orchestra. They are judged and balanced based on standardized "counterweight" of the industry and then they inserted into a congregation of other instruments that have also been judged and balanced based on their standardized "counterweight" of the industry.

Harmony is the synthesis between unequal parts into a composition that creates something that is bigger and more dynamic than all the individual pieces on their own. In business, harmony is a well performing machine that has all of their elements in perfect proportion...not equal proportion.

So, I highly recommend that we ditch this notion of balance in lives and in businesses, because it is causing more stress, more disappointment, and more confusion than any other single topic in the business world. Balance is great as an assessment tool, but not as a business strategy. Harmony is the only way to juggle all of the unbalanced elements that are necessary to make your business thrive and blend them in such a way that your customers and clients can't get enough of the "music" you provide.

Market disruption is the key to standing out and "changing the world". Staying balanced only keeps you stuck and "safe". Harmony is taking the information that balancing gives you, and tipping the scales in YOUR favor and to the benefit of your clients and customers, making them thank you for the privilege.

Wanted to share a great testimonial about how what I (and the team members I attract) do differently when working with clients.  Our coaching systems have a slightly more relational, energetic, and spiritual connection and we help our clients achieve powerful results.

Imagination IQ is a LIVE event that encompasses ALL of my team's vast knowledge and expertise and combines it in such a way that transformation is inevitable and manifesting dreams on-demand is not longer a fairytale.

See what Sherri Fuller shared about my time with her here recently in Ojai, CA: 

"My personal experience with Dan was brief yet powerful.   Many people offer coaching or healing services, and then proceed to analyze to discover “what’s wrong” with their client.  Have you ever heard the expression, “You find what you’re looking for”?  This is where Dan truly stands taller than the rest, not only in his physical stature, but in his vision as well.  Dan demonstrated to me,  an amazing ability to be still and fully present with me, and in the power of that presence, he observed the Truth in me;  he saw the Highest in me, and awakened me from my sleep walking.  He helped me to remember what I had forgotten.

Although I have not witnessed Dan working with others yet, my personal perception, based on those precious few moments ,  is “Dan finds what he looks for!”  He looks for the divine sparks, the unique gifts that each of us carry within, yet sometimes hide from even our very own selves.  Through the presence of Dan, in his state as a conscious observer, our inner diamond rises up for us to feel and witness.   Then with love and encouragement, Dan inspires and ignites us with passion to bring it to full power and expression.  What each of us chooses to do from that point depends on our own actions.  But to be fully seen, in our power and beauty is a rare gift.  In my 30 minutes alone with Dan, I remembered and recommitted to my deepest desires, and my truer purpose. 

I say truer because there is a surface level of our selves, which is needed to get us through the simple responsibilities of each day.  It is true, but it is not the whole, ‘Truest’ self.  There is a deeper level of being that speaks to our greater purpose for living.  This aspect is so beautiful, brilliant and special, our awareness of it is not easily maintained continuously.  Just to glimpse it is a gift.  I shared such a moment, with Dan."  ~ Sherri Fuller

You can have this kind of transformation too!  And just as fast OR FASTER.  We can show you how.  Please join us in Scottsdale, AZ April 3-6 for IMAGINATION IQ: The Anti-Event Experience.

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