The Success Principles - Jack Canfield

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Instructor’s Manual
For Conducting a Success Principles Study Group or Workshop
The Success Principles
Short Course Instructor’s Manual
by Jack Canfield
This guide is a companion publication to the New York Times Bestselling Book:
The Success Principles
™
How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
By Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer
HarperResources, 2005
This instructor’s manual is a publication of
The Canfield Training Group
P.O. Box 30880 ❖ Santa Barbara, CA 93130 ❖ [phone] ❖ [phone]
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This course is meant to help people integrate and apply the principles and strategies of success presented
in The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield
with Janet Switzer (New York: Harper Collins, 2015). The book is available at all bookstores and on the
Internet at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and other online booksellers.
This leader’s guide has been written, compiled, typed, edited and formatted by Jack Canfield, Jesse
Ianiello, Kacie Mutschuller and Janet Switzer.
Session 1: most people do is when they don’t get the outcome they want,
they blame the event. When they blame the event for not having
Getting Started what they want, it puts all of the power outside of them. There is
nothing you can do about external events. What is just is. So
what you have to do is change your response to get the outcome
Ask participants to read Chapters 1, and 3 of The Success Principles you want. So 2 + 2 = 4. If you don’t like 4, the 2 of the event is
before the session. Make sure you read and understand them as a given. You’ve got to change your response from a 2 to some
well. other number, say 3 or 4 or 5, in order to get a different result. So
the basic principle is getting yourself out of blaming and
Chapter 1: Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life complaining and into taking responsibility.
E+R=O
Chapter 3: Decide What You Want Another important concept is that people tend to complain to
Vision the wrong person. If I’m upset at Patty, I tell Veronica. And if I’m
upset at Veronica, I tell Patty. That doesn’t solve anything. I need
You can work with any size group. If the group is larger than to tell Veronica if I’m upset at her or Patty if I’m upset at her-so
eight people, I suggest you break the group into smaller groups of that the person who can do something about it has the feedback
4 members each within the same room. Adjust as necessary to fit that I would like something different. That person doesn’t need to
your situation. Have the groups sit in circles. grant my request, but at least I need to communicate a request in
order to get what I want.
Make sure everyone has a pad of paper and a pen or pencil.
Suggest that they purchase a journal or notebook especially for Another important concept in taking responsibility and not
their notes in this class. Ask that they bring it to each class, so being a victim in life is something called a yellow alert. Yellow
that they can refer back to what they have written in later classes. alerts are things that you notice in your life that act as clues that
things are happening or about to happen that aren’t going to work
Say to the group: “We are going to start by having each out. Like, I hire Sarah and she says, “Oh yeah, I’m thinking about
member introduce yourself, what you do for a living (what your marrying some guy who lives in the Bahamas, and we ignore
job in the company is, etc.), and something you are proud of having that. On another day she says she really is falling more in love
accomplished.” with the guy and she hates the rainy weather in here in Seattle.
And then all of a sudden she quits and we’re surprised and left
Make sure every member has access to a copy of The Success unprepared because we weren’t paying attention to the yellow
Principles. Ask how many people have read chapters 1, 3 and 7. alerts she was giving us all along. There are lots of yellow alerts in
Tell them not to worry if they haven’t read the chapters. Ask them your life — like your husband comes home with lipstick on his
to read them, plus chapter 10: Release the Brakes and chapter 11: collar or he’s late every night and you wonder well what’s going
See What You Want, Get What You See before the next session on here? Well I don’t want to say anything about it because that
would be too uncomfortable. Because it is inconvenient or
Remind them of the formula E + R = O uncomfortable, we tend to deny the yellow alerts rather than to
(Event + Response = Outcome) act on them. So we almost always have clues that things are coming
and so we’re not the victims.
Tell them: “We are going to work on taking more responsibility
for our lives, which is the first and most important step toward So with that in mind we are going to do an exercise.
creating more success in our lives.”
Exercise:
OPTIONAL INTRODUCTORY TALK: Ask the group to get into groups of 4 or 5 or 6 (whatever is
If you want, you can read or paraphrase the following appropriate for the size group you are working with). Larger than
introduction to responsibility. 6 will take up too much time.
The key principles we are covering here today are 1) you It’s best to have the following sentence already printed out on
have to give up blaming and complaining. We spend most of our a flip chart, poster, PowerPoint slide, white board or chalkboard:
time blaming things outside of us-the weather, our boss, the traffic
If I were to take just 10% more responsibility
that made us late, the economy, or the current president. Whatever
for my life I would...
it is, we tend to blame something outside of ourselves. 2) The
second thing is that you have to give up all your excuses and take
Ask them to go around the group in order, from right to left,
the position that whatever you’re experiencing in life, the results
completing the following sentence:
you are creating (whether it’s physical, financial, or relational),
the quality of life you are experiencing is a result of how you are If I were to take just 10% more
responding to the events rather than the events themselves. The responsibility for my life I would...
formula that captures this is E + R = O. You might want to write
that down. Tell them that they are to keep going around the group, taking
as many turns as time allows, completing the sentence. Tell them
E + R = O stands for Event + Response = Outcome. And what that you will give them about 4 minutes for the exercise.
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Here are several more sentence completion they can do. You
can do more or less depending on the amount of time you have You can also write these questions on a white board, flip chart
allotted for the group session. or PowerPoint presentation.
If I were to take just 10% more responsibility for Once they have written down the questions, ask Partner B to
my happiness, I would... ask Partner A the questions.
If I were to take just 10% more responsibility for
Instruct the people asking the questions not to interrupt, make
my health and fitness, I would...
comments or give advice. They are simply to ask the questions
If I were to take just 10% more responsibility for and listen to the responses. They start by asking the first question,
the quality of my relationships, I would... and then let their partner answer it. When they are finished, they
If I were to take just 10% more responsibility for are to ask the second question and so on until they complete all
my effectiveness at work, I would... eight questions.
If I were to take just 10% more responsibility for
Tell them:
my happiness, I would...
“I am going to give you six minutes each to complete the
At the completion of the exercise (completing several different
process and then you will switch roles, with Partner A asking
sentence stems), say:
the questions and Partner B answering the questions. If
you get through the all eight questions before I tell you to
“Now look at what you’ve said and what you’ve heard
stop and switch, go through the questions a second time
from all of us and think about two things. First, does anyone
with another area of your life that is not working as well as
see any common themes? (Participants respond.) And,
you would like it to.”
second, based on that, what’s one action you would be
willing to commit to taking before our next session that
It is a good idea to illustrate the process by asking one of the
will put into action any one of those things that you came
participants to ask you the questions. It is helpful, but not necessary,
up with?
to think about the answers in advance of the demonstration.
It doesn’t have to be a huge gargantuan thing, it can be taking
Example:
30 minutes in your room by yourself because you said “I want
more time for me” or whatever. Write it down so you capture it,
1. What is an area of your life that is not working as well as you
and then let’s go around the group and say it out loud so you hear
would like it to?
yourself committing to it - so we can hold ourselves accountable,
and so that when we come back tomorrow, we can ask ourselves,
“Did I do that?” Because what we are finding really makes the I am not getting as much exercise as I would like to, and
difference is not what we know . . . but what we do.” as a result, I am having difficulty maintaining my ideal
body weight of 185 pounds.
Second Exercise:
2. How are you creating or allowing this to happen?
Ask the group to break into pairs. If there is an uneven number,
you can be that person’s partner after you have given the I am staying up too late at night reading or watching
instructions. Ask the partners to decide who will be partner A and television, so that I don’t feel like getting up early in the
who will be partner B. morning to exercise before work. I think I will exercise
after work, but I am usually late getting home from work,
Either ask the group to write down the following eight so it is not happening.
questions or prepare the questions on a handout prior to the session:
3. What are you doing that is not working that you need to do
1. What is an area of your life that is not working as well as you less of?
would like it to?
2. How are you creating or allowing this to happen? I am watching too much television. I am agreeing to too
3. What are you doing that is not working that you need to do less many projects so that I don’t have enough free time.
of?
4. What are you currently doing that is working that you need to
4. What are you currently doing that is working that you could to
do more of?
do more of?
5. What are you not doing that you could try on to see if it works?
I am delegating more and that is creating more time for
6. What will you commit to doing as a result of this exercise? me to get my most important work done. I am also
stretching and doing push-ups when I first get up. I am
7. By when will you do it?
doing a little yoga before I go to bed.
8. Write it down.
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5. What are you not doing that you could try on to see if it works? Decide What You Want
I could make a commitment to meet someone for a fast Tell them: “The next section of this workshop is working with
walk or a run for half an hour four days a week. That way the second success principle, which is Deciding What You Want.
I wouldn’t back out because I know I would have someone What we are going to do is work on seven categories of your life
waiting for me. It would be harder to cop out. I could give and decide what it is you want to create or experience in each of
myself some kind of a reward for achieving my goal. those categories, and think about it in terms of the next twelve
months as the time frame you are working with. If we were sitting
6. What will you commit to doing as a result of this exercise? here a year from now, what would you like to have happened in
each of those categories? I am going to suggest you come up with
three things for each category.”
I will go to be one half hour earlier. I will go over my in-
box with my assistant to assure that I handle things right
Ask the participants to turn to a blank page in their notebook
away and delegate more to her. I will set up appointments
or notepad and label the top of a page: “What I Want”
to exercise with my wife and my son four days a week.
Ask them to write down three things they would like to achieve
7. When will you do it by?
in the next year in the following seven areas of their life:
I will complete all of these by tomorrow.
1. Financial
2. Career
8. Write it down.
3. Recreation and free time
(Write down your commitment.)
4. Physical fitness and health
Say: “Please face your partner. Remember, no interrupting, 5. Relationships with family and friends
asking questions or giving advice. Please begin by partner B asking 6. Personal goals (learning, spiritual growth, personal
the first question.” achievements)
7. Community service, contribution, legacy
Give the group 6 minutes, and then ask them to switch roles.
(Use a stopwatch if possible; otherwise, it is very easy to lose
track of the accurate amount of time that has elapsed.). You can refer to The Vision Exercise on pages 32 and 33 of
The Success Principles for more details about each of these areas
When both partners have finished their turns (12 minutes), of their lives.
ask the group to stop and face the front of the room. Ask if anyone
wants to share what they learned or what they have committed Another option is to print copies of the enclosed What I Want
to. form that appears on the next page:
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What I Want
Write down three (3) things you would like to achieve over the next year in the following seven areas of your life:
1. Financial
2. Career
3. Recreation and Free Time
4. Physical Fitness & Health
5. Relationships With Family & Friends
6. Personal Goals
(learning, spiritual growth, personal achievements)
7. Community Service, Contribution & Legacy
© 2015 Jack Canfield and Self-Esteem Seminars. This worksheet has been provided as part of The Success Principles Workshop by Jack Canfield and is based upon the New York Times bestselling book
The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer. For more information, visit www.thesuccessprinciples.com. The Success Principles
is available in all major bookstores and on the Internet at Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com and other online booksellers. The Success Principles is a trademark of Self-Esteem Seminars.
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When they are finished, say: Homework:
Get back together with your partner from the previous
exercise and I will give you two minutes each to just tell 1) Take action on the things that you wrote down that you are
your partner what you wrote down. And then we are going going to do as a result of doing the exercises today. Be prepared
to come back together and I’m going to give you a to report on one of them at our next session.
homework assignment and you’ll be done.
Okay, partner A begin. 2) Take your goals and begin to think about making them specific
Two minutes elapse. - how much by when. Think about how you would quantify
Okay, stop. (Pause and make sure you have everyone’s the goal.
attention.)
And now it is partner B’s turn. Go ahead and begin.
3) Read: Chapter 7: Unleash the Power of Goal Setting
Two minutes elapse.
Okay, stop. Thank your partner for being there for you and Chapter 10: Release the Brakes and
turn your attention back to me.
Chapter 11: See What You Want, Get What You See
Reminder:
Remind them to read their list every day when they first wake
up and before they go to bed at night.
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Session 2: Bonus Idea:
Unleash the Power “I’ll share a quick idea with you, it’s called MTO, Minimum ...
Target ... Outrageous. Whenever you set a goal, set a minimum
of Goal Setting & goal, such as read for five minutes with Josh. My target goal would
be twenty minutes. My outrageous goal would be 35 or 40 minutes.
Release the Brakes Another example is your minimum goal might be to have a tiny
wine cooler in your kitchen. Your target goal would be to have a
full sized wine refrigerator, and your outrageous goal might be to
Supplies: have a complete wine cellar.
1. Pre-printed list of the guidelines and their annotations from
pages 75-77 of The Success Principles (1 per person) Let’s look at cleaning out your garage as an example. Your
minimum goal would be taking out one tire to the curb, your target
2. 3"x5" index cards (about 25 per person)
goal might be to take three boxes this weekend and open them up
see what’s in there and decide if you’re going to keep them or
New and Good throw them away. Your outrageous goal would be to empty out
your entire garage, paint it, put hire California Closets to install
(Always start every session with this exercise. It sets the tone, shelving and cabinets, and then take each item - one at a time -
builds self-esteem and quickly bonds the group.) and put it back only if you want to keep it.
Say: The outrageous goal is something that would just blow your
mind if you achieved it. Something that feels like “Well we could
“We are going to start by going around the circle and share never do that. We’d never have one thousand people enrolled in a
something that either showed up as a result, or something seminar. That would be outrageous.” The target goal is “We could
that you did or an insight that you had as a result of the definitely get 400 people enrolled in the seminar.” And the
work we did the last session.” minimum would be 100 people enrolled in the seminar.”
You should go first and then go around the circle from right to left. So you’re almost guaranteed to reach your minimum. And
(Remember to break into smaller groups if your group is more your minimum gets you off the dime because you don’t feel like
than 6 or 8 people. you can’t do it. Your target is within your capabilities. And then
you have your outrageous. You see, what happens is that most
Report on Goals You Set for Yourself people will start with the minimum, and then they get motivated.
Have you ever had the experience where you say, “I’m just going
Go around the group one more time and ask each person to report to clean up the kitchen a little,” and the next thing you know
on what action they took to accomplish one of their goals since you’ve cleaned the entire kitchen, even waxed the floor? It was
the last session. just a matter of getting started. You know what I mean; you were
just going to go down town for a minute then you spend three
Introductory Lecture hours down there getting errands done.
“The first thing we are going to do is set measurable goals Then ask yourself, “Who could I delegate part or all of this
for the 21 things you committed to in the last session. For too?” You could delegate the entire garage to California Closets
each one, write down your goal in a way that is measurable, and your wife and twenty-year-old son. You wouldn’t have to be
so that if someone outside were observing you, they would involved with it at all, and it still gets done. So sometimes you
know you had accomplished the goal.” delegate it to someone you know. Or you trade by doing something
you like to do for them, and they do this for you. And if you have
Use examples from page 52 of the book. The difference money, you’ll find that you can buy solutions to most of your
between a good idea and a goal. problems, thus freeing up valuable time to create and enjoy the
life you want.
“I would like to own a nice home on the ocean someday,”
is a desire, but it is not yet stated as a goal, which includes Creating Affirmations
how much and by when. Here is the same statement stated
as a goal. “I will own a 4000 square foot house on Pacific Say:
Coast Highway in Malibu, California, by noon, April 30,
2007.” “For every goal you have, you want to have an affirmation
that affirms having that goal in the present tense.”
Instruct the participants to: “Go ahead and take the time to
list each goal with a how much and a date of completion.”
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