wow, daniel has been completely brainwashed

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when you coach players who are already world class, you're going to get good testimonials. you didn't hear anything out of joe schmoe who sucked ass at poker and paid him $$ (if any of them exist).

i had a friend who worked for him and said he was a creep. another female friend suggested the same. the one who worked for him said he was hard to get ahold of to get paid for work done. glad he's out of business (i assume).

[QUOTE=DNegs;43367201]Do I need to share all the details of my personal hygiene with you? Is it important for you to know if I shave or wax? Is it important for you to know how I got my sexy hair back? The pean

Yes, I still believe in God, and this course has absolutely nothing to do with any religions. It's a collection of Jews, Christians, Atheists, and all kinds. It's completely unrelated and irrelevant what someone's personal beliefs are.

I grew up with my parents being Orthodox Christian, celebrating what many call Greek Easter. I wouldn't say my family was religious, but both my parents believed in God and we went to church maybe once or twice a year tops for holidays. They didn't ever really teach me anything about the Bible or religion, but talked about God occasionally.

When I was about 31 I started doing some reading, starting with A Case for Christ written by Lee Strobel, an atheist journalist who's goal was to disprove the existence of God. After two years of working on the book, he actually had a massive shift and became a believer himself. The book is written like a court case, essentially putting the existence and merit of Jesus on trial using various approaches.

Attending ChoiceCenter had no effect one way or the other on my faith.

First of all I don't work there. I volunteer occasionally when I have a free weekend to support. What you are suggesting I do, is exactly what I AM doing! I'm living my dream life daily. I've been very blessed in my life to have two parents who showed me love constantly, good health, and a brain that allowed me to be financially successful.

When people used to ask me what a dream day looks like, I'm actually living pretty close to that. Every. Single. Day. I've always craved routine in my life, the traveling schedule of a poker player makes that difficult at times. In fact, this was actually the #1 goal I set as something I wanted to get out of choice. To live the routine that I crave both on the road or at home. For many years I "talked" about changing my body and working out hard, but in the last year I've completely transformed it. You'll have to wait for the before and after pics till my birthday July 26th, I'm still working on that 6 Pack :-)

I've changed my life to one that includes working out regularly, golfing, spending times with friends and family, and making a difference for people via charity work and also coaching. I really enjoy inspiring people and helping them see possibilities for themselves they didn't see before. I like coaching little league too, but what I really enjoy is coaching people, not in poker, who ask me for it.

What is coaching exactly? I don't ever tell people what to do. Coaching, or at least the way I do it, is all about asking powerful questions so that the person can come to the conclusions that work best for them, on their own.

I don't charge for it. I do it, because I understand that the getting is in the giving. Helping others and being outwardly focused are integral parts of what I would call a happy life.

ChoiceCenter never ever calls people and uses high pressure sales tactics. ChoiceCenter itself doesn't solicit any business at all. If there is a feeling of "pressure" that comes from the individual, a friend or family member who is trying to get their friends to go. The odd thing about Rast's post about high pressure sales tactics, is that there was no longer anything to sell! They already had his $2700 whether he came back for the second weekend or not. There is no financial benefit to them at that point to make sure he completes the course.

I think what he meant, was that the coaches and the others in the class may have took a stand for him and wanted him to come back and complete if it was possible. Showing him that while he has a prior engagement, it "can" be moved if he chose it. It's all about possibility.

I know plenty of "random people" that were in my class and further classes. They all seemed to be just fine about the value and how they were treated.

As for my poker results, I've been doing this successfully for 20 years now, I think I'm pretty good at recognizing when I'm playing well or not, regardless of results. The results were just the cherry on top!

Don't forget about running hot as **** during deep stages of large MTTs at the most perfect time to do so in poker history.

Choice center and its motives just might be real.

God is not.

This is neither a pro or con Choice Center post. Just some thoughts and indirect experience with the issue.

The whole idea of Choice Center is scary to me. It is even scarier to me that a ton of poker players whom I highly respect as very intelligent people have gone through Choice Center and pretty much all say it has helped them in their lives, mainly with regards to their relationships with other people.
Of all my friends that went through the program they seemed to unanimously say it has helped them overall and they would recommend it to others. A couple of them tried hard to recruit me, but I really feel no need for it. Even if I did, I think I am just too skeptical of the whole thing for it to be productive for me. One key aspect that a few of my friends did not like was they felt very pressured to recruit family and friends at a certain point in the process. It sounded like that was the main goal of the program for a limited amount of time.

I find it remarkable that Daniel is willing to put himself directly in the line of fire for what he thinks will help other people. Whether you agree with him or not on the whole idea of Choice Center, it is pretty impressive that Daniel is continually out in front of the issue and always available to have a level headed debate.

While I am not a believer in Choice Center, I am fascinated with Daniel and his commitment to something he deeply believes in. Only time will tell whether Choice Center turns out to be the real deal but I don't think anyone can really question the purity of Daniel's intentions.

Thanks Matt. I figured people would be interested to know that The Harvard Business Review has done several articles on Emotional Intelligence and most recently was the cover of their May issue. This post from them asks the question if your EQ can be raised at all: http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/05/can-you...prove-your-em/

One last thing. I didn't "need it" either! Neither did my agent who was already living a great life. I've always been an extremely happy person, but I figured if it could improve my life 2-5% then I'd give it a shot since I saw no danger or harm in it.

I can see why Antonio offered to pay for my enrollment. I'm obviously the perfect candidate for this program.

One more thing. I'm truly not afraid of entering the fire. I never have been, but it's different now. I truly don't take it personal when people attack me venomously on here. If some called me a blue frog, that would have no effect on me since, well, I know I'm not a blue frog.

If someone tells me I'm showing up as arrogant or judgmental, that may make me ponder and look at how I'm being. I'm very aware, and acknowledge that those characteristics have shown up for me throughout my life for various reasons. Something I've very conscious of, and I'm absolutely going to slip back into it occasionally. I used to be easily triggered by people being condescending towards me, or coming from superiority. That can still trigger my arrogance and judgment, but I have a much better awareness of it and grasp of how to shift away from it.

We all have different ways of dealing with conflict. Some shy away out of fear, some play victim, some use physical force, while others may come from arrogance. If I'm challenged and triggered, I know that's where my tendency is to go. I'm certainly not afraid of conflict, but if my buttons are pushed, sometimes that part of who I am comes out. It isn't going anywhere. I'll always be conscious of arrogance and judgment in terms of how I show up. I'll have my moments, but they are short lived and I'm able to shift into something else. Maybe compassion, acceptance, or just being loving.

The Masters course I did taught by Dr. Jorge Haddock taught me a lot of little tricks on how to shift, and be the best version of myself on a more consistent basis.

I, too, become arrogant and judgemental when challenged. I think i've just learnt that by reading above dnegs post. Can i get a brief lesson on what you've found the most efficient way to shift to the more compassionate form?

I will remain skeptical and absolutely an atheist but i'm intrigued to see an answer.

Daniel is the best we have, so if he believes in some crazy **** every few years, we should just deal with it.

DNegs. I took a look at some of those videos you linked. Not for me, and some of it even seemed a little racist, but I didn't feel like they were trying to suck me into a cult.

reading think and grow rich is a lot cheaper

stop tweeting so much thx

lol?

The video in which a girl named Sylvia is the teacher plagiarizes the ideas of a book called "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. That whole seminar is all about "resistance" which is what the non-Sun Tzu book is all about.

And no, there is nothing cult about that video.

To some of us old farts, CC sounds a lot like EST.

Danny fell for religion so of course he'll fall for this junk - theres something missing obviously and he's an easy mark but its all mostly harmless to the rest of us so who cares what he needs to fill the gaps.

Negreanu was the first person to ever win the WSOP player of the year twice. He must be doing something really, really wrong.

Daniel, please don't ignore my offer.

That woman has a number of videos there. I don't know which one you're talking about. That said, when it comes to the question of whether this group is a dangerous cult or at all worthwhile, it doesn't matter to me if they are plagiarizing ideas; all that matters is if the material is sound. I didn't find the videos I watched to be very compelling, but that's just me.