Introduction
n this book you will find a life enhancement technology that will change your life. The Pillars of Excellence program will give you the skills and guidance you need to overcome challenges, achieve your dreams, and attain fulfillment. The program will also guide you in developing motivation, drive, spirit, and purpose. You will attain extraordinary health, fitness, energy, and vitality. You will also develop the ability to gain true knowledge, wisdom, skill, and creativity. You will improve your emotional tones, therefore your productivity. This program will guide you to extraordinary communication by developing your affinity and reality with both living and nonliving entities. It will guide you to responsible, abundant, and consistent contribution. When you complete this program, you will know where you are going, why you are going there, and how you will get there. This book will guide you in developing a life of mastery, in which you will achieve what the Pillars of Excellence program refers to as Optimum. Optimum is a state of existence that requires certain actions to attain, but once you create Optimum, you will be able to accomplish anything you desire.
The Pillars of Excellence program is a peak performance and life enhancement course. Peak performers have certain characteristics, and this program will guide you in developing these characteristics so that you too can become a peak performer and enhance all areas of your life. If you are already a peak performer, the program will give you the ability to perform at even higher levels. My background as a peak performance coach has provided me with the experience and education to bring to you the latest technologies that will give you the extra advantage needed to perform above and beyond expectations. The Pillars of Excellence program is the foundation of peak performance and successful living. We all need to perform optimally whether we are at work, at home, or just enjoying life; and this program will give you the tools needed to live your life effectively.
Throughout my life I have always been interested in the concept of success and optimum performance. I searched high and low and read literally hundreds of books and studied any research material that had anything to do with self-improvement, performance, happiness, and fulfillment. I even earned a master’s degree in psychology, and at the time of this writing I am currently working on my PhD and am writing my dissertation on optimum performance and life enhancement technologies and strategies. As you can see, my interest continues, and my life’s work is committed to the development of the most effective self-help program ever created. I truly believe that I have found the most effective formula in the Pillars of Excellence program, and now I want to share it with as many people as possible.
My studies have led me to conclude that success literature today is much different than success literature of two hundred years ago. Earlier literature focused on character and development of the person from an inside-out approach. Today’s success literature focuses on trying to change people by telling them how they should behave. This is an outside-in approach. True change comes from within a person, which requires an inside-out approach. Many of today’s programs tell us how we should behave and try to get us to internalize an appropriate behavior for each individual situation. Trying to change another person’s behavior by telling him or her how to behave is impossible, and even if it could work, why would we want it to work? Doing so would only create a world of robots in which everyone had the same personality--similar to that found in the movie The Stepford Wives. Our world is a wonderful place because of our different personalities. Also, telling others how to behave can never work, because doing so takes away the required ownership that is needed to consistently take any action. For anyone to consistently perform requires ownership, and the only way anyone can own anything is for the action or thing to be his or her own desire or idea. Our country and world are in a downward spiral, because we live in an environment of flaky, fake behavior that is caused by today’s plastic approach to improvement. I believe it is time to change this approach and bring about real growth for personal development.