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The Power Within – One Week. Forever Changed

What an incredible week it has been. A while back I got word that I had received an opportunity to speak at a future The Power Within event. My first Power Within speaking gig is taking place on September 19th, 2006 in London, Ontario where Survivor and The Apprentice creator, Mark Burnett, will be headlining.
This week, The Power Within brought its full day of motivation and leadership events to Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver. The main speakers were Bill Clinton and Lance Armstrong. I was fortunate to attend all of events and spent the week seeing how The Power Within works and what I will have to do to make my speaking a success.
The events were deeply profound for me. To hear such great speakers with such deep content made me realize something: spending a week away from the office gained me more latitude and altitude in terms of personal development, understanding and passion than I could have ever experienced with “business as usual.” It will make every day – going forward – more powerful with more opportunities. I can feel it. It’s electric.
The other component that dumbfounded me was the media coverage. Yes, Clinton and Armstrong both got good photo opps with some interesting editorial, but the press also seemed to take issue with ticket price and the business behind events like this. I can’t figure out why? We spend tons of cash on high end gyms and exotic foods from all over the world. Why not spend a lot on ourselves for personal development, self-actualization and motivation? Personally, I enjoy putting the cash out to grow. Ultimately, it’s what you do with the information that does make you better. Be it from goal setting to financial freedom or even trying to uncover a new spark within.
I say put the money out there, make it even hurt… From personal experience, when it’s a little bit beyond my financial reach, I think I appreciate it more. It becomes something like a stretch goal.
The Power Within event really does change lives. It changed mine. Two years ago, I bought a ticket to an event… soon, I will be on the stage.
One of their great speakers is W. Mitchell and his message is” It’s not what happens to you, It’s what you do with it.”
That’s The Power Within and that’s a passion for life.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.