Merri and I headed to work.
Merri and I have always had a family business and I cannot help but think it has drawn us all so much closer together.
Yesterday’s message looked at how “families who learn together say together“.
Good family stickiness is made even stronger with shared purpose and goals. Many years ago when we had a direct mail business… Merri and I used to sit round the dining room table with the children and fold letters and insert them in envelopes and stick on the address labels and… talk as we worked together. We shared the feeling of accomplishment when the work was done and made the sure the children accompanied us to the Post Office to send off the mail and pick up letters that arrived… with checks… so they participated in the full circle. We let them have a commission on sales so they connected giving… to receiving.
Our webmaster David has became our son-in-law. Our daughter Cheri runs our administration. Recently I was tickled pink when we found a way for my sister Sandra to help us with social networking. Work brings us together. We have great things to talk about every day… common challenges, mutual interests and shared satisfactions. It’s also really great to end a business email or phone call with “I love you”.
This is why I was so absolutely happy to see one of our Super Spanish teachers bring their children into their business with them.
Shawn and Suzanne Bandick wrote about their last Super Spanish Course in Vernon BC.
Suzanne wrote: Dear Gary, Merri, Cheri, and David. I write to you sitting on Shawn’s mom’s back deck under the cherry trees, tomorrow our Vernon class begins and we have 29 students! I just signed up the last couple a few minutes ago. Very exciting! Shawn and I wanted to thank you all in this success …together we make a great team.
At the beginning of the week we had 22 students but I had in mind we would have 30 so I arranged to have 30 books printed on Monday. That was my saving grace. I bought 30 name tags, and had 30 questionnaires printed. So instead of stress over last minute sign ups I am simply excited because we can easily accommodate all.
The room we will be teaching in is fantastic – it has a surround sound system that makes our recordings sound really good. Best, we got it in exchange for 2 spots in the course. We shopped for binders and got the same type of hard binder you use for only $2 each – a savings of 2.65 each over other stores. We are making money and saving money everywhere.
We bought some hard candy to have in the room and have arranged for fresh baking at coffee breaks (not mine this time) – just because it adds a little something special.
I am enclosing some pics to show the room and our Spanish pronunciation coaches (our kids) who have gotten many great comments on their enunciation and pronounciation. What a joy to share in this experience with our kids.
The Bandicks… Riley, Shawn, Suzanne and Brianna.
We moved our kids, Brianna and Riley, to Mexico when they were 8 and 11 so there pronunciation is definitely that of a native Spanish speaker. Brianna called for a job in Mexico to teach English and they did not believe from her voice she was from Canada. When we teach in Canada it is likely one of them will be our coach. The students really seemed to enjoy the different styles, personalities and ages of us.
Suzanne Bandick with son and daughter teaching Super Spanish.
After Day 1 of their course Suzanne wrote: We are still so excited! People are really getting it and they are thrilled. Had a little trouble with the air conditioning not working properly but the students all rolled with it graciously. We just made jokes about the extent we go to to prepare them for Spanish speaking countries. Air should be fixed by tomorrow. Several students commented on how happy they were to have a course offered so close to home rather than going to Florida. 30 students still manageable and very fun. Awesome, just awesome!
Suzanne with daughter.
After Day 1: Another awesome day. Everyone seems really pleased.
Back to the pictures…. all I can say is people seem to really relax around us ….. oh I gave you a picture of me with a Canadian cow! At the bottom of this email is another student FB posting to my wall. Also, the owners of the Century 21 office bought a portable room air conditioner yesterday because the air was fixed but it couldn’t cool down the room sufficiently with all of us in there so they left it running all night and we it was perfect temperature for today. We were really impressed and so was the class.
Shawn Bandick with son.
After Day 3: Wow Wow Wow! Just a quick note to let you know it was an awesome course. We got great reviews and I will share them with you soon. So many people we had never met before this course were giving us all hugs at the end! It’s such a brilliant course that you created. In fact because students were so thrilled we may have another class in late August because they know others who want to attend. I will let you know as soon as we get a set date over the next few days in case you want to advertise it as well. Thanks again. Suzanne
Shawn Bandick with daughter
Family businesses have so many benefits that many governments are promoting the the idea to help increase both economic and social stability.
The British government for example has a business link agency that has osted these notes at its website (bolds are mine): Advantages of family businesses
If you start or join a family business you’re likely to benefit from a range of advantages which you often don’t find in other enterprises. These include:
• Common values – you and your family are likely to share the same ethos and beliefs on how things should be done. This will give you an extra sense of purpose and pride – and a competitive edge for your business.
• Strong commitment – building a lasting family enterprise means you’re more likely to put in the extra hours and effort needed to make it a success. Your family is more likely to understand that you need to take a more flexible approach to your working hours.
• Loyalty – strong personal bonds mean you and family members are likely to stick together in hard times and show the determination needed for business success.
• Stability – knowing you’re building for future generations encourages the long-term thinking needed for growth and success – though it can also produce a potentially damaging inability to react to change.
• Decreased costs – family members may be more willing to make financial sacrifices for the sake of the business. For example, accepting lower pay than they would get elsewhere to help the business in the longer term, or deferring wages during a cashflow crisis. You may also find you don’t need employers’ liability insurance if you only employ close family members.
Those are values that go beyond business!
Gary
Shawn and Suzanne Bandick teaching Super Spanish together.
Learn how to teach Super Spanish as a single, couple or as a family business.
Earn From Two Hot Trends-Teaching Super Thinking + Spanish
One way to have an alternative income is by tapping into two of the future’s hottest trends as a Super Thinking + Spanish teacher.
The teacher program is now closed except to residents of Ecuador or Asia. For details contact Gary Scott at www.garyascott.com
See why below and see how to learn a special ways to teach increased intelligence and Spanish.
Our 2011 Super Thinking + Spanish teachers learning and developing alternate sources of income.
Two points almost everyone agrees on about the future are… first we need to be smarter to keep up with the faster pace of change… and second the world’s economy has and will continue to globalize.
This is one reason why we combined the science of Super Thinking with learning Spanish.
Be smarter as the world turns faster. Super Thinking tactics in our courses help create new income opportunity and also can improve health.
A Wall Street Journal article entitled “Ways to Inflate Your IQ” says: Many people think of IQ as a genetic trait, like brown eyes or short legs: You’re born with it and you’re stuck with it. Now, a growing body of research is showing that a person’s IQ can rise—and even fall—over the years.
Scores can change gradually or quickly, after as little as a few weeks of cognitive training, research shows.
In the latest study, 33 British students were given IQ tests and brain scans at ages 12 to 16 and again about four years later by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London; 9% of the students showed a significant change of 15 points or more in IQ scores.
On a scale where 90 to 110 is considered average, one student’s IQ rose 21 points to 128 from 107, lifting the student from the 68th percentile to the 97th compared with others the same age, says Cathy Price, professor of cognitive neuroscience at the center and co-author of the study, published last month in Nature.
Swings in individual IQ scores are often written off as the product of measurement error or a test subject having a bad day. But MRIs in this study showed changes in gray matter in areas corresponding to fluctuations in the kids’ skills, Dr. Price says.
There are practical steps people can take to see longer-term IQ changes. A 30-year study at the National Institute of Mental Health found that people whose work involves complex relationships, setting up elaborate systems or dealing with people or difficult problems, tend to perform better over time on cognitive tests. Test scores of people whose jobs are simple and require little thought actually tend to decline, according to the research, published in 1999 in Psychology and Aging.
New tasks stimulate the brain most. When researchers at the University of Hamburg subjected 20 young adults to one month of intense training in juggling, they found an increase in the corresponding gray matter in the brain as early as seven days after the training began.
Fluctuations in IQ scores over time underscore the brain-boosting benefits of a complex job, musical training, advanced schooling and new experiences throughout a lifetime.
Music lessons are linked to higher IQ throughout life, according to research by E. Glenn Schellenberg, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. Six years’ lessons lifted children’s IQ scores an average 7.5 points.
Super Thinking Tactics improve the brain in three ways… one being through the use of music. Second, our program teaches Spanish in three days… to prove the power of the technique.
Spanish courses offer a strong income potential because globalization, particularly in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico (due to NAFTA and massive immigration) make it more important to be able to communicate with people from other countries. Increasingly, the second language U.S. citizens are choosing to learn is Spanish. Americans and Canadians are studying Spanish in record numbers. According to Businessweek, for example, more students studying for an MBA in today’s world are choosing to become trilingual by learning English, French, and Spanish.
Moreover, two of the top ten MBA schools outside the U.S. are located in Spain.
There are many other reasons to learn Spanish… about 500 million reasons… the global population who speak Spanish. About half of the people in the Western hemisphere speak Spanish, as many people as those who speak English. Within the USA Spanish is the second language after English—by a wide margin. According to Wikipedia Spanish is the most commonly spoken language in the world after English, Chinese, and Hindustani.
In the U.S., it is easier to get a job if you speak both Spanish and English.
Having an alternative language can help you have an alternative income.
Super Thinking teaching turns your income up and your education upside down! See below how our Spanish teachers earn income but are forbidden to speak Spanish when they teach. They must teach Spanish in English, but they can teach English to Spanish students as well… in English!
The Super Thinking Story
The educational program Merri and I have developed uses a form of brain wave integration that opens enormous opportunity for expansion, understanding, peacefulness as well as greater wealth. We are sharing this in depth program with a select few through our new teacher program.
Super Thinking uses frequency (in music and a number of other ways) to integrate brain waves so the process of absorbing, processing and recalling information is vastly accelerated. This brings forth the three C’s: Calm, Clarity and Coherence.
How the Super Learning History Brings Opportunity to You Now:
Our Super Thinking programs are not gimmicks or tricks… just advanced education.
Merri and I are explorers. Our business began 44 years ago (May 1968) and we continue to always look for what’s next… trying to stay on or ahead of the leading edge.
This process helped us create the totally unique system we use that incorporates numerous tactics.
The first tactic is to use Baroque music in the learning process. At least three best selling books, “Superlearning”, the “Mozart Effect” and “Superlearning 2000″ have revealed insights about how to learn and think more powerfully based on systems drawn from the Bulgarian educational master, Dr. Georgi Lozanov.
This one tactic alone is so powerful that Small Business Innovation Research… an official site of the US government granted over $100,000 for the specific purpose they said was: to provide a method to remove barriers which hinder or prevent the employment of blind persons. An innovative method call the Lozanov learning system is proposed to help train blind persons to become computer programers and operators of automated equipment.
Merri was among just a few who learned directly from Dr. Lozanov the one time he visited the USA and is licensed in these techniques.
Merri has enhanced this system with numerous other tactics. One is to make slight alterations in nutrition. Altered nutrition can make anyone a person 25% smarter. These two tactics are just part of seven, easy to use learning techniques that help gain any skill, from computers to athletics to conversational languages… in much less time than traditional learning techniques… often two-to-five times faster, in exciting and innovative ways…but most of all it is a system that is stress free and full of fun.
The third tactic builds on the first two and uses 17 unique lessons to provide a vocabulary of over 4,000 words that brings Spanish fluency in a short time.
A Livescience.com article entitled “CIA Seeks Anyone, Anyone Who Can Speak 2 Languages” shows that the key to learning was “the willingness to speak a language even though one was bad at it in the beginning”. In short those who learn the fastest and the best were those who applied trial and error to learning a language.
The willingness to speak a new language even though not perfectly is the key to learning. Super Thinking + Spanish prepares you to communicate in just three days so you do not sound bad at all. The three day Spanish is very eloquent and allows you to apply trial and error after the course in three different ways… speaking words you read and hear in your lessons… creating Spanish sentences that get your point across mentally in a technique we call “detouring” and by creating sentences daily. When you memorize a sentence you quickly forget. When you create a sentence it is your forever!
Bob and…
Lorraine Shane now teach Super Spanish in Seattle.
Our Super Learning System helps in innumerable walks of life. This is why the second year of our teaching program offers extra opportunity for you now.
Problems Can Create Opportunity
There is a huge and growing problem of accelerating change that requires accelerated learning. Learning Spanish is just a tiny part of the demand this problem creates. Expended learning capacity is far more valuable than just being able to speak Spanish. So we are expanding the Super Learning focus in our business… shifting our mental process into overdrive.
Super Thinking works by focusing on the learner first… the data second. This system “grows the learner” rather than just expands the information. The explosion of data we must all process every day means there is too much information to process already. Let’s view this learning in terms of plumbing to outline what “Growing the Learner” means.
If you have 4.5 inches of information flowing through a 4 inch learning pipe, the solution is not to add another inch of information. The answer is to first create a six inch pipe and then an even larger pipe…a never ending expansion of abilities!
Now we are integrating this process into our Super Business Made EZ courses as well. This means we’ll provide this training six times in the US in 2012 & the winter of 2013.
The demand for Super Thinking far exceeds the numbers Merri and I can handle in six seminars a year. Because we don’t have time to do more seminars, we have been adding a teacher training program to replace ourselves.
The teacher training program is described below. This is our second year. Last year was our initial Beta program and though we are always learning and teaching we had never trained teachers before. You’ll see some results below.
We accepted 12 trainees in 2011 for our first Super Thinking teacher training plan. Now we are accepting 12 more for 2012-2013. Trainees can attend all the seminars we conduct in 2012 and winter of 2013.
Fast Track Super Spanish Camp
During our beta program teachers were required to attend four courses over a year.
Now due to the New Spanish Camp process we are conducting at our farm we have whittled this down to two or three teacher sessions. The upcoming courses either in November, 2012 or January or March 2013.
You’ll be trained during the course we teach and at special meeting before and after the camp and the other course you attend.
As a teacher you are also a member of our International Club and gain the following benefits.
Benefit #2: As a club member you receive FREE seven reports, email courses and workshops that would cost $1,265 if ordered separately.
The first online course is “Tangled Web – How to Have Your Own Web Based Business”, normally sold at $299.
The second is our online course “Self Fulfilled – How to be a Self Publisher”. which has a $299 value. I am sending you this extra course free as I think it will help you have greater success. You get an extra $299 savings.
The third is our online course “International Business Made EZ” sold at $229.
You also receive fourth the 50 minute video by our webmaster David Cross on “How to Get Your Web Business Started”.
Your fifth course is the 50+ lesson course “How to Create your Own Website Using Sitesell” by Michelle Toole.
We are proud that this course was written by a student of our courses showing how well the 43 years of knowledge that Merri and I have accumulated and put into these programs can help you start your own global micro business.
Sixth, you become a beta member in our newest online course “Event – Full Business – How to have a Seminar and Tour Business” currently offered at $349.
Seventh, you receive our Multi Currency Portfolio service that is normally $79.
The third benefit is FREE attendance at the seminars below.
When you enroll, our computerized administrative system will send you a password that makes these courses easy to access at the Club website. Then you’ll receive an announcement each time we update our courses.
September 21-22-23 Super Thinking Spanish Camp (North Carolina Gary & Merri Scott)
October 5-6-7 Super Thinking + International Investing and Business (North Carolina Gary & Merri Scott)
Nov. 16-17-18 2012 Super Thinking + Spanish Mt. Dora Florida
Share our 44 years of Experience
When it comes to having a micro business in online publishing, seminars, courses and tours, there are few people with more experience than Merri and me. Over 44 years we have organized, marketed and conducted thousands of tours for tens of thousands in dozens and dozens of countries (even behind the Iron Curtain). This course shares how we have done this… what we did right… what we did wrong… and what you can do better.
We have worked with our first group of teachers since last November and are pleased enough with the results that we are inviting 12 more teachers to begin now to prepare for 2012 2013.
Our goal is for these teachers to work in their own ways and methods. Some teachers who were already life coaches have enrolled just to apply the techniques to their existing profession. Others have applied what they learned to charity teaching.
Some of the new teachers have chosen to teach our Super Thinking Spanish course and we have to developed a Co Op site to help them build their business.
These teachers have now taught courses in Ecuador, the Amazon, Uruguay, Mexico, Costa Rica, Seattle, St. Luis, Sarasota, Vancouver and Toronto.
We have been pleased with results. The first four teachers had 9 to 15 students but one in Vancouver had 25 with $6,737 in sales and one in
Toronto is at 16 with $5,041. Not all the teachers have had this success… some are getting six and seven delegates in each course. One failed to get any signups and though we have received great comments about all the teachers ability to teach, the teachers with the highest income have been those who can get out and market the course.
We have learned a lot about teaching teachers in the first year and are even better at teaching teachers now.
Rob Girga (right) and Glenn Sterling (2nd left) replaced Merri and me and taught Super Thinking plus Spanish in Cotacachi, Ecuador this year in the same hotel as a Miss Ecuador pageant. Here they met with the contestants.
Teachers of our Spanish program do not have to speak Spanish during the course by the way. In fact even Merri and I prohibit ourselves from speaking Spanish when we teach. This is because the course uses a Super thinking teacher and a pronunciation coach who must be a native born Spanish speaker.
Picking up pronunciation from an English born speaker is like recording a tape from a previous recording. Quality is lost! The teacher… including Merri and me work in English and work with a pronunciation coach who does all the Spanish speaking.
Merri teaching with our pronunciation coach, Don Childs.
Others are teaching their own programs using the tactics they learned to help their own business. For example it is quite easy to reverse the process we use and teach Spanish speakers to communicate in English in just three days.
Alberto Verdezoto has been our pronunciation coach in Cotacachi, Ecuador for the last 5 years.
Super Thinking + Spanish teacher, Dr. Glenn Sterling. Glenn took a group for a Spanish Camp in the Amazon.
Super Thinking + Spanish teacher, John Sloan teaching in Costa Rica.
Super Thinking + Spanish teacher, Mark Frakes (USA).
Ernest Neumann, Vancouver B.C.
Ernest Neumann, Super Thinking plus Spanish teacher in Vancouver BC and Ecuador.
Rick Brown
Rick Brown SuperThinking plus Spanish teacher, Toronto, Ontario.
Super Thinking teachers, Shawn and Suzanne Bandick, teaching in Mexico and Canada.
Spiro Michas teaching in Uruguay and Spain.
Karen Zhussanbay (Washington, DC) teaching in Washington D.C.
Since this is a Beta program it will continue to evolve. We cannot guarantee who we will work with and who won’t. Becoming a trainee does NOT guarantee that you will become a teacher in our program. Indications after the first year is that eight of the 12 trainees in 2011 will be involved in teaching our Super Thinking course but this is no assurance for 2013.
Super Thinking Goes Way Beyond Spanish
Our training teaches an effective way to teach languages but covers much more many… perhaps all fields of education.
For example. We teach Super Thinking Business seminars that show how these mind expanding tactics can be applied to starting and running a business, to forex trading and investing. Athletes of all types… golfing being one common sport benefit. The Soviet Union… even though a third world country… excelled in the Olympics… as well as beating the USA into outer space… because it integrated FM teaching tactics as developed by Dr. Georgi Lozanov (one of Merri’s teachers) into its educational system.
Our Super Thinking plan goes far beyond Lozanov and allows you to enhance whatever subject you wish to teach.
Couples are priced as one. Merri and I have worked for 30 years as a couple. Our business would not exist without both of us… so a couple can attend for one fee.
You can enroll with whomever you wish… your spouse, or business partner, even an adviser. Two can be trainees for the price of one. (Accommodations and air fares relating to the courses are not included for trainees, delegates or their guests.)
The fee is $2,900 Enroll here $2,900 .
Gary
See government grant records on teaching blind persons with the Lozanov method
Read Wall Street Journal article Ways to Inflate Your IQ
CIA Seeks Anyone, Anyone Who Can Speak 2 Languages
