This means that each and every Shifting experience—100 in all—are not one-by-one incremental in their impact…i.e., I move through this one Shifting experience, and then that one is over, and then I move on to the next Shifting experience, and then that one is over….  Nope, this is not how The 100 Day Shift™ works.  Each of the 100 Shifts are not independent.  They are not even interdependent.  They are interdynamic.  Each and every Shifting experience feeds and stimulates each and every other Shifting experience, Freeing Your True Nature by degree every step of the way, making the impacts on your life and life’s work exponential.  The intensity of impact, though, make no mistake, will be in direct proportion to the commitment you display to each Shifting experience; in effect, the commitment you make to yourself.

Having studied Adult Learning earlier in my career, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, I have been deepening and integrating my understanding of methods, including tools and techniques, that not only enhance, but stimulate, the experiences of my fellow adult journeyers through their Shift.  All toll, this makes your Shift highly engaging, and it’s impact lasting.  I have been intent on creating a process and method that facilitates both practice and permanence in you.

How often have you seen a speaker, or watched a motivating show, or attended a workshop or a retreat, or taken a course, and you were all pumped up after, saying to yourself, ‘This is the turning point for me?’, only to find, within days, maybe a week or two at the outside, life returned to what it was before you saw the speaker, or watched the show, attended the workshop or retreat, or took the course, leaving you disappointed, if not disillusioned?  Well, if it makes you feel any better, this used to be my experience more often than I like to admit.  In fact, I spent thousands and thousands of dollars on all manner of personal development stuff, and my life still  failed to Shift.  In your Shift experience, you and I give you the blessing of time, and duration—even up to a year if you want the breadth of additional time and you choose the Seismic Shift path—to integrate all you are learning about yourself and your vast capabilities.

Without structure, things tend to fall apart.  We don’t feel supported.  We don’t feel safe and secure that we are held by a sound design, as with our homes as a simple and obvious example.  At the same time, too much structure is confining and even smothering.  We need sufficient structure AND we need sufficient space; it’s tricky.  As a lighthearted comparison, we all love to be held by a good hug, but we don’t want to be squeezed so hard we break a rib.  Your Shift offers you sufficient structure so you truly feel supported, and you can feel and plot yourself in an unfolding process.  Your Shift also offers lots of space within that structure so you have the latitude to make your Shift truly Your Shift.

Having a path to follow that has been proven over decades, and attested to by those who have journeyed before you, is, to say the least, reassuring. Like a dependable map or GPS we rely on for our sense of direction, we are nevertheless in the driver’s seat.  Our experience of the journey; the colours and textures of our journey are ours solely to create.  Having a map helps us navigate between points; what happens in between landmarks is still our adventure.  This is one way of describing your Shift.  You have the blessing of an established process AND you have a guy here who wants your adventure to be yours to create.  This approach enables and empowers your True Nature to shine through.

We each have, onboard, these amazing senses—5 of them the most popularly known, plus our 6th, intuition.  Your Shift fully respects and upholds your senses, such that the 100 Shifting experiences ahead of you honour and cater to your senses so you have the richest experience possible.  Your Feast for the Senses Shift experience will make your journey stimulating, fascinating, fun, intriguing, enjoyable, and memorable, which, in sum, contributes to the permanence of your Shift for the quality of your life and life’s work, far beyond your graduation.

This is a feature not to be under-estimated; it’s potential benefit cannot be over-estimated.  I say potential because a recording remains just a recording until you listen to it.  When you listen, you open up wide-ranging possibilities including memorability, retention, & integration.  I don’t know about you but my retention, beyond any learning opportunity I’ve had, has steadily dropped from the time of the experience.  Studies have shown that we steadily lose any new knowledge unless we do something with it.  Your Shift causes you, by virtue of the process, to more deeply engage with what you are learning, and especially with what you are learning about yourself.  All the while, you are the one deciding what ultimately matters enough for you to integrate into your life.

Just in case you are looking for a set formula, or a patented approach–the six steps to this, the four insights to that, or the nine breakthroughs to the other thing–to managing your career, running your business, or living your life, you best keep shopping.  I mean this in the most respectful way. There is no lack of people out there that would have you believe they have your simple ticket to the promised land.  Especially in times of vulnerability and need, quick fixes and easy answers can be incredibly alluring.  Our common-sense, though, when we engage it, reminds us that anything that truly matters in this life; anything that is truly worthy, necessitates real effort; necessitates that we dig deep.  I am your guide & facilitator.  I am not your coach, or your advisor, or your consultant, or your counsellor.  You have my compassion if this is disappointing for you, for I have sought out my truth from many of these practitioners at one time or another, and it never sustained me.  It never worked; it never worked because I was looking outside of myself for my answers; a place where they simply cannot be found.  This is both sobering and liberating news.  What I will do is guide you to sourcing your answers.  I will facilitate your access points.  I will not be telling you what to do.  I will not provide pat answers.  I will not pretend that your journey won’t have its edgy parts.  I will not offer prescriptions.  Nor will I poison you with judgments, or admonishments, expectations, evaluations, assessments, analysis, or advice.  Instead, I will guide you to seeing yourself—your True Nature—and to seeing the wondrous possibilities your understanding-cum faith-cum trust in your True Nature will reveal to you.  For when you source your own answers from within you, you will be empowered, you will be strengthened, you will be esteemed.  My role is to guide you, and facilitate, and otherwise stay out of your way :o).

In addition to tickling that multi-sensory system of yours, the Shift draws on a variety of different methods to inform, engage, entertain, and ignite your experience.  This variety is the important part because when us humans are interested in and looking forward to what’s ahead, our level of initiative in getting involved in it goes way up, and low and behold we learn and retain more!

I covered this in the section, Your Guide, under the banner tab ‘Meet Murray’, but it’s so important it deserves to be emphasized here as well.  You and I have a responsibility, I propose, to make this as fun as possible (there will also be parts you may not characterize as fun, wide ranging as your characterizations will be).  Note, I said both of us.  This is a partnership; a co-creative effort, and this being a fun process will be a key ingredient for you.  Fun = enjoyable.  Enjoyable = looking forward to each Shifting experience. Looking forward to each Shifting experience = higher engagement.  Higher engagement = higher impact.  You get the idea!

What does this mean?  This means that it is not up to me to decide whether or not any one element of your Shift is Shifting for you.  It’s up to you.  I am going to do everything possible to guide and facilitate 100 days of Shifting experiences on your behalf, and though I am all in, head, heart and soul, in creating, sourcing and facilitating each of these experiences, the ultimate measure is yours.  Of course, because this is a partnership, you and I will succeed or falter, together.  You are counting on me to give my all; I am counting on you to give your all.  Provided you do (you can be sure I will), and you nevertheless conclude that your experience with the Building Block just completed was not Shifting for you, I will not refund you 50% of what was intended as your investment in that Building Block—because we are partners—I will refund you 100% of what, by your assessment, has then become a cost to you, and not the intended investment. Why? Because you then did not experience that Building Block as Shifting, and therefore did not receive the intended return on investment.  In other words, either you experience any Building Block of your Shift as an investment, for which you attest to having enjoyed the return on investment, or your money is returned to you.  I will not have anyone incur cost who has given themselves fully to any part of the process, and who has not felt Shifted.  Even though the process is designed to be cumulative in its impact, each Building Block is also designed to be Shifting in itself.

For full details, please see my No Shift, No Cost Guarantee towards the bottom of this page.

If it were not for my commitment to privacy and confidentiality, I wouldn’t be able to cultivate trust, build relationships, and engender word of mouth referrals for 27 years.  For without trust, there can be no firm foundation upon which to build. Without trust, we can have no beginning point, and certainly no evolving process.  With trust, virtually anything becomes possible through our co-creative commitment to facilitating your understanding-cum faith-cum trust in your True Nature.  You can be assured I am committed to your privacy and confidentiality throughout the program.

The true effectiveness of a program and process in personal & professional insight is, in my view, not just a factor of its impact while you are experiencing it, it is also a factor of how much of the experience you make your own, and take with you; the degree to which you have been supported in deciding how the experience will shape you, beyond it.  I offer you all these Shifting experiences, the cumulative experience of which enables & empowers you in forming practices and principles that are yours, to live on in you, long after you have graduated from your Shift.  This makes your Shift an investment that provides you a lifetime of dividends.

It is fundamentally human to need and want to be seen, understood, loved, not for who we may be inclined at certain points in our lives to pretend to be, but instead for who we truly are, both the light and dark of each of us.  Accepted, embraced, upheld, for all our individual richness, and complexity.  Held as worthy for both our True Nature, and our false nature.  My passion, my intention, my commitment, is to see you for who you truly are, and have you feel seen for who you truly are, all the while facilitating your ability to see the same in yourself.  This process of discovery is enlivening and enabling and igniting, as you will experience, because that sense you have had in your life that there is truly something special about you, will become coloured in for you.

If you have yet to chance upon it here at the site, for a clearer and deeper understanding of this ‘inside-out’ concept I refer to, I invite you to read and/or listen to my recent book, Truth & Consequence–How One Choice Can Change Everything, available as a download here at the site.  The gist of inside-out is that the insights you source from within yourself strength and sustain you.  The insights of others that you source from outside yourself hold far less strengthening and sustaining power unless you make them yours.  Your Shift is designed to give you access to your own sources of strength and sustenance.

Our beliefs as humans hold enormous power over our decisions and choices.  Your Shift offers a cornucopia of mediums through which your ideas and insights as to what beliefs serve your highest possibilities, and what beliefs conversely limit them, can be seen, understood, and examined, by you for you.  Remember, this is not an exercise in giving you prescriptions, it’s an experience in breeding your own insights.

As discussed under Programs as well, the essence of my guarantee (the details of which can be read towards the bottom of this page, and elsewhere throughout the site) is that I get paid to make a Shifting difference.  I refuse to get paid if, by your assessment—note, not mine—you conclude your experience has been something less than Shifting for you.  You will have to have given your all to the experience, as set out (as you can count on me to do) AND my guarantee is an important measure of reassurance I offer you, to let you know the intensity of my belief in the Shift, others belief in the Shift, alongside the intensity of my commitment to you.  This is my assurance to you that you will not incur cost—-money paid without an appropriate return.  I’m fully committed to your investment; one that provides you the Shifting return we’re both intent upon.

You can enjoy substantial savings when you fully invest in your 100 Day Shift Program at the time of enrolment, thereby signifying to yourself that you are All In! In effect, you are rewarded early for your commitment to yourself.  I know, from years of experience, that achieving / creating anything that truly matters to us has only one starting place: commitment.  So, yes, of course, I am going to do whatever I can to spur on your commitment to yourself and the program.  The degree of your commitment undoubtedly correlates with the success of your subsequent program and process experience. This said, I also appreciate that we each and all have resources to utilize wisely, and it can simply be more practical to spread out the investment in the program while still being All In committed to the program.

The process of engaging with the Shift is simple to understand, intuitive to navigate, and is self led—with me close enough to you that I always know where you’re at in your process.  My catalytic support always being at the ready, as with my encouragement, and compassionate accountability on your behalf.  This means that the way the process is organized eases you along, while facilitating your ability to build momentum.

I covered this to some extent under Structure, Methodology, & Process, regarding scheduling flexibility with our calls.  Your Shift is also powerful for what it isn’t designed to do; that is, take precedence over, or compete with, your other priorities.  Though your Shift certainly needs to rank amongst your other priorities for it to be truly Shifting for you, it is designed to fit with, and compliment, your other priorities.  This is one of the reasons why—learning from my fellow journeyers over time as I have, as to what they truly need to Shift—one option for the duration of the Shift takes place over a year, the Seismic Shift, which I highly recommend for those of you who prefer the space of duration to support depth and breadth of your experience for the additional investment of your precious resources involved.  Rest assured, though, the Shift is shifting & transformative over the 100 Days.  You only need the 100 Days to experience all the Shifting possibilities. The 1 year duration broadens and deepens your Shift.

Appreciating and respecting that we each have the resources we have, some prefer to invest in their Shift upfront; some prefer to pace their investment.  My encouragement to you is to, if at all possible, invest fully at enrollment to authenticate your ‘All-In’ commitment.  This is undoubtedly your most self-empowering approach because your whole body and being is then, simultaneously, put on notice that you are up for something truly significant to you.  A payment approach tends to have us humans not only pace our payments, but pace our  commitment in step with the given payment dates, and this can, subtly but significantly, undermine us.

Being able to self-set a pace that fits with your life circumstances, while still being held by a structure that ensures you don’t stray too far—which would inadvertently water down your Shift experience if you did—is a worthy balance to strike.  Your Shift is designed to offer this important balance.  This, in a world where much can sidetrack us from the freedom we each seek to live into the highest and deepest in us. Naturally, with the year-long Seismic Shift, there is a much longer duration of time within which to pace yourself, if this approach is your preference.

Without sufficient energy to move through our program and process, we are in tough to reap the maximum benefits from our experience.  The design of the Shift takes this understanding fully into account, offering you possibilities, practice, and promise, in filling yourself with steadily increasing doses of enlivening and empowering energy.  This energy will be the fuel behind your Shift insights and success.

Speaking of resources, your Shift delves into the whole topic of resources, with the intention of expanding your sense for a wide range of ways and means you can optimize your current resources, and source resources you have yet to perceive you could.  The accessibility and utilization of resources being an essential, supporting element to Freeing Your True Nature, and an additionally liberating part of your journey.

You and I each have a True Nature, part of which we share in common; part of which is unique to us.  For an in-depth understanding of this True Nature to which I speak, I encourage you to read and/or listen to my recently released book, Truth & Consequence–How One Choice Can Change Everything, available as a download here at the site.  Your 100 Day Shift Journey is designed to connect you with an understanding of the extraordinary power of our True Nature as humans, as a bridge to understanding the extraordinary power of your own, unique True Nature.

What does it mean to have faith in your True Nature?  To come to a place of faith in your True Nature, essentially speaking, is to believe in yourself.  Believe in yourself and all your dimensions.  Not just what you come to know is true of you, but what you come to know is false of you as well, as a path to bringing you to what is true. When you have faith in yourself, there is then a preparedness to bring forth what is true in you out into the world.  At the point of faith in yourself, you reach a beautiful threshold when you realize–despite all the setbacks, all the disappointments, the heartbreak, the self-doubt, you have within you–after all, that you have a unique formula.  A formula that frees the highest and deepest in you, as the blessing this is for you, for those you love, for those you serve, and the world around you.

We all understandably think we know ourselves pretty well.  After all, we’ve got a meaningful amount of time into our lives, so why wouldn’t we think this way? As you begin to discover, through each Shifting experience, just how much depth and breadth you have, you, like I have been, are going to increasingly realize how much about yourself you didn’t know. In fact, it will be dazzling. Also, this understanding of the truth of who we really are, and what we’re capable of, is life-long.  Your 100 Day Shift Journey gives you the insights needed to not only gain this understanding, but continuously develop your understanding of your True Nature your whole life through.  That is, if you take to heart all that will be offered to you as access points.

Built upon what you learn above about True Nature in general terms, your 100 Day Shift Journey will equip you with an understanding of your own True Nature, to the point where you find faith in it, and come to trust in it.  An understanding-cum-faith, cum-trust in your True Nature that will enable you to create the kind & quality of life to which you currently imagine is possible for you, and a kind & quality of life to which you currently cannot imagine.

For any of us to get to know ourselves, and know ourselves well, we need what I often refer to as virtuous self-indulgence.  A duration of time, during which it can be all about us for a change.  The virtuousness being that we then have the chance to focus on ourselves.  Just as building any relationship that is important to us necessitates that we give of our time, energy, and focus to it, the same principle applies to our relationship with ourselves.  The thing is, though, such self-indulgent opportunities are fleeting and rare, with so much, and so many, vying for our attention.  Your Shift structure and process protects time for your needed self-indulgence.  The remarkable benefit of giving yourself this gift is that it will enable you to give so much more to your life, your life’s work, and your relationships thereafter, because you did.

A particularly cool part of your Shift is how immediately applicable it is to the quality of your work and your life.  You can take—if you take (and I will certainly be cheering you on)—what you are learning about yourself and apply this learning to your day-to-day experience, and you will receive rather immediate feedback to reinforce the practical applicability of your Shift.  In other words, you give yourself fully to your Shift, and there will be immediate, continuous, growing, ongoing, and lasting dividends.

It’s never a question as to whether any of us possess a True Nature, it’s a question of access, and our lives, complicated as they often are, offer a wide range of impediments to this access. Your Shift shines a bright light on these impediments so you can see them for what they are, and not only.  Your Shift arms you with the knowledge you need to understand what causes these impediments, along with the skill necessary to remove, if not pre-empt, them.  In time, with practice, these impediments to accessing your True Nature can be removed from the largest measure of your life, and the results are truly transformative.

Throughout your Shifting experience, your insights-cum understandings of your True Nature will be confirmed and noted and recorded.  These understandings of your True Nature will gradually be built into a portfolio of evidence-based undeniable insight into your True Nature.  This portfolio is yours to take with you as your graduation gift, the lasting reminder it will be of who you truly are, distilled from the falsities that so often cloud access to the light, love, creativity and consciousness of our True Nature.

As you move deeper into your 100 Day Shift Journey, the energy coursing through your being will turn from negative to positive; slowly and subtly at first, then noticeably and consistently.  This will be affirming to you that you are well on your way to understanding, cum-faith, cum-Trust in your True Nature.  Your reward will be an increasing sense of personal and professional freedom.

The over-arching intent behind the creation of The 100 Day Shift™ Journey is for you to discern and decide which elements-cum-insights picked up along the way are those insights you will choose to integrate into your life and life’s work from there.  My anticipation is that you will take 100’s of these insights away with you. For, remember, the Shift is not simply incremental in its impact, it is inter-dynamic and exponential, insight upon insight. To integrate is not to add onto your life, but to add into your life, such that your Shift experience, to whatever extent you have then decided, becomes you.