Jon Butcher, founder of Lifebook, walks through a 30-day program that maps your life across 12 categories: five personal, three relationships, two business, one quality-of-life, and a unifying vision. He shares how he built this after struggling with severe anxiety and agoraphobia, then shows you the masterclass structure and workbook you'll use.
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Hello, I'm John Butcher, founder of Lifebook. Thanks so much for signing up for the masterclass. I think you're really going to love it. I want to tell you a little bit more about myself because we're going to be spending a lot of time together over the next 30 days. So I'm an artist, entrepreneur, started a lot of companies in my life, and they've all had to do with art in one way or another, music or video production or painting. That's kind of like my background. And this whole personal development thing, I kind of accidentally stumbled into that. I'll tell you how that happened. About 25 years ago now, I was doing a lot of personal development work. I was listening to the greats in personal development. Tony Robbins and Brian Tracy, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, all those, you know, the guys that really started this profession. And I was doing a lot of study, and I wasn't happy with my ability to integrate that great information that I was learning into my life at a high enough level. So I started this little notebook, and I basically started taking all these notes in this little notebook. And over time, this thing just really started to evolve. I started focusing on what are the most important areas of life that I've got to start keeping great information, great strategies in. And I started to identify the most important areas of my life. And then inside of those areas, I was starting to think to myself, well, what do I really want out of my health and fitness? What do I really want out of my love relationship, and why do I want that, and what do I need to do to get it? So it started out really sort of informal, but over time, this little book of mine started to come together into this amazingly powerful personal development tool. I went through some very, very difficult times in my early 30s. I found myself one day with pretty severe anxiety disorder, which runs in my family. And that's a very difficult thing to go through. As a matter of fact, there was a time when I was pretty much housebound with agoraphobia. I could not leave my. I was such an emotional wreck. And this little lifebook that I had really, really helped me get through that difficult time. It was like my North Star, you know, I had gotten knocked off of track for sure in my life, but it allowed me to come back to center probably a lot more quickly and effectively than I would have been able to otherwise. Matter of fact, there have been a lot of times in my life where I've been struggling with issues, and my lifebook has been just an incredibly powerful strategy for getting me back on track. So I can't tell you how valuable this amazing tool has been for me. And I'm sure it will be the same with you if you end up going through this master course with us and then eventually going on to the Lifebook program and creating one for yourself. So I'm really, really excited for what you're going to learn in this masterclass because this is fresh stuff. You can't really learn this anywhere else. This is very unique. We start out by really talking about what it means to have it all in life, what it means to create a life that's legendary in every life category, how to get that done. We drill down into the 12 most important areas of life, which I'll go over in a minute, and how to really achieve balance in those areas. You know, it's a common story for some guy to have achieved immense career and financial success and to have completely jacked up love, relationship and messed up health and fitness, because that's the price he paid to get there. Or for somebody who's able to get in really, really good shape in their life, but they've never kind of figured out the ideal fulfilling career that would create financial abundance for them. Someone that has incredibly good relationships but hasn't been able to nail their health and fitness, so they go through life with lack in that category. With what this course is about is figuring out the kind of life that you want to live that works at a high level in every important area, what's entailed in that, and then how to balance all that effectively. Here are the 12 categories. We start out with the five personal life categories. Now, the reason we call these the personal life categories is because this is all you. Doesn't rely on anybody else. This is you separate from the rest of the world. The first one is health and fitness. We've all had experience with the health and fitness category. I don't have to go too deep into that. Second one is your intellectual life. This is your relationship to continued learning and growing. And it's also your intellectual output. It's you putting out there what you think in the form of writing or content. The third category, which is incredibly important, is your emotional life. This is where you'll discover whether or not you have a happy, successful, fulfilling life according to your own standards and values. The fourth category is your character. This is basically who you are as a person. It's the personality traits that make you you. And the fifth personal life category is your spiritual life. This is your relationship to God or To the universe, to all that exists. So those are the first five categories that make up your personal life. Health and fitness, Intellectual, emotional character and spiritual. From there, after we get all that sorted out and thought through, we move into your relationships. We have three categories in the relationship categories. Your first one is your love relationship. I think probably, you know, one of the most important categories for sure, because it's there that you're going to have the most pleasure if you've got an awesome relationship and the most pain in your life if you got a jacked up relationship. The second relationship category is parenting, your relationship with your children, if you have children. And the third is your social life, your relationship with your friends and your extended family. Now, those three categories, your relationships depend on your personal life category because it's who you are as a person that's going to determine to a large extent the quality of those relationships. The next two categories are the business categories of your financial life and your career. Incredibly important. And they have a massive effect on the last category, which is your quality of life, which is the things that you want in your life. The actual material things. This is where your car lives, this is where your boat lives. This is where your dream house lives. The experiences that you want to create in your life, like travel and so on, also live in this category. So those are the first 11 of the 12 categories that we look at. And then the last category in Lifebook is an extraordinary one. It's called you'd Life Vision. What we do in that final category is we take a look at what you want in the other 11 categories of your life and we bring it all together into one singular, compelling vision for your life. So that's the structure of what we do in Lifebook. It's the structure of this masterclass that you just signed up for. It's the structure of our 30 day quest, it's the structure of our flagship program that's the focus of everything we do in Lifebook. So here's what I can tell you. When you go through this masterclass that you just signed up for, you are going to have some aha moments, you're going to have some breakthroughs. It's going to be an extraordinary experience for you. So mark it on your calendar, download the workbook, and I'll see you there. I'm so excited about sharing this life changing information with you.
