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Want to hear something CRAZY? 97 out of every 100 people who find this site will pass by, and never know it would have changed their lives! • Something incredible: a user manual for the mind • Answers to the question 'How does the mind work'? • That a new concept holds the key to making wise choices. • What’s new in creating a happier life • How to recover quickly from being 'dumped' and other awful traumas • One simple question that will transform your life • Tips, techniques and strategies that will make you happier • How to turn a miserable marriage into 'happily ever after'? • Or, transform a miserable job into the career you’ve always wanted. But first, a few questions: • Are you as happy as you’re willing to be? • Did you know you get to choose? • If you could buy happiness would you pay $49 to get some? Dear Seeker, I’m Ken Johnston. Let me tell you the story behind "Sagery." It illustrates how you can be pretty smart — and really dumb — all at the same time. Thirty-one years ago my wife Shannon and I started a company to help organizations train their employees in customer relations skills. I was young and eager and wanted to make sure that our training really changed people. So, I began researching things that caused people to change. I studied everything. I took courses. I became certified in three or four new psychological modalities. I was sure that I could find the "key" to what makes people change. I was looking for something that was common to every life-changing event, experience, or learning. I didn’t find what I was looking for. I couldn’t find that magical "one thing" that could assure a behavior change. Every change process seemed to work for some people but not others. Anyway, I considered my search to be somewhat of a failure, because I didn’t find the answer to the question I was asking. I did find out how the mind worked. I even made a map. I discovered how the mind could learn to make wise choices, and I discovered a lot about the nature of wise choices. But, it wasn’t really what I was looking for. I wrote about what I found ("Sagery: A User Manual for the Mind"), and presented it for peer review to many psychologists, therapists, psychoanalysts, and other students of the mind and change processes. They gave me wonderful feedback. Some thought it was a real breakthrough. Several thought it was the basis for an entirely new psychology. I thought it was about how to make wise choices, and there didn’t seem to be any market for that, besides, I had a business to run. To make a long story short, I shelved "Sagery" for twenty years. We used some of what I had learned about the mind to create training programs that worked very well. So well, in fact, that our programs were used to train millions of people in the US and abroad, in customer relations skills. We sold our company, and retired in 1992 to the Southwest coast of Florida. Still relatively young, I went off on another misguided quest. (You’d think I would learn, wouldn’t you?) I decided to dedicate the rest of my life to mastering "Leisure." I wanted to do "Leisure" really well. And, I actually did it pretty well. Mastering LeisureWhere I went wrong was assuming that leisure would make me happy. Somehow, my fantasy of "a life of leisure" seemed like it should bring happiness. Well, I’m here to tell you that it didn’t do it for me. There I was, a true master of leisure, and still not filled with continual feelings of happiness and joy. Because I’m the kind of guy who studies things, I decided to study happiness. Thanks to the internet I quickly found I was tracing a well trod path. It turned out there are a number of really qualified experts on happiness. I don’t mean the flakes and crazies who are trying to get you to join their cult. And, I don’t mean the intensely serious folks that have a spiritual basis for their search for enlightenment or joy. By really qualified, I mean people who have labored in the trenches, paid their dues, studied people scientifically, and documented their searches. The really qualified folks research something they called "SWB." That stands for Subjective Well Being. SWB is professor talk for happiness, though. (They don’t use the term happiness because it has too many meanings to be usefully studied scientifically.) The Happiness FieldAnyway, I found there had been some serious work done in this field, and one of the foremost scholars is Martin E.P. Seligman, PH.D. who wrote "Learned Optimism," "Learned Helplessness," and "What you Can Change and What you Can’t." Check out his web site at http://www.authentichappiness.org/. In 2003 he wrote a new book called "Authentic Happiness." The reason I’m telling you about Dr. Seligman and his colleagues like Ed Diener (http://stat.psych.uiuc.edu/~ediener/hottopic/NEW_DIRECTIONS.html), is that they have discovered many wonderful things about what makes people happy. The research is good, the theories are well evolved, and the science seems solid. So, I found a gold mine of information about how I could become happier. As I read more and more about what makes people happy and how I could become happier, I realized that Drs. Seligman and Diener and others were missing the vocabulary that people would need to translate their happiness findings into action. I realized that I could understand what they were saying perfectly because I had a visual map and a vocabulary that I had created to explain how the mind worked. Without these tools, it was more difficult for their students to follow what they were saying. Or, to put it differently, students seeking to understand happiness would find it a lot easier if they had a more complete vocabulary and a map of the mind. I was amazed to discover what I had written twenty years before and put on the shelf, was perfect for teaching people how to be happier. Remember, I thought the only purpose of "Sagery" was to teach people how to manage their mind so they could always make wise choices. What I hadn’t seen was the absolute, hard-wired connection between making wise choices and being happier. Do you see what I mean about being dumb? The evolving science of happiness says that you will be happier if: 1. You have fewer, shorter, and weaker bad feelings. 2. You have more frequent, stronger, and longer-lasting good feelings. 3. Your self-assessment of your happiness level is high. 4. You feel your life has been fulfilling so far, and you’re optimistic about the future. The Sage Model and Sagery will teach you how to manage your mind in order to make wise choices. Wise choices means that every choice brings you closer to what you want for your life. If you decide, as I have, that what you want for your life is to be as happy as you can be, then “Sagery” will teach you how to achieve the four elements of happiness listed above. Sagery helps people achieve happinessI am indebted to the researchers and scientists who have dedicated their careers to the science of SWB (happiness) and essentially scientifically validated what I had written. I feel incredibly grateful that my stumbling around usually looking for the wrong thing has produced "Sagery," which can teach you how to become happier. I want to report that since I’ve given up my pursuit of leisure, and focused on the four things that produce happiness, I am incredibly happy. I don’t mean happy like those folks who dedicate their lives to spiritual enlightenment. (I’m sure they feel happy, but to be truthful, I don’t aspire to their kind of happiness.) By "happy" I mean happy living a real life among other people who live real lives. I mean happy while being subject to the normal range of good things and bad things that life throws at you. At 74 years of age, I feel very fulfilled about my life. I was part of building a great business that provided an early and luxurious retirement. Millions of adults have become better at human interaction because of our work. I’ve lived a wonderful life of leisure in retirement. The only thing missing was the kind of goal that could make me jump out of bed each morning eager to go to work. So, I consulted my wise “Sage-part” about how to achieve that feeling. My wisest part suggested that I could achieve that feeling by making "Sagery" and further writings available to those interested in wisdom and the mind. Ken Johnston September 2008 In "Sagery," I will walk you step-by-step through a map of how the mind works. I will show you each of the points where you can, if you wish, change the way your mind perceives, evaluates, creates feelings, chooses strategies, or adopts the way you present yourself to the world. You will discover exactly how you can gain control of each facet of your mind to get it to produce the results you desire. If "Sagery" doesn’t live up to my promises, or, if for any reason you find it isn’t everything you expected, you get a full, no-questions-asked refund, and still keep it. I know that if you take "Sagery" seriously, you’ll want to refer to it again and again, so I’ll extend the guarantee for a full six months. Imagine being able to cut off bad feelings, stimulate good feelings, feel good about your life, and focus your energies on attaining your goals… A Story In February, 2004, on the same day, two identical twins, who live 884 miles apart, were surfing the internet. Amazingly, with neither one aware what the other was doing, each of them landed on this web site. It was about the same time in the evening. Both read the entire offer letter, and in talking about it two days later, they discovered they had identical feelings and responses to the offer. For reasons that don’t bear on this story, only one of them bought the book. They spoke often, sometimes twice a week, sometimes even more. They barely spoke about the book. Within a week, one of the twins said to the other, "You seem different, is there anything wrong?" Within two weeks, one of them said, "Something's wrong. It seems like we’re growing apart. Let’s get together." This week, they came together and discovered something amazing. For the first time in their lives, they no longer felt identical. One of them had changed. They became aware that they were reacting differently to events, people, and situations, where before, they had always reacted the same. When they realized what was happening, they cried together. They puzzled out what had happened and found the solution. That very day, the other twin came to this web site and bought the book. They were nice enough to share their story with us. They feel certain that within days they will be identical again, and happier. Because I'm an amateur at writing sales copy, 97% of the people who reach this site will never discover the hidden secrets they’ve been looking for. It takes brains, curiosity, and persistence to wade through this long and clumsy sales letter. Thank you for being one of the few who have made it. I’ll try to make our offer worth your while. The Books of "Sagery, a User's Manual for the Mind"There are really three e-books that make up "Sagery." They are: Book One: Secrets of the Mind Revealed (The Sage Model). The first book will teach you how the mind works so that you will understand your own thought processes and how to change the self-talk that you don't like. Book Two: Tearful to Cheerful (Empowering Your Sage). Book two takes each of the nine parts of your being, and shows you why some of them conflict. It also shows you how to use your Sage Part to reconcile the disagreements. Book Three: 21 Steps to a Lifetime of Happiness (Advanced Readings). The third book is a series of chapters that address such things as drivers, how your beliefs affect your life, and more. All three books — more than 170 pages — may be purchased for only $49. Each of the books is an e-book, in the PDF format, which you can read on your computer or print out for reading away from your computer. If you're not familiar with the PDF format, you can download the free Acrobat reader (which reads PDF files), at: Acrobat Reader What more can I tell you, exceptDo it now! Right now! Or, you’ll never know. This might be the key that unlocks the secret to your future happiness. It might be the most important single thing that you ever do. Or, maybe not. The thing is, you’ll never know, unless you use the button above to order now. You can’t lose, and you have a whole lot to gain. Thank you, Ken Johnston P.S. You may be surprised to learn that the P.S. is second only to the headline in being something that internet surfers read. I was. P.P.S. You may be even more surprised to learn that a second P.S. is also very widely read. I wouldn’t have ever guessed. P.P.S. Stop fooling around. Order and download the books. Thank you. Other websites by Ken Johnston: © Visionary Publications, Inc.
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