Take Two: Directing Your Life for a Change

by Ben Goldfarb

This modern-day allegory offers a blueprint to help people make the most of their second chance to succeed in their careers or relationships. Danny Sanders finds the perfect mentor to help him turn his dreams of directing blockbuster feature films into reality. Rather than following up on the amazing opportunity he’s offered, Danny continues down the same self-defeating path. By viewing a number of his possible futures and editing some of his past experiences, Danny ultimately discovers he has everything he needs within himself to change. On the surface, readers are treated to a simple yet magical tale of an aspiring director’s struggle to climb to the top in Hollywood. On a deeper level, however, the story communicates a set of principles, directives, metaphors, and hints that appeal to the readers' unconscious mind, which is willing and able to harness its power to help them succeed.

152 pages, Hardcover

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Ben Goldfarb is a master practitioner of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a powerful communication methodology based on modeling the habits, behaviors, actions, and attitudes of successful people. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, he trained in the United States and Israel in corporate coaching and NLP and studied with one of the founders of the Harvard Negotiation Project. Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Ben moved to Israel in 1988. He has served in a reserve combat engineering unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) since 1991 and was transferred to a reserve unit of the IDF's Military Intelligence Branch in 1999. He founded Paradigm Shift Communications (PSC) in 2001. PSC coaches serve a variety of corporate, industrial, and military clients, including Galileo Semiconductor; Israel Aircraft Industries, Ltd.; the Nahariya Municipal Basketball team; Positive Changes of Dallas; Successtrac, Inc.; and Philips Medical Systems. PSC assists clients with team building, motivation, focused leadership, and sales. The company also offers personal coaching to help individuals succeed in job interviews, reduce stress, increase emotional intelligence in the corporate world, improve public speaking, break creative blocks, and accelerate learning, comprehension, and recall. Ben writes a weekly coaching column for the Jerusalem Post. He lives with his wife and children in Jerusalem. You can read his blog at http://bengoldfarb.blogspot.com