Yup, Banabu works! (If you’re really short of time of course, this may be all you need to know .

Filling in the details though, let me go through all the reasons why I’m ecstatic and delighted to have stumbled across this new gem in the personal development world.

Pros:

1. First of all, it’s down-to-earth, to the point and often very funny. Each of these can be pretty rare in the holier-than-thou world of personal development. Put ‘em together and you’ve got dynamite.

2. It helps the reader (or listener, the choice is yours, which is refreshing!) to cement change into their lives as a simple, ongoing process, based on 11 principles. Goodbye “post-seminar slumps” and hello constant, simple, sustainable change. Yes, the very thing I bash on about in this blog again and again. Hurrah!

3. The points may be simple, but they’re profound, and very clearly the distillation of a lifetime of experience, rather than something a guru who has thrown something together to make a bit of cash. (Actually, just what a lifetime is a pretty good talking point in itself…How many people do you know who’ve made serious suicide attempts and then gone on to “make it” on all fronts during the rest of their lives? The author of these principles, Mike Kemski, truly has. )

4. The system uses many people’s sense of negativity and pessimism, and turns it into an advantage, and a starting point. instead of trying to “magic it all away”. This could be handy for all of us on our darker days, or if you have clients that consistently prefer to be Eeyore rather than Winnie the Pooh.

5. This will be equally accessible and useful to newcomers and seasoned personal development people. Newcomers will love the fact that they can apply simple, profound principles immediately and get results. And I defy anyone, whatever their expertise in personal development or the number of diplomas they hold, not to be impressed by Kemski’s lucid explanation of exactly why people resist change, and what they can do about it.

Cons

There aren’t many. If I were being picky, I could argue that the “fast start video” didn’t seem as “fast” to me as the text. But that could be a learning style thing on my part.

It’s possible too, that some may dismiss the principles as simple truths you’ve heard before. The point though, is that this person’s unique, heartfelt and experienced slant on those truths has actually synthesized them into something extremely powerful.

There’s also the potential disadvantage for some that the system does cost $47 at the time of writing this. But given that this truly is the result of a life’s work, it really is brilliant value-for-money ( a very rare thing for me to say, as you may know!). Plus, if paid resources just aren’t within your reach, the free report you can also get from the same site will get you thinking right away.

The best bit

But I saved the best bit til last. This actually worked, for me in practice. Having gone just the other day from feeling jaded and a bit battered, I have one project completed that I’ve been putting off for weeks, and (after weeks of perfectionist procrastination) a firm opening date and time for the download section of the site. Thursday April 27th, at 9pm GMT.

This stuff really works, and stands out from the crowd. Don’t take my word for it, please. Find out how to Build A New And Better Universe (hence the name!) for yourself, at www.banabu.com now. And yes, that’s a (very rare!) affiliate link. It’s that good.

More soon.

Clare