The first week of the Master Key Experience 2018 is nearly over, and for a guide, this week is always as intense, fun, sometimes stressful, and always rich of new discoveries as for a new member.

What was my main discovery this year?

Something I had in front of my eyes during my four preceding years of immersion in the MKE, but it never came as clearly to my consciousness as this year.

I noticed that there are two types of members who start the “MKMMA Pay-it-Forward Scholarship Program”:

• the members who are determined to succeed; I usually recognize them by the fact that I receive their initial DMP* 2 or 3 days before the allowed deadline;
• the members who decided to “try out”; usually, they return their initial DMP just on time or later, sometimes they don’t even start, in spite of the strong statements about their motivation they formulated in their application for a MKE Pay-it-Forward scholarship.

When I reach out to the “try out” type of members to encourage them to stay with their initial motivation (which I know will be a challenge for most of them), the most frequent excuse I hear for them being late is “I don’t think I will have the time for this, afterall.”

The truth is, character must already be well forged to resist the early assault of the little ego, which often wins with this argument of “time.”

There is not much we can do for the “early quitters”, as they don’t have the level of character required yet to start this demanding program.

But here is what I always tell the members who use the “time” argument to “refuse the call to their greatness”:

If You Don’t Have The Time To Do it Right Now, When Do You Think You’ll Have the Time To Do it Over Again?

In other words, if they are not happy with the life they are living today, and if they think the MKE is the (only) solution to bring them the positive changes they expect, why would they not change their priorities NOW, and give the upmost importance to the daily MKE tasks over everything else?

The only flaw of this argument is that it is extremely logical, and everybody knows – including our respective little egos! – that people actions are driven by emotion, not logic…

That’s why, when I was a student, I “saved my butt” against the attacks of my little ego by making my MKE daily tasks a matter of life and death.

And this is the only thing you can do too, if you want to overcome the attempts of your little ego to make you quit the program…because if you think properly, IT IS really a matter of life and death!

Once you realize and accept this, you START LIVING BY THE COMPASS, and you STOP LIVING BY THE CLOCK!

*  DMP = “Definite Major Purpose”, a 400 words document describing their major purpose in life for the coming 1 to 5 years)