Frequently Asked Questions

The Sunflower Experiment is a guided experiment with 12 weekly units sent to you by email- each unit building upon the last and requiring your personal involvement and commitment. The level of commitment you'll need to bring to this is high- but the actual amount of time you'll need to give to your experiment is low. We're talking about using highly distilled principles and proven practices that will help you really leverage positive change. We're not asking for hours a day- just minutes. And we promise they will be some of the best minutes you could give to yourself and by extension to all your important relationships. 

Here are some Frequently Asked Questions and answers.

Q:  What do you mean by Experiment?

The following chart entitled "Cone of Learning" by Edgar Dale

is a great one to understand the importance of the DOING in the learning and retention process.  Merely reading WILL NOT actually do you much good.  Maybe you've even read a lot of ""self-improvement" books before.  Books are great, but if they had the power to change us, most of us would be living the life of our dreams now.  Why is reading good self-improvement books not enough?  Because of the principles shown in this chart.  The Sunflower Experiment is all about learning by DOING- by EXPERIMENTING! 

Q:  How much of a time commitment is this?

 Here's what you can plan on as far as time goes:

1) About 30-60 minutes (one-time) to read through each Unit. This will depend on your reading speed (we recommend reading SLOWLY and THOROUGHLY and highlighting key concepts that jump out to you).

2) Beyond that, the amount of time you give will be totally up to you and how deep you want to go with it. Each week will vary as to the number of exercises and activities. We provide multiple exercises with each Unit. Don't feel like you need to do them all. Pick the one or two that seem the most interesting and useful to you and do those. On average you can get a lot of the benefit by budgeting 1-2 hours per week to do the exercises.

3) The journaling is also up to you as to how much time you give to it. We hope you'll at least take 15-20 minutes a week to reflect and write your reactions and experiences doing the exercises and reflecting on the questions.

Q: What Will I Receive With Each Unit?

Upon full enrollment, we will send you in the mail an attractive, high quality, customized 3-ring binder with 12 colored/numbered tabs, one for each of the Units.  This will become your personal "Experiment" binder where you will store all your printed units, and write on the journaling pages and fill out the worksheets, etc.  There is an additional $20/binder cost which just covers our materials and shipping costs.  You can elect not to pay for the binder and to get your own- but we recommend you do get a separate binder only for this.

Each week you will receive by email an attractive PDF document to print out and place in a three-ring binder.  This document with contain: 

Q:  Can we do this together as a couple?

The Sunflower Experiment is designed to be done as an individual as the exercises and responses are very personal. However, doing this together with someone else close to you would multiply the benefits because you would be able to relate to the things you're doing together and discuss them and encourage each other along the way. It will definantly have a strengthening effect on your relationship. But you should keep separate binders and do the exercises individually. We offer a special two person price if you'd like to share the experience with someone else. See our Cost page for details. 

Q: Can I pay for someone else to enroll as a gift?

Yes.  The payment and the class enrollment are two separate transactions.  You can pay using Step 1 on the Enroll page, but then the person you're paying for would need to add themselves to the Class list using step 2 on the Enroll page.  This is because the units will be going to their email address and they need to confirm their joining the email list that will deliver their Units to them.

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