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Mike Kemski's BANABU
The author claims that the 11 principles at the core of the BANABU program are "11 simple steps to living your ultimate life, starting today". So is BANABU the real thing or just another load of hype?
Reviewed by Simon Ware - September 2006
"The BANABU web page makes some pretty startling claims:
....in just 2 hours or less (even in minutes), beginning today, you can start seeing instant, dramatic results with anything that is important to you...
...business
...relationships
...money
...family
...job
...marriage
...you can use one or more of these 11 Simple Proven Principles to get whatever you want, become whoever you want to be, overcome any obstacles that you have, and live the life you've always dreamt of living...
..they apply to every area of your life from money, relationships, health, job, business, family and more.
I am pretty wary of claims like this, especially when they are made online, so when I read this I guessed it was probably just more of the usual hype. I must have read at least 40 or 50 books on visualization, goalsetting, affirmations, 'reframing' and the rest, and although several have had given me some useful insights, I have generally seen far greater personal changes from more 'active' self help products such as subliminals and self-hypnosis recordings.
But as I read more of the BANABU web page, the body copy started to seem more interesting. The '11 principles' that were at the centre of this product did not appear to be the standard 'law of attraction' stuff but something new.
More importantly to me, the site included a heap of testimonials that were not from the usual fellow 'gurus' but from actual owners of the BANABU material. There is also a 90-day refund guarantee and I couldn't see any of the usual weasel words, so I finally decided to go ahead and give it a try. After all, if BANABU could deliver a quarter of what the sales site promised, it would be worth the relatively small price - and there was always that 90-day refund guarantee!
As I've said, I have been disappointed by the difference between the hype and the reality of self help products before, so I try not to get excited about new products that promise a lot. The fact is that I pretty much expected that BANABU would turn out to be just another 'space eater' on my hard drive.
I just thought I should make it clear where I'm coming from. Anyway I suppose I should 'cut to the chase' and actually tell you about my experience with this product.
I downloaded the zip file without problems and unpacked the main PDF e-book, a couple of other PDF files plus sixteen MP3 'audio exercises' and one additional audio file. I ignored what I assumed were the 'bolt ons' and went straight for the main e-book.
My initial impression was that I had been right not to expect too much.
The e-book gets off to a rather slow start with the author’s autobiography (deprivation and dysfunctional relationships and an equally depressing adolescence of drug dependancy and attempted suicide, then his recovery from all this to his present life of wealth and happiness). This is followed by a sort of personal letter about his 'mission' and things like the power of words, belief systems and common reasons that people procrastinate and fail to make changes even when they could obviously benefit.
All worthy stuff, but what I actually wanted to know was, "What can this do for ME??"
The meat in the pie - the 11 Principles
From Chapter 3 onwards, the author gets started into his '11 principles', each of which is backed up by an exercise in the PDF workbook that accompanies the main e-book. Each of the 11 principles is also presented again in the form of a series of MP3 recordings presented by Mike, which are linked to the e-book text.
You also get access to an online 'Fast Start' video and a conference call which introduces the 11 principles.
But was it any use?
That's what is 'in the box', but I should explain briefly about the background to this review. When I started BANABU, I was in a very negative frame of mind. I had had a very bad six months or so, with just about everything that could go wrong with my business happening, and this was being reflected in my relationships and an increasingly short fuse.
I felt angry and frustrated, nothing I did seemed to work out right, and my life seemed more and more out of my control. I was developing a violent temper and often seemed to be unable to control what I said whenever something made me flip. Worse still, I had no idea what to do to get things back on the rails - I just seemed to go from crisis to crisis. I suppose I was probably grabbing at straws when I ordered BANABU. Because of the impatience and stress I was experiencing at the time, I started reading in a rather poor frame of mind. Some of the things Mike said actually made me very angry, I suppose because of the contrast between what he was saying is possible for anyone, and my own rather crappy life at that time.
Despite this, I had to admit that this is not the usual rehashed junk but 'real world', pragmatic stuff (as I guess you would expect from someone who went from drug-addicted despair to wealth and happiness in just a few years). In fact Mike dismisses the usual hopeful claptrap and insists that real personal change can only result from practical, proven methods, rather than wishful thinking and theory, which made sense to me.
By the time I was about halfway through the e-book I realized that this was not something to just skim through. I could see that what Mike was saying made absolute sense and could potentially help me. But up to that point I had just been reading the words without really taking them in, and I had not even opened the 'workbook' file or listened to any of the audios.
So I decided to start again, and do the job properly.
This time around, the profound insights that Mike offers actually started to reach home - I could see clearly how these things applied to ME, and I began to understand why I felt as I did, why 'bad' things were 'happening' to me, and why I seemed unable to break free of my problems with money, health and relationships, and move forward.
So I did the ‘11 Principles’ exercises with care and attention, listened to the MP3s and really THOUGHT about what Mike was saying and how it directly applied to the way I ran my life.
I must admit that I was rather surprised when I began to feel some effects pretty quickly. I didn't have a particular 'eureka' moment or anything like that, but I realised after a week or so that I was sleeping much better (I had become a bit of an insomniac), no longer constantly getting into shouting matches with my wife and kids, feeling calmer all round and actually getting to grips with some of my 'problems' effectively. Some other problems remained, but somehow they didn't seem so important to me as they had done, and mostly they have just faded away since.
And even though I didn't think anything had changed, my income was steadily increasing as my business picked up, projects which had 'bombed' suddenly started generating money, and new opportunities began to arrive out of the blue.
In general, my life is now 100% better than it was, and although there is obviously no way I can 'prove' (even to myself) that BANABU was a major part of this, I am sure I would not be where I am without it. I still re-read the '11 principles' regularly, and keep coming across insights that I had somehow missed before.
The bottom line
BANABU comes from someone who has actually used the techniques described to transform his own life. Its not theory, its a practical approach that really makes a difference. I don't know how Mike discovered these things for himself but I am very glad he passed them along to me (he calls it ‘passing the torch’).
BANABU enables anyone who takes it seriously to take a step back and identify their personal baggage - the direct causes of self-sabotage, limitation and 'being stuck', and to quickly make the changes that will automatically lead to getting the best out of life. And as a completely unexpected benefit, it has also shown me how the much touted 'law of attraction' really works, and I am finally beginning to get the kind of results I have been reading about for years.
If you are tired of trying to make changes by following the usual well-worn nonsense you should like what Mike Kemski has to offer in BANABU. In short this is very profound stuff presented as a clear blueprint for getting the best out of life, and I recommend it highly."
"The BANABU web page makes some pretty startling claims:
....in just 2 hours or less (even in minutes), beginning today, you can start seeing instant, dramatic results with anything that is important to you...
...business
...relationships
...money
...family
...job
...marriage
...you can use one or more of these 11 Simple Proven Principles to get whatever you want, become whoever you want to be, overcome any obstacles that you have, and live the life you've always dreamt of living...
..they apply to every area of your life from money, relationships, health, job, business, family and more.
I am pretty wary of claims like this, especially when they are made online, so when I read this I guessed it was probably just more of the usual hype. I must have read at least 40 or 50 books on visualization, goalsetting, affirmations, 'reframing' and the rest, and although several have had given me some useful insights, I have generally seen far greater personal changes from more 'active' self help products such as subliminals and self-hypnosis recordings.
But as I read more of the BANABU web page, the body copy started to seem more interesting. The '11 principles' that were at the centre of this product did not appear to be the standard 'law of attraction' stuff but something new.
More importantly to me, the site included a heap of testimonials that were not from the usual fellow 'gurus' but from actual owners of the BANABU material. There is also a 90-day refund guarantee and I couldn't see any of the usual weasel words, so I finally decided to go ahead and give it a try. After all, if BANABU could deliver a quarter of what the sales site promised, it would be worth the relatively small price - and there was always that 90-day refund guarantee!
As I've said, I have been disappointed by the difference between the hype and the reality of self help products before, so I try not to get excited about new products that promise a lot. The fact is that I pretty much expected that BANABU would turn out to be just another 'space eater' on my hard drive.
I just thought I should make it clear where I'm coming from. Anyway I suppose I should 'cut to the chase' and actually tell you about my experience with this product.
I downloaded the zip file without problems and unpacked the main PDF e-book, a couple of other PDF files plus sixteen MP3 'audio exercises' and one additional audio file. I ignored what I assumed were the 'bolt ons' and went straight for the main e-book.
My initial impression was that I had been right not to expect too much.
The e-book gets off to a rather slow start with the author’s autobiography (deprivation and dysfunctional relationships and an equally depressing adolescence of drug dependancy and attempted suicide, then his recovery from all this to his present life of wealth and happiness). This is followed by a sort of personal letter about his 'mission' and things like the power of words, belief systems and common reasons that people procrastinate and fail to make changes even when they could obviously benefit.
All worthy stuff, but what I actually wanted to know was, "What can this do for ME??"
The meat in the pie - the 11 Principles
From Chapter 3 onwards, the author gets started into his '11 principles', each of which is backed up by an exercise in the PDF workbook that accompanies the main e-book. Each of the 11 principles is also presented again in the form of a series of MP3 recordings presented by Mike, which are linked to the e-book text.
You also get access to an online 'Fast Start' video and a conference call which introduces the 11 principles.
But was it any use?
That's what is 'in the box', but I should explain briefly about the background to this review. When I started BANABU, I was in a very negative frame of mind. I had had a very bad six months or so, with just about everything that could go wrong with my business happening, and this was being reflected in my relationships and an increasingly short fuse.
I felt angry and frustrated, nothing I did seemed to work out right, and my life seemed more and more out of my control. I was developing a violent temper and often seemed to be unable to control what I said whenever something made me flip. Worse still, I had no idea what to do to get things back on the rails - I just seemed to go from crisis to crisis. I suppose I was probably grabbing at straws when I ordered BANABU. Because of the impatience and stress I was experiencing at the time, I started reading in a rather poor frame of mind. Some of the things Mike said actually made me very angry, I suppose because of the contrast between what he was saying is possible for anyone, and my own rather crappy life at that time.
Despite this, I had to admit that this is not the usual rehashed junk but 'real world', pragmatic stuff (as I guess you would expect from someone who went from drug-addicted despair to wealth and happiness in just a few years). In fact Mike dismisses the usual hopeful claptrap and insists that real personal change can only result from practical, proven methods, rather than wishful thinking and theory, which made sense to me.
By the time I was about halfway through the e-book I realized that this was not something to just skim through. I could see that what Mike was saying made absolute sense and could potentially help me. But up to that point I had just been reading the words without really taking them in, and I had not even opened the 'workbook' file or listened to any of the audios.
So I decided to start again, and do the job properly.
This time around, the profound insights that Mike offers actually started to reach home - I could see clearly how these things applied to ME, and I began to understand why I felt as I did, why 'bad' things were 'happening' to me, and why I seemed unable to break free of my problems with money, health and relationships, and move forward.
So I did the ‘11 Principles’ exercises with care and attention, listened to the MP3s and really THOUGHT about what Mike was saying and how it directly applied to the way I ran my life.
I must admit that I was rather surprised when I began to feel some effects pretty quickly. I didn't have a particular 'eureka' moment or anything like that, but I realised after a week or so that I was sleeping much better (I had become a bit of an insomniac), no longer constantly getting into shouting matches with my wife and kids, feeling calmer all round and actually getting to grips with some of my 'problems' effectively. Some other problems remained, but somehow they didn't seem so important to me as they had done, and mostly they have just faded away since.
And even though I didn't think anything had changed, my income was steadily increasing as my business picked up, projects which had 'bombed' suddenly started generating money, and new opportunities began to arrive out of the blue.
In general, my life is now 100% better than it was, and although there is obviously no way I can 'prove' (even to myself) that BANABU was a major part of this, I am sure I would not be where I am without it. I still re-read the '11 principles' regularly, and keep coming across insights that I had somehow missed before.
The bottom line
BANABU comes from someone who has actually used the techniques described to transform his own life. Its not theory, its a practical approach that really makes a difference. I don't know how Mike discovered these things for himself but I am very glad he passed them along to me (he calls it ‘passing the torch’).
BANABU enables anyone who takes it seriously to take a step back and identify their personal baggage - the direct causes of self-sabotage, limitation and 'being stuck', and to quickly make the changes that will automatically lead to getting the best out of life. And as a completely unexpected benefit, it has also shown me how the much touted 'law of attraction' really works, and I am finally beginning to get the kind of results I have been reading about for years.
If you are tired of trying to make changes by following the usual well-worn nonsense you should like what Mike Kemski has to offer in BANABU. In short this is very profound stuff presented as a clear blueprint for getting the best out of life, and I recommend it highly."
Product contents
E-book and workbook (PDF) plus audio exercises (16xMP3)
Media
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Publisher
BANABU Development Systems (US)
Price
$47 (current special offer)
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Editor's comment:
Success in life does not come from just doing certain things - it comes from internalising and consistently applying certain fundamental principles of life. Once you know and use the principles... then all the techniques that others have used to enrich themselves or surround themselves with the circumstances they desire can actually begin to work for you. You make the space..... and success flows into it.
However, without knowing and applying these basic success principles of life first, there is not much that will make more than a passing difference. The BANABU program reveals in simple practical terms exactly what these principles are, and how to apply them to make rapid changes for the better in all important areas of your life.
Success in life does not come from just doing certain things - it comes from internalising and consistently applying certain fundamental principles of life. Once you know and use the principles... then all the techniques that others have used to enrich themselves or surround themselves with the circumstances they desire can actually begin to work for you. You make the space..... and success flows into it.
However, without knowing and applying these basic success principles of life first, there is not much that will make more than a passing difference. The BANABU program reveals in simple practical terms exactly what these principles are, and how to apply them to make rapid changes for the better in all important areas of your life.
