Observation

As a coach I am observing my clients while they are talking. If they have energy, are light up, what they are talking about is actual. Otherwise it is conceptual. Ideas are often conceptual, the right projects are actual. You can see it when you observe the energy. Follow their energy and they find a project or game they want to start with. When people are in action, problems don’t appear, there are just things to do.

Original drawing by Dan Roam.

Mogulus

A couple of months ago in one of my coaching sessions with my coach and mentor Martin Sage, he told me he wants his own online video show. I told him how you can set up a virtual TV station with Mogulus.

On February 7th we started the show. Lena and Martin set up studio in his living room in Ibiza, Spain. I was watching online and coaching the camera operator through the chat room. That was an adventure. Approximately thirty people were watching online from all over the world: Austin, Berlin, San Diego, New York, Ibiza, Vienna, Stuttgart, Barcelona, Cologne, La Palma, Baltic Sea, New York Upstate, Cold Spring, Santa Cruz, CA. You could feel the buzz of a live experience.

Since then Martin experiments with different formats: interviews, lecture style, answering phone calls and emails, outside pre-produced videos, in studio live shows. That is his medium. He inspired ten other coaches and entrepreneurs to start their shows. Martin developed a whole network of shows: Coach TV by Global Coaching Network.

Since Martin and I met first time October 1999 he tells me that I need my own TV show. I changed my whole life, left Berlin, moved to New York, married an american woman, became a video producer and coach, became father of twins, moved to Austin, became the German Cowboy, produced the video podcast ‘Austin Business Babes’ for my wife Dana, helped starting Martins show, initiated four other online live shows: ‘Austin Spa Girls‘, ‘Love And Sex With Joy‘, ‘How To Talk To Men‘, ‘Women, Sex And Money‘.

As we say in Germany: ‘Das Ende vom Lied ist’, the end of the song is: Sylvester is always behind the camera in service for other people. That is a great strategy to avoid being in front of the camera. Not if you have a coach like Martin and a wife like Dana who are committed to your life’s purpose and never give up: tonight launches Coach TV Austin hosted by Sylvester Becker, the German Cowboy.

Traffic

A new lumiere video by Sylvester Becker.

While I was shooting a video for Lone Star Ready Mix about security at construction sites I discovered this ‘dream job’. Watch the video here. You can also see a high definition version here if you have the newest Quicktime application. You can download QT here for free.

Lumiere Video is a way of shooting and editing videos in tradition of the brothers Lumiere. They invented film making. The rules are: no sound, no camera movement, no special effects, no editing, not longer than one minute. See all my Lumiere Videos with background music at Videos 4 Contemplation.