The Magic of Groundhog Day

Several years ago, the movie Groundhog Day touched millions with its hilarious and profound tale of personal transformation.   Now, at our website you can learn how to unlock the magic of the movie to transform your life at home and at work.  You’ll discover how to:

Break free from repetitive thoughts and behaviors that keep you stuck in a rut.

1. Wake up to the ever-present magic and discover the extraordinary in the ordinary.
2. Transform a mundane day into a magical day by simply changing your attitudes.
3. Be more creative and manage your time more effectively at home and in the office.
4. Achieve lasting change in your personal and business life.
5. Find meaning and purpose in your work through service, creativity and compassion.

Paul Hannam, renowned green entrepreneur, teacher and a powerful motivational platform speaker, has created a powerful and accessible program using the principles and ideas found in this much loved movie to help individuals transform their lives.  In this mix of live and studio recordings, you’ll note only receive six idea-packed compact discs, you’ll also receive your own copy of Groundhog Day—the DVD! So you can watch the inspiring movie and then apply its lessons to your life with the ideas presented in the book and audio program from Nightingale-Conant that includes the DVD of the movie has ever created

Using the movie, the book and the audio program you will enjoy a unique learning experience as you are trained to think like Phil in the movie and optimize every day to make the step by step changes that you want to achieve meaning, success and joy in your life and the lives of the people you love.

Personal Message from the Author Paul Hannam

When I watch this amazing movie I feel as though I have awakened, and I see a world full of hope, possibilities, and joy. Indeed, we can all let a magical movie bring magic into our lives. Groundhog Day offers us the possibility of new realities, and the true magic is that we can change our thoughts and beliefs.

For twenty-five years I have researched, taught, and practised personal and organizational change as an academic, consultant, and entrepreneur. I have always wanted to know the answer to two questions: Why do we find it so hard to change? And how we can most effectively change?

The best answers I have found are not in complex theories or obscure journals. No, they are found in the movie Groundhog Day. For over a decade, I have used the movie’s message to inspire  hundreds  of people, and  I have discussed the academic implications with my students at Oxford  University  in courses  about  change  and  leadership.I  have  helped  people  stuck  in  the  repetitive Groundhog  Day Effect escape the cycles that keep them trapped. Utilizing the ideas and tools in this book, I have coached people to stop limiting patterns that have kept them in dysfunctional behaviors, relationships, and careers. Moreover, I have helped organizations to break free from damaging cycles of performance and develop “organizational realities” for dealing with employees.

After researching the multiple psychological, philosophical, and organizational dimensions of this wonderful movie, I keep returning to Groundhog Day as the best story I know for describing and explaining the process of change. It offers  us  an  extraordinary   philosophy  to  direct  us through our lives and careers.

Every one of us can apply Phil’s Transformation to our own lives. Groundhog Day is a magical story—not only in the sense of fantastic occurrences such as one day repeating itself endlessly—but in the concepts it can teach as a tale of transformation. This does not mean that Phil Connors was looking to change his life. At the start, he is not ready for change and does not believe he has any problems. He does not have a plan, and  reacts  to his predicament  by trial and error.

Phil changes the way most of us change: in a haphazard,  inconsistent,  and  unplanned  manner.  This  is what makes him such a captivating figure. He is the kind of guy we all know and many of us have been like at some time— a complex person who personifies the best and the worst in us. He is great fun and egotistical. He is romantic and vulgar. He is charming and exasperating, kind and selfish.

Phil represents the contradictions at the heart of human nature. When he uses his foresight of events in Punxsutawney to have fun, seduce women, and manipulate people, we share the fun while berating him for his callousness and arrogance. Through Phil we can explore what it would be like to have supernatural  powers and indulge in the fan- tasy of knowing the future.

Phil  can  act  out  our  dreams  of control,  power,  and greed. He knows that he can do what he wants and that he will do no real harm to others, as everyone and everything will be the same the next day. He plays out the full spec- trum of behaviors in his intense experience, and in doing so reveals deep truths about our lives.

Through  his development we can also realize what is most important to us and what we really want—and do not want. As Phil exhausts every comical and clever trick he can conjure up, he starts to run out of steam. He discovers that exclusively seeking his own pleasure eventually brings diminishing returns,  and that what he imagines will make him happy rarely does.

Of  course,  you do not need to go through  the same process as Phil. You can choose your responses. Yet the beauty of the movie is that Phil chooses the responses that most of us would. He is no saint or hero with great spiritual wisdom. He is an ordinary man searching to make the best of what at first seems like a very bad deal.  All of us face this challenge at one time or other in our lives and maybe we can help you overcome adversity too.

The Magic of Groundhog Day was originally written by Paul Hannam and adapted as an audio program by Nightingale Conant in 2009. Paul lives in the US and is an academic, author and entrepreneur. His businesses include a wide range of environmental and socially responsible services such as green jobs,  green MBA and green marketing.