Who the heck is this guy?

My name is Greg Kolodziejzyk. I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and I'm 38 years young. For a more detailed info me, please refer to my personal web site.

I've been an entrepreneur since Murray Burgess and I started a newspaper when I was 10. Our first edition of 10 papers sold out at 5 cents a copy. As far as I recall, we closed the paper down after our first printing because we found it more profitable to just collect pop bottles. But that didn't have nearly the growth potential. I guess I've come a long way since then - but my attitude hasn't changed much. Here's the brief history:

I graduated from a two year engineering program in College in 1982 and landed the only real job I've ever had (aside from my brief stint as a paper boy). I was technical drafting for a local instrumentation company - a real drag. I managed to get fired from that job within my first year because I got caught using the company photocopier to reproduce brochures for a new business I started on the side. Just as well, I guess.

I had felt that technical drafting never really utilized my natural creative abilities, and so started my own business as a free-lance graphic designer. The little company was called "Image Club Graphics". It marks the start of a four year span I call the hungry period. I designed logos, brochures, signs, etc for local Calgary businesses. I was poor. At my lowest point, I recall having all of my credit cards taken away except for a department store card. Some days the only way I could afford gas for my car was to fuel up in the department sore parkade where they would take my card. That was soon taken away from me as well. It was pretty bad, but I was happy because I was doing something I loved, and I always had faith that things would turn around some day

My business eventually took a turn for the better. I foresaw a huge transition in the way publishing and prepress was done, and started to develop specialized software to capitalize on that emerging market. It was called desktop publishing and turned out to be one of the fastest growing new markets ever. I was in the right place at the right time! My little company took off like a rocket.

In 1994 (I'm jumping ahead here a bit) I sold Image Club to Adobe Systems of Mountain View, California http://www.adobe.com/. At that time, Image Club was distributing over 10 million software catalogs to it's customers world wide. With sales topping $20 million in 1996, Image Club is very well known in the industry as a successful direct marker and software developer. Image Club made the Profit 100 fastest growing companies list for 2 years, and recently won the "most profitable" category! The company still operates in Calgary, but has been purchased back from Adobe by the manager who I had hired years ago who changed the name to Eyewire http://www.eyewire.com/. In 1998, Eyewire was sold to Getty Corporation http://www.gettyimages.com/ for a whopping $30 million.

Somewhere in the midst of Image Club's frantic growth, I found the time to meet my wife and we married in 1987. A way back in 1985, I had started another venture with a friend after his dentist complained that he couldn't buy recall cards for his practice locally and had to import them from the U.S. Since I was a graphic artist and my friend was a printer, we teamed up and started a company called SharperCards http://www.sharpercards.com/. We produced a line of greeting cards that we sold by catalog to medical professionals. I bought him out a few years after the company was incorporated and today, Sharper boasts an annual circulation of a few million catalogs to it's customers in Canada and the United States. Sharper Cards is recognized as Canada's largest supplier/manufacturer of professional greeting cards. It's now owned and managed by the best (and best looking) entrepreneur that I know of - my wife.

In 1991 I founded iDEAMACHiNE in response to local demand for creative print advertising utilizing modern electronic publishing technology. Today, award winning iDEAMACHiNE http://www.ideamachine.com/ creates powerful print communications and web site design and implementation for it's local and international clients. iDEAMACHiNE boasts a staff of 30 people including some of Calgary's most creative talents.

Also somewhere in the midst of all that, my wife and I found time to have two wonderful kids, a boy and a girl.

So where am I now? Well, after I sold Image Club to Adobe, and passed the control of Sharper Cards to my wife, I spent the next two years developing technical trading systems applied to financial derivatives markets (that's a technical way of saying that I bet if the market is going up or down). And that's where the whole notion of psi started occurring to me. After two intense years of developing these highly technical expert computer systems designed to predict the behavior of the market I had started to realize that just perhaps it couldn't be done. I had been through everything from overly complicated self learning neural networks, to rule based, back-tested, history optimized trading systems and I had learned that nothing really works, and if it ever did, it would soon stop working.

Was the walk of the markets really random? If so, how could some beat the market with such consistency, yet the majority fail to even match the performance of a random dart throw? It just didn't make sense. There was something amiss with the statistic that ever trader knows all to well - 95% of all futures traders lose money and the remaining 5% win everything that the 95% lose. If the markets are truly random, then you would have just as many winners as losers right? I mean the chance of guessing market direction correctly is the same as the chance of guessing it incorrectly. So if that was the case, how could so many traders manage to beat the odds by such a statistically significant amount by consistently guessing wrong? And how did the elite 5% manage to win everything?

There was something else that was bothering me. Why was it that some days when I returned to my office after lunch and looked at my price screen, was I able to imagine the exact price seconds before I looked at the screen? It happened often enough that I had a sense that it couldn't be chance. At times I could imagine the exact decimals - that was just weird.

One day, just for fun - and possibly out of a bit of frustration, I decided to start trading the S&P (the general stock market) without any systems or indicators - using only my intuition. I committed myself to trading everyday for a two month period using no trading tools other than my gut instincts. It worked out VERY well. But why? What logical, technical system was my brain using that I couldn't synthesize and systemize in my computer? Well, that's what started my research into intuition - also known as psi, anomalous cognition, ESP, precognition, remote viewing, etc.

In 1997 I started this web site and kicked off this ambitious research project on using intuition (psi) to predict the outcome of random future events like the financial markets. The purpose of remote-viewing.com is to:

1. Share my research findings to promote the understanding of intuition (psi).

2. Educate those who are interested in learning more about intuition (psi)

3. Teach those who are interested how to utilize their own intuition (psi)

4. Act as proof to the world that the phenomenon exists by demonstrating that random events such as the activity of the financial markets can be predicted with a greater than chance probability by using ONLY intuition (psi).

Today I spend most of my time conversing via email and phone with students who are enrolled in the free Associative Remote Viewing course. Of course, I am still very actively involved with my research - I remote view an average of 6 targets per day as part of ongoing market predictions and research. When I'm not answering emails or planning another experiment or remote viewing, I'm reading about the science of psi, quantum physics, Zen, and philosophy (see books)

I'm also currently training for an Ironman triathlon Ironman Florida, Ironman Utah which keeps me VERY busy (this is my typical day these days: run, cycle, swim, lift weights, eat and sleep). Other hobbies that I have been known to enjoy before triathlon training took over my life are flying my plane, building an experimental twin engine open cockpit airplane, skiing at our cabin on Big Mountain in Whitefish MT, or painting big pictures (I need to do more of that!)

My future goal is to speak and conduct workshops regarding my research with remote viewing and ARV.