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He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
Life is like being in a train: you can look out on the left side, the right side, the back, the front… but it won’t change that you are on a train that will arrive to its destination, no matter where you look.
Most of us live this way most of the time. Continue reading “Life is a lot like traveling by train… like a train trip”
Who or What is calling the shot in your life? Commitment – new thoughts, new experiences
This is a continuation of the c-word article… and the getting ready for a breakthrough article. Read them first or this article won’t make sense completely
As I have written before, the “universe” or the aspect of you that conspires and is in cahoots with the Universe, will put up obstacles in your path, so instead of doing stuff that’s consistent with your commitment, you are now on a detour path: handling your obstacles.
Alex, a friend of mine, is dealing with his server and his websites being hacked… a moment after he made a commitment to growth. So he feels forced to deal with that, instead of following the path he set for himself.
Continue reading “Who or What is calling the shot in your life?”
One of the most useful things I have ever done is this:
I would find a mentor. I offered my services to do whatever needed done. More often than not I learned useful skills through the doing. Skills that I needed for myself. And while I was around the mentor, I could learn from him.
Life needs a lot of skills to do life successfully. The opportunities to learn those skills is sparse… Because skills are not knowledge, even if they are mental, intellectual skills: they are the ability to do, to perform a skill… not to understand it.
Continue reading “One of the most useful things I have ever done for myself”
One of my students had a breakthrough on the Monday webinar.
To me it came out of the blue… nothing seemed to be building up to it.
I got intensely curious. After all, when you don’t or can’t acknowledge the “real” source of a breakthrough, then you can’t sustain the result the breakthrough. It looks like divine intervention: you are not causing it, some “entity” does… and all you can do is pray for rain…
Continue reading “You have to get ready for a breakthrough? WTF? Why?”
More on toughening up…
When I first did the Landmark Education Forum (actually it was called The Forum in 1987) I remember, distinctly, experiencing, for the first time, that I am not alone.
There was so much misery shared in that room, that it caused a kind of comradery 1, I wasn’t familiar with.
I remember thinking: If I am not alone, then it is not me… then it is something shared…
Continue reading “More on toughening up… and an exercise”
Another old article revived… Oldie but goodie.
I woke up this morning with despair in my heart. No reason, just the mood. I stepped on the scale, and I put on half a pound yesterday. It was raining cats and dogs, but the temperature will be normal later today.
Must be Dark Side transmission…
I read some emails, answered them, but didn’t feel like working.
I took some Heaven on Earth Remedy.
I watched some videos. One had a comment under it: “Don’t Let What You Can’t Do Stop You From Doing What You Can”
I took some more Heaven on Earth.
Continue reading “Don’t Let What You Can’t Do Stop You From Doing What You Can”
Mundane Or Significant? Habit And Duty Or Privilege?
I wrote this article five years ago. Sometimes the way to get ahead is to go back five years and start from there.
Recently the readership of this blog has changed, not to my liking. I’d like to return to how it was five years ago, when people with sincere desire to change visited, and asked for help.
OK, here is the old article… hopefully all typos are corrected.
Thanksgiving: a time to give thanks. But to who? For What? Mundane or Significant? Habit and Duty or Privilege?
In searching what I am really thankful for, I went through all the things I could be thankful for.
The air I breathe? the fact that I woke up this morning? the sunshine on this winter day on my window… hey it’s so strong I had to lower the blinds! lol
Or the roasted beet salad with goat cheese (yumm) I am making as part of Thanksgiving dinner?
Continue reading “A Time To Give Thanks. But To Who? For What?”
I lead a workshop on Sunday. I had knowledge, I had strategy. I executed it. It was sloppy. What was missing?
I didn’t know. But ‘god’ works in mysterious ways, the book I am reading has an answer that shows me what has been missing for me on Sunday and all my life.
The book, Peak, the new science of expertise, calls it Mental Representation. Continue reading “Knowledge, Strategy, Execution, is that enough for success?”
So you want to feel special?
We are all special, if special means, as special as our thumbprint… But that is not special enough for you, is it?
You want to be SPECIAL… so you can be treated special… a special talent, outstanding, mind boggling, awesome, the best.
In this article I will shed light to an important phenomenon that we are all experiencing… the ITCH, that keeps us miserable, and the HORIZON that keeps us on track, sane, happy and always well.
Continue reading “Updated: So you want to feel special… how is it going for you?”
As you may know, I am doing my second round of the 67 steps. In step 13 Tai says something like this: if you are not happy, don’t throw everything away. It is possible that the unhappiness is due to a mismatch of your current lifestyle with your social needs…
Huh?
So I went back in my memory to different stages of my business, or the different businesses I had. And lo and behold, I found something totally freaky: I was happiest when I had at least one person cooperating with me in my business. Even if the cooperation was minor, and we didn’t interact much. Just knowing that I am not alone transformed my experience.
Now, this is a big surprise to me.
It is counter intuitive. I didn’t know that I didn’t know. I wasn’t even looking in that direction
And it is something that I can easily apply, easily accommodate without changing anything else.
Continue reading “All you need is a tiny nudge… to go from unhappy to happy.”
