February 18, 2007 – 4:12 pm
Self-esteem, as it is traditionally considered, suffers from a fallacy. In that approach, we emphasize the external situations, such as career, status, money, how others view us, what type of house we live in, what type of car we drive, and what type of education we have. And if these areas are lacking, the approach [...]
February 11, 2007 – 10:52 pm
Nobody will ever admit they have a fear of success. The ego won’t let them. But it is the ego that uses subtle tricks to undermine success if it will mean a whole new kind of life. The ego likes the old and familiar. Why? The ego is all about identity. To have a new [...]
February 6, 2007 – 10:28 pm
Giving up power to other people in how we live our lives seems like a universal truism. I heard a joke the other night that underscores it perfectly. The joke was about a very elderly Jewish couple–both 95 years old. They go to the court house to get a divorce. The judge, in a state [...]
February 1, 2007 – 8:27 pm
Boredom and laziness are connected. When I was a teenager, I observed that boredom is due to laziness and that laziness is due to boredom. I realized that a lot of these bored and lazy people stay bored and lazy forever. When I worked at United Airlines I saw how true this was. I was [...]
January 30, 2007 – 8:08 pm
When we live life more than skin deep, with all of our heart, beautiful things happen. Years and years ago, in Cincinnati, Ohio, I was the only white musician in what was otherwise a 10 piece black band. And we played at nightclubs that had all black clientele. But the fact that I was white [...]
January 20, 2007 – 6:04 pm
Activating intention is the key to unlocking the life of unlimited abundance. I remember when this first happened to me. I had just turned 21. My energy and inspiration were operating non-stop. This experience of energy was so new and exhilarating that for three months I hardly slept. I would doze off at 2 am [...]
January 15, 2007 – 5:26 pm
Rising from ashes–what could be more uplifting in a film than that? Yesterday when I wrote about identity shifts and attractor energy fields, I mentioned the fact that the night before I watched a violent movie and the fact that it had a deadening effect on my consciousness. Well, tonight (Sunday night as I write [...]
January 14, 2007 – 5:11 pm
Before I share with you about making an identity shift to joy, I want to touch on identity shifts in general. Making an identity shift was a key component in Steve Pavlina’s recent and excellent piece on how to be a millionaire. For instance, instead of carrying $20 in your wallet, you would carry $400 [...]
January 13, 2007 – 3:58 pm
Toxic energy is hard to overcome. If you are trying to create something of beauty, or reach a goal, it is almost impossible to reach it in a toxic environment. Just ask any recovering alcoholic in the AA program. They will share with you of their constant effort to keep their focus on their higher [...]
January 12, 2007 – 3:52 pm
Was it a rewriting of life that made Napoleon exhibit the boldness that was so characteristic of Napoleon? Ultimately, it was the story he chose to tell about himself that defined himself. If he bought into the truth that he was an insignificant little man of five-feet-four, he might have been content to be a [...]
January 11, 2007 – 3:16 pm
Effortless mastery in holistic personal development means to become that principle which you are developing in yourself. It means much more than having an understanding of love–it means to become love. It means to go beyond understanding poise and to actually become poise. It’s one thing to understand the importance of living in the present [...]
January 5, 2007 – 2:16 am
If you had a choice between two cars, one with an endless source of power that would never run out of fuel, or a conventional energy type car that would, which one would you choose? Have you ever run out of gas in the middle of a trip? Do you ever feel like your life [...]
December 31, 2006 – 1:51 am
With the beginning of every New Year people are full of resolve to reach dreams and the realization of their personal calling. Most will give up when they do not reach these dreams easily. Thomas Edison said that is why we see so much failure–people giving up. But vision, coupled with resolve and patience, is [...]
December 29, 2006 – 1:20 am
There is a scene in the movie Forest Gump when the mentally retarded Forrest is in basic training with the U.S. Army: Drill Sergeant: Gump! What’s your sole purpose in this army? Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, drill sergeant! Drill Sergeant: God damn it, Gump! You’re a goddamned genius! This is the [...]
December 27, 2006 – 9:52 pm
In the zone, everything flows. We get beyond the mind and our preconceptions of how things are and we become participants in the flow of life, or perhaps you might call it, the dance of life. The Indian sage Patanjali is credited to having said over 2000 years ago, “Dormant forces, faculties, and talents come [...]
December 26, 2006 – 9:48 pm
Moving beyond ordinary is as simple as choosing to do so. We need to abandon the world of finite imagination and begin the process of infinite imagination. Just because we lived life a certain way yesterday, and the day before that doesn’t mean that we are limited in our choices to living it the same [...]
December 16, 2006 – 6:22 pm
Worry is so commonplace in our lives that we take it for granted that to live is to worry. This might seem to be a self-evident truth, but it is not in any way true. If we give it some thought, we will soon realize what a waste of energy worry is. It makes us [...]
December 12, 2006 – 5:40 pm
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about enthusiasm: “(Greek: enthousiasmos) originally meant inspiration or possession by a divine afflatus or by the presence of a God. Johnson’s Dictionary, the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language, divines enthusiasm as “a vain belief of private revelation; a vain confidence of divine favour or communication.” In [...]
December 8, 2006 – 3:26 pm
Is there a difference between a hero and a heretic? Or between heroism and heresy? They all are derived from the Greek word, hairétikos, which means “able to choose.” When we are conscious, beyond the control of the mind and all of its conditioned programming, we can make choices. When we question what has meaning [...]
December 6, 2006 – 2:57 pm
Lack of confidence, is really nothing more than a lack of consciousness. It was projecting yourself into an imaginary future that created the thought that you were inadequate for the task. And that, living outside of the present moment, is unconsciousness. Your first step is to be aware of it and put an end to [...]
December 5, 2006 – 11:27 pm
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” — Leonardo Da Vinci Finding meaningful work is crucial to having a successful career. How fortunate we are when we receive professional service from someone whose spirit does work with their hands; a doctor or nurse, an architect, a mechanic, a teacher, [...]
December 2, 2006 – 11:11 pm
Today I received a life lesson. In an earlier article I wrote on poise I mentioned how to make a game of it. When you lose your poise, you lose. When you get through a situation that in the past would have rattled you, you win. Today I lost. I was trying to fine-tune my [...]
December 1, 2006 – 8:25 pm
People who are familiar with the Law of Attraction know that we attract to ourselves everything that we have in our life, good and bad. The secret of attracting what is positive into our life is being aligned with the highest energies and principles. One of the most important factors in our ability to attract [...]
November 30, 2006 – 1:48 pm
The tern, “not buying the thought” has to do with not buying in to all the negative thoughts the mind puts out. That’s one of the things I’ve been reading in a book that showed up in my mailbox unsolicited. It is titled Get Out off Your Mind & into Your Life. What a wonderful [...]