Don’t stop to think about it, just answer these questions: how tall am I? Am I 6′ tall or 5’2″. Do I weigh 325 pounds or 98 pounds? Do I have a high voice or a bass voice? The answer to these questions: I am all of them, and dozens of more things depending upon […]
I know some of you have been reading these posts and thinking “sure, that is great in concept, but in the real world, that is not how things work”. I understand, I really do because it has not been so long ago that I too believed there were two realities; what things could be, and
Tonight I watched Peyton Manning throw touchdown pass number 509. This was an impossible task, except for Peyton who did not recognize the term Impossible. Same thing for the man who held the record before Peyton the sky was the limit. Who makes an accomplishment impossible? We do. Who makes an accomplishment possible? We do.
From the book “It’s All About Me” (which will be published just as soon as the way is reveled to me) comes this idea of expectations and assumptions becoming corrosive in our relationships. I call this an “exumption”, the tendency to make an assumption or to create an expectation of which the other party is unaware. This
For the past few weeks I have been inviting you to support the campaign to get my next book published. In short, didn’t happen. QUESTION: Am I therefore a failure? to answer this question I turn to none less than Thomas Edison. Ole Tom is quoted as saying “I have not failed, I’ve just found
Start out a conversation, or a negotiation with these words or this thought in your mind and you start out with a fight. You may even be right, they indeed may be wrong, but you see, there is this principle of resistance in the Universe which comes into play anytime we try to make anyone
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I wish I were…(add the thing or things you wish you were here) is one of the most destructive ideas we can put in our own heads. Why? Because in saying “I wish I were smarter”, for instance, we convince ourselves we are not smart at all, and this is not true. “I wish I
In the follow-up book to Think, Believe, Receive, three steps to an amazing life, which is entitled It’s All About Me, I write about why some people are morning people, and others are not morning people. I suggest the most important difference between morning people and non-morning people is that morning people are those who have allowed
For some time now I have been offering my views on how we can live our lives more joyfully, in a more in-powered manner. I guess one might get the idea that I view myself as perfect, and example to be emulated. Well, that is simply not so. I got a gentle reminder this weekend
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Our attitude about what is happening in our lives is perhaps the most critical aspect of our happiness. If we feel things are moving too fast, there is too much work to do, our lives are boring, our kids hate us, that is exactly what we will experience. We set the stage for how we
