Doing your best seems like such a no brainer. Of “Course I do my best, I do my best all the time!” But right here, just between you and I, is there a part of you which sometimes aims for “just good enough?” Don Miguel Ruiz, author of the Four Agreements has an interesting take […]
In the book It’s All About Me I have an entire chapter about the pitfalls of Assumptions and Expectations I think you will enjoy, and Don Miguel Ruiz also wrote of Assumptions as his third agreement in the book The Four Agreements. How many times have assumptions become the bane of your experience? How many
Often in these blogs we have looked at realizing our dreams, and what is holding us in place away from those dreams. What ever is holding us back is like a noose around our necks; sometimes it seems the harder we try to move forward the tighter the noose gets. That is exactly how a noose
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As I continue my review of the wonderful book by Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements, and compare the suggestions contained in this book shamelessly with those contained in my own book It’s All About Me, today we look at the idea of being more impersonal with our work with others. Certainly somewhere along the line
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Know how it is; you read a book at some point, enjoy the message, then put it away for awhile, then you are called to open that book again? Well that happened with me recently. Four or five years ago I read “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz. Its a wonderful book book with
You probably have heard about your “inner child”, that part of you who wants to run and play and blow off work, eat ice cream for dinner, and who wants to pout when you don’t get your way. Yes, that inner child is indeed alive and well within you right now. If you have not let
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No one on this entire planet can keep us from doing anything we choose, except ourselves. And, we are sooooo good at keeping ourselves from achieving our goals with two very small words; I Can’t. Once we utter those words we are done. More often than not what we are really saying is “I won’t.” I
I loved my mother and father, and they loved me, for that I am grateful. Yet I often wonder these decades since they left this planet what they would think of the path I am walking in my life right now. The simple truth is that it does not matter how they would be viewing
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No, nothing glib in this blog, suicide is a very serious experience in so many lives. For the person who finds themselves sitting at the precipice of life or suicide the world is a very empty place. This person believes the world will be better off with out them, and that further more, no one will care if they
What would it look like if you just let go? Just let go of your expectations about how things should work, who should be in charge, when something is supposed to happen. What if you let go of trying to make things happen, and instead simply get a goal in mind, then trust that the
