Pushing “Play” to Your “Pause” Button
Is this a thought that will slow me down? Or can I find a perspective that will speed me up?
11 August, 2022
The Lottery of Life: Pitfalls and Possibilities
Realize that our dreams about the future rarely correspond to what happens in the future.
04 August, 2022
Self-Sabotage: A Compassionate Look at a Useless Metaphor
How often have you seen other people stop and give up on a goal or dream, saying that they can’t deal with their own “resistance”?
28 July, 2022
Is There Such a “Thing” as Resistance?
How often have you seen other people stop and give up on a goal or dream, saying that they can’t deal with their own “resistance”?
21 July, 2022
The Beauty of Obstacles
Remember: you become stronger with every problem you face and every obstacle you overcome!
14 July, 2022
How to Lead an Extraordinary Life!
What does it take to live an extraordinary life? It may be simpler than we think. You might believe that the extraordinary life is beyond your reach.
07 July, 2022
The Energy of Enjoyment: Learn to Savor Rather Than Consume Your Life!
When you learn to use the energy of enjoyment, you develop the capacity to savor what is before you. You begin to delight in whatever you’re doing, not rushing through it and on to the next activity.
30 June, 2022
Do You Know What Your True Wealth Is? It’s About Time!
No matter how much money energy you’ve amassed, or even lost, over the years, there’s one energy that is renewed every day for all of us at one second after 12 am. It’s the energy of time.
23 June, 2022
The Art of Acknowledgement
When was the last time you told someone what you appreciated about them? Did you take the time to see what they contribute to you and others and describe it in a way they could take it in?
16 June, 2022
The “I Deserve It” Syndrome
As I remember it, this slogan hadn’t been used as boldly in marketing before. It was catchy. It created an iron-clad rationale for spending money.
09 June, 2022
How to overcome overwhelmed with responsibilities and obligations?
There is a way out of this experience. We can have a life well-lived instead of a life well-stressed. It all has to do with where we choose to point our brains. Before we do this, let’s look a little deeper at the definitions of responsibility and obligation.
03 June, 2022
Do You Need to Believe Everything You Think?
You might ask yourself what I mean by that title. How often do we think our thoughts mean something? Do we need to analyze and pay attention to them because they have arisen in our brains? Must we think that our thoughts mean something about ourselves? Others? The world?
26 May, 2022
Catch Yourself Doing Something Right (for a change!)
If you’ve ever managed or supervised someone, you know that there’s an empowering way to hold their usual employee feedback conversation.
18 May, 2022
The Key to Your Greatness: it’s easier to find than you think!
Looking at my personal experience of business and life fulfillment, I experience a sense of greatness whenever I fulfill the important promises I make.
11 May, 2022
The Gratitude Protocol: A simple practice for disrupting anxiety
A protocol is a set procedure for carrying out a scientific experiment. In many ways, this is exactly what you will be doing. Use what you’re about to learn as a scientific experiment. That is, judge for yourself if this works for you…
27 April, 2022
The Gratitude Protocol: How to Disrupt Anxiety
You have the power to train your brain! I’m going to give you an exercise to train your brain to focus where you want it to focus. Especially during times of unpredictability, our brains normally begin to focus on danger and what’s not working.
21 April, 2022
Renewal: Seeing Your Life with Fresh Eyes, Feeling Your Life with a Fresh Heart
There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves.
13 April, 2022
Forgiveness
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid…“ — Harriet Beecher Stowe “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.“ — Mahatma Gandhi
06 April, 2022
Move faster down your success road: Discern the difference between honesty and the truth regarding money.
“To be perfectly honest with you, I don’t like to talk with my partner about money. It’s such a heavy subject. She likes to save money, and I like to use it to buy the things I love.”
30 March, 2022
Miracles
“Miracles rest not so much upon healing power coming suddenly near us from afar, but upon our perceptions made finer. So that, for the moment, our eyes can see, and our ears can hear, what has been there around us always.”
23 March, 2022
Transformation
The word transformation occurs so frequently in books, seminars, and retreat brochures, that I thought it might be useful to look at what the word means in that context. To draw a distinction between that word and change.
16 March, 2022
Discomfort
There’s a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been born on earth that the best way to live is to try to avoid pain and just try to get comfortable.
10 March, 2022
Monkey Mind: Your Faithful Friend
I know that the title of this newsletter could be confusing. Read on, and I’ll explain what I mean when I say that Monkey Mind, your “Negative Self-Talk,” is here to help you. That it’s something your brain is bringing forward from the past to save you from those wild beasts lurking outside of your cave.
03 March, 2022
The Shiny Object Syndrome: What it is, what it costs you, and what to do about it.
You’re tired after finishing a report that’s been due for a week and decide to give yourself a break. You open your email and see an ad for the latest iPhone with lenses that will take pictures practically in the dark.
23 February, 2022
What’s Love Gotta Do With It
I’m getting feedback from people who’ve been enjoying these notes. Please know that I look forward to hearing from you! I appreciate you taking the time to let me know what you’d like more…as well as less…of.
17 February, 2022
Being Vulnerable is Your Second Greatest Superpower
I’m excited to be sharing thoughts, discoveries, and an occasional tool that you can use to bring even more clarity, focus, ease, and grace into your life. When you are demonstrating one or more of the above four principles, you inevitably make a difference in the lives of other people.
09 February, 2022
Grace
“Miracles rest not so much upon healing power coming suddenly near us from afar… but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for the moment our eyes can see, and our ears can hear, what has been there around us always.” — Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
03 February, 2022
Ease
Would it be ok with you if life got easier? You might think that the automatic answer is “yes,” or “of course,” or “are you kidding me? Heck (or another expletive) yes!” That may be true for some people. But for many people that question makes them think of doing next to nothing, while the goals seem to “show up” in front of us.
03 February, 2022
You & Financial Success: Part Two
Are you willing to become financially successful? This takes us further down the path toward financial success until we see that the path, itself, is what being financially successful is all about. We began to look at the essential nature of true financial success.
24 January, 2022
You & Financial Success: Part One
I’m so glad that you’re reading this. In this series, we’re looking at being financially successful. I have a promise to make right at the beginning: if you apply yourself to what I’m suggesting that you do in this series, you will experience being financially successful within the next 30 days. Truly!
19 January, 2022
You Have a Superpower: Use it
What I’m talking about here is the magic of support. It’s one of the six forms of energy that we need to use in order to be successful. I’ll be writing all about it in another edition. I just wanted to give a shout-out here to my buddies.
19 January, 2022
New Year, New You!
If you’re like so many of us, you may be facing the New Year resolutions with a “resolve of iron,” making promises to yourself that this year will be different.
19 January, 2022
Your Presence is The Present
I’m thrilled to write about this subject in this first edition of my newsletter. The holiday season is filled with opportunities to use the energy of money. Whether we’re buying special gifts for loved ones, getting the perfect outdoor lights for this year’s display, or planning for that small holiday party, we have multiple occasions on which to spend this precious energy.
19 January, 2022
