In their Law of Attraction books, Esther and Jerry Hicks talk about segmenting. The idea is you break your day into discrete portions of time or “segments” as a means to focus your attention during that time on something that you want done. This is a brilliant concept. Why? Because my biggest challenge is managing…
So I’m writing a book, and after explaining what the book is about to a good friend, he asks me why am I writing it? I gave the obvious answer of course, “Because I’ve always wanted to write a book.” And then comes the predictable question, “Why?” And then my mind produces a deluge of…
The other day I was having a drink with a good friend of mine and he began to relate his impression of one of the political candidates in the upcoming election. To say that his view was completely at odds with my own is to put it mildly. What was really interesting though was that…
I posted before about our ability to create a space between stimulus and response. This is of course not Nobel Prize submission material, yet it’s one of those truisms that is so often taken for granted. What I want to say here is that a practice of creating that Space will be a difficult one…
The other day a friend of mine called me to share that he had a huge breakthrough while sitting on the can. He thought that last bit of detail essential to his story. (smile) The breakthrough that he had during his biological “functioning” was that he was automatically and unconsciously coming from “Something’s wrong.” From…
A while back, I was standing in the elevator of my building and this woman came in with her kids, and somehow we started talking. Nothing unusual, and then she said, “I’ve seen you around the building, and you seem like such a nice man.” She seemed to be a native Spanish speaker and this…
It is quite amazing what music does to me; how it makes me move, sing; how it brings up emotions … no, how my emotions respond like they are in a dance with the music. The music calls and my emotions answer – in an instant. And then the dance begins, often literally. I am…