While stopped at a traffic light at a busy intersection in the city of Los Angeles on a late Saturday night, a young bearded man wearing a blue flannel shirt walked between the stopped cars holding a sign that read, “Please help me.” Walking up to the right side of my car, I rolled [...]
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25 Feb
Unbridled Permission
On a cool summer morning, at the impressionable age of six, I joined the swim team at the neighborhood pool. Decked out in my new warm-up suit, Speedo and goggles, I was ready to go.
When Coach Thomas blew his whistle and hollered, “Let’s go guys, let’s get in there and warm up.” I [...]
5 Nov
If I were Love…Imagine, Ask and Be
Searching for my keys as I was running late for a red-eye flight home to see my mother before her surgery, I did something I had never done before. Instead of panicking and asking, “Where are my keys?” over and over again until I turned my home upside down, I closed my eyes, took a [...]
13 Aug
Imagine Love
“If I were to imagine only one thing today, it would be love.”
Imagine Love Exercise
1. Find a quiet place where you can sit comfortably and not be disturbed. Close your eyes and relax.
2. Imagine you are standing in front of someone you love with all your heart.
3. Now imagine you have the ability to [...]
5 Aug
Go for the Gold – “Love Yourself”
One of the most remarkable characteristics of gold is its ability to be forged into almost anything without breaking. Applying this same principle to The Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would want done unto you,” I created a few new rules from the same vein.
The first two, and my favorite, are The Golden [...]
10 Jul
Decide and Live Your Dream
“The moment you decide to pursue your dream is the moment you begin to live it.” -gruberism
On a recent trip back to Ohio, while visiting my sister Pat and her family, Eli, the youngest of her three boys ran up to me and asked if I would go fish’n with him. Looking [...]
13 Jun
Live by a More Golden Rule
While having tea with a friend on her garden patio, her playful and loving orange and black tabby cat, Tig, jumped up onto the table, gently placed a lifeless little field mouse in front of me and jumped back off.
Shocked, I gasped.
My friend’s reaction was quite the opposite. She simply smiled and commented, “Awe, look. [...]
3 Jun
The Door is Open! – Part I – A Story of Unconditional Love
Just after supper, the day before I was to leave my childhood home of Cincinnati, Ohio for the bright lights of New York City, I sat with my father on our front porch admiring his perfectly manicured lawn.
Just as the sun was about to set, my father humbly said, “I have a little something for [...]
13 May
Leverage Your Strengths
A few years back, I fell and injured my lower back. After a year of traditonal medicine, I was told there was little else they could do to aid my recovery.
On my final visit, still in great pain, my doctor offered me one last glimmer of hope by saying, “You know, there [...]
8 May
Awaken Your Inspiration!
Within all of us lies something quite magical, loving and uniquely our own, we need merely to awaken it!
About five years ago, I picked up a magazine featuring a series of articles on some of the world’s most creative minds. Just as I was finishing the last article, it occurred to me. All [...]
23 Apr
Run Barefoot on the Grass!
If I were to ask you to finish the statement, “The grass is always greener,” you would mostly likely answer “on the other side of the fence.” Am I right?
Now, how did I know that? Could it be that I, like you, have accepted this seemingly harmless idiom as true, made it [...]
15 Apr
Expansion – A Present Moment Exercise and Game
Expansion is a present moment exercise in the form of a single-player game where you, the player, cannot lose!
Working off the premise that what you focus on expands, the object of the game is to reside in the present as much as possible by increasing your awareness of it.
The Rules.
1. Begin by creating a strip [...]
9 Apr
Reside in the Present!
If you were to ask a Realtor, “What are the three most important factors in determining the best place to live? He would reply without batting an eye, “location, location, location.”
Imagining the past, present and future as places you could reside, this tried and true answer could just as well be applied [...]
26 Mar
You are Greater Than You Think!
Experience your greatness!
Journal the answer to the following questions.
Who am I?
and
How am I feeling?
If you’re like most people, you answered the questions with a series of “I ams.” And while this is all very well and good, it is not as true as you may think.
Why? The word “am,” recognized as “you [...]
19 Mar
You Were Whole All Along!
“You were whole all along
How could you be not?
You are nothing but love.
You just simply forgot.”*
At the moment you arrived into this world, you were whole. So much so, you had to expel fluid from your lungs just to take your first breath.
You were whole. Take a moment and let that [...]
12 Mar
Listen Visually!
“An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.” – Sanford Meisner
I love a good foreign language film. No other art form has been able to move me so deeply. The reason being, I suppose, is the fact that it requires me to do something I don’t normally do, which is [...]
11 Mar
Your Thoughts Are Like Snowflakes
“Your thoughts are like snowflakes, no two are the same.” – gruberism
Let me prove it to you. Have a thought, any thought. Now, think that thought again. Was it the same thought?
I would argue that it wasn’t. I would argue that you have created a copy of the original thought and [...]
5 Mar
Create an Echo in Your Youniverse
Get more out of your affirmations with this powerful technique I call affurmations.
An affurmation is an affirmation that is redirected back to you by replacing the “I am” with a “You are.”
By directing your affirmations back to you, you activate another aspect of your being. In essence, you complete the cycle. It can feel [...]
12 Feb
The Next Big Thing in Communication!
Your ability to effectively communicate is paramount, hence the birth of bottom lining, the ability to express yourself succinctly.
While much has been written on bottom lining, little has been written about the ability to express what you have heard succinctly.
I call this ability, Headlining. Much like an editor that reads an article to determine [...]
7 Feb
My Wish is My Command
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.” – Anatole France
What did these great thinkers discover about the power of imagination? I have a theory, a simple but profound one. I believe they were able to tap into the hidden and powerful [...]
23 Jan
Once Upon a Present Moment
Once upon a present moment, an old queen looked into her mirror and asked, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, whose the fairest of them all?”
The mirror answered back, “I am the fairest, reflecting only what I see.”
Enraged by the mirror’s answer she exclaimed, “That’s not what I meant. Who is [...]
17 Jan
Awaken Your Very Essence from the Outside In
On a recent trip to the theater, I had the pleasure to see a production called The Rat Pack. The show transported me back in time to a night at the Sands Hotel in Vegas with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. at their very best.
Watching the confidence of Frank, the charm [...]
10 Jan
Listen and You Shall Hear
While waiting in line at a local coffee shop, I overheard the young woman in front of me order “a medium coffee with room for cream.” The barista, not listening, quickly handed her a medium coffee filled to the rim.
Seeing the full cup, she replied, “Excuse me, but I asked for room for [...]
17 Dec
Assistapants Unite! – We First Technology
At the end of a workshop I recently attended, one of the instructors expressed her sincerest thanks to the assistants that were occasionally asked to participate in some of the lessons, by whimsically saying, “I would also like to thank our lovely assistapants for all their wonderful assistance and participation. Thank you.”
While I realize [...]
27 Nov
Live a more Balanced Life. Create a Two-do List.
You’re always busy doing everything you can to succeed. You make your lists and manage your time, but still, you feel out of balance.
Add a little balance back into you life with a Two-Do List!
The Goal of the Two-Do List
To create a system to get you to focus all the areas of [...]
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