Across the “OUR”niverse

While tending to the small vineyard in our backyard, I noticed the grapes growing up and over the garage were not as plentiful as last year.  Thinking it was due to the new Los Angeles water restrictions the city implemented to move towards sustainable water conservation, I accepted the few grapes that had came forth [...]

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The Frequency of Love

While waiting for a friend in the arrival area of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, I noticed a young Korean woman pulling a large cart of luggage.  As she passed customs, she found an empty seat right across from me.
Just before she was about to sit, she pulled out from one of her [...]

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See the Fundamental Similarities in All of Us

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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Your life may be fuller than you’ll ever know!

Every summer as a child, my father would take the whole family to my Aunt’s house in the country for an all-day bar-b-que.  I remember those days like they were yesterday, not because of the wonderful times we had there, which we did, but rather because of the stomachaches I always got from eating way [...]

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Happily Ever ??????

If I were to ask you to finish these three phrases, what would you answer?
“Once upon a __________”
“In a land, _____,__________”
“And they lived happily ever __________”
If you answered time, far, far away, and after, you’re not alone, in fact, you’re part of a large group I like to call everybody.
Now how is that possible?
As children, [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Claim your Presence in “The iwicty Registry”

Hello Folks,
Today I would like to announce a new collaborative page called The iwicty Registry.
It is here you will be able to claim your very presence in the here and now!
Simply click on the folder tab above marked “The iwicty Registry” and sign the registry.
Carpe Praesentium!
Sincerely,
Rob Gruber
Copyright 2008 Rob Gruber
Present Life Mastery Coach
i wish i [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Become a Modern Day Alchemist

An Alchemist, in ancient times, was a philosopher and metaphysical chemist that sought to transform common metals into gold or create the elusive elixir of life.
While I have yet to transmute any common metals into actual gold or brew the elixir of life, I do consider myself a modern day alchemist and am [...]

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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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Create an Affirmational Commitment!

This is an excerpt from a children’s book I am writing.
“We all have a path, a path all our own.
And when it is time, it makes itself known.
If I had just told you, you would not have heard.
You would have just laughed, and then thought me absurd.”
I am sharing this with you as part of [...]

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