At the wide-eyed age of twenty, well before the Internet and armed with a only telephone book and a rotary phone, I purchased my first airline ticket to fly across the country to begin interviewing for jobs after college.
Never having bought a plane ticket, I wrote down everything I thought I could possibly say or [...]
Archive for the ‘imagination’ Category
26 May
Live by a Greater How!
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
9 Nov
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
I was having a wonderful conversation with a colleague over coffee about coffee, something we both dearly love and attempt to give up from time to time, when she shared with me something quite profound. With sincerity and joy, she looked me in the eye and said, “I’ve spent the last thirty years of my [...]
17 Oct
Live a Life of Ease. Choose Your Path of Least Resistance.
When I first moved to New York City, I did what most artists do. I sublet an apartment. In the first three years, I moved a total of 6 times until I found the neighborhood I would eventually call home, Hell’s Kitchen.
The first couple of moves were effortless. I packed up my [...]
13 Jul
Live a Catch-and-Release Life!
On a recent trip home to Ohio, I had the rare opportunity to go fishing with five of my nephews, ranging in age from 4 to 10, and my father, who shall remain ageless.
As we pulled up to the pond and parked the car, the boys got out and ran ahead with their gear. [...]
3 Jul
Celebrate Your Life in Every Moment!
“It was my birthday last week and I haven’t stopped celebrating.” – gruberism
I remember the first time someone asked me the question “How many birthdays does the average man have?” Not knowing it was a riddle, I thought long and hard and guessed 76. I was wrong, of course, because the average [...]
11 Jun
Create a Compelling Future!
There are numerous studies that show that goal setting works, but few people actually set goals. Why is this? One response, or excuse, I often get from my clients is that they don’t know where to start.
Today I would like to turn goal setting on its head and start at its very end.
Whether [...]
22 May
You Have the Power to Effect Change.
What do Einstein, Gandhi and Jesus have in common? They all understood the power of present moment cause and effect.
“Ask, and you shall receive, seek and you shall find,
knock and the door shall be opened unto you.” – Jesus
What a powerful way to live life! Ask, seek and knock and know you shall [...]
13 Feb
Leverage the Power of Your Passwords!
If you’re like me, you’ve accumulated several different passwords over the years, and without much effort on your part, they have done their job. They’ve granted you access and kept others out.
Unfortunately most passwords are pastwords, uninspiring words that no longer represent who you are or what you want. They only serve one [...]
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