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 [...]
Archive for the ‘love’ Category
7 May
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 [...]
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 [...]
8 Feb
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, [...]
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 [...]
11 Sep
Accept … Love
The phone rang. It was my sister, 3000 miles away, telling me that our mother was rushed to the hospital. As she shared with me the news of her condition, I hung on her every word. But as soon as I hung up, my emotions overtook me. I wanted it to be different. I wanted [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
10 Oct
End Rejection Now!
“Life is a Selection Process, not a Rejection Process.” – Gruberism
When you woke up today, did you think to yourself, “I’m going to reject my way to what I want?” At the restaurant you last ate at, did you purposely reject everything on the menu before you chose what you wanted? Of course not, that’s [...]
10 Aug
Test Strips 101 – A Present Moment Exercise
This is a snap shot into a process I call TEST STRIPS.
Copyright 2007
TEST STRIPS are a quick way to evaluate where you are in the present moment in relation to where you aspire to be.
1.Choose a aspect of your life you wish to focus on and acknowledge its opposite.
2.Place the two opposing ideas across [...]
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 [...]
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