One of my earliest memories of unconditional love occurred in the spring of 1975. I was six. My four sisters and I were huddled around the television in the family room watching Saturday morning cartoons when my father poked his head in and said with a big smile on his face, “Turn the [...]
Archive for the ‘positive’ Category
26 May
Live by a Greater How!
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 [...]
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 [...]
19 Mar
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 [...]
5 Mar
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
12 May
Perspective – Seeing Through the Eyes of a Child
While assisting a local preschool program for children in an economically challenged area, I had the rare opportunity to see through eyes of a child that had so little but saw so much.
It happened on their lunch break. That day, I was in charge of handing out small, brown-bag lunches to ensure they would each [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
24 Sep
The Secret and Powerful Gift within the Insult or Critique
Recently, an artistic colleague of mine did something quite remarkable and courageous. He had an idea, developed a plan, executed it faithfully and invited the critics. I call this remarkable because rarely do our ideas get past the idea stage, and courageous, because he invited the critics.
I salute him for that. [...]
20 Aug
Let Go to Grow
On one of the few days it rained in LA, I decided to take the Number 2 bus to meet a friend. By the time the bus came, I was completely soaked. The newspaper over my head and the palm tree above were no match for mother nature.
As I stepped into the [...]
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