“My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items I notice shape my mind.” Pioneering psychologist William James I am struck by his focus on MY and I. Not ‘they’ or ‘it’ or ‘them’. My experience of good or bad, happy or sad is dictated by what I attend to. What I…
Welcome to Assignment Number One in “How to Write your Own Owners Instruction Manual” This week: How do I turn myself on? Last week I wrote about creating your own Owners Manual and it struck a chord with many of you out there. For the next few blog posts I’m going to giving assignments…
If you could write your own instruction manual, what would you write? What would you put in the book that described the care and feeding of you? When I was lucky enough to be away last week at a spa to celebrate my mother turning 70, I began to think about this. There is something…
Do you do this? When I’m at the restaurant and scope out the desserts before I order my main. I just don’t want to miss out on something really good because I’m too full. If I say yes to the calamari and the surf and turf and the beautiful soup of the day, that tiramisu…
First of all, let me start out by saying I believe the whole green thumbs thing is bunk. I think you either love your plants or you don’t. I also think they know. I have never killed a plant from love, but I have killed it from indifference. Perhaps indifference ends up being more painful…
Five keys to successfully goal setting. Get what you want, discover why you failed in the past or apply these keys as you create new goals in your life. I figured this out during a recent challenge I set for myself. Every cheesy saying you can think of is in my head right now. A…
On day 12 of a 30 day challenge of Bikram yoga, it isn’t so much the 102 F heat, or the rule you can only breath through your nose, or even that you can’t have any water until after the warm up poses are done that is most difficult. It is managing your monkey mind…
I’m lying on my soaking wet towel after 90 grueling minutes of Bikram yoga. Hot yoga it’s called. They’re not kidding. 26 poses in a row in 102-degree heat. The room is small and we are packed in like Macys’ on Boxing Day plus it smells like high school gym class. I’m exhausted by now…
“Please Sir, Can I have some more?” This was notoriously asked by the poor orphan in Dickens “Oliver”. His life was changed forever when he uttered that phrase. This month I’m intending to do the same thing. I’m going to ask for more of what I want. I’m going to call it the Oliver Way,…
(probably should be rated higher, but it took me this long to get to it ) “What doesn’t bend breaks” Ani Difranco American singer , song writer and guitarist 1970 Scottish proverb: better to bend than break I have loved reading for my book reviews this summer. In terms of goal setting skill it was…
