My son showed everyone a video of a card trick that he was fascinated by. He was continually amazed that the person watching the video always guessed the card that the magician picked.
I slowed it down for him.
The card that everyone picked was the last one they saw and the one he held for just [...]
Love is all you need and all that needs to be said.
Reading No Water No Moon, Osho presented the following story:
Once it happened, a great prime minister of a very great emperor died. The prime minister was rare, very intelligent, almost wise, very cunning, shrewd, a great diplomat, and it was very difficult to find a substitute. The whole kingdom was searched. All the minsters were [...]
Small inspirational stories help you to build a dream (I cleaned it out of my drawer from AdvantEdge, Nightingale-Conant, 2004):
When I was researching the history of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge as a major illustration for the ideas of success and motivation, I became engrossed with the story of how the first bridge was [...]
In working with successful clients, I have been looking at the two definitions for fulfillment:
Webster’s has:
Main Entry: ful·fill·ment
Variant(s): or ful·fil·ment \fu̇(l)-ˈfil-mənt also fə(l)-\
Function: noun
Date: circa 1775
1 : the act or process of fulfilling, which leads to
Fulfilling- -
Main Entry: ful·fill
Variant(s): or ful·fil \fu̇(l)-ˈfil also fə(l)-\
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): ful·filled; ful·fill·ing
Etymology: [...]
I was enjoying a Pumpkin Spice latte this morning. The cafe was crowded and every chair was taken. The table beside me was occupied by a portly gentleman and, what seemed to be, his employee. A friend of mine once told me that God wouldn’t let you overhear a conversation unless you [...]
There are no ancients before me,
No followers behind:
Only the vastness of heaven and earth
On this mountain terrace.
Though heaven may know the ultimate,
Joy or sorrow is our will.
Sitting in solitude this morning, reading 365 Tao Daily Meditations, I was struck by the honesty and simplicity of this wisdom. The passage went on
to say:
We stand alone [...]
Julia Cameron believes that an artist date should have a permanent spotin your weekly calendar. I found myself succumbing to a Starbucks-and-Chapters ritual artist date. I don’t think that was the general idea.
Then, I stumbled on Keri Smith’s How to be an explorer of the world, on one of those dates.
Keri has encouraged me to [...]
I found myself defending the use of the perfect when I described my coaching business. I felt like the gentleman was suggesting that he wasn’t sure I had the authority to decide what a perfect life was.
And that is actually the point.
I don’t actually have any right to tell you what is perfect for you. [...]
Most people define success by their financial status, where they live or what other people are saying about them.
To enjoy a Perfect Life, you need to define what success means, on your own terms.
For example:
I know I am being successful…
…when my business energizes my life every [...]
