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Selling change All change is a sales job. People don’t want to change. They want their situation to change. They want their discomforts to change. They want others to change. But seldom does anyone want to change. Change has to be sold. How do you sell change? There are lots of ways. One way is …
Homily #2 on Being A continued treatise on Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now”. We left off last time with the concept of ‘watching or observing the Thinker’. By abstracting this way you can disassociate your core being with your thinking mind. Because the thinking mind is a trickster that is always working to disturb …
Lean and mean How I made weight for my race The big story this week is my weight and nutrition. I was whining about being ‘jiggly-fat’ last episode so I did what I do when something is important, I focused on it, came up with a plan and executed. And over the last few weeks …
Address to my 22 year old self This topic is difficult in many ways. First it seems to ask for something definitive, some over-arching summary or distillation of a lifetime’s learnings. This sets the mark too high. That’s an impossible set of advice to distill. Even if we could distill that advice it would not …
Stress on! I’m reading an interesting book on how extreme athletes use their ability to ‘get in the zone’ to be able to do crazy feats. It is becoming clearer in the research that what actually happens is that part of your ‘thinking’ brain shuts down, or is co-opted by the ‘implicit’ brain during times …
