“You can still live on that shimmering line between your old thinking and your new understanding, always in a state of learning. In a figurative sense, this is a border that is always moving—as you advance forward in your studies and realizations, that mysterious forest of the unknown always stays a few feet ahead of you, so you have to travel light in order to …
An Unconventional Way of Thinking
What brought me here today is nothing more than an unconventional way of thinking. I have always been the type of person who thinks anything is possible—and why wouldn’t it be? It isn’t that most things are difficult; it is just that most people don’t take the time to figure out what they want, and work out the details, and get on with doing it. …
How to Build Your Personal Legacy and Share it With the World
Life can give us a lot of ups and downs. As the year comes to a close, have a think about your year and what you want for the year to come. By focusing on what our personal legacy is, we can look back on the year and put everything in perspective. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it …
How to Enjoy the Process when You are Going Through Difficult Times
Going through Difficult Times? This post should help. Recently, a friend of mine posted this quote from Buddha on Facebook: “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” And, being the slightly sarcastic friend that I am, I replied, “Ok, how?” The truth of it is, being in the moment and enjoying the process …
What Kind of Perfectionist Are You?
Let me begin by saying that my inspiration to write about this topic is that I am seeing a trend — and so is Google. The issue of being a perfectionist, and even the language has gone up DRAMATICALLY, look: It is no surprise, then, that we have begun to take this trait on, and incorporate this thinking into our lifestyle. Plus, given the rise …
Overcoming Perfectionism
One of the biggest issues that business owners and all of my clients have is a disease called Perfectionism. I call this a disease, because it is. It is debilitating, and it stops you from getting what you really want in life. It makes you feel awful, and it is not (by any stretch of the imagination) improving your life in any way. In this …
What Are You Grateful For?
So often in our society, describing our lives and lifestyles is either a list of things we still need to get done, or a long list of complaints. We talk about how busy we are, or what is going wrong in our lives. The only time people really stop to say something positive or clever is when they are posting on Facebook. We are too busy …
The Real Good vs. Evil: Freedom vs. Control
This is the question you should ask yourself right now: Do I want Freedom, or do I want Control? This might be the biggest life choice that we face on a minute to minute basis, every single day. We have a choice to make in how we handle every situation in our life and our business. It comes down to Freedom or Control. Freedom …
Is Society’s Voice Louder Than Your Own?
In our lives, we experience many external pressures. most of which are meant to help guide us towards a “better” life. These social, political, and religious cues are meant to make us “successful”. Some of these are subtle—like a disapproving look—and some of these are dramatic, like being told what we want is wrong, bad, or stupid. Or, even worse, being told that what we …
What You Really Want Scares the Shit Out of You!
Let’s be honest with each other for just a minute. Deep down, you know what you really want. You have burning desires, fantasies, you spend time daydreaming about it. But, after you think about what you really want, two things happen: 1. You talk yourself out of all of the ways it could possibly become a reality, and 2. If all of the excuses went …
Are You Ready To Make Money?
I recently had the pleasure of Louise Hay’s book, Receiving Prosperity. It really shook up some deep seeded feelings I had about money that I didn’t even realize I was holding on to! For those of you that are struggling with getting more of the green, this article is for you! Are you ready to receive? Most of us think about money, and we think …
Is Daydreaming Good for You?
As a kid I was always getting yelled at to “pay attention” and “keep on track”. But, if I am honest with you, I preferred to be daydreaming. I always got my best ideas that way, and it also helped my brain to relax and unwind. As an adult, I still do the same thing. I was wondering “Is Daydreaming Good for You?” so I …
How to Get Your Groove Back
Sometimes, life kicks the shit out of you. It can be hard to stay focused, motivated, or even convince yourself that there is a point to any of this. This past year has been a whirlwind. For about six months I had some kind of doomed domino effect going on all around me. I seriously needed to: Get My Groove Back One of my best …
The Beast: Your Burning Desire to Succeed
You feel it. It’s in your gut. It aches. It’s driving you further, and you have no idea why. Every sense of yours is heightened yet simultaneously numbed and the sheer force of will is taking over. It wants you to succeed. It is your burning desire. Your burning desire to succeed. It strikes unquestionably, unapologetically, and it refuses to be ignored. You couldn’t take …
I Spent the Day in Bed with Lady Gaga
I Spent the Day in Bed with Lady Gaga…and it was one of the best days I’ve ever had. I’d heard of Lady Gaga, and also know some of her songs. But I assumed she was just some typical blonde ditzy rock star—man was I wrong. I came across this interview and literally spent the day in bed watching it, pulling quotes, and listening to …
Want to Change Your Life? Change Your Attitude About Work
Today I want to share something with you that might be the biggest breakthrough that I’ve ever had related to work. If you want to change your life, change your attitude about work. But first… a little history. Working as a Child For as long as I can remember, I worked. My parents would put us to work in the yard, I’d work on weekends, …
Travel Poem: The Double Life by Don Blanding
The Double Life by Don Blanding How very simple life would be If only there were two of me A Restless Me to drift and roam A Quiet Me to stay at home. A Searching One to find his fill Of varied skies and newfound thrill While sane and homely things are done By the domestic Other One. And that’s just where the trouble lies; …
4 Steps for Overcoming Toxic Career Syndrome
I was lucky enough to come across an article in the July issue of Elle magazine. Typically I don’t read glossy magazines. But given that the reading material that comes through Thailand is rather limited, it is fun to take a look at what is happening with ‘modern society’. Boy was I glad that I did. I hadn’t even realized there was a name for …
There Is No Door
This story is based on a real experiment that took place in a laboratory. I’ve told this story several times to my clients because I think it has a lot to say about choices, mindset, and human behavior. I wanted to share it on my blog to facilitate a conversation and get your ideas and opinions. So make way for… Lifestyle Transformation: There Is No …
Feeling Fear? Learn to Move Towards Your Fears
Feeling fear is an interesting topic. It is much like Stress; it can be real or imagined. We may feel fear because of an experience that has happened in the past which triggers fear in the present. We might feel fear of uncertainty, or fear of the unknown. Or, we may even be frightened of doing what we’ve always wanted to do with our lives—a …
Neurological Research Links Coaching to Transformational Change
I love it when I pick up the business section of the newspaper and something jumps off and hits me in the face. Today I came across this article written by Coach Kriengsak Nitpattanasai who has a column in the Bangkok Post. Coaching by question and brain research Nitpatanasai gives an overview of David Rock’s book Quiet Leadership: Help People Think Better–Don’t Tell Them What …
The Stages of Depression and the Steps to Enlightenment… are they the same?
Most stories of enlightenment start out the same. Someone, somewhere is seeking the truth. They leave home, become detached from society, give up worldly pleasures, family and friends, contemplate life and death, and end up accepting, embracing, and warranting a slower, more meaningful representation of life. One thing I’ve noticed is that many of the initial signs of this process are identical to the symptoms …
The Importance of a Great Coach
If you’ve been following along with some of my updates on Facebook, you’ll know I’ve been getting my butt kicked severely by my friend Kris. After spending ten weeks eating and partying too much in Bangkok, I realized I really needed to Get In Shape Girl! As luck (or the Universe) would have it, the second I got back down here and announced my new …
Changing Yourself, or Changing the World?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, “If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others?” I believe if we we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better. Arianna Huffington Inner desire to Change When …
How to Stay Motivated as a Business Owner
It is easy to feel like you are all by yourself when you go into business for yourself. I wrote this entry about a year and a half ago, and I just found it. I think it depicts some of the ups and downs of being ‘in charge’ of running a business. As a business owner, we have Major UPs and Big Time Downs, but …
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