Nod to the Indigo Girls for today’s post headline. I was looking at the definition of Practice today: Practice – Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary. One of the synonyms of the noun form is “dry run”. So…
The Practice of Productivity
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Nobody Gets a Lifetime Rehearsal
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Blazing new Frontiers
I was thinking this morning about how I admire people who light out on their own and build something new. That doesn’t have to be inventing the geodesic dome (but I did watch a YouTube video on Buckminster Fuller). It could be…
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People will Come!
People will most definitely come. You put your dream out there! You trust it even when there are naysayers and bill collectors. Prepare your inner intention, line up your outer action and people will come! I have been seeing this…
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Turning Negative to Positive – Reframe step by step
If you got a chance to read my post from yesterday, I talked about the limiting beliefs and images we hold and the effect on achieving our goals. Today I want to give you a tangible step by step process,…
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Reframing. A technique for overcoming limiting beliefs
One of the biggest obstacles to accomplishing goals we set for ourselves is overcoming the limiting beliefs we hold. Here’s the math. It’s all about vectors and force. We are trying to get from point A to point B. We…
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Day Seven – Chakras and Productivity
The Seventh Chakra, called Sahasrara, is the 1,000 petal lotus at the crown of the head. This is the area of true inspiration and purpose. Some would call it our connection to the divine. Maybe Plato would have called it…
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Day 6 – Chakra and Productivity
The sixth chakra, or Ajna, is located at the third eye area or the middle of the forehead. Actually if you drew a line from temple to temple and another from the middle of the forehead straight back, you would…
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Pressure Cooker v. Crock Pot
I can’t tell you the physics behind these cooking methods but I find the results similar in many ways. I used to have a crock pot or slow cooker in my college dorm room. We made a lot of soups…
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Run Through the Finish
In 1986 I took a seminar called Insight. The facilitator, made an analogy that has stayed with me these twenty five plus years. So often, as we approach our goal we tend to let up. Amateur runners see the finish…
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We are not our limited self image. We are our picture of success!
I mentioned previously that I have a paperweight on my desk that says ‘what would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?’ I have also drawn the conclusion that without failure we make no progress nor gain learning and experience. And…
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