The Mind is Everything

I was just thinking about an exercise I could do with clients where we take a client goal, close our eyes and vividly imagine what it will be like when the goal is achieved. We would stir up positive, constructive, emotions  and actually experience the feelings that would accompany the new reality (that would exist…

When is the best time to build a roof on your house ? When it’s raining? Of course not. You put the roof on as soon as you can, when it’s sunny. Meditation is the same way: you meditate before the storms of stress and change come. Does it take a while to build an…

Don’t do what you sincerely don’t want to do. – Ernest Hemingway Putting aside the fundamental truth that time just is and cannot be managed (only you and your priorities can be managed), this is the essence of effective self- and priority-management. The simple fact is: you’re too busy, or overwhelmed, because 1) you’ve said…

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on — it is going on when you don’t have strength. – Napoleon Bonaparte Having the strength to go on is capacity. You either have it at any given moment, or you don’t. Want more capacity? Train… Whatever you’ll need when things get tough, develop greater amounts of that. Then…

Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do. – Marilyn vos Savant We are not X because of Y, we are X because of our thinking about Y *  *  * In the above X = how we’re feeling and Y =anything outside us. *  *  * So many don’t get this. They…