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ARTArticleEnlightenmentIn a secular or a non-Buddhist context enlightenment is often used to mean full comprehension of a situation, or having gained spiritual insight. Enlightenment is also construed as being a state of freedom from suffering, desire and ignorance. The term enlightenment has been broadly and loosely used to indicate the opening of one’s eyes to a spiritual realm. Almost all religions and philosophies have some concept of a blissful state to which they believe we should aspire.ARTArticleEntrepreneurial MindsetYour mindset is what you think and the way you think. As a mindset, mood, motivation expert and author, no one is smarter than you and you are no smarter than anyone else. What makes us well versed in an area are our knowledge, expertise, relationships, and experiences.ARTArticleEulogyWhat did you add to your eulogy today? This week? This month? This year?
Yes, you are writing your eulogy every day. Writing it based on what you do and what you don’t do. It’s what is not done that upsets us the most. It’s the what we could have done, could have been, could have, had, had we made the effort, had we started, had we had the courage.
Fear is the problem. Fear of failure. Fear of ridicule. Fear of making a mistake.
In addition to writing your obituary, you should also write your eulogy.
Who will speak? Family? Friends? Business associates? Someone you mentored?ARTArticleExploring The Frontiers Of Our MindWhat We Don't Want To Know
Can it really be true that we don't live in the real world but rather a conceptual representation of the world? What do we even mean by the idea of living in the world? One of the most powerful realizations that meditation can reveal to us is the true nature of what is real and what is the abstract constructs of our mind, and many people are unable to deal with this kind of truth when they encounter it. So, what exactly is going on?ARTArticleExploring The Landscape Of PerceptionThe Fear of Intuitive Perceptions
What if someone told you that there is a very good chance that you don't live in the real world perhaps 90% of the time, that we only directly experience life maybe 10% of the time? I remember that I laughed when I first encountered this idea. But even while I was laughing I was aware of a small voice deep in the back of my consciousness that was trying to sound an alarm or send a message or something.ARTArticleExploring The Self In Self ImageThe Sources Of IdentityARTArticleFear is Your Co-Pilot: Ways to harness your fear and gain that edge with your audience!I saw a painful surveillance video the other day showing a thief attempting an escape from police by climbing a ten-foot ladder. He plummeted to the ground on the first attempt. The sirens grew louder and he tried again, and fell. In fact, he fell five more times to the cement floor of the store he had attempted to rob before he made his escape. It was almost comical, and the news anchors joked about his tenacity. In his case, fear of getting caught and facing jail time fueled him, and he succeeded in eluding the police.ARTArticleFear of Goal Setting, Why Set Goals?Do you have a fear of goal setting? Have you set goals in the past that did not work out how you wanted? Are you disheartened as a result? Or maybe you are afraid to set goals in case you fail and you know how awful that feels so end up staying safe instead. Some people are afraid to set a goal in case they cannot handle the success so they put off setting the goal and keep putting it off. Do you procrastinate when it comes to goal setting?ARTArticleFeel better about yourself, feel better about your relationship.When we think of relationships, we normally think of how our partner is treating us, whether we are happy and feel heard. We tend to weigh the pros and cons of the relationship and then consider how we feel about our partner.
But what if your happiness in your relationship has as much to do with how you feel about yourself as it does with how your partner is treating you?
Have you noticed that leaving one relationship and beginning a new one doesn't necessarily solve everything? At first you think this person is different and now you will be happy forevermore.ARTArticleFinding Words That Work in BusinessWe all face difficult conversations in the workplace: criticism from our boss, a conflict with a client, a co-worker we find irritating, a subordinate who submits incomplete work -- all might entail a conversation we do not look forward to having. When we anticipate that an interaction might be complicated, there are steps we can take to engage with the other person in ways that are more likely to be satisfying.
Handling Difficult Conversations
We might think about this in three stages: preparing for the conversation, having it, and then learning from it afterward.ARTArticleFive Expert Tips for Getting the Perfect Branded HeadshotEvery professional needs to have several great headshot photos in their personal branding toolkit. Your mug shot does matter, especially in this era of new media marketing. The business competition is fierce and you need photographs that visually articulate your personal brand. This is true whether you are looking to get promoted within your firm, are hoping to be invited as a keynote speaker at your industry’s next conference, or are a small business owner and entrepreneur.ARTArticleFive Thoughts That Help Us To Survive SurvivalIn life, we are all survivors, whether or not we think of ourselves that way. When we experience our first love and break up, our hearts are broken and we don't think that we will ever survive. But somehow we do, and eventually we meet someone new. When we lose our first job, whether we are fired or laid off, we may wonder if anyone will ever hire us again. But we ultimately find another job and, thus, we survive again. Other traumatic events may occur in life that challenge our survival, such as going through a divorce, acquiring a disability, or losing a child, parent, or loved one.ARTArticleFor Real Power - Sharpen Your Listening SkillsThroughout the ages, it’s the notable speakers and orators who have charted the course of history; from Aristotle to Jesus, down through Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Great speakers and their speeches have inspired, moved and motivated individuals, armies and nations. The memorable speeches and the people who delivered them represent mileposts in mankind’s evolution. Is it any wonder that we tend to think of speakers and speech as being all powerful?ARTArticleFour Ways to Minimize Interruptions and DistractionsWe are bombarded by interruptions and distractions all day long. They affect our focus and cause us to lose time getting back up to speed. If we can increase our productivity by just six minutes each day, we’ll increase our productivity by 24 hours each year. That’s three days of production this year over last! Imagine what it would feel like to have three days of work off your desk right now.
Quelling the NoiseARTArticleGet "In The Zone"To be “in the zone”, consistent high performance, our mindset must have a program readily available. Sure, each of us has specific expertise we use to create solutions for our businesses to grow. As a mindset, mood, and mental motivation expert, I want to know how you make your thought process better.
Having worked with business leaders and athletes, one “way to think” so you can be “in the zone”, consistent high performance, on the job is to do the following:ARTArticleGet A Business Blueprint For Your New Product IdeaIt appears you are having a new product idea. Excellent. You are very knowledgeable about a specific area and there is some revenue you see from it.
So what are the next steps... what all can be done?
1. Find somebody who has walked the same path and agrees to mentor you
2. Try various ways as come to mind and use the information available freely to develop your strategies
3. Part with partial rights to the product/revenues to someone who can monetize it properly
4.ARTArticleGet the Lead Out! Could There Be Lead in Your Calcium Supplement?People who take high doses of natural source calcium could be placing themselves at high risk for cumulative lead toxicity according to research conducted by the University of Arizona. While calcium itself has virtually no toxicity, there is evidence that natural source calcium supplements - those made from bone meal, oyster shell and dolomite may contain heavy metals, including lead.ARTArticleGetting Things DoneI’ve been thinking a lot about getting things done. I have been updating the content on my website, and it is taking WAY longer than it “should.”
I know I’m not alone. My clients are struggling with the same thing. Most of them have long lists—often multiple lists—of things that they “should” get done but never seem to get around to them. So what do we do?
Let’s start with the “to do” list itself. Most people make one list of everything they want, need, or feel they should do and then feel guilty when it all doesn’t get done.ARTArticleGiving Workplace Feedback and EvaluationsWe encounter feedback in a number of ways in the workplace. When working with another person or group of people to deliver goods or services, feedback is a key component to being able to continually correct toward the goal. Feedback is also institutionalized in the annual or semiannual evaluation process featured in many workplaces.ARTArticleGratitude and Victimhood Can't Co-ExistHow often to you feel like a victim? If you're anything like me, probably more often than you'd like to admit. Although I usually pretend to be too "evolved" to play the role of victim in my life, I do catch myself at times feeling, thinking, and talking in that old, familiar, "oh poor me" kind of way. Can you relate?
I remember one of my mentors telling me years ago, "Mike, you can't simultaneously be grateful and victimized."ARTArticleGuru Blueprint Review: Does Anyone Still Buy Information Products Online?Eben Pagan recently released a video addressing this subject to mark the launch of Guru Blueprint, his new product.ARTArticleHealing Painful Charges and Wounds from the PastWe all have them. Emotional wounding from our childhood. An event, a person, something happened to create a cluster of pain and beliefs surrounding that pain. Years can go by, and as long as that wound is still festering, all it takes is a word, or a certain look on someone's face to trigger it. Then suddenly you are embroiled in a cloud of turbulence, lashing out at the poor person or thing that set you off, telling yourself a story of pain. A story that seems so true, that controls you so much, that eats away at your happiness.ARTArticleHigh Self Esteem And Achieving SuccessThe Sources Of Self EsteemARTArticleHow A Low Self Esteem Will Ruin Your Love LifeA low self esteem will make it difficult for you to accept love from anyone else simply because,
someone with a low self esteem already finds it difficult to love or appreciate themselves.
Someone with a low self esteem does not know how to receive affection from anyone, especially someone they are romantically connected with.
There are three main factors that can affect a relationship where one both partners suffer from a low self esteem:
Feelings of insecurity
Possesiveness
Finance
Feelings Of Insecurity:
Someone who is insecure, has a negative perception of who theARTArticleHow Divorce Affects Your ChildrenRecently I spoke with a woman whose coaching practice revolves around the issue of children and divorce. She had many useful strategies for dealing with this challenge but what it all seemed to come down to is this: if you love your children more than you might hate, resent or simply dislike your ex, then you are called upon to act with their well-being first and foremost instead of any hard feelings you may harbor against your former spouse.ARTArticleHow To Analyze and Report Sales and Profit Generating ActivityTactics For Keeping Score On Your Business.
Years ago when my son was part of the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) tour, I tried not to miss one of those tou
aments when it was anywhere near the Dallas / Fort Worth area. I even saw a few when it was out of state, like Califo
ia, Illinois and Oklahoma. Ever since I started my son in competitive golf when he was 8 years old, I was vigilant in teaching him the importance of keeping score. Not just the per hole score, but recording the shot results that made up that score, i.e.ARTArticleHow to Benefit From Your Natural CreativityYou are creative! It is not a question of “if;” it is a question of “how much!” Each person is blessed with creativity from birth and so it is a matter of learning how to express this gift. Think about how a group of young children just ooze with creativity and energy. Problems are not nearly so daunting to the youngsters as they might be to us adults. What can we learn?ARTArticleHow to Create a Happy & Authentic Life: Get Clear"Getting Real is a very real thing and a very vital part of being successful and happy in our life and in our work."
The above quote is from my article "7 Steps to Creating a Happy & Authentic Life," where we talked about what it means to Get Real and introduced the 7 Simple Truths for Getting Real & Staying Real as the foundation for creating a happy and authentic life. In this follow-up series, we will unwrap each of the 7 Simple Truths for Getting Real & Staying Real and share ideas about how to implement the truths to create a happy and authentic life.
Simple Truth #1: Get ClearARTArticleHow to Easily Overcome a Fear of Wrong Decision MakingDo you find it difficult to make decisions? After making a decision do you doubt what you have done and worry that it's not the best decision for you? Do you make a decision only to quickly change your mind? Do you regret many of the decisions that you've made and wish your life was different?
If you are nodding you head at this moment then I can guarantee that your decision making will be 100% better once you are clear about your personal values.ARTArticleHow to Easily Overcome Your Fears in less than 10 minutesHow to overcome your fears
Lets clarify what I mean by fears. One dictionary definition states 'be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event; "I fear she might get aggressive".'
It's a combination of a feeling and thought that you have about an unknown situation based on your belief or preconceptions of what might happen in the future.