Most of us think that we are miserable because we don’t have everything we ever wanted. Because we are not smart enough, talented enough, successful enough. Because we don’t have enough money, etc.
You think that successful people are happy. Actually, the more successful someone is the less happy they become.
When you are poor and all your efforts are about providing yourself and your family with what you need… you have little thought about the inner emptiness… who cares, as long as you can fill yo
As a rule, I don’t have many marker feelings in a day.
A marker feeling is a feeling associated with a set of words… like “you are stupid” and then you feel bad.
Or “you are making a mistake” and you feel fear.
This morning I wanted to work on my presentation on tomorrow’s webinar: the remarkable system of getting to a life worth living… or whatever i called it in the email…
So, as it is totally normal, not a single cell of mine wants to do that work. It’s normal.
Doing something new, doing something public, upsets the ess… it’s not comfortable… it is not what I normally do day in and day out.
Now, if the work were to write an article… none of this would happen. But the webinar format is different.
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I grew up hating America. I cringed when I heard the actors speak in movies.
Today, in the “rabbit hole” of the Monday Morning Memo, I was lead to Paul Harvey, a famous radio broadcaster. I listened to a couple of his audios, and that searing, deep hate came back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng11P1J4iYM
So I am sitting here and contemplating.
The hate reaction was instantaneous, but what to think… that needs to be cogitated, contemplated, in silence, without taking sides.
I look if it is the content and yes and no… so it is not the content. It is the audio.
The radio style copied by many, including Roy Williams of the Monday Morning Memo.
So what? you could ask, and yes, I need to dig deeper to see why I am so put off by that style.
Here are three things, all three significant, I think:
1. The attitude that produces the sound, the Radio voice [note]<
I have said before, that when you feel envy, when you feel a pang of envy looking at someone’s result, accomplishments, you feel guidance.
You want what they have, and it points to an area of growth, an area of training where you have enough energy to get to the same level, or maybe even beyond.
A year or so ago I was still a blob… Overweight. I saw it mostly on Tuesdays, when I looked at myself in the big wall covering mirror in during the exercise class.
One of the women, long white hair, was my opposite: shapely. She even had a waist… lol. I didn’t.
I looked at her, and said to her: I want what you have.
We have the real self and the false self, there’s nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.
Given the two selves everyone has, being afraid to be found out is normal.
And being afraid to upset the apple cart aka ess (evolutionary stable strategy) is even more obvious. [note]
There was a TV series on the brain, decades ago. I think I still lived in Hungary. So more than 36 years ago.
In one episode test subjects were fitted with prism eye glasses. The prism turned the view of the world upside down. It took a while to get used to it, some may have even vomited, but eventually they could do everything as well as before without the glasses.
I have students at all different stages of their personal paths.
I, as a coach, can do only so much. I answer their posts, and then I write my articles. And the rest happens where I am not. Inside them, in their interaction with people, in their interaction with stuff.
This is the hardest part.
My soul correction is Forget Thyself… meaning I want to be personally causing stuff… I did it, Me, Mine. Talking over people, having no patience for people doing things the “wrong way”.
I have been gaining ground in my soul correction, but it is still wicked difficult. Especially when someone has a good result that has nothing to do with me… lol.
So my first reaction to a student breakthrough is feeling let down… I di
A long held assessment of mine that I was a lousy business coach fall apart.
I have tried my hand on business coaching many times in the past 40 years, and every time I hated it. So I didn’t even gave myself an opportunity to do it badly… I fired the clients after one or two sessions.
Now, what has changed that I don’t think of myself as a bad business coach?
A whole lot…
But before I make the list… let me look for the source of this change…
If I had to find just one thing, I would say that it is the expression: capture value.
We all talk about value, we all give it lip service.
They don’t see my value… My “I” feels devalued… they don’t this and they
In a call with a private coaching client the clarity issue came up… After several instruction sessions, he still didn’t understand how to do the Amish Horse Training Method. You could say that I spoke butterfly and he heard caterpillar…
As I have written before, one of the measures of Axiology, the science of value through measurements, obviously heroes of mine…
Clarity. How accurately you see, hear, read…
Most people have low clarity.
I measure your clarity in the vocabulary measure… #10 which is what I find useful. [note]
1. your vibr