Christmas is two days past now, and in just under a week a bright new year will visit itself upon us. 2012. The much vaunted, much promoted, much feared 2012 is coming, and ladies and gentlemen, whether we’re ready or not, we’ll find ourselves having to deal with it… just as we have every year [...]
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Twice a week I go and pay a lady to hurt me for two hours. It’s called Thai massage, and I do it because it helps stretch and limber up muscles that have grown tight from sitting at the computer too many hours a day for too many years. Now, when I first moved to [...]
New Year’s resolutions are a big disappointment to just about everybody. Many get made, but few are achieved. The main reason: there’s such a long incubation period between conception and birth. Because of the long processing time, we lose focus then forget to nurture those aims, neglect to feed them and never quite give them [...]
Hmmm… insanity. Okay… you’re pretty sure you know it when you see it… but DO you? … Really? Doing the same things over and over again, but yet expecting different results is insanity. – Albert Einstein So keeping Einstein’s definition in mind, let me ask that question again. Are you sure you can recognize insanity [...]
Ever wonder why you don’t seem to accomplish as much as you intended to? When you get to the end of the day, end of the week, end of the year, how satisfied are you? If you’d like to change that and up your accomplishment score, watch this video. Then spend some quality time thinking [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] “Gramps,” I said, “What’s the fourth dimension like?” It was a hot August afternoon, the kind where you only want to lie around and pant or drowse on the shady front porch. I looked down the street. The heat ripples dancing silently above the pavement were the only [...]
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Following my speech at the Expats Club here in Chiang Mai yesterday, the audience asked a lot of good questions. But one – the very last – struck me as especially important. “You told us,” one audience member said, “that you’re selling an audio product, and that you sell it for $44. That seems high [...]
Those so-called “bad” habits you’ve been trying to break (or get rid of, or overcome) they may be better assets than you realize. In fact, if you really understood what you’ve got there, you might not dislike them quite so much. True, in their present form, some of your habits may be royally screwing up [...]
Believe it or not, strong and healthy self-discipline is within the reach of virtually anyone. Of course it doesn’t come free. There’s a price to pay. But before you start reminding yourself of all the times you’ve fallen short in the discipline department, and how you may never have what it takes… just stop. I [...]
The trouble is, most of us don’t really know or understand the tools we have available to us. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that most people can’t tell you the difference between will power and self-discipline. They are different, though – quite different – and each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Each [...]
