It happened last night.I had just given a four-hour teleseminar called The Procrastination Cure, and it many ways it was the best one I’ve done yet. People were learning, they were changing, they were getting rid of blocks and finding new...
One of my bosses used to tell me that in the military, the rule of learning is “See One, Do One, Teach One”. First you watch somebody else do it, then you do it, and finally you teach someone else. The reason is that when you teach someone to do...
For many years, I would try every new time management or personal organization system that came out. And while some were better than others, I have to say that, overall, none of them really “worked”, in the sense that they didn’t make me become the...
Every year in Florida, we have a hurricane season. And in most years, there is at least one “close call”. A storm is sighted, and it’s heading towards us. And, three to five days out, we have to make decisions about how to prepare. Will we close...
Consider, for a moment, your mouth.Sense the moisture that is present, and the saliva that lubricates your tongue and teeth.Now, imagine that you have a clean glass in front of you, and you allow the saliva that’s in your mouth right now to drain...
Wouldn’t it be cool to have a magic watch that could stop time?You would never feel rushed. Never feel pressured. No situation could scare you, because you could just push a button on your watch and stop things long enough for you to get away. ...
It’s a funny thing, but I think I’ve learned more about motivation this year from studying sales and marketing techinques, than I have from all my prior years of reading self-help books.On the other hand, it’s not really that surprising. Marketers...
When I replaced my old desk a few weeks ago, I pulled a bunch of stuff out of it and more or less threw it in a pile on the new desk. But today, I finally got around to going through that pile, and I came across a small laminated card that I hadn’t...
I woke up this morning with a slight sense of dread. After last weekend’s workshop, I had coasted for a day or so on the “high” of enthusiasm that came from getting to live my dreams, even for a short while. But yesterday (Monday), my enthusiasm...
When you’re trying to change yourself – and your life – “going it alone” is tough. Human beings are social animals, and the “feeling” part of our brains looks to other people to get feedback on whether it’s motivating us to do the right things. ...
Can thoughts really be radioactive?Most scientists would probably say “no” – but they’d be taking the question entirely too literally.But if you ask the people who attended my Banish Unwanted Feelings Forever workshop this weekend, they would...
Earlier this week I heard that Steve Irwin, better known to millions as “The Crocodile Hunter”, died in a marine accident while filming a TV show. To many people, this sounds like the punchline of a joke; the first question out of their mouths is...
