Jan 28,
2000
A word about...
It is no wonder that the most published book of all time begins "in
the beginning, there was the word..." Our words are the most fundamental and
the most powerful tool we can wield, if we know it to be so.
Our word is just as powerful as we believe. For instance, if we were to
believe that our word meant nothing, than we could be free of any consequences of
breaching it. However... if we decide to accept that our word does
mean something, then there is no limit to what we can accomplish
by using it wisely.
First let me define what I mean here by word. Your word is the marriage of
your language and intention. It includes the moment of truth when this union is either
consummated or annulled. In other words, your word includes the action you
take to make it true.
Your word includes agreements made with other individuals, but is not
limited to the spoken word only. Your word is in its most potent form in your own mind,
and here is where its power can be actively developed. Of
course, following through on external agreements is a major way to strengthen
your word, and it will give you immediate feedback as to your word's effectiveness.
An executive I know has so honed his word that if he merely muses
something aloud, a team of people will run around to make it happen. He had so
consistently followed through on "impossible" projects, that now an off-handed
comment like "What would happen if we cloned the moon?" activates his team, and
the phone calls and research begin...
How would you like that responsibility? What if along with it came
the ability to say things like "I will double my income in 60 days," and make
it happen?! Well, this is exactly what happens when you acknowledge the
capability of your word and use it like the powerful tool that it is.
So what if you are unskilled in this art; or worse, somewhat of a
"bullshitter"? What if the only thing you've been practicing is backing
down from your own decisions? Or if follow-through has not been your strong suit? NO
PROBLEM!
The amazing thing about building your word is that 1) it can be done in
the privacy of your own mind, and 2) it will respond immediately by giving you huge leaps
in result. You can literally transform your life by following through on your
own day-to-day decisions regularly. Utilizing your word more effectively can
also silence self-doubt and end procrastination, not to mention, give you lots more
energy.
"Great"... you say, "but what can I do right now?!"
Here's an easy exercise for you to activate your word-manifest power immediately:
Take a moment now to quickly jot down 3 simple activities. Then
internally agree to do them by a specific time and... do them! The activities need
not be grand or even meaningful, in fact, the easier your choices the better. You could
start with "I will sign off the internet in exactly 4 minutes, I will cook some
broccoli, and I will call my mother by sunrise."
It is not what you say you will do, but the
exactness by which you do it. So don't commit yourself to finding the cure for cancer
until you first manage to get out of bed on time 7 days out of 7. Notice
the results you gain from this exercise, and build upon that which is
working for you. Call me if you want coaching on this, it can be incredibly fun if you let
it be so...
NOTE: don't let anyone tell you that this is "discipline." We
all know how we've felt about that word (unless you are in a monastery right now). Just
recognize that living your life with an awareness of your word makes you a person of unsurpassed
integrity and an absolute wonder to hang around...
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| July
10, 1999
A Mission, Your Vision, and some thoughts to quell the storm of query
We have heard repeatedly that 'when you have no target,
you will hit it'. We know we must have a vision in mind to achieve anything. But what do
we do to get a goal when our minds seem to doubt every possible choice? When doubt
questions everything, how do we choose a direction and create our vision?
Perhaps we can give our minds some new questions to ask....
A colleague of mine said "the more refined the questions, the more refined the
fuel." To discern the perfect direction for you, ask yourself high octane questions.
Using the Power Evaluation ToolsTM will give you clarity in your selection and
the turbo power to attain them. What would your life be like if you were to choose goals
based on possibility instead of limitation? What if you recognized doubt for what is was
and stopped listening? What if you knew that making choices is easy, that any goal is the
right one...
The Power Evaluation ToolsTM are yours to use today. Use them and experience
a new level of clarity in your decision-making. The applications are infinite - as are the
results. To follow are examples of PETTM in action.
Imagine that you are contemplating the following life's visions and you ask yourself
the following questions... |
Underwater photographer – "usual" questions:
Is that a big enough goal? What if I am not a good diver? How much money has been made
doing this? What if the equipment is too expensive? Is this really my calling? What if
people think I've made a bad choice? |
PETTM
What if I discover a new underwater creature? When will I become
the best in the world? Which notables want to dive with me? How much do I want to make
doing this? Where do I want to travel to? Who do I know that will encourage me in this? |
Author
Isn't it hard to get published? Isn't this a dime-a-dozen dream? What if I spend a year
writing and get rejected? What if the book doesn't sell? What about writers' block? Should
I do this? |
What is the best book deal in the history of publishing? What
will I say that no one else can? Do I want to be on Oprah or 20/20? What if I blew the
notion of writers block out of the water? What color is the book jacket? |
Concert Pianist
What if I don't have the discipline to practice? There aren't very many successful
pianists, are there? What if I don't have enough talent? Won't I get bored by just playing
and teaching? Will I make enough money? What if my family dislikes my choice of career? What
will sustain me? |
Who do I want to emulate and surpass? Where do I want to be
invited to play? Who will I mentor? How many ovations will be called for? What delicacies
will be in my dressing room? What if I set a new standard in performance? How will my
audiences be moved?
What will enrich me? |
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There is then a simple
answer to the question "What is the purpose of our individual lives?" They have
whatever purpose we succeed in putting into them.
-A.J.Ayer
Category: Future, Strategic Planning, Leverage Opportunities (AI068)
Originally Submitted on 10/20/99. Published on 10/29/99
Do you want to keep your product/service/business riding high by surpassing the latest
marketing trends? Pay attention to cultural indicators and become a primary predictor of
the new ways that you can captivate the ever-savvy millenium consumers. The following
maxims are designed to help you to market yourself masterfully for the future, with a few
hints about the greatest waves you can ride today…
1. Use language indicative of the latest cultural movements
Right now this means using ‘spirited’ words such as instill, inspire,
energize, electrify, enlighten, vitalize, radiate, manifest, wondrous, realization and
realize.
2. Direct your questions directly to the consumer’s OS, not just their body or
mind.
This means asking, "what will you choose to make your body run like a miracle
machine?" vs. "are you sick and tired?"
3. Listen to current popular and alternative music
Clues always abound in sound, the messages that will inform the market trends of the
new millenium is in music right now.
4. Watch teenagers and listen carefully to what they say
Did you know that tantric sex has been big stuff lately? Tap into that which titillates
complete with the subtle (and STUDIED!) nuances and make your business irresistible.
5. Ask yourself, "what’s next?" constantly
Today’s marketing strategies will become stale before the ink dries on your
brochures. Ask yourself NOW what will steal today’s thunder and be prepared to become
the coming storm!
6. Marry your message, not your method
Falling in love with your marketing strategy can spell trouble to your ultimate
mission. Keep your message central and continue to recognize that your vitality depends on
variety. Be prepared to change your marketing mantras on a dime as you ALSO…
7. Brazenly Brand Yourself
Your brand must be associated closely with company mission (not marketing method). You
must be boldly recognizable in a sound/site bite that is a creative encapsulation of what
you stand for.
8. Notice Negativity
Whatever is harkened as the latest travesty holds within it clues to future marketing
trends. Nearly every new movement in culture is created as enhancement or antidote to that
which currently exists. Become savvy as to the ways dissatisfaction or danger can be
parlayed into your marketing and the consumer will associate you with safety.
9. Entertainment is a meta-trend
Entertainment is the one industry that eternally thrives…no matter what the
economics of the time. You need not be in the industry to benefit from this success
strategy. Provide and highlight the entertainment (and education) inherent in your product
or service, and lift off with levity!
10. Speak with specialists
Enroll experts in various fields, and have a bevy of perspectives available to
illuminate you. Get inspired and share your findings with an active brain trust.
Meta-trends are easiest to spot with a broad cross-section of colleagues.
About the Submitter
This piece was originally submitted by Elizabeth Mullen, Principal of
CornerstoneCoachingTM and Priestess of Promotion, who can be reached at
em@cornerstonecoaching.com, or visited on the web. Elizabeth Mullen wants you to know:
Beat the odds, market for the millenium!
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Category: Health, Well-Being,Self-Care, Diet, Balance, Eating (BF086)
Originally Submitted on 11/4/99.
Your well-being is as close to you as your next breath. Your health, good
feelings and peaceful mind are well within your control. Waste no time describing negative
causes, and go instead straight for the sources. By tending to the following items, you
will find more fortune and experience the full on flow of the wellsprings of life....
1. Breathing Deeply
The obvious that many of us have attempted to circumvent. So drink the air in consciously,
and if your brain tells you nothing is happening, shut it up and gulp up a big breath of
oxygen anyway.
2. Sitting Quietly...without an agenda can make a wild mind go light. A calmness
becomes a part of your life the more you practice, and your thinking begins to support
your serenity.
3. Eating Lightly
Will give you back your natural energy. Every time you stop before your gullet is stuffed
is a chance your body has to self-renew and tend to itself.
4. Moving Easily
And if this is a challenge, then do gently whatever you can. Movement is what our
bodies are made for, and the one consistent sign of life. Design your time to allow for
natural, easy movements and marvel at how soon you find yourself doing more and more.
5. Laughing LoudlyWhat came first, the feeling or the giggle? If you think you
are certain, then right now laugh out loud and FEEL the sounds the laugh makes through
you...
6. Day Dreaming DevotedlyThis is your life after all. Enhancing your day
dreaming sets free your imagination, develops your creativity, entices your individuality,
passes time better than TV and crystallizes YOUR dreams (so that they might come true).
7. Giving Generously...of your time, talents, and energy is great for your peace
of mind, not to mention your radiant vibe...
8. Sensational NatureYours or ours-- just what are you talking about anyway?! A
well spring of the highest order is the fount from which all life emerges. Make
appreciation of it a regular part of your drive from work, your morning walk, your
frequent gaze into the sky... and feel the inner-peace arising.
9. Real Relationships..with people that love to see you completely heal &
grow. Your phenomenal health becomes not only your wish, but the active desire of others
as well.
10. Wondrous WaterWhat would a well spring be without the substance it spouts?
Drinking lots of the good stuff makes your body feel flowing, your mind more alight, your
skin will look glowing and your emotions delight. Your weight in pounds minus 30 = the
perfect amount in bottled-water-ounces for your daily life.
About the Submitter: This piece was originally submitted by Elizabeth Mullen,
Principal Lifecoach of CornerstoneCoachingTM and Artist of Effortless Living, who can be
reached at em@cornerstonecoaching.com, or visited on the web. Elizabeth Mullen wants you to know:
The well-springs are flowing...enlighten your life! .
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information intact, without specific permission, when used only in a not-for-profit
format. If any other use is desired, permission in writing from CoachU is required, with
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Idea
of the Week |
| November 29, 1999 |
Your
nervous system, use it wisely or go for a wild ride
Several years ago, I had a very painful breakup with a boyfriend. It had a
debilitating effect on me. And I remember how much I thought I needed to know what
had happened and how to heal quickly. I yearned for answers and peace of mind. I
started going to church, listening to self-help tapes, meditating, anything that would
comfort me.
If I were to discuss the change I made then from blithering idiot to
self-assured woman, I might have said it was the spiritual seeking I was doing, ideas
about karmic completions in relationship, or contemplating the Tao. I might have
said healing about understanding a greater perspective, or trusting time to heal my heart.
Years later, I may have even told other sufferers all the ideas that I thought saved
me. Actually, I know that I did, and it didn't really help them....
In reality, my healing was all about walking. When I walked by the water,
I felt better, and the more I did it, the saner I became. The ideas I courted were but
notions that danced through my mind while I walked. The walking did the healing. My entire
nervous system changed in these moments of locomotion...from pained person thinking to a
dynamic woman moving.
****
Do you remember a time of crisis in your life? One of great personal pain?
Perhaps when you anguished over what to do next, what was true, who to trust? Maybe you
turned to spiritual answers, seeking guidance in ideas trusted through the ages....or
self-help books, or the comfort of another's truisms, maybe you didn't know where to turn.
Then, do you remember when your crisis actually turned around? For
real I mean. When it all was different and you were actually "out of the woods"?
Our nervous system- our entire bodies- serve as a storehouse of memory,
knowledge and an emotional menu of great breadth and depth. We can doubt the very nature
of the Universe in our big old brains, then stick our hands in dirt and turn an
existential crisis around in an instant. How many of us know this? Probably everyone. But
how many of us USE this? Hmmm....
Crisis of mind is healed first by movement of body. No amount of intensive
mental strain has ever yielded peace for the thinker. But a deep breath of nature, or swim
in the winter, or roll down a hill can immediately shift a painful thinking state into
feelings of wonderment, serenity, zest, sexiness, peace or completion. And these great
emotional states are as long-lasting as our physicality "does."
It is only our brains that would say that this doesn't work, and keep us
thinking for more. And if we stop and listen to this no-motion notion machine, we can
easily spin into crisis and confusion again. "Thanks alot big brain! I'd rather pass
by that notion and motion myself back into health."
How often do you tap your body's resources? How about now?
©1999 by Elizabeth Mullen. All rights reserved. May be electronically transmitted
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When you come right
down to it,
the ground you stand on is the ground you stand on. |
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Category: Relationships, Relating, Couples (BB189)
Originally Submitted on 7/28/99. Published on 8/16/99
Whether you are in a long-distance relationship or just getting to know your
cyber-love, your email communication will create your relationship’s fate. Learn how
to engage a fun and sparkling internet connection alive with attraction and rich with
possibility. To follow are a few light guidelines for the genuine web lover…
1. Put spam back in the can
And send only personal thoughts. Forwards are fine, as long they speak to the heart of
your beloved’s special interests.
2. Email real talk
Dribble is dissatisfying. Everyone can spot a quality message…let yours be the
premium.
3. Reply not, my love...and speak your heart anew
Be proactive and create your subject line every time. Nobody swoons over a subject
train-reactive
4. Speak to the Senses
hmmmm... strains of John Coltrane...what is that lightly behind you? Strong coffee
brewing and a scent of cinnamon. Sweeping breeze across the shoulders, a balmy evening,
watching the tide rising. A dazzling glow in the window or a sumptuous lunch. How
delicious...
5. Keep it private
Your email account and access
6. Delight in the lighthearted
What would really make your beloved giggle? What sparkles can cross cyberspace to
elevate your favorite?
7. Have a bustling life that you share in snippets and in epics.
Balance intensity and economy. A brief note can sometimes call up more excitement than
a downloaded life. A thought-out, spell-checked cyber letter means more when between notes
of barehearted brevity.
8. Serenade with stories
Share the details of your daily life and ask specific questions about your
beloved’s. The ins and outs of your life are a powerful aphrodisiac, just remember
you also need to...
9. Be teeming in mystery
Tell just enough to attract many, many questions about your life. As your
beloved’s interest grows.....well, who knows?!
10. Intuit your conduit
The web can only hold the human spirit for so long. Snail-mail, flowers, cards and
visits develop that which is meant to transcend cyberspace.
bout the Submitter
This piece was originally submitted by Elizabeth Mullen, Principal LifeCoach of
CornerstoneCoachingTM, who can be reached at em@cornerstonecoaching.com, or visited on the
web. Elizabeth Mullen wants you to know:
The sky's no limit - coaching works!
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The Sage of the Hard
Drive- 9/13/99
Today I went to the store where I bought my computer several months ago. My third trip
back to uncover the mysteries of a perpetually crashing machine. Many work days have been
spent troubleshooting what my intuition told me was a bad hard drive. The software
companies even got in on the issue, sharing stories of the bugs that are leaking onto the
market. Perhaps I was experiencing that. Just try this one more thing...
Multiple reinstalls, more phone calls, more experts on the case and I was still left
with one buggy machine. "Please check the hard drive," I asked at the computer
store, "I saw bad sectors in a pattern. I know something is wrong."
I got a dissatisfying "yes" and some shoo- shoo reassurance. "Don't
worry," they said and called me to pick up my machine the next day, "we checked
it -works fine." But I knew the hard drive was an issue.. and I asked them to look at
it... More hours of crashing installs and frustration, same problem- not yet solved.
It took the third visit and an elderly Asian man behind the service desk. I had prayed
for an easy resolution my whole drive there. He listened quietly to my intuition about the
machine. He reassured me by his silence. He plugged it in, ran a diagnostic, and saw what
I saw. "Bad hard drive. Will replace, " he said and I cried tears of relief.
I would be several more days out of commission, and maybe even have some software
tangles to deal with when I get it back, but I couldn't be happier about my computer. I
came home calm and peaceful for the first time in days.
It was not the computer being fixed, or even the resolution on the problem that made me
feel so good. It was that the kind man had listened to me, my intuition, the unscientific
mutterings of a non-expert. He shared my reality for a moment: he saw what I saw, said
what I said, and reassured me in the deepest way that all would be well. And he used his
skills to act too. A gentle man with a gentle way. Not one ounce of bravado, or
showmanship or assertion of his obvious skill, but a man who listened to the beginner. A
wise man, to be certain.
I've read that "he who follows is the greatest leader" and "he who
evokes the song of the one before him, the superior man." I'd like to add to this: he
who truly listens, is the only one who gets the job done.
Who supports your vision and acknowledges your reality?
How can YOU listen better today?
What will you lead out of chaos?
who do you lead? who leads you?
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Nothing is more simple
than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great .
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