Posted in Learn, Think, & Decide, Possibility & Personal Growth, Reviews on Apr 24th, 2008
Very few things in this world are one-sided, all good or all bad.
In Part 1 of this series I introduced the idea that the extraordinary human power of choice can lead us into our own personal hell.
Barry Schwartz has written an insightful book on the dark side of choice, called The Paradox of Choice.
I’ve [...]
Posted in Affirmation Poems, LifeDreams, Possibility & Personal Growth on Feb 25th, 2008
(What’s an affirmation poem? See the beginning of Affirmation Poem: Endless River of Living Fire)
MY DREAMS WALK BESIDE ME
Not a whisper,
lost in the wind.
Or a shadow
forgotten in the day’s sunlight.
Brighter than the light that greets dark eyes,
sharper than any sword,
endless as the space between stars.
MY DREAMS WALK BESIDE ME
Do I see,
the impossible?
Thirst,
for what [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Influence & Marketing on Oct 13th, 2007
Love to Dream, Hate to Dream
This is an age where people are afraid to dream.
You don’t believe me.
We have too many cable channels to count.
We have movies with incredible special effects, computer games that grow more elaborate all the time, and multiplayer games and virtual worlds on the internet.
And we have an unending supply of [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth on Aug 13th, 2007
Forgetting the Magic
Do you remember what it was like to be a child?
Not the frustration.
There was plenty of that.
Not the endless procession of “NO” and “You can’t do that.”
Not even the tantrum demands for something in a spirit of “I’ve got to have this or I’ll die.”
No. Not that either.
And for those of us [...]
Posted in LifeDreams, Possibility & Personal Growth on Jun 6th, 2007
Let’s Dream Together
What would it be like to live in a perfect world?
Jennifer, alias TruthDancer, recently tagged her readers here, and asked us to write about our vision of a perfect world. A small excerpt from her post follows:
…We need a new vision. As a world family, we need to hold in our hearts the [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create on Apr 12th, 2007
What do you think of when someone says the word “imagination”?
Creativity
If you’re an artist, writer, sculptor, musician, photographer you might think of imagination as a place.
A place deep inside where you search for something new.
Somehow yours, and yet not yours.
In Greek Mythology, the sources of inspiration were creatures called Muses.
The source of inspiration was personified as [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Health & Energy, LifeDreams on Apr 5th, 2007
Here’s a technique that I call “A Taste of Freedom”.
Recall situations that make you feel powerful, free, limitless, boundless. (For me, a couple of examples are singing and driving fast on an open road)
Think of some desired state of being, action, or thing that you’re passionate about.
Now imagine that you’ve achieved your desire, and fill [...]
