Tag: Meditation
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The Step that Ushers in Diversity of Thought
There is a point in Jim Collins’s book Good to Great, in which he describes a commonality between companies that have achieved “greatness” as the presence of a board or council consisting of individuals that spend a great deal of time behind closed doors hashing out divergent ideas and putting (what I call) diversity of…
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2025 Holiday Message
Here we are this holiday season, 2025, surrounded by Christmas music of days gone by, madly doing what the masses do. Every now and then we (actually) stop to reflect how grateful we are that we have healed, that we have family and friends that mean so much to us, that we are guided Spiritually…
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Are you ready?
Decades ago, I watched someone who I was very close to, figuratively speaking, waterskiing on a lake in Massachusetts. It wasn’t something this person had done recently, so I was really impressed that this person was not only able to ski quite well, but to slalom, as well. As I watched the ski boat come…
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A Time to Realign
In a Boy Scout life guard course I took two and a half decades ago, I learned that when saving someone who is drowning, one needs to do the opposite of what seems natural. You see, when someone is drowning, they have the potential to hold on and drag the lifeguard under in an attempt…
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Considering Considerations: Metacognition
Thinking of the bravest things you have ever done probably brings you down many paths. Stop and think for a moment of those things or moments in your life that you would rate as brave. Just take a moment to think! I rate jumping out of a plane (although strapped to someone who knew what…
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Jump into life!
I emailed and texted two people today who are having a particularly hard time with life. (I’ll add commentary afterwords that describes some of the content of the following email I sent.) Here is some of what I wrote to one person: “My recommendation is to do the Chill Drills routinely… to think of them…
Mind Set Go 