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Archive for November 2010
Posted Friday 19 November 2010
How to Wake Up
Weed, California, November 16, 2010 -- Last night I was reading "Use Your Brain for a Change: by Richard Bandler, and he was describing how people motivate themselves to do things ... such as how we wake up in the morning.One fellow described using anxiety (how he'd be late, etc) to get himself up, but then this woman described how she thought about the pleasant things she would be doing. And when there were no pleasant things she liked doing, she thought about how pleasant it would be to have them *done*.
So this morning, I tried to think of things I'd enjoy doing today, but found little joy in the doingness of most items on today's priority list: the Jackson Wellsprings booking followup, writing up listings to place ZenTappers on EBay, and some administrative things.
Rats! I didn't really want to do them! Oh, what to do?
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Cookies
Summer Camp, Somewhere, Sometime: [Author Unknown] --A small boy at summer camp received a large package of cookies in the mail from his mother. He ate a few, then placed the remainder under his bed. The next day, after lunch, he went to his tent to get a cookie.
The box was gone.
That afternoon a camp counselor, who had been told of the theft, saw another boy sitting behind a tree eating the stolen cookies. "That young man," he said to himself, "must be taught not to steal."
He returned to the group and sought out the boy whose cookies had been stolen. "Billy," he said, "I know who stole your cookies. Will you help me teach him a lesson?"
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Posted Friday 12 November 2010
A Hot Bath in the Cold Rain
Ben Lomond, CA in the Santa Cruz mountains, November 7, 2010 -- So I was scheduled to assist at a Tantra Yoga Beginner's Weekend Workshop with the SourceTantra folks, and therefore on the day after my "How to Feel Good Fast" event, I packed, kissed my dogs good bye, and drove down to the Santa Cruz mountains.But then, as it turned out, the person with whom I'd volunteered to assist hadn't passed on the info to the person who passed on the info to the person who coordinates that event, and so ... they didn't need me to assist at all.
But since I'd already blocked off the time in my appointment book, and didn't want to have wasted the time I spent writing it down and all ...
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