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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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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