Don’t Bump Into the Furniture (#816)
The Oscar winning actor Spencer Tracy was once asked the secret of great film acting. His response? “Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”…
The Only Two Problems in Life, part two (#815)
In part one of this tip, I shared the only two problems every human being faces – misunderstanding the thought/feeling system and massively underestimating the creative potential of the mind. This week, I’d like to share a case study of each “problem” in action to better illustrate how these things show up in real life and how they so often resolve as if by design when we let them…
The Only Two Problems in Life, part one (#814)
When something looks like a problem to us, it’s because there’s a way we want things to be and we perceive something to be in the way of that. That “something” often appears to exist as a condition outside us – another person’s attitude, a shortage of a seemingly essential resource like time or money, or even a missing piece of critical information…
Catalyzing Genius (#813)
I first came across the field of coaching in 1988 when a friend plunked me in front of a set of Tony Robbins audio cassettes and asked me to listen with her. A few hundred hours of reading, listening and live training later, I launched my first coaching company with my best friend David. We called it “Momentum”, because at the time it seemed to us that the secret of success was Newton’s 1st Law of Motion:…
Adultery, Saddam Hussein, and the Nature of the Human Experience (#812)
A couple of years ago, I was coaching a television star who was having a bit of a career crisis, threatening to quit his show and leave the business because of “too much stress and too many sharks in the water”.
