So let’s agree on what we’ll call ‘powerful’ in this article, shall we?Power is measured with the speed at which we take a thing from A to B. To make things happen.Most of us don’t take many things from A to B… So we pretend that we do. We lie about it. And we pretend … Continue reading It’s not your fault. No one has taught you this…

In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing. The game of Life or the game of pretense life… Read on, I’ll explain the difference.Yesterday’s article, email, and the responses have lead me to look at life … Continue reading It is not so much about how to play the game…

Frank vs Matt is a concept Andre Chaperon came up with to help demonstrate the two camps or categories (or models) that us marketers operate within.Although Frank and Matt are not real ‘flesh and blood’ people per se — their traits are absolutely real and based on real people.You’re currently one of them.Which one? … … Continue reading Are you a Frank or a Matt? In business, in life…

Turning things around… creating a turning pointI have a potential turning point for how I teach and what I teach… I saw it yesterday.It’s a potential turning point, because I am not sure I can do it. After all I would be teaching something I did not learn myself. So I don’t even know if … Continue reading When you learn a new word, it opens the world for you

What brings something out of the invisible? So you can see it. So you can stop it if it doesn’t work. Or have more of it if it does…I have started to watch movies again, on Amazon Prime. Not Netflix? Not Netflix.Anyway, yesterday I watched two Jesse Stone movies with Tom Selleck.The first thing that … Continue reading What brings something out of the invisible?

We are in the midst of the Drink your food challenge.I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know what will happen… what spiritual, what intellectual, what personality issues will be driven up.Here is what I am getting: people find themselves in the GAP. The gap between who they think they are, and who they … Continue reading "We all have multiple personalities… One is delusional"

What is different between the driver and a passenger of a car?Now, you could say that their actions, but you would be both right and wrong…The real difference is between the language they use.The driver calls the shot… While the passenger goes wherever the driver takes them… and at best they can grovel.I’d like to, … Continue reading "What is different between the driver and a passenger?"

Water becomes vapor. A species becomes sentient. A person becomes a Man.But the ‘gurus’ say: you are already god. You are already perfect.Why? To stop you from becoming. To stop you from putting in the effort to actually become someone you can love.The language is to blame… And, of course, the crab bucket.One of the … Continue reading "Becoming. A change of state through increase…"

I am re-reading the book Chop Wood Carry Water.It’s a 3-hour read at my slow reading speed.It is a veritable storehouse of all ‘mind bugs’…You can use the book as a coach… by the way.So let’s say you are bummed out. Discouraged. Down on yourself. ‘I am never going to succeed!’ says the little voice.So … Continue reading "People, language, conspire to keep you off the path"

Success doesn’t teach anything. Failure does…But only if learning is welcome. Failure is deemed both wrong and unnecessary by today’s man.Let’s look first what is the meaning of success and what is the meaning of failure, so we have the same picture of what we are looking at.Let’s say that you set up a dart … Continue reading "Success doesn’t teach anything. Failure does…"