“The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence…” When I read that line in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, I was struck by how perfectly he described oblivious thinking. Our head gets full of all the noisy thoughts that, taken together, are invisible. Invisible thoughts are attracting. […]

“Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about.” That all-purpose phrase was pretty typical for a parent to say when I was a kid. I was threatened with getting something to whine about, pout about and sulk about as well as something to cry about. My parents were just trying to get me […]

There’s a guy I know with a dog food business (selling and delivering, not making). He created a Ten Commandments of Dog Food, complete with the kind of wording thou wouldst expect in a list of commandments. I enjoyed the fun of it. What was even more fun was the language journey it took me […]

When the birds realized I was back from vacation, they had a party. For a couple of hours, the birdbath was nonstop fun.   Birds were swooping in and out: bathing, drinking, fussing, chirping and trilling. I refilled the birdbath twice because they’d splashed all the water out of it.   Now, I know they […]

My mastermind call was looming. After being out of sorts all day, I finally sat myself down to do a process. The reason I did that process was because I did not want to have my Mastermind Call while in my “out of sorts” energy. So, with nineteen minutes to spare, I opened up my […]

Looked down your nose at anyone lately? Sometimes I find my inner Severus Snape acting up Snape is one of Harry Potter’s professors. He’s the one who sneers at Potter and manages to twist things so that Harry’s in the wrong. Just as Professor Snape doesn’t see himself as being unfair, likewise I feel fully justified […]

There are times when the “better-feeling thought” in my process feels “better” only in the sense that “being grumpy” feels better than “being angry.” So even though I’m not angry anymore, I still don’t feel good (I’m grumpy). At times like that, I’ll describe the way I feel as “grudgingly better.” And then I remind […]

My bird, a small parrot, was in pain. She was old, couldn’t fly anymore, and often didn’t have a good grip with her feet. She had injured herself in a fall and couldn’t even walk well. As I saw her painfully try to climb up her cage (and fall down to re-injure herself), I was […]

The process will be at the end, in the P.S. section. But first, a few words. There’s a handyman I had emailed almost a week ago, asking him to do some work at my house. When I didn’t hear from him within a few days, I sent a follow-up email. Still no word. I was making […]

Twice recently my alarm didn’t go off. I don’t know about you but I’ve got my morning routine down to a science. Oversleeping does not fit in there. I use the my iphone to wake myself up. Last night I decided to try to figure out what was up. While I was fiddling with the […]