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Have You Lost Your Mind?

by Walt | Jun 14, 2018 | Success | 1 Comment

Former U.S. Vice president Dan Quayle famously mangled a well known organization’s quote by saying, “What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.”

Have you lost your mind?

On most days, the answer for me is yes. How true that is!

I get caught up in the vortex of busy. And in that place, I’m either ruminating about things that have happened; or worrying about things that might happen.

I’m rarely here; now; in this moment.

You?

Mindfulness calls us back to the present; to this moment. This one and only moment. This precious moment. The only one that’s real.

Mindfulness brings peace. And joy.

Be. Here. Now.

Will you give it a try?

Focus On The Grass You’re Munching

by Walt | Jun 7, 2018 | Success | 0 Comments

Your focus is your power.

With the rise of artificial intelligence, your currency in the years ahead will be your ability to do deep work.

The problem (or “challenge,” as coaches like to say), is that most of us have way too many inputs, way too much competing for our time, way too much coming at us all at once. We spend our lives in a state of continuous partial attention. We’ve lost the ability to focus.

How can you reclaim your focus?

I’ve learned an important lesson from my neighbors. (Who are dairy cows.)

So what do you think? A bit of white tape?

Reclaim your power. It will transform your life. And your work. You’ll have a great looking pasture too.

getting wasted

by Walt | May 31, 2018 | Success | 1 Comment

There is a lost art. An essential art.

An art that unlocks the door to the deepest parts of ourselves.

It seems that “we have lost the habit of unprofitable pleasure,” writes the Carmelite mystic William McNamara. “We shall get nowhere, we shall never find life, life will escape us, unless we learn not to be always bustling about – unless we learn to be still, to let things happen around us, to wait, listen, receive, contemplate.”

We will never connect with the real treasure; we will never know the true value; we will never taste the bountiful goodness that surrounds us every moment our lives; unless we recover this lost art.

What do you think?

Will you give it a try?

about that dirty word

by Walt | May 24, 2018 | Success | 0 Comments

Lose 20 pounds in 20 days. Create a 7-figure business in 6 weeks. Write your best-selling book in a weekend.

The marketplace is rife with gurus peddling the quick fix. The fast solution. The easy way.

Sure there are reliable programs and systems. But most things of value aren’t amendable to quick fixes. Most things of value require a dirty four letter word.

Work.

“To be successful,” the great Les Brown teaches, “you must be willing to do the things today others won’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have.”

Show up with a servants heart. Do the work. Stay consistent.

And you will enjoy bounty beyond measure.