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The Toast of Broadway: An Omega-Alpha Paranormal Action Adventure

What begins as a series of bizarre murders in the theater district of Manhattan, quickly develops into a global struggle against a powerful international criminal cabal. Anna engages a criminal mastermind in a chess game where real pieces are slaughtered. Fortunes are lost and gained. The stakes are high, the chess board global, the weapons varied but the end game objective is the same - total victory

“Confidence is ignorance. If you’re cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.”

What I discovered, those decades ago, was that Buddhism was not a religion but a way of looking at the experience of being alive as a human being. That single understanding was truly life-changing. It set me on a journey of discovery and learning. Here was wisdom whose roots reach back well over 5000 years into human history. It represents the cumulative insights of hundreds of millions of human beings. And yet it is founded on only four basic principles.

Consistent Persistence Is Key

Once you find your calling, neither time nor effort nor challenges nor the opposition of friends and family will keep you from pursuing it. The lesson is simple and direct. Find your calling and your life will be made.

In Opposition To …

In Buddhist terms, the tendency to create artificial or virtual realities and then cling to them as if they were real is called grasping. We try to hold on to something permanent and, in the process, give away the most important gift that we have ever received.

Just Couldn’t Bring Himself – A Mentoring Case Study

Most of my mentoring work is done with CEOs of middle-market companies - by that I mean well established operations with a proven senior team that has worked through most of the big inter-personnel issues and found a way to work productively together. Under the leadership of a CEO who values open communication and camaraderie - and does not tolerate turf battles and information hording.

The world that invites profound transformation is the one we carry within us.

This volume is written as a series of ‘thinking pieces’ that are to serve as points of meditation on important matters. Think of them as rocks leading to the shore. I’ll leave you to figure out what and where the shore is, what the canoe signifies and what’s the reason for the journey. All I intend to do is provide a general map of where the stones are. I wish you well on your journey and hope that my map is of some use to you.

Don’t Do What?

One of the most astonishing imbalances, when it comes to those who dispense advice, is the imbalance between proscription and prescription. If you read most of what they offer, you are certain to become paranoid and carry a tremendous load of uncertainty into anything you attempt. How many articles have you read that start out “Ten Things Not To Do During…”? One gets the distinct impression that the people who write these articles are looking at the world out of the wrong, posterior orifice.

Anything is possible, but nothing is easy. Not any more!!

Earl R Smith II, PhD DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com Read More From My Blog It’s an old saying and it used to be true. As children, when we were asked, “What do you want

Mentoring Breakthrough – Coming to Terms

People who received emails - and particularly responses - from her often found them antiseptic - devoid of human emotion. One person even told her that 'its like getting a robo-call. I'm just another name on the list.' We came to work on the behavior because she was feeling increasingly isolated - both socially and professionally. So here are the two behaviors that help us work through it.

How Long?

In the midst of rising frustration we ask ourselves “why is this taking so long” or, perhaps “why is this happening to me”. In a fundamental way, we style ourselves as victims of circumstance. We feel out of control and wish that we were able to resolve this conundrum - this “why”. Our vision of release from such recurring circumstances most often involves the elimination of the need to ask “why”.