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December 16 - December 18, 2021
Many high-level executives I’ve known are saddled with an equally high degree of defensiveness and a deep need to be right all the time.
Life is at its best when love, money, and creativity are growing in harmony.
How much love and abundance am I willing to allow?
How am I getting in my own way?
“Fear is excitement without the breath.” Here’s what this intriguing statement means: the very same mechanisms that produce excitement also produce fear, and any fear can be transformed into excitement by breathing fully with it.
The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.
Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed our inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure.
Your capacity expands in small increments each time you consciously let yourself enjoy the money you have, the love you feel, and the creativity you are expressing in the world. As that capacity for enjoyment expands, so does your financial abundance, the love you feel, and the creativity you express.
If you focus for a moment, you can always find some place in you that feels good right now. Your task is to give the expanding positive feeling your full attention. When you do, you will find that it expands with your attention. Let yourself enjoy it as long as you possibly can.
many of us believe we are flawed, not destined for greatness, or simply not good enough to deserve the dreams we want to achieve.
The fear of being fundamentally flawed brings with it a related fear. It’s the fear that if you did make a full commitment to living in your Zone of Genius, you might fail. It’s the belief that even your genius is flawed, and that if you expressed it in a big way, it wouldn’t be good enough. This belief tells you to play it safe and stay small. That way, if you fail, at least you fail small.
Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation you don’t want to have.
Criticism and blame are addictions. They are costly addictions, because they are the number-one destroyer of intimacy in close relationships.
Three Ps: punishment, prevention, and protection.
This is the kind of double bind that freezes up the conscious mind’s rational thought processes. It’s in these moments that the unconscious mind goes to work on a solution. The solutions it comes up with are often inelegant and primitive, but they are direct and effective (and usually involve pain of some kind).
Long before morality came into play, the original definition of integrity had to do with wholeness and completeness. To be in integrity meant you were whole and complete. To be out of integrity meant a breach in your wholeness had occurred; there was a gap in your completeness.
I expand in abundance, success, and love every day, as I inspire those around me to do the same.
