The Power of Your Imagination

Hello Readers,

I am taking off a week. Hug yourself and be grateful.

Vicki

The power of what you conceive…

You can imagine a safe place and then you can imagine that you’re not imagining it.

~Milton Erickson, Therapist and hypnotist

I found Katsenelson, an investment advisor, husband and father, who blogs on music and life and has written the best-seller Soul in the Game (which I read), urges us to not miss today.

I think I “missed” many days…for years… as I rushed from pillar to post running a business. I am not saying I wasted my time, but I seldom stopped to treasure being alive.

I am going to do what he suggested. What about you? It might help us realize we are alive from the time we roll out of bed until we roll back in at night.

Sending love,

Vicki

Each Day is a Separate Life

By Vitaliy Katsenelson

Ho Ho Ho Gang –

Bitter pill for some of us… eh?

Well, the older I get the dumber I get and I like it!

Vicki

Today TalkingBittersweet is featuring an excerpt from Eric Barker’s weekly blog. It is practice stuff on getting your bearings and helping others in a disaster.

I live in earthquake country so I know it is always a possibility that in the next five minutes the earth could open up under me. Or a fire will start and the sky will turn grey and… well…just read it, put the info into your pipe and remember it.

Vicki

I am 20, high school graduant, in my gap-year and I find it pointless to pursue anything in this bizarre and temporary world that is so much against my values in every way possible. I believe I am speaking for a generation here. I am asking with the biggest admiration, what would you do in my/our situation?
EL, FRANKFURT, GERMANY

CHRONIC PERFORMANCE.

Today I have included an excerpt from a new book, The Performance Paradox by Eduardo Briceno. Eduardo writes from personal experience. As a young executive the stress he suffered as a result of his high performance expectations led to a significant physical problem. Eventually, he realized that in those years when he believed he should always 1) pretend and appear to be knowledgeable and decisive and 2) have the right answer vs sharing his thought process, he was withholding information that could have resulted in better decisions. Not to mention better personal health.

I spent many years in this land of performance but was lucky to have found a mentor who wanted to hear my thoughts more than my conclusions – and I fell in love with brainstorming.

Have a good Sunday!

Love, Vick