What would I do if I didn’t drink? So often in our thinking we are pushing against what we do not want rather than moving towards what we do want. And this strategy simply does not work. There’s a famous NLP (neuro linguistic programming) story about an alcoholic who kept wondering why she drank. She […]
Feeding the wrong wolf
October 17, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Feeding the wrong wolf I talked to several people today who were feeding the wrong wolf. They were busily and repeatedly reinforcing stories of frustration, unworthiness, tiredness, and limitation. This can never ever create a better life and destroys happiness. What wolf? The wolf of Cherokee legend. An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about […]
Path of least resistance
September 21, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Path of least resistance The path of least resistance seldom, if ever, takes us where we want to go. It is always going to be easier to not exercise than it is to exercise, to not make the phone calls than to make the phone calls, to avoid the difficult conversation rather than have them, […]
Crocodile Water aka how our brains work
September 9, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Crocodile Water aka how our brains work Imagine that you live in the jungle and you have to walk to the river every day to fetch water. There is a well-worn path to the watering hole. However, the water there isn’t the clearest or the freshest. Even worse, there is a crocodile that lives there […]
Bitter to Bittersweet
September 6, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Bitter to Bittersweet As I mentioned in the last Dose, my daughter’s pet rabbit died. This experience has been a great reminder for me and a great teaching opportunity for my daughter that we ALWAYS get to choose the direction of our thoughts. If she thinks about, “why did this happen?” and thoughts of that […]
Bump and Swirl
August 14, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Bump and Swirl We are hanging out at a coffee shop in Anchorage (because I’d much rather hang out here than at the airport). Terry, an artist, had some of his work spread out on his table and we struck up a conversation. He used the phrase “BUMPANDSWIRL!” in talking about life and about his […]
Adjustments
August 9, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Adjustments “Fishing like life is a series of adjustments.” ~ Kurt Jacobson That’s what my friend, Kurt, said to me this morning as we were standing in the Kenai River. I had caught a few and was also having lots of action. Meanwhile Kurt, who is undoubtedly a more skilled fisherman than I am, had […]
Intend and love what is
August 8, 2016 by Leave a Comment
It isn’t about choosing between hard and easy
August 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
It isn’t about choosing between hard and easy Because people typically look at things from a very short term view point, they often think that the choice is between hard and easy. And then, people are inclined to choose easy. But when we expand that view point, we see that the choice is between hard […]
Circus expectations
July 21, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Circus expectations We saw Toruk by Cirque Du Soleil this evening. Toruk trades the breathtaking acrobatics of every other Cirque Du Soleil performance that I’ve seen for breathtaking special effects and set design. Toruk was almost like a play with some acrobatics thrown in. Based on my previous experiences, it was not at all what […]
