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When is the right occasion for meditation?

“Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.” Pythagoras (570-495 B.C.E.)

For many of us, the busyness of Christmas and New Year’s Day is broken by a week or so of slower paced days that exist between these holidays. Is there a way to take these quiet times and go deeper into the silence? Here is an excerpt from the recent book “Your Life, Live it Well: Spirituality” that may point you in one direction: [Read more…]

How to exact revenge

Revenge. It’s not only a TV show. Haven’t we all thought of “getting even” with someone at some point in our lives? [Read more…]

“Nothing you can do that can’t be done” (Lennon/McCartney)

“Paul (McCartney) couldn’t play guitar . . . [Read more…]

How to be balanced between routine and novelty.

What is the correct balance in one’s life between routine activities, and those which are new and exciting to us? [Read more…]

The Seven Deadly Sins of entrepreneurship — part four

The fourth of Gandhi’s seven spiritually detrimental traits is knowledge without character. In the world of entrepreneurship, think of this fourth trait or sin, as being all analytical while ignoring your “softer” side. In other words, you deal only with cold, hard facts, and brush off the intuitive, emotional, and creative elements of your self. [Read more…]

How to negate a negative mood

Woke up this morning feeling like a nattering nabob of negativity? Here are 10 ideas to turn that frown upside down:

Take significant action on one of your top goals. Just start!
Write down 10 things or more for which you are grateful.
Get moving! Exercise is a great mood-lifter!
Listen to some awesome tunes! Bring some beautiful music into your life.
Go to the library and take out one of the following DVDs and watch it: Arthur, Animal House, Tommy Boy, or Office Space.
Make love to your significant other.
Pet your dog/cat.
Meditate
Take a long relaxing bath with a rubber ducky.
Telephone a positive friend with whom you haven’t spoken in a while.

Overall, if you find yourself slipping into a negative mindset frequently, you may want to incorporate the following tips. Being a negative nabob does not work well for anyone, especially an entrepreneur:

Do not entertain negative thoughts, negative people, or negativity in general! Be as careful whom and what you allow into your mind as your are with whom and what you allow into your home.
If you won’t say it to others; don’t think it yourself.

Are you a contrarian?

Albert Einstein once said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”

One way to approach a difficult conundrum is to think about how “conventional wisdom” would see a situation, and then look at it from the an opposite or different viewpoint. [Read more…]

The Seven Deadly Sins of entrepreneurship — part three

The third of Gandhi’s seven spiritually detrimental traits is commerce without morality. In today’s terms, we mean conducting business without ethics.

Let’s face it. It’s hard to be honest and ethical when others around you aren’t. [Read more…]

New Year’s resolutions stink!

It’s that time of year again. Okay, so the Christmas commercials on TV and radio started many weeks ago. But most of us are now thinking of the holidays. One of the things many of us like to do is to make New Year’s resolutions. We have great intentions of changing bad habits, creating new, good habits, and achieving great goals. [Read more…]

Are you a bully?

We know of bullying. Whether in the school or the workplace or other venue, bullying is now much in the news. Does bullying extend to NFL locker rooms? It will be interesting to see how the convoluted situation in Miami plays out. [Read more…]

Prosper on Purpose!