At a recent visit to the beautiful Keukenhof flower gardens in Holland, I learned about the practice of topping. As flowers grow, sometimes the growers cut off the tops of the flowers, which they believe causes the plants to invest more energy into flower growth and less into seed production. The expected result is flower [...]
When I was a kid and my Mom would take my siblings and me to the local shopping mall, she’d bribe us with an offer of an ice cream cone from Baskin-Robbins if we’d behave ourselves. So if we acted like monkeys in the stores, we wouldn’t get any ice cream on the way back [...]
Just a quick reminder that the Ultimate You Mindfest, hosted by Paul Scheele, begins this morning. Today’s session is about how to increase your income and overcome limiting beliefs about money. One new Mindfest session will be posted each day of this week. Each audio session can be streamed for free for about 24 hours after [...]
In addition to evaluating the GeekDesk, I also recently tested another piece of equipment to make office work more active. Called the FitDesk, it’s a small but functional workspace mounted atop a stationary exercise bike. So you can burn calories pedaling while you work on your laptop or tablet, watch TV, or play video games. [...]
Last year I helped promote a free online event called the Ultimate You Mindfest. It was a weeklong series of short, punchy audio coaching sessions to condition your mind for positive thinking, success, and action orientation. This Mindfest was extremely popular with my readers, and I received many appreciative emails about it afterwards. As a promotional [...]
Learn to notice and appreciate the hidden abundance obscured by scarcity and lack, and more abundance will flow to you. Although I enjoy some very nice abundance in my life today (time freedom, work I love, travel, wonderful friends, amazing kids), I don’t need anything in particular to feel rich. As I see it, I [...]
If you’re feeling frustrated, it means you’re holding a vibe that aligns with a reality that you don’t want. How do you create the vibe of frustration? It’s pretty easy. Simply observe your reality, and then resist or reject some aspect of it. Look at your financial situation, and resist it. Look at your job, [...]
I recently asked some people to explain the difference between being judgmental and being selective. I received dozens of different answers. Some people said that being selective is milder, more logical, less emotional, or more practical than being judgmental. Others felt they were just different words to describe the same thing. And still others had [...]
The Ultimate You Mindfest that I mentioned in some previous posts was so well-received that Learning Strategies is hosting another free online event. This one focuses on meditation and is appropriately named Meditationfest. The format is similar to the previous Mindfest except that instead of having one teacher all the way through, the Meditationfest features [...]
Learning Strategies will soon be streaming Chunyi Lin’s Spring Forest Qigong course for free via the Internet. The broadcast will be spread over 6 days and begins on March 12, 2012. Qi, also known as chi, is life energy. Qigong is an Eastern energy healing practice which seeks to correct imbalances in this energy. Whether [...]