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How to Create a Personal Productivity Scaffold

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

A scaffold is a temporary structure that supports tools, materials, and people while erecting or repairing a building.  A similar construct can be used to improve your personal productivity.  Much like wearing braces to reposition crooked teeth, a personal productivity scaffold is something you temporarily insert into your daily routine to help create and establish new habits.  Once those habits are conditioned, [...]

How Your Mind Really Works

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

How is it that your mind is capable of handling new situations you’ve never previously encountered?  How do you solve a problem you’ve never solved before?  Is this just the magic of consciousness, or is there an underlying process — or algorithm — your mind uses behind the scenes to deal with the unique experiences you encounter each [...]

I Can Do It! Conference Review - Day 4

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

The review of the 2007 I Can Do It! Conference concludes.
Day 4 - Sunday
Group Meetup
Steve:  About fifteen people showed up to our 8am meetup.  Not everyone stayed for the duration, although most did.  Fortunately the concourse was not at all crowded and was fairly quiet during that time, so we had a good spot all to ourselves.  We [...]

I Can Do It! Conference Review - Day 3

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

The review of the 2007 I Can Do It! Conference continues.
Day 3 - Saturday
Bill Phillips - Transformation: You Have the Power and Ability to Change
Steve:  After a heart-warming welcome by 80-year old Hay House founder Louise Hay, Bill Phillips took the stage to talk about transformation.  Years ago I’d read his popular book Body for Life, [...]

I Can Do It! Conference Review - Day 2

Monday, May 28th, 2007

The review of the 2007 I Can Do It! Conference continues.
Day 2 - Friday
Brian Weiss, M.D. - Same Soul, Many Bodies
Steve:  Friday began with a six-hour workshop on past life regression therapy from Dr. Brian Weiss, author of Many Lives, Many Masters.  The main reason I opted to attend this workshop (there were 9 to choose from) is that [...]

I Can Do It! Conference Review - Day 1

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

Last weekend Erin and I attended Hay House’s 2007 I Can Do It! Conference at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas.  This was my third year attending this conference and Erin’s second.  You may have seen our review of the 2006 seminar.  Keynote speakers included Dr. Wayne Dyer, Bill Phillips, Doreen Virtue, Christiane Northrup, and Deepak Chopra.
I Can [...]

Sex Energy

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Napoleon Hill devoted a full chapter to the transmutation of sex energy in his classic book Think and Grow Rich.  He found that the most successful people were highly sexed, achieving great success by directing their sexual energy into their work.  In this article I’ll explain how to use sex energy to set goals that align with [...]

Darkworkers, Lightworkers, and Levels of Consciousness

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

How can a darkworker experience higher levels of consciousness like unconditional love and peace? 
The original descriptions of the levels of consciousness are lightworker-biased.  For a darkworker the level of unconditional love is directed inwardly as love of self.  It’s like a highly concentrated form of arrogance.  It may not be expressed outwardly in the form of a smug attitude, but inwardly the [...]

Polarity and Health

Friday, March 9th, 2007

What role does polarity play in health-oriented intentions such as the desire to lose weight?  Does polarity have a practical application to something like weight loss?
Let’s say you want to lose weight, so you form the following intention, where XXX represents your goal weight:
I weigh XXX pounds.
Now what is the polarity of this intention?  Is this a [...]

Are You a Lightworker or a Darkworker?

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Asking this question is like asking whether you’re a black belt in karate or jujitsu.  Most likely you are neither, since most people never make such a commitment in their entire lives.  Lightworkers and darkworkers combined probably account for less than 1% of the population.
Becoming a lightworker or darkworker isn’t something that just happens to you.  It’s a [...]



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