Dec 27, 2011

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:14 — 37.7MB) | Embed Disclaimer: I felt it necessary to include this Disclaimer.  If you consider yourself to have a modicum of faith in any religion, there exists a high degree of certainty (almost a guarantee) that this and other “Atheism For The Win” posts will either decrease...

YOU DON’T HAVE TO (and it’s often better) PACKAGE EVERYTHING UP WITH COMPUTER FILES. I went biking and this nice old lady (I like nice old wise ladies, they’re like Gandalfs) said “I fear odd not packaging it all up” (in regards to the bread, pasta, soda, chocolate, and tin of cat food I purchased) because I had bike panniers and...

Sep 16, 2011

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 3:48 — 3.5MB) | Embed Download: Time:03:47 Edify on the Go! A coach is often erroneously misconstrued1 as a consultant and/or teacher/mentor. Your average consultant is printing out graph charts and presenting research data. The average teacher is shoving in and ideally delivering knowledge to...

Aug 23, 2011

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) | Embed Download: 45:32 Edify on the go! I was going to start by writing that “emotions are funny things”, something trivial, nuanced, minimizing the impact of emotions. But emotions are not funny things. They’re very serious and trivializing them would be like scoffing at an oncoming...

Aug 9, 2011

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) | Embed Download: Edify on the Go! I’ve tried to write this post 3 times but had technical difficulties and have had to undergo three drafts.  Fortunately, that also gave me three shots at revisions!  Here’s what I’ve surmised. The principle:  Eat nothing until three hours (or longer)...

Aug 2, 2011

Edify on the go! Download: Running-Time 27:09 Or download this to listen at your own convenience. I can’t begin to describe how invaluable this list is for anything related to hypnosis and trance.  This list will totally transform any hypnotic work you do.  If you don’t do hypnotic work this will change how you view things because people are in trances...

Jul 19, 2011

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (15.3MB) | Embed Listen to this post in audio blog format! Download: Running-Time: 16:45 or feel free to download this post for later listening at your convenience.   He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Philosopher, Playwright and Author I...

Apr 3, 2011

In 2002, I wrote a novella called Hope-Rising (will add the link to pdf in a jiffy).  Since then I’ve realized I don’t like hope.  I like trust.  Hope triggers all kinds of uncertainties.  It places you out of control.  If you trust something will happen, it’s more likely to occur. This is far deper and more complex than a personal...

Mar 22, 2011

I just found this rummaging through an old drawer of room in which I spend some of my fondest childhood summers in Michigan. It was a valentine’s card from my dad to me. I must’ve been about 11? (12? 13? Hopefully not 14 or older!) judging by my writing. What’s funny is This list was for me! I was the recipient of the card and then kind of in...

Oct 29, 2010

“Trying to achieve” something presupposes failure or at the very least difficulty. When you “try” to do something you automatically install challenge. When you’re brushing your teeth, you don’t “try to brush your teeth“; you just “brush your teeth” because it’s simple, natural, and easy. The...

Oct 21, 2010

Fascinating that despite how renowned tea is in England, tea only really arrived in UK in the 1600s!  The origins of tea go way back to Asia, and their connection with England only started in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.  See, Lizzy had a penchant for exotic luxuries so she founded the East India Company specifically to haul over cloths, spices, herbs, and...

Oct 17, 2010

I love logic.  I won’t ramble on about how much I love logic (there will likely be future posts on this), but I love logic.  In logic, mathematicians love contradictions because when a contradiction arises it means something doesn’t work, something must be tweaked and made “correct” and thus contradiction produces a stronger more...

Jul 26, 2010

Life — I dislike the word life.  It doesn’t exist.  “Life” is an over-inflated amalgam of accomplishments, time, desires, goals frequently utilized and inflated to grotesque proportions by self-help books.  There is no “life”.  There’s evolution; there’s cellular growth; there’s time.  I prefer to look at what I have is just time.  I...

Jul 9, 2010

Analysis of Discarding and Keeping Pain Potentially Consequential of Discarding Clutter Cost to Repurchase something I discard — Repurchasing something I discard rarely happens.  Additionally, the cost of storing and transporting something is probably equivalent the cost of repurchasing but discarding it doesn’t have any of the psychological...

Jul 3, 2010

The great Tony Blair once stated the truism: “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes.  It is very easy to say yes.” Indeed, when it’s so easy to become toxically riddled with guilt or shame, or simply having a bad habit of serving others requests at your expense, it can be very easy to say yes, and difficult to say no.  But a “No”...

I love Philleas Fogg, Meridians, Space Sciences, Concepts of Time (like Time’s Arrow the Time’s Arrow star trek episode wasn’t that bad either) and albeit somewhat pseudo-science philosophical concepts of physics such as reverse-causality, and all that time-based Dr. Who jazz.   Unfortunately, this article is very un-Dr.Whoesque and quite...

Here’s  the Translations of the fields of study that I eliminated to their present and future and these may likely slightly fluctuate but meh. I’ve evolved my past 5 studies to more uplifting, validating, clarifying studies.  The transduction are as follows: Psychology —> Video Games!  Simply the opposite of psychology. Instead of...

Nov 9, 2009

I’ve given this a tremendous amount of thought.  No, more.  I’ve written chapters in books to this topic. No…More.  I’ve devoted many years of my life to interacting with people and trying to treat all people as equal of equal intelligence.  My mantra, rubric, guideline, personal manifesto, what have you, was something along the lines of this...

Sep 29, 2009

Richard Feynman was one of the greatest physicists ever.   The most provocative and admirable quality of Richard Phillips Feynman (okay more than one) is: The fearlessness, humor, and outspokenness of his voice (when he speaks he just speaks his mind and he’s usually thought about what he says a great deal, so he just projects, barks it out and delivers...

“So men are not from Mars, nor are women from Venus. Men and women are from Africa, the cradle of our evolution, where they evolved together as a single species. Men and women have all the same genes except for a handful on the Y chromosome, and their brains are so similar that it takes an eagle-eyed neuroanatomist to find the small differences between...

Jul 8, 2009

I am not you, and you are not me.  That is the way things are.  I like that.  As you ponder that, let me explain to you why I find tremendous value in that distinction. Distinctions create boundaries.  Without distinctions, everything would be porous and absorbing this information or that information would generate confusion.  But that confusion is...

Jun 20, 2009

The whole “work hours” thing is a foreign concept to me. Maybe because I just don’t make a distinction between work and play, or (most likely) I just always work.  Sometimes I wake up and start work at 2am. Sometimes I just don’t ever go to sleep and take a nap in the middle of the day. It’s easier for me, I realize, to just...

Jun 12, 2009

Installing the Three Types of People Medicine:  Continuity This is the second part of the  Comprehensive Success — The Three Categories of People Medicine! (Part 1) Installment. We had a ton of positive feedback from the first installment, so here’s part two — making it happen! Newsletter, by the way, is in the works.  We may also offer a...

Welcome back!  This is the second installment of the 3rd version (we had POPP 2008 and 2009) of Progress and organizational Productivity Principles. Just some quick history of POPP.  POPP started in 2008 with  this post.  We then touched up on a revision of it with this post, and then we totally overhauled, redefined, and rewrote POPP to where it stands...

Jun 11, 2009

Hear This In FULL as a free podcast! If you like what you hear. Be sure to check out the “Audio” page of http://www.validateyourlife.com for more inspiration and clarity! People Categories Categorize People in I’ve noticed those three distinctions VERY clearly in friends but instead of just categorizing appropriately the “friend”...

Jun 6, 2009

“A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world” – Sussex, England Church (importance of vision). Welcome to the Progress and Organizational Productivity Principles. Everyone’s system for organization their stuff is unique — and it should be unique.  Why? Because...