Go Outdoors – Chapter from Twenty Second Smile
Posted On Jul 7 2023Go Outdoors What could be simpler and more natural than going outdoors? Children know this. Your inner heart knows this. The folks with clip boards and questionnaires know this. Why don’t you remember? EVERYTHING in your life gets better when you go outdoors. Parks feed your soul better than concrete does. OK? Another chapter chosen by the synchronous flow of the universe from my favorite book. Get it. You’ll like it. Paperback Version –Very pretty book to own. May you walk in beauty, William PS Pass this post to friends.
Compassion
Posted On Mar 12 2022Poets can help sooth your soul, and remind you of deeper truths in times like these. Here’s inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman, on Compassion. This is an excerpt from her recent book – Call Us What We Carry: Poems. I recommend it. (The book has over 2500 reviews – all 5 stars.) Here’s another one from Sir Paul. When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom Let it be And in my hour of darkness She is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom Let it be Let it …
How You Can Use Any Book as an Oracle
Posted On May 7 2020In a time of deep uncertainty, I find oracles can help me to feel into my next good steps. From my book, The Twenty Second Smile – When Clueless… Because these waves passing through me ruffle my cool and boost my fear, I feel lost and rudderless. Clueless as to how to proceed, I consult the millennia-old sage, the I Ching. She gives me the straight poop in her own convoluted way. But it’s enough. I take another step. In my recent Instagram account post, I mentioned using The Twenty Second Smile as an oracle for my day. …
I’m Giving Away My Book Simply Serene –Get Some Serenity
Posted On Apr 2 2020Since you’re sheltering at home and perhaps hungry for something different, fun, and useful to read, I have another book giveaway for you. And since serenity is at a premium, I feel you’ll like this book. It shows you how you can work with your body to generate more serenity. It’s fun and you’ll find it easy. You can get the book for free starting on April 4th. The offer ends midnight PDT April 8th. Glitch: Not free today, April 5. But FREE tomorrow, April 6th through midnight April 10th. Go for it => Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, …
Book Giveaway – Get Well, Be Well, Stay Well: How to Prevent and Treat Colds and Flu Naturally
Posted On Mar 21 2020I’m giving this book away for 5 days starting March 21st, Saturday, tomorrow, and ending Midnight PDT March 25th. I loaded Get Well, Be Well, Stay Well: How to Prevent and Treat Colds and Flu Naturally with methods to support your immune system. I have been showing these to patients and using them myself for decades. They will help you stay healthy anytime including during this, the pandemic, but don’t be stupid. It’s Not intended to replace all the Covid 19 guidelines of social distan As you may know, I am not seeing people in person these days, phone and …
We All Croak – Memento Mori
Posted On Nov 4 2019My friend, Daniel, told me of an app that reminds you that we all croak. Remembering death is an honored practice in all religions. Since the 1950s, we mostly have hidden death away and forgotten this useful truth – we are going to die. Franz Kafka goes so far as to say, “The meaning of life is that it ends.” In this day of the dead season, pay attention. Memento Mori, Latin for remember you must die, has been a practice in the Christian tradition from the beginning and before that, the Greek philosophers. It’s a good practice. This chapter …
The Workaholic Meets Mary Oliver’s Poem, The Summer’s Day
Posted On Jun 24 2019Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 78) Don’t ask a naked man for the shirt off his back. You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help. Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. It will be a response to your question. Play with it. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. The Workaholic Meets Mary Oliver’s Poem, The Summer’s Day When I work with clients, I often remind them of poems – The Summer Day …
Current Insights I’ve Uncovered and Inquiries
Posted On Apr 26 2018Explore, ponder, and play with these potentially life changing ideas so you can be happy, wild, and free. In these periodic posts, I will share ideas that currently move me in some way. I’ll be drawing from the books I’m reading, films, blog posts, conversations, and personal ponderings. I share these to further you on your journey to being happy, wild, and free. The Oracle Quote The oracle quote returns today. Yay. Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius. My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today : 116) My …
A Reader Has a Great Suggestion for A Gift
Posted On Dec 13 2017Here’s a suggestion for giving The Twenty Second Smile as a gift. This is William’s best book ever. I love his description, “Engagingly Playful Strategies to be Happy, Wild and Free.” I have just ordered a few more because I can think of so many friends who will love it. Perfect for holiday giving! What a beautiful book! Thank you again William! Another reader gave the book to everyone in her book club. How fun. The book is beautiful to look at on the coffee table or by your bedside. It’s fun, playful, and inspiring. At its best it can …
After the Black Friday Crazies, Breathe, Enjoy This Three Book Giveaway
Posted On Nov 30 2017Black Friday is over along with the craziness. Breathe. To sooth your soul, I’m giving away the Kindle versions of my three print books. Zero Dollars, Pounds, Euros, etc. A great price. I want you to have them, because they’re great books. You can use the wisdom therein to be happier and more present. It’s my gift to you this season. My last, The Twenty Second Smile, contains lots of wisdom and makes a great coffee table book. It might be my best book of the 18 I have published and certainly the most accessible. It summarizes everything I’ve learned …
Amazon’s Happy Now – It Has the Twenty Second Smile
Posted On Nov 8 2017Best laid plans… I told you about my wonderful new book, The Twenty Second Smile: Plus 97 More Engagingly Playful Strategies to Help You Be Happy, Wild, and Free. And that you could get it on the CreateSpace store. Well, they closed the store. I was told I should have gotten an email… Nope. So the good news is that you can get it right now at a discount, below cost, until Amazon changes its mind. JudyAnne – Says on the Kindle page – Even more than William’s other books, I can quickly refer to this one when I need …
Book Trailers Are Cool – Watch My Trailer for The Twenty Second Smile
Posted On Nov 3 2017I’ve just posted my book trailer for The Twenty Second Smile, my latest book. You’ll enjoy the short trailer and the book, too. Here’s the trailer > The Twenty Second Smile You can enjoy other trailers on that page too. You can get the book here – The Twenty Second Smile: Plus 97 More Engagingly Playful Strategies to Help you be Happy, Wild, and Free — Kindle Version I recommend the Paperback Version –It’s a very pretty book to own. Here’s what Kathy said about The Twenty Second Smile: My life is in transition and given the current political/world climate …
What Is the Twenty Second Smile?
Posted On Oct 11 2017The Twenty Second Smile was published today. Early readers find it fun, playful, and filled with wisdom. I included every idea, insight, tip, and Zen trick I could think of that has been helpful to me in my life and it’s what I have been teaching my clients over the last four decades. They’ve been tested. It has everything I know that works really well. The subtitle for the book is Plus 97 More Engagingly Playful Strategies to Help You Be Happy, Wild, and Free. That’s it. 98 chapters, each exactly 50 words long. Each has its own illustration. The …
Learn To Reboot Your Painful Stories
Posted On Oct 4 2017All your painful stories end in your being a bag lady and dying miserably – learn to reboot. I have talked about this before in my books and with clients. I’m talking about it again, ‘cause I need to reboot, again. Current events with this minority president trigger my painful stories. Painful stories are the automatic tapes that play in your head and mine. They’re painful because they always have you losing. The aphorism… Never lose in your own imagination. …Is a good one. Quit losing. This exactly 50 word chapter from my new book – The Twenty Second Smile …
Book Giveaway Bonanza
Posted On May 4 2017Let’s try this. I’ll give you the schedule of the upcoming book giveaways. You go grab them, pass them on to friends, read them, live happily ever after, then write a glorious review. OK. Drum roll… The Schedule: 5/6/17 Playful Stress Reducing Shortcuts: Fast Drug-Free Ways to Tickle Your Nervous System to Improve Your Happiness, Peace, and Vitality 5/13/17 The Eight Fundamental Secrets to Living Well: How to Live a Happy Life and Live Life to the Fullest 5/20/17 Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace …
Color the Sky Yellow Book Giveaway
Posted On Jan 31 2017As a birthday present to myself – number 70 – I am giving away one of my favorite books – Color the Sky Yellow: Creative Magic, Playful Art for Your Inner Child. Yahoo. You can get it for FREE on February 1st my birthday through midnight February 5th 2017. Go for it, tell you friends => Color the Sky Yellow: Creative Magic, Playful Art for Your Inner Child You don’t need to know how to draw to get these benefits – happiness, freedom, and presence. Be happy, wild, and free, William P.S. Write a lovely review on Amazon for people. …
Get Insight into Everything with Your Inner Sage – Book Giveaway
Posted On Jan 19 2017In changing times, wouldn’t it be nice to have some deep guidance from a sage? You’re in luck, you have an inner sage, and this book giveaway will help you to Find him/her/it, Bring it forth And deepen your connection to inner knowing. Our only job is to look inside and do the next right thing. When you don’t know what that is or don’t feel you connecting to your inner sage, your deepest inner knowing, then an oracle can help. Starting the day after the inauguration, Jan 21st 2017, The Wizard’s Handbook: How to Get Answers and Make the …
Book Giveaway – Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace
Posted On Dec 9 2016In honor of the season, I have a book giveaway for you. From Dec 10th to midnight PST on the 14th, 2016, you can get this book for free. Yeee Ha! I am giving Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace. This is my bestselling book and really does help you become more serene. The elections left us all a bit bruised and wrung out. The holidays themselves can stress anyone. Ironically, the dark season of the year can be the time for quiet contemplation. Try to use it …
Beautiful Gifts to Discover the Sacred
Posted On Dec 7 2016Consider giving the print versions of these books at the holiday. Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing – An Illustrated Journey Paper Back Version Kindle version Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: A Magically Potent Way to Savor Your Life Paper Back Version Kindle version They’re pretty and fun. More, these books can connect people to the Sacred. What better for the holy days? One or both of these books may be a perfect fit for someone you love. Blessings of the season, William P.S. Watch for my gift to you in the next few days …
Holy Days Heart – Free Book Giveaway Tomorrow
Posted On Nov 11 2016Every year about this time, I giveaway my book Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life. As the titles says – Reading it can help heal your heart and deepen spiritual meaning in your life. Multiple friends, masters in their own ways, contributed wonderful chapters. Pick a chapter. Be happy. It’s available free November 12, 2016 – midnight November 16th, 2016 PST… Go for it => Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life. Be happy, wild, and free, William
Seasons of Home
Posted On Jul 14 2016I read that the Japanese have 22 seasons. I don’t care if it’s true – I adopted it. I suggest you do as well. Not 22 seasons, but look into your heart and see what seasonal elements touch you. It’s a way to recover and feel into places you love. For example: You may be familiar with the poignantly brief Cherry Blossom Time and how the Japanese celebrate it. Every day I walk through beautiful places. As I write this, I am enjoying Dogwood season. As I walk by the lavenders in Lavender season, I caress the flowers to leave …
Chuck Ling Ferret Studio
Posted On Jun 28 2016“What’s the name of your studio?” I gently inquire. “Huh?” you wonder. “What’s the name of your studio? What do you call the place where you do your creative work? “You do have a place to do art and to work on creative projects don’t you?” If you want to build your right brain, and I assure you that you do, then you need to have a studio. It needn’t be more than a flat surface in the corner of a room stocked with cool pens where you can doodle. But setting aside space gives this aspect of your life …
Nature Rx
Posted On Jun 9 2016Enjoy these two fun videos. They’re tongue-in-cheek spoofs of the omnipresent pharmaceutical ads on TV. Spoofs they are, but they advertise a real benefit that research incontrovertibly supports. That’s cool but more importantly – your common sense will recognize the truth. Fact: Nature heals you. Just like medicine, only better. : ) My New Book in Progress I’m writing a book with the working title – Finding Home – How the Love of Place Restores You. I’ll tell you more about this cool book in later posts. Note the on-screen text that zips by in these videos for more humor. …
Deepen Your Topophilia – Find Heaven
Posted On May 12 2016Deepen Your Topophilia & Find Heaven I love this small park, really, just this small section of the small park by the lake. I know the crows who visit, the squirrels that hop and zip, the robins singing and hunting, the sound of the waves gently lapping or crashing in winter storms, the low clouds zooming north along the lake, the sunrise peaking over the Cascades, the beaver chewed trees, the beavers passing through, the transcendent chirping of the widgeons, the honking I hear long before the Canada geese land, rippling through the water. I’ve watched the eagle spook the raft …
Get Good Answers, Fast – Read Books for Children
Posted On Apr 20 2016Get Good Answers, Fast – Read Books for Children I’m working on my new book titled – I Know I’m Crazy. Naturally, I will show ways for you to not be crazy and how to be enlightened, at least for moments. I have observed that people make up painful stories that hold little truth. Even though the stories aren’t true, their bodies and minds and behavior all respond as if the stories were fact. Quick examples of painful stories – “I can’t do anything right.” “I’m such a failure.” “Nobody will ever love me.” “I have such ugly darkness in …
Can’t Get Back to Sleep?
Posted On Apr 5 2016Can’t Get Back to Sleep? I rewrote, added to, fine tuned Foolproof Relaxation to make a more useful book for you – Quiet Your Fear & Get Back to Sleep: Relax, Sleep Better, and Be at Ease Anytime, Anywhere You Want. Here’s a scenario – Three AM and the demons of worry are here. “Groan!” Toss and turn. Get up. Use the bathroom. Get a drink of water. Back in bed, the fears wait for you. Still no sleep. Thoughts racing and repeating… What to do? Obviously, you use the methods you will learn in this book, Quiet Your Fear …
Sabbatical Log
Posted On Mar 11 2016Sabbatical Log People wonder what I do on my many sabbaticals. Here’s what I did over the first two weeks in March. First, what is a sabbatical? Sabbatical relates to Sabbath which in turn means rest. The Sabbath and Sabbaticals set time aside so people can enjoy themselves and explore their connection to God. For me, it’s about a period of time to connect to the Sacred more deeply. This doesn’t mean a time of solemn fasting and deprivation, but a time of joy and play. Typically, I spend more time outdoors. As you may know, my most recent book, …
The Winner Is …
Posted On Mar 4 2016The Winner Is You may have voted on which would be the best book cover. Although I liked them both, this won. Get the book now – Color the Sky Yellow: Creative Magic, Playful Art for Your Inner Child And … As the title implies, using the easy ideas in the book, you can create more fun and happiness in your life. You can connect more deeply to those things you love. And most importantly for me, you can stop your chattering mind that keeps making up painful stories of fear and shame. Go for it => Color the Sky …
Book Giveaway — Color the Sky Yellow
Posted On Feb 22 2016Book Giveaway – Color the Sky Yellow In case you missed the giveaway of Color the Sky Yellow: Creative Magic, Playful Art for Your Inner Child last Saturday, you can get it at no cost starting February 23rd and ending February 26 midnight PST. Go for it, have fun => Color the Sky Yellow Vote If you didn’t vote for the book cover, please do. Go on over to the recent post and vote. I like them both. May you walk in beauty, William
Judge this Book Cover, Please
Posted On Feb 16 2016Don’t judge a book by its cover? We do judge books by their covers all the time. Please, help me pick a good one. But first – Color the Sky Yellow: Creative Magic, Playful Art for Your Inner Child will be my forth book on art. This one focuses on having fun. Here’s Why When you make art, you engage a superb form of mindfulness meditation, which returns you to the Sacred present moment. You reap the same benefits of any enlightened meditation practice. – Willendorf. Living a life you love wholeheartedly means living creatively. No-one can give you this …
Review My New Book
Posted On Feb 14 2016I Want Your Help. Please Review My New Book I’ve just published my newest book on Amazon – Color the Sky Yellow: Creative Magic, Playful Art for Your Inner Child. I think you’ll like it. Like most of my other books, this one helps people become enlightened. Naturally, I want to live in a world where people are enlightened vs. a world dominated by fear and fear mongers. I want you to feel more enlightened and happier in your daily life. This book can help. To get Color the Sky Yellow into the most hands, I need Amazon reviews. The …
Big Magic
Posted On Jan 12 2016Big Magic I tried to read massive bestseller, Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. I didn’t get very far. So unless my friend, TA, hadn’t passionately recommended Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth G, I would have missed it. Further, TA recommended I listen to it as an audio book because Liz reads it. It feels like an encouraging conversation with an intimate friend especially if she talks directly into your ears through ear buds. I have recommend Big Magic to many clients, my daughters, and Suzanne. I’m on my second time through. First, the book is for …
Beautiful Gifts to Discover the Sacred
Posted On Dec 19 2015Beautiful Gifts to Discover the Sacred Consider giving the print versions of these books at the holiday. Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing – An Illustrated Journey Paper Back Version Kindle version Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: A Magically Potent Way to Savor Your Life Paper Back Version Kindle version They’re pretty and fun. More, these books can connect people to the Sacred. What better for the holydays? One or both of these books may be a perfect fit for someone you love. Blessings of the season, William
Book Giveaway – Make Your Holidays Holy
Posted On Dec 18 2015Book Giveaway You can have a free copy of Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life by going here. You will find this book Quite useful for making the holidays more Holy. Enjoy it. Pass it on. Book is available for free starting Dec. 19th ending at midnight on Dec. 22, 2015 Go for it => Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life May you walk in beauty, William P.S. Can I ask a quick favor. If you enjoyed this …
Book Giveaway This Month
Posted On Oct 2 2015Book Giveaway This Month I’m playing with the idea of giving two books away each month. They will be available on the first two weekends of the month and the third Saturday. Amazon lets me give books away on 5 days. The first one each month will be a bestseller. The second, one of my lesser known books. This month, October, 2015, you can get and enjoy these two – Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life Get Well, Be Well, Stay Well: How to Prevent and Treat Colds and …
Book Giveaway This Month
Posted On Sep 3 2015Book Giveaway This Month I’m playing with the idea of giving two books away each month. They will be available on the first two weekends of the month and the third Saturday. Amazon lets me give books away on 5 days. The first one each month will be a bestseller. The second, one of my lesser known books. This month, September, 2015, you can get and enjoy these two – Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly Alert and at Peace Foolproof Relaxation: How to Relax Your Mind Anytime, Anywhere Consider writing a …
Book Giveaway – Summer Fun
Posted On Jul 29 2015Book Giveaway – Summer Fun Starting Saturday, August 1st, 2015 at 12:01 AM Pacific time and ending midnight on Sunday August 2nd I’ll be giving you the free Kindle version of Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: A Magically Potent Way To Savor Your Life. Why, because summer is a great time to start sketching? Why? Because you like to get outdoors, and sketching connects you to Nature and the Sacred in magical ways, sketching provides a wonderful channel to happiness. Enjoy this excerpt from the book – How Does Sketching and Writing Poetry Help You? You …
Happy Relationships – Free Book
Posted On Jul 17 2015Happy Relationships – Free Book Starting 12:01 tomorrow, Saturday July 18, 2015 I will be giving away my Kindle book — Amazingly Content: How to Be in Love with All You See & Hear, And Be in Harmony with Family, Friends & Work Offer ends midnight Sunday, the 19th… Take advantage of this opportunity to make all your relationships more peaceful and happy. I use this simple science of reconciliation daily. It’s easy and fast. Joe Vitale introduced me to this Hawaiian method of Ho’oponopono by telling an amazing story that took place on a mental ward for the criminally …
Wordlessness & Oneness – Heaven
Posted On Mar 11 2015Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 411) The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances. – Martha Washington You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help. Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. Wordless Oneness – Heaven “Can it be that simple?” “Simpler…” she said, “it’s your native state after all. You were born to spend most of your time …
Sketching & Poetry Kindle Book Giveaway – Now
Posted On Jan 31 2015Sketching & Poetry Kindle Book Giveaway – Now On January 31, 2015, I will commence a giveaway of the Kindle version of my well loved book, Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: A Magically Potent Way To Savor Your Life Print Version Kindle version. Offer ends February 4th, 2015 midnight Seattle time. Sketching can bring you quickly and easily into your right brain. And by now, you know that’s where you want to be if you want to be connected to the Sacred. If you want to feel peaceful, happy, joyous. And as the title says, “A Magically …
Stay Healthy During Flu Season
Posted On Jan 7 2015Stay Healthy During Flu Season You can stay healthy during flu season. Just attend to a few simple ideas. Really. “Blaming disease on germs is like blaming stagnant water on mosquitoes.” This simple notion forms the basis of staying well. The prescription? Don’t get stagnant. Get your juices moving. Get Your Juices Moving This can be quite literal. Where are your juices? You recall the counterintuitive notion that your body is mostly made up of water. The water resides in three places – You cells Your blood And the little known lymphatic vessels and the interstitial fluid. Interstitial fluid makes …
Kindle Book Giveaway – Altar Making for Happiness
Posted On Dec 4 2014Can Making Your Own Altars and Shrines Make You Happier This Holiday Season? Like you maybe, I suffer during the holidays. I did until I stumbled onto making altars. One snowy Christmas at my parents home in northern Ohio, an inspiration grabbed me – create a mobile with origami cranes made from this beautiful red wrapping paper and found twigs… Hang it in the stairwell. Make it Big. I did. It took hours to create, happy hours spent in my right brain. Recall, the right brain is the place to be if you wish to feel oneness, peace, and harmony. …
An Easy Way to a Peaceful Restful Sleep
Posted On Nov 25 2014Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 403) Stop, where are you running to, Heaven is within you if you are looking for God elsewhere, you miss him entirely. – Angelus Silesius, 1624 – 1677 You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help. Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. An Easy Way to a Peaceful Restful Sleep She was more than ready for sleep even before she listened to …
Finding Your Own North Star – a Review
Posted On Oct 7 2014Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 310) Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour. – Stephen Leacock You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help. Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. Finding Your Own North Star – a Review Some books excite me. They resonate so deeply with me that I yearn to have each of my …
He Did Not Get It
Posted On Sep 29 2014He Did Not Get It “The ‘sketches’ were not that great and not at all inspiring,” David Terry said in his Amazon review of my book – Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: A Magically Potent Way To Savor Your Life. He didn’t get it. The sketches indeed are not great art – that’s the point. This spiritual practice can be done by anyone, not just trained artists. When you sketch, even sketching with little skill, you can deeply enjoy the Sacred Present Moment. And the Present Moment can fill your heart with peace and joy. Look to your …
A Life of Happy Moments – Book Giveaway
Posted On Sep 26 2014Your book Giveaway is live now! Come and get it. Go for it now => Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: a Magically Potent Way to Savor Your Life Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: a Magically Potent Way to Savor Your Life will be free starting 12:01 AM (midnight) Sept. 27th, 2014. Offer ends Midnight October 1st, 2014. Pacific Time. Sketching, even amateur sketching, will bring you into the present moment. Clearly, it’s a lovely mindfulness practice. When you then add a poem to your sketch, you get to deepen your experience of the now. Again, the quality of …
Crazy No More –Three Practices That Always Work
Posted On Sep 25 2014Three Practices That Always Work First, you suffer, I suffer all God’s children suffer – that is, we get caught in our mental habits of being right or wrong, making other people bad or better than us depending on the flavor of you craziness. Me? I’m just not good enough. Buddhism has a set of four vows, one of them says: The number of delusions are infinite. I vow to penetrate them all. When I feel crazy or delusions hit, these three practices always work to restore me to peace and wholeness. 1. Riding a bike – as long as …
Savoring Life vs. the Been There, Done That Attitude
Posted On Sep 2 2014Savoring Your Life vs. the Been There, Done That Attitude What would your life be like if you savored your moments? What is your life like if you live in the attitude of been there, done that, bought the T-shirt and moved on? The former feels magical. The latter feels like a circle of hell. Do more savoring and less of the ennui of been there… You might like this film: About Time. It beautifully explores the distinctions around savoring your moments, savoring your life. The synopsis from IMDB.com: At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time …
Powerfully Potent Way to Heaven
Posted On Aug 20 2014Powerfully Potent Way to Heaven You can get my latest book NOW: Sketching, Poetry, and the Sacred Present Moment: A Magically Potent Way To Savor Your Life. You’ll like the plethora of pictures and the premise of the book will inspire you. Some wonderful friends contributed examples for you as well as my own sketches. If we can do it, you can too. : ) How Does Sketching and Writing Poetry Help You? You could live a life you love. You could learn to fall in love with your life. . Ultimately, you could fall in love with everything. …
#1 Happiness Book Giveaway
Posted On Jun 29 2014Do you want the #1 ranked Happiness book. Or the #3 Stress Management book? Good news – it’s the same book. I’m giving away my book: Finding Your Own Best Ideas- A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out What Works in Your Life (Do More of What Works Book 1) I’m doing this because I want to. And to promote Book II: Finding Your Own Best Ideas: Book II: Over 27 Practical Prescriptions for Figuring Out What Works in Your Life (Do More of What Works) A favor, please pass this on. They’re both good books filled with valuable coaching ideas. …
Book Giveaway
Posted On Jun 28 2014Book Giveaway I’m giving away my book: Finding Your Own Best Ideas- A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out What Works in Your Life (Do More of What Works Book 1) I’m doing this because I want to. And to promote Book II: Finding Your Own Best Ideas: Book II: Over 27 Practical Prescriptions for Figuring Out What Works in Your Life (Do More of What Works) A favor, please pass this on. They’re both good books filled with valuable coaching ideas. Oh, and please write a sterling review. : ) Walk in beauty, William P.S. Offer ends midnight PDT July …
Announcing a New Book and a Giveaway
Posted On Jun 26 2014Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 23) wake up neo… the matrix has you. You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help. Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. Announcing a New Book and a Giveaway I have published Book II of the Do More of What Works Series. Finding Your Own Best Ideas: Book II: Over 27 Practical Prescriptions for Figuring Out What Works in Your Life Naturally, …
Enough Money
Posted On Jun 10 2014Enough Money Money doesn’t bring happiness except when it does. I have some friends and clients who do wonderful work, but are unemployed. Or underemployed. They’re not earning enough. The lack of money may drive them to get jobs. This would cause them to leave their holy calling. The work they were born to do. I have been able to support my family doing unconventional work for four decades, but we burned through our savings when I started a new practice in Seattle. Woof. By the way, I approve of the idea of ‘day jobs’ as long as it doesn’t …
Serene Giveaway
Posted On Feb 14 2014Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 411) The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances. – Martha Washington You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help. Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. Serene Giveaway Starting February 15, 2014 at 12:01 AM PST – You can get Simply Serene: How to Calm Down, Reduce Stress, Deal with Stress, and Be Instantly …
More of What Works
Posted On Jan 30 2014Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 339) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power. Begin now. — Johann Wolfgang Goethe You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help. Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. It will be a response to your question. Play with it. Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with …
Zen Stories
Posted On Dec 27 2013Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 101) If your guides claim That the Kingdom is in the sky, The birds of the sky will be there before you. If they say it is in the sea, The fishes of the sea will be there before you. The Kingdom is within you and without you. When you know yourselves, you will be known. Then you shall know that you are Sons of the Living Father. But, if you do not know yourselves You are in poverty, and you are poverty. Attributed to Jesus, Gospel of …
Happy Solstice – Book Giveaway
Posted On Dec 19 2013Happy Solstice – Book Giveaway A dear friend heads into heart surgery this morning, another friend’s adult daughter died leaving behind a husband and two kids, I successfully passed through my hip surgery and recovery unfolds well. So what? Prayer will transform all three situations. And building an altar or a shrine puts muscle, creativity, and heart into your prayer as you put your mind and hands to work. Saturday, December 21st is winter solstice when we welcome the return of the sun. This celestial event lends itself to building a shrine for the coming light and the coming year. …
Alert: Stop Colds and the Flu
Posted On Dec 5 2013Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 111) Start a huge foolish project, like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference, What people think of you. — Rumi You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help. Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down. It will be a response to your question. Play with it. Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius. Get the Wizard’s Handbook on Oracle Creation and have fun with oracles. Alert: Stop …
Book Giveaway Is Live
Posted On Nov 22 2013Book Giveaway Is Live If You’re Reading This After 12:01 AM PST November 23, 2013 then you can get Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your Life at no cost… NOW. Go for it => Altar Making You can read more about why you want to get the book HERE. Heads Up: The offer ends midnight, PST November 27, 2013. Tell your friends. Remember to let people know that they don’t need a Kindle to read Kindles, Amazon has software so you can read Kindles on anything. Walk in beauty, William P.S. You can …