The Twenty Second Smile, Bet It Will Change You
Posted On Mar 22 2017I excerpted this post from my upcoming book – The Twenty Second Smile & Other Playful Wisdom: 37 Exactly-50-Word Chapters & Illustrations to Delight You, to Inspire Your Journey, and to Remind You of What Works. Enjoy this title chapter. I have written about this before in different ways. Twenty seconds may challenge you. I find it difficult. : ) Here’re your guidelines: Smile for twenty seconds as often as you remember to do it. I’m smiling right now because writing this reminds me. Can you feel it? More to the point, can I? Consciously paying attention to anything for …
Another Effing Opportunity to Grow
Posted On Nov 11 2016The election the USA has just gone through provides you with another effing opportunity to grow. To start with, you get to study the grief cycle from the inside. So I notice, I spend time in DENIAL. Shock, stunned, and numb are other ways to describe this state. ANGER – I find everything irritates me. Blame is a subset of anger. I blame all sorts of thing for the election results. None of it needs to be based in fact, by the way. I am upset disproportionately to the stimulus. Sasha put the plastic spatula in the dishwasher – grrrr. …
This Is O Rated for Older
Posted On Oct 13 2016This will mean nothing to you if you haven’t reached a certain age. O for Older people. A client asked me for some tips on surrendering in the middle of facing scary medical challenges. I shared a very simple idea that has given me great comfort. Dear Athena, My favorite way to surrender at our age is to recall this instruction – “Relax, you’re going to die.” I love this. Clearly, we’re going to die. We don’t know when, so we can relax. It will happen and it will happen the way it happens. We can’t get it wrong. …
The Best News You Don’t Know
Posted On Sep 29 2016We just finished the first presidential debate for 2016 election. Did you watch? I have recommended for years that people quit watching the news, reading it on-line, or getting it through social media. Why? Because it scares you. Fear drops you into fight-flight-paralysis. And pretty much universally stops you from acting on the information your watching, making you impotent and hopeless. The other reason, is that you rarely hear any good news on those outlets. Good news just doesn’t photograph as dramatically as another shooting or shouting match. Nicholas Kristof wrote a piece in the Sept. 22, 2016 N. Y. …
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
Starved for Color? Feast on More Color
Posted On Feb 11 2015Starved for Color? Feast on More Color Winter serves up gray and dark in the northern latitudes. I find I get starved for color and my attitude goes dark. The solution? Easy, consume more color. Nay, feast on color. The last three winters, I have gotten a cold. One of the causes may be not consuming enough color. If you live in the gray darkness, you know. Enough suffering. To be happy, healthy and energetically creative, you might try feasting on color. Fun Ways to Get More Color Take field trips. Art museums and galleries. Conservatories. The Volunteer Park Conservatory …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Joyous Creativity
Posted On Jul 4 2014Joyous Creativity It’s a delight to watch Linsey Pollak create a playing clarinet from a lovely orange carrot. He’s infectious. May you catch this joy. His shirt and hat make him a great role model for happiness. Walk in beauty, William
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, …
A Trick to Free Your Spirit
Posted On Mar 27 2014Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 309) If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. – Buddha Our mind is like a clear glass of water. If we put salt into the water, it becomes salt water; sugar, it becomes sugar water. But originally the water is clear. No thinking, no mind. No mind, no problem. – Seung Sahn 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 …
Relax, You’re Going to Die
Posted On Oct 9 2013Today’s Oracle My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today: 217) From your happy, relaxed state, you can model real success, which is all that so many people in the world really want. They may buy endless cars and houses and furs and gobble up all the attention and space they can manage, or barely manage, but this is because it is not yet clear to them that success is truly an inside job. That it is within the reach of almost everyone. — Alice Walker Nov. 5, 2008 in a letter to Barak Obama. You can use my Potent …
She says, “Here’s the best advice I know …”
Posted On May 6 2013My colleague, Dr. Alexandra Gayek, just wrote this review of Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life for her readers. I thought you might get value from it. Enjoy. This one is absolutely free until midnight Pacific Time, May 8, 2013! -> http://www.on2url.com/lnk?FBsx4U4eDA4%3D If there’s something in your life that’s not working, here’s the best advice I know for making it different: Do MORE OF WHAT WORKS (and less of what doesn’t!) If you’re like me, you might, just sometimes, have a tendency to think of your problems in bigger-than-life terms. You know, …
Giveaway Happiness Book Bestseller Now
Posted On May 5 2013My giveaway book Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life ranks #2 for Stress Management and #3 for book on Happiness. Consider downloading it while it’s still free — Ends midnight PDT, May 8th . Go for it = > http://amzn.to/149OFkz Full details about the book in the most recent blog posts. Walk in beauty, William P.S. Let people know about the offer. P.P.S. Learn what people are saying – Read the reviews.
Do More of What Works: New Book Hot Off the Press
Posted On Apr 4 2013I will be giving away my latest book, Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life starting at 12:01 AM PDT on a Saturday May 4th 2013 and ending at midnight PDT May 8th 2013. One client said reading the book felt like our sessions. That’s the point. I need some help before May 4th. Would you consider getting the book at its bottom $0.99 price, reading it, and reviewing it in the next couple of weeks. I want a bunch of 4 & 5 star reviews before the free release. At 40 pages …
Buddha’s Brain
Posted On May 23 2012Want to have Buddha mind? Buddha mind is quiet and still, at one with all. Say, “Yes, William.” You can think of your right brain as the Buddha brain. Why? Because the ceaseless mind chatter doesn’t happen in the right brain. Chatter only occurs in your left brain. When you move from the linear thinking left brain to the holistic right brain, you are in Buddha mode. (See end of article for more neurology.) I got The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing On Location Around The World by Gabriel Campanario because I wanted to look at the pictures. I have …
Sacred Oatmeal???
Posted On May 13 2011In the first of our four Living with Magicality conversations Krysta Gibson talks about a surprisingly, cool transformational tool – eating oatmeal. (http://goo.gl/uLpMI) “How’s that?” you ask? It is cool, and I use it too. It reminds me of the silly joke – Buddha goes up to the hot dog vendor and says, “Make me one with everything.” Ho HoHo. As you are eating your oatmeal or your food of choice, consider … Where did it come from? How many people were involved to bring you your breakfast? Maybe a spouse. Certainly, farmers. And truckers. And the guys that built …
Would You Like to Live a Magical and Practical Life?
Posted On May 6 2011How Would You Like to Live a Magical – and Practical – Life? Obviously, you’d love it. But do you know how? In four wonderfully revealing conversations, Krysta Gibson and I tell you how you can live a magical life while fulfilling all your practical needs in the real world. We call it Living with Magicality! Click to Continue => http://goo.gl/uLpMI Krysta Gibson and I have been colleagues for over 20 years and we have both actively been exploring how to live magical lives. And we have been coaching others for decades. We decided to record four conversations. They were …