I was going into the video studio to do a series of demos for our anti bullying program, Breaking Out of the World Game. And I was in a panic. I felt like a total failure. I didn’t know my script (which I have taught in nearly 500 hundred schools).

Like the Magic Eight Ball where words keep surfacing out of the black ink, my feelings and thoughts exploded out of the dark onto my mental screen. My world spun out of control. ”Not good enough!” “I can’t do it!” “I feel lost.” ”Where do I start?”

Here I was touting mind management and I couldn’t even manage one thought. What happened!? I hit the wall and I found myself back in my own ground zero.

The only viable thought in the whole thing was really, “Where do I start?” But it took me a while to get there.

When I finally did get there, I took a proactive stance. I went back to the creativity template I had burned into my mental hard drive 30 years ago.

1. Preparation – Engage in the process. Be willing to concentrate fully on the subject. Struggle with it. Visualize it. This feeds everything into the sub-conscious mind. (In my case I had to review the material and think deeply about how to do the video without an audience.)
2. Incubation –  Let it all go. Relax. Change the subject. Play and sleep usually work for me. (In this case, I went to bed. I was going into production the next day.)
3. Breakthrough – This usually comes as an ‘AHA’ experience, like Archimedes ‘Eureka’! This breakthrough cannot be forced and arrives in its own time.

In my case, I got up on the day of the shoot and I was in ‘the zone’. I had an extremely successful day in the video studio.

But I could have done it without all of the panic and the negative self-talk. I could have had more wisdom about it and caught it by the tail before it caught me.

I was reminded of Ashley in The Operator’s Manual for Planet Earth. I had fallen asleep and lost the plot again!

I’ve recommitted to my initial goal. Staying awake on Planet Earth is a challenge, especially when the old deep habits kick in!

I’d love to hear you experiences…. I’m going to keep tracking mine and sharing the experience!Share and Enjoy:

These are little petty indignations, irritations, worry, fear, criticisms and even judgments that have not been fully uprooted. True, I stop them quite quickly when they arise. But I find that their roots are hidden from plain view yet deeply entrenched in my mental soil. They are like little insidious habits of thought that recycle periodically. They seem to catch me unaware from behind and then I become the effect of the emotion it creates.

I have chosen this year to be a year of conscious intention and choice. I am choosing to weed the garden of my mind again! This time my intention is to eradicate the roots of any negative thinking.

I know it’s a mighty intention and will require a a huge leap in self-awareness. I will need to be a sentinel – standing guard at the gate of my own consciousness, observing my every thought as I am thinking it.

In my book, The Operator’s Manual for Planet Earth -An Adventure for the Soul- the biggest challenge the young protagonists face is how to stay conscious on Earth. They would vow to remain aware and conscious yet every time they entered Earth’s Atmosphere in a physical body their light would dim. They would forget to remember their vow.

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“May there be peace in your heart and with your family. I pray that this year brings a transformation and an awakening of love on our planet so that peace shall spread on Earth and good will be in the hearts of all mankind for this year and the years to come.”

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It was pretty amazing. The room was in an active state and within one minute of ‘breath in – be still, breath out – let go’ the entire energetic field shifted. The feeling was palpable from high energy moving in all directions to a sense of stillness, presence and focus.

I have  since received a tremendous amount of feedback from these and others who are using the One Minute Meditation. Here’s what one person communicated…

“When I feel stressed or I’m beginning to feel edgy, I turn my attention inward for a moment, take a deep breath, and say the words you taught us – ‘be still, let go’. It’s amazing how quickly I can still my mind, reconnect with myself and shift into present time. Thanks for that. I would recommend it to everyone in these stressful times!”

So with all of this feedback and after much consideration, I have decided to share a few more of these short one or two minute meditations. These are One Minute Meditations that I use and they come from my private tool chest. Each fulfills a different purpose, but they will all strengthen your mental focus, enhance the energy of the heart and amp up the power of your intention.

Just as we are learning to do core training for the body, these short meditations are like core training for the heart and soul. Each meditation will help you shift your awareness, energize your presence in the moment and change all the moments that follow. 

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I have no speech, no written words. I haven’t got the ability to translate my feelings into words. I just personally want to thank the man who changed my life in a very personal and profound way.

In 1984, the year of the first Apple computer, my dad sent me a first generation Mac. I was living and working In Reno, Nevada. When this large package arrived on my door step, I didn’t know what it was or what to do with it.

In fact, I opened it and left it standing in the middle of my living room floor for almost two weeks. I remember pacing, looking down at it sitting there in it’s plastic wrapping on the floor, wondering what I would ever do with such a thing.

Periodically, dad would call and ask me how I liked the gift he sent. “It’s a computer,” he said. “plug it in. Use it. You’ll love it.”

I finally took it from its wrapping one day and started to touch it, slowly at first, afraid that it would break. But soon, I forgot the fear and it magnetized me with its wonder.

I have written 4 books on the Mac since that time, an entire K-12 curriculum, stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul, and coauthored many books with such men as Steven Covey and Jack Canfield. Steve Jobs released the creativity in so many of us around the globe.

All I can say is thank you, Steven Jobs. Every Job you came to do has been done. You have transformed the lives of all of us and the world as a whole!Share and Enjoy:

The key to your success lies within you. All you have to do is manage your mind (or your loose canon thoughts). Then train your brain. Finally, harvest the fruits of your creation. You are harvesting the fruits of your creation anyway. Your mind is the attractor factor. Your past repetitive thoughts have become the reality you’re living right now.

If you want to change your reality:

1. Wake up and stay awake!
2. Start to observe your recurrent thoughts and thought patterns.
3. If you find yourself circling back on some of the old negatives:
• Freeze frame
• Take a deep breath
• Change that thought
• Repeat the powerful positive mantra and energize with positive emotions of gratitude (as recommended in my last post).
4. Remember to remember to do this every time you catch yourself thinking a negative thought.

Your miraculous brain is under your command! The more you train your brain and manage your mind by focusing on your positive powerful mantra of choice, the more you accelerate the reformatting process. Your brain will begin to delete any old unused pathways and the new neural pathways that you embed will start to take over.

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Our brain is magnificent! In fact, neuro-scientists tell use that the human brain is the most powerful processor and solution generator on the planet.

We know that human intention can and does influence material and properties in a significant way. We are all equally powerful in our ability and our creative capacity to shape the world around us and to have a direct impact on our planet. We affect the world around us whether we are consciously intending to or not.

When we we utilize our heart and combine our thoughts with our feelings, scientists tell us that this energetic combination is more powerful than a radio transmission. With constant random thoughts and repetitive patterns of thoughts and feelings we are accidentally or unintentionally creating our reality all day long.

It is time to practice a higher heart wisdom and practice mind management.

This will allow us to direct our energies in a significant way so that we can consciously create a life of our choosing.

Remember to remember that you will rise to the level of the visions that you hold and the conversations you have with yourself. Consciously or unconsciously, your inner visions and your inner voice direct your reality. So lets be conscious!

1. Envision the life you would like to have.
2. Create a powerful positive present tense mantra that states that you already have it
3. Repeat the mantra every morning, every evening and whenever you think of it.
4. Energize it with gratitude that this new reality is happening now.
5. Continue to do this every day and your world will begin to shift from so-so or even good, to sublime

Here are two simple examples:

• I am so thankful and happy now that money is coming to me consistently and on an ever increasing basis from various sources.
• I am ever grateful for my personal presence and energy in working with my team as I inspire them to achieve our team goals.

So there it is! Keep your heartfelt emotions and thoughts positive. Create  a powerful positive mantra for your success in an area (one at a time). Repeat the mantra as often as possible. Act as if it already is what you want it to be. “So be it as I speak it,” is the thought that activates and attracts the energy of success!Share and Enjoy:

At first, the banter went back and forth “Where are you off to?” – a filming for the Heroes for Humanity Project.

“And you?” They were on their way up for one of their niece’s wedding. A bit more chatting and it turned out that I was sitting next to Al Wong, named by the New York Times, as the Happiest Man in America, and his wife Trudy.

We talked about love, joy, living in Hawaii, family and a lot more. We shared about heart happiness and how the happiness of our heart plays a central role in our overall happiness. We spoke of the power of a smile and the implicit joy that happens when we say “Aloha” and connect with other people.

Then Trudi shared how Al received the award. It turns out that over the last three years, Gallup has called 1,000 randomly selected American adults each day. The interviewers asked each person about their emotional state, work satisfaction, eating habits, illnesses, stress levels and other quality of life indicators.

Trudi shared that the call was amazing. As the interviewer was going through the list of questions with Al, she suddenly shouted to everyone in the phone room, “We’ve found him! We finally found him!”

“Meanwhile,” she said, “Al thought the whole thing was a joke. He couldn’t even believe that there was really such a search.”

It was truly a memorable flight of the mind and heart as well as getting my physical being to LA for the filming. And the insight gained from this unforgettable few hours? It’s good to reflect about our lives along some of the key indicators…

• How is your sense of emotional wellbeing? Are you happy during the day or do you have times of sadness?
• What is your stress level? Do you experience frustration, get annoyed or irritated? Or are you fairly consistently balanced and happy?
• Do you smile a lot every day? Do you connect with others, even strangers?
• How is your financial situation? Do you save regularly?
• Do you enjoy your work?
• Is your family situation happy? Are you divorced, single or married? And are you at peace with your situation?

Then set some goals for improvement in the areas where you fall short. And HAVE FUN with it! That’s one of the keys to happiness… enjoy your life or change it!

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