I've spent the past three decades working professionally as a celebrity Ghost-Writer and Corporate Copywriter. While performing those incredibly enjoyable creative duties for my clients, I've shosen to spend my "free time" seeking a sense of balanced well being and peace by studying and mastering the holistic "art and science" of various forms of "Holistic Healing," such as Therapeutic Massage Therapy, Deep Tissue Body Work, Meditation and Stress Reduction.
This particular field of study and application proved to be marvelously advantageous, not only in helping me to keep myself centered and fully human during my writing work, but, also leading to some deeply appreciated and highly valued, close, personal friendships with various L.A. / Hollywood celebrities and industry "Movers and Shakers" through my work with massage and meditation, as both a professional practitioner and teacher.
This has allowed me the most amazingly awesome experience of actually having the opportunity to work with many of my "writing clients" as a therapeutic massage therapist and meditation coach as well, giving me tremendously deep personal insights into what is actually going on deep in the minds, hearts and souls of these celebrities and "Industry Giants" from the worlds of Music, Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Sports, Publishing, etc.,
That in itself, is an invaluable gift to improve upon my understanding and skills, having a direct "insiders view" into the inner chambers of their personal lives as well as their businesses and careers. That makes me a far better "Ghost-Writer" and Copywriter, as well as a much more well rounded Massage and Meditation Practitioner and Teacher.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Who Is David?
David Stoddard is an well respected, highly admired and much sought out "Motivational Speaker / Writer who stands head and shoulders above others in his chosen field of endeavor, due to his rare and unique ability to get directly to the very center of the issue at hand, in a comfortable, down-home, friendly and peaceful manner.
Personally and professionally, I find him to simply be one of the most amazingly well balanced, multi-talented people I have ever had the pleasure to run into and thankfully befriend here on the www. (wild, wacky web.)
I suppose it's his uncanny skill of being able to thoroughly set his own personal predilections and passions aside in order to truly listen his clients, audience, students, associates and friend.
This puts him in a position to effectively reach people at the deepest possible levels of their inner being, making his deep insights and perceptive observations "legitimately" applicable, unlike so much of the mass marketed, "one size fits all" pop psychology that is being fraudulently disbursed around the web by a vast number of unethical and unscrupulous "Snake Oil" sales people looking to make a quick buck.
Personally and professionally, I find him to simply be one of the most amazingly well balanced, multi-talented people I have ever had the pleasure to run into and thankfully befriend here on the www. (wild, wacky web.)
I suppose it's his uncanny skill of being able to thoroughly set his own personal predilections and passions aside in order to truly listen his clients, audience, students, associates and friend.
This puts him in a position to effectively reach people at the deepest possible levels of their inner being, making his deep insights and perceptive observations "legitimately" applicable, unlike so much of the mass marketed, "one size fits all" pop psychology that is being fraudulently disbursed around the web by a vast number of unethical and unscrupulous "Snake Oil" sales people looking to make a quick buck.
What Folks Are Saying
Some nice things said from some great people.
"I have known David for several years. We bounce ideas off each other and he is always trying to encourage me to take that one extra step... to narrow the field and concentrate on what is important. As you read his articles and books, you'll see how he focuses in on some small characteristic of life and puts his unique spin on it."
Terry Riffey
triffey.com
"I just wanted to let you know I downloaded your ebook, "In search of Ourselves," and wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed it! What I particularly like is your writing style. Your words carry a sense of sincerity that I haven't found in other ebooks. Thank YOU!"
Lisa Graham
Houston Shopper's Guide
"Larry is extremely creative and effective, especially when it comes to telling a story that touches a chord and reaches deeply into the hearts and minds of your niche targeted audience.From planting the original seed of an idea to harvesting the fruit of his efforts, commitment to perfection and client satisfaction is the name of the game with Larry L. Nichols."
Shawn Willms
Sirius Satellite Radio / Absolute Entertainment
"Larry is one of the most insightful, creative and uplifting guys I know. I value the fact that he is open and expressive enough to share himself, as well as his thoughts, knowledge and expertise with me and so many others. He doesn't just write messages, he writes adventures! He continues to amaze me with the power of his words and his innate ability to comfortably and conversationally draw people in to what he is saying. That in itself is just awesome!"
James Mann
iNET Strategies Inc.
"Larry is much like the proverbial "fly on the wall" of each and every subculture. He doesn't just write on a subject; He writes "from" it. The subject matter could be something as diverse as the evolution of western music in a post-modern era, the stress reducing effects of Swedish Massage combined with regular chiropractic adjustments, to the how to gain the most profitable tax advantages while in the process of rolling over a 401k. Larry's simply a GREAT WRITER, what more can I say?"
Adam Montiel
"Adam On The Air"
"I have known David for several years. We bounce ideas off each other and he is always trying to encourage me to take that one extra step... to narrow the field and concentrate on what is important. As you read his articles and books, you'll see how he focuses in on some small characteristic of life and puts his unique spin on it."
Terry Riffey
triffey.com
"I just wanted to let you know I downloaded your ebook, "In search of Ourselves," and wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed it! What I particularly like is your writing style. Your words carry a sense of sincerity that I haven't found in other ebooks. Thank YOU!"
Lisa Graham
Houston Shopper's Guide
"Larry is extremely creative and effective, especially when it comes to telling a story that touches a chord and reaches deeply into the hearts and minds of your niche targeted audience.From planting the original seed of an idea to harvesting the fruit of his efforts, commitment to perfection and client satisfaction is the name of the game with Larry L. Nichols."
Shawn Willms
Sirius Satellite Radio / Absolute Entertainment
"Larry is one of the most insightful, creative and uplifting guys I know. I value the fact that he is open and expressive enough to share himself, as well as his thoughts, knowledge and expertise with me and so many others. He doesn't just write messages, he writes adventures! He continues to amaze me with the power of his words and his innate ability to comfortably and conversationally draw people in to what he is saying. That in itself is just awesome!"
James Mann
iNET Strategies Inc.
"Larry is much like the proverbial "fly on the wall" of each and every subculture. He doesn't just write on a subject; He writes "from" it. The subject matter could be something as diverse as the evolution of western music in a post-modern era, the stress reducing effects of Swedish Massage combined with regular chiropractic adjustments, to the how to gain the most profitable tax advantages while in the process of rolling over a 401k. Larry's simply a GREAT WRITER, what more can I say?"
Adam Montiel
"Adam On The Air"
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Pushing From A Standstill
How often do you start something, work on it for a little bit, ACCIDENTALLY let life cut in, plan to getting back to what you were working on, then find yourself 3-4 months later back where you took that pause?
Sometimes life just throws you a few unexpected curves that might begin to frustrate you momentarily, al least, until you really stop to assess the reality of the situation and realize that often, when one sets off on a new and interesting adventure, while all of the needed energy, enthusiasm and excitement can be there and turned all the way up to 10 (or 11 if you are a member or fan of the Rock Band "Spinal Tap") but sometimes the specific details of the itinerary or the particular, precision planning of your personal path is perhaps only partially, even if prety-much primarily mapped out. Still there may be some roadblocks, dead-ends and gaping gaps that would have led to absolute disater if not discovered until the exact moment you actually arrive at, or even worse yet, "IN" these quicksands and quagmires.
So, the important lesson for today is not to let yourself get down or depleted if you find your initial progress going a little bit slower than originally hoped for, back when you first decided upon planning this new, important project that you expect willeventually become a major part of your time, energy, effort and creativity, or as we like to say around these parts, your Biz, E, Life and Some Misc. Extras, ... "gnome sane?"
So, while we won’t say that’s where we have been recently, we do openly admit that to those many clients, friends, associates, readers and fans who have been rooting us on in this progresive process, I suppose it could very well look like that. But be that as it may, things are moving along. Slowly, perhaps, but moving along none the less. Larry and I are both working on our respective individual activities and continue to gain focus on Biz-e-Life and the possible lack of sleep we may get by taking this on in the manner that we plan to.
So while there are still many things we still need to work through, work on and put together, it's all good! Some of it is serious, professionally proven success strategies, some just some friendly words of helpful advice. Some of it will be quite nice, contemplative, memory inducing and highly sentimental stirrings of the heart and soul, while some of it will be hard and unyielding facts, storied experiences and step-by simple-step eplanations, examples and directions that will be simultaneously insightful, informative, instructive and inspiring.
Yes, a tiny bit may be a little bit of a "Pain in the … (well, I suppose its there in everything that is worth doing)." But in the end, it’s going to be something well worth the time, energy, focus, improvement and self-motivation to move from where you are "RIGHT NOW" to where you eventually want to be when all of your dreams, passions, goals, hopes and bjectives finally are effectively achieved and you are living the life that you always hoped and prayed for.
Now that Biz-E-Life is finally manifesting to the point of actually taking physical (OK, electronic) form, we think you will be well pleased with what we have to offer you on a regular, consistent basis, so now would be a really good time to officially click us on into your "FAVORITES" and check back with us ona regularly, pretty much daily basis to see what gems of truth we will be waxing prolific about day to day.
As for today, please be sure to have yourself a totally awesome one.
Your friends,
The Biz-E-life Guys,
David J. Stodard & Larry L. Nichols
Sometimes life just throws you a few unexpected curves that might begin to frustrate you momentarily, al least, until you really stop to assess the reality of the situation and realize that often, when one sets off on a new and interesting adventure, while all of the needed energy, enthusiasm and excitement can be there and turned all the way up to 10 (or 11 if you are a member or fan of the Rock Band "Spinal Tap") but sometimes the specific details of the itinerary or the particular, precision planning of your personal path is perhaps only partially, even if prety-much primarily mapped out. Still there may be some roadblocks, dead-ends and gaping gaps that would have led to absolute disater if not discovered until the exact moment you actually arrive at, or even worse yet, "IN" these quicksands and quagmires.
So, the important lesson for today is not to let yourself get down or depleted if you find your initial progress going a little bit slower than originally hoped for, back when you first decided upon planning this new, important project that you expect willeventually become a major part of your time, energy, effort and creativity, or as we like to say around these parts, your Biz, E, Life and Some Misc. Extras, ... "gnome sane?"
So, while we won’t say that’s where we have been recently, we do openly admit that to those many clients, friends, associates, readers and fans who have been rooting us on in this progresive process, I suppose it could very well look like that. But be that as it may, things are moving along. Slowly, perhaps, but moving along none the less. Larry and I are both working on our respective individual activities and continue to gain focus on Biz-e-Life and the possible lack of sleep we may get by taking this on in the manner that we plan to.
So while there are still many things we still need to work through, work on and put together, it's all good! Some of it is serious, professionally proven success strategies, some just some friendly words of helpful advice. Some of it will be quite nice, contemplative, memory inducing and highly sentimental stirrings of the heart and soul, while some of it will be hard and unyielding facts, storied experiences and step-by simple-step eplanations, examples and directions that will be simultaneously insightful, informative, instructive and inspiring.
Yes, a tiny bit may be a little bit of a "Pain in the … (well, I suppose its there in everything that is worth doing)." But in the end, it’s going to be something well worth the time, energy, focus, improvement and self-motivation to move from where you are "RIGHT NOW" to where you eventually want to be when all of your dreams, passions, goals, hopes and bjectives finally are effectively achieved and you are living the life that you always hoped and prayed for.
Now that Biz-E-Life is finally manifesting to the point of actually taking physical (OK, electronic) form, we think you will be well pleased with what we have to offer you on a regular, consistent basis, so now would be a really good time to officially click us on into your "FAVORITES" and check back with us ona regularly, pretty much daily basis to see what gems of truth we will be waxing prolific about day to day.
As for today, please be sure to have yourself a totally awesome one.
Your friends,
The Biz-E-life Guys,
David J. Stodard & Larry L. Nichols
Monday, May 26, 2008
A Cookie For Your Actions
Many would call sitting in a room at a table with 60 others in the area, watching the clock for your turn to talk, waiting for the unknown to arrive and pat you on the back and give you a cookie, a waste of a day.
Actually, I decided to get up and get my own cookie from one of the vendors. After 6 hours, I learned it wasn’t just going to hop off the plate and come to me by itself.
It was the St. Louis Chapter WAHMfest conference. It’s designed for Work-At-Home Moms (and dads) and those who may be interested in working from home. (The web site address is at the end of this article).
My main reason for being there was to give a presentation on the personal side of working from home. That tied in well with the conference theme, as well as with the motivational end of what I hoped to continue to do professionally.
I’m glad my friend Terry agreed to take part in the conference with me. We believed that if nothing else, it would be a bit of exposure for the two of us. And the presentations we were giving would certainly mean something to those in attendance. At least that was our main thought at breakfast.
To make a long story short, 270 people attended the event. There were about 50 vendors set up in the main room. We had maybe 20 people visit our table, 10 who filled out entries for the drawings we had, and a grand total of three attended our presentations throughout the entire day.
Needless to say, that part was pretty depressing. But I should mention that my presentations had twice as many attendees as any of the other presentations. I had 2 people come to see me. (Oooooh!)
On the other hand, I think of it this way. Just maybe my advice or suggestions during the presentation got the two of them started in a whole new direction. Maybe they discovered new working opportunities they might not have previously thought of. Maybe one is writing an article about the conference right now and sending it out to a newspaper.
The person in Terry’s audience bought one of his e-book CDs. It turned out to be the only sale Terry made that day. But it meant something to him. That one sale has given him the push to keep going, to keep striving, and has kept him believing in what the two of us talked about earlier in the year: that this is the year we get things going.
You see, for years the two of us had been doing a lot of talking and thinking of doing different things. Eventually we got deeper into it. We began to actually plan things. We planned to think about thinking about what we could do or become. Still, we never quite got to the point of getting off the ground.
When we met for breakfast in January, we talked about a lot of things. We made the decision that this was going to be the year. We knew we could not just keep waiting for the perfect moment, or for the planets to align, or for that winning $220 million lottery ticket to be drawn.
Little did we know, that one decision, along with a lot of little things we had done, would bring us to playing a central role in a conference.
As mentioned, things did not work out as well as we had hoped. But in the end, we got out there and did something different. So what if it seemed “out of character” for either of us? We made the commitment not only with the conference organizer, but with each other and ourselves. We learned a lot of different things, not only about the conference or what it takes to get prepared for one, but also about ourselves.
We learned that you have to take chances at times. We learned that just because things don’t work out as you may have hoped, it isn’t fatal. We learned that saying things like “But there is so much to do, why even bother,” is just an excuse. We learned when you make the effort, no matter how small, great things can begin to happen. And we learned that we can do more than we have ever thought in the past.
And for that, I think we deserve a cookie.
© 2002-2007 David Stoddard
Actually, I decided to get up and get my own cookie from one of the vendors. After 6 hours, I learned it wasn’t just going to hop off the plate and come to me by itself.
It was the St. Louis Chapter WAHMfest conference. It’s designed for Work-At-Home Moms (and dads) and those who may be interested in working from home. (The web site address is at the end of this article).
My main reason for being there was to give a presentation on the personal side of working from home. That tied in well with the conference theme, as well as with the motivational end of what I hoped to continue to do professionally.
I’m glad my friend Terry agreed to take part in the conference with me. We believed that if nothing else, it would be a bit of exposure for the two of us. And the presentations we were giving would certainly mean something to those in attendance. At least that was our main thought at breakfast.
To make a long story short, 270 people attended the event. There were about 50 vendors set up in the main room. We had maybe 20 people visit our table, 10 who filled out entries for the drawings we had, and a grand total of three attended our presentations throughout the entire day.
Needless to say, that part was pretty depressing. But I should mention that my presentations had twice as many attendees as any of the other presentations. I had 2 people come to see me. (Oooooh!)
On the other hand, I think of it this way. Just maybe my advice or suggestions during the presentation got the two of them started in a whole new direction. Maybe they discovered new working opportunities they might not have previously thought of. Maybe one is writing an article about the conference right now and sending it out to a newspaper.
The person in Terry’s audience bought one of his e-book CDs. It turned out to be the only sale Terry made that day. But it meant something to him. That one sale has given him the push to keep going, to keep striving, and has kept him believing in what the two of us talked about earlier in the year: that this is the year we get things going.
You see, for years the two of us had been doing a lot of talking and thinking of doing different things. Eventually we got deeper into it. We began to actually plan things. We planned to think about thinking about what we could do or become. Still, we never quite got to the point of getting off the ground.
When we met for breakfast in January, we talked about a lot of things. We made the decision that this was going to be the year. We knew we could not just keep waiting for the perfect moment, or for the planets to align, or for that winning $220 million lottery ticket to be drawn.
Little did we know, that one decision, along with a lot of little things we had done, would bring us to playing a central role in a conference.
As mentioned, things did not work out as well as we had hoped. But in the end, we got out there and did something different. So what if it seemed “out of character” for either of us? We made the commitment not only with the conference organizer, but with each other and ourselves. We learned a lot of different things, not only about the conference or what it takes to get prepared for one, but also about ourselves.
We learned that you have to take chances at times. We learned that just because things don’t work out as you may have hoped, it isn’t fatal. We learned that saying things like “But there is so much to do, why even bother,” is just an excuse. We learned when you make the effort, no matter how small, great things can begin to happen. And we learned that we can do more than we have ever thought in the past.
And for that, I think we deserve a cookie.
© 2002-2007 David Stoddard
Don’t Let Those New Years Blahs, Blues & Bah Humbugs Get You Down!
Don't Let Those New Years Blahs, Blues & Bah Humbugs Get You Down!
By Larry L. Nichols
One of the biggest and most time wasting and energy draining mistake that approximately 90% of us human souls make each year right about this time, is to get all ticked off, frustrated and annoyed with ourselves for already dropping the ball on that big “News Years Resolution” that was going to completely turn our life around into something utterly, magically wonderful in one sudden fell swoop.
Please do yourself and the rest of us a really huge favor and simply decide NOT to go around beating yourself up over something so innately and intrinsically common as merely showing clear and definitive signs that you are, in fact, HUMAN!
Remember, “Rome wasn’t built in a day” and Rome was just a bunch of inanimate material without any mind, heart, subconscious conscience or soul full of a life long collection of various disorganized and often conflicting emotions, fears, passions, hopes, concerns, insecurities, dreams, feelings and worries.
If rock and glass can’t be tossed together in a single day, why would you logically expect it to be plausible, even possible for something as complex and amazingly elaborate and symbiotically involved as a human being to change completely in one single day?
By the way, who decided that “New Years Day” is to be officially accepted by all as the official magical, mystical moment that all significant, personal change can and should be made?
Was there an election I never heard bout, or an official proclamation from God on high that I didn’t get the memo on? No, it’s just some arbitrary day that someone came up with out of the ether of pure imagination, and “BOOM” everyone just jumped on board like a bunch of sheep heading to slaughter.
First off, anyone who knows anything at all about psychology 101 knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that real, significant change takes more than a single day to set in process.
It is a matter of consistency over time that helps us to build new improved thought patterns and life-style habits. Some Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Doctors, Universities and Professors claim that it takes precisely 30 days to make any significant change in one’s life. Others say only 21, if one is really truly sincerely serious about making the change.
Either way, that’s a heck of a lot longer than the single 24 hour period supplied by the arrival of New Years Day. So give yourself a break and understand that 99.9% of all attempted change takes consistency of dedicated effort over a period of time, usually from 3 to 4 weeks.
So don’t get angry or frustrated with yourself because you promised you would stop smoking, lose weight, quit cussing, find true love or build a bigger more successful business stating this New Years, and you haven’t made your dream a reality yet.
Listen, getting angry, mad and upset about it only hinders your efforts further, making you more stressed and anxious and far less effective and resilient in your efforts, so getting ticked off is actually one of the powerful, self destructive things you are doing to set yourself up for utter failure.
Instead, it’s time to loosen up and lighten up. Then you can finally be fully free to really listen up. Change takes time, it takes effort, it takes dedication and most important, it takes consistency, as you develop a NEW better, healthier more positive and self satisfying HABIT or life-style.
Please don’t take it out on the one person who really truly wants what you want, longs for what makes you sincerely happy and honestly loves you and wishes you only the very best in happiness and success, yourself!
Copyright © 2008
"On Words And Up Words"
Larry L. Nichols
http://www.wordandwebwiz.com/
http://www.biz-e-life.com/
http://www.onwordsandupwwords.blogspot.com/
http://www.writeforme.com/
Words are my paints -Minds are my canvases.
All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
PUBLISHING GUIDELINES:This article may be reprinted, without modification, provided that the copyright notice remains completely intact. Email notification of your intent to publish would be sincerely appreciated.
By Larry L. Nichols
One of the biggest and most time wasting and energy draining mistake that approximately 90% of us human souls make each year right about this time, is to get all ticked off, frustrated and annoyed with ourselves for already dropping the ball on that big “News Years Resolution” that was going to completely turn our life around into something utterly, magically wonderful in one sudden fell swoop.
Please do yourself and the rest of us a really huge favor and simply decide NOT to go around beating yourself up over something so innately and intrinsically common as merely showing clear and definitive signs that you are, in fact, HUMAN!
Remember, “Rome wasn’t built in a day” and Rome was just a bunch of inanimate material without any mind, heart, subconscious conscience or soul full of a life long collection of various disorganized and often conflicting emotions, fears, passions, hopes, concerns, insecurities, dreams, feelings and worries.
If rock and glass can’t be tossed together in a single day, why would you logically expect it to be plausible, even possible for something as complex and amazingly elaborate and symbiotically involved as a human being to change completely in one single day?
By the way, who decided that “New Years Day” is to be officially accepted by all as the official magical, mystical moment that all significant, personal change can and should be made?
Was there an election I never heard bout, or an official proclamation from God on high that I didn’t get the memo on? No, it’s just some arbitrary day that someone came up with out of the ether of pure imagination, and “BOOM” everyone just jumped on board like a bunch of sheep heading to slaughter.
First off, anyone who knows anything at all about psychology 101 knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that real, significant change takes more than a single day to set in process.
It is a matter of consistency over time that helps us to build new improved thought patterns and life-style habits. Some Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Doctors, Universities and Professors claim that it takes precisely 30 days to make any significant change in one’s life. Others say only 21, if one is really truly sincerely serious about making the change.
Either way, that’s a heck of a lot longer than the single 24 hour period supplied by the arrival of New Years Day. So give yourself a break and understand that 99.9% of all attempted change takes consistency of dedicated effort over a period of time, usually from 3 to 4 weeks.
So don’t get angry or frustrated with yourself because you promised you would stop smoking, lose weight, quit cussing, find true love or build a bigger more successful business stating this New Years, and you haven’t made your dream a reality yet.
Listen, getting angry, mad and upset about it only hinders your efforts further, making you more stressed and anxious and far less effective and resilient in your efforts, so getting ticked off is actually one of the powerful, self destructive things you are doing to set yourself up for utter failure.
Instead, it’s time to loosen up and lighten up. Then you can finally be fully free to really listen up. Change takes time, it takes effort, it takes dedication and most important, it takes consistency, as you develop a NEW better, healthier more positive and self satisfying HABIT or life-style.
Please don’t take it out on the one person who really truly wants what you want, longs for what makes you sincerely happy and honestly loves you and wishes you only the very best in happiness and success, yourself!
Copyright © 2008
"On Words And Up Words"
Larry L. Nichols
http://www.wordandwebwiz.com/
http://www.biz-e-life.com/
http://www.onwordsandupwwords.blogspot.com/
http://www.writeforme.com/
Words are my paints -Minds are my canvases.
All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
PUBLISHING GUIDELINES:This article may be reprinted, without modification, provided that the copyright notice remains completely intact. Email notification of your intent to publish would be sincerely appreciated.
Speaking Of Frustration, Fear & Other Frivolously Flighty Feelings!
Speaking Of Frustration, Fear & Other Frivolously Flighty Feelings!
By Larry L. Nichols
Speaking of frustration, fear and other frivolously flighty feelings, I thinks it’s only fair and fitting to finally face the facts and force these farcically false and formidably fatal, fanatical fancies from our frantically forlorn foreheads and fiercely fling them into the fabulous fierce fires of freedom forever!
If that last sentence makes you want to explete a few “F” words of your own, feel free to join right in.
I simply don’t understand how so many of these so called renowned and world famous “Super Gurus” of Life and Business can continue to get away with so of these utterly inhuman and ridiculously robotic, mechanical mantras and mystical mush-headed mottos such as: “To be truly successful, you must always remain thoroughly positive, unabashedly strong, constantly upbeat unalterably optimistic!
What a total bunch of cr*p these phony puppets are proudly proclaiming through their problematically profound pie holes!
Question: Can any human being do so?
I’m a pretty well read guy. If you look throughout all of the much revered religious books studied throughout the ages and from around the entire globe, you will find a vast collection of ancient stories of even the very deities that control the universe, angrily shaking the Earth with earthquakes, throwing lightning bolts, and whipping up raging sea storms to drown stubborn sailors who chide and jeer at the gods they won’t fear.
Hey even in the Bible, God admits he has some regrets about how things have turned out with Mankind and Jesus wept. But somehow we mere mortals are somehow supposed to be able to always keep it together and be thoroughly smiling and happily upbeat all of the time, or we are instantly doomed to utter and complete failure. WOW, what a total and complete downer that would be if it were even partially true!
The truth is, it’s not even about what we as human beings allow ourselves to feel. Not allowing yourself to feel creates horrible blockages of denial which eat away at the very fabric of your consciousness like a self created, internal cancer. No, we are supposed to face and deal with our feelings, allow them to teach us whatever we need to learn from them and then let them go.
Instead, it’s really what we actually choose to do about those feelings that counts and matters most! The fact is, we humans can never hope to learn to completely control what all we think and feel.
It’s simply genetically not in our make up, we are not mere programmable computers, but are, in fact, all extremely complex and intricately weaved webs of cleverly creative and complicated character qualities and inner drives and passions that make us enigmas to even our selves.
The lesson to learn is NOT that we are to avoid or deny or thoughts, fears, concerns, worries and nightmares, but rather we are to face them and not allow them to knock us off track or destroy us.
Don’t hide from you your fear, if you do you will become a frightened and paranoid psychotic. Don’t deny your anger; if you do you will become a stone cold bully. Don’t run from your dreams or ignore your worries and concerns, they may be your inner self trying to send you a very vital and valuable message.
Simply face your fears and feelings and learn what you can from them as you meanwhile dedicate yourself more committedly to continue to move forward on your chosen path and beyond this precise point in the path where the fear or feeling’s message is pertinent to your process and progress.
Only automatons don’t have moments of normal human frustration, disappointment, worry or even fright. Automatons can’t help you to become a better person, because they are NOT people themselves.
Don’t fall for their insanely inane and idiotic antidotes to human feeling. Success in both business and life is all about following and pursuing your personal passions. How can you pursue passion if you can’t feel your feelings?
Isn’t time for us all to get passionate once again about those very things we once were so very passionate about that they served to make us who we are, and drive us to where we want to go and be in life? By Job, I think we’ve got it!
Copyright © 2008
"On Words And Up Words"
Larry L. Nichols
http://www.wordandwebwiz.com/
http://www.biz-e-life.com/
http://www.onwordsandupwords.blogspot.com/
http://www.writeforme.com/
Words are my paints -Minds are my canvases.
All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
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By Larry L. Nichols
Speaking of frustration, fear and other frivolously flighty feelings, I thinks it’s only fair and fitting to finally face the facts and force these farcically false and formidably fatal, fanatical fancies from our frantically forlorn foreheads and fiercely fling them into the fabulous fierce fires of freedom forever!
If that last sentence makes you want to explete a few “F” words of your own, feel free to join right in.
I simply don’t understand how so many of these so called renowned and world famous “Super Gurus” of Life and Business can continue to get away with so of these utterly inhuman and ridiculously robotic, mechanical mantras and mystical mush-headed mottos such as: “To be truly successful, you must always remain thoroughly positive, unabashedly strong, constantly upbeat unalterably optimistic!
What a total bunch of cr*p these phony puppets are proudly proclaiming through their problematically profound pie holes!
Question: Can any human being do so?
I’m a pretty well read guy. If you look throughout all of the much revered religious books studied throughout the ages and from around the entire globe, you will find a vast collection of ancient stories of even the very deities that control the universe, angrily shaking the Earth with earthquakes, throwing lightning bolts, and whipping up raging sea storms to drown stubborn sailors who chide and jeer at the gods they won’t fear.
Hey even in the Bible, God admits he has some regrets about how things have turned out with Mankind and Jesus wept. But somehow we mere mortals are somehow supposed to be able to always keep it together and be thoroughly smiling and happily upbeat all of the time, or we are instantly doomed to utter and complete failure. WOW, what a total and complete downer that would be if it were even partially true!
The truth is, it’s not even about what we as human beings allow ourselves to feel. Not allowing yourself to feel creates horrible blockages of denial which eat away at the very fabric of your consciousness like a self created, internal cancer. No, we are supposed to face and deal with our feelings, allow them to teach us whatever we need to learn from them and then let them go.
Instead, it’s really what we actually choose to do about those feelings that counts and matters most! The fact is, we humans can never hope to learn to completely control what all we think and feel.
It’s simply genetically not in our make up, we are not mere programmable computers, but are, in fact, all extremely complex and intricately weaved webs of cleverly creative and complicated character qualities and inner drives and passions that make us enigmas to even our selves.
The lesson to learn is NOT that we are to avoid or deny or thoughts, fears, concerns, worries and nightmares, but rather we are to face them and not allow them to knock us off track or destroy us.
Don’t hide from you your fear, if you do you will become a frightened and paranoid psychotic. Don’t deny your anger; if you do you will become a stone cold bully. Don’t run from your dreams or ignore your worries and concerns, they may be your inner self trying to send you a very vital and valuable message.
Simply face your fears and feelings and learn what you can from them as you meanwhile dedicate yourself more committedly to continue to move forward on your chosen path and beyond this precise point in the path where the fear or feeling’s message is pertinent to your process and progress.
Only automatons don’t have moments of normal human frustration, disappointment, worry or even fright. Automatons can’t help you to become a better person, because they are NOT people themselves.
Don’t fall for their insanely inane and idiotic antidotes to human feeling. Success in both business and life is all about following and pursuing your personal passions. How can you pursue passion if you can’t feel your feelings?
Isn’t time for us all to get passionate once again about those very things we once were so very passionate about that they served to make us who we are, and drive us to where we want to go and be in life? By Job, I think we’ve got it!
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Monday's Are What We Make Em'
- Another day of the week.
- Another Monday
- Another new beginning
- Another chance for a change
- Another best day of our lives
- Another shot at getting more accomplished
- Another day to make the most of
- Another moring
- Another afternoon
- Another evening
- Another opportunity to do great things
- Another day to smile
- Another day to look forward to
- Another day like no other.
Friday, May 23, 2008
What Was I Thinking About?
Why is it that I was compelled to “pretty up” the four blogs I have (even though I haven’t really posted to them in quite some time)? What made me make new banners for a couple of them, edit the sidebars on all of them, change a few link feeds that were not working in the first place, and then fight the urge of creating yet two other blogs just for the fun of it?
I like to think of it all as a simple work in progress. When I started this round of changing things around, all I was going to do was change the banner titles on 2 of the blogs which needed them.
And as is often the case, that one fairly simple activity lead to something else which lead to even more something else(es) which - you guessed it - lead to even more stuff. And I’m not even done yet since so many other ideas for change come to mind.
All of this coming on the day before I read Scott Ginsberg’s blog post today about things he wishes someone would have told him when he started his business. That is “Activity isn’t progress.” Read his post here
So naturally I have thought about that AFTER I have done all of this “necessary pretty work” on the blogs without really posting anything new. But I shall now begin to work on the progress part of the activities instead of just doing stuff to be doing stuff.
Now Here’s A Few Questions For You…
- What are you doing that is allowing you to progress toward what it is you want?
- Is what you are doing necessary or just filling time?
- What should you be spending your time on?
- When will you see the benefits?
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Articles Of Wit, Wisdom, Wordage & Wonder
Below are several articles which have been of help for readers in our lives for what seems like years. Actually, some of them have been around for a little while indeed. And though there may be a bit of dust on these articles, if this is your first time reading them, then they are new to you. Enjoy.
David and Larry
David and Larry
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