Jun 1, 2009
Success I recently read Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Outliers, the Story of Success. In it, he wonders why people are successful. It was an altogether interesting book, but the part I want to tell you about is the Beatles. Why were they so successful, when there...
Jul 1, 2009
To make a really long story short, immediately after we pulled our trailer from Louisville to Minnesota at the behest of Deb’s boss, he sent Deb back to Louisville to work. I stayed with the trailer in Minnesota. I spent two weeks on the Iron Range of northern...
Jul 13, 2009
#1 July 13, 2009 The first Tenacity Notes, excerpted from The Breath and Water Club Newsletter #60. I became curious about how we come to be embodied. How do we move from non-physical to physical? I have an image of that, but the image requires an assumption —...
Jul 21, 2009
#2 July 21, 2009 I like the idea that expansion is our natural state. Flow happens. We just have to recognize the ways we block it. There is a certain feeling in your body when you are resisting your expansion, a certain vibration, a certain tone, maybe even a...
Jul 28, 2009
#3 July 28, 2009 I heard an interview with Stanley Drucker, the recently retired principle clarinetist for the NY Philharmonic Orchestra. He performed with the orchestra for 60 years. He said that there are two essential elements to any performance — joy and...
Aug 1, 2009
What with the prevalence of the movie The Secret, the law of attraction books, and such like, I hear from many people that they are engaged in consciously creating what they want in their lives. Often though, I find that people are attempting to create the means,...
Aug 3, 2009
#4 August 3, 2009 Expansion is your natural state. Flow happens. Joy and passion are essential qualities. But what about when flow isn’t happening, when joy and passion have gone missing? What then? Then, look to ways you block the flow, ways you limit your...
Aug 11, 2009
#5 August 11, 2009 Expansion is your natural state. One way to allow your expansion is to notice the ways you block it. Catch yourself blocking your expansion, and release the block. Catch and release. Take our example from last week — expectation, particularly...
Aug 18, 2009
#6 August 18, 2009 Remember last week? Practice catch and release? There’s a third step: celebrate. Practice catch and release. Then celebrate. Every time you catch yourself blocking your expansion, don’t be mad at yourself, be glad. Exclaim “Good...
Sep 1, 2009
#7 September 1, 2009 How many of us give ourselves permission to become the one we suspect we are capable of being? In 1954, Alan Ginsberg was living a comfortable middle class life in San Francisco. He had a high paying job in market research and an upscale...