Category: Personal Transformation

This morning as I snuggled with my wife Rachelle and looked
over her shoulder at our beautiful nursing 7-month old with
her long lashes and dark, smiling eyes, Rachelle began telling
me all the things she loves about our life, and then she said
something that stopped me in my tracks, and I knew I had to
share with you…

“Sometimes for 5 minutes I forget the miracle…”

In the midst of life, a new home, 6 kids, and a 2-year-old who
used to drive her crazy, my wife is now starting her day
appreciating all the “miracles” in her life—-including our
2-year-old…

and the one grand miracle of life itself…

What a delightful way to start the day…and it certainly had
an impact on me and set the tone for her interactions with those
around her…including our 4-year-old who was the next person
to walk into the room this morning…(she’s now reading in bed
to 4 of our 6 kids who’ve “wandered” in…)

So here’s my word to you for the day:

Don’t forget the miracle…

Dr. Ben

Just discovered this on YouTube.  Though it was posted a couple years ago, the strategies Tony gives are timeless and immediately actionable.

Whenever a master in a given field takes what they normally do in 50 hours and condenses it into a 20 minute talk to fellow “idea-preneurs”, it’s extremely valuable to see what they choose to share and how they share it.

This particular video is packed with content–you may want to take a break after 3-5 minutes and immediately apply an idea.

In fact, I believe the questions you ask yourself in response to this video will have an exponential impact on the value you receive.

And here’s a quick tip and invitation:  whether you watch Tony in short segments, or watch the full 20 minutes in one sitting, before you get up, create an anchor for yourself by writing one idea or strategy that impacted you in the comments below.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Dr. Ben

What if the “reality” you see isn’t as “true” as you think it
is?

Perhaps it’s the reality of your health, or what doctors have
told you about your health, or what you’ve seen in the news
and in those around you…

Or perhaps it’s your finances, the economy, and again what you’re
“seeing” around you.

And then you bump into someone who has great health or great
finances or a great outlook on something that doesn’t look so
good to you, and you wonder, “what planet are they on?”

Well, today I have a suggestion, and a fun puzzle that will
anchor what I’m talking about.

The suggestion is that when you next meet someone or learn about
someone who has a “good” experience with something that you’d like
to have, too, but currently aren’t (e.g., a good experience of a
particular person, or of their own health, or of their finances
or business or of the economy…) how about releasing some of your
own tight hold on the “reality” you see, and being willing to
suspend your disbelief for a few moments—–long enough to consider
seeing things a different way, and even to adopt the belief, or
way of seeing things, that the person has who has the results or
experience you want…at least long enough to start to “see” and
experience things differently, too?

A little too abstract?

Think about this for a moment in terms of one or more areas of
your life that you’d like to be different.

How attached are you to your current way of seeing things?

Now click below to see an amazing “puzzle” that illustrates how
much our brain is conditioned to “see” in certain ways, based on
what we’re comparing to…or paying attention to…

(Personal confession:  in the puzzle you’re about to see, I
actually had to print out the chessboard and cut out the actual
squares and hold them together before I could “see” the “truth”!)

Here’s the puzzle (click here).

Let me know your own experience of “seeing” differently and what
helped you shift your perspective on something that was important
to you in the comments below.

To a prosperous and joyful 2009 for you,

Dr. Ben