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March 24, 2009

All or Nothing

Filed under: John Morgan's Blog — John Morgan @ 7:35 am

“In for a dime, in for a dollar” the old expression goes.

How much are you wagering?

Are you wagering all or nothing? I’m betting on nothing.

All is too risky. Nothing is the better bet.

Does this mean not to gamble? No, it means to play the odds.

The person who wants it all will be disappointed because, if and when they get it all, they will want more. It turns out to be more of the same.

There is only so much of all a person can take before they long for nothing.

If life is a chase, you will attempt to get it all. If life is moment to moment mindfulness, you find the mother lode of nothing.

Where does most of your frustration come from? If you examine it, it will be some thwarted attempt at getting it all. If it’s something out there that’s eluding you, it’s part of the “all” package. The thinking goes like this: “When I acquire that, I will be happy, satisfied, at peace.” That’s Fool’s Gold.

When your quest is for no-thing, you discover the source that is responsible for everything that shows up in the world of all.

The only question you have to ask yourself is, “Do I want a specific treasure or do I want the Genie?”

In other words, do you want all or nothing?

If you’re a younger reader, chances are you want it all. No amount of convincing from me or anyone else will shift your focus. It will shift on its own. Some will have to wait until they are dying for nothing to show up, but show up it will.

The chase is on, early on. We are so busy running after it all that we don’t see the point in stopping. Some carry that chase with them their whole life, only to eventually wind up at the same place they could have been at years before had they discovered nothing.

There are no things in the land of nothing, yet all things are created here.

Don’t throw away your wish list or your bucket list. Those are wonderful things to have to enhance your life situation. When they become the focus of your life, life takes a back seat and is replaced by the frustration associated with the land of all.

We often hear, “You can’t take it with you.” No things are allowed in heaven. You’ll continue to create a living hell by chasing it all.

If this is touching you at some level, I encourage you to find your quiet place. The Grasshopper reminded us that Your thoughts aren’t allowed in heaven.”

Find the place where your mind calms and your body unwinds. If you need assistance, they are plenty of helpers available. Learn meditation, self-hypnosis, yoga, tai chi or anything else that allows you to enter the land of nothing.

It’s here that you will find the peace that is the mother of all creation.

Don’t be surprised at the surprises that just show up in the land of all when you make it a habit to visit the land of nothing.

All or nothing?

Nothing the best,

John

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March 23, 2009

Risk

Filed under: John Morgan's Blog — John Morgan @ 6:20 am


The Grasshopper
was alive and well over the weekend and had this to offer:

“If you stop risking, plan on losing.”

I’m not sure he would have offered that same advice to the late Evel Knievel, but he offered it to us.

My sense is the message is different than “No risk, no reward.” That message says that if you don’t risk you won’t reap the bounty. The Grasshopper’s reminder implies that, but also assures that you won’t stay status quo, you’ll lose.

What is it that you will lose? That which you are unwilling to risk.

My favorite story from the bible is the Parable of the Talents. It tells of a master who gives three servants a certain amount of wealth before heading out on a trip. When he returns he asked what they did with it. Two of the three had invested and doubled their money. The third buried his in the ground. Upon hearing this, the master took away his wealth and gave it to the other two. The lesson was that everyone that has much will be given more, and whoever that has a little, even the little that he has will be taken away.

What are you unwilling to risk?

What are you burying?

When you answer those questions, you have predicted your future. You know, in advance, what will be taken away from you.

You are the major asset in your life. What are you doing with that asset?

Life is a gift and many treat it like a rock rather than a pearl. It’s a burden to some, and notice, it’s taken from them quicker than others in one form or another.

The remedy is risk. Reminds me of a story . . .

I had a memorable great aunt named Mable who gave my father some excellent advice as a young man. My dad was considering building a house for the family and was worried about all the financial risk involved and sought his aunt’s advice. She was an experienced woman of means who said this to my Dad: “Jackie, bury yourself neck deep in horses**t and work your way out.” He took his aunt’s advice and used his talents and built our first house.

The old aphorism comes to mind: “If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it.”

What talent do you have that the world needs to be treated to? If you keep tinkering with it in the basement, it’s never going to see the light of day and it will be taken away.

What if I risk and fail? Who hasn’t? Those who use failure as a millstone rather than a stepping stone will drown in their own cowardice.

Risk is necessary for growth. Risk is necessary at every age.

Complacency is the first sign of losing your life. It goes downhill from there rather quickly unless you risk.

What you’re unwilling to lose will be lost anyway unless you step out on the skinny branches and risk.

Life is a risky business.

All the best,

John

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March 20, 2009

Spring Cleaning

Filed under: John Morgan's Blog — John Morgan @ 7:43 am

Today’s the day. Spring arrives!

There is something really special about springtime especially in areas that experience climate change as one season rolls into another.

It’s the time for clearing away and experiencing new growth.

There are many people who ascribe to the idea that clearing space in your home clears space in your mind. I’m one of those people.

My experience is that cleaning out a closet, an attic, a garage, a crawl space, kitchen cabinets, or a junk drawer has a corresponding effect in our mind.

I have never done one of these tasks where I haven’t experienced some sort of mental shift in an area of my life that was clogged.

The same thing happens for me when I do an outside project like thatching the lawn and sprinkling in seed, cutting back trees or bushes, or planting new flowers or shrubs.

Inside or outside, it becomes a spiritual practice.

I’m sure I could come up with some dazzling reasons why this works, but I’m more interested in the result than in the “why and wherefore.”

You don’t have to get crazy with this and start cleaning everything because that will make it a chore and produce resistance. Start easy. Find something small that needs tending to. Perhaps you could clean off the top of your desk or clear out the broom closet. Look for a small catchall place that seems to be a magnet for clutter and disorganization and clean it up.

Then pay attention to your feelings. Aside from a feeling of accomplishment, you will notice a perceptible shift in your mindset.

Don’t believe me I could be making this up. Spring into action today or over the weekend and do one of these activities. Then pay attention to the release that goes on inside you. The worst thing that can happen is that you’ll have a cleaner house or a more attractive landscape.

There is a powerful upside to this practice.

You can also set an intention before embarking on your spring cleaning project. You may want to marry the intention to the completion of the project. For example, suppose you are wrestling with a problem in your mind that is claiming a lot of your attention. Your intention could be to have the problem solving portion of your mind work on a solution while you fully engage in your clean up activity.

Spring cleaning is a tool for cleansing of the mind making room for the growth of new ideas and new direction for your life.

Who knew that sweeping the driveway could provide the answer to your problem?

Enjoy Spring!

John

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March 19, 2009

Picture Perfect

Filed under: John Morgan's Blog — John Morgan @ 8:38 am

When you look through just about any magazine, the pictures in the advertisements are perfect. The amount of expertise it took to get them that way is admirable, but, for the most part, they are manufactured reality.

If we could only get our kitchen, bathroom, lawn, garden, hair, body, etc. to look like the ones in the ads, everything would be perfect.

Perfect is a mind made condition that has us strive for something that’s unattainable.

Perfection is the Holy Grail that’s filled with holes.

Here is a conundrum: Everything we do is imperfect and perfect alike.

Being human is being imperfect. There are flaws in real life that cannot be airbrushed away. Yet, The Grasshopper says that Reality is Perfection.” That means that everything that happens is perfect. It’s perfect because it’s the only way it can be. What happened, happened.

So the imperfection that is part of being human is our penchant to rail against reality which is perfect.

I think the closest a human being can get to being perfect is to respond to reality.

We as a species are addicted to reaction. That’s about as imperfect as it gets. Something happens and we have a conditioned reaction to it, usually the same one we had last time. We are stuck in a cycle of imperfect reaction which delivers the same out of focus solutions and stalemates.

You have an opportunity to be as perfect as you can be every waking moment of every day. It begins with choosing a response to reality.

Again, I quote The Grasshopper who just this morning said, “Free will isn’t free.” You have to work for it.

The work entails choosing a response to reality instead of running the same reaction. Where is the free will in letting the same reaction to reality happen again? That’s automatic pilot, not free will.

Free will enters the picture when you begin to notice that you are reacting and you choose a response instead.

Reminds me of a story . . .

I once worked for a very evil man. He was part mad scientist and part Neanderthal. He was part owner/operator of a radio station I worked for. The bookkeeper told me that 236 people worked for him in 5 years. This was a small Mom & Pop radio station, so that’s a lot of people in a short time span. He hired and fired more than he changed his socks. He was as arbitrary as a person could be and this made for a work environment that was extremely challenging.

I was one of the longer term employees. I lasted 6 months. Oh, by the way, he fired me over the phone. The good news for me was that I was able to gain employment outside of radio within a few weeks, but my desire was to get back into radio full time. 6 weeks later the phone rang and it’s my ex boss wanting to know if I could come back temporarily to fill in for the guy he just fired who replaced me 6 weeks before. It would only be until he could find a replacement for him.

I remember it like it was yesterday. I pulled the receiver away from my ear and looked at the phone and remember these high volume words about to leave my lips “FU.” Free will kicked in a split second later and I said this F-word instead – “Fine.”

It was the best Christmas ever. We had one more unemployment check coming in, my wife had gotten a job, I kept the job outside of radio and now I had the radio job too. The better news is that one of the shows I did during this period was heard by another program director in another city who offered me a full time job in radio. The ability to respond to reality rather than react saved the day.

You might say it was perfect.

All the best,

John

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March 18, 2009

Disdain

Filed under: John Morgan's Blog — John Morgan @ 6:57 am

Disdain: Scorn, contempt, derision, condescension, disparagement, disregard – to regard somebody or something as not worthy of respect.

We all contain disdain.

How often it comes out to play is a barometer of how well we are playing with others. Its frequency of appearance can also be a predictor of our health and well being.

Setting politics aside and just observing behavior, is there any doubt in anyone’s mind that former Vice President Dick Cheney is a poster boy for disdain? Watch him speak with the sound turned down on the TV, so you don’t let his words influence your observation and assessment of his demeanor. He is consumed with it.

If you have ever seen radio personality, Don Imus, you get to witness the same facial contortions of contempt.

Watch some footage of the trial of Saddam Hussein and witness the derision he exudes.

All of these people have/had friends. There is something about them that certain people like or admire, but their number of playground skirmishes indicates it’s more prudent to avoid them. They’re hard to get close to.

What is missed is how this mindset plays havoc with your insides. I have yet to meet a person who is filled with disdain that doesn’t have some kind of internal matching component.

Don’t believe me, prove it to yourself. Do your best impression of their facial expressions and then pay attention to how your body feels. Is it constricted in a certain area? I trust you will find there is a correlation between what shows up on your face and what’s happening in your body.

I don’t have clinical data to back up my contention of accuracy, only a lifetime of observation.

Let’s pretend that it’s you who is crammed with condescension. How will you know? Ask someone. They’ll tell you in a New York minute. You can also discover it yourself by paying attention to how constricted your body feels when you contort your face.

What do you do with that health robbing, people repelling pattern of behavior?

You begin by noticing it. Start to notice when your face contorts and you begin snarling. That’s your cue to take a nice comfortable breath and sigh it out. This is built in pattern interrupt for human beings. It’s a tension release. There is quite a bit of tension, both external and internal, that goes along with disdain. You may need to take a few more breaths than the average bear to notice a change in your demeanor.

Also, recognize that the facial expression you’re using is really posturing. You want people to see that you’re disdainful. You want them to know you are right and they are wrong. What you may not have noticed is that it isn’t working for you – inside or outside.

Disdain never convinces anyone to come over to your side and it plays havoc with your bodily system and internal organs.

The Grasshopper has told us that some people would rather be right than happy. What he didn’t mention, as overtly, is that some people would rather be dead than happy.

Disdain equals demise. The sooner you recognize and remedy that, the sooner your health and demeanor improve.

Like all diseases, it’s best if you catch it early.

Borrowing a phrase from my late Uncle Vinson, “Disdain is a pain in the drain.”

All the best,

John

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March 17, 2009

An Irish Tail

Filed under: John Morgan's Blog — John Morgan @ 7:28 am

I once knew an Irish Lass

Her eyes they did twinkle

Until she drank the Ale of Bass

My God it made her tinkle

Even in her impaired condition

She wouldn’t let me pet her

She ignored my every petition

This purebred Irish Setter

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

John

 



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March 16, 2009

Parking Garage

Filed under: John Morgan's Blog — John Morgan @ 9:10 am

I never thought of the mind as a parking garage for thoughts until today. It seems there are daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and lifelong customers.

The longer a thought stays parked in your mind, the less useful it becomes.

The key to keeping thoughts useful is to keep them flowing. The minute they become parked, there is no room for new thoughts to enter your garage.

There is also a below ground garage that holds the experiences that keep those thoughts parked. It’s like a giant electromagnet that holds those thoughts in their spaces.

It’s time for a Garage Sale.

We have to begin at the source, meaning we have to begin our clean up below decks so that we can get the results we want on the surface.

There is the long way and the short way to accomplish this task.

The long way is to try and figure out a way to manage our thoughts. This may take years of trial and error and long hours of therapy and still not be successful. This is like moving a thought from one space to another. It still stays parked. We want them to flow in an out and only have short term parking at most.

The short way is to turn off the power of the magnet. Once the magnetic hold is removed, it’s easier for the thoughts to move through.

The way to reduce the magnetic pull is to experience the emotion that holds the thought in place. As long as the emotion is charged up, the thought isn’t going to budge.

Experiencing emotions is not an easy task because there is discomfort involved. It involves feeling, the thought of which scares most of us into a state of immobility.

There is also discomfort involved in passing a kidney stone. It is a necessary discomfort to move through in order to get things flowing again. (See Vacation Day)

Moving through your emotions is necessary to get your thoughts flowing which means getting you unstuck.

As discussed in past blogs, moving through your emotions is paying attention to the feeling they deliver in your body. Different emotions may turn up different places in your physical body. Place your awareness on the feeling that’s going on in that body part and you will move through the emotion.

It may take minutes or an hour of sustained awareness on that body part and the attendant feeling to get that emotion to release. Along with that release comes a free flowing garage that doesn’t have you hold on to a thought any longer than is necessary or useful.

To clean up your mind, you first have to clean up your body.

Find an emotion that has persistently followed you around and give it some attention. That’s all it needs in order to release.

The price you pay for long-term parking can be sizably reduced by returning the flow to your parking garage. Begin today by not keeping your emotions at bay.

All the best,

John

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March 13, 2009

Explain Yourself!

Filed under: John Morgan's Blog — John Morgan @ 9:35 am

Did you ever notice that some people who ask for an explanation don’t want to be explained to?

If you start explaining to these folks, you are stepping in front of a firing squad.

The telltale sign is their request has the tone of a demand. This is the leading indicator that, even if you come up with the Wisdom of Solomon, your explanation will be wasted. It’s not that they can’t comprehend; they just aren’t listening because they aren’t the least bit interested in your answer. They just want what they want.

The request for an explanation is just a disguise. The sooner you recognize the costume, the less of a harangue you’ll have to deal with.

I have never been able to successfully negotiate with someone who has a fixed position – they want what they want.

All logic is blocked by a person acting like a blockhead.

Reminds me of a story . . .

Radio stations, by and large, take few song requests. Yes, they have request shows but that’s no guarantee you’ll get your song played. Many conversations go like this:

“Can you play I Bought The Shoes That Just Walked Out On Me’ By Wynn Stewart?”

“I’m sorry sir, I don’t have that song available to play.”

“Why not?” (clue)

“It’s not a song that our boss allows us to play.”

“Why not?” (clue 2)

“It doesn’t fit our format. Our format is current popular music and that song is an old Country song that most of our listeners don’t know, and I am not allowed to play songs that are out of our format.

“Why not?” (clue that you’re in deep doo-doo)

“Like I said, I’m not allowed to play that song. It would cost me my job. Is there another song I can play for you?”

“Why do you have a request show if you don’t play requests? Play it anyway.”

The conversation goes on and on and always ends up with them taking the position – I want what I want.

How much energy do you waste by engaging with someone whose only position is – I want what I want?

“I want what I want” always communicates that I don’t care about you. It’s a blinded agenda that’s harmful to everyone in its path.

Bring to mind the young child throwing a fit in the supermarket and you’ll have a clear picture of what you look like if you advertise, “I want what I want.”

This mindset discounts everyone’s point of view but yours. You can easily tell a person with this agenda in a face to face conversation. They have glazed over eyes, while pretending to listen to your point of view and chomping at the bit to speak.

The prescription for this is one I’ve mentioned before – Shorten the storm.

Never discuss logic during a storm. How often have you seen a parent attempt to reason with a child throwing a fit? How hard were you laughing? If you want a screaming child to move from point A to point B, you could wait and let the storm run its course, a luxury most don’t have. You could reason with the child which NEVER works, or you could gently cradle the child and physically move them where you need them to go without saying a word. It dispenses with the useless logic and prevents the storm from doing any more damage.

It’s not any different with a storming adult who is acting like a child. Stop explaining.

This is not a suggestion to stop exchanging ideas with someone. That conversation usually moves in a measurable direction. It’s when it becomes an “I want what I want” rant that it becomes dead in the water.

When you recognize that you’ve stepped across the threshold into the “Land of No End,” it’s time to back out. The strategy is to politely decline to continue the conversation and then say nothing. Remain silent.

There is nothing you can say that will keep this horror from ending, so don’t say anything.

Silence is the same strategy that professional negotiators use. They will tell you if you are buying a car and the sales person comes back from his manager with a counter-offer, don’t speak after the counter offer is given. The salesperson will fill up that silence and, more often than not, will drop the price even further without you debating with them.

“What if they gave a war and no one showed up?” is a winning strategy. No words, no war!

Back to our radio example . . . What would happen if you recognized the conversation was going nowhere and offered:

“Sir, I decline to talk about this further” and then said nothing.

I can tell you my experience. The person would hang up within 15 seconds and go regale someone else with their one-way agenda.

Silence is your friend. Not only can you successfully use it in negotiations, you can employ it to deliver less stressful moments when dealing with the “I want what I want” crowd.

Shhhhhhh!

All the best,

John

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March 12, 2009

Jimmy Time

Filed under: John Morgan's Blog — John Morgan @ 7:33 am

I was between flights at the Atlanta airport a few years ago and decided to get my shoes shined. I walked into the enclosed shoeshine area and took a seat. There were four chairs but only one person on duty shining shoes. The man said I would be next as soon as he finished with his current customer.

A moment later, in walks this “busy and important” person and announces that he has a Noon appointment. It was a couple of minutes before Noon. The fellow on duty asked who he made the appointment with. He gruffly replied, “Jimmy.”

The fellow shining shoes said, “Jimmy not here.”

The man launched into a frenetic speech about how he specifically made a Noon appointment and wondered how can businesses run properly if they don’t honor appointments. This went on non-stop for about a minute and a half. He then asked, “Where’s Jimmy?”

Again, the gent said, “Jimmy not here.”

The man with his feathers ruffled insistently asked, “Where could he be?”

The guy shining shoes said, “Jimmy comes and goes as he pleases. He rents this space and shows up when he shows up.” He finished up with a phrase that lives on in infamy, at least in my house. He said, “Jimmy, he on Jimmy time.”

The man walked out in a huff and I reached for my journal to preserve this moment.

I told my son the story when I got home and we had a good laugh, and then my son came up with a new phrase he uses when he needs some time for himself. He would say, “I need some Jimmy time.”

Everyone benefits from some “Jimmy time.”

If you’re not carving out a small portion of your day for yourself, you are doing yourself and those around you a giant disservice. Even the busiest person on the planet can make a few minutes for themselves to relax and recharge. I like to think of them as “mind calming minutes.”

When you take the time to allow your mind to calm down, you begin the process of relaxing and recharging. After your “mind calming minutes,” you bring a fresher perspective back to what you were doing before you took a break, and you bring new energy. You’ll notice and so will the people you interact with.

I created my CD RELAX IN 2 MINUTES after doing my seminars in New York City. I noticed that many of the citizens of that city resembled the man at the airport. They were stuck inside of their head and it was causing havoc with their behavior and needlessly depleting their energy. I devised an easy way to get out of your head and into your body. It’s an exercise that simply gets you to focus your attention on a specific body part and then feel what’s going on in that part of your body. The CD progressively moves you though your body and the result is a more relaxed, recharged you.

The purpose of the CD is to teach you the method so you can do it on your own and have the ability to relax anytime, anywhere in 2 minutes or less. You can easily order this CD at http://johnmorganseminars.com/relax.html

You may have a method of mind calming relaxation that works for you. This blog post isn’t intended to have you purchase my CD. It’s a reminder to make time for yourself everyday and allow your thoughts to melt and fade away. It’s one of the most beneficial things you can do for yourself and it only takes a few minutes out of your day.

“Hey kids, what time is it?”

“IT’S JIMMY TIME”!

All the best,

John

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March 11, 2009

The Clutch

Filed under: John Morgan's Blog — John Morgan @ 7:37 am

There are clutch handbags, clutch performers (those who have a knack for performing their best when the stakes are high), and the physical clutch you use in a car to change gears.

The Clutch is a technique you can put in your bag, clutch or otherwise, to use when the stakes are high, so you change into a gear that gets you out of your rear.

We have been conditioned to ride around in one gear for most of our lives. Our patterns of behavior are stuck in gear. You may eventually get to where you want to go but the pace is very slow.

Enter The Clutch.

The Clutch is a combination of recognition and action – recognition of the pattern and specific steps to engage in a new gear.

Before we apply The Clutch, let’s look at some case histories where it would be helpful.

There is Casper M. who spends his whole life keeping his feet up. He wants to do otherwise, but something won’t let him put his foot down. Casper seeks counseling for his inability, and his counselor aptly points out that it takes more effort to keep your foot up than it does to put it down. Casper readily agrees with the logic but can’t seem to drop the other shoe.

Next we have Righteous Rachel. Her difficulty is she has a bagful of beliefs that she has no evidence for. She foists them on anyone within her presence and when others don’t adhere to her tenets, they become the enemy and are plain wrong. Her counselor gets her to see that the cause of her problems is she, but she keeps putting her foot down.

Left unchecked, Casper’s behavior will change at the most inopportune time. He will blow up and come down with both feet. He will appear crazed and out of character and people will judge him harshly.

Rachel, left unchecked, will continue to alienate almost everyone she comes in contact with and not be able to figure out why she winds up lonely and alone.

Enter The Clutch.

It’s elementary that you must recognize a behavior, while it’s happening, in order to have the best opportunity of outgrowing it. Let’s pretend that Casper begins to notice tightness in his stomach every time he runs into someone like Rachel. He knows that’s his conditioned signal to keep his feet up. Now that he recognizes the signal, that’s when he’s learned to depress the clutch. The clutch takes him out of the gear he was in.

It’s the shift to a new gear that is the next step.

There is an appropriate gear for appropriate circumstances. Just shifting into the next gear may be the norm, but Casper’s case calls for something other than the next gear. Casper begins to notice that when he depresses the clutch that he has many options for the next gear he selects. His job, in this case, is to select one that he doesn’t normally use and see what happens. He already knows what will happen if he selects the next gear. His tightness will continue and he’ll continue to walk through life like he’s stepping on eggshells.

The new gear will open him to speeds he’s never explored. It may be unfamiliar at first, but with a little practice, Casper gets the hang of shifting gears and putting his foot on the gas rather than the brake.

Rachel’s recognition begins when she starts to notice that the feedback she’s getting isn’t working. This is her signal to throw in the clutch. She has been oblivious to other’s feedback in the past because her focus was totally on her. With this new clutch awareness, she immediately recognizes that her normal strategy isn’t working and discovers a wide choice of gears.

She selects one that she normally doesn’t use and pays attention to the outcome. The new gear helps her remove the righteousness from her beliefs and recognize that they are only beliefs, many which she got through no fault of her own, from social, cultural and parental conditioning. This new gear gets her to engage more fully with others and leave her dysfunctional beliefs in the rearview mirror.

Here’s my driving tip: Begin to notice what gear you are in and then recognize there are other choices other than the one you normally select.

If you’re creeping along at the same speed, it may be time to throw in the clutch and select a new gear.

All the best,

John

http://JohnMorganHypnosis.com

http://GrasshopperNotes.com

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http://www.cafepress.com/grasshoppernote/3580301

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