Tag: Don’t Die
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One door closes
And other door opens…and many times there are many years between the door closing and the door opening.
Have you ever been told that part?
Hope is maintaining the state of knowing — not just believing — but knowing — the door will open.
Don’t die waiting for it to open. Remember to live a don’t die spirit.
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IPPA, Love and Gary Russo
A year ago I was attempting to yet again clarify the message I bring to my work and my clients. This is what I wrote in my journal on August 12, 2010:Science has proven what we instinctively knew – love is the answer no matter what the question, forgiveness is the key difference to creating a successful life lived forward or a distressful life stuck in the past. atg 081210At the IPPA Second World Conference, Positive Psychology luminary, Barbara Fredrickson, clarified what the emotion ‘love’ is when referred to as an emotion that builds and broadens well-being or happiness in an individual’s life. Love is the experience of positive emotions which are noticed in the momentary increase in the well-being of another, causing a sychronistic response that builds over time.*Defining love in this manner explains why an entertainer — like Gary Russo — can feel love when he performs on his lunch hour to a group of people he does not know.Now here is something incredibly cool. The photo in this blog was taken a few weeks ago at Barbara Fredrickson’s presentation at IPPA. The shadow of the mic is part of the original photo. It just so happened that where I was sitting all of my photos of the slides had the mic in the way. I was originally disappointed. Now that I am writing Don’t Die with Your Song Unsung with Gary Russo, and the theme of that book is love, it feels more like it was meant to be there all along.*This is my interpretation of the slide presented. The actual research is yet to be released.
Happy singing, Andrea
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The Wisdom of Platitudes
You have probably heard, “Do what you love and the money will come”, “No matter what your plan is, the right people show up at the right time”, and “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” And you have heard me say, “Blah, blah, blah….”I am writing because I was proven wrong this past weekend. I will get to that in a moment.
First, I want to share how I laughed when the August issue of O arrived a week or two ago. As is my custom, I read What I Know for Sure first. It was a piece on how Oprah has always followed her gut on her biggest life decisions. I knew as I was reading the piece Oprah was speaking in part about the current tenuous nature of her creation of the OWN network. Currently, it does not have the best ratings, press or a very complete offering. I can say the same thing about my Don’t Die™ brand.I created and began marketing the first Don’t Die With Your Book Inside You workshop on June 14. I had a modest goal of 30 participants. That goal was set for two main reasons: 1)I wanted enough diversity in the room to make the workshop stimulating for the attendees and 2) I wanted it to be economically beneficial for me. I chose Stillpoint Center for Spiritual Development as the location as much for convenience as I did for any business reason.
What happened was the following:
Ten participants signed up. Their hair was blond, their skin was brown, they represented countries near and far, there was no central spiritual or religious denomination. Yet there was one thing they all had in common: they came in for individual reasons and left 10 hours later knowing they shared more in common than any of them could have ever anticipated.
After the first night of working together, one of the participants arrived with a gift for me. In the gift bag I found two things: a beautiful Thank You note to me for arriving as her teacher and a little bowl with the message To Teach Is to Touch a Life Forever.
Sometimes the business of personal development makes no economic ‘cents’ and yet investing in my passion to share the Don’t Die Spirit continues to make all the sense in the world. Go figure!
Thank you Rose Pinard for seeing that before I did!
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Graduation
Niece Andie Terzano graduated from high school yesterday and she happily looking forward to her next educational adventure — the University of Wisconsin at Madison.Her graduation made me realize that is what the personal development journey — otherwise known as adulthood — is missing. Graduations. A clear sign you have completed your course work and are ready for your next adventure.
Yet here is what I know. Even without a clear sign of completion, even without a diploma, even without a formal graduation, embracing the journey keeps you in a constant state of possibility instead of stuck where you have already completed your learning.
Just because there is no formal graduations at the different levels of personal development during adulthood does not mean you can’t create some Maybe that should be a Don’t Die book title: Don’t Die waiting to Graduate Life! Happy creating!
If you want to experience transforming your life lessons into a Don’t Die Do Live book join me for a 1 1/2 day journey July 15 and July 16.
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Las Vegas Don’t Die Workshop
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I AM The Movie
In the category of ‘there are no coincidences”, about a week ago I found myself watching one of the final episodes of Oprah. Although I am a devoted fan, student and teacher of her work, I have not seen a segment on the air date in literally years. I specifically tuned in because I had seen a commercial describing the episode and it caught my attention. (So commercials do still work by the way.)
The episode was number 26 in her 30 day countdown and the guest academy award winning filmmaker, Tom Shadyac. His newest movie – actually a documentary – will not win any academy awards, yet it will contribute one of the user-friendly pieces on the concept of evolving consciousness. The movie is entitled I AM.
A life altering illness caused Shadyac to question his established concepts about success. He got to the same place I did when I wrote in my book, “This book is my attempt to dispel a myth that has been perpetrated on the unsuspecting masses for many generation. The myth I refer to is the one that assures if you do your homework, earn good grades, and graduate from the right schools, you will land a job or create a business that will provide you riches, happiness, health, and love; you will achieve your “happily ever after.”
My book and the movie I AM focus on the myth part of that sentence.
Go see the movie. It is worth the ticket price and more.
Dr. Success Challenge: Make a list – as long as you would like – about what is RIGHT with the world.
Enjoy. Peace be with you and thank you Roxanne W. Isbey, Jr. for the wonderful photograph.
Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD
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Awareness – Part 1 Zillion
I ended my last post with the sentence…
Her guidance during that time did not give me any comfort. I did not grasp that a situation could be terrible but I was still suppose to be doing it.Here is what I should have written: Her guidance during that time did not give me any comfort. I did not grasp that a situation could be terrible AND I was still suppose to be doing it.
It took several years before the first glimpse of why Richard was called to “build it anyway”. We were in the Las Vegas airport going who knows where and I was visiting the bookshop as I always do before a flight. I eye caught the words that had haunted me for over five years,
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
I froze in place and then regained my composure enough to buy the book. I had the book finished before I landed. It fit the category of books I really enjoy and after which I have designed my own book writing life: A small book with big impact. The book, of course, was Anyway
by Kent Keith.
The following week Richard and I were driving to Cottonwood, Arizona to work at our little hotel. I read the book to him as he drove. Tears welded up in Richard eyes from the Keith’s account of how the book came to be, the disappointments he endured and the strength he gained from the experiences. It was as though someone finally understood what Richard had gone through.
The myth of “do the right thing and everything with turn out okay and you will be rewarded” was being dismantled with every line in I read. A belief was being dismantled and a new reality was being born.
You do not do good things to be rewarded. You do go things because doing good is all you are suppose to do. The reward is in the doing, not in the receiving some reward.
Think on that! Peace,
Andrea Goeglein, PhD
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Anyway
It is my intent to fill in a lot of the story behind the scenes of Don’t Die. Here is today’s installment.
Truth be told I enjoyed my prep day enormously. The book I was reading ended with a passage entitled Do It Anyway. I knew that passage, and I knew it well. It had come into my life in the late 1990’s. My spiritual advisor, Vicki, had introduced one line from the poem to me as a comfort. During the many years of work with Vicki, I agonized to understand a destructive business relationship my husband was involved in. Vicki attributed the piece to Mother Teresa, as did the book galley I read that day. I found out a few years later the passage was often attributed to Mother Teresa. The real author is leadership visionary, Kent Keith
The Paradoxical Commandments of LeadershipBy Kent Keith[1]People are illogical,unreasonable, and self centered.Love them anyway.If you do good,People will accuse you ofselfish ulterior motives.Do good anyway.If you are successful, you will winfalse friends and true enemies.Succeed anyway.The good you do todaywill be forgotten tomorrow.Do good anyway.Honesty and franknessMake you vulnerable.Be honest and frank anyway.The biggest of men and womenwith the biggest ideas can beshot down by the smallestmen and women withthe smallest minds.Think big anyway…People favor underdogsbut follow only top dogs.Fight for a few underdogs anyway.What you spend years buildingmay be destroyed overnight.Build anyway.People really need helpBut may attack youIf you do help them.Help them anyway.Give the world the bestyou have and you’ll getkicked in the teeth.give the world the bestyou have anyway.Reading the concluding passage in the book galley flashed me back to the years 1997 through 2000 when my husband of struggled to get a project built. Each time I lamented whether we should be involved with the project, Vicki would say, “I don’t know if you should be involved but I do know Richard was meant to build this project. As I sat there in June 2007 I could remember every time Vicki quoted the line, “What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.”Her guidance during that time did not give me any comfort. I did not grasp that a situation could be terrible but I was still suppose to be doing it.
Guess I needed to remember to: Live the ‘Don’t Die’ Spirit©.Andrea T. Goeglein, Ph.D.
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www.YouTube.com/user/ServingSuccess[1] Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments. Copyright 2001 by Kent M. Keith. Inner Ocean Publishing, Inc. Makawao, Hawaii.
