amazing mindset – Page 2

Going Bananas In Emerg.

by David

File this under alternate health care.

It is being reported that at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax Nova Scotia has hired a psychologist to take care of emergency patients that complain of pain but don’t seem to have any physical symptoms.

What to do? Send him/her home telling them that they’re crazy and, “Oh, by the way, please don’t come back”?

No. That would not do.

This hospital has something better.

They refer the patient immediately to the hired talk-therapist to quiet the person down.

Bury your dead ducks

by David

This morning I took my wife to work with her bike in the trunk of the car. It’s a clear cool day with no wind. On a day like this she loves to ride home on her bicycle. It’s great exercise and she relaxes in the calmness of the experience. The duck and chicken farm she works part time at is only 7 minutes away by car so she can make it home by bike in less than fifteen.

When we got there I unloaded her bike and put it up by the door to the work area that is called the egg room. That’s where she collects the fresh duck eggs from a conveyor belt that slides through the nesting area inside the barn. After she does that she has to go into the barn itself and check for any ducks that may have collapsed and died overnight.

Failure is our friend.

by David

Chart showing ups and dows in progression — Failures are an integral part of all success

You know I have been leaning lately to the fact that failure has tons to do with how we arm our mindset from the strain future failures. It always looks like failure is getting the bad wrap of causing all the collateral damage when it really plays an important role in the production of all of our success events.

Today, let’s give failure an even portion of our appreciation. I Know that it seems to hurt us but I’ve come to the point where I now realize the truth.

Failure is our friend. Success our hero.

I’ll coin this:

Compared to success a failure is much more fulfilling. At least after I have one I don’t want another soon after.

More power to you

…David

2010: The year of the H.E.R.O.

by David

Over the last decade most of my time was spent in the business of putting together the one thing that I have wanted for a long time. The ability to offer the world the fruit of my life’s work: the H.E.R.O. Personal Success Discover eMachine.

When I started out I was not a writer, a scientist, a doctor, or a personal trainer, or even a marketer.

I wasn’t a lot of things. I’m still not.

The only professional training I got was that which I went to college for – a graphic art’s diploma.

Woopty-do! That was useful (yeah right).

Motivation In’s & Out’s.

by David

You’re a binary.

A binary usually refers to a system comprised of two parts. Like computer code is comprised of just two numbers 1 and 0. I’m borrowing on this idea a lot lately because, as a metaphor, it helps to illustrate this dynamic of what it is to be human and how success and failure defines us.

This whole duality in motivation thing is discussed rather succinctly in a wonderful TED talk by author Daniel Pink.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y[/youtube]

In my work with H.E.R.O. when I say that a human being is a binary I’m referring to the fact that these two parts of you, which reside in one body, are often in conflict. In religion the body is seen a egoistic and the soul as realistic. This idea goes back to the ancient Chinese who referred to this duality in humans as the “Yin” and the “Yang” many centuries ago.