If you read Wednesday’s update, then you know that during the OS upgrade for my computer (which is really a cool one this time), I lost a lot of writing. In this case it turned out being 10 years worth… I’m not a terribly material person, but that was a lot to lose. It included material for 2 books in fact. Today, I’m going to share an excerpt from one of those books that I’ve started to re-write and is on the meaning of life.
This week’s podcast is a foray into emotional intelligence, but perhaps not in the way that you might think. Most of the time, when we think of emotional intelligence, we are talking about the rules of behaviors between people, but is there another type of emotional intelligence, one that we can use for everyday problem [...]
As we look for a suitable life partner, a great deal of emphasis is placed on finding someone who shares our interests, a person that we are compatible with. but is compatibility the best way to go? For Dawne and I, compatibility was not an issue, because we had almost none! this podcast takes a closer look at how your incompatibilities might be just the thing that you need to lift your relationship to the next level.
Marc has been reading What the Bleep do we Know?, and found something very interesting in the book, which I’d like to share with you. It concerns the idea of living in a magical world and more specifically, us being the beings who live in it. Essentially, if the world and therefore the Universe we live in is magical, then why wouldn’t we be as well?
Each of us needs to be needed: A human being without this need fulfilled feels useless. All of us are necessary or the Universe wouldn’t have put us here. It’s just the way things work - no redundancies: Everyone is necessary. But how do we determine when and where we’re really needed?
In our relationships with others… Think about that phrase for a moment. Do you realize that this applies to every time we meet, however briefly, anybody? Yourself, your lover/partner, your children. Your neighbor, the manager of your apartment building, the cashier at the store, the person you walk by on the street. Each encounter is a relationship and how you are, affects each one.
Here’s a question for you:
If you knew the world was going to end, what would you do? For the sake of argument, let’s say the world had 1 month. There’s nothing that can be done to save it; it’s just going to end. Knowing this, how would you spend your time?
Ever have a period in your life where you start asking yourself, “What on earth is going on!?”. You know, the kind of times where one crisis after another comes up and you start trying to figure out what you did in a past life to bring this on? Well, these are what I like to think of as the wake up calls from the lobby of the Hotel Grand Universal and it usually goes something like this (all caps are the Universe yelling at me):
“Oh, Marc! I think it’s inside!” She was 8 years old, I was 9, and we were in the ditch behind her house. I suppose her excited cries of mock ecstasy were louder than we had hoped, for a few moments later her Dad caught us, quite literally with our pants down.
Finding a man’s identity in this enlightened age is a challenging task at the best of times. While he is supposed to be tough and strong, he is also required to be sensitive and caring. What’s a real man to do?