Yoga and Your Body’s Ability To Move
© 2007 Richard Chandler St Cloud, MN USA
“It’s a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.”
- Alan Ball (1956- )
As a yoga teacher, I’m continually surprised and delighted to watch my middle aged and older students recapture something that they had assumed was forever lost from their life… Confidently Moving Your Body Article Continued
Priming The Pump of Inspiration
© 2007 Richard J. Chandler Saint Cloud, MN
Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.”
- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
With this jewel of wisdom, Stravinsky shares one of the most pragmatic ways for all of us to get a whole lot more done in our lives. While we might hope that the inspiration to do our work would descend upon us Pump of Inspiration Continued
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Listening To Your Own "Still Small Voice Within."
© 2007 Richard J. Chandler Saint Cloud, MN
“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me.”
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
For me, this quotation implores us to be bold enough to embrace and be guided by our inner direction as the primary navigational tool for our lives. Ultimately, as we reflect back on our lives, the decisions we made, the responsibilities we committed to or abdicated, or even the times we went with or against whatever tide was pushing on us, those are the reflections that determine how are life has stacked up. So consider serving under your sovereign, which may be the most just for you, and you only… your own “still small voice within.”
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Plan B’s May Still Bring You Great Success
© 2007-2008 Richard J. Chandler Saint Cloud, MN
“The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.”
- James Yorke (1941- )
Have you ever felt that the bulk of your life amounted to doing your best to make your ‘Plan B’ work, despite recurrent longings to somehow get back to working from a Plan A? Plan B - Plan A Success Continued
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Prolific Creating – Picasso’s Way To Build Your Dreams In Reality
2007 Richard J. Chandler Saint Cloud, MN
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
In this Picasso quotation, we are given a gift of immeasurable value. It is a master key to creating, not only in the arts; it is equally applicable to any field of endeavor. Why? By analyzing the quotation’s component parts, we may find that in spite of the paradoxical sound of it, there is much to help us manifest more of our unique visions in the world. Prolific Creating Continued
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Paying The Price For Success
© 2007 Richard Chandler Saint Cloud, Minnesota USA
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
Why we do the work of updating this website every day mirrors what we read recently about the motivation of Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting.
In his autobiographical memoir, ‘Broken Music’, Sting, who in our mind is one of the most successful, artistic and committed musicians ever to compose and perform music, succinctly states the primary reason for his success: “Sheer bloodymindedness.” Price for Success Continued
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Strategically Letting Go…
To Move Your Creative Project Forward
© 2007 Richard Chandler Saint Cloud, Minnesota USA
“Meditation is the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.” - J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
This Krishnamurti quotation, while about meditation, alludes to a principle that may be helpful to you, as it has been to me, for more easily accomplishing projects where meditative awareness, creativity and inspiration play a prominent role. Letting Go To Move Forward Continued
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From Visualizing to Actualizing…
7 Steps to Transporting Your Visions From Mind to Manifestation
© 2007 Richard Chandler Saint Cloud, Minnesota USA
“The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.”
- Robert G. Schwartz, Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies
Mr. Schwartz has one of the most impressive vita’s I have ever read. It is 29 pages long and full of awards, grants and chronicles of distinguished service. So my commentary is not meant to disparage the fine work of Mr. Schwartz in any way, but only to share my reality, which differs from this famous quote of Robert G. Schwartz.
While I share his enthusiasm for entrepreneurship and other creative ventures, in my own experience, I have rarely seen exactly how to make what I first visualize happen in as direct a way as his quote says. Visualizing to Actualizing Continued
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