April 27, 2008 My Greening

Yesterday I co-facilitated a Symposium (Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream)… It is more powerful than ever, always evolving.  It grows as it goes, because so do we. 

I’ve bveen asking myself, along with Nancy — “What’s next?”..There are some things we can do that we’re not ready to do:  replacing all our windows and getting a new furnace.  And there are some things we can’t figfure out how to do:  getting rid of all plastic (we can’t figure out how to eliminate all plastic wrapping on food products, but we’re coming close.  But we can’t possibly commit to not getting more eyeglasses, never buying computer, car, cell phone, etc.) so we’re putting that on hold.

But what we can do is increase our talking to people.  I started a new blog today:  MYGreening.  And I’ll start speaking about what we can do without scr ewing ourselves up….There’s nobody but us.

 

April 25, 2008 Focus

I finally realized, after 71 years, that I’m simply not focused.  Probably chronic, undiagnosed ADD.  It’s been a virtue, lets me be involved in many things.  Would account for my writing, art, computer skills, teaching, diverse projects – lots.  And it also qccounts for my being pulled in many directions at once.

I’ve been forced to see this.  Whenever something new comes along, I want to try it.  And too many new things come along.  So I don’t fully explore what is suddenly old, because I’m eager to do what’s new.

So I try to use very broad brushes.  That way I focus on my brush strokes.  I focus on a sustainable environment, on social justice and on spiritual fulfillment – a healthy world and all of us in it, including me.

April 24, 2008 Today is Different

I did today backwards because I brought my car in for service – So I hit the gym at 7:30, then to the car place, then home for breakfast and a client.  So here I am at 1PM, doing my morning.  I wonder about the rest of the day.

I have the luxury of creating every day – I suppose we all have, even if it’s totally scheduled.  Inside the constraints of scheduling, we still create every moment – I caught myself when I said this is a luxury, but like most of us most of the time, we don’t realize that we really do create every moment.  Our minds are always ours; our responses to inputs are our responses.  And the responses determine the day, not the inputs.

For me, this is n’t Earth Day, or week.  It’s Earth Always.  And there’s nobody except us who are going to get the job done.  I got rid of one of my cars; I use cloth bags to shop with, I belong to a local CSA; I use wind power for 20% of my PSE&G bill.  I use CFBs.  But that’s not nearly enought.  I don’t eat red meat, but that’s not nearly enough.  I stand for environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment.

April 10, 2008 Ready

I now know what to say.  I have the teleseminar date, time and topic.  I have the host participants.  All I need is the paying guests.  I’m asking a fee of $23 and I’m giving the first 75 participants a new book that I charge $12.95 for.  So it’s a net of $10+ I’ll start the inviting today.  It’s an exciting time.

I’m sometimes taken aback by how I mix extreme activity with extreme non-activity.  Yesterday was extreme activity – coached a staff of 10, led my Awesome Results class and then led my new mastermind group.  And still had time for the Daily show.  Today I have folllow up planned, just follow up.  I’m reading a Nero Wolf I’d either never read or don’t remember.

This teleseminar is completely in line with my commitment to bring joy and satisfaction to people’s lives and it supports my mission which is to presence environmental sustainability, spiritual fulfillment and social justice everywhere and for everyone.

April 8, 2008 Frustrated

It’sot like me to say it….I don’t have enough of you reading this.  I mean – this particular blog, I write for me mostly.  Still, having 3 of you read it is discouraging, because I do have interesting things to say (maybe once a week, maybe less, maybe more)

Happening at a time where I feel my confidence growing again.  One reason I do this is to give me an opportunity to write my commitment and my mission on a daily basis.  Not that it will disapppear, but putting it out in the world works for me.

I am commited to bringing joy and satisfaction to people’s lives and I stand for environmental sustainability, social justice and spiritual fulfillment for everyone on our planet.

April 7, 2008 Unprincipled — michael@michaellipp.com

Because without the Principles of Relationships we are unprincipled, ho ho.  This is very simple:  Everything is relationships.  Everything.  And we are never taught anything about them.  There are courses up the wazoo about love and sex and – while these are the most serious aspects of relationships, they are certainly not general.  We can all agree that everything is relationship.   But NOT everything is love and sex. 

At last – a book on the rest of relationships – friends, neighbors and most seriously – workplace relationships… communication, fighting, starting, ending, growing…  We all take everything for granted.  It all comes with the territory.

I’m proud of this book.  Write me to get your copy, only $12.95,  cheap at twice the price.

It supports my commitment to empower people with joy and satisfaction and supports my mission to have a world with environmental stability, spiritual fulfillment and social justice for all of us.

April 6, 2008 Why Change? michael@michaellipp.com

What we take for granted disappears.  One of the things I do is turn my goals into affirmations and then I speak those affirmations every day.  Many people use affirmations.   They frequently write them down and post them on walls, on bathroom mirrors, on refrigerators, etc.  And what happens is they fade into the background and become invisible.

In this case, changing them periodically assures their visibility, their presence.  Now entropy assures that things change, but they change in the wrong direction; they run down.  We have to actively change to constantly create freshness.

I’ve begun to identify myself on the title because some people use feedblitz to be informed of a new entry and feedblitz doesn’t include your name, which strikes me as silly.  Besidews, it’s a change.

But I won’t change telling you my commitments – to bring joy and satisfaction to people and to bring about a sustainable environment, social justice and spiritual fulfillment on the planet.

April 5, 2008 Stretching – Michael Lipp

This is an exciting month – even not in Paris –I’m expanding into new markets and I’m enthusiastic about both.  I’m leading a most interesting teleseminar at the end of the month on Coaching 2.0.  And I’m coaching professional staffs, creating solid teams.  The staffs are absolutely essential to the practice, but who ever takes care of their staff?

And my youngest daughter is in her 8th month.  I’ll be leading a Symposium as she enters her 9th.  I haven’t written about this activity.  But it has accented my mission.  This is the “Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream” symposium, developed by the Pachamama Alliance.  It’s purpose (my mission) is to have a sustainable environment, social justice and spiritual fulfillment present for all of us.

I’ve begun to distribute my newest book, The Principles of Relationships and on April 21 I’m starting my newest class on that subject.  There’s more, but that should give you a sense of the month ahead.

March 30, 2008 ‘ere We Go

Baseball is gearing up.  I didn’t know that there was a Civil Rights Game (this was the 2nd annual)… And I found out that Memphis has a Civil Rights Museum…never thought I would learn about America from a spring baseball game.  And if this educates you as well…great.

Last night was “turn off the lights” for an hour to acknowledge Earth Hour.   Of course, they didn’t recognize this in the baseball game — Unfortunate, because a living planet is essential for civil rights.  I confess, I kept the television on, sort of intentionally not knowing I should have kept it off…found it on the front page of CNN’s website, but – strangely, not the NY Times – the Times has it – but not featured.

Did anyone in Washington pay attention? Many cities in the world paid attention.  No one on my block did.  My commitment is for a sustainable environment, social justice ans spiritual fulfillment for the planet.  So I care and intend that we paid attention.

March 23, 2008 Learning More

What makes the Internet so great is that there is constantly more to learn.  I can never sit back on my haunches.  I’ll never be able to stop — I’ll never have to stop.  The fun is forever.

I’ve been on the net now for around 8 years. I’ve been sending out my newsletters for about 5.  And I’m just now learning about emails – from Ali Brown (the Ezine Queen)–  I suspect the same can be said about every fine grain of  using the Internet.

I’m redesigning my USP -  I love the one Ive used:  Bringing Joy and Satisfaction to People’s Lives