The Wisdom of Non-Attachment: A Smoked Glass Table and a Life Lesson
When I got married I was an executive but in my head I was a graduate student. So my dibs reflected ...
08 February, 2019
Native American Wisdom: A Tale of A Dog & A Wolf – Which Do You Feed?
This is a simple exercise that will improve your life and the world. There are many versions of the ...
30 November, 2018
Part 4: CUTV News Radio spotlights Dr. Srikumar Rao of The Rao Institute
CUTV spotlights Dr. Srikumar Rao of The Rao Institute. Tune in to listen to the conversation here. C...
15 November, 2018
Part 3: CUTV News Radio spotlights Dr. Srikumar Rao of The Rao Institute
CUTV spotlights Dr. Srikumar Rao of The Rao Institute. Tune in to listen to the conversation here. C...
08 November, 2018
Part 2: CUTV News Radio spotlights Dr. Srikumar Rao of The Rao Institute
CUTV spotlights Dr. Srikumar Rao of The Rao Institute. Tune in to listen to the conversation here. C...
25 October, 2018
How You Can Promote Healing and Live in Peace
A participant in one of my programs confided that she no longer spoke to her brother. They were on b...
18 October, 2018
Part 1: CUTV News Radio spotlights Dr. Srikumar Rao of The Rao Institute
CUTV spotlights Dr. Srikumar Rao of The Rao Institute. Tune in to listen to the conversation here. C...
17 October, 2018
Your Job Is To Bloom (Let Go Of Trying To Gather An Audience)
I saw My Fair Lady with family. It is my all-time favorite play and we had fabulous seats. Afterward...
05 September, 2018
A Lesson From Laundry
A deep lesson from laundry I ran low on underwear a few days ago. And I ran clean out of the comfort...
20 August, 2018
Ambition is Bad For You!
Would you drink corrosive acid? Then why harbor ambition? I heard of Horatio Alger long before I cam...
31 January, 2018
There is NO Meaning and NO Why!!
I have been making this compromise. So have you. In the manifesto for my program, I state that you s...
31 December, 2017
This Powerful Technique Will Make You the Master of All Situations
It may take you a few attempts to get the hang of it but then it will transform your life. We are bu...
18 December, 2017
Help!! I Can’t Sleep!
What to do when you go to bed and all you do is toss and turn! I just came back from London – one ...
04 December, 2017
Hope is Good but There is Something Even Better
Today is All You Have, Make Full Use of it!! Faith, Hope and Charity are celebrated in the Corinthia...
12 October, 2017
Why Positive Thinking is Bad for You
Positive Thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking ...
09 October, 2017
Everything You “know” about stress is just plain wrong!! Part 2
No, stress is NOT caused by your job or your spouse or the economy or the lack of World peace! In P...
27 September, 2017
Everything You “know” about stress is just plain wrong!! Part 1
No, stress is NOT caused by your job or your spouse or the economy or the lack of World peace! ...
21 September, 2017
Should I Keep Struggling or Throw in the Towel and Move on?
A framework that helps you decide when to keep and it and when to give up Aphorisms and proverbs som...
23 May, 2017
You Don’t Die Because of Illness. You Die Because You Were Born!
We are all on Death Row. Don’t bother about dying – think about whether you are living. For m...
07 February, 2017
You Make It All Up!!!
I was looking for a really good example for a lesson I wanted to share with you. Today, I found it. ...
19 January, 2017
Paths of Glory Lead but to the Grave
In his time he may have been the most powerful man in the world He came in fashionably late and occu...
22 December, 2016
The Real Reason You Get Angry and Fearful
I have fielded many calls in the recent past from persons in the grip of strong emotions, primarily ...
05 December, 2016
The World has Ended. Now What do I Do?
She called me right after the event. I could not see her but I knew her eyes were red with weeping. ...
21 November, 2016
The Little Known Secret to Achieving Incredible Success
I made a mistake when I was young. It took me decades to recognize that I had made the mistake. I wi...
25 October, 2016
Donald Trump, Abraham Lincoln, Dishonest Politicians and a Lesson For You!
Reading the newspaper each day is a surreal experience. Doubtless you feel you have entered The Look...
12 October, 2016
No, You DON’T Know, Dummy! And That is Why You Suffer!!
Why you keep doing stuff that harms you and you know it harms you. He was a diligent student. He did...
05 October, 2016
It’s Better Than Loving What You Do!
Sometimes the lesson you need to learn is right at home but you have spent a lifetime avoiding it. A...
30 August, 2016
The Telemarketer and Me – a Valuable Lesson
If I were to make a list of my five favorite activities, ‘Listening to a telemarketer make his pit...
26 August, 2016
I HATE My Job – and the Solution!
One of the blessings of what I do is that people share their deepest longings and darkest fears with...
24 August, 2016
How to Deal With Fear and Anger After a Terrorist Attack
The pictures are surreal even as the aftermath is gruesome. Three youths nonchalantly pushing airpor...
02 April, 2016
What to do about the ‘beep’! How to let go of inner disturbance
In my last post I described how we get upset when a motorist ‘beeps’ at us if we are slow to get...
04 February, 2016
Letting go: It’s only a ‘beep’! But what a lesson it carries!!
Alan Gassman, a prominent Florida attorney, took my capstone program Creativity and Personal Mastery...
04 January, 2016
It’s Holiday Season – Don’t Make the Mistake I Made
I made a bunch of phone calls this week but reached few of the persons I wanted to. Companies are sl...
24 December, 2015
This Illusion is Wrecking your Life!
There is an illusion that you hold on to though your own experience shows that it is just that – a...
25 August, 2015
Stop Struggling! ALLOW it to happen!
Here is how most of us live life. We set a goal for ourselves and then take appropriate action to re...
24 July, 2015
How to Straighten Out your Life
We were in Paris this summer and my wife, being a big Monet fan, dragged me to Giverny. Monet was on...
17 July, 2015
If I Could Just Get Her to Change, Then Things Would be OK
I have a number of personal coaching clients and one theme has surfaced many times. Come to think of...
08 July, 2015
You are not going anywhere!
I am a public speaker and I frequently used the example of a hamster on a wheel to illustrate our te...
18 June, 2015
We All Make the Same Mistake
We rush through life desperately striving and achieving. We are on the go, on the run striving to be...
15 May, 2015
When everything goes wrong and it’s every day
I am reading a moving, sad-funny-inspirational account of someone who hit rock-bottom and then bounc...
13 May, 2015
What do people really think of you?
My capstone program – Creativity and Personal Mastery – gives you very powerful tools that will ...
31 March, 2015
