Everyday Bliss

This stop-motion video, made by 300 French students for the ESCP Business School is nothing short of amazing. Think of the hours of work, the coordination, rehearsal and good will that must have had to prevail to get this project to come together. Vive la cooperation! New Bliss Key: Cheerful Cooperation. Will save you spending money on antacid. How can you leverage Cheerful Cooperation at Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa with those which you may in years past have spent time with playing unhappy tug-of-war games?

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This is sand animation, which I’ve never seen before and has to be seen to be believed. It’s a whole entire opera and well worth the entire viewing. This is what happens when passion and purpose come together with resources and the right timing. Simply amazing.  Enjoy!

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My mother, God rest her, used to save up pickle juice to baste fish in  – a particularly horrible tip she got from her Weight Watchers sponsor in the 1970’s. Now I’m not talking about the kind of pickled fish you find in a jar like that on the right. I’m talking about regular old Vlasic or Heinz cucumber pickle juice. The stuff that’s left over with all the floaty bits, when you’ve eaten all the pickles.

Throw it away? Mom would rather have bitten off her own hand than to throw “good food” away, so even old, clapped-out pickle juice got used up – to Dad’s and my chagrin. For Mom, that was being a good steward of the environment, being frugal (which was next to Godliness in her book), allowing her to be creative and seasoning a hated food item “interestingly”.

Interesting was one word for it. Once she actually put the whole sodden mess up in lime jello. That was one of the worst nights of my life. Dad rescued me with a McCheeseburger (hey, I was seven, ok?) and knowing Dad, probably fries and a rootbeer. We were great drinkers of Frosty Rootbeer in my household. Can’t get more white bread vanilla than that. 

Because Mom was the only one doing the cooking, PickleFish unaccountably became a Friday night standard with the cheery quip: (you know you’ve heard this before folks)

“You don’t have to LIKE it, you just have to EAT it!”

Just as unaccountably, Dad instituted the “alternate Friday pizza night” tradition.

We can all thank God that Mom didn’t meet Picklepop Bob before she passed into the great mystery. Or we’d have had the horrors of PickleSickles to deal with as well.

This is apparently…for real. Pucker now or forever after hold your peace. Click to check it out:

Now say: “Pickle pop packing plant prime pickle puree!” eighteen times real fast. The most worrying aspect of this is that they’re pushing it as an alternative to soda in elementary schools. Is there enough psychotherapy in the world to undo the damage this item will inflict? Worried experts are unsure…

Yes, as Mom used to say, “there’s all kinds of people in this world honey, and half of ‘em are as crazy as loons.” This, from the woman who innovated on PickleFish, which never should have been invented in the first place.

Dad rolls his eyes and makes the index-finger-twirling universal glyph for “fruitloop”.

Don’t even start telling me about your Grandma Yetta’s lutefisk or hakarl.

Picklefish was worse.

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Hey Andrea, kudos on the Multiple Streams Advanced Strategies program!  I don’t know if I consider myself in the running for the Multiple Streams Advanced Strategies Contest, but I have so been learning from you for a long time, from the CoachVille days, through the first Mulitple Streams club & buy-a-book-get-a-conference-free in San Mateo, CA and the PinkSpoon teachings. You really showed us how to ethically increase our revenues with integrity, and greatly informed my marketing capabilities. A few of my points of leverage, from this material:

Pink Spoons:

http://maryamwebster.com/blisskit/

http://ethosmethod.com/quickstart/

http://everydaybliss.org

http://certifiedenergycoach.org/free-preview/

Low End of the Marketing Funnel:
(Here are lifechanging audios, ebooks & learning programs)

http://www.maryamwebster.com/shop/#audio

Median Portion of the Funnel
(Pre-recorded classes that were particularly stellar & group coaching):

http://ethosmethod.com/lyla/

http://12keys2bliss.com (in revision)

High End of the Funnel:
(Full Coaching Programs & Private Coaching and corporate services)

http://certifiedenergycoach.org

http://maryamwebster.com/services/

http://www.maryamwebster.com/mwg_about/

All in all, following the Multiple Streams model quadrupled my IP and at least tripled my income over single session-only coaching. Kudos!

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Are you having a tough time finishing your book, report, project or gaining inspiration?

Try the CREATIVITY TAP!

First: Think of your project, get it firmly in mind. DON’T start with the frustration of not being able to go forward! Start with what inspired you about the project in the first place. You want to keep it on an upbeat note to tap back into that passion you first felt for the work.

Second: Using the TEMPORAL TAP technique, tap with both hands on top and around the back of both ears, from the place where your ear attaches to your head in front, around the back and ending under the earlobe. Keep your taps in the channel where your ears attach to the head and simply keep focused on your project.

Don’t bust your brain, just think gently of how exciting it was to begin and even what mechanical actions you did (typing, cutting and pasting, walking to the library to do research) that began the work. Tap THREE TIMES from front to back of both ears while thinking of these things, then take a DEEP BREATH. . .

Third: Sitting or standing, cross both your arms and your legs (if you know how to do the CROSS CRAWL, go ahead and do the motions). Keeping the limbs crossed, take THREE DEEP BREATHS, then release the position.

Fourth: Now, if you’re sitting, get up, if you’re standing, start walking. Walk back and forth or twirl around in place for a minute. If possible, go outside and get some fresh air while you do this. If you’re chair or bed-bound, turn your body or your head as far as you can to the right and left, look up and down while breathing normally. This will quite literally give you a "different viewpoint" and shake the ole’ brain cells out of their rut.

Take another DEEP BREATH, and let it go. Let your mind relax and keep your eyes softly unfocused, at a point about five feet in front of you on the ground. Breathe normally for a minute or so.

Finally… Resume your working position, take another DEEP BREATH and get back into work, completely refreshed! If one iteration doesn’t do it for you, run through this process several times. It usually doesn’t take more than that.

Enjoy!

PS: Did this help? Not help? Do something else entirely different for you? Please take a moment and post your thoughts on this exercise by clicking the "Comment" link below. I love feedback. (and remember NLP guys ‘n gals – there is no failure, only feedback) Your feedback here helps everyone who reads it to learn and grow – me, most of all…

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