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5
Feb

Creative Self-Defense

   Posted by: Tom    in Finding YIW


You find yourself on a cold, deserted, darkened New York street late at night. You’re blocks away from any traffic and surrounded by old decrepit buildings with no signs of life.

Suddenly you’re not alone. Pacing behind you are two shabbily dressed men who stop and start when you do.  You have no phone or other way to call for help.

What do you do?

Here’s what I did. I call it creative self-defense.


I stepped out of my hotel into a cold crisp New York City night in December. The plumes of car exhausts to the exhales of scurrying pedestrians left traces of life everywhere.

I was in town for a friend’s annual Christmas party. She’d just moved in to a new loft that was remodeled from an old warehouse. This industrial area was going through a gentrification process designed to create an upscale series of old warehouses into multi-million dollar residences. Hers was one of the first completed.

A group of us hired a car to take us there from our hotel. The streets surrounding her building were empty of pedestrians and even cars. Usually anywhere in New York City where there’s a parking spot it’s grabbed up right away, but not here.

We arrived at her address and I marveled at what was being done to beautify the building, and later the others, in the middle the deserted urban squalor.

Later, my friends wanted leave before I was ready to, so I told them to take the car and I’d grab a cab.When it came time to go, I thought I’d just walk down to the next major street to get my ride.

When I stepped outside from my friend’s  warm and beautiful home I realized how bleak everything else was. I’d also misjudged the distance to the next major street. Many blocks away I could see the streaming car lights flowing through the distant intersection. Oh well, I thought. I love walking in New York City.

WinterNightNYCOnly about every fourth street lamp worked. All bundled in my heavy overcoat and scarf, I marveled at how the crunching snow beneath my feet echoed through the deserted buildings. It seemed strange that these were the only sounds around me, magnified by the frozen air in the middle of this city of sound.

But then another sound intruded on my solitude as I noticed the magnified sounds of more  footsteps. I stopped to listen, and heard a few more heavy crunches before they stopped. I knew these weren’t my echos. I walked a several yards then heard more crunching that sounded like it came from behind me. I stopped suddenly and heard two more crunches, then silence, except for distant sirens.

I stole a glance behind me as I began walking again. There, on the other side of the street, about a half block behind me, under one   of the few working street lamps, were two men dressed in what appeared to be old army fatigue jackets. They didn’t look like any of the party goers I’d just left.

As I walked faster, they walked faster. I slowed down, they slowed down. The nearest active intersection was at least another five blocks away.

There was nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. No lights were on in any of the buildings and going back was not an option. I let out an involuntary groan. At that moment, and upon hearing my sound, the two men stopped.

Without thinking about it, I made another loud, but now an agonizing groan. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see they’d stopped again. I abruptly faced the building closest to me and began yelling obscenities toward it.

Crazed yelling erupted from my mouth and I began flailing my fists, fighting off imaginary enemies, cursing and yelling that, “You’ll never take me alive you (expletives!)” I pretended to have a knife as I slashed out at my invisible advisories, all the while glancing at my two very real potential threats, who were now frozen in place, watching my theatrics.

I could see them looking at one another and then talking and glancing over to my side of the street as I continued my tirade.

Suddenly I stopped and turned to look at them as though seeing them for the first time. Focusing on them now, I yelled more obscenities as if they were the continuation of my imaginary battles manifested right on the street. They paused, looked at me for a moment, then turned scurried off in the opposite direction.

Taking no chances, I continued my rant as I aimed myself toward the safety of the busy street. By the time I reached the intersection my voice was so weak that I could hardly yell, TAXI!

I was never so happy to find myself in heavy city traffic.

NOTE: You were born creative. Everything new thing that you do comes from your core of creativity. Those who say, “I’m just not creative,” couldn’t be more wrong.

Like any natural gift, you can improve on it. You can heighten any or all of your senses with training. When you combine your intuition with your creativity the possibilities are endless. This is how you can get “the edge” in life.

My experience on the streets of New York are just one example, and it’s not even an extraordinary one. We are constantly presented with opportunities to advance in life and the way we increase our personal power is through exercising our creative process.

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30
Dec

Why New Year Resolutions Don’t Work!

   Posted by: Tom    in Finding YIW


If you’ve read much of my writing, either on my blogs or my books, by now you know that I believe we can all do magnificent things. So why that heading?

Most people can’t make sudden and dramatic changes, even if their behavior is hurting them and the ones they love. Even if their health or finances are in danger.

Here’s the good news, you’re not most people. Neither am I. We write and read things like this to explore the possibilities. Sometimes we even (surprise!) take action.

Yet New Year’s resolutions are to goals what empty calories are to nutrition. They may look and taste good, even give you a sugar high for a short time, but in the end, it’s mostly a waste of time.

But there are ways to plan and get what you want, or at least get the edge on what you desire.

I had 300 people in a seminar once and I asked this question: “How many of you have made New Year’s resolutions and actually took action on every one of them?        How about 50% of them?”

One person raised his hand on the first question but admitted that “every one” was only total of  two, and his action lasted only a short time, seeing no success in keeping his resolutions. Four people admitted to 50% action but only one person achieved any significant results.

This may sound like a contradiction, but I believe in writing down goals, making whole lists of them! At least that implants the idea of a little more depth in your psyche. And while there are lots of great goal setting systems, I’m not talking about that, just the New Year resolution kind. I suggest just one.

Creating a whole list of resolutions is like writing to Santa as an adult without children. You may as well lay out cookies and milk on December 24, then consume them yourself. Santa ain’t coming. Sorry.

Just One Thing

Find the one thing in your life that is the most frustrating to you. If you’ve felt that it’s unsolvable, take another look at it. If you still feel that it’s overwhelming  take another look at it.

Write out any steps you could possibly take that would make a difference. If it would take more money than you have or think you can have, write it out anyway. In fact, forget about why you might not be able to solve this frustration, just write out what it would take to do it, regardless. Just for that one thing. That one very important resolution.

I call these solutions without obstacles. The very act of writing this out can begin a plan. It can create “ahas” that show you possibilites, and there are always possibilities.

Just take that one thing and begin it. Write out a list of the ideal people you know or anyone, living or dead, famous or or not who might have the solution or could help you find it.

This will help you power up your imagination. Napoleon Hill wrote about masterminding with anyone and everyone. Whether they were available or not. Play with it. Ask yourself what the most successful person in the world might suggest to you. It can be truly amazing.

One of the events that can happen from this is that it will trigger your intuition to go where you might not otherwise have gone to find the solution.

Get “The Edge”

Getting “The Edge” In Reaching Any Success

You have the edge over most other people in. . .something. You may know something that your competitors don’t. You could have a connection in business that enhances your possibilites of success. Or, you might have read a book that helped you at a specific time and place to WIN.

“The Edge” is something all winners in life search for. And believe me, every success story you’ve ever read has embedded in it, whether revealed or not, some edge that brought that person over the top.

The mistaken assumption that is often made is that having an edge means an unfair advantage, or making it so that someone has to lose while you win or the other way around. Not so!

You’ll have the edge if your applying for a job at a Fortune 500 company with an advanced degree. Of course, that alone won’t guarantee that you’ll get the job, but all other factors being somewhat equal, you’d likely beat out the BA with an MBA.

What’s your primary goal or desire for this coming year? After you’ve written it down, write out what edge you have now. What do you know or what could you have that would increase your odds of getting what you want? If you can’t think of one, what edge would help you?

Maybe you need to know someone you don’t know. Who do you know who could introduce you to that person or that kind of person? You may have to really think about this, but your connections are far more vast that you likely realize.

Is there a book, seminar, course, or networking group that might further your likelihood of getting to your intention?

We all have a built-in “edge.” I call it “The Wizard’s Edge,” for that Inner Wizard in us all. It’s the combination of intuition and life’s lessons that we don’t always know how to call up. Nevertheless, so much is there and available.

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29
Aug

Impending Doom Or Impending Zoom?

   Posted by: Tom    in Finding YIW

Have you ever suddenly felt especially good or positive for no apparent reason? You’re going through your day and boom! You feel more hopeful, positive, even excited, but you don’t know why?

That happened to me yesterday. Out of the blue, it was a natural high. Emphasis on “natural.”

It was a feeling of impending zoom! it was a subtle, friendly, positive sense of something good happening or about to. It’s been slowly “zooming” ever since.

While my good feelings from yesterday persist, and I have yet to discover much out of the ordinary, though a very pretty woman smiled at me in the grocery store. I’m liking this feeling. It portends something extra and positive coming this way.

By the way, I think I may might have just figured it out. But more on that later.
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19
Jun

Want To Get Even With Someone? Try This!

   Posted by: Tom    in Finding YIW

It had been a grueling  trip and here I was at yet another airport restaurant. But instead of the normal bored server, tired of the indifferent travel clientele, my waitress was absolutely great. She was all smiles and when she asked me how I was doing, I felt like she really cared.

Lest I thought I was imbued with some special charm that day, I watched my waitress with her other customers. They were all equally well treated. She checked back frequently, smiled easily and seemed to be genuinely concerned about our collective well-being.

Her service and attitude in this busy place, filled with its transient clientele, was quite intriguing. I guessed her to be in her early 20’s. I watched her interact with everyone with the same sincere care. She also treated the other employees, including the usually ignored busboy, with the same charm.

Not again

Not again

Most customers, already harried from the challenges of post 9-11 security, are not exactly overflowing with charm. Cheerfulness is not easily found at airports these  days.

I watched several stressed out looking passengers plopping down at tables as my extraordinary server attended to them. Many of her customers were brighter and even smiling by the time they got their meals.

However, many of the other server’s customers still looked like the finalists in the local Lemon Sucking Contest. Read the rest of this entry »

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