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The myth of failure or lollapalooza

by DW Green — May 16, 2018

When you have love within you, fear cannot survive.

I’ve been thinking about writing a book; The Life and Times of a Lazy Man. But since I’m lazy, the title may be as far as I get!I receive a weekly email from Dictionary.com. Sometimes there are great words in the email. This week’s email had one of those great words. Lollapalooza. Not a word we use every day. Lollapalooza has a neat sound and the letters in the spelling look pretty cool! Lollapalooza means: an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. When was the last lollapalooza event you had in your store? How ‘bout planning a lollapalooza Friday. A series of food activities that are extraordinary!Back to being lazy, here’s my blog topic today. The myth of failure. Written by one of my favorite writers, Dr. Wayne Dyer.“This may come as a surprise to you, but failure is an illusion. No one ever fails at anything. Everything you do produces a result. If you’re trying to learn how to catch a football and someone throws it to you and you drop it, you haven’t failed. You simply produced a result. The real question is what you do with the results that you produce. Do you leave, and moan about being ...

by DW Green — May 9, 2018

What I meant to say.

Well, Mother’s Day is Sunday. The official day to honor our moms. Though I think every day is a day to honor mom. I love my mom. I miss her. I think of her often. She was loving, and kind, understanding, and thoughtful. She trusted her instincts and intuition. I am blessed to have had such a wonderful, beautiful, loving and caring mom.In an excellent book written by Michael Murphy called What I Meant to Say, he describes saying good-bye to his mother as he leaves her home after a Thanksgiving dinner. It’s all small talk as he makes polite excuses for having to leave, which prompts the following tribute. What I meant to say was… How can I possibly say good-bye to the person who was the first to hold me, the first to feed me, and the first to make me feel loved? From a distance I watch you move about, doing the mundane tasks that to everyone else seem so routine. But for me, the tasks you lovingly completed year after year built and reinforced the foundation, the structure that made my world a safe and comfortable place to grow. All that I am and all that I have can be traced back to you. Whatever accomplishments I have made along the way would not have occurred without first believing in myself....
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Literal

by DW Green — May 2, 2018

Design is the opposite of literal.

Sometimes with design work, retailers prefer designs that literally reflect the subject they represent.According to the ole dictionary, literal is defined as the strict meaning of the word or words, not figurative or metaphysical. To construe words in the strict or in an unimaginative way; matter-of-fact; dull; prosaic. So basically, the word literal refers to the use of words. The problem is that design goes beyond the specific definition of the word or words, good design also conveys feeling and emotion. Grocery shopping is more than a grocery cart. A new or remodeled store is more than new fixtures, new floors and new décor. Design is the opposite of literal. Good design is imaginative, dynamic, and energetic. Good design builds an emotional connection between your customers and your brand. We recently updated a store logo for a client. The new design created a clean, comfortable, and captivating look and feel. The design brought energy and an aliveness to the brand (a word). Amazing.
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Food For Thought

by DW Green — April 25, 2018

Goo goo g’joob!

Since this post has really nothing to do with the food business, I decided to entitle it Food for Thought. In a peculiar way linking the content to Food!I recently attended the Sgt. Pepper’s 50^th Anniversary with Classical Mystery Tour concert at the Phoenix Symphony. It was awesome! Yep, I’m an avid Beatles fan! I love their music and the symphony added a deeper dimension to the richness of their songs.One song they performed was I am the Walrus, released in November of 1967. The first line in the song “I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together… I am the walrus Goo goo g’joob.” “I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together”.We are One.Om. Goo goo g’joob!
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Choices

by DW Green — April 18, 2018

“As a man thinketh, so is he”

We’re constantly making choices. Every day. Often, unconscious choices, which is to say, we make choices without giving them much if any thought at all. We just do stuff. And sometimes that just doing has negative consequences. I read the following this morning. Dr. Wayne Dyer’s words are a reminder to be mindful of the choices we make in the first place.“Understand that what you think about expands (“As a man thinketh, so is he”). If your thoughts are filled with doubt and you have a closed mind, you will of necessity act upon those closed-minded doubts, and you’ll see evidence of your thinking virtually everywhere you are. On the other hand, should you decide (make no mistake about this, it is a choice) to have a mind that’s open to everything, then you’ll act upon that inner energy, and you’ll be the creator as well as the recipient of miracles wherever you are. You will experience what Walt Whitman meant when he wrote, ‘To me… every inch of space is a miracle.” —Dr. Wayne Dyer
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Within

by DW Green — April 10, 2018

Trust your intuitive heart.

Yep. My impartial and unbiased comment… Adam’s blog today is great!I had written my blog earlier in the morning but thought the content was goofy, or sounded like I was lecturing. So, I thought about changing the topic of my blog. Then after reading Adam’s blog and his comment that the source of inspiration comes from within, I decided to post my initial thoughts.At the risk of sounding goofy or lecturing, I’m trusting my heart, here’s what I was thinking. Learn to listen to that place inside yourself. You have to honor your own path and be able to trust that there is a place in you that knows what is best. There is a tendency to look to others for guidance, but really only you know what is suitable for you. Trust your intuitive heart. The Quakers call it the still, small voice within. When it speaks, listen. If, as you listen to your heart’s intuition, it feels right to do something, do it. The more you listen to your heart’s intuition, the more you stop living by other people’s judgments and expectations. You start doing what you need to do. In trying to decide what to do with your life, listen to your heart.
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Mumbo Jumbo

by DW Green — April 3, 2018

The journey to now-here.

I try to read an hour or so a day. As I’m reading I will write down a sentence or two of what I just read. My plan is to reread the words at a later date. Sometimes I do. But, mostly I don’t, because I’m too lazy to sort through the hundreds of pages of sentences I have saved with the date I wrote them and a key word description. It’s like a scrambled cliff notes version of many different books!Here’s my list of sentences from last week…Am I at ease at this moment?What’s going on inside me at this moment?See in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life—by denying the Now.Primary reality is within, secondary reality is without.Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life Now is true prosperity.When you catch yourself slipping into waiting…snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything.The moment judgment stops through acceptance of what is, you are free of the mind.To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. The state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way,...
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Good or Bad?

by DW Green — March 28, 2018

But thinking makes it so…

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” —Bill Shakespeare HamletI have always found this notion perplexing. Seems true enough. What do you think? Ah the think word!Are you having a good day or a bad day, today? How do you know?There is no such thing as good or bad. They are comparisons to our expectations. They are not grounded in any objective standards and they are always relative – sometimes just in time. Is it bad, then, to get laid off? What if you hate your job but the fear of the unknown compels you to stay put. If you get laid off you may feel a weight off your back and be given the opportunity to explore new things. Is it good to get a job, then? Not if you end up working for people you don’t like, doing work that you don’t find fulfilling. I understand the realities of the world require us to make practical decisions, like making a living, but let us not judge the decisions we make or the experiences we have as good or bad. Lets just consider them all good.If you have a colleague who you think is doing bad work, before you go tell them what is bad, think of one thing that you GENUINELY think is good. Now consider everything else an opportun...
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Leadership and Spirit

by DW Green — March 21, 2018

Choose to Serve.

I’d like to acknowledge Adam for his incredible blog posts. His topics are always interesting, informative and relevant. He has a real gift of expressing his thoughts in a simple and easy-to-understand way with the ever present, comfortable undercurrent of humor. So, thank you Adam for your contribution to myself and readers of our weekly blog.On the other hand, I tend to get caught up in the less fashionable world of Self. Of Spirit. Each morning I spend 30 minutes in mediation. I end that time of silent reflection with a short prayer. A line from that prayer is “I dedicate my life to the service of God.” What does that mean? God is an imposing, intimidating, concept. To me, serving God means serving Life in all of its expressions…people, plants, animals, bugs, insects, trees, flowers, rocks, dirt, seashells, the universe! Well, it means to be of service to everything (including ourselves).I often share words of writers who are more articulate and expressive on the topic of Self than I am. In his weekly blog, my favorite leadership writer, Scott Mabry, writes the following, entitled A Minimalist Leadership Post (60 Words).

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Set-in-stone thinking

by DW Green — March 14, 2018

In the light of your awareness…

“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
-Eckhart TolleLifelong, set-in-stone thinking keeps you stuck… often without your even realizing that you’re stuck! Since this type of mental activity can’t lead you in a new direction, becoming aware must be the first step to getting rid of your excuses forever.When awareness is your reality, you don’t need to explain your shortcomings or missed opportunities. Instead, you transcend the pull of ego and move into a totally new dimension of higher consciousness. To put it simply and bluntly: if you don’t realize that you no longer have to be stuck in your old thinking habits, then the habits will prevail and persist.Breaking old habits requires noticing that you’re creating impediments in your life, and that these impediments have become excuses for so-called limitations. For example, if you’re averse to risk taking and tend to choose the safe or easy path, this has caused you to erect mental barriers. Such barriers are what I’m calling “excuses,” and they give you a way out. So when it’s time to try something new-or to take a step that might result in failing, becoming the butt of criticism,...
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