This has been a *busy* month! I thought the other ones were busy, but this one seems busier. I ran 3 two-day telephone workshops already, (in English, mostly for Americans) that start the 'WriteSpeak' course I haven't run for years. It's really good, I can't help but say it. "You always manage to come up with something original" said one of the members (from England) a few years back. He since came out with with his first book based on these principles and it has become a best-seller. I could give you the name but then I'd have to give you all the names of all the books my 'students' have published since I started this, and this isn't really the topic of my blog today. (I'm not promoting. The class is sold out and we won't be offering it for at least another year, but you can read all that stuff at http://barbarasclub.com/courses if you're curious.)
What's keeping me busy is getting ready to speak at TEDx in Prague the last week of this month and I am very excited about it. I've been wanting to go on TED for some time just to tell people my favorite message: Isolation is the dream killer. (Not your awful attitude.) And stop them from relying on building Personal Schwarzenegger-type Will Power, or thinking they can manipulate the universe, or that they have to Believe in Themselves first before anything good can happen. (How can you possibly believe in yourself when you're doing something new? You wouldn't want to learn to train tigers that way.)
Happily, TEDx Prague's subject this year is following dreams. Even more happily, it seems that much of Eastern Europe is as annoyed as I am about the whole notion of forcing yourself to feel positive even when you don't.
And I'm still determined to rescue all those undiagnosed Scanners - talented people who think they have "too many interests." (There is no such thing. Ask Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin and a whole bunch of less-famous people who have created great lives following all their interests!)
I wrote the book on that one. I actually did: In English it's called Refuse To Choose, and in German the title is Du must dich nicht entscheiden, wen du tausend Träume. If you know someone who thinks he or she has something wrong with them, please tell them about the book or send them to YouTube to see (in English only) What Do I Do When I Want To Do Everything? (Try that link. I think it works but nobody's perfect.)
And I have more messages I hope I'll have time to talk about on TEDx in Prague: Don't mess with your feelings is one of them. Don't try to change them into something else or tell them what to do. Ask them what's going on. Have some respect for the way nature designed us. I'm not saying you should shout at your boss, or weep in front of the bank teller. It's not wise to express yourself to other people until you have gotten to the bottom of what's going on, but there is a big need to allow yourself to express them privately because they're always about something and must be attended to. And the results are usually sensational. :-)
And I'm going to tell everyone about the practical, down-to-earth ways of gathering people together to make each other's dreams come true. I have a lot of amazing dream-come-true stories that happened because other people helped and I want to tell as many as I can.
So that's what's keeping me busy this October. In case you're curious, the link to the TEDx event in Prague is http://www.tedxprague.cz/akce/tedxprague-2015 (Scroll down and you'll see my photo even if you don't read Czech!)
What's keeping me busy is getting ready to speak at TEDx in Prague the last week of this month and I am very excited about it. I've been wanting to go on TED for some time just to tell people my favorite message: Isolation is the dream killer. (Not your awful attitude.) And stop them from relying on building Personal Schwarzenegger-type Will Power, or thinking they can manipulate the universe, or that they have to Believe in Themselves first before anything good can happen. (How can you possibly believe in yourself when you're doing something new? You wouldn't want to learn to train tigers that way.)
Happily, TEDx Prague's subject this year is following dreams. Even more happily, it seems that much of Eastern Europe is as annoyed as I am about the whole notion of forcing yourself to feel positive even when you don't.
And I'm still determined to rescue all those undiagnosed Scanners - talented people who think they have "too many interests." (There is no such thing. Ask Goethe, Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin and a whole bunch of less-famous people who have created great lives following all their interests!)
I wrote the book on that one. I actually did: In English it's called Refuse To Choose, and in German the title is Du must dich nicht entscheiden, wen du tausend Träume. If you know someone who thinks he or she has something wrong with them, please tell them about the book or send them to YouTube to see (in English only) What Do I Do When I Want To Do Everything? (Try that link. I think it works but nobody's perfect.)
And I have more messages I hope I'll have time to talk about on TEDx in Prague: Don't mess with your feelings is one of them. Don't try to change them into something else or tell them what to do. Ask them what's going on. Have some respect for the way nature designed us. I'm not saying you should shout at your boss, or weep in front of the bank teller. It's not wise to express yourself to other people until you have gotten to the bottom of what's going on, but there is a big need to allow yourself to express them privately because they're always about something and must be attended to. And the results are usually sensational. :-)
And I'm going to tell everyone about the practical, down-to-earth ways of gathering people together to make each other's dreams come true. I have a lot of amazing dream-come-true stories that happened because other people helped and I want to tell as many as I can.
So that's what's keeping me busy this October. In case you're curious, the link to the TEDx event in Prague is http://www.tedxprague.cz/akce/tedxprague-2015 (Scroll down and you'll see my photo even if you don't read Czech!)
