Photo Notation: Bears (Barry Neil Kaufman), CEO/Co-Founder of the Option Institute and Author of Happiness Is A Choice and Samahria Lyte Kaufman Co-Founder/Co-Creator “Sweet image. Easy to digest. But we don’t fix people. Why? No one needs to be fixed. Period. But what we do help people to do is help them to change themselves…[…]
Imagine you had all different sizes of metaphorical scissors. You can chop with big, broad strokes. Or you can just carefully clip here and clip there. You have more on your plate than you can successfully complete or do or even want to do. Great intentions gone wild! No problem here. Now it’s time to[…]
What a crazy thing to say, you may think. But let’s look at the choices. We could say, “This is horrible”; “This is bad for me”; “This will ruin my life”. Or we can see this – and anything else that arrives at our doorstep – as an opportunity and a way for us to[…]
We don’t live on a daily basis in California, Colorado, Montana, Switzerland, Thailand, Ecuador, France, Canada, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Scotland, Norway, Colombia, The Netherlands or other places we have made our home. How long does it take to make a location your home? It’s as quick as the thought: “I AM HOME” and then –[…]
We get unhappy now in the belief that our current unhappiness (about our weight or financial challenges or relationship issues or not being enough) will help us make changes so that in the future we will be happy. But since: 1) all unhappiness is fueled by beliefs we adopt/create/empower, and 2) all beliefs can[…]
This is not a cynical or unkind reflection but a willingness to entertain, with eyes wide open, the very preciousness of each day and the lack of guarantees that we have another day beyond this today. First day. Next day. Last day. Any day could be “lights outs.” Done. Over. No more next time! No[…]
It happens every year. We make resolutions we can’t keep, then we judge ourselves because of our failures! There’s a much easier way to effect change in our lives. Instead of creating a resolution for the entire year and doom ourselves to failure, set one intention each day. If we aren’t successful with our intention[…]
Dear Sweet People, I thought you would so enjoy…this very personal and super fun travelogue (including photos) that Raun just sent to Samahria and me from Vietnam. Thank you Raun for continuing to bring the Son-Rise Program® to the world. Wow!!! Love, Bears PS: You really have to check out the photos below with Raun’s photo notations.[…]
SLOW LOGIC/FAST LOGIC (1, 2, 3, 4, 5…decide!) Slow logic is taught throughout our educational system: Go from A to B to C to D – all the way to Z, and then decide. Seems reasonable, even smart. But all of us also have a well-flexed internal ability that I call fast logic, which suggests[…]
Because we are attached to outcomes, many decisions seem to be emotionally weighty for us. Suppose I make the wrong move? Suppose I don’t get what I want? Suppose someone judges me? According to the theory of curved space, if you could split an atom and send each half in the opposite direction from the[…]
