Archive for 2010
Hallucinating For Profit
This article was first published in 2004 by hotelonline.com and I will be forever grateful for their support. “Open your bloody eyes – it’s right in front of you!” If you’re similar to 99% of the humans holding a spot on planet earth, that phrase awakens memories of scattered confusion. You quite likely didn’t realize […]
Expectation Theory: Be Careful What You Don’t Hope For Because You Might Get It!
“Well, what did you expect?!” Many folks are caught off guard by the above query on account of they were not expecting ANYTHING. Here they were, just navigating their personal stream of consciousness and then Bam! Their apple cart is tipped over for no apparent reason. And what is puzzling the person whom asks this […]
The Young Collection Agent Called Me A Loser. I Am Forced To Agree With Him.
“Anybody who goes bankrupt is a LOSER!” The smart-alecky whippersnapper collection agent yipped at me. “Did you just call me stupid?!” was the brightest thing I could think of to say back to him. Did you just call me stupid…? Criminy, I’m losing my touch if that’s all I can come up with. But you […]
I Heard This Guy’s Life Slipping Away and I Kinda Saved Him!
Dying In The Gears Of A Combine – NOT GOOD My brother-in-law / good friend Cal was inside the combine. You know, one of those machines used to make bread? Anyway, something was jammed up internally and he left the combine idling and climbed up inside on the straw-walkers. (things a person shouldn’t ought to […]
There Is No White Knight In Shining Armor Coming To Save Us
Someone is looking out for me – I can feel it. Right now at this very moment they are pondering my incredible value to the universe and plotting how best to lavishly reciprocate my selfless contribution to mankind. Oh yeah! 😎 And somewhere deep down I’ve got this sneaking suspicion that my gain will be […]
When Family Become Strangers and Strangers Become Family
So, you hate your mother?! Well, familiarity breeds contempt. I see that you keep the new car spotless while the old auto gathers dust in the back yard. That’s familiarity breeding contempt. You say that last year’s wardrobe is garbage because its so “yesterday” but this new outfit you’re wearing today is wonderful? Hmm. Like […]
Something Stinks About The Law of Attraction – This is How To UnStink It
Inspector Gadget Yes, there is a force called attraction and another called un-attraction. This is how it works: Do you prefer some foods, people or places more and prefer others less? That’s it. That’s the force we’re talking about. Most of the gobbly-gook that is being written about the law of attraction is actually enticing […]
Wrongaholic Twelve Steps – Step 4: Who The Hell Are You?
What in the world were you thinking?! If you’ve ever heard this apprehensive question and at least somewhat understood the reason it was asked, you will easily be able to grasp today’s intriguing subject as we investigate the perplexing human condition of multiple personalities. But even if you have never considered how a person can […]
The Self Actualization Blues – Few Humans Find The Prize in their Popcorn. Why?
Life is like a barrel of monkeys. You’ve got your barrel, your monkeys and everything else. Some of the keener folks among us have figured out that the trick to living a full life is to spend less time watching the monkeys or their barrel and more effort attempting to decipher everything else. And “everything […]
Geometric Progression – Bam! Bam! Bam! One Friggin Thing Right After Another!
Our universe can be described mathematically. Orbits, eclipses and planetary wobble can all be predicted and so it is with geometric progression – a sequence of numbers in which terms are multiplied by a constant value. In the human based geometric progression we will discuss today, the constant value which multiplies all others is YOU […]
Wrongaholic Twelve Step Program – Step 3: Grab The Cosmic Bull by the Horns
Our ability to sense causality is an awesome human capacity. You and I possesses the same incredible talent of inference that reveals itself when expert wildlife trackers confidently decipher footprints in the Savannah or in the deft manner which a craftsman furniture maker engages the wood grain in a prized slab of timber. Every truth […]
As Long As I Can Pee I Will Never Suffer From Writer’s Block
You are about to be immunized from writer’s block. Now uh, the first thing I need to do is put my hands in your pockets… I’ve seen other writers writing about writer’s block and I remember thinking even then, FOR GOD SAKES, THESE PEOPLE ARE WRITING! That’s four “writers” in one sentence and the phrase […]
Wrongaholic Twelve Step Program: Step 2 – Everyone Makes Mistakes So Get Over It
Some folks dislike everybody. They consider their boss to be a moron, coworkers as turds and the remaining useful idiots around them as prime candidates for the Nincompoop Party. What these folks are unconsciously displaying is the desperate need for a dough see dough through Step Two of the Wrongaholic Program. Sandbar Dead Ahead Wrongaholics […]
The Emotional Grid – What Is Up With The Number Three?
Words describe our reality and we have more words now than ever. So, I’m guessing that we likely have more reality, too. The neat thing about words is although they have individual definitions the message they convey when strung together linearly can provide a context of reality which is entirely separate from their literal content. […]
The Emotional Grid – Puzzling, Powerful Forces That Constantly Influence Us
“Psychic Resources” is very interesting term. Physicians employ the phrase to describe the fight or flight response capacity triggered in patients when serious health concerns must be unceremoniously conveyed to them. Their comrades, the medical support staff who carry most of the stretchers, recognize this “YOU’RE GOING TO BE OKAY” self healing faculty and engage […]
Wrongaholic Twelve Step Program – Step 1
Send Yourself a Signal Hello, my name is Barry Williams and I am a Wrongaholic. Never heard of us? Well, a Wrongaholic is a person, animal or thing which is resistant to admitting it / they make mistakes. This inability to assume credit for misdeeds allows bad ideas to start and wrong concepts to […]
The Emotional Grid – Luck Experiment September 13 to December 13, 2010
Part of my understanding of the Emotional Grid is that we can influence our luck. By using the scientific findings of Professor Richard Wiseman regarding our ability to generate our own luck , I intend to show that I can stop bad luck and begin experiencing only good luck, simply by will. (Sept 13/2010: this […]
Synchronicity – The Emotional Grid at Work
Carl Jung called it synchronicity. I call it The Emotional Grid because I believe that human intent plays a role. Similar in structure to magnetic fields, I believe these mobile invisible grids create intersections upon which all physical events unfold. The “grid” I am imagining is made up of human intention and its physical manifestation […]
Amusement Parks & Greeting Cards Are Emotional Vampires
When was the last time you were really afraid? And by afraid I mean OOGA-BOOGA afraid, not just your run of the mill high anxiety, heart attacking fear of death, taxes, and regular terror afraid. For many folks, I bet their answer would be the dread they recall experiencing at a recent horror movie or […]