http://www.themeniche.com Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:59:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wouldn’t it be nice to know where to look to find a solution to a problem, any problem, all of the time? Before I continue on about reverie and it’s deep significance to happiness, I want to introduce Dr. David R. Hawkins and his most recent book Transcending the Levels ... http://www.themeniche.com/?p=19 Reverie gets a bad rap, if it gets a rap at all. So often confused with dreams, and set aside in the shadows of the great dramas of life, reverie has little to show for itself in the annals of psychology. Bachelard took it upon himself to redeem reverie. As ... http://www.themeniche.com/?p=18 Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher and phenomenologist who wrote and taught from the 1920’s until his death in 1962. The extent of the influence of his ideas is difficult to gauge and he is little known in the U.S., but in my mind he is essential to anyone ... http://www.themeniche.com/?p=17 Ever find yourself stuck in something, unable to let go of it? Stuck in a job? Stuck in a feud? Stuck In a miserable relationship? When I get stuck, I go look for the something else I’m really stuck on. It’s invariably an emotional loss of some kind. Being ... http://www.themeniche.com/?p=16 Recently I bought a new bike. I changed my context. In the world of bicycling, the change was fairly significant, from slow steel to fast carbon. But the most important changes for me personally came from the change of context. The new bike allowed me to enter a whole new ... http://www.themeniche.com/?p=14 Bill Clinton has got something figured out. But before we get to that, here’s a brainteaser: If you had an extra $3 or $4 billion to give away, what would you do? This past week in New York, the 42nd President gathered a few of his most well-heeled acquaintances & friends ... http://www.themeniche.com/?p=13 My friend Caroline and I were walking the other day. She’s a very busy mom. Two young girls, a great husband with a knack for being caught up in business and his consuming passion, triathlon, and an extended network of friends and family who all would like a little more ... http://www.themeniche.com/?p=12 Stereotypes are pretty powerful images for most of us; we tend to live them every day without even thinking about it. We like to dress a certain way, to look the part. We like to play in the same social arena year after year. At some point, conformity becomes a ... http://www.themeniche.com/?p=11 How to choose which option to work on first, once you’ve made your list of things you want to change? There are several ways to accomplish this. I will eventually cover a couple of methods, but I’ll start first with the “bubble sort”, a method that is both logical and ... http://www.themeniche.com/?p=10 What’s Dot2Dot? It’s about the how-to’s of making a change in your life - like crossing across a river by stepping from rock to rock. Dot2Dot works like that, moving from one good step to the next. How do you know what step to take? We’ll get to that ... http://www.themeniche.com/?p=9