Adam Gilad on “How To Be An Inspirational Man”

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How Are You Inspiring To Others?

How Are You Inspiring To Others?

 Well, Spring is in full gear.

The flowers are seducing the bees. The deer are romping in the woods near my house above the Pacific.

So, I’m asking you… what are YOU doing to improve your social and sexual life? Are you static? Are you saying the things you’ve always said? Parroting what seems to work for other kinds of men? Are you stuck in habits of the familiar simply because you they are familiar? And aching to break out into a new phase of your life, but you don’t know how? The key question as always — are you evolving?

My personal and professional theme for 2009 has been evolution. Not the kind with feathers and differentiated beaks, but the kind that has you, as a man who may be part of my community, develop a stronger spine, a deeper heart and a more expansive, uniquely individual purpose.

If you are interested in attracting a quality partner, you’ve got to ask yourself:  what makes you a more integral and powerful man?  How are you an INSPIRATION to women — not because of what you demonstrate to them, but because of who you authentically are.

There is no point in being part of my learning community if you are not going to grow into being a more resonant, magnetic presence and a more purposeful, admirable man among men. Because ultimately, women want to ADMIRE you. More that that, they NEED to admire you if they are not going to find you boring, narcissistic and uninspired, sooner or later.

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Adam Gilad Is Grateful for Sean Stephenson

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Two Wheels, One Soaring Spirit

"Two Wheels, One Soaring Spirit"

*****************”Is THIS going to be a gift or a burden?”****************

What do I mean by “THIS”?  Read on, you won’t be sorry…

Sometimes you have to just stop and take stock of your life. 9/11 was one of those days.

Last week, a friend of my son was messing around with pills for fun after a party. She died. 16 years old.

Some moments in life shock us into realizing what is important:

1. Gratitude for what you have

2. The people who love you

3. Your health

4. And most of all — what GIFT are you going to give to the world while you still have breath?

For the last year, I have been re-thinking my whole program for men (and for women) around dating. Learning to spark attraction is an essential first step. Yes. Learning to connect with another human being — or rapport — is an essential step. Yes.

But to me, none of those mean anything, ultimately, without taking that third step — which is to learn how to INSPIRE devotion. And that means living an INSPIRATIONAL LIFE.

Sound like too hard a task? Then check this out… Continue reading ‘Adam Gilad Is Grateful for Sean Stephenson’

Letter to Adam Gilad on Personal Life Media’s “The Fearless Lover”

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Freedom

Sometimes you don’t know the affect you are having on others.

The lesson I find in the letter I received below is:  GIVE YOUR GIFT!  

Even if you’re speaking into the void.  Even if it finds ears many months later.  About a year ago, I did a podcast for Personal Life Media based around ideas in Don Miguel Ruiz’s work (The Four Agreements and The Mastery of Love).  Today, it found its way to someone who needed it.

Here’s the note I received today:

Dear Adam,
Your podcast, “The track of love and the track of fear” is helping me get through a tough time.
I met a man online that I thought was going to date me forever, and after 3 months he
informed me he was too busy, all the while “finding women to flirt with” on Facebook (so his post stated).
 My two grown children spent mother’s day with their father.
My 16 year old has not been home in 3 years (she lives with her dad).
I found out today that my 18 year old will not graduate from school.
I am losing a client that brings in $3000/month due to the auto industry bullshit.
My home is in foreclosure.
I need love.
thanks for listening, Adam.

**

I responded to her right away…

Dear G,

Thanks for you note

Remember — it’s not so much that you need love.  You ARE love.
Let it flow from you always, even in the face of fear and disappointment with the way the world works - which is always going to be out of your control.
Whatever else happens, you have the choice to love.
Good luck with the details of it all.
We can’t always see it right away but the truth appears over and over:  one door closes, another opens…
The more you become the flow of love, the more and better doors will open for you.
- Adam
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This is what is in our power every moment.  Do we love or do we clench up?  Do we allow love to flow between us and others/the world.  Or do we hold back our love?
Which do you think will bring you the life you want sooner?

Adam Gilad and Thomas Friedman On The Same Page

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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Sometimes the satirical newspaper The Onion is so right on, I cant resist quoting from it. Consider this faux article from June 2005 about Americas addiction to Chinese exports:

Chen Hsien, an employee of Fenghua Ningbo Plastic Works Ltd., a plastics factory that manufactures lightweight household items for Western markets, expressed his disbelief Monday over the sheer amount of [garbage] Americans will buy. Often, when were assigned a new order for, say, salad shooters, I will say to myself, Theres no way that anyone will ever buy these. … Continue reading ‘Adam Gilad and Thomas Friedman On The Same Page’

A Global Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste

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My father - an extreme moderate - used to always remind me when things got bad that NOTHING compared to 1942. He said it looked like Hitler was going to take over the world. The “greatest generation” hadn’t yet been born into mythology, the American Collossus hadn’t made landfall in Europe, The Eastern Front hadn’t turned — and all looked bleak.

Today - yes, we have uncertainty. The Citibanks have collapsed. People’s savings have been devastated. Washington is trying to revive an obviously failed system. Republicans - AMAZINGLY - are touting deregulation as a virtue. Let me remind them of a 2nd Century Mishna passage that says more or less that you need a strong government, or people “will run wild like wolves.

Despite the confusion and uncertainty — we have food — although sprayed with toxicity (also amazingly, a commonly accepted reality!). We have iPhones. We have incredible abundance all around. So it ain’t 1933.

And it ain’t 1942.

But it is a time to SERIOUSLY rethink how we… Continue reading ‘A Global Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste’

Prayer for Peace

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People at Peace in The World

PRAYER FOR PEACE

In the name of the daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon

and the night when it departs,

I swear I will not dishonor

my soul with hatred,
but offer myself humbly
as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery,
as a messenger of wonder,
as an architect of peace.

In the name of the sun and its mirrors
and the day that embraces it
and the cloud veils drawn over it
and the uttermost night
and the male and the female
and the plants bursting with seed
and the crowning seasons
of the firefly and the apple,

I will honor all life–
wherever and in whatever form
it may dwell–on Earth my home,
and in the mansions of the stars.

Diane Ackerman

Crazy Days

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Are we at the brink of collapse or the brink of a new cycle of human evolution?

Are we going to rebuild a rapacious old style capitalist system or build a new kind of capitalism that serves both ingenuity AND the common good?

Are we going to fall into food riots or produce organic local cornucopiae?

Bueller?  Bueller?  Anyone?

Here’s A Clip of My Talk in Boston…

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Adam Zand, a mad poster, blogger, utterzer, Zander, adman, madman caught me on video like Bigfoot….

If you are interested in the connection between emotional storytelling, film writing, and good connecting copywriting for things like salespages for internet marketing — have a listen.

http://www.utterz.com/all/t-Adam%20Gilad

And Mr. Zand…. thanks

How To Connect Emotionally With Copywriting

How To Connect Emotionally With Copywriting

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Fearless Lover, Dater and Father in Vegas

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So here I am at the New Media Expo — learning all about the wacky and wild world of blogging and podcasting.

So here I am with the publisher of of my podcast, The Fearless Lover, Susan and Tim Bratton of Personal Life Media, sitting in the hallway, talking to my beloved about my 17 year old and breaking trust and gaining trust and guiding him into the manhood as a man of integrity.

Integrity. Unlike television, with its shameful “news” divisions, false dramas and lost little white girls, and unlike television with its bloviating gasbags like Rush and Hannity — the new world of social media demands integrity. You will be outed if you are a liar. Character counts. Its a virtual community, yes, but the people are REAL.

And no matter what you’re posting or twittering or digging, it goes back to the oft-ignored slogan of the Hard Rock Hotel out my window here — “Love All. Serve All.”

And I am on the phone in a cavernous hall in Vegas - of all places - talking integrity… Continue reading ‘Fearless Lover, Dater and Father in Vegas’

Affiliate Summit, Passion, Heart and Social Media

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I am just packing up in Boston. I spoke at the Affiliate Summit on how to create a story, how to create a human element, and how to use the work of Joseph Campbell to tap into people’s emotional core in order to communicate how your product or service might help them alleviate pain in their lives.

In other words - using all the skills of a screenwriter to help marketers communicate in a human rather than in a b.s. or salesy way.

It was gratifying and folks wuz grateful — people get so lost in the minutia of their tech boundaries and internal marketing matrixes — they forget that we are all just people talking to people.

And that we all share the same slopes into grief and sadness, and gaze up at the same winding pathways to love, connection, meaning, legacy and hope.

I loved all the twittering and the tweets, though I wonder where all that is going. People seem giddy with this new toy.

Also touching — the enthusiasm of the new gen of social media freaks! Maria Thurrell, the fireball behind Media Awaken, social media Pr firm for non profits and other value-positive enterprises brings amazing intelligence and heart to this world. And Chrissie Brodigan - another nebula of heart and intelligence -
of BasketCase Media — a Social Media Product Strategist.

And Mr. Dave Evans - we have fun and profits in our future.

Special thanks to the amazing Lisa Riolo for making this all possible for me. Some people are just so innately good and thoughtful, you wonder how the world got into this state.