What it and weep — with gratitude for the message and the messenger. Right on, Kute…
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.
So let me ask you something.. Continue reading ‘Adam Gilad on “How To Be An Inspirational Man”’
"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’
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,
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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?
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’
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
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
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?
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
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