I Can Do It - Tampa 2008

[Clark]

Hi Michael,
I just read about you being in Tampa in October and also saw Byron Katie (along with Wayne Dyer, Marianne Williamson, and other notable speakers) and was very excited! Then I noticed you and Byron Katie are speaking concurrently at the same time! Who scheduled that?!? I want to see both of you!

I'd rather not go!

Clark

[Michael Neill]

Hmmm... you'd rather not go.

Is it true?
Can you really know that it's true?
How do you feel when you tell yourself that?
Who would you be without that story?
 

If you do come, please come and say "hello!"

love,
michael

[Clark]

Yes! I reject your reality and replace it with my own! (stolen from Adam's t-shirt on Mythbusters).

Good to see you back! How is the new book coming?

Clark

[Michael Neill]

Good to see you back! How is the new book coming?

Delivered it to the publishers on Monday - Yaaaaaay! lwill keep tinkering with it for the next 6 weeks or so, and it should be out in the UK in late February!

Here's a little excerpt from the introduction...

Introduction

Whether you want to make more money, build your business, start a family, or save the world, chances are that your approach up until now has been primarily practical - that is, focused on what it is that you want and what it is you think you need to do in order to make it happen.

In the meantime, you seek to balance the hard work you put in to achieve your goals with as many pleasurable experiences as you can afford along the way, be they in the guise of sitting at home watching telly or nights out with friends, weekends away with the family or away on your own, retail therapy, trips to the gym or the salon and annual or semi-annual holidays to somewhere warmer than wherever you are right now.   

The problem with this 'work hard, play hard' philosophy is that it often results in our alternating between working ourselves into the ground and, in the words of Neil Postman, 'amusing ourselves to death'. This ill fated either/or approach to creating life/work balance misses something essential - that a life with less punishment requires far fewer rewards.

If you're a reasonably progressive thinker, you're probably also aware that one of the reasons you want what you want is that you believe it will in some way enhance your experience of being alive.

In other words, if you really want to have a more enjoyable life, you're going to have to find a more enjoyable way of getting there...

love,
michael

[Clark]

Sounds awesome! I already got an email from Amazon UK with a pre-order notification.   While I don't mind converting English to english (my wife is Canadian so I am used including extra letters in certain words, like color), it takes too long for the publisher to convert it and get it out in the US!

Consider one copy already sold!

Clark