Personality Split hehe

Ok...so it's been confusing for me. Where do I blog things about TIA? Where do I blog things that are a bit more personal and a bit less "the practice"? Isn't It All One, anyway?

Well today it finally decided itself.

I'll post here, items directly related to TIA.

For more personal, wider-subject-matter posts, please check out my personal blog here:
http://tiagail.wordpress.com/

New posts going up there include such goodies as:

• Warning! Warning! hehe
• Mutant Healing
• I Didn't Even Touch Him

and others from the "Modern Miracles" series.

More coming soon!
Gail

Celebration and Gratitude

I'm pleased to announce that my work was referenced by IBM Fellow Grady Booch in an article on Innovation:

http://www.odbms.org/blog/2008/01/grady-booch-on-innovation.html

I'm honored!

Thank you Grady, and thank you so much those of you who contributed to this acknowledgment being publicized.

Gratefully,
Gail

Love, Strife, the Universe, and Everything

So it's been a while since I posted regularly. I had a 2 week meditation retreat in Dec, then got jazzed about business building so I've been...well, out there.

But that's not to say I've not been 'here' too. 3 crazy 'stuffs' happened. If you care to read them, they're here on my personal blog:
http://tiagail.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/the-triad-entries/

Little by little I'm going to make this blog just about TIA practices.

Hope you enjoy!
What do you think?
Gail

Humor Help Dearly Needed lol

While I catch up on my backlog of Blog posts (does that make it a Backlogged-Blog-a BBlog?) ...

Would you be up for helping me out with this?

1. it needs a humor injection pretty desperately. what and where? any thoughts?

2. would you add your vote just to help me populate the voting section?

3. would you rank the top 10 list (pick your favorite item and bump it up the list) to help me give that some energy?

10min only - i swear!
http://www.squidoo.com/GoalSettingSuccess

And if you like squidoo enough that you get the insane idea to put up a page yourself, would you use my referral link please? It earns us both $5. http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral/0ebbadf564df3642e84c6954638b1cb0

Can't wait to hear your ideas on spicing this thing up!
Curiously,
Gail

Happy New Year!

So much is happening!! If you were wondering where I've been since Thanksgiving, I have been:

- doing a 2 week silent meditation retreat
- hiring writers for the old and new websites
- hiring friends in India to help me set up the new websites
- studying internet marketing like crazy (Eben Pagan, Stompernet, Yanik Silver, Armand Morin, Matt Bacak, Russell Brunson, and many others)
- creating a whole new business plan to better meet what you've asked for (stay tuned!)
- getting my butt kicked by my personal trainer
- creating freebies to give away like crazy

...and remembering to breathe and sleep from time to time *wink*

So bear with me! More is coming - soooooon!!!

Sending blessings and love,
Gail

Beginners' Mind

I hope this inspires you to live out loud as much it does me. Enjoy! Gail

NATASHA BEDINGFIELD - "Unwritten", lyrics

I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined
I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand, ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

Oh, oh, oh

I break tradition, sometimes my tries, are outside the lines
We've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can't live that way

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
The rest is still unwritten
The rest is still unwritten

Oh, yeah, yeah

Away for the weekend

Hi all,

Well, in my "born to be wild" side, I've decided to take a motorcycle safety course this weekend. Oh what? I didn't tell you I had my motorcycle license? Yes well...

So that means I won't be doing my abundant writing this weekend as usual.

My pomeranian, Molly, is tripping. Given her apparently disgruntled flat-ears, I wonder what she's thinking. She's accustomed to me almost always being home. Ah well...such is life on the wild side.

Wishing you too fun in the sun,


Gail

Funny Quotes on Health

It's been an interesting 36 hours for me, lots of healing work. Right when I think I've plucked all the apples that there are to pluck in my twisted little psyche, I suddenly learn I've only pulled the low-hanging fruit and find another ripe one.


Woo hoo AFGO!

(AFGO - Another F#$%ing Growth Opportunity)


So while the newly poured cement of my healing work is in curing mode (heh), here are a few fun quotes about health.

Enjoy!
Gail

• Happiness is good health and a bad memory. -- Ingrid Bergman

• Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone. -- Grace Jones

• According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry lonely women, you'll be dead soon. -- Tina Fey

Humor

I'm pretty happy with how the Universe put me together: 6' Amazon frame, body of a venetian statue, relatively clever and contemplative. One thing I miss, though, is a stronger line around my ability to deliver humor. I've tried memorizing jokes, reading books on humor, attending improv classes - still I'm too significant for my own tastes.

Any recommendations on how I can improve my humor line?

Meanwhile, here are a few quotes I pulled to give me the balance I crave. Enjoy!

Curious,
Gail

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button you'll be disconnected!
It takes 46 muscles to frown but only 4 to flip 'em the bird.
Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson
Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.