A dear friend of mine....

Hi Mike!

Wow! A Baseball enthusiast! I will forever have that mental picture, sound bite as I stood at that window asking for those tickets....people in the other line saying, "Yogi Berra, she's getting tickets from Yogi! Who is she? Wow!" etc etc etc and then walking into the stadium. Bianca was 7 at the time, not living with me then asking, "Do we have front row?" and me, wanting to kick her as I greeted my family friend who got us the tickets....(he co-wrote Yogi's biography and is a long time family friend. My baby brother's God father) "Just thank Uncle Tom for the tickets allowing us to be here at all!" as we were ushered to the front row, right behind the dug out.

We were an Astro's family for the day. Red Carpet treatment I will NEVER forget!

What you are speaking of, Mike, is using our emotional bank account to fuel us. Actors do this all the time. Instead of calling it "In the Zone" my acting teacher Micah calls it "In the moment". I call it "Being Completely Engaged."

Its also used in NLP and nearly anywhere Personal Development is practiced.

> It's really all about your emotional state.
> Then,
> he got me to do a "power move"
> where I instantly
> got back "into the zone".

Gotcha here, Mike. Its great if people can have sort of an internal Data base ready to go, so that when a situation occurs they can go into this place or that to bring them back into the zone. You know, like a power prescription. I think I could even call that a Passion Power Prescription....hey! We are onto something here! Thanks, Mike! :-)

> The thing is, when your emotional state is
> in a
> peak performance mode, results follow. Your
> brain automatically steers you to where you
> need
> to go.

****Another piece to this, in my experience, is using the Law of Attraction. You know, when things go right, it ALL seems to go right? When things go wrong....run for cover?

Somewhere in my studies it says to hold the intention for 17 seconds.....don't quote me there but its worth some experimenting. Hold an intention for 17 seconds...focus.....focus.....and see what happens. Its some fascinating stuff.

here is a link to attractionu.com from Michelle Lisenberry. She does some great work:

http://www.attractionu.com

> Paul, I've been been there and done that but
> the
> only person that can pull out of a mental
> funk
> is yourself.

****Used to drive me nuts when my Mom would say, "Only YOU can make yourself happy!" *Rolling eyes* why is Mom always soooo soooo sooooo.....right?!?!?!

Thanks for the great post, Mike! Lots of valuable stuff there!

With Purpose and Passion,

JULIE
PS-I felt a little Addams family-ish....I wanted to put in the subject, "YOU RANG?" but thought the Yogi Berra subject would get more attention....


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