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The Power of Five Minutes: Mutant Samurai Turtles, Activate!
The Power of Five Minutes–Let Your Power Flower I did it! I headed to the post office, got the right postage and sent my book proposal to an agent I worked with years before. (I will tell you later...
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The Power of Five Minutes: The Condensed Version
The Benefits of Taking Five Minutes Each Day To Do Part of Your Dreams: Starting is better than thinking about starting Five minutes each day keeps your brain “myelienated”. You keep the thread of...
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The Power of Morning and Evening: Samurai Slumbering–Samurai Rising
A passageway from a temple to garden in Nagasaki. Morning and evening are key transition times. A Japanese self-help book, a samurai self-help blogger , and a Japanese immersion website meet at a bar...
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Clear Clutter, Clear Mind: Samurai Cleaning is Samurai Learning
Cleaning and clearing clutter helps me see to the distance. Part of the attraction of temples and gardens in Japan is they are clutter free zones for the mind, and spirit. I recently watched an episode...
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The Happiness Decision: Samurai Book Review
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. –Ben Hogan You don’t have to “feel”happy to put your mind in happy places. Focusing on happiness is a decision. It’s possible that happiness is a habit...
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How to get better in one easy step. Show the Samurai Up!
All I need to know is how much is enough. —James Heisig’s translation of saying on a small stone basin at Ryonji, a Zen temple Buddhist poet Saigyo tried to live “one inch above the ground.” . ....
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Samurai Swimming: The Importance of “Treading Water”
Sometimes you have to bookmark or tread water with your skill. If you can’t do all guitar all the time, do five minutes. Photo by sudyasheel. http://bit.ly/UChtLh The other day I was minding my own...
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Samurai Cleaning is Samurai Learning
Still waters clearly reflect the possible. Clearing your desk/room is one way to clear your mind and learn more effectively. A big snowstorm hit a few days ago and unfortunately my oldest daughter had...
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Claim Your Song, Samurai
Image from unprofound.com. You don’t have to be Keith Richards or Beethoven to claim your own corner of music. Life is short. Play. “Everybody loves music. What you really want is for music to love...
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Mad Lab Samurai: Get in To Your Creation Station
Get into your mad lab creation space at least once a day. It could be a work space or a rambling walk. If you do anything for yourself give your self one hour a day of “mad lab” time. Mad lab time is...
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