A Dad’s Love (You Can Take It Everywhere!)
So I’m in the local supermarket doing a “mini-shop.” Diane was out at a conference for the weekend and I was picking up some odds and ends to tide us over.
Walking down the frozen aisle I watched a father and daughter. She must have been around three or four years old.
The scene was very familiar to me. The dad was showering his daughter with the kind of love only a dad can give. He was picking her up, swinging her through the air, nuzzling her, allowing her to pull his ears…all the things fathers do to make their kids feel excited and safe at the same time.
And she was eating it up.
I saw the bonding between the two of them. As a little boy, I got that same treatment from my own dad. And as I father I did the same with my two girls.
Some of my greatest memories were from both times…the giver and the receiver.
Just about everyone knows what I’m talking about…those of us who were fortunate enough to be on either side of that experience, and those who wish they were.
That bonding does more than create great memories, though I wouldn’t trade them for anything.
It teaches us to trust ourselves.
It teaches we are good enough to ask for and expect good things from this world. Not every moment, but as a general rule.
It teaches us we have control. That we have the power to be the main influence of our own lives.
It teaches us we belong.
I watched it happen. That girl, through giving and receiving love, was learning to love herself.
And of course the process of self-love can get short circuited by any number of things. Too often we see the opposite of that father-daughter interaction.
Or the cruelty of others…short and shocking or long and pervasive.
Or poverty and suffering no one should have to experience.
What I teach is how to get back in touch with trusting yourself.
Everything I do as a trainer, as a coach, as a parent of two now teenage daughters, even as an entertainer, or just a guy on the street, is this…
We are fundamentally good.
We are fundamentally right.
We are worthy of trusting.
We are worthy of laughing at our own screw ups.
We are worthy of kindness from others when we make mistakes.
We are worthy of learning new skills, new tricks, new ways of thinking and feeling.
We are worthy of taking some risks, knowing we have the power to fail, learn, start over and ultimately succeed.
We are worthy of asking for more, and receiving it.
That dad was building a lifetime of positive expectation for that little girl. She will be safe and free at her core, no matter what life circumstances she experiences.
And believe it or not, it’s never too late for you to experience that same security and freedom.
Find someone to give it to you.
Start by permitting yourself to receive it.
Continue by giving it…to yourself and others.
Be open to the infinite possibilities of unconditional love….
You can take it everywhere.
Much Love,
Larry
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Wanna Share A Halloween Costume With Me?
For Halloween this year I’m going to be a multi-millionaire. How about you?
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I’ve always loved the mystery of Halloween. You get to be whatever you want to be.
Ghost? Grab a sheet from the linen closet.
Something more elaborate? Head down to the local costume shop or get creative and resourceful.
Then go to the parties and/or trick or treating in the evening.
It was SO cool to trick or treat, especially if the air was a little brisk and a breeze was blowing. It added to the spookiness of it all.
And the houses…never knowing who was going to give what, or even if they would be home.
(My younger daughter just told me one of the houses ran out of candy last year so they handed her a ten dollar bill. I’m a little skeptical on that one, but the older one is backing her up.)
Last year I didn’t wear any costume at all but I did enjoy the spirit of the whole thing.
As I said this year I’ve decided to be a happy and secure multi-millionaire.
It’s an easy costume to assemble. It’s jeans and a casual but colorful polo shirt. Think I’ll go with the bright green one.
Casual and happy multi-millionaires wear what makes them feel good. No need to impress anyone. 
It’s what we did when we were kids. It’s an opportunity to try on a whole new identity.
If you make it real enough, it might even stick with you year round.
This year, be whatever you want for Halloween. Let the spirit of reinvention wash over you.
If you’re reading this too late for Halloween, decide on another day for your costume.
You don’t even have to tell anyone you’re wearing it.
Make any day of the year your own personal Halloween!
Boo!
Larry
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YOU Are The Economy (The Wall Street Swan Dive)
I needed to record this, even with the “allergy eyes.”
Don’t worry about Occupy Wall Street. Don’t worry about the Tea Party. Here’s what’s important…
YOUR Productivity
YOUR Ambition
YOUR Personal Responsibility
YOUR Imagination
YOUR Optimism
YOUR Commitment
YOUR Sense of Play
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Who Stole Your Dream?
I got a note from a woman I partner with once in a while for group classes. She’s an amazing speaker and trainer, and just about everyone she meets wants a piece of her energy. She’s magic!
The note she got was about a class we were going to start for a group of people local to her, mostly elderly women. She was doing a speaking engagement and a few of them asked about one on one and small group coaching.
Their goal? Find meaning and purpose in their lives.
That in itself was pretty astonishing. Just about everyone I work with has a specific thing they want.
Top two: breaking through barriers to business success and finding a romantic partner.
So both of us were really excited to work with this group. They had all the other stuff they wanted. They were secure financially. They had husbands (although I got the feeling the fun had gone out of their relationships a long time ago).
Yesterday, one of the ladies, who was the group “spokesperson” sent my friend an email…
She said one of the other women had talked to their son and daughter about our course and they both told their mom not to sign up.
They said the whole law of attraction/thoughts and beliefs- make- your- reality -stuff is all hocus pocus and meant only to sucker people out of money.
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I was a little sad…for a moment.
Someone had invaded their space. They had a moment of clarity, when their souls were asking for more than the existence they were used to.
Then they let people talk them out of their bliss.
I could go on all day about the economic system we live in being hocus pocus and meant only to sucker people into working for less than they’re worth and living halfway.
But I won’t. That’s a choice people make. More about that in a couple of days when I write Part Two of THE WALL STREET SWAN DIVE.
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The truth is this…every once in a while a window opens in your life.
You get a view of what’s possible. If you want more money, more security, more energy, more passion, more whatever…
You see yourself IN that place. Not outside looking in.
And you either jump at it…quickly…
Or the window closes.
And it will open again. Always does.
But you stop believing in your ability to jump through that window.
You lose the balls to tell your well meaning (usually unhappy) friends and relatives to mind their own business.
And months or years go by.
Wasted time.
Dude…it’s your life.
Not your brother. Not your sister. Not your husband or wife.
You have to learn to trust those angels whispering in your ear.
Or as they said in “Poltergeist”…
“RUN TO THE LIGHT!”
Who stole your dream?
No one.
Because you let them.
No one takes your dreams without your cooperation.
I don’t care if these ladies join up with us, or someone else down the road.
I don’t feel like spending my emotional energy on it, other than to share the story with you.
But let’s be real with each other here…
If you think sharing “Happy Thoughts” on Facebook is going to get you the money/romance/health/peace you really want…
You and I both know better.
At some point, you commit.
At some point, you say…
“Dammit I, (insert your name) am worth more the investment in myself.”
“I, (insert your name) am worth shutting out the voices of mistrust and negativity.”
“I, (insert your name) am going to move in courage, not in fear.”
And in that moment, you tilt the Universe in your favor.
A window opens somewhere.
And you either take the leap…
Or you watch it close, and go back to posting “Happy Thoughts” for a few more months, or years.
No one stole from you.
Move in boldness, my friend.
It’s what separates the “could have beens” from the I AM’s!
Your Friend,
Larry
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