Ronald Regan - a genius at making life appear simple - once said:

It's true hard work never killed anyone, but I figure, why take the chance?

It's amazing when you are sick how much falls by the wayside: life does gets simpler to live. People become important, while your "to do" list ceases to matter. Clarity often emerges. An acquaintance recently concussed himself into hospital - that short stay transformed the idea of his whole life.

How can you live in this simple revelatory state all the time?

This is a special day for me, and I am not even sure why.

However today I am sitting in the 1st class lounge of Qantas, on my way to attend an absurdly expensive seminar with Richard Koch on how to find, nurture and profit from a Star business. You don't enter a seminar like this unless you are already on a path…

What is a Star business?

1.It is the undisputed leader of it's market niche
2.The niche is growing at more the 10% annually
3.The Star business is growing at 20% or more annually

I am offering a workshop for Japanese Yoginis today, and it has taken me back into my many years of collecting the tenets of Buddhist philosophy.

The most vexing concept of those studies was that all my efforts - to meditate, to practise good morality, to follow precepts - would not be the cause of my enlightenment. Satori - as the Zen masters call it - has no cause.

Huh?

I do this all this work, and that isn't the cause for me to wake up? What does cause enlightenment then?

Nothing.

How many times in a day do you undecide?

Undeciding is the present participle of undecide, but my spellchecker doesn't recognize either of them! Which is all to say that it is not in common usage word. Why is that?

People do what they know - I do what I know. I get up, there's a message, I decide to respond. Now I am asking: what would happen if I didn't respond? How about I just delete it?

I was complaining to my Self in meditation this morning that I had lost focus.

I questioned it. Have I lost focus? As often happens when I play detective, I found the opposite to be true: I have been incredibly focused about one thing: my weight. This morning I hit my target: I now weigh the same as I was at 20.

It all started in London in January this year.

About a year ago I started to feel uneasy about my position as CEO of BodyChance.

I wasn't doing enough. At least, that's what my mind told me. But the facts gave another story: In that year, BodyChance as a company had grown 31%. Our profit line remained flat, but that was because I continued to invest by improving our service and increasing our attraction to new comers.

I wasn't failing - so why did I feel this disease?

As CEO of BodyChance, when I employed my first full-time staff - at a real, support-your-family salary - our negotiations finally got around to the starting date…

"April 1st"

At the time, I was ready to go NOW. It was only November:

"April 1st. Huh?"

That's Japan for you.

I have been struck recently by the lucky Yoga niche connections Cecile has been documenting for us in ATSuccess Village. Angela, on our Pro Skype sessions, has been experiencing the same thing in her niche in the UK. People contacting them both with work requests - wonderful.

I am asking - are they lucky?

Less is more: this is an expression that every Alexander Technique teacher is comfortable with. We understand it. Dammit - we teach it! And yet, today I wonder if I have really even begun to grasp how profound and society-changing this concept can be?

I still have a long way to go - how about you?

Do you make lists?

It's could be because you are greedy - I bet you never thought of it like that before?

For me it's like this: I want to do a lot - that's where my greed comes in. It starts becoming too much, so I think - make a list. Prioritise it all. That's the usual approach, right?

Except the greed stays, my list gets longer, you keep piling it on. No relief.