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iMindShift with Steve Chandler

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"Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves." - Albert Camus

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Why does anyone care about two guys reading Jane Austen? Why would two guys read Jane Austen?

How did this Two Guys thing get started, anyway?

Well, one day my lifelong friend Terry Hill and I were talking about our junior high school days together. (Terry is a playwright, an award-winning advertising copywriter, a publisher of poems and articles, etc. etc. and he and I knew each other way, no WAY...back when.)

And we agreed that we had never actually read Moby Dick, nor did we know anyone else who had read it. Ever. All the way through, I mean. Not Cliff's Notes or (my old favorite cheat method) Classics Comics. The real book. Who had read it? No one. Oh, many people have been tested on that book. It has been assigned to students forever and ever. But who has read it? We couldn't find one person.

So we decided to be the first to ever do it...we would be like Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon.

And to do a major FIRST like this, we would want to chronicle the event...to even write a book about it. (We knew that others would w

JUST TOUCH THE MOONOctober 8

This is my finger touching an actual moon rock on display at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. I have touched the moon.

Kathy and I are watching the series FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON produced by Tom Hanks (available for rent on Netflix) and after the second episode, the one about the astronauts who perished in the fire in the capsule, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. Highly recommended!

Many people don't realize how influential our reading and viewing choices can be to our personal development as citizens, as parents, as professionals and as humans. They make all the difference in the world. One of the things I love to do with my mastermind and coaching school groups is ask them to share with me the movies that most moved and inspired them. Why not watch those? Instead of the steady stream of clever vulgarity coming from Hollywood today.

One of the movies I've been recommending a lot lately is THE CROSSING with Jeff Daniels as George Washington. It is centered on a dramatic battle in the Revolutionary War. Amazing dramatization of what commitment can do when one person holds it for a whole group of doubters.

Commitment and agreement are the courageous antidotes to vict

WHAT HUMAN MINDS CAN DOOctober 6

Here’s a picture of me standing under the thrusters of the rocket that went to the moon. Kathy and I were visiting the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the sights were truly amazing.

I had no idea the rockets were that large and complex. We were astonished by many sights at the NASA site and vowed to return soon to get an even longer tour.

Two days after we got back home to Arizona we put on "Apollo 13," the great Tom Hanks movie about the near-disaster voyage to the moon that was rescued so heroically.

Amazing what human minds can do when working together for an exciting mission. Contrast those brilliant, demanding and courageously sober explorations of space with the hangover our nation is experiencing from the banks and Wall Street having been on a reckless credit bender, borrowing and leveraging drunkenly, buoyed by the intoxication of personal financial gain.

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One of the reasons the visit to the shuttle launch sites in Florida was so much fun was because we had no expectations.

We were curious. Yes. And both

PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCESeptember 23

Lee Ann Womack sings:

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Living might mean taking chances
But they're worth taking
Lovin' might be a mistake
But it's worth making
Don't let some hell bent heart
Leave you bitter
When you come close to selling out
Reconsider
Give the heavens above
More than just a passing glance

And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance

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Lee Ann Womack is a star. Julie Blake is not a star, but Julie is fearless. If you don't believe me, click here (http://www.stevechandler.com/Fearless.html) to see the page she has made AND THE HEARTFELT WORDS SHE HAS WRITTEN to you, see the music video she has made, and hear the song she has written and performed.

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EMPTY YOUR MIND AND PLAYSeptember 7

"Empty your mind. Be formless. Shapeless. Like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

~BRUCE LEE

You know, I've always seen people improve their business if they continue to relate their business to a game. Or a contest...or a Bruce Lee martial arts tournament.

When they take it out of the category of "grim, grim, reality" and put it into the GAME mentality, that frees them up to do their best thinking.

But people starting their week? Where's the game plan? There is none because there is no game. It's too grim for that. It's too serious. It's all about my survival, or my worth. So it goes down the tubes riding on a river of fear. Just like the way the 17 lies began ... it was a book that was originally going to be called Lying to the Soul.

Here's what I said then and it's even more true today as markets swell and then shrink and swell again causing people to panic for all the wrong exter