THE BUSINESS OF BUSINESS IS NOT ALWAYS SIMPLY BUSINESS

THE BUSINESS OF BUSINESS IS NOT ALWAYS SIMPLY BUSINESS.

Dear Friends:

Business is fundamentally simple; it is dealing with people that is so terrifically complex and confusing. The greatest minds in management are those who 1) understand the tenets of building, operating and growing a business, and 2) understand how to deal with people interpersonally and in groups. I often wish that I had gotten my graduate degrees in Behavioral Psychology and Sociology instead of in Accounting and Finance. --Douglas Castle

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FREQUENCY 528

Dear Friends:

Greetings!

Just a quick review...please be certain that you've completed the exciting BRAINTENANCE exercises in the last post, http://braintenance.blogspot.com/2009/07/braintenance-screedindeed.html. If you haven't...well then do it after the next part.

FREQUENCY 528 Hz

For a number of years, some esoteric physicists (I see one twice yearly to clean my cosmic wormholes and charm my quarks), cellular biologists and alternative healers of various types have been exploring the possibility that listening to the sound of Frequency 528 Hz, which is sometimes called the Solfeggio Frequency or the Love Frequency can actually heal damaged DNA, re-energize the body and elevate the mood.

I believe that this is at least partly true -- although I do not dispense healthcare or medical advice -- that when you spend 5 or 10 minutes listening to Frequency 528, you somehow seem to feel mentally (and psychically) rejuvenated. It may well be worthwhile for you to try.

Scroll up on this blog (http://braintenance.blogspot.com/) until you get to a place labeled EXERCISE YOUR MIND 6: MEDITATION, STIMULATION AND RELAXATION...you'll recognize it because it has a big YouTube video screen embedded into it. When you click on each of the video frames on the right-hand side of the video player, you'll see it's number. Go to Video #9 (titled: frequency 528), click on it, sit back and listen. Be patient...give it at least five minutes.

Let me know what you think.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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HUMANITAS MAXIMUS - THE LEGEND TAKES FLIGHT

Dear Friends:

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Author's Note: This blogueur [Fr. for "one who secretely watches another's blog site"] site, above, exemplifies a rare phenomenon known as "Maximum Maximus," which, although quite seldom seen, is largely self-explanatory...unless, of course, you are a complete idiot. Paradoxically, complete idiots will not realize that they have been insulted here because they could not possibly be reading this elitist screed. It is therefore safe to assume (regardless of what we are all told about assuming) that if you are reading this, you are quite intelligent indeed, and that this world needs more just like you.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

p.s. The photo in the upper right-hand corner is of the author, posing as the ill-fated Johnny Appleseed of American folk legend.

INTELLECTUAL TAUNTS AND INSULTS

Dear Friends:

My dear friend Gabriel Siegel (to serve as a reminder, this is the same smart aleck who said, "When Douglas Castle dies, they'll have to have two funerals -- one for him, and another for his ego.") has sent me a wonderful collection of Intellectual Taunts and Insults which I am, by virtue of my obsessive need to rattle cages and to wake the drooling sleepers among us, duty-bound [please avoid the obvious but inappropriate laxative jokes] to share with one and all:

INTELLECTUAL TAUNTS AND INSULTS

“I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.”
Stephen Bishop

“He is a self-made man & worships his creator.”
John Bright

“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”-
Winston Churchill

“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.”
Winston Churchill

“I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.”
Irvin S. Cobb

“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
Clarence Darrow

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.”
Moses Hadas

“His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open.”
Howard Hughes
(about Clark Gable)

“He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.”
Samuel Johnson

“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
Paul Keating

“He had delusions of adequacy.”
Walter Kerr

“There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.”
Jack E. Leonard

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.”
Abraham Lincoln

“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.”
Groucho Marx

“He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.”
Robert Redford

“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”
Thomas Brackett Reed

“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.”
James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

“In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.”
Charles, Count Talleyrand

“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
Forrest Tucker

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
Mark Twain

“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Mark Twain

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
Mae West

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
Oscar Wilde

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
Oscar Wilde

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than illumination.”
Andrew Lang
(1844-1912)

“He has Van Gogh's ear for music.”
Billy Wilder
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Once again, Gabe, thank you, and my compliments (none of which is actually applicable to you).


Faithfully,


Douglas Castle

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A BRIEF DEPARTURE: The "One Percent" Rule

The 1% Rule
Note: This brief article was originally published in the author's own blog at DOUGLAS CASTLE, http://aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com on 25 June 2009.

Dear Friends:

People (most of them self-professed pundits) are always citing the anecdotal wisdom of the "80 -20 Rule," which refers to the typical business situation where a mere 20% of your customers provide you with 80% of your business volume. It follows that a prudent business person should allocate 80% of his or her time on that critical 20%. Walking ahead just one more step, it would seem to me that it might truly be clever to focus more effort on segregating the 20% from the 80%, downsizing (I apologize for the dismal term) the 80% and building the 20% -- the ultimate result, if Murphy's Law and the Heisenberg Principle do not tamper with us too much, would be that the 20% would become our new 100%. Operating at optimal efficiency (which requires dispensing with the unfruitful investment of time in the 80%), we would then spend 100% of our time on the 100% of our customers who truly matter.

The inference in the 80-20 Rule is that the minority produces the majority of our wealth, and that they are of greater significance to us.

There is also a "Two Percent Rule," which refers to the belief that approximately 2% of the world's population (a very small, very powerful group, apparently) controls 98% of its wealth. The implications are obvious...as are the results.

Without making any value judgment, and just making an observation, I believe that both of the above rules are basically sound, albeit somewhat imprecise statistically.

But those rules are not the drivers in the limo of my current life: No, I would have to say that the Rule that affects me the most is the "1% Rule" [which will be referred to as "THE ONE PERCENT RULE" by both my detractors and by my twelfth-grade Creative Writing Teacher immediately after the release of this article].

My friend and business partner, Adam J. Kovitz, and I were discussing many wonderful upgrades to THE NATIONAL NETWORKER, and my role in mapping out and orchestrating many of these substantial changes. Adam's compliment to me was that I was a "One Percenter." He had used this expression on numerous occasions. I now understand it well enough to give it a definition. Following is the Rule, which I attribute jointly to Adam and myself...

THE ONE PERCENT RULE: Approximately One Percent of all Human Beings create and construct, while the remaining Ninety Nine Percent criticize and destroy. In sum, it is so much easier to be a critic and a complainer than it is to be a problem-solver, that most among us are virtually programmed (by our propensity toward inertia and indolence) to be critics and complainers, while only a few among us defy our baser instincts and actually create, build and problem-solve. To make matters worse, the special 1% is generally acknowledged and praised posthumously, i.e., following a crucifixion, burning at the stake, suicide, and the like. To be a One Percenter may be a thankless job, but it is necessary to every step that Humankind advances. This tenacious 1% fights against Humankind's collective drive toward either stagnation or self-annihilation. And we spend so much of our time and resources trying to discourage or eliminate this pivotal component.

Are you a One Percenter? Take the matter up with your own conscience. The sooner, the better. Time is fleeting.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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LYNN PATNER: To Grumble or Not to Grumble, That is the Question...

The article which follows was originally published on the SrMeetUp! Blog (http://SrMeetUp.blogspot.com), and has been reprinted with the permission of SrMeetUp!
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To Grumble or Not To Grumble , That is the Question…
By SrMeetUp! Featured Columnist Lynn Patner

All around me I am hearing grumbling. I hear grumbles from my students, from my clients, while I am standing in a grocery store and at dinners with friends. There are the economic grumbles, the physical grumbles and of course the relationship grumbles. I cannot go anywhere anymore without hearing someone grumble. All this grumbling is affecting me, and even at the dog park, the dogs are getting into the grumbling mood. Fights are breaking out right and left.

Now granted, the world situation is less than perfect. The collapse of the economy, the housing debacle and the loss of jobs, et cetera, only brings around more grumbling, nothing else. It goes like this: one starts to grumble, then another adds their grumbles and soon there are many grumbles. Now grumbling would be fine if it solved something or was of good use, but grumbling does nothing. It’s like sitting in a rocking chair and expecting to go somewhere. It doesn’t even make one feel better.

Do you remember the cartoon character in the Charlie Brown series, Pigpen? Wherever he walked little clouds of dust followed. That is exactly what happens with grumbles; they are like little clouds of dust that follow behind you collecting more grumbles as they go forward. The problem is they keep attracting only negativity.

In 1994 I stepped onto a path and began an amazing journey. I learned that our thoughts, either verbalized or not, create our experiences. That new information took a very long time to penetrate my mind. But then I saw what thoughts and beliefs produced, and it opened an entirely different world of reality. The reality is, I am the producer, the director and the star of my own life. This revelation did not make me happy because I could no longer be the victim in my own life drama. I couldn’t blame my parents, nor the environment and worse yet I couldn’t grumble about any of it anymore. If I was not a victim, then I must be the creator. Creator is definitely a better option.

What I have learned about my thoughts and the power of them, my emotions, and my beliefs is they literally create my reality. And it is now being proven by scientific methods no less. Wow! All you doubting Thomas out there read on.

In 2005 Bruce Lipton Ph.D., a cellular biologist, published “The Biology of Belief.” This book was awarded 2006’s Best Science Book of the Year. In the book he presents scientific evidence showing that genes and DNA do not control our biology. Instead, our genes are turned on and off by signals from outside the cells in our bodies, including the energetic messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts. The significance of this shift in belief is vast, in that the original view held for a long time was that we were victims of our own biology. The ‘new’ sciences show that we are actually masters of our biology.

An earlier book, “Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Beliefs,” published in 1997 by Dr. Herbert Benson, M.D. tells about a study conducted in 1957 at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. This study found, according to Dr. Benson, that 30 percent of the patients with rheumatoid arthritis benefited from placebos. Their placebo relief lasted at least three months. In 1995 more research was conducted confirming this study. The results were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, where 40 percent of individuals suffering with rheumatoid arthritis had a 50 percent reduction in both swelling and tenderness in their joints by simply taking a placebo. These effects lasted for six months or more.

There continues to be scientific evidence that states that we are powerful creators in our lives and the world in which we live. So, less grumbling is important as our beliefs about ourselves and the world, regardless if they are true or false, positive or negative affect us on a multitude of levels. So, I say, " just say no to grumbling."

A few tools to assist you any time you are in a grumbling space…

• Listen to uplifting music
• Think positive thoughts
• Walk in nature
• Relax in water
• Read an inspirational book
• Play with a child
• Laugh often
• Go shopping

What is important to remember is that our thoughts are creating our reality all the time. Most of the time we are creating these thoughts with our unconscious mind. As a matter of fact, I just recently heard that we are creating our lives around 95 percent from the unconscious mind. That is important information to notice. So you ask, what is the answer. The answer is: become aware of your thoughts and redirect them when you start to grumble.

Do anything that opens your heart and fills you with joy and you are on the path to bring about a life transformation.

-- Lynn

BRIEF COMMENTARY By ELAINE INGIS:

It is amazing how much we accomplish out of sheer vision and the will to make things happen. Lynn Patner offers both a tremendous opportunity and a challenge to every Boomer -- since we have the ability to transform our state of physiological health by out thoughts about life, why do we waste time dwelling on negative possibilities? There may be more to the Law of Attraction (the force behind those "self-fulfilling prophesies" many of us learned about in Psychology 101) than many of us have ever realized. We are blessed and burdened by the obligation to create our own reality by our thinking processes.

Being aware of this, we owe it to ourselves, each of us, to surround ourselves with positive influences and to avoid energy vampires who seem to thrive on complaining, suffering and misery. Carrying this one step further, we can enrich and improve our lives by becoming vitally involved in a social group or community that has a courageous, problem-solving orientation, instead of by sitting alone and talking to some well-intentioned friend on the telephone who reaffirms and prolongs our misery by fueling our outrage or by encouraging us to retreat from what life has brought us. We each have great personal power; this power is multiplied when we combine forces with other positive people.

At the risk of sounding like a shameless self-promoter, SrMeetUp! was created to bring about a positive, supportive and strengthening community environment for our Members. Positive thoughts are contagious -- why not share them? - E.I.

[Douglas Castle, a Director of SrMeetUp! and the Developer of both the Braintenance and Links 4 Life Blogs contributed to this Commentary]

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