Posted in life, quotes, tagged dan jacobs, daniel w. jacobs, d.w.jacobs, power beyond belief, let your light shine, liberate from fear, liberate others, deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure, child of god, pretending you're small, marianne Williamson, Return To Love, Nelson Mandela, metaya on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.
We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, [...]
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Posted in life, tagged life, dan jacobs, daniel w. jacobs, change, nature, whack on the side of the head, change is inevitable, resistance to change, change is constant, metaya on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
That class altered my life forever. “Change is the only constant!” he said.
“Huh?” I thought.
“There is only one predictable element in nature and that is CHANGE!” he said again.
“How could change be a constant?” I puzzled.
“Nothing stays the same . . . except this fact. Change is inevitable!”
I suspected he [...]
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Posted in life, tagged action, attention, dan jacobs, daniel jacobs, daniel w. jacobs, goals, hopes and desires, intentions, interest, life, metaya, motivation, purposes, raison d' etre on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
When you get right down to it, it’s not that complicated. You can breathe life and action into any individual or group in one of three ways.
1. What purposes did they once have that you can help them achieve?
2. What purposes do they have now that you can [...]
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Posted in governments, life, tagged freedom, criminals, governments, life, anxiety, dan jacobs, daniel w. jacobs, daniel jacobs, injustice, anarcho-tyranny, sword of Damocles, positional power, federal bureaucracy, indifference, citizens, injustice anxiety, metaya on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(Note: this is a portion of a letter to a friend intended to provide some understanding, solace and comfort in a time of her experiencing what I have euphemistically titled, “injustice anxiety”)
Certain groups consistently engender a visceral repulsion to me. Nearly any interaction with governmental agencies is with one of these groups.
I am reminded of [...]
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Posted in life, tagged accomplishing more, Add new tag, captain beefheart, dan jacobs, daniel jacobs, daniel w. jacobs, doing, getting into action, golf, imagination, jacobs writings, metaya, Montecristo #2, second-guessing, simplicity, Terry Puterbaugh, thinking, too much to think on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I was enjoying a superb Montecristo #2 cigar with my friend Terry Puterbaugh, chewing away at the mysteries of the universe when he came up with something that sparked my imagination.
He said, “My best golf of the year comes at the first two rounds . . . something about muscle memory without conscience thought, I [...]
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Posted in art, life, tagged artist, artists' secret, belief, belief in self, competence, confidence, dan jacobs, daniel jacobs, daniel w. jacobs, metaya, performance, secret, your message on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It can’t be bought and it can’t be sold. Although invisible, intangible, and sometimes elusive, it’s native to every artist.
To the audience, this secret is sensed as an undeniably visceral experience that touches and moves them. From the artists’ viewpoint, the secret is to gain sufficient technique to get their message across, but not let [...]
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Posted in life, people, politics, tagged freedom, life, stress, death by 1000 cuts, manipulation, deception, guilt, conscience, Ling Chi torture, worried to death, self-doubt, depression, truth, hope, metaya, torture, Ling Chi, tsunami, 1000 cuts, control with fear, domination by nullification, law, decency on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yes, he knew how to handle people, he thought proudly; he was an important man.
His professionalism was impeccably positioned and beyond reproach - his reputation and the trappings of success blinded others to the dark corners of a life masked by pretense and lies.
No one would ever suspect this deception; but if they did, he [...]
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Posted in life, tagged action, amsterdam, artistic marketing, attention, attention marketing, d.w.jacobs writing, dan jacobs, daniel w. jacobs, imagination, interest, marketing sex, metaya, prostitutes, prostitution, raambordellen, red-light district, sales, seduction sells, sex sells, thought marketing on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
THE GIRL IN THE WINDOW
(artistic marketing)
Capture their attention and excite their imagination and you’ve got your hands on the most powerful marketing tool there is!
Having just returned from a vacation in Amsterdam, a city known for its free-spirited liberalism, diversity and tolerance, my buddy enthusiastically told me about his new discovery, which I’ve called, “the [...]
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Posted in life, tagged time, past, present, future, life, worries, anxiety, dan jacobs, daniel w. jacobs, metaya, d.w.jacobs writings on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Some of us live our lives running away from the past, only to discover it has followed us anyway. Or we are so anxiously worried about the future that we neglect the present.
Regrets over past misdeeds only bring them into the present to live by our side day-by-day. Worries and anxieties [...]
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Posted in life, tagged dan jacobs, daniel w. jacobs, advice, enemy action, suspicion, excuses, fast action, metaya, d.w.jacobs writing, bad advice on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
The first time - it’s excusable;
the second time - it’s suspicious;
the third time - it’s an enemy action;
take fast action NOW.
daniel w. jacobs
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