Guest Blogger Ted A. Moreno: How You Became What You’ve Become I’m learning a new song on my guitar: “Africa” by the band Toto. One line of the lyrics intrigued me: “I seek to cure what’s deep inside, frightened of this thing that I’ve become.” It’s never really explained in the song what that means. How does someone become something that is frightening to one’s self? Seems to me that it doesn’t happen all at once, of course. It’s more like the frog peacefully floating in increasingly hotter water until he is boiled, never aware of what’s happening so he never jumps out. Kind of like death by a thousand cuts. Perhaps a good word would be entropy: the gradual decline into disorder. How does someone become someone that they are not happy with? It happens one extra cookie, or additional scoop of ice cream or portion of food at…
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Guest Blogger Ted Moreno – Commitment and Success
Today’s guest blogger is Ted Moreno, success performance coach and certified hypnotherapist. One of my favorite movie quotes comes from “Unforgiven” starring Clint Eastwood. William Munny (Eastwood), is a former murderer and outlaw. He’s got his shotgun aimed at the sadistic town sheriff, on the ground, already shot. The sheriff begs “I don’t deserve this. I was building a house. ” Munny replies “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.” You can probably guess what happens next, if you know anything about Clint Eastwood films. It’s a harsh reality. What you feel you deserve has little to do with what you actually get. Because what you feel you deserve is only that: what you feel. And what you think and feel isn’t truth. It’s just what you think and feel. There were many times I didn’t feel like writing my book. Or editing it. Or re-writing parts that needed it. But…