News / David Viscott
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MEDITATION...THE WHY AND HOW
Read more →Meditation is one of those things everyone talks about doing "one of these days." Here's a brief review about why that day should come sooner rather than later.
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MY SUCCESS DEPENDS UPON...
Read more →David Viscott, MD, was an extremely talented psychiatrist who not only operated a successful LA psych practice in the 1980’s and 90’s but also found time to host a radio show. I listened to him whenever I could, spoke to him on a few precious occasions, and soaked up as much of his interviewing skills as it was possible. It's fair to say he was one of my esteemed mentors. In one of his seminars David (as he insisted everyone call him) passed out sticky labels and asked everyone come in the next morning with this sentence completed and written...
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CHANGE
Read more →CHANGE “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” Those words were spoken by one of my esteemed mentors, the late psychiatrist David Viscott, who also wrote in his book, RISKING: “If you want to feel secure Do what you already know how to do. But if you want to grow… Go to the cutting edge of your competence, which means a temporary loss of security. So, whenever you don’t quite know What you are doing Know….. that you are growing…” If there is anything I have learned, and anything that I have to keep learning on a daily...
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NOWHERE OR NOW HERE...
Read more →by Doc Foxx This blog has been rattling around in my brain for some time, begging to be let out.... For about a week they had been eyeing each other like two surly dogs glowering over a bone so it came as no surprise when they finally went at it on the foredeck. What started as a shove became a punch by one answered by the other and just that quickly they were down on the deck before anyone could make a move, grunting and rolling around, grappling for an advantage. Jerry was the first to react. He tied...