Saturday, February 5, 2011

Closer

This coming week we will see pitchers and catchers report to Florida and Arizona to begin spring training. Its time of year all of us baseball fans wait to have happen.

We can then start to follow our teams and try to figure out how our pitching rotation looks and start to project our lineups and guess which rookie might break camp with a shot of making the opening day roster.

The Phillies have to be one of the more excited teams to start the season with their much ballyhooed starting rotation. Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt, Cliff Lee and Cole Hamels do make as formidable a foursome as there is. Only Hamels is under 30 years old in this quartet. Will age play any factor at all?

I hate the Phillies myself and only wish them doom. But I can no longer say that they suck anymore, which is painful to me. Even though they still are have accumulated more losses than any sports team in the history of the world, they are the team to beat this year.

My pain resides in NYC and inside City Field with Los Mets. A horrible offseason was made horrible by the simple fact that the owners, Fred and Jeff Wilpon, invested millions of dollars with Bernie Madoff and lost millions of dollars.

Their new general manager, Sandy Alderson, found out after he took the job that part of the team was going to be up for sale. This was great news for Met fans who are unhappy with the current ownership but gives Alderson some room for pause now.

Most Met fans ears perked up when Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban expressed interest in buying a part of the Mets. And this was good news for me to hear also. Love him or hate him, he brings energy with him and this franchise needs that and an infusion of cash to right its ship before its talent core is too old.

So the last time I wrote I wrote about Clint Dantinne, a friend of mine, and his planned incredible journey around the country selling his business idea. I mentioned that I know Clint will be successful at what he does even before he announced these plans.

The reason for this I have found to be quite simple. People literally have to have vision when they attempt to reach a goal. They must be able to see it in their minds eye well before it ever happens.

Something amazing happens when someone can paint that picture of their own success in their minds....their bodies tend to follow.

It's beyond my pay grade to explain why. But I can tell you that I have had that same experience in my life.

There are a few projects that I started that I was able to see happen successfully in mind well before they happened. I'm not talking about some sort of clairvoyance here, just a picture that I could see.

Here are a few examples. I launched a local sports newspaper some years ago. When I was working on the project I saw in my mind my paper sitting next to our local major paper on the newsstands. Six months later, it was indeed sitting right there.
Sadly, I didn’t see myself running to the bank with lots of money from some sort of financial success though!

When I started the Diamond State Games here in Delaware, I remember standing on the field at Franklin Field in Philadelphia at the Penn Relays prior to the DSG launch. As I watching the crowd in the stands I saw in mind a full gymnasium there to watch what I had created.
A few years later I indeed saw a filled-to-capacity gym watching our Jiu-Jitsu competition.

When I started my stage hypnosis career I saw myself doing shows in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. I did my first one in AC a year and a half ago and will do my first Las Vegas show in a couple of weeks.

Keep in mind that having a goal of doing these things is much different from seeing them in ones mind. Every entertainer would have a goal of something similar to that. I saw it in my mind. The actions that I took seemed to then follow a certain path to get there. Again, I don’t fully understand that process at all.

I can actually help people with some of that. Hypnosis is sometimes miraculous in how it unlocks the power of the human mind. Having been introduced to it as a kid I had a jump start but it’s never too late to apply the techniques that I can offer.

That’s all for now.

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