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Facebook: And now in a small but clean new room in an airport hotel in Frankfurt! There's...

Barbara Sher — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:30:26 +0000

And now in a small but clean new room in an airport hotel in Frankfurt! There's a convention in town and not many rooms, so I took this one. Tomorrow, weekend Number Four of the Five Weekend year of coach training - and the fun has just begun. Can't tell you what I have planned until it's over, but here's a hint: if you're an unconventional teacher anyway, you're actually more unconventional in Europe (that includes everyplace but maybe Norway). Half your students are very nervous. The other half wants to march down a main street with you on their shoulders. I love it.

Facebook: At a great medieval village in Midi-Pyrenees, my friend's inn, talking about fre...

Barbara Sher — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:44:35 +0000

At a great medieval village in Midi-Pyrenees, my friend's inn, talking about fresh food - it's her passion. She just showed me her website and the food photos are making me salivate. What photos! http://www.livingrestaurant.com/

Living Restaurant
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Twenty years ago, my husband and I left our farm near Titusville, New Jersey and moved our young family to France. This move had been planned and researched and yet was a great adventure. In preparation we spent two summers driving across the entire south of the country looking for our bit of heaven...

Facebook: Now I have to find all the links to Scanner sites to put on the back page. I nev...

Barbara Sher — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:50:00 +0000

Now I have to find all the links to Scanner sites to put on the back page. I never seem to be able to do that. Sigh. Okay, looking...(after I take an aspirin).

Facebook: Just finished gathering, editing, laying out, proofing a little book (which took...

Barbara Sher — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:49:11 +0000

Just finished gathering, editing, laying out, proofing a little book (which took longer than expected -- as always -- although I was given a huge amount of help from Andrea, Eileen, Elisabeth) It's mostly a sample for my coaching class in case they want to do the same with their own material. called Thinking Through Refuse to Choose and has 101 quotes (somewhat adapted) from the original Refuse to Choose. Once it's ready I'll probably put it up on Barbara's Club for 99c as well as Kindle (same high price). My back hurts. But I'm smiling.

Facebook: I've been called a "marathon sitter," and it's true. And I love a silent, empt...

Barbara Sher — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:19:10 +0000

I've been called a "marathon sitter," and it's true.

And I love a silent, empty house where I can work for hours at my computer without interruptions.

But every once in a while it gets too quiet and even I can't sit anymore.

I have a grand solution.

I go to YouTube and play this one song that makes me smile and even dance (while doing other things, like moving the cushions on the couch or picking up shoes). It's too short to allow you to clean the house (which is good if you just want a break), but good old YouTube will let you play it over and over.

To listen (when you're ready to bounce around the house dancing and won't be watching the monitor) go to "j'aime plus paris - thomas dutronc" here: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpMin8NXLyk>

or, to see his Monty Python-ish visuals and his bored, sexy French face (which he can't keep from smiling when he looks at his fellow musicians), go to 'Thomas Dutronc - j'aime plus Paris'

He's saying he doesn't love Paris anymore (which is amusing, I'm sure). If you like the song and want to know what he's saying, head to the very excellent

"Thomas Dutronc - < > + sous-titres"

I've looked at the lyrics a number of times, hoping to memorize the whole song and spring it on my 8-year old grandson who cheerfully, with pity in his eyes, says my French is an abomination. But I haven't been able to stick with it, so, what else is new?

If you're *really* curious, copy and paste each frame of the lyrics into the 'French' box at google's translate page (not going to give you the link because it might eat the pretty thumbnail at the top) and see what comes out on the 'English' box. It's often good, more often funny.

Not a bad way to spend 20 minutes. Hey, even when you love what you're doing you have to dance sometime, right?

J'aime plus paris - thomas dutronc
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comme un manouche sans guitare

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Barbara Sher — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:44:32 +0000

Einstein has always been one of my heroes. I've tried to read every book about him and every book that claimed to explain E=mc2 (but didn't until a marvelous book a few years ago - if you're interested tell me, and I'll give you the title).

In all that time I never saw this quote, but it's makes me happier than any other quote by him (or maybe by anyone) that I ever saw:

"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." A. Einstein

Facebook: Illustrious assistant Andrea sending me, at my request, her favorite quotes from...

Barbara Sher — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:54:23 +0000

Illustrious assistant Andrea sending me, at my request, her favorite quotes from my book, IT'S ONLY TOO LATE IF YOU DON'T START NOW. This one caught my eye:

“Contrary to what you believe, being conscious of your mortality isn’t a church bell announcing a funeral. It’s a bell that starts a boxing match. And it’s saying, “Wake up, dreamer, and come out fighting.”

(That makes me laugh, even if I did write it myself. I still believe it 14 years later.)

Facebook: Found it at last.

Barbara Sher — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:12:27 +0000

Found it at last.

Facebook: Refuse To Choose reviewed in Psychologies UK Dec issue

Barbara Sher — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:59:25 +0000

Refuse To Choose reviewed in Psychologies UK Dec issue

Facebook: So now I have to remember to get those articles written about Scanners (I'm one...

Barbara Sher — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:51:27 +0000

So now I have to remember to get those articles written about Scanners (I'm one of three experts in the October issue, and I'm all the experts in December :-) ) - From Psychologies UK. (Wait, I think one of them is from Virgin Airlines, Australia.) Well drat, now I don't remember. Back soon.

Facebook: Oh those videos we've got ready for Mondays are funny. Laughing at my own lines...

Barbara Sher — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:47:59 +0000

Oh those videos we've got ready for Mondays are funny. Laughing at my own lines & delivery. One starts with 'This character building thing is so dangerous!' and the audience bursts out laughing. So naturally, I do too. But I meant it. You'll see why. Soon.

Facebook: Twitter's broke! Okay, writing up stuff for Week 4 Saturday of B's Club. Tell me...

Barbara Sher — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:23:10 +0000

Twitter's broke! Okay, writing up stuff for Week 4 Saturday of B's Club. Tell me when Twitter's fixed. (Looking out window, grey, rainy day, big beautiful tree standing there, stalwart and true - the one in the photo above. Love that tree.)

Facebook: And include #ideaparty in every tweet so we see it.

Barbara Sher — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:31:39 +0000

And include #ideaparty in every tweet so we see it.

Facebook: Oh yes, in Twitter, search for #ideaparty

Barbara Sher — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:31:23 +0000

Oh yes, in Twitter, search for #ideaparty

Facebook: Come on over to Twitter when you can. We've started the pre-New Year's Eve part...

Barbara Sher — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:31:06 +0000

Come on over to Twitter when you can. We've started the pre-New Year's Eve part of the Twitter Idea Party and want to hear some wishes and obstacles so we can all make dreams come true today and tomorrow. (In between we're working on Barbara's Club which is extremely jolly - each week starts with a video, and usually one that makes you laugh). Of course, there's no way we'll launch tomorrow. Haven't even completed writing the newsletter that will announce it. But, as you've said, you will be tolerant and forgiving. (Thank you). And Happy New Year!

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Barbara Sher — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:11:05 +0000

So picture this: plastic boxes filled with file folders on couch beside large black and white dog (the sun falling on both classes of matter), the large desk I'm working at piled high with paper, books, printer, little speakers, big desktop monitor (I watch Hobson's Choice on You Tube when my brain starts to tighten up), looking at that big beautiful tree and listening to absolute silence. So sweet. (Where's my pencil?)

Facebook: Racing against time: family is at the snow for a week and I'm assembling all the...

Barbara Sher — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:06:13 +0000

Racing against time: family is at the snow for a week and I'm assembling all the parts for Barbara's Club, napping for 20 minutes when I get sleepy and then back at it. So much stuff!! (Month One is "Who are you?" How you like them apples? And it's not from any of my books. It's *instead of writing a new book!* Oh how I love that.) Anyway, I'm pretty much decided on the tone: not boot camp, just the kind of hanging out that gives you comfort and courage. Some good stories, some laughs, a new invention: Identity Exercises, and all of it will keep you safe, awake and (oh please, fingers crossed) interested. Very interested. Great way to learn. Solid and humane. (I'll never have time or will to announce it in a newsletter. This much I can promise without fear of error.)

Facebook: Just saw something very nice online: an article from USAToday called "Microphila...

Barbara Sher — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:39:07 +0000

Just saw something very nice online: an article from USAToday called "Microphilanthropy is changing the face of charity" I like it. The sites where people donate are called ModestNeeds.org and DonorsChoose.org and Global Giving. The article has some very cool stories. (Maybe I'll put them on the list of where the $ for teleclasses will go.)

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Barbara Sher — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:30:50 +0000

Getting lots of mail from good guys who are fighting a highly financed sleaze machine (look up Karl Rove and just help anyone he's bashing, is one good rule of them) - and people in Ohio who I never heard of, but I've heard of the thieves and liars they're running against. Can't send money to them all but what if I ran tele classes that each sent the proceeds to Obama,
Elisabeth Warren and any other endangered good guys who we need so desperately now. Feels like it's almost too late to do any good, but just in case it isn't...

If I do that I'll make it clear exactly who the money will go to, so people can make choices about what they want to do.
I wonder if that will help the good guys.

There are so many people running for Congress in other states who need help but I can't help them all -- unless I could run Resistance teleclasses, and Scanner teleclasses and IdeaParty teleclasses.

Good idea? Hmmm. Thinking.

Facebook: Finished our weekend training, and it was pretty amazing. I'm wiped out but have...

Barbara Sher — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:54:31 +0000

Finished our weekend training, and it was pretty amazing. I'm wiped out but have a smile on my face, and so did everyone else. Then (at my instigation) many of us strode through the 35-degree (F) weather and walked to the Frankfurt Christmas fair. It's unbelievable. All the lights and candies and little, old-fashioned tree decorations I hope for, and more. The buildings are half-timbered, about six stories high, look like cakes or candy, and (I am told) date from the 1200s. (I don't believe that, do you? Not possible.) There's a carousel with two floors. Everything sparkles and smells good and is crowded and friendly. Just exactly what you want at a Christmas fair. Back at the hotel, very soon to become completely prone.

Facebook: Well, took over 24 hours to get that last message through. The internet here is...

Barbara Sher — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:13:15 +0000

Well, took over 24 hours to get that last message through. The internet here is unwell. In a weird, time-consuming, somewhat frustrating way (until I just got all philosophical and sleepy). (Found out what *that* was all about, but don't dare write for too long because the internet will go away again. I'll tell you when I get back home. Odd problem.)

Facebook: Sitting in Frankfurt looking at the sunlight splashing off the windows of modern...

Barbara Sher — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:11:16 +0000

Sitting in Frankfurt looking at the sunlight splashing off the windows of modern buildings, so delighted to have my erratic internet that I want to write you all something, but nothing really has happened yet. Got a class of fascinating students waiting for me who have had 2 months of working with volunteer clients and sending in some very nice reports - but also some *very strange* reports. Can't wait to get there and find out what on earth *that* is all about!

Facebook: Ouch. Troubling: A parent (and good writer) gets arrested in Occupy L.A.: http:/...

Barbara Sher — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:44:44 +0000

Ouch. Troubling: A parent (and good writer) gets arrested in Occupy L.A.: http://myoccupylaarrest.blogspot.com/

My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan
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Facebook: Just found out I have been in Psychologies UK. More than once. (Nobody tells me...

Barbara Sher — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:42:54 +0000

Just found out I have been in Psychologies UK. More than once. (Nobody tells me nothing') Someone wrote me because the UK title of my Scanner book - What Do I Do When I Want To Do Everything? - is out of print, and she wanted to know if Refuse To Choose is the same book. (It is.) She's going to scan the December article and send it to me, because neither of us can find it online, but she did find this rather impressive article from last October (I think): http://www.psychologies.co.uk/self/what-do-you-do-when-you-want-to-do-everything/

What do you do when you want to do everything? « Psychologies
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Exciting day so far - new issue in and news that our cover star Emily Watson has won best performance at Women in Film&TV awards, go Emily!1 day ago / Follow us on Twitter

Facebook: Tightening up the script for the 3rd weekend with my coaching students in Frankf...

Barbara Sher — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:07:10 +0000

Tightening up the script for the 3rd weekend with my coaching students in Frankfurt. Remembering how they were all worried back in June that they'd have to find their own clients. (I don't blame them for dreading that idea. Talented people-helpers need to feel trusted and trustworthy, so they aren't good at selling and shouldn't have to do it.) I'll ask, but I don't think they're worried anymore: They've been working with up to 4 volunteer clients in the last 2 months, and some of the clients want to continue working with them and are happy to pay a fee. I like that.