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June 12, 2013

Goose Walk in Single File; A moment to Spontaneously Pause

By Rob Kall

I went out to my car this morning and, as I looked behind me to pull out, this is what I saw. You can see a bit of my car in the bottom left of the photo. There was this long single-file row of Canadian geese and goslings.

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I went out to my car this morning and, as I looked behind me to pull out, this is what I saw. You can see a bit of my car in the bottom left of the photo. There was this long single-file row of Canadian geese and goslings. This building is next to a creek. It seems these geese were walking around the building. 

Here in this photo they are in the back. The video shows them walking around the front, passing the third building side they'd passed,  heading back to the creek. I think they were just taking a leisurely morning stroll. 

My book, The Happiness Response (free chapters,) includes advice on planning for positive experience opportunities. I advise that you plan ahead to be prepared for unexpected opportunities for positive experiences. Think ahead, that if you encounter a positive experience (PE) opportunity, you'll be willing to break out of your planned schedule and give the opportunity some time and your full attention. We only have so many such opportunities and it's a real waste to throw them away by rushing through our pre-planned or routine schedule. 

So, think to yourself something along these lines:
"Sometimes, I'm going to find myself in a situation where something unexpected has appeared. My intention is to give myself the permission to break out of my schedule and take the time to fully embrace the PE. When I encounter one of these moments, I will say to myself, "This is one of those moments."
I mention this because when I wrote the book, I'd had a similar encounter with a row of geese with goslings, like this. And it stuck in my mind as THE example of a good time to stop and smell the roses and embrace the PE opportunity.

Another one is seeing a great sunset or cloud formation or sun glittering in ice on a tree. 

Enjoy your summer. May you encounter many PE opportunities. 

Goose and gosling traffic jam
Goose and gosling traffic jam
(Image by Rob Kall)
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Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.


Check out his platform at RobKall.com


He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity


He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com


more detailed bio:


Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.


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