Announcing 99 Cents

You can get my newest book Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey as a Kindle now. 

I’ve dropped the price from $9.99 to $.99. Why?  Because, I want you to enjoy the book and then write a shining review. 

And yes, if you’ve been paying attention, the book price will eventually drop to zero for five days.  Then back to $9.99. 

Will you help me by getting the book now and reviewing it?  Please and thank you. 

Soon I will publish it as an 8 in. by 10 in. paperback.  The print proof looks beautiful.  I’m excited by it.  It feels like Christmas.  It’s going through a final check process, then it will be available. 

 

Here’s What the Book Gives You 

In Drawing the Sacred, I share my heart’s journey of connecting to the Sacred through drawing and painting, mostly in Nature.

I will show you the ancient method of Owl Eyes that original peoples around the world employ to enable their children to thrive in Nature, what some call the wild.

This method will still your mind sufficiently so that you can connect with the Sacred and see the face of God. Maybe it won’t surprise you, but it surprised the heck out of me.

Obviously, your ability to connect to the Sacred, to see the Face of God whenever you choose, will change your life. I want you to own this ability to connect to the Sacred whenever you wish.

I have shown Owl Eyes and Owl Ears to lots of people, and observed their success; I feel confident that you can master it as well.

Once you have gained a sense of place using Owl Eyes, I will illustrate a way using your right brain, which I call the Buddha brain, to draw what you see before you. Drawing in this way lets you see behind the veil of the mundane and see the revealed pure face of the Sacred. You can call the revealed pure face – the Face of God.

When you look with these eye and draw from your right brain, the ordinary becomes Sacred. Not becomes… Rather you see that when the ordinary is revealed, it truly is Sacred.

This book will help you connect to the Sacred Ordinary more than it will instruct you in how to draw. It may show you how to be an artist. What’s the difference? Ponder.

Along the way I will provide some great resources for learning to draw and will highlight them at the end of the book in the Resources section as well.

When you draw or paint what you see in front of you, you deepen your experience of the Sacred. It matters not if the finished product sells in an art gallery, hangs in a museum or on your Mom’s refrigerator. Your engagement in the process fills your heart and soul.

Drawing the Sacred contains 39 lovely illustrations.  I purposefully included some that you may find quite crude.  I did that to let you know that anyone can do this.  And even though simple, each image connects me to the Sacred, and that’s the whole point. 

You’ll read later about my ruining 1000 paintings. 

If all this sounds good, consider buying the book. 

May you walk in beauty, 

William

P.S. Tell your friends -- Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey now 99 cents.

 

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Timothy Ferriss – YES

I first encountered Timothy Ferriss when I read his excellent book – The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.  I recommend this book highly if for no other reason than it will give you permission to re-invent your own work rhythms.  Ferriss offers strategies and permission that will free you from your email and phone tyranny.

 

But today, I want you to explore The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman. 

 

The Four Hour Body 

I was skeptical about what Ferriss could possibly know about the body, but it turns out, he’s a master at learning and devoted to the idea of doing anything more simply – like getting in shape FAST.  Subtracting fat FAST.   

Other Sections of this huge book:  

·         Adding Muscle,

·         Reversing Injuries,

·         Pre-Hab: Injury Proofing the Body,

·         Perfecting Sleep.

 

He recommends that you don’t read the whole book as it’s daunting.  Just start with the things you want to influence in your life.  Later you can read it all if your want.   

I’m writing the review now because I started to read the book cover to cover.  In reading the chapter: Ultraendurance: Going from 5K to 50K  in 12 Weeks, I uncovered something that might be profoundly useful for a friend.  He’s not running ultra marathons,  but he is walking a 500 mile pilgrimage route in Spain.  The injury prevention goodies may be of help. 

Obviously, I recommend injury prevention for anyone who wants to be active in their later years, not to mention next weekend. 

I’m using his Slow Carb plan for subtracting fat, and some of his strength material comes right from the kettlebell geniuses I’ve been working with for a decade.  I trust him and his sources.

 

Meta Learning 

Meta learning is learning how to learn.  It’s fascinated me for years.  Ferriss opens the doors for you. 

I’m still exploring The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life.  Maybe the best of all three books.  Why?  Besides turning you into a powerful chef in a surprisingly short time, the book demonstrates how to learn anything quickly.  His goal is to be in the top 5% of something in record time.  He wisely doesn’t aim for the top 1%.   

He uses cooking as a way to illustrate rapid learning.  But just reading his language learning tips will blow your mind.   

He uses his life as his laboratory.  In The 4-Hour Body, he uses his body.  I love that. 

He has a playful spirit that makes me laugh.  I frequently have to stop reading and go back and read sections to my wife Suzanne.   He mixes his humor and sense of fun with a skeptical scientific rigor that I appreciate.  He tests everything by using measurement.  In fact that could be the most useful aspect of the books.  Find out how to measure what you are changing.  No measurement, no real results. 

For example, if you want to lose fat and just measure your weight, you will be misled.  You need to measure your inches as well.  People often stop losing weight but drop dress sizes.  If you just look at the scale, you’ll get discouraged.  Measure.  And measure the right stuff.  Tim will show you.

 

Your Physical Potentials – Be Inspired 

4-Hour Body encourages you to expand the idea of what you can achieve.  Although you won’t be dong these standing jumps illustrated below, Ferriss increased his vertical jump by a large percentage and tells you how. 

Watch these to whet your appetite of what humans can do. Mutants?  You decide.

 

 

55’” box jump (1.39700 m) – Woof. 

 

 

Ferriss's comment, “No run-up, no expression of effort, and he’s in goddamn slippers.”  Go back and notice the “no expression of effort.”  Holy Moly. 

My font of all wisdom, Pavel Tsatsouline shatters what we know about strength when he declares – Strength is a skill.  Ferriss shows you the skills. (I recommend anything Pavel does too.)    

I watched Pavel increase a student’s strength by 20% in ten minutes, teaching some simple skills that you can learn.   

Another time, Pavel showed a woman how to increase her flexibility dramatically in toe touching.  Initially, she could only reach a bit below her knees.  Within five minutes, Pavel taught her how to hack into her nervous system to instruct the tight muscles to let go.  Ta Daa!  She could now touch her toes.  5 minutes! 

Until I read the 4-Hour Body, I had no interest in swimming. Now I might try the Total Immersion System that changed Ferriss’s life. 

I recommend all of these books as a way for you to live a life you love by breaking through your false limitations.  It’s all about permission and possibilities.  Do the impossible.  You’ll like it. 

Tip: If you buy the books, consider the Kindle versions – they’re easier to search through when you want to go back and find a gem.  Again, you can read Kindles on any device. 

Walk in beauty, 

William 

P.S. You can get my newest book Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey as a Kindle now.  Soon I will publish it as an 8 in. by 10 in. paperback.  Très joli.

About Free Book, She Says, "Here's the best advice I know ..."

My colleague, Dr. Alexandra Gayek, just wrote this review of  Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life for her readers.  I thought you might get value from it.  Enjoy.

 

As of now the book ranks #1 in Happiness books.

This one is absolutely free until midnight Pacific Time, May 8, 2013! 

   -> http://www.on2url.com/lnk?FBsx4U4eDA4%3D 

If there's something in your life that's not working, here's the best advice I know for making it different: Do MORE OF WHAT WORKS (and less of what doesn't!) 

If you're like me, you might, just sometimes, have a tendency to think of your problems in bigger-than-life terms. You know, completely insurmountable, impossible.

And you know where that kind of thinking leads:  

·         discouragement,

·         despair,

·         hopelessness,

·         what's-the-point-in-trying...

·         Then what follows is self-sabotaging behavior--the exact opposite of what would help. 

I like to think I'm above all this, but the truth is, I'm not. I've certainly obsessed about my problems until I'm completely miserable. More than once. You? 

Another tendency some of us have is all-or-nothing thinking. You're either completely in the dumps, or into magical thinking. For example, you want to lose 30 lbs, and you get into believing the promise that some pill you saw online really will make it all disappear in 3 days "without dieting or exercise!" 

You try the magic pill, it doesn't produce the magical results, and you're not only upset about the lack of results, but also  for being so foolish as to waste your money and believe it could have worked. 

What if you tried a different approach to the things that aren't working in your life? 

What if you allowed change to happen a little at a time? 

The thing is, it's exactly that sort of acceptance that paves the way for big, even "miraculous" changes.  

You start by accepting that you are where you are, turning your attention to where you want to go, and being willing to take small steps and look for and applaud small signs that you're heading in the right direction. 

It's not so glamorous or exciting as an "instant cure," but it's much more reliably effective. 

You get to choose: drama or what works. 

I have to laugh at myself for my tendency to choose drama. You know, secretly believing I'm the exception to the rules of the universe.  

So, along comes my dear friend and colleague William Wittmann, with another of his wondrously helpful, practical little books: Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life 

It's so good! It's honest. It made me laugh. It's true. It's full of useful stories and easy tools that feel good instantly when you use them. 

This last part is important: *easy.* Have you noticed that when you're upset, angry, blameful, ashamed, embarrassed, obsessed with your problems, that you can't easily access your own brilliance and wisdom? 

The solution has to be broken down into something easy, or you can't do it. 

Then, there's the *feel good* part. When you feel bad, you don't usually have patience for something that will work eventually. You might be willing to do something helpful, but only if it works NOW.  You know, immediate gratification.

So, here you go. Something easy. No cost. A couple of clicks and you'll be nodding and laughing along with William and everyone else who's already enjoying his book. You can read it digitally whether you have Kindle or not.

   -> http://www.on2url.com/lnk?FBsx4U4eDA4%3D 

Pass on the link to your friends, so they can get it too! 

Enjoy!

With love and appreciation, 

Dr. Alexandra Gayek 

P.S. If you're reading this after midnight Pacific Time, May 8, William's book won't be free any more, but it's still worth getting! 

   -> http://www.on2url.com/lnk?FRsx4U4eDA4%3D 

William:  Alexandra has tons of great offering for you health at her site – Science of Being Well.  Go and harvest.

 

 

Giveaway Book Bestseller Now

My giveaway  book Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life ranks #2 for Stress Management and #3 for book on Happiness.

Consider downloading it while it’s still free --  Ends midnight PDT, May 8^th .

Go for it = > http://amzn.to/149OFkz

Full details about the book in the most recent blog posts.

Walk in beauty,

William

P.S. Let people know about the offer.

P.P.S. Learn what people are saying – Read the reviews. 

 

 

Here's the press release for Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life.  I thought it might be fun for you. 

Seattle, WA, USA .  Can you get the benefits of a private life coaching session from a book?  Seattle life coach, William Wittmann, M.Ed., thinks he can deliver some of the heartfelt coaching of a private session in his new book – Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life? 

One of his long time clients feels he has delivered.  She says, “It’s just like our time together.”  “And that’s the point.” Wittmann says. 

Starting Saturday May 4, people can get the free book from Amazon.com. (http://amzn.to/149OFkz).  The free offer ends at midnight May 8, 2013.  After that, it reverts to its normal price.

Wittmann wanted people to have the advantages of the wisdom of the ages that he has gathered over his 40 years of life coaching.  He feels the book will help people to live happier, more fulfilled lives.  “It’s not a magic wand,” he says, “more like a broom getting rid of stuff that doesn’t work.  Then finding the good things in your life that do work.” 

He hastens to add that he didn’t invent most of the techniques in his book, but over thousands of sessions with people, he has refined this wisdom and made it practical, effective, and simple to use. 

For example – How do you know something is working for you? 

One way– Listen to your body.  When you are faced with a choice, what does your body tell you.  Is it tight or is it relaxed and strong, does it smile? 

At around 40 pages, it can be read quickly and provide a lifetime of happy results.  Give it a whirl, it might just work for you.

 

Go for it => Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life

I will be giving away my latest book, Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life starting at 12:01 AM PDT on a Saturday May 4^th 2013 and ending at midnight PDT May 8^th 2013. 

One client said reading the book felt like our sessions.  That’s the point. 

I need some help before May 4^th.  Would you consider getting the book at its bottom $0.99 price, reading it, and reviewing it in the next couple of weeks.  I want a bunch of 4 & 5 star reviews before the free release. 

At 40 pages you’ll find the content potent, compact, and concise. You’ll apply the material, the insights over the rest of your life.

 

You can read the full description below…

 

Have you ever wanted your life to run more smoothly?  Have you ever felt you were missing an easier, more effective way to navigate life? 

Have you ever wished for help in figuring out your life? 

Clearly, my life coaching clients over the past 40 years have wanted to figure out their lives.  You want to figure out your life;  I want it, too.   

The fact that you're reading this means that you are ready to put your wishing into action by seeking  help.  And you know you can make whatever changes in your life that you wish. 

Moreover, you certainly want to stop doing things you know don’t work, things that ruin your life.  You want to quit self-sabotage. You know what I mean, don't you?

 

OK.  I’ll give away the store now: 

Here’s the life coaching prescription for making your life work – 

Do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.   

Yes, I know.  Obvious.  Right? 

But do more of what works and less of what doesn’t and your life will blossom.  

·         You’ll feel aligned in your life.   

·         You’ll feel at home, in your life.  

·         You’ll enjoy healthy relationships.    

·         You’ll be healthy.  

·         In short, you’ll feel happier. 

 

But There’s A Trick 

Clearly, there’s a trick. I feel sure you’ll uncover it with just a moment’s reflection – what works and doesn’t work isn’t always so easy to determine.  And that is the point of this book.   

I will help you to figure out what’s working in your life so you can do more of it, and what’s not working so you can do less of it.

These ideas need to be where-the-rubber-meets-the-road practical.  If the changes only live in your mind and don’t show up in your actions, your life won’t blossom.  Right? 

Certainly, you will need to act on your insights.  Change requires action.  Failure to act is the first, most fundamental item that doesn’t work for you or anyone else.  OK?   

First, I’ll provide some simple yet potent strategies to help you clearly discern what works and what doesn’t work.   

Then in chapter after chapter I’ll supply you with tips and tricks that work for other people. 

At the end I’ll provide you a list of things that most likely won’t work for you because they don’t work for anyone else either.  This list will act as a reminder of many things you already know, but certainly, some things on the list will surprise you.

Imagine.  When you read the book, you quickly… 

·         Learn to know and trust when something works.  Don't believe me, believe yourself! 

·         Find out what the wise ones say about you.  You’ll love this.

·         Find out how playing helps you.  You’ll smile. 

·         Uncover, discover, or recover the things you love, truly love to do. 

·         Discover flow – what it is and how to get more of it. 

·         Find out how you can live more freely by ignoring what others think of you.  And stay safe at the same time.  Check it out yourself. 

·         Find out how to use bumper stickers and ancient wisdom to uncover more of what works. 

·         Discover what miracles happen when you consider toast.  Yes, toast.  Simply unbelievable! 

·         Find out how to use a simple trick to leverage your new life.  Fast.  I can't wait ‘til you try this strategy! 

·         Discover the hidden power of pilgrimage to transform your life.  Pilgrimages work. 

·         Find some fast and simple tricks to make your life hum. Can the tail wag the dog?  

 

Picture yourself five years from now, having applied these ideas and insights in your life.  Do you like what you see? 

If this resonates, get the book.  You will have taken big steps on the journey to figuring out your life.  You’ll like it.  

In other words, do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.

 

This book works. 

: )

 

Get the book Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life it works. 

Walk in beauty, 

William 

P.S. You know you have to make a decision about getting Do More of What Works: A Practical Prescription for Figuring Out Your Life. You have to decide to either get the $0.99 version and help me out or wait for the free release in May.  

P.P.S. Do let your friends know about this opportunity... Tweet and Facebook please.

From the Magical Land of Herbal Imagination

Hey, this just in from the land of herbal imagination. 

My long time friends John and Kimberly Gallagher have released their magical Herb Fairies again.  (Kimberly mentored my naturalist daughter, Sasha, for a bit.)

 

You can give this magical mentoring to your kids or grand kids.  Or those youngsters you have adopted into your heart family. 

They have a bunch of stuff to give away => http://bit.ly/KqqnE0  

But it won’t be around for long.  It all ends April 13, 2013 at midnight.  

This is yummy stuff for your inner child. 

The herb fairies will feed your heart. 

So go play now.  => Herb Fairies