Tʜɘ ɔloƨɘɿ you looʞ, ƚʜɘ lɘƨƨ you ƨɘɘ.
Disclaimer #1: This text is written from my point of view — someone who struggles…
Three crucial points that aid in…
Writing well comes down to habit and discipline. That’s good news, because I used to think writing came down to genius and inspiration.
Genius and inspiration are hard to rely on. But habit and discipline — we all can learn those.
Life, like sports, never gets easier, you just get better. My years of playing soccer…
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. — George Eliot
Campaigns can seem daunting to people who have difficulty with small talk. Just the thought of…
Everyone has the power within themselves to find happiness by fulfilling their own individual needs and desires. This means we all are competent to fill our own needs. The spark of the Divine is within our hearts and can guide us in the fulfillment of…
I’m a big fan of mental models. Short cuts, the best wisdom others have already figured out…
South Florida Dominatrix Advocating for Medical Marijuana
Humanity is the new religion.
There’s a stigma associated with Dominatrixes. I would like to go ahead and address. Dominatrixes are not mean and trying to beat you up. Domination, is a way of life but just like in life it is a rainbow of…
“Nothing in this world can so violently distort a man’s judgment…
Whether its being in a relationship, meeting the needs and expectations of others…
Skydiving happened several years ago and I haven’t wrote about it, till now.
Connor McGregor once explained in an interview how when times were really tough, he used to envisage how he would ‘feel’ if he were champion. And that’s the point i want to make.
We must embody the emotion of…
You may be part of the Independent Class, if…
Do you know someone for whom things always seem to work out? If so, how does this happen? Can you learn their secret? The…
This is an entry in a series of posts where I am trying to improve myself. You can read more about it here.
This is a Suri woman wearing a traditional lip plate.
It has come to my attention that my boyfriend is an empathy scam artist. I coined this term…
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The client announced —…
“We are our choices”
If you just had you heart broken recently due to losing someone you love/d, I have a solution for you.
I have an inkling I’m not alone when I say that the thought of working remotely added what felt…
“Even injustice has its good points. It gives me the challenge of being, as happy as I can in an unfair world”
Carrying a book (or Kindle app) with you at all times and cracking it opening whenever you get the chance is excellent advice.
Another way to get the page count up is listening to audiobooks during your commute.
While you’re listening, crank up the speed. Start with 1.25 then 1.5 and eventually…
Forgiveness is a subject that has never gone out of style. It seems to be encoded into our human DNA to take on resentments and then hold tightly to them, as though we no longer think that we will be okay without them. For many people, once someone has “done them wrong” once in…
Imagine your partner forgot to reply to your text message. What would be your reaction? You will probably start thinking of all the possibilities about why they did not message you. “Have they found someone else?”, “Are they with someone else right…
When extraordinary works better without the extra; how doing your house chores makes you shine like a hero.
Someone asked me if I would like to sell one of my paintings the other day. I felt cold shivers running down my spine reading his mail.
Of course I have thought about selling my artwork, since my aim in the long run is to live from creating it. But…
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Four weeks ago I moved both my home and my office, and it feels like I’ve been sorting through boxes forever. Today I excavated a bunch of notes from various training…
No matter what my weight, I always considered myself fat, regardless of objective…
Every business venture can seem like a roller coaster ride, packed with ups and downs…
The title of this entry is borrowed from a song by a singer/songwriter I very much enjoy named Sondre Lerche. His song titled To Be Surprised is on the soundtrack of the Steven Carrell movie Dan In Real Life. Sondre Lerche all the music for that movie. In the video below he says a…
Are you happy now or have you told yourself, “I’ll be happy when…”?
Hi Steve! Thanks for sharing. In July, I completed the 10-day course at Dhamma Mahi (~1.5 hrs south of Paris). On day-6 (similar to you), I described the “glow” to my instructor as “Disney’s ‘Fantasia’ happening inside.” On the final day, I truly felt 10 yrs younger — ”invincible” once again. The experience changed me forever and — in many ways, I’d…
Powerful routines are more important than most of us realize. I came up with the importance of this idea after studying successful businessmen, and reading powerful books like the “Compound Effect” by Darren Hardy. I have adopted routines that have complimented me greatly. They include reading…
In time the inspired bits and pieces that we receive from our intuitive self begin to form dimly perceived patterns. We get very excited about these spiritual illuminations. We are developing a new way of thinking and understanding that will change our entire life.
Occupational burnout is increasingly common across career paths and tiers. Based on data from…
With my first violent client [link] I created his design on Day 3! I am proud of the design, and don’t really care what he did. It’s past me and was an amazing test of my character.
Once we come to realization about how powerful we are in changing things, our perception of the world will change. We will find ourselves to transform from a people of thinkers to a people of doers. Our greatest adversary is within and the greatest…
It is time to consciously remember that others do not define us.
Everyone loves a good success story, right?
Running to the rescue is a noble pursuit, but it only gets you halfway to what you…
ENLIGHTENMENT
In Dr. Travis Bradberry’s post regarding it taking “courage to deal with the sharp pains of self-discovery rather than to choose the dull pain…
Clearly, you are already amazing but you want to be an entrepreneurial rockstar? Ya you do!
Here are 10 of the most important traits entrepreneurs must possess in order to maximize their success based…
Just two short years ago, a very profound teacher penetrated my orderly little life and turned it ALL up-side down in an instant.
Tomorrow I will wake up early and start chasing all my dreams.
Deciding to do something new for the vast majority of people on the planet, is hard. Let me rephrase, it’s really hard.
Frank Lloyd Wright was 91 when he finished his work on the Guggenheim Museum.
Hi Neil,
Sorry it’s taken me this long to respond! For some reason I didn’t see your comment until now. Thank you for providing this feedback. It’s truly valuable and I apologize for the format not being easier to print or see. This is something I’ll be fixing asap. I hope you’re still on my email list because as soon as…
Jeremy, after learning about the law of attraction, told me that we must never think negative thoughts and have negative feelings. We are to immediately replace them with something positive he said.
I don’t think so.
You can’t go wrong with J.R.R. Tolkien. Insightful words from one of the greatest all-time works of fiction.
Are you a perfectionist? Do you tend to make sure each project you take up is perfectly accomplished? Are you obsessed with making sure there is no stone unturned when it comes to the perfection of your work? Has it always been your habit…
We make snap decisions every day. Malcolm Gladwell, author of the book Blink, calls these occurrences “blink moments.”
What is self-love?
I have some negative thoughts that comes and goes through out my day. Even though some are voices inside my head so it’s figure out which is which, but I could use your method that would help out both cases in a sense. When they start bad mouthing or telling me how I am worthless I should stop it and say to them that today’s going to be a good day…
Self-esteem develops gradually through productive effort and life experience. The more effort we put into life, the greater our self-esteem becomes in the end. We learn from our mistakes and we learn from our successes. We develop our self-esteem by reaching out and trying to grasp our dream and…
As I work on myself with this 30 day challenge, I run into a situation — Do I prioritize actually doing the designs? Or writing about them.
Just For Me
I just got a job offer for $35/hour starting. Most 22 year olds would jump all over that. I just want to say that no amount of…
Oh Xanga: A platform to express my middle school and high school woes of college applications, tennis practice, and crushes. For the last…
You want something.
Within the human collective only the lowest common denominator things are recognized. Anything that makes a person different or special is ignored, not only ignored, but suppressed. That is why it is so ironic that identity politics are so closely tied to the liberalist agenda. They are…
Welcome back to Day 6 of Healthy Mind Power Week, 7 days of short inspirational reads to get your day (and…
Is a little accountability bot that lives on twitter. Another little proof of concept tangent project I made.
It will hold you publicly accountable to an action of your choosing every day.
Our inner critic is there for a purpose.It becomes a problem only when it’s wrong most of the time.All we need to do is to judge their judgments.
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Western culture has a bad habit. Well, several actually, but that’s the subject of another blog. Or a Masters level seminar. Anyway, the habit I want to talk about here is our felt need to have a back story for…well, everything. This often extends to ourselves and how we view ourselves in…
I met a man who gave me some enlightenment today. I’ve seen him before, months ago, playing basketball. He has a business in Information Technology, has a 7 year old kid who lives in Las Vegas with his mom and to top it all off, he’s a Christian like me. Definitely wasn’t expecting that.
— by ᴀᴍʏ sᴀɴɢsᴛᴇʀ
Envy does not sit well with me and yet I feel it frequently. I rarely feel envious of another’s possessions, more often of their qualities, their achievements. I could shake my feeling of envy off as competitiveness but then I could not explain the bitter taste of self-pity that comes afterwards.
I’ve had a real shitty week. I don’t even know why. I’ve just felt stressed, overwhelmed, and confused. Am I doing the right things? I overbooked myself. I didn’t schedule time for self-care. I can really see the effects of working too much, and not doing anything for me.
When a relationship ends, there are a million chords that have to be cut. And I don’t mean just the emotional ones. There are the conversations with the lawyer, the tons of life-together items that you don’t know what to do with. But, like so much of what is on your plate right now, it just needs to be…
I am sorry John, I misread (repeatedly): Instead of „we need to judge their judgements“ I got „we need to trust their jugdments“. I don‘t even want to know what kind of freudian error this was… ;-)
Yes, we are absolutely on the same point there. Thank you again for sharing your contribution.
Hi John, thank you for sharing your thoughts. I agree on the point of the inner critic being there for a purpose. But if this voice has grown too strong over time (or someone just happens to have a very strong one by nature that hase rarely been challenged), its judgement is more often than not misleading. That is what I mean. I find too much trust…
Happy 25th birthday! Congrats on being extremely mindful and making sure you are evaluating yourself and improving everyday!
All our fears, our angst and anxiety are only cause when we imagine any upcoming situation, our thoughts immediately go…
Successful Artists are willing to do what unsuccessful artists are not prepared to do.Working on your Art practice and yourself consistently and correctly will produce excellence. Working on yourself requires change and that will take self discipline and old bad habits will have to go.To be a…
I woke up the other day and decided that I’m going to do my best to not fit in. I don’t want to fit in anymore. Fitting in is over rated and so, so boring. I’m starting to realize that maybe people would have more fun, and also might even get ahead in life by refusing to fit in. Going against the grain is how my grandfather used to phrase it. He was…
A positive affecting affirmation to help yourself:
"I am living it up happily my way regardless of society's judgement. I am positive in my direction and glad to share what I love while doing so. I am thriving on the good and striving to continue my…
