Meaning vs Victim In his famous book, Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor Frankl talks about how vital it is for our lives to have meaning. Without meaning or purpose we don’t have anything to life for. My mom is skinny, walks every day, and eats healthy – and, she had a stroke last week. Now […]
Swimming in polluted waters aka the mass consciousness effect
November 21, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Swimming in polluted waters aka the mass consciousness effect An important thing to keep in mind in our efforts to do better is the mass consciousness effect. Most of what is in mass consciousness is completely counter to success, happiness, and doing better. But these things are so ingrained in mass consciousness that we just […]
Stabbed by darkness
November 16, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Stabbed by darkness Imagine a cartoony sort of image where a dark character stabs someone and then a beam of bright light comes out of that hole. The dark character stabs again and another beam of light comes out. This happens a few more times until the dark character is blinded by the light and […]
Outcomes we’ve never even considered
November 15, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Outcomes we’ve never even considered Probably everyone has an area(s) in their lives where there are possibilities they’ve never even considered. Here’s an easy example of this: Many small business owners don’t think about profits, they simply think about having enough to pay the bills and then pay themselves enough to pay the other bills, […]
Shiny, bright, and radiant
November 14, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Shiny, bright, and radiant Close your eyes and see your habitual picture of yourself. How do you habitually see yourself? Are you: bright, shiny, and radiant or are you dull and dark? standing tall or hunched over? full of energy and enthusiasm or tired? smiling or solemn? powerful or weak? peaceful or frazzled? capable or […]
Un – blank – able
November 13, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Un – blank – able We spend a lot of our time and energies defending against being rejected, embarrassed, judged, shamed, alienated, disapproved of, and the like. However, all of those things require our participation. When we refuse to participate, we become unrejectable, unembarrasable, unjudgable, unshameable, unalienateable, undisapprovable, and the like. When we live this […]
Purpose of our gifts
November 9, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The stuff is the path
November 8, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The stuff is the path The circumstances, the crap, the stuff that happens is the path to improvement. For example – becoming happier. Anyone can be happy in nice weather but it takes a pro to be happy in storms and foul weather. So, we learn to become happier by choosing to practice happiness when […]
Sand castles and 18-ton boulders
November 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Sand castles and 18-ton boulders When you are up to something with your life, you will experience disapproval (because you are breaking free from the masses). So then, the question becomes – How will you deal with that disapproval? Will you let it stop you or will you shed it like water off a duck’s […]
Real men
November 6, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Real men Somewhere we have gotten way off track – that these random acts of violence are happening so often. We need to change the narrative. There’s nothing even remotely manly about hurting innocent and defenseless people. Real men take care of people, protect the innocent, and help the underdog. That’s what real men do. […]
