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 […]
Ego test
Ouch and breathe
Moving cows and changing the world
Moving cows and changing the world Let’s start with a disclaimer: I am not a cow scientist so this could be inaccurate. When cows move, they don’t have a big planning meeting first to determine the optimal direction. Instead, one cow starts moving. Then another cow sees the first cow moving and thinks, “hey (not […]
Circumstances
Circumstances I received an email asking about dealing with a circumstance. Here’s my answer: Regardless of the stimulus or the circumstance (no matter how true, real, or justified it seems) – any time that we close our hearts, we lose. Never have I closed my heart and had my life get better. Never. Yes, unpleasant […]
Do what you can
Do what you can I was the sort team leader for about 20 new volunteers at Project CURE today. (Project CURE is the world’s biggest distributor of donated medical supplies and an amazing non-profit organization.) Our job was to sort boxes filled with all sorts of medical supplies into 140 different bins like IV start […]
Getting indignant
Getting indignant If I started spreading nasty lies about you every chance I got, you’d probably get upset with me, get mad at me, and even get indignant about how I dare to do that. So how come we tolerate that little voice that is spreading nasty lies about ourselves to ourselves. What if we […]