A World of Need There’s need everywhere. We get to choose whether we are going to do anything about it. Much Love, Jonathan
Relax and breathe
October 27, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Relax and Breathe My flight yesterday was delayed by 1 hour because they closed the door and took the jetway away while there was still a maintenance employee on the plane. Consequently, I missed my connecting flight. The flight from LA to Tokyo was 12 hours so I had plenty of time to wonder if […]
Judging vs judgmental
October 22, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Judging vs Judgmental We can judge without being judgmental. Judging is forming an opinion or coming to a conclusion about someone or something. Judgmental tends to mean having an excessively critical point of view. For example – I can judge that I wouldn’t do business with a person based on what I’ve observed. I become […]
Self-condemnation is not a strategy for improvement
October 4, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Self-Condemnation is not a Strategy for Improvement Self-condemnation never has been nor ever will be a strategy for doing better or improving performance and results. However, self-condemnation runs rampant in our world. Pay attention today to how many times you say something negative to yourself. Then notice that each time we do that, it saps […]
The work to be done
September 12, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The Work to be Done In a nutshell, the work I do with people is to help them see their lousy, limiting, disempowering, lie-based stories that they are telling themselves and then to replace those stories with better ones. Any time that we are hesitating, avoiding, procrastinating, under-performing, or resisting – it is because we […]
Hard Choices
July 11, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Hard choices We frequently mistakenly think that situations and circumstances determine our responses. “That thing happened so therefore, I must be angry, or hurt, or upset.” But, there are no mandatory responses. We can always choose something different, something that is more in alignment with who we want to be and how we want to […]
That’s not my project
June 21, 2018 by Leave a Comment
That’s not my project It is impossible for us to be responsible for anyone’s mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual well-being because we are not in control of their brain. But, we often try to be responsible. And when we do, we inevitably end up suffering. My mom is having challenges in all these areas as […]
Can we be happy when things don’t turn out the way we want them to?
May 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Can we be happy when things don’t turn out the way we want them to? The answer to that is YES! Happiness isn’t dependent on external circumstances. It is a choice we make independent of the circumstances (regardless of the severity of the circumstance). We have the ability to be happy when circumstances say that […]
Up not through
May 22, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Up not through Einstein said that a problem cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness which the problem was created. We have to raise our consciousness in order to be bigger than the problem. It isn’t about battering through the obstacles, it is about raising ourselves up so that the obstacle no longer […]
Experiences Create Expectations
April 24, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Experiences Create Expectations Our expectations are often based on what we have experienced. And, this process tends to happen automatically and non-consciously rather than intentionally. So, we don’t even know that we have these expectations. This dynamic then often has us get in our own way because we create limiting self-fulfilling prophecies. For example, ~ […]
