How can we tell someone to stop hurting us if we’re not sure it hurts? How can we identify it as inappropriate if that’s all we’ve ever lived with? To us, it’s normal. How can we know what we want … Continue reading →
Travel faster and farther
“The stuff you don’t do has a lot to do with your success.” With happiness too. Stuff like impressing, interrupting, and controlling. And what about blaming, criticizing, and judging? While we’re at it, how about throwing in the whining, and clinging, and dwelling on crap that simply doesn’t matter? You travel faster and farther with a lighter load. How much stuff do you need to give up to get on with your incredible journey? – We’ve been working on a new website! Whenever we read these posts, we’re inspired to write our own private thoughts. Now you can write your own private thoughts at 130words.com. It’s easy. It’s private. It’s free. Try it! Let us…
Webinar: Spiritual Tips for Facing Fear
Fear is a fundamental human emotion. It's been built into our survival system to excite our bodies to fight or flee danger. But for most of us, it has gone haywire. We become easily afraid of a host of insignificant things, and when a significant event does come up, our fear generally causes us to react poorly, which often leads to greater problems.As such, the spiritual path must embrace and face fear to help us find liberation. But spiritual freedom isn't about never feeling fear. Rather it is about being able to be at peace with it so that it comes and goes. With it's passing, we work on maintaining mindfulness and consciously choosing our actions rather that being driven to an…
Signs of Recovery from Low Self-Esteem, Relationship Addiction and Loving “too much”
I run this a couple of times a year. It’s from Women Who Love Too Much but it can be applied for anyone recovering from unhealthy relationships. These are signs that you are INDEED recovering. As someone who went from … Continue reading →
12 Signs You Lack Healthy Boundaries (and Why You Need Them)
What are Boundaries? Personal boundaries are the limits you decide work for you on how people can treat you, how they can behave around you, and what they can expect from you. They are drawn from the framework of your core beliefs, your perspective, opinions, and your values. And these things in turn are created from …
Keep To Your Vision.
“Human Beings, by changing their inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives.” – William JamesSome call it visioning, others call it dreaming, reframing, visualization, positive thinking or cognitive therapy. And still others just do it and don’t call it anything. Its the art of deliberately picturing something that we desire – behavior, goal or outcome- so that its …
Wisdom Books: The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this landmark book, Eisenstein explains how a disconnection from the natural world and one another is built into the foundations of civilization: into science, religion, money, technology, medicine, and education … Related posts: Wisdom Books: Uniting Humanity by Sanderson Beck Wisdom Books: The End of All Evil by Jeremy Locke Wisdom Books: NonViolent Action Handbook by Sanderson Beck Wisdom Books: Disciples of the Mysterium by Michael Tsarion Wisdom Books: The Ultimate Canon of Knowledge by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
What is Your Goal Setting Mindset?
Here’s a fact: We all go through the process of goal setting several times during the course of a normal day. And we often do so without even thinking about it. For example, when you got up this morning, did you have something you wanted to accomplish, or did you just get up and wander around aimlessly? You had a goal or two, right? Maybe it didn’t seem like goal setting because it was something that you do almost every day. Even if it was just your normal routine, chances are you had a goal, or a whole bunch of goals to accomplish today. Did you …
3/30 Check in Post
Ah, it’s Monday and almost April and spring has not yet sprung here in the Northeastern US. Wonder when that might happen. How is everyone doing?
The Embittering Process
The embittering process is the path on which people become more hard-hearted, cold, cynical, and closed. It is the path that most people are on.But they don't know it. It starts simply by having a difficult experience that you can't handle or don't want to handle. That pain gets stuck in you. As a result, you tend to…
Hate to Let Others Down? How to Be Better At Saying No
Perhaps you tell yourself it makes your life easier to just say yes all the time, or that it’s just the way you are, a ‘nice’ person. But it’s actually more about lacking personal boundaries, and in the long run not knowing how to say no to others can have serious consequences for your relationships …
That’s all that matters
“Comparisons kill.” There will always be someone smarter, richer, better in some way. If that troubles you, get over it. Only compare yourself today to the person you were yesterday, and person you are becoming tomorrow. That’s all you can control. That’s all that matters. – We’ve been working on a new website! Whenever we read these posts, we’re inspired to write our own private thoughts. Now you can write your own private thoughts at 130
Webinar Recording: Spiritual Awakening and Powerful Relationships
The spiritual path brings many interesting lessons and situations into our lives, and of course, all of those are dependent on the people who are part of our experiences. Especially after a spiritual awakening, there often are a lot of powerful relationships that arrive for people. For some people, those relationships were already here, but when you are open to receive, those relationships can finally expand to offer greater depths than before. For others, it really does seem like the universe can send a wave of amazing, unsettling, and even terrifyingly powerful relationships your way.The types of …
Workbook Work Post
When you hit “continue reading” this post will take you to the workbook TOC. Ask any/all questions about the workbook in the comments of THIS POST ONLY whether you have bought it or are planning to. As you can see, … Continue reading →
Doing becomes being
“Do great things.” – adapted from Darren Hardy How do you spend your time? Trying to do something important, or trying to be someone important? Forget about trying to be someone great. Try to do something great. Becoming great will show up later. Being great is the result of doing great. – We’ve been working on a new website! Whenever we read these posts,
5 Goal Setting Skills to Assure Success
I’m sure that you already realize how important the relationship is between goal setting and achieving success. Many of our readers have told me that they set lots of goals. They like to set big goals, little goals, short-term and long-term goals. Is that true of you also? Are you a goal oriented person? If so, then you likely have a pretty good understanding of the basics of goal setting. You’ve probably learned to write down what you want to achieve, and the reasons why. You also know about …
5 Types of Spiritual Awakening Sleep Problems and Insomnia
Spiritual awakening shifts around a lot of stuff in our inner worlds, and having all the inner furniture moving can certainly cause a lot of ruckus in other rooms in our inner home. One notable room is how we sleep. Because sleep is one of the fundamental elements of being a human being, not getting enough or not getting the right kind of sleep directly impacts how you …
Workbook Sale
Because so many have asked me about the workbook, please read the description in the tab above, but for a limited time only (maybe a day or two), I’ll give you some incentive to get it and start working in … Continue reading →
Staying Sane in Today’s Changing Workplace
Whereas once a career meant working for a national or multinational company and having a job title with clear responsibilities, it’s far from the norm nowadays. In what has now been termed “the Freelance Economy”, there has been a huge rise in a new sort of worker. Some choose contracts over being on the payroll, others are …
Parables of Wisdom: On Non-Conformity with the Insane Masses
The Parable of the Poisoned Well: “There was once a wise king who ruled over a vast city. He was feared for his might and loved for his wisdom. Now in the heart of the city, there was a well whose waters were pure and crystalline from which the king and all the inhabitants drank. … Related posts: Quotes of Wisdom: Howard Zinn on Civil Obedience Quotes of Wisdom: Ayn Rand on the Freedom and Virtue of Independence Quotes of Wisdom: Erich Fromm on the Loneliness of the Sane Manly Hall’s Prescient Thoughts on Today’s Human Problems Quotes of Wisdom: Aldous Huxley on Big Brother
EntreLeadership Podcast – Developing Culture
I was recently interviewed on Dave Ramsey’s EntreLeadership Podcast where we talked about developing culture. You Can Listen Here
How will you fill your time?
“I took off my watch and found I had all the time in the world.” – Addrisi Brothers Many blame their lack of time for their lack of success. Yet everyone – successful or not – gets the same amount of time each day. What makes the difference? Is it how you choose to fill your time? Quit thinking about how time controls you. Start thinking about how you can best control your time. – We’ve been working on a new website! Whenever we read these posts, we’re inspired to…
7 Roadblocks to Your Personal Growth
How many barriers are there to personal growth? Which ones have the greatest effect on your ability to create positive change in your life? Once you become aware of your personal roadblocks, you’ll be in an excellent position to overcome them. Let’s look at some possible contenders. 1. Loosely defined goals. Setting goals is such a fundamental part of personal growth and achievement. Sounds basic, I know, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that everyone already knows what they want. I’ve found over and over again that vague, undefined goals are the norm rather than the exception. There are several factors that …
How to Manifest Your Dreams and When Manifestation Becomes Control
I'm sure that more than a few of you have heard the term "manifestation." People love to toss this term around, and it simply means getting what you want. That's basically it. All spiritual mumbo jumbo aside, people want to believe they can get what they want.But how many people really…