From time to time a student or client confides in me that they resent being told what to do. I find that really funny, especially when they paid me well for telling them what to do. But such is human … Continue reading
Is happiness even possible? Is self-hate, self-punishing a good path to it?
It’s Tuesday, and my Rob Brezsny horoscope arrived this morning. It addressed something I wanted to address, because it is important: treating yourself well by providing yourself with what you need to be well, to do well, to feel well. … Continue reading
Resistance, ego, and meaning… the dynamics of your suffering, and misery explained
Feedback is a 13th floor phenomenon… If someone mocks you, laugh with them. It is obvious that humans, on the current level of evolution, live in comparison. I am better, smarter, richer, etc. than you/others. So they mock you, judge … Continue reading
A look at feelings… going under the hood. Here, knowledge is really power!
I have been saying in every article now that the 13th floor is a dynamic system. Why dynamic? Because the feelings have direction, content, opinion… and they interact, pull, push, stop you… Moving, changing, pulsing, etc. Humans are not simple … Continue reading
Discouraged often?
My father was never discouraged. Not that he didn’t show it… he wasn’t discouraged. I remember him having doubts, whether something could work, but not discouraged. So what did he have that most of you don’t have? Let’s see first … Continue reading
On the other side of pain, on the other side of unpleasant… How firewalking is an analogy to life… Or how to innovate yourself out of a bad…
Firewalking is the act of walking barefoot over a bed of hot embers or stones. Firewalking has been practiced by many people and cultures in all parts of the world, with the earliest known reference dating back to Iron Age … Continue reading
Proof that humanity is not meant to make it
1. We think we can use ladders like this: Via funny2014.com 2. And umbrellas like this: Via imgur.com 3. Not to mention the fact that we’re unfit to reproduce: Twitter 4. And the fact that people are eating Styrofoam: Via … Continue reading
What is a more important, what you do or what you don’t do?
Dr Wallach says: what you don’t put in your mouth is more important to your well-being, than what you do put in your mouth. An article I just looked at says: what you don’t do is more important to your … Continue reading
What can you do to finally start to amount to something, start to become worth a damn?
I am continuing the “fire in the belly” concept from the previous article I am what you would call a “quickstart”… Although conation (Kathy Kolbe’s testing method, most interested in how you do things) measures something innate, like it’s your … Continue reading
If I asked you: how much of my articles you actually get… What would you say?
If I asked you: how much of my articles you actually get… What would you say? Experiments and tests show that if you have the right attitude, high level of interest, and you are coherent: you can receive as much … Continue reading