ADMIRE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN! “Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.” – Vincent van Gogh Admiring people who are worthy of our admiration doesn’t cost us anything. Same with admiring animals and plants and natural phenomena: no pain involved. Same with admiring great accomplishments by our fellow humans: […]
Love feedback or else… Make it a feedback loop…
The way to find the strait and narrow of happiness (See The Anna Karenina Principle) is to watch the feedback … and self-correct. Yesterday I added integrity to the starting point measurements. so far all people I measured ranked on 3 out of 100. Wow. I had an exchange of text messages with a guy, […]
What is your Self, your Dharma? Can you find it? Can you define yourself?
I have been doing a lot of work while I seemingly do nothing… or not much. Something is driving me… I used to say it this way: “I can’t do no other”… I am very fond of weirdly worded things, because they poke a hole in the cultural fabric and allow things to be seen …
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Remembering the future meditation… for self-trust
Some people are afraid to make a mistake. They are paralyzed, or procrastinate… and in the end often don’t take action… and hate themselves for it. I am one of these people. And some of my clients are like this too. In this article I will attempt to teach something I myself need to learn …
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The invisible undercurrent that is running your life, unbeknown to you.
The invisible undercurrent, undertow of self-made rules… Or if you prefer, the invisible strings that move the puppet… What they talk about when they say “there are known knowns… etc.” Donald Rumsfeld stated: Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are …
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More about Desire and Ambition…
Desire is a mental energy. It is impossible to desire something you have not imagined or seen. So desire is comparing an image of something and the way it is, and that gap is what is called desire. Now, desire has this imagination element, that shows the object of desire, the finished “product” as if […]
Simplicity… Instead of asking what is the opposite, why don’t you ask a different question?
You tend to look at the world in black and white terms. This or the opposite… But often what you think is the opposite is not… My current favorite book, 46 rules of Genius, says: “Rule 24 (of Genius) “SIMPLIFY “People tend to view simplicity and complexity as opposites. But this isn’t strictly true. The …
Chances are: you don’t know who you are, and you don’t know what would really please you
We are all entrepreneurs, potentially. The principle is: an entrepreneur is someone who remakes the world in the image of themselves. There are a few problems we’ll have with this principle: The main problem is that we have no idea who we are, how we are, what we really like, what are our strengths, what …
Are you experiencing the “post holiday blues”?
In life, victory goes to the most adaptable… says the law of self-selection. The easiest to observe is yourself… when there is a long enough holiday: 4-day holidays are perfect. If you get into the holiday mood: doing pretty much …
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How do you know if you have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? And how do you get out of the fixed mindset, really?
I doesn’t matter what you think you believe. I am starting to notice that what you say you believe is one thing, what you actually believe is expressed a lot more truthfully in your actions and in your reactions. One … Continue reading “How do you know if you have a fixed mindset or a […]