It is Noble to Seek Wealth
The original plan for today was to continue the series from our last post about experiencing divine discontent – moving to the next stage of killing off the old you. But there was a question in the comments that causes me to question if I was clear about the role and value of money and material possessions in the process. So let’s take a quick detour and delve into that…
Live in Divine Discontent
It was 9:15 am when I pulled up to my pizza joint, to prepare for letting in my staff, receiving deliveries, and opening at 11. There were two guys lounging by a car parked in front. When I started to turn the key in the door, they approached me and introduced themselves. They were agents from the Internal Revenue Service, responding in person to a letter I had sent to the agency, requesting a payment plan to pay my delinquent payroll taxes.
They had a very simple payment plan to offer…
Your Title Doesn’t Define You
Imagine this scenario: You’re a young gun, hired by Hot, Trendy, Innovative Company, Inc., a big international company with a powerful reputation. People who work for this company are revered and respected in the space. You join with your youthful idealism and begin working your way up the corporate ladder.
A few years later, you stumble across information that the company engaged in some improper financial accounting. Now you’re pondering what your proper course of action should be: Report the bad behavior and risk career reprisals, or forget you saw this and leave the decision for someone else. Do you think your course of action would be influenced if you had a Hot, Trendy, Innovative Company, Inc. logo on your forearm?
Could You Do 3 Chin-ups to Save Your Life?
If everyone on earth had to do three chin-ups to save their lives tomorrow – it would be an extinction level event.
If that doesn’t frighten you, it should. And if you’re one of the 97 percent of people who couldn’t do three chin-ups to save your life – you should be terrified.
Don’t Volunteer for a Lobotomy
Every time you apply a label to yourself, you incrementally lower your IQ. Because once you brand yourself with a label – you have created an identity for yourself. Once you create an identity for yourself – it’s human nature to instinctively, impulsively, and unconsciously defend that identity.
Finding a Cure for Religion
This is a continuing series of posts breaking down the six most important categories of core beliefs you develop in life. I believe these areas are instrumental in terms of the self-esteem you develop and how happy and successful you ultimately become. So far we have looked at the areas of:
Money/Success
Marriage/Relationships
Sex/Sexuality Pt. 1
Sex/Sexuality Pt. 2
Last post was part one about God/Religion, exploring religious memes that could cause you to self-sabotage your success. This post we’ll finish that list and look at how you can counter-program against negative memes. And some ways to create positive, empowering beliefs moving forward.
Hope, Dope, and a Dead Pope
It was spring, 2005 and I was sitting in a coffeeshop in Amsterdam toking up some sinsemilla, while the TV on the wall played images of people mourning the death of Pope John Paul II. Maybe it was the dope, but I was profoundly melancholy, thinking that like so many before him, the Pope was a very spiritual, caring and well-meaning human being – who would leave a legacy of poverty, ignorance, and despair for his followers.
Celebrating Sex and Sexuality
This is a series of posts studying the six most important categories of core beliefs in terms of the self-esteem you develop and how happy and successful you ultimately become. So far, we have looked into the categories of beliefs about Money/Success, Marriage/Relationships, and we began Sex/Sexuality. Last post you discovered some of the crazy and misguided mind viruses about sex. Now, let’s look at some ways to reframe the discussion and develop healthy, empowering, and prosperous beliefs about sex and sexuality…
Crazy, Dysfunctional Beliefs about Sex
Were sex and nudity taboo subjects in your home growing up? Were you taught “conventional” beliefs like boys play with trucks and become doctors and girls play with dolls and become nurses? Was masturbation an unmentionable topic? Did you enter puberty and adolescence completely unprepared for the raging hormones and emotions you had to experience? You were probably a mess of hang-ups and dysfunctional sexual beliefs before you ever had your first sexual experience.
Toxic Relationships Come from Toxic Beliefs
We’re digging deeper into your core foundational beliefs about the world around us and how you fit into it. You developed core foundational beliefs about the world around you and how you fit into it. I gave you a list of six categories that are the most influential in terms of the self-esteem you develop and how happy and successful you ultimately become. Let’s review them again:
