Please Be More Selfish
Go back with me, if you will, to a moment in your life when you were luxuriating in the beauty, virtue, and sheer joy of being selfish…
Unfortunately, if you’re like most people, the mere thought of doing something for pleasurable for yourself leaves you racked with guilt, questioning your ego, and scrutinizing your self-esteem.
Unleash your Genius on the World
A few years back, I wrote a book titled Mad Genius, because I was fascinated by the transformational alchemy process that occurs when people transcend the ordinary and even the extraordinary and enter the realm of their unique genius. This gift is unique for each of us and displays in many different ways.
Escaping Mediocrity
When is the last time you attempted something really great? Something so bold, daring, and imaginative – that if you failing at it you would face a potentially strong degree of risk?
Protect Your Soul and Humanity
You can’t watch the video of the life ebbing out of George Karl without tearing a hole in your heart. Likewise, when you see police officers push down the 75-year-old man and walk by him as his head was bleeding onto the pavement. It’s also gut-wrenching to see honorable police or National Guard officers trying to maintain peace and see them getting bricks thrown at their heads.
What Makes You Happy?
You would probably be happy to find a four-leaf clover, see the coronavirus disappear, sports and cultural events to resume, and Spike Lee to put out a new film. But can external things like these or others, “make’ you happy? Or is happiness a choice?
Detours, Reroutes, and U-turns
It took getting fired for me to recognize I was born to be an entrepreneur.
It took the tax authorities seizing my restaurant and auctioning it off for the unpaid taxes to help me discover my true purpose in life.
It took getting shot and left for dead for me to truly live life.
The People Like You…
Got a very enthusiastic response to this week’s Friday Filosophy newsletter about the need for individualism today. In it, I highlighted the failures of our institutions – the failsafe, backups we count on – to protect us during this current pandemic. It seems not a day goes by that another glaring weakness is exposed. In light of the response I received, it seems like expanding on the topic here would be helpful.
Creating Prosperity in the Moment
You think you have life all figured out, until you take a bullet to the gut and left for dead. Or at least I did.
Killing Your Inner Victim
There are random acts, but no random lives. As you now know, your life (whether we’re discussing the old one or the reboot you desire to create) is the harvest of the thoughts you give precedence to. And the daily actions those thoughts produce. While it may sound simplistic to some, the profound truth is that when you transform your thoughts, you can transform your life. The final and decisive step of this transformation is the release of victimhood.
Are You Really Living Your Life?
I get asked frequently why I’m so hard on organized religion. Most who ask believe I’m on a crusade to convert the world to atheism. In actuality, that’s the last thing I want to do. There are many people whose faith nourishes their souls and lives in wondrous ways, and that’s a beautiful thing to behold.
