Live Your Gifts
You can only be happy if you are sharing your gifts, whatever they may be, with the world around you. But when you’re seeking validation or approval from others, you edit, restrict, or hide you true gifts. And that is a tragedy.
Beliefs, Assumptions and Mind Viruses…
It takes a strong ego to believe that you have something important enough to say, that it motivates you to write a book, launch a podcast or publish a blog. Nothing inherently wrong with that. But when do you cross the line from coach to propagandist, from beneficial to evil?
Keeping Your Mind Open
People can be faced with a tsunami of facts and evidence on something, but if this conflicts with a cherished belief of theirs, they find a way to completely negate the facts. This isn’t a case of just filtering out evidence that clashes with their opinions. It’s a case of them being smacked upside the head with the evidence and consciously finding a way to invalidate it. No matter how much they have to contort, warp or totally flee from logic.
In Defense of Plateaus…
Sometimes you’re going to feel stuck or blocked. You’ll be in a holding pattern on a plateau. And we all know that plateaus are bad. It means you’re lazy or stupid, and you’re not evolving and growing. But is all that really true?
Creating a New You, Part 2
I’m not a big fan of these approaches, because they usually end up being about conforming to labels and categories.
How about instead you simply create yourself? Into who you want to become; the highest possible version of yourself.
Change Your Story!
I spent my 16th birthday in jail, while I was awaiting trial for armed robbery. One day there was the sound of jangling keys and I looked up to find the guard letting a visitor into my cell. His name was Baxter, and he was the father of a girl went to high school with. She had beseeched him to try and help me.
The Delusion of Denial
We love to make excuses for other people’s successes, crediting them to luck, circumstance or simply random breaks. But how little we actually investigate enough to learn the many obstacles ultra-successful people actually had to overcome.
Dream Big and Dare to Be Different
Dream Big and Dare to Be Different
So many people today are doing the opposite. They’re trying to fit in, act normal, and be accepted by society. That’s actually a pretty horrific strategy if you want to be healthy, happy and prosperous.
The Inner Breakthrough
Because it gets to the fundamental essence of personal growth and self-development…
The need to blow up preconceived beliefs (mind viruses) we have, that cause us to either lower our aspirations, or even self-sabotage the things we do decide to attempt.
Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone
The year is winding down, and most high-level achievers are reflecting on the kind of year they just had, and what they would like to accomplish in 2019. But perhaps a much more productive activity would be thinking about the kind of person you want to become in the New Year.
