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Perspective

Caged, Comfortable, or Charged – Which is YOUR Life?

April 28, 2016 Comments Off Be Yourself Challenge the Status Quo Embrace Change Foster Critical Thinking Inspire Creativity

Brendon Burchard, author of “The Charge,” believes there are three kinds of life: caged, comfortable or charged. Depending on where we are along this spectrum of our lives, we’re going to have a different quality of life. If we’re on one side of the spectrum, we’re often miserable and suffering, struggling and upset all the time. Whereas, if we’re on the other side, we’re fully engaged, energized and enthusiastic. Knowing where we are on this spectrum can completely change our lives, because we can make a decision about what type of life we want to live.

What If Everything You Believe Is A Lie?

March 3, 2016 Comments Off Foster Critical Thinking

When we go to grammar school, high school, and college, we acquire a lot of knowledge, but what do we really know? Do we master the truth? No, we master a language, a symbology, and that symbology is only the truth because we agree, not because it’s really the truth. Wherever we are born, whatever…

Siege War Against Mental Independence

February 3, 2016 Comments Off Be Yourself Challenge the Status Quo Embrace Change Foster Critical Thinking Inspire Creativity

A short collection of excerpts from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz Free Your Mind The Mesoamerican Toltecs believed humans live in a world of dreams that can lead to self-love and respect. “From the Toltec point of view, all humans who are mentally domesticated are sick. They are sick because there is a…

Four Agreements You Make With Yourself

January 28, 2016 Comments Off Embrace Change Inspire Creativity

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Be Impeccable With Your Word Speak with Integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. Don’t Take Anything Personally Nothing others do…

Love in Retrospect

January 27, 2016 Comments Off Be Yourself Inspire Creativity

There are certain people you love who do something else for your life; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years.
But there’s still one more tier in all of this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it happens eventually.

Religion & Happiness

January 25, 2016 Comments Off Be Yourself Inspire Creativity

Each individual must identify the type of happiness most important to him as well as the capacity of his own mental constitution to experience happiness. Religion reduces these variables by dictating a simple path to happiness. It thereby spares the masses of their individual neuroses.

Parallel Lines: the Past is Always Present

December 17, 2015 Comments Off Embrace Change Foster Critical Thinking Inspire Creativity

One may argue that dedicating time for reading philosophy makes way for more time to feel alive in our lives. We are in the habit of saying that it was not in our power to choose the parents who were allotted to us, that they were given to us by chance. But we can choose whose children we would like to be.”

Rose Beacons of Success In Human Relations & Hallmarks of Good Breeding

October 12, 2015 Comments Off Be Yourself Embrace Change Foster Critical Thinking

Ever dreamed about being the person many look up to? – the one that everyone wants to talk with, whether for advice or just because they feel comfortable around you. Want to become a more effective leader, a better friend or more connected lover?

Stepping Out of Reality’s Silhouette

September 30, 2015 Comments Off Be Yourself Embrace Change Foster Critical Thinking

We think reality is what we can explain from the limited instruments of our senses. But reality is, of course, far beyond that. We all have access to the infinite consciousness, but our understanding of it is hampered by our 5 senses, keeping us trapped on a limited plane.

What We Hear Vs. What We Come to Believe

September 22, 2015 Comments Off Be Yourself Challenge the Status Quo Embrace Change Foster Critical Thinking

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is through frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth”

Why Do We Trust Some People, But Not Others?

September 20, 2015 Comments Off Embrace Change Foster Critical Thinking

Ask the best salesmen what it takes to be a great salesman. They will always tell you that it helps when you really believe in the product you’re selling. What does belief have to do with a sales job? Simple. When salesmen actually believe in the thing they are selling, then the words that come…

Why We Do What We Do

September 17, 2015 Comments Off Be Yourself Embrace Change Foster Critical Thinking

Tony Robbins, author of Unlimited Power, Unleash the Power Within, and Awaken the Giant Within, postulates that there are six needs that drive us, as humans, to do the things that we do. 1. Certainty Everyone needs certainty that they can avoid pain and at least be comfortable. Now, how do you get it? Control everybody?…

Putting Change Into Perspective

September 15, 2015 Comments Off Inspire Creativity

“Imagine a stack of 400 quarters. Each quarter represents 250 years of human culture, and the entire stack signifies the 100,000 years we’ve had organized human tribes. Take the top quarter off the stack. This one quarter represents how many years our society has revolved around factories and jobs and the world as we see…

The Importance of Being Awe-Struck

September 15, 2015 Comments Off Be Yourself Foster Critical Thinking

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead…” – Albert Einstein Eminent psychologist Nicholas Humphrey has written of the biological advantage of being awe-struck. How fortuitous, he says, for a species to find its own ability to contemplate, to marvel at its own existence has…

Dissonance In Our Biology