How To Find Your Untapped Resources If you are ever in situation where you feel out of control or at a loss on how respond to any particular situation, here’s a quick mental exercise that can give you a boost. When done in isolation, it can give you some perspective, and briefly shake off any [...]
December 18th, 2009 | Posted in Abundance, Appreciation, Life Skills | No Comments
Open The Floodgates I remember I went on this backpacking trip once. We had planned it out fairly thoroughly, reading several guidebooks, and buying maps with different levels detail. One thing that we couldn’t really plan on was the size of the rivers. The mountains we were planning on hiking in were in the Sierra [...]
December 12th, 2009 | Posted in Appreciation, Beliefs, Metaphor, Model of the World | No Comments
Are You A Child Or An Adult? A long time ago, a lot of ancient and primitive civilizations had some kind of “coming of age” ceremony. There are still remnants of that today in both the Jewish and The Catholic traditions, and likely a few others of which I’m not qualified to speak of. But [...]
November 24th, 2009 | Posted in Abundance, Beliefs, Evolution, Fears, Goals | 1 Comment
Ok, Seriously, Why Are We Here? There have been, are, and will be plenty of discussions regarding the meaning of life. From the spiritual to the metaphysical to the clinically scientific, there is no end to the plethora of opinions about why we are here. It is something that I have been particularly interested in, [...]
November 20th, 2009 | Posted in Beliefs, Metaphor, Model of the World | No Comments
Scarcity or Abundance – Which One Are You? There has been much written, spoken about, and talked about regarding the difference between a scarcity mindset and an abundance mindset. These two seemingly ubiquitous concepts can change your perception of reality itself. But do we really understand what they mean? I can understand the mechanics and [...]
November 14th, 2009 | Posted in Abundance, Appreciation, Beliefs | No Comments
Once upon a time there was a family. They were a normal, modern family with normal, modern family problems. They had two kids, and the father worked as an account executive in a large advertising firm. Because of the recent economic problems, the father’s company was experiencing problems, and so his company wasn’t paying out [...]
July 4th, 2009 | Posted in Metaphor, Stories | No Comments
As you are sitting there, in your chair reading this article, you might begin to wonder that time in your life before you learned how to read, as you look at this letters strung together to make words and sentences. Because you don’t have to even think about reading this. It is just something that [...]
June 12th, 2009 | Posted in Learning, Metaphor, Model of the World, Perception | No Comments
There is one powerful force in the universe that is so omnipotent it may very well precede all that exists. It underlies all matter and energy, and all thought. It is a verb, a noun and an adjective and a feeling all at once. Those who have been able to tap this source of energy [...]
May 4th, 2009 | Posted in Appreciation, Beliefs, Model of the World | No Comments
Affirmations can be the quickest and easiest to apply method to powerfully transform not only what you think is possible about your capabilities, but about the world that you live in. All of us have unconscious thoughts and messages that we pick up from teachers, coaches, adults in authority, or even from ourselves that play over and over [...]
April 9th, 2009 | Posted in Life Skills, Love, Magic | No Comments
Once upon a time there were two friends. They were really good friends, and had been really good friends for several hundred years. One was a rock, a large rock. This rock, in his current, state,was only partially above the ground. There was a lot more of this rock below the surface. Sometimes things are [...]
April 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Abundance, Flexibility, Metaphor, Stories | No Comments