Every month I get lots of emails from people around the world telling me about their journey of personal transformation. Every story I hear is so amazing and unique. But at the end of the emails I’m almost always asked the same questions— “Omg what I’m going through is so painful. When is it going to end?” “How do I get out of this awful state? How can I make it happen faster? Why haven’t…
Three months ago I decided to learn web development (read about how it happened here). In early-September I enrolled in Hack Reactor. Since then, I’ve been coding for 13-14 hours a day almost every day. I thought I was an efficient person before, but really had to up my productivity game to accommodate the intense coding schedule. I’m sharing with you some simple practices I tried that’ve helped me get everything done while staying healthy and sane. If you skim through…
A bootcamp is an intense training experience. It breaks you down so it can build you back up. It’s supposed to challenge your grit, faith, sense of identity, capacity for growth. That’s why I call the spiritual shift I’ve experienced in the past few years a “bootcamp”. But the unique thing about a spiritual bootcamp is no one designed the curriculum for you. You are both the trainer and the trainee, while the curriculum writes…
So. You want to become your bigger self. You realized that to make your own unique, powerful impact in the world, you need to fearlessly embrace who you are. Fine. But how do you go about this “be who you are” business really? And why do so many of us struggle with it? Here’s what I want to share with you: To become your bigger self, stop holding on to your lesser dreams. I’ll illustrate…
The past month has been a difficult time for many, as the configuration of planetary energy stirred up conflict and turmoil, both internal and external. If you’ve lost/separated from loved ones during this time, see your project/business stalled, or find yourself drowning in self doubt and sorrow for no reason, my heart goes out to you. I myself have experienced the disintegration of an intimate relationship, despite our genuine love and mutual efforts to be…
I’m going to tell you the #1 secret to effortlessly connect with, influence, and convert anybody. It’s one of the most important things you need to know to make a real difference in others’ life. No matter whether your audience is your spouse, your boss, or your customers. You ready? One word. Generosity. Before you yell at me “C’mon, how trite!”, I want you to consider this. Generosity, i.e. giving rather than taking, starts way…
You’ve waited and waited. Still, you don’t have any clarity… …about what you really want, about the next steps, about “should I…or should I not”, about how to get from here to there. You’re not alone. Most of life is the art of treading in the murky water of unknowingness most of the time. Nobody is an exception. When you hear successful people say “I knew I wanted to be a pilot/artist/stock analyst/circus elephant since…
People call it by different names: energy shift, vibration rising, spiritual transformation, soul expansion, the force awakening (I’m not making this up). All these labels describe the experience when your entire energetic makeup—what you normally identify as your “self”—is taken apart, vacuumed and refurbished, and put back together, so as to create room for a most powerful, free, and grace-filled you. For some people this process is a mostly painless undertaking with everything happening beneath…
In this video I tell you about one of my new year’s resolutions this year and give you two tips about what to do when you feel uninspired. I also show you how to eat a cola flavored gummy bear. [vsw id=”MLR5yhy489w” source=”youtube” width=”400″ height=”250″ autoplay=”no”]
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A few years ago I was in Arizona one weekend learning horse whispering (just a fancy name for a style of horsemanship that focuses on building rapport with, instead of using force on horses. Actual whispering is entirely optional and probably futile). I’ve always loved horses but had little experience with them. To get things started, the trainer made me stand in a round pen by myself with a chestnut colored beauty. “Let’s first test…
What do losing weight and saving money have in common? The answer: a lot. First of all, both can be filed under the I’d-rather-eat-a-litter-box-than-do-this category. Also, the success rate of accomplishing either among the general population is equal to the probability that you’re Princess Leia’s twelfth cousin. And the most striking similarity between the two is the way we go about them—most people think that both require tons of self-discipline to pull off. The canonical…
The most dreadful time of the year is finally upon you, when you get together with those people you judge the most in the world, so that you could mentally bitch about all their obnoxious quirks while chewing your turkey to death. You don’t mean to judge, of course. You’re a good person. More than a good person, actually. Normally you are generous, kind, self-aware, open-minded, and capable of taking the high road whenever the…
The prevailing psychological wisdom of our time tells you that your current dysfunctions are probably a result of your past experiences, e.g., your painful childhood, your stupid parents, your abusive first love, and the wars, famines, and hurricanes you were forced by fate to go through. If you’re metaphysically inclined, you may even believe that your present pain has its roots in a past life, a past past life, a past past past life. (By…
We live in a society obsessed about fixing wounds and finding remedies. We judge, analyze, and create theories about our wounds. We think we are not ok because of our wounds. We take them apart and put them back together. We believe if we could just heal this childhood trauma and cure that emotional disorder, we would finally be happy and free. You can always find more wounds to heal, if you so choose. You…
It sucks, I know… when the love of your life turns her back on you, when the rejection letter comes after many sleepless nights, when your boss dismisses months of your hard work into the trash can… Certain events in life can make it seem that the whole Universe is conspiring against you, that the world has wickedly led you on and then slammed the door right in your face. You sit in a pool…
There are generally two ways to get what you want out of life, the human way and the mystic way. The human way is how most of us live. It pretty much follows a three-act model just like in classic theater. First, you set a goal (“Where do you want to be in five years?”). Next, you device a plan to achieve the goal and execute your plan. Finally, you accomplish your goal (or not).…
Your yoga teacher, shrink and shaman all told you that you should practice meditation. You saw Ellen Degeneres endorse TM—that’s Transcendental Meditation for those who’ve lived under a rock for the past fifty years—on TV and thought perhaps it was time to invest $1000 in your spiritual growth. So you decide you will start meditating…soon…but definitely not this weekend. You’re supposed to go to three July 4th BBQs this weekend. Well, if you haven’t got…
A member of my writers’ group asked me this question: Hello, I just self-published a novel. It’s not doing so well… About 150 people have bought it nationwide but I want MORE people to know my book. No one really know who I am. I’ve always wanted to be an author but now it’s getting really stressful… I cannot afford to market my book but I have posted blogs, posted my book on Instagram, Facebook…
During this human journey, our relationships with ourselves and the rest of the world constantly change. Yet there are significant gateways almost all of us go through. These are what I call the “Seven Stages of Human Mastery”. There are variations on the theme and the timing of each stage is different for all of us. Still, these are the common signposts that guides a soul’s journey towards self realization— Stage 1: Wounded in…