There are certain buzzwords that get thrown around a lot in personal development circles that have no fixed definitions and are totally up for everyone’s interpretation. People would read about or hear these words and think they know what they refer to. Yet upon close examination, you realize that the exact meaning of those words is lost on almost everyone. One of these buzz phrases is “highest potential”. When someone says such and such will…
For most people, life is an inner war on a daily basis, from the smallest logistics…need to get out of bed, oh no!…to the paradigm-altering life decisions that you’re too afraid to make. There’s a firmly established command-and-judge program installed in almost everyone, to get the human self behave in such ways that the ego gets what it wants. These inner wars are exhausting (though you may not even be aware of it since you’re…
Lots of my readers ask me when they will find “the one”. Recently I got this message from a lovely person: “I want to meet a love partner, but it just doesn’t seem to come my way yet. Mind you I am not desperate. But I have a lot of capacity for love. I don’t know where to direct it except to my family. I’d love to have a baby, but that’s apparently not coming my…
A common question readers ask me is “How do I find my purpose?” Just this week, someone emailed me and said, “Even though I trust the universe for finding my way. I still question myself so much about how, where, and when. What do I do?” Before we talk about what your mission is, I want to ask you this question: Why do you want to know your purpose in life? What is wrong with not…
Wherever there is life, there is pain. If you find that depressing, you’re missing the point of pain. Nobody likes pain. Yet if you spend any time living at all, pain will be as inevitable as the next Christmas. Instead of seeing it as your archenemy in life, how about trying a different perspective? In this video, I explain why pain is neither good nor bad, but merely information that your body wants you to…
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…
We live in a very tired world. Over 60 percent of workers in America suffer from burnout and extreme fatigue. And things are not better in other countries either. In case you haven’t tried it, I assure you that getting burned out is the fastest way to downgrade your quality of life. If you want to experience a rapid downfall in your creativity, productivity, and well-being, just get insanely busy, heap a senseless number of…