After the Paris attacks, the Dalai Lama said, “We cannot solve this problem only through prayers. I am a Buddhist and I believe in praying. But humans have created this problem, and now we are asking God to solve it. It is illogical. God would say, ”˜Solve it yourself because you created it in theRead more
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This vlog was recorded a week before the Paris and Beirut terrorist attacks but I wanted to use this written post to share my deepest sympathies with the families of the victims of those cowardly acts and use it also as an opportunity to continue to engage us in conversations about what it truly meansRead more
Instagram model Essena O’Neill gained a lot of attention last week in her video message about the perils of letting the social media machine continue to run our lives unabated. From the media’s obsession with presenting images of what life is supposed to look like and what we need to consume or buy or haveRead more
In his book, The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz mentions four principles we might want to follow to live a more present, joyous and drama-free life. 1). Be impeccable with your word. 2). Always do your best. 3). Don’t take anything personally. 4). Don’t make assumptions. Ahhhhh . . . yes. Assumptions. We assumeRead more
True story: I had just read this poem (on today’s vlog) last week which was the basis of last week’s lesson about attempting to stop making so many assumptions in life. So I’m traveling back from Europe yesterday and I open up the American Airlines in-flight magazine – quite the page-turner, I know! But loRead more
When you assume you make an ass out of you and me. Why? Because assumptions aren’t based in fact. But we love to make them because they pull us out of the present moment and send us speeding into a projected future that distracts us from now. We’re so familiar with letting our mind runRead more
People often ask me, “Why do we have ego?” Well without it, you wouldn’t be able to know that there’s another part of you. Something grander. More brave. More joyous. The soulful part of you. Spirit. Infinite Intelligence. The Creative Matrix. Potential. Living in a world of duality, you can’t know something without having theRead more
Do you realize how powerful you are? How you can become actualized in your life in a way that empowers yourself and others? As you become more and more self-actualized (which is really self-empowerment) you move from a preponderance of insignificant upsets, distractions and nuisances in your life to greater accomplishments. You stop spending timeRead more
Our self-judgments originate from all sorts of unreliable sources. They then take roost in our left brains and create a neural groove that reboots itself over and over as our self-dialogue becomes infected with these untruths. If you’ve survived in any business for any length of time, you’ve probably heard it all. Hearing something someoneRead more
Do we ever graduate from school? The wanting to be liked? Or popular? Or more attractive? Or more “cool?” At one level – no – because what everyone struggles with as adults are the same core issues that high school traumas (like surviving lunch period!) brought up for us: thinking that we’re not good enoughRead more