Are you on the road yet? If not, pony up your?.um, pony and pretend that you are gracefully cantering down the road toward that state called Authentic. Imagine that you’re riding smoothly just like in the movies. But all of a sudden, your pony hits a rock and you go flying. This will happen. Perhaps [...]
1. The Law of Balance
I got an email from a wise friend the other day who had this to say,
“Whenever I am out of balance in one area of my life, I usually end up binging, (going to excess) in some other area of my life.”
Even sunshine burns if you get too much.
2. The Law [...]
Dick and Jay sat on the ground outside the shed. The rain pelted down on them. They stared in disbelief at the lake of mud all around them. The Piper Cub slumped in the mud a few feet in front of them. Neither a wet bird nor muddy squirrel could be seen.
“It’s going to be [...]
A Seventeenth Century Samurai maxim states:
“A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action”
This saying is one of my personal favorites. There is so much depth to its meaning. Allow me to discuss it a little and explain how it will be able to benefit you.
First, a question: What [...]
“You cannot step into the same river twice”
Hericlitus spoke those words around 500BC. A very wise man, Hericlitus.
The phrase points out to us that just as rivers flow on, so does time. Just as your foot will dip into the river, but it wont be the same water as before, so too, we only get [...]
Recently, I came across something strikingly shocking, fascinating, obscure, and yet, completely obvious.
Few of us have an “Exit Plan.”
An Exit Plan is a comprehensive, compelling, strategy for leaving feeling fantastic.
When you aren’t experiencing exactly what you expected; when it’s clear that the vision you see has become blurry-or is simply no longer your own-it’s not [...]
Underearning is a process of not really making enough to support oneself wisely and comfortably. It is usually rooted in a combination of poor information about how money actually works in the real world, limiting beliefs and attitudes about money, and a set of financially destructive habits related to organization and money management.
Many underearners start [...]
1. Emotion: We are emotional creatures and as in all things avoid excess.
2. Do not hurry. Do not react to a “situation” whilst emotional. Always sleep on it for a day or two. A situation that needs to be settled immediately - quite simply it does not. It can wait.
3. Set goals. We need something [...]
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you never had to “lock horns” with other people? Well, there are some skills that you can learn.
Try this. Ask somebody to raise both arms so that they can touch the palms of their hands against yours. Don’t worry about explaining anything to them. Tell [...]
We human beings naturally have two kinds of state that exist in us at any given time: peak state and off-peak state. Peak performance can be defined as “performing at your most optimal best at this time”. An off-peak state would mean that we are not performing at the optimal level.
So “optimizing your off-peak performance” [...]