Category: self-help

The one thing.  What’s the one thing I can do today that will make a difference for a thousand tomorrows? What single step can I take today to grow, to become more valuable, to chip away at some obstacle in the way of what I want? Tomorrow will be easier when I do that one…

Do you want to be safe or strong? There is no way to wall off some portion of reality and create a fully predictable and safe space.  No way to banish everything threatening and dangerous. To stay too safe is to design a life filled with caution, life surrendered to a more infantile state, life…

Master of chaos You’re doing just fine, living in certainty and order.   Then the bottom drops out, things start to fall apart. The thick ice you thought you were skating on turns out to be thin –  cracking and crumbling at your feet.  Now you’re plunging into the cold, dark abyss of chaos.  Your brain…

Maybe you’re a loser. And maybe not.  But if you are, or in some way you are, you don’t have to continue. You can change.   You can change some things quickly, others slowly.  You can start by stepping outside the comfort and predictability of losing.  You can figure it out, design your plan, and take…

Stand tall Every time we retreat from what we fear, we create a feedback loop.  Our inner wiring starts telling us that what we ran away from is dangerous.  The proof of which is that we ran away. Left unchecked, our continued retreat from what we fear start making us smaller, and the world around…

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – H.D. Thoreau What’s your life’s balance sheet telling you? Are you willing to let go of encumbrances in order to live a larger life?   Are you willing to self-impose constraints on spending to push you to become more resourceful and self-sufficient? …