Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Character Education”
The fall season is near. Also called autumn. We can observe the changes. Cooler temperatures. The trees lose their leaves. General energetic quietude. It’s a contemplative season that invites us to go inward. Intensified thinking. More acute sensing. It’s a harvest season. Like every season, each carries particular energies and patterns we …
Evidence of this desire-validation is more pervasive as we become a more digitally-oriented species in this Age. It’s subtle, yet if we examine with a critical eye we can see just how worldly the imperative for the external world to acknowledge, to justify, to be agreeable is now. One of …
How we respond to a challenge depends on our relationship to it. We can be antagonistic towards it, engaging in a ceaseless tug-of-war towards an uncertain end. Sometimes its force is stronger, so it pulls us off of our focus. Distress triggered. Other times we gain the advantage and position …
Affirmations can be potent enough to induce behavioral change. By adopting certain power statements, we can alter mindset and the appropriate internal chemistry necessary to solidify the frame. It’s a body-mind process. While affirmations are proposed by many self-help gurus, people who have thought leadership seats may not even know …
Inspiration has a different texture from novelty. Something new doesn’t necessarily evoke inspiration. We can also be inspired by that which isn’t new. When it hits, we have direct verification of how important it is for flourishing. What is inspiration exactly? Inspiration derives from spirit [In = inner + spira …
KISS-ing (Keeping It Simple Stupid) with this one, as each subject can be written about to much greater depth. Empathy will become more popular, more sensationalized in the coming months as an antidote for the increasing narcissism awareness. Books like The Narcissism Epidemic and documentaries like The Social Dilemma are …
Success can be examined as a process, or activity of moving from one state to another based on the intention. Example: if the goal is to jog once per day in the afternoon, one can perform a self-assessment to discover the reason why this is a challenge. One can also …
Despite what’s being presented on the news stations, the number one health attacker in U.S. society remains…stress. Here’s how this state’s been operating for a long time here, creating conditions for more severe illnesses. Stress is a subjective state, meaning not everyone stresses over the same experiences or in the …
The two appear to be the same but have distinct energies. Reflecting back to undergrad, there was a time when “servant leadership” was on the business agenda list. In the texts, among the types of leadership described, servant leadership was given most praise. The way this form was described made …
Much focus goes towards self-development and the forward-moving action, it’s a movement and has been for some time, which is beneficial because a person’s energy goes where the mind flows or concentrates. With more commentary in this area, however advanced or elementary, the culture becomes more permeated with ideas in …
What can be more dangerous than a physical attack? A mental one of course. Subtler and intangible, a mental assault can do its job in seconds, quietly penetrating the psyche, weaving into the mind as an idea, latching onto the host’s intellect. Contorting the emotions. Those familiar with the Naked …
“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.” – Confucius “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.” – Lincoln “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it …
Podcast Source I agree with some points and see a pattern with a number of these studies. Agree Prodigies don’t always become geniuses. It’s because genius requires a specific chemistry involving character traits, a certain perception and intelligence-creativity. Disagree Geniuses always have large influence in the world. No they don’t. …
One of my event attendees [Goal Set 2020] wrote about her experience at the workshop. It’s an admirable quality to me, when someone is driven enough to immediately reflect on an experience, put the logic to practice, and processes the emotional content that may have come through. Software developer Karolina …
Of the topics covered during the recent Goal Set 2020 event, one stood out from the survey: taking care of oneself. Once we set out to realize some goal, we by its nature create these archetypes Joseph Campbell became well-known for illustrating on the hero’s journey [they’re described in my own words …
Part of the recent Goal Set 2020 workshop involved distilling intent. If we think of a general distillation process, we’re stripping some substance of the extra layers to reveal its essence. Get to the “heart of the matter,” some may say. “Strip it down to its root,” others might say. Give me “the …
The vampire archetype has a special place in fantasy, or fiction, because movies display the vampire in fantastical ways. But the reality is the vampire is an archetype representing specific qualities that people in real life exhibit daily. The classic Nosferatu, bald and aesthetically unpleasing with sharp fangs and pale …