New Year’s goal setting is an opportune time to start fresh: new ideas, plans, cutting things and people off, rebuilding. These activities can be done at any time during the year of course, but I can see how there’s something special about the energy flow with a new yearly date. …
One Method to Increase Concentration
How many times have you been told you need to concentrate more? The push for concentration in this info-saturated environment is as common as being told we should eat all organic. It’s acknowledged but the implementation can be difficult for some. But like transitioning to a purely organic diet today, …
Using the Five Elements on the Job
Application gives us a true test of whether we’ve integrated knowledge. Understanding something can give us intellectual pleasure, while taking a concept and putting it out “in the field” to work with life’s many scenarios provides us with deeper awareness. It’s a feedback mechanism that helps us improve on the …
Thoughts: The Universe Favors Who Listens
Fortune favors the bold and the universe favors those who listen to its messages. It whispers wisdom in the wind. Shines insight by using the sun’s heat. Works through others to manifest opportunities. Its cosmic affection entices relationship, so that we may co-create with it in the world. What we …
3 Ways to Grapple with Groupthink
Working in teams can be both a challenging and fulfilling experience. Ultimately you want to see your project successfully complete. At times this can pose a conflict: are you willing to compromise on your ideas, give in to others’ or stand up for your contributions? Whether in a team of …
7 Points on MasterLearn Education
On Holistic Education If tapped into, contemporary technologies one will likely have the sense that things are accelerating. Rapid “change” is this time period’s theme, transformation being really the only constant in the cosmos. Nothing is the same ever from second to second. So then it makes sense to contemplate …
Exoteric & Esoteric Independence
As with each holiday, the 4th can be viewed with exoteric and esoteric eyes. Exoteric: it’s about freedom of a nation from others, rights, liberties to pursue certain life experiences. These are won through laws and physical wars. Esoteric: it’s about an inner ability to live free of energetic/emotional weights …
How to Build Credibility with Testimonials
Professionalism is an art that challenges us to put forth our best public image and manifest our highest self-image. To be professional is to maintain a level of conduct that produces positive outcomes for all parties involved. This is how we build credibility. When we think of professional development, often …
The Divine Masculine – On Work Ethic & Inner Stability
On Inner Stability One of the fastest ways for a man to lose the feminine’s respect, and from people in general is to lose composure. Other phrases for this expression include: Flying off the handle Losing his cool Snapping Losing his shit All in his feelings Being impulsive Breaking down …
Thoughts on Years of Experience in Job Postings
How Important Are Years of Experience (YoE) in a Job Posting? Like education requirements, this is an area for revision. Quantitatively, this is the amount of time a person has been immersed in a space. If John Doe has 3 years of experience, it can mean he’s been “in the …
White Paper: The Career Development Psyche
A professional’s emotional state is instrumental in each step taken towards career growth. What’s an emotion? The word is broken down into E (for energy) and Motion (for movement). So an emotion is an energy movement, an electric current that physically rushes through the body. Depending on the emotional current, …
Networking for Long-Term Value
Imagine yourself at a networking event. There you are, dressed in your best professional clothes because that’s what the advertisement suggested on Meetup.com. You’re standing at the front entrance. It’s about 45 minutes after the event started; you didn’t want to be the absolute first one to walk in without …
Grounding Imagination in The Assemblage’s MOZAIC Magazine
The Assemblage has been a valuable space to connect with over the past year. It’s only a year old; I joined the co-working community space during its pre-launch phase. Events, networks and offerings are some of the returns from investing time into being present there. They also happen to have …
One Technique to Create More Than Consume
Walking into a Microsoft store has a different feel for me compared to a few years ago. The company’s been around for decades. Back then the trend was about upgrading to the newest software versions, and it still feels like each time I shut down the PC it’s asking for …
Scenario-Based Learning
To know a definition, how a thing works in a static state is one knowledge: “Self-care is XYZ.” Applied to a real-world situation is another: “If self-care is necessary for my health, then when faced with something that challenges me to ignore it, I do XYZ to maintain it.” People …
Ban Vs. Educate?
Ban Vs. Educate? Which is optimal? A ban aims to prevent a behavior. When the behavior is violated, a punitive is given. Punishment. The punishment is to serve as a justice for the behavior violation; it’s labeled a crime. The justice process, going through the punishment is to assist the …
3 Benefits to Group Meditation & Ceremony
While we maintain integral solitary meditation practices, I find it additionally valuable to engage in group meditative activity, whether that’s actual meditation practice or ceremony. The development levels vary within groups; backgrounds, experiences and skill sets also differ among participants. When ceremonial facilitation is performed with excellence, these distinctions dissolve, …