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, …
How to Use Your Environment to Evolve Your Epigenetics
Our immediate environment influences us daily, touching our senses and mingling with our mental states. Environment is the facilitator for epigenetic changes we experience. What we think, feel, see, hear, touch, taste and smell alter us each moment. By overtly focusing on magnanimous steps, we can overlook the more immediate …
2 Paths to Esoteric Independence
Our current version of Independence here in the U.S. devotes a single day to celebrate the nation’s sovereignty from the European power in the 18th Century. We mark this day with family gatherings, fireworks and a day off of work. Perhaps we’ll invest time at the beach. The newer trend …
10 Consciousness Traps to Transcend
Along our spiritual path (growth path, personal development, call it what you wish) there are decision branches that sprout in many directions. These tend to be created based on our choices and sometimes they appear to be present not for our highest good. Maliciously intending to throw us off our …
How to Apply Wakandan Philosophy to Amplify Self-Education
The Black Panther movie needs no building up from this blog. I watched it twice and (don’t worry; no spoilers in this piece) enjoyed its story, nuances and found the work to be a valuable addition to the Panther’s universe, broadly introduced in the Avengers movie. If you haven’t watched …
Corporate Mindfulness with Passionate Talk Podcast
A few weeks ago I had the honor of being interviewed by Gary Karp of Passionate Talk. In the sense of a formal “interview,” it was not. Rather, it was more of a conversation about the value of mindfulness and its importance in professional life. Gary has a skill with …
Tip for Building Spontaneous Creativity
Spontaneous creativity is evidence of our ability to tap into inner knowing and resourcefulness. Listen below for a way to develop this power.