“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 …
Response to Cultivating Genius Podcast
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. …
Maximize Sleep for Healing & Learning
Sleep goes beyond basic rest to healing and learning enhancement. With a proper amount and quality, the brain undergoes detoxification, releasing chemicals that purify the body and simultaneously helps process learning throughout the nervous system. All of those electrical signals stimulated from learning concepts or working in some physical activity …
A Wise One Says, “Step Back and Reach Your Goals”
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 …
Audio Meditation & Power of Questions
Questions reflect a mind’s height. Questions are arrows, a cognitive tool to direct focus. Answers are targets, formed based on a question’s quality. The Q — a circle with a line running through it. The line is the symbol for direction, being willing to step outside of a loop that …
The Hero’s Journey & Love-Worthy
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 …
Goal Set 2020 Workshop: Reflect. Plan. Execute.
Beware shiny objects. Greener grass. Persuasive promises. Newest trends gone with the wind. The latest hacks that don’t last. While cool for the moment, true value is demonstrated when the creation can stand the test of time; check an antiquarian book price to validate for example. My colleague Jacqueline Ore …
Treatise on the Chakra Vampire
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 …
Time is in the Mind
The Yoga of Time Travel was a text I read several years ago about the nature of not just time, but how Time as an experience and force exists and can be worked with in the mind. Fred Alan Wolf’s knowledge isn’t new; the old wisdom from before the Atlanteans …
When Affirmations Don’t Work
Affirmations are popular in success literature for good reason: if applied properly they can alter personality, increase strengths, eliminate fear, list goes on. They’re capable of creating not just temporary feel-good sensations but lasting internal change. The problem I see in the personal development industry is an advocate saturation for …
How Conversations Enhance Well-Being
Have you ever engaged a conversation that felt nourishing to the degree that you no longer felt hungry or tired, or placed so deep into the present moment that you could sense something “happening” within your spirit? Or perhaps an elevated excitement, or anticipation of something great on the verge …
8 Resources to Increase Leadership
This was a response to a post on LinkedIn about ways to increase leadership. It’s a token word that summarizes a number of capacities; ultimately, it’s an energy that radiates being at the helm or pioneering something, initiative, idea or empowering position that sparks others’ growth. To be a leader, …
Why You Should Keep Your Top Goals Secret
When excited about a goal we plan to work towards, there can be temptation to want to tell everyone, blast it out to the world. But this opens up your goal, and by extension your mind to sabotage. A goal is tightly wound to your subconscious; there’s passion, emotional content …
5 Mental Leadership Traits
“Leadership” is already a well-researched, well-documented topic analyzed from hundreds of angles from the theoretical to the practical; I need not touch those areas. What I do find to be a rather untouched dimension is helping people recognize that they don’t have to have an authority title in order to …
“Free” Education Resources for Pandemic Downtime
Don’t be fooled by the title; nothing in the world is truly free. Energetically, there’s always an exchange. In the case of these resources, the trade will be your attention, focus, your intelligence and commitment to utilize what’s provided. The current pandemic is slowing the economy down and keeping people …
10 Ways to Enhance Immunity
In a recent Instagram post as a prelude to this article, I mentioned the importance of ensuring our immunity is strong regardless of the situation we’re in. Today’s increasing panic about the spreading coronavirus seems to be creating a knee-jerk, reflexive approach to health that won’t solve the underlying issue. …
Ancestral Prayer Technology
When you think of praying, what comes to mind? An image of a nun or priest, dressed in black. Are they kneeling in church at a pew? Hands folded, supplicating in front of an extravagantly detailed cross? Zoom in on their faces. Are they happy, smiling, or scowling, focused, pensive? …
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