“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” …
Angels & Demons – Intro
The year 2033. About ten years from now, not far off. What does the world look like to you? What tools are we using in a decade to communicate? How will we travel? Are we moving forward or regressing backwards? If we’re solid on the idea that we create the …
Career Mind Newsletter #3 – Intrapreneurship
Trends & Temptations Original Post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/intrapreneurship-trent-rhodes Watch YouTube long enough and you may come across several ads from people telling you how you should immediately quit your job, become an entrepreneur and make as much currency as they do in just a few short months. Their testimonials often appear extreme …
Fireside Chat: 13 Points for Liberation
What a time to be here on the planet. I imagine each Age has its unique experiences but something seems special about the kind of transformation our planet’s civilizations are undergoing now. Depending on the awareness level the changes may range from frightening to anticipation to indifference. Common to each …
Anpu, Gong Fu & The Muses
There’s a challenge you’ve been thinking about for a few days. In your craft, after several attempts to arrive at a conclusion on how to improve, “Forget it, for now,” you say. Life goes on. But the thought nags at you. While at the restaurant with friends, on your treadmill, …
Financial Energy & The Vibrational Cloak – P2
World Fetters One of the primary goals of spiritual cultivation is simple to explain but designed difficult: to release the fetter attachments in the physical world so the being becomes light enough to allow the divine to flow through daily living. Fetters are weights, and in a world like ours …
Chakras & Shackles – Part 3
Purple – Third Eye / Pineal / Intuition / Insight / Wisdom This chakra is all about sight and time. We’ll go backwards to the throat after this one. I think it’s pertinent to understand this before touching expression. Recall a time when you enjoyed an experience, perhaps so immersed in …
Chakras & Shackles – Part 2
I trust everyone’s weekend was enjoyable. And had an opportunity to observe out there in the world related to Part 1. For those new to the mailing list, I covered some examples of how these internal energy centers traditionally defined as “chakras” operate and are being operated on by external forces. Specifically, …
Between The Self & A Challenge
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 …
Anti-Affirmation Science
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 …
3 Ways to Strengthen Empathy
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 …
MCP: Dissolving Dependency
MCP, or MasterLearn Coach Philosophy is a coaching path that harnesses self-directed learning methods for realizing inner capabilities through the subconscious. A coach holds a powerful position. By powerful, I mean influential. When a client decides to work with a coach, it begins a relationship involving a mutual ebb and …
Self-Interest Vs. Self-Benefit
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 …
Make BookBuddy Your Book Buddy
I must say it’s taken some time to discover a library-recording tool that can last long-term. When accumulating knowledge resources, it can be done in a haphazard way, acquiring books on a whim, storing them away, sometimes never seeing them again because they become lost amidst the collection…a more impulsive …
Thought on Focus & Fortifying Against Distraction
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 …
3 Ways to Avoid Becoming Thought-Sheep
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 …
The Most Dangerous Job & Most Valuable Assets
“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 …