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Everything that you will ever need is inside you right now. There is no need to climb Mt. Everest or run a marathon. Work instead on truly calming your mind, for a minute, an hour, a month. There is no need to find a soul mate or a drinking buddy. You have a tireless infinitely […]

It took me years of therapy to really understand that I have a profound lack of confidence. It took many fewer sessions to really accept this. This fear, this lack of confidence is not rooted in my mind but rather in my heart and my gut. The apparent inconsistency which led to my multi-decade long

Everything is relative; there are no absolutes. There is likely as profound of a lesson in exploring whether or not it is possible to make the absolute statement that absolutes do not exist (doesn’t it contradict itself?) as there is in living “absolutes do not exist”. But, for me, embracing that everything is relative has

Life is chock full of reinforcing loops. Like most things, this is neither inherently good nor bad. The real trick comes in learning what these cycles are in our lives and trying to nudge ourselves towards the positive reinforcing loops and away from the negative ones. As with many things, there is a good deal

Managing and improving and walking down the path is not always forward. Some nights we go to sleep seemingly further away from where we wanted to get to than we started that morning. It is vitally important to remember that all is not lost. Life is not one of those game shows where once you

We know that if we grow the healthy thoughts and actions in our lives we will benefit. Similarly, if we learn to reexamine and redirect the bad we also help ourselves a lot. We may need to start with simply resisting or rejecting the bad, which is a good start, but reevaluating and redirecting the

Forget median family household incomes and life expectancies around the world. Forget for a moment that billions of people live without food or shelter security. For those of us fortunate enough to be able to have the time, money, and ability to read this our lives are tough as well. We do not need to

Everything is an illusion, you and me, cars and mushrooms, death and happiness. There is not one reality, there is yours and mine, those for today and here and tomorrow and there. We live essentially at zero energy, zero time, and zero distance; or we live at infinite energy, infinite time, and infinite distance….it is

To a polar bear the whole world seems cold and snowy. To an ant living on a mountainside all of existence is steep and breezy. It is not that different for modern Men and Women…..the world is a large echo chamber of far left or far right views….or everyone is an avid distance runner. We

For those with a background in the sciences this may seem obvious. But, importantly, everything is always in change. Everything….every little constituent of every little insignificant part of every random thing in existence….everything is dynamic. Your unhappiness and your job satisfaction and your boss’s eyebrows, each one of them, is always in change. Every part