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It was the ancient Greek philosopher Plato who is credited with saying: "The unexamined life is not worth living." He realised that to live a complete life we must examine it truthfully. If you don't make time to examine your motives, it may catch up to you. Why? Many people are dictated by their unconscious desires instead of making conscious cho...
Continue readingTrue commitment is to be available to something without any if's & but's, to be available in your purest form. To be available as you are, ensuring you are acting to your fullest capabilities & leaving the outcome to take its own course. It's a complete surrender.In order to be fully committed you have to first accept yourself in your true ...
I recently came across a podcast episode that talked about self-love and why it is so important to cultivate in our lives. It was the inspiration for this piece and my hope is that by reading it, you will identify ways to create more self-love in your own life. On his podcast, the Model Health Show, I recently heard Shawn Stevenson talk about how ...
"Most people overestimate what they can do in a day, and underestimate what they can do in a month. We overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade." -Matthew KelleyYou should always follow your dreams, but don't chase them. Because your dreams will still be there no matter how long it takes for you ...
Today is a special anniversary. It's been four weeks of no mess and no clutter. A few of my work colleagues were fascinated by this achievement when I told them and asked me to write about it. The process to get there was grueling. It made me sick, it was stressful and it was hard. It was worth every second though and it can help everyone reading t...
For most of my life, I tried to "get back to" an imagined time where I felt like I was at this incredible pinnacle. I can name every point in my life where I felt I'd reached new heights: Summer '93, Summer '96, Summer '98, Summer '00, Summer '02, Spring '08, Fall '10, and a surreal two-year stretch between Summer '14 and Spring '16. At each peak, ...
For the last two Mondays, I've dropped into a local, weekly storytelling workshop. I did it in the way I do many things: with a plan; a goal; an endgame in mind — I want to be better at storytelling. (Because we all could.) I want to be better at identifying and naming and validating my own emotions and experience (ditto.) And then I want to be be...
Isn't it great when good writing advice overlaps with good overall advice to life? I'll take specificity as an example. One thing that makes a piece really great to read is when the writer uses specifics well. So, instead of writing… The boy loved going to Grandma's house. She writes… Every time the boy saw that bright...
If you want to grow your influence as a writer, you've got to write consistently.If you want to grow your influence as a writer, you've got to write consistently. That can be a challenge if you have a day job and other commitments. This has been my life for the past year and a half. I had been freelance writing before that, but now I've adde...
In late 2017, Salvator Mundi, one of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, sold for $450.3 million. For a child born out of wedlock in the 15th century, that's quite an accomplishment. And yet, many would argue that this isn't even close to being his greatest contribution to humanity. When the word "Renaissance" is spoken, no one comes to mind faster th...