Change Your Mind

If you’re unhappy about some aspect of your life and you’d like to make an improvement, don’t focus on what’s wrong. That will lead you in exactly the wrong direction. The most expedient way to improve almost anything is to change your thoughts...

Let Life Do Its Thing

Trying to control everything shrinks our possibilities. Meeting life with an open and curious mind allows us to experience a much larger and more nuanced sample of life than we could ever dream up ourselves. Needing to control every detail reduces our life down to...

Changing the Outside World

No matter where we go, we take our conditioned mindset with us. Our programming influences how we react to the world. The way we interpret any situation has as much to do with the lens we’re looking through as it does with what’s actually happening. Trying...

What Do You Want?

Intention is the fuel that powers the engine of creation in our lives. That’s why it’s imperative to concentrate on what we want and refrain from excessive focus on what we don’t want. Being discerning and having preferences is healthy, but expending...

In the View Finder

Like a photographer, you can pro-actively decide what to include in the lens of your attention. Instead of unconsciously focusing on annoying and irrelevant details, you can choose the frames you’ll look through and at what distance. Reacting to something,...

Who’s Making This Up

It’s often easy to see how others cause their own suffering, while forgetting that we too create our own experience of reality. Every time we resist what is, we suffer. We don’t need to pretend we like everything that happens, we just need to remember that...