Mind Management

We can change our jobs, home, clothes or friends, but unless we change the way we think, our habitual emotional responses will continue to create the same quality of experience and nothing that happens in the external world will make much of a difference. The only...

Assume Beginner’s Mind

When learning something new, it’s often best to drop your preconceived notions and try to adopt a fresh perspective. It’s difficult to improve when you think you already know everything you need to. Whatever your expertise now, assuming there’s more...

Perserverance Is Key

To get really good at something you have to spend time developing your skill. Committing to a regular, daily practice is necessary to keep the momentum going. Every now and then your brain needs time to synthesize and absorb what you’ve learned and you’ll...

Happiness Is a Learned Skill

If you want to live a joyous life, learn how to regulate your thoughts. Your thinking is not merely a rational and objective response to external events. It’s an endless series of instantaneous micro-decisions that cumulatively create your emotional landscape....

Become a Master!

If you want to become really good at something, do it everyday. Whether learning a musical instrument or developing a physical skill, when you do it regularly, you make the sort of progress that builds on itself. Doing something everyday creates mental, physical or...

Drama Is a Distraction

Symptom ten of Conscious Awakening: A loss of interest in drama. Conscious awakening is the shift from identification with your ego to your authentic self. The essential self, prior to the development of conditioning, has distinct characteristics just as your ego...