I believe that asking the “right” questions can lead to the “right” answers. Because of this, I daily train myself to ask the most proper questions I can think of in the hope that this can make me better at it. Ok, answers will bring information and awareness, which can be frightening. This can help us, but it can also hurt us if we’re … Continue reading Questioning – The Path to a better knowledge?
Have you ever thought about how often you lie to yourself? Blasphemy, you might say. But is it? Whenever you say that tomorrow you’ll start something you feel a little good because you don’t need to start today, but when tomorrow comes, do you really start that thing? You’ll probably try to find some way to rationalize why you can’t do it in that … Continue reading Don’t lie to yourself
Let’s take this example so commonly used by other people to prove this point. If they use it, it’s probably real so I’m going to use it too because I’m too lazy to think about a new one. Let’s say that you are a very hard worker in your company and you have excellent results, but your salary is not hard or excellent. You’re … Continue reading Challenge Your Fear
Sometimes life makes us forget that living is not all about running around all day from one point to another trying to solve things. As you surely noticed, some situations has some “joyfulness” potential while others don’t have it. But how many of those joyful moments or situations do you have on a daily basis? What’s the purpose of all of this? How much crap … Continue reading What gives you joy?
Provided by Brandi from Afrologik One thing that has been consistent over the decades is that people are always on some kind of trip. Be it political, religious, or health (to name a few), we are all on a journey for truth and a better life. I wouldn’t go so far as to call these concepts fads or trends, because there are many … Continue reading Finding Yourself Without Losing Yourself: The Art of Being True To Oneself
Now let’s get to something spicy: On a daily basis, what makes me angry and why? This question can help us identify the main sources that change our mood on a daily basis. Anger is one of our basic emotions so it has a great potential to make our day worse. When we’re angry, we tend to be more impulsive so we … Continue reading The Anger Path
Provided by Scherezade Ozwulo from The Introverted Christian *originally posted on The Introverted Christian* I came across this article, Do You Put Up Emotional Walls, Based on Your Personality Type – Personality Growth and it instantly got me thinking, do I erect foundation supports or do I build foundation structures to protect things inside? Protection vs. Support According to the website personalitygrowth.com, each personality … Continue reading What Kind of Walls Do You Put Up?
Provided by MyStori from Believing & Learning Reader, I have a specific question for you. Are you ready to change the world? Jordan Peterson, a now widely known and respected “intellectual” doesn’t seem to think so. His ideology of the ability to change and even give advice to the world can be simply stated as cleaning your room. “So can you even … Continue reading How To Change The World
Provided by William Darnell Sr. (Bill) from I Got A Dream In Mind No one said that stopping treatment was going to be so hard… I met with my doctor recently, and was done with therapy for lymphoma for close to a year and five months now. I hadn’t been feeling well, and I had no symptoms of cancer, nothing that made me … Continue reading Life after Cancer that they don’t prep you for
Have you ever wondered how other people look back at their lives? Have you ever thought about what they remember the most about their past? What stories they have and want to share? What are they the most proud of? Each life is an adventure, but Reg and Sue’s life is one of the greatest adventures I’ve ever encountered. Their book Camino Sunrise-Walking With … Continue reading Camino Sunrise – Walking With My Shadows
Each action we make involves some energy, but where is all that energy coming from? You surely noticed that we feel more energized when we do certain actions compared with others even though no additional energy came in. It seems that whenever we like something, we somehow find more energy to invest in that something compared to when we don’t like it. In … Continue reading Your Emotion is Your Energy
Would it be possible to get anywhere if there wasn’t a path to that destination? A path is a way and if the way exists, why we sometimes behave as if it didn’t exist for us? It’s interesting how some invisible things (our thoughts) can f*ck up our lives. This mind we have can be influenced very easy and because of this, we … Continue reading You need to believe it’s possible
Provided by Brandi from Afrologik A lot of our “grown up” time on this planet is spent doing what we “have to do“. Working, paying bills, spending our time and energy on people and things that we probably wouldn’t choose on our own, but it’s what has to be done (adulting sucks!). If we are not careful, we can allow that tolerance of things … Continue reading Enter The Good Vibes Zone
Provided by Troy Headrick from Thinker Boy: Blog & Art A little more than three years ago, I left my teaching job at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and moved back to the United States, the place where I was born. A clause in the contract I’d signed with AUC, way back when I was first hired, stipulated that the university would ship … Continue reading Growing Up Is Overrated
Provided by Irina from copilariefericita In a village in Egypt lived a poor boy, which had a slow mind and a slow body. His greatest joy was to take long walks along the shore of river Nile. He did this every day. His mother was afraid that one day the boy will fall asleep and he will roll into the water and die drowned. … Continue reading The Boy with the Flute
How often do you pay attention at your strengths compared to your weaknesses? Whatever your answer is, I’m sure that ratio can be improved. We would like to be flawless and because of it, we tend to focus more on our weaknesses, which is not necessarily a winning strategy. We’re all good at something and we all suck at something else. If we … Continue reading Your strengths can be your path
How much time do you spend thinking about the past? Besides the obvious influence over your past self, how is it still influencing your present? When you think about your past, how do you feel? The first and most important influence the past has over our present is from an emotional point of view. Whenever we think about some shitty parts of our … Continue reading Your Past vs Your Present
– Situation: you planned a meeting with one of your friends and in the last moment that person called to cancel it because something came up; – Internal monologue: “What? I cleared up my schedule so we can meet and this is how she treats me? We barely talk lately and I was really looking forward for this meeting. She probably doesn’t care about me … Continue reading A Core Belief in action
Have you ever noticed that when we need to choose one thing from many similar ones, we get to feel anxious? Have you ever wondered why this happens? Maybe it’s because too many choices imply too many information to process and in our desire to make the best choice, we get overwhelmed. I believe it’s easier to choose between two things because we … Continue reading Having too many choices can be hurtful
When you think about your dreams, how important are they for you? What are you willing to make so you can make your dreams come through? What obstacles are between you and your ideal life? Would you like to overcome them? How are you going to do that? Life is not easy and it’s not meant to be easy. If it would be … Continue reading You need to challenge yourself!
