A reminder from a 3,000 year old text.
Be quick to do good.
If you are slow,
The mind, delighting in mischief,
Will catch you.-from The Dhammapada
Act on your impulses to do good.
How easily we talk ourselves out of doing good. The impulse to do good will come from your small inner voice. Sometimes it may even yell at you. Nevertheless, the impulse is fleeting, then the ego jumps in with “logic” and rationalizations to talk you out of it.
I’ll do it later.
No one cares anyway.
I don’t see why I should when no one else is.
It could all go wrong.
When the impulse hits you, make the call, extend…
Give yourself the best shot at a good life.
Cue up the ubiquitous sayings:
Your health is your wealth…
Without your health, you don’t have anything…
If you have your health, you’ll be happy…
Wisdom that’s profoundly simple and simply profound is easily ignored. Until life makes it real for you.
I had a scary accident in the water a few days ago. With only a second’s warning I was pinned under water long enough to have the thought, “Oh my God, is this how I’m going to die?” I got myself out and I was ultimately okay. After an exam and chest x-rays, the doctor proclaimed that my…
Learning is living.
Learning is living.
I can’t help but believe that when you stop learning, stop growing, and stop expanding, your life begins to decline. Things either expand or contract, but they don’t remain still.
Learning means you’re expanding. It promotes neural plasticity, causing your brain to create new nerve connections and pathways. It benefits your mental health by increasing feelings of confidence, accomplishment, and curiosity. It expands your social network as you meet new people and make new friends. It can lead to promotions at work or new streams of income.
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”-Leonardo Da Vinci
You can learn and succeed at any new skill.
Break learning down to a few…
Unpopular Opinion
How to be yourself without ruining your life.
Has the “be yourself” pendulum swung too far?
Advice to be yourself and not care about what other people think is great until you find yourself with few friends and a go-nowhere job. Heck, you may even find yourself at the center of a viral news piece or on the no-fly list.
What’s driving your choices?
Human behavior is seldom uncomplicated. It’s the ego that drives just about all your actions and decisions. That means personality, and the choices you make, are the result of drivers like fear, insecurities, and past experiences.
It takes work to get to the root of your motives, and…
Even if you weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you can give your kids these two lifetime advantages.
Even if you weren’t born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you can give your kids these two lifetime advantages.
You have big dreams for your kids. You want them to have the things you didn’t have when you were growing up. You want them to be happy, healthy, and successful.
You can give your children a ticket to a rich life, and you don’t have to be from a wealthy family to do it. You also don’t have to obsess over the best preschool, designer clothes, or an obscene number of toys and gadgets.
The two tips I’ll cover here don’t often make the lists of trendy success tips, but ignoring these crucial foundational basics is like trying to…
You’ll have everything you need for today.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Many will recognize these words from what’s called “The Lord’s Prayer”. It’s just one part of a prayer that’s simple, yet it encoumpasses all our human needs.
It’s easy to take a commonly known piece of scripture and recite it without really digging down enough to know it and live it.
Give us this day our daily bread. Matthew 6:11
You’ll have everything you need for today.
I don’t read or recite the line as a pleading for what I need today. I read it as an assurance that the loving source that created and sustains us all will provide exactly what we need for today.
It’s…
A whole month just for us, and not one of those short, cheated months either.
Well women, looks like this is our month. A whole month just for us, and not one of those short, cheated months either. We get a full 31 days.
One week in and I’m tired of hearing about strong women. Yes I said it.
I’m tired of hearing about strong women because of course women are strong.
We’re strong the same way any living thing on this planet is strong. You’re strong or you die. The evidence that women are strong is that humanity still exists.
Women are made even stronger by the circumstances of our societies.
Women have to do twice as much to get half the credit. We have…
Speak truth to it instead.
I’m gradually coming out of that delicious sleep that only happens shortly before waking.
“What time is it?” I ask.
“Almost 7:00” answers my hubs.
“Oh wow, the darkness fools me.” I reply.
The sun rises late in our region of the world.
“The darkness fools me.”
In my barely wakeful state, I think, “Wow, isn’t this a true statement for life? The darkness fools us.”
It was dark in my bedroom, and still quite dim outside, but at nearly 7:00 am, we were well into the morning. …
Book Review
The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I just finished listening to the audiobook The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy by Rainn Wilson. I expected the book to be entertaining, as it’s written by the actor who played Dwight Schrute in The Office. It never let me down.
By the end, the book captivated me to the degree that I’ll spend my day writing this review and encouraging you to read it too.
F.I.T. Functional Imagery Training
Adapted from the course: Harness the Power of Your Thought to Think Yourself Thin.
Part 1. The F.I.T. (Functional Imagery Training) Method of Visualization
Functional Imagery Training (or FIT for short) is the cool technique that researchers used that led to participants losing, on average 13 pounds. Let me go over the basics with you.
First, It involves Exploration:
Or in other words, What do you want to achieve and what are the motivations behind it? You’ll pick a well defined goal. Some examples are:
- I’d like to lose 10 pounds
- I’d like to start taking yoga twice a week again
- I’d like to cut out all eating past 8…
