The difference between a meaningful life and a meaningless life is Action. Action being taken, specifically, towards a connection with something greater than ourselves. If, in the moment, no particular Action is being taken to experience…
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The Cure For Negative Thinking
Anger is almost always a useless resort. It really has nothing to do with the person(s) or circumstance(s) to whom it’s directed, and much more to do with thoughts going on inside of the victim’s own…
Information vs. Innovation
Real innovation comes from having the courage to sound like yourself. There’s a catch, though. Part of sounding like yourself is knowing what “you” sounds like. And you can’t know that until you listen to…
Money Or Time?
A friend told me about a study done showing that most Americans have next to nothing in their savings accounts. The actual statistic: 69% have less than $1,000 and 34% have no savings at all….
Why Intimacy Is More Important Than Music
There is a lot of Music, but not a lot of true human connection, in the world. Open a streaming app, like Spotify or Pandora, or an online media store, like iTunes. Go to a…
Should You Quit Your Job?
In Cal Newport’s So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest For Work You Love, he provides an algorithm to be used in order to find out whether you should quit…
The Problem With The “Attraction Hypothesis”
There’s a couple of different ways of explaining why what happens to us happens, and why we get what we get. One way would be to say, we created it. We had ideas, we had…
The Sweet Spot
There is a place where it’s best to hang out and see what happens. To sort of just kick back and observe. In the learning process, this is especially true. The trick is balancing this…
More On Growth
How can you tell where to direct your efforts? By identifying the two or three things you least want to do. For me, it has been practicing my voice therapy exercises, and doing abdominal workouts….
Where True Growth Comes From
The only way to ensure that progress is being made from one echelon to another is if pain is being felt. Not the kind of pain that renders a person immobile, but the kind that…