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Intentions: Mistakes Were Made
(Photo credit: 416style) Creating an intention seems like something that should be pretty straightforward. So why isn’t it? There are three common mistakes almost all of us have made when we’ve set...
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A Shortcut to Self-Awareness
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece (Photo credit: Wikipedia) If you aren’t yet convinced that much of what you do is completely outside your conscious intentions and control, the Enneagram might...
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Self-Talk Radio: It’s Always On the Air
(Photo credit: daftgirly) Our monkey minds are constantly chattering away, leaping from one thought to another, unchecked and unguided. We have many conflicting wants, needs, and goals but little...
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Write Your Way Out of the Story
The brain (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The left hemisphere of our brain includes what Daniel Kahneman calls an “interpreter.” The interpreter is constantly trying to…well…interpret everything we...
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Why “Farther to Go”?
Story of My life.. (Photo credit: xD3x) Because each of us is in the middle of a story we don’t know the ending to.
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A Mind Really IS a Terrible Thing to Waste
A snag amongst other living trees. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Science is telling us something we already knew—even if we hadn’t put it into words. We have a limited amount of conscious attention, and...
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Music Will Save Me from Myself
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Having declared an intention to maintain my equanimity—and why didn’t I think of this before now?—I have been looking for ways to keep reminding myself that this is my...
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It’s a Mystery
(Photo credit: Steve Woolf) hidden agenda n a secret or ulterior motive for something Imagine what it would be like if everyone, everywhere on the planet, had a hidden agenda. Imagine these agendas are...
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Clarity
Opening (Zentangle art by Joycelyn) After I finished clearing out my garage three weekends ago, the path ahead (my path, that is) suddenly became so much clearer. The garage clearing was the...
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Intentional Optimism: Be Bold
At the end of this video, Jason Silva asks a great question: Why shouldn’t we turn our lives into a work of art? As he says: I can decide that I’m going to see the world through rose-colored lenses....
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Do You Believe in Reasons?
(Photo credit: Wonderlane) Consider these two groups of people. One group (Group A) believes that reasons are real and that reasons cause things to happen or not happen. The other group (Group B)...
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Is Your Head Ready to Explode?
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) You might have a head on the verge of exploding if you’re trying to operate under these two incompatible assumptions. You have free will, and you choose whatever you do or...
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How UNreasonable Can You Be?
(Photo credit: Celestine Chua) There is general, though not absolute, agreement that being reasonable is good and being unreasonable is bad. Depending on how you define the terms, however, you can find...
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Unclear or Uncertain?
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) There’s an enormous difference between being unclear—not knowing which step to take—and being uncertain—not knowing what the outcome of taking that step will be. It’s...
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Alive in The World
Alive In The World Jackson Browne I want to live in the world, not inside my head I want to live in the world, I want to stand and be counted With the hopeful and the willing With the open and the...
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and One Pill Makes You Small…
Alice through the Looking Glass (Photo credit: sammydavisdog) …so don’t swallow that pill! If you’re playing small, making yourself small, or trying to convince yourself and everyone else that you’re...
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Destiny
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) If you do not change direction, you may wind up where you are heading. —Lao Tzu
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Not Dead Yet
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Most of us, at one time or another (or maybe even incessantly), want to know why we are the way we are. Why do we do the things we do, think the way we think, and feel the...
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Data’s Cat
The world is made of stories, not of atoms. –Muriel Rukeyser Data (Star Trek) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There is a world of atoms (the physical world or so-called objective reality). But that’s not the...
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