Really? Do you really still want to be an obedient cog in “the system”?
Many people like obedience because it lets them off the hook. They can abdicate the responsibility to be the boss of their own actions and to be the real human they were born to be instead of a cog in some inhuman system. A few years ago, I bought a couple of falafels in a…
Seeing “criticism” as a guest who needs to be allowed in, taken care of but taken to a quiet basement
We don’t need more criticism from ourselves or from others. Criticism never made us better. Other people don’t need criticism from us. We have never helped anyone by criticising them. But too frequently, criticism come our way uninvited. Just like sickness, problems with relationships, lousy weather……………they all come without any warning or without our invitation.…
Overlooking everything that’s wonderful is a real tragedy
I have recently started doing two things daily. Real actions rather than just thoughts or plans. I start every morning writing to someone (so far everyone I am sending this message is on email. But eventually I will use any means, including phone call or texting) thanking him/her and telling the person my gratitude, in…
Forget your big goals for a while and just focus on the small daily rituals that support them
Anyone frustrated not achieving the big goals we have set ourselves? A three minute market research will show that this is a huge drain on our mental energy and also why many of us are so frustrated, and why some of us have given up setting any goals. Welcome to the club! We are all…
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Photo by Elijah O’Donnell on Unsplash We are paralysed by the ideas of “if only I had done that”, “if only I chose that” , “I have invested so much in this, I can’t change track now”……………because we tell ourselves the story that what we are now is due to our earlier decisions and actions. So we…
Do the little things right, and the big things will take care of themselves
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash Do the little things define us? All the results in our life come from the little things. More accurately our little thoughts define us, as all the little things in our life are created by our little thoughts. If we think of of the components of our mind as a continuous…
Infinite patience produces immediate results
Photo by Madhu Shesharam on Unsplash When we hear this it sounds contradictory. It’s contradictory because we have been programmed to think that patience equals long, long wait. In fact, patience has a much wider meaning. Patience is the opposite of impatience. What is impatience? Simply put, impatience is an attachment. Attachment to how things “should…
Delighting in your own good qualities, and of others, pays huge dividends.
Photo by Juliana Amorim on Unsplash We love calling people names. We are obsessed with labelling people. Nowadays it’s politically incorrect to call someone “the Asian guy” or “the grumpy granny”, but we still do label people nonstop. That “jerk”. It’s a label, just in case you have not noticed. It’s not an undeniable solid…
If you don’t have a temple in your heart you will never find your heart in the temple
Photo by Michael Xu on Unsplash This Rumi quote vividly paints a picture of where the real work is. It pinpoints where our real work is. It locates exactly where the workshop is located. It locates where the inner workshop is held. Rumi of course does not mean the heart where blood is pumped in and out.…
Uncertainty of outcome is stressful! Discard it for peace of mind.
Photo by Tyler Lastovich on Unsplash We feel stress when we feel that the outcome will not be what we want. We are impatient when we tell ourselves the story that whatever it is we have created an expectation for, will not appear now, or faster. We are impatient with ourselves and we are impatient with the…