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No elbow room, no freedom to be… that is the ditch

We all live in a ditch-like space that gets deeper and maybe even narrower as we go along.

A ditch is like a tunnel except that it is open to the sky.

People don’t know they live in a ditch. Why? Because all they know is the ditch. It becomes everything because the only thing that would distinguish the ditch is ‘not-ditch’. But because a person in a ditch can only see what is in the ditch and the dirt that is its wall, ditch can’t be distinguished from the inside of it.

My job, in this article, is to cause you to SEE, aka distinguish your ditch so you can have more than just that in your life. Continue reading “No elbow room, no freedom to be… that is the ditch”

Finally I decided to end hope and start a side-hustle

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Finally I decided to end hope and start a side-hustle… or why you aren’t growing.

My favorite part of the book, The Science of Getting Rich is where he says: Start where you are.

Most people do their life half-assed, build half-assed projects, hoping that doing that they can have what they want: success, love, fulfillment… but that is not the way to go. Continue reading “Finally I decided to end hope and start a side-hustle”

Have a mind like a sieve? Nothing sticks?

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It takes more than just insights, or reading, or listening to audios to become a fully equipped person who can live the good life. But what is the fundamental missing piece that so darn few ever benefit from in ANY of the activities they undertake?

With life spent in cars and buildings, our eyes stopped looking and assessing our environments. And with smart phones and computers, our eyes have become stationary search beams, not seeing anything outside of the beam…

But more importantly: out of sight – out of mind:

the brain does not connect what you see with anything… nothing is ever written on your brain’s hard drive… only into its RAM… and once you look away, it all disappears…

Continue reading “Have a mind like a sieve? Nothing sticks?”

What is more important: your attitude or what you eat?

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From the point of view of health, what is more important: your attitude or what you eat?

Just so we are clear: even what you eat is the result of your attitude…

And, of course, your attitude is hidden. Hidden from you… and when we look, hidden from other people too. Continue reading “What is more important: your attitude or what you eat?”

The secret of fulfillment. A secret because it’s hidden

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It was my birthday yesterday. It was also Labor Day.

There are lots of theories about what’s the purpose of life. But ultimately, it seems to me, that without working and working in a way that you feel useful, and used rightly, you don’t feel that you are here for some purpose.

And yet, in this declining epoch people don’t work, or don’t work in a way where it causes satisfaction and fulfillment for themselves. Continue reading “The secret of fulfillment. A secret because it’s hidden”

What do you like about a movie? book? TV series? person?

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What do you like about a movie? A book? A TV series? A person?

The drama? The look of the actors?

So, observing myself, I have discovered that I don’t watch something unless I like at least one person there.

And to be truthful, you have to be a good person for me to like you. Continue reading “What do you like about a movie? book? TV series? person?”

Get out of your own way… what does it mean exactly?

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Are YOU in your own way? Is that why you can’t grow, can’t learn, can’t amount to much.

Is that why you are always seeking, never finding? Why everyone is an a’hole, and you get angry and stew? Why you won’t even be looking to see?

Someone who has already gotten out of their way can have a good old time watching the zoo where humanity is the population. Continue reading “Get out of your own way… what does it mean exactly?”

My first ever webinar in 2009 on getting unstuck

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Life is like a spiral staircase… Every problem, every issue will come back to be addressed on a hopefully higher level…

Like getting unstuck.

I once read a story about Gandhi. A woman came to him with his child. He asked Gandhi to tell the child that eating sugar is bad for him. Continue reading “My first ever webinar in 2009 on getting unstuck”

7 reasons people don’t succeed in life… but you can

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Quora is addictive. So why do I open the email from Quora every morning?

Every time I open Quora’s email, I find something I am glad I found.

Something useful. Something that takes me out of my ‘groove’…

Groove is a shallower ditch that a real ditch, but a ditch nevertheless. The more you don’t go outside of it, the deeper it becomes.

Eventually it will become the place where you are stuck. Continue reading “7 reasons people don’t succeed in life… but you can”

Stuck? What does it really mean to be stuck? What is stuck?

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Stuck is mostly a feeling, not a fact. It is coupled with an emotion.

It is unpleasant because feeling limited is what it’s about.

As if you didn’t have a choice, as if you were weighed down, or restricted by some heavy weight.

And some of those stuck feelings are accurate: you are kind of stuck… You could be in prison. Or you could be stuck in an iron lung. Maybe you’ve lost your legs. Continue reading “Stuck? What does it really mean to be stuck? What is stuck?”