Become all you can become with Sophie
He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
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While context is decisive, the One thing, the way I teach it is as decisive regarding your life as context.
This is how it works:
And then you use that one thing to do the same things you’ve been doing, but now you do them differently. Continue reading “The One thing: The who, the how, and the role of rest?”
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Curiosity… Hunger… appetite… sexual desire…are you killing them all?Your parents, your teachers told you: don’t eat candy, don’t eat cookies before dinner: it will kill your appetite.
The five ‘hardware-type’ needs, the need for energy supply, information, safety, reproduction and group are guided by feelings… all a lot like hunger.
Hunger can be fulfilled with empty calories or good, nourishing food.
The need, the second most vital need is the hunger for information. We also call that curiosity. You can fulfill it, just like the first one, with junk. Continue reading “Curiosity, hunger, appetite, are you killing them all?”
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Given that I go deep inside humans… deep into the invisible… all the way to DNA, this article is different than what everyone says about emotional intelligence…
So if you want the same b.s. beware… It isn’t. Continue reading “Emotional Intelligence: learning what emotions are…”
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Or here is another question for you: Who are you?
If you asked back: What do you mean? you did the smart thing. Because the question: who are you? can be asked from so many vantage points, we can spend hours exploring that. Continue reading “Who do you like? Who do you love? Who is the one loving?”
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I wrote this article five years ago. I never published it… Enjoy.
Continue reading “On growing as a person, on getting guidance, on learning”
Why is it so difficult to change?
I am in the business of causing change… Causing you to cause change for yourself…
I, for a period of time, declared that the context of my life was to be an inspiring leader of leaders.
How did that go? Not very well, I must admit. Continue reading “Why Is It So Hard to Change? A look under the hood”
Everyone is looking for the lost key under the lamppost…
Instead, if they do anything, they try to think it out.
It is like trying to think out soup… no ingredients, none.
The only way to be effective in life is through looking IN REALITY, where the ingredients are… and not just for soup, but for everything.
The Streetlight Effect Continue reading “Look for it where it is, not where the light is on”
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Today I got struck with an insight.
I have written 613 articles on building, that is roughly 10% of all my articles, and yet I have noticed that building didn’t, hasn’t become part of the vocabulary of clients and readers of my articles.
Why is that?
I am not sure, but I think that it is a mindset issue. Continue reading “How to build a life worth living, if yours is not like that”
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I am reading a book, The One Thing. Tai Lopez recommended it, but I had been resisting.
But like most of the books Tai recommends, it does have a kernel of gold… Maybe more than one kernel.
One of these is what he says about will power. Quite fascinating and very useful. Continue reading “How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives…”
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If we were talking directly, I would let you guess… but I am sure you wouldn’t guess right… It wouldn’t even occur to you…
What does it even mean, Sophie? Continue reading “What is the greatest motivators of all? Can you guess?”
