TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump. This past week, with the holidays and the new years, I naturally found myself spending more time with family. Interacting with family members as an adult is a great spiritual workout; you’re tested emotionally despite being an adult. what do I mean by this? Your experience may vary, but I personally hate it when I lose at something; it makes me feel less than and useless....
TL;DR “If you’re feeling like you need to protect yourself from something, I would ask two questions: (1) Has this person done something to indicate that they are a threat? What evidence do you have? (2) If there is no evidence, then figure out what has happened in your past that has reinforced that belief for you.” Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump....
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Mind Dump. Here are some take aways I’ve gotten from 3 of Paul’s essays: “Here’s a simple trick for getting more people to read what you write: write in spoken language” Make a choice on what you want your goal to be: to feel smart, or to have the reader understand what you’re saying. Dropping your ego and humility will get you further complex sentences and fancy words give you, the writer, the false impression that you’re saying more than you actually are You don’t need complex sentences to express complex ideas the harder the subject, the more informally experts speak because they have less to prove, and partly because the harder the ideas you’re talking about, the less you can afford to let language get in the way....
TL;DR All great teachers, from Jesus to Buddha, agree of the following points: We become what we think about Look within yourself for the solution Give up weak attractors for strong ones. Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump. How does this opinion explain how the world really works in a way that accurate, wholistic, and realistic? Given your thoughts and opinions, what practical actions can we take?...
TL;DR This is the link to the video. Here are the main truth bombs: No matter how rich and successful you are, you can never buy grandchildren Success = the constant struggle to do what’s right blessings are more important to brains people who were in the right time and right place being a blessing to others because others have been a blessing to you Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help?...
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump. Example 1 “Do what feels good” is both bad advice and sound advice. If you seek good feelings externally (vices, validation, consumption, etc.), you will never be content. If you seek good feelings internally (by doing good, being good, & pursing a good mission), you will find joy. Example 2 “Money buys happiness” and “money doesn’t buy happiness” are both true....
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Dating Experience I recently went of a date where I went the full 100-yards in presentation. I rented a more modern car, I wore a suit with matching dress shoes and watch, and overall elegantly put together. I felt uncomfortable at first because it’s not how I usually am, but the more I play this “role”, the more comfortable I feel in this new skin....
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump. How does this opinion explain how the world really works in a way that accurate, wholistic, and realistic? Given your thoughts and opinions, what practical actions can we take? Thanks for the advice, now how can I practically put this to use in a simple way for daily execution?
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump. Many people despair on this or that. Often, anguish comes when we see a potential future we could have had. And perhaps that’s what’s keeping us in our current bad habits. We sometimes do thing we know we don’t want to do. Why? Because we don’t know what we are sacrificing when we repeat our bad habits....
TL;DR Whom am I speaking to? Who is this going to help? My Practical Experience My Mind Dump. Peace is experienced after tension, stress, and instability. Boredom is peace that has overstayed its welcome. How does this opinion explain how the world really works in a way that accurate, wholistic, and realistic? Given your thoughts and opinions, what practical actions can we take? Thanks for the advice, now how can I practically put this to use in a simple way for daily execution?...