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The Meaning of Travel
Is travel a meaningful pursuit of itself? I think we both know the answer is ‘no’. Nothing is meaningful by itself. Not even things like having children. The fact that many of us find travel and having...
View Article15 Times You Became Your Own Hero
Time for a cheesy list of some of the things that can make us feel like heroes in the movies of our lives. Why? Because – in the bastardized words of Kurt Cobain – wanting other heroes to rescue us is...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Goals
Setting goals is a little bit like locking a cute baby monkey in a room with a bunch of 4 year olds, and waiting for the ensuing chaos. Each child is apprehensive about approaching the little monkey,...
View ArticleThe 8 Psychological Defense Mechanisms that Explain Why You Do That
At a basic level, psychological defense mechanisms are the lies we tell ourselves to avoid pain. It is difficult to overstate the importance of becoming aware of our own unique combo platters of PDMs....
View ArticleA Dangerous Self-Concept – the Dogmatic ‘I am’
Your self-concept just means how you see yourself. It is related to your self-esteem. And it might not be (and probably isn’t) something that you give much thought to day-to-day. Our true perceptions...
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Hey I was Hoping We Would Match
How dating app chat look might look if we dispensed with the niceties. Hey, I was hoping we’d match. I just moved into the area and I need some friends, fast! I’m sending this exact message to the five...
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16 Do’s and Don’t’s with using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is still wildly popular as a personality assessment method. In 2014, two million people took the test, in seventy different countries, and in 21 languages. But...
View ArticleHow We Use People
We use people and the circumstances we find ourselves in to reaffirm our beliefs about ourselves, others and life. Rarely are we dealing with people and things as they are. We do this because...
View ArticleFrom Thought to Thing – The 7 Stages of Manifestation
Esoteric eastern philosophy suggests there are 7 stages of manifestation which we all go through to realize our highest aspirations. Whether we’re manifesting a start up, a book, a painting, a...
View ArticleHow to Burn your Bridges with People and in Life
Bridge burning – to destroy one’s path, connections, reputation, opportunities, particularly intentionally – is generally undervalued. More than that, we are actively discouraged from bridge burning....
View Article7 Beliefs that Squander Natural Born Talent
If you believe in natural born talent, then you probably also suspect that you can’t be anything you want to be. And that idea is not offensive to you. Believing in natural born talent carries a...
View ArticleWhy Self-Knowledge is Hard to Come by – and What to Do about That!
When asked to condense all of his knowledge and wisdom into one pithy takeaway, the Athenian philosopher, Socrates, responded simply: ‘know yourself’. He didn’t say how to do this though. Nor how close...
View Article8 Things You Need to Know about the Graves Model (or Spiral Dynamics theory)
The Graves model – also known as Spiral Dynamics theory – is an evolutionary human development model based on research by US psychologist, Dr Clare Graves, carried out in the 1950-60s. Back then,...
View Article8 Body Language ‘Tells’ that Show you’re Bored, Anxious, or Possibly Lying
The former FBI agent Joe Navarro has probably spared the world the effects of a nasty crime or two. And also saved a lot of cash for the companies he has consulted for. Why and how? Because Navarro is...
View ArticleHow to Get More Love and Money
Want more love and money? How about more freedom? And what about some extra fulfillment and happiness? We all want more of these things, but we can go about them in unproductive ways. That is what this...
View ArticleAdvice to my Younger Self (32 Things I’d Whisper in her Ear)
1. Stop obsessing over your weight and other trivialities. Start being interested in the deeper meaning of things. There is a world beyond the immediacy of your experience. Take your focus to it every...
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How Practicing Mindfulness Changes Your life, in Non-Vague Terms
Practicing mindfulness gives us the ability to be happy and content, no matter what our circumstances. Based on my own experience with practicing mindfulness, it is the only thing that grows that...
View Article‘Just Do The Next Right Thing’
‘Just do the next right thing,’ she said. How had I forgotten it; this powerful phrase. One of my favorite therapeutic expressions ever. More useful even than ‘this too shall pass’, or ‘is it true?’:...
View ArticleHow to Develop Freedom and Choice over Your Responses
If we want to feel a freedom that absolutely no motherfucker can mess with, we have to develop responsibility: the ability to determine our response to any given circumstance. Responsibility is a...
View ArticleThe New Rules for Getting over a Rejection
Getting rejected is grim, which is why we all go to lengths to avoid it. Tirelessly working out and shoring up attractive personal qualities – much of our self-development efforts are really about...
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