How is it that your doubts can so effectively hold you back, and prevent you from fulfilling your best possibilities? It is because they provide a comfortable place for you to hide from those possibilities. Even though you desire to achieve, you know that the achievement will have a price, in effort, commitment and sacrifice. You also know that when you venture out to seek success, there is also the very real possibility of failure. So you conjure up some... Read more

Imagine for a moment that you can let go of your need for validation, and just be one hundred percent who you are with the full power of your being. Think of what you would say if you had no need to impress or impose or influence. Consider what you could do if you were free to follow your own most sincere priorities. In fact, you can. In fact, there is immense value in the authentic reality of who you... Read more

Before you spend a lot of time and effort striving after something, ask yourself. Do you really need it? Do you really even want it? Instead of just assuming you must have it, challenge your assumption. Remind yourself that you’ll be spending precious and irreplaceable time to get it. Consider that there are many other, perhaps much more meaningful things you could be doing. Is it something you must really have, or do, or know? Or are you just in... Read more

There is a path that connects you to the very best life you can imagine. The first step is right in front of you. In this very moment you can take that step. You can be on your way. You can truly be living your dream, whatever that dream may be. It might take a few days to fully achieve what you intend, or it could take decades. What’s important, though, is what you’re doing with right now. This is... Read more

What you think about reality, is not reality. The map is not the territory. It may be a very useful representation, and yet even if you know every single detail on the map, it is not the same as being there. It can be extremely helpful to realize that there is much detail missing from the map. It can be truly liberating to understand that what you assume to be the whole truth about a particular situation is only a... Read more

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. –Confucius Some people are just looking for an excuse to give up, and do so after the first setback. Others have some degree of desire to achieve, but lack sufficient commitment, and turn back after experiencing several disappointments. Then there are those who get back up every time. They are the ones who are able to achieve whatever they decide to achieve. Picking yourself back... Read more

What’s the biggest impediment to living and acting with purpose and intention? Fear. If you continue to put off making a decision, there’s something you fear. When you avoid taking action, it’s because there’s fear in there somewhere. Most likely you have constructed an elaborate set of perfectly reasonable excuses for staying put. Nonetheless, the real, underlying reason is a fear of some kind. A fear of some kind… Much of the power of that fear is that it exerts... Read more

The good things we seek rarely come to us in exactly the way we have imagined. If we’re constantly saying no in order to avoid even the slightest discomfort or inconvenience, we soon find ourselves missing out on the richness of life, wondering why our dreams never materialize. We all desire good things for our lives, and yet we must realize that for life to get better it must change. Great things are always coming your way and they are... Read more

In 2006 it was easy to get a mortgage for a house you really couldn’t afford. In 1999, it was easy to make money buying and selling dot com stocks. It’s easier to drive through at the fast food place and get a burger with supersize fries than it is to take a brisk walk around the park. It’s easy to go to bed without brushing your teeth. It’s easy to stand in the shadows and avoid getting involved. It’s... Read more

From time to time other people will disappoint you, with results that can range from mere inconveniences to real tragedies. Forgiveness is a way to move past those disappointments. Forgiveness can liberate enormous amounts of energy that would otherwise be wasted on negativity. Keep in mind that everyone can grow and change, and forgiveness is a great way to get that process started or to positively acknowledge that it has already begun. Forgiveness is an affirmation of the fact that... Read more