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I have often been asked why I don’t believe in New Years Resolutions…
After telling someone I think resolutions are bogus, I’ll witness the clocks spinning in their head as their thinking, “Huh? But Why? Why wouldn’t you want to set goals every year?”
Allow me to explain through a short, but very powerful story… (more…)
Tonight I felt quite inspired to read up on some of my past articles and see if I could learn anything from them.
You see, through the process of teaching, the teacher is able to learn a tremendous amount.
In fact, sometimes, through the process we come up with ideas and concepts in the spur of the moment which can even be somewhat new to us: teachings that are important for both the reader and the writer to review and embody.
Instead of giving you a full new post for you to read today, I’d love for you to review one of my former posts. Below are the three that I read tonight. Read the title and short description, pick one that resonates with you, and enjoy:
How to Achieve Success Through High Expectations: Have you ever thought to yourself, “I would love to achieve those goals…but I don’t expect them to come true…” ?? Here is a fantastic way for setting your goals, maintaining high expectations, while also being flexible for the universe to provide as it sees best.
A Simple Formula for Being Happy Regardless of Circumstance: Seemingly terrible, terrible things happen in life. It’s an unavoidable fact. People die. Houses burn down. We lose investments. It happens! Here are some great methods for rolling with the flows and maintaining happiness through anything that comes your way.
The Blessings of Failures: This is one of my personal favorites. Throughout life most of us have somehow developed the belief that failure is a terrible thing to happen. I ask you though, is it really? Read this and you’ll learn how all the failures you’ve ever had were simply blessings in disguise.
This past weekend I had the opportunity to see an old and very dear friend of mine whom I had an extreme falling out with many months ago. At the time I felt he had done something that was literally, an atrocity. What it was though is irrelevant for this article, as this is about forgiveness…
What I will tell you though so you can understand how hard it was to come to this place is that what I believed my friend had done is something I think very few could forgive another in their entire life time. In fact, many people would probably hold the anger about it until the day they die.
Now that’s not an ego identified realization where I think I’m some kind of holy Buddha who has super powers. Not at all. On the contrary, I believe anyone can develop the power of forgiveness if only they choose to have the desire.
We have a choice in how we experience everything in life.
While I originally wrote my thoughts and feelings about this experience in my personal journal, I felt it was a vital experience to share for the benefit of others.
If this story can inspire just one person and help them receive the gift of complete forgiveness for another, then my job is complete.
Here’s the story:
Have you ever had the attitude of, ‘When I commit to something, I STAY committed and I will stick with it until the end no matter what!!” ?
Is that attitude a good one to have?
Most I imagine would say yes! How couldn’t it be? It demonstrates the incredible quality of commitment!
While commitment can indeed be great, I encourage you to consider another perspective for a moment…
See, commitment can actually be dangerous. So can persistence, dedication and other qualities that on the surface appear to be grandeur.
To demonstrate this point, I’ll share with you (more…)
Have you ever asked that very important question?
Go ahead, ask it right now…
“Why is life sooooooo great?!”
For years now Tony Robbins has been teaching that the quality of our lives is in direct proportion to the quality of questions we ask ourselves. For the last couple years, I’ve found tons of evidence that supports that…even neurological brain science!
Whatever questions you ask yourself, the subconscious mind will drive the answer in a way that is supportive of the question you ask!
For example, if you were to ask yourself ‘why does my life suck?’ your subconscious would kick into gear and say: (more…)
Yesterday afternoon while I was browsing the Steve Pavlina forums, I engaged in a very interesting discussion regarding the unhealthy nature of the concept ‘hard work,’ which was posted by senior forum member Cylon. In it he asks the question, “If it’s fun does it still count as “Hard Work?”
Due to the great insight both him and I received from the discussion, I had to share with you some of the highlights.
Hard Work and Stress
Cylon: “I think the concept of “hard work” as we use it in our western culture today, is unhealthy…on one extreme, embracing it can turn you into a stressed out workaholic, who has stress related illness, and dies young…On the other extreme, many people who may actually enjoy taking some deliberate, focused action will avoid it unnecessarily because they have associated any action whatsoever as being “hard” or “difficult” (basically, no pleasure involved)”
In my opinion the concept that (more…)
‘God dammit, look what I did.’
‘I’m such a failure.’
‘There I go, screwing up again.’
‘Why do I have to be such a f**k up?’
‘Why can’t I be good at anything?’
Have thoughts like these ever gone through your head? Have you ever kicked yourself for not succeeding at something? If you have, then perhaps you’re looking at failures in a negative light.
You say: “Duh Sean! Failures are negative! How could they not be?”
Ahhh, grass hopper! Let’s take a dive into the realm of altered perception…
What are failures?
What I believe failures are, are (more…)
A very important lesson I learned while under John Assaraf’s wing was that…
The “what” comes before the “how.”
What does that mean?
Consider this: We all have ‘wants’ in our life: material, spiritual, relationship, and contribution (as well as others). That is our ‘what.’
What most people do however is as soon as they think of ‘what’ they want, they immediately begin to list out all the reasons why they can’t have it! They think, “well ‘how’ in the world could I possibly achieve that?”
And when they’re asking that question, they are asking with a belief that it can’t happen, and thus attracting into their life all the reasons why they can’t achieve that dream.
That’s all they see: the reasons why not!
If you’ve had a dream in the past 10 years in which you (more…)
I mentioned in my first post about sacrificing short term profit for long term wealth the negative power of having an entitlement attitude. You know what demonstrates entitlement? The attitude of HAVE-DO-BE.
What does that mean? It means you believe that you must have a lot of money before you can do the things you want, which will then allow you to be the person you wish to be (that’s just one example of many).
The very important concept I learned from my mentor Scott deMoulin is to BE-DO HAVE!
That is, you BE before you can DO, and you DO before you can HAVE.
You don’t need to HAVE certain things to BE happy!
If that were the case then why (more…)
