Kindness is Never Wasted

. . . is to get really, really, really good at answering the question: what’s the best thing I can do now? When you develop greater awareness to ask the question more often, and especially at key moments, you will make better decisions. And when you commit to learning and growing you ask that question…

I’ve been trying to write this post for a couple days now. I’m not exactly sure why I’ve been hesitating, but I have. Now, I want to get it done more than I want to hem-and-haw, so here goes. *  *  * Five. Hundred. Posts. That’s a lot. When I look back on the writing…

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. – Helen Keller With apologize to Ms. Keller, there are other grave threats to ability to anything wise in the world, self-deception chief among them. But feeling sorry for your self, for more than five…

In life, the opposite of creation is not destruction, it’s victim-hood. “Huh?” (you may say). In life, we can choose to be responsible for our lives and create through our choices, or play the victim and allow life to wash over us all the while lamenting the unfairness of things and wallowing in passivity. Put another…

How we use our brain and mind is fundamental to our experience of  life. Both our day-to-day experience and our overall level of achievement and fulfillment are directly tied to how we think and feel. And how we use our brain and mind is how we think and feel. *  *  * I’ve studied the…

Today’s post is simple. It’s a supposition really. Putting aside the fact that mastery is an on-going, never-ending process, a practice (for life), what are the keys that fuel a practice of life mastery? Can we distill such a practice to a few elements? I believe we can. First, there’s the fundamental challenge – and opportunity – of…