#481 – How do you rebel against control?The need for autonomy is intrinsically human, a necessary part of self-determination. When you feel you own your life, you assert your personhood.These last few weeks, I've been feeling oppressed by the time-ke...
#480 – How does freedom feel when you let others have their "issues?"If you've ever felt responsible for the world, you know what I'm talking about.Once again, my morning pages delivered.I was trying to describe the feeling I have about my...
#479 – How do anger and worry solve your problems?If anger and worry solved any problems, life would be a rose garden––we all know that. So why do we keep at it?It was 5:08 a.m. when I admitted, against my desire, that I was fully awake. Noises durin...
#479 – How do anger and worry solve your problems?If anger and worry solved any problems, life would be a rose garden––we all know that. So why do we keep at it?It was 5:08 a.m. when I admitted, against my desire, that I was fully awake. Noises durin...
#478 – How can you turn any difficult conversation into an amicable chat?The fact that “difficult conversations” is the subject of so many books, courses, and business-magazine articles tells you something about humans: exposing ourselves f...
#477 – What happens when you mute your voice?Whenever you acquiesce when you really mean no, you're putting a gag in your Self. Sooner or later, the pressure is too much and you explode in a Godzilla-like wrath, torching everything in sight with...
#476 – What changes when you believe you don't need to chase time?When the Ghost of Time Indifference leads your life, you either run like a mad hatter, feeling late to everything, or let life go by you, oblivious to hours and days.This morning...
#475 – How does your world contract when you need to be right?"Being right" is a small place that fits exactly one person: you. Because whatever you're right about, someone else is right about too––in their own way.During my training to become a...
#474 – Who could you become if you weren't attached?Once your values override your critical thinking, you're done evolving: your ideas, beliefs, and mental habits have become more stubborn than your presence.When my friend Isabel Del Olmo was wo...
#473 – How will emptying your mind make you more creative?The idea is so simple that spending time writing or reading about it seems ludicrous: the less you have in your mind, the more you'll create to fill it up with stuff––an idea for a short story...