#399 – How else do your Ego & Ghosts block your learning?Say you're trying to learn Arabic. When do you think you learn most: reciting declensions in a classroom? Or trying to find your way out of Cairo's Khan el-Khalili?When I bought my son his...
#398 – What do you wish others that you wouldn't want for yourself?How many times have you wished someone experienced something you wouldn't, in a million years, want for yourself?You'd like to say, "zero!," but you know you can't. If humans wer...
#397 – How do you expand when you go from forgiveness to gratitude?If thanking your "enemies" sounds radical, it's because it is. It's the ultimate shift in perspective: it allows you to go from victim, to lucky recipient of gifts.Granted: some exper...
#396 – How is your "just in case" attitude ruining your potential?In the present, the future is unknown. That drives your Ego and the Ghosts nuts: if not everything's planned to a T, they freak out and push you to do the same.If you give in, though,...
#395 – What do you gain when you forget what you know?How much does your knowledge weigh you down, when what you have in front of you is a problem you've never seen before?My bet? A lot. Exactly like your past does: you are this, you aren't that. You...
#394 – Who are you without your Ego (and the Ghosts)?You. Your true nature. Spontaneous, powerful, honest.Your Ego is you trapped in the past. And it wants you there, forever stuck. Your Ego has cameras pointing at all the potential exits out of your...
#393 – What attracts you from the other side of "I quit?"To the exhausted (or afraid) mind, "I quit" can be like a Caribbean island with all-day mojitos and turquoise waters where joy and freedom live. But is it true?During my last semester at N...
#392 – How do shame and guilt contribute to your prosperity?They don't––obvi. If they did, we'd all be swimming in gold coins. So, why do we keep allowing the Ghost of Misplaced Shame & Guilt (GoMSG) to determine our actions?It all comes dow...
#391 – How long can you keep it up before you burn out?Your planning self, fueled by the Ghost of Exertion-to-Exhaustion (GoEtE), will say, "forever." It believes in endless energy––heck, it's not even aware of the concept of energy!Rest? What's that...
#390 – What pushes you under the weather?When you're on the verge of a big leap, fear may strike back, in a last attempt to stop you from entering the unknown.One of the ways it does it is by making you ill, an effort carried out by the Ghost of...