#448 – What's so fulfilling about challenging tasks?Challenging tasks feel fulfilling, not because they’re hard, but because they give us what we crave: choice, growth, and connection.Yesterday, in my morning pages, I wondered why my current AI job f...

#447 – You triggered my Ego, now what?Getting "triggered" happens to everyone: our fear-driven Egos want to get in charge whenever they feel threatened.It's normal, but that doesn't mean it's inevitable. You're in charge, and here are the three steps...

#446 – What about your freedom triggers my Ego?On a recent Zoom meeting, someone wrote in the chat that they felt “triggered” by another person's pronouns.What can be triggering about a person’s choice to display the pronouns they want for thems...

#445 – How does your Ego profiteer from your envy?You know envy is a feeling you'd rather not have. Yet, now and then, when you think of your friends' children's profitable careers or their family vacation in Japan, little red horns grow in your mind...

#444 – How can you tell you’re not shrinking from your potential?Fulfilling your potential isn't about money, cars, designer handbags or luxury condos. It's about aliveness.Are you alive or sleep-walking through your life?In Bullshit jobs: A The...

#443 – How can you balance setting goals and surrendering?Spiritual teachers advise us to surrender to the Universe (or Spirit, or God). And material-world teachers tell us to set goals, if we want to amount to anything.How can we balance those two s...

#441 – What does your Ego gain when it paralyzes you?When your Ego is triggered, it assumes the situation causing its fear will last forever. This shortsightedness makes the fear feel absolute, no way out.In this catastrophic scenario, the best...

#440 – Why is the Ghost of Clinging to Useless Possessions so clingy?If it were up to the Ghost of Clinging to Useless Possessions, you'd still have in your closet that dress you got in London in 1991, your baby's first sneakers, and every grudg...

#439 – What conditions do you need to ease your grip on life?When control is your default mode, triggered is your state. Because nothing ever goes as planned, there's always a reason for edginess.A couple nights ago, I was reading in bed while the he...

#438 – What do your talents need from you?How many times have you abandoned your talent just because it didn't feel "productive?" Because you couldn't "monetize" it (I hate that word)? Because it'd lead you nowhere? Perhaps your answer, like min...