#311 – What does the Ghost of Misplaced Guilt want from you?Like the other rent-free tenants in your mind, the Ghost of Misplaced Guilt (GoMG) wants only one thing: to keep you small. Corralled, because it thinks it's safer.To achieve that, it m...
#310 – What in you opposes your resilience?According to the American Psychological Association's website, "Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, em...
#309 – Who's at the wheel when people seem "difficult?"When certain people bother you because you find them "difficult," look inside yourself.We're all triggered by things that other people do or don't do, at times. But, as the owners of those t...
#308 – How do you know your decision was right?Decision-making has become a science.According to my Claude.ai assistant, 5,000 to 7,000 books were published, around 90 TED Talks were given, and 500 to 700 formal courses exist on the subject.I don't k...
#307 – What's the meaning of "good luck?"If good and bad are meaningless categories, according to the Taoist principle ("who knows what is good and what is bad?") what do we mean when we wish someone "good luck?" What does "luck" even mean?Yeste...
#306 – Why do we say procrastination when what we mean is fear?These past few days, not gonna lie, I didn't want to write my daily email––resistance was at it hard inside of me.I saw the Ghost of Not Following Up with its typical why bother kind of a...
#305 – What's the meaning of true freedom?Today in court, the Judge, once again, denied release conditions for my son, in jail for 206 days today. Yet, I feel at peace.Is this what true freedom feels like? To be okay with what's going on?In this stat...
#304 – How will wanting make you suffer?The feeling of want is energizing, motivating, inspiring at first––"I want to build a house in Portugal, with an edible garden, and power everything with solar energy."It makes me joyful, excited with the poten...
#303 – Who talks in always/never terms?Nuance requires the capacity to handle uncertainty with grace. But for the part of your mind for which uncertainty equals danger, nuance is an obstacle to safety.That part is your Ego. It's the voice in your hea...
#302 – What do you stand to gain when you're angry?When you feel that someone (or the world) has wronged you, you feel right––and righteous. Anger may then come to the rescue, to fuel, motivate, and give you the energy to defend yourself.This mo...