Minding Our Own Business – a Lost Art Form
Are you a meddler? A busybody? A finger-pointing, sour-minded, critic of everybody but yourself? No, of course not… but that neighbor down the street… and that hussy over in accounting department… well, they’re constantly sticking their noses in where they have no business, right? But just for today, let’s forget about them, and instead – for a brief moment or two... [Read more]
The Meaning of Passion – And How to Get Passion
Find Your Passion? Ever hear somebody say you’ve got to “find your passion”? I used to hear that, and they almost made it sound like passion is some kind of colored rock – just lying out there under a bush – waiting for the lucky day I’d somehow stumble across it. Well, passion is a funny word to begin with, and we use it pretty loosely. We often say “passion”... [Read more]
A Negative World View
Ever watch the TV series Prison Break? If William Fitchner, the actor who played an FBI agent, would smile more and let his hair grow down past his shoulders, he’d look a lot like Nassim Haramein. I was watching a YouTube video of Haramein recently in which he discussed his decades of work on a unified field theory. I never got clear on whether he’s a theoretical physicist or a pure mathematics... [Read more]
Cynicism Meets Dumb and Dumber
In the mood for some unusually cynical advice? How about a self-help article that lists out eleven of the worst self-help books ever, tells you what’s wrong with them, tells you why to avoid those books in particular, and then includes sales links to each one of them at Amazon. If you’d like to see this for yourself, it’s at The E-Advisor Blog (where, according to their tagline, “Education... [Read more]
When WILL that Teacher Appear?
When the student is ready… We’ve all heard it hundreds of times – when the student is finally ready, the teacher is going to show up and set things right… maybe lead us triumphantly into the promised land. But have you ever had a teacher come tapping on your shoulder, ready and eager to reveal to you all the secrets of the ages? Most people will laugh and tell you that, no,... [Read more]
Are We Fighting Evil or Fostering Good?
When we struggle against all those “bad” habits of ours, it may be that we’re utterly on the wrong track. In fighting evil, what do we have front-and-center in our minds? Yep, the very thing we want to banish from our lives. And as every teacher has tried to show us, we get what we think about. Worse, we actually become what we think about. I don’t know if the following story... [Read more]
The Green Revolution to… Where?
Here’s a post I’ve seen here and there around the Internet. I’m reprinting it here even though I have no idea who originated it. Enjoy. Checking out at the supermarket recently, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. I apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days“. The... [Read more]
So You Think 2012 Is a New Year?
Time for a contrarian comment. Just this. Only a very, very few people will have a new year in 2012. Everybody else will have the same old year they’ve been repeating for ages. Slapping a new number on the same old stuff and pretending it’s the Emperor’s New Year is either cynical or self-delusional. Only a change of Actions, Thoughts and Intentions will make 2012 something new... [Read more]
Resolutions Fizzle? Try New Year’s Realizations
Statistically, most new year’s resolutions produce squat. All but a tiny handful go from high hopes to zero in a matter of days. Lose weight? Ha! Work out and put on muscle? Double ha! Make more money and get along better with family or whoever? Fuggedaboudit! Even apart from the new year period, the fact is, most folks spend their time focusing on the ways things go wrong: What didn’t... [Read more]
Sabbatical Ends Today – Confidence Still Growing
Christmas is two days past now, and in just under a week a bright new year will visit itself upon us. 2012. The much vaunted, much promoted, much feared 2012 is coming, and ladies and gentlemen, whether we’re ready or not, we’ll find ourselves having to deal with it… just as we have every year leading up to this one. Now, I don’t know if this new year will truly mark the end... [Read more]
