A Different Way of Using Your Mind (#827)
Which would you rather have – a computer with a huge programmable memory and no internet access, or a computer with limited programmable memory that was always online, wherever you went?…
Falling in Love with Being Alive (#826)
Since I first began writing about my battles with depression and suicidal thoughts in my teenage years, I have met hundreds of people at my public talks and seminars who want to share their stories and compare notes on how and when things began to get better. I’ve written many times about my discovery of “the suicide thought” – my realization that thinking about suicide all the time didn’t mean I wanted to actually die. What I haven’t written about so much is when my experience of life went from not being scared of dying to falling in love with being alive…
The Nature of Thought and Problem Solving (#825)
I ran a couple of Shifting the Foundations coaching intensives in the past week, spending three days with each client looking deep into the heart of the inside-out understanding of life and the human experience. While they couldn’t have been more different from one another, there was one theme which emerged strongly for both of them – how a deeper understanding of the nature of Thought can transform the way we go about handling problems in our lives…
How to Love Even When You Want to Kill (#824)
In my book Feel Happy Now!, I share the story of an uncomfortable realization I had when I was a teenager: …
Why Aren’t You Awesomer? (#823)
Earlier this week I was sitting with a client who was telling me about his business struggles, and how the stress and pressure he was feeling were leaking into other areas of his life. Out of nowhere, a question that at first seemed too rude to voice popped into my head:
“Why aren’t you awesomer?”…