When you feel angry for seemingly no reason, it’s not because you’re a bad person. More likely, it’s a reflection of your past experience. The same goes for jealousy, laziness, sluggishness, and all the other feelings that stop you from loving yourself.
To really see this for yourself requires a…
Self-awareness is such a complex idea. We all want to improve it, but many find it hard to unpack the concept. What does it mean to be self-aware?
Over the past few years, I’ve explored this question from many angles. At first, self-awareness seemed to be a primarily spiritual endeavor…
On the last Full Moon, I did it again.
I know I shouldn’t have. The current limits on social gatherings are still quite strict. Yet, the promise of what we would create together was much greater than the perceived risk.
(Note: Although the gathering was bigger than allowed, we did…
I recently came to terms with this:
If you’re doing something for the first time, you won’t feel ready for it. That’s impossible.
How can you feel confident about leading a workshop if you’ve never done it before? Confidence is an aftereffect of experience — not a prerequisite to it.
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When you decide to consciously pursue personal growth, you may eliminate things from your life. You get selective about your experience so you can better understand yourself.
A smaller number of stimuli helps regain clarity.
You engage in productivity systems by eliminating distractions. You cut out (or minimize) certain relationships…
A while ago, my friend posted this poll on Twitter.
Both bloggers and travelers are storytellers. They just function in two different spaces.
I’ve been both and let me tell you that people seem way fonder of the traveler type. As I recently crossed the UK on a tandem with M, I saw this as clearly as ever.
During this…
What do you do when you have no clue what to believe — and, you can’t see any way of deciding how to choose what to believe in?
What do you do when, presented with two options, you have no idea which one will keep you safe?
I know that…
Since I can remember, I craved more connection than I knew how to create.
As a school kid, I considered myself shy and awkward. I was that geek you’d copy your homework from — but not have much fun hanging out with.
The awkwardness continued through teenagehood and into my…
I thought that being a content creator would grant me a life free from conformity. Ironically, it’s done the opposite.
The concept of “creator” hints at the freedom of expression. But, when prefaced with “content,” that changes. Creating content, by definition, means filling up a pre-existing container. …
