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Seven Ways That Choice Makes Your Life Hell, Part 2
2008-04-24 19:11:00 Very few things in this world are one-sided, all good or all bad. In Part 1 of this series I introduced the idea that the extraordinary human power of choice can lead us into our own personal hell. Barry Schwartz has written an insightful book on the dark side of choice, called The Paradox of Choice . I?ve ... More About: Life , Think , Hell
Seven Ways That Choice Makes Your Life Hell
2008-04-10 03:54:00 Do you think that having more choices is good for you? Choice is critical to the feeling and practice of freedom. Without choice, you would be doing exactly what you?re told to do, every moment of the day. You?d be following your programming like a machine with no soul. A kind of pretend choice is where ... More About: Life , Hell
The Internet ? Life, or Just a Game?
2008-03-31 18:00:00 Leading a Double Life Imagine that there is a door in your apartment or house. Each day you step through that door and visit a distant and strange world for a few hours. In that world you have a different name and face and body. You live, work, earn money, face challenges, create, succeed, and grow ? every ... More About: Internet , Play , Game , Explore
Is The Internet Dangerous?
2008-03-25 02:47:00 The Free Exchange of Ideas vs. Censorship Do you feel angry or even afraid when you hear that the government or other organizations are trying to control the content of your entertainment and your information? There are laws and regulations that control the content of television, movies, video games, and to a lesser extent, the Internet . ... More About: Play , Explore , The Internet , Create
Are Fear and Pain Making Your World Smaller and Smaller?
2008-03-16 23:55:00 Trapped In A World of Pain Do you remember as a child, when the world seemed endless, and every stone was full of possibility? And whatever we knew of the world, was only a beginning — a glimpse of endless knowledge that we could only dream of. What happened to that world? It seems so far away. Do you feel ... More About: Energy , Fear
Do You Have The Freedom To Choose?
2008-03-11 21:54:00 The Space of Choice Houses get dusty, people grow old, machines break, men destroy, and everything that lives dies. Yet, people build, and plant, and create. Children are born, and the world changes and grows in beautiful, new, and exciting ways. Both are true. The world is dying, and the world is growing and unfolding. Life is full of contradictions. Which ... More About: Freedom , Choose
Review: Sound Health, Sound Wealth
2008-03-02 22:51:00 For a while, I?ve thought about including an occasional review on this blog. Recently, someone approached me suggesting that I review Sound Health , Sound Wealth by Dr. Luanne Oakes. So I checked out her reputation, and looked at recommendations from people like Deepak Chopra, John Gray, and Tony Robbins, and decided that reviewing this book was a ... More About: Review
Affirmation Poem: My Dreams Walk Beside Me
2008-02-26 03:03:00 (What’s an affirmation poem? See the beginning of Affirmation Poem : Endless River of Living Fire) MY DREAMS WALK BESIDE ME Not a whisper, lost in the wind. Or a shadow forgotten in the day?s sunlight. Brighter than the light that greets dark eyes, sharper than any sword, endless as the space between stars. MY DREAMS WALK BESIDE ME Do I see, the impossible? Thirst, for what I ... More About: Life , Dreams , Walk
Is It Normal to Hurt Others?
2008-02-18 18:06:00 More than you can stand. Do you think that you’re emotionally healthy? Do you have moments where you strike out at others verbally or physically? It’s amazing how we’ve all been hypnotized into believing that attacking others verbally is perfectly normal and healthy. Some of us believe that we’re doing just fine, and those unpleasant moments don’t really ... More About: Energy , Hurt , Normal
Who Are Your Enemies?
2008-01-31 05:41:00 Do You Have Enemies ? In the wake of 9/11, the conversations of our leaders, our media, as well as our own private conversations, have become filled with the idea of the enemy, and often the word itself. Unfortunately the idea of the enemy is nothing new for us. It was 60 years between the attack on Pearl ... More About: Marketing
Are You Afraid to Change?
2008-01-10 04:24:00 Afraid to Change Are you afraid to change? We all are. It?s a side effect of the way our mind makes sense of the world. Let me explain. Let’s say that your brain didn’t use your experience to help you understand the world. Your perception of every object, in every moment, would be brand new, and you would spend all ... More About: Life , Dreams
What?s Your Secret?
2008-01-01 19:53:00 Where Are They Hiding The Truth? I?m not sure how I became like this. And I?m not alone. Like you, I don?t have all the answers. I?m so full of questions. And when I?m honest with myself, my questions burst forth, and haunt me. And one question comes back, again and again, in many forms. ?What?s being hidden from me?? ?What?s really going ... More About: Secret
Who Tells You That You?re Powerless?
2007-12-17 04:28:00 Babies and Power I remember when my oldest child was born. She was, and is, like all children, a miracle, but at the moment of her birth she seemed absolutely helpless. She had this eternally wise expression on her face (ok, she is a bit of a genius). And, like all other babies, she had no real ... More About: Play , Explore , Tells , Create , Imagine
How Do You Live With Fear?
2007-11-30 01:17:00 Thought, Feeling, and Imagination Many of us live with patterns of thought and feeling that ignite our fears. These patterns begin with habitual thoughts that are negative. We think about how we?ve been hurt before, and we drift into fear and anger. We think about all the things that could go wrong with a ... More About: Life , Live , Fear
Why Do People Use Fear to Influence You?
2007-11-28 03:03:00 Fear and Influence There are many therapies, techniques, and strategies that we can use to overcome fear. But if we free ourselves from our big fears, and still have no sense of possibility, no place that we truly want to go to, what will we use our freedom for? Where will we end up going? I believe that ... More About: People , Fear
Is Society Based on Fear?
2007-11-23 01:12:00 (There are real dangers in this world, and the emotion of fear can be a useful response to alert us to those dangers. Even then, we have to be willing to look at those fears, and see what action we need to take. However, there are many fears that we carry with us which do ... More About: Society , Marketing , Fear
It?s Not Your Fault!
2007-10-28 05:08:00 Guilt It?s not your fault. You may not always use those exact words when you whisper to yourself. It may not even be a whisper, only a feeling. But that feeling has passed through you, so many times. We look at ourselves, and we don?t always like what we see. But we hate to feel small. We hate to feel bad ... More About: Marketing , Fault
Are You Afraid to Dream?
2007-10-14 03:15:00 Love to Dream , Hate to Dream This is an age where people are afraid to dream. You don?t believe me. We have too many cable channels to count. We have movies with incredible special effects, computer games that grow more elaborate all the time, and multiplayer games and virtual worlds on the internet. And we have an unending supply of ... More About: Play , Explore , Create , Imagine
Why Do You Hate Selling?
2007-09-26 05:08:00 The Oldest Profession People hate to sell. Not everyone, it?s true. But why do so many people hate sales, and look down on sales people? I?ve met many wonderful salespeople who help their customers find exactly the right product or service. But, we?ve all met someone who fits the stereotype of the pushy, deceitful salesman. (It seems sometimes like deceit was ... More About: Selling , Hate |
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