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The Manifesto of Encouragement

The Manifesto of Encouragement

Right now: There are Tibetan Buddhist monks in a temple in the Himalayas endlessly reciting mantras for the cessation of your suffering and for the flourishing of your happiness. Someone you haven’t met yet is already dreaming of adoring you. Someone is writing a book that you will read in the next…
When You Don’t Know What to Do with This Life Thing

When You Don’t Know What to Do with This Life Thing

It’s the lead-up to Christmas. All around me, there is festive cheer. Christmas carols, with people singing. People shopping for last-minute gifts. Friends laughing over a meal. Yet the festive cheer doesn’t seem to sink in for me. Each afternoon, I take my chair up to the highest floor of…
How Teachers Change Our Lives Forever

How Teachers Change Our Lives Forever

One of my favorite workshop activities is when I ask participants to think of someone special who changed their life. I want to know whom they would thank who was truly inspirational and motivational to them, from any point in their lives, and most of them immediately tell me about a…
Humility

Humility

A Scorpion is waiting on the shores of a riverbank. The reason he needs to cross has been lost through the sands of time. There sits the Scorpion, gazing at the distant shore, when along comes a Frog. “Excuse me, sir, says the Scorpion, “But would you mind ferrying me…
Are You Really Living Life

Are You Really Living Life

Are you really living life, is this current definition of life the life that you want to remain in forever. It is not, the majority of people do not live life, they are just born and then wonder aimlessly with no dreams, no goals, no plans, and no aspirations for…
Your Capabilities Are Limitless

Your Capabilities Are Limitless

There is this deep disbelief within oneself that has been ingrained into the minds of the masses as a result of the conditioning of living an average life. As you grow up you are told not to have too bigger aspirations within certain families or groups, too many people will…
Life Procrastination

Life Procrastination

Why do the majority of people procrastinate on living their life. It seems as though many people don’t take action on what they truly want for their life. There is a severe epidemic of life procrastination that has swept the globe. People don’t go after the dreams they want, the…