First thing, I wanted to let you know that I have finalized the details for my new course How To Create A Simple Stack Of Vision Cards To Create The Life And World You Want. I think you’ll be excited by the details which you will find here. Meanwhile, about choosing the stories that empower … Stories—Part […]
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Make Life Decisions Easily
Do you feel stuck about what to do with your life or anything else? Does making decisions in general exhaust you? That can be so with me, too! Though these days I also find that even my big decisions tend to emerge organically and don’t feel so big or threatening or like I better get them […]
The Change-Maker’s Guide To Using “Vision Cards” To Create The Life And World You Want
A simple stack of handwritten “vision cards” that I look at and work with every day has helped me more than any other personal management tool to achieve goals in every area of my life from being a successful author to helping others to live according to their values to building an income that sustains me to living environmentally to being an effective climate change and social change activist to being a good dad. This post is about how to create and use your own set of vision cards. I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me.
Is There Hope?
I don’t have to fight. I can try, but I don’t have to believe I am doing something wrong if it doesn’t go my way. I can do everything right and still all that I do will disappear. And I will disappear too. Truly knowing this, I can really watch the sunrise. I can really hear a friend. I can just be.
How To Know Your Job As A Human
We get stopped, so many of us, because we don’t trust ourselves. We don’t trust our own natures to guide us. Instead, we keep our focus on our desires and goals and then get frightened we won’t get them. Concentrating on our worries, we ignore the constant guidance given to us in each moment.
To Help Others, Give Yourself A Break!!
Want to be kinder and more loving to others? You have to stop beating yourself up about not being loving to others. Start by being more loving to yourself!
Peace Of Mind Is Not Everything
Zen Master Seung Sahn used to say that there are two kinds of work. Inside work and outside work. Inside work means keeping a non-moving mind and outside work means helping all beings. Being concerned only about inside work is not correct Zen practice. Only inside work means nirvana and peace of mind only for […]
The Questions of Life
“The sun in the sky shines everywhere, why does a cloud obscure it?” Kong-ans (koans) are word puzzles which are used in the Zen tradition of which I am a part to help us deal with the conundrums of life. If you can penetrate the conundrums presented to you by your teacher, then maybe you […]