This is one of the many illustrations (click on it to expand) I drew as I was brainstorming for my new book How To Be Alive: A Guide to The Kind of Happiness that Helps The World (you can get a free chapter here and the free workbook here). Here is the text in […]
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Who Do You Matter To?
Do you feel you matter? In an email survey I sent out a while back, people said overwhelmingly that one of the greatest challenges to their quest for a life that is better for them and better for the world is the feeling that they don’t really make a difference. They can’t see that their […]
You Already Have Everything So Why Do Anything?
Part #1: You Already Have Everything The delusion in wanting more is that–in this moment–there can be no more. Just now is just as it is. And since–in this moment–there can be no more, everything that can possibly be is already here. Don’t make up anything in your mind and you already have everything. […]
How to Really Know Your Calling
What many of us want most deeply—assuming our basic needs are met—is to live a kind of life where spontaneously being our Selves is most able to happen again and again (for proof of this assertion, if you need it, look at Part II: How to Want What You Really Want in my new book How […]
Build Your House Where You Live
Are you rethinking your life as the New Year (or any other transition) approaches? This is the second of two short extracts from my new book How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness that Helps the World about following your calling (find out more and order it here). I hope it helps. Imagine a farmer who has […]
Go Where You Are Called
Are you rethinking your life as the New Year (or any other transition) approaches? This is the first of two short extracts from my new book How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness that Helps the World about following your calling (find out more and order it here). I hope it helps. […]
No Impact Man’s FREE How to Be Alive Workbook
I’m writing this post in the holiday season, which some people (like me) find even more stressful than the rest of the year. Stress in this period–and in general–makes me wonder if I am running around like a headless chicken over stuff that doesn’t even matter. But what does matter in my life? That is […]
How to Not Buy Things by Mistake
In my new book How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness that Helps the World, I talk about the many relationships we have with the world and how those relationships affect both our own well-being and that of our communities and planet. One of those relationships is the one we have with stuff. […]