Uncommon Insight

I almost never feel like doing something to change my mood for the better. People resist change in many big ways, but I think we also resist change in..

One of the hard parts of my entrepreneurial journey was having to be the supporting role in my wife’s business. I wanted to be the main character – the Michael Jordan – but sometimes it may actually be more beneficial for you to be the Scottie Pippen. Of course in team sports, which business is,…

If you don’t know what you want.  If you don’t have any goals, where do you start? It’s commonly said: ‘start with a clear vision of what you want’.  This is good advice, but what about for those that don’t know what it is they want? All they know is they don’t want THIS.

I was reminded of an annoying human behavior recently: when someone gets upset about something after you have just addressed it and/or are working toward resolving it. I’ve caught myself doing this before. Someone would apologize for something and then that would trigger it again. Why is that?  This points to how no one can…

I hate going out to eat at sit-down restaurants. It’s such an enormous waste of time. It has a whole ritual and dance to it, it’s like ground hog day.  You walk in and smile at the hostess and wait for your table. Then you go to the table, sit down and look at the…

We chain ourselves and then call the other the captor. We’re like the baby circus elephants that are tied with strong ropes and are not able to get away. That lose the belief that they’re indeed able to get away by the time that they are actually able to. Our childhood and the authority figures…

People don’t need to gain confidence, they actually need to lose it. The reason any one might lack confidence is because they believe in the concept at all. In order to have confidence you would have to believe in the Self. Subconsciously the individual knows that the Self does not actually exist and therefore confidence…

What is the common denominator in all of my experiences? Myself. What is the common denominator in all of my interactions with other people? Myself. What is the common denominator in myself, that filters all things? My mind.  Therefore where do all my problems come from? Myself and my mind.

Each tree in the forest doesn’t have its own special name. Deer and squirrels don’t respond when you call for John or David. Wild animals are wild, but they’re just as much a product of nature as we are. As everything is. Other animals don’t have names, but humans do, and upon those names they…

Who is strong enough to ignore their mind? Strong really isn’t the right word, but it will have to do. To ignore ones mind, one must first, somehow, see through it.  “Seeing through it” meaning that one will realize that they have a mind that lies to them constantly. I first stumbled across the practice…