Uncommon Insight

Every positive has it’s negative. You can’t have part of it, you have to take the whole thing. To know joy you must also understand pain. When you see someone with an extraordinary life remember that it’s not all glamour. You can’t have all the highlights without also having the uncut, unreleased scenes that contain…

The more you think about something and let it linger in your mind without acting upon it, the larger of a mental obstacle it becomes.  Think less. Do more. Follow your intuition.

Confidence is like a super-power, it fuels all you pursuits. If you have confidence + time then you are unstoppable. But if you’re lacking confidence it’s basically like kryptonite, because you probably won’t try or persist.  Where does confidence go, what is it replaced by? It probably depends but there are only so many emotions. …

How do we become conscious of our triggers and then work to remove them? Is it possible to not let others thoughts, opinions, or actions affect us at all? To not have emotional reactions to others? Can we still experience positive emotion without experiencing the negative ones?

Setup your day so that completing the necessary tasks is as easy as possible. Integrate it into your life.  Remove any extra steps in-between starting to do the task and actually doing the task. Even eliminating the small things can make a big difference. It’s easy to follow through on your goals and tasks when you’re…

Why are some of us so quick to believe outlandish things about others – is it because we want to? Why can’t we believe in ourselves and our own potential that quickly?

How can we find small wins to act like progress along the journey, so we don’t feel like a failure on the long road to success? How can we ignore the lack of progress toward our goals in the short term? By focusing on our own output, by measuring ourselves by our own improvement rather…

We have to be met where we are. In order to communicate we have to be on the same level, otherwise we’re basically speaking different languages. When the student is ready the teacher will appear and the teacher is constantly appearing, as our levels constantly change. We’re not capable of understanding until we are capable…

We tend to believe that someone else is causing us to feel something negative. In most cases we are allowing that feeling to happen, and in all cases we are creating that feeling ourself.

I feel like there are two schools of thought around accomplishing goals. One says that you need to have a laser-like focus on one goal and eschew all else. But students of the other school of thought seem to be able to focus on a few different things at a time and sort of have…