"The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work." - Ayn Rand No One Wants to Be Mediocre Do you want to master your life and realize your dreams? No one wants to wake up one day and realize they hate their life. No one wants to wake up one day and realize life is not what they dreamed it would be. No one wants to live a life unfulfilled. [...]
“Don't forget to love yourself.” - Soren Kierkegaard Do you know what it means to love yourself? We all want to fit in and feel like we belong. Many of us have that constant nagging little voice telling us we aren’t like everyone else. However, I often wonder, does everyone have that nagging voice or only some of us? What is so wrong with being different, with not being what others consider normal? Albert [...]
"It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there." - Robert M. Pirsig Zen saying are great. Inspirational quotes are awesome. I say them and try to believe them myself. But, Zen sayings don't actually do anything or CHANGE anything. But, they are a great place to start. You have [...]
"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love." - Walter Savage Landor There are so many self-help articles, books, blogs and dating coaches talking about self-love and how you have to have self love before you can find a partner, be your best self, get the right job, make your way in life. Self-love this. Self-love that. But, what exactly is self-love and how do you find it [...]
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. —Oprah Winfrey What exactly is the Law of Attraction (LOA)? For those of you who have never heard of the Law of Attraction the basic premise is that Like Attracts Like. The fundamental concepts of the LOA are theoretical and scientific in nature. Basically, we are all energy. [...]
“I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.” - Audrey Hepburn Anyone who’s an extrovert won’t get this post at all. However, if you have a friend or loved one who is an introvert you may want read it. The original meaning of the words "extrovert" and "introvert" are different than what we consider them to be today. Today people consider an extrovert as someone who is social and outgoing, while [...]
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt Yes, that's me on top of that cliff along with my fellow adventure seekers. I'm third from the right (obviously not going anywhere NEAR the edge!) That's The Mountain-the mountain they named "The Death Road" in Bolivia, so named because of its inherent danger and yearly death toll. From beginning to end its about 40 miles, straight downhill, with a drop [...]
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." -Ralph Waldo Emerson How do you know when you should quit your job and change your life? Do you wake up every day miserable and wanting a new life? Do you come home exhausted and have little energy for anything you actually enjoy doing? Do you wish you could snap your fingers and suddenly everything would be different? If so, I understand. I [...]
"Life is either a great adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller What is the meaning of life? For many of us the meaning of life involves marriage, a house, a job, two kids and a dog. But what about those of us who derive our meaning from something else, but we aren’t exactly sure yet what that something is. What do yo you do when you feel so alone? Today I walked to Starbucks to [...]
"We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy." -- Walter Anderson Every day I wake up wondering what happiness feels like. What does it feel like to have peace and contentment? What does it mean to have a sense of joy and appreciation in the little things? What do you do when you look and look and you search and search [...]
