Personal Development for Smart People^TM

When I woke up this morning, what immediately popped into my head was the idea of forming a nonprofit company. This might be the third alternative I was missing when I wrote the previous post last night. My wife knows several people who run nonprofits, and it seems to work well for them. […]

One of the things I’m struggling with in my life right now is making the leap to what I see as the next level of awareness I want to experience.
I’ve reached the point in my life where I’m very clear about my purpose, and it has become a powerful driver for me. Whenever I […]

If your belief system is rooted in the concept of an objective reality which we all share, then how could you disprove the existence of other realities where each of us lives in our “own little world?”
From your perspective it would be a worthy endeavor to prove that yours is the one true reality. […]

In the book Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, Dr. David Hawkins describes a hierarchy of human emotional states beginning with shame and guilt on the low end and leading to peace and enlightenment on the high end.
Hawkins claims the lower emotional states weaken us, while the higher ones make us […]

Today Erin and I are taking the day off to celebrate our 7-year anniversary of marriage and our 11-year anniversary of the day we met. Technically we met on a local computer BBS, enjoying many online conversations and phone calls before we finally met in person on March 29, 1994 at my apartment. […]

In my last post, I mentioned that I believe there’s some kind of linkage between thought and reality that bypasses direct action. In this post I’d like to clarify what I mean by that and why I believe this.
First of all, recognize that this is a field in which we cannot apply the Scientific […]

A few days ago I saw the movie What the Bleep Do We Know? I enjoyed it, but I can’t say it contained anything new for me, although apparently it has helped bring awareness of some of the possible consequences of quantum physics into the mainstream. I think one of the biggest problems in this […]

The hard work vs. laziness productivity blog showdown between myself and Fred Gratzon concludes at Slacker Manager. Today we address:
Working hard and setting limits…
a. Can a person work a maximum of 40 hours a week at something and still be successful?
b. Real-life story problem #1: I’ve recently graduated from university and launched […]

The hard work vs. laziness productivity blog showdown between myself and Fred Gratzon continues at Slacker Manager. Today we tackle the following questions:
1) The money and the passion… You both seem to encourage paying less attention to how much money you make, and pay more attention to what you’re passionate about. With that […]

One factor that makes a big difference in how much control you have over your life is your time horizon. In the span of a day or a week, you have a fair amount of control over your life, but it’s certainly not 100%. In any given week, just about anything can happen, […]