Passion Category Archive
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Last night a thunderstorm passed through Las Vegas. The thunder was so loud and the lightning so bright that I couldn’t sleep, so I decided to get up for a while. Around 3am I went downstairs and enjoyed a banana and a cup of herbal tea. Then I went outside and sat in the backyard [...]
Posted in Balance, Consciousness & Awareness, Courage & Fear, Motivation, Passion | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
What if you hate your life? Or maybe you don’t quite hate it, but you’re just not happy with your current situation? Perhaps you’re depressed, bored, or apathetic. Or maybe you just don’t see the point in living at all.
If you don’t see the point in living, then you’re missing the point of life entirely. [...]
Posted in Consciousness & Awareness, Courage & Fear, Goals & Goal Setting, Metaphysics, Motivation, Passion, Personal Development, Problem Solving, Purpose | No Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2007
Several people have asked me about the origins of the polarity concept I began exploring last year. Where did it come from? How does it relate to personal growth?
These ideas actually stemmed from some journal entries I wrote in 2002. At the time I was asking myself questions like these: What is the deepest source of ongoing motivation, such that if we tapped [...]
Posted in Balance, Consciousness & Awareness, Courage & Fear, Goals & Goal Setting, Metaphysics, Motivation, Passion, Personal Development, Purpose, Spirituality, Success | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
A scaffold is a temporary structure that supports tools, materials, and people while erecting or repairing a building. A similar construct can be used to improve your personal productivity. Much like wearing braces to reposition crooked teeth, a personal productivity scaffold is something you temporarily insert into your daily routine to help create and establish new habits. Once those habits are conditioned, [...]
Posted in Balance, Career & Work, Getting Things Done, Goals & Goal Setting, Motivation, Passion, Planning, Productivity, Purpose, Self-Discipline, Success, Time Management | 5 Comments »
Monday, April 9th, 2007
Napoleon Hill devoted a full chapter to the transmutation of sex energy in his classic book Think and Grow Rich. He found that the most successful people were highly sexed, achieving great success by directing their sexual energy into their work. In this article I’ll explain how to use sex energy to set goals that align with [...]
Posted in Goals & Goal Setting, Motivation, Passion, Productivity, Success | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
How can a darkworker experience higher levels of consciousness like unconditional love and peace?
The original descriptions of the levels of consciousness are lightworker-biased. For a darkworker the level of unconditional love is directed inwardly as love of self. It’s like a highly concentrated form of arrogance. It may not be expressed outwardly in the form of a smug attitude, but inwardly the [...]
Posted in Consciousness & Awareness, Metaphysics, Motivation, Passion, Purpose, Spirituality, Success | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Asking this question is like asking whether you’re a black belt in karate or jujitsu. Most likely you are neither, since most people never make such a commitment in their entire lives. Lightworkers and darkworkers combined probably account for less than 1% of the population.
Becoming a lightworker or darkworker isn’t something that just happens to you. It’s a [...]
Posted in Consciousness & Awareness, Courage & Fear, Metaphysics, Motivation, Passion, Purpose, Spirituality | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
A few weeks ago I evaluated The Science of Success program from James Ray. James is one of the cast members of the underground hit movie The Secret, and you may have seen him on Oprah earlier this month or read my recent interview with him. I spoke with James on the phone in January, [...]
Posted in Goals & Goal Setting, Intention & Manifestation, Motivation, Passion, Personal Development, Productivity, Success, Time Management, Wealth & Money | No Comments »
Monday, March 5th, 2007
As a follow-up to the Polarity and Polarization articles, let’s explore some practical applications of polarity-based thinking with respect to your career choices.
Better decision-making
The significance of polarity is that it can serve as a powerful decision-making tool. It helps you cut through the fog of indecision to reach a new level of clarity. When you look [...]
Posted in Balance, Business, Career & Work, Consciousness & Awareness, Courage & Fear, Metaphysics, Motivation, Passion, People Skills, Productivity, Success | 2 Comments »
Monday, February 26th, 2007
This article continues our exploration of Polarity. If you haven’t yet digested the first article, you’ll probably want to do so before reading this one, since now we’re going to extend those concepts even further.
A quick review
Every thought has two components: content and energy. Content is the data portion of a thought, and energy is the carrier [...]
Posted in Balance, Consciousness & Awareness, Courage & Fear, Goals & Goal Setting, Intention & Manifestation, Metaphysics, Passion, Problem Solving, Spirituality, Success | 3 Comments »
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