Archive for March 2005
Dark Night of the Soul
My Reality or Yours
Courage is the Gateway
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…
Take the Red Pill
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Productivity Showdown Day 3
This material was originally part of a productivity debate about the merits of hard work vs. laziness. The website that hosted the debate in 2005 has long since gone offline, so I’m resharing my contributions to the debate here. Working hard and setting limits Can a person work a maximum of 40 hours a week…
Productivity Showdown Day 2
This material was originally part of a productivity debate about the merits of hard work vs. laziness. The website that hosted the debate in 2005 has long since gone offline, so I’m resharing my contributions to the debate here. The money and the passion… You seem to encourage paying less attention to how much money…
What’s Your Time Horizon?
Education Kills Fear
A great way to overcome fear is to educate your fear into oblivion. Consider most people’s greatest fear — public speaking. Public speaking has a lot of variables — writing and organizing the speech, delivering it with confidence, vocal variety, voice volume and pitch, gestures, body language, eye contact, visual aids, achieving the speech objectives,…
The Productivity Debate Begins
This material was originally part of a productivity debate about the merits of hard work vs. laziness. The website that hosted the debate in 2005 has long since gone offline, so I’m resharing my contributions to the debate here. My favorite definition of success comes from Earl Nightingale: “Success is the progressive realization of a…