Giving Up to Become Powerful
Surrender is not giving up on life but giving up fighting with life. And, when you’re not fighting with it, you’re working with life.
A Different Way of Setting Goals
Let’s examine three areas that can help us understand how to achieve goals better: attention in the moment, the learning process, and commitment.
Doing Nothing Helps Us Do Something Meaningful
Running from place to place and laboring over long to-do lists have increasingly become ways to communicate status: I’m so busy because I’m just so important, the thinking goes.
Don’t Expect Agreement
What irritates you? What is within you that is out of balance?
How to Shift Your Focus to Shift Your Life
Neuroscience News published this article, When Emotional Memories Intrude, Focusing on Context Could Help, from the University of Illinois on how to work with difficult emotional memories.
The Power of Not Knowing
When you feel stressed, don’t rush through it. Notice that you’re stressed, but don’t let the mind resolve it.
Rock/Yoga Warrior Workouts
We don’t push too deeply. Rather, we find our edge and work with our attention there.
Life is not a Paradox
To become warriors we need to move beyond this unconscious tendency to curse stress, to label it as bad. We need to see the value that stress provides us. We need to be motivated in such a way that we want to engage stress.
How Biased Am I?
How biased are we really? We’re all biased in some ways based on many factors. The challenge is bringing such biases to our conscious awareness.
Practice isn’t Practice
Practice is how we process stress; it becomes the mettle for life mastery.
When Positivity Becomes Toxic
Be present for the negative experiences when they occur and focus on how they realign our lives.
Problem Solving Complexity Solved with Jiu Jitsu
What is the value of Jiu Jitsu for living our lives?
A River Flows Through It
Intrinsic motivation is powerful because it flows freely like water in a river. The flow originates from a universal force, the force of intent.
Where to Begin, Beliefs or Behaviors?
Neuroscience perspectives can give us a lot of current and new insight into the brain and performance. One particular point struck me as really valuable.
