Unbending Intent
How do warriors demonstrate qualities such as persistence, confidence and commitment to achieve their goals?
The Hero’s Journey
Check out this documentary on Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero With a Thousand Faces, and how he describes the hero’s journey.
A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step
Ordinary people are unconsciously motivated toward comfort. Warriors are consciously motivated toward stress.
Finding Joy in Improbable Goals
Take a dive into five essentials of mental training, written by our training leader, Lor Sabourin.
Decide to Live as a Warrior
How do we create lives that are meaningful?
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in Three-and-a-Half Steps
Are you an imposter and lack confidence? The article How To Get Rid of Impostor Syndrome and Make Confidence a Habit provides three helpful steps that we can begin to take to really make a shift.
A Time to Kill
The warrior is an archetype for rallying our courage when we need to act. It’s the role we act through to meet stressful challenges.
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.
