To conclude this series, I want to share an active meditation that is designed to make you more aware of your experience and help you surrender. After the meditation, we will look closely at what that experience reveals about our relationship with addiction, craving, and desire. I’d love your feedback. Click here to leave a…
For part three of our four-part series on Surrendering to Change, we explore how choosing to surrender to the practice and making one small change can result in a domino effect that produces profound change in other areas of your life. I’d love your feedback. Click here to leave a rating & review for the…
In the last episode, we discussed the two orientations of change. You can either choose to stay who you are and change your behavior ? like eliminating your morning cup of coffee ? or you can choose to surrender to the process of changing, allowing it to teach you something about yourself ? like discovering…
Today we look at addiction and change through the lens of a morning cup of coffee. We end up identifying with certain habits and routines related to our addictions, incorporating this assumption that it’s part of us. We say things like, “I’m a coffee person.” And some of us also have this relationship with…
To wrap up this series on letting reality win, I want to share a tool you can use to develop meaningful metrics for personal progress: The Parental Barometer. If you pay attention, you can learn a LOT about yourself, and what you think about yourself, from a quick conversation with your parents. I’d love your…
Do you want to improve your work-life balance? You’re not alone. Google it, and you’ll get over 600 million results on the phrase. Many people want to help you with it, and I’m one of them. Most of the advice you hear about how to achieve work-life balance—meditate, unplug, let go of perfectionism, exercise, etc—is…
In the last episode we discussed how, through our choices, we create our own empowerment ? this can be hard to realize, but it’s always true. However, this isn’t easy. It can require tremendous self-management to, in the briefest moment, overcome your negative thoughts and choose to do something, instead of reacting. To continue…
For part two of our four-part series on how you can let reality win (and stop getting in the way), we focus on the profound impact of making just ONE heroic choice ? a choice in defiance of your shadow ? every day. I’d love your feedback. Click here to leave a rating & review…
There is no perfection in progress, and you’re never going to go anywhere trying to achieve it. We like to tell ourselves the story that we aren’t doing enough, or haven’t gotten far enough. We like to focus on the one time we fail over the many times we take a small step forward.…
In the last episode, we reframed the Self vs Other problem as a conflict between your small self and your Big Self ? your ego-driven needs VS your soul-level values. Today, to finish this four-part series, we go over an exercise that will help you self-manage your smaller self, leaving more room for your values.…