My next course, Learning From Mistakes, begins 9/25/25! If you have a few minutes… I’ve never told anyone this story. This memory from my childhood has returned to me, unbeckoned, and more often than I’d like. It’s usually accompanied by a surge of embarrassment. But recently, it came to me I think for a different reason:…
Let’s get the dull part out of the way: my next course, The Art of Open Connection begins Thursday April 17. You can sign up for this course or become a dojo member and get access to everything. It’ll be good. You’ll grow a lot. Blah blah blah. Now, the fun part: I’m excited to announce an innovation in…
What’s the difference between, “It feels like…” and “I feel…”? A lot, it turns out. “It feels like…” is one of those phrases that bothered me for years until I finally figured out why. The following may seem like nitpicking semantics, but stay with me and I’ll demonstrate how important this is. Never before in…
Greetings and Aloha! I’m excited to announce an innovative change in the direction of Clear and Open. For 21 years now, I’ve dedicated my practice to offering cutting edge business development and inner work guidance, techniques, and methodologies. What I’ve discovered, however, is that while my clients clearly enjoy learning about these new approaches, the…
Being an effective student is one of the more important attributes you can have, because it’s upstream of your ability to gain the knowledge, skill, and awareness you need for any challenge whatsoever. When you stop learning, you start dying. There was a single event in my childhood that changed my life as a student forever.…
The journey inward is the most difficult and also most rewarding path there is. During these darkest times of year, most people fill the darkness with food, drink, and various forms of merriment. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with that. So while I wish you a Happy All-the-Days, I also invite you to take some time…
We all have unconscious protectors and they resist change, so it’s useful to track the expression of that resistance to follow it back to the fear at its root. I use the term “coaching” here, but this applies to all forms of inner work that threaten the unconscious’ grip on the status quo: therapy, spiritual…
By my third year in college, I was severely depressed. I had dead-ended academia. It was no longer a challenge, because I figured out how to play the game, and I realized none of what I learned would help me in life. I’d also dead-ended Ju-Jujitsu, which turned me into a more of a jerk,…
Objectivism & Subjectivism: How You Relate to Relating First, last chance to join my next live course, Revealing Your Unconscious, which begins September 7, 2023. If you have any long-standing issues, business or otherwise, that you haven’t been able to change, this course is for you. — Which is more important, facts or feelings? Have you…
Recently, I wrote about some of the deepest root causes of the Lahaina fires. But opinions vary, have you noticed? I have to admit, I was surprised when I heard the conspiracy theories, and then I was surprised that I was surprised. I’ve always had a kind of naive optimism that I’m sure was necessary to stop…