“Conquer your fears” is one of those fridge magnet motivationals that sounds deep until you’re actually in danger. There’s no universal scoreboard for fear, no gold star for pretending your nervous system didn’t just red-alert because something might kill you.…
Are you communicating with confidence? Maybe not! Especially if you are habitually injecting this phrase in your conversations: “It is what it is.” Ah yes, the philosophical equivalent of shrugging while Rome burns.One of the most spiritually bankrupt phrases we’ve…
Say what you mean. Get the language for the life you want. Doing just that, by culling rotten phrases,took me a while. I was in school when the first god cast a shadow over my pathetically small worldview. “You need…
If you are squeamish, don’t watch the clip. The bad guy gets stabbed in the throat with a pen, on an aeroplane, no less. The movie clip is from the 2005 flick, “Red Eye.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaLewAfBoU0 I like the cinematography, focusing…
What if I told you that you don’t deserve any respect? But wait, I could even say, “Nobody deserves respect.” I can imagine being hit by that avalanche of indignance and outrage If I wrote it as a comment on…
85. Some feed on drama. Don’t become an actor, playing the roles that feed those needs. 2022 – Throwing in the towel, or not!
6. Breathe. Understand the most basic, and most important of needs. The universe might implode in two days. The asteroid could hit us, maybe hordes of alien invaders are gathering just outside your village, getting ready to storm your sanctuary,…