The times we’re living in.
Let’s say you wake up everyday and go to work for someone else, essentially giving them and their dreams most of your time.
Tag Archives: values
How can I accept that up to now, I have had a terrible personality that needs changing?
Declaring yourself terrible is too easy.
Writing yourself off like that is an excuse . . . a way of hiding behind ideals of perfection.
For years I’ve been working on my self-confidence, but yesterday it was destroyed, and I’m back at square one. How do I go about rebuilding myself?
If someone asked you to brainstorm a list of the most important things in your life, I’m sure you could easily fill a page with scribbled terms circled and joined into various categories and sub-categories of value.
What stops you from being the closest and authentic version of yourself?
What stops me from being my authentic self is searching for my authentic self.
Can an addiction be reversed so that the substance can be used and enjoyed safely?
Okay, I’m honestly NOT here responding to questions to peddle my books (they’re free anyway); but your question is the EXACT premise of my book, Facing Addiction.
Yes, I think it’s possible to reverse addiction, but it depends on what you believe about yourself and your relationship to what you’ve been addicted to. Continue reading
How can I find self-love and make myself a better, more positive, and confident person?
Overall, people really aren’t that complicated. We move toward what we tend to focus on. Continue reading
How can you stop an addiction you really enjoy?
Let’s first take a few steps back…
No one gets addicted for no reason.
You might have started using or doing whatever it is for fun, for insight, for sleep, for concentration, for connection… Continue reading
How can I be happy?
It really comes down to values. A happy life is a life you see matching your values.
Writer Ayn Rand puts it this way: “Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.”
I find the term “values” here beautifully ambiguous, since almost every definition could apply to happiness. Continue reading
Could it be that people take drugs not because of any psychological problem but simply because it is fun?
People take drugs for lots of reasons. I’ve used weed for creativity and to cut through conscious indulgences (in order to reach truer intuitions buried beneath); I’ve used MDMA to experience a love and joy so overwhelming it literally sets straight my limiting thought patterns; I’ve used LSD to expand my consciousness, empathy, connectedness, etc. Continue reading
How do I measure my emotional intelligence (I’m in my 30’s)?
Emotional intelligence is really two things: one internal, and one relational.
First, emotional intelligence involves learning to really feel all of your emotions for exactly what they are; then the “intelligence” part comes from having the maturity/perspective to decide what you should do based on your emotions instead of just reacting to them. Continue reading
