How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them

Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten Island, New York. Diversity advocate Vernā Myers looks closely at some of the subconscious attitudes we hold toward out-groups. She makes a plea to all people: Acknowledge your biases. Then move toward, not away from, the groups that make you uncomfortable. In a funny, impassioned, important talk, she shows us how.

Take "the Other" to lunch

Elizabeth Lesser explores the two sides of human nature within us (call them "the mystic" and "the warrior”) that can be harnessed to elevate the way we treat each other. She shares a simple way to begin real dialogue — by going to lunch with someone who doesn't agree with you, and asking them three questions to find out what's really in their hearts.

How Culture Can Effect The Way You Think

By Dr Russell Razzaque

Our ideas about ourselves and the world around us - who we are and how we fit in - arise out of our relationships with our parents in our toddler years. If parents are suffering from the pain of traumas past, that can easily be passed onto the toddlers they nurse and, before they know it, the child will have developed whole ways of thinking and being in the world that has incorporated that pain.

Because of this, our general cultural background has an enormous effect on our psychology. Everything from the way we celebrate success, to the way we mourn our dead to the way we cope with illness is substantially influenced by cultural norms, as well as the way we perceive the world around us and, indeed, the way we perceive ourselves as individuals. The extent to which our cultural heritage plays into our own self image is often underestimated - it's almost like the invisible elephant in our psyche.

People who have been raised in countries where the state operates through suppression and propaganda and shuns openness - such as the former Soviet bloc, for example - can develop a mechanism of emotional suppression that might carry through generations, even for years after the state has itself changed its modus operandi. In countries blighted with poverty and fear, that same fear and insecurity about the world can continue to pass through family dynamics, even after the family has immigrated away from the region.

For the first time now, some of this is actually passing beyond the realms of hypothesis and into the domain of scientific proof. One example of culturally carried differences in self perception is the way in which people in the East see themselves as more closely a part of a wider family unit. In the West there is a greater sense of individual autonomy, while in the East there is a greater sense of kinship with and responsibility for the extended family. This was actually measured in a recent experiment where subjects underwent brain scans that monitored the degree of activity in different parts of the brain. It has been long established that the part of the brain that is activated when we are aware of the concept of "self" is just behind the forehead - an area known as the medial prefrontal cortex. Experimenters observed this area in a series of volunteers - some were from the West and others were Chinese - as they considered a list of words. Both groups showed increased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex when words relating to themselves as individuals were shown. The Chinese group, however, also showed increased activity when they were shown words relating to the concept of their mother. In other words, to them the sense of "me" and "mum" overlaps in a substantial way, almost to the point of being indistinguishable. These are very contrasting ways of seeing the world.

All of this, then, makes the world a rich tapestry; one in which not only do people look different, talk, eat, work and play differently, our very sense of who we are and how we fit in differs from one culture to the next. Understanding these differences helps us fashion a richer life for ourselves, our families and our world. The starting point, however, should always be a better understanding of ourselves and the impacts our own backgrounds have had on us.






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Dr Russell Razzaque earned his medical degree from the University of London and he is a practicing psychiatrist based in London. If you liked this article then you'll likely benefit from Sileotherapy; a FREE stillness based online self help program in which Dr Razzaque teaches people to go beyond thought and realise their true potential: http://www.meditation-therapy.net


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The Incredible Benefits of a "Get Better" Mindset

In this talk, researcher Heidi Grant Halvorson explores the mindsets needed to ensure personal growth. Mainly we should avoid a “Be Good” mindset — one where we are constantly attempting to prove our superiority to the world. Instead, we should embrace a “Get Better” mindset — where we always perceive ourselves as having more to learn. When we embrace a Get Better mindset, we embrace risk and are less afraid of failure, which is key to personal development

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About Heidi Grant Halvorson
Heidi Grant Halvorson is the Associate Director of Columbia University’s Motivation Science Center, and a popular blogger for HBR, Fast Company, Huffington Post, Forbes, WSJ, and 99U. As a researcher, she studies goal pursuit, the obstacles that derail us, and the strategies we can use to overcome them.

Progress is not a zero-sum game

Author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness" — the network of linked fortunes and cooperation that has guided our evolution to this point — and how we can use it to help save humanity today.

Should You Live for Your Résumé?

Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, community, love — the values that make for a great eulogy. Brooks asks: Can we balance these two selves?

Rives: The 4 a.m. mystery

Fans of the Da Vinci Code might not want to watch this. On second thoughts, probably you should ...

Act! Not Acted Upon

By Ben Benson

Some people think that if they just work everything out and make a logical case for action, then action will occur. But it’s not what we know -- it’s what we feel about what we know that really makes the difference. We think that we need to understand logically before things will work out. But the fact is that we don’t act on logic, but on emotion. The English word emotion derives from Latin emovere, where e- means ‘out’ and movere means ‘move.’ Thus emotion and feelings, not logic, are what make us move out and take action . In fact the word emotion derives from a verb that means “agitate, stir up’.


Logic will not change an emotion as an internal motivator but action will. A similar process occurs with external motivation. People sit around waiting to be motivated to action. They think that if only they could get motivated by something or someone, they would spring into action and everything would fall into place. But waiting for external motivation is as hit-and-miss as waiting to feel “in the mood.” Sure, taking action is easy when you feel like it. But what happens when you don’t feel like it?

In my experience of wealth creation and my research on the super-rich, the one characteristic that stands out is the willingness to adhere to the 4th Law of Wealth. Successful people will execute whether they feel like it or not. They will execute whether it’s logical or rational or not. They will execute whether they are motivated to do so or not. They couldn’t care less about how they feel. If they need to, they will force themselves to do what needs to be done. They have gained such personal control that mood, feelings, logic, or motivation are irrelevant to action. They simply adhere to a higher personal standard of operation than the average person, and act based on decision.

Sir Alex Ferguson once said, "David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of a God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate." Daley Thompson, Olympic Gold Medal Winner in Decathlon once said, “I trained every single day, including Christmas Day, in order to achieve what I wanted. I never wanted to leave any stone unturned.”

Do you think he wanted to train on Christmas Day in the freezing cold, while everyone else was busy unwrapping presents and eating turkey? Probably not, but he wanted Olympic Gold more, and he took the action necessary to ensure that he did everything in his power to secure it.

You can’t sit back and wait for the feeling to arrive. You can’t wait for the external motivation to present itself. What if it doesn’t show up? Define your target and take action. You must act and not be acted upon.

Did you know that emotion is a two-way system? Science has discovered that we feel emotion as a result of events, but we can also create events or take action that will generate the emotion. Every emotion has a chemical and physical signature in the body. For example, everyone knows what depressed looks like. There are neurological attributes of depression that trigger the physical signals and tell the body to be depressed. If you hunch your shoulders, look down, breathe shallowly and frown, it’s actually very hard to feel happy.

But if you change your physiology and look up, smile, and breathe deeply, it’s very hard to feel depressed. In fact do we smile because we’re happy, or are we happy because we smile?

Your emotion is affected by your physiology. Even if you don’t feel like going to the gym but you force yourself to go, your body will soon create the chemical signals required to do your workout. In other words if you “just do it,” you will start to feel like doing it. And the internal motivation you crave will arrive in spades.

Most people have heard Francis Bacon’s immortal words “knowledge is power,” but it’s at best an unfinished sentence. Perhaps Bacon was interrupted before he finished -- because knowledge by itself is only potential power. The only way to realize that power is to use knowledge. A more accurate statement would therefore be “applied knowledge is power.”

The great end of life is not knowledge but action – T H Huxley

Knowledge on its own is not what we thought it would be. If it were, then university professors would be making the seven-figure salaries that many deserve. Those with the most education would be the wealthiest, and yet if you look at the Rich Lists of the world, much of the world’s wealth is held by people who didn’t even finish school or who dropped out of college to pursue a business career. Knowledge alone is not the key to wealth.

The new economy and technological advancement has allowed the dissemination of knowledge and information in a way never before possible. The opportunities thus created, however, are as dependent as ever on the implementation of this law, this truth will not change or alter.

Regardless of the available knowledge or your ability to access it, knowledge only offers potential power, and its promises are realized only when you DO something with it.

We have all met people with three academic degrees and entire alphabets after their name – and that are dead broke. You know the sort of people I’m referring to. Don’t get me wrong: getting informed is absolutely crucial. When I first ventured into property development, I had to learn what to do and how to make it work. Gathering information and knowledge was a crucial part of that process, but none of it would have been worth anything if I hadn’t bought my first property.

Intelligence and logic are no match for courage, boldness and persistence. Gathering excessive information is usually a defense mechanism, a way to remove uncertainty. But in the end, nothing removes uncertainty better than experience. And experience is not the result of adequate knowledge; it is the result of adequate action. You don’t have to know everything. Just get enough knowledge – then act, rather than be acted upon.


About the Author: Ben started with nothing – twice. His property portfolio now sits alongside finance, publishing and venture-capital. He is the author of the ‘7 Laws of Wealth’ For additional free info and resources on this topic and the 7Laws of Wealth, sign up at http://www.7Lawsofwealth.com.

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The Cause of Unhappiness

By Michael Bloxton

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it.” — Eckhart Tolle

This quote is so true but it brings up an interesting point. If thoughts are really in control of our happiness, what are they and how do they control us? It has been said so many times, and in so many ways, that your thoughts are things that have a profound impact on your life.

This isn’t just a philosophical idea. Thoughts themselves are measurable. Brain activity and testing have revealed that thoughts have a very specific frequency that can be measured with the right equipment. Every time you have a thought, a pulse of energy travels through a network of neurons in your brain. Of course, the question remains – how is this pertinent to our lives?

Science has not yet discovered all of the interworking of the mind and the brain. It is a realm of knowledge that is still largely unexplored though progress is being made. There are two schools of thought… some believe thoughts have a direct impact on the lives we create and others believe this is untrue. Since neither argument can be proven yet, we will avoid taking sides.

To be clear, we are not talking about “The Law of Attraction” here. This isn’t a debate about whether we attract the things we think about. We are talking about your thoughts’ ability to create new outcomes based on their impact on your emotions, behaviors, and your actions.

Let’s just take a look at some obvious facts. If you believe your thoughts have no control over the life you live and the experiences you have, you likely:

1. Feel that you are at the mercy of circumstances in your life.

2. Think you have no control over your future.

3. Feel stuck or trapped by your current conditions.

4. Are often in reaction mode to events in your life.

On the other hand, if you believe that your thoughts direct the focus of your life and create the life you live then you more likely:

1. Feel that you can respond to circumstances in any way you choose and through that response, create an outcome you desire.

2. Think that you have total control over your future.

2. Feel limitless in your possibilities.

This whole article is about happiness so here is a question for you. Which of these belief groups is going to make you feel the happiest? Think about it, as Eckhart Tolle so beautifully stated, it is your thoughts about what happens that matters most. We have all heard at some point in our lives that it is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond.

There is an old saying that goes something like this: There are two types of people in the world; the person who knows things happen and the person who makes things happen. This concept, combined with the quote we started with, is truly empowering once you understand it.

Things happen. There is no denying it. If you “know things happen” then you go wherever the tide takes you. The events in your life are completely out of your control. If this is true for you, then there is no point in trying to change anything because it’s beyond your power to do so.

Then there is the person who “makes things happen.” This individual “knows” that events and circumstances do come up unpredictably and sometimes they are undesirable. S/he also understands that this is only 10% of the equation. They then apply the second part of the equation to that and respond with intelligent thoughts which usually starts by asking empowering questions.

We could write an entire article on the use of questions to assist us in creating our reality (and maybe we will soon) but for now, we want to give you a quick tip that will help you immediately. The most empowering questions always begin with the word HOW. Your brain always comes up with an answer to your questions… even when that answer is untrue.

For example, if you just got fired you might ask “Why did I get fired?” To this question, your brain will respond with the most reasonable answer it can find. But this could be anything from “Because my boss is an arrogant SOB” to “Because I suck at my work.” You aren’t directing your brain to give you something empowering. Instead, try asking, “How can I learn from this experience so this never happens again?” Aha, that should start you thinking in the right direction and that changes everything because thoughts are things.

Thoughts have the most profound impact on your life. A thought can take any menial task and make it wretched. A thought can take a pleasant situation and turn it sour. A thought can take nothing and make it something. Thoughts, whether you like it or not, are more powerful than you imagined.

The opposite can be said about a thought too. A simple thought or idea can start an industry. A mere thought of someone you love can turn any instant into a joyful smile. A thought can turn any bad into good and a single thought can take that good and transform it to great. The power to change everything in your entire world can be launched by a single thought.

You too can be the person who creates their situation by fully developing their thoughts about it.

By

Michael Bloxton,
President & CEO,
oneMYnd, LLC.




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Why Do We Fall?

"You, me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! ..."

An Actor's Life

By James Kyle

Imagine an actor preparing for a role as an ageing peasant in a play. The actor will look to the text of the play to find pointers to the character he is about to play. Perhaps the character description will specify an age. Perhaps another character in the play will refer to him as dour. Perhaps a stage direction will mention his limp. The actor will try to get into the mindset of the character he is about to play in conjunction with taking on the physicality of this character. An older person may be bent over, walk slowly, and in general feel weaker. A good actor will not just try to mimic this physicality but approach it from the perspective of the underlying problems that old age brings. He may think of a time he was personally ill and felt weak and exhausted, having difficulty making it from one side of a room to the other. He may go onto think about the struggles he had as a student where money was a challenge so as to empathise with the financial plight of somebody living off the land.

A good actor does not play the person. He becomes the person. However these various attempts to get under the skin of the character only tell part of the story. To consciously take on attributes that a character may have is only one of the challenges an actor faces. A much greater challenge can be to lose those personal attributes and idiosyncrasies that the actor has personally built up as their own persona over the years.

Perhaps a subservient peasant would not talk loudly and at pace, stand directly facing someone else, and gesticulate a lot with his hands. If the actor in his own life does these things and unconsciously carries them over into the performance, it can make the character look unconvincing. In fact, it is probably easier to build the layers of the character being taken on, than strip away the ingrained layers of the actor’s own characteristics.

So what has this to do with personal development? Well as Shakepsepare said “all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” We are actors in the play that is our own life. And this is not a metaphor. We actually do play roles. We actually do all adopt characters. And like the actor above, choices have led to the parts we play. But just as above, these personal attributes are ingrained, and for many people they become unquestioned, unchangeable. Even when they are evidently not working!

So perhaps you could consider instead, that in life, just as on the stage, we all have choices on how we present ourselves. And yes, our conditioning can make ingrained habits hard to shift. But by the use of awareness and conscious effort we can choose to express ourselves in a way that is more self honouring. We can choose to break out of the roles that are not serving us.

Are you playing the best you? If not, chose another.


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Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs

Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. In his talk, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish -- as kids and as adults. An entrepreneur since childhood, Cameron Herold wants parents and teachers to recognize -- and foster -- entrepreneurial talent in kids

False Friends

By James Kyle

Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language is familiar with the concept of a false friend. Examples in Spanish are constipado meaning a common cold and embarazada meaning pregnant.. It works the other way also. A teacher in Spain was telling me recently how much trouble she was having trying to stop her pupils from complaining that their classmates are molesting them – molestar in Spanish meaning to annoy. And preservativo certainly does not mean preservative in English.

It occurs to me that some of our ingrained beliefs / mental maps should also be seen as false friends. They may seem to be “good ideas” but they actually lead us astray. For example, in a previous article I recommended a book on relationships. I stand by that recommendation in general but not in one particular aspect. The exception is that one of the guidelines this book give is to tell the “microscopic truth.” This originally appealed to me as an ideal that we should all aim for and I readily bought into this as the foundation for a successful relationship. Unfortunately to borrow from the movie "A Few Good Men", the words “the truth ... you can’t handle the truth” applies to too many people. I have subsequently found that telling the absolute truth too readily comes back to haunt you. I should also put this in the context that I have learned to have a very pragmatic approach to belief systems. It is fine to have ideals as an objective but if they do not serve us in the real world then they should be abandoned.

My experience of truthfully admitting to faults I had in the past was that this introduced into the relationship doubts and fears that these would be repeated in the current relationship. And no amount of words arguing the case that I was a different person now made any difference whatsoever. Even worse these doubts resulting from my absolute honesty led to the ludicrous situation where my ongoing honesty was being questioned. I had flaws in the past, and if I had none evident in the present, then it must be because I had resolved to hide them.

Now does this mean that with the right person absolute honesty would not work and it should be abandoned as an ideal to aspire to? Of course not. However the point I am making is to be aware of cherished ideas, “spiritual” or otherwise. So for example, honesty is a good principle, but I would suggest, at times, the concept of the white lie has something to be said for it. This could be to spare someone's feelings, to avoid giving a false impression about yourself, or in general to not damage relationships. For an detailed expansion on these points and an interesting definition of white lies as 'Untruths that reduce net harm' see here.

The underlying constraint, of course, is not to be fooling oneself and allow the white lie to verge into true deceit. The guiding principle is that, while being aware that being 100% truthful may not always be conducive to maintaining relationships, never lose sight of honouring yourself and the other party as an overriding principle. What do you think, do you agree?



P.S. I hope you do appreciate I have been truthful about lying!

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Better Ideas Faster

Matt Hart has had many jobs that have shaped him into the renowned global innovator that he is today. He starts with an idea and using innovation to add value to working up a better ‘idea’ faster. His approach is to figure things out as you go along. That creates speed from learning by doing. And learning from the insights that doing gives you. He is a human accelerator

Authenticity - Why people arent themselves and what that costs them

By Bella Enahoro

Why should you be yourself? The simple answer is 'because everyone else is taken' - it's both the simple answer and an accurate answer. The important question is 'why are we not ourselves?' What is the pay off for not being ourselves? Ahhh, now we're talking.

To begin with, what would cause us to not want to be ourselves? For some of us, we may have been raised in environments where it was dangerous to be who we are. Even as adults we may be working in environments that demand that we be other than who we are in order to ensure job security. So we conclude, I have to be other than I am to get what I want i.e. love, safety, income etc.

We may have learned to believe 'who I am is not good enough to be loved, guaranteed safety, approved of'. We may have been told 'who you are is not worth treating well'. We may have learned 'who you are is not good enough to meet my standards for 'being good enough'. We may become convinced that we are less than we should be.

When we feel not good enough what happens to our lives? We end up putting things on hold until we feel we 'deserve' by becoming good enough. We spend so much time striving to feel that we're good enough. Have I accomplished enough, am I good looking enough, is my car big/fast/exclusive enough, is my job title high enough, do I have enough awards to be good enough? Exhausting isn't it?
Self worth and authenticity are intrinsically linked. The worth we have in our own eyes, a sense of worth not built on acquisition, job title, appearance, credentials - is the only worth, worth living out of. How many of us realise that we have an intrinsic worth greater than anything on the outside? If we go through life with a sense of being deficient then we are motivated to acquire value - the things that others value in the world then become our aim in life. I may not be good enough in and of myself but look what I've got, becomes our calling card.

Sooner or later, things fall apart, if we're lucky. It can take many forms e.g we can lose everything we spent our whole lives accruing or we meet someone or a situation who places no value on our 'social bling'. We run helter skelter trying to get them to 'see' us as our bling or we go somewhere else. But there's a crack in the tea cup. When it finally breaks open, our break down becomes our breakthrough.

We begin to look for another way. What we've been looking for is a way to feel good about who we are, under all circumstance. We don't always realise it at first since there's much howling in pain and hanging onto fast disappearing 'bling'.

The breakthrough cracks us wide open and everything we've been taught is 'wrong' with us, all the things we've been taught make us 'not good enough' stare us in the face. Excruciating at first but if we stay, refuse to take flight, we can transform. Now begins the re-acquainting ourselves with the 'real' us, all of it.

There are many transformation technologies from journaling, meditation, prayer, walking, body work, sound, vibrational healing. We tend to gravitate towards one that works for us. Soon the pain subsides, loses its edge. We don't feel so raw. Our lives may be in shambles around us but we can stand to be alive and increasingly we can stand to be ourselves. We live in a time of infinite help with wonderful teachers who can assist us in moving out of our debris; emotional, psychological and spiritual.

Not being who we are, may be something we picked up at our beginning but was never a part of our being and we need not continue with it.



About The Author

Bella Enahoro is the founder of http://www.livewellaudio.com a Motivational company that helps individuals,non-profits and companies improve their lives, build communities, profts and positive impact.

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How to make stress your friend

Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. In this 14 minute video, Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.

Self insight

By James Kyle

Many years ago I attended a series of seminars in London that would eventually lead me to studying for a masters degree in Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica in California. You can read more about this in this previous series of posts: What Did William Wallace Say?

Now, after many years absence, Insight seminars are returning to the UK. There will be an Insight seminar in the Primrose Hill area of London next weekend.

Some of the key shifts I have made, that have helped empower my own life, started off with "insights" from Insight. The following key concepts are a just a few of the topics covered:

• Letting go of judgement
• Responsibility and keeping agreements with self and others
• Giving and Receiving
• Being true to oneself

The above topics are those that resonated with me. In particular I have given much consideration to this concept of self. The degree to which we play set roles in our lives and how we often choose poor roles that are a disservice to ourselves and unnecessarily disempower us.

Building on this, a key learning for me that really took root as I subsequently read Hayakawa' s book "Language in Thought and Action" was realising that my inner map of reality is just that - a map -  and not the territory. And then a huge leap forward can be made when we start to realise that the very concept of who we hold ourselves to be is just another map of reality ... and this "self" too is a mental construct can readily be changed.

And with that realisation, the words of Marianne Williamson really come to life:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Of course what you would get out of this seminar will depend on where you are on your personal path of self growth, but I have confidence that wherever that is, you will find value in the seminar. Further details can be found here Insight London Seminar.

For those outside the UK have a look here instead.

Past Posts: Humour and Fiction and More

As per the previous post that celebrated this blog reaching 10,000 views, here is a summary of the top posts that have appeared over its first 12 months. This time, fiction and posts by other authors.

Humour

BBC Theory

My Personal Guru

USM Soul Mate Encounter(TM) Dating Service 

So who was she ...?

The Tree of All Knowledge

Tess's Blog

Tess's Blog (January)

Tess's Blog (February)

Tess' exposé exclusive!!! on little green men

Fiction

Peace of Mind

Heart Centered Listening

Asking the Right Questions

Mirrors

A Personal Fairy Tale

Freedom


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Posts by other Authors

Add the best. Drop the worst.

Changing a habit is like playing a game of chess

Happiness First, Then Everything Else

Living a Life of Joy

10 Reasons You Should Never Have a Religion

10 Reasons You Should Never Have a Religion (Part 2)

10 Steps To Spiritual Happiness

10 Powerful Motivational Thoughts


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Past Posts: Best Article List

Now that this blog has reached 10,000 views, and has been going for just over a year, here is a summary of the top posts that have appeared over its first 12 months. These exclude fiction and posts by other authors which will be listed in the next blog post.

What did William Wallace say???

What did William Wallace say Part II

What did William Wallace say Part III

Wise words

To seek perfection is to be a prisoner of your own judgement

Shut up, I can't hear myself think

What assumptions are leading you astray?

Everybody is crazy - except me

World Wide Wafflers

Surfing the Psychological Waves

God is sneaky

God is sneaky II: Good Vibrations

God is sneaky III: All Nor Nothing

Our world going mad

Elementary deductions

A self empowering vision

"Wrong doing"

Failure(Part 1)

Failure(Part 2)

Failure(Part 3)

From books and words come fantasy, and sometimes ... 


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The Secret Powers of Time

There are 6 major time zones that people live in ... in which one do you?

Watch this 10 minute talk to find out.





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