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Build Mutual Respect with the Skills of Sherlock Holmes
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated. -Sherlock Holmes, The Reigate Puzzle Sherlock Holmes was known for many things, including strong leadership, quick wit, and a phenomenal acting ability. But, his most famous quality was deductive reasoning from astute observation. And he began almost every case by meeting someone new. Someone who had just experienced a horrific event. Someone whose trust Sherlock had to earn. Someone who had to believe Sherlock could and would help them. Respect…
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Make Decisions the Way Mother Goose Taught You
Sometimes its hard to make the right decision. You’re afraid to take a step forward and make a big mistake. You don’t want to waste the time and effort trudging down the wrong path. You search and search for the RIGHT answer but you end up with more indecision than you started with. Plus, the situation keeps changing. The path you were 75% sure of three days ago has completely changed and now you’re back to a 50/50 chance of picking the right way. Or worse. You find yourself in an endless circle of doubt…. “Ring Around the Rosies Pockets Full of Posies Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.” -Mother…
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How The Matrix Can Help You Discover Your Life Purpose
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re wasting your life? Running in circles, forever busy, but never getting anything of consequence done? You know that if you could just figure out what you SHOULD be doing with your life, you would finally feel the passion and motivation that’s been missing. “You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.” -Morpheus from The Matrix What you’re looking for is your purpose. And…
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Create a Meaningful Life
How can you know what really matters in life? How can you know if what you are doing is what you are meant to do? How can you know if what you are doing has any meaning at all? The short answer is this… What matters in life is to know the meaning of life. And the most powerful way to know something is to create it. So what matters in life is to create the meaning of your life. If that seems a little confusing, here’s the long answer…. Your Meaning vs Their Meaning First, what you are doing does have meaning. Your life will always mean something. But…
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Recipe for A Leap of Faith
“Regrets can hold you back and can prevent the most wonderful things from taking place in your lives.” –Eileen Caddy A Leap of Faith is like making spaghetti sauce. You cut up and prepare a bunch of different vegetables and spices, add each ingredient to a huge pot, and let the flavors meld together until it finally turns into sauce. In the beginning, you don’t have sauce, you’ve just got a pot of vegetables. And there is really no way to know exactly how long you have to let everything cook together before the sauce is done. Sure, you know it’ll take an hour or so, depending on your Aunt…
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Express True Love
“Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it” — Thaddeus Golas Love It’s elusive, awe inspiring, and in the context of creativity, absolutely essential to the true expression of your art. In the creative form, love exposes the artist to the world. Your fears, your joys, and even your sanity are on display. You cannot hide. But love also gives back to you, the artist, with a deeper sense of acceptance. You may find acceptance from your friends or family, lovers or strangers, but only with True Love can you find acceptance of yourself. A Garden Path So how can you ensure that each word you write, each picture…
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Easy Insight to Any Problem
“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Everybody’s got one. The problem that’s been following you around all week. You know the answer is inside of you, if you could just get to it — Crack open your subconscious, scoop out the solution, and move forward. But the more you think about the problem, the more confused you become. Sometimes you give up and hope it’ll go away (even though it always comes back eventually). And sometimes it swirls and swirls around your head, like a hamster running on a meaningless wheel. To solve this problem, you can either wait for an “A-Ha” moment,…
