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Category: Self Development

  • Choosing between Two Roads (Plus a Grammar Lesson, Apparently)

    The road to hell feels like heaven, and the road to heaven feels like hell. You’ve surely heard some version of that quote. But for me, as written, it’s easier to remember in my daily life than other versions I’ve heard in the past. It’s an important idea, and it seems to be universally true…

  • Uncomfortable Questions

    You know those questions that you immediately resist? The ones that feel like a threat to your very existence? It’s rare that someone else asks you these kinds of questions. I will be that someone for you at the end of this though. I mean those tightly held belief you’ve had your whole life. And…

  • My No Screen Time Experiment

    Even with knowledge of modern pleasure traps and how they destroy our brains and our lives, I’ve been succumbing to a powerful one over the past couple months, which is specifically short videos (TikTok, YouTube shorts, etc), but also other screen activities such as watching TV series (which are fucking horrible nowadays almost without exception),…

  • Connecting with Your Soul

    My main spiritual focus over the last several months has been consciously connecting with my Soul. You may think of your Soul as spirit guides, the Holy Spirit, your higher self, or any number of monikers. I think it’s just slightly different conceptions of the same thing, but I like using the term “Soul”. The…

  • Living Creatively

    As I’ve been listening to The Power of Now on loop in my car and reading Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within before bed, I’ve noticed that many of the ideas overlap. I’d like to share one of those ideas with you. This idea has, just in the last few days, brought great joy into my life. The…

  • The Type-Z Guide to Success – A Review

    This is a review of The Type-Z Guide to Success: A Lazy Person’s Manifesto for Wealth and Fulfillment, by Marc Allen. I’m by nature a somewhat…well, I can be lazy, at times. This book was right up my alley. If you’re not a Type A person, someone who is eternally motivated and works hard all the…

  • An Expanded View of the Self

    Most of us have highly limited conceptions of ourselves. We don’t realize our true power nor our ability to affect others and the world as a whole. Below are a few ideas to help you realize you’re more than it may seem.   The Physical Self We tend to think of ourselves as ending where our skin meets the air.…

  • Four Hours of Sleep – Conclusion

    This is the fourth and final update to this post, in which I decided to experiment for thirty days with getting only four hours of sleep per night with an afternoon nap as needed. These were the intended benefits of the experiment: – be more creative– be more productive– have increased lucid dreaming activity– have an expanded general…

  • Four Hours of Sleep – Update #2

    This is the second update to this post, where I’m experimenting with getting only four hours of sleep at night and an afternoon nap as needed. It has now been two weeks of sleeping from midnight/12:30 until 4:30 am with a 1 or 1.5 hour nap in the early afternoon around 3 pm, although I’m…

  • Talk to Your Body for Easy Healing

    Our bodies, composed of more than 30 trillion individual cells, handle all of their complex functions on their own without our conscious intervention. Our bodies are geniuses, but usually our thoughts and beliefs hinder their ability to achieve and maintain perfect health. We think we need all kinds of medications. Unfortunately, these medications are generally designed to…