Multitasking is an illusion. You’re not performing multiple tasks at once, you’re task-switching. Quickly switching focus between multiple things creates the illusion that we’re doing multiple things simultaneously. It may feel like we are getting more done, but in a state of chronictask-switching, we lose the ability to direct our attention to a single thing. We …
We find the answers to the questions we ask ourselves. Questions like: “what’s wrong with me?” prompt us to find the answer to that question. I come up with answers as to what is wrong with me. Questions like: “how do I learn and grow from this?” cause us to find the answers to that question. I …
One of the biggest reasons self-doubt is self-defeating is not just the feeling of incompetence, unworthiness, and fear; but that we spend valuable time agonizing whether or not we’re capable, instead of actually spending our time solving the problems in front of us. Problems that if we confronted would actually increase our self-confidence. We ask …
To be vulnerable is to be exposed.To be exposed is to risk death. When confronted with death, we cling to life. This clinging, this attachment,is the root of suffering. This fear of death is the root of all fear.The root of all fear is the fear of the unknown. However, in exposing ourselves to the …
If there were any sense to be made of it,it would lose its sense of awe. Its wonder. Wonder existsin the not knowing.In the mystery. Be content with not knowing.
The natural reaction to the feeling of fear is to move away from its source; from whatever is creating the feeling of fear within us. As we move away from the source, its power grows.The feeling intensifies. As we move towards the source, its power diminishes.The feeling dissipates. While the sensation of fear is real, …
Expectations are an outward-in form of processing life. Intentions are an inward-out form of processing life. Expectations leave us with the inevitable stress of trying to control the uncontrollable. Intentions give us the opportunity to realize the only control we really have. Expectations shift our attention to the future. Intentions bring our attention to the …
