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Some of the biggest traps in self-development are mindset traps, usually because they’re invisible to us. We get ourselves into a mindset box but can’t see the walls. What if the mindset box you’re in doesn’t contain any solutions to your biggest problems? What if those answers exist only outside the box? A common symptom…
I learned about spirit guides and how to communicate with them around 1994. For many years afterwards, I practiced this mode of gaining insight through various visualizations and meditations. I found it semi-useful, but I don’t use this interface much today anymore. Are spirit guides real or not? There’s no way to know, and it…
One thing I love about blogging is that by writing about many aspects of personal growth, I improve and deepen my understanding of those aspects. Writing helps me glean fresh insights connect the dots in new ways. This has been especially true of workshops and courses. Initially such projects felt daunting, but eventually I got…
This morning I got up at 4:30am and set out to do a 6.5-mile run (10.5km), which would be my longest in at least the past year. The weather was nice, starting out at 76 degrees, and I knew would continue to get cooler into the morning, at least until an hour or so after…
Read Training Your Mind by Steve Pavlina
I often think about how to create a better life for my future self. What can I do now that will make his life better? Everything I do today affects my future self in some way. I can make decisions that will cause him stress, or I can make decisions and take action that will…
While you can regard thoughts as arising from within you, it’s interesting to view thoughts as transmissions that come to you, like waves of energy that create eddies within your consciousness. Perhaps consciousness is like an antenna that can tune into different frequencies of thoughts and translate them into forms you can perceive and understand.…
Read Think a Thought You’ve Never Thought of Before by Steve Pavlina
This morning while running, I started listening to The Art of Possibility audiobook, which is about stepping outside of our mental boxes. The first tool in the book is to acknowledge that whatever story you tell yourself is all an invention anyway, so you may as well create your own story. If your old story…
Read You Can’t Do That by Steve Pavlina
This morning I went for my usual run, starting before dawn. Lately I’ve been going for 45-50 minutes. This time, however, I was listening to the audiobook Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins. After hearing the part about his 100-mile run and how he had to push himself to get through it, I felt like…
Read Pushing Yourself by Steve Pavlina
We just wrapped up the 2020 launch of Conscious Growth Club, and our next opening will be in April 2021. The launch did very well. We have 87 members enrolled in our next CGC year together. Financially this was our second six-figure launch of the year, the previous one being for the Stature course in…
One goal that’s been on my Someday / Maybe list for many years is to write a novel (or even multiple novels). I’ve done lots of nonfiction writing, so I think it would be interesting to explore fiction writing. I like the idea of delving deeper into my imagination and connecting dots through a different…
Read Creative Productivity by Steve Pavlina