perspective

How Living In The Question Creates Freedom

by 03.22.2012 Constructive Self

  There has to be a better answer. At least that is what I keep telling myself. For the longest time I have asked myself why there is so much misery in the world and what can be done to change it. Much of our misery seems to revolve around getting and having or not [...]

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The Secret Of Letting Go

by 02.08.2012 Creativity

What is the secret of letting go? From the time we are born we are introduced to the reality that we cannot survive without others. Our dependency creates our glue with others. We are inevitably committed to our first social group when we are young without the wisdom or awareness of what we are committed to. [...]

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Hitting The Bullseye

by 01.16.2012 Healthy Thinking

From our earliest days we are taught that being right is very important.  We are taught right from wrong.  We go to schools that tell us with our grades and other badges of achievement what we have hit the mark and when we have missed.  So the importance of hitting the mark – the bullseye [...]

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Taming The Inner Killjoy

by 01.13.2012 Healthy Thinking

How do you taming the inner killjoy? The inner killjoy is a part of us – like it or not. Even when we are highly focused on an activity, it sits there waiting to pounce. The inner killjoy is certain that something bad is going to happen.  It is closely related to the inner critic, [...]

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Fixation On The “Bad”

by 12.30.2011 Healthy Thinking
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photo credit: pink_fish13 I suspect that our fixation on the “bad” is a habit left over from our ancient past.”Bad” is a very problematic word.  Mostly because it is used to cover so much territory. It can mean unpleasant, or refer to something that does not work well. When two people are in disagreement we may [...]

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When Conformity And Stewardship Collide

by Maria 10.18.2011 Healthy Living
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photo credit: Svadilfari There is an interesting relationship between conformity and stewardship.  Sometimes they work in harmony and other times they collide. All societies create structures and norms that define daily life and the predominant mission of the society. Generally the predominant mission which is another way of saying values, is driven by some type [...]

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Tyranny of the Clock

by 10.04.2011 Healthy Thinking

  People in an economic system based on production learn to live with the tyranny of the clock.  Although people have been tracking time since the early days of humans, this is different.  Time used to be related to something going on in nature.  People measured the hours of sunshine, the seasons, and how long [...]

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What Is Stewardship Thinking?

by Maria 09.30.2011 Constructive Self

What is stewardship thinking? Stewardship thinking is the spirit of friendship  and goodwill applied to life.  Its primary value is quality of life. By placing those values above results, people who operate on a stewardship basis have a better chance of achieving positive outcomes. Stewards know that outcomes are the result of processes that seek [...]

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People Power And The Wisdom of Crowds

by 09.16.2011 Constructive Self

Apparently we have entered the age of people power and the wisdom of crowds. James Surowiecki who wrote a famous book on the subject, The Wisdom of Crowds, talks about the various ways people collect information, coordinate their actions and cooperate with each other and how top down, expert oriented systems often are ineffective and wrong. We [...]

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Criticism Is Not Problem Solving

by Maria 09.12.2011 Healthy Thinking

Criticism is not problem solving. Criticism has an intense quality to it, but criticism can be deceptive because it feels as if we are doing something when we are criticizing someone or something. However, more often than not we are not really doing anything when we criticize, we are just moving the energy around. Criticism [...]

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