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Heaven or Hell, Your Choice

Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged , , , , , on December 28, 2012| 2 Comments »

Cloud mountain

“If you always put limit on everything you do, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
-Bruce Lee

Most people view life as a mountain they have to climb. Their hope is that once they’ve reached the top, they can then take it easy, forever. For most, the summit promises a wife and kids, a stable job, and a big house where they can just relax for the rest of their days. After they have “made it,” there is an expectation that nothing will change. They cling to this expectation, but when it is smashed to pieces by reality, they are thrown into an emotional whirlwind. However, for the few that choose to take the journey to mastery, to excellence, to a lifetime of learning, the path bestows growth, happiness, and purpose. The world always moves, always changes, always evolves. As it does, those who have chosen to seek mastery will move, change, and evolve with it.

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Love the Process

Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged , , , on December 16, 2012| 3 Comments »

Pages of a book

Many of my best thoughts have come from my intuition, but in at least one case (I’m sure there are many others), I was embarrassingly wrong. What I’m talking about is how one should approach perseverance.

When your eyes grow weary from reading a long book or your legs grow weak from a long jog, I had originally thought that you should become shortsighted if you needed to find the will to continue. That is, only focus on the next immediate milestone in front of you, whether that be the end of the chapter or the end of the street block. Even though you will be able to push yourself a little further this way, it’s not likely you will be breaking any personal records.

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Resolving Paradoxes

Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged , , on December 4, 2012| 3 Comments »

Walk, Don't Walk sign

On your journey to self-mastery, you will sooner or later encounter paradoxes. The contradictory nature of a paradox often leads to frustration and confusion. You will be tempted to “choose a side” as it were and reject new conflicting information. That’s because to hold conflicting ideas in your head requires a good deal of mental effort and concentration, but if you can keep those thoughts in your head long enough to resolve the paradox, the reward is nothing short of an epiphany. In my own journey, I’ve found that most paradoxes can be resolved by one of the following 3 paradigm shifts. I’ll start by giving an example situation for each one.

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Identities, and New Domain Name… Again!

Posted in Asides, tagged , on December 2, 2012| 5 Comments »

A blank identity card

I know some people will like the domain name change and others will not. Most people won’t even care because they would just like me to put out more content–which I will continue to do, so stop flipping out, ok? ;)

But I want to take this opportunity to address the concerns of the people who do not like the new domain name. “But aren’t you the cool nerd?” Yes, I do consider myself a big nerd in many ways, and I would like to think I’m pretty boss most of the time, but “cool nerd” is just an arbitrary identity label like “artist” or “party girl.” The typical image of an artist is often some moody guy with long disheveled hair painting away in a studio apartment by himself. The typical image of a party girl is often some indecent girl boozing the night away, spending each night in a different bed.

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Keep Moving

Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged , , , on November 27, 2012| 4 Comments »

Steam train

Newton’s First Law of Motion states than an object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.

When you are sitting on your butt doing nothing, you will find that it is very easy to continue to do so, and the longer you stay that way, the more effort it takes to change out of that mental state and get your butt into motion. It’s like people who decide to take a break after high school or college before continuing their education. Of course it’s important to take breaks, but if the break is too long, it becomes too difficult to get going again. 1 year off becomes 2 years. 2 years rolls into 3 until one day they’ve forgotten their original intentions.

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