It’s the New Year, 2012 and just like every other New Year, people are running around making New Year’s resolutions.
Many people are skeptical of New Year’s Resolutions because most people are more than willing to make them but rarely ever keep them. An example is that swaths of people make promises to lose weight or get in shape at the beginning of the year and gym memberships soar, with the subsequent effect of gyms across America becoming more crowded. Yet, come early February, the number of people at the gym dwindle down to the size it was in December, before the New Year started. Read more…
Wow, over four months since I’ve put something on here. Shame on me!
I’m sorry, I was actually trying to produce at least one blog entry a month on this site, but with my trip to Miami over the summer and all the “fanfare” involved with preparing for my one month trip, including putting together a sponsorship event, I got sidetracked. Then, coming back, I’ve been in some sort of strange transition where my perception of the world around me is shifting, so I decided to hold off on writing anything until I had a grasp of what’s going on.
It’s been well over three months since I’ve gotten back from Miami, but it’s now starting to dawn on me the effect that this trip has had on me. I see that it’s starting to change me in many ways. Read more…
I’ve been wanting for a long time to blow the lid off a major misconception that people have, so here goes.
I find it funny that when we talk about low self esteem, we often talk about obvious examples such as:
- The morbidly obese woman who eats as an emotional escape.
- The person who has slit his wrists several times in attempt to end his life because he feels he has nothing to live for.
- The woman who continuously attracts abusive men because she feels she’s not worthy of a man who treats her right.
- The guy who has no friends and hides in his basement because he thinks nobody likes him.
- The guy who’s on depression meds because he feels there’s nothing good about his life.
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I’ve always thought this was a problem, but after reading some of the comments from my last blog about marriage, it became glaringly evident that there is a widespread misunderstanding about the concept of putting yourself first. Read more…
You know, as I’ve gotten older I’ve been getting questions from all corners as to when I’m going to get married.
I’m not only getting it from my parents, but also from friends, friends of family, relatives, friends’ parents, friends’ relatives, ministers, acquaintances, etc, the list goes on.
They all want to know why I’m not married yet. Read more…
As I’ve decided that this year, 2011, being an incredible breakthrough year for me isn’t an option, I’ve come to realize in my path of self discovery that to make this declaration into a reality, I need to adopt an attitude of entitlement. Read more…
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It was the year 2008 and a good friend of mine invited me to come to a birthday party of one of his friends.
When I got to the birthday party, I met up with my friend who invited me and he introduced me to the “birthday girl.”
It turned out that the birthday girl and I had been a part of the same business organization some years back. I began to tease her about not reaching a certain, “coveted” level in the organization, knowing full well in the forefront of my mind that I had not only not reached the said level of the organization, but I also had quit and was no longer a part of it.
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Note: If you haven’t read the first part of this blog, click here.
The Illusion
The experience I had with “self improvement” (or lack thereof) speaks to the issue that all of us face. We’re unable to create what we want for our lives because frankly we’re unable to realize The Illusion that we’re all trapped in.
In The Illusion, it SEEMS as if we’re going in a particular direction (e.g. it seemed as if I was trying to improve myself), or it may seem as if we’re going after a particular goal or that we are being a certain way. On the surface things may look that way, but in actuality something entirely different is going on below the surface such that the way things seem aren’t what they really are.
Hence The Illusion: we’re deluded into thinking what we see in terms of our behaviours, goals, actions and desires are really what they are.
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