The Courage to Let Go of Your Conditioning

Take a moment to reflect on the following questions. Did you choose your job and income? Did you decide on your relationships? Did you pick where you live? Is your current lifestyle your conscious choice? Did you determine your level of happiness? Did you specify your impact on the world? Or did you just accept […]

How Long Does It Take To Let Go?

An Instant or a Lifetime? In a previous post titled How to Boost Your Mind Power, I said that our minds are cluttered with useless thoughts, our days with time-wasting habits, and our homes with unnecessary objects. All of that clutter is wasting our mental bandwidth and reducing our mind power. The more we let […]

Letting Go of Habitual Thoughts for More Mental Clarity

In my mental clarity experiment, my goal was to reduce my mental and physical habits to increase my mental clarity. By mental habits, I mean reducing my Internet usage. Letting go of habits such as checking Facebook, Instagram, news, and my MailChimp stats, listening to pop music and podcasts, and participating on Steemit. Reducing the […]

The Self-Perpetuating Cycle of Letting Go and Mental Clarity

Three days ago, I started a 30 day mental clarity experiment. This might as well be the most effective personal development exercise I have every done. This experiment isn’t about adding anything extra to my already cluttered daily routine. On the contrary it is about letting go. My previous 30 day experiment was reduced Internet […]

Overcoming Low Self-Esteem and Guilt When Working toward Your Goals

Today, I’ll discuss two possible obstacles that keep you from realizing your goals and how to overcome them. If you make your goals all about yourself, you might not have the motivation to achieve them. This happens especially if you have low self-esteem. The results you get in your life reflect your self-esteem. There’s nothing […]

From Despair, Lethargy, and Mental Fog to Bliss, High Energy, and Mental Clarity

When I observe myself, I recognize two states. The first state involves productivity, happiness, bliss, joy, peace of mind, and mental clarity. The second state involves negative thoughts and emotions, feeling down and depressed, lack of energy, lethargy, and mental fog. As you see, both of those states involve physical, emotional, and mental symptoms. In […]

When It Comes to Setting Goals, Put Things into Perspective

A few days ago, I published a post called Setting Realistic Goals Leads to Success. In summary, we tend to set big hairy audacious goals. When we first set those goals, we get excited and inspired. After a while, that initial enthusiasm fades out. We realize that we haven’t made much progress toward our ambitious […]

Make the Achievement of Your Goals Inevitable

Before we start today’s post, take a moment to answer the following questions. Do you have any goals? Are they specific and measurable? Do they have any deadlines? Are they written down? What are the actions that you took in the last 24 hours and in the previous week toward your goal? Those questions reveal […]