There Is No Shortcut

Eckhart Tolle says that words can cast an almost hypnotic spell on us. “You easily lose yourself in them,” he says, “become hypnotized into implicitly believing that when you have attached a word to something, you know what it is. The fact is: You don’t know what it is. You have only covered up the… Read more »
Signs Along the Road
“Los arboles purifican al aire,” said the standard brown road sign on the side of the Pan American Highway heading south into Quito. We passed it so quickly I wasn’t sure what I’d seen. Share
Hope and Change
“What are the parts of yourself you are willing to give up in order to be who you wish you were?” Share
TIMELESS BEHAVIOR PRINCIPLES
Don Whaley invented the “self-flipper.” Dick Malott described this as a large rubber band worn loosely on the wrist to flick yourself every time you do some behavior you’re trying to change. Whaley also invented a variable-time beeper to increase self-awareness. Randomly, the beeper would beep. If the wearer then immediately wrote down whatever they… Read more »