Author Archives: John

Allow

I often interrupt negative thoughts by thinking, “stop thinking that thought.”

The problem is that I just created another thought. And these two thoughts together create self-conflict.

Allowing all thoughts to be just as they are is the only way to cultivate our own peace, our own light.

Paying Attention

Two people can experience the same thing and feel completely different about it. Two people can work the same job and take very different lessons away. It’s not so much what we do but about how we pay attention.

Integrity

Self-esteem is self-respect. Self-respect is having integrity. Having integrity is not fooling yourself. Not fooling yourself is difficult. The difficult part is you are the easiest person to fool.

Empathy

People become infinitely fascinating when you get out of your head and into theirs.

Showing Up For Ourselves

When there’s a work meeting scheduled for 1pm, we show up on time and ready, even if we don’t feel like it.

But when we tell ourselves that we’ll go to bed at 10pm or work out at 8am, or eat at 6pm, we often do not show up on time. We let circumstances, excuses, and energy levels guide our decisions, which we never apply to work meetings.

What if we treated our own schedules like we treat the schedules of others? what if we showed up for ourselves?