Morning Mindfulness - A Few Positive Minutes to Start Your Day With

As I am working on my Stress Reduction online course, I thought of one skill I acquired as a kid. Perhaps that skill helped me to be straight “A” student at school. Or maybe because of that skill I stuck with Martial Arts, Taoist Yoga and Qigong for over 30 years. No, no, I am not the sharpest knife in the draw, trust me. But I developed this ability to say what I think is one of the most important words in my life. I will teach you that right now...

Episode #217 and links: hpln.org/217-painless-success

We just become experts in that particular Path. We run it so smooth, until life takes unexpected turn. Then we either run full speed into the wall, or completely get off the Path, or stumble upon unexpected obstacle and fall...

Episode #216 and links: hpln.org/216-delusional-mindfulness/ 

Are we helping our kids to become responsible adults or are we building a wall by reprimanding them for their mistakes?

I learned from my coach, that success comes in CANs, and failure comes in CANNOTs. Think about it. Whatever you  may be doubting, like “Can I?” Yes, you can. Will you? Only you can answer that. 

There’s no success that comes out of great ideas. There’s no success that comes out glorifying our own intelligence. The most genius ideas won’t work unless we do. 

We are not paying attention to the present moment. And I am guilty too. And once we notice the change, it may be already too late. So we push ourselves into changes trying to maintain the equilibrium. And we often overdo.

Dream is extremely important, all right! It’s number one on the list. But we often start paying too much attention to it. We think in global categories, and we often forget, and I will quote John Maxwell, “… dream is free, but the journey is not.” It does require daily work...

However, precision calibrated mindset does not have room for errors. And this is how I was growing up. Everything had to be absolutely perfect! And if it was not, then it was a sloppy job. That would irritate me and seriously undermine my self esteem. My ego told me that everything I did had to be perfect...

The ego sees no difference between positive and negative to create the illusion of control and not letting go of the past, whatever that past may be...

Episode 209: hpln.org/209-risky-meditation

There’s an old proverb about a peasant who saved monk’s life. The monk invited a man to his cave where he stayed. Once they got there, the monk brought three items - needle, staff and mallet - and put them in front of his savior...