OK, Sophie, but what is the bottle you are in? And what is the label?Most everything that is about you is the bottle and most everything that would clue you in why you are stuck, why you don’t feel well, why your life works the way it works is the label.To read the label, you … Continue reading "It is hard to read the label when you are inside the bottle."

Alexander the Great supposedly said:Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.Now, … Continue reading "But what about fear? What shall I do if I am always afraid?"

Who is listening? Who is listening that you are unwilling or unable to move towards your dreams?Warning: without the concept in this article, you can read 100 books, take 100 seminars, and they will not matter… chances are you have never heard about this concept.In this article I am writing about a little known aspect … Continue reading "What kind of soil are you for the seeds I plant?"

What is the reason of the widespread incompetence, insufficiency and abominable service companies provide?And I mean big companies, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Clickbank, Spectrum, nearly any company I deal with…I am going to use muscletesting to answer most of the questions…But before I go large, I am going to look at some of the things I … Continue reading "Widespread incompetence, insufficiency, abominable service"

In our ‘Reframing Challenge’ suddenly being laughed at, or snarky remarks have come up to reframe.The challenge is to not take it personally.In the homo sapiens world everything is personal. They are laughing AT YOU…Here is an example when a person is bigger than that… and how that scenario looks from the sideways view. This … Continue reading "How to see a painful incident differently, even after years"

Recently I learned some things… And when I learn something, I turn around and open my eyes widely… so I can see the big picture, so I can see how many and how far the dots are that belong to the same thing.This article will document some of my learnings, and will let you see … Continue reading "Scarcity, fear of not enough, reciprocal altruism…"

I know, I know. the saying goes differently: they grabbed victory from the jaws of defeat…But, in my experience, most people, myself included, give up hopeless, before they could get to victory… some as soon as they would start.If I had to point out one secret to my longevity, both in life and in business, … Continue reading "They snatched defeat from the jaws of victory"

Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship is the title of the book that had a deep impact on me. I read it some 20 years ago…That question is underneath most of my life… including my commitment … Continue reading "When it was the best, was it really really good?"

Where do you listen from? An important distinctionAccording to many awareness is the most missing when you are poor, sick, and miserable.But what IS awareness? Aware of what? And with what organ? What sense? What equipment?I call the awareness, really the same thing SEEING.Why? just a personal preference… even though I probably would do better … Continue reading "Idee fixe… or how the mind and the mind-dwellers operate"

I worked on food and nutritional deficiency lists this morning and I noticed something interesting:I felt resentful because what I want, what I like, what I think don’t matter when I muscletest.And when I do those lists I need to give up acting on what I like, on what I want, and surrender my hands, … Continue reading "Why self-control is the ultimate linchpin for humans"