Is it the past? Is it the future? What gives your actions in the present? What makes you you? What creates who you are right now? I just watched a few short films that were winners or nominated to the Academy Awards in recent years. In one, a young African boy, Joseph whose father is … Continue reading "What makes you who you are today?"

Can you go back to the past and change it? Will YOU change with it? Your personality? Silly sounding question, but it is not as silly as it sounds. Because we look at life, at what is happening, through the limited perspective of the human mind, we actually don’t know what is happening, only a … Continue reading "A practical and easy method of changing your personality"

What do you need to become an achiever? will power? self-discipline? What do you need? Achiever = Someone who achieves something worth writing home about, or worth reading about? Yesterday I had this sneaky idea that I will buy and complete and analyze a bunch of ‘more money’ type courses, and that way I’ll find … Continue reading "What blocks you from becoming an achiever?"

I just read an interesting story about people who dream about climbing Mount Everest. For you who like me have to look it up: Mount Everest is ‘…Earth’s highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation of 8,848.86 m … Continue reading "Are you a high achiever? No? This article is for you…"

Charles M. Schwab was one of the ‘robber barons’ of the early 20th century. He was, at the time, one of the richest men in the world. He was president of Bethlehem Steel, but his ambition to become more and more was insatiable. He hired famed productivity consultant of his time, Ivy Lee… Ivy charged … Continue reading "You can live your life randomly, or consciously, by design"

Updated: Biting Mites issue solved! This post is a reprint of an article from 2005. I didn’t write it, I found it on the internet. It was the article that woke me up that the misery I was experiencing in my own sleepless nights was not unique to me: it was shared by billions of … Continue reading "Biting Microscopic Mites Spreading Across the World – The Pandora Bug"

Why do we need this commandment? should’t you thrive to perfection? No, you shouldn’t. Measuring yourself against perfection makes you look and feel inadequate… and therefore you stop generating anything. Money is a value exchange. And for value to be there, what you exchange for it doesn’t have to be perfect, it just needs to … Continue reading "Thou Shall Prosper: the fourth commandment of money"

…or How powerlessness is ‘inherited’ to you… How your personality predetermines what you can do, what you will do… I did my first transformational program back in 1985 in beautiful seaside town of Haifa in Israel. We were on the top of a hill that jutted into the Mediterranean sea, in a room with windows … Continue reading "Is personality fixed? Or can you change it?"

Bad news. On my way home, climbing the long stairway off Euclid Avenue, I was listening to Step 21 of the 67 Steps. It’s about the superpower of being able to get into a relationship with people because you can see how their machine works, and therefore you can speak their language. Everything comes to … Continue reading "How bad news can be a godsend or how to eliminate neediness?"

The Third Commandment: Get to Know Yourself… aka self-awareness Awareness, and within it self-awareness ranks really high on the list of what are the most predictive capacities for a successful life. Why? Because unless you interface with reality, with the world, with others, with what there is to do accurately, your actions will be misdirected… … Continue reading "Thou Shall Prosper: Know Yourself aka self-awareness"