They say happiness is like a tail. If you chase it, you’ll never catch it. But if you focus on other things, it will follow you wherever you go. Still, it’s nice to have some clue about how to live your life. It turns out, doing the same things over and over again is not the key to happiness. Happiness, real and true fulfillment, requires adventure. It makes sense. Nothing gets your mood in the doldrums like doing the same old thing all the time. Let’s look at the big reasons why adventure leads...
Nov 15, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast There’s a turning point that happens to a champion. There’s a moment where a hero discovers a hidden switch somewhere that unleashes enough courage to blast through obstacles and emerge victorious, unstoppable. That turning point is not a magic spell that rains down from heaven, it’s not a pill like in the matrix, but it’s nearly as instantaneous. The point is like the accumulation of force under pressure, like the tires of a race car hugging a turn, and just when the force is about to flip the ...
Nov 09, 2021•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anything is possible once you break it up into smaller pieces. The impossible is just like a map that hasn’t been explored yet. When you think of a map as a projection of reallity it becomes easy to then flip it on the inverse and say that if you can imagine it and draw the abstract version of it, then you can make reality mirror the abstract version that you’ve created. It goes both ways. Life can be put into a box, or it can flow through a box that you create, similar to how a river will flow ...
Nov 08, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’ve all had some shitty cards dealt to us. No matter how great your luck, there’s always going to be some things that can be considered a bad hand. It’s what you do with that hand that matters. You have the choice to look at everything as a blessing. You have the choice to love. Love is that which enables choice in the first place. Think about it. Without love you wouldn’t be able to distance yourself from the situation to see that there’s good in it. But as soon as you realize that you can lo...
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Oct 27, 2021•6 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast What if anything were possible? What if failure weren’t an option? What if you had an all powerful companion, residing always beside you, a divine friend, someone you could trust with everything. And what if this all powerful friend of yours could simply take each and every thought of yours, all of your decisions, computations, musings… And filter them, analyze them with its all knowing power then refine them and straighten them to The pure, clear concept that is your truth? What if you could re...
Oct 26, 2021•7 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Finding Your Purpose. What are you meant to do? You have endless talents, what will you use them for? When you aren’t sure of what your purpose is, build pyramids. Build what you know. Build what you value. We look back at the efforts of the Egyptians 2000 years ago and wonder what the point was. The pyramids don’t serve any purpose. Yet, they exist. The effort that went into creating them is indisputable. Someone had the vision to build them, then recruited the labor and minds of others to make...
Oct 25, 2021•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast You can’t put happiness off You can’t postpone your happiness. Happiness isn’t a goal to be reached. Happiness isn’t something you only worthy to gain after you complete a trial of suffering. Everything happening right now in your life is without a doubt helping you on some grander level. This is all for your ultimate good. The pieces to the puzzle lie at your feet. Within this puzzle there is unlimited peace and happiness. Last night I had a friend telling me that her life was hard in her 20s, ...
Oct 24, 2021•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast What level are you playing at? What level do you want to be on? More importantly, what does true satisfaction look like? What does heaven look like? If you were able to skip the tutorial, skip the purgatorial lobby to your dreams, and just bust through the gates of paradise to the life you were born for, what would that look like? Just imagine it. Imagine skipping the stupid baby steps. Imagine discarding the dull and the dreadful rights of passage that you’ve somehow deemed your necessary penan...
Oct 23, 2021•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anguish. What’s it good for? A bold life is going to have a few run-ins with misfortune. Imagine it like the first day of summer vacation, when you run to the beach, white as a ghost and then decide to stay in the sun for far too long, you’re going to get a few burns. What’s the point to Anguish over it? Heal. Get back up and go out it again. Repeated exposure won’t break you, like a healthy glow of a suntan, or a lithe and powerful batch of scar tissue beneath a well toned muscle… Take it. Don’...
Oct 22, 2021•8 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Sunrise in the desert is quite a beautiful thing. The night will make way when the sun comes. It always will. Today, I woke up long before the sun in Palm Springs. I came to visit my parents while they were in town for a short trip. And so this morning I woke up and watching the darkness from the balcony of my hotel while I sipped a hot black coffee, I came up with this realization that our lives are like great cycles of darkness and light, of not knowing, and then realizing. The reason this rea...
Oct 21, 2021•6 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast You are f***ing strong. Let that phrase hang in the air, pulsing with its ferocity, like a static charge, a thunderbolt. And let that then enter your body, reverberating through your bones, the pulse of the words sending ripples of energy through your blood starting in your chest, and echoing down through your fingers, through your shins, and blasting into the floor through the soles of your feet in pure, unobstructed power. You are a f***ing strong. Today is a day you celebrate. Today you celeb...
Oct 20, 2021•6 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Common sense, Buddhism, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) all tell us that frequent negative thinking causes problems for us. Depression and anxiety are both marked by higher than normal negative thinking, and you even feel bad in your body when your thoughts are pessimistic or hurtful to yourself. This all makes sense, but many people think they’ll never have the discipline to meditate or the time to do CBT exercises and finally be rid of negative thinking. But if they knew what awaits the...
Oct 19, 2021•8 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Confidence is a not-so secret weapon of the super-achievers. With it on your side, you can stop hand wringing over doubts and start pursuing your goals fearlessly. What’s even better is that confidence creates a virtuous circle. The more confident you are, the more likely you are to explore your world and reach for goals. This leads to more adventures, develops new skills, and results in more achievement. These, in turn, create more confidence. While personality and life experiences can affect t...
Oct 18, 2021•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast You ought to smile more even when you're not feeling it. Let your default resting mode be one of bliss, contentment, kindness. It might feel weird or even sacrilegious to whatever struggle you are currently facing, but truth be told, why do you need to frown or take things seriously? Your zest for life should never be diminished just because the thing is hard does not mean you cannot find joy in it. The heaviest burden you'll ever carry is distraction. The reason this is the truth is t...
Oct 17, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Feelings are insidious. Nothing will keep you rooted in complacency stronger than a feeling of fear or hesitation. Let that be one side of the coin, the dark side of the coin. Now when the other side of the coin is showing, you might be granted a feeling of courage and motivation that will spur you to get off of your chair and into the arena. What is the solution to become the master of your feelings? If you could not only be aware of your feelings but also be the master, what would that enable ...
Oct 16, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast The swing of the pendulum leads to the center. yesterday, I had a chat with my coach about loneliness. About the feeling that happens when you lock yourself up with willpower and dedicate yourself to a mission. The old identity will have to be burned off in order to step into the role of someone who can complete the current mission. The challenge is that the old identity has built a home inside of your head. This identity is full of deep roots that reach far into the cracks and corners of your m...
Oct 15, 2021•6 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast I went to the bookstore yesterday. It was nostalgic. I slowed my pace to take him to smell of freshly printed pages, filled with a slightly chemical stuffiness. As usual, I didn’t bring my phone with me so I was virtually unreachable, in a place that felt like an alternate dimension. I wandered slowly through the aisles, letting my fingers run across the spines of all the thoughts and experiences of countless artists, sharing their stories. The science section filled me with wonder as I imagined...
Oct 14, 2021•6 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast There is only one way to capture an illusion and that is to commit it to memory by closing your eyes. Let it fall to rest with a tombstone in your memories, under a shady tree that you don’t intend to visit again. Truth and illusion cannot coexist. And sensations like FOMO are always going to remain on the peripheral horizon, forever unattainable, forever tantalizing you as a fire fly in the night, beckoning you to come closer, promising a taste, but never delivering on that promise. You’ll find...
Oct 13, 2021•5 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Imagine a path that leads towards a life with no regrets. Just think on that, what does it truly imply, to live without regret? Does it mean that you got lucky? Does it mean that it was easy? Or does it mean that you numbed yourself in resignation to accept that you were destined for failure? No. It doesn’t mean any of these things. The path towards a life with no regrets means that you tried . You pushed, you slammed your body against the door and broke through to the frontier of what you know....
Oct 12, 2021•4 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast If you want to provide real value to the world, then make life fun. Because that’s all we’re really doing is playing with pebbles in the sand. Take the word play out of that and it’s just moving rocks, life becomes a sort of penance, Tartarus, indentured servitude and the only release is death. So when you make the time pass with laughter and play it begins to shine with true meaning. Like the ring of a bell in the fog, fun shatters the gloom and lets your existence be recognized instead of obsc...
Oct 11, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast What you fear to lose is only loss. So today is my birthday, I’m still processing what that means. It’s supposed to be a day of celebration, a sort of pat on the back for surviving this long, and a day for the people who are in the journey together with you to reach out and say “Congratulations brother, you’re still stuck in this shitty world together with us. Isn’t it great?“ Maybe I’m feeling pessimistic about the whole thing today. And what better day to rethink your view of the world than yo...
Oct 10, 2021•8 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Every day is a chance to start over. Yesterday I pushed myself extremely hard to get through the end of a project and spent all night looking at the screen. That blue light in high intensity had me Wideawake at night to the point where I couldn’t pass out. Then when I finally did, I woke up conflicted with thoughts of comparison in the middle of the night. Thinking about other people who seemingly have more than me. And it took a long time of quieting these thoughts until I could settle the pani...
Oct 09, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast You don’t get to know how the story unfolds. You don’t get to force your narrative on the silver screen of life. Fortune will find you in its own loving, miraculous way. And when she comes knocking on your door, don’t get caught with your pants down. Opportunity is hiding in the brush, obscured by some fog of war, waiting for you to get close enough to pick it up. How many times have you boorishly rushed past opportunity with your hands full, unable to actually stop and pick it up? How many time...
Oct 08, 2021•5 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast You have a part to play in a bigger picture. When you’re alone in the world and the great vastness of possibility surrounds you, it is your old behavior to freeze and shrivel in fear. What can you do? What can you possibly do as this small, vulnerable speck of flesh that can be annihilated in an instant? What can you really do? Where is your power if this is all there is? Perhaps your mind will continue like this, running in circles, hypnotizing your willpower to stay rooted in one place, dazed ...
Oct 07, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Be careful of guilt. Be on guard against shame. Remember, you are flawless, and the moment you start to think that you have some sickness, the truth becomes hazy, blurry… And like a hallucinatory poison it paints your senses so you stumble in the imagined darkness. No. Call out the truth inside of you. Let the truth expand from your core like a blast from an EMP. Eliminating all signals of illusion, doubt, fear, shame. These do not serve you. You must allow yourself slack enough to indulge in ac...
Oct 06, 2021•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nothing beats knowing you're getting back on track and giving it a true push of effort. Nothing beats making progress on your goals. It is the absolute best feeling in the world to step into the Forge and survive another blow from the hammer. It’s another thing to willingly lock the door to the exit of the Forge, strap yourself to the anvil and ask the smith for another blow, and then another, and then another. But that is what you have to do. And once you have it figured out when you final...
Oct 05, 2021•7 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Today might be one of those days where you’ll have to pull out all the stops, and give it your all. You’ll be asked to show up, to perform, to finish the race all the way through. You buckle in for a long day in the zone, clocked in, on duty… doing your job. The anticipation of the soon to arrive three hundred emails all fighting for your attention like a digital battle Royale in your pocket has got your eyes twitching. And forget the texts, the zoom meetings, the calendar invitations and the dr...
Oct 04, 2021•7 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Part of the game we play in learning to fly is to let go of the weights that hold us down. How long does it take to heal completely from a past trauma? I’m reminded of a story today, of an infection I had that was particularly persistent and wouldn’t heal no matter what medication the doctor gave me. My insides were wrecked from all the antibiotics, like some nuclear bomb destroyed all life inside of me, but that infection on my back was still thriving. I was in Belize at this time, in the inten...
Oct 03, 2021•6 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Delays are inevitable. Yet, the delays in the snags in the path are truly inconsequential. When we look at the world from a greater perspective, a small respite to massage your ass before jumping in the saddle does a little to the pace of the entire journey. Sure the end path may be of a slightly slower completion rate, but like the stroke of a brush across a canvas, paint will be left behind whether it was done quickly, or slowly. What matters is that the momentum continues. So yesterday wore y...
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