Talking with a friend recently about the nature of low mood and low energy, or depression, and how it can help us bring clarity to our current situation. But only if we suspend judgement of what we are experiencing. I really think the Buddhists had something when they taught about releasing judgement. Notice how much… Read More »
True Calling Project 32 – Kosta Stoyanoff: Taking Ownership of Who You Are
Today’s guest, Kosta Stoyanoff, isn’t your typical positive speaker. He is the Founder of Uplifted Life, where he tries to remind people that there is more to life than what they have been conditioned to experience, and more to them than they could have ever imagined. We discuss how we can find the part of… Read More »
True Take 025: Relax. You’re Going to Piss Some People Off.
Being afraid of pissing people off might be the #1 dream killer of all time. I was reflecting this week on how overly cautious we can tend to be (me included) when it comes to not wanting to possibly offending someone else. As if going through life solely to be polite can get us what… Read More »
True Calling Project 31 – Michael Kuhn: Facing Near Death to Living Life
Today our guest, Michael Kuhn, shares a powerful story about transformation, presence, relationships, and the metaphysical aspects of life (and death). Michael struggled with relationships and substance abuse for much of his early adulthood. After waking up in a jail cell, he decided he had to make a change. The need for knowledge became his… Read More »
True Take 024: How Can We Authentically Connect with Others?
What is it about relationships that we find so rewarding? What kind of people do we gravitate towards? Is it their words? Is it their advice? When we have a good, solid, friendship or relationship, and connection with someone what are they doing that makes it so? What can we focus on in our relationships… Read More »
True Calling Project 30 – Bryan Wright: Grief and the Phenomenon of Denying Death
Death is a unique process in human experience in that it can only be directly experienced by the participant, and it cannot be recorded. In almost everything else in life, people are ready and willing to offer advice… but, in this one area, they can’t. Bryan Wright, like many of us, is fascinated by this… Read More »
True Take 023: The Essence of Bullshit
NSFW. Or maybe it’s AFW (appropriate for work). This isn’t clickbait. Because clickbait is bullshit. This is about smiling through and letting go of a lot of what we get tied up in on a day to day basis. Do we really HAVE to put our energies and efforts into things that we can’t control?… Read More »
True Calling Project 29 – Trevor Oldham: Become the Lion & Make an Impact
Today’s guest, Trevor Oldham, is a 20-year-old college student and co-founder of Become The Lion, one of the top ranked motivational blogs. Trevor has entrepreneurship in his blood, and he’s been running businesses since he was a kid. When Trevor was 17, he had success importing phone cases from China and selling them. It was… Read More »
True Take 022: The Ripple Effect
Funny how we fail to appreciate our impact on the people around us and our environment both in a positive and negative way. We judge our impact as negligible when we are really the one’s that need to be judging. All our job is to express and create and leave the judging to others. People… Read More »
True Take 021: Doubling Down
Listen up control freaks and self care junkies! This is for you. And for me. I’m done. Tired. Spent. Things are reaching their limit here with my business. But this time, instead of trying to self medicate the stress with “self care”, I’m going to listen to it. Instead of trying to strangle control and… Read More »