Why I Love The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz

Last week I wrote about mindfulness and how we can use it to stay focused on what is actually happening, without inserting our past-based judgments and interpretations into our experiences as we do when we are on automatic pilot. Mindfulness empowers us to make more appropriate and productive choices because we are reacting to what

6 Mar, 2014
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The Mind and Technology

An excerpt from the Introduction to my upcoming book, Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living, now available for pre-order atAmazon. Imagine what it was like living in 1491 when people thought the Earth was flat and that if you went to the edge of it you would fall off.

4 Mar, 2014
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My Recommendation for a Great Book about the Future

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the most important books I’ve read in years. I was in my 30s when I read Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and The Third Wave, and they were epiphanies for me. Toffler discussed the physical, psychological, and social

20 Feb, 2014
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Benefits of Keeping a Journal – Part 2: My New Year’s Review

In my blog last week I discussed journaling and how it has helped me adjust my point of view about frustrations in relationships. But that’s only one of the many benefits I’ve found in keeping a journal. Every year as the old year ends and the new one begins, I read over the journal

9 Jan, 2014
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Benefits of Keeping a Journal Part 1

I’ve kept a journal (or diary) for the last 33 years. I started it when I was in my mid-30s. At that point, I’d been in therapy for five years, during which time I’d gotten the emotional strength to deal with my first marriage. Both my first wife and I were way too young (21

29 Dec, 2013
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