Take time to deeply establish a new habit. Success in any endeavor is built on the foundation of solid, high-quality habits which set and maintain us on a trajectory of growth and development. When we establish the right habits — those which are ...
Do Not Move So Quickly From A Task
Do not move so quickly from a task. Do not proceed before the task is truly done. Before it is completely resolved, done right, so that it does not have to be done again. Not before the habit is deeply established, the goal fully achieved, the vision ...
The First Step is to Organize Our Lives
When we set out to begin work, the first step we ideally take is to clear our desk and organize our tools. Or else to maintain a state optimized for whatever our work may entail. Likewise, in order to live in a way that is powerful and focused we ...
Taking The Path of Least Resistance
Taking the Path of Least Resistance is the art of finding in each moment what interests us the most, what we are most inclined to do. This practice takes place within our arts, training and the work we do each day, just as it extends also to the ...
Impatience :: A Principle Hindrance Along The Path Towards Mastery & Success
Impatience is one of the principle obstacles that we face in life. Above all, impatience is a battle with ourselves. A constant striving against our lower nature and impulses which are constantly pulling us away from internal silence, peace, and deep ...
The Source of All Spiritual Knowledge
As an introduction to the spiritual and personal mastery section of this work, I would like to address an important question: where does spiritual knowledge come from? More specifically, where does this individual attain what he (at least) thinks is ...
Mental Toughness :: Cultivating An Indomitable Spirit
Mental toughness is something that I believe most people just do not understand, because they have rarely been in situations where they have had to cultivate it. Don't get me wrong, people are often in these situations, it's just that they do not ...
The Resolution of the Self
The Resolution of the Self takes place throughout the process of spiritual development as a gradual shift within the individual towards greater alignment with, experience of, and identification with Spirit, attained through successive levels of ...
A Consideration of Depth
What does depth truly mean? What does depth mean within the context of an art or discipline? Within the quality of our work and lives, in the realm of learning, personal development, and mastery? Furthermore, what does it require of us, and what are ...
The Learning Process: The Process of Everything
Everything that we do is a process. Moreover, in whatever we could hope to learn, create, or achieve, the process that we go through - from initial inspiration, through exploration, cultivation, progress and accumulation, amalgamation, refinement, ...