Good working relationships
The rules of Life, by Richard Templar, states to keep problems under your hat. This basically means that we don’t tell people all our problems in a working environment, only people we trust in our private life, including family, friends, or even your therapists. However, a few people make the mistake of sharing their issues […]
Delay Gratification
When I was in junior school, my teachers often told me to eat my greens first and then dessert. Even back then, screw what teachers had to say. I used to say to my mate’s let’s dig straight into the desert. Growing up into adulthood, eating your greens first was a metaphor for life; what […]
Hope for the Future
Let’s start this blog with the book ‘The power of Now’ by Eckhart Tolle. The book highlights the spiritual concepts of being in the present moment and references Christianity and Buddhist philosophy. To conclude, the book isn’t efficient, stating that we can somehow eliminate the past pain by being in the moment. It reinforces the […]
Putting down Boundaries
Society is shaped around people being like an open book, and they will spill the beans about everything by revealing all their deepest darkest secrets. Unfortunately, some people will place their trust with the wrong people, such as their boss or work colleagues and these people will spread gossip to others. Then there are the […]
Gaining Balance
The buddha once quoted that life is all about balance. Growing up, I used to have an all or nothing mentality that created a perfectionism that everything needed to be faultless. I started to see things as one extreme or the other, either you succeed or fail, that there is no middle ground. In my […]
Handling pressure
Everyday pressures lead us to stress, anxiety, worry and frustration, unease, and dissatisfaction. A healthy level of pressure is fundamentally good for us, having no pressure leads to hopelessness, and too much anxiety creates stress. Most of our behaviour is shaped around our emotions, and we develop habits that strengthen this behaviour. This leads us […]
Comparing our Happiness
Often, we can feel like we are working hard towards something that we want to acquire. Going on the path towards making our dreams come true when we are struck with an unexpected bombshell. We find that someone that we know has already attained what we want. For example, someone has already gotten a first […]
Avoidance stops growth
Peace is probably the highest wealth we can experience. I became very focused on my career during my twenties like most people, and I blocked everything else out for several years. Early in my life, I gravitated towards Buddhism and was taught by zen monks how to focus the mind, on one thing at a […]
The virtue of patience
Today’s culture is shaped around the idea of fast results. We want next day Amazon delivery, pizza that arrives in 10mins, speedier internet, and buy ab machines that give us a six-pack in 7 days. It appears everything is becoming faster, which only pisses us off when we must wait if there is some form […]
Being Vulnerable
Marcus Aurelius, during his reign, was the most powerful man in the world, beloved emperor, and successful philosopher. He was left on his death bed, vulnerable with his family around him and ready to take on death. A vulnerable Alexander the great last dying request was to have his body carried by physicians to show […]