I’m very upset right now. We know you are, Chris! You are holding yourself in a lower vibration, one where you are the victim 🙂 Okay, fine. Fine, maybe so! I’m frustrated!…
Category: Personal Growth
Day 108: Happiness is an Inside Job
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about happiness, it truly is, as they say, an inside job. It seems that every time my happiness has expanded, it’s because of something I did,…
Day 98: Clearing Up Faulty Ideas
Chris, so you want your music to reach a wider audience, is that it? Um… yes. I do. Why are you hesitating? Um, well, I mean, I didn’t expect the question, but…
Day 95: Why Do You Try to Be Normal?
Chris wanted to let “us” step in today and give this “talk.” Thank you those who are reading this. Chris tends to diminish the importance of this blog, as if there are…
Day 77: A Process to Release Negative Thoughts
This year has been enormously instructive for me as I became more aware than ever of old negative thought patterns that aren’t serving me (ie the self-tormenting* kind). It’s been a process….
Day 76: Personal Happiness and The 80/20 Rule
A long time ago I learned about the 80/20 rule. Also called “Pareto Principle,” it is the idea that 20% of one’s efforts in any given endeavor are responsible for 80% of…
Day 74: The Mother of All Teachers
Happiness can be a moving target. Just when you think you have it “figured out,” you realize you are off course. It takes discernment to pay attention when this happens and to…
Day 71: They Are Just Thoughts
It’s a funny thing about our thoughts. Thoughts are like a running commentary on who we are, our lives, the people around us. Thoughts are our beliefs, our habits of thought. Some…
Day 70: Taming the Reading Hobgoblin 2.0
I wrote a post a few years ago called “Taming the Reading Hobgoblin.” In that post, I both accepted and lamented the fact that I was not following my reading game, in…
Day 67: Tony Robbins, I Appreciate You
One of the surprise benefits of re-reading “Money: Master the Game” is to really own what it means to me. I have repeatedly written about it in glowing terms (here and here),…