Category: Motivation Monday
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No Self, No Problem
“No self, no problem.” — Commonly attributed to Buddhist teaching How many of the things we choose to carry around every day are actually problems, and how many only become problems because we take them personally? I was at a friend’s house for dinner recently, along with a few other couples. Everyone was complimenting the…
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The Whisper Test
Every morning, the moment we open our eyes and before we’ve even gotten out of bed, the negotiation starts. The covers are warm, the day hasn’t asked anything of us yet and the one thing at the top of the list, the task we’ve been putting off, is already on our minds. Then a voice…
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When Walking Away Means We Finally Learned
“I don’t walk away to teach people a lesson. I walk away because I learned mine.” – Steve Harvey, The Steve Harvey Morning Show, October 2, 2025 There’s a difference between walking away because we want someone to feel our absence and walking away because we’ve finally learned something from the experience. When we want…
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Are We Really Listening?
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”— Stephen R. Covey Many of us think we’re good listeners but often we’re just waiting our turn. Somebody is still talking and we’re already building our response, deciding what we agree with, what we want to correct and…
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As Though We Know
“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 4.17 We all know we’re not going to live forever, and yet if we watched the way most of us live, you’d think we had…
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Are We Ever Really Lacking Confidence?
I was watching a video on YouTube recently of Darryl Anka, who was channeling Bashar, answering questions from the audience. Someone in the crowd said, “I used to be very confident in myself.” It’s the kind of thing a lot of us have said or thought at some point, but regardless of what anyone may…
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If There’s a Solution, Why Worry? Here’s What That Actually Means
“If a problem can be solved, what reason is there to be upset? If there is no possible solution, what use is there in being sad?” — Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life That’s how Shantideva said it, but the version that I have always heard goes more like this: if there’s…
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How Momentum Really Builds
“When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum.” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War A single drop of water isn’t moving a boulder. But put enough water behind it, moving in the same direction, and something that looks almost powerless on its own becomes capable of moving something enormously heavy. That’s…
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The Snake Doesn’t Hate Its Old Skin
“The snake does not hate its old skin. It simply knows it cannot grow inside it.” — Unknown I think sometimes we make moving on from something more complicated than it needs to be because we feel like we have to find something wrong with it first. If we’re going to leave a job, change…
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You Were Never in Control of That
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” — Marcus Aurelius We spend a ridiculous amount of energy trying to control things that were never ours to control. What somebody…
