Today I’m going to experiment on myself. Yesterday I talked about the factors of how, when we’re motivated solely by pain how we can readily fail as the pain subsides and we return to old habits. The solution to this is creating a daily vision of not only pain, but pleasure. This is the foundation for a successful/fulfilling life because it keeps us moving toward change through uncertainty that would normally stop us short. As I’ve said, as we move away from pain, the thin

This is a critical point in success and fulfillment. When we start doing the right things… eating right, exercise, meditation, etc., we generally take those things on as a change, but why change? The human animal is an efficiency expert. We are designed to learn how to survive in our environment. We are incredible adaptors, who can develop survival skill sets from jungle climates to arctic wastelands. This is based on the way our brains drive new skills into the basal ga

Don't get me wrong. I'm not really miserable. I caught several waves and rode them to the beach today, stepping off in ankle deep water. I've found something deeply missing. I am so alive. Yet, I have been running on the momentum of days past, and that momentum, like a wave that's running out, is running out on me. I have not found a better analogy of what I'm doing with these 365 days than surfing. There's profound energy in the world. It comes rolling at us and holds great

Bruce and I are sitting in hammocks outside a studio apartment under a thatched roof canopy made from tree trunks that have had their bark stripped away and been stained deep red. There are insects singing like cicadas in the trees and it's warm. not hot. We just finished surfing for the first time in our lives. Our instructor was Jose, a man who looked to be about 23 who had a broad smile, an easy way if teaching and was 33. When I said I was shocked at his age... He said hi