I’ve finally discovered what all this talk is of “surrendering” and “letting go” and it’s truly an amazing feeling.
I’ve been in ten months of therapy to date, and a month and a half ago, I experienced a shift. Read more…
The other day I had a quite disturbing conversation with a Christian who was saying that having self-confidence and high self-esteem was of the Devil and leads to self-destruction. Read more…
If you’ve been on the path of personal growth and/or spiritual enlightenment, one of the books that come highly recommended to read is a book by the name of “The Power of Now,” by Eckart Tolle. Read more…
Growing up an ethnically ambiguous kid and a second generation immigrant, one of my sole desires growing up was to fit and blend in with everyone else, namely because I felt I stuck out so much and always felt I was on the outside looking in.
I always observed others to take cues on what it was like to be like everyone else. I would copy their mannerisms, how they spoke, how they dressed, and sometimes, if they had a differing view than me, I would take up theirs. Read more…
Faith is described in the Bible as “the substance of hope,” and “the evidence of things not seen.”
Many people who have accomplished amazing things and overcame extreme hardships attribute it to having Faith in some Higher Power, whether it be God, the Universe, their higher self, Jesus Christ, their ancestors or whatever. Read more…
I was a very short kid for my age. Other kids seemed to grow steadily, but I was a late-bloomer, as my parents called it. Read more…
I’ve recounted in several past blogs how discovering the concept of self appointment, one of the four pillars of The Viable Alternative, at the age of 20 changed me from an angry, miserable, bitter, hateful teen who felt like he was shut out of the party called life and was always on the outside looking in to a man who felt a sense of empowerment over his own destiny and that the world was his. Read more…
I’ve always been inspired by the story of the meteoric rise of Japan in the 19th and early 20th century.
It’s one of the inspirations for The Viable Alternative. Read more…
NOTE: The story below is a TRUE story but at the request of the main character of the story, the names have been changed. Also, the person in the picture is not the subject of the story.
Desmond Miguel grew up poor in the Spanish Harlem section of New York City in the. James W. Johnson Housing projects where he lived with grandmother and mother for the majority of his youth, Read more…
