The Viable Alternative

With all the upheaval going on in the world, I’ve been recently thinking a lot about what it is to have a “purpose” in life.

As it is often said, most people are walking around fully asleep, carrying on the same old mundane routine of going to work everyday, buying things they can’t afford to impress people they don’t like, paying bills, getting manipulated by the messages of the media, without even questioning what they’re doing or why they’re here on this Earth. Read more…

Imagine if you lived on 34th Street in Manhattan (just to let you know if you’ve never been to Manhattan in New York City before, most of the streets in the borough are numbered), and you had a desire to go downtown to 14th Street because you had something really important to pick up there. Read more…

I have to apologize. I usually release a blog a week, but last week I had a technical issue with my site so I wasn’t able to post anything. Thankfully, the issue has been fixed.

Anyway, I have a friend who writes a spiritual/personal consciousness blog, and over the course of a few years, during conversations the two of us had about various subjects, she’d make mention of a recent blog post she had written as a reference to a point she was making, making the assumption I had read it. Read more…

NOTE: The story below is a TRUE story but at the request of the subject of the story, the names have been changed. Also the person in the picture below is NOT the subject of the story.

The Background:

After almost 12 years in the construction business, I was really burned out. I was making money but I was not happy. One year I took on four projects because I wanted to make a big push and make a lot of money. Maybe I was contemplating buying my way out. Read more…

I’ve always been fascinated by the aura of power and confidence that certain people give off without them having to say anything. You know, those people who walk into a room and immediately grab people’s attention. They don’t have to showboat, peacock, be loud or boisterous, or do anything else to draw attention to themselves. All they have to do is show up, and sometimes without them saying a word, immediately people can feel their power and are subsequently drawn to them. Read more…

NOTE: The story below is a TRUE story but at the request of the subject of the story, the names have been changed. Also, the individual in the photo is not the subject of the story.

The Background:

Chris Bernard was the quintessential ladies man: close to 6 feel tall, good looking, and buff. At college, where I first met him, he had this reputation as a player who got with a lot of girls. Read more…

Happy New Year everyone! I wish you all a happy, prosperous 2015. I hope that you all receive major breakthroughs this year in the areas that you’ve been actively working on for results.

It was when I was 20 years old that I first discovered the importance of enjoying spending time alone with myself. Before that, whenever I would spend time with myself, it was more because I was “forced” to because friends of mine I normally hung with had other plans or because I would get in one of my depression modes that was characteristic of my late teens when I didn’t care to hang out with anyone, I just wanted to either brood and sulk or wish death on the entire world (hey, forgive me…I had issues 🙂 ). Read more…

I’ve heard countless gurus, successful people, life coaches, etc. credit their use of affirmations as the reason why they were able to turn their lives around and become successful.

I’ve further been advised by a few coaches that if I wanted to become the person necessary to attract the life I wanted, to use affirmations.

There are many people who swear by them as the cornerstone of their daily personal development routine.

I’m sure if you’ve read any self-improvement books, you must’ve heard something mentioned about them.

People have credited them with helping them eliminate their insecurities, become more confident, think more positive, remove mental blocks, change limiting beliefs, eliminate bad habits, make more money, etc, etc. Read more…

I remember reading about an interesting story (well to me at least because of its implications) where there was this girl who when watching her mother cook, noticed that right before she would put a chicken she was about to bake into the oven, she’d cut off the ends of the legs. One day, after seeing her mother do this so many times, curiosity got the best of her and she asked her mother why she cut the ends of the chicken legs off before she put the chicken into the oven, and her mother, after thinking for a bit, responded that she didn’t know, that she learned it from watching her mother, who did the same thing. Read more…

I’ve told this story in another blog of mine titled M.A.R.R.I.A.G.E. – Has society sold us a lie?, but it bears repeating for the sake of this blog.

Years ago, I met this Korean guy who had just started work at my office (well, he was born here but his parents were born in Korea).

In a conversation I overheard between him and another co-worker, he was telling him how he didn’t believe in interracial relationships and that he was going to marry someone from his own culture. In fact, his current girlfriend was from Korea as well. Read more…