The Power Of Mind

Structure your life around work, but not your days. Paradoxical as it may seem, the book “Rest” claims the most successful people in the world have proved this to be true. First, find your purpose. For me, my purpose is to find peace and help people find happiness and peace. This sounds like an endeavor with a light workload, but there is a lot that goes into it. Doing lots of different projects to help uplift others. Lots of research on the most efficient and effective ways to convey information. Tons of personal development. It is a very intellectual and emotional pursuit, activating both hemispheres of the brain. I spend a few hours a day reading, writing, working, and planning. The rest of my day is rest oriented. I do what brings me joy. The inputs in my life are calm beautiful music, insightful books, people who are good influences, and thinking about profound concepts. I love climbing. I love Practicing yoga postures. I love Playing chess. I love relating with people and thin...

I am reading “The Charisma Myth” by Olivia Fox Cabane, and she spends the first few chapters (I am on chapter 5), describing how presence and body language are the basis of charisma. Hearing this makes perfect sense to me, considering my journey. I used to be pretty insecure and still deal with depression. There was nearly constant fatigue and self doubt which sometimes bordered on self hate. During this time, life felt pretty hard, and I looked for any way to ease the suffering. This is when meditation, mindfulness, yoga, spirituality, and conscious construction of my life became a central part of my life. Becoming conscious changed the ways I looked at life. Living was no longer composed of individual events vaguely connected to one another, instead I began to see a vast network of cause and effect complete with blurred boundaries of supposedly separate entities. The reality of an interconnected existence finally revealed itself. Once this reality became clear to me, I appli...