As you work toward your better life, you are likely to experience some setbacks. It’s possible that you may find yourself falling back into your old ways. If this happens, just know that it’s not the end of the world. When you’re working to make yourself better, sometimes the bad…
For the most part, people respond to the situations they experience without any thought. We have knee-jerk reactions to the things that happen to us, and we tend to be completely unaware of the effect that they have on our lives. We all need to be mindful of the way…
There are ways you can control your thoughts of suicide Deep depression and thoughts of suicide can happen to anyone. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to change these thoughts and continue with your life. Having been suicidal on more than one occasion in my late teens and twenties,…
I’ve consumed a lot of self help, spirituality and philosophy products. A lot of us have turned to the self help industry for, well for HELP. Frankly, I find a large part of the whole self help industry to be a bunch of duplicitous, conniving jerks with their eye on…
Self help writing is something I love to do. It’s one of my passions, my mission, and my own personal attempt to make the world a better place. None of these things are a surprise to any you, my regular readers. I say things that I think need to be…
One of the things that I have put a lot of focus into during all of my personal and spiritual growth is calm. Not just the finding peace sort of thing, but staying calm in the face of adversity or challenging situations. Recently I was trying to help someone with…
Here is something that needs to be said. If you are afraid of being wrong, you will spend your entire life in misery. There is nothing inherently evil or bad about being wrong or making a mistake. If you don’t ever make a mistake, you won’t ever learn anything. If…
That’s right, I love darkness. I love the serenity that comes from moonlight and the disappearance of the sun every day. I enjoy really gory horror movies and I think black is a good color for my clothing. I seriously dig so-called “evil” imagery and I collect little skull figures.
Another step to attaining a better life is learning to accept and move on. You can spend your whole life blaming people and events for ruining your life, but if you do that, what kind of life are you going to live? You need to accept that there are things…
*Sighs* I try to be a good person. I try to love and share and teach. Sometimes though… The ways of the world and some of the people in it just make me feel so tired. I feel blessed to be encountering more people as time passes who are positive,…
A thought occurred to me while I was sitting here playing a game online. All too often, we live lives that a contradiction to how we want to live. Our actions are in direct opposition to the things we say we want. Whether it be society or some other force…
I saw a quote today. “Your perception of me is a reflection of you; my reaction to you is an awareness of me.” I’m not sure about the source of the quote unfortunately, but it got me to thinking, and really, almost to crying. It makes me think of my…
There’s this thing that happens with me that I find really annoying. A thought will get into my head and then it will just repeat over and over. Sometimes I can get rid of it quickly, but sometimes it’s in there, annoying the hell out of me for as much…
Since helping other people and the world is what I’ve decided to dedicate my life to, I suppose it’s only natural that I’ve questioned the ethics of what I’m doing. Trying to change people from what they currently are into something else is a slippery slope. It can be a…