Tag: modern self help
How to let things come to you – without manifesting or affirmations
When you imagine something – a project, a relationship, a home – you don’t make it real by simply wishing for it. You make it real by creating channels that allow it to flow into your life. This is the core of The Certain Way, my modern take on Wallace D. Wattles’ 1910 classic The…
Fallow Ground – a song
In case you missed it on Youtube – (what do you mean your not subscribed!?) I found myself in a fallow period recently. I found two new chords on the guitar and this song just appeared. It’s about a fallow period that may seem unproductive, but in the end it is about restoration and recovery.…
Grief, Not Burnout — What Creators Are Really Feeling
We keep calling it burnout, but I think we need to tell the truth. What many creators are feeling right now isn’t just exhaustion – it’s grief. Grief for the promise we bought into. For the dream that content creation would be fulfilling, sustainable, and meaningful. Grief for the parts of ourselves we gave away…
The Trouble With Certainty
Absolute certainty invites Hubris and inevitably, Nemesis. In Greek mythology Hubris was the worst kind of pride or self-congratulatory pomposity, that would call to Nemesis, the goddess of vengeance and retribution, to come and sort things out. in short – Pride comes before a fall. Certainty, however, keeps us on a chosen path, heading in…
The Power of Gratitude
The ideas in The Certain Way have been developed through observation, which is the basic tool of science. We look and observe and ask questions. Then we form a hypothesis, test it and observe again. Refining all the time until we come up with an answer that holds and predicts certain outcomes. Science is a…
