I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but Western culture sure loves efficiency. In the time-is-money paradigm we find ourselves in, getting from Point A to Point B should always be the quickest, cheapest, and (supposedly) best route possible. After all, our time and resources are limited, so anything deviating from that…just doesn’t make sense. But in recent years, this need for speed has gone into overdrive. Pushing ourselves harder and faster, our egos absorb

In Season 3 of Cobra Kai, Johnny visits Miguel in the hospital after he has suffered a major injury. Miguel is in bed, and he can’t walk. He tries to grab his phone which is out of reach. Johnny asks him if he wants it, Miguel says yes, and he pushes his phone away and tells Miguel to get up and get it. Johnny makes the point that the world isn’t just going to hand

Strength is a concept with many definitions, but the word “strong” comes up frequently when people are going through tough situations. “You are stronger than you think” refers to the fact that people often sell themselves short on how much they can handle. So, what does it mean to be “strong”? What It Means to Be “Strong” Being strong doesn’t always mean working out every day to have a strong body. Mental strength is our

Franklin D. Roosevelt said this quote during his 1932 presidential campaign and repeated by many speakers. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) was the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 to 1945, who led America through a great depression and World War II while implementing new economic measures to help restore hope and prosperity to the people. Everyone will encounter a difficult time in their life and there are moments when things just won’t go

In the movie Inception, Dom Cobb, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, is the protagonist who specializes in extracting information. He accomplishes this by infiltrating his target’s dreams and stealing the information from them. He also has the ability to plant ideas into a person’s mind. In the movie, Cobb is saying that a single idea in the human brain can take root, transform the world and rewrite all the rules. Everything we have in our world

Most of us love staying in our comfort zone. Resisting change is an absolute human tendency. Our comfort zone provides us a safety net that minimizes stress and risk. It offers us mental security, benefitting our nervous system and putting our bodies at ease. On the other hand, our bodies innately dislike change. Anything unfamiliar causes us discomfort. So, we resist and resent changes. However, the problem is when we resist change that is good

When your life begins to feel a little too predictable, mundane, or even boring, you may find yourself yearning to make some changes. Maybe you dream about moving to a different part of the world or going back to school to continue your education. You might feel drawn to pursue a higher calling or transform your body with some healthy new lifestyle habits. However, even as a deeper part of you yearns for change, another

In the movie The Matrix, Morpheus explains what the matrix is to Neo. He explains it as the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth.  He describes it as a prison for your mind. We are all faced with having to decide whether we really want to know the truth about something. In a post last year, I talked about how you cannot wake a person who’s pretending