Bitcoin has been one of my favorite topics to think about past two years, because Bitcoin is more advanced form of money what world has known before.
Short history of money goes like… Read More
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“And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with allyour heart.” – Jeremiah 29:13
It takes faith to begin the search.
It also takes heart to finis… Read More
“Act Until Echo” – M.J. DeMarco, Unscripted
Action until it yields result. A powerful thought which upon feeling I felt many pieces click together. A sort of missing piece… Read More
What is wrong?
Is anything wrong?
If anything is not wrong, why not just enjoy the Tao? Tao means road.
Last night I could not sleep, because I had taken rather long nap that evening. My mi… Read More
With philosophy there comes responsibility to live it.
Wisdom is knowledge in action.
Sometimes the distance in between knowledge and action is long, because we have internal resistance to… Read More
Life hasn’t remained stagnant hasn’t yet?
Because of the nature of life itself as conscious beings our greatest purpose comes from learning.
Real learning does not happen with t… Read More
Dharma is the way thing are and part of that is your present and potential contribution to the reality.
To understand dharma, is to understand life. Can this be even possible? As far as I u… Read More
Yesterday I started listening the David Goggins’ Book Can’t Hurt Me as I wrote in Owning Myself (What is Your Bad Hand? / David Goggins Challenge #1).
Anything that was holding… Read More
Can’t Hurt Me by David GogginsI started reading Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins today. My friend has been talking about the book for at least six months. I’ve seen some Davi… Read More
As a collective entity if we look how we humans treat life, question then becomes to me why would we feel so entitled to our future and life?
If life is what we desire, then we should act a… Read More
Where Wikipedia starts with “There is no single-word translation for dharma in Western languages”, I’ll just use one definition in this blog for dharma: nature of re… Read More
Outcomes. Processes. Identity. These three layers are described in James Clear book Atomic Habits in terms of lasting change. Changes that start from identity are the lasting changes, where… Read More
Stop.
Sit.
Breathe. Breathe in. Breathe out.
Listen to your body, what it is telling you?
Listen to your mind.
Observe and let go: you are not your thoughts or your sensations.
Do not fight… Read More
Our experience of life is where are attention is.
What could you be doing instead of judging, worrying or complaining?
You could be grateful.
You could be joyous.
You could be creative.
Mos… Read More
Ability to think and not act on impulse is one great feat that most of us humans are capable of.
Being able to do, does not that we are doing it all the time and in all circumstances.
Think… Read More
Fear of death is hard coded into us.
As representatives of lives we have survived and continue on.
You have something to give. What parts of it you can give today?
Giving is a form of love… Read More
Life is about making better decisions.
Learning decision making is life transforming experience. It’s in all life decisions, from the foods you eat to the activities you do.
Decisions… Read More
Simplest and most satisfying definition for service is in Cambridge Dictionary as “provision of a public need.”
Essentially the idea of service is to understand what people need… Read More
Input is the work you do. You should do work every day to make greatest contribution (read Tiny Action Towards the Greatest Contribution).
You should design your days therefore action orien… Read More
Taking action and making yourself to move towards your purpose is more important than the results of your actions.
Bhagavad Gita says this about energy: it must be first changed from passiv… Read More
Nature of life is upward rhythm.
Nature of rhythm is space.
Nature of space is change.
Nature of change is being.
Change is absurd, how can any thing change if there can be only a moment?… Read More
Buddha taught us four noble truths. That there is suffering, what is the cause, that there is a way to stop it and the actual way.
Buddha also advised not to take this advise at a face valu… Read More
Everything starts somewhere. Where would you like to go? What would you like have to have?
Have you considered that your all actions are connected? All that you do either nourishes or starv… Read More
Mature men and women are givers. Immature people are takers.
Mature people seek to give value, where as immature people are looking what to take and gain.
For men, it is difference be… Read More
Blessing bestowed,
Life to be enjoyed,
Within the limits issued,
How long until you are bored?
Cast a blessing, cast a light,
What remains in the other side?
Shadow, shadow of a man,
What… Read More
Name connects and constructs meaning.
We recognize, understand and learn through names.
Names of the places. Names of people. Names of things.
We build meaning narrative through names.
Our… Read More
(Pyramid of Greatness, Janne Piiroinen)
Where is the greatness but in you?
Life as an experience is miracle if we look at the odds.
Then at our present we may not feel that way. Feeling cert… Read More
Definition of rich is literally and simply that of do you work for the money or does the money work for you. Being rich isn’t defined by the amount of money you have, but by the way t… Read More
When life goes well, let it be that way.
Change is such a buzzword. Change happens all the time. If you think about it in our experiences we tend to think change either as a) good b) bad.
D… Read More
For what you value, you must sacrifice.
I’ve made changes in my values in the past six months. Due to this decision I begin to experience the price, and the sacrifice in my social lif… Read More
Job.
Job won’t solve your financial problems.
Robert Kiyosaki defined job as acronym for “just over broke.”
In the same way there are many other problems in your lif… Read More
I heard this cliche “Do what you love, and you’ll never work another day in your life.”
And then I began to think: Work is the ability to get the desired results.
Why not… Read More
What do you think when the word Warrior appears to you?
For Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, it is men such as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King jr.
Not quite what you had in mind? P… Read More
Asset is something that brings you regularly income.
Investment is something which returns you more cash than the invested cash.
What would happen in your life if you found every month to i… Read More
Whatever is right, whatever is wrong. Your life is what it is. Make the best out of the reality that is.
You live only once, make that count.
You are create value with your conscious choices… Read More
We go through all ranges of emotional states of being in the present moment. Present is all there is. All the joy all the suffering of life: present.
Your life is where your attention is.
B… Read More
Words Choose Yourself, appeared in my mind a few days ago when I was brushing my teeth. For the past few that years I’ve been aware of James Altucher, I’ve somewhat have had def… Read More
Live your story every day. There is always an opportunity to work towards what you want to be if you choose so.
Remember what you do now, determines your future present moments. What your p… Read More
What about ourselves then. As humans we are going through change all the time. When we are good enough? In eastern philosophy there is thought that when you accept yourself and your life ri… Read More
As I stopped today to contemplate, I realized I live very much in the present and my days are filled with things I’ve chosen to do. This hasn’t been always so. Even today, yest… Read More
Our beliefs are not necessarily based on facts or understanding, which is problematic for our and the sake of others. What are your beliefs based on?
Most of how and what we do in the world… Read More
The more I think about it, the more convinced I am about the necessity for meaning in our lives.
Meaning given by others is ever fading and does not feel meaningful.
Meaning understood by o… Read More
Stephen Covey in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People taughts as one habit the ability to think from desired outcome.
The ability to think from desired outcome is a process of identif… Read More
How do you know you are successful without any metric, a goal?
Goals matter, because they put us to think. We need two kinds of goals: goals that push for incremental improvement as w… Read More
There are some unskillful words in business, productivity and self-help books. I.e. uncomfort zone is such word. I’ve been using it, but to stop and contemplate it’s not really… Read More
We have the ability to look forward, just as much we have the ability to look back or be present in the moment. Contentment of life depends quite a bit how much attention we fix on any of t… Read More
Only Doing furthers the progress of the task. This is easy to say, hard to understand in the way that it translates as immediate action.
One of the best leadership questions after a decisio… Read More
Being present and joyful is within conscious control. We can choose where to focus our attention and how. Over the long run this choice of attention becomes our emotional habit and life.
&l… Read More
Have you heard the adage that you are the average of five people you spend most time with?
Aren’t you with yourself first and foremost, so shouldn’t you include yourself there… Read More
Mind has a tendency to construct a model of reality, which is largely just a crude representation of reality at it’s best. It’s this reality that we are all living in. We are li… Read More
We human beings are social animals. We simply cannot survive for long just by ourselves.
Yet the belonging and the other side of the belonging which is being alone is big part of our lives… Read More
Let the world be, focus on what you can do in the moment to practice the virtues:
Courage
Love, compassion, kindness, forgiveness…
Truth
What could you do today to practice virt… Read More
By listening here I mean just that listening if there is something to learn. Listening is different from taking action based on what you learned. Taking action based on impulse is animal beh… Read More
As human beings, we are both similar and different. Belonging is our basic need, so is being different, unique, ourselves! When both of these needs are being fulfilled, we can start to make… Read More
If you are facing adversity in life, think of it as a training regimen ordered by life just for you.
Adversity feels like adversity as long as you remain weaker than the challenge. Once you… Read More
Are you what you do, or do you do something because of what you are?
These are questions what I keep about and returning to.
In part identify with what we do.
In part we do, because we have… Read More
End results are enticing. A lot of money, girlfriend, beauty, winning… Why is it we are trapped by the end results even though nothing is end results, nothing is permanent.
If nothin… Read More
What happens to you, your circumstances they can either obstruct you or then you can accept them and work with them.
On 2014 I was living and studying in Porvoo, quite distant city from whe… Read More
Today as I was packing my stuff for the move. I finally got to my lifeboard, a very deal construction of post-its and such that I try to keep there to remind me of that which is really impo… Read More
Accumulative advantage comes through small actions each day. What are the virtues that you would like to one day posses?
How could you train that virtue everyday?
It’s through the dai… Read More
Pursuit of happiness.
Wanting a good life.
Wellbeing.
How do we define these concepts and when do we know we have achieved them?
The more our own understanding grows, the less we are certai… Read More
Time is human concept, that there are sequences of time. We cannot time travel, we can attempt to remember based on our sense of reality how things were.
Crazy thing about this concept of t… Read More
Man like a wave,
Coming and going away,
She’s an island,
Mostly so distant.
Once they got near,
During a day so clear.
They met during with one gush,
Then it was all over like a flus… Read More
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky enlightened the world with their book “Thinking Fast and Slow” which explores the common human errors that arise from heuristics and biases.
Fas… Read More
Did you know that you are not your feelings? You are not what you feel. You are observer of those feelings. So whatever happens, whatever you feel, you are not your feelings. You feel and t… Read More
Midsummer is wonderful time to stop for a moment and contemplate on what matters most in the world. I checked how I am faring with my goals and pondered if I need to drop some or pick new m… Read More
I just realized fears are beliefs. And with beliefs about something you can think of as table with legs. The more beliefs about something means, the more legs the table has. The more you st… Read More
Interesting and great things in life call for action, also known as work and love of that work. It’s everything from what we do, to who with we do.
Why to love?
Love is life itself, a… Read More
Mostly about getting “something else” than what we have now, comes from doing things differently. Most likely we would like to do things in wiser manner.
To do things in smarter… Read More
There is power in focus and focus requires few things, less things.
We should exercise the power of saying yes in clear state of mind. Then keep the few things that we have decided to work… Read More
Joy is not very permanent thing as is not happiness either. Actually closest thing to a permanent it’s when we accept our fate and learn to be happy with it.
From my past suffering I… Read More
This morning this thought hit me among many others: what does the way our days start, tell about ourselves.
If there is need to hurry right in the morning, is it a healthy signal? On the ot… Read More
In life what we do and use, we get to keep and strengthen. What we do not use, we forget, it falls into the category of entropy.
At a time, our focus is in one thing. Through the day we can… Read More
Batch the similar tasks to a greater slots.
Chunk the difficult tasks into easier tasks.
Sounds simple, yet to masterfully do this through the day is what shows at the end of the day as pro… Read More
Happiness is an attitude to respond to the joys and sorrows of life. We can choose how we respond and happiness therefore is a conscious decision.
Happiness is the habit and you can choose… Read More
We all have our unique quirks, goals and wants. Our life becomes the things we choose to pay attention to. However, we do not need to be limited by just these things: we can synergize with… Read More
Success for each of us differs, we all have to have our own definition what success contains. However, there are goals which can be seen as either completed or not. These smaller goals are… Read More
What is the most important thing to you? When you’ve determined this, does your daily routine follow that up?
The most important things should be done in that order.
With this argumen… Read More
Present moment is continuously streaming opportunity to decide and act on wiser decisions.
You can direct your attention that which is right with the world. Or then you can decide to focus… Read More
In life there are almost no things that are absolutely good or bad it always depends on the context. Good can turn into bad where bad can turn into good.
The more clearly we know what we wa… Read More
I pondered why I am hesitating in some areas of life. In life I’ve followed the advice Jari Sarasvuo gave during Trainers’ House Growth Academy about prioritization: If it&rsquo… Read More
Even the best of intentions can do harm. Altruistic giver who gives always first away from even what little they have with all their energy and might will not end up serving any sustainable… Read More
When you would like to do something, but you do not. What is your excuse? What does your inner dialogue say?
I’ve found that by writing down the things that I want to do and then by d… Read More
Observe yourself how do you react to the unpleasant or surprising events. Then ask yourself, does this further what I want to see in life?
I find a lot of learning and relief in this exerc… Read More
Production under time pressure is what matters.
What can you produce in 5 seconds?
What can you produce in 5 minutes?
What can you produce in 15 minutes?
These are thoughts to contemplate… Read More
There is over 2500 books published each day. How many you are reading? Mostly likely none or one.
So we do not have to be geniuses, that there is more quality content being produced than an… Read More
It’s fascinating thought that instead of growing old, one could grow to be young. Not in physical, but in mental sense. To learn to acknowledge the imperfections of oneself, and life… Read More
Why to change? Life needs to change in order to stay relevant, alive.
Let’s take living fossils as an example: they are either very efficient at what they do or their ability to adapt… Read More
Ignorance rises every morning when we wake up.
Therefore to we must start our inner work in the morning to be mindful about this ignorance. Simplest way to become mindful about the ignoranc… Read More
Happiness sounds good and it’s part of the story of the many. The stories what happiness is and how it can be achieved vary a lot.
“Perhaps happiness is synchronising one&rsquo… Read More
Focus is magic, for that which we focus on grows stronger.
I.e. if you focus on value, you are more likely to create some value as well.
If you focus to the irrelevant, then you are likely… Read More
Solution orientation is often heard, less practiced.
Masterful way to practice solutions orientation would mean ability to produce three possible solutions to any given situation and then g… Read More
Out of everything that happens to us during life, attitude is what defines our life experience in all situations. Consciously choosing a mental attitude is a sort of pre-empting to whatever… Read More
Past is past, we should accept that and move on.
Future has yet to come, we shouldn’t worry about it too much.
What we are left with is the present. Using the present moment in smart… Read More
The longer I’ve lived, the more I’ve realized how important it is to strive for imperfection. What is even more curious, as I strive for imperfection this can be misinterpreted… Read More
Power of perspectives is so powerful, you can literally turn anything upside down and build upon the momentum. This applies in good and in bad. Usually people would rather have more of the… Read More
Resistance might mean resistance to change. However, the more we feel resistance the more potential we have to grow. It does not have to be in a leap, although it could be.
It’s only… Read More
To get somewhere, we must get started.
Where do you start, if you do not have the feeling to started? Would you begin by doing and finding the feeling, or would you try to set the feeling f… Read More
You are a force, like a storm.
For you get everything done in time,
Do not focus on what others whine,
Instead let the successes chime,
And all the good find!
To change the world, we just… Read More
Sometimes they say that the smartest people feel the suffering.
Well what is smart anyway? Smarts should be the ability to come up with working solutions.
In order to solve something we sho… Read More