Always Do Your Best & The Power of Gratitude

These two things that I read today dovetailed quite nicely together. The first is abridged and adapted from “The Four Agreements,” and it is agreement number four: “Always Do Your Best.” The second is abridged and adapted from Melodie Beattie’s book “Gratitude.” Always Do Your Best There is just one more agreement, but it’s the [...]

Anger & Anger-Management & Making New Choices

ANGER And Anger-Management Growth A huge part of breaking with the past and, in particular, with our past maladaptive patterns and conditioning, and instead learning new responses (being able to actually make new and different choices), depends on our becoming more and more aware of our own inner processes and leading a more self-examined life. [...]

The Four Agreements. The Second Agreement: Don’t Take Anything Personally

The Four Agreements The Second Agreement: Don’t Take Anything Personally I get the gist of what Ruiz is trying to communicate with his advice of “Don’t take anything personally,” and there’s certainly some wisdom to it, but unfortunately he’s trying to make an absolute out of something that likely isn’t meant to be an absolute, [...]