Fundamental Survival

This article is the second in a short series that defines the underlying thinking upon which the ideas, theories, and methods written about in this blog are based. This helps you to understand what makes the content of this blog significantly different from other blogs about self-development. This article is 625 words long and will take about 3-minutes to read.

Self-Help Offers the Wrong Solution

This article is 2000 words long and will take about 5 to 6-minutes to read. It explains how most personal problems keep reoccurring again and again and again because most solutions only work on the symptom and not the root cause. By eliminating the cause the symptoms disappear. This article could have a deeply profound […]

When It’s Okay to Quit

Due to my desire to overturn my false conviction that I ‘was’ a quitter I often ended up ignoring my intuition and as a consequence stuck with some things far longer than I ever would do if I had my time over again. The list of errors runs long and deep and they have had […]

Formulating a Better Question

Following on from “Why ‘Why?’ Often Doesn’t Help, this article takes you through a practical example of how I apply precise questioning to analyse poor thinking that causes me to feel bad or to struggl. This article is 1400 words long and will take you about 7-minutes to read.

Why “Why?” Often Doesn’t Help

This article describes the importance of asking accurate questions in order to get accurate answers that help you to solve your problems and make effective and productive progress in life. Few devices have greater power to blast away the things that block your progress in life than asking a better question. This article is 2000 words long and will take you about 10 minutes to read.

Negative and Positive Focus

I have observed that telling someone not to do something often proves insufficient to stop that behavior because the brain seems to focus on the action involved: whether or not it should or should not do something. To help the brain we need to give it something else to focus on. We have to replace […]

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