Reflections of a crazy Colombian

Today’s guest post comes to you from Christy Andronicus, co-founder & Director of Success & You. In this article, Christy tells us about the nature of Ego, how to act from a place of good spirit, and the secret behind having confidence in yourself.

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Image: Derived from Karate Kick by kaibara87
Welcome to the third instalment in the Peaceful Warrior Series, a collection of articles inspired on a weekend seminar by Dan Millman. If you’re new to this series, you may want to start by reading the previous articles.
Last time I explained the Law of Balance and how to [...]

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Image: Weight Lifting by mjzitek

Impossible dreams
Do you think a professional weight lifter could lift 1,000 pounds? What about you? Do you tink you can lift 1,000 pounds? If you think the answer is no, think again.
Still think you can’t? Take a look at this video from one of my favourite characters, Jack Lalane, and [...]

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Note: If you have come here with the need to compare my original article to that of NucFluens, you’re in for a surprise. I have taken some of NucFluens improvements, and incorporated them in this post. In the near future I plan to include an archival copy of the original article (no photo, headers, [...]

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The world markets crashed recently, and we were reminded of the futility of short term thinking. A friend wrote a piece about blogging (link) Another blogger wrote on the virtue of long vs short posts . I read an interview in ‘The McKinsey Quarterly’ with Al Gore and David Bloods, founders of Generation [...]

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The human race, like many other entities, operates in cycles. Empires rise and fall. Seasons come and go. And we continue to make the same mistakes many times, over and over.
As individuals, we can rely on our memory (if we have a decent one!) to remember our mistakes and try to avoid them in the [...]

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Image: Rooted courtesy of noahg.
Yesterday I came across a blog post that related the sad story of a 76 year-old Trishaw driver in Singapore who was taunted and abused by 3 young and (obviously) immature men. (link to Youtube video)
In the last sentence of the post, the author extols us to “take a good look [...]

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This is the second part of a comment to a post from a fellow blogger. You can find his post here, and the first part to my response here. I hope you enjoy these new reflections on his essay about the dangers of overspecialisation.
- The crazy Colombian
REFLECTIVE COMMENT #2 - ON LETTERS AND THEIR HIDDEN [...]

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As some of my readers will know, I have been increasingly interested in the Buddhist traditions. Over the last 18 months, I have read a lot about this philosophy; learned about meditation; and increased my meditation practice from about 15 mins every few months, to about 1 hour every day.
Last Sunday, I was listening to [...]

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Over the last 12 months , I have been on a journey of self-exploration and disclosure. Through this journey, I’ve had some difficult times and challenging moments. I also have had people I respect tell me I lost the plot. One thing in common in both instances was that I let my emotions and my [...]

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