A life around your design should be about you. It means letting go of what ideas of what you should be doing and how you should be living. This is by no means a selfish act. Living a life genuine to you is also the best value you can offer to others. Are there challenges…
Conflict Disorder
Let’s make no mistake about it. The inability to process, let alone integrate, contradictory perspectives, is a profound mental and societal disorder. However, this is a disorder that isn’t classified as such. The immaturity in dealing with conflicting views is a blindspot in the fabric of our reality. If we were to classify failure to…
It Takes One to Know One
It takes one to know one. Eternal wisdom I was in a cafe today listening to a group behind me gossiping about, reacting to and judging various people in their lives, as well as social figures. Some funny stuff. Some ugly stuff. But one thing was clear — they were simply, actually just describing themselves….
What Makes a Perspective Toxic?
As I grow, I’ve become more sensitive to toxic perspectives. What defines a toxic perspective? Objectification of a person, place, or thing. Considering others as fundamentally different from us. Simply put, recognizing toxicity involves engaging the Golden Rule. How do toxic perspectives represent themselves in your life? Do you see others as inferior or superior…
Work Ethic vs Workaholic
A strong work ethic, few would deny, is a trait we should all cultivate. To achieve anything of value, and to be of value to others, we must own a healthy, strong, consistent commitment to do what it takes to accomplish what we set out to. One could debate what healthy work should look like…
Snap Judgments Block Our Clarity
“Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” John 8:7 — words of Jesus Christ Various wisdom traditions point to judgment of our fellow man or woman as the greatest impediment to Truth. On the same token, we still judge each other…sometimes unabashedly, sometimes unrelentingly….
Simplicity is Scary
Each of us, on some level, connects with simplicity. Still we get caught in tangled opinions, drama, words, labels, data, and stuff. If simplicity is so great, why do we over-complicate things? I’d say it’s cause simplicity is scary to us. Simplicity makes clear who we really are. Who we really are. Our True Nature….
Our Institutions Need to Grow Up
It doesn’t take more than a few minutes of browsing through today’s top stories to realize human conflict issues as so very prominent, and so very ugly. Within political institutions…and between them. Within nations…and between them. On a small scale… and a global scale. Let’s face it. Our most elite education, corporate, and government institutions…
Frustration and Conflict
We tend to think that conflict in our lives leads to frustration. But I find we have it ass-backwards, like so many things. Frustration, or rather our propensity for frustration, is actually is the precursor of the conflict we experience in our lives. To the degree we are able to manage our tendency to get…
No Prerequisites
We assume things have to be a certain way, or we need to have certain things, to be fulfilled. Beauty, age, wealth, houses, clarity, poise, happiness, relationships, wisdom, health….whatever it is. We think we need these things to fulfill our role on this planet. But I actually find such a perspective can discourage us. They…
Christian Politics
While this site is open to various beliefs and understandings, there are two central principles that (I feel) are eternal and universal. These are: 1) love our Creator with all our heart, mind, and soul (whatever we consider or call this force) and 2) love each other AS ourselves. These of course are based on…
Anapana Meditation
The principle of meditation is to stay centered within. For me, that is simply being focused of my breath through all of life. This is called “Anapana Meditation” in Buddhist terminology. It’s a very simple premise actually. When our attention is on our breath, we naturally declutch our thoughts and emotions. Slowly, of course… over…
Cultivating Routines
Cultivating life routines are so important. They ensure we are meeting our various life obligations in the process. They allow us to gradually, gracefully build healthy habits that can help us achieve the life of clarity and simplicity that we fundamentally desire…and troubleshoot where we might be going astray. Start with any aspect of your…
Barrier vs. Boundary
To maintain healthy space and integrity, most would agree we need some sort of boundary with others . Yet, at the same time, how could we ensure that we aren’t inadvertently blocking out necessary information from ourselves, and each other, in the process (i.e. we aren’t creating a barrier)? One answer is to see a…
Standing in our Enemy’s Shoes, in War
I am very fortunate to be born in a free country — a land with much free expression, dialog, and belief. As a Perspective Mapper, my job is to help us understand different points-of-views..or at least make space for different points-of-view. So as it relates to war…. What would it be like to have been…
Our 24-hour Cycle
With all our lofty goals, visions, dreams, and plans — where does the rubber actually hit the road in living a truly clear, simple, and powerful life? It’s become clear it’s simply how we spend our 24 hours each day. It’s as simple as that. What do we actually focus on during our 24 hour…
Character Building: The Irony
Each time we have to work harder and humbler than we feel we ever should — an opportunity to build character. Each time we stumble from blindspot to blindspot in our thoughts and actions — an opportunity to build character. Each time we react impulsively, falter in our commitments, or hurt another – an opportunity…
What to Decide?
Even the best of us can get stuck in our mind. The paralysis of analysis. With so many options in front of us, what to decide? Hmm… What seems to be the best, simply, is the one where we stay centered within. Ranjeeth Thunga
Focus on War and Violent Conflict
Joyful Goals, Miserable Goals
I’m currently charting the next chapter with my projects, including Clear Simple Life. Part of this is looking back at the dozens of projects I worked on over the last five years. What was miserable, and what was joyful? Whenever I pursued money, status, or metric as highest goal, it always ended ugly and empty….