It’s one of the biggest clichés in self-development that it’s important to have gratitude. It’s important to be grateful. Count your blessings. Some people recommend a gratitude meditation. Write down everything you’re thankful for in your gratitude journal. And, you know, if you’re having a bad day, sometimes the last thing you want to hear […]

I love getting things done. Isn’t it great to just get things done, finished? Now today, Christmas Eve is a great day to feel that, because it is great to get things finished before Christmas, to be able to say OK, this is a natural pause in the year, Christmas to New Year’s, this end

The previous video in this conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvLqalxSp9w Got a comment from Rasa on the topic of free will, pointing out that this concept of free will can be misused, misapplied, to suggest that basically everything in our lives is our choice. We choose to be who we are. And so whatever situation we’re in, anybody

One of the oldest questions in philosophy, still endlessly renewed and yet never resolved, is the debate of free will versus fate. Do we choose what happens to us, or is it something that is done to us that is determined ahead of time, that’s something that we cannot change, and something that we just

The previous video in this conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iySMIVDym4 Got a comment from viewer Words Words referring to an earlier comment, where a viewer felt unloved and unwanted. And Words Words’s comment was that everybody wants to be wanted, but by people that we want. And what about the people that nobody wants, mentioning the “poor, disabled,

So why do I keep making these videos? It’s been 12 weeks now, a video every day, and I sometimes ask myself why. But the first reason is that I committed to doing it. I simply said that I am going to make a video every day and release it. And so just doing it

A beautiful snowfall here in Toronto and I’m thinking about a comment from a viewer on one of my other videos, who says he’s feeling depressed that he is so physically unattractive that he will always be alone and unwanted. And this comment was deleted before I was able to reply, but I hope that

It seems like whenever I do anything that makes my life better in some way, I immediately think oh, now I finally figured that out. I should have been doing that earlier. If only I had been able to make that change 10, 20 years ago. I mean, even one year ago. And that really

So I don’t know if it’s the season, Christmas season, end of the year, this sort of artificial deadline that wanting to get things in a good state by the end of the year, the feeling of coming up to the end, or maybe it’s just the new normal, but it just seems like there

As I’m working on being more effective, being able to get things done, my thought for today is about different energy levels, different gears, different speeds in which we can work. It seems like the way I’ve usually been thinking is, you know, trying to get into a good mindset, trying to get into the