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Fable: Being True to the Best of What You Are

Fable of brother and sister eagles raised with a farmer’s chickens. One likes his lot in life but the other seeks to fulfill her potential.
An integrally informed story of personal transformation. Adapted from memory from a Cherokee story teller. Read by the [...]

Growing Up With Ken Wilber

By David Satterlee
Growing up is all about existential angst. Yes, that’s where to start. Not with the spitting up, crawling, and preverbal babbling. The real issues of growing up are: What’s it all about? To be or not to be? What do you want to be when you grow up? What is the meaning of [...]

Prompt - Group Membership and Self-esteem

Individuals generally derive their identity based on the groups to which they belong. Sometimes group membership, when the group is seen negatively, causes the members to suffer low self-esteem. Consider the various groups to which you belong. What instance(s) can you relate from your life in which membership in a certain group caused you to [...]

Fake It ‘til You Make It

Political candidates and other public persons need to make the best of every opportunity to present themselves. They need to make sure that each appearance shows their best side. I have found that preparation and presentation reinforce each other. Mastery enables an air of confidence, while projecting confidence sets the stage for [...]

Does Positive Thinking Really Work?

Does Positive Thinking Really Work?
By David Satterlee
Can "positive" thinking affect your life? Our beliefs often seem to be self-confirming, and we commonly believe in self-fulfilling prophecy, a prediction that makes itself come true. Napoleon Hill wrote a best-selling book years ago called, "Think and Grow Rich," which has gained renewed interest from the public recently. [...]

Buddhist “Right Speech” as a Practical Virtue

You may know that I am writing a book about virtues. I added the Buddhist “Noble Eightfold Path” to my listing of virtues after an unproductive search for a virtue that fully embodied “delicacy of speech.” That is, the deliberate choice of words that carefully avoids damaging the fragile stem of newly-sprouted expression in others. [...]

Poem: Climbing the Spiral

Climbing the Spiral
By David Satterlee
The way I am is better than how I have ever been. I really am more satisfied with now than some past when. I’m smarter than I used to be; as smart as I know how. I don’t think one should need to [...]

A Primer on Situational Awareness

Source: Stratfor Global Intelligence – Security Weekly
Terrorism (and a great many other undesirable situations) do not erupt spontaneously, but are the end consequence and product of a series of preparatory or enabling steps. SITUATIONAL AWARENESS allows us to respond appropriately to a developing situation and may allow us to disrupt the chain of events.

Awareness requires [...]

MLM Business Building – 10 – Doing Business from Home

Self Improvement – Doing Business from Home
It just took over the house
In the Oct/Nov ’92 issue of Sunshine Horizons, Beverly Lewis tells about “one couple so committed to this business they’ve literally turned their entire house into a miniature university. As I walked through their kitchen during a visit one day, I saw a [...]

MLM Business Building – 9 – Influence and Compliance

Self Improvement – Exerting Influence and Gaining Compliance
Our predictable social responses
As “social animals” we are responsive to certain common preconceived notions and powerful trigger situations. Our reflex reactions are really very predictable. They form the necessary fabric of our society. We are taught and often disciplined to respect authority, conserve valuable resources, make friends and [...]

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