How can you know what you want from life if you never stop to ask yourself? Every morning, we wake up with an amazing opportunity. We wake up with the chance to start over. For a brief moment, we have a clean slate and nothing from the days, weeks, or months prior to this moment…
Author: Robert Van Valkenburgh
Co-Founder of Kogen Dojo of Severna Park and Taikyoku Mind & Body
Wake Up (Your Creativity)
If you want to wake up your creative voice, wake up earlier. We are all creative beings. We all have within us a deep intelligence, a guiding force that wants wants to express itself, through us, in the world. It wants to design and create. It wants to say something, to make something. It wants…
A Truthful No Vs A Dishonest Yes
No one will like you less for saying you cannot do something than they will for saying you can, but not following through. We all get overwhelmed and overloaded at some point in our lives, especially with the constant barrage of input and information we have coming at us every day in our digital age….
Forgiveness Precedes Forgiveness
Mistakes are nothing more than an opportunity for improvement. There are very few things in this world that are unforgivable if we are sincere in our attempt to do better. That said, other people may not forgive us, but, if we are honest about our error, if we admit fault, and if we try to…
Trading Our Time Up
Money is only really valuable if it can be used to buy something of greater worth than the time and effort that went into earning it. Beyond our basic needs of food, shelter, and clothing, money begins to lose its intrinsic value. Once our needs are met, what we spend our money on is more…