(4th in a Series) How your taking care of your “response-ability”—your ability to choose your own responses—increases your personal power and expands your influence.
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Are You Acting on Life or Is Life Acting on You?
(3rd in a Series) How to focus your energy where you can be most effective, rather than wasting it on things that you cannot make any difference to.
One Moment at a Time
(2nd in a Series) Here is a way of looking at even the really big challenges that breaks them down to a manageable size.
Out-Growing Consumerism 5: What We Must Do
Self-determination is the ability to re-parent ourselves: to learn new ways of being that make it easier for us to out-grow consumerism and all the forms of separation and alienation from each other and from nature that have befallen us.
Out-Growing Consumerism 4: School, Screens, and Our Kids
What too many children learn at school is not to take risks and not trust their own thinking. When digital data-harvesting enters the mix, it becomes the perfect recipe for producing compliant consumers.
Out-Growing Consumerism 3: A Self-determined Life
If you choose to keep growing as an adult, you’ll become increasingly self-actualized and self-reliant, and less dependent on corporate providers. This is very BAD NEWS for the growth economy, which is why no profit-focused corporation will ever fund government policies to encourage the public to behave like this.
Out-Growing Consumerism 2: An Act of Subversion
Better questions lead to more informed choices, enabling you to live a life designed by you rather than one that’s handed to you as a member of the consumer culture.
Out-Growing Consumerism 1: What Should Never Have Been For Sale
Having monetized everything else, in order to keep growing the consumer economy now needs to monetize the space inside your head.
Growing Up – For Adults
You don’t have to live a life and think thoughts that are just handed to you. You can continue growing indefinitely, crafting your own worldview and life-experiences, in an ongoing process of consciously “parenting yourself.”