Originally published at The Searcher Journal. You can comment here or there.

“You are your own worst enemy” is an old saw, without question. But like many of its ilk, it holds more than a grain of truth.

Nothing can mess with us more than our own mind. And here it is important to note that the mind is different from the brain in this context. The ( Read more... )

Originally published at The Searcher Journal. You can comment here or there.

We are all made up of a multitude of different parts.

I’m not talking physical parts here-I’m talking the ethereal parts that are just as, if not more, important than our physical base. We have different moods, different hopes, different fears and different attitudes. And ( Read more... )

Originally published at The Searcher Journal. You can comment here or there.

It’s no secret I can come across as quite arrogant at times.

I won’t argue the fact, and, if you ask, I’ll be the first to tell you that yes, I actually am arrogant. But only in some circumstances.

There are a number of things I was apparently born good at or at least took ( Read more... )

Originally published at How to Crush Without Being Crushed. You can comment here or there.

When exploring, there are two main things you need: a starting point and a rough idea of what you’re looking to do.

The starting point gives you somewhere to gauge how far you’ve gone. It gives you an anchor point and, in a worst case scenario, a port of sorts ( Read more... )

Like a good number of you who wander through this blog, I grew up as one of the smart kids ( Read more... )

Something is up ( Read more... )

This past Saturday was the last night for the club I've been going to for the past year or so ( Read more... )

Friday, as my head was still spinning a bit from reading through my old journal, I picked one of the three things I could have gone to and headed out to Chi Cha lounge to have dinner with enlightened77 and a bunch of people I didn't know. It was a good night, gave me the chance to practice my pitch for my How to Crush Without Being Crushed book again and ( Read more... )

It seems the month of April has been one of very sporadic posting. I guess I can attribute a lot of that to the fact that this month is the one year anniversary of my big move down here (even though that "big move" was back onto a couch I had vacated less than six months earlier). That and the fact that I'm still not quite where I want to be... not ( Read more... )

Before college, everyone knew me by my regular name, Chris. From grade school through the end of high school, there were always at least two "Chris" on the bus (counting me). At one point, there were six. My next door neighbor was a Chris ( Read more... )