Tag: memes

self-esteem, identity

Don’t Volunteer for a Lobotomy

Every time you apply a label to yourself, you incrementally lower your IQ.  Because once you brand yourself with a label – you have created an identity for yourself.  Once you create an identity for yourself – it’s human nature to instinctively, impulsively, and unconsciously defend that identity.
organized religion

Finding a Cure for Religion

This is a continuing series of posts breaking down the six most important categories of core beliefs you develop in life.  I believe these areas are instrumental in terms of the self-esteem you develop and how happy and successful you ultimately become.  So far we have looked at the areas of: Money/Success Marriage/Relationships Sex/Sexuality Pt. 1 Sex/Sexuality Pt. 2 Last post was part one about God/Religion, exploring religious memes that could cause you to self-sabotage your success.  This post we’ll finish that list and look at how you can counter-program against negative memes.  And some ways to create positive, empowering beliefs moving forward.
organized religion

Hope, Dope, and a Dead Pope

It was spring, 2005 and I was sitting in a coffeeshop in Amsterdam toking up some sinsemilla, while the TV on the wall played images of people mourning the death of Pope John Paul II.  Maybe it was the dope, but I was profoundly melancholy, thinking that like so many before him, the Pope was a very spiritual, caring and well-meaning human being – who would leave a legacy of poverty, ignorance, and despair for his followers.
sex

Crazy, Dysfunctional Beliefs about Sex

Were sex and nudity taboo subjects in your home growing up?  Were you taught “conventional” beliefs like boys play with trucks and become doctors and girls play with dolls and become nurses?  Was masturbation an unmentionable topic?  Did you enter puberty and adolescence completely unprepared for the raging hormones and emotions you had to experience?  You were probably a mess of hang-ups and dysfunctional sexual beliefs before you ever had your first sexual experience.
marriage

Toxic Relationships Come from Toxic Beliefs

We’re digging deeper into your core foundational beliefs about the world around us and how you fit into it.  You developed core foundational beliefs about the world around you and how you fit into it.  I gave you a list of six categories that are the most influential in terms of the self-esteem you develop and how happy and successful you ultimately become.  Let’s review them again:
money

Blowing Up Bad Beliefs about Money & Success

Hopefully by now you realize that the majority of all the programming you’re receiving daily is designed to keep you ignorant, sick, needy, victimized, lonely, and/or broke.  The key to creating a new you – one that you actually like – is identifying the limiting beliefs you created from that programming and replacing them with empowering ones. 
marketers

The Real Matrix

As Gary Vaynerchuk famously said, “Marketers fuck up everything.”  That’s just what we do.  (Yes, I am a marketer and include myself in this group.)  We ruined radio and television, we ruined Internet search, we ruined email and texting, and now we’re ruining podcasts and social media.  (And if we can’t end the affliction of robocalls, we’ve ruined cell phones too.) 
datasphere

How Your Fears are Weaponized Against You

Okay, by now you should have read the post about how the Datasphere makes you love to hate rich people, and the one about how it can cause you to stay broke.  The Datasphere has accelerated the process of spreading memes to a speed and efficiency never seen before in human history.   You can certainly be forgiven if you are waging a war between the dreams, goals, and desires you have in your conscious mind, versus the limiting beliefs, fears, and self-sabotage programming in your subconscious mind.  Now you have self-awareness of that inner war, which greatly tilts the war in your favor.  But it’s no time to let up…