BangkuMahoni: Archive

Life on Purpose

I recently read a book called Life on Purpose: Six Passages to an Inspired Life by Dr. Brad Swift. This is a truly excellent book on how to discover your life purpose. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to gain clarity with respect to their core reason for being here. On Amazon.com this book currently has a 5-star average rating after 13 reviews, and deservedly so. I receive many books in the...

Sep 15th

New York City Trip

Erin and I are attempting to plan a trip to New York City, most likely in the second half of October. We’ve been to other east coast cities, but somehow neither of us has been to NYC yet, so we want to remedy that. We’ll likely have 3 full days in the city, plus a couple half-days on each end for travel from Las Vegas. I’d love to do a longer trip, but we don’t want to take the kids out of...

Sep 14th

Overcoming Jealousy

Overcoming jealousy has been one of my most requested topics for new articles, but in the past I’ve always declined such requests because I don’t have much personal experience in this area. I’m not prone to jealousy, so I can’t explain from personal experience how to overcome it. Nevertheless, due to the demand for such an article, I’ll risk sharing my thoughts on it anyway. In my opinion...

Sep 6th

David Brooks Interview

Today I’m happy to share an exclusive interview with David Brooks, an award-winning professional speaker and trainer who has taught more than 10,000 business professionals to speak and write clearly, concisely, and confidently. Recently David came to Las Vegas to give a presentation for Toastmasters, and I was so impressed with his content that I immediately approached him about doing an interview...

Sep 5th

PhotoReading Discount

By popular demand the PhotoReading discount is back. Learning Strategies Corporation gave me permission to once again offer you the 59% discount on their PhotoReading program. This discount is definitely temporary – the current plan is that it will expire in 3 weeks on September 18th. If you’ve wanted to learn how to dramatically increase the rate at which you absorb and process written...

Aug 28th

The Joy of Sadness

Last night a thunderstorm passed through Las Vegas. The thunder was so loud and the lightning so bright that I couldn’t sleep, so I decided to get up for a while. Around 3am I went downstairs and enjoyed a banana and a cup of herbal tea. Then I went outside and sat in the backyard watching the storm. The storm was moving in from the south, and I saw several bolts of lightning...

Aug 27th

A Better Life

Thoughts can only be formed in the present moment. And thoughts can only exert effects in the present moment. If you can grasp these two concepts, you’ll be able to discard some forms of delusional thinking and craft much more effective intentions. Here’s an example to help clarify: Suppose you like the idea of tithing 10% of your income to worthy causes. But your finances are too tight for...

Aug 22nd

How to Stop Complaining

Perhaps the most important step in quitting the habit of complaining is to disconnect the undesirable behavior from your identity. A common mistake chronic complainers make is to self-identify with the negative thoughts running through their minds. Such a person might admit, “I know I’m responsible for my thoughts, but I don’t know how to stop myself from thinking negatively so often.” That...

Aug 20th

Complaining

Complaining, like all thought patterns, is not mere observation. Complaining is a creative act. The more you complain, you more you summon your creative energies to attract something to complain about. Your complaints may seem fully justified, but realize that whenever you complain, you are placing your order for more of the same. Complaining is not merely about the past. Whenever you make a...

Aug 17th

Life Sucks, Then You Die

What if you hate your life? Or maybe you don’t quite hate it, but you’re just not happy with your current situation? Perhaps you’re depressed, bored, or apathetic. Or maybe you just don’t see the point in living at all. If you don’t see the point in living, then you’re missing the point of life entirely. The point of life is to enjoy it. Your life is your creation. It’s not something that...

Aug 16th

Achieving Peak Motivation

Several people have asked me about the origins of the polarity concept I began exploring last year. Where did it come from? How does it relate to personal growth? These ideas actually stemmed from some journal entries I wrote in 2002. At the time I was asking myself questions like these: What is the deepest source of ongoing motivation, such that if we tapped into it, we’d be as motivated...

Aug 13th

Overclock Your Audio Learning

If you want to absorb written material at a faster rate, you can learn to speedread or PhotoRead. But what if you have a lot of audio material to listen to, such as audio books or podcasts? Did you know that if you have 60 minutes of audio material to listen to, you can very easily digest the material in 30 minutes or less? And with practice you can even get it done in less than 15 minutes....

Aug 6th

Living in Las Vegas

What does Las Vegas have to do with personal development? To most people not much. But in order to answer the frequent questions I receive like “What could possibly make you want to live in a place like Las Vegas?” or “What’s it really like to live in Sin City?” I’ve decided to commit this article to explaining what it’s like to live in one of the most unusual cities on earth. Maybe you’ll find...

Aug 4th