randori mind, control the chaos

Between the economy, the hunt for value, real value in life and the slipping level of personal values we are caught at many points for making decisions. These aren’t Earth shattering ones, those major moments when we must chose a path, but instead the insidious ones. These are the small choices that we scarcely notice [...]

The Broken Windows Theory may also be applied to address and resolve individual negative programming. We’re human and personal guilt is a powerful motivator! We’ll spend hours, even days, seeking to discover what we did wrong. We look to find and fix our broken windows, in this case our personal problems, those behaviors or aspirations that we identify as the source of a past failure. We’ll even go so far as to find a rock and make a broken window to fix, such as locking onto a thought as the reason why something didn’t happen. These generated reasons often begin with, “If I had…” or “If I hadn’t…”. The facts are that our personal windows aren’t broken; they simply need a good cleaning…