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I've always been passionate about understanding what makes great people great and applying the truths they embodied to make my little dent in the universe.

After selling my last business (Zaadz) and traveling for a bit, I decided to give myself a Ph.D. in Optimal Living with a Specialization in Greatness and Bliss.

Figured I’d get a Master’s when I’d distilled 100 of my favorite books into concise, fun, inspiring summaries. Then, on a flight from Tokyo to LA, I had one of those “Aha!/hallelujah!!” moments when I opened the SkyMall to an ad for a company that summarized business books for “busy executives.” I decided someone should do summaries of self-development books for the “busy self-actualizer” and that that someone should be me. ☺

Enter: PhilosophersNotes. (Imagine CliffsNotes. Only shorter. And cooler. And a *lot* more inspiring. ☺)

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I'm currently on sabbatical in Bali working my way through two suitcases of books while I re-wire my consciousness, create PhilosophersNotes #51-100 and teach a Philosophy class at the local yoga studio.

Pinch me. I hart my job.

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  • Close Your Ears & Dream On!

    “Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.” ~ Wallace D. Wattles fromThe Science of Being Great
  • Everyone Can Become Great

    “It is within the power of every man to become great.” ~ Wallace D. Wattles from The Science of Being Great
  • Being Helped by Hidden Hands

    Moyers: “Do you ever have this sense when you are following your bliss, as I have at moments, of being helped by hidden hands?”
  • Do You Think I Can Do That?

    “When I taught in a boy’s prep school, I used to talk to the boys who were trying to make up their minds as to what their careers were going to be. A boy would come to me and ask, “Do you think I can do this? Do you think I can do that? Do you think I can be a writer?” “Oh,” I would say, “I don’t know.
  • Sit in a Room and Read--and Read and Read!

    Moyers: “How do we know these things [how experience bliss]?”
  • Sat, Chit, Ananda

     
  • What’re Your Goals?!?

    “We are engineered as goal-seeking mechanisms. We are built that way.
  • Dehypnotize Yourself!

    “It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent, either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others, or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true.
  • The Success Instinct

    “A squirrel does not have to be taught how to gather nuts. Nor does it need to learn that it should store them for winter. A squirrel born in the spring has never experienced winter. Yet in the fall of the year it can be observed busily storing nuts to be eaten during the winter months when there will be no food to be gathered. A bird does not need to take lessons in nest-building.
  • Seneca on Pleasures & Punishments

    “So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.” ~ Seneca from
  • Seneca on Your Ideal State

    “Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him?
  • Seneca on the Importance of Focus

    “To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
  • The Bhagavad Gita on Fire & Smoke

    “It is better to perform one’s own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another. By fulfilling the obligations he is born with, a person never comes to grief.
  • The Bhagavad Gita on Living Your Dharma

    “It is better to strive in one’s own dharma than to succeed in the dharma of another. Nothing is ever lost in following one’s own dharma.
  • Strengthen Your Mind

    “Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles.
  • Rise with the Sun

    “Do you know why most people sleep so much?”“Why?”“Because they really don’t have anything else to do. Those who rise with the sun all have one thing in common.”“Insanity?”
  • The Secret of Happiness

    “Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.” ~ Robin Sharma from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari We’ll get right to the point here: WHAT DO YOU TRULY LOVE?!?
  • Robin Sharma on Blueprinting

    “All I’m saying is that to liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. You see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality.
  • Tough Economy? Invest In Yourself

    “Six hundred and seventy-two hours of inner work to profoundly improve every waking moment of the rest of your life is quite a bargain, don’t you think?
  • Wanna Get Rich? Be Persistent

    “The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune.
  • First Plan Fail? Try Another!

    “If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan w
  • Abraham Maslow Says: “Know Thyself!”

    According to Abraham Maslow, whereas the average individuals “often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are,” self-actualizing individuals have “
  • No One’s Perfect (not even you! :)

    “There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great.
  • Maslow on Growth & Safety

    Abraham Maslow said that in any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. I love that. I like to think of it this way: We wake up in the morning. Is our first act a step forward (we get up immediately; we say the mantra we committed to; whatever) or do we step back into safety (stay in bed; hit snooze; etc.)? +1 one if you stepped forward. -1 one if you stepped backward. So, after that first act/thought, you’re either at +1 or -1. Yah?
  • Abraham Maslow’s Self-Actualizer

    “Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be.
  • The (Toltec) Warrior’s Struggle

    “To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives.
  • Buddha Says: Little by Little

  • Get Tantric, Burn the Ships & Get Rich

    “A long while ago, a great warrior faced a situation which made it necessary for him to make a decision which insured his success on the battlefield. He was about to send his armies against a powerful foe, whose men outnumbered his own. He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy’s country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them.
  • Getting Rich & The Word Impossible

    “One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man’s familiarity with the word “impossible.” He knows all the rules which will not work. He knows all the things which cannot be done.
  • Abraham-Hicks on Telling a New Story

    “You have to begin to tell the story of your life as you now want it to be and discontinue the tales of how it has been or of how it is.” ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks from Money, and the Law of Attraction I love that. What story are you telling yourself? Are you *constantly* dredging up all the old hurts and wounds from a bad childhood or ended relationship or illness or any of the millions of things we can all bitch about?
  • Abraham-Hicks on The Reality of Your Life

    “People talk about the reality of their life as if it is important. And we want you to understand, it’s only the temporary indicator. Do you go to the gas station—your gas gauge is on empty—do you go to the gas station and look at your gas gauge in horror? “How did this happen? [Fun] Why, why, why did this happen to me?” Do you lay your head on the steering wheel and just sob? “Oh, look what it’s come to. [Fun] I’m finished.
  • Abraham-Hicks on Your Most Valuable Skill

    “The most valuable skill that you could ever develop is the skill of directing your thoughts toward what you want--to be adept at quickly evaluating all situations and then quickly coming to the conclusion of what you most want--and then giving your undivided attention to that.” ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks from Money, and the Law of Attraction
  • Abraham-Hicks: Do What You Love

    “There is no better way to earn money than to do the things that you love to do. Money can flow into your experience through endless avenues. It is not the choice of the craft that limits the money that flows, but only your attitude toward money.” ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks from Money, and the Law of Attraction
  • Abraham-Hicks on Your Lifetime Career

    “If we were talking to you on your first day of physical experience, we could be of great advantage to you because we would say, “Welcome to planet Earth. There is nothing you cannot be or do or have. And your work here—your lifetime career—is to seek joy.” ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks from Money, and the Law of Attraction
  • Money Problems? It’s a Shortage of Connection

    “Shortage of time is not your problem. Shortage of money is not your problem. Shortage of Connection to the Energy that creates worlds is at the heart of all sensations of shortage that you are experiencing.” ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks from Money, and the Law of Attraction
  • Sizes: You vs. Your Problems

      By: Brian Johnson, Chief Philosopher of PhilosophersNotes.com "If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!" ~ T. Harv Eker from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
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  • If You Can Dream It, It's Yours

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  • Conscious Affluence

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  • For What Were You Made?!?

      "Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty...For what task, then, were you yourself created? A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for." ~ Marcus Aurelius from Meditations Purpose. Dharma. Destiny. Calling. Mission. Whatever we choose to call it, we've all got one. And *all* the great teachers *constantly* remind us to figure out what it is and to live in integrity with it!

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