7 Steps to Resigned Death: 04-18-2026

1. First, you were a unique space, place, time, and seat of energy that you abandoned.
2. Second, you envision yourself as a mannequin, a movie screen, a whiteboard, tabula rasa, an uncarved block of wood, an unformed statue/picture, all of which can be understood as an unformed mental object, ready to be projected onto.
3. Third, you create a story by imagining this subject object (unformed mental object) as something in the past, present, and future.
4. Fourth, you argue and worry about which concepts and images put over these subject objects are true and which work against the appearances you want to present to the world.
5. Fifth, you submit to projecting one or a series of images for the sake of worldly appearances.
6. Sixth, you adjust the projections as needed to achieve the desired effects you seek from others.
7. Seventh, you devote your life to perfecting, projecting, and protecting the appearances that you desire.

ADHD Is a Chosen Defense Mechanism: 04-17-2026

1. ADHD is a self-defeating rebellion.
2. ADHD is when you rebel against authority and refuse to submit to it internally by short-circuiting long-term controls.
3. ADHD is the ultimate act of rebellion because it disconnects long-term control from short-term control and generally resists submitting to long-term control.
4. Because you have retained short-term controls, you must learn to combine long-term efforts with your short-term efforts.
5. Because you have retained short-term controls, you must learn to combine long-term planning into your moments of short-term planning.
6. Because you have retained short-term controls, you must make room for long-term actions whenever you find yourself engaged in short-term actions.
7. Because you have retained short-term controls, you must condition yourself to accept long-term planning and scheduling alongside your short-term planning and scheduling.
8. Always include some long-term with every short-term until you have reconditioned and rewired yourself to value and seek both sets of tools all the time.

Use Your Vessel Nature, Not Thinking: 04-16-2026

1. The spiritual practice of faith in God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
2. The spiritual practice of hope in God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
3. The spiritual practice of seeking God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
4. The spiritual practice of waiting on God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
5. The spiritual practice of surrendering to God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
6. The spiritual practice of showing charity to God must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.
7. The spiritual practice of accepting that there is only One Self, One God, and that you are nobody must be done with your vessel nature, not your feelings or thoughts.

How to Know: 04-15-2026

1. If you want to know, study silence.
2. If you want to know, study stillness.
3. If you want to know, study not-trying.
4. If you want to know, study non-doing.
5. If you want to know, study not-owning.
6. If you want to know, study not-claiming.
7. If you want to know, study not-knowing.
8. If you want to know, study being nobody.
9. If you want to know, study being nothing.
10. If you want to know, study non-becoming.

Stop Struggling with Thinking: 04-14-2026

1. You are an eternal sucker for the game of fighting thinking with thinking.
2. You are an eternal sucker for the game of trying to change thinking with thinking.
3. You are an eternal sucker for the game of trying to control thinking with thinking.
4. You are an eternal sucker for the game of fighting your thinking being you with your thinking being somebody else.
5. You are an eternal sucker for the game of fighting your thinking being you with your thinking being something else.
6. Thinking is never a being, a change agent, a controller, or a fighter because it has no being, power, or virtue of its own.

Seek & Find: 04-13-2026

1. You will find peace when you can sit alone and do nothing.
2. You will find yourself when you stop seeking to be somebody or something.
3. You will find the truth when you find the one God, the one Self, the one to whom all glory belongs.
4. You will find God when you seek the One Self with three parts, who is the source of all and the only one deserving of praise.
5. You will find your purpose and meaning when you find your way to share and worship the one God, the one Self, the only one deserving of glory and praise.

“Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.” —Psalm 148:13

Path of Finding Yourself: 04-12-2026

1. The path of finding yourself is littered with the bodies of who you are not.
2. The path of finding yourself is littered with the bodies of your Frankenstein monsters.
3. The path of finding yourself is littered with the bodies of fictional characters from your self-stories.
4. The path of finding yourself is the discovery that you are nobody and nothing because there is only one self.
5. The path of finding yourself is more about who you are not than who you are because who you are is nobody.
6. The path of finding yourself is the discovery that you are nobody and nothing because you exist to host, reflect, and worship the One.

Stand Up for Your Host Nature: 04-11-2026

1. Does angry, anxious, depressive, and self-story thinking drone on just to block my existence?
2. While that angry, anxious, depressive, or self-story thinking is droning on, where am I in that noise?
3. Does angry, anxious, depressive, and self-story thinking drone on just to deprive me of my time, space, place, and energy?
4. While that angry, anxious, depressive, or self-story thinking is droning on, why is my existence as a host being ignored?
5. While that angry, anxious, depressive, or self-story thinking is droning on, how are the goals and interests of my nature as a host being served?

Face Your Internal Rulers: 04-10-2026

1. Either you rule your thinking, or it rules you.
2. Why is your thinking so insistent on being in control?
3. If you cannot free yourself from your thinking, guess who is in charge?
4. Either you consider your self-stories nonsense, or they become all-important.
5. When are you going to revolt and take back your mind from thinking, self-talk, and self-stories?
6. Perhaps you should devote yourself to God’s story instead of your meaningless mess of self-stories that are incomplete, inconsistent, and impermanent?

Self-Stories Steal Your Life: 04-09-2026

1. How much of your day is spent lost in thought about your self-stories that never materialize?
2. If your self-stories are so important that they dominate your day, why don’t you record and film them?
3. If your self-stories are so important, why will you forget them tomorrow unless they caused internal conflict?
4. How much of your life is spent performing for the imaginary audiences of your self-stories no one sees or hears?
5. What if life has one crucial story that you are not aware of or serving instead of yourself?

Where Does the Time Go?: 04-08-2026

1. How much time does doubt take from your present?
2. How much time does worry take from your present?
3. How much time does insecurity take from your present?
4. How much time is spent recovering or relaxing in the present?
5. How much time does concern for correcting the past take from your present?
6. How much time does concern for appearing good in the future take from your present?
7. By now, you get the idea that much of your present time is wasted in ways that are not productive, do not fulfill your dreams, and do not serve your purpose in life. Now you know why you are where you are in life.

Science Has Been Compromised: 04-07-2026

1. Science has zero intelligence.
2. Like intelligence, science has no power of its own.
3. Science has no intelligence of its own to share with anyone.
4. Science is not a mini-god who can bestow intelligence on you.
5. Worshipping science will not increase your intelligence, but it will lower your perspective-taking abilities.
6. The only payoff for believing in science is that you can feel superior to those who do not; however, acknowledging actual scientific work (repeatable, testable) is often useful.

One Story for All: 04-06-2026

1. Wake up and work for God’s story because yours is forgotten every day.
2. There is only one story in life, and it is not yours or humanity’s; it is God’s.
3. You can work for God’s story by following His will, not your own.
4. You can be on the side of the story that explains how Christ overcame human nature, or you can be on the side of the story that explains how human nature needed to be overcome.
5. If you choose to live for Jesus’s story, you will go to Heaven and praise Him there forever. If you choose to live for your own or humanity’s story, you will go to Hell and agonizingly recite its failings there.

The Path Was Made Once: 04-05-2026

1. There exists only one path out of our human nature.
2. There are many false paths to overcoming yourself, but only one that succeeds.
3. There is only one who could and did make a path for us to overcome our human nature.
4. Many make claims while trying to steal the Kingdom of God or take it by force; in the end, they will all fail.
5. Appearances and high-sounding words are not enough to overcome yourself, but only to deceive yourself and others.

Start with Hard Work: 04-04-2026

1. Every victory began with hard work.
2. All prosperity began with hard work.
3. Every success began with hard work.
4. Every new fortune began with hard work.
5. All positive results began with hard work.
6. Every great work of art began with hard work.
7. Every new famous athlete began with hard work.
8. Every accomplishment of note began with hard work.

Beyond Pleasure: 04-03-2026

1. For those who seek pleasure, you should know that joy is beyond pleasure.
2. For those who seek pleasure, you should know that love is beyond pleasure.
3. For those who seek pleasure, you should know that joy in God is beyond pleasure.
4. For those who seek pleasure, you should know that meditating on God is beyond pleasure.
5. For those who seek pleasure, you should know that the joy we will have in Heaven is immeasurable and unfathomable.

Respond to Life With Your Best: 04-02-2026

1. The best response to life is joy in God.
2. A great response to life is gratitude for God.
3. A great response to life is gratitude for the chance to go to Heaven.
4. A great response to life is to devote your time to following the will of God.
5. A great response to life is overcoming yourself so that God might overcome you.

Use Negatives to Surrender to God: 04-01-2026

1. Negatives are an opportunity to rise.
2. Negatives are an opportunity to show character.
3. Negatives are an opportunity to exercise restraint.
4. Negatives are an opportunity to put virtue in charge.
5. Negatives are an opportunity to surrender to God’s will.
6. Negatives are an opportunity to test your resolve to follow the right path.

Now Is the Only Right Time: 03-31-2026

1. The right time to stand up for God is always now
2. The right time to stand up for the truth is always now.
3. The right time to choose good over evil is always now.
4. The right time to choose your heart over your mind is always now.
5. The right time to choose to listen to the soft inner voices over the loud thoughts is always now.

Provide While You Can: 03-30-2026

1. Provide a smile for someone’s struggles.
2. Provide a rainbow inside someone’s clouds.
3. Provide soothing words for someone’s tears.
4. Provide a word of comfort inside someone’s loss.
5. Encourage a sense of gratitude inside every place.
6. Provide a word of calm inside someone’s anger and fear.

Signal Theory of Behavior: 03-29-2026

1. Two strong signals can overcome one mighty strong signal.
2. If your response signal is stronger than the external signal, it can override it.
3. If you and your response signals are stronger than a problem’s signal, then you can overcome it.
4. If you are a stronger signal than any signal that you receive, then you maintain the option of choice.
5. If you receive a signal that is stronger than your signal and the signal of your response to it, then it will dominate.

You Do Not Exist: 03-28-2026

1. When you become mental objects (ego, self-esteem), you do not exist.
2. When you compare yourself to different mental objects (ego, self-esteem), you do not exist.
3. When you measure and rate yourself as mental objects (ego, self-esteem), you do not exist.
4. When you measure and rate others as mental objects (ego, self-esteem), you do not exist because you must first become the mental objects you wish on others.
5. When you live in a world of mental objects, you live in a dream world where no one and nothing is real, and nothing exists outside the delusions and illusions of your imagination.

For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses, The Three, or Fast-Facts: Semantics.

Best Over Worst: 03-27-2026

1. The best handle the worst.
2. The best overcame the worst.
3. The best were once the worst.
4. The best learn to help the worst.
5. The best learn to ignore the worst.
6. The best have a lot more character than the worst.
7. The best keep going when the worst have quit long ago.
8. The best have a mindset that the worst can only dream about.
9. The best have an internal drive that makes the worst look like they have no drive at all.
10. The best take failure and make it work for them, not against them, as the worst do.
11. The best have greater consistency, resilience under fatigue, attention to detail, and willingness to learn and outwork others.

Mental Objects Murder: 03-26-2026

1. Mental objects dehumanize you.
2. Mental objects reify and robotize you.
3. Mental objects objectify and ossify you.
4. Mental objects fixate, fossilize, and freeze you.
5. Mental objects calcify, characterize, concretize, and crystallize you.
6. You and others have no self composed of knowledge-things, memory-objects, mental-objects, mental-things, self-constructions, semantic-objects, thought-things, verbal-objects, or any of the other tools that the ego uses under its modern name of self-esteem.

Restrain Reactions: 03-25-2026

1. Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction.
2. Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to improve it.
3. Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to avoid conflict.
4. Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to avoid overreacting.
5. Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to avoid unnecessary risks.
6. Pause, step back, and restrain your reaction to avoid harming someone.

Games Mental Objects Play: 03-24-2026

1. Mental objects are your enemies that care about how you appear to them, not God.
2. Mental objects are your enemies that always use the same playbook: whine, blame, and damn.
3. Mental objects are your enemies that talk high and mighty and never worry about their results.
4. Mental objects are your enemies that accuse you of the wrongs they have committed and plan to commit.
5. Mental objects are your enemies that put self-righteousness and pride over ethics and doing good.
6. Mental objects are your enemies that project their evil onto you and then commit greater evil in the name of overcoming your evil.
7. Mental objects are your enemies that find your tiniest injustices to advocate for while defending and protecting their worst injustices.
8. Mental objects are your enemies that emotionally blackmail and guilt-trip you into doing what they want, even when it makes everything worse.
9. Mental objects are your enemies that preach disgrace, not reconciliation, recovery, redemption, rehabilitation, overcoming, and forgiveness.
10. Mental objects are your enemies that play the negative conscience of the world while seeking their own fame and fortune at the expense of you and everyone else.

Mental Objects Cannot Admit Error: 03-23-2026

1. Mental objects are enemies that are illogical without awareness.
2. Mental objects are enemies that are unthinking because they cannot think.
3. Mental objects are enemies that are unreasonable because they cannot reason.
4. Mental objects are enemies that are unethical because they cannot follow any ethics.
5. Mental objects are enemies that are unfair in their approaches, responses, and tactics.
6. Mental objects are enemies that cannot admit errors or mistakes because they have no conscience.
7. Mental objects are enemies that cannot learn from experience because they have no self-awareness.
8. Mental objects are enemies that are uncaring because they cannot care, meaning all appeals to emotion and empathy are ignored.
9. What is said about mental objects is true of people who base themselves and their beliefs on them.
10. When you argue with someone who exhibits the characteristics of mental objects, you waste your time on a dead person.

The Curse of Better: 03-22-2026

1. You lose your soul wanting to be better than others.
2. When you want to be better than others, you live for your ego, not God.
3. You lose your life’s meaning and purpose when you seek to be better than others.
4. You strive for human approval, not God’s, because you want to be better than others.
5. When you seek to be better than others, you also, in darkness, seek for others to be worse.

Mental Objects Are Not Intelligent: 03-21-2026

1. Stop regarding mental objects as thinking.
2. Stop regarding mental objects as judgment.
3. Stop regarding mental objects as reasoning.
4. Stop regarding mental objects as reflection.
5. Stop regarding mental objects as cogitating.
6. Stop regarding mental objects as processing.
7. Stop regarding mental objects as knowledge.
8. Stop regarding mental objects as viewpoints.
9. Stop regarding mental objects as understanding.

• For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses, The Three, or Fast-Facts: Semantics.

Stop Comparing Mental Objects: 03-20-2026

1. Stop rating mental objects.
2. Stop relating mental objects.
3. Stop balancing mental objects.
4. Stop measuring mental objects.
5. Stop comparing mental objects.
6. Stop connecting mental objects.
7. Stop contrasting mental objects.
8. Stop associating mental objects.
9. Stop splitting mental objects into opposites.

• For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses, The Three, or Fast-Facts: Semantics.

Don’t Use Mental Objects for Anything: 03-19-2026

1. Don’t use mental objects for decisions.
2. Don’t use mental objects for dreams.
3. Don’t use mental objects for drives.
4. Don’t use mental objects for goals.
5. Don’t use mental objects for laws.
6. Don’t use mental objects for plans.
7. Don’t use mental objects for pleasures.
8. Don’t use mental objects for prayers.
9. Don’t use mental objects for prizes.
10. Don’t use mental objects for rules.
11. Don’t use mental objects for seeking.
12. Don’t use mental objects for sharing.
13. Don’t use mental objects for values.
14. Don’t use mental objects for worship.

• For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses, The Three, or Fast-Facts: Semantics.

Should Men Get Married?: 03-18-2026

1. Does a woman bring help or work into your life?
2. Does a woman bring peace or war into your life?
3. Does a woman bring stress or calm into your life?
4. Does a woman bring support or criticism into your life?
5. Does a woman bring loyalty or subversion into your life?
6. Does a woman bring financial stability or debt into your life?
7. Does a woman bring family life or social media into your life?
8. Does a woman bring encouragement or discouragement into your life?
9. Does a woman bring guaranteed sex or sex withholding into your life?

Mental Objects Cause Problems: 03-17-2026

1. Mental objects have no intelligence.
2. Mental objects have no life of their own.
3. Mental objects have no power of their own.
4. Mental objects have no abilities of their own.
5. Mental objects first cause problems by leading you to rely on them to do something, then they accuse you of being stupid for failing to do what they ruined.
6. Mental objects first cause problems by leading you to rely on them to do something, then they accuse you of being stupid for failing to do what they interfered with.

• For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses, The Three, or Fast-Facts: Semantics.

Mental Objects Are the Problem: 03-16-2026

1. When your mental objects fight, you lose.
2. When you listen to mental object, you listen to stupid.
3. Stop praying for mental objects and start praying for your vessel.
4. Stop worrying about mental objects and start dealing with reality.
5. God is not going to serve your mental objects, no matter how long you pray for them.
6. God is not interested in your mental objects, no matter how much faith, hope, and charity you have for them.

• For more information on mental objects, please read Human Nature Confesses or The Three.

It Is a Temporary Gift: 03-15-2026

1. Being able to practice a skill or talent with ease is a temporary gift.
2. Being a living vessel aware of and enjoying God is a temporary gift.
3. Being able to use intelligence to create and perform is a temporary gift.
4. Whenever people compliment you for doing well, redirect it to a compliment to God for giving you a gift.
5. Whenever people praise you, refocus it to praising God by acknowledging that anything they perceived you doing that was good was done by Him through you.

Step Back to Hosting: 03-14-2026

1. Whatever the problem, step back from being it or a part of it to being aware of hosting it.
2. Whatever the problem, step back from being it or a part of it to being aware of surrendering it to God.
3. Whatever the problem, step back from trying to fix it and be aware of relying on God to take care of it.
4. Whatever the problem, step back from being it or a part of it to being aware of waiting for God to take care of it.
5. Whatever the problem, step back from being it or a part of it to being aware of hosting it, and then step back again to being aware of being aware of hosting it.

You Can Claim Nothing: 03-13-2026

1. You can claim nothing because God owns all good.
2. You can claim nothing because God owns all intelligence.
3. You can claim nothing because you are a vessel for everything.
4. You can claim nothing because God owns all energy and power.
5. You can claim nothing, because all skill and talent belong to God.
6. You can claim nothing because you are not capable of sourcing anything.
7. You can claim nothing because you are not capable of creating anything on your own.
8. You can claim nothing because your job is to reflect what is inside you, not be it.

You Own Nothing: 03-12-2026

1. You own nothing because God owns all good.
2. You own nothing because God owns all intelligence.
3. You own nothing because you are a vessel for everything.
4. You own nothing because God owns all energy and power.
5. You own nothing, because all skill and talent belong to God.
6. You own nothing because you are not capable of owning anything.
7. You own nothing because you are not capable of causing anything.
8. You own nothing because your job is to reflect what is inside you, not be it.

How to Do Good: 03-11-2026

1. For the possibility of doing good, we must first be drawn to the good by God. So pray for and wait for that.
2. When God draws us to the good, thank Him and have faith in the good to do good.
3. When God draws us to the good, have faith in His power to do what He wants, which is always good.
4. Never forget that your first inclination is stupid, and that you must overcome yourself with God’s help.
5. Never forget that only God is good and that if you are to do good, it must be done by God acting through you and not you.

Virtue Is Not Words (GS): 03-10-2026

1. Verbal ethics are no ethics at all.
2. Love exists in results, not words.
3. Charity exists in actions, not words.
4. Purpose exists in reality, never in words.
5. Faith exists in internal responses, not words.
6. Hope exists in internal responses, not words.
7. Work exists in reality, or it is words, not work.
8. Dreams must start to materialize in reality, or they remain only words.

Meaning Exists in Actions (GS): 03-09-2026

1. Meaning exists in truth, not words.
2. Meaning exists in deeds, not words.
3. Meaning exists in reality, not words.
4. Meaning exists in loyalty, not words.
5. Meaning exists in actions, not words.
6. Meaning exists in courage, not words.
7. Meaning exists in responses, not words.
8. Meaning exists in performing, not words.

You Are the Playing Field: 03-08-2026

1. You are the playing field; the game played on your turf is not you or about you.
2. You are the playing field; those who play on it treat you like a sucker, stealing your time and energy.
3. You are the playing field; the game played on your turf is not concerned with you, despite appearances.
4. You are the playing field; those who play on it deceive you into thinking it is about you, but it is about them.
5. You are the playing field; you are sacrificing your time, space, place, and energy for nothing worth anything.
6. You are the playing field; none of the characters or experiences on it exist in the real world because they are just mental objects about mental objects.

Make the Right Choice Between Two: 03-07-2026

1. If you struggle to choose between two, choose the kinder response.
2. If you struggle to choose between two, choose the more virtuous response.
3. If you struggle to choose between two, choose the one from the quieter place.
4. If you struggle to choose between two, choose the one from the most lit location.
5. If you struggle to choose between two, choose the one that helps the most people.
6. If you struggle to choose between two, do not choose the one you cannot see clearly in the open.
7. If you struggle to choose between two, do not choose the loud, forceful one over the quiet, peaceful one.

The Best Will Subdue the Worst: 03-06-2026

1. The best can handle the worst.
2. The best can overcome the worst.
3. The best are prepared for the worst.
4. The best never surrender to the worst.
5. The best are not worried about the worst.
6. The best can help the worst get back on track.

Rescuing Is Often Harming: 03-05-2026

1. Don’t rescue people when you can offer them a job or training for a job.
2. Don’t rescue people when you have the option to help them to help themselves.
3. Don’t rescue people; refer them to people who will teach them to help themselves.
4. Rescuing people often leads to dependence, discouragement, failure to try, laziness, and quitting.
5. Rescuing people often teaches them to believe in a self-fulfilling prophecy that they cannot succeed on their own because they are defective or inferior.
6. Parents must help their children to help themselves, not rescue or do for them, when their children can learn to do for themselves. This self-help training starts with simple things and gradually progresses to more complex ones.

Overcome Failures Or Lose: 03-04-2026

1. Failures hold back failures.
2. Failures do not stop those who seek the best.
3. Failures are forgotten when you win the prize.
4. Failures do not count for those who persist to the end.
5. Failures can motivate or demotivate; you decide which.
6. Failures can break you or make you, depending on your mindset.

Choice is Between Distractions & Focus: 03-03-2026

1. We blame distractions instead of taking responsibility for our focus.
2. If you are focused on minor things, you will miss the big things.
3. If you are focused on the past, then you will miss the present and future.
4. Who causes us to lose focus if not ourselves, since our focus is under our control?
5. If you fail to focus on first things first, you will miss opportunities and squander your time.
6. A good focus is to put God first, your spouse second, your children third, and your community fourth.

Control What You Can: 03-02-2026

1. You might try to control how others treat you and fail; however, you should control how you treat yourself.
2. You might try to control how others identify you and fail; however, you should control how you identify yourself.
3. You might try to control how others think of you and fail; however, you should control how you think of yourself.
4. You might try to control how others speak to you and fail; however, you should control how you speak to yourself.
5. You might try to control how others react to you and fail; however, you should control how you react to yourself and others.

Who Controls Your Mindset?: 03-01-2026

1. Nothing fails as well as a poor mindset.
2. Your mindset determines most of your life.
3. If you are not controlling your mindset, then who is?
4. The proper mindset has historically overcome every obstacle and setback.
5. The proper mindset has historically overcome every disadvantage and unfairness.

Know the Limits of Negative: 02-28-2026

1. The negative never creates the positive.
2. The negative can only spawn more negatives.
3. The negative is a useful tool, never a useful product.
4. The negative in charge will never result in the positive becoming in charge.
5. The negative has its place and use in critiques and problem-solving, but never as a goal or purpose in itself.

Reframing Can Help You Reformulate: 02-27-2026

1. Do you have disasters or tests?
2. Do you have problems or challenges?
3. Do you have hardships or new chances?
4. Do you have disadvantages or opportunities?
5. Do you have unfairness or new hope and courage?
6. Do you have obstacles or windows of opportunity?
7. Whatever they or something wants for you and what you respond with can be opposite in nature.

React Less & Win More: 02-26-2026

1. React less, pray more.
2. React less, pause more.
3. React less, forgive more.
4. React less, choose perspective-taking more.
5. You can react less when you are emotionally mature.
6. You are emotionally mature when you are responsible for your feelings, but not anyone else’s.

Discipline Is Required by All Good: 02-25-2026

Without discipline, your dreams are dust.

Without discipline, your virtues are verbals.

Without discipline, your plans and purposes are pathetic.

Without discipline, your life will be one mess after another.

Without discipline, your good intentions are good for nothing.

Patience Is Required for Excellence: 02-24-2026

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” —Leo Tolstoy

1. Patience has a strong friend: perseverance.
2. Patience is about waiting in the right manner.
3. Patience is a virtue because it is an act of waiting.
4. Patience is a power because it waits for the real power.
5. Patience is allowing the ingredients to cure and mature.

The Pause That Refreshes: 02-23-2026

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” —Victor Frankl, (debated, but in tune with his ideas)

1. Pause before thinking.
2. Pause before speaking.
3. Pause before answering.
4. Pause before taking action.
5. To pause is to wait, to wait is to honor God (the source), to honor God is to honor yourself.
6. Waiting is the central characteristic of a well-functioning vessel, and pausing is an act of waiting.

Facing Fears Builds Strength: 02-22-2026

1. Facing fears builds courage.
2. Facing fears builds confidence.
3. Facing fears builds compassion.
4. Facing fears builds competence.
5. Facing fears builds consciousness.

5TP From Idealist to Cynic: 02-21-2026

A pessimist is what an optimist calls a realist.” —Ashley Williams, a character from the video game Mass Effect.

1. Thesis: Idealist/Utopian/Visionary/Dreamer. Believes in perfect and ideal forms. Sees mostly or only the good potential and positive outcomes.
2. Thesis-Incorporating-Antithesis: Optimist/Hopeful Meliorist/Encourager. Mostly positive, believes things can and likely will improve, but realistically admits some flaws and obstacles will occur.
3. Synthesis: Realist/Neutralist/Balancer/Observer. Sees both sides equally, neither strongly affirms nor denies improvement or perfection, focuses with low valence (acceptance, bare attention, cognitive distancing, defusion, detachment, equanimous observation, objectivity, stoicism).
4. Antithesis-Incorporating-Thesis: Pessimist/Cautious Skeptic/Cautioner. Mostly negative, expects things to stay difficult or worsen, but grudgingly admits that some good elements or small wins can occur.
5. Antithesis: Cynic/Nihilist/Defeatist/Detractor. All-negative, believes perfection is impossible, people and society are fundamentally flawed and corrupt; therefore, no real progress is possible.

• For more information on the Five Thinking Positions (5TP), please read Discovery Demands 5TP.

Freewill Is a Delusion: 02-20-2026

1. Freewill is a contradiction in terms.
2. Will is bound, or it is not will.
3. Will is not free, or it is not will.
4. Will is commitment, not debate.
5. Will is governed by whatever nature it is given to.
6. Before choice comes confusion.
7. Clarity provides choice.
8. Choice binds, or it is not choice.
9. Choice is not free, or it is not choice.

Calm Mind Works Best: 02-19-2026

1. A stormy mind is an erratic mind.
2. Only a calm mind can think clearly.
3. Only a calm mind can think accurately.
4. Only a calm mind can view other perspectives fairly.
5. Only a calm mind can hold competing thoughts at the same time without prejudice.

Alone You Can Share the Most: 02-18-2026

1. God is one.
2. The loner is the stronger.
3. All great artists worked alone.
4. Being alone is a gift few can bear.
5. The higher you rise, the fewer there are.
6. We are all singular and alone at birth and death.
7. If you can stand alone, you can stand for the one: God.
8. A wise man is never more alone than with a crowd of people.

Dancing Is Required: 02-17-2026

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” —Nietzsche

1. If you don’t dance internally, you don’t live internally.
2. You cannot dance with “thou shalt,” and you must dance.
3. David danced with all his might to the Lord in praise and gratitude.
4. Dancing must be ecstatic, free, and playful because it is an expression of life.
5. Dancing tunes you into energy vibrations and helps you surrender to them in all areas of your life.

That Too Is a Gift: 02-16-2026

1. Repeat “That too is a gift” when you perform well.
2. Repeat “That too is a gift” when you find inner peace.
3. Repeat “That too is a gift” when you have done an act of charity.
4. Repeat “That too is a gift” because non-doing (Wu Wei) is a fact.
5. Repeat “That too is a gift” when you are moving in the right direction.
6. Repeat “That too is a gift” until you run out of claims for doing something and the false pride that entails.
7. Repeat “That too is a gift” while you deny the chain of your claims all the way back to the actual doer, God.

Thou Shalt Do Cannot Do: 02-15-2026

1. A people that cannot dance to music is worthless.
2. You can’t sing using “Thou shalt.”
3. You can’t dance using “Thou shalt.”
4. You can’t paint art using “Thou shalt.”
5. You can’t play music using “Thou shalt.”
6. You can only act with thou must as energy, not as thinking.

Thou Shalt Is Thou Won’t: 02-14-2026

1. “Thou shalt” is the eternal enemy because you can never do it.
2. Thou shalt, but thou cannot.
3. Thou shalt, but trying to is sin and failing.
4. Thou shalt, but claiming to is sin and lying.
5. Thou shalt, but appearing to is sin and deceiving.
6. Thou shalt, but pretending to is sin and dishonest.
7. Thou shalt, but becoming it is sin, lying, and stealing.

Stop Your Working on Yourself: 02-13-2026

1. Stop trying to run your heart and failing; turn to God to run your heart.
2. Stop trying to run your soul and failing; turn to God to run your soul.
3. Stop trying to run your mind and failing; turn to God to run your mind.
4. Stop trying to run your feelings and failing; turn to God to run your feelings.
5. Stop trying to run your intentions and failing; turn to God to run your intentions.
6. Stop trying to run your relationships and failing; turn to God to run your relationships.

“Must” Can Help or Harm: 02-12-2026

1. Must can do.
2. A must can defeat a try.
3. A must can defeat a wish.
4. A must can defeat a want.
5. A must can defeat a should.
6. A must can defeat a lazy impulse.
7. A must can also cause negative stress if you have a must for something you cannot do because you do not have or did not get the authority and power you need to do it.

Who Is a Warrior?: 02-11-2026

1. A warrior is reliable unto death.
2. A warrior does not know how to quit.
3. A warrior persists even when it is over.
4. A warrior who would rather die than surrender.
5. A warrior keeps going even when it is impossible.

The Path Must Be Chosen: 02-10-2026

1. Insight and inspiration do not come when you are choosing laziness over work.
2. Insight and inspiration do not come when you are choosing pride over surrender.
3. Insight and inspiration do not come when you choose to avoid and escape rather than face and overcome.
4. Insight and inspiration do not come when you choose denial and suppression over coping and problem-solving.
5. Most claim to want the highest; few take the path of suffering to attain it.

Be True to Yourself: 02-09-2026

1. Don’t change your virtues to fit in with the virtues of a relationship, job, group, or society.
2. Don’t change your natural style to fit into the style of a relationship, job, group, or society.
3. Don’t change your vibrations to fit into the vibrations of a relationship, job, group, or society.
4. Don’t change your character to fit in with the character of a relationship, job, group, or society.
5. If you give up your integrity for a relationship, job, group, or society, you will pay hell to regain it.

Choose Work for the Best Results: 02-08-2026

1. If you don’t make the effort, don’t expect anything.
2. If you talk big without working big, you will get small.
3. If you don’t work for your dreams, your dreams won’t work for you.
4. If you don’t work longer and smarter than others, then you will envy those who do.
5. If you don’t take big risks, you don’t get big rewards. However, most big risks are not worth the price—choose wisely.

Search & Find: 02-07-2026

1. When you search for problems, you find problems.
2. When you search for solutions, you find solutions.
3. When you search for ugliness, you find ugliness.
4. When you search for beauty, you find beauty.
5. When you search for corruption, you find corruption.
6. When you search for good works, you find good works.
7. When you search for the negative, you find the negative.
8. When you search for the positive, you find the positive.
9. You decide what you search for and focus on.
10. You decide what to promote and protect.

Choose Success Or Failure: 02-06-2026

1. If you believe in failure, you will find problems.
2. If you believe in success, you will find solutions.
3. If you believe in failure, you will find excuses.
4. If you believe in success, you will find new information.
5. If you believe in failure, you will find causes, defenses, and justifications for failure.
6. If you believe in success, you will find encouragement, motivation, and new information and skills to keep you going.

Encourage Coping Statements: 02-05-2026

1. A bad experience does not make a bad life or relationship.
2. A step backward does not mean that you cannot take two steps forward next time.
3. A failure does not mean success is impossible; it only means you need to learn new information and skills.
4. Setbacks are part of progress, so if you experience one, encourage yourself to stay on the path and learn more, not quit.
5. Obstacles are often insurmountable until you ask for help, admit shortcomings, admit errors, and learn more information and higher skills.

Dreams Must Involve More: 02-04-2026

1. If your dreams are not plans, they are fantasies.
2. If your dreams don’t involve new habits, they are fantasies.
3. If your dreams do not require daily work, they are fantasies.
4. If your dreams do not cause you to learn new skills, they are fantasies.
5. If your dreams do not involve preparation, research, and study, they are fantasies.

Discomfort Must Not Stop the Good: 02-03-2026

1. If you are uncomfortable doing good, do it anyway.
2. If you are uncomfortable confronting evil, do it anyway.
3. If you are uncomfortable praying in public, do it anyway.
4. If you are uncomfortable speaking the truth, do it anyway.
5. If you are uncomfortable forgiving someone, do it anyway.
6. If you are uncomfortable showing compassion, do it anyway.
7. If you are uncomfortable professing your belief in God, do it anyway.
8. If you are uncomfortable performing an act of kindness, do it anyway.
9. If you are uncomfortable telling someone you love them, do it anyway.
10. If you are uncomfortable praying before you eat at a restaurant, do it anyway.

Some Warning Signs for Choices: 02-02-2026

1. If a choice is too easy, it’s likely wrong.
2. If a choice is difficult, chances are it’s right.
3. If a choice is too comfortable, it’s likely wrong.
4. If a choice is too hard, chances are it’s right.
5. More often than not, the safe choices are the wrong choices.
6. More often than not, the difficult choices are the right choices.
7. More often than not, the convenient choices are the wrong choices.
8. More often than not, the painful choices are the right choices.
9. More often than not, the low-risk choices are the wrong choices.
10. More often than not, the impossible or high-risk choices are the right choices.

Win with God: 02-01-2026

1. When you rely on and stay true to God when God is attacked, you win.
2. When you rely on and stay true to God in a negative situation, you win.
3. When you rely on and stay true to God, no matter the situation, you win.
4. When you rely on and stay true to God even when all desert Him, you win.
5. When you rely on and stay true to God even at the risk of your life or your family’s life, you win.

Where Is the Focus of Your Life?: 01-31-2026

1. Focus your life on what is true.
2. Focus your life on what is good.
3. Focus your life on what is eternal.
4. What is true, good, and eternal but God?
5. God is life, light, and love; therefore, focus your life on God.

Your Past Is Your Toolbox: 01-30-2026

1. Your past is a school, not a home.
2. Your past is a teacher, not a companion.
3. Your past is your workshop, not your prison.
4. Your past is a reality check, not a condemnation.
5. Your past is how you measure your behavior today.

Detachment Is a Needed Skill: 01-29-2026

1. Logic requires objectivism.
2. Judgment requires detachment.
3. Clear thinking requires calmness.
4. Reason requires freedom from emotionality.
5. Understanding requires composure and tranquility.

Overcome Obstacles: 01-28-2026

1. Overcome anger with stoicism and wisdom.
2. Overcome laziness with virtuous ambitions.
3. Overcome jealousy with acceptance, peace, and serenity.
4. Overcome ego through the surrender of all claims to know.
5. Overcome fear by gaining faith through making contact with Spirit through right contemplation, meditation, and prayer.

You Will Be Judged & Damned: 01-27-2026

1. You will be judged and damned for whatever you do, so be judged and damned for following virtue.
2. You will be judged and damned for whatever you do, so be judged and damned for standing up for God.
3. You will be judged and damned for whatever you do, so be judged and damned for standing up for freedom of belief and speech.
4. You will be judged and damned for whatever you do, so be judged and damned for standing up for the original tenets of Christianity.
5. You will be judged and damned for whatever you do, so be judged and damned for following ancient principles over modern liberties.

You Are Neither the Thinker Nor the Thoughts: 01-26-2026

1. You do not think thoughts; you host thoughts.
2. You do not create thoughts; you host thoughts.
3. You do not change thoughts; you switch to different thoughts.
4. You do not control thoughts; you switch to different thoughts.
5. You do not struggle with thoughts; you struggle with what thoughts you will focus on.
6. You do not struggle with thoughts; you struggle with what thoughts you will identify with.

All the Humans Are a Stage: 01-25-2026

1. I, the inner vessel, am where it happened, not the cause or cure.
2. I, the inner vessel, am the scene of the good or evil, not the good or evil in the scene.
3. I, the inner vessel, am the stage where thoughts play their roles, not the thoughts or their roles.
4. I, the inner vessel, am the time, space, and place in which thoughts act as if they are more than thoughts, not the creator of them.
5. I, the inner vessel, am the location where the signal is received and retransmitted because I am a transceiver, not a signal or a source.