

The Needs of Our Wants
I went to the grocery store yesterday and bought vegetables, meat, spices, oil, and rice, and we'll have ourselves a nice Sunday dinner tomorrow night. I’d like to propose that there is a lesson here. Everything you want, requires what it needs. Every recipe you wish to make requires the proper ingredients. Additionally it requires time, labor and tools, and some basic knowledge and skills. Similarly, everything you wish to create or accomplish also has required ‘ingredients
Jacob De Arman


Two Steps to Change the World
If you ask most people how to change the world they will say some variation of "start by changing yourself," or something like that, but they never speak to what you do afterwards. To me, there are two parts of changing the world, self-mastery, and service. We can't avoid influencing other people, no matter how much we would prefer to just work on ourselves first. Whether you like it or not you do influence other people just by living your life. So how do make sure our influe
Jacob De Arman


Learn From It
Here's a question you may not consider very often: How can you learn the most from your life experiences? Life is full of principles and lessons that everyone seems to learn at their own pace. Some learn sooner, others take much longer to learn the same thing. But what if you could always learn the lessons life has for you without having to go through similar challenges again and again before you get the message? Whether it's the things that happen to you, or mistakes that yo
Jacob De Arman
