The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion

What You’re Fighting Against The childish belief that people will treat you “fairly.” You refuse to move forward with life until the wrong you experienced is rectified. Since that rarely happens, you’re trapped.

Pillar 2: When it comes to spiritual reality, each of us is his own authority.

“What if every bad thing that’s ever happened to you—including every problem you’ve ever had—was there, in your life, to get you in touch with abilities you never knew you had? And what if there were specific procedures that led you directly to those new abilities?”

a creator has a sense of meaning that can’t be destroyed—he insists on seeing problems as driving him toward something better, something higher in himself. Far from destroying his sense of meaning, problems actually reinforce it.

Philosophy is created by intellectuals who rarely ask themselves how to apply their ideas in real life.

represented my worst fear; that I’d be seen as an inexperienced, faltering child when I wanted to be seen as an authoritative expert.

What You’re Fighting Against The illusion that you can obtain a “magical something” that will exonerate you from using the tools. This is reinforced day and night by the consumer culture that surrounds you. The illusion always leads to the same result: you quit. In success, you think the tools are no longer necessary; and in failure, you’re too dem

Pillar 2: When it comes to spiritual reality, each of us is his own authority.

What You’re Fighting Against Insecurity is a universal but badly misunderstood human trait. We think we know what’s making us insecure—our appearance, level of education, or socio-economic status. In fact, there’s something deep inside us that is the cause of all insecurity. It’s called the Shadow—the embodiment of all our negative traits—and we’re