The spiral growth systems blog

Breaking through people’s barriers to change

Does it ever feel like some of the people in your life are committed to avoiding change at all costs? Resistance is futile But thanks to the jolly old human protection mechanisms of cognitive...

How to be a scientist of success

How to adopt a scientist’s mindset to transform failure into fuel for personal and professional breakthroughs. I want you to imagine yourself in a science lab, just for a moment, where having a...

How to regenerate the flow in your business and life like an octopus

How connecting to your inner wisdom helps you regenerate abundance, creativity, and relationships in every area of your life, just like an octopus regenerates its limbs. Have you ever noticed how...

How to Harness Creative Rage

Anger and rage have the potential to be destructive forces inside us. They can cloud your judgment and lead to you insulting others or even becoming violent toward them. Rage can pump up your ego to...

How Anger is Like Gasoline

In my last post, I talked about some of the most difficult emotions of all – anger and rage. We’re taught that processing anger involves closing doors. For example, if you have a dictator for a...

Can Anger and Rage Actually be Helpful?

What is the hardest emotion for you to work with? For many of us, anger and rage are the most difficult emotions to process, and if you allow them to get the best of you, they can thwart change. ...

How to Activate Surrender and Choice Together

Imagine that a mile from you lies a magical kingdom of all your desires and purest intentions, but between you and the kingdom, there’s a big pool of surrender. If you try to avoid the pool, you’ll...

How to Integrate Surrender with Action

We’ve all been taught that achieving any goal involves plenty of action, but action that’s just for the sake of it can actually move against the grain of your calling. And yet, it’s precisely what I...

What the Future Needs You to Do Now, in the Present Moment

In my previous post, I shared with you the metaphor of Herbert and Sally as the embodiments of what’s perceived to be positive and negative thinking. I explained that neither serves you and that it...