Below you will find a list of episodes from my podcast dedicated to personal and professional growth that are published on a weekly basis on various social media and that deal with a specific topic.
Their duration can vary between 5-15 minutes, with few exceptions.
Enjoy!
QUESTIONS
Questions are a special communication mode that enables us to go deeper into certain matters, to get to know ourselves and the surrounding world better, to improve our condition, to get to know the truth, to evolve, and much more.
UNIQUENESS
We are unique... perhaps not only for our own merits, but we are. We need not to "become" unique, but only discover that we already are, and work on this to turn our life into something exceptional and unrepeatable.
LEADERSHIP
Leadership belongs to whom has something to say and/or to share with others. It's not a real skill, and for sure,
it's not a task that one has been assigned either, but stems from the deep desire to pursue an ideal that can benefit as many people as possible.
CHOICES
"Choosing" is the human activity that, in terms of importance and occurrence, is perhaps second only to breathing!
Of course, the vast majority of the choices we make are commonplace and automatic, referring to simple daily routine matters... but there are also choices that will define the present and future of our lives.
SELF-ESTEEM
People usually find out they have a problem with their self-esteem when they either feel miserable about themselves, or they can't manage to pursue the personal or professional path they truly want.
And this is actually a good place... at least they understand that they're the ones who must do something about it, but there's definitely too much confusion, even among experts.
DESIRE
Although we hear a lot of talk about "dreaming" and "desiring", the truth is that we really know very little about desire: how it appears, how it impacts our lives, how it determines the course of our lives, how to use it to give a stronger meaning to our existence and much more.
STANDARDS
A "standard" is a behavioral model that people (and organizations in general) adopt more or less consciously to operate at a certain level.
Most of the time, standards are spontaneously adopted based on merely egoistic calculations.
Still, if you learn to recognize them and adapt them to your level of growth, you can immediately and drastically transform your life and business for the better.
WAR (and PEACE...)
Nobody wants war, and you see crowds marching and asking for peace... yet, there's always a war to be fought somewhere.
It's not a question of cognitive dissonance, and in fact, it's hardly a choice: it's a necessity!
EGO
We talk a lot about Ego, but mostly in a stereotyped way, and full of clichés.
Our Ego is not "bad", it doesn't have a will of its own, but it exists to carry out a critical task for us, which is to ensure our survival (and that of the species we belong to).
SELF-IMPROVEMENT
Self-Improvement should be our constant primary concern because this is what will ultimately allow us to design and achieve those goals that will add quality to our lives.
FLUFF
What we define as "fluff" has always existed, although it is easier to sell today thanks to a more evolved technology and a better knowledge of communication techniques.
In its unfoundedness, fluff acquires substance to the extent to which the receiver believes that it will fulfill a need that he has... and this is how it acquires power!
MAMMON
The way some religions, Christianity to a large extent, presented the relationship between the enjoyment of worldly and spiritual goods, sounds more like outright blackmail instead of a healthy and productive way of living these two essential aspects of our reality.
VULNERABILITY
Any business, anywhere from a one-man operation to a huge multinational, works just like any other natural organism, with its strengths and weaknesses.
The work consists in making its strengths stronger and limiting the damages that its weaknesses can create.
MACHINE & PLANTS
There are two ways that we interact with the World, and Reality as a whole.
The first way is through the Machine Paradigm, which induces us to see and treat all there is out there, people and things alike as if they were tools or Machines that are there to serve us.
The second way is through the Plant Paradigm, which makes us interact with the World and People as counterparts to serve.
CONTROL
There are two types of people: those who have Control over their lives, and those who just respond - negatively, most of the time - to events.
SELF-ESTEEM
Self-Esteem is the most important personal aspect to be taken care of and followed because its impact is what allows us to achieve what we want.
As the word suggests, Self-Esteem is an unconscious evaluation (estimation, appraisal, etc.) that we do of ourselves, allowing us to release our infinite resources and potential.
DIGNITY
The topic of Dignity is a very delicate one to deal with because everybody seems to have a very personal idea of what it is, and because it's something that deeply touches each and every one of us, it must be handled with care.
DIRECTION
We're all proceeding along a path that leads us somewhere: we have no choice about this.
We can, however, choose our path.
So, it's either of two things: we just don't care about it and we let life, the world, the events choose our path for us, taking us who knows where; or we decide to understand where we want to go and then move along that path with awareness and passion.
READY!
Change is never easy for anyone unless it is wanted and autonomously implemented.
This is why we never feel to be really ready when it becomes a necessity.
Waiting to be ready, however, is actually only a way to postpone a situation that usually gets worse over time.
Definitely NOT a very smart strategy!
TALENT
There are people that we admire because of the extraordinary things they can do, but leave us wondering "Why not me?"
We all have talents... often even more than one, but most of the time we don't really make the effort to find out what they are and/or how to develop them.