2025-06-28 Update
- How can I build an offering that is like “groping at night for a pillow”—an easy giving that also nourishes me with ease?
2022-10-05 Update
Theme: kinder to myself
How can I balance the drive for self-improvement and helping others against unskillful clinging to desired conditions and outcomes?- How can I embody independence, peace, and freedom?
How can I share with others what I perceive may be of benefit and encourage uptake, without being a snake oil salesperson (or having the fear of being perceived as one, stop me from sharing?)- How can I use joy and play to motivate myself?
- How can I share more of myself with my family without the anxiety or fear of causing them suffering and worry?
How can I balance interactions with the wider world versus cultivating inner qualities that lead to freedom?- How can I understand my kilesas (difficult emotions) so I can release myself from them?
How can I worry less about not being a perfectly enlightened being equipped to talk about spirituality, and embrace that I'm a flawed human being instead?How can I reach people who are receptive to/seeking spiritual discussions?- How can I best provide spiritual care for all?
How can I be wise about how I spend my effort in helping others to optimize impact?- How can I honor my own needs to introspect?
How can I shorten the distance between having an idea and sharing it? (Includes: better writing and storytelling skills, cultivating an audience, etc.)How can I be more effective in how I distribute my content?- How can I create systems of content distribution that deliver helpful information at the right time?
How can I do a better job looking after myself financially so that I will not be a burden to others when I am old and/or sick?- How can I not let fears around financial security limit my creativity and ability to positively impact the world?
How can I optimize my mental and physical health/energy on a day-to-day basis to reach my goals?- How can I listen to my body and mind better?
What can I do to leave a lasting positive impact on the world, after I die?- How can I truly internalize that I’m ok as I am, that I’m already successful?
- How can I assess if I am even asking the right/appropriate questions to address a problem and adjust accordingly?
- How can I remind myself to reflect upon these problems instead of being distracted by the problem/fire of the day? 🙂
2022-03-02 Update:
Updating with Write of Passage Cohort 8 - some refinement by identifying the core issues of concern, progress
- How can I balance the drive for self-improvement and helping others against unskillful clinging to desired conditions and outcomes?
How can I share with others what I perceive may be of benefit and encourage uptake, without being a snake oil salesperson (or having the fear of being perceived as one, stop me from sharing?)- No longer concerned about this—new question: How can I use joy and play to motivate myself?
- How can I share more of myself with my family without the anxiety or fear of causing them suffering and worry?
- How can I balance interactions with the wider world versus cultivating inner qualities that lead to freedom?
How can I worry less about not being a perfectly enlightened being equipped to talk about spirituality, and embrace that I'm a flawed human being instead?- No longer concerned about this—new question: How can I reach people who are receptive to/seeking spiritual discussions?
- How can I be wise about how I spend my effort in helping others to optimize impact?
How can I shorten the distance between having an idea and sharing it? (Includes: better writing and storytelling skills, cultivating an audience, etc.)- How can I be more effective in how I distribute my content?
How can I do a better job looking after myself financially so that I will not be a burden to others when I am old and/or sick?- How can I not let fears around financial security limit my creativity and ability to positively impact the world?
- How can I optimize my mental and physical health/energy on a day-to-day basis to reach my goals?
What can I do to leave a lasting positive impact on the world, after I die?- How can I truly internalize that I’m ok as I am, that I’m already successful?
- How can I assess if I am even asking the right/appropriate questions to address a problem and adjust accordingly?
- How can I remind myself to reflect upon these problems instead of being distracted by the problem/fire of the day? 🙂
2021-11-28 Update:
I am shifting my energies from “wondering if I’m doing the right thing/equipped to do the thing” to “how to keep doing the thing!”
- How can I balance the drive for self-improvement and helping others against unskillful attachment and clinging to desired conditions and outcomes?
How can I share with others what I perceive may be of benefit and encourage uptake, without being a snake oil salesperson (or having the fear of being perceived as one, stop me from sharing?)- No longer concerned about this—new question: How can I use play to motivate myself?
- How can I share more of myself with my family without the anxiety or fear of causing them suffering and worry?
- How can I balance interactions with the wider world versus cultivating inner qualities that lead to freedom?
How can I worry less about not being a perfectly enlightened being equipped to talk about spirituality, and embrace that I'm a flawed human being instead?- No longer concerned about this—new question: How can I reach people who are receptive to/seeking spiritual discussions?
- How can I be wise about how I spend my effort in helping others to optimize impact?
- How can I shorten the distance between having an idea and sharing it? (Includes: better writing and storytelling skills, cultivating an audience, etc.)
- How can I do a better job looking after myself financially so that I will not be a burden to others when I am old and/or sick?
- How can I optimize my mental and physical health/energy on a day-to-day basis to reach my goals?
- What can I do to leave a lasting positive impact on the world, after I die?
- How can I assess if I am even asking the right/appropriate questions to address a problem and adjust accordingly?
- How can I remind myself to reflect upon these problems instead of being distracted by the problem/fire of the day? 🙂
Original:
- How can I balance the drive for self-improvement and helping others against unskillful attachment and clinging to desired conditions and outcomes?
- How can I share with others what I perceive may be of benefit and encourage uptake, without being a snake oil salesperson (or having the fear of being perceived as one, stop me from sharing?)
- How can I share more of myself with my family without the anxiety or fear of causing them suffering and worry?
- How can I balance interactions with the wider world versus cultivating inner qualities that lead to freedom?
- How can I worry less about not being a perfectly enlightened being equipped to talk about spirituality, and embrace that I'm a flawed human being instead?
- How can I be wise about how I spend my effort in helping others to optimize impact?
- How can I shorten the distance between having an idea and sharing it? (Includes: better writing and storytelling skills, cultivating an audience, etc.)
- How can I do a better job looking after myself financially so that I will not be a burden to others when I am old and/or sick?
- How can I optimize my mental and physical health/energy on a day-to-day basis to reach my goals?
- What can I do to leave a lasting positive impact on the world, after I die?
- How can I assess if I am even asking the right/appropriate questions to address a problem and adjust accordingly?
- How can I remind myself to reflect upon these problems instead of being distracted by the problem/fire of the day? 🙂