Do you confuse needs and wants? Find yourself especially needy around the holidays?

Once you conquer a “boulder”, a challenging character flaw, a new one takes its place. But what is in common in all the flaws is the seed level.

What is the seed level of all the stuff that can make you miserable? Sorry, all the stuff that makes you miserable?

So far I have found two that every person has:

1. As far as I can see it, it is a mindset nearly all humans share: that life, things should be different. That what they think should be is what should be.

They place themselves above reality, above nature, above physics, above maybe even above their gods.

That because you want it, it should be so.

I should know it more intimately than most: my soul correction: “Forget Thyself” is pure, unadulterated putting myself above it all.

I can tell you, it didn’t work, and I didn’t know why I was so miserable all those years.

2. And nearly the opposite: I am not captain of my ship, captain of my soul, master of my fate. The second mentality, that prevents one from owning themselves, and doing what they need to do to have what they want.