The List

What follows is a list of the most important and most helpful pieces from this blog. The list makes it easy for you to understand at a glance what is necessary in this work. It takes you through the process of self-development and self-realisation – from awareness, observation and reflection… and back to awareness – offering you guidance on what to expect along the way and what you can do to help yourself.

There is a structure to the list, but you can begin by clicking on the titles which draw your curiosity.
(The page numbers in brackets refer to my book, Evolution By Natural Selection.)

1. Awareness Is The Key (p.12)
2. It Begins With Awareness
3. The ‘How’ Is Unimportant (p.17)
4. Survival & Growth (p.30)
5. Childish Learning
6. Read The Instructions
7. Write Stuff Down (p.327)
8. Write & Become More Aware
9. What Should I Write?
10. Simply Observe (p.100)
11. Heisenberg, Observation & Growth (p.71)
12. One Simple Observation (p.118)
13. Observation As The Gateway
14. Reflection Of What’s There
15. Made Beautiful By Reflection (p.366)
16. Go Further, Go Deeper
17. The Ivy Of Conditioning (p.486)
18. Thoughts on Conditioning (p.98)
19. Cultural Conditioning (p.92)
20. People’s Patterns
21. Make Sure You’re Okay (p.552)
22. Work On Yourself
23. Make Yourself (Happy) (p.189)
24. It’s Easier To Look At Yourself (p.170)
25. The Choice Is Always Yours
26. Yesterday I Was Clever
27. To Serve (p.376)
28. Clarity (p.16)
29. The Power Of Intention (p.543)
30. It’s The Thought That Counts
31. Use Life To Make Life Easier
32. Make Your Own Tools (p.480)
33. Write Your Own Feedback (p.481)
34. Talk To Yourself
35. Make A Connection (p.76)
36. Yes, It Is That Simple
37. Patterns, Procedures & Routines (p.460)
38. Self-Doubt & Emergency Procedures (p.558)
39. Better Strategies (p.130)
40. Switching To Manual (p.387)
41. Find A Way To Open The Valve
42. Make It All About You
43. Listen to Yourself (p.289)
44. Calibrate The Machine (p.440)
45. The Subtlety Of Feeling (p.506)
46. What Exactly Do I Do?
47. Discipline
48. 300 Days (p.547)
49. One Thousand Days
50. If At First You Don’t Succeed… (p.34)
51. Just When We Think We’ve Made It (p.35)
52. The Mind (p.59)
53. How Easily The Mind Goes To Work (p.37)
54. What We’re Up Against (p.611)
55. Quietening The Mind (p.330)
56. It Is What It Is
57. Rubbish At Meditation?
58. Think Whatever You Want (p.263)
59. You Think Too Much
60. Focus It All Away
61. Separate Out The Emotions (p.537)
62. What Are You Going To Do About It? (p.336)
63. Prediction (p.36)
64. Gathering Evidence (p.224)
65. Look At The Evidence (p.139)
66. Own How Good You Are (p.400)
67. Confidence & Self-Belief (p.312)
68. Don’t Tell Me You’re Funny, Make Me Laugh
69. Are You Still Breathing? (p.520)
70. Exploration, Expectation & Non-Attachment (p.95)
71. Developing Attachment
72. Distracted By The Shiny Stuff
73. Expectations
74. Beyond Expectations
75. Life In The Middle (p.346)
76. Already Perfect
77. Step By Step (p.385)
78. The Best Time To Plant A Tree
79. Better Than Yesterday
80. See Your Progress (p.434)
81. The Contributions We Make
82. The Exponential Curve (p.444)
83. All In Good Time
84. Punctuated Equilibrium (p.31)
85. TS 4 – Practice, Practice… Breakthrough!
86. Progress Report (p.63)
87. Why We Need Boundaries
88. 4 Hours, 4 Weeks, 4 Months (p.436)
89. Give Yourself Two Years
90. Meat & Potatoes (p.248)
91. TS 6 – The Foundations Of Success
92. Relax, You’re Going As Fast As You Can (p.405)
93. TS 8 – Relaxation & Balance
94. Riding & Surviving The Waves (p.413)
95. Close To A Breakthrough (p.399)
96. The Fork In The Road (p.418)
97. Changing Patterns (p.150)
98. It Can Happen In An Instant (p.366)
99. Keep Doing What Works (p.361)
100. It All Comes Down To This (p.421)
101. And So It Continues…
102. TS 7 – Don’t Get Cocky
103. Distracted By The Shiny Stuff
104. You Create Your Reality
105. Imagine You’re Already There
106. Limited Only By Our Beliefs
107. Choose To Change Your Mind
108. Drop Everything For A Moment
109. Letting Go On The Bridge
110. TS 16 – What Happens When We Let Go?
111. Developing Attachment
112. Distractions Of The Familiar
113. Be Quiet, Be Still, & Listen
114. Shut Up & Listen
115. Inhabiting The Silence
116. Beyond The Noise
117. When You Know It’s Possible
118. Lead By Example
119. Worry, Love & Freedom
120. Life Is Unimaginably Large
121. Astonishingly Simple
122. Get Out Of The Way
123. The Conclusion Is Emptiness
124. Stop Searching, Look Inside
125. Everything Is A Distraction
126. The Mandala Of Personhood
127. Observing From The Is-ness
128. A Shift Of Perspective
129. Discovering The True Self
130. Let Go. Be Empty.
131. We Are Wonderful. All Of Us.
132. Watch Yourself
133. Tell Yourself A Story
134. Our Connection With Nature
135. We Change The World
136. Focus On Love. That’s All.
137. Love, Trust, Truth & Wonder

This list has been further organised into nine areas which take you through the whole process in the simplest, yet most thorough way possible. You can read more about it in the blog post, The Nine Tiles. (For more information, see the related posts listed at the bottom of many of the above entries.)