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Category: Being Present

Change Everything Without Changing Anything

Published on July 28, 2022

Sounds like a contradiction, eh?

Well, with this one ingredient, you can change everything about your day while simultaneously changing nothing about your day.

What’s that ingredient you ask?

Intentionality.

With intention, everything we do changes:

  • Have to go to work? Or get to go to work?
  • Mindlessly watching reels? Or curiously getting content ideas?
  • Rushing through traffic? Or taking a relaxing drive in-between tasks?
  • Speed-reading a book to hit a goal? Or reading carefully with the goal of understanding?
  • Playing a video game to escape emotion? Or playing a video game to rest your mind after a long, productive day?

Sprinkle a little intention into every task of your day and watch how everything changes without even one task being added or subtracted or moved.

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Evenly and Mindfully

Published on June 27, 2022

Filling our cups is hard enough.

  • Proper sleep
  • Firm boundaries
  • Self-care practices

Don’t let what liquid you’ve carefully filled go to waste.

As you would carefully and delicately place each step while walking with a brim-filled cup of blazing hot tea—so, too, should you walk throughout your day with a brim-filled cup of blazing hot human energy and potential.

…Evenly and mindfully.

Want To Slow Down Time?

Published on May 6, 2022

Eliminate all distractions and just sit.

No screens. No audio. No people.

Just sit and soak in the world.

You’d be amazed at how different 30 minutes feels.

Just Add Mindfulness

Published on March 30, 2022

Want to improve everything in your life?

Add mindfulness to it.

This came to me while lifting weights.

When I’m mindless, I’m focused on vanity metrics (e.g. how heavy can I go).

When I’m mindful, I’m focused on real metrics (e.g. how clean can I perform the move).

And being focused on clean form will result in far more benefit than being focused on sheer weight. Because the problem with “heavy as possible” is that, in most cases, the result is “cheating the reps.”

Either range of motion is shortened, momentum is counterproductively used, or bodily adjustments are made to make the movement “easier” by incorporating more muscle groups (that aren’t designed to be involved in the lifts).

Mindfulness makes us aware of these cheating tactics and reminds us to use lighter weights so that we can use full range of motion that’s free of momentum and is focused exclusively on the muscle groups that are being specifically targeted.

So, too, are the benefits of mindfulness evident in every other area of life:

  • Mindless mouth-stuffing becomes savory eating.
  • Mindless busywork becomes focused task completion.
  • Mindless word-gabbing becomes curious conversation.
  • Mindless weight lifting becomes deliberate strengthening.
  • Mindless media-scrolling becomes intentional consuming.

Mindfulness brings full presence to each task. And if the task is worth doing, you might as well do it right. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Here [Poem]

Published on January 20, 2022 
What a waste
to miss out on what’s here
because we're too busy
whining about
dreaming about
scheming about
what’s over there.

Noise [Poem]

Published on January 17, 2022 
It’s quiet up here

Above clouds
Above signals
Above noise

I’m disconnected
And my mind begins to float.

Looking down I imagine

What’s being said
What’s being heard
What’s calling for attention

And I brush at my beard
over what’s not.

Not everything needs noise

To feel seen
To feel heard
To feel connected

But noise isn't the type
To just give in or relent.

The window calls me back

And as I look upon the clouds
And vast sky
And bend of the earth

I feel a deep sense of calm
and—

I glance back at my screen

I clack a few keys
Move around a few lines
And unknowingly wonder how I might

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The Ends And Beginnings Of Now

Published on November 15, 2021

We’re all given a finite number of moments to live.

The moment that you’ve currently made it to, also happens to be the precise moment when it all ended in another person’s story.

Now is a gift.

One that so many others would have done ANYTHING to have back.

Live like you mean it.