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Category: Living Well

Life’s Precious Beat [Poem]

Published on October 9, 2022 
I often find myself stuck
Somewhere in the middle
Of capture and surrender
Of live now and remember
Of render and let it be

I don’t often feel
Like I get it quite right
Like how to remember
What wasn’t captured
Or fully absorb
What’s seen from a screen

But every now and again
I capture a moment
Or surrender to a scene
And briefly find my footing
As I rebalance to the rhythm
Of life’s precious beat

P.s. This poem was inspired by this picture.

Content Fridge

Published on October 8, 2022

Every time you click your mouse, you fill your content fridge.

If you click the clickbait, don’t be surprised when you open your content fridge and see junk.

That’d be the same as picking junk at the grocery store, and then getting home and being surprised when you open your shopping bags.

…Junk?! How did this happen?! That grocery store sucks.

No. It’s not the grocery store’s fault—it’s what you picked.

It’s the same for what you see on media as it is for what you see in your shopping bags.

Just as you resist junk food while food shopping, resist clickbait when clicking.

For what you pick will only continue to show up in your life (and will ultimately be what you consume) over and over and over again.

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Rushing Feet [Poem]

Published on October 2, 2022 
rain scattered
wind thrusting
feet rushing
to escape

why run away
from that which I
was made?

one day
I will be rain
and gusts
pouring down
and pushing into
somebody else’s
rushing feet

and wouldn’t I
unable to speak or say
want them
to slow
and feel
and appreciate
...me?

Lacking direction in life?

Published on September 27, 2022
  1. Close your eyes
  2. Imagine the full realization of your potential in exquisite detail
  3. Write down what you see

There. Now plaster that on the forefront of your mind and focus your time/ energy/ and attention on manifesting it until it’s what you see in reality.

I have been making a daily effort to do this and it’s having a noticeable impact on how I think, feel, and act. Which is precisely how the process starts.

Building Dreams

Published on September 24, 2022

The person who builds their dreams for 2 hours / day will realize that dream 6x faster than the person who builds for 20 minutes / day.

…And ∞ times faster than the person who builds for 0 minutes / day.

Saying this for me as much as anybody else.

End Before You’re Done

Published on September 23, 2022

Being “done” signifies completion.

And while this isn’t inherently bad… when it comes to the things we can never really “complete”—maybe this isn’t exactly good either.

Think about health, introspection, and connection.

These things are never “completed.”

And so if we can teach ourselves to “end” before we’re all the way “done”—we’ll essentially be learning how to create open loops that our mind might want to “close” in the future.

Some examples:

  • For exercise: Finish when you’re 70% fatigued. Leave unfinished business at the gym. Keep that hunger for continued growth alive vs. completely exhausting yourself to a miserable pulp.
  • For writing: Leave some ideas unexplored. I use the notes app to capture ideas whenever I have them and now have well over 100 unexplored ideas. This gives me launch points for each of my future writing sessions vs. having to stare at a blank screen each time because I finished exploring all of them at the last one.
  • For conversation: Don’t exhaust all of your questions and curiosities. Leave some room for mystery and exploration for the next conversation or for follow up messages. A conversation a little too short is probably better than a conversation that went a little too long.

When you create an open-ended process for the things that compound in value over time, you give your future self a hat-tip that makes the start of the next session easier.

And anything that makes starting easier should always be considered.

What’s Missing?

Published on September 22, 2022

Outside of material items, what are you missing from your life?

Take a minute to really think about it.

…What are you missing?

Now… are you missing it because others aren’t giving it to you or because you aren’t giving it to yourself?

In most cases, what we feel like we’re missing has nothing to do with other people.

P.s. In case you missed it, here’s the replay of the LIVE chat I hosted today on Twitter about Embracing Adversity. My co-host had an incredible story and there were a ton of gems shared. Start at the 5 minute mark.