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Prioritize Feeling Great

Published on February 2, 2022

What are the things that make you feel great?

And I’m not talking about 10 seconds great… I’m talking about 10 hours great.

I’m not talking about pleasure-seeking tasks—I’m talking about soul-filling tasks.

Exercising? Walking? Journaling? Meditating? Stretching?

First of all, once you come up with your list—why not include each of those things into each of the days of your week?

Why would you ever skip out on the things that make you feel great?

Your state—mentally, physically, emotionally—affects everything else in life. And so they should get the top priority each and every day.

Especially on the days when your state is at its lowest.

Skipping state-boosting tasks when you feel off/down/awful is a mistake and only reinforces that feeling of off/down/or awful.

And, worth noting, skipping them on the days when your state is at its highest is also a mistake.

Because if you stop doing the things that make you feel great when you’re feeling great—it won’t be long until you’re no longer feeling great again.

And up and down the rollercoaster you’ll go.

Better to prioritize feeling great on all the days.

Chugging Books

Published on February 1, 2022

Unpopular opinion: Read slower.

Forget 2x/3x-ing your speed.

Blasting through someone’s deep work is like dumping a gallon of water into your mouth all at once.

Drink deeply from the words that were carefully chosen for each page of any given book.

Finish each drop.

Precisely What’s Needed

Published on January 27, 2022

Self-discipline is the crux of all lifestyle change.

Strategies, tactics, and techniques are mostly irrelevant without it.

Why? Because without self-discipline, they will eventually falter.

Self-discipline is precisely what’s needed when the going gets hard (which it will).

Self-discipline is precisely what’s needed when you face the fork in the road between: do it even though you don’t want to and let the ego come up with a totally viable and believable excuse so you don’t have to.

Self-discipline is precisely the difference between sticking the next move of the climb and falling from the boulder back to where you started.

Anything Will Do

Published on January 25, 2022

The quality of your life is a byproduct of your standards and how well you hold yourself to them.

If you want to live your best life, you have to hold yourself to your best (realistic) standards.

This isn’t to say you can’t update and revise your standards as you grow, change, and mature.

It’s merely to say, if you don’t have standards set then anything will do.

And living your best life isn’t something that happens where anything will do.

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.

More-Ons

Published on January 18, 2022

The less I need the better I feel.

I start to need less when I stop listening to those who tell me I need more.

Therefore, the path to feeling better is to get better at avoiding (both literally and virtually) more-ons (the people who turn your mind on to needing more).

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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