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Category: Thinking Clearly

Skills Pretending To Be Attitudes

Published on February 7, 2022
  • Creative / Un-creative
  • Courageous / Shy
  • Disciplined / Undisciplined
  • Trustworthy / Deceitful
  • Open-minded / Closed-minded
  • Vulnerable / Invulnerable

Don’t get it twisted.

What most people think of as innate attitudes are very much so learned skills.

Big Battles

Published on February 5, 2022 
Fight the big battles on the inside
And the big battles on the outside
Suddenly won’t feel so big anymore

Lifetime Xed

Published on January 31, 2022

How many time commitments do you have that you don’t even realize you have?

  • The lines you’re forced to wait in
  • The long commutes
  • The time it takes to get ready

How might you creatively reclaim some of that time?

  • Do you have to wait in those lines? Or is there a way you can skip them altogether? i.e. Rather than buying coffee each morning, can you start making it from home?
  • Assuming you can’t opt out of the long commutes, is there a way you can improve how you spend that time? i.e. Long commutes are a perfect time to soak in audiobooks—which are great because they don’t always have to be nonfiction/ productive. They can be leisurely and entertainment oriented, too. Much better than yelling at stupid drivers.
  • Is there any way you can shorten the time it takes for you to get ready? i.e. Can you set clothes out the night before or get one step ahead of breakfast some how? Smooth starts are usually a byproduct of end-of-the-day preemptive thinking.

It might take you 10-15 minutes to thoroughly think through these ideas.

The benefit, of course, is that even if you can only manage to find a way to save 10-15 minutes throughout your entire day… you just LIFETIME Xed your investment.

In other words, if you hold true to this idea for 100 days—you just 100xed your invested time. If you hold true for 365 days—you just 365xed your invested time. And if you can keep it going for the rest of your life…?

That’s right—a lifetime xed investment.

Unbelievably worth it.

Forcing Original

Published on January 26, 2022

Don’t “try” to be original.

You already are original.

Just surrender to your originality.

And stop trying to force what’s already there.

Present In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…

Published on January 24, 2022

You know what time it is?

—A great time to relax that mind of yours.

Stop what you’re doing and name out:

  • 5 things you see.
  • 4 things you hear.
  • 3 things you feel.
  • 2 things you smell.
  • and 1 thing you taste.

Ground yourself into the present moment and enjoy the beauty that’s already here.

Act It

Published on January 21, 2022

We are not who we want to be.

We are not who we think we are.

We are what we DO.

If we don’t choose our actions carefully, we’ll end up carelessly becoming a person we didn’t intend to become.

And what a tragedy that would be.

Once we decide who we want to be, we must act it.

Picking Fights

Published on January 19, 2022

The easiest fight to win is the one you don’t get into.

Some fights can’t be avoided, but many of them can be.

When you get better at picking your battles, you get better at winning your battles.

Not just because of fights avoided, but because of the energy that’s saved for the others.