It’s ironic, annoying, and far too common but we seem to struggle with following the same advice we give to our friends. If you yourself have not experienced this yet, I’m sure that you’ve seen it play out at least. Most commonly this is seen with advice towards others. You might very well tell a …
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Focusing on Boats over Rivers: How to Deal with Adversities
Rivers are featured in many great parables and conversations about life for good reason. While easily recognizable and known, rivers have long stood for an obstacle of humanity and used to illustrate several key lessons about life. For example, I was listening to a YouTube video by The Stoic Community where they discussed the importance …
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The Value of Your Words
When you look to leaders or wise people, they are often measured by their words. Often these will go hand-in-hand with their work much like Muhammad Ali or J. Robert Oppenheimer. For proof, just ask if anyone can finish the phrase “float like a butterfly”. And while we might not get to the caliber of …
Burnout
For fellow creative types, this is a dreaded phrase. It is accompanied by long bouts of nothing and feelings of inadequacy. We compare our present to the past, shameful almost at what we have not done. But what exactly causes this burnout and, also, what does it mean to be “burnt out?” Defining The Fear …
Finally Checking Off your List: A Look at Piled Up Tasks
Now that we have finished our half-bath, my wife and I can settle back into our normal routines. Yet as we started to do so, we noticed that a lot of regular things had been neglected in lieu of the half-bath remodel. So we made a list of everything that needed doing and I began …
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Remembering to Let it Out
There are times when something is weighing on us and we want to talk about it but, for one reason or another, we decide to pin the conversation for another time. This is not a bad thing, some conversations need to happen later when both parties have cooled down or you might not be the …
Quote of the Week 7/19/24
“Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. It is not far, it is within reach.” – Walt Whitman Preamble I’ve been told for awhile now to read Walt Whitman’s collection of poems Leaves of Grass. I can thankfully report that I have finally bought …
Battling Stress by Focusing on What You Can Change
Stress and anxiety, sadly, are constants in our lives. It seems that no matter what we try and do. we will inevitably fall victim to these emotions time and time again. So, if we can not change the emotion, then we must focus on what we can change then. This is what leads to coping …
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Why you are Struggling with Following Life Advice
I have been writing this life-style blog for years now. Over that time researching and meditating over topics to write about, I’ve realized that a lot of the best life advice is not complicated. They are simple sentences that, when applied, work wonders for us. Case in point, Winnie the Pooh and his friends have …
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Creating to Simply Create
For all of my fellow creatives out there, we know how deadly it is to be in-between projects–that twilight time where panic nestles comfortably. The more we go on not creating, the more we worry about when the next inspiration will spark something within us. The problem is that inspiration can never be tied down. …
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