I am a huge fan of Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations podcast. Nearly every day for me starts with a walk around my neighborhood listening to Oprah’s interviews with amazing people. One of my all-time favorite episodes of this podcast is Shawn Achor: The Life-Altering Power of a Positive Mind. Shawn talks about the science of happiness, and his research created some profound shifts in the way I live my life.
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I've been down many rabbit holes in the hunt for purposeful work and output in the world. I've had the same age old questions and thoughts that many people have. Why am I here? I want to make a meaningful impact. I want to do the work I was meant to do. I want my output/work to light me up! I want to be passionate about my work.
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School is starting around the country! It’s an exciting time, but pandemic has complicated this school year and made this a stressful time for teachers.
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In our working and personal lives, what we allow in as knowledge and beliefs can have unimaginable impact on our output into the world. Once a belief or knowledge has set in, we are wired to then allow that to run many of our decisions (literally) without much (or any) conscious "pre-frontal cortex" involvement. You can imagine the ripple effect of allowing a misguided belief to settle into your connectome.
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When I was in high school, I watched an episode of Oprah Winfrey’s talk show in which she discussed keeping a gratitude journal. She said she would write down 5 things a day for which she was thankful. Something in that suggestion resonated in my heart, so I decided to start my own gratitude journal.
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This note is to anyone out there building something new, creative, or daring. Where the dark nights of the soul visit almost weekly (or even nightly). I'd like to suggest a mantra that has worked wonders in my life during the tough days.
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For those of you who know me, you've already heard my decades old ranting on my relationship with caffeine (via morning coffee). I have more rules around coffee drinking than Carter had liver pills, but the sad part is, I only follow all of those "optimization" rules about 50% of the time. Here's a list of some of those rules just so you can have a giggle.
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In a journal entry from several months back, I wrote about all the cool things I was going to do with my wife and the kids during the brief quarantine period. Ah the optimism of the beginner quarantinee.
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Have you ever thought that you were losing your mind because someone said they emailed you, and when you looked in your inbox you only found their email by looking through the entire thread of the email? If so, then you probably have Outlook’s “Conversation” view enabled.
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I’ve been given a gift of knowing how to flow through my day
My body feels those painful edges and works to smooth them away
It’s no longer ok for me to hide under a rock, so if I may,
Sharing my gift is my hope for you today
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In studying a bit of Robert Greene's work, I felt inspired to comment on a few of his thoughts on the subject of mastery. I've gotten a bit nerdy in the last 5 years about craftmanship and mastery. To take this seriously is quite an endeavor, and I can't recommend highly enough taking up your own pursuit of mastery (real mastery) in your field.
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Be in your white space with no inputs and just crudely select an action and begin the movement of your body in that action.
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We at Focus to Evolve have the world’s most immediately-impactful personal productivity training. Do you feel like you are not usually "out in front of" your incoming projects, emails, and general workload (email especially)? You are certainly not alone.
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