Have you ever experienced overwhelming pain and stress? Maybe it was love lost, a heartbreak, financial difficulty, a health crisis, or something else. As humans with nervous systems, we are sensitive to the challenges and adversities we face, even if we aren’t consciously aware of the effects they cause. Certainly we all would rather do with less pain and more of the pleasant experiences of … Continue reading Fuel for the Fire: Pain & Stress
Life can be difficult. In fact, there’s some people who experience such levels of adversity that they end up developing a sense and belief of learned helplessness. There was some research done through atrocious experimentation in the 1960s that established this fact. I’m going to spare you the details on those experiments (look into them at your own discretion), but essentially it showed that … Continue reading Overcoming Learned Helplessness
The title of this post says it all: No Distractions. This of course is one of the best ways to avoid procrastination, but that’s a lot easier said than done. So with that being said, how can it be done? First things first is you obviously want to remove the big distractions like your phone. Something about that little computer that we put in our … Continue reading No Distractions
Another post with no quote today, because there’s another concept I’ve heard before that I feel like needs to be addressed. As we’ve discussed many times before, stress is a powerful thing. You can either use that stress to your advantage or you can let it consume you, and there’s ways to make the first choice easier. We’ve talked about that idea quite a bit … Continue reading The Sands of Time
100th Blog Post, yay!! No quote for today though, because I wanted to focus on a specific concept that doesn’t really stick to any one idea that I could find a quote for. I’d like to preface this by saying that most self help influencers assume that everybody wants the same things: a lot of money, a huge mansion, three kids and a lamborghini. Although … Continue reading Divide and Conquer
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” This quote has actually been said by quite a few people, including T. S. Elliot, Soren Kierkegaard, Laurence J. Peter and others, which makes sense because it’s a good way of thinking. In the last post I talked about how I wanted to begin focusing on procrastination and how it affects people’s day to day lives. I … Continue reading Empty Mind, Wasted Time
“All procrastination is just fear.” — Unknown In the last post we talked about procrastination and why it’s important to just keep moving — and eventually how those tiny movements will add up to contribute to your success. In fact, we’ve talked about that concept quite a bit about a year ago, and the more that I think about it the more I begin to … Continue reading Risk it to Win it
“You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.” — Benjamin Franklin Time is a tricky thing, because it seems to slow down when we want it to pass quickly and does the opposite when we need it the most. The only time where time seems to pass normally however, is before something important happens. Let’s elaborate on that. When … Continue reading Tick Tock Goes the Clock
“People can rob you of almost any possession, but hard work belongs to you and you alone.” — Firas Zahabi Unfortunately we live in a world of materialism, where everybody cares about what kind of phone you have, where you live, what kind of car you have, and how expensive your outfit is. Admittedly this can be stressful and depressing, and it might even seem … Continue reading True Belongings
“Health without force is like hardness without elasticity.” — Miyamoto Musashi Oooohhh… this is a tricky one. I had to really sit back for… well, a few days so that I could think about this quote. Usually with philosopher’s quotes you can find the context pretty easily and at least figure out the general idea. But this quote almost sounds like a riddle or a … Continue reading The Work-Play Balance
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