Waiting AT LEAST 30 Minutes to Respond to a Text: Life Hack for Lowered Anxiety and Healthier Communication

I like to step back once in awhile and think about the potential impact (good or bad) from things I recurringly do on a daily basis. I reflected recently on the idea: Do we put a higher sense of urgency on a text message than we should? At what cost? What even is the expectationContinue reading “Waiting AT LEAST 30 Minutes to Respond to a Text: Life Hack for Lowered Anxiety and Healthier Communication”

Preventing a “Stress Boiling Point” and Burnout – Frequent breaks through the day for a large mental return on investment.

You start firing away on your emails at work. 45 minutes go by. Next you’re looking at your cell phone. Scrolling and attending to texts, social media, aps, etc. You hop on a teams call with your co workers. You get off the call, and your email box is fired back up with emails. NextContinue reading “Preventing a “Stress Boiling Point” and Burnout – Frequent breaks through the day for a large mental return on investment.”

Masturbation and porn are cheat codes: Just like alcohol. It’s not a solution to handle stressors/challenges. Side effects: Desensitized. Numb. Depressed. It’s not a long-term solution. A topic no one wants to talk about. But its real

Masturbation is an addition that sort of gets thrown under the table as not a big deal, but is actually highly abused as a release to life’s stressors, and actually has some serious mental side effects that lots of people aren’t aware of. Life gets stressful. go and release. Have a time block of nothingContinue reading “Masturbation and porn are cheat codes: Just like alcohol. It’s not a solution to handle stressors/challenges. Side effects: Desensitized. Numb. Depressed. It’s not a long-term solution. A topic no one wants to talk about. But its real”

Earlier on: not facing my personal issues and instead: being hyper addicted to fitness. Sorry, it’s not the long term solution

This was sort of the boat I was in when i started working out at 14, which was about 16 years ago. I remember getting the perfect pushup device. The one you can attach to your door frame and do pull ups with also. I had these lightweight dumbbells, pushups, pull ups, and sit-ups inContinue reading “Earlier on: not facing my personal issues and instead: being hyper addicted to fitness. Sorry, it’s not the long term solution”

Patterns of daydreaming/dreaming: what are these thoughts and fantasies telling us?

Lots of theories on daydreaming and the subconscious mind. I’m not going to explain all of that science in detail on that edit. I’m going to simply talk about what these types of thoughts mean and how they might have an effect on our lives. Open us up to perspective and potentially listening to theseContinue reading “Patterns of daydreaming/dreaming: what are these thoughts and fantasies telling us?”

A conversation about meditation with a guy at the gym and his life changing testimony.

Naturally, when I walk around in public, I keep upright posture, stay off of my cell phone, and even give a little smile to people when the moment seems appropriate. I know, this seems so foreign. So creepy. and So strange in today’s society where the average person walks around looking like the hunch backContinue reading “A conversation about meditation with a guy at the gym and his life changing testimony.”

Getting The Mind Right: 4 simple ways to keep my mind sharp

I like to look at everything as a skill. how do I increase the skill of mental clarity and optimal focus/attention. We PRACTICE IT. Just like the gym. Put in the work and grow. Absolute responsibility our mental health state. Environment and the stimulus we are exposed to. Extremely powerful. Here are my favorite mentalContinue reading “Getting The Mind Right: 4 simple ways to keep my mind sharp”

Relationship to Mother Nature: we were meant to be outside. fight the instinct: face the consequences

Do you ever feel a pull to the water? A pull to feel the sun shining on your skin. A pull to listen to that amazing rainstorm. A pull to sit by that campfire out back on a warm summer night. A pull to feel and breath the fresh air outside as the birds chirpContinue reading “Relationship to Mother Nature: we were meant to be outside. fight the instinct: face the consequences”

Random Relationship Chasing: A Psychological Dive into Choosing Partners and Deeper Rooted Motives

There are so many different takes on intimate relationships. Do we tend to go after a partner that was similar to our Mother/Father or a hybrid between the two? or do we go for something completely opposite of the love that our Mother and Father shared with us? Do we go after the Love ourContinue reading “Random Relationship Chasing: A Psychological Dive into Choosing Partners and Deeper Rooted Motives”

There’s No Such Thing as Busy: We’re all “Busy.” We Make Time for What We Value and Prioritize

I’ve learned over the course of my life by observation of others and also personal experience that the word “busy” gets throw around lots. It’s a word that gets tossed into usual conversation and a pretty familiar word in the norm of our society currently. We must be aware of how we’re using the word,Continue reading “There’s No Such Thing as Busy: We’re all “Busy.” We Make Time for What We Value and Prioritize”