Your Comfort Zone Might Be a Lie

Finding and/or creating change is tied directly to this. What is a comfort zone? Often, it’s not a place that’s actually comfortable. No, frequently a comfort zone is a place that’s familiar, known, and relatively stable for you. Your comfort zone can be mental, emotional, spiritual, or physical. Mentally, it might be an ideal, a truth, a belief you cling to (even in the face of it being uncomfortable or disprovable). Emotionally, it might be a feeling or love, connection,

Stillness, Reflection, and Positivity

Ideas to deal with the madness of the world. I recently finished reading Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday. Having recently completed Ego is the Enemy by Holiday, I was intrigued when this appeared on my Kindle screen. In Mr. Holiday, I have found a kindred spirit. Both of these books spoke to me in much the same way I strive to speak to you. Plain English, simple concepts, no promises or pretenses. Just a presentation of ideas that

Before You Love Yourself, Learn to Like Yourself

This step is often skipped. You and I live in a quick-fix society. Everywhere you look, there are life-hacks, shortcuts, the latest pill for weight-loss, cryptocurrency for instant wealth, and so on. Society almost always focuses on the end goal. To be respected, to be seen as someone, to shine, you must achieve. There must be a visible success you can point to. Fail to achieve, and all that you are gets called into question. The problem with the quick-fix,

It’s Not Really All Going to Shit

Apply practical mindfulness to see where you are and what you can do. Spend any time watching the news or scrolling through social media, and chances are you’ll feel awful. The latest surreal act on the part of the Trump administration, the not-so-Supreme Court’s support of their BS, and the spinelessness and corruption in Congress are just depressing and/or infuriating as fuck. If you spend any time at all focused on this, you probably feel like it’s all going to

Stay The Course or Find a New Path?

An ill-defined line understood only through stillness and mindfulness. No matter who you are, what you do, or where you come from, you’re always experiencing things. This happens both passively and actively. I’ve said for years that there are three primary ways to choose to live your life. They are: Nobody chooses only one of the above. Everyone will flit from one to the other to the other from time to time. There are also additional variations for how to

When Life Hands You Lemons, Sometimes You Make Something Other Than Lemonade

Life seldom presents you with only one choice. There we were, sitting in the living room, chilling on the couch with the cats. The weekend was drawing to a close, and we were going to watch the Sunday night animated shows we enjoy. About five minutes in, the power goes out. That’s odd. Why is the power out? We look outside. Apart from the lamp on the side street beside the house being out, everything else appears to be working

Wouldn’t You Prefer Awake and Aware Over Asleep and Ignorant?

You’re empowered to make choices and decisions to live your life. Who is living your life? Is there anyone else inside of your mind, body, and soul? Can another person climb inside of your head, heart, and spirit and live your life? No. Yet an almost overwhelming narrative from various influencers, leaders, and instructors paints a different picture. They offer a vision of a specific, monochromatic viewpoint of what’s best for everyone. Given that all 8 billion people on Planet

Energy, Frequency, and Positivity

It’s all much more connected than we realize. I believe that everyone is unique from everyone else. No two people are alike, because nobody can be inside anyone else’s head, heart, or soul but their own. You alone are in your mind, your body, and your spirit. That means only you can have full knowledge of your health, wellness, and wellbeing. Whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual, you are the only one who experiences your life. Despite the individuality and

You’re the Protagonist of Your Life Experience

It’s incredibly easy to forget that. It’s not disingenuous to say that life is a story. It has a defined beginning, middle, and ending. Along the way, you have rising and falling action, meet colorful characters, heroes and villains, and everyone in between. The story of your life does have one, single, solitary constant. The protagonist. Across every aspect of your life, from beginning, middle, to the end, the protagonist remains the same. That would be you. While you, the

Right and Wrong Matter Less Than Choices Made

When you don’t choose, you cede your power. There are a lot of voices in the world telling you who, what, where, how, and why you should have, do, and be. Everywhere you turn, someone is going to tell you to do this, that, or the other thing. Be like this or suffer. Do like that or face pain. It’s intimidating, scary, and confusing. What’s the right choice? If I choose wrong, will I suffer, and how badly? For that

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