This Will Not Be Over Quickly |
Italy provides a glimpse of whats coming soon to the rest of Europe, the USA, and other parts of the world. Heres whats happening in the Italian city of Parma: The intensive care units are now all full. Hospital wards are spilling out into corridors, tents, car parks, gardens and commercial warehouses. We are hearing&
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Метки: Health Lifestyle |
We Need to Align With What’s Coming Next |
Weve seen a lot of changes in the world this week due to the coronavirus situation. I think what many people dont yet realize is that the rate of change isnt going to be linear. Its going to accelerate. Despite all the changes youve seen this week, next weeks changes will be bigger still& and&
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Метки: Health Values |
When a Virus Derails Your Plans |
This will be a quick add-on for the recent post on framing the coronavirus. Obviously this situation has derailed many peoples plans, some more than others. So how do you frame a situation like this where reality seriously derails your plans? First off, reality can do that, as its obviously demonstrating right now. This is&
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Метки: Creating Reality Relationships |
The Opposite of Fear |
Based on what Ive been seeing regarding peoples reactions to the unfolding coronavirus situation, many seem to be trying to keep themselves out of fear mode. Instead of fear, they suggest to adopt a mode of thinking and being they typically describe with words like optimism or love. Stay positive. Dont be afraid. Dont panic.&
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Метки: Emotions Values |
Thoughts on LGBTQ |
People who know me well wont likely see any surprises here, but I dont think Ive done a good enough job of clearly sharing certain values publicly, so Id like to correct this now. Im pro-LGBTQ rights. I think LGBTQ people should have the same rights as anyone else, and I dont think they should&
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Метки: Lifestyle Relationships Values |
How to Frame the Coronavirus |
At the individual level, you have many options for how to frame the coronavirus situation. You could continue to see it as some meaningless objective event, remaining detached from assigning any meaning to it. It just is. A virus is simply doing what a virus does. And people are reacting to it as people do.&
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Метки: Creating Reality Health |
This Isn’t January’s Reality Anymore |
The latest news in the world reminds me of this scene from Airplane 2, when a host of problems culminates in panic. Today the we have the coronavirus spreading rapidly, the stock market plummeting to the point that trading was halted, and the usual sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot making it all worse. These are&
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Метки: Creating Reality |
Reducing Mental Effort – Part 7 |
Our series on reducing mental effort continues. This is the final piece in the series. Reduce decision fatigue Consider how many times you may ask yourself questions like these during a typical week: What should I do now? What should I eat? What should I wear? Do I feel like exercising today? What should I&
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Метки: Productivity |
Reducing Mental Effort – Part 6 |
Our series on reducing mental effort continues. Do less One often overlooked way to reduce mental effort is simply to do less. Pull back from obligations. Decline invitations. Withdraw from projects till your plate is less full. Working with a very full plate can be stimulating, but its best as a short-term condition. In the&
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Метки: Productivity |
Reducing Mental Effort – Part 5 |
Our series on reducing mental effort continues. Minimize context switching During a normal workday, its easy to begin new tasks without fully finishing previous tasks. Sometimes we do this for the sake of variety, but this can be a very inefficient approach. Each time you switch contexts, your mind has to release the previous context&
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Метки: Productivity |
Reducing Mental Effort – Part 4 |
Our series on reducing mental effort continues. Solve problems fully Incompletes and stress go hand-in-hand. When were stressed, we often want to race to the end of a project or task and call it done when its really 90% or 95% of the way to done. But even 99% done isnt actually done. Some projects&
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Метки: Productivity |
Reducing Mental Effort – Part 3 |
Our series on reducing mental effort continues. Pre-process distractions What do you do when youre distracted by emotions or other circular thoughts, and you cant be very productive? Some people say to just push through and do your work anyway. Ive tried this and found that it hasnt worked well for me. I can work&
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Метки: Productivity |
Reducing Mental Effort – Part 2 |
We continue the series on reducing mental effort. Distracting thoughts are a major source of wasted mental energy, so in this part well cover a few ways to reduce internal distractions. Empty your head One reason we dwell on certain thoughts is that were trying to remember certain to-dos, ideas, and items that require deeper&
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Метки: Productivity |
Reducing Mental Effort – Part 1 |
Cognitive load is the mental effort required to complete a task or project. If you can reduce the average cognitive load of your days, your days will feel easier and less stressful, you can get more done, and you can end your days feeling less fatigued. Youll also have extra mental resources to apply to&
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Метки: Health Productivity |
Side Quests |
In yesterdays article about different types of quests, I defined side quests like this: A side quest is an optional side project that doesnt directly support your main quest, but completing a side quest could make it a little easier to tackle your main quest or a subquest, such as by building up your skills&
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Метки: Lifestyle Productivity |
Main Quest, Subquest, Side Quest, or Minigame |
This was an idea that came up in a discussion thread in Conscious Growth Club this week, and I thought it might make an interesting article. You may like this way of thinking if youre into video games, especially games that involve different types of quests. Main Quest Your main quest is whatever you consider&
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Метки: Lifestyle Productivity |
Energy Wants to Flow |
One mindset challenge that plagues many of my readers is an almost obsessive focus on their own needs, problems, and challenges – when they arent successfully distracting themselves from it. I also spent a lot of time stuck there. Its a great mindset for generating lots of stress. But other results? Not so much. One&
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Метки: Abundance Health Productivity |
Kinky MacGyver |
Last nights kinky meetup class was titled Kinky Crafts, and it was about how to make do-it-yourself items for BDSM play. Ever thought about making your own flogger using leftover supplies from some plumbing work? Me neither& but apparently this is a thing. Imagine if MacGyver was into BDSM and taught a two-hour class on&
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Метки: Lifestyle |
Your Least Favorite Screwdriver |
One thing that people have observed thats a bit unusual about me is that I use such a wide variety of models and tools in my work, and I dont seem to have a problem when the rules of reality that those models are based upon seem to be in conflict. For instance, I can&
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Метки: Creating Reality |
Making Exercise More Fun and Social |
On Sunday night Rachelle and I signed up for a new local fitness studio membership. The place is 5 minutes from our home and is called TruFusion. They only do group classes, so this helps me move forward my intention to make exercise and fitness more social this year. We attended our first class that&
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Метки: Health Lifestyle |
