A recent gift from a friend included a question card deck, and one of the questions was: What is one of the most valuable lessons you have learned in the past year? Id say my biggest lesson of this year was to more deeply understand the relationship between intelligent boundary management and investing in deep&

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A recent gift from a friend included a question card deck, and one of the questions was: What is one of the most valuable lessons you have learned in the past year? Id say my biggest lesson of this year was to more deeply understand the relationship between intelligent boundary management and investing in deep&

https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2020/12/proactive-boundary-management/

A recent gift from a friend included a question card deck, and one of the questions was: What is one of the most valuable lessons you have learned in the past year? Id say my biggest lesson of this year was to more deeply understand the relationship between intelligent boundary management and investing in deep&

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In your favorite models of reality, do you include a god or gods? Have you tested models and frames that are god-free to see how well they work for you? I grew up learning models of reality that include a god, in that case a Christian version of one. Later I went atheist, and I&

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In your favorite models of reality, do you include a god or gods? Have you tested models and frames that are god-free to see how well they work for you? I grew up learning models of reality that include a god, in that case a Christian version of one. Later I went atheist, and I&

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In your favorite models of reality, do you include a god or gods? Have you tested models and frames that are god-free to see how well they work for you? I grew up learning models of reality that include a god, in that case a Christian version of one. Later I went atheist, and I&

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Heartstorming is brainstorming with the heart (or the emotional part of your brain). The mental kind of brainstorming is good for generating problem-solving ideas. Its useful for mapping out the logical space of solutions. Generate lots of ideas, and sift through them to pick the best ones. That kind of brainstorming, however, is terrible for&

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Heartstorming is brainstorming with the heart (or the emotional part of your brain). The mental kind of brainstorming is good for generating problem-solving ideas. Its useful for mapping out the logical space of solutions. Generate lots of ideas, and sift through them to pick the best ones. That kind of brainstorming, however, is terrible for&

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Heartstorming is brainstorming with the heart (or the emotional part of your brain). The mental kind of brainstorming is good for generating problem-solving ideas. Its useful for mapping out the logical space of solutions. Generate lots of ideas, and sift through them to pick the best ones. That kind of brainstorming, however, is terrible for&

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I often begin my days by asking: What wants to come through? What energy wants to be expressed? Then I listen. Sometimes I listen with my mind or body. Sometimes I listen with my heart. And sometimes it feels like Im listening with my spirit. I feel like theres a collective idea space where thoughts&

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I often begin my days by asking: What wants to come through? What energy wants to be expressed? Then I listen. Sometimes I listen with my mind or body. Sometimes I listen with my heart. And sometimes it feels like Im listening with my spirit. I feel like theres a collective idea space where thoughts&

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Heres a simple rule of thumb that I learned at the start of the pandemic: If you think youre being reasonably cautious, youre probably taking on too much risk. If you think youre being unreasonably cautious, youre probably doing it right. This made sense to me, so I aimed to keep my COVID-prevention standards higher&

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Heres a simple rule of thumb that I learned at the start of the pandemic: If you think youre being reasonably cautious, youre probably taking on too much risk. If you think youre being unreasonably cautious, youre probably doing it right. This made sense to me, so I aimed to keep my COVID-prevention standards higher&

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You may think of 30-day or 365-day challenges as requiring a lot of discipline, but I tend to think of them more often as experiential deep dives. One of the main reasons I do them is for curiosity. Another reason is to add more richness to my life. And yet another motivating factor is to&

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You may think of 30-day or 365-day challenges as requiring a lot of discipline, but I tend to think of them more often as experiential deep dives. One of the main reasons I do them is for curiosity. Another reason is to add more richness to my life. And yet another motivating factor is to&

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What kind of relationship do you have with the judgmental and righteous part of yourself? Some people may not know or acknowledge that youre right, but youre convinced of it. On the outside you may have a calibration issue in terms of how much of your righteousness to share and express with the world. You&

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What kind of relationship do you have with the judgmental and righteous part of yourself? Some people may not know or acknowledge that youre right, but youre convinced of it. On the outside you may have a calibration issue in terms of how much of your righteousness to share and express with the world. You&

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A spiritual perspective on some area of life asks questions like these: What is my current relationship with this part of life? How would I like my relationship with this part of life to be? If you remove the physicality from life, what remains is energy. But energy alone is meaningless. What brings meaning to&

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A spiritual perspective on some area of life asks questions like these: What is my current relationship with this part of life? How would I like my relationship with this part of life to be? If you remove the physicality from life, what remains is energy. But energy alone is meaningless. What brings meaning to&

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To extend the topic of yesterdays article on your relationship with pleasure, lets flip that idea around and consider what its like for someone else to relate to you on the basis of pleasure. How do you feel about playing the role of being a source of pleasure for someone else? Such a relationship can&

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