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I like being 100% stimulant free – no coffee, caffeinated tea, chocolate, caffeinated soda, etc. This means no decaf either since decaf still contains some caffeine. I base this on lots of personal experimentation. I’ve gone some years of my life with no stimulants, and I’ve also gone for long stretches consuming coffee daily. The…
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This morning while listening to the audiobook League of Denial, which is about the NFL’s attempts to downplay and deny the serious links between football and degenerative brain damage, it struck me that the athletes themselves were in an untenable position. Imagine trying to defend yourself while suffering the many problems of a dysfunctional brain,…
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This morning I got up at 4:30am and set out to do a 6.5-mile run (10.5km), which would be my longest in at least the past year. The weather was nice, starting out at 76 degrees, and I knew would continue to get cooler into the morning, at least until an hour or so after…
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We just wrapped up the 2020 launch of Conscious Growth Club, and our next opening will be in April 2021. The launch did very well. We have 87 members enrolled in our next CGC year together. Financially this was our second six-figure launch of the year, the previous one being for the Stature course in…
When I was younger, I was conditioned to yield to authority. Go to school. Go to church. Obey the parents. One of the most common commands was: Be quiet. Hush. Pipe down. Silence is a virtue. Children should be seen and not heard. So I learned to stay quiet – about problems, about desires, about…
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A fellow Conscious Growth Club member connected me with the simple practice of doing an easy pose for two minutes an effective mood booster. I’ve noticed that when I do this pose now and then, it really does make me feel noticeably happier. The pose is very simple. Stand up straight and tall, pull your…
And open loop typically refers to an unfinished project, task, or assignment. Sometimes people will extend the definition to include their major goals as well. I’ve been finding a lot of value in extended this concept to include anything that pops into my mind where I don’t feel that I’ve achieved sufficient closure. If my…
One challenge that can make it difficult to create a consistent daily flow is getting up at inconsistent times throughout the week. If I get up at different times that could diverge by an hour or more, I find it difficult to have a consistent morning routine. Initially I thought it shouldn’t make a big…
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on facing personal weaknesses, one step I took to deal with such weaknesses many years ago was to brainstorm a list of qualities I wanted to experience instead of those weaknesses. Here’s what I came up with back then: Confidence – holding a strong belief in my own self…
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Years before I started blogging about personal development, I would often feel frustrated with my character. I struggled for many years trying to get myself to do what I felt I should be doing. One thing I did back then (which I recently found in some old files), was to create a list of what…