Today I want to dive into another wacky weird thought tangent I’ve been exploring - color and light and what I call your "visual diet". It’s well documented how colours have an effect on us. It’s why all of the fast food companies use red, it’s why certain stores have pink or light color hues, … Continue reading On Visual Diets
The Art of Embodiment
A practice that I have recently been doubling down on is something that I like to call embodiment. To me, that means living in the body. Maintaining awareness of your physical feelings. Try it right now. Close your eyes and feel yourself. You can scan through your body. Feel your face, your chest, your belly … Continue reading The Art of Embodiment
My life philosophy in four books
While I’m no reading fanatic by any means, over the last few years I’ve crushed through a hell of a lot of books. When I look back at that time now, there are four books that really stand out to me and the takeaways that I got from them. Let's dive straight in... The first … Continue reading My life philosophy in four books
2020 Lookback
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to sit down and unload a fat ass brain dump. It ended up being around 10k words or so, all geared around looking back at the year 2020 and what happened throughout it all. After I wrote this I thought to myself, "fuck, this is way too … Continue reading 2020 Lookback
When flow triggers backfire
In the world of Flow States there is a topic called “Flow Triggers.” These are the things that we can do to drive ourselves into flow. The “triggers” we can pull that will drive us into the state. They come from the work of people like Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Herb Benson, Robert Sapolsky and Keith Sawyer. … Continue reading When flow triggers backfire
On Loneliness
Over 10 years ago, when I first decided to travel and try to make a career out of it, my aunt connected me to a childhood friend of hers. The man was 60+ years old, living in Thailand, and had made a career out of living and working abroad. I remember that she said one … Continue reading On Loneliness
On Trust
Trust. It’s a word that has been stuck in my head recently. A word I’ve been exploring and dissecting. Playing around with. It’s this weird intangible, like intuition, belief, or faith. Trust is a feeling. A connection to our intuition. A strange intangible the we can’t quite grasp or define or measure but we know … Continue reading On Trust
On mood, motivation, goal chasing, and learning
Over the last few weeks I haven’t been feeling quite like myself. Like I don’t have my same energy levels. My same excitement and enthusiasm for life. It’s normal, most of us are feeling this way in these crazy times. Covid and the quarantine and now all of the protests can take a toll on … Continue reading On mood, motivation, goal chasing, and learning
Setting the pace of life
Throughout the quarantine one of the major lessons or themes that I have been thinking about is my day to day pace. The rhythm with which I work. The intensity and speed over the course of the day, and how I manage my energy levels throughout. When the quarantine hit, with no one to hang … Continue reading Setting the pace of life
What lies behind the curtain?
There’s a version of yourself in the future who will benefit from what you do today, but you can’t discover what those benefits are unless you put in the work consistently over time. Behind the curtain of any new habit lies surprises you can’t yet see. Easiest example of this is physical exercise. You can … Continue reading What lies behind the curtain?