Poetry
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Mind over matter, what’s the matter with your mind?
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1 min read
Sí, se puede. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Trying is a passport to freedom. You can do it, contrary to your negative internal dialogue. Mindset is everything. As is practice. Showing up consistently matters, and reflects in the quality of the work. Discipline equals freedom — now that’s a bumper sticker! Guess, what?…
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How to mirror the beat of our heart
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2 min read
It seems that in preparing to live up to our best selves, we often fail to follow the very advice we give others. Dizziness caused by the freedom of indecision goes at odds against reality. So we jump at the quickest cognitive register — whichever requires the least effort. Everyone seems to have a clear…
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Mental clarity begins in cleaning out the basement
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The basement gets a bad rap. It’s the relegation zone. It’s a mess, with cobwebs on the door handles and mountains of dust building in the corners. There may be mysterious sounds and unidentifiable creatures living in the cracks. But the basement also presents the biggest opportunity to turn disorder into something presentable. When you…
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Searching for the ‘right’ fix
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Assumptions provide fence-sitting answers. They are just half-truths that validate how things usually go, band-aids that make us feel safer. The inquisitive mind chases uncertainty and complexity. “We must be ignorant of what we are looking for, or we would not go looking for it.” Maurice Merleau-Ponty Rather, like a dog with a bone, we…
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Open to detours
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Open to detours, fixated with the wrath of curiosity. The single-minded goal-setter scrounges for practice. In theory, doggedness is the least path of resistance. Like sheep, we’re a magnet for jumping through hoops. But we can’t afford to put the right brain to sleep. Quiescent until unmoored from reality, the maker begs to turn pipe…
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Starry-eyed surprise
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1 min read
To look at life full in the face, rather than externalizing it through a distracted and edited irreality. The enlightenment takes place backward, in moments of strict boredom, reflection, and introspection. It’s hard to look away from the rectangular glow, as it promises to signal and promote our best selves. Drowning in novelty, when all…
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A retrospective report
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We take a retrospective report, this time with the prospect of various viewpoints. When we look back at our own history, it only makes sense now. It’s never lucid at the time. Today’s mirror emits a story that can’t tell a lie. While the future prohibits knowledge, gathering experience increases one’s attentiveness toward ambient hints.…
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Imagination is a mental scratch pad
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Imagination is a mental scratch pad, a place to delve into the urges of the non-existent. It is only there can we see what’s more captivating than reality’s everydayness. Imagination not only protects us from boredom, it also protects us from ourselves. It acts as a neuroprotective stimulus for brain expansion — we are only…
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Get it together
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1 min read
The coming and going, the thinking goes, is what keeps pushing us three steps forward and one step back. We’ve been engineered for quick play, left grasping at the nearest of solutions. Too distracted to pursue the slightest idea, we settle for unintentionality. The gaps begged to be filled and we were so occupied we…
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Seeing the forest for the trees
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The forest is a city that lies underneath our feet. Perhaps if we thought of it this way, we wouldn’t walk on it. But the vitality of life is in the pursuit. One with the world, the ability to face resistance means to walk through it. We adapt to the drumbeat of chaos, using expansive…
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Truth, discarded
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1 min read
Racing to get hack our organic operating system, to render us decision-less at the mercy of marketers and AI. The feeds are distraction machines that intend to blind our own will. We are complicit in the media manipulation. It is within these information-rich, consumption-based societies that the heart beats but the brain double-thinks. As the…
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Crazy, that
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1 min read
That is hardly given and mostly earned. It’s too early for that We’re too young for that Eat our dinner and then we can have that We strive for that, whatever it is. Sometimes that is urgent and attainable. Sometimes it requires more work, maturity, and a lot of patience. There’s a time and a…