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Training in The 14 Mindfulness Trainings, Studied / Practiced the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), & Currently Working on Psychology and Coaching Certifications. I'm a life-long learner, high-level visionary, business misfit, and 24+ year business owner. I'm a conscious capitalist working on making a positive impact in the world. Love is my religion. Integrity and Enlightenment are my jam. I’m a music junkie that loves live music, punk rock, and vinyl records. I’m an outdoors enthusiast, like a good Captain-n-Coke, and I am a family man with a foul mouth. I've been doing personal development since 1999, studying & practicing meditation and Taoism since 2014, studying & practicing Buddhism since 2018, and taking psychology classes since 2022.
Reading is such a great habit to possess. I think of reading as one of my daily or regular Success Habits. Think about all that regular reading can accomplish. As a business owner I read to continue to innovate and bring new ideas to the table. It is said that 85% of self-made millionaires read […]
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Negative emotions are a part of being human. We feel sadness, anger, and hate just as much as we feel happiness and love. However, we have a negativity bias hard-wired into our minds and bodies. We tend to ruminate over negative emotions. We can spend hours thinking about the nasty interaction we had in traffic
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You can do anything for 20 seconds, right? Tabata Training is all about short burts of exercise workouts. So What is a Tabata workout? Tabata is a form of (HIIT) high-intensity interval training and an anaerobic exercise whose unique structure distinguishes it from others. For those that don’t know, Anaerobic exercises are exercises that
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Can Exercise Actually Help My Depression? In my own struggles with depression, I was desperate and grasping at straws hoping and praying I would find a solution. I tried to go the route of therapy, but things didn’t work out seeking medical support. So I continued searching. I tried so many things, but one of
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Time to get real So I am going to dig into thoughts on depression because in 2013 I fell into depression and stayed there for 2 years and honestly, I’ve been feeling a bit of it swirling around lately. Honestly, I want others to know what this looks like because so many suffer in silence.
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September Self-Care 2021: Plan a fun Activity for Yourself! What fun activity will you plan and do today? This morning I woke up and did my daily morning self-care practice of meditation and then I thought I would do a quick listen to an audiobook I am reading on nonviolence. Another book caught my eye
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Are You Your Worst Enemy? With Self-Criticism You might Actually Be The Harmful Enemy. I think this is such a powerful concept – letting go of self-criticism. In society, we are not willing to discuss this stuff much and so we keep talking trash to ourselves. This can be more harmful that you may think
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Sept 2nd, 2021 Prompt: What are Things You are Really Good At? In order to take care of ourselves, we need to actually celebrate ourselves. Will you join me in flexing some self-care muscles like the little guy in the header image? Today we look at some things we are really good at. They do
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Welcome to September! Hey all, welcome to the first day in September! It seems there’s a background tying September to self-care. I am new to this but if you know me, you know I love self-care mostly because 8 years ago I found myself in a dark depression as my world was falling apart a bit
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WELCOME TO The MINDFUL MONDAY VIDEO SERIES – WEEK 2! Hi all and welcome back to this new series I am creating to try to help people kick off the week on the right foot. In this episode again I share the purpose of this video and series as well as my own personal purpose
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