We don’t have to live a life of distraction. And if you can go cold turkey with it, more power to you.
We just need to be real with each other in this mess of the digital distraction era.
Tag Archives: psychology
Oh That, That’s Always Been There
We have to break up with things in our past which serve no purpose with the person we are suppose to become.
Echo Chamber Solitude
If you find the amplified echo chamber of solitude rooted in wisdom and problem solving as the better location, you’ll begin cultivating the solitude we all have access to as a more fruitful chamber, echoing the best we have to offer till it continually spills over outward into our lives.
Using Fear To Leverage Your Attention For What’s Important
Our awareness then, as a scanning mechanism of our environment, is greatly affected if we are looking for where God is showing up in the midst of our present moment.
When You Need To Fail: Getting An F In Distraction
There are things in life we believe we must be flawless with when in reality we need to simply do our best with them for the season we are in. Our best may even be to fail at them temporarily.
Knowing Is Not Half The Battle: The G.I. Joe Fallacy
Ever find yourself with stacks on stacks of dream journals/goal setting apps/vision boards? How about half finished notebooks? Like stacks of them? I heard author Jon Acuff say this a few times. He has half filled notebooks of ideas instead of finishing one notebook. This wouldn’t be a problem if, say, he referred to them …
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End Of The Day Letters
Think about this scenario. You get to the end of the day, and you open a handwritten letter a friend sent to you. And the letter contains nothing but dreadful news. Global and societal catastrophe. Pestilence, death, fear, political dysfunction, greed, corporate turmoil, and more. And imagine, this is a daily occurrence. Why on earth …
Recapture
Given enough lag in keeping up, I sensed this blog might eventually turn into a journal of sorts. It’s what happens when I lose focus (ie, the overarching theme of this site!). But this post could serve as a bookmark of sorts. A moment captured to look back at as a pivot point. Because the …
YouTube Wormhole 1994 Edition: Conan and Famine
My memory couldn’t reconcile seeing Conan in 1994 doing his thing. I had to begin a backfilling process and connect some dots to get a new perspective of something familiar in a setting and time I’ve not seen before.
The Needed Extreme: No News At All
There was a moment of time recently where there was nothing to do for 5 minutes. Of course I reached for my phone. But this time, it was to read one of the good blogs I use to read from but had abandoned for social media scrolling. The corrective behavior paid off immediately. When I …
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