For the fourth installment in this series on solitude (see parts 1, 2 and 3), I dive further into Cal Newport’s chapter on solitude in his book Digital Minimalism, and highlight more of solitude’s benefits. Unfortunately, in this era of constant (not just instant) connection, we are depriving ourselves of an incredibly rich value we …
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Strength In Solitude Part 3: Our Happiness Depends On It
Have you ever recharged your energy by just being by yourself? And more so in these times of retreat, found yourself appreciating those who are in your life as a result of your day trip alone on the hiking trail or solo shopping trip? Continuing the brief series on the strength found in solitude, I …
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Strength In Solitude Part 2: This Anxious Generation
An entire generation has “eliminated time alone with their thoughts from their lives,” and subsequently, it is this young generation who is experiencing tremendous spikes in anxiety and mental health deterioration. The quoted line above is found on page 108 from the book Digital Minimalism by computer professor Cal Newport. The generation in question is …
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Relational Appreciation
We were created with pursuit on our hearts after something, and, to have the appreciation grow in the midst of such pursuit.
Marketing Tools With Low Subscription Cost
Your health and wellness YouTube channel just blew up with tons of new subscribers?! And then a check comes from YouTube! What have you stumbled upon?! I’ll get back to that scenario, but first a dive into what’s happening behind the scenes, and the dynamics of a free to near-free cost structure of the internet …
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The Problem
We can’t get back into the wilderness, the eremos in Greek, a place of solitude and stillness, because our attentions are being held captive by incredibly powerful forces on the web. When I started researching what I noticed as a severe problem I experienced, an inability to focus inside the digital realm, I found the …
Return To Eremos, Wilderness, Stillness
“My aim here is to continue in the spirit of the work laid out by people like Comer, Newport, Sullivan, who have jump started my own path towards a return to healthy stillness and solitude.”
Return To Eremos 