values – Return To Eremos

Value Defining; Or A Tool To Say No

The art of saying no is tied to knowing one’s own values and sticking to them.

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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Pay Attention To What You Value, Not What Distracts

Now to shift our attention on this blog. By shifting to exactly that, attention. My previous articles set up the problem we face collectively with attention hijacking technologies, our lack of healthy solitude, our inability to remove distractions from our lives, and more. Building habits to focus our attention will be a massive topic on …

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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.”