Category: Self Discipline
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AFTERNOON Meditation With Relaxing Rain Sounds | Marrakech Riad (4K)
Guided meditation begins at 1:11. Today’s episode is a bit different from my normal travel vlogs. I’m going to be doing a guided meditation in a rainy but peaceful riad. For all the skills I like to acquire, meditation is most difficult but necessary skill to master. Today’s video came about from a crazy first…
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#4 One Fear A Day – The Fear Of Making BIG Decisions
One of the things I joke about with my Japanese friends is how I find some Japanese to be yujufudan (優柔不断) or indecisive, to which they all wholeheartedly agree. It could be out of their innate politeness, but whenever I ask questions such as “What do you want to eat?”, “What do you want to do…
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How To Ride The Waves Of Change – 8 Tips On How To Adapt To Change
I watched this TED talk this past week about retrofitting the suburbs . I particularly liked it over other documentaries on suburbia because it wasn’t so nihilistic and the speaker, Ellan Dunham Jones, offered some inventive solutions to make the suburbs more sustainable. I grew up in the suburbs. I understand what life’s like out…
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Be Allergic To Drama – 9 Quick Tips To Kill The Addiction
Having spent many years in the club dancing scene, I’ve seen more than my share of drama. Guys congregate, put on their game faces, and figure out their plan of attack. Women dress to the nines and raise their skirts higher than their normal comfort levels. Mix in alcohol, hormones, and egos, and you’ve…
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The Tao Of Driving – Finding Inner Peace And Patience On The Roads
One of the fringe benefits of travelling is getting used to alternative forms of transportation while simultaneously losing my dependency on driving. North America aside, it seems the rest of the world generally embraces public transportation, either due to to good infrastructure or population density. I remember last year, my trip from Bangkok, Thailand to…
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Great Island Music For Work Productivity (Playlist)
I’ve been on a bit of a work binge lately, though I’m having fun coming up with new ideas and projects to share with everyone. To stay focused through the long hours, I’ve been listening to some island music to boost my productivity. When I think back to the countless hours I spent sitting on…
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5 Muse-Related Coffee Shop Productivity Tips
Today, I’m sitting by myself writing in an open-window cafe in a quaint-turned-busy neighbourhood near the beach. It’s March Break, the weather is unseasonably pleasant by Toronto standards, and the playground across the street is bursting at the seams with children playing. I first started coming to this cafe 4 years ago after leaving my…
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Coming Out Clean – I’m A Closet Vegetarian
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not. – Mark Twain I don’t think I’ve written about it any of my prior posts, but I’ll come out clean now. I’m a vegetarian. There, I said it. I’m a…
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I Can Recollect Almost Every Day In The Past Year, So It Has Been Good
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. -John Burroughs If you’ve read my New Year’s post from two years back, you know how I feel about them – real resolutions aren’t made around this time. Really, don’t bother with making a habit of resolving…
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Confidently Walking Through Life’s Challenges With No Toes
The following excerpt is written by my good friend, George, who’s posted here before. George is a high school dropout turned financially free, self-made business owner and serial entrepreneur. This time around, he brings his sarcasm and wit to talk about personal empowerment. “In our life time, family will be a thing of the past,…