Published in ILLUMINATION·Jun 17Comfort, Cleanliness, and Convenience, the Silent KillersHow our society is becoming increasingly fragile — Today our lives are drastically different than several thousand or even several hundred years ago. Most of these changes are for the better, however, our continued wealth and problem solving to create frictionless lives and make things easy may very well be the thing that kills us prematurely. “The habits…Health6 min read
Published in In Fitness And In Health·Jun 105 Simple Habits That Add Years to Your LifeThis is probably the fifth or sixth story you encountered today that promises to add years to your life; offering unrealistic results which are entirely unsustainable. — This will be none of those things. Why? Because I’m lazy and always looking to do the absolute minimum required to get the maximum benefits. I don’t spend hours every day in the gym or doing meal prep, that type of lifestyle is unappealing to me. …Health7 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·May 9Mastering This One Skill Will Change Your LifeIt’s how Andrew Carnegie got rich and why it's more important now than ever — I used to take great pride in my ability to multitask, bouncing from one activity to another trying to be as efficient as possible, like having a conversation while typing, or writing an email while watching tv. I’ve since learned that I was delusional and this was my ego tricking…Success5 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Apr 28No Sunshine on the Brightest DaysWill this feeling never go away? — There’s no sunshine on the brightest days. No roads or paths that I have come to know, that can ever lead back to cherry blossoms and rainbows, I feel the sorrow and I feel the grief, I’m engulfed by longing and seeking some relief, no intoxicant can dull the pain…Sadness2 min read
Published in In Fitness And In Health·Apr 27Crush Your Goals by Visualizing Failure FirstDouble the probability of achieving your goals with this counterintuitive approach — I have prided myself on my ability to see what could go wrong with any given situation, this analysis was kind of like a real world chess game where you roll the tape and imagine every wrong turn that can be made. …Failure5 min read
Published in ILLUMINATION·Apr 23Dear World…I Quit!It’s time to hang up my dancing shoes — No, this is not suicide note, although I suspect people might ACTUALLY read that, rather this is a letter of resignation, my notice to the world of my retiring from the game of writing. …Success5 min read
Published in In Fitness And In Health·Feb 24Delaying Your Morning Coffee Will Change Your LifeStart your day with this Neuroscience-based hack instead — If you’re not a coffee drinker and prefer your caffeine in the form of tea, yerba maté, energy drinks, pills, or some other method of caffeine delivery, read on as this still applies to you. How I normally started my days Most of my mornings looked like this — wake, get out of bed and immediately…Coffee5 min read
Published in In Fitness And In Health·Jan 28To Have So Much, Yet Feel So LittleNotes from a modern-day ingrate — I sat in front of the blank page daily as I mustered up the strength to journal about what I am grateful for. …Gratitude5 min read
Jan 26How Have I Judged Thee, Let Me Count the WaysI judged the forest for I did not like its trees, And I resented those trees for always blocking my light, All the while complaining, that the sun shone too bright, I even criticized the bees cause their honey wasn’t pleasing enough to me, Nothing evaded my wrath or my…Poetry1 min read
Dec 13, 2021What it’s Like to Be Life’s Biggest TreeThe God within us all — “As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…” ―Hermes Trismegistus Humans are Gods who eat the fruits of the earth and turn it into human, WE…not US or THEM, but WE…are human-making machines. Trees are gods that eat sunlight and drink water, they grow…Trees4 min read