Tag: presence
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The List That Changes What You Notice
A simple weekly practice of writing down what you’re grateful for measurably shifts mood, sleep, and outlook. Here’s the research behind gratitude practice, and how to start tonight.
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What the Marble Already Knows
Hiii. Come sit with us for a second. Picture the blank page, the empty calendar square, the question “what do I actually want here” landing with real weight. So much of that pressure comes from a quiet assumption, that whatever comes next has to be manufactured, pulled fully formed out of thin air, built from…
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The Afternoon That Slows Down
Hiii. Come sit with us for a second. Notice how the days seem to move faster lately. The morning turns into evening before you’ve caught your breath, the week folds into the next one, and somewhere in there the feeling creeps in that time itself has quietly sped up. Here’s something genuinely useful about that…
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The Job Your Mind Is Already Doing
Hiii. Come sit with us for a second. Notice where your mind goes in the shower, at a red light, in the three minutes before a meeting starts. For most of us it drifts to the same handful of worries, replayed on a loop, invited or otherwise. That loop is worth a closer look, because…
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Small Deposits
Every bank statement holds a small idea most of us learn by age ten. Money left alone grows. A dollar earning five percent a year looks the same as a dollar spent on coffee. Leave it alone for thirty years, though, and the difference becomes enormous. Time did the multiplying, quietly, the whole while. We…
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How The Almanack of Naval Ravikant Teaches You to Build Wealth and Find Happiness on Your Own Terms
Book insights on Eric Jorgenson’s The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: specific knowledge, accountability, leverage, building judgment through reading, desire as suffering, presence as the home of happiness, and why all meaningful returns come from compounding.
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You Are Already Inside the Life the Great Ones Were Writing About
Seven writers across seven centuries, all pointing toward the same truth: you are already inside the life they were writing about. Ginsberg, Spinoza, Neruda, Gibran, Dostoyevsky, Woolf, and Oliver on beauty, love, presence, and what it means to show up for your one wild and precious life.
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The Forest Monk Who Saw Through Everything: The Essential Wisdom of Ajahn Chah
Eight essential teachings from Ajahn Chah, the Thai forest master: the glass is already broken, feeding the mind, the clean water in the dirty pipe, doubt as whetstone, suffering as map, the Buddha is already here, and peace as what remains when you stop adding things.
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Your Brain Is Lying to You About What You Are Capable Of
Key insights from Dr. Gio Valiante on The Knowledge Project: the central governor hypothesis, mastery vs ego motivation, why flow requires self-forgetting, the four sources of self-efficacy, how environment beats willpower, and the childhood conditioning that limits adult performance.
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How to Harness the Power of the Tao: Acting and Allowing at the Same Time
A contemplative and practical guide to the Tao: what wu wei really means, how to know when to act vs. when to allow, the water teaching from Lao Tzu, and how to hold full intention while releasing the outcome. With quotes from Lao Tzu, Rick Rubin, Wayne Dyer, and David Hawkins.
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You Are Always Living in the Only Moment That Exists: A Letter on Time, Presence, and the Tuesday That Changed Everything
A contemplative letter on why time speeds up as we age, what the Harvard happiness study reveals about distraction, how presence stretches time, why the ordinary Tuesday is your actual life, and six presence practices to begin today.
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You Are Already Whole: On Living Fully, Surrendering Completely, and Trusting the Sacred in Everything
A contemplative letter on what becomes available when you remember who you truly are. Covering aliveness, imagination, the body-mind connection, mistakes as lessons, the sacred ordinary, your energy as a gift, wholeness, divine freedom, curiosity, intuition, and the art of surrender. With journal prompts and thirteen micro-practices.