Month: February 2019
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Learn and Have Fun Learning
All of us start off as bright, innocent kids. Endlessly curious about the world around them. Good singers, artists, communicators. Expressive. Filled with life. Somehow, as we become socialized into adults, we lose that spark. Some of us become perfectionists. We constantly evaluate, judge, and criticize everything we do. There’s a constant self-anxiety and shame.…
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We Do It For The Children
Growing up, my mother used to tell me, “when you have kids, you’ll understand.” I didn’t like that answer. I still don’t. But I think I do understand more even though I don’t have kids. It’s feels really hard sometimes. Living this monastic life. Trying to build something new within a great deal of uncertainty…
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Defining Success For Today
One of my favorite activities at the monastery is washing dishes. I love washing dishes because it’s repetitive, it’s mostly physical, and the end point is obvious. These traits are the opposite of my office work where it’s often unclear when the work is done, mostly mental, and novel situations. Because mental, office and creative…
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Detox Non-Fiction
Before, I wrote about my experiment going a month without fiction books. It went very well. I found my attention moved towards reading more non-fiction instead. While I enjoyed reading new things, I still felt like the non-fiction was more of a distraction than a positive. So, I decided to go one step further by…